person who this is for some of the lose lose the thought to lose the the gun yet again comes under a heavy shelling from the ukranian army. the daily mirror newspaper blames moscow for it. despite the city being under the control of russian maid forces, also ahead as you can see, the corpus just being chief. their objectives are safely out of the battle zone and the crew films rush and helicopters, striking ukrainian military positions on the front lines of the russian lead forces continue their advance westward. coming up on the program, the european parliament box a proposal to the gas and new killer energy to the use list of climate friendly

sources that does the block energy crisis and electricity prices soaring, was hoping that i can eat in cultural event, drops, plans to screen a new documentary following indian public outrage over the phone knickers, controversial poster of a hindu goddess smoking a cigarette. the news just after 4 in the afternoon here in moscow this wednesday july, the 6th. and you're welcome to the global news update on our team. we begin with the latest from the conflict in on boss where ukrainian troops continue to shell, done yet city and its outskirts there. sy, witness for they chose ablaze. after strikes, hit the city and comes space. the 1000000000 death toll has been rising steadily in the den. yes, republic over the customer of the days following russian lead forces taking control

over the neighboring lu ganske republic. yesterday, tuesday, ukrainian shelley left at least 3 people dead, including a 10 year old girl. meanwhile, an article headlined russia in blitz on done yet sc has been published by the daily mirror newspaper. it shows smoke rising on the dunbar, the city skyline, claiming it was the result of a russian bombardment of the spike done yet being under the control of russian lead forces and its citizens having to live through shelling from ukrainian forces for several years. the photo that accompanied the outlet story featured a building sized banner reading. we are russian don boss, but that message appeared lost in translation by those writing the story. russia stopped up to mother, said western countries need to be aware of the fact that there are continuing supply of weapons are being used and attacks on civilians and on buff. loosely call

to route, well ensure they are lying. the facts, well known on defense minutes to present them on a daily basis. but western countries, of course, must be aware of their responsibility regardless of water. and how is lindsey and his team wants to interpret what's going on. the west must be aware of its responsibility for the death of civilians primarily in the dumbass, but also in other parts of ukraine where the regime uses west and weapons against civilians in order to terrorize them. they said state terrorism. well, we've contacted the paper for comment and will bring you any response if one comes from my colleague peter scott spoke with serbian american journalist on history and the boyish and knowledge who pointed. i thought the daily mirror isn't the only outlet to have published inaccurate stories during the conflict. then i saw the photo of the actual city of don. yes, be under fire and thought, wait a minute, something doesn't add up here. and as it turns out, it was, it was actually somebody had put up

a picture of the city of don. yes. and claimed it was russian showing that he did it. and that is just an egregious li, gross factual error, a crime against journalism. if there ever was any, it's not the 1st time something like this happened earlier on during the, during the ukrainian showing of don x city proper by tortuga rockets. a number of western outlets made the same mistake. so this was russia showing and ukrainian government actually said, you know, these are, are people getting killed the know? yes. but obviously it was ukrainian government showing them you explained to the mirror will publish a correction for the department state. if they do, nobody will bother reading it, but i doubt they will because it's one of those. oh well it's just, you know, an anti rushing lender. if you do that, that's everything is permitted. if you're under the right side of history. so i don't think they're going to issue a correction. i think it's fair to say that russia has been given a bad rap in the press even before the conflicts in ukraine,

fairly or unfairly. but do you think the readers should be given more context on the background of this conflict? absolutely, but i wouldn't put it in the hands of the current western corporate and state funded press to do that because all they're going to do is serve them. i'm sorry, but a served him a pack of lies. i haven't seen demon is ation like this since the 1900 ninety's in the western press directed against the serbs in yugoslavia. i literally in their eyes, russia can do nothing can do no. right, and, and the ukranian government can do no wrong, and that's just appalling. i would normally urge people to check a variety of sources and go with the sources that have, have a proven track record. unfortunately, western governments have literally band of almost all media that, that don't report in line with their political perspective. can other development to bring you up to date on the russian defense ministry said it's ur 4th has destroyed to us made hi maurice rocket launchers in ukraine. the ministry also

claims to warehouses with munition for those rocket launchers where destroyed the systems were targeted as a game changer for a key abs forces by the us who delivered the weapons recently and said they will give the ukrainians are longer lethal. reach to target command centers behind the front lines, rushes m o. d also said a ukrainian radar station for guiding to your missile systems was destroyed along with a base housing mercenaries while after russian lead forces secured the last you pretty strong hold in the region of the weekend. they're not reportedly advancing west. you can see here the city of subversive where a at fortified area under ukrainian control is located. as russian troops moved forward, the ukrainian leadership has admitted their trips have lost control over a number of times on the way to severe risk, or senior correspondent morale garcia, reports from the frontline. after the liberation of lucy chanced, a city of

