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00:00:09As Iran says a straight off Hudamel's deal with Oman is
00:00:13a almost done, US vice president Jeddy Vance says
00:00:15of it will be messy and will take
00:00:18time. Hello
00:00:20of and welcome to TRT World. We're live from London. I'm Maria Ramos also ahead on
00:00:24this
00:00:25program.
00:00:30In Yemen, at least 35 government troops are reported to have been killed
00:00:34in Hoofi attacks on military
00:00:37of camps and Israeli forces launch wave of air
00:00:41strikes on southern Lebanon despite a fresh round of peace talks
00:00:45in Rome.
00:00:48Ukraine hits two oil refineries in multiple
00:00:52in strikes inside Russia. Zelensky says the aim is
00:00:55limiting Moscow's oil revenues to finance the
00:00:59war.
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00:01:16Hello again, Iran says that deal with Oman to reopen the
00:01:20Straight of Horios is now in its final stages, after confirming the
00:01:24in two sides have agreed a specific shipping route.
00:01:27of Tehran says that
00:01:29of despite the agreement. the resumption of unrestricted shipping remains
00:01:32contingent on the US lifting its naval blockade of
00:01:36Iranian ports. Oman, which shares control
00:01:39of the straight of hormones and acts as mediator between Tehran and
00:01:42Washington has yet to publicly confirm this
00:01:45deal. has
00:01:49more on the Horimus proposal from the Iranian
00:01:52capital. the foreign ministry spokes
00:01:55person said that the two sides are very
00:01:59of close to
00:02:00of deal and another high ranking official, deputy
00:02:04foreign minister said that Tehran and Maskat are on the
00:02:08verge of signing deal on the shipping routes in
00:02:12the straight of Formus, however today on Thursday it's been
00:02:16silent and we are still waiting for
00:02:19more details, possibly for a joint announcement
00:02:23by Tehran and Moscat about that much
00:02:27anticipated agreement about the shipping roots. in
00:02:30the uh straight of hormos, but what reports suggest is that
00:02:34of there would be two roots, inbound
00:02:37a route and an outbound corridor, the inbound one will be in the north
00:02:41of the straight of hormoos much closer to Iranian territorial
00:02:45waters totally controlled by Iran, and the southern lane
00:02:49of will be uh close to Omani
00:02:53territorial waters and half of it will be controlled by Tehran, so
00:02:57basically this would give Iran control. over the entire
00:03:01straight of arms and these two roots are would be
00:03:05of temporary, they would be valid for about two to four months and
00:03:09of after that in the meantime Iran and Oman
00:03:16of of would clear the mines in the straight and after
00:03:16in that after two to four months a permanent route in the
00:03:20center
00:03:23of of the straight of formus will be designated a so-called median lane again
00:03:27that permanent route would also be supervised. by Iran
00:03:31and no vessel can go in or come out
00:03:33of of the straight without the
00:03:35of supervision of Iran. Well, for his part,
00:03:39US vice president Jeddy Vans has called
00:03:42of Iranian officials extraordinarily difficult and said it will
00:03:46take time to reach a consensus. I can certainly
00:03:49understand the American people are may be looking at this and they say, well, it seems like we're
00:03:53making progress and it seems like we're not. Well, the reality, Laura is that number one,
00:03:57the Iranians are extraordinarily difficult. people, number
00:04:01two, they have a fractured system, so there are people within their system
00:04:05who want the war to be over, there are also people within their system who are crazy
00:04:08radicals who want the war to
00:04:10of continue. well, our north america correspondent
00:04:13john brain has more on JD Vance's remarks from Washington
00:04:16DC. I think it tells us how
00:04:20poor the preparations were for this conflict, I mean they would have
00:04:24been
00:04:24of advised on the makeup
00:04:26of the Iranian leadership uh, not just the leadership that's been...
