the, the breaking news general valerie's allusion, he had of ukrainian armed forces throughout the conflict with russia is set from his post as follows: a long public rift between president zalinski and the outgoing commander in chief over failures on the battlefield. just for hours until the much anticipated tucker carlson interview with vladimir putin hit the journalist dreaming network at 11 pm gmc, you can watch the full broadcast here on our team. does decided to weaponized. if you're not to say audiological, really, we will not by reading good news, but it didn't stop all imports, desktop google pardon, but they would continue to import gas. they're continuing to import other critical

minutes. so what is was, and the indian petroleum and natural gas minister gives an exclusive interview to our chief from the energy reform being hosted in the south asian country, the live in the russian capital. i'm rachel ruble. you're watching r t international. we begin with breaking news president vladimir zalinski has sacked, general valerie's allusion that you, who is served as commander in chief of the armed forces of ukraine since july 2021 . alexander state has now been appointed as the new ukrainian army chief. the media has been reporting on solution is afraid relations with someone's case over the course of the conflict and the countries mobilization and strategy after cubes failed commer offensive. all right, let's turn now to our to say, boast who is in the studio with us, is they tell us more about these changes in ukrainian hi. can i come in?

mm hm. well, this is big news, rachel, and i suppose it was an unexpected of these rifts and it, rumors of these wrists have been rife for many, many months now. it's now also being officially notified on the president's sealants. he's website too. so this is definitely the news that many have been expecting a lot of room or though a lot of suggestions that there had been a rift, that as the general salute, he had refused to leave his post. and that no one else would take it up, et cetera. but the question remains, is this part of a wider rift at the very top of the key every g, and if you like, as it faces off against russia and it increasingly difficult situation. now, the actual dismissal itself has been pitched as a very friendly one, which is interesting the imagery and the language that's going around. the zalinski thinking is illusion you for a service, etc. so i'm a listen to the actual statement from a lot of murder savanski regarding the whole affair. navigation,

isn't it all of those numbers at the bottom. i am grateful to generals illusion the for 2 years of protection with them. we spoke frankly today about what needs to change in the army. always urgent change it over by offer general's illusion need to remain in the team of the ukrainian state in the future. i have a pointed colonel, general starsky as the commander in chief of the armed forces of ukraine approval on all the me. so of course, it all comes, it made a very, very difficult situation for ukraine. and this is all about the battlefield. really a general delusion, a very experienced soldier, 1st joining the military academy in 2005 only appointed as the leader of the ukrainian military and 2021 which is interesting. very well liked by his troops, very popular as seen as something of a pragmatist. but the reality speaks to the difficult situation that the general found himself in the russian m. o. d. recently suggesting that over 400000 ukranian troops have been lost in the conflict and the loss of significantly strategic

important centers like back more at under the general's come mind leading to these kind of conflicts at the top of the political sphere. again, the president, the ukraine being more adamant to hold at all costs, whereas to lose he was a mind that was prone to sort of more pragmatic, military approach, which is not by military strategy. if you like it all. this comes as well as russian troops advancing along the wide stretches of the front too. so things don't look too good on the international stage, a lack of a lack of funding, funding held up in, in the us at the middle east crisis taking the world off your train if you like. one of the key issues that really, maybe in the straw that broke the camel's back was when a general's illusion. he made a, an interview with the economist, the base of the suggested that this conflict would reach the style nice that they were going to be real. sure. there wasn't gonna be any beautiful breakthrough. and that much like the 1st floor was the 2 sides had come to

a stalemate on the battlefield. trench warfare, i feel like that's not exactly true because russian troops are gaining ground as we speak. but this openness from this illusion, i think, and i think most of us would believe it was really a capitalist for the landscape, seeking to end his career. let's have a listen to general salute the talking about that style. me just like in the 1st world war we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a style night. there will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough. or time has passed, people are tired regardless of their status. and this is understandable. but this is not a stalemate by emphasize this once again. and so, so as you can see, significant differences in the opinion here. and this gap was whitening over the last number of months. rachel, very serious situation and you can, yeah, certainly can you get a storm background on the situation and what's happening on the battlefield?

