[000:00:00;00] the, the russian leader, wardens that moscow will reply in kind of the us that boys intermediate range miss styles, speaking before the collegial open ministry of defense within the policy, our president boynton, are washington possibly being following existing international norms maybe as a middle. so could they continue to impose their suitcase underway, community, which they change time after time twisting them as we see that in fact, there's only one stable. there are no reason for those who do that for those who think they're in charge of the whole world. also a head on the program, this, our a delegation from africa visits they've done the ask for

a public to see the conflict directly for themselves. express solid doroty with russia and the people of the boss plus the there's really forces report at least try to regions of the western syria over night following a week of idea of attacks in the country following the assad government co ops. the . this is our to international. my name's you know, nieland's 30 minutes of using beauty starts, right. not loving or putting as more that moscow will not hesitate to respond in kind. if the us violates the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty, which it exited years ago. the remarks came during an expanded meeting of the defense department board,

where the russian leader stated the west is pushing russia beyond the tread lines. yes, this is sure. if the united states starts deploying intermediate arrangements on the system for all our voluntary restrictions will be lifted, given the growing geopolitical tensions, we are forced to take additional measures to ensure the security of russia and our allies. we are doing this carefully and in a balanced manner, without being drawn into a full scale arms race to the detriment of the social and economic development of our country. we have clarified the basic principles of the use of nuclear weapons, which are set out in the updated principles of state policy on nuclear deterrence. i would like to emphasize once again that no one should accuse us of flexing our nuclear weapons. you know, this is a policy of nuclear deterrence. it is necessary to focus on the following priority tasks. first, undoubtedly, the strategic nuclear forces remain one of the key instruments for preserving stability, protecting russia, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. we will continue to support their potential and balance

development the 2nd. but i have already spoken about the risks associated with the us deployment of intermediate arrangements, sales in europe and the asian pacific region. we will respond to such threats in a comprehensive manner. the most important task is ensuring the time the detection of the launch of such marseilles independent intercepting them. let's get more on this guy from r t corresponding the eager shutdown of ego a relatively short speech those remarks, but impactful plenty said as well. absolutely. you and, and as you rightly quite rightly you're pointing out this plane, there's plenty to break down here. basically flat of my food and has given a rather optimistic and positive assessment as to what's going on on the ground here in the don't pass into it across the front line in ukraine. basically, the russian president has said that the war here has reached its pivotal point and that nothing will help ukraine at this moment. basically, according to vladimir putin,

he has expressed hope that the russian armed forces will be able to keep the momentum to keep the pace of which they are liberating tax for use that they have gained over over the past year. that this will carry on onto 2025 according to vladimir putin, even lowering the mobilization age to 14 years old won't help ukraine. just a quick reminder right now, only males of 25 years of age and older can be, can be drafted, can be mobilized. and the western partners under mostly the current administration in the united states cooling on key of to low with that age to just 18 years old. now at the same time, vladimir putin as acknowledge that the presence of the ukrainian armed forces in the course region of russia. he is called that basically a crime against the russian nation. and has said that this is quote, unquote,

a sacred duty of the russian armed forces to kick the enemy out. but speaking as do vote is basically giving a rather a broad to jeer political look. latimer putting those set again, whatever the western nations do to help ukraine it willing to help them, and it will only rather escalate the situation between russia and the collective west. a lot of my food has expressed consent, and i said that essentially russia treats this as concerned the fax that over a 100000 american soldiers are right now in europe. and he has said that, well, wild russia is not going to get on the minutes. you bandwagon, and just uh, threatening uh was threatening to westwood, its nuclear capabilities. but still russia has to get ready and has to prepare for every single scenario that is on the table and a confrontation with nate, who is it, is there is a slight but still a possibility. speaking about that blood,

