of this is the model much single the, the headlines, one of the international at the kremlin, reveals a lot of may of food in the to meet with the leader of the wagner group. and it's come on those just days off of their attempted recently. it's, we have the staff, the russian president essentially discussed the face of washington's decisions, the green light cluster, munitions, the key of stokes anger, and a host of countries including russia, china and come podium pool. so among some of america's socialist nato, russia and the chinese relations of rock solid and co operation between the 2 will only intensified. that's the message from the russian column and chai,

women of the adults in china with the price of the news without the corporate, mainstream narratives. it helps story stuff right now. so the kremlin has revealed that president food and did meet with the leadership of the wagner private military company, including his chief. you've got any pedagogy in 5 days after the attempt to meet with me last the president had such a meeting, he invited 35 people to it. all the commanders of the group and its leadership, including pre gordon himself. the meeting took place in the kremlin on june 29th. it lasted almost 3 hours. the president gave an assessment of the groups actions on the front, as well as an assessment of the events of june 24th. so as we heard from the press secretary himself, the russian president, vladimir, put and has met with the commander in chief of the wagner group. if guinea pig

guards in just 5 days after the attempted new and you know, the president has also listened to the explanations of the commanders and has offered employment to them, the commanders express their point of views on the events and has said that they are loyal to russia and that they're ready to fight for the motherland. none the less now, just a little bit of background on them. you any the attempted new in itself. last month, the wagner group has more on the way to the kremlin when, thankfully, by thanks to a deal brokered by bell russian president, alexander lucas chunk of the rebellion failed. yeah, and so the west has been talking about this now for weeks. what are they saying about the consequences to russia? now, it is very interesting to note that the western media has taken this whole situation way out of proportions, claiming that this is the start of being the broad shots that russia is unstable. they're also saying that wagner's living africa is

a sign of moscow purging the room. that clouds are hovering over wagner's operations in africa. but it's really interesting to see that the west has demonized any russian presence in africa really, but it really looks like africans themselves do open the russian presidents in their continents. as we see, the adviser to president of the central african republic has said that if it's not wagner anymore, they send bass oven or malls, or if it does not matter, we will take them. so it really seems like, despite the immunization of the 5, no group. yeah. or the russian presence in africa be advertise themselves. seem to be very open to it. now the western media has also plans that there is chaos in russia, but we knew it looks like we have the russian president who seems to be very open to this. got to discussing the issues and what happened and to listen to the commanders and their point of views as well. and to present their versions of the, of what happened now. also, the russian president,

as you've been addressed as to the nation previously after this rebellion and has also given 3 options to the commanders of the wagner group. either you go to della russia or you sign a contract with the ministry of defense, or you just go home. but who is the aussies corresponded with mine, but you shar, speaking early with my colleague fietta isabel, meanwhile, rusher and china have slammed us decision to send a cluster of munitions to ukraine. representatives from the countries suggested washington's well disregard for the inevitable civilian deaths caused by the weapons essentially constitutes a war crime and adds fuel to the fire don't come of it. he has the fact to confess to committing bull crimes by the united states during the crating complex. the every stage of the civilians would die from american costs to type munitions. and the provided me with the white house employee. this brings less home,

then rushes actions. you responsible transfer of cluster munitions can easily lead to humanitarian problems. relevant parties should not a fuel to the fire exacerbate contradictions leading to an aggravation of the ukrainian crisis. we raised the issue of washington, a dispatching cluster bombs, the ukraine, with benjamin chow from the center of china and globalization have a listen to this in. the us now is supplying ukraine, but what the us call, just months ago, more crime weapons. so it would really be curious for us to hear what moral grounds reasons, washington would supply this time, especially so much of the previous to us supply weapons, according to the black markets in ukraine. we must custom, how much caution do you as said he has asked you, going to pay attention to how you keep it will be we are seeing that the us is winning a lot of contracts to rebuild the infrastructure of ukraine. so i think it

