i used to miss dog this is need to look ah, the f b, i rest an american servicemen over an allegedly speaker, military documents with bite and concerned only with the li cuz not it's content. go ahead every night, ask myself, why should every country have to be tied to dollars for trade? why can we trade in our own currency? the brazilian president calls for ditching the dollar and using national currencies as bricks. cast that even bigger shadow on the g 7 economy piece. but not like this in american state funded, think tank rages as saudi arabia restores ties with the u. s. regional rival, syria and iran, and south africa surpasses investment target over the past 5 years. attracting you

baggers despite face and security and energy challenges. ah, good morning for moscow. this is our to international with the latest world news updates. i'm carola isabel, it's great to have you with the u. s. department of justice as the f. b, i has arrested a 21 year old air national guard service men in connection with an allegedly co classified national security documents. american officials say some of those files were altered before release, which has raised questions over the legitimacy of the papers are to kill a mop and reports. us officials say he came peacefully, he did not resist arrest the 21 year old jack t x. the era is a member of the massachusetts air national guard, and it is reported that the new york time was involved in figuring out that he was

responsible for the leaks. he was a member of a discord server with 20 to 30 other people. some of them were teenagers under the age of 18, in this discord server, they shared jokes. mean themes were firearms, racism, as well as christianity and opposition to u. s. foreign policy. apparently this member of the air national guard wanted to let his friend in the discord server know about what was actually going on. he had access to this information and he provided it in the court server. now we understand he is arrested in charge of being responsible for the recent leaks. however, questions are raised as people look into the details, for example, why is it that a 21 year. busy old low level member of the wing of the u. s. military, the air national guard in the state of massachusetts had access to these kinds of document. and furthermore, why was it so easy to track him down with this kind of high level leak?

he would think that the leak or would expect to be arrested and set up more barriers to protect their digital fingerprints. so many questions are being re, but at this time it appears this is the individual who has been arrested and charged, or the recent pentagon leaks. while the authenticity of the allegedly leet documents remains on verified us media outlets have been quick to claim that the files reveal china's plans to send weapons to russia. according to the washington post, such arms would be delivered in secret disguise as civilian items. he allocations have been strongly rejected by china as beijing urges all sides the stock, fueling the ukraine conflict, and to sit down for talks for marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter says the latest leaks on american spying are no surprise to the public, but show each friend of military forces exerting more influence on

u. s. intelligence. from a logical standpoint, he should not have access to the information that was contained on these documents . his job was probably um, in handling the documents either for destruction or simply filing them or he's not an analyst. but the, the, the problem is the expansion of the americans security state. so to speak, with national guard units playing a, a more and more important role in, in the intelligence establishment. there should have been better supervision or for whatever reason. um, the security was lacks, we know that the u. s. french and spies on its friends. this is not a surprise. danger, isn't that? oh, you know, if people know that we listen in on friends, the danger is the people now know how we listen that on friends, or because that same technology can be used for other things. our ability to

collect intelligence may be damaged down the road and that could be a danger to the united states of america. in early april, over a 100 classified cia and pentagon documents flooded social networks and media, the leak was reported by western media to be one of the greatest in years and comprised of intel on ukraine and america, support of it as well as information on us rivals such as russia, china and iran, american allies such as egypt, the u. e. e. south korea. and israel also turned out to be the target of washington's espionage. president biden went even further, showing disregard towards the leaks content. i'm not concerned about the weight i'm concerned with as yet another incident of the u. s. buying on as close as friends is revealed. it

leaves many wondering if its allies will respond to the breach of confidence for more information on which states have secretly been spied on and the prospects of backlash visitor website r t dot com with brazil's president, has called for new ways of trading around the globe. during his visit to china, suggesting to use national currencies instead of the u. s. dollar. good, no, no. to me every night ask myself, why should every country have to be tied to the dollar for trade? why can we trade in our own currency today, a country needs to run after dollars in order to export, when it could export its own currency, who decided that the dollar was the currency after gold? the call for de dollarization comes as china and brazil have conducted a transaction and yawn for the 1st time ahead of the brazilian president's visit to china. the sides are expected to sign several agreements,

underscoring beijing's role as brazilian key partner del marissa, the head of the new development bank, says that bricks, nations continue to prosper and have already outgrown the economies of g 7 countries. it or not on the mice breaks has become even more relevant together, the countries represent over 40 percent of the world's population and approximately a quarter of global g, d, p in purchasing power parity. it is asked me to take a break economy's already knowledge. i think the economy of g 7 countries here, i think a trip by lula, the relationship that's evolving with between lula and the rest of the bricks. countries and especially with china, is an enormous step in a long process. that long process has to do with the world adjusting to the enormous economic growth achieved by the people's republic of china. over the last

