the, the going to headlines right now here on how to international, a high ranking russian defensive federalist obtained on corruption charges, submit allegations of imitating of large fries. thank you so much. thanks for coming. thank you. the thank you for. thank you. thank you so much. thanks. thanks . well, thankful where a sample? yeah, well your current president given credit where credit is due. fine thing is western sponsors full. just the latest factor of miniature support. that is, as is at fault, is on the battlefield. rack up and lobsters and spin you losing the trouble makers into police a fine go erupt. thing outside of georgia in parliament as lawmakers are passing

this transparency bill. you can see the police moving in to make arrest, but we are covering of who's behind the riots has agend or something you need to not the right lifting the late on today's mainstream narratives and cutting them down to size. let's kick it off right here on out to you international, starting right now on the domestic front, where another high ranking official from a russia's defense ministry has been detained on corruption charges. it's just weeks after a deputy minister was also arrested the kind of general unity because that self is accused of taking a large bribe. the state going into the investigation in 2021, 2023. as the head or the 8th directories of the general stuff. on the armed forces of the russian federation was itself received a particularly large bride from representatives of commercial structures for

committing southern actions invest favor off to searching the residences of this your equipment. solve the investigative committee found over $1000000.00 worth of various currencies. gold coins and valuable luxury items. and this is an offense that if he actually committed this, it could land them in prison for up to 15 years, according to russia's penal code, he served as the head of the general staff in russia, from 20102023. this is a position that requires dealing with lots of state secrets connected to the russian ministry of defense. and just last year, he became main personnel directory for the russian history of defense as well. late last months, the deputy head of the russian ministry of defense was detained. he's still in detainment right now, being held on, again, bribery charges like equipment solve. and it's specifically what he's being charged with is accepting favors from military contractors to the tune of over $10000000.00 . so that's even more than what we're looking at with the equipment. so this is at

the same time as a vladimir put in and suggested replacing the head of the russian ministry defense survey. shy, go with someone else, a, an economist by trade, a man named andre below so. so of course, we don't know if these corruption scandals are directly connected to this re shuffling of these sort of high ranking officials in the ministry of defense. but it looks like perhaps the administration is looking to take a bit of a different approach. corruption is something that occurs all over the world, the varying degrees depending on the country. but it's definitely in light of the russian military operation, something that ukraine is probably paying attention to and following itself. and we have to under dance that, well, russia is actively, uh, you know, challenging corruption in the country, finding these corrupt officials and holding them accountable. ukraine's essentially letting them ransacked the military. we've seen tons of reports that a billions of dollars may have been stolen during the construction of ukrainian

defenses in the heart of region. and that those defensive, those defenses weren't even completely constructed as, according to the plans that were put forward as well. that was some ukrainian soldiers have even been talking about this over 2 years. concrete fortifications with 3 floors of depth should have been established on the for any and border. and they were not even any land mines. we're coming to the conclusion that this was either because of insane staffed or deliberate sabotage. i know that those who abandoned the positions of the a 100 and 25th territorial defense brigade were made to sign acceptance and transfer certificates for fortifications. not even 30 percent of which were fully built, i hope that the perpetrators will be punished on the case of ukraine. it goes without saying that this kind of corruption is not very surprising, really, because even before the russian military operation began ukraine was one of the

most corrupt countries in europe. and then as this never ending flow of western weapons and money going, who knows where in ukraine, this corruption problem that the government and ukraine has had for the longest time, has just been spiraling more out of control than it was before. now as we mentioned earlier in the program, are ukrainian forces really now today, i mean, really facing an appeal of baffled russian troops taking control. now of this time i'd have broken off that care. it's a key note in the heart of gulf region that's adding to the 9 villages comforted their interest the last few days. and basically in an effort to turn the tide, the us secretary of state anthony blinking has arrived on a surprise trip to k of that. all right, that gives me angry. of course, good friends here. the height of movies that are coming and made the russian military gains, it's just a constant steam rolling. frankly. i blinking this presence isn't intended to show it with a boat there. if this continued us support the key to append to go on again, wrapping up its weapon supplies. although the supply lists along now,

