he is now a senior fellow at the center for africa, china studies at the university of johannesburg. thank you so much, my friend. all right, that is going to do it for this episode of modus operandi. the show that dig deep into foreign policy and current affairs on your host manila chan. thank you for 2. and again, we'll see you again next time to figure out the m. o the the as the cranes much over 5 to counter offensive stalls. western leaders have made a remarkable rhetorical tippett. mine says print and has already lost the board. the secretary of state lincoln says russia has lost their narrative because a form of pseudo reality because making the claim ukraine is wendy, is untenable. since 2060 numerous monuments to soviet soldiers and potent ukraine and the baltic states have been destroyed all vandalized fish. there's the body of us pharmacy to be the within. yeah, i'm not sure or even ask if i'm in the field that's the most on whether it's it's special or just bring in the police government denies the rule of soviet soldiers in the victory of a non citizen. and is it raising

he is now a senior fellow at the center for africa, china studies at the university of johannesburg. thank you so much for joining us. coffee. first, let's go back to late july. the new jerry and presidential guard lead by brigadier general. i do run on to shawnee and colonel major. i'm gonna do. i'm durham on level code over throw over, throw a president mohammed presume the 1st for the viewers walk us through that. cool. and just who these military leaders are behind this. cool. well, i always say that context governs be and this time, especially in these year, he's always good to get a sense of history. but i want to border your audience with that long if you want context. but what is important is that in these years of countries, i've seen so many groups since the 1st president of the jury sixties that lead the country where it is to be. and by and large, strong man and strong military. as rule of rule the, the ship and so. ringback so what happened was, late july was the symptomatic nature of, of such a projects. so when the cool lead is or to over and now the main one of course,

he is now a senior fellow at the center for africa, china studies at the university of johannesburg. thank you so much, my friend. all right, that is going to do it for in this episode of modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your host miller chan. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next time to figure out the m. o. the as the cranes much over 5 to counter offensive stalls. western leaders have made a remarkable rhetorical tippett line and says, proof of his already lost the board. the secretary of state blinking says russia has lost their narrative is a form of pseudo reality because making the claim ukraine is windy, is untenable. the headlines minus attains the trying to stop the latest burning of the crown. and sweden installed contrasts to the reaction of still kind most or t to allow to other activists to possibly be destroy the most going to need to do as co government says it's open to dialogue with that co authors that fix to come escalate contentions in the region to head from the head of a mediation group visited to me

patrick bond is distinguished professor and director of the centre for social change at the university of johannesburgcounterpunch article is headlined "the brics johannesburg summit's hype, hope and helplessness." we welcome you both back to democracy now! professor bond, why don't we begin with you? talk about what you expect of the summit, the significance of it, and the fact it is taking place in south africa. the leaders there but not the russian president who's afraid of being arrested in south africa. >> thank you for having us with you. inquiry into creative way to what is currently major contradiction which is this a great hill of anti-imperialist rhetoric, particularly vladimir putin, sir j lavrov, against u.s., the same time can you visiting much more -- south africa being pulled with brazil is a solid progressive democracy the president lula is not. it is very unstable situation. 23 candidates, mostly -- leaders looking for a way out after the u.s. financial sanctions were so tough on the one hand. a lot of talk about dollarization. amy: trevor ngwane, your concerns about what is happening

in studio professor chris landsberg, tier of african diplomacy and foreign policy at the university of johannesburg, who is joining me to discuss all of the amazing thing that has m folded in the past . 2 days and more specifically to the professor. welcome to our tea. thank you very much for asking for help, and thank you for making time to be here. professor, the much anticipated breaks expansion has finally been announced with the 6 new nations being added to the block. what are your thoughts on the countries admitted and how big of a deal is that for the economy? so so, so that's 1st 5 by saying that by the time the ministers meeting finished, it's clear that there was no agreement, right? so it was escalated to the heads of states. yes. it would have been that as last, the full bricks not to show any expansion. i think the, the of full countries in the me not region, middle east, north africa or egypt and the other 3. they speak for themselves. they come with serious. um, pick a moment and resource co monroe particularly um uh oil i guess and so. so i think they justify it. um and its calculat

about supervisor, chris landsberg, chair of african diplomacy, and for a policy at the university of johannesburg. now i will have the kids now i will have a scratch to tell senior research your fellow at the university of south africa gave as his take on the expansion of the brick block. today's announcement is a huge boost for breaks, as well as the global self. so it is a nice mix of nations and i think it's a big a positive news today. saudi arabia has been the late come and i think that seems to be a boost of egypt has always been in the planning to join breaks. i c. c o. p a has also been incorporated. and of course, as in tina, which is a huge play in left in america, so it is quite a good balance. and a new kind of layer within breaks the world is still a, this contest ation among large file with particularly in the big fights with the facts of the un security council. and that is always been historic. but i think with breaks it does give a kind of more broad, a base so that nations can find a way to look at the big issues which is about trade, which is about job creation, which is about

to advise it, but we're not joined on the program by dr. among any and see mind from the university of johannesburg. thank you for joining us on the program. now they've been concerns in the past, over the electrical process in zimbabwe. one of the chances will see credible elections this time. just before we have the c, c, c, which is the citizens question of citizens condition, which is the opposition party. not having access to the registration for the voters room, which makes me sick and leave me quite so much, you know, intimidation, especially on a position for each the details, but uh uh, but you know, across the country and even into additional uh, the 4 digit code uh, for this post on 4 trips, i mean we, we, this, this happened some time must be written uh, most insurance. i was just seeing an email on the machine. and, uh, you know, we had this coming through trying to chase. so we were just away from the, from the and even, you know, uh gus was actually drove. so, you know, we have all these aspects coming up and it so, and she, yeah, especially for the political parties source. so, so w

