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[00:00:00] "you wouldn't be here right
[00:00:01] of now, because there wouldn't be a here right now, I would be
[00:00:05] dead, um, after people in this town would be
[00:00:08] dead, most of Dumbas would be
[00:00:10] dead.
[00:00:22] a He is eager to
[00:00:26] seize upon any words, initiatives or ideas entering the public.
[00:00:30] discourse so he can
[00:00:31] of push for some breathing room. Russia's foreign minister dismisses
[00:00:35] Vladimir Zelensky sees fire calls as a ploy to regroup Ukraine's
[00:00:39] forces. That's after Kiev demanded the guns fall silent for
[00:00:43] 60 days to allow elections. The
[00:00:47] of more we help Ukraine, the sooner the war will be over. Brussels
[00:00:51] adopts yet another package of anti-Russian sanctions the
[00:00:54] of 22nd
[00:00:55] in a row with the EU still clinging to the
[00:00:59] a hope susus. will finally bring Moscow to its
[00:01:04] a knees,
[00:01:04] and the European Commission
[00:01:05] of is orchestrating smeer campaign against Russia's nuclear
[00:01:09] energy agency
[00:01:11] in a bit to win Hungary off
[00:01:14] of cooperation with Moscow, that's according to Moscow's foreign intelligence agency,
[00:01:18] which says the plot ignores Budapest
[00:01:20] interests, and India
[00:01:24] sees a third day of mass protests as
[00:01:26] of demonstrators accused the ruling party of
[00:01:28] of electoral fraud with the... government rejecting the accusations, we look
[00:01:32] into the root causes
[00:01:33] of the
[00:01:33] unrest,
[00:01:42] it's time for the news on RT international, my name is Egor Piskanov and it's always great
[00:01:46] to have your company. Zelanski will do anything
[00:01:50] to buy time to regroup Ukraine's forces, that's the main
[00:01:54] of goal
[00:01:54] of the constant push for sease fire from Kief, and this is according to Russia's
[00:01:58] foreign minister Sergey Lavroff.
[00:02:02] has replaced
[00:02:06] months, the the
[00:02:07] of call for
[00:02:07] of
[00:02:10] of call seasfire for inflicting a strategic defeat on
[00:02:12] In recent Russia in the rhetoric of both Zelensky and his western masters. The
[00:02:16] goal is singular and very simple, to buy time. He has
[00:02:20] even said he is willing to hold a presidential election, provided he
[00:02:24] is given two months to regroup. During that period, Europe could
[00:02:28] flood him with new weaponry to content. his terrorist war against the
[00:02:31] Russian people, but his feined astonishment regarding President Trump's
[00:02:35] statement
[00:02:36] a reflects only one thing, that he desperately wants to use any
[00:02:40] words, any initiatives and any ideas that enter the public
[00:02:43] sphere to promote his interest in a breathing space, by hook
[00:02:47] or by crook. I do not believe
[00:02:49] he has earned such
[00:02:50] a respit, nor do I think we will once again fall for assurances or
[00:02:54] promises. The President has stated this very clearly. We
[00:02:58] continue to pursue the object. the special military
[00:03:01] operation, these objectives are well known to everyone, we have
[00:03:05] never altered them, unlike the zigzags
[00:03:07] of in evasions of Zelensky and his European
[00:03:10] masters. the political pressure on Vladimir Zelensky
[00:03:14] is mounting on several fronts: first, the American president has
[00:03:18] stressed Ukraine is in need of new leadership, in response, has
[00:03:22] demanded a 60-day total to prepare the country to go to
[00:03:26] the polls, but it's not just electoral issues that have broughten.
[00:03:30] old acting skills back on display, that's as he
[00:03:33] appeared
[00:03:34] of surprised of by Trump's recent suggestion of an energy
[00:03:38] truth, the ceasefire
[00:03:42] announcement was new for me, but if Russians agree to an energy cease
[00:03:45] fire, Ukraine will agree.
