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00:00:00Initiatives
00:00:15of
00:00:26or ideas entering the public discourse so he can push for some
00:00:30breathing
00:00:30of room,
00:00:31in Russia's foreign minister dismisses Vladimir Zelanskis sease fire calls as
00:00:35apply to regroup Ukraine's forces and that's after Kiev demanded the
00:00:39guns fall silent for 60 days to allow
00:00:42elections. The more we help Ukraine, the
00:00:45sooner the war will be over. Brussels
00:00:49of adopts yet another package of anti-Russian sanctions with the EU hoping
00:00:53its 20 second round of restrictions will do what the previous 21 have
00:00:57failed
00:00:58of to, and that's bring Moscow to its knee.
00:01:03and India sees a third day of mass protests as demonstrators
00:01:07accused the ruling party of electoral fraud, with the government rejecting the
00:01:11accusations, we look into the root causes
00:01:13of the
00:01:13unrest.
00:01:17of
00:01:22This is RT international, bringing you news from around the globe. My name is
00:01:26Igor Piskanov, welcome to the
00:01:28of program for. will do anything to buy time to
00:01:32of regroup Ukraine's
00:01:33a forces, and that's the view of Russia's foreign minister, emit yet more talk from
00:01:37Kief of a
00:01:38ceasefire. In
00:01:41recent months, the call for a cease fire has
00:01:44of replaced the call for inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia, in
00:01:47the rhetoric of both Zelensky and his western masters. The
00:01:51of goal is singular and very simple, to buy time. He is
00:01:55even said he is willing to hold a presidential election, provided he
00:01:59is
00:01:59of given. two months to regroup. During that period, Europe could flood
00:02:03him with new weaponry to continue his terrorist war against the Russian
00:02:07people. But his famined astonishment regarding President Trump's statement
00:02:11reflects only one thing: that he desperately
00:02:14of wants to use any words, any initiatives and any ideas
00:02:18that enter the public sphere to
00:02:20a promote his interest in a breathing space, by hook or by crook.
00:02:24I do not believe
00:02:25he has earned such
00:02:25a respit, nor do I think we will once again fall for assurances or
00:02:29promises.
00:02:33of
00:02:37These objectives are well-known to everyone, we have never altered
00:02:41them, unlike the zigzags and evasions of Zelensky and his European
00:02:47a masters. of The political pressure on Vladimirsky is mounting on several
00:02:51fronts: first, the American president has stressed Ukraine is
00:02:54in need of new leadership. In response, Zelansky has demanded a
00:02:5860-day total cease fire
00:02:59to prepare. the country to go to the polls, but it's not just
00:03:03electoral issues that have
00:03:05of brought of Zelinsky's old acting skills back on
00:03:09of display. after Washington announced the deal on Russian diesel exports, the
00:03:13decision was not well received
00:03:14of in Kiev and Vladimirsky in particular.
00:03:18of President Trump said that
00:03:21a um that we need Ukraine needs new president, so first of all
00:03:24with all respect to President Trump, uh,
00:03:28it's up to... our society, up to our
00:03:32of people to choose one or another leader. why
00:03:36are they blaming you for the continuation of this war?
00:03:40because these people can't find
00:03:43a key how to stop
00:03:47of Putin, because it's more
00:03:51difficult to stop Putin than to pressure
00:03:55others. political risk consultant and the
00:03:59lawyer.
00:04:04to make an enemy out of trump, the recent
00:04:07reaction, the outburs of anger
00:04:11from the
00:04:12of Ukrainian
00:04:13of leader after the quite historical words
00:04:16coming from the mouth
00:04:19of of the president
00:04:19of the United States Donald Trump that the democratic
00:04:23election should be um uh put in place in in
00:04:27Ukraine because the current leader is not so... his
00:04:30nation and the
00:04:32um its
00:04:36on rightfully um so basically um Mr.
