an engagement, it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. with headlines right now here, when all the international, ammonia spreads over the city of dawn yet scoffed or when attacked by ukrainian troops on our local brewery. we understand one boat and killed 2 others injured. at ortiz cru, witnesses the off them off the shell like with we were the 1st to arrive at the site and got into a puddle of ammonia and almost suffocated. pneumonia tank was damaged which could threaten an environmental disaster. south africa slams the e u of a newly imposed import regulations that could be putting its entire citrus industry

at risk as the already see or he has to global food prices continue to washington. has no reaction i that who cares and the us how speak and nancy pelosi brush us off the fall out from a visit to taiwan, which did push beijing. anti pay right to the brink of a military confrontation also with the program here. one oxy. pakistan's opposition? prized foul over a crack down on alice did prime minister cons allies. as for my aid is arrested for allegedly abetting mutiny with all right, just office 7 am here at moscow in a very good morning to you from all of us. here with oxy international ammonia spills and risks of an environmental disaster softer the ukrainian military shoulder, local brewery, and don yeske,

leaving at least one person dead and 2 wounded, also severely damaging an ammonia holding tank ultimately leading to a hazardous situation in the skies above the city now, the incident took place at 10 p. m local time. although donnette sk emergency services have managed to stop the ammonia leak, a fire is still raging at the side, covering a large area of the facility. as run the start now emergency services are still battling to put out the flames with more than 55 fighters. and the attack comes amid the relentless targeting of civil infrastructure in don u. x by ukrainian troops. and one of the crew are among the very 1st who managed to reach the brewery just down the road from it. after the attack roll of her little grey last ukrainian troops had hit the don. it's brewery. as a result, the ammonia tank was damaged, which could threaten an environmental disaster. we were the 1st to arrive at the site and got into a puddle of ammonia and almost suffocated both. now the emergency services of the

dpr have blocked the entire area and repairing the damaged ammonia pipe and securing the affected zone was as well for the meantime, however, i don't yet see officials are still urging residents to stay inside and keep the windows closed as the toxic gas does pose a danger in a 2 kilometer zone surrounding the burglary. now, just a bit, a bit earlier in the program here on asi and nationally, spoke with civil rights attorney, robert patillo. he says the country's pumping ukraine with weapons should ultimately reconsider that positions. i think that's part of an increasingly desperate sort of action by the ukrainians. and what we have to understand is that they have some of the most accurate weapons on earth that supplied by the united states government. so the idea that this was an accidental hit of the brewery, i think that is that strained credulity. one of the part of the rules of war is 12, not our target. so we'll get infra structure. i think the united nation to the people who are applying to ukrainians have to step in and demand their weapons. not

be you to attempt to brilliant infrastructure. and yet another potential disaster is making headlines as well. the un security council is set to meet today at russia's request as moscow accusers, ukraine of shelling, europe's largest nuclear power plot. the as opposed power plot, which was taken by russian forces in march was hit several times last week. the ukraine denies involvement of the attacks and instead of blaming russia and ever widespread concerns over the situation, the head of the international atomic energy agency that he's ready to personally lead a delegation to that plan. the nuclear facilities capacity is 50 percent more than the infamous chernobyl facility. the experts are raising concerns of an even bigger potential disaster and rushes representative to the i. e. a told us about the potential danger of attacks like these were some slim local school caliber bombs exploded near the spent fuel storage facility,

just 200 meters from the operating nuclear reactor is extremely dangerous and can end up terribly with our military assesses that in case of a major accident at the plant, the area of radioactive contamination will be up to 5 and a half 1000 square kilometers. it can spread to more than 400 kilometers long woodard, most of ukraine will be harmed, as well as dumbass parts of russia and all the black sea countries. we need to do every thing to prevent a catastrophe. ukraine puts the blame for these attacks on moscow. of course, that's nonsense castillo. there are russian military on the site who don't intervene in its work, but are there to provide security on the territory. according to the ukrainian version, russia shells its own military personnel, which is absurd. i think the shell ins are the result of irresponsibility and adventuresome. but this is a very dangerous policy for ukraine itself, as well as sports people. silly, i have no sensible explanation as to what ukraine is doing. but again, it's adventure ism, and maybe it can be called nucular terrorism,

which western countries never criticize ukraine's actions even when key of commit serious crimes and creates extraordinary risk for euro. the west ignores that and tries to put all the responsibility on russia. at the meeting of the un security council will get a chance to hopefully take a more sensible stance which as abuse. as to plead van shelling of russian control territories and the neighboring hassan region, also putting locals at risk of coals. but outs hayes crews are that ah, we are moving towards snow like a healthcare which is around 60 kilometers from pearson. back in march, it was taken by russian forces who immediately took that kickoff sca hybrid electric power plant under protection and controlled despite russian troops haven't been here for a long time. the shelling from the ukraine inside continues. key forces not only target bridges and communications, but are also hidden, the residential areas and the holding center goals. good. good. we are now

