"You don't ask the perpetrator of genocide."
In a searing interview with the BBC, paediatrician Dr Tanya Haj Hassan condemned the broadcaster for echoing Israeli government talking points as she recounted her harrowing experiences in Gaza.
Dr Haj Hassan, who recently returned from volunteering with Medical Aid for Palestinians, shared the devastating story of her colleague, Dr Alaa, a paediatric emergency doctor at Nasser Hospital.
While Dr Alaa was on call at the hospital, her home was bombed and nine of her children were killed, their bodies charred and dismembered beyond recognition. Her husband remains in critical condition.
Dr Haj Hassan described a healthcare system in collapse: intensive care units overflowing with maimed, orphaned children – many the sole survivors of their families.
She also questioned why the BBC has delayed the release of 'Medics Under Fire', a documentary it commissioned about systematic attacks on Gaza’s healthcare workers, calling for its immediate release.
*BIG BREAKING *
the People's #Bank of #China suddenly announced that the digital RMB (Renminbi, Chinese Yuan) cross-border settlement system will be fully connected to the ten ASEAN countries and six Middle Eastern countries, which means that 38% of the world's #trade volume will bypass the SWIFT system dominated by the US dollar and directly enter the "digital RMB moment". This financial game, which The #Economist called the "Bretton Woods System 2.0 Outpost Battle", is rewriting the underlying code of the global economy with blockchain technology.
While the #SWIFT system is still struggling with the 3-5 day delay in cross-border payments, the #digital #currency bridge developed by China has compressed the clearing speed to 7 seconds. In the first test between Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi, a company paid a Middle Eastern supplier through digital RMB. The funds no longer went through six intermediary banks, but were received in real time through a distributed ledger, and the handling fee dropped by 98%. This "lightning payment" capability makes the traditional clearing system dominated by the US dollar instantly look clumsy.
What makes the West even more frightened is the technical moat of China's digital currency. The blockchain technology used by the digital RMB not only makes transactions traceable, but also automatically enforces anti-money laundering rules. In the China-Indonesia "Two Countries, Two Parks" project, Industrial Bank used digital RMB to complete the first cross-border payment, which took only 8 seconds from order confirmation to funds arrival, 100 times more efficient than traditional methods. This technical advantage has enabled 23 central banks around the world to actively join the digital currency bridge test, among which Middle Eastern energy traders have reduced settlement costs by 75%.
The deep impact of this technological revolution lies in the reconstruction of financial sovereignty. When the United States tried to sanction Iran with SWIFT, China had already built a closed loop of RMB payments in Southeast Asia. Data shows that the cross-border RMB settlement volume of ASEAN countries exceeded 5.8 trillion yuan in 2024, an increase of 120% over 2021. Six countries including Malaysia and Singapore have included RMB in their foreign exchange reserves, and Thailand has completed the first oil settlement with digital RMB. This wave of "de-dollarization" made the Bank for International Settlements exclaim: "China is defining the rules of the game in the era of digital currency."
But what really shocked the world was China's strategic layout. Digital RMB is not only a payment tool, but also a technical carrier of the "Belt and Road" strategy. In projects such as the China-Laos Railway and the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, the digital RMB is deeply integrated with Beidou navigation and quantum communication to build a "Digital Silk Road". When European car companies use digital RMB to settle freight through the Arctic route, China is using blockchain technology to increase trade efficiency by 400%. This virtual-real strategy makes the US dollar hegemony feel a systemic threat for the first time.
Today, 87% of countries in the world have completed the adaptation of the digital RMB system, and the scale of cross-border payments has exceeded 1.2 trillion US dollars. While the United States is still debating whether digital currency threatens the status of the #US #dollar, China has quietly built a digital payment network covering 200 countries. This silent financial revolution is not only about monetary sovereignty, but also determines who can control the lifeline of the future global economy!
This is very big news It means De-dollarisation in a big way. It can completely re-set the world
Watch as Israel’s foreign minister lies with a straight face:
“The IDF did not attack an ambulance.”
This perfectly sums up 17 months of Israeli crimes—lies used to cover them up.
U.S. FUNDED SOMALIA’S AL-SHABAAB TERRORISTS
Talk of US involvement in Somalia, and the first images that come to mind are drones, firefights, bombs, death and destruction. ‘Black Hawk Down,’ anyone?
Yet, recent reports suggest that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been channelling millions of dollars to the Somali extremist group, Al-Shabaab.
During a US House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee hearing on 26 February, Gregg Roman, executive director of Middle East Forum, disclosed that Al-Shabaab is one of many terrorist groups benefiting from US foreign aid.
The US has a long history with Somalia that dates back to funding the government of President Mohammed Siad Barre, who ruled the country between 1969 and 1991.
The US began bombing Somalia in the early 1990s following a Somali coalition ousting Barre. Since 2001, every US administration—Democrat and Republican—has continued that bombing campaign. The US has justified military interventions for counterterrorism, anti-piracy efforts and humanitarian aid, yet they mask a cynical interest in the region’s strategic value. Somalia boasts Africa’s longest coastline—3,025 kilometres—and lies at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, where many countries have based their military operations to protect trade.
During the Biden administration, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) collaborated with elements of the US-backed government in Mogadishu to carry out airstrikes on suspected Al-Shabaab positions, often resulting in civilian casualties.
In 2023 alone, the US k*lled 120 Somali civilians during 18 airstrikes and one ground operation.
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"I'll burn all of them, even the last one of them."
Israeli singer Ofer Levi talks about how he wants to burn all the Palestinian prisoners alive, and describes the atrocities he committed during the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon (1982 - 2000).
While the US🇺🇸 focused on spending trillions on endless foreign wars and regime change operations…
China🇨🇳 focused on trade and cooperation.
The result? China is now the largest trading partner of the overwhelming majority of countries in the world.
HE DID NOT KNOW THE WAR CRIMES ISRAEL IS COMMITTING UNTIL HE JOINED THE ARMY‼️
Former Israeli Air Force pilot Yonatan Shapira: 'I was raised on Zionist militarism, but I woke up.
Fired from all the companies he worked for in 'Israel' for speaking out.
@USbrokerdesk@ABell2019@AndreaHymas7 You beg for an update which is obvious from the lack of an update. Nomad releases the RNS and the time. You know that. You are looking for a new entry. Obvious and you don’t have the shares to say ‘times up’. Maybe buy back in and ramp again.
@USbrokerdesk@ABell2019@AndreaHymas7 You don’t remember when Andrew Bell took RRR to £100m then. Let’s see if the Arbitration funds land as that opens up Burkina and Australia Gold production and we know what the Gold price is.
@USbrokerdesk@ABell2019@AndreaHymas7 It’s not a running commentary.
RNS releases are for fundamental news events.
There have been many a Plc CEO which have turned from villain to hero and back again - PREM and COPL and many others too. Never a ‘last chance’ trade if or when the RNS’s are released I guess.