joining us for that live covers just running down to a couple of points. so today's he had to say he brought up the j. c, p o a that of the nuclear agreement that was ditched by that of a trump administration or ac, saying the iranian produced uranium is only for peaceful purposes. he says that iran is not trying to build a nuclear weapon. one of the main things he did go on for a while he took for a good half hour that he to, to make a few points about that as we're all watching. now, that of a multi lateral world emerge as a unit. lateral world is coming to an end through there. yes, of the financial networks and sanctions, and exerting pressure on defenseless nations. he says this current world order has lost its support and the thoughts and the hearts and minds of people all around the world. more details on that speech at r t dot com for the meantime. so let's get back to our top story here on our thief international. and that is the televised address of the russian president vladimir putin over the war in ukraine. my colleague, morales mommy spoke with maria if an oftener about basically what the mobilization means for russia and the potential implications of the up coming ref around. big

dead. we've had the russian prison just tells us this morning. ok. or do you make of the whole statement? how do, how do you see it? yeah, i moran air 15 minute televised page early on wednesday blythe, my potent announced partial mobilization across russia that starts tray to wave, widen reporting. and it's stressing that only those who have combat experience or military specializations, those from the country's military reserve, and those who have already been serving military service here in russia will be mobilized. and also he added that all those troops will 1st before going to the front of the having additional sasha military training. and i have to say that this statement didn't come as a surprise, as moscow has repeatedly been warning key about a number of red lines, better not to be cross, but as you know, things at the front have recently been very tough. and just recently ukraine with

huge support of its western allies with a lot of western weapons. and a huge number of foreign fighters on their side started counter offensive. and a huge part of high confusion that had been under the control of the russian forces and united forces of people's republic. often. yes, fem lugens, since praying has been taking back out of horace. this is something that russia cannot ignore, ignore and light repugnant, sad that while he, if seems not to be ready to stop, it's an necessary stat mobilization. and also he said that this is actually a duty of russia. let's take a listen. when you motion me mean we cannot let and we have no moral right to hand over people close to not have to be torn to pieces by execution. we have to respond to their sincere desire to determine their own fate. the parliament of the people's republic of dumbass, adeline,

as well as the males. her civil administration of the course on ends up rogia regency had decided to hold referendums on the future of these territories and turned to us to russia with a request to support such a step was we know that the majority of people leaving in the territories liberated from neo nazis, we showed the primary historical lance of nub irosia to now i want to be under the oppression of a neo nazi regime in sup, rogia, in the kernel region in august and on as they have seen. and are seen the atrocities committed by neo nazis. if in the occupied areas of the heart of regency still these layers of been, there are a nasty, punish her skilled people, and torture on throw them into prison, to settle scores, and mach civilian way to deal with that. but i think after the president defense minister said a geisha go give a little bit more details on mobilization. he says that currently there are 25000000 people here in russia eligible, former let mobilization, but we're now talking why about 300000 people mobilize? and he all same for size that university students and those were currently serving

military service here. russia will not be mobilized, and he stressed that all those additional troops will go to the fine up to take part a you a fancy fat to how keep the rain take him territories and provide additional control over these regions. to more of a security thing that with all the sort of an, amid the mobilization of the military to the region that's gonna change the status quo of the is cilla military operation. in wagner put in a stress that the status of moscow special military operation on the ground does not change with this recent announcement. and to continue according to the plan. and while, while more potent sat, the west is actually into which in rush and eventually actually destroy a russia, the aim of the russian operation on the ground is to counter these africa in my report. and also remind them that russia did that already in the past. and will do it again, stopping all those seeking to control the world. let's take

a listen. what's got me putting had to say was in our country possesses various weapons. and in some components, there are more advanced than what nato countries have under threat or countries integrity to protect russian. our people who will use every possible means and we are not bluffing russian people can be sure those trying to blackmail us with nuclear weapons. they must know the boomerang will hit them back. i have to say these are strong words and a very serious warning and defense minister said j show go. also talked about that so called collective west is currently fighting on key had side and at least 18 made to set lies a currently at ukraine service. so russia simply cannot just sit and watch this large scale operation against people off the dumbass region and eventually of russia. just watch it now, so they have to stephanie. meanwhile, the russian defense minister sugar also gave an update on the losses of both the

