i did a couple of people with a in terms of russia in china is development of an international strategic agenda. we need to ensure fairness and equality in the world, neither. they stand trend as president outlines a comprehensive, strategic partnership with russia as a future benchmark of relations between state that the shooting pe embarks on an official visit to the country with russian president vladimir, pope says, in case the black, the grain deal is not extended. russia is ready to supply the african countries most in need for free. and switzerland's biggest bay u b as follows up its rival credit with after its value won by

a quarter over the last week. however, the moves for a vote concern after predator saw their jet, and i really written off with you live from the russian capital. this is r t international. i. rachel blevins here with the top stories of the hour. welcome to the program. ah, trying to, as president has outlined a comprehensive strategic partnership with russia has a future benchmark of relations between states. she's paying to summed up the current state of play as he embarked on an official visit to the country. the chinese leader mad vladimir put 9. what is his 1st international trip following his reelection? i,

person putin, 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 chosen russia as my 1st foreign visit. china attaches great importance to developing brush at 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 china's 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. our team, steve sweeney, has more on what the to leaders hope to get out of the visit. she has arrived in moscow for this crucial meeting with the russian president vladimir putin. perhaps

on surprisingly, it's called some alarm among the western countries who sought to undermine those relations, presenting them both as a threat that 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 roches commitment to peace were negotiations. and 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 recognized that you proceed from the principles of justice and compliance with international law in 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 to leader spoke about friday between the 2 nations. a vladimir putin said that this is, am more than double to 185000000000 dollars dollars, hugely significant, and they're going to be talking about more about the economic ties. nick, economic fear in those talks to morrow. but she said, as we heard already, he said it was his pleasure to visit moscow. he described russia or 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 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 as the chinese later will use his mask, our visit to intensive i efforts to reach a truce with key ad and leave ration trips. and ukraine 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 r advantages. time for them. archie spoke with a former greek ambassador and diplomat, who believes that president, she's visit to moscow, presents

a real chance of achieving peace. but the west will do anything to oppose it. i think it's a message of peace that at last humanity must face the question of living in, in peaceful conditions. we must take it into consideration what the chinese president said before leaving china. he said that the criminal court of the hague must take into consideration of other issues also and must not blame one side. it must be more objective about it. of course, underneath that was the reference as to what the united states had done. it's a tax various countries for the past 2030 years. that was a very important to me. but the issue is now that he's in moscow, chinese president is going to insist on this piece. initiative is 12 point piece.

it initiative which will, which would be a breakthrough. we're discussing peace and the west. that's not one piece. that is a big issue. and i think that after the documents are signed tomorrow, we will have new conditions that will. busy vote attempts to have the peaceful solution to the situation in ukraine, which is for the benefit of all of humanity. prior to welcoming the chinese leader at the kremlin president put an address to other multi polar world constituents at the international russia, africa parliamentary conference. monday morning. here in the capitol. the event is attended by delegation from over 40 african countries and is a strengthening economic and political ties between russia and the continent.

during his speech, he said that the black sink rain deal has only benefited those with their plates for unless they are in the pool of sibling, 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 country 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 taking into account our position will a fair and comprehensive implementation of the black sea green deal be insured. and depending on this, we will decide on our further participation. gotta love it. oh, vladimir putin said that his 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 extend it to make sure it to whole, to help those who needed the most but he's disappointed with the fact that what

we've seen is out of 827 ships had quoted you frame only 3 percent actually made it to africa and those who need it most was a 45 percent went to as he put it well, fed europeans, and these are the europeans who have been accused in russia of put in people's lives in danger by supposedly fronting this global food crisis was russia for it's quite sense. 20000000 tons of grain to africa alone. and it's unclear whether rochelle will go on to extend the grain deal beyond the 60 days that is now extended by wanted, wanted to reassure african countries that would not be abandoned. yes, and we're just keeping him invitation. 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 love. this of course, got lots of tears from the crowd as the news of a $20000000000.00 dance of writing 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 about 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 they're not really benefit in it. and in contrast, they see russia as a reliable partner, one that understands them understands where a 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 touch struck, he could say, and it was a very, very successful one. roches deputy minister of foreign affairs says there has been no real progress from western partners to meet the requirements that russia has both forward as a condition to extend the black sea grain deal after the expiration of the agreed upon 60 days. bring 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 un representatives and them. 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 am blocking foreign assets and accounts of russian companies related with the production and transportation of food and fertilizers. we should, we have said that there is still no real progress in meeting these requirements. i wish to w r t. i had a chance to speak with some of the gas on the sidelines and the conference and clinic canyon and p. robert basil. he believes russia is an important now i for his country as well as for the whole continent, especially at times of global challenges. these se, invitation ian moscow is very important. i know what you're looking for is a win win situation where we have a partnership between kenya and russia. i knew look forward to benefiting for both countries so that we have a transfer mission when it comes to economy. because again, these are very important. but to know these are so strategic, i look at enough rica and most so you nice stuff for gotcha. we either get to

