of china, ah ah, breaking news this our vladimir visits the recently incorporated russian territories of the lute dealt republic of her sultan region to hear a military updates directly from the commanders of local forces with president also hills. the high level of stop naval trails going on in the pacific, on ortiz correspondent, is embedded with the russians late, which has been held on high alert, protested readiness, commit story from tensions with

more than a 100 dead close to 2000. when did i tax on diplomats? that situation in su, done appears to be escalating after already days of flushes between the national mate and military forces with 11 am in jerusalem in athens. i'm here in moscow this tuesday, april lee. it welcome to the our team, use our we begin with breaking news. lots put and has visited the loop, get spread public on the her southern region for the 1st time since the start of rushes, military operation met with commander, is the headquarters of the bus stop or eastern national guard was directly given. situational reports on the conflict, the areas are part of a number of territories which voted in referendums in autumn to join the russian federation. lar. t. correspondence. steve sweeney joins me now in the studio for

more on this see good to see. ticket through what is known a but their russian presidents visit them. well you, this was a surprise visit the kremlin. have confirmed that this wasn't planned in advance and he met with the commanders of the nipple group on the person front and or he wished them both a happy easter. he presented them with religious icons. of course, the orthodox celebrations taking place over the weekend. he said he didn't wish to distract him from their duties, but he said the meeting was brief, but he was given concrete details of the situation in her son and also ins. upper roger, of course. this is the site of the nuclear power plant, which was the cause of grave concern last year, due to the intensity of the fighting. there it was. fears were a nuclear accent. russian forces have secured at the nuclear power plant, but we know that thanks to these alleged leak documents from the pentagon, that ukrainian forces had launched and offensive to regain control of the plant. of

course, are you making the sea situation even more volatile? are there this was there the president's 1st visit to the region since the military operation began in february last year, and of course, now these regions are incorporated into the russian federation, yell on that point. it follows just last month that volleyball put, visited those other territories. he mentioned the ne, yes, of course i vladimir putin visited mario pouch. the. the city was the scene of intense fighting devastation, manned and destruction. and he met a lot of the locals there. they were that they were updating them on the, on the situation on the ground. i also spoke with many of those residents last year, who told me the of the i, the, the intensity of the situation there. they said that their homes had been destroyed . they showed me photographs of these, do you know that they're apartments that have been flattened and they said that this was carried out by ukrainian or forces now. well, it was astonishing. it wasn't because we saw those pictures. apartments locks

flattened to the ground and then all of the sudden a few months later, getting, as you say, the keys to new homes. i'm sure other terry's will be hoping for similar, of course, and that in the skate of the reconstruction has been fatty rapids. y'all and people are on the ground. have said that in the are that the redevelopment there was something that they never saw when it was under the control of here. they, they, they, they, they lacked investment and now they're seeing that these brand new apartments. very, very nice looking apartments. they've been given the case these free, of course. and there's been schools and hospitals re developed. of course, ukrainian forces were, are using those as military base is the schools they had soldiers placed in them. they placed military hardware in those residential areas. now this comes, of course, as the, these leak documents from the, from the pentagon. allegedly, we have to say that and yet we haven't had that need to confirm the confirmation of this at this stage. but there is a lot of speculation around the spring offensive,

not the newsweek. the u. s. publication music published over the weekend said that the m, the spring offensive, was planned for april, the 30th. and this was backed by a minute the supplier of minutes. she hardware from the u. u. s. but whether that's happening now, nor is open to speculation, a number of the international volunteers. these mercenaries that have been fighting on the ukrainian side, i monitor and observe very closely on social media. a large number of those have returned back to the u. k. and they're saying that the spring offensive is now not taking place, but for now, russia's military operation continues on president putin's visit to the from i'm will be very welcome steps when he brings us through us. the thank you. let's just dig in further into a point there that this steve brought up that at speculation surrounding key as planned spring counter o fence of ortiz, senior correspondent, morocco's div is being following. the advance is made by russian forces file. this report from don bus. the city of back mortar, or what's left of it,

the battle rages, unabated, ukrainian forces have been pushed to the western suburbs as kiev throws more and more troops into the ground to delay defeat here, it would be a tremendous psychological blow to its war effort. and backers, you claimed that ukraine trips would been crimea by spring. the well, you still have plenty of time? no rush. everything is going to plan. it is no secret that ukraine has amassed a large strike force. footage of mass troop formations and hordes of armored vehicles have appeared more and more often. but the long awaited ukrainian counter offensive is going to have to wait rain and mud in easton, ukraine. mean, any offensive will quickly become bog down through russia, in turn,

