hovering on r t ah ah, moscow's s b says ukrainian special services and the russian opposition members were involved in the killing of a war journalist in the cafe bombing. earlier this month, the sudanese military is warned about the escalate. the possibility of a clash between the national army and paramilitary forces, the latter declares a mobile u. s. counter terrorist efforts in afghanistan, i don't mean to rambling. china points the finger at the u. f. a. nato for the crisis in afghanistan. during assume it's addressed. security concerns related to cobble and syria and iran are restoring relations with saudi arabia. as we had raised the possibility of damascus, his return to the arab league with

watching r t international monies. peter scott, i'm wherever you're joining us from. welcome to 30 minutes of news and analysis. that goes f s b has said that the killing of russian war journalist lends itself securely this month was organized by ukrainian special services and partially inspired by russian opposition abroad. earlier my colleague fiorella isabel spoke to archie, correspondence, minute costs are about those revelations. according to russia's federal security service, the girl who was arrested and connection to the explosion that killed blood lend starsky. she was working with a ukrainian national, his name, a huge denise of who was a member of a ukrainian terrorist group, according to the s s b. and this is something that was being planned for quite some time, according to their findings. this man came a few months before the terrorist attack took place. he was tracking of land to tar

skis. whereabouts he bought a car. he even got a lot right next to the war correspondence apartments that he could, he could track his movements and i guess them there were just. busy him for the perfect time and place, and then as we know earlier this month, this incident took place the 1st week of april. as soon as that happened, he fled due to denise of fled, the country. so he last to armenia and then continued on to her team. now, russia's investigative committee has opened a criminal case against them and they're working on putting him on an international wants a list. also according to the f. b. this man was working on the orders of ukraine's, the security forces, and also other agents they say, and according to them, including in those agents are members of russia's opposition members who are hiding abroad. and also that there's a girl that was inspired by a rational position. so you mentioned that the f s b has identified opposition

groups having a hand in the terrorist attacks. what role did they play? well, their role was mainly in fight and hatred and calling for all acts of violence in russia, the f s. b in their statement. they said that basically there are repeatedly stated calls for extremist activities on washing soil. and this is mainly we've seen this from supporters of jailed opposition. member leader alex in the bonnie, now he had font, the answer corruption foundation, which has since in the summer of 2021. this was said that it was an extremist organization, and it was liquidated. but a year after that, and the summer of 2022 alexson of ali behind bars, he states that he would relaunch this organization as an international one. and after that, we continued seam calls for violence in russia, in particular from the leaders of this and the corruption foundation,

there's some people who no matter what participate and protest organize actions of civil disobedience and even blow up military warehouses. all of that is great. well done honor and praise to them if you can set the military commissary yet and fire then do it. he's a request from the mom in law, given that we've got an armed resistance, could you kill someone more significant next time? so these are the kinds of statements that will save time and time again since the special military operation began. in fact. so they're seeing this as diet that was inspired by calls such as those that really now this isn't the 1st time marina, that moscow has a cues ukrainian forces of committing crimes against pro russian figures. it is not the 1st time for a law at all. we know as soon as this happens with blood, lend to char sky straight away. everyone remembered what happened in august of 2022 . why and we saw the killing of daddy ado dinner. who was the daughter of a prominent russian philosopher, alexander the duke and,

and there we saw yet another explosion. her car was basically bombed and she died. and she had nothing to do with a special military operation. but explosion seems to be the method of choice that we've seen from ukraine. we've seen the explosion, for example, the crimea bridge. ukraine, of course, denies responsibility for all of these, all of these events. but as soon as they happen all these terrorist attacks, they are happy that they happened. and some are, we've seen ukrainian officials themselves hauling for attacks on boston for law square in particular for example. so even though they deny responsibility, the f s b has time and time again, seen evidence and prove that they are behind these terrorist attacks. and over to sudan where the country's army is concerned of the heights and risk of confrontation with the power military force. the r s f, this is the last announced a mobilization forecast to these movements and deployments happened without the agreement of the leadership of the armed forces or even coordination with it. that

continuation will lead to more tension and divisions that could lead to insecurity in the country. according to army officials, the move is a violation of the law and is exacerbating the already strained situation. the country, the army has been trying to establish authority over all of the country's military forces, while the rest is determined to preserve its all for me. relations between the military and ours that have worse and closing delays for an international supported pilots between the 2 functions. a local reporter might have abilities, photos that the sudanese army is not currently interested in making a deal with the power military. actually is that you in and there are i think and union and e god and the doing here. yeah you marta, i. 2 all of those is speaking with their dog barking and they want to do to join or maybe they, they need to,

to make a, a buy exactly id on. but i think that sudan is the army, is a, did not want to have this agreement with rob, it's about forces, and they want to deploy that it's a board force on forces on the aerobics or one force did look id on this because they, they pulled up for the and i have a one to their knees on these evicted zone bits of board forces. and they may neither did not agree with this over to paris now, where protesters have rated the headquarters of french conglomerates, l, v, m, age group. as workers unions have taken to the streets to protest against microns pension reform policies, now significant disruptions to public transport are recurring and the french capital. as widespread civil unrest over their forms continue across the country.

