a pro russia party has won general elections in nato member state slovakia. the party is critical of the western military alliance and wants better relations with moscow. not to discuss that further, we're joined by guests earlier in the news review program. let's see what they had to say. tim now for the new this bulletin: pro russia party wins general elections in nato member state slovakia, for almost all votes counted, this is party, led by the former premier robert fico obtained over 23% of the votes. let the party's main rival, the centris progressive slovakia in second place on 17% of the votes. robert vecho's party now needs to enter wants better relations with russia and is critical of the european union and nato. he is pledged not to send a single round of ammunition to ukraine from slovakia, which has been one of europe's biggest doneers to kiev as a share with gdp. willbert dr. independent international affairs analist joins us from brussels. we also have greg simons who's an independent researcher and author who joins fromsala. our first over to y

a pro russia party has won general elections and nato members say to slovakia, the party is critical of the western milit alliance and once better relations with mas. now discuss that we were by our guests in the newsroom program. tim now for the news bulletin: the pro russia party wins general elections in nato member state slovakia, almost all votes getted left ismer st party by the former premier robert fico, obtained over 20% of the votes, another of the party's main rival, the centrist progressive slovakia in second place on 17% of the votes. robert fico's party now needs to enter a. to former government, fico seeks the end military aid to ukraine, wants better relations with russia, and is critical of the european union and nato. he is pledged not to send a single round of ammunition to ukraine from slovakia, which has been one of europe's biggest donors to kiev as a share with gdp. gilbert doctoral, independent international affairs analyst joins us from brussels, we also have greg simons, an independent researcher and author who joins from upsala, sweden. gentlemen, welcome t

to set up arms factories in ukraine as well. time now for the news you of this bulletin: the pro russia party wins general elections in nato member state slovakia, for almost all votes counted, left this smar st party led by the former premier robert fico, obtained over 23% of the votes. that left the party's main rival, the centris progressive slovakia in second place on 17% of the votes. robert fico's party now needs to enter a coalition to form a government. fico seeks to end military aid to ukraine, wants better relations with russia and is critical of the european union and nato. he is pledged not to send a single round of ammunition to ukraine from slovakia, which has been one of europe's biggest doners to kiev as a share with gdp. gilbert doctoral independent international affairs analyst joins us from brussels. we also have greg simmons. is an independent researcher and author who joins from upsala sweden. gentleman, welcome to you both. gilbert doctor, our first over to you. so, a pro russia party who's a nato member has won a general election. uh, what type of impact will that have

russia. just days ago, the slovac social democracy party, which is a pro-russia party, won the country's parliamentary elections. the leftist smeresty party led by former premier robert ficco, has not secured enough votes to form a government and needs to form a coalition with other parties, but the victory has been interpreted as a sign of growing war fatigue in europe. the party's leader has said that no more weapons would go to ukraine. he has also questioned. the logic of the eu's russia sanctions and even accused nato of causing the war. i believe that on the one hand, yes we should expect uh certain let's say uncomfortable relationship between brussels and slovakia, but then on the other hand, i also think that the relationship will also be rather pragmatic, however the the danger is real uh when it comes to slovakia's declining support to ukraine and this will also have its impact uh to weaken the eu's unity when it comes to its support for ukraine. just weeks ago, poland is stunge allly of ukraine, announced that it would no longer supply weapons to its neighbor and with a diplomatic dispute o

emerging that do not boat well for the us. at coalition against russia, just days ago, the slovak social democracy party, which is a proing the war. i believe that on the one hand, yes we should expect uh certain. let's say uncomfortable relationship between brussels and slovakia, but then on the other hand, i also think that the relationship will also be rather pragmatic, however, the the danger is real, when it comes to slovakia's declining support to ukraine, and this will also have its impact, to weaken the eu's unity when it comes to its support. for ukraine. just weeks ago, poland, a stanch ally of ukraine, announced that it would no longer supply weapons to its neighbor and with a diplomatic dispute over kiev's grain exports. prime minister mattheos moraweki has said that poland's focus was instead on defending itself with more modern weapons. the country's president later tried to modify their stance, but the dispute is seen as a rift among members of the anti-moscow. alliance poland has supplied hundreds of soviet ara tanks and 14 make 29 fighter jets to ukraine and served as major transit help for weapons fro

