the, the vague called vladimir putin and donald trump, hold a phone conversation. the russian president spokes person confirms the 2 leaders discuss the resolution to the ukraine conflict, the middle east prices busy or exchanges. and that's hours. we must start by recognizing that returning to ukraine's free 2014 borders is an unrealistic object . in his 1st meeting with nato member nations, the us defense secretary rip offs. the idea that ukraine's border is prior to the mike don cruz can be restored, plus, sitting present, brushing, so this and all these under vinegar would be released from the us jail. his attorney tells artsy the news problems most of freeing a former us embassy employee,

convicted of trouble from the this is our teacher now. so my name's unit of a hot 30 minutes of using view starts now. and it is breaking news where we begin. vladimir putin on us president donald trump, have spoken by phone the 1st time they've talked since the locker re entered the white house. the leaders discuss prisoner exchanges between the 2 countries and ending the ukraine conflict with the iranian nuclear program on middle east hostilities also on the agenda. additionally, the russian leader invited donald trump to moscow and both agree to continue paving the way for future talks. especially knew them as a history of the telephone conversation between president pollutants and the president of the united states. donald trump has just ended, it was a very long telephone conversation. it lasted almost an hour and a half. they discussed issues related to the exchange of russian and us citizens.

the present of the united states assured that the american side would fulfill all the agreements reached the topic of a settlement, and ukraine was also discussed. president trump spoke in favor of an early into hostilities and a peaceful solution to the problem. president putin, for his part, mentioned the need to eliminate the root causes of the conflict. and he agreed with trump that a long term settlement can be achieved through peaceful negotiations. during the conversation they discussed the middle east regulation, the uranium nuclear program, as well as bilateral russian american relations. in the economics fear, the russian president invited the us president to visit moscow. they also agreed to continue personal contacts including organizing a personal meeting. that's what i wanted to tell you, which i think that's quite a comprehensive update. on more big news emerging this tuesday, the us is set to release russian citizen, alexander finnegan, exchange for already freed former us embassy employee in moscow. mark full go.

they've been sentenced the 14 years for drug smuggling. mister vin ex attorney confirmed the swap to r t. a computer programmer was arrested inquiries in 2017, on washington's request. he was charged with money laundering through a legal trip to currencies exchanges. now we spoke exclusively to alexander the next lawyer took a list of the 1st, you know, i go to the phone yesterday. uh by uh, especially if he needs a mom to get a 20 is that maybe has, it wouldn't be as well. we sign it with my clients and that i should get it really useful for that. so. ready is this morning starts with again having some phone calls with this family. and um, if somebody call me and said that maybe alexander would be easy because yesterday either you mean that they decided to close the case. so that way in close relation

or weezer, he's in your base that tony and you may have missed or i'll call you back. and it was said that you would the maybe have a good news and cannot confirm anything. so all day long we, we were wait, seeing, you know, full so confirmations and we birds that you were a small shop. i was thinking back to jail for the 2 parties that he seems he'd be don't, deans for to be exported to, to restaurant. so we know is that the last jail and now is getting ready for forest drive mission, and we'd be very happy to know when he would be in the plain digging back home. i find any, uh, i in meds, but we assessed subsidies under warranty reg, man at tony's uh, 4 wheels and uh we decided to set something to see if we could push in or direction to, to uh all the items. uh, we used it to be boxed also next. wow. and uh it turned to to,

to be the case. so we are very, very happy off our corporation by trying to fix it to catch the attention officer russian authorities. i wrote it to the 1st ticket, the office of my school. i have been rhodes to the bus, the doctor for fees, and all of them responded to me. and they told me is that they were very much paying attention about at least of unique situation. i, you know, he lost his wife, why the very strong and the very off concerned, you know, and he could not do anything. he wasn't joking for us or canada, does it need or, and the 2 kids to is mostly is quite bored. so everybody was very much moved by a, by just by many, by so you mean you might need to areas situations so we try that, you know, to catch the attention of us so sorry t. so i rode several times as a special invoice for hostages because the us presidents and i tried to,