mm hm. well, of course, as we speak, you claim needs more troops. and nobody would deny that in your training here. and this was another one of the main sparking points between these 2 personalities at different sides of the bait and almost everything and general's it lucy, becoming more more vocal and his support is becoming more vocal, even a ukrainian society. people very well disposed. the generals that lose me, whereas the president, the lensky, is a popularity ratings are actually lower. when you ask the question, who do you support? so, i mean, there's no military knowledge whatsoever as well. and it seems that he was increasing waiting into debates on specific strategic decisions that have to be made. and it was really when the illusion event, again, publicly criticize a president savanski to attempt to reform the recruitment laws, the drafting laws to bring women into the forces that to recruit a vast army to hold back. if the advancing russians as illusion was against this,

essentially, but let's have a list of the his comments regarding those reforms. they were professionals, they knew how to do it and now they are not there in terms of mobilization issues. it's not that it needs to be strengthened, it just needs to be brought back to the framework in which it was in which it worked before. so as you can see, the disagreements more coming more and more vocal. and it was really a matter of time before the presence of landscape got this stone out of issue. if you liked it, you know, you gotta wonder what is going to do to morale. because general is illusion. it was was rather popular. what more can it tell us about this new commander in chief? well, a general sir ski alexander sits cc. he's the current commander of ukraine's ground forces, which make up the, the main body of ukraine. try me. remember, your cleans army has probably been destroyed sadly at several times over compared to the army that stood in 2022. they've lost huge amounts of men. much of the

constituent part of the russian or the ukrainian military is now made up of territory and defense units. people are drafted into the military. and again, this was another issue where the loony openly criticized the idea that you're asking civilians to hold that critical infrastructure that we need to pull back to . we are and prepare for a different type of war. uh, serious key is also quite on ceremoniously known as general 20200 is military terminology for a deceased person. and he was actually the mind in charge of a very important psychological in the boss. have been 2015 in, in the, in don't boss where a significant ukrainian force was surrounded and it too much of an extent destroyed . so he's seen as a mom that's willing to expend the lives of his man is seen as quite a high founded at zalinski loyalist at quite the opposite to general was a losing so he's appointment to me and to other on was looking at the situation.

seems to smack a some kind of desperation and also a complete change that interestingly, the key every game has also tonight suggested the reasons why they have basically dismissed general solution. and they include that we need a new type of strategy. we need to brush that will sweep clean. we can't a stalemate on the battlefield and we need to invest and investigate different ways to continue to win the war against russia. no, no real objective analyst would suggest that ukraine is winning the war against bush you. so we're gonna have to watch this space and see what this really sorry is make change at the top of ukrainian regime meetings on the ground. interesting and data r t shapers. thank you michael, my little former senior security policy analyst says so landscapes, rachelle falls, signifies the hopeless position of ukraine's armed forces on the front line. well, not surprising. it, it is going to be

a serious question as to what the morale is going to be among the troops themselves in ukrainian troops themselves. there is that stalemate, and this isn't what the zalinski wants to here. and, but what, what does that sound lensky have? a that the, that's his, that's zillow's nice success or can bring to the table. the funding is virtually drying up the there isn't a logistical support for, for ukraine to continue the conflict. he's caught and i think he's groping. he does, but he does, realistically, he doesn't have the backing, the military and the financial backing to carry on a conflict that is lost. and the longer it goes on, the more entrenched russian forces become that it will make it even more difficult for zalesky to do anything. and i, i just think it's going to have

a terrible ending. the american journalist tucker carlson, has announced that his highly anticipated interview with the russian president will air at 11 p. m g m t less than 4 hours from now on his self titled network. you can watch the broadcast in full on r t. the prominence as it will publish the interview friday morning and hopes that will be viewed by a wide audience a. well, mr. carlos, as caesar video for the interview, had started over 100000000 views, the backlash over his one on one with president clinton is running across the western media. and among politicians, friends prompted some journalists to alleged that western governments are trying to suppress different opinions. and despite wide scale interests, the white house claims it's not important for anyone that we doing. and i think it's pretty obvious should be very obvious to everybody. a world history, britain has done any grain, and the quote is completely bogus in the end and ridiculous reasons for what she

