all of the questions, some more questions asked the better the answer is will be the the god, the ceasefire. deal is in jeopardy after israel suspends the release of over $600.00 palestinian prisoner despite him off delivering on it's part of the saturday swap. we got reaction from palestinians for waiting for their loved the we were shocked as usual by the occupations way of dealing, hurting the families, tormenting them and the prisoners. the conversation was very useful. we not only listened but also heard each other. and i have reason to believe that the american side has begun to better understand our position. russian and us diplomats hold their 1st face to face talks in years as the trump whitehouse takes to reset relations with the kremlin and put an end the ukraine conflicts at the vitamin ministration. provokes what's the

protesters clash with police? in berlin? on the eve of a snap election that's expected to see chancellor whole law sholtes leave office while the alternative for germany party hopes to net. it's the strongest results in history. the just after 10 am here in moscow, russia, and you're watching the weekly on our to international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. now we start this news hour with gaza, where how boss has accused israel a violating their prisoner swap deal that says benjamin netanyahu ordered to postpone the release of over $600.00 palestinian prisoners even after him. off handed over 6 hostages, as agreed on saturday. here's how the is rarely prime minister's office justified. the move in light of her mazda is repeated violations,

including the ceremonies that humiliate our hostages and the cynical exploitation of our hostages for propaganda purposes. it has been decided to delay the release of terrorist that was planned for yesterday until the release of the next hostages has been assured and without the humiliating ceremonies. israel claims the hostages released on saturday, were acting under duress when they were filmed, looking, overjoyed, and thanking their former captors during an on stage ceremony and gaza. earlier in the week, come us paraded the coffins of 4 people, including 2 babies who were killed while being held hostage before the remains were returns to israel. saturdays scheduled release of over 600 jail palestinians was stopped at the last moment after they had already forwarded buses to leave ears. how boss has responded to that. we believe that again, these are the 2 games from the right wing government to sabotage and undermine the deal and to send

a message of willingness to go back to war. subsidized prisoners change between age related life has taken an unexpected and very dangerous turn on the agreement. as you notice how the student prisoners were supposed to be released as soon as is really hostages. crossed into israel from gaza, went out in ramallah. where are some of those probably seen in prisoners were expected to arrive. many have been here since early morning send and in the rain. then hale then snow anxiously waiting to embrace the loved ones. most of them have taken shelter from the cold inside this community center behind me, still hoping, praying for news the report for 16 years. we have been waiting for this day hoping for the release of our son like the other prisoners. this suffering today is a continuation of the suffering we've endured over the years of his imprisonment. and we were shocked as usual, by the occupations way of dealing, hurting the families, tormenting them, and the prisoners never corner, looked at it through today. all the families of the prison estate and the governor

rate. we will not leave this place except to ensure the safety of the families and will arrange for a whole night for them. the code that has seeped into the souls will not be eased by any one given the difficult circumstances they have enjoyed and lived through the day, one of them having to suffer, they have lost 36 is really hostages from 3 separate locations in jobs. i reminded the captive has been held in different parts of the same place as in previous exchanges. the hostages were 1st handed over to the international red cross center . these ready army, which transforms itself into israel for reunions with their families and is ready for such captures. deeply emotional moments, often more than $500.00 days, inconsistencies rate is any a core and all that vented on that a simple and have thought of showing off finally home. it also really is we're, i've read them in the so and say something. and so yes, who has been held in gaza attention over a decade leading to school. this is

a force that they really government has done little to secure their freedom before . now the slightest exchange has really ready unfolding on the x treme tension on says they really received the remains of hostages, who does not survive the 1st such faces to cease fire, begun the moment was devastated and quickly took an even dark cuz her and among the remains were 2 young children, tragic victims of the of silver, 7 attacks and off the forensic analysis as ro concluded they were murdered with bare hands contradicted, have masses quite in, but they were killed and is really, is a thing to the tension. her mouth was also supposed to return the body of the mother, but instead israel receive the remains of a know, guys and woman. the reaction was swift prime minister benjamin netanyahu. excuse him, off of why leasing the agreement and war and the it will pay the highest price. entire bill was suddenly raised from us,