00:04:30eliminated of course, but
00:04:31- the probable successes that they are
00:04:35known as tough negotiators and difficult to deal with, so that should
00:04:39not have come as a surprise to the Trump
00:04:42administration. in terms of this latest deal, the
00:04:46Americans are still waiting to see the precise detail of
00:04:49it, but of course they've said all along that this
00:04:53of conflict cannot end with Iran having
00:04:56of control over the straight of her moves, and early
00:04:59of indications are... that that's exactly what this deal will
00:05:03give Iran uh, but if the Americans
00:05:06can portray it somehow as not -
00:05:10living up to that scenario, then I'm sure Donald Trump will take that because he's
00:05:14desperate to get out of this conflict. Now he still does have a
00:05:17big card to play in the sense that there is that US naval blockade still
00:05:21in place
00:05:22so that can exert further pressure on the Iranians,
00:05:26but the Americans need this uh to be resolved
00:05:30quickly uh because it's the pressure is mounting on
00:05:34Trump and his colleagues to get it done with the midterm elections
00:05:38rapidly approaching. Well, what would
00:05:41this propose? Iran oman framework mean for ships passing through the
00:05:45straight of hodin, let's take a look at the key points, well under the proposal,
00:05:49vessels entering the straight of huns would be managed by Iran
00:05:52using the northern shipping lane close to Iran's coastline,
00:05:56and that way to han will gain greater control over ships
00:06:00entering the gulf, and outbound traffic would be
00:06:04handled jointly by Iran and Oman, with
00:06:08ships exiting through the southern shipping lane near Oman's
00:06:11coast, Tehran would have the ability to intervene if
00:06:15necessary. And Iran's faz news agency is
00:06:18reporting that the Iranian parliament is discussing introducing
00:06:22penalties, including finds of up to 20% of
00:06:26cargo value for violations and considering restrictions on
00:06:30US, Israeli and other hostile
00:06:32vessels. Well, Yemen's hoothies
00:06:36have killed at least 35 government troops in missile and drone
00:06:39attacks on military camps in Hadramun. and Marib,
00:06:43the Hufis say that this attack is in response to an
00:06:46alleged military buildup backed by neighboring Saudi
00:06:50Arabia. Yemen's internationally recognized government says it will
00:06:53respond to this attack, fighting between the Huthis and the
00:06:57Saudi aligned government has escalated over the past months and it is the
00:07:01deadliest fighting in Yemen since 2022.
00:07:05Muhammad has the latest from the Yemeny Capital
00:07:08Sanner. This latest uh operations that I have.
00:07:12that has been revealed by the his military
00:07:16spokes person says that they have targeted this these
00:07:20positions in in ruway and
00:07:23also
00:07:24in in areas in hadramote and marib, he says that they have targeted these
00:07:28areas as there are some military
00:07:32built up there, they says that they have wased a preemptive
00:07:36strikes and they have he has also warned the
00:07:39yeminis there not to join the... cams
00:07:43in these areas, while the senior
00:07:46official the Yemani government says that the
00:07:50the group is under mounting pressure, that's that's
00:07:53why and they have carried out these
00:07:56operations as he mentioned or
00:08:00described at his at his account at
00:08:04x website, he also mentioned that the
00:08:07there is all the only way is to end what he described as the
00:08:11militiaus. against the internationally recognized government,
00:08:15while the the military spokes person the
00:08:18hutis, he has made it clear that they will continue
00:08:20their what they have already declared, the
00:08:24the operations the sage for sage, they want to
00:08:28to was more pressure on Saudi Arabia, we are talking about nearly eight ships that
00:08:32have been targeted by the the hies known as the
00:08:36ans, they have also been able to
00:08:39to turn back nearly 29. uh
00:08:43vessels, so we are talking about since the beginning the their
00:08:47blockade, they have been able to attack vessels
00:08:51near the gulf of Aiden and also off the coast the
00:08:55Saudi, Saudi seaport of
00:08:57Yambo. Well, against this
00:09:01backdrop of height and tensions in the gulf, Pakistan's prime minister
00:09:05Shahbas Sharif is in Riad for an official visit. The
00:09:08visit follows an invitation from Saudi Crown Prince and Prince.
