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00:00:00And last week, Saudi Lad forces said they destroyed several
00:00:04of the Khuthi's rocket launch platforms. Riyad's Alliance reported
00:00:08striking more than 130 military targets in Yemen, that
00:00:11included areas in the hufi
00:00:13of controlled national capital. Arty correspondent Jamal Alaswal takes
00:00:17a closer look at the situation in the war toren
00:00:20country. The escalation between Sanai
00:00:24and Riyad is entering new phase with the expansion of alternative targets
00:00:28to include living facilities. inside Saudi Arabia and Saudi
00:00:32airports in Yemen. It is a scene that will likely push the United States to
00:00:35plan the possibility of participating in hitting targets in Sena and
00:00:39of other cities. The response from Sant is that it will not hesitate to
00:00:43target America. If Trump tries to interfere again in Saudi
00:00:47Arabia's alliance, then Yemen has already warmed that any country that will make an
00:00:51alliance with Saudi Arabia and offer any service to Saudi Arabia in order to
00:00:55strike our country. We will deal with the American regime as we did
00:00:59before. experience with Yemen has already been preceded and we
00:01:02will use Babel, Mandab and the Red Sea and all our military capabilities,
00:01:06especially the navy, to defend ourselves and to strike even the United States
00:01:10of and its ships. Sana
00:01:12of accuses Riyad of ignoring its demands and warnings to restrict Saudi
00:01:16airports and solve the humanitarian
00:01:17of crisis in
00:01:20in Yemen. We will continue to bomb the facilities in the living airports of Saudi Arabia, as
00:01:24long as Saudi Arabia aggressively suppresses and besieges our Yemini
00:01:27people. We will not stand with our hands tie. they must understand to
00:01:31stop their aggression and to
00:01:32in end their siege. Inside Yemen, the fronts do not seem to
00:01:36be isolated
00:01:37of from this escalation. The field developments are related to
00:01:41mutual strikes across the borders. From
00:01:45here,
00:01:45a it seems that there is need for serious political movement to get out
00:01:49of the cycle of escalation and return to a calm that opens the
00:01:53channels of negotiation to deal with security and humanitarian
00:01:57files,
00:01:58of considering it a less expensive way. to get out
00:02:00of the cycle of escalation, jamal alashwal, rt
00:02:04sanat.
00:02:08Up next is story of an American family that has
00:02:10a recelteled in Russia because they share its traditional
00:02:14values. The father even in listed in the army to support the special military
00:02:18operation. You can
00:02:19of watch the full interview throughout the day, but for now here's the quick
00:02:22preview. I didn't just want to come and stay and take
00:02:26five or six years to get it, I wanted to actually earn.
00:02:31um earn our place in
00:02:33a Russia, um, to show
00:02:35the country, our neighbors, our friends, the world that we're loyal
00:02:39here, we want to be here,
00:02:41and we're honored to be here, so I'd say the
00:02:45biggest thing that we've experienced as a family is
00:02:50in the big hearts and the welcoming from the Russian people,
00:02:53I've never in my entire life of living in America experienced
00:02:57such uh amazing, wonderful people. and it's
00:03:01crazy to say, but I feel like this is the home
00:03:05that I never had, this is the family that I never had, so I'd say
00:03:09for me it was the biggest eye opener that these people
00:03:12are real and they are authentic and they have heart of gold,
00:03:16like they truly want to help and not because they want to see something in
00:03:20return, which is the mentality of how we were raised in
00:03:26in America, this is RT
00:03:27in international, I'll be back with more news at the top
00:03:29of the hour just.
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00:05:18Hello and welcome to Crosstal Bullhorns, here we discuss some
00:05:22realness.
00:05:52I caught up with Derek after he signed a contract with the Russian army.
00:05:55Naturally, my first question was, what motivated a
00:05:5945-year-old American with three kids to put a Russian military
00:06:03uniform? I didn't just want to come and stay and take five
00:06:07or six years to get it, I wanted to actually earn it.
