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00:00:00evidence of that and there hasn't been
00:00:00a single successful
00:00:03attack on the election process. there have been attempts
00:00:07however that we've seen over the past three days and we've of course also
00:00:10seen continued intimidation of election
00:00:13commission members as well. and as we know or well uh
00:00:17today two people were killed in a drone attack a civilian bus
00:00:20in the Hirson region. one of the victims
00:00:24was indeed member of the presenct electoral commission
00:00:27in the Hirson region who was involved in the early
00:00:31conducting of in the conducting of the early
00:00:35voting process in one of its electoral districts, and this
00:00:38was reported by the central election commission head, Ella
00:00:42Pomfilova, she of course also spoke in
00:00:45regards to cyber attacks, that is over 100 million
00:00:49dangers that were thoughted over the past three days
00:00:54war feels more like a
00:00:54for Pommon. It is a information over the past period, more than waves of
00:00:57dedos attacks were recorded
00:00:59against. infrastructure in the Russian Federation that is specifically involved
00:01:03in the electoral process. Thankfully, there were no successful
00:01:06attacks despite their intensity and power. At the
00:01:09same time, the level of impact is assessed as very high. The
00:01:13attacks were carried out by highly professional, well coordinated groups
00:01:17using artificial intelligence tools. The attacks were
00:01:20launched primarily from abroad. Where did they come
00:01:23from? The United Kingdom, Ukraine, Brazil, Indonesia, and
00:01:27even India. Thank God, all the attacks were...
00:01:34What we've also seen is of course fake news being spread about the election process
00:01:38about the fairness of these elections such as reports on
00:01:41observers being denied entry into polling
00:01:44stations, but we do know that only 23
00:01:47complaints have in fact been received in regards to
00:01:50difficulties in exercising the rights of observers, three of
00:01:54which were indeed received today, but of course it's
00:01:57important to mention that the central election mission deals with these
00:02:01complaints promptly uh and immediately, so well
00:02:05with the elections now concluded, we can certainly say that indeed there have
00:02:08been attempts to undermine this electoral
00:02:12process, however they produced an opposite effect is
00:02:15what we've seen uh where indeed people, Russian citizens
00:02:19were even more active in casting their votes over these past three
00:02:23days. Hey, many thanks for keeping us up to speed, that's
00:02:27our correspondent there joining us from the central. electoral commission
00:02:31in Moscow as the votes come in and we
00:02:35follow the latest results, stay with us.
00:02:38well, and ourties
00:02:41reports from posts that have been opened in South Africa over the weekend, where
00:02:44Russian citizens have been heading to cast their
00:02:47ballots. Russian citizens living in South Africa are
00:02:51turning out to cast their ballots in Russia's parliamentary election
00:02:54today, here at the embassy in Pretoria, doors opened early
00:02:58this morning with diploma. actic stuff facilitating
00:03:02voting alongside consulates in other parts of
00:03:05the country, including Cape Town and Durban, for members of
00:03:09the diaspora participating in the vote offers
00:03:12a direct way to influence the composition of
00:03:15the
00:03:17450 seat state duma. Throughout this day,
00:03:21citizens from across many parts of the
00:03:24Hauting province have been arriving at these diplomatic
00:03:28gates to exercise their civil. duty, each one of them
00:03:32bringing their own priorities for the country's domestic trajectory
00:03:36as well as foreign policy. where are we believe, we
00:03:38are still, we're still staying russians, whether far away from Russia or
00:03:42we're living in Moscow, one thing which unit all of us is is Russia, is our
00:03:46home, it is a symbol of the any democratic
00:03:49society which should have, that should allow its
00:03:52citizens who want to vote to
00:03:55vote. what is the most important thing is the future, future of
00:03:59my country, future.
00:04:31"I really want my family and my loved ones in Russia to live in a safe environment,
00:04:34with a peaceful sky above their heads, and for them to be happy,
00:04:38because I also plan to return to Russia. These
00:04:41perspectives highlight the shared sense of civic
00:04:44duty among voters thousands of kilometers away
00:04:48from home. Once poling concludes here in South Africa, the
00:04:52ballots collected across the country will be officially
00:04:55sealed and processed to be tallied alongside votes
00:04:59gathered from..." hundreds of Russian diplomatic
00:05:02missions worldwide feeding directly
00:05:05into the final global count for RT
00:05:08amnoluvuyokunge in Pretoria.