00:09:13Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Shariff was welcomed at Jedda
00:09:17Airport by the Mecca region deputy governor. He is
00:09:21expected to hold a number of meetings with Saudi officials and will be joined by the
00:09:24Turkish President Richard Type Erogan on
00:09:27Friday. Although taking place against the
00:09:31backdrop of height and tensions in the Gulf, the
00:09:34visit will carry immense significance beyond
00:09:38the immediate crisis and short term consideration.
00:09:42It will further strengthen bilateral relations, deepen strategic
00:09:46cooperation, to Syria now where a bomb
00:09:50has exploded a minibus just outside the Syrian capital, Damascus,
00:09:54with state media reporting that at least two deaths
00:09:58have taken place and there have been 13 injuries, it happened in
00:10:02the suburb of Jaramana around seven kilometers
00:10:05southeast the city center, witnesses are reporting ambulances
00:10:09heading to the scene and a main road has been closed. to traffic,
00:10:13nobody has yet claimed responsibility, and we'll bring you more details on
00:10:17this as we get them. well,
00:10:21three days of peace talks between the US, Israel and Lebanon in...
00:10:25Rome have just come to close, discussions reportedly focused on
00:10:29pilot zones for Israel's withdraws in southern Lebanon, but
00:10:33the talks were overshadowed by continued Israeli attacks in the region
00:10:36which threatened to derail negotiations entirely.
00:10:40Prianavani reports from
00:10:41Beyrut. On the
00:10:45eve the last day of talks in Rome, this was the scene in southern Lebanon, the
00:10:49town of Burja Shamali was hit by massive Israeli strikes, injuring
00:10:53over dozen Lebaneses. Thursday morning, news stands were
00:10:57peppered with both headlines: talks in Rome meant to bring peace,
00:11:01and the strikes on southern Lebanon bringing anything but many lebanese
00:11:04we spoke to said they were not surprised by the
00:11:07strikes. The talks in
00:11:11Rome have no meaning, the negotiations that are happening
00:11:15are waste of time. We are facing a zionist
00:11:18terrorist enemy. What the Israelis are doing in the south is a
00:11:22policy of destruction. Others said,
00:11:26strikes or no strikes, they don't believe anything can come the
00:11:29talks. Since the start, Israel never
00:11:33committed to any agreement, every agreement that the Israelis do, they don't
00:11:37honor. The three-day summit constituted the seventh round of
00:11:40Israely lebanese talks in the last few months, direct talks that are ordinarily
00:11:44unheard of. Well, progress has been made in the form of security
00:11:48framework that called for occupying Israeli troops to slowly be replaced by the
00:11:52Lebanese army, the progress these pilot. zones on the ground has
00:11:56been slow, and some argue lebanon is giving more than it's
00:11:59getting. unfortunately, until now did not gain any good
00:12:03point regarding what regarding the regarding
00:12:07talks in in Rome or with the Israelies. all what we could
00:12:10achieve was the seasfire.
00:12:14yeah, it's not a full sease fire. the Israelies are bombing every
00:12:18day in the south and are uh invading more more
00:12:22regions, they are not retreating from any the... occupied regions
00:12:26and many agree the uptaken strikes during the talks was
00:12:30no coincidence. the elephant in the room is the issue of
00:12:33hezbollah's weapons. both the Lebanese and Israeli governments
00:12:37have said that they want the group disarmed, but Hezballah is not party
00:12:41to these talks and the Lebanese government has yet to put forth any sort
00:12:45of substantitive plan, in part because Lebanese are divided on the
00:12:48issue, but this standoff leads many to believe that the talks in
00:12:52Rome will do little to affect their... reality on the ground.
00:12:56Priyan, TRT World, in
00:12:58Beirot. National Security
00:13:02Council Chaired by President Erdogan discussed the latest developments on the
00:13:06Terror Free Turkia initiative. On Wednesday, new legislative
00:13:10framework was submitted to the Parliament to create a framework for the next
00:13:13stage the terror free initiative. This legislation will take
00:13:17effect once the PKK terror groups full disarmant is
00:13:21verified and it will allow the cases of imprisoned. terrorist
00:13:25to be reassessed, but authorities stress that
00:13:27it is not a general amnesty.
