change to create a government person that hasn't happened sanctions hasn't function with as china and russia, both of those strategic friendship doing, she doing things visit to moscow. the west sees the worst nightmare coming for iran calls on the french authorities to stop packing protesters who are speaking out against pension reform. iran said violence against protest, this is a violation of the principles of democracy. shares and european bangs plus made to as a credit suisse, is bored. domestic rival, u b. s. and the government back to rescue deal with

gary rory. i welcome to our international broadcasting life from moscow. it's just past the hour. and as always, it's great to have you with us. i'm right. hm. mommy, let's take a look at top. so is this our, the meeting between the leaders of russia? i'm china. ah, chinese president. it's what i did on tuesday to hold official tools with his russian counterpart vladimir, put him versed in a small meeting and then in a broader gathering chinese leader, she ging thing is on a 3 day visit to moscow and his 1st trip abroad since he was reluctant to historic term, i am very pleased to be in moscow at your invitation, especially after another reelection. and i chose russia as the 1st country for

a foreign visit. the chinese site base, great attention to relations between russia and china as this as its own historical logic. since we are the largest neighboring countries, great strategic partners position visit to moscow is obviously attracting a lot of a global attention. so given that the china is now the world's 2nd biggest economy, and russia also placed a major, a rule on the war stage. i handled his visit to moscow president she filed at the article with the russian media heli, a new lesion, as well as a new blueprint for the bilateral relations and his friend, the new friendship and cooperation. he wrote about the deep connections between china and russia. you know, a president, she himself had visited moscow 8 times over the past decade. and russia is also his 1st country as what he visited after he became the head of state 10 years ago. and over the years, china and russia have

a boot ain place. and all around and multi tiered, a cooperation framework, the number or the numbers can tell, you know, the bilateral trade exceeded a $190000000000.00 us dollars last year, up by a 160 percent from 10 years ago. and china has also be a rush, us largest trading partner for 13 years running operations. our major projects in feels like energy and the ations space. and connectivity is also moving forward as steadily and present. she also helps the visit to be adjourning of friendship cooperation and piece of that both countries can adopt a new vision for a comprehensive china, russia, strategic partnership in the years to come. so you can see that you can obviously see at this a deep rooted bilateral relations between china and russia. and the wonder is she chose russia as he's a 1st and state visit was he re elected i during the i 2 sessions, which does include concluded this much. the official plugs are planned for tuesday

. the 2nd day of she's visit, one of the topics is expected to be ukraine, as it was announced by the russian had wishing to go. i've carefully read your proposal to resolve you acute crisis and ukraine. and of course, we will take the opportunity to discuss this issue more. 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. one could explain to us what the chinese proposals imply. the latest proposal for the political sentiment, all the ukraine crisis have become china's fundamental principles. which include, you know, respecting legitimacy, security concerns, of all countries resuming peace talks, resolving the humanitarian prices, keeping nuclear power, plant safe and the sure instability of global industrial and supply chains.

obviously, she maintains bad, you know, china's position paper all you pray, reflects in the broadest and comma understanding of the international community on this crisis. and the plan has been, i feel like constructive in mitigating the process so far. pro geez visit to mazda testifies, quite clearly to the robust friendship between the 2 countries. western powers have long faced such lives and tried to prevent it. i see that steve sweeney explains. chinese president changing things, arrived in russia to the alarm of the united states. and other western countries, days before he landed, the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant against president vladimir putin in what some of seen as a politically motivated move to undermine the deep ties between the 2 nations. but the bond between russia and china with strong they share close links in the

economic, scientific, and military space is the partnership in the bricks alliance. and the shanghai cooperation organization is deepening. washington has long opposed russia. china relations, which it views as a threat to a u. s. dominated unipolar world. here is a reminder of some of its previous statements around the world. we shays rogue regimes, terrorist groups, and rivals like china and russia, that challenge our interests, our economy, and our values. in confronting these horrible dangers, we know that weakness is the sures path to conflict and unmatched power. is the surest means to our true and great defense. you can call them our friends had their belden weapons that can destroy united states of america. and therefore we have to develop the capability to respond. russia and