is in the interest of some of the interest groups in the us or the west to see even more damage to be done in new pain so that they could get the contract. could we be able to find the total would be a southeast asian nation of come body a has also condemned washington's plan. it's prime minister recall the deadly effects of the bombs that rain down on the region during the 1970s, with repercussions still being felt today. that has been used to release that the united states will provide cost to bones to ukraine, to flight the russian army. cambodia has had his own painful experience of these from the 1970s. when americans use the cost of bonds, it has been more than half a century now. but we are still looking for ways to destroy them all. cambodia, allow, and vietnam were fine to buried in millions of these types of munitions. a lot of these munitions are still scattered across the territory and they kill people every

single year in cambodia. i believe it's been about 20000 people killed since the end of the war from these unexploded ordnance. what people need to remember is that cambodia and prime minister a button send specifically sided with you. craig, at the beginning of the special military operation has been supporting ukraine all along. so you could say that russia and china big against that. that's one thing. but this is a country that has supported ukraine, and they are condemning this move by the united states to send them these cluster munitions there, estero design their mit meant to be real boston survive under combat conditions. there's always going to be a certain percentage of them that failed to explode and they will persist in the environment unexploded until disturbs because they're made out of modern materials . it's, it's not as if they're going to bio di grade and so they are a persistent brett for years. actually, that case, that keeps the com. i see what i just thought i'd write that. cambodia is just one

of the many countries are still suffers from unexploded munitions left behind from previous conflicts. the

washington's are comfortable and decision country space before a nato somebody takes up and that the way anyhow. however, the move has exposed cracks in the otherwise unbroken alliance is all he contributor rachel mazda now takes a very good look. it seems like a pretty straightforward mission. us president joe biden just had to get onto air force one and show up here in europe. this week for the nato summit in lithuania, for the usual photo op, where he and other western leaders could all just ramble on about how united they are over ukraine, the usual stuff. but it was also going to make a pit stop a route to this meeting in london on monday to hang out with british prime minister

. reach you soon. ok, maybe try to keep deflecting any talk with that trade deal that the us promise britain. if it's secured its breakfast, divorced from the u. then he was supposed to hang out with king charles, whose coordination fight in this because while he's 80 and probably needed his beauty rest, maybe he was just still too tired from the white house. easter april by his visit was supposed to be a big chance for king charles to showcase his climate change projects and leverage biden's presence to philanthropist. and investors seems pretty simple right. what could possibly go wrong? well, how about the fact that right before the trip fighting stumbled to the podium and announced that washington would be sending ukraine cluster munitions. now that might not go over too well with king charles or the royal family. given that the late princess diana made campaigning against landmines precisely like these wonderful life clauses. by an effective we cluster,

gone his own trip with the cluster munitions you capable of blowing up in his own face. at any time, as allies are already condemning to move spain based on the firm commitment it has with ukraine, also has a firm commitment that certain weapons in bonds cannot be delivered under any circumstances, no, to cluster bombs, and yes, to the legitimate defense of ukraine, which we understand should not be carried out with cluster bombs. i have followed the media reports for us as a state park to the oslo agreement on the conventional cluster. munitions applies. the here, k is signature, e to a convention, which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages that use . now what remains to be seen is how many of these allies are actually voided. call by didn't know to his face. we're talking here about weapons that are banned by a legally binding international treaty signed by these allies, but not by the us,

russia or ukraine. these any additions though are dropped in containers of hundreds, most of which explode on impact, but some of which don't. so instead they end up setting into the ground and exploding on innocent civilians years later and often not children who mistake them for toys. but apparently the pentagon isn't really that good at seeing the big picture. i'm is concerned about the humanitarian circumstance as anybody. but the worst thing for civilians in ukraine is for russia to win the war. and so it's important that they don't. so in this guy's logic, it would be a big wind for ukraine if the country was literally littered with fine bombs. that could blow up on its citizens at any time in the future. as long as that means having a long shot at defeating russia on the battlefield. sounds exactly like the kind of foresight that the pentagon is shown and pretty much every single one of its recent sale for an horse. the buyer ministration itself was against cluster munitions

