robin forrest the walker is live for us in bishkek for where that copper at that tech conference has been taking place the shanghai cooperation now what else are you hearing from there and what are the world leaders gathered there have been saying about. what's important to point out about the shanghai cooperation organization is that combined it's a big block in terms of a share of global population and g.d.p. and territory and crucially i think president rouhani although we ron is an observer. member is it has observer status what's important is that here president rouhani is among friends because earlier he had a bilateral with president he chimping and he chimping said that china was looking forward to the steady development of toys with iran no matter how the situation changes reports we know. but to me that seems like an expression of very much of support for iran in its hour of need at the moment both russia and china have an opportunity or are seeing an opportunity here to help iran. tilt perhaps eastwards given the problems that it's facing at the moment the the pressure it'

let's of the shanghai cooperation organization countries have been meeting in bishkek kurdistan for the group's $908.00 in a joint declaration they pledged to provide security and stability in the region chinese president xi jinping indian prime minister narendra modi and russian leader vladimir putin also discussed their concerns about u.s. presidents on a trans protectionist trade regime china hopes to get india and russia on board to build a new multilateral trade framework. as the world population keeps growing food supply is going to be an even bigger issue next to grain vegetables fish and meat we should also consider insects a great opportunity for africa which has most of the world's edible bugs and scientists are now taking a closer look at them. grasshoppers and crickets fried and seasoned at filling meal for anyone but one that could take some getting used to. and it is a nice fact the. leaves to the sweetness and sort of mixed in this space together. researchers at nairobi's international center for insect physiology have long study to nutritional value of the bugs insects a

he's among allies he's among friends again robin thanks very much indeed that's a picture from bishkek let's get the view from tehran now of course what dosage of bari joins us now no one else have iranian officials been say. well as you mentioned we've heard from the iranian foreign minister zarif who says these allegations are absolutely baseless there's no facts to any of them they haven't provided enough evidence to accuse us and what that's the alarming thing and we've also heard from the iranian delegation to the united nations that issued a statement saying the united states must stop what they call war mongering and they categorically deny the claims made by the u.s. government that iran had anything to do with thursday's incidents in the gulf along of course the iranian foreign ministry spokesperson up us mousavi also said that the security of the strait of hormuz is the responsibility of the iranian navy and the revolutionary guard it's a very very important strategic point for the islamic republic a 5th of the oil world's oil passes through there on a daily basis over $70000

right also having some problems there with robin forrester walk in bishkek robin can you hear us at all. robin can you hear a little and i can hear you good fantastic i'm just asking what can we expect them from the i can hear you good. i think that by laterals are probably the most important thing that's going to be happening today a lot of me have putin will meet with president he being late and also i think very important is going to be that meeting between between putin and president rouhani of iran because of course of those tensions now ratcheting up in the middle east with the u.s. accusing the iranians of of being behind the attacks on those 2 oil tankers and the way it's looked at here is that iran i think has an opportunity to find friends and supports in an east would tilt looking for new regional alliances given the problems that it's been having with the u.s. over the iran sanctions and the deal that's now been broken by the united states i think that many people see iran now looking for opportunities to forge alliances in the shanghai cooperation organization which it's wa

and china more on this from 1st a walker in the capital of bishkek this summit is taking place against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions between china and united states over the terrorists that donald trump has slapped on chinese imports to the united states and also against the backdrop of growing tensions between iran and the west in particular iran and the united states now that there is no deal the iranians have threatened to continue enriching uranium we've seen a standoff and war of words. what's been happening in yemen we've seen. meeting with the iranian leadership and in an attempt to calm things down well now here we are expecting. to be at the summit and to have bilateral those including with vladimir putin which observers think is an opportunity for iran to seek new alliances. in the face by this ongoing issue over and over the nuclear deal so this is an opportunity for the club to come together and to see kind of regional support to kill it china we expect he jinping also to meet with flatter me a putin and with not into modi of india india as a new member of the shang

forgiven for believing present the idea iran is isolated jus think the fact that your president was in bishkek for the shanghai cooperation organization meeting with vladimir putin xi jinping the rent ramadi and imran khan and others are planning. to leave the financial system that the united states seems to be using to strangle the economy of your country the reality is that because of the dominance of the us in the media when us has a problem with a country that countries attacked and marginalized and tried to be isolated but the reality is that we have very good relationship with the with our. neighboring countries we have a very good relationship with russia over china india and pakistan we have exchange of presidents and summit meetings. we have a very good friend relationship be divied iraq with the central asian countries as you said in best in tajikistan we have well is traded in dollars the reality is that this is the this is a phenomenon that we are facing in the international at the international level we know that even european countries are conscious about the fact that this is a

