the robot must protect this phone. existence was the this was top headlines here on our teeth. the death told of today's explosion that a chemical factory in germany is expected to rise. official saying that little hope the missing will be found alive. ecuador revokes julian soldiers and citizenship over 2 years off, and he was forcibly removed by british police from the countries embassy in london on the program. we speak to his lawyer. so the, the quota proves this was deliberately wrong, a legal, unjust, and contrary to the constitution and human rights, the trot against the phones is a political one. things are getting heated up at the olympics as a russian tennis star denila met yet. challenge during a press conference with

a question more about politics than sport ah, with your latest worldwide news from all around the world life from moscow, this is our international a very warm welcome to you. well, there is a soft, a little a hope that the 5 people still missing after an explosion that a chemical plot in germany on tuesday will be found alive. as, according to the company that runs the plant, a 2 people confirmed dead more than 30 injured. as peter oliver now reports, well, current, the company, they run the facility just behind me of concern that there was 602900000 leases of industrial solvent at the site in tanks where that explosion and subsequent fire took place on tuesday. now it has been confirmed that at least 2

people have been killed over 30 wounded, a 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 start. that was incredibly frightened. then i saw the white glove 1st. 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. bob and it was about $945.00. 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. 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 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 seen on all of the footage from tuesday now, the health and environmental protection services off the state of northrop with volley away. that took place as well as the, the german federal equivalent saw carrying out a lot of all around the clock right now. so far they've said that says 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 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 increase pollution risk but at the moment, so it's continuous tests that are taking place shows that there has been 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 fire 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 sit on any garden furniture in those areas as well. and if you have a pool in your 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 not taking it lightly as it stands. the saying there's no elevated risk, but those tests 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 s. r. j citizenship saying his original application contained mistakes and that he never actually paid the fee. a sanchez, currently in a u. k. jail 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 spoke to his lawyer who actually says ecuador decision to strip him. of his citizenship is illegal. because the name of this was developing according to a pre plan scenario. after astonished, lost his diplomatic asylum from 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, his orange of ecuador in citizenship, which is again, it's that door in legislation. so it would be a good or in foreign ministry council, the soldiers naturalization, so that the bridge is please, could enter 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 unfavourable light. that drawn 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 atrocities underway against it. it is day 6 off the tokyo olympics and the pressure is on the rise russian tennis thought the neil mate via the lashed out that a question during a press called friends. he feels was

a bit inappropriate. and it came right off through his latest when a, picking up the story for us. now, auto correspondence, alexia shasky. you would think that the olympic games is 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 want 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 you felt that russia

participation in the olympics was cheating itself. with the radio 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 up a journalists have the right to off questions. but speaking of the question, this is not the 1st time this is happening. as i've said to athletes representing russia, media, gifts, 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 was that russia's 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 4 years, russia won the appeal in the costs 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 lasted about an hour 20 minutes, long, 45 minutes of which was dedicated to russia's participation on the a different name in the olympic games this time. and despite all that, despite all this pressure coming from all sides, 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 my 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's 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 some people's focus is shifting away from the actual sport at these games. a team usa is most decorated, gymnast simone biles hit the headlines by withdrawing from the competition at 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 okay 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. while she started shaking hours before the competition prompting her to tell her coach, she just couldn't do it. the final resulted in the u. s. taking home silva, a teammates and other us sports figures have praised vials for her bravery. now,

besides mental health, so the games have also thrown a spotlight on sexism. the german female gymnastic team chose full body unit cards . instead of the more traditional bikini cut leotard, the decision was made to protest the sexualization of athletes. meanwhile, the australian swimming coach was found himself under fire office, celebrating his team winning gold by trusting a barrier with his groin or prompting accusations of toxic masculinity. i discussed the increasing attention being paid out the tokyo olympics to non sporting its use with a paddle 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 web. 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 and all of the sports. exactly the same are quite agree that the germans have made a legitimate protest here. if they want to play performing unit todd's, that's perfectly or i buy me 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 the olympics 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 tenant and your skills is anatomy, and that's what you're judging, not charging the uniform and what, what people don't realize, the sexualization of women. we may be very self conscious when wearing were beating

