ah, a with headlines are right now. you're on auto international. ammonia spreads over the city of gone yet sculpture and attacked by ukrainian troops on a local brewery. as we understand, leaving at least one dead and 2 injured ortiz cru witnesses, the aftermath of the shelley were the 1st to arrive at the site and got into a puddle of ammonia and almost suffocated. the ammonia tank was damaged, which could threaten an environmental disaster. concerns mount is the u. s. a proves yet another package of military aid to ukraine made revelations. washington sent billions of dollars to unknown recipients per decade. then i've got to start

with no reaction. i that who cares? i mean you as how speaker nancy pelosi brushed off the fall out from her visitor taiwan, which did ultimately push a beijing anti pay right to the brink of a military confrontation. south africa slammed the view of a newly imposed import regulations that could be putting its entire citrus industry at risk. that's actually already serious global food crisis only continues to work with it is thursday morning here in moscow. and we are coming to you live with a raft of this hour's top stories. welcome to the mid sati international ammonia spells and the risks of an environmental disaster that's after the ukrainian military shell, the local brewery in don. yet leaving at least one person dead. and 2 wounded,

but also severely damaging and ammonia holding tanks, leading to a hazardous situation of the skies right above the city. now the incident took place at 10 pm local time. and although don't ask emergency services, have managed to stop the ammonia leak. a fire, as we understand, is still ongoing at the side covering a large part of the facility. as we understand now, also emergency services a baffling to put out the flames with more than 55 fighters at the scene. and the time comes amid the relentless targeting of civil infrastructure in dawn, yet by ukrainian troops. and one of our crews were among the very 1st who managed to reach the bery in that vicinity. right off to that little grey land 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 are repairing the damaged ammonia pipe and securing the affected zone. this was just that it was well for the mean time, however, don't ask. officials are still urging residents to stay inside and keep the windows closed as the toxic gas does pose a danger that this in a, to kilometer zone surrounding the brewery. our short time ago here in the program, i spoke with a civil rights attorney, robert patillo. he says, countries pumping ukraine full of weapons should ultimately reconsider their positions. i think there's a part of an increasingly desperate and sort of at some by the ukrainians. and what we have to understand is that they have from 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 of that strange credulity, all one of the part of the rules of war is $12.00, still not our target. a civilian infrastructure. i think the united nation to the

people who are supplying the ukrainians have to step in and demand that their weapons, not be you to tech civilian infrastructure and a shelling of russian control territories in the neighboring her song region. also, of course, putting locals at risk, but here at our tea, we report from that area a, we are moving towards snow like a cover, which is around 60 kilometers from pearson back in march. it was taken by russian forces who immediately took that your healthcare hybrid electric power plant under protection and control. despite russian troops haven't been here for a long time. the showing from the ukraine inside continues. key forces not only target bridges and communications, but are also hidden, the residential areas and the holding center, ga cosca. good. we are now a kind of guy, a hydro electric power plant, which along with providing electricity, the dam connects the right and left sides of the appear river. and when you, knowing that the ukrainian military attacks the site with missiles on a regular basis. so whistle luca roscoe's with those go to these them according to

russian troops on the plant and the breach are the main targets of ukrainian force model. 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 gonna here, we saw a large line of see billing cars as people permanently move from novick to healthcare. susana east, despite that, if you creating forces to constantly shut the regions region, we can see the results of tonight's shelling. if this road is destroyed, it's only the surveillance who will suffer. it's unclear how ukraine was to regain this region while harmony's own people, especially finance, left. so as the by administration approved yet another $1000000000.00 military aid package for ukraine, despite mountain concerns over where the money will actually end up. a new report provides ground for such worries as reveals that washington paid billions of

dollars to miscellaneous undisclosed recipients and afghanistan for decades. i'll see rachel blevins picks up the story yearly one year after the u. s. military flag and disarray from afghanistan. a new report is shutting light on how much of the more than $2.00 trillion dollars and funding for the war went to shady sources. when looking at the $108000000000.00, the u. s. paid out to contractors more than a 3rd of both. the domestic and foreign recipients are listed as undisclosed. these funds were distributed and spent with a significant lack of transparency. when the defense department registers certain contract recipients as undisclosed, or miscellaneous, it becomes difficult or impossible to track contract spending. so if the money went to undisclosed sources, then what was that really spent on and how much was used to fuel corruption? such questions appear to be nothing new for the ravaged country. it was occupied by