a context guy, a hydro electric power plant, which along with providing electricity, the dam connects the right and left sides of the appear river. and well knowing that as the ukrainian military attacks the site with missiles on a regular basis. so so look of goes with close, go to the them, according to russian troops on the plant and the breach are the main targets of ukraine enforcement. the downward to be destroyed and populated places downstream will be flooded, as the water level would rise by 5 meters to you. in fact, it would be like a tsunami bucket. while we were again a here, we saw a large line of sibling cars as people permanently move from nobody to kafka, sticker san ease. despite that you creating forces to constantly show the breach in region. we can see the results of tonight's shelling. if this road is destroyed, it's only the surrealists who will suffer. it's unclear how ukraine was to regain this region, while harmonies own people, especially finance. south african orange exporters are angry

over new e, you import requirements. whichever salting in the countries, containers, stuff with fruit being held up on arrival. it's a complete and utter disaster. food that has fantastic quality and is safe, is just sitting there. and this at a time when people are worried about food security, our industry is under pressure. it's basically a year of survival on south africa, citrus growers association reports that are on 37 percent of all citrus exports go straight to the e. u. with europe being the largest market for the countries orange industry, with a new regulations in place and estimated $3200000.00 cartons of fruit worth over $36000000.00. apparently left port with paperwork that may not be accepted upon arrival. the new regulations are requiring the south african farmers to apply an extreme cold treatment to all european bound oranges for 25 days. the

e u has responded to the criticism and it claims the new rules are meant to cut the spread of the subs horan past the false coddling more than to europe. south africa has filed a complaint with the world trade organization, claiming the new standards are entirely on necessary. the ceo of sundays river citrus company says export from south africa just facing discrimination. we believe we are being treated unfairly. and the me, his me, if they can, the results that the head reopen about it. it is not something that you know, that has happened to us before. and it's really difficult to shift and african speculate. and as i say, we have really good relationships in europe. and want to know what to know at the end of the day. exactly why this was done in such a manner. you know, at the moment we are focusing to try and fall and do things as well as we can. and also obviously that is being held up in europe release as soon as possible. we

believe the good progress says he made and regardless of the fact that we dispute the process, you know, we are trying to operate at this point. that is basically all we can do, we in the middle of the season and they all know many other options at this point. meanwhile, if someone wondering whether europe is ready for a cold treatment of its own and midwestern sanctions that have ultimately boomerang back from russia, europeans are looking at a short list of supplies now and need to ration what they have to ensure they make it through the winter, britain is reportedly preparing organized blackouts for households and manufacturers this winter. while some german industrial sectors are asking for exemptions from gas cuts as rationing looms. ireland is also considering saving its fuel supply disruptions could start as early as september. meantime,

officials in spain of order businesses to keep the air conditioning above 27 degrees celsius. that's the demand for the comfort of cooler air sword. recently, amid recent heat waves, which pushed temperatures above 40 degrees in some european cities. according to the plan, which is officially enforcer the blocks members need to reduce the gas consumption by 15 percent on a voluntary basis until the end of march next year. the goal is to save 45000000000 cubic meters of gas overall, creating the option of falling back on reserves in case of shortages. we spoke with author and journalist thomas fuzzy. he says these measures will do little to save europe as that leaders have already lost that of the energy war. and the moment where seen very few concrete steps being taken towards energy reduction was seen, mostly symbolic actions such as public building, turning the lights off and so on. there's been no actual

action taken on energy reduction. and that's because truly reducing energy consumption to your require some pretty radical measures when talking about rationing energy industries, potentially rationing energy to households. and so no one has the courage to actually take those measures. and i think that this cool for 15 percent reduction in european energy consumption is just typical of how do you approach as you know, politics, they european technocrats they, me and these are nice air conditioning rooms where they sit, lemon scented water and they come up with these grand plans, so you know, you, you why graham time the divorce from the economic social reality it is good to have you with us for today's program. the u. s. house speak, a nancy pelosi defended a controversial trip to taiwan, which almost brought beijing and ty paid to a military confrontation spock fears of a global war. and provoked

a series of sanctions by china, including against policy herself. although she didn't seem really that faced it's no reaction. i that who cares. i mean, we didn't go there to talk about china. we went there to praise taiwan. we will not allow china to isolate taiwan. they had kept taiwan from participating the world health organization. other things were tie, one can make a very valued contribution and they may keep them from going there, but they're not keeping us from going to taiwan. now that was nancy pelosi talking about her recent trip to taiwan and saying she's not concerned about the possible consequences. nancy pelosi maintains this trip was about upholding the status quo when it comes to the us, china relationship brought enabling the usa to continue supporting taiwan, which she called a thriving democracy. and now the status quo of us, china relations is one shine only with the u. s government recognizing one chinese

