my political and corruption scandalous oh, but oh that didn't stop moldova obtaining you turn to the state is in 2022. ah ah, unrest across the global financial system continues. as the largest german bank loses 20 percent of its value and less than a month, that's after several us bank crash for resulting in 2008 style bailouts. divided administration blew up the north stream pipeline to gain control over western europe, especially germany. that's according to investigative journalist, seymour hersh pipeline that, that shows control full of gas and winter's coming up. now he was going to open up the pipeline and make it to do its job is transfer even gonna make the people warm make the businesses happy. and so we didn't give him that option. us vice president

comma harrison said to visit africa later this week. i made concerns in washington over the rowing russian and chinese presidents in the continent. ah, good afternoon from moscow. this is our teen or national with the latest world news updates. i'm pure allies about great to have you with us. the risk of a global banking crisis looms ever near as joyce bank, germany's biggest lender lots 20 percent of its value since march. registering a drop in stock of 9 percent as recent trading closed, the rumblings in the market started after 3 major american banks suffered a crash similar to that of 2008. the u. s. government was quick to intervene, bailing out the banks and handing out significant sounds of money to the financial sector. but that didn't stop the chain reaction already felt in europe,

where most major banks are losing stock and where credit suisse. one of the turnarounds, major lenders has been bought by a competitor with the financial system going through turbulence. the u. s. president didn't seem phased by the worrying trend book. i think we've done a pretty good job post savings for secure. and even those be on the $250000.00 or 50. i see this guarantee the american taxpayer is not gonna have to pay a penny. the banks are in pretty good shape. i think it's going to take a little while for things to just calm down, but i don't see anything it's on the arises about to explode as german chancellor all off. so it's also claims. there's nothing to be concerned about. our correspondence che, bows investigates a senior politicians and economists tried to reassure increasingly nervous financial markets, global anxieties over recent bank failures rumble on the merger of 2 big swiss

banks, u. b. s and credit suisse has created a financial bet him off, valued at over $1.00 trillion dollars in a deal which threatens the squeaky clean image of the swiss banking sector. invite i sent a liquidity selfish on the extensive liquidity assistance provided the time needed to find a solution to safeguard financial stability. this solution had to be worked out under considerable time pressure in order to be ready before the asian markets opened this week. and in solvents of credit suisse would have had severe consequences for national international financial stability. and for this was economy taken, this risk would have been irresponsible. this new super bank, born out of a hastily arranged merger, now has a value that completely to war. the highly developed a $100000000000.00 swiss economy and has raised concerns about granting such immense power to a single financial institution. boy yeah, but i'm like, so mommy,

there won't be an impact on me. but what a waste is really too bad that a bank with 170 years of history is going to vanish just like that. it hurts me as a customer. we have a song. how do you think i feel a lot of fertility in light of the current situation on this with financial system now will only have a single big bank u b. s. and that is not good. it's good to have competition and we won't have that anymore. off some merger between her, her credit suisse, and the u. b. s. a. is it kind off her hug and marriage between 2 lamed acts? of course, ah, to situation with a kick decrease, i was going badly, but u b. s. as now a longstanding a streets are also bad records are in banking, and i'm,

i don't believe that it's east kind of marriage a cool that souls are into long term that crises for ordinary workers and communities. it essentially means that regardless of what your economy actually produces, peter cars, energy medicines are high tech services, and all accounts for nothing. if a major bank fails, leaving ordinary citizens to face the catastrophic consequences of that failure. this leaves us to ask ourselves what the actual value of these vast financial institutions is to the societies they've so badly failed. while these institutions provide some payment and transaction services to their wealthy depositors and borrowers, the rest is essentially investment banking, which focuses exclusively on making money for guess who. that's right, the investment bank and it's shareholders who's disproportionate influence on the world's economy simply doesn't correspond with the services they provide. and if

