the, are you ready to come along the use of this uh, rubbing i thought was easy, attain the presidential candidate caught in to just do for i'm doing eric data and he was, he was winning the race for the countries from top to political office. won a quote as a full election officer. we're waiting for our european colleagues to finally stop lying about russia blocking negotiations was, is far unless it says inc. crane is being pushed by europe to rejects any negotiations on ending the conflict from claims that as he is heading to washington to sign a deal on new kinds of mineral resources, he reiterated slip cabbage conflicts with loss. guns needs to end the

very, very well welcome to you from the entire on see international news even come to live from last we saw this out with breaking news, romanian presidential kind of kind into a dispute has been detained for more details though every now and the studio is all see correspondence, solids, davinsky. so thanks a lot for taking the time. you know, what's going on, what is going on? we hear that the associate of detained don't just do, but so why? well, there is a huge amount to unpack hamburrow, as you say, calling georgia school was detained earlier today by the authorities in romania, he was actually stopped while he was in a vehicle. he was on his way to submit his papers for his candidacy for the renewed remaining and presidential elections, which are due to take place in may. he was stopped taken away for discussions. now

the local media said that he was detained because he's being quizzed about the financing for his very successful presidential campaign last year in romania. and this is where everything sort of really falls apart. if we just go back to that campaign, this is a candidate to a scene as being on the frame. she was pulling it around 5 percent. and then suddenly he had this chick talks with you, which went completely viral and remain. yeah. in fact, it went viral around the world and it showed joe jessica, talking about his values as a traditional list as somebody who's being on t nato will pro brochure in his stance and talking about what he felt was wrong with romanian. how that needed to be resolved. i'm not really touched. and if with many working cost people traditionalists in the country and as a result of this incredible take talk video, he ended up coming 1st in the 1st round polling of the presidential election gave me 23 percent. not meant that he and what other person would be going into the next

act of elections to see who could be were mainly is election the next presidential candidate, but the actual president of the country. and this is where it will fall apart, because then there was these accusations of how could this complete outside of come from new russian just in for me should not say exactly why everybody's minds turned in the e u in romania and they were like, okay, well now we've got to find the evidence that russia was behind this, this information campaign. an interesting leave as a result of that, the constitutional court in remain is this the elections be manipulated to manipulated. we need to cancel it, so the cancels it and that's why they didn't have the 2nd run. this is why they mean say we won the election was late. so they see i'm not caused a huge amount of controversy. people questioning really what was happening in this european country and not just your opinions, but actually in the last couple of weeks, straight the folks, the vice president of the usa, was in munich for the security council. and he was talking about the way that you

were was back tracking on its values. and he said, actually the situation to remain you is a prime example of that, where you are paying country doesn't fundamentally respect the same values as the united states. the so the points that i try to make to our european friends and i, i think that there are friends, i believe that i know president trump does is that friendship is based on shared values. you do not have shared values. if you're jailing people for saying we shouldn't close down our border, you don't have shared values. if you cancel elections because you don't like the result and that happened in romania, you don't have, you do not have shared values. if you're so afraid of your own people, but you'd silence them and shut them up. well, meanwhile, is yours? yes. who's also a tuesday authorities of haley as abuse and in terms of the situation with his detaining today. also some 47 addresses of his supporters and those who didn't find

it's his campaign well, also searched with heat him, saying that the authorities are intent on finding evidence. yeah, interesting. i saw that you, you told the earlier that the elections were kind of sold by a romanian quote, because as you mentioned that before, but there was supposed to rough an involvement but hasn't been any evidence 0 absolute 0 evidence of that being any russian involvement in manipulating that remaining presidential election back in 2024. and that's not just talk to you saying that that as an investigation in the country which has not been able to handle this kind of evidence as reported in the new york times. the intelligence documents released publicly by romania provided no evidence of a russian rule. only the observation that russia has a history of interfering in the electoral processes of other states and vague