30 years, the united states is now going to have to share the position of a superpower economically speaking, with the people's republic of china. and one way that, that happens is to allow the chinese to enjoy some of the benefits and they are economically very significant. some of the benefits that come from having a currency that is used around the world for economic trade and capital flows and so on. meanwhile, the chinese currency continues to grow more popular out shining the dollar as it's sharon world. markets has doubled over the past year. 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 a yawn. now breathing down the euro's neck. the dollar share is also in decline as

more and more traders turned to the u on moscow is among those dropping the dollar in favor of the you on rushes, turnover with china in the 1st quarter of 2023 increased by more than 38 percent amounting to almost $54000000000.00, according to chinese authorities. moscow and beijing aimed to reach $200000000000.00 in trade by next year. professor of economics, richard wolf added that the world is witnessing a radical shift in the global economy. that could result in the dollar losing its dominant position, both sides, russia and china on one side, the united states and europe on the other are recognizing that the global economic situation is radically changing from what it was. we are going through a period of rapid re adjustment. it's long overdue. it was facilitated

and stimulated by the events around the ukraine war couldn't result in the dollar becoming less and less dominant i, i think so. how long it will take? i don't think you can tell that yet. that depends on many things. so it is gonna take time to adjust. that's what we're seeing. an adjustment process. turning now to the u. s. were an economic recession is forecast as federal reserve economist, i the fall out from the recent begging crisis. however, the white house has rejected those projections. we have an economic economic economy. pardon me, that grows for everyone from the bottom up, middle out. this does not leave anyone behind, and we're seeing the success of that of his plant. and recent economic indicators are not consistent with a recession or even a pre recession. and you can just look at the data 12500000 jobs have been created

since he took off is 12500000 jobs. meanwhile, the u. s. deficit nearly doubled in the past year, reaching almost $400000000000.00 in march. a recent survey by the international association of credit portfolio managers shows 84 percent of respondents expect recession to occur some time this year, bringing the year to date, fiscal deficit up to 65 percent. according to the treasury department, although the cost of gasoline decreased high rents kept pressure on inflation simmering, almost guaranteeing the federal reserve will raise interest rates again next month . for further discussion, let's cross live 2, archie. contributor chris, and. good morning chris. so what are the current trends in the u. s. economy at this moment, and what exactly has caused them? yeah, well sir, and i think what you just said, you put,

you set things up happening to me actually say, you know, inflation in the us is running rampant right now. you know, you've got that little part of the economy is growing for everyone. will try and sell that to someone who's living on the bread line in the u. s. where the cost of living is going up, in some cases, more than 30 percent. that the buy even like a life, the brett wright, it, people are a not a not very happy with. they got out and then you've got, you know, why is this happened? really? it's because of just mismanagement of the economy. often during the big crisis where, you know, the u. s. decided it was going to print and print many dollars as they possibly could. not realizing that when you put a lot of money, you're going to cause hyperinflation, which is a very basic economic thing. well, i replace the mean is more money less which is the us dollar, right. coupled with that you but huge amounts of money being printed on top of that and big, essentially just given the ukraine when people are in place like ohio where there

was a crisis recently getting absolutely no material support. now government, so the whole thing, the math really it might be so during a previous oil the, the gulf states channel, these access profits to purchase assets with western capital markets through offshore bank. so many are asking why has the strategy change this time? yeah, that's a really good question. fair. i think that's probably 2 main points for this. number one i think is just the us is foreign policy. there's offices within the middle east over the last 20 years, right? iraq and then the beaten down withdrawal. i think my middle eastern countries have looked at this and you know, we're not going to fight this willy nilly now in the stabilize our region. and i think the 2nd part really is, is, is what, what the previous president trump did. he created the court and he made peace between the gulf states and israel, which is a huge, huge thing g,

a blue israel with this sort of baffled face that they used to push and pull and threaten people, having their own nuclear power in the backyard. well, you know, the gulf states and israel came together, that doesn't exist anymore. and then the 3rd thing is, it's just the collaboration that particularly china has within the reach investors as well, where the states realize there is a different way of working the way ration you know, the chinese when they invest, they don't extract well, well they do is they come in and they build infrastructure, they have countries with expertise, infrastructure, building people to hospital and with this kind of thing. the people that, you know, i think these countries are just saying there's another way of working that doesn't rely on uncle paid in extract from there. well, but rather collaborate with other partners in the well well, you mentioned china and recently there has been a clear trend towards the dollar as ation with the rise in the u on and the potential in other currencies. how can you explain that has the u. s. on this to

