the final goal of the scene revolutions is to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore. ah, yes. so they want to do everything in their power to preserve their privileged position in the world. rushers, deputy ambassador to the united nations, tells r t that after friday, security council meeting, western power is happening. safety will drive to maintain a global petima ukraine coming down on freedom of the press as a new law empowers the state to shut down news outlets which are deem unacceptable . also india's flagship airline insisted will continue flights over russian space despite the pressure from certain question partners with

there is no shortage of news on this saturday. april. the 1st we come to you live in the russian capital. this is our to international when a very warm welcome to russia, deputy ambassador to the united nations essentially pushing back. he says, western powers are hypocritical to lash out at moscow's proposal to to a station nuclear arms on the territory. its ally, bella bruce, adding that america has long station to its nuclear weapons. in nato countries, a long rush was bought. the west is trying to act within the concepts of rules based on national order, where it's all, it's all alone sets the rules and seeks that the others should implement these rules. they want to do everything in their power to preserve their privileged position in the world. to preserve the well being of the so called golden 1000000000 by any price. they do not hesitate to acting very much colonial or neo colonial logic in deploying nuclear weapons in the western countries. ringback for

many years, for decades already. and then when the russia analysis simulate, lance simply announces they already stopped hysteria. many developing countries, especially weaker developing countries there of course, aware of possible consequences of the criticism of washington economic consequences, political consequences, financial consequences. when i, during the un here to council meeting on friday, russia is top envoy to the organization vaseline benz here. he pointed out that russia had demanded for a long time that the u. s. withdrawal. all of its nuclear weapons from other foreign countries is that moscow cannot stand idly by, as nato countries are conducting drills for the use of nuclear weapons. what i see is this should do it. so do last. russia in the ninety's took all measures and draw nuclear weapons from the territory of the former years, an american citizen,

the same, to abandon the thinking of the new period to return with nuclear weapons to the territory of the united states. u. s. weapons are employed in the netherlands, germany, and other nato countries. recall that poland also agreements you participate in a joint review exercises. this is exactly the area that the measure is taken by the president of russia are aimed at the 15 member body that leads the united nations, assembled to discuss the issue of tactical nuclear weapons being deployed by russia, del groups and belt decal, nuclear weapons. now, many us aligned countries used this meeting as an opportunity to simply attack russia to blame russia for the conflict in ukraine to accuse russia of various things that we've seen throughout western media over the past months. however, when russia took to the floor, they pointed out something that many countries have failed to acknowledge in

western media has worked to just simply not mansion, which is that the united states has been withdrawing and getting rid of nuclear agreements. and he went over again detail all the with rawls of nuclear agreements that we've seen from the united states or in the firm. they're being went on to highlight how u. s. policy as been aimed at trying to dictate and control other countries and escalate tensions around. the world. zeppelin is thrown of the human western countries are simply trying to impose their own rules on the rest of the world. beneficial only to them in order to then demand their strict compliance from other and age to be of service. they themselves, of course, do not consider themselves bound by any obligations such inherently neo co, the last 2 years. i mean, does ensuring the person with the so golden golden 1000000 at any cost? neither. we know all the holiness from developing countries can be renew, misled,

and he more the apparent hypocrisy of the united states in demanding that russia not be able to deploy a tactical nuclear weapons the bell roost. while the united states and its allies have nuclear weapons. and that was made clear by the remark spine to ben z a before the council overall meeting highlighted very big differences between major countries represented on the council. when it comes to their interpretation of worlds advance. russia made clear that the united states is acting in a way that is provoking conflict rather than seeking resolution. and not really enforcing any of this rhetoric we hear about a rules based global order on the back to russia, or you end up in ambassador again, not to mention fully, honestly that he did add that western partners have severely depleted that military resources are things to continue to ultimately prolong the conflict in ukraine by pumping that country full of weapons. but she's throwing off. we will,

we will compare it to the whole of the western world. and now when the west has mobilized almost all its resources. so he was the man again, and they are not able to to, to win over russia. ukraine. i think now they are the concerns because of what are the steps they will do? you speak about washington. so then, of course, they proceed from the, from the concept of american exceptionalism, that united states has the right to do whatever he wants of the international arena . and now they view russia and china as a threat. they try to mobilize to crown so these, these threats and they want everybody else to be silent. not so we fear decided of russia and china. and i think that's the only probation of their foreign policy, right? mobile x like people leaving and on the separate planets,

