[000:00:00;00] the, the, the united states because it reduces, defend the 50 percent and reducing by 50 percent in china. what van joined vladimir poking faxed, the idea of massively splashing defense spending to diffuse global tension in response to a proposal by donald trump. the russian president also weighs in on the rush for rail hurt with a page to consider joint projects with us. and the idea is echoed by the american president.

the us appears to be drifting further away from europe and in steel, political stance, even as the french president tried to woo donald trump with a charm offensive that the white blot. there's no criticism of russia at the un security council for the 1st time in 3 years. as the top world body adopts a in american, drafted resolution on the prey and conflict. however, the same draft is heavily distorted by you part of europe and powers before being passed. but the general assembly, it is clear that today the militarize in europe is the only international player that one's on board and continue and is resisting any realistic initiatives to settlement confident the death rate am here on the russian capital and you're watching r t international. i'm your host donald border. welcome from our top story,

from cutting military budgets to warming economic relations between moscow and washington president vladimir putin is put forward a list of options of how russia and the us as well as china, could usher in. what many are calling a new discount? yeah, i cannot comment on how the china will react to this device because there were different approaches from the american side. and the other british need isn't issues. therefore, this is a matter of the people's republic change. but we couldn't negotiate with the united states. i don't mind it, but i think it's a good idea to place them in the united states. corporate uses defense budget by 50 percent, and we could reduce it by 50 percent. and china with van join, if it's wanted to. we believe that the proposal is good and we are ready to discuss it further or get more on the story we're drawing live now in the studio by r t. correspondence of mine that is our a, my, my tell us,

i mean these are some really serious statements from vladimir putin, maybe signalling some huge changes in jail, polk, and geo political relationships. so could you bring us the details? of course, this is a here's statement from of letting me put in. it's one of those moments where the us and russia finally agree on something. i mean, he came out in support of the statement by his american counterparts to reduce spending military spending in moscow badging and washington now president puts and also added the beijing defense spending is its own business. and it would join later on if it wants to. now donald trump made this proposal to reduce this defense military spending by 3 countries in mid february. at the same time. he also stated that he wanted to whole tops on nuclear arms control with russia and china. believing that these big powers spend money that they could potentially spend on something more productive. last year, let me put in,

i had also mentioned the spending on improving rushes. defense military capabilities had reached to 6.3 percent of the g d p. and this can be in depth and that because the state should also focus on other spheres such as education or science. but you don't just for a context here to give you an idea on the situation, be stuck home international peace research institute named russia, china and the united states as leaders when it comes to military spending in 2023. so the fact that moscow seems to agree with donald trump, that seems to agree with washington right now, looks like a very good sign for the world. well, what else was said about cooling relations, specifically between the united states and russia? now it is very important and where we are right now, because we know that for the past few years, relations between washington in moscow has been stagnant, especially under the bite and administration. but with the new us administration's

interest in restoring relations and diplomacy, russia has made it very clear that it is ready to work with foreign partners in the field of fer, or a metal segment, minerals the development, including ones in the new regions listed list, maybe some of the arrows, metals are very important. they constitute key resources for more than the sectors of the economy. so far we have done a little in this area and we need to see should we won't be ready for this call for administrative results. this will work in this direction to bring to all americans . when i say partners, i mean not only administrative and governmental structures, but also companies show they show interest in collaborating with them as we undoubtedly have significantly more resources of this kind than ukraine. less me emphasize that to us here is one of the undisputed leaders and reserves of these are metals. the police projects require substantial capital investment,

and we are happy to work collaboratively with any ford and fondness including americans. by the way, regarding the new territory is the same applies. we are ready to check for in the process to our so called new historical territories that have been returned to the russian federation. there are also certain reserves, van ok, now put, it also suggested a joint work between russia in the us on aluminum production, for example, in the can i see or can cross my arcs territory. and the president also held a meeting with officials on this very same topic in which he described the metals as a strategic reserve, vital for russia's future competence, enough and economic development. and he also highlighted that the states and new materials and chemistry projects, which essentially tackles the complete cycle of the rare earth minerals industry

