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00:00:28France is on high alert as hundreds of thousands
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00:00:36government. Let us see Olashki
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00:00:42in a world of darkness capable of
00:00:45illuminating the bass into humanity. First Lady
00:00:49Milania Trump praises the cooperation shown by Moscow and Kiev
00:00:53during humanitarian operation she brokered for the embattled city of
00:00:57Boloshi. Russia's
00:00:58of envoy of will pass a letter from from her to Vladimir
00:01:01Putin, I apologize for being there and
00:01:05for speaking on impulse, and Ukrainians who protested
00:01:08against the torture house that
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00:01:27You're watching RT international live from our head. quarters in Moscow, I'm
00:01:31Rachel Rubel. Demonstrators are once again
00:01:35turning the heat up on authorities in France, some
00:01:37of the nationwide protests are turning increasingly violent with
00:01:41400 people reportedly arrested. In Strasburg,
00:01:45protesters burned effagy of a police
00:01:47of officer. of The country's interior
00:01:51of a ministry says around 600,00 people have taken part in the public action on
00:01:55of Thursday. The French Trade Union association claims up to 1.6 million
00:01:58people
00:01:59a are participating. in the strike it called today. RT corresponding,
00:02:02yes.n has been keeping up
00:02:04with the unrest in Paris. hundreds of thousands
00:02:08of
00:02:08of people have taken to the streets in Paris alone. as Thursday
00:02:12mark. one way moment, there there's police intervention. protesters
00:02:15are running away from police, chasing them across Plus
00:02:19de la nation. this has been a scene
00:02:22in that uh, that seems all too
00:02:24of familiar with the weeks of protests that have been ongoing since October 17th. now
00:02:27the question was, are
00:02:29of we going to see? or scenes that would resemble the scenes of October
00:02:3217, the violence, the looting. uh, in short,
00:02:35of to answer that question, the answer is no, but that doesn't mean that the
00:02:39police have not ramped up their security measures and their
00:02:43defenses across the capital. now, one thing that is certain to
00:02:47of say is that these
00:02:48of protests have been ongoing for number of different reasons, for the increased cost of
00:02:52living, for
00:02:53of education reasons, as well as working conditions. there are many reasons as to
00:02:56why. that's why on Thursday, trade unions, student unions and other
00:03:00unions across the country have gathered and unified in
00:03:03solidarity to protest the government and its policies and now
00:03:07in place on 7 pm marks the end of protest which means anything
00:03:11after 7 pm local time means it is illegal that it is
00:03:15banned. you can hear acoustic weapons being used in the square and
00:03:18a this is not new, this is nothing foreign to those people that have been taken. acoustic
00:03:22weapons and cheergas has been deployed as a defense measure by
00:03:26police um and security details across the country.
00:03:45of
00:03:58now the trade union CG. says that uh up to 35000
00:04:02if not more people have taken to the
00:04:03of streets on Thursday in Paris alone, however the interior ministry puts that
00:04:07number
00:04:08of uh close to 600 thousand. The one thing I can say for certain is
00:04:12that there have
00:04:12been a lot of
00:04:13of people that have taken to these streets and keep taken into consideration that
00:04:16of Thursday is a weekday, it's not a weekend where people have the time and the space to
00:04:20protest. On Thursday workers such as those in the energy sector and the
00:04:24private sectors uh in health and education essentially said that they would
00:04:28not be going to work that they would be taking. to the streets to demand uh well an improvement
00:04:32of their current conditions uh just the uh fact that energy
00:04:36workers were off the grid for well
00:04:38a the early hours of thursday morning, it resulted
00:04:43of in a net loss of 2.4 gigawatts in nuclear energy uh just that fact
00:04:46of alone is a concerning matter for the French government, but to answer the question as to
00:04:49whether or not the French government hears the protest, there is another interesting
00:04:54of question, of how about just before I get there, there is another move, there's more movements over here in the
00:04:57square as the
00:04:59a protesters have been dispersed, it seems that the
00:05:02a numbers uh have essentially decreased as well, they've decreased
00:05:06and the they got them all this to charge into the square,
00:05:10forcing
00:05:11of protesters outside. the square again, I'm just going to get a little bit closer
00:05:15so we can better understand and identify what's
00:05:17happening and perhaps even get different vantage point
00:05:21uh now this square in the early hour earlier hours was
00:05:25actually full of people, the fact that I can move around so
00:05:28freely is testament to just how many people were
00:05:32pushed outside the square, but but again
00:05:36coming back to uh the demands, what we understand at this
00:05:39point, what we understand at this given moment is... is
00:05:43uh, there's been a great deal of demand for
00:05:47reform, a great deal of demand for a change in the government's
00:05:50policies, uh, the increase in its trade deficit, the increase
00:05:54in payments for the national debt, the interest payments alone is a significant factor
00:05:58that deals
00:05:59that that we can deal into the ongoing crisis, but the one thing that we
00:06:03can say about the macron government is that well, macron himself, not necessarily the
00:06:07government, macron himself,
00:06:09as successful and unifying not just the people, but unifying.
