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00:00:13of
00:00:14in
00:00:22I apologize of for being there and for speaking on impulse.
00:00:25Ukrainians who protested against a
00:00:28of torture house that was run. by the military are targeted by
00:00:32authorities with some already detained and forced to
00:00:35apologize on camera.
00:00:39distressing images as Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies
00:00:43expose deep and lucrative ties between criminal
00:00:46organizations conducting kidnappings, beatings and
00:00:50drug trade and high ranking members
00:00:52of the country's security services. graphic footage of a
00:00:56savage attack by one such grouping is also released.
00:01:19and France is on high alert with 70,000
00:01:22policeman deployed as a fresh wave of public protest spreads
00:01:26across the nation, while in parliament, MPs accused President
00:01:30in Macron and his government of deliberately obstructing vote on next year's
00:01:34budget.
00:01:43A warm welcome to you,
00:01:44this is
00:01:45of RTI International with the latest headlines. It's good to have you with
00:01:48us. Ukrainian police have launched
00:01:51a crackdown on people who protested a makeshift detention
00:01:54center where men were tortured and held for ransom by
00:01:58military forces near. officials say they've
00:02:01identified 130 citizens who may have been
00:02:05involved in the demonstration outside the
00:02:07building.
00:02:14police have shown footage of
00:02:16of suspects being arrested over the unrest outside the scene on Tuesday.
00:02:20authorities say 27 people took an active part in
00:02:24illegal actions and another 24 behaved
00:02:27aggressively provoking conflicts with enforcement officers
00:02:31of and military personnel, some
00:02:33of the detained have already been forced to say sorry on
00:02:36camera. I apologize for being
00:02:40there and for speaking on
00:02:43of impulse. I decided
00:02:44of to go there and later I blocked the bus's movement. I deeply regret
00:02:48that I didn't understand the situation before I went. Our correspondent is
00:02:52across the
00:02:52of details. Let's cross live to him now. Raman, good to see
00:02:56you,
00:02:56I mean it seems Ukrainian authorities
00:02:59have have launched this. hunt on those who protested the alleged torture instead of
00:03:02those who actually committed it. what exactly is going
00:03:05on? well, the
00:03:09protest outside the private house near Kieve where people were
00:03:13held against their will by Ukraine's neonazi Azof
00:03:17formation has led to arrests and a growing dispute
00:03:21over what was actually happening inside. protesters
00:03:25said forcibly mobilized men
00:03:27of were being held there and were... denied medical care
00:03:31officials later described that building
00:03:34a simply a temporary center for mobilized
00:03:37servicemen. now the
00:03:39in police and the
00:03:40of Ukraine's security service say they
00:03:42of have identified at least
00:03:45of 130 people who gathered outside uh
00:03:48that uh house described as a torture center. now the
00:03:52confrontation began one relatives and other protesters
00:03:55demanding access to men they said were being held there.
00:04:00uh at the house, take a look at how the situation
00:04:02unfolded,
00:04:12the video from the scene showed clashes
00:04:15of at the gates and a medic bleeding with officers to
00:04:19let her inside, her name Valentina
00:04:22of Mold, and she she was called there by local
00:04:26resident who said that a relative was seriously ill at
00:04:30that address, now the medic
00:04:32of who
00:04:32of arrived an ambulance was eventually allowed in with the
00:04:36police officer, she
00:04:37of later told reporters that around 25 to 30
00:04:41people were being held inside and that four
00:04:45men needed hospital treatments, now ukrainian media also
00:04:48published footage of men with serious visible
00:04:52injuries, я лікар-хірург, в
00:04:56мене є диплом про вищу медичну освіту. а також
00:05:00в мене є спеціалізації і ви зараз практикуючий лікар,
00:05:04практикуючий лікар, так і в мене є два своїх
00:05:08медичних you
00:05:08закладах, can see
00:05:12well as that medic.
00:06:13now the full number of people who may have been
00:06:16held there and what happened inside still remains unclear.
00:06:20report said at least 40 people were held against
00:06:24their will as investigation is underway to determine
00:06:28whether the site was legitimate processing center
00:06:31or indeed a place where people were unlawfully
00:06:35detained and abused. meanwhile a
00:06:3814-year-old boy who was seen being taken
00:06:42out the building a state of shock after being
00:06:45tortured is probably the best proof of what was
00:06:49happening in that secret
00:06:51prison. they grabbed me by the
00:06:55hair. you can't see it in the footage, but i have lumps on my head.
