ah, a here is it particularly nasty thing? this is called, i leave my and they all over are corresponded to explore is a once in battled oil refinery in the loo, gone to the city of lucy chance, where he discovers scores of band munitions allegedly planted by ukrainian troops before they flip with china. that you one gains the ground on the west dollar as a new survey shows 85 percent of the world's central banks either hold or intend to hold. the chinese national current. you can use government passes, blame for it. crisis on the far away conflict in ukraine as protesters in the

eastern african countries express outrage over struggling to afford basic foods. i believe it being hungry. we have the department that are now finding it hard to put on the table with broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now we start with the latest from the front lines in the war in ukraine, ukraine. so shelling of residential areas in the done yet. republic on friday, reportedly killed at least 3 civilians that included one in the city of love come where the local mayor released images of the attacks aftermath. local authorities said residential buildings and public infrastructure came under fire warning at least 11 people, including 3 children. the capital city done yet was also targeted with 2 women

reportedly killed in the shelling by cubes forces. in recent days, at least 7 civilians and the republic have been declared killed by ukrainian military attacks. next, a report from our senior correspondent who visited an oil refinery in the once embattled lou ganske city of lucy chance, which has now come under the control of russian lead forces. exploring the facility, the r t crew discovered an abundance of prohibited land mines. that kid had vowed to dismantle, in accordance with international treaties parties, but i got the f reports. ah, the don bass is a beautiful land put out green and verdant. but it buds 5 wide violence, mangles the horizon here that violence is centered around the least. he chanced oil refinery reaching

here was neither safe nor easy. the seas a vast industrial zone, surrounded by open terrain of firing range for artillery. industrial complex itself, though, is incredibly similar to mary. you builds infamous as of steel plant. a warren have buildings, tunnels, and defences. just as they did in mario bull here at the least chance all refinery . if radian tube see the nationalists, they, they build a real fort, were covered with foreign positions. they left here as they did variable without much of a fight. but when russian troops and allied forces came in, they were met with a storm of artillery and rockets. nothing has been spared in the endless shelling. ukraine has thrown almost everything in its arsenal at the refinery. as i say,

the situation of illicit chance cooler finally remains very heads ukrainian. ha tillery ah, multiple rocket launcher systems, grub, gram key. pouring up the wall refinery in beads to sloop the russian advance in the area of the plant itself is enormous. but you can literally just point the camera in any direction. wait 1015 minutes and there will be an impact. oh, it isn't just the sky. and the shells screaming through it that a dangerous, but the ground itself, we were warned in no uncertain comes to watch our every step. now these here is a particularly nasty thing. this is called a leaf mine or lipa stalk in russian because obviously of the size and shape of it

in the color are there right? reminiscent have a leave. it would be now on impossible to spot this in a wooded area. the explosion it produces, if disturbed, is enough to tear off someone's heel. and these are all over the oil refinery. the ukrainian military has been spreading these all over the place. ah, careful, careful, careful. adding these all over the place via oregon rockets, cosette markets, which open up and drop hundreds. so does he a shed a video with us showing what would happen if you set one off or this is what it looks like. a piece. there's a, a glass container to glass to in this section of mine which is, which is thicker. if pressed the glass to burst and the destination happens,

it is possible to disarm it. if you pick it up very ever so gently, ah, ever so gently, by this pot, the thin pot and unscrew the detonation. these shouldn't even be here. ukraine had signed and ratified the auto mind band convention. these mines were explicitly band. it assured the international community that it had the steroids, its stock, paul's, what's worse, these are old. soviet may, can lack the vital self destruct mechanism that triggers after 3 or 4 days. these could potentially stick around foot decades. the least chance all refinery is thou relatively far from the front lines. the thunder and roar of bloss here is slowly waning, but what happened here?

the blind mining of dozens of square kilometers of industrial property of farms and fields will hoards this place and the local population. for years. more at gas d r t, from the la guns people's republic. the western political onslaught against russia has failed, but moscow still needs to remain vigilant in the face of new sanctions. that's according to vladimir putin who mold over russia's economic strategy during a meeting with top officials. that was the way, the so called economic blitzkrieg by our ill wishers against russia has of course failed. however, some damage is still being done to our economy by the sanctions and restrictions and some risks do remain for president painting as spoke with a gas prom has early on friday of the 1st time after he said, he admitted that the has been an impact on the russian economy from these unprecedented sanctions on the all still risks still ahead. so what russia is going

