the most with 8 people are dead in 3 more injured after a fire breaks out in a southeast moscow high rise. we report from the c as u. s. g d p meets the terms of recession. the white house tries to put on a brave face flaming the economy is not struggling. and another us sen urges the house speaker to proceed with her schedule trip to taiwan. despite growing threats from china to take the forceful measures, if she follows through with her plans, ah, good morning 6 am here in moscow. welcome to the program from wherever you're

catching us. i'm fiorella isabel, and here are the top stories. this. our 8 people are dead and 3 more are injured after a fire, tears through the ground floor of moscow residential building. rachel blevins reports from the scene were here outside of this hostile here in the southeast part of moscow, where a fire broke out just after midnight. local time, so far, authorities are saying that 8 people have been pronounced dead and that at least 3 people are being treated for injuries. now when it comes to the fire, they say that it was likely due to some sort of an electrical malfunction. witnesses on the scene have said that they heard some sort of a loud bang before a fire broke out. we live on the 2nd floor and i woke up to the sound of explosions from the 1st. it was like fireworks were going off. i looked out of the window and there was thick smoke pouring from above. there were lots of explosions. i ran into

the hallway and told the neighbors that the building was on fire. the amount of victims may be due to the fact that there were bars on the windows. people tried to knock them out. there could be many reasons for the fire. now this is a 16 story building. however, that fire did break out on the 1st floor. and it looks as though it was able to be contained largely to just the 1st floor with some residents being taken care of from the 2nd floor as well. now as far as the cause of death, its being reported that it was likely due to carbon monoxide poisoning. that the people who were here on the 1st floor that they were unable to get out due to the bars on the windows. and that in addition to that, while there was a fire alarm and place reports are saying that it did not go off as land with by state the fact that there were bars on the windows, that's why evacuation was impossible. in this situation, the main cause of death is the fact that there were bars on the windows. the last

inspection of the building was carried out in june this year, after which recommendations were issued. the investigative team cannot yet say what caused the fire. everything will be established after the prob, as for the identities of those people of those casualties, those have yet to be released. however, reports are saying that there were likely a number of migrants staying here. again, this is here in the south east part of town in moscow. and so far the fire has been contained and emergency services are responding. are the scenes situation the united states economy has now met the conditions of recession. that's according to the latest statistical data which shows the countries gdp declining for a 2nd consecutive quarter. but the white house is in no rush to accept this economic downturn. most economist and most americans have a similar definition of recession, substantial job losses and mass layoffs. businesses shutting down private

sector activities, slowing considerably, family budgets under immense stream in some, a broad based weakening of our economy. that is not what we're seeing right now. when you look at the economy. the u. s. economy shrank once again in the past 3 months unofficially, signaling the start of a recession. i mean, that's simply how people define recession. if you look at the data, the gross domestic product of the united states shrank. and an annualized rate of point 9 percent in the past 3 months, after having decreased by an annualized rate of 1.6 percent in the previous court, that's 2 consecutive quarters of decreasing g. d p. in the united states. that means that the united states, the world largest economy as entered a recession. however,

high officials in the united states are reassuring us. that is not the case. here's what they said. that doesn't sound like research should be, i don't, i do not think the u. s. is currently in a recession, even if that number is negative, we're not in a recession. now, i will say that the textbook definition of recession is not, is not to negative quarters of g d p. the bike administration is reassuring us that everything is fine. as you heard the secretary of the treasury, janet yelena, she is saying that this isn't a reception. this is quote, a transition in which rose is slowing. a transition in which road is slowing. she says, not a recess at now. this is a similar thing in response to the issue of inflation, inflation and united states is that a 40 year high and we've been storage by us officials. this is simply a matter of transition. however, the inflation has continued. it has continued to be an issue. it's not simply a temporary issue of transition,