china will also criticized for using their respective positions on the un security council to defend syria sovereignty. we need to change the attitude of the russian and chinese government. they must understand, they are setting themselves against the aspirations, not only of the syrian people, but of the entire air of spring, the arab awakening. but it was washington that spent $1000000000.00 in operation timber sycamore, a covert, c i a program to arm and train sevien rebels to our president assad. the u. s. which has launched at least 251 military intervention since 1991. according to its own government sauces, stands accused of hypocrisy, both china and russia, and this is right out and in the national security strategy are 2 countries that are chasing against this international rules based order that the united states. and so many of our allies and partners have built up since, and we're, we're too busy, like moscow. 6,

a whirl we're might makes right? we're disputes are resolved by force and we're all a crunch. can stamp out the flame of freedom. it is almost as if iraq, afghanistan, libya, chile, nicaragua, and the countless other u. s. invasions and involvement, and coups against democratically elected governments never happened. and does it? washington doesn't have hundreds of military bases surrounding china while flooding taiwan with arms. well, pow was toughness dance against china and russia when night, who identified beijing as a systemic challenge to euro atlantic security and accused the path of undermining global stability. there's just no question that the china and russia are both working to divide the transatlantic partners. and we are now very aware, we all have a deeper appreciation of those efforts and our intent on addressing them the deepening strategic partnership between the people's republic of china and the

russian federation. and they're mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut the rules based international order run counter to our values and interests. returning to the bay, washington has ramped up the rhetoric warning of the defense and security links between the 2 countries. with the u. s saying without providing evidence that china was preparing to send alms to russia to use in the conflict and ukraine. you're very concerned that china's considering providing legal support to russia. it's aggression against ukraine. but it is china that has outlined a 12 point piece plan for ukraine, while the west has undermined unopposed negotiations. beijing was quick to hit back at washington, st. china, russia relations. and now more important than ever. it is the u. s. site, not the chinese site that is supplying a steady stream of weapons to the battlefield. the u. s. site is not qualified to dictate to the chinese site. we also never accept the u. s. dictating will even coercing pressure on sino russian relations. the more unstable the world becomes,

the more imperative it is for china and russia to steadily advance their relations . while russia has accused washington of pressing the west to adopt a hostile approach to the 2 nations, let the loose the world in order to pursue their course of domination, primarily in the interest of containing russia and china, the americans lacked their own forces. which is why they need what they are doing. now, not i partials, but a complete mobilization of the western cameras as our relationship with the people's republic of china, of course is going through absolutely the best times in the history of this relationship. our leaders say, so you remember how these relations were characterized by our chinese friends in their time that it is not an alliance, but in many ways it is stronger than an alliance. that's alliance a thing. the 2 countries develop stronger economic ties with trade increasing by maybe 30 percent to a record $190000000000.00 in 2022 relations even extend to out to space

with beijing at moscow inking a co operation bill, which los until 2027. as talks between the 2 leaders are expected to see more agreements. it is clear that the more the west trying to drive a wedge between russia and china, the stronger their ties become for more on their soil live now to allow c ukiah sociology. professor the chinese university of hong kong and a chinese association of hong kong and macau studies consultant. thank you so much for joining us here today. i was in out where the media outlets have been criticized in the chinese leaders visit to moscow, describing the deepening tides was in russia and china as the west's worst nightmare. what, what do you make of that? i think it is a you have it states twice russia and target to get it to form what you my stronger

comprehension shortly to punish and her at the same talk cause russia and china working together go build a more equitable, open a written report. he does it all so, so what we're seeing now is that the, the whole worse seemed we forming tools to caps. where do you have to stay on one site and, and, or a certain time or the other? one is quite interesting that are the world countries are mobile. countries around the world are either choosing a sort of a side is more of a big divide, rudy as opposed to unity. all right, so look at what's going on with taiwan now. the former taiwanese regional leader is expected to visit china, singling a resolve of both sides and tensions. but do you think washington might intervene again and tried to undermine piece in the region?

