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00:00:00'Iran, our foreign minister has visited Iran several times and they
00:00:03know that we are very close close relations with Israel, so they have
00:00:07understood that if you have close relations with Israel, the
00:00:11target are not the Palestinians, we were the first
00:00:14non arab state to recognize
00:00:16of Palestinian as a state, and they open their embassy in New Delhi and we continue
00:00:20of a to support their cause, but there are other reasons why we need
00:00:24close ties with Israel because they have supplied us certain very
00:00:28critical technologies in
00:00:29of the
00:00:29of area of of count'. terrorism and since we have suffered from terrorism all
00:00:33these years, this is very, very
00:00:35of helpful, plus there are certain areas, some advanced
00:00:39missile technologies where they have collaborated with us
00:00:42and establish very close ties with people working on
00:00:46these systems in India, so it's a very, it's a very
00:00:50mutually beneficial relationship, but from our point of
00:00:54view, it does not come a cost of our relationship either with the
00:00:58Arab world or... or Iran whatever and I'll come back to
00:01:02the same thing, why should the Arab World and Iran then
00:01:05of tell us like United States is telling us right, friendly with
00:01:08Russia, so why should they tell us don't be friendly with Israel? no, it's consistent, it's
00:01:12consistent with, I mean if you study India's MO as much as I have
00:01:16tried to, it's consistent with what India's diplomatic
00:01:20in policies have long been. I mean, the only thing I would
00:01:24add though, in this case though, how do you skirt the issue
00:01:27of the uh
00:01:29in genocide uh? concern that so many people raise, how do you deal with
00:01:33that? it is very difficult issue, but if there is
00:01:37anybody responsible for this genocide in terms of
00:01:40support, which is that country? let
00:01:43me ask you, and which is that
00:01:46of country which has actually given full political,
00:01:49of military, security cover to Israel to do what it did? are you
00:01:53referring to my country, mr ambassador? well, you know, i
00:01:57don't
00:01:57of want to say all the time america, america. America, but
00:02:01is clear, yeah, so rather than focusing on India, if you have
00:02:05kind of
00:02:05a relationship with Israel which is not at all
00:02:08of the same dimension, I mean if the US Israel
00:02:12dimension was 1000, our dimension of Israel is
00:02:15of one, I mean, so why blame us
00:02:17in for what Israel has done
00:02:19in in Gaza and this and that and that, but to to be more serious
00:02:22answering your question, it is a problem, yeah, there are
00:02:26no voices in India which are feeling awkward about the...
00:02:30fact that we have very close ties with Israel and Israel has
00:02:34dragged us into a situation where we seem to be
00:02:38of some some way not sufficiently vocal enough in order to condemn
00:02:42Israel for what has been done in Gaza. our
00:02:45opposition parties are pretty open, they condemn
00:02:48of Israel. government is more
00:02:49of careful because they balance the positive and negatives and they don't feel that they
00:02:53are
00:02:55of in any way
00:02:55of responsible for this and the countries which actually ought to be able
00:02:59to. to win Israel
00:03:02of away from this method of dealing with opposition is the United States
00:03:06of America and now the United States of America has teamed up
00:03:10with Israel to hit at Iran creating even a further
00:03:14problem so therefore i i would say yes
00:03:18it's an issue but we have to see things in proportion yeah in
00:03:22diplomacy it is never that things are always lily white and
00:03:25every every way there are compromises here and there but they should
00:03:29be compromises which are defensible, it's a fair
00:03:53is he good, is he good
00:03:55of PM? I think in the last uh 10 years of
00:03:59his governance and more, he
00:04:03has brought a great deal of
00:04:06change in India, economic
00:04:10growth has been sustained, infrastructure has been
00:04:13developed, especially road and railways, remarkable
00:04:17change there, the IT sector is doing extremely
00:04:21of well, now he has impacked upon a mission
00:04:25to develop
00:04:26of critical technologies in India, semiconductors and what have you, lot of money.
