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00:00:00We kick off the new season of Inland Visions from El Bruce, the
00:00:04in roof of Russia, where every step and view takes your breath
00:00:08away,
00:00:09a so join us as we take the show to new
00:00:14of of heights.
00:00:19Good evening, it's 9 pm on the east coast, I'm Olivia
00:00:22a Flynn and here are the stories we're following tonight. First, breaking tonight,
00:00:26the US Senate just passed a sweeping new sanctions bill targeting. Russia,
00:00:30we'll break
00:00:31it all down. Plus, as we head into the weekend, we are
00:00:35tracking the latest on the conflict in the Middle East, and as this war
00:00:38reaches the sixth month mark, the question remains, who's really
00:00:42winning? And finally, we'll dive
00:00:45into new
00:00:46of reports, the CIA is reportedly opening new front inside
00:00:50Cuba. On the show, we know that you don't need more content, you need
00:00:54context.
00:00:54of Anyone can tell you what's happening in the news. Tonight we hope to help you understand why it's happening,
00:00:58how it's happening, and...
00:01:03of
00:01:12We start this evening with breaking news out of Washington DC. The US senate has
00:01:16passed yet another round of sanctions on Russia
00:01:19of in a vote of 86 to 11. The legislation was the pet
00:01:22project of recently deceased senator and known
00:01:25in Warhawk Lindsay Graham of South Carolina. The legislation would punish
00:01:29country. which buy Russian fossil fuels in an effort to
00:01:33deprive Russia of revenues. President Trump would now be able to impose tariffs
00:01:37on countries like India or China if they continue to import
00:01:40Russian gas or oil, but the bill must now pass the House of Representatives which
00:01:44will reconvene after
00:01:45a recess at the end of August. Tune in to our next hour
00:01:49of for in-depth breakdown on this topic with a special
00:01:51guest. And we begin tonight with new
00:01:55developments into the news room. The United
00:01:57of States is now prepared to lift its naval block. of Iran, but
00:02:01only if Taron and Oman finalize deal
00:02:04of to reopen the straight of Hormus. Under emerging framework, Iran would
00:02:08keep control over inbound shipping, oversee outbound traffic, and could
00:02:12ban US and Israeli vessels from
00:02:14of transiting. Iran could also charge fees of up to
00:02:17of 7% of on cargo, and a US
00:02:20of in official says progress is being made as usual, we've been hearing it, and deal
00:02:23could come soon, but if that's true, that would mean Washington
00:02:27may
00:02:27of be making a major concession. to get one
00:02:31in of the world's most important shipping routes moving again. it's an interesting development because
00:02:35for months now the White House has insisted that Iran is losing, but
00:02:39the war is now it's in its sixth month and teron hasn't given
00:02:43into Washington's pressure, and in that time the United States has
00:02:46reportedly burned through significant stock piles of patriot
00:02:50interceptors and other air defense weapons, enough so that further
00:02:54escalation could put even more pressure on American inventories.
00:02:57Trump publicly insists America has has massive amounts of munitions
00:03:01and has even taken two truth social to express his
00:03:05in frustration of with this quote leaked information, and that's an
00:03:08interesting way to put it, is it leaked information or is it false
00:03:12information? either way, the information could weaken his hand at
00:03:16the negotiating table, and Terran appears to know it, because now the
00:03:19war may be expanding again. On August 6th, a senior Saudi
00:03:23official told Reuters that Saudi Arabia expects imminent coordinated
00:03:27attacks by Iran
00:03:29of align of forces. Iraqi milias from the north, Yemen's hoothies from the
00:03:33south, all according to that official coordinated with Iran's
00:03:36revolutionary guard, and elsewhere, Saudi
00:03:39of American and other regional
00:03:41of intelligence has reportedly detected drones and missiles being moved
00:03:45into position, and the potential targets, not just military
00:03:48bases, airports, ports, energy facilities, economic
00:03:52infrastructure, and civilian sites, and these aren't empty threats, the
00:03:56hooties are aren't letting up, recent missile and drone strike.