[00:03:48] of Political
[00:03:48] of arrest consultant and lawyer Adriel Kanta says it's
[00:03:52] foolish for Zelensky to make an enemy out of
[00:03:55] of Trump. Well, I completely agree with that statement,
[00:03:59] because
[00:03:59] uh the... decent reaction,
[00:04:01] of the outburs of anger from the
[00:04:04] of Ukrainian of leader after the quite
[00:04:08] historical words coming from
[00:04:11] of the uh mouth
[00:04:11] of the president
[00:04:12] of the United States Donald Trump that uh the uh democratic
[00:04:16] election should be um uh put in
[00:04:19] of place a in in Ukraine because the current leader is not serving
[00:04:23] his nation and the its
[00:04:26] raison rightfully ' so
[00:04:30] basically um Mr. Zelinski is putting
[00:04:33] everything into one basket, so basically she's he's
[00:04:37] playing a Russian rule, quite simply put it
[00:04:41] uh, because he's betting on uh uh democrats coming to
[00:04:44] power after the mid-terms elections uh related to
[00:04:48] dispopularity uh
[00:04:50] of the Donald Trump in the United States due to his um
[00:04:53] unnecessary conflict with Iran, so uh uh basically
[00:04:57] the uh the uh the think...
[00:05:01] of
[00:05:03] of
[00:05:12] pressure on Russia and supplying
[00:05:16] Ukraine with money and weapons will
[00:05:20] continue, so I think that this is the uh one way
[00:05:24] streak um for for Mr. Zelinski, because maybe even if
[00:05:28] the democrats will come to power, still the Donald Trump is a
[00:05:31] president and has a significant influence over the
[00:05:35] foreign policy of his own uh country, so I i think that
[00:05:39] making an enemies both with Russia and United. says who
[00:05:43] is the main sponsor, who has been the main sponsor of this unnecessary
[00:05:46] conflict uh is very dangerous uh
[00:05:49] a game plan from Mr. Zelenski in his political
[00:05:52] circle. This comes as the European
[00:05:56] Union has approved it yet another 22nd sanctions
[00:06:00] package on Russia. Brussels once again claimed it's important to keep
[00:06:03] increasing pressure on Moscow and provide more support to Ukraine.
[00:06:07] At the same time it called out Donald Trump's new diesel deal with Vlad
[00:06:11] Putin. We acknowledge the
[00:06:15] agreement between the United States and Russia regarding the export of
[00:06:18] diesel, Russia will only negotiate seriously under
[00:06:21] pressure, which is why we are sticking to our sanctions against Russia.
[00:06:25] The more we help Ukraine, the sooner the war will be over. What we need to
[00:06:29] do is refocus and redouble our efforts in keeping pressure on Russia, that has to
[00:06:33] be our priority and that is Europe's priority. This deal
[00:06:36] doesn't help neither the crisis the oil products,
[00:06:40] nor the unity within the transat. community what concerns pressure on
[00:06:44] Russia, and it is not the European way, our way is to
[00:06:48] increase pressure buse we already seen how it works, we are not done
[00:06:52] here cuuse for Europe this is the vital interest to help Ukraine
[00:06:56] to sustain uh this winter and continuing putting, as I already
[00:07:00] said pressure, pressure, pressure on Russia, on
[00:07:03] Friday Trump and Putin cut a diesel deal between the two nations
[00:07:07] with Washington lifting sanctions on Moscow's diesel exports oil
[00:07:11] prices. have fallen amid expectations of increased russian
[00:07:15] supplies, although they remain above $100 a barrel. as
[00:07:19] part the US Russia agreement, Moscow will supply more than 300
[00:07:23] thousand tons of diesel to American and global markets, followed
[00:07:27] by a further half a million tons in November, and according to President
[00:07:31] Trump, additional 1 million tons will be delivered
[00:07:34] immediately thereafter, with another 3 million to follow
[00:07:38] depending on the condition of Russia's refineries. The US
[00:07:42] treasury secretary Scott Bessent has accused European leaders of
[00:07:46] hypocrisy over the heat Washington is now taking from
[00:07:50] Brussels. The Europeans have
[00:07:53] given the Russians more money, they have since the start of this
[00:07:57] war than they have given the Ukrainians because they cannot win themselves
[00:08:01] off Russian energy. They had a failed energy
[00:08:05] policy and Vladimir Putin, they they
[00:08:09] continue
[00:08:09] to fund him, so for them to say... that we cannot
[00:08:13] have a respit in diesel pricing is completely
[00:08:17] hypocritical. for more on this, I'm joined
[00:08:21] in the studio by artistanov, so eager, in the
[00:08:24] wake of this big diesel deal
[00:08:28] between Russia and the United States, the EU is
[00:08:31] adopting yet another 20 second now uh sanctions
[00:08:35] package, it seems that Brussels is very committed to its
[00:08:38] approach that somehow these restrictions will help Ukraine on the front.