00:06:10Um,
00:06:12our place in Russia, to show the country, our
00:06:16neighbors, our friends, the world
00:06:18that we're loyal here, we want to be here,
00:06:22and we're honored to be here. Derek's
00:06:25training days are long gone, and he is now literally
00:06:29instrumental in one the army's repair battalions fighting a
00:06:32special military operation. That was his dream and
00:06:36intention when he initially signed up to use his professional
00:06:40expertise to the fullest extent in order.
00:06:44i think a repair battalion um all the the
00:06:48cages that for drone protection, oh the grills i
00:06:51can i can build those with my eyes clos um i used to fabricate uh
00:06:55real real fancy doors fence very similar in
00:06:58construction so yes i think as a welder and
00:07:02fabricator um i could really contribute to the army and that's where i
00:07:06hope to contribute derek says that he and his wife made the
00:07:10decision to emigrate to Russia to get Following
00:07:13introductory trip to Moscow, they made up their minds, sold
00:07:17everything in the United States, packed up their belongings and just
00:07:21left. Derek had accepted the fact that he might not ever see
00:07:25some of his state-side family ever again. His main concern
00:07:29are his own wife and children, whom he doesn't want
00:07:32indoctrinated by the so-called liberal propaganda, targeting
00:07:35children. We knew we wanted to leave America um, and when we when
00:07:39we realized that that was where it was, okay, we're... we even go, because
00:07:43all the western countries are the same,
00:07:46and um, I saw youtube video um, a president Putin as Santa Class
00:07:50and there's a little kid praying for
00:07:54Christmas wishes and there's there's LGBT books on the counter, gay
00:07:58parents, and um, I think the kid might even be a boy
00:08:02might even be a dress possibly, and President Putin's Santa Claus
00:08:06swoops in and uh, boom everything changes,
00:08:10and then there's a there's a new picture with a... father and mother, the
00:08:13books are, the gay books are gone, there's a football, and uh, he answered
00:08:17the kids prayer, and um, and that really resonated with me,
00:08:21because um, I was like, okay, well they they feel the same way,
00:08:25Russia is like like our morals, they don't like gay and
00:08:28lesbian stuff, and um, so we started doing research, when
00:08:32we arrived at the training center at the non-disclosed location,
00:08:36Derek's family were in Moscow, largely unaware of where
00:08:40their father and husband was and... what he was up to, however,
00:08:44derek's wife, diana knew about his mission and made sure
00:08:48her husband got to see her and the kids. hope that you are
00:08:52being safe and you are making the right choices and
00:08:55that you um don't try to be hero, you know, come
00:08:59back alive to your family. i would tell him that i miss
00:09:01him, he better be safe for else, when he
00:09:05when he comes back, i can make him
00:09:07pancakes. naturally we
00:09:10offered this same.
00:09:16Hey Diana, hey girls, um, I love you very much, I'm very, very
00:09:20happy to get to send you this video, let you see my face, see I'm doing
00:09:24well, probably see i've lost a few pounds, um, I miss you all
00:09:28more than you can imagine, and I can't wait to see you, um,
00:09:31hopefully I get vacation some point, and I get to come home, spend a couple of
00:09:35weeks with you, but man, you're on my mind 24/7,
00:09:39and uh, just know that what I'm doing is important. to me and
00:09:43important for our family, and I will do whatever it takes to be safe
00:09:47and to come home
00:09:48to
00:09:52you. A brand new passport and a brand new life. Once, a
00:09:56proud resident of Arizona, Derek Hoffman now carries
00:10:00Russian citizenship, decision his family sees not
00:10:04as a risk, but as confirmation that they finally
00:10:08found where they belong. For the half months, the US they left
00:10:11behind. felt unrecognizable, marked, as they
00:10:15say, by rising crime, social tension and cultural
00:10:19shifts that no longer aligned with their Christian
00:10:23values, so... they packed up their lives, crossed an
00:10:27ocean and chose Russia as the place to start
00:10:31again. So basically, the situation was getting worse and
00:10:34worse by the day, um, we were seeing lot of changes happen just in
00:10:38the economy, in the people, and realizing that
00:10:42the area was not as safe as it was when we at
00:10:46first started having kids, um, we have six in total, I
00:10:50have three adult children back home and we have our three daughters
