of the party obtains exclusive documents verifying an opposition party attempt to enlist us involvement from the upcoming south african election. the amc rolling parties, folk person says any intervention will be blown you can be assured that a we will look any attempted to closing up with i'd say us, so any of of you know, our life. we would look at a, not just as the agency, the people, so we built a attempted to interfering with our addictions the united states is responsible for these chaos because they are the ones who send a web us to create it. all patients claimed us as meddling and the feeling the crisis in the country is at least one person is filled in another round of

escalating gang violence in the caribbean nation and with the gaza war now. and it's 6 months. we get a 1st hand account from a journalist who's extensively covered the complex on the ground for our see her recently evacuating for safety in the tar when i basically lost all access to any c face to work from eunice to serve my people. i thought that i could talk more about the people in palestine from the outside versus inside because of the live and the rest of the capital. i'm rachel ruble. this is archie international. the south african government says it strongly condemns attempts by opposition leaders to sell the country sovereignty to washington. r t has obtained exclusive documents verifying that the democratic lions party has reached out to the us state

department seeking partnership in the may 29th elections. it is outrages that south african political parties are appealing to foreign governments to interfere in our electoral processes, including through funding of so called voter education activities. display is a clear attempt to bring about regime change the skies info, portuguese dig language. south africa sovereignty is not up for sale to any country, whether it'd be from the east or the west. the gain c condemns into strongest terms with the da's and it's one shot onto transform ation, the line sale of our sovereignty. those obvious thing to me is by the reading cox, the code to straight updates. so in utah, by the official opposition party, i'm asking the you is to interfere in the election process also back because this is of cost not to the public, but i'm seeing that sylvester can face the if statement around optimal crack techniques is on the 29th of may the 10 sins and no buses or read the papa book the

1st free election companion 2 in 1994 was the already characterized by tensions environments but also by a great deal of hope in searching that this is the most critical election in 30 years also the african democracy at the central office, of course is the african national congress, the huge magazine. so that's the time it brought black majority rule to so that projects, but then again, multiple pools in the past few months, it's shown that the agencies could get below 50 percent. however, presidents off with the countries the pool sized public, you said that it is confident that the is the will retain its majority in the upcoming elections. as the alternatives include the list, we copy this call to the economy, freedom fighters, and also for my present jacob zoom unexpectedly, very recently declaring support when you deformed opposition party, i'm calling to is sees which, but the biggest opposition party shot is the democratic allies. it already holds

power locally in key areas of the country each, but it struggles with an image problem. many blessed old africans struggled to vote for the d a because the need a is a white man. and when you say that it is a white party, it is also the democratic allies that sent the letter to the 62 states of the united states. anthony banking, through the us invested to start africa saying that it wishes to supplement its appeal to the international community in helping to ensure the integrity of the upcoming elections. the n. c. a has said that the d a is offering so that because of and t and a silver platter by sending this request. but let's just move on that. we know that has the geo political sands continue to shift. those of us invested in the political values of freedom, tolerance, peace, and democracy must do everything in our power to stem the rising tides of populism,

fanaticism, oppression, and tyranny. it is our contention that as the ruling elite grow more desperate to retain electrical supports ahead of the upcoming elections, they may be willing to put their narrow political interests ahead of our country is broader interest and to stake ridge constitutional values. we therefore appeal to your government to recognize the high stakes for south africa in the lead up to and the aftermath of the n p. e 2024. it is in this context that we now formally request our partners in democracy to engage with consequence in the run up to the election. and that's what we're looking at. so you know, comes as a shock to menu. so that free time because it hasn't even been 2 months since the african prison settled. i'm opposed to say the finishes case against is well in the eyes to j could result in foreign powers interfering with the outcomes of this close to the next is that we are looking at. and now this is happening, but if the city watch the office, the position quality is austin,