is preparing air strikes with glad bombs have risen sharply in recent weeks. ukraine has nothing to fight them with. concurrently. massive defensive lines have been dug and fortified across the 1000 kilometer front line. ukraine needs to show that it can when the clock is ticking. we have obviously had an extraordinary amount of money that congress has given us to provide security assistance to the ukrainians. but it's not unlimited. war fatigue is rising among ukraine's sponsors there arsenals. depleted tens of billions spent in support of key f with little by way of success to shoe for it. poland and the others have found this trend, alarming. if we lose ukraine, we will lose piece for decades. failure in ukraine could be the beginning of the end of the gold

h of the west will make or break western commitments to it much will be decided in the coming weeks. ukraine's much hyped counter offensive and success when the battle field or lack thereof, will make or break western commitments to it. and without an endless stream of west and money, guns and artillery shells, the conflict can only go one way. more ad gasdio archie from logan screeching while the russian president has commended. meanwhile, the performance of the countries pacific fleet, which is in the midst of snap at naval exercises. the fleet has been put on high alert to test its readiness. amid soaring tensions with the west, over the ukrainian conflict, r t correspondent, dull quarter got to take a closer look at the scope, the scale of the drills. today the growth is carrying out its part of the snap naval drills called by the defense ministry to test the combat readiness of

russia's far east fleet and the events of an enemy attack. this involves linking up with 3 other anti submarine vessels and conducting mass firing drills alongside them. information with this helicopter that's going to seek and identify targets in the water for the ships to launch torpedoes that we're also going to see by the way, the might of these torpedoes inaction today. so without further ado, let's get right into with,

we're out at sea with the corvette. good auntie, meeting loud in english. it's a very young ship, just 4 years of age as well as a very fast one armed with high powered torpedoes employed and anti submarine combat, as well as universal artillery that can be used against enemy vessels as well as aerial targets. ah, and in the nation, another one ah you know the story, we're keeping a very close and i today, well 180 people killed down further 1800 wounded. that's what's happening and

flushes and sit down the information coming from the un, which enhanced the grim results of ongoing violent or risk between the student. these national army on the part of military rapid support forces or r s f in the countries capital. with some of the frontage here shows the results, solve the fighting in cartoon during the walk, the nations officials have branded as an attempt. in contrast, the commander all the r s f has called on the international community to intervene and blaming those in power for the destruction being seen. the conflict broke out on saturday, dallas left residents dealing with power cuts, food shortages on closed hospitals. we spoke with a local journalist and watson for that i have been intensified actually day after day. so as reach now the 1st day this new morning that lashes

is actually in its height at the moment the us if just this one. so q late the videos on photos, on the facebook page, saying that it has control. for me, it does go, it looks as it has moved in advance actually in this war around the office. we know that the south is also the guy that was a patient that was shut down because of bad on because of a new city and also other surfaces on, on. so, i'm a big deal of the injuries of, if you got this by and out of those, come with the syndicate, the international and looking for and there was,

in fact, you are talking like, is it basic or 23? and it goes to, you know, when do you read the injuries a lot unfolding, even as we speak. and indeed, amid the dangerous situation on the ground there, an american diplomatic convoy has been attacked as well as the european union's ambassador to sit down. officials from the u. s. e u strongly condemned the incidents secretary of state anthony, blinking said the initial intelligence reports point to the opposition being behind the attack on the americans. i can confirm that yesterday we had an american diplomat, a convoy that was fired on all of our people are safe and unharmed. but this action was reckless. it was irresponsible and of course unsafe a few hours ago that you and bass that are in sudan was assaulted in his own

residency. this constitutes a gross violation of the vienna convention security of diplomatic premises. and staff is the primary responsibility of sudanese authorities and an obligation under international law. we heard the thoughts of specialist on african the 1st gerald horn on this. he believes the ongoing, coo and sudan may of a western banker will obviously washington's diplomats either or not advising the secretary of state properly. or there are some sort of hidden agenda, which is often prevalent in the us state department whereby us back civilians will be catapulted into power in part 2. and somehow the military forces will be sideline. i think this is a very ill advised maneuver if that is in fact what's happening or perhaps washington, as newspaper headlines have suggested, is seeking to cut a deal with one or another faction within the military. and thereby