or but say it's not trying to look china or did i by me. and then you can tie one a, i can to manage the tensions between the mainland and taiwan. and there were some people on taiwan because they don't do any war between taiwan and b, catastrophic for them. so day some moisture in taiwan coming up, which is kind of, they go about the 10 to 6 and the good a i want seem to show to some people type on boys to school. and do you believe it should have been trying to prevent a potential or to prevent any war between 2 such exactly like you so quite right is there seems to be the us constantly adding

tension to the read. instead of looking for a feasible solution. we kind of brings me to my next question when it comes to what i mean, the u. s. center of a desire, joe biden has a desire to speak to jesus thing. we know that the chinese is a busy man, a law on his plate, but how, how do you see this? i mean, do you think china is taking this seriously? this is china going to be having that conversation with joe biden, to thank the hormones that you received it in last year, potentially, between united states and china, the growth and the increase in or status toward china by state. so from trying to point of view, there's no point in fact, at the present moment for president, she is a corporate president binding because they don't,

they don't be don't pregnancy and trying to seem to think any good result can come from the cost. so that's why i think will be like an interest in the so called summit between the co leaders. oh, interesting to see if i've pounds on and so i mean, i so you know, i have you hear the west, the west still thinks or suspects. china is helping russia somehow. militarily, we know that china broke the deal between iran and saudi arabia. here we are again, then they've always said they're looking for a peaceful solution, diplomacy, democracy. but i want to think, i mean, why do you think this is so push by the west thinking that china wants to add more fuel to the fire if you like. well, try to, i tried, i tried to be

a peacemaker. not only to be to use, but also between ukraine rush tech will be a whole well, no. the problem you said, you seem to be the west seem to be trying to see all the train ukraine and russia to west it, i think so. it doesn't seem to be good to west prepared or anything about any peace between ukraine to russia. but the same time you seem to meet a group already, the voice recording for he's talking to right and try to seem to be a so in a piece which is very interesting professor hi you so much for joining us today and, and see patience. lindsey, thanks again for your time. thank you much. ah,

well, let's change gears outside protests again. spencer foreman, falls on monday will cost. why heavy? how to police? the incident in the national capital vote concerns about police brutality. ah, the root cause, he o french police tools and demonstrated has not gone on notice, as the iranian foreign minister has spoken out about the clashes said that such an approach to protest is violates the principles of democracy. 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 advised to endure behavior and instrumental use of human rights stopped resorting to violence and dealing with protesters for 5 consecutive days. fines processes have been launching against prison mcclung efforts to raise the pension age last week. the reform was adopted via a special constitutional power that enabled it to bypass the parliamentary vote. but the has been little criticism among fellow european countries about the matter . this is in stark contrast, what happened with iran when there was widespread anger of its handling of nationwide protests there. the vice president was at that time, 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. brazil commentator john

brick wall says the west approach of criticizing what happens elsewhere while staying quiet about developments at home slacks of hypocrisy. i think the main lessons from this is that each county should take care of its own internal affair and not intervening, intervening those over the counties because obviously it has no means to impose any sanctions on friends. do we go over west imposing sanctions on their hands? now maybe the impression in your hands are willing to believe that it's a harsh of them in france, but the hand is super subjected to a series of sanctions. i haven't seen that in the nation or 79, and that's the book is e. i mean it's always, i mean the west is a has been say about its own kind of every event is nice. got presented. if it can be blame on the chinese uranium, but since then it's for them. if it's blame on the western government is simply not

making the decision in france or both in the united states or hardly, hardly hope in the united states, as well as a known russian and offenses, a shot down a ukrainian drone over crimea. however, one person was injured by falling debris from the destroyed aircraft, russian federal investigative have said the drawing was attempting to target civilian areas. a temporary state of emergency was declared for the area of residential building was almost entirely destroyed. during the incident, the local power grid was damaged and a grocery store court on fire merges the services have been working at the scene. have a fighting has persisted in a battle for our to mosque, also known as a key city in the dentist region. russian forces have been expanding the area of control in the northern and southern parts of the city. there are also wagner

fighters, within their rank, storming defensive lines of the quaint forces. wagner fighters have been paving the way for the advance, as well as evacuating local residents from areas in particular. danger. all the course wouldn't ruin. costa visited a refugee center and talked with some of those who decided to evacuate from martin off as their homes were destroyed. hundreds of refugees from out, it's almost salazar and other towns have already passed through refugee sensors like this one. often they come here without anything, any belongings whatsoever. people bring humanitarian aid and they need basic necessities like underwear because once again they leave their homes without anything at all. my subscribers and i have collected a few things and now will take them to this refugee center.

