the, the chief of the south african army visits the most skillful tools as just days up to the us by tribes. only it's false accusations with the countries secretly provided arms to russia. also, the sawgrass has minister defense because it's congested. miss saw has destroyed a us supplied patriot system and key of the drum testers, investigators and democrats. of the investigators pro, as a recent dominga government's reports reveals, deputy, i use bias information supplied by his political opponents. that's as the western media appears to downplay the significance of the revelations on the foreign policy chief culture cracked down on india. that's how people to of russian oil us to avoid this resale on the european market. the

windshield lie from our headquarters here in the russian capital. your watching oxy international might be just got to pay with the top stores, but 4 pm. this tuesday, the commander of south africa's ground forces lieutenant general lawrence busta, visits us because it must go for itself just days after washington by tribes. only speculations of the country secretly provided weapons to bush a slots. you correspondence to say both joins me now in the studio live site. thanks for joining me here. what more details can you shows about the visits will be self control? yeah, well this is a, an ongoing story. actually, peter, we discussed earlier in the week these allegations and it comes as the, as a. so topic is top soldier is actually in moscow to meet his counterpart to disclose. and, you know, with a bilateral meeting to discuss increasing cooperation. and of course, it comes as last week, the american,

a boss that are to south africa. mister bridget, he had accused the uh, south africans of dispatching weapons to russia in december of last year. we can actually have a listen to that accusation. now, peter, our main of russia by south africa, with his vessels outstanding and sign, his town is fundamentally unacceptable. we are confident that weapons were loaded onto that vessel. and i would bet my life on the accuracy of that assertion. so, you know, quite a heavy accusations there from the ambassador's. again, interesting, absolutely, no evidence given. and you know, we have to ask ourselves, you know, what's the background to that revelation? indeed. and what was the reaction from the african sides to this spot? right? where the africans, of course, rejected the allegation,

they said they have no records. and they also pointed out that it was them that are actually, you know, some of the, the americans about this. but i was interested. the 1st step was the 1st page. again, they say that no evidence was provided to them whatsoever of the so we can hear at the south african response. again, peter, the national conventional arms control committee has no record of an approved arm sale by the state to rush or related to the period or incident in question. yeah, so you know, again, you know, it's quite an embarrassing, climbed down has now occurred where the, the american ambassador has been isolated, this seems by washington has now back tracked on his obligations. and he had, you know, really doable down and said he would bet his life that these weapons had been she and didn't follow through without promising any. didn't follow through them. we can actually now listen to what was quite in a virus and climbed down here. i was grateful for the opportunity to speak with

for administer pender this evening and correct any misimpressions left by my public remarks in our conversation. i reaffirm the strong partnership between our 2 countries and the important agenda our presidents have given us so. yeah, so, so what has really become a bit of a tobacco for, for us diplomacy? and you know, also there is a more sinister element to this because when a senior us diplomat speaks door listens. and these initial allegations add by mr. bridget e, the boss of, or did impact on the south african economy on the, on the actual currency. and so for a hit as a result of this, and you have to, you know, ask yourself, are these allegations made it as part of a big or global picture with south africa, a very, very important component of the brakes alliance. you know, at one of the only actually the only african countries actually manufacturers its own weaponry and army and vehicles, helicopters,

etc. so you see the pressure potentially coming on from the u. s. to these bricks, members that they talk about alternatives to the dollar. and as the, you know, multi polar world involves, we see that these type of attacks and insinuations will probably grow mm way. so it doesn't seem to have on demand versus relations with soft good shape. thanks so much for breaking that down for us. we're just moving on now. the rest of the defense ministry is set is congested. hypoth stomach mess managed to destroy a us, made patriots on the aircraft missile system inc. if on this on verified voltage, you can see walk ins finalizing of kids. 9 sky, allegedly from that patriot system, which is with around half a 1000000000 us dollars. the russian defense ministry says it's defense also in set to the 7 you case applied storm shadow messiahs. no comments has to be made by t f. the muscles differ segments and make

