a century later, she had sworn in for an unprecedented 5th term in office after winning an election, undeserving 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. ne, 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 no volume. these widow julia who on this day of pomp and circumstance, slammed fulton for breaking his promises to the russian people on the co, fairly chamberlain. and this is the day the moon with him, our country will have no peace, no development, no freedom that the puritan 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, but he was doomed our country twice the nation. we really do, we have pain and we will be open to be able to go and have good relations with all countries. we see russia as a reliable and on his partner and it really is the global majority, but also on the day is really forces sees control of gaza is vital raphael border crossing. while last it's 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 shell. thank you so much for joining us for letting me put and has been in power and 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 the 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 your ration he claimed to have a sacred 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 region notice 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 cannot refuse dialogue with west some states who but as a choices. this means that they intend to continue trying to restrain the development of russia. continued 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 knew 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 oppositional. critics denounced the election as unfair and undemocratic 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 us least. 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 dealing 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 that question? is it that way for them to put them into the european union's top diplomat urged all member states to boycott the, you know, like you ration most state away from us go me position was clear, was going to be very difficult for the brain is for many people around the world to understand that we're going to see that food in someone evicted by the internet cleaning, of course, responsible for the or new grain. the elections that we can test because the way i'm not for the new the fan elections. and then to at the end, the navigation, it would be actually 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 pollutants, 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. this is what i'm gonna put and has been calling the shots in russell one way or another for a quarter of a century. how strong is his presidency as he begins the 6th year term, as 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 share a 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 upper hand and as popular 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 is still being gunned in times of munitions. and this also means that because russia has the fund for now military, it means is each best consolidated around him. very much move in compared to a year ago. uh, the russian elite has 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 choose. you have give me pretty 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 toe fruits in the truth. but at the moment the big that basically all busy sucking up to him. rece the signs of tension among the elite and most recently the russian deputy defense minister, a html i don't know or was arrested for a corruption. and this is a sign of a back to among defending plans for access to cash flows because the deputy defense minister, who was arrested was in charge of basically government contracts hold a minute to him, was sitting on the very back pull to the trash indeed. and he was seen as close to your line to one of the 2 tunes closest allies could not be teaching could. but those and the security services want to put their own men in place. so that often

comes across as being isolated or that is how he's being for trade in western media versus 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 western ambassadors refused to attend his integration. but princeton is busy building his own on the western coalition, which he is now cooling. 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, iran and those cree right now. so to me 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 time, 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 range, 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, meant that it's a, even though he was seen as the most pliable and the most kind of the most the person who would most cow to punch and he began showing a great deal of independence towards the end of his time president and they had to get rid of hands in coach and 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? 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 there are a great risks involved in that prospect because you know, he's either or we still don't know whether his great friend and i don't know, trump o, we're winning the presidency in the us. and even though the west delayed it supply weapons and wasn't fast enough and adequately providing ukraine with a sufficient material. if the west now can get it together, if it can run pump,

it's own that pre industrial production july 2025. ukraine 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 reflecting behind the, along the wall goes on good. at the moment this you put in has everything to play for. he could get his great friend and i like donald trump and power in the us and then it's possibly each game is a full weston. alliances on a pretend can reset brush 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. thanks so much. i, a god for the enemy was actively developing plans to illuminate president reload 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 of presidente, you could take ukraine's head of state hostage and like to kill him. well, don't wait the whole. that was the spokesman for your grand security service, claiming to have uncovered a russian want 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. these are the 1st to craning claims of russian assassination plots as the war stretches into

a 3rd year. the landscape 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. after a long career in the us state department, he's now senior director of the originals center at the atlantic council. thank you so much for joining us, mr. ambassador. that ukraine's counter intelligent say they've uncovered a plot to kill president zalinski 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, the guard of ukraine tasks with protecting top officials. allegedly, they were recruited by the f as be 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 the 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 thought is the beginning of the big invasion because they had turned many of the ukrainian intelligence officials in her sewing of in their direction. and so the notion that people close to 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 jacob 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 effective 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 via bribery. how important is full of arrears of 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 us for i know people don't talk about you try and success too often these days. but point of fact, they've stood off the worlds or the 2nd or 3rd rate is conventional military power for uh, what 2627 months. that's a really cheap. but even if it's not as strong as before, i went to 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 view. crane of moscow were able to do something, it zaleski, i don't think it will be a mortal disaster for you. that was former us ambassador to ukraine,

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 it's closest allies, the army, some tanks into a rough spot in the south of the territory. now rafa is a vital crossing point for humanitarian aid coming in by egypt. the city also shelters more than a 1000000 displays. palestinians incursion, cast new doubts on a propos ceasefire with loss. that's of course the organization that carried out the october 7th. her attacks on monday, a mouse said it accepted a deal brokerage by egypt and guitar triggering celebrations in the streets. a rough arm. but israel says a proposal doesn't need its core demands and refused to halt its cause of offensive . today you and she, even tony with tears said it was

a decisive moment for the palestinian and his really people and for the entire region. and the agreement between the governments of israel and the sheep of a mouse is essential to stop the medical suffering. good fellow stevens in regards to the end of the hostages and that fabulous. it would be tragic if weeks of intense diplomatically could cvt for piecing garza, you know, ceasefire loading these of hostages and the devastating of fantasies in dropbox. all right, so it's my appeal for both spot these to show the political cottage and sped of no effort to secure and agreements. now 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 and, you know,

stand for the various parties is really do not trust the home us leadership. they were thinking that they were in a kind of deterrence 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 past seems 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 blaine 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 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,

the 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 news for the 170000000, tick tock users in america,

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