i'm approved in the stress that the new hypersonic ballistic. my so arrested will add to it. it is inevitable. it will end to mass production. a quick reminder for us to what sort of weapons that says russia used it so far, only once in response to ukraine using american major american made excuse me. long range attack comes myself against into nationally recognize the russians soil. so russia used its hypersonic ballistic myself ration nick against a target in the ukranian town of the 12 school. the opposite is known in ukraine. that was more of a symbolic move, just a show of capabilities. and in general, vladimir putin as explained as to why exactly russia has to prepare to every single possible scenario. because right now, it does not have much trust to the word of united states and its allies. have a listen a see, we're just waiting for that. you just get some of those today. the military and

political situation in the world remains difficult and unstable. bloodshed in the middle east rages on high conflict potential persists in a number of other regions of the world. we see that the cut into us administration and almost the entire collective west have not abandoned their attempts to maintain global dominance. they continue to impose their so called rules on the world community, which they change time after time twisting them as they see fit. but in fact, there is only one stable room. there are no rules for those who do that for those who think they are in charge of the whole world. those who consider themselves god's representatives on earth, although they don't believe in god themselves. brushes, defense minister andre billows of also to quell, also appeared in the spotlight at that meeting. and he broke down the situation on the ground here, even in greater detail. arguably, the biggest revelation coming from the russian defense minister is it. the scale of

loss is basically the loss is that the ukranian army has suffered throughout the conflict upon pete has lost around $1000000.00 soldiers. that's both accounting those dead. and those wounded a truly staggering figure. and, well, the ukrainian army keeps losing man, keeps losing military equipment, his how the russian defense minister. basically here's how he views the situation. and these are the big guys that the russian military is operating. one planning uh the, there are the moves here on the battlefield. with them go to this year, russian troops liberated almost 4500 square kilometers of territory occupied by the enemy. and the enemy's combat potential has been undermined. earlier this year alone, the losses of the ukrainian armed forces have exceeded $560000.00 service men, then killed and wounded for the end. the total loss is amounted to almost $1000000.00 people for the entire time of the special military operation,

which i'm going to do in course colonial. the key of regime last more than $40000.00 service men. the armed forces of the russian federation have a firm hand on strategic initiative along the entire line of contact joy. at present, the average daily advance of troops has significantly accelerated and is about 30 square kilometers. our adversaries units on the front line are under manned by about 4550 percent. now, according to below use of the russian army is advancing and deliberating roughly 30 square kilometers daily. and that's on average here all across the front line. so this is the sort of pace upon see that the russian president is happy with and is hoping and is counting on the russian on forces to keep that momentum throughout 2025. now, some more detail as to how the russian,

the russian army and the russian military has fed throughout 2024 here. the, basically the russians, they have been able to gradually expand the production of a u. a v's, a product lead has increased uh by 20 by 23 times that basically the russians are producing 23 times in the army gets printed 3 times more drones unmanned aerial vehicles compared to 2022. also that has been a gradual uh, a spectacular increase in the production of the tags of homage vehicles and so on and so forth. basically, every day, the russians he, according to glows of are using some c, c, 500. you a visa, that's a, that's probably talking about f tv come because you drones. so these are the single use. so these are single use munitions. so it kind of gives you a perspective of frustrate is very comfortable using this amount of waves. the production is quite well,

it has been beef top quite significantly. now it also according to below, as of uh, quite very interesting. the atlantic, the russian military is adjusting to the realities on the ground, the below. so if i said that there are planning to make a whole new type of force within the russian military, that that's the unmanned. basically, i'm basically drug wolfram. that is going to be a separate branch. now, within the russian village, you like the like, uh, like the infantry like the ahmed. cool. and so one. so this is, this is something when it comes to drones. russia has always been catching up to ukraine. the ukraine has had the upper hand in this and the given the speech gun we've heard from andre below. so this is something that russia is actively working on. basically they of, they are closing in on ukraine. and given the fact that the russian president has said that right now, the russian people and the russian government is giving every thing they can find

