i irena via turning from mutual disdain 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 gord. just outside lucy jones, maybe one of the locations with creative forces of clad in balloon my tribes counter offensive counter offensive fraud are cheese, more ghazi of explains how rush and mortar cruise breakdown ukrainian forces as he have plants and offensive. and the lucas republic, ah, coming to you from moscow,

this is our to international with the latest world news updates. i'm fiorella isabel. it's great to have you with us. we start this hour with breaking news as moscow's f. s. p. has said that killing of russian war journalists flatland to tar sky earlier this month was organized by ukrainian special forces and their agents. the investigation as shown, that the suspected killer did not act alone. a member of the ukrainian terrorist group aided in the murder. as he transferred the explosive hidden within a statue. uri dennis saw the arrived in the moscow region at the behest of ukrainian special services to collect information on the victim. after the attack, he fled to turkey via a commercial flights warning. some viewers may find the following image is disturbing the f as b has also said that among those involved in organizing the blast which injured over 50 people were russian opposition. members currently living abroad,

including former members of alex eden, of all nice anti corruption foundation, a group which is recognized as a terrorist organization by moscow. and china and tends to close air space over tie one next week. but only for half an hour. in contrast to its 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 tension between beijing and taiwan have escalated, falling. the taiwanese regional leaders visit should be us, beijing responded with thrills to send quote, a serious warning to crow independence forces. on tuesday, the chinese president inspected the navy southern theater command and called on armed forces to step up. military training are to kayla mop and bring some more details to the government. on taiwan says that china is preparing the launch

a war. they say this in response to the latest drills from the chinese military stimulating and circle many of the islands. look at the military exercises and also their 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 talk 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 assumes she manufacturers 90 percent of the advance global supply of advanced semiconductor chips. oil was so important for the economy is, is this sort of the 21st century version of that? i think it's about democracy and freedom. the usa has been in circling china with military bases for over a decade. and recently the u. s. military just conducted its largest real yet today with the philippines. the usa is now selling tens of millions of dollars worth of weapons to taiwan. and at the same time, we've got a meeting coming up in may. 25 representatives of pentagon contracted corporations 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 europeans need to answer is it in our interest to accelerate across 71?

no. the worst thing would be to think that if we, europeans, must become followers on this topic. and so our q from the u. s. agenda and the chinese overreaction. and then all hum corona's right. we must be careful not to become a party of the conflict between the united states and the people's republic of china. europe must try to plan and burn a troll as far as as possible and not to appears and appendage of the usa. only 13 countries in the world still recognized the government in, ty pay with honduras being the latest to drop taiwan, they threw their support behind beijing last month. washington whose relations with taiwan are on official and who still claims to adhere to the longstanding one shine of policy has been escalating things as much as possible. who really benefits from these moves. caleb martin r t new york co director of the international action center sarah flounder says that china is simply responding to the u. s. violation of its taiwan policy.

china is responding to what the u. s. provocations are, which is again and again the selling us aircraft, carriers, destroyers, nuclear submarines, and all over flights, all manner of other military equipment directly into the taiwan straits and then 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 the 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 and 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, reads that it wants to see the re unification of damascus and its return to the arab league. the 2 sides have the session of talks, discussing ways to address the searing crisis in order to preserve serious unity security stability. error by the entity, answers her integrity while also serves the interests of his brotherly people. both sides also discussed the steps necessary to achieve a comprehensive political settlement of the syrian crisis. that would and all repercussions achieve national reconciliation contribute to the return of syria to its air polled 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 restore ties. according to a joint statement from both states, the countries will now reopen their diplomatic missions. and to point ambassadors, tunisia suffer diplomatic relations with syria, shortly after an outbreak of conflict in damascus over a decade ago. meanwhile, ron 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, are to contributor use of july li brings us the details on their money and delegation. technical delegation from iran visited saudi arabia was announced by the one in foreign ministry that delegation arrived in the capital re all war. it is expected to follow up on the implementation of the piece deal between one and