a quarter of a 1000000 people. the battle has moved westwards. out there in the distance law, russian helicopters, 2 of them, they were always flying in, bears that even in trios were very close the shed ask, which is where ah, ukrainian nationalists, the ukrainian military is making a stand off the retreating from the city of niecy chance about 7 or 8 kilometers over there, and the distance is the least chance, all refinery, as you can see by, by over all the plumes of smoke rising from there. that is where most of the action is, is situated at the moment. as you can see, the helicopters over there, i'll cover man filming as we speak. why relatively high so they must feel comfortable that enemy add the fences in this sector have been suppressed. lease is what is called close air support. helicopters launching salvos of rockets,

enemy positions before diving back towards the ground while deploying flesh to throw off any heat seeking missiles fog at them. this particular group of helicopters circled back behind us. as you can see, the helicopters just why does have ended having achieved their objectives are safely out of the battle zone. but again, this, this controls play not 4 of them. in fact, all i really, as we usually see them in the trees for together well, this is rare. the spike,

the thousands of anti aircraft systems supplied by nate who states the key of ukrainian forces have been unable to close the skies to russian helicopters and jetson cruise missiles. ah, more than that, ukraine has stepped up its use of rocky thought hillary to deploy band had g personnel mines, which it had promised the international community. it had destroyed years ago. williams and you go to court. we are not far from the city of severs right now, and we have repeatedly observed how the ukrainians are deploying band anti personnel mines. mostly in fields on roads, highways, and on approaches to cities. ukraine understands well the deteriorating conditions of the front lines, casualties of up to a 1000 wounded and killed, but they are catching up. just this week. ukrainian officials announced that women

now faced the draft and all to plan to forbid military aged men from leaving their home provinces to prevent them from dodging the draft all showing how far he had this prepared to go to make sure that it has enough bodies to feed, it's war machine more, i guess the of our t from the loo ganske people's republic. ah, the canadian fight, her beaten in battle by twitter. the account of us voted mercenary in ukraine who had a $120000.00 is deleted. i made accusations of fraud. that's after it was claim the guns and equipment he was posing with were fakes. you could read and were all mans planned into our to the european parliament has rubber stamped on each proposal to add gal, sun nuclear power plants to the blocks list of climate friendly energy sources.

it'll enable investments in the sectors to be labeled as green from the start of next year. as the commission believes, there is a role for private investment in gas and nuclear activities in the green transition . it has proposed the classification of certain fossil gas and nuclear energy activities as transitional activities contributing to climate change mitigation. last cross live now it's artie contributor rachel marston for her take. hi rachel. what had been pretty range and terminology for green energy now appears to be increasingly fluid. doesn't it take us through the blocks changes if you would yeah, i mean, i asked, i feel badly for environmentalists at this point. they must feel so ghastly right now. i mean, at this rate by next week, smokestacks are going to be deemed green energy. can you imagine being environmentalists today and being in a conversation with the leadership of the european union and trying to argue that

gas fossil fuels are bad for the environment and suddenly they're telling you in some cask i ask logic that no, actually they're not the european union is officially just move the goal posts on what constitutes green energy voting today in brussels, to label these investments and gas and nuclear energy, as green as you mention. and it seems that just yesterday, germany was pushing to accelerate its renewable energy expansion to 80 percent of the country's power mix. by the year 2030 and the conflict in ukraine, only major music army minister, robert havoc, double down on that promise. on the one hand, the climate crisis is coming to a head. on the other hand, rushes invasion shows how important it is to phase out fossil fuels and promote the expansion of renewables. you see,

but that was before the impact of the u sanctions on their own gas supply from russia sent its members state, scrambling for whatever energy it could get its hands on even if it meant reverting to dirty. cool. in germany's case all while pretending that it wouldn't dent it's green goals. france was also feeling the heat from environmentalists over its nuclear power plants which were neglected and allowed to corrode with a view of, you know, phasing them out and shutting them down to replace them with greener, renewable energy. but then french president imagined my call took a 1st step towards reverting back to france's bread and butter. and he solved the country's nuclear image problem earlier this year. by successfully lobbying the european commission to draft proposal labeling nuclear energy as green just in time for michael to promote a new french nuclear when

a sauce in his re election campaign. so you see what was dirty is now magically clean and what was the past is now the future all with just the simple stroke of a pen. so move over windmills in solar panels, the future of sustainable clean energy is natural gas, fossil fuel, and nuclear reactors. in what is clearly a triumph of pragmatism over ideology as berlin, paris, and other european capital struggle to replace russian gas while steering down a winter of potential energy shortages all bets are off. so you know, sorry, environmentalists that you no longer has the luxury of fussing around with wall paper while the house is burning down. yeah, we'll see how this one plays i'd. rachel, thanks for that. are to come to peter for rachel marson. ah, russia now has become the number one grain exporter to egypt and assigned new