00:04:39Zelinski is putting everything into one basket so basically
00:04:43she's he's playing a Russian quite simply
00:04:47put it because he's betting
00:04:50on democrats coming to
00:04:52of power after the midterms elections uh related to
00:04:56dispopularity
00:04:57of of the Donald Trump in the United States due to his. um
00:05:01unnecessary conflict with Iran, so uh, basically
00:05:04the the thinking in Brussels and both
00:05:08in in
00:05:09in in Kief and Brussels is that once the democrats will take the
00:05:13majority in the United States, the the previous scenario,
00:05:17which is continuation of maximum pressure on
00:05:21Russia and supplying Ukraine
00:05:24with money and weapons will
00:05:27continue, so I think that this is the one way
00:05:31streak um for for Mr. Zelinski, because maybe even if
00:05:35the democrats will come to power, still the Donald Trump is a
00:05:39president and has a significant influence. over the
00:05:43foreign policy of his own country, so I think that making
00:05:47an enemies both with Russia and United States who is the
00:05:50main sponsor, who has been the main sponsor of this unnecessary
00:05:54conflict, is very dangerous, a game plan from Mr.
00:05:58Zensk in his political circle.
00:06:02This comes as the European Union has approved another sanctions package on Russia,
00:06:06it's 22nd, Brussels once again claimed it's important to
00:06:09keep increasing pressure on Moscow and provide more.
00:06:42It doesn't help neither the prices the oil products,
00:06:46nor the unity within the transatlantic community, what concerns pressure on
00:06:50Russia, and it is not the European way. Our way is to
00:06:54increase pressure buse we already seen how it works, we are not done
00:06:58here because for Europe, this is the vital interest to help
00:07:01Ukraine to sustain uh this winter and continuing
00:07:05putting, as I already said pressure, pressure, pressure on
00:07:07Russia. On Friday, Trump and Putin cut a deal
00:07:11with Washington. lifting sanctions on Moscow's diesel exports. The news
00:07:15saw oil prices fall, although they remain above $100 a
00:07:19barrel. In according to the agreement, Moscow will supply 300 thousand
00:07:23tons of diesel to American and global markets, followed by a further half
00:07:27million tons in November. Another 1 million will come after that
00:07:31with a further 3 million later, depending on the condition of Russia's
00:07:35refineries. But this decision has been seized upon by
00:07:38the media, although they conveniently ignore Europe's continued to third. for
00:07:42Russian fuel, something that hasn't escaped the attention the US
00:07:46president. The European
00:07:50Union paid Russia $250 billion for energy,
00:07:54and the fake news media doesn't want to get near that story. I made the right
00:07:58choice for the American people, always America
00:08:01first. The 22nd package of sanctions, sanctioning
00:08:04all these Russian entities and Russian companies, firms, people,
00:08:08just individuals, and clearly this happening against the backdrop of this diesel.
00:08:12Again, it's a message to Washington, but realistically though, this has been the
00:08:16point that Europe has been making all along, like we need to apply pressure on Russia
00:08:20to bring the war, the end the war closer, this is clearly not
00:08:24working, but you know this definition of insanity, one the
00:08:27definitions, insanity is you know doing the same thing
00:08:31over and over again and each time hoping for different result, well I'm sure they
00:08:35are already thinking what they could include into the 23rd package, how can we
00:08:39make the 23rd sanctions package the biggest yet? can clearly hear
00:08:43the rhetoric, for instance, the what the Estonian Prime Minister has said, who
00:08:46openly, openly defied Washington and
00:08:50called upon Ukraine to keep on striking the Russian
00:08:54oil refineries, have listen, such
00:08:57an agreement goes against the long-term efforts the western world to limit the
00:09:01flow of energy revenues to Putin, the U.S. has already convinced its
00:09:05allies, including us to abandon Russian fuel. The long-term
00:09:09goal of depriving Russia of funds is correct. and it must be
00:09:13continued. In Estonia, and at the European Council, it is
00:09:16worth discussing next week whether we can quickly contribute more to Ukraine
00:09:20so that they can strike Russian oil refineries. It
00:09:24is a bit ironic though that they cry foul in
00:09:28unis and all together Europe saying, oh, how can you give, how can
00:09:32you fund, fund Putin's war effort with your money, with your
00:09:36diesel deal, and it is ironic, because this is something that Europe has been
00:09:40doing all these years, literally, these years, Europe has been
00:09:43buying gas, has been buying Russia's Russia's metals uh, pretty
00:09:47much just this year alone they purchased Europe purchased just about
00:09:5110 billion dollars worth of goods from Russia, six billions,
00:09:55just over 6 billions accounting for with will well with gas