energy functions on moscow work that use chief diplomat now suggest the men to states most current down on india to events of russian oil from beach in european markets or diesel or gasoline is entering europe from india and is being produced with the russian oil or the stores, only a circumvention of sanctions and member states have to take measures. they use that in order to be a center where russian oil is refined and these by products then salt us. then we have to act. what's the flush this out? so let's cross live now to all these. india correspondents. one jen, shawna, ones in good afternoon. see what more can you tell us about this? a, these concerns from the eas, top politician as to why he's actually saying that the european union wants to crack down on india. and white is why do they want to track down on india and they want to track down on india for re sending russian oil as a just fine fuel to general. now he's also going on to say that we will talk to x j

shankar who is the foreigner after india and they are due to meet soon. now just for the benefit of of us, let me put some context for their perspective. some contact some data on some facts . now, to start with the european union, the west, they've always had a problem with the india bind voice from russia, but the site's them trying every trick in the book, especially as don't do by russian or how much? well, from maybe one percent in deals in fort bosky it, india is buying nearly took the $0.64 now. as far as the data is concerned, 1670000 barrels of russian oil for the that small. that's how much india is really buying from las go. now as far as the in the us concerned,

it's foreign policy is concerned and has been very, very clear that it's going to make sure that it's n o g security is mets, but not allow students and which is a goal, which isn't it. india is also exporting the or what happens is when india buys or from russia or any other country for that matter in doing refineries, this fine loose fuel. and when this fuels define and segregated, india doesn't see that this is refined washer, and oil. and this is your find, solve yours, and now and do is exporting this for and well, it doesn't forcing your to buy this. always remember, europe is doing it from its own free will, is sort to suggest that you don't, if you need new needs to tracked down on india is bizarre to say the least. now that is something that was up to the west and the girl would also the very fact that all of these sanctions on law school, the knology lee have them for it in the last 12 months. or may i just say over my

age most school has been able to find a new market for its energy, you from europe to asia, and just look how much each of the buying had given some of the dots on the 6th there. so now of course, because to it as a killing me, it looks like the european union is a why the science is not working. b, y, as india, y is new delhi, not listening to them, but to suggest that a solvent country can be told what to do. all not to do, even though we're stretch. indeed, 1200, thanks for breaking down those. a diplomatic tensions between india and the u. thank you. the form of us present on film says the democrats will pay a heavy price for those who orchestra to the quote, long running and treasonous trade. referring to russia, collusion, accusations that come to a nation, excuse me, comes days off to

a special council of the just as development released to a domain report, the slums, cspi pro. there was significant reliance on investigative leads, provided or funded by trumps political opponents. the department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them even when at about the same time, the director of the f, b i and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence. on mccue's the f b, i of bias under extremely troubles and misconduct seem to bureau failed to critically analyze information that run counter to the narrative of a trump versus a collusion term. also pointed to the eyes by different courses. the approach to allegations related to 2016 democratic presidential candidates, hillary clinton reports results of it didn't seem to be thrilling to the west in mainstream media. of the durham is coming was the slogan. and the mean tweeted by republican lawmakers and the president's family painting that durham would lead to

bombshell indictments of those who investigate the truck now. the bombshell indictments did not happen. durham did get one minor court victory to court lawsuit as we're still trying to determine exactly what's new in here. katie, as we go through this 300 page exhaustive report. but what's under the argument that john durham is making? here is an argument that he's made before, which is essentially that he doesn't believe the f b i had the proper predication was fully justified. we begin with a showstopper f. b. i opened the inquiry into whether trump was secretly working on behalf of russia. we have breaking news at this moment. the new york times has a story that just posted minutes ago. and let me read you the opening paragraph. it says in the days after president trump fire jane b, call me is that the director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the presence behavior that they began investigating. whether he had been working on behalf of russia was because

