a who, a free bins need to resist. is this impulse of wanting to die with the double standard? form of international con, toward us, south africa addresses relations with russia as a to for a cause for cooperation beyond western influence. ukraine security service volunteers, a corruption investigation into a new defense or accusations of growth, inflated prices. their recent contract with intelligence service address is peaceful with russia to buy time from here on the battlefield,

but not to find a diplomatic solution with hello, i welcome to international broadcasting alive from moscow. i'm right mommy and it's great to have you with us. we've got a lot to talk about, so let's get started. during enjoying press conference with her, russian counts about south africa's forum as a has underlined the country. independence and address is relations with russia. we as africans need to resist, is this impulse of wanting to direct a double standard form of international conduct toward us that what i do is okay for me, but you cannot do it because you are developing country or you are africa. that is an abuse of international practice. wellness, have you lim,

unions to africa itself from us determine the ways to solve problems on their continent. we share a partnership for accelerated growth and wish south africa speedy development. we talked about conflict resolution in african, for example, in countries like molly, sudan and mozambique. the international community is obligated to support the paths african countries of chosen for themselves. russia will contribute to the resolution of conflicts in flash points across africa, including the training of local peacekeepers. spots are the thought for her was at the conference in plethora shares is report at the beginning of this meeting between the 2 foreign ministers. one of the things that the south african foreign minister mentioned right from the get go was the, i actually, the neo colonial, the anti neo colonial, rather legacy of the soviet union. and the amount of aid that the soviet union gate africa throughout the 20th century. she said that she wants warm relations between

russia and south africa in africa and south africa to continue to develop in the way they have since that time as well. we also heard at this press conference about what exactly they are going to do to deepen cooperation. we heard that specifically in the sphere of atomic energy and infrastructure. those are 2 areas that russian south africa are going to deepen their cooperation in the future lever. i've also mentioned that russia is dedicating itself to further helping peacekeeping efforts in conflict zones across africa as well. now, another thing we heard what that was mentioned here were upcoming joint military exercises between russia, south africa, and china. this is something that washington has taken issue with. it's called it provocative, but both foreign ministers basically said that every sovereign nation has the right to decide who it's going to conduct a joint military exercises with. so obviously, that's that stance that washington has taken on these upcoming joint military

exercises has displeased of these 2 countries as well as likely other other countries who find themselves in the same position. let's take a listen to what they said this williams. we do not violate any norms of the law of the sea, so i don't understand the mixed reaction from the medium. america believes that only its forces are allowed to conduct exercises anywhere in the world. so they're engaged in exercises within the framework of indo strategies, right next to china. and this does not cause a mixed reaction in the media. our exercises are transparent and russia, china, and south africa has made all the information public blows. able asked them about these claims by the united states that russia is somehow weapon ising food, and that the actions of russian president vladimir putin are somehow ah, harming the african economy. i was able to ask both foreign ministers about that as well as the kind of pressure that washington has been putting on african countries that dare to say that they're going to have warm relations or even cordial

relations with the russian federation in terms of on the south african foreign minister, she focused really on the a great deal, the ukraine grain deal. and the fact that i'm, that most of that grain is not even going to the countries that need it the most, it's actually going to western europe. so the south african foreign minister actually called on journalists to find where exactly that grain is going. she said, it would be really nice to see some sort of investigative report into that. to understand why that's happening. as for survey leverage, he laid the blame squarely at the feet of the west, slits at the west. let's take a listen to what he said with. we have repeatedly provided confirmed facts, proving the problems in the food markets began long before russia's military operation. according to the u. s, we turn everything into weapons, oil, gas, sports, and so on. i handed over a text today and that sets out the situation in the food markets. after the u and