the u. s. for nearly 2 decades, whether it was the afghanistan papers which were published by the washington post and then quickly forgotten about in the mainstream media or the annual special inspector general reports which have shown misconduct and missing funds year after year. this latest revelation is just another reminder of the clear problems with contract spending by the us. it even sites a 2011 commission which found that at least 30 percent of contract spending was lost to corruption or waste. a reminder that this has been a problem for more than a decade, and nothing has been done to stop it. a sub contractor of lockheed martin submitted fraudulent invoices that resulted in over billing, the department of defense, millions of dollars. other examples include incomplete and shoddy construction of school buildings, warehouses, and other facilities. but just because the u. s. has declared is done with afghanistan, doesn't mean it's done with the habit of generously sending out billions of dollars

and military aid with no oversight. instead, the focus has turned to ukraine, where the via an administration signed off on its largest package, yet bringing billions of dollars in aid since the start of the year. and the few members of congress who have attempted to fight for any kind of transparency when it comes to how the money is spent, have been quickly shut down by the majority. i've been you crying twice now, and i haven't seen of evidence of a lot of this humanitarian assistance. there's no accountability we lost. what is it? $80000000000.00 worth of equipment we left behind in afghanistan. lord knows where this stuff is going to end up. if you want congress to continue to approve tens of billions of dollars, you need to show us how you are making sure that that money is spent responsibly. i mean, we don't get an accounting of where the money is going. so whether it's the u. s. government shrugging their shoulders as yet another report suggest to rampant corruption and money laundering in afghanistan,

or are fighting back against the possibility of such a report to exist when it comes to spending in ukraine. their actions and resistance against any form of accountability remain equally consistent and unpunished. i think what we find when we look at how the pentagon in the state department both manage their money, it is deliberately hidden in many ways, very difficult to systematically track where the money goes. and i think this is done on purpose. when you have money that can't be tracked, you have money that can be used for illegal purposes. and when i say a legal contrary to what the u. s. congress has authorized that money to be used for this kind of thing is not just afghanistan, this is how the system works. and you cannot track where the money goes in. in any of the cases we would demand, if it was a private enterprise. if it was a company, a corporation conducting its books,

we would demand accountability and transparency. but when it's the u. s. government doing it, we say, oh no, that's okay. we don't need that. are right now 2010 minutes past the hour. the european continent has for now narrowly averted a disaster, because we understand that un security council is set to meet later on 1st day at russia's request. as a moscow accused, as ukraine of attacking europe's largest nuclear power plant is a potentially very wiring at the las cross live. now to look on the parties, eager is done of joining us, eager to good morning to you. what is the situation now over at the plaza? what are officials saying about these really risky attacks? well, absolutely, rory, russia has made it an international matter of to it's called for the un security council to assemble and discuss most whose concerns over the attacks on the zipper, raska nuclear power plant. in fact,

the representatives of the international atomic energy agency had previously expressed willingness to take part in this visit. have a listen. i welcome this opportunity to inform the united nations security council about the extremely serious situation facing one of the world's big is nuclear power plants now located in the middle of inactive war zone. an accident at this plant could threaten public health and the environment both in ukraine and neighboring countries, as well as further away. while these upper oscar nuclear plant is located on the territory of ukraine, but right now that territory is under the control of the russians. and throughout, as the russia has been well maintaining those territories that power and maintaining that power plant that that facilities came under 2 consecutive attacks on the 5th and the 7th of august. and russia has been saying its very concerning because the power plant is huge. and the full out could be absolutely horrendous.

