Better visibility in ukraine . When theres a political implies, the us is concerned with russia, but you dont have that same level of visibility when youre dealing with an ally. And these are your question is rooted in the premise that these are, were talking about apples and apples here, and that is just simply not the case thats going to answer the question, go at the kind of the welcome to arching to national, reaching you live from our new center in moscow, i a Michael Fletcher with the updates. Right, georgia and lawmakers of adopted a controversial transparency bill despite of brawley rob thing between low make case during the proceedings becomes that made continuous mass rileys in front of the countries parliament with people opposing the legislation. The, the parliamentary majority, lawmakers reportedly attacked and the opposition representatives during the readings on the draft legislation. This is one of the number of scam issues in the chamber over the controversial bill. Previous readings on below a have also ended with balance already a protest. Those due to the streets of to police, easy speaking out against controversial bill. That would force and g. O is to be more transparent about the funding sources. While washington has moved to condemn the law, calling it to come down and Civil Society groups with us congress, madness threatening georgia was functions. And thats this fight. The new bill nearly similar legislation adopted in the United States now will be bringing you more on the story later in the program. The. I know the high ranking official from last has defends ministry has been detained on corrupt on charges just weeks after a deputy minister was also arrested left and in general, jerry could not solve the its accused of taking the launch bride. It goes into the investigation in 2021, 2023 as the head of the 8th directories of the general stuff on the armed forces of the Russian Federation was itself received a particularly large bride from representatives of commercial structures for committing southern actions invest, save a not to discuss this story, having joined now by r t correspondent donald court, done his due to have you telling me right now that what details do we have about the detention of this general . Well, after searching the residences of this, your equipment, solve the investigative committee, found over 1000000. 00 worth of various currencies, gold coins, and valuable luxury items. And this is an offense that if he actually committed the sacred land, them in prison for up to 15 years, according to russias penal code in terms of who he is. And was he served as the head of the general staff in russia from 20102023. This is a position that requires dealing with lots of state secrets connected to the Russian Ministry of defense. And just last year, he became a head of the main of the uh, of the, the main personnel directory for the russian history defense as well. So these are a positions that involve a lot of serious government responsibilities. And hes had them for a long time. And, but hes now the 1st senior official of the Defense Ministry that has been accused to talk to us about the other one. Thats right. Late last month, the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of defense was detained. Hes still in detainment right now, being held on again, bribery charges like equipment solve and its specifically what hes being charged with is accepting favors from military contractors to the tune of over 10000000. 00. So thats even more than what were looking at with the equipment solves and its also important to understand of, you know, what comes in at all this, right . This is at the same time as a lot of here putting suggested replacing the head of the Russian Ministry of defense or de shy, go with someone else, a, an economist by trade, a man named andre below so. So of course, we dont know if these corruption scandals are directly connected to this re shuffling of these sort of high ranking official souls in the ministry of defense. But it looks like perhaps the administration is looking to take a bit of a different approach and its a new administration. So we certainly could see new approaches, not talk to us about how important this detentions are at this particular time. Well, its important to understand in terms of the fight of corruption, a fight against corruption and russia, right . Corruption is something that occurs all over the world, the varying degrees depending on the country. But its definitely in light of the Russian Military operation, something that ukraine is probably paying attention to and following itself. And we have to understand that, well, russia is actively, uh, you know, challenging corruption in the country, finding these corrupt officials and holding them accountable. Ukraines essentially letting them ransack the military. Weve seen tons of reports that a billions of dollars may have been stolen during the construction of ukrainian defenses in the heart of region. And that those defensive, those defenses werent even completely constructed as, according to the plans that were put forward as well. Those some ukranian soldiers have even been talking about this. Lets take a listen. Over 2 years concrete fortifications with 3 floors of depth should have been established on the for any and border and there were not even any land mines. Were coming to the conclusion that this was either because of insane theft or deliberate sabotage. I know that those who abandoned the positions of the 100 and 25th Territorial Defense brigade were made to sign acceptance and transfer certificates for fortifications. Not even 30 percent of which were fully built. I hope that the perpetrators will be punished. Now in the case of ukraine, it goes without saying that this kind of corruption is not very surprising, really, because even before the Russian Military operation began ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries in europe. And then as this never ending flow of western weapons and money going, who knows where in ukraine, this corruption problem that the government and ukraine has had for the longest time, has just been spiraling more out of control than it was before. And we havent heard of western lead is sometimes it wouldnt complain or voice out on issues of corruption in ukraine. We