[00:08:42] can you break it down for us? yeah, sure, well speaking about the European approach here, I just sometimes
[00:08:46] wonder if people in charge in Brussels, if they have like
[00:08:50] number in their head, like with the goal, like the one that where they be
[00:08:54] ready to stop, like where where are they heading with this? it's been 22
[00:08:58] packages already, since almost day one the war, they have been
[00:09:02] saying, oh we need to apply pressure on Russia, we need to do this, we need
[00:09:05] to press press, press, press, press, but we're, I
[00:09:09] mean, we've it's been almost five years of
[00:09:12] this conflict. uh 22 packages on, we're nowhere near, we're
[00:09:16] nowhere near the goal that Brussels and the Europeans have been saying that, oh,
[00:09:20] it will bring the war to an end, if you ask me, we're pretty
[00:09:23] much, we're as far from deal now as we've ever
[00:09:27] been, and so with 22 sanctions packages later, what are they going to, what
[00:09:31] are they going to do next, like every single time they just go, oh, it's the biggest,
[00:09:35] the hardest, the meanest sanctions package ever,
[00:09:39] why, why did you do that right away, why the previous one wasn't in? why
[00:09:42] didn't you just you know just do one, just do one and be get
[00:09:46] over with it, just how many more do you have, what else are you going to do, is the next
[00:09:50] one going to be again the biggest, the baddest and the meanest, well
[00:09:54] probably so, because they're all about PR here, they need this
[00:09:57] rhetoric, like the ones we've just heard from the Estonian Prime
[00:10:01] Minister who is openly called for strikes against
[00:10:05] Russia's refineries, something that the United States have said, well don't do
[00:10:09] that, have listen.
[00:10:13] Such an agreement goes against the long-term efforts the western world to
[00:10:16] limit the flow of energy revenues to Putin. The US has already
[00:10:20] convinced its allies, including us, to abandon Russian fuel. The
[00:10:24] long term goal of depriving Russia of funds is correct, and it must
[00:10:28] be continued. In Estonia, and at the European Council, it is worth
[00:10:32] discussing next week whether we can quickly contribute more to Ukraine so
[00:10:36] that they can strike Russian oil refineries. You
[00:10:40] know, there's one definition of insanity, and that is doing the same
[00:10:44] thing over and over again, and each time hoping for different result.
