the the, the founder of the global, a popular telegram app is report will be retained in friend. and the last interview before his arrest couple door of reveal to us security agencies were pressuring him to violate the privacy of the platforms user. we got too much attention from the at the i, the security agencies wherever we came to the west to get on the times. i think the attack is coming neither from the european union, nor from france. it's most likely an attack from the united states. tell durham to former press secretary says washington has long been after telegrams, founder ends, and might be behind his arrest. stay tuned for his exclusive comments to r t t a sealed off a shrine used by f like romanian follower is that the current in orthodox church

that's been banned by the zalinski government. and israel launches strikes to cross southern lebanon and calling it a pre emptive measure against has the last election group and firm touches of quote tarsh respond to the live in moscow on rachel ruble. you're watching r t international. we're covering the top news stories from around the world's a crack down on free speech, just one of the reactions to the news that russian tech tycoon pub, older, of, has reportedly been detained by french police. the telegram founder is accused of not giving security services access to private information on the messenger platform. investigators or allegedly accusing him of complicity in drug trafficking, fraud and crimes against children are teased. charlotte dimansky told us more. this is a report from french

t. v. stations to say that they've got so says close to the investigation, his playing panel do explain, arrived in paris on saturday evening, and he had just switched the towel not getting off the plane, but apparently he was detained by the french, all star attorneys. now, according to one source close to the investigation, the reason they show that i had released this warrant for him and arrested him on french. so it is because telecom is seen as being go to go to a app for a criminal activities organized crime for the last few years. now you mentioned that some of the crimes that he could be facing charges over they say is money laundering for to this is a drug trafficking crimes against children. these are incredibly serious crimes. it's expected that he's going to go before a judge on sunday in front and is unlikely to be released from

pre trial detention because of obviously the fact who he is, the pharmacy has his ability to leave the country and perhaps avoid just as they are expecting but he will be reminded in custody until any trial not could be many, many months away. the suggestion, if he's found guilty, he could spend up to 20 years in prison. now, the russian embassy in paris has said that it is looking for clarity on the situation do, of course, as a russian citizen, he also has joint nationality and he's a french citizen too. we're dealing with the situation. charlotte fact, and it's happening in front of the country, which shap promotes itself as a beacon of democracy in a, in a dark world. all that kind of thing. freedom of speech is par online yet. he's being treated in such a high profile way as, as a criminal, like directly as if he's accused of doing nice things himself. but he's not. yeah,

let's be clear that he's not being teased is actually carrying out any of these activities. the basis of this warranty is that because telecom missing is don't motor rating enough of it's not don't providing information to governments in the west that he's essentially complicit in these crimes simply for being the owner and co founder of telecom. it's pretty incredible situation now. we know that she's been coming and massive pressure from western governments to share information. talent, golf, which is one of the most popular movie downloaded apps in the world, are close to a 1000000000 uses swipe. so in this idea that it's gonna end to end encryption, that it's safe to send messages on, and telecoms website says it does not pass information to governments. all of these the big take points when people are using to look at the app. so he's talked about the pressure he's been coming and recently he sat down with us host talk

a calls and, and talk specifically about what the us authorities have been doing and how they've been trying to persuade him to pass on information. let's just have to listen to what he said in that interview. we got too much attention from the, the at the i, the security agency is wherever we came to the us. i brought an engineer that is working for telegram and there was an attempt to secretly hire my engineer behind my back by cyber security officers officers. the events of january of the 6 uh, we received a letter from uh, i believe, uh, clinic with many of the democratic side. and they requested that we would share all the data we had in relation to what they called this uprising letter. it seemed very serious and the letter said, you know, if your fail to comply with this request,

you will be in violation with in the us constitution. that took a call soon reacted very quickly to the report. solve possible through ups arrest saying that he's been locked away in, susie asked a 3 by a member of nato that this is the west that his locked him up because he's refusing to sense of the truth. and i think that's really interesting. is that what we've got here is west and government putting out a warrant for this big tech mogul and essentially putting him behind boss before he's even been able to have his day in court. now there's been lots of other reaction as well, even in coming from an influential americans who consumed by the developments in this case. fronts just arrested pablo during founder and ceo of the encrypted i'm sense, a telegram platform. the need to protect free speech has never be more urgent. pos,

