the the, the is one of the undisputed leaders in reserves of these are metals. we are happy to work collaboratively with any ford in the box, including americans. the russian president weighs in on the rush for rarer with a page to consider joined projects with the us. and the idea is echoed by donald trump. vladimir put and also hales, the american leaders approach to resolving the ukraine conflict. and neither of the 2 presidents are a fan of the landscape as the boot and calls him a toxic figure. plus, there is no criticism of russia at the un security council. for the 1st time in 3

years, the top world body adoption, american, drafted resolution on ukraine. however, the same draft is heavily distorted by europe and powers for, for being passed at the capital assembled. it is clear that today the militarize in europe is the only international player that wants to war to continue and is resisting any realistic initiatives to settle the conflict. the broadcasting live from moscow, russia to the world. this is our to international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the pro our top story. ukraine is not the only country where the us can find rare earth minerals. russia has a lot more of them, and present improvement has offered to jointly develop the resources with washington under donald trump. this is me, this layout terrace, metals are very important. they constitute key resources for more than the sectors

of the economy. so far we have done little in this area and we need to do more. we would be ready to offer administrative associates for work in this direction to all american partners. when i say partners, i mean not only administrative and governmental structures, but also companies should they show interest in collaborating with us. we undoubtedly have significantly more resources of this kind than ukraine. let me emphasize that. russia is one of the undisputed leaders in reserves of these are metals. these projects require substantial capital investment. we are happy to work collaboratively with any foreign partners, including americans, by the way, regarding the new territories, the same applies. we are ready to attract for an partners to our so called new historical territories that have been returned to the russian federation. there are also certain reserves they to get more on this story now are joined live in the

studio by r t correspondence alignment issue har. i'm, i'm a, can you tell us a little bit more about what vladimir putin had to say about this new detox between russian. the west, of course, is a drastic and very important change from how stagnant relations between washington moscow has been under the bite and administration for over 3 years. and with the new us administration, being interested in restoring relations and choosing the diplomatic route. a russian has made it clear that it is interested and ready to work with foreign partners when it comes to where earth metals development, including in new territories. lot improvement also suggests a joint work between the united states and russia when it comes to aluminum production. specifically in the custody our region. and the president also held a meeting with russian officials discussing this very same topic in which he describes the metal, the strategic was of vital for russia's future competitiveness and economic

development. and he also highlighted the space in new materials and chemistry projects, which tackles the complete cycle of the rare earth minerals industry from its extraction to the production of hi tech goods. now what's even more interesting is that this meeting comes as from expressed interest in developing economic cooperation with russia involved in this industry a. so we're trying to do some digging out a lot of things and we want to have massive, rare is a very large section of the largest in german land is by far very very busy for world peace and lasting page. so it's all about economic relations.

now it seems that cooperation and partnership are in front of the discussion and it's a huge change from before. now, washington and multiple are making moves towards one another to better relations with one another or the present improvement. say about, i mean, he was also asked about what he thinks about donald trump seeking in ukraine. can you tell us a little bit about that? he had some very interesting awards on that. he also added that a trump has a free hand on the situation and the ukraine, unlike european leaders. i mean, russia essentially agrees here that the united states is looking for peace and strengthening relations. and his recent interview, a lot of my put in or was also asked whether he believes that donald trump is maybe absent on emotions. his response seems to be that the approach of his american counterpart is rational. it is donald trump, acting on a motion?

well, of course, not naturally to the cotton head of the key for she gives the reason to show these emotions. but from what i said earlier, something completely different emotions. these actions are based not on emotions about the cold calculation when the rational approach to the current situation and then the current situation, to be honest, we wouldn't be interested in the human sitting there. and for the, the composing that regime with which we are in the conflict. now you have leaders of 2 of the world's most powerful countries, almost seen ida i and hopefully with joint efforts and joint actions being on the horizon. it seems like a good plan for peace and moving forward with trump recently called zelinski a dictator without elections actually and put in as an exactly a fan of the ukrainian politician either. izzy yes, and walter plum called zelinski,

a dictator as the rest of us in both leaders continues. vladimir put in isn't very fond of the man either a. well, speaking of those that wednesday, he believes that he is a becoming a toxic figure and not necessarily good for ukraine to and this is a low cut and had the key effort. she is becoming a toxic figure for the armed forces of ukraine, because he's given ridiculous folders dictated not by mean instead of considerations, but by political considerations. and it is not clear what they are based on. this leads to on justifiably, firewalls is even though it's a very high, it's a catastrophic loss for the ukranian army. it becomes toxic for society as a whole monk, other things incumbent president tom cars in the house, but he wants to make peace by the way. so do we and as soon as possible and the kind of head of the machine is pending in the way of achieving that goal. and

