i change whatever you do, don't watch my show, stay mainstream, because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called direct impact. but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change the way things in terms of russia and china is development of an international strategic agenda. we need to ensure fairness and equality in the world. united based band, china's president outlines a comprehensive strategic partnership with russia as a future benchmark relations between the state that she's in embarked on an official visit to the country with russian president vladimir putin says, in case the black sea grain deal is not extended. russia is ready to supply the african countries most in need for free. south africa races for a nation wide labor strike i made calls from the political opposition for president

grama both to resign and switzerland. the biggest bank you be asked follows up its arrival credit suisse after its value plunged by a quarter over the last week. however, the moves provoked concern after predator saw their dads entirely written, not with coming to you live from their russian capital. this is r t international. i'm rachel blevins, here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. with china's president has outlined a comprehensive strategic partnership with russia. has a future benchmark grub relations between states. choosing pe, summed up the current state of play, as he embarked on an official visit to the country,

the chinese leader met with lot and we are non, what is his 1st international trip following his re election? i. person brewton, i've always referred to you as, my dear friend. it's such a great pleasure for me to receive your invitation and to visit russia once again on a state visit. especially since this event happens right after my re election as president of the people's republic of china. and i chose in russia as my 1st foreign visit. china attaches great importance to developing russia, china relations, considering that there is a historical logic behind this. we are the largest neighboring states and we have a comprehensive, strategic partnership and friendship. it is the status that compels us to establish close ties and relations in terms of russia and chinese development of an international strategic agenda. we need to ensure fairness and equality in the world. we need to promote prosperity for our own countries. i seen steve sweeney

has more. now i know that you leaders hope to get out of the visit. she is arrived in moscow for this crucial meeting with her russian president vladimir putin, perhaps on surprisingly, it's called some alarm among the western countries who've sought to undermine those relations, presenting them both as a threat. this is in stark contrast to the reality come soon off to china. propose a 12 point piece proposal, a roadmap to ending the conflict in ukraine, which is something that mister putin said to day he's taken seriously. he again reiterated at russia's commitment to peace negotiations. i've carefully read your proposal to resolve the acute crisis, new crane, and of course, we will take the opportunity to discuss this issue more. we recognize that you proceed from the principles of justice and compliance with international law and indivisible, security for all countries. you are also aware that we are always open for

negotiations. we will discuss all these issues and your initiatives, which we respect our 2 countries. interaction in the international arena contributes to strengthening the principles of the world order and multi polarity. in recent years, china has made a huge leap in its development all over the world. this has evoked genuine interest, and we even envy you a little bit. the 2 leaders spoke about right between the 2 nations. a vladimir putin said that this is, i am more than double to 185000000000 dollars dollars, hugely significant. and they're going to be talking about more about the economic ties nick economics with in those talks to morrow. she said, as we heard already, he said it was his pleasure to visit moscow. he described russia as a, as, as a friend. and he again reiterated this commitment to the multi polar world. he spoke in a statement just as he landed, he was talking about the idea, the commitment to international law and to the principles of the un charter. had

the message today with one about a very much one about the relations between the 2 nations, the strong historical bonds between russia and china as a neighboring a neighboring countries. they talk about prosperity and security and the, the discussions ready. this is just an ice breaker. they will continue in earnest tomorrow and will keep you updated back in washington. concern is rising that the chinese later will use his mosque out visit to intensify efforts to reach a trace with. yeah, and leave russian troops and ukraine. we are concerned that instead, china will reiterate calls for a cease fire that leaves russian forces inside ukraine sovereign territory. and he sees fire that does not address the removal of russian forces from ukraine, would effectively ratify russia's illegal conquests, enabling russia to entrench its positions, and then to restart the war at a more,

our advantage is time for them to discuss it further or less, cross live now to journalists and political analyst drawn verbally. john is great, have you on the program today? now what signal does choosing ping's visit to russia send to the rest of the world? i mean, we've talked a lot about and emerging multi polar world here, but are we reaching to the point where we can drop the word emerging? what's your take? your certainly, there are now 2 major blocks on the planet that there's the one dominated by the united states called the western block. and then there are the you're asian countries, russia, china, and india is increasingly right enjoying that are relations with russia, so that your asian block versus the western block. and this is going to be the future of the world, perhaps probably for most of the 21st century. this is how it's going to be the 2 competing, these 2 competing blocks. and it's quite clear, you know, united states, let's think about how many, let's think about what they have to offer the world for the united states,

