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[00:00:01] company Blackstone.
[00:00:04] The head of Blackstone's real estate operations
[00:00:07] and CEO of Blackstone
[00:00:11] Real Estate Income Trust, Wesley LePatner,
[00:00:14] became a victim of an armed attack. Her and three other people were shot with an automatic rifle
[00:00:17] by twenty-seven-year-old Shane Tamura. Before that, he specially came to
[00:00:21] New York from Las Vegas.
[00:00:24] According to the police, Tamura drove up to the building that houses the office of
[00:00:27] the financial company Blackstone and the headquarters of the National Football
[00:00:31] League. Upon entering the foyer, he opened indiscriminate fire from
[00:00:34] an automatic rifle at the people present there, killing
[00:00:38] three and wounding several more. Then he went up to the thirty-third
[00:00:41] floor and shot another person there, after which he killed
[00:00:45] himself. The senior managing director of the American investment
[00:00:48] company headed a fund that owns real estate worth
[00:00:51] 53 billion dollars. Apparently,
[00:00:55] the shooter was heading to the office of the National Football League located in the
[00:00:58] building, but made a mistake.
[00:01:03] to which the skyscraper belongs, said New York Mayor Eric
[00:01:06] Adams. According to him, some of the victims were killed here. The building
[00:01:10] also houses the Blackstone office. Well, the killer didn't go to the football
[00:01:13] league office for no reason. A note was found on him, in which, according to the police,
[00:01:17] Tamura writes about his illness,
[00:01:20] chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is not
[00:01:24] uncommon among professional players in American football. Tamura, according to
[00:01:28] the police, was involved in this sport.
[00:01:34] In general, rich people in the USA die from both popular revenge, from a stray bullet, and
[00:01:38] apparently from serious behind-the-scenes currents, and also
[00:01:41] Joshua Dean, the former quality auditor
[00:01:45] for Boeing, who testified against the supplier, suddenly died. This was the
[00:01:48] second case in 2 months where a person who testified
[00:01:52] against the aircraft manufacturer or its suppliers
[00:01:55] mysteriously died. It was reported that forty-five-year-old Dean was distinguished by
[00:01:58] good health and... a correct lifestyle, but two weeks before
[00:02:02] his death, he unexpectedly went to the hospital with complaints of difficulty
[00:02:06] breathing. The overwhelming majority of Americans justify
[00:02:09] violence in different ways, but PBS studies have shown an increase in willingness to
[00:02:12] use force for political purposes. Almost
[00:02:16] a third of Americans, 30%, say that people may have to
[00:02:20] resort to violence to get the country back on track.
[00:02:23] Growing support for violence is especially alarming to Cynthia
[00:02:27] Miller Idriss, a professor at American University, and
[00:02:30] founding director of the Peril Research and Innovation Lab
[00:02:34] on Polarization Extremism. She said that the latest poll
[00:02:37] results should be a real wake-up call. It's
[00:02:41] a terrible moment when people sincerely believe that at this
[00:02:44] moment there is no other alternative than to resort to
[00:02:47] political violence. One of the things you really want to
[00:02:51] see right now is universal condemnation of the use of
[00:02:55] violence and de-escalation of rhetoric. However, de-escalation of rhetoric
[00:02:58] is unlikely to happen: political disagreements in the USA lead to increasingly
[00:03:02] large clashes and to such lynch mobs, when
[00:03:06] an ordinary citizen doesn't believe in the law and takes a
[00:03:09] hammer into his hands. David DePape, who attacked the husband of former US House
[00:03:12] Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was sentenced
[00:03:16] to 30 years in prison, Reuters reported, citing federal
[00:03:20] prosecutors. DePape broke into the Pelosi home in San Francisco on the morning
[00:03:24] of October 28, 2022. A
[00:03:26] week before the congressional elections, when the hostess herself was in Washington
[00:03:30] at the time. According to prosecutors, the man was a supporter of
[00:03:34] far-right conspiracy theories. In his testimony in court, DePape
[00:03:37] admitted that he intended to take Nancy Pelosi hostage.