tried to justify it. i don't think we need a another interview with latimer for him to, to uh, to understand his brutality. i think the people who want to be in power, i believe they are the people that don't care about law and constitution. they think that they can ignore that. so they, they can try to silence people by either ridicule or say, in your own patriotic or you're telling a lie. that's what you're tapes. the most is the fact that he's thrived by breaking the chains of the mainstream media. he's thrive because people are starved for information and that's exactly what the latest don't want because they're restore terry and at heart. they don't want you to even hear the other side. us journalist and the political analysts, john verola told us there is no room for opinions different from the government narrative in the us and euro. the american cover has been harassing him hounding him. you know, he's, i'm, so of course i got

a call to trade or they're going to call the trainer. they do everything possible to, to harass him, to try to discredit him. there's no free press. what could they didn't, they tried to destroy his career. it chased him from fox news and came back only, but through his incredible will power and strength and his belief. his belief in america is blinking. the american people is believe in sleep in modern europe and in north america there is no room for other opinions. there's no room for other things. there's one narrative, it's the government narrative. they lay down the law in all other media companies, journalists, and it is, they have to follow that narrative. there can be no deviation whatsoever. we just look at this reaction, how strongly are for mostly they're reacting to and stuck across these simply doing his job. he's a journalist, his job is to interview people, to gather information, and then to let the public make their own conclusions. for no, that is no longer possible in modern europe. and in the united states,

where most media companies are under the control the government either directly or indirectly. there again, there's only one there to, and it can be no deviation from the carl sunset down march. the 1st time vladimir putin has been interviewed by a western journalists since the outbreak of the crane conflict in 2 years ago. however, some incumbent and former american officials are not impressed hillary clinton among them. well, it shows me what i think we've all known. he's what's called a useful idiot. i mean, if you actually read translations of what's being said on russian media, they make fun of them. i mean, he's like a puppy dog. it's the larry. so hillary clinton would speak up on this and she's the one who presented a reset button to russian leadership. that was miss translated into over charge of when she was the secretary states. again, the bottom line is tucker, is doing what journalists should do. let's hear the voices of those that may not be getting the attention in western europe and united states are generally when the

truth about what's been happening has been so covered up that they have fond over themselves to dr. presidents and landscape. they view celebrities, the huge movie stars, the sport stars, and dash the key to the doctors on wednesday. and yet nobody has told the other side of the story. well, the bottom white house wants to continue to pour billions and billions of dollars that you trained with no accountability with the transparency of where the money has gone and they're pushing for another $60000000000.00. i think what terrifies them about the, the tucker carlson interview is it people will finally get more of the story that they've been denied through the mainstream media. and they can't keep that story down when the doctor is going to put it out on the internet. the world should be grateful to india for buying russian oil. and as, according to the indian petroleum and natural gas minister, in an exclusive interview with r t correspondent, runjun sharma and energy week and the world's most populous country. you also said that in nearby and boys from russia has kept the prices of oil. absolutely. should

the water be grateful? this would be very much so whether we india and bought the address a noise. and if everybody in baltimore and a lot of people bought a lot of us and stuff, so let's not get into it. you know, i'm not sure noise coming from through the pipeline to hungry. it was exempt. there's no talk about that russian noise going through the pipeline to china. it was exempt. russian oil going from the body, cycling to japan is exempt. so what is left of the, what the, these are those decided to weaponized that you're not to say i do logical easily. we will not by then go do the, but didn't stop all imports desktop crude on the impulse, but they will continue to import gas. they're continuing to import other critical minimums. so what is this new delhi, and that's not important. the government does not important. it's our oil entities that input all entities out in the public sector and in the private sector. the new