themselves, and what are the ramifications that this might have for the nation? yeah, well, i think europe the right not point the us have done this to themselves. you know, before, even before the special operation, the dollar was more dominant, both that with no real desire for china will, for, for russia or for pretty much any other country to move away from the dollar big the well currency and up to now because they haven't really been given a choice, they haven't been given a choice of financial banks is being placed on china, which is still the largest growing economy on the planet. it's something that europe in union, the current had just went to the prison nephrologist went to china. if he would like to be, your opinion is the largest trading partner. they've had no choice but to move away from the dollar. and i think this adoption now of the chinese women be russian president vladimir putin said very clearly that that would be the currency which,

which russia, but now used to trade many. it is part and we'll see in brazil you thing that around. i think the quote that you you that you showed away. thank you. weight goes to bed every night. don't really like using dollars. i think that absolutely right . but yet they've done that to the i think the patient. ready that now all the creation of the break you're seeing bull country wants to doing great human being people that are the shanghai cooperation council and really find another way of trading which allow something value rather than everything being picked the us dollar. there's definitely a shift r t contributor chris, i am. thank you very much. i look berella the u. s. funded middle east institute is in an uproar over the normalization of ties between syria, iran and the number of arab countries is senior fellow at the american think tank. charles lister claims that regional reconciliation means instability for syrians

assuming nobody's sheaves, any meaningful concessions from a sad, least normalizing will gift aside total victory. consolidate iran's gains, kill any old justice or accountability. make 6000000 syrians permanent refugees guarantee. cirrus intractable instability as saudi arabia restores diplomatic ties with iran and syria. damascus is also announced a mutual reopening of embassies with denisia. meanwhile, bahrain and guitar have taken steps to resume bilateral cooperation. after years of discord, archie's donald quarter explains why pro american scholars are upset to see peace in the middle east. a historic meeting of reconciliation between saudi arabia and syria after 12 years of sever diplomatic ties, re adds even set it supports damascus. his attempts to reassert control over syrian

territories and eliminate armed militias plaguing parts of the country. but as always, someone in washington is not happy about the prospect of much awaited peace in the region of pulling and desperately short sighted. so it has welcomed a sas, foreign minister face on my dad and deputy foreign minister, i man. so son to jed that this isn't escalation. it's unconditional submission to a criminal regime, a narco state, an l. i of iran's islamic revolutionary guard, cor, that's charles lister, a senior fellow and director of to syria related programs at the middle east institute think tank sponsored by the u. s. state department. it comes as no surprise then that he spent his career whitewashing the bloody deeds of syrian jihadist groups. rebranding them as moderate rebels despite the documented atrocities they've committed against civilians. these opposition may not necessarily be the kind of opposition that we wanted, but it has

a very significant constituency in syria. so these are not necessarily people we would want as our allies. but we have to acknowledge that these are syrians. and if there is going to be a political solution and they are not involved than we will be creating more of a mass than their already ease. are, are all shaw, mal, new sra, al qaeda isis. there's not exactly a gaping ideological difference between them and lister knows that as he even admitted that aurora shaun's command structure was filled with former members of al qaeda. but for some reason, those in washington never really lost any sleep over working with islamic fundamentalists. in fact, the u. s. has a long history of using them to accomplish american foreign policy goals. to be fair, we had helped to create the problem. we're now fighting. and now once again, we're seeing history repeat itself in syria, america, supporting moderate rebels by this time to bleed the country dry of its oil. it's no wonder america's war. hawks are upset,

that damascus is making friends in the arab world. syrian political analysts to lamp e brain says the u. s. policy of supporting radical groups is creating a catastrophe for them in a lease. i think that says and, and i just tested in to change this kind of rhetoric and it is approached her with a severe crisis. indeed, of the really criminal hour behind what has happened in sylvia that good or is to send the tourist us who are and heavily back by the united states and our back and by that by c i. e, this is a part of the american catastrophe police's of the middle east. how we will make it a conciliation with terrorists with the crimean, as with the criminal, has unlimited space knows very well that are, are sham and other military groups like that. talk stan army and like the harass at dean, which is more extreme. mr. dunn, russia, they know that they are,

those are, do risk entities and they are classified as a diverse institute on the international level. how we will make a reconciliation with them and how we will bring them to the political operation. should we bring to arrest systems like government and syria to the parliament and syria? should we bring those whole be headed? syrian civilians and syrian soldiers and killing them and make exclusions here and there, should we bring of him to the parliament, should we form a parliament or a government of real criminals? this is on possible this is, this is another proof about how much is that policy if united states is very bad here in middle east, ah, the fact is independent foreign policy has long been a trigger for the us, regardless of location or prior relations with washington that's how the tables turned on. the attorneys in president who once rooted for the early spring,

but is now being branded as a dictator to get more on the u. s. is flip flop diplomacy. stay tuned. later, the sour despite security and energy challenges in south for cuff financier is flocked to an investment conference in johannesburg on thursday. the country has attracted over 1.5 trillion and new pledges over the past 5 years, surpassing its own target. that's according to the south african president, serial rama fo so we have now reached remember we're said 1.31.2 trillion. we have now a hit 1.51 trillion in commitment. meaning that will go over achieved and over short, our initial one for into trillion red target by 26 percent. but south africa's business confidence has declined again in the 1st quarter of

