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00:00:01company Blackstone.
00:00:04The head of Blackstone's real estate operations
00:00:07and CEO of Blackstone
00:00:11Real Estate Income Trust, Wesley LePatner,
00:00:14became a victim of an armed attack. Her and three other people were shot with an automatic rifle
00:00:17by twenty-seven-year-old Shane Tamura. Before that, he specially came to
00:00:21New York from Las Vegas.
00:00:24According to the police, Tamura drove up to the building that houses the office of
00:00:27the financial company Blackstone and the headquarters of the National Football
00:00:31League. Upon entering the foyer, he opened indiscriminate fire from
00:00:34an automatic rifle at the people present there, killing
00:00:38three and wounding several more. Then he went up to the thirty-third
00:00:41floor and shot another person there, after which he killed
00:00:45himself. The senior managing director of the American investment
00:00:48company headed a fund that owns real estate worth
00:00:5153 billion dollars. Apparently,
00:00:55the shooter was heading to the office of the National Football League located in the
00:00:58building, but made a mistake.
00:01:03to which the skyscraper belongs, said New York Mayor Eric
00:01:06Adams. According to him, some of the victims were killed here. The building
00:01:10also houses the Blackstone office. Well, the killer didn't go to the football
00:01:13league office for no reason. A note was found on him, in which, according to the police,
00:01:17Tamura writes about his illness,
00:01:20chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is not
00:01:24uncommon among professional players in American football. Tamura, according to
00:01:28the police, was involved in this sport.
00:01:34In general, rich people in the USA die from both popular revenge, from a stray bullet, and
00:01:38apparently from serious behind-the-scenes currents, and also
00:01:41Joshua Dean, the former quality auditor
00:01:45for Boeing, who testified against the supplier, suddenly died. This was the
00:01:48second case in 2 months where a person who testified
00:01:52against the aircraft manufacturer or its suppliers
00:01:55mysteriously died. It was reported that forty-five-year-old Dean was distinguished by
00:01:58good health and... a correct lifestyle, but two weeks before
00:02:02his death, he unexpectedly went to the hospital with complaints of difficulty
00:02:06breathing. The overwhelming majority of Americans justify
00:02:09violence in different ways, but PBS studies have shown an increase in willingness to
00:02:12use force for political purposes. Almost
00:02:16a third of Americans, 30%, say that people may have to
00:02:20resort to violence to get the country back on track.
00:02:23Growing support for violence is especially alarming to Cynthia
00:02:27Miller Idriss, a professor at American University, and
00:02:30founding director of the Peril Research and Innovation Lab
00:02:34on Polarization Extremism. She said that the latest poll
00:02:37results should be a real wake-up call. It's
00:02:41a terrible moment when people sincerely believe that at this
00:02:44moment there is no other alternative than to resort to
00:02:47political violence. One of the things you really want to
00:02:51see right now is universal condemnation of the use of
00:02:55violence and de-escalation of rhetoric. However, de-escalation of rhetoric
00:02:58is unlikely to happen: political disagreements in the USA lead to increasingly
00:03:02large clashes and to such lynch mobs, when
00:03:06an ordinary citizen doesn't believe in the law and takes a
00:03:09hammer into his hands. David DePape, who attacked the husband of former US House
00:03:12Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was sentenced
00:03:16to 30 years in prison, Reuters reported, citing federal
00:03:20prosecutors. DePape broke into the Pelosi home in San Francisco on the morning
00:03:24of October 28, 2022. A
00:03:26week before the congressional elections, when the hostess herself was in Washington
00:03:30at the time. According to prosecutors, the man was a supporter of
00:03:34far-right conspiracy theories. In his testimony in court, DePape
00:03:37admitted that he intended to take Nancy Pelosi hostage.
00:03:41Americans no longer believe that they will be able to, through their
00:03:44democratic procedures, through
00:03:47some kind of popular indignation, through
00:03:50voting, change the existing system, that
00:03:53they already need violence, and today,
00:03:57this is absolutely, as it were,
00:04:00a paradigm confirmed by world experience, world history,
00:04:04if today people
00:04:07begin to deify
00:04:10and exalt
00:04:13aggressors and those who dared to
00:04:16kill for one reason or another, then tomorrow
00:04:19people will reach such despair that they will take
00:04:23up pitchforks, but in the case of American society, they will take
00:04:26up arms.
