[000:00:00;00] with, with breaking news on our t, there's up a rogia nuclear power plant that again, comes under that shelling of ukrainian forces not according to dpr officials. the fresh attack comes just the hours before the un security council convenes on the crisis. also ahead, long awaited brain shipments from ukraine bypass, hardest african nations having instead to european with those as it orders to russian citizens who hold shit and getting visas while the

european commission also moulds a similar idea. countenance, why is this fight e u leaders once lashing out at donald trump's border policy, saying then no one can be deprived of their nationality. and while the u. s. a prison, you mom if aid package freaky people from another country pump fall of u. s. cash up down this claim, they're not getting the same level of treatment does not being handed out to others . you see that ukrainians are selling their homes and they have homes. it seems that the behavior of the u. k. government is discriminate or, and there is racism here with 247 use for moscow. this is our t pleasure to have your company today. my name's unit o'neil. we begin with breaking news. ukrainian forces have once again shell the sap out rogia nuclear power plant, just hours ahead of

a un security council meeting on previous tax on the plant. according to local authorities, kiev tripped use multiple rocket launchers and heavy artillery from the right bank of that in the per river. remember the local administration, se ukrainian forces fired off the facility for a 2nd time this thursday? well, let's get more details on this from our tv group shutdown of joining us from don. bof, russia, foreign ministry said such sheylan could lead to disaster on a steel that would dwarf that your noble nuclear power plant, oxygen, big language gore. this is dangerous, and it's seemingly ramping up well, absolutely, unit. it is dangerous. it is alarmingly irresponsible because this time apparently, the ukrainian forces have targeted the concrete storage facilities for nuclear waste. now of course, it is, we're assuring that those world facilities are made out of concrete because it's a good and study material we've seen it withstand

a lot of damage here in the last people republican, the don bass basically, but it is not unbreakable, of course, and as well of these upper rows nuclear plants is absolutely massive. it's the largest one in europe in the top 10 all over the world. so we does produce a lot of nuclear waste and these attacks, again, they're not the 1st ones. on the 5th and the 7th of august, the ukrainian side also targeted this facility, this nuclear power plant. and again, this was very dangerous, and russia has screamed about its concerns in response. key of accused moscow of shelling its own positions, basically creating a provocation, a causes belly for well for international condemnation against ukraine. so, but russia, of course, had brushed aside these accusations as the absolute nonsense as something ridiculous. and indeed russia has called on the un security council to urgently

assemble to call on ukraine to stop these shillings of a massive nuclear object. and in fact, the un itself voiced concerns about the situation, even though it had previously blocked international atomic experts from visiting the plant. any attack to a nuclear plant is suicidal seeing. and i hope that those attacks will end. and at the same time, i hope that i will be able to have access to the plant and to exercise its meant that competition. so experts with the international atomic energy agency, they voiced the well, the express, their readiness to visit the plant and to be this independent and presumably unbiased eye on the ground for the international community. and they even have, well,

they decide they basically they change their schedule and they expressed willingness to take part in today's a un security council, because again, the matter is very, very serious. these up was you, nuclear power planted capacities, some 50 percent more. that's over. sure. noble, so potentially the disaster could be much worse than the tra, noble one. and well, it is already a well, it is already a name known. although over the world, it's an international synonym for an absolute nuclear catastrophe. here's how the russian officials described the potential fool out from, you know, the worst case scenario. we're still local school caliber bombs exploded near the spent fuel storage facility, just 200 meters from the operating nuclear reactor. it's extremely dangerous and can end up terribly from 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 dumbass, parts of russia and all of the black sea countries. according to the ukranian version, russia shells its own military personnel, which is absurd. i have no sensible explanation as to what you crane is doing. it's adventure ism and maybe it can be called neutral or terrorism. so there you have it on the ground. the russian forces have beefed up defenses to well defend the nuclear power plant, as well as possible. but internationally, they are moving forward with the un security council hoping that here the international communities phase responsible. hey girl, thanks for taking it through. all of our team is eager to shut down love life. another a potential disaster elsewhere in done yet has been averted. let's go through this

emergency services. the hazardous situation has not been brought under control. after a local brewery was hit by ukrainian shelling damaging, and ammonia holding tank. it is serious stuff. i'll explain why not in this city. you can see this struction military forces. they've been sifting through the rubble as witness and other footage to clyde a toxic gas hung over the city. the shelling of the brewery left one person dead and 2 injured. no ammonia use. busy actually, mainly as fertilizer can be deadly to both the environment and people if leak not treated properly. the attack is the latest and the wave of targeted shelling of civilian infrastructure in dungeons and amidst the rubble of the brewery. a french missile from expired stalks was reportedly found near other ammonia tanks, with some of the shells, apparently not exploding. the fright.