00:10:53and um, when i started raising my boys, it
00:10:57was a completely different atmosphere, having the
00:11:00ability to go to the grocery store and not having a guard standing right there in front
00:11:04the grocery store before you walk in because it's just theft
00:11:08and fighting and it was just not safe driving down
00:11:12the road you need a gun on your hip because people are willing to
00:11:16have the um anger and frustration take over
00:11:20what they actually would normally do and um the
00:11:24road rage. is insane and we've actually heard and seen
00:11:27people get shot at, so the safety factor was a big
00:11:31thing, um, lgbq plus is literally put in
00:11:35all the news and all the
00:11:38um things that are uh tv shows and
00:11:42all of um man ads for just
00:11:46random people's places like target for instance has
00:11:50an ad where two men are kissing and i'm like it just is
00:11:53so in your... face and shove down your throat and your kids can't go
00:11:57anywhere or do anything and avoid it, and we wanted
00:12:01to have a place that had the same morals and values as we did, we are strong Christians
00:12:05and we want to have our kids raised with a good foundation,
00:12:09so unfortunately we had to leave America, we tried to
00:12:13move from Arizona to Texas to be able to get a stronger
00:12:17Christian value in our kids, um, only to realize
00:12:20that the morals and values are lot the same thing there,
00:12:24they... have a parade in Dallas for the LGBQ,
00:12:28um, a pride parade where they're literally on the streets
00:12:32and just out in public and it's totally
00:12:35fine and welcomed and and loved by many, and it was just
00:12:39really shocking to us and we knew we had to leave America because it was
00:12:43declining more and more. The pivot point came from an
00:12:47unexpected place, ATV commercial. In it they
00:12:51saw vision of family and tradition that they felt...
00:12:55no longer existed back home, we saw
00:12:58um a commercial with Putin and he did a
00:13:02uh Christmas kind of a situation where he
00:13:06was Santa Claus and gave the children the actual mom and dad for
00:13:10Christmas and all the correct toys,
00:13:14and um, we took that as a big eye opener at that point,
00:13:18like, we do,
00:13:18wait they
00:13:20as also a minute, they have the same beliefs believe that family should be a mom and a
00:13:23dad, and it should... be shoved down the little boy's throats to want to wear
00:13:27a dress or want to play with dolls or any kind of
00:13:30craziness with that, and knowing that the safety
00:13:34factor was a lot better of rate here
00:13:37percentage-wise, we didn't really have any other
00:13:41options, russia was the way to go. now
00:13:45living outside Moscow with their three young daughters, the family
00:13:49says Russia has been more welcoming than they imagined,
00:13:53so I'd say the biggest thing..." we've experienced as a family
00:13:56is the big hearts and the welcoming
00:14:00from the Russian people. I've never in my entire life of living in America
00:14:04experienced such uh amazing, wonderful
00:14:08people, and it's crazy to say, but I
00:14:11feel like this is the home that I never had, this is the family that I
00:14:15never had, being able to come here and have people just
00:14:19invite us to come over and be like, hey, I made this entire crazy
00:14:23spread uh for... for um women's day,
00:14:27we were here on the fifth, women's day was on the eighth, that's a couple of days,
00:14:31you've never even met my family, now you're inviting us over for cake and
00:14:35champagne and breakfast and meat and cheese and all these beautiful
00:14:38amenities, like are are are you okay? from offering homemade
00:14:42meals to driving them hours into moscow to file
00:14:45document, neighbors stepped in like
00:14:48family, it's the kind of support the hoffman say they
00:14:52never experienced in the US. i'm like confused like people
00:14:56don't do that, they're scared to have you come into their
00:15:00house because maybe you're going to take something or maybe you're going to destroy
00:15:04something and it's just the mentality is completely
00:15:07different um different neighbor offered to take us to the
00:15:11grocery store when we first moved here and gave us few rides to get
00:15:15there and brought us back and different neighbor the other day we were talking
00:15:19to um we go on walks lot just to have more
00:15:23conversation and to build our... um in the
00:15:26language, she offered to drive me all the way to Moscow, which
00:15:30from here is 2 hours one way and be able to
00:15:33pick up documents from our lawyer because getting our girls into...
