when one of them 11, i think it's enough with us. i use, hulu. you is now completely following the american dictate. europe has lost its independence to serve american interest in the geopolitical containment of russia and china, russia, foreign ministry states, the you, the boss. so all the un sound is conducting a proxy war against moscow in beijing. plains washington for stealing oil from syria, saying the tankers, all of the country type is worse. they looted by us forces. just a recent survey shows that people in india to the us as

a military threat to the nation coming in seconds only after neighbors, china side, africa, 6, the substitute to the american dollars dominated looking to that brick group of countries for a solution with from moscow to the world, this is our take, great to have your company. my name's, you know, the the european union has lost its independence to washington and been nato military alliance. those direct words coming from russia's foreign minister during an annual news conference where he summed up the events of the past year. you want to say use the e. u is now completely following the american dictate. because europe has lost its independence in a joint declaration explicitly states that europeans are subjugated,

nato's essentially continuing an obligation to serve american interests in the geopolitical containment of russia and china. one of the main points, it seems to be that 2022 definitely. so a tendency that has been developing for many years to create a development to bring to the forefront that the west is trying to impose its way of thinking. and it's imperialist views on the rest of the world. for example, as her gay elaborate mentioned that nato has been fighting russia through you crate . and that even an academic study that was published in the west has shown facts and details revealing that. and also that would that help all that proxies and at satellites. they've been developing this for years to new english. that's for the u . s. has now ship to coalition, including virtually all european countries about natal member states, and you states and others. and now they are waging a war by proxy against russia using ukraine is approximately in order to solve the

russian matters, just like hitler wanted to find the solution to a jewish problem. they're doing the same right now. sir gallagher of also mentioned that the sanctions that are being used by the wes are aimed at not only weakening russia and trying to get it to play along to what it wants are russia to do comply, but also with rushes. i lies another so called undesirable nations, trying to force them to follow suit and do the same thing, follow washington's rhetoric. there was an interesting question at some point, a, when a journalist asked, how can russia claim to respect the un charter and international law. when it started this a special military operation and the journalist asked, how can the russia accused the west of doing something that it itself has done now? just took women in the city, the mortgagee europe. there was an opinion among europeans that russia did not show its best side by deciding to take military action. while the rest of the imperialist countries that have bombed half of the planet or violate an

international law in the same way in order to cease typically mormonism, we are victims of this posting greeks. we have a threat for us, right? yeah. how would you argue with this position for the scholars that she had? russia has not shown as best qualities. that could be an interesting formulation in that of about $300.00 times. after the end of the cold war, of the united states invaded some one else. his territory lay up with him. their goal in places like central america is the liquidation of threats to the world loose when they were offended. for example, by saddam hussein and gadhafi in yugoslavia, they simply decided to destroy the parking was for the sake of german or you. but there was no question of any tribunals or decision to investigate crimes. they said we will put you under sanctions. you too. we defended our security from ukraine for after they made a spring board for an attack on russia. and secondly, the humiliation of russians and the kuda tar in 2014. when the west side with the anti russian regime was out in the hell style back, the bombing of la guards can odessa lauren, investigate which

a good will know tribunals that minsk agreements was just to give you a korean war. time and weapons. years ago, we're the only one shot. the location of immense can agreement all the others were cheaters. but another to some point was that to us, regular ross about western globalization is collapsing, and washington is trying to retain that top spot by. going as far as a legitimate means to achieve that, any means possible, trying to create a rift between countries to make sure that the majority is stick to. it's a rhetoric also understand you were there among many, many journalists from all around the world. what's it, was it just ukraine or what are some other topics that level of touch down on as well? no, i was not just the crane. we also heard about the standoff between us that of i, john and armenia. there were questions about japan, but we could see that there was a particular focus more on asia and not

