the, the, the gaza cease, fire could be in jeopardy. i made the outrage in israel over the botched return of a hostages body as the idea of steps up. bits of salt on the west bank after 3 empty boxes explode near. tell him what these railways are calling police suspected terror attack. president trump is obviously very frustrated right now with presence of wednesday. you trump is very upset. it presents with landscape presence litski. his country wouldn't exist without the generosity of united states of america. so to say thank you. the white house says it's disappointed with ukraine's leader as he refuses to pursue washington's path to peace and even insults president trump. and as the youth. 3 pushes for ukraine to finally hold elections, which were suspended by the last the last year we looked at who could possibly

replace the increasingly unpopular leader who claims the still legitimate presence . the this after 1 pm here in moscow when you're watching r t international. i am your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. now our top story, the gaza ceasefire, could be on the line after israel. it used to mazda of handing over the body of an, an identified person, instead of a hostage. the guys in group has reportedly said there was it mixed up as a result of multiple remains being pulled from the rubble of an idea of air strikes . earlier. benjamin netanyahu a warrant of retaliation for an electorate breach of the agreements to return hostages, who have died since october of 2023. i don't want if i'm going to see so we will work with determination to bring sherry bus home together with old off hostages.

both living and dead. i didn't show that how much pays the full price for this cru, malicious violation of the agreement. we've got to get more on the story we're joined to live now by our chief political correspondent, geography is going off, is joining us from the capital of saudi arabia. you've got it's a really distressing story that's caused a lot of outraging. is real. can you bring us the latest details of what we know? it's distressing. indeed, the yesterday how mosque released the bodies are for is really victims to the countries of tories, including those of 2 children and their mother. and now israel says that it's forensics couldn't confirm her identity, obviously, causing outrage. you've just heard these really prime minister saying that from us will be for this year. and the secretary general has said that of the display of the bodies and the coffins is disrespectful and degrading and goes against the international laws. washington that has

a release to start wanting to come us. and now these very finance minister is calling for an immediate continuation of the idea of the military operation in gaza writing and social media that he think some of these are the ceasefire as israel, as a weakness now on his behalf. how much says that. the reason why these really authorities couldn't confirm the identity of that woman is because the building where she was held was that there was an air strike on, on this building by the idea. and her remains could have gotten mixed up with the remains of other victims at the same time. how much is accusing israel off by using internationally band weapons that goes to cynthia williams and is calling for an international investigation into war crimes. by the idea of you guys now in a separate incidents last night in israel 3 buses exploded. thankfully, they were empty at the time, but now a prime minister benjamin, that the actual and the defense minister say that they're immediately intensifying

the military operation in the west bank because they say they suspect that's where the organizers off those attacks are based in light of the severe terror attack attempts in the tel aviv area by palestinian terror organizations against the civilian population in israel. i instructed the idea of to increase the intensity of the counter terrorism activity and the talk around refugee camp and all the refugee camps and u. d. a and some area we will hunt down the terrorist of the bitter end and destroy the terror infrastructure in the camps used as frontline posts of the uranian evil axes. residents who give shelter to terror will pay a heavy price. so yet another escalation of violence in this troubled region, despite all the international efforts. and it comes as the error of leaders are gathering for a summit here in re add in saudi arabia to try to agree on a plan to counter donald trump's proposal on god who earlier said and struck the

world basically by saying that the us will take over the guy, this trip and evict all the palestinians out of there. after that statement, benjamin met and yackel said that donald trump is the best friend israel's ever had in washington. so it's quite interesting to see what the arab world will be able to present to counselor that proposal. yeah, definitely. that was our chief, political correspondent. the board has been all reporting live from riyadh saudi arabia. thanks for bringing us those details. but now we're going to be joined live from cairo, from a gauze and journalist. so now come all to further discuss this all with us here on the program. thanks a lot for joining us on the program. first of all, i just want to ask you basically, you know, it looks like is where it was pretty quick to use this whole situation as a pretext to intensify. it's assault on the west bank, but now we've gotten a response from my boss is saying that this is actually israel's fault. they couldn't identify the body that they had to send because of the intensity of the as