it's continuing to go on. now at this point in response to this issue, inflation, we have to buy new administration spending billions of dollars with a law that they call the inflation reduction act of 2022. this is how americans responded to this bill. democrats just unveiled the inflation reduction act. someone please tell dems that tanking the economy with tax hikes and bad policy is a crappy way to tackle inflation. only the government could propose a bill to increase spending and call it the inflation reduction act. remember, they always named the bills the opposite of what they actually mean in any other business, this would constitute fraud and false advertising. so to combat inflation, the government is about to approve $750000000000.00 in new spending and calling it the inflation reduction act. spoiler alert, democrats, new spending bill that they're calling the inflation reduction act will only increase inflation. now they saw a prices for just about everything are squeezing america's working families,

as they're struggling to pay their bills, pay for necessities, and keep the households running amid the rising cost. at this point, we've seen the u. s. stock market tank, the s and p 500 is down by 15 percent. home sales have slipped this year and consumer confidence is low. many are looking on and wondering if this could be yet another nail in the coffin of the by the administration. invest that manager mich fire science says it's impossible to look for a solution from the same people responsible for the current crisis. janet jaelyn has been consistently wrong when she was the chairman of the fed and she was on the board of the fed. now as a treasury secretary, the root causes of the problem are too much debt, too much credit to much leverage in too much money printing for 2 decades now it's coming right them. i think the recession started long before this g, d,

p. net negative g d p for so you know, if they want to put lipstick on a pig, it's never going to turn into a super model, a recession. we're in a recession, we've been in a recession. they can lie as much as they want. it wouldn't be the 1st time, so i don't know why anybody shot it. inflation is at all times. we're not comparing like in like 19 eighties. if you use the same methodology, you calculate current inflation now. probably closer to 20 percent. what people are not talking about as well is the amount of debt that's been accrued during these negative interest rate years. so now you've got debt from the zombie corporations and there are a lot of them that can never be repaid. so you've got probably 6 trillion dollars worth of triple b and junk bonds that have to be refinance. so you will see a massive amount of defaults and bankruptcies that will cause the coming crisis. you know, she said, i think 2 years ago or 3 years ago will never see another crisis in

a lifetime right before, i mean, she's been consistently what she's been saying, inflation is transitory. inflation is transit for 6 months ago. so why would you believe people that are consistently wrong? the problem is we're going to the same people who create the problems for a solution and they have no solution and we have no leadership and a us senator is still urging how speaker nancy pelosi to proceed with a scheduled trip to taiwan a visit which has already stoked us china tensions. speaker philosophy should absolutely go forward or trip to tie why we can not allow chinese threats to deter a mere visit. my member of congress of taiwan earlier china told washington that policies visit to taiwan plan for august's would lead to serious consequences. beijing says it will take quote, forceful measures. if the house speaker does follow through on her plans, it would be the 1st visit to taiwan by such

a high profile american official in 25 years. and just recently, joe biden held a phone call with his chinese counterpart, which lasted more than 2 hours. meanwhile, taiwanese service men have taken part in annual military drills, stimulating a foreign invasion and made growing concerns over tensions in the region. and while some us officials are fearful of a potential conflict with china, other american politicians are apparently pushing for serious confrontation. you know, the whole idea that we're worried about chinese rhetoric shows how misplaced our policy is. this is a question of how america conducts its own foreign policy. and thank you very much . decision king will conduct, it's a way we want to conduct it. can we send a constitutionally denominated official. busy to china, are we going to back down because she's paying is shaking his fist. if we can allow the chinese to dictate who can visit taiwan and who cannot. then we have already

seated taiwan to the chinese. if they can veto everyone in the world who wants to come to taiwan, then taiwan will be isolated. so i think she has an absolute right to visit, and i think the support of taiwan is important. you have people like john bolton, you know, a crew leaders in war mongers who are, who are openly saying that, you know, nancy pelosi should go through with this as are other leaders in washington. and this is a very dangerous escalation. this is a very, very high profile visit, and it comes at a time of increasing tension. it's not like the u. s. is saying to china. you know, let's sit down, let's work things out. let's deescalate everything will remove, you know, our carrier strike groups and will open up and recognize, you know, china sovereignty in the region. what they're doing is the complete opposite. they're forcing countries that are making agreements with china like small pacific island nations. to go back on their deals with china to close the door to china and slowly to in circle china. the, the,