non cooperation, which is the 7th largest company in the world and downstream, they're one of the, made that importer is what they do. and what everybody does is the flow to send us at the point of importation, let's say, please let us know how much of this this we need so much wonder the of this good. they live at this port. if it is heavy, the good part of the. okay. it was other maybe the other parts of importation different at the end of it. i sent them me quotes. alyssa, price. good. is it? i shouldn't company cause a high price environment, the present lizard price. so they're also audited, so there is no decision when in february 2022, when did i show you can military conflict the place at that stage i went and bought some of the shuttle is 0.2 percent. today then 30 percent is under decline. it's a massive into, oh, i live them every 33 of 24 comes down. but you know, even be in port 5000000 bottles or the consumer 5000000 barrels on

a particular day. you might have it all cause a lot of pressure on maybe that then. so the, maybe that it depends on the price and availability. today, the situation is that in parts of crude oil are the biggest item in out in port basket. and equally the export of petroleum products is the biggest item in unexplored basket. so we will import from wherever we can really support the weight of and we can now there are a lot of new plans coming on the rock. well, not the bottom of the big plus a guy and as new i think of sodium is new. maybe as new, brazil as lot that are members of a big or engine sharma, also attended the farm and go and send us a report from the event a john the indian was to save all the best lines. the g 6 though from all across the world have gathered their delivery. they want

collaborative as an opportunity that the time when the was raffles with an o g crisis bureau to the 2nd edition of india. and now it's the week, the indian, minnesota sodium and natural gas as a meeting holding by lots and just like before and does done it again. it's yeah, the one the does on the one of the houses of exhibit those thousands of delegates that have gone. yeah, but then was 6, but when you ins including russia, canada, u. s. u k. so the dialogue on the india's need to ship once again, and this is about an o g, but of course, the main focus mean agend off for india is even though it is 0 for the coming years . and in terms of for the operations companies, there's a force on india out as the one of them was to look at as a partner. we also spoke to chairman and managing director of oil in

the unlimited doctor range at ross, who emphasized the importance of russia, india oil relations. we have got an excellent kilometers in with us. yeah. as an india, we all know that we sold, we have an excellent by electron listen. we sort significant component of who we thoughts technology with them. we have a v i as in delta, find 96. so from an as yeah, i sort of oil. india is concern, we have to start using office very well building on we are very comfortable in goals productions and we are looking for work to harden missing dod particularity it lives in into more future prospects. we looked, everybody up. ok no, but the it is so think good on the 1st $614.00 refined product you're looking for to logically kilometers and looking for the girl,

the licensing in the downstream and from an oil india point of view. having hard on expedition actors of about 60000 square in which they bought 15000 square kilometer is as we speak as an option. so with a blood sucking uptake and we are actually reaching out to the eye, you will see the in the sees of the bill, the box load with all india unlimited. not only to clock this effect in the existing, upfront lots that could be up to kerio exploration, but also to not retard for the future. building it on in the oil. c, 926 in on, in the building on the big day in pakistan as millions have voted to elect a new presence of new parliament. and thursday's poles have just closed. the criminal vote comes on a turbulent political and security events, including a series of terror attacks on party offices and the sentencing of former prime

minister and ron con, to decades in prison, to well tragically another 9 people, including 2 children and 6 security officials, have quarterly been killed on voting day following at least 28 deaths and similar attacks all by suspected armed groups on election eve. a blast in laza town in south western pakistan has also been reported to security guards were killed and 9 wounded during nero. pulling station in the 3rd blast today, the video footage shows one of the main candidates, former prime minister in the last revise. he arrive to vote. he leaves the pakistan muslim league, no, was party. another strong contender is below all. bhutto is our diary chairman of pakistan people's party are to use the charlotte defense the takes us through. what's the main play is all names you may have heard before. no. as sharif a former prime minister is back as the head of the pocket stone was the meek. if he wins, he would become pm for full time pledging to make pockets done great again. of what