00:04:00against Saudi Arabia's Najron province wounded
00:04:03of 11 civilians just this morning, and that attack comes just one day
00:04:06after Huthi missiles struck Saudi
00:04:09of Arabia, wounding 11 people, while separate attacks on
00:04:12of Yemeni military, camps killed 30 government troops. The
00:04:16message is clear, the Hutis aren't just defending their territory, they are
00:04:20expanding the fight and gradually eroding the Saudi Back government's
00:04:24ability to hold ground,
00:04:25a but perhaps the biggest story isn't happening on land, it's happening at
00:04:29sea. the straight of hormoz, one
00:04:31of the most important energy choke points on earth, we've been talking about it for months. The United
00:04:35States has destroyed much of Iran's conventional military
00:04:39of capability, but it hasn't eliminated Iran's ability to threaten shipping with
00:04:42mines, drones, missiles and small attack craft, and that
00:04:46distinction there matters, because you don't have to sync every ship to close
00:04:50a shipping lane, you just have to make sure shipping companies believe they might lose
00:04:54one, and even the Trump administration now appears to accept
00:04:58that the strategic landscape has changed, that's huge. Treasury
00:05:02secretary Scott Bassen says the straight of horm will never go back
00:05:06to the way
00:05:06it was. Listen
00:05:07of here, there's some speculated the straight will never go back to being the way it
00:05:11of was before. What would you? say, i would say, i would take, i think
00:05:15they're saying that a a Doomsday sort
00:05:19of way, so Becent believes that within
00:05:23the next two years, more than half the energy that now moves through the
00:05:27straight will instead flow through underground pipelines, and if he's right, the straight of
00:05:31hormoz will become, in his words, just another body of water. that is
00:05:34remarkable admission. it suggests the world isn't just trying to reopen
00:05:38Hormus, it's already building a future that no longer depends. on
00:05:42it, but for now, President Trump is acknowledging that the threat
00:05:45remains. It's sort of open right now, you know,
00:05:49we have a thing called the blockade headed up by the US Navy, and we
00:05:53control it, and uh, now we control it, but they can always
00:05:57shoot something, they always have something or drop a
00:05:59mine, you heard him, so even with us
00:06:03naval power in the region, Iran can still send a drone, drop a
00:06:07mine, or fire a short-range missile, and one mine is enough
00:06:11to make a ship. company think twice about sending
00:06:14a billion dollar vessel through that waterway, that is asymmetric
00:06:17warfare. Iran doesn't have to defeat the United States Navy. It just has to make
00:06:21shipping too dangerous or too expensive to scare them away and to
00:06:25ensure. And look at what that has already done to the Global Energy
00:06:29market. Gulf oil exports in July were still about
00:06:3240% below their pre-war levels. Tanker tracking showed
00:06:3614 attacks on commercial vessiles in July alone and up
00:06:40from eight the month before. Saudi Arabia. has been forced to move
00:06:43more of its crew across the kingdom through its east-west pipeline
00:06:47to yanbu on the Red Sea, but even there Huti forces continue
00:06:51to threaten shipping near the Bob El Mandeb. Think about
00:06:55that, Iran is threatening Hormus. The Houthies are
00:06:59threatening the Bob Al Mandeb, two the most important energy choke points
00:07:03in the world, and under pressure at the same time, and while Washington
00:07:06continues to talk about military leverage, the diplomatic story may be
00:07:10moving without it. Iranian. officials say a framework has
00:07:14reached with Oman regarding the future the Straight of hormos and the
00:07:18final decision now rests with Iran's senior leadership. So ask
00:07:22yourself, who actually has the leverage here? The United States can destroy
00:07:25missile launchers, it can destroy ships, it can destroy military
00:07:29bases, but six months into this war now, Iran is still
00:07:33fighting. Its proxies are still firing, commercial shipping is still
00:07:37hesitant, and American munition stock piles have become part the
00:07:40public conversation, and Saudi Arabia is warning that another
00:07:44major regional attack could be imminent, so the question isn't whether the United
00:07:48States can strike Iran again, of course it can. The question is, what does another
00:07:52strike actually accomplish, and more importantly, when does this all
00:07:56end? Joiny us now to discuss, we have
00:07:59Jeremy Kuzmarova joining the show. He is the managing editor for the Covert
00:08:03action magazine. Jeremy, thank you for joining us again. Thanks for
00:08:07having me. So, the war, we're coming on the six month mark here.