to have to do is to roll with the punches, so to speak. and that's what he's doing is focusing on increasing its output to different energy market. because you has implemented another round of sanctions against russia, including an oil embargo, russian companies should already be prepared for this move. our key priority is include the build up of gas development infrastructure in russian regions, as well as the diversification of exports to promising southern and eastern markets . urine speaking, following that meeting with the gas prom heads, president patient going to focus on russia. he also focused on the global impact that these massive loads of sanctions on russia having he talks about how your pay is now facing and a massive energy crisis. and that people might not even be able to heat their home sufficiently. this coming wind side, there's also of course, the massive impacts that this will have on companies throughout europe. without

those energy supplies, they might even be forced to fold. and then of course, we have mass unemployment. we have more people on the bread line, and then we have the, the huge impacts to those economies as well. and so while europe, his bracing for hard times, president putin says, and he speaks today that he wants to protect the russian people from feeling the severe impacts of these uneasy times. and so, as you will talk to these latest rounds of sanctions, which includes that oil embargo and he wants russian companies to be braced and ready low with it, especially because the central banks around the world are increasingly keen to hold chinese. you want as a reserve currency that is, according to the latest survey by swiss economic powerhouse u. b. s. countries have been seeking to diversify away from the dollar in order to be less exposed to us dominance over the global financial system. our team racial blevins expense b u. s. dollar may still hold the title of the world's reserve currency, but its biggest competitors continue to gain ground,

especially as washington steps up its attempts to use economic power as a weapon against countries. it doesn't get along with, well the us has been turning up the sanctions countries like china has been on the ra, if in fact, according to the latest annual reserve survey from u. b as 85 percent of central banks say they either hold or want to hold the chinese you want. and that's no coincidence as mainstream analysts to admit that washington's campaign to target and isolate russia this year has led to concern that other countries will be next on the list. and that they could receive similar treatment if they don't go along with demands from the u. s, as a result of the current economic climate central banks average share of us dollar holdings was 63 percent in june, down significantly from 69 percent in 2021. this as other countries, such as argentina and iran, have expressed interest in joining the bricks group of countries,

which as it stands right now represents around 40 percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the global economy. so i'm using this together with bricks partners. we are developing reliable alternative mechanisms for international settlements. we are exploring the possibility of creating an international reserve current based on a basket of currencies. and with the western campaign to isolate russia from swift, moscow's alternative payment system has only continued to grow and now works with more than 50 foreign organizations from 12 countries. this all comes as china confirms that is in the process of creating a you on reserve fun with indonesia, malaysia, hong kong chalet and singapore, with each country planning to contribute around $2200000000.00 presenting a clear challenge to the dominance of the us dollar meanwhile, series like egypt are also looking for ways to survive without the big buck as cairo sees the ways in which the current sanctions against russia stand to hurt its

own economy. russian tourists are also among the biggest spend, is in the egyptian tourism sector. from that perspective, it makes sense for egypt to try to maintain these relations. the only way to do so under the current sanctions regime is to bypass the u. s. lead financial system which has become unduly restrictive, and it's by threats from the u. s. other countries are continuing to do big business with russia, with reports noting that an indian company may be historic purchase of russian call and you on rather than dollars. that could also be the case in the future for saudi arabia and the reports from earlier this year that the nation was considering one day selling oil and china currency, which would have a major impact on the energy industry. it comes as no surprise that the u. s is not happy and it has been critical of all threats to the dollars dominance. who wouldn't like to see mechanisms that are designed to prop up the rebel or to undermine the dollar based financial system or to sicken vents of financial

sanctions was started as a trickle is beginning to look like a stream and then all comes in response to a u. s. government that knows exactly how powerful its currency is and has been years working to weaponized it against other countries. the only problem of those countries are now starting to show. there is strength in numbers as a pushback with increasing power. the problem is that there's a real there's a real split in where the united states should go even with washington dc. i've been identifying i what i think is a sincere split between the federal reserve in commercial banking interest in the u . s. and white house policy and us treasury policy. i don't think those 2 groups are on the same page. and i think there's a very strong group of people within the us who realized that having the world's was our currency is a burden. we can no longer afford to have and lar, courage in this kind of d, dollarization. the big question now is,

when will saudi arabia break their currency pag to the us all at once? the saudis do that? i think we, we want to watch what look at that as a kind of step function in the the rate of d dollars ation. we're going to move into a different regime in terms of globalization about occurrences. china's dominance over solar panel production is a threat to the west green agenda. that's according to a new report from the paris based international energy agency, which was western countries to rapidly increase their share of the industry. now trying to produce is more than 80 percent of the world's poly silicon used for solar panels, 90 fraction of the cost of western competitors, but the international energy agency has caution that the u. n. a u. s. shouldn't depend on those supplies and should instead boost their own manufacturing, particularly if the wants to reach 0 emission goal within the next 3 decades. it has also called on the u. s. to quadruple it's a solar panel production,

