and you think, you know, it must be because they are inferior people. what do you do with interior? people get rid of a a china and russia both. so their strategic friendship during shooting things visit to moscow. the west is the worst nightmare coming true. also ahead o iran accuses from violating democratic principles by brutally crushing protest in paris that turns the tables as previously crossed as president micron condemned it wrong. the own approach to protect a prominent u. s. a lawyer. so, thanks is against russia could be lifted only if president puts, in,

turns himself into western authorities in the hague class. this white russian official having insisted that the function of largely failed with good afternoon and welcome to international broadcasting live from much it's just policy our i'm as always is great to have you with this. i'm, i'm right, i'm on. let's take a look at the top story, this our, the meeting between the leaders of russia and china. ah, the chinese president has invited his russian council rather than put in to pay a return visit to china. that's as the state leaders are expected to hold official talks on the 2nd day of seizing things visit to moscow. his 1st trip abroad since

he was re elected to a historic 3rd 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 labor countries, grace, 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 vision, 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

a visit to moscow 8 times over the past decade. and russia is also his 1st country and what he visited after he became the head of state 10 years ago. and over the years, china and russia have a put in 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 us dollars last year, up by a 160 percent from 10 years ago, and china has also be a russia largest trading partner for 13 years running operations on major projects in feels like energy and the ations space. and connectivity is also moving forward as steadily and present. she also house 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, you can obviously see at this a deep rooted

a bilateral relations between china and russia on the wonder as a she chose russia as he's our 1st and state visit was he re elected i during the i 2 sessions, which include concluded this much the official talks are planned for tuesday. the 2nd day of she's visit one of the topics is expected to be ukraine, as it was a mouse by the russian had. i've carefully read your proposal to resolve you acute crisis in 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. could you 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, legitimate 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 that, you know, china's position paper are you praying, reflects in the broadest comma understanding of the international community on this crisis. and the plan has been, i feel like constructive a mitigating the process so far. per, she's visit to moscow testifies quite clearly to the robust friendship and partnership between the 2 countries, where some piles of long fears such an alliance and trying to prevent it. artes steve sweeney explains. chinese president, seizing ping as 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 i've seen as a politically motivated move to undermine the deep ties between the 2 nations. but the bond between russia and china very strong. they share close links in the economic, scientific, and military's phase. 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. he is a reminder of some of its previous statements around the world. we face 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 if they're building weapons that can destroy united states of america. and therefore, we have to develop the capability to respond the u. s. which has lawrence at least $251.00 military intervention since 1991, according to its own government sources, stands accused of hypocrisy, both china and russia and this is right out in, in the national security strategy are 2 countries that are shaping against this international rules based order that the united states and so many of our allies and partners have built up since in world war 2. it is almost as if iraq, afghanistan, libya, chile, nicaragua, and the countless other u. s. invasions and involvement in 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 prowess, 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. 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 day, 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 in ukraine. you're very concerned that china's considering providing legal support to russia as aggression against ukraine. but it is china that has outlined a 12 point piece plan for ukraine, while the west is undermined and opposed 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, we'll 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 loose the world in order to pursue their course of domination, primarily in the interest of containing russia and china, the americans lacked her own forces, which is why they need what they are doing now, not a partial, but a complete mobilization of the western camp, which is 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 in a ions, but in many ways it is stronger than an alliance. that alliance has seen the 2

countries develop stronger economic ties with trade increasing by nearly 30 percent to a record $190000000000.00 in 2022 relations even extend to outer space with beijing in moscow inking a cooperation deal which last until 2027, as talks between the 2 leaders are expected to see more agreements. it is clear that the more the west tries to drive a wedge between russia and china, the stronger their ties become. for more on their soil, as was alive now to political science. tis as science and professor, the university of south east and neu land ethan glenn, thanks so much for joining fiarty. now that's broaden this. so decker over how unique are the russian chinese relations? and what is the role of that current reproach meant amid geopolitical instability?