having the right to do what they, what they want in the country to, to the others. ukraine has passed a law giving presidents, alaska government, direct all authority to shut down media outlets it deems unacceptable by ultimately bypassing any need for a court to get involved. or the law takes the power of the ukrainian council on tv radio, broadcasting to a whole new level, making it the only regulator of mass media that with the ability to impose fines, restrictions or completely bad news agencies that can, i'll do so without even involving the countries judicial system and this comes after the ukrainian government has bought a number of political opposition parties, which were accused of being sympathetic to russia. one of those factions even received 2000000 votes in recent elections. this new media loss prohibits views on russia that contradict kias narrative. now, any reporting, you know, a ukrainian news outlet about russia must at least have 1st the approval of

domestic authorities. legislation has fog deep concerns about what is the freedom of the press, not country. the international federation of journalists joins it's ukrainian affiliates, the national union of journalists, ukraine, an independent media trade, union of ukraine, and calling on the government to revise the new legislation. and to start abroad, inclusive dialogue with journalist unions and the media sector. or to get reactions from journalists, jason, michael in the voice of knowledge about this new ukranian law, but also some comparisons of potentially similar actions taken by other states. this is a conflict situation and in every conflict situation, especially one of this magnitude is this is indeed a proxy conflict between russia and the united states. then the stakes are very high and press freedoms. the very idea of press as an instrument of

control and propaganda is instrumental to public opinion gaining public support, you know, manufacturing consent for the giving of arms. and you know, the use of taxpayers money to fight a war. in sight of the united states side of western europe. so a great deal of consent is required and in order to manufacture consent than the all the instruments of the, the state than all gra, for media media the, you know, the, the government aligned media in the west and in the united states will fall into line and gives the support, i don't think anybody should expect the west to condemn this for all of their public commitments to democracy and free speech. we could in fact, argue that the ukrainian model is being implemented at home. and given that they've already declared the next best thing to st. and that in there, i see can do no wrong guess he's already banned old. you know,

all the opposition parties. he's already nationalized the media. it's just one of those. if i run it because it, this decision comes the day after the western journalists are shrieking about the rest of that wall street journal reporter who was reportedly caught red handed, trying to spy on russia. and that's obviously their eyes hack on freedom of the press. but this is not because it doesn't matter what you do. it's only always who you are. that's. that's all there is to it. the head of a prominent monitoring kia has been put under house arrest as your credit already strengthened, clamped down on, well christian clergy, members with religious ties to russia. according to him, he abs latest move is nothing more than political persecution. just lazy, i have done nothing of what they are accusing me off. this is a political matter. i am again, it's crushing. is that why maria crane? this is my land.

oh, to some of the latest video we're getting now from outside the monitoring here. for some of the crowd of me calling for the eviction of the clergy shouting insults him, demanding the monks, vacate the premises at this as orthodox christians and keith had been seeking to bother police from entering the church to remove the clergy. members, while the government has been trying to cut the centuries old ties between orthodox ukrainians and the moscow patriarchy and adviser, ukraine's president said the church needs to be quote, physically, linda, unique chance when everything could be resolved very quickly and painlessly was during the 1st 3 to 6 months of the war, then it was possible to simply physically clean out many pro russians. today it is a little more difficult. but again, a little harder does not mean impossible. and today we must use legal and tough means to sweep them away. the monks say that the actions to a vig them are

a legal and that they have every right to stay at the monastery. a recent report from the united nations is also a question. the validity of the authorities, measures. even pope france is getting involved, expressing concern about religious freedoms being restricted there. and a greek orthodox archbishop is called on the global community to help stop the persecution describing the crackdown as an attack on christianity. in a hurry in the jerusalem church, which is one of the oldest christine orthodox churches in the world that we believe from systematic persecution, suffered by the fraternal ukrainian orthodox church, is an attack on all of us or who on open up churches in the world or all christian churches and all noble humanitarian ethical and spiritual values gives rude us on the west to try to strike the ukrainian look. don't judge a raise it. camps government is working hard to do this. i don't think the west is just silent. it's an accomplice in this crime. now if we say that the west is just silent, we will not reflect the whole reality, the western system,