it has accused cave and the ukrainian forces of deliberately attacking the plant and key of and in turn has been maintaining the line that russia had been essentially shilling its own position. spinning the blame onto moscow. and of course, russia has vehemently denied any such accusation saying that the only logical thing that could have happened is that ukraine was shelling, who can it considers its enemy and that is russia and shelling the russia controlled territory and well consecutively. these are raska nuclear power plant, in fact, well that the international reaction has already well come through with the west, the united states, they have who the g 7. in fact, the countries in a joined communicate have called on to russia to give that power plant back to give . but that would mean to surrender. partly, some of the territories that had been captured by russia in the course of the war itself, wouldn't cause the special operation. and in fact,

the un itself has voice concerns. even though despite previously it had blocked an international visit of international experts to the facility. any attack to a nuclear plant is suicidal sink and i hope that those attacks ends. and at the same time, i hope that a i e, a will be able to have access to the plant and to exercise its mandate compensation. while the situation is, of course, very concerning, while the whole facilities structure you structure wise is very sturdy and well it is, it is, well basically it can withstand a lot, but still nobody wants to take any chances. he has these approach to nuclear power plant is the largest in europe. it's among the top 10, top 10 largest nuclear power plants in the world. so if anything was to happen that

the fall out would be catastrophic to europe, is how russia a russian representative himself formulated. would the full out could be, have a listen. we're slow to 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 wish our military assess. is 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 ordered, most of ukraine will be harmed, as well as tom bass, 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. so i think the shell ins are the result of irresponsibility and adventuresome village. 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. so again, it's adventure ism and maybe it can be called new killer terrorist which western countries never criticize ukraine's actions. even when key of commit serious crimes increase. extraordinary risk for 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. wishes. as to the us, how speaker nancy pelosi defended her controversial trip to taiwan, which almost brought beijing and ty pay. it's a well crash heads militarily. it also really sparked fears of a lot of a global war and provoked a series of sanctions by china, including sanctions against policy herself. although the u. s, how speak

a didn't seem particularly bothered and has 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 have kept taiwan from participating in the world health organization, other things where 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 now concerned about the possible consequences. and 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 us government, recognizing one chinese government and ace on the mainland invasion. and china felt

this recent trip was a real affront to that status quo. and it's also important to note that the media is still in overdrive about the possibility of things happening. the possibility of, of the results of this trip. it caused a huge amount of international concern, intention and real fear. so what could break out as a result? now we also know that nancy pelosi doesn't seem very concerned about this at all really. and she has often miss spoken and, and said some interesting things in reaction to our trip. this is nancy pelosi, i think that he's an fragile play. see, has hobbling started economy. 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 promotions of actions of the u. s. that violated china's

sovereignty and interfered in china internal affairs. as long as the u. s. novelty, the 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 it ever since this trip happened. there have been military drills in addition to that. we've got china throwing jabs at washington over us bases in the region. however, joe biden, as well as nancy pelosi seems to just not be worried about what the results of this this it might be. here's what joe biden set for. how worried i want to say, i kind of keep me a bit of a bridge around the whole island. no worries. 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. here with my more op eds and articles and all sorts of reaction detail to policies visit and how it really did chill relations between washington and beijing, you can edit to auto dot com or any number of aussies various telegraph channels. so south african orange exporters are angry over new e you import requirements, which i've resulted in the countries contain is a 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. south africa as citrus growers association reports that around 37 percent of old citrus exports to go to the e. u. with europe being the biggest market for the countries orange industry. however, with these brand new regulations in place and estimated $3200000.00 cartons of fruit was over $36000000.00, and apparently left port with paperwork that may not be accepted upon arrival. the new regulations are requiring 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 claims the new rules are meant to cover the spread of the sub saharan pest. the false coddling mos into europe or south africa

has follow the complaint with the world trade organization, claiming the new standards are on necessary for the ceo of sundays river citrus company says export from south africa are just facing discrimination. we believe we are being treated unfairly in the me, his we, if they can, the results that we had reopen about. it is not something that you know, that has happened to us before. and it's really difficult to ship and african speculate. and i say we have really good relationships in europe and want to know like, you know, at the end of the day. exactly why this was done in such a manner. you know, we, at the moment we are focusing to try and fall and do things as well as we can. and also obviously the father that is being held up in europe release as soon as possible. we believe the program says he made them regardless of the fact that

we, 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 honor many other options at this point. meanwhile, the sun, wondering whether europe is ready for a cold treatment of its own amid western sanctions that have ultimately boomerang back from russia. europeans are looking at short supplies and the need to ration what they have to ensure they make it through the winter of britain is reportedly preparing organized blackouts for households and manufacturers. this winter of some german industrial sectors are asking for exemptions from gas cup says rationing looms. island is also considering saving its fuel as supplied. disruptions could start as early as september. meantime, officials in spain have ordered businesses to keep the air conditioning above 27 degrees celsius. that's as the demand for the comfort of cooler air sword. recently made recent heat waves which did push temperatures above 40 degrees in some