it was the 1st visit by abide and administration officials since congress last month to prove to $61000000000.00 a package via crane is following months of wrangling, and again, most of it stays in dc. you guys, president though not showing away from saying i'll just of thankful here's for the support. thank you so much. thanks for coming to your grains. thank you that you came especially these days to thank you for this signal. also, i wanted to thank you from all my team, all your brains to uh, crucial package. things so much for this package. thanks to congress. thanks for them. by the way, i think both upon my positive support course, well, we're thankful for for these 2 americans to american people were equally determined that overtime ukraine stand strongly on its own feet militarily, economically democratically a strong, successful friday for ukraine. so

a middle defined for washington's new weapons that more alarming reports are emerging of continued ukrainian attempts to recruit the people to use them. the warning, disturbing images are ahead because what you're seeing coming up is a photo of a young woman from odessa. she says she was beaten by an enrollment officer of the fielding hub, boyfriend being dragged away again, another one. and you may find the video. this incident upset or the meanwhile the us state departments are deputies folks personally finding himself being grilled about washington's double standards over the was in ukraine and gaza because basically he's having to put on a straight face for this almost every single day. the pressure is really about how do you have better visibility in ukraine when there's up the little bit as far as

the us is concerned with russia. but you don't have the same level of visibility when you're dealing with an ally, and these are your question is rooted in the premise that these are we're talking about apples and apples here. and that is just simply not the case. people in the media enjoy making this comparison between israel and russia and the conflict in ukraine of the conflict and gaza. but we're, we're not even talking about apples and oranges. we're talking about apples and candy bars that we can hear, but she will be here. but we also seem to be talking about and i'm using allies, we're talking about 2 very distinct and different circumstances on the ground that are not even comparable. first grade user versions of doing nowadays, right? as of last are doing is question was about to you visibility? how could you have our visibility into whether our visibility into whether a government has the ability to hold itself accountable is absolutely something that like is plays into. so it's not, it's not, it's not you. so what about the governments of is why we give them depression. how could you have eyes in the great to determine because i took an account of the i

think what you mean by violating international law that you have to prove. and this is a sense of trust intent to finalize. but how did you have the intern defined the end to end with the russian army to violate international law when you concluded that action army did war crimes in your brain and you couldn't find that was your loss. so again, we're talking about 2 very different and distinct circumstances, which one was of the question. so was this an independent us investigation to decide whether or not israel broken international humanitarian law? or was this a us investigation aided by the israel's, he is realized, we're not involved in the production of the united states as national security memorandum that's going on question, go ahead jaws. that guy was really sweating it. all right,

so what about transparency highlighting? what is with that? because georgia little make is a possible to do just that. some questionable then boost over the public. a seemingly outraged signing the security will set up outside the parliament. law enforcement, no choice. they've got to move and make arrest sarah, trying to disperse the agitators the, by the way, a lot of organizers behind these demonstrations of protests report. we choreographing it, and it, that being finance to now was tempest, fled on the streets outside members of parliament. luck holdings,

behind close to the yeah, but of a made a right. the members of the routing party reportedly attacked and opposition representative during our readings of a drop legislation bill for san jose to be transparent about where they getting that money from. and frankly, that's a really good thing. and washington has condemned the law according to come down on civil society, grew smaller. some in congress have even a trucking sanctions, despite the new bill actually mirror awaiting similar legislation in the united states. meanwhile, rushers, a foreign ministry spoke up and us, you commented on the georgia law, highlighting similar western bills are enforced today. let me remind you that lowe's and for an agent similar in content, and in some cases consider restrict to are in force and more than 60 countries around the world,

primarily in benchmark democracies. this is where it all started. for example, in the us say, the foreign agents registration act has been in full since 1938 in australia on a system of transparency of foreign influence in the u. k. on national security in israel and transparency of n g. a funding in france on the prevention of for an interference of vote in the senate to supply and in the near future. so we was talking with the georgia and the politician on leader of the georgia and justice party e. go to your god say of he says that of those who a brand of the low on democratic it's very simple. he says they just haven't read it with a number of them. we're seeing the implementation of a theory of controlled chaos all over the world. and we are now seeing some of this in georgia, controlled chaos as one conductor, but lobbyist on both sides are competing with each other in the fight is not so much for influence, influence is obvious. but for money, i assure you those who criticized the sly and the you in the west. they have not