00:04:30lot of money is going
00:04:31of into into this,
00:04:32he is giving tax holidays to companies which can come and set up
00:04:36fabrication units in India in these
00:04:39critical
00:04:41of
00:04:41of areas, so
00:04:45of of he is looking ahead, I mean his goal by 2047 is that India should be developed country, now
00:04:49we won't be there in 2047, we won't be there either, but
00:04:52nevertheless this is what his aspiration is, and he
00:04:56is working towards that, now the international environment. has become
00:05:00much more
00:05:01of difficult, at one
00:05:01of time is seeing that it will be smoother sailing than it is now, with the
00:05:05kind of policy that Trump is pursuing, he reck the entire international
00:05:09of system, political, security, trade, so how do we
00:05:12navigate and he has created a lot of tensions in relations with India and
00:05:16we were depending on United States as as a key
00:05:19partner for modernizing our country for developing our
00:05:23manufacturing in the most advanced sectors for big time investments and this
00:05:27and that now that that has been interrupted but let's
00:05:30see Trump will will not be there forever and hopefully the Americans will
00:05:34find a new president a little more reasonable as better sense
00:05:38of geopolitics so on the whole I would say that
00:05:44Modi is doing extremely well, but but
00:05:48but but people are many people in India, the opposition parties
00:05:51and many almost congenital anti Indian
00:05:55forces abroad are not happy, they don't want a strong, because a
00:05:58strong India can't be manipulated, a weak India or an
00:06:02India that is not sure of itself, which needs needs to make
00:06:06compromises externally to be able to get the things that
00:06:10I mentioned that India. they like, that India they
00:06:14like, India they can talk down to, India, they can lecture
00:06:18and whose internal affairs they can interfere
00:06:21with, so this is where the problem is, unfortunately
00:06:25for us, our internal lobbies and certain external lobbies and think
00:06:29tanks, in the media, now look, we have some excellent
00:06:32relations with some European countries,
00:06:35including this country where I am currently, but look at their
00:06:39media, it is not at alltic to India, Right,
00:06:43and here's the case with Britain, Britain is not at all
00:06:46sympathetic towards India, German media is not sympathetic towards India,
00:06:50though mind you, at the political level, India and Germany, India and France, India
00:06:54and the UK, India and the US, US press is very negative about India
00:06:58at the official level, there is good understanding,
00:07:02there is a feeling that we must move forward together, but they use the media
00:07:06to keep us, keep us unbalanced, to make us look towards
00:07:10them, to make a plee.
00:07:13to to sort of exploit our weaknesses within within our
00:07:17system, because 1.4 billion people with so many
00:07:20ethnic groups and religions and cultures and languages, there is
00:07:24lot of scope for mischief, always, there always will be pp, people
00:07:28will be unhappy a democratic society of 1.4 billion
00:07:32people, so this gives this gives gives an opportunity
00:07:36for others to interfere in our relation and they want to do that, but we have to coke with this,
00:07:40it's funny how this works in america. India America
00:07:43relations because on the one hand, from a personal or
00:07:47familiar standpoint, right? I'll give you an example, just using myself as an example: I live in
00:07:51Miami, and my doctor, he's an Indian-American,
00:07:55my lawyer, gravi, he's an Indian American,
00:07:58so the depth and breathth the
00:08:02penetration of India and its culture and its people
00:08:06in America is vast, as obviously you well know, because
00:08:10you're well traveled, but yet. "the perception of India
00:08:14outside the people who are from India who live in America
00:08:18is not wide and varied, in fact too often
00:08:21it's stereotypical if anything
00:08:31we not able to change that, because in part this
00:08:35meta business, control over these platforms, international
00:08:38platforms and their algorithms and everything else, it's a very.
00:08:42powerful tool that's available to the west, the United States of
00:08:46America to shape narratives and they play
00:08:50very very major role, especially because youngsters now
00:08:53only want to have access to these platforms, they don't read any
00:08:57serious journals or newspapers or whatever you, and their minds can be
00:09:01conditioned, certain narratives can be promoted, and we don't have the
00:09:05tools, the Chinese have shielded themselves, but democratic India can't shield
00:09:09itself, so we are constantly fighting this battle. of
00:09:12changing the narratives, but even if we have story to
00:09:16sell, who will pick it up, who will pick it up?
00:09:20international media not going to pick it up, these platforms are not going to pick it up, I
00:09:24will, we will, we'll do it, we'll put it here, that's what we try to
00:09:28do, I mean, and uh, and we've got a pretty big audience,
00:09:32no, but you're absolutely right,
00:09:33I i get what you're saying, I think it's hard to fight the
00:09:37hollywoodization the media in the United States,
00:09:41you know, one thing. what they do with movies about India for example,
00:09:44they make it look like the country's a slum when when it's far far
00:09:48far from that, they they they don't, they don't accentuate the the the
00:09:52economic capabilities the country where it's going, and instead
00:09:56we get the that stereotypical, same as Russia, same as China
00:10:00sa, same as Muslims in the Middle East, and and
00:10:04and that's that's the culprit in the end, I think you're absolutely right, Mr.