00:09:59accounting for 6.1 billion of uh of this,
00:10:02now of course we don't know how how much Russia will get in this diesel
00:10:06deal with the United States given how many steps in it there is,
00:10:10but essentially if you look at the at the oil prices and if you take the
00:10:14figure as to how much Russia has agreed so far to
00:10:18to supply the United States with, that's in the realms of
00:10:227 billion dollars, yeah, so 6 billion for... in case of
00:10:26Europe, 7 billion, in case of diesel in the United States,
00:10:29Europe has been doing all the same things, they have been, also funding Putin's
00:10:33war efforts and so on, the just they've been doing it quietly, seems like the only
00:10:37threat
00:10:38to to this deal is Kiev, because Zelinski said that he's going to continue
00:10:42attacking Russian oil refineries, but why is he so
00:10:46keen on sabotaging Washington's
00:10:50plans? Well, it's pretty clear, you just have to look at what Kiev has had to say before
00:10:54that, they want. this energy deal, but a very different, well shape
00:10:58and form, they wanted you know strikes against you know
00:11:02power stations to be included to be banned under this deal, strikes against
00:11:05port infrastructure, against rail infrastructure, they wanted all of
00:11:09that to be banned under this you know umbrella energy deal, well
00:11:13Russia has from the very gadgo has been saying, well refineries fine,
00:11:17let's let's hold the strikes, and well it's it's clear why, because well the
00:11:21Ukraine doesn't really produce anything in this sense, Zelensky.
00:11:25well he's been uh he's been making some very unhinged claim saying that well the
00:11:29United States should have come to Ukraine and made deal with
00:11:32Ukraine as if Ukraine well in his words it does
00:11:36controls the out the Russian output have
00:11:38a have listen why doesn't America conclude a diesel deal with
00:11:42Ukraine? Let Ukraine offer a diesel deal. We
00:11:46influence whether these ships go or not, whether these refineries work or
00:11:50not? So yes, let's sign the corresponding diesel deal with the president
00:11:53the United States of America. america again, this is also quite
00:11:57ironic to come from a man whose entire budget, entire country
00:12:01lives of whatever Europe has to give to them,
00:12:05otherwise they don't even have enough to pay salaries to the most crucial part
00:12:09their society right now, and that's the you know serviceman. seems
00:12:12that the weight of supporting Kiev's
00:12:16war machine is now being pressed on Brussel's
00:12:20shoulders, so what does Russia have to say about? indeed, it has been
00:12:24the policy the... Trump administration for a while now,
00:12:27you know, let Europe pay for the war in Europe, according to Russia, well,
00:12:31Europe has already shown that it is not, they can say, they can
00:12:35talk however much they want about wanting to bring this war to an
00:12:38end, but they don't, because every, because we've seen everything that they have implied
00:12:42so far here, it has failed, but still, Europe is
00:12:46definitely a party, acts like a party in this war, while Washington is
00:12:50trying to uh have look and try to trying to find
00:12:53solutions, you repeat. "the Europeans clearly do not belong to
00:12:57the party of peace, the party that seeks ways toward a peaceful settlement. The
00:13:01Europeans are more like the party of war, which continues to do everything to prevent
00:13:05this war from stopping. We are far more impressed by the efforts the American
00:13:09negotiators. So right now we are a bit of crossroads here with
00:13:13one way being, well it could all with, I mean all of this huffing
00:13:17and puffing if that will just remain that all talk
00:13:21and uh Europe and Zelensky will talk uh very tough.
00:13:25but won't act on these words, or if they will decide to
00:13:28directly try and disrupt Russia's well shipments to the United States,
00:13:32be it vessels or be it attacks against you know infrastructure inside Russia,
00:13:36and that would be interesting to see if they choose that that sort of course of
00:13:40events, if they choose the latter, then well Trump has quite a few
00:13:43quite a few means to apply pressure and to punish uh anyone well in
00:13:47Ukraine for in Ukraine and Europe for disobedience, starting with the
00:13:51most obvious options like cutting intelligence sharing and switching off the...
00:13:59dishes and let's get some more perspective on this and speak to assistant professor
00:14:02at batman university in turkey dunia basho welcome
00:14:06to the program sir, washington has been telling other countries including
00:14:10turkey for years to abandon russian energy, including
00:14:14trading tariffs threats, even now as the US itself is easing
00:14:18sanctions on Russian diesel, so how can the US
00:14:22threaten others with 100% tariffs for buying? oil while
00:14:26simultaneously negotiating deal to import Russian diesel for its own
00:14:29market.
