[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, benjamin netanyahu sais, israel is still the best of friends with the u. s. despite the number of is really officials suggesting washington involvement in the nation life protests that have swept the concrete over proposed judicial reforms. live reaction on that's coming up in the moment. also a big meeting in multiple wraps up. panels are run on russia, talk us sanctions, ukrainian conflict. i'm a comprehensive strategic partnership between the 2 nations. the prime minister of poland takes aim at the e. u for failing to deliver on the key points of the western back ukrainian grain deal,

resulting in european farmers struggling to keep their livelihoods afloat as an oversupply forces local prices to time with revenue. catching the program from today across the globe. welcome to moscow on the world news update here on rti. these really prime minister, how slum what he's called, the countries closest friends, stating israel will define it independently. it comes out on the heels of u. s. criticism. now benjamin netanyahu is judicial reform. stuff have sparked nationwide protest israel is the sovereign country, which makes is decisions by the will of its people and not based on precious from abroad, including from the best of friends. these really prime minister was talking about the us israel's closest friend and ally, and it's very active interference and israel's internal affairs. but choking often

tend yahoo expressed his concerns about external pressure and interference into israel's internal affairs from abroad. he came out and said that these railey us friendship is unshakable, even though the 2 countries might have certain disagreements. and they certainly do for months in yahoo's blog has been very actively pushing for a controversial judicial reform that saw huge public disapproval, including in the military ranks on tuesday. americans, president biden, criticized the path, is ro toast to follow what also remains to be seen is when newton yahoo will be invited to washington in the same speed to bind and made it clear that for now these really prime minister, whose government came to power 3 months ago and he already traveled to a number of european countries with official visits is not welcomed in the white house. like a, i'm very concerned with that. they get history cannot continue on

with hopeful. hopefully. i mean to with yes indeed, this trade a very harsh words between best friends, israel and the u. s. comes and maids claims from inside israel, from some israeli officials that washington may be involved, maybe behind or even sponsoring massive anti government protests that have been shaking the country for 13 weeks in a row on saturday evening. and yahoo son shared an article on his social media about the report that reveals that the state department allocates a lot of money for the reservation and supporting demonstrators here in israel. some israeli officials started asking legitimate questions. this protest is financed and organized with millions of dollars. we're following what is happening . this is

a very high level organization. there is an organized center from which all the demonstrators branch out in an orderly manner who finances, the transportation, the flags, the stages. it's clear to us the u. s. has been denying all accusations or any involvement in the protest movement. any notion that we are popping up or supporting these protests, or the initiators of them is completely and demonstrably false. so his honeymoon over for israel and the u. s athens and yahoo, his most recent statements, it seems they are good for now, but certainly there awesome clouds in the clear skies of his friendship, and as biden said, it remains to be seen. well, to discuss developments further, let's cross live to peace activist an expert on our of is really a 1st lawyer. i'll sure if you're indeed most welcome sir. yet those claims by some is really officials that washington has had

a hand in the protests that have engulfed israel. do you agree that that's likely well, hello, i'm so honored to be with you. i don't think that's like that. i think the, the relations between the u. s. on israel is, is really clear size. maybe maybe a few scattered flowers here or there. but i, i believe that the commitment from the u. s. towards israel is solid. but you see the baby's government to be very honest, the coalition, not the government. and so his party who is the coalition, they have issues with their allies. now here in the u. e. we also have issues with a coalition, especially with some statements that are that come out of this coalition and this is why because it has been postponed for many times. when that is a big issue,

isn't it? the fact that joe biden has not invited the president of israel, as many us leaders have done before to come to washington, that still has not happened. does that not give you? perhaps pause for thought on the current relations between us and israel is give me some thoughts about the the opinion of the us administration on b, b. s, coalition, not be himself, and not also his already, but a many, many, many, many statements. it came from the us department and also from go to the farms and have relations with israel regarding the statements me wrong, the coalition of be sending about the palestinians and re settlements in the west bank. so these things make things it henders. what, what, what is real can achieve more and more with its neighbors, and that is the real,

