Google Speech-to-Text API Automatic Transcription (Chirp). Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a quotation record.
00:00:10a
00:00:23a
00:00:24of
00:00:28France is on high. alert as hundreds
00:00:31a of thousands take to the streets
00:00:32in a fresh wave of protest against President Emmanuel Macron's
00:00:36government. Let us see Olashki
00:00:40as a spark
00:00:42in a world of darkness capable of
00:00:45illuminating the bass into humanity. First
00:00:49Lady Melania Trump praises the cooperation shown by Moscow and
00:00:53Kiev during humanitarian operation she brokered for the
00:00:56embattled city of Alioshki. Russia is on. will pass a
00:01:00letter from her to
00:01:02of Vladimir Putin. I apologize for being there
00:01:06and for speaking on
00:01:06impulse. And
00:01:10Ukrainian to protested against a
00:01:13of torture house that was run by the military are targeted by authorities with
00:01:17some already detained and forced to apologize on
00:01:22of camera.
00:01:37are once again turning the heat up on authorities in France. Some
00:01:41of the nationwide protests are turning increasingly violent with
00:01:44450 reportedly arrested. In Strasburg,
00:01:48protesters burned effagy of a police officer. The
00:01:51country's interior ministry says around 600,00 people
00:01:55of have taken part in the public action on
00:01:57a Thursday. The French Trade Union association. up to 1.6
00:02:01million people are
00:02:02of participating in the strike it called today. RT corresponding Eneken has
00:02:06been keeping up with the unrest in Paris.
00:02:10hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the
00:02:12a streets in Paris alone as Thursday mark
00:02:16one way moment there there's police intervention. protesters are running away
00:02:19from police chasing them across
00:02:22Plus de la
00:02:22of nation. this has been a scene that uh that seems all too
00:02:26familiar with the weeks of protests that have been ongoing since October. 17
00:02:30now the question was, are we going to see or
00:02:33of scenes that would
00:02:34of resemble of the scenes of October 17, the violence, the looting
00:02:37uh, in short, to answer that question, the
00:02:40of answer is no, but that doesn't mean that the police have not ramped
00:02:44up their security measures and their defenses across the
00:02:47capital. now one thing that is
00:02:49of certain to say is that these protests have been ongoing for number of different
00:02:53reasons for the increased cost of living for education reasons as well
00:02:57as working conditions. there are many reasons as to why. That's why on
00:03:00Thursday trade unions, student unions and other unions across the country have
00:03:04gathered and unified in solidarity to protest the government and
00:03:08its policies and now in placeon 7 pm marks the end
00:03:12of protest which means anything after 7 pm local time means it
00:03:16is illegal that it is banned, you can hear acoustic weapons being used
00:03:20in the square, and this is not new, this is nothing foreign to those people that
00:03:24have been taken, apposed weapons
00:03:26and cheergas has been deployed as
00:03:28of a defense measure by
00:03:30of police '. and security details across the
00:03:33of country.
00:03:42of of
00:03:42of
00:03:43of
00:04:01"now the trade union CGT says that uh up to
00:04:04350,000 if not more people have taken to the streets on Thursday in Paris
00:04:08alone, however the interior ministry puts that
00:04:10of number uh close to 600 thousand.