before they were for them. even qualifying their use as a war crime just last year for illegal cluster bombs and vacuum bombs being used by the russians. if that's true, what is the next step of this in ministration? is there a red line for how much will be tolerated against billions in this manner that illegal potentially worth it? is it would be i don't have any confirmation of that. we have seen the reports. if, if the were true, it would potentially be a work crime. this open source reporting highlights the use of cluster bombs by russian forces in several populated areas including, hama and edward tax. using these in precise weapons, only continue to cause a necessary so where the russians have been indiscriminate, they've been reckless in syria. they seem to have no difficulty

dropping cluster munitions around we're civilians. and. ready the memo you training president, 5 years liskey is touring around the world like his taylor swift without any costume changes, of course. and well, he just is fresh off of flop and ball guerria was a conflict fish conflict has no military solution to say i do not accept the provision of munition, especially if it is from the reserves of the vote during all me. because like you, i'm the president and supreme commanders and i have clear responsibilities. not only can the defense capabilities of demo during all me go to see that remark, set zalinski off on the tantrum which he accused russia of wanting to destroy nato europe. the european union and bulgaria, maybe you should just focus a bit more on what washington is busy doing to his own country right now. and all of that with his full blessing. musical chairs in beijing is less than 24 hours off of the us treasury secretary flew out of china. moscow flies in the tri

women of ruptures of the chamber of parliament. adjoining china as president of adults and the pet issued a series of states. the chinese russian relations show a favorable trend for full fledged stables development were steadily promote cooperation in all areas, strengthening the social and civil basis of our friendship. the key takeaways of china will continue to foster cooperation with russia and preserve the friendship that exist between our nations, china and bodies, the strong and friendly shoulder rush. i can rely on the head of the russian delegation here uh, volume team that might be on cuz been hard at work since the entire delegation arrived here in beijing on sunday evening. she said she actually just met with the chinese president. she's in paying and said the meeting went very well. both sides agreed to continue their long standing strategic partnership based on mutual

respect, mutual cooperation, and mutual gain as 2 of the very few countries less than the worlds that are truly solver. and according to what might be and go set. now, she also called, she's thinking a very wise leader who's dedicated to a lot of the same things that russia is dedicated to actually as well in terms of, of course preventing for an interference in the domestic affairs of independent countries and again, dedication to the sovereignty of one's own country, russia, russia, chinese cooperation is something that the head of the russian delegation not only said is good now, but he's also looking towards a very bright new future as well. i mean, one of the short term, at least indications of that is the fact that trade volume between china and russia is set to exceed $200000000000.00 worth before the end of the year. so that's a big milestone. and other than that, my monthly income also met with the head of china is national people's congress

today. and she also saw the museum of the chinese communist party here, which had many relics of government importance. according to the chinese government, it's a very high profile museum. so this was really, it's a very high profile visit that's going to continue for another several days. and it actually comes not too long after a number of visits by us officials here to china, if there, which were attempts to sort of revive relations between the united states and china, which have been at a low that hasn't been seen in decades as a result. of disagreements connected to a security and of course, over taiwan for example, nancy pelosi has visited taiwan that the chinese government didn't like very much. one of these high profile visits by us policy, by us officials that i mentioned was a recent visit by the us finance secretary, janet yelling, who actually said that the chinese side was uh, pretty uh, worried about talks of potentially decoupling the chinese economy from the american

economy but she said that there was some sort of difference between the coupling and what she explained as the risking. although the specifics we did not exactly here, there was another high profile visit from us secretary of state anthony, blinking a little bit before yelman's visit, which also yielded very few results. but it is noteworthy to say that joe biden called seizing paying very controversially a dictator, not too long after that meeting came to its conclusion. so the contradiction between these american visits to china and the russian visits a visit to china that we're seeing now, which is looking very, very productive in comparison. it just goes to show that there's a lot of opportunity for russia and china to deepen the strategic partnership. that's already very wide and in many sectors of both economies in the country. australia is form a prime minister has spoken out against nato, has plans to expand into the asia pacific saying the move will be similar to asia

