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00:00:00heroes,
00:00:07and on May 9th this year, North Korean troops marched on
00:00:10the cobblestones of Red Square in the Victory Parade.
00:02:19We'll take on this case, it'll be an honest
00:02:23detective story.
00:02:40North Korea is in the global headlines today because it
00:02:44launched a new missile, which immediately made Seoul, and especially
00:02:48Tokyo, nervous. Pyongyang has long surpassed them in terms of
00:02:51missile technology, and it's not stopping,
00:02:54especially since the US and its allies are conducting quite a lot of activity in the region.
00:02:58well, take the fact that
00:03:30two years ago, North Korean soldiers, together with Russians,
00:03:33fought against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border region. The North Koreans proved themselves not only brave
00:03:37and disciplined, but also genuinely fierce
00:03:40fighters, and they gained experience in modern
00:03:43high-tech warfare, drones, electronic warfare, missile systems,
00:03:47network-centric warfare. And North Korea
00:03:50also has a missile program that largely
00:03:54ensures its sovereignty. Today, as
00:03:56reported, a new one was launched... Japan, well, not at Japan itself, of course, but
00:04:03in that direction, into the sea. The message is clear. Earlier, Pyongyang
00:04:06spoke of the need to develop, quote, new
00:04:09military options in response to the accelerating militarization
00:04:13carried out by Tokyo.
00:04:16Japan, with the help of the US, is accelerating
00:04:19its transformation into a military state. We will by no means
00:04:22allow the process of military evolution in Japan, which could be a serious
00:04:26threat to the security of the DPRK. This is Kim Jong-un's sister, by the way.
00:04:32It's curious that the Japanese government, led by Sanae Takaichi, justifies this
00:04:35accelerated militarization precisely by the growth of North Korea's military
00:04:39might, and also by the need to save its Japanese
00:04:43economy through the military-industrial complex. But the point is not about that now. The essence is that
00:04:46tension is growing, everyone in the region is arming themselves. For example,
00:04:50Japan, along with South Korea, participates in the Rim of the Pacific (RimPac) exercises,
00:04:53which are directed against North Korea and China. Western media call this almost
00:04:57the biggest. Traditionally, it was important for China
00:05:12to ensure the security of its first island chain, which are
00:05:16islands that stretch from the southern shores of Japan to
00:05:19the Philippines and to the southern part of the South China Sea.
00:05:23But in recent years, there has been a growing understanding in China of the importance of the second
00:05:27island chain. The Chinese understand that if they extend their
00:05:30influence to the western Pacific Ocean, to places
00:05:34like Guam and beyond, they will be able to prevent
00:05:37the Americans from conducting a successful military campaign against.
00:05:40the largest joint naval exercises on
00:06:12the planet. 30 countries, 31 surface ships, five
00:06:16submarines, over 190 aircraft and helicopters, and
00:06:2030,000 servicemen.
00:06:22Besides Beijing and Pyongyang, Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo
00:06:25also call Moscow another threat in the region. In the new Japanese
00:06:29military program, where the necessity of accelerating militarization is discussed, Russia
00:06:33is mentioned. It's curious that all this is happening on the anniversary
00:06:36of the bombing of Hiroshima. It was, of course, remembered today, but for many
00:06:39years now, traditionally, without mentioning who exactly dropped
00:06:43the atomic bombs on Japan, the one who now has the most ships and
00:06:47submarines in the Pacific Ocean. By the way, the voices of those who want Tokyo to have its
00:06:51own nukes, or at least to deploy American nuclear
00:06:54weapons on the islands, are heard more and more often in Japan. Takaichi, for example,
00:06:58despite loving nationalistic rhetoric, is not
00:07:02yielding yet. Well, in Pyongyang, they are reasoning that if
00:07:05they, the North Koreans, have their own missiles and their own nuclear weapons,
00:07:08then no one will ever dare to attack. Missiles will reach Seoul, Tokyo,
00:07:12and American bases. Western Japanese media claim that
00:07:16North Korea has just completed a new secret, well, possibly
00:07:19no longer so secret, factory for the production of Hwasong
00:07:23ballistic missiles. Satellite images have been published.
