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00:00:00trying to balance the recovery
00:00:01of the
00:00:02of the economy and the fighting against the high inflation
00:00:06and the demands
00:00:07of of the people in the street who they said that they feel left
00:00:11behind. US president Donald Trump's
00:00:15pick for attorney general Todd Blanch is likely to be confirmed
00:00:18in the senate
00:00:19of after Republican senator Bill Cassidy announced his support.
00:00:23Cassidy's vote gives
00:00:25in Republicans enough votes for majority just Todd
00:00:29Blanch with previous. served as Trump's lawyer and is the current acting
00:00:33attorney general. He was nominated nearly two months ago to replace the
00:00:36Ousted Pam Bomby. A US
00:00:40federal appeals court has ruled that President Trump must stop the
00:00:43construction
00:00:44of the 400 million dollar white house ballroom. The court says that
00:00:48Trump must first seek congressional approval. The US president has called the
00:00:52ruling unlawful and politically motivated and says he will
00:00:56appeal to the Supreme Court. Trump reiterated the project is
00:01:00matter of national security due to various security features he
00:01:04wants to add to the new wing
00:01:06of the white house. Spain's government
00:01:10says it will establish border controls for
00:01:13de flights and ships from Italy an escalating dispute over irregular
00:01:17migration. The dispute comes a week after Italy introduced similar
00:01:21measures following a mass influx of tens of thousands of
00:01:24migrants from Morocco into the Spanish territory of
00:01:28Seuta. Madrid earlier. demanded that Rome lifts border controls
00:01:32imposed on Spanish travelers, saying the measure
00:01:34a is
00:01:34unjust.
00:01:47of a Ukrainian
00:01:50a president Vuladimir Zelenski is in Serbia for top-level
00:01:54of talks,
00:01:54his first visit there since the Russian attack on his country more than four
00:01:58years ago. Zelensky is... scheduled to have talks with his Serbian
00:02:02counterpart, Alexander Vutic and Prime Minister
00:02:05Duro Makut. He says he will discuss expanding economic ties and
00:02:09security issues. Both nations are bidding to become members
00:02:13of the European Union, but Serbia is also a long timeime
00:02:17ally of Russia. The US
00:02:20senate has passed the sweeping Russian sanctions package. The
00:02:24measure targets Russia's energy revenues and would penalize countries
00:02:28that continue to buy. oil and gas, the bill is named after
00:02:32late Senator Lindsay
00:02:33of Graham who suddenly died last month after spending more than year building
00:02:37support for it. the package now moves to the house of representatives
00:02:41where a vote is set to take place after summer
00:02:44recess. this bill is about changing
00:02:48Vladimir Putin's calculus: every barrel of
00:02:51of oil that goes unsold every dollar denied the
00:02:55Kremlin makes it
00:02:57of harder for Russia its to rain.
00:02:59finance of terror which every night ukrainians
00:03:03endure, killing
00:03:06civilians. A leading Ukrainian
00:03:09weapons maker says she has a way to stop Russia's ballistic missile
00:03:13attacks without needing to shoot the missiles down. In exclusive comments
00:03:17to TRT World Firepoint CEO
00:03:20of Irena Terrek says the company already has the weapons to destroy the launchers,
00:03:24but needs Starlink enabled over Russian territory. Joe Flynn
00:03:28reports. High up in the skies
00:03:31above Ukraine, with not a person in sight, there is a battle being
00:03:35waged. It is new stage of Kieve's conflict with
00:03:39Russia, one that is pushing the frontiers of technology
00:03:43and the economics of
00:03:45in warfare. Yet the implications of this fight for air
00:03:48superiority are on the
00:03:49ground. Few weapons have
00:03:53played as big role in Russia's war on Ukraine
00:03:56of as the Shahed. The long-range
00:03:58of unmanned Kamakazi drone.
00:04:10a
00:04:30says sting has down thousands of Russian Shaheads since
00:04:33entering regular service last year. This isn't just
00:04:37about technology. It is about altering the economics of warfare.
00:04:41These things are smaller, they are cheaper, they are more scalable.
00:04:45They can't stop ballistic missiles, but Ukraine believes this is how
00:04:49it alters the balance of power against drones in its skies. But
00:04:53systems like these cannot stop the ballistic missiles that have killed dozens
00:04:57across Ukraine over the last week. President. Zelinski has
00:05:00said that without new interceptors,
00:05:02of specifically US patriots, it is unable to stop them.
