we're risking it for not the, the, the, the, the opium prime minister arrives in st. petersburg, head of the russia, africa summit, and meet with president wooten, a package of documents on cooperation and the information. and the atomic energy spears has been prepared for the african liter are to speak to several of the russia africa summit headliners with the south african board administer saying ask for tom must move beyond the legacy of neil colonialism. which is time that all continent realize that it has the possibility of being an extremely powerful parts of the world. and we need to be formally in control of

our own capabilities. our results is not just presidential guard lots of government buildings in the nation's capital. and the leaders office confirms that 2 attempts saying it will be dealt with if the rebels don't come to their senses. also ahead of russian foreign ministry presents a report about the key of government, religious persecution, of the orthodox church in new brain. the coming to you from us, so this is our t international with the latest and world news today. i'm pure elizabeth, happy to join us moscow and add these add the ties are set to develop even further with a variety of documents in the information and atomic energy spears prepared for

signature during the much anticipated russia africa summit. that's the message from the russian president put in meeting with the, the opium prime minister ahead of the event in this month the, despite the decline in 3 indicators, they are not large, but still the trend is good. the day there is a 56 percent increase and we have prepared a package of documents for you. prime minister included dispute some information and atomic energy of russia, and you'll be a shared common position in addressing many pricing issues on the global agenda. we have a very um, long history open process. so the sofa ups and those together this visits, in my opinion uh with the strings in our relationship we're going to discuss on board was by that's one of my thoughts are issues as well. and we're going to discuss about the technologies of a security and kind of exchange trade. i hope that this would be

a very powerful discussion with a very happy who are very glad to be here to join our fed offical leaders for the summit. besides that, we also have the deepest interests to discuss with you as a friend of the brother the country was on auto, but it's alicia's and regional issues. thank you very much. lisa presidents, let's go live now to our tea, corresponded donald quarter, who is in st. petersburg, a head of the summit, don, what else was said during the meeting between the 2 leaders as either fiorella was lot of your opponent has arrived here at the constantinople palace in saint petersburg for a number of meetings with african leaders. and the 1st on the agenda, of course, was this meeting with the opium prime minister. the russian president welcomed him to the country to saint petersburg, saying that he's looking forward to continue this long history of warm relations between russia in ethiopia that go all the way back to when, if you'll be a,

became the 1st country on the african continent to establish diplomatic relations with russia. vladimir putin also went over a number of indicators of this deepening partnership. like the fact that trade turn over between the 2 countries has increased 56 percent since last year. vladimir put and also talked about how russia is increasing the quotas for e c o, b, and students looking to pursue their, into their education in the russian federation. and it's all part of the emerging multi polar world that the russian president wrote about in a letter that he made earlier, welcoming the guests, the 4 guests and the participants. looking to take part in the upcoming russia, africa summits, who are still doing good, just as of today, africa is increasingly asserting itself as one of the pulse of the motion. multiple wills, rush to support, the desire of african stays with social, economic stability and progress. it is important that in recent years, our cooperation with africa has reached a new level. we intend to further develop it. and of course,

we'll continue to fully assist our african partners in stray from the national and cultural solvency in the more active participation in solving regional and global issues. as president put in also mentioned that russia is put together a collection of documents that are aimed at deepening bilateral cooperation. specifically in the spheres of information and nuclear energy. and for his part the ethiopian prime minister. so that he's more than happy to continue this sort of cooperation specifically on the bilateral level as well as on a regional level. so based on all this, it really looks like this meeting between the russian president and the if the opium prime minister are set to yield some very productive results are to corresponding donald quarter in st. petersburg with the updates. thank you don. as the official kick off is still to come, but archie has already spoken to several headliners of the summit in an exclusive interview, south african foreign minister. no lady pandora has dressed. the continent is at

a turning point and is becoming a major global power by overcoming it's neo colonial legacy. you can find this and other hot topics on our website throughout the day. but for now, here's a short preview. the relationship that has been built up over many years between africa and russia. so very important relationship for us, particularly south africa, given the role that the people of russia played. you know, struggle for freedom from time to time in the united nations has been used for political it's, it's been made the weapon by some against i was we have to end that. and i think having a diversity in its structures and making the sims, allowing for democratic processes, i think it is time that all continent realize that it has the possibility

of being an extremely powerful part of the world. and we need to be for more in control of our own capabilities, our resources, and we should manage them to the interest of the african continent and not have this notion that we owe someone something because that's the neo colonial ideal. so i think we need to begin to understand our own power and to use it to good effect flatfoot. even those who claim to be friends have really exploited the results as of the continent. and, you know, colonialism was about mineral resources was about extraction, but to no one, no oppressor, this will change the situation of oppression. it is you who are oppressed, who must change it. so i think we need to develop