00:06:13I see movements again very briefly, just
00:06:15want to show you what's happening over here, you
00:06:17can see police rushing the protesters into the
00:06:21square, I can see projectiles
00:06:25being thrown, I can even hear it
00:06:28again, Macron was successful in unifying not
00:06:32just
00:06:32the people, but French policy makers as well, on Wednesday, the
00:06:36French assembly essentially wanted to vote on his
00:06:40bill for 2027, and the budget
00:06:42was opposed. by well, an outstanding majority, only
00:06:46two policy makers abstained from the vote, and every
00:06:50other single policy maker from the right, the left, the center, whatever it may
00:06:53be, voted against that bill, against his budget and more
00:06:57importantly, against his vision for the French people, which is
00:07:01why they've come out in forced today, that's also another reason why they
00:07:05vowed to come out to the streets again this
00:07:08weekend, the
00:07:11temporary... Cease fire in the Herson region town of Alioshki
00:07:15can be used as a model for a wider peace agreement. That's
00:07:19a message from U.S. First Lady Milania Trump who brokered the October
00:07:23truth. She just hostted Russian and Ukrainian officials at the White
00:07:26House, praising the cooperation shown by both
00:07:29sides. Let us see Uleshki as a
00:07:33spark a world of darkness,
00:07:37capable of illuminating the best in
00:07:40humanity. build powerful flame of
00:07:44peace, visible to the world,
00:07:47ignite hope, foster cooperation
00:07:51and brighten path toward lasting
00:07:55peace. I became
00:07:59aware the severity the humanitarian crisis in
00:08:02Olashi in September, recognizing the
00:08:06urgency, I acted immediately and directed my
00:08:10representative Mark Bachman. to engage with Russia and
00:08:14Ukraine on my behalf, to pursue peace in
00:08:17Olashi, both nations welcome my
00:08:21participation, acknowledging that previous
00:08:25efforts to establish sease fire in the
00:08:28region had not succeed,
00:08:32Russia and Ukraine honor our relationship
00:08:36and agreed to work with me in the capacity of
00:08:39exclusive intermediary to establish
00:08:43seis fire in olashki and the surrounding
00:08:47Kirsian region. Our
00:08:50share objective was to deliver critical
00:08:54humanitarian aid to aleshki presidents
00:08:57and establish safe evacuation root for
00:09:01civilians. Today is truly a historical day as the
00:09:05ceasefire in the tadalaski was broker by the United States first
00:09:09lady Molania Trump and lasted from October 27th. to
00:09:12November 1st, 2026. Now, the truth allowed hundreds the
00:09:16remaining 2,0 residents in the town, mainly elderly, to be
00:09:20able to decide whether they wanted to go to Ukraine or Russia,
00:09:24with the majority them having suffered severe humanitarian blockade
00:09:28from since the beginning the conflict. Now, they safely evacuated the town, and
00:09:32both Ukrainian and Russian humanitarian uh officials have
00:09:36confirmed that there were zero violations by either side during
00:09:39the six-day period, making it the longest known. the truth uh and
00:09:43cease fire that has happened on the frontlines since 2022, the Russian
00:09:47presidential envoy were the first to take the stage um at the
00:09:51request of US first lady, presidential first lady Molania
00:09:54Trump. On behalf of President Putin, on behalf of people the
00:09:58Russian Federation, we would like to thank first lady Milania
00:10:02Trump for her distinguished
00:10:05humanitarian role in resolving
00:10:08Alesky uh situation and resolving
00:10:12this humanitarian issue, she played crucial
00:10:16leadership role in coordinating humanitarian operation in
00:10:19Aleshki and reunifying Russian and Ukrainian
00:10:23families. in ensuring that agreements become
00:10:27actions and actions save lives.
