if you don't watch my show, stay mainstream, because i'm probably gonna make you uncomfortable. my show is called direct impact . but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change the wayne thing ah, global financial system takes a new head as the shares of germany's largest bank symbol following the collapse of several us lenders, sparking fresh baylor cynthia is a meltdown. reminiscence of 2008 divided administration blew the notes in pipelines to reign in western europe, which relied on cheap russian gas for that's the claim. by renowned investigative journalist seymour hersh pipeline. did that. she wants control full of gas and windows coming up. now he was going to open up the pipeline and make his do his job is to transfer even gonna make the people warm make the businesses happy. and so we didn't give him that option. and the u. s. vice president of harris heads to africa

. mit concerns in washington over the going russian and chinese influence on the continent. a must go to the world you're watching on the international moneys fitness got on here. the top stories, it's 7 pm this saturday. thanks for joining us. for the risk of a global banking crisis looms of an error as deutsche bank, germany's biggest lender lost 20 percent of its value since march. registering a drop in stock of 9 percent as recent trading closed. but the rumblings in the market started up to 3 major american bank stuff with a crush similar to 2008. yes, governments was quick, intervene, bending out the banks on hunting out significant sums of money to the financial sector. that didn't stop the chain reaction already felt in europe where most major banks are losing stock. when my credit suisse went to switzerland and major lenders has been bought by a competitor, the financial system going through the ringer,

the u. s. president didn't seem phased by the trend. look, i think they've done a pretty damn good job people. so savings are secure. and even those beyond the $250000.00 of f t i c is guarantee that the american taxpayer is not gonna have to pay a penny. the banks are in pretty good shape, i think is going to take a little while for things to just calm down, but i don't see anything it's on arises about to explode. was jim and chance the olaf so also says there is nothing to be concerned about to all corresponding che. bose 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 device.

i certainly could. it did selfish of 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 open this week to sign 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 lawyer. but i'm like, so mommy, there won't be an impact on me, but order ways. it's 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 will use our son. what would prejudice if i feel

a lot of fragility 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 in warn you off some merger between her, her credit suisse and a u. b. s. a is a kinder offer, hugged, and marriage between 2 lame dogs, of course, ah, to situation with her except these trees. i was going badly, but you be s as now a longstanding is 3 or off, bad records are in banking and i'm, i don't believe that it's east kind of marriage a clue. so, in the long term, the 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 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 bailing out, is the ordinary taxpayer that usually left to pick up the pieces just like they did in 2008 civilian fact that we had now these kind of huge monopoly. we have to

remember that both the u. b. s and across the street before the manager words are mos 2 important streets. banks is a situation we at now is a kind of concentration, but not the concentration of good banks, but concentration all bad bags and heath this kind of situation is not directly address giggles. ricky fixed by authority. b, z government, a b, z us sent a central bank. then we will go on for a 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 warf those very economies they are 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 their societies from the devastating consequences they face when the bankers under backers just keep getting it wrong. while enjoying a complete lack of accountability. the mark has found an unknown object near where the north steam pipeline was damaged after a massive blast last september. and when invites the russian controlled operates at the pipeline to recover it for analysis. and this comes as investigative journalist seymour hersh explained, what he believes stands behind the recent us prob, blaming a pro ukrainian group of the attack. now you can watch the full version of his interview on direct impacts throughout the day here, nazi, but his quits isa. why the united states seems to have and i'll use this word and

you tell me if it's over used are in this case invented or planted this most recent story? why are they doing this? because they 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. the people who know very small and the president wasn't really getting briefed. the director was the funnel point. yeah. 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 it was, 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 the 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, so, so they were concerned if it blew up right after our ships or our military exercises that we were doing there happen. everybody would know we were not right. exactly right. about that they so the idea was the weight. 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, there was, he was going to open up the pipeline and make his do his job as chancellor. he was and i make the people warm make the businesses happy. and so we didn't give him that option. western europe, as it had re, gas and oil, we've always had western, europe's back. ah, me as president joe biden is in the middle of a visit to neighboring canada, and he used the opportunity to take a job. the perceived threats opposed to both countries by china, canada and the united states. acknowledge the serious long term challenge to the international order posed by the people's republic of china. including disruptive actions such as economic coercion, non market policies and practices, and human rights abuses. and that's all locals and also happy. so i was joe biden as a group of protest systems. the streets calling on candidates leave nato,

