holders in united states and elsewhere in lodge obs companies would lose millions and millions or is business and businesses good. and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is fashion. with nuclear disaster hangs over the continent as the ukrainian, the military shells europe's biggest nuclear power plant. that's all according to russia's invoice to the united nations. the u. s. a secretary of state anthony blinking looks to confirm america's commitment to africa earlier in the week while blaming russia for the continents food problems. and as india prepared to mock 75 years of independence from british rule and the partition of the country into both india and pakistan in the program, we hear the story of one man whose family was to split between the states. it's

been 75 years. i remember those days that day when we were separated and you never came back, only your memories remain with top stories over the week and of today. welcome to the weekly onasia international . so the head of the russia back administration and ukraine's death at all. she region say that authorities are considering shutting down the nuclear power plant. that's how the ukranian army reportedly shell, the power station for a 2nd time. here's our correspondent, eagles down off. these are for oscar nuclear power plant is being shelled, relentlessly and well quite religiously by the ukrainian side. today's yet another instance of their attempts to well caused damage to the facility. now it has been shelled before it has been shelled literally hours before a before russia cooled an emergency meeting with the un security council

literally hours before that meeting happened, the power plant had been shelled and on the 5th on the 7th of august as well. so it is a target for the ukrainian forces. this is according to the russian side. yes, there. thank you. with super rules. if the attacks of ukrainian army continue a nuclear catastrophe could happen at any moment. in this case, the entire responsibility for this will fall on the western sponsors of key if even though ukraine denies allegations and is saying something along the lines that russia is, is shelling its own positions, is it shelling its own infrastructure. so something that moscow has clearly brushed off, and indeed, speaking of the consequences, they can be absolutely devastating, huge territories and ukraine. russia and other countries will be under the threat of radioactive contamination. the real scale of a nuclear disaster at the plant is impossible to even imagine if for the nuclear power plant was indeed to be destroyed. and interestingly enough,

ukraine was to be hit the hardest. it was too bad the most of the impact effectively, the entire country would have to go through the nuclear fallout. bella roost parts of russia as well. and depending on the wins, in fact, it's hard to predict as to how far and how and in what direction the nuclear, this nuclear fallout cloud will travel, eastern europe, western europe could be impacted as well. if you crane continues this highly irresponsible behavior. well, it's not being reported in the western press, but for weeks russia has been calling for the international atomic energy agency to come and visit this power plant. but the i e, a chief stated at the last un security council meeting that quote, there is no immediate threat to the nuclear power plant right now. while the u. s. representative put the blame fully on russia and demanded a full withdrawal of russian troops who actually secured the plant in march and had

been guarding it ever since. the cause of the situation at is if we ship facility is not a mystery. it is another tragic result of the russian federation decision to further invade. it's sovereign neighbor, ukraine, russia alone created risks, and it can eliminate those risks now, by withdrawing from ukraine. turning a blind eye to why the conflict in ukraine started is just covering up the west real intentions. now hold on a 2nd. that's according to former american senator richard black. right now there are such enormous force from the wes, from the us, from nato, from the united kingdom. this tremendous pressure from the western media. to never say anything bad about ukraine and to make up any kind of buying that you can say, against the russians. that's becoming

a little bit frayed. pete, the information is beginning to leak out. and people are beginning to say, you know, wait a minute. it wasn't russia that started this war. it was nature. they started the war because they forced brushes back to the wall where the president, he had no alternative for to defend the sovereign territory of russia. and he had to launch an attack to do that in order to preempt the attack that ukraine was planning against the don bass, misty, international faces and evaluation by external experts who will look into it's a recent report on controversial ukrainian military tactics. that's according to lots of media reports. the exposure has drawn western scorn and pushed back from ukraine, including calls to fire those an amnesty international that works on the paper. i

