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[00:00:09] of
[00:00:10] of
[00:00:24] of of This hour's headline stories: Russia's investigative
[00:00:28] committee unpacked. the results of its
[00:00:31] of probe into Kiev's attempted invasion
[00:00:32] of the kursk border region launched exactly 2 years
[00:00:37] of ago. Thousands of migrants, including many children remain in
[00:00:41] suita following last week's mass influx
[00:00:44] of into
[00:00:45] of Spain. We examine the political fallout as the EU
[00:00:48] of demands Morocco police, the very frontier it
[00:00:53] of contests and new IDF strikes in Lebanon,
[00:00:57] kill one person and injure almost a dozen more. Israel claims
[00:01:01] the attacks were retaliation for apparent ceasefire
[00:01:04] violations by
[00:01:06] of Hizbollah.
[00:01:11] of
[00:01:15] Across the world around the clock. This is RT International. Good to have
[00:01:19] your company for the news Rap Live from Moscow. Four
[00:01:23] people have been reported wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's
[00:01:27] of Yoraslaval region. Our defenses are. said to have destroyed close to
[00:01:31] 100 UAVs there in what the local governor called the
[00:01:34] largest drone onslot to have hit the area. storage
[00:01:38] tanks at
[00:01:39] a refinery were impacted by falling debris with emergency
[00:01:42] services working to put out the resulting
[00:01:45] blaze. well moscow is continuing its
[00:01:48] probe into quote war crimes committed by the Ukrainian
[00:01:52] of military and foreign mercenaries during Kiev's incursion into Russia's
[00:01:55] Kursk region which began almost two years ago and
[00:01:59] ended. Some
[00:02:00] of months later, 640 people were killed with many more wounded
[00:02:04] and displaced,
[00:02:05] a including civilians forcibly taken as prisoners of war. RTS
[00:02:09] Roman Kostrev recalled the events of
[00:02:12] 2024. Well, the Russian
[00:02:15] of investigative committee
[00:02:16] of have of once again
[00:02:20] of of indicated that no crime committed by the Kiev regime will be forgotten or go
[00:02:23] unpunished. Now the harshest sentences await
[00:02:27] in all those that committed terrorist acts. against civilians
[00:02:31] of and some
[00:02:31] of the verdicts have already been announced. now the map of
[00:02:35] atrocities committed by Ukrainian militas, militants and
[00:02:39] foreign mercenaries is very vast, but one Russian
[00:02:43] of region
[00:02:43] of stands out among the rest. exactly two years ago on
[00:02:47] this day, the Kiv regime invaded Russia in the Koursk region
[00:02:51] and occupied several
[00:02:52] in dozen settlements. now acting with a
[00:02:55] a feeling of complete impunity against civilians who could
[00:02:59] not
[00:02:59] of put up a fight. against armed goons, they committed
[00:03:03] of massive,
[00:03:03] of especially serious crimes, now those included mass
[00:03:07] murders, rape and other acts of sexual
[00:03:11] nature, looting and kidnapping of
[00:03:14] of civilians,
[00:03:14] of one ukrainian militant by the name of Yevgini Fabrisenko
[00:03:18] along with accomplices killed 14 civilians in the
[00:03:22] village of Rusko, now investigators
[00:03:25] said that they uh also raped eight women and
[00:03:29] later...
[00:03:30] of executed them, now those involved received life sentences while other
[00:03:34] Ukrainian soldiers who stole goods worth several million
[00:03:38] rubles from local store were also sentenced to long
[00:03:42] prison
[00:03:42] of terms. of now 640 civilians were killed,
[00:03:46] 561 were wounded by Ukrainian militants in the
[00:03:50] Coursk region alone. now when Russia began
[00:03:53] liberating uh the
[00:03:55] a region, investigators
[00:03:56] of made shocking discoveries as they found multiple...
[00:04:13] in
[00:04:25] of
[00:04:30] сработал, а рэп сработал на моей
[00:04:34] машине, рядом с нами прямо метров в семи, наверное, взорвался,
[00:04:37] милость боже, вырвались, вырвались, вот привезли,
[00:04:41] ребят, вот выгружают, сейчас
[00:04:45] вот в автобусы уже дальше,
[00:04:49] вот с
[00:04:50] of трудом вырвались, прямо слава богу, милость боже, есть и ранены
[00:04:54] у нас изгражданских, женщины
[00:04:57] ранены, слава богу, всё.
