BRICS nations slam Trump tariffs, condemn strikes on Iran

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00:00Trade tariffs unilaterally imposed by the United States were a significant part of the

00:05agenda at the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro.

00:09Eleven emerging powers including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa voiced serious

00:14concerns about them.

00:16In a final summit statement that didn't mention the US or its president by name, they said

00:21such measures were illegal and arbitrary.

00:25The Russian President Vladimir Putin, charged with war crimes in Ukraine, participated via

00:30video link.

00:31He said the bloc's influence continues to grow.

00:35The process of changing the world's economic order continues to gain momentum.

00:41Everything indicates that the model of liberal globalization has become obsolete.

00:46The center of business activity is shifting towards the developing markets.

00:53The ongoing war in the Middle East was also high on the agenda.

00:58The summit declaration called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza and the

01:03complete withdrawal of Israeli forces.

01:06Absolutely nothing justifies the terrorist actions perpetrated by Hamas.

01:15But we cannot remain indifferent to the genocide practiced by Israel in Gaza.

01:21The solution to this conflict will only be possible with the end of the Israeli occupation and

01:26the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.

01:36The group's declaration criticised the attacks on Iran, a member of BRICS, without mentioning

01:41the United States or Israel, the two nations that carried them out.

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