center, let me tell you this is not faring well for the k of combined is at least according to the rushes top military official, basically in the course, over the course of the past 3 days. he of course, have been trying to bridge brushes, defenses, but the sofa, they have failed. they have completely failed and also the russian defense minister . he is shed some light on the cost that the ukrainian side has suffered and has really paid uh over the course of these pause 3 days. also, what's really peculiar about this latest statement by the russian men is still defense. he has provided details in a very rare instance. he has provided details as to the law says that the russian side has suffered according to surgery, showing who they are in comparable to those that the ukrainian side had to endure. also, the circus showing go, has revealed that apparently, in the face of nothing to show for the offensive in the face of no feasible results

on the ground. the ukrainian side has started to move its troops from other parts of the front issues. you're still having been unsuccessful in it's offensive actions. the enemy intends to transfer units and equipment from the 1st on direction to an offensive area in order to strengthen their potential, thereby significantly weakening their positions in the direction of their son. incidentally, the enemy has begun building defensive positions on the right bank of the neck. fair river, which indicates its intention to switch to defending their all of this, it really holds in line with what are the russia the russians have been saying about the explosion with the destruction of the damn. and novak halls the crate inside has been showing it relentlessly. there have been recorded instances of the ukrainian resolve fired towards the facility on tuesday. the blew up and the parts of the front have been badly, badly flooded. so now the great inside really has the opportunity to well move some

of the troops from the here to some parts of the front to other sections like can these up are always your region in dynette scanned here in just outside the loop guns. because of course, the offensive potential of both armies, but mostly of the russian army, because mostly the left bank of the river has been, has been flooded. they have been significant. well, they have been the impact. they have been crippled. and so the ukrainian side maybe doesn't have to worry so much in the, in the next couple of days that the russian side might attempt anything to cross the river to the river to you and to try and to capitalize on the gains on other parts of the front of the 7 years of broken ties a while and has reopened its embassy in re of the move follows the success of a chinese broken agreement between the 2 states. those i comes and made us the secretary of state and sleep. lincoln's visits to saudi arabia. well,

we have broke off relations with around and expelled rainy and diplomats from the country in 2016 all to the saudi embassy in a wrong with attacks by protesters to loans. mission will return to saudi arabia and the leadership of his full my best that to, to wait a little on the story that's plus lots was a corresponded use which allow the use of lovely to see things to do. and it goes to a more, can you tell us about this reconciliation or what, of course. finally, after much anticipation the, they're wanting, an embassy in saudi arabia has been officially reopened. after several years of closure on this marks, the official resumption of diplomatic ties between iran and saudi arabia after 7 years of icy relations. what of course, we do know that they are wanting consul, a general in the city of judd, as well as its permanent representative to the organization of islamic cooperation have also started to run. uh well uh, the move comes in line with the uh china broker agreement signed between one and so

the ravia back in march in the city of beijing, which set a deadline of 2 months for the reopening of the respective embassies. of course they have last month that you want to introduce as a result and all yeah, t as it's about that or to the city of free all of course. so anyways i 90 is a heavy weight. and ronnie and diplomats, we used to serve as the one you and boy to quite as well as the deputy foreign minister for regional affairs. so for now everyone is waiting for the solid. the area to also reopen and send proceed into ron. and it's consulate in the whiny and city of mashhad for now on the saw, the kingdom has not provided any specific date for the reopening of its admissions in iran, of course, last week on the sidelines of the brakes on it. in south africa, the saw the foreign minister face on for about been for han, told his it one and counterpart that he would pay an official visit to,

to ron in the near future of course. and we send months ties between the former, our tribals have started to fall and started to warm up thanks to this. china brokered agreement something which both sides say that will foster a piece of security in the region that have been gripped by violence and conflict. since the 2 power houses regional power houses parted ways back in 2016 on your ons axis, presence in the shanghai cooperation organization, your age and economic union. and recently bricks shows the global policy of isolating. iran has failed. they want the current order, which is based on us to germany, to be at the center of world attention. but as the concepts and international politics and relations have changed in recent years, the realities of the global arena have as well. yes, yes, i can hear you. okay