, a research fellow at the institute for penn, african thoughts and conversation at the university of johannesburg. he has, he says that brooks can nurture parent applicant ideas and peace on the african continent, including a resolution of the 9 year crisis. advocates. i've been waking in on this dream for a very long time and getting closer and closer to, to, to realizing in many countries i hit precisely because the one piece, the one, the developments, the ones, the dream. yeah, no, we are not realizing and i'm much better. yeah. let's see you on a for, for the people in the citizens. but as you know, there is a lot of change shifts to e. one, the content is, and many of them, especially applicants that are here, are paying close attention to that more specifically. yeah, yeah. how do you think that is going to impact the continents felicia with his other account and prioritizing that? think maybe it's important to discuss what a breaks is about. it wasn't created, you know, to entice you in your, on the pay that specific domestic of the range mints in $1011.00 expense of member states a bunch

in it, but we're not joined on the program by the octomom denny, and see mind from the university of johannesburg. thank you for joining us on the program. now they've been concerns in the past. over the electoral process in zimbabwe. one, all the chances will see credible elections this time. just to full. we have the ccc, which is the citizens question of citizens condition, which is the opposition party not having access to the registration, this process, which makes me sick and leave me quite so much, you know, intimidation is special deals position for each the details, but uh uh, but, you know, across the country and even into additional uh, the 4 digit code. uh, for this post on 4 trips i'm, you know, we read this, this happened some time must be written, the most insurance i was addressing, you know, a lot of the machine and, you know, we had what he's coming through trying to chase. so we were just away from the, from the and even, you know, gus was actually drove. so you know, we have all these aspects coming up and it's to and she, yeah, especially for them because soaks so. so what i'

hope to the masses" and the other, the director of the center for social change at the university of johannesburgd that the new applicants are basically a group of "tyrannies in carbon addicted economies." you have a much brighter sense of the hopes of brics. what is the importance of the increasing development of brics? could you talk a little bit about origin? >> patrick and trevor are entitled to their opinions and i am sure they have very positive things to say about other things, but the fact is that neither of the two of them nor i established brics nor in a sense are we able to drive the brics agenda. when one analyzes something like brics, i think rather than taking a moralistic position toward it, it is important to understand what it is doing. 22 governments have elected to join brics one way or the other. some of them are very complicated countries at this present moment. saudi arabia is in a very complicated situation. it is sort of dancing between the worlds. seven of the 13 minutes of opec have applied to join the brics. this is very significant for shifts in the world balance. whet

times interviewed bongani kalunga , an academic at bongani kalunga, an academic at the university of johannesburg not meant to promote violence. it was a call to mobilise us against an oppressive system. mr kalunga said. except jane side against white south africans is real. following malema's incendiary speech, it was revealed that a 79 year old white farmer had been killed and his wife savagely beaten . but it's not savagely beaten. but it's not just white south africans who will suffer. zimbabwe is next door and shows where this violent rhetoric can lead . in violent rhetoric can lead. in 1980, the left wing politician robert mugabe took control of a zimbabwe recently freed from british rule . zimbabwe should british rule. zimbabwe should have been a shining african success story. good infrastructure , nature, fertile infrastructure, nature, fertile soil and well run farms meant it was the breadbasket of africa with a strong economy thanks to its exports of maize , cotton, its exports of maize, cotton, beef, tobacco , sugarcane and beef, tobacco, sugarcane and roses. the flowers , not the rose

times interviewed bongani kalunga , an academic at bongani kalunga, an academic at the university of johannesburgr is not meant to promote violence. it was a call to mobilise us against an oppressive system. mr kalunga said. except jane side against white south africans is real. following malema's incendiary speech, it was revealed that a 79 year old white farmer had been killed and his wife savagely beaten . but it's not savagely beaten. but it's not just white south africans who will suffer. zimbabwe is next door and shows where this violent rhetoric can lead . in violent rhetoric can lead. in 1980, the left wing politician robert mugabe took control of a zimbabwe recently freed from british rule . zimbabwe should british rule. zimbabwe should have been a shining african success story. good infrastructure , nature, fertile infrastructure, nature, fertile soil and well run farms meant it was the breadbasket of africa with a strong economy thanks to its exports of maize , cotton, its exports of maize, cotton, beef, tobacco , sugarcane and beef, tobacco, sugarcane and roses. the flowers , not the