among other things that is for resources to be made available to both stuff. the deployment of the additional independent domestic observe is also asking that the you is provide the voltage education and capacity building for domestic money to the. and does it was asking that to the who is how to safeguard against any attempts to disrupt the democratic prostate o influenced the electoral procedures with misinformation. and this information, of course b and b has had a chance to respond, and it has made it clear that to be it welcomes the constructive engagement and dialogue with all political parties, both domestically and internationally. but it will not tolerate any attempts to undermine its democratic proceed. oh, manipulates it's election or the countries the next is that it has also called the democratic alliances agenda, reactionary, and also in humane. and you'd also remember that this is not the 1st mid tough that the d a has decided to issue. but this one,

it says it's somewhat saw past that the previous ones that he has been to the g 7 countries or even the you asking them to direct support. i'm concerned about for an interference. indeed, this is a now the question that to me is how can a position bring the long about potential for any to feelings? well, at the same time, it is practically austin the united states to do so. earlier we spoke exclusively to african national congress spokesperson belong the bang, grew much siri. she says the ruling party isn't surprised with the attempts of regime change given the oppositions of political stance that we don't know what the suppose will be or has been from the us. but we do know that there and we are going to, and we always expected that there would be an attempt at regime change. the democratic a lot is that the police come and put us to positions that they stand full for the ride very well with those in the tool. but not that do not want to see

how about the new quality that allowed to kicked it across the world. and particularly in the countries of the south, including south africa. if you look at a, as an example, if you look at the level of the property and inequality in the western cape, the only problem is governed by that, the way that the ac where the government, the government will but go and have a look. they have a look at, they lashed conditions under which the minority needs and going to look at the state of townships in cape town and the outside areas posted wisdom. keep going and have a look at the pipes that way, you know, refuses no talented in what is the dominant, known as black areas and color communities in of can communities that gives you

this story of the university of new quality. that is not going to be raised unless they different governments take. so the, the, the wisdom k b. so, so it's a, it's a question of those that want to maintain and sustain the new goes to a separate fedramp. i must say that to comfortable you in that we have strong internal controls in, in, in the country in terms of robust and independent business solutions that are meant to safeguard elections. and if the i you see, so, but also working with the board is that just as adults can human rights commission in many others. and we are comfortable that keeping the cd and so far, institution, we wouldn't be able to protect disability or from most of the africa. you can be assured that we will look any attempted to imposing a win. i'd say us, so any of the, you know, ally, we would blockage and not just as the agency,

the people so overcome. we feel up in the attempt interfering with our addictions. we spoke with locals in johannesburg who gave us their take on central american interference in the upcoming elections. that is totally unclosed full for the d, a to wanting to, to intervene, americans to oversee our elections, of which we never intervene in their own elections. so i don't think that is a very because it vedic which i did 40 synthetic with move. so 100 percent of feel like it then see on so that we can citizens because i don't understand that relation between the, the political parties and our political parties. i believe that as a start up because i've never been a citizen, i'm supposed to have my c as well, with regards to the polity, political industry and all that. they don't reside. yeah. so difficult to tv, that's good to see if it goes to that. well, the us itself, though, has

a very different rules when it comes to ford, meddling under the logan act and engagement with foreign governments is forbidden unless it's authorized by the federal administration and acted in 1799. it's still in place aimed at preventing interference. and us policy, the founder of this, and bob boy and a sanctions move it says the ad classes with the us track record of meddling in other countries affairs. it does a contradiction and it's a contradiction because the american government does not expect accept region change for anybody in america works to with foreign powers. the american governments, these base speech about locals for the citizens going without a mandate from the american people to go and speak on behalf of the american people, the american government as far as governments because they believe that this was threatened, the national security interest of the united states of america, i don't think that that is a reasonable,