00:14:36well, Washington expects other countries to subordinate their economic
00:14:39interests to American geopolitical objectives, while reserving the
00:14:43right to make
00:14:44exceptions
00:14:48when own
00:14:49interests of
00:14:53years, political question rather than
00:14:56purely commercial one, so countries such as Turkey, India and
00:15:00China
00:15:00have been pressure to reduce their energy cooperation with Moscow, and the main
00:15:04argument was Russian hydrocarbons generates revenue that supports Russian
00:15:08military operations, Ukraine, but the things start to change when it
00:15:12hurts the American domestic economic politics, diesel prices
00:15:16are nearly doubled partly because the war with Iran too and the
00:15:19economic disruptions in international energy supplies,
00:15:23so the United States has just..." discovered that the Russian energy can contribute
00:15:27to stabilizing markets, from the Moscow's perspective, you mean
00:15:31this episode reinforces its longstanding argument that Russia
00:15:35cannot simply be removed from international energy market. without imposing
00:15:39substantial cost on other economies and citizens and it shows
00:15:43that it's correct for the American citizens at the
00:15:45moment. Last year Trump urged the Turkish
00:15:49president to stop buying Russian oil hinting that in return he could
00:15:52drop a ban on Ankara buying US stealth fighter jets,
00:15:56but as this jet for oil deal remains an
00:16:00unresolved diplomatic stand off, do you expect any reaction from Ankara
00:16:04following the US Russia diesel deal?
00:16:09"well, Ankara recognizes the contradiction, okay, but it won't publicly
00:16:12confront
00:16:13it at all, at least an aggressive way, F35 is
00:16:17much more complex issue, and what Trump has said
00:16:21about you, stopping purchasing the Russian oil with
00:16:24just - kind kind of another
00:16:28adding another pressure point towards Turkey, so
00:16:31so it's not going to be the main issue with the F-35 perces,
00:16:35but Ankara could respond." in other
00:16:38means, but so the f35s
00:16:41and purchasing russian all are
00:16:45two different cases, guess the
00:16:49reasons behind Washington going for this deal with
00:16:52Moscow are understandable, what do you make the United States
00:16:56doing itself, precisely what it tries to ban others from
00:17:00doing?
00:17:04well, it's the manifestation of a broader structural problem. in the
00:17:08international system that we are facing now, rather than simply
00:17:11contradiction the Trump's personal policies, though it looks like so, in
00:17:15practice the major powers pursue national interests, russia does it, china does it, turkey
00:17:19does it, everybody does it, but there is nothing
00:17:23particular surprising about Washington is doing, but what what makes the American
00:17:27position problematic is the tendency to present the particular US
00:17:30strategic preferences as they were universal
00:17:33obligations, but but the problem is here, the excessive use of
00:17:37such leverage generates unintended consequences, so it
00:17:41encouraged other countries to diversify their economic relationships,
00:17:45develop alternative payment are rains and reduce their vulnerability
00:17:49to unilateral sanctions, so this is one the reason why debates
00:17:53about multipolarity and economic sovereignty and financial autonomy are
00:17:56becoming increasingly important not only by Russia and China
00:18:00but also by other countries like Turkey and
00:18:04India and that's the political advantage for Moscow because because Russia has
00:18:08consistent the challenge the legitimacy of a unilateral
00:18:11American economic
00:18:13coerion. All right,
00:18:17Dunia Bashol assistant professor at Batman University in Turkey. I
00:18:20appreciate you taking the time and sharing your thoughts with us on
00:18:23this.