criticizing what they call imperialist u. s. foreign policy. we go to canadian journalists, not vis angler who said that also was ready to sacrifice his economic interests, to support the us. china is the most populous nation on earth as a country that has done well economically over the past couple of decades is increasingly challenging. us power in, in, in asia and the u. s. has been the single dominating power and recent decades and wants to continue that. and it sees china's economic rise and growing diplomatic and other influence as a threat to its domination. unfortunately, the creating government is. busy joining this increasingly belligerent policy that has us setting up basis in, or bases in the philippines. more forces in japan,

south korea, to basically try to taiwan, to try to contain china. and i think it's actually quite contrary to the interests of the, even canadian, much of canadian business. but the intelligence apparatus and the military and the arms producer is very much c containing china as, as serving the, the u. s. empires interests or the us presence also touched on alliance building, pointing at the extension of nate. so and g 7 spheres of influence significantly extended our alliances. i haven't seen that happen with china and, or russian or anybody else in the world. we're in a situation united states were nato, a stronger role together, the g 7 a quad, the asi on japan and korea. i have a,

my staff went out to me. i have now met with 80 percent of the world leaders. just as i'm a president, we're the ones expand the eliasis opposition, not name for me. were that cohen was by biden's comments on the growth of a western lead alliance that shows briggs countries represent over 3000000000 people, compared to 8000000 in the g 7 airline think competitors developing economies? russia, china, india, brazil, in south africa with economic growth reaching more than 6 percent. nelson, long vice chairman of the shanghai center on bow tie. club experts says criticism of china, strong thighs with russia is based in fair. i think m all, all the criticisms on china's strengthening of his relations with russia or i can see is a complex of confusion, misunderstanding desperation and fia. this as clearly show who is on the wrong side of history by now because china has reassured that its relationship with russia is

purely bi lateral and it's not against any other part a. so by looking at what to president biden has said that he's actually against himself by saying that he is rallying up, that you as is rolling up. so many countries are against the other side who is the other side. the china promotes peaceful development and doesn't practice trade protectionism and what the u. s. as it's being trying to do is exactly the opposite . they are doing trade protection is right now, and this is, i think what the rest of the world would have to wake up to realize the us vice president's comalla harris does a week long trip to africa on sunday. the white house says her visits aims to strengthen the business thighs on a spun joint ventures with the continent. the truth was trance on the united states partnership, dissolved africa,

and advanced share efforts and security in the can army chris parity through the all the trip and partnership with african governments and the private sector. the vice president will advance efforts to expand access to the digital economy, support climate adaptation and resilience and strengthen business towards investment, including through innovation, entrepreneurship and the economic empowerment of women. the vice president to meets with the leaders of ghana, tonnes, india, and dumbbell with some media reports claiming harris. we'll adjust chinese engagement in debt restructuring as well as other economic issues during her whole vice presidents visit. follow the slew of others by us. officials with secretary of state and sibling can and treasury secretary john gallon. also having visited africa since he started the year, the trip comes as washington seems to count to the rising influence of russia and china in africa with both moscow and beijing. recently, having made their own extensive diplomatic source of confidence, as well as the national policy consultant i called new york, i called dog sheriff how some africans have reacted the visits. the reaction has

been that they feel as if it's not about them. and it's not theory, they feel like this being is just a way to counter china and it's very open. and there's a feeling from the african people that if america is really need to send their presidents. because chinese presidents come rushing, presidents, come, they sent high level delegations, and every year, every couple years, the russians and chinese are inviting app and it has this day, the ration has been debt. what are you going to do for us? besides trying to counter chinese, there's really about africa or just about trying to counter china and what, what type of economic packages are you going to offer for us? what type of relationship do you want to have? because america, things in a lot of these country, these changed their business as they sanctioned organization. they're thinking that years then i know this time you have a foreign policy that wants to sort of pacify this relationship. you tried to often turn to china and those 2 things are, are not, are not, are not coherent. and it's sort of like a cognitive says occurring. because if you want to develop a relationship with these country,

