the, the turner to george's pivotal parliamentary elections in georgia. so boss is 40 percent of the nation expensively decides whether it's future lies within the d. u or done a pop up. it's amendments with emotions running high scuffles or seeing that pulling stations across the country. if the regime in iran were to make that mistake of beginning in year round of escalation, we will be obligated to respond israel valez to strike or run again if to run responses to the idea of silver not attack with sort to iranian soldiers killed. following the escalation of washington, preachers caution. but i'm, let's say it's not us words which are important, but the, the real question is not what nothing. you know,

who can do. we've already seen that he can't do much. but what will the united states do? united states enters the fight, then iran will have to deal with us spaces in the region. it's also coming up through the lady's power. miller trees are accused of mess. recruiting hundreds of civilians in multiple villages. us the depth told the country civil war reaches heads up on us media accused tech t e little most of closing. a lot of our put and following the businessman, endorsement of donald trump, the claims which most school has rubbish, the merge just over a week before the american residential election. the right one, welcome to our to international. my name's you. don't know the, let's get into our top story. its people are having their say in

a crucial parliamentary election in the republic of georgia. more than 3 follows. and pulling stations are opened across the country with turn not already surpassing 40 percent of eligible folders by saturday afternoon. lots of time yet still devote . while the ruling georgia in the dream party has been in power for a dozen years on this seeking a parliamentary majority for the 4th time, politicians themselves have been casting their ballots. george and president salome zorn. a beach really was spotted voting alongside her compact troops. political divide, it's a vast one without position leaders accusing the incumbent government for peddling and i'm in europe narrative and being sold on russia. but georgia dream itself phase pro western factions are selling the country out. nations prime minister has even called the elections a referendum on war or peace. in sibley these elections are very decisive and fundamental plus the direction of the countries development must

finally be decided. this is a referendum between war and peace. this is a referendum between immoral propaganda full of entre additional values means between the dark past and the bright future model. you see that there are 2 political forces that are participating in these elections. and one side offers the very thing that we should leave in the past 40 and we offer our voters, pete's it'd be to economic development and the growth of the country in all directions. tell us. yeah, a lot at stake down with emotions running high scuffles, broke out at several voting stations in one opposition activist claim they were attacked by georgia dream supporters. another video circulating online purports to show people stuffing ballot boxes social media post claim the observer who filmed all of that was physically assaulted. that's what we're seeing here at votes at that station, by the way, have not been invalidated while yet more foot,

which captured this saturday shows men smashing ballot boxes. well, that's good more now i from our correspondent shady bows, who is speaking to us. they from at least the shape good to see you at. indeed quite a number of disturbances at breaking out a pulling stations. we've just been going through some of them. it seems 10. so what's the situation in general on the broad let's think that's correct. the unit, i think that's the sense of the noise draws in, the voting continues here and to police, see, there is a sense of tension. there's been some local scuffles. we've seen that there's a lot of police, a lot of security on the streets in anticipation of potential trouble in the aftermath of the, of the results. but i suppose it sort of, uh, it is on surprising given be a really critical nature of the vote today. as you say,

it's being billed by the incumbents here. georgia. dream is a referendum on one piece. it's important. remember, georgia is a very small country, less than 4000000 people, or the sales call because it's an ex soviet republics. it's a lot of economic trials and tribulations. the incumbent prior to the georgia dream have been in paris has 2012 and they are adamant that they want the economic stability. they want to close work in relation economic relationship and a good neighbor. the relationship with russia that while a large sort of the conglomerate of opposition parties are standing against them, hoping to to brush them aside for the key issues again is of course the foreign interest in the selection. now while the, the americans on the european union suggests that russia and china even are involved in these elections, the voices we hear on the street here in tbilisi and russian. and they're not chinese, they're actually uh, i'll stay indians, canadians, americans, observers, by the doesn't put a mirror to,