from extraction to production of high tech goods. now this meeting, interestingly enough, came a, as from expressed his interest in economic cooperation with russia. we're trying to do some massive where it's a very large, it's actually the largest in jersey. land is by far very bad. for world peace and last name please. and you know, concerned in the us and ukraine deal on minerals, the russian president says that the deal does not really concerned russia. so overall, it seems that it's all about economic cooperation between washington and moscow. what could you talk

a little bit more about what the russian president said about this rare birth mineral stuff the donald trump has been talking about as well. yes, donald trump had talked about a meeting with loved him, is landscape to sign a minerals deal as soon as possible, and he added that the agreement is being worked on and they will soon enough which the final deal. now, for the, for context, this deal is about the us, um, essentially see in disagreement as a pay back from you quain, for all the help that it has given us for the past 3 to 4 years. and a trump had also earlier emphasized that after after a g 7 meeting, he emphasized the importance of this deal. he says that the deal with then, with help americans get tens of billions of dollars that washington had spent on your plane. but it would also help ukraine economically. now,

a draft of this potential deal was published a day ago, and let's dive a little bit um, uh, through that and what's in it. now it's a set key of well directs 50 percent of the revenues from the extraction of resources including minerals, oil, gas, to the reconstruction fund in which washington will be the sole beneficiary. the fund may amount to $500000000000.00 as well. a new plan will continue to make contributions until the amount is rich and full. washington also expects he is to contribute twice the amount of us contribution. and the women does not really contain at any military obligations when uh from washington side and early or source sources also told you play the newspaper and be that the west is not interested in health of the plains mining, but a 100 percent of it. the point is, trump once the us to get its money back, essentially, and maybe a little bit more than that. but it seems that the landscape really has nothing

left to do except to sign to the deal and very soon as from keeps on repeating. well, it seems like this rare earth deal is connected to the way donald trump sees it's n game in ukraine, of course. and vladimir putin was actually asked a question about that in this interview. so let's take a listen to what he had to say about it. i think he wants to improve the political environment in ukraine's tools. what do they use to cite in degree of conditions for this? so vital is on the united states and on the cold, it is not so much in favor, some on rush, we have to come out on tuesday just for the benefit office maintenance. so those are interest and words firms led them to put in because he also added the essentially donald trump has a free hand on ukraine, unlike european leaders. and while he was speaking about legend zalinski, and he says that essentially he believes that villains he is

a top safe fender. and one that is not good for your grade. a to and this is a low, he's a caught and had the key effort. she is becoming a toxic figure for the armed forces of all ukraine, because he's given ridiculous folders dictated, knows by meaning to considerations, but by political considerations. and feet is not clear what they're not based on this leads to, on. justifiably, i was, even though the very highest and, but she said, i think last 4 of the ukrainian audience becomes toxic for society. and as a whole, lot of things in common president tom cars in the house that she wants to meet these by the way. so the weekend and as soon as possible and the kind of head of the machine is pending in the way of achieving that goal. that's hands and position seems to me some of the president of the united states has nothing to do with russian interests. it's more likely in the interest of the ukrainian states in the north to preserve ukraine and state which we have nothing against this either. although of course,

we would like this territory not to be used as an a breach happening for the tax on the russian federation. not used as a hostile, but each for sold advocates eventually turns into a friendly, neighboring states neighborhoods too. but according to russian data as well, um it seems that sellers because chances of when that when in the presidential elections are pretty much non and just a day ago, you quite in but hoping that that has failed to back a resolution to support the blog. him is zalinski. now russia also continues to say that he wants peace in ukraine as quickly as possible, but that's the lens. k is the one that he's getting in the way of the log in and put in has also reiterate, reiterated again, that russia has nothing against the preservation of ukrainian state. her though, are you printing and sovereignty? but the territory should not be used as a threat against loss of uh,