are inviting a contagious disease to his doorstep. exporting that's malicious boys into asia would be keen to asia welcoming the plague upon itself. with all the phases of wasting developments that made it slow and let him pull over to that promise would be compromised by having anything to do with the military reasonable. for europe and military reason at gone by the united states. a full key thing when the, even further, i think that nato is leadership acts in the interests of america more than anyone else, including europe. you know, to that china has not invaded other countries in recent decades on like nato's dominant member state america. earlier, the french present in toronto, macro and issued his own criticism of nato's plans to open a liaison office in japan. he said he would risk shifting, the launch is reach to 5. or we spoke to benjamin charles in the center for china and globalization that he suggested. the plan is a rational and not particularly well thought. how many countries,

including funds, are strongly opposing the idea to open the nato's the liaison office in japan? um, but since need hose is now what quite a few european lead is called, bring dead. so nato castillo, do think that did not seem rational or agreeable to the interest of most european nations opening as office in japan, signified as other stuff to was anger in china and many other asian countries. the asian countries are still remembering the war crimes. japan has gone to his neighbors into towards the east expansion of nato, as a major reason for russia's special military operations in ukraine. i think nato should not repeat the same error in the fall is jeopardizing piece in asia after this, just the chinese foreign ministry spokesman while when being set an awesome on the

majority of ation, countries, posts the budget is also ministry. thoughts in the region. they do well come, they chose all rich nation. i'm all out of aging is china issues are wanting to america and the other 4 and actors to stay out of the country's domestic affairs. it comes out to us. and when we met with about spiritual data, the dalai lama in india is capital. the tibet affairs are purely internal affairs of china and no extra, it'll forces have the right to interfere. do us should take concrete actions to honor it's commitment of acknowledging to bed as part of china. stop middling and sean, his internal affairs, under the pretext of 2 bed related issues, and offer no support to the anti china, separate his activities of the dollar. a clique, well, it's about it has been an integral part of china for much of the past millennium. i

need to know i live at stock. this is a part of china, or is considered into fair and domestic affairs, according to china is constitution. no country car do you recognize as the region as an independent state and political analyst. so it seems to show, as i said, while washington has been worn by others to stay clear of the issue, the us strategic competition with china is driving washington's policy. you know that so you know, when did you as a source s k story and quote and quote, this concern about searching regency and assessing countries. usually people who say you've got to be careful because that usually that's a so you can go in to be or is up into an okay, is up under the country. you know, the right now, if you look at the maxwell, you know, side of the relationship, but the u. s. is that at using the own words, you know, in a strategic competition with china, let's make it to, you know, clear that the, so us doing everything possible to slow down the development of china. all the

channels that, you know, these are all the chinese, a high tech industry, so as to maintain the global dominance. so as i mentioned, the us, the gemini, in order to achieve that goal, the us is not only so pricing the chinese, you know, companies, chinese, developmental ways, the economic cost. and you know, basically putting waste out the channel company and to the us that blacklist. they also use you basically on east useful sample. taiwan, hong kong, seen yeah. now to batch weaponized bees, bees use a basic lineup. and then you go to, to further tanya, image of china or some type of the bottom and up china. that's, you know, i think the big picture, if people want them, you understand bash or about the us moves that are the need to understand is the big picture that even us the 3 everything possible to slow down to keep trying to doubt that he's at the nature of this relationship right now,

my jerry is president, has been elected as the chandler and for the economic community of western african states, otherwise known as the eco was leading. the group with more than a dozen countries voted to both sides of the regional security is top of the agent . the good wishes one into a slight chance that people have somebody enough we most back with guys seats like to listen to the dog. and therefore, we are now jerry and present enrollment to take a pop stones on political, a, people in west africa, all 3 countries in the region of on to go on cruise and recent years of molly guinea. but you know, fast so you cannot do that. you can always look at your so it has a cold on the military leadership in those countries to comply with the deadlines of transferring power to civilian leaders. and able to name a lot of