and when these giants, who are seemingly too big to fail, need bailey out, is the ordinary taxpayer that usually left to pick up the pieces just like they did in 2008. so they were in fact that we had now this kind of huge monopoly. we have to remember that both the u. b. s and decreased before the merger words are mos 2 important suites banks. as a citizen, we at now is a kind of concentration, but not the concentration of good banks, but concentration of bad banks. and if this kind of situation is not directly addressed, get ricky fixed by authorities b, z government or b, z. ours sent a central banks, then we will go on store and long number off recurrent fries each. the widespread use of corporation tax to avoid far higher income tax

rates, now is reserved for ordinary workers. it's also now widely exploited by institutional investors and their backers. this feeds into the bazaar reality that a global banking sector that should exist to serve economic activity has now grown to, to war. for those very economies, they're supposed to support as ordinary taxpayers faced the very real possibility of yet again picking up the tab for these huge profit mills. it's time to ask ourselves who's working for who and whether there's a better way to protect our societies from the devastating consequences they face when the bankers under backers just keep getting it wrong. while enjoying a complete lack of accountability. denmark has found an unknown object near where the north string pipeline was damaged after a massive blast last september and will invite the russian controlled operator of the pipeline to recover it for analysis. this comes as investigative journalist

seymour hersh. explain what he believe stands behind the recent us pro, blaming a pro ukrainian group for the attack. you can watch a full version of this interview on direct impact throughout the daycare on r t. but for now, here's a preview of why the united states seems to have and i'll use this word and you tell me if it's overused out, in this case, invented or planted this most recent story. why are they doing this? because in the united states, those who did it, they know the president did it. you can to another way of asking this question that no reporter is asking a press conference in the the that we blow up, the paypal i'm and pipe and biden's. okay. i could tell you one thing about the cia when it wants to do something down and dirty. they know how to keep it. they know how to keep it small. that you know what i'm saying. yeah. to people who know very small and the president wasn't really getting briefed,

the director was the funnel point if the guys in the field and the less that the white house knows the better because it's a talkative white house. the difficulty of the emission and by the way, what, what the intelligence community did there was quite spectacular, even though that they, they didn't like the end. but they were given assignment, come up with an option. if you want to blow up to pipelines, you have to do it in such a way that we can't be blamed, right? that war is by september when, when biden said, let's do it and gave the order. the war was certainly sold out. and we put now a $121520000000000.00 into that war. and western europe was being asked to give more and more. and the concern was, they could see in western europe. and in germany, what we want being told too much at this war was going nowhere. so they were concerned if it blew up right after our ships or our military exercises that we were doing, there happened, everybody would know we were not right. exactly right,

about that they. so the idea was the wait. but why? he picked 3 months and 3 and a half months to wait was the question, i wonder, why did he suddenly do in late september? because to get back to the point the war wasn't going well, is he was afraid that europe was going to begin to walk away, particularly the germans, germans after world war 2 are not interested in a big military, but winter's coming up for europe. and yeah, the was, he was going to open up the pipeline and make his do his job as chancellor. he was make the people warm make the businesses happy. and so we didn't give him that option. western europe doesn't have a gas and oil. we've always had worse in your expect. ah you as the vice president comalla harris starts a week long trip to africa this weekend. she's due to meet with the leader, have gone out tanzania, and zambia. it's the 2nd high level visit to the continent by

u. s. official in recent months and comes as washington seeks to rival the rising influence of russia and china. as our chief corolla top le explains, this will be common to harris's 1st visit to the african continent, but no one seems certain what the objectives behind this visit is. as use intimated, she will be in ghana, tanzania, as well as zambia. but one thing is for sure we know about the. busy uses at least tentative position with regards to it's for my influence on the continent following a void of some 2 decades in which is seen china moving in and the growing influence of russia. and this seems to be very much a guiding of as vivid as the u. s. actively tries to wage a gap between it's between africa as well as russia and china. and this seems to be a part of the motif if you will,

that is. busy informing this visit the truthful strengthened the united states partnerships, resolved african, and advance all share efforts and security and economic cris parity through all the trip in partnership with african governments and private sector. the vice president will advance efforts to expand access to the digital economy, support climate adaptation and resilience, and strengthen business ties. investment include in through innovation entrepreneurship and the economic empowerment of women. there is no doubt that the u. s. is looking squarely added the geopolitical adversaries if you will, as it looks into the growing influence of china and that of russia on the continent . and it is trying very hard to make sure that it comes out on top is already identified. ah, china as, as a villain, blaming behind african debt problem,

