julia, a front klein and wherever they could fight to prevent the battle from moving into their time, which was in wrong cuz we knew the deer in use would perceive the problem in syria as a preview to probably many around. so they didn't want to and you know, allow that easy to happen. and so we've had sort of natural allies. if you think of the russian intervention in, in syria, in 2015 in the autumn of 2015. there's always a lot of talk that syria wanted this, that the russian friends came out all that is true because syria definitely needed some support cuz everybody else was, was trying to bring the government down on the state down. but also russian had a strategic interest because it, so the united states move into the region after the fall of muso, under the guys, i would argue, of fighting guys with what probably russia sold was. you know, 8 is somebody who they compete with that on an international scale is moving into

a, an area where their influence can be curtailed. so let me some more stuff. can i ask you that? because this is a very difficult question for, for the russians, because one could argue that the russians intervention and 0 was very effective in terms of resources and changing the dynamic off of this conference. but there is also a group of analysts here in russia who argued, i think it was actually a premium you to the ukranian conflict. because having encountered russia as an effective counter for, as the americans may have exacerbated the militarization of ukraine and their thinking of ukraine as a sort of bulwark against the rushes, potential of gathering of strength. do you think the war in ukraine is somehow connected to russia's intervention in syria? i would argue it's the other way around. i would argue that because c p,

what happened in the ukraine started with as the suspense of leah to the naked ice, started in 2014. and the russian intervention in serious was like a year later. so you could argue that the problem with the ukraine, the cutoff ties the inability of russia to um, to negotiate with the united states made, you know, syria, a vegetable sort of. and i wouldn't say threats, but at least last of influence and a question sort of to the russians. and they that facilitate their move. but again, there are, you know, i don't want to be a romantic about this book. yes, there are lots more and relations and history between russia and syria, that there is between syria and the united states. but no, for the russians. this was a continuation off. i wouldn't say struggle, but let's just say competition or conflict with the united states. but i didn't even start it 2014. it started, i would argue earlier than that. well,

because i'm argue that it's never actually, and it's been that with the cold war, but mr. woke up, we have to and here for a few moments to take a little break, but we will get back in just a few moments that you the look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except we're so shorter is a conflict with the 1st law show alignment of the patient. we should be very careful about visual intelligence at the point, obviously, is to create a trust rather than fit the various job. i mean with artificial intelligence, we have so many of them in the of the

robot most protects this phone existence was alexis, the . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy from foundation. let it be an arms race is on all sides. very dramatic. the only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very clear to get a time time to sit down and talk the welcome back to all the parts with a model. what caused the founder and director of nurses, a think tank focusing on the middle is mr. because before the break,

we were discussing the intricacies, so rushes involvement in the middle east. and it's a fascinating topic. but i, i do want to go back to serious re admission into the arab league because in this day and age we have lots of examples of conflicts being pushed. but very few, although very promising examples of conflicts. well, um, not necessarily being you have to reconcile with at least the format adversaries moving towards each other. and one example of that would be syria in turkey, syria and saudi arabia, a saudi arabia and iran. there. um, a number of the very surprising developments wouldn't be too premature or too naive to believe that the, the region which suffered from so much violence is finally ready to a band and some of that, you know, they, they was. so it is premature. i think the, this is about as the competition,

competition for the regional influence competition of domestic stability until on every single player have their own game. let's look at the situation. i think the easiest way of explaining what happened was that the, there are certain parties in the middle east, the pushed so far and so long. and so hard to have a resolution via violence means whether in yemen will or whether in syria, there was a lot of economic pressure. if you think of syria, if you think of lebanon for the other party, to force it to capitulate, that did not happen. so there was a book, there was a snack, you know, there was a steel made. why should we put even more resources when the situation is not acceptable? and could we achieve different results by applying different methods? and that's what probably prompted the and sort of the course type of arabs in of jordan egypt,

saudi arabia and the u. a. e. to meet an autumn of 2020 and decide that they weren't going to be approaching syria in order to preserve cedar as a big identity sort of. and this led to some explicit explanations or promoting of the here they can come. jordan of the law, the 2nd flew to washington and suit to moscow and explain this initiative on what we see now is it was a goofy of that initiative. to now can i ask, you can ask about that because this is a fascinating name as well because there's always something you can our argue, the, the arab mentality. yeah. um, more flexible, more mobile or you know, your famous for your bizarre. so you can think like in many different ways about potential uh, benefit. but the american mentality is usually very stumper and the american administration's almost never, i recognize the, the floss and that in the past policies. it's pretty obvious that in order for the,