security. so it all looks like it's heading towards fees and it's not really looking so good for pleasant as the landscape. it's definitely not looking good for him. indeed, that was ortiz, my main char, thanks to bring us the details on a story. now to get more we're crossing live to bali where our, our, to contributor carl is joining us from carl. can you take us? what's your take rather, on the ground breaking proposal for russia in the us to slash military spending by 50 percent of this great news. as president boynton, the boy now in se, looking forward to working with president trump on bring peace to the region. i mean to, to put in the has said very clearly bad. the, the, you know, is, is what you, russia is looking forward to partnership with united states. right now it's a europe and the e u. n. and zalinski is that still holding out

a ward that um, you know, originally was pushed by the bite in the ministration, but there ended up be the debt and there is now how like you, how likely do you think it is that china is going to agree to join the initiative what china has always walk on. uh, geez, theos, in the ukraine, is this, it's cute president boynton, just had a call with pregnancy m p where prizes and she said china walk on the new development piece in ukraine. um, so i think this is a great opportunity for all sides evolve. china is looking forward to build more info structure, potentially helping a postwar reconstruction. because the support china ballad and roll initiative is a very important a project built the ration land that links china to europe and ukraine is an eastern europe is part of that. but what do you make about the timing of the idea

because it comes as russia is clearly winning on the battlefield and ukraine. so why reduce defense spending now? well, it makes sense. the rush sure is. as you mentioned, the pressure is winning on the at this point we are looking at a drawing donald's account from both sides. this is what donald trump has clearly expressed interest in and putting this walk coming all suggestions. i mean the, there are looking at peace settlement now. i mean the part of the peace settlement is drawing download the arm. so all right, well i'd like to ship to the economic frontier present, improved and also suggested the idea of joint rare earth development projects between russia and the united states. so i think that could potentially benefit both powers. well, this is, this is where the united states specifically have an interest in securing where are

supplies because the tenants relationship between united states and china, china currently controls the majority of the rare earth production and united states. understandable is right to diversify. and this is where russia has lots to offer because russia possessed many meet rare earth and you know, a deposit of any present food. and also pointed out, russia has much more of those resources than whatever is in ukraine, you know? because prompted raised the issue that he would like ukraine to repay all the loans that us provided in terms of mineral rare earth and minerals. or do you think about the timing about that? i mean, of course, donald trump's trying to secure a rare or deal with a lot of years lensky. and then all of a sudden it turns out that the ones get to deal with the u. k. before that, i mean what, what's the timing about? well us is it. trump is just laying out the terms. i mean,

i don't think soleski using any positions to negotiate with us. it has the one that, oh somebody, a lot of money and right now it's, it's just up to us to decide how ukraine is going to we pay back all these loans that us as provided during the, by an invitation. so what do you think russia, what do you think about the timing of rushes offered to do this? what do you think moscow is maybe trying to play here? well, russia, it's expressing, interesting piece. i mean that it's the president, trump basically pull it out of all this branch. this is a recognition that rush that you back as one in the battlefield. so, you know, you should rush out. can't afford to be magnanimous here because russia is a victor of the conflict. and it's it couldn't have hold the door open for negotiation or even possibly partnership with united states on the pulse of work

development. i mean, this is a walk coming, change and as present food. and as i mentioned, this change has also walk them by the members of the bricks. nations who have long sought to have a peaceful negotiation. 2 ends are you create conflict. yeah, definitely. it seems like we're looking at a drawing down of the conflicts, but i wanted to ask you about bricks because this has been an area where donald trump's making some top statements. i mean, the threatened huge terrorist if the black, if the block pushes to ditch the dollar. do you think that the groups members feel intimidated by that? the well, i think is this is a bit of a non secret door because the, the tops of bricks, perry, see to replace us dollar. this is still an initial stage. there's has no, um, you know, there has been no concrete plan on moving toward that donald trump is firing a shot award in shots by the same time. trump is also slacking care of some of the