. many things to correspond didn't use of july. thank you for the update. lydia. we spoke with political science professor, am i to do an up? so no also says that the reopening of the iranian embassy in saudi arabia shows the state of the, of us policy in the region. and this is where the signal so sounds for both sides of the should need be running a mission to solve the was the main, the a with has an office which was uh, taking care of our membership info. i see today they are now fast uh, open the embassy office should be main the, the amount of times under the service are very angry about this. uh, probably, uh they did like this to happen. this was a big failure to american public policy in the region right now. so the idea is

changing its will by policy, mainly. uh the, so the is, uh, don't want kids this side, under the umbrella of the united states. in 1972, there was some kind of agreement that to us would provide protection for. so the idea, and so the idea was sell exploit in the us dollar. now. so the idea says that this uh, let's say, agreement is finished because united states is not providing any protection to solve the out of the 4 other person, but out of countries. but it's not discussed this with a house on amazon and assistant professor of west asian studies at the university of to ron many, thanks for joining us on the program this evening. i'd like to wallace can i know it wrong? because we opened his embassy in saudi arabia, applied to your assessment of his significance of his steps for the people in both countries as well as the whole region.

sorry, i couldn't hear you. i'm sorry, we're having some connection issues. let me try this again. i wanted to ask you that now we've had a role in reopening, is embassy and saudi arabia. what's your assessment of the significance of this step as well as a continuation, i think up the protocol. well, that was done. we started back in may, june, 3 months ago, many cash sit down on the implementation of a deal that was broken by china. now we see the steps moving forward, which means the protocol. let us do a strong. i think the 2 countries have a, has tried to do preventing that. they abuse the steps that were agreed on. and these re establishing a diplomatic ties and then moving forward maybe into the region. and i think this

is, this is good news to a 2 countries to nations. and i think to the region because with a lot of the differences between the 2 nations into a sort of a engagement that can lower the tension moving forward and bring some solutions to regional files that have been ending his table in, in many ways. and of course, the opening of the embassy coincides with the us, secretary of state antony, blinking visits. a saudi arabia. his go for the trip is a mediation relations between our countries on the israel. what do you make of the timing of the move and do you think his intentions will be successful? a i think a part of the action is actually a, with regards to the re opening of tennessee districts out of washington,

basically that uh, the bilateral relations between the yvonne and savvy radia. i got to be affected by us. you know, providing customers to basically how that the us have shown that it's big, wasn't happy with the agreements between the 2 countries. and now i think there have been assets by the united states, specifically by may swede is ladies and age range, you know, being washington to, uh, basically trying to stop the normalization of dice between the boss on the radio. they see it as a moving to the direction that is not what they want. they want it normalization sighting radio. uh the uh the, by the way around it seems to be placed here with a robins via a movie that has the owners ations. and that's basically is not what washington and aunties rate is one in washington wanted to box it wrong in

a position to force. ready to reduce terms within the region and the nuclear it talks in. yeah, but now it seems that that box is not that no, no longer in the way in regional this policy has started to bear french for the for the wrong. i think that's all good news. for washington, that's why i purchased this, but the radians of this are, these are telling washington with a to this event that it's happened. we may be tries to do well, that normalization. so based on normalization of diplomatic ties between saudi arabia and to run is going to leave washington on the sidelines. do you think we can expect any sort of strong response from the us? sorry that i couldn't hear the question, could you repeat it?

