[000:00:00;00] er, and it changes the mood in the ranks of the republican party itself, not so and again . here we are in ukraine, here we often talk about two -party support. and how is it possible to achieve two-party support in such conditions? which as trump controls uh 30% let's say 30 to 50% of the republican party and we have already discussed the agenda what is left then or the second horizon republicans somehow keep it that's why the questions of the population show that there about half of the republicans support uh продужающиеся помощь украины well, these are the people, how difficult it is to say that their party is sometimes wrong, and from another country and decided by the cannes party, it can be proven again and again, uh, how much they are not interested in democracy, not in affecting

the lives of the population it's not just that they have a politics of opposition, opposition works well for them in the elections, and trump just hopes that there will be many candidates, and he will lead his people to the election polling station, and eh, and everything will be good for him until he gets to again general election and for этого есть выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы выборы they flew over the territory of romania, maybe moldovans, then russians, when president zelensky spoke about the fact that this was an attack on euro-atlantic solidarity itself, the white house said that the missiles did not pose a threat

for romania, moldova became a direct military threat, somehow this degree will decrease, the statement of the ukrainian president well , we have to think who would like it now, even in that weakened version . i don't know what kind of country in general. the russian organization is therefore especially small countries that, in general, this is, as i have already said, this political decision will enter into a military conflict because the oxidants or uh, irresponsible behavior from the country of russia is what it always does uh, it will happen, and here it’s just a political decision at some point and say yes, we ’ll give a handover, but i think that it needs to be done apparently when nato has already joined, because i don’t know at what point it would be beneficial for a small countries will go to war with russia . thank

you , yuri rashkin, politician and public figure of the united states. we talked about american politics . of the earthquake in turkey, there are already 20,000 dead at this moment and this number continues to increase, unfortunately, because new victims are reported every minute . she is now on the phone . to all the citizens of turkey, our condolences for this tragedy, for the fish of so many people, for the destruction of so many beautiful cities, let's try

to talk now, what is the current situation at the moment, the situation in your country, how does it look like, how do people feel about all this, uh, in fact, the situation is very difficult because, uh, there was no such earthquake even in 1999, when uh, well, we thought that it was the worst an earthquake that can happen and as time has shown, we didn't know what was waiting for us today, in fact, it's uh , bigger than it was before, because it's 10 provinces of uh, countries, some of which are almost destroyed, and as you rightly said, it's increasing every minute the number of dead. that is, we the first ones started when we woke up, it was about 200 people eh

in the frame of what we heard for the first time and eh numbers that we see now we did not think that such a thing was possible eh and if we compare it with the earthquakes that god in 1999 year there is such a very huge download that uh, it's uh, it's winter and uh, even if you earthquake happened two weeks earlier, people had more chances to be saved, but now , unfortunately, every minute we learn about an even greater number of people who died died, but there are such cases when even no one i expected that people managed to save people, and in fact, if you look at today's situation, there are a lot of countries that in the future

gave their help and lost their lives to fight this. what happened? well, for example , i only found out today that uh, where did i know that 94 countries sent help is actually such an amazing number well, what if we say that in the last minutes , 20,000 213 people died, 77,771 people were saved. minute, something new is somehow happening, and as for the general situation in the country, it is actually very similar to the situation in ukraine because, er, all the people have started to help er, those who have suffered themselves, er,

from this earthquake, and there is going to be some help, they are sending some volunteers and well, in fact, it is very similar to what happened in the country during the war, but what happened in turkey is natural. and what is happening now in ukraine is artificial, and if not for what some of our neighbors say, it might not happen . please tell me if we talk about the consequences so as far as it is possible to assume that if it were possible, the technology of seismos resistance would be more closely followed in the construction of buildings in turkish cities, because we know that you have seen the destruction of these huge buildings that we were always so proud of when we saw in turkey that grow out of these

skyscrapers, you live in a city before these skyscrapers are a symbol of the new istanbul well, for example, i live on the 21st floor of a 1921 floor of a 27-story building, so it's normal, but if people actually follow these rules, because ah how do you know that there is an almost destroyed housing complex in hutaye? as they say here , they say that there were a lot of them, that is , they did not follow all the rules that they were supposed to follow, for example, there is such a case when in one of the destroyed buildings in to say that there was a bank in the basement, which er cut off that hen column, that is, er, about all these cases, about all these cases

, the cases have already started, the persecution has already begun . is school of more than a thousand people, he tried to escape abroad because he knew with us that he did something wrong and would have to answer for that, that is, turkey, they are very, how to say, they are very careful to ensure that no person who restored in what is happening so that she does not remain unpunished, we can generally say now that the situation in connection with the earthquake as it will develop it can affect the presidential parliamentary campaign because i think that when the president

erdoğan scheduled the elections for may 14, he hardly imagined that it would be connected with such horror that all these months would pass in such a state that turkey has now stopped, so there are two and a half months left before the elections, well, three, well, three and the country is in the most difficult situation since the moment, as you say, since the 30s , you know, this did not happen in our country at all, this jacqueline began , you can say the explosion that took place on the glass, you know when this live bomb exploded and it was very generally started already there because some bans started people have already started to feel not very safe there, let's say so. and here is this situation. she can say yes, she worsened everything