[00:10:48] This is exactly what the Europeans are doing here, but there's a very good
[00:10:51] reason too why they're so militant, why they're bravady. is so
[00:10:55] loud and so outrageous uh, because well, the Europeans,
[00:10:59] they have been doing the same for years, and by the same, I mean
[00:11:03] they've been purchasing Russian energy and resources for
[00:11:06] years, still are, just this year alone, they have spent
[00:11:10] just over 6 billion dollars on Russian natural
[00:11:14] gas, 6 billion dollars, just to put it in context, of course we don't
[00:11:18] know how much
[00:11:18] you know the details the diesel deal between the United States and Russia,
[00:11:22] but you know we know that it will likely be based on you know market prices
[00:11:26] and uh given the market prices stay the same because there's still plenty of other
[00:11:30] factors that to be accounted in here like the events in the middle
[00:11:33] east bottom line is with if Russia supplies
[00:11:37] everything that they have agreed on just over 4
[00:11:40] billion uh just over four million barrels of
[00:11:43] crude uh of diesel then Russia would get just
[00:11:47] over seven billion dollars for all of that so six
[00:11:51] uh just over 6 million dollars in gas that Europe has purchased just ' this year
[00:11:55] alone and during the previous years as well versus 7 billion uh
[00:11:59] for for potentially for for the diesel. Europe has been doing the exact
[00:12:03] same thing, four years, it just they've been doing it quietly, and with
[00:12:06] all their rhetoric they've been kind of going like, don't look there, don't nothing to see,
[00:12:10] nothing to see there, just listen to us, listen to what we have to say, we are supporting
[00:12:14] Ukraine, and oh, we're going to cry foul when Washington does something
[00:12:18] publicly, we have been doing behind closed doors for
[00:12:21] years. Well, that's why uh, Scott Bessent is accusing.
[00:12:25] Brussels of hypocrisy exactly because of that, let's talk about this diesel deal
[00:12:29] uh some more, great for Russia and the United
[00:12:33] States, it's great for global energy prices, bad for
[00:12:36] Ukraine and Zelensky. In fact, the biggest threat to
[00:12:40] its implementation is Kief apparently, because Zelensky did say that they're going to
[00:12:44] continue attacking Russian oil refineries. Why do you think
[00:12:48] is Zelensky so keen on sabotaging Washington's interests? Well, it's
[00:12:52] pretty, the answer is really pretty clear here, because Zelensky. get what he
[00:12:55] wants uh and uh what he they because here's being the differences in approaches
[00:12:59] yeah russia has been saying yeah you want an energy like you want an energy like cease
[00:13:03] fire sure let's do it first we hold strikes against oil refineries
[00:13:07] and uh then we'll see how that fairs well Ukraine they
[00:13:10] want a whole package right away they want to tie like strikes
[00:13:14] against ports they want to tie to this deal strikes against
[00:13:18] the uh electric facilities their power stations and so on they want
[00:13:22] to connect they want to basically get their
[00:13:25] railway uh railway infrastructure out of
[00:13:28] danger, pull it from the danger, just all part
[00:13:32] the same deal. Russia has been saying, no, no, no, we're not going to do that, and so now
[00:13:36] apparently the United States and Trump who's in die need of you
[00:13:40] know fixing the situation with the
[00:13:42] you know petrol prices in the United States, so now Russia and
[00:13:46] Washington, they have come to solution and Kiev is not part of it, so Zelensky
[00:13:50] is fuming and he's making, well he's done
[00:13:53] to make outrageous claims, but this one. It is up
[00:13:56] there,
[00:14:00] why doesn't America conclude a diesel deal with Ukraine? Let
[00:14:03] Ukraine offer a diesel deal. We influence whether these ships go or
[00:14:07] not, whether these refineries work or not, so yes, let's sign
[00:14:11] the corresponding diesel deal with the President the United States of
[00:14:14] America. So Zelensky, he likes
[00:14:18] to project this power, and here he is really singing in tune
[00:14:22] with the Europeans in the sense that uh... "he's going to say
[00:14:26] outrageous stuff uh, we don't know if he even he
[00:14:30] if he believes in what he is saying, but certainly he likes to
