ah, with ah, china says the military drills around taiwan work, quote, a serious warning to separate. it forces the mid growing crow independent rhetoric, largely backed by washington. syrian iran are restoring relations with saudi arabia, turning from mutual this same to unity and cooperation. as rhea discusses, damascus is returned to the arab league. russia's ambassador to the un calls on the west to abandon its neo colonial habits in africa, following criticism for strengthening bilateral ties with molly and villa,

go to just outside jobs. maybe one of the locations with creative forces planning to launch the my tribe or offensive cow group heads of from ortiz more a godaddy of explains how russian border cruise breakdown ukrainian forces as you have plans and offensive, and little gobs for public with good morning for moscow, this is our teen or national with the latest world news updates. i'm fear ella, isabel, it's great to have you with us, china and times to close airspace over, tie one next week, but only for half an hour. in contrast to the earlier announcement of implementing a 3 day, no fly zone regime, the restriction is said to be a safety precaution connected with a plan launch of a satellite. that comes as tensions between beijing and taiwan have escalated,

falling. the taiwanese regional leaders visit to the us, beijing responded with drills to send quote, a serious warning to pro independence forces. on tuesday, the chinese president inspected the navy southern theater command and called on armed forces to step up military training. art is caleb mop and brings us more details. the government on taiwan says that china is preparing to launch a war and they say this in response to the latest drills from the chinese military stimulating and circle ment of the island. look at the military exercises and also the rhetoric they seem to be trying to get ready to launch a war against taiwan. beijing says these drills were a warning to the government on taiwan and to independence forces. similar drills were conducted after the visit by then speaker of the house, nancy pelosi last year, but rather than trying to de escalate this anyway. recently we saw they had of the

us house foreign affairs committee visit the island of taiwan and compare chinese president. she's been paying to add all hitler, talking about a provocation, but taiwan foreign minister doesn't seem too concerned about what these actions might lead to. he says china has no right to dictate how taiwan chooses to make friends. what. what is it that these friends of taiwan really want? she has some c manufacturers, 90 percent of the advance global supply of advanced semiconductor ships. oil was so important for the economy is, is this sort of the 21st century version of asian are sending representatives to taiwan to discuss joint production ventures for drones and ammo. needless to say, things in the pacific are rapidly escalating so rapidly. in fact, that some of washington's friends in the west are not sure they're down with it. the question you repeat need to answer is it interest accelerated cry. since one

know the worst thing would be to think that if we, europeans, must become followers on this topic and say i q from the u. s. agenda and the chinese overreaction. and then crohn is right. we must be careful not to become a part of the conflict between the united states and the people's republic of china . europe must try to play an independent role as far as it's possible and not to appear as an appendage of the usa. only 13 countries in the world still recognize as the government in ty pay with hon duress, being the latest to drop taiwan. they threw their support behind beijing last month . washington whose relations with taiwan are unofficial and who still claim to it here to the long standing one shine a policy has been an escalating things as much as possible who really benefits from these move. caleb martin are a new york co director of the international accent center. sarah flounder says that china is simply responding to the u. s. as violations of its taiwan policy.

china is responding to what the u. s. provocations are, which is again and again selling u. s. aircraft carriers, destroyers, nuclear submarines, and all over flights, all manner of other military equipment directly into the taiwan straits and an areas off of china until now. the u. s. was able to project unrestrained threats on china by the sheer number of their military forces in the region. it shows that the u. s. is absolutely willing to violate signed agreements that they have made, affirming that china is one country. and taiwan is a province of china. they want to pull the e u into this also. and they want to pull the surrounding countries into it, not only korea and japan and the philippines, but of course,

every country in the surrounding area. they are pressuring them extensively, and they are pressuring certainly the european union from a decade long conflict to a new era of partnership. serious foreign minister has arrived in saudi arabia, as the 2 nations aim to restore relations after more than 10 years apart. riyadh said it wants to see the reunification of damascus and it's returned to the arab league. the 2 sites, how the session of talks discussing ways to address the searing crisis in order to preserve serious unity security stability error by the entity and tutorial integrity, while also serves the interests of his brotherly people. both sides also discuss the steps necessary to achieve a comprehensive political settlement of the searing crisis. that would and all repercussions. a chief national reconciliation contribute to the return of syria, toots aarp fault, and the resumption of its role in the arab world. syria also announced