have to leave it here now. Thank you. Dont a quarter for bringing us up to speed here. Why the us, we have mentioned earlier about the ukranian native trees deter raging situation on the ground. Russian troops of taken control of the town of vodka in the cock of region. Over the past 2 days, a Russian Forces have also captured 9 villages in the province ukraines presidency. Lensky reacted by firing the Top Commander of his troops for that area. Roches Defense Ministry has relieved video footage of ukrainian soldiers explaining why the decided to surrender. I remembered enough as if there were in physicians together with our comrades in the morning. There wasnt a soul camino where a few of us loved the initial lane and we took up a defensive position then called the evening. There was another salt and i realized orest around. It was gone far from older racks. And renee flew into our try and shut off the truck owens. And we decided to lay down on the way to do that. We were fighting against the russians in a battle on may 10. They werent drunk, renee did us. We did cover in the bunker. One of our comrades designated the grenay to avoid being taken prisoner after that was the renters, and we raised our hands back not to be killed and came out. We werent treated well. They attended to all the wounded. I dont want to fight in the morning. Its very psychologically challenging because many of my friends have died overall in the crate and armed forces. The risk coming to the less petrovich isnt being felt this because the war is difficult and with significant loss. As a major trains. Military law says us secretary of state onto the blanket has arrived in key for a previously announced diplomatic mission. At a high level visit came out for a series of Russian Ministry games in north east and ukraine. Lincolns presence was intended to show continued us support for kids, as dependents under wraps up. Its weapon supplies. He wants to 1st visit by a, by the ministration official since Congress Last month. Approve the 61000000000. 00 a package for you train office several months of heavy discussion, furious for ukraine. The while the us state departments, deputies folks boss and found himself in the hot water as he was drilled about us double standards over the conflicts in ukraine. And in gaza, or how do you have better visibility in ukraine when theres the ability to send files to us is concerned with russia. But you dont have that same level of visibility when youre dealing with an ally. And these are your question is rooted in the premise that these are, were talking about apples and apples here. And that is just simply not the case. People in the media enjoy making this comparison between israel and russia and the conflict in ukraine of the conflict and gaza. But were, were not even talking about apples and oranges. Were talking about apples and candy bars so we can hear, but she will be here, but we also seem to be talking about and im using allies. Were talking about 2 very distinct and different circumstances on the ground that are not even comparable when use the russians are doing all this right. Isnt from us or to it . Is question was about to you visibility . How could you have our visibility into whether our visibility into whether a government has the ability to hold itself accountable is absolutely something that like is plays into. So its not, its not, its not you saw the about the government, the reason why we give them depression. How could you have eyes in the grade to determine because i took an account of the i think what you mean by violating International Law that you have to prove. And this is a sense of trust and send to finally, how did you have the intern declined in terms of with the russian army to violate International Law . When you concluded that discussion, army did war crimes and you pray and you couldnt find that was your loss. So again, were talking about 2 very different and distinct circumstances once one was request. So was this an independent us investigation to decide whether or not Israel BrokenInternational Humanitarian law, or was this a us investigation, aided by the israels, these relays were not involved in the production of the United States as National Security memorandum. Thats going to question, go ahead jaws right now, lets return to our top story now in georgia. As all make us have adopted a controversial transparency bill. And it comes despite an angry, a brawler opting in the time. But during proceedings, the members of the ruling party reported the attacked and the opposition representative during readings on the draft to legislation. Its just one of a number of fights that have broken out over the controversial bill. Already a protest as due to the streets of to police. Hes speaking out against the bill which will be force of which will force n g. Ready to be more transparent about the funding sources, while washington has leads to condemn the law calling is a calm down on Civil Society groups. File. Come in the news in congress have even threatening sanctions. And thats despite the new bill of mirroring and reflecting similar legislation in the United States. But lets cross now to maria, which he not the member of the committee on International Affairs in the russian state. Duma is nice to have you join me now. Maria, now vis. Transparency low, now adopted in georgia, draws a lot of controversy and condemnation, especially from the west. Why do you think that is, or you know, its quite surprising for me to hear that this is a controversial lot because look what the country is trying to do is just to be able to solve it in a t and or a so they can, can see who is working, i mean from the angels and who is the are . Well, i would say the most are all the pair who, who wants to or influence in georgia and again the inside of the country. So they just want to see and they want to show it to the people. So its not a controversial, its sarah Laura Baldwin status. And for me, special a surprise to see that these comments are coming from west. I mean from the United States that has 6 different laws, they go to 2 different types of foreign agents seems once and so one and such and such. So i think its, it looks like a double standard and not move while you have been a victim of one of the so called foreign agent, the laws of the United States before. Can you share your experience with us briefly, as well, as i mentioned before in the United States are 6 different types of foreign agents laws. And some people say that as i was there on samsung star and convicted the by far, which is for an agent registration act. Wow. No, actually just 5 years from prism on the bottom i was charged with or 951. 