00:05:12but while the voting has wrapped up, there's still a lot to see,
00:05:16count and discuss, the final figures won't be
00:05:19officially confirmed until next Friday, but
00:05:23preliminary results on who will represent this vast country in
00:05:26parliament for the next five years will be
00:05:29gradually revealed overnight. Stay with us here on ART for the latest
00:05:33updates.
00:05:45or the news now, even Germany, where the AFD has won
00:05:49the Mecklenburg Western Pomerania state election, this according
00:05:53to an exit pole, the German chancellor friedric Martsu's
00:05:56CDU party barely passed, the 5%
00:05:59threshhold calls the result a quote
00:06:02disaster. We cannot talk up the result in Mecklenburg
00:06:07disaster, the CDU has fought, but it has in the end been crushed
00:06:10by the polarization between the... democratic party and the
00:06:14AFD, well they're celebrating in alternative for
00:06:17Germany's campaign headquarters in Mecklenburg, Western Pomerania
00:06:21after exit poll show the party has won
00:06:24big with 37% of the
00:06:27vote. The current state premier party SPD is slightly
00:06:31behind with the result with 35.5%. This
00:06:34follows a key vote earlier in September in another eastern
00:06:38state, Saxon Angalt where the opposition party AFD
00:06:41grabs 40. 3.8% of the
00:06:44electorate and this follows a key vote
00:06:47earlier in September in another eastern state as we just said
00:06:51the saxony unhalt um where
00:06:54Germany came marking making AFD
00:06:57the leading party in the nation's regional parliament
00:07:00now and this comes as the German head of state's
00:07:04approval rating has plumited to about 14% due to the
00:07:08worsening economic situation in the
00:07:10country. Some locals in the street. could not hold back their anger
00:07:14when speaking of merz's leadership. take a
00:07:16listen.
00:07:19do not dare turn on my heating. i would rather be
00:07:22cold. at the age of 76, i am still working so
00:07:26that i can survive at all on my small pension. my husband
00:07:29received 700. if we did not have that, we would have to
00:07:33move out of here. we would have to leave, and that is what i want to
00:07:37change, and hope it works.
00:07:41and that's from mr.
00:08:12"they don't want uh Berlin giving away hundreds
00:08:16of millions of euro to Ukraine, they would like to have a
00:08:20German chancellor and not a Ukrainian chancellor
00:08:23in Berlin, they would like to have safe cities and
00:08:27not closing down companies and
00:08:30industries every month like it's happening now, people are
00:08:33really really angry, I have never seen Germans
00:08:37such um decisive,
00:08:40decisive in their protest." but this is not only
00:08:43vote for protest, this is vote for change, for
00:08:47change, for peace and especially for
00:08:50reestablishing
00:08:52cooperation with Russia in order to take down cost
00:08:56of living, all costs of living, for energy, fuels
00:09:00and others for everyday german
00:09:03that are really struggling. well,
00:09:06if it would be possible to reestablish the
00:09:09connections, the economic connections with Russia. and
00:09:12also with the uh with Belarus and
00:09:15bringing um the raw materials and supplies
00:09:19of gas and all sources
00:09:21of energy to Germany, this of course could
00:09:25bring down the cost of production
00:09:28in uh industries, this could bring
00:09:32down the fuel prices which will uh bring down the
00:09:36cost of logistics to bring things from the factories
00:09:39to the shops where people are buying uh things and
00:09:43this of course will have final
00:09:46effect on the final uh retail price
00:09:50for the customer.
00:09:53the global town hall 2026 is wrapped up in
00:09:56Jakarta. the annual virtual platform brings together world
00:10:00leaders to discuss pressing global issues. among
00:10:04topics being discussed is the US lead attack on an Iranian school
00:10:07that killed 168 people. rt
00:10:10correspondent. has the details:
00:10:14united nations mandated fact finding mission says
00:10:18there are reasonable grounds to believe the
00:10:21united states acted recklessly into.
00:10:25on Iran in February, one targeting a primary school
00:10:29in Minap and the other a sports complex in
00:10:32Lamar. The findings were presented to the UN Human Rights
00:10:36Council after months of investigation into the
00:10:39US Israeli war on Iran, which began
00:10:43amid stall nuclear negotiations. Speaking at the
00:10:46Global Town Hall 2026, organized by the
00:10:49foreign policy community of Indonesia, Iran's foreign
00:10:52minister warned that a failure to those responsible,
00:10:56accountable could undermine the international
00:10:59system. if these are not met with
00:11:02effective response from the international community, they will gradually
00:11:06erase the prohibited boundaries of international law.