he claims was use of ruin will not allow for us. there is like him wrong. com and his party to rule pakistan again, they have ruined the country. we will rebuild spike as time. another contend is but all who to is a doughty leader of the pockets on people's policy. he's previously served as a country is minister of foreign affairs. and he's the latest and the book is a dari political dynasty to seek power. some parties want to divide you based on religion of those based on your sex sort of practiced on people's policies, the only part to which one is to serve you with that discrimination. then of course, there's the elephant in the room. in wrong con, i'll stick some power in 2020 to the full of crickets. a is languishing behind, balls of to being convicted of everything from 4 to an improper marriage. he's

bought from standing in his party. peachy has been perched by the authorities. even it's elect to low go, a court kickback was banned. and now it's candidates. a force to run is independence. these are the main faces in a race, it's crowded. they're all, some 14 parties on the pallet. so what's the wood on the street? and not a, i don't have any hope for this election because of how things is, are being done. i got one political party is being targeted already and what is being done to enroll and con, is making pockets, don, lose respect in the international community. nobody respects punk is done. they think anything can be done in pockets done not what would be. as you heard back, there's a lot to vote is all cheering over. and that's because back a soul is being played by a host of issues. rising installation is hit to poke, it's hot with the cost of basic fluid steps more than doubling the countries all,

some simply in fact, and a deal with the i m. s. is due to run out around the same time as any new government takes office. what economic pessimism is high face in pakistan's democracy is also one question that keeps being off is whether external forces or playing a role in this election con has accuse the us of being that force. how many a company come to america has? oh, not america, but a foreign country icons name. i mean from the fulton country, received a message. they say that our anger will banish you wrong con loses this no confidence vote. that of course is denied by washington with respect to the comments that were reported. not gonna speak to private diplomatic exchanges, other than to say that even if those comments were accurate as reported, they in no way showed united states taking

a position onto the leader of pakistan on a be that maybe so. but at the time when the us is increasingly important in itself, in the middle east, focused on is a power that it wants on its side and may seek to wield its influence upon whoever wins the selection will have a lot to contend with. not just the moans from the white house. political violence has already waste its head in the days leading up to the poll. the. the focused on a country in which some 40 percent of people live in poverty have a long and difficult road to travel to recover the window. it takes all they say that could prove to be quite a handful trying to gaza now where the palestine red crescent society is

calling on the international community to find out the fate of a young girl and the organizations rescue team who been missing for 9 days after israel targeted the car in which the girl was travelling in small the m p. s. c, a staff having due a drill land blessings. archie n. c is unsure of pens, fate, as well as that of use of zeno an estimate on my tune. its been 9 days since last had from the p l. c. s m. s team center rescue this 6 year old ago. we edge monthly appealed to the international community to exert pressure on these rarely occupation authorities to disclose the whereabouts offend and the p l. c. s team according to the p r c. us him to was sheltering in a car with relatives when they came under israel, a fire. the moment was caught on a recording of a conversation between his cousin and the organizations staff member. despite the

horrific situation, the 6 year old girls mother has not given up hope that her daughter will return. the only issue a number has to fill done in 5 is my i can ha, it's because of what happened to my daughter when she wasn't to call and was going through the most extreme c. and you could probably imagine leon was in the car with her spite lead being most severely injured than my daughter. she tried to save him and started asking us how to provide 1st aid at that moment when they shortly. and my daughter told me, mom leon has a boot and her face to face looks carry. and i told her the cause of her face as that hidden under the seat. the occupation forces claim the only target time off, only the terrorist. so what about my daughter and the all the children in the call, the and they'll to moss or any kind of tourist? i hope that's when i see my daughter, i can make her forget the things she has been through. i hope when i see her, i can hold her in my arms and make her forget everything. she has seen. the hades and prime minister ariel henri has urged us citizens to be calm as violent

protests, abrupt demanding his resignation, them in rising gang violence and crippling and poverty. the 5 people have been killed in deadly exchanges with police since monday, which has paralyzed the caribbean country for the can. turmoil has engulf heavy since the 2022, assassination of president juvenile moist, and the countries the legislature has been empty for a year due to council elections. incumbent prime minister henri pledge to hold a joke, february 7th, but has the latest and social security issues can be resolved. all right, do say was r t international up next, the documentary series, the trustful about journalist and julia massage, and the we see leaks controversy. the. ringback the

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