russian and the ukrainian forces, claiming that key of troops had been hit very hard if were to at this time, ukrainian casualties are more than a 100000 people. we haven't said this before, but i believe it has to be mentioned. during the operation we have lost 5937 soldiers. as for mobilization or total reserves amount to $25000000.00 people, partial mobilization would be one, maybe 1 point, one percent of the total number. let's say this further aeronautics national now speak to the founder of seriana analysis cove, all cal massey and joining us here for the program. i very good afternoon to you as you've been listening to the program right now. did any of what president putin had to say? did any of that come as a surprise to you today? actually, it doesn't come as a surprise for me as an observer of the russian military intervention in syria and assistance to the syrian military against a terrorist groups. i think the strategy of the russian military isn't very

different in ukraine comparing to syria at the beginning. there were a heavy ariel and artillery bombardment of the fortifications and the basis of ukraine. secondly, rapid advance in the uplands territory by special forces turret when the time came right now to preserve these territories that they were next from ukraine. president vladimir putin called for a partial novelizations of century $100000.00 troops to the newly annex territory in your brain to allow the special forces to counter the counter offenses of the, of ukraine, especially in camps on and in, on the joint of micro life. and if the russian forces successfully contained the attacks of the ukraine and forces on the joints. ok on especially, and also in logan's, i think the focus will be on ceiling. the, the south park, especially the black, come on, you sort of jumping in with, with,

we're talking about a, essentially what putin as a contact line of a 1000 kilometers. how do you, how do you support such an enormous contact line that, i mean, let's talk about the numbers as well and how much of a of an impact is, is mobilization. really going to take couple when you consider that ukraine ukranian numbers of troops still at right now, vastly out, number of the russian forces on the battlefield. actually, the contact line can be preserved. true to means one, especially forces who, who face the contra offensive of in crane. and at the same time, you have troops, the reserve troops that can preserve the territories that you have occupied. and the most important thing here is the difference. so when the referendum happened and this regions joined the russian federation, legally speaking from the russian point of view, this regions will be russian territories. therefore, the reaction and the military response are russia will be different when ukraine

attacks these territories. and i think it will happen because from both sides, the russian side and the natal side, they have invested so much in ukraine that none of these parties are willing to lose this war. and therefore, today, i think it's a very important date. the under estimation of some of the were simple additions and also in germany that there are ridiculing the, the russian decision to send 300000 troops into your crane. i think they have to take this issue seriously because the issue of a nuclear armaments or nuclear nuclear war, the issue of diplomacy is behind our back right now. none of this part is interested to any sort of doping. again, could book, the russian president, vladimir putin said, what did he say? he said, this is not a luff. do you think his partners is professional partners in the west? are going to take that on board? actually they didn't take the statement seriously and only today minister is from

the german government, especially the minister of the economy here. ridiculous. he tickled the statements off a lot and i put in there for the as i mentioned, the under estimation from the, the, from the politicians in the west. and the wishful thinking that that governs the brains. and the decision making care in the western world is worsening. the situation in your career because from the beginning there was a serious chance to bring both sides on the go. she ation to table, especially by germany and by friends b. e. you had a chance to play an independent role in disregard to bring the united states and russia on and go share, think about. but since the european union and the politicians embedded themselves heavily with the american side, i think they cannot claim anymore that they are not part of this war with natal against, against russia was as a hand it's put in. i mean, i show you that, sorry, started jumping again. i do apologize for being a bit rude today, but she basically said that the russian forces fighting nato weapons and nato

forces because a long time ago, ukraine already run out of weapons. this is talk very briefly as i still caught you here of walk and it's great to have you on the program today. by the way, the 2014 crimea referendum saw thousands of people lining the streets of crimea to have their vote for that referendum. the western press was that a filament. they didn't really know what to say. they wanted to call it redundant fraud or theatre, but you had all 3 generations. you had grand kids, parents and grandparents who all went to make their vote. we're going to have, it looks like we're going to have these referendums now. and these 2 don bass republics also is up at all she and her son. if in the these referendums do take place and these regions do vote to join russia and become suffering russian territory. what does that mean when shelling attacks will be getting russian territory? that's the point. as i said, the, from the russian side, legally speaking, according to the russian, the constitutional basha has to respond differently to the attacks of the ukraine

