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00:00:00"you wouldn't be here right
00:00:01of now, because there wouldn't be a here right now, I would be
00:00:05dead, um, after people in this town would be
00:00:08dead, most of Dumbas would be
00:00:10dead.
00:00:22a He is eager to
00:00:26seize upon any words, initiatives or ideas entering the public.
00:00:30discourse so he can
00:00:31of push for some breathing room. Russia's foreign minister dismisses
00:00:35Vladimir Zelensky sees fire calls as a ploy to regroup Ukraine's
00:00:39forces. That's after Kiev demanded the guns fall silent for
00:00:4360 days to allow elections. The
00:00:47of more we help Ukraine, the sooner the war will be over. Brussels
00:00:51adopts yet another package of anti-Russian sanctions the
00:00:54of 22nd
00:00:55in a row with the EU still clinging to the
00:00:59a hope susus. will finally bring Moscow to its
00:01:04a knees,
00:01:04and the European Commission
00:01:05of is orchestrating smeer campaign against Russia's nuclear
00:01:09energy agency
00:01:11in a bit to win Hungary off
00:01:14of cooperation with Moscow, that's according to Moscow's foreign intelligence agency,
00:01:18which says the plot ignores Budapest
00:01:20interests, and India
00:01:24sees a third day of mass protests as
00:01:26of demonstrators accused the ruling party of
00:01:28of electoral fraud with the... government rejecting the accusations, we look
00:01:32into the root causes
00:01:33of the
00:01:33unrest,
00:01:42it's time for the news on RT international, my name is Egor Piskanov and it's always great
00:01:46to have your company. Zelanski will do anything
00:01:50to buy time to regroup Ukraine's forces, that's the main
00:01:54of goal
00:01:54of the constant push for sease fire from Kief, and this is according to Russia's
00:01:58foreign minister Sergey Lavroff.
00:02:02has replaced
00:02:06months, the the
00:02:07of call for
00:02:07of
00:02:10of call seasfire for inflicting a strategic defeat on
00:02:12In recent Russia in the rhetoric of both Zelensky and his western masters. The
00:02:16goal is singular and very simple, to buy time. He has
00:02:20even said he is willing to hold a presidential election, provided he
00:02:24is given two months to regroup. During that period, Europe could
00:02:28flood him with new weaponry to content. his terrorist war against the
00:02:31Russian people, but his feined astonishment regarding President Trump's
00:02:35statement
00:02:36a reflects only one thing, that he desperately wants to use any
00:02:40words, any initiatives and any ideas that enter the public
00:02:43sphere to promote his interest in a breathing space, by hook
00:02:47or by crook. I do not believe
00:02:49he has earned such
00:02:50a respit, nor do I think we will once again fall for assurances or
00:02:54promises. The President has stated this very clearly. We
00:02:58continue to pursue the object. the special military
00:03:01operation, these objectives are well known to everyone, we have
00:03:05never altered them, unlike the zigzags
00:03:07of in evasions of Zelensky and his European
00:03:10masters. the political pressure on Vladimir Zelensky
00:03:14is mounting on several fronts: first, the American president has
00:03:18stressed Ukraine is in need of new leadership, in response, has
00:03:22demanded a 60-day total to prepare the country to go to
00:03:26the polls, but it's not just electoral issues that have broughten.
00:03:30old acting skills back on display, that's as he
00:03:33appeared
00:03:34of surprised of by Trump's recent suggestion of an energy
00:03:38truth, the ceasefire
00:03:42announcement was new for me, but if Russians agree to an energy cease
00:03:45fire, Ukraine will agree.
00:03:48of Political
00:03:48of arrest consultant and lawyer Adriel Kanta says it's
00:03:52foolish for Zelensky to make an enemy out of
00:03:55of Trump. Well, I completely agree with that statement,
00:03:59because
00:03:59uh the... decent reaction,
00:04:01of the outburs of anger from the
00:04:04of Ukrainian of leader after the quite
00:04:08historical words coming from
00:04:11of the uh mouth
00:04:11of the president
00:04:12of the United States Donald Trump that uh the uh democratic
00:04:16election should be um uh put in
00:04:19of place a in in Ukraine because the current leader is not serving
00:04:23his nation and the its
00:04:26raison rightfully ' so
00:04:30basically um Mr. Zelinski is putting
00:04:33everything into one basket, so basically she's he's
00:04:37playing a Russian rule, quite simply put it
00:04:41uh, because he's betting on uh uh democrats coming to
00:04:44power after the mid-terms elections uh related to
00:04:48dispopularity uh
00:04:50of the Donald Trump in the United States due to his um
00:04:53unnecessary conflict with Iran, so uh uh basically
00:04:57the uh the uh the think...