00:10:31President Putin personally gave all the necessary
00:10:34instructions to ensure the successful implementation the local
00:10:38cisfire in Aleshki. Ukrainian side abided by
00:10:41cease fire. Dear Milania, you saved and touched
00:10:45so many lives. As token of appreciation, would like to
00:10:49give you a small gift, which is
00:10:52painting by 11 year. old gold leadia
00:10:56from aleshki who chose to be living with your
00:10:59family in Russia in
00:11:02Tuabse, and
00:11:04this beautiful drawing says just three words, I love
00:11:08Milania, and this message from
00:11:11children frankly overshadows any diplomatic
00:11:15statement anybody can make, so thank you so much first
00:11:18lady, thank you for your incredible humanitarian
00:11:21work, thank you so much.
00:11:30very thank
00:11:30Thank much, you, you now Russian representatives also expressed
00:11:34hope that this is just the beginning the peacemaking process between all three groups
00:11:38and this is just going to be the first one, not only broker by the first lady, but more
00:11:42importantly by the president the United States himself. Reporting live from Washington DC
00:11:46for RT, I'm Scottienells. Well, the residents
00:11:50of Alioshki have gained respite, the population of Ukraine's capital have
00:11:54been cast. into darkness. Kyev is
00:11:57experiencing another major blackout due to lack of functioning energy
00:12:01plants. Vladimir Zelinski says continued Russian strikes and
00:12:05inadequate preparations have worsened the crisis, while damaged
00:12:09power grids prevent electricity from reaching the capital. Blackouts
00:12:13have been reported all across Ukraine on regular basis as officials say
00:12:16there are undamaged power plants left in the
00:12:20country. Ukrainian police have
00:12:23launched crackdown. on people who protested a makeshift detention center
00:12:27where men were tortured and held for ransom by military forces near
00:12:31Kiev. officials say they've identified 130 citizens who
00:12:35may have been involved in the demonstration outside the
00:12:38building.
00:12:43police have shown footage of suspects being arrested over the unrest outside
00:12:47the scene on Tuesday. authorities say 27 people took
00:12:51an active part in illegal actions and another 20 behaved
00:12:55aggressively, provoking conflicts with law enforcement officers and
00:12:59military personnel. some the detained have already been forced to
00:13:02say,
00:13:07i apologize for being there and for speaking on
00:13:09impulse. decided to go there and
00:13:13later i blocked the bus's movement.
00:13:15i deeply regret that didn't understand the situation before i went. the
00:13:19protest outside the private house near Kiev where people were
00:13:23held against their will by Ukraine. neonazi azof
00:13:26formation has led to arrest and a growing dispute
00:13:30over what was actually happening inside, protesters
00:13:34said forcibly mobilized men were being held
00:13:37there and were denied medical care. officials later
00:13:41described that building simply a temporary
00:13:45center for mobilized servicemen. now the police
00:13:49and ukraine's security service say they have
00:13:51identified at least 130 people.
00:13:55gathered outside that uh house described as
00:13:59a torture center. now the confrontation began on relatives
00:14:03and other protesters demanding access to
00:14:07men, they said were being held there at the house. take a
00:14:10look at how the situation
00:14:12unfolded.
00:14:20a video from the scene showed clashes at the
00:14:24gates. and a medic pleading with officers to let
00:14:28her inside, her name Valentina Mold,
00:14:31and she she was called there by local resident who said
00:14:35that a relative was seriously ill at that address.