00:04:12a The one thing I can say for certain is that there have been a lot of people that have
00:04:16taken to these streets and keep take into
00:04:18of consideration that Thursday is a weekday, it's not a weekend where people have the time and the
00:04:23a space to protest. On Thursday, workers such as those in the energy
00:04:26sector and the private sectors uh in health and education. essentially
00:04:30of said that they would not be going to work that they would be taking to the streets to demand uh well an
00:04:34improvement
00:04:35of their current conditions uh just
00:04:37the uh fact that energy workers were off the grid for
00:04:40well the early hours of thursday morning it resulted
00:04:43in a net loss
00:04:44in of 2.4 gigawts
00:04:45in nuclear energy uh just that fact alone is a
00:04:49concerning matter for the French government but to answer the question as to whether or not
00:04:53the French government hears the protest there is another interesting
00:04:56question how about just before I get there there's another move there's more movement on
00:05:00of here in the square as the protesters have been dispersed,
00:05:04it seems that the numbers uh have essentially decreased as
00:05:07well, they decreased
00:05:09of and
00:05:10of the they got them olders to charge into the... where
00:05:13forcing protesters outside the square, again I'm just going to get a little bit
00:05:17closer so we can better understand and identify what's
00:05:20happening and perhaps even get different vantage
00:05:23point. now the square in the early hour earlier
00:05:27hours was actually full of people, the fact that I can move
00:05:30around so freely is testament to just how many
00:05:34people were pushed outside the
00:05:37square, but again coming back to the demands,
00:05:41what we understand at this... what we understand at this given
00:05:44moment is there's
00:05:47been a great deal of demand for reform, a great
00:05:50deal of demand for a change in
00:05:53the government's policies, the increase in its trade deficit, the
00:05:56increase in payments for the national debt, the interest payments alone is a significant
00:06:00factor that deals that we can deal into the
00:06:03ongoing crisis, but the one thing that we can say about the macron
00:06:07government is that well macron himself, not necessarily the government, macron
00:06:11himself sucessal and unifying not just the people, but
00:06:14unifying i see movements again very briefly, just want to
00:06:18show you what's happening over here, you see police rushing the
00:06:22protesters into the
00:06:24square, i can see projectiles
00:06:27being thrown, i can even hear it
00:06:30again, macron was successful in unifying
00:06:34not just the people but french policy makers as well, on
00:06:38wednesday the french assembly essentially wanted to vote on
00:06:42his his bill for 2027 and the budget was opposed
00:06:46by well an outstanding majority, only two policy
00:06:49makers abstained from the vote, and every other single
00:06:53policy maker from the right, the left, the center, whatever it may be,
00:06:57voted against that bill against his budget and more importantly
00:07:01against his vision for the French people, which is
00:07:04why they've come out in forced today, that's also another reason as to why they
00:07:08bow to come out to the streets again this weekend.
00:07:13In the latest episode of Sanchez Effect, Rick discussed the French protest
00:07:17with a former member of Donald Trump's foreign policy advisory panel, he
00:07:21highlighted the access western populations now have to alternative media
00:07:25voices as a driving force of government criticism.
00:07:29You can watch the whole discussion on our website RT.com, but for now here's a quick
00:07:33preview. What do you make the situation we're seeing not
00:07:36just in France, but by the way in places like Switzerland and Spain
00:07:40and Italy and Germany.
00:07:42etc. well, the will the people is
00:07:46paramount globally, and I think that's becoming more and more
00:07:50evidence as the people become far
00:07:53more educated on various
00:07:57policy issues and have access to
00:08:00diverse sources of information that a
00:08:04generation ago they did not, the advent of
00:08:08social media and other channels
00:08:12uh... basically has given the
00:08:15people uh an outreach to real
00:08:18facts uh that for years had been suppressed, so it's no
00:08:22surprise to see this new enlightened uh
00:08:26movement around the world that are revolting
00:08:29against um issues and totalitarian
00:08:33systems that have suppressed their will. well it's funny you call them enlighten,
00:08:37but macron calls them thugs and
00:08:40muslims. "It's
00:08:43always about othering descent, right, and that's
00:08:47something that just doesn't fly anymore, Rick,
00:08:50because societies have evolved, societies are getting far
00:08:54younger and many these countries, especially in
00:08:57France, they're becoming far more multi-thnic, multi-religious and
00:09:01the old orthodoxy that has
00:09:05attempted to basically quelm descents and
00:09:08to other them no longer prevails, and that's really..."
