is a colony, so we're not supposed to sit at the table, but this is showing us that africa sits up the table, and africa can come to the table and say, let's have peace on his talk about peace on how can we draw a road map to peace, africa needs to be taken seriously by the west, but they, they don't have that spirit behind the ideological processes. and then when it comes to some of the solutions that are being put forth, i want to get into where the grand deal stands here, right? because when it came to this green deal, and part of the negotiations were russia said, look, we want to make sure that the poorest countries in the world are the ones who benefit from this grand deal, not brand new countries in europe. this was something that they have highlighted and emphasized again and again. and this greenville really is an important aspect of room of photos plan, because millions of africans could be exposed to starvation without it. so what do you think is behind those reports of its potential failure? and why don't you think the greenville is something that has been emphasize more in

the media? because africa, starving, full listed in media, doesn't matter if there was foundation in europe is of starvation in the us. then they think that there's a problem on these a catastrophe. but when the africans are hungry for them, they don't care. that's a little crisis. if we look at how many africans on how many people die in the congo every year, it's more people don't that have died didn't go crazy. but if you look at the media coverage of the ukraine was, it's much more vast, but the people that are dying in the congo for a country like zambia, for example. last year the russian government offered african countries for july, the to help with production of our food stuff. oh, cool. on staple food relies on for july's up production and those i'm getting government refused a free donation over. i think it was 40 metric tons of for july. the other

countries i think was in beacon of the surrounding neighboring countries took lot of donations. we had to for july, the price of things on the last year. so even though a green um, i'll put this year, has been catastrophic. and this means that we've got hung situation looming. but this is not going to be reported. this is not going to be something that is highlighted in the western media because it's not of concern to them to uganda. now, whereas we understand least 40 people, mainly kids set to have been killed and many others have ducked it in. and in search of the attack on a school near the congolese border, it's already set a terrorist group with ties to islamic state was behind the time. the school is located just a few kilometers from uganda is a western border with a democratic republic of congo. national police spokesman saying that a dormitory was burned down. now grieving local said the killings and the

abductions went off. the only atrocities carried about the government and buddies, pdf hold subs with destructions in the health of $100.00. up to the moment. we've sold it to the process of people. i sold it list plus somebody i am reluctant most to blame because they usually had students who are pizza on some reluctance of when the kids get around the same woman to read this, let's just say the 1st thing they did, the 1st thing that they did when the interview, that's called the met the, the us for, for i'm the morning they method with me says director in the,

in his room. they were like, do you have a form? she said, yes, you bring that for you have money. she said, no. you how will fault, then the village took them to the store and they told me how to read and the house sucks. oh for sure. then have some bins. it runs the president has completed a tour of latin america during which dozens of deals with sign with allies of shit around stones for promoting them on multi polar world is going the details. not without the corresponding yusef july, the president raising his bag from his tor to 3 lives in american countries. historic tribe that to check the venezuela nicaragua in cuba. they want in those countries definitely have a lot in common as uh on there you want sanctions and all have been targeted by region change attempts by washington. so it receives was,

it tries to build on this common ground to both the most of its ties with like minded nations, that at the same time are geographically close to the u. s. something which american officials have reacted to saying that grace is trim, dennis trace the failure of presidential by it is not in the american policy. so now the one is trying to create a unified fonts comprised of the sanctions head nations to define washington as pressures during his 4 day latin american trad price. he saw assigned dozens of economic and political agreements at different fields from energy to id and mining to power plants to pay the way for a future co operation with them as well off the car right here in cuba. you ranges with signs 35 agreements and member on himself understandings with these 3 countries in the fields of energy, industry, mining, power plants and the subject, the have good capabilities in latin america like biotechnology, to, to warn you,

go just in care, guess the 2 sides valve to boost bilateral trade off from the current of $3000000000.00 to $20000000000.00 tomorrow. so inc, 6 major cooperation deals with have gone out. several other agreements with maggie will be wanting presidents to confront the us are still the, there's no way want to read this. if something, this is what to be our enemy. naturally, we will conduct a resistance done through gold and such an adversary. having declared that in our ends, nation has acted on that. and now this resistance has been taken form among countries was interest are completely aligned when he was in cuba already said that to one and have on i have a common was very, including there is condo for independence, the one who present and said that you want us as so called maxima, pressure campaign, against a wrong, has failed in the phase of resistance. he said that this is thanks to constructive relations with independent countries, such as been as well to you,

