to get over nickel, ny mozy, but at yale and that was the us. and they said it was in on monday all 0 the the, a high turnover this saturday at george's pivot cell, parliamentary elections so far with the nation, essentially deciding whether it's future lies within the e. u. part done a positive independence with emotions running high scuffles or seen a pulling station. the ruling party claims all position active. it started behind quote, for all vacations, from also it had the regime in iran where to make the mistake of the beginning and year round of escalation. we will be obligated to respond israel for us to strike around again. if tara has we heard responding to the idea of overnight attacked, which sold to a really and so if you're still following the escalation, washington preachers portion phenomena, let's say it's not us words which model,

but the the real question is not what nothing else. who can do, we've already seen that he can't do much. but what will the united states do? united states enters to fight. then the ron will have to deal with us spaces in the region of the me calls for slavery reparations. king charles acknowledges, quote, painful aspects of britain's hops during the company, both so much in some more a bus stop short on the full apology, the it's mid day. and so domingo midnight in color, lumper and 7 in the evening. you're in moscow. welcome to the global news drop on our people are helping their say in a crucial national election in the republic of georgia and interest is high with turn. oh, it's already how things are past 50 percent of it eligible voters already this

saturday. the georgia dream party, as rules since 2012 and the seeking a 4th straight majority in parliament. well, politicians themselves have been casting their balance. george in prison salome is you're a beach really was spotted voting alongside her copatrick. the political divide is voss, though, with opposition leaders accusing the incumbent government of peddling and onto europe, narrative and being solved in russia. but georgia, dream itself safe. pro western functions are selling the country out, the nations prime minister as even call the elections are referendum on for 4 pins . in sibley, these elections are very decisive and fundamental pursuit the direction of the countries development must finally be decided. this is a referendum between war and peace. this is a referendum between a moral propaganda and traditional values between the dark past and the bright future. 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 peace, economic development, and the growth of the country in all directions. the tensions are, i found the motions are really high. scuffles broke out of several holding sections in one opposition. ok to this claim that are attacked by georgia, dream supporters, but the ruling party accuses be active as themselves, have been citing me on risk and attempting to provoke government supported another video circulating unloading reports to show people stuffing ballot boxes at votes off. that's, they should have been invalidated. your footage captured chose min smashing off ballot boxes to r. t shaped bose is in sibley, see, and told me more of the developers earlier voting continues here and to blue. see there is a sense of tension. there's been some local scuffles. we've seen that there's a lot of police low security on the streets in anticipation of potential trouble in

the aftermath of the, of the results. but i suppose it sort of, uh, its, its own surprising given be a really critical nature of the votes today. as you say, it's being billed by the incumbents here. georgia. dream is a referendum on one piece. it's important to remember, george is a very small country, less than 4000000 people in the sales call because it's an ex soviet republic. there's a lot of economic at 12 and tribulations. the incumbent prior to georgia. dream has been in power since 2012 and they are adamant that they want the economic stability . they want to close working relationship, economic relationship, and a good neighbor. the relationship with russia that while a large sort of 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 americans on the european union suggest that russia and china even are

involved in these elections, the voices we hear on the street here in sibley see, and russian, or they're not chinese, they're actually uh, spaniards, canadians, americans, observers, why the dose of america has made its concern 6 or even before the voting. regardless of, of this we've made our concerns very clear about the trajectory of the democratic institutions and the election process in georgia and we remain very concerned about it. what exactly is washington so worried about? well, i think it's uh, 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 and 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 flow. and this is nothing new. this the foreign agents registration act in the, in the u. s, which has been enforced for decades. of course, people do the same rush as a similar law would when it was a mood in georgia. and there was a almost complete outrage from the united states suggesting that this was approved nest 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, unions way and the american way, rather than addressing the georgian people as they're trying to do today, what are you hearing from folders 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 i so 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 issues with them. they've been really talking to us. a lot of people here speak russian. a lot of people speak english. and the vast majority that we've spoken to are saying, look, we want peace, we wants to ability, and we want to continue to drill a stable relationship in our region while reaching out to europe and anybody else. 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. we must be friends with everyone. i think it's important for the economy. we are happy with our government. we love our homeland. we want the best for it. i believe that only the press and government can guarantee us peace, freedom, and prosperity. that is why i came to vote for them. 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 we're just a few to live for. countries like georgia to is a developing countries to a great extent that we are expecting a protest in the optimize the result, which polls suggest will go at george and dreams way depending on who you ask the. 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. well, one of the leaders of another function seeking a successful day at the polls, the alliance of patriots, of georgia toned, are to western pressure in the nation's domestic affairs. is the fact to election interfered. so eileen, you used to be able to cite statements by you ministers. statements made in high diplomatic circles, lay american invoice. it is all directly declared that if georgia does not choose a pro western pass, our visa free travel to europe will be suspended. it will be some kind of financial sanctions. this is the fact interference, indeed. so no elections of georgia, whether you pro western coal pro georgia, whether you support concert, which is 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 of 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 we 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 other big story this weekend, they are really and revolutionary guard. core has confirmed that 2 of its soldiers were killed in an overnight is really strike. but to around say, is the damage cause to infrastructure was limited with a reading and our defense system successfully intercepting a majority of the missile. israel should not have tested us,

