design, it's about labor costs, but it's also about creating layers of lessening responsibility between those who solicit the kind of work and need it. and those who do it the lines for this our life from moscow and international, the death toll of today's explosion that a chemical tack, 3 in germany, is expected to rise. officials saying, quote, a little, a hope that the missing will be found alive, ecuador revokes, and julian sanchez citizenship over 2 years off. he was forcibly removed by british police from the countries embassy in london. here on the program, we speak to his lawyer. to bring this was deliberately wrong, illegal, unjust, and contrary to the constitution and human rights to try it against the phones is a political one and things are getting heated up at the lympics russian tennis

start, o'neill met with his challenge during a press conference. the question and more about the politics and supporting the use. plenty of stories for you live tonight for moscow. welcome to the program. what are you? it's a national, i'm rory, sushi. there was little hope that the 5 people still missing after an explosion that a chemical plant in germany on tuesday will be found alive. and that's according to the company that runs the plant. so far, 2 people are confirmed dead more than 30 injured. are these peter, all of a fall that this report from the side? well, current, the company, they run the facility just behind me of concern that there was 600 to 900000 liters of industrial solvent at the site in tanks. where that explosion and subsequent fire took place on tuesday,

though it has been confirmed that at least 2 people have been killed over 30 wounded in not explosion on the subsequent fire. some of those who are injured are said to be in a very serious condition, but this facility isn't just on the outskirts of the city of labor cruise. and it's pretty much a short walk from the very center of the city that contains over a 160000 people. i spoke to some of those who said they were absolutely terrified when the explosion happened, as it was terrible. i was very scared. i live nearby and i could see everything from my balcony when my windows were wrapped me from the blast at the stars. i was incredibly frightened. then i saw the white glove. first i thought it was a tornado. i was worried. we'll leave here. we know what they make in store here, and there are dangerous chemicals on site. and it was about $945.00. we were in our apartment when we heard a lot extremely loud bang, but i was, it was

a container being dropped from a nearby construction side and people came out of the store here. everyone was very concerned. yeah. so 1st we didn't see anything, but just 10 minutes later there was a huge cloud towering over the town and i saw the cloud moving away from the city. so that made me less worry about that last. we took precautions, shut our windows and doors, and all other common sense measures for the concern now is if there is any long term effect from that cloud that people are describing to me. and we've seen on all of the footage from tuesday now the health and environmental protection services of the state of northrop with volley, weather took place as well as the, the german federal equivalence off carrying out a lot of all around the clock right now. so far they've said that there's no elevated pollution risk in the area following what happened on tuesday. they continuing to test the air, but also the soil, the water the will fall from the sky as well. precipitation. we actually had an

awful lot of rain on wednesday morning. that's all being samples and tests carried out. we're expecting to hear by the end of the week whether there. busy has been any increase pollution risk, but at the moment those continuous tests that are taking place shows that there hasn't. but that doesn't mean that there's not massive precautions in place that is being explicit information given out by the authorities to people in the local area, particularly those who live in the area with from the fi, it fell. they've been told that they're not to eat anything that's come out of their gardens, that they're not to allow children to play in playgrounds in those areas. you're not supposed to sit on any garden furniture in those areas as well. and if you have a pool in your bike garden, do not use it whatsoever until those samples have being tested. and the all clear has been given particularly what they're looking for here is to do with substances called sy, options that come from when chlorinated compounds all l burns. and that's exactly

the situation we've had here. so they're, they're not taking it lightly as it stands. they're saying there's no elevated risk, but those tests are continuing to see if there's any long term effects from the fire. and the explosion here in labor cruise in ecuador has revoked julianna's sanchez citizenship saying his original application contains mistakes and that he actually never paid the fee. sanchez, currently in the u. k. j. l. a. waiting a decision on a u. s. extradition to request. in 2019 police extricated him from the ecuador and embassy in london away he had claimed asylum. we spoke to his lawyer who says ecuador, the decision to strip him of citizenship is actually illegal. because he knew this was developing according to a pre plan scenario. after astonished, lost his diplomatic asylum, former ecuador, imprison lenny moreno needed to somehow justify the invasion of british police at

