oh, the door, the lock. that's the one time they stole it. come on, they tie you by the hand and knead it by the head, too, it's like boiling a boa constrictor. i don't know what's better. when a rocket flies into your house, or when you're put against a wall in some basement, what's happening in kherson is very it is difficult to show with footage, because all the horrors and all that silent terror are all happening in the basements on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, time, i am yuliya yarmolenko, i congratulate the speaker to the representatives of the us congress at the agency

, she arrived in taiwan, this is the first time in 25 years the visit of an american official of this rank in beijing and moscow, the visit of the pilos has already been called a serious political provocation in the white house and the congress claim that the speaker has every right to visit taiwan and that this does not change the us's commitment to the one-china policy in her column in the washington post. at a time when the world is faced with a choice between autocracy and democracy at a time when russia is waging its planned illegal war against ukraine killing thousands of innocents, even children, it is important that america and our allies have made it clear that we will never make concessions to autocrats. more about the significance of this visit for taiwan, american-chinese relations, and for ukraine . why so much attention is focused on him now and you don't know. this is

not the first congressional delegation that goes from the usa to taiwan, but as you rightly said , a visit of such a high rank is the first in 25 years to the observers, the position of speaker of the house of representatives is the third most powerful and influential position after the president after the vice president of the united states. indeed, the visit of nancy polosi is therefore so important for the united states, for china, and for taiwan. how she herself characterizes the importance of her visit, she writes that this visit should be perceived as an unshakable position that the usa supports taiwan when it defends itself and its freedom, we have already seen the reaction also from china now by the way footage you can see how it is landing in taiwan and the chinese foreign ministry reacted instantly and said that it is considered a serious political provocation that the registry office will take all decisive measures to protect its sovereignty. we also know that china has announced immediate military exercises in the waters around taiwan, in fact, they would be surrounded if these are all the zones

where these exercises will be held, they surround taiwan and therefore and these military exercises will be held there, they also talk about the fact that although the experts say that uh, the semi-axis actually could not to fly to taiwan after those threats that sounded from the side, we know that earlier even in china we heard such statements that some people threatened to shoot down the plane or take some other aggressive steps, this obviously did not happen, but experts say that after such statements the weather could not help but fly to the ivanivs, although in the white house earlier, the security officials expressed concern about such a visit. that indeed the speaker of the house of representatives has the right to visit taiwan, this has been done by the speakers in the past and the visiting party does not in any way change the policy of the united states regarding taiwan does not change or violate any bilateral agreements between these two countries and john kirby is actually

a representative of the council of us security of the united states said that the united states will not be intimidated in any way, but it is also important to yuli to emphasize - this is what i paid attention to after the agency landed in taiwan from taiwan with its the statement was made by 26 republican senators, influential senators who are usually in an open confrontation regarding internal political receipts. this time, they came out in support of her, saying that the speaker of drip representatives has the right to visit taiwan . the chinese communist party does not have the right to indicate what to do or what not to do, so yulia shows that it is contained that despite internal political disagreements, this respect for institutions in this particular example, for the institution of the speaker, the apparatus of representatives, it is quite powerful, come on now we are moving the comment of the republican senator to salliv to the associate from alaska, how does he comment on this support for the bipartisan visitation of the semi-axis until the meltdown so that the chinese communist party dictates to the

top american leadership where they can and where they cannot travel is not the other way around there we support her trip and about "we unite around her and many senators supported this statement by ostap. can such a step from time to time contribute to the rapprochement of china with russia and note that this is actually a logical question in view of russia's war in to ukraine, taking into account the fact that the united states urged china not to help russia earlier, what do experts say, experts say that this is unlikely to be an obstacle to the formation of a new alliance of a powerful alliance between china and russia, although additional pressure from the united states may push china to take steps on its part and what the experts also say is that it is unlikely that this can lead to any direct confrontation. moreover, a military confrontation between the united states and china says that

china is not particularly interested in this right now the question is, how will china really react now, what will it do in response? will it be the powerful military exercises that we have seen now, yes, the announcement, or will it be additional additional sanctions , or is it possible that it will somehow help russia? we will see. an expert on russian-chinese relations, in particular, is johns hopkins university professor serhiy radchenko, he comments on the situation in the context of russia, ukraine, the united states and china, this is how speec switches its attention from what russia is doing in ukraine and focuses on taiwan, it takes some pressure from russia and i don't think that it will necessarily push china to some formal alliance with russia, but it is obvious that the stronger the pressure of the united states on china, the greater the probability that china will try to cooperate with russia ostap, what