that is happening now, it uh-huh significantly uh-huh , so to speak, affected this situation on uh-huh daily life even for example, i don't know if you know or not in turkey, er, the children had a vacation, they were supposed to return to er, to study at the beginning of this week, but they will return in another week if everything goes well, for example, they have universities now they don't work and it's all very much like this to speak negatively is indicative of the psyche of such an ordinary citizen of turkey, because of course it will have an impact on the elections, but what will happen, no one can say now, because even what is

happening now is something that no one no political scientist, no analyst, no person could have predicted what is happening in the country now , it is quite difficult, it is uh, well, no one could have predicted it , and uh, of course, some of them. these are the moments they will use in all elections. now you can to talk about the economic change in these regions, well, that is, it is the density of the population , some regions are located on the sea coast, they have always been an important part of the economic life of turkey, well, antalya, let's say , is a province close to us by sport, mersin, as far as i remember. this is the main port that

connects turkey with northern cyprus, yes. and now this is such a dangerous zone, and this is certainly now affecting the whole situation. to predict what will be made up, how it will all be made up, because well, look, for example, now turkish airlines send people to this earthquake zone for free, and those who return this earthquake zone already have some kind of influence on it is still possible to say that uh, as for me , you must say this about the situation in

the construction sector, you must say it about tourism , because i already see that some of our citizens say that it is better to return to ukraine because there is no earthquakes and many other things a lot of things. because, for example, the country now provides assistance to those who live in these regions, but we all know that the budget has certain components and you cannot take something without investing something. that is, it is mandatory everything will certainly affect the situation, but now as i look at the exchange rate of this currency of foreign currency, i do not see such an increase in the exchange rate of the dollar or euro or any other tracks, that is, now we do not see all this. i think that we will start -e

see the first in a row and somewhere e-e days behind 10-15 when all this e-e search and rescue work ends and so e-e it will be even better there, we will be able to better see how many people are left without homes, what exactly they need and of course such a country will already start taking some measures before helping these people tell me, and that's where we'll see the first consequences of this earthquake. tell turkey, they talk about their neighbors, because there it also looks absolutely catastrophic, but they talk about syria much less than

turkey, if only because there is no of a centralized solution to problems, this earthquake occurred in areas controlled by various groups of the central government, rebels, and the humanitarian situation and the actions of the rescuers are not very clear there at all. who can act there and who can be trusted ? don't write how many people died, what or when a child or a woman was saved from such a difficult situation, they talk about it all the time, but everyone must remember that turkey has its own problem right now. of course they do. of course they pay more attention to what is happening in turkey, why , for example, rescue operations in syria are not going so fast. well, you have to imagine. i think that

turkey is a country in which there is no war turkey in which there is a government turkey in which there is some international relationship with other countries so uh partner countries they see uh where they send their people how and where they will be how and what will be done regarding syria is unfortunately, not everything is possible to predict what will happen there regarding syria in general right now, for example, i read the turkish press, i read social networks and i see that there are some not very pleasant materials being published about the fact that refugees from turkey who are from, i'm sorry, who are in turkey or are they

now they started looting in the very areas where the earthquake happened, if they behave like that in turkey, i think that with the humanitarian aid that goes directly to syria, where there is no order, i think that everything is much worse there. and please tell me in in principle, if we talk about the turkish media, they are now focused on the earthquake, uh, all other problems, as i understand it. they just took a backseat, of course, everything went on the back burner, even uh, recently they started talking about the situation that is developing in ukraine, but unfortunately this is in the last days, i don't know why it was especially to the land of the rope, they again started to pay attention to what is happening in ukraine, but because of this earthquake they are not

paying attention to ana er because what is happening abroad, but because it is happening in the country, all the news, the news that we are seeing right now, everything about the earthquake, thank you, thank you, i wish you to survive these terrible days, but i am the deputy head of the ukrainian cultural society in istanbul, we were on the air , now i will answer some questions that have already come on the air, is it possible to say now that the result of zelenskyi's meeting with the leaders of great britain, france and germany is the formation of an anti-putin coalition, or can the aid of these european countries and ukraine

have grown into something more than financial aid and assistance with armaments, can nato countries enter into a direct conflict with russia? well, it seems to me that the anti-putin coalition is one way or another aimed at helping ukraine in its desire to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of russian aggression, so it will go on, there will be weapons there will be economic financial assistance, there will be all efforts to prevent a direct conflict by the russian federation, so that this conflict, no matter how long it continues, continues on the territory of the post-soviet space and on the territory of nato did not spread, we just need to look at it realistically in relation to the meeting well, in general, i think that this is a symbolic thing, absolutely very important for the country, in order to maintain interest in the ukrainian topic in western societies and to allow the supply of weapons , we must be clearly aware of what western public opinion looks like in general