00:06:59they just beat me, i don't know, they used everything to hit me,
00:07:02shovels, feet, fists, everything. then they carried me up to
00:07:06the second floor. they laid me face down on the floor and started
00:07:10interrogating me. i don't know, they hit me. so hard on the head that I
00:07:14couldn't hear or see anything, they just started the
00:07:16interrogation, then they grabbed me by the hair again and threw me
00:07:20against another wall, because I didn't land on my stomach when they threw
00:07:24me, they started slamming my head against the floor, punishing me for
00:07:28not looking the right way, smashing my head right into the
00:07:31floor, my nose started bleeding, but everything is fine
00:07:35now, a small piece of one of my teeth chipped off, the front
00:07:38part, now this 14-year old... old
00:07:42boy's account is part of a wider debate over allegations
00:07:46of abuse linked to force mobilization. authorities have now
00:07:50moved to arrest people who uh protested
00:07:53outside that torture house. now a driver from the
00:07:57ambulance uh was uh placed a pre-trial detention for
00:08:01two months without bail. now he is accused
00:08:04of uh filming the building which investigators say was
00:08:08a military sight. police and the SBU say the... have
00:08:12already identified another 130 people who
00:08:16gathered uh at the site and questioned officials there.
00:08:20woman who was the first to raise the alarm about her
00:08:24relative being held there has also been arrested
00:08:27according to latest reports. Roman, thank you so much
00:08:31for the update. that's our correspondent Roman Kozer of that. thank
00:08:35you. let's discuss this further. we're joined live now
00:08:38by a former Ukrainian member of parliament Spiridon Killing.
00:08:42carov, many thanks for joining us on the program, you know, Ukrainian
00:08:46police claim the they've identified 130 people involved in the
00:08:50protest against the torture house in Keyev, and some them have already been
00:08:54detained and forced to apologize. It seems like they have this, the
00:08:58the wrong way round, shouldn't they be acting against those who
00:09:01created and supported the torture facility in the first
00:09:05place?
00:09:12who
00:09:42were in the
00:09:51hands of fogs who illegally
00:09:55detained them in that house in that chamber, they were torturing
00:09:58them, they wanted them to pay them some
00:10:01money, you social media was really laying things
00:10:05bare on this gate, there is one video circulating online right now with
00:10:09the head of Zelensky's office Kiril Budanov. telling his people
00:10:13to beat up everyone harshly. what does it say about
00:10:17Kiev's attitude towards
00:10:19citizens? ну
00:10:23а то, что они, они, самом деле.
00:12:44Yeah, there's a lot of questions here that that have been raised and need answers
00:12:48to, it's been several days now since this so-called torture
00:12:52house was exposed, yet we're still not. seeing any
00:12:55investigation the torture itself, how long do you think Kiev
00:12:59can pretend the situation is normal and
00:13:03under control? how do you see things playing out in the coming days and
00:13:06weeks?
00:13:19because the western lead is funding this outrage that is
00:13:22happening.
00:14:03financial resources from the Ukrainians and it is being done at
00:14:07the beheast the Ukrainian leadership with the support the Ukrainian
00:14:10authorities because
00:14:11the Ukrainian authorities is protecting this people now we've all
00:14:15seen the footage of female medical
00:14:19worker on her knees begging to be brought into their
00:14:23house to to care for the...
00:15:25She's not an actual doctor, an actual medic, even though she's a
00:15:28certified licensed doctor who has the right to
00:15:32provide services like this. Thank you so much for joining us on the
00:15:36program today, I'd really. appreciated if you could stay with with us a little
00:15:40bit longer, I'd like to come back to you again in just few minutes for now, we've been
00:15:43speaking to the former Ukrainian member of parliament Spiridon, Kilin Karov. Thank
00:15:47you for now. Extreme methods such as kidnappings
00:15:51and beatings are also used by criminal groups under the patronage of
00:15:55Ukrainian law enforcement. One such grouping has been
00:15:59exposed by Kiev's anti-corruption agencies and is said to
00:16:03have direct links to top officials the SBU
00:16:07( police and prosecutor general's office. The investigation
00:16:10released videos of gang members assaulting civilians.
00:16:14The following images are graphic and you might find them
00:16:17distressing.
00:16:38the main thing is that the piece of scum got properly broken.