[00:03:41] Americans no longer believe that they will be able to, through their
[00:03:44] democratic procedures, through
[00:03:47] some kind of popular indignation, through
[00:03:50] voting, change the existing system, that
[00:03:53] they already need violence, and today,
[00:03:57] this is absolutely, as it were,
[00:04:00] a paradigm confirmed by world experience, world history,
[00:04:04] if today people
[00:04:07] begin to deify
[00:04:10] and exalt
[00:04:13] aggressors and those who dared to
[00:04:16] kill for one reason or another, then tomorrow
[00:04:19] people will reach such despair that they will take
[00:04:23] up pitchforks, but in the case of American society, they will take
[00:04:26] up arms.
[00:04:32] Times Square is a tragedy of one fate, but it reflects a broader problem,
[00:04:36] discontent turning into an act of retribution, digital rage
[00:04:39] turning into real violence, a system where
[00:04:42] people do not see fair mechanisms for solving their
[00:04:45] problems. While the White House is engaged in global games on the world map,
[00:04:49] Americans want normal life and corporate
[00:04:52] responsibility. The large economy and its giants
[00:04:55] simply do not notice people. If the authorities do not
[00:04:58] listen to the lynch mobs, then further will certainly shake
[00:05:02] American
[00:05:21] A view from Minsk on what is happening in the world, the most notable events
[00:05:24] and topics that are being discussed today. The Republic of
[00:05:28] Belarus has been ensuring its own food security for several
[00:05:32] decades, and we are a significant player in the international food
[00:05:35] market. A scientifically based structure of cultivated
[00:05:38] areas works, and for each region it is different.
[00:06:12] in the agricultural sector, tourism, as well as in education and the humanitarian
[00:06:16] sphere. Belarus is ready to increase supplies of meat and
[00:06:19] dairy products to Kazakhstan. Students
[00:06:22] of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of BSU
[00:06:25] won six gold medals at the thirty-third international
[00:06:29] mathematical Olympiad in Bulgaria. Made in Belarus
[00:06:32] continues to conquer foreign buyers. A branded store
[00:06:35] of Belarusian ice cream opened at the end of May already a
[00:06:39] success. A view from Minsk every Saturday
[00:06:42] on the Belarus 24 TV channel.
[00:06:46] In a house lost in the forest, the forester brings four-year-old
[00:06:50] Lenochka, whose mother died during the bombing.
[00:06:53] Grandpa, I want my mommy. Your mommy is sick. She will get better and
[00:06:56] she will come. Where will she come? To where you and I will live.
[00:07:00] Take her to the bank. Who is this? Pick her up. You'll
[00:07:03] find out later. The girl turns out to be the daughter of the legendary
[00:07:07] partisan commander, Batka Panas. Who is this in
[00:07:10] the picture? This is mom, this is me, and
[00:07:12] this is my dad. The German command thanks
[00:07:16] you. For what? You didn't tell us where the daughter of
[00:07:20] partisan commander Batka Panas is. I didn't even know, and
[00:07:23] it's good that you didn't know. The Gestapo goes to
[00:07:26] search for the child. A girl lives here with you, right? Well,
[00:07:30] she lives here. Do you know who she is? The daughter of partisan commander
[00:07:34] Batka Panas. The Germans are after her. Get out of
[00:07:37] here quickly. Okay. Do you know who this is? This is... This is
[00:07:41] mom, this is dad. A daring raid
[00:07:44] unexpectedly overturns the plans of the occupiers.
[00:07:48] Watch the film "Girl
[00:07:51] Seeks Father" on Belarus 24 TV channel.
[00:07:55] телеканале Беларусь 244.
[00:08:16] No matter where life takes me, I will look at the sky and
[00:08:20] a big paw will still
[00:08:23] always show me the way, until eternity,
[00:08:27] to the sea of my childhood, my first
[00:08:30] river, to my forests, the Slonim forests, my first
[00:08:33] forests, to my favorite pines
[00:08:36] from early
[00:08:37] childhood.
