i'm seeing busy in berlin. russian president vladimir putin in china's she, jim ping our meeting in his back. as dan today had of a regional summit touted as a challenge to western global influence on the meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization comes at a crucial time. she who hasn't left china since the beginning of the pandemic wants to shore up his credentials as a global statesman, the head of the communist party congress next month. the russian president, meanwhile, wants to show that his country won't be isolated internationally. spotlighting, it's political and economic ties with china, which have lately been close at china accounts for nearly a 5th of russia's foreign trade.

she, jim ping sees the global role of the 2 countries going much further than trade corporation. in the future to be a china, together with russia, is ready to accept the part of great power long and all over. he ran to play a leading role in being of force for stability and positive energy in a world shaken by social unrest. joe drew the she did cruel when being she turned, as their leaders talking, as pakistan, china and russia are carrying out join military exercises near the pacific coast. the shanghai corporation organization includes many of the former soviet republics and central asia, as well as india and pakistan. iran has expressed interest in joining turkey whose president is attending the summer. con summit is a full dialogue partner put in and reject it on our set to meet on friday. theresa fallon, founder and director of the center for russia, europe, asia studies in brussels, explained a cryptic message from putin that he's aware of beijing's concerns over the war in ukraine. i think it's important that he acknowledges that chinese economy is under stress because o

we know about chinese president jim ping or russian president vladimir putin, not the queen. this was her feeling on the ground that with the passing of the queen, the commonwealth itself might become irrelevant. so, with the queen now gone, you have issues of me or colonialism. issues of african poverty. no longer receiving any more attention than they did when she was alive. so it's no wonder then, many here still that the u. k. has lost africa, largely because again, many people here will tell you that the queen simply did not care about this continent. i was just thinking about the start of africa. i mean, it was the color and diamond that was found in south africa basically and was given was named after the man you are in the mind. he was given basically to the royal family on the things we have about $400000000.00. right? back crown and building calls for it to be returned to africa in terms reparations . i mean, i, you know, it's a very difficult one when you think about how many countries we're talking about and how many people were talking about reparation. everythin

we know about chinese president jim ping or russian president vladimir putin, not the queen. for many people here, the passing of the queen raises the question of just how relevant the commonwealth is and will be with many people suggesting that it might become irrelevant. with the queen now gone, you have issues of neo colonialism. and at the same time africa's problem remaining, untouched, and no one did in that. many people feel that the u. k. has lost africa for many. this is simply because the queen herself did not care too much about the continent, has been a policy many. thanks about paula. we appreciate it. okay, well let's cross live to guess now to discuss the situation, we have political commentator onto the web on the program. thank you for joining us on the show. really appreciate your time. no. anthony quinn, elizabeth the 2nd, she presided over the final fall of the british empire and the u. k. is exit for the european union. so what does her passing leave the country now and what are the prospects for london geo political role? well, i think whatever one think

we know about chinese president jim ping or russian president vladimir putin. not the queen. this also feeling on the ground that with the passing of the queen, the commonwealth itself might become irrelevant. so, with the queen now gone, you have issues of mir colonialism issues of f because poverty no longer receiving any more attention than they did when she was alive. so it's no wonder then that many here feel that the u. k has lost africa, largely because again, many people here will tell you that the queen simply did not care about the continent. hey, paula money, thanks for back analysis. we're going to move on now to some other world news. we're going to take you to ukraine, where russian reinforcements have been entering the northeast and cock of region to both the defense is there. according to local moscow banks, officials that comes from a ukrainian claims have an offensive in the area. officials in kapinsky, russian control city in the cock of region, say that fortifications are being built up as they a way to more trip reinforcements will bring you more informat

and that's why it's, i mean i heard a report this morning for me pop news. claiming that jim ping was arrested. i haven't seen that anywhere else. and then i even made separate inquiries of some of my other sources. they hadn't heard it. so how did that come about where, what the origin agenda, oftentimes you don't know what the origin is. and that's why the military and the ca have gone through these types of channels to try in that and, and mask the sourcing of this is probably very deliberate. and if any, anyone knew that it was the military or, or the us intelligence agencies automatically, people are going to scuff at it. but if it looks like it's in this, from innocent sourcing and hearing and hear say from, from friends and colleagues in it so voluminous and they hear it enough times are going to start believing it. and that's why it's very difficult for a discriminating person to try and understand it. it has a care, is it, it's a source, it's, it can be one source and it just goes full circle. and then everyone else starts picking it up and that has been the tendency of news

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president, spite of a boot and then she, jim ping me for the 1st time since that ukraine, or they talk about safeguarding their security interests and deepening economic time. you chief, also on the line arising key for talks on integrating ukraine into europe. yesterday she said, united democracies would triumph over russian aggression and tennis. great. roger federer announces his retirement. the 20 time grand slam singles winter describes his decision to leave the court as bitter sweet. after so many injuries, the swift star says his body is trying to tell himself that ah, i'm been fas all and welcome russian president vladimir putin and his chinese counterparts. aging ping have held their 1st face to face talk since moscow's full invasion of you cried. speaking on the sidelines of a, somebody knows pakistan who didn't. thanks china for what he called it, balanced positions, walking crane and urge, deep ties with baking hood and also lashed out against what he called attempts to create a uni polo world president. she signaled eagerness to expand cooperation describing a relationship

she jim ping has been a focus of this multinational summit. so how did it really go? yeah, hi, nicky, absolutely busy day here in was back a stun summer content. i have to tell you that indeed the test that ted between the leaders of china and russia has been among the most anticipated during the seo summit. foresee it is the 1st in person meeting in a very long time. the to has discussed regional matters bilateral relations of course. but what is maybe even more important global issues? a lot has been sad as you've just heard about and you reality and you wore rolled order if you wish, in which the west he is constantly losing its influence and trust. and also about a growing role of non western centric organizations. like the as seo latimer put the novel so sad that moscow respects a lot the genes balanced and mature a position on russia's special military operation in ukraine. the summit continues here. we expect more meetings and more strong words on friday as well. this is the biggest gathering of the sean high corporation organization and it's more than 20 year

jim ping is now done. the same thing is these issues bread lines. and he's told them don't cross it or else and, and for some unknown reason our people are so sick and they just cannot get the message. and clearly this is they don't, they don't understand what it's like to have a, a 2 front war going on all of a sudden once again. and in this case, we're not prepared for whatsoever. not even prepared to to help you ukrainians very much longer given, given how quickly they're going through the logistics. so this whole thing is just total madness and be in august. i am very, very concerned about a possible war. and historically, wars have have occurred in many cases during august. and you pointed out some question the guns of august and they've got as of august. okay, absolutely. martin way in there on this here be because the parallel with ukraine is quite remarkable. ukraine is a small country, relatively poor, very badly governed. i don't think anything you can say anything like that, about china. go ahead. know you've gone. i mean, in that respect