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[00:00:01] I think I think the Mackey Alliance is very good uh step in
[00:00:04] a the right direction, it
[00:00:06] of just it was signed less than a month ago, I think it's very important that the
[00:00:10] world is shifting from unilateral world order to
[00:00:14] multilateral world order, so having these
[00:00:17] of alliances within the Muslim world and having alliances and
[00:00:20] strategic energy partnership with Russia,
[00:00:24] strategic economic partnership with China, strategic
[00:00:27] security and economic partnership with the EU and the United
[00:00:31] States is very important to not to rely on
[00:00:34] one order
[00:00:37] of against another, so Saudi Arabia played a big role even in
[00:00:40] mediation between Russia and the Ukraine and freeing
[00:00:44] president of between both country, because the
[00:00:48] relationship is very very very good with Russia,
[00:00:52] a of so I i think the mecca alliance is taken
[00:00:56] shape and Pakistan sent equipment and
[00:01:00] sent advisors and sent soldiers to the kingdom
[00:01:03] and Turkey also sent sharing intelligence with Saudi Arabia, so it's
[00:01:07] ongoing
[00:01:09] in process. Faisal al Shamadi is
[00:01:11] of a colonist at Arab News a Makacca newspaper, and thank you very
[00:01:14] much for your time and commentary live on RT international, we appreciate
[00:01:18] it. Thank you
[00:01:19] of sir, thank you. Well, former British diplomat, Craig
[00:01:23] Mary believes the UK's colonial legacy has led Yemen
[00:01:27] to the die situation it's in today while. money that Europe's made
[00:01:31] out
[00:01:31] of the conflict raises serious questions about, well true geopolitical
[00:01:35] intentions. Latest guess, by the way, on the Sanchez effect is a small
[00:01:38] preview, and
[00:01:42] um, there have been conflicts in in
[00:01:45] in Kenya recently,
[00:01:46] in in recent years, yeah, um, which go back to
[00:01:50] British disposession
[00:01:52] of the land, bitten, ethnically
[00:01:55] cleansed large areas of Kenya to put in white farmers
[00:01:58] instead, and... that caused um
[00:02:02] certain tribes to be moved from their land cleared into urban
[00:02:05] areas where they became in conflict with other tribes
[00:02:09] who were already there and and that is actually the
[00:02:13] of direct cause of recent conflict in Kenya, if you look at
[00:02:16] Yemen, it was a British occupation of
[00:02:20] Aden and the south of Yemen which caused an ident much
[00:02:24] of the identity conflict between the north and south of those
[00:02:26] countries, but the number of current...
[00:02:30] conflicts, Britain of course
[00:02:32] of invented the very concept of Saudi Arabia uh and installed the
[00:02:36] royal
[00:02:36] of family, the roots of how many modern
[00:02:39] conflicts go back to
[00:02:41] a British imperialism, so the Brits and the Europeans are complaining
[00:02:45] about the Houties, I i think the hoothis are kind of an honorable
[00:02:49] bunch, even though they do fight wars and sandals which I don't
[00:02:52] understand, so we did a little research here, do
[00:02:55] you know how much money uh the uh Europeans
[00:02:59] of made so far in armed sales to the saudis, which
[00:03:03] again
[00:03:03] a goes to your point about why they do these crazy things,
[00:03:07] right? i'm going to read it to you, right? 17
[00:03:10] billion
[00:03:11] a france, uk made 7 billion dollars
[00:03:15] in arm sales to the uh saudis,
[00:03:19] right? germany two billion, spain 2
[00:03:22] billion, so to your point, of course they're calling the
[00:03:26] huti savages, they're they're bought and so... by the
[00:03:30] other side, I think that's that's
[00:03:34] true, and and the extraordinary thing is, but with this
[00:03:37] incredible imbalance of weapons, because the, I
[00:03:41] think those can't be all time totals, because they've been
[00:03:45] of individual deals, there's been bigger than the total you gave for the UK, for
[00:03:49] example, this must be
[00:03:50] in a recent period, um, well this was
[00:03:54] during, this was during, this was during the specific, sorry, I should have, I should have
[00:03:58] clarified that, thank you though for.
[00:04:00] for for correcting me, this was only during the first Saudi
[00:04:04] Yemen war that these numbers, they've gone probably above them
[00:04:08] since then, yes, yeah, yeah, now they've gone
[00:04:11] of way up past that, and the amount, the total amount of
[00:04:14] weapons the the alala people have ever
[00:04:18] possessed, it's probably 5% of
[00:04:21] that, um, the and yet the
[00:04:25] Saudis with all of that firepower, all of that modern
[00:04:28] equipment are unable to... defeat them and in fact continually
[00:04:32] lose, the the war has been over 20 year
[00:04:35] period.