00:11:10such policies will yield no result
00:11:12other than the tragedy of the killing of 168
00:11:16innocent students in minab. if international institutions, including the
00:11:20United Nations, cannot stand up against aggression and hold
00:11:23accountable the violence. terms of international law, it is
00:11:26only natural that the credibility and
00:11:30legitimacy of these institutions will be damaged, but
00:11:33calls for accountability are also being linked to a broader
00:11:37debate over the future of multilateralism, and
00:11:40whether the international system can be reformed to better
00:11:44reflect the interest of developing and middle-sized
00:11:47nations, the legacy of Indonesia's
00:11:501955 bandung conference, which
00:11:53helped shape the... on align movement was highlighted
00:11:57as a possible starting point for new global
00:12:01dialogue. the united nations can be a framework
00:12:04for some activity in that regard, but not quite
00:12:07yet and so forth. so perhaps I could
00:12:11conclude by saying, well, let's use
00:12:13the history of Indonesia and
00:12:17history of bandung, for calling
00:12:19a bandung to as as
00:12:22a as an opportunity. for a
00:12:25critique of the existing circumstances and the existing
00:12:29leading powers and offering alternatives perhaps
00:12:32based on the idea of middle income or middle size
00:12:35countries or some other
00:12:38explored. the need for a more inclusive international
00:12:42order was also reflected in discussions on
00:12:45Palestine where the full realization of Palestinian
00:12:48soverenty and independence remained a
00:12:51central issue. the full realization of palestine.
00:12:55sovereignty and independence therefore depends first and
00:12:58foremost on ending the occupation and reversing the
00:13:02policies that are destroying the territorial,
00:13:05political and economic foundations of the two states
00:13:08solution. ladies and gentlemen, Gaza
00:13:11is and will remain an integral part of the
00:13:14state of Palestine. there can be no separate political future
00:13:18for Ghaza, and no arrangements that detach it from the
00:13:21west bank including East Jerusalem, and it trans
00:13:25or stabilization agreements or
00:13:28arrangements must be temporary and palestinian
00:13:31owned. They must support rather than
00:13:34substitute Palestinian institutions. They must lead
00:13:38to the reunification of Palestinian territory
00:13:41under one legitimate Palestinian government, one
00:13:45law and one system and with the full exercise of
00:13:48Palestinian sovereignty and independ. With international
00:13:52rules increasingly challenge and force. a greater
00:13:55role in shaping global affairs, accountability
00:13:59of international law is kept on being questioned, but
00:14:03such discussions also underscored a shared
00:14:05desire for the future of international relations, a
00:14:09global system that protects soverenty and at the
00:14:12same time administers justice
00:14:15reporting from Jakarta for
00:14:18RRT.
00:14:22new Chinese movie about
00:14:25East is proving major hit at the local box office. It
00:14:29depicts a US invasion
00:14:32tells the story through the unusual perspective of a Chinese
00:14:36restaurant owner trying to survive amid the horrors of
00:14:39Roshkov has
00:14:42here in a special media screening
00:14:45Middle East, one of China's
00:14:49biggest films of the year, and whether the filmmakers
00:14:52breaks what have. long been something of
00:14:56a Hollywood monopoly on how wars in the Middle East are
00:14:59portrayed on screen, because here at the center of the story isn't
00:15:03an American soldier, but a Chinese chef who travels to a
00:15:07Middle Eastern country hoping to make some money, opens a
00:15:10restaurant and suddenly finds himself trapped
00:15:14in a brutal
00:15:15war.
00:15:22The country is never actually named in the movie. movie, but the resemblance to rock
00:15:26during and after the 2003 US led
00:15:30uncanny,
00:15:33and this time the Americans are no longer the protagonis.
00:15:39"there are the foreign military force entering somebody else's
00:15:42country, while much of the story follows ordinary
00:15:45people trying to survive what
00:15:47next.
00:15:50the film's director, when you and
00:15:54same war can look very
00:15:58different when it's not seen through
00:16:02Humvy. for decades, um, Hollywood
00:16:05films like American snipe or..."
00:16:07or black hawk down
00:16:11audiences around the world see wars in the middle east
00:16:14was challengeing that familiar perspective, something that you had in
00:16:18mind. if we discuss war only from the perspective of the opposing
00:16:22sides, we can never truly understand peace, because that
00:16:25leaves out ordinary people. our film shows war through their
00:16:29eyes, and to ordinary people
00:16:31disaster. the movie doesn't come across as
00:16:37the occupying forces are shown striking corrupt deals with
00:16:40locals,
00:16:45while others torture people, they suspect of terrorist activity,
00:16:49but then there is Tony, an American soldier of Chinese
00:16:52descent who finds common ground with the Chinese
00:16:55chef.