00:04:32Times Square is a tragedy of one fate, but it reflects a broader problem,
00:04:36discontent turning into an act of retribution, digital rage
00:04:39turning into real violence, a system where
00:04:42people do not see fair mechanisms for solving their
00:04:45problems. While the White House is engaged in global games on the world map,
00:04:49Americans want normal life and corporate
00:04:52responsibility. The large economy and its giants
00:04:55simply do not notice people. If the authorities do not
00:04:58listen to the lynch mobs, then further will certainly shake
00:05:02American
00:05:21A view from Minsk on what is happening in the world, the most notable events
00:05:24and topics that are being discussed today. The Republic of
00:05:28Belarus has been ensuring its own food security for several
00:05:32decades, and we are a significant player in the international food
00:05:35market. A scientifically based structure of cultivated
00:05:38areas works, and for each region it is different.
00:06:12in the agricultural sector, tourism, as well as in education and the humanitarian
00:06:16sphere. Belarus is ready to increase supplies of meat and
00:06:19dairy products to Kazakhstan. Students
00:06:22of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of BSU
00:06:25won six gold medals at the thirty-third international
00:06:29mathematical Olympiad in Bulgaria. Made in Belarus
00:06:32continues to conquer foreign buyers. A branded store
00:06:35of Belarusian ice cream opened at the end of May already a
00:06:39success. A view from Minsk every Saturday
00:06:42on the Belarus 24 TV channel.
00:06:46In a house lost in the forest, the forester brings four-year-old
00:06:50Lenochka, whose mother died during the bombing.
00:06:53Grandpa, I want my mommy. Your mommy is sick. She will get better and
00:06:56she will come. Where will she come? To where you and I will live.
00:07:00Take her to the bank. Who is this? Pick her up. You'll
00:07:03find out later. The girl turns out to be the daughter of the legendary
00:07:07partisan commander, Batka Panas. Who is this in
00:07:10the picture? This is mom, this is me, and
00:07:12this is my dad. The German command thanks
00:07:16you. For what? You didn't tell us where the daughter of
00:07:20partisan commander Batka Panas is. I didn't even know, and
00:07:23it's good that you didn't know. The Gestapo goes to
00:07:26search for the child. A girl lives here with you, right? Well,
00:07:30she lives here. Do you know who she is? The daughter of partisan commander
00:07:34Batka Panas. The Germans are after her. Get out of
00:07:37here quickly. Okay. Do you know who this is? This is... This is
00:07:41mom, this is dad. A daring raid
00:07:44unexpectedly overturns the plans of the occupiers.
00:07:48Watch the film "Girl
00:07:51Seeks Father" on Belarus 24 TV channel.
00:07:55телеканале Беларусь 244.
00:08:16No matter where life takes me, I will look at the sky and
00:08:20a big paw will still
00:08:23always show me the way, until eternity,
00:08:27to the sea of my childhood, my first
00:08:30river, to my forests, the Slonim forests, my first
00:08:33forests, to my favorite pines
00:08:36from early
00:08:37childhood.
00:09:30170 shootouts in a year and a half in Brussels,
00:09:33the capital of the European Union, which is used to lecturing the whole world on
00:09:37democracy, human rights, and how to
00:09:40live, today can...
00:10:25dangers, that is, big cities, one can
00:10:28say, are completely out of control, therefore
00:10:32local indigenous people prefer not to live there,
00:10:35only come there at most for work, and live somewhere outside
00:10:39the city, away from all these incidents.
00:10:42Rival gangs of Moroccans and Balkan
00:10:45clans are dividing the cocaine pie in Belgium, fighting for
00:10:49power and money. The port of Antwerp has become a real
00:10:52gateway for prohibited substances.
00:11:25have already acquired a systemic character, they affect, well, most of
00:11:29European countries, except for those that try to pursue a tougher
00:11:32policy to limit illegal
00:11:35migration and try to fight crime in a more systematic way,
00:11:38but it turns out, frankly, not for everyone. Belarusian Brest,
00:11:42a twenty-four-year-old guy from
00:11:45Kyrgyzstan came to our country as a
00:11:48drug courier. All he managed to do was pick up a large
00:11:51batch of one and a half kilograms of prohibited
00:11:54goods from the stash. and package it into small doses.