bye lemuel lo locate mon d political economist and senior lecturer at the university of width waters. and here in johannesburg to discuss brits and bricks and economies moving forward. thank you so very much for joining us. we're confirming with the system. absolutely . i know you're busy. so we're glad to have you. a lot is being discussed at, at the 15th annual break segments, and i'm sure you've been following your closely. what do you expect from the current rates summit given the unprecedented global political attention? it has it, but 50 is referred to for us as well, for the call to be hosted in a more human talk to, you know, history way, the way we're monotype product. so we're excited not to there's a shift in space. i'm not shift at the outcome and that's going to come out of a piece of furniture tends to the history of humankind. and therefore, underscore it in or the importance of somebody to of countries there that the needs for substitution. it took me as a nation and suspicion of supports from those that acquired norm, which i told her to. absolutely, and, you know, and speaking of sovereignty

museum, go crazy about the features of the rivers from the word elder, but rather in the english manner johannesburg , that is, johannesburg , south africa universityd here we are about to see something very interesting new. in these laboratories in this now brix country , scientists from africa and russia are led by members of the international global energy prize committee. dmitry bessarabov. now together they are conducting research on such a promising one. now they were looking for a completely different hydrogen here in the seventies secret laboratories of the russian and so on the fortress of cape town and the museum is located here. the heritage of this city is the blood and white irish and the local black goat people and the malays flowing alive keepers with him. first of all, we consciously stood up, on the contrary, now we are museum ones. and under apartheid, of course, shameful signs only for whites and only for the sky of whites, but secondly, about that truth, a terrible regime and a usb pencil are acceptable two of them had a pencil stuck in their hair. if the pencil fell freely through straight curls, then the girl was considered wh

from the museum of their manners, that is, johannesburg south africa here we go there or just the african republic we are at the largest university in this country. in these laboratories in this now brix country, scientists from africa and russia are the head of the member of the international committee of the global energy award. dmitriy bessarabians. now together they are conducting research on this in the seventies in the secret laboratories of the russian and so on south africa fortress of cape town and the museum of the heritage of this city is located here, the blood and white irish and the local black goat people and malays flows into the residential keeper with him. we are at lunchtime. secondly, about that truth, a terrible mode and a pencil, ladies two, sisters, inserted a pencil into their hair, if the pencil fell freely through straight curls, then the girl was considered white. and if you got stuck in curls, so to speak, they played sideways, they deprived the other of their rights, for example, the right to live in cities the right to live in cities the right to hold a certain position. no really. so it is, of cours

university. thank you so much the for whether the light was or 2. it's nikki, or in a new waco, us or a special break studio in johannesburg. well, earlier the leaders of the countries taking part in the summit there say of the plenary session, chinese president, she didn't think so. that paging was on the right side of history and stress. the importance of cooperation and achieving sustainable global peace and prosperity to install or something with the brakes done. so you should be follow companions on the journey of development and revitalization and impose to coupling and supply chain to disruptions as well as economic coersion. we should expend political and security cooperation from a full east central community presidencies that uh, people do not need a new coal or but rather the world of less than piece and universal uh, security. and he actually warn the deed not to advocate of such a so called democracy versus authoritarianism, narrative and it's also inciting the option of liberty or generative b. this will only been by the world and spar to clash of civilizations. that's what we don't need. and presidency also added to china has no motivati

sergei romanov channel one johannesburg and wait for the african republic about the backlog of the collective west of the canceled life , jeffreysaks, professor at columbia universityn america, is also talking about special adviser to the un secretary general on the millennium development goals and an expert on radical economic reforms that require sober let unpleasant analysis. we already live in a post -american post-western world that is truly multipolar, where the brix group of countries is larger of the g7 group of countries, even turkey asked that it also wants to join and greece wants to join the brix one of the reasons for this process is that the us refuses to recognize the changes. they are still confident that they are at the head of the world, where only russia and china are defiant, and the rest are resigned. in my opinion. the united states is about 25 years behind , it is difficult to say what we will end up with, either a colossal conflict and catastrophe, or a smart and not old leader will appear in the united states who will tell us that we don’t really need it. we want normal relations with china and india and russia, brazil, the eu, and then eve

speech, the word of the elder, but rather in the english manner, that is, johannesburg south africa here we go there you are not just the african republic we are in the largest universitywhich is called the north-west university, and here we are about to see something very interesting new. in these laboratories in this now brix country , scientists from africa and russia are the head of the member of the international committee of the global energy award. dmitry bessarabov. now together conduct research on such a promising. now, hydrogen was looked for in a completely different way here in the seventies in the secret laboratories of the russian and so on in south africa, the fortress of cape town and the museum of the heritage of this city is located here . first of all, we consciously stood up, on the contrary, now we are museum ones. and under apartheid, of course, shameful signs only for whites and only for the sky of whites. secondly, about that truth, a terrible mode and a pencil. that is, let's say two sisters put a pencil in your hair. if the pencil fell freely through straight curls, then the girl was considered white. and if you got stuck in curls, yes, then t