head proposed the initiative, we immediately agreed and now we've implemented 2 agreements about the grain deal, which is somehow being implemented. but everything goes to the you and not to poor countries. as for russian fertilizers and grain, the un didn't help the west remove obstacles to our exports. and indeed, there is no line about food and grain in the sanctions. but there are points about bands for ships to enter ports where a ban on our banks using swift. but the west continues to insist that food is not under sanctions. all the important issues are being sidelined. now, unsurprisingly, on the number of topics that were discussed was, of course, the ukraine conflict, which russia said it's always open to negotiating an end to war, at least a ceasefire. and it's actually a key of that laugh rov explained which has a flat out rejected any sort of negotiating. and he pointed to the fact that vladimir zalinski had a made it so that it would be illegal in ukraine for ukrainian officials to

actually have any sort of negotiating going on with the russian side. so we heard a bit about that, but that's basically a rundown of the main topics that were discussed at this press conference here in pretoria. in a bit, this way, african opinion, the us is said set to send if you remembered to the continent. this announcement follows a recent visit by the us treasury secretary, zambia. i'm synagogue where she attempted to portray moscow as a troubling issue for africa, which is war. and when you say food is exacerbated food insecurity and caused untold suffering. and the global economic kid wins caused by the actions of a single man president who is creating an unnecessary drag on african economy. america meant right now he's trying to rescue their influence here

in the african continent, and sometimes to change the opinion of the countries in about the war in the ukraine. this is the 1st thing we see mozambie, korean, kenya, and other countries are the quality countries are part part of the members of the security council of the united nation. so this is the 1st reason did the secretary visit mozambique to mozambique and other countries to, to try to change did the opinion their african government trust in the russian or russian government. this is all right. can say right now because the western countries are coming here is coming here and they have to confront a few years ago and tried to make some things, a development of the piece and etc. but we don't see

anything under jerry. see always wars in some parts of the african continental. so this is the 1st reason we're, we are looking for the other friends, great security service laws and investigation into corruption within the ministry of defense. and what media claims to be the worst corruption scuttled in go for the officers since the beginning, illegal and conflict. ukrainian media are choosing the defense mystery of buying overpriced food. frequent in soldiers having signed a deal at prices $2.00 to $3.00 times higher than current rates. for instance, eggs which crossroads 90 u. s. cents and shops of him bought for $0.46. the deal signed with a local firm in december is estimated to be worth $30000000.00. ukrainian defense minister alex in risen cove denied to the allegations, but amounts of mercy would launch into the old it with an emergency meeting to be

held today. as was live now the ard, he came over in to learn will caleb interesting scandals seems to be a foot. what more do we know about this unfolding corruption? sure. well, we have that deny all from the ukrainian defense minister, but this comes on the heels of yet another scandal. now it's now being reported that the national anti corruption bureau as just arrested, the minister of infrastructure in ukraine. and it is reported that he may have received a $400000.00 bride in order to secure contracts for machinery and equipment. so this is what the ukranian president recently sat on the issue of corruption. yeah. what should i want this to be clear? there will be no return to what used to be in the past to the way various people close to state institutions or those who spent their entire lives chasing

a chair used to live. i think law enforcement officers who protect the law, the interests of the state, and ensure justice now is comments about what's going on in the past are quite interesting. when we look over the pandora papers, it's become obvious that zelinski got filthy rich as a result of these corrupt practices. but now as zalinski is making these comments, and as a big conference is being held in, denouncing the issue of corruption, it's important to understand the contact there is rising discontent in the united states. u. s. public is not thrilled about the fact that their tax dollars are being spent by the billions and what appears to be a very, very corrupt country. here's some of what we've heard from us. officials regarding the billions and billions of dollars being handed to kyo by washington. that's one of the things that i really was focused upon. in fact,

i raised it was present zelinski himself. i said look, if you have a scandal, if you miss of mr. misuse these, these resources, it's gonna, it's going to sink the support in the u. s. and he got that, and then we had a later meeting with a lot of their defense officials and government officials. they're doing detailed software, they're keeping track of every spare part that comes into the country. we're sending over an inspector general from the pentagon this month. so i came away very impressed by the level of accountability. now some of the very same officials that were in that room reassuring this figure from the united states. so there was no wasting of us taxpayer money are now under arrest and it appears they were doing just that. and the details when one looks into the history of ukraine, what's going on there are pretty damage. we basically have the world corruption index in 2021 coming out and saying ukraine was