that's hands the position. it seems to me, of the president of the united states. it has nothing to do with russian interests . it's more likely in the interest of you korean or the ukraine in states, in order to preserve ukrainian state which we have nothing against this either. all little, of course, we would like this territory not to be used as a breach for a tax on the russian federation. not used as a hostile, but each had for us. so that eventually turns into a friendly, neighboring state. and according to russian data villains, his chances of winning a presidential election are almost none. and just the vehicle ukrainian parliament has failed to back a resolution to support the blood tumors, the lensky. now, russia continues to say that it wants the case in ukraine as quickly as possible, but that zillow is the one that is spending on the way of peace. interestingly enough, while donald trump colds, the landscape dictator,

it seems that he feels different towards the flooding report. and let's take a listen to the american presidents response after he was asked if you would quote, put in a dictator. the same was a really good settlement. now, while europe continues to som russia and allow them to put and it seems that on the other hand, washington is starting to have some positive feelings towards russia that want to, to ask you. i mean, obviously it looks like there's cooling and relations between russia or between russian united states. but what about with the european union? because you bring us to that. now when it comes to europe, the situation is a little bit more complicated. but for vladimir, put in, europe's participation in negotiation is very important. now we must remember though, that russia never stood against that. in fact, it's long been calling for that to happen. but europe, tips,

or refusing. now let's look, listen at what flooding they put in have to say about europe and the europeans continue demanding the right to participate in the negotiations over ukraine. what do you make of this issue and using i've seen nothing wrong with face. perhaps no one can. dement anything here, especially from russia, let them demand from someone else. they have demanded anything from the or bustles for thousands of years and now they are being demanded in their turn. therefore, they should sit at home and think about why they leave the way they do. however, they are participation in the negotiation process is still important. we have never given up on this, and we have been discussing that with them constantly at some point on their all sorts of fire faced ideas to defeat the russia on the battlefield. v themselves. but if he was to contact us and now europe wants to be involved, but not necessarily wouldn't open mind like the current us administration as they

keep on bumping ukraine with more weapons either way. so how well negotiations happen when one side wants to hear nothing from one of the parties that is involved in the conflict and vladimir put in has reiterated again, the washer has nothing against the preservation of ukrainian statehood or sovereignty. but what he wants is for the west to stop using ukrainian territory as a threat to russian security. so while the situation, we will have to wait and see the situate how the situation will develop between europe and russia. it seems that washington, with washington on the other hand, it looks like it's heading towards peace and as from restoration of relations. alright, are to use my major har, thanks a lot for bringing us. the details are present in vladimir putin has also welcomed donald trump's idea to massively slash the defense budgets of the world's top 3 spenders. yeah,

because i cannot comment on how china will react to this. there were different approaches from the american side on strategic offensive arms and other very serious issues. therefore, this is a matter of the people's republic of china, but we could negotiate with the united states. i don't mind it. i think it's a good idea. just the united states could reduce its defense budget by 50 percent, and we could reduce it by 50 percent and china with van joining if it's $1.00 to $2.00. we believe that the proposal is good and we are ready to discuss it further or to contributor carl jobs says the suggested military spending draw down would be a truly historic move. this is a proposal for peace and full. russia, having one is objective on the battlefield. now it's to time to prepare for supposing we're transition, which means necessarily means drawing down of the arms. and, and this, by extending this up proposal to all 3 powers. that is to be in for washington.

have let's, let's, let's focus on peace rather than compensation. and i think president trump also has some interest in cutting government ways and you know, this, why do you have some the law must be in charge of dodge. whereas china might have its own um, a strategic buyer or diesel, you know, who it is that just this proposal right now it's been working out, worked out between us and, and russia by china is always welcome to joining in if they felt they need present improvement also suggested the idea of joint rare or its development projects between russia and the united states. but do you think moscow is maybe trying to play here? what russia is expressing interesting piece. i mean that it's the president, trump basically pull it out of the olive branch. this is a recognition that rush that you back as one in the battlefield. so, you know,

if you rush, i can 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 involvement. 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 briggs nations who have long sought to have a peaceful negotiation. 2 ends, you can calculate on r t dot com. we've got the full breakdown of president putin's extended media interview on the 3rd anniversary of russia's special military operation, head to our website, to check it out. and also have your say in the comments. for the 1st time in 3 years, the united nations 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 washington's new standards committee goes, get back to this. i do 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 of 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 the war to continue and is resisting any realistic initiatives to settle the complex or you can. and the resolution brought a neutral approach to ending the ukraine conflict while dropping the button to our claim that russia is an aggressor. 10 members of the security council voted in favor of the american draft. and 5 european states chose to abstain. us draft was also put to a vote at the un general assembly where it was passed after some heavy changes. european states refused to green light the document until pro you can ukraine,