the embassy. and the only possibility was just to deprive julian, this orange of ecuador in citizenship, which is again, it's that quote dorian legislation. so it would be ecuador in foreign ministry council of san jose naturalization. so that the bridge is please good end to the embassy. they needed to show that he was not in ecuador incentives, and at the time since the echo during constitution prohibits the extradition of its citizens to a 3rd country. this was deliberately wrong, a legal, unjust, and contrary to the constitution and human rights, they simply followed this unworthy scenario, thereby exposing ecuador in the extremely unfavorable light. the tron against the thorns is a political one. not only that in the decision to revoke us on just citizenship, they rely solely on a report verified by a former state official who's currently accused of corruption. and a trial is underway against chicago. mayor laurie lightfoot says she isn't sorry for her decision to give interviews only to non

white reporters. i think that it has a triggered a much needed debate. i would absolutely do it again. i'm in the poll jerrick about it because it's per a very important conversation. the conversation that needed to happen that should have happened a long time ago. the may also notice that a media conferences are dominated by white reporters and says it high time outlets better reflects the makeup of american society is being sued over by a reporter for the daily caller. i told my cousin, not, she argues that she's violating basic principles of the freedom of the product. i was not the 1st time chicago's man has come under fire for rachel policies last month. lightfoot declared racism a public health crisis and violence allocate nearly $10000000.00 of covert relief money to improve the wellness of non white communities in chicago. while the executive director of an hyphenated america christopher higher says democrats like to play the racial con,

to distract people from their own failures. woke agenda is nothing more than smoke and mirrors is a smooth screen just to distract people from all the other things that are taking place. it's a piracy we can just run on down the line. all the people out there, whether it's the elected officials like laurie lightfoot, or other people in the media who are out there trying to gin up race wars and all that is a slight of hand to try to, to just to distract you from the things that are not working with their public policies and look at the results. the black community or somebody say, the african american community is one of the ones that suffers the most by continuing to vote for people like laurie lightfoot in for the party that she represents. because it just leads to more swirling around the toilet. that's essentially what ends up happening in the black community. it is arty international of the kremlin, has strongly refuted claims by us president joe biden, that russia intends to interfere in the 2022 congressional elections. the russian

president's spokesman also said that moscow in washington can hardly be called partners these days. russia has never interfered in us electrical processes. the results of many investigations conducted in the u. s. confirm that russia certainly does not, and has no intention of meddling in any electoral processes in foreign states. if you haven't noticed, it's hardly possible to cold russia and the u. s. partners now rather there are opponents with whom we negotiate. i mean, it seems like never ending deja vu to be honest, we have another us election here and more baseless accusations of russian meddling . i mean, we heard from moscow, they outright rejected those claims because the only thing we have to go by with them is basically biden's word. i think we also need to take on the rapid disinformation look at russia is doing already about the 2022 elections and this information to pure a violation of our sovereignty. barton was apparently given this information by the

us intelligence community, as at his daily meeting. again, without any evidence that we know of at least it's being claimed that russia is intent on meddling. and in the u. s. mid term elections that are going to take place next year. now at that time, the entire house of representatives and a 3rd of the senate are going to be up for grabs. so that really makes you think, you know, it's going to take a lot for someone to theoretically rig elections on a scale like that, you know, but anyway, but also specifically called our president russian president vladimir prudence. so let's take a listen to what he said. when i was with mister prudent, who has a real problem, he is he sitting on top of an economy that has nuclear weapons and oils and nothing else. he knows. he knows he's in real trouble, which makes me more dangerous. in my view, this is pretty weird, biden would say that though, because washington, i mean,