i wanted to ask you, what sort of response do you think we can expect from washington to the normalization of times between to wrong and sante. right. you well, i don't think there is much to expect it because the americans find themselves in a r i is to respond to it the saturdays, at least vocally or allies the way to use our basic b a r t that was done last by washington. but now it is reaching out to matic me to the region. a talks with the rhetoric that yvonne is the installation uh, decentralizing, basically, actors in the region, according to washington. now things are moving in a direction that doesn't support those promise. so i think uh there's, there's not much that washington can do, but still, i mean, uh, the varies uh, and the americans that appear to me at least that as, as corners which lie,

one way or another to do wait a minute. but i think a, you know, their meetings are really not that much attached to but this one that there is close to coldwell on the highest level of things that run we are the protocol. we basically push that agreement to be signed in b, g. i think the fact that baby is involved in the process as a sort of uh, immediate or not, maybe according to some as a, as a guarantor of some sort. that puts washington a difficult position to change the situation between the mom and saudi arabia. yeah . what is i just making to was really appreciate your insight into the mazda house on the mazda you and assistant professor of west aging studies at the university of to wrong. thank you. what's okay. i was recorded is the lowest level of, of installation since 2021. the ended 7 consecutive months of reduction. now

reaching 39.6 percent as, according to the dates are released by the turkish, the testicle institute. these photos of recent took as president, and so the election where the economy was a leading issue, much of the positive trends has been activated to the uh, the one document for all setting. price wise is of other good plus providing natural gas free of charge. well, let's discuss the topic further, so we less cost live to jet political on market on the less tom long ago. many thanks for joining us. tom. now turkish inflation is on it. 7 consecutive months of decline. what do you believe accounts for the current trend? well, it would start with this baseline effects, right? that's the worst of the, of the target. so the real hyper inflation happened last year and the worst of the inflation happened last year. now you're starting to get you over your baseline effects. but this month's data was good, like the we were down to, it was actually negative front month over month. so surprised to seem to be stabilizing. a subsidized gas is that to obtain a big load in lowering the rates?

do you think that the free energy was just a bit to get a do? i'm re alexis, and do you believe gas will remain free now the other one has security spot for the next 5 years? i don't know about that. yeah, i doubt it will. he'll have to, he'll have to, to deal with that at some point. the big thing for everyone is, is that he has a properly courted other suppliers of energy, which is turkey's biggest problem, certainly that there are net energy importer of massive levels. right. and so for that reason alone, that's the biggest thing that puts the, the, the pressure on the surface lira in the long run. but the, the, the thing that he has done, i think he's been very successful is to know, go slowly, but surely on wind. turkey is net foreign currency liabilities 4 or 5 years ago when they literally started to do. um, so 1st i appreciate it was that that number was over 240000000000 dollars and most of it was in dollars. and today that number is less than $80000000000.00 and this

trending in the right direction every month. so between that and his ability and turkey is ability literally to absorb some of these costs onto this national balance sheet because they have a very low debt. the g p ratio gives him a lot of wiggle room here to the court. you know, new suppliers for of, for the georgia straight, and we're seeing that i think that the numbers came out recently, i think was like, there was yesterday, maybe that you all talk is the russian trade turnover is accelerating rapidly. that's um, you know, the same thing is happening with other regional partners. so a turkey is economy can mouse start to properly stabilize as now that all the frankly, western hot money has been removed from the country. just looking at this article that you wrote and you say the good ones, re election is in monumental failure of western pressure. what do you mean by that? well, erred one has been under sincere pressures. um since 2016. honestly,

from my mind since november 2015 when there was the shoot down of the su 24, where should i see 24? that over that was blamed on him. right. and then somehow he didn't go to war with boot. and even though they were supposed to go to work, and since then, and then it was the coup attempt in 2016, which a lot of people believe was run out of the intro, a air force base with west backing, blah, blah, blah, blah. so since then it's been one story after another with the, with $31.00 having to fight the west. and frankly, watching the last 5 years of the truck usually are hyper and lation. it just feels like wave after wave of hot money flows in hot money was out. this is very, very indicative of western economic it man style pressure on a born leader who refuses to live in order. one case you take any one red cent from

the i am asked to help stabilize their situation, that he's literally call them thieves and many other provocative term. so it's very clear that he has a real serious bone to pick with the way finances and money are and encourage the war is, is prosecuted in the west against those who dare to say, well, no, we're going to jordan independent path. and i really do believe that for the at least the last 6 years that that has been his primary focus is to play both sides off of each other. and normally, with a situation like this for inflation has been so high and so bad that it would allow for a resume check. that's what normal, that's what supposed to happen. and it didn't. and that's a monumental failure. this is the longest running slow motion color revolution in recent memory, and it failed, and he was in power now for another what 5 years by speaking, just as a really appreciate your thoughts. tom, the one guy jump,