has made its concerns clear even before the voting begun. the sum of this we've made our concerns very clear about the trajectory of the democratic institutions and election process and georgia and we remain very concerned about it . yeah, well, we're listening to very shape basically us sufficiently expressing concern about georgia's domestic on foreign policies. the whole ship on. what exactly is washington so worried about well, i think it said the trajectory the georgia dream who have been in power since 25. i've been on the georgia dream. i've been very adamant that well, they want to join the european family. they say they want to do it on their terms. they don't wanna be railroaded into anything. they want george and culture of history to be reflected. they want to, you know, culture a, to be decided by the george and people, they pass laws and limiting l g, b, t,

as they call the propaganda. and more recently, there's been a law liberating and requiring a n g o's from abroad to declare where they're getting the cash. so i'm know this is nothing new. this the f r, an agents registration act in the, in the u. s, which has been in force for decades. of course, people do the same rush as a similar law. but when it was a mood in georgia, the there was a almost complete outrage from the united states suggesting that this was a mess. type law agile. coney lloyd, despite the fact that they have the similar law themselves, and they've also drawn the, are the georgia dream of the you who stopped funding and threatened to end this session process. so it's very much about applying pressure to georgia dream to do things here in unions way and the american way, rather than addressing the georgian people as they're trying to do to the yeah, it's just that you're speaking. they were looking at people behind. you should going in, not on and it's, it's them, it's, it's they who will,

who will commit the future of georgia. what are you hearing from voters themselves and just to add on to what you said earlier? is it looking like a possibility that protests, in the aftermath of this fall, it's like the government has predicted, could occur. i think everybody here expects uh, the losing side to take to the streets in some form or another. the 1st thing that happened when we arrive last night was my taxi driver said, you know, we're expecting things to happen, but the police have a heavy presence on the street. you know, i think it's all about the people and the people we have been discussing the issues with them. they've been readily talking to us. a lot of people here speak russian. a lot of people speak english. and the vast majority of the we've spoken to are say, look, we want peace, we wants to ability. and we want to continue to grow a stable relationship in our region while reaching out to europe and anybody else.

and let's have a listen to exactly what some of those people told us today. this is the biggest day in my opinion, in the life of the republic we are for peace for freedom. we will not obey any one . we all want to live together. i came to the elections because i believe that everyone, all citizens of georgia should go to the polls. because this is the most important thing for democracy. everyone should choose their voice, their party. russia is our closest neighbor. i must be friends with everyone. i think it's important for the economy. no one wants a war. people do not want war nor enmity towards each other. so as you can see, the general sense is one of you know, stability, building, decent relation. say i'm not supposed to break so much. again, people's interests that where does the future live for countries like georgia to is a developing countries to a great extent a we are expecting

a protest in the aftermath. the results which polls suggest will go at george in dreams way. depends on who you ask. that so we're going to be here on the ground tonight, tomorrow, and the next day, keeping an eye on it for you guys. back home will be feeling you step by step as things develop. yeah, it's a, it's a big one. share. thanks very much for catching us right up to date what's occurring in the georgia in capital shape always reporting from. so please just keeping a focus on that story. i want to show you this as well. one of the leaders of another faction seeking a successful day at the polls. that's the alliance of patriots, of georgia to dar, to the western pressure on the nation's domestic affairs. that is, the fact of election interfered. selenium used to be able to save statements by you ministers. statements made in high diplomatic circles, lay american invoice. it is all directly to clear that if georgia does not choose a pro western pass, our visa free travel to europe will be suspended. there will be some kind of

financial sanctions. this has the fact of interference indeed. so in the elections of georgia, whether you pro western coal, pro george and whether you support conservatives, georgia, dream national. let's put this all to the side. let's look at the facts. if a high ranking official from another country says that if you do not make a specific choice in your country, we will punish you. this is the fact to election interference. so election interference is already taken place and it is clear that the ukrainian scenario will be used here. we know that the struggle will decide the fate of georgia, the fate of the entire region. you will decide whether georgia will follow the footsteps of the green, and whether we will see bern, cds in human tragedy here, or if it will avoid it and will move towards normalizing relations with our neighbors. this is what is now being decided. the other side, the pro westerners, are putting it that way too. everything is at stake. we can see that this selection is all in. everything is at stake. the fatal georgia is already being decided now.