sanger corporation organization has gathered for a summit in the capital bishkek and one can he became the leader of pakistan last year will attend of trying to meet with some of his counterpart think looting flatware putin or prior to his departure he gave his 1st interview to they were russian media since he came to power in $28.00 if. you have. developed cooperation with russia. between our defense forces there as all of the been meeting i think our defense personnel have already met and so yes we will do to deepen our converse. contacts. most of the fifty's sixty's seventy's was spent in the cold war the reason we were india was close to the soviet union and pakistan was close to the united states so we were in different camps. things have changed india is also friendly with the united states and by this time is also friendly with the u.s. so we no longer have the cold war situation and so it's refreshing that we have developed in our contacts with russia and they're developing all the time 1st. with india decreases so we do not have to buy arms because we want to spend money on ou

the iranian foreign minister who is accompanying president rouhani on this trip to this summit in bishkek he tweeted that the u.s. unilateral u.s. action are solely responsible for the security and renewed tension in this region of course mom it's of out serif referring to the fact that the united states withdrew from the nuclear agreement of 2015 and has since put extreme sanctions on iran and various oil and gas sector as an petro chemical industry as well this is what the iranians are calling a economic war on their country now in the reference to yesterday's incidences in the gulf of oman the iranians have said they were very alarmed by what happened but they're more suspicious about the american accusations and how quickly the american government was to blame the iranians without any concrete evidence in the this video is not substantial enough to actually convince anybody that the iranians could be behind this are those are things very much of a let's cross no to the white house course when it can be how it can be the u.s. president all the trump he's talking about this is not what

the so-called asian aid to shanghai cooperation organization summit what do you make of a resume bishkek including. mody and iran can and president rouhani of iran. because we hear that iran is isolated from the international community one would assume that that is the case if one was to listen to the western media but actually i think the timing is very important to the iranian. relationship with china and russia have been has been converging for a very long time as the americans are carrying out economic warfare against iran at the same time they're engaging in a trade war with china that brings the 2 countries closer to each other and the deep state of the united states is destroying the u.s. russian relationship despite trump's attempts to improve them so that has also helped to bring russia and iran closer to each other the americans are basically pushing all these countries and powers closer to one another by antagonizing everyone simultaneously professor moment ready thank you and that's it for the show will be back on wednesday 7 years to the day wiki leaks founder julian assange

president has some rouhani is currently on his way to a security conference and in bishkek before he left he was speaking about the security in this region how critical it is right now let's hear what he had to say verge of. today the issue of security has a special importance on there in the states and of region of the persian gulf the middle east and all around the world and we have been making if it's to protect the peace and security of the region and over the last few years practically we have proven that we care about the security of a neighbors and all other countries. we've also heard from the iranian supreme leader who met with the japanese prime minister shinzo abi early this morning in his presidential compound in tehran the japanese prime minister was here with a message with a letter from u.s. president donald trump for the supreme leader and the iranian supreme leader said that he doesn't even want to respond to it it is not worth responding to he does not consider donald trump someone worthy of a response he doesn't want to hear it the supreme leader said that it is no

standing by in muscat oman dawson bari in tehran but 1st let's go to robin for a steel worker who is in bishkekat the shanghai cooperation summit where we just heard from the iranian president so robyn this was a gathering of several prominent asian leaders and the iranian process president wasted no time in taking that opportunity to head out to the u.s. over these tensions. that's right and i think this is where president rouhani right now will feel most comfortable because in effect he's amongst friends he's had messages of support in statements made by other senior world leaders here including president he chimping who dialogue to resolve the differences but at the same time he stressed that he wanted to develop closer cooperation in ties with iran regardless of the circumstances and that's the sewing i think that's the se o. and its members are very keen to welcome iran on board at this diplomatically speaking we've also heard from flooded me of putin who like rouhani was stating that the u.s. u.s. its decision to pull out of the nuclear deal is the reason that this instability has been ca

