[000:00:00;00] ah, [000:00:00;00] with with breaking news on our teeth, there's up a rose yet nucular power plant again comes under that shelling of ukrainian forces not according to dc. our officials that fresh attack comes just hours before the un security council, a convenient talk on the prices fall to coming up on the program. long awaited grain shipments from ukraine bypass hardest here, african nations heading and said to european port. estonia closes its

borders to russian citizens, which in getting things is while the european commission also bowls the idea continent white one that you answer crew to mute moments a package for a key. have people from another country pump for all of us cash afghanistan claim, they're not getting the same level of treatment. those are being handed out to others. i see the ukrainians are settling in their homes and they have homes. it seems that the behavior of the nuclear government, if this coming metering, and there is racism here with where we're catching that program from today across the world. welcome to moscow on to the global news update on r t. i'm union neil this broadcast. we begin with breaking news. ukrainian forces have, once again shall the zap,

a rogia nuclear power plant according to local authorities key abs trips, use multiple rocket launchers and heavy artillery from the right bank of the nipper river. now, a member of the local administration states ukrainian forces fired off the facility for a 2nd time this thursday. the background to this being earlier at you rushes foreign ministry said that it's an act of terrorism. such shelling on a could trigger a disaster that would eclipse their turn novel infant at any, and all updates on this of course, will bring it to you on the story. this all comes though, as the un secretary general has called on russia and ukraine to cease any military activity near the side of europe's largest nuclear plant. on a stablish a safe perimeter of de militarization. there. the international atomic energy agency chief is also cut short his holiday to join not the upcoming new n security council meeting, and

a number of hours brought about russia's request over ukraine's attack. no pura attacks on the plant. our teeth eager shut off can tell us more. russia has made it an international matter of food cooled for the un security council to assemble and discuss. most schools concerns over the attacks on the zipper royce 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 biggest nuclear power plants. now located in the middle of an act of war zone and 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 russia has been well maintaining those territories that power and maintaining that power plant. that facility came under 2 consecutive attacks on the 5th and the 7th of august and russia has been saying it's very concerning because the power plant is huge. and the fallout 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 on to moscow. now, of course, russia has vehemently denied any such accusation saying that the only logical thing that could have happened that is that ukraine was shelling, who can it considers its enemy and that is russia and shelling the russia control territory and well consecutively. these approached good power plant. in fact, well the, the international reaction has already, well come through i, with the west, the united states, they have who, the g 7, in fact countries and

a joint communicate, they have hold on to russia to give the power plants back to give. but that would mean to surrender partly some of the territories that had been captured by russia in the cause of the war itself would it cools the special operation. and in fact, the un itself has voiced concerns. even though, despite previously, it had blocked an international visit of international experts to the facility. any a tech to a nuclear plant is a suicide, sings and i hope that those attacks will end. and at the same time, i hope that the a, e, i. e, a will be able to have access to the plant and to exercise its meant its competition. while the situation is, of course, very concerning, while the whole facility structure is 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, the 10 largest nuclear power plants in the world. so if anything was to happen that the fallout would be catastrophic to europe is how russia a russian representative himself formulated. would the full out could be, have a lesson bulwark. obviously, i'm not. the 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. 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. most of ukraine will be harmed, as well as tom bass, parts of russia and all the black sea countries. according to the ukrainian version, russia shells its own military personnel,

which is absurd. i have no sensible explanation as to what ukraine is doing. it's adventure ism, and maybe it can be called nucular terrorism as well. another potential disaster elsewhere antoniette has been averted. emergency services say a hazardous situations that are being brought under control, not for local brewery, was hit by ukrainian, shelly damaging, an ammonia holding tank. now, in the video, you can see here the destruction and military force is indeed there. they're sitting at through the rubble of well at the shelling of the bery last one person dead to injured ammonia used mainly as fertilizer can be deadly to both the environment people, if leaks the attack, is the latest and a wave of targeted shelling of civilian infrastructure in done yet sk well,