quickly corrected. the mistake was hurting the proper vault. you well, we have firm and its commitments to the bill. meanwhile, thousands of us really is to to this race was made for gathering, renamed tel aviv calling on the government to stick to its commitments and release palestinian prisoners. they fear the end of this rupture might endanger the release of the hostages, still held in captivity and gaza. the risk then not ready for us to get more on this story. now we're being joined live from cairo by dimitri de leon, and he's the fault. a reform is democratic faction spokesperson dimitry. thanks a lot for joining us on the program. first of all, i want to ask you, i mean, how much has held up its side of the deal here, right? it's handed over, those 6 is rarely hostages. so what's your reaction to israel postponing it's side of the bargain? and um, thanks for having me. uh israel, as usual uh, denies, uh, and rates all the agreements that uh it makes with the house. i mean people for the

state of israel making a fortune agreements. it's only temporary hopes to genocide effort by the ethnic cleansing or whatever crimes they are conducting at that moment until preparing the political climate to uh, break those agreements. and this is exactly what happened here. it happened in oswald happened after osborne. it happened today with the prisoners exchange. as a result of these, this ation of the is randy genocide in gaza at the state of israel just it cannot survive without total dominance without total subjugation of the pals to me. and people would go to the human a zation of the palestinian people. anything less than that in the, in is rarely psyche and societal values is considered a defeat. and that then you cannot take that and that they have could not handle

the fact that is really prisoners where it gets in the hands of that captures in guys that because they were treated well as opposed to the palestinian prisoners. uh that come come back home and hostages that come back home have their weight be in uh with sicknesses and speak of torture. systematic tortures. i dare. one of these is rarely hostages. come out and say that they were treated or tortured, as opposed to the hundreds, if not thousands of 1000. you keep that palestinians or were released from is rarely military camps that speak of torture and how dogs were used to and even sexually abuse them. it's, it's a difference between day and night and nothing you know, could not handle that. so the only way out for him is to create an

excuse to stop the, the, to hold the exchange process. and and to by the way, uh, try to save his goal. sure. let's remember that the 2nd most important person in the government, the goal is in israel, the self admitted fascist best seller, smoked ridge. ah, threatened to leave the government if the 2nd phase of the agreement to cease is rarely during the 7 guys that took place this. the 2nd phase starts next week. so uh and then, you know, also aimed at for political reasons, internal domestic political reasons. holt: this agreement so he can have a bite time to salvage whatever he can of his government and hopefully for him, maintain this goal issue and that keeps him empower and keeps him away from jail as

corruption. charges. oh wait for him as soon as he leaves. all right, i mean, as far as i understand the terms of the agreements making uh, some sort of propaganda show out of turning over the hostages. doesn't violate anything. it's not really a basis to, for israel, the whole not, i'll pull that side of the bargain. so for that reason, i mean i'm off is urging mediators to pressure is real, to respect disagreement. do you think that there's a possibility that foreign powers could step in to try and change the situation? a for nothing? yeah. oh, there are no phone powers except for one called donald trump because donald trump can totally make up anyhow, it was life. how as he olds more leverage and this re the street, them that then you know, and so other than that and that then you out olds no wait, no respect to any international power that you may think of, including the direct uh, uh, countries that uh are are uh, maybe i think,

uh the, the, the green, but at any rate and also or nothing. yeah. who's a 2nd boss is domestic politics and with the is riley it society is what this thing the, it does that so for nothing you know, where these prisoners and these hostages are released and they're not saying anything negative about how they're were held as opposed to the about sending the hostages release from is really military camps. speaking all the horrors is also for nothing. yeah. who is not a good picture and he wants to get rid of that no matter what. and let's also keep in mind that nothing else goal lesion and the most powerful, the, the, the, the, the, the, yeah, bodies that all the goal isn't together. they clearly flat out came out and say that they want the genocide to continue and gaza. would know this with no