the imperialism of the americans pay support for the west. and at some point for friends of free can use control of these former colonies and the intentional intent to punish countries to try to break the vestiges of imperialism. is the reason why a lot of applicants turn away from america. now to another part of the world where the us is report, elaine bowling, the deployment of a marine security team to haiti amended countries ongoing at gain crisis. and that's as locals accuse washington itself of dragging their country and the chaos with at least one person killed and several wounded. amend rampant gang violence in the capital. us. a large scale of salt is targeted to the presidential palace, interior ministry, and the local police headquarters gunshots 7 afforded throughout the night. the gangs are now said to have seized control of large parts of the haitian capital, as well as the roads leading to nearby cities. authorities have extended the state of emergency for at least one months,

apart from occasion. woman who lost her husband in the latest 5 months. when i arrived here, i saw a crowd of people moving around. i immediately worried about james and when i reached house number 4 to be, i came across the body of my husband, the line, and the st. james had never been in contact with anyone. she was a single secret salesman for a company and he owned a motorcycle. she was simply struggling to make a living with us. but it's from friday evening shows a local police station in smoldering ruins, while vehicles outside were also towards to buy moms officers fired flares to disperse angry crowds. a, some gang leaders from prime minister ariel on re who's currently outside the country to resign over his failure to handle the security and economic crises. thousands of inmates also escaped earlier this week during a prison break many returning to their games. locals blame of washington for the unfolding process, is that it is the haitian government that agrees with the gang the united states is responsible for these chaos because they are the ones who send the web us to create

it all. to realize the owner of this country is the one who gets the weapons to the get next to destroy our lives and everything we have. he's the one who knows everything. okay. ad experience that the haitian border with the dominican republic to as play struggle to stop scores and civilians from rushing across the 2 caribbean countries and share an island to territory. over 15000 hastens or central have been recently displaced amid the spiraling and situation in the country. all right, let's cross live now to death because i like human rights attorney. then what would you say is the root cause of the crisis in haiti? well, i would say it is in stability that's been so largely by the united states, which is an intervene numerous times in haiti in the last of the 50 years or so um, over through the popular presidency of young per charged air seat. not once,

but twice the latest time in 2004. and of course you had the assassination of hades. uh, president mo, see about a year about the 2 and a half years ago. and uh, that assassination had the fingerprints of the united states on it. and back for the people arrested for that assassination were arrested in florida. so i think there's a lot of truth to the fact the us has help. so this k. yeah, you say that there have been numerous us um, interventions over the last 150 years and to what extent has us involvement exacerbated the problems in the country? is it largely because of us? could this be a peaceful country if not for the us? yes, we have to remember hated the 1st uh was the 1st country that a slave revolt, successful slave revolt in the western hemisphere that successfully over through slavery in the us always resented that because the us had slavery at that time. as

the us intervened in 1912 on the woodrow wilson, they sent in the marines and asked to reinstate it, forced labor in haiti after they had got rid of slavery and the marines, us marines eluded hayden's resources at that time. and after that, the us set up a number of dictatorships in haiti, most notably the pop and baby doc do buy a dictatorships. and as i said, then when democracy broke out under father air speed, the us got rid of him again on, on 2 separate occasions. so the, the us intervention has invariably been negative for the people pay. what is it about haiti that interest us so much?

so what's, what's there that could lead to further involvement? well again, for a long time, i think the issue was that haiti was setting the bad example of getting rid of chattel slavery again prematurely when the us still ad chattel slavery. haiti is resisted french colonialism as well, which is also a know now in most recently, frankly, it's been discovered that 80 sitting on billions of dollars of minerals that the west would like to get its hands on. so i think all those things combined or leading to increased western intervention, the us state department spokesperson said washington does not support violent or on democratic regime changes. that's clearly not true. what, why would you say something like that? well, i mean, the double speaks amazing. you're right, they don't support it unless they are the ones doing it. i think that's probably an accurate statement. the us, uh, you know, believes they are the only ones who can,

