u. s. of washington does not change its approach to his country. foreign minister chin gong also hailed the relationship between beijing and moscow. he said, it's an example for how foreign relations should be conducted. thousands of protesters have rallied in the georgian capital tbilisi. as a controversial new bill passed its 1st vote and parliament. the draft law is intended to crack down on foreign agents. critics say the government backed real bill represents an authoritarian shift in georgia to a for americans kidnapped by gunman and northeastern mexico have been found dead thirties have returned the 2 survivors to the united states. a group had traveled to mexico for surgery before they were apparently caught in a confrontation between criminal games. ellis indian authority say that 6 palestinians, half and family shots in israel, the military rate. and janine in the occupied west bank, israel's prime minister said the target of the operation was a palestinian. he said killed 2 israeli settlers last week. yeah. who went on to say the man was killed in the reed. now france, tens of th

u. s. military has just released video of the encounter between russian su 20 something. the jets, the u. s. road. there's been a growing war of words between moscow, washington, over the u. s t road crashed him to the black sea of the 1st time in 12 years, the leader of south careers in japan. the 2 nations say they want to rebuild security at economic ties. in the face of continued threats from north korea, japan is hosting a defense show where a joint fighter jet project with the u. k at italy is to to take center stage the asia pacific region is witnessing a rapid military build up with several countries, including japan, increasing their defense budgets flores, louis reports. this might, japan's next generation stealth fighter will look like it's a joint project with the u. k and italy mocking japan's 1st major military development with a partner other than the us since world war 2 and less say security considerations in the region are changing, driven by 2 main factors, prompting countries to rethink the defense strategies. well 1st, the main challenge seems to me is north korea is continually testing a ballistic missiles and violating un sanctions are

u. s. secretary of state anthony blinkin, who claims that washington's goal is to bring peace. however, documents from the pentagon, dating several years back, revealed the u. s. as longstanding policy of trying to influence caves, decision making, r t correspondence donald quarter has the story. what does the key of regime have in common with nicaraguan drug traffickers, in afghan islamic fundamentalists, american money and expertise have converted all of them into proxies at one point or another. take these 2019 job ads for us state department employees looking to advise ukraine's defense ministry training includes advisor and mentor skills capacity building operational readiness. the advisors, primary focus is support for ukraine's restructuring of defense budget management systems towards nato, and support of the ministry of defense. his goals towards nato interoperability. the president of ukraine has signaled his desire for the defense establishment to move toward euro atlantic integration. the senior strategic policy advisor will consult with the deputy prime minister for

of the u. s. defense funding is actually private contractors. there are estimates that over the past year, independent recipients got more them off of washington national security budget. the u. s. in a spent a general all afghanistan has warned that this could signal corruption when the government and the military industrial complex you're bound to get corrupt elements of not only the ukrainian or the host government, but also of yours government contractors or other 3rd party contractors to try to steal the money. there is just so much money going in and it's hard to keep track off. i'm not super optimistic that we're going to learn a lesson. i've been in washington since 90 to 2 and learning lessons is not in our dna in the united states. unfortunately. now look or have a look at how the cost ukraine's war efforts compare with those of other major conflicts, waste by washington. now, spending on military aid to keep have actually surpassed the annual us funding of its previous war. in afghanistan, the u. s. is also estimated time spent on ukraine, about half of the money did on average per year in vietnam. both the vietnam i'm african, i saw, was en

of chemical weapons moving around for being utilized. the lady a we spoke to also journalists and activists, thomas fuzzy, who says that the u. s. is approach is out of date on washington's had gemini, is being confronted by other powers. it just shows how delusional the u. s. has become the u. s. seems to think that it's still lives in the well of the ninety's as world war 2, the u. s. has pretty much been running the world as you would a mafia style racket, you know, resorting to exactly the same techniques that matthew results to control. a city extortion, bullying, blackmail violence. what it hasn't realized is that that world has changed to now what used to be fed very powerful kingpin that controlled the entire city has now turned into an old, slightly seen our man that doesn't control much of the city. i am much of the world any more, in fact controls only a few small neighborhoods in that city. namely, you know what the so called collective west. that's because now you have countries that have stood up that are standing up against the u. s. power. i will knows that the so called rules based order was always a u. s. or west based order that's clear to everyone now

