[000:00:00;00] a a button visits near the front line to the recently incorporated russian territories of the republic. i was on a region to update directly from the commanders of local forces with defense minutes i mean to with his chinese counterpart in moscow while russia holds nap. naval drove in the pacific alkalis. one is embedded with the fate we've has been put on the pilot test readiness,

a made or intention with the with where they get on to the needs. murphy and a rival insurgent group of reportedly agreed to receive off. and then she wanted to be killed in just a few days a go to the world and this is our t good to have your company today. my name is martha. mommy, let's take a look at the top floor. is this out. and we saw for the 1st time since the start of a rush is military campaign. random, it puts in house travel to the guys to the public and there's on region. and the last don't cor eastern national guard headquarters of the countries leader meant to with commanders and received up to the minute situation reports on the conflict. these regions are

a portion of several tennessee that chose to join the russian federation in referendum that it was previously discuss more. my colleague unit, o'neil and archie correspond them. steve sweeney. 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 o zone front. and he wished them both a happy easter. he presented them with religious icons. of course he orthodox celebrations. taking place over the weekend, he said he didn't wish to distract them from their duties, but he said the meeting was brief, but he was given concrete details of the situation in her son and also in supper. roger, of course, this is the side of the nuclear power plant, which was a cause of grave concern last year, due to the intensity of the fighting. there it was. fears were a nuclear acton. russian forces have secured at the nuclear power plant. but this was that 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. vladimir putin visited matthew paul, which the, the city was the scene of intense fighting devastation and an destruction. and he met a lot of the locals. there they were, 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 their apartments that had been flattened and they said that this was carried out by ukrainian or forces. it was astonishing. steve wasn't because we saw those pictures, apartment blocks flattened to the ground and then all of a 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 state of the reconstruction has been fairly rapid 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, of care they, they, they lacked investment and now they're seeing that these brand new apartments. very, very nice looking, a partners they'd be 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 bases. 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 the confirmation of this at this stage. but there's a lot of speculation on the spring offensive now the news week, the u. s. publication, newsweek 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 minute 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'm on its own,

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 rushes military operation continues. and president putin's visit to the front. i'm will be very welcome. as rulers swirled about his impending spring counter offensive arts, he's a senior jealous more ivan garcia who has been tracking the russian forces. advancements sent us this report from thomas, 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 key of 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,

we 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 with russia, in turn, is preparing air strikes with glass bombs have risen sharply in recent weeks. you quain 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 sponsors there. arsenals, depleted tens of billions spent in support of key f, with little by way of success to show for it. poland and the others have found this trend, alarming. if we lose the ukraine, we will lose piece for decades. failure in ukraine could be the beginning of the end of the gold age of the wes much will be decided in the coming weeks. ukraine's much hyped counter offensive and success on the battlefield, 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.

ah was as defensive men as a has met with his chinese county park li sang through in moscow. they dis, the us, the struggling ties within their countries and praise the steps taken by their national leaders to promote increased global stability for jeremy virginia. your trip to moscow was the result of important agreements between putin and she, she ping. coordination of our efforts in the military sphere help stabilize the situation in the world and reduces the potential for conflict. we're preparing these approaches in preparations for joint military exercises. i am convinced that today's meeting was strengthened further military cooperation between russia and china on the algae. the armed forces of china and russia will implement the agreements reached by the heads of state and promote military technical cooperation between china and russia. and we will definitely bring them to a new level. the may think i'm so phases russ's, pacific fleet,

conductors snap exercises, of the country's east and coast russian. naval vessels have been put on high alert to test their readiness. amid soaring tensions with western powers over the green conflicts, all the correspondent donald holder was able to see 1st hand the scope and scale of the drills. today the grantee 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 in the event of an enemy attack. this involves linking up with 3 other anti submarine vessels and conducting mass firing drills alongside them in formation 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 in action today. so without further ado,