really air strikes in that area. what do you make of the whole situation to yeah, on to the best of all, isn't that a land doesn't have a different fix? that was great. it's a, it's the pricing in the was time get if he comes in my land jeanine duck kind nozzles on the other, a as a, as a but as the account are busy times and it was by the time decided at the beginning, is there a decided date to come the situation and the cost of in glare. i'm the 8th we lost . i understand that it's somebody that erica bryson and that was buying stuff because it has a whole a plan and to escalate the situation. either thing they got the same or even in there was the time, by no way into the dollars thing. but now it is by this eats by and because the english, the thousands undergraduate students have been suffering from the consequences of the war even after a disease, to try it. and they, they,

they all do with it to nationalize under a bodies under their, or an email on their fields all day, any time maybe that is there a wind come past the water and the guy, the thing bob, do they know that it will not stay in a bag, i'll return the floor in dog though, as long as it's it is committed and visit us and, and that was fine. we have the cdns and the whole are. but as you enter tote is a r a, a are under the, it's a, it's condition on the issue or even the man, but they thought it is creation. by the way, what was happened and, and i believe yesterday sometimes all sort of thing and i don't know. i mean, it is. so the believe that it just to be thanks to by the i'm maybe none of the but as the on the cut, it printed out the exclusions and intervene and all design is a bit busy and sleep under. and under the projects that under

the right hand, or even under the, is there any installation in the event that you're in disease by adding it to any? i mean, it's just continuing, it's a thoughts on it, but i didn't use it this morning get by the sound in the army cuz i understand women and drop off my boss. do this 1000. 0, the guy that they this mike, it's only a women. so any, is there any protected that the daughter me is the coming good. i brought it in who tried to reach it for the area. it digs should be under the it's a different bank, the even. and we have it and how much to all the on the other hand and the leads to that is what i video mean the whole would like to create that. so you try it in god that have a strong get predicted to read the door and god the past or the time it's the

trying i under the claims or that is trying to add to be the i'll find it by the these probably out for a lot of time and is to close the on and them and yet or to to pressure isn't i to continue? this is probably i to start the initiation part of the 2nd phase of the fire. well, we obviously know that the trump administration is fully supporting is real on the situation. do you believe that because of that washington might get more directly involved in the middle east conflict? yeah, this is the basic talk to that because the trump a is, is a parking is i and he's also the engineer. oh, very good 9. think over the years on him and the only covers that, oh is it a it's and 2018. so we believe, or there was seen in speeds and that they were like 4 years old, complex and the conflict will be escalated in there. but as the end to the thought

is not only and gather but also and, and always fine because it's really, really a degree of the doctor's was a phone is an all and to say, and all it's, it's got asians mainly police again. and he will happy to do i see was that then? yeah, whole look like is i'm next in the lines of the with bank and then to expand that is that and then just to mentor it was back and as you can and all the national assessment of the locating and getting you there. but as the answer from the guy, the soup, i'm the hearts of them. so this applies to the area of the land. so either tons is as even to make right did. and so with the, with the ends and nobody with that, they was they, for years of a screening of a conflict by the way, all the way to seeing as a, either uh,

diversity and passions or agents that seem to collection. and i'll know very well that they have and to day in their lives. and they have to come from and come from all of the into the any american and i make, i will say the far to them to make great or the deadlines. and it's the only thing that both the chance me but as being an patches. and also there was being an configuration agreed on the honor and believe that they only can come from all the videos of the 19. this is by a staying over there. all right, that was doesn't journalists and i'll come all thanks a lot for joining us on the program and sharing your perspective with us. now another story that us is running out of patience with ukraine as top white house officials slammed the landscape for being completely unreasonable and his

relationship with washington us national security advisor mike waltz pointed out donald trump's frustration was the landscape behavior president. trump is obviously very frustrated right now with present zelinski the fact that i that he hasn't come to the table that he hasn't been willing to take this opportunity that we have offered. i think he eventually we'll get to that point and i hope so very quickly, but present trumpets as we made clear to our russian counterparts. and i want to make clear today he's focused on stop in the fighting and moving forward. and we can argue all day long about what's happened in the past. or we get more of the story now. we're doing live in the studio by r t, corresponding on this for see of a large and so on us to see a take us through. why is the lensky is in such hot water with the white house right here? well, you know, it just all seems to be going down from 5 to was for you create them savanski. in