points were added after the amendments were made. the us abstain from voting on the altar draft simultaneously key of itself and its european allies presented another bill. blaming russia for the ongoing conflict with washington now refuses to support that narrative. 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 statements committing us to end the war and work towards a lasting peace. 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 mentioned political issues, they tried to ignore the fact that the winds of change in a clear demand for peace has been formed with the only obstacle being the key of

your server and his european accomplices. everyone who will press the button in this hall at the moment of voting on the you, ukraine. project phase has a choice either to play along with zelinski and his sponsors supporting their fantasy detached from reality. or to make a clear choice in favor of practical and realistic steps that can stop military action in ukraine in the very near future, do not let yourself be deceived. he started the moment and not on the for ukraine, a historic moment, not on the for euro, a historic moment for the entire democratic road. and the way we answer to the russian aggression today will define natalie. the future of ukraine will define not the future of europe. it will define our common future, the future of anti democratic quote. and the future of the un, conservative us political commentator, jo ultimate and told us that the security council resolution shows that the world

is finally waking up to the reality of the ukraine conflict. the verifications are, if everyone follows it, that it should lead to a little bit of pressure being put on a piece deal between russia and ukraine. so it's a, what i, what i found interesting is that there was no nase against a resolution, but there were 5 of stains in the, in the, in resolution. so i think what we're doing is we're trying to signal that there is no appetite globally for the conflict that exists between ukraine and russia. and recognizing that in, in essence, it was a proxy war between the united states and russia that they used ukraine through. you, they were able to set aside the differences. they were able to come to a place where they extended grace to each other and have conversations long conversations about what the issues were that were present in ukraine. look, uh president trump deserves the credit that he was willing to set aside. this idea that we can create this, this, this, this conflict out of out of nowhere and started looking at what was really in front

of them. he was able to identify what was happening in ukraine identify, you know, some of the things that, that the president put in was saying specifically about, you know, the reasoning behind why they had the offensive to begin with. and that led to, i think, better conversations around things that present trouble is that able to go and verify that when he got the verification of those things, that's when he stepped in the middle and said, okay, i've had enough of, of the little midget and, and ukraine and, and frankly, we're gonna get to the table and stop people from die. all right, let's get back to our top story now. the russian president has shared his perspective on the policies of his us counterpart, donald trump, the future of ukraine statehood, and the potential role of europe and peace talks. lot of are put and dismissed concerns over us ukraine resource agreements as he criticized the landscape leadership and assess trumps foreign policy as pragmatic and pro american rather than beneficial to moscow. but to get more on this now we're going to cross live to

john tablet. keith, senior editor at issue insight. thanks for joining us. once again. john, always a pleasure having you on the program. first, i'd just like to get your reaction to vladimir pollutants proposal to allow american investors to jointly develop russian rare or so. what do you think about that? it somewhat similar or not this similar to presidents lensky saying that, you know, he would resign if nato would allow ukraine into nato. and that was not going to happen in this particular case. you would something that's way down the line, but it's great for the news cycle. and so in that regard, you know, president poodle is do smart by focusing on what donald, what president trump looks at, which is transactions. and so, you know, he's, he's lighting that door rekindling. that's, that, that interest. and that fire by president trump, in the okay, you're looking at

a transaction in ukraine. well, we have a transaction also in russia. so, you know, maybe that should be enticing to you even though simply because of a sanction regimes, you know, where the 16th package with the european union, the u. s. has sanctions dating back to 2008. so unraveling all of that where you could practically do something that is going to take a top take time, but for the new cycle, smart move. well, donald trump also said that he wanted to improve the political environment of ukraine. what do you think he means by that? well, you can read that into improving the political environment means of regime change. you know, that phrase that, you know, we, we, all, we all use, you know, but is it a change in government or changing the behavior of the government?

you know, president trump books at presidents wincing and said, okay, you've served your 5 full term 5 year full term. now your extended because of, you know, martial law. so. busy maybe we need to look past, you know, i would suggest the president trump is not only looking past president zalinski, so post zalinski ukraine. he's also looking post cooling, russia. and i think collectively what you're saying is as the agreements begin to take shape for the cease fire and president trump is focused on one thing only. he's not looking just long term piece and, and, and they're all that the ceasefire is what he's focusing on the, the moment he can get present and putting to say ok at 12 o one on this date, you're going to stop firing into ukraine and then present lensky has to respond, that says motivation. and so, you know, what would present and trump,

when he's talking about, you know, a new government in, in ukraine or government changes. i think he's, you know, we sort of looking past looking generational. and also key knows, again, use the media cycle and he's got something in the cycle. well, i'd like to get your opinion on the european union's role and all of this, i mean, we saw the negotiations and saudi arabia that took place recently between the united states and russia. russell's obviously felt pretty left out about that. how do you see the european union's future role in these negotiations? you know, the initial meeting and re odd years while it was framed as your big encompassing ukraine, and special envoy woodcock was there. we've met with present important before. but the reality was, it was more about resurrecting the washington moscow relationship because i believe