and forces on songs approach. yeah, no guns and on the edge when they joined the rational federation and regardless of the statements or the decisions of the european leaders or the americans, not to quote nies the results of the refer them. i think there is a defacto like the fact of control by the russian side on distributors and if attacks happen in this industry and i think the russian side will escalate and and, and be tally against strategic positions in ukraine, including infrastructure that the ukraine inside is using nowadays, especially the natal hardware technology, the satellites, etc, against the rational forces. and this will be a very bloody and ugly war. and the biggest, i think big famous will be the ukranian people and also the europeans because your parents are paying now it's a very heavy price, economically on their shoulders because they have to finance these military. you're

paying through the nose right now. they're paying through the nose at the moment when it comes to the sales guy. i am, i am paying way more for my heating for my electricity for everything is, has increased at least 20 percent and the salaries are the same. so i think if there was a big sympathy towards the, your grand inside because of the huge media campaign by the mainstream media here, i think the sympathy is becoming less and less true time because the people aren't ready to sacrifice their financial stability already. what even aust, were they even asked by their politicians, are you ready to sacrifice your heating for this winter and your ability to make a hot meal for your kids? sally and billy. i mean, europe and politicians have sanctioned russia know they've sanctioned their own. people can fork out nasty and founder of seriana analysis, georgia company. thanks very much. thank you. now in his televised address, let him put and expressed his support for that of the referendums announced in the

dawn bass, as well as the heart of san unzip at all. she reaches madeline in the middle of the fiscal, malignant mercy. the parliament of the le ganske added an escrow publix and the registrations of this approach yet. and here some regions have made a decision to carry out a referendum about their future. and they appealed to us, russia to support this decision. we would like to emphasize we will do everything to provide safe conditions to hold a referendum so that they could express their will and make the decision about their future will support their decision. the voting will be held from september the 23rd to the 27th. so in the coming days and here at r t, would it speak to the locals there who apparently hope that will it will help to a will pave the way to a future of peace because you can eval if we can them. i'll vote in favor of it. i have an extremely positive view of this is exactly what we'd been waiting for since 2014. our people have suffered

a lot for the idea of joining russia. all these events have shown that we have one path. it should be done as soon as possible, so we hope that no one will attack russian territory. i will warburton favour because it's time to become parts of russia who have been waiting patiently for e. t is we're tired of the whole situation. this region must return to its home. the time has come, so the decision must be made. i will vote yes so that there will be no more shelling and everything will work out so that we live as we did before. we've been heading to worse this for a long time, 8 years. it should have been done a long time ago, and very happy about this. i think life will become more stable. there will be protection. maybe the war will and sooner i'll vote in favor of it. we've wanted to return home for a long time since 2014, the sooner the better without russia, we have no future or in our to our senior correspondent without gasdio. he's now in one of the regions where a referendum will be held. he sent us this report. this is be long since had coming

at this point. it is worth bearing in mind that the situation on the ground has, has changed rapidly compared to what it was, what russia but god, this conflict. but it went to ukraine with professional contract on the which is less than 200200000 men. at this point, the military hardware that ukraine has at the start of this conflict, almost all of this is gone, replaced by what nato has supplied the ukrainian military. at this point. he's the ukranian military, ugly name. it is paid for by native. it is fed by nato countries with aid for various will, could i say, should it isab almost entirely with what it has received from nato countries. and this continues. the goals of the russian special operation in ukraine may be the

same. the de, not suffice. the country to disarm it, to protect the people of la, god's can and vignettes, the dom boss. but the parameters have rapidly changed. boucher has realised that needs more to when this is conflict at any reasonable time frame. also here in can, so it is apparent that the front must be shifted away from, from cities and populous areas. because this rain of me cells does it n american high most missiles, most of all, most a shot down but, but most of course isn't all, many of them live in here. so the nova focus where they are, where they hit residential buildings, apartment buildings, and the dumbass to this endless shelling his as wrong people, people who were even pro ukrainian when russian forces and that many of them are a rethinking their positions because of because of this is walton bob, bob, bob,

by key of forces buses ah rushes push for mobilization is evidently i barefoot to when this conflict sooner rather than later to prevent the nato in the end, you crave from from dragging it out with supplies of new weapons with new ab with new soldiers train, the great britain knew it, in european, in european countries, new armies raised full key, haven't paid for by navy. so suddenly a very big development. and it bains that believe, how quickly is fresh, russian forces will enter the fray. so a top western politicians have already lashed out at president putin over his announcements about that of the plans for the referendums. let's learn more now. take this further without he contributor a rachel mawson, who is joining us here on the program to keep us well. she gives us a, a broader perspective on some of the top stories because here at this channel,