particular, as we can see in the most recent speech showing trump didn't even mention zalinski . he leaves that to the, to his support. and as i need a trump ukraine's invoice yesterday, travel to kia, of why he was supposed to hold talks with the uh, zalinski. but the conference that was supposed to take place off to the tops was canceled. and according to see if that was uh, at the request of the american side, and one with this is just one more thing that indicates that things are not going well. now, between now, washington in t a for the next one of the reasons why this could be happening is because of how so lensky point a treats american officials and mockery the actual actually shed light tools this and i think president trump is very upset at present zalesky and i and some case, and rightfully so. look, number one joe biden had frustrations was the landscape. people shouldn't forget it or a newspaper articles out there about how he cursed adam and a phone call because the lensky, instead of saying thank you for all your help,

is immediately out there messaging what we're not doing or what he's not getting. i think the 2nd things, frankly, i was personally very upset because we had a conversation with president zelinski, the vice president and i, the 23 of us. and we discussed this issue about the mineral rights, so we explained to them. but we want to be enjoying better with you, not because we're trying to steal from your country. but because we think that's actually a security guarantee where your partner and an important economic endeavor, we get to get paid back. some of the money, the tax payers have given close to $200000000000.00. and it also, and now we have a vested interest in the security of ukraine and he said, sure, we want to do this deal. that makes all the sense in the world. the only thing is i need to run it through my legislative process. they have to approve it. i read 2 days later that the landscape out there saying i rejected the deal. i told them no way that we're not doing that. well, that's not what happened in that meeting, so you start to get upset by somebody. we're trying to help these guys well, so he says one thing in private and another thing in public, it's like some sort of dr. jekyll, mr. hyde behavior. can you tell us

a little bit more about this mineral deal that's causing so much tension between t. evan washington? yeah. the mineral to you that re being touched upon. it's actually a deal that was very important for washington. now as of what allows us to and invest in ukraine, invest in ukraine's minerals and exchange for further aid. and, you know, trump even sent his a treasury secretary to key of and according to trump, he wasn't treated well the actual because special was supposed to assign the the deal, but came back empty handed out again. i'm going to repeat myself with trump said the best them wasn't treated as well. that because even stating that semanski didn't meet with him and for the following reason. here's, here's the thing. we don't get our money back. and we told them that the deal is we do something similar, right, more or less. and it struck best, it actually went there and you

were sleeping and unavailable for me to be traveling many hours on the train, which is today. we're talking about the secretariat, the one day to get a document signed. and when he came back and they were signed the document, so you know, looks likes to let the skis biting the hand that feeds it in his frustration is pushing him to the edge. and because you know he's being well side live, he's the hasn't been invited to re add a. now we're seeing the change in washington policy towards key if and us top officials are now open, they actually will say, hitting back inside ski. okay. stating that his behavior is unacceptable. there needs to be a deep appreciation for what the american people, what the american taxpayer, what president trump did in, in his 1st term, and what we've done sense. so some of the rhetoric coming out of key, frankly, and ins, insults to president trump for unacceptable. and so you said yesterday made

a lot of news, bad mouth, and trump not a good idea of or is the landscape. what's the, what's the thought process? it will look, i mean, for this long sky his country wouldn't exist without the generosity of the united states of america. so to say thank you. and if you disagree with the president, pick up the phone and call him or call one of our great diplomats. don't go in and media tour around europe, bad mounting the press united states. it's insulting, it's insulting to him. it's insulting to me. it's insulting to the american people, and by the way, it's stupid all of us who knew the president would tell you that bad melting him in public is not the way to get president trump to change his mind. so i think someone's can needs to have some better consultants and we see multiple times. how so lensky, especially on his social media, cried from west an age claiming the it's his soldiers dying for the sake of the west. and you know, a lie to the ministration still provide as t of with more a but i think from what we're seeing here now is that trump's administration is not

going to turn a blind eye to any of this coming from to you. yeah, with this new tension and the change in us foreign policy, it looks like the days of unlimited usa, jew crane might be numbered. that was our to correspondence. i'm not supposed to be able to watch. oh, it looks like zalinski is on borrow time, and key of after trump called him a dictator with only 4 percent approval. washington wants ukraine to finally hold elections. that's lensky himself. suspended last year. are these marina costs are of a looks into who are the possible contenders for kids top spot it was inevitable. the clock had been taken for the landscape for a long time now. in fact, his time expired 9 months ago. but now that his biggest owners calling him out, it seems that his faith is pretty much sealed, no matter how many tears are shut over it in europe. she refuses evolutions, is slow in the real ukrainian pause. and then how can you be hi, with us, every city is being demolished. charge of the i somebody said, oh no, he's falls