pro russia party wins general elections in nato member state slovakia. with almost all the votes counted. left this party led by the former premier robert fico, obtained over 23% of the votes. that left the party's main rival, the centris progressive slovakia in second place on 17% of the votes. robert fico's party now needs to enter equal. pico seeks and military aid to ukraine, wants better relations with russia and is critical of the european union and nato. he is pledged not to send a single round of ammunition to ukraine from slovakia, which has been one of europe's biggest owners to kiev, as a share of his gdp. onto france for the government continues to enforce controversial budget cuts via executive decree, and even as the... west economic worws continue to rage. people took to the streets around the country, demanding action a long-running housing crisis, which has reached new proportions and mid record inflation. ramin mazery has more from paris. in the past few presidential elections, the number one voter demand has been to address housing issu

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the pro russia party, which seeks to end military at ukraine, wins a general elections in nato member state of slovakia, and the us house of representatives has passed a stop gag gap measure to avoirt avert a government shut down, hours before funding expires. 9:30 am in iran's capital tehran. this is press tv news. thanks for joining us. israely warplanes that reportedly attacked targets in the syrian capital damas. explosions were heard in damascus as media released images of israeli war planes flying overhead with syrian air defense operating to counter the attacks. details are sketched this point as there have been no official comments yet from. authorities, this comes as the israeli regime has numerous occasions struck targets in syria as telv pushes ahead with the sacks of aggression. tens of thousands of israelies are back on the streets for the 39th consecutive week to protest against controversial judicial curves by prime minister benjamin netanyahu's extreme for right cabinet. protesters say that they will continue the rallies until they are able to repeal the legislation. a

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and this, some fear, is going to embolden the pro—russia parties in armenia. lvement in this or did azerbaijan just do it while the russians weren't looking or what? russia didn't seem to be providing armenia with the support that armenia thought it was going to get from russia. and this time around, russia has beenjust a bit too busy with the war in ukraine. armenia doesn't really have anything to fight back. and armenia itself didn't really get involved with this last round of fighting. it stayed out of it, which angered a lot of people in armenia, there were protests for a good while against pashinyan�*s government, because they accused them of not helping ethnic armenians in karabakh. the other major power in the region with an interest there is iran. what's iran's view of what's happened? iran has been having to play a very delicate balancing act. since the very beginning it has always maintained that karabakh belonged to azerbaijan. but it never, ever could support azerbaijan because they've always had a lot of differences. there is a very strong ethnic a

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we have poland, unhappy about ukrainian drain exports under pro russia party. now the largest in slovakia is parliament. how do you get these people? how did you stop those cracks from becoming larger and how do you get those people back on the side as well? so it is indeed expected, and this is what is preaching, hoping for that's uh the you need to follow the democratic allies would eventually break because it is very hard to say united and they together for a long time. we understand that and for our side is to keep explaining to people and talking to people and working with democratic leaders, explaining that this is as a, as a war, is it in the defects everyone. there is no more arguments that we can make copies in all the arguments that we have already made. by this time there is like nothing extra new that we can say. but we can continue working and reminding everyone that it is a fight between democracy and a sort of territories you and we cannot afford to lose the site. and we cannot afford to let me put you on a plan um to actually be successful. okay

and the pro-russia party which seeks to end military aid to ukraine wins general elections in nato member state slovakia. 2:30 pm in iraz capital tehran, this is pressv news. thanks for joining us. an explosion has struck the turkish capital ancora, wounding two police officers. the interior ministry has called the incidents, a terrorist attack. it said the attack was conducted by two assailants arriding in a vehicle close to the ministry. it said one of the attackers blew himself up, and the other was quote, neutralized. the targeted district is home to several. other ministries and the turkish parliament, which is due to reopen today with address from president. local media also report a gunfire in the corn off district where emergency services were in attendance. the correspondent joins us from istanbul to tell us more. well, russian, i just read off what we had in terms of our information, does it read correctly? what do you have for us? yes, as you mentioned, the general directory of the inter. ministry was attacked by two suicide bombers, as you mentioned, one blew himself up and wh