the okay to another headlines, stories they are really and revolutionary guard court has confirmed the 2 of its soldiers were killed and an overnight is really strike, but to run saves the damage cause to infrastructure was limited with the really in their defense systems, successfully interest set thing and majority of the massage, despite previous warnings from these lab public officials to the criminal and the legal zionist regime, to avoid any adventure, his actions, this fake regime attack parts of military centers and to round cause a stat and un provinces this morning. and it transaction, it stated that while the integrated air defense system of the country successfully intercepted and countered this aggressive act, limited damage was done to some places. and the dimensions of this incidents are under investigation. these are they reported locations targeted by v as release,

which claims a number of military installations were headed with quote, precise strikes while the video was posted on social media have shown ballistic missiles being intercepted over the really uncomfortable bite or defenses earlier or to correspondents in the region to my colleague rachel ruble. what's no, a highly anticipated as really a tac last day. the roughly 4 hours as around 6 am local time on such a day. the idea of announced that it had completed its limited operation in iran, named the days of response in retaliation for a runs october attack and henri spokesperson stated the dozens of participate in fight address, return safely home off the strike and exclusively military targets across iran, including facilities involved in may solves production and launch now as well as weapon storage is as an old tennessee 0, also targeted iran surface to air missile systems, an air capabilities to expand, as well as freedom of aerial operations in there on the,

on the release photos showing the idea of chief of staff defense minister, the air force chase commanding the attack from his rouse military headquarters, intel ivy with a prime minister engine yackel. also present all objectives were achieved. the army says, let's take a listen. if the regime in the wrong were to make the mistake of beginning a new year round of escalation, we will be obligated to respond. our message is clear, all those threats in the state of israel and 6 to drag the region into wider escalation will pay a heavy price. off to iran, launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at israel on october. first has rarely retaliation, it was a matter of when the notes, if with a key question being the choice of target. and it took as well, almost 4 weeks to respond. likely, these are disagreements between till are even washington over target selection, whether you asked prefer and likely you hadn't limited response to avoid triggering

a full scale war and for the risk collection in the region. it appears of pressure from washington altima. the influence the outcome as as well as a tag, remains limited in scope with no oil or nuclear facilities target. despite previous claims and warnings, the targets were confirmed with washington and american officials were repulsively brief before they strikes. of course, however, an american source told reuters that's the us was not directly involved in this attack. washington suppose that these really strikes, calling them an act of self defense in response to the reading a sold, but expressed hope that the cycle of violence would end here. let's take a listen. secretary austin vs. the are in class commitments of the united states to israel, security and provide to self defense in the face of threats from the wrong and the wrong box, terrorist organizations. and the determination to prevent any active from exploiting

time since or expands into conflict in the region. well interesting that while israel has the right to self defense, according to washington reports now indicates that the us is using all available channels to persuade iran not to retaliate or to limit its response basically denying the similar right for to her run back to you. so what can you tell us about the situation there in our ron now and, and what's being said about whether or not we can expect to ron that to respond to all know the attack of the was less than meets the eye. and uh we did not see all those fiery sweat spies will of vowing to wreak havoc on that rod following it was october, 1st attacked on his well of so i'm what the people i think and how the people have reacted to are these radiated tie gob echo with what the a wanting officials have described it. we simply we heard from one of the high

ranking yvonne and officials most in residing, who said that the attack was a means to escape from the battle field. rather than to inflict a damage onto one, the design this way seems aggression against iran was motivated more by fear, a desire to flee the battlefield rather than the desire to show its power. everyone is waiting for images and now footages the surface from the sides of the attacks overnights uh to, to get a sense of the scale and the magnitude of the damages they inflicted on the one in military size, but so far on. no such an image has been emerged from the side of the incident, despite all of the limited nature of the attack. erewhon vowed a response to it, and that's based on, on official sources, citing iranian officials saying that there are reserves. it's right to respond to these ready attack. and that is perfectly in line with what the audio vonny and