has nearly the same amount of nuclear weapons as russia does, making it just as dangerous as moscow in that department. so why is russia in trouble? i mean, the entire situation really just seems like hostile rhetoric coming from across the atlantic, and it's very timely as well. because remember, just last month there was a summit between joe biden and vladimir putin just a bit out here. we discussed biden's insinuations with karen jonah, who was a senior advisor for the 2016 trump campaign. also with john listen, commentator chadwick moore. he's trying to get attention away from what crumbling things happen in this country. if you want to talk about geopolitical adversaries. whereas china and i don't think many americans see russia as a threat, nor would they like to see russia as a threat. but of course, when, when is approval waiting, the new hol can update the lowest approval ratings of his presidency. so of course, he's deflecting and why not be reliable boogeyman from a cold war era and go back to russia. what's really interesting is,

we don't know what is russian medley or interference? what is this misinformation campaign and who decide what is real information and what is false information? anything that already does it like misinformation. and so if you, whether you're trying to rather just use whether you're trying to, to join up the base, whether he's trying to prepare for massive loss in 2022 and something to blame it on is unclear. it's bizarre rhetoric, there's no evidence, no one buying the rush or hopes anymore. i think this is coming from the fact that the democrats know that they are going to lose badly in the 2022 election because they don't have the right policies. so in order to win election, they either have to cheat steel. why or blame a foreign nation for whatever defeats they know they're that are coming their way in 2022. i think this is a precursor to try to do damage control. you have to remember in 2016, the democrats cried foul with regard to donald trump hurrying his place at the

white house. whenever they lose or election, it's throwing out these, these curve balls as to foreign intervention. but it's a 6 of the tokyo olympics and the pressure is rising russian tennis star. the kneeled med for the last of the question during a press conference to the feel was unwarranted and rather inappropriate to write offers latest. when let's take this off now with autism. alexi yellow shasky, you would think that the olympic games to something only about sports where the athletes have been preparing for all their lives to take part in this ultimate event for many athletes across the world. but this time, it's starting very political. every time an athlete from russia is appearing at a press conference or after winning a medal a he or she is being tested with questions about the doping scandals of the past and about why russia is allowed to participate in the olympics at all. so was the case of worlds. number 2 in tennis,

then you will meet the idea who just won his game and unbearably hot conditions. it was very humid and very, very hot on the court. he almost collapse at one point even, and the questions were directed to him were not about the situation he faced on that court. but one journalist came over and asked whether. busy you felt that russia's participation in the olympics was cheating in itself. the video came up with a very sharp response. first time in my life, i'm not going to answer a question. you should be embarrassed if itself, i think you should wire him from the olympics. i don't want to see him again. the international tennis federation responded that it will lot ban this journalist, a journalists have the right to off questions. but speaking of the question, this is not the 1st time this is happening. as i said to athletes representing russia, media, just call it cut. you also said the same that he's been tested with questions about the doping scandals of the past. and i'd like to remind to have you with that russians participation in the tokyo olympics. this time is very much limited

because of the doping scandals of the path because the world anti doping agency, effectively band russia and it's symbolic. strom taking part in major competitions across the planet for, for yes, russia one the appeal in the cost in the court for arbitration of sports. and thus the country was allowed to take part in the olympics under the name r o c. this is an acronym for the russian olympic committee, but even that name and full cannot be used. it's just r o c. and this is something that russian athletes and the russian, the limpid committee have been observing since day one of the olympic games. even the opening rest conference at the tokyo olympics, it last about an hour 20 minutes long, 45 minutes of which was dedicated to russia's participation on a different name in the olympic games this time. and despite all that, despite all this pressure coming from all side, because not only kind of plant, but obviously the athletes and all other disciplines are being asked questions like