a different relationship with our resources, manage them all. cells develop the ability to be innovative. use partnership such as a partnership with you, or the united states or russia for our interest, and not the interest of others. we need to have great to fitness in world trade and we need to ensure getting that financial assistance and the institutions. i'm not putting this to sized to a level that they become a battery, a, a to trait. so having great diversity is extremely important because once you attach to one car and c o one system, you then become somewhat of a hostage. and that's what we've go to and we have to have free trade, proper systems, financial security. but you can be tied to one, and the moment is probably now to consider alternatives. foreign ministers all is

as secret, says that by process. now, um, i think that to, you know, the world is i to worry movements and i, i don't want to on the play a, the threat that faces us as the global community. if we're unable to resolve current challenges, let's cross live to get b. what then they have to a governance and policy consultant for reaction on the much anticipated. so i'm at a welcome. so, so far, $49.00 african delegations have confirmed their participation in the summit. what does this say about the scale of cooperation between russia and africa? i'm nice and good, so it's quite a positive more than that. and then it gets in the wherever the delegates that are participating. and the rest of the ones that are applying to that are being discussed is that the relationships will change of st. louis or

the state you have a range of minutes, which is probably not some programs of arrangements. i think that's, that's a very positive trend. well, moscow saying that western countries have been trying to prevent the summit from taking place and to disrupt the confidence ties with russia. why has the content and chosen to stand up to this pressure? i mean, it's uh, continental for one thing pressure is applying for each country differently. i suspect the rest of us explained the relationships of some countries with russia, but uh it has the interest of every country on the continent, every subdivision of the 70 term as the unit starts, south africa said tam class, it's partnerships outside your message and it's on the ocean ships of pot,

the relationship of the rest is very per month or in the south africa now. they have uh they have uh they don't have electricity motors cutting out in some places or because they have been 1st available rooms around finance customers in retrospect, and the city of london. predatory relationships have to change, change those relationships, the best rate templates, relationships with russia. china reduction continues to countries from the fulton on both the girls. that's the best option for west african countries. the question, well, you talked about the west is attitude of, you know, lateralism towards africa in other nations. how does breaks add to the concept of a multi polar world in relation to china and russia? in particular? the books is one of the incentives. i think it's a good place,

a big brown hands, the contribution of something you know, to the partners. i've had some other countries because they're now trying to really just confirm that that's closer to that so many countries on the red sea i, you know, trans, he'll get you checked all interested in bringing regardless of running a boat. the disturbance that happened in just a sense of collaboration. so my phone was not met last week. i was talking to the governor, stan glen cannot orthodontics training or honors breakfast, another club system, this contract or not for trading partners, further, etc. and then go from, i didn't say nothing has passed. so the impact on the opportunities went off with components hop. and i think it's, it's the rest of the spelling at this point to source reception. so give me

some international power. um, so i think that's really not from correction. is the well, it looks like a game of the person who does the test of internship. right? how much they can stand up to the conference, how much they can stand up to me. who else in particular, how much they can restore your economics doctors that the press may become a good press. now i'm going to go up on time and use. so i think that is a test on condition pronouncing for these days. i'm going to see, but she mentioned the dancer premier and aside from this emerging multi polarity, the south african for administer. no lady pandora has pointed out, they need to reform the un framework. why is it viewed as a politically weaponized institution, especially in the confidence of africa? this is the from the beginning. just see this occurs accounts of the big copies of

the, of called columns, plaster washer in china, who applied the products. uh this, my 2nd seater. there and it's not our that's how the agency to that we're not gonna back consent to the principal printed so equality. and the way i'm the function itself as an extensive should be s b i women c r another. so i'm very sanctioned areas of f. i agency is a good public policy, how much policy against sober and per month, a policy against the interest of the desk. the interests of big business of business interests and the rest of the bank and one must have become part of the run system. the boobs has been in terms of extracting the what just because the financial fun, i forgot some interest into the risk and he's, institutions are approaching price. uh they went with the pretense anymore.

exactly. i'm just gonna say of the grim for us. i scream. so i'm kind of doing this, it's a draft, is the green globally, and we're going to press the wrench as the prices of farmers. the big thing is, is the trim. so i'm going to go pretending that, well, let's start with the assumption of that part of the content suspended. oh, good. see of the security concerns here. the general assembly has on paper. let me plug please directly describing scrums describing identifying his specific terms. i was going to press away and justin for press on press the birth of african measuring countries. and so i think it says what type of com, i think the internet. so they've got the density since the sixty's. everyone has