let's delve into another headline story today. none of the ships pack with ukrainian grain have reached southern countries, many of which are dealing with near starving conditions. and instead are heading to european ports. it's after months of western politicians putting the blame for africa, food crisis, squarely on moscow, prompting doubts now 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, but 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 is 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 faced for creating this global food crisis. but the facts speak for themselves. none of the shapes that so far have left. they

unlocked ukrainian or to go into somalia, egypt, or 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 seats, grain initiatives faction, while 2 of the shapes ago in for 41 to england, another one to ireland and others are headed toward a tally and china. so ironically, by the way, we've only seen so far, corn exports it, which is generally used to feed the animals and to produce bio fuel. new york times published a big investigation report recently. now 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 and security. the russian government should stop weaponized food and allow ukraine to safely ship out its grains, so that millions of hungry people in the middle east and africa can be fed in terms of reaction then because it is quite an abrupt turn of events from what you're seeing weeks ago, what's russia's view here? well, most guys 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 the food. well, most guys 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 enough you son will 3 weeks ago between russia, turkey crane and the un one regarding the unblocked 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 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 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 to we now hear from the u. n. 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, ukraine, and the un. because again, the initial idea was to send food directly to the a 100 res rome out. yeah, but that's not happening. and many now say that is disappointing. yes. has decided to close its borders to russian citizens holdings. shane, get visas issued by tollen. that's according to the countries foreign ministry. the european commission has also said the issue of tourist visas for russians is now on their agenda. the earlier, the ukrainian president called for borders to be close to all russian saying that quote, they should leave in their own world until they change their philosophy or t contribute to ritual marston of to her thoughts that whatever happened to that vaunted european unity that you officials have been celebrating recently now suddenly there is little more than

a shrug from the you when one member state decides to discriminate based on people's nationality and background. what's particularity 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 advice sen, tourist 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. it's important to underline that, but it still can't be rolled out since it's yet another demand coming straight from ukrainian president library zalinski 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 anyone in russia who might be 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 list 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, grace, 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 for than any city. this is written in our costa to sions both in europe and in america. this is who we are. this is our identity. this is something we cannot forget. oh, it's their 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, a national, some wrote could be any one else. they don't happen to agree with policy wise. but now, according to the use top diplomat,

the you 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 garza's 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 values when you can just posture 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. lot fia, how's officially labeled russia

a state sponsor of terrorism over the conflict in ukraine and is trying, we believe to persuade other quote like minded countries to act the same way. moscow condemn the move, calling it savage xenophobia considering that there is no substance except for animalistic sienna phobia. behind this decision, it is necessary to call the ideologues nothing more than neo nazis. the declaration was supported by 67 law makers who took part in the vote and that 100 seats sema, the parliament also urged the you to stop issuing tourist visas for russian on beller russian citizens. and to cut down on entry pieces in general, a few hours later, the same as website came under a sustained cyber attack. well, that's cross live now to germany inspector, i k hammer. ike is an economist on political commentator and is very welcome to the

program. i k, how do you see this? what is the implication of such a, a strong statement by lafayette par him in to say the least isn't an attempt to make russia so named pariah on do you think riga is acting independently? i think their reasons could be searched in another way. if you consider that, let me basically be an aide to army base with hundreds of may 2 of us military from albany to states plus secret made 2 officers. and there you consider that already try to escalate the tension with rush or through something the front of the line to god. and then it makes sense that they are coming up with some hopes like, like now that can escalate the tension with russia. if you

consider that ukraine had basically a military lock in the, in the ukraine in don us and saw that the us with high involved in bad, that need to is highly involved in that war. then they are losing ground every day in the astonishing way. then that it could mean that the locked me out is the push for work by the office us to escalate the tensions that nature troops are allowed to or has have a read to enter the current place. and i think when seeing that this could be one of the readings, but i think it wants to see the buying administration doesn't succeed in anything anymore. they don't even have the support with their own population anymore. so i

think this is the 2nd way where you could search the vitamin administration will face an astonishing loss in the midterm elections in november. and they tried to do anything outside the us. any big location with taiwan wherever pelosi went to ty on it on to make a big, big conflict. you will be able to postpone either the elections or somehow declare martial law, whatever within the us to, to keep in power. and i think these are the reasons where you have to look for in this ridiculous statements. state sponsored designations are highly consequential both legally and politically. i k how you see it as regards what it means for, for russia, in general, for russia, in general, or in the, the thing it's pretty clear that they say you can't trust the western entities.