police officers in paris have already been seen using force against protesters, and this all comes on the eve of the constitutional council's decision, which sets you fully approved the new pension pension age of 64, which is from $62.00 currently, will keep you updated on the story as it develops, while france is reportedly booking e, financing of ammunition supplies to ukraine, a decision that requires the box unanimous agreement, and that's according to an e. u. official started in polish media. france. suppose this in this situation, the solution would be to procure ammunition in a 3rd country who makes the donation and then to reimburse it from the warehouses of a member state by transferring other weapons to a 3rd country. talks are underway on this matter. oh wow. there's just always so much john is nothing like a good pony tell pully you can't fight. this one is between france in the wake of macklin. i'm going to sign it apparently discovered you autonomy inside a fortune cookie and pole in the country that's applying for the title of miss

america. europe. france is reportedly blocking you, finding a weapons for ukraine in the interest of ensuring that if the e u is going to slash out 2000000000 more euro's on weapons for ukraine, then it's, it's probably used to fuel europe military, industrial complex with weapons made in europe and france, of course, is europe's weapons heavyweight, so it stands to benefit the most from that policy. now poland doesn't agree with that, which has to make you wonder weapons industry they're defending, if not your own. who else outside of your a could possibly be asked to make weapons for the you to send to you? great. not russia, not china, obviously. so who could possibly be up for the task? oh, by the way to us. so $1200000000.00 worth of defense articles to poland between 20192021 alone. that's according to the us state department. and congress approved $288000000.00 worth of foreign military financing just last year for poland under

the guise of countering russia. warsaw has also scored $34000000.00 us dollars in security assistance to improve and tells us capabilities and military mobility over the past 5 years. so what might say that poland has a bit of a history of using gifted cash to buy american weapons well before brussels decided to make it rain euros for its own member states to buy weapons for you crate. now with washington play sugar daddy. exactly. a surprise that poland is in lock step with why she said, oh listen to its prime minister mathias mar wiki. before flying to washington, i see no turn safe. and we're absolutely on the same wavelength here, to building and even closer lines with americans. if conference to the west of poland understand this less, it is probably because of historical circumstances. more with you. all one is scored the need for a quote strategic partnership with the united states over at lee reject and frank

president, emmanuel michael, strategic economy. these are the, the us, but the question is, could warsaw side with the u. s. over its own european allies going so far as to attacking france in this case, but also perhaps advocating in favor of sending back you defense cash for ukraine in the us. well, more with he also announced this week that poland wants to set itself up as washington's garage to serve as uncle sam at europe. fabulous. even don't watch him . i want to. so the send, the full of m stands for the whole of europe a to maintain their battle. readiness to be located in poland were also striving to be able to produce depleted uranium ammunition course for the adams to be located in poland. so the adar that says you is going to let poland crate out, toxic, depleted uranium for washington sites when it won't even let that's farmers keep

many defecating cows for fear of harming nature. fall is one is used, taught funday, recipient. france is one of its top providers. warsaw is pretty much then acting like a teenager who is demanding that his parents let him set up a gun shop. and a math lab is raj. service from ministers arrived in saudi arabia, donations aim to restore relations after more than 10 years. marianna said hope to an end to the conflicts in syria, as well as this return to the arab league. the 2 sites have the session of talks, discuss, and ways to address the searing crisis in order to preserve cirrus unity, security, stability, arab identity, and tutorial 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 searing crisis that would, and all repercussions. a chief national reconciliation contribute to the return of syria to its air fault,

and the resumption of its role in the arab world. assyria also now see mutual reopening of embassies with tonisha for the 1st time in a decade. as the 2 nations continue in consultations on ways to further restore their relations to nysha 7th diplomatic relations with syria. shortly after the outbreak of the conflict over a decade ago, the school, unless, sorry, alarm had said that u. s. is unhappy to see middle eastern states coming together. many of her policy of saudi arabia now, it's not like in the past, it's more independent from the u. s. willie sees and from the us maybe interest. so we see that it's also a reflection. what we see between now syria and saudi arabia is also a reflection of then you really see in your strategy, maybe all the a of the saudi due to the world and also to syria. these recalls consolation of their i'll that of syrian, i'll choose military bases in. yes,

