Calling for change we meet the banking mogul from georgia who decided to take on his government. Welcome to the program an airliner has crashed on takeoff in kazakhstan killing at least 15 people the back as a jet came down. Port smashing through a wall before hitting a house rescuers have worked in freezing temperatures to reach the 93 passengers and 5 crew trapped in the wreckage and exam drug god freud joins us now from moscow lets just start with what we know so far about the timeline in terms of the accident itself. Recent our diary some more details that came out about how the x. s and happened there coming from the. Prime minister of stan was a member of the Government Commission rahmans that he said that theyve seen the traces of the plane hitting twice run away with its tail while it was taking off and then trying to take off losing the altitude hitting the concrete fence and then actually ending up in a small building a 2 Story Building which fortunately the moment was not po
Important here is if he can if President Trump cannot make a bigger better deal with iran i think he is looking to fundamentally weaken iran and not just iran but other major gas exports or a slight cough there and russia because weakening these gas exports has a Silver Lining for trump to help the United States in its own Gas Exploration its own drilling and fracking which President Trump sees as an important piece of his domestic politics for the United States to be energy dominant not just Energy Independent but energy dominant so he cant get this deal with iran his Silver Lining his consolation prize is not bad for him in his view its to minimize the role of other major Energy Exports particularly look particularly russia but maybe even got there Hillary Mann Leverett we thank you very much for speaking to us from washington. Tensions between the u. S. And iran have pushed oil prices up by almost 10 percent thats just in the last week. Its been driven by fears a for u. S. Military
And talks ofjoining nato, yet its government is seen as sympathetic to russia. Its a diplomatic tightrope, and one my guest needs to walk. Salome zourabichvili is the countrys president. Where does georgias destiny lie with russia or the west . Salome zourabichvili, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me for the third time. Do you think that russia wants control of georgia . Russia wants control of not only georgia, but probably parts of europe. It has its old ambitions and old aspirations of remaining as an imperialist state. But should we be thinking about what russia wants or what we want . Well, the last time that you came on hardtalk, which was at a time when russia was on the back foot in ukraine, it was the end of 2022. You said you didnt think russia would invade georgia. The situation in ukraine looks very different now. And i wonder if you fear for georgia, particularly if President Putin is successful in ukraine . Well, i think that we should, again, all fear if Presid
Old ambitions and old aspirations of remaining as an imperialist state. But should we be thinking about what russia wants or what we want . Well, the last time that you came on hardtalk, which was at a time when russia was on the back foot in ukraine, it was the end of 2022. You said you didnt think russia would invade georgia. The situation in ukraine looks very different now. And i wonder if you fear for georgia, particularly if President Putin is successful in ukraine . Well, i think that we should, again, all fear if President Putin is successful in ukraine. But i dont think that he is successful in ukraine. He has been losing in ukraine all his first ambitions, Strategic Ambitions taking kyiv, dividing the government and the population, dividing ukraine from europe, Dividing European between themselves, european with their populations. All of these big ambitions have not materialised. So, yes, hes not yet defeated strategically, militarily, but he is not victorious. So i think tha
Do you think that russia wants control of georgia . Russia wants control of not only georgia, but probably parts of europe. It has its. Old ambitions and old aspirations of remaining as an imperialist state. But should we be thinking about what russia wants or what we want . Well, the last time that you came on hardtalk, which was at a time when russia was on the back foot in ukraine, it was the end of 2022. You said you didnt think russia would invade georgia. The situation in ukraine looks very different now. And i wonder if you fear for georgia, particularly if President Putin is successful in ukraine . Well, i think that we should, again, all fear if President Putin is successful in ukraine. But i dont think that he is successful in ukraine. He has been losing in ukraine all his first ambitions, Strategic Ambitions taking kyiv, dividing the government and the population, dividing ukraine from europe, Dividing European between themselves, european with their populations. All of thes