for syria to be kicked out of the arab league, the, they have to be some american pressure from the of almost white house. do you think there was some sort of green lighting to the re admission from the american side this time around? i think there was at least a yellow light and amber light and the american, the rhetoric and what they're trying to do, for example, via their legislative the, you know, the congress and the senate in passing more and more sanctions in more and more prohibitive. rules is it looks like a stop gap is. so we have to understand this is not about cedar yet for the united states. this is not about the syrians, 3 joining the army. this is about an opportunity for the united states increase and consolidate a certain influence in the region. but what kind of influence, what kind of influence? because if we look at the saudi, saudis, if we look at the turks, they're all nominally american allies,

but they engage far more with china, with russia, even with the right now. so what is left of the american implants, or what are some of the new ways that exerts itself? the fact that you know, the prime minister of israel on the king of jordan nowadays visit most school more than they visit, washington is obviously a worry. but that is a side effect and a result of the american intervention to destabilize syria, whether we liked it or not. and i'm not gonna, i'm not going to go through explaining why the united states, if you think of it up, if you think of a northeastern syria, they are seeing an opportunity of influence and they don't want to surrender that very easily. they want to keep out as much as possible, and they took the big picture they, they have a bigger chessboard to play. and so they're thinking about the chinese as they're thinking about the russians. so it sort of in syria going back to the creek is

a minor detail, but what they would want from it is that if the syrians, for example, could be contained by the arabs or helped. and it could be by the items, you know, the show them, and it's a bit of 1st parity so that they could break away. it is a bit from the iranians from the russians. then this would be argued ethically be a, an american plus sort of speaking about the syria as a regional player. the you mentioned in another interview that there is indeed the pragmatic self interest on the part of the arab league to see, see, re admitted into the organization. what exactly could syria all her on uh, the, how many on the rainy and on the palestinian france. so it starts with the posting in front, which is the problem in the middle east, on the main problem or the original problem. you put it as much as well as, as much as it likes to. in this case, syria offers the palestinians a route to see know for depression,

that makes syria a very important tire to nothing. if you, if you think of the abraham, of course, if you think of a lot of things, sacrament, whatever, as long as the palestinians can see that we could prolong this fight for another day. as long as they can feel that then they won't, you know, raise the, the white flag. and that makes syria very important to the cause. now you're on, in a sense, is backing syria in that tool very much. and this axis of syria, iran and his blood and how most mixed up possible people can feel some hope. because the last thing that's gonna solve the post in a problem is for the posting used device to raise the white flag. it's not going to end. it's very natural now the world needs syria to negotiate a way out of this because again, and so that's the palestinian issue. the other issues because of this particular

position of syria and it's for nation with a lot. this gives syria leverage in solving other regional problems that iran is involved with, with the audible. so in a sense, syria can feel now that it goes back to its natural place as a mediator, as a mid point between the adverbs and the iranians. and if you think of the latest saturday hearing and brush mom a, you know this, the, you know, the agreement that beside in, in beijing you know, the pattern not pattern by the chinese and so on. if you think about it also as a continuation of the struggle by peaceful means, you know, we're still competing, but yes, we're going to start the hostilities by the way, we need to solve human. and so one, syria can find itself a very helpful player to it's auto brother in, in helping solve the problem, the medium and in level nothing. in my personal opinion, nothing is going to happen in less than i guess, serious will,

seriously. so there is so much at stake for syria and government, and this explains the see the intervention end of it. and since the year 2000, 976, if you want to put it that way, there's a lot at stake and syria will, you know, a nothing is going to happen 11. unless somebody agrees with syria on something. it's interesting. it's actually very inspiring what you're talking about and it makes me think about maybe my christian is eric on the something i, paul, i apologize about that before hand. but the, you know, the, the, the conditional thinking in place in washington has been the, you know, we need our benevolent the gemini in order to sort of help those, the barbaric people in the middle east to sort out the differences without killing themselves to, you know, to extinction, and though what do you seem to be suggesting is that once the american influence has decreased or become, become somewhat different,

the arab states can deal with that different a different interest in their relatively civilized in the peaceful way. i i, i do wanna, i know i ask you about the, the whole for about our new world, but there seems to be something new emerging. do you see any new spirit among within this region? all, i don't know believing in things, but at the end that things could be sorted out in the regional conceptual way. perhaps missed on me the asian from bigger players. but like trying to, let's say, well, like russia or even like the united states. but without giving anyone any outside play or the ultimate decisions for the phase of the people who inhabit the region, i'm going to be as realistic as possible and us frank as possible. i don't think that the major players can afford to antagonize or, you know, use the trust of the united states. this is not about the regional position or