contracts with turkey. the announcement came during a meeting between dilemma putin on the head of the countries national grain company . muslim nasa my main export client is egypt into agricultural seasons. we took 1st place among russian exporters exporting 1500000 tons of wheat. we're still actively switching to payment to national currency with our partners from friendly countries. so we've already concluded several contracts with turkish partners. the last of them in march of this year, payment will be made in rubles, the total amount will be $3000000000.00 roubles. also, during not meeting the head of registering company outline new strategic directions for the cross, including regulations of the agricultural market. he also revealed at development in export infrastructure like russia to export $3000000.00 tons of rain internationally last year. well that's pros live, know, to cairo, and political analyst, dr. side. sonic,

welcome to you. so russia has become the number one grain next border to egypt is other surprised you not at all. if you look at some russian relations historically, you have always been very small, economically, bilateral 3 jump just last year to $5.00 o $4700000000.00 was 4.4.1000000000 dollars from russia response. so easy and is exports to about $700000000.00 in all fields taken so that in 2018, both mosque was science. france, partnership that many pizza corporation including car joint caught in to is in fact, he's gets almost 20 percent of the lawson with the company and

russian in 2015. we're about 60 percent of the toys will come. if you bought the machine that you would find science in austin, and so that shows you this on cooperation between the side. you also it cannot be for a minute. and there was a lot of agreement signed and then check. last year, the agree easy at the central bank in russia will corporate and using credit cards. and facility thinks using global egyptian bonds in by less than 3. so this is known, so pre ordered. so pete will be doing that. but this is very expected. and both companies big also consideration, the big thing is between russia and egypt and also the russian investment investing

. the 1st is it shouldn't nuclear. we in the last course of this with course $21000000000.00 in the russian knows least. yeah, rushes, signed a new grant export contract with turkey as well. we heard with payments to be made in roubles. do you think other countries may not follow turkey's lead and by russian goods in its national currency does not set a precedent. of course, as you know, mean even most african states like libya, the all wheat from russia. so what would be the difficulty in buying, being in reuben, especially we also received. so this is not a big problem at all, and they can do it and they have much in keeping relationship with russia. remember,

many refuse to shopped on many and at the u. n because they feel sometimes exploits him at the don't the i really fear in how be dealing with or many count and that's why they are not all inc and especially the need that we well thank you so much for coming in the program, sharing your expertise on the development doctor said, subject political analysts from kyra. ah, now another story to bring you to day, the supreme court of the west african nation of guinea befell as overturned. the convictions of 2 men that were said to be connected with the country's biggest narcotics seizure, the court following the evidence presented could not support the guilty verdict 100 done earlier. just some background to this in 2020,

the accused drug lords were sentenced to 16 years in prison. following the largest ever drug seizure in the country of almost 2 tons of cocaine. hidden insects of flour, the country are being labeled africa's 1st norco state by the you and in 2013, due to its heavy involvement in drug trafficking. civil groups in guinea besought slum the court. slay this decision, seeing it undermines the credibility of legal institutions in the country. the court was hostage to organized crime. the ruling jeopardizes efforts to combat transnational organized crime and discredits the country's image and credibility. well, just to go through what occurs colombian, drug dealers use guinea. bizarre was a transit point for shipping cocaine from south america to europe, using ships and planes to smuggle the drugs into the country. they then repack the cocaine into smaller bundles and transported through the sahara to morocco. after

that, they narcotic, finds its way to spain, with migrants transporting the drug in their stomachs. while i'm delighted to welcome live onto the program, now the senior researcher of the south african institute of international affairs gustavo, to car value. welcome to you. last year, the president of guinea, besides said that his country had to shift golf, that reputation of a quote, norco state. what do you make of this? no new court decision to overturn the convictions of the 2 men who had been accused of smuggling. those troops. very much for having the recent development team you never saw show much got a problem than just the issue of drug trafficking, but rather systemic problem in the country. having a strong judiciary and having strong rule of law and government systems that enable the states to actually deal with some some of the reasons overturn

all of 2019 decision show some of these challenges, i think presidency circle has to be made and hasn't made some of the promise during teach electrical pain around drug trafficking. but it says many challenges around the she have an effect of security sector before the cabinet effectively deal with the culture and all of the many islands that exist outside of the country. and making sure that the country stops becoming or ment remaining as a transit point for drugs that are coming from latin america. europe. figures involved are quite staggering. gustavo, several report states that drug trade in the country generates run $2000000000.00 per year and illegal revenues just to put out in contexts that is larger than the entire countries g, d, p of one and a half $1000000000.00. are those figures realistic that the drug trade in the

