[000:00:00;00] with ah, the u. s. has started a crusade against russia's legitimate interest and culture that according to russia's foreign ministers in cuba, on the last stock of his latin american 2 or more and more chewed. so arriving to bill a good of cobra. hobbs ahead of the expected you credited counter a fed to which may will to take place here as moscow and he had prepared for what looks like a looming escalation. par correspondence witnesses events directly from the front lines of the war with the central african republic accuses an insurgent, pair of military group of killing 9 chinese mine workers as the rebels to try to

pin the blame on russia's wagner group with . i mean to you live from the russian capital. this is our t international. i, mary job, love it. here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. we had confirmed our solidarity in international affairs bows. according to russia's foreign minister survey, la grove, who was speaking after a meeting with the president of cuba, they both agree to work together to resist you as a tenant, for global domination. cuba is the final stop on live, robs latin american to work for us. she's got miracles get well, if you are asking about russian american relations, we don't have any particular relations. we only discuss things out of necessity and issues that arise and the activities of our embassies, and also with the regard to attempts by the united states to abuse his position as

the host country of the united nations. previously sorry of ra, visited nicaragua, and held talks with the country president daniel ortega, they discussed a deeper partnership between the nations progress on current projects and the impact of us sanctions. meanwhile, speaking with this cuban counterpart, the russian born minister patched on the current ukrainian grain deal claiming the poorest countries are being denied much needed supplies. she sneered, wilbur would be more honest to buy cheap. ukrainian grain is supplied free of charge to the ports. countries that need food, but the european union and the united states, and not interested in this, as they are interested in the long distance, commercialization of grain exports to the solar. this is their 4th, and the last a stop of sergei love rove. so latin american journey here in cuba, he has had some traditional activities. as for example, he alight everything at jose,

marty monuments. then he has an ard meeting. whiskey is cuban of counterparts. bruno rodriguez battery. yeah. and we actually had a good opportunity to stand in the very same room where they were speaking. and here's the beginning all for their speech. so they a cuban minister, a bruno to that he gets up. but he, yeah, applauded the russian efforts to stop the expansion at alpha, then nita and also he urged her to to find that pisa, any ukraine as soon as possible. meanwhile sergey love froth condemned to once again, and that lead the sanctioned sent, that united states imposed against cuba also after these meetings. so he had sergey lovegrove for a matter of their cuban and president miguel b as a canal. and afterwards he offered to add press conference, it's been quite a journey for countries. sorry e for in days says sergey love, ra,

press visited to cuba, nicaragua, venezuela and in brasil ends. and this actually generated a lot of criticism from the western countries. meanwhile sergey la for orfa seems to have launched a clear message to on their west that's i ain't spite of all their efforts saw to oppress russia. moscow will still continue having good relationships with the it's a historical friends to go further in depth on this. let's cross live now to political analysts, ramon mendez re vast ramon. it's great to have you on the program to day. now, how significant is sir gay? love rob's visit to cuba? and what does it tell us about the current state of relations and how they're likely to develop in the future? hi, how you doing? thanks for having me on the show. and it is very important that your lab rob,

is in latin america, naturally symbolically speaking, says a lot about how the geo politics of latin american are playing right now. there are many countries are actually part of this called ne weight, which would naturally align more with popular sovereign and time period. this countries such as russia. so right now with brazil tunic and i want to go to venezuela, actually says to these countries, there is another option, right? you don't have to live under this many of the u. s. right? we are trying to do business with other countries in alternative currencies, which would eliminate the u. s. as only hedge mom, right? it still be a very powerful country, but it would give way for a bipolar or more bullet world in case this continue. so it is actually seeing a lot of optimism in latin america and it also has a lot to say with the other side, right? the u. s. also having a role here in a preference as to something command of the u. s. military will actually in

argentina and america couple of days ago. right. right. and that certainly has been a theme that we've seen throughout this latin american to we're talking about the was talking about their interference with the rest of the world and love. rob notably said that the u. s. uses its position and the un general assembly to try to interfere in joint projects between russia and cuba. what is your take on that statement? i think it is an accurate statement, right? more than any type of ideology or keno nationality. it is obvious that the u. s. has a strong hold on the un and the important decisions that affects other countries. i'm. i have another another decision, but also not even in the u. n. is the us trying to accept what they are trying to move forward, right. the west is trying to move forward with the sessions. we know of organizations that did you 7 like nato and all these western organizations that are