to med people and i as us sending it to, to, to make, i mean, i would say, and that's nice to know what to, to august. or if you need a seen us for potential candidates for full force. wow. so getting closer to genetic, he's getting closer to the, to our tony's to us. so tony's a to former and 4 inches us presidential hostage is people in charge of us securities and just to explain but of my clients, these nino sands such as no but on has. and it's at the very much these are to be to be exchanged into decided by cold yeah, lots going on. so let's delve into both of those stories now with former senior security policy analyst in the office of the us 2nd rate defense, mr. michael maloof. you're most welcome the coal. first of all, michael was the 1st contact between

a russian and american president in some 3 years. so how significant is this? well, thanks for having the unit. i think the prisoner exchange. and now the discussions on ukraine are related. they are uh, i think they are a step forward. they are, they are showing positive uh, uh, initiatives to, to try and resolve long drawn out complex, not only and ukraine, but also to right the wrongs that have been done. and in terms of, uh, getting, getting uh, prisoners and hostages back um and i, and i'm hoping that it leads to, to other things, for example, a rush of being able to get its own and basset, or into the united states and, and, and a new and basset, or we should be forthcoming and, and also to,

to try and normalize relations once again, and also to return the return of personal property that, that the russian had confiscated in the united states during the beginning in the obama administration. so i'm hoping that the, this is a beginning of a momentum toward that type of normalization. and donald trump, this time around as opposed to his 1st administration has no inhibitions. he has no constraints. he has no charges hanging over him of collusion. and what he's doing, press eventually is he's doing his job on a straight out the case with it as a we understand that. and mr. trump has already spoken to a lot of years, a wednesday following the call with president britain. and we have seen dr. written says they'll have them in the last number of days with ukraine. you know, really a talking about peace talks talking about. i bought

a lot in swaps. it all seems to be going in one direction. so they may have known this was coming. but regardless, what was the reaction be in ukraine to what appears to be around pop in piece, talk proper piece, thoughts? i think that well, it will depend upon whether ultimately a ukrainian representative is going to be included. i think that's, that's still up up for discussion. mr. potent has made it very clear he. he doesn't want lensky because he doesn't recognize them as a know, a legal source that has to be that has to be dealt with. and i'm sure or that they'll find a remedy somehow. but that, that said they, they, i think the people, i think you're creating people themselves, want a resolution, they're tired of their young people die. and as it is, they've lost tremendously. and they need to in it and,

and this but they're not going to get, they're not going to get what, what they had prior to the 2014 with them. cool, cool. so in the end that i think the reality of the settings and certainly zalinski now realizes that and or whoever holes as a any um, a succession to him. i think what was intriguing about this, um, the shaded team that's going to be heading to moscow is the, it was the omission of general kellogg. and he's supposed to be the special representative for russia, ukraine. this but it was but it was um, uh, the special negotiator, a middle lease was asked along with uh, the c i a director is gonna say are the is uh, national security advisor. uh and um, and i think that that, that, that is a very significant, i think, a significant uh, development uh,

catalog represents in my mind the old way of thinking toward you crate in terms of the near con. you see so closely associated with that. and i think that and the fact to that you just for this morning when you put these pieces together, you heard this morning. uh, uh, heck, set the secretary defense, new secretary defense saying that the the that the, the border and the issue. yeah. he was very clear and not his name. yes, it was. so i think these are significant parameters that are being drawn right now . and, and, and whether or not so lensky or a successor of it will be included. i think what it does call for is for the ukrainians themselves to maybe hold special elections so they can have legitimacy. once again for negotiation, you mentioned the prisoner swap. another sign over at that point, and is it

a further signal as well? michael, that diplomacy is key here. i'm not some messages going i to, to europe, to other people who we saw prompt, ignoring counseling, sanctioning. russia was the way to go showing that it's not that you need to talk. and that's the way that progress can be made here, as well as the present, as a, as the 2 presidents talked about, common sense. we've got to take a common sense approach to what the reality is on the ground today. and the end up and clearly diplomacy is going to be key. now, zalesky re next on that. i'm afraid that russia will bring down the hammer, but i don't think it's going to get to that. i think, i think there's a momentum that's underway right now. we're seeing a momentum here in washington by the way, not only on this, i'm at on this particular issue, but on our end array of other issues. so this is,