[00:09:30] 170 shootouts in a year and a half in Brussels,
[00:09:33] the capital of the European Union, which is used to lecturing the whole world on
[00:09:37] democracy, human rights, and how to
[00:09:40] live, today can...
[00:10:25] dangers, that is, big cities, one can
[00:10:28] say, are completely out of control, therefore
[00:10:32] local indigenous people prefer not to live there,
[00:10:35] only come there at most for work, and live somewhere outside
[00:10:39] the city, away from all these incidents.
[00:10:42] Rival gangs of Moroccans and Balkan
[00:10:45] clans are dividing the cocaine pie in Belgium, fighting for
[00:10:49] power and money. The port of Antwerp has become a real
[00:10:52] gateway for prohibited substances.
[00:11:25] have already acquired a systemic character, they affect, well, most of
[00:11:29] European countries, except for those that try to pursue a tougher
[00:11:32] policy to limit illegal
[00:11:35] migration and try to fight crime in a more systematic way,
[00:11:38] but it turns out, frankly, not for everyone. Belarusian Brest,
[00:11:42] a twenty-four-year-old guy from
[00:11:45] Kyrgyzstan came to our country as a
[00:11:48] drug courier. All he managed to do was pick up a large
[00:11:51] batch of one and a half kilograms of prohibited
[00:11:54] goods from the stash. and package it into small doses.
[00:11:57] He worked for exactly one day. He was caught red-handed
[00:12:01] at the moment he was hiding the dose. In his rented apartment and
[00:12:04] hiding places, about one and a half kilograms of a particularly
[00:12:08] dangerous psychoactive substance, 4 CMC, were found and seized. For illegal
[00:12:12] drug trafficking with intent to sell, the detained person faces up to 15 years
[00:12:15] of imprisonment. The apotheosis of the impotence of the Belgian authorities
[00:12:19] was August 21st. Two masked men drove
[00:12:22] up on an electric scooter
[00:12:25] to a police station in Anderlecht
[00:12:28] and calmly shot its facade. 12 bullet
[00:12:31] holes. For the first time in the history of Brussels, drug cartels
[00:12:35] attacked a police station. The words of Brussels
[00:12:39] prosecutor Julien Moinil, that any citizen
[00:12:43] can get shot, turned out to be prophetic. In
[00:12:46] April, it paralyzed the father of a family, in July
[00:12:49] a twenty-year-old guy was shot through. In Sint-Gillis,
[00:12:53] a bullet hit the bedroom window where a woman was sleeping
[00:12:56] at that moment. Corruption, access to weapons, non-imposition of
[00:12:59] punishment, here we need to look
[00:13:03] at the very root cause of everything that
[00:13:07] is happening, from
[00:13:09] imports, on distant borders,
[00:13:13] firstly, and secondly, drug trafficking from time immemorial,
[00:13:17] but it's impossible not to import it, not
[00:13:20] to distribute it without the involvement of special services,
[00:13:24] because... our question is quite
[00:13:26] simple, if special services do not
[00:13:29] know what kind of special services they are, and if
[00:13:33] they know, and they should know, why aren't
[00:13:36] measures being taken? Stories about them using live bait
[00:13:40] to catch big fish, listen, that's for simpletons. It's clear
[00:13:43] that in all likelihood even the highest
[00:13:46] leadership of the special services is in
[00:13:49] the know. In spring, the army was brought to the streets of Belgium, patrols began to operate in Brussels,
[00:13:53] five soldiers plus police, the deployment continued all
[00:13:56] summer, but it was shamefully not
[00:14:00] called a state of emergency, merely administrative
[00:14:03] police measures, checkpoints, a ban on gatherings of
[00:14:06] people, soldiers at metro stations. At the end of August,
[00:14:10] after a new wave of shootouts, the Minister of Internal
[00:14:13] Affairs spoke about strengthening and expanding, that
[00:14:17] is, they planned to finish by September 2nd, but it
[00:14:20] didn't work out, the reinforcement will last until
[00:14:23] October. Army. divisions
[00:14:27] generally, troops are designed to
[00:14:29] repel an external enemy, that is, their
