[000:00:00;00] ah mm ah, 101 character, the russian soldiers return from you, put in captivity in alleged exchange of prisoners. why wealth and all the things with russia, an exclusive interview in which he says those countries tires have significantly strengthened in spite worse than sanctioned. the sanctions war against russia has, in fact had to convey to not perceive and accelerate in russia, india trade. on the 17th of february,

the day of course, the unilateral declared independence from serbia, we hear from serbian people who share their discipline with and this may 15 years to this, but i'm out of for me, that was the strategy day of my life. losing a part of my country peace is not presented this day in every corner. we have coastal police spring fear and share with good laurie. i welcome to, i think, and i feel glossing alive from moscow balls. and as always is great to have you with us, i'm more at her mommy. let's take a look at today's top stories also says 101 a russian murphy prisoners have returned from ukrainian captivity and then lay just swap with keys, rushes defacements. he says

a service one had faced mortal danger in captivity. ukraine got back the exact same number of its captured soldiers. the released russian troops have been taken to moscow by they'll receive medical and flight logical evaluations. and any necessary treatment is the 2nd such prisoner for this month. the previous one was mediated by the united arab emirates, all the stuff in groups in your prison exchange round between russia and ukraine was conducted on thursday, bringing 101 brush and serviceman home russian air force plane with the former po, w's on board, lend at the near port here, moscow from where they will be transported to a military hospital in the capitol for medical and psychological rehabilitation, the russian defense ministry stated that this man were at risk of death while held captive in ukraine. after spending, arguably the darkest hours over their lives as p o w in prisoner camps,

they finally walk free. the feeling must be unbelievable. sheffield sierra, my heart is beating. i'm glad that i'm finally at home on my land. at 1st i did not believe it. it's but then i had some kind of incomprehensible feeling as if i had fallen in love for the 1st time. so screw wallace when we were being held captive, they didn't explain anything to us. so i didn't really believe it. or do you never know where you'll be sent? but when i found out i was delighted. my whole family is happy. every one is waiting for me at home or robert, but i promise to return what we're going back home was watched her lose a. she knew she, i have great feeling, so we returned to our homeland. although we have been waiting for this moment for a long time. it finally happened when i did it. we kept up our hopes and believed that this day would come and it has come to day. when you maria, i have incredible emotions. i cannot believe this. now i want to go home, go fishing with my dad, see my family and celebrate all the holidays with them. one of the highest ranking u. s. t. m,

as in washington on the 6th through the state victorian newland have said cues full 5th, aug justified. if they inside russian fate infrastructure in crimea, ukraine is not going to be say, unless crimea is at a minima. at a minimum, demilitarized, there are a mass military installations in on crimea that russia has turned into essential logistics and back on the pose for this, for those are legitimate targets. ukraine is heading them and we are supporting that the soviet union assign climate synchron in the 1950s for the laws of the ethnic russian toes. we voted to join russia in 2014, fallen in 2 in q that victorian newland supported. it was necessary for ukraine has spar condemnation or from a member of the european parliament alongside criticism for you couldn't in leaders,

emergencies, please. for more weaponry, instead of seeking a peace deal, soleski has been american grounds begging for more weapons. but now, one more to say about peace, how many of his own people was the conscript and feed into the carnage before he sits down to negotiations. and many of the people of europe was lose our jobs and our homes before natal with allowed these no graces. no, no, she has to happen. lastly, what i'd like to know what has happened to germany? the jewel of europe shows told us that would be no peace in russia, but no apiece in europe without russia forced to send had mas, now you're certain tanks to kill russians, that they, numerous and poor credit is being violently detained on the seas. and in the homes we sent on the front lines, keys forces,

but the use of suffered massive losses in reason of fighting in dom bus. we heard from international and certainly claim, preston says the quinn conference is big business for many western officials. and that's what making them want to prolong the conflict as much as possible. you know, i've heard tale of conscription now of 15 and 16 year old boys people were drafted in the service it go to the market to buy food and you know, people reinforce in the service and it's reminiscent, frankly, of the last days of germany in 1945, when that, that country was failing and losing the war. the western countries have ignored common sense and prudent thought in the support they've given to ukraine to this date. and i don't see this change in now because of, you know, the, the current construct, conscription laws and practices in the ukraine. you know,