00:07:26Workshops, including underground ones, well-protected
00:07:30storage, railway lines, they claim that this is a
00:07:33key North Korean facility for the production of ballistics.
00:07:37Well, what else is there to do when an armada of
00:07:40thirty countries is lined up against you? Build ships and missiles, including nuclear ones. Thank you, Georgy Lebedev,
00:07:47he apparently knows how Kim Jong-un thinks. Well,
00:07:50continuing the conversation about Japan, its ambitions, and
00:07:53historical traumas, the tragedy of Hiroshima 81
00:07:57years later, one of the most difficult and contradictory topics for
00:08:01the Japanese to this day, about memory,
00:08:05rhetoric, and cynicism, a report by our correspondent,
00:08:08Sergey Mengazhev.
00:08:10The burial site for the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is located within
00:08:14the Peace Park, where the epicenter was. Bodies collected from all over
00:08:17the city were buried here, but there was no one to collect
00:08:20in this particular part of the city. At the moment of the explosion, the temperature at
00:08:24the epicenter reached 3,000° Celsius, leaving
00:08:27nothing but a stain on the ground.
00:08:31The remaining shadow of a man sitting on the stone steps
00:08:34of a destroyed bank is among the exhibits of the local
00:08:37museum.
00:08:38The
00:08:42blast from the uranium bomb "Little Boy" with a yield of 12 kilotons,
00:08:46dropped from an American bomber at 8:15 AM on August 6,
00:08:501945, leveled half of the city
00:08:53with a population of 400,000 people. The Americans later meticulously
00:08:57documented the horrific injuries, including those of Japanese
00:09:00children, as evidence of the power of American
00:09:03weapons. Hibakusha, as survivors of the blast or those
00:09:06suffering from the effects of radiation sickness are called in Japan,
00:09:10add to the mournful list of victims every year.
00:09:13My husband was a hibakusha. He died of cancer 8 years ago.
00:09:16He survived the blast, but the symptoms of radiation sickness plagued him
00:09:20all his life. His name is on the official list
00:09:23of victims. I always come here to pray. We must
00:09:27remember that tragedy so that it never
00:09:30happens again. The lists of hibakusha who passed away in the past year
00:09:33are brought to the memorial in Hiroshima before the eternal flame every August
00:09:376th. Currently, officially, their number is already over
00:09:39350,000.
00:09:46Specially trained and ringed pigeons are brought in advance, they must spend the night
00:09:49before the ceremony in these cages, there are about 400 of them in total.
00:10:04The chimes of the memorial bell sound exactly at 8:15 AM, after which
00:10:08all those present bow their heads in a moment of silence. Then the established
00:10:12order, refined over the years, follows: the traditional peace declaration from the Mayor of
00:10:16Hiroshima, in which he calls on all countries to abandon nuclear
00:10:19weapons and cease conflicts, but he does so
00:10:22in a peculiar way. The Hiroshima authorities
00:10:26are the only country to participate in the ceremonies, for example, in the case
00:10:30of Israel or the US, such principledness is not observed,
00:10:34and among all current conflicts, the mayor again mentioned only
00:10:37the Ukrainian one. The instantaneous annihilation by atomic fire of tens of
00:10:41thousands of people, about 70 thousand in Hiroshima died immediately, and another
00:10:44seventy thousand by the end of 1945. The thirty-third US
00:10:48President Harry Truman called it the greatest thing in history. He uttered this phrase on board
00:10:52the cruiser Augusta, returning from Potsdam.