foreign ministry earlier said during an interview to r t. it was for administer. a boss are off to you also all set similar remarks while laming b is really of violations and aggressive actions against the one on the united states. always the sorry i'm, you know, that's, they are behind. i mean, i thought i'd call you one of the 3 defendants last time. so some of the defend this time, again, if it affects us to respond to the response . so all in all, for now we need to wait for more information to surface out of this overnight attack by swell against the want to get

a sense of whether or not to give on will respond well, multiple states are condemned israel's attack on around. so do you rate base, is there any and sovereignty and international law was violated by the strikes? russia has called for an end to the cycle of violence and criticize the overnight attack for undermining regional stability. while they're really an academic and commentators side mohammed were on the predicts a dangerous future for the world. should the us become directly involved in the regional escalation. a bronze has a huge arsenal of ms. miles. it has many underground missile cities. it's, it can fire. well, over a 1000 missiles at one go, and the same is true with drones and it can, they can fire wave after wave for, for a very long period of time. remember these underground missile cities and drone cities created for potential conflict with the united states. when the us invaded the rock

and i found this on and had this huge presence in the persian gulf region, the running into work and deeply concerned. so they created all these well protected underground installations that had huge fire power to determine the united states is really received, doesn't have anything near the capabilities of the united states. so it would deep definitely be badly defeated in a, in a series of exchanges. heavy exchanges with the ron, and of course the but it's the real question is not what nothing. you know, who can do. we've already seen that he can't do much. but what will the united states do if the united states enters the fight, then iran will have to deal with us spaces in the region and those, uh, oil rich app dictatorships that host those bases today to be seen as hassle. so that would mean an end of oil and gas ex, works from the persian gulf region,

and that would be to a global economic catastrophe. so the smart thing for washington to do is to back off and also to dine card on that in yahoo is least because he is going to be punished. alarming news emerging from sit down a local human rights watch. dog has a cruise, the pardon the victory group of slaughtering dozens of civilians in multiple religious sit down has been engulfed in full scale of civil war between the r s s and the issues in question on the army since last year with thousands killed and millions more displaced the rapids support forces continued their incursion and blockade campaigns on the 25th of october 2024, targeting a large number of villages. dozens of civilians have been killed in the villages of also rehab 50 dead, 200 wounded. according to our r c. s. as rock besieged all the mob,

13 dead in addition to the displacement of tens of thousands of villages, east of because they are a dozens of people have been killed and injured in a series of attacks by the rapids support forces on villages in out to 0 states and central, so dawn, we understand that to the attacks that talk to the towns office who caught mocking moon and tom bulls. the dates up tool remains inc. continue to do to communication disruptions and the ongoing series for missing people. but the attacks all believed to be in retaliation for the defection rather office senior. obviously if combined, who has now joined disability call me his name is apo accept you call. and he calls to fiction is the reason behind the waves of displacement that you see now. and because off he's to fiction, the receive fight to have been quite a few weeks and went on a rampage of. we also know that many people at this moment who would say to us that

this is not new, but it is new for the once come region of the student is us state which has now been transformed into one of the most active back. so wrong seems to dawn, and this which adopted in april of 2023, between the se if and the receive has created one of the most acute crises in history. that the 40000000 people to space and as the conflict is closer to full scale civil war, international efforts to contain the violence have loss. we failed, leaving civilians to fend for themselves. the international community has been aust, escape popular if it's since april last year. but not things notable has been done straining to sedan office where the coordination of you man turn affairs is gravely concerned by the impact the ongoing arm contract is having on some billions in many parts of the country in north star for a loan. the international organization for migration reports in just 6 months, some 410000 people have been displaced the lo killed in the locality of l.