claims that what happened in romania was similar to well documented russian election interference in neighboring moldova, to so 3 months on the accusation is from yours. yes. do that the authorities are doing everything they can to desperately find something to point the finger at him or point the finger at russia, despite the fact that there is no evidence to the fact that investigation that the new york times was talking about the this was carried out by the romanian tax authorities, this is the and at the a n a f in the country. and what it could really was quite interesting because it didn't uncover any interference from russia. in fact, it didn't cover the financing of the promotion of the tip top 5th, you actually came from a pro european policy. this is the national liberal policy who had done this bar a p off in cold kensington said they had really pushed choose yes because campaign

in the hopes of taking away support from other conservative policy, the presidential candidates to push their own cons that not massively back 5, because he just touched this incredible move with the remaining people then oversee they went out, voted for him. and the question now is when you look at the polls today, george ask who this man who came from victory? nothing is still a front runner will. he's a be allowed to run in the presidential campaign in may. that is still to be dependent. yeah. one to watch the show as always, a pleasure to live the are these charlotte? don't see that with the d test. but now let's close the live out to join us. i'm you i, he's a senior research fellow. the global pose is 2 in hungry george always a pleasure to see how fast rome manian selection was cancelled as we now. and now the front runners being detained as he was preparing to sub resubmit his cabin to

see what do you think is happening here, as well as the mechanism has not been put in place to ensure that he doesn't run in the rerun of the presidential elections in may, and it was always obvious, but the remaining and all sort is we're going to do it because almost immediately off to the cancellation of the election by a romania as constitutional quote. the police launched an investigation into money laundering. supposedly they had no evidence, but they were the ones they launched investigation to money laundering perpetrated by georgia school. and clearly the intent was that since that will be obviously a re run all the election, he will be denied of the possibility of running because of pro yukon. have somebody running who is on the criminal investigation. so what happened today is clearly the 1st step of the process of disqualifying him from running in may. yeah, certainly it's interesting to see what implications does this. so situation have on?

well the state of democracy in romania. what is it like extra sauce? there is no democracy if the moment any political thing emerges will challenge is the, the conventional wisdom o, e u. nato, particularly on the question of the war in ukraine and on the question of uh, using uh, romania as a kind of nato beach had to advance the need and they to, into the was in romania and then eventually into a mold over at the moment. anyone challenges that the, the powers that be ensure that is a disqualified from a running or his election is cancelled. and what they know is that there will be no one pip squeak out. so the e u complaining is a well,

this is on democratic. you've not be to do it as it was supposed to have values. this is the you supposed to be a set of the democracy? nothing. no one thing you do is j. d events coming from the united states or pointed out of the outrages most of what happened in romania. but we have to keep in mind the binding the administration fully supported. what remained is constitutional court did in december. and the you and brussels also fully supported . what they did, they said, oh yeah, we have to do something, but russian interventions, no evidence of russian sense. but we got to do something about this. so you know, when eventually i'm not sure this will happen. um georgette school is disqualified from brawling. you won't hear anything from brussels. yeah. and the deal is i will talk a little bit about other countries we've got to in a 2nd. i might even get your thoughts on sort of if we look at, we've seen this sort of thing before, should i? because if you may, you may remember donald trump faced a barrage of attacks before the us presidential election from being sought tax to

enduring lenses. medius, may campaigns, i legal, but the bible, yet those challenges feel assumed only to increase so popular support for him. if you think to judge who could benefit in a similar way, i don't think so. the united states as a very different um, political culture from that of europe. there is of much gray to the 1st amendment protections there is much greater um, the ability to find all the quotes, particularly if you have resources. and i think that was what was important for trauma. he had the 1st amendment rights. he could, he could continue to campaign, even though they did try to go to elizabeth amendment my through the various court orders. but nonetheless, he was limited. he continued to campaigns, as he had very deep pockets defied all of the legal challenges. last because he was

running for president, he could continue to raise money and use the money that he raised in order to fight the quotes. you can't really do that in europe. there is, there is no 1st amendment in europe and um, and, and resources. i would imagine georgia's because remote resources will be quite limited and whatever sources you'll have, i'm sure the quotes were just simply put a freeze on any money that he has or any money that's been raised for him. so i think that he will probably go good, easily be sidelined and preventive from running and you know, will be, you know, down on the election need for years time. but by then the, you know, the, the importance of this campaign will have dissipated gas and trusting, you know, until as long as we get your thoughts on why, why, why was doing jessica, even upfront, right in the 1st place, people will, this happens? well i think he was raising the issues that resonated with the romanian public. i