00:13:31All Israeli forces are storming the calandia refugee camp in the
00:13:35occupied west bank for second day with 16 Palestinians now
00:13:39injured. 60 people have so far been arrested.
00:13:43Israel says its forces are targeting in their words terrorist elements
00:13:47in the camp which is home to more than 16,000
00:13:50Palestinian refugees and local media reported the Israeli
00:13:54army. distributing leaflet saying a large scale raid
00:13:58was being carried out. was the hand is outside the camp
00:14:02in occupied east Jerusalem and has the
00:14:04latest. it's been
00:14:0740, more than 41 hours since Israel began its large
00:14:11scale military assault on the qalandia refugee
00:14:15camp and now we're a bit further from the entrance to the camp then we were
00:14:19previously reporting earlier in the day because israely forces
00:14:22prevented journalists from covering, they removed them from the
00:14:26entire area and blockaded it off and they fired directly at
00:14:30us, stun grenades. uh, the the assault is
00:14:34still ongoing with hundreds of soldiers as well as special forces,
00:14:38police and paramilitary, border
00:14:40police, operating inside the
00:14:43camp, arresting palestinians, mass raiding homes
00:14:47and destroying contents these homes, vandalizing them,
00:14:51as we often see in the occupied west bank a daily basis.
00:14:55"now there are upwards of 16,000 people inside this
00:14:59camp that are under siege for the second
00:15:02day, there is no one allowed in or out with the with
00:15:05the um entrances into the camp closed off and
00:15:09there is a curfew, no one is allowed in the streets even to get anything
00:15:13eat or um or so, the Israeli military has also
00:15:17prevented and obstructed the work of ambulances trying
00:15:20to evacuate those 16 people who were injured, the
00:15:24majority them" severe physical assault including multiple
00:15:28men in their early to late 50s, so you're talking about
00:15:31elderly people being beaten up, and what's happening is that the Israeli
00:15:35military breaks down people's home. front doors
00:15:39uh barges in or storms the house with 10 to 15
00:15:42soldiers, they carry out physical assault against the residence, they carry
00:15:46out mass interrogations, over at least 60
00:15:50people have been interrogated so far and arrested
00:15:53according to the palestinian prisoner society
00:15:57and it's very important to note two things,
00:16:01one this is a main road, it is very vital
00:16:05artery uh as you can see there's should be cars bumper to bumper,
00:16:09but the movement is very weak. this road ties
00:16:13between the north and the center the occupied west bank with
00:16:16Jerusalem and the south. so the fact that they are blocking the
00:16:20movement here means that they are affecting tens of thousands of people who move
00:16:24through here every day for work, for healthcare, for other their own
00:16:28businesses. addition to that, the Israeli military has been
00:16:31demolishing palestinian businesses, they've
00:16:35been carrying out demolitions of
00:16:38Palestinian car washes, clothes stores and other
00:16:42businesses here in around the
00:16:46Colandia refugee camp and near the Collandia military checkpoint.
00:16:50And the last note is very important to make, there are no, I mean the
00:16:53Israeli military is talking about this being a military operation, but
00:16:57there are no armed elements inside these camps that are organized
00:17:01any way that would put up a front or to resist uh Israel's
00:17:05military incursion. Well, the number of
00:17:08Palestinian children being held without charge in Israeli
00:17:12jails has nearly dobled in the space of year. The number rose from just
00:17:16over 100 in January last year to nearly 200 by
00:17:20this March. The children are in so-called administrative
00:17:23detention. This is a policy where Israel imprisons people
00:17:27indefinitely without trial and without presenting any evidence
00:17:30against them. And average
00:17:34of one child per day has been killed in Gaza. Since the beginning the
00:17:38ceasefire last October, that's according to the United Nations Children's Agency,
00:17:42UNICEF, who say more than 300 children have lost their lives
00:17:46in the 300 days since the truth was announced, as well as Israeli
00:17:50bombings, Palestinian children face malnutrition and disease, and
00:17:54UNICEF also says 58,000 have lost one or
00:17:57both their
00:17:58parents,
00:18:06but Ukraine said is it hit two oil refineries in Russia as
00:18:10it continues to target the country's energy infrastructure. Russia
00:18:14confirmed refinery in the Yaroslav region was on fire
00:18:17after a Ukrainian drone strike and said emergency crews
00:18:21were working to put out the blaze. The regional governor says
00:18:25the refinery storage tanks had been struck by falling drone
00:18:29debury and he described it as the biggest attack so far on
00:18:32Yaroslav which has been targeted by Ukraine in the
00:18:35past. Well meanwile two people have been killed
00:18:39and five others wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's
00:18:43Briansk region. This come this comes after the Russian army
00:18:47said its air defense systems shot down 605
00:18:50Ukrainian drones overnight. Falling Debry from one the drones hit
00:18:54a logistic center belonging to the Russian e-commerce giant
00:18:58Wild Berries. It's the latest attack against this online retailer
00:19:02which Keith accuses of aiding Russia's war effort. Dasha
00:19:06Chenishova reports. For
00:19:10thousands of small businesses, online shops are the sensor their
00:19:13entire operation, from where housing and logistics to deliveries.