led by the u. s. right. it's the u. s. plus its allies or plus it's friends more than more than anything. so we see that the us is actually losing a lot of support in america. of course, this would have to do something very strong, would have to happen to eliminate the presence of the us. but we see that they're trying, and america impose their ideas here in the, in after that we have a right wing government which is actually very being supported a lot by the us government. right. even though it is a failure of a government, yet it does not want to lose any of its allies and have seen historically in other times that the u. s. as prop dictatorships and other types of ruling governments that were not in favor of the population. and that is happening again, at least with our president. right now. he was democratically elected. but we see that the u. s. tries to always go, always go around what's going on and support countries and things that would actually support support them as well as we have seen them do in the united nations

as we have seen them do also in are there any issues as the 7 and as native and on that topic of a possible response from the last. i mean we've heard from the officials during lab for all this visit, you covered the issue of sanctions imposed by the why. certainly, he's going to a number of countries that have felt that pain. now, when it comes to those concerns of voice by latin american states during this to or do you expect there to be a response for the west or for them to take this seriously and kind of wake up to the fact that russian officials are visiting countries that are hearing their message and paying attention to it. the thing is that the response that the u. s. always does aside of proxy wars is sanctions, right? so if they continue to the sanctions, the thing we have done in queue or for more than half a century, the same we have done for venezuela in a decade, more or less, they're going to lose their own power, right?

the secretary of the treasure of the u. s. has mentioned herself that because of the sense that the u. s. kitchen, posing the dollar of loses value. right? so if they go with this route of an imposing sanctions or further sanctions, rather on countries that are align, quote unquote, with russia or they are do business with russia and other countries that the u. s. might not amicable and not favorable. they pose the sanctions. it's going to continue to erode the power that the u. s. r has in international business relations. right. we've already seen countries like russia, like china, like brazil, like argentina, like the brakes move forward with the possibility of having a common currency for business, or rather an alternate if currency to the dollar for business. so if sanctions are the answer to the west get to this visit, then we can also see that that can also further weaken their position in the world

. now, it also depends on the actions on countries like china, or in this case, russia, specifically on what they do in latin america. right. and it wasn't ruled out and quickly, the presses of possible russian and russia basis in latin america. so is something like this might move forward that we might be able to expect something different from the u. s. i don't want to be pessimistic. but just taken from individual responses and discussions of different parliamentary members of the us, congress and senate. they have voiced that there, there will to invade some of latin american countries, most recently mexico. right. so it also hands on was these other alternative countries rather bipolar fighting countries or multi polar fighting countries are due in response to it to the u. s. the u. s has done sanctions, i don't think that would help them any more than you already has. and now let's see what other countries like russia rose. yeah, certainly

a lot of stay care and will continue to follow at political analysts vermont mendez revised. thank you so much for your time and inside. thank you for having me in the show and have a great day. ah, turning to the latest on the war in ukraine, an russian forces claim they've destroyed 3 cranium tanks, several armored vehicles and a howitzer artillery gun in the barnett's republic. ortiz moran garcia sentenced this exclusive report from the front lines. russian and ukrainian forces stand braced for the coming onslaught, a cross of 1000 kilometers. these is one small section of it. we are just west of lucy chance capa, a slag hill. and from here, there's no spectacular view of the bible feel. this. nearby village is controlled by russia bill of could just be on the left is below garasco,

which is which is where ukrainian troops ha, concentrated, were learning that more and more troops are arriving to bella. gov cup a hobbs ahead of the expected ukrainian counter offensive, which may also take place here as this. the geography is conducive of of ha, a big ahmed offensive it's, it's all rolling plains to the other side. is another intense battlefield over there behind those lag hills. is grim and naya and the forests there between came in, i am delgado, fca have been again and absolutely vicious battle ground for, for many, many months now via ukrainian positions are a belly, a killer belly, a kilometer into those woods where you crane masses, men, and material russian guns are quickly brought to bear

they never stay long in one position. count a battery, fine necessitates rotation. they've plenty of spots. russia has fortified in depth with trenches, mine field stitches and anti tank obstacles in the air. jets roar! ah loos! repairs suits with the farm clothes, god support aircraft. they work ceaselessly here on this sector of the front line, firing predominantly unguided missiles. ah, jetson drones pound, ukrainian troops and armor ceaselessly, native supplied the army and vehicles, litter the battlefield. in all the troops here are confident that they'll be able

to ride out ukraine's offensive law saying admission, gentlemen, them, we're all good. we're holding the line that the situation is stable. the guys are ready to repel any attack that element were in the swallow, with confidence that the enemy won't manage to take over all fortified area on the one. it was sure they won't break through it as soon as they reward the finance period is at its highest we will determine attack and will contact house house, both artillery and now the asian back us. so there is nothing worse candle, fear. the conflict may soon reach it's violent peak, but the risks keep mounting hostility between russia and nato, as well as its allies, is stronger than ever. if there is a situation the international community can not condone such as any large scale attack on civilians, massacre or serious violation of the laws of war, it might be difficult for us to insist only on humanitarian or financial support.