help to further isolate the sudan from its natural allies in the african union. not submitted its friends and international community, including russia and china. and i would urge mister blinking to bow to the influence of the african union, headquartered a neighboring ethiopia, which is much closer to the ground and much closer to the forces who are now fighting each other into death. the white house suggested that the president of brazil is blindly following russian rhetoric. the accusation came just before russia's foreign minister held talks with lula de sober who stamps on the ukrainian conflict. this seemingly causing concern for washington. the pur, discuss ways to strengthen what they described out a bilateral strategic partnership. it follows washington accusing brazil. busy of supporting quote, russian and chinese propaganda new to silver recently called on the sending of

weapons to ukraine to stop and suggested both sides negotiate to end the conflict, rushes, foreign minister survey love ralph on monday, express gratitude to brazil all its attempts to settle the conflict on endorse the countries bid for a permanent seats on the un security coach from cook. as part of our common efforts to promote a fair reform of the mechanisms of global governance institutions. we will work closely together at the un within the framework of the security council where brazil is currently a non permanent member. we have reaffirmed today our support for brazil's bid to obtain permanent membership at the security council, just as we support india's bit. and in this regard, we also support the need to satisfy the interests of the african continent. or brazil is the 1st stop on sir gala ralph's visit to latin america, which will also take him to venezuela, nikolai argue,

and cuba moscow's top tip tomorrow phase. the goal is to strengthen the cooperation between the countries on a whole host of problems, notably in the political economic trade education spheres for the spanish correspondence semi on the center often is in brazil. here in the capital of brazil are the russian foreign minister has had a series of meetings for example, he are mad, so with his counterparts, ah, modo, ve ada. of course, they talked about the, the relationships between the 2 countries, about the economic situation about this strategic corporations and brazil was so once again, happy to hear that russia is in favor of feats becoming a permanent or un security council member. and of course, they talked about the situation in ukraine. you know, they, it was somebody in brazil is ready to participate in the peaceful resolution of the

ukraine conflict recall and the message of brazilian president lulu the silva. we support the creation of a friendly group in order to facilitate negotiations between russia and ukraine. i also repeat opposition on the necessity of a ceasefire. the respect for humanitarian law and the stablish spent of a long term piece i international trip where in numerous a kick, her focus news portal opera monday. the further strengthening of relations between rush and brazil is paving the way for a world order where diplomacy profiles, in addition to commercial and cultural relationships, brazilian russia participate in the same is through authentic articulation, the brakes, and they had development, implementing the condition by the control that their nights they exercised over the global financial system, as it do counter is, is trenton. they allies alongside china, india, south africa,

and all the nations of the so called global falls back towards the democratic won't order without a demo. knees, we'll be easier. i believe that president lula is acting correctly when he propose a long flight chinese presidents using being and all the leaders. the gratian of a group of companies, willing to facilitate the negotiation, denied to stay. and the rebellion union together with who crane must be pressure. when to stand that all new way resolved to complete it through i just and lasting beef negotiation. now a lot of interest in this next story, the u. s. government had full access to everything on twitter, including users, private charts. that's the revelation which has emerged from an interview with the social media giants, new boss, ellen musk. he laid it all out with fox news host tucker carlson,

while also discussing the future of artificial intelligence on issue muscle stresses is an absolute priority. the degree to which our various govern agencies had federally had full access to everything was going on on twitter or blue online . i was not aware of that. would that include people's dm's? yes. oh, nothing that e land said in any way shot me or that i didn't know we've even heard before time after time repeatedly that there were channels between these individuals, these folks from twitter and various government organizations. and i would go so far as the suggest that the government is twitter is social media. the idea that they're independent. one of the shocked me, i think in addition to elan must, we have to sit back and pump the brakes ourselves and at ourselves,

what do we so worried about why we have been trained to hyper react to every body, daring to say something, to present something to promote something, to quote something which may not be correct, determined by whom i still go back. if you want freedom, then have freedom. let's go back to the wild west. put a big warning. are you sure you want to see or read twitter? there's a lot of weird people with a lot of weird information. sure. okay. sky's the limit. he still is talking about control. the real issue was about artificial intelligence. and let me tell you that is the issue. the proverbial issue that keeps me up at night. nothing else this we already knew about. we have but listen. we were born into captivity. anybody on this planet, in one way or another is born in surveillance. and if you think that any device

