A very warm welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me thank you arun. An r. C. Correspondent has been released in minsk after being detained earlier along with thousands of others during our government protests this demonstrate these demonstrations reps on sunday after long time president Alexander Lucas shango claimed hed won a landslide victory in the election. But joined now by our correspondent ramon calls around the room and one of the latest developments developments. But take a well we are outside the Russian Embassy here in moscow and ill tell you whats going on here in just a little bit but 1st regarding r. T. Correspondent who was detained in the mens and later released while were going to hold of him as well and this is what he said he said on his on the when he was going into the park he spoke to the police and they detained him to put him in their police car put had handcuffs on and took about 2 or 3 kilometers away from the epicenter of the protest and the
Testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god . Let the record show that the witnesses answered in the affirmative. You may be seated. The microphones are sensitive so you will need to speak directly into them. Without objection, your written statements will made be made part of the record. Mr. Holmes, you are recognized for your Opening Statement and when you conclude, dr. Hill, you will be recognized thereafter for your Opening Statement. Mr. Holmes thank you. Good morning, mr. Chairman. Members of the committee. My name is david holmes. Im a Career Foreign Service officer with the department of state. Since august 2017, i have been a political counselor at the u. S. Embassy in ukraine. While it is an honor to appear before you today, i want to make sure make clear i did not seek this opportunity to testify today. Since you determined i may have something of value to these proceedings and issued a subpoena, it is my obligation
A discussion with ambassador bolton both after the meeting in his office a very brief one and then one immediately afterwards the subsequent meeting so the subsequent meeting after both meetings when you spoke to him and relayed to him what ambassador sunland what did ambassador bolton say to you well i just want to highlight 1st of all that. The bolton wanted me to hold back in the room immediately after the meeting again i was sitting on the sofa with a colleague right were just in that 2nd meeting what what did yesterday was he was making a very strong point they wanted to know exactly what was being said and when i came back and related to it to him he had some very specific instructions for me and im presuming that thats what was estimated as instrument specific instruction was that i had to go to the lawyers to John Eisenberg a senior counsel for the National Security council to basically say you tell isenberg ambassador bolton told me that i am not pos of this whatever drug deal
And many were at home, too. More than 90 people were injured. 12 children among them. They were just taking a walk in the Central Square with their parents. Among the dead a six year old child whose mother is seriously injured and is in intensive care. My condolences to those who lost their loved ones in this russian, obviously terrorist, attack. Live now to our reporter oksana kundirenko, who is from ukraine. What more do we know about this incident in chernihiv . We what more do we know about this incident in chernihiv . What more do we know about this incident in chernihiv . We heard an udate incident in chernihiv . We heard an update from incident in chernihiv . We heard an update from the incident in chernihiv . We heard an update from the mayor incident in chernihiv . We heard an update from the mayor of incident in chernihiv . We heard an| update from the mayor of chernihiv about the people who got injured in this attack so he said the majority of the people where hiding in a ne
The Investigation Continues on the victims and on the dead at the moment, the figures are such 35 people died as a result of this explosion at a gas station, about 80 were injured, about 50 people out of these eighty are now in various hospitals at night today the plane of the ministry of emergency situations ah. Dagestan delivered special equipment for extraction. Doctors and psychologists flew under the rubble of the bodies of the dead, as well as excuse me, on the same plane, and the most seriously wounded were delivered to moscow in a special sport. Its only 16 people. All of them are now in moscow hospitals, and six of them were injured on an artificial lung machine. Uh, the flight went to a normal state to satisfy, not without deterioration, the case of a fire and explosion in makhachkala will be investigated in the Central Office of the investigative committee. At the same time , crime specialists will take care of them. Against state power. About this writes the edition of comm