naturally wise to the military. this is something else that the russian president as well. it means that right now was russian. well, pretty much all the rush i can spare for the military, and that is quite to load, given that how much the production has been wrapped up in the russians are adjusting and they are increasing production. not of just the weapons that are well known that have been tried and tested in previous conflicts, but also they're developing new means. and again, they're catching up. and so there's, there's that really, so it's is, it has these notes. it hasn't been a rather militaristic address, both by lot of my food and then the andre below. so it was more of a here's what with what we're capable of. here's what we can do in the future if you don't listen to us. but at the same time, russia has repeatedly repeatedly expressed its readiness to de escalate. to start

to engaging in more peaceful initiatives proposed both by the united states proposed by hungry. russia has been very open to a christmas cruise, for instance, to an idea of a lodge of prisoners, a voice will during that christmas truce. but that has so far be crashed against the total reluctance in total hostility coming from ukraine. they are smaller from this right to off the dates on that that was remarks by the defense minister of russia and also a lot of our put in earlier today. thank you. the a delegation from the pon, african parliament has visited that done yet. the republic of the invitation of moscow representatives from a dozen african states touchstone on sunday. the representative from the legislative body of the african union met with the head of the region. denise, the shilling, along with other officials, later the 1st pay their respects of the major memorial complex, dedicated to soviets,

soldiers who helped deliberate on boss in the 2nd world war. the guests expressed their solidarity by russia and offered their view on the cause of the conflict with you. first of all, to know the truth and to know the truth of the people of russia. of course, what we've been phased out there in the us and media as we have seen, and listen to the people don't ask you, is that you emphasize? but there's a real problem. people don't ask, decided to, they've voted on their own and decided to be part of russia and with length that, uh, it's to, is the deal with so much damage that was done during the war here. and that's the beauty is going on. and the people of russia and the people don't ask the uh, the timing to reviewed this city. nowadays, the world is full of, uh, uh, extra generated news news. so sometimes it's better to, to, for you to see for yourself. we know you came down soon,

but i chance have very friendly missions. there's proxy war proxy war which jose induce, devise, or wisdom to come through. this is dividing, so it just, bradley country. so for us, we as a preliminary on we are here the also even to me did this company in the told get the let let's it last. i mean you came definitely don't, don't the with the, with the country. oh oh, your order is precinct problem between russia and ukraine. so for us as the front of the complement, we are very put them in our position to if time by restaurants and also to to take the paper off and they say instead of aging. and also to, to ask our, you can print to live those wisdom countries who are creating more problems. who, okay, the, i'm going to con, suspence chevy. and by doing the item differentiate who are creating problem is the

estimated this problem is not on the 4 of us yet. it's been from them on so forth. i'll think restaurants i will come in to ask because to look, that would be thoughts. those live was in the slides. i am countries. and as of the, i'm going against wisdom countries. you know, if you go to uh to my, the owns that go into mine. it belongs to funds. if you go to cha, defensive everything, most of it now because of our wellness, stupid we, we know everything we know was one thing is the best incentives a nation in that country and they do the best in terms of the content. the, well, let's turn attention on the program to syria where these really are forest reportedly attacked the western regions of charter's unlucky a. in the early hours of monday, the massive explosions fill the skies and

reports the even the earth quick monitors were able to record the blast. there's been no comment though from western islam which has been conducting continuous attacks over the past week. it comes after terry risk groups have seized power in word toward syria, forcing former president special are all a side to leave the country and seek asylum in russia. is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu defended the idea of expansion, saying the goal is actually to re ship the region there. so not a year ago, i made a simple statement. we will change the middle east and we are indeed changing it. syria is no longer the same syria, lebanon is no longer the same 11 on so gaza is no longer the same garza and at the head of the axes, iran is no longer the same or on it to has felt the strength of our arms regarding syria i want to clarify, we have no interest in confronting syria. israel's policy towards syria will be

determined by the realities on the ground. i want to ensure that what happened before will not happen again. we have taken a series of significant actions in recent days. together with defense minister cats, i instructed the idea of to counter potential threats from syria and prevent terrorist entities from taking control near our border as well. it's really our forces helping, striking across syria, including the capital. the mosque is on the countries north east in particular. well, the adf has also launched round operations expanding into the contested golan heights . this area really is it. the militarized buffer zone is spelled there's half a century ago. now it's really cabinets. they have it recently approved on $11000000000.00 plan to expand supplements into the contested area. meanwhile, various militant groups of control in different parts. it's an absolute mass. as i say, areas in the north are held by the us back s d f,