00:10:07Ambassador, how do we change that, buse that's key to be
00:10:11able to change people? acceptance the world and other
00:10:14countries, in 1970s Mrs. Indira
00:10:18Gandhi was at the head
00:10:21the what we now call the global south. or
00:10:25an
00:10:25online countries in UNESCO to build new
00:10:29information order, new world information
00:10:32order, because the feeling back then, and
00:10:36this is
00:10:38five days ago that the narratives about the rest the world were being
00:10:41controlled by the west, so we need a
00:10:44changed change in the information system, but it
00:10:48hasn't happen on the contrary to the development these platforms, now
00:10:52there is even a bigger grip the west.
00:10:56media broadly defined, including social
00:10:59media on defining global narratives.
00:11:03I
00:11:55and I'm so glad that you're there to let us do this for you, thanks so much for being with us, we're
00:11:59going to share this of course on X and on Spotify and it'll be on
00:12:03bid shooting, believe it or not, people, I don't have a channel on
00:12:06YouTube, but yes last night my wife and I were looking at YouTube, so
00:12:10people on YouTube are now taking our shows and putting it on the
00:12:14air and they're getting tens of thousands of views has nothing
00:12:18to do with us, people just take it and put it on there cuz they want people to see it,
00:12:22whoever you are, thank you, that's nice. I
00:12:25guess uh, and then there's bit shoot. Uh,
00:12:28you know, I've joined bitch shoot because they promise they won't take my stuff
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00:12:35all of that stuff, so check out bitshoot at bitshoot.com as
00:12:39well, hey, thanks for letting us into your homes, I'm Rick Sanchez, and we'll look for you next
00:12:43time.
00:13:52Welcome back to the news here on RT internet.
00:14:26Furthermore, according to preliminary information, one civilian was killed in the
00:14:30attack and at least two others sustained injuries of variing severity. They
00:14:34are currently receiving medical attention. Furthermore, fragments of what are believed
00:14:38to be foreign made drones were found at the attack site. These fragments will
00:14:42be seized and sent for examination to determine the specific type and nature
00:14:46the explosive device, information on casualties and damage is being
00:14:49clarified. With the investigation underway in
00:14:53Danjetzk, RT. managed to get to the scene the
00:14:57attack and he sent us this report: one woman
00:15:00was killed and another two elderly women were wounded in
00:15:04this therapeutics department at one the hospitals
00:15:08here in Dunetsk in the Donetsk Republic. As you can
00:15:12see the room is completely destroyed
00:15:16as these women were receiving care here in
00:15:20Dunesc, according to the authorities, the
00:15:23drone that flew... this hospital is
00:15:27aircraft type, it's called a hornet, it was
00:15:30designed in the United States and as you can see right
00:15:33here, judging from the...
00:15:38trapnel holes in the walls,
00:15:42the drone was filled with trapnel, in other
00:15:46words, it was uh, the strike
00:15:50was designed in order to inflict as much damage as
00:15:54possible, and of course as much death as possible. once again, this is
00:15:57regular hospital here in Dunes, there isn't a single
00:16:00military facility in the
00:16:04area, this is right in the center the...
00:16:07city, this is a Wednesday afternoon and uh
00:16:11closer to the end the work day, and of
00:16:15course the hospital is full of patients, but now this therapeutic swing is
00:16:19closed, as you can see uh volunteers are right
00:16:23here uh working to rectify this damage as
00:16:26much as possible, we're sealing off the building's thermal envelope because
00:16:30our enemies have attacked the hospital, we rushed here and are slowly
00:16:34sealing it up, only one window remains. there was blood on the
00:16:38floor and literally two wards were turned into one. many beds are
00:16:42under the rubble, lot of concrete is lying around, and there's a lot of
00:16:46blood. my guys and i go out frequently to help those in need.