mean the believe in the countries that are close as to ukraine are the ones that are most concerned about an escalating war in ukraine. so don't read romania, we're talking about hungary, we're talking about a slovak yet. these are all countries the border on the ukraine and that. but when he addressed that issue and said, we don't really want to get sucked into this to just maintain a neutrality on this then that all of us it set off alarm bells in it in brussels. but the, the other thing is that romania is being built up by the united states. the building, the biggest military base in europe is going to get the h eclipsing ramstein in germany is going to be the biggest base in europe. why they doing it? because because the americans are expanding that presence in europe on the black sea, that, that's where, you know, they see the future of the american expansion,

the future of nato expansion. and that, of course, if you will remain in that's very troubling because your in the front line. so if there is going to be a war, you know, you'll be the 1st target to be hit. so there's obviously a concern in romania about developments. and i think that's what propelled um is rice about, but i think we should also room but he's a well known vega, this is a you know, the western media report that we get. he came from nowhere and no one's ever heard of him. so he has no, he didn't come from the he's a well known figure. he's been around for many years. he worked at the united nations. he's an established ex spot on the sustainable development. so given he was a known quantity in romania. yeah. very interesting. and able to have the name of it. that was a pleasure. george simon, you are a senior research like the global policies that you normally find. it's going to be a time. i want to other stories that russia's top

that perhaps like a level has condemned a you for full see claiming that moscow did not want to negotiate for peace in nuclear. we are doing, we're waiting for our european colleagues to finally stop lying about russia blocking negotiations. president putin has repeatedly responded to these false claims, reminding everyone that it is primarily the ukrainian leadership encouraged by europe. that refuses to negotiate. in addition to the already notorious decree from zalesky prohibiting talks with the russian federation more over every day, we hear various statements and assertions that europe and cube should not sit down at the negotiating table right now. and they must 1st establish the pure already on the battlefield. in this militant spirit, european countries are currently promoting their hopelessly outdated and failed policy regarding ukraine. therefore, we believe that the best assistance from those who genuinely want to help resolve

the conflict is to understand its causes the root causes of this conflict with president trump. this is, by the way, in his recent speech is calling nato's expansion and the attempt to absorb ukraine in the north atlantic had lions, the biggest mistake of the bible ministration. and one of the key reasons for the outbreak of this conflict between swords and was the wall in caught, todd. so gay levels are resorting into a long supply falls as present my phone about using 10 subscription russian assets to help you claim that shows minds. it is another interesting remark from a kron. he stated that the seized russian assets in europe cannot be touched because it would violate international law. however, the prophets generated from these assets can certainly be used to support ukraine. we want to ask our friends, colleagues to clarify which international legal documents permits the use of profits from what you have stolen pretty but it's up to columbia. the president

also weighed in about key as decision making. he's has it as he is being manipulated by western european powers. donald trump is there a site before any new movie aid is sent to crime here must secure a deal over its mental resources. he emphasizes that reaching a piece, federal remains the top priority. we need to have a deal with russia other. busy as it's gonna continue, but now when americans put up their money, the tax fair money president approves it. we're getting our money back in some form . but it could go on for a while or it could be settled quickly. i think it's going to be settled quickly. i spoke with present a boat and i think it wants to settle. it may lock the you in serious. it is not of this year any new deal for read of middles for me frame as it already reached. i think we went back in 2021. there is no proposal. so since 2021 to you has

a partnership on critical raw materials with ukraine. formalized to our memorandum of understanding. so these dates back 4 years ago. and as with old, you critical raw materials partnerships that we have this corporation is not only about securing supply chains for you, but also about fostering local value creation and capacity building in partner countries, ensuring mutual benefits. now, as you see, this is really here about corporation with ukraine and not about any sort of competition with us while you play and some of those remain long as the on top to try as decades of industrial expansion have made it the global need in such a red x force as that, but as well as into, in a tough spot, does it run supp tarus and fade measures against aging? i went out to all the correspondence in. yeah, i think i brings down lots of state. did you know that us china trade wars are one