00:05:06Yet in exclusive comments to TRT World, Ukrainian drone maker
00:05:10FirePoint claims it may have. another answer, involving
00:05:14its long-range attack drone, the FP1. We need
00:05:17a Saring connectivity over Russia,
00:05:20if we had this, we could destroy all the launchers for ballistic
00:05:24missiles. You are saying that if Elon Musk gave you permission to
00:05:28use starlink over Russian territory, that you could stop all
00:05:31ballistic missiles from coming in to Ukraine, yes, we already
00:05:35have all the instruments for this. I think any way we need to
00:05:39also provide anti-ballistic capabilities, but... if we're talking
00:05:43about plug and play solution, yes, this is the most crucial change
00:05:47that could happen in the moment. if the claim is correct, it
00:05:50would shift the equation of Ukraine's ballistic defense from one of
00:05:54scarce interceptors towards one of offensive reach
00:05:58and permission. Selinskiy is currently in
00:06:01negotiations over patriot interceptors with the US and has also
00:06:05asked President Donald Trump about using Starlink over Russian
00:06:09territory. The battle in Ukraine's skies may... be
00:06:12determining the next stage in this war, yet it is discussions in the
00:06:16political halls of power that could yet decide its
00:06:19future. Joe Flin, TRT World in
00:06:22Kieve. Now, Abilardo la
00:06:26Espria has been sworn in as the new president of
00:06:29Colombia. Foreign leaders from neighboring countries along with a US delegation
00:06:33and the Spanish king attended the ceremony, the right-wing
00:06:37lawyer won June's runoff election after pledging to crack
00:06:41down on armed. groups reduce the size of government by up to
00:06:4540% and revived the country's oil and gas
00:06:48sector.
00:06:53i am sending a firm message to the colombian people. the time has come
00:06:57to restore order, authority and
00:07:00freedom. earlier, i spoke to Manuel
00:07:03Rueda in Bogota about the inauguration the new
00:07:06president. it's a 180 degree
00:07:10turning point, particularly when you look at security
00:07:14policies, because for the past four years, Colombia's government has been
00:07:18trying to stage peace negotiations with the remaining rebel groups in the
00:07:22country as well as with drug gangs, and despeya has
00:07:26said he will end all of this, he wants to confront these groups with
00:07:30greater military force, he believes that strategy would put more
00:07:33pressure on them, however negotiation down the
00:07:37line would be necessary because you have more than
00:07:4018,00 people involved in these criminal
00:07:43organizations, so it is a big shift uh when it comes to the
00:07:47economy as well, he wants a small to downsize
00:07:50government, and his opponents are worried that he will cut back on
00:07:53social services as he tries to do that, and how will relations between
00:07:57Columbia and the United States uh be
00:08:00effective? uh, well, this will be very
00:08:04different relation um, under president Gustavo Petro, he has
00:08:08been critical the United States in areas for example like and
00:08:13turn ic policies or issues like the war in
00:08:16Gaza. Um, despiaya is aligning
00:08:20Colombia with US foreign policy. Um, he said he
00:08:24will cut diplomatic relations with Cuba, he will reestablish
00:08:28diplomatic ties with Israel that were cut under the previous
00:08:31government because the genocide in Gaza, so
00:08:35and he he said he will open Colombia's embassy in
00:08:39Israel in Jerusalem, so he's really aligning. himself with
00:08:43the Trump administration and also on the narcotics
00:08:47side uh promising he will bring back
00:08:50eradication flights were that spray the illegal coca
00:08:54crops in Colombia. United States officials have been asking
00:08:58that for that for many years, but Columbia actually canceled those types
00:09:02of eradication flights about decade ago because of
00:09:05environmental issues. So what you see now is basically a
00:09:09government that shares lot the same views. that the Trump
00:09:13administration has when it comes to crime, he's also
00:09:17a supporter of of tackling
00:09:21the boats that that carry drugs across the Caribbean, this
00:09:24controversial campaign led by the Trump administration to blow up boats in the
00:09:28sea, so yeah much more closer lined with the United
00:09:31States, not just on security but
00:09:34on diplomatic issues as well, for example the relations with
00:09:37Israel, well let's talk more about this
00:09:41now with Mario Karvajal. Kabal, he is a columnist and former
00:09:45consultant at Colombia Risk Analysis and joins us live now from
00:09:48Kali in Colombia. Thanks very much for being with us. So how
00:09:52much of a change does this represent for Colombia, new era for
00:09:56the country now? happy to be here with you
00:10:00tonight, and this represents significant change regarding
00:10:04policy, not only in terms of security, but also
00:10:07economically, one must recognize that
00:10:10there was a very polarized election. one in which
00:10:14two extremes the political spectrum arrived at the final
00:10:17round, and