reportedly to avoid trade policy risks with beijing. china has been instrumental in bringing down costs worldwide for solar power, with multiple benefits for clean energy transitions. at the same time, the level of geographical concentration in global supply chains also poses potential challenges that governments need to address. as the world struggles with a severe energy crisis due to did be disrupted the supply chains, the concentration of a developing energy source in the hands of china seems to be a troubling prospect for the west that you previously accused beijing of actually ignoring their green agenda but now the parents agreements goal of reaching 0 emissions by 2050 could rely entirely on china. we heard from independent expert, andrew young, who commented about china's role in the global green energy supply time is the worst because manufacturer and the biggest trader, and 130 countries of china,

a lot of compare with only for the 740 united states to try to embed it in the well, the line very change, especially on the energy of the green energy. i mean, the solar panel, what's all, all the, most of the wells manufacturing, sorta, panel designers. together with the kind of special mechanism, minerals. most of them all in china and so i think that this is the reality. and then the irony is that in the united states there was a cam saying that i still don't have the recipe of climate change and best of interest. ready oil and, and also, you know, and most of all the, don't have the infrastructure. so the more affordable solar panels a well in this age group, all power, great power arriving between china is united states and china and honestly keeps

all this campaign or even on china, dutch police have fired a warning shot ad outraged farmers protesting against a new green initiative, they could shut down their businesses, the policy would force the agricultural industry to use less fertilizer and reduce live stock numbers in an effort to lower pollution. here are some footage from the demonstration in the netherlands. ah ah ah ah, i dutch farmers came under fire, described by police,

says warning shots this week as they took to the streets and block supermarkets and roads in their tractors to protest a green crack down on their businesses. western leaders are banging the drum about a global food shortage, but they only seem to be making life harder for the farmers who produce it. that's lawmakers have just voted to give provincial governments one year to come up with a plan to reduce foreign missions like nitrogen oxide and ammonia that are produced by animal waste or fertilizer, by 50 percent, by the year 2030. so what's next? stopping the cattle that eventually end up on our tables from belching or passing wind latch to react. scientists around the world are reportedly working on breeding less gassy beef which the un considered to be as much of a climate problem as transport ruminants such as cattle, buffalo, sheep,

and goats produce nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane, which is the most emitted gas and is released through belching scientists are working on ways to reduce those emissions, including by breeding animals that burke less adjusting their diets. so they produce less methane and planting trees and pastures varies. major media reports in the west are saying that ducks reforms are expected to include reducing the number of livestock or buying up farms whose animals are considered to waste producing. the honest message is that not all farmers can continue their business. so now the green agenda means forcing the buy up of private property because your cows belts too much, even as western leaders complain of food shortages all because the european union and their allies are rationally obsessed with their climate change agenda. even as member states revert to call and the e u reclassified gas and nuclear as green. the european commission has been

flirting with this notion of livestock as an environmental hazard, at least since the publication of report on the question in 2020. if the dutch government succeeds enforcing the sale of private property from farmers under the pretext of helping to save the environment from belching cows than at risk setting, a pretty dangerous precedent for private property rights within the european union . hundreds of people in kenya have taken to the streets in protest over rapidly rising costs of living in the east african nation, as many say that they are increasingly struggling to put food on the table. now the government has blamed the crisis on the conflict in ukraine. 8000 kilometers away saying it's affected prices throughout the world. costs to have been surging for basic food stuffs, in kenya, with flour, sugar, and cooking oil, doubling in price. in recent weeks, protesters have blamed the government for the economic hardships as they gathered

in front of the president's administration building to express their outrage, sunset, and the government has been treating them like slaves in their own country. i went on and we don't want to let you know what to do. i know when children are starving to death, and honestly, we are suffering simply because we cannot afford even a pack of corn flower or may not even the most common fish produced in kenya. is now too expensive, but you saw it does force, does members of the community to come out of our houses and bring to the attention of the government that the cost of living is daily rising and it is now hunting us . many families are slipping, hungry. we have the underprivileged depart believe that are not finding it hard driven foot port report foot on, on the table. we want to ask that god meant that they must now come forward and god