misty faced a torrent of criticism with its co founder pear weisberg resigning from his position. following the release of the report, the organization is chief agnes callum our defended the report saying the work is impartial and accusations of bias against ukraine. a baseless some media have even called for the human rights and g o. just a shot hash, often close. it is time for amnesty international to completed 60 emission and go down in history before memories of the heroic days of the struggle for human rights have faded. the scandal with the cranium report is a moment that amnesty should season close its doors forever. it is the only remaining honorable ex, it's worthy of a nobel peace prize. when, unfortunately, amnesty international did not understand this and thus it condemned itself to shameful and painful end reports. the state, the ukrainian army, was deliberately placing troops and military vehicles in a residential areas and therefore endangering civilian lives. this comes as i

missed the call, the ukrainian tactics, quote, a violation of humanitarian law and called on key after stop putting civilians in harm's way. the report accuses ukraine of placing its army in schools and hospitals within your residential areas. however, other outlets have been slightly more balanced in their approach to what the report actually said. the organization says it's researchers documented multiple cases of ukrainian forces, basing themselves in schools and hospitals, and launching attacks from populated neighborhoods dry and russian fire that endangered civilian lives. president vladimir lensky would have done better to acknowledge that even his heroic defenders are capable of air and take the report to heart. instead of accusing amnesty, we discuss the issue with a dan kovachick, a human rights lawyer who says, it's strange to criticize a human rights watch dog reporting on human rights. i think it's absurd. you know,

i don't understand petitioning and human rights group because you don't like the fact that they're reporting on human rights abuses. let's face with people. you know, amazon international job, which honestly i don't see them largely carrying out is to be neutral. to tell, you know, both sides of the story of the one time they report truthfully, on the on, you know, ukraine's violations that's appropriate, that people should not be lobbying them to, to change how they're reporting or to fire people who report on things that you know, they find and can be the whole point of human rights group is to tell truth. people don't want to hear, right? that's why they, these groups exist. so if they want to keep their integrity, they should stand by the report not given to public pressure, not fire people because of the report. president joe biden's policies have been

dismissed as having little to do with democracy. in an interview, a former congresswoman tulsa gobbled cast doubt that washing transactions in ukraine actually have the country's best interests at heart. have a listen to this. now, despite their lectures and their crocodile tears, it's never been about morality. it's not about the people of ukraine or protecting democracy. this is about regime change in russia and exploiting this war to strengthen nato and feed the military industrial complex that joe biden. it's even about bringing about, quote, a new world order, but it's not the 1st time that tulsa gavin has been critical of dro biden's policies on fox news. she also pinned europe's energy crisis squarely on the shoulders of the u. s. president, suggesting that similar repercussions could soon be in store for every day american as well. we discussed our goblets, stones with earl ross, newson over your racial center. she was exactly right. she,

her statement as far as that, this is not about ukraine. it's not about european values, it's not about democracy. it's about regime change. it's about containment of russia and ultimately regime change. and ultimately, i would say dismantling of russia as well. i think similar is happening. we've got another play going on with taiwan and china also felty gabbert, carl mcgregor, grand greenwald, the whole list of them. unfortunately, the not widely heard, and most of the media is completely controlled. it's projecting whatever the policy of the government is. i mean if you listen, tanis nbc or c, and then it's like somebody wrote a script from them and they're leaving, you don't even have basically the saying the same thing over and over again. adult gabbert right on the money and has hit completely correct. and her statement

on monday, india marks 75 years of independence from british rule. none of us are you also linked to a rather divisive chapter known as history. that's been called out of the partition . that's when british india was broken up into the separate states of india and pakistan on the move lead to the vast displacement of people and bloody classes on a newly drawn border. ortiz runjun shot him takes a look back at the time via a one man's personal story. good night when the way seek india when a week later, in a moment come, rich, come much around in his study. when we get both, i'm doomed to learn. when and when the nation long. so 1st i got a 75 years ago to send sees of british rules came to an end. but one of the most

diverse sub continents in the world was now divided into 2 hindu majority. india and muslim homeland to pakistan. this british lead blonde, resulted in the biggest forced migration of the 20th century. over a 1000000 people lost their lives in what became to known as the partition. my grandparents were amongst the millions of people who made that journey from across the border during partition. i couldn't get to know their stories and struggled as i was quite young when i lost them a chance of hearing 1st hand accounts of people who had similar experiences. maybe on a while. mean johnny. do you remember that day? what happened on 15th august 1947. when the partition happened, we were here in the same village, the same district of good westport. i remember when the line was drawn, but it still wasn't decided on which side my village would fall. at that time,

