bold window, basically defaulting on america's obligations to great britain at the time. and since then we've had pure monetary chaos. the is our top headlines here on the death toll of today's explosion that a chemical fact 3 in germany expected to rise officials. they're saying, quote, that little hope that the missing will be found alive. ecuador revokes julianna's colleges citizenship over 2 years after he was forcibly removed by british police from the country's embassy in london. while in the program, we speak to a lawyer for approval. this was deliberately wrong, a legal, unjust, and contrary to the constitution and human rights to try against the phones is a political one. also want to tonight for you, things are getting heated up at the lympics as russian and tennis. todd the kneeled medical challenge during a press conference. so the question,

more about politics than i just off at 10 pm, wednesday evening, here at moscow for to talk to you international from all of us here. a very warm welcome to you. well, there is a little hope that the 5 people still missing after an explosion that a chemical plant in germany on tuesday will be found alive. as according to the company that runs the plant, we can confirm now 2 people are dead and more than 30 injured reporting from just outside the site author, correspondent peter on it. well, the current, the company, they run the facility just behind me of concern that there was 602900000 leases of industrial solvent up 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 . i'm 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 for my balcony when my windows were wrapped me from the blast at the stars. i was incredibly frightened. then i saw the white glove and 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 vase and it was about 945. we were in our apartment when we heard a lot extremely loud bang, which 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 glad 1st we didn't see anything, but just 10 minutes later there was a huge cloud tiring over the town and i saw the cloud moving away from the city. so that made me less worry about that unless 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 were describing to me and we've been on all of the footage from tuesday now the health and environmental protection services off the state of north ryan with volley aware that took place as well as the, the german federal equivalent soft 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 war the was falling 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 increased pollution risk, but at the moment, so it's continuous tests that are taking place shows that there hasn't. but that doesn't mean that there's not massive record and in place that's 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 that garden, that they're not to allow children to play in playgrounds in those areas. you're not supposed to fix on any garden furniture in those areas as well. and if you have a pool in your back 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 cy options that come from when chlorinated compounds all l burns. and that's

exactly the situation we've had here. so they're not taking it lightly as it stands . they 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 julian sanchez citizenship saying his original application contained mistakes and that he never actually paid the fee. a sanchez, currently in a u. k. j o awaiting a decision on a u. s. extradition request. in 2019 police extricated him from the ecuador and embassy in london, where he had claimed asylum. but we did get a chance to speak to his lawyer who says ecuador decision to strip an office. citizenship is actually illegal because 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 ecuador in legislation. so it would be a good or in foreign ministry council. the sanchez naturalization. so that the bridge is police could enter the embassy. they needed to show that he was not in ecuador incentives, and at the time since the 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 unfavourable light. the trial against the thorns is a political one. not only that in the decision to revoke sanchez citizenship, they rely solely on a report verified by a former state official who's currently accused of corruption and the trolleys underway against it. well, it is day 6 of the tokyo olympics and the pressure of course is on the rise rushing, tennis started o'neill, mate viet, if lashed out at a question during

a press conference, he feels was unwarranted and even inappropriate right after his latest when. well, let's get the story now. ok, caesar alexi shasky has the story. he would think that the olympic games of 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'll meet the idea of who just won his game and unbearably hot conditions. it was very humid and very, very hot on the court. he almost collapsed at one point even, and the questions were directed to him were not about the situation. he faced all that court. but one journalist came over and asked whether mitigate,

felt that russia's participation in the olympics was cheating in itself. madrid came up with a very sharp response. first time in my life, i'm not going to answer a question. you should be embarrassed of 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 that 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 china also said the same that he's been tested with questions about the doping scandals of the past. and i'd like to remind you what that russia's participation in the tokyo olympics. this time is very much limited because of the doping scandals of the past because the world anti doping agency, effectively band russia and it's symbolic. strom taking part in major competitions across the planet for 4 years. russia won 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 elliptic 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 were 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 20th metal in the olympics in day 6. and that is something that's

many journalists, but sickly. those sports related not politics related, cannot avoid. and they note that russia is performing, or the r o c is performing very well at the olympics. well, that wasn't the only reason that some people's focus is shifting away from the actual sport at these games. a team us a most decorated gymnast simone. bio hit the headlines by withdrawing from the competition. that head of the final round due to mental health concerns. yeah, i say put mental health 1st, because if you don't then you're not going to enjoy your spore and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. so it's ok sometimes to even set out the big competition to focus on yourself because it shows how strong of a competitor and person that you really are rather than just battle through. it. biles says you started shaking hours before the competition prompting her to tell her coach she just couldn't carry on. the final result in the u. s. team taking

home silva a teammates and other us sports figures have praised miles for her bravery. now, besides mental health, the games have also thrown a spotlight on sexism. the german female gymnastic team chose full body unit hards . instead of the more traditional bikini caught leotard, the decision was made to protest the sexualization of athletes. meanwhile, the australian swimming coach was found himself under fire off to celebrating his team winning gold by trusting a barrier with his groin, prompting accusations of toxic masculinity. like discussed 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, he just say, here are the uniformed men and women. no different, obviously, to preserve modesty in swim where we have to 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 on all of the sports. exactly the same, quite 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 have a problem be on the one hand the olympics is designed to extol abuse in the professional 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 what you're judging, not charging the uniform and what, what people don't realize,