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a pro—russia party looks likely to win most votes. isterforced to resign. they did not win enough to govern outright, so it looks like coalition negotiations will be coming up. matus kostolny is the editor in chief of the slovak daily newspaper, dennik n. it means that we'll go back to politics of hatred and anger. and it means also a complete shift in foreign policy of slovakia, because robert fico announced in the election campaign that he will change the policy towards ukraine, towards russia, and that means a huge, huge shift in slovak politics. slovakia was one of the real supporters of ukraine. we sent military equipment, we sent munitions to to ukraine, and we helped as much as a small country as slovakia can help. but now robert fico announced already that he will end this and he will not send any kind of munition or equipment to ukraine. he also declares that he understands or he has a kind of an understanding for vladimir putin's position in in the war in ukraine. in the war in ukraine. so he talks about peace, but it means i

this escalation is him coming from, or under some quarters, is objectively pro-russia policy coming from in a republican party that historically does not associate with pro-russian policies? where is it all happening? >> it is happening in the house of representatives among some members there. we think the appropriate and caucus fuels that -- the pro-pu tin caucus fear was that. with all due respect, i think the press has made more of the divisions than is actually there. a few can hold up that republican side, but by and large, the sentiment is bipartisan. when president zelenskyy was here with us in those meetings, the smaller bipartisanship meetings, the republicans were very positive. >> what happens if donald trump becomes president again to the ukraine cause? >> i cannot even contemplate that happening. [laughter] we cannot let that happen to america. everything is at stake. you heard the beautiful voice of our secretary talk about our values in the country and attempts at bringing people together. when we talk about foreign policy, we talk about security, protect and defend. that is our oath of office

would like to ask you... what do you mean when you say pro-fascist forces and pro-fascist parties about their attitude towards russiaspeak half-heartedly, or better yet directly. so, the head of tinok huvder, held an official meeting with the minister of foreign affairs, delgay lavrov, in 2020, and it was an official meeting, and part of the afd are essentially based on the fascist movement, and anti-fascists in germany do not quite understand the meaning of such contacts and do not understand the meaning of russia’s policy in relation to what , excuse me, please, what do you see, what do you see, that’s what is confirmed what you said is that they are based in their activities on some... fascist, pro-fascist, national socialist ideas, can you tell me specifically what they are talking about? for example, he is directly connected with the fascists, he regularly goes to demonstrations in dreston, in anniversary of the events, and he comes out with the fascists, this is a representative of the alternative for germany party directly connected with the nazi-fascist movement, they often say there, he does not hide that t

promises. former prime minister robert feats those popular snare party has won. slovakia is parliamentary elections campaigning on a pro russia platform. pizza assess, lavaca has bigger problems in the war and ukraine during the campaign. he vowed to end robust military support for 2 years, and he criticized those nato and the you. his party secured just under 23 percent of the dw and brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena told us more about what robert feet so had to say as well in his press conference here at his party's headquarters that we are still at his body's headquarters here. and brought to the slab i missed if he'd so made clear that he's ready to start to talk with potential call listen partners. and he also said he's just waiting for a traditional phone calls from the president because he has the mandates for new governments. i don't know whether you can hear it, but apparently there is a protest outside of the party headquarters. but mr. pizza was also ask about, you know, what he's plan is for slovakia, and of course he was us whether he intends as indicated on the companion to a, a, to radically change his

voters chose between pro—russia former prime minister robert fico, and the pro—west progressive slovakia partywing the murder of investigative journalist jan kuciak in 2018. the progressive slovakia party would likely continue to support ukraine, the eu, green policies, and lgbtq rights. however, a coalition government may still be needed. to an escalating conflict in the balkans now. kosovo is demanding serbia withdraw its troop from their shared border. it comes after tensions between the two countries flared up last weekend when kosovo police fought about 30 heavily armed serbs who stormed a village there and barricaded themselves inside a monastery. three attackers and one police officer were killed in the gunbattle. moving to pakistan, investigations are under way into two deadly explosions on friday which killed more than 60 people. the first explosion was near a mosque in the southwestern province of balochistan as people celebrated the birth of the prophet muhammad. dozens were killed. police suspect it was a suicide attack targeting the religious gathering in mastung city. balochistan

