RT News - September 18 2023 (17:00 MSK)

'An open political provocation' - China responds to Berlin after Germany's foreign minister calls President Xi a dictator. As RT reports on Russian advances on the front lines Ukraine's military chiefs scramble to keep things together on the battlefield amid a massive wave of dismissals among senior government officials. The EU's top official visits an Italian island struggling under a major migrant influx. We examine the background to the crisis and the Western policies that brought instability to African nations.