seeing that if it wasn't for china handing out money and, and seriously, and entering numerous african countries and dragging its feet when it comes to re negotiating. the said that after golden lobby where it is, and we heard when janice yellen, the us treasury secretary, when she came around to the other, she penned the current food crisis on, on russia, following the conflict. ready in ukraine and a journalist asked her specifically if the u. s. is in a tug of war for the continent in order to win the influence here on african grass, fine for influence, just isn't the focus of my visit at all. i know it's a completely natural question. it is not at all what i am focused on. our interest is in partnering with africa. this is not a competition with china, and it seems that africa will be a stage for many more months to come. if not years,

that the superpowers will be locked in some sort of diplomatic war here as it tries to in favor and friends. but the u. s. has a lot of catching up to do, and they may be joining in this fight. already. a beck former nigerian presidential aspirant adamo garber, says washington is not looking for any sort of mutually beneficial cooperation with africans is all about destruction our associates. and i'm sure look even they're going through the tools in east south and western africa. most of this country side warranties where the until this sentiment is very, very high cousins. anya will love the way just to do with our chinese dept. and if you call back to do gonna most of their so fighting on the challenges, the referencing regarding the inflationary guardianship crisis by the fuel crisis and rising cost of living is currently blamed on the m. m dept. which is also, of course, for him to, by the years, if you go back to london, you know,

the same problem. so i don't know what she's coming to get because to the best of my knowledge, africa has moved forward. but beyond what did you are to thinking? i think i used to be, and africa knew why the friends, china has been very disappointed in terms of building infrastructure. i didn't necessarily when, when diplomatic approach it had been, if you bought africa and china, and if you look at what happened from russia recently brought him to putting to prison of russia. clearly stated about $20000000000.00 of deadly live law for countries. this is from do not africans are celebrated. so i don't know what to do as a time to come and do, but to the best of my knowledge, i don't think visual as big any very strong positive outcome from dot mit and it just p only one sided driven by one. so interest, even ident, out of africa, so that is not that much you've done. is it one sided relationship? it relationship, but only way it benefits them is when they're what, when, when it doesn't benefit them, didn't go rigid. ah,

i hear him president mohammed will hurry, has are to citizens to share their food with those in need. a had a ramadan as the country suffers from sky rocketing prices. the leader went on to condemn unscrupulous sellers who have artificially inflated prices to make a profit during the islamic sacred month. i'm particularly aware of the activities of treatise officially increase the prices of their goods, including food at the beginning of every ramadan. according to the latest un report, nigeria is in the midst of a major food crisis, with more than 4000000 people in need of nutritional assistance as a lack of funding and gasoline, as well as growing instability, has led to over $8000000.00 people in need of humanitarian aid, it is estimated that more than a $1000000000.00 is needed to help the nation of 18 percent from last year. another major issue facing nigeria is that of terrorism from the vocal, harass militant group. active in several parts of the country since it emerged in

2009, the group's activities have claim thousands of lives and displaced millions of people . mostly in the countries north. france has been a long time ally in combating the threat. but after years of military interventions, harris apparently has little to show for it. we spoke with an economist from nigeria who says that it's time for africa to leave the form of neo colonialism that the french have imposed on it. what is happening then? they say he and bill chime basin and the francophone west africa is a curious case in how, where see europe as mismanage. it's good wheel in africa and i'm really disappointed personally in the fact that you have the french army in that region. and it's not been able to walk with the niger, and i mean to fight them. you saw james on requirement,

you swap in charge days in resign belts. you know, it's very disappointing. why, why does it start? he's also very disappointing that the french government, my know, my cronan is all, it's pretty social in the class, the 2 or how long? who's the media please for yourself and my know my current as imposed to see a fee in front of the sofa on, on francophone west africa. and i have a situation where 50 percent of the reserves of the central bank so far from, from, from west african countries, a place to we did for 1st central bank is quite disappointed. i think it's time for africa to rise. all, especially from west africa, rejects economy colonialism. france has imposed on its as somalia continues to suffer from catastrophic hunger drought and conflict. b. u has cut funding to the country due to rising interest and the diverting of