e. it's 2030 in europe, and you're being executed for liking a mean. it's telegram today, it will be ex tomorrow. free speech is under attack coordinator for the world. why are people's opinions and voice is such a threat courageously resolve differences freely in the public square? will of course, we know that dog has actually worked with governments in the west to acquiesce to the demands he address to the demands of the you to bind off seeds from telegram. if you have a i, e, u, base number, you cannot get access to our new services via that app. and it's interesting that now he is in faults in the way he could find himself behind the box. but as durham is arrested, makes waves online. the number of people downloading the telegram app is skyrocketing. we spoke exclusively. it was through robinson, former press secretary, who says there is no better p r for telegram than it's founders arrest

yes, could i get a role as it was? of course, a complete shock, and yes ma'am, i got a call from my people when i was already a sleep. may they called and asked why i was not online instead the door off was arrested. so it's a hard time for us now. the which we haven't experienced anything like this even while working with possible widows. so it's a big mystery why he disregarded his own safety and decided to land in paris. and despite the fact that he didn't know most likely that there was a warrant out for his arrest, but obviously would probably do rough is not the kind of person who fears that he is the kind of person who faces danger. because she is also shown throughout his history that he is a pretty cautious person in that sense. additional if he has said many times that there is no point in going to jail with this one. when we all remember these statements that device. but nevertheless, that only suggest 2 things that come to mind, frustrated as either he did not know that a warrant for his arrest was being prepared. know, or if we believe the french media or the warrant for his arrest was issued 5

minutes before his plane landed in the way either he knew about it, but didn't think it would be that serious difficulty. probably thought he was a little above french justice. in fact, him a telegram has tried to comply with the laws of the jurisdiction where it is present to him that to you telegram also complied with the requirements of sanctions legislation to block channels including by the way, the russian media outlets such as our teeth of the reason is probably much deeper than that to get all the time. and i think the attack is coming neither from the european union, nor from france. it's most likely an attack from the united states don't just which has been after people do are off for a long time and door off as always talked about it. he and he said, for example, in an interview with tucker carlson means that he and his employees are under pressure, or at least there's some kind of surveillance conducted by the fbi i in 2000. i think the root causes are there 3 of them. so it doesn't make any sense to discuss the intentions of the french authorities who arrested him because they don't play any role here at all for me, you yeah,

the story that, that he has, i think that this arrest and this whole situation means only the best for telegrams, reputation, look right now. even this hasn't been out in the press yet. i've done a little bit of research on the monitors that are available when you to a telegram downloads have really skyrocketed by some metrics. it's already the number one downloaded app in the world, even though it's only been 24 hours, even less than 24 hours since the news broke out to me as soon as he was arrested. for example, prominent figures such as for example, you on musk and others smoke out a key and the hash tag free door off pablo door off cuz it reached the top of twitter trend. so even though it speaks to his exploding popularity, which naturally converts to product popularity, the daughter of, well, i mean, we're probably talking about telegram approaching a 1000000000 users in a general sense. you. i think that in the next couple of days we will see that we will overcome this barrier of 1000000000 users. this is of course, the most famous,

dry sand effect them on marketers. it will affect the popularity of telegram it'd be how will this popularity be used by telegram itself further to me or for example, by the authorities option we do not know yet, but naturally we can now say unambiguously bedford telegrams popularity. there is no better story than its founders arrest. interest can yes, and adjust on the hills of pavel durham's arrest. another prominent attack entrepreneur has bid farewell to europe. the founder of the video platform, rumble crisp blocks key promises to fight for free speech. i'm a little late to this, but for good reason, i'm just safety parted from europe. fronts has threatened to rumble, and now they have crossed a red line by arisen telegram sealed bible due to ruthlessly for not sense when speech rumble will not stand for these behavior. and will use every legal means available to fight for freedom of expression, a universal human rights. while the russian embassy in france has stated it is in