you have to offer them something. you have to offer a relationship, you want to come to china, offer them something that they don't get from china. but as of right now, what they're offering africa is this criticism, condemnations, sanctions. and those things in many african leaders have been turned off by nigerian presidents mohammed baja re has urgent people to share food with those in need ahead of ramadan. now says the country is the 1st sky rocketing prices. now the leader also went on to condemn. unscrupulous sellers have artificially inflated prices to make a profit during the islamic sacred month. i'm particularly aware of the activities of treatise, hurt, officially increase the prices of their goods include in food at the beginning of every rama, done according to the latest you and report to nigeria is in the midst of a major field crisis with more than 4000000 people in need of you trish and assistance as a lack of funding and gasoline as well as growing instability is lots of 8000000 people in need of humanitarian aid. and it's 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 bulk of our millison group . since it emerged in 2009, the group site services have claimed the lives of thousands and displaced millions of people mostly in the countries north. now france has been a long time ally in combating the threats. what's after years of supporting the multinational joint task force? paris apparently has little to show for, it's the country presidents very recently opened a counter terrorism since it's a boost security in the region. and we spoke to political analysts and human rights activist, our med share, who, who says the nigeria now needs further security support, i think depicts that he does and in the program is usually a home grown problem button and julia need is now sophisticated kaufman support in terms of capacity to be military plus and then on also the technology to be able to pay these. and then data is betty on the right. as

a result of the election that really happens, the president elect cannibal and also his vice presidential mo, most have this knowledge, i did the bug out. i did the context of what this problem is. so if they can be able to put their houses in order and bring the big, brenda walked together, what ensuring that they can be able to holistically that is the problem i think will be. and off to me on a i can say yes, they can be able to 100 that thing when you have these 2 people combine their own airport and then expedia in handling such a tank. i think julia can be able to handle these political crisis. washington is that to appoint a special envoy in valerie to support opposition leaders in the country that's according to the us 60 of states. can you talk about what you're thinking with respect to a special envoy for bella bruce, and when? when might we see that appointment? happen, no, thank you very much center for raising that and yes or 2 things. as you know,

they in day out, we have the vilnius based of with winnie a base b l risk affairs unit that's are embedded in, in our embassy and they're doing the day and day out contact. because so much as of you know, the democratic opposition is in is in lithuania, but at your point i were very actively looking at moving forward the special envoy . what i'm considering right now looking at is dual, having a very senior official in our european affairs bureau to also serve as the envoy to be able to then go in and out engage senior levels with the, with the opposition, even as the dealers affairs unit. that's based in lithuania, does the kind of day and day out engagement. oh washington opening, suppose the political opposition in bella roo. sit still accuses russia of meddling in u. s. internal affairs from accusing former president trump of siding with a kremlin to move fluids. elections, to high thing up hysteria in mass media over his alleged ties with the russian president, putin prob, involves the media companies acceptance of $8000000.00 from

a source with suspected russian tie. it's about how our former president consistently sent signals that he was not on ukraine side. he was on prudence. russia state media backed the republican candidate, donald trump, a man known for his affinity towards russia. according to earl rasmussen, retired us left tenant colonel washington's funds to valerie saw yet another attempt at form meddling. we would go absolutely crazy. we would probably sanction who knows? who knows who would probably have joe biden on the phone with somebody or were in the blink and it would not be, it is not accept, it would not be fully united, pointing a formal representative to, to interface and, and work with the opposition. i mean, it's clearly clearly, you know,

it looks like they're going to, once again go down the central regime team. so it just does the indicator of the arrogance within our foreign policy. and in kind of like, almost like we feel that we're the rulers of the world and we can do as we were. so i think that it is just another symbolism i think that will further alienate other countries and make the very, very unfeeling euros. skeptic romanian the sentence has been added to the notorious ukrainian mid 40 it's websites which critics call a kill list. well it's up to she called for bucharest to annex parts of ukraine. naz how dana saw saw, responded to be nodded to the list. do you understand how deeply crane despises romania? does it officially allow itself to publish death threats to remain in senator? this is the moment international opinion muslim. the standard ukraine does not

deserve the support. it is getting latoya is a website, the less people. and sometimes the personal information of those who have been deemed a threat to ukraine. now the senator was put on the kill list after she denounced the romania ukraine agreement of 97 and demanded the return of historically romanian territories. ukrainian foreign minister spokesperson a leg nickel the anchor set on friday, that his minister strongly condemned to the attempt to call into question ukraine's territory integrity. the list includes top russian officials uneven people, such as pink floyd's roger waters. and former us secretary of state henry kissinger was cos live, now to appear, manuel tom, on experts in geo politics and president of euro continent here. manuel, thanks so much for joining us this evening. now 1st of all, i just want to get your thoughts on this. nationalist romanian sentence have been added to the merits for its website. they're classified her as an enemy of ukraine . now obviously you can imagine with comments like that. she's not exactly going to