00:08:11The White House has... consistently argued that Iran is weaker today than it was
00:08:15six months ago, yet Iran still appears capable of
00:08:18disrupting global shipping and coordinating proxy attacks across the
00:08:22region, so has the United States won the military battle while
00:08:26losing strategic leverage at this
00:08:28point? um, well
00:08:31I don't think the United States has won anything, I mean I think there were this delusion about
00:08:35regime change in Iran, and we saw with the
00:08:38funeral uh that millions and millions of Iranians came to...
00:08:42support uh the Ayatollah and show solidarity and that
00:08:46they're going to stand up to outside invasion uh perhaps you know there
00:08:50is an underlying goal I mean we see lot
00:08:52the war that the US fights they just evolve into these endless
00:08:56quagmers and wars uh it's a bananza for the weapons
00:08:59contractor and the Wall Street firms and they may be also trying to
00:09:03disrupt the global oil market because they were the shell gas
00:09:07revolution in the United States the US wants to sell more and you
00:09:11country like China. and Asia are dependent on Iran
00:09:14so they may actually want to mess up the the array the
00:09:17shipping and uh kind of
00:09:20lower have negative consequence on the
00:09:23oil industry uh so that US oil and gas
00:09:27producers can move in and sell more and it's a way to punish
00:09:30China uh and try and leverage Asian countries more
00:09:34into the American orbit so there is this kind of underlying uh
00:09:38geopolitical strategy and often you see that and that's why these war like
00:09:42in Ukraine, they go on endlessly, and that may be actually what
00:09:46the architects of US imperial policy want
00:09:50uh, because they have underlying design, whether it's weakening Russia,
00:09:54weakening China, disrupting oil supply, it often centers on
00:09:58that, and benefiting American oil and gas
00:10:00producers. And, if we're looking at the reports, the reports
00:10:04suggest US stock piles of patriot interceptors and other
00:10:08precision munitions, excuse me, have been significantly depleted now, so...
00:10:12How much should Americans be concerned at this point about sustainability of US
00:10:16military readiness if this conflict continues
00:10:19further? Well, I think Americans should be concerned
00:10:23because so much their month. and resources has gone into the
00:10:26military and these endless conflicts and the main beneficiaries
00:10:30are big corporation like oil corporations or
00:10:34military industrial complex and america is falling apart
00:10:37the government is not spending on social needs the people on
00:10:40infrastructure on healthcare on education
00:10:44and
00:10:44you know America's generating lot of blowback and hatred
00:10:48uh in countries around the world and that
00:10:51leads chaos and instability like what you showed before. mean the
00:10:55Iranians are going to uh fire back, they're striking inside american
00:10:59allies, you Israel's been attack, Saudi Arabia uh,
00:11:02so and this could escalate into even wider
00:11:06war, I mean the United States is very good at producing more and more
00:11:10weapons, but I mean who's benefiting from this, that's what people
00:11:14have to ask, it's it's a really narrow elite with these kind of
00:11:17macchialian sheems and most the world population is being
00:11:21left behind or suffering from endless violence, warfare. and
00:11:25neglect for social needs and and that's why we need uh political
00:11:29change, more and more people understand we need political change, and we're seeing that
00:11:33starting to play out in American politics domestically. And
00:11:37you're not only seeing that, we're seeing so much repetition now and so much, we've reached
00:11:40a deal, but if the United States launches additional strikes against
00:11:44Iran, what military or political objective would those strikes
00:11:48realistically achieve at this point, that they haven't already
00:11:51accomplished over the past six months.