touch with the possible drops lawyer, but the european country has avoided any contact with moscow and an exclusive conversation with our t russian foreign ministry spokesman maria's a harvest dress. perez's committing the very same offence at once, accused moscow of in the streets. not some good in 2018 steps were indeed taken in our country and to put in, in order to in particular, in accordance with the russian most a work of mass media, social platforms, and so on. this was. 1 on the other things by court decision, it calls such a flurry not to in criticism, but hey tread. i posted a screenshot of 26 west and in g o 0 in the old troll abriel bias. to back them signed the collective latch or against the country either among them. for example, i missed the international, committed to protect the drum, listen to human rights house foundation, human rights watch and so on. now the big question was,

where are they all with the where the collective lots is. yeah, there is no doubt that these news has spread all over the world where he's older, a criticism, more ways older, a consent where all the statements about human rights about freedom may be where is the protection of these values to which they only talked about and insisted on so stopping. lee. last is where is the reactive position is there is nothing for russia has always sat. the basis of this decision should be laws, rules and compliance with the legislation. all the actions that for relate to to tell of drumming 20172018. they should. they had the logical explanation with the legislative framework duty and then attempt to find a way out of the situation. but the whole world came down and asked them to see, but take a look today. it turns out that all these who criticized and by the way, the l as a palace and criticizes rushed to the most saying that for god about freedom of

speech. and that is black to human rights components. now take a look at what it is, the l as a palace. it is paris that is at the for from to be offensive against human rights and freedom of speech. but in this case, we act in accordance with outlaws speech without the trundle documents, without guidelines, we, but for in this case, from durham is a citizen of all countries. this is the 1st thing they rely upon from up to one. in this case, when it comes to having their citizenship built and ignore the requirements of all the states that appealed to their citizenship. when a person has it because we will do every thing, evan, in spite of the circumstances demonte acts as some documents for me. this is a citizen of all country, in any case, in any situation, whoever he is, we will defend his rights author and war correspondent thomas roper says it's only a matter of time before paris pressure is endure often to following western

directives some years ago. and the russian had trouble with telegram for the same reasons, so they would terra x and the door of didn't open the checks of the terrace, which led to some problems between to it off and russia. but there he was able to leave the country and nobody arrested him. so it's interesting which country is which part of the world is for you russia on the west? well, the west in general is as fighting against everybody was, well, doesn't police the west that narrative and we have censorship everywhere. so uh, what we see is that, uh, friends as part of the west. and so it's, it's easy to say why they do it because it's, it's in line with the dos and the you, it's in line what the, what the us government is doing. um, so nothing, nothing really surprising. the question is not if there will be sections or whatever restrictions for to the room or a change of the policy order by,

by the government. the question is that if this will happen and the question is when, as well now to southern rushes build the rod border region where 6 people were killed on sunday by ukrainian strikes. that's according to the regions governor. 14 more people were reportedly wounded as several villages came under attack. houses, cars and outbuildings are reported to have been damaged. the local governor labeled the deadly strikes as brutal terrorist attacks and wore the population to take shelter. well, the ukrainian that strikes persist, the cabins, stepping up, is cracked, down on follower is of the ukrainian orthodox church that was recently banned in the country. authorities have now sealed off a shrine, used by ethnic romanians in western new crane. local church officials have slammed the move of the credit. yes or it is ben. besides to remain in speaking parish in

ukraine, and now romanians by preventing death over this from building. the sole goal is to be ritual freedom. they tell all of the logs and sealed the shrine of the club, and the metropolitans in the cemetery up turn of sea city will see how the key of authorities deliberately restricting the rights and disadvantage in the romanian. speaking minority in ukraine, 1st vessel, or just refused to register as a carrier for the remaining of orthodox church. now the head start at the sewer, romanian, speaking parishes. what next? the persian is will most likely appeal to the romanian president. first of all, the ukrainian orthodox church on the canonical or from the orthodox church is that was the largest faith based organization in the country. well, if not one of the largest, it's probably the most dominant one according to a $0.21, as i believe there are more than $20000000.00 ukranian orthodox such church show worshippers. and of course this stage began playing a very dangerous game of religious divisions. the since the 2019, if that's the year of the creation of a schismatic,