these hostility is still escalating. washington seems determined to ring its allies for weapons. no matter how reluctant they may seem. ayesha as always takes its own steps. there are new people willing to help our enemies, south korean president you and suck your said his state is ready to supply weapons to the key of regime. that's as until recently, the south koreans fervently assured that the possibility of supplying lethal weapons to kill was completely excluded. i wonder what the residents of this country will say when they see the latest samples of russian weapons at their closest neighbors, are partners from the dpr k, quid pro quo, so to speak. the risk of a right away escalation, open and direct conflict between nato and russia, is at his all time high. and he, regardless of how successful ukraine's counter offensive ease was

a high chance that one will the other side will decide to raise the stakes. even higher, more, i guess the party from gun screeching facebook has taken a position on the debate over who's behind the north stream pipeline explosions by flagging the report by prominent investigative journalist seymour hersh as false. the bombshell story detailed, the secret role washington played, and the destruction of the pipeline which russia has called an act of international terrorism. but facebook has decided to red flagged the article and it's news feed and is limiting the content and labeling it as false. the social media giant said it vetted the story through a quote, independent fact checker called stopped st dot org, which happens to be based in ukraine. and that herschel work is known for promoting conspiracies and pure speculation. hirsch's revelations about

north stream are not alone and facing facebook restrictions. another report on the scale of corruption and kiev has been flocked according to weak helix. the online platform to role as com is simply taking as q from western mainstream media were negative information related to the ukranian conflict is ignored. i point out the most of the western mainstream media ignored this report by seymour hersh in an essay to me, the sucker bird cop says that a reputable, an independent organisation ruled that the report is false. when you look at it, the judge in the case turns out to be an association and key f in ukraine. stop fake dot org. detailed information is not available about the financing of the association. however, it is informed that it is through free donations, collections and sponsors. only a few of them are named, including the british embassy and key f,

and the check for ministry. for more or less, less cross. i'm now to george sam, welly senior research fellow at the global policy institute, joining us from budapest, georgia. it's great to have you on the program today. now what do you make of facebook's decision to restrict this story of i see more heard about the nord stream attacks. what is part and parcel of what a facebook and the social media in general have been doing for several years now? they have been doing the bidding of political leaders and censoring content as this information and fake i in accordance with the political wishes of their masters. it started in around 2172017, following the law election of donald trump. and now it's essentially banning and removing from its platform of anything a toll has is

a displeasing to the political leaders of the west. and unfortunately, this is nothing new. and when they make these decisions, facebook always says, well, we turned to our fact checkers our fact checkers are completely objective. well, in this case, then we look further into it. we find out that these fact checkers are located in ukraine ruling on a story that just happens to be very geopolitically involved. so how credible do you find these fact checkers to be, especially in this specific situation? not credible the whatsoever you mention about us. stop fake dot org, which is in ukraine. it enjoys funding of from western governments. so then you have a person that they assign fac, checking to which has been nimo, who is employed by the atlantic council. the atlantic counselors will cause a nato think tank and, and the,

and then we have this other story of in fact you refer to, which was that they labeled as a false news. the story that he wrote about the blowing up of the north stream pipelines and who labeled it as bulls. some norwegian fact checking a site that partners with government owned media in norway while norway is an interested party. because as you know, i'm in hersch had said that he was the united states and navy divers, who had installed the explosive on the notes stream by plan. but it was an norwegian aircraft that detonated the explosive. so no way is an interested party, a me at facebook relies on a norwegian governmental entity to claim that what her she's saying is false information. it really doesn't make sense all around,

but yet they still continue to do it. so how is it possible that facebook justifies these actions and justifies allowing these fact checking groups to make decisions? and we know that they receive foreign funding. is this just a case where they expect the public not to know or not to do their actual homework? and just to trust the quote unquote fact checkers at face value. well, that's obviously bother with the lead journalists have now for several years posed as fact checkers and to and so that the, the roofs would think, well, well, johnny was doing some really specialized uh, academic research work. you know, they digging through encyclopedias and research papers to the fact checking, but in fact, they're not there. what, what counts is fact checking is simply, i know you using official western governmental sources to challenge other views of alternative media and trying to abuse that government find offensive. that