the real issue, the coalition that be made. hi. can usa, is that coalition right? not well, i believe a baby can fix this. ok. and you see a baby is being viewed by so many that he was the one of the most important elements of abraham accords. when it was a broken, b, u. s. in 2020. so he is not viewed and his party negatively. but his coalition, especially the statements provocative statements in times where we need to have more stability and more at peace within the region. the statements that come out of his coalition do not really imply a good thing. so these have to be corrected. i and that he'd be be, will, it will work on that because that is his best option. and when he say's or when his administration talks about increased independence on the israel will put israel 1st,

do not think that's, that's a veiled swipe joe biden. and what he has been saying, and that, that couldn't lead, perhaps, not to lasting damage, but to a considerable, one in the short to medium term between the, the 2 allies. but he wants to emphasize that he is a sovereign state and he makes his decisions by his own. i don't, i don't see it going to that direction that, that you said. but i was just saying that he feels be that he's under real pressure by the international community and by his friends and by israel's friends who really want israel to emerge more and more into the region and want israel to have better relations with its neighbors, including the gulf states that made peace with israel, i saw in his statement that he made emphasis, that he's a sovereign state and i don't think i don't see anything wrong with that. but as

long as they just move towards the right direction, i hope that as a someone who believes in the ever have a course that who believes in peace with israel. and who believes in the legitimacy of israel as many people in the are, will do. even though it might sound a bit, a bit strange, but we want israel to, we want to have an everlasting piece with all of our neighbors. this is why you see saudi arabia neutralize conflicts with iran, neutralize conference with other countries as well. this is why you see syrian, you, we are coming back together. so israel is also part of this equation. it has to realize that it has neighbors and allies who have for its existence and who cares for it's for it to emerge in the, in the, our world. and we'll just kind of polish with this kind of provocative statements. things will get out of hand. ok, very interesting. thanks so much for coming and sharing your views with us here in the program. peace activist and experts on our ab. it's really 1st lewis al sharif

. thank you so much. ah. okay, another story to tell you by today, runs foreign minister as hell talks with his russian counterpart in moscow up by plans for a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty between the 2 countries. and indeed, amid further regional cooperation, breaking down what all that means by colleagues research shayhan, steve sweeney spoke on that earlier and also the calling of circle of roth for washington to lift that sanctions on a ram. mute population was the world is still waiting for the us to resume its obligations in the iranian new killer deal and lift our sanctions imposed on iran one of the songs. so guy lab was very critical of the sanctions that have been imposed on around by the united states. of course, they were impose after the collapse of the joint comprehensive agreement. this was the iran nuclear deal. and that the bar, the trump administration arbitrarily, are pulled out of now he's and said that the sanctions muster be brought to an end

. now talks have been continuing air in vienna, not face to face, have been done through a mediator, but progress has been very slowly in the area. and of course of, unsurprisingly, the 2 men spoke about the situation in ukraine lab. rob said that the west can end the conflict at any minute, but it decides to flood care with arms. instead, he said the last week he said that the u. s. tech you say anthony blinking spoke against a ceasefire, saying that it would be in russia's eye benefit. but also the day a rainy him foreign minister lambasted the western approach. and he as well called for dialogue as a thorough norlisha dog. so discussing the situation in ukraine, we highlighted nato's undermining line of behavior that are with both feet, standing in the ukrainian conflict in are being sucked deeper and deeper into it. honestly, i don't know if i can go any deeper out of a priscilla. the fact that the west to supply ukraine with weapons, in our opinion only worse as the situation in ukraine,

will need to solve it by diplomatic means. now both men said that they supported initiative for a peaceful resolution. they welcomed for chinese president. she jing ping's road map to peace that was outlined again during his recent visit with her to moscow where he met with president putin. but sir guy lebrun said that those talked must be based on what he describers, indivisible security that no country can strengthen its security at the expense of another. of course, he was most likely referring to nato's cont, in you, in an expansion eastward, despite promising not one more inch. but he said that this was enshrined in the un charter and its shrine didn't international law. it is, it is fascinating though that the moving and shaking we're seeing these days, steve, on the geopolitical chessboard, i mean, his iran visiting moscow, right. as the foreign ministers of iran and all these other countries around the world that working overtime. because okay, lever off is working double over time. these days. i mean, iran is poised to join the seo the shanghai cooperation organization. iran is poised to join bricks, brazil, russia, india, china,