open for us to walk or reports now from bishkek. now that india and pakistan are members full members of the shanghai cooperation organization the club would like to be taken very seriously on the world stage because it represents 43 percent of the global population and a quarter of global gross domestic product it's about forging new strategic alliances and that became apparent very much today with iran which has observer status attending president rouhani criticizing the united states defending iran against allegations that it was involved in the attacks on those oil tankers and finding very much support amongst other member states like china and russia both of whom have their issues with the u.s. russia under sanctions for and it for its an exception of crimea china now under pressure donald trump's trade war now these countries are very much interested in regional cooperation on. economic trade opening up new trade corydoras and of course counterterrorism they talk about being partners but it is also worth bearing in mind that w

put in spokesman explained that president putin had a meeting with president rouhani last week in bishkek in the during a meeting in kyrgyzstan where he actually asked for an assurance of president rouhani that iran will stick to the iran deal and he sat that that's what the iranian president said that they will stick to the deal also words of caution not only from russia but also from china to iran to stick with the deal but at the same time i said the deputy foreign minister ripped off actually also said that he is very concerned about the steps by iran to produce more iranian but also said that he can understand that iran is taking these kinds of steps looking at the sanctions that they are facing but basically russia and china positioning themselves of course in this situation as as a speech makers as mediators urging for calm also said that if the u.s. wants to prove it doesn't want war then it should not send additional troops to the region he says just show to us that you don't want war and they were for pretty strong words but adopted to foreign minister here in moscow would be in

hearing from iran's president has some rouhani who is scheduled to depart iran for a conference in bishkek where he will be meeting with russian president vladimir putin on friday the iranian president made a statement before he departed he said that the region security is at stake and he was very concerned in the that he reiterated that iran is committed to making sure that this region stays stable let's hear what else he had to say. today the issue of security has a special importance azer in the states of region of the persian gulf the middle east and all around the world and we have been making if it's to protect the peace and security of the region and over the last few years practically we have proven that we care about the security of a neighbors and all other countries. the iranian president also stressed that this these events of the past few days in the islamic republic are very critical it's a very critical time here we've seen the japanese prime minister as well as the foreign minister ameri historic visit to the islamic republic as well as the german foreign minister who made

challenge the existing world order led by the us i was there as robin for us to walk a reports now from bishkek. now that india and pakistan are members full members of the shanghai cooperation organization the club would like to be taken very seriously on the world stage because it represents 43 percent of the global population and a quarter of global gross domestic product it's about forging new strategic alliances and that became apparent very much today with iran which has observer status attending president rouhani criticizing the united states defending iran against allegations that it was involved in the attacks on those oil tankers and finding very much a sim supports amongst other member states like china and russia both of whom have their issues with the us russia under sanctions for and it for it's an exception of crimea china now under pressure donald trump's trade war now these countries are very much interested in regional cooperation on the economic trade opening up new trade corydoras and of course counterterrorism they talk about being partners but it is also worth bearing in m

challenge the existing world order led by the us i was there as robin for us to walk are reports now from bishkek. now that india and pakistan the members full members of the shanghai cooperation organization the club would like to be taken very seriously on the world stage because it represents 43 percent of the global population and a quarter of global gross domestic product it's about forging new strategic alliances and that became apparent very much today with iran which has observer status attending president rouhani criticizing the united states defending iran against allegations that it was involved in the attacks on those oil tankers and finding very much a sim supports amongst other member states like china and russia both of whom have their issues with the us russia under sanctions for at it for it's an exception of crimea china now under pressure donald trump's trade war now these countries are very much interested in regional cooperation on the economic trade opening up new trade corydoras and of course counterterrorism they talk about being partners but it is also worth bearing in mi

united states we talk about it more in a moment 1st this form of walker in the kurdistan capital bishkek. this summit is taking place against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions between china and united states over the terrorists that donald trump has slapped on chinese imports to the united states and also against the backdrop of growing tensions between iran and the west particularly iran and the united states now that there is no deal the iranians have threatened to continue enriching uranium we've seen a standoff and war of words. what's been happening in yemen we've seen. meeting with the iranian leadership and in an attempt to calm things down well now here we are expecting. to be at the summit and to have by natural means including with vladimir putin which observers think is an opportunity for iran to seek new alliances. in the face by this ongoing issue over and over the nuclear deal so this is an opportunity for the club to come together and to see kind of regional support to kill the china we expect he jinping also to meet with glad to meet putin and with not into modi of in