live now to luke rebate, jealous of joining us, live from brussels. lincoln, very good to have you here will not see this afternoon. what do you make of these uh, these revelations, would you make this conclusion drawing about that to f b? i reports, are you surprised or i'm not surprised. gravy on the thing is that because some hollywood fillings, thoughtful. it's wonderful. i mean, when you read, don't remember books by the way mr. dunham is very much respected by contract on both ios. so on the, his report is loving question. 300 pages very dense and it was a film stuff. you know, there is everything into supplies and alcohol, sorry, 6 of the sex, my whole dog. com, but the ritz carlton in moscow and things like that. i mean, this is incredible, but it won't be a problem because the wrong guys to sign up. and so i'm sorry, uh, but the report says that there is no missing between donald trump and russia. no

mentoring folks, nothing, not at all. it's just hang on say, you know, the guy was seen, the guy was seeing the wolf and for the rest of the there is no offense made by trump or his cabinet for the white house or from swa console. it is a disgraceful the american democracy, and it is simply done by the federal bureau of investigation to support or, or my. so this is clinton, you know, this is going to speaks about the portables like me or you probably, for most people who hold republican style, the products on the thing is that it is to wait. and america bold and have you know cnn announced it because they have to but they was one east me finished. while in 2016, they spoke for a month about this. and all that is the special, especially counsel of speaks all from the confirmation box. and it's very clever in

the sense that it show that these guys the, that the people do when the investigation investigate just call to give y'all are so proud of being clinton's friends. all, and they are investigating job all and so they, they say, okay, in their mind on compass and they a dispute. so every information confirmed that trumpets and you didn't, must be true if one information come saying that you might have on something nice for the economy. for example, it can't be true because the significant so this confirmation bias is everywhere in the board. every page is damn thing for the of the i'm, it's up disgrace. 3 different. this is a, it certainly is a very dining report. do you think this is an end of story? the f b? i says it's implemented changes based on that report, or do you think specific people will be held accountable or lose the jobs over it? i think people will lose the jobs because it's a disgrace to this group. i mean,

the, the, the special council says that at the line, the last page is the conclusion that the f b, i needs to be re, for any means that the main city says that there should be a non partisan director at the guy designated to follow up on investigations and to look into the investigation at every step because it's an investigation you know, doesn't prove anything to cover. do you think this would actually play into drums sometimes this, this part that it confirms that he was rights all along. yes, it should. the problem, of course, is that the newspapers set that expected by the much 50 years ago, like the new york times. so the washington post on ok, complete the bonds, they all belong to the democratic party, full stop. and so cnn the same. and so these would not speak about to have said they have to, but they would not speak any more about that. so it's up to the republicans to

really force press to look into this and to how far, you know investigation started and people's fired at the. yeah. mm hm. but luke relay independent journalist joining those live from a brussels. thanks very much for walking us through that reports and sought failed f b i investigation. thank you. the quote is primarily a reference to the steel dusty, a which is a compilation of room is about the form of presidents and is a legit links to russia that are gathered by a form of the richest intelligence agents on the hillary clinton come pains payroll from on this and of the stories, do you head over to all websites? all see adults come oh, cool. in china, the largest threat to the free world isn't exactly something you should do before visiting taiwan. that's exactly what the disgrace to form a u. k. prime minister this trusted for her visits. well, i do think an ice,

i stand by my session that we should designate china as a stress. so i think they are a very class, right. so i think that the largest threats that we face to the free world according to a u. k. media or fault the government. it's hard to know, say, interest is decision to visit sy one though she's expected to be forceful. 8 sofa stands on china before her short stance as prime minister, which lasted just 49 days. let's just made headlines as far as the secretary was when she claimed russian had no authority over its own legions. stated during the treatment of deescalate the tensions between cuba and moscow before the war the u. k. will never recognize russia sovereignty over the regions of ross stuff. and veronica is a political analyst alex for pull to face, says that the visit may undermine the current u. k. pm's relations with china. it's the list trust 2023 humiliation to or if not serving as the prime minister for the shortest time period

in history 5, she's decided to take it on the road. this is the same lady that visited the island to tie one in 2021, to try to bring prosperity to china and prosperity to the united kingdom. you have to look at trade. i think i refused to nack understands the trade is important. and, you know, the economy in the united kingdom is just in dire straits. i mean, it's just why do you think it's could go lower? it continues to, you know, drop, right, right to the bottom and having list, you know, once again go over there. i mean, this is the same woman that was trying to, you know, bring prosperity to this island back in 2003, you know, open arms. they're saying, you know, united kingdom's going to be here to, you know, save the day. and now ricky, he richie he's, he's basically on damage control mode or bertha has been drawn from the treaty unconventional armed forces in your ups, which is a mid