a natural because as we'll see in russia has been shifted more towards the east, especially after the special military of operations began. and we saw the reaction from the west with the sanctions and tried to restrict russia, and so we can russia. so there was a particular emphasis in particular on and china and russia relationship with china . the shuttle sure news. this little news publication are relations with china are going to the best times in history. the leaders of our country say the same thing. china characterizes relations like this. reliance is not an alliance, but in some ways even stronger boots are relations are respectfully based on a balance of interest. there is no need to look for information about the west attempts to bring discord into our relation, so they don't consider us an immediate threat. china is considered a long term challenge lose will they understand that their forces are running out in opposition to the historical trend of the formulation of the multi polar world who see that the west is trying to bring the scores between us. they are trying to

defeat us in order to then convince russia to become a partner of the west that has forgiven sanctions little so and will not interfere and ideally helped to restrain china. i do not know which of their analysts developed these theories, but they are out of touch with real life accomplishing my colleagues, marina cost forever and very se. talking through the many topics tucked upon their by sir j loved off at the annual media conference. he held on weds they if you'd like the dig deeper into that r t dot com as ever as you covered. not german chancellor o left shells has urged the allies to increase military supplies to keep vowing to back ukraine for as long as necessary in the conflict. then order for the war to ent rush, us aggression must fail. that is why we are continuously supplying ukraine with large quantities of arms in close consultation with all patmos. however,

the chancellor's words contrast with berlin's hesitation on sending its leopard 2 tanks to ukraine along with a statement from the defense minister on his country's indirect involvement in the conflict. that's as some german politicians have spoken night against washington pressure, saying the u. s. is trying to force berlins hm. to day stag deliveries are reminiscent of the wound. 1914. this means direct participation in the war. this seems to be the deeper reason why washington is so reluctant on the subject of tag deliveries by forces its ally to make sacrifices like a vassal. will washington's efforts to get allies to send more lethal aid comes amid tough economic challenges and germany, which is facing rising prices and soaring energy bills. despite what we've just heard, the u. s. secretary of state denying, says, countries pressuring anyone to take action. germany suggested today that sir,

they weren't allowed things to be sent to ukraine unless the u. s. and 1st, i was a response to that. so on the question of, of tanks and for that matter, any women system, these are sovereign decisions for each country to make well, a member of the european parliament for the alternative for germany party gunner back says that while the u. s. is asking countries to support key of it's not falling its own advice while she did this, certainly encouraging us to send tanks 1st or to send 10 tanks. why washington isn't prepared to do so far as the job and population is concerned. most johns, do not want to get involved in a more germany or a job government. i should say. above all, seeks to please nato and the you. they believe that's what i would call wishful thinking. ready that they can please nato,

and the you and the friends of ukraine without being getting further revolt or this conflict. i think that's any dangerous, wishful thinking. the reason i think is a conviction that ukraine can win this conflict. i think that's at the heart of the mental supply as well. she is concerned, of course the rest of the world will pas flame and also wish to extend this sphere of influence seem to be the source of that policy and ukraine. ok, let's turn attention to india where recent poll among citizens are thrown up. so my opening results, including the u. s. taking 2nd place among what people views the top security threat to the nation. ortiz, india, corresponding runjun sharma picks up the story. and now the pool is saying that us

is considered as a 2nd top thread going ahead, focused on and focused on remember in the shares of history of military conflict with border disputes as well. and that ever since the creation of focus on 1947, india had trouble diplomatic relationship with the end. a us, in fact, interestingly, comes ahead, barkus on and in this particular so be ordinary citizens from across the country. one interviewed, of course they saw china as the top thread, but 22 percent saw us. the 2nd most threat, as far as this ball is concerned, while the world's 2 largest democracies would seem to make for natural partners, especially given their mutual mistrust of china, indians have strategic reasons to be wary of the world's western superpower as tensions between washington and beijing increase the indian public may be worried

about getting caught in the middle of a us, china conflict. destabilizes regional security, putting india risk. well, that's interesting considering india has rather warm relationships with the west. also u. s. as in the top trading partner in the world, and even then when you look at this, so be a people are seeing that us as a 2nd most threat when it comes to india. also, when it comes to china now the top that lives in the so be 43 percent. the indians come to the china, the top military tract. remember, india in the recent past has had trouble a border situation with shy not in 2020 india on china. so one of the bloodiest commissions in history, whereas several soldiers also had lost their life. and also last year in 2022. another class between india and china we saw now another interesting aspect of this particular survey is that indians are likely to blame us allies. and he,