00:16:50obviously damage was done not only to this particular room,
00:16:53but to other areas of this therapeutics
00:16:57wing. roman konserv, rt, donetsk
00:17:01republic. meanwile, russia struck two cargo
00:17:05ships delivering military supplies in the... black sea near the Ukrainian
00:17:08coastal city of Odessa, that's according to the latest statement from
00:17:12Russia's defense ministry. Russia also continues to carry out
00:17:16strikes with high precision weapons on Ukrainian military linked
00:17:19facilities. On Wednesday, Russia hit multiple targets in
00:17:23Keyev, most them military transport and logistics
00:17:26centers. Analysts say that the attack demonstrated that Ukraine
00:17:30has no means of intercepting ballistic missiles as not a
00:17:34single one them was intercepted. Earlier Donald Trump. declined even to
00:17:38give Zelenski more patriot defense systems, saying that the US had
00:17:42its own shortage during the due to the war in Iran. America now
00:17:46show host Ben Swan delves even deeper into the issue of what the
00:17:49ammunition shortage could mean for Washington.
00:17:53United States and NATO and Ukraine find themselves a strategic
00:17:57nightmare. They may be losing two wars for the price of
00:18:01one, one in Europe and one in the Middle East, and both
00:18:05are competing for the same missile. interceptors, by the way, that's not
00:18:09politics, that is industrial math, and the math is not
00:18:13looking good. a single patriot battery costs around $1.1
00:18:17billion, but the real expense,
00:18:19they aren't the launchers, it's the interceptors themselves. see each pack 3
00:18:23missile costs about $4 million, again,
00:18:27that's each, and here's the part the few people understand, it takes more than two
00:18:31years to build just one them, two years, you
00:18:35cannot surge that overnight, you can't flip a... You can't order
00:18:38Amazon Prime for missile defense. The supply chain is
00:18:41complex. Advanced seekers, solid rocket mortars, high in
00:18:45microelectronics, specialized composite materials. See,
00:18:49many of those components come from a small number of highly specialized
00:18:52suppliers that were already running the capacity before the
00:18:56Russia-Ukraine war. And that's why even Lockey Martin and
00:19:00RTX are spending billions of dollars to expand their
00:19:03factories. Lockhead says it plans to triple Pack 3 production.
00:19:07but not until 2030, so let that sink in right?
00:19:11we're talking about a war that is happening right now, and the
00:19:15industrial response four years away. the
00:19:18United States may have treated what it thought would be a short-term victory,
00:19:22and instead traded it for long-term
00:19:26strategic liabilities. again, we may be losing two
00:19:30wars for the price of one, one, because Ukraine is running out the missiles that it
00:19:34needs to defend it cities, it has none, the other, because our
00:19:38own stock piles were depleted fighting a war with Iran that hasn't made the
00:19:42Middle East one bit safer, and the hardest truth of all, you
00:19:45can't rebuild a missile stock pile with a speech, you can't
00:19:49surge defense industrial base with a press conference, and you cannot win
00:19:53a war if you cannot build the weapons fast enough to fight
00:19:57it.
00:20:07UCranian attacks on civilians in Russia have only prompted a more
00:20:11intense response from Moscow with Kiev's black sea ports becoming
00:20:14regular targets for Russian forces and the economic impact the
00:20:18strikes are being felt across Ukraine as well. Make sure to head over to our
00:20:22website RT.com for more on this story and much,
00:20:26much
00:20:26more.
00:20:32No sanctuary for draft dodgers amid Ukraine's lack of
00:20:36manpower and violence. forced mobilization, the European Union
00:20:40has decided to help by closing its doors to Ukrainian men eligible
00:20:44for military service. They'll now have to prove that they're not hiding from
00:20:47conscription in Ukraine by submitting military. papers: RT
00:20:51contributor Rachel Marston looks into how the new EU policy is
00:20:55practically sending Ukrainian men to their deaths. So
00:20:59the European Union has just made a quiet adjustment to
00:21:03its temporary protection policy for Ukrainians, not a
00:21:06big dramatic announcement, more of a little tweak
00:21:10the legal text that changes the reality
00:21:13completely for Ukrainians fleeing war.