of some u. s. allies, australia, for example, of thought it turning their backs on washington city and sen, jordan. still, john has even accused the u. s. of persistently using armed conflicts to advance its own national interests. they begin a conflict in their national interest and they ending in their national interest, the people of vietnam, the people all iraq, the people of afghanistan know that america is a very bad house. guest is not the only one as another or other countries around the world. are distancing themselves from us policies are see course for it seems to any of the details. the u. s. clearly views itself as a global leader, the most important country on the planet. they are both countries that chief in bristol, at u. s. leadership around the world and in china's case in particular, they certainly like to challenge us leadership around the world, based on america's increasing leadership around the world, launched an u. s. leadership around the world. every country on the continent is different, has different needs and, and a, and different expectations of american leadership. t

of a potential limits to the u. s. commitment to ukraine, conflicts, the reference vectors office has received nearly 200 complaints about a legit miss spending of washington funds for ukraine. but despite the numerous allegations, the u. s. inspectors office has insisted that it didn't find any proof of corruption that has only added to concerns about the assistance being sent to ukraine with many unsettled questions about a lack of transparency. we heard from a retired us air force left tenant girl who says there's bipartisan support for ramping up ukraine's war effort. as congress, when are often directly funded by the military industrial complex. i know how the u. s. senate gets reelected and they get re elected through their relationships and the donors that they have in this country. and how many of those are from the defense sector. and so, you know, it's not in their interest to reduce spending. it's not in their interest to ask hard questions that may lead to the reduction in that sweat. that's exactly what would happen if we actually looked at this. there is by bipartisan support to continue to spend, as we saw with the senate, the senate vote ju

of the u. s. dance, sang washington respects the territorial integrity of ukraine, while disregarding the fact that taiwan is an integral part of china and he should go, the chinese people have every right to ask. why does the us talk about respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity and ukraine? what disrespecting china sovereignty and territorial integrity on the taiwan question. why does u. s. gas china not to provide weapons to russia? well, it keeps selling arms to taiwan in violation of the august 17th communique. why does the u. s. keep on professing the maintenance of regional ties and stability while cowardly formulated in a plan for the destruction of taiwan, where russia is, deputy foreign minister. so to carry up cough, he says that bilateral ties with china and driving the u. s. and its allies around the world. crazy. made the comments in an exclusive interview to us 0 doughty i cheat and i many guns of this book would. obviously americans are concerned that are comprehensive partnership and the whole complex of our ties. multi faceted and deep have received an additional imp

i'd of washington were a recollection of productive talks, appeared forgotten by the u. s. president. it follows a back and forth between the western allies on who would send the advanced heavy weapons 1st. it ended up taking the american pledge of what was initially a single abrams tank, which subsequently grew to $31.00 for germany to cross the line as well on promise its leopard 2 tanks. here's the u. s. national security advisers taken how offensive oath he recently decided against sending them because his military told them that they would not be useful on the battlefield in this fight, but would be useful, would be german tanks. so in the interest of aligns unity and to ensure that ukraine got what it wanted, despite the fact that the abraham's aunt, the tool they need, the president said, okay, i'm going to be the leader of the free world. i will send abrams down the road. if you send leopards now, while political scientist on international security analyst mark slip, boda believes that tanks and question won't deliver ukraine victory. to be perfectly honest, neithe

of the a i driven chats g p t search engine, which was developed in the u. s. has placed the 2014 my done uprising in ukraine on a list of cues that washington's been involved in the u. s. government backed the ousting of ukraine's president victor ya. new coverage and a crew that brought pro western leaders to power chat. gpc is perhaps the best known of these artificial intelligent bots. it was one of those requests to write an essay about us involvement in coups, around the world that is generated. this embarrassing response includes ukraine on the list, the u. s. on the eyes, of course, deny involvement in the overthrow of the ukranian government in 2014 how to insist that russia's special military operation was in fact an unprovoked attack. but chat g p t apparently on said the den ukrainian president jani cove ich was ousted in a cood brought to power pro weston leaders being i, i another one of the chat box went off. it produced a detailed timeline of the u. s. involvement in the qu essentially said that the intervention was aimed to contain, and we can rush and it said it was dangerous and destructive. here's what they said . the coolness to aftermath h