00:05:01of
00:05:03of
00:05:12pressure on Russia and supplying
00:05:16Ukraine with money and weapons will
00:05:20continue, so I think that this is the uh one way
00:05:24streak um for for Mr. Zelinski, because maybe even if
00:05:28the democrats will come to power, still the Donald Trump is a
00:05:31president and has a significant influence over the
00:05:35foreign policy of his own uh country, so I i think that
00:05:39making an enemies both with Russia and United. says who
00:05:43is the main sponsor, who has been the main sponsor of this unnecessary
00:05:46conflict uh is very dangerous uh
00:05:49a game plan from Mr. Zelenski in his political
00:05:52circle. This comes as the European
00:05:56Union has approved it yet another 22nd sanctions
00:06:00package on Russia. Brussels once again claimed it's important to keep
00:06:03increasing pressure on Moscow and provide more support to Ukraine.
00:06:07At the same time it called out Donald Trump's new diesel deal with Vlad
00:06:11Putin. We acknowledge the
00:06:15agreement between the United States and Russia regarding the export of
00:06:18diesel, Russia will only negotiate seriously under
00:06:21pressure, which is why we are sticking to our sanctions against Russia.
00:06:25The more we help Ukraine, the sooner the war will be over. What we need to
00:06:29do is refocus and redouble our efforts in keeping pressure on Russia, that has to
00:06:33be our priority and that is Europe's priority. This deal
00:06:36doesn't help neither the crisis the oil products,
00:06:40nor the unity within the transat. community what concerns pressure on
00:06:44Russia, and it is not the European way, our way is to
00:06:48increase pressure buse we already seen how it works, we are not done
00:06:52here cuuse for Europe this is the vital interest to help Ukraine
00:06:56to sustain uh this winter and continuing putting, as I already
00:07:00said pressure, pressure, pressure on Russia, on
00:07:03Friday Trump and Putin cut a diesel deal between the two nations
00:07:07with Washington lifting sanctions on Moscow's diesel exports oil
00:07:11prices. have fallen amid expectations of increased russian
00:07:15supplies, although they remain above $100 a barrel. as
00:07:19part the US Russia agreement, Moscow will supply more than 300
00:07:23thousand tons of diesel to American and global markets, followed
00:07:27by a further half a million tons in November, and according to President
00:07:31Trump, additional 1 million tons will be delivered
00:07:34immediately thereafter, with another 3 million to follow
00:07:38depending on the condition of Russia's refineries. The US
00:07:42treasury secretary Scott Bessent has accused European leaders of
00:07:46hypocrisy over the heat Washington is now taking from
00:07:50Brussels. The Europeans have
00:07:53given the Russians more money, they have since the start of this
00:07:57war than they have given the Ukrainians because they cannot win themselves
00:08:01off Russian energy. They had a failed energy
00:08:05policy and Vladimir Putin, they they
00:08:09continue
00:08:09to fund him, so for them to say... that we cannot
00:08:13have a respit in diesel pricing is completely
00:08:17hypocritical. for more on this, I'm joined
00:08:21in the studio by artistanov, so eager, in the
00:08:24wake of this big diesel deal
00:08:28between Russia and the United States, the EU is
00:08:31adopting yet another 20 second now uh sanctions
00:08:35package, it seems that Brussels is very committed to its
00:08:38approach that somehow these restrictions will help Ukraine on the front.