of the reasons for flood damage the lens keys worst nightmare? this temporary, by that i mean donald trump's recent obsession with ukraine's mil rules, which could quite surprisingly lead to potential lucrative business deals between the us and russia. even before trump and his latest tariffs, the bowman ministration was on an economic war path with badging just weeks before . leaving off is biden's theme bands. the export of us develop chips that power ai systems through china. the action is designed to safe got the most advanced a technology and then show that it stays out of the hands of a foreign adversaries. b, j. assume hit back and said it would stop selling metals like gallium and so many and germanium to america, gallium, a germanium are used in semi conductors with the latter also utilized in infrared technology fiber optic cables and solar cells. well, antimony is used in bullets and other weaponry, you may wonder why that could be

a big deal for the americans. why can't they just get the metals elsewhere? well, they technically can, but china is far and away the top source for both metals globally, accounting for 94 percent of gallium and 83 percent of germanium supply. neither metal is actually particularly rare, but processing costs are high. and because china has exported them relatively cheaply for so long, there are few facilities elsewhere to extract the resources. where else do they get gallium? for example, how big guess ukraine is one of the places where the metal is produced as a byproduct of aluminum. that could likely explain this. so we're asking for rarer than oil any the we didn't get the where earth's or where metals like gallium, someone must have explained to mr. trump, that his country needs to look for places other than china to secure access to

critical metals. the us president just won't let go of ukraine, where in fact, the cost of critical minerals productions could be overwhelming due to a number of factors like issues with chemical and water resources. kia stop, brass is worried. a deal with washington will be a burden of the future generations of ukrainians and right in the middle of the whole ukraine, where are a steel debacle? we find out that donald trump is actually a fan of the idea of getting critical minerals from russia, which by the way, doesn't o billions to the americans. so only good business in mind, you know that massive, rare is a very large, it's actually the largest in terms of land is by far very bad. we used to use just hours later, a lot of our pro, who unlike mister zalinski doesn't oh donald trump, a dime says he's happy to work together with the us on extracting these resources

on terms that are mutually beneficial for both sides. mercy units. brushing is one of the absolute leaders in terms of the results of these array of metals. they have found in the north, in the far east visa, quite capital intensive investments, capital intensive projects. we're happy to work together with any ford and partners, including from the us. we wouldn't be ready to work with our american partners. when i say our american buttons, i mean not only administrative and government entities, but also businesses if they were interested in working together. where arts and critical minerals have become buzz words thanks to donald trump. since he took over at the oval office for any nations with major emissions access to them is crucial because of their wide application in the world of high tech, from light bulbs, to guided missiles this table put together by a man or can researchers shows how far the us is behind countries like russia and

china when it comes to reserves of these resources. 1.8000000 tons in the united states versus 10000000 in russia. and a whopping 44000000 tons in china. beijing is also firmly ahead of the americans in terms of the production of rare earths. this brings me back to mr. put his ideas and surprise, surprise. gallium. remember how i said it's produced as a byproduct of aluminum limited to east of some of the. most importantly, i believe we could work together with american companies in this field. for example, back in soviet times the we have plans to build a new hydro electric power station in the cause of the region and create additional menial production facilities. after all, aluminum is primarily about energy, preferably cheap energy hydropower is both inexpensive and on top of that, environmentally friendly. so these plans have been around since soviet times that

however would be a capital intensive and investments heavy project. preliminary estimates, habits cost at somewhere around $15000000000.00 at the base prices, but we can consider this possibility. so re between the lines, if u. s. companies invest in a grand aluminum production venture that could also pay the way for getting access to gallium. smart, the pieces of the puzzle could really all be coming together right now. and who would have thought just weeks ago that the us china trade war could lead to trade gambits by the russian and american presidents to authorize it regarding by someone else is just one way that the u. s. and most of boosting that ties. oh, so you're going to, we did clear sentences. gus is why and this revival economy relations is mutually beneficial but think it can only be seen as positive if it comes to the the