does this visit mean for ukraine and directly for the attention that is focused on ukraine at the moment yuliya ty actually mentioned nancy the vacuum cleaner at the beginning in her column about this visit, she asked at the end of ukraine that this visit shows confrontation so it is democracy, the autocracy that the nation has spoken to, supports ukraine in this regard as well, and there were a lot of parallels. we have also heard parallels before, taiwan, ukraine, russia, china. we saw even today when i met the most stubborn people of taiwan in the city, they had masks, and with ukraine, they were dressed in ukrainian colors regarding what this means for ukraine although on the one hand it really says that this is an expression of support for both the people of the tattoo and the people of ukraine and we see these parallels, but experts also say that on the other hand side, it may not be entirely in the hands of ukraine due to the actual switching of this attention. let's listen to serhiy radchenko again, what he has to say

about this. what is happening in ukraine , the invasion of russia continues, russian troops continue to gain positions in some areas, ukraine is advancing on others, but still for ukraine, this war is still in a very active phase, so the world's attention on taiwan is obviously not in in the interests of ukraine, ostap remains a minute, we have another important event that happened the day before with a scarf given to ayman alza vahira, the leader of the alkaya terrorist group. what is the significance of this operation? yuliu saw another important event. today, the united states actually liquidated the second most important person who was after bin laden's female leader goes, what does experts say that, first of all, this means that the usa, despite the withdrawal of its troops from afghanistan, has shown that it can carry out effective counter-terrorist operations operations in this area as needed, we saw this and this confirmation today also says

that this may be evidence of the elimination of this terrorist that al-qaeda is unlikely to be able to revive, how much did you fear there after the departure of the american visa in afghanistan ruruna for such fears what is possible now in nissan will be a new playground for terrorism i will say now after this attack it is unlikely to happen yulia thank you ostap for the communication from capitol hill from the head with the main news of the day the united states on tuesday expanded sanctions against russia and the russian elites and included in the lists alina kabaeva and additional oligarchs while innocent people suffer from russia's illegal war in putin's allies are getting rich, said the us treasury secretary janet tjelan and emphasized that the ministry of finance will use all available tools to make sure that the russian elites and the kremlin's mediators were brought to justice for their complicity in the war, which had already cost countless

lives, meanwhile, yale university scientists last week, they published the results of a thorough study on the impact of sanctions on russia, whether economic pressure from the west can really change putin's calculations, let's talk about it with our economic correspondent oksana batratenko oksana, thank you for joining the broadcast. so, the important question that was raised in this study is whether sanctions really have a powerful effect on russia's economy, is it really in a good state now? yuliya, a new study by yevgeny university confirms that western sanctions have a catastrophic effect on the russian economy the economy, the kremlin's money is running out, industry is coming to a halt, and more than a thousand international companies left russia, which put 40% of the russian economy under attack, researchers say, they urge you not to believe the winning data announced by the kremlin, and instead they did painstaking work and

collected company data, trade partner data, oksana and what do other researchers say or do they agree with the conclusions of yale university scientists, we can say that this study had a really explosive impact and it was written about it almost all the leading american scientific publications have become one of the most read in a week since the start of its publication . it is worth noting that american analysts from the international institute of finance from the european group indicated that, for example, the official exchange rate of the ruble is somewhat overvalued or it is possible that the industry is falling more than the russian statistics say, but this study gave such a more thorough analysis and the overall picture, and of course it completely contradicts those who rejected the impact of the sanctions on russia, and it is also worth noting that

analysts severely criticized the international monetary fund and they and yale scientists called last week's decision of the international monetary fund the biggest historical mistake of the fund during its existence precisely because the fund improved the forecasts of the russian economy from minus eight percent to -6%. the funds replied that these forecasts are made with sufficient accuracy and that -6% is still a very large figure, but scientists believe that the fund was trusted for nothing to russian statistics i know that you managed to communicate and tomorrow we will study what they told you, so i suggest you watch this interview where they talk about their research, super eh so instead of

using russian statistics, they dug deeper and took data from other countries numbers of bank companies and other unusual sources, why do you think this approach to russia is the right way to look at fashion? grades at the end of the month, but now they have decided not to show in the report card those lessons that they fail and instead of showing the grades for reading and math, they give us grades for physical education or that is ridiculous, they hide the data, publish arbitrarily some strange data that is misleading in many in the media, for example, they indicate that the securities market has collapsed by 60%, which is terrible. but why not 100, because now it is impossible to sell shares, and only foreigners remain among the owners of shares, because