75 years ago, there was no t, v or radio. only one person to the next village had a radio. and on the 15th of august, thousands of people from different villages gathered at the home of this person with the radio as the fate of our district. whether it will be part of india or pakistan, was to be decided on many men from our village. i also went there to hear the decision and he came and told us that we would remain in india. i still remember the day very clearly. the partition has been harvest on the northern state of punjab during a ball to millions of hindus seeks and muslims who had lived together in harmony for generations over the decades that followed some last conduct or does managed to maintain their friendship. believe raj, who's now 90 to close his childhood, muslim friend chill hom, across the border. salam lake,

my king american. it's been 75 years. i remember those days that day when we were separated and you never came back. only your memories remain 75 years ago, molly roach until hum, lived in the same neighbourhood until a mammy border. physically separate and then they all left. there was law amongst us and we believed like brothers. the hade was bred by politics and the british oak . where did you ruin sharma, arte but job the u. s. a secretary of state assures that the u. s. is not competing with any one in the sub saharan region. these comments made while on to it or south africa, the dnc and re wanda, just a bit earlier in the week. now as visit does come hot on the heels of russia's foreign minister, sort of a lover of who received a very warm welcome in several countries on that continent. just days before blinking arrived, we've seen the repercussions of rushes worn ukraine,

which are felt across the planet. and especially across africa in rising food and energy prices. what we seek most of all is a true partnership between the united states and africa. we don't want an unbalanced or transactional relationship in our commitment to a stronger partnership with africa is not about trying to out. do anyone else? well, the co, inciting, with the visit of the white house released as a document detailing it's brand new strategy towards sub saharan regions. the plan promotes u. s. investment and involvement in african nations policies, including things like pandemic, st climate change food security. and while blinking refutes that his tour is an attempt to counter russia and china is growing ties with the continent. a new report released by the white house on us strategy in the region however, does seem to suggest otherwise. the people's republic of china by contrast, sees the region as an important arena to challenge the rules based international

order. and we can us relations with african peoples and governments. russia use the region as a permissive environment for paras, stables, and private military companies, often fermenting instability for strategic and financial benefit. and while the u. s. aim to continue its presence in the region, china now stands, south africa's biggest trading partner. in fact, most goes trade with the country is also on the rise with a monthly exports from russia up more than 4 times in just the past 12 months. all of this as of the u. s. secretary of state, try to convince the south africa to sever ties with both russia and china. the south africa talk, different amount says blame for problems on the continent. rests with those who are capitalizing on the regions. resources. this fear that we exist under some push is i think a totally are really, are unfounded. a belief in the relationship that we have with eva

country is also a concern about countries. and that have mineral interest in african countries are not there as a destabilizing force. so i think we need to look at the full plethora of problems that give rise to insecurity, bad governance. and the absence of democracy on the african continent is not a one country problem in it's our new strategy, washington also sites quote, a long and proud history of supporting africa. so we discussed the whole strategy with joe ultman, host of the conservative bailey podcast. i don't think that the u. s. is every state to the sovereignty of other nations and when they talk about the stabilization, they can look no further than themselves. and the sad part about with the us says it's just a bunch of rhetoric and look, i'm, i'm an american and i'm proud to be an american, but the apparatus within the u. s. government has long been a d, stabilizing force and almost putting at, you know, african to a place where they can't grow. they can't excel at the same rate that other

countries across the world are growing. and that has a lot more to do with their natural resources. and how they can get access to those resources. so no, i don't believe they respect the sovereignty of any decisions that they make. and i am actually fearful that it's going to become a tug of war and the people of those african natives. 54 nations are the ones that are going to suffer. and the african nations 1st south africa does not trust the united states. many nations don't trust united states, i don't think anything the united states does right now will be seen as anything other than grandstanding and making empty promises that they will learn in the future not be able to deliver. we're committed to it is good to have you with us today. now it was a this week that some european countries were discussing new ways to sanction russia. as the block considered barring russian people from getting shang, again, visas to europe. it follows that the number of politicians called on the e. u to deny russians any access to europe, as long as the conflict in ukraine continues. moscow slammed the initiative as were