regards to the wellbeing of these rarely hoss and we have seen is randy hostages coming back to their families in, in body bags, because as well as carpet bombing, the residential neighborhoods that were held in so uh, so as you killed them they coming back in body bags. these randy politicians really do not care much about these rarely people let alone the palestinian people. and that's also another source that feeds into an danielle whose position that could not be explained in other way. then he is looking to achieve political score, political points at the expense of is raising the hostages dial city and hostages and 1000 in children. that he goes every day whether it was in gaza or the occupied west bank. alright, to meet your daily on a flat tire, reformist,

the democratic faction spokesperson coming to us live from cairo. thanks a lot for joining us on the program. thanks brand. all eyes were on re add this week as the saudi capital hosted historic talks between top diplomats from russia and the united states. and it was the 1st such sit down in years as the trump administration. 6 a deal to reset relations and end ukraine. conflict for good rushes for administer hale, but negotiations that lasted more than 4 hours of go to do marco rubio particularly emphasize the fundamental importance of each country being guided by its national interest. these national interest of course, will not always coincide. it is very important to regulate these discrepancies the conversation was very useful to should we not only listen, but also hurt each other. and i have reason to believe that the american side has begun to better understand our position. so i came away today convinced that they are willing to begin to engage in a serious process to determine how and how quickly and to what mechanism can have

and be brought to this war. i think it's important to have this meeting because we haven't really had much engagement with the russians for almost 3 years. and it's, that's the table for future conversations. how that turns out will be up to the parties and their willingness not just to make commitments, but to live by them. that will be tested. of the marathon talks brought in agreements to establish a bilateral consultation mechanism while normalizing the work of mutual diplomatic emissions on ukraine. the russians that americans decided to appoint teams that will work towards a peace deal in washington. and washington and moscow also bawled over rebooting geo political and economic cooperation after the military conflict and both sides pledged to state diplomatically engaged from now on. on the other hand, vladimir zelinski was not invited to the negotiations about ukraine in saudi arabia . he later claimed he was actually planning to visit, re add the next day,

but decided to reschedule the trip to march, apparently because he doesn't agree with being sidelined from this weeks tops. the united states is discussing with russia the ultimatum that put in set at the beginning of the full scale war. again, about ukraine without ukraine. i wonder if we didn't accept such ultimatums at the most difficult moment. why are we likely to do it now? my colleague, mike, our co chair spoke with ben swan, an american investigative journalist and the founder of truth and media. he says, the european union is now racked with fear about the following between moscow and washington. but also about where it will be left once the war ends. one of the things that makes this entire dialogue so important between the western russia is that they didn't talk only about ukraine, which is interesting because for the past 3 years, we've seen that the united states doesn't talk to russia at all. but when we talk about russia, it's a completely singular, we only talked about one issue,

the war and ukraine. and so one of the things that we see in this discussion that was very important was an entire discussion about gas problem and about energy. the fact of the united states is talking about working with russia and getting investment into a gas problem and working on energy projects with russia is not just stunning. the reporter said they're a minute ago a week ago, a lot of people wouldn't believe in this conversation. would be happening now a year ago, a lot of people thought might have thought this conversation would never happen again. the idea of the us is talking about energy ideas with russia at a time when europe sadly needs both russian energy and american energy and the united states is trying to really build out its energy profile. i think it's a pretty remarkable moment. so that's a very important moment. again, this discussion going far beyond just ukraine, but also talking about bigger issues about russia in the united states. the united states saying they want to see americans being able to invest in russia and russian companies able to act in the united states. again, this is something that a year ago, 2 years ago wasn't even the germans are taking to the polls in

a crucial federal election. today, the stakes are high and emotions have been boiling over. protests turned violent in berlin on the eve of the snap boat. the of the german capital streets had been rocked by rival rallies of left wing n t 4 and right wing a f. the supporters, the latter party is projected to win. and it's the biggest ever share of the national boat. the federal power crisis has been escalating ever since chancellor olaf shouts his coalition collapsed in november. is widely expected to leave office after today's vote. and here's our 2 contributor, rachel marsden with the details a big national election in germany this weekend. only the 4th snapped parliamentary election to take place since world war 2. because hey, why wait for the government's 4 year expiration date to come around when it's