[00:04:49] up security and its capital. we're talking about
[00:04:51] in mass of protests for the third consecutive day. initially the demonstrations
[00:04:55] were led by a youth activist movement called the cockroaches.
[00:04:59] however, now different opposition forces have joined the protests accusing
[00:05:03] the ruling government of
[00:05:04] in attempting electoral fraud, it's something firmly denied by the
[00:05:08] authorities, so anti India's when i dixit now explaining what is
[00:05:12] caused. is prolong unrest, talk about
[00:05:15] the protests that are happening here in India, then at the heart the
[00:05:19] matter lies an allegation by India's opposition parties
[00:05:23] that the election commission's process of revising pole roles
[00:05:27] is soly to benefit the Narendra Modi eled Bharatiya Janata
[00:05:31] Party, the BJP for winning elections after elections
[00:05:35] in state after state, now the Indian election
[00:05:38] commission's special intensive revision process, was
[00:05:42] started in the world's largest democracy last year and it started
[00:05:46] with the northern state of bihar. now the intention the process
[00:05:50] was to remove the names of voters that have moved away, voters that
[00:05:54] have registered in more than one constituencies, voters that have passed
[00:05:58] away or voters that are due to any reason whatsoever
[00:06:02] unregistered voters. so a thorough cleaning the election
[00:06:05] pololl roles or the list of voters. about
[00:06:09] 130 million names have been flagged or removed. So
[00:06:12] far, if you think that is a large number, then think about the total
[00:06:16] population of India, which happens to be 1.4
[00:06:20] billion people. Now
[00:06:21] the final decision on removing any these
[00:06:24] names are yet to be taken. However, India's
[00:06:28] opposition parties alleged that in the process the
[00:06:32] special intensive revision, many legitimate voters name were
[00:06:36] also struck off from the list in order to benefit the bharatiya
[00:06:40] janata party or the BJP. They claim that these
[00:06:43] removals now mean that India's electoral process is no
[00:06:47] longer level playing field. The opposition parties also say that
[00:06:51] this process has already skewed elections that took place in the month
[00:06:55] of April where the BJP one three out of
[00:06:59] five states. Congress leader and leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi has
[00:07:03] gone so far as to call this vote theft and says and
[00:07:07] argues that any laws passed by the elected
[00:07:10] government through the stolen votes remained to be illegitimate because
[00:07:14] the process in itself was illegitimate. the
[00:07:18] bharatiya janta party, the BJP as well as the election commission
[00:07:22] have denied any wrong doings as far as the process the
[00:07:26] SIRR are concerned. the BJP maintains that the uh that the
[00:07:30] process was aimed to remove illegitimate voters from electoral
[00:07:34] poll roles. home minister Amit Shah also went on to say that it
[00:07:37] was to prevent infiltrators, which happens to be euphemism
[00:07:41] that is used. for illegal immigrants mainly from neighboring
[00:07:45] Bangladesh from voting in India's elections. The election
[00:07:49] panel contends that any wrongly excluded voters
[00:07:53] can request revision in their names and their names can be
[00:07:57] included back in the list again. This long simmering
[00:08:00] controversy around the special intensive revision became even more
[00:08:04] rampant after an Indian print daily the Indian
[00:08:07] Express released a report which said that in the three
[00:08:11] member election. commission where there is a chief election commissioner and two
[00:08:15] other election commissioners, there was significant difference
[00:08:19] between the election chief election commissioner and the other two election
[00:08:22] commissioners as far as voter matters like voter
[00:08:26] registrations and deletions are concerned, the election
[00:08:30] commission on this acknowledged the objections but said that
[00:08:33] the final decision that was taken by the body was
[00:09:23] I caught up with Derek after he signed a contract with the Russian army.
[00:09:27] Naturally, my first question was, what motivated a
[00:09:31] 45 year old American with three kids to put a Russian
[00:09:34] military uniform? I didn't just want to come and stay and
[00:09:38] take five or six years to get it, I wanted to actually earn it.
[00:09:43] um earn our place in Russia um to show the
[00:09:47] country, our neighbors, our friends, the world that we're loyal
[00:09:51] here, we want to be here,
[00:09:54] and we're honored to be here. Derek's
[00:09:57] training days are long gone, and he's now literally
[00:10:00] instrumental in one the army's repair battalions fighting a
[00:10:04] special military operation. That was his dream and
[00:10:08] intention when he initially signed up to use his professional
[00:10:11] expertise to...