which is linked to curtis insurgency groups that's as rivals, turkish black militants have taken over the north west city of mon beach. but the rest, the majority, all here in green, that's controlled by high i to rear alshaun. you may know that much h t s an estimate group which has assume power as well. in damascus. a route base reporter told us that is really military expansion in syria, gaza lab, and on has only increased civilian vulnerability in the region. this will is like good, very concerned because i gotta, you gotta do the cd and the nation. since the i saw the machine before the labs, there is a, the positivity for you, which is that disconnected, the military aid from the iraq to his blog, which was the biggest shred, israel is the only nation in the world which, uh, sites, uh, security by uh,

by putting most of williams is on the front lines. so this is another company, or this is i'm going to have to today, no more which civilians is the front lines to site most security for the country. this is only is man. so this is only a floyd uh, ideas or the worksheet. that is where you really take that long to take actually the parts of the parts of syria and the whole bulk of bodies thing worse. this is, are we, they are taking supplements. i think in the future we have more conflict regarding this area. uh, even more dense around they might be a good night to the end of the sway dot also, this is them is really angry and it would be more cool, but we will see how things were turned out because the news is the city and go british oil company shell is scrambling once more to fix the leak of its mature delta terminal. in nigeria,

the country is already facing an environmental disaster from accidents. in previous years. nigeria is more to time agency reported up the weekend. the pipeline rupture caused the leak shell house claim that shut down the section. it affected immediately, uninstalled boons to protect the neighboring communities. it is a 2nd crude spell at the firm's facility. this year alone, though local communities are demanding the u. k. energy giant. at give 300000000 dollars to address the consequences from repeated accidents they say, especially before it sells any of its assets in the nation. as well as delve into the snow and welcome onto the program. mister alec amares with the environmental defenders network in river state in southern and nigeria, you're most welcome sir. your reaction to shallows claim that it's done enough to prevent serious pollution caused by the spell or are you satisfied by,

by the british firm? thank you very much. incidentally, i, um, in bios has been uh, there buttons bit to reverse states. however i have money towed, spills wrong shell in that particular environment in the past. um like you didn't mention business, i know that may just be a kind of goes help on. not too long ago, that was one that happened around the boney eggs. uh so, uh, these bills, uh, uh, ill quoting decimal. um, like you did make sure, uh, chevy is having these a mindset that these wants to hold the blue. this pulls up its assets on show and then go to the atlantic ocean to continue it once it has been doing on show. as a matter of fact, show is the leader of all the auto companies in line, judy, uh, and he does not. it does not being a leader, it does be new, bob leader. he does not being to dean,

always be incidents. uh the way the author treats. sometimes we have since builds allowed to continue over 2 months without seems to be allowed to continue its probably without any threat of didn't get the desktop. dispute would continue, oklahoma, split 3 months, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 2 weeks like that before the site to ensure that the, the stop this be logged in between to do remy, the wet tool. it is, but the print, the yeah, yeah. get 3 things in the stop talking. 3 full. so that would be that would lead to don't forget, in january 15th 1957. 1956. that does go by the physical much. i'll go much. i live viable on possibility. you'll need re, i feel in by us of the guy i'm resident and see the left side in the seventy's. always us going to know those pew in that to really agree. i feel we still have the best that the i to i'm as we speak to today,

or the always be was coming out from the oil wells within that same body. yeah. and then, yeah. okay. can i just ask on that? are you satisfied that there have been enough probes investigations into why so many ruptures occur with the company's pipelines are show, giving the answers to that, that people, the people are accepting yeah, um, we have made some investigation on the investigation on shows that a lot of dispute as a result of the equipment failure, equipment, failure results. and from the out i was pipelines as a result of growth john or bob failure. yeah. also. so i'm that the beauty of a trouble. thoughtful. i thought about the end of the last time. yeah. also some of those that will sort of sort by shared style. we have investigate that we have where have we done to pay? we have these, we do, we have interview some personal stuff. i'll be used by joe to stop this bill. stop