read this law, which consists of 13 articles only. and none of them fall under the definition of an democratic. and the maximum sanction under this law is a fine of $10000.00, and this law requires n g o's to do only one thing to declare their income that exceeds 20 percent of the value of their work, so to speak. and this is done once a year, like all normal citizens and organizations fill in the declaration once a year. that's it really is a friendship set to last the ages as the russian president vladimir putting this headed to china. this thursday, it will be his 1st trip abroad since he was a no great, it was 5th time as rush as president. just last week. here we discussed the upcoming state visit with cg, tn correspondent, bike type that this visit comes as the 2 countries celebrate their 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations. so it goes without saying that this visit, it's a symbolic, it's a symbolic gathering on china. as the ministry hasn't really given much detail of

what exactly might be touched upon during this trip, but it is expected that the top a topics concerning energy concerning national and regional security economy and tre, they could all be brought on and be talked about. and times for ministry spokesperson, when they actually said and at an earlier press conference, that the diplomatic efforts between the chinese and russian as of state play a strategic role in guiding bilateral relations. both leaders agreed to continue maintaining close interactions to ensure that the relations between china and russia progresses smoothly instead of china and russia are both developing countries under the brakes framework. they go way back. they have so much in common seeking development through cooperation is only natural for diseases and thought in a couple of weeks. we're also going to say it's china is also expected to stand as

delegations to russia to attend the st. petersburg economic form as well. so again, there are certainly a lot to expect down the road this year. you know, you got to start to wonder of washington epa loans as the us secretary of state is threatening by aging with more sanctions over its ties with russia. and we discussed this with the vice chairman of the shanghai center for rent, park, and international studies. nelson wong gauge is a hey, james message has been always very clear that the relationship between china and the us is also quite important because our 2 countries economies are interwoven to a much greater extent and about in the meantime at this should not be used by the us to force trying to bring to we can laid out behave in the way that the us was. this

is a totally different method because china as an independent country and its relationship with russia as being declared at by both sides, that it's not against any the country. right? and our 2 countries, i mean, china and russia is economies are extremely complementary to each other. it's quite natural that our relationship, china's trade was russia, the normal tre, should not be interrupted by anybody else who, who might come and say, hey, you do not do business with this country. or you can only do business with that country. now they say it's a totally different you comp, say, based to a big country with absolute independence when it comes to its foreign policy. and who knows actually about the best to protect its home countries. interest on us, you're thinking of throwing off the international this our from moscow is ready for

us is they've been using palestinian children as human shields. that's according to the rights group defense for children international. the claims coming off to a number of youngsters gave testimony about a reason, the idea afraid in the west bank covetous after the soldiers searched the apartments in the building that i was entering before them. i asked them well crying where they were taking. one of them told me now or big that they would take me with them to show them the way, in addition to opening the doors of the neighboring homes and entering before they did. the soldiers told me to knock on the doors of the apartments in the building while they were standing behind me at a fairly short distance and to ask the residents to come out. and this is what i did. they told me to walk in front of them in the alleys of the slomo neighborhood in the camp. they would hide in the alleys and tell me to see whether there was anyone around. after that, the untied my hands and whenever we passed the house or building, they would instruct me to enter and ask the residents to come out. we heard from

the general director of the defendants for children international who suggests that israel bodies children's rights with impunity because no one even still to date is holding tele beef to account. this is the 1st time that there is really such as yours. just then has a human she'd. but this time is different than the previous times because they use the ideas to teach. it didn't mean to stand by the use of the boys and therefore the opposing the machine guns on this. how does this talk to should in different directions inside there, but if you do gaps, so you've got an image in it, you just put it in, in the age of 2015 use or being subject to such kind of fun. i'm sure. thank you. from the chart that is and of course. 1 1 having them form and dying by pushing them to be doing this is that the never being in

the 1st the so just in order to keep the sort as in the 2nd place was interested in uh, in the highest and best i can see that the only step in the listing, kind of distributing, just getting into is there anybody there? the quote is right and is in the system. it's a great by lending the rights of course, to jointly. they use their programs that are causing the others that they're doing . that's why i sent it as being not as, i mean it will be it or the anatomy. it's a policy by going into the data, unfortunately is right. it is live on the front of benefits. and because of the wisdom, the wisdom want to see that people can see that what is found and in this is receiving it as a condo addiction. and as again, like to continue,

