wonderful book with 3 civilians are killed and $27.00 injured in the latest ukrainian shelling of the done yet republican with using nature weapons, target civilian areas. it almost 10 years as a war correspondent, i have never seen how crazy the swath what 30 meters across and 89, bob, 10 meters deep sea visits. water was one chemical warehouse in guns for public calling destruction by american nate. how is this a not so festive independence day in the us as deadly shootings? record price likes and due to speech from the president overshadow, celebration,

and india accuses the usaa misrepresenting vice and the lack of understanding of national specific that's in response to allegations of human rights abuses and classification. other states of concern with coming to you from our headquarters here in moscow, you're watching our t international. my name is peter scotts and here the top stories this our yes done yet for public officials have said 3 civilians have been killed and $27.00 more injured in the latest ukrainian shilling residential areas in the region. kindergartens, a school and industrial facilities have all been hit in the last 24 hours. more than $500.00 shells were fired at different areas of the republic. according to local authorities, the ukrainian military use nato are to sit some of the cities among the target was a railway station, a near by food market, in a densely populated area of done yet. and you can see on the 40 share the damage

caused by that attack. among the victims of the shell ink was a member of a russian t. v. crew who suffered multiple shrapnel wounds and was taken to hospital for surgery. and now to the neighboring lu guns republic, the russian defense ministry says some of kias troops in the area have been cut off from ukrainian command and suffered significant losses. ukraine earlier said withdrew his forces from the republic to save lives and prevent further destruction . osmotica de of reports from the east little guns republic. this area west of papa, there was liberated by russian troops more than a month ago. the front lines have moved on far away. 3 warehouses stood here packed with highly exclusive chemicals. now, only ruins and flies remain them and did an enormous scar in almost 10 years. as a war correspondent, i have never seen

a crater this vast. what 30 meters across and 8th night, perhaps 10 meters deep. this was the sight of a vast explosion. hard miles and miles away, though, over the course of this night when ukrainian artillery struck a potassium nitrate warehouse in the village, in the outskirts of the village of blues were, the fuzz are still burning. day bree is lifted hundreds and hundreds of meters around us. and the far bull could be seen again for miles and miles around before retreating. ukrainian troops used these warehouses as an artillery position, believing that russian forces wouldn't target them for fear of setting off a terrible explosion, thereby turning the local population against them. they were right,

but those same ukrainian troops had no such compunction. a local has just come out and warned us that there could be more potassium nitrate that could blow up berry. bob sunder they bri. here you, as you can see, the, the fossa, a still raging, and perhaps we'll keep raging for, for many days. yes, there's no fire service or emergency services to speak of this close to the front blinds, but it does go to show that as ukrainian forces retreat, nothing wholly remains with them. they strike her chemical storage facilities as well as industrial plants and residential areas without differentiating between any of them faced with enormous casualties. lu morale and increasing this organization ukrainian forces a seemingly turning to spite as an outlet for their frustrations from the relentless and blind shelling of them yet sc city to attacks and civilians

infrastructure and even chemical storage sites. the patton is clear more at gast, give haughty from new ganske republic. ah, the pentagon has said that since won't, al operates on ukraine's losses amid rushes, miniature offensive because quotes it doesn't want to do moscow's job, which has been published what it's estimates to be the number of ukrainian losses since the beginning of the conflict. some have questioned washington casualty coverage policy, or rather the absence of its claiming whitehouse officials, all plain down ukraine's battlefield lost his former c. i a analyst john kiosk who says the u. s. has a long history of hiding the true situation on the ground in its own complex. it's always been u. s. military policy. to, to make the situation on the ground look more positive than it is. we did this throughout the warrant afghan as dan. certainly we did this in iraq, we did it in,