a 122 out of 180 countries when it came to corruption. and the more you look into it, there is quite a bit of legit concern among the u. s. public about the fact that billions and billions of dollars are being given to a country that is notoriously corrupt. and one looks at the recent statements by zalinski and these, you know, convening of ukrainian officials to make statements and bound the podium against corruption. you could almost look at that as an attempt to reinvent ukraine's image . because beneath the surface, people realize there is a very big problem and that lots and lots of money is being poured into kia by washington with very little accountability. the question now is, how long will the american public continue to tolerate this? we do have a new congress in washington d. c. the republicans have taken control of the house of representatives. public opinion seems to indicate there is growing discontent around this issue among

americans. so we'll have to see how this develops. in fact, i want to ring us up to speed on that as always, unlimited calm change. it's more current. so we'll see how that comes out and we'll know what will happen in the next few. there is no doubt period flexible for donors now and the left, the chief editor, yarmouth, put, come and says that he is announcing all probes into corruption, as it will show was to the allies that ukraine can be trusted. this is a people for nice burgundy trying to whitewash their, their broadness, of course, the western program uses these as an example that there is some kind of monitoring system and it can be you is doing some investigation. they want to convince the world that they can be trusted. oh, but i think that also in the same time window or i'm sure evolution started on the real corruption. oh, you do the highest possible every level in euro. oh people knows to,

to grade. it was about, oh, corruption, ukrainian armies using their power to put these flat market please. this is going want, they're all walkers and enduring was everything was donna used to meet or to brought to prices. and, and this is, this is also touching the very core of the conflict in korean. so what we see here is a show for the western audience that you can rely on. we will check that none of these will happen again until it happens to morrow. again, france is the best option for india to substitute russian weapons supplies. that's the message from paris is amboy, to new delhi also plays in bilateral relations between the 2 powers. we have great corporation on strategic issues. this an extreme level of trust in the counselor's commitment to each other. no other country is in tant, on deliver in the past technology to the joint forces without any kind of

restrictions. we are committed to not only india, but also it's called development and call manufacturing held. the country froth is attempt to take over india's defact samples comes amid similar initiatives from other western countries. in the last year. the u. k. u. s. and other nato allies have made numerous bids to drive a wedge between moscow and new delhi has discussed the story with marshall am. i says warren, who is a former deputy chief of in the integrated defense officer. my force marshall. thanks so much for joining us here. at r t, what is the french diplomat state? i mean, do you really believe that the french weapons of a better option for india? well, i think it is just making the magic statement. ok, which i don't think we should read anything beyond. what's obvious that

india has to do the very strong strategic partnerships with russia also france and india a go kilman has only follow the strategy of keeping it so. so they will see that is one part. but notwithstanding that the india, russia, and in the former soviet union relationship, particularly in the defense, goes a long way and are seen as a very, very reliable and extremely important strategic partner. so we're not going to think that those in the context of the procurement that has been done in a stickler file that has been completed. and then the delivery of obviously the somebody is popping the band in early 2, thousands and the 6 the marines are getting completed. now the 5th one that,

that's been commission. so it's a long standing relationship, even with france. and i think you must think it in that context. and then i mean for us is always sort of not just for the west, the trying to form a or push a wage between india and russia. is this just another tactic? now for that, do do the very same thing. i mean, why is from trying to hook up with india now? well, one was a white, obviously the western military industrial complex is looking for more business and india requirement. they see that a huge, but a lot of changes that are already coming and away in india. the indian government does look very conscious about over dependency on impose. and so therefore, the ottoman and barbara, a strategy that's been put in place, looks at indigenous lation of india's defense, the government. and that is going to play