this, this administration, the trump administration, is really about picking up steam and fulfilling what it promised to do. and i, and i think that there's, there's the, either the europeans lead follow or get out of the way. that's basically what's gonna happen because donald trump is coming through the responding at the moment, aren't they on? they're doing it in a slow way. what do you expect in terms of reaction to, to that then use about the phone call today in brussels, london, a while they're going to be obviously going to be shots, but i think they're getting the message that if they want to preserve and, and exist as a unit, a unit to the government unit, the answer to you like, you know, your pin union and what have you and, and, and, and, and still prosper. they're going to have to go along with this and try to resolve this conflict one. so for all, i think donald trump is going to be basically setting out the parameters and the they're going to either go along with it for us. we'll do something to,

to pull out of native altogether because he's, he's, he clearly does not want to deal any longer with re a in a reality that is, that has left pre world war 2 with and, and post world war 2 thing keeping on it is e as uh, he's ready to go and, and he's got an agreement with the mr. potent to sit down and talk and i think that that's going to happen and very shortly. and we're out of time. but just it's interesting is that the, the 90 minutes aspect of it as well seems to say that they actually liked each other talking on, on a personal level. so we'll see what, what comes items that further is more details marriage, microsoft word power respects, power. there we go, mr. mike, i'm a lawyer as a former senior security policy on less than the office of the secretary of defense in the us as all of a ser, thank you. thank you. you all right on a basing you say 2 more and use that a let us turn to the middle east,

where the idea is allegedly seeking to remain in lab and on the sides until the end of february, more than a month after they negotiate a trip. polite that's according to r t source is citing use from the cease fire monitoring committee. a root has categorically refused to consider and extension. these really army has submitted a request to extend its presence at a number of positions in southern lebanon until february 28th. but the lebanese army refused the request. according to information received by our tea from military and diplomatic sources, lebanon demanded the deployment of international forces, or the lebanese army in 5 positions, emphasizing the need for a complete withdrawal of israeli troops from these territories as well, has all sort extension of the already extended c, 5 agreement from february, the 18th. they now want to extend last until february, the 28th. this is according to the committee that oversees the implementation of that c file, a grievance which is based in the quarter in southern lebanon. now,

repulsively, as well as has approached them all seem to the extension, but this has been round the rejected by the lebanese government that by president joseph. oh, he said that any such extension is unacceptable and is ready for his most withdrawal by that usually agreed deadline of february, the 18th and we have seen on social media. the representative for these very defense policies. releasing a statement in arabic saying that is waiting since we're going to stay in a number of settlements in the south of the country, particularly those that live very close to the is ready, bold. and now it's important to note that the sci fi will, it's always been a bonus on one, but it's been breached by, as well on a daily basis. in fact, on the very 1st day that the original sci fi came into effect in november 2024 is while launched, strikes in a seed on site uh, in the south of level that it's continued to do so on an almost daily basis. now we

spend a lot of time in a southern zeppelin is villages i've been trying to attend to that on many of them, of course, have not been home for 15 months, having been displaced due to the is variety from baldwin which is being particularly intense in the southern part of the country and they being met with is right. the snipers is way the soldiers most of our time. even drones are being dropping sound bomb to try and prevent those villages from returning now a pound a. accordingly, there has been more than $800.00 violations of the safe spot that would be reported to the company to those being very little response from them. other than very strongly worded statements. quoting on the as well to stop in the violations of dr . agreement. and when we pain in the south, in fact, as well as use the extension of that c 5 in particular, not to withdrawal. of course, that was more,

it said it needed more time for its troops to leave the country. but it is in fact reinforced its presence that bringing in bold knock about time. so they gave me most so just a know, ron, me i, which is very close to the is ready for to our crew were on the scene. i'm, we managed to film from a vantage point from a school where we could see and film the expansion of a minute to face. this is a, uh, a mounting cold mount lot. this is a very important mountain. strategically for is violet leaves that they can overlook the entire of that and they can apparently see as far as a route from that. so there's no signs, it is always in fact withdrawing. and now this comes as perhaps the 1st big test for the new deform government. what will happen if is well refuses to leave by that deadline of the 18th. well, that remains to be seen so far. we've seen the liberties all mean, which is of course, supposed to be entering the settlements and types of over from the is righty on