bless this issue. the red cross has raised the alarm over the plight of millions of civilians in the middle eastern nation of yemen, ravaged by 8 years of civil war. their suffering has been exacerbated by recurring hostilities. many local women have no access to healthcare policy. berkener on many occasions during the peak of the violence, i had the choice of either staying home and dying from my illness at all. risking getting caught in a crossfire while trying to reach the nearest dialysis center. a 2nd i was assigned to a cancer center in mccalla hundreds of kilometers away. i couldn't afford transportation between treatment sessions and i couldn't bear the long road to get there. now. i'm just sitting in my tent waiting for death to release me from my agony. yeah, but more women in labor are reaching the health facility too late, and that's caused by road blocks and the unavailability of transportation due to violent clashes law. according to a new report by the red cross, nearly 66 percent of humans,

people currently lack access to basic health care that includes 6000000 women who desperately need medical assistance. nearly 5000000 are suffering from severe hunger with pregnant and breastfeeding women. among them, one mother and a 6th newborn's reportedly di, on average every 2 hours in the crisis wrecked country. the conflict has taken a devastating toll on the civilians across the country with local residents suffering from constant shelling and airstrikes as a saudi lead at military coalition has been waging a relentless assault on who the rebels in neighboring yemen. some human rights groups have drawn attention to the fact of the saudi lead forces have been using weapons and ammunition supplied by western countries, including the u. s. and great britain. one of the red cross reports offers a sheer omar gave us a 1st hound, a can't account of the humanitarian disaster. a look. yeah. i was, there was like, it is millennia. the lady with began said like

a i met her. i met heading person last week. i was in mad up. so she told us in all my last wish before i die that i need an ac. because i, i want like a want to die in peace. this is where she said imagine, i mean it's, it's unbelievable. and then it was put very difficult because the ladies, you know, is almost dying and heard. i 7 years old, you know, girl, she's taking head and she says she's looking after her. and even believe the little girl, you know, where it was like, you know, was forced to leave her to up and, and had, is called a school because she needed like to take care of it. of her mom. it's, it's, it's so it's so it's so it's so it's so horrible. you cannot imagine it. no, we were trying our best, you know, to, to draw the attention of the, of the, of the international community and the world to the plight of, of, of gemini people. i know, and we're saying that to the world should not, you know, turn a blind eye on what is going on. yeah, man. either i millions of people in yemen who need to know need to support from the

international community and international organization on the wall. should not only focus on, on a specific goal context, but they also should, you know, focus more on the humanity in situation and that many people should not be, should not be left alone. a face st. you know their fate. ah, while the british government has launched a new initiative to uphold the rights of news outlets to present their coverage to the public, it has lamentably excluded archie. an amendment is designed to guard against the betray or moving of articles from journalists and truck. nice news outlets when shared on social media platforms, the so called online safety bill seeks to ensure that social media platforms can not delete news articles from their platforms. the 1st notifying the publishers and giving them a chance to appeal. but the apparently well intentioned initiative does not uphold equal standards for russian media as it has bard, media outlets, r t,

and putting more than a dozen rights organizations have petitioned the u. k. government with an open letter saying the bill is unfeasible. they claim that the legislation would actually clamp down on people's rights to express their opinions on social networks . international editor of the morning, star newspaper, steve sweeney says, the bill would strengthen the government's power to decide to which media the public can access. this is a great concern, not just to turn this but to freedom and democracy. really. this is the bill that's being presented. the online safety bill is gives unprecedented powers to the states to determine what media people can access. the amendments don't really offer any safeguards. the i can see, so this is really targeting an alternative or alternative viewpoint. and of course, the situation in ukraine has made them kind of want to,

to focus on so much more because at the moment in the british media, in particular, and the same in the united states, i know that there is only one narrative is being presented to the public and that narrative is the same. number 2, it was the british government as the united states government is nighttime. this is incredible by any country that calls and calls itself a democracy to restrict the right to information in such a way, i think is absolutely a precedent. you know, we should, we should, we should do all that we can to oppose. ah, just before we go, the twitter buyout deal could end in court and the world's richest man in long mosque has said that he wants to scrap the potential purchase mosque, hasn't notified the social networking company of his decision to call off the $44000000000.00 deal due to problems with this proving the prevalence of fake or

spam accounts on the platform. now twitter is expected to take marketing to court to try and force him to complete the transaction. you can read more about this story on our website, our team that does it for me this hour. i will be back and let's say 32 minutes with another phone for some new sit with ah, with

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on of very dramatic development. the only personally i'm going to resist, i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very difficult time to sit down and talk ah, the middle east conflict, a under development in africa, or in south america and asia. interestingly,

none of these are being raised in the past 6 months, so a conflict in ukraine, and so that is more of a reason to us innovative also exist. not a problem, not need to be resorts. ah oh, is one of the most beautiful cities and rushes from the reast? ah, it sits on the river that runs on the russia china border. it was for many years the far eastern capital.