south africa. i've heard there are 22 other countries who will want to join britain . you can call them the d dollarization coalition steep because these are countries with china's contemporary silk road. we're all going to be doing international trade in national cards. this is hugely important. and the formulas that they said that 49 documents that were required to join the shanghai cooperation organization have now been ratified by the a reigning parliament. they've also spoken about, as you said, joining the bricks, bricks, alliance, 22 countries. and we just heard as well, the and saudi arabia is now looking to join the shanghai cooperation organization that has now been agreed. and i must say, was the sort jump in. but it was china that brought saudi arabia and iran together recently bought in it, of course and, and the reigning foreign minister mentioned this. he, he, in fact her thank to china for their efforts in mediating this army a hugely significant piece deal. which not only brings m saudi arabian ran together,

but it's also warmed relations between saudi arabia and syria. so these are the, the, the u. s. is main, strategic ally in the region. reality is now looking to opening embassies again in both of those countries. syria, of course being welcomed back into the to the arab lee. and of course, next week, as the uranium foreign minister said, there's these quadra lateral talks between russia and around. but looking to bring syria and turkey close together. so this normalization of relations between those 2 ensues, the important for the, the 12 year conflict in syria. they've both been on opposing sides of our president, aside of course, again, also recently in russia. so russia played a very important role in the, in this respect. but also again, you mentioned the soup crow to bolton road initiative, china's, i get this a hugely expansive project, which we'll see a countries trading in local currency. so this shift away from the dollar massively

important because if the u. s. loses the daughter was the well currency, it loses its ability to dominate, while financial markets, the prime minister of poland and his romanian counterpart, tom taken a swipe out the e. u for failing to deliver on the key points of the western back ukrainian green deal. an oversupply really has seen prices in europe tank hitting in particular local farmers hard. here's the take of artie contributor rachel marson. well, polish prime minister mateus mar. wiki is usually busy, browbeating germany, france and the u. s. and the rest of the west for not doing enough for ukraine. now poland is always leading the charge and demanding higher powered weapons for ukraine, and is quick to rummage through its closet for fighter jets and tanks when it can easily replace them with better weapons for itself. with all that defense assistance cash from washington. and it just reportedly billed the e u. 2000000000 euros for sending hand me down. weapons that it had to ukraine.

yeah. why sell for h n n? when you can get rid of it from your closet and replace it with chanel? right. it's like giving away your whole wardrobe to a friend and then billing your parents for it. so of course, you're not walking around naked from a national security perspective. so poland has really been generous with ukraine when others are footing the bill. but when it comes to sacrificing its own economic competitiveness to ukraine, well, in that case, not so generous. and the same goes for its neighbor romania, judging by statements made by the countries prime ministers and a joint press conference. have a lesson here to we speak with one voice. this grain, as promised by the european commission, was supposed to go to africa in the middle east. meanwhile, procedural imperfections and tardiness in certain areas led to the fact that some of the screen and other agricultural produce has remained in the eastern part of europe, thereby driving down prices for farmers. together we are engaged in a process to discuss with the european commission, where the mechanism should be to enforce the trust ability,

if your credit exports to final destinations. so now they want brussels to trace the grain because it's impacting their countries, any interest in tracing all the weapons, the poland is dumping into grain while demanding that others do likewise at the risk of it blowing back into europe. or no, it was just last november that european commission, president ursula vander line, announced the grain from ukraine initiative alongside zalinski and another 1000000000 euros to funds so called solidarity lanes for the grain and quote, coming together to avert hunger around the world. but apparently, a 1000000000 bucks can't buy competence since the grain is swerving out of the solidarity lanes and crash landing right on polish and romanian farmers as they're pretty quick to say themselves. it effect prices in local regional markets have dropped, causing a significant impact on farmers income. the commission is not reacting swiftly enough. our members had already flagged the concerns about market disruptions last