their economic position. this is on. this is about their domestic stability. part of their domestic stability lies on the fact that this country is allied with the united states, the sort of that the country a lot with the united states. however, having said that, over the past few decades and especially in the past couple of decades, these countries has mature that they are now realizing our ass realize now that they can actually play a bigger role, a more active, cold, proactive whole in world affairs. and to maximize whatever benefit they could get. so let's take for examples. how do you have, if, if you think of catalog about yeah, it is a very specific case, more profiteering, it's about finding its place within the region proving to its neighbors the, you a, the saudi arabia's a saudi arabia that, that it is on a peer to peer and a sort of relationship with them. it's not like, you know, it's a comes 2nd,

but with saudi arabia, they go to badging and they do agree with badgering to the exchange or to sell the dollar to, to settle their oil for the chinese community. now this was unheard of, i'm think, people say 10 years ago and what does that mean to? so you can go to the americans and say, look, you have your own problems, we have our suspect. we have to hedge against, you know, the fall of the us dollar value or whatever it is. and we have a lot of trade with china and this could make it easier for us. and the united states could not easily say no when push comes to shove, the saudis will be expected to align behind the united states. but as long as there is some sort of margin for them to what they will work. and they have their own regional aspirations as well. and if you think about it, it also falls within the united states view on how the,

the to the, to spread its influence. so the, you know, the saudis could say, look, if we put pressure on syria 11 and for example, 11 and would fall under our influence and therefore your influence to and so the americans would say the ultimately doesn't, doesn't matter how you market it, as long as you can actually achieve a lasting peace. that's a good enough of the result. the may get some, you know, haven't started to yours or persuasion is very helpful here. and it's still unclear who is the dog and who is the tale. and in this whole tale. but the, at least people are not being killed in such large numbers anymore. yeah. we have yeah, yeah. we have to leave it there, but i, i agree that i appreciate your presence today. thank you very much for helping me. i'd really appreciate it. and thank you for watching and hope to sooner again on the was a part of the

the problem is the cost of housing keeps on going off. the cost of living keeps on going up. inflation keeps on going ups. gas keeps on going up to all the costs of living, keeps on rising over the summer and it still wasn't able to find housing to. there's no for routing in lakewood, i've seen an increase in people calling me asking me for a place to stay. i need to get 10 that we've had people that have been

millionaires in the past, you know, had big businesses, different things to throw you over the age. so people shouldn't be so judge mental about the homeless because it didn't happen. you're gonna have to do, i was anybody i'd say government needs to help all these homeless people sending money over to ukraine and all those other countries worried about your own country. i just wish we had a president daycare. we don't have a president. thank. there's always people would wake up to see what job item is doing to us and the end up in the americas in the 2nd bug like, oh, it's okay with the

the electric power station is critically damaged, following ukrainian attacks and the hardest on regions leaving hundreds of how to submerge. mazda says the incident, is a deliberate act of sabotage perpetrated by cab. after 7 years of close doors, a rod is set to reopen its embassy in saudi arabia. today. and a former slovakian minister of justice may now be facing jail time for refusing to retents pro russian statement the

evening from the russian capital. this is our key international with the latest world news updates. i'm fiorella, isabel, happy to join us. you begin the hour with breaking news on the hope sky, a hydro power plant, a section of which has collapsed after ukrainian showing hit the hearts on region kremlin. so it's person to meet 3. pest coff has stated that the strikes was nothing less than pre meditated sabotage the pm. unfortunately, because the president receives reports from the ministry of defense and other agencies on what is going on and wrong, that helps got a hydro power plants. we can already unequivocally states that we are talking about a pre meditated sabotage. i mean by that ukrainian side, this sabotage has the potential to have very great consequences. it is clear that one of these sabotaged aims, is to deprive try me of water. the level of water in the reservoir is dropping and so the supplied to the canal is being drastically reduced. apparently,

the act is also connected to the fact that having launched the large scale offensive 2 days ago, ukrainian armed forces are not achieving their goals. here you can see the aftermath of the dams destruction the city of know by a whole, scott is flooded as water from the damn. so the streets, hundreds of houses from the nearby area are submerged. ortiz, germany correspondent brings us the details from the center of the incident. like a hook the same as it is going to month coverage or health care if you're looking for a station was effective, might be a problem on the other part of the done well before the money or the arrows pointing to the main for 72 hours and through the fall, let's also fault subdivision. feel free to let you know some of the

things that you hold on you still have to fix. for some reason, even people will not be for funding for key if it was russian come know up again, let me see here, this is no yes. and the city's mayor says the situation is currently under troll and all efforts are be made to prevent civilian casualties. or the votes it keeps coming. civilians are being evacuated from flooded coastal areas in order to save lives. and operational headquarters has been established. the ministry of emergency situations, the governor and the head of the local government, are working together. there is no panic and city water has no reason by 10 meters and the level is 2 rising. there was no panic. there was 2 electricity and lights in the city. or the local man has described this as