been immersed in on the school. her birthday search, i've been reading this or 2 of those kind of instruction that type of a pressure welcoming amazon. i don't really know of the most custodial. i think the very common questions of churches i was a need to know. perfect, and the prices have come to see they can see what's the time of the spent doing it. so how do, how do they have been working a best thing for us of this up or watching give us a song. and so i think that's just so much of the time has come paperless, including which to be always the most professionals in the wrong spot kinetics, gafney, what the to a governance and policy consultant. thank you very much. in the run up to the event r t sat down with a number of prominent figures coming up with speak with human rights activists and

daughter of the 1st president of independent mozambie just seen as the i am a show. here's a preview of the interview, which you can watch in full throughout the day on our team. i just seen as ya marshall. she is a prominent fighter for human rights, who gives a voice to gender based violence survivors in 2020 josina. michele made the bbc list of top 100 influential women in the world. she's the daughter of samara and russia. national. nelson mandela is her stepfather, samara michelle is a former leader of the most and beacon socialist party. and the 1st president of independent mozambique tragically died in 1986 in a plane crash during his presidency. russia michelle is a former chancellor, the university of cape town. and the current number of the africa progress panel.

she is, the only woman in modern history has been the 1st lady of 2 countries. nelson mandela is a world wide, renowned, anti apartheid activist who spent 27 years in prison for a legend trees. and nelson mandela was the 1st black south african president, ruling the country for 5 years. we always need to be involved in dialogue, and it doesn't matter in which part of the world we are. and it's important also to create, to take away the issue of bipolar politics. right. and it's included in the world because this, this situation is right now in 2023 inputs, everybody in this world. and so it's important to continue to say, what can we do? how do we participate, how we part of this human family above everything are to we'll be covering the russia africa summit in st. petersburg this week. and we'll have all the latest updates for you. stay tuned. the,

the 9 years presidency has confirmed a qu attend by the presidential guard and confirm reports say the nation's leader is trapped in his office. while the government is declaring it's ready to confront the rebels. it is wednesday morning, elements of the presidential god engage in an end to republican movement and tried in vain to obtain the support of the national armed forces and the national guard. the army and the national guard are ready to outside of the elements of the presidential guard involved in this and rest. if they don't come to their senses. we spoke to local journalists most mahatma sally, who brought us details about the unfolding situation. i dealt with minnesota so sir, in uh, new jersey near may especially, and they said that the situation is still going through with um the visit. i said

above. so there is nothing coming in or out. but the thing is there is something there is, and that was the reason that actually the prison i still under god will try and do do, do we did that and we do have to do $72.00. so can we start this? i don't see any data people are saying about doing president pressing is not like what she has to do for people don't need to introduce. did anything from this? if there's a disagree with the person who need it and it's coming back to this. i also found out i'm not happy with what he's doing there till i see that or need to understand the things that he has to step down and do want to take over and then to do in the way that you do. ready with things that you want to do, there's nothing coming out of that. i'm leaving the government has submitted this amendment to send a statement to see if there has to be this people who are trying to take the file or they have to maintain that have to kind of do that or otherwise,

the national guard anatomy will won't do them then then disappears, but it's peggy like saying that they're supposed to be immediately. so we want this . i had also of you so that the neighboring countries like a need to the citizen lose on the remainder of the one to, to see that window is below starts a different answer. so this is the people who need the contest in a long time ago. and they wanted to see the status we've made. the 1st one would be very probably is. so wanted to be like maggi and so on. other countries that they wanted to be a little bit far from depressed. one of the leading of the government, there is some things happening in the, the people that i've seen in good faith live with so fast. so these are some of the reasons if i'm trying to present you sit down because the best way to behaving is more nothing. the ways that the, that thinking i'm in, in, in the way the people don't want to go over the and dozens

of activist and students took to the streets of toronto to voice their anger over the recent desecration of the koran in denmark and sweden. we have more from our corresponded use of july. this is the 4th time divani and so i take 10 to this tree to voice their indignation against sweden's last for me, i guessed as well, i'm excited. these today doesn't so far. activist and students gathered outside the university of denver on 2 wars, their anger and fury over the burning of the holy book of koran carried out by the swedish or rocky nationals of course, in stockholm for, for several times over the past month. so these people say that the move is not meant to promote freedom of expression as justified by european stays. but to move is man to spread of violence, extremism, and as lama probably are, they called on all most and countries to stay united and void call to be import of

swedish products. they say it's that uh, the psychologist activities inside stockholm was not what was meant to force to hurt the sentiments of $2000000000.00 most times across the world and not only $2000000000.00 which comes across the world. but it has also been an insult to all of the followers of the abrahamic religions. over the past weeks. there one has shown its fury and anger over the psychologist move committed insights of stock on their i'm the during the friday for years held on friday. people took to the streets again and towards the flags of denmark and sweden as it means to show their protests against the burning of the holy book of koran. when i would see that a wave of desecration has been taken place in europe, and that the approval of governments of european governments kind of a strict protection provided by the police. there we see that the past 37 year old son won monica always and who is a swedish or walk you national,