endear herself to the ukrainian people. but what do you make about have been added to this list? yes, that's right, but her re as to were understand the context to oh, why this romanian nurse politician us said that she would like to romania no minorities to be your sort of annex to to to romania or because actually romanian minorities are, are subject to were or to discrimination in ukraine. ander is the same. we food guardian, minorities as well. and when you were a meter on guy and so romanians are inner, early in the states administration, they admit that this situation is getting worse, even worse of undoing usaa time and do review craner becoming more and more

nationalist earth romanian son whom dion minorities are, are feeling are of the pressure of for ukrainian state and this is why a many rumania, some guidance actually would like more autonomy within you quinn or earn some of them or even a independence on on. maybe you're a tori territory or you know, rooney, fight, romania, hungary and or sore or this comment offer this so romanian politician. but she would like to work, you know, to, to back vis romanian territories where parts of part of her or romania before before you assist are a next to the spot of romania or after 2nd, whole war actually is valid if very different from a ukrainians. a regime would who is not accepting

a new variety of people to torment themselves. inner inner in crummy are in, in no dom bus. you know, this is the, or ukraine is, is sort of for artificial state, which shows the, which is the east territory is a m, a combi is sort of for syntheses of many different territories, were added to, through his story. and you were never independent from vir rush on his story. and on the you assist our times and the in us is our times. we for every result of a 2nd world war, many tories were added to ukraine. but we have nothing to do with ukraine, actually. i'm so present the lens could have some things to say about that, but it certainly says a precedent. ya, in this case of a politician for one of ukraine's neighbors, and indeed a nato member calling for ukraine to be carved up. who

are the problem me is with or nato question is votter ukraine always asked to to be part of nato, but it's not you crew to decide. this is the member states of nato to decide on the are very divided. and of course they know that to or you could live in ne, 2 is not possible because is a causes billy with russia and nobody wants to import or the problems of romania offer ukraine, a levy know we the natal because or imagine you quinn with the need to even the i think it is it possible now better imaging the scenario or with problems of minorities and on the under fragmentation, when you quinn will be paul teach. weaving the audience and the other member states won't accept box. now send in to the, the mirror toys, websites itself. now,

some prominent western officials have been added to this list. we mentioned roger waters before under, indeed henry kissinger. and do you think has got enough coverage in the media? cuz you can certainly imagine that if that if russia had a similar site that said it would get a lot more coverage. and in the western medium, be a, be much more condemned. yes. so fortunately, this site is adrica services. very, you're shocking when you look at the site and over people were assassinated like dia, doogan for example, is, is very easy. it's a, or a sort of cross on you are saying she has been eliminated. and do you know, this site is very extreme, and the problem is because her arm a western member states, you bought ukraine, they don't say anything about that. andrea is much more to, to, to, to wish problem meet the site or which is, are openly, you're a,

you know, push a promos, actual violence against the enemies of ukraine or even if they are only people who are just archer, not your views on the, on vista, ukrainian, or russian conflict, are they, they are many of our pressure over to the state of virginia. yes. it is of sizes to of a people like, for example, too many academics who went to, to russia to conferences on to crimea on. now i know it because my self, i've been twice to crimea in. i can be conferences and i received the letter of pressure in browsers from virginia for a representation and threatening myself on saying that there are i go against international law because a party see pretty enact academy conference. so it goes very far with those apologies for insults in your peer amana where we have actually run out of time.

now, unfortunately, but thank you very much for your thoughts as peer and manuel tom on experts in geo politics and presence of your constant. thank you. less all for they saw what have you up to this weekend. i hope you having a good one enough also from me for now. but nicky allen will be here at the top of the hour to take you through all the top stories as we had in this se, thanks famously company today. ah ah sanchez, i've been doing news for 30 years in 2 languages around the world and here in the united states, i've interviewed for presidents founded a $1000000000.00 business. i believe this should be honest, direct and impactful. this is direct impact. ah.