of course. thank you for having me over there yesterday. i believe on, on today's, i call the locals in nor consumer reported a, a new combo that you as a profession, army thinking are several over 2000 tankers of syria oil to the records in iraq. so this is something that happens on a weekly basis from we're on reporting from our own investigations or the cradle. we've, we've discovered that this happens on almost a weekly basis. these convoys are discarded by the us air force by our play, by helicopters. and they go to they cross through illegal border crossing to iraq into the core different region, which is my autonomy region. a need ax who's on the stretch and he's very good goes to the us government. so they really government. so these, these bankers they are thinking out of here. yeah, not so much for the us to steal these i all for their own benefit, but to be resolved in order to fund these militia, approximately the inferior man,

chief among the democratic forces and all their activities that they carry out in theory on the iraq. now, as we had before, the ministry of foreign affairs of syria said in 2022, the last $170000000000.00 from oil and gas revenue since $22011.00. do you think that the credit was certainly a lot of money to lose it's a huge amount of money. it's. it amounts to i believe that what they've said is that i'm also 80 percent of syria's bailey or production. and yet, it is incredible statement because the united states and the as the control, large majority of the theory as well in producing sector and which came out there after day. the russian army enters syria to help the masters to feed ice and other build up fine. washington was pretty comfortable letting in advance towards the

masters. but while the rush had been through the freight, and that's when washington created the s d f out there, boots on the ground and started pushing back, i guess is not, you know, out of some interest of, of, of destroying nicely the theory about more to be the masters and be mosque out to for control of these regions. of these are oil rates, regions in ne, syria. and in order to control the resources saw to be, to serve as a kind of a 2nd type of pressure on the top of economic sanctions. i guess because i just want to see about something, something else as well as what, what do you make of this reproach small between syria and saudi arabia. they're going to be reopening embassies in each country. what do you make of that? well it's, it's been a long time coming and it's, it needed definitely a show of saudi arabia realizing that maybe they've been back in the wrong horse

over the last couple of decades here in the west station. and now we china entering these region. we saw it's far as which starts with diplomatic intensity by, by negotiating the reproach mind between iran and saudi arabia, sorry, rivals. and now with syria, let's not forget that saudi arabia was involved in funding the militia between 20122013 militia that fought the syrian army that they did that started these war is the area that has, they submitted a country that has math millions without a home without access to food over 90 percent of the population lives under the over the line to the start of the war. and he was out of your area that was involving that as well. of now they are doing $180.00 as we need on. and i think it's a sign of change and it is a lot to wait and see how those relations develop us. esteban carrillo knew that

it's of the cradle. thanks very much for your time today. thank you. well meanwhile, iran unstudied labor, also restoring diplomatic ties with a delegation forms around arriving in riyadh. you contribute to youth jolly things are small and they're wanting delegation and technical delegation from iran visit. a saudi arabia was announced by the wandering foreign ministry, that delegation arrived in the capital real war. it is expected to follow up on the sensation of the piece, the old thing of on, in saudi arabia, which was which of the chinese capital reaching back in early march. so you want delegation is expected, is expected to do 3 major fits. one is to reopen the one in embassy, real to east, to open a console for these by mac republican, the saw the 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 rich, 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. i just doing the same works. 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 saudi arabia in the city of mash out. of course the few steel came. they told you in early march this year,

and he was brokered by china as part of efforts to try to escalate the regional troubles in the middle east and also to build mutual funds between you want to be aware of your security and job critical analyst ahmed al abraham has told us that are people in the region one piece that can only be reached by working together. the region actually moving are going to be moving. they have a vision 2030 that they want to accomplish us with the g. c. countries. these kinds of these can be achieved unless you actually have a stable region. so all these things that china came into a picture now and the trying to, you know, give you guarantees to the region whether it was or iran on yemen, on many positive region. and i think it's working so far. so the only thing that's already is eating with other g c countries and egypt and other rock also that maybe these kinds of things that they are doing collectively is going to bring some piece

into the middle east and north africa. meanwhile, for ministers from countries and they bring afghanistan, have got that in news. becky is done to discuss the current economic and political term. all this and go to uncle think cobble a chinese representative, the hosted, condemned us involvement in the country. oh, after 20 years of completely failed military interventions, the us and they to military forces have pulled out of afghanistan and the future of afghanistan is back in the hands of the afghans. the u. s. with role from afghanistan was carefully planned strategically to focus on targets in china and russia. the u. s. is using turbulence in afghanistan to contain in the civilized, central asia, china, russia, buxton, and iran are the key forces in afghanistan in relation to regional golden nation. the most striking is the, is the change of tone or the change of style of chinese diplomacy here and some are kind, china's foreign minister thing gone. i demonstrated that today i stressed

