the ends developed democracy, a quarter of a century later, he had sworn in for an unprecedented 5th term in office after winning an election. and those are being of the name democracy and russia is dead, as are too many of those who challenged hooton's grip on power over the last 24 years. opposition leader i'll explain of all me. died in an arctic prison just weeks before the vote. many other prominent residents have been silenced, imprisoned, or driven into exile. among them is novalis window julia, who on this day of pomp and circumstance, slammed fulton for breaking his promises to the russian people on nicole fairly chamberlain. and this is the day, the moon with him, our country will have no peace, no developments,

no freedom uprooted. regime is find it on lies and corruption of the video, the security interests of the russian people. it will continue to be the top priority for me pretty. we do our country twice, the nation. we really, we do, we have pain and we will be open to building on have good relations with all countries . we've seen russia as a reliable and on his partner. and it really is the global majority also on the day is really forces sees control of gaza is vital rough uh, border crossing. while last this talks on a ceasefire with a mouse resume as we are. it's a decisive moment for the policy and that these rarely people and for the sites of the entire region. welcome to the show. thank you so much for joining us. letting me put in has been in power in russia for 24 years already today. the

former k g b officers from st. petersburg began another 6 year term as president. he was sworn in an elaborate ceremony at the kremlin where he pledged to defend the constitution and the rights of russian citizens. the highly choreographed spectacle was beamed live on russian television with the intention to project a strong and confident leader. but fulton is in fact a leader who has become increasingly isolated in the western world. the u. s. and most e u countries, boy called at the inauguration and protest over putin's war and ukraine and his dismantling of russian democracy. he won a landslide election victory in march, and a contest considered snyder free nor fair. and without facing any meaningful opposition . at the non you ration, he claimed to have a secret duty to lead russia through a difficult period at the, in the grand kremlin palace in moscow, vladimir putin renewed his oath to serve as president for

a 5th time. this is an all girls of each municipal food and stress, the importance of national unity in the face of increasing isolation due to the war, new crane. a problem he blamed on the west when you have because of him so we can not refuse dialogue with western states, but as a choices. this means that they intend to continue trying to restrain the development of russia. continue the policy of aggression and continuous pressure on that country for years. w a would like to see what parts of cooperation and pace who in your victory at the polls was never in doubt put in one the election in march with over 87 percent of the vote. facing no real opposition. critics denounced the election as unfair and on democratic the widow of long time put in an opponent, alexi. and i've only you who died in a russian prison in february. what's recorded a video from exile, encouraging her supporters to keep fighting with dodge list. and we might make sure

that no one in the world police who installed neither in russia nor beyond its borders. it's difficult, but we have to make an effort. and that means persistent, stubborn dealer work is a narrow country, is ruled by a lie or a fees and a murder. but this will definitely end. don't give me the truth. when does that? to me, is it that way for us to put me into the european union's top diplomat urged, all member states to boycott the knock you ration most state away from us go me the position was clear, was going to be very difficult for the brain is so many people are around the world to understand that we're going to see that put in someone evicted by the to negative agreement, of course, responsible for the war, new grain, the elections that we can best because the way i not for the new the fan elections . and then to at the end, the navigation, it would be ugly. a contradiction fair or not vladimir putin is set to stay in

power for a while longer. by the end of the 6 year term, he will have surpassed soviet dictator, joseph stalin, at the longest serving russian leader and centuries. for more, i'd like to welcome catherine belt into the day she was moscow correspondent for the financial times. and now she reports on russia for the washington post are highly acclaimed book hooton's people, documents, pollutants, rise to power, and the key players who helped him keep a tight grip on the kremlin. katherine, thank you so much for joining us. it's great to have you back on the day, lot of your fruit and has been calling the shots in russia one way or another for a quarter of a century. how strong is his presidency as he begins this 6 year term? well, on the face of it ready, he looks like he is stronger than he ever has been before. and that's because the west did show weakness. there was this great tools in the flow of weapons to

ukraine. the u. s. congress allowed that a package to be delayed for almost 9 months. ukraine was waiting, and i spoke to one russian officials today. and he says he believes that russia will maintain the up by hand. and that's buffalo against ukraine, probably till the end of the year. because of the weapons aren't going to get to ukraine fast enough. so russia will use the moment to try and take more territory and crane. it's still being gunned in terms of munitions. and this also means that because russia has the hand for now military, it means is each best consolidated around him very much more than compared to a year ago. uh, the russian elite have sense the weakness in the west. and they believe that they're on the winning side. let's look at buttons, inner circle. how tight is it, is it still the old entourage, and is there anyone who can tell him hard truth without you know,