[00:14:33] project like he's he's in control, like he's in control the victory day parade in
[00:14:37] Moscow, Ukraine allowed to do that, now Ukraine's going to decide whether
[00:14:41] or not Russian uh Russian oil refineries will get hit or not,
[00:14:45] as the Ukrainian capital is evacuating with the
[00:14:49] mayor calling literally for an evacuation, well uh, it's easy, it's
[00:14:52] easy to see on the ground who's calling." the shots here, it almost seems as
[00:14:56] if Zelensky forgot about the size of Russia though, because if we look
[00:15:00] at uh, well hypothetically, even, I'm not an expert in this in
[00:15:04] logistics, but if Russia was to supply uh energy right,
[00:15:07] diesel to uh the United States, it would be way more logical to do it from the far
[00:15:11] east, yeah, which is thousands and thousands of kilometers away from Kieve, and they're
[00:15:15] not attacking those uh ships and refineries in that
[00:15:19] part uh, Washington and Moscow are now openly
[00:15:22] cooperating and it seems that the weight
[00:15:26] the support of Kiev's military
[00:15:29] machine now falls more and more on the shoulders of Brussels, so what's
[00:15:33] Moscow saying about all this? well, essentially, indeed, the
[00:15:37] United says Trump has long been saying that well he's going to put the financial
[00:15:40] burden you know on Europe for for this war, this is what he has been
[00:15:44] doing, the Europeans, they are going to feel the increasing financial
[00:15:48] burden, because now they because well Ukraine, Ukraine doesn't have doesn't have even
[00:15:52] enough money to pay salaries for their own uh, for their own
[00:15:56] soldiers, people in the trenches, they had to pull it from you know social
[00:15:59] welfare and so on and so forth, so they couldn't do they could can't
[00:16:03] do even
[00:16:04] that, now with Russia expanding the not just the geography but general,
[00:16:07] you know, the list of targets that they are hitting in Ukraine, it's going
[00:16:11] to fall on Europe's shoulders, uh, everything, everything that uh,
[00:16:15] Ukraine would want to rebuild, the parts, the money,
[00:16:19] the materials, they will have to come from Europe, from
[00:16:22] elsewhere, so if Europe wants to measure this war in terms of how much it
[00:16:26] costs, well, it's going to cost much more for Europe now, and in general
[00:16:30] uh, the Russian, the Russians, they have been saying that Europe is acting more
[00:16:34] like a part of this conflict, like and like side in this... not
[00:16:37] an impartial state or just a state that is interested in peace, they're
[00:16:41] acting as side that is interested in prolonging this war.
[00:16:45] this point has been reiterated by the kromland spokesman
[00:16:49] uh, the
[00:16:53] Europeans clearly do not belong to the party of peace, the party that seeks
[00:16:57] ways toward peaceful settlement. the Europeans are more like the party of war
[00:17:00] which continues to do everything to prevent this war from stopping. we are far
[00:17:04] more impressed by the efforts the American negotiators. "We are grateful to
[00:17:08] them for continuing these efforts. We are not looking for a split here, we are
[00:17:12] looking for truly effective measures and responsible decisions that will
[00:17:16] make it possible to reach a peaceful settlement. The Europeans clearly do not
[00:17:20] belong to the party of peace, the party that seeks ways toward peaceful
[00:17:23] settlement. The Europeans are more like the party of war, which continues to do
[00:17:27] everything to prevent this war from stopping. We are far more impressed by the efforts
[00:17:31] the American negotiators. We are grateful to them for continuing these
[00:17:35] efforts. We are not looking for a..." split here, we are looking for truly
[00:17:39] effective measures and responsible decisions that will make it possible to reach
[00:17:43] peaceful settlement. so right now
[00:17:47] we are at one the many crossroads, yeah, which are
[00:17:51] still
[00:17:51] to come, and this one really will show if everything that is
[00:17:55] coming out of Europe, out of Ukraine, if it is all just
[00:17:57] a bravada, if it's all going talk,
[00:17:59] to but be they will again as they do, they can talk tough, but they
[00:18:03] can
[00:18:03] you know do something entirely different, just you know quietly behind.