organized such gatherings against as long as well. i'm excited easy. i'll burn several pages of the holy book up there on, on one of the most important for us cities of his mom and dad. are you doing? i'm trying to show his, his hatred toward most firms across the world. so everyone as the most some countries it one was quick to react to those scandalous, actually wrong. some of the swedish and basset, or as soon as the sun one mommy caught burned. uh, several pictures of the holy book of car bonnie one says that now the swedish investigators term into one has ended. and until the swedish government takes a serious action over the desecration against the holy book a wrong one would not accept the new swedish ambassador. iran also said that it will not send its envoy to stockholm until sweet and ensures that such psychologist acts will not happen again. this comes as thousands of young men these

took to the capital, streets, venting their anger over the defilement of the koran. a wave of protesters were holding banners and shouting slogans, demanding the government's apologize to muslims, and calling for a boycott of swedish and danish goods. the proud also shouted accusations of the west harbouring a hatred of islam and muslims. demonstrators claim that suffering diplomatic ties is not a sufficient response to these acts of vandalism. this comes as to members of an extremist danish group desecrated a copy of the holy koran in front of the rocky embassy on monday. the holy book burning was attributed to an anti is loved and far right. nationalist group known as the danish patriots who live stream. the act on facebook. denmark for administer condemned the desecration as an act of stupidity, but noted that burning religious books is not a crime and done mar. baghdad had called on european union authorities to

reconsider so called freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate the controversial acts were prep perpetrated under the ages of the government and have drawn the honor of the whole muslim community, prompting the mass protests and the explosion of the swedish and danish envoys from several muslim majority countries. russia's foreign ministry has issue a report regarding the legal actions taken by cab against the ukrainian orthodox church. for many years, the key of authorities had been actively pursuing the course in ukraine. so eliminate the can only call you quite an orthodox church, discriminate against his clergy and persecute, clergyman and believers. for this purpose, the country's legislative system is being built the actions of various law enforcement agencies. so being guided let's, let's get more details on this from our corresponded marina,

closer ever. joining me in the studio. so marina, what are the main takeaways from this reports? well, it's so very long. so report just under assess the pages by russia's foreign ministry and really they outline all the examples that we've seen so far. all the tea of authorities persecuted members of the ukrainian orthodox church and as they see it, this is part of a bigger plan to create a spiritual division between russians and ukrainian. something that was been traditional and historical for many, many decades, of course. and prior to the special military operation, the creating an orthodox church was the one that was the most popular one in the country in ukraine. it was only in 2018 when they establish the orthodox church of ukraine, slightly confusing. their names are very, very, very similar. and even so, a few months after the special military operations began, the ukrainian orthodox church said that we will split from the moscow patriarchy

because it felt pressure. so even though it did that, there were still raids that we saw from t of up to ortiz, and to have special forces on various churches belonging to the view of c, across the country in the several regions. and they claim that they found russian propaganda. russian literature there, which is slightly ridiculous because it's almost like finding english literature and an iris charge because they, the link between the 2 countries go back for decades and centuries, of course, as we know so. and they claim that because they found that, that these churches need to be closed and they even arrested uncharged bishops, for example. and this is all want that as a list of all these examples end as almost 50 page reports, how they seize monasteries belonging to the you'll see the most famous one, the old this monastery in russia. and now in present day ukraine, the key up as far as collaborative, over a 1000 years old. this was used by the jo seats. they said that they do

a lot of early end of the lease agreement tech found all the monks and the priests from the air. they decided to hold their easter services. their christmas was there . and notably, they decided to celebrate christmas, like the westerners do this time around on the 25th of december and sort of how russians and ukrainians have been celebrated. and it, for example, on the 7th on january. so they took that away. they didn't allow the priest to be there, they charged archbishop powell there for religious hatred and justified russia's actions. and he's still in pre trial detention for example. now these are just some of the examples listed in the very last reports, and it also states there how t of authorities, regional authorities. so it goes from the very basic level to high that high power officials all involved and creating and information campaign against the u. o c and also they less than detail how all that has resulted in act. so vandalism,

for example, against churches that we've seen. also we've seen attend simply progression insights and violence against not only priests who are working as a yoshi, but also members of the public that go to those churches. so persecuting people that visit that church even though up until the special military operation. it was the most popular church, any frank? well, you just listed a plethora of all this persecution of orthodox believers. how has the international community reacted to this? we have seen nothing from the international community aside from a couple of human rights organizations. but there, there's been silence crickets, no one is saying anything. and of course, if we saw something like this happened in any other country, that would be all over it's. but here we're seeing nothing. and the russian foreign ministry actually said regard in that that it seems that what is happening in ukraine.