the capture of the african state was committed with europe's tacit approval. britain and france recognized the annexation, giving the green light to further fascist expansion in the world and bathing the way for the outbreak of world war 2. ah, u. s. secretary of say, anthony, blinking visits, ethiopia and niger to booth you with influence in africa that says there were 3 accuses washington of impeding peace in this region. australia plans to buy 5 nuclear power submarines from the u. s. and develop more in the future draws criticism from china, mid concerns the deal puts non proliferation agreement at risk. russia agreed to extend the black sea green deal, which was set to expire this saturday for the initial 60 days,

but the west must hold up. it's part of the agreement and allow the export of russian brain and fertilizers and multiple us banks. the sharp falls in their stop as to american bank labs over the weekend. that's the president bite and tries to study the vote, assuring americans their money, if they've ah, good morning for martina national studios in moscow and welcome to the hours most vital stories worldwide. i'm fear allies about we started africa were u. s. secretary of state anthony, blinking is set to visit the opiate niger as the by did administration hopes to strengthen its influence on the continent. the trip is the 4th high profile visit by us officials to the continent this year. counterterrorism efforts in this whole region will be on the agenda. we are joined live by our correspondence

from south africa corolla taught la, good morning, caroll bo, what are the main aims of lincoln's trip to africa? well, if you're a, there's no doubt that the american administration and the joe biden has made it intense, clear, and for everyone to see, they have drawn a bee line straight for the african continent. and it seems that this will be a continuing trend. the visit by you as a secretary, mister anthony lincoln, is of the heels of a visit by gentle dental and in south africa ambia. and it also follows that of lin, linda green, who is the us ambassador at the united nations as well as the 1st lady jailed by it who visited that may be just a couple of weeks ago. these a concerted effort following the u. s. africa summit last year in november,

and by then promise more attention and renewed relationship with africa. and mis, mister lincoln, will be hoping to use his visit to as the said, officials, the state department officials at least say he will be using this to refresh and re brand their relationship with if the o p are considering 5. and if influence in the region, now, this is the view of molly fee tickets of unique. but what we're looking to do was re fashion our engagement with we would like to be able to have a partnership that's commensurate with their size and influence. and with our interests and commitment to africa now is more interesting here is that this comes from, it's a growing concern, at least in the american media, that the role of china and russia seems to be growing on the continent. and the waste is called of god and they begin this particular race right back,

because they had ignored the continent so long that there was a void and the continental chose and other partners. but mister blinking will be using the also to speak to the federal forces of, to speak to the federal government rather of v o, p, as well as the t gray leadership bouie engaged in a 2 year battle following the prime minister. they had him reaching a deal with the leg in this part, which is every tree the tree. and if you'll be, i had a long standing hostile relationship and it had been in to him for a while without any reason to negate that. but following his nobel peace prize award missed the abi moved further along to try and mend fences with his neighbor in eritrea. and that seems to have really said of the motions of . busy war and in this particular conflict, you had the, if you o p,

a federal forces fighting from the south, attacking the, the t a federal to t, great liberation movement as well as the entry and forces from the north taking south. so this was a very interesting dynamic in a sense that most of where you seem to have his own opinion with regards to washington involvement in that particular war, particularly involvement in east africa as a whole. and he blamed that of being an constructive during a time when peace could have been attained as him or from the stuff where the crucial question is why this war was launched in the 1st place at a time when a peace agreement was signed. in our view, this was not really t gray people's liberation, france agenda, but essentially they're janda washington. the sad fact is perturbed and anxious as they were by the advance of bees between eritrea and ether, your peer impeding and scuttling it,

became the docked obsession. of course in this particular regard, it's important to remember that this peace deal that was reached between the federal government of the o. p. as well as the tv and the great people's liberation front was raised here in pretoria under the auspices of the you. but the americans, as well as the west in an extended fashion, was they, and they continue to lead price on the federal government, w. d o, via particularly having taken some of the a go privileges and go as a special relationship and an agreement that subsaharan africa has to what favorable goods being able to trade in v american market. and some of those villages have been taken away from if you're following this war and that is among the chief important things that the manager will be hoping to really state with the