let's get right into it. mm hm. mm. mm. with where they'd be on there for, you know, that things were out at sea with the corvette garage empty meeting loud and 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, the gun in the nation, another one ah ah. so african, now the sudanese army and a para military group called the rapids support forces have reportedly agreed to a 24 hour humanitarian truce to evacuate abuse and attend to the injured. the un says that 185 people have been killed in another 1800, others wounded in a surge in violence in recent days. earlier the r s f leader amounts the

commitment on twitter and said the decision was directly influenced by a con, the session with the u. s. senator state and appeals from other countries. the conflict broke out just 4 days ago and has left residents dealing with power cuts, food shortages and closed hospitals. the international red crescent, him ontario group has warned that now it's quote, almost impossible to deliver any humanitarian aid to the national capital. we managed to speak to a local journalist. this is have been intensified actually day after day. so as reach now the 1st day this new morning, less is actually in its height at the moment the us, if just this one is with photos on the facebook page, saying that it has control. for me,

it looks as it has moved in advance actually in this world around the office. do you know that a patient that was shut down because of where i'm because of a. ready or so other services the own so as a victim of the injuries is very difficult this by now that does come with the gate and then international and looking for another 2. and it was, in fact, you to open it by 603 and it goes to, you know, when didn't do, but to wait. the injuries made the danger situation on the ground. american depot, i think conway has been attacked as well as the european union, but that's just

a damn now official from the us and the you have so many condemned the incidents secretary of state. i'm thinking said that initial intelligence reports point to the opposition forces being behind the attack on the americans. i can confirm that yesterday we had an american diplomatic 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, the un bassett, or in sudan was assaulted in his own residency. this constitutes a gross violation of the vienna convention security of diplomatic premises. and staff is a primary responsibility of sudanese authorities and an obligation under international law. we spoke with a specialist on african affairs, gerald hall,

and he says that the ongoing intented qu incidence may have a western backup. 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 you, us back civilians will be catapulted into power in heart tomb. and somehow the military forces will be sight line. i think this is a very, a ill advised maneuver if that is in fact what's happening. recall that it was united states under u. s. president george w bush. the push for the secession of south sudan, which is a wash in petroleum. it's successfully seceded, seceded from the water through den, and has been marked as newspaper headlines have suggested, as seekins and as the national community, including russia and china. and i would urge mister blinkin 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 in sudan to south america. now where the white house has suggested that the president of brazil is blindly following a russian rhetoric, the accusation came just before russia's form as a house tools live at lou da silva. historic only cleaning conflict is seemingly causing concern for washington. the pat discuss ways of sense and what they've this rived as a bilateral strategic partnership. it follows washington and his in brazil, so both in quote, russia and chinese propaganda. lulu to fill a recently cold on the sending of weapons, see going to stop and suggested both sides in good shape to end the conflicts. russia, a foreign minister on monday express gratitude to brazil on his attempt to settle the convent and indulge the country, paid for

a permanent seat on the un security council. from good 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. brazil is the 1st thought on sergey la rose visit to latin america, which will also take him to venezuela, nicaragua, and cuba. while his talk diplomat says the king, goal of the sits in co operation between the countries will come a whole host of friends, particularly in the political trade and education spheres of all the spanish and

correspond, sent me and send it. all i left is in russell you here in the capital of brazil, our, the russian foreign minister has had a series of meetings. for example here, matt, so with his counterpart, ah, mode ojeda, of course they talked about, saw their 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 freedom becoming a permanent or un security council member. and of course, they talked about the situation are 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 luther, the silver 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 establishment of a long term piece. the context here is really important because they're a brazilian president himself has had just a long international trip where in numerous occasions he spoke about the situation in a ukraine, brazil isa, against all for you know, right lateral sanctions against russia. according to brianna, old one, the chief editor of the latin american focused new portal or put them under the further strengthening of relations between russia and brazil. as paving the way for a world order where diplomacy prevails a decent dog, commercial and cultural relationships. brazilian russia participate in the same is prophetic articulation, the brakes, and their development, implementing condition by the control that united states exercise over the global