00:16:41i'd hate for him to have gotten off too lightly. brother, i'm telling you
00:16:45he's absolutely wrecked, fucked up beyond belief. den worked him over with hammer and
00:16:49did too, though we didn't film that part. his legs, you get
00:16:53what i mean, are basically just rags now. the
00:16:57anti-corruption probe reported that the criminal grouping included
00:17:0112 people. besides torture and kidnappings, it
00:17:04was also facilitating the work of Ukraine's note. urious fraud
00:17:08call centers as well as drug production and distribution. the
00:17:12tapes released by Nabu revealed that the gang's leaders had
00:17:16direct ties to some Ukrainian
00:17:18ministers. these guys
00:17:21are out their minds for real. do they think they're going to be in
00:17:25charge forever? tell them, are you kidding me? you are handed two
00:17:29million goddamn dollars. your job is to stand by that call
00:17:33center and keep everyone away, not to go around spinning fairy
00:17:36tales. "think about how we can make sure that these
00:17:40various ministers like the minister of internal affairs or the
00:17:44minister of health stop throwing a wrench in our works, we're prepared to
00:17:48offer comrad K 500,000 plus another
00:17:51200,000 for whoever helps him out, that's 700 thousand to
00:17:55ensure he stopsing on our plans, as for comrad l,
00:17:59there's no need to address anything with
00:18:00him.
00:18:07He's going to give him a clear directive, don't go changing the chemical
00:18:11formulas for the weed or whatever it is we're dealing
00:18:13with, we need to make sure that the samples submitted to the
00:18:17lab don't get scrutinized in a way that forces us to keep changing the
00:18:21formulas because they keep adding them to the list of banned substances
00:18:25right? Let's return now to our guest,
00:18:29former Ukrainian member of parliament, Spiridon Killing Karaf, thank you for
00:18:33staying with us, so more disturbing footage from Ukraine and...
00:18:37Nabbo notes that the criminal grouping was also involved in the
00:18:41kidnapping, torture and unlawful detention of Ukrainian
00:18:44citizens, notably, Nabu's findings were released just two days
00:18:48after the discovery of this torture basement near
00:18:52Keyev, where according to local residents and the relatives of victims
00:18:55conscripts and military personnel were allegedly held against
00:18:59their will and for ransom. Do you think there is a
00:19:03connection between the disclosure these two sets of
00:19:06facts?
00:21:58the monster that they have created in
00:22:00Ukraine, if if this is the case that the criminal
00:22:04grouping is operating under the patronage of intelligence and law
00:22:08enforcement agencies, what does this tell us about the
00:22:11scale of corruption in Ukraine and what I i'm really curious
00:22:15to understand is why now, why is the group's activity
00:22:19being public?
00:23:20appreciate it, we've been speaking to former Ukrainian member of parliament, Spiridon
00:23:23Kilinkarov, thank
00:23:24you,
00:23:29and it appears the torture house discovered, Nikiev is merely
00:23:33the tip the iceberg, as Ukraine's military and security
00:23:36agencies have reportedly been running such black sites for
00:23:40years. Head over to our website for more on this developing story, that's
00:23:44RT.com.
00:23:50a Ukrainian strike a passenger bus has killed at least five people and wounded
00:23:5313 in Russia's Lugansk Republic, that's according to local
00:23:57officials. Two teenagers are among the casualties who are now being treated in
00:24:01hospital. Russian authorities have launched a criminal probe into the
00:24:05assault. Is the latest case of Kieve's forces targeting
00:24:09non-military vehicles across the embattled
00:24:12regions?
00:24:16Some live pictures from Paris right now as nation. wide
00:24:20protests have again gripped France as public and private
00:24:24workers demand action on stagnant wages and
00:24:27rising inflation. w
00:24:30the political unrest today began with early morning wave of
00:24:34student protests leading to tens standoffs as police
00:24:38pushed back demonstrators manning high school blockades.
00:24:42momentum is shifting into a massive nationwide
00:24:46march led by the country's largest trade unions and
00:24:50by stagnant wages as inflation rises. Our
00:24:53correspondent Yasen is in
00:24:56Paris. There are protesters gathered in
00:25:00Republic Square and every single street or avenue from the north to the
00:25:03south, east or west are currently being patrolled by the
00:25:07police, and we expect again very similarly, up to 70,000
00:25:11police and security personal to be deployed across the country. Hundreds of
00:25:15thousands of people are expected to take to the streets across the
00:25:18country and in the country. capital, we expect perhaps one the
00:25:22biggest protests in the last few weeks, which is reminiscent or expected to be
00:25:26reminiscent the October 17 um
00:25:30demonstrations. One thing naturally is that there is caviat
00:25:33on October 17 uh Macron himself, the French president said that they were
00:25:37caught off guard and not enough police were deployed across the country as well as the
00:25:41capital, while there are professionals that will be taken to the streets as well, they've
00:25:45joined forces with the student unions as well, which means that their
00:25:48numbers will grow. with respect to uh, well, in
00:25:52proportionate to their anger and frustration, uh, but again, there is a great
00:25:56deal of unrest amongst the people, they suggest that uh, these
00:26:00protests here on Thursday could very well reenact.