rachel, you heard some of the comments there at western professional partners as a, as protein used to coal then have already reacted to the potential referendums. i thing actually guys, i think we've lost rachel. yep. there she look about. she sank got no sound will come back to rachel will come back to rachel. no big deal. no big deal. let. so let's try to speak with richard. are rescues me, robert bridge. who's actually one of my favorite writers around these days are robert bridge, is a writer, a journalist, and the author of midnight in the american empire as we get him to come towards the program. he's always addressing issues of geo politics in the will to day. robert bridge is a very, very interesting character to have with us on the program. now, for the meantime, however, we can lead to robert here on the program. i do, i do feel patients with us was breaking news into national unrolling coverage. and i think you anything you miss just check out an artsy dot com crossing live right now. let's get to our 1st question here on arte international to mr. bridge. i hope

you can hear us now. robert, we're trying to get a solid connection. i do apologize for the well technical issues here somewhere there might be a mouse chewing on a cable. so the west, it says the putin is looking desperate and this is the final roll, the dice for him and this conflict in ukraine. what, so what's your take effect? i would, i would argue that it's just the opposite rory in order to move for a referendum. of course, you must be certain of your ability to, to enforce that. first of all, as well as you have to be sure of, of the people who want to join the referendum, you have to be sure of their willingness to be part of it. so it's just more white noise from the western media. nice thing about something that's going to happen regardless of what they believes. well, i mean, as i say robot, the western politicians calling the referendums illegal. in fact, we've had a number of comments. how can we micron was calling the french president was

calling at the recall. he was calling it cynical, the, the nato chief. he came out and said, oh it's already redundant. it doesn't matter who vote it's all totally useless. how are the people in these embattled regions ever going to look forward to prosperity in a peaceful future when professional partners in the west are ready essentially condemning them? if you look, for example, try me. it's just a success story. the people that are very happy they had a 98 percent turn out. been fantastic for those people. so you just look there and you can see the successes and i'm sure the people in the ukraine and the dunbar. so looking there and they're seeing that you can have a normal functioning democracy. so all this noise coming from nato, i would say that a lot of it is just that they just want to perpetuate this conflict more or their own, their own purposes, to inflate defense spending and even go so far as to try to destroy and partition russia russia, leaders that earlier today, robert, listen,

i wanted to ask you about the tall mobile as ation angle, that putin has talked about today. and obviously has gotten huge reaction in certain processions agencies or the well, the 300000 to resolve is to be called up. that's about 1 point, one percent of the russian non military forces. he got people in the west, we were talking about nuclear alma get in is days away or is it time for, for people to take a take a chill pill perhaps or oh definitely. i don't think it's going to come to anything like that. of course, the west is going to be this up and turn it in, turn it into something that it's absolutely not russia just seeing the need to do this because the, what's happening in ukraine and the terrorism that's taking place, the hands of the neo nazis and they really need to be things up and take it to the next level. what about, what about the comments are coming from showing, for example,

also from the russian president, putin. the essentially saying that, you know, ukraine is a staging ground for what is a war against nato showing who's saying that essentially ukraine ran out of weapons months ago. and now russia is taking on a full hybrid war with the west, via nato. and all the latest technology, armaments weaponry, and wolf and tango months. they can get into what, what do you, how do you look with this, robert? i mean, you've written some amazing books out there and i read your articles on a weekly basis. very often you're publishing off t dot com, other websites, 0 hedge and as well, some of the other great websites out there. what do you, what, what's gonna happen here in the next number of days? do you think it's going to be escalated here because showing you, he said, in a mix of words, he said this mobile is ation will be the beginning. so what are we looking at here, robert? well, i would, i would say that we're looking at the beginning of much greater acts of desperation on the part of ukraine. i think you see a lot more attacks happening in the done,