[00:05:12] of cases in Coursk region and 706
[00:05:15] of those are related to terrorism. now right after the
[00:05:19] invasion, the so-called soldiers the Kiv regime immediately
[00:05:23] began restricting the free movement of civilians and
[00:05:26] committed heinous crimes against peaceful residents using
[00:05:30] weapons and explosive devices. now many locals are still
[00:05:34] unaccounted for, as Russia's commissioner for human rights, Yana
[00:05:38] Lantratova reported the absence of data on at least
[00:05:41] 300... and two residents the Coursk border region. now
[00:05:45] the local governor Alexander Hinstein says that only
[00:05:49] 171 residents have been returned by
[00:05:53] Ukraine to Korsk. now the rest are simply
[00:05:56] missing and their fate is completely unknown, which
[00:06:00] makes the entire situation even more difficult and tragic. now
[00:06:04] investigation into the crimes the Kiev regime and course region
[00:06:07] continues as Russian criminal experts have
[00:06:10] examined 100 and 86 settlements in the
[00:06:14] area, according to their results, the damage caused by the
[00:06:18] actions the Kiev regime armed groups have already been
[00:06:21] estimated at over $6 billion
[00:06:24] dollars. now not all governors come
[00:06:28] from administrative background, some serve on the
[00:06:31] frontlines. Belgrad's acting regional head was
[00:06:35] major general before taking office in the border area earning the
[00:06:39] title hero the Russian Federation for his actions.
[00:06:53] The first point is our collaboration with the ministry of defense. Just
[00:06:56] last week, I met with the deputy defense minister regarding security measures
[00:07:00] and
[00:07:01] the development of unmanned aerial vehicles, specifically FPV
[00:07:05] interceptors. The main flow of enemy drones passes through our
[00:07:08] region, accounting for nearly 90% of all incidents.
[00:07:12] exploring various development options, security concerns lead to other
[00:07:16] important issues such as economic development. I consulted with
[00:07:20] economic development minister Maxim Rushetnikov to discuss the free economic
[00:07:24] zone and the development of industrial parks. Everything has been agreed
[00:07:28] upon and is now waiting approval from the government the Russian
[00:07:31] Federation. Currently we have 179 programs in
[00:07:35] place for participants and we want to expand further. Infrastructure
[00:07:38] development is also essential and we are addressing all these issues.
[00:07:42] For me, key concern is housing and utilities, because there have been
[00:07:46] no changes to water supply or drainage systems for many years,
[00:07:50] resulting in up to 95% wear and tear. Therefore, it
[00:07:54] is a priority to make these changes. Yes, it's challenging, but we
[00:07:58] are developing master
[00:07:59] plan. Now, in the
[00:08:03] aftermath of last week's border chaos in suita, most
[00:08:07] migrants have now returned to Morocco, however, between two and
[00:08:10] 5,00 them silver. in the Spanish city according to local
[00:08:14] reports, hundreds them are children, many living without their parents
[00:08:18] in difficult conditions. Suta authorities have requested
[00:08:22] assistance from Madrid citing a high risk the public order and
[00:08:25] safety. Here's what some the younger migrants had to say about their current
[00:08:29] situation. I've been in
[00:08:33] Suda for seven days now, I spent three of those days sleeping in the forest
[00:08:37] without food or water. We barely had enough food to
[00:08:40] survive. 'It's been seven days since we've been in the
[00:08:44] forest, me, my mom and my brother. I hope to become a police
[00:08:48] officer in the future and to be able to go to Spain so that we can be
[00:08:51] reunited with my dad, along with mom and my
[00:08:54] brother. God willing will be okay, they
[00:08:58] give us only one meal a day and look what's in it, milk and small round cookies, and
[00:09:01] we're barely surviving on just that. You always see infants with their mothers, so we're
[00:09:05] forced
[00:09:06] to give them our share of milk, because it won't make difference for us, but it makes a big difference for
[00:09:09] them. You'll find a woman with a small child who has nothing to feed him, there
[00:09:13] aren't even diapers, they haven't provided us with anything, it's as if all these
[00:09:17] people don't even exist. well, while brusseles claims the crisis
[00:09:21] was resolved quickly and that conclusions were drawn about
[00:09:25] stronger border protection, questions over who should be
[00:09:28] responsible for policing that frontier remain. the
[00:09:32] EU wants to shift responsibility to Morocco, but the fact that
[00:09:36] rebat considers suta its own sovereign territory,
[00:09:40] well that complicates matter. "We all want to
[00:09:44] have good relations, but if Morocco does not want this, then we will have
[00:09:48] to ask it to at least show respect. We cannot ask it to change its
[00:09:51] policy, not even its foreign policy. Its approaches are legitimate,
[00:09:55] but we can ask it to respect Spain's territorial integrity, and the
[00:09:59] security of our borders. We must make this demand with the support the rest of
[00:10:03] Europe. People see this not as a migration crisis. It was
[00:10:06] fundamentally attack, violation of Spain's territorial
[00:10:09] integrity. People felt that this, if not or..."