a mutual reopening of embassies with tunisia for the 1st time in a decade with the 2 nations continuing consultations on ways to further restored ties. according to a joint statement from both states, that countries will now reopen their diplomatic missions. and to play ambassadors, tunisia several diplomatic relations with syria, shortly after an outbreak of conflict in damascus over a decade ago. meanwhile, iran and saudi arabia are continuing on their own road to recertification, with a delegation from toronto arriving in saudi arabia to reestablish a diplomatic mission or to contributor use of july only brings us the details on their money. and delegation of technical delegation from iran visited to saudi arabia was announced by the warning foreign ministry that delegation arrived in the capital re all war. it is expected to follow up on the implementation of the piece,

the old between iran and saudi arabia, which was quenched in the chinese capital beijing back in early march. so the wanting delegation is expected is expected to do 3 major effects. one is to reopen the one in embassy, real to east, to open a console for these barbara barbara in the solid city of judah. and we used to open a permanent representative of these long republic to the oh, i see the organization of islamic cooperation and no exact date is so far provided by the 2 sides as to when the embassies will officially start working. but based on remarks made by the iranian spokesperson for the foreign ministry, he said that efforts have been made to reopen the embassies before the arrival of the annual hedge co pay, which is due in late june and early july. so he hopes that the embassies will

officially start working by then, similar saudis, obligation is iran has been in iran since saturday, doing the same worth doing the same work and the procedures to try to reopen the saudi embassy in the capital one. and also to launch a consulate for the review are in the one in city of my shot. of course, the few still came. they told you in early march this year, and he was broken by as part of efforts to try to escalate the regional troubles in the middle east. and also to build mutual force between the want to saudi arabia, to both security, the region, foreign ministers from nations neighboring afghanistan have gathered in his back as stand to discuss the current economic and political crisis affecting kabul. our cheese worlds apart, host on a boy who has the details. this high level meeting in summer,

cobb his dedicated to the exact same thing. the neighboring countries coming together with a single effort of pulling to get the resources pulling together, pull a policies and pulling together that efforts to bring stability to afghanistan. now i've got his son, as you know, has been for decades, if not centuries referred as a referred to as a heart of asia. but unfortunately, this heart has been disturbed by many wars by sometimes deliberate effort to so cares and instability from the overseas. this is something the neighboring countries, one to put an end all, all as we speak for foreign ministers from russia, china, pakistan, and iran, consulting on how to do that. i'm sure you know the united states very cur. carry arctic lee pulls out off of got his son in 2021,

but it continues influencing afghanistan's politics in many different ways by seizing it's assets by imposing sanctions. by blocking various countries efforts to stabilize the situation on the ground. and this is what foreign ministers are going to discuss with a particular focus on security, their major concerns that the americans or the westerners may try to influence the situation in afghanistan. is to be found a way of how to make sure that this country can come to its terms with its history, with tradition, but also to become more or less stable for its own sake. and for the sake of the region, the west must abandon its neo colonial habits when it comes to africa. that's the message from russia's ambassador to the un while addressing the security council. following its criticism of molly over, strengthened ties with moscow,

which he had noticed was once again, we listened to the negative reaction of a number of western colleagues to the strength thing of russian malay and corporation. we regretfully, issues of geopolitical competition, do not give them rest. in fact, that claims have nothing to do with concern for the well being of molly on the country. they emphasize that they do not care about the opinion of malayna themselves, and they've never cared the long term presence of western countries in this part of africa has not produced any tangible results in this regard. we urge our colleagues on the council to admit their mistakes and abandon neo colonial habits. this region does not belong to you. the criticism comes as moscow continues to aid molly and it's ongoing fight against terror groups in this a hell region. russia's top diplomat recently visited the nation in a bit. you further boost cooperation between the 2 countries. the u. s. in the u. k . have been particularly outspoken about the direction molly is taking. noting the recent explosion of the un mission chief after making critical remarks regarding