that, trying to ignore them all the time. despite all that, russia or the r o c. if you may, is performing very well right now. it stands for, and the overall metal stable nearing on its 20 a metal in the olympics and day 6. and that is something that many journalists, particularly those sports related, not politics related, cannot avoid. and they know to that russia is performing, or the r o c is performing very well at the olympics. well, that wasn't the only reason why some people's focus is shifting away from the actual sport at these games. a team usa is our most decorated gymnast simone biles hit the headlines by withdrawing from the competition. the head of a final round due to mental health concern. yeah, i say put mental health 1st, because if you don't then you're not going to enjoy your sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. so it's okay. sometimes the even set out the big competition to focus on yourself because it shows how strong of

a competitor person that you really are rather than just battle through it. biles said she started shaking hours before the competition from her to tell her coach. she just couldn't carry on. the final resulted in the u. s. team taking home silva a teammates and other us sports figures have praised biles for her bravery. now, besides mental health, the games have also thrown a spotlight on sexism. the german female gymnastic team chose a full body unit hards. instead of the more traditional epic, kini got leotard, the decision was made to protest a sexualization of athletes. meanwhile, the australian swimming coach was found himself on the fire after celebrating his team winning gold by thrusting a barrier with his groin, prompting accusations of toxic masculinity life, discuss the increasing attention being paid at the tokyo olympics to non sporting issues with a panel of guests whole issue of uniform and the sexualization of women

has to go quite soon and it can be so very simply, you just say, here are the uniformed men and women. no different. obviously to preserve modesty in swim where we have to have a little bit different here and there. but in the main women cricketers play in the same uniforms as mel cricketers as i do the same in football and all of the sports exactly the same. and i can agree that the germans have made a legitimate protest here if they want to play performing unit charge, that's perfectly or i by may certainly some culture don't feel very comfortable wearing the kind of clothes that we consider normal. so we do a bit of a problem be on the one hand lympics is designed to extol, abuse in the perfection of the human body operating at peak efficiency. so it's there to be admired. while the other hand, we have contributed lympics, who may feel uncomfortable with that being a limb, in particular, maybe there's

a case for some element of choice, but at the same time, we don't want to lose the essence of what they're lympics is one of the biggest things about the pattern and your skills isn't actually, and that's what you're judging, not charging the uniform and what, what people don't realize of this explanation of women that we may, can be very self conscious when wearing. we're beating clothing which might actually performance. so really, if we really care about the school and the reason that we should allow them to feel confident in what they are wearing, are you afraid perhaps that non sport issues or political ones in particular for example, could, could become main talking points in the future. olympics no, i'm not worried. i think it's the last that i think is a great opportunity. we've seen so many changes already and i'm not worried. i still feel like eventually it will kind of not 5 down, but we will respect respect. but for now, i'm happy to different lympics. let's put it that way. it's an a everyone watching

on tv and we're watching, you know, 68000 seat a stadium with every seat vacant. ca pretend. i'm enjoying it as much as i do. other olympics i have to say, but you know, sports is to be enjoyed by everyone. and i suppose we have to content sells millions of viewers watching a tv all over the world. do you think political connotations and virtual signaling? perhaps according to some might, might take center stage and future olympics and should that be a concern? well, it should be concerned because we don't want to be just a vehicle for the latest 5 that comes along the olympic should represent social moles as they change, but in eastern preventive own central brand, it needs to keep, continue to keep that wow fight. so that we have when we see the olympics of it with their own specific procedures and, and, and habits and ways. and that's the beauty olympics, that's what we want to save. we don't want to make it too temporary to try and justify. wade full insane. the mental health issue of simone biles,

she withdrew. i mean, it's not me the very, very difficult decision for gigi think perhaps she's set an example. i'm guessing the bylaws is cognizant of a song experience and felt that her, her game wasn't exactly right to me. clearly, she was way, way off her peak in the 1st couple of days of competition. and so she decided to pull out. i think there's a bit of an irony though, you know, rory here. the fact that she has withdrawn has both further attention to her. i mean, if she sort of quietly underperformed and, and perhaps explained to the media that she does, this is just one of those events. she can't be at her peak all the time and then quietly slipped away fine. but she really has made an announcement him put mental health health back on the map. again. i think it's an important one that don't run away with the idea that i don't think this,