00:10:19in which the difference was less than one%, and
00:10:23that demonstrated also, a thirst for
00:10:27change regarding not only the security policy, but
00:10:30especially regarding the failures the peace process or
00:10:34attempted total peace process in colombia that
00:10:37was led by the petrol administration
00:10:41and also the third set colombia had for an outsider the political
00:10:45system to arrive to the presidency, yeah
00:10:48and he's he said he wants to get tougher on the armed groups
00:10:51and treat them as military targets, what impact is? that likely to
00:10:55have that will, it depends, it
00:10:59likely will uh lead to short term gains that could,
00:11:03because one has to recognize that, for example, according to the latest
00:11:06data in investigation by the
00:11:10foundation for ideas for peace in colombia
00:11:13between december
00:11:162022 to july of 2026,
00:11:19average different arm group disidencies in colombia
00:11:23increase the number of of group members by
00:11:2690% in the case for
00:11:3052% and in the disidencias
00:11:32of it was accumulated 109%
00:11:36increase between december 2022 and july of
00:11:392026 so it it
00:11:43demonstrates the need for a change in the security policy and a
00:11:46one that has stated on numerous ocasions that he will
00:11:49lead and looking beyond colombia does this
00:11:53reflect a broader politic. shift taking place across
00:11:57Latin America or is it primarily response to Colombia's
00:12:01own security and economic challenges. I
00:12:05think it respond to both, not only a broader shift toward more right-wing
00:12:08candidates, reverse of what we saw for example in the beginning the
00:12:122000 with the pink tide, this is reversal to the right,
00:12:16not only in Colombia but also ecuador, in
00:12:20Argentina, in Chile, with cast, in Bolivia, in
00:12:23Peru and perhaps the outlier in this case
00:12:27will be a Brazil, but it's too hard to
00:12:30know. um, but it demonstrates not only a shift to the
00:12:34right, but also an anti-incumbent shift that was also present
00:12:38four years ago when bra arrived in the
00:12:41presidency, and the general south america
00:12:45continent was shifting to the left, so I think it's a
00:12:48pendulum swinging back to the right, not only in Colombia, but also in
00:12:52generally in Latin America and... aspiraya has also
00:12:56said that he wants to shrink the size the colombian government by as
00:13:00much as 40%. presumably there's a lot of colombians who are not going to
00:13:04be happy about that, mean
00:13:06is that is that something that can even be
00:13:08done? it's on, it's
00:13:12legally difficult to do considering that close to
00:13:1690% the colombia national budget is decreed already by law and
00:13:19it's not flexible so the the main
00:13:23cuts will have to be in. come from that 10%, he has already
00:13:27announced not only the possible joining of
00:13:30ministries, for example in in culture and education that they would
00:13:34fuse to become one, and also the closing of some
00:13:38membes in Colombia, it's also working at different subsidies
00:13:42to be more focalized in order to avoid waste and to fight
00:13:46corruption, which does um generate
00:13:49significant losses for the Colombian government, so
00:13:53however "the cut in the size of he
00:13:57states will be difficult to achieve, but
00:14:00it is undoubtably the fact true that Colombia needs to be
00:14:03more guarding on how it spents
00:14:06its its resources, given that a
00:14:10best case scenario, the fiscal deficit this year will fall between 7
00:14:14or 8% of GDP, which demonstrates the urgent
00:14:18need for a more rational use the
00:14:21government's funds and there
00:14:23were also protests." that greeted uh this
00:14:27inauguration, to what extent do they represent divisions in the
00:14:31country? think it demonstrates and
00:14:34is it signature of how polarized these elections were.
00:14:38again, the result was decided by less than one%. it
00:14:42was very, very close. um, and this
00:14:45demonstrates that the opposition is already in force of its
00:14:49campaign not only for during the next four years for the presidency in
00:14:522030, but also the fact that... next year there will be local
00:14:56elections, so political parties are already trying to test out
00:15:00what could their messages be and in that trying to animate their
00:15:03basis, which is demonstrated by not only this
00:15:07discourse and this protests that are going today in
00:15:11out of those transitioning power, but it's what gets to come not only
00:15:15in terms of political holding
00:15:19this government accountable, but also in trying to construct
00:15:23that narrative that will allow them to contest the regional elections,
00:15:27which will happen in October of next
00:15:39"now at least five teachers were killed in a school shooting on the outskirts of
00:15:42Thailand's capital, Bangkok. Police say the gunman was a student
00:15:46who shot his grandparents before the attack and later turned the
00:15:50gun on himself. Yevgenia Mikhailidi
00:15:53reports. Students
00:15:57take cover at the school in Thailand."