00 plus 371. 00 us code. Which means that you basically dont need to have any money or anybody who controls you. But just someone who is working from government can dont use of occasion, like in my case and point simply comes to kids vacation in the United States and he please asks you to do something. Thats enough. Means this is what we call uh, selective justice. So yes, i can tell you, i havent been in with some of the law and what they see today in georgia. If you compare us and georgia in law, what they actually do, they just, its all about transparency. Ah, the u. S. Lawyers involved hunting people because look about the people that they chose to be convicted to. 1951, for example, for the last 2 years that have been only 2 cases. One russian and one person from iran is a, you know, kind of equal. So nobody else has ever been asked by a huge government to do Something Like buy a bottle of cold. Well, i would never believe in that, which means, you know, this is selective justice and not the United States. No, the United States has any rights to dictates to all the people what laws they should have in for an agents. They should look at themselves. Now what, what do you say to those officials in washington and brock . Those who claim that this law is on democratic ah, well, how they are view of democracy is quite strange. So if i were to speak to these people, i would say low guys, if you talk about democracy, talk not about a such thing. Says be a lamb on or new grounds, but looks its to the cans. How you actually follow these poor people with rights . Go have to your very reach clubs and see who are the waitresses and the waiters, which are only the blacks. Look at your presence and see the majority of the population, prison population. All the black, some the latinos. Why is that their minority in the United States . How have on their own prisons . So as a bad criminals know, they just choose people based. So what based on what people we dont like, who and this is, this is democracy. Wow. This is called democracy. Hi. Prefer a dictatorship. And now i know you talked about this a little bit, but i like it to be more specific. Washington in search that is law is completely different from the ones in russia and georgia. What do you think is the difference . Yeah you, you have seen all of these big or you cant even compare. So im one of the authors on their russian for and they use law. And there are, its, i pad, say in the world is, this is their most. If i can use that, they mean judas, dicks all term soft law, which means that you only should notify that, look, if youre working somebodys interest in the Foreign Government or foreign person, you should just be you should notice people and put the little sign that when you post are some, lets say on media something that you are active in the rest in the interests of someone. Thats the soft distortion. If you go to georgia, well, its not as hard. And notice tricks as the u. S. Law. The slow is the top of everything, but they chose a little different task, which means they see the unstable situation and they decided to be switched to the russians. But i wouldnt even compare. We have a different system of our laws in general. So if somebody, i know that some people spec away, they say look, its just their coffee pos from russian law. Well, use artificial intelligence, food tools, side by side, try to compare them and youll see there is nothing similar every war. And every government has its right to decide how they build this. So that in countries, georgia decided to pause, which is in the middle between the soft russian law and restrict you are small. This is the right. I dont think even this is fair to compare any or, you know, most of the Different Countries you can compare palaces. Thats true. Well in the us, you face 15 here is no matter what even Somebody Just asks you to do something in russia. You go through all the notification stories and if you finally violate, is that you may be serving time or likely its going to be a penalty. Thats it. But this is our decision. Again, nobody can judge russia or georgia or the United States with just samuel grounds and dont, dont go and dont dictate us what we shall do as well as they tried to do today with georgia. Me now us more and more law. Busy or similar to the wanting georgia passed in Different Countries. Do you think . Well, witnessing the dying of the western liberal ideology that those n g u i have been promoting for decades. Ah, thats a good question. You know, watch, over the decades they used angels cold like, oh, were saving the plan thats bothering real live, the trying to stop some production in some region. So some company, western company can work without competitors. So theyre, the soft names is just, theyre there. They try to hide simply the are real goals of the send yours. So what i believe is fair here is transparency. You know where the world is move in. Um, i would say this is the crash of liberalism and democracy. No, i would say this is the age of justice and transparency. Well, if you come to somebodys house, just tell what youll go is and be fair and be on this. This is what this forum agent laws are about me. Id say that the fair and be honest, thank you so much tomorrow, but with to not the member of the committee on International Affairs in the russian state. Do my thank you so much for your insight of the other cramming says let him in person will visit china on 1st day and friday it will be his 1st trip abroad. Satans key was inaugurated to his new to ms. Ross as president last week r t correspondents. Martin a go sort of a has the details. Now. I dont use a lot of my food so they would travel 6 high now after his not duration, but we didnt know when and now we have the dates. And we also know that they are expected to, of course, defend military and economic corporation, as well as inc new energy deals potentially and asked to the bottom of fruits. And