00:09:12you're seeing with these manifestations, and it's all being
00:09:16exacerbated because of failed
00:09:19policies that don't address the needs the
00:09:23people.
00:09:33the temporary cease fire in the Carson region town of
00:09:37Aliosski can be used as a model for a wider peace agreement.
00:09:41That's a message from U.S. Lady Milania Trump who brokered the October
00:09:45Truce, well she just hosted Russian and Ukrainian officials at the White
00:09:48House praising the cooperation shown by both
00:09:51sides. Let us see Olashki as a
00:09:55spark a world of darkness
00:09:59capable of illuminating the best in
00:10:02humanity. Build a powerful flame of
00:10:06peace, visible to the world,
00:10:09ignite hope, foster corporation.
00:10:13and brighten path toward lasting
00:10:17peace. I became
00:10:21aware the severity the humanitarian crisis in.
00:10:25in September, recognizing the
00:10:28urgency, I acted immediately and directed my
00:10:32representative Mark Bachman to engage with Russia and
00:10:35Ukraine on my behalf, to pursue peace in
00:10:39Olashi. Both nations welcome my
00:10:43participation, acknowledging that previous
00:10:47efforts to establish sissfire in the
00:10:50region had not succeed.
00:10:54Russia and honor our relationship
00:10:58and agree to work with me in the capacity of
00:11:01exclusive intermediary to establish
00:11:05sess fire in Olashi and the surrounding
00:11:09Kirsan region. Our
00:11:12share objective was to deliver critical
00:11:16humanitarian aid to Alashki presidents
00:11:19and establish safe evacuation root for
00:11:23civilians. Today is truly a historical day as the
00:11:27ceasefire in the town of Veloshi was brokered by the United States first
00:11:30lady Molania Trump and lasted from October 27th to
00:11:34November 1st, 2026. Now the truth allowed hundreds the
00:11:38remaining 2,0 residents in the town, mainly elderly to be
00:11:42able to decide whether they wanted to go to Ukraine or Russia,
00:11:46with the majority them having suffered severe humanitarian
00:11:49blockades since the beginning the conflict. Now they safely evacuated the
00:11:53town and both Ukraine. and Russian humanitarian
00:11:57officials have confirmed that there were zero violations by either
00:12:01side during the six-day period, making it the longest known
00:12:04truce uh and cease fire that has happened on the frontlines since
00:12:072022. Now Russian presidential envoy were the
00:12:11first to take the stage um at the request of U.S. first lady,
00:12:15presidential first lady Molania Trump. On behalf of President
00:12:18Putin, on behalf of people the Russian Federation, we would like to
00:12:22thank first lady Milania Trump. for her
00:12:25distinguished humanitarian role in
00:12:29resolving aleshki uh situation
00:12:33and resolving this humanitarian issue, she
00:12:36played crucial leadership role in coordinating
00:12:40humanitarian operation in Aleshki and reunifying
00:12:43Russian and Ukrainian families in ensuring
00:12:47that agreements become actions and actions save
00:12:51lives. President Putin personally, gave all the
00:12:55necessary instructions to ensure the successful implementation the
00:12:59local cisfire in Aleshki. Ukrainian site abided by
00:13:03ce fire. Dear Milania, you saved and touched
00:13:07so many lives. As token of appreciation, would like to
00:13:11give you a small gift, which is
00:13:14painting by 11 year old gold Lidia from
00:13:18Aleshki who chose to be living with her
00:13:21family in Russia in Tuabsa.