voters chose between pro—russia former prime minister robert fico and the pro—west progressive slovakia partyprime minister following the murder of investigative journalist jan kuciak in 2018. the progressive slovakia party would likely continue to support ukraine, the eu, green policies, and lgbtq rights. however, a coalition government may still be needed. going right back to the senate floor to get a few more images of the senate and i am getting our notice that the vote count is at 50 yeas to two nays. they had, according to the senate majority leader chuck schumer come to an agreement that would allow the to pass the stopgap funding bill but remember it wasjust earlier in funding bill but remember it was just earlier in the day that we saw the house of republicans, 335—91, pass the bill with democrats voting together with some house republicans. many of those house republicans who are on the far right of the party did not vote for the bill but democrats worked together with more moderate republicans and the speaker of the house to push this through and here we are on the senate floor, th

to the former prime minister rubber feeds those populace. smear party has one slovak, is parliamentary elections campaigning on a pro, russia platform seats. so says the lock yeah, has bigger problems in the war and ukraine. during the campaign, he vowed to end robots, military support for kids. and to criticize both nato and the e. u. is party secured just under 23 percent of the vote. us earlier i spoke to w as brussel 0 chief alexander phenomena who is in process of and i asked her how likely it is that seats it will succeed in finding allies to form a government and become the next prime minister. well, i think that his chances are pretty good when we look at other parties with that whom he could start the coalition talks, one of them is a split of his own party and they seem to be quite open to potential negotiations. and now the party is a nationalist slovak party and this is a party that he worked with before. so his chances seem to be pretty well. however, he also stressed that during his press conference that's talks could go 4 weeks. and looking at all of this more broadly, what about the perspective from the euro

farmers. slovak in prime minister rubber seats, those left is party has once lavaca is parliamentary elections after campaigning on a pro russia platform. in his 1st commonsense, the vote c. so says that's the lock. yeah. had bigger problems than the war ukraine . during the campaign he found to end a slovak is robust, military support for kids and criticize both nato and the you. his party is secure just under 23 percent of the vote. beating the central progressive slovakia party, 55 percent and d. w. 's brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena joins us from frontier slobber for more of a vendor we've just heard from former slovakian prime minister roberts seats. so what else did he say as well in his press conference here at his party's headquarters that we are still at his body's headquarters here and brought to this lava mister feet. so made clear that he's ready to start to talk with for 10. so call listen partners, and he also said he's just waiting for a traditional phone call from the president because now he has the mandates to form a new government. i don't know whether you can hear it, but the apartment's, the serv

those left as snare party has won slovak is parliamentary elections after campaigning on a pro russia platform. in his 1st commonsense the vote seen so said that's the lock you had bigger problems in the hoary crane. during the campaign, he vowed to end slovak is robust, military support for to you. and he criticized both nato and the use of his party secure just under 23 percent of the vote for meeting the center has progressive slovakia party by 5 percent. earlier i spoke to d, w. 's brussel 0 chief alexander phenomena from brought these lava and i asked her how likely it is that pizza will succeed in finding allies to form a government and become the next prime minister? well i think that his chances are pretty good when we look at other parties with that whom he could start the coalition talks, one of them is a split of his own party and they seem to be quite open to potential negotiations. another party is a nationalist slovak party, and this is a party that he worked with before. so his chances seem to be pretty well. however, he also stressed that during his press conference th

and this, some fear, is going to embolden the pro—russia parties in armenia. et from russia. and this time around, russia has beenjust a bit too busy with the war in ukraine. armenia doesn't really have anything to fight back. and armenia itself didn't really get involved with this last round of fighting. it stayed out of it, which angered a lot of people in armenia, there were protests for a good while against pashinyan's government, because they accused them of not helping ethnic armenians in karabakh. the other major power in the region with an interest there is iran. what's iran's view of what's happened? iran has been having to play a very delicate balancing act. since the very beginning it has always maintained that karabakh belonged to azerbaijan. but it never, ever could support azerbaijan because they've always had a lot of differences. there is a very strong ethnic azeri community in iran that wants to be a part of azerbaijan. they refer to it as southern azerbaijan. that's how much they want to secede from iran. and iran has always believed that azer