it's business. so in a way, it's just a way to, to propagate this more because a lot of people in the west are making a lot of money. i mean, look at, congress looked at the number of people in our congress that own shares and right the on and united technologies and northrop grumman. they're all making money. and so sadly, there's a small percentage of the people in the united states and great britain and other western countries that are, are making big money on this conflict. arsie, an exclusive interview with the russian ambassador to india, and which he said that nato, this file shouldn't possesses indirect slit to russian and asia, pacific security stating its defensive nature, a nato chose of offensive actions against russia. so similarly,

it's attempts to spread its influence. here to the asia pacific should not mislead anyone with russia and china as the 2 obvious adversary's. there are less obvious targets as well, like the unity of the region at large tre, between russia and india really messy last year. despite western sanctions, russia has become, is the largest oil supplier. meanwhile, india has been investing in petroleum and natural gas projects in the russian far east, the russian on buses in the again. so the western sanctions have actually catalyzed bilateral relations. a full interview will be an air throughout the day. the sanctions war against russia has, in fact,

has had, in fact, not present effect and accelerated the, the russia, india trade. as you know, last year it grew almost 3 and a half times and reached, reached about 35000000000 u. s. c. u. s. t. a record record level of the lion's share belongs to oil and coal, and fertilizers, and the metal supplies from russia. indian exports are still far behind. that is true. we're working in 10 in 10 sleep to balance it. it's important that there is a wide spread interest from private sector, a regional business, a small and medium scale business is getting more active.

the tourists flow to india shows promising dynamics, and there's increasing so the scope of opportunities for india to expand its presence in the russian market that has increased dramatically in almost all segments of industry. and it would be wise for the indian business to make use of friday marks the 15th of declaration of independence from serbia. back then, no referendum was held. the subs living land, protesting the decision belgrade, denouncing it as illegal. but declaration and separatist movement could be gained. weiss was support from western powers. is how people who live through those of us describe their feelings when they learned their home lab was divided into

or 4 minutes left was the saddest day of my life. losing a part of my country even to this day, regardless of them colon in any manner kassawa. i see it is an integral part of the republic of serbia. i think it's all one big propaganda campaign from the west. knowing that this land is very rich in minerals and or, i think it's all about just grabbing what they need. peace is not present at this day, nor do i think we will have it until corso has recognized the serbian territory. life has changed for the worse. i don't feel safe at all. in every corner we have coursework, police spraying fear and sir panting. but when the penis was announced, who felt unsafe? were if i was safe and to say to fall the children, i believed it was their goal to separate course when mental health from so bear and to have it for themselves. it hasn't brought peace for serbs for sure. i don't know how it will go on further, but i don't think it will be any better. at least foss serbs and for the children,

we don't want them to grow up in the circumstances. we don't feel safe because the server is rovan gain prominent through the the thought was in the 19 ninety's the words claim. but you, the thought of leader milosevic was engaged in ethnic cleansing, and that bombing would prevent a refugee crisis. so natal decided to intervene and bomb serbia for $78.00 days. belgrave still says cover is a part of serbia. i'm housed in that of the breakaway provinces. unilateral declaration is a violation of international law. more than 100. you in countries including security council members, russia and china. i refuse to recognize the sofa in states. we heard from our managed nevada of serbian american jonas and historian, who says the cause of this issue has always been

a way for the west to pressure service. customer has always been away for to where the pressure serbia, the used to pretend to offer something in return, you know, your membership or, or be a prospect of a possible eventual theoretical your membership or investments. or, you know, some kind of carrot, so to speak. and ever since last year, when the conflict in ukraine escalated, they've been offering nothing but the stick. they're basically at this point saying, unless you recognize goes into everything we tell you and keep doing everything we tell you. we're just going to beat you with a stick until you do. and presently this involves economic sanctions, blockade freezing investments, abolishing visa, all basically all of these little perks that they've doled out to serve over the years in hopes of sweetening to deal. but that failed. so far to result in,

in their desire to help them out to the african content south africa is mining industry has been struggling with corruption as much of barriers. i'm a lack of new exploration limiting is development. as all these kind of looks at la rivulets, it is the bedrock on which modern day life in 1000 tip of africa is built faith with a discovery of diamonds, later, gold, and then platinum, mineral discovery has made johannesburg. how thing province crucial to south africa was economy so much so that to this very day, john is big is still known as the city of gold. the mineral council of south africa says that the industry direct contribution to g. d. p, grew by 36 percent in 2021 to nearly $27000000000.00. about