financial system as it do counter is, is trenton. they alliance alongside china, india, south africa, and all the nations of the so called global south bath towards a democratic woke 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 decoration of a group of countries willing to facilitate the negotiation, denied his faith. and the rebellion union together with crane must be pressure when the stand that all new way resolve the conflict. it's true, i just and lasting peace negotiation there. so they knew that the us government had a full access. everything on twitter including users,

private trust. but the revelation that emerged from an interview. ready with the social media giants new boss in our mask, he said it all. he laid it all out with fox news host tucker carlson. while also discussing the future of artificial intelligence, an issue, the entrepreneur stresses is an absolute priority. the degree to which our various government agencies had federally had full access to everything was going on a twitter. i blew my mind. i was not aware of that. would that include people's dm's? yes. oh, nothing that elan said in any way shocked 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 to 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 ask ourselves when are 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 been listen, we were born into captivity. anybody on this planet, in one way or another is boring in surveillance. and if you think that any device you're using, whether it's a fall, is that a part of some method data pull, you must be kidding by artificial intelligence. and here's the best part. nobody understand ends. it is confusing it with robots or something or, or machine learning. so the existential threat to everyone is misunderstood, per usual, ah, time to the recently so classified documents from a pencil. often journal investigation has stated that a pro russian telegram channel played a quote t role. in the disclosure i was run by a u. s. navy bathroom, a to ported russian blogger, known as don boss, debora oscar,

which translates as don bos. girl re posted the files from obscure online chat rooms. the blogger is the face of a network of pro kremlin social media, podcasting, merchandise, and fundraising accounts. but the person who host it podcasts as don boss, debora kind overseas. these accounts is a washington state based former use unless at every asian electronics technician, whose real name is sarah bills hoarding to the american davy, the don bus. the booster or don bos girl is a telegram account, which a rene posted for of the leak classified documents to his over $70000.00 followers . the files were then picked up. i'm spread by media outlets, while the channels administrator form a u. s. navy officer sarah bills allegedly said to the paper that 15 people quote, from all over the world, ran the group. she declined to identify the other than the pentagon is now reported looking into her involvement in spreading the documents. meanwhile, u. s. authorities have arrested and charged

a 21 year old national guard member over the leak american officials and lead some of the documents were altered before being published. the unverified files allegedly contain details of u. s. military plans, the ukraine, the ada. sort of the covert action analysis site says the leak and the incentives to blame brush appear to point to a russia a u. s. i big about and disinformation campaign trying to link it to russia. russia who was somehow connected with this major leak. but now it's coming out that this woman was actually working for us or you know, was in the u. s. navy. so i think that very clearly at part of this information operation, i was point to the parallel. you're doing a song when he leaked these incriminating documents about democratic national committee that you know, 2016 election that seemingly an impact on the election may try to link

a song 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 and sustain this narrative that the russians are interfering in us politics and sustain is demon ization of russia. that's fueling domestic public support for a very, a bellicose and confrontational policies towards russia. some poses of news down doing business in africa needs to and will become easier. so sale than either though, the ongoing african continental free trade area, business forum breaking down. but i'm all from the cape town of his r c chorus. one kind of look 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, nigeria and private sector on how we work more closely together and leverage more opportunity. and what we've really found, the big a 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 are doing well invested in nigeria. so we're looking at actually how it's starting at a lot of it is starting at the base level and that's getting people to meet each

other in the 3 is the africa continental free trade agreement was in, acted 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 african 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, which 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 africans. still 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 edge of the 2nd brick summit to be held on the african continent, south africa will, as chair, bring in more african countries into the briggs family way down conversations and africa based be ready to leverage the opportunity that i believe has a lot of tea in cape town, scotty, now he is, is up next on the 360 view and we'll be back there. how with one is more around

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