in vietnam. famously, the neoconservatives of the republican party used to be the ones that wanted to jump into every international conflict. they saw the reason why you have to keep this positive, at least on the us side, is because when you are able to show progress, when you're able to show promise, it makes it that much easier to go to congress and get billions and billions of dollars in additional, a recent poll found the 44 percent of americans have an unfavorable opinion over biden's handling of the conflict. and ukraine with the majority wants in the government to stick to more domestic problems instead of getting involved in military activity abroad. well, john kerry aku again, says washington is neglecting domestic problems while focusing on foreign conflicts . we've got a terrible infrastructure situation here in the united states. we have terrible international or interstate rather highway systems. we have bridges that are falling down into the rivers. below them are hospitals need to be upgraded. our

airports need to be upgraded. we don't have money for schools, but we have money from limited weapon systems free. great. when you are able to show progress, when you're able to show promise, it makes it that much easier to go to congress and get billions and billions of dollars in additional 8. and that's what this is all about. you know, famously, people here in the united states had said that were willing to fight the last ukranian. well, you do that by providing that unlimited, endless aid. and you get the aid by telling congress how well things are going. police in the us have detained a suspect and a must shooting in highland park town during independence day parade. lee thinks people were killed in the incidents with dozens more wounded. ah,

a local police spokesperson said 22 year old roberts e creamer. the 3rd has been arrested following a manhunt in connection with the shooting, which also injured several children. the incident took place despite a large police presence along the parade route. officials said the shooter fired into the crowd from a rooftop with a high powered rifle. we'll provide more details as and when we get them. but illinois was not the only states where july the 4th festivities were marred. over in philadelphia, news outlet reports that to police officers were shots during the local parade. the media has reflected the mood of many americans as the tragic events dump and the festive spirits. the turbulent july, the 4th was marred by several shootings which featured prominently in the headlines across u. s. news outlets. it also appears that many independence day celebrations in the country were muted as americans also face rising inflation and living costs,

meaning many had to cut back on extravagances. president joe biden struck an uncharacteristically down beat tony speech the reason day. there's been reason to thank you, this country's moving back or freedom has been reduced, right. we assume we're protected are no longer reminder that will remain in an ongoing battle for the sole america really does seem like almost a different world when you look at just one year ago. and you know, when it comes to the united states, you have americans that are dealing with not only this ongoing violence, but also an increasing political divide, skyrocketing inflation, which remains at 40 your highs. and you may think, what does all of that have to do with independence day, this traditional holiday celebration. but for the americans that decide that they want to have their basic backyard barbecue. they are now spending 17 percent more this year than they were just one year ago. and for the americans who decided that

they wanted to go check out their local fireworks display on some cities shows have now been cancelled due to staffing shortages. and of course, we can't talk about staffing shortages without mentioning the airline industry in the united states, which this weekend alone, soft thousands of cancellation due to a lack of staff. so certainly a lot going on there as we continue to be more and more protests coming up across the country. yeah, average americans clarity very frustrated about the economy under leitz as well. not happy with the leadership coming from the white house that appears. that's right. you know, it's bad when you've got everyone from big billionaires to hollywood actors actually now publicly calling out president and bite in these latest comments were in response to his tweet, where he blamed the gas station companies for the current soaring gas prices. my message to the companies running gas stations and sudden prices said the pump is simple. this is a time of for, and global peril. bring down the price,

you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you're paying for the product and do it now. working on it, mr. president, in the meantime, have a happy 4th of july. and please make sure that whitehouse intern who posted this twit registers for the calling 11 for the fall semester. now when it comes to state level politicians, they really aren't doing much top either here and they're actually responding to the problems that americans are seeing now by using it to argue back and forth when it comes to politics, which is of course, where many of them do best here is the latest that they had to say on that. i urge all of you live in, in florida to join the fight or join us in california. we still believe in freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to choose, freedom from 8, the freedom to love. don't let them take your freedom. so definitely a lot of problems, but unfortunately not many solutions being introduced there. all president biting continues to blame really, anyone other than himself. we've heard him spend months trying to put the blame on