a good. give me a break. i dictated with that elections. so lensky better move fast, or he's not going to have a country left. gotta move, gotta move fast. oh wow! that might have fallen in light, of course, and the west eyes only. so let's get has gone from time magazines, person of the year in 2022, to the biggest loser of 2025. it seems being sidelines and the lords when it comes to big decisions about our country. he's clearly not friends or authorized to run anymore. back in 2022. it was a clear majority 72 percent through the floor through the floor and 20 by 2024. just 48 percent of americans say that they're confident that so let's people do the right thing when it comes to world affairs. now, while experts debates whether it's allotted school will be ousted internally or externally, all there's wonder who could replace them. and here are the candidates. according to the latest survey and ukraine landscape isn't even though you've heard

politician. it's but larry, is it lose me? who is currently serving as ukraine's ambassador to the u. k. to show the police and that sort of thing. now, in order to answer this question, let's 1st get the conditions under which such a question would be absolutely appropriate. these conditions will come then i as a person who is in public service and works directly for the state, will be ready to answer such a question. for now, we have only one task to survive and preserve our country. people are familiar with him as he left the country's armed forces from 2021 all the way up to san february 20th 24. in fact, ukrainians trust him a lot more than the current leader. just look at these numbers. they were even rumors that his popularity was one of the reasons that loves to removed him from the top military job and send him to the u. k. that's an because illusion. it was open about the fact that the war had to reach the stalemate and the breakthrough was on the likely just like in the 1st world war,

we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate. there will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough showing the time is passed, people are tired regardless of their status, and this is understandable, but this is not a stalemate. i emphasize this once again. after this thing was sent packing, there was another survey around the time that the landscape of presidency was expiring and it showed if elections were held, then zillow usually would get 41 percent of the votes in the 1st round and 67.5 percent in a run of and it's a similar picture now a year later with 72 percent of ukrainians, trusting him rather than the current leader who got 49 percent. it's the 3rd most popular politician then ukraine is another familiar face. former president petro power assigned co, the man who took over after the west, my bank, who in 2014, and has been dreaming about ukraine joining the you ever since. this is another

case of how the mighty have fallen as he's been embroiled in over a 100 criminal investigations in the last few years ranging from tax fraud and abuse of power to state prison. he believes it's all a ploy to get rid of him. the dream of those in power is to hold all elections at once, but the americans won't allow it. so now the authorities are orchestrating everything to eliminate the opponents sneak back into power and destroyed democracy, freedom and electoral transparency because they are afraid to lose power. oh, the irony, all that all, and they seems to be going around in circles if you consider that famous line from their presidential campaign debate in 2019, when lensky saw par sankoh the following. first of all, i am not your opponent. i am your verdict. that line could have a whole new meaning. now, par sun co is convince start elections will be held in october of this year. and

his supporters are doing their best to make sure he is on the pallets, including screaming and parliament's. that all the charges against the bar shank of amounts to political persecution. and that's all they can do really, since they know that joe biden is no longer going to come to his rescue and it's safe to say that trump doesn't care. now moving on to the 4th candidate by popularity demitria rising costs. he was a professional, political consultant who went on to leave the servants of the people party helping the landscapes rise to power and health. the post of chairman of never holding the rod until 2021 very is disagreements in parliament, including what does the landscape himself saw him lose that job and their friendship. they shall know besides, lucy, that they say they will follow the constitution. well, they haven't followed it before. don't follow it today and will not follow it. despite the president zalinski being a guarantor of the constitution,

violations of the law happen every day. there is not freedom of speech. i mean the several channels show what's right and honest them, i believe i'd say, where is the d mobilization? you promise to the people? it's a major problem if the government outright lies to those protecting the country, if you don't know what you have voting for them, that's a problem. it doesn't absolve you of responsibility. you will be beaten later, beaten by fathers, whose 18 year old children are being mobilized to compete and by husbands. when a woman who came through ministry service to become part of civil society is then being taken to the front line. and finally, we have the woman who is always the bridesmaid, never the bride. she has been trying for decades. it seems she was even imprisoned, but came out flooding, but still failed. so when people's hearts we are, of course, talking about julia too much jenco. she has another one who was accused of abuse of power. sounds guilty and senses to 7 years behind bars, as well as order to pay over. uh huh. and so it's an $80000000.00 back in 2011. she