you're going to see more active terrorism. and i'm sure russia taking this integrate consideration, you already have even without the mobilization, you have total acts of coward ness, attacking citizens and civilians. and this news is have been report a, it hasn't been reported in the western media. so i think that's going to be, that's going to be the 1st phase of that. second phase is russia is ramping things up. and there's a lot of talk about this counter offensive that you have had made into the done best. but i think russia in the very near future is going to show that that was just that was just a fluke. and things are going to be moving ahead quite quickly. and i think you're going to see that really regrets not sitting down at the, at the negotiating table in the next few days by robert bridge, journalist and author of midnight in the american empire. fabulous book really enjoyed reading that. i really enjoyed having you on the show. thanks. robert. hope

to see you soon. thank you right now. top western politicians have already lashed out at president putin over his announcements over the referendum plan that's across live now into reestablish all connection with the archie contributor, rachel martin here on their program. i hope you've caught me this time, rachel. we had a bit of a choppy connection when i came to you a moment ago. the western professional partners that putin used to call them. i've already reacted to the potential referendums micron, saying the actual cold nato chief says it doesn't matter who boats a judge, jury and executioner. hey rachel? yet as expected, the reaction of western leaders to the idea of a referendum in the russell held ukrainian territories has been nothing short of hysterical. usm bastard ukraine, brigitte brink, even refer to, quote, sham, referenda, and mobilization. as signs of russia, weakness and failure. have a lesson now he limit, no, russia must hear that they cannot impose wishes through military means even through

so called referendums in shall territories, which now occupied members of the security council should say this loud and clear and members of this assembly should support us in this path for peace, the you strongly condemned the illegal referenda in lieu hans cares on and don't etsy, which are in violation of ukraine's independence sovereignty and territorial integrity . and in blatant breach of international law, results of such actions will be null and void sham referendums have no legitimacy and do not change the nature of russia's war of aggression against ukraine. the international community must condemn this blatant violation of international law and step up support for ukraine. leaders of these western countries shoved their policies cooked up by cat technocrats in brussels down the throats of european citizens. so it's hardly surprising that they be against the notion of self determination. they're crushing the democratic legitimacy of any referendum in

those territories. and that's pretty rich coming from the same people who brag about censoring media in their own countries. citing a need to control information flow particularity during election periods and go other their way to smear populous candidates running for office in their own countries. so that the only real choice that voters have in their own so called western democratic elections is between housebroken establishment lapdogs. western leaders didn't seem concerned with the territorial integrity of europe. when u. s. lead nato blew apart yugoslavia and carved out kosovo from russian allies. serbia, at the time you as president bill clinton said quote, i believe we have quite a good chance of achieving our objectives of the return of the close of ours to live in security with a measure of self government. so how was that any different from what russia is now facilitating for these reza phone regions? it's also worth recalling that washington also refused to recognize latvia,

estonia and lithuania as part of the ussr, starting in 1940. when they came under soviet protection, amid the panic of paris falling to nazi germany during the 2nd world war, the west is also slamming the idea of russia, mobilizing military reserves. under tolerably mahoney, russia has ordered a partial mobilization and is thus pursuing a further escalation of this war of aggression on ukraine. violating international law, a bad and wrong step again from russia, which we will, of course assess politically and advise on how to respond to it. clearly it's something that we should take very seriously because, you know, we're not in control. i'm not sure he's in control either. really. this is obviously an escalation, the mobilization and calling for a referendum in the dawn. yeske is all a sign of panic. his rhetoric on nuclear weapons is something we have heard many times before and it leaves us cold. we're talking here about russia,

mobilizing russian troops to serve near its own border, the u. s. in its allies, notably the u. k. and other members of its, quote, coalition of the willing sent hundreds of thousands of troops including reservists halfway around the world to iraq and afghanistan. no one said that was a sign of weakness or that it risk provoking an escalation. it was a demonstration of former president, bob raw, reagans, classic doctrine of peace through show of military strength. the west has been collectively, relentlessly, bullying russia like a group of mean kids in a school yard. and like every bully, they always seem to be surprised and shocked when someone actually pushes back. all right onto contributor rachel mawson. thanks. appreciate that. and we appreciate your company here for this program live from moscow. this is our t international and a very busy day with ukraine and of course,

out of the general assembly in new york at the united nations checkout auto dot com to catch up whenever thing for the meantime. we are back, sir. ah, ah hello and welcome to cross top where all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle. does the european union have a death wish it would seem so rampant inflation growing energy insecurity, demanding unquestioning solidarity regarding ukraine's and punishing democratically elected governments are only some of the blocks maladies. to make things worse, there's a dangerous leadership deficit. ah .