00:08:42can you break it down for us? yeah, sure, well speaking about the European approach here, I just sometimes
00:08:46wonder if people in charge in Brussels, if they have like
00:08:50number in their head, like with the goal, like the one that where they be
00:08:54ready to stop, like where where are they heading with this? it's been 22
00:08:58packages already, since almost day one the war, they have been
00:09:02saying, oh we need to apply pressure on Russia, we need to do this, we need
00:09:05to press press, press, press, press, but we're, I
00:09:09mean, we've it's been almost five years of
00:09:12this conflict. uh 22 packages on, we're nowhere near, we're
00:09:16nowhere near the goal that Brussels and the Europeans have been saying that, oh,
00:09:20it will bring the war to an end, if you ask me, we're pretty
00:09:23much, we're as far from deal now as we've ever
00:09:27been, and so with 22 sanctions packages later, what are they going to, what
00:09:31are they going to do next, like every single time they just go, oh, it's the biggest,
00:09:35the hardest, the meanest sanctions package ever,
00:09:39why, why did you do that right away, why the previous one wasn't in? why
00:09:42didn't you just you know just do one, just do one and be get
00:09:46over with it, just how many more do you have, what else are you going to do, is the next
00:09:50one going to be again the biggest, the baddest and the meanest, well
00:09:54probably so, because they're all about PR here, they need this
00:09:57rhetoric, like the ones we've just heard from the Estonian Prime
00:10:01Minister who is openly called for strikes against
00:10:05Russia's refineries, something that the United States have said, well don't do
00:10:09that, have listen.
00:10:13Such an agreement goes against the long-term efforts the western world to
00:10:16limit the flow of energy revenues to Putin. The US has already
00:10:20convinced its allies, including us, to abandon Russian fuel. The
00:10:24long term goal of depriving Russia of funds is correct, and it must
00:10:28be continued. In Estonia, and at the European Council, it is worth
00:10:32discussing next week whether we can quickly contribute more to Ukraine so
00:10:36that they can strike Russian oil refineries. You
00:10:40know, there's one definition of insanity, and that is doing the same
00:10:44thing over and over again, and each time hoping for different result.
00:10:48This is exactly what the Europeans are doing here, but there's a very good
00:10:51reason too why they're so militant, why they're bravady. is so
00:10:55loud and so outrageous uh, because well, the Europeans,
00:10:59they have been doing the same for years, and by the same, I mean
00:11:03they've been purchasing Russian energy and resources for
00:11:06years, still are, just this year alone, they have spent
00:11:10just over 6 billion dollars on Russian natural
00:11:14gas, 6 billion dollars, just to put it in context, of course we don't
00:11:18know how much
00:11:18you know the details the diesel deal between the United States and Russia,
00:11:22but you know we know that it will likely be based on you know market prices
00:11:26and uh given the market prices stay the same because there's still plenty of other
00:11:30factors that to be accounted in here like the events in the middle
00:11:33east bottom line is with if Russia supplies
00:11:37everything that they have agreed on just over 4
00:11:40billion uh just over four million barrels of
00:11:43crude uh of diesel then Russia would get just
00:11:47over seven billion dollars for all of that so six
00:11:51uh just over 6 million dollars in gas that Europe has purchased just ' this year
00:11:55alone and during the previous years as well versus 7 billion uh
00:11:59for for potentially for for the diesel. Europe has been doing the exact
00:12:03same thing, four years, it just they've been doing it quietly, and with
00:12:06all their rhetoric they've been kind of going like, don't look there, don't nothing to see,
00:12:10nothing to see there, just listen to us, listen to what we have to say, we are supporting
00:12:14Ukraine, and oh, we're going to cry foul when Washington does something
00:12:18publicly, we have been doing behind closed doors for
00:12:21years. Well, that's why uh, Scott Bessent is accusing.