a political science professor and nigeria says de alliance plays an important role in the region. but also nigeria as contribution is critical, which is very important because the continent or seem to me. and i said before the audience in passion, nigeria as the on the power show that more than $0.75 because it is supposed to be because the criteria using that junior 80 serviced by nigeria and the budget on vacation of the people was peaceful. so showing that disproportionate, i imagine this is not receipt that the inputs of not getting viewed some benefit. no, no data is really expensive because we've got that for with all the inputs made by mega, mega populations. one of these countries against the dictates

of the french or the phone states of west africa, suggested in the on suggest nigeria such as the dynamic system govea along side measure. we had one corporation. we have out one examination for the 3 point that i was hoping to get a asking for. the region was midway. why? i've been reduced or disturbing news coming out of a southern russian city of class. now the local authorities have confirmed a military officer name is done as lot of ownership sky has been assassinated. the 43 year old officer was shot 4 times in the back and chest during a morning job. he previously served as the deputy head of the armies local mobilization deposit, and he was also a former submarine commander who took part in the ukraine conflict. his name had only appeared on a ukrainian circled peace. keep a hit list just like previously killed john list diary i do gonna on flatland petoskey, the russian investigative committee is looking into this to try an id,

the killer. it is a developing story. we'll keep you updated here at oxy international or you can always get the latest updates. well, by the hour on our website, all t dot com, any of the stories you think you may have missed. one of the updates are going up there all the time. online and on a, this is the hello and welcome across stock. were all things are considered on general though it goes without saying nato was a very aggressive military alliance. but who would have thought that at the core of its belief system was believing in unicorns the bible administration's decision to

set a cluster bombs to ukraine, demonstrates this the, to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guess, martin j america. she's an award winning journalist and commentator, and in budapest we cross the george samuel. he's a pod cast or at the goggle, which can be found on youtube and locals. are gentlemen cross up rules and effect, that means you can jump any time you want. and i always appreciate it. all right, let's start out with george in budapest. well we're, we're going up to the escalation ladder again. a, something that the by the administration said would be a potential war crime sending cluster, obviously ukraine. um, what is now um um regular policy here we have a dot, a pending unofficial se remarkably russian victory worse than civilian cluster bomb depths. that's the us pentagon. so george become mono is open for everyone to see.

and it's pretty ugly. george, it's surveys, right? yeah, it's of the big away. you're absolutely right. is saying that the united states, the glad early on that it's alleged russia was using plus the bombs. and that this was on down, terribly, a war crime. so now binds says this was a very difficult decision to say, but nonetheless we to okay, then of course, this is all this has been the by then the ministration mind shotwell long? no, absolutely. now we're not going to do this. no, no, we're not doing them this bob, i'm not. yeah. all right. you, when once you see you, you bring it up, let's do it. so now we've had these wound devoss, and really from the beginning we've been told really getting all the way back to trump in the chapel in the javelins was supposedly you're going to be the, the game changer for ukraine. and then we've had all the howard says on the high mas, uh, we have the bradley fighting vehicles. we've had the, the, the,

the, the tags, the leper tags. uh now you know them we had a few, a few weeks ago the, the hollow blue over the f sixteens. so now is the cluster munitions. and of course these will fail inevitably. 5 then you have to wonder, well, what's the next step? because it doesn't look like the wants to give up. so it has to keep moving along the escalation latter. but it has basically still no hope of winning unless it gets directly involved this out. then she told them, bucks, that nato is not a party to the conflict on that would. doesn't want to get involved direct themselves in a child to see what else that can do other than go on on this destructive thought. you know, mine is it's, it's very interesting is that, you know, they, they, they, they use the rush in the.