00:15:37school and having specific um documents from the
00:15:41school records back in America, having them transcribed
00:15:44and and switched over into Russian um and then of course notarized that
00:15:48they're ough um notarized their
00:15:51authencentity, okay that didn't come out right
00:15:55um but the notorized copies to be able to make sure that they're actually
00:15:59real and legit and that's two hours there, nobody
00:16:03does that in America, you'll be lucky to get somebody to help you get gas
00:16:07if you run out of gas and you know these people,
00:16:10so I'd say for me it was the biggest eye opener that
00:16:14these people are real and they are authentic and they have
00:16:18heart of gold, like they truly want to help and not because they want to
00:16:22see something in return, which is the mentality of how we
00:16:26were raised in America. Russian doesn't come easily, still lessons
00:16:30at home and daily practice are slowly turning foreign sounds
00:16:33into something that feels a little more familiar.
00:16:37so being here and being uh immersed in it
00:16:40has made it easier as far as wanting to learn the
00:16:44language more, we're having more and more connections with people that
00:16:48are in the area and just learning lot better through
00:16:52conversations as well, it's a cool language, me and my sisters have always wanted our
00:16:56own little personal language and so coming
00:17:00here and then having to learn a language
00:17:01i thought that was very funny um
00:17:03it is very hard but it has been pretty fun to learn then you
00:17:07life took another dramatic turn when Derek
00:17:10enlisted in the Russian Army, move his wife
00:17:14describes as faith driven. So there was definitely
00:17:18a lot of um questions, there was a
00:17:22lot of discussion and a ton more
00:17:25prayer, like we wanted to make sure it wasn't just a oh
00:17:29willy nilly, like oh we'll get citizenship, so let's just do
00:17:32it. Um, there was a lot of prayer and lot
00:17:36of just... making sure like, okay, well
00:17:38what if this happens, well what if this happens, well what about this, well what about
00:17:42that, and then it was like, okay, well, I mean, it makes sense,
00:17:46you're why, I totally, I get it, and it's like, um, I just,
00:17:50I don't know how I feel about it, let's pray, and then coming to
00:17:54that conclusion and making sure that it was a god thing, that it was like,
00:17:58all right, lord, like, if you want him to join, and that's
00:18:02the path you want for our family, like everything else we've ever done in our
00:18:05lives, make it just the... clear path, make it black or
00:18:08white, and if it is the path that we're supposed to take, just make
00:18:12sure that we know that that's that's the path, because we don't
00:18:16want to make a wrong choice and go down the wrong path and
00:18:20god forbid lose my husband or have something go wrong
00:18:23or um, i don't know, like it just not be
00:18:27the path that he has for us, um, and we've always talked about that when
00:18:31a window closes, a door will open, and the door is always a god
00:18:35thing for us, um, as... as long as it's something that
00:18:38is clear to us that he has his hand
00:18:42over it, um, it was easier for us to go, okay, well he's going
00:18:46to come back safe, like this is God's plan, like he's, he's going to be
00:18:50protected, and this is the path we're supposed to take, and I
00:18:53mean, if you've read in the Bible at all, you know that multiple people have
00:18:57gone through their sets of hardship, they said, hey, this is what I'm supposed to do,
00:19:01this is what God wants me to do, ended up a lion's den, ended up a
00:19:05furnace, ended up before a giant, did they die? they did
00:19:08not, like they were protected, they had God on their side and God saying,
00:19:12hey, this is the thing I want you to do, this is where I want you to
00:19:16fight, this is the path I have for you, and of course, in doing the
00:19:20thing that God asked him to do, yes it was scary, yes it was dangerous
00:19:24and of course we are fearful um of something
00:19:27happening, but of course knowing that it's a god path, it
00:19:31doesn't matter what you put in our way, like if this is the way he wanted us to
00:19:35do, this is the best best way, for us to do it, she
00:19:39says serving was always a dream, but one he
00:19:43never fulfilled in the US, he had always thought that joining the
00:19:46military would be um a thing that he
00:19:50would want to do, in America he was never even able to
00:19:54because the um his age
00:19:57or the ability to be fit enough or whatever the
00:20:01requirements were at that time he never thought that he would be able to
00:20:05join um the...