[00:18:07] doors, so if it's going to be that sort of scenario, or if they will double
[00:18:11] down, if you if Europe will enable Ukraine to
[00:18:15] continue attacking Russian oil refineries, and in that case it will be
[00:18:19] interesting to see what Trump will do in
[00:18:23] the in that case, because of course the relationship between Trump and Zelensky has been
[00:18:26] very thory from the very start, uh, they don't like each
[00:18:30] other Trump doesn't like Zelensky, and uh, so if Zelenski
[00:18:34] decides to, well, undermine Trump's... efforts and to go
[00:18:38] against him, then Trump has plenty uh up his sleeve uh,
[00:18:42] starting with the obvious, the starlink, just with one push of a button can be
[00:18:46] turned off for Ukraine, so if Trump will decide to act on it
[00:18:50] and to just cut it off uh uh and the just just teach
[00:18:54] Ukraine yet another lesson or if it will take some other road
[00:18:58] all together, starling intelligence, information sharing,
[00:19:01] weapons supplies, there are so many plenty of levers, plenty yeah yeah we'll
[00:19:05] see which ones they're going to pick. Thank you
[00:19:09] so much for bringing us the latest on all
[00:19:11] this.
[00:19:14] Meanwhile, Russia's foreign intelligence service has accused the European
[00:19:18] Commission of orchestrating an information campaign against the Russian
[00:19:22] nuclear energy agency and Hungary's Px to nuclear power
[00:19:25] plant project. Moscow says the campaign ignores Hungary's
[00:19:29] national interest. The main customer the Dirty
[00:19:33] Information campaign launched in Europe against the Ross Atom Corporation and the...
[00:19:37] destruction with its participation the Pax 2 nuclear power plant in Hungary
[00:19:41] is the leadership the European Commission. The Pax
[00:19:45] 2 project is designed to expand Hungary's existing nuclear power
[00:19:49] plant with Russia's Rosatum serving as the main
[00:19:52] contractor. The project would see the construction of two nuclear
[00:19:55] reactors which are expected to increase Hungary's electricity
[00:19:59] generation capacity and help meet its along-term energy needs.
[00:20:03] However, the scheme has faced scrutiny and political disputes within
[00:20:07] the European. union, including concerns over its reliance on
[00:20:10] Russian technology and the wider implications of energy cooperation
[00:20:14] with Moscow.
[00:20:18] now India has beefed up security in its capital as mass
[00:20:22] protests arraged for a third consecutive day. Initially, the
[00:20:26] demonstrators were led by a youth activist movement called the
[00:20:29] cockroaches. however, now different opposition forces have
[00:20:33] joined the protests accusing the ruling government of attempting electoral fraud.
[00:20:37] Something firmly denied by the authorities,
[00:20:41] RT India, Vinayak Digsit explains what has caused the prolonged
[00:20:45] unrest, we talk about the protests that are
[00:20:49] happening here. in India then at the heart the matter lies an
[00:20:53] allegation by India's opposition parties that the election
[00:20:56] commission's process of revising pole roles is
[00:20:59] solely to benefit the Narendra Modi eled Bharatiya Janata
[00:21:03] Party the BJP for winning elections after
[00:21:06] elections in state after state now uh the Indian
[00:21:10] election commission's special intensive revision process
[00:21:14] was started in the world's largest democracy last year and it
[00:21:18] started with the Northern State. of Bihar now the intention the
[00:21:22] process was to remove the names of voters that have moved
[00:21:25] away, voters that have registered in more than one constituency
[00:21:29] voters that have passed away or voters that are due to any reason
[00:21:33] whatsoever unregistered voters, so a thorough cleaning
[00:21:37] the election poll roles or the list of voters.
[00:21:40] about 130 million names have been flagged or removed
[00:21:44] so far, if you think that is a large number then think about the total
[00:21:48] population of India which happens to be 1.4
[00:21:52] billion people, now the final decision on removing any
[00:21:55] these names are yet to be taken.