amidst the rubble of the brewery, a french missile from expired stalk source reportedly find near other ammonia tanks with some of the shells, apparently not exploding. now, another headline story that bring you to day. none of the ships pack with ukrainian grain have reached southern countries, many of them dealing with near starving conditions. and instead are heading to european ports. it's after months of western politicians putting the blame for africa as food crisis, squirrely on moscow, prompting dyed snow in their sincerity. unfortunately not a single ship carrying grain has reached the starving countries of africa so far. they mainly go to western ports and the range of exported cargo is mainly not wheat . the con grain in some flower oil, which cost out on the sincerity of the ccs voiced in the west that the world's food security depends on the grain deal. well, let's big through this with our correspond maria flash. hi there, maria. yeah,

indeed, let's break this down because you have the west seeming lead. very concerned with africa. food insecurity, just weeks ago you had french president money will mccrory calling food quote, and russians, weapon of war. it appears surprising then the thees 1st brain shipments bypass africa entirely and went to port. yeah. in fact, it's actually hard to believe, even after all the hysteria and repeated western and key of calls to save african kids dine from hunger and all the accusations russia face for creating this global food crisis. but the facts speak for themselves. none, and i wanted for size, but none of the sheeps that so far have left them blocked ukraine in order to go into somalia, a job to any other african nation where the situation on the ground is very catastrophic. so where are they going? well, you will be surprised, you can, by the way, track and find old information about these shapes on the un official website,

black c grain initiative faction, while 2 of the shapes to go into turkey, one to england, another one to ireland and others are headed towards a tally and a china so ironically, by the way, we've only seen saw corn exported, which is generally used to feed the animals and to produce by a few new york times published ad big investigation reports recently explaining this actually observed situation and question. why, when and how did it all go wrong? because to remind you initially, the idea was different and here is america, secretary of state. let's take a listen. the russian government continues spreading. does information about it's in justified wars, disastrous consequences, including global food insecurity. the russian government should stop weapon ising food and allow ukraine to safely ship out its grain, so that millions of hungry people in the middle east and africa can be fed. well, as you know, moscow,

that it's best to promote and to actually make the un broker dale a reality. but as you know, sadly african kids haven't been fed so far. yeah. in terms of reaction then, because it is quite sun, abrupt turn of events from what you are saying weeks ago, what's russia's view here? well, moscow saying that they are hoping for the best, but they are in fact, so far concerned about the implementation of the deal and not just regarding the destination of their food. the thing is that there were at least 2 agreements side, a nest east, unable 3 weeks ago between russia, turkey crane and the un one regarding the unblock in of 3 create in ports, allow in shapes, with food, to travel safely. and that was done. we've seen that, but there was another agreement regarding russian food and promoting 8 food and fertilizers through the global market. and we haven't seen so far any step made to this direction. and these 2 agreements were in

a package. so that means both of them are supposed to be implemented, but russia says that they are part is not touched at all like i and actually that violates the conditions of the agreement. and so we'll, in another aspect of this is why was it so absolutely urgent to unblock these ukrainian ports? if we go back, i remember a big sticking point to was the d mining of waters off those number of ports. that's the question. if the grain wasn't even intended to reach nations in need, why such the clamor then we can say that something has changed. we now hear from the un that the deal signed any single 3 weeks ago has already driven global food prices down. and that somehow that will help, you know, starving nations gets their food actually. but of course, this is not what we would expect from a huge deal between russia, turkey grain and the un. because again, and the initial idea was to send food directly to the high the razor,

i'm out. yeah, but that's not happening and many now say that is disappointing. okay, well, thank you very much for giving us a, an overview of that situation. as it stands, our t re phenomena estonian has decided to close its borders to russian citizens, which shen gan visas issued by tollen law. this, according to the country's foreign ministry, the european commission as also said the issue of tourist visas for russians is now on their agenda. earlier. the ukranian president vladimir zelinski called for a borders to be close to all russians, saying that quote, they should live in their own world until they change their philosophy. west are cross to get the thoughts of our t contributor rachel marston and all this. hi, rachel. it's difficult not to call this year at rest of phobia, isn't that an entire nation essentially being cancelled by another? take us through it. yeah, well,

whatever happened to that vaunted european unity that you officials have been celebrating recently. now suddenly there's little more than a shrug from the you when one member state decides to discriminate based on people's nationality and background. what's particular to agree just about this kind of top level zealotry becoming policy is that it's a clarion call to systemic bigotry. everywhere else, here in paris, for example, to female russian visitors were denied entry by officials at the chateau val sen, tourists site. at the end of july, french government had to clarify this week that the checking of visitors, id and nationalities only applies to actual military installations and not to tourist sites like museums and shall toes. but now we also have a german cabinet spokesperson confirming that a proposal to ban russian nationals from the e. u is actually under consideration. now it's all hypothetical at this point is important to underline that, but it still can't be rolled out since it's yet another demand coming straight from

