it taliban. good prize on my head. and how can anyone say that i worked with the taliban just unthinkable. right. and yet the american press keep talking about that if you are like you were dealing in arms to topple regimes with well, the americans that don't take the weapons anywhere. they accused me of delivering 200900. thank said to the taliban, go, how can you do this? said 200 flights to afghanistan. so where is the evidence a so it's just like saying something and then and just leave it hanging there. so they are lost faith in their own. the citizens. i grew up in the soviet union, and when i talked to americans,

you understand that even the soviet propaganda understood that there are limits. you have to say at least some true thing, you know, i mean the started so you think they went overboard with your case, whether you read it, for example, in my present never 35 people and no one believes a fee and then or other networks on the ukraine on elections, everyone knows that all of this is not true. even in prison. this is what is happening. but you and inmates together with people in the retirement home are the only people who watch a tv. so there are a lot of advertising for, you know, advertising products that are relevant for old people in retirement home. so well my question by donald trump, would you prefer? no,

i don't have any preferences. our only 2 friends are the army and the fleet and the navy as well. in general. what is your take on politics bite and tribe? are they all the same or you see a different well, this says what i can say there is pepsi cola and there's coke 0 and died. pepsi. so what's the difference? and this is how this is all the same. we must stop worrying about what and who said what we pay too much attention to us politics. now let's resolve our own challenges. so pretty much the real problem for the united states is a drug. so for example, that i so much drug is a economists and going to be in the u. s. prison. so when you,

when you're legally smuggling a car that i know tests of that are, so they just smell and they put it on the fire and they use some wire. and then they inhale, this is a drug and they, they just knocked out for sometimes they started crying and they yell and scream. so i never knew that you can scream, that miser, people can keep them and they all shaking and they don't feel well. and just 15 minutes is just happens again. so if it's happens in the prison, so just imagine what is happening out there on the street. what is happening in san francisco, chicago, and new york. so there's so much crime. so when you say that in russia, you, you can log safely anywhere at 247. if you do not attack anyone. so

there's 0 chance of being attacked yourself. so this is amazing for them. can you get both of those up? i don't believe that they will have a revolution in the united states if you ask me. so they've been able to keep it under control despite, for example, all the drug issues and all the overdose. this is all according to a plan. when young people become drug addicts, they lose their will to do anything so they will be revolt. you know, people protesting no problem. you see the us in the hollywood film industry has just become the propaganda mouthpiece of the washington elite. so they are trying to show you a beautiful picture,

but in the southern conscience, you know, this isn't like the programming people to, i need on the mental level one. so the american people would assume that they are victims, maybe even more than other countries. and the most horrible thing in the past years, just look at what they did with this january is 6 revolt competitor. and they put in prison more than a 1000 people and they're just still there. why they haven't killed anyone. yes, there were some confrontations looking dish, for example, they burned down the parliament building so many times have is anyone in prison now everyone who was arrested in the united states,

they will get at least 15 years in prison because that's how you watch the film. you think you were a victim of hollywood? the film, lord of the work you are, you will talk you. so when people ask, what do you know about victor boot? they say, well, i've watched a movie. so and they say that we did not even have a translator to my mother who visit the mean m c. c. shouldn't. she was taken off the list and i was told that this is not your mother. and they said, we have these documents here that your current is amena. where did they get this to the this is in my prison documents. my parents at the couches are from the lord the floor moving so

so this is how professional of they are. so they know how it is. i don't know. what are your plans now? well, it's for now, i'm just enjoying this moment to be with my loved ones. i'm enjoying this snow and the freedom of that i now have in the united states. this is like reverse racism being a normal person and to want to have a family who wants to love. it's very hard to be a person like that. but because well, i want to come back to live with that uses overall. i'm very happy. i feel great, well, i do need a medical checkup. maybe i need some dental work. i lost almost 6 teeth of age, of them out of a do not offering

a treatment so all they can do is pull out the we had a very good doctor, but she was fired because she started treating teeth. not pulling them out for sure. have you ever heard of britain, right? have you heard in your room or? oh, i mean in the audio? well, the most interesting thing when they show the rest on the tv. 0, one of the inmates came to me and told me this is your ticket to back home? no and other than bad, you know, anything you thought? well, i knew that she is a basketball player. still. what, what did you have a feeling is that it will happen soon? well, yeah, you know, what i've learned from this experience is not to have any expectations. when you don't have any expectations, it just comes as