[00:21:59] However, India's opposition parties alleged that in the
[00:22:03] process the special intensive revision, many legitimate
[00:22:07] voters name were also struck off from the list in order to
[00:22:11] benefit the Bharatiya Janata Party or the BJP. They
[00:22:15] claim that these removals now mean that India's electoral
[00:22:18] process is no... no longer level playing field. the opposition
[00:22:22] parties also say that this process has already skewed
[00:22:25] elections that took place in the month of April where the
[00:22:29] BJP one three out of five states. Congress
[00:22:32] leader and leader of opposition Rahul Gandi has gone so far as
[00:22:36] to call this vote theft and says and argues that any
[00:22:40] laws passed by the elected government through the
[00:22:44] stolen votes remained to be illegitimate because the process in
[00:22:47] itself was illegitimate. the bharatiya janta party, the
[00:22:51] BJP as well as the election commission have denied any wrong
[00:22:55] doings as far as the process the SIRR are concerned. the
[00:22:59] BJP maintains that the uh that the process was aimed to
[00:23:03] remove illegitimate voters from electoral poll roles. home minister
[00:23:07] Amit Shah also went on to say that it was to prevent
[00:23:10] infiltrators which happens to be uffemism that is
[00:23:14] used for illegal immigrants mainly from neighboring
[00:23:17] Bangladesh from voting in India. as elections, the
[00:23:21] election panel content that any wrongly excluded
[00:23:24] voters can request revision in their names and their names
[00:23:28] can be included back in the list again. this long
[00:23:32] simmering controversy around the special intensive revision became even
[00:23:36] more rampant after an Indian print daily
[00:23:39] the Indian express released a report which said that in the
[00:23:43] three member election commission where there is a chief election commissioner
[00:23:47] and two other election commissioners there was
[00:23:50] a significant difference between the election (chief election commissioner) and the other
[00:23:54] two election commissioners as far as voted
[00:23:58] matters like voter registrations and deletions are concerned. the
[00:24:01] election commission on this acknowledged the objections but
[00:24:05] said that the final decision that was taken by the body was
[00:24:08] completely unanimous.
[00:24:12] Saudi Arabia says ariyad's international airport, which was attacked three
[00:24:16] times within a week, will be closed until at least the 17th of
[00:24:20] October, the country has also issued urgent alerts for civilians in the
[00:24:23] south near the border with Yemen. The warning comes after hoothi missile
[00:24:27] attack on the city of Abraham. Reports say Saudi air
[00:24:31] defenses managed to intercept an incoming ballistic missile, and
[00:24:35] this video shows plomes of smoke that could have been seen
[00:24:39] rising from that apparent impact point. The
[00:24:42] Yemenies have been launching projectiles across the border into
[00:24:46] Saudi Arabia as the two countries engage in increasing.
[00:24:50] volatile conflict, and there was a
[00:24:54] devastating attack by the Yemini Khuthis on Riyad's main international airport
[00:24:58] on Saturday, the death toll from the strike has now risen to
[00:25:01] 13 after an Indian national succumbed to his
[00:25:04] injuries. The Yemeni hoties struck the airport in the Saudi
[00:25:08] capital several times the past week, and this CCTV footage
[00:25:11] shows Saturday's attack, which was the most devastating.
[00:25:15] Authorities say total of 17 people have been killed and more than
[00:25:18] 300 wounded. and huti spokesperson Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti
[00:25:22] said it carried out the attacks in retaliation for Saudi
[00:25:26] aggression.
[00:26:04] 'These attacks are Yemeny attacks. We do not do this out of revenge or to take
[00:26:08] vengeance, but rather to force the Saudi leadership to accept a comprehensive and
[00:26:12] permanent peace by agreeing to end the war. When
[00:26:16] asked about the conflict, Donald Trump said it could be possible that the Americans
[00:26:20] could join in the fight to support their allies Saudi Arabia. RT
[00:26:23] correspondent Mohammed Al Rashed has the
[00:26:25] story. There are heavy casualties from Huthi
[00:26:29] attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. The death toll is
[00:26:33] expected to continue to rise with many wounded among Saudi citizens and
[00:26:37] foreigners. The coalition views these attacks as the beginning of a full-scale war and
[00:26:40] heinous act that is contrary to generally accepted values and moral
[00:26:44] standards. The response will be fierce and in accordance with the norms of
[00:26:48] international humanitarian law. Amid international condemnation,
[00:26:51] Islamabad reaffirms its position under the Mecca defense agreement as well
[00:26:55] as its commitments to ensuring the kingdom's security and sovereignty. Statements
[00:26:59] by the US president regarding the possibility of strikes. against the hoothies
[00:27:03] open up the prospect of definitive resolution to the Yemen crisis. The
[00:27:07] kingdom declares that the Houti strikes constitute an active terrorism that
[00:27:11] runs counter to moral principles and humanitarian values against
[00:27:15] this backdrop. Saudi Arabia is garnering international Islamic and Arab
[00:27:19] support for its position and the measures it is taking safeguard its
[00:27:22] sovereignty and security. The coalition is threatening decisive
[00:27:26] response by invoking the collective deterrance mechanism under the Mecca pact.