but have decided to make this mistake and ended up seeing the effectiveness of raw's multi layered air defense system, even though is real. use several fighters and drones. the air defenses worked very well. almost all of design is to genes. drones and fighters were destroyed before they could take any action. well, these are the reported locations targeted by the is really army, which claims a number of military installations were hit with quote, precise strikes. while video was posted on social media, i've shown ballistic missile. it was being intercepted over the uranium capital by our defenses. earlier, our t correspondence in the region broke down developments to my colleagues rachel riddle. highly anticipated as really a tac last day. the roughly 4 hours at around 6 am local time on such a the idea of announced that it had completed its limited operation in iran, named the days of response in retaliation for around 6 total attacks. and how many

folks 1st will say that the dozens of participated in size address return safely home office twice and exclusively military targets across the lawn, including facilities involved in this house production and launched as well as western storages and single tennessee israel also target heard a wrong surface to air missile systems, an air key facilities to expand as well. freedom of aerial operations in around the under really is photos showing the idea chief of stop defense minister, the air force chase commanding the attack from his rouse military headquarters in tel aviv with a prominent stringent chapel. 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 of all those is threatened, the state of israel and 6 to drag the region into wider escalation will pay

a heavy price. off the iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at israel on october 1st. his railey retaliation was a matter of when the notes, if with the key question being the choice of targets. and it took as well, almost 4 weeks to respond. likely, these have disagreements between to let even washington over target selection with are 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 that pressure from washington ultimately influence the outcome as well as attack remains limited in scope with no oil or nuclear facilities targeted 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 u. s. was not directly involved in this attack. washington suppose that these really strikes,

calling them an act of self defense in response to the ran into sold, but expressed hope that the cycle of violence would end here that stick. listen, the secretary austin visa and the ottoman clause commitments of the united states to israel. security invite to self defense in the face of flux from iran and the wrong box, terrorist organizations and the determination to prevent any acts from exploits in town 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 here on back to you use of what. ringback tell us about the situation there in a 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 was less than meets the eye. and uh we did not

see all those fiery sweat spies will, vowing to wreak havoc on that rod following it once october, 1st attack on israel of so i'm what the people i think and how the people have reacted to are these radiates uh, cab echo with what the are wanting officials have described it. yeah, we simply, we've heard from one of the high ranking, want individuals, most in rosari, who said that the attack was a means to escape from the battle field rather than to inflict a damage on to one 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 to 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 windy

and military sides. 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 strides 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 a violations and aggressive actions against the one on the united states. always the disorder i'm, you know, that's, they are behind any effect for you as well. we defend the last 500 assessment, defend this one 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 your want to get a sense of whether or not to get wind will respond. a multiple states are condemned . israel's attack on around saudi arabia, seizure really and sovereignty and international law was violated by the strikes while russia has called for an end to the cycle of violence. and to criticize the overnighted talk for undermining regional stability. with the pro 5, no, to defense on government, call them, it's not these really daily hardware. it's a mirror or in the store and you're most welcome is your kill, have been threatening to attacked around for weeks in the retaliatory strike.

despite portion tends concerns. does the fact that it went to head it all signify anything and not relationship with as close as l i the us, is there a risk the merging? uh uh, no, not necessarily. uh, inspect is ro, had to restrict itself to what, uh the uh, by the administrator and allowed it to, to do. because uh, both the nuclear infrastructure and the oil industry were off limits uh for this particular mission. and um, while the tech uh, in general was inevitable people, it's very focused and proportional is well actually went through the motions, it only hit the military targets. it did it overnight so that there would not be any civilians around who might be here. and it was

a good exercise at dry run, in case the israel would ever want to come back for a real test against the nuclear facility. so what did have made is real. some walked out for a hence a little nervous and the fact that the usage, they say that israel was holding back to a degree, but a robinson intercepted most of the drones and miss silos launched. i'm not there military defense has appeared to be pretty robust. a well, israel would welcome amy such a bravado from the radiance because that would mean that the wrong would not uh, they made the necessary to heat becca israel and continue this. busy everlasting cycle of violence. if the radiance i was saying to their own domestic probably and to others in the region, it was nothing. we have job dates,

then there is no need the full for the response. and does it look as if things are actually coming coming done because we had been seeing the cycle of, of essentially tit for tat and strikes. but no, a rug was language is, is perhaps not as 4 or 5 as it has been. and as you say, the strikes by usual maybe aren't what they could have been either that's true and on both levels of your question. and it seems as safe of both spot these long ways. obviously the united states on being able to elections are very keen to close these file to put it behind them and say enough is enough for now. and concentrate on other issues including the was waves could spell out and come us on on. how do you see that the overall escalation in, in the area? how does that progress? it seems that um, the uh,

escalation has been contained for now, because obviously had the time jago got them, he's wish he would have attacked the nuclear infrastructure. but he was prevailed upon, essentially by united states and by others. he's own cabinets, as well as by defense establishments, which did not present any viable options for loved or at tech and mentoring y'all, a heads up to make do with what he was presented with. some of the reaction was interesting though, including from re, uh the studies don't usually come up with, with, with such direct language. and, you know, they have criticized west cruise them for it, for striking around seeing that it's violated. international law will not give pause for thought in israel, not response. no, not really. um um everybody is uh, quite accustomed to um,