fleischer. many of them had already been displaced at least once. over the course of this conflict, we continued to receive reports of civilian casualties and indiscriminate attacks impacting public infrastructure in residential areas. both in north star for and elsewhere with many areas affectively cut off from to and here and assistance. now these kinds attacks are forced even more residents of many villages to feed their homes. what is worse is that to the meeting by the i receive at the start off of this attack as also lift to displace destination with severe cash shortages and widespread loss of personal funds. but that is not in the morning when they attack us on, not doing, they attack us on the roads. they took us every saving money for closes on even the kill, you know, the real of this on the frames. so you know, that was difficult time because they, they did, you know, such

a horrible things you know, other way. so i that a, we can move, find them once or like dead body is, or you can see it was like coming to to can people. so they didn't that are in that are too smart device is like guns and was cars. so is that houses and they said a lot of things that to have from those voices we get it seems that the suit in use is brutal. it is devastating and it shows no signs of coming to an end. it can all previous attempts to integrate the 2 powerful industries, not limited to any success. we've heard the student needs on for 6. so she did each promising to fight until they have secured a miniature victory, an outcome that is small for each given the extent of the receives coming to the streets. while the years go on, but something stays the same bit tied to moscow. narrative is again becoming

a staple of us presidential elections. this time is donald trump's key on isla musk and the firing line. accusations of the entrepreneur having apparently closing ties with loving or putting is driving headlines regardless of the evidence presented for that. as ortiz, when a cost rep is being looking at a mosque has become a big thorn in washington's side, especially since he announced to support for former us president donald. from now this is a man who everyone in his field knows and respects. not only is he not afraid to speak his minds, but he also has a lot of influence. and maybe that's why we're seeing so many recent attempts to smear him. space x is now under intense scrutiny for environmental violations out in south texas star based facility. the department of justice has filed a lawsuit against face executing the company of hiring discrimination companies. largest stakeholder is facing a new lawsuit of choosing the billionaire of market manipulation. and just in case

that didn't do the trick they brought out their trump card quite literally just doing to eat on most of lot of our boots and, and you'll have americans warming that he's leaking washington's top secret to russia. i think we don't know what the details are right in the us. officials don't really know, but it's certainly not something that our national security officials are going to think that as a good faith it it, it's hard to imagine that someone who is a government contractor and a defense contractor. it that isn't constant conversations with one of our chief adversaries in the world. it shouldn't be hard to believe it, but it's not, but it's not letting me put and is a former k g b official. there's just no question. the vladimir putin would have been trying to utilize eli mosque as an asset for the russian statement. there apparently best friends who regularly discussed personal topics, business and geo political time since the whole street journal claims that have

received this information from several cards and former us, your pin and russel officials, who also revealed the boots and asked the billionaire to avoid activating he starling satellite internet service over its firewall as a favor to the chinese. these later i'll just like a boots and supposedly got a lot of favors from, from after he helped him. when during the 1st selection, though, it's still unclear how exactly are also benefited from, from his presidency. it's also on a clear whether proof is and once again, just and all of those sources anonymously making claims. providing 0 evidence, just relying on smoking had lies to work their magic well, most go is as always a set in the record straight on that, as you remember, put in was accused of goals really having conversation with jump. now who's allegedly talking with musk. these claims that are all completely false. the wall street journal published

a completely false statement put in had only one in culture with most before 2022 that sold had more of introductory style. they talked about the future and the vision salvage loss came. cell has said that these claims are absurd, but who's listening? they're basically trying to expose and punish him and the lead up to the election. and the latest scandal is over his $1000000.00, which stakes. so one of the things we're, we're doing is we want to try to get over a 1000000, maybe 2000000 of, of a voters in the battleground states to sign the petition in support of the 1st and 2nd amendment. we're going to be awarding a $1000000.00 to a random weights. if people have signed that get signed the petition every day from now until the election this is

a way of getting people to vote in swing states then of course, must can definitely afford that which is making a lot. 4 of people angry like the democrats and the justice department, which jumped on this right away. saying that this could be illegal though they can be sure yet. it's still a wonder if the departments is also looking in. so those staffers from the british labor party, who are time paying for hi mila harris right now in the west, and questions remain over. who sponsoring that, cheerleading squad, and how legal that is. but of course, a lot mosque is arguably far more powerful than the u. k labeled party and also a key figure in the type and space industry which puts them in a very tricky position. one person, aware of the conversations, said the government faces a dilemma because it is so dependent on the billionaires technologies space ex launch is vital national security satellites into orbits, and is the company nestle relies on to transport astronaut to and from the intern.