a orthodox church of ukraine instead of ukrainian orthodox church. now the latter, the 1st one was created and is supported by the government. and it's supposed to be less than a v. a legit influence of most coal over ukrainian church goers and believers. now what followed after that and before that as well actually could easily be described as a religious persecution in the country of ukraine. now since the establishment of the news gives matic, a church of government reigns on the ukrainian or of church became a regular as well as against the clerics and regular church goers. i mean, it became of violence as well as people were being kicked out of monasteries and the churches now authorities of ukraine. uh, following the decision uh, on the new club creation of the new church. the even received the property from the

traditional church and gave it to the new one that the government had established. now all this, of course coleman agents with the crating parliament passing a law on on tuesday that would allow to ban ukraine and orthodox church. the canonical one altogether. and now what we see from the latest news is that the persecution is not against only against our russian speakers, but against the other minorities in ukraine as well, in this case, against the remaining and one. now this law, the latest law that would ban ukraine and orthodox church, was so noticed by, well, many people around the world, including the head of the catholic church, up old francis. and this is his reaction to t of law. continual say, we continue to follow with sorrow, the fighting in ukraine and the russian federation, and thinking about the recently adopted norms of law and ukraine. i have a fear for the freedom of those who pray. please do not have bol ish. any christian

church directly or indirectly churches shouldn't be touched. the patriarchal and the russian orthodox church curial. now he's describes a key of the late as bad as nothing less of a crackdown on religion. and he is also called on the leaders of other religious organizations around the world of bo, francis, on the head of the anglican church in the k and on the permanent religious leaders to voice their supports for the training orthodox church. for the sake of this, and having failed to weaken the canonical church in ukraine, having failed to shake it's unity. the storage has decided to banner completely as a result of the adoption of the current law. hundreds of monasteries, thousands of communities, millions of us and dogs, believers in ukraine will find themselves outside the legal field will lose their property in place of prayer. of course not everyone in the written, in parliament's or within the ukrainian society has been supporting this new law

that would potentially introduce a band and the ukranian orthodox church. now, one of the ukrainian parliament's, the deputies actually has a criminal case launched against him when he, a voice is disconcerting about the ban of the ukrainian or from ex church. take a look when your cousins was able to do that you create in parliament has made a fatal mistake by voting in favor of banning the ukrainian orthodox church. and this mistake, without any doubts, will cause tragic consequences for the entire ukrainian peoples. no loss can prevent us from praying visiting temples, defending our faith. there are no obstacles to this. just as there were none for the lord. meanwhile, and millions of ukrainians continued to associate themselves with the ukrainian orthodox church. that said, could be found any moment now because there is a law people ready to pray in hiding to do their religious services in hiding. meanwhile, thousands of ukraine, our folks to the worshippers have come out for their traditional yearly

gatherings in support of their things. and their religion and their this is happening all over the country and in various circumstances as well. israel has hit southern level non describing the action as a pre emptive measure against hezbollah. in response, hundreds of rockets and drones were launched by the militant group at israel, as well as, as the strike was retaliation for the assassination of its military commander in july. and groups later explained that the delay as a chance for gaza to engage in peace talks and to keep israel waiting nervously for the attack for almost a month. as well as says at last, 2 of its members in the is really attack, according to benjamin netanyahu. all the rockets and drones launched are the country were successfully intercepted while the idea of confirmed one navy officer was killed and 2 more wounded. are teased correspondence on the ground. tell us

more, a non, beside what, how much of it has below has made 2 statements. the 1st of these includes the following points. the response to the assassination of the combined of food sugar, which took place in the south and the root has already been done on the 1st phase of this response has been successfully completed. in addition, as well as the statement concerned, a large scale drug and the top of the morning, these really all me against attacks on civilians. the organization stress is fine because i'm ready to respond to any attacks on civilians. elaborate on the 2nd statement, a report of the launch of $320.00 rockets from south and 11 on towards 11 is really military bases in the south of level under intensive flights of military aircraft, up to the capital b route according to has pull out an operation was successfully carried out to using a significant number of missile spots positions in northern israel's and disabling the only time system. it is obvious that whatever strikes were carried out by is really ministry across has full of minus to launch myself as strategic and t

