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A weekly podcast and a deep dive into the most pressing global issues through the lens of India and Russia. . . Two civilizational powers. The world’s largest democracy, India, and the world’s largest nation, Russia – like chess pieces navigating a shifting global board. . . Hosted by Runjhun Sharma, head of news at RT India, the show draws on her years of covering foreign policy from New Delhi, Moscow, and beyond.

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00:00:00place where people were unlawfully
00:00:02a detained and abused, meanwhile, a 14-year-old
00:00:06boy who
00:00:07of was seen being taken out
00:00:09of the building
00:00:10in a state of shock after being tortured is
00:00:13probably the best proof of what was happening in
00:00:17that secret prison, they grabbed me by the
00:00:20hair, you can't see it in the footage, but i have lumps on my head,
00:00:24they just beat me, i don't know, they used everything to hit me,
00:00:28shovels,
00:00:29of feet, fis. everything, then they carried me up to the
00:00:32in second a floor, they laid me face down on the floor and started
00:00:35interrogating me, I don't know, they hit me so hard on the head that I
00:00:39couldn't hear or see anything, they just started the interrogation,
00:00:43then they grabbed me by the hair again and threw me against another
00:00:46wall, because I didn't land on
00:00:48of my stomach when they threw me, they started slamming my head against the
00:00:52floor, punishing me for not looking the right way, smashing my
00:00:56head right into the floor, my nose started bleeding, but
00:01:09old boy's account is part of a wider debate over allegations of
00:01:12abuse linked to force mobilization. authorities have now move
00:01:16to arrest people who uh protested outside
00:01:20that torture house. now a
00:01:22of driver from the ambulance was uh placed a pre-trial
00:01:26detention for two months without bail. now he is
00:01:30used of uh filming the building which investigators say
00:01:33was a military site, police and the SBU
00:01:37of say they have already identified another 130 people
00:01:41who gathered uh at the site and questioned officials
00:01:45there.
00:01:46of woman who was the first to
00:01:48a raise the alarm about her relative being held there has
00:01:52a also been arrested according to latest reports. this
00:01:56is RT international up next is India, Russia and the world. And
00:02:00we'll be back with more news updates in 30
00:02:02minutes.
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00:02:33My guest today has been India's ambassador to multiple
00:02:37countries, he is also the former chief information commissioner to
00:02:41India, ambassador Yashwardan Kumar Sinna. Welcome
00:02:45to India, Russia and the world. Thank you very much for inviting me. There's so much
00:02:48happening in the world today, so much chaos, so much
00:02:52is changing, so I'm just thinking where I should start my
00:02:56podcast from. Let me actually start by asking you - you
00:03:00in
00:03:00of the recent tweet by Taker Karlson, I
00:03:03in haven't physically seen
00:03:04of the tweet, but I know about it because I saw an interview
00:03:08about it
00:03:09this morning, I think compety over the top if you ask me for my
00:03:13of reaction, and I think the white house is also
00:03:17discounted, I appreciate referring to the this
00:03:21is where he warns that Trump could actually launch
00:03:25nuclear strike on Iran under pressure from
00:03:29Nethaniahu. realistic obviously people
00:03:32speculate and but i don't think there is any merit
00:03:36of in
00:03:38of in that at all in terms of an option that's going to be, it is too horrendous even sort of
00:03:41contemplate, and why do you think
00:03:43of these kind
00:03:44of theories are floating around when midterm is
00:03:49a happening? midterm or not, the fact is that this war has dragged on for far too
00:03:53long and there is no end in sight, every day we
00:03:57hear about possible agreements and the latest. is
00:04:00that there there may be something
00:04:03you know where the blockade would be lifted and
00:04:07the Iranians would open the straight of hormos or allow passage of
00:04:11ships in two days if implemented, but we've heard
00:04:15it so many times before,
00:04:16of it's like crying wolf, but we have seen America launch
00:04:20these limited strikes again on Iran, so
00:04:24something is happening, well I mean president has been quoted as saying that
00:04:28I he do something after the midterm. but this attack you're talking to the
00:04:31limited attack on keshma island. keshhim island is very
00:04:35of strategic island because it has
00:04:37of lot
00:04:39of of the Iranian defenses there, so I think I
00:04:43think there was also some report that they were responding
00:04:47to the
00:04:48of Iranian of threat on their aircraft. India and US, they've had very
00:04:52turbulent relationship over the past couple of years, I
00:04:56would say, now after the mid-term elections a...