00:19:17Maxim sells a wide range of goods through wildburies, which is widely
00:19:21seen as Russia's answer to Amazon. He says drone attacks have
00:19:25exposed how vulnerable small businesses can be when they depend heavily a
00:19:29single logistics network, although he expects the company to
00:19:33recover. We are lucky that we
00:19:36stored only. small share of our goods at marketplace
00:19:39warehouses, we know how to adapt, plus we don't have heavy
00:19:43credit burden, that will help us lot, those who had 80 to
00:19:4790% their goods destroyed and bought that inventory with
00:19:51borrowed money are in very difficult situation, for
00:19:55many businesses, even a brief disruption can create serious cash flow
00:19:58problems, with inventory trapped inside damaged warehouses, sales
00:20:02stop while storage fees, supplier payments and other operating costs
00:20:06continue to pay. small and
00:20:10medium-sized businesses could suffer the most because their
00:20:13entire business model depends on infantry
00:20:16turnover. many bought their goods using borrowed money
00:20:20and if they can't maintain the sales volumes they originally
00:20:24planned, they may struggle to repay those loans.
00:20:28the impact extends beyond salaries. re-rooted shipments means thousands
00:20:31of independently operated pickup points are seen fuel deliveries
00:20:35and lower customer traffic, but There are now plans to build additional
00:20:39warehouses in neighboring Kazakhstan and Belarus and strength and
00:20:42security to make supply chains more
00:20:45resilient. This could affect the range of products
00:20:48available on the market. places and push up prices for some goods,
00:20:52but it won't fundamentally change the platform economy. online
00:20:56marketplaces remain Russia's dominant retail sales
00:20:59channel, and so we're more likely to see
00:21:03redistribution of sales than a collapse the system.
00:21:06analysts say Russia's well established trade links with China could help
00:21:10replace many low cost imported goods, limiting longer term
00:21:14disruption for consumers. recent drone strikes come a time when
00:21:18companies are already faced. high borrowing costs and higher taxes,
00:21:22so any prolong disruption could add further pressure to one of Russia's
00:21:26fastest growing sectors. 30 world,
00:21:30Moscow. Well, Sonia Vanden
00:21:33Ender is a political analyst and says the war is starting to
00:21:37affect people's everyday lives in
00:21:39Russia. Kie of strategy is to
00:21:43hurt the economy, this is what they say, this is what uh President
00:21:47Zelenski said few weeks ago. but of course
00:21:50this is now on consumers markets like wild berries, you have
00:21:54also ozone there, but this is not struck, but especially wild
00:21:58berries, and of course this is very bad, it's not only bad for
00:22:02consumers, but also a lot of countries are
00:22:05involved like Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,
00:22:09even China, and he said that there is
00:22:12military gear there, but if you look at all the retailers, like
00:22:16for instance you have aliexpress, well they also saw...