so some bushels, my roster dual voluntarily went to evacuated. roles i held out for 2 weeks for my home was completely destroyed. i had no other place to go. i have nothing left. wagner troops arrived. they looked around the rooms than they asked me to evacuate or they gave me cigarettes, food and water. i understood the attitude of the ukrainian army back in 2014. i go into my home then they come in, they stick a gun in my face and ask me who i am for for they took everything. ready ready ready ready ready ready ready oh. ready ready

oh, i didn't of resolution. as you see a by one house was destroyed, another burned down that just there was rumble everywhere was to then on march 15th, they began to shoot at my home. the final shot was, as i understand from a tank, as for it to ride through my homes, that piece of the shell fell right on the pillow where my child had been sleeping just a couple of hours earlier. there was no roof, no windows, no doors here. i took my child and ran a neighbor. then in the morning, the woman who was hosting house sat there was a soldier in my house. he said he was a russian from the walden groom. at 1st i was terrified buddy turned out to be so kind as they gave a sweet tea and evacuated out. refugees from areas currently controlled by ukraine continued to arrive at temporary refugee centers across to the next people's republic. here they given basic necessities. they're given, her medicine,

local administration is doing everything they cancel their documentation, their passports and all of that is expedited. now once they go through all the formalities, they leave these refugee centers. and some of them moved further into russia, and some of them are reunited with their relatives here in jonas republic. but of course, all of them are hoping to get home to our jo most very soon from on cost rti done. as for public economy news, our shares in european banks are plummeted as credit suisse was bought by its domestic rival, u b. s. the government backed rescue deal credit suisse shares slid more than 60 percent, while shares of u. b. f. a drop, 16 percent amid the purchase. it was the biggest one day full of market value full u. b. s. since the 2008 financial crisis. other leading european banks are also

down between 3 and 6 percent depending no deep financial. i say concerns about the sensor. the world's financial markets have reacted with unease after one of the world's largest banks exit at the global stage. and of course, take over as initial relief about the rescue of credit suisse has given way to new worries about big banks, debt. the acquisition fell short of calming fears and now shaking up the market to the major way. the, the move was designed to protect the swiss economy by reinforcing financial stability. but the decision has raised more than a few eyebrows as major creditors have seen their obligations entirely written off . my colleague, roy sushi, discuss this issue with our tea contributor, chris ems to just imagine being an investor, someone that you know in an institution or, or even individual who's outdoor high net, was trusted. their money with credit suisse, which no way from an in the u. k right,

credit speech is seen as the top tier of bags in which 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 explain to you the home, these 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 the 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. 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 swap line. yeah, sorry, i don't actually know what that mean. yeah. if you want me to try. absolutely. so what, 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 their central bank, but i see get a lot. now the biggest problem bowwie is that the fed doesn't have that many us dollars in reserve. so what do they to be? you know, it's what we will 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 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 hurt the poor people in society. but those are the people hit by inflation rory. it's not the people that sit in know, their ivory towers in the, in the, in the banking system, the get hit by that they have a massive multibillion dollar bonuses, but the person really struggling to get by just to feed the family is the one that gets hit by head and 20 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 want fights and what are they going to these fix the economy? well, it remains to be seen. interesting saw a heresy. dog called amazon slashes, more jobs than read the that will the back of the top there. ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i'll see how that strategy will be successful. very critical time time to sit down and talk

february the 1st 2003 at the un security council meeting u. s. secretary of state colin powell showed a vile, allegedly containing anthrax spores from iraq. it actually contained laundry detergent, march 20th, 2003. the u. s. army and its allies invaded iraq. april 9th, 2003. the u. s. army and coalition forces entered baghdad and tore down the statue of saddam hussein in fear door square. lay the 1st 2003 u. s. president george bush declared victory in the iraq war. december, the 30th 2006. saddam hussein was executed december. the 15th 2011, a ceremony was held in bagdad to mark the end of the u. s. military mission. in reality, the u. s. army is still in iraq.