let's go on to market on the list. thank you. up to 3 years in prison, us with a full minister of justice in slovakia. it was facing for voicing is pro russian comments on facebook. however, he's done suddenly by his principles. i'm proud of the statement i have written and i would repeat it any time. it is indisputable that putin and the russian federation act as in accordance with international law, it cannot be called an aggressor stuff in harbin. house of this, the volunteers minister of justice on supreme court justice. these also 9 for support of rush has done so new training, which he expressed in the facebook post. and i also have a special military operation begun that he praised president putin's actions include the key of government out for its genocide investment russians. now, however, been, has been charged by some evacuate authorities with quote, defamation of a nation and endorsement of a crime. if convict certainly faces 3 years behind falls. earlier, we spoke to political analysts that it was on the path it uses these to evacuate.

authorities are likely trying to make an example out of her opinion, always to silence other skeptics that does not fit to do official narrative is being criminalized or is being simply shut down for a sensor. and so this is just an egregious example, the latest example. but you know, this is a thing, they don't have any car arguments and you're a lot of, i'd say 20 years ago. somebody else who doesn't agree with them would have just on out into the media and said why they don't agree with them. but here, you know, their arguments are lead also they want to crush a descent. so instead of the coloring with the commer opinion as done in normal democratic societies and they just try to censor him, they try to criminalize and they tried to intimidate him, and they tried to use them as an example for others who might have similar thoughts

. and lots of other people have similar thoughts in europe, just as a lot of them are also afraid to a voice and publicly like us. so many things don't get say on the policy international as always, sensible on our website, on the dot com for the, [000:00:00;00] the hello and welcome to wells. of course, there is an old cliche that's more is a continuation of politics by other means. but apparently, so each piece with serious reason to re admission into the era plague um,

some of its former adversaries. now looking into potentially rebuilding the country, they helped to destroy something profound, must have shift to in the middle east. what is it? well, to discuss it, i'm now joined by a model because the founder and director of know says a think tank focusing on the middle is mr. broadcast, but it's great to talk to you again. thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me. thank you very much. now the last time i interviewed you was in 2013 . when this year in the world was still in its varying tends to stages. the country had already been kicked out of the arab league, and anyone recognizing the rise of the syrian state to defend itself or defend its citizens. was considered a butcher, at least in the western narrative. i just wonder how does it feel at to, to see it come full circle now? i think we, we'll predict well, some of us at least

a pretty good to this was going to be the case. eventually, i don't think anyone in the wildest dreams of the different take a so long i thought was of us who knew from the very beginning that there were enough syrians who did not want to do different ocean or saw some risk and endangerment, and therefore stood by the government and because they were enough of them, you know, they couldn't be defeated. the tides couldn't be turned. so eventually we knew this was going to happen. i lost it, came up to a huge cost and a lot of storms for syrians. i don't know, in a sense could if this could this have come a little bit earlier perhaps, but again, you know, the syrian issue isn't really tied on with syria or even the regional the, you know, c a term. but, but it's actually a more, you know,

worldwide sort of problem. i do want to ask you about the psychological effects of these campaign on the syrians, besides reducing the relationship between people and power, or people and change their relationship to change and the means to attain it has changed in any way. okay, so, so let me tell you, it is a story to the very 1st few days off. again, thank you for the so called revolution. i could argue to revolution by some parts of the syrian people. this is very important to understand. this is not evolution of the syrian people against a dictatorship or no thought of teddy innovation. this is far more and that a group of syrian people, the revolutionary methods, soft off. whether you, you view that as positive or negative, wanted to change things. and the other part of the syrian people, so a problem with that and uh, you know, they, they felt that they need to stop that and come through an example. the 1st,