00:22:20like what you
00:22:21can call military gear, it's just suits and drones, mean i
00:22:25remember that i was somehow in the donbus and
00:22:28i saw some drones and one man told me the oh they are drones
00:22:31from aliexpress so mean
00:22:35they sell drones that's normal i don't think i
00:22:39said will sell drone anymore but of course it's bad for
00:22:42consumers but heard that it's still going on mean the
00:22:46sale still going on because russia has a big it's a big sailer
00:22:50in Russia, of course, the war is coming close, I mean uh,
00:22:54Ukraine is sending lot of drones every day, now
00:22:58every day, but nearly every week or every other day, and it's
00:23:01struck on oil refineries, and it is of course also
00:23:05not all of fineries, it's also hitting civilian
00:23:09buildings, we saw in the last week apartment buildings, so
00:23:13it's hitting civilians as well, and this is not really,
00:23:17yeah, it it's it's like you can say... kind of terrorism
00:23:20because this is actually private goods, it's from civilians like
00:23:24wellberries and apartment
00:23:26blocks. well, in Ukraine, three people
00:23:30have been killed in overnight strikes by Russia on settlements in the northern sumi
00:23:34region, three more were killed in strikes on the eastern
00:23:38city of bakilla in the harkif region. it comes after a barrage of
00:23:42Russian missiles and drones were launched at Kiev and the surrounding
00:23:46region on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people.
00:23:50what TRT was Joe Flynn has more
00:23:52from key uh we overnight saw few
00:23:56casualties in places including in the the eastern part the the frontline
00:24:00but also in the north and Sumi as well Russian glide bombs there hitting Sumi City injuring
00:24:04number of people and also resulting uh a couple of deaths. It
00:24:08is normal evening, normal night for Ukraine, but one that is
00:24:11increasingly concerning of course in the context the ballistic missiles and the lack of
00:24:15air defenses that Ukraine currently has, Vlodimir Zelinski there talking
00:24:19to uh the UK defense minister where's streating, we know that he has been having conversations
00:24:23yesterday too with Mark Rootter about how Ukraine
00:24:27can accelerate access to European partners,
00:24:30interceptors, things that are actually able to shoot down these ballistic missiles, because
00:24:34currently Ukraine basically has nothing, the key element of this
00:24:38is the US Patriot system, there are conversations between Kiev
00:24:42and Washington DC over both access to patriot
00:24:46systems, to patriot interceptor missiles themselves, but also about Ukraine's...
00:24:50ability to manufacture patriots in the future. the key fact
00:24:54in all of this is the lead time that it would take to to do so,
00:24:57even with patriot systems getting green lit today, we would still be looking at the middle of next year
00:25:01before those will be able to come on-stream and possibly even later before they're actually able
00:25:05to be integrated into Ukrainian air defense. in the meantime,
00:25:09Ukraine is working incredibly hard to try and boost its own
00:25:13defensive um domestic manufacturing
00:25:16capabilities. defense firms here that we've been talking to over the last couple of days. that we are
00:25:20talking to uh in
00:25:21the the coming days as well are are really trying to move forward quickly
00:25:25tandem with their European partners, but there are significant road
00:25:29blocks, chief among them is how they pay for it, and those are
00:25:33conversations too that both NATO and Vladimir Zelinski will trying to
00:25:36have in European
00:25:37capitals.
00:25:44US president Donald Trump is speaking to reporters at the overall office, let's
00:25:48listening.
00:25:50I people spoke have to such unbelievable
00:25:56some respect for, so hopefully that won't be people, necessary, I
00:25:56I did, would, but hopefully it'll
00:26:00work out very well for the country. because you're not going to find better than Todd
00:26:04Blanch. will you reach out to Senator Mikowskiy, senator Cassity for instance? let's see
00:26:08if we need anybody, I'll reach out to whoever I have to,
00:26:11but uh, anybody voting against him would be doing
00:26:15a great disservice to the country, please. Mr. President, the deadline for
00:26:19representative Max Miller to um withdraw from his
00:26:23race is coming up next week, do you believe you should
00:26:26withdraw? well, I'm not going to get involved and that's a very sad
00:26:29situation, and uh... "I know
00:26:33Max very well, but it's very, very
00:26:36sad that a situation like that takes place. Yeah, do you think
00:26:40the DOJ should prosecute Dr. Fauti?
