is open, very dramatic developments, only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical. i'm time to sit down and talk with russia warrens that ukraine may conduct a massive, probably cation around the embattled up arose. a nuclear power plant, as mazda calls on the west to get key of forces to stop shelling the facility. the owners were evicted like bringing proofs and now well, whoever used to live here, we have no place to return to our tea visits a little gone to town deserted by cab troops after heavy fighting as the local militia, and now deals with the daunting task of clearing away the ukrainian oh canyons are deeply split over william rudolph presidential election when with joy

reading the result in some areas. all right, take place and others mass celebrations in afghanistan, capital marking one year since the box us pull out and local efforts to overcome that deadly legacy. stay tuned for special coverage with good morning for martine or national studios in moscow to wherever you're watching us from. welcome, i'm fiorella is about what this hour's most pressing story is worldwide. very happy to have you with us. russia has worn that key may conduct a provocation around the embattled zap our osha nuclear power plant in southeastern ukraine, calling on the west to get keys to stop such actions as regional nuclear security is at stake. ukrainian forces are preparing for large scale provocations around the zap hiroshi nuclear power plant with a regiment of

a 1000 troops of ukraine's radiological chemical and biological protection forces. having arrived in nicole, they are equipped with has met, suits for operating to mid conditions of radioactive contamination. one civilian was reported killed on sunday in a strike within the vicinity of the plant. and local officials have said cabs forces conducted the attack. local authorities also say the city of n or go to where the nuclear facility is located was also shell by ukrainian forces . on monday, the embattled facility was a focus of talks between rushes, defense minister and the un secretary general. on monday, moscow has called on the international atomic energy agency to visit the plant. but as warren, that it's currently unsafe for them to cross the front line from the ukrainian side . the man who once hatted the soviet union's nuclear radiation safety body, vladimir cause net south outline the potential danger is the world would face if as

upper o g plants book a direct it no, no who borrows? there are 6 power units operating at the nuclear power station. it is necessary to understand where the rocket will hit exactly the rock. it has a certain weight, speed and explosive, which leads to the destruction of certain structures. no one has ever calculated what can happen to a pressure shell if you hit it with a missile. no one could have thought of such a thing. only the effects of gale force winds or the fall of a light engine aircraft, or calculated in these situations, the pressure will be able to protect the reactor equipment, the reactor itself, and it systems that are inside. in addition to 6 reactors, the most dangerous facility at the power plant is the storage of spent nuclear fuel . if multiple rocket launchers fall into the container, then the container will collapse. actually, a group of containers will be damaged. it will lead to a release of radioactivity into the environment that is pollution, not only of the industrial site, but also of the geneva plus everything will be accompanied by

a fire. and only god knows where the wind will send that according to my calculations, if $20.00 to $30.00 containers are destroyed, the radioactivity will effect about 9 countries among which are turkey, bulgaria, romania, slovakia, the czech republic, poland, and the baltic countries and the territory of western ukraine meanwhile, local officials say russian lad force says, have been advancing in the don. yes, republic, reaching quay, ukrainian strongholds on the front line. the neighboring logan's republic is under full control of russian life forces and the retreating ukrainian forces have left behind vast supplies of unused ammunition. art is igor, song of reports. ukrainian troops often have to retreat very hastily and abandoning loads of ammunition has become something of a habit for them. like here for example, you can see dozens of artillery shells. these are so get made,

but they abandon both soviet made and western supplied javelin miss isles. british and laws, equally alike when ukrainian troops in this little village received an order to fall back. it was already too late. russian troops had critically closed in making their escape. a herculean task key forces, ram light on their feet. so special units they load whatever they can find into trucks like this one, food is taken to a special place. were all these kills and we'll just armaments are examined and those that are deemed safe use. they are being sent to the front. those that are not well there safely destroyed every other. st junction here has been excavated

and turned into miniature strongholds inside civilian houses. foxholes, providing quick shelter from the shelling edition. ukrainian troops were living in the houses kitchen. they dug out a small shelter there so they could hide in case of shelling and survive even if the home were destroyed. there are trenches across the whole town. they defended their positions very well. they were preparing for many years. they kicked locals out of their homes or made them sit in the basements and use them as shields as we've been covering this war in the gone back. we've seen countless civilian households, which have been re purpose by the ukraine and military to serve as defense fortifications. this one is no exception. the owners were evicted by the ukrainian troops. and now, well, whoever used to live here is simply have no place to return to, ah, and in kenya, all eyes are any much contested election for head of stay as the declared winner is the east african nations current deputy president william rudo was just slightly

above 50 percent of the vote. the results sparked riots among the political opposition. ah . according to the official count, rude or received 50.5 percent of the vote, narrowly defeating former prime minister, rylon, or dingo moments before the outcome was to be announced. 4 of the 7 electoral commission members refused to confirm it. that could be grounds for a legal battle by the opposition to overturn the results prolonging a period of uncertainty in a country critical to the economy and security of eastern africa.

