All right, Alexander, let's talk about the BRICS summit.

It is finally starting after a lot of discussion, debate, the ICC arrest warrant, whether to move it to China, whether Putin was going to show up in person or via video.

And then Lavrov said that, what the Russian government government said that Lavrov would be the person representing Russia

in South Africa.

And Putin would appear via video.

Anyway, it's finally here.

There's talk about currency, a new currency being launched, new members joining Bricks.

I think Morocco was the latest country that said they're interested in joining BRICS. Anyway, what are your thoughts on the BRICS summit?

What should we be focused on? What do you think is going to come out of this summit?

I think the big event is going to be that be that well there's going to be two big issues

the first is this setting up of a financial system as an alternative to the west and i think it's

now clear they're not going to announce uh when this summit begins next week you know a new bricksS currency. I mean, the framework for that, the structure for that, has not yet been created, but I think they will announce, or at least they will take steps towards moves to creating the structures for that. And I think we will be hearing and seeing announcements about this.

The second thing that's going to happen is whether there's going to be BRICS expansion.

Now, the South Africans are inviting 60 countries.

60 countries are coming to this meeting.

Apparently, even more wants to attend.

This is turning into an enormous summit meeting.

And there is now real debate, real discussion about whether or not to move ahead with

expansion or not.

India seemed at one point to be saying, look, this is going forward

too fast. Let's slow a little. China backs expansion. Brazil backs expansion after some thought,

so does Russia. So India, it seems, has decided to go along. The key country to

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