forces, up to the terms of the cease fire agreement. and they've been unable to do so. so far they themselves have come to far from the is ready for these and we believe it must be instructions from the government to them not to engage of course, is, was never really abided by the terms of the season. well, people are not talking in terms of violations of the so you saw that talking about is ready for crimes. and as we said in time, but it just flattened churches and most destroyed schools and the hospital was along with a civilian building. so the situation remains, as i said, incredibly, incredibly volatile. that is unlikely that the, uh, the is ready proposal for the extension of the deadline will be accepted. so the south remains very much a tinderbox pointing to explode. india's prime minister in the river moody is on route to the united states for talks with president trump. the agenda is expected

to cover trade in tar, of says, well as immigration, a hot button issue for the new us administration. the 2 leaders were friendly during from 1st term, but some predict rocky times had parties mentioned sharma except by a st. jude so i mean is to know range move the will be in the us on february 12th and 13 abdul arnold from southern whites. now the 2 leaders will be meeting for the 1st time in from 2nd till i look forward to meeting my friend president trump. although this will be our 1st meeting following his historic electoral victory and an organization in january. i have a very warm recollection of working together in his 1st time in building a comprehensive global strategic partnership between india and the us. so the us is in the top trading fall off know with the total water from $120000000000.00. i t pharma tech styles,

you name it all the and from the share to close bones. but when prime minister in arrange moody will be in the slippery snowy washington, they will definitely be some sticking points, particularly with respect to reach doris and immigration from. so i'm to victim role and transactional approach, which should make these stalks very intriguing. now let's start with the swedes. doris swamp has threatened an eye for an eye on the map that and this is particularly good heat in the heart. so i'm past also one, draw the preston bricks nations including india, against creating this cover and see that's why was the dollar the idea that the bricks countries are trying to move away from the dollar while we stand by and watch is over, we're going to require a commitment from these seemingly hostile countries that they will neither create a new brakes currency, nor back any other currency to replace the mighty us dollar. or they will face 100

percent tariff and should expect to say good bye to selling into the wonderful us economy. you're not backing down. and value valley has said that the dollarization is not a policy or strategy, but the more the government and has always flushed forth, sweeping in local government seized by thoughts to sanction. we welcome efforts to increase financial integration among bricks, countries, trade and local currencies and smooth cross border payments will strengthen our economic cooperation. now trump is tough on immigration reason via us being deported back over 100 indian migraines. now india sees that it is no big deal and it's an annual ritual. what's the elephant in the room? would really be ukraine since the previous you was administration for us to india, to ditch russia, or will you, queen, i've quoted, stand

a sick you won the quote with the possible exception of india being somewhat shaky on some of these. but japan has been extremely strong. so is australia in terms of dealing with hooton's aggression? india stayed from focusing on its own interest and took a more balanced approach. india is in a much more advantageous position than many other countries to build deeper relations with the incoming. donald trump, 2.0 administration in the us. some countries are looking at trump $2.00 as a political challenge. we are not. so we do is sticking to its guns with plenty at stake for both sides. a wizard. what closely watching the. alright, let's return to our breaking use. one of our breaking news stories today. it's a busy wedding to stay. it's not the way of putting on us president donald trump have spoken by phone. the 1st time they've talked since the lottery entered the white house. now the leaders over the course of an hour and a half discussed ending the print conflict,

prisoner swaps the really in nuclear program on middle east hostilities. additionally, the russian leader invited donald trump to moscow and agreed to keep in contact. let's welcome marty corresponding igor pissed off into the studio. now i for more on what spoken i disagree or how much do we actually know about what was looking at how much or how deep it was. broach those topics? well, 1st of all, wow, what a, what a situation. honda was so much speculation about it, whether or not the to be honest with finally talk, whether they would meet there was speculation, speculation that people waiting talks but it was on confirmed. and finally, now we've got both sides saying that vladimir food and donald trump spoke on the phone. the conversation lasted one and a half hours. that's quite a lots. but given the circumstances, maybe that's not too much actually. we know that they discussed the bilateral ties, which may have been saying, are now on the verge of collapse. we've heard from just recently,