which is look at the past 20 years, the united states over the world war in conflict and destruction. who wants to probably not many countries. china, on the other hand, has offered over the past one year, is offered the world prosperity build in infrastructure. mutual respect. ok. so who, who would not want to be a part of a block that offers that? i mean, i'm just putting the facts on the table and the countries of the world, not one country is africa, middle east. they will choose, they will choose one side. i think quite obviously they're going to choose. unfortunately, south america has no right to choose anything. they're clearly under the domination of the united states. i mean, of course, the european country. right. and now when it comes to what each side is offering, i mean, let's get into that a little bit more because you do have china who said, hey, we have some sort of a piece plan. we're calling for a cease fire calling for an end distinctions on russia. and then on the other hand, you have the us and we heard from john kirby with the white house who stated that washington is concerned about

a possible cease fire in the cranium conflict. what kind of message does that send when you have a country like the united states, literally saying that they don't even want a cease fire to be considered here. again, the fact the past 20 years show that the united states has simply wanted war and more war and more complex, more stripe everywhere it goes from the world. because that way to divide and conquer principal easy to control these countries threatened them in the united states, it's just threats to france and never any constructive. and let's get a step back and look at the global picture here. the global picture is not the united states, wants to destroy this reason, block russia and trying to, they want to, they want to cut it down roy for you and get going. and that's what the warranty is all about. trying to bring, you know, they thought washington thought that they would get, they wouldn't snare moscow in a trap in dunbar, but actually it's increasing look like it the other way around. moscow has ensnared

nato in a trap in dunbar. and just, just look at the financial crisis in the west right now. i mean that, that does it off. and certainly, nato doesn't either seem to know how to get out of it, or really want to get out of it just yet. now, when it comes to these talks between world leaders, i mean we've heard that joe biden is eager to speak with choosing thing, but the chinese president is busy lately to say the least. what do you think that says about his priorities? they're speaking to putting directly in person over someone like joe, by that you know, 1st a little history real quick, you know, right. the china suffered about 100 years of humiliation at the western powers. you think they forgot that? no, they didn't. american troops ransacked village china and i think the 1900, i mean the british, the graceful legacy, the british of china and all the other mid european countries who are now major data countries. you don't forget that. and i think the time has come, that china is realize the time of come, we are powerful, we're strong,

we're independent. and you know what, they might just want to get their revenge. i think, you know, as if i wasn't in washington right now, i would be on my knees. i would be begging for forgiveness to china, all the crime and the horrors. we committed in that country in the 19th and early 20th century. because yes, the future is with asia in the future is with your asia, russia, china, india, and the west really but a wake up there. but a break, a real quick, we're going to find out. we're going to be in a very disturbing, the disadvantage position. these are the there's no reason block. yeah, certainly a lot of stay care journalists and political analysts. john burley, thank you so much for your time. and inside the prior to welcoming the chinese leader at the kremlin president potent address, other multi polar world constituents at the international russia, africa parliamentary conference. monday morning. here in the capital. the event is attended by delegations from over 40 african nations and is aimed at strengthening

economic and political ties between russia and the continent. during his speech, he said the blacks, the grain deal, has only benefited those with their plates full unless they are in the pool of siblings, we insist on full compliance with key russian requirements. first of all, taking care that green and fertilizers go to the countries in need in africa, and not going to the well fed european market to well fed european countries seat the meanwhile of the total amount of green and cereals exported from ukraine. about 45 percent went to european countries in only 3 percent to africa. i would like to emphasize that only taken into account our position will a fair and comprehensive implementation of the black sea green deal being sure of you. and depending on this, we will decide on our further participation, but i don't know if it, o vladimir putin said that he's eager to see that the grain reaches those who lead at the most, which is why russia agreed to the great deal to begin with that off every to

extended make sure it to whole, to help those who need it the most. but he's disappointed with the fact that what we've seen is out of $827.00 ships that quoted ukraine, only 3 percent actually made it to africa. and those needed most was a 45 percent went to as we put well fed europeans. and these are the europeans who have been accused in russia of put em people's lives in danger, by supposedly prompting this global food crisis was russia for it's quite sent 20000000 tons of grain to africa alone. and it's unclear whatever shall will go on to extend the grain deal beyond the 60 days that is now extended by wanted, wanted to reassure african countries that they would not be abandoned and which just keep it even edition. and if we decide not to extend the deal after 60 days, that we are ready to deliver all the volumes that was sent to the countries in need in africa during the previous time from russia to these countries for free. below.