[00:10:16] I think a repair battalion um all the the
[00:10:19] cages the for drone protection all the grills i
[00:10:23] can i can build those with my closed um, i used to fabricate uh
[00:10:27] real real fancy doors, fence, very similar in
[00:10:31] construction, so yes, i think as a welder and
[00:10:34] fabricator, i could really contribute to the army, and that's where i
[00:10:38] hope to contribute. Derek says that he and his wife made the
[00:10:41] decision to emigrate to Russia together, following
[00:10:45] introductory trip to Moscow, they made up their minds, sold
[00:10:49] everything in the United States, packed up their belongings and just
[00:10:53] left. Derek had accepted the... fact that he might not ever see
[00:10:57] some of his stateside family ever again. his main concern
[00:11:00] are his own wife and children whom he doesn't want
[00:11:04] indoctrinated by the so-called liberal propaganda targeting
[00:11:07] children. we knew we wanted to leave America um and when we when
[00:11:11] we realized that that was where it was okay. where could we even go? because all
[00:11:15] the western countries are the same. and i saw a youtube
[00:11:19] video um the president Putin is Santa Claus
[00:11:22] and there's a little kid. praying for
[00:11:26] Christmas wishes and there's there's LGBT books on the counter, gay
[00:11:30] parents, and um, I think the kid might even be a boy,
[00:11:33] might even be a dress possibly, and President Putin's Santa Claus
[00:11:37] swoops in and uh,
[00:11:39] you know, boom everything changes, and then there's a there's a new picture
[00:11:43] with a father and mother, the books are, the gay books are gone, there's a
[00:11:47] football, and uh, he answered the kids prayer, and
[00:11:51] um, and that really resonated with me, because um, I was like,
[00:11:55] Okay, well they they feel the same way, Russia is like like our
[00:11:58] morals, they don't like gay and lesbian stuff,
[00:12:02] and um, so we started doing research. When we arrived at the training
[00:12:05] center at an undisclosed location, Derek's family were in
[00:12:09] Moscow, largely unaware of where their father and husband was
[00:12:13] and what he was up to. However, Derek's wife, Diana,
[00:12:17] knew about his mission and made sure her husband got to see her
[00:12:21] and the kids. I hope that you are being safe and you... are
[00:12:25] making the right choices and that you um, don't try to be
[00:12:29] hero,
[00:12:30] you know, come back alive to your family. I would tell them that I miss
[00:12:33] him, he better be safe for else, when he
[00:12:37] when he comes back, I can
[00:12:38] make him pancakes. Naturally, we
[00:12:42] offer Derek the same opportunity and he sent his family a
[00:12:46] video greeting as well. Hey Diana, hey girls, um, I
[00:12:50] love you very much, I'm very, very happy to get to send you this video, let you see my
[00:12:54] face. see I'm doing well, probably see, I've lost a few
[00:12:57] pounds, um, I miss you all more than you can imagine, and I
[00:13:01] can't wait to see you, um, hopefully I get vacation some
[00:13:05] point and I get to come home, spend a couple of weeks with you, but man,
[00:13:09] you're on my mind 24/7, and uh, just know
[00:13:13] that what I'm doing is important to me and important for our family, and I
[00:13:17] will do whatever it takes to be safe and to come home to
[00:13:19] you,
[00:13:25] brand new passport and a brand new life. once a proud
[00:13:28] resident of Arizona Derek Hoffman now carries Russian
[00:13:32] citizenship, decision his family sees not as a
[00:13:36] risk, but as confirmation that they finally found
[00:13:40] where they belong. for the hoffmans, the US they left behind
[00:13:44] felt unrecognizable, marked, as they say,
[00:13:48] by rising crimes, social tension and cultural
[00:13:51] shifts that no longer aligned with their Christian.
[00:13:56] so they packed up their lives, crossed an ocean and
[00:13:59] chose Russia as the place to start again,
[00:14:03] so basically the situation was getting worse and worse by the
[00:14:07] day, um, we were seeing lot of changes happen just in the
[00:14:10] economy, in the people, and realizing
[00:14:14] that the area was not as safe as it was when we at
[00:14:18] first started having kids, um, we have six in total, I
[00:14:21] have three adult children back home, and we have our three daughters.