the chinese have not surrounded the u. s. with military bases and, but military planes and worships the united states is doing that to china. so this is just heightening the tensions and, and escalating the situation. it doesn't need to happen now. and the united states is doing it on purpose to provoke china. ah, france is the latest iep country to attempt to woo saudi arabia with its crown prince in paris. for tots, that's as european leaders, desperately seek alternative suppliers of energy to replace russian import. however, human rights watch dogs are crying foul over the cording of the prince. a washington based group called democracy for the arab world now has filed a criminal complaint against top saudi official, the organisation established by slain journalists. jamal cas shogi is urging paris to investigate the prince over his alleged role in the 2018 killing of the dissident. the don watch shows that tracks human rights violations in gulf countries and promotes democracy,

says been solomon should be stripped of diplomatic immunity, with 2 other advocate groups reportedly supporting the initiative. earlier amnesty international criticized france for hosting the prince. i feel profoundly troubled by the visit because of what it means for our world, and what it means for jamal to shall g, and people like him. the visits by mohammed ben salman to france and joe biden, to saudi arabia, do not change the fact that m b s is nothing other than a killer. if environmentalists thought they were the only ones who are going to get short changed with this energy crisis, it looks like they're now joined by human rights activists. but amendment, nicole french president is constantly evoking the importance of human rights and different contexts. like, for example, up paris is the birthplace of the universal declaration of human rights. how the defense of human rights is woven into europe's very fabric. but today mohammed ben selman or effectually notice m b. s is at the french presidential palace,

which may or may not by the way, pale in comparison to the home, where m b. s. is staying during his visit. we're talking here about a home that the new york times says m b. s. owns through shell companies, and it's doug the world's most expensive home by fortune magazine. the 7000 square meter shut, 2, louis cat tells that it's really not far about a 40 minute drive around a kilometers from the famous shot to death sire. which apparently inspired m b. s is french home. now the crown prince of oil rich saudi arabia was directly tied by western intelligence services to the murder of washington post columnist, activist and prominent saudi government critic jamal cash o g, who is reportedly moored inside the saudi consulate in istanbul, turkey in october 2018. and then dismembered with the bones, saw french presidents always have been very pragmatic, casually, inconveniently,

just, you know, setting aside lofty values when they happen to clash with french economic interests . and that seems to be the case here. francis big problem right now is that it's caught up in europe's energy crunch awake if you sanctions on russian gas prices. nuclear energy was on the verge of a programmed decline. about half of the reactors were out of commission and deliberately neglected when paris did an about face earlier this year and lobby brussels to reclassify nuclear energy as green energy. but questions remain as to whether those reactors and the liquefied natural gas that france has been exploring in massive quantities from russia. since the start of the conflict in ukraine will be enough to power france through the fall and the winter. it makes sense. the m b s gets to an invite to the 80 z right now as the crown prince of an energy rich country. human rights optics, be damned,

obviously desperate times call for desperate measures. and well, maybe even desperate fis thumps with m. b. s, which you as president joe biden would know something about, he said, precedent for that earlier this month. a little bit controversially, didn't seem to do much good though, and be asked to give biden any of the oil production guarantees that by him was looking for. and maxwell biden, and other western leaders are a, he, a big show for their citizens about trying to mitigate the energy crisis and with middling results. this is what this is all about. you know, we're bringing everybody in who can potentially help us with this problem. even ignoring human rights, we need to, but it's all for one goal to make sure your cost of living stays low. but the one thing that is within their power is to lift their own sanctions on their own energy supply. and they don't seem to be make any moves to do that. a former senior advisor to saudi arabia's minister of energy told us that new contracts with the u . r. a positive step. but re add cannot cover europe's huge demand on its own. if