00:26:44Well, you now, they prosecuted
00:26:47Peter Navaro, and they prosecuted Steve Bannon, to very decent
00:26:50people over something that essentially was never
00:26:53prosecuted before, and there are sort of
00:26:57telltale signs of similarity, and they
00:27:01went to jail. for number of months
00:27:05over something that they i saw one the analysts said they used to laugh it in
00:27:09the justice department when something like that was
00:27:12referred, but uh marrit garland prosecuted
00:27:15two very decent people and sent them to
00:27:19jail, i wasn't president, i would have given them a pardon in two
00:27:23seconds, but i wasn't, this was after left, they waited till after left, and
00:27:27then they prosecuted these two people and they are to be ashamed
00:27:30themselves, so when you see the... happened, you sort of say, maybe he
00:27:34should, what he did is far more serious than lot of
00:27:37crimes frankly, but they prosecuted two people with nothing
00:27:41like that has ever taken place before. Mr. President, Mr.
00:27:45President, on munitions, you uh posted overnight that the US has a
00:27:49massive amount, and you denied
00:27:51that there are any shortages, there is a supplemental request for
00:27:55$21 billion dollars to to restock,
00:27:58so um, why is that request still there if there's because we
00:28:02more all the time, and we need more. Look, we gave tremendous
00:28:06amount to Ukraine, the Biden people
00:28:10did, and they were given free of charge, no, no
00:28:13charge, no charge, billions, hundreds of billions of
00:28:16dollars, and fortunately I built up
00:28:20so much during my term, I rebuilt the military and also loaded
00:28:24it up with lot of stuff, we have certain types of munitions
00:28:28that are very powerful, that we have unlimited
00:28:31virtual. limited supply, we have others where it's a little bit
00:28:35tighter and we're getting them in a daily
00:28:38basis. as you know, our defense companies are building more plants right now
00:28:42than any point in history, they're building plants for the patriots, for the tomahawks, for
00:28:46everything, but we have certain types of munitions
00:28:50which are very, they may not be as accurate, they may not
00:28:54be, they're not as elite, we have elite to, but
00:28:57we're we're watching that very closely, but we have a
00:29:01certain types. very powerful and very
00:29:05good, and we have an unlimited supply,
00:29:09and so we're in great shape, but with that being
00:29:12said, we always want more, we have to have more, we have
00:29:16other things maybe come up, you may be come up and maybe don't come up, hopefully nothing
00:29:20else does come up, but we're in very good shape,
00:29:23we have literally massive amounts of ammunition,
00:29:26yeah, president, on Ukraine, president Zelensky
00:29:30says his country desperately needs long. long-range
00:29:33missiles or those patriot missile batteries, is that something that you're? well,
00:29:36I mean, we want missiles too, you, when Biden gave
00:29:40him so much, Biden gave $300 billion dollars
00:29:44worth of ammunition, you know, when I left, this, it was
00:29:47full, and he gave lot of it away, now we're rebuilding it, and we're
00:29:51using munitions that
00:29:54are very powerful, very good, but we wouldn't have been using them, we
00:29:58could have used something else, but these are uh, a little
00:30:02bit, older type, equally as effective,
00:30:06and uh,
00:30:07we, it's things that we have so much, plus we have supplies of
00:30:11munitions all over the world that if we ever needed them, we'd take
00:30:14that, we're supplied all over the world, but
00:30:18uh, we have, we're in very, very good shape. Russia seems to have
00:30:21increased their attacks on, that must be
00:30:25a concern, well, look, we're not involved from the
00:30:29standpoint, it's uh, we're separated by an. but
00:30:33I hate to see 2500 young people a month get killed
00:30:37and that's what's happening between Russia and Ukraine, they're losing average
00:30:4125,000 mostly soldiers
00:30:45a month
00:30:46and you're working
00:30:47on it and I think we're making progress, but it's a violent,
00:30:51very violent war, there's a lot of hatred in that war, lot of hatred between the two
00:30:55leaders, I said eight wars, I thought this would be maybe one the
00:30:59easier ones and