so phobic saying it's been 80 years since sentiment similar to these remarks by finland and estonia were lost, voiced on the european continent. it's not right did. at the same time as rush, his waging and aggressive, brutal war of aggression in europe, russians can live a normal life travel in europe, be tourists. it is not right. stop a sheen to rescue us to russians. visiting europe is a privilege not so human rights. at child from russia shut down, it means washing and congress. each of these is neighbors. to russia carried the badge in time to an tourist from russia. now latvia for its pod is made a raw, the contentious statement against russia as the baltic country declared russia, a state sponsor of terrorism, claiming moscow intentionally target civilians in ukraine. the russian foreign ministry has lashed out of the motion, defining it as quote of provocation. another hostile action by lot fin

lawmakers fits perfectly into the anti russian hysteria unleashed by riga. after all, it is well known that the pathological rooster phobia of lat fee is ruling elite, has already caused serious economic and social issues in this baltic country. bringing down the standard of living for its population, and it's only getting worse. well, that means i'm some in europe of notice the blogs self hom policy towards russia. one of them, the austrian presidential candidate, gerald gross. he told us here at archie that brussels try to shift the blame for its quote skits of frantic policy on russia. earlier, he also broke down the situation for local media. hey cindy, good thursday boy can through mail home. so i see my name is shamika barnes. the word can ga smith. oh thats home denser. yeah. cuz i am from younger guys. oh guys . my company in a sense of a no, you cannot do without energy on one hand and then complain about the lack of energy and fear, black out on the other speak of the devil. and the devil shows up that

a skis of freak. and that is what currently characterizes to european elite skis of freen, yet they are in favor of sanctions against russia. on the one hand there waging their economic war against russia because of military conflict, that in reality, does not affect europe in any way. and on the other hand, they complain about the reaction to the economic war. namely, the lack of gas guess is not only used for heating, but guess from russia, which we have received for the last 50 years, is also used to secure the electricity supply. this means that if you want to secure the supply of electricity on the european continent, then we must also an economic sanctions against russia and try to restore a reasonably satisfactory solution for the people through diplomacy. latino handler, which want to contribute to rachel marston, who says that a europe is only now just starting to experience the boomerang effects of its own

sanctions. it seems like a slow motion car crash here in france already. for example, we're seeing public officials using the engineer gas shortage as an excuse to reduce public services. now, public swimming pools, both near paris and in the south of france, have made news recently when local governments said that they were shutting them down for the rest of the summer to save money than air of cavalry. yes, which is in the south of france said the high costs now mean that she has to choose between purchases like organic food for kids, school lunches or the pool. so the pool got the axe during one of the hottest summers on record. so you can see the ball is already rolling on rationing, even in anticipation of a shortage later this year. and we haven't even begun to see where the knock on effects might pop up. now to make matters worse, norway, which is otherwise known as europe's battery, produces hydro electric energy that it typically exports to the you and to the u. k

. but now it's saying that because it's lacking water because of the dry and, and heat. it now feels that it will be able to step up and help with exports this year. and just when you think that things couldn't possibly get a worse, the financial times is now reporting that european utility companies like francis energy giant, are they f r, sounding the alarm over radioactive, contamination of liquefied natural gas deliveries from britain to the e. u. m. originally sourced from the u. s. and cutter, the problem could cause pipelines between britain and the e to close. and the new york times is reporting that the looming energy crisis is causing germany to reconsider and nuclear energy. a power source over which berlin has absolutely lambasted paris for maintaining. so i guess a better send gret, a tune berg over there to yell at them. maybe perhaps she can beat zalinski in

a screening match because really all of economic and environmental harm, including refusal to fire up to nordstrom to pipe language. less space. it's just sitting there, gathering dust is being done in the name of ukraine. i say yes, the government rules it out. we face difficult months ahead. but it is clear that we stand firmly on the side of ukraine and we stand behind the sanctions that we agree together with the european union in the international community. and its notice to europeans who are suffering, but also folks in the global south. europe is also apparently dragging along countries like pakistan and bangladesh behind the energy price roller coaster. the fact that emerging countries in south asia, like pakistan, for example, are currently experiencing one power blackout after the other is also a consequence of europe's failed energy policy. in its attempt to free itself from its dangerous dependency on russia. record speed, the u. s. causing massive turbulence on the global energy markets, which hit poor countries particularly hard, but least europe is united right?