[00:14:33] involvement indicates that they, firstly, have no authority
[00:14:36] to restore order, this is more of a
[00:14:39] declarative part, to show that look,
[00:14:43] the government at least somehow cares about you,
[00:14:47] we can do something here, we have some discipline,
[00:14:50] this is a complete admission of impotence,
[00:14:53] because it means that... kittens
[00:15:37] of psychotropics, that's 1300 kg, detained by
[00:15:41] customs officers. The black market value of the seized consignment
[00:15:45] is about 62 million
[00:15:47] dollars, and such a quantity would be enough for almost 3 million
[00:15:51] single doses. Based on this fact, the operational customs of Belarus
[00:15:55] and the Federal Customs Service of Russia have opened
[00:15:58] criminal cases for large-scale drug smuggling, the sanctions of the articles
[00:16:01] of which provide for imprisonment for the defendants
[00:16:04] up to... up to 20 years. Cartels in Belgium don't even
[00:16:08] hide. A BBC correspondent witnessed
[00:16:11] drug trafficking 5 minutes after
[00:16:14] arriving in the area. Local residents say that sometimes you can
[00:16:18] see queues of buyers. One
[00:16:21] successful sales point brings the dealer up to
[00:16:24] 50,000 euros a day, and there are more than 200 such
[00:16:27] points throughout the city. Children are recruited through messengers,
[00:16:31] and not only for distributing prohibited
[00:16:34] substances, but also for shootings. The police arrest
[00:16:37] twelve-year-old children with automatic rifles. Since the beginning of the year,
[00:16:41] 93 adults and 14 minors
[00:16:44] have been detained, and these are only those who were caught. They
[00:16:48] push me against the wall, and I
[00:16:50] hear in the entrance, how someone
[00:16:54] simply says, "A underage drug addict,"
[00:16:57] that was the most terrible thing. Drug dealers are actively
[00:17:00] trying to use teenagers everywhere, offering good
[00:17:04] money, but such a career in Belarus lasts only a few
[00:17:08] days, and sometimes hours. Ninth-grader Yana was introduced
[00:17:11] to drugs by her boyfriend. She introduced
[00:17:14] her sister, and of course, then they all ended up in the
[00:17:18] illicit trade. From employment to
[00:17:22] detention, it's at least a
[00:17:25] week for us, at most about a month. So we can
[00:17:28] confidently say that we apprehend people red-handed
[00:17:32] literally within days after
[00:17:35] employment. Everyone received serious sentences. On average,
[00:17:38] one addicted person is capable of involving in their circle
[00:17:41] from five to 17 new
[00:17:45] people per year. Therefore, the measures against this evil are very strict.
[00:17:48] Prevention among teenagers allowed Belarus to
[00:17:52] triple the number of minors involved in drug-related
[00:17:55] activities by 2025.
[00:17:58] Police and prosecutor's office employees visit children,
[00:18:01] show films, and hold discussions about the dangers of drugs
[00:18:04] in educational institutions.
[00:19:19] under police protection, because they fear reprisal. The chairman of the Antwerp Court of Appeal,
[00:19:22] Bart Willems, warned: Belgium risks
[00:19:26] becoming the first narco-state in the European Union, where the mafia
[00:19:30] has turned into a parallel force in society, and Defense Minister
[00:19:34] Theo Francken admitted, our capital.
[00:20:08] German citizen, Belarusian customs found about 25
[00:20:12] kg of pressed hashish. In August
[00:20:16] of the same year, an international supply channel from
[00:20:19] the EU of more than 600 kg of psychotropics was suppressed,
[00:20:22] citizens of Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, and
[00:20:25] Ukraine were detained. The batch arrived in our country from a Lithuanian warehouse
[00:20:29] via Latvia. The drugs were transported in a truck that, according to documents, contained
[00:20:33] dishwashers. From the dishwashers,
[00:20:36] 540 packages of particularly dangerous
[00:20:40] psychotropic substance (4
[00:20:43] SMS) were extracted. Taking into account that the goods were going to the Russian
[00:20:47] Federation (by us)...