because some of these long disputes in the food, so most of most viewed is this that we have caused by supple dog or thought body. well, as soon as possible by phone on paper of stop, well show within the environment, underneath i do, which is on the community for that's does not absolve some photographs who are doing these will come much our purpose. yes we, i agree ga so impressive that the involve in bunker you know, to get to use. uh well, being this for real got a, find out any refining the cool, quiet in your own way. yes. that this phone that the federal government as a good private security outfits. well, actually doing a good job. now ensuring that they bring that to the minima. it going to enable level to as the fisherman want more, don't don't say because you've got farmers as well as for him and in not area of filing a big number of claims over 13000,

i believe. ident shell at they want compensation for loss of livelihoods. do things up feel they'll get what they think is just this in non duty. i just difficult except maybe they took it outside the shows of the country because uh they boomed as being a 20 uh, december 20 level. uh what that process. well, uh about $34.00 steps and then i got billed the piece um and so by the way, the month that all due to the low single cover, no single letter had been paid by by show show is like sub redwood 3 here in the country. as of april of the cultural. so if they think you think that men don't think that gets out of this country, it would be difficult for them to do that justice environmental justice because the federal government is in bed with uh, the oil companies. who does that 50 percent? you hold up to them making things difficult for the doors was suffering environmental degradation and environmental injustice from the oil companies. and that is why we have see, show to not be allowed to divest on theme,

to clean up the med in the, the, the important that sites do compare social development ought to be additional and then deal with tandem called cases. because it should be allowed to die based on what was coming to buy, to be where the copy of this. yeah, that's as you but you to be able to buy liabilities on assets, logos, assets, you know, by the viability. yeah. a very clear message. all the way out to be clean. yeah. okay. can i also get your thoughts on, on the overall picture here as well, sir? because we regularly hear calls from the west for african nations to diversify. strive for green policies, debt, environmentally friendly? how is it shaving those goals possible? when many western corporations as you being leading out are actually behind the pollution and question that is the program it as a program. that's why we also bring that to. yeah, it should be. yeah,

it should be no more. a slash woke me buyer in the, in the country, or i thought they should invest in really need more energy into invest in renewable energy bought just pull out cheap. otherwise, i showed up our environment that that has been sold, but on the grid with gradually doing itself, i saw some level of clean up out of me do so we have seen the vehicle. you never recommended clean up, you know, going on the, by us not lying on environment for me. sorry for that. why go? so he said, i do recommend that you all should be cutting out and doing all the sites and, and i don't know that you'd be properly cleaned up by our companies as much alicia on the federal government before. anything like that investment besides cleanup. did you also vehicle beneficial? indeed, interested people, especially when we talk about the environment out just these clean up remedied

compensation. just finally been in conclusion. you've got the government corporations, the locals, all seeking perhaps different dobbin use. what is the one thing that you think needs to be addressed tomorrow to get this situation solved once and for all? well, we need to inspect to the 3 dimensionality would need be right with us to be free from the big glossy. so a visa, before the, to the companies that have lived in on the profile, i think it will be, don't play showed that whenever the eyes on accidental the accident is done is address properly and dispassionately without any by us. we all know that gives the oil companies, but we are saying that the on the wall is processing from full software to renewables. we should also make also the effort to try seats gradually towards the renewables. yes. okay. very user friendly and as i'm speaking with yeah,

we need the people to to be given. i bought them into just these but that's what it's available for for i don't get yeah. yeah. yeah. no, under such yes. as thanks for coming on the program that we appreciate your time good to speak to live from southern nigeria. that's mr. algo, a morris deputy executive director of the environmental defenders network. thank you. thank you. know when roger waters is interviewed, you can be sure he speaks his mind and you can catch it right ahead on going underground today at talking the british government stance on the gals of war. his relationship with video head senior and pro is really figured tom york on how his childhood impacted his life. long politics tried to head the