we increase our production, we can do it alone. denise, that's all of a loss can do is doing at the same time or would one decision. and since the oil market is fungible, what if you take from either amount, if it's still franz, then the sam situation would continue to be. euro now is paying a high price for the sanction that they put on the oil you is. and in a big, big, big problem, it is energy sure to the problem with the economy. and we think that the, the united states as ordering, they, you to do this and that, and they're now in a top. so

e that they abolish all the sanctions in order to the, to relieve that economy, or they would be, and the recession and becoming months if not the years. meanwhile, the use policy on gas supplies from russia provokes a split among european countries. as germany speak, solidarity with other u members and its attempts to rush and gas imports. the hungarian prime minister says he isn't the only european leader to oppose proposed embargo on a russian fuel. hungary has so far found ways to reach agreement with you on all anti russian sanctions. however, now we are up against a wall called the gas embargo. i suggest that the countries of the community do not try to fight against it. i don't think i'm the only one who shares this view. meanwhile, germany's economy minister insist that the e u is united in the face of gas supply shortages from russia. his latest statement

came on tuesday when e. u. government deliberated over a draft european law that would require member states to ration gas to protect countries from supply cuts. the main proposal was to slash consumption by 15 percent with mandatory moves across the block if necessary. however, while germany, italy and some other member states rely heavily on russian imports, spain, portugal in greece are less dependent. eventually the use supposedly united stance boiled down to fresh divisions at the latest talks in brussels. it shows that your distaste, united, that europe is able to comply and you mean unity. i'm giving a strong segment also in the day where the flows of decimals can run or reduced them to another 20 percent, to coaching and to russia. you won't split off, of course, a lot of compromises in this text. well, this is the way how europe operates. doesn't make sense to the teacher, the association, i yeah, i shaving measures dash for the sake of shirley that i believe. but when it comes

to another security basis, mainly individual national governments responsibility, german attorney, andrei, thomas house, and told us that e governments will crumble if they keep force the energy policies on each other. well, you could mean political suicide for government because all 27 do you remember states our parliamentary democracy is based on multi party systems. and if people have nothing to eat or if people cannot get to work any more, or if, if they have to come once a day for an hour to a communal shelter, that's heated to warm up for an hour. and this is the emergency plan for germany, then they might very well i adversely and vote in a different leadership. originally the heart of the you is italy, germany, france in england, england left in the brakes. it may be other breaks. it's like

a fracture for france. france is becoming increasingly wanted. president mccaul was probably the leader with the greatest foresight already at the ambassadors conference on 27 august 2019. that's over 2 years. basically said that the, the era of western head, germany over the world has ended. and he warned his best with us to, to become, to, to get acquainted with the thought that there are other powers that we are, that we have moved into a multi polar world all ready long before the military operation. ukraine. france has been asked to recognize its quote, colonial crimes in cameroon. as emmanuel mac, crohn's visit to western africa comes to a close political parties want paris to apologize for the massacre of tens of thousands of activists prior to the countries independence in 960. everything must

be done so that cameroon no longer accepts french gemini, willingly or by force. we take the opportunity to address 2, again, wait to people of cameroon, to the historical problem we have with france. this means we want to say settled a liabilities, all the crimes that france has committed in, cameroon, we have to put them back on the table. microns visit has revived a painful colonial pass, which is yet to be reconciled from 1916 until $960.00 france destroyed villages and massacred entire populations. bloodedly, suppressing a nationalist party founded in the late 19 forties. during his visit, the french president announced that archives on colonial rule would be open, and he called on historians to shed light on the colonial period. he recognized that the past brought quote, painful and tragic moments in the country. we heard from representatives from the african movement of new and dependence and democracy who