thinking up the whole joint like forgotten, sour coat in a bavarian heat wave back in 2021. chancellor oil, i've schultz took charge with his traffic light coalition made up of his red, social democrats, greens, and yellows, centrist free democrats, and well, the yellow light unplugged itself, you could say causing the government to crash. so now instead of germans being relegated to just yelling at that one key traffic light, they now get a chance to avail themselves of an electoral off ramp. so heading into the final stretch of the campaign, the center, right christian, democrat, opposition has been cruising along in the lead ahead of the anti establishment. right? alternative for germany party or a f d with some wondering if they will be like kind of a game show contestant who makes a surprise final search. meanwhile, schultz is social democrats. have been doing it out with the greens for 3rd place,

glory high. yes, the greens, a party whose results were so pitiful with single digits and regional elections late last year that it's leaders reside. because apparently those german voters in the east had bigger priorities in mind as germany. the industrialized been trading their gas heating for wind and their bmw, of use for bicycles and shots. as for administer, the particularly geometry challenge screen and the lead, a bare bach for once confused to $180.00 degree. turn with a $360.00 is apparently just as good at geography and started talking like she was chief diplomat of ukraine, even vowing to defend ukraine from germans and the rest of schultz. his cabinet was like, uh yep, sure. sounds good to us. if i give the promise to people in ukraine, we stand with you as long as you need us. then i want to deliver no matter what my german vote a thing, but i want to deliver to the people of ukraine,

isn't all going, scott, and we are very clear with our message to ukraine, but also to the russian aggressor. we will support ukraine as long as necessary, so the ukraine must not lose the score. what is at stake here is the future of the european quarter of peace and freedom. we stand by ukraine side, shoulder to shoulder. the door challenge. germany support for ukraine will not cease. we have made provisions struck defense deals and secured the funding in good time so that ukraine can continue to fully rely on us and future. it turns out that all of that was just a convenient cover for transferring tax payer cash into the coffers of german defense companies. like ryan metal whose economic fortunes have had it in the opposite direction from the average germans, or even the average german industries with the economy contracting again. last year, the german tax fair was also supporting a giant

e u slash fund called the european piece facility into which germany pay some of the all around $7900000000.00 bureaus. the it's leaders say it earmarked for ukraine. berlin has to then apply to brussels to get some of that money back in exchange for digging through. it's old john sitting in the military attic and sending it over to ukraine, where russia then blows it up, sparing germany the guilt of the massive carbon footprint of just dump it in the nearest landfill. and then hey, why do you know god to fill up those posits again with some new weapons now because hay war might be hell, but it can also apparently be a fantastic spring cleaning program. and this, this whole weapons garage sale scheme that ultimately blew out. schultz as traffic light, because back in november, schultz told as finance minister christian ledner to earmark and other 3000000000 for germany weapons for ukraine. and lender said to just give here more hand me

downs, which just happen to be horace long range, missiles that could start world war 3. if you have fires them into russia and shot said, uh no thanks. maybe it is a little bit risky to bet on t as uh, competence since even broken down german tax were reportedly being made even more broken. if that's even possible. apparently it is when the of radians tried to repair them. so when or then bailed right out of their shots as coalition and took his yellow traffic light with them. so its thing called for a non confidence vote against himself tossing himself under the bus before anyone else could do it for him. and ultimately resulting in the dissolution of the parliament by the german president in december. and welsh alters exit sounded a lot like the going away party for the guy at work, who always microwaves, fish in the office kitchen, will afford to stay all off. schultz has been the worst chancellor,

the federal republic has ever had. germany is in the deepest, most severe economic, financial energy and migrant crisis, or parliament faction has just discussed this. even though there wasn't much to discuss. we won't support shots in the confidence vote, except for 3 persons worried free direct merits might become a war chancellor, without the whole of charles showed again today that he has no strength for fundamental changes. his answers completely failed to address the deep problems of inadequate fitness for economic competition. in front of a z, the dispute mr. chancellor rose because you were not able and not willing to hold together a coalition of the s p d greens and f d p which was no longer fit together at the front time the the way you behaved but european level is embarrassing. they are embarrassing germany. it's embarrassing how you move behave in the european union. seems like