ukrainian president library lensky who tends to get a lot of what he wants from the west. and now zalinski is calling on the west to ban all russian travelers saying that they should quote, live in their own world until they change our philosophy. jesse means also little kids and any one in russia who might be a part of that civil society that supports him as well. or are they going to get social passes? how is that gonna work? estonia and finland are also pressuring the block to authorize this down. now, funny, remember how that you reacted when former president of the united states donald trump did exactly the same kind of thing in 2017 and signed an executive order to stop issuing visas to people from random lists of countries here shot around libya, north korea, somalia, syria, venezuela and yemen, citing national security. we do not discriminate on the basis of nationality, race, or religion. not only when it comes to asylum,

but in any of our other polis, no one can be deprived of his or her own rights because of their place of birth, their religion, or than any city. this is written in our constitution, us both in europe and in america. this is who we are. this is our identity. this is something we cannot forget. oh, it's the very identity. it's written in stone. it's written in the constitution, except now apparently you're going to make exceptions when it comes to ukraine and russia. so remember all those terrorist attacks in france a few years ago? not even at that time, was there a blanket ban from jihadist hotspots. it's always been a case by case assessment of each individual requesting a visa to travel, not an arbitrary blanket ban on a whole nation. and to do otherwise has always been viewed as totally contrary to the use own values. not to mention a pretty troubling precedent because, i mean,

today it could be russian citizens and nationals, tomorrow could be any one else. they don't happen to agree with policy wise. but now, according to the use top diplomat, the e is apparently embracing the double standards that it once rejected because, well hey, that's just how the world is apparently resolving the situation with those people trapped in an open air prison which causes is not in the hands of the you, it's a scandalous situation, a shame, but it's out of our hands. we are often criticized for having double standards, but international politics is largely the administration of double standards. we do not face all problems with the same criteria. so you know who needs valleys when you can just pastor and blue v 8. depending on the direction of the political wind, it remains to be seen which of brussels faces will ultimately prevail on this particular issue. the one that defends its most basic stated principles,

or the one that hypocritically betrays them, to virtue signal over the cause of the day. taken us through those art contributor rachel marston. no, there's no less up in the current tensions between china and taiwan. now the foreign ministry of the self ruled island has publicly rejected beijing's proposal of a one country to system solution. they said thomson taiwan resolutely rejects the idea of one country to systems. only the people of taiwan can decide their future. the future of taiwan is within china's borders bounce according to beijing's position, published in a new white paper, the official documents phase. taiwan has never been a states on that status. as part of china is undeniable. beijing also withdrew its previous stamps on not sending troops or its administration to the island. the

change follows the visit of us house speaker and nancy pelosi to ty pay last week, despite warnings. well that's not cross to professor out the post school of technology and business. china, i'm all is benjamin sha for his pick? hi benjamin. so yeah, every day the situation does appear to get ratcheted up further. no, taiwan is rejecting the one country to system solution. what does this mean for taiwan? china relations? well, federal for us in that, for the rejection, and is it legitimate? most of taiwanese were angered actually by taiwan leader, ty, menu, we say, perform different moves and her receiving of policy because, you know, really escalated the situation, taught childs action. i think there's not, we're certainly very large number of taiwanese one, peaceful reading invocation. and there are just more than

a 100000 i. one is in shanghai alone, making a lot of money with china peacefully. and in fact, pie one does not have much to say on this issue. almost all countries into, well, even the u. s. and the united nations open, you supported the one china policy. that is, there's just one, china and power is part of it. so the one country to system solution really shows who could scrape sincerity of beijing to maintain the lifestyle or taiwan as much as possible. you know, i have, we knows how to one country to system solution has been working in the past 25 years in hong kong. i still remember numerous scholars writing about the demise of hong kong at a time of the hanover, but they just speak for yourself. how much g d p w seems to head over more than double the growth rate of the u. k. making hong kong per capita to route you to be jumping from $17.00 to $10.00 since 1997 in the world . macau is even better. it's per capita route. you to be jump from 15 to number one into well, and mckoko's faster,