for the conflict in ukraine, and it's only around 38 percent. so less than 40 percent indians that come to the more school responsible for the on going conflict in ukraine. now it's around 26 percent. people that see united states us to be blamed and around 18 percent people thing nature was to begin. so 44 percent there compared to the 38 percent people think and leave me more school for the conflict. now another reason that people think in this direction is because indians have often been all to by the west by the u. s. a. for the constant threshold its force on india to condemn the rush shells offensive in ukraine also to north by discounted oil from russia. now 60 percent of people in india believe that the indian government should continue buying oil from russia and around 49 percent. see that india should continue

military exercises with more school. just to quickly underline that as far as new delhi and moscow friendship is concerned, it has withstood the test of time and also geopolitical jones in that sense, for example, in a 971. when india and barcus on had gone to war or the manager and prices in eastern focused on countries, including the u. s. the all supported. they provided military as well as moral support to boston. and that's when india had sent out and with call and only one country came to india rescue. that was so with the union. so this ball in a sense, whole testimony of that people in india haven't forgotten history. ah, another story we are closely following to day. china is foreign ministry spokesperson has slammed the u. s. for the quote, illegal plundering of syrian oil thing. washington is interested in reaping the

benefits of its actions, regardless of the collateral damage cost. make what else should we're struck by the blatant see? an egregious of the u. s. plundering of syria to be at the level of us greed and stealing resources from syria is a striking as its generosity and giving out military aid whether the u. s. gives or takes. it plunges other countries into turmoil and disaster. and the u. s. reaps its benefits for its hedge. ammonia and other interests may wonder. beijing also accused washington of ruthlessly crumpling on the lives of the serene people. says the mosque essays more than 80 percent of its daily or lightfoot was smuggled out of the country by u. s. troops in the 1st half of 2022. while already this year, just a few weeks into it. official state, the u. s. has taken 60 tanker trucks full of oil and wheat out of syria. the u. s. has been present in serene since 2014 leading

a coalition focused on regime change involving the military's of most nato countries and regional allies. amid accusations of stealing syrian oil in 2021. the pentagon said that american troops weren't there to protect serene oil fields except on rare occasions when civilians were involved or syrian american journalist and political commentator steven so ini say's washington's actions are stripping syria of the resources the country needs to recover. they are forbidding the city people from having added the fuel number for a warming to houses in the winter for tourney on the factory is for the rebuilding of syria. and that is particularly what a washington d. c wants to a country like steel. yeah. is that huge amount of money that is that that could have rebuilt year to $2.00 or 3 times a doctor. we could have got a medication medicine. we could have got to stop our hospitals and studia. it could

have got fuel for the cars, our schools and everything. we have a shortage. it is getting one out of electricity every 24 hours, the ceiling people i'm talking about the student average people. they cannot and they don't have fuel. it don't have electricity to warm their houses. there are some areas in syria like la po, damascus, homeless, almira hammock. in the central of syria, the temperature are below 0. they have no way of the warming to houses. another of our headline stories today, south africa's foreign minister has called for a dollar substitution in global and regional trade, and is looking towards the bricks group of countries for the solution to that. now r t contributor chris m spoke earlier with my colleague research shea about at what these words from the lady pandora mightn't till we've always been concerned at

the fact that there is a dominance of the dollar. and that we do need to look at alternatives. i think this is one of the reasons why we created the new development bank of bricks. i think what she's referring to is the fact that let's take south africa that the largest economy in africa, which is, you know, in so many ways such an important content for our entire well to provide us with 70 bitches and resources that i think they just fed up the fed up with the fact that their entire economy is dictated by us fiscal. why, why do you think that fed up, chris? because the dollar saves nations all around the world? is the king couldn't currency? why would they be fed? the fact that this policy of most countries that trading us dollars are pretty extracted well from that country, as opposed to that take china is invested millions if not trillions of dollars in the economies about the connection where it seems to be instead of the extraction that policy seems to be one of investment bank winning the hearts and minds the way china is working in africa, building infrastructure, schools, roads, hospitals,

