as one journalist who spoke to so several said he had admitted how and for patch he was for the task. i did ask him on the top of the do girls or life. you said right, in more normal doors, i want to draw the life said don't know anything that i'm just the 1st time i'm going to be 6 match trees and that's uh you got because you're in yeah, man. so you said it did. he started drawing the line later by his own admission cisneros at his plan was show the on the books politician should have taken the news to plan. instead, the british russ through the process as they planning to make a hasty exit and doing some 200 years of colonial rule. they never had

a does going through this, this part of the body part. i would it because they were here nor to the fact all these uh, this park up to 9 and they do, and off to the, uh, you know, they located the bed and it is also talk to the funky, this part of the but definitely the, i had that part of the decided for new budget never wanted to grow this boundary. they were just that. yeah, no, there's route and data sources. all this a part of the above and this is bill for dish had long used religion as a way to devise people not see exactly what they do in 1947 focused on was created from the areas where there was a moose, sleep muslim population. but listening to the fact that there was significant listening populations, scott said throughout the subcontinent, take, putting job didn't sleep populated agricultural region with muslims, and use in 6 inch lift together. cultivating that lines, the generations do

a single day thing. it was so preposterous that fee with that to contemplate to that. but that's exactly what happened. the planning to actually carry that this was a new normal and it's cast a long shadow with the subcontinent, with pockets done in india, essentially in a put trusted cold war with nuclear missiles pointed at one another after 5, you shouldn't be too hard before bed. then the engine block is found, they would be, they want to deal with the same in the country and everything was fam. and the sure ruling over here and they were like they, they did. did that like to give us the freedom they actually gave us?

so many problems, obstacles here which we are facing. now are this even after 79 years, the odd. um, they are facing all the problems. the bridges are responsible for all this is the british had property with distributors our national treasures at the time. then we wouldn't have faced so many problems if it's for them, for those problems, we would have been able to leave our lives today. was a thriving in the islamic wilted, stood before the partition, baited and colonized within 2 centuries. the partition dismantled it all and then in a final act smashed what was left with partition last spring night mat largely whitewashed white britain, but not forgot. find those who lived through it. know why that defendants as well. you can get far, the details of all the stories will fall in, and archie does come right back on some of the so you again

the the, everybody on bins one filling in for rick sanchez. this is direct impact. and here's just one of the stories we're covering today. what i think about 1st, really be to keep it up. you as soon as you're calling, reason finding the results and, and over a 1000 soldiers dead on both sides of the rush or you can conflict. beautiful, all before trying to recruit civilians from nato member countries to join the fight and been swan. this is direct impact the and thanks for being with us today. more on the words about us, senator lindsey graham and just a moment. but 1st,

we begin with the us presidential race. today, donald trump, the republican candidate, just had a 2 hour chat with eli must on the social platform x. it did not start off smoothly by the way, the event was delayed by over 40 minutes due to what must said was a cyber attack. but when they finally got going more than a 1000000 listeners turned in at a time to hear the conversation and that conversation touched on various topics. the former president did not shy away from taking jobs and his democratic competition. what i can tell you is this. if we cannot have a democrat, we cannot have her. she's in confidence. she's as bad as by that in a different. yeah, she hasn't done an interview since his home, a scam started and, and say what you want, this is a cool. this was a cool of a president of the united states. he didn't want to leave and they said we can do it to night. yeah. or we can do it the hard way of trump also railed on the current president foreign policy moves, while an office touching on the situation between russia and ukraine. he says,

the of doesn't have enough manpower to continue the site. no man of his. and he was a horrible president, the worst president in history. and one of the reasons it was so bad. first of all, these really attack would have never happened. russia would never have attack ukraine, and we'd have no inflation. and we wouldn't have had the afghanistan, you take a few of those events away and we have a different world. many more people have been killed in ukraine than you read about . you don't read about how bloody it is and how does that look. just send the 2 armies. you lost a half a 1000000 people. if you think about it, rushes guns, do you know russia defeated germany with us? and they defeated depaula and, you know, they've been around a long time. they're big fighting for you and ukraine now. doesn't have enough men there now using young men and very old men to fight. and if it weren't a very bad position, a smart president could have stopped that it wouldn't have happened. all right, so let's bring him and have a chat in manila. could that be here, this interview, just another opportunity for trump to appeal to voters, right. but once again,