visit. but unless the blinking will move from if you move toward the new year and that is a very interesting country and it says that it is right in the middle of the hell. and this a hell has been a hotbed of conflict over recent years. some 20 years, in fact, of islamic insurgency and just general extremism that we've seen from various groups who have interest in who controls the area. now it's important to, to acknowledge here that the americans are hoping to reach a relationship with a country on this a hell. even though they've had a 20 year participation as part of a global force. and every american was on its own. but they have been unable to bring about the fed piece. now the real question is, why would they be successful now? what would they be doing now that they did not do before? as you know,

the hell is also the reason where from has found itself without friends having been so solid of at least 2 countries in that region of them. they said that france not only failed them, but fueled the said conflict in the sale. r t correspondent, horrible at hotmail with the latest on the secretary of state, anthony of lincoln's visit to this the whole region. thank you. a time bomb for peace in the region. that's china's response to australian plans to buy multiple nuclear powered submarines from the u. s. with beijing also raising concerns, the deal jeopardizes nuclear non proliferation agreements. the nuclear submarine corporation, blood released today by all goose, is a blatant act. it constitutes serious nuclear proliferation risks. undermines and national non proliferation system fuels arms races and heard speech and stability

in the region. the u. s. president, the u. k. prime minister and australian p. m announced plans to develop a new generation of subs that will be built in the u. k. and australia with us, technology and support. the new subs are fueled by weapons, grade, highly enriched uranium, and could enter service in the late 20 thirty's or early 2000 and forty's. the australian foreign minister, though, has asserted that the vessels won't be nuclear armed, so won't violate the countries anti proliferation commitments. the allies have phrased the controversial new deal, calling it a prospect of peace staggered inflection for the district. where the hard work of enhancing detergent for voting stability is going to affect the prospect apiece for decades to come. united states can ask for no better partners to the end of pacific were so march of our shared future will be read. the old cas agreement,

we confirm hearing sandy, i represent the biggest single investment in australia's defense capability in all about history. strengthening australia's national security and stability in our region august as an enhanced security partnership between australia, the u. k, and the u. s, which the countries claims to cure stability in the indo pacific region. aside from beijing, the deal was also route france. washington's agreement with australia means canberra will not be buying submarines from paris. a blow to france is military industry less cross live now to international and independent china specialists, andrew long. welcome, andrew. what do you think the purchase of american nuclear submarines by australia means for the asia pacific region? is it a threat to peace in the region?

one is 1st. busy all and what that move is trying to defend me. china is not, of course, is obvious. target baton is not about to invade australia by any means. so what's the objective objective cause is try to a corner china trying to contain china, but there are 5 different, very important dimensions there. firstly, if the idea is to coerce china literally and using a nuclear armed robbery, nuclear propellers of marines is not going to work. i mean, for example, the united states as low to enter the red war. ready russia over ukraine. so why should the united states adopt a different approach? these are the china, which is equally and nuclear at nations long range delivery system. and secondly, ok. and the, and the,

china's a global strength and gravitas, which the united states as term as a strict to american lead, a liberal girl, is not based on the military charter strain is on and is liberal connect economic connectivity. and this is not about to change with this or cause submarine deal. thomas, i'm military string to defend itself in the asia pacific is sufficient in the 1st bill to prune a water they b as got a long range hypersonic missiles and it's got nuclear submarines. in fact, a number of koreans and china, the total number, not necessarily the quantity exceeds that of the united states. so i think the taurus military strength, defensive is sufficient in asia pacific. and the, again, the balance is not going to be tipped just by this lumber of deal chris on

a proposal. marines are australia and falsely, as far as taiwan is concerned, because there was a lot of height at o'clock. high one china would, would convey taiwan. but this is a false narrative. beijing has reaffirm repeatedly included in the 2 sessions at china. a strategy is for peaceful unification in the same way that the previous british colony of hong kong, peacefully return to china. despite an initial reluctance, the former british i lady margaret thatcher. so having it as the piece will unification if they want to cost because this over a 1000000 time and he's already working and living in china with their families. last but not least, you look at the details of the august deal 1st ball. ready nuclear submarines need to be built and not supported and they need to be fitted. and then the australian