the fear of falling out a window as well? you already have to look at what happened to each one of them who did tell him these hard to see have guinea pig version. his plane was mysteriously down. doctor, he is mine, launched a mutiny and marched on moscow. so they're all very few who are going to die to tow boots in the truth, but at the moment that big, that basically all busy sucking up to him, we see signs of tension among the elite and most recently, the russian deputy defense minister, a html identity or was arrested for a corruption. and this is a sign of a back to among the kremlin plans for access to cash flows. because the deputy defense minister, who was arrested was in charge of basically government contracts for the ministry and was sitting on a very back pull to the trash indeed. and he was seen as close to your line to one of the 2 tenants. closest allies could not be teaching could,

but those and use security services want to put their own men in place. so that often comes across as being isolated there. that is how he's being for trade in western media, other since iconic picture of him alone at the end of this very, very long table. is that a genuine representation of his leadership? as well as you report noted, he is isolated from the west right now. many of the west and ambassadors refused to attend his integration, but prince and is busy building his own on the west in coalition which you, he is now calling the global majority. he's able to sort of leverage upset of the is rows of brutal tactics in palestine. he's consolidating what he calls the global south around him in forging new alliances with china or run on those cree now is 71 years old. today he's not going to be able to stay in power forever,

even though he probably would like to. is he thinking of a successor? you think? um, yes, i think he has to. he has to be aware of his own mortality by now. indeed, if he is, does make it through to the end of the 6 year term, he's going to be $77.00, and it's unlikely he'll be strong enough to run for another time though. who knows what leaps and bounds science science was made by then of course, she's looking within his ranks, but he knows that this is a project for with risk because last time he brought in his own deputy to meet 3 meant that have to take over the presidency met better, even though he was seen as the most pliable and the most kind of the most the person who would most cow to put. and he began showing a great deal of independence towards the end of his time president. and they had to get rid of the engine coaching, had to return, it was too risky because meant that it was,

they opened the college of by the west. yeah. you have, of course, studied, put, and his career very closely his time in power, especially at this point. what do you think he views as the greatest achievement of his years in the kremlin? or i'm sure right now he's looking at his miniature campaign in ukraine, and he's looking at the hesitancy presidency in the west, which was shown in the grades in a, in providing a to crane. and i think he still thinks it's all ahead of time. but they are a great risks involved in that prospect because, you know, he's, there are, we still don't know whether his great friend and i, donald trump, o, we're winning the presidency in the us. and even though the west delayed surprise weapons and wasn't fast enough and adequately providing ukraine with

a sufficient material, if the west now can get its act together, if it can run pump its own minute pre industrial production by 2025 you crane could be in a position to start causing problems for russia. the russian economy is already essentially running a kind of a hot economy. inflation is running sky high because of the amount of money that the, the government has been pumped into the defense sector. and also it's fully behind technologically rusher, is able to get a lot of technology from china, but it's of poor quality. china. what a spy, every single person get. so it's, it's ready was risk liking behind the along the wall goes on good. at the moment this year she puts in, has everything to play for. he could get his great friend and i liked donald trump in power in the us and then it's possibly each game is a full weston alliances and pretend can use that bush as well on the web page.

that was a washington post. katherine, both are really good to get your insights. catherine, thank you so much for your time. thank to a god for the enemy was actively developing plans to illuminate president for a load of music. lensky would mean one of the most important tasks of the russian network was to find agents among the military, close to the president, who could take ukraine's head of state hostage and light to kill him. well, don't, we'll bring it to you. who. that was the spokesman for your grand security service, claiming to have uncovered a russian plot to kidnap and kill president voluntarism lensky and other senior military and political figures. a 2 officers in ukraine's government protection unit have reportedly been arrested on suspicion of carrying out the plan, which was allegedly orchestrated by russian intelligence agents. of these aren't the 1st to craning claims of russian assassination plots as the war stretches into

a 3rd year. the lensky said that in 2022 alone, there had been at least 10 attempts to take his license on the american support. and i now like to welcome john hurts. he was the u, as in bassett, or to ukraine from to that south 1003 to 2006. for a long career in the us state department, he's now senior director of the urethra center at the atlantic council. thank you so much for joining us, mr. and faster than ukraine's counter intelligence say they've uncovered a plot to kill president zaleski and other high ranking officials. how big do you consider the threat against ukraine, senior leadership at this point? i don't have particulars regarding this beyond what's already been put in the media . but i do know as your report mentioned, that there were numerous efforts to get soleski by the russian forces and the 1st 6 plus months of their big invasion. and of course, they all failed,

so this would be major coo from moscow weren't able to achieve it. so certainly the claims are plausible. the 2 suspects are colonels in the state guard of ukraine task with protecting top officials. allegedly, they were recruited by the f as b before 2022, before the full scale invasion launched by russia. but with the lensky, well aware of the target on his head, how does someone like that make it into his security detail? the look of the rushes of is been indefatigable. going back to the 1st days of ukraine's independence school, you know, going back to the early nineties to make sure they have agents. it's major positions across the intelligence, the military and security agencies and ukraine. that's one of the reasons why it was relatively easy for them to go into crimea in 2014. but since then, going back 10 years, major efforts were made by ukraine to fix this problem,