he focused on attacks on us. president biden does the campaign of a messaging problem with when he continues to focus on biting or is that part of the strategy strategy? excuse me, to say this is just the continuation of by the end. if you vote for harris, you know, all of it was a little weird, but then as we know, those who are trump, supporters will support the ex post regardless of what he says. but the twitter or the b x space is with you on will be judged based on whether or not you have orange colored glasses on. now that live call was tuned into by millions of people from around the world. now, some estimates putting that number closer to 20000000 people when you tally up all the different live feeds by youtube, birds and people on rumble. notable people like marjorie taylor green and other members of congress were all listening into to the average joe from all over the country, eagerly awaiting what sort of spectacle might arise from this conversation that's

led by you on much, also known for his often outrages, antics online so while this talk was all over the place, ranging from trump's positions on anything from the ongoing conflict in ukraine to the domestic economy. so even comparing comma la harris to his own wife, milan you, those back that the, the talk bounced around like a game of pong, and maybe i'm dating myself. there was actually a feature. it's a feature, it's not a bod band with you on mosque. citing that he could actually have a conversation with trump, unlike biden, or harris, which presumably mosque has had the opportunity to do so on many occasions. so it's arguable that the, the trump vance campaign doesn't have a messaging problem. rather, it's that they have so many, and they haven't whittled it down to a narrow focus at this point. however, worth noting,

ben is that the new harris campaign has not provided any of their positions on any particular items, their games, their goals, their platform on any major topics plaguing the country, much less the world, nowhere to be found on the campaign websites, right? nor has she even had any off the cuff interviews with, with the media so much later went on to tweet that he would like to host harris on a spaces as well. that that would actually be, i think, much more interesting than the trouble. and because we don't know any of her positions on virtually anything, and also the fact that she doesn't not only seem to have a stand on anything, but she'll say day one, i'll start doing this. you're in office now. right. is she, she's running like, she's the the upstart candidate and it seems the incumbent is the way she's running right now. it's actually a pretty good strategy. but it's interesting. now i have another question for you. but before doing a comment, i just want to get your opinion. you have marked as a terrible interviewer, i guess was one of the worst interview. someone listed to go. you think it's so

hard to listen. i love you mama, i think it has a lot of really interesting things i think is an incredibly smart person. yeah. he is a hero. and the interviewer is, oh oh, the whole time. it's so hard to listen to him and try going back and forth to me. that was the hardest part of visiting the 2 and a half hours of, of stuttering and stumbling. well, a bed, but i'll just say this much. i don't think you or i are a threat of ever losing our jobs to you on mosque? nothing. i think he can. he bought the one. so get another job. yeah. fair enough. okay, let me, let me ask you this village. cyber attacked by the way that started off and this whole things i was trying to listen. and as you probably you were to manila at 8 pm eastern and you couldn't get on this thing. right. you took 40 minutes to get on the right. there was the only heard on the interview before the sit down, the commissioner sent out this kind of build threat. the law must say that the european union will be closely watching for any incitement on the hatred or violence. i mean, listen, the, you, this is, this is obviously what they do either of the session with speech. just kind of

another example, i guess, a questionable responses out of europe after the riots in the u. k. last week sparked the deadly knife attack mis information about the suspect field. social media prompted the u. k. government to urge citizens to think before you post. but this idea, i mean i, it's all thought crime. it's like we don't like you saying certain things and, and, and the standard they put on a lot of us can twitter very different than they have on google or as they have on meta. again, this idea that you're thrown in jail for expressing discontent online. and again, everything you heard that, that new, think or read there been a lot, it is so questionable because it's all relative, right? you posted information and images that stirred up feelings and people and, and that's now a crime and it's also in picky what it says it not well then the, the constitution and the 1st amendment is a beautiful thing to have a look. although we saw breasts, it happened over 4 years ago. there's really not much de like between the terry