well, maybe not counting those opting out from the gas cuts or poland, which wants the rest of europe to keep their hands off polish gas. russian president vladimir putin may not be quaking in his boots at. busy this stellar competence but europeans, sherman b as winter approaches. legendary french heroine, joan of arc will appear before audiences of a famous london globe theater. like never before. now as a gender neutral character in a drastic re thinking by the globe's artistic director, the patron saint of france, we played by it's about tom, a non binary actor and a new production i. joan written also by a non binary author. the play includes day and then pronouns, and according to shakespeare's home theaters management aims to quote question the

gender binary. the decision to strip joan of arc of a gender identity ignited heated debates on line literally thousands of people criticizing the globe for its approach on history. congratulations, you've managed to insult the majority of women in the world. the catholic church for whom joan of arc was a patron saint and the french saint joan has and will be a source of strength for women and girls. long after the globe returns to rebel. these people are pathetic. the cult of the pronoun brigade strikes again. she was a woman and a role model for women and girls, stopped stealing. our women stopped the crap. the globes joan of arc is yet another attempt to remove women from their own rightful stories and spaces. the whole thing has got so far out of hand. now it's beyond parity. i won't be watching this, or anything that seeks to neutralize or minimize what a woman is. earlier in the program, i spoke with mani halacha, a community activist,

and we discussed these issues surrounding what has fost become a very controversial topic. i was actually really surprised how much debate this has stirred up. and i think, in my opinion, i think what sort of happening, they should very interesting because we have 2 groups that have faced discrimination. you have women that it historically faced discriminate and, but you also have 9 but 9 binary people and just to be clear, 9 binary individuals are individuals who do not identify with any gender male or female. and i think whenever you have a situation, you really have, you know, to sort of disadvantage groups that are both bind to be heard. you know, and i think also like my opinion and i feel like both, both sides think really, really valid viewpoints. you know, going, going back, she was born in the 15th century so, so basically, and i don't even show, can i call or a hero, or can i call her a heroine right now i'm getting really confused about this, but for apparently,

for 600 years, joe dog was a woman, something just changed. yes. yes. that i think you know what you sent me. i think the issue really here is, you know, you're balancing artistic that the artistic expression and freedom of a theater trip to produce a play. you know, versus the fact that you know, john of are, she was a woman, this is the thing, isn't in our children today being entrusted with making a decision on their own. i mean, even a full year, a full year old child before you're right. you know, they're there i, i was reading something online recently about about a, about a woman who had had a boy, he was about 4 years old or so. and he decided in his own words, he didn't like his p p. i'm because of that. he got together with mother, they had a big talk about and she said okay, get rid of it. you can change your agenda. so he changes his gender, the age of 4 or 5 years old. does the understand that? yeah, i mean, that's a very, very extreme case. and like, in my experience,

we have, you know, teenagers that are sort of, you know, grappling with, you know, what is the identity, they feel comfortable. it's all well and good for you and me to make up our minds about l g, b, t, q stuff or gender issues. but when it comes to children today, there are many saying that they're just being indoctrinated in schools to, to go along with this. and we should, we, as potentially parents be worried about what this might be doing to the heads and minds of children today. children are going to be exposed to many, many, many different things in school with their friends on the internet. i think it's really and comment on parents to have like, good solid relationships with their children. have these discussions. it's good to have your company for the sunday weekly program here when i see international thanks for joining us here. we'll continue highlighting the top stories of the week and of today throughout the day on our to international. but if you miss us, check us out on telegram odyssey and gab blue

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