well, it is a partnership which should dust challenge to u. s. foreign policy. because after the cold war, the united states established r a security strategy based on hedge money, which means it has to have global primacy. this has a lot of problems. it means that this is why we're creating a europe without russia. and this is also why the containment of china is also continued and the mere rise of the chinese economy becomes a threat to a system which has to be organized around the united states. so i think they're both rush and china has this a common interest in developing a multi polar system where you have, or it will reflecting more, both her id, united nations, which is thought of a sovereign equals and a balance between great power. so i think that this is why the united states obviously sees this a great challenge. of course, it wouldn't have to be if united states would want to embrace multiple r t and b. again, one among other sovereign equals turning it into that very well in 5 a little

a little bit more like a lot of these companies though lot of these countries assorted ganging up on one another. i mean, here we have committed recently, they sort of put forward this idea of creating a quote, could re lateral cooperation framework with japan, south korea, and the u. s. and this has been seen by india bizarre as an attempt to sort of counter china and russia. i mean dues. what do you make of that he share these concerns? yeah, there is obviously an effort to replicate the block based system we have in europe to replicate it in the east. so obviously very recent, you have the alkalis, for example, in which the us, australia and britain are looking to contain a china and east. you also have the quad, we're trying to bring in the japanese australians and the indians. but sir, but, but, but this is the key problem. if you want to have

a stable international system, you don't want to break into rival blocks. i mean, after the cold war, this should have been like a lesson, but, but this is how i, but this is a hedge, a monic strategy. if you want unit polarity, you divide the world into, into blocks. because then you have depended, dependent on and dependent allies. switch are obedient and you have adversaries which are weakened. so this is been been big part of their, the structure. and this is also to a large extent what the chinese are trying to dismantle, which was seen for example, in the middle east, where they've pushed this piece between saudi arabia and iran because they would like to have peaceful relations with both the trunk to push. now this piece agreement between the russia and ukraine and so it's a, it's not that chinese are better human beings than americans is merely that they have different security strategies to us is pursuing global hegemony and primacy. while the chinese are pushing for a multiple are system which can then accommodate this sir?

yes, sovereign equals is to dive virus pulse of power and the let's see how things pan out i in the next few days, especially with the big meetings that the big announcements coming to day are latham glen. thank you so much for joining us here at archie lacy de la vega. my pleasure. now that's a 2nd guess. he's a founder, i'm president of the sense of china and globalization. he out wine wine. thank so much for joining us. here are the now, with the about, of course the, the visit by she's in pain now visit by. she's you to most of comes on the heels, all the major middle east diplomatic agreement in saudi arabian iran. that was broken by trying to think china will be able to repeat that successful mediation in the case of the crank conflicts. well, i think it's possible. i think that,

you know, given china now has the 2nd largest economy and have a lot of impact. the global fears, particularly after broken this deal between iran. ready and to solve the solve the radio so, so that's a give john, a lot of a more incentive now to play to be a peacemaker. and also chinese, the only 3rd country actually not involved in this conflict between russia and great. so, so it's good china, very good position to promote peace and promote talks. so just a few days ago before president moscow john is for mr. jim don. actually talk to ukraine in foreign minister and had a wide range of discussion. and also last month, china top, do you have those of match ukrainian for me as the as munich, secure conference where i also attended the security conference there. so as you

see, that is really, you know, the only country that me to talking to both parties now highlighted by this reason, the presidency to moscow. really, to understand what russians position and what watching are thinking. and also i think that play the way for china to really come on this piece and dial soap in this process at all. we need really sit down and talk with you and probably, and was you the from and 5 member countries and you and you quit so. so that's really the key to solve as usual. rather than all we continue to call that is not really wanted by china and 80 percent of the global sauce to my understanding very nicely says a city right is hope, but dialogue does commands as soon as possible. now that in an article published on the eve of heating thing, the rival moscow lot of input wrote that russia and china literally and figuratively building bridges. what, where else can these bridges lead?