think them a crowns visit is due to france, no longer being a major player on the global political stage muscles. yes, my crohn is coming to cameroon. first, because the wave of contestation of french had gemini and africa in general is well underway. and the french president is coming to try to see if it is still possible for them to master the wave of protest of the african peoples. we believe that it is a legitimate right to the camera, rooney and people that france acknowledges its crimes. the colonial powers have always lived from the plundering of africa's resources, which is not new. and that is why these colonizing powers are cautious when some one else comes to look at their interest. but it is a revolution that is underway. nothing will be the same as before. the african peoples will emancipate themselves. the russian minister for his part, also comes to trade with african states. he too, is in his role to come and negotiate market shares for his country. but it is not useless to note that the african revolutionary movement has better relations with

russia than with france. because it is russia that has helped the revolutionary and african in camera, rooney and movements in particular. mister shaw, while we know that during his 1st term he had shunned cameroon. it is a surprising, a new thing on the part of those westerners who thought they had domesticated his space, which is considered the french meadow. he comes to the continent because there is geo politics in the world that no longer puts france on the dominant point in this space that was completely subject to 8 our subjugated. do not forget that since the start of russia's special military operation in ukraine. there are dynamics in terms of global geo politics that force westerners led by the u. s. and nato, to reconsider their previous positions with regard to certain regions and countries . he was therefore forced to come to a country that was cameroon, classified as the heart of french africa, to renegotiate with president via on how we can reconnect to things being as before, but unfortunately, times of change. the visit of sir gale of rav as a very good thing, because he participates in multi polar diplomacy. we are tired of unipolar

diplomacy, but especially of this desire of neo liberal capitalism to completely crush the people's who have only expressed a sacred principle that is in the rights of the un. that is to say, the right of people to self determination. oh, and now to the latest from ukraine, russia's defense ministry says kev's forces are sustaining significant losses. with the latest death toll reaching at least 200 as a result of high position russian strikes on ukrainian military positions in the hearse and region. and inside the don, yes, republic, moscow says its missiles have destroyed 9 ukrainian military command post in the past 24 hours as well as 6 ammunition warehouses. this comes a day after more than a 100 rockets for western supplied high mars launchers are said to have been destroyed with 120 ukrainian troops also killed. meanwhile, in the dawn bass, the city of eloy biased in the don. yes,

people's republic was reportedly shelled by ukrainian forces. local media have shared videos of a huge fire in the city, which is believed to be the result of the attack. authorities have yet to comment on the blaze. this is as ukraine continues its relentless shelling of civilian areas in the don. yes, republic. leaving little but ruins in areas. locals used to call home artes, roman culture of reports from the city of gorenca, which has recently faced heavy shelly ukrainian artillery attacks continue against civilian population. here in this city of gore lapka, at least that 14 private residences and a 16 multiple apartment buildings have been damaged as the result for people had been injured here and girl of god alone. this particular building has just 8 apartments, and 4 of them are now lying in ruins. motel

to wish ease them. we had just gone out to get water when there was an explosion right there under the balcony. it left a pit. everything went flying, which for apartments were destroyed all of us. all of the residents are still alive because we had stepped out. my neighbors had gone downstairs. they would have died in their apartments. the 4 apartments on the side of the building were destroyed. the other side was left unharmed. when we came back home, there was no home to come back to, which is such a misfortune. when i got a call and was told that's eat, your home is gone, your apartment is gone. i'm happy to be alive. the owner of this apartment, i recently did renovation here. however, as you can see,

all of that work was futile, as it now lies almost completely destroyed. now, shores like these can be found everywhere. now it might look small to you, but it weighs at least a 100 grams. no one was killed during this ukrainian attack. however, there were several wounded people here in goal of car and are now in the hospital, brahman cauthrin, r t, vanessa peoples republic. and that set for this hour's top stories into our instagram, twitter and odyssey and rumble for more of our content the next time. ah ah,

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