baton what he's saying and what great britain is saying when it comes to freedom of speech. so terry baton is the, the you commissioner for internal markets. it's his job, they say is to to shape how people obey a set of rules that the european commission sets out specifically on the dsa. the the digital services act, which they site as an online safety protocol aimed at curbing misinformation online . now critics of the dsa, they argue this is nearly a, a censorship tool with language too broad and, and it would give governments why breath for interpreting so called misinformation or even hate speech. the latter is what we're seeing as a wide net that's being cast across the u. k. basically criminalizing descent from anything that strays from approved government orthodoxy. now baton at the commission is now picking

a fight with you on must directly saying that if musk does it in a fact sense or people like the original twitter or did well then the you is just going to go find him 6 percent of excess global revenue, not just that, you know, coming from the you. so much so far has responded by what else been trolling baton on twitter, posting the letter baton, sent him online, vowing not to back down in defense of free speech and worth noting ben george orwell. the iconic author of 1984 was british. so, you know, maybe he was just way, way, way ahead of his time. yeah. he's a certainly was, by the way you, i'm us controlling him. those are things we love about him about may not be good interviewer, but the trolls like no one outside the sorry, the russian forces have gained control over parts of the beloved. the region of incurs following a field ukrainian often some to advance further interruption held territory. and

just the past couple of days since the escalation of conflict, ukrainian officials reports substantial losses with casualties reaching up to 1600 soldiers. regardless of one's perspective, the loss is on both sides of this war are a profound tragedy. there's no question about that. well, no question, unless you're us senator lindsey graham, who traveled to camp on monday and describe the recent developments and those depths as beautiful. what i think about pers keep it on the bottom line is ministration. i appreciate your support with these big boyfriends, they need to wait and they can't afford to lose weight. they're near to the present lisky just a few minutes ago. if you reside in the 16th and you're looking to buy for freedom,

do, are you, we are throughout nato nations. are willing to retire to come, help them until they get their power train. i mean, just absorbing all of that, right? the idea that you're going to get these people the weapons, he says stuff will more, they can't afford to lose. they can't win it. it's not billable. and then calling on on retired f. 16 pilots across natal nations, including united states to go to ukraine and to fight against the russians right now. but it seems like russia is, is still in this position where they're choosing to not advance as aggressively as a could be if they wanted to. they still seem to be doing that. losing graham's just, it's just like he's churning people up to go over there and get killed. i mean that if you're calling up retirees, you're likely signaling to 50 plus year old man who have families and lives that

had been out of the service for a long time, to up route themselves to go volunteer to effectively die in this war. and as you can see, very bad behind lindsey graham is senator richard blumenthal. democrats. he nods a long as bram calls for more arms to ukraine, suggesting or i would even say demonstrating that continued war is a bi partisan topic here in washington. it's. it's not a promising outlook for piece, i would say, given that, you know, ukraine just got their hands on some f sixteens, but they don't really have any goose or mavericks to fly in bed. these legacy jets have been used by nato and the us for over 30 years. but these were planes are not going to be provided by washington directly around 60 of them had been promised by belgium, norway, the netherlands in denmark, but it's going to be a slower trickle on delivery. many war skeptics see this simply as sort of

appeasement of zalinski and the that the jets won't have real significant impact on battle ground conditions. since russia has air superiority as well as in general, the man power needed to step up the heat. but then this is also being viewed as the last salvo by joe biden, who, along with lindsey graham back in 20141 long the qu, cookers in ukraine. so as the sun sets on the bite and administration, he and that era of cohorts are sort of grasping at ways to salvage this decades old design by just trying to throw some old pilots into the cockpit for keep. yeah, it's such a, it's such a bizarre requests to ask, as you said, the 50 year old retirees to go travel to ukraine and to get into these planes and basically go to your desk. because again, this is not something where russia has been, has been pushing to take more ground. they're not it. i don't know what's happening there, but it certainly appears as if russia is, is,