this of course, got lots of cheers from the crowd as the news over $20000000000.00. that's right. for african countries, i've really enjoyed that. and this is just one of the many ways in which russia and africa strengthening their relation and their corporation. a bilateral trade, for example, increased to $18000000000.00 in the past year. and vladimir putin emphasized that he will continue to prioritize corporation with african coin to please in particular. but one issue that kept being repeated over and over here today is what parliamentarians, not only from russia but africa in particular. there are seen a tendency neil colonialism tendencies in africa right now. and we've heard opinion here that western countries seem to want to take advantage of african countries purely for their natural resources and then not really benefits and, and, and contrast. they see russia as a reliable partner, one that understands them understands very history, their culture,

their values and traditions. and so they're looking to bolster that relationship and they're also looking at other aspect science and technology of course, and also education. and this is all, of course, in the lead up of a major russia, africa summit that we are expecting at the end of july in st. petersburg. so this was a test drive you could say, and it was a very, very successful one. rush as deputy minister of foreign affairs says there has been no real progress from western partners to meet the requirements that russia has put forward as a condition to extend the black sea grain deal after the expiration of the read upon 60 days. bid me up the flag, listen lib, substantial progress will be decisive for us in terms of decision making after or during the upcoming 60 days. what are these requirements? we have clearly stated this and have previously told all the parties and the you and representatives. first of all, we're talking about reconnecting the russian agricultural bank to swift resume in

the supply of agricultural machinery and spare parts servicing. lifting restrictions on insurance and lifting the ban on access to ports for our ships. restoring the operation of the toyota, odessa, ammonia pipelines, and i'm blocking foreign assets and accounts of russian companies related with the production and transportation of food and fertilizers. we have said that there is still no real progress in meeting these requirements. w. r t had a chance to speak with some of the gas on the sidelines or the conference and cleaning canyon and p. marie specic i. he says they event brings countries together to act decisively and effectively. and the global challenges for peaceful coexistence. it's very important that we keep talking to each other, but no talking to each other. so we had to talk to each other. and now we believe that the, the step that has been taken by the russian government is disturbed in the right

direction. and i'm sure by the end of these event, there's been many issues that i would have been covered already. most of them have been covered. ah, mainly for shakwana mika issues, citing from agriculture, education, and for mission, not technology. the sanctions suddenly is affecting the whole what because one of the sources of those are critical items is russia and by them not being part of the supply chain. it's actually affected that group. and in this case is affected many people. so basically the issue of law sanctions, i should be should be limited. i chinese warship has arrived in cambodia for a joining military drill code named golden dragon, 2023, the yvette oran until early next month. a total of more than $3000.00 troops from both sides are taking heart a quarter of more than $300.00 vehicles and various types of armaments. fishers of us will focus on joint security exercises from major events, humanitarian work,

and cultural exchanges. meanwhile, south africa is bracing for a nationwide labor strike as political opponents call for president grammar fossa to resign. the countries leader has denounced those demands, calling them an undemocratic attempt at regime change. south africa is governed by the rule of law, where a constitutional democracy regime change can only come about through the vote. it cannot come about through, on a key unleashing this order in the country. the economic freedom fighters party claims the main goal is to force president grammar philosophy to step down. they've accused him of failing to word our corruption and address rising unemployment in the country. this fitted shows protestors gathering in pretoria

with political opposition leaders rallying the crowds. r t correspondent, corolla reports from the seen, the south africa's opposition party, in this case, the 3rd lodges, a political party in the country, as represented in the south african parliament, the economic freedom fighters. i demanding that the settle. lemme put her dad's step down. they say according to the lead of the party, julius melina, that the country is tired of the constant rolling blackouts and the high unemployment, the high crime rate, as well as the dwindling and failing economy. here is his deputy, who had an interview with me earlier. why in a huge crisis which as a to his to years of ago will, must take much more decisive action on we cannot wait, we lose what the action, what ticking means on the 20th of march, is to see, let us remove this subject to weaknesses of defeat,