00:11:57He worked for exactly one day. He was caught red-handed
00:12:01at the moment he was hiding the dose. In his rented apartment and
00:12:04hiding places, about one and a half kilograms of a particularly
00:12:08dangerous psychoactive substance, 4 CMC, were found and seized. For illegal
00:12:12drug trafficking with intent to sell, the detained person faces up to 15 years
00:12:15of imprisonment. The apotheosis of the impotence of the Belgian authorities
00:12:19was August 21st. Two masked men drove
00:12:22up on an electric scooter
00:12:25to a police station in Anderlecht
00:12:28and calmly shot its facade. 12 bullet
00:12:31holes. For the first time in the history of Brussels, drug cartels
00:12:35attacked a police station. The words of Brussels
00:12:39prosecutor Julien Moinil, that any citizen
00:12:43can get shot, turned out to be prophetic. In
00:12:46April, it paralyzed the father of a family, in July
00:12:49a twenty-year-old guy was shot through. In Sint-Gillis,
00:12:53a bullet hit the bedroom window where a woman was sleeping
00:12:56at that moment. Corruption, access to weapons, non-imposition of
00:12:59punishment, here we need to look
00:13:03at the very root cause of everything that
00:13:07is happening, from
00:13:09imports, on distant borders,
00:13:13firstly, and secondly, drug trafficking from time immemorial,
00:13:17but it's impossible not to import it, not
00:13:20to distribute it without the involvement of special services,
00:13:24because... our question is quite
00:13:26simple, if special services do not
00:13:29know what kind of special services they are, and if
00:13:33they know, and they should know, why aren't
00:13:36measures being taken? Stories about them using live bait
00:13:40to catch big fish, listen, that's for simpletons. It's clear
00:13:43that in all likelihood even the highest
00:13:46leadership of the special services is in
00:13:49the know. In spring, the army was brought to the streets of Belgium, patrols began to operate in Brussels,
00:13:53five soldiers plus police, the deployment continued all
00:13:56summer, but it was shamefully not
00:14:00called a state of emergency, merely administrative
00:14:03police measures, checkpoints, a ban on gatherings of
00:14:06people, soldiers at metro stations. At the end of August,
00:14:10after a new wave of shootouts, the Minister of Internal
00:14:13Affairs spoke about strengthening and expanding, that
00:14:17is, they planned to finish by September 2nd, but it
00:14:20didn't work out, the reinforcement will last until
00:14:23October. Army. divisions
00:14:27generally, troops are designed to
00:14:29repel an external enemy, that is, their
00:14:33involvement indicates that they, firstly, have no authority
00:14:36to restore order, this is more of a
00:14:39declarative part, to show that look,
00:14:43the government at least somehow cares about you,
00:14:47we can do something here, we have some discipline,
00:14:50this is a complete admission of impotence,
00:14:53because it means that... kittens
00:15:37of psychotropics, that's 1300 kg, detained by
00:15:41customs officers. The black market value of the seized consignment
00:15:45is about 62 million
00:15:47dollars, and such a quantity would be enough for almost 3 million
00:15:51single doses. Based on this fact, the operational customs of Belarus
00:15:55and the Federal Customs Service of Russia have opened
00:15:58criminal cases for large-scale drug smuggling, the sanctions of the articles
00:16:01of which provide for imprisonment for the defendants
00:16:04up to... up to 20 years. Cartels in Belgium don't even
00:16:08hide. A BBC correspondent witnessed
00:16:11drug trafficking 5 minutes after
00:16:14arriving in the area. Local residents say that sometimes you can
00:16:18see queues of buyers. One
00:16:21successful sales point brings the dealer up to
00:16:2450,000 euros a day, and there are more than 200 such
00:16:27points throughout the city. Children are recruited through messengers,
00:16:31and not only for distributing prohibited
00:16:34substances, but also for shootings. The police arrest
00:16:37twelve-year-old children with automatic rifles. Since the beginning of the year,
00:16:4193 adults and 14 minors
00:16:44have been detained, and these are only those who were caught. They
00:16:48push me against the wall, and I
00:16:50hear in the entrance, how someone
00:16:54simply says, "A underage drug addict,"
00:16:57that was the most terrible thing. Drug dealers are actively
00:17:00trying to use teenagers everywhere, offering good
00:17:04money, but such a career in Belarus lasts only a few
00:17:08days, and sometimes hours. Ninth-grader Yana was introduced
00:17:11to drugs by her boyfriend. She introduced
00:17:14her sister, and of course, then they all ended up in the
00:17:18illicit trade. From employment to
00:17:22detention, it's at least a
00:17:25week for us, at most about a month. So we can
00:17:28confidently say that we apprehend people red-handed
00:17:32literally within days after
00:17:35employment. Everyone received serious sentences. On average,
00:17:38one addicted person is capable of involving in their circle
00:17:41from five to 17 new
00:17:45people per year. Therefore, the measures against this evil are very strict.
00:17:48Prevention among teenagers allowed Belarus to
00:17:52triple the number of minors involved in drug-related
00:17:55activities by 2025.