the russians did the same with the currency of the real there is no market, all imports have now fallen by half and the chinese do not compensate for their imports to russia have also fallen by 50%. by the way, this drop in imports means that they do not have spare parts for repairing cars, airplanes, iphones, and everything necessary, the industry is at a standstill . he himself says so, so in fact there are much more of them and the intention regarding the ruble is one of the biggest favorite topics of russian propaganda, but the volume of trades has dropped significantly, and the reason for this is the artificial exchange rate, which is maintained thanks to strict restrictions on the movement of capital. russians are now practically unable to purchase a dollar and do not even have access to dollar deposits, most ruble trades have moved to the

black market, where the exchange rate is from 20 to 100% higher than the official one, how do western sanctions affect russia in general, are they effective, a good question, i am ready to tell your viewers about it for 6 hours , it is extremely important that this is a rare case when sanctions are applied appropriately in combination with private business decisions that increase their influence also instead of restricting one thing such as car tires, the whole economy is targeted, such measures of force are one step away from the catastrophic bloody war of armageddon, which we want to avoid, we must use all force and inflict a shocking blow to the economy and people will go out on the streets because now only 4% of russians have downloaded vpn and watch voice of america and such things attract

attention and more people will understand that their country thieves need to understand that they are being mocked by their own leader, the enemy of the russian people, vladimir putin, a really interesting study by yale scientists and very important. now there is another important topic oksana, with the approach of winter, russia will intensify its energy blackmail, and what do analysts think, can europe break and support from of europe, ukraine, and under this russian pressure, ah, russia is more dependent on gas supplies to europe than europe is on russian gas, professor sonen even told me about this in interview, in fact, 60% of the russian budget depends on the export of energy resources . russia supplies most of its gas to europe. now, this figure has dropped a lot. practically in 5 months , these supplies are at a record low level, and russia has not been able to

reorient itself to the eu. china, that is, the sonnet says that putin's campaign to the east failed precisely because there is no infrastructure, there are no pipelines that could be used to deliver, as this professor said, literally , and maybe for these deliveries that can be made now, one can light one chinese one the chinese village and everything in this way, he believes that since russia does not even have the opportunity to make this liquefied gas, then in fact russia will suffer more in the meantime europe is actively building equipment for the liquefaction of natural gas and therefore there is hope here thank you very much that it was our economic columnist oksana bedratenko

, a group of international lawyers of the american company prpg, together with ukrainian experts, developed a bill that provides for the creation of a higher war crimes court in ukraine to investigate and prosecution for crimes committed since 2014. why is such a tribunal needed? what will be the prosecution mechanism? how will it be integrated into the ukrainian justice system? so who will he judge ? williams, together with a group of international and ukrainian experts, prepared a legislative action that would create a special tribunal for war crimes committed in ukraine, but there is already a mechanism for this. can you explain why there was a need for

an additional tribunal? andriy, there are two reasons why there is a need for an additional tribunal. first, the people of ukraine will demand justice for all the atrocities committed by the russians during the war of aggression against the state. ukraine and the people of ukraine therefore need a full judicial set of transitional justice mechanisms, the existing infrastructure will not satisfy this need , the un international criminal court has jurisdiction over this case, but traditionally, he prosecutes only those who are responsible for the most serious crimes. and this is a handful or maybe a dozen criminals, and here we are talking about probably more than 10,000 criminals who will need to be brought to justice for their crimes against the ukrainian people, the international criminal court of the un will not be able to do this if there is a tribunal for crimes of aggression, we will again limit ourselves to about a dozen defendants. but

people will want commanders and lieutenants and soldiers who committed these crimes to bear responsibility and they will want the ukrainian judicial system to be authorized to prosecute these persons a-a william the rwandan jumper considered 85 cases related to the former yugoslavia 161 according to the general prosecutor's office of ukraine in ukraine there are almost 22,000 cases and every day the number of committed war crimes increases by 100,200 as this court will cope with such a huge amount of work of people there are a number of models that we ukrainians can use and i 'm glad that you mentioned rolanda because it was a great example for rolanda is pleased with un security was created an international special tribunal but the rwandans also involved two or three additional mechanisms the rwandans had their own internal prosecutions and they prosecuted tens of thousands

of people they also had a truth commission because in some situations they believed that it might be best to have a truth commission and reconciliation between victim and perpetrator but then they also had internal political or local reconciliation processes i am not quite sure if this will be applied in ukraine but the idea is that you want a certain degree of responsibility for these thousands of crimes as a model for the creation of this tribunal, you use the highest anti-corruption court of ukraine, why is the ukrainian system quite developed, both from the point of view of the judicial system and the legislative system and constitutional provisions, so we cannot simply appear and say here's an idea it's the business of the ukrainian people they have to accept it you need to adopt this mechanism in the existing mature legal system if you