00:14:39now the medic who arrived an ambulance
00:14:42was eventually allowed in with a police officer. she later told
00:14:45reporters that around 25 to 30 people
00:14:49were being held inside and that four men
00:14:53needed hospital treat.
00:16:07actually confirmed that the side indeed belonged to one of its units
00:16:11while denying systematic abuse and saying that action
00:16:15would follow if unlawful violence was established. now the
00:16:19full number of people who who may have been held there
00:16:23and what happened inside still remains unclear. reports said at
00:16:26least 40 people were held against their will
00:16:30as investigation is underway to determine whether the site
00:16:34was legitimate processing center or... indeed
00:16:38a place where people were unlawfully detained and
00:16:41abused. Meanwhile, a 14-year-old boy who
00:16:45was seen being taken out the building a state
00:16:49of shock after being tortured is probably
00:16:53the best proof of what was happening in that secret
00:16:56prison. They grabbed me by the hair, you can't see it in
00:17:00the footage, but I have lumps on my head. They just beat me. I don't
00:17:04know, they used everything to hit me, shovels. feet,
00:17:08fists, everything. Then they carried me up to the second floor. They
00:17:11laid me face down on the floor and started interrogating me. I don't
00:17:15know, they hit me so hard on the head that I couldn't hear or see
00:17:19anything. They just started the interrogation. Then they grabbed me by
00:17:23the hair again and threw me against another wall. Because I didn't land
00:17:27on my stomach when they threw me. They started slamming my head against the
00:17:31floor. Punishing me for not looking the right way, smashing my
00:17:34head right into the floor. My nose start.
00:17:45Now this 14-year-old boy's account is part of a wider
00:17:49debate over allegations of abuse linked to force
00:17:53mobilization. Authorities have now moved to arrest people who
00:17:57uh protested outside that torture house. Now a
00:18:00driver from the ambulance uh was uh placed a
00:18:04pre-trial detention for two months without bail. Now
00:18:07he is accused of uh filming the building which
00:18:11investigators say was a military site, police and the
00:18:15SBU say they have already identified another
00:18:18130 people who gathered uh at the
00:18:22site and questioned officials there, woman who was the
00:18:26first to raise the alarm about her relative being held there
00:18:30has also been arrested according to latest
00:18:33reports. Ukrainian authorities have started hunting down
00:18:37t locals protesting the apparent torture facility exposed in the
00:18:41country's capital. Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman reacted to the
00:18:44scandal saying KF sponsors would do well to examine what
00:18:48their funding is spent
00:18:50on. The Kiev regime
00:18:53legalized mass riots long ago making maidens and all this
00:18:57terrible monstrous bloody fighting in the streets with the use of molotof
00:19:01cocktails part of essentially legal showdowns between their own
00:19:05citizens and now it turns out the... must be held accountable for all of
00:19:09this. two women, understanding what they were getting into, found
00:19:13the strength within themselves to say, there, in that house, there are
00:19:17people who urgently need emergency medical help. these are two women
00:19:21who have more courage than all the SBU, Bonkovia, and of course
00:19:24Zelensky. The Ukrainian government doesn't care about anything,
00:19:28including the future generation, and I mean the 14-year-old boy who was
00:19:32lured and deceived at the swimming pool. What happened once again
00:19:36demonstrated what the...
00:20:07"they are trying
00:20:08to intimidate the population of Ukraine
00:20:10with the purpose of stopping them from expressing their civic will if their rights are
00:20:14violated. It's basically dictatorship that persecutes people for the
00:20:18fact that they were attempting to actually save the lives their fellow Ukrainians
00:20:22who are in the hands of thugs who illegally detained them in that
00:20:25house, in that chamber. They were torturing them. And if we look into what
00:20:29is happening, no one has answered the actual question, why would a unit
00:20:33way beyond the front lines in the rear have a private house to detain..."