a large amount of their financing to ukraine. we heard from locals has been affected by the development the you, which used to help somali a lot now spends billions on ukraine to support that war with russia. it is mind boggling for the you to spend that much money in ukraine supporting a war that when somalia is facing starvation. it is so surprising to see you, which is so passionate about protecting human rights. now ignoring somalia, where people are dying of hunger, western imperialist countries only support each other. they don't care about africa, somalia, as you can now see, all western countries including the u. n, have all abandoned us in are now fervently supporting ukraine, which is more developed in somalia. western countries have cited with ukraine against russia, but i believe these countries have an interest in ukraine now, hence their support because these countries only think of their national interest or traditional donors. the western countries are heavily funding ukraine, which is far, much developed in us, and yet they still pump a lot of money into it. but needy countries like so malia are being ignored in

western countries of now diverted the support they used to extend to somalia to ukraine to overcome the current crisis in the region. the african union is requesting nearly $90000000.00 for somalis peacekeeping force war battling of hide a link to. i'll show bob extremists, there are concerns the african union force will not be able to operate properly due to a gap in funding caused by the use change of priorities. it also puts into question the future of operation atlanta off the coast of somalia in the horn of africa, which allegedly sought to protect international shipping routes in the region from piracy. since the start of the conflict, the european union has been actively supporting ukraine, leaving other countries in need of aid in the shadow of calves repeated requests for more funding. lasher, the e. u. donated 35000000000 euros and military humanitarian and financial aid to cab somalia. received only 201000000 euros,

which has put the eas priorities into question. we spoke to political and security analysts. i met ad there shed, who says that it's important to provide aid to somalia as it has been suffering for the past 3 decades. thing there is a double standard, you know, when it comes to ukraine or funding other countries who are in a small in, you know, worse condition. it's more important to help somebody that has been in trouble for the cost for the past 3 decades. whereas ukraine, the amount of money that the west and it has given them is extraordinary. the gulf of aidan is a very strategic walked away. a shipping weigh approximately 33000 vessels that go through that particular area. and so it's very, very important for global shipping, and especially because you will have access to it was definitely european interests that caused them to go into that area in the 1st place. so all it is in dire need

of help. they are in dire need of how people are helping ukraine in the conflict. i think people should help somalia in often i guess i'll show which is going on for 2 decades. you so i think europe on you have responsibility in that aspect. the west are so you focused on ukraine. i think that should wake up and look for new partners across the world. serbia has washington's unwavering commitment for diplomacy. that's according to the u. s. ambassador in belgrade, who's suggested serbian should set aside their grievances as they marked the 24th anniversary of the nato bombing campaign of yugoslavia. the serbian people will never set aside their grief, but i believe they are strong enough to set aside their grievances. the united states dedication to our partnership with serbia as unwavering as, as our commitment to diplomacy. the comments made by the u. s. diplomat. we're not welcomed by serbian president alexander research during a commemoration ceremony in the town of somber,

where thousands gather to mark the day of remembrance for those killed during the bombing. he sent a clear message to washington. you lied. you said that you were a taken a friend, a sovereign country because of a humanitarian disaster. it's right to break our spirit, but you never will even to day when you pressure us. and when he asked from us to give you justification for everything that you did to this country. when you asked from us to agree with you that you did not make this horrible mistake. when you committed your crimes against our people, you are telling us, look into the future and we will wear looking into the future. that's why we have peace and we want to preserve peace more to day. the leader of one of the biggest countries in the world is being prosecuted by it, another court and hague, who could have thought that was possible, but it is a lot is happening today in the world and in our part of the world where the thing that now is the time to finally finish what they started. that now is the time for us to justify everything. they did well and can stay united for future if our