military bases in northern israel. it should be emphasized that these bases are important from the point of view of military purposes. the air force headquarters and the main alternative route positions in northern israel, located at these facilities the us has but as actions have to one attention to these bases, i'm the only thing system in light of the current intensity of the missile fide from solving never know to voice northern israel about a month ago. here's what i launched. so striking 10 is really build your incentives . really? uh, citizen, emotional shopping. somebody go on. hi. they were drew's. yeah, they were is really citizen and a response. israel killed. so what shot gotta which has a hit by law commander in 11 on now is his belong, has a threatened to spray back in a serious way and strike is 0. but israel got when this morning that they were launching, waiting to launch a major attack with heavy missiles, long distance missiles, and about 5 o'clock in the morning. is there a launch at preventive striking the airport where i'm at now?

these really, airport was closed down for a few hours, but they opened up again, and most people are getting notices from the places of employment. they should not come to work. the government has sent out a message to most people usually work from home and stay within an area that is close to a bomb shelters. and there's a lot of now mentioned that they are finished with the 1st way of attack upon israel with more to come. not sure if that will be today, tomorrow, or the days to come. i so the war is coming. i'm must come. there's no way that it is well can live. i did this threat on a daily basis. and now the whole north of israel cleared up is really citizens, kids not going to school. she was supposed to start in a week or 2. people haven't gone back to work. 80000 people, we have 80000 internal reputation inside of israel. the war is going to call and the question is when and what scale and will be a regional war, including a ron and who is in yemen. meanwhile, i'm the who's a militant group, any i'm and has vowed to respond to israel's attack, expressing support for his beloved. and there has been no mention of the escalating

efforts and tell of either minister netanyahu has warranted that sunday. strike will not be israel's final blow. i must say i own what happened today is not the end of the story is why he didn't, has blog with surprises strikes. 3 weeks ago we eliminated a chief of stuff today with falls bits attacked lands nicer. a lot in very rude and harmony and tear run. i should know that this is another step on the way to change the situation and to return the residents safer to the homeless. and i repeat, this is not the end of the story to go look at bombing. meanwhile, british airways has suspended slides to television, spend during an airport for at least 4 days following the latest flare up in the region. we discussed the escalation with journalists. malik highlighted, who says locals in lebanon, have it welcome hezbollah strikes on israel. is actually the girl active? the one by the end of the 7 a does not minutes to to defend the law from launching its missiles

and its uh, drones, the launching of the house. the long distance today was not the end of the cost of the proactive is to the bottom. and it was actually a, as the action to assist in anything for us. okay. and this for so many, many people. it was something they wanted and they waited for maybe more than the so it has been set as what actually spending the nights and the um, the shelters and the anticipating was never known. august. i'm just tired of living and life is going as usual. however, um that is where you decide they have dancers or postponed all the flights to go to an airport to stay at the people that you know, the sensors of this northern coupon furnished. but i asked to give shelters is a, is a call in and such a mistake. and i just said that have a key and that, that wants to be a jewel stage picking up a senior. and this is for the,

for the summit of october as it transported to and the end of june, because it's cuz all right, we'll just stay with our to international f next on moscow. newell shay and his crew examined the hypocrisy of the so called the guys of the west. i for now the, [000:00:00;00]

the, the russian states. never. i've side as i'm one of the most sense community best. most all sense of the, in the system has to be the one else calls question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin media machine for states on the russians per day and split the r t. suppose next, even our video agency,

roughly all the band on youtube tv services, even twist, which is the as western leaders recklessly talked of escalating the conflict, a new frame. european voters has sent the exact opposite message pro war and meets are clearly out of step with voters. and they have been punished for the year, which are ours to make. you know, i'm not going to you care about me. if you care about the play. i wish somebody