saudi arabia, which was clinched in the chinese capital, reaching back in early march. so do you want delegation is expected is expected to do 3 major things. one is to reopen the one in embassy, and real 2 is to open a console for the mac republic in the saudi city of jetta. and we used to open a permanent representative of these, a lot of the 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 the 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, very much which is due in late june and early july. so he hopes that the embassies will officially start working by then

a similar saudis obligation is. iran has been on since saturday. he's doing the same worth. it is doing the same work and the procedures to try to reopen the saudi embassy in the capital one. and also the launch consulate for the review are in the one in city of mesh out of course the few still came. they told you in early march this year, and he was broker, china as part of efforts to try to escalate are the regional troubles in the middle east and also to build mutual force between you want to saudi arabia to security. the west must abandon its neo colonial habits when it comes to africa. that's a message from russia's ambassador to the un while addressing the security council . following its criticism of molly over strengthened ties with moscow, which i did notice 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 regret that the 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 does not produce 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 in its ongoing fight against terror groups in the sal region, rushes tuck diplomat recently visited the nation in a bit further booth cooperation between the 2 countries. the u. s. and the u. k. have been particularly outspoken about the direction molly is taking, noting the recent expulsion of the un mission chief after making critical remarks

regarding russia's presence was of great concern. on the other hand, the long term presence of french troops in the region was always welcomed by western powers. their last summer president michael analyst, city le mean by the yoko think that the west is present 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 on 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. in the middle initial, of course, was the kind of disaster for being a population of money more dumb, 9010 years of presenting the sale in money. they didn't do anything absolutely anything. they were kidding all the time, killing off them cell and the killing of millions or just the kidding of civilian

and the situation to secret if occasion it was getting walls and was every day thus wide in london and when a military authorities it took the poet in 2020, they decided to divorce if 5, the partnership of money would other count visa m, especially like russia, for example. foreign ministers from nations neighboring afghanistan have gathered in his back as san to discuss the current economic and political crises affecting kabul. a chinese representative has harshly condemned us actions in afghanistan, said they have only made the situation worse. after 20 years of completely failed military interventions, the u. s. and major military forces have pulled out of of ghana stand. and the future of, of denison is back in the hands of the afghans. the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan

was carefully planned strategically to focus on targets in china and russia. the u . s. is using the turbulence in afghanistan to contain and destabilize central asia, china, russia, pakistan, and iran are the key forces in afghanistan in relation to regional guard nation. for more on the event, let's go live to host of r t worlds, a part of santa waco, who joins us and some are kind of santa good morning. could you share with us any details on this high level meeting? well, cheryl, it's good to talk to you again. you know, for me as an, as an observer of international affairs for many years was the most striking is the, is the change of tone or the change of style of china's diplomacy that is happening before our very eyes. it's not the china was particularly shy about voicing its

position before, but if it's a strategic interest, it's voice that strategic interests, usually in a very roundabout solve delicate manner. so not to antagonize the west. and that seems to have changed over the last couple of weeks and months since china released its new version of its foreign policy doctrine. becoming far more straightforward, far more critical of western engagement in this part of the world and here and some are kind of foreign minister thing. gone demonstrated that visibly now i have to say that he himself is no stranger to western discourse. he spent several years, in fact, many years serving in chinese diplomatic mission in the u. k. and later on he was the chinese ambassador to the united states. but since taking over

a chinese foreign ministry has become known for being a very outspoken and very straightforward advocate. of not only a chinese policy, but also regional corporation. and at this meeting to today, he stressed out we just heard the constructive role of regional powers and his neighbors like russia, iran, pakistan in trying to bring stability to this region. but he also very heavily criticize the west, not doing the things that it should be doing in this region and doing a lot of things to undermine the security situation on the ground and the humanitarian accent. humanitarian progress, in particular, he criticized the west for continuing to reach a current reserves around $7000000000.00 were seized and still inaccessible to i've got any people in the i've got any authorities. he