the 1st few days. one of the 1st list of demands that we heard was from machines in the coastal area of bon ya. so of course of city of bonnie, as the 1st line of demand of the demand list was to separate boys and girls in schools. there are so many reasons why so many syrians wouldn't approve to such agenda. and the problem was at the very beginning, is that we knew that that this kind of rhetoric would attract a lot of problems from that you how to use even from certain countries in the region who are in themselves. very democratic. so we, i think the sooner people split from the very beginning on this, i was just a little bit strong by your phrase of revolutionary means. because i mean, it sounds, it may sound very romantic to western audience. it doesn't sound romantic to me because i'm, you know, somebody who was born in the country that had some really revolutions and they

usually turn out to be very blog. i mean, it's not just the, you know, about the, to give are a song. so it's about the understanding of social dynamics and the complexity of the core existence of the, you know, diverse interest, diverse mentality is, you know, it's a, it's a very complicated subject on the what angers me a lot is how sort of, um, popularized it has become people who watch television for some reason, believe that they, they can be an expert on freedom revolution and social change. and i think the ones who paid the price for the several months for this romantic attitude to revolution . odyssey, when people lived in people into some extent that you nation people and the yeah, many people and the egyptian people on the lease goes on and on. but that, unfortunately, those who push should never, you know, come face to face with it, with the consequences of that the rebels it's, it's actually a rebellion. it's not a revolution because, you know, it's not all the syrian people,

but they thought of it as a revolution. they believed, etc. but even they still use that report. they believe that this was a revolution. and when they inc counter defend point of view, they don't believe that it exists. if they think this is either a government collaborate or, or a traitor, it's either this or that they sold by, by believing that they are more numerous to you. they could bring more support for more countries. i mean in 2012, they were like 130 countries to and gather or met in more uncle to support the cause. they fold that they could overwhelm the other side, but this was not the, you know, it was more of a civil war from the very beginning. not down the lines of like, she, i this sidney that or catholic this post. and that it was more objective, more people on the side that was reluctant or pretty much against this sort of

action. i did so because of some sort of objective reasons rather than subjective reasons, we didn't approve of the program. we didn't approve of how it was going to be implemented, who were supporting it and so on and so forth. so for, so it was all that now going back you original question with the syrian people want to change model is their appetite more appetite actually not the case because now syrians are more reluctant to do any to know if, if anybody space of any sort of change, then he's going to be shut down by lots of people because we already know what the that would might mean and what no intentions either from regional or international powers. that could, it could hide. so yeah, no, that happened. but the, you know, it's, you know, you, we also need to have a broader conversational on what change or democracy really is. because i mean, there is a tendency, especially in the western discourse to, you know,

assign larger than life of significance to any political leader in this case. but charlotte sought, but there are numerous anonymous syrians in millions of them for, you know, cab disclose running and hospitals running for big. brad, who clean the streets, who you know, stood by that country in very humble, but also very, very profound ways. and it takes courage, it takes stamina, i takes result. and to me, at least that's what genuine involve democracy and patriotism is all about. isn't it the same for you? yes it is. and again, going back to the very 1st few days, those who perceived for it from the actions that when you know, taken. yeah. and the streets from the problems that was just starting and all that stuff, that only line of defense was to keep the government going to keep the state on its feet. they gave their children to the army, they did very stubborn,

and he tried to stay in the country and not flee. you know, duck were talking doctors, nurses were talking teacher talk engineers were talking everybody their line of defense to keep the cedar. yes, they want was to keep the government and the state on their feet because that's their best chance of survival. had those people capitulate it from the very beginning from the very beginning i. e. so come to us, right? or probably sold, you know, what, we're not gonna go through this. let's just accept whatever changes being made. and we are going to deal with it and find a way through the accepted and, and, and gone through that route down that route. that probably we've, we would have seen a different scene in syria now. yes. but of their cost. i don't think that becoming a 2nd degree citizen was an option for many of them. i think they perhaps also had a well some inkling of knowledge at that time because uh the syrian uprising was