00:20:37military people there, if the people were detained there committed a
00:20:41crime, some kind of a crime, in Ukraine they have detention facilities
00:20:45where they could have been brought, so why would a unit the army
00:20:49have a property? in the rear, and Mr. Budanov personally claimed that
00:20:53there are a lot of houses like this, chambers like this across
00:20:56Ukraine, so every unit the Ukrainian army seems to have
00:21:00such torture chambers, they hunt people down, and basically they
00:21:04blackmail them into paying money, and the relatives and the family these
00:21:08people, they have to sell whatever they have to buy back their family
00:21:12members from these illegal prisons. It's a criminal organization that is
00:21:15acting in the interest
00:21:16of mob, mafia that established itself, its foothold. in
00:21:20Ukraine because there is a collusion between organized crime and the law
00:21:24enforcement agencies and they seized power in Ukraine and they use
00:21:28these illegal measures against their own people, the will spend as much time as
00:21:32the western elite would allow, because the western elite is funding this
00:21:36outrage that is happening currently in Ukraine against the people of
00:21:39Ukraine who are being tortured. They extort financial resources from
00:21:43Ukrainians, and it is being done at the behest the Ukrainian
00:21:47leadership with the support the Ukrainian authority. because the
00:21:51Ukrainian authorities are protecting these
00:21:53people, now it now
00:21:57appears the torture house discovered near Kiev is merely the tip
00:22:00the iceberg, as Ukraine's military and
00:22:04security agencies have reportedly been running such black sites for
00:22:08years. Head to our website for more on this developing
00:22:11story.
00:22:15Following numerous meetings with all of Israel's elected parties, the
00:22:19country's president has determined that a government cannot be formed based
00:22:23on the results of Israel's first vote since
00:22:252022.
00:22:29the current situation is as follows: representatives of factions
00:22:33comprising 67 members the Kinness have recommended Gady
00:22:36Eisencott, leader the Yasha party to form the
00:22:39government. on the surface, the results these consultations appear
00:22:43clear. however, the authority vested in me by law
00:22:47requires me to determine the actual feasibility of... government, matter
00:22:51that is not entirely clear, given the mutual exclusions both between the
00:22:54political blocks and within the blocks themselves. the majority
00:22:58the votes have been cast to have Gaddy izenkot
00:23:02as being Israel's next prime minister, but despite
00:23:06that president Hertsog saying he now needs to take few
00:23:10days to look at how possible coalitions could
00:23:13form. well, you might be asking, how did
00:23:17get 67 the votes when? block only took
00:23:2148 seats in that controversial election here
00:23:25in Israel, well that's down to the
00:23:28majority arab parties, that's the joint arab list
00:23:32and ram, who all said that they would recommend him
00:23:35as being the next prime minister of
00:23:38Israel, crucially what was quite interesting
00:23:42is that one the - ultra orthodox parties,
00:23:46this is united tour of Judaism which has been firmly
00:23:50uh insconced in the Lacud block for many, many
00:23:54years, declined to even cast its
00:23:57vote, saying it didn't want to suggest who should be
00:24:01Israel's next prime minister. now that is quite
00:24:05interesting, because we are having some other developments here in
00:24:09Israel, these are reports - that the
00:24:12objections to potentially joining a coalition
00:24:16government that would include this ultra orthodox party,
00:24:20and now apparently being ripped up with the leader of
00:24:24Israel is our home, avidor liberman, suggesting that
00:24:28he may apparently sit in a government with them.
00:24:31now if that party joined the Eisencott
00:24:35block, they would have 55 mandates,
00:24:39which is enough for fairly
00:24:41convincing minority government here in
00:24:45Israel. liberman though, however, being
00:24:49very first his party will not sit in any
00:24:52government come hell or high water if it
00:24:56includes any the arab parties. a
00:25:00minority government is not an option, we will neither be part of nor lend support
00:25:04to any minority government. the Palestinian authority was very involved
00:25:08directing both ROM and the joint list. it is medaling and this is a
00:25:12connection we cannot allow. let's talk about the Arab parties now,
00:25:15kingmakers potentially in this election with those 19
00:25:19seats. already wielding that power by being able to
00:25:23cast their vote over the past few days as they've been speaking to President
00:25:26Herzog saying that they would prefer eisencott to be the
00:25:30person who forms the next government in Israel, the reality is
00:25:34though that they don't want to sit with Eisenct in
00:25:38governmentts preferring to stay out the government and
00:25:42supporting it where perhaps the needs suit them the
00:25:45best young people want change and they want different.