a terrorist act committed by ukraine, new forces, and the ukranian president vladimir is a landscape with just having his blank russia for the attack. and he's made a referral to the united nations security council. so conflicting reports and not just to give some kind of idea of, of the scale of this hardware. let's go down. it was built in 1956. it's a soviet era time. so it's incredibly low cost, but it's $13.00 weeks of high on 2 miles long and it contains water roughly equivalent to great. so like in utah, it's always a pretty big turn on monday supplies not only the local population, but also the piece of crime a by how small clue should a this applies coolant water for those that photos your nuclear power plant. now, russian officials that say that there is no risk in this situation. the control the local areas are imminent. risk of flooding, evacuation operations all underway,

effect something like 8 to settlements. we know that 30 homes in the immediate region already risk and have the invite to wait to the emergency services on the scene, trying to fix the problem and to ensure the people in the area are safe. now, a cool face comes off the sunday is a tax bar ukrainian full see if they tried to break russian to pipe to they probably baby it in the don't yet. region by what i'm successful, they were killed by russian forces which use last is of course these as i'm 16, turns up to $300.00 ukranian soldiers and $24.00 almost fighting vehicles, including these 3 bradley vehicles supplied by the united states. now of course, there's been a lot of room or no speculation. so this could be the start of the long awaited spring what was the spring offensive by the ukrainian forces. and let's say the situation could potentially be beneficial for you craning and forces. and here's why the potential flooding on the lower left bank in the hearts on region were russian armed forces are stationed, would eventually show loaded enough for river,

which would then enable ukraine to land forces and medical bar and carry out a counter offensive. another official also says that the shadowing of the river creates a risk of ukraine, sending a landing force to take control of this upper ocean nuclear power plant. i believe you do, but i'm was it split up the shelving of the deep or a can promote of the landscape machines desired to repeat its criminal plan to send a landing for us to narrow godard just double check foothold and then attempt to de controlled this upper ocean nuclear power plant, especially given the fact that they've tried to do so several times already. the shelving of the neighbor, it will make the river easier to navigate and can facilitate such actions from this last your machine. the risk is there and we should evaluated carefully and acknowledge its existence. last year, the washington post reported that ukraine's major general considered flooding the river by conducting a high morse test right at the nova coupled sky of them. while in december 2022,

the commander of russia's joint forces group stated the king of would prepare a tax on the hydro electric dam aimed up flooding the area by striking spillway gates. the last one is uh, we have intelligence. but the key of reason you may use prohibitive method of war and the area with the city of her song as well as the preparation by keywords of a must have me saw strikes and that the whole satisfied there that you them most of the function of a massive indiscriminate, the real good and there are 2 are as to i can the see thing for these actions could lead to the destruction of the infrastructure of a large industrial censor and large civilian casualties. sort of meanwhile, western media was quick to started. russian blame game with blace headlines of cab pointing the finger at moscow for the damage and its politicians jumping in on the bandwagon. meanwhile, nato secretary general john stilton berg stated that the power plant destruction is an outrage, just act of russian aggression. the destruction of the gulf gone. dom today,

pitts house and so civilians at the risk and cost of severe environmental damage. this is a great just act which demonstrates so once again, the tele t over rush, also war in ukraine. we discussed the topic for the editor in chief of i'm the let the janice conan who says that by empowering the dam to i was trying to take attention away from its failing counter offensive in the whole western and basically media region, east of p like dog's weight claims against russia, we seating the videos that the showing all that down region still continues on the russian forces in that position. next to this a place are showing in the online video is that great is continuing to showing this data right now. school benefits. why just now we,

we follow the reports that the grading and it so it's very advertised on comped or at tech has been totally failing in, in these parts. and the russia is continuing, it's advances, money going, glory, honest, to be honest and of difficult. so we see that there is lots of reasons why we're creating and government needs something during the attention away from. and in the same time as has been said, he's got to be a preparation for future attacks. ukrainian troops have failed their counter offensive attempts on the front lines over the course of 3 days. that's according to russian defense minister survey shows. oh, revealing that keeps forces have suffered significant losses at the hands of russian forces. choosing to go over the course of 3 days, the ukrainian regime has undertaken

a long promised defensive and different parts of the front line. just concentrating many units of equipment and much manpower for the purposes. on june, 4th, the 23rd and 31st mobile, the gates of the ukranian troops attempted and offensive in 5 directions. that between the enemy did not succeed in any of them and suffered significant loss of the 300 soldiers. and 16 tanks, 26 armoured combat vehicles and 14 vehicles. got let's cross out to our t corresponded igor steinhoff now in the lou gone square public. hi igor. so what's the latest from the front lines and what's the state of kids offensive? well, absolutely. and basically, the russian minister of defense is not the 1st official to confirm. the cube has begun the active phase of the long teased counter offensive. but he's certainly the one to provide us with the most details of.