russia's presence was one of great concern. on the other hand, the long term presence of french troops in the region was always welcomed by western powers. though last summer, president macross ended the 9 year mission, leaving thousands of civilians vulnerable to terror attacks. harris had initially intervene at the request of the malay and authorities in 2013 for relations between the 2 nations declined in the wake of military coups in 2021. author and historian gerald horn and political analysts. city, la mean bug, a yoko think that the west, his presence in molly has only made the situation worse. molly's problems commenced in 2011 after the united states friends on the needle powers over through the regime and neighboring libya, which allow tons of weapons to leak into the hands of religious zealots. who then began an insurgency against the regime. interestingly enough,

france seized the opportunity to deposit its troops in molly, but they did not succeed in repelling the insurgency. and of course, frances, highly unpopular and that part of africa because of its neo colonial pretensions. and amazon mission, of course, was the kind of disaster for the population of my more dumb 9 to 10 years of business in day sale in my lead day didn't do anything absolutely anything. they were killing all the time killing of themselves and the killing of money. i'm sorry, jeff, the kidding of civilian and the situation does it could it? if occasion, it was getting waltz and waltz every day thus wide in london and when a military authorities it took to power in 2020, they decided to diversifies the partnership of money with other count visa m,

especially like russia, for example, as ukrainian troops prepare for a push near the disputed village of belo garasco in the low dance republic. rushing, mortar, proves, and drone operators are methodically breaking down caves, ranks. art is more a darcy of census. his reports. spring has arrived to our batter, dumbass, trees and greenery are blooming. it changes much. drones will lose their edge. nature will conceal entire armies. these men anal veterans. they've been added since the conflict began with the middle of the room and the situation is tense, yet stable. we see them begin in moving about, but we are in sleeping. we watch them. this is a 122 millimeter mortar squad, slaved to a drone operator. in tandem. they pommel the enemy,

hulu, surf, delegate of god, just outside lucy chanced, may be one of the locations where credit forces are planning to launch their much. i'd counter offensive counter offensive from. there's been a, a build up of troops there just a few kilometers away from us. as well as all manner of antennas, electronic electronic warfare, radar jamming equipment that has appeared there. which is why they watch the strewn footage shoes. a russian artillery strike on the house, taken over by ukrainian troops within seconds. ukrainian soldiers rush out of a nearby house and head to the scene. they are struck on route with a how it's a shell. through the smoke lay stumble to the scene where an evacuation vehicle has

pulled up 3 head for the house on the right. the rest mill about what exactly that moment. another shell comes screaming in directly on target her god with work with her. i remember when we came here last year, we were all fresh and green. we've learned a lot over the past year. there are lots of things to work on, but only he who does nothing makes no mistakes. ukraine's much hyped counter offensive is expected soon. and these soldiers know that the more of the enemy, they whittle down. now, the easier it will be a ukrainian court has placed an archbishop from the canonical rainy in orthodox church under house arrest for 2 months requiring the holy man to wear an electronic ankle bracelet as well as turn in his passport that comes

a separatist orthodox church protesters call for the explosion of canonical priests, which is part of a larger persecution campaign, launched by ukrainian authorities against the canonical orthodox church. several priests have been accused of anti ukrainian activities and are now facing sanctions and even criminal charges. watch ortiz, full interview with russian orthodox church, bishop metropolitan lea, a need throughout the day and on our website. but for now, let's take a sneak peak. as the dean's innocent, with every passing day, the developments in ukraine produce more and more misery. it pains us as these are our brothers and sisters. the other day i posted a video of my telegram channel showing 2 elderly women, one of them very old and using a walking stick, making their way towards the church, through a crowd of nazis. young people chanting down with mosque vite priests, the frenzy states. these people were in there wasn't just unnatural. it was