00:26:06The police system is necessarily reevaluated every new day of
00:26:10mobilization, and of course we are extremely vigilant, we are
00:26:14extremely vigilant because it is out the question to relive any
00:26:17way, even a little bit of what we went through on October
00:26:2017th. I am thinking in particular the merchants and many
00:26:24French people who were legitimately very shocked by what they saw or
00:26:28experienced.
00:26:47The France is just months away from presidential elections, which is why
00:26:51protests and scenes like this are critical and just as significant for the
00:26:55Macron government. Earlier in the broadcast I said that this is not the only thing that
00:26:59is currently stressing out the French president, because on one. day
00:27:03at the French assembly lawmakers voted on
00:27:07Macron's proposed bill for 2027 and
00:27:10he successfully managed to unite every single law maker right left
00:27:14from his own party from the opposition, anyone on the political
00:27:18strictim political spectrum to vote in favor, unifying
00:27:22them against that bill. more than 400 lawmakers were present when they
00:27:26voted to abstained and not a single one voted in
00:27:29favor, everyone opposed it, which is why there's pressure in
00:27:33the national assembly, there's pressure on the streets and with about
00:27:37five months away from being this that close to the presidential
00:27:40elections, the French president Emmanuel Macron must definitely be feeling the
00:27:44heat. Well, as Paris is torn by
00:27:48protests, the French National Assembly has unanimously
00:27:51rejected next year's proposed budget, with even those
00:27:55supporting the government voting against it, lawmakers are
00:27:58increasingly calling for President Macron to step down.
00:28:04Zero votes for, 458 against, even Macron's
00:28:08own supporters voted against their own government. This marks the
00:28:11downfall of Macronism and the beginning of an interminable end to
00:28:15his reign. Zero votes for the last budget the
00:28:19Macron era, beaten, crushed, swept away, not
00:28:23a single deputy voted for the budget. Let's
00:28:27discuss it further with RT contributor Rachel Masden,
00:28:29now Rachel, good to see you, so what's your take on? story this making Emmanuel
00:28:33Macron look less popular than ever? well, there's a lot of
00:28:37political spin going on with this story. got to keep that in mind first when you hear anybody
00:28:41speak on it, and these guys really need to take a much longer look in the
00:28:45mirror. the reason not even members the government voted for the government's own
00:28:48budget here is that the anti-establishment right and left-wing opposition, which
00:28:52keep in mind, actually make up the majority the French National Assembly
00:28:56demanded so many amendments in exchange for their votes on
00:29:00it that they effectively turn the bud into a hostage
00:29:03negotiation, then they hated each other's
00:29:07amendments so much that literally nobody could bring
00:29:11themselves to vote for the finished product here, least of
00:29:14all, the government, which by the end could barely recognize its
00:29:18own
00:29:18budget.
00:29:23I no longer know how to raise awareness about the conditions in which this parliament
00:29:27operates. France is almost on the brink of ruin and we receive
00:29:31text. so we have to read all this just over this
00:29:35morning, i want people to see, so we have to read 30
00:29:38pages in 10 minutes and 150 pages of accounting a
00:29:42budget crisis situation in half a day, while also being
00:29:46expected to sit a committee at the same
00:29:48time, a french
00:29:51guy complaining about working in the national assembly, it doesn't get any more french
00:29:55than that, so hey why is all this happening? because look,
00:29:59this is a budget that's geared towards growth. "That's what they wanted
00:30:03to put forward, designed to rain in spending on things that
00:30:07do not produce in order to get France's debt under control. now the last
00:30:11thing this government wants is Queen Ursela and the EU,
00:30:14officially babysitting France because it's about to crater the rest the Eurozone's
00:30:18economy. because this objectively
00:30:22ridiculous socialist French system, one the biggest public spenders
00:30:26on the planet has basically by this point spent itself
00:30:30into oblivion and among the concept. consequences is the
00:30:33creation these enormous bureaucratic fifedums
00:30:37in the civil service, particularly in sectors like
00:30:41academia, and who do you think is running the public
00:30:45crash outs that we're seeing in the streets right now? it's these
00:30:49very same public sector unions that do this every single
00:30:53year at this time, last year they wrote the private sector unions into
00:30:56it as a strategy, this year they rope the students.