clinics, these kinds of things. it's almost like winning the hearts and minds of the people that i play. i think that's totally the, the correct way to look at it. i mean, that say we're, we're from a town or a village in africa, and you'll down down the sound of mine, or you'll work in some kind of mineral extraction. and in the past, you've really seen this western companies come employee and just extract that well, whereas they see a chinese company coming, employ them, and actually re invest that money in new homes. like you said, new roads, you infrastructure, new schools, new hospitals, and things that really improve your life. i think if it were you or i'd, i'd, i'd know which side i'd want to want to be on. but chris, talk to me about bricks, brazil, russia, india, china, south africa, potentially it's going to be saudi arabia, potentially, argentina, potentially iran. what are the implications that chris re bricks as it is right now, covers a far larger expense of the well population that the united states could ever dream a little bit different trade associations and different ways in which they tried to manipulate the world. the fact that saudi joined that organization who to go to

south africa, the largest economy in africa, in that we've got china. we've got these big brazil, the largest country in south america. if the south has come in there and all these other countries that are requesting now to join, i mean it's really unstoppable. i don't know the fiscal level, which is probably more important, but i think this might be what the formalist of south africa is also referring to. on a fiscal level, there's really nothing stopping these come countries coming together very similar to the year, right, right. the european union has its own currency the year, right? we could have the bricks, currency, right? at that point that is incredibly powerful. and for me, it's very, very difficult to see how the united states federal reserve could ever counter a currency with that much power in rehab less than 2 months ago where they agreed to go essentially, to national currencies. it's almost like by, by petro dollar. hello petrow you want, and yet all these opec countries, they're all joining on board here. they're all looking to trade in national currencies. this is like, this is like a snowball, roaring down a mountain. i'm getting massively more, more big, big a, big a,

big as every day goes past here. it looks all ready to me anyway. it looks like the petro dollar, which is the spine of america's budget on foreign policy, is being shattered. yes, i agree with you entirely. i think we only had to see that as well. from the last meeting we've been biden's visit suggested to c b s. prior to the fees we saw in those meetings, we saw the pick up town countries which are obviously led by saudi arabia, chad. but through basically say no, they did that with oil pricing, they refused to lower the price. they said, we can't do that because we're not going to gamble with our economies anymore. we're not going to allow you to be tight to us through the us dollar, which is exactly as you pointed out how they've done it, to dictate how we run our fiscal policies and how we look after our own people in our own country. by the way, something else interesting was said by south africa is foreign ministry. the j. she condemned the us bill designed to punish african countries for any cooperation with moscow, calling it unlawful initiative. i believe the girl should really be killed her

because i think it's totally unwarranted. i think it's an intrusion that goes against international law. and we've made this clear to our colleagues in the united states. we even met with the drafter of the initial legislation and indicated our fence with which we view this particular proposed piece of legislation. it's called the malign russian activities in africa, eggs. what do we in africa called the anti african bill? and those were the words that have been used by several commentators to describe exactly what happened last year in the house of representatives. in the united states, the bill got an overwhelming majority support in congress infected with bipartisan winning by some 419 volt to 9. and it was passed through. but the interesting part

is what happened to that bill as it was slightly seem to be going through is way to the senate. and then ceramic was, i had a working visit to the united states and he and his father and his foreign minister doctrine, a lady ponder poor it is squarely to the americans that this is an anti africa bill that they cannot force africans to choose that africans have a right to determine their own development and determine their own partners. we have been lamenting that bill ever since it came. and before that trip, by sort of a late last year in november, it was said by some of the officials in the white house that, that prison a joe biden will take as much time as possible to delay this bill to make sure that it never ends up on his desk to possibly try and stop in with, in the senate. but it really looks at anybody who is potentially making friendships with, with russia and south africa, has a vested interest,