00:17:58Police and prosecutor's office employees visit children,
00:18:01show films, and hold discussions about the dangers of drugs
00:18:04in educational institutions.
00:19:19under police protection, because they fear reprisal. The chairman of the Antwerp Court of Appeal,
00:19:22Bart Willems, warned: Belgium risks
00:19:26becoming the first narco-state in the European Union, where the mafia
00:19:30has turned into a parallel force in society, and Defense Minister
00:19:34Theo Francken admitted, our capital.
00:20:08German citizen, Belarusian customs found about 25
00:20:12kg of pressed hashish. In August
00:20:16of the same year, an international supply channel from
00:20:19the EU of more than 600 kg of psychotropics was suppressed,
00:20:22citizens of Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, and
00:20:25Ukraine were detained. The batch arrived in our country from a Lithuanian warehouse
00:20:29via Latvia. The drugs were transported in a truck that, according to documents, contained
00:20:33dishwashers. From the dishwashers,
00:20:36540 packages of particularly dangerous
00:20:40psychotropic substance (4
00:20:43SMS) were extracted. Taking into account that the goods were going to the Russian
00:20:47Federation (by us)...
00:20:50Jointly with colleagues from the Federal Customs Service of the Russian
00:20:53Federation, the necessary operational-search measures
00:20:56and investigative actions were organized and carried out. As
00:20:59a result, in the territory of Russia, the recipients
00:21:03of the cargo, citizens of Ukraine, were detained. Based on this
00:21:06fact, criminal cases have been initiated
00:21:10in Belarus and Russia. Members of the criminal
00:21:13group face imprisonment for up to
00:21:1720 years. And after that, another
00:21:20162 kg of various drugs, hashish,
00:21:24mephedrone, MDMA, clephedrone, were found. In total,
00:21:27Belarusian and Russian customs officers then seized about
00:21:30800 kg of drugs, enough for
00:21:333 million single doses. The black market value of such a batch
00:21:37reaches 75 million dollars. In Europe,
00:21:40you feel unsafe even at home, you constantly
00:21:44check if all your doors are locked. In short, it's the same
00:21:47nineties, but they've moved.
00:22:20the law, that is, in fact, this is an excess of
00:22:23democracy that does
00:22:26not allow the police to do their direct
00:22:30job. And now for the most interesting part - the waterbed effect.
00:22:34You press on the mattress in one place, and it bulges in
00:22:37another. Belgium and the Netherlands tightened the screws in
00:22:40Antwerp and Rotterdam, installed
00:22:43mobile scanners, tightened control, and what do you think,
00:22:46where did tons of unaccounted for cocaine surface now?
00:22:50In France and Spain, as well as Portugal, cartels
00:22:53break up shipments into small batches and drag them through
00:22:56secondary ports, through yachts, through French and
00:23:00Dutch overseas territories, where control is weaker.
00:23:03The result is that they shifted the problem from one pocket to another. You press
00:23:07on Antwerp, cocaine pours into France, you press on
00:23:10France, it will run to Portugal.
00:23:13Of course, the level of security in the countries
00:23:16of the post-Soviet space is much
00:23:19higher. What is this related to? Well, probably it is still
00:23:23related to the policy that is being used.
00:23:27Remember, again, the nineties, everything was not so
00:23:30simple, everything was much more difficult, and
00:23:34if you look now, how radically the situation
00:23:37has changed, the European Union was a state where security was
00:23:41certainly at the highest level, but gradually it
00:23:44degraded. Of course, one of the main factors is
00:23:48immigration. Immigration, which led to
00:23:52overcrowded prisons, since 2014,
00:23:56when decree number 6 on urgent measures was adopted,
00:24:00Belarus made a real breakthrough, reversing
00:24:03the drug situation radically, by
00:24:062025, the number of drug crimes
00:24:09decreased by half, the result is especially impressive
00:24:12among young people, the number of crimes involving
00:24:15minors fell by four, or even
00:24:19five times, and the number of teenage overdoses from
00:24:22223 cases to eight, without
00:24:26introducing a state of emergency on the streets, without a curfew,
00:24:30without an army, without shootouts, as in Belgium.
00:25:14To love Belarus, my beloved, you need to visit
00:25:17different lands, to understand. Now, why
00:25:21do cranes fly to Polissya
00:25:25?
00:25:30You need to be born in these lands to hear the
00:25:34speech and see the dawn, to cling to
00:25:37you with heart and soul, to
00:25:40you, my pure
00:25:50heart. Of course, it's people, it's because they somehow,
00:25:53these people probably impressed me the most, some kind of
00:25:57openness, sincerity.