is giving time to finally get to a piece agreement. but it all remains to be seen what happens with the election. obviously that's a big part of what this looks like and what it looks like going forward. another chance. thank you so much. all right, we're going to go for a quick break, but when we come back, we're gonna dive into these massive protests taking place in serbia. and in the middle of it all you guys do, black rock, of course they are say to will go right back. the look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except we're so shorter is that conflict with the 1st law show your dentist and patient. we should be very careful about visual intelligence at the point, obviously is to create a trust, rather than see it the various mean with the artificial intelligence we have summoning the theme in the

a robot must protect this phone existence with alexis the and welcome back on bins one, this is direct impact. take a look at this video. the 10s of thousands flooding the streets of the great on saturday, protesting against a plan to lift him mine in the country. it was one of the largest demonstrations in survey in recent years. the crowd rallied against the involvement of multinational corporations like real tito and black rock saying that they are exposing the resource rich region where that mine will be located. so joining me now to help break all of this down, i have geopolitical expert and survey and residents, and the malik now, thanks for being here. thanks for having we've been. so we've been reading that there have been over 50 protests across the country since just june. take us

through these protests. how large are they? obviously, from that video there. it's an incredible number of people turning out. has there been violence and is the government taking the seriously? well, the building to protest from saturday night was pretty much the most massive one. i believe the police have estimated sizes and about a $100000.00. that was a lot of people. i've never seen anything a big and they, they did easily outmatched the sheer mass of people that gathered last night to sort of greet the olympians. coming back, jo, jokers which you all kitchen the and in the crowd. so, and that's usually the biggest demonstration in belgrade. and any given year the a purchase elsewhere in serbia have been almost as big for, for their respective regions as they have not been violent. there has not been any sort of violence. there's been attempts by the political opposition to hijack the projects and sort of divert them into their services, their objectives. the government so far has

a regard to them as with forbearance and annoyance, they haven't moved very aggressively to break them up. they basically just caution people against any sort of violence and said that the re a tend to thing is a done deal in young people shouldn't be fussing over a. yeah, but last month the german chancellor, all of the shows was in delray the praise that tentative deal between serbia and the you for the extraction, the delivery of lithium to the european blog. you know, the, you know, kind of sees this deal as a way to become independent of lithium from china and other regions. the problem is this couldn't be, i guess on one side and economic boone for serbia. but there are enormous environmental concerns and we know that's right, living in mining is not clean in any way. in fact, the lithium that we use for batteries and we use for all those clean technology is actually incredibly destructive to the environment in order to extract it. as a not well, from what i've seen analysis wise, real tend to basically intends to dig this enormous open pit process the dirt from it to using. so for

a gas it be strapped to lithium and then dump the left over is sort of either in the same page or off to the side and did not really do any sort of clean up. the company hasn't said they would do otherwise, the government hasn't said they would do otherwise. and one of the biggest problem is, is that however much high quality dis, lithium, is it's right under some amazing both natural beauty and prime agriculture, a land and a prime. agricultural land is one of those things. it's a very short supply. yeah. and that is a, that's a global problem, right? and such as the serbian issue globally, having strong agricultural and, but serbia, in terms of history here, you know, in terms of european countries, it still maintains very strong ties with russia. and with china. it's kind of a rogue within europe in that regard. right now serve you as president is about to approve a massive deal to deliver that lithium though to the e. u. a. so is that part of the concern here is in regards to kind of the geo politics of it, or does the average serving person not really care about that? that part, they're more concerned about agriculture, food environment. well,

the fact of germany is sort of the point country of the e u on this project is incredibly troubling. because the germans have a history of invading serbia twice in the 20th century. and also at the end of this entry you is part of nato's armada. and 9 to 99 and breaking up you was la via in the 90 ninety's. and so having charles come here and say, oh we thank you for giving us the ro resources that we need. also, there will be environmental consequences, but not for us. uh, it did not go well it, it went over like the proverbial lead balloon in the serbian public. and i think that's one of the reasons, a 100000 people to the streets of belgrade on saturday. you know, it's interesting that you said that because i think at the core of what's happening here, the players who are most involved in this have no real ties to serbia, right. other than the serbian government given permission here. but as you said on the point person for this is germany on the east side. and then you have companies