and those who claim to be its rulers, whether in the u. s. or elsewhere, trying to undermine the authority of the orthodox church, not only in the crate but in the world. the orthodox church is under attack everywhere because it has preserved and maintains faith, morality and values, including family valuables. either israel's new government is on a quote run page against human rights. now that characterization coming from the head of the international organization, she went rights watch with the current state of the israeli government and attacks on the dish or in particular we see that this is not a human was complied government. this is a government that's actually on a rampage against human rights domestically against its own people in israel. now that critique from the human rights watch dog coming off the protest, they wrapped it across israel. following that was proposed traditional reform to though, did back down to doing a huge turn off of this enormous public outcry. that legislation would have limited

the power of the country supreme court and given the government ability to select judges and israeli foreign ministry. hit back that the comments made by human rights watch calling itself an example of democracy. the remarks are an amazing example of how bias she in the organizational israel is a strong and vibrant democracy. the demonstrate is over the last few months or an impressive example of it. hundreds of thousands of people are manifesting in the streets, no violence protected by the police. this is how real democracy works. it is yet another example of an organization that targets israel on anything without the minimum understanding of fairness. a conversation further here on off the international and be joined now by side. erica, the washington bureau chief for the jerusalem based palestinian newspaper. it's great to see you today. so thank you very much for joining us on this saturday program. it's great to have you on i'll just to start off if i may just by saying it fits well, use of pretty strong words from human rights watch what. what do you make of the

allegations from a cha w regarding the israeli government? thank you for having me. i think they have been long a comic and human rights marches, an organization that's been around for a long time. it has taken strong stands there, one must acknowledge a and a throttle proceeded and that job and tirana has and also a, you know, fell into a distribute as far as the rates are concerned. and right and, and, and, and a few months before he left his post. but having said this, let me say yes. anyone has always been a human right? yeah. abuse for him page against the palestinian you know, i mean, and it is great that we see demonstrations in an israel in pursuit of reversing the said judicial reform. and you know, but let's remember between it for in 20182021. there

palestinians were marching unarmed to the offensive garza and is ready occupational mario is killing them in cold blood and at a short distance you have so many and pity than 300 people did that thought. so to say that israel, all of a sudden has become on a rampage a really, that does not speak. the truth does not state the truth. israel and its founding have had been, are in this abuse of human rights, of the palestinian. it has it basically erected it, stay on the, on the, you know, huge abuses of the palestinian people. so on the one hand, the statement by human rights watch is good and will and we welcome it. but on the other hand, really, there is nothing new in there. rampaging is really appeals to me and it's interesting commentary offering right here, mr. erica, and we really appreciate your being straight here on the program on auto

international. i thought it does sadly seem that history just seems to repeat itself, are in that part of the world. and it just, it's almost a perpetual state of conflict. i wanted to ask you though, so israel a new government is on a quote, rampage against human rights. that's the statement coming from human rights watch. if indeed, mister eric at the human rights violations were actually to be proven. would it be possible the is ready? government would be held to account by haines. i mean, this is the thing they, they and i states for instance, you know, the most important power as far as aiding israel and being it's protected with the un or in the field will never do anything. i really hold the israel accountable, you know, from time to time, we see some statements. i managed to give the spokesman last week or the week before to say some strong words that it's really abusive, but it never really goes beyond that. i don't know how it will be held accountable as long as it is being protected completely by the united of america. i mean,

and they should be held accountable by, let's say, cutting off a supplies with, with, with $3800000000.00 a year. an armed loan, so that's, that's quite the luxury that they can use. i don't see that this current will be accountable. i don't see it's really reversing course. what i see, unfortunately, that will move forward and will probably implement these judicial reforms and the world will have to take note of that. i mean, you know, when somebody's got to start doing something, told israel or otherwise it will not be when it comes to the situation. for example, in the west bank and gaza, it's been known for many, many years. and i remember going way back in my career of journalism that israel would carry out rolling blackouts in gaza after after some sort of violence. they would stop the ambulance and getting in the ambulances couldn't get into the gaza strip. they were cut off water cut of electricity,