[00:10:20] seeking
[00:10:20] to take full control of western sahara from Morocco is the view
[00:10:25] "the chaotic
[00:10:26] border scenes were due to actions taken by both Rabat and the European
[00:10:30] Union, we saw last
[00:10:34] Thursday is actually something that is really terrible and
[00:10:37] tragic, and my take on this is that first
[00:10:41] there's human dimension, I mean 60 to 7000
[00:10:44] people storm the Spanish city theater, and we are
[00:10:48] told
[00:10:49] that at least 72 people according to the Spanish estimates
[00:10:53] died, and this is really..." and our condolences
[00:10:56] and sympathies go out, the the land and
[00:10:59] sea border the same
[00:11:03] asmilia, other
[00:11:07] heavily the enclave are the most and guarded and fortified borders the European Union,
[00:11:10] and nevertheless on Thursday we saw people
[00:11:14] just going in without any warning, spanish authorities are
[00:11:18] saying that they have not had any early world, okay,
[00:11:22] but these people came from Iraq and we're... that Morocco
[00:11:25] cooperate very well with Europe in terms
[00:11:29] of security, but they have not worked Spain either,
[00:11:33] so as I said, we back to politics, because this is not a very
[00:11:37] simple human tragedy, it is a
[00:11:40] political issue prompted by Morocco that wants
[00:11:44] to put pressure on Spain and other issues, but
[00:11:48] particularly because as we know on the record, Morocco since the
[00:11:52] 60s had been claiming the... as
[00:11:55] theirs, but indeed migration policy in
[00:11:59] Europe is something, issue
[00:12:02] that is is debatable not only
[00:12:05] among the the politician, but also among the the citizens,
[00:12:09] because people go to Europe from
[00:12:13] many other places in the world, hoping for better
[00:12:16] life, places where they can live with their families,
[00:12:20] secure territories that respect the laws,
[00:12:24] but ' At the end the day, Europe remains the fortress,
[00:12:28] Europe, where the doors are shut to everybody
[00:12:32] else, except the
[00:12:32] Europeans.
[00:12:36] Okay, some more news to bring you today, an explosion has occurred on the outskirts
[00:12:40] the Syrian capital. Two people were killed when a minibus
[00:12:44] exploded with a further 13 wounded, according to the local health
[00:12:47] ministry. The reports say and explosive device
[00:12:51] was planted a taxi van in Jaremana. is a
[00:12:55] predominantly dres area, that community which has repeatedly clashed with
[00:12:59] the new Islamist government. forensic teams are at the site and
[00:13:03] nearby hospitals have been placed on high alert, the ones claim
[00:13:06] responsibility for the bombing as
[00:13:09] yet.