00:05:00weaker Trump or a stronger Trump, would that
00:05:02in any way impact the New Delhi, Washington
00:05:06of relationship? Well, I hope so, in the sense that uh,
00:05:10I think we've gone through very turbulent phase. in the second
00:05:14Trump administration as far our relations and I'm
00:05:17sure the outcome the midterms will have some
00:05:21impact on way foreign policy is conducted in
00:05:25general and India US relations in also
00:05:28but the president remains he will be there for another two
00:05:32years and he and in the US the president has very important
00:05:36role as far as conduct of international relations of foreign policy is
00:05:40concerned so I think "there may be
00:05:43changes in nuances, but the policy will continue
00:05:47to remain what it has been in terms of, the
00:05:51way the trade relations for instance of panned out. I would
00:05:55think that there would be slight changes in emphasis
00:05:59perhaps, but the policies will remain by and large the
00:06:02same. I as far as the US is concerned, it's not
00:06:06just what we have to offer each other, but
00:06:09the connect that we've had as the two large..." democracies in the
00:06:13world and the fact that such a large
00:06:17Indian diaspora, the fact is that we have this very
00:06:21deep relationship, whether it's defense, whether it's high tech critical
00:06:25technologies, whether it's the economic relationship, it's one of our
00:06:28largest trading partners, science,
00:06:32technology, education, number of Indians going to
00:06:36study there in the primer universities, so this is very symbiotic
00:06:40relationship, and in that relationship
00:06:42they'd "they're always ups and downs like any relationship.
00:06:46At the US also recently lifted put
00:06:48the on ban Russian crude, Russian diesel
00:06:52for a long time. They had lectured India, they had threatened India, they
00:06:56had pressured India not to buy russian oil and now ultimately the
00:07:00US is buying that oil. Do you think it sort of vindicates
00:07:04India's position of continuing buying Russian oil
00:07:08and saying that look, for India it is important to take care the needs
00:07:12of..." It's 1.4 billion people, last
00:07:16year we were targeted, actually the sanctions were imposed,
00:07:1925% additional sanctions for buying russian crude,
00:07:23and now we hear that the the Americans
00:07:27are buying Russian diesel, so you know you've come full circle in that sense,
00:07:31it's a little funny, I would say, but clearly shows
00:07:34that one the heft, buse India withstood those
00:07:38sanctions and not only withstood those sanctions, India divers.
00:07:42defied its energy basket, so I think that was important. Russia
00:07:46became major supplier, if you remember before
00:07:50the wall, the Russia Ukraine wall, Russia was not a major
00:07:54supplier. Let's cut now to Rubio's
00:07:57visit to to India, the recent one, very
00:08:01interesting, because he straight away went to Jamnagar, how do you
00:08:05read it? So I think the purpose is quite clear,
00:08:09he really wanted to take a... advantage
00:08:13the reliance's ability to refine, it's
00:08:17one the largest refineries in the world and their ability to refine
00:08:21different grades of crude and not only
00:08:24supply europe which it was supplying but the US
00:08:28also and the US needs russian diesel
00:08:32but Jamnagar also can refine
00:08:36Russian oil and produce diesel or whatever I mean I think it's a
00:08:39clear message that the relationship is not
00:08:43necessary just strategic political defense, it goes beyond
00:08:47that, the economic and obviously against self-interest, national
00:08:51interest, don't forget that the secretary of state has been sort of more
00:08:55or less put in charge the Latin America and
00:08:59and Venezuela, Cuba and other the areas in countries in
00:09:02in in in Latin America, and I think right now
00:09:05Venezuela has a president and but the US
00:09:09has major say in what happens including where
00:09:13Venezuela sells oil, when I was in Venezuela, what about
00:09:1717 years ago, we were buying Reliance was
00:09:21buying Venezuelan oil, if I remember correctly around 350,000
00:09:25barrels a day, and the reason being that obviously Reliance
00:09:28has that capability, the refinery in Jamanagar has that capability,
00:09:32in those days very few refineries, except I think
00:09:36SR and we're buying very small amounts capable of refining the
00:09:40heavy SAR crude of Venezuela. Israel, let's talk
00:09:44about Israel because everyone is speculating what's going to
00:09:47happen to Nethanyahu, what's going to happen in Israel in terms
00:09:51of who leads the country now? obviously the fact
00:09:55that the Netanyahu's coalition is the single largest
00:09:59coalition right now, the pre-pol coalition, and I think they won
00:10:0353 seats, which is more than
00:10:06what was predicted, and the
00:10:09opposition is less 48. so I think
00:10:13it's going to be, who can get more allies?
