RT News - August 16 2023 (09:00 MSK)

Embracing a changing order - Russia's defense minister says previously ignored countries are now being listened too. That's as Moscow hosts a key conference on global security. Divisions emerge over the Niger crisis, as a major Central African grouping lends its support to ECOWAS, including its threat of intervention, while neighboring Chad becomes the latest nation, to give its backing to the country's coup authorities. As the legal hurdles mount against the former US president, Donald Trump, his key supporters claim it's a conspiracy, designed to nobble him from the race for the White House.