00:18:29Now Russia's presidential aid and the maritime board chairman Nikolai
00:18:32Patroshev has been a five-day official visit to China. He's held
00:18:36high-level meeting. with the country's officials including the foreign minister
00:18:40one where he reiterated the importance their ties when it
00:18:44comes to the
00:18:45oceans. Today the
00:18:48Russian Chinese strategic partnership is more relevant than ever. Our countries
00:18:52must work together to establish new democratic logic for such
00:18:55relations, including in the maritime domain where issues of strategic
00:18:59stability, energy and food security, logistics and
00:19:03the protection of our shared economic interests
00:19:05converge. Both China and
00:19:08Russia are permanent members the UN Security Council and major
00:19:12maritime powers. We must ignite the blue engine of China-Russia
00:19:16relations, contributing our joint strength to reforming and
00:19:20improving global ocean governance and promoting the building of a maritime
00:19:24community with a shared future. The trip
00:19:27included visiting a ship building factory, transport
00:19:31university and the port in Shanghai.f met
00:19:35the Chinese transportation minister and highlighted the importance of developing
00:19:39the trans-arctic transport corridor as the crisis in the Middle East
00:19:42has upended world energy logistics. Russia and China share an
00:19:46interest in the joint development of new strategic maritime and river
00:19:50routes, primarily polar ones, as well as in ensuring
00:19:54uninterrupted maritime supplies of energy resources and other
00:19:58critical raw
00:19:59materials.
00:20:04Now India has beefed up security in its capital as Mass
00:20:08protest raged for a third consecutive day. Initially, the
00:20:11demonstrators were led by a youth activist movement called the cockroaches,
00:20:15however now, different opposition forces have joined to the protest
00:20:19accusing the ruling government of attempting electoral fraud, something firmly
00:20:23denied by the authorities. RT India's Vinayak Diggsit
00:20:26explains what has caused the prolonged
00:20:29unrest. Now if we talk about the protests that are happening
00:20:33here in India then at the heart the matter lies an
00:20:36allegation by India's opposition parties that the election
00:20:40commission's process of revising pole roles is
00:20:43solely to benefit the Narendra Modi led Bharatiya
00:20:47Party the BJP for winning election. after elections
00:20:51in state after state now uh the Indian election
00:20:54commission's special intensive revision process was started
00:20:58in the world's largest democracy last year and it started with
00:21:02the northern state of bihar
00:21:04now the intention the process was to remove the names of
00:21:08voters that have moved away voters that have registered in more than
00:21:12one constituencies voters that have passed away or voters that
00:21:15are due to any reason whatsoever unregistered voters
00:21:19so cleaning the election pololl roles or the
00:21:23list of voters, about 130 million names have been
00:21:27flagged or removed so far, if you think that is a large
00:21:31number then think about the total population of India which happens to be
00:21:341.4 billion people. now the final decision on
00:21:38removing any these names are yet to
00:21:42be taken, however India's opposition parties alleged
00:21:46that in the process the special intensive revision many
00:21:50legitimate voters name were also struck off from the list in
00:21:54order to benefit the bharatiya janata party or the
00:21:57BJP, they claim that these removals now mean that
00:22:01India's electoral process is no longer level playing
00:22:05field. the opposition parties also say that this process has already
00:22:08skewed elections that took place in the month of April where
00:22:12the BJP 13 out of five states. Congress
00:22:16leader and leader of opposition Rahul Gandi has gone so far as
00:22:20to call this vote theft and says and argues that any
00:22:24laws passed by the elected government through the
00:22:27stolen votes remain to be illegitimate because the process in
00:22:31itself was illegitimate. the bhartija janata party the
00:22:35BJP as well as the election commission have denied any
00:22:39wrong doings as far as the process the SIRR are
00:22:42concerned. the BJP maintains that the that the process was
00:22:46aimed to remove illegitimate voters from electoral post roles
00:22:50home minister Amit Shah also went to say that it was to prevent
00:22:54infiltrators which happens to be euphemism that is
00:22:57used for illegal immigrants mainly from neighboring
00:23:01Bangladesh from voting in India's elections. The
00:23:04election panel contends that any wrongly excluded
00:23:08voters can request revision in their names and their names
00:23:12can be included back in the list again. This long
00:23:16simmering controversy around the special intensive revision became even
00:23:20more rampant after an Indian print daily, the Indian
00:23:23Express released a report which said that in the three
00:23:27member election commission where there is a chief election commissioner and two
00:23:31other election commissioners, there was significant difference
00:23:35between the election chief election commissioner and the other two election
00:23:38commissioners as far as voter matters like voter
00:23:42registrations and deletions are concerned, the election
00:23:45commission on this acknowledged the objections but said that the
00:23:50final decision that was taken by the body was completely
00:23:53unanimous. The battle
00:23:57for Yemen is intensifying. Hothi forces are moving to secure key
00:24:00areas in the Marib and Taiz provinces as the group seeks to
00:24:04expand its control over the country. The hutis have released
00:24:08footage their offensive against saudi-backed forces in those districts,
00:24:12which are the last government controlled strongholds on the road to the strategic
00:24:16port city of Aden. The video can't be independently.