00:10:17now if both parties or both coalitions do not want
00:10:20to allie with the Arab parties who have 19 seats,
00:10:24the... coalition, then things are going to be
00:10:27difficult, but then Israel is quite used to it because they've had these
00:10:31sort of hung assemblies or parliaments in the past
00:10:35before, and the coalition talks sort of
00:10:38interminably prolonged, but somehow they managed to come up
00:10:42with viable government at some point, there will be a government,
00:10:46what sort of government one doesn't know is yet, but the chances
00:10:50are that some form of Netanyahu in
00:10:54terms of some of... star of Netanyahu may be back and ambassador so how
00:10:58much of bearing, how much of an impact will it have on
00:11:01India, whether netan yaho is there or not? you know India and
00:11:05Israel have very close relations and I would like to
00:11:09believe that it doesn't necessarily depend on who the leaders
00:11:13are on in both countries, of course the personal
00:11:16chemistry between both the prime ministers, prime minister modi and prime
00:11:20minister very close, yeah so obviously what we
00:11:24see... the very close bond, personal
00:11:27bond, but it's more to just that, because that's built
00:11:31on the foundation of very close relations between the two
00:11:35countries. you this general perception is
00:11:39that when a leader of a country resorts to
00:11:42macho politics, which is being engaged in wars for
00:11:46the sake their country, nationalism and and all of
00:11:49that, then you get votes by default, because
00:11:53this strong marcho. leader is apparently standing
00:11:57up for the country, but in the case of Israel, perhaps that's not
00:12:01the case, so what is your reading the situation? well, the opposition
00:12:05leader, I think he is a former chief of staff,
00:12:09so you can't get more marchel than that in terms the uniform he
00:12:13wore etc. he lost his son, but it's it's baby who's been driving the war,
00:12:16that's correct, but he lost his son, he lost the neview during the
00:12:20war, by the way, in Israel, it's different, it's different from say any other
00:12:24country. in the sense that here both the
00:12:28coalitions, the main opposition coalition and the governing
00:12:31coalition have very similar views in terms
00:12:34of what the you know how they should
00:12:38approach their neighborhood, for
00:12:41instance, so I don't expect that there will be dramatic
00:12:45shift, yes perhaps if the opposition comes
00:12:49to par, perhaps there may be earlier end to some
00:12:52these wars, Iran war. of course depends also on the
00:12:56US, but also in southern Lebanon and Gaza,
00:12:59etc. for instance and the Hamas, they very clear both
00:13:03the coalitions, and I think most Israelis have
00:13:06very similar view in how to deal with the Hamas. Let's come
00:13:10back to India, would you say Mr. Modi's politics is macho
00:13:14politics? I wouldn't qualify that as much of politics simply because he
00:13:18is a strong man, but he is very popular
00:13:21leader,
00:13:22and what in my, what I have seen, my... still opinion what he's achieved or
00:13:26his government has achieved in 12 years despite all the head winds,
00:13:30you've had black swn events like COVID, you've had the
00:13:34economic downturn, you have wars, the Russia Ukraine war and the
00:13:38war in the Gulf, I think the way he is steered the
00:13:42ship of state is actually quite remarkable, so I wouldn't qualify him as
00:13:45a matural leader, I would qualify
00:13:48him as a people's leader really, but ambassador Sinna, one
00:13:52must also acknowledge that there is a bit of...
00:13:55discontent, there are protests happening, well
00:13:58almost every other day, which also a sense
00:14:02breaks that image that some had tried to create
00:14:06in the west about India that, oh democracy is dead, I would say these
00:14:10protests while they show a bit of
00:14:14discontent with the Modi government, but they also show
00:14:17that democracy in India is thriving and
00:14:21kicking, doesn't it? Absolutely, I think the fact that...