russia, even as polls show that americans just aren't buying that excuse. and his administration really isn't helping him here. i mean, we've got vice president comma harris, who is somehow even more unpopular than biden himself. and she's continued to be criticized for her responses to the basic problems that americans are facing, such as a laughing off some of those soaring gas prices and how americans are responding to them. so when it comes to this traditional holiday, there's certainly a lot of frustration volt all across the country from americans who feel like their government is focusing on really anything other than their own country. prime minister, no render, modi has cold on india 2 weeks to rebuild. so creates a country where all have equal rights and opportunities. however, the u. s. claims india faces serious human rights issues. all te correspondent, roger and sharma, explains the religious freedom. god has been fondly waved in faith of india by the u. s. washington commission on international freedom rights of called on india for

what they call a systematic its own going. why lesions of religious freedom? the u. s. government should designate india as a country of particular concern, or c, p. c, for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing and agree just violations of religious freedom. those was a dig, receive the warmest welcome from you, danny, which said that's the commission that basic understanding of india are constitutional, free work until reality. before the 1st of being the arctic sound, the fat ministry father went on to say that the us body missed 3 present facts. that statement and both use a motivated agenda. regrettably, u. s. c, i r. s continues to misrepresent facts, time and again in its statements and reports in pursuance of its motivated agenda. such actions only serve to strengthen concerns about the credibility and objectivity of the organisation. washington left single in the outcomes at

a time when issues are going in the backyard. the black line map of projects on making headlines once again, after review, associates or offices feeling a black man that we are bringing or gone via more than 60 horns found on his body. the u. s. commission or international religious freedom have suggested by the administration that india should be put along side china. focus of gone on and not the countries as apparently of what teachers can still. and he said that the u. s. has no more order to assess your religious freedom. in the north taking sides of the clean war or joining the sanctions regime against russia . why us is never shy to be from using human rights as

a political to an internal memo was sent back in 2017 on how best to use human rights. the fresher, going to get china. we do not look to bolster america's adversaries overseas. we look to pressure, compete with an out maneuver them. for this reason, we should consider human rights as an important issue in regard to us relations with china, russia, north korea, and iran. and this is not only because of moral concern for practices inside those countries. it is also because pressing those regimes on human rights as one way to impose costs, apply counter pressure and regain the initiative from them strategically. if they are willing to do this to china, why not india now, as they're still concerned about human rights, one could ask why i'm still looking for saheed kilda to an investigation of the bullets allegedly fired by israeli forces that killed al jazeera journalist should be in a box,

a bucket may has proved inconclusive. that's, according to the u. s. state department, the u. s. security coordinator could not reach a definitive conclusion regarding the origin of the bullet, the u. s. se concluded that gunfire from israel defense forces positions was likely responsible for the death of serene ob lockley. the u. s. se found no reason to believe that this was intentional, but rather the result of tragic circumstances. during an i d. f. lead military operation. the poor condition of the bullets was listed as one of the foxes that affects the quality of the joint us. israel inquiry us officials said the death of the journalist was likely a result of israeli gunfire, sparking anger among palestinian authorities. the inquiry came out to several other investigations conducted in recent weeks, including by the un, with international body, placing the blame for the generous death on israel. the truth is clear, but the u. s. administration continues to stall in announcing it. we say israel killed sharyn, arb lockley,

and it has to be held responsible for the crime it has committed. earlier we discussed the matter with the head of the aisle heart human rights organisation shall one jabbering. he told us he doesn't believe these really investigation was unbiased. when they say that there is no absolute conclusion, that is why it is d shoot or they come. but at the same time they came and they said it's not intentional and inclusion, killing how you conclude. and in tissue who do for me with this kind of design hold, hold comes the is where you live on was they said that no way, for instance, to waffle. they are so somewhere around those on their offers, which it means that they try to give them an immunity. and i think this is the culture of impurity. that's the case. and will give immunity towards