of gone out tanzania and zambia. it's the 2nd high level visit to the continent by a u. s. official in recent months and comes as washington seeks to rival the rising influence of russia and china as our teeth crumble a top my explains. this will be common to harris's 1st visit to the african continent, but no one seems certain what the objectives behind his visit is. as use internet said she will be in gonna, tanzania as well as zambia. but one thing is for sure we know about the. busy uses at least tentative position with regards to its former influence on the continent following a void of some 2 decades in which is seen china moving in and the growing influence of russia. and this seems to be very much a guiding of as visit as the us actively tries to wage a gap between it's between africa as well as russia and china. and this seems to be a part of the motif if you will, that is informing this visit the triples transfer the united states partnerships without african and advance. so share efforts and security and economic prosperity through all the trip in partnership with african governments and private sector. the vice

of this. and certainly something that the u. s. looks at favorably as washington wants to solidify that trilateral japan, south korea u. s. alliance. certainly the launch of a missile by north korean icbm today, you know, emphasizes that fact. but the conservative prison unit also wants to encourage the business leaders here to develop stronger trade relations with japan. and, you know, several members of the business community did accompany him in the south green government. also, prior to this summit made up a list of something like a 100 joint projects. it wants to pursue with japan. so business as well as security is a, is a big part of this. leaders of the 2 countries might understand why they need to strategically engage with each other, but given a strong emotion, some people have about past war time trauma. what do ordinary people in south korea think? well, i think it really depends. you know, who you talk to business. people generally favor humans outreach, but liberals humans, a conservative. the left is a little bit more concerned about human rights an

u. s. chin gang said an invisible hand is driving the escalation of the war to serve ju, political agendas. and his 1st is conference chin. gang blamed washington for rising tensions between the 2 nations. and he wanted a future conflict of the u. s. does not change its course well, no. joey rule. we will take it as our mission to defend china's interests. we firmly oppose any form of her german ism and power politics. we firmly oppose the cold war mentality. can base confrontation and acts to contain and hold back other countries development. we will resolutely safeguard china. sovereignty security and development interests are consider, you joins us now live from beijing actions as a little bit more about the tone of the foreign minister's speech here. while tingling is the phone, the chinese ambassador to the united states, and there was a big question as to whether this change over in staff would mean that we would see a softer tone from china or more conciliatory. one rather than the hawkish, one that we previously sole. but when we heard chin gung speak on tuesday morning during this press conference. it seemed that his tone was, as so se

of the u. s. defense funding is actually that of the private contractors. they're estimates the over the past year. independent recipients got more than half of washington's entire national security budget. of the u. s. inspect the journal and dentist on has warned that this could signal corruption between the government and that of the military industrial complex. you are bound to get corrupt elements of not only the ukrainian or the whole government, but also of us government contractures or other 3rd party contractors to try to feel the money. there is just so much money going in and it's hard to keep track off. i'm not super optimistic that we're going to learn a lesson. i've been in washington since 92 and learning lessons is not in our dna in the united states. unfortunately, just remember, let's give you a comparison and take a look at how the cost for the ukraine war effort compared with those of other major conflicts that essentially waste by washington. so, spending on military a to key f as actually surpass the annual us funding of its previous war and got us on the u. s. is also estimated. have spent on your credit and about half of the money i did o

u. s. as a leader in asia. he doesn't know it's the 21st century. while ambassador burns comments came during a discussion of the u. s. chamber of commerce, where he and washington role in asia is stronger than ever. from my perspective city here in china, looking out at the indoor pacific, our american position is stronger than it was 5 or 10 years ago. it's the strength of our alliances is the strength of our private sector. it's our innovative capacity in our r n d capacity, which comes from our research institutions and our big tech companies. and i do think that the chinese now understand that the united states is staying in this region. we're, we're the leader in this region. meanwhile, washington rallying its allies to introduce sanctions on beijing if china chooses to support russia in the ukraine conflict nowadays, according to official us sources. while the nature of the sanctions is still not clear, it's known that support for such actions is being seen primarily among the g 7 group of leading economies. the us treasury department has declined to comment asian of 1st specialist nelson wong believe sanctions or a double edged sword. and china would be

of the u. s. defense funding is actually private contractors. there are estimates the over the past year independent recipients, but more than fall off of washington's national security budget. the u. s. inspector general on afghanistan has warned that this could signal corruption between the government and the mid industrial complex. you're bound to get corrupt elements of not only the ukrainian or the host government, but also us government contract is or other 3rd party contract is to try to steal the money is just so much money going in and it's hard to keep track of. i'm not super optimistic that we're going to learn a lesson of been in washington since 1982 and learning lessons is not in our dna in the united states. unfortunately, smiling on mercy, a team has actually support the us annual funding of its previous wars in afghanistan and the nom, now last year the u. s. is estimated, but 50 percent more money than they did annually in vietnam. both the vietnam i'm afghanistan was ending in a residing failure for the us, despite the massive toes on the economy and public sentiments about the government . there is still no clear indication of th