00:14:25take place, the opposition has their space to
00:14:29protest, and as long as you follow the rules, the
00:14:33law, I think there is always an avenue to
00:14:36voice your dissatisfaction or descent, and that is the true nature
00:14:40of democracy, so I think, and considering that he's been in power
00:14:44for over 12 years, you would expect that there would be people
00:14:48who would not entirely agree and there would be a certain amount of
00:14:52anti-incumbency, but the fact that... "these protests have been
00:14:56by and large peaceful is again a credit to
00:15:00Indian democracy, I think, because look what's happening in Europe, and
00:15:03we are lectured about you, how there is the
00:15:07democracy deficit, and now you have countries in
00:15:11Europe actually imposing
00:15:13fines, the we we sort of criticize for all
00:15:17sorts of thing like bulldozer, justice etc., but what is happening now in
00:15:21Europe? I mean, when people take the law into their own..."
00:15:26then it's no more peaceful protest,
00:15:28it is anarchy. you see ambassador, none the headlines, at
00:15:32least that i have seen if you have, you can tell me that cover
00:15:36the protest in Europe. "they don't use labels like
00:15:40dictator or or you know high-headed or
00:15:43democracy is dead, none of that. why do you think that's reserved for
00:15:47India always? there is a certain
00:15:50narrative
00:15:51which certain sections
00:15:55of opinion makers in the west, whether it is the
00:15:58media or whether it's the political leadership in
00:16:02certain countries, they try and weave about
00:16:05India. now I..." not saying India is perfect, India is far from
00:16:09perfect, and we have lot of issues which we are tacting
00:16:12ourselves, but when they hector us, when they lecture
00:16:16us, it is pure hypocrisy, because when you see what's happening in their
00:16:20own countries, you see, so I think because India is a
00:16:24bright spot outside the western
00:16:27hemisphere, really, the western world, because they
00:16:31feel that they are the people who introduced liberal
00:16:35democracy to the world, and here you have, a non
00:16:39anglo saxon country, a country which was
00:16:42colonized etc. successfully to a
00:16:46large extent 1.4 billion people, mean
00:16:49to try and run a country of 1.4 billion is
00:16:53huge,
00:16:53it's a gigantic task, and as i said votes and
00:16:57all we have done pretty well as far as running the
00:17:01country for democracy is concerned. i also want to talk
00:17:04to you about the protest. that we've seen in India's
00:17:08neighborhood, you've been the high commissioner in Colombo as
00:17:12well, what happened in Colombo, then in
00:17:15Bangladesh and then in Nepal, it was
00:17:19unprecedented and there was
00:17:22enough evidence that came out that there was
00:17:26some sort of foreign involvement and it was indeed
00:17:29regime change operation, could something like that ever happen in
00:17:33India? I'm glad you brought this up because what happened
00:17:37colombo of course happened after iad much after i had left, but followed very
00:17:41closely, there was popular
00:17:43discontent, the follen hand was not so obvious
00:17:47as far as Sri Lanka was concerned, but Bangladesh
00:17:51absolutely, I mean I don't think I have any at personally I have
00:17:55no doubt
00:17:55it was quite brisen, it was very brisen
00:17:58the way and it's coming out you know when the
00:18:01caretaker leader Mohammed Yunus paraded a student leader
00:18:05saying he is responsible
00:18:07in in. I think it was a event, it was
00:18:10bizarre because he was an admission that all thing, this
00:18:14whole thing was not spontaneous, it was planned, but I think what is important is
00:18:18that India is too large,
00:18:21India has far deeper traditions in terms
00:18:25of democracy and change of governments and being
00:18:29able to to went
00:18:33their their dissatisfaction also, so you need
00:18:36outlets. outlets are there, so I think I don't see
00:18:40that happening a place like India, and there are
00:18:43opportunities for the opposition for instance
00:18:46to voice their points of view, their
00:18:50opinions etc. I mean that's the other day you saw on Ram Lila Medan,
00:18:54there were people speaking, people spoke freely, people
00:18:58spoke quite critically also,
00:19:02so I guess that's democracy for you. I want to
00:19:06ask you this question, ambassador, Does the UN not
00:19:09take India seriously? I'll tell you why I'm asking this question.