[00:13:13] at least one person has been killed and 11 wounded in overnight bombings in
[00:13:16] southern Lebanon. israely forces say the attack was
[00:13:20] response to what they call Heizbollah's ceasefire violations
[00:13:23] after two IDF were killed in a blast a booby
[00:13:27] trapped house in that same region. RT Steve Swinny reports from
[00:13:31] Beirot. This is the latest round of Israeli
[00:13:34] aggression that took place after two soldiers were killed. The
[00:13:38] Israelis of course they've blamed Hesblo, they said it was a breach of that
[00:13:42] cease fire agreement. We haven't heard any comment from Hesball on that particular
[00:13:46] incident er so far, but the overnight attacks have
[00:13:50] continued across into Thursday. They've targeted many towns and
[00:13:53] cities across. the south the country, majd al zone,
[00:13:57] mansouri and bj al shomali where um
[00:14:01] the attack took place and ambulances and civil defense
[00:14:04] workers rushed to the scene, this is where there were number of
[00:14:08] casualties, and then we saw uh the uh so-called double tap
[00:14:12] attack that is becoming all too familiar now across Lebanon
[00:14:16] targeting the civil defense workers, we've just recently interviewed
[00:14:20] um two that survived in in Nabatia 130 or more than
[00:14:23] 130 uh paramedics have now been killed since
[00:14:27] March the 2nd, so uh, according to Unif, they've released a
[00:14:31] statement later on on Thursday afternoon, saying that there have been
[00:14:35] 113 projectiles fired by Israel a
[00:14:38] 24-hour period, this includes artillery shells,
[00:14:42] air strikes and drone attacks, and they said that this is the
[00:14:46] highest number of projectiles that have been fired over a 24-hour
[00:14:49] period since the
[00:14:51] uh end of June, now this uh kind of escalation that was
[00:14:55] is something of pattern that takes place ahead
[00:14:59] of or during these so-called peace talks, these
[00:15:02] negotiations, the controversial negotiations that are taking place
[00:15:06] between uh Israel and Lebadon, now this is the seventh round of talks,
[00:15:10] they're taking place in the Italian capital,
[00:15:14] Rome, they started on Tuesday, but they seem to have reached something of
[00:15:17] an impass, particularly as we understand around these so-called
[00:15:21] pilot zones, these are the areas that the Israeli soldiers, israel forces are
[00:15:25] supposed to leave to allow the Lebanese army and ultimately the
[00:15:29] people uh of that land uh to uh enter now we've
[00:15:32] reported from two of those Frun and Zaltar Algabia
[00:15:36] and we have to say that progress particular is very slow,
[00:15:40] residents are um very restricted um in how
[00:15:44] they're able to enter that village, but as with both
[00:15:47] them um some 80% of those buildings that
[00:15:51] they're returning to are destroyed now um for
[00:15:55] the uh Lebanese side they're keen to press forward with those pilot zones
[00:15:59] and the eventual withdrawal of Israeli troops, the Israeli
[00:16:02] sides say they want hezbolah uh to disarm now there's supposed to be
[00:16:07] se fire in place, don't forget, but while this is going on, will the Israeli
[00:16:11] officials, will they continue to ratch it up the
[00:16:13] rhetoric? we took 700 square
[00:16:17] kilometers twice the area of Gaza, from the coastal area in the west to the
[00:16:21] Bowfort and the foothills the Herman in the east, and we are removing the
[00:16:24] threat to the residence the north. We destroyed 24 Lebanese
[00:16:28] villages, we destroyed all the houses because they served as Hezbollah
[00:16:32] outposts once and for all. Well, Cats's remarks it
[00:16:35] somewhere in the realm of. fantasy, as we know, the 24 villages that
[00:16:39] he's talking about are places where families have lived for
[00:16:43] generations, but he's simply dismissing them as
[00:16:46] Hezblar outposts, and we visited many these and we can
[00:16:50] say this is certainly not the
[00:16:53] case. now, of course, what he's describing are war crimes,
[00:16:57] however uh, going back to the framework agreement which contains
[00:17:01] 14 clauses, clause 13 of this particular agreement has caused
[00:17:05] alarm amongst lawyers uh and human rights groups,
[00:17:08] because under
[00:17:09] that clause, the Lebanese side are unable to pursue what
[00:17:13] are deemed hostile acts in international legal forum, which means
[00:17:17] they cannot take cases that pertain to war crimes, crimes
[00:17:21] against humanity or other atrocities, and in the meantime, well
[00:17:24] Israel simply continues to act with
[00:17:27] impunity. well, let's stay
[00:17:31] in that region and move to Wartorn, Gaza, where a
[00:17:34] large delivery of humanitarian aid from Ketchnia has
[00:17:38] reached the end journalists watched
[00:17:42] it arrive unles out where the help will
[00:17:44] go. close to 1 million
[00:17:47] Palestinians are receiving aid as part of one the largest
[00:17:51] humanitarian campaigns initiated by the head the Chechan
[00:17:54] Republic Ramzan Kadirov in support the Gaza strip.