a conclusion which is beneficial for both parties. i mean, we've seen this happen specifically in the, in, in the oil markets. right. if we look at opec plus, which is pretty much all the middle eastern countries, some of the north african countries, what they do by cooperating on pricing on, on spreading those resources of oil around the world. they actually trade chief of prices for their own people, which is the most important thing to be, to the american for american and russia, but also stabilize or is this chaos in the world when it comes to trading of, of oil, which is, of course, a couple of the see a very precious one as are lots of these, whereas that ross share in the united states and talking about, i mean, just common sense for vials, right? if the largest country and about russia and the largest economy in the world, the united states all trading together, i would say it stands to reason that the united states will probably make more money of re stabilizing. we invigorating that say, going through the states on price as the russia and collaborating together, default bigger economies. i mean, we have to remember that most people haven't really heard the cry and even existed

as a country and to the few years ago that really yeah, everyone. yeah. is russia everyone has china that massive economic power houses. so together i think the us trump is counts and i think that will make as a business when he is we'll make a lot more money, big friends with the roster and trading with them then then they'll allow jeep right. and that for some reason we, we took such an interest in what do you make of the, the full of relations between most of most ago and the nice thing. yeah. and the us, a few weeks ago, this was a bit unimaginable. i think, as i said a on the program a, a, a guess a week or 2 ago, again, we should approach this with caution. i mean, you know, it may look, we'll have 2 days now, but there's still a lot to be in doubt in terms of the piece treated with you, cried we sold today. uh for mr. start getting our problem speak or speak on this. there was still a lot of red lights to get through, but i think we can see as, as president putin's outlets, it's positive roster was open to working with the united states. but i think we still just need to wait and see exactly how that going to come together. if we look at the cost of the sanctions led by the us on russia to the global economy. i mean,

it's, we don't for you and i come from, from europe and, you know, you, you know, when you go go back to the u. k. as you see how much more expensive utilities off, they were very expensive for people in the you can use it before, but now it's like 4 or 5 times of eyes. i look at my mother's a utility bills. she's paying at least double if not triple. what she was paying before or the sanctions and oldest sending this happened. i think for the world in general, it's already going to hopefully benefit the lives of ordinary working people that are the people that have been most hit by, by the sanctions. rather than the, the top 5 cats giving the orders and, and funding the war to india. now, presidents, i pro bella, so the, and so as is part of the inputs and as a quote, best friend does, he match with the secretary of rushes, assist you with the council into casa. so you're sure you're familiar with a personal invitation from may suppose in full the indonesian president to visit

moscow, which he accepted. that's all the visuals discuss a wide range of key issues reaffirming and the commitments to deeper partnership with them. the chances that live this year, we celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations between all countries. it is remarkable that indonesia remembers the contribution of our country. i mean, both the soviet union and russia to the development of its economy, education, and many other spaces. if we talk about the present day and about the training of specialists over 6800 military offices have been prepared. this work continues and it has very big and positive prospects. ready or something yeah, that mr. short goose visit embodies the highest level of commitment between the presidents of indonesia and russia in the future. both countries are looking towards the stronger defense cooperation, not only limited to military units, but including people that people context in the interest of global stability and peace during his visit to,

to car that any russian security console. secretary said again, showing go along with a delegation from various sectors, how the closed door meeting with innovation defense, minnesota shop solutions suited in and key officials from the ministry of defense. while the primary focus was on defense cooperation, the presence of russian representative from agriculture, energy and the banking sector highlights a brother effort to strengthen both military and economic ties between the 2 nations. a key point of discussion was the growing defense partnership between indonesia and russia, demonstrated by the 1st average joint naval exercise, auto dot health in november 2024 in the java. see this exercise focused on counter terrorism operations, showcasing a new level of military collaboration. additionally and initials, military defense modernization was discussed for typically the ongoing partnership

with russia in operating and maintaining this quite a fighter jets beyond military matters. cyber security emerge as a significant concern during his meeting with in the nation. president problem was so beyond goal. he emphasized russia's interest in p per cooperation to combat cyber security threats. recognizing the increasing digital fonder abilities faced by indonesia. i didn't, i missed as any of my. one of the most acute threats today is cyber security. it is gaining more and more momentum. it is dangerous, of course we need to be as active as possible and work on advancing in this area to count to these dangerous and, and of course on the geo political front discussions call for the middle is situation. the palestine, israel conflict and also about syria. a specific concern was raised about in the nation nationals linked to terrorist groups. currently.