[00:14:25] and um when I started raising my boys, it was a
[00:14:29] completely different atmosphere, having the ability to go to the
[00:14:33] grocery store and not having a guard standing right there in front the grocery store
[00:14:37] before you walk in because it's just theft and
[00:14:40] fighting and it was just not safe driving down
[00:14:44] the road, you need a gun on your hip because people are willing to
[00:14:48] have the um anger and frustration take over
[00:14:52] what they actually would normally do and um the
[00:14:55] road rage is insane and we've actually heard and seen
[00:14:59] people get shot at so the safety factor was a big
[00:15:03] thing um lgbq plus is literally put
[00:15:06] in all the news and all
[00:15:08] the um things that are
[00:15:12] uh tv shows and all of um
[00:15:16] man ads for just random people's places
[00:15:19] like target for instance has an ad where two men are kissing
[00:15:23] and i'm like it's just is so in your face and shoved down
[00:15:27] your throat and your kids can't go anywhere or do anything and avoid
[00:15:31] it, and we wanted to have a place that had the same morals and values
[00:15:35] as we did. we
[00:15:36] are strong Christians
[00:15:37] and we... want to have our kids raised with a good
[00:15:40] foundation, so unfortunately we had to leave America,
[00:15:44] we tried to move from Arizona to Texas to be able to get
[00:15:48] a stronger Christian value in our kids, um, only to
[00:15:51] realize that the morals and values are lot the same thing
[00:15:55] there, they have a parade in Dallas for the
[00:15:58] LGBQ, um, a pride parade where they're
[00:16:02] literally on the streets and just
[00:16:05] out in public, and it's totally... be fine and welcomed and and
[00:16:09] loved by many and it was just really shocking to us and we knew we had
[00:16:13] to leave America because it was declining more and
[00:16:17] more. the pivot point came from an unexpected place,
[00:16:20] ATV commercial. in it they saw vision of family
[00:16:24] and tradition that they felt no longer existed
[00:16:28] back home. we saw um a commercial
[00:16:32] with Putin and he did a uh
[00:16:35] christmas kind of a situation. where he was Santa Claus and gave the
[00:16:39] children the actual mom and dad for Christmas and all the correct
[00:16:43] toys and um we took that
[00:16:47] as a big eye opener at that point, like wait a minute, they have the same
[00:16:51] beliefs as we do, they also believe that uh family should be a mom and
[00:16:54] a dad and it shouldn't be shoved down the little boy's throats to
[00:16:58] want to wear a dress or want to play with dolls or any kind of
[00:17:02] craziness with that and knowing that the safety
[00:17:06] factor was a lot better of rate here
[00:17:09] percentage-wise, we didn't really have any other
[00:17:13] options. Russia was the way to go. Now living
[00:17:17] outside Moscow with their three young daughters, the family
[00:17:21] says Russia has been more welcoming than they imagined.
[00:17:25] So I'd say the biggest thing that we've experienced as a family
[00:17:28] is the big hearts and the
[00:17:31] welcoming from the Russian people. I've never in my entire
[00:17:35] life of living in America experienced such... uh amazing,
[00:17:39] wonderful people, and it's crazy to say,
[00:17:42] but I feel like this is the home that I never had, this is the
[00:17:46] family that I never had, being able to come here and have people
[00:17:50] just invite us to come over and be like, hey, I made this
[00:17:54] entire crazy spread uh for um,
[00:17:58] women's day, we were here on the fifth, women's day was on the eight, that's
[00:18:01] a couple of days, you never even met my family, now you're inviting us over for
[00:18:05] cake and champagne and... breakfast and meat and cheese
[00:18:09] and all these beautiful amenities, like are are are you okay?