00:21:16As of August 5th, protection now depends on whether you can't prove that
00:21:20you're in compliance with your military obligations back
00:21:24home. Here's the official version. To this end,
00:21:28without prejudice to union law and fundamental rights, temporary
00:21:32protection should only be granted to individuals who can provide proof to
00:21:36member state authorities that they are where applicable in compliance with
00:21:40their military obligations. So protection is no
00:21:43longer just about getting your behind out of a war
00:21:47zone, it also now means that you have to. demonstrate
00:21:51that you're not getting out of it too effectively by
00:21:54avoiding the front line, and the EU is very clear about
00:21:58why, they don't want to weaken Ukraine's ability to defend
00:22:02itself. now that part sounds like this: it is
00:22:06therefore essential that the union continue to apply temporary
00:22:10protection a way that, while benefiting displaced persons does
00:22:14not negatively affect Ukraine's overall ability to best defend
00:22:17itself against Russia's war of aggression? and to decide freely on the
00:22:21organization of its defense forces. Okay, so in other words, you
00:22:25can leave, just not in a way that becomes obvious, or
00:22:28worse, so popular, that everyone notices that
00:22:32reality contradicts Brussels narrative, because Ukrainians
00:22:36fleeing mobilization is really at odds with the messaging that we've
00:22:40been hearing over the past few years. According to European leaders, Ukrainians
00:22:44aren't just willing to fight, they're practically
00:22:48falling over themselves to get to... frontlines, and we all
00:22:51know that Ukrainians are ready to die
00:22:55for the European perspective. Ukraine is are very resilient, they are
00:22:59fighting for their freedom, their independence, their
00:23:03country, so they can't just surrender. We
00:23:07witness the resilience of Ukrainian people who
00:23:11have shown extraordinary strength in f in the
00:23:14face of aggression. Okay, so Ukrainians are eager,
00:23:18they're determined. highly motivated, so much so
00:23:22that they're now required to prove it. the EU's narrative about
00:23:26Ukrainians being siked about fighting is apparently so
00:23:30badly in need of maintaining that Ukrainians now have to
00:23:34subject themselves to a Brussel's compliance
00:23:37exercise in order to prop it up, because if
00:23:41everyone's rushing to the front voluntarily, then you don't
00:23:45really actually need to check to see if they're dodging the
00:23:49draft. you just assume that they're going because they're so
00:23:52gung-ho, but instead the EU has built a
00:23:56system for Ukrainians that now says, hey, look, we
00:23:59support you, but we'd also like some confirmation that
00:24:03you're not trying to dodge this war that we keep saying you're so
00:24:07psyched about fighting. turns out that the EU member
00:24:11states are already operationalizing all of this. in the Czech
00:24:14Republic for example, applicants will have to verify their
00:24:18Ukrainian military service. status through an app before getting
00:24:22protection, here's how that is being framed. Our
00:24:26government has been pushing for tightening of temporary protection conditions for
00:24:30a long time, and I appreciate that we have managed to find agreement across
00:24:34member states. This decision will reduce the number of new
00:24:37arrivals by tens of percentage points. This will subsequently
00:24:41reduce the pressure on our capacities and relieve the check health and
00:24:45social system. Yeah, well, there it is, the
00:24:49bottom line of course. the practical reality that no one likes to
00:24:52pretend even exists. fewer arrivals, less pressure
00:24:56on the system, smoother administration, fewer
00:25:00headaches. uh, yeah, heart-diven humanitarian
00:25:03policy meets cash driven capacity
00:25:07management. so the EU is now trying to manage two
00:25:10parallel tracks, you could say, one being a lot
00:25:14more detached from reality than the other. publicly
00:25:18Ukrainians are committed, resilient, ready to
00:25:21fight, but administratively,
00:25:24policy-wise, well, they're going to need those same Ukrainians to
00:25:28upload actual proof of being in full compliance with the
00:25:32EU's public facing
00:25:34delusions. The
00:25:38west is using Kiev to wage war against Russia and Africa. That's
00:25:41according to Moscow's ambassador to the United Nations
00:25:44Vassiliebenzia a security council
00:25:47meeting. The terrorist
00:25:50activities the Kiev regime in Africa must be pointed out. This refers to
00:25:54the supply of UAVs and the direct training of terrorists by Ukrainian military
00:25:58instructors. There are documented cases of western weapons supplied to Kieve.
00:26:02ending up in the hands of militants in Africa as well as in Latin America and the Middle
00:26:06East. U.S. oversight agencies have questions regarding how the
00:26:10military aid provided to Kieve by the Biden administration was used. The
00:26:14Kiev regime has long been in complete economic and military dependence on the EU and
00:26:18NATO countries which are using Ukraine to wage a proxy war against
00:26:21Russia. The same approach is being employed by Ukraine's western handlers
00:26:25on the African continent. By involving Ukrainians in supporting terrorist
00:26:29groups in the Sahel, they are once again trying to achieve their own goals.