the crimes is highly is going way primes crimes against the human side by the army. and at the end of the day, they're concerned up themselves. is that more more of the army in the world? is i? it is so find it from the sofa from the humanities the minute as the water came in as the do the side with the rest of them offer something un agency, the palestinian refugee is, has once again been torch to buy. it's really sightless. it's the foot austin. i was talking just a few days that it's coming just off the organizations west 9th directive can find its reopening of history and exclusive chat with us right here at dot c o 3, the main office, the palestinian is all on that. it was down, i see it another bilingual tag when the compound was set on fire and they had stated that it was closed temporarily pending the restoration of proper security.

we are the 1st journalist on the ground as the agency is about to announce that its reopened. this whole thing was a brush fire all the way down. it started around this bus stop area and we have it all on cctv us. yeah, we saw the yeah, yeah. so that makes when something something, something an incendiary. i don't know what it was and it came all the way. it went very fast and the fire came all the way down this way. so in this a very densely populated residential area, apartment buildings everywhere, and then we had a 2nd fire 2 hours later. and the other end of the compound or small fire was contained quickly. but it was very close to the petrol tank because we have a fuel station. yeah. so it petrol and diesel tank there and that that would have been a nightmare because it would be a huge explosion. right. thousands of leaders appeal myself as

a director. i grabbed the fire extinguisher from my office and ran down to the fire and i was putting out the fire myself. and you know, it's crazy in retrospect, but i was holding the, for the fire extinguisher at the base of one of the big flames and shielding myself is a smoke, was tremendous because this is like a wildfire. so heavy smoke couldn't see. and while i'm spring i was being hit by stones. oh wow. i was being stolen by the, by the local community which is complete madness. you know, but the fans is so high, so it is high. but the systems that went through, you know, smaller stones and then a lot of people are up in the balconies here in this residential block, watching what was going on, you know, clamping down with on the phone or is a terrace organization, whatever they were yelling. so i think they were watching it as if it was like a, you know, football match or something. a new office has been temporarily closed. i was, it was said that uh, it will remain closed until uh, securities restored, correct? yeah. now we are as far as i understand the 1st drum this on the ground. uh when

you i bought to announce that it reopened. so secure which is restored. now you feel safe, so thursday not this will happen thursday night of last week. yep. we close the office that evening and friday we we work on monday to friday schedule in the duracell office. and this is the west bank field office supporting the west bank and east jerusalem. friday we were closed. we did have an emergency meeting of our donors and partners that day to explain exactly what happened and to also communicate the severity of this. this isn't our son attack on a un installation in a city, in a very busy city. and so we were the, i think they understood and were really grateful for the, the, the statements made by all of our different member states, understanding the severity and we closed in order to assess a number of things. we had to assess all the, any of the damage. we had to check the old, the hoses, the water hoses, fire hoses, some of them had a defective nozzles. we fix that. we had to recharge and replace fire extinguishers that we had to use during the fire. so we had to do

a number of things like that. we increased our security around the compound. we double checked, all of the cameras are still working because sometimes the smoke can affect the cameras. so all of that was was done. we made our official complaint and report to the police or doing the investigation. we had a meeting today with the police, as i said, you know we, we did what we feel we could in order to reopen the office today, which we did that sounds to me like you are expecting more a tags and like the threat is still there the injury still there, but you are just better prepared. there were better prepared. yeah. and i really hope that it is calm down. said, you know i, i really think the police understood the severity of this. you're in the middle of the orthodox community here. and you said you've been always the neighbors absolutely much. yeah. so what happened when did change? it's really strange actually because we've never had any issues at all of any kind with the community that's here. nothing. they have their, their lives. then we go about our business, this is an office, you know,