[00:27:30] Amid the prospect of US intervention, stand off with the hootis is
[00:27:34] approaching a dangerous turning point. the key question is how far the
[00:27:37] conflict will expand and whether new actors from outside yemen and saudi arabia
[00:27:41] will become involved. we spoke with the saudi
[00:27:45] political researcher Khalid batarfi and he believes that washington has already
[00:27:49] been drawn into the conflict. the US
[00:27:53] is inf already by providing
[00:27:56] intelligence and cooperate in many
[00:27:59] matters security.
[00:28:02] matters also by providing what
[00:28:06] Saudi forces needed for equipment and union.
[00:28:10] what you are talking about is whether the United States
[00:28:14] will help in attacking
[00:28:18] this uh sources of fire
[00:28:21] and whether they will support directly the
[00:28:25] yemen government. well that's a matter to be
[00:28:29] considered and according to Trump he didn't decided yet.
[00:28:33] but a country as fast as Saudi
[00:28:35] Arabia, so many cities, so many
[00:28:39] oil installation, so many ports, we have 28 airports in
[00:28:43] Saudi Arabia, so protecting this much
[00:28:47] land and this much facilities
[00:28:51] will require lots of investment, lots of
[00:28:54] work, and I believe they are working on this, the other
[00:28:58] side is getting improved
[00:29:01] abilities. like the new missiles they
[00:29:05] are using against Saudi Arabia, they have all
[00:29:09] the the fingerprints of
[00:29:12] Iran on on that, and they have also
[00:29:16] Iranian expert and Lebaneses and
[00:29:19] others helping them to do that, so let us wait and
[00:29:23] see, but I expect Saudi Arabia to improve its
[00:29:27] facility as well to respond to all this new
[00:29:30] development. This comes amid a rapid escalation
[00:29:34] the conflict in Yemen. The cuties have released footage their offensive
[00:29:38] against Saudi back forces in the Thaiz province, the last
[00:29:42] important area on the road to Aiden. This footage can't be
[00:29:45] independently verified though, meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and its regional partners
[00:29:49] were expected to step up their military coordination today, and this has
[00:29:53] prompted speculation that the conflict could expand further, drawing more
[00:29:57] countries into the frey. And last
[00:30:01] week, Saudi led for. said they destroyed several the
[00:30:04] khuthi's rocket launch platforms. Riyadh Alliance reported striking more
[00:30:08] than 130 military targets in Yemen, that included
[00:30:12] areas in the huti controlled national capital. Art
[00:30:15] correspondent Jamal Al-Ashwal takes closer look at the
[00:30:18] situation in the war toren country.
[00:30:22] The escalation between Senai and Riyad is entering new phase with the
[00:30:26] expansion of alternative targets to include living facilities inside
[00:30:30] Saudi Arabia and Saudi airport. in Yemen. It is a scene that will
[00:30:34] likely push the United States to plan the possibility of participating in
[00:30:38] hitting targets in Sina and other cities. The response from Sonat
[00:30:42] is that it will not hesitate to target America. If Trump
[00:30:45] tries to interfere again in Saudi Arabia's alliance, then Yemen has already
[00:30:49] warned that any country that will make an alliance with Saudi Arabia and offer any
[00:30:53] service to Saudi Arabia in order to strike our country, we will deal with the
[00:30:57] American regime as we did before.