actually very similar to what was the landscape government has been doing to don bass since. well, since well, many is even going back to 2014, 2015 as well. but i wanted to ask, you know, israel has responded to these accusations from a human rights watch, a calling itself a vibrant democracy. your thoughts must erica. i mean, israel may be dim and quite democratic for the jewish people of israel, but that is not democratic for the palestinian or even and pasting as far as the citizens today. just today they killed the palestinian doctor who all ready set the ship simply because he was trying to break an argument between ins, rated soldier and pasting and individual from east jerusalem. so you know to say that israel has been democratic. yes, it has been very democratic or for is really do that has not been to the crack for radio apps or for palestinian under occupation. not by any measure. i mean if anything is really citizen tough,

tittie and citizens of israel are 2nd class citizen. the death, you know, so it is legislated in law. there is something called the nation the nation law which says that only jews have the right to. so the termination and so on. so to say democracy is really quite a stretch with erica before i let you go and it's so good to have you on the program with us on this saturday often. and i wanted to, i wanted to ask you that, you know, in that part of the world in the middle east, that there seems to be almost like a reproach more going on between certain members and that part of the world. you know, you've got beijing and russia are actually in bagdad mediated this reproach mall between iran and saudi arabia. it looks like turkey and syria are going to start coming together and, and kind of renew, perhaps an old, old, ancient friendship, but so to speak. but israel is been accused by having now the hardest leading, right, would government now and many, many years. and some are saying that if israel continues on this part, that will be further isolated in the region with all these other arab countries

getting closer and closer together. is there any truth to that at all? do you think? i think so, i think that the, you know, the countries are also realizing that, you know, being completely under the age of america is not a good thing that they have to look for other allies. you know, the, those allies are plenty, they are there, russia, china, india, you know, brazil and all these things. so they have to augment their presence in their securities and through other sources as well. but it's also, the countries are realizing that they live in the same neighborhood, so they have to have peaceful coexistence with iran brand since that was, you know, portrayed by then i'd say by is read as a mortal enemy for the apps, which is not the case so their plan is very good, i think is going to benefit the region is going to benefit syria for instance, that has been the subject of attack and,

and war and so on from the way which where. so yes, i think this is a good thing for the region and moving forward side. eric out the washington bureau chief for the truth. the base palestinian newspaper could starting us from washington dc where it's just about 22 minutes past 11 on saturday morning. thank you very much for your time. i enjoyed that. thank you, sir. bye bye. so good to have your company with this program for all of us here at our t international. now, the head of india's flagship airline. insisting and will continue to conduct flights of a russian as space just by pressure from certain western partners. the ceo of air india, emily defended the company's decisions, saying it's simply a matter of economics. if that's the way the winds are blowing and it is most economical, if we prevent certain carriers from over flying certain places, it doesn't necessarily stop people moving. it just changes where they're moving through. i think the chief off and india he defended the right off air india to

fly through russian skies. in this cells, won the pool, continued into view to the telegraph. the journalist with the telegraph, who interviewed mister wilson, he basically was giving him the logic that if you're flying or russia, then you're basically helping russia fund the war in ukraine to which sha, mr. wilson raised strongly, ah, have rubbish all those cleans. in fact, i remember most of the west in a line, they have quoted flying through russia, ukraine as well as bender, who was and essentially, what's that done is it has made the hours longer. it has made the tickets more expensive. needless to say, more feel well already as a shortage of feel was not insistently all source ever and line. they were approached western governments saying that any airline which is flying through the russian sky should be prohibited for landing western soil. now when they seeing

you that india and china, they companies have an unfair advantage. foreign airlines using russian air space on flights to and from the us are gaining a significant competitive advantage over u. s. carriers in major markets, including china and india. this situation is directly to the benefit of foreign airlines and at the expense of the u. s. as a whole, with fewer connections to key markets, fewer high paying airline jobs. so you're paying as far as a, a east to west, the road from east to west is concerned. the best possible way is flying through the giant territory of russia. what does it, it makes a short talk. it makes it cheaper. but as far as india and china are concerned, they've not signed off to the sanctions. so these 2 may be able to use this route. but interesting how in a sense of entitlement,