of relations between china and the u. s? yes, i did the minister stars by condemning washington, a response to the recent balloon incident, noting that it was the u. s. as false a false impression, impression of trying to turn a very minor incident and very minor and then into a diplomatic crest that could have been averted. and see. and shingle says that he is very much against using competition to character, characterized the relic relationship with the united states, and has attacked the so called 0 sum game narratives, or the so called a cold war attitude. a he also added that the beijing would not remain silent if the u. s. slender or attack china, and that surprising china will not make america great again or stop is rejuvenation . but despite those strong rhetoric, notably the foreign minister still underlined importance or does necessity of forging strong ties between the 2 nations. adding that doing so is in the interest of the people in both countries that's in shown jane c t n correspondent. thank you very much. ah, whoa, culture is like a logical slavery. those words from indian american, 2024 u. s. presidential hope

of the u. s. dawn saying, washington respects the territory integrity of ukraine, while disregarding the fiber, taiwan is an in 8 animal part of china sullivan. t shirt tango, the chinese people have every right to ask. why does the us talk about respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity and ukraine? war disrespecting, china sovereignty and territorial integrity on the taiwan question. why does u. s. gas china not to provide weapons to russia while it keeps selling arms to taiwan in violation of the august 17th communique. why does the u. s keep on professing the maintenance of regional ties? instability, while cowardly formulating a plan for the destruction of taiwan. russia devotee farm as up, so gay re a clove, says bilateral pile, with china driver in the u. s. and his allies around the world. quote crazy. he made the comment an exclusive interview here on arte achieving americans of this backwoods. obviously, americans are concerned that our comprehensive partnership and the whole complex of our ties, multi faceted and deep have received an additional impetus and continue to develop

u. s. secretary of state anthony blinking. it's visiting ethiopia and me share essentially post u. s. influence on the african continent, though it does come as editor, i accuse it's washington. i've actually impeding peace in hell. australia's plan to buy 5 nuclear power submarines from america certainly draws criticism from china. it concerns the deal, puts non proliferation agreements with also russia agrees to extend the black sea grain deal, which was set to expire this saturday. it will be extended for 2 months. however, most of those days, the west must old up it's part of the agreement and allow the export of russian. greg with multiple us banks, seeing that stops crash to american violence collapse over the weekend. a president, a bite and essentially made an emergency address trying to steady the boat, assuring americans that money is with us. and we are live from all to international headquarters in moscow where it's now just off to 4 pm on tuesday, straight your top stores. so russia's wagner group has reported taken control over the northern part of the industrial zone of a song that is in the city about tom officer, also known as bach moot. on verified footage,

tune of billions. yet another resounding policy success from the big brain bureaucrats in brussels is aimed at some u. s. allies, australia for a czar will have started turning their backs on washington, australia, senator jordan. still, john has even accused the u. s. of persistently using armed conflicts. so vast is own national interests. they begin a conflict in their national interest and they ending in their national interest the people of vietnam, the paypal iraq, the people of afghanistan know that america is a very bad house guest also is not the only one as other countries around the world and distancing themselves from us policies. recent research has shown that this part, around a $140.00 countries condemning the ukranian conflict, 85 percent of the world population does not participate in western sanctions against russia. i'll take correspondence to sweeney as the details. the u. s. clearly views itself as a global leader, the most important country on the planet. they are both countries that chief in bristol, at u. s. leadership around the world. and in china's case, in particular, they certainly like to challenge us leadership around the world, based on america's incre

of buck. ah, nick spicer, welcome to the program. the u. s. and german leaders have met in washington and a display of unity over the war in ukraine. it was all actuals, his 1st visit to the white house since rushes invasion. he and joe biden focus there talks on support for keith and concerns that china is planning to provide russia with military assistance to the u. s. also announced a new $400000000.00 package of military aid for keith schultz as germany is committed to back in ukraine for as long as it takes really important that we've been together organized on work step that we've made feasible that we can give the necessary or to you a, this time i think it's very important that we give the message that we will continue to do so as long as it takes less and for more on shorts is relatively speedy trip to washington. we're joined now by political correspond, emily gorgine, emily and i know was somewhat close doors, not a lot of announcements to the breast for after. but what do we know about what was achieved in this meeting? well, that's what we don't know, right? i mean, this