00:10:55Since then, no American leader has even hinted at remorse
00:10:59or regret, and the current forty-seventh US President Donald Trump,
00:11:03when he visited Japan last year, called the bombing of Japanese
00:11:06cities a minor conflict, after which the United States and
00:11:10Japan became the closest friends. A year after
00:11:13the war, on Christmas 1946, Americans even held a football tournament
00:11:17among the ruins of burnt Nagasaki, to, as
00:11:19the command explained, let off steam and show the glory
00:11:23of American sports, while also organizing a beauty contest called
00:11:26Miss Atomic Bomb. All speeches
00:11:29by Japanese officials at commemorative ceremonies are united by
00:11:32a delicate omission of who actually destroyed
00:11:36the civilian population of Japanese cities with nuclear explosions. Occupying
00:11:40the Japanese islands in September 1945, American
00:11:43troops remain to this day at their bases in Japan. Japan
00:11:47itself is now officially under the protection of the US
00:11:50nuclear umbrella. And the tragedy of August 1945
00:11:53is called a mistake. It's not...
00:11:59America dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, but Japan also bears
00:12:03responsibility for the fact that it came to war. That is, the entire
00:12:06situation was a common mistake. In the US, at the official
00:12:09level, this point of view is not shared. The commander of the B-29
00:12:12crew, Paul Tibbets, who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
00:12:16in all interviews until the end of his days emphasized that he was proud
00:12:20of his participation in this
00:12:21tragedy.
00:12:25In 3 days, a similar memorial ceremony will be held in Nagasaki. The authorities of this
00:12:29city have again started inviting Russia since last year, so the Russian ambassador
00:12:33is also expected among the foreign guests.
00:12:37Sergey Mengazhev, Alexey Pechko, Vesti East Asian Bureau, Hiroshima, Japan.
00:13:12Donald Trump refuted the Washington Post publication,
00:13:16which claimed that he had allegedly torn apart the Pentagon chief
00:13:19over a shortage of ammunition. In his
00:13:23social network, Truth Social, the American president, on the contrary, praised
00:13:26Hexitt, particularly for operations in
00:13:30Venezuela and Iran. Both countries, Trump believes, are
00:13:33completely defeated.
00:13:36Let me remind you, the media reported that Trump, at a closed meeting, allegedly demanded an
00:13:40explanation from Hexitt as to why he had not been informed about the deficit of missiles
00:13:43and air defense systems, which became critical precisely during the
00:13:47conflict with Iran, and now may affect the upcoming
00:13:50midterm elections. Our own
00:13:54correspondent will continue the topic. US
00:15:04conventional ammunition supplies are critically depleted,
00:15:07and room for maneuver is shrinking. Trump is now looking
00:15:11for those responsible for the failure among his own. When Trump
00:15:14presented Hexitt with claims regarding the extremely limited weapons stockpiles,
00:15:18Hexitt defended himself and accused his deputy, Steven Feinberg, of
00:15:22the weapons shortage, saying that he failed to ensure Trump's
00:15:25awareness of the matter. This exchange of remarks underscored Trump's growing
00:15:29frustration with his defense secretary, who was one of the main
00:15:33proponents of military action against Iran, convincing Trump that it would
00:15:40The White House press secretary accused the Washington Post of lying, but
00:15:43military officials had been signaling the rapid depletion of
00:15:46Patriot and Taat interceptor missile stockpiles
00:15:50for months. After Trump postponed another
00:15:54raid on Iran, US media sources in Washington
00:15:57revealed another unpleasant secret. The US is facing problems not
00:16:00only with defensive, but also with offensive
00:16:03weaponry.
00:16:06The US has used almost all its global stock of long-range missiles, particularly
00:16:10ATACMS tactical missiles and Precision Strike
00:16:14Missiles, during the operation "Epic Fury." That is, our
00:16:17offensive weapons stockpiles are practically depleted. In the Middle
00:16:20East, the arsenal of sea-based Tomahawk
00:16:24cruise missiles has been halved, and it will take a minimum of
00:16:285 years to replenish all these stocks. But it is necessary to demonstrate
00:16:31strength not only to Iran, but to the rest of the world right
00:16:35now. Therefore, the only thing left is to publish AI-generated images of himself
00:16:38with Generals Patton and MacArthur, and threaten those
00:16:42who revealed this terrible military secret with lawsuits.