africa, the sanctions, or not, said don, in good faith and o e, we is actually affecting many african nations where he comes to coastal goods can name puts a lot of wheat from russia and then what is up any know we have seen increase caused a wheat because of limited supply. so when sanction albany, poor supply of these important commodities tended to reduce this is quasi causing increase the price of the commodities and affecting the cost of leaving for many canyons and us offering dinner. so these functions should actually be reviewed and possibly be removed to france now or there have been violent scenes on the streets of paris, where crowds are demonstrating against pension reform plans when they have clashed with police. with mrs. some of the latest footage of the clashes police use tear gas and baton

against the protesters. on monday, the national assembly of france projected to loads of no confidence in the government called over the plans to raise the retirement age by 2 years to 64. earlier, the iranian foreign ministry criticized the french authorities for the violence seen against the protesters over the weekend and called out the fact that the west has remained silent on the issue. the french police, resorting to violence against protests, is indicative of the french government known commitment to the principles of democracy and freedom of expression advise to enjoy behavior and instrumental use of human rights. stopped resorting to violence in dealing with protesters. bad sans, in stark contrast to what happened with iran, where there was widespread anger towards tehran over its handling of nationwide protest their mass demonstrations broke out over the death in police custody of a young woman. and the french president was one of the 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. political commentator john burke law feels that the west approach of criticizing what happens elsewhere while staying quiet about development 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, intervening those over the counties because obviously he has no means to impose any sanctions on friends. do 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 super subjected to a series of sanctions. evans seems that evolution is $79.00, and that's equal crazy. i mean, it's always, i mean, the west is of good, always been side of the voltage,

so can't really event use knee scope presented. it can be blame on the ocean. the japanese uranium students are then it's good for them. if it's blame on the western government and simply not making the decision in france or both in the united states or hardly hardly hope, all of them united states as well as a known. oh, some news just reaching us as our air defense systems have been an action over crimea bringing down a drought, at least one person was reportedly injured. after being hit by a breach from the falling drown. one private house was also almost entirely destroyed by the local power grid suffered some damage. a grocery store was also set up, lays after the grown came down. emergency services are working at the scene will stay across the story and bring you all of the latest updates. ah, now to kenya, we're 50 opposition aligned university students have been arrested for holding

a meeting without a permit. the students were arrested on saturday ahead of monday, scheduled opposition demonstration over the countries economic struggle. they were addressing a press conference, moving others to join the anti government event over 50 participants were said to have been detained from meeting without the knowledge of authorities. the arrests provoked a strong response from the opposition were accusing officials of silencing their voices. we spoke with locals, who blame the unstable economy on kenya's leadership. mccula vienna. tell much o d m as a young can you know, i'm allowed by the constitution to exercise by democratic, right? yes. well, i will demonstrate until the government, listen to me. my family is at home without food, you know, job in the, nothing at all. what i t 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 amendment. 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 payment as up, williamson. i'm highly supporting today's demonstrations in kenya because we were promised by the president. suppose that when he immediately resumes office, life will be affordable needed right now i have 4 children and one of them is disabled. the bible major feeding these for is an issue. life is becoming expensive all over, even in the rural areas of what was it honestly, i could not manage to feed them. our chinese worship has arrived in cambodia for a joint military drill coat named golden dragon. 2023. the event will run until early next month. our total of more than $3000.00 troops from both sides are taking part a quarter more than $300.00 vehicles and various types of armaments. this year's event will focus on joint security exercises for major events, humanitarian work, and cultural exchanges. in an emergency rescue deal,

switzerland's biggest bank you b as has agreed to buy credit suisse. that's after the value shares and his rival plunged 25 percent over the last week. the move is designed to quote, secure financial stability and protect the swiss economy. and the wake of the failure of 2 major g u. s. banks. however, the decision raise more than a few eyebrows has major creditors have seen their death entirely written off my colleague, worry sushi, discuss the issue with our tea contributor chris ems. to just imagine being an investor, someone that you know in an institution or, or even individual whose outdoor high net was trusted, their money with credit suisse, which know where we're from, an in the u. k. right, credit suisse is seen as the top tier box 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 regulate to 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 learn, 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 ones. one thing, a lot of analysts like to talk about it is the contagion effect. and the potential domino knock on bags. 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 start 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 that question a week ago when you and i sat down last time to talk about silicon valley bank personally, i mean, we were talking about it quite often. 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 swapped light. yeah, sorry, i don't actually know what that mean. yeah. well if you like what it means. absolutely. so what a credit applied 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 for they need this central bank basically get a life. now the biggest problem bowwie is that the fed doesn't have that many us dollars in reserve. so what do they up to date? you know, what we discussed 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, more inflation. okay. in the long term, in the short term, even you're going to have the ability to buy saudi arabian oil in dollars and them have enough dollars to do it. even though the saudis are going to charge the more dollars to the barrel because it was less. but in the long time,