sleeping be trained and it will take up to 2 tickets. full full operation to happen . now into a decades. it will be at the open world. well, you mentioned china and china has been the talk of the town. china has also said that the august nuclear saw deal mind regional stability. do you think that it does and do you think what other steps that they might take? i mean, you're saying they're going to be peaceful and not aggressive was by no means lucky. so as far as the united states or because it is concerned, obviously because it is a nuclear propelled, it's not nuclear submarines, it's likely to send a signal to other countries to do the same. and obviously, as the transform ministry statements, it is going to erode the kind of loan deal vehicle for asian do. and then it was also send signals to other countries to nuclear on themselves. and

it would break the whole group all effort to the new carly's obviously, the small peaceful of his mission. and that's why that's why what the chinese foreign minister statement says, well, australia, it says the submarines will not be armed with nuclear weapons. how will it be possible to enforce this? do you think the deal risk violating the nuclear non proliferation policy? as china has stated oh. busy because it is a marine even though not. ready nuclear armed or it is a nuclear pel using for military purposes. these are submarines. these are not motion ships. so obviously that the use of nuclear power ah, all a propel systems for military means. of course, it is a violation of and long corporation or treaty, because at the next step is that you can use nuclear and energy for all sorts of

things for military purposes. and then more and more countries will do the same and that would spread. and then the nuclear i'm, i'm kind of preparedness for military purposes around the world. though obviously this is competing well, come a body international community. but of course, the sea and united states all driven by its m. m. m, let's say city are to prolong, is hedging money and, and it's using all means of these disposal, military economic ideology and narratives and investments of us dollar. and try to prolong his hash moody and without realizing all that and developing world, including of course, particularly china and india and other countries in africa, lang and asia are they're about to account for more than 50 percent of the world economy. according to the latest research of o, u, c, d and,

and other countries and other research institutions by the year 2000 to 35 and the developing world combined economy will exceed and something like that. 60 percent, the world economy. and as so, as the rural gravitas is changing and then american can no longer call assault all the time. and some countries are beginning to developing countries on pick any percent up to, to america. and then the latest example is the china succeeded in brokering and historic m m m, if the out of peninsula m, m, m between 2 historical rivals, saudi arabia, and you read this again, change the dynamics in, in the out of insulin. and in the middle east, so you can see that the american benjamin e. m is beginning to be road and, and that's why them being by them is ration. seems desperate to use all means that disposal even at the risk of jeopardizing div calling. ready clear regression deal

to do more of the same, but this is unlikely to work to change the dynamics international and independent china potential as andrew long thank you very much. moscow has agreed to extend the black sea grain deal with ukraine, but only for 60 days to assess whether the west will prove it's ready to fulfill it side of the deal. russia said that's commodities are supposed to be part of the agreement as well. the comprehensive and frank conversation has once again confirmed that while the commercial exported ukrainian products is carried out at a steady pace, bringing considerable profits to kiev restrictions on the russian agricultural exports as the stunning place. how far the stones were, we determined upon tangible progress on the normalization of our agricultural exports, not in woods, but in deeds. so this deal is supposed to allow grain from both russia and ukraine to get out of the conflict zone and over to countries in need,

notably in africa and asia, but russian for a mr. sergei love rav explain just a few days ago, and you might be shocked to learn this, that only half of that bargain has been upheld, and that's the half that covers ukraine shipments. you do it the, the 1st part of the green dio package is the safe export of ukrainian grading from the ports of ukraine via the black sea. and the 2nd is the need to remove all obstacles to the export of russian grain and fertilizers. the 1st part is being executed, but the 2nd part is not executed at all this. in fact, sanctions prohibit your russian ships carrying green and fertilizers from entering relevant ports as well as prohibiting foreign vessels from entering rushing ports to pick up these cargoes. also, sanctions prohibit our russian agricultural bank from using the swift system if we're talking about a deal that it is a package to use and if the packages have completed and the issue of renewal becomes quite complicated. so level of again evoke the double standard earlier this