but young people in sport today are subjected to the most intense pressure to perform at that time to come speak about the topic, especially with that with, with the whole thing about the mental issue, it's a topic that have had such as the years and only recently that people have mental health and i think they limited to the past examples. why not expect i really feel like you said 8, especially you can say they think they really try been years and years and they carry the country on the shoulder. it's okay for her to be like, okay, i have mental health, i'm not going to be home. and if she can't do it now and pay for the young people that might be in the pressure than when, when else would be able to do it, the wide range of issues that are being now thrown up at these games. does it suggest perhaps that athletes concerns are only being taken seriously when it's too late? that raising a concern at a grand event like this? well, that's the way it gets more attention than anywhere else in the i think we need to

keep our eye on what the lympics is about. it's supposed to be an event which comes along every 4 years where the people who participated in oper papers, mentally and physically. i mean, the whole word olympians implies a level of a peak performance mentally and physically which is beyond most of the rest of us. so i think that if, if there are these issues, we bet if they were applied to hurley though the importance of mental health issue obviously shouldn't be underestimated about perhaps putting that onto the lympics as well as pressed too much is a sporting event. it should be kept as a sporting event. if one is not ready for one really shouldn't be there. you can only find out sometimes, but you're not ready for it. when you're there already, in which case we have to respect, as in the case of an biles, she don't deserve it because it can be an easy decision for her. the west's efforts in afghanistan were a failure. well, that's according to russia's defense minister. he was speaking at

a meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization that brings together top military officials from your asian countries, including china and india. i'll see that if a drinker was keeping a close watch on the gathering and managed to speak to the minister himself. where in the capital of to jacob stand, just to the north of again is stand where as a result of a swift pull out by the us led coalition, the crisis is deteriorating. day by day, the taliban is pretty much in control of the entire country apart from the couple region and this could easily spill over the border. now, as the russian minister of defense was meeting his counterparts from the neighboring countries here induce on bear, he blamed the us for the situation that's getting increasingly dangerous for the hasty withdrawal of us and nato troops create lots of problems. we are aware of the ongoing robust work aimed at providing security on the border,

which is currently a hot bed for many risks, threats and challenges. if you look at the map of again, if then you will see that it is surrounded by countries that are russian allies from 2 different blocks. one is made out of post, so be countries. and the other one is rushes alliance with trying together with some of the different neighbors. now, what moscow wants to do is to reassure its neighbors that it is ready to help at any climb if the situation gets worse. moscow has a military base here and to just near to somebody that is ready for action at any time. the other thing that russia wants to do is to cement it's key role in the region, which doesn't make the us happy. as i've heard when i spoke exclusively to the head of the russian army here, induced and make sure plenty of mr. corby of the management of the us withdrawal is kind of where everyone is taking place. indeed, symbol tiniest lee,

the us is holding talks with all the countries adjacent to afghanistan on establishing certain logistical hubs on the territories. it begs the question, what's the point of putting out well remaining on the border? the answer is obvious. it's an attempt to retain its position in the central asian region, are to failing absolutely everything, and that's gonna start when it comes to instability. after the u. s. give me at least one example where the situation has been improved after a long running us presence. now here's a fact for you when more than 25 years ago served a showing was the head of rushes, emergencies, ministry. he was in charge of an entire operation of rescuing refugees that were flowing out of gas stand beyond the soviet pull out. and also when the soviet union collapsed and the situation in afghanistan was deteriorating because of the stronger islamist groups in the country. now this is why the local ministers of defense and leaders praised survey shows whose role sorting up the current

situation. one of the proposals that came from the russian ministers of defense was to intensify the drills between russia and its allies here. and the 1st part of these drills called peace mission will happen in september. and china is also going to take part in those i just some of the top stories for you, this, our life here from moscow and off into national thanks for sharing time with us here on the russian capital. we're back soon with more of your headlines. me the the the rather driven by shaped by those in

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