limit yourself to an international criminal court or in a court for consideration of the crime of aggression, it can be within the framework of the un, but if you create an internal court, it must be something that will appear inside the already existing system, the higher anti-corruption court developed the existing judicial system of ukraine by adding this new area of ​​jurisdiction, and if it worked in matters of corruption, it will also work for war crimes, our ukrainian colleagues, ukrainian experts in the case and experts from civil society helped us a lot to come up with how to weave this tribunal into the ukrainian judicial system, i wanted to touch on that the international component that you mentioned , the constitution of ukraine does not allow foreign judges to work in ukrainian courts. how are you going to solve this problem? we know that there must be an international component in this mechanism so that there is trust in the ukrainian process. the fact is that neither

ukraine nor any other country the world does not specialize in prosecuting war crimes in national courts, they usually have a military judicial structure that deals with prosecuting their own soldiers if they violate the laws of war but nobody goes to law school to prosecute war criminals domestically and it's a completely different type of investigation to building a criminal prosecution the good news is that we now have a huge amount of experience ukraine has a mature legal system you just need experience you need prosecutors who have prosecuted the military before criminals to give advice to ukrainian prosecutors to interact with a team of lawyers you will have an impartial process i spoke with some experts who say that there is a problem of ukrainian legislation that it is not sufficiently harmonized with international law. how will this issue be resolved

? will you use ukrainian legislation or will it be necessary to make amendments before using it in this court? that they are considered included in internal systems is genocide crimes against humanity piracy regardless of national legislation everyone knows what piracy, genocide and crimes against humanity are illegal, for example, there is still no law on crimes against humanity, but we could prosecute people for such crimes in our courts, because every person knows that he should not commit crimes against humanity, ukraine, a member of the un, adopted the un charter, adheres to international rights, the same story in theory with russia and with these crimes of which it is accused of committing, in essence, there is a generally accepted

ban on what the russians are doing and so you can bring them to justice for these crimes grimes we talked about the number of cases that will be considered by the judicial system, it needs funding, the investigation itself needs funding. i know that the uk announced that it was going to give ukraine two and a half million euros for the prosecution of conifer war crimes in ukraine, but this is not enough, where will the money come from, this is an important question, and this is two dimensions first we need to prioritize accountability and transitional justice among all other needs because there will be a need compensation for reconstruction, the international community understands that justice is not a luxury , it is necessary for a lasting peace in most places where the guilty were effectively brought to justice , there was no return to violence, let's take

the former yugoslavia for example, the situation was tense, they came close but did not return to violence because the conflict was settled at the end of the 90s x in other places where the approach was well, let's just forgive and forget, or let's just look the other way, let's agree to impunity, there the violence returned, they returned conflicts, russia should be held accountable, the private sector has a considerable interest in financing this process, people who want to change the situation, different funds, they want to change the situation . the indictment indicates a lot that he will be convicted and there is a moderate probability that he will indeed be arrested and tried but i look at it so

it's important to think about the different phases of the process that the first step for change in russia ukraine will win this war but you want to prevent a second war you need some kind of political transition in russia part of that process is delegitimization of the current political leadership and indictment will go a long way to that the indictment also gives an opportunity to publicly share all the information about what putin did during his war in ukraine and then ideally there will be some kind of trial prosecution detention everyone always says that this will never happen. they said that this will never happen to president milosevic. he died when he was in custody during the trial. they talked to charles taylor that this will never happen. he is a military leader, but he is serving 50 years in prison in london for his crimes

. they are demanding it right now some ukrainian courts have already considered the cases of the military, tried them, found someone guilty to life imprisonment, when is this tribunal working? if your legislation is adopted, it will be the design of this draft law was developed in accordance with the existing ukrainian judicial structure, which would allow the tribunal to work quickly enough within 3-6 months after the adoption of this law, because it involves the use of the entire existing judicial infrastructure and mechanisms, the trials that took place were extremely important in order to to break the ice, so to speak , regarding how ukrainian courts will prosecute war criminals, what is your personal opinion on whether they will be guilty of crimes against ukrainians have been found guilty and in the end will there be justice natalya, i am quite sure that the persons

guilty of crimes against the people and the state of ukraine will be brought to court and will be brought to justice. patient and there are many examples where people are caught and tried quite quickly or after 10 or 15 years but when you create these institutions they continue to exist and they will get those responsible for brutal crimes so that the victims can be comforted. thank you very much. download the voice of america mobile application. the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn

service . on the air of an interview on franz 24 , the war in ukraine continues for the 6th month and our guest today is the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, mr. dmytro kuleba, on a call from the city of kyiv. thank you, sir ministers, i am very pleased to observe the russian shelling of the south of ukraine, we are also talking about a possible counterattack by ukrainian troops in the direction of kherson, do you think it is possible that the fate of ukraine will be decided there and not in the donbass