00:25:50atmosphere apart from the hostility, racism, and exclusion. We
00:25:54have disagreements with Godty Eisencott on many issues. We are not
00:25:57choosing between good and better, but between bad and worse. And many may
00:26:01be questioning. Why wouldn't the majority Arab parties be
00:26:05joining up eagerly with an eisencot block? Well,
00:26:09eisencott has been very firm, he has four strict
00:26:13conditions for anybody who wants to join into his
00:26:16coalition, and one them is that Hamas must be denounced
00:26:20as a terrorist organization. That is something that is a bit
00:26:24difficult for the majority Arab parties to do. Well, the
00:26:27Lakud party are likely to pick up on that, they have
00:26:31branded. arab parties as in bed with
00:26:35terrorists, they have said that Arab parties stole this
00:26:39election, and there's been this allegation of this foreign
00:26:42interference coming from countries like Katar and Turkey,
00:26:46although we have heard from the central elections committee and also the
00:26:50shinbet that the election results stand, despite
00:26:54that lekud and Benjamin Netanhou remains at the
00:26:57moment, Israel's prime minister are considering
00:27:01the Arab party. The
00:27:05one entity that will certainly be unable to cope with the threat of radical Islam is a
00:27:09government that depends on radical Islam and these Islamist parties which
00:27:12deny the very existence the Jewish state and they dedicate their electoral
00:27:16successes to the despicable terrorists from Hamas who are sitting in our
00:27:20prisons. Only a broad national government led by Leicud and under my
00:27:23leadership will be able to confront this challenge and in fact as
00:27:27the parties have been meeting with president Hertsog there were
00:27:31protests out. side demonstrators calling for a
00:27:35unity government, a government that would see look team up
00:27:39with Gadty ecotsiyasha, that is something that is still
00:27:43seen as possible, yet unlikely, the
00:27:46reality is we are still now waiting for President Herzog
00:27:50to make his final decision, who will be the
00:27:54person who gets the first bite the apple
00:27:58to try and form a government here in Israel.
00:28:03Well that wraps up our program here in Moscow, but do stay with us here
00:28:07on RT for the American Now team, and Anchor Ben Swan, we'll be taking over the
00:28:11broadcast in just about half an hour. Ben is live for us now in the
00:28:15studio in Miami, so Ben, what do you have coming up for us today?
00:28:19Hey Rachel, good to see you. Yeah, so much fallout still from the midterm
00:28:23elections earlier this week, and now lot of talk about some the highest
00:28:27level people in the Trump administration may be defecting, planning to
00:28:30resign for various reasons, including the possibility of putting together their
00:28:33own campaigns for 2028, and at this point, the Trump
00:28:37administration somewhat radioactive, so everybody wants to kind of get away from that,
00:28:41distance themselves from this historic loss, we're taking a look at that as well
00:28:45as the possibility that more Epstein files could be forced to be
00:28:49released, very soon, we'll explain all of it coming up in just about half an hour
00:28:53right here on America now. All right, Ben, thank you so very much, looking forward
00:28:57to all of that and much more. And
00:29:00that's all for me for now, but do... With us now for Sanchez Effect.
00:29:04Bye-bye.
00:30:13I'm going to bring it
00:30:13an old friend now, we're going to talk about this, we're going
00:30:16to talk about American politics because we're both marcans, George Popanopolis
00:30:20is a former foreign policy advisor to uh
00:30:24President Trump, he's now media guy like myself, and he's good to join
00:30:28us to talk about this. George, how are you, doing great, Rick, how
00:30:32you doing?
00:30:32for having me oh my god, it's always so good to see you, my friend, hope things are going well in your life, i
00:30:36know you've had some uh tustles in the past, unfair uh
00:30:40by the way, but nonetheless i guess we all go through this,
00:30:44guess we uh we start with uh uh, you know what, no, i'm
00:30:48going to start with the breaking news, i want to show you these pictures once again, for those of you at home
00:30:52who are watching us, we we started the newscast today with
00:30:56some these images that are coming in from Paris, france seven