a surprise and this makes you happy. otherwise you don't get this feeling so you can be disappointed. and so i decided for me that just live without any expectations, live just in this moment and we will succeed. so when you got back, how did the american speech your nicely or not? so this is an amazing story. when the marshal game, he was respectful, of course deborah handcuffs, they put me in their car because at 1st i was hank half behind my back and they said, just, you know, we just wait. and in 15 minutes we arrived and we were just sitting there, we started talking as it usually happens and word by word i ask them whether i could use the restroom and then they offered me some water. we waited for the

airplane from mary on to the scene shows really. so they put me in the plane and the plane was, the flight was okay. then i got a change that had the room on where you have, you know, some kind of from the rest of the person for drugs or anything they did not close it. there was an agent sitting on the chair at the top of them and just reading something. and he addressed me by the name, which is nice. and just before i left the prison chunk of my vision, which i just like with your russian car for some reason, they left all my belongings behind and the marshal said, just you know, you take your belongings with you. but the prison did not get this information,

so i could not take my photos, our other my belongings with me. so we're trying to get all this back. but i could grab the newspaper. so i had some russian newspaper that comes to moles kept the and my favorite magazine. so when i was waiting for the 3 or 4 hours, i could read them. so my local guys put in and when we entered the airplane, and it was nice, the agent told me to pull this to lucian. this is a freed me from the handcuffs of a set right beside me. and i think, i think when you were there, did you change any comments with brittany rhyme? but i think the issue wanted to shake my hand, but considering our traditions, so we have to wish everyone the to offer the best wishes. was she forthcoming? well, in fact,

you could feel that she was really positive. is that true that you have the perfect of putting on your wall in prisons hours? yeah, that's true. and why not? i'm proud to be a russian and our president is going to put in with them. and when i'm asked about food and you remember the scandal was navarro. and the for example, i said, well, good you don't know who put in is not just enjoy a truck. he has my personal trust for what he said in 2001 in just 6 months. it became reality. and any statement he made, just look at this, it happens all the time. and who do you think you owe your freedom to receive well, probably to russia. that's certainly the motion of everyone who loves me

a system and who supported me. i receive so many letters from across the country. tony. how about i look at the vision. just people. i never knew my. the people i went to school with from germany. i received postcards and just people i never knew from ukraine. i got letters from ukraine as well, but also i always try to, to answer these letters. and i would like to think everyone who wrote to me and a lot of freshman speaking people in america, wrote me a letters and in canada, people, they also sent me books and they offered me any assistance they can give me. so i was proud to be a russian, and i know that victory will always be ours, and i'm so glad to hear that. and thank you very much. i hope we will have more opportunities to interview you. and we'll talk about politics and life. and

more importantly, who wish or the entire family to come back together and come back to life, you know, and prosper. thank and then we have the exclusive alive interview here in our t international. thank you so much for joining us. that was victor boot and his 1st live interview since becoming back to russia and freed from a u. s. maximum security prison. now some of the highlights of the discussion there lasted about a 45 minutes. the whole discussion. i think the food said that it just take about for a moment in case you didn't know he was arrested in 2008 in a sting in thailand. in 2012, he was convicted in a u. s. cord of attempted arms smuggling, among other charges, he says that you are so authorities just wanted to make an example of him for other russians. he also said when he was originally arrested, the agents in charge of arresting him, told him, it's nothing personal. it's only business, i thought boot. perhaps you didn't know this. he's actually been under sanctions

since 2000. so the whole issue with him and, and a certain western players, it does go back some years. indeed. he said since 2000 a year, he hasn't even been able to make bank transfers among many other inconveniences. and he did say for example, the western press in western politicians for, for years have been saying that victor boot was, are linked to the taliban in afghanistan. they accused him of trying to transport $200.00 t 90 tanks to afghanistan, picked a boot, saying that would be an enormous effort of $200.00 colossal flights. how would you do that and keep it off the radar? victor boots saying that accusation made no sense. he also set the taliban actually put a bounty on his head. he did, i took a few moments to express some, some concerns about culture in america. he discussed a l g b t q, for example. he, he said that in american schools, he said, certainly in some american schools 1st year students are told there are $72.00

genders. he, he described knowing an inmate in prison, called jeff, who then transitioned into a jessica with access to women's lingerie and mascara. victor boot say that transgender seemed to get more attention and better treatment in a maximum security prison as a booth did say, though, that he had a job, he was checking documents, performing sanitation work, he was able to read a loss as well. and he was also extremely grateful for all the letters he received from people all around the world who essentially sympathized with him and his situation. basically. now victor boots plans for the meantime, enjoying this moment, being back with his family, enjoying the russian snow. and this new found freedom more details on that exclusive interview on our website r t dot com for the meantime, we thank you for joining us for this saturday program from moscow. so we can now begin with the very latest. now from the back of dawn bass here on our see international, we understand no ukrainian shelling has been ongoing of residential areas and