government and ace on the mainland in beijing and china ult this recent trip was a real affront to that status quo. now, since nancy pelosi has returned, she's done her fair share of miss speaking when it comes to her recent trip. and its implications, i think that he's an fragile play, caesar, his, his problems are to economy. he, he's acting like a scared bully. and this is his voice at the for the, the meeting that where he will want to be reelected. china is one of them. freest society in the world. don't take it from me. that's from freedom house. do you me regarding the serious provokers of actions of the u. s. that violated china's sovereignty and interfered in china's internal affairs? as long as the u. s. does it, china will definitely strike back and will never allow china sovereignty and territorial integrity to be trampled on and undermined. now the pacific and east

asia have been on edge ever since this trip happen, there have been military drills. folks been very worried about a possible asked lace in about some kind of military situation resulting from this . however, joe biden, as well as nancy pelosi seems to just not be worried about what the results of this visit might be. here's what joe biden said. how worried i got to keep me a bit of a brief hold i'm with now. it's important to know that at a time the gas prices are rising and the cost of food is increasing. across the united states, record inflation, the u. s. government decided to spend roughly $90000000.00 of us taxpayers money to

enable nancy pelosi to go on this trip to the island to taiwan. and as you just heard, it seems that joe biden and nancy pelosi are not concerned about the results and the possible dangers posed by their actions. when it comes to people around the world and world peace can learn much more about the controversies of policies visit and how it shows the relations between washington and beijing, just at to our website, r t dot com, or our various asi telegram channels as well. and unlikely hero. thus the motto of a u. s. companies kicked out a campaign which a producing an action figure of ukraine's president campaigned by a new york based studio has already raised more than a $120000.00 in crowd funding way beyond his original goal of just 30 grand. a plastic figurine is planned to be mass produced in china with part of the profit set to be going to ukranian refugees. he's the perfect leader for this moment,

just a super inspirational character, his, this real strength that comes across. but it's humble, and he sort of represents the opposite of everything that we've come to associate with politics. this comes in a mass persecution of zelinski is a political opponents inside ukraine with key branding them as traitors and collaborators. meantime, 400 people over portly, being arrested with a nikolai average and alone for allegedly just helping russia. back in march, lensky kicked out dissent with a bang. get this on opposition parties. and then another case of a parrot, mob justice, a ukrainian opposition m. p has been, she merely aided by nationalists all caught on camera a with

with scenes like this that come as some western media outlets and politicians grow louder episode slightly with a criticism of zalinski government, which has previously been accused of turning a blind eye to wide spread corruption in that country. what a new cbs news report suggests. the black market profit hearing is flourishing and ukraine's military or the german newspaper developed a report as zalinski is involved in quote corruption on an industrial scale executive vice president of the erasure center. earl rasmussen, he says that as corruption in the country is exposed, the media narrative on ukraine also stops to change. so i don't know if it's a super hero, a villain or a comedian is just this is just another rule for him. he really could care less about the people, especially the less about the army. i mean, he would have settled something, some type of agreement,

probably before the conflict occurred. he got elected on the grounds of making peace and settling of civil war that was going on in the, in the east to begin with and making peace with russia. that's why he got so much so many vote. that was one of the key campaign promises which he flips almost immediately, the corruption of antics to fix corrupt and corruption has gotten worse. when we weapons a black market, it's surrender. i mean, we have no accountability. what's going over there? who knows where the money's going into? it's probably a money laundering operation as well. and the media western media is just playing him up and shifting their focus to support them. but it's fall apart. and i think over time people things are leaking out. the amnesty international report, the cbs interview, it's the story falling apart and the story line is going to deteriorate over time. support russians maybe bod, from simply getting shang again,

visas to europe. and germany says to proposal has already been put up for discussion within the e. u. it follows as a group of politicians are called on the e u to deny russian vacations in europe while the country continues its war and ukraine. moscow slammed the initiatives as a phobic saying it's been 80 years since similar sentiments were, were made in on the european continent. also, though, now apparently this, the whole possible initiative is getting support by officials in estonia and finland. it's not right did. at the same time as rush, his waging and aggressive, brutal war of aggression in europe. russians can live a normal life travel in europe, be tourists. it is not right. stop a sheen to resist to russians. it is it in europe is a privilege not so human rights are child from russia, shut down, it means washing and countries. each of these is neighbors. to russia carried the

badge in time to an tourist from russia. now the most important sanctions of the close the borders because the russians are taking away some one else's land. while they are new coals. com, as russians already face restrictions of a similar kind. after the conflict in ukraine started both estonia and finland band air travel from russia. and the also, we understand separately at least a 7, e, e, e, e, you nation's suspended, the issuance of short term shank and visas and political analysts. anthony webber, wonders why russians have been singled out of punishment, which could ultimately apply to many other peoples around the world. people should have the right as individuals to do what was what is well, they won't see me. but i think this whole issue of saying people, a bunch on trade homes, travel with fees, who have major, well wired connotations. i mean, would you sorry to hold people from saudi arabia?