country ok let it will do. the survey and president has previously said, serbia fail, feels pressure coming from the west when it comes to its foreign policies. belgrade continued to refuse to impose sanctions on moscow. despite its efforts to join the e. u we spoke to serbians to get their thoughts on the u. s. ambassador's comments . so because the serbs can never and will never forget what was done to them in 1999, that's a scar that will stay with us forever. we can forgive, but we will never forget. i would generally recommend to the us ambassador to show more respect for serbia and his host tact more diplomatically and not to expect of serbs to forget what happened nova. there were many victims between our older generations and many of my friends fled serbia at that time. it is unreasonable to forget that and generally it's not nice of him to attack our culture of remembrance . it would be not be reasonable from our side, not to hold empathy to such events of our past. i think it's not possible in that

serves. we'll never forget the bombing and everything that happened. i think the ambassador should really refrain from making such comments. most of my opinion is that we should never forgive and never forget what happened to us. i think this is standard american hypocrisy. they're always doing the same thing. their excuses won't pass for us. that's our wrap for now. i'm coming up, former pakistani prime minister, him wrong. com sits down to discuss you as involvement in the pot to depose him last year, plus more on the current geopolitical world stage next on going underground, stay close with . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms. race is often very dramatic. development. only nationally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful. very katy

killed time. time to sit down and talk with i'm action or it's antsy and welcome to going underground broadcasting around the world from dubai in the u. a. in today's very special episode were joined by the democratically elected 22nd prime minister of pakistan. imran khan, overthrown one year ago, ostensibly by the country's national assembly. since he was overthrown, he has been shot as well as charged with dozens of crimes from corruption to terrorism, with attempt made to arrest and assassinate him. we must tell you that if you're watching this broadcast on saturday, this episode was filmed on wednesday. the 22nd of march 2023,

former prime minister and chair of the pocket santa re k, and soft party in oregon, joins me now from law. capital a fundraiser, province in pakistan. thank you so much. i am on for coming on the show. it's been so long since i interviewed you lost in, in london. when you wanted to be prime minister since then, you've been overthrown. you've been shot and injured, your family has been targeted. our real on the assassination plot against you. right now as we speak. the nation's blood. unfortunately, i ran the dent on me when i was very lucky, i'm likely to be alive when my legs. i was wanting full, almost 2 months before the attempt. i give the exact manner in which they were going to try me as i said, b and other blame it on a religious fanatic. but it was all done by

a people in the prime minister. they minister and one senior intelligence agency guy, and they had planned this murder nation, and i was lucky to be alive, and unfortunately they're still in a position of power. and so therefore, even though the investigation started, but the scholarly investigation, because it was pointing in the direction of a proper conspiracy along the lines which i predicted. and therefore they just, they said, what does the investigation? so the trends, israel, because these people are sitting and bala petrified, but if i wouldn't be elections, there would be in trouble or headed accountable. so they have been doing them since then, which i will say by the almighty. just in the nickel dime they had to do, but be on $11.00. on saturday there was

a problem. i almost walked into the dentist drug and the nick of time i got back because they had planned, you know, getting me them. and then i discovered that they were going to do another action against me on wednesday, they were going to do this action where my supporters were there and they were planting people in my supporters would apply to the police and the police would have given my support that eventually come off to me and so i mean, it's a difficult time in august because we have a government which is a drift. we have a government which get on the when you get out of gold, but they can amik situation in the country, which is we're passing through the worst crisis in our history. the was governance system and history and then we had people won't petrified of elections. so the elections on 2 men provinces have been announced by the supreme court on the 30th

of april, the petrified of their elections. my body will sweep them because in order been bullied by bodies boys to win to cause majority by august on pence. they're wanting to get rid of me out of the 37 by elections in the last few months. my body has swept 30 of them. so you know, you know, the reason you ask me in the beginning how real is a threat. the threat israel undulations because they're worried that if the election sick base i come back into ball, there will be held accountable. i'll get to the economy in a moment. is it true that as p t i, leader, if our chaudhry says in the indian papers actually caught up in the story of us, that you are going to be part of multi body negotiations, agreeing on a process when you elections? and does that make any difference as regards yourself because you're banned from going for these elections by pakistani authorities.