and that includes the head of state and debt is what you're finding within the country as the overwhelming mood and the former leader of south africa. second biggest opposition party will now leads a civil society movement called one south africa. missed i'm losing my money with his thoughts. but once i'm africa needs at the moment is shown on the growth. some africa needs at the moment, the inforcement of the law. and it did when shoal duck it delivers on his object of switches to keep the lights on. so as for the events on monday, a national shut down, there's not something that's going to house. there is no doubt that the e f. f has certainly made a mark for itself. the south african government has been seen as rather damaging its gallery to make sure that there is no repeat of 2 years ago. when we had the july, ryan went for some extended period of them. 5 days,

we saw malls going up in flames. we saw warehouses going up in flames, and it seemed like a stage of an action. now this time the south african government is, will switch, deploying over 3400 soldiers to add to the security as well as the metro police that you find in different localities. they have really come out of this looking rather worried and wet. i've been now more items ending in the capital city, pretoria. but india, when i was enjo husband, i founded to be rather reminiscent of the covert days rather looking like a ghost. how g re silence if you will. and that, according to the police minister, just goes to show how well the police have done this time and an emergency rescue deal. switzerland's biggest bank u. p. s. has agreed to buy credit suisse bass after the value shares, and it's rival plunge 25 percent over the last week. the move is designed to quote, secure financial stability and protect us with economy in the wake of the failure

of 2 major us banks. however, the decisions raised more than a few eyebrows as major creditors have seen their debt entirely written off. my colleague worries to shake, discuss the issue with our tea contributor chris adams. just imagine being an investor, someone that you know in an institution or, or even individual, his outdoor high net, was trusted. the money with credit suisse, which no way from in the u. k. right. credit speech is seen as the top tier of banks in which the paul to pass in. right? but that's clearly not the case here. you know, we have even today that there is now talking about people, the bondholders, right for who are not just expect to be at home. these are people that have that the bank has borrowed money from. so that's usually institutions or it's usually people like that. now the switch regulates the finra, which is known globally as being one of the top regulators in the world, usually takes very prudent, very conservative decisions as approved as merger and said, look, all of those bonds that existed all that, that, that you learned, credit suisse, that's worth this now, so they just literally just, you know,

in effect stolen their money, they're not gonna get compensated for it and they're not really going to get any sort of clarification as to why they want. one thing a lot of analysts like to talk about it is the contagion effect and the potential domino knock on if and frankly before the weekend, i didn't really know what i'd wake up to on this monday morning. but do you see what i mean? especially when you see big players like that on really shaky ground. i mean, do you see some sort of knock on for me? yeah, well really, if you'd have asked me that question a week ago when you and i sat down last time to talk about silicon valley bank, you know, personally, i mean, we were talking about it quite a lot of that. i wasn't sure that this would be, you know, so catastrophic, but we really thing that, i mean, we've seen that just by the fact that the fed has now we activated with 5 central banks globally, what they call a credit swap line. yeah, sorry, i don't actually know what that mean. yeah. you mean? absolutely. so what, what a credit for lied basically means is there are not enough us dollars in central bank with it internationally in order to service the us dollar talking thing as it

is. they need more dollars, but the fact is, the banks himself can't get them quick enough from the fed, so they need their central bank basically get a low. now the biggest problem bowwie is that the fed doesn't have that many us dollars in reserve. so what do they, to do? what we discuss the day, they're going to have to print more money again. what happens that we've been over this time and time again? since the end of last year, you're going to really, really create more and more inflation. okay. in the long term, in the short term, even you're going to have south, you know, the ability to buy saudi arabian oil in dollars and have enough dollars to do it. even though the saudis is going to charge the more dollars to the barrel because it was less, but in the long time, it's just going to hurt the poor people in society. but those are the people hit by inflation rory. it's not the people that sit in their ivory towers in the, in the, in the banking system. they get hit by that they've got a massive multibillion dollar bonuses, but the person really struggling to get by just to feed that family is the one that gets hit by 1020 percent,

even 30 percent inflation rises. western economy looks to be in trouble. economies with a global south for example, seem to be, i guess, getting more protected among the strategic alliances that are taking place. is that, am i being a drama queen here? is that going to be some sort of economic collapse in the west or might be just being silly? i think it's a real, real concern really because wherever they going to get the money from, that's the problem. you know, it, you know, they can't really stop. you know, they trying to, they using ukraine is approx, you know, that you try and generate some money for them. but they can't start what they've always traditionally done in these kinds of scenarios. if we go back in history, they can't stop the war because that's just be honest. you and i and, and most people won't fight finance. so what are they going to do to fix the economy? well, it remains to be seen. the indian 6 have clash with bullies outside the british high commission office in new delhi. they'd been expressing their outrage over an incident in the u. k. against the indian flag. protesters attempted to enter the commission pharmacist,