00:20:07basis the of the military of America
00:20:11is the discipline and the you know actually making
00:20:15sure you're doing things as morals and values
00:20:18and um I am so grateful that he did not join there in the military
00:20:22because I feel like it's a different set of
00:20:26thought process
00:20:27as the morals and the values as it is here you actually
00:20:31morals have and a value and to be able
00:20:35to um be with like. people who
00:20:38actually want to see the country succeed and they know that we're
00:20:42fighting for a good cause, not just to fight or start a war or
00:20:46actually have issues, there's um...
00:20:50the ability to stop the evil going on and to be able to
00:20:54make sure that the people here are safe and that there is
00:20:58um just a connection since we've been here to to want
00:21:02to be part of society like we've never wanted to be part of society
00:21:05before where people are actually on the same page and they
00:21:09actually want to see you succeed and they want to be able to be
00:21:13part of that and the sharing is so amazing
00:21:17he was around a group of guys and he offered the one
00:21:21guy some um of his snacks and it was the
00:21:24snickers bar cuz he was he was eating snickers bars and he they're just like these little
00:21:28mini snicker bars it's not like this big old snicker bars and he offered him one
00:21:32and the guy took it and then he broke it in half to offer to someone else and i
00:21:36almost lost it i was like you don't see that in america you
00:21:40just don't someone gets a cigarers b the're like thanks and they eat it because
00:21:44they're so worried about making sure they get theirs but here
00:21:47it's the opposite like they're like want to share with somebody else
00:21:51so they feel the sames I'm feeling as the grateful
00:21:55and the the enjoyment of whatever
00:21:57it is that they're getting to experience and just being around people like that
00:22:01was just it was no-brainer um seeing the sign
00:22:05saying that you and your family would get citizenship he was like it's done
00:22:09I could actually go in and be able to make sure that my family has
00:22:12citizenship I what more could I want Derek
00:22:16is now away with his unit and the family is counting.
00:22:20the days until he returns. when we asked the girls about
00:22:24their father, the room felt quiet. they told us
00:22:27life feels different without him, and they miss him
00:22:31every day. of course i miss him, um, having
00:22:35him here on regular basis, making all the funny jokes that he usually makes
00:22:38and making things light-hearted and laughing about
00:22:41things, and um, him being able to lay the hammer
00:22:45and and be that rock and be able to make sure that
00:22:49you know things are. going the way they're supposed to go and things are getting
00:22:53done and lists are made so that we make sure to stay on track, mean
00:22:56it is um, it is hard
00:23:00not having that, not having your significant other to be able to
00:23:04help guide you and help be with you and um hold you at night to
00:23:08be able to say hey you know everything's going to be okay, like it is
00:23:11difficult for sure, and i 100% miss him, i
00:23:15was going, i knew this was going to happen soon cuz we played that
00:23:19he's make it and but when i thought he was going to
00:23:23move, mean going to to the military
00:23:26i felt very sad and tried try
00:23:30making every moment i can exciting and not bad
00:23:34ones. pretty sad because i really love him and i don't want him to
00:23:38go. he is hero, he's a hero to our family and he is hero
00:23:41to um pretty much every russian person
00:23:45we've talked to, because there are so many people that are here in russia that
00:23:49are true. Russians that were born Russians that would not be
00:23:53courageous enough to stand up and say, "I'm going to fight, I'm going
00:23:57to fight for the country, I'm going to fight for what's right, I'm going to
00:24:01make sure that as a people succeed,
00:24:04because we already feel like we are Russians, so to be able
00:24:08to be on this side of things and to be able to
00:24:12fight for what we truly believe in is an
00:24:15amazing opportunity. I'd say I really miss him, I'd
00:24:19say..." I miss you and I wish you would heal and I would
00:24:23say when he when he comes back I can make him
00:24:25pancakes, I would tell him that I miss
00:24:28him, he better be safe or else.