they've done yet. script public. it's all resumed. according to local officials. as we understand, dozens of shells have slammed into the area. now over the past 24 hours, at least one civilian has been killed and 2 more wounded and attacks. according to us already. in this footage, a house that was engulfed in flames after which hit by shutting has been completely raised to the ground. a multiple apartment buildings and cars will also heavily damaged. now officials say the ukrainian forces launched more than $200.00 shells towards the night's republic on friday. this is some of the aftermath and the regional capital st during daylight hours understand residential buildings. shops in the cities center were also damaged local authorities as saying the key was using nato supplied weapons. and these attacks while russia pointed to the ongoing shelling of don. yeah, it's gonna let us un security council meeting concerns were raised to about om supply to key if ending up in the hands of terrorists. i'm also on bassett also

said ukrainian forces have been using western supplied weaponry that ultimately killed civilians are crossed on bass, mostly needed of genius. a real massacre with the use of western weapons has been taking place in that's can recent weeks as ukraine forces pushed by western countries are trying to literally destroy the city. they conduct daily attacks on residential areas where there are no military targets. crowded places are being hit during rush hour. there have been significant crandall cheese and destruction just before the un security council meeting began in manhattan at the you and chamber. i'm just before it began the attack on done as we had already begun. so the remarks made by the russian ambassador were quite relegates as he was describing what was going on. he described attacks on civilians. he described a how the forces, based in cuba, how they've been using the weapons provided to them by the united states. the

crimes against civilians they have committed. here is some of what the russian ambassador sad when addressing the un security council. so did you pull soto, board of among the supplied weapons? the u. s. high mars multiple launch rockets. systems are particularly noteworthy. we know for sure, and key of and washington have repeatedly indirectly confirmed this, that american specialists are involved in the operation of these installations. the targeting with the high mars is conducted with the help of u. s. military satellites. while u. s. military personnel on the ground coordinate with the intelligence forces, representatives of teeth themselves have admitted that not a single attack with high mar system has taken place without the consent of the united states. now, the russian ambassador describe the atrocities being committed against civilians and how the united states claims that the weapons it provides are very accurate and precise. and so if that is the case, our all these civilians being killed. if the act weapons are as accurate and

precise as united states claims they are, it would seem that the number of civilians killed in dannetta can launch and other places eyes. perhaps intentional. he went on to say that rushes carefully documenting the war crimes that are being committed and says that such crimes do have legal consequences. ready furthermore, he went on to describe what was the point that was raised throughout the meeting, which is the danger of these weapons that the states are supplying to the criminal government and possibly flowing into the hands of criminal organizations, terrorists, and other groups. that could be a security concern and could pose a danger, not just to russia and ukraine, but to many countries throughout europe. getting a major difficult topic is a weapon sent to ukraine are being smuggled around the world. we have already warned about the risks of weapons falling into the hands of terrorists and other criminal groups. this is not speculation. it is a warning concern expressed by european states themselves. the problem of theft of

weapons from ukrainian military warehouses appeared a long time ago. the situation has already got out of control weapons intended for the key of our surfacing on the black market. not only in europe, but also in the middle east and africa. now, when the representative of the united states spoke before the un security council, he responded as is typical, when us leaders respond to russia, he simply dismissed everything that russia, that despite all the evidence and the careful documentation dismissed at all, is just this information. and it's also important to note that russia brought forward experts to speak before the un security council. some of those experts were able to speak, but others were blocked and prevented. russia wanted to bring forward a number of experts to testify before the 15 member body that leads the united nation about the dangerous flow of weapons and how, you know, the us, they unloading all these weapons and how it could have global security implications

that could threaten many countries, not just russia and ukraine, so that was the meeting that took place in the un security council chamber. well, me, time western officials are blaming russia for the escalating food crisis around the world. that is, despite noting that moscow points out that the sanctions of essentially bod, moscow from exporting such crucial things like fertilizer around the world. that is going on the ground or spoke to the head of the world food security committee to discuss the roots of the problem the episode can be watched. and for just a bit later, the saturday hero nazi, i mean, i don't want to be to mean obviously chris, but yeah, even before the week basket of your, of ukraine facing what it is right now. what we have 828000000 hungry this christmas. i'm not blaming it all on you. obviously it's all the stakeholders that have about to play. why is the world food security committee fail failing? what? why, why is it such a failure?