a towards soldiers and commanders. it will not investigate correctly and professionally in this case, because of that, we want to thrust these riley investigations ah, in the news, natural gas in europe has risen to record highs and the situation may get worse is norway, which is a major gas exported to the u faces strikes of a rising energy prices along with the strikes, the more gas production will fall. the result will be a daily loss of oil output totaling $130000.00 barrels, while gas production will fall by $292000.00 barrels of oil equivalent per day, or 13 percent of the total for the norwegian continental shelf. in the european states, the crisis is already leading to serious consequences. german energy company unit is reportedly on the verge of bankruptcy, and as asked the government for 9000000000 euros in financial aid. meanwhile,

in britain, in france, governments are taking some electricity plants under their control. the scale of the crisis in the latter has also for the country to buy more russian liquefied gas . and that's despite pledging the coat dependence on russian energy, as r, t contributes. rachel mazda reports, despite the european union's block wide sanctions on its own energy supply from russia, france is still the top importer of liquefied natural gas from russia. paris has done so much damage to the country's own energy sovereignty over the past few years that it struggling to loosen its grip on its russian energy sources. while the e u is considering tougher sanctions against russia, france has increased its import, becoming the world's largest buyer of russian hill and g. francis nuclear energy industry was already in pretty rough shape before the conflict broke out in ukraine . president emanuel and michael campaigned earlier this year for reelection on the

promise of a french nuclear on a sauce pushing nuclear power as a green energy source to the absolute horror of environmentalists. all this comes well after michael announced back in 2018, the closure of 14 nuclear reactors by 2035. and before that mac whole oversaw the sale of france is taxpayer funded nuclear power. no. how all stems? nuclear turbine technology to the american defense multinational general electric in 2015. when he was a junk secretary general to then president fall swollen. but then mac ho reverse course on that cell out to announcing it's buyback by it. if this past february frances energy strategy. if there even is one, is gets a frantic at best. the result, half of its neglected nuclear reactors,

were working due to corrosion problems. as france hit, its 1st heat wave of the summer last month, and the sweltering locals turn to fans or air conditioning. frances energy output has tanked to a 30 year low creating a need to import energy, even though the country is usually a net exporter in the summertime. india strategy endorsed by the government was to delay the re investment in transformation of the system. the more e d f delays, the more skills keep getting lost technical problems accumulate and there is a snowball effect. and if all that isn't bad enough, oh, d. f is strapped for cash, and in debt. and no one's more aware of it than the french president who tried to fix it all with huge promises. if e d f will build and operate the new nuclear reactors, was this national sovereign company, which is our common asset will be able to count on the support of the state. and

i'll see i've been on the financial and regulatory front massive public funding of tens of billions of euro's will be committed to finance. this new program says, this will preserve e d. s. financial situation and develop the entire industry financial. so it's not exactly the best time for france or europe to forgo russian energy, which could explain why paris. well, simply isn't. instead, it's openly volunteering the u self harming anti russian sanctions o quietly. continuing to benefit from the important energy lifeline that rush represents for the french economy. after paris single handedly made a mass of this critical economic sector. sorry nom is hosting the 43rd summit of the caribbean community countries on while the community has previously largely focused on economic issues. looming, food and fuel price rises have pushed it towards making more political statements.

fuel prices have been too high for too long. we in the caribbean, call for the immediate lifting of this sunshine impose on venezuela, sorta the revolutionary petro carry, reprogram can be re restated, providing our economies with much needed relief. the community has also called for the lifting of sanctions against cuba with almost every country in the community having strong relations with havana, the president of, sorry, not highlighted the importance of regional cooperation, saying member states may face difficulties reaching western markets. vertical analyst and journalist poll dobson says the current situation laid the groundwork for a change in foreign policy in the region. the united states have last 10 years, a huge amount of resources to trying to break other influences in the caribbean natively, the venezuelan ambrose doing the oil market, and also the chinese expansion of the chinese of ruins in the caribbean. this is