as we just heard the constructive role of our regional powers, chinese neighbors like russia, iran, pakistan in trying to bring stability to this region. but he also very heavily criticized the west for 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 progress. in particular, he criticized the west or continuing to raise awareness of occurrence reserves around $7000000000.00 were seized and are still on inaccessible to you. i've danny people and the i've got any authorities. he also called on the west to refrain from installing it in military basis, or it's military facilities in the, in the region or supporting any of the groups covertly here. distress was on and

making sure that the ability and security to returns to this region of holland is on us failure in afghanistan is multifaceted such actions by force don't bring peace to afghanistan. the 20 years of us military occupation have been filled with conflicts in afghanistan, so called democratic transformation by the us and the west. do not coincide with the current local conditions. national reconciliation in afghanistan remains elusive to this day. us counter terrorism efforts in afghanistan have only made terrorists more rampant. that emphasizes a new development in this region. many countries here believe that this is time for them to join forces in bring their own sub continent in order without under 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 iran will meet with a, with a number of their essential asian colleagues from to jake. as time from was pakistan. i'm from took madison. those countries are still being ported by the west, the, with the cleese 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 dad 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 can on the development here. the chinese you on is expanding on global markets, as it sure has doubled since february last year. now, the currency is increasingly becoming more popular in the u. s. dollar. last february, the u on accounted for less than 2 percent of global trade. since then, the chinese currency has reached 4.5 percent with the u, and now even breathing down the euro's neck. the dollar share is also in decline and for a number of reasons,

as more and more traders turn to the chinese currency. well, russia is among those that are dropping the dollar in favor of the you on the countries turn over with china in the 1st quarter of 2023 increased by more than 38 percent accounting. amounting, excuse me, it's almost $58000000000.00 us according to the chinese authorities. moscow and beijing had reached agreed to reach for a total of $200000000000.00 in trade next year. let's cross line now to richard wolf, professor emeritus of economy at the university of massachusetts. i'm has, thanks very much for joining us, professor richard wolf. can you tell us, 1st of all, what is behind this meteoric rise of the chinese one? well, the most important reality making this happen is the spectacular economic growth

of the last 30 to 40 years in the people's republic of china. contrary to the expectations of many chinese economic development, the growth of their g. d. p has been faster than that of almost every other country in the world, much faster than that say of the united states and so on. and so it has become an economic powerhouse, producing an enormous amount of the world's goods and services. and it is only a question of time therefore, and it has been that way for years before the currency becomes recognized around the world as one of the most important and most secure ways of doing business. now the warranty ukraine has made this go quicker, because it has forced decisions on russia, in particular, by their situation a phase. and so the relation between russia and china has facilitated a speed up of the process. but this is a long,

historical process. and there's every reason to expect it to continue what we've focused on on my next question that richard, obviously the situation with russia is quite unique and unprecedented. but also the benefits does using the chinese you on offer over the u. s. dollar for, for maybe other countries. well, it has been a clear reality for anyone who takes the time to look at it, that by the united states, having as its currency, what is also the world's currency. an enormous subsidy is basically provided by the rest of the world, because what is going on is that the rest of the world produces goods and services, sends them to the united states. it gets in return currency us dollars, which in turn is lens to the united states government. china doesn't japan, doesn't many, many other countries do it. and this is an enormous benefit to the united states at

the expense of other countries who would wish that they could do with their currencies, what the united states has been doing for the last half century with it. and so inevitably, as the united states is footprint in the world, get smaller relative to the rest of the world. the rest of the world wants to share in the benefits that have so far been taken exclusively by the us dollars. what will fascinating stove professor wolf, please don't go anywhere down the line as we're going to cross puts you in just a few moments time. thank you. or meanwhile, another coal $40.00 zation has been made by the brazilian president lula da silva, ahead of his visit to china this week. now he says that different countries should foster trade in local currencies. instead of using the greenback. well ahead of louis arrival chinese banks can do it to the transaction if you are in you on with brazil for the 1st time ever, is seen as a key milestone for latin american countries. many of which see beijing as

a main trading partner. china's trade with brazil amounts to more than a $150000000000.00 per year. and the beginning president is expected to seal some major new contracts during his stay in china. the asian country wants to invest in brazil's i see industry and produce solar panels in the country. among other things . meanwhile, brazil's president has been refusing to send weapons to ukraine and now seeks to create a club of countries including china, india, and brazil. that can become guarantors of a peaceful settlement of the war in defiance of the position of the u. s. and this european allies.