this is not a busy bustling place. people come in on buses and car as they do their job and then they go home at the end of the day. so it's actually quite quiet as a, as a, as an office is quite large. but it's, you know, with different offices and warehouses and things like that disturbing. yeah. yeah. but it's not a disturbing, noisy place. so nothing at all. but, but i think lately there's been a lot of intense rhetoric and the media statements made by political figures. a lot of attacks on, on right, as an organization that we are somehow we are home us or we are, you know, part of the problem and part of the conflict when we're not, we're a mandated you an agency to provide services to the palestinians until there's a just solution to the conflict. so we're a political in a way caught up in this very political situation. and that i think is what happens is that the community often children and others in the, in the neighborhood have now been, i don't know instrumental lives or something has now been pulled into this conflict . and they're seeing all of these demonstrations and they're somehow getting involved in a way which is very violent. the under, within israel towards another,

was started building of their earlier this year. israel claimed that over a dozen employees of the un, bugging to call it. and they have mass let attack back in october, which resulted in hundreds of civilians and military mode and scores kidnapped under what has repeatedly denied all that they gave sions, but is really wrong to an activists have started stage and multiple protests in front of the agencies offices ever since. so we think the taxpayers are coming from this community because when we did see a lot. yeah, because we took kids on bicycles riding around. others that came and word in front of the, of the compound is kind of a mix of people. some that were seem to be more local and others that were coming in from, from settlements. um, you know, we had even one uh, one adult that was an, a kind of military uniform. didn't look very official but, and kind of army fatigues with the rifle. so when you start adding angry people, rocks sticks, guns that it's very dangerous. and so we're hopeful that all of this remains. tom,

you are responsible for on the activity and look at, look at the kids. yeah, yep. yep. those some kids that are just going by. yeah. yeah. but there's always what they were, and i didn't know that there's always a lot of a lot of elders show a little better. and that's how they say hello the throw in stone. yeah. but the kids that are probably bored and somehow feel that they need to be involved in some kind of i don't know what rebellion there is a fence here and it's supposed to protect us, but they, they take usually small stones that go through easily. but we'll get this that's a big one and that would really hurt you if it is. oh my god is over the fence. yeah, some of them i think she'll be placed on was this now waiting for the aren't? yeah. she's from the by the kids. that's what they need. yeah, you're doing this here . he said,

we don't want to hear. do you think it's kind of feeler of these really forces? i mean, since security is supposed to be provided by israel, and do you see it as a favor from this side? well, i think i can do better. and, and this is what came up in our conversation today. is that a few weeks ago or months ago, there were protests that were very organized. the police came, they set up a metal barrier that kept everyone away from the gate. like on the other side of the street, there were many protests. there were people with megaphones and making statements, and banners, which was over the very much an organized kind of ministration, but far away from the gates, we had perfect access to both of our entrance points that somehow deteriorated. and so last tuesday, when we had this very aggressive demonstration, there were police there, but they were not managing the crowd. then we said, we told them we said this is not, it's not hard to do. you know, i think normally if the police are there and they keep people back, you keep them away from the gate because we need access to these gates in case

there's any emergency ambulance, a fire, anything that we experienced there. so yeah, just to happen. yeah, i think that they, they need to do probably a more structured job like they had done in the past. it could be dangerous, you know, having people throwing rocks up. she was a dangerous thing. so we're hoping that community also can help calm things down. the police were also discussing this today that maybe they need to work with the rabbis to also make it clear that you know, this is dangerous. yes. and the most, this is dangerous behavior. as we were leaving the under the law headquarters, the crowd of youngsters armed with stones started growing bigger and bigger. the office might be reopened, but this threat is still there. grief notional out t is the rest of them. so with thousands of people who are moving to 80 countries, depending on the gorgeous central russians they do have cars on it. so why the russia is nomic world international form is taking place and opening ceremony that by the prototype of stein regional head kick it off. one of the highlights is said

to be the allow food for the basically over the next 6 days, delegates will be able to choose a more than one, the 100 sessions, anything from economics to terrorism, culture, and more forums. i key goal is to bring together specialists from the islamic world and promote cooperation. the deputy secretary general of them, a lazy and agricultural ministry set as a huge potential to boost ties with russia. by participating in this uh, cause on hold on. uh, we can put the end and hundreds of our capacity and produce a food for all the people. and we can see that, but they show all the dismiss includes between melisha and raw show, especially even because on in the sag about the us start. because based on my observation and my visit for the previous cause, i'm caught on, we can see there's a lot opportunity for melisha. we weren't hanging.