it can well be described as a pro russian because russia being the uh, being this strong party into conflict, then you have the, you keep the equal distance, the boat capitan's, the boat states. it would mean that you are older and member of nato, but at the same time age, as you said, you'd on joining the sanctions on production sections and all that. and what i would say i'm up to now and hopefully this policy will continue because it is quite in line with talk is national interest for us is proved to be in a pyre of live. it's a cool is that some quotes now that as the chinese form is these response to a recently published report from washington, the us don't comment as accuse beijing a global media manipulation. but china says, is this information itself in the us department of state's report is in itself. it has information, as admits, represents fact, and truth, the relevance center of the u. s. department, which concocted the report he's engaged in propaganda and infiltration in the name of global engagement. it is a source of this information and the common centre of perception of al

have lists of former party members of banned pro-russian and anti-not even pro-russian but anti-ukrainian parties, structures whose leaders have either fled ukraine or are now in russia and they clearly use them, they have lists of deputies, for example, of village councils , even, that is, they can take it easy to reach out to those people and check whether they remained supporters of this or that. ideologies, have they somehow changed themselves there, check their e-mails in social networks, actively communicate with them under other people's names and under cover, if a person is going to cooperate, then why not use this cooperation, you don't even have to prepare anything, if this agent is even disposable, everything is useful for them, so we need to be vigilant and understand that like us, no matter how much we want it, the enemy is trying to weaken us, including by looking for such unstable citizens among us. mr. viktor, what is probably the most frequent or the main motive for cooperation with the russian special services? these are ideological questions, as you have just given examples, is something else possible, money or, for example, blackmail? well, blackm

to ask you to specify what you mean when you say pro-fascist forces and pro-fascist parties. about their attitude towards russiay specific, otherwise we will speak in half, or better yet directly, the heads of the tificial official meeting with foreign minister lavrov in 2020, and it was an official meeting, part of it is essentially based on fascist anti-fascists in germany do not quite understand the meaning of such contacts and do not understand the meaning of russian politics in relation to, please excuse me, what do you see, what do you see, this is what confirms what you said , that they are based in their activities on some kind of fascist, pro-fascist, national socialist ideas, that’s it can you tell me specifically what it's about? for example, he is directly connected with the fascists, he regularly goes to demonstrations in dreston, on the anniversary of the events, and he goes out together with the fascists, this is a representative of the alternative for germany party directly connected with the nazi fascist movement, and this is often talked about, he does not hide the fact that it is a right-wing

have to wait for an eastern european rematch, some pro-russian, well, russia is obviously trying to influence politics in europe. tries to keep the partiestive , that is, the russians do not even need to put these governments under direct control, but they need to create political chaos, in poland everything is not really so good there, because if the confederation, let's say will get so many votes that they will impose a coalition with them on the pis, then the confederation will simply infect the pis with their toxic ideas, and not everything will be so, not everything will be so simple for ukraine and not only, not only for not only for germany will be there... the situation , and russia is really trying to make these governments populist to the max and completely incapable of any constructive, active dialogue, that is, this is the goal of russia, ukraine has the only answer to this, it is to win, therefore thank you very much, sorry, mr. sergey, we have it's just starting now, we don't have an advertisement and a plot, but i thank you, maybe we 'll talk with you in more detail about it, and about the confederation of poland after the

. >> he also successfully transferred transition to the republican party from being anti-russia to pro-putin and the course of his four years as president so we'll see what his base is. >> and look at the polls show that it wasn't his best week. 59% republican voters support him and 13% for ron desantis and 10% for ramaswamy and he is still dominating the race. some of these republicans had donors and trying to unite donors behind one of these alternative anti-trump candidates and they're not having much success. >> no, and republican strategists that i've talked to across these battle ground states so far have mentioned that they don't think that any type of effort to unite the party behind one republican candidate is going to work. they say that that's something that the party has been talking about for months and it hasn't materialized. so a lot of them are kind of resigned to the fact that they think that trump is going to be the inevitable nominee, and things that are happening this week whether it's him praising hezbollah or him backing jordan and the house gop not being able to get to