$7000000000.00 more than it did in 2020. but despite these numbers, there are few for the future due to problems with exploration, to incredibly long term love that you need. and the fact that a long time like south africa has been short considerably because of the political uncertainty and policy uncertainty that got also the corruption that's involved in dealing with the whole biling, licensing and exploration. because if the factors, the ruling party wants to sit themselves in all the deals, that's made south africa, very unattractive place to actually spend money for exploration. for the purpose of money, there are 2 types of mineral exploration, brownfields, and greenfield. brownfields exploration means the searching of additional deposits in no, when all currently mine sites,

while greenfield is about searching for new minerals, and that is where south africa's weak spot is. net investment in greenfield exploration is slowly shrinking. yet the department of minerals and energy is settled with thousands of i'm processed request for exploration, right? president obama was again called on mining companies to build schools, role clinics, and provide electricity to communities where they operate as part of a social pay. but as we all know, money is like water, it flows in the path of least resistance makes you know, that's the state job. that's why mining companies type picks. so, so while you're loading up your mining companies with huge amounts of additional costs, they're going to say no, thank you,

we rather go somewhere else. it's more trick. kelly has the largest known reserves of lithium in the world. yet, australia is the minerals leading global supplier if south africa was to reach his target of attracting 5 percent of the. busy worlds investment in mineral exploration spend. it will have to give incentive or soon it might be very little mining left in the south africa. got a bill is out of t. and jonathan. russia is launching an appeal, the un for an urgent international variations. the sabotage ministry pipelines also written article by a pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh, said the u. s. bomb the pipeline system on orders from the bible and ministration. now the us says it's not going to conduct an investigation into those new service

revelations. these blast did not occur on us soil. i would leave it to our partners on whose territory, on whose soil as it were on these plastic, or to speak to the appropriate investigative mechanisms. and now the party line, as you've heard there, is that the north stream explosion is a european matter and has nothing to do with america. by the way, the same state department spokesman there and ed price was already tweeting way back in march of 2021. so 2 years ago that quote, the nord stream to pipeline is a russian geopolitical project intended to divide europe and weaken european energy security. it's a bad deal for all involved. so net pride sure had a lot to say about nord stream back then, but now that it's been blown up and it's no longer a concern to washington apparently. and by the way, since when did washington adopt the position that events happening outside of the u

. s. that don't directly involve it apart now and out of its business? that's a new one. and americans are the only ones asking some questions. german politicians are wondering why there's so much silence around the issue from berlin to i'm missing you, missouri bus to clarify attacks on the north stream pipeline that you do not consider important. we just heard that for almost half a year, we have been asking the same question over and over again here in parliament during government interrogation, someone else who attacked the gas pipelines in the baltic sea. this is the most serious terrorist attack against critical infrastructure since world war 2. your deaf on in silence. expose us you by you. now remember that german chest are all i've schultz was standing at a podium right beside us. president joe biden on february 7th, 2022. when biden said that if russia goes into ukraine, washington will put an end to nord stream bite and was talking about germany's main

source of energy and soldiers. just stood there saying nothing. i don't know if he's daydreaming or just admiring that the core, but that's kind of an interesting question. why didn't you say something about that? and hers is reporting alleges that schultz was on the same wavelength as washington and biden, despite being initially, quote wobbly about germany's economic life blood and europe's economic engine. so before even the conflict in ukraine popped off, that was an issue. and jeffrey sachs, a prominent american economists now a professor at colombian iep columbia university. sax is, again speaking out, calling hirsch's account of the nordstrom explosions. pretty much a no brainer. frankly, it's been obvious from the start. this was not an easy operation to carry out of the kind of operation the, the cia and other

a covert parts of the u. s. government do carry out rather routinely by the way. yeah. they blow up lots of infrastructure over time. i try to keep it hidden, but it was hard to keep this one hidden because the united states was basically the only country with the motive. that means and rather remarkably having announced beforehand that the intention was to end nord stream. yeah. and also go figure that the 2 nations accused of the north stream, sabotage and purchase report, the u. s. and norway also just happened to be the 2 countries that have now replaced russian gas sales to europe. and our caching in big time, her said that norway helped washington to find the right place for these c 4 explosives along its coast and also ran interference with neighboring sweden and denmark. so they wouldn't get suspicious if they happen to spot some divers where