outright satanic, demonic. yes. the demonic fervor and a vitriolic hate for everything russian, everything orthodox, to understand the cause of all of this. i believe we have to look deeper into the past before the developments of these recent years. in my mind, we are dealing with the aftermath of certain ideas that have not been completely stamped out in the 19 forties fifties and 19 sixty's. it is the ukrainian a band to write ideology which managed to survive in a latent form, slowly, poisoning the minds and memories of generations. and it's now sprouting and bearing fruit. i do not think that one or 2 or even 3 years would have been enough time to rewrite the minds of young men and women of thousands of people. yes, that's the unfortunate reality. we are saying, priests physically assaulted temples is ceased. and as we all know,

this persecution is directed against the ukrainian orthodox church. what a tragic period. this is truly. and yet here we are witnessing the acute phase of this tragedy unfold on holy week. we will continue to monitor the situation as it develops. but my wish is that it stopped as religious persecution goes on in ukraine. an iconic yet monastery is facing serious and yes, yes, but church flora has survived the mongols and the nazis that cannot withstand the landscape the salt. read the full story. now at r t dot com, washington has praise. it's relations with warsaw saying ongoing talks are based on democratic values. that's despite the u. s. and he used consistent slamming of authoritarian polish policies throughout recent years. poland is a valued ally, a partner and a friend,

and we have an enduring relationship based on shared priorities and democratic values. you see what's happening, everything from beller roost to poland, to hungary, and the rise of the toilet terran regimes in the world. and this president embraces all the docs in the world. when you look at what's happened in places like hungary, hand in poland, that obviously did not have the same democratic traditions that we did. they weren't as deeply rooted. and yet as recently as 10 years ago were function democracies and now essentially have become authoritarian the polish prime minister is in the u. s. for meetings, despite previous statements from european officials criticizing the former critics like the french president who just last year called the polish p. m. a quote right wing anti semi who bands l g b t, people in reaction to polish laws which restrict l g. b t writes and contradict

western culture. the visit is taking place as warsaw is increasing its nato armaments. say a research fellow at the global policy institute of london tourism. while he believes the reason for the u. s. is warmth towards poland. is it's shared anti russian rhetoric? well, of course he hasn't changed any of those values now, but the issue really with poland is that as far as the united states is concerned, it is the most loyal, most forthright and most predictably and rely heavily anti russian nato member state. there is so of course the united states and particularly under the brighten administration, which detest is domestic policies, both of the social conservatism and even his economic nationalism

would detest all of that. but he loves absolutely. love is russell phobic and boosting for nato policies are around, so that's why he comes to the white house. he's warmly welcome. the russian region of cum shatka has reported its greatest tectonic activity since 964. but the said interruption of mount she val look, leaving their surrounding area covered in ash. ah, [000:00:00;00]

ah ah, most volcanoes, like people have a temperament, they have a personality based on their eruptive history, you know, and this particular volcano, over the last 20 years, has been pretty quiet with an occasional strong explosion from time to time for the residents nearby. this is gonna look like a large frightening eruption as ash clouds dominate the landscape. but compared to the full range of eruptions, it's still a bit on the small side. now that doesn't mean we should take it lightly at all, because depending on the direction of winds, ash can blow into the major flight paths of cargo and passenger planes in the north pacific. so this is interruption that we should take seriously. we don't know yet

whether this is just one of these sort of scattered explosions in a long period of predominantly lava flow producing eruptions, or if it might be entering a new phase and maybe doing something that it hasn't done in a while. so we'll just have to sit back and wait a bit to see what it's going to serve up and use just in rushes as he has said, the killing of russian war journalists. loveland to tar ski. earlier this month was organized by ukrainian special forces and their ages. among those are russian opposition. members currently living abroad, including former members of alexi, nevada, these anti corruption foundation, the foundation, is recognized as an extremist group in russia. yes. be reports that the murder was planned in collaboration with the member of the ukrainian terrorist group who is said to be the one who supplied the explosive.

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