now and, ah, a with breaking news, an art, see this up a rose yet nucular power plant again comes under the shelling of ukrainian forces. according to the d. r. officials, the fresh assault comes just hours before the un security council convenes to discuss the long awaited grain shipments from ukraine bypass. hardest hit african nations adding instead to european ports live reaction on coming up with only at plums to close its borders to russian citizens holding shen gan visas issued by tollen. while the european commission also molds the idea

continent wide. and while the us approves a new mom of a package for key f, people from another country come fall of us cash offer. yellowstone claim they are not getting the same level of treatment as not being held out to others. i see the ukrainians are settling in their homes and they have homes to feel that the behavior of the key government is discriminatory. and there is racism here with just out there mid day in lima, midnight in hanoi and 8 in the evening. here in moscow. welcome to the global news update on our team. we begin with breaking news. ukrainian forces have once again shelled as upper ocean nuclear power plant just hours ahead of a un security council meeting on previous attacks on the plant according to local authorities, kiev trip hughes multiple rocket launchers and heavy artillery from the right bank

of the din that per river, a member of the local administration, sage ukrainian forces fired up the facility. twice on thursday. ortiz eager to sit down and send on boss. he told me more. 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 reassuring that those well facilities are made out of concrete because it's a good and steady material. we've seen it withstand a lot of damage here in the longest people republican, the don bass basically, but it is not unbreakable, of course, and as well of these upper rows, your nuclear plant is absolutely massive. it's the largest one in europe. it is in the top 10 all over the world, so it 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 ukranian side also targeted this facility, this nuclear power plant. and again,

this was very dangerous and rush has screamed about its concerns. in response cave accused moscow of shelling its own positions basically creating a provocation, a causes belly for well for international condemnation. but russia, of course, had brushed aside these accusations as 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 at tech to a nuclear plant is a suicidal sink. and i hope that those attacks will end. 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 meant its competition. so experts with the international atomic energy agency, they are voiced their well the, they express their readiness to visit the plant and to be this independent and presumably unbiased eye on the ground for the international community. and are they even have, well, they decide they basically they change their schedule and they expressed willingness to take part in today's or you and security council. because again, the matter is very, very serious. these upper osha, nuclear power plant, it's capacities some 50 percent, more of that overture noble. so potentially the disaster could be much worse than the tra noble one. and while 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 fall out from you know,

the worst case scenario. we're 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 on 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. so there you have it on the ground. the russian forces have beefed up at defenses to well defend the nuclear power plant, as well as possible, but the internationally they are moving forward with the un security council hoping

that here the international community stays responsible yourself while another potential disaster elsewhere in done yet kaz been averted, emergency, sir, mrs. say a 100, a situation is not being brought under control. after a local brewery was hit by ukrainian shelley damaging ammonia holding tank. here you can see the destruction, with military forces sifting through the rubble of toxic gallus earlier hung over the city. the shelling out the bery left. one person dead on to injured ammonia use merely as fertilizer can be deadly to both the environment on people. if leaked, the attack is the latest in a wave of targeted shelling of civilian infrastructure and onions. limits the rubble of a brewery. a french missile from expired stalks was reportedly find near other ammonia tanks, with some of the shells, apparently not excluding. none of

the ships pack with ukrainian grain have reached southern countries, many of which are dealing with near starving conditions and instead are headed to european ports. it's after months of western politicians, putting the blame for africa's food crisis squarely and moscow, prompting darts now on the sincerity of those officials on their remarks. unfortunately, not a single ship carrying crane has reached to starving countries of africa. so far they made me go to western courts and the range of exported cargo is mainly milt wheat, corn grain, and some flower oil, which cost out on the sincerity of the ccs voiced in the west of 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 cade's dine from hunger and all the accusations russia faced for creating this global food crises. but the facts speak for themselves. none of the shapes that so