you're using, whether it's a fall on, is that a part of some meta data pull, you must be kidding by artificial intelligence. and here's the best part. nobody understands it that confusing it with robots or something or, or machine learning. so the existential threat to everyone is misunderstood, per usual turning to the recent leaks of classify documents from the pentagon, allegedly, a wall street journal investigation, states that a pro russian telegram trouble played a quote. key rule in the disclosure on this run by u. s. navy veteran a to ported russian blogger, and no one has done by the devilish car, which translates as don bus girl, re posted the files from obscure online chat rooms. the blogger is the face of a network of pro kremlin social media podcast and merchandise and fundraising accounts. but the person who hosts at both us as don bus davis kind overseas. these

accounts is a washington state based form. i use a list of every ation of the tronics technician, whose real name is sarah bills. according to the american daily, they don't both stablish cur or don bus girls is a telegram, a count which re posted 4 of the allegedly leak classified documents to its over $70000.00. the files were then picked up on spread by media outlets. the channels administrator, former u. s. navy officers, sorry, build. so said that 15 people quote, from all over the world's run, the group. she declined to identify any of their suspects. and the pentagon is reportedly looking into her involvement in the release of the documents. us authorities have already arrested and charged a 21 year old national guard member for the leak. american officials alleged that some of the documents were altered before being published. the verified file to allegedly contain details with us military plans in ukraine,

editor of the covert action magazine said that the leak and the attempts to blame russia appeared to point to a us disinformation campaign there trying to link it to russia that russia, who was somehow connected with this major league, but now it's coming out that this woman was actually working for us. so you know, was in the u. s. navy. so i think that very clearly a part of this information operation was point to the parallel. you know, we're doing a song when he leaked these incriminating documents about democratic national committee that in 2016 election and seemingly as an impact on the elections. they tried to link of songs with russia and blame him. very likely, the same kind of thing is happening here, and they're trying to blame russia for this leak sustain this narrative that the russians are interfering in us politics and sustain as demon ization of russia. that's fueling domestic public support for a very bellicose and confrontational policies towards russia. is just how to fit

this in before we go. cape tone is currently hosting the african continental free trade area business form. aiming to further integrate the continent. r t correspondent, trouble let us tells us what's ahead of the event in south africa. the africa, continental free trade agreement, business forum is in full swing, giving a chance for africa to reflect upon his current position as well as the pressing challenges that i still hold him back. the movement and freedom of trade in goods and services on the continent for africa to truly realize the full implementation of the promise of the free trade area. more countries need not only sign up, but also have their parliament rectify the deal. there are $47.00 african countries represented at this forum, but only $37.00 out of the $54.00 have signed up and rectified the deal. a lesson

that south africa and madge area. i still coming to terms with we working on a project with that, with both governments in south africa and nigeria and private sector on how we work more closely together and leverage more opportunity. and what we've really found, the big deficit is, is information and also relationships. we don't have both countries are heavily regulated that our regulators have not met each other even though a lot of our businesses doing are invested in nigeria. so we're looking at actually high starting at a lot of it is starting at the base level and it's getting people to meet each other in the 3 years since the africa, continental free trade agreement was infected. only 13 percent of the commitments made by countries have been implemented, but now the focus shifts to the private sector and businesses to give for momentum to the trade agreement. free car has got potential because the africa population is

going to quadruple by 2100. because africa is the fastest growing continent because we're sitting with 1300000000 people, 60 percent off, which are young people, you know, so the market is right. it is absolutely the right market for the african businesses to enter the see how they never really, jim actually cultivate, to leverage the is opportunity. business needs to speak as one formidable voice. even though trade amongst african countries is currently at 16 percent. it still leaves much to be desired. one of the main goals is to create more jobs. for the hundreds of millions of africans fill out of work, we would like to see i forgot to become one of the preferred to investment destination. and therefore, we believe if we really put our energy together as africans, we can be able to, to create more jobs. the continental free trade deal is coming into its own,

on the. busy verge of the 2nd brick summit to be held on the african continent. south africa will, as chair, bring in more african countries into the breaks family way down conversations and africa based be ready to leverage the opportunity that i believe had a lot of tea in cape town. trouble taking us through that while for a deeper dive in any of those stories, may i suggest r t dot com as a solid jumping off point, always fresh updates. lively discussions to be found narrative ah ah ah

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