in the case of facebook and twitter, as we have learned from the twitter files, they came under a lot of pressure from politicians, particularly democrats following the the. ready the 2016 election essentially, if you don't do our bidding, if you don't remove all kinds of messaging that we don't like remove what we call this information. we're going to put pressure on you. we are going to start regulating you. and we're going to make a lot less money than you used to. and facebook and twitter came they and i was, they were terrified of impending regulation and will then perfectly happy, essentially to a work in tandem with government to remove messages that governments didn't like. yeah, and it is, i have so much of that is not shown to the public gray. they try to make it happen behind closed doors. now when it comes to facebook's efforts to specifically limit

the circulation of this story by seymour hersh, by labeling in as, quote, unquote falls. do you think that that will actually have an impact on it? or do you think that that can almost backfire and push more people to look further into that story? because you have an entity like facebook saying, oh, this is fake news. don't even read it. oh, it's hard to know. i mean, obviously yes, there is a backlash. but on the other hand, it's true enough that you know people who are not so well informed, one not don't follow these things as closely. i'm all taken in by the idea that there are fact checkers that these, those, you know, some really important bodies sifting through the facts and, and labeling simply as this information. so, you know, it does have an effect. i mean, we know that when facebook and twitter back a essentially the transmission of information about home to biden's laptop in the

2020 election that had an affair. and then many people have said to pollsters off to the election that had they known something about the hunter bite and laptop they would of voted the other way. so it does have an effect of the information isn't out there. when people are unable to make informed judgment. yeah, it never hurts to do some additional research, especially when you have facebook telling you not to read something. george sam. well, a senior research fellow, i think global policy institute of london joining us from budapest. thank you. so much for your time and analysis. thank you very much. the crisis in sudan shows no sign of a baby as fighting continues between rival military factions. the conflict has ravaged the east african countries capital and surrounding areas. oh, footage has been circulating online apparently showing

r. s f fighters firing an anti aircraft gun, possibly hardening sudanese military guys above the national capital. almost a week of fighting has left about 300 civilians dead as the country descends into a humanitarian crisis. supply lights have been cut off and civilians lack basic necessities and medical assistance. officials in the central african republic believe an insurgent group killed 9 chinese miners last month. the rebel group known as the c p. c has denied involvement and even pointed the finger at the russian private military company wagner. but that claims been firmly rejected by the authorities. mister prosecutor general of the appellate cause of bungie, i instruct you to initiate criminal proceedings. elements of the cbc are presumed to be responsible for murder, terrorism, crimes against humanity, attacks on state security, losing and destruction of property to be punished in accordance with the

stipulations of the criminal court. while the justice ministry really did not leave any stone unturned, they say that following a month in quest to look into the deaths of the 9 chinese nationals which worked in the chim bolo, mine in the central african republic have really found themselves in jeopardy. and this follows a series of incidents such as this one with regards to foreign nationals with mining interest in the central african republic. when the said incident happened back in the 19 beg on the 19th of march earlier this year the, the c p. c. as it were, this rebel conglomerate came out with the statement earlier that day saying that they believe that the russian and private military group wagner was behind such. now that of course goes contrary to why the 2 are there. are government hired

wagner to begin with. it was to bolster the security within the country to train some of the a soldiers within the national army of the central african republic, but also to god and the mining interests that have been secured by various companies around the world. now this was purely disputed by generally everybody who had known this to be the modus operandi of the sad rebel groups within the country which have traditionally control the vast swedes of land and have continued their incessant attacks on international mining interests in that country. but the russians were also quick to come out of the state when the greeley echoed along the lines of what mister cian ping, the president of china had earlier said that these perpetrators must be met with

the fullest extent of the law and must be punished accordingly. we strongly condemn the criminal actions of the militants of illegal armed groups whose victims are civilians. we hoped that the perpetrators of this barbaric act will be identified and punished. we express our sincere condolences to the chinese side and the families of the victims. this is all part of the green t, as i hel, story if you will, because you look at where central african republic is. it surrounded by countries such as sudan, which point in case has become hot again in terms of its own internal conflict. and in the south, it is bordered by the d r. c, which has of course not known pieces, are the movements of the m, 23 rebel groups, particularly towards the east of the d, r c. and the fear here is that really africa could move from a position of secure stability, at least with in ethiopia,

to having another hot conflict around the central belt of africa becoming a new area where guns again ablaze and pushing further the idea and the goal of the african union to silence the guns on the continent by 2030. and that is where these rebel groups, if you will come into the fray. the real question is, who continues to sponsor these rebel groups? and of course, you know, if, if the vendors interest is really to secure these mining interests of the gold mines of the diamond minds, why would it be in their interests to, to really bring upon bloodshed on chinese foreign investment? particularly when one looks at the closeness and coordination that moscow and beijing have continued to have. 214 people were killed and more than 700