i mean, to nice fear the bilateral cooperation and increase ties with other friendly states is that what we're looking at here was in china, the russian, you know, both of the longest borders of each other and the, probably the longest, both the country war. and there's a lot of, you know, collaborate, you know, i mean there's, of course, there's a trade that has gone up steadily and there's traditional nations, actually for the last 20 years, china, russian relations, quite stable. and also furthermore, and you know, the world actually now we would do as, as improves guess that we don't want a hedge molly of unipolar world. we want a multiple to word and, and of course to, to, to add on to improves in who he has the global system. i think that to this miss, where do you go, go, governance needs to be really improved. i think china and all

a lot of value to that. i know so, so i think, you know, there is a, there is also, you know, security for, for region, for asia and for, for the whole war. so, so china and russia kind of a balance dandy and, and can really, you know, the know you chance position badger, i think you probably can't contribute to the global stability and peace particular doing this current quite is that that happened between russia and ukraine. so china actually now come out and because china has a huge interest jennings lottery, the potter was russian logictree. the button was ukraine, and channels as the largest trading partner was 140 countries, china wants to see the stability and of prosperity of the award. and then china wants to continue and not to be disrupted by this conflict. so i think china is really interested to propose this piece plan is 12 point and i'm trying to talk with gray and russian are to, to make, move things forward in the 8th. so there's hope they both come to an agreement.

yeah, our founder, i'm president of the said the of a fine line globalization. thank you so much. so for joining me here today at my r t was me again and no doubt soon. thanks again. thank you. ah, i says, give a little protests against pension reform in france on monday we're quashed. why heavy handed police, the incident in the national capital in both concerns about police brutality. ah, the brutality of french police towards the demons says, have not gone unnoticed as they radiant foreign ministry has spoken out about the

crashes. it said that such an approach to protested violates the principles of democracy. the french police, resorting to violence against protests, is indicative of the french government non commitment to the principles of democracy and freedom of expression advice to ensure behavior and instrumental use of human rights stop resorting to violence and dealing with protesters for 5 consecutive days. french protesters have been marching against prison microns efforts to raise the pension age. last week the reform was adopted by a special constitutional power that enabled it to bypass of parliamentary vote. but there has been little criticism among fellow european countries about the matter that is in stark contrast to what happened with iran when there was widespread anger, a rich handling of nationwide protest there. the french president was at that time,

or 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. so little commentator john whitmore says, the west approach of criticizing what happens elsewhere while staying quiet. about developments at home. smacks of hypocrisy. i think the main lessons from this is that each county should take care of his own internal affairs and not intervening, intervening those over the counties because obviously he has no means to impose any sanctions on friends with global west is imposing sanctions on the hand. now maybe the impression in your hands, i'm willing to believe that it's a harsher than fans, but the hand is super subjected to a series of sanctions. evans seems that evolution is 79, and that's the book. see,

i mean it's always, i mean the west is of good always been saying about it's on kind of every event he's got presented. if it can be blame on the ocean, the chinese uranium questions and then for, well, then if it's blame on the west and government and simply, you know, they do. the demonstration in transit for both in the united states are hardly hardly hopeful from united states as well as i know. while the french retirement ages rising more and more. busy money is being sunk into ukraine. each defends i'm form as have agreed to a 2000000000 euro i mission plan for supplying the ukraine military and reinforcing liberals military industrial complex. by 2, little again discuss the situation in ukraine and the support to be given to it. in particular, on the basis of the high representatives proposal concerning the use of the european piece facility from ignition for in order to accelerate the transfer of

ammunition to ukraine. this will allow group purchases and therefore faster deliveries at better prices. and finally, with the objective of strength thing, european production capacities. this is a concrete way to help ukraine. the funding is to be conducted in 2 stages. first, the use set to transfer 1000000000 euros of ammunition that can be quickly delivered. the 2nd stage is for the same amount of funding to be spent on a massive joint procurement push for nathan caliber, $155.00 millimeter artillery shells. thus, will this assistance ukraine, the e. u is also strengthening, is defense industry, author, i'm political hours. nicola miracle, it says that while focusing on ukraine, worse lilies have turned a blind eye to that countries internal problems. we discovered that there is money, there is money, but unfortunately, it's not used for the europeans. the europeans are going to