they shouldn't have been there supposed to be a so called independent commission involving journey sweden and denmark into this whole affair. but they all seem to just want to move. i'm like there's nothing to see here and it's really conspicuous silence. and in our shed, those who have kind of developed in myrtle around all this who don't really want to talk about it really be the ones to be doing an investigation. normally when a country or a person or whatever is implicated in something, whether it's her, she's in her, she's report otherwise. normally they are the ones overseeing the investigation. oh arrives, newsome, executive vice president of the razor center thing tanks and the tank phone, the knowles theme, parked by severely hom, the european energy security i could not have been accomplished without yes, participation us is the benefit of such

a beneficiary. the situation. let's face that, the, the germans, definitely not. it's a, it's going to be impact the germans economically empty. and the rest of europe, to some degree, to the germ germans the most, i may even lead to their and d industrialization. they would, their energy prices will go up to the point that they will not be. they will not be competitive on the open market. they and l. c. i could see factories closing. i could see them relocating outside the countries where energy prices are cheaper and more efficient. but in this case we've got a terrorist attack against not just germany, but yet to think about this. this is a, this is against europe in general. this is the major infrastructure, providing you know what? upwards dirt on a 20 to 40 percent of the natural gas to a, to europe. it's a,

this is a terrorist, it's a state sponsored terrorist attack. and unfortunately, it, it definitely appears ah, that the u. s. has got very heavy hand in it somewhere in that i just have a set of go under ground. i've schindler has, has these things where the american comedian ambulance accommodated jimmy, do one number of subjects, including little seam, pipeline bloss door says washington never head is in taishan and use them and methods it employed in iraq and syria. you can watch the full interview this saturday here on archie, but is a think just on nord stream, sy hersh the great reporter expose the my lai massacre, the abu ghraib. so many different stories people can look up by his interview on going underground on our rumble. channel at you, you said there was a back to, for sabotage that somehow if you agree with hersh biden was very clear about the

nord stream pipeline. the energy reserves for the european union, the word destroyed. and i should say, mainstream nato media claimed it could be russia destroying their own pipeline. de biden said it was a deliberate act to sabotage the russians are pumping out this information lies. and at the appropriate moment, when things come down, we are going to be sending divers down to find exactly what happened. isn't that the problem? people think you're a putin puppet. you're the one spreading out. russian is information here. joe, by himself said they were going to stop the noise st pipeline. i didn't make that up, he said, and now sy hersh reveal exactly in a detailed way exactly how they did it. we all knew they did it. russia, that's a pass. how for russia that pipeline, why would they blow up their own cash cow? of course, that makes no sense. and of course, you know, i'm old enough to remember the iraq war, and that was sold to you, american people on a pack of lies. and anybody who pushed up against it and said that saddam hussein was not

a threat to the united states. saddam hussein didn't do 911. and saddam hussein doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction. you were called us at out. do you recall? apologies for saddam was saying they're doing this, it's the same thing over and over. if i oppose the libyan war, they said the same thing about the syrian war. they called me in the scientist. i was right about the gas attacks. i was right about libya. i was right about iraq, and of course it's not. he doesn't take a genius to see what's going on with president joe biden has insisted that the last 3 an identified egg cross shutdown of a north american s for his will probably so that it blends not related to china's espionage program. nothing right now suggest they were related to china spy balloon program, or that there were surveillance vehicles from other any other country to tell his community current assessment. is that these 3 objects for most likely balloons tied to private companies,

recreation or research institutions studied whether or conducting other scientific research. oh, so this is the happened earlier this month as opposed chinese small island in story made headlines in the american media. that was a little rhetoric about alleged threats coming from china. so. busy missions, but now more questions have arisen, i'm buying a brook pretty fled, went off by ripples is about his apparent business ties with china. i am a president and his son and his family makes so much money from their a chinese business operations. you know, the sad thing in the united states right now is, is they have created the boogeyman of russia in the book, the man of china,

and are creating enemies when we should be finding bridges of prosperity and friendship. i think the way the mainstream media in the u. s. covers the balloon story. it was really a hodgepodge mess of what the biden stories were in the mainstream media. got a little bit confused in the process. at the end of the day, i think it's proved to be a distraction from other more serious issues, like the open border, the federal drug crisis that is being created, crime in our cities, the economic downturn, inflation still hurting americans in their wallets and the continued funding of hundreds of billions of dollars for ukraine when americans are hurting here at home . so i think the by the administration wants distractions like a balloon story, even if it's harmful to their credibility, because it distracts from the real issues they're failing to handle. russia issues space for the last one of the latest top stories on r t dot com. be sure to check that out. i'm really back at the top of the

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