the the, this is the, the use of life from by that the a, you condemns russians. presidential election, us environmental scrutiny, expenses quotes, a century rule. if i have no meaningful opposition, i'm a use among those describing the power. so it's not a free, you know, fast on housing, the climate of intimidation. also on the program, you foreign ministers, approve sanctions against violence. these riley federalists and the west bank. it's the 1st time the boss has made such a move. the

unfilled guy will welcome to the program neither free nor fair. that's of, i think, the west them capitals have delivered on russia's presidential election countries. election commission said vladimir putin had been re elected 87 percent of the vote . the boat was held following the track down on political opponents meeting, just approaching face. no meaning from opposition. it was a try. i'm send applauding the pretend. who took to the stage a day of the being re elected russian presidents in the line slide. when the victory coincided with celebration, smoking the 10 year anniversary of the annexation of crimea natural, you know, flying goes by the other election candidates who'd been allowed to stand against him. he sang his supporters, for when most had predicted the earlier, he claimed his victory was rooted in democratic principles and you most, it's for them when the, the source of authority and the nation,

which is the russian people that i knew you would dates, i ceased, you know, while most of most divides willing to talk express the support for to said there was some public discontent. there is my hope that the other candidates would have better results. or i don't expect any particular changes in their bulletin about that. there were no candidates, my life, and so i voted against them all. i would like you trained to be free and the troops have you been drawn from their gym and he called the vote a pseudo election with voting, taking place in occupied. you cried violating international law. the vinyl in the election in russia was an election without the choices. the election process not only shows hooton's nefarious behavior towards his own people, but also violates the charter of the united nations. i try to find not sealing. washington also pointed out the lack of democratic choice state to it would not

congratulate food to this was an incredibly on democratic process, and certainly him being president of russia. it does not excuse him, of is of his talk or see the outlines including china, north korea and venice to beta did congratulate the russian president with the victory, grunting putin and not the 6 year to his net quarter century in depth towards the tough proceed. themes and stuff will well, professor said okay, i've, i've taken care of the teachers at the henry kissinger center for global affairs of the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. i asked him why letting me finish it and felt he needed. i mean action, the slow dictators like to do that. decatur like to stress that they have uh, dimension to the people. but their rules, their power does not necessarily come from god. although of course,

claims that connection as well. so the russian orthodox church, but from the public mandate, i mean the even style and have elections for this matter in the ussr. so it's not whole, not surprising to that. people like who would want to be the electives in quotation marks again on the human rights. i'm just entering by who he needs to impress. give them that he's. he's grateful. empower appears to be absolute. well, if you know who did the style of the warranty press when he had his elections, when he will see or a number of schools. sylvie, general secretaries. so they, they like go the legitimacy that comes from public boat vote of public confidence in them even though the balls may be red. um, it's just not all that unusual in rock minnes stanford. in the 1990s they have the same thing with the leaders getting 99 percent of the vote. oh sorry about checking . so from johns hopkins university,

the russians election loomed large and brussels where you foreign ministers have been holding towards the block. so foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, said that paul had been based on what he calls repression and intimidation. and this is also endorsed to fresh sanctions against russian in response to the death of opposition leader like saying the valley. so who's going to be targeted with the sanctions? i asked corresponding to brussels, christine montoya, your pin, the union had made it to you that it was going to be a targeting, specifically individuals who they deemed to be involved in, in the persecution as they would coordinate. and beginning of alex a in the pony, we know that this individuals and entities are in this group of targets. they will likely be targeted with, with a set of freezes, as well as travel bands. we know that the foreign ministers here unanimously agreed upon taking this decisive step. it was pretty clear that the european union felt

that it had to respond to this. so we will get more details in the coming days. but we know that these individuals are in intimacies, particularly in the judicial system. so in the court system of the prison systems, the people who would have been involved in, in, like i say, the persecution as being by the european union off the rest of the late a russian opposition. the to alex and developed a, there was also a agreement on sanctions against extremely settlers and in the occupied. the westbank tell us more about that. that's right. this has been a long time coming in a way in that the european union has been trying to to sanction extreme. is settlers in the west bank for, for attacking palestinians for a while, but they've been facing opposition from hungry. and of course, this decision needs unanimous approval and hungry has really been opposing that in the positive diplomats tell us now that hungry has changed. it's dawn. so we now

know that the european union has now got that unanimous agreements to targets. there's some settlers within the west bank, they will also be targeted with asset freezes, as well as trouble bands. it will also be full bid in for you, you citizens, to do any business with these particular individuals. um, once the legal present process, in terms of ratifying that decision has, has gone through those, the names of these individuals will be published and made known to everybody. but again, it's just one of those steps that, that you farm policy chief was pleased to announce in the sense that the, your opinion has been trying to do that. but facing stiff opposition from behind. gary is who are very close l i o israel just again, it's along the lines of each member states. start all most of pro israel versus those that are more pro palestinian. but we can expect that the discussion around that will continue also have to point out that in the discussion, what additional sanctions full have mass. we expect that those would also be announced in the coming days and we'll go hand in hand with the announcement of