00:12:25Brussels of hypocrisy exactly because of that, let's talk about this diesel deal
00:12:29uh some more, great for Russia and the United
00:12:33States, it's great for global energy prices, bad for
00:12:36Ukraine and Zelensky. In fact, the biggest threat to
00:12:40its implementation is Kief apparently, because Zelensky did say that they're going to
00:12:44continue attacking Russian oil refineries. Why do you think
00:12:48is Zelensky so keen on sabotaging Washington's interests? Well, it's
00:12:52pretty, the answer is really pretty clear here, because Zelensky. get what he
00:12:55wants uh and uh what he they because here's being the differences in approaches
00:12:59yeah russia has been saying yeah you want an energy like you want an energy like cease
00:13:03fire sure let's do it first we hold strikes against oil refineries
00:13:07and uh then we'll see how that fairs well Ukraine they
00:13:10want a whole package right away they want to tie like strikes
00:13:14against ports they want to tie to this deal strikes against
00:13:18the uh electric facilities their power stations and so on they want
00:13:22to connect they want to basically get their
00:13:25railway uh railway infrastructure out of
00:13:28danger, pull it from the danger, just all part
00:13:32the same deal. Russia has been saying, no, no, no, we're not going to do that, and so now
00:13:36apparently the United States and Trump who's in die need of you
00:13:40know fixing the situation with the
00:13:42you know petrol prices in the United States, so now Russia and
00:13:46Washington, they have come to solution and Kiev is not part of it, so Zelensky
00:13:50is fuming and he's making, well he's done
00:13:53to make outrageous claims, but this one. It is up
00:13:56there,
00:14:00why doesn't America conclude a diesel deal with Ukraine? Let
00:14:03Ukraine offer a diesel deal. We influence whether these ships go or
00:14:07not, whether these refineries work or not, so yes, let's sign
00:14:11the corresponding diesel deal with the President the United States of
00:14:14America. So Zelensky, he likes
00:14:18to project this power, and here he is really singing in tune
00:14:22with the Europeans in the sense that uh... "he's going to say
00:14:26outrageous stuff uh, we don't know if he even he
00:14:30if he believes in what he is saying, but certainly he likes to
00:14:33project like he's he's in control, like he's in control the victory day parade in
00:14:37Moscow, Ukraine allowed to do that, now Ukraine's going to decide whether
00:14:41or not Russian uh Russian oil refineries will get hit or not,
00:14:45as the Ukrainian capital is evacuating with the
00:14:49mayor calling literally for an evacuation, well uh, it's easy, it's
00:14:52easy to see on the ground who's calling." the shots here, it almost seems as
00:14:56if Zelensky forgot about the size of Russia though, because if we look
00:15:00at uh, well hypothetically, even, I'm not an expert in this in
00:15:04logistics, but if Russia was to supply uh energy right,
00:15:07diesel to uh the United States, it would be way more logical to do it from the far
00:15:11east, yeah, which is thousands and thousands of kilometers away from Kieve, and they're
00:15:15not attacking those uh ships and refineries in that
00:15:19part uh, Washington and Moscow are now openly
00:15:22cooperating and it seems that the weight
00:15:26the support of Kiev's military
00:15:29machine now falls more and more on the shoulders of Brussels, so what's
00:15:33Moscow saying about all this? well, essentially, indeed, the
00:15:37United says Trump has long been saying that well he's going to put the financial
00:15:40burden you know on Europe for for this war, this is what he has been
00:15:44doing, the Europeans, they are going to feel the increasing financial
00:15:48burden, because now they because well Ukraine, Ukraine doesn't have doesn't have even
00:15:52enough money to pay salaries for their own uh, for their own
00:15:56soldiers, people in the trenches, they had to pull it from you know social
00:15:59welfare and so on and so forth, so they couldn't do they could can't
00:16:03do even
00:16:04that, now with Russia expanding the not just the geography but general,
00:16:07you know, the list of targets that they are hitting in Ukraine, it's going
00:16:11to fall on Europe's shoulders, uh, everything, everything that uh,
00:16:15Ukraine would want to rebuild, the parts, the money,
00:16:19the materials, they will have to come from Europe, from
00:16:22elsewhere, so if Europe wants to measure this war in terms of how much it
00:16:26costs, well, it's going to cost much more for Europe now, and in general
00:16:30uh, the Russian, the Russians, they have been saying that Europe is acting more
00:16:34like a part of this conflict, like and like side in this... not
00:16:37an impartial state or just a state that is interested in peace, they're
00:16:41acting as side that is interested in prolonging this war.