especially when it comes to russia as part of the brakes. membership and south africa has been really keen to really leverage on some of the memberships that you find within break to make them come up issues that are rather continent wide. they've continuously encourage the chinese to invest more on the continent and the continuously look towards russia as part of the military fortification of south africa. the progress of character, of the forum has been recognized and that many countries wish to be part of it. because there is concern in the world about changing politics and almost the unicorn polar framework, where one or 2 regions or countries wish to be dominant in terms of ideology and political thought. so the fact that there are countries, especially in the developing world that have recognized that breaks offers on turn

because we don't force idea for anyone. we discuss corporation, we see global amity. we see more and more that russia is getting and faced on the continent as well, becoming a member of, of preference, especially when it comes to issues of security. as we've seen around the hell region with some of the numerous countries that have been really taken over by the insurgency and as long as extremism that has been part of that region and is not surprising. but the lady ponder, picked this moment to give this interview because she's always been measured, always been deliberate, and never gives an interview for its own fake. us authorities have arrested the head of hong kong, registered crypto currency exchange, anatoly leg who has been charged with illegal money laundering. the russian nationalists accused of transmitting quotes, illicit fellows worth bits of millions of dollars. the businessman was arrested in

miami and it's reported he will face charges for laundering funds through his company bits. later, the scheme reportedly enabled russian actors and business people to send money to the u. s. will bring you more details on this story. they come in to us now because. busy of sanctions against the dentist and i'm the financial tool they're taking unless say, the taliban government can't control the numbers of local people growing puppies and treating opium. the telephone itself stresses the previous government, which is responsible for the extent of the current opium problem. a horn at a home right at the beginning when the islamic government had taken control of kabul in afghanistan and victory was announced, the supreme leader of the taliban declared an immediate ban on all kinds of drugs. the seating of narcotics was no longer allowed. following these orders,

we have not allowed any new opium or hashish crops in any districts of the country . or whenever some minor violations came up, the taliban took immediate action to burn the crops. during the 20 year rule of the previous regime, narcotics were being produced on a large scale in afghanistan and the law against the production of opium. poppy was not strictly imposed on our governments stood up against this. with conviction, strong will, and determination. we activated our counter narcotics force and seized a large quantity of hashish, heroine, cocaine, and alcohol. when considering these efforts, we hope to fully stop the drug problem. soon forward, while after the taliban returned to power in 2021, all the financial assets of the state which were maintained in u. s. and european banks, where frozen don includes $2000000000.00 in europe and $7000000000.00 in the us. most western donors including the world bank of all,

so stop sending aid to the country, not molar. we here, i'll show you this because despite that, the taliban government still paid about $5000000.00 to the world bank to service afghanistan's, that last summer. the western economic pressure is only worse in the concrete opium trafficking problem. the taliban say that they initially target the illegal industry which produces, of course, heroin worldwide, which is used. but despite their efforts, afghanistan still supplies, but 80 percent of the globe's opium demand. and now the price per kilogram in 2021 or was that just over $60.00? what's 18 months? less than that. it increased tenfold to $620.00 per kilogram. depending on the region, while a senior member of the countries drug fighting for spoke to r t a by the issues facing the country to some little around 4500 drug addicts have been arrested and sent to jail, including dealers, current right on the streets as you know, it's a harsh winter in afghanistan,

and temperatures have dropped to minus $35.00 in some parts of the country. while kabul has experienced heavy winds and snow fall in this weather, we are really worried about the drug addicts in the prison. we're trying to transfer these people to some other area to save their lives. according to a survey in 2015, we have 3500000 drug addicts in afghanistan, but i don't trust these numbers until we can get our own updated survey. not being labeled a which and becoming an ide cast from your family. signs like salem in the 1600s. but it's what girls are still dealing with today. am central the parts of africa, their story is till next in which hunted in congo. ah ah

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