well also sign the joint statement as well as the number of bilateral documents. You will also be attending and events martin, the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the 2 countries. Also, as the exhibition kicks off of the year of russian and chinese culture. So Something Else also a lot of our puts and well be doing a little bit of traveling around here. Well visit the harbin and there she will be attending the 8 russian chinese expo as well as the 4th watson chinese form on into a regional corporation. The 2 of course, have a lot to discuss. China is of course, a rush as a main trade thing and strategic partner, of course, as, as we all know. And this a trip of course, will come in. So our conference. So the reason for it by the time is liter whos fresh off is european, swore he went there for the 1st time in 5 years where he had to answer a lot of tough questions regarding his friendship and relations with russia. As we know, europe has always been suspicious regarding beijings global emissions as well as its influence on what china is trying to achieve in the region as well as globally. And also we know that europe is having a lot of economic grievances lately with china and some x rays. I predicted that i could sign into a full blown trade, the voice of course, on the back triple that this trip is a just like a meet. Busy between 2 friends, a 2 long time business partners, and its not the 1st time actually someone did the math and apparently this will be the 4th face to face meeting between the 2 leaders since the beginning of the special military operation. So since the 2022, just last year alone in march, the chinese presents was in moscow. Then in october the russian leader visited beijing. And this is some of the statements like came out from those 1st meetings. So yeah, all the geographic region of the belt and Road Initiative stretches across eurasia and all the way to latin america. Over 150. 00 countries and 30 International Organizations have signed documents on cooperating within the belt and wrote initiative. The initiative is based on principles of bilateral discussions and mutual benefits like a settling you and we have repeatedly noted that russia and china, like most countries of the world, share and aspiration for equitable mutually beneficial cooperation in order to achieve sustainable long Term Economic progress. I see, it wont allow me to see the chinese russian ties have gone far beyond bilateral relations over the last 10 years and are of crucial and vital importance for todays world order. And youre, your russian chinese relations are at the highest level ever and are exemplary. To do so, as you saw there, its their vision of a multi paula world which unites the 2 countries and of course attracts others which is why the west will be waiting to see what will be set in those meetings. What they will decide and what impact that will have on the rest of the world. The area we spoke with already contribute to college. He said the put in his forthcoming visit to china says us a serious response to west and threats. And this shows that deepening russia, he tied a Strategic Partnerships with a buyer to this. You have us the secretary of state. Tony blinked and traveling through china warren, china about this is main maintain is neuro ties with russia would necessitate us sanctioned on chinese banks. Well, you know, actions speak louder than words, you know, the with the, the very fact that gordon is visiting beijing that thats a response that china is given to washington. This is at the time when washington, lightning and ministration is rolling out new sanctions and new in paris against the chinese import. So its waging economic war against china. Thats the only full force in russia and china. Closer together, there was a fully talk about the economic ties, the rush that china trade has now reached 280000000000. 00 a year is not a small sum. And the 2 economies are completely comp complimentary with russia being the main commodity producer and china. The commodity consumers and this relationship will only continue to grow and i expect there will be a much more area of economic throughout creation, especially when the west are now placing sanction on both china and russia. And to the middle east now is ready officials of the keys, the u. N. Of using false data when reporting on the desk told in gaza. And it comes as a total number of women and children killed in the, in the conflict was revised down. Whats the author of the us o. C h a slash the women and children fatality numbers by how its time to address the big guy thats sent in the room who can prove the number of guns repeated and then use 2300000 is accurate. What you and spokesman blame inaccuracies of palestinian civilian deaths and goes there on the fog of war. The miraculous resurrection of the dead and gaza. Anyone who relies on fix data from a terrorist organization in order to promote blood libel against israel is anti semitic and supports terrorism. Now the new one agencies, daily report on may 6th sat the 9500 women and 14500 children had been killed since the war began. Its report on may 8th caught those numbers by about house to almost 5000 women and 7800 children active as jonathan. The po like says, its difficult to get an accurate picture times of war. The 1st of all you and simply didnt cut its numbers numbers by half. What is happening, the best to the best of my understanding is that the numbers are being confirmed, obviously the time of for of such proportion. They said its very difficult to confirm the numbers. What happened isnt that all the numbers have been cut off. Its simply a partial confirmation. Off part of the dips, the new numbers are simply a reaffirmation of some of the data and it is partial. The other point is that this is simply the lowest point of the policy base true itself revise down significantly. The numbers of People Killed on october 7th from over from about 1600 to about 1200. And were, were talking about the state not in, in a total state of florida, not on their own going, bombardments in, in, in a tax. So, you know, the parker see here is just imaginable. If youre out, its trying to use the fact that, that the numbers are being confirmed to divert attention from. 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