[00:17:58] convoys with humanitarian aid have arrived in camps for internally
[00:18:02] displaced persons in the most needy areas delivering
[00:18:06] basic food and
[00:18:16] to distribute 200 aid
[00:18:17] we tons to were of our able food people in various areas the gaza
[00:18:21] strip, including camps and shelters. this aid included 40
[00:18:25] tons of lentils, 40 tons of flour, 40 tons of rice,
[00:18:28] 40 tons of pasta, and 40 tons of sugar. these numbers may
[00:18:32] seem big, but behind every ton there
[00:18:34] is family story, and behind every
[00:18:37] bag of... flour or rice, there is a child waiting
[00:18:39] for food. thousands of food packages are being prepared in
[00:18:43] warehouses. dozens of volunteers are working around the clock,
[00:18:47] packaging humanitarian aid before it is sent to families in
[00:18:50] need. since the beginning the war, seven chitchen
[00:18:53] humanitarian organizations have continued implement their programs in
[00:18:57] the Gaza strip. they are setting up camps to accommodate internally
[00:19:01] displaced persons, providing food and humanitarian aid to the
[00:19:05] population and drilling wells to supply.
[00:19:11] I would like to express my gratitude to the chachin people and all those have taken part
[00:19:15] in such generous initiatives, we have greatly benefited from the
[00:19:19] generosity and support the Chechan people. We in the Gaza
[00:19:22] strip, in particular the Gaza camp in Gaza al Remal,
[00:19:26] wholeheartedly thank them for the past and ongoing
[00:19:28] contributions. The distribution of humanitarian
[00:19:32] aid covers all areas the enclave, north, central and
[00:19:36] south. humanitarian groups continue to deliver aid
[00:19:40] to internally displaced persons wherever they are, despite the
[00:19:44] difficult situation on the ground and difficulties in delivering
[00:19:47] supplies. representatives of
[00:19:51] Chetian humanitarian organizations confirm that the campaign will continue
[00:19:55] in the near future. It is planned to expand the range of aid recipients and
[00:19:59] reach as many families in need as possible in order to mitigate the
[00:20:02] consequences the humanitarian crisis, which is becoming more severe
[00:20:06] every day in the Gaza.
[00:20:13] Now as Japan's economy suffers, Washington has stepped
[00:20:17] in for the first time in around three decades to rescue its
[00:20:21] long timeime ally by propping up the yen. The country's
[00:20:25] currency is historically weak due to low interest rates analyst
[00:20:28] suggest, others say that's just one part of it. In recent months, the yen has
[00:20:32] been experiencing quote excessive volatility, according to the
[00:20:35] Japanese finance minister. with the US treasury stepping in and
[00:20:39] dumping some of its euro reserves in exchange for the
[00:20:43] Japanese tender. President Trump called the move good for
[00:20:47] the world economy. some economists we spoke to say the measure serves
[00:20:51] US interests first and its attempt to control the
[00:20:54] financial fallout from the war on
[00:20:57] Iran. The yen has been
[00:21:00] extremely undervalued for several years
[00:21:03] now, and the US has enjoyed that situation where
[00:21:06] a vassel state country's currency is being
[00:21:10] cannibalized in order to prop up the dollar. You
[00:21:14] exchange rates are binary um
[00:21:18] traded things pairs so... "if you want a strong dollar, that is
[00:21:22] the same as to say you need to have other currencies, major
[00:21:26] currencies that are weak, and the yen serve that purpose,
[00:21:29] so the the bank of Japan had been instructed by the
[00:21:33] Federal Reserve for quite a few years to to ensure
[00:21:37] that the the yen would stay weak, the biggest problem is that it
[00:21:41] makes imports very expensive. Japan
[00:21:44] is a high value added economy that can handle
[00:21:48] a yen at..." dollar rate of 80,
[00:21:52] but it's actually,
[00:21:53] you know, until last week was 164, a 40
[00:21:56] year um low on the Japanese yen, and that is
[00:22:00] poison for highly competitive economy.