they think that it's so key for eastern airlines to suffer as much as western airlines and why perhaps it's dying to think the other way. and so the global trend to d dollar arise certainly continues as india is new trade policy features that decision to move away from using the us dollar for foreign deals. the new policy comes into effect at the beginning of this month, april, to help promote india's foreign trade and boasted domestic production. meanwhile, the indian group is getting an awful lot of attention these days and is expected to become a global currency in the not too distant future. that is, comes as deli and moscow have agreed to pivot from using the us dollar in by a bilateral trade. let's take this compensation of course live now, so public policy and business analyst of vic ram limousine who's joining us here on our international a very warm welcome to today. so thank you very much for joining us on this program . thank you, laurie. thank you. having me, it's

a pleasure to have you on this saturday news our what, what does, what, what does india's new trade policy say about his plans? do you think to reduce reliance on the us dollar? well, it's not exclusively connected only from the us dollars to the job largest framework off the government's economic policy to look after our own self interests and take care of our trade and commerce. and not to be very sensitive about the global currency movements, which has impacted because of the best and guarantee essentially a dollar to take care of this. and that's essentially the reason behind that. russia, china, brazil, already actively moving away from the dollar in that trade relations. i mean, is it part of a growing trend? and if it is so, what other countries might you expect to jump on the same train? so india is now, i think it's last counted with 18 and i live in countries with which we have bought a bilateral agreement and, and you're right in a sense, there is

a larger dollar. isaiah happening around the world. i mean it's, it's, it's, it's been years now that the dollar had the money was there and has been there for some time now. and that seems to be, you know, kind of leaving a bait awfully. and, and the rivers getting stronger every month, every year. that we, what i think you've touched on on a very crucial topic and perhaps one of the most pertinent subjects that many people are saying, these are the days the history books will write about on you talk about the bricks, the see on the shanghai cooperation organization the global south, they are almost all making moves away from the us dollar. why, why? why do you think that is the dollar has been the most reliable global reserve currency going back? what 70 plus years? i guess, i guess the, the world has been unipolar for some time now, and there's a general trained worst multiple ism happening. and with that multiple,

that is in currency of course, the currency mechanism and global trade mechanisms also have to, therefore become a multi point. that's essentially the reason, as far as what you mentioned on 70 years back. i mean, there was a murder, you know, about the, for the nixon shock. and before that the bretton woods and all these were postway war kind of mechanisms are just structured with the vest and perspective. the world has changed a lot. now china and india and lot of asian countries gone to boot a lot and sort of the other country is also underwood. so general democratization off got and see gender, democrat edition of trade. a lot of my people environment seems to be emerging. and the currency multiple ation is just a function of that. that's why it's a natural function which is happening at this point. i guess, i guess at one point because you are talking about 971 when nixon close the gold window for example. and the dollar essentially became no more backed on gold and

essentially backed on nothing. and of course, 971, henry kissinger convinced the house of saud and opec to sell their energy in. busy dollars and, and that petro dollar has been the backbone financially. speaking of u. s. foreign policy. and we all remember, for example, colonel gadhafi, it was in libya and saddam hussein of iraq. they both had plans for a pan african gold dina, or a pan middle east, a gold dean. are we all know what happened to could daffy and saddam hussein? my cousins, my concern of my question to you mister lindsey is, could any country expect retaliation from washington? as countries do continue to move further away from the dollar as the history has been interesting and depending from what perspective we look at it, you can make your own ideologies but times of very different. now those, like i said, now it's multi polar. everybody needs everybody to see the issue. i think rory is that we're having a reserve currency in your favor. it gives you

a certain amount of privilege, but that privilege is also accompanied with a responsibility. and the word in there for expects you to be here in a manner, and that is more responsible, more mature. you also have to kind of be couple your own interest with the global interest. so i guess every country around the world, especially the u. s. i'm sure even the u. s. is aware of all this, and that's the reason why the claims are now moving it's, it's essentially a function of becoming a multi bullet word. and that's why the currencies are going to be want to put a really fascinated commentary of effort vikram limbs, a public policy analyst, and business analyst as well. joining us here in our t international. thank you very much for joining us. thank you, laurie. thank you. thank you as well for joining us and sharing your saturday with all of us here at archie international in moscow. we are back soon with.