BRICS countries to play important roles in boosting global growth: Turkish experts

STORY: BRICS countries to play important roles in boosting global growth: Turkish experts DATELINE: June 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Turkey CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: various of BRICS countries's national flagsSOUNDBITE 1 (Turkish): SULEYMAN SENSOY, Head of Turkish Asian Center for Strategic StudiesSOUNDBITE 2 (English): SELCUK COLAKOGLU, Director of the Ankara-based Turkish Center for Asia-Pacific Studiesvarious of cities and villages in BRICS countries STORYLINE: Turkish experts have said that the BRICS countries, having gone through industrial transformations, will take their place further in the global race, noting that they will play important roles in boosting global growth. SOUNDBITE 1 (Turkish): SULEYMAN SENSOY, Head of Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies "BRICS countries in general had historically been the nations that provide cheap human resources and other resources. But thanks to the transformation they experienced in education, industry, and technology, they starte

U.S. is hypocritical to criticize other countries for human rights violations: Philippine researcher

STORY: U.S. is hypocritical to criticize other countries for human rights violations: Philippine researcher DATELINE: June 13, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:59 LOCATION: Manila CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: various of ManilaSOUNDBITE 1(English): ANNA MALINDOG-UY, Researcher, Philippine-BRICS Strategic Studiesvarious of XinjiangSOUNDBITE 2(English): ANNA MALINDOG-UY, Researcher, Philippine-BRICS Strategic Studies STORYLINE: The U.S. is hypocritical to criticize other countries for human rights violations, said a researcher of Philippine-BRICS Strategic Studies. SOUNDBITE 1(English): ANNA MALINDOG-UY, Researcher, Philippine-BRICS Strategic Studies "That's the hypocrisy of the United States. They're too hypocritical to even criticize other countries about human rights records, about democracy, about racial discrimination and human rights violations of other countries. But if you look at the United States, they are the number one violator actually of the UN mechanisms. There's a lot of like, for example, the UN Conventio