[00:22:04] does have global implications, people should note
[00:22:08] that it is now the second or third, if
[00:22:11] there aren't more that we haven't heard about, uh,
[00:22:14] spending of American money to deal with problems
[00:22:18] in the Gulf, that's what. It already happened a week or two
[00:22:22] ago and now in Japan, it is
[00:22:25] spreading, and the reason for it has nothing to do with
[00:22:29] interest rates, it has to do with the fact that
[00:22:33] Asia and in particular Japan had been
[00:22:37] very badly hit by the war in
[00:22:41] Iran, the war the United States and Israel against
[00:22:44] Iran. The United States had its own reasons, but the
[00:22:48] bigger one again, is the need to
[00:22:52] control the damage coming out from closed
[00:22:56] straight of hormos, because that is the leverage
[00:22:59] Iran has in its war with the United States,
[00:23:03] and the United States does not want more and more
[00:23:06] economic difficulty around the world
[00:23:10] coming from this war that they now regret in
[00:23:13] many ways that they ever
[00:23:15] started. now
[00:23:19] it is the we hours the morning here in Moscow, but over
[00:23:23] on the US east coast, prime time is still ahead
[00:23:27] on Thursday, so get get the low down on what the
[00:23:30] American Ow team are putting together today, forest host Ben
[00:23:34] Swan, can fillison, hi there, Ben, you'll be taking over
[00:23:38] screens in just over 30 minutes time, what's down for discussion
[00:23:42] today, absolutely, as you said, prime time right here
[00:23:46] in the United States, look, we're taking a big look tonight at something that everybody's talking about online.
[00:23:50] is Tucker Carlson actually going to run for President the United States in
[00:23:54] 2028? now he's been saying for a long time he has no interest,
[00:23:57] but having no interest doesn't mean you're not doing it, even if it's reluctantly.
[00:24:01] he laid out a 10- point plan for what he says the United States needs to do
[00:24:05] going forward. we're talking to people on the street to see what they feel about that, and talking to some
[00:24:09] of Tucker's closest friends. is it true or is it just
[00:24:13] wishful thinking for disaffected maga? all of that coming up as we said in just half an
[00:24:17] hour from now, on America now. tucker oval
[00:24:21] office should be interesting, thank you ben, pack program today, no
[00:24:25] doubt. All right, time and moments for the final
[00:24:29] Sanchez effect the week, find out who Rick's got for a
[00:24:32] company today on RT's flagship show right
[00:24:36] ahead, do
[00:24:37] st.
[00:24:51] Have you heard the phrase content is king? Right
[00:24:55] now chaos rules the world of news and
[00:24:59] confusion seems to reign
[00:25:00] supreme across
[00:25:04] America, from our biggest cities, to our smallest
[00:25:07] towns, there is almost too much information, too many
[00:25:11] actors, too many lies. You don't need more
[00:25:15] content, you actually need context. We're
[00:25:19] not up in New
[00:25:20] news room ivory towers, we're on the street, we care about what affects real
[00:25:24] Americans, anyone can tell you what's
[00:25:28] happening in the news, but who's telling you why it's
[00:25:32] happening, how it's happening, how it affects
[00:25:35] you? every night we cut through the
[00:25:38] noise, because the stories that will determine our future
[00:25:42] are happening in America
[00:25:44] now.
[00:25:57] I want
[00:25:57] you to meet somebody, this is Joseph Schutzman, I've been wanting to have a show
[00:26:01] with him for quite. sometime, in fact, i i've told my my staff
[00:26:05] and told natasha, i said, this is fascinating story,
[00:26:09] let let's tell the story, because you're not the only one of
[00:26:13] people who have come from russia and decided to live in
[00:26:17] russia who come from america, now now you and i
[00:26:21] have something particularly uh similar right, you want to
[00:26:25] tell people, yes, so uh, my mother's side the family comes from
[00:26:28] Havana, yeah, and i was actually just getting
[00:26:32] a hair. today and i walked outside and come out and there's this
[00:26:35] oldest boutique in in uh guess what he brought
[00:26:39] me
[00:26:42] sanctions
[00:26:43] you know that's what it is you i just there's this
[00:26:47] old boutique in moscow since 1962 in moscow with
[00:26:51] selling cuban cigars selling cuban cigars like amazing so
[00:26:55] you are cuban american now living in russia yes now the important part
[00:26:59] isn't the cuban part although there's a whole story behind that because
[00:27:11] why would you leave the greatest country in the in the planet? we always
[00:27:15] told it's the greatest country in the world, by the way, and in many ways
[00:27:18] it is, yeah, in many ways it is, at least in many ways it was, yeah, let's put it that
[00:27:22] way, put it that way, i think you may have point there, yeah, it's unfortunate you,
[00:27:26] because look, so we actually moved with six children, we've been
[00:27:30] here for three years now, of course, of
[00:27:33] course, like uh, you catholic uh, little
[00:27:36] bit, traditional catholic, uh, this is my
[00:27:40] my grandmother, my abolita, yes, she, my buela, she has
[00:27:44] 150 grandchildren now, so yeah, she's uh,
[00:27:48] we we're all about having the big family, so uh, we're me too, by the way, but we
[00:27:52] we stopped at four and we went out and got a tv, there you
[00:27:55] go, they don't have tvs in russia, you know,
[00:27:58] it's it's a problem here, no, communist, no, yeah, exactly.