month at the g, 20 foreign ministers meeting in new delhi, pointing out that quote, russian agricultural exports of being blatantly hindered no matter how much the europeans and americans who are used to telling lies, tried to convince everyone, otherwise, it turns out that the western sanctions are blocking the ships carrying, rushing grains and fertilizer used to grow food from going to russia to pick up that cargo. and also from entering the ports of delivery. so just how much you preening jarine is getting to the countries that actually need it most well left. and we've been getting about 15 percent of the total export volume, which works out to about one percent each. that's according to the latest data from the black sea green initiative joint coordination center. the top 3 destinations for the grain are china, spain and turkey, representing 46 percent of all exports involving hundreds of shipments. china, of course, act was the gateway to asia and turkey, the gateway to africa. but what's the deal with spain?

spain domestically produces more than enough of the grain that it needs to feed its own people and europeans with people's brain. these accounting for just a quarter of all the countries domestic consumption, the rest of that grain that the country produces goes to feed its livestock, notably, pigs. spain is routinely ranked as one of the top, if not the top port, producing country in the entire world. so that's great news for spain and europe. work industry to get ukrainian britain, but it's not exactly how this whole deal was sold to the world as an absolute necessity. it's fun of like starting up a food bank and demanding donations and all this food. and then going home and shoving in your fridge, bait and switch. russia agreed to the deal because there was so much hanging over the people's starving if they didn't. and now the data suggests that a huge chunk of ukrainian food is just being sold to europe to fatten it's livestock, and also it's coffers shares and several regional

u. s. banks closed sharply lower on monday with some even putting trading on pause after starts hit record lows. this comes in the wake of the collapse of silicon valley bank as spheres of a domino effect spread. even larger banks have seen their shares go down, including city bank and bank of america. the stock crashes occurred as president biden thought to reassure americans that their money is safe. although he refused to engage with journalist after delivering his statement. all customers who had deposited these bank can rest assured i want to rest assured that will be protected and know have access to their money. as of today, that includes small businesses across the country, the bank there, and need to make payroll pay their bills and stay open for business. no losses, and i'm on this is important point, no losses will be borne by the taxpayers. let me repeat that no losses will be

borne by tax payers. what do you know right now about why it does happen? and can you assure americans that there won't be a ripple effect due to the residents? should all the positives be protected at all banks? in president biden's address to ease the fall out from the bees collapse seems to have little effect not only within the u. s, but also across the pond. on monday, european stocks fell as the so off in bank stocks, which began on thursday continued with stock falling to year record lows. the dive comes despite news that hsbc had agreed to buy the british arm of silicon valley bank. my colleague will, rory to shave, spoke with archie, contributor chris, and who took us through the us banking crisis and what it could mean for the global economy. silicon valley bank. i don't think anyone had really heard of it outside of the tech industry until friday. really been with this news broke, a lot of people just to explain the views at home, most with no help on this work,

but some people are a bit unsure. so what happens is when you deposit money with your bank, your bank uses your money to lend throughout the customers and not to be big institutions, companies or just people like you and i that may want to buy a home and get a mortgage. and now the problem with this bank is they had over $250000000.00 on their balance sheet. so they'd actually lend out $249000000000.00. so that doesn't really leave that much of a cushion, right? let's say if something happens. so what happens the u. s. high interest rates as we've covered a lot on the program. and that obviously makes the debt that they're holding on their balance sheet, which was a lot of it within us government bonds worth less. so this is a really key point. you're talking about the interest rates, right? that is a key and critical point. yeah. yeah. so as those interest rates rocketed, the debt that they have, they have lent to the us government becomes less. right? so that left this bank with a deficit on their balance sheet of about a $1000000000.00. now, once that happened, the bank bid exactly what the guidelines say. i would say the ceo acts the same way