nations outside the united states. now including traditional ally, life canada, and mexico and even g u, announce trulia. so is a full full, full breaks. i think they will continue to pursue what's there in the best interest of their member nations. and you know, what. busy do it that that's, that's up to trump this up to united states as president food and said, you know, for, he will not comment on a sovereign nations on economic policy. that's up to, for the us government to decide all speaking of bricks and the sovereign interests of its members states. i mean, there was a reason phone conversation between vladimir putin and choosing, paying in which the chinese leader informs the russian president. that a bricks peace group would convene in new york soon to discuss the resolution of the ukraine conflict. what kind of uh, outcomes do you expect from that? well, i think uh, you know, you, i expect to see uh, rick, some member nations express for

a support for rochester position in bringing in to the conflict. i mean, uh, countries like south africa, brazil and china have long proposing as uh, a piece brokers to, to bring an end to this conflict. and this is a walk coming change or the brakes. and i think russia will find much support among its fellow members in the fridge station. what's the phone call? it took place from the 3rd anniversary of rushes, special military operation. what do you read into the timing of that? well, i mean it's really, it's really come to the united states finally coming to the realization this fantasy of the feeding rush around the battlefield is only realistic. and so donald trump in the business meant he knows when the car is locked losses and that's exactly what he's doing right now. a, some new leaders are still quite resistant because they haven't invested so much of

their old political capital in following along biting push for proxy. where you, you, grace, they stand to lose faith. and if they were to do a $180.00 degree change on this matter, but it in the and europe is not being a position to continue this conflict under all this. this was united states more and us have decided it's time to bring it to and, and, and that's what's gonna happen. europe and zaleski, just have to accept to all right. are to contributor carls out. thanks a lot for coming on the program. always a pleasure. thank you. a lot of our put and also made it clear that europe is in no position to put any terms to russia over the ukraine conflict. as the french president has been hosted for talks at the white house, but the manual macro and apparently failed to will donald trump is the american leader stood firm on his approach to peace. on the frenchman tried to appeal to the

defunct minsk agreements that were actually backed by paris to give new crane time to rearm in 2014, all prizes. this was negotiate the peace with president clinton. but because of the lack of guarantees and especially security guarantee is present, putting violates of this piece. the thing was we didn't have security guarantees. it says, this is why being strong and having different runs capacities is the only way to be sure it will be respected. i think it's to the very much benefit of russia to make a deal and to go on with the go on with leading russia is very positive way that's. that's what you have to do. euro is loading the money to you credit. they get their money back. no, in fact, to be frank, we paid,

we paid 60 percent of the full and it was like for us loans guarantee grounds and we, we provided the money to be to you after refusing to talk with putting for years macro and made a remarkable you turn after meeting trump, the french leader now says he's ready to resume dialogue with moscow and hopes that a truce can be sealed within weeks. we've got the reaction to how macro and was hosted in washington from former us trade representative officials, steve deal. i think the meeting with the president trump the present kroner. france started with president, probably not meeting him at the doorway of the white house. and it went down from there where the president, the crowd was trying to argue with president trump, to, to justify additional spending additional military aid to ukraine. i don't think he was making any ground with prob president trump. this made up his mind how to in this conflict, how to move it from the depths incarnates that we've seen that western europe has

not been able to end the president by the continued to push forward. i are, the president, trump is, is going to take the lead in this and as, as used to be a phrase here in the u. s. western europe can either of these follow or get out of the way. this is this point. there are only 2 options are to follow or get out of the way. the in other news, a man with a dark past as a member of the neo nazi ukrainian. as all the battalion who stands as a convicted war criminal. that doesn't seem to bother the danish parliament with lawmakers in copenhagen rising to their feet just a little bit controversial figure. thank you for, for, for the applause that would 1st go to our military, one of whom is here with us today. and for all of them who are back home for the this