00:13:25and this beautiful drawing says just three
00:13:28words, i love milania,
00:13:32and this message from children frankly overshadows
00:13:35any diplomatic statement anybody can make, so
00:13:39thank you so much first lady, thank you for your incredible humanitarian
00:13:43work, thank you so
00:13:46much, she is there,
00:13:49yes, thank you so much, thank
00:13:53you. Russian representatives also expressed hope
00:13:57that this is just the beginning the peacemaking process between all three groups and that this
00:14:01is just going to be the first one, not only brokered by the first lady, but more importantly by
00:14:12residents of Aliusski have gained respite, the population of Ukraine's
00:14:15capital have been casted into darkness. Kiev
00:14:19is experiencing another major blackout due to lack of
00:14:23functioning energy plants. Vladimir Zelinsky says continued Russian
00:14:27strikes and inadequate preparations have worsened to the crisis, while
00:14:30damaged power grids prevent electricity from reaching the
00:14:34capital. Blockouts have been reported all across Ukraine on regular
00:14:38basis as officials say there are undamaged power plants
00:14:42left in the
00:14:43country.
00:14:46Ukrainian police have launched crackdown on people who protested a makeshift
00:14:50detention center where men were tortured and held for ransom by military
00:14:54forces. Officials say they've identified 130 citizens
00:14:58who may
00:14:58have been involved in the demonstration outside the building. Police
00:15:01have
00:15:03shown
00:15:07footage of suspects being arrested over the unrest outside the scene
00:15:11on Tuesday. Authorities say 27 people took
00:15:15an active part in illegal actions and another 24 behaved
00:15:18aggressively, provoking conflicts with law enforcement officers
00:15:22and military personnel. the
00:15:25some detained have already been forced to say sorry on
00:15:28camera, i
00:15:32apologize for being there and for speaking on
00:15:34impulse, go there and
00:15:38later I blocked the bus's movement. I deeply regret that I didn't understand the
00:15:41situation before I went. The protest outside the
00:15:45private house near Kiev where people were held against their will by
00:15:49Ukraine's neonazi Azof formation has led
00:15:53to arrest and a growing dispute over what was actually
00:15:57happening inside. Protesters said the forcibly
00:16:00mobilized men were being held there and were denied
00:16:04medical care. Officials later described to that
00:16:07building simply a temporary center for mobilized
00:16:11servicemen. now the police and the Ukraine's
00:16:14security service say they have identified at least
00:16:18130 people who gathered outside uh
00:16:22that uh house described as a torture center. now the
00:16:26confrontation began on relatives and other protesters
00:16:30demanding access to men they said were being held
00:16:33there uh at the house. take a look at how the situation unfolded.
00:16:45a video from the scene showed clashes at the gates
00:16:49and medic bleeding with officers to let her
00:16:53inside her name Valentina Mold and she
00:16:57she was called there by local resident who said that a relative
00:17:01was seriously ill at that address now the medic
00:17:04who arrived an ambulance was
00:18:37systematic abuse and saying that action would follow if
00:18:41unlawful violence was established. now the full number
00:18:45of people who who may have been held there and what happened
00:18:48inside still remains unclear. report said at least 40
00:18:52people were held against their will as investigation
00:18:56is underway to determine whether the site was legitimate
00:19:00processing center or indeed a place where
00:19:04people were unlawfully detained and abused.
00:19:23They grabbed me by the hair, you can't see it in the footage, but I have lumps
00:19:27on my head, they just beat me,
00:19:29I don't know, they used everything to hit
00:19:31me,
00:19:37everything. face down on the floor and started interrogating me. I don't know, they
00:19:41hit me so hard on the head that I couldn't hear or see anything. They
00:19:45just started the interrogation, then they grabbed me by the hair again
00:19:49and threw me against another wall, because I didn't land on my stomach when
00:19:53they threw me. They started slamming my head against the floor,
00:19:56punishing me for not looking the right way, smashing my head right
00:20:00into the floor. My nose started bleeding, but everything is
00:20:04fine. Now, a small piece of one of my teeth chipped off. the front
00:20:08part, now this
00:20:1014-year-old boy's account is part of a wider debate
00:20:14over allegations of abuse linked to force mobilization.