uh eric store and ministers and the other uh spokespeople um saying what they have to um and then under the table relations are much warmer. um, obviously all regina are afraid of uh, uh, riots in addition to previous isn't from their own publics. so they put out such statements, but no, by the pays. i looked at the pension to that. okay. the view of the mirror or in defense on government columnist tourette's. thank you for coming in the program. thank you. well, i know turned a view came from the reading and academic and commentators side, but how much more on the earlier who was speaking to r t and predict the dangerous future for the world to should the us become directly involved in the escalation 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 could, they can fire wave after wave. ready or for a very long period of time, remember these underground missile cities and drawing cities are 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 run into work and deeply concerned. so they created all these well protected underground installations that had huge fire power to determine the united states. this really, really doesn't have anything mirrored 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, the real question is not what nothing yahoo 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 will be seen as hassle. so that would mean an end of boiling 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 den card on that. and yahoo is least because he is going to be punished. okay, let's return to our top story. we're, polls are closing this. our in georgia is parliamentary election and we have some exit who have results and just to clarify and not actual results, but at coming i, after people would vote, people would be asked. and this is what we are here in

a state run to beach shuttle say, is that the ruling georgia dream party is in the lead significantly with at least 55 percent of the votes. that will be the biggest winning margin at over the past. at 3 presidential races since they've been in power in 2012. however, we're also hearing from a rival private channel claiming the opposite thing that the opposition coalition is winning just with 51 at percent. so we let keep it to side, verify what is coming out of those polls closed in at georgia, live pictures right now. it from to please see by the way, just to point out the final results are expected to be known tomorrow at someday. pink chart sounds acknowledge, quote, painful aspects of precedence passed while side stepping close to directly address reparations for slavery of the summit of commonwealth leaders. i understand from

listening to people across the commonwealth, i have the most painful aspects about post continue to resonate. it is vital that full that we understand history to guide us to make the right choices in the future . as we look around the world and consider is many deeply concerning challenges or let us choose within the hour, cut my bills from the language of community and respect and rejects the language of division. none of us can change the past, but we can commits with all thoughts to learning it's less and to find in creative ways to write any qualities that didn't show the british mode except shorts of delivering a proper apology. as we heard officials and former u. k. calling these across the us. busy that the car is being helping calling on london to financially compensate their nations for centuries off the slave trade.

but prime minister, cure stormers government rule out any reparations that had all of the commons. well, summit in similar r, t correspondents in mind that is short, takes us through the wrong vacations of the former empires legacy. the process break summit has overshadowed the commonwealth summit and that's not surprising because well, breaks feasible states and peoples as equals the u. k. sense wrong, and it's believe that well is colonial legacy of slavery is not worth a serious discussion. i've talked to a lot of our commonwealth colleagues in the commonwealth family and they're facing real challenges on things like climate in the here and now and, and all the conversations i've had with them. what they're most interested in is, can we help them working with international institutions, financial institutions, on the sorts of packages they need right now in relation to the challenges they're facing right now? that's where i'm going to put my focus rather than what will end up being very long

. endless discussions about reparations on the past. that despite calls from leaders of some common wealth nations urgent and to acknowledge the atrocities that committed during the transatlantic slave trade. and to at least have an honest conversation about it. i don't know that money in and of itself could adequately compensate for the wrongs of the past. the ghost that haunts us today cannot be in my view dispelled by a monetary gift. there should be a come to jesus moment where we truly look at one another in the eye and say, look, this is what happened. the commonwealth summit has highlighted that britain is long time influence on its former colonies is finally declining. the guest list certainly isn't as impressive as long de wanted to have the most powerful commonwealth leaders who would normally be present. the indian prime minister and the south african president boats, not the event they offered to attend the brick summit in russia instead, and not even the leader of canada. a close ally of the u. k. is attending while

london's refusal to talk reparations is leading to even more people turning their backs on the former colonial center in the, the, the only child that i can, that's what i would miss people. yes, it is now time for us to end our historical ties with the monarchy and stand holy on our own. we need a jamaican head of state to truly represent all values, culture and aspirations, and who will symbolize our full sovereignty, even the commonwealth games a sports event, gathering, appetites from applause. the former colonies are falling apart. in july, last year,

the australian states of victoria pulled out as a host of the 2026 games, while older as fairly, as states and territories also rejected hosting them. and while london watches what remains of its former colonial powers slipping through his fingers last shot and his brakes, partners are team enough to build a world free of any forms of neil colonialism, nigerian history and an educator, a doctor attempting to pay, and the bureau for good law states that the question of reparations is one that can't be ignored any longer. but to make it is, that's the best of times. that's the fox sweep place. you know, the michel, of the british political system above us is that of the loosen in the british political system. this is a bit odd when they get to understand the fact that there's nothing depressed. no, but i was worried about between the political, you know, boxes be because a bit you know, be the political parties.