we know there's enough food to feed the earth, what 3 dimes over, and it's not a supply problem, per se. why wire all these people facing starvation this christmas? well, it's exactly a big problem and those numbers which you cited which come from the sofia 2022 report actually for to the previous year. so i would be surprised that those numbers are higher. f a o just came out with a report in early december saying 45 countries on urgent need of food assistance. 33 of them in africa, all really with the issues of climate. coven 19 soaring inflation. and of course, the major driver at the conflicts which are going on around the world, including the one you cited between russia, ukraine. ah, it's good to have your company today. so i made a, an unprecedented visit of china's president of saudi arabia this week. gigi ping

praised collaboration with gulf states, but his words were well very well backed up with sweeping action, with deals, inks, on everything from military cooperation, setting up a nuclear research center, a security issues as well. and of course, the inevitable move the decisions behind moving away from the dollar in trade see gtm correspond yankton cheat can tell us more about that. chinese president, champagne and leaders of the arab world have wrapped up what many describe as their highest level diplomatic exchanges. so far, a lot of statement and results came out of their 3 summits and bilateral talks. and while i follow them, i was able to see 3 very consistent themes. firstly, the friendly relations between china and the error world are the result of deep mutual trust. china and arab countries support each other in maintaining sovereignty territorial integrity and the right of self determination. they

champion the principle of non interference in internal affairs, an advocate for truly multilateralism in the multi polar world order. china supports the resolution of international and regional issues under multi lateral platforms like the u. n. and g 20. and many era countries stand by china on key issues from since young hong kong to taiwan. secondly, or the deep economic ties between china and aero countries. with china's huge energy market and the rich natural resources of the middle east leaders discussed and hands and collaboration in oil, gas, and clean energy and using the chinese to an to settle energy deals. also, while china has a well rounded industry chain, the middle east has a huge need for infrastructure building and high tech upgrades as it looked to diversify away from oil. that's why many of the statements from the past few days often included cooperation agreements on area such as 5 g, e commerce, audible bill, medical finance,

and nuclear energy as well. china and gulf cooperation council countries will establish a forum on the peaceful use of nuclear energy and nuclear technology and set up a nuclear safety center to train talents. the 3rd theme is the strong willingness between china and arrow countries to explore a long term friendship. china, as president spoke of his desire to build a shared future in the new era. what started a relationship centered around most the energy has now evolved into not only industrial and investment collaboration, but also many cultural exchanges as well. leaders talks about initiatives such as language schools and media collaboration as they strive for an ever evolving friendship in the years to come down to the from city and for r t. we were talking with asia political risk list, a ross fine gold who says the saudi arabia and china have been seeking to diversify that trade partnerships. amid shifting state of affairs in the world,

it's inevitable. it's inevitable that saudi arabia and china would look to expand their relations across different spheres. and why is that? well, frankly, n b s has said. so he said that he wants to diversify the economy, diversify trading partners, day. even if relations with the us were better, there's been some friction between saudi arabia in the united states recently. i think saudi arabia would still be pursuing this. and obviously for china they, they've been very active in the middle east for decades. they've had close relationships with many of the arab countries going back 5060 years long before trying to establish diplomatic relations with israel. but again, i think we should really look at this as 2 countries that are diversified. they're trading partners. the energy obviously being an important component of that shoddy

radiated makes other kinds of outbound investments as part of diversifying the economy with the dollars it generates from the oil trade. and china is very active in overseas infrastructure projects, and that's something that saudi arabia is offering an opportunity to do as well. well, thanks for joining us on our team to national for this program on this saturday live from moscow. it's always good to have your company, some heavy hitters in the, in the headlines today. check them out r t dot com for the meantime. we've actually ah, only 41 percent of us adults have enough savings to cover a $1000.00 emergency. we have record numbers of americans who are on the verge of having their cars repossess more than a 137000000 americans are facing financial hardship because of medical that in america we do have a well 1st system in place to help people who are struggling financially, but it's a conditional system you have to prove to the government that you truly need help.

the simplest way to like explain a basic income is that it's like social security for the rest of us. a basic income would be a monthly payments that would go to everyone. just a $1000.00 a month, no strings attached. i will. i mean, i don't know. i just will go crazy. the reason that i am a fan of guaranteed income because it is this idea that everybody is deserve it and just bad virtue of your being here. ah, watch. and it was a year, a shorter one. i'm not trying to stay like i went back a national z m

noon shyly yours. if you bought it, when you sit down with a headlines or not, the international russian businessman, victim boot, gives his 1st big t v interview exclusively to audrey. of course, it's following up personnel swap between moscow and washington. he spent 11 years in a u. s. j. one civilian is killed and wounded in the latest ukrainian shouting other don't you have to go public according to local authorities. they state that residential areas were deliberately targeted by key forces using nato supplied weapons and china as president praises as countries collaboration with various gulf states says beijing will help establish a nuclear research and security center.