bar and nicaragua. so really believes that it was ties with. there was a lot in american countries are not normal, but the strategic census election as it was president raise, you said that everyone needs to avoid tying gets economy to the 2015 deal with the way i send that to ross should find new destinations to interact with them partner, whereas to neutralize the sanctions. and this seems to be perfectly matching the multiple reward order. it was looking to bring involved with the help of its partners like russia and china, latin america, and iran, and not by far, the only global act was trying to shift towards multi polarity of the syrian finance minister says damascus plans to join the bricks group and the shanghai cooperation organization wanna discuss this with okay, the side, the political, i've listened to around 2 things. the current established world order is already shedding. it's been a huge,

dramatic shift in the world economy. bricks is a part of that chart, kind of the part of that. and uh, either you do like it or not either, either you stay yes to it or not. the truth is that it is happening, as you mentioned. and there is this huge amount of gdp in among the bricks countries and also those cartridges are willing to join that. but this is just not the comic perspective on the ground act plays a key role, but it comes to exit. comes from a very uh, actually act salutes and undeniable mentality. you regarding the fact that this a us hedge many over the world global economy is about to change and card fees are just to start. have started to understand this motion and they're practicing the foreign policy on the basis of just a brand new understanding of the fact that these countries are trying to join

breaks or other countries or other regional corporations are about to be stablished is indicative of this very fact that the conventional uh, actually the structure of world order has, has been about to experienced a huge change as well. would you believe it yet? and not the country is i am going to join the bricks plus alliance. now the south asian nation of bangladesh could even join the fire scene block a month from now when the country's prime minister attends its summit in august. and one of the key components of the brakes is new dot of its new development. find members working on a joint new to me, compatible current and see for the blog. is this something that frankly, that she is very interested in being a part of the total breaks g d. p is already outpacing that of the g 7 economies washing though washington is very foss right now. those are some of the issue warnings to bank with extra threatening officials with visa or restrictions, or if they violate. so cold, elect, oral freedoms during voting next year. anyway,

we spoke to a political analyst a satellite charles murray, who says bangladesh, what responded kindly to threats. we have a lot of business as the rush. i also read china india. so now you asked wants to control developing countries like barbara dish and made of the country radio show called the internal factions, and they are playing the card off dollars. so we are all comfortable competition. we are becoming the victims up american, the domino's aggression and had to move between up the band with dish big. give it up, the company wants to come out of these. american has your money and the salary wants to join a job fixed because we believe that frank should be forgetting that you do have an order which will be fairly about to spend

a few show. yeah. do or do companies like off, i mean, all the developing countries are more of what we say big double charles, united states. she wants to feature the inter comforters like barbara very, very defensively mall lives. and i've been just charged to find the excuse to put the pressure on top just like bundle. there's a bottle of this is a southern country we don't, we don't have a pretty sure american domino's divided it differently into all countries. a domestic out for years now, when one of them i went to american, save the human rights violations of, you know, i mean, human rights has been bother to the web every day and how that goes up talking about free of for election. but in the us, they are region collapse of the problems of the you out, joe, by the g is a product off i read to action. so we, the company is

a bundle of dish. now funded is realize that we have to get your doctor under the brakes so that we can us leverage our south brother dominance. how do you, monique, a ration of the items that those the western policy? because if americans, the photos be the restriction, so any of the, some of the, our prime minister jose said ok, we're not cross advantage. we're not go through united states. and then give us, we will impose sanctions and by the us have already the both sections on russia at that section is dark. but we should ultimately look forward to breaks comments, because that's just a page where we all of us can feel safe if china were also become paul's time like the us was really become dependent on chinese euro. i don't believe because china

so you should never be the point of time to any country in the world. i wouldn't be hostile. the date is a tradition, a culture of the united states of america. there wasn't a lot then i, i don't really, china were locked into that at the of the job. i've had to be able to work a new episode of going on the ground with option or a tendency speaking to pakistan's, former prime minister in ron, calling about the country's internal political stand off. it's not about the relationship with washington and a ross of other issues, a is a pre fungus when brad sherman is written to blinking at the state department saying, you know what north is going on in pockets on as regards democracy. as regards the imprisoning of your party members and leaders alone, what's happening to you? well, you know, i don't care what this, you know, if the don't comment about what's happening to me. and frankly,