you know, create violent regime changes around the world and they do all the time. so, you know, i guess that's really the mess. all right, well they, but they're done for valid human rights attorney, dan, thank you. thank you. my patients aren't the only ones. i accusing the use of accidentally things of turmoil and their country. washington's policy in africa has also been raising plenty of questions. let's have a listen to what was discuss that. a recent us state department briefing. the united states does not support violent or on democratic changes in government, in africa or elsewhere. and all violations of us export regulations will be punished to the full extent of the law. but that rep for the united states is, does afford violence, or on democratic changes to government africa or elsewhere. we do not somebody grappling as the us state department spokesperson scurried away, the question still hangs in the air. that's because the answer is definitely not so

simple. and rewriting history doesn't pass the smell test. us train troops. i've been involved with at least 12 crews in west africa and the greater so whole region during the so called war on terror as america scoured the glow for the next leaders to gift with the revolution. the places where america has conducted military training include burkina, faso, chad, gumby, a guinea, molly mara, tavia. any share to name a few of the doesn't last year. victoria new in the us under secretary of state a k america soon to depart. regina change queen was asked what the us was doing to slow the parade of african officers over throwing governments, which the us have trained them to protect. so some folks involved in these crews have received some us training, but far from all of them,

you need to talk to them about why they are over throwing their governments are a message in all cases was that the citizens of these countries deserve to see democracy restored and that particularly in molly and burkina faso, we expect both of these uh, internal governments to meet their commitments. trying to explain it all way if you want me, if to 0 in. but washington will have a tough time watching a pensive involvement. as since the 2 thousands, it's regularly deployed, small commander teams to advise assist and the company local forces even into the battlefield. but this involvement has led to the stabilisation as an increase in terrorism. the latest to orchestrated by some us train troops in africa took place a new year just last year and it's not a topic us senators,

are afraid to openly admit it appears that the united states trained yet another to leader in africa. it's a disturbing trend and a sign of how badly miss allocated our national security spending is on the continent. it's a recipe for disaster. and it's part of the story about why crews are spreading all across africa and lots of places where the us has delivered lots of military assistance, but not enough economic cooperation. but who can forget the 2011 us lead operation in libya with the removal and assassination of pan african, a small market dollar fee. the k off lead to the, the civilization and privatization of the countries oil industry, putting wealth into western hands and created what some of called the libyan slave trade. all quote, under the guise of humanitarian intervention, 3 came,

we saw, died. have anything to do with your visit? i'm sure the it is own was, this is for profit that bush's and needs, the american government, an american needs to send their troops and their agents or, or around the world, or the case of libya. it's very clear if they wanted the oil, libya is one of the richest countries in the commodity of volume. they wanted the geographical location, libya, centers, the mediterranean sea is regarded as the northern gates of africa and they wanted in libya's somewhat in funds. these events help the stabilize these nations, which then lead to more us and western involvement,

and the more recent of military coups. of course, washington and the bloody fingerprints i've also been found in latin america and the caribbean. recently, the white house denied that the u. s. is forcing hades prime minister to reside while pushing for new elections in the country. we are not, we are definitely not pushing prime, the prime minister to resign. that is not what we're doing, but we have underscored that now is the time to finalize a political court to help said haiti on a path to a better future. and that is something that we've been working on for some time. we've been working on that with the care. com, so that is nothing new. we've had those conversations and also the haitian partners on the path to restoring democratic order and haiti through free and fair elections, inclusive governance and power sharing. this will give the people of the an opportunity to democratically elect their prime minister. a reminder that 20 years

ago this week, the us government plays paydays, is ben elected president, who had called for the french to pay reparations on a plane from guantanamo bay to the central african republic with a false flight plan. after he was relocated, a qu, ended a decade of democratic progress and more information today, points to the c i a 's for wrecked involvement. it took the us 58 years to recognize haiti's independence. their priorities haven't changed and today's american policy is more or less consistent with the way it's always been. the crew of september 1991 was undertaken with the support of the us administration. and in february 2004, it happened again. thanks to many of the same people. since then, heidi has indoor 2 decades of a revolving door of us 5 for james. and today the caribbean nation. welcome sit