the election period 2 of kenny's most powerful politicians in a bitterly contested race route who ran on a rags to riches story argue that he was the best position to represent kenny's youth and poor citizens. he promised to implement a new economic model geared towards developing small businesses and boosting employment o dinner on the other hand, built his campaign on highlighting his opponents hypocrisy, claiming riddles. wealth had been acquired through corruption. local reporter armando tiana has more. it is a moment can there have been anxious waiting for to get to know the presidential elect in the year 20? 22. and as it turns out, the presidential elect is the former deputy president doctor william some way. and it is an election that witness a lot of calmness but the and that the continued to grow as canyon's law. waiting

to know the presidential della kills between the 2 top contender over this election. one team being that came there was a team on the other team being the as the middle of the team, which was headed by the leader of the opposition. right. armando for security personnel was able to come this attrition by taking them outside the members of the opposition and led to the module. one cannot quite one can account for quitting kills and after then we have ensured that there was peace of the month of kenya. he has promised that there is no room for vengeance. he has promised to walk for all canyon. yes. promise to unite kenyon. yes. promise to walk together with even the opposition, members of the opposition to ensure that they move the country for reporting. for sure. today i'm on duty and african affairs analyst can we see re believes that

this by kenny has political divisions. everyone shares a hope that the president elect would follow through with his campaign promises. before the very young she did been 6 days awaiting and it was actually the claim of what was calling agency. and through the day, people been waging bills turned off in the way shown. finally, a good reason can they comically drink very badly told drums the cost of living in high water in the equipment. the campaign promised to address what recall production ended by giving more cups from us to try and get to things to get business. it's multi and coming, going and productivity. that was what it means that he has to do right now. in spite of the have of the countries divided, i think at some point canyons of to place the tough choices ahead of them. foot,

pull it back by and begin to address the immediate contents, which is the comic crisis in the country. ah, china has announced a new set of military drills around taiwan after the islands leader met with members of another american congressional delegation. this time, the chinese defense ministry has given no details about where and when the drills would be conducted. in contrast to previous rounds, beijing has accused us of encouraging the islands independence movement through the sale of weapons and engagement between us politicians and ty, ones, local government. despite this, washington has insisted, it does not support independence for the territory that has no formal diplomatic ties with the island. a delegation of u. s. officials landed in taipei on sunday to meet with local politicians about regional security, bilateral relations and trade issues. ty, one's defense ministry reported the presence of several chinese military aircraft

in naval ships near the island just hours before the delegation arrived. beijing has branded the latest u. s. congressional visit to taiwan as an encroachment on china's territorial integrity is how you mit, she, you are centered remark. he and his entourage insisted on visiting the taiwan region of china in disregard of china, solemn representations and firm opposition. blatantly violating the one china principal and provisions of the 3 sino u. s. join communiques violating china sovereignty and territorial integrity and sending a serious wrong signal to the taiwan independence separate his forces. less than 2 weeks ago, nancy pelosi, his visit to the territory, caused an outrage. china to respond with full scale live fire military exercises around the island for nearly a week after the u. s. how speakers visit chinese warships were circling the island with missiles and fighter jets flying through near by air space. the chinese government considers tie one,

it's sovereign territory and favorite piece of session to home with less cross live now to director of the center for european studies at china's remnant university. a way wang nancy pelosi is recent trip, almost led to a military stand off. and now there's yet another u. s. visit to increase the tensions from your perspective. what is washington trying to achieve here? personally, the american se so often say, tend to start school. for the traditionally, the americans a follow so called the 3 print coming to cars between china and united states and no one china policy. another chance to discuss. but because the plan to have on costs taiwan as a p s, i'm to see the advanced company in a to me chiefs and the semi conductor as like the usaa lunch, crept down the hallway. that cannot, you know, allowed the time to catch the waste. even bypass of the u. s. in the high

technology. so it's not the real intention page. it says that the u. s. l. a gauge and visit to taiwan violates china sovereignty. how do you think this could affect overall relations between china in the us, in the future? well, time i show you some, most of the sensitive and crucial issues in china and the united states. americans . 3 come because of the medical release and we sat people to go to china, icon knowledge of the one china, principal, beijing, the only seal government to present the whole china and taiwan is a part of china, the u. s. only if he's then so be an official relations with taiwan about the congress delegation petosi. i can be a while until there are principles. and most importantly, 1971. the un resolution of a 27558. that also represent

a very clearly not the headlines part of china. so the u. s. it's not a while to hold up by lateral community, but also international principles under the