[00:28:02] they don't want you to see anything, no, it's um,
[00:28:06] we we basically it just had arrived to that it wasn't
[00:28:10] feasible anymore in in America to protect the
[00:28:14] innocence of our children. you now, I was told growing up by my own
[00:28:17] father, yeah, that children are like a beautiful white canvas, that's how they're come into the
[00:28:21] world, they have no expectations, and whatever you paint on that
[00:28:24] canvas, that's what it's going to look like, what, what was it like they came home one
[00:28:28] day and said, dad, look what they told us in school this month, we have to we have to...
[00:28:37] six when i left, we homeschool all of our children and people
[00:28:40] said the same thing, like okay, well you can at least protect your children, no,
[00:28:44] i'm sorry, all their uh, the children that are their
[00:28:47] age, they're going to a school as to public school
[00:28:51] right, and they're going to meet one day, and they're going to have to live
[00:28:55] a society that's like that, you know, people a lot to think about here and now, but we really have
[00:28:59] to start considering our future nowadays, this is why we have so many... we
[00:29:03] got to actually bring more children into this world while
[00:29:06] unfortunately so many people are taking them out. yeah, and it's interesting cuz the
[00:29:10] experience i've had so far in Russia, and by
[00:29:12] the way, just to be clear, when i say this about gay pride month, it's
[00:29:16] not about hating people who are gay or disallowing people for being who they
[00:29:20] are, it's it's about the promotion of something. i
[00:29:23] don't want my children to go to a school where they are forced
[00:29:27] for an entire month to celebrate something that i may not
[00:29:31] necessarily. either a agree with or b agree should be
[00:29:35] celebrated to that degree, that's all. I'm not saying you're not allowed to be
[00:29:39] gay, I hate gay, no, I, that's not what we're about, but it
[00:29:43] just seems
[00:29:43] like it's not the government's place, and the difference that I see in Russia, correct
[00:29:47] me if I'm wrong, is they don't promote or
[00:29:51] celebrate lifestyles,
[00:29:54] or even, for example, I don't like
[00:29:56] the fact that we celebrate Hispanic heritage month in the United States, why, I'm Hispanic,
[00:30:00] I'm proud to be Hispanic, but I don't need a month. "absolutely, or black history,
[00:30:04] for example, yeah, no, it it's absolutely true uh,
[00:30:08] but I will say one thing for Russia that they do celebrate a normal
[00:30:12] society, like for example, a good friend of mine, fabrice sorlin, his wife just
[00:30:15] received the award for Mother Hero for having 10 children in
[00:30:19] Russia, they celebrate family here, you know, this is something there's
[00:30:23] so much mut incentivized incentive, as well, it's not
[00:30:27] incentivized in the United States, but
[00:30:29] it is here, if you have children, you get lower tax base." "if you
[00:30:32] have children, you get other credits for food, etc. if
[00:30:36] you're
[00:30:37] a woman and you get pregnant, you get 14 months
[00:30:40] paid leave at your home so you can spend the rest more than year with
[00:30:44] your child, that doesn't exist in the United States, we don't have that, cheaper mortgage rates, sometimes
[00:30:48] mortgage rates, cheaper car loans, i like
[00:30:52] again, they act like they actually want to have children in their country,
[00:30:56] yeah, our country doesn't act like that anymore, is it children or family? it seems like the..."