claimed that it was all politically motivated, of course, which seems to be upfront. and then you cranium, politics, pull 2 and a half years later, she came out in a wheelchair right on time for the my dine to and went straight onto kia of independence square. so it's here for the protesters. well, the use of the, when i drove into key of, i didn't recognize it. brit cars, barricades flowers, but a whole different ukraine, a ukraine of free people. you have given each of us to everyone who lives today to everyone who will live tomorrow. you have given ukraine and therefore the people who were on my done, who died on my done our heroes for the ages. they are our liberators. the following day she was already up and running into the arms of the us some faster. and the easier representative in ukraine who had to turn invitation to beat the ease for the policy chief to help our plan, new credits, future,

no doubt. and here she is again, trying to make her dream and probably their dream come through this pharmacy. susan with keys kellogg and paris, that's from special envoy for ukraine and russia. and we don't know if they've discussed anything, but you definitely want that the world to see this picture. it's unclear when you cry and will hold its next presidential election. but one thing that is almost certain is that it will be an epic showdown with a dash of foreign spice. no doubt. i discussed the prospect of tabs top job with on the a tailors. and he's the former senior foreign policy advisor to the 1st deputy ukrainian prime minister and former 3rd secretary of ukraine's embassy in the us. so actually has no credibility whatsoever. he's an illegitimate president, and the relationship between you play and states are falling apart. and that's what i'm talking to understand, i get think understood that somebody just to confirm that he cannot trust and that

the key really wants to think, sees the back. but the global is that the state, that's why he's fighting washington. that's what the find, the president of the right state, he was never backed up by finally biden was just the picture. he was backed up with a deep state, new in sprint and sorrows whatsoever. the usa, he was a see i had come. that's why you think he has the power to go against the ad and presidents because he, you have about support. and so it's a so called your fear. but he doesn't understand that is really falling apart and denied, as i said, by the hand and spending the world that is going to vary from today. and so let's see. so basically the, the support from united states is already on the way it's sort of stuff and also at some point in some points is going to stop in the near future. definitely, you know, that personal, donald trump, knowing his surrounding work, it was due to julian and before that he was all i see in his surroundings. but that just because what he did to, to, to him,

to trump personally. but he also what he did to because i sent it to his country as it's that process already because stopped before he's and that's why he's not a statesman. and he has no respect from today's administration. launched the i'm talking about. and today, before our samples, i'll see if he's a big theater and the legal precedent. yeah, there's support some, some radicals, but that's not enough for him to become the president. who else do you think could be a potential contender for ukraine's top position? these elections have to happen, but the free today is facing a situation where there's the position id there is locally or opposition within the frame. paul circles here, everybody for shay go see the, the west of and the global as other so it's who's trying to become the president. so he is be financed by surgery. know what students who's a public viewable. so there's no way out there just a glitch. so he's a german citizen, and basically he control all the propositional to you, you know, he's also working with the west right directly. so symmetry,

so mostly for all topics are going to try to continue this work. they're going to try to, because writing selections come to power and undermine these piece to go stations between the, the personal united states and the president of russia, the reference size. but the goal shapes on the table and the situation where maybe put a temporary government together with the, with the washington, but will leave the brain into new elections. and the process works depending on how to legitimate government in the future or how the position involved was the have security heresies for the position that he can come in. and who is a problem right now. not any frames, because a lot of the more to put to prison or have to sleep brain and valve they have to, they have no chance to becoming a ready for these elections. but there's a lot of situations where a lot of problems happening within this election process, but the, the selection needs to happen one way or another. i, for watching our to international. my colleague rachel ruble will be with you,

bring you more news in just about 30 minutes, so stay to the the the hello and welcome to cross stock. were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . the russians and the americans have made it clear they want to normalize relations after the disastrous biden years. at this point, both appear committed to ending the conflict in ukraine. the europeans and the ukrainians are not at the table.