year. if poland and romania don't watch, oh, they'll be accused of peddling fake news, which is exactly how the west has routinely qualified. any suggestion that the ukrainian grain programs like drained from ukraine and the black sea grain initiative are not actually feeding the world's poor? now, turkish president, reject air to want pointed out earlier this year that 44 percent of ukrainian grain is actually going to europe and just 14 percent african countries. now if you crane just needs to make a buck, then why not just say so. instead, the went out of their way to sell it as a world hunger program to get the ball rolling, only than to use it to stock up its own pantry at the expense of its local producers. good thing, the u has more cash to toss at this new problem that it created. 56.3000000 euros to be exact, for bulgarian polish and romanian farmers impacted by its latest active, self owning. and how did brussels frame that hand out? by blaming russia, of course,

and claiming that close the trade disruptions incurred by the russian aggression should not take place at the expense of farm hearse from neighboring countries. now, moscow is clearly no match for the ease own special brand of home grown incompetence. but we heard from gerald gross, a politician or through an former member of the national council of austria here, said he's not the billions b e u has sent to ukraine, and the endless sanctions against moscow hasn't changed the fact that the only way for the conflict to end is to negotiate for peace is kinds of 10. can any cat we've been imposing sanctions for 13 months as to 10 packages of sanctions which haven't led to a solution, but of only created economic damage, inflation and a war economy in europe, some acting as the stooges of the u. s. we have sent billions of euro's worth of weapons to ukraine, which didn't really change the status quo. but this is why the european union has maneuvered itself into

a dead end. it has willingly broken off all talks with moscow and has even expelled a number of diplomats. we have refused diplomacy, even though it should have been the task of europe to facilitate a diplomatic solution. the money is already wasted. let me remind you that in a report from november, 2000, while the european union itself is called ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in europe. and now germany alone has transferred 14000000000 euros to ukraine. that number doesn't even include the payments from britain, france, and italy, and the millions of years the austria gave ukraine aren't included either. in other words, we have basically wasted billions of euro's, of european national wealth and ukraine, which are gone forever. we're never getting that money back and nonetheless, piece can still only be achieved through diplomacy and through talks because it seems impossible to solve the ukraine conflict through military action. and the reason for that is simple army ukraine and ramping up the european arms production can only force russia into

a position of warfare because ukraine isn't capable of conducting an offensive strike against russia. so what are we now seen in ukraine in november on the so called frontline, it's a stalemate. a stalemate, which only brings death and suffering and no solution. a true solution can only be found at the negotiating table by now, canada has sent more than a $1000000000.00 worth of lethal aid to ukraine over the past year. now neither countries prime minister has hunted dodge a question from a local journalist. he lost them point blank. why the countries engaged in a proxy war against russia? mr. judith mr trudeau, why do you keep wrapping up the proxy war? why do you keep got the proxy war with russian is to to go this route. oh, you said you said more than $2000000000.00, it was in service. they don't proxy war but and the native when we spoke to the canadian journalist who posed the question,

who said the country has substantially contributed to kiev, where effort live was the mojo paper? did a calculation tabulated that canada had sent $2260000000.00, canadian dollars in weapons already. and actually since then there's been a number of announcements. so i trust the newspaper more than i trust the government itself. so i think it's probably almost certainly over $2000000.00 and, and maybe more, but that's only a small part of it. i'm in canada's providing intelligence, ukrainian military. you have canadian special forces on the ground. you have a former many former clean soldiers that have been killed and that are fighting the canadian government has, has lately contributed to the, to the proxy war as well as helping provoke the conflict. no more than a year ago. in politicians. you know, it's remarkable. i mean somebody, even if somebody who's a strong supporter,

what canada's doing in ukraine should at least want a debate about it, but the media, the mainstream journalists, they don't even ask the questions. there's not really any, any debate. it's just assumed that what canada's doing is good and the question is should we do even more? not whether we, you know, helped it over throwing out a co which in 2014, not whether we undermine the midst to piece according to our operation. unifier, training mission, not whether we should have, you know, opposed us moves to put more and more nuclear weapons in eastern europe. and it's just to sort of assume that, you know, rush is all bad and our side is all good. and we didn't need to keep, you know, kennedy foreign minister didn't need to go to key them in january, didn't need to go there and push for nato expansion that, that was absolutely unnecessary. did you and other things we did to sort of stop the conflict? if you don't know any of that, then you think the can is just, you know, putting money into a good cause. if you look at can