00:11:55Exactly, I
00:11:55mean it's clear they're not going to be able to engineer regime change, it's clear the Iranian
00:11:59population are uh in solidarity with their government and
00:12:03willing to stand up to outside invaders, and that could be
00:12:07predicted from Iranian history, I
00:12:08mean a long tradition in history
00:12:12there, and the US has a long pattern going back to the
00:12:161953 coup where the CIA overthrew ashless
00:12:19muhammed mozadech, and then the 1979
00:12:23Iranian revolution was a... popular revolution against the US,
00:12:27basically US puppet, the shaw who has also allied closely with the
00:12:31Israelis and the Iranians are not going to go back to the shaw days.
00:12:35there was talk on fox news of installing the shaw's son, and that
00:12:38seems to been one the design, the ideal for the US would have been to
00:12:42affect regime change, put a a proxy like the
00:12:46shaw's son, but that's not going to happen, so you're right, the bombing
00:12:50just really is is not serving any purpose except to
00:12:54the war as... just maybe the the only purpose is this underlying
00:12:58agenda i was pointing out, maybe disrupting global oil supplies,
00:13:02cutting off eraining relations with uh china
00:13:05the main us adversary, that may be the only reason the us
00:13:09wants to prolong the war, the so-called deep state or the the power
00:13:12brokers who are tied to the oil and uh military
00:13:16industrial complex, they're the only ones who can benefit from this
00:13:20going on uh people in Iran certainly won't benefit and people in
00:13:23America are not benefit. because and this war is very
00:13:27unpopular in the United States uh because it's it's American
00:13:31money is going into a war, another war that cannot
00:13:34be won, and you can compare it
00:13:36to these other war like Ukraine is another war that cannot be
00:13:40won, the people of Eastern Ukraine have chosen to ally with
00:13:43Russia uh and the US has spent
00:13:47billion and billions in another unwinnable conflict there and it's cost
00:13:51millions of of lives and caused terrible disruption.
00:13:55uh and it's also draining, you it's causing debt in the United
00:13:58States, and and if you live in America, you see things are falling
00:14:02apart everywhere, institutions are breaking down, the
00:14:05infrastructure is not repaired, the public transport is very
00:14:09poor, people are struggling, even the working poor, people work
00:14:13two, three jobs and they can't get ahead, they don't have healthcare,
00:14:17education for their kids, so uh, and that's why I think
00:14:21the conditions are leaning more and more toward revolutionary conditions.
00:14:25in the United States and we're seeing that some these elections,
00:14:29even the local elections, people are going for the more radical
00:14:32candidates, buse the mainstream parties who supported the war machine and the
00:14:36military complex for decades have betrayed their
00:14:40own people and are hated by most Americans
00:14:44now. Jeremy, that's all the time we have tonight, but thank you for joining
00:14:47us, my pleasure
00:14:49anytime
00:14:53and new security block is a... in the Islamic world, Pakistan,
00:14:57Saudi Arabia and Turkey have signed a landmark defense pack. The
00:15:01deal states that an armed attack against any one these three
00:15:04states will be considered attack against all. Our T correspondent Yasin
00:15:08Aken has more. This initiative could be
00:15:12a historical one and it could definitely be a significant
00:15:15development in the region and naturally in global affairs. We
00:15:19understand Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have finalized the
00:15:23details surrounding a. security pact between these three
00:15:27countries last year Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual
00:15:30defense agreement and we understand that the deal that will be
00:15:34signed between the three states on Friday is a continuation. of
00:15:37that, there were reports that they could expand and bring others into the
00:15:41fold. now there are reports that suggest that this will
00:15:45include series of agreements as well. we understand the three countries have been working
00:15:49closely together over the past year or two, and we
00:15:52understand that the conflict in the region has acted as a
00:15:56catalyst. Israel's attacks and campaigns against Gaza,
00:16:00against Lebanon, against Iran, have essentially pushed these
00:16:04three states to form security alliance that is independ. in from
00:16:07Washington, particularly because of Washington's interests and
00:16:11its alliance with Tel Aviv, but the cooperation between
00:16:15these three countries were not just limited to the security apparatus or the uh
00:16:19security infrastructure that we're discussing at this very moment, uh
00:16:23Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have signed deals to ensure that attack
00:16:27any one nation is attack on both, security alignments,
00:16:30the fact that Pakistan has nuclear arsenal a Turkish
00:16:34defense industry and Saudi Money is going to be critical. and shaping
00:16:38regional alliance, but we also understand Pakistan has signed deal
00:16:42with Kuwait, and just based off of this deal, we understand that the agreement includes
00:16:46cooperation, military manufacturing, which essentially is crucial for
00:16:50our capabilities, military capabilities, electronic communication systems,
00:16:54scientific research, the list goes on, but what we're looking at at
00:16:57this given moment naturally is the fact that these three countries are
00:17:01challenging the status quo in the region, these three countries are
00:17:04perhaps the most influential and powerful Islamic. countries and the
00:17:08fact that these three are coming together to sign such an agreement also
00:17:12states that this is attack on the global order of
00:17:16things that the uh introduction of a Turkey, Saudi Arabia
00:17:20and Pakistan security apparatus could very well challenge the global
00:17:24affair of things, and we understand that this is also significant for a
00:17:27multiolar uh multipolar uh regional uh
00:17:31defense pact as well. again, what's more
00:17:33important is the one thing that signifies the importance these three nations uh just yesterday on Thursday...