00:16:59He's a genuinely sympathetic
00:17:02becomes victim of a suicide bombing, you feel the
00:17:05tragedy of the war from his. side
00:17:08too,
00:17:11the actor who plays Tony, Liji King is from Hong
00:17:14Kong, and when I spoke to him about the role after the screening,
00:17:18the conversation took an unexpectedly emotional
00:17:20turn, he actually broke down in tears on stage,
00:17:24this scene um that you play where Tony,
00:17:28your character um breaks down and said that he wants to go
00:17:32home is probably one of the most powerful scenes in the
00:17:34film.
00:17:41and earlier um your
00:17:45all kids of being terrorists, but the
00:17:47nasty you almost get the sense that the deep
00:17:50down, he understands that if it weren't for the american
00:17:54invasion, these keys might never have had to take
00:17:58up arms in the first place. i want to go
00:18:01home, when i said i want to go home,
00:18:04the emotion was very intense and it wasn't just about literally
00:18:08going
00:18:08home.
00:18:13Deep down, my character didn't want to become that kind of person. He
00:18:17wants to go back to normal life escape this
00:18:20disaster. We also see radicalized locals,
00:18:24outraged by the invasion, but committing atrocities of their
00:18:27own, including grooming orphans to carry out suicide
00:18:31attacks, and so the film essentially tells us that neither the
00:18:35foreign occupying force nor the home. grown radicals
00:18:38are doing the country any good? the film ends a very simple yet
00:18:42philosophical thought: after witnessing all the
00:18:44brutality of war, the main character, chinese chef
00:18:48sufuu says that what really matters is enjoying
00:18:51meal, living in peace and
00:18:55simple message, but a profound one, and perhaps a
00:18:58very Chinese way of looking at war. i'm constant
00:19:02reporting for RT from
00:19:03Beijing.
00:19:06protest. have taken to the streets
00:19:10a US Venezuela oil deal, which they believe threatens
00:19:14their country's sovereignty.
00:19:17We are here, a group of men and women from
00:19:21condemn the handing over of our resources. We've not given them
00:19:24away neither to the American people, nor much less to Trump. We have
00:19:28given nothing away. The Venezuelan people are saying that the oil belongs to us
00:19:32and we will recover not only the oil, but also our
00:19:35We reject this agreement because it
00:19:39represents a surrender of sovereignty, a surrender of
00:19:42national wealth to imperialist capital and subordination to the
00:19:45interests of the US government and American transnational
00:19:48corporations. It is handing over of the country to
00:19:51transnational capital and to US imperialism in
00:19:55particular. The deal announced by the White
00:19:58House last month grants the US access to 65
00:20:02billion barrels of oil in Venezuela through a private
00:20:05firm in which the Pentagon... holds a 35% stake via
00:20:09a parent company, as part of the agreement, the US will get
00:20:1320% of Venezuelan oil production at
00:20:16cost. Washington has also removed
00:20:20Karakas from its drug trafficking list for the first time in more than
00:20:2320 years. The White House cites what it calls positive
00:20:27steps by the interim government which came to power after US
00:20:31forces abducted the Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro and
00:20:35his wife and brought them to the US to face. federal
00:20:38narcoterrorism charges. Washington as long claimed
00:20:41to Maduro himself was behind the South American country's drug
00:20:45trafficking network.
00:20:47Maduro's reign of terror
00:20:50the largest narcotraffikers in the world and a
00:20:54threat to our national security.
00:20:58Professor of Latin American Studies at the City University of New York
00:21:01Daniel Shaw says the US government uses the war on drugs
00:21:05as a pretext for many of its actions.
00:21:09It simply used the quote unquote war on drugs as a
00:21:12ideological and media uh
00:21:15justification for what they're doing.
00:21:18They took Venezuela. off of this list for completely
00:21:22hypocritical, politicized
00:21:25the Bronx and across the United States, we continue to see fetinol, we
00:21:29continue to see uh deadly drugs, many of which come uh
00:21:33right from here and are made uh right here in the
00:21:35US, and for so long the United States has
00:21:38been uh the biggest drug dealer in the world, they were
00:21:42caught red-handed smuggling um
00:21:45cocaine into South Central Los Angeles, there was an entire congressional
00:21:48inquiry led by former presidential candidate John Kerry in
00:21:521986, so this is a
00:21:55politicized decision, everything has changed in Venezuela
00:21:59since January 3rd, uh, Delsey Rodriguez and
00:22:02Diosdalo Cabelho in this uh quote-unquote Boulevarian
00:22:06leadership, with gun to their head, felt like they had other
00:22:10options, and they've now complied uh, whatever
00:22:13the Trump administration, whatever the class of Epsteen
00:22:16billionaires says, is what they do, they've done military.