2023. and it has not been in positive territory for the better part of a decade. so why would anybody want to invest here? obviously lots of challenges, but the fundamental structure for the society remains, you know, from constitution rule of law, liquid capital markets with triple challenge. mainly infrastructure, economic growth track and rising crime fighting. so these combination of issues are what you're navigating. the president is making there either take the right direction, but the execution with the challenge. if there is one question about south africa is that electricity supply is never constant. and currently, the country is in the middle of the was power cuts in months,

having to shave off some 6 hours of electricity per day. but while some see problems, others see opportunity. an investor that goes to a country would want to go to a country that is very stable and stable and what we mean by energy stability and consistency. and they would want to go to a country that's got security. where does justice, where they know their investment is very safe, and there would go to come to where the infrastructure of that country is robust. and in this particular case, in south africa, we have a, an infrastructure that is robust. we have read the telecoms industry that is very strong. wherever the financial services industry that is very highly regulated and very strong. if you remember what happens with the other parts of the world,

only set off or go us resilient. we have a challenge in the energy which is really escal the challenges. i'm sure the government has made some very good announcement in terms of how to deal with these challenges. but some a bucking the green energy trend and sticking with what they know betting heavily on fossil fuels. one of the biggest places here today, $55000000.00 towards coal mining. and with that turning their back on the west and their green energy agenda. core businesses, our business, and it, when it, when we see an opportunity when one of our projects in the pipeline are readily available, fully licensed, the legal invest. so currently we have 2 projects that are ready to be invested this year. one of them is in andrena, move among the arrows and better of a melinda and the wanting andrena. we already started developing the mine. it's

going to produce $2400000.00 on per annum. and we will start developing the mining bethel and hopefully a quarter for decision south africa has set itself and you target of attracting to trillion rand of new investments over the next 5 years. and as the current k of the bricks club, they are looking for more increased trade and investments with other members of the block, the energy mix and how it's going to be diversified. so we not going to depend just purely on is come, we will have other sources of energy giving our pitch gross opportunity, but also securing the grid for us futuristic me. so we remove this constraints of energy security from our country. they say numbers, dont lie. and while the investment driving data is impressive on the one hand when weighed against south africa's high unemployment rate, a lot more work live ahead for the government. got

a bill is higher than 40 incent and john is big. and in france, multiple people have been injured and dozens more detained. as demonstrations against a manual, mal crohn's unpopular pension reforms turned violent with police using tear gas and beatings to disperse crowds. ah, blue foot, it shows tear gas filling the streets as protestors faced off against riot police, officers are attempting to regain control over the situation by brutally beating their own citizens. this all comes on the eve of the constitutional council's

decision, which is set to fully approved the raising of the retirement age. from 62 to 64, a move that was pushed through by the government without a go. and parliament a leading u. s. senator has criticized biden's stance on tunisia, urging the white house to slash military aid to the north african country, accusing it of not following washington's democratic values. blur. noticing that we still stay in business with brutal dictators. we still fund regimes that move away from democratic norms changed at the top of the list. and i think it becomes hard to claim that your priority is democracy in human rights and the rule of law. if you don't change your policy, when governments start to change their commitment to

a participatory democracy and i think you've got to put the conversation in tunisia in that broader context, that despite the countries current president's movement being backed by the u. s. during the arab spring of 2011, which led to massive on ross and economic crisis and the nation political analyst and researcher christopher holly says the reason behind washington, sudden you turn in, rhetoric may be due to to me just progression away from u. s. policy usually when the united states does something like this, it is all about boot denisia might be aligning with. and of course if somebody goes rogue, if a leader all of a sudden doesn't want to tow the line of washington than instantly they become autocratic. they become undemocratic, if they tow the line, they are supported in the middle east. the sort of sun is setting on the u. s. empire. but the sun is rising in the east. and we see both russia and china playing

strategic and progressive roles. and of course, we're seeing it in north africa, no doubt about it. and julia remains one of the most important countries in north africa. and it is a very close partner of the russian federation. we're seeing china's influence growing on the continent. tunisia, given its strategic importance, is finding itself also in the cross hairs. will it be aligned with algeria and therefore a sort of multiple the world developing, or will it be aligned with washington that remains to be seen. but if this narrative is continuing, i have a feeling that it is opening the bridges toward algeria and towards the east rather than the west. that's a wrap on the hour and coming up, the french president mccombs visit to china. the western world in a frenzy. when the leader urge more autonomy for his country away from the us. but is he a bug sure and a day late. this is profession.