00:19:13Recently, on two occasions at least, India had
00:19:17to correct the UN reporter. For example, they
00:19:20mentioned thouth being India based, and then
00:19:24India had to correct the UN and say, "No, no, that is not India
00:19:28based, that is based in Islamabad." Why they not doing their homework
00:19:32when it comes to countries like India? This would never
00:19:35happen, say... if this was case which was
00:19:39related to Washington for example, therefore I ask, does the
00:19:43UN not take India seriously, whether it was done purposely
00:19:47or not, I don't know, yeah, I mean that really sort of
00:19:50throws light on what the real structural deficiency the UN
00:19:54itself are, the very fact that the UN
00:19:58represents, the most universal
00:20:01organization that we have, but unfortunately it's agenda
00:20:05gets hijacked by fe and that is why we have been in the
00:20:09forefront of asking for reforms the UN and not just
00:20:13us, but the majority the member states, because they
00:20:17must represent the interests of not a few
00:20:21in the west or at least the the powerful
00:20:24nations, but the interest the global international community, and I
00:20:28think India been the forefront of that, whether
00:20:31it's security council reforms or reforms in the institutions.
00:20:34India has been in the phase of...
00:20:38India
00:20:38has had to assert itself to be taken as a
00:20:42serious player in business on the global stage. Where do you
00:20:46think India is at the moment? Is it done asserting? is
00:20:50it already there, has it arrived or do you think that more work is
00:20:54needed? well, certainly more work is needed, India is emerging
00:20:57part, all I can do is to quote our external affairs minister,
00:21:01he said, if I remember correctly, India is power in the
00:21:05middle, not a middle par, but a part in the middle, I
00:21:08like that catch of phrase, India is more than just a middle par,
00:21:12when you talk about middle pars, certain countries come to mind, in
00:21:16fact for instance, if I recall correctly PM the Prime Minister. of
00:21:20Canada, Mr. Carly when he was divorce had mentioned that
00:21:24you know the middle pass should should get together, because if you're not
00:21:28on the table, you will be on the menu. Now I
00:21:32say I would like to believe that India is on the table
00:21:35really, and India is not going to be ever part the
00:21:39menu, because if it is then it'd
00:21:42be very difficult to digest what you're going to try and
00:21:46eat, because India is too big and India has... lot
00:21:50of strengths and I said we have a long way to go, so I think the
00:21:53description of emerging power perhaps suits India the
00:21:57best, and I go back to what Dr. Jayshankar said,
00:22:01power in the middle, who would you say is
00:22:04India's closest partner, friend,
00:22:08allies not the word India uses, so we don't have allies
00:22:12as such, but we are very strong partnerships, who is India's strongest
00:22:16partner, I would like to classify who India's strongest partner is,
00:22:20"but I can tell you who India's oldest partner is and
00:22:24and strong partner and that would be Russia really, because Russia
00:22:28has stood, the Russia and before that the Soviet Union has always
00:22:31stood by India, and Indians don't forget,
00:22:35you see, we have very long memory, sometimes too long memory,
00:22:38I think, but we we are very grateful for what Russia has
00:22:42done for us and what the rel bilateral
00:22:45relationship, the way it stands today, it
00:22:48is" equally beneficial
00:22:51and in the global scheme of things
00:22:54obviously Russia has its own partners, we have our own
00:22:58partners, strong partners, so I wouldn't like to classify
00:23:02who our strongest partner is, but I can name
00:23:06countries that are very important, strong partners of India,
00:23:10and Russia would be right up there. You are not very far away from where we
00:23:13are, recent reports suggested that India and China was
00:23:17still fighting or are still fighting. do you see
00:23:21this boundary dispute between the two countries settling
00:23:25anyt soon? because on the face of it we saw president
00:23:29she, he recently was in New Delhi, he was holding hands with the
00:23:33Indian prime minister, Indian prime minister also visited
00:23:36China recently in Tianjan during the SEO
00:23:40summit, but there's still this fiction which refuses to
00:23:44die, this is the military fiction, boundary issue is very
00:23:47important and... poets sort of
00:23:51leftover from history and my colonial masters,
00:23:55britain in this case, but the fact is that India and and
00:23:59China have been independent countries or India has been independent
00:24:03in 1947 and the people republic of China came into
00:24:07existence in 1949 and we've had
00:24:11very close relations right from the inception, if you
00:24:14recall
00:24:15you know hindini bhai etc. so I think what
00:24:19happened... in 1962 i think people forgotten that phase now, yeah,
00:24:22because because what happened in 1962 was
00:24:26betrayal which
00:24:27you know people in India at least would find it very
00:24:31difficult to to forget, so I think we really need
00:24:35both the countries need to see and it's
00:24:37i think in the interest of both the countries to resolve this
00:24:40issue really so that we can partner each other,
00:24:44we I don't think I mean Asia and the world is big
00:24:48enough to have to... you know big
00:24:51countries living side by side side and don't forget
00:24:55in history we've lived side by side, we've had
00:24:58exchanges for millennia
00:25:01religion,
00:25:03for instance buddhism went from India, when you had hunsang and
00:25:07fahan come here, they spoke about India
00:25:11and how India was so advanced etc in certain areas, so I
00:25:14think we have lot to give each other and
00:25:18we have a sort of we can. easily coexist
00:25:21peacefully, and for that I think we really need to address the boundary
00:25:25question. I thought we were getting there when we had decided the
00:25:29early part the century that
00:25:31you know there there would be some basic principles like no shifting of
00:25:34major population etc. But unfortunately that was we've had
00:25:38period, you mentioned visits, so whenever we've had a high level
00:25:42visit from China, there has been some distraction, if it's a lack of
00:25:46better word, incursion on the Chinese side, now that is not.