00:24:32The family is now taking steps toward full citizenship, the
00:24:36children have joined a private school where each day brings new
00:24:39lessons, faces and small discoveries. For the
00:24:43Hoffman's Russia is more than a destination, it's
00:24:47the start of something new. Each day... carries its own
00:24:51challenges and chances and together they're shaping
00:24:54life that already feels like home.
00:24:58Anastasia Valodina, RT from Moscow
00:25:01Region.
00:25:48Have you heard the phrase? is king, right
00:25:52now chaos rules the world of news
00:25:54and confusion seems to reign
00:25:58supreme across
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00:26:05towns, there is almost too much information, too many
00:26:08actors, too many lies. you don't need
00:26:12more content, you actually need context. we're
00:26:16not up in newsroom ivory towers, we're on the street, we care
00:26:20about what affects real Americans.
00:26:24anyone can tell you what's happening in the news, but who's
00:26:28telling you why it's happened, how it's happening, how would
00:26:32affect?" You: every night we cut through the
00:26:36noise, because the stories that will determine our future
00:26:39are happening in America
00:26:41now.
00:26:46In the warm spring of 1945, it felt as though world peace
00:26:50had come for good. They are determined to be united
00:26:54with each other, and with all peace loving nation,
00:26:58those the ideal of lasting peace will become a
00:27:01reality. "I think the cold war began with the death of
00:27:05Roosevelt and Churchill was a
00:27:08cold warrior.
00:27:11Churchill, der hatte die Idee,
00:27:14Russland mit Hilfe der der deutschen
00:27:17Kriegsgefangenen, das waren 10000 Mann nach dem
00:27:21Motto
00:27:26the Adriatic has descended
00:27:30across the continent operation. thinkable and
00:27:33pincer and uh broiler and
00:27:36bushwacker uh and drop shot, mean all
00:27:40these uh were essentially planned to directly attack and
00:27:44destroy the soviet union. why did the peace so many had longed
00:27:48for give way to new protracted
00:27:50war? when exactly did the post-w
00:27:54world
00:27:54take a faithful
00:27:55turn?
00:28:09I've spent years in conversations beyond
00:28:12borders, some were
00:28:15formal, some tense, some
00:28:18difficult, but all them
00:28:22mattered, they chartered India's
00:28:26path and how the world
00:28:29responded, foreign policy isn't here.
00:28:33it is lived in arguments, in
00:28:37decisions and in their consequences.
00:28:41it's not an interview, it's a
00:28:43conversation. let's
00:28:46talk.
00:28:50belarus, january, 1944, 2000
00:28:53civilians, zero mercy. удалось
00:28:57установить, что среди погибших преобладали
00:29:00женщины и дети различных возрастов.
00:29:32мы посмотрим на тех, кто участвовал в боевых действиях,
00:29:36а также в карательных операциях, то мы увидим там
00:29:39и голландцев, и датчан, и
00:29:43французов.
00:29:50Они рассматривали территорию России, Украины и Белоруссии, равно как и
00:29:54территорию Польши, в качественства жизненного
00:29:57пространства, на которой через некоторое время переедут трудолюбивые
00:30:01немецкие клони.
00:30:27any words, initiatives or ideas entering the public discourse, so he can
00:30:31push for some breath. Russia's foreign minister dismisses
00:30:35Vladimir Zelenskire calls as a ploy to regroup Ukrainian
00:30:39forces, that's after he have demanded the guns fall silent for
00:30:4360 days to allow elections. The more
00:30:47we help Ukraine, the sooner the war will be over. Brussels
00:30:50adopts yet another package of anti-Russian sanctions with the EU
00:30:54hoping its 22nd round of restrictions will do what the previous 21
00:30:58have failed to, and that's bring.