country is bigger than everything else combined? no, i think i think it's an interesting point and challenging point. getting reliable data in terms of what it's actually happening on the ground becomes very difficult to just came from, from, from a period. and so, and when you're asked those questions are when you're trying to get the data is really hard. which makes it more difficult considering the fact that the united nations office for drugs and crime which principal should be waking on some of this message is where we're going to tell a base from h, a c k. so we still have a process of insuring the day to pay a little bit to allow us not only to get a better sense of what it's happening, but also using the beta to into a public policy, an international responses towards the problem tracks and crime in get him so any more laundry, on how invasive are the drug cartels, as you can tell in the political system in the country, how much influence do the appear to help?

i think once we can get into so and sicily considering the constant instability that the country has had to seventies and a very weak presence of the state. meaning that non think actors including grow. drug traffickers can also have a lot of space operate based on the limited presence that we have a state. so in that sense is the very nature of what is the state and so to lodge, to recreate the confucius environment for some of these challenges. meaning that we need to really support the strengthening of stating situations to be able to overcome the challenge of drug trafficking and order transnational crimes that occur in the country. very often you'll have a lot of european countries, just the officials. they're gustavo pulling their hair. i thinking, you know, our country's a wash with cocaine. how do we stop at another? seeing something that this occur in the courts. really giving them?

i think carte blanche to drugs carriers at shipments to go through guinea. bizarre . can they affect the cartels from europe? can the global community stopped up being done or does it have to come from within the country? very important question. and then the answer is on the one hand, we do need to have more ownership of processes and transferring the local national capacities. but it's not to say and i think to launch the region, there is one of the fed as examples globally of countries today. what seems to be the teach where the reason degree of invisibility from external partners and there is not just wasted. i think there is a general lack of attention that is gonna be solved by external patrice, whether they are from the restaurant. and i think, to some extent, at invisibility, and the fact that it's what some of us call as being an aide also support. which

means that there is so little attention given that it's very hard for us to know what can be the professional community should be doing what we do know that it is more attention that needs to be given by, by the international community. what is happening in terms of the work of the united nations that plays a major role in civilization country. we recently had deployment of troops from the economic community of west african states were supposed to help support those provided. so that is critical for the success of governance processes in moving forward. well, we really do appreciate you coming on the program and sharing your expertise with us on the situation. we've been speaking to gustavo, the car value senior researcher out the south african institute of international offers. now the curtain has been brought down on plans to show a new documentary out of canadian cultural festival. that's after the filmmaker

behind it sparked outrage among the countries hindu community by showcasing a poster from the film depicting a goddess smoking a cigarette. ortiz room june sharma picks up the story. creative exploration or a diversity of re it's a multi culturalism. that's the mortal or the new culture project cold under the tent in canada. but i've seen some wood wants the events to be set under the carpet . this, after one of the participants decided that some red lines when it comes to tolerance, are absolutely fine to cross full me call lee. now money maker lay shad online bookstore or documentary film depicting it move, smoking a cigarette and waving an energy be flag. the more triggered a massive public outrage and quickly led to half side, lena, money, big light trending on to tap in the room. scream of that,

the bull mika house hurts their religious sentiments. her team really just sentiments of hinges by depicted hints, goddesses, objection, numbly, lena, money, macaulay, giving you 12 hours to tender, unconditional apology or else legal actions will be initiated against you and your entire team. your twit is archived, so don't try to deleted. this is deliberately hurting the sentiments of hinder devotees. freedom of speech doesn't mean the one can cross the line and show anything in the grab of creativity. how can this be allowed to even release on digital platforms? kindly taking note, the console with the will through attention of the india high commission, was off the canadian authorities to remove the pro operative material. seeing that they received complaints from the leaders of the community in canada, a country which is home to half a 1000000 in the hi commission affinity. we're not,

we're urged canadian authority isn't even talking noises to draw all provocative material off to receive and complaints from candidates him to community leaders about the disrespectful depiction of hindu gods and the film, the posts at target con, museum toronto. i'm back in india to police departments of even fi charges against that will make up. few people lease register 1st, information reports on charges of criminal conspiracy, offence in place of worship, deliberately hurting religious sentiments. intention to provoke breach of peace against filmmaker, lena mon, imaquele. i for her movie, carly, about disrespectful depiction of hindu gods. in a recent interview might make a said that her movie was around the events that the face was evening when he got it all as to the streets or toronto. she also said that people criticizing and protesting the post if watch,

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