00:25:50coincidence, obviously it was something that was planned, so I think that
00:25:53doesn't help really. Lastly, ambassador Sena, it's a very chaotic
00:25:57world that we live in today, there are multiple wars going on
00:26:01and... India has resisted till now,
00:26:05there's not been a major impact on the country,
00:26:09you can compare that to India's neighborhood, for example, and I
00:26:12would say for me, that would be seen as one
00:26:16of Narendra Modi's biggest achievement that would go on his
00:26:20CV, but you think India can resist this
00:26:24pressure for very long, because the war they seem they going to continue,
00:26:27there's no end in sight at the moment at least, you always
00:26:31describe India as like a large oasis of stability
00:26:34a turbulent world,
00:26:38but I think in Hindi we have this phrase ki nazar lag
00:26:42gya, so I think what's happening is that they are
00:26:45inimic, I can't describe them any other way, inimical
00:26:49forces who really want to disrupt that that
00:26:53stability, the growth etc.
00:26:55and I think we need to be mindful of that,
00:26:58because we can't remain immune to what's happ.
00:27:02around us and yet at the same time we need to
00:27:06understand that for India to sort of
00:27:09become leading power, we need to
00:27:12focus on issues like economic development and growth, that
00:27:16should be a prime focus and until we are
00:27:19economic power, we can never
00:27:23be a superpower or major
00:27:26power, like the US and China are, so I
00:27:30think we we need to we because it's it's not
00:27:34easy, i said 1.4 billion people and we are democracy,
00:27:38people describe us as a chaotic democracy, but the fact is that we
00:27:41are democracy and we are proud of it, we have a large population, lot of
00:27:45mouths to feed, clothe, educate, so i think that demographic
00:27:49dividend to really be divident is something that
00:27:53we would depend very much on how we grow
00:27:56economically, so i think that is why the government has laid so much
00:28:00emphasis on economic growth and has dona, thank you very much
00:28:04for your time, been a pleasure, thank you, thank you for having
00:28:06me.
00:29:15Towards the end the 18th century, wave of decolonizations caused the
00:29:19colonizers to focus their attention on Africa. A period marked by the brutal
00:29:22legacy of European imperialism and the systematic
00:29:26exploitation of African peoples and resources. Many of our
00:29:30nations remain caught. in the grip of
00:29:34new-colonial systems. Africans must be the
00:29:37lords their own land, the masters their
00:29:41own resources.
00:29:42It is time to leave Africa and other developing countries
00:29:45alone. The west needs to stop with the foreign
00:29:49interference. They know that divided
00:29:52Africa is a weak Africa. Let us challenge the
00:29:55poisonous tongs that seek to divide us and build
00:29:59bridges of understanding instead. Today that
00:30:03opportunity lies in cooperation with nations across the global
00:30:07south and with allies like
00:30:09Russia.
00:30:20I apologize for being there and for speaking on impulse.
00:30:24Ukrainians who protested against the torture house that was run
00:30:28by the military are targeted by authorities with some
00:30:32already. detained and forced to apologize on
00:30:35camera.
00:30:38Distressing images as Ukraine's anti-corruption agents expose
00:30:42deep and lucrative ties between criminal
00:30:45organizations conducting kidnappings, beatings and drug
00:30:48trade and high ranking members the country's security
00:30:52services. Graphic footage of a savage attack by one
00:30:55such grouping is also released.
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