european settings. according to the e. u. plan which is officially enforced. the blocks members need to reduce their gas consumption by 15 percent on a voluntary basis until the end of march next year. the goal is to try and save 45000000000 cubic meters of gas overall and creating the option of falling back on reserves in the event of a shortage author and journalist a thomas fancy says these measures will do little to save europe as their leaders and politicians have already lost the energy war. the moment where seem very few concrete steps being taken towards energy reduction was seen, mostly symbolic actions such as public building, tiny lights, off and so on. there's been no actual action taken on energy reduction. and that's because truly reducing educational consumption in europe requires some pretty radical measures when talking about

rationing energy. the industries potentially rationing energy to households. and so no one has the courage to actually take those measures. i think that this cool for 15 percent reduction in european energy consumption is just difficult 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 divorced from the economic social reality an unlikely hero. that's the motto of a u. s. companies kick start a campaign which a producing an action figure of ukraine's president of the campaign by a new york based studio has already raised more than a $120000.00 in crowd funding. that's way more than the original goal of 30 k, a plastic figurine. is plan to be mass produced in china with part of the profit

said to be going to help you create a new 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. now this comes in made a mass persecution of the landscape, political opponents inside ukraine, with key f, branding them traitors and collaborators. meantime, 400 people who are portly, been arrested with nikolai f region alone for allegedly helping russia. back in march, zalinski kicked out dissent with what, with a ban on opposition parties. and then another case of apparent more justice, a ukrainian opposition m. p has been humiliated by nationalists and it's all on cobra. with,

with all this comes as some western media outlets unfold, titian's do grow louder with criticism of zalinski and his government, which has previously been accused of turning a blind eye to widespread corruption across the country. and you cbs news report suggests that black market, profiteering is flourishing and ukraine's military, while the german newspaper developed a report as lensky is involved in, quote, corruption on an industrial scale executive vice president of the erasure center. earl rasmussen says it has corruption in the country is exposed. the media narrative on ukraine. bit by bit also starts to change. so i don't know if it's a super hero, a villain, or a comedian in 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 the 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 depict corrupt and corruption has gotten worse. when we weapons a black market, it's surrender. i mean, you know, we have no accountability. what's going over there? who knows where the money's going into it's probably money laundering operation as well. and the media western media is just playing him up and shifting their focus to support that but, 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 may be bod from getting shang again, visas to europe. germany says the proposal has already been put up for discussion within the e u. it follows a group of politicians who called on you to deny russians vacations in europe while the country continues its war in ukraine. moscow slammed the initiative as a phobic saying it's been 80 years since sentiments similar to these recent remarks by finland and estonia were lost voice on the european continent. it's not right that at the same time as rushes, waging an aggressive, brutal war of aggression in europe. russians can live a normal life travel in europe, be tourists. it is not right. stop they shoot to receive as to russians. visit in europe is a privilege, not the human rights are true from russia, shut down. it means washing and controversy should. these is neighbors to russia

carried the belgian time to an tourist from russia. now the most important sanctions of the close, the board is because the russians are taking away some one else's land. the new coal. com as russians already face a host of travel restrictions after the conflict in ukraine started the e. u. shut his ass base to russian plains and possibly hold to the mechanism which short term shank and visas were issued, basically making it harder for russian officials and entrepreneurs to visit the region. 7 you nations had tightened the entry rules for russians and suspended the issuance of the european pass. and i made colds were converting this to an outright traveled ban the e u commission to rule the possibility out. citing the law of the land. political analysts or anthony webber raises the question as to why the russian public has been singled out. people should have the rights as individuals to talk to you what was, what is, what well, they won't say thing. but i,

i think this whole issue of saying people have been, come, treat, cons, travel and the fees would have made sure, well, wide connotations. i mean, would you say to you all will pay both in saudi arabia that none of our citizens could travel because of our policy in yemen? or would he say, $9.00 o $890.00 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 bull, way you could put the ali combined together, and then it's his face. it took me against the human rights of individuals to bob, punish that look for got out of the policies of the government took the time. all that just about wraps up on this. i was program here, an off international half tossed.