[00:18:12] from offering homemade meals to driving them hours into
[00:18:16] moscow to file document, neighbors stepped in
[00:18:20] like family. it's the kind of support the huffman say
[00:18:23] they never experienced in the US. i'm like
[00:18:27] confused, like people don't do that, they're scared to have
[00:18:31] you come into their house because maybe you're going to take something
[00:18:35] or maybe you're going to destroy something and it's... just the mentality is
[00:18:38] completely different, um, different neighbor offered
[00:18:42] to take us to the grocery store when we first moved here and gave us few
[00:18:46] rides to get there and brought us back and different neighbor the other day
[00:18:50] we were talking to, um, we go on walks lot just to have more
[00:18:54] conversation and to build our skills um in the
[00:18:57] language. she offered to drive me all the way to Moscow, which from
[00:19:01] here is 2 hours one way, and be able to pick up
[00:19:05] documents from our lawyer because... is getting our girls into school
[00:19:09] and having specific um documents from the school
[00:19:13] records back in America, having them transcribed and tr and
[00:19:17] switched over into Russian um and then of course notarized that they're
[00:19:20] off um notarized their
[00:19:23] unticity, okay that didn't come out right
[00:19:27] um but the notarized copies to be able to make sure that they're actually
[00:19:31] real and legit and that's two hours there, nobody
[00:19:34] does that in America, you'll be lucky to get somebody to help you get gas
[00:19:38] if you run out of gas and you know these people, so
[00:19:42] I'd say for me it was the biggest eye opener that these
[00:19:46] people are real and they are authentic and they have heart of
[00:19:50] gold, like they truly want to help, and not because they want to see
[00:19:54] something in return, which is the mentality of how we were
[00:19:58] raised in
[00:20:41] turn when Derek enlisted in the Russian army,
[00:20:44] move his wife describes as faith
[00:20:47] driven. So there was definite. definitely lot of um
[00:20:51] questions, there was a lot of discussion
[00:20:55] and a ton more prayer like we wanted to make sure
[00:20:59] it wasn't just a oh willy nilly like oh we'll get citizenship so
[00:21:03] let's just do it um there was lot of prayer
[00:21:07] and lot of just making sure like okay well what if this happens well what
[00:21:11] if this happens well what about this well what about that and then it was
[00:21:15] like okay well mean it makes sense you're why totally i
[00:21:19] get it and It's like, um, I just, I don't know how I feel about
[00:21:23] it, let's pray, and then coming to that conclusion and making
[00:21:27] sure that it was a god thing that it was like, all right, lord,
[00:21:30] like, if you want him to join, and that's the path you want
[00:21:34] for our family, like everything else we've ever done in our lives, make
[00:21:38] it just the clear path, make it black or white, and if it is
[00:21:42] the path that we're supposed to take, just make sure that we know that
[00:21:45] that's that's the path, because we don't want to make a wrong choice.
[00:21:50] and go down the wrong path and god forbid lose my husband or
[00:21:54] have something go wrong or um i don't
[00:21:57] know like it just not be the path that he has for us
[00:22:01] um and we've always talked about that when a window closes a door will open and the
[00:22:05] door is always a god thing for us um as long as
[00:22:09] it's something that is clear to us that he
[00:22:13] has his hand over it um it was easier for us to go okay
[00:22:17] well he's going to come back safe like this is God's plan. and like he's
[00:22:21] he's going to be protected and this is the path we're supposed to take,
[00:22:24] and I mean if you've read in the Bible at all, you know that
[00:22:28] multiple people have gone through their sets of hardship, they said, hey,
[00:22:32] this is what I'm supposed to do, this is what God wants me to do, ended up a lions
[00:22:36] then, ended up a furnace, ended up before a giant, did they die? they
[00:22:40] did not, like they were protected, they had God on their side and God
[00:22:44] saying, hey, this is the thing I want you to do, this is where I want you to
[00:22:47] fight, this is the path I have for you. 'and of course in
[00:22:51] doing the thing that God asked them
[00:22:53] to do, yes it was scary, yes it was
[00:22:55] dangerous and of course we are fearful um of something
[00:22:59] happening, but of course knowing that it's a god path, it
[00:23:03] doesn't matter what you put in our way, like if this is the way he wanted us to
[00:23:07] do, this is the best best way for us to do it, she
[00:23:10] says serving was always a dream, but one he
[00:23:14] never fulfilled in the US, he had always thought that joining the
[00:23:18] military would be a'. um a thing that he
[00:23:22] would want to do, in America he was never even able to
[00:23:26] because the um his age
[00:23:29] or the ability to be fit enough or whatever the
[00:23:33] requirements were at that time, he never thought that he would be able to
[00:23:36] join, um, the the the
[00:23:40] military of America is the
[00:23:43] discipline and the you know actually making sure you're
[00:23:47] doing things as morals and values.