00:20:18authorities have now moved to arrest people who
00:20:22protested outside that's a torture house. now a driver
00:20:26from the ambulance uh was placed a pre-trial
00:20:29detention for two months without bail. now he is
00:20:33accused of uh filming the building which investigators say was
00:20:38a military site, police and the SBU say they have
00:20:42already identified another 130 people who
00:20:46gathered at the site and questioned officials there.
00:20:50woman who was the first to raise the alarm about her
00:20:53relative being held there, has also been
00:20:56arrested, according to latest reports.
00:21:00Ukrainian authorities have started hunting down the
00:21:04locals protesting the apparent torture facility exposed in the
00:21:07country's capital. Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman
00:21:11reacted to the scandal saying Kief sponsors would do
00:21:15well to examine what their funding is spent
00:21:19on.
00:21:50women who have more courage than all the SBU, Bankovia, and of
00:21:54course Zelensky. The Ukrainian government doesn't care about anything,
00:21:57including the future generation, and I mean the 14-year-old boy who was
00:22:01lured and deceived at the swimming pool. What happened once again
00:22:05demonstrated what the billions from Ukraine's western sponsors are being
00:22:09spent on on torture chambers like these where people disappear
00:22:13without a trace, on intimidating people, on punitive
00:22:16measures. They don't give a dam about anything at all, including.
00:22:20future generations, we got
00:22:23reaction from former Ukrainian law maker, Spiradon
00:22:27Kilankar. He says the incumbent authorities are
00:22:31deeply embedded with criminal groups and have no interest in
00:22:34protecting their own
00:22:36citizens. They are trying to
00:22:40intimidate the population of Ukraine with the purpose of stopping them from expressing their
00:22:44civic will if their rights are violated. It's basically
00:22:47dictatorship that persecutes people the...
00:22:49for fact that they were attempting to actually save the lives their fellow
00:22:53Ukrainians who are in the hands of thugs who illegally detained them in
00:22:57that house in that chamber, they were torturing them, and if we look
00:23:00into what is happening, no one has answered the actual question, why would a
00:23:04unit way beyond the front lines in the rear, have a private house to
00:23:08detain some military people there, if the people who were detained there
00:23:12committed a crime, some kind of a crime, in Ukraine they have
00:23:16detention facilities where they could have been brought, so why would a you
00:23:20the army have a property deep in the rear, and Mr. Budanov personally
00:23:24claimed that there are a lot of houses like this, chambers like this
00:23:27across Ukraine, so every unit the Ukrainian army seems
00:23:31to have such torture chambers, they hunt people down, and
00:23:35basically they blackmail them into paying money, and the relatives and the
00:23:39family these people, they have to sell whatever they have to buy back
00:23:42their family members from these illegal prisons. It's a criminal
00:23:46organization that is acting in the interest of mob, mafia that is...
00:23:50itself, its foothold in Ukraine, because there is a collusion
00:23:54between organized crime and the law enforcement agencies and they seized
00:23:58power in Ukraine, and they use these illegal measures against their own
00:24:01people, the will spend as much time as the western elite would
00:24:05allow, because the western elite is funding this outrage that is
00:24:08happening currently in Ukraine against the people of Ukraine who are being
00:24:12tortured, they extort financial resources from Ukrainians
00:24:16and it is being done at the behest the Ukrainian leadership with the...
00:24:20support the Ukrainian authorities, because the Ukrainian authorities are
00:24:24protecting these
00:24:24people, now it
00:24:28appears the torture house discovered near Kiev is merely the
00:24:32tip the iceberg, as Ukraine's military and security
00:24:36agencies have reportedly been running such black sites for
00:24:39years. Head to our website for more on this developing
00:24:43story.