public opinion, we were just told , mr. ilya, that the earthquake in turkey, of course, moved all other news in this country except for the tragedy itself, this is logical, as you understand, and in many western media now the first topic is an earthquake in turkey because when thousands of people die like that in a few days, it usually attracts attention when the russians commit atrocities and we talk about these atrocities ukraine is on the front pages of all world publications bucha raisin mariupol when russia is simply waging a conventional war and we see the fighting there near bakhmut is very important for us, but for world public opinion it is not the western capitals. he again

draws attention to the topic of ukraine and again helps those who want to supply weapons and help with finances. a visit to london is in general, a visit of courtesy, which could not be if great britain had not left the european union. because before the summit of the european union, not to visit london , taking into account the great support that great britain has provided to ukraine all these months, it would be a gesture of such disrespect, you understand, if great britain was in it is obvious to the european union that volodymyr zelensky was not in london, he met with the prime minister of great britain in the same paris in the company of macron scholz or in brussels. well

, it is very important and very good that the president i went, but i don’t think that this is some new coalition, these are ordinary conversations that are absolutely obvious. therefore, there is no need to expect more than it can be for ukraine, which will have to do its homework for many years, which will allow it to eventually become a member of the european union. we can notice that even in the final the resolutions themselves are ukraine , it is said that the europeans welcome our efforts , efforts at european integration, and as journalists report, the first word was progress, significant progress, progress used , and what else do we need for our efforts were perceived as progress on these as efforts and this is also a very important topic for conversation in ukrainian society. there is a discussion about the transition from the traditional cyrillic to the latin alphabet. ukraine was going

to switch to it at least three times . mykhailo drahomanov was a supporter of the latin alphabet . should ukrainians change the alphabet? in general, i am very surprised. my people have preserved their big alphabet, the big alphabet, for thousands of years, and now people absolutely calmly write in this hebrew script, which was borrowed to be created back in the days of ancient babylon even of the ancient sumerian even earlier and of course many may think that writing in latin is easier, but the very presence of this alphabet creates identity, it is a cultural contribution, a real great contribution, because when you see these letters, you understand that god could only write with such letters and that was the only way it could be written

you cannot write the holy scriptures in latin, and the same applies to the cyrillic alphabet. all peoples who have ancient cultural traditions usually preserve them. the greeks write in their own alphabet and do not switch to latin because this alphabet is connected with the ancient traditions of herodotus, armenians and georgians use their ancient alphabets, which have passed the way from ancient centuries, ancient books were written on them. and the manuscript is evidence of the antiquity of civilization , the same applies to cyrillic with this script, ukrainians write with during the times of kyivan rus , it is found in the earliest monuments. anna yaroslavna, queen of france, signed her documents in cyrillic, when the people who

were next to her, the french aristocrats, did not know how to write in latin. such a hell, it is necessary to give up such a heritage for the sake of someone's ambition or stupidity, even i just wonder, maybe let's be different from the russian federation. don't be like russians. i don't see any problems at all in the preservation and protection of the ukrainian cyrillic alphabet. if someone needs to have a latin version of writing words, well, he can have. for me, this

is not a problem at all. i have been since childhood. i learned the serbian language, which is bifavit, everything is done cyril, this latin, it will not change anything by and large, it does not add anything, it does not take anything away, along with this, there is a new one with the traditional cyrillic alphabet, in which there are no two alphabets, it is not only ukrainian or russian or belarusian, it is bulgarian language - it's the macedonian language for each of these languages ​​- it's a huge cultural heritage, so the cyrillic alphabet is the alphabet not only of the eastern slavs, but also of the southern slavs. well , the most important thing is that if you want the alphabet of orthodoxy, it's also a very important part traditions and precisely because this alphabet is connected with the greek religious tradition . we got thomas from constantinople, not

from rome. this alphabet is a symbol of this independence. it is also connected with theological traditions. how do you feel about calls to return to the kuban ? we need the kuban in general i am used to living in a novel real in the world in the real world the biggest victory of ukraine will be the return to its internationally recognized borders the russian federation in its aggressiveness integrity readiness expanding to the borders of the soviet union in 1991 will exist next to us and prepare for revenge, so ukrainians should not think about the return of the kuban, but about preserving their own statehood in the coming decades, this issue will remain the main

issue of the ukrainian people, the issue of the survival of the ukrainian nation on ukrainian land, this issue will not be closed even if a ukrainian soldier enters the territorial boundaries of visas recognized by the international community even if the missile attacks on ukrainian territory end. and this may happen years after the restoration of territorial integrity, this is a huge problem, and i don't think at all about the kuban , i think about the survival of the ukrainian state . only this is a guarantee that the next decades will pass in peace and not in constant exhausting bloody wars . that's all i have to say about this and it's

quite an important moment when we all have to realize it, so the recipe is very simple the first is to restore the territorial integrity of ukraine, the third is to protect the ukrainian sky from further missile launches from russia, the third is to achieve the accession of ukraine to the north atlantic union , because the nato countries will interfere with this with all their might , realizing that this is the way to a nuclear war , likely from the russian federation, and to the disappearance of civilization on vast territories europe and north america, when millions of people become victims of this nightmare, you obviously don't want it and they don't want it, but we need to convince them that it's the opposite ukraine in nato is the way to a nuclear-free world and not