something we can really be able to allow year old to be in an accelerated and through the ukraine crisis. on 1st, china will be looking very carefully as the road back of the u. s. influence in the region in latin america and in the caribbean, and reynolds re, lo, it is now starting to turn the door on 8 years of economic recession. it will certainly be looking to step up as well. should they start to increase that main foreign policy to allow for administrator for major historically low levels of the limiting the possibilities now to assist caribbean countries as they did under the target government? if the economy continues its uptick, and then suddenly the crackers will be looking to reaffirm some of that foreign policy influence with their neighbor and government and finance. finally,

libya is once again gripped by a wave of protests. demonstrators angry, poor living conditions stormed the countries parliament building. libby as being in a political deadlock since the overthrow of formerly de mama duffy as donald culture reports violent protesters storming libya, parliament building chance, demanding necessities like we want the lights to work, it's once again become clear that the western backed overthrow of libyan leader move mar gadhafi, over a decade ago, left chaos in its wake. we have seen 11 years of division. the last time, libya saw national elections was in 2014, one body that was elected in 2014 and another body that was elected in 2012. so all of these institutions now lack a degree of popular legitimacy. so 1st the u. s. destroyed libya, and now there man at the u. n, who worked at the state department and studied at national war college sits and argues about 11 years of division. lack of legitimacy and the need to hold elections in libya under get off libya consistently had the highest human

development index in all of africa. it's literacy rates, life expectancy, and degree of gender equality. we're all on par with the developed world. at times the countries g, d, p per capita surpassed even that of the united states. still, nato said it made the right call by bombing libya and supporting gadhafi as opponents. nato played a vital role in protecting civilians and i'm proud of what we have achieved. we did the right thing in the right way and we achieved the right result. i saw that with my own eyes in tripoli, but fast forward 11 years after gadhafi was killed. now, libya is at the bottom of the global livability index for 2022. on top of that the you and says over 800000 people are in need of humanitarian assistance. and the number of islamic fundamentalist groups are running wild across the country. earlier. the west claim that these groups played no part in the revolution. this revolution was not about extreme islam. isn't al qaeda played no part in it turns

out that couldn't have been farther from the truth. and western leaders knew it. back in 2011, the u. k. it's defense ministry discovered that islamic militia called the february 17th martyrs brigade, was likely to play a key role in the upcoming coup de top. the organization has ties to the muslim brotherhood, and one of its members went on to kill 22 people in the manchester arena, terrorist attack of 2017. that's not to mentioned, the massive refugee crisis that came in the aftermath of the overthrow. no doubt, many people are skeptical of nato's claims that it's a defensive alliance. when to them, defense means over throwing a stable administration and replacing it with chaos. well, those are the main stories. this our do head over to our c dot com, our websites or our social media pages for more money speak to scott. thank you for watching. mm hm.

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mm. mm. hello, welcome to wells apart. just a few years ago, this wrath of religious specifically islamic fundamentalism was deemed by many countries as one of the top security threats providing a pretext for ballooning defense budgets and fueling to use last war on terror. the following, the compet 19 pandemic, especially the clash between russia and the west in and over ukraine, when hardly hear is about it anymore. is it no longer an issue? well, to discuss it, i'm now joined by who st. tom on senior professor in the department of political science at the university of the we stayed in south africa. professor solomon is great to talk to you. thank you very much for finding the time. well, thanks for having me. now i heard you say in an interview last year that in

a couple of years we will no longer hear about islamic fundamentalism. and it seems that your forecast has realised ahead of schedule because one can barely see these issue mentioned. even in professional publications. like along the mass media, how is it possible that it became such a non issue after being such a huge issue only a couple of years ago? well, i would maybe say that i'm not so categorically that it's the end. i think it comes in waves and i think that one form of fund mentalism feeds another and i think that what essentially happened was when they did come to power, for example, in egypt, if you take the one on was, i mean the muslim brotherhood and you have a disastrous year in power for various reasons, but in my view, chit chat, not any of the reach him, it's not a template for.