her police held them back. the demonstration came after members of the separatist callous and independent group were tearing down the indian flag on new delhi high commission office in one that india has criticize the british government for what it called in an adequate response to in today. yeah, the launch too strong protest and also clearly indicated to the british authorities for the need to put them to put up any good security at the, at the u. k. high commission callis, an independent group, responsible for tearing the indian flag down claim they are a seek separatist movement fighting to carve out an autonomy state in eastern punjab. however, the demonstrators in india claim that the separatist are only using sikhism as a cover, and he has external affairs ministry said the british authorities violated the vienna convention on diplomatic relations by failing to provide sufficient security

for the building. the former director general job state police believes britain failure to secure the mission may harm relations between the countries we go relations, but who are in the most important way. and i mean, i'm talking to what we're talking about showing the security of the machine. is there anything that happens outside the premises, high commission or, or where we do that. so let's do both ways . and then you are, you know, are you seeing the pictures that was been honored that was taken down can impact the relation or wrong has turned the tables on franz

with this foreign ministry criticizing the french authorities for the violence seen against protesters over the weekend, defense police, resorting to violence against protests, is indicative of the french governments known commitment to the principles of democracy and freedom of expression advised to enjoy behavior and instrumental use of human rights stop resorting to violence and dealing with protesters. france has been gripped by nationwide protests for 2 months now, over president my crops pension reform plans, the demonstrations high frequently turned violent with crowds clashing with the wheat. however, there's been little criticism throughout europe to the scenes and holding in france . that stands in stark contrast to what happened with iran, where there was widespread anger against a ron over its handling of nationwide protest their mass administration broke out over the death in police custody of a young woman. and the french president was one of you,

most vocal critics. i am in favor of a strong diplomatic reaction and sanctions on the figures of the regime who have a responsibility in the repression of this revolution. hello val, commentator john burke lot feels the west approach of criticizing what happens elsewhere while staying quiet about develop meds at home smacks of hypocrisy. i think the main lessons from this is that each county should take care of his own internal affair and not intervening to intervene in those over the counties. because obviously he has no means to impose any sanctions on france to, with global west is imposing sanctions on their hands. now maybe the impression in your hand is so unwilling to believe that it's a harsh of them in france, but the hand is soon subjected to a series of sanctions. evans scenes revolution of 79. and that's the book. see, i mean, is always, i mean, the west is of good read all has been said on the road to its own country event,

houston is got presented. it can be blame on the ocean. the chinese uranium students are cra, then it's good for well than if it's blame all the way some government and simply knew they did the dental vision in france or both in the united states or hardly hardly help open united states as well as i know ah, now it's a can yet we're 50 opposition. align university students have been arrested for holding a meeting without a permit. the students were arrested on saturday. i had a monday scheduled opposition demonstration over the country. the economic struggle . they were addressing a press conference, hurting others to join the anti government event over 50 participants were said to have been detained for meeting without the knowledge of authority. is the arrest for a vote. a strong response from the opposition for accusing officials of silencing their voices. we spoke with locals who blame the unstable economy and kenya's leadership. bless middleton, louisiana. so much o. d. as a young canyon,

i am allowed by the constitution to exercise by democratic. right. well, i will demonstrate until the government listens to me. my family is at home without food, you know, job enough and nothing at all about the food is expensive even at the market place isn't the majority of us are really struggling to make ends meet. institution said a guardian, you minute, amanda man. i am taking part in today's demonstration here in kenya and laying the blame on the government for all the problems we are facing as a nation. we cannot even buy a packet of mayflower for our children, which is roughly $200.00 shillings your cooking. oil is the same during that time. it's all very expensive. and to make the matter worse, the economy has been doing poorly by women as up, williamson. i'm highly supporting today's demonstrations in kenya because we were promised by the president does that when he immediately resumes office, life will be affordable needed right now i have 4 children and one of them is disabled. about almost feeding these for is an issue. life is becoming expensive all over even in the rural areas. what was it? honestly.