of the u. s. inflation reduction act, which supports green investment. e u has been critical of the washington initiative, which it says disadvantages europe, as the destination for investment. sri lanka sets received the 1st batch of international monetary fund financing within the next 2 days. yeah, m f approving a nearly $3000000000.00 bill off the island nation and saying today that disbursements would be tied to reviews that are set to take place every 6 months. or i, my colleague, cassandra site is here in studio to help us understand the still more cassandra, we've been reporting a lot over sri lanka over the past year and the crisis there. let's start with this deal. what are the conditions of this deal? right, this is a deal many months in the making and from what i've been reading, they're essentially 3 big pillars holding up the steel. the 1st one is debt restructuring. the i m. f really wants you longer to get its debt under control, back down to sustainable levels. and there is expected next month in april to be a debt restructuring strategy. unveiled by the government. they've be

of independence when the u. s. poured cache into poland, the u. s. congress approved $288000000.00 worth of foreign military financing just last year for warsaw with washington playing sugar, daddy is poland, really in a position to claim independence as a core value, let alone one worth dragging. the whole western world into war with russia to defend. now french, your deputy terri, mariani has just pointed out that warsaw is now going for in washington in providing fighter jets to ukraine, which washington still at least for now refuses to do the kind of weapons mariani says that can hit deep into russian territory. now clearly a huge risk of major escalation here. yet the polish president says that war size make 20 nines will arrive in ukraine within days. and the rest of the wes just shrugs, i guess, by the way, the people of france. so, you know, the audience that the polish ambassador to paris was addressing on french t v. i certainly not agreed to rush in behind holland for a war with russia just because both warsaw and teeth have this totally delusional view of themselves as independent and not washington's paid shields, doing its dirty work against r

u. s. has again slammed human rights in india, citing challenges to freedom of expression while praising the democratic values that bind washington and new delhi. let's cross live to our india correspondent room during sharma for more details. good morning room during the latest u. s. for port criticizing indian democracy comes of days after washington and finally appointed its ambassador to india. the timing is quite interesting. it isn't 5, tell biden administrations in the us strategy also seems a bit confusing now and i say this because on one hand the u. s. slams india for of course, some, you know, the, a human rights violations that they call are in india. and then of course some a we see that on the other hand you will see that as a u. s. is very, very happy with this or did you partnership that new demi in washington have but also this appointment over at the man called eric garcia, t e to comes after 2 years, 2 long years. this in fact has been the longest gath bomb edward led india has no one had a u. s. envoy in new delhi. now interesting, lee is this a man before he got appointed say is that he wants to interfere in

u. s. leadership at least is completely out of touch. with reality, the u. s. has again slammed human rights in india, citing challenges to freedom of expression, also praising the democratic values. the bind washington and you. deli ortiz, india correspondence from the sharma has more. biden administration's india's track of g honestly seems a bit confusing. on one hand, the u. s. slams india for human rights violation in the country. and the other had, had said that had values it strategic partnership with the india appointment off the top. you as to feel matt in new delhi, the man and a garcia t he stand your has been marked by a series of scandal, and he has been appointed at the u. s. envoy in new delhi. now this appointment took place after a gas off to wheel that's been the longest gap ever. that india did not have a u. s. ambassador, but as far as this man and before we, before he got appointed done, he basically said that he wants to, in to fair in india's matter. never mind that his own tenure has been marked by a series of scandals. but i intend to engage directly with civil society. there are groups that are actively fighting for the human rights of people on the ground in india that will

of the u. s. department of defense chinese washington. like you now did, there is a fence added to alaska topless. it takes a closer look at how this trilateral security pack is actually going to whack. a strategic alliance signed in 2021 by australia, the united states, the united kingdom. it deepens, defense ties between the 3 countries. it enables them to share more intelligence, swap, defense technology in training and base us submarines and perth. but most importantly, the united states and the u. k. have agreed to help australia build its own fleet of nuclear power attack submarines. these advanced new subs will give australia navy, a huge leaping capabilities, a mix of american british technology with many the components made in australia will be a huge boost was trailers military industrial complex. and we'll pack a significant punch using nuclear fuel. the submarines range will be virtually unlimited or be able to stay on the water for far longer. across the long range conventional missiles, they'll be able to attack targets deep