00:16:45this point has been reiterated by the kromland spokesman
00:16:49uh, the
00:16:53Europeans clearly do not belong to the party of peace, the party that seeks
00:16:57ways toward peaceful settlement. the Europeans are more like the party of war
00:17:00which continues to do everything to prevent this war from stopping. we are far
00:17:04more impressed by the efforts the American negotiators. "We are grateful to
00:17:08them for continuing these efforts. We are not looking for a split here, we are
00:17:12looking for truly effective measures and responsible decisions that will
00:17:16make it possible to reach a peaceful settlement. The Europeans clearly do not
00:17:20belong to the party of peace, the party that seeks ways toward peaceful
00:17:23settlement. The Europeans are more like the party of war, which continues to do
00:17:27everything to prevent this war from stopping. We are far more impressed by the efforts
00:17:31the American negotiators. We are grateful to them for continuing these
00:17:35efforts. We are not looking for a..." split here, we are looking for truly
00:17:39effective measures and responsible decisions that will make it possible to reach
00:17:43peaceful settlement. so right now
00:17:47we are at one the many crossroads, yeah, which are
00:17:51still
00:17:51to come, and this one really will show if everything that is
00:17:55coming out of Europe, out of Ukraine, if it is all just
00:17:57a bravada, if it's all going talk,
00:17:59to but be they will again as they do, they can talk tough, but they
00:18:03can
00:18:03you know do something entirely different, just you know quietly behind.
00:18:07doors, so if it's going to be that sort of scenario, or if they will double
00:18:11down, if you if Europe will enable Ukraine to
00:18:15continue attacking Russian oil refineries, and in that case it will be
00:18:19interesting to see what Trump will do in
00:18:23the in that case, because of course the relationship between Trump and Zelensky has been
00:18:26very thory from the very start, uh, they don't like each
00:18:30other Trump doesn't like Zelensky, and uh, so if Zelenski
00:18:34decides to, well, undermine Trump's... efforts and to go
00:18:38against him, then Trump has plenty uh up his sleeve uh,
00:18:42starting with the obvious, the starlink, just with one push of a button can be
00:18:46turned off for Ukraine, so if Trump will decide to act on it
00:18:50and to just cut it off uh uh and the just just teach
00:18:54Ukraine yet another lesson or if it will take some other road
00:18:58all together, starling intelligence, information sharing,
00:19:01weapons supplies, there are so many plenty of levers, plenty yeah yeah we'll
00:19:05see which ones they're going to pick. Thank you
00:19:09so much for bringing us the latest on all
00:19:11this.
00:19:14Meanwhile, Russia's foreign intelligence service has accused the European
00:19:18Commission of orchestrating an information campaign against the Russian
00:19:22nuclear energy agency and Hungary's Px to nuclear power
00:19:25plant project. Moscow says the campaign ignores Hungary's
00:19:29national interest. The main customer the Dirty
00:19:33Information campaign launched in Europe against the Ross Atom Corporation and the...
00:19:37destruction with its participation the Pax 2 nuclear power plant in Hungary
00:19:41is the leadership the European Commission. The Pax
00:19:452 project is designed to expand Hungary's existing nuclear power
00:19:49plant with Russia's Rosatum serving as the main
00:19:52contractor. The project would see the construction of two nuclear
00:19:55reactors which are expected to increase Hungary's electricity
00:19:59generation capacity and help meet its along-term energy needs.
00:20:03However, the scheme has faced scrutiny and political disputes within
00:20:07the European. union, including concerns over its reliance on
00:20:10Russian technology and the wider implications of energy cooperation
00:20:14with Moscow.
00:20:18now India has beefed up security in its capital as mass
00:20:22protests arraged for a third consecutive day. Initially, the
00:20:26demonstrators were led by a youth activist movement called the
00:20:29cockroaches. however, now different opposition forces have
00:20:33joined the protests accusing the ruling government of attempting electoral fraud.
00:20:37Something firmly denied by the authorities,
00:20:41RT India, Vinayak Digsit explains what has caused the prolonged
00:20:45unrest, we talk about the protests that are
00:20:49happening here. in India then at the heart the matter lies an
00:20:53allegation by India's opposition parties that the election
00:20:56commission's process of revising pole roles is
00:20:59solely to benefit the Narendra Modi eled Bharatiya Janata
00:21:03Party the BJP for winning elections after
00:21:06elections in state after state now uh the Indian
00:21:10election commission's special intensive revision process
00:21:14was started in the world's largest democracy last year and it
00:21:18started with the Northern State. of Bihar now the intention the
00:21:22process was to remove the names of voters that have moved
00:21:25away, voters that have registered in more than one constituency
00:21:29voters that have passed away or voters that are due to any reason
00:21:33whatsoever unregistered voters, so a thorough cleaning
00:21:37the election poll roles or the list of voters.