like black rock who are involved in this. and, and when you have those kinds of multinational corporations that are coming in and they're taking advantage you have outside for, and governments that are taking advantage. what are the people to think other than the fact that they're, they're being hoodwinked through all of this? right. they mean here we do think that they're being colonized and they hear, she might theoretically be easier if the colonizer was somebody from a friendly country. but considering that the was done nothing with black, male, and abuse serbia for the past 25 years. and it's a, it's a tough pill to swallow that for sure. you know, we've talked about that kind of the legitimate concerns of protesters. but those of us working in alternative media all too familiar, and i know you are to now with the color revolution playbook. are there bad actors using in these protests who were kind of seeking to overturn the current serbian government? is there an effort right now to get one that's totally aligned with western europe and one that's more aligned with the united states? do you think that's happening? well, the pro western opposition tried their hand at general elections and failed miserably

. earlier this year you'd be basically got, wiped out and got very few seats in the parliament as well as local governments. they blamed the election fraud, which was never proven. and uh, is there activists keep coming up in these groups. keep turning up in these protests like a bad penny trying to divert the crowds, energy and sort of build channel it to their own pet causes. but they don't really care about lithium, just like they didn't care last year about kids getting shot up in schools they, they just use a whichever cause they embrace on a daily basis to help them all overturn the government. and this, in this instance, the russians actually send to build rage and official warnings with their intelligence saying they'd be. and there are people trying to use this as a screen for a color revolution. and i would like to remind her of yours, that serbia was actually the place where the 1st modern colored revolution took

place back in october 2000. that that was the us test of the playbook for winning other people's elections as wondering, those were described it. and then the later use the same template then implemented in georgia and then in ukraine twice and other places. so serbians are very, very sensitive to any sort of mentioned with color evolution because they've been through this once and they don't want to go through with that again. yeah, you know, we started this interview and you, you said at a certain point, a president of the country, the government is essentially saying to these protesters, you can protest, you can be mad. this is a done deal. is that the reality of it, or is there any opportunity, do you think any chance that this deal does go away, if enough people stand against it, or is it pretty much guaranteed this is going to happen? dyslexia might honestly, i'm a little bit baffled by the fact that the serbian government, which is very p r savvy, is sort of fumbling this feels badly and not selling it to the people aside from,

you know, saying shut up and enjoy us being a german lives even calling me in a fact. so i, part of me thinks that the, one of the strategies might be to sort of see how big these protests get and then tell the germans into you, look, you know, the people are on the edge of revolting here. we can go ahead and proceed with this, but you know, you never know. i mean, leo tend to, isn't supposed to start doing anything for another 2 or 3 years. and they're, that's, that's an attorney, the politically in europe, these guys, it is an eternity. so you, so they're, they're, you're saying there's a chance that sounds like there is a chance that if these protests are big enough, and then it gives enough political coverage of the regime, they're able to push back against that you because it seems like right now they don't have a lot of room to do that. will be use sort of holding serbia hostage because we're surrounded by nato members. were surrounded on almost entirely by you members . and if they decide to impose some sort of economic blockade,

even though it will hurt them immensely, it would certainly cause some hardship here. serbia has managed to be sort of of oasis of free trade between the you when the on one side and like russia and china on the other using that's neutral status and this politics of non interference and ukraine conflict. but if brussels decides to be suicidal as they have been regarding energy from russia, for example. um then, you know, there will be definitely tough times ad for everybody. definitely. so, and as you said, you know, it's a very difficult place right now to be neutral, politically, in any part of the world, especially in eastern europe. right now. it's a very difficult place surrounded by nato. the us, the western europe pushing very hard for all kinds of regime change all over the world. so an interesting, interesting conversation malik, thank you so much for your time and your insight on this. thanks for having me. absolutely. well, that is our show for today. we want to remind you that we're here every day, keeping an eye on the stories that have a direct impact. so you next time the,

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