ever since schultz has been packing for his potentially imminent trip into the political wilderness. he's had some time to think about how maybe it's not such a great idea to treat the german military industrial complex like it's standing on the street corner, shaking. you didn't come up with an eye patch begging of brother would you please spare a dime for your brain, especially when the average german citizen is being brow beaten by german and european the leaves into sharing showers to save energy, for example, because they're told that it will help defeat puts in on the battlefield, or i had suggested expanding military aid at some point. but if you do that, you also have to say where the money is coming from. i'm against us taking this from pensions. i'm against just doing this through cuts to local governments against us investing less money and railroads and roads. so you have to finance that. additionally, that's a quite fee of pay for any $1.00 that seems to have manifested during schultz is uh,

tire track back massage, something the current front runner, murtz, cause he had to experience as a zooms along on you talking point auto pilot, my personal view and my willing is still and remains to deliver within a european coordinated framework of delivering more veterans to the tooth to ukraine. so what's the next? first of all, it's after the selection. he says, he only has one thing in mind. and let's just say that his chances for that are about as good as ending up as angelie. there's always an ex husband's discipline, is your plan be to become a lawyer again? so again, that's not plan. be my, my plan a is to be elected. chance le again, so give me, i don't think there will be anything else off to the chancellor shipped off to that . i would like to become an ordinary citizen again. oh, okay. so he wants to just be an average german citizen and finally be able to enjoy all the fruits of his own policies, like

a drain circling economy and skyrocketing cost of living. alrighty then, so the wild card in this election is the right wing anti establishment f d party. now in 2nd place nationally after some eastern regional election victories late last year and making statements like this. we want peace in ukraine. we don't want arms deliveries. we don't want tanks, we don't want missiles. we don't want taurus, missiles for ukraine, that would involve germany in the war. i say to friedrich merits. if he really wants to supply weapons, then he can also volunteer to fight and not hand over our soldiers to the suicide mission. he should go there himself, along with high back with anton hop rider with angelina bare bach. they should go to ukraine themselves and leave our people and our soldiers in peace. some german politicians have tried and failed to ban the f d o, right? but at least one former top you official and champion of democracy has openly

bragged that there are always um, certain measures that can be taken, you know, just like in romania where a right wing candidate dared to win the 1st round of elections before democracy was suddenly saved by canceling that 1st round altogether, i turned to let's wait and see what happens and for the time being, let's keep our cool and enforced our laws in europe. we need to be aware of the risk that our laws may be circumvented. and that if they are not enforced, it could lead to interference. we did it in romania, we will obviously have to do it if necessary. in germany, a long mosque has jumped into the mix platforming and promoting the eff these policies on his x platform, which has absolutely delighted the european political leads. i'm just kidding. they're losing their minds completely over it. at the munich security conference, us vice president j events called out the german and you establishment treating basic western values like ca calls qual, they run around flirting with

a talk or see and he specifically invoke their treatment of the a f d. what german democracy, what no democracy, american, german, or european will survive, is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns their aspirations. they're pleased for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered democracy. russ, on the sacred principle, that the voice of the people matters. there is no room for firewalls. you either uphold the principal or you don't want was in town that's also met with a f d leadership. skipping and meeting with schultz entirely because well, he says that schultz is on his way or any way, a better thing to do, i guess. and that's really all it took for the german establishment to start wailing about for an election interference. a commitment to never again is therefore incompatible with support for the a f

d. that is why we will not accept outside is intervening in our democracy in our elections and in the democratic formation of opinion. on behalf of this policy, the i'm of the connor from the americans are questioning democratic institutions and they are interfering quite openly in an election, including in relation to democratic parties and their majorities. and i have to say it disturbs me. it doesn't surprise me because they've talked about this before, but i firmly reject it. it's not the job of the american government to explain to us here in germany, how we should protect democratic institutions. and we will continue on our course, continue on our course, se, and uh, what course is that exactly the scenic route to economic ruin, or the express lane off a cliff. either way, buckle up because it looks like we're about to find out in short order. you're watching the weekly on our t international stick around for more and just about 30 minutes the

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