00:21:40about 130 million names have been flagged or removed
00:21:44so far, if you think that is a large number then think about the total
00:21:48population of India which happens to be 1.4
00:21:52billion people, now the final decision on removing any
00:21:55these names are yet to be taken.
00:21:59However, India's opposition parties alleged that in the
00:22:03process the special intensive revision, many legitimate
00:22:07voters name were also struck off from the list in order to
00:22:11benefit the Bharatiya Janata Party or the BJP. They
00:22:15claim that these removals now mean that India's electoral
00:22:18process is no... no longer level playing field. the opposition
00:22:22parties also say that this process has already skewed
00:22:25elections that took place in the month of April where the
00:22:29BJP one three out of five states. Congress
00:22:32leader and leader of opposition Rahul Gandi has gone so far as
00:22:36to call this vote theft and says and argues that any
00:22:40laws passed by the elected government through the
00:22:44stolen votes remained to be illegitimate because the process in
00:22:47itself was illegitimate. the bharatiya janta party, the
00:22:51BJP as well as the election commission have denied any wrong
00:22:55doings as far as the process the SIRR are concerned. the
00:22:59BJP maintains that the uh that the process was aimed to
00:23:03remove illegitimate voters from electoral poll roles. home minister
00:23:07Amit Shah also went on to say that it was to prevent
00:23:10infiltrators which happens to be uffemism that is
00:23:14used for illegal immigrants mainly from neighboring
00:23:17Bangladesh from voting in India. as elections, the
00:23:21election panel content that any wrongly excluded
00:23:24voters can request revision in their names and their names
00:23:28can be included back in the list again. this long
00:23:32simmering controversy around the special intensive revision became even
00:23:36more rampant after an Indian print daily
00:23:39the Indian express released a report which said that in the
00:23:43three member election commission where there is a chief election commissioner
00:23:47and two other election commissioners there was
00:23:50a significant difference between the election (chief election commissioner) and the other
00:23:54two election commissioners as far as voted
00:23:58matters like voter registrations and deletions are concerned. the
00:24:01election commission on this acknowledged the objections but
00:24:05said that the final decision that was taken by the body was
00:24:08completely unanimous.
00:24:12Saudi Arabia says ariyad's international airport, which was attacked three
00:24:16times within a week, will be closed until at least the 17th of
00:24:20October, the country has also issued urgent alerts for civilians in the
00:24:23south near the border with Yemen. The warning comes after hoothi missile
00:24:27attack on the city of Abraham. Reports say Saudi air
00:24:31defenses managed to intercept an incoming ballistic missile, and
00:24:35this video shows plomes of smoke that could have been seen
00:24:39rising from that apparent impact point. The
00:24:42Yemenies have been launching projectiles across the border into
00:24:46Saudi Arabia as the two countries engage in increasing.
00:24:50volatile conflict, and there was a
00:24:54devastating attack by the Yemini Khuthis on Riyad's main international airport
00:24:58on Saturday, the death toll from the strike has now risen to
00:25:0113 after an Indian national succumbed to his
00:25:04injuries. The Yemeni hoties struck the airport in the Saudi
00:25:08capital several times the past week, and this CCTV footage
00:25:11shows Saturday's attack, which was the most devastating.
00:25:15Authorities say total of 17 people have been killed and more than
00:25:18300 wounded. and huti spokesperson Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti
00:25:22said it carried out the attacks in retaliation for Saudi
00:25:26aggression.