00:22:20exercises uh together, they've granted
00:22:23concessions to US mining companies, now uh, we know
00:22:26about the 100 year popupter deal
00:22:30um, forven as well as oil to come into the
00:22:33US.
00:22:36bringing you back to our top story now, Russia's parliamentary
00:22:39elections have wrapped up across the country's 11 time
00:22:43zones, even though the polls have closed, there's still a lot to
00:22:46see, count and discuss, the final figures won't be official.
00:22:50confirmed until next Friday. Let's take a
00:22:53look at how things look currently though, here are the
00:22:56preliminary results after about 18% of the ballots have been
00:23:00tallyed. As you can see the ruling United Russia party is
00:23:03firmly in the lead with solid majority, the runner-up
00:23:07party right there, the communist party on about 14%.
00:23:11In third place is the Liberal Democratic Party with a little over
00:23:48This is the boat. these crew members had
00:23:51disappeared without a trace, without a trace and
00:23:55that we assumed
00:23:58it was a
00:24:01American base was here,
00:24:05there we documented the ships
00:24:08aquí
00:24:12Fishermen are criminalized and
00:24:15are told that they are all
00:24:16drug traffickers.
00:24:20a great hypocrisy and part of that hypocrisy is saying that with military
00:24:23bases, security will improve.
00:24:27but a process of US military intervention
00:24:30control the social processes that occur in Latin America,
00:24:34that is the intention of a military base.
00:24:49Kuriles. This
00:24:51restored Russia's sovereignty
00:24:55which we lost in the second half of the 19th century. On the islands of
00:24:5923,000 people were taken
00:25:03prisoner, Japanese. The first island of the Kuril
00:25:07гряды с севера, это шумшу, фортификация на
00:25:10it, an airfield, tanks, guns, that is,
00:25:14фактически это как авианосец. Всё было
00:25:17classified, my grandfather had the task of taking
00:25:21the Japanese enemy position on the fields of this island,
00:25:25полях этого острова разыгралась последнее сражение второй мировой
00:25:29and merits of our ancestors, the borders
00:25:33наших предков, границы России священные,
00:25:36неприкосновенные, и мы постараемся сделать всё, чтобы
00:25:40так продолжалось в
00:25:41дальнейшем.
00:25:49Yes, they hired and how the Russians
00:25:52behaved here, so uh completely
00:25:56contrary,
00:25:58the Russian practically came,
00:26:02it and put up a sign and distributed
00:26:05food to the population,
00:26:07we never understood each other in that sense, but they would have invited us to
00:26:11then you don't need
00:26:14words, we
00:26:18als wie die da auf dem Plakat da gewesen sind, weißt du,
00:26:22that's
00:26:22it,
00:26:27can't follow that today, when you're
00:26:31so crippled again. Calls for
00:26:33war readiness,
00:26:37I just wanted to tell the Russian population
00:26:39that
00:26:42we have not forgotten and we actually want to live in
00:26:45peace, and peace is what, the only thing that matters is
00:26:49peace,
00:26:54that
00:26:56is passable.
00:27:28if you take a look at the opening document basically says that I mean it is
00:28:02227 lethal attacks against defenders of the land
00:28:06and the environment, an average of more than four people murdered per
00:28:10week, so the indigenous peoples, the
00:28:13traditional peoples, the peasant movements will be placed
00:28:17as the fundamental enemies to maintain this liberal democratic order that will
00:28:20guarantee this economic strategy of reprimarization of the region.
00:28:24Jedi, the condor keeps
00:28:26flying.
00:30:24Russia's first parliamentary elections since the beginning of the
00:30:28Ukraine conflict have wrapped up and the counting of the votes
00:30:32has been. We're bringing you our special coverage as the world's
00:30:35geographically biggest country has its democratic
00:30:38say.
00:30:42And with the first preliminary results coming in, the ruling
00:30:45United Russia party is firmly top with solid
00:30:48majority. The runner-up is the communist party with almost
00:30:5114% and the Liberal Democratic Party is
00:30:55inferred with a little over
00:30:579%. Moscow says.