those who are at the minute as power. who as by the way, not much to do with the population anymore, they are not not trustworthy so rusher anyway, have shifted away and say ok, you do your stuff. and we, we look for different markets and they already collect that the majority of mankind within their grading or grange, meant with, in their sort of like friendship arrangements, china, iran, and so on. and so on. the break space. so i think russia it's, it's pretty say, pretty cool in that in this matter and continue. it's been this. all right, thanks as always for your time, your thoughts, like a helmer economist, political commentator and a publisher of the 1st shop, the actual business newsletter. many thanks. thank you very much. crying foul over what they say is discrimination, african refugees in europe,

claim they're not getting the same level of treatment, those, those needing help from ukraine. the hon. and i get if that was your muscular the i see the ukrainians are selling their homes and they have homes. we are not against the ukrainians. they are also refuges and have war in their country. they should be supported, but we want equal support to old 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 in the u. k. government give 1st priority to korean refugees. even as we see in the street and bizarre, the koreans brought their personal vehicles to the k and are moving around. afghans don't get the same attitude as the koreans get from the u. k. government. this is against human rights and against the refugee rights request from the united kingdom government to implement the refugee law to all refugees equally and give us our

home soon. in a few days, the 1st anniversary of the withdrawal of us troops from afghanistan will be marked . but the situation for many of the people who were forced to flee the country remains online and people. in april, u. k. government launch the resettlement, and a 2 afghans policy people were promised they'd receive housing within a month. but when the conflicting ukraine erupted, the process of providing accommodation stopped or became very small. meanwhile, the biden administration as once again up the anti unapproved. another $1000000000.00 military, a package for a key of forces. not as a new report reveals, washington sent millions of dollars to quote miscellaneous on this load recipients, enough gala sent over decades raising concerns over where the money and weapons shipped ukraine could on where it all ended up trying to unravel it for its r t. rachel blevins,

nearly 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 it really spent on and how much was used to fuel corruption? such questions appear to be nothing new for the ravaged country that 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 site the 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 vitamin ministration 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 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 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 ok. we don't need that. the supplies of russian oil to the czech republic through ukraine won't be restarted. that's according to slovakia is operator. it comes after the company that's services the pipeline to prague did not pay its transfer fees. key of earlier bond. all oil don't raise through the southern branch of the pipeline as moscow wasn't able to pay taurus itself due to sanctions. now, we have heard that all the supplies to brother slob in budapest will be stored in a few days, but we're awaiting some clarification on that. we'll, let's cross live now to george zamarelli, senior research fellow at the global policy and should of london at for his take pleasure to have your company today, george. so the czech republic needs the oil at once, the oil, but it's not going to get it. is it?

well, it's very hard to say, because at the moment there are some of the go, she ations taking place, whereby the money for the transit fees will be taken care of by the ariens. and i the some way, maybe don guarantee will be reimbursed by, by the russians, though that's obviously how that can take place. but at the moment, some grease stepping up to the plate and he's offering to pay the transit fees and thereby be oil flowing to hungary check republic. it doesn't look like the check republic is the only country really affected. why is that? what i think? i mean, check public is very vulnerable because it's actually quite difficult to get the oil to the czech republic because the,

the alternative for the check republic is that it would have to go through easily very complicated process. honorees is actually in better shape because you can actually get the oil from probation, the chevy, where the check republic is more vulnerable. but all it's still only goes to show is that it's the european union that is messing around with the energy flows. this, the european union that continues to accuse russia all playing games with energy weaponized the energy and denying the europeans, the energy that they need. so it's clear once again that there shouldn't be no problem about the oil flows other than the european stuff. is that no, no, no, you don't pay the transit fees because that's a sanction on george profit without getting overly technical on, on my part, i'm just trying to figure out why price didn't follow profit. the examples of