Russia's President Vladimir Putin addressed the Summit in Sandton, north of Johannesburg by video link through an interpreter. He told the leaders of China, India, South Africa and Brazil that the growing influence of the BRICS group will lead to a multi-polar world. BRICS is a group of five countries with emerging economies that want to begin their own world economic and trade systems and has discussed creating a new currency.

 

Oliver Dickson spoke to Peter Fabricious –Independent journalist and  Foreign Policy Analyst