i think by just something doesn't match as eventually we will have to solve it sort of all the problems. but my only point is, you know, how on the western countries talk about what does have the dialogue was how big and in long gone a lot of the we goes in china and about russian human rights issues. so is it only our human rights only? but a democracy in border, when it comes to rivals, shouldn't not be consistently across the board. if you all profess ends of democracy and human rights, then shouldn't be wherever they are, why they just they should speak out because the boxes on right now the was human rights, human rights violations that going on and focused on right now when you be running, if all this quote extra managed to wrap up before the next election and buckets on willy run for brian minister as well. of course this is the election. yeah. i mean

my part is or, or what is for the election. but what the, what is happening is the, the other, the most saw scared of losing the they want to either text it the logo. so be going to knock me on 12 minutes because there's a, somebody called scanner. no, no, because it is all the folders. so normally once it goes to actually uh, disqualify it or would it be present, which again would it be, would it be a big fos, whatever, because my apologies was do with the election when i was there because it says the public opinion never has the public stood with any one body as it stands today, because all the parties together are scared of competing against us. and so the annual somebody to spoken to a national economic form has been wrapping up and rushes in northern capital during the event was not important and took to the stage as the main speaker of the

country's biggest economic event. the, the russian president touched upon a wide range of issues from economic cooperation to the situation on the front lines in ukraine. at a time when western powers claimed brochures being isolated, the form gathered 17000 participants from a 130 delegations, africa, asia, latin america, the global south. so here's all these, you know, neil now reporting on how the event does continue to contribute to that of a rising global multiplier on the 26th and petersburg. international economic for them is into it's final day at through the vast at doors here because it is a huge facility over the last number of days helps the diplomat. scientists, public figures on presidents as well. a total of some,

$17000.00 participants from over a $130.00 countries where here i'm not as a figure that if you're looking at some of the headlines in the west, leading up the event should not have happened. rusher was supposed to be isolated, not open for business. if anything, this event shows that is the complete opposite at because people have been here thinking business deals at trying to find where the world sits at currently rushes place in the, in the global economy as well. and all coming in search of deepening ties on and making those contacts at which key hubs like this bring together the, the creatives, the entrepreneurs, to people who, who want to make a spark happen. and that's what we're seeing. it is an energy here, right? right. these days at going from one side of the spectrum, the other so many small and medium sized enterprises, russian businesses as finding an opening in the market. the props watson there.

when that western problems where here they've got a chance to show their worth and what they can bring to the market, as well as western currencies at we're losing their grip on russia. now that appears to be a global trend as well, assuming dollarization bilateral trade from country, the country. that being done without the global reserve currency, that of the dollar saying that we can do a trade without the behemoth. and it will lead to a bigger profits for all. well, just in terms of the audience here on, on the people that are coming from the global side, asia, africa sites in central america. the, there is a crossing i, as i said, of energy to this. we heard from a gun in politician who envisioned so a high level of cooperation between both africa and russia. actually we are calling the rehab partnership. and once you know, lot of this month of july,

you're going to have africa, russia, somebody read the young people from africa. we also try is, what are we good russia, africa, you'd saw me sort out there to bring all you to in the africa with james, what are we come together? we have your phone call a beautiful i us with the russians and then drop your poor across the world so that we projected into making big africa people from africa, which is really loved russia. and so we all know weed up because of the lovely helpful i love you all you have to do, right. so we believed that you all have more intelligence with africa and then people from the office already do then it's fine. but we, rick, it's possible we go, we get together. we're tied up was they would make a big to get us. people live in the world just so much as happened in the past few days of the economic for events in petersburg. you're going to catch up with all of it, both on air and online for the meantime, you will use returns at midnight local time. here at most go that's in about off of now

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china. 2 is the most populated country in the world with the fastest growing economy, in fact, for several decades now. oh me now big news coming out of china has been nothing short of remarkable. something happened recently that revealed what may be china's achilles heel. that countries birth rate is dropping and the media seems to be having a field day with it. watch today, china announced its 1st population decline in 6 decades. china is national bureau of statistics. so the country had $850000.00 and fewer people at the end of last year. then in 2021, bringing its total population to $1400000000.00. so what are the numbers? well, i'm going to try and frame the story for you this way. stay with me here. according to the countries bureau, a statistics,

more people died last year in china. then the number of people who were born more people died than were born. in other words, the fatality rate, it's upside down. here it is. there were about 10 and a half 1000000 people who died in china last year. but there were only 9 and a half 1000000 people who were born, give or take. the un says this should really not have caught anybody by surprise. they say china's birth rate has been declining now for several years, which caused an aging population and the shortage of workers. and here's why this is important. for most economies to thrive, a country needs to have the right balance of young and middle aged and a or elderly populations. the young supply, the workforce, the middle age, pay into the pension of retirees and the retirees. well,