a major role. so however much the western industrial want to come and explore daily make appointment of india. it's going to have a very limited in or on a basis and what is already existing below get translated into much of intimidation process, manufacturing, build the country and more importantly, any future media procurements will have fuel conditionality that come with the technology acquisition of one be not interested and license production alone, but a joint ventures joined production and joining together into the global supply chain. and therefore, the great opportunity for the russian industries as well as the with, if they understand what india requires, that is an opportunity where you can bring in, in all 3 joint ventures, bringing manufacturing and take it as a global supply chain into the world. and that is an important thing to understand,

so it's not going to be the same game as it was earlier. and therefore, wiley france may wish to replace of their thing. russia, the other important defense. so equipment supplier, that's a long way off. it's not going to happen over the next many tickets. anyway, so the main issue is that india for those front rating, much of its capabilities within the country and they have a lot of work with many countries. and as i said, russia than extremely important defense partner at a level quite not therefore i think translation of the future procurements and, but depending on the want to be that are being procured when we're on the prospects of joint or design or development. and john production, oh, much plain sense to me. i mean, at the end of the day, india has to look after her best interest of the country's best interest. and whatever that works best is what works best. but why now, why do we see sort of the, well, we, we hear about france, we hear about the us,

we're trying to sort of push india away or away from rush. i mean, has in the been sort of a neutral stocks. would you say in this conflict? well, there is a limit of growth and what you're saying because you're in the context or you can contact india taken a stand because absolutely in the national interest. so it's not falling for anyone side. it takes of any balance fan, that's one, but that a lot economic angle economics angle to this. and by process you use all kinds of reasoning to put it in a way and say that you are supporting a law which is unethical. or we are supporting party, that's the way that these kind of arguments are being given and to away from the large transactions that have taken place in the past. and that creates space

dependency as well as that creates a lot of relationship in terms of product support and maintenance and repair and overall except for and this is what they want to. i want to thank you so much for joining us here. i see a pleasure talking to you, so thanks again. thank you very much. thank you. i use these talks between russia and ukraine that were held in bel shortly after. the conflict began to buy time for you grant, with no intention of diplomatic solution that was admitted by the head of ukraine's main intelligence. directly in his latest interview, the main task we set for mr. careers was to delay the process in order to buy time since he personally knew to people in the negotiation process, who represented the russian side. right, we're now love, enjoy and go live. now joe, see sweetie r r t,

course woman is joining us here. now syria sieve. ah, interesting story. this. tell us more about it widger. well, this is her quite murky fair. here we have the head of the ukrainian defense intelligence services, admitting that the s b u, the ukrainian state security forces, kidnapped and associates assassinated, one of kev's peace negotiations in the, in the capital kev last march. but the interesting part really of this story is exactly what dennis korea's role was in those piece tools which took place with russian officials just 4 days after the launch, the a special military operation. now he was due to return to bella ruth for a 2nd round of talks, but he was killed before he got there. and the defense intelligence chief who sent him there said that he had tasked kara korea with em, delaying those negotiations. and he said it was in order to buy time for the ukrainian armed forces to take actions to quote, repel the enemy. now of course, all of this comes as ukraine in their western backers accuse russia of not acting

in good faith at the negotiating table. so here's a reminder of what they said. i am extremely concerned how russia has been acting at the negotiating table. actually, i don't trust what russia is doing at all. any negotiations needs to be real, they needs be a meaningful. they can't just be a fig leaf full russian re armament. and for the recruitment of soldiers, do you see any change when it comes to the possibility of negotiations piecewise no, as us or crap where everything, there's hank or we're, we're not buying it. and more importantly, we are glad to see that more and more countries and not buying it either. well, this is not the 1st time that we're having such allegations made against moscow, but it doesn't really thing to tally with reality. no really doesn't

seem to terry. we are okay right now, this is, this is an interesting thing, right? i mean, ah, the west really looking for peace. i mean whitley, i've heard of these sort of delayed tactics before. is this just another part of the war games? we've heard a lever off talking about, ah, yes, they want to have negotiations. at the end, the day to end this war would need peace. but what was really go on. one of course, is not forget that it is been alleged that the, that the peace process has been actively sabotaged by the intervention of western leaders, including then british prime minister parish johnson, who is again, he's alleged to have flown out to cab to visit president lensky. of course, he's met him a many times what last april there was her room to be a tentative agreement between an, between russia and ukraine on, on the table. but i'm johnson is reported to have told the lensky to break off those talks. so this is