it's just going to hug the poor with people in society that 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 build 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 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 a proxy, you know, that you try and generate some money for them. but they can't start what they will, which traditionally john, in these kinds of scenarios, if we go back to 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 today marks 2 decades in washington put boots on the ground in iraq on the false projects. the country is us weapons of mass destruction . r t continues as special coverage of the complex, which through the oil rich middle eastern country into chaos, and d, stabilize the region. the 20 years of war left the country in ruins and around a 1000000 civilians, dead rushes and master to the us says the west has not drawn on the experience of the past and is continuing to make mistakes by escalating the war in ukraine. after 20 years, the losses from the use aggression luca still not loons. yes, because not the peacefully apologised or acknowledged. the devastating consequences

always fabricated. the british, many of those who won one good, then continue the war one gamma good. vacating for more weapons to present, to crate to few, not the brooks, who was russia and ukraine until the last to create new and claiming that before the 21st february of 2022, the world cousin seen anything. what they did as if the world started totally on in march, 2003, missiles ran down on baghdad. the u. s. invasion caused massive destruction and left an estimated 1000000 people debt. this is how it started. at this hour, american and coalition forces were in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free people, and to defend the world from great danger. the

war sharpened divisions in the country and led to intense sectarian violence. but that had been given little thought when the cargo dan, when i witness, describe what happened when missiles battered baghdad in march 2003, who was very difficult for the country and for all iraqi citizens. on that day, a disaster struck. my nephew was killed in the 1st strike on that goddamn day bush as a criminal. it was his fault. they are all criminals. they trampled on humanity. they hate people. this was to be expected of them. they came to destroy the country, not to protect the citizens of iraq. it was a curse time for all. iraqis were still feeling the consequences of this. the u. s . anticipated a swift and clear victory. however, the reality on the ground was quite different. ice force, it struggled with mounting losses. private military contractors were brought in, but the situation only worse and i made reports of war crimes and atrocities

inflicted on civilians. the private military company, blackwater killed 17 and wounded 20 after opening firewall on a u. s. military convoy escort a journalist investigating the massacre says that civilians feared any one could be shot in the street until either the word blackwater. for me as a journalist is associated with something terrifying. i saw people in complete disarray, for example. there was always a risk that any resident could be shot dead on the street. this incident took place in the al cartler via there was a turmoil. some processed by were killed by blackwater, pmc. we went to this place only after the black water left by then black water was something terrible for us. this incident was not particularly disgust at the meetings by the government. then the u. s. and u. k. government's official position for the invasion. was it a rock possessed weapons of mass destruction, but contradictory evidence existed? david kelly, a british scientist, and leading

w m. d expert testify that officials knew the accusations about the arms were false and disputed tony blair's statement. kelly was later found dead. the host of going underground says there is a long history of suppressing true narratives in britain if they go against the government. one. it was dr. david kelly, who i talk to as a program i worked for the today program. he explained clearly that the british government were deliberately the words of the reporter andrew gilligan used to have for the show sex style pre information about w m d. and when he led to testify that parliamentary committee, he was put under a lot of pressure and he was found dead. but this is a long line of information troubles in britain. we must remember that while at the moment britain may be torturing julian sons. that is a long history in which any attempt to try to get the truth in britain in the media

is suppressed and 20 is on the iraq war example of dr. david kelly is just one of them. interesting that the family of dr. david kelly hardly speak about the death of the breadwinner in the family. the government scientist perhaps when you look at an example of another person who didn't die because of what he wanted to try to communicate to the british public. but previous director general of the b c. allister mil, his son eventually became the opposition labor parties press spokesperson, jeremy gorman specimen. trellis the moon. he was fired and that was all prepared to talk about the british broadcasting corporation was suppressed by the british government. and he was threatened with losing his pension rights, the kinds of pressure to bear on people in the media range from that to what's

happening to junior sans, to what happened to dr. david kelly. and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t. v dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates was the right back here at the top of the hour. ah, the international criminal court is accused russia of committee, more crimes and ukraine. of course, the by administration could not be more please. the i c, c, u c. that's a long history of doing washington's bidding. the same court washington refuses to be part of news

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