cool anniversary. without a single elected official and office and no elections inside. while most haitian space catastrophic humanitarian conditions. so here we go again. more intervention in haiti, more of the same from america as countries around the globe shawn past colonial powers, and seek and depended homegrown leaders that have their country at heart as russia and china and the global south form of multiplan your world. in the face of former us dominance and control the central gaza where at least 8 civilians were reportedly killed in there all by law on friday is the idea of keeps up. it's relentless, bombardments palestinian officials say the enclave of death toll has surpassed the $30800.00 people since october 7th. a warning you may find the following image is disturbing. video shows low hawes the carrying the wounded as well as the bodies of

the dead to a local hospital. most of the casualties of latest strikes in that area are said to be written on victims could still be trapped under the rubble of fluff buildings which rescued cruise and volunteers are scrambling to sift through the un has worn to that more than 90 percent of does this population is on the brink of starvation, and several countries have arranged to mandatory and supplies to be dropped from planes. jordan says, as military has carried out a number of drops in the northern part of the enclave and cooperation with egypt, the us friends and belgium delivery of the much anticipated aid has been marred by tragedy. as several crates have reported, they fall in directly on the waiting crowds injuring civilians who gathered at the drop side. at least 5 people were crushed to death on friday by a pallet of supplies in gaza city due to a parachute failure. here's how a local civil defense books person described the deadly incident. i am

a social boss, it is a tragedy added to the ongoing tragedies experienced by our palestinian people in gather to meet these bloody war and the region. civilian aircraft dropped 8 supplies to citizens in the northern areas of the street, but unfortunately, these power shoots fell directly on the hands of stimulants. these led to the depths of 5 individuals and the injury of more than 10 people, including critical injuries. my colleague union o'neill heard from months or show minute canadian palestinian journalist who spent several months covering the war from inside gaza for archie. he's now evacuated from the enclave to cut are and explained how he managed to escape the war zone. on the beginning of november, the canadian government todd range to, to put myself my wife and my children on an approved list to leave those districts to the, to via the border to agent. so i was on that approved list for the, for the last few months. and when i basically lost phone access,

any safe place to work from you and is to serve my people. so i decided to to connect again with the canadian costa looking all my life. and i thought that i could add more value to the people in palestine and from the outsides versus inside because especially during these, investigating times and successfully, you know, i passed to the board there, it took a few hours. we were given a 72. our visa image to stay in egypt by when, by which might issued a temporary canadian passport as mine was about to expire. and i decided to come to door basically because to put it to cannot escape theater is much more or less teen and friendly. sure that all of us to continue to work, we stopped at the zone for weeks, months or you had you were the focus of frantic speculation as to what had

happened after communication. what was lost with you. and on one side, you had the people saying that he was maybe apprehended by the adf. other people said he had to go underground because of the, the relentless attacks by israel. somebody's really, people were calling you a uh from us. i said, how did it feel to be in the midst of that, of that media storm, not reporting about the story being the story this in any way i was a mess message is really wouldn't have up to me leaving for the board and any person that leaves the board or even if now it is national, the bus sports, they need to get 3 approvals, waterfront bursting, one from israel and one from egypt. so the matter of fact, once i got approval to leave by the is really forced, it shows up. i'm not, i'm not an assets off uh off for from us when we went missing. we were always there in time. you want us,

it's just that we didn't have internet connection. so we so afterwards let's later on when we were able to come back, safety draws for hospital more to milwaukee. so we learned to yes. um there was a lot of focus on finding really my sore. and i have mixed feelings because i want to focus to be on the 2400000 other students civilians for suffering and not just on, on, on, on, on, on a person. but at the same time. and i felt that this was how i pushed our story more in terms of them on sort of that exact and also to see me and voice trying talk the scene in pause. and we need to utilize his voice and his brand in order to ensure that the, you know, the rights of the students probably turned it. sure to stay with r t international. i'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. in the meantime, you can also visit our website or to come from.