a treat. transparency agreements must go says the remove, the move was made it due to the of the policy is a violation of his requirements of the correspondence we. mama shaw has more than the of russia announced its formal withdrawal from the conventional armed forces treaty. it's a military agreement that has been suspended for a while now. according to russia, the treaty contradicts the russian security interest deputy foreign minister surgery we have called was appointed last week to represent the russian president vladimir put him during the parliamentary proceedings. so exactly the now is the treaty and here's what he had to say. we received information that some european states were in direct violation of the requirements of the treaty. a new situation has arisen where even a formal preservation of russia status as a party to the treaty despite it suspension has come into direct contradiction with the interests of the countries national security. we have already written it off and left it in the past. what other states will do is a question for them. they won't be able to intimidate us with their steps. now,

since 2015, russia has completely suspended is participation in a tree. the only participated in a formal sense. the agreement was one of the most important steps of attempt to be escalation between the western and the eastern block. the treaties that limits of deployment of forces in the european continent and establish transparency mechanisms from moscow. as long complained about the expansion of nato saying it undermines the goal of the treaty. earlier we spoke to michael model, a former pentagon security analyst, who says that nato is being, i think, outside the treaty, the fonts are long. this is basically a could a graph and, and it's uh, and it's a, it's a recognition of the reality on the ground today. it's not what it used to be. the deputy ford administer did not leave a possibility that in the future. once things can come down and, and, and, and we get in and people start acting rationally, again,

that something can be worked out again. but right now where we're at, we're at a height of tensions that are tantamount to, to, to launch another war. and, and this is not this a bose very ill. and you also saw, not only what the expansion of nato, but the fact that it wants to put in farm events that are had happened moving armaments and troops beyond what, anything they, they see the treaty ever called for. so this is, this is just a recognition of the reality of today. and nobody's washington aims to disrupts the growing cooperation between russia under run with us the statements by us national security council spokesperson john cubby. and he made it during the press conference of the white house on monday. the partnership between russian of honors directly enabling alarms, the stabilizing activities in the middle east, posing a threat and not just ukraine, of course, but also to arrives neighbors. this is

a full scale defense partnership that is harmful to ukraine, to the region in the middle east, into the international community. we are using the tools at our disposal to expose and disrupt these activities. and we are prepared to do more, to be accused around of supplying gross it with artillery and time crowns and illegally selling to russia. more than $400.00, you avi's, a claim denied by both, must go on to around this most of us. and also said that the unprecedented level of russian you, any minute, your cooperation poses a threat to the whole world. 2 countries i've significantly strengthened that size and me, the background of western sanctions imposed on both of them. russian, under rainy and states, officials, uninterrupted. those constantly expressing the interest in rising cooperation. must cost live now to professor of the university of toronto, said mohammed mirandi, thanks very much for joining us, professor mirandi this afternoon. and now what do you make of this statement of by the, the us spokes person and how do you think they'll be able to undermine the corporation

between rush and iran, both heavily sanction countries of the united states. the cannot determine what is legal and what is the illegal. they do not hold a monopoly over international law and regulations. iran and russia have a long relationship. their business relationship and their economic relationship has been expanding dramatically over the past year and a half. and the bed is what basically makes the united states the biggest concern for the united states is actually the transport their inventory door that's being developed between you, right? in russia, which will link you run to the east europe and to, to the whole of russia. and it will also link russia to the persian gulf and the 2 countries in indian subcontinent and the west and east africa. and that will create