a strange situation. russia is committing itself to to pieces consistently said that it's open to, to piece talk, but it peers, others are not quite negotiating in good faith. just last week, un secretary general. antonia gutierrez said that there was no chance for serious peace. and while he was in his address at the world economic forum, but at the same time, of course, western leaders that were gathered there were talking and committing 2 more arms into, into ukraine. and we know again that the, the mince recalls, which i need to bring peace to don boss again. they were not signed by the western in good faith, as has been pretty much admitted by that. then leaders of ukraine and the main sponsors of that agreement, france and germany. and it is a reminder of what they said to 2014 minsk agreement. was an attempt to give the crane time he can use this time to become strong. as you can see today, the ukraine of 20142015 is not the ukraine of today. since 2014

ukraine has strengthened its military posture. it is the merit of the minsk agreements to have given the ukrainian army this opportunity. thus the time the prudent thought was an asset for him, turned out to be in fact, an opportunity for the ukrainians. i needed the minsk agreements to gain at least 4 and a half years to build the ukrainian forces to build the ukrainian economy, to train ukrainian forces alongside nato, to create the best armed forces in eastern europe, according to nato standards. where this latest revelation appears to undermine the west claims. and of course you ask the question of whether peace is really on. it's a general been just to find out steve, as always, great talking to you here in the cedars. i was we against soon? no doubt mexico. ah, yes. lawmakers plan to change the way the country's national debt. ceiling is

calculated. lawmakers of oppose had changed the national debt sitting from a fixed dollar amount to a percentage of the countries g. d. p. the van comes amid reports of record highs of us deck, mount seeding, $31.00 and a half trillion dollars, as well as investors concerns over future markets. civility, as was now 2 r t contributed chris adams, chris photos as they are good to see. right now we got this, this is quite a strange story. but what, what do we, what they trying to achieve here by changing the way the national debt is calculated? yeah, it's really fascinating, really more at the, to watch this happening. i mean, essentially what i think they're trying to do is to completely wipe the slate clean . right? but the minute that you stop being able to measure inflation or death as we prefer, or government, that in line with actually economic right. it becomes impossible for us really to see how much money that borrowing and how much that the country did. and the us control the global currency,

which is the us dollar. it's more than possible brought the other will the dollars in the world to see if that printing any more there really is that it might be my gum, that, that probably hoping is going to reduce the concern in the global market and how many dollars they're putting in how much that that accumulates in day by that, i mean, is there any legality, issues here, or can they pretty much do whatever they want to? yes, this is a great question. i think in my, i would go as far to say that this is fraud. i would just put this into it into a real terms example for you. let's say you and i set up a company. now when we went to investors and raised money and we did not disclose those investors. how much money or how much debt was on our balance sheet on all those? well, if our investors found out and they report to, that's the please you and i would go quite right. you got to present the defrauding that. however, in this case, it looks like, you know, we, we talk a lot of the 5 about the difference between the u. s. is so good rules based order in international law. you know, it appears that the us up so you know,

respect to the international law and now even very basic tenants of law such as fraud. so yeah, i think this is a highly legal act on the international state. all right, so is this new going on effects the international markets and trends is not gonna change anything or we're going to see a more whole kush more bullish approach. alamo well, yeah, or yeah, absolutely. i think it's just going to put the market into further timer, right? because as an analyst, as an investor, right now, i'm trying to look at the u. s. economy, which is basically taking anyone trading in us dollars around the world and figure out where well, if i deployed my capital the minute i can see the debts on the balance sheet, not only with confidence to invest money, not just in the us, but pretty much anywhere in the world because i'm closely going to be in there because i cannot see actually how much debt in real terms is out there in the market, which could completely not lead time to my investment. so yeah, i think.