00:16:46The US has huge stockpiles of ammunition, especially certain
00:16:49types. In addition, if necessary, newly
00:16:53produced ammunition arrives in the United States
00:16:56in large quantities. Those who commit these treasonous
00:16:58information leaks are being sought, and additional prison
00:17:02sentences will be sought for them. However, publications on social media are not
00:17:06capable of impressing Iran. Almost 8 months have passed since the first strikes,
00:17:09and Washington is still far from the victory that, as they are
00:17:13sure in Tehran, they expected to achieve
00:17:16in a few days.
00:17:20They started a twelve-day war, and the events that took place on
00:17:23December 18-19 showed the plans they
00:17:26had developed. They thought they could capture Iran, like Syria,
00:17:30in 48 hours. Returning to at least the starting point is
00:17:33Trump's main task now. The main item on the negotiation agenda remained...
00:17:46and between neighbors, how shipping will be organized, Iran is discussing with
00:17:49Oman.
00:17:52To date, almost all issues are under discussion:
00:17:56maps, transit routes, the issue of entry and exit of maritime shipping, and
00:18:00bilateral agreements with Oman. The proposed agreement
00:18:03will effectively transfer control of the Strait of Hormuz to Tehran.
00:18:07And regardless of Trump, Iran and Oman are discussing a transit
00:18:11fee, from 3 to 7% of the value
00:18:14of the transported cargo, which sounds like the price Washington will
00:18:18have to pay to end this war, although J.D.
00:18:21Vance is forced to reassure that this can still be
00:18:25called a victory.
00:18:28I can confidently say that the outcome will be favorable for the United States of
00:18:31America, but we will use all the means at our disposal—military,
00:18:34economic, and diplomatic—to ensure this situation
00:18:38concludes correctly. Will Trump himself manage to reach an agreement with Iran
00:18:41or will he pass the conflict on? The same Washington
00:18:44Post reports that the US president has chosen a
00:18:47successor. According to Trump, J.D. Vance should run for president
00:18:51in 2028 under the Republican banner.
00:18:54His promise to end this war in 24 hours
00:18:57could well become his campaign slogan. Unlike
00:19:01Hexitt, Vice President Vance was one of the most ardent
00:19:05opponents of Trump's Iranian adventure. He also consistently
00:19:09opposes military aid to Ukraine, though now,
00:19:12with his presidential nomination becoming increasingly realistic,
00:19:16Vance has to be careful. The Minister of
00:19:19War, however, will probably still be sacrificed. The White House may
00:19:22announce Hexitt's resignation immediately after
00:19:25the midterm elections. Dmitry Melnikov, Pavel Kostrikov and
00:19:28Evgenia Bogomolova, Vesti from Washington.
00:19:32The presidential election campaign in Hungary can
00:19:35be described in one word.
00:20:07is choosing a new leader, and the most popular internet favorite unexpectedly
00:20:11turned out to be András Arató, the hero of the world-famous
00:20:14meme, the man with a smile that seems to
00:20:18hide all the pain
00:20:20of humanity. After the resignation of President
00:20:24Tamás Sulyok, Prime Minister Péter Magyar suggested
00:20:27that citizens name a worthy
00:20:30candidate themselves. The Internet immediately turned this
00:20:33idea into a festival of collective
00:20:35creativity. As a result, in the popular
00:20:39ranking, besides the aforementioned Harald, there were Ernő Rubik, the creator
00:20:43of the Rubik's Cube, Katalin Karikó, Nobel
00:20:46laureate, and Barbara Palvin, one of the most
00:20:50famous Hungarian models in the world.
00:20:53What a bright list, and also a whole set
00:20:57of TV presenters, athletes, and other celebrities,
00:21:00it will turn out to be practically, well, an ideal cast
00:21:03for a new talent show, but in fact, it
00:21:06is, because the President of Hungary today is mainly a representative
00:21:10figure, real power lies with the government
00:21:13and the parliamentary majority, so the intensity of passions surrounding these
00:21:17elections... although its holder can sign laws or
00:21:31send them to the Constitutional Court, and also has the right
00:21:34to pardon convicts. Currently, this position
00:21:38is temporarily held by the speaker of parliament, Ágnes
00:21:41Forsthoffer.