00:26:04'These attacks are Yemeny attacks. We do not do this out of revenge or to take
00:26:08vengeance, but rather to force the Saudi leadership to accept a comprehensive and
00:26:12permanent peace by agreeing to end the war. When
00:26:16asked about the conflict, Donald Trump said it could be possible that the Americans
00:26:20could join in the fight to support their allies Saudi Arabia. RT
00:26:23correspondent Mohammed Al Rashed has the
00:26:25story. There are heavy casualties from Huthi
00:26:29attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. The death toll is
00:26:33expected to continue to rise with many wounded among Saudi citizens and
00:26:37foreigners. The coalition views these attacks as the beginning of a full-scale war and
00:26:40heinous act that is contrary to generally accepted values and moral
00:26:44standards. The response will be fierce and in accordance with the norms of
00:26:48international humanitarian law. Amid international condemnation,
00:26:51Islamabad reaffirms its position under the Mecca defense agreement as well
00:26:55as its commitments to ensuring the kingdom's security and sovereignty. Statements
00:26:59by the US president regarding the possibility of strikes. against the hoothies
00:27:03open up the prospect of definitive resolution to the Yemen crisis. The
00:27:07kingdom declares that the Houti strikes constitute an active terrorism that
00:27:11runs counter to moral principles and humanitarian values against
00:27:15this backdrop. Saudi Arabia is garnering international Islamic and Arab
00:27:19support for its position and the measures it is taking safeguard its
00:27:22sovereignty and security. The coalition is threatening decisive
00:27:26response by invoking the collective deterrance mechanism under the Mecca pact.
00:27:30Amid the prospect of US intervention, stand off with the hootis is
00:27:34approaching a dangerous turning point. the key question is how far the
00:27:37conflict will expand and whether new actors from outside yemen and saudi arabia
00:27:41will become involved. we spoke with the saudi
00:27:45political researcher Khalid batarfi and he believes that washington has already
00:27:49been drawn into the conflict. the US
00:27:53is inf already by providing
00:27:56intelligence and cooperate in many
00:27:59matters security.
00:28:02matters also by providing what
00:28:06Saudi forces needed for equipment and union.
00:28:10what you are talking about is whether the United States
00:28:14will help in attacking
00:28:18this uh sources of fire
00:28:21and whether they will support directly the
00:28:25yemen government. well that's a matter to be
00:28:29considered and according to Trump he didn't decided yet.
00:28:33but a country as fast as Saudi
00:28:35Arabia, so many cities, so many
00:28:39oil installation, so many ports, we have 28 airports in
00:28:43Saudi Arabia, so protecting this much
00:28:47land and this much facilities
00:28:51will require lots of investment, lots of
00:28:54work, and I believe they are working on this, the other
00:28:58side is getting improved
00:29:01abilities. like the new missiles they
00:29:05are using against Saudi Arabia, they have all
00:29:09the the fingerprints of
00:29:12Iran on on that, and they have also
00:29:16Iranian expert and Lebaneses and
00:29:19others helping them to do that, so let us wait and
00:29:23see, but I expect Saudi Arabia to improve its
00:29:27facility as well to respond to all this new
00:29:30development. This comes amid a rapid escalation
00:29:34the conflict in Yemen. The cuties have released footage their offensive
00:29:38against Saudi back forces in the Thaiz province, the last
00:29:42important area on the road to Aiden. This footage can't be
00:29:45independently verified though, meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and its regional partners
00:29:49were expected to step up their military coordination today, and this has
00:29:53prompted speculation that the conflict could expand further, drawing more
00:29:57countries into the frey. And last
00:30:01week, Saudi led for. said they destroyed several the
00:30:04khuthi's rocket launch platforms. Riyadh Alliance reported striking more
00:30:08than 130 military targets in Yemen, that included
00:30:12areas in the huti controlled national capital. Art
00:30:15correspondent Jamal Al-Ashwal takes closer look at the
00:30:18situation in the war toren country.
00:30:22The escalation between Senai and Riyad is entering new phase with the
00:30:26expansion of alternative targets to include living facilities inside
00:30:30Saudi Arabia and Saudi airport. in Yemen. It is a scene that will
00:30:34likely push the United States to plan the possibility of participating in
00:30:38hitting targets in Sina and other cities. The response from Sonat
00:30:42is that it will not hesitate to target America. If Trump
00:30:45tries to interfere again in Saudi Arabia's alliance, then Yemen has already
00:30:49warned that any country that will make an alliance with Saudi Arabia and offer any
00:30:53service to Saudi Arabia in order to strike our country, we will deal with the
00:30:57American regime as we did before.