they are. which means they, they live off of what they saved and some government assistance that's in that pay for retirees. but when the number of elderly grow too much and the number of young and middle class goes down, the formula becomes lopsided. right? too many elderly, not enough workers, can cause an economy to stagnate. by the way, this type of thing is actually happening in many, if not most developed countries, is not just about china. watts because interestingly enough, and this seems almost paradoxical, but true as citizens in any country become more affluent. when they have more money, they make fewer babies. true to us, russia, the u. k. spain france all have declining fertility rates. in fact, in the us, if not for immigration, the fertility rate would also be way upside down,

if not for emigration. but china situation is unique. not only do they have a very low facility, right, as previously explained, relatively low immigration levels as well. but they also have, you know, what they have, they have one unique reason that they find themselves in the position that they're now in. it's called the one child policy, the one child policy population planning initiative that china implemented back in 1980 to 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting families to a single child. 2 things happened as a result. it led to a population with fewer workers, fewer people were born and it also created a population where there are more boys,

more boys then there were girls by law. and guess what happens without girls? fewer babies. so what's the chinese government doing now? obviously they recognize this they have to deal with, and officials are now looking for ways to boost the nation's birth rate and are even urging authorities to ramp up the introduction of some policies so that they can promote fertility. joining us now to talk about it says the professor kind of have and he's a historian and we're really a specialist in the area of age on particular. but china is an area that he very much understand. so he, he's the perfect person to be talking about this, and here's what i want to start with and, and you know why, professor, i'm going to ask you this question because i was preparing to do this interview with you and i started reading up, and i and i started going to all the different journalistic outlets and all the different sites,

all the different new sites. everybody in the news media less certainly the western media paint's. this very anti china, like they make it out to be like this is the end of a civilization and give them 2 months and it's going to be over. of course, i'm exaggerating, but so today. so how much my 1st question, how much is western media over playing this as they often do with anything having to do with gen, china is in a situation where i could basically do nothing, right? so, you know, for many, many years while china had it's one child policies in place, they were sound the criticized for that. a few years ago when they dropped the one child policies, then they got criticized for that. and now these reports are coming out that, oh my gosh for the 1st time the population actually did fine. they already did select the apocalypse. it's like it's the end of the world. what are they going to

do? india is going to overtake them. it's a, it's almost like they're just sort of trying to right off china and be like, well, we thought they were problem, but i guess they're just gonna fade away. and yet, and yet there is some real import to the story. i mean, we hadn't seen anything like this come out of china in some time. so i guess the question is, what is the cause of this sudden the announcement or population decline as well? of course they do, they're, they do, you know, of census reviews every year and they release their population figures on a pretty routine basis. what's remarkable here is that there had been projections that because of the effects of the one child policy, but even more so because of what in the west denmark cruise called the demographic transition, which is a pattern that we see all over western history. where when countries reach a certain level of economic prosperity,

the traditional believes and behaviors around families and will change will shift to the, the old values that said, you have to have as many kids as possible because some of them are going to die and others aren't gonna allow too much, you know, and so if you want to be able to be secure in your old age, or you need to have as many as many children. well, i said we, we, i know, i think you're probably gonna agree with this. you're starting a lot smarter than i am on this. we used to have children because we needed workers that our children were the ones who were worked on our farm or worked in our room or whatever it is businesses we had today. we have children so they can go on and do their own things. but we don't need 4 or 5 or 6 of them. right? exactly, exactly. and, and that's what's happening in china is that, that young people are, are busy going about their lives. they, they want to have careers, they want to have education. they also want to have fun, they want to travel, they want to do things. and there's been a real change in attitude. some of young people about, you know, whether they're, how soon they should get married,

if they should get married at all. china has just legalized having children outside of wedlock as they say it also in an effort to, to perhaps bolster a new birth. but the reality is that this has been projected for a while. the surprise in the report this year was that it has actually already begun. yeah, there was talked about how, you know, by 2030 or 2050 the population would peak it, s p. and this is going to be an ongoing trend of a declining population. the question i think really is, is that a good thing or a bad thing? yeah. well, i'll shoot that back out to you professor. is that a good thing or bad? yeah, sure. well, even in china, there are many people speaking out and expressing great concern about this. the idea is that, you know, demographers like to use this, this graphic representation of a kind of pyramid or comb um where as,