a very tight economic situation. now, inflation has skyrocketed. we've got unemployment, we've got many social problems for ukraine. they found 2000000000 and this is 2000000000 that has to be added to already at the billions of years, which have already been spent by the european union and the u. s. for the war and ukraine. so the money is there. it's just that this has become the priority of the european union. the elite in brussels are totally disconnected from the rest of the population in 2014, when there was a civil war in ukraine to try to broker piece a european union, never look for peace. it has been looking for war and now it's a, it's, it's getting 2000000000 euros worth of ammunition to ukraine. and this is going to cause a lot of debt, lot of casualties, and definitely it will have consequences for the rest of europe. a prominent u. s. lawyer says the only way for international sanctions against russia to be lifted, if the president put him to turn himself in to western authorities in the hague

bass, according to seaman rap who previous he served as the u. s. i'm back of the large, full war crime issues. this makes put in a pariah. if he travels, he risks arrest. this never goes away. russia cannot gain really from sanctions without compliance with the warrants. his comment came softly off of the international criminal court issued a warrant to arrest. vladimir, put in the court, has a choose, puts in abducting children from wars zones and the grain conflict. russia has maintained that it evacuate civilians if they are in danger, and made intense fighting. rushes economy has suffered to a lesser degree for the western sanctions than many hours expected when they were initially imposed in 2014. russia has been restructuring its domestic production and focusing on exports to non western countries. have refused to comply with the

restrictions. that was a jack ross was professor economics and politics at saint mary's college of california says that international criminal court move is a desperate bid to further isolate the russian economy. so it sanctions policy has not been affected. affective le rushes economy has not really been impacted seriously it's, it's a currency is not collapsed. it's still selling oil and revenue and other other industrial commodities. unemployment rate is probably better than some places in europe, inflation rates, not that great, great. and you know, the growth rate, well it slipped a little bit. not much, but that's true throughout the world many economy. so the sanctions have not had the effect on russia. and you might, might interpret these, these moves, you know,

what the i, c c in the price caps is kind of a desperate moves. they want regime change. they many us need only thing. they can get it by getting red, potent and not putting up. wanted the price on his head so to speak, you know, so african, now i kneeled times, people say that more than 40000 people in somalia and died last year due to a severe drought. but in others, in the east african nation are also considered at risk of salvation. bullets, lia examined at the causes of the crisis in the latest episode of africa. now yeah. on the outskirts of the capital, city of somalia, market issue and, and internally displaced can do a little tens of thousands of people here. many has come all different kinds of the country. now all the people started coming here years ago, weedy because of fraud because of famine. because if conflict in the areas,

the situation has deteriorated a lot since the written grain crisis began a year ago following the russia ukraine conflict, the county is relying and has been relying on the we can grain that it gets from russia, ukraine, and those supplies for the better part of a year have completely dried up, so you're looking at a famine that is going to kill millions of people. grain situation in its impact on the african continent is the data consequence of the war in crane, which is an imperialist to, or we should say war against russian people and thrash and state by our traditional enemies western imperialism. and now we are suffering in terms of our economies because i economies i into linked what happens in russia as consequences for what have been everywhere in the world. and we know that our relationship with russia in terms of this commodity of grace and so on it's,

it seems it's critical to the sustenance of the african continent. so the war, his diary kid responsible for the cases which had the world dis, experiencing not just and african continents, even udall be suffering as a consequence of diesel. russia is really doing positive things under very difficult war situations, the russian economies under serious attack. and the russian economy needs all their resources entirely for its own sustenance. but even now we see that they extending the hand of solidarity to the african continent. and that is, howard russia has always related to the african continent. wow, that's all from me to day. it's great that you joined us here at c up next raleigh, sushi. we'll be with you at the top of the hour. thanks for watching. ah

. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation. let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk with me.