the sex libation of women when they can be very self conscious when wearing were beating clothing, which might be a performance. so really, if you really care about the school and the reason that we should allow them to feel confident and what they are wearing, are you afraid perhaps that non sport issues or political ones in particular for example, that could become main talking points in the future olympics no, i'm not worried, i think it's like 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 slide down, but we will respect respect for now. i'm happy to different lympics. let's put it that way. everyone watching on tv and watching, you know, 68 tests and see to stadium with everything they can come, pretend i'm enjoying it as much as i do. other olympics i have to say, but you know, sport is to be enjoyed by everyone. and i suppose we have to content sells millions

of viewers watching 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 lympics should represent social mores as they change, but they need to present its own central brand. it needs to keep, continue to keep that. wow. right. 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 to temporary to trans unit. and just this way, formal insane. the mental health issue of simone biles. so she withdrew. i mean it's not coming up 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. i mean, clearly she was way,

way off her pick the 1st couple of days of competition. and so she decided to pull out a bit of an irony though, you know, rory here, that she has withdrawn, has bull further attention to her. i mean, if she's 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 flip to white 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 and sport today are subjected to the most intense pressure to perform at that time to speak about the topic, especially with that with, with the whole thing about the mental issue is a topic has had such as the years and only recently that people have mental health

and i think they lympics the examples. why not expect i really feel like you said, especially in, in can say they think they really try to years and years and they carry the country on the shoulders. it's okay for her to be ok. i haven't been to have, i'm not going to be or if she can't do it now and pay for the young people that might be the pressure. and 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. i mean, i think we need to keep our eye on what the lympics is about. it's supposed to be an event which comes low every 4 years where the people who are about to space, 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've been, if they were like early though the importance of mental health issue obviously shouldn't be underestimated. but perhaps putting that on to the lympics as well as perhaps 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 him, because we've been biles. she deserve it because it can be an easy decision for her to become here on the program. on our tea, president biden accuses russia to interfere in the 2022 congressional elections by spreading this information. just a moment, our car responded, explains what's behind the story after the break. the news. the

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part we choose to look for common ground in the rock. now 2020 past here on the russian capital, 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 triggered a much needed debate. i would absolutely do it again. i'm unapologetic about it because it's per a very important conversation that conversation that needed to happen that should have happened a long time ago. the mayor also noted that media conferences are dominated by white reporters. answers is high time outlets better reflect the makeup of american society. well, she is being sued over her songs by reporting for the daily caller. almost cut or not. she argues that she's violating the basic principles of freedom of the press.

now it's not the 1st time chicago's may i comes under fire though for her racial policies. last month, lightfoot declared racism a public health crisis and then valid to allocate nearly $10000000.00 of cove. it relief money to improve the wellness of non white communities in chicago. the executive director over on the hyphenated america. a chris of a higher says democrats like to play the racial car to distract people from their own failures. woke agenda is nothing more than smoke and mirrors is a smoke 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 and 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 suffer 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. in brief us, i'm that news soft shots, me all around the world for you right now. starting with turkey and ghastly pitchers where tourists were able to witness a giant smoke cloud rising over one of the beaches and untimely the wildfire, of course, and get led to for neighborhoods being evacuated. not just, let's go to russia as well. also battling forest fires are these scenes here from his northern region of carmelia. as you can see, it's blanketed with small g and has been now for over a week. an area of over a 150 square kilometers is affected with a state of emergency already declared. the criminal has strongly refuted claims by us president joe by russia intends to interfere in the

2022 congressional elections. the russian president spoke to me and 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. 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 see her radically rig elections on a scale like that, you know. but anyway, but also specifically called our president russian president vladimir putin. so let's take a listen to what he said. when i was with you, mister pool, who has a real problem, he is 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 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, 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. well, a bit earlier today. we discussed biden's continuations with karen g o know who was a senior advisor for the 2016 at trump campaign. but also we talked with journalist and commentator chad whitmore. he's trying to get attention away from crumbling things happening 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 lighting new. poking up today, it's 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 interfering? what is this misinformation campaign? and who decides what is real information and what is false information? anything that already does it like is misinformation. and so if you, whether you're trying to, whether you just can use whether you're trying to, to get 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 russian hopes anymore. i think this is coming from the fact that the democrats know that they are going to lose 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 it election. it's throwing out these, these curve balls as to foreign intervention. the west efforts in afghanistan were a failure. that's, according to russia, defense minister, he was speaking at a meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization, which brings together top military officials from eurasian countries, including china and india. ortiz. if a trunk oh has been keeping an eye on the high profile gathering and manager speak exclusively to the minister himself. where in the capital of ticket stand just to the north of again its 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 to be countries. and the other one is brushes. alliance with china, 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 time 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 and do some big ship, plenty of mr. corby, of the management of the u. s. withdrawal is kind of where everyone is taking place . indeed, some of the tiniest lee, the u. s. is holding talks with over countries adjacent to afghanistan on establishing certain logistical hubs on the territories, and 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 after failing absolutely everything, and that's gonna stop 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 survey showing was the head of rushes emergencies, ministry. he was in charge of an entire operation of rescuing refugees that were

flowing out of, of ghana 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 and more details on that story right now, available for you at r t dot com. for the meantime though, plenty more stories still to come here on this channel this evening. from moscow we are back in half an hour. ah,

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