[00:20:50] Jointly with colleagues from the Federal Customs Service of the Russian
[00:20:53] Federation, the necessary operational-search measures
[00:20:56] and investigative actions were organized and carried out. As
[00:20:59] a result, in the territory of Russia, the recipients
[00:21:03] of the cargo, citizens of Ukraine, were detained. Based on this
[00:21:06] fact, criminal cases have been initiated
[00:21:10] in Belarus and Russia. Members of the criminal
[00:21:13] group face imprisonment for up to
[00:21:17] 20 years. And after that, another
[00:21:20] 162 kg of various drugs, hashish,
[00:21:24] mephedrone, MDMA, clephedrone, were found. In total,
[00:21:27] Belarusian and Russian customs officers then seized about
[00:21:30] 800 kg of drugs, enough for
[00:21:33] 3 million single doses. The black market value of such a batch
[00:21:37] reaches 75 million dollars. In Europe,
[00:21:40] you feel unsafe even at home, you constantly
[00:21:44] check if all your doors are locked. In short, it's the same
[00:21:47] nineties, but they've moved.
[00:22:20] the law, that is, in fact, this is an excess of
[00:22:23] democracy that does
[00:22:26] not allow the police to do their direct
[00:22:30] job. And now for the most interesting part - the waterbed effect.
[00:22:34] You press on the mattress in one place, and it bulges in
[00:22:37] another. Belgium and the Netherlands tightened the screws in
[00:22:40] Antwerp and Rotterdam, installed
[00:22:43] mobile scanners, tightened control, and what do you think,
[00:22:46] where did tons of unaccounted for cocaine surface now?
[00:22:50] In France and Spain, as well as Portugal, cartels
[00:22:53] break up shipments into small batches and drag them through
[00:22:56] secondary ports, through yachts, through French and
[00:23:00] Dutch overseas territories, where control is weaker.
[00:23:03] The result is that they shifted the problem from one pocket to another. You press
[00:23:07] on Antwerp, cocaine pours into France, you press on
[00:23:10] France, it will run to Portugal.
[00:23:13] Of course, the level of security in the countries
[00:23:16] of the post-Soviet space is much
[00:23:19] higher. What is this related to? Well, probably it is still
[00:23:23] related to the policy that is being used.
[00:23:27] Remember, again, the nineties, everything was not so
[00:23:30] simple, everything was much more difficult, and
[00:23:34] if you look now, how radically the situation
[00:23:37] has changed, the European Union was a state where security was
[00:23:41] certainly at the highest level, but gradually it
[00:23:44] degraded. Of course, one of the main factors is
[00:23:48] immigration. Immigration, which led to
[00:23:52] overcrowded prisons, since 2014,
[00:23:56] when decree number 6 on urgent measures was adopted,
[00:24:00] Belarus made a real breakthrough, reversing
[00:24:03] the drug situation radically, by
[00:24:06] 2025, the number of drug crimes
[00:24:09] decreased by half, the result is especially impressive
[00:24:12] among young people, the number of crimes involving
[00:24:15] minors fell by four, or even
[00:24:19] five times, and the number of teenage overdoses from
[00:24:22] 223 cases to eight, without
[00:24:26] introducing a state of emergency on the streets, without a curfew,
[00:24:30] without an army, without shootouts, as in Belgium.
[00:25:14] To love Belarus, my beloved, you need to visit
[00:25:17] different lands, to understand. Now, why
[00:25:21] do cranes fly to Polissya
[00:25:25] ?
[00:25:30] You need to be born in these lands to hear the
[00:25:34] speech and see the dawn, to cling to
[00:25:37] you with heart and soul, to
[00:25:40] you, my pure
[00:25:50] heart. Of course, it's people, it's because they somehow,
[00:25:53] these people probably impressed me the most, some kind of
[00:25:57] openness, sincerity.