. you said, well, i need to raise that $1000000000.00. now to make sure that my bank is in the block now will happen when he did that. that's a huge amount of people. a lot of money in the bank companies, mainly who then there was a what, what we could have run on the bank. so about $13000000000.00 which was withdrawn from the bank routing. and at that point the bank was totally broke, right? so then the regulates and the government have to step in and take over. now what i find really interesting glory is that they portrayed to be the leadership team of the bank as irresponsible. we had all this talk just before the weekend and over the weekend. they will be responsive. they will be now i've worked for a number of a regulated financial businesses. i wouldn't say my next, but i'm not just you know, disclaimer, i'm not a finance lawyer, but i would say i don't see anything within the guidelines that they did that was fiscal year on. so i would say the fiscal responsibility lies with the regulator and ultimately with the u. s. governor, i ha, well ok, so you bring it to the u. s. government let, let,

let's bring it further into washington. d. c. here. joe biden has come up with a statement, addressing the public essentially saying nothing to see here, move along, your money is safe but, but then, you know, when people wanna ask questions, i mean the guide legged it out the back door just now. i mean, is it possible the biden, in some way is trying to avoid what could be a dire truth or hadn't had any answers for it? i don't think anyone really knows what's going on there. and really they've suspended stops on a lot of small cap banks. i mean, to be behind 250000000000 sounds like a lot of money. and of course it is a huge amount of money. but for us institutions is actually quite a small it, you know, top 50 banks where they have so many banks say so really? i think they just, they just don't really have a clue what's going on. we saw the vast forensic of money, the high could inflation rates without anyone, seemingly understand what the consequences are if doing that, but you talk about the consequences. donald trump has put out this statement here and you met it where the consequences or not. let's have a quick listen to what the former us president had to say with what is happening to our economy and what to propose was being made on the largest and dumbest tax

increase in the history of the usa times 5. joe biden will go down as to herbert hoover of the modern age, we will have a great depression far bigger and more powerful than that of 1929. as proof, the banks were already starting to collapse. you know, chris, some people like to say in the certainly i think i'm one of them, frankly, that the not the global banking system. it is so heavily intertwined. i mean, the tentacles reach far and wide around the world. and that does seem to be a legitimate concern about knock on effect from this. and do you see a risk of a knock on effect? yeah, think grow your word. tentacles is absolutely apt in this case. so, i mean, let's look at the us, right. the dow always opens quite light compared to other west markets. the foot see in london opened before, and we saw just really a lot of not really i'm not a very comfortable situation for. and you k companies, western companies that have their hops in london and, and then you saw that debt. now i think what we'll see now is just before the close

of that we recover. that's an awful nightmare for a trade in london is basic at the behest of whatever the u. s. are going to do later on in the day. right. and we see that across everything frankfurt, we can look at any other market it and it just shows that, you know, our point that we're always making is that the u. s. is dictating financial policy of every other country within their sphere of interest. they don't allow them that much freedom and everyone is sort of on tend to, it's waiting for was this bumbling man in his eighty's is about to say we just just crazy. that's our up on the hour for the latest breaking news and updates head over to r t dot com. and be sure to follow us on all social media platforms from our content . thanks for tuning in. we'll see a back at the top of the hour. ah, with

don, welcome to wells fargo. the americans have many itself gratifying metaphors of why they and only they are supposed to be at the top of the international pecking order . there was living democracy, shining city on a heal and benevolent have gentlemen all to support the idea that in the final analysis, they have an inborn prerogative to know and decide what's best for the rest. and as order and peace preserving. as this positioning wishes to appear, isn't it bound to lead to conflict? well, to discuss that i'm now joined from canada by victor tucker, who teaches concord a university of edmonton bixler. it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for the invitation. next, on

a pleasure to be in this program. make sure you have a very interesting take on the current tensions between russia and the west, which ultimately comes down to the sides. deep seated perception of themselves and the nature of reality, which you summarize as the u. s. is insistence on being the 1st among equals and rushes claim on being an equal. and well 1st, do you think such a clash of self images could be resolved peacefully? well, i hope it's where it can be, of course, it is problematic given the how deep this cultural difference is, given how deep the psychological difference is ultimately in terms of the collective psychology of the leadership of the 2 sides. right? indeed this, this is the idea that came to me probably as a result of my chin for a number of years at 2 religious institutions, ultimately race to small.