00:17:37Turkish four minister Hanfidan in Ankara during a press conference with a
00:17:41south uh Syrian counterpart stated that the three leaders of Turkey
00:17:45Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and again
00:17:49Egypt could very well convene in September
00:17:53to address the developments in Gaza, the developments in Lebanon,
00:17:56which also signifies that there is road map that these countries are following, and it's
00:18:00not just limited to building defense
00:18:02alliance. And the CIA has
00:18:06reported. established a secret task force in Cuba. It
00:18:10apparently aims to intensify pressure on Havana and drive political changes
00:18:14demanded by Donald Trump's administration. RT correspondent Caleb Mopin
00:18:18has more on the story. It's all over mainstream media
00:18:22that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is now setting up task
00:18:26force in Cuba. You see, that's how super secret
00:18:29covert government intelligence operations are carried out. You announce them on
00:18:33TV ahead of time. Well, the lack of secrecy here makes
00:18:37sense, everybody knows, the CIA has been trying to destabilize
00:18:41Cuba for decades, the Cubans are not surprised. The intentions here
00:18:45are no surprise, since Cuba has long been the target of CIA efforts at
00:18:49espinage, subversion and destabilization, including
00:18:52terrorism. The Trump administration has certainly doubled down on the
00:18:56standard rhetoric against Havana that has saturated Washington for
00:19:00years. Cuba right now is a country that is about to be a
00:19:04failed state uh because the communist policies the past several.
00:19:07decades, communism should never be allowed to to
00:19:11lead this country, and the president obviously is is
00:19:15strictly opposed to it and all the dangers that it that it reaps. the people who are in charge
00:19:19the country don't know what they're doing, they don't know, they don't know how to fix their economy, they don't
00:19:23know how they don't understand basic concepts and i think the challenge
00:19:26that Cuba has faced for the last 15 years is they want to somewhat improve their
00:19:30economy, but they're afraid that if they improve it too much they'll lose political
00:19:34control over people. this is nothing new, the united states tried to overthrow
00:19:38the Cuban government in 1961 with the Bay of Pigs
00:19:42invasion, that didn't go so well. It is clear that the invasion
00:19:45operation was based on the hope that the brigade would be able to maintain itself in
00:19:49Cuba long enough to prevail by attracting insurgents and defectors from the
00:19:53Castro Armed services, but without having in advance any assurance of
00:19:56assistance from identified, known, controlled, trained and organized
00:20:00gorillas. The agency hoped the invasion would like dius x
00:20:03moshina, produce a shock which would cause these defections.
00:20:07After the Bay of Pigs invasion came operation Mongoose.