a huge expansion of trade, both between the 2 countries and between russia and countries in the persian gulf and beyond. so that is, i think, the real concern. otherwise it's, it's no concern of the united states, legally speaking. what do ron and russia do together? but the fact that these 2 countries are expanding, that they're growing economically, they're moving forward. whereas european countries, thanks to their, it's fully supportive us policy, they are suffering the consequences of their own sanctions against iran in russia. that is basically what makes them angry. but what he also said in the statement, the corporation between moscow into around was harmful to the middle east and that in the whole world. what would you say uh, in response to that? as i think everyone knows the answer to that question, the united states destroyed half bond. this started by supporting extreme is from

the night late 19 seventy's. they supported saddam hussein, gave him chemical weapons to use against iran and iraq. then later on the turn the gets, have destroyed the country. they help create starvation in government. they destroyed so much of syria to their dirty war. they destroyed libya and the list goes on never, not through their support of the, this really regimes invasion of the country. and therefore the americans really have nothing to say. in fact, right now we've seen over the past few months, rapprochement between the run and so the radio and now we see so the raping, moving to a fix their ties with syria to move towards better relations with young men. and we also see other countries in the persian gulf have countries making the same moves towards iran and other countries in the region. and this is what makes the united states. so in the unhappy, they want the vision in the region. but what they are seeing is the region moving

closer to each other, which is against us entrance one. so once it's done, what do you say to us is to blame from this? do you think this, the imposing of sanctions on the run and most of the false countries, there's also immunize themselves against these sanctions by coming closer together and cooperating more deeply. absolutely right now the russians are investing in the runs railway in gas and oil, and the ryans are expanding their trade and exports to russia. and neither side is fearful of sanctions because both are sanctioned and that is also created an incentive for countries in central asia and across asia to move away from west or dominated financial institutions and the us dollar. because there isn't not a huge block of countries now emerge any emerging that are sanctioned by the united

states. so china has a greater incentive to circumvent western financial systems, the western financial institutions. and so do other countries. so not only are russian, you run the longer fearful of sanctions, but by creating the spot, they're creating an incentive for others to move away from the west. indeed, and we'll have to wait and see how the relations between all those countries developed professor at the university of toronto, said mohammed randi, as always a pleasure to have you on the program. thanks for sharing your thoughts. us today. thanks the construction of a huge us embassy complex in lebanon, has left locals perplexed the lobby as complex as being built near downtown bay routes. and with the size of over $21.00 football pictures. it resembles a city itself. yeah, it covers is over 2 and a half times that's of the white house. meanwhile, 80 percent of lebanon's population is living under the poverty line with many unable to afford even basic commodities. but the country is smaller than us states

of kinetic goods and it's economy in the midst of a meltdown. so we're asking, who's interest the $1000000000.00 development? most of stubin this with a small counsellor like lebanon doesn't need such a big embassy. con pounds. what's the point of them expands into the base, especially in the current situation with many problems in lebanon and worldwide. as i live in east, i truly wonder why instead of them spending money on building such a barricaded for through us, why knows, help level them over here are empty promises, the liberties are battling to survive this economic crisis on their own. i don't think they're doing anything like the health sciences down to your house. so ever i think terry basis and have a strong presence in the region. i think the american must have an agenda for doing

such a massive expansion. i'm going to employ local jobs because of the financial situation areas. so people are really struggling ultima. what came professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in bay roads, lisa, so the extravagance embassy incense to help us to establish an even bigger foothold in the middle east and country as well. why visiting the embassy this compound, the you as the, the, by the material from local market. they, you, they imported automatically and from the u. s. and at the same time, they didn't, let's say, hire the local employees to build the comp on. so the spending, the money on the compound didn't have any positive impact on the lead by these economic. this is more of the economy. us caught on the inside level rather than

just come phones or an embassy. and it has uh, several purposes. first, uh its uh, fault of the network of military unintelligent spaces. w as is a starting to seems to them is an easy um, is it is uh its matches and its size, the size of the u. s. embassy and, but as part of the u. s. plan to control that agent, the middle east, and mainly the near is in order to see russia hit on on china. are they in their attempt to access that you submitted? any of this is the 1st reason. the 2nd reason for this is that the, the, this from phones that's good, uh, a couple days more than, uh, 50000 us through. at the same time, this is something that is not mentioned in the media. could serve also as a military.