exactly who of those is raining, such as have been targeted in the west back. okay. and is that christine christine mcguire in brussels? i mean, well say, find the guy stations and guitar have resumed as well as prime minister benjamin netanyahu was also have agreed to send the delegation to washington to discuss his plans for the ground defensive in rafa. more than a 1000000 despised palestinians, a shell spring within, and yahoo is facing drawing criticism overs handling of the war abroad. i'm at home on sunday. the families of hostages who are being held in guns that protested intel of eve. i accused the government of not doing enough to bring my relatives home. now i felt fine a as a former gets out of defense intelligence director. it joined us, doha, and i started by asking how far apart is around and how much all of the vote. well, thank you for having the so to be honest right now, things are very lucky on the situation in gaza because we've got this new incursion

into the shift the hospital and the threat of, uh, entreating a land or stand on and off or uh, now obviously the category and american negotiators, the sponsors of these negotiations play this very close to the rest. so they're not, not thought of the details. but if we seen what happened in the past, the categories remain optimistic, remain hopeful that before the each celebrations which will be in 3 weeks. that they may be a resolution to the situation right now, and hopefully she's fine. and what do you think of israel wants to get it as hostages back through diplomatic means rather than ministry state? i've, i've seen speculations that the prime minister would prefer to get the hostages back militarily, rather than by negotiation. because a military victory would defeat him. us where a negotiated hostage return would allow,

how much to rail. so well, that is confusing to be honest, because on that uh, the attempts by the idea to rescue is ray of the hostages. have yielded more of hostages to been rescued. yes, there were some attempts that i had succeeded, but on that again, balkan then rescued. on the other hand, the negotiations have released tokens over a 100 of the hostages. so it is confusing to me to see that uh, continuing to endanger the civilians um the hostages in gaza seems to be the order of the day with the i guess. it probably may be driven by internal politics rather than global russian. um to end of the war and saves the hostages and rescue all his themes and the, the civilians who right now and the numbers in front of me over 51000 killed and

over 70 or 3000 wounded. this is really a dire situation and it was confusing. now, i'm us, of course, is looking for the withdrawal of is ready troops from casa, the release of prisoners, from israel. how likely are they to get what they want? well, what i can say is, what has been already mentioned by you for since the kids are negotiating, says to todd is pushing both sides. both these really is i'm from os urging them to be up to negotiation, negotiating table, and to read and to reach out a solution, not for any political going for you the policy, but for the safety of the hostages on the civilian population of casa. now they're all calculations on both sides. oliver, i think the ultimate goal must be something that all parties interested should push for and that's what controllers have been doing and the amount of times for sponsoring again these negotiations. okay. good talking to your thank you so much

for joining us for ma. katasha is defense intelligence director now of our thank you. thank you as well. you run back and forth is issues at di, wondering for gaza hoff of gauze ones that are experiencing a catastrophic hunger assignment and funding is imminent unless as urgent intervention of the morning comes, as israel faces increasing pressure from his allies to allow more aid into the territory huge crowds of gardens gathered to receive aid at the shelter run by the united nations agency for palestinian refugees amid an increasing hunger crisis and the gaza strip were aid has only been trickling in since the beginning of the war. the people are dying. we are asking the era people to press for a cease fire in god. so we are exhausted and dying. the united nations has published its latest report morning that causes on the brink of famine,

the un humanitarian coordinator, and gaza says that he's working with israel to open up more land routes for each shipments. as soon as the goods come in the 200 trucks a day or whatever the case may be, is not enough to satisfy the, the, the numbers that we have to address. and so as soon as goods come in, they don't get stored anywhere very for very long unless we can put significant supply increases into those areas. those people who can shop catastrophic levels of a amount, nutrition or food insecurity, will at face. we will see these problems. the use top diplomat, joseph bro, believes israel is using famine as a weapon of war and gaza. we on no long gone on to being off. i mean, we are in a state or funding affecting was enough people. we can not stand by and watch about his genuine stuff. what that will be going to do

because this is this, i mean there's not a natural disaster. this is not the flaw. there's not that hes. quake is entirely mine made my home that's they have to say it my home. well, in each shipment arrived in garza from cypress and some countries have sponsored air drops. aid agencies say that this is nowhere near enough and cannot replace the aid delivered via land crossings. for dozens of humanitarian aid trucks, a weight permission to reach people in gaza. hundreds of people in greece have been pelting age of up that as part of an age old carnival tradition . i read those got through tons of flour tinted with food coloring. event takes place every year in the town. i've got like cd about 200 kilometers west of athens

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