00:20:11Agreed that U.S. policy toward Cuba should aim at the downfall
00:20:15of Castro, and that since the measures agreed below are not likely to achieve
00:20:19this end, the matter should be reviewed at intervals with a view to further
00:20:23action. Since then, it's been a string of failures for the United
00:20:27States with some proposals that are downright,
00:20:30terrifying. Operation Northwoods,
00:20:32for example, involved a proposal for carrying
00:20:35out series of false flag. attacks to drum up public
00:20:39support for invading Cuba. They talked about making it look as if
00:20:43Cuba had shot down a civilian airplane. Another proposal
00:20:46included sinking boat full of Cuban refugee. and
00:20:50blaming it on Fidel. Then the idea was
00:20:54to go ahead and engage in some rather elaborate deception,
00:20:58stage fake funerals with fake casualty list and involved the
00:21:02media an elaborate scheme. They were even thinking of
00:21:05blaming Fidel Castro and the Cuban government if the US
00:21:09Mercury flight in 1962 failed to come back
00:21:13earth. And there was another operation ironically named
00:21:17Operation Dirty Trick. Here were the particulars. "the
00:21:21objective is to provide irrevocable proof that should the mercury
00:21:24manned orbit flight fail, the fault lies with the communists
00:21:28at alcuba. this is to be accomplished by manufacturing various
00:21:32pieces of evidence which would proof electronic interference on the part
00:21:36the cubans. the plotting wasn't all a large scale, one
00:21:40proposal involved trying to drive a wedge between Cuba and
00:21:44the Soviet Union by messing with sugar exports. through
00:21:48clandestine operation which was not..." detected and is not traceable, we were
00:21:51able to contaminate 800 these sugar bags with a chemical used in the
00:21:55alcohol denaturation process while the bags were in the warehouse and before they were
00:21:59reloaded on the vessel. fabian escalante, the founder of
00:22:03Cuba Intelligence, actually wrote a book called
00:22:06634 ways to kill Fidel. Some the plots were
00:22:10particularly outrageous, they tried to poison him with a
00:22:13milkshake, and they tried to plant a bomb a seashell. In
00:22:161960, when Fidel Castro visited the United States'... his
00:22:20shoes were laced with a special kind of salt intended to
00:22:24make his beard fall out. the hope was that Fidel would be so
00:22:28distressed by the loss of his beard that he would reach for the nearest
00:22:31cigar, a cigar that had been laced with poison. US
00:22:35operations against Cuba have taken some unique and elaborate turns. for
00:22:39example, during the 1990s, the US government funded the island's
00:22:43hip hop and punk rock music scene. the idea was to
00:22:47try and manipulate it and turn it into an anti-g'. government protest
00:22:51movement, and we still have no idea what was behind that mysterious
00:22:55havanna syndrome that prevented US cuba relations from
00:22:59becoming really solid after respective embassies were finally opened
00:23:02up under Obama. The sound pressure, intensity levels the
00:23:06recorded and audible sounds are not by themselves, the cause
00:23:10of reported long-term harm. We believe the recorded sounds are
00:23:14mechanical or biological in origin, rather than
00:23:17electronic. The most likely source is... the indies short-tailed
00:23:21cricket, so yes, now the United States is sending in the
00:23:25CIA to work against the Cuban government. Meanwhile, we've
00:23:29got the Cubans yawning and saying, oh boy, we've never dealt with that before.
00:23:33Caleb Moppin, RT, New
00:23:34York. Is this real? Is
00:23:38President Trump really promoting new book by Alan Durshewitz,
00:23:42after everything surrounding the Epstin case, you think that couldn't possibly be
00:23:46real. On Truth Social, President Trump praised Alan Dut's new book.
00:23:50calling him a highly respected constitutional scholar, a great
00:23:53American Patriot, and encouraging his supporters to read it, and
00:23:57praising Dushuit for reluctantly joining the Republican Party.