00:26:32Ukraine
00:26:37has been
00:26:37at the center of controversy in Africa after
00:26:40an ambush in July of 2025 by tworig and
00:26:43al-qaeda fighters. That attack resulted in dozens of
00:26:47casualties, including among the Russian Africa core as the unit
00:26:50fought off the attack. Russia's defense ministry later revealed that
00:26:54Ukrainian and European mercenary instructors were behind
00:26:58attempted coup day taught in the country. Earlier Mali, Burkina.
00:27:02Faso and Niger signed a joint declaration with Russia, condemning both
00:27:06western metaling and the activities of Ukrainian mercenaries in the
00:27:10Sahil region. But the Sahel is not the only
00:27:14African region where tensions with Ukraine have escalated. Multiple
00:27:17media reports have revealed Ukrainian troops operating in Libya.
00:27:21Some claim over 200 Ukrainian troops secretly
00:27:25operate in the North Africa country,
00:27:27and they're reportedly smuggling weapons to Africa, and they're also involved
00:27:31attacks. RTS requested comment on the
00:27:35matter from Libya's Government of National Unity, and we will keep
00:27:39you updated regarding any response we get, but in the meantime, earlier we
00:27:43spoke with Omar Bu Saida, Libyan political analytic and
00:27:46researcher, he told us that Ukraine is seeking to export its
00:27:50conflict to other parts the
00:27:52world. We
00:27:56must establish a connection between the events. We clearly remember that in
00:28:00July 2024, Ukrainian. intelligence was involved in the battle
00:28:04of Tinoatan in northern Mali. In this battle, Ukraine provided
00:28:07support to the rebels in their confrontation with the Malian Army and Russian forces
00:28:11located on Maleian territory. All these facts point to Ukraine's clear
00:28:15intention to interfere in the internal affairs the African Sahel countries, amit
00:28:19its confrontation with Russia. These circumstances create an important interconnection
00:28:23between various reports which, incidentally, come from a single source and confirm the
00:28:27presence of active Ukrainian activity in such Sahel countries as well as in
00:28:31Libya. This certainly serves as additional indicator since the
00:28:35geographical link points to the interaction between the African Sahel and
00:28:38Libya, as well as to the characteristics the government controlling the western
00:28:42regions of Libya. The conflicts in the capital Tripoli arise from the presence
00:28:46of numerous factions and the intersecting interests of various western countries in
00:28:50these areas the city, where each faction answers to a particular
00:28:53side. Moreover, in western Tripoli, there is currently a struggle between these
00:28:57groups and traces the Ukrainian side are already evident, providing
00:29:01logistical support to these factions. including training and supplying
00:29:04equipment. Today we will return again to the issue of Tajura east of
00:29:08Tripoly, according to information from the ground. Ukrainian experts are present
00:29:11in various camps of Libyan factions and characteristic drones are also being
00:29:15used. In addition, there are independent reports describing the transfer of
00:29:19drones from Ukraine to Libya with their subsequent dispatch to the African
00:29:22Sahel. Ukraine wants to demonstrate its ability to be a partner in exporting
00:29:26conflict. Its actions in Syria, along with the major confrontation between
00:29:30Iran and the United States are part of. escalating and dangerous regional
00:29:34conflict with global consequences. All these actions create negative
00:29:38overall climate against Ukraine, which, instead of focusing its internal
00:29:42conflict, seeks to export this unrest to other countries. What is
00:29:45happening in Ukraine is attempt to gain the support the United States and
00:29:49draw them
00:29:50into its struggle with Russia by any possible
00:29:52means. For more news, you can always check out our
00:29:56website RT.com or follow us on social media, but for now we're going to take a
00:29:59short break, just another 30 minutes and we'll be back with. more here on RT
00:30:03international.
00:30:15It's dejavu all over again, the mou ending the Iran
00:30:19war is tatters. At the NATO meeting in Ankara, peace with
00:30:23Russia was not on the agenda. Instead,
00:30:25the now familiar, agreement incapable approach has
00:30:29overwhelming sway. It is obvious, the... is
00:30:33unable to think strategically. i
00:30:37think we have so much anger because there is so many people
00:30:40that that want something for this country that the majority of
00:30:44people don't want. um, we do not want to be enemies the world, we do not
00:30:48want to be enemies of our neighbors, we don't
00:30:52need that, and we don't want to have american citizens being murdered in the
00:30:56streets um by government officials, we just don't want any of.
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