00:24:48Well, the US mid-term. ended with democrats winning a
00:24:52commanding majority in congress. the so-called blue
00:24:55tsunami left the white house questioning why support for the republican
00:24:59party has declined? vice president suggests a failure
00:25:03to put America first is to
00:25:04blame. one the
00:25:08things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was composition,
00:25:12whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to
00:25:16win, and despite polls that showed democrat blowout, the date. kept
00:25:20on telling us the same story, in some states turnout was merely
00:25:24okay, in other states it was downr amazing, and in no state was it
00:25:28catastrophic, there was a genuine sense of optimism on our team, our
00:25:32people were showing up, the reason we lost is the war, the
00:25:35president himself said so last night, if you'd like to argue it was
00:25:39worth it, that losing the senate for the next six years was worth it,
00:25:43then do so, argue it was a worthwile cost to pay, agree or
00:25:47disagree, that's at least honest, but everyone knows why we
00:25:50lost, and any honest conversation about where
00:25:53we go from here must start there, just
00:25:57under half of eligible voters cast their ballots in the midterm
00:26:01elections, nearly... 20% less than
00:26:04in the 2024 presidential race, and while numerous
00:26:08states have majority of registered republicans or have consistently
00:26:11voted red for decades, democrats managed to flip
00:26:15seats. Kansas, for example, elected democrat senator for the first
00:26:19time since
00:26:201932. The
00:26:23rift in the Republican Party is evident, though alienated members, such as
00:26:27congressman Thomas Massy, thanked the vice president for acknowledging the
00:26:31administration's mistake. He also laid out the issues he believes led to
00:26:35a GOP defeat.
00:26:38Tonight's outcome isn't about placing faith in democrats or socialist
00:26:42principles. It's about holding republicans accountable for betraying their
00:26:45promises. All Republicans had to do was put Americans first,
00:26:49not start another war, prosecute sex traffickers. I think it's
00:26:53a complete referendum on Donald Trump, his
00:26:57betrayal, where he promised no more foreign wars and to bring
00:27:01world peace. He. can't even relate to the American people, contrary to
00:27:05what he promised and contrary to the idea that your leaders should put
00:27:09your interest before those of forners, period, we put Israel's interest before
00:27:12ours, trump did that. journalist and author
00:27:16Daniel Lazar suggests the war on Iran and its impact on taxpayers played a
00:27:20key role in the GoP's defeats. The war in
00:27:23Iran, a war against Iran is really the
00:27:27chief factor here, I mean it's driven up uh fuel
00:27:31prices, it's added to... inflation uh, it has really hurt the
00:27:34pocketbook the average American person, so
00:27:38uh
00:27:39so essentially Trump paid the price for that awesome blunder
00:27:43on Tuesday uh
00:27:45and Trump uh clearly uh got reckless, I
00:27:49mean
00:27:50uh uh uh the Venezuelan operation uh
00:27:54last January was a uh was a triumph from his
00:27:58point of view uh so was the uh the bombing operation
00:28:02against ran uh uh last June in June of
00:28:052025 uh and um and so
00:28:09Trump was therefore you know bowied
00:28:13by those actions he was uh filled with self-confidence he got
00:28:16reckless uh he uh blundered into a war with
00:28:20Iran he chose a war that he couldn't win and now he
00:28:24is uh he's uh he's in a quagmy he has no way
00:28:27out uh and Iran senses that
00:28:31um that it's has the advantage that even though Trump can
00:28:35throw more punishment Iran's way uh
00:28:39Iran can wait Trump out and expect him to
00:28:42yield at some
00:29:22October 2023, a surprise attack launched against
00:29:25Israel by Hamas militants shock the
00:29:28world.
00:29:34"No one had expected the Palestinian radicals to have so many
00:29:38cutting edge
00:29:39weapons.
00:29:44In the aftermath the attack, militants openly and mockingly thanked the
00:29:47US in Ukraine for the rockets and missiles that rain down on
00:29:51Israeli
00:29:52cities.
00:29:59How can it be that arms a ship to the middle east from a country?"
00:30:32has been one the biggest supermarkets of smuggled weapons for almost 30
00:30:36years.