00:00The meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Putin,
00:02the bilateral meeting lasted for 45 minutes.
00:05And that meeting has just now concluded.
00:09Are we expecting a joint statement?
00:11Let me go straight to Gaurav Sawant who's joining us live.
00:14Gaurav, should we expect a joint statement?
00:18Well, we should expect details of what transpired.
00:21In fact, no matter from now, we are expecting Prime Minister Nareem Modi
00:24and the Russian President Vladimir Putin
00:26to put some down on this road as we can do.
00:29It's the Postman Goethe, India Industrial Fair Exhibition.
00:32And, you know, I'm just being asked to move away.
00:35I just want you to just take a look.
00:37The police are now here.
00:39Movement will take this.
00:40If you notice, the vehicles, the preliminary vehicles
00:42have already started coming right now.
00:45See, you see the initial vehicles, they're already coming in.
00:48We are now being pushed, you know, back.
00:51The Prime Minister will be here shortly.
00:55You see the cars.
00:56There you see, right behind me, and I want you to just take a look
00:59at the cars of the Russian President and the Indian Prime Minister.
01:04They're traveling together.
01:06There you see the vehicle.
01:07They're coming to see this exhibition.
01:09They, of course, will be taking the...
01:12That's where they're heading right now.
01:14Watch these images.
01:15You're watching this image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
01:19and the Russian President Vladimir Putin now entering the main exhibition hall.
01:24There you see, that's the Indian Prime Minister's car.
01:28And you see SPG personnel come out of that vehicle.
01:32And they're going in to see this exhibition.
01:34And this is a beautiful exhibition.
01:35I've been able to show you some bits of this exhibition just a short while past.
01:39This is cutting-edge science and technology of India
01:43and cutting-edge science and technology of Russia.
01:46That's on display here.
01:47You know, when you talk about cutting-edge technology,
01:50India is showcasing its latest radars.
01:53India is showcasing its private sector manufacturing satellites.
01:57And, you know, optical SAR satellites, synthetic aperture radar satellites.
02:03So, those satellites that can see and also sense.
02:07Then you have the drone killers that are on display.
02:10Remember, drone killers are something which are relatively new right now,
02:15but they're also being used very extensively in conflicts across
02:18whether it's the Russia-Ukraine war
02:20or you have the Iran conflict in West Asia.
02:25And, of course, during Operation Singul,
02:27we saw drones being used very extensively.
02:29Drones and drone killers in India,
02:31perhaps, that's amongst the best counter drone systems.
02:35So, what we see right now are some of those systems on display.
02:39And I've been privileged, in a way, to see them firsthand.
02:42And it's how made-in-India drones and made-in-India radars
02:46and counter drone systems,
02:48you can scan the skies at a tactical level
02:51and also at a strategic level.
02:53So, we saw the way we had, you know,
02:56India's Aakashti system
02:57and the, you know, integrated air defense system of our country
03:01where all the radars of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard,
03:04Civil, other radars,
03:06they're all integrated together for a common air picture to be formed.
03:09You have those radars and, of course, now you have tactical radars
03:13that troops on the front lines,
03:15they have those radars and they have the drones
03:17and they have the counter drone systems.
03:19It's amazing the kind of technology that is now being made in India
03:23because you spot the drone,
03:25you spot the enemy's swarm drone,
03:26not a single drone or a couple of drones.
03:28Even if it's a swarm of drones coming your way,
03:31you take all of them down simultaneously.
03:33Soft kills, hard kills, you know,
03:36you disrupt those drones, you catch them,
03:39you drown, you take them down.
03:40All of the technology was on display here.
03:43What's also on display here are radars or clothing,
03:48clothing of India.
03:49Remember, there was a time,
03:50Sandeep and I have covered this early in the 1990s.
03:53Remember, 1984, Operation Makebooth started.
03:56For clothing for Siaachen Glacier,
03:58we would buy them from Switzerland
04:00and so would others, you know, buy them.
04:02Now we manufacture them
04:03and we're looking forward to exporting them in times to come.
04:07So that is how much we have moved.
04:09High-altitude clothing, high-altitude food,
04:11you know, the kind of food you would require to stay healthy.
04:15All of that is on display
04:17and also steel, tunnel boring equipment
04:20that Russia is displaying.
04:21So this is amazing
04:23the way BRICS countries can cooperate
04:25for a better world.
04:27Okay.
04:28Gaurav, since you are on Ground Zero,
04:30give us a sense of what you are seeing around you.
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