far have left their unblocked ukrainian or to go into somalia, a jeep 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 sea grain initiative section. well, 2 of the shapes are going to turkey, one to england. another one to ireland and others are headed towards italy and china. so ironically, by the way, we've only seen so far, 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 and security. 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 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 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, ines, east and will, 3 weeks ago between russia, turkey crane and the un, one regarding the unblock anal 3, creating ports, and 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 to 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, and 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 un that the deal signed any single 3 weeks ago has already driven global food prices down. and that somehow 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 money to raise rome out. yeah. but that's not happening. and many now say that is disappointing. will as cross live no or 2 journalists, long time foreign correspondent and editor martin j for his point speaking to us from morocco. hi, there are martin. yeah. west did seem very concerned with africa. food insecurity, just weeks ago with french president manuel mac con, calling food quote, russia's weapon of war. how surprising is it been that these 1st grain shipments bypassed africa entirely and went to e u ports will have to say, i'm quite surprised because it's only been about 10 days. but when you look at who is making those crews who is actually you mentioned micro re raising concerns about it, you have to understand the implications of a korean shorted a week shortage in

a lot of those countries in africa, you're looking at a rise in terrorism on massive russia close to europe. so those were obviously key concerns to my. com. let's not forget to, to just on russians. it was after ro, lebanon, and saudi arabia approach putin threw back channels in the last few days and should look, we can't afford, you know, a new spring in many ways to do some indications just to great. so i think it was, it was great to deal with science, but there also, there was always question, not going to be a level playing field nor wonder, actually wonder whether americans, comments america, stretch new city by it's un ambassador to thomas michelle. she said, she's been gone a few days african countries, lots of respect us sanctions against russia. in other words,

we have our own sanctions, which we don't by russian oil. and we will take students who meshes against countries in africa. we do the same. i'm wondering whether that threat was taken to literally, and i'm wondering whether some african countries who are the point of commissioning large ships, click grain, actually thought twice about it, an actual battle. i'm force and that's what we're experiencing on. well, it's a very interesting point, isn't it? and it's not one that i can see for one being raised widely, among mentoring media outlets. the question why african countries aren't the 1st recipients? why is that not for 1st and foremost in, in these editorials, etc. i'm not sure, i mean, to be honest, i think there's just so much the narrative of western media is so secured and so biased and it's locked in us in a single, very monolithic narrative. the, everything on the russian side has to be gloomy, and everything we do in the western side is obviously right and correct. and so i

think it might have been down to for reporting might have been down to misinterpretation of the facts in the ground. but i still think that some countries in africa will be desperately looking at how to get gray and how to acquire we to ukraine. more russia we'll see in a few days. so those come to reach me out to the dumpsters like an island who got the grain and presumably got but there must be something to be said about the integrity. the sincerity of the concern that western politicians expressed for weeks they were interviewed over and over many months about the food prices in the global science and seeing the ships must get it. then when it happens, they're going the opposite direction. yeah, what does this, if you actually look at the politics and you take a big broader helicopter view of what was going on in the last of the months, it was lensky who would have profited so much by famines in africa, by insurgency,

an uprising revolution in north african countries, if it's food crisis and really broken out. so you know, many of these countries have subsidized read, for example, would have been so lead sky, you got more media attention. she craves more and more. so it's kind of ironic. a deal that was struck by the turks got the west together, we wash it and it was turned off. it's actually gone against because now people are asking other questions. well, what's really rice is worry about in the 1st place. what's really going on. if you look at the havior and the last few sort of don't a bit of script and now i was reaching out to china and there's a certain turn i would say in how was the media reporting and the last few weeks notice i think got so thought of the same story as well. martin and chris have you in the program, always food for thought journalists and foreign correspond martin j. the estonian has decided to close its borders to russian citizens holding shank and

visas issued by talon. the move will happen in around a week's time. the european commissioners also said the issue of tourist visas for russians is not on their agenda. earlier, the ukrainian president lobby mercer lensky, call for borders to be close to all russians. i think that quote, they should live in their own world until their change, their philosophy are to contribute. a ritual margin offered her thoughts. 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 of 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 advice 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 shout hose. 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 their philosophy. guessing means also little kids. and anyone 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 bad. 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. but 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, the religion, or than any city. this is written in our constitutions, both in europe and in america. this is who we are. this is our identity. this is something we cannot forget. oh it's there, very identity. it's written in stone. it's written in the constitution, except now apparently you're going to be 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 on 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 e is apparently embracing the double standards that it once rejected because well, hey, thus 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 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 hypocritical betrays them to virtue signal over the cause of the day. or senior research fellow, the global policy institutes in london, george zamarelli believes eastern european countries pursue at sunshine, aggressive ante. russia policy in order to be rewarded by key western partners. i think that the number of countries in eastern europe today and you have bought and paid for the lee that was paid for by western n g o and by western governments. and they are actually paid to be