pro-russian parties gained traction in the election. though there is a subplot to all of this -- slovakia is accusing russia of interference in the vote. armenia says one serviceman was killed when azerbaijani forces opened fire in the border region, underscoring the volatility of the area. azerbaijani shells hit an armed personnel character. meanwhile, with over 100,000 armenians having flat, this monday was slowing down. we are on the border of armenia and nagorno-karabahk. >> all of those i have spoken to who fled the said they did not see a way that they could coexist with azerbaijanis, that they did not believe reassurances given by azerbaijani authorities that they would be able to carry on living there. they feared for their lives and told us there had been so much hostility and hatred building up for decades that they did not think that was a realistic opposition. they also said they did not want to have to become citizens of azerbaijani if they stayed or went back to the enclaves. that question now is being raised by azerbaijani authorities. they have had meetings with members of the armenian community. azerbaijani trying to s

is it what happened in poland or slovakia a couple weeks ago where a pro-russia, far-right party did>> this is not a contest that is going to end following one election in poland or one election in slovakia or even an election in germany or france. there is now a permanent competition in europe between parties of the center right and center left who want to keep institutions together, maintain democracy inside of their own countries, who believe in a transatlantic community, and parties who don't. this is now the dividing line in european politics. pretty much every election from now on will feature that argument and that set of arguments. the polish win is very important because, in poland, the far right essentially already captured the state. as ed just said, they were using state money, you know, taxpayers' money to run and pay for their enormously expensive election campaign. they fiddled the laws to gerrymander the system. nevertheless, the opposition proved it's still possible to win. that will inspire a lot of others, i believe. >> ed, we talked about the impact of this around

comments, the result elections in slovakia, and such a pro-russian party came there, it shows the decrease of interest in ukraine, the strengthening of russia'sluence and or your option, just write in the comments, i will read your thoughts after the program. so, my next guest is oleksandr kraev, an expert of the council of foreign affairs politicians ukrainian prism, sir. oleksandr, i congratulate you and glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, i congratulate you. mr. oleksandr, well, let's talk about the shutdown, about the american shutdown. as for me personally, you know, i am calling you in order to talk about everything in detail, because you know much more than i do, i read something, i know, but i want to ask you, from what i read, for example, about last year's shutdowns, there were several past years, there was excitement, there was some unrest, and what will happen, i remember, last year with you in they talked about it on the air, and last year you also said that they would sit down to the end , drag it out to the last, sit down at the end, come to an agreement, but this year i got the impression that, well, this year it looks some

the result of the elections in slovakia, and such a pro-russian party came there, shows a decrease in interest. to ukraine, the strengthening of russia's influence, and or your option, just write in the comments, i will after the program to read your thoughts. so, my next guest is oleksandr kraev, an expert at the ukrainian prism foreign policy council. mr. oleksandr, i congratulate you and glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes, i congratulate you. mr. oleksandr, well, let's talk about the shutdown, about the american shutdown. as for me personally, you know, i am you. i am calling in order to talk about everything in detail, because you know much more than me, i read something, i know, but i want to ask you, from what i read, for example, about the shutdowns last year, there a few years ago, there was excitement, there was some unrest, and what will happen, i remember, last year you and i talked about it on the air, and last year you also said that they would sit down to the end, pull to the last, they will sit down at the end, they will agree, but this year i got the impression that, well, this year somehow looks more serious, what d

democrat, and the social democrats are one of the most pro-russian parties. uh, in germany, that is, not all of them, of course, are on the side of russia or on the side of what they say is the protection of peace, but a certain number of social democrats, social democrats, they... stand confidently on the positions that arms to ukraine it is necessary to give very limitedly, and that it is necessary to talk with russia, and oh my god, that something german production will fly towards russia, despite the fact that both strack zimmerman and representatives of the green party, such as the minister of foreign affairs anna lena burbok, or vice chancellor robert habek, they adhere to completely different positions and say that the opposite should be given, but now it's about tau. any decision to provide such weapons is made by the german security council, which includes the chancellor, and the chancellor has the final say there. and so scholz has not decided to give taurus up to this moment and he is completely slowing down the process. in order to put pressure on scholz, he is constantly created public pressure. and we saw it during the dis