00:21:42But behind all this hype
00:21:46lies political confrontation. on other forces, for
00:21:48example, Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party refused to participate
00:21:52in the procedure for electing a new president, stating that it considered
00:21:56the removal of the previous head of state illegal, that
00:21:59is, one of the largest political forces declared the entire process
00:22:03illegitimate and decided to stay aside, while the
00:22:07ruling party is rushing the election date. Why the rush,
00:22:10gentlemen? But you must admit, after so many years
00:22:14of political crises, these are probably the most meme-worthy presidential elections in
00:22:17Europe. If Harald doesn't
00:22:21win, the internet seems to have already made its choice,
00:22:24smiling through the pain. In Thailand, they said goodbye to
00:23:16Russians brutally murdered. The incident is experienced as a
00:24:20tragedy in the country. The Prime Minister apologized and ordered the government to take
00:24:23urgent measures so that such a thing does not happen again. The caught murderers,
00:24:27nicknamed Pong and Tonk, were almost torn apart
00:24:30by the Thais themselves at the police station in Pattaya. Here we
00:24:34see a great spirit and, accordingly, the triumph
00:24:37of the law, because the murderers were immediately found, imprisoned,
00:24:41and
00:24:44punishment awaits them. Local motorcycle taxis, tuk-tuks, do not
00:24:47charge Russian tourists for rides.
00:24:51No, no, it's free, for Russia it's free. But in
00:24:55Georgia, after a terrible scandal with female tourists from Russia, something
00:24:58strange is happening. These are the shots when, at the end of an argument with the girls standing on the balcony,
00:25:02one of the locals, Georgy Chigladze, burst into their
00:25:06room and hit one of the tourists in the face. Next was a
00:25:09street rally with slogans that, they say, Russians are not
00:25:12guests. Here is the scratched car of tourists from Tikhoretsk,
00:25:16who came to Georgia for a vacation. Just from beginning to end.
00:25:40The Georgian Security Service opened a criminal case with the wording that
00:25:43these are all some foreign agents, pro-Western radicals, who want
00:25:47to spoil relations between Moscow and Tbilisi. The Prime Minister
00:25:50Kobakhidze states the same. There is direct sabotage, and
00:25:54social networks are being very actively used for this. Coordination
00:25:58is carried out from one of the countries, and here it is
00:26:01picked up by local agents. Non-existent
00:26:04people are discussing a supposedly negative atmosphere for
00:26:08Russian tourists in Georgia. The purpose of all this
00:26:11is sabotage against the country. Of course, our country
00:26:14is open to everyone, to all tourists. We
00:26:17will do everything to ensure that every guest feels safe and comfortable
00:26:20in Georgia. However, Chigladze, who raised his hands,
00:26:24was released from the courtroom on bail of about 200
00:26:28dollars. If a person inflicts injuries of moderate
00:26:31severity, he must answer according to the law,
00:26:34accordingly, there should be no insinuations about this.
00:26:37Georgians must understand that there is a law in the country. Most
00:26:41tourists who visit this beautiful country, and I am half
00:26:44Georgian myself, are from Russia, so
00:26:47closing off the possibility of economic growth
00:26:51just because there is some political discourse,
00:26:54this is a bit like political
00:26:57schizophrenia. Yes, there are radicals, there are people
00:27:01who are ready at any moment to join in and
00:27:04go out into the street, as they did that evening, to
00:27:08support their own. He turned out to be a person
00:27:11from a national movement. This person
00:27:15was involved not in the first case, he
00:27:18seemed to have similar
00:27:22cases and the fact that
00:27:25he was released for 5,000 does not mean that he will not be convicted.
00:27:29It is clear that every society has outcasts, the question is what reaction
00:27:33their actions cause in the majority and in the government.
00:27:36Tourism is an important budget item for both Thailand and Georgia, but in both
00:27:40cases, it's not just or even mostly about economics, it's about human
00:27:43relations after horrific events. Thailand
00:27:47seems to be handling it more warmly. Anton Botkovenko, Vesti!