a foreign policy and i looked at came foreign policy all around the world. canada is very closely aligned with washington. a canadian arms industry is completely integrated with the us arms industry. arms companies always like more wars and more possibilities to deliver weapons is good to the arms companies, canada founding the u. s. britain and canada found in nato for formally founding $949.00. so 10 years long, been a very staunch pro nato force. and so candidates taking a very belligerent position and very little cost, unlike germany or some of the central european countries, there's almost no cost for canada, right? of energy prices haven't gone up. and the, the spin spillover cost is much, much less than in some of the other nato, nato countries. french police have been accused of stopping emergency

services from helping those left badly injured when anti government rallies turned violent over the weekend. an audio recording, published in the french media, purports the show, a doctor's request for immediate help, for an injured demonstrator being refused. we had a doctor presence, and we have explained the situation to him. we will not send helicopters or emergency services because we have an order from law enforcement not to send them. local official say any claims, the police helping preventing those injured from getting treatment are entirely false. stayed all areas of the emergency services are there to assist and help in times of needs. meanwhile, the police have also been making headlines after a woman in northern france who described a manual micron in a derogatory term. in a facebook post was arrested. she's to be put on trial for insulting. the president is reporting to a local prosecutor. she was detained last week, unquestioned after

a local government office filed a complaint about the post. now, if found guilty, the woman could face a fine of up to $12000.00 europe. well, let's get the thoughts on all of that from independent journalist. look, renee joining us from brussels. luc hello to you. so local officials have rejected the claims that police were preventing help reaching those injured in the protest. but that does not seem to fit in with the, the audio recording of the, of the don't during what you're taken. all this well on france is not well for dan, for a long time. during demonstrations, we have seen the black blocks getting more and more aggressive are throwing, for example, sit at police fun, haven't weapons and, and really been incredibly flight. so theme in a southern chair,

a tried to find an answer to that, and he created b r a v, the graph units, which are specialists of counter terrors, more or, or actually to some developing in all of the real aggressiveness during demonstrations. trying to catch the demonstrates that what blocks in a net and so now the left is complaining that the police is to brutal and out gradually, the attitude of the police and these demonstrations is getting worse. what you refer to is in san serene, not imperative quite to where there was a big demonstration of the college is some leftists against local fonts for water resources for a job full of water. so it was very violent and it's fairly possible, but actually the police forbade it, made it impossible for the q 40 on social services ambulances to

reach the front line of the demonstration. so that is very possible. and it's the case in paris, france for the moment, goes through a cycle of violence, demonstrations. it is the 10th day of demonstrations bringing some 700000 or 1000000 people on the streets of the main cities. mostly paris and, and it's every time you know, violence and, and, and fires everywhere. and of course that is the garbage, thousands of tons of garbage and in the streets of protestant big cities, that is all starting to take way. so it's not the time to, to film emily paris, phenomenal, or anywhere else in france. so my one is our, of course, the pension rule, and he wants to pass because he has nothing to show for is 56 years now in power. and he wants to perform to be passed and the union say no and a continue to demonstrate. so that's the key, is that perhaps then linked to this other case,

i want to get your thoughts on that i have a woman being put on trial. apparently for criticizing the president in a facebook post, is that an attempt to send perhaps a clear message to those against the governments plans that you know what we're going to get? i think it could be somehow, i mean, the par gets nervous. i mean, dominant parliament yesterday was very focal and he shouted that your position that shouted at him about job, you're respecting the uniform and things of that kind of thing. oh, it's song, you know, the republicans in danger comes to that one. so it could be that the song, a court case for that woman is some, an indication that they want to take it more seriously. you know what people say on the networks into what's the ramifications of that though? because we're talking about a country who for many, many decades has profess this love of freedom of expression,

the right to say what you want wit within reason, of course. but generally, you know, if it doesn't incite violence, that is ok. how well such cases influence that the perception of this current french government, if, if at all the presentation is getting worse, brailey people on the left, this one song i to, they want to do something to negotiate, to, to bring a piece to the base on pensions and to stop having to view every ninety's demonstrations in paris and other cities. so the government is not tapping it the way it should says paul, prime minister is lost somehow. there is no communication to constitutional on council that has to to the side of the law pension with