that the trump vance administration believes that without a re establishment of washington, the moscow's relationship at the highest level. that means the presidential level. you can't really do anything else. and so president trump is looking at resolving or beginning to resolve what's happening in ukraine as going washington to moscow not passing through brussels meeting, european union leadership, natal leadership, not passing through key a meaning zalinski administration. but basically, a non stop flight from washington to moscow and, and that does make sense because, you know, we saw 3 years with a binding ministration where i was at the g 20 meetings where secretary then secretary state anthony blinking would deliberately and his team do everything they

could to avoid crossing past, which that would administer foreign affairs lab. ross, you mean it was, it was comical to a point and present trump of said you, what do you and he may be wrong, but present robust like hey guys, what are we doing? we're avoiding the people we said started the whole thing and then we somehow think that we're going to 3rd party not discuss anything with them. sanctioned them to the point where they're going to come and talk to us. you know, he's, he's taking basically that, that, that business. basically it's a, it's a, it's a business decision where, why use a triangle or quadrangle when you can use a straight line. and that's what he's doing. i wanted to ask you about donald trump's comments that vladimir zalinski is a dictator. i mean, this is a word that trump hasn't used to describe lot of mir putting in. obviously despite the comments of many western officials that have

a negative stance towards russia. so what do you make of this stands by the united states president a my take on this is a little different than, than most, assuming there was a lot of excitement simply, hey, he's an elected head of government. he be paid report shan't go the, the van incumbent in 2019 free fair election. so you may not like him, you may feel lisa and effective. you may want them to do other things. but, you know, is he illegitimate? and i think we're president trump was going with that is that he looks at president . so etzky serve this 5 year terms martial law by, by his government and his party, which controls the parliament. so he's de facto outside of his term. but she also was able to make decisions that maybe he wouldn't be able to make without martial law. but the,

the irony sort of here is that for president trump, he prefers your, um, maybe not, you know, dictators per se, but he prefers a strong executive. now to be fair, most us presidents prefer a strong executive, a how many presidents do we do? we do we hear where they'll say, i hate the fact that congress, you know, have to go through congress. i want to use executive orders. i want to, um, i don't want to have another uh, authorization to be able to, um, you know, review what we did in iraq, you know, 20 years ago. and so, you know, presidents democratically elected president, you know, tend to lament the fact that others and they'll look at president she of trying to, they'll look at president air to one to turkey and they'll look at president of russia. they'll look at president kim, of, nor 3, and they'll say, you know, they'll sit in the oval office and as a boy,

i wish i could have the power those guys had to be able to do what i want do, what hopefully what i think is right and i think that's sort of, you know, because he looks at everything optically but he didn't say a vitamin or below him is always gives a dictator. and this is what he's done as a dictator. he just sort of threw it out there. and you know, present a trunk doesn't always, isn't always as concise as we might want them to be. well, i mean, another serious proposal that trump made, of course, was the idea of potentially having the united states, russia and china all cut their military budgets by 50 percent. this is something that vladimir putin agreed with in a recent interview that he did for russian media. i want to ask, do you think that's realistic? and if that ends up actual lising some, how do you think that? well, i mean, what effect would that have on world geo politics?

you know, you, you right now, you know, governments are your, they'll try to look for efficiencies and maybe cut 5 percent and, you know, be very, very happy. or you have president trump saying to the 30 to 31 fellow nato members, and 2 percent isn't good enough. 2 and a half percent isn't good enough. 3 for we want to see you would 5, which isn't going to happen collectively. it just because there are too many stress points on governments to deliver for their tax payers, their voters, for health care and infrastructure and education of the. so spending 5 percent of in perpetuity on defense is, is you just a non starter. however, president trump is also looking at this new we, we used to talk about the peace dividend after the ussr ended 1991 president. george, you know, h w bush. it was say hey, you know, now we have

a peace dividend. we can all spend less because we're not cons more. we don't have a confrontational relationship with what was the ussr anymore. and so in the present truck is like, ok, everyone is talking about buying, buying, buying, and building, building building. but at some point, if you russia, ukraine war and then while you're still going to have some momentum from some countries front line countries to say, hey, you know what could happen again. so we want to spend what present from the looks at, hey, let's do a big, massive cut, the grand bargain. china or russia and united states. 50 percent cut is a doable. i think there's probably in each country, there is what president eisenhower talked about as the military industrial complex, which is huge because it has the tentacles throughout each of the countries creating jobs, creating money, creating export opportunities. these countries are export.