actually hostile toward russia. they see this is a way earning more money from the western powers. that's really the reason. so the more they are, the more they or was it because none of the facility makes a great sense. if you talk about history, why i go around desecrating, read memorial war time cemetery, what do you get? i mean, it's, you know, that all of those events happen 8 years ago. all he does is, he's tagging nicer than upsets the russians. what's that's the way they do it in order to please their payments more un tagami. the more you you are like it was 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 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. feeling less than the u. k. government gives 1st priority to korean 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 the koreans get from the u. k. government. this is against human rights and against the refugee rights can request from the united kingdom government to implement the refugee law to all refugees equally and give us our home soon. now 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 and people. in april, the u. k. government launched the resettlement on the $82.00 afghans. people were promised, they receive housing within a month, but when the conflict in ukraine interrupted the process of providing accommodations stopped or became very slow. below the by the administration, i was once again on the ot approved another $1000000000.00 military, a package for key forces that sounds. a new report reveals washington send billions of dollars to quotes, miscellaneous undisclosed recipients, enough chemist over a decade raising concerns over where the money weapon ship to ukraine might end up here. so our teas racial difference nearly one year after the u. s. military fled in disarray from us, ghana span a near report is shutting light on how much would be 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 that was occupied by the u. s. for nearly 2 decades. whether it was the afghanistan papers which were published by the washington post. 6 and then quickly forgotten about and 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 turn to ukraine, where the via an administration just 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 them money is spent, have been quickly shut down by the majority. i've been ukraine 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 and 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 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 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 illegal, 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 we, 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. okay, another news line on a busy day, russia has convened an informal meeting of un security council members ahead of the

gathering the russian representative to the global body took aim. now if the security council itself seeing it only accepts decisions that don't take into account modern realities, pen hold a shift is an informal arrangement whereby one, the procedure for select himself appointment of pen hold is remains unclear. out of this process clearly can in no way be deemed democratic, was growing criticism because the working methods of the sponsors of the draft to the negative trend that we've seen in recent years, whereby documents are prepared without relevant consultations with the very states on this councils agenda yeah, and other countries to back rushes coal for reforms. molly's representative said decisions by the organization must be irreproachable on that african countries to serve, to hold responsibility for peacekeeping. there are, was universal backing for the security counts were being based on the fundamental principles of democracy in equal participation as well.

ah, the theory, an oil ministry has publicly accused the united states of stealing. it's worth the amount of oil production during the 1st half of 20. 22 amounted to some 14500000 barrels us occupation forces and their mercenaries, steel up to 66000 barrels every single day. from the fields occupied in the eastern region. in a statement, syrian officials branded american lead troops. i lucky pine forests, responsible for the fest of $105000000000.00 since the beginning of the war in 2011 . according to local reports, last weekend, the loan saw dozens of us army tankers smuggle oil ice of the country into kurdish areas in northern iraq allies of washington. russian president vladimir putin previously called on the u. s. to stop exploiting, serious, natural resources, economic consultant. i mean, i would say that is precisely the reason why russia recently voted in the u. n. to

shut down the last a brute in syria. we actually count all those years since the complex started in the sense of the us actually got people figure might actually be correct because the oil industry and serial. although the production only represents one percent of the world production, it actually was a $1000000000.00 industry. while that's the main problem, and this is what actually russia actually vetoed last month on the, on the new and the resolution for a to syria, which actually comes in every year. well, actually the u. s. involved in many conflicts in the region actually proved before they were not very efficient in sullivan local issues. they might or can model of democracy. you actually fail in, in the region and a lot of initiatives.