[00:23:50] and um, I am so grateful that he did not join there in the
[00:23:54] military, because I feel like it's a different set
[00:23:58] of thought process as the morals and the values, as it is
[00:24:02] here, you actually have a basis of morals and value,
[00:24:06] and to be able to um be with like-minded people
[00:24:09] who actually want to see the country succeed, and they know
[00:24:13] that we're fighting for a good cause, not just to fight or start a
[00:24:17] war or actually have issues,
[00:24:21] um the ability to stop the evil going on and to be able
[00:24:25] to make sure that the people here are safe and that there
[00:24:28] is um just a connection since we've been here
[00:24:32] to to want to be part of society like we've never wanted to be
[00:24:36] part of society before where people are actually on the same
[00:24:40] page and they actually want to see you succeed and they
[00:24:44] want to be able to be part of that and the sharing
[00:24:48] is so amazing he was around a group. of guys and he
[00:24:51] offered the one guy some um of his snacks
[00:24:54] and it was the snickers bar cuz he was he was eating snickers bars
[00:24:58] and he they're just like these little mini snicker bars it's not like this big old snicker bars
[00:25:02] and he offered him one and the guy took it and then he broke it in half to offer to someone
[00:25:06] else and i almost lost it i was like you don't
[00:25:10] see that in america you just don't someone gets a stickers but they're like thanks and they eat
[00:25:14] it because they're so worried about making sure they get
[00:25:18] theirs but here it's the opposite, like they're like, I want
[00:25:21] to share with somebody else, so they feel the sames I'm feeling
[00:25:25] as the grateful and the the enjoyment of
[00:25:29] whatever it is that they're getting to experience, and just being around people
[00:25:33] like that was just, it was no-brainer, um, seeing the
[00:25:36] sign saying that you and your family would get citizenship, he was like, it's
[00:25:40] done, I could actually go in and be able to make sure that my family has
[00:25:44] citizenship, I, what more could I want? Derek is
[00:25:48] now away with his unit, um, "the family is counting down the
[00:25:52] days until he returns. when we asked the girls about their
[00:25:55] father, the room felt quiet. they told us life
[00:25:59] feels different without him and they..."
[00:26:04] Of course I miss him um having him here on regular basis, making all the
[00:26:08] funny jokes that he usually makes and making things light-hearted and
[00:26:12] laughing about things and um him being
[00:26:16] able to lay the hammer and and be that rock and be able to make
[00:26:19] sure that you know things are going the way they're supposed to go
[00:26:23] and things are getting done and lists are made so that we make sure to stay
[00:26:27] on track I
[00:26:28] mean it is um it is hard
[00:26:31] not having. that not having your significant other to be able to
[00:26:35] help guide you and help be with you and um hold you at night to
[00:26:39] be able to say hey you know everything's going to be okay like
[00:26:43] it is difficult for sure and i 100% miss him
[00:26:47] i was going i knew this was going to happen soon cuz we
[00:26:50] played that he would make it and but when i thought he was going to
[00:26:54] move mean going to to the military
[00:26:58] i felt very sad and tried tried
[00:27:02] making every moment I can, exciting and not bad
[00:27:05] ones. pretty sad because I really love him and I don't want him to
[00:27:09] go. He is hero, he's a hero to our family and he is hero
[00:27:13] to um pretty much every Russian person
[00:27:17] we've talked to, because there are so many people that are here in Russia that
[00:27:21] are true Russians that were born Russians that would not be
[00:27:25] courageous enough to stand up and say, "I'm going to fight, I'm going
[00:27:29] to fight for the country, I'm going to fight for what's right." going to
[00:27:32] make sure that as a people succeed,
[00:27:36] because we already feel like we are Russian, so to be able
[00:27:40] to be on this side of things and to be able to
[00:27:43] fight for what we truly believe in, is an
[00:27:47] amazing opportunity. I'd say I really miss him, I would
[00:27:51] say I miss you and I wish you would heal, and I would
[00:27:54] say when he when he comes back I can make him
[00:27:57] pancakes, I would tell him that I miss
[00:27:59] him, he better be safe or...
[00:28:03] The family is now taking steps toward full citizenship. The
[00:28:07] children have joined a private school where each day brings new
[00:28:11] lessons, faces and small discoveries. For the
[00:28:14] halfmans, Russia is more than a destination. It's
[00:28:18] the start of something new. Each day carries its own
[00:28:22] challenges and chances and together they're shaping
[00:28:26] life that already
[00:28:59] Belarus, January 1944.
[00:30:32] for minister dismisses Vladimir Zelenskire calls as
[00:30:36] a ploy to regroup Ukraine's forces. That's after Kiev
[00:30:40] demanded the guns fall silent for 60 days to allow
[00:30:44] for elections. The more we help Ukraine, the
[00:30:47] sooner the war will be over. And Brussels adopts yet another
[00:30:51] package of anti-Russian sanctions with the EU hoping its
[00:30:54] 22nd round of restrictions will do what the previous 21 have
[00:30:58] failed to do and that's