clothing, which my actually performance. so really if you really care about the school and the lease and then we should allow them to feel confident and what they're 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 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. it's an a everyone watching on tv and watching, you know, 68 tests and see to stadium with every state they can come, 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 tv all over the world. do you think political

connotations and virtual thinking? 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 roles as they change, but in eastern prevent its own thing trilled 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 to temporary to transient. and just this waveform insane. the mental health issue of simone biles. so she withdrew. i mean this must be in a 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 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 both 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 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 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 that paid time to come speak about the topic, especially with that with, with the whole thing about the mental issue is the topic has had such as the years and only recently that people have mental health and i think they lympics of the past examples. why not experience?

i really feel like you said, especially they, they think they really try to years and years and they carry the country on the shoulders. it's okay for her to be okay. i have a mental health. i'm not gonna be home if she can't do it now. and pay for the young people that might 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? they're raising a concern at a grand event like this. well, that's the way it gets more attention than anywhere else. i mean 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 full years where the people who participate in an offer paid both mentally and physically. i mean the whole word. a lim peons 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 about perhaps putting that on to the lympics as well as pressed too much is a sporting event. it should be kept as a pull to give and 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 biles, she don't deserve it because it can be an easy decision for her. all right, in the mix of stories to come here on the program. what are your international president biden accuses russia rover planning to interfere in the 2022 congressional elections by spreading this information. just a moment off to the breakout correspondent will explain what that's all about. ah.

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me. ah, it is good to have you with us for this program. the chicago man, laurie lightfoot, says she isn't sorry for her decision to give into views only to non white reporters. i think that it has now triggered a much needed debate. i would absolutely do it again. i'm unapologetic about it because it's per a very important conversation the conversation that needed to happen that should have happened a long time ago. well, also noted that media conferences are dominated by a white reporters. and since it's high time outlets better reflect the makeup of american society, she is being sued over her st on by reporter for the daily caller. it's almost a cut or not, she argues. so she's violating basic principles of the freedom of the press. or i

was not the 1st time chicago's may as come under fire for her racial policies. last month, lightfoot declared racism being a public health crisis. shorter vowed to allocate nearly $10000000.00 of coven relief money to improve the wellness of non white communities in chicago. now the executive director of on the hyphenated america of christopher harris 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. if, apostrophe, 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 some might 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. all right, and for some snapshot not more around the world, starting with turkey and just how riff pitcher is here, where the tourists were able to witness a giant smoke cloud rising over one of the beaches of antalya the wildfires causing it lead to at least for neighborhoods being evacuated now it's not just sadly rusher as well. so battling forest fires. are these scenes right here are from the northern region of carmelia. you can see is that blanketed with smalls and has been for over a week now. an area of over a 150 square kilometers is affected with a state of emergency already declared. so the criminal has strongly refuted claims by us president joe biden rusher intends to interfere in the 2022 congressional elections. the russian president 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 see how 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 mister prudent, 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 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. earlier we'd discussed biden's insinuations with karen jo to know who was a senior advisor for the 2016 trump campaign. and john listen commentator chadwick mall. he's trying to get attention away from what crumbly, 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 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 misinformation. and so if the, whether you're trying to rather just use whether he's trying to just 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 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 elections were here because they don't have the right. so in order to win election, they either have to cheat steel. why or blame, use a foreign nation for whatever defeats they know they're that are coming their way in 20. 22. 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. well, that's according to russia's defense minister. he was speaking at a meeting of the shanghai co operation organization, which brings together top military officials from your asian countries, including china and india. ortiz elliot try and goes mania, keeping a close eye on the high profile gathering and even managed to get the minister to himself for a few moments. where in the capital of ticket stand, just to the north of of ganeth 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. the hazy withdrawal of us and nato troops create lots of problems. we're 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 to 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 and do some back ship, plenty of mr. corby, of the management of the u. s. withdrawal is kind of where everyone is taking place . indeed, simultaneously the u. s. is holding talks with over 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 in afghanistan 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, circ 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. are there are some of the top stories for this our here live on the program anacio international. it's well the new new program starts in about half an hour's time that kicks off at midnight time. here at moscow. we back soon with more of your stories. the

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