00:24:20urified and the hutis have previously claim to have seized the port of Mocca
00:24:24and Parim Island, two key areas to control the Babal
00:24:28Mandep straight. Saudi
00:24:31Arabia has issued urgent alerts for civilians near the border with
00:24:35Yemen, that's after huthi missile attack on the city of
00:24:38Abha. Reports say air defenses managed to intercept an
00:24:42incoming ballistic missile and this video shows plooms of smoke that
00:24:46could be seen arising from the apparent impact points in the city.
00:24:50It comes after read's a main airport was hit three times in one
00:24:54week, a strike on Saturday left 13 people dead, and
00:24:58this CCTV footage shows the moment of that attack, and here's more
00:25:01details the events the last few
00:25:04days.
00:25:35These attacks are Yemeny attacks. We do not do this out of revenge or to take
00:25:39vengeance, but rather to force the Saudi leadership to accept a comprehensive and
00:25:42permanent peace by agreeing to end the
00:25:44war. Donald Trump has
00:25:47suggested the US come to the aid of
00:25:51it and what more details here is
00:25:54Muhammad there are heavy casualties from
00:25:58hoothiy attacks on king Khalid international airport in Riyad the death toll.
00:26:02expected to continue to rise with many wounded among Saudi citizens and
00:26:06foreigners. The coalition views these attacks as the beginning of a full-scale war and
00:26:10heinous act that is contrary to generally accepted values and moral
00:26:13standards. The response will be fierce and in accordance with the norms of
00:26:17international humanitarian law. Amid international condemnation,
00:26:21Islamabad reaffirms its position under the Mecca defense agreement as well
00:26:25as its commitments to ensuring the kingdom, security and sovereignty. Statements
00:26:28by the US president regarding the possibility of strikes against the Hootis.
00:26:32open up the prospect of definitive resolution to the Yemen crisis. The
00:26:36kingdom declares that the hoothi strikes constitute an act of terrorism that
00:26:40runs counter to moral principles and humanitarian values against
00:26:44this backdrop. Saudi Arabia is garnering international Islamic and Arab
00:26:48support for its position and the measures it is taking safeguard its
00:26:51sovereignty and security. The coalition is threatening decisive
00:26:55response by invoking the collective deterrence mechanism under the Mecca pact
00:26:59a mid the prospect of US intervention, the standoff with
00:27:03is approaching a dangerous turning point. the key question is how far the
00:27:07conflict will expand and whether new actors from outside Yemen and Saudi Arabia
00:27:10will become involved. Saudi political researcher
00:27:14Khalid barfi
00:27:15beli believes Washington has already been drawn into the
00:27:18conflict. the US is enforced
00:27:22already by providing intelligence
00:27:25and cooperate in many
00:27:27matters, security
00:27:30matters. also by providing what
00:27:33saudi forces needed of equipment and
00:27:36union. what you are talking about is
00:27:39whether the united states will help
00:27:43in attacking this
00:27:47sources of fire and whether they will
00:27:51support directly the yemen government, well that's
00:27:55a matter to be considered and according to trump he didn't
00:27:59decided yet, but as fast as
00:28:03Saudi Arabia, so many cities, so
00:28:06many oil installation, so many ports, we have
00:28:1028 airports in Saudi Arabia, so
00:28:13protecting this much land and this
00:28:16much facilities will
00:28:19require lots of investment, lots of
00:28:22work, and I believe they are working on this, the other
00:28:26side is getting improved
00:28:29abilities like the new... missiles they
00:28:33are using against Saudi Arabia, they have all
00:28:37the the fingerprints of
00:28:40Iran on on that, and they have also
00:28:44Iranian expert and Lebanese and
00:28:47others helping them to do that, so let us wait and
00:28:51see, but I expect Saudi Arabia to improve its
00:28:55facility as well to respond to all this new
00:28:58development. This is all the news we have for you for now.
00:29:02Rory suche will be taking the helm at the top the hour, do stay with
00:29:06us.
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