also called on the west to refrain from installing military bases or military facilities in the, in the region or supporting any of the groups covertly here. this trust was on and making sure that stability and security to returns to this region. and one other thing that i found it very, very curious is the chime, a chinese actually not shying away from human rights agenda and gone, expressed concern about the recent decision by the taliban to ban the employment of women in various governmental and non governmental aid organizations. but at the same time, he said that the rights of women and girls and have got a son, is no decor on the only issue that exists in afghanistan and 2 thirds of its population still suffer from hunger. and the majority suffer from

major physical insecurity. unemployment, so he's major point was that the international community needs to come into this mode of assessing a situation in any country in a comprehensive full reality based mode. rather than singling out any particular issue be the rights of women for ideological or political purposes. now, as i stated, the, the major focus of these rings, series of gatherings in summer county is on regional security. and that emphasizes a new development in this region. many countries here believe that this is time for them to join forces in bringing the old house by bring our own sub continent law in order without any involvement or without in

constructive or destructive involvement of western powers. and that's going to be the focus of meetings later on today when the ministers of, from china, russia, pakistan, and their round will meet with a number of our central asian colleagues from to jacob time from was becky on them from turkmenistan. those countries are still being courted by the west to read the clean to sort of remain on the right side of history. but i think for many of the countries present here, it's pretty clear that destiny and the future of this region should be in their own hands. and they should be the ones who are providing not only security, but also come on the development here. host of ortiz world apart. oksana boy co. thank you. look santa as ukrainian troops prepare for a push near the disputed village of belo. goro cut in the loo gone. republic. russian warder crews and drone operators are methodically breaking down calves

ranks or cheese more gods. dia sends us his reports. spring has arrived to our batter, don bass, trees and greenery are blooming. it changes much drones will lose their edge. nature will conceal entire armies. these men anal veterans. they have been added since the conflict began. my thought with the situation is chance yet stable. we see them begin in moving about, but we are in sleeping. we watched them. this is a 122 millimeter mortar squad, slaved to a drone operator. in tandem. they pommel the enemy, hulu. south delegate of guy just outside

list, he chanced may be one of the locations where credit forces are planning to launch their much higher town or 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 and external 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. who 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 can honor ukrainian 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 priest 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 musk bite 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 that 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 1940s, 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 seized. 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 he have monastery is facing. serious college is here. but charter school abra has survived the mongols and the nazis a can. it was stand. zalinski is a saw read the full story now on our t. v dot com. washington has praised its relations with warsaw saying ongoing talks are based on democratic values that despite the u. s. and e use 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 road to poland, to hungary,

and the rise of the toilet terran regimes in the world. and this president embraces all the thugs in the world. when you look at what's happened in places like hungary had 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 al q b t writes and contradict western culture. the visit is taking place as warsaw is increasing its nato armaments senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london, george on wiley believes the reason for the u. s. is warrants towards poland. is

its shared anti russian rhetoric? well, because 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. and you, russian, nato member, state. there is so of course, the united states, and particularly under the brighten administration, which detests his domestic policies. both, he saw the social conservatism and even his economic nationalism. i detest all of that, but he loves absolutely law. this is russell phobic and boosting for nato policies. are around so that's why he comes to the white house. he's warmly welcomed a 21 year old former student responsible for the deaths of

9 people during a school shooting in western russia because on in 2021 has been sentenced to life in prison. by the tar stan supreme court. on may 11th 2021 illness gal got yacht gallia via open fire. at a school with a rifle and home made explosives on hand to teachers and 7 teenagers were killed and 23 others were injured. the shooter was detained on the spot and later pled guilty. luke, for with

i do with and that's are out for the hour. coming up, a former pentagon official discusses just how much money, particularly american taxpayer money is bad and often wasted on the u. s. war

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