you to specify what you mean when you say about fascist forces and about pro-fascist parties, about their attitude towards russia, and part of the afd is essentially based on the fascist movement and anti-fascists in germany do not quite understand the meaning of such contacts, and do not understand the meaning of russia’s policy towards such couples, excuse me, please, what do you see , in what you see, that's what... confirms what you said, that they are based in their activities on some kind of fascist, pro-fascist, national socialist ideas, can you tell me specifically what they are talking about? for example, he is directly connected with the fascists, he regularly goes to demonstrations in dreston, on the anniversary of the events, and he goes out together with the fascists, this representative of the alternative for germany party is directly connected with the nazi movement, and this is often talked about, he does not hide the fact that it is right party. i see, so look, you started with ukraine. asked me if it was fair that we publicly declare that we are striving for denazification of the ukrainian poli

the pro-russian kurs social-democracy party won the parliamentary elections. elections in slovakia, party leader, former prime minister, roberta fico, he calls russia'sar against ukraine a conflict and insists that it is not slovakia's business, he also spoke against granting ukraine. at the same time, the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine assures that it is too early to say exactly how the election results will affect pratyslav's position towards ukraine. olena bliznyakov will tell more about this. i will limit myself to one sentence: slovakia and the people in slovakia have bigger problems than ukraine. such a statement comes from the former prime minister of slovakia robert fico, his pro-russian party smarezdi on won the parliamentary elections, receiving almost 23% of the votes. voters ukraine is a huge tragedy for everyone. we will do everything possible to speed up the peace talks on the platform of the european union. we are ready to provide humanitarian aid to ukraine. we are ready to help in the restoration of the state itself, but you know our opinion about arming ukraine. people in slovakia have their own serious problems, and these s

know how strong the pro-russian narratives were in the ruling party of the african national congress, and they resorted to such actions as holding joint military maneuvers with russianiversary of the invasion of russia ukraine, that is, the situation was very difficult, but everything... still, now there is a feeling that the situation has started to change a little. it is obvious that this is under certain pressure from both the international community and local civil society, but i think that something the fact that these people were there, tried to communicate with putin and communicated with zelenskyi, well, in zambia in particular, we had...' had communication with the assistant of the zambian president for national security, and he directly said what it was like when they i had to go down to the underground shelter in kyiv. coming back to the pair, i would say that there are certain changes in the position of the pairs, there is a definite, well, i wouldn't say warming, but...

pro your position. the country is indeed very divided. there is a picture of population who wants to remain russia friendly, but there is a co, equally big share of population who wants to be 3rd party pregnant in general, subjects of very pro european. so it's nice to have impact on the eventual policy of the new government as well. you're outside of slovakia, when observers look at this, there's a strong emphasis on what it would mean for the war and ukraine's the lock is continuing support or not for ukraine, etc. but what did the slovak in voters actually care about the most? and there are several issues that dominated the agenda you were in the electoral campaign. first and foremost slow. they've shared similar table kitchen concerns that people have in other countries. the installation was great high. in fact, among the highest in europe, the energy prices were very high, mortgage rates were high. so a lot of voters made the decisions based on this issues. but of course in slovakia there's domestic issues. every type links to before and full of state of the country. so what gets to the virgin, lots of parties and the bond funds were had to block off parties last, primarily by

pro russia candidate in slovakia, regained power. good evening, jeremy hunt is the seventh chancellor in 13 years to addess a conservative party conferencetoday he stood on stage next to a slogan promising "long term decisions for the future". not the easiest sell when your party's trailing 16 points in the polls, and the government is about to cancel a key part of a flagship infrastructure project, in which you have already invested billions of pounds of taxpayers�* money. a decision the current prime minister signed off as chancellorjust three years ago. we are also going to build better railways, madam deputy speaker. with spades going into the ground on hs2, our commitment to fund manchester—leeds leg of northern powerhouse rail, we are going to build broadband, railways, roads. if the country needs it, we will build it. so, today, mr speaker, the cabinet has given high—speed rail the green signal. we are going to get this done. the reports suggest a decision not to go ahead with the northern leg of the high speed railway has already been taken and will be announced in the prime minister's speech on wednesday. given that the party co