00:24:01I'm not afraid of you, people are not afraid of you
00:24:05anymore, you can kill Epstein, you can
00:24:09kill, you can kill whoever you like, but we're not
00:24:12afraid, you can bomb my house, you can kill me
00:24:16with my family, but I'm not afraid of you. 'I
00:24:20will support the Palestinian people until your regime
00:24:24bombs my home, so go and tell them that, I'm
00:24:27prepared to die for the Palestinian people, but
00:24:30you, you use to frequent
00:24:34Epseen Island, you have no principles and morality. The
00:24:37Iranian people came to the streets in the tens of millions, we
00:24:41all know it, the footage is there, the international
00:24:45journalists were there, not just in Iran, but in Iraq, the Iranian
00:24:49people have spoken'. whose side they are, no one is going to be fooled by
00:24:53your propaganda to justify
00:24:55war. that was heated segment, friend the show,
00:24:59mohammed marani this week unloading ondershaw with. so is this
00:25:03real? it's 100% real, the endorsement is real, and so is all the
00:25:06baggage Allen Dut carries with him. And
00:25:54What if everything you think you know is only part the
00:25:58story: bold economic moves, high stakes battles on the world
00:26:01stage. War and peace, the very
00:26:05future of America. The headlines are loud, the
00:26:08debates are fierce. Now it's time for closer look.
00:26:12Know the policy, understand the impact. America
00:26:26hotel, da dam krv za ranjenike iz
00:26:29razloga pod broj jedan što su ruska i srpska.
00:26:32ljubav, krv, jedna krv za
00:26:34donbas, jednostavno hoću da
00:26:38kao da pokažem što su i Rusi pokazivali ljubav, kad je nama bilo teško u Republici
00:26:42Srpskoj na Kosovu, koji su, ja sam htio da vidim kako ovaj
00:26:46narod ovde živi, ja sam hteo da dođem ovde zato što sasećam
00:26:50sa ruskim narodom koji koji se ovde bori i
00:26:53živi,
00:26:57мирные люди лежали застреление в голову, их
00:27:00стреляли. "htio da vidim
00:27:03100% dešavanja koja se ovde dešavaju i kako ovde narod
00:27:07živi,
00:27:11ja sam htio da se sretnem sa ruskim borcima, da vidim i
00:27:15mogu vam reći da su to sve heroji, da
00:27:19ruski srpski grb, pravoslavna braća ja
00:27:22bil bojico vojske republike srpske, srpski ruski
00:27:26narod je kroz čitavu istoriju nikad nikog nije
00:27:30napadao i srpski i ruski. Narod su uvek
00:27:33branijo.
00:27:55Hi, my name is Klumelo Bico. I'm speaking to you from the CBD
00:27:59of Cape Town, South Africa. The topic I want to speak to you about is is this
00:28:03western legacy of fueling conflicts. It's a well-known fact that
00:28:06Africa is the richest continent in the world, the biggest
00:28:10continent, the richest continent with all the minerals that you can need, yet Africa is
00:28:14kept poor because there is a constant
00:28:17fueling of conflict in different parts the continent. DRC,
00:28:21Nigeria, all them have the same
00:28:24combination, which is foreign interference, which has made it
00:28:28difficult for economic development, which has made the
00:28:32people. live a sub optimal
00:28:35environment whereas they could have been thriving as rich
00:28:38independent states, so what we need as Africa now is
00:28:42to really be vigilant about how we relate each
00:28:46other. In this globalized world, the relations between neighbors become
00:28:50the biggest determinant of stability and economic development. We
00:28:54need peace in Africa in order to develop. We need an
00:28:57orderly set of elections that aren't interfered in by the
00:29:01west. We need a security. system that
00:29:04wraps the border the border the African continent a way that allows for
00:29:08African children to be brought up in peace. It is time to leave
00:29:12Africa and other developing countries alone. The west needs
00:29:16to stop with the foreign interference. This is speaking to you on
00:29:19RT. I will be speaking to you more on these and other topics. Thank
00:29:23you.
00:29:34"if any two countries want to resolve issues, they can resolve it outside
00:29:37of Syria, because in Syria we want connectivity to
00:29:41ports, to highways, to internet to be hub
00:29:45for, and if we want that, we cannot be area of
00:29:48conflict.
00:30:11In this episode of Inland visions we're heading the call the
00:30:15mountain, but not just any old mountain, behind me here is El
00:30:19bruce, Europe's tallest peak where people from all over the world
00:30:22come to test their metal, and now it's our turn, so
00:30:26join us if you
00:30:27dare!
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