largely, but not entirely successful. and we know that the ukraine, excuse me, russian had success in south mainland, you crate, taking her son is the beginning of the big invasion because they had turned many of the ukrainian intelligence officials in her sewing of and their direction. and so the notion that people close relatively close to zaleski even today are russian agents, is not a surprise. and i believe the printing is our vigilance. looking at this, that means they have some systems in place to prevent it, especially when it happens. but it's not for me, and we've recently seen a big shake of and personnel and some high level dismissals in ukraine, ken's and landscape, trust the people around him. i don't think there's any doubt the vast majority of senior officials in ukraine are loyal to their

country. they recognize that of putting the chiefs his objective of having affected political control in ukraine. there will be massive repression in free ukraine. comfortable to the massive repression in occupied ukraine. so they are fighting for their wives and their existence as independent ukrainians. that does not mean, however, these are not some russian agents, whether by conviction or by subversion or by bribery. how important is full of arrears, a landscape personally, to ukraine's war effort that, that struggle for survival as an independent country that you just mentioned. and what effect would it have if he were in fact assassinated? revival should be zalinski has been absolutely brilliant, more leader, and his unique qualities,

or have been essential to the success ukraine has enjoyed this for. i know people don't talk about ukraine success too often these days. but point of fact, they've stood off. the world's either 2nd or 3rd rate is conventional military power for what? 2627 months. that's a real achievement, even if it's not as strong as before, which is some of us would like having said this, ukrainian people understand the point i have already made. did moscow same is subjection of ukraine, subjugation of ukraine, which involves serious serious notification of ukrainian identity between ukraine is want to live in their own country as ukrainians would be severely repressed. i believe it would be a disaster. few crane of moscow were able to do something. he had zalesky. i don't think it would be a mortal disaster for you. that was former us ambassador to you. crane john herbs.

thank you so much for your time. which to the crisis in the middle east bell, where israel's military has seized control of a key border crossing and gaza. despite warnings from even its closest allies, the army, some tanks into a rough spot in the south of the territory. now rough on is a vital crossing point for humanitarian aid coming in by egypt. the city also shelters more than a 1000000 displaced palestinians incursion. cast new doubts on a propos, cease fire with loss. that's of course, the organization that carried out the october 7th. her attack on monday, i'm oss said it accepted a deal brokerage by egypt and guitar triggering celebrations in the streets, a rough arm. but israel says the proposal doesn't need its core demands and refused to halt its cause offensive. today you and she,

even tony with tears said it was the science of moment for the palestinian, that is really people and for the entire region agreements between the governments of israel and the leadership of i'm us, is essential to stop the medical suffering. good fellow stevens, you guys the end of the hostages, and that fabulous. it would be tragic if weeks of intense diplomatic could. cvt for fishing guides, you know, ceasefire, loading these of hostages and the devastating or fancies in dropbox. all right, so it's my appeal for both spot, these to show the political cottage and spare, no effort to secure and agreements. no. israel has rejected the ceasefire proposal, but has still send a delegation to cairo. i asked middle east analysts laura, blue and feldwood. she expects to come out of the negotiations. one of the biggest obstacles is trust. so we can have some sort of stand in, um and you know,

stand for the various parties is really do not trust the home us leadership. they were thinking that they were gonna come to terms relationship with them before october 7th, and then they were sucker punched on that day and they won't be full, began is their attitude and the policies don't trust the israelis, but specifically natania who when they're asking for guarantees that these relatives will keep their side of the bargain either from the united states, or they're not quite sure they're gonna rely on the united states at this point. so they're looking to turkey, enter russia. and the 2nd possibility is rather than um, as your, as your previous corresponded, noted that there's the sticking point over the end game. right now we're involved in a blame game, but if we can get past that and talk about, okay, so is it a permanent ceasefire? or is it a temporary calm? it's rather than making it time based and setting a date, you make it conditions based so that you have to meet certain markers on for end of hostilities that could be another way forward. and finally, you know,

we've been focusing a lot on incentives for success. and maybe we need to talk about the cost of failure. failure to achieve a ceasefire with a little bit more leaning heavily into the negatives that could potentially be doha threatening to have spelled from us leadership from guitar. and then on the united states side look tomorrow, in terms of leaning on israel secretary blanket has to present a report to congress entering a very simple question which is, is israel violating international humanitarian law and it's on flooding gaza the 2 weeks ago, washington gave the social media app, tick, tock, and ultimatum. find a non chinese buyer within $270.00 days or face a band in the us today. take talk and it's chinese parent company by fans, filed a legal challenge to that decision, arguing that it violates the right to free speech. the lawsuit is likely welcome

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