none of our citizens could travel because of our policy in yemen. or would you say, i don't the from afghanistan can travel because of the policies of the taliban? i mean, you can think of about 30 countries in the world. what might be more way you could put that argument together and it just basically against the human rights of individuals to punish that look for what i think the policies of that government took the time off this outrage in pakistan over the harsh detention of former prime minister m ron cons, close aid shop as gil, he's been arrested on sedition charges. now the allegations stem from his comment about alleged divisions within the military coming off the cons. removal from power and a parliamentary vote of no confidence that happened back in april. now surveillance

footage shows police smashing the windows of the car. the gill was in then taking him out and placing him into an unmarked vehicle. the country's interior minister says he was arrested in accordance with the law and will appear before court this week. if found guilty of sedition, gail could face the death penalty for my premier enron khan and his party have harshly condemned this arrest. this is an abduction not an arrest. can such shameful acts take place in any democracy? political workers treated as enemies and all to make us accept a foreign backed government of crooks. after the ban on a r y yesterday. today, they've arrested shabazz. gil pakistan is living under a fascist imported government, which doesn't care about the human rights of the people of pakistan. we strongly demand the immediate release of doctor gil release shabazz gill. now the arrest was preceded by the suspension of a popular pakistani tv channel, a r y news. the outlet that was pretty well known for his criticism of the current

government, the channel now being accused of spreading inflammatory content. the outlets chief, mister ahmad joseph, has also now been arrested one pakistani lawyer in jail. political analyst told us that the government's actions are actually playing directly into the hands of the deposed former leda. the current government is run by the p d. m, which stands for the box on democratic democratic movement. anything but democratic and these are very dark and dismal days, focused on because pakistan is literally living through an area where we don't have any semblance of the rule of law. all these charges are being treated against the p t. i need to ship with one single objective which is to stonewall them and which is to make them barish from bucks tons political theme. but in my view, none of this is going to work to the advantage of the p d. m, or the current government. because with every passing day in ron's popularity is

increasing and his message is radiating with the masses all over. there is no way to defend the indefensible. the 1st arrest the individual doc, them in broad daylight, they harris, their family members. and once they duck them, then they come up with some, you know, some fictitious charges would be sold individuals. now the interesting thing is that those who are today accusing the p t i of maligning the armed forces, are those very people who a few, a few months ago, were maligning beyond forces. they would naming generals of the armed forces and there was doing all kinds of hatred in belgium against them. there is absolutely no way they can defend them. the only question that we don't have an answer to is until when will discontinue the new york times as publish and article expressing frustration that efforts to block russian media outlets are not far reaching enough,

as opposed to still appearing on social media and other platforms in multiple languages and the article particularly targets off the spanish having more followers on social media than c and ends spanish channels. the new york times it seems to be concerned that the outputs remain influential in latin america and the middle east fronting people in the regions to question western mainstream narratives. the result has been a geographical and cultural asymmetry in the information war over ukraine. the failure to go after russian posts and spanish arabic and other languages has left open the door for the kremlin to win over audiences. in parts of the world where the united states, its main villain, is viewed with greater ambivalence. earlier this year, archie was blocked across the u. britain and america, along with some other russian news agencies. a journalist and author daniel lazar believes the us media doesn't enjoy its narratives. being challenged the new york

times article and all the and then the western media's coverage of this issue in general. i mean it's, it's 1st of all profoundly illogical. they assume that if people in south america or africa, or the middle east or not, are unsympathetic to the u. s. point of view than the only possible explanation is that it's somehow due to russian propaganda. the possibility that it might be due to the fact that the u. s. position is faulty in some ways is open to criticism, etc. that is never considered the, the media is turning itself into a mouthpiece for the government has been doing. so since the moment, then february 44th, it is absolutely shameless. it is conducting propaganda warfare, even as of accused as russia conducting a propaganda of warfare. and it just, you know, the journalists fall all over themselves, you know,

in their eagerness to get across the u. s. government point of view i, that's the program for this half hour here live from moscow on asi, international. appreciate you. joining us here is nearly half past 7 in the morning here in the russian capital. were back in exactly half an hour's time live here from the studio, continuing to present to you the other side of the mainstream narratives. ah, lou needs to come to the russian state total narrative. i've stivers on the most landscape, div us american house house, not equal 1055 when. okay, so 9 is 25 and speaking with we will ban in the european union, the kremlin media machine, the state aunt,

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