is the man at the center of it all. dimitri cooper proudly displaying what many call a badge of horror in other photos can over can be seen wearing the logo of the so the so called nissan tropic division, which far alongside neo nazis in the as of unit is group lost. the battle of variable in 2022, where he and many of its members were taken prisoner by russia. moscow court sentenced him to nearly 3 decades behind bars for the war, crime of opening fire on a civilian vehicle, killing 2 on arms people and later shooting a 3rd on the street. cooper was eventually released as part of us, a prisoner swap and returned home into september. seeing that played out in copenhagen is finally reminiscent of what was witnessed in canada back in 2023. then global outrage interrupted after a ukrainian man who served in nazi germany 14 boffin ss. brenadere division was

given a lengthy standing ovation and the canadian parliament and the western spit, and hasn't stopped there either. the guardian recently dedicated an article to combat medics that accompany ukraine's 3rd assault per date. however, it felt short of mentioning that some of those maddox were members would be as off battalion, with several clearly seen wearing extremist and neo nazi symbols. we heard the thoughts of former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter on all of this earlier. it's not just the danes. it's not just the canadians, it's the united states. it's great britain. it's the entire collective west, which has been infected by a russell phobia to the extent that they've, in effect, had their memories wiped clean. of what the reality of nazi ideology is. and that's the idea. ology exist today in the form of its, you know, successor, a band tourism, the band there is so, and the, the, the,

the individual being applauded and the danish parliament is a living, breathing example of bad dearest ideology. a war criminal who killed innocent civilians, i think as long as in the united states in europe continue to view russia as the adversary. we will empower a historical revisionism that has taken place today. uh, one that forgives the western ukrainian. this is the supporters of step, i'm been there of there so that the crimes, they committed a fighting side by side with nazi germany. the hundreds of thousands of people that they slaughtered tens of thousands of jews, hundreds of thousands of ukrainians paused russians. we forgive this because in the post war era, they prostrate themselves as being anti communist, the anti stolen under no circumstances through the united states ever stand side by

side with band dearest ukraine. and i think what we're seeing is the united states is moving away from that. we are starting to talk responsibly about the possibility of peace with russia. and hopefully, sooner rather than later, this piece will be manifested in the said chapter in our history where we applaud the successors of adolf hitler's nazi germany. people who live in the form of ukrainian to embrace, step on band there of that chapter will become. ready cost and put into the past. for the 1st time in 3 years, the un security council has passed a resolution on ukraine without any direct criticism of russia. the draft was put forward by the trump administration, and moscow has appreciated mont, washington's new approach to the conflict. it really comes duplex. it is, i don't see, we consider the american draft resolution on the ukraine crisis. a common sense initiative, a step in the right direction. which reflects the will and the new administration

of the white house to really contribute to the peaceful settlement of the conflict . it is clear that the militarize in europe today is the only player internationally which wants to war to continue and is resisting any realistic initiatives to settled the complex. so you can, we really appreciate the resolution brought a neutral approach to ending the ukraine conflict while dropping the bite. and the era claim that russia is an aggressor. 10 members of the security council voted in favor of the american draft. all 5 european states chose to abstain. the us draft was also put to a vote at the un general assembly where it was passed after some heavy changes. european states for fused a green light, the document until pro ukraine points were added. and after the amendments were made, the us abstain from voting on its own draft. simultaneously ukraine also presented its own bill. blaming russia for the conflict. washington, however,

refused to support that stands. a path to peace is possible, mister president. that is why the united states oppose putting forward another resolution, and that is why we cannot support ukraine's resolution. and we urges withdrawal in favor of a strong statement committing us to end the war and work towards a lasting peace of the united states. also, requests the general assembly take action on the united states, proposed resolution immediately following consideration of the ukraine drafted resolution. you mean should political issue no less panic is felt in a number of european capitals where all these years, they don't have any help. the key of click and covered up is crimes, but also not should rest of phobia you prorate on trades and fabrications about the goals and objectives. the best professional military operation was that as a result, inflated such a huge bubble of lies from which it is now very difficult for them to get out of it . and they tried to ignore the fact that the winds have changed and the clear