from the deputy for minnesota all for russia who said that it was because of so much effort made by the previous year submitted ration to bring these relations to such a boiling point. obviously this is a positive sign, this phone conversation that they've had by donald trump posted in full social, a kind of like a report about this conversation. saying that they also discussed how the soviet union and the united states flock together in the 2nd world war. and they had a common enemy, reached a victory and made certain sacrifices. so i guess that kind of creates a positive environment, i guess, for talks, for any talks here between moscow and washington right now, they discussed the situation in the middle east through the ring. and nuclear program presented exchanges, but of course, most importantly, you claim, i guess the biggest stumbling points in the relations between the 2 countries. a trump has called on a stop of me,

what the reaction east calling for diplomacy for negotiations. and we know that alignment points in this was confirmed by the kremlin and by putting his press secretary that he agreed to that a diplomatic solution is possible, but only with the full recognition of the root cause, which basically lead to rush, especially as we operated in ukraine and moscow including flattery and fulton, and the chief diplomat lever off. they've all been saying that there are 2 main reasons behind the special notes with operation. first of all, nato is expansion to the east. and the 2nd one is the so many laws of the anti russian legislation passed recently in, in ukraine, creating problems for russian speakers, for a orthodox christians and so on and so on. so these are, i guess the 2 key hoot causes behind the, the special needs operation which are very important for moscow to be recognized by the west. and it's good that they touched upon this issue in the conversation also

. no, that's why i'm going to put you in invited to donald trump with his team to moscow . no dates have been set yet, but that is also quite exciting news. and they've also agreed to continue context, which is also a positive thing. like the last time that happened to us president was in russia was a bomb in 2013, and that was for the key 20. it wasn't a face to face meeting in saint petersburg. you remember that was a long time ago. yeah. for years since joe biden spoke with putting a know we have trump a few weeks into his president's leasing. less than a month saying that yes right now is the time at to talk. why is it to i think it's very important that these desires that he's been voicing donald trump to speak or meet with lat. important are not just part of his election campaign. they're not just promises and we're seeing now that he's moving very quickly. like

you said, it's less than a month after she returned to the white house and he's talked almost said met, but still it's not, you know, go ahead of ourselves. i talked to blackmail, put in all of this is happening in an interesting situation, because earlier today we found out about this latest prisoner exchange between moscow and washington. we know that the former employee of the us embassy in moscow who was arrested for drug trafficking. he's been released since united states and that's a trunks to a special envoy, steve and width cost personally came to moscow. and there were also reports that he didn't personally met with vladimir reports in would also, which also shows the, i guess, the deputation that the russian president and to the is, is investing in this and how serious he is taking this whole situation with the relationship with the with washington dar also now the reports that the united states should really use a russian prison or in exchange. we don't exactly know who it is, but there is,

is we, we, we talked to at the lawyers and our very next your on the, he, he confirmed with us that it was happening, but i to say we're just waiting. we're waiting down shortly. so yeah, yes, but alexander vinny is the most likely person to be exchanged. he was arrested, i believe in greece, a few years ago, accused of money laundering. so possibly, again, possibly, alexander vinnie was exchanged for this former diplomat and the other important news today i came out of the new chief of the pentagon who met with the, the name to all member states at the nato headquarters. that's very direct comments as well as in that very direct comments and he said that the return for ukraine to its borders in 2014 is not realistic to us. listen to what he said. we must start by recognizing that returning to ukraine's pre 2014 borders is an

unrealistic objective chasing this. illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering. so the other important thing that he said is the washington also doesn't think that it's realistic for ukraine to become a member of nato. these are 2 very important issues. 2 very important points for moscow, i would think uh, and we also know that's a trump spoke with vitamins the landscape following that phone conversation with the vitamin fulton. both zalinski and trump confirmed and said that they had a positive exchange. but frankly, given by what was talked about in the conversation with vladimir in fortune and by these statements coming from the new chief of the pentagon, i wouldn't suspect mister zelinski to be in a very positive mood today. who would have thought though that diplomacy talking to one another might actually.