arguably because it has passed the national secrete last long before hong kong was able to only out to the big hong kong protests in 2009 jeep. as mentioned earlier, the statement comes hard on the heels of nancy pelosi visit to the island. is that a coincidence? what is happening? no tie pace declaration or does it look in some way orchestrated this was going to happen now. up hello service. it is a highly responsible move. she want to leave her legacy as the democracy will be a democracy fighter. while completely ignoring the fact that riots in the capitol hill when biting one the election impact in the, in the country would be consider coin call beautiful scene in her language to show support of democracy. so this classic double standard and hypocrisy. since she's 2nd in line to see the presidency and as to how speaker a visit represent the office official staff and does represent the parent holloway

of the one china policy. so closely visit really, really check goes such military escalation causes re soon after her departure to the people's liberation army launch untrue, sent to the dentist exercising, haven't straight but immediately the state council of china release. the 3rd white paper on pie one this wednesday, detailing how china would be salt the contract, which china said military action is due on the table. washington has publicly confirmed its position on the one china policy which they have maintained since the 1970s will up public declaration. do you think benjamin that will be enough to ease the tensions between china and the us cause by pollution visit or is it too little too late?

well, as well actions speak louder than words. the u. s. has already done a series of malicious moves and provide funds to you know, to contain china, the seen jung issues to hong kong pro tags, the military presence and support around china, such as the south system in south korea to our lines with japan. the quad to all kids and a tray was through 2018, and the recent chip i just passed to for people to sell of chips to china. so the tension has been dead and we thought shift in the national policy of the us. china would remain extremely cautious of or what the us at the chinese mila trees around the country, and in the, the seas, not far from ty, pay of rough dob. how's being made? its feelings clear enough to taiwan. now i'm also nancy pelosi, i would suggest or do you expect now in the aftermath of this, for this to actually ramp ballpark options again? well, he, if you look, look at it,

the us military has stepped away to let china perform the military exercises. that basically circled the whole taiwan from this, we already see how we've, the actual us protection on taiwan really is. and china insisted that it has the white to do so. but the china said that any meet your actions only target any separate his forces, but not target the taiwan people. so that's that page in the pursuit of a unification would include informational, economic and military diplomacy. and military actions will continue to be on the table. benjamin as always, thank you for your time, your thoughts, benjamin sha professor at the power school of technology and business, and china and asian offers on the list as well. thank you. crying foul over what they say is discrimination, african refugees in europe, claim they're not getting the same level of treatment as those needing help from

ukraine. the han and i get if there was still a muscular under i see the ukrainians are settling in their homes and they have homes. we are not against the ukrainians. they are also refugees and have were in the country. they should be supported, that we want equal support to all refugees. and afghans should also have the same support. it seems that the behavior of the u. k. government is discriminatory and there is racism. here. children occur oh, after the u. k. government gifts 1st priority to ukrainian refugees, even as we see in the street and bizarre ukrainians brought their personal vehicles to the k and are moving around, afghans don't get the same attitude as ukrainians get from the u. k. government. this is against human rights and against the refugee rights were request from the united kingdom government to implement the refugee law to all refugees equally and give us our home soon. well, in a few days,

the 1st anniversary of the withdrawal of us troops from afghanistan will be more. but the situation for many of the people who were forced to flee the country remains on enviable. in april, the u. k. government launched the resettlement, unable to afghans policy, people were promised that they receive housing within a month. but when the conflict in ukraine erupted, the process of providing accommodation stopped or became very slow. it was the by the administration as once again up the anti approved another $1000000000.00 military aid package for key forces sounds. a new report reveals washington has sent billions of dollars to quote and miscellaneous on this lewis recipient's enough gamma san billions over decades raising concerns over where the money on weapon ship to ukraine might now. and here's our t's racial efforts 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 shay the 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, go away. so whether it's the u. s. government shrugging their shoulders as yet another report suggest rampant corruption and money wandering 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 and 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 us congress has authorized that money to be used for this kind of thing. it's not just afghanistan, this is how the system works and you can't track where the money goes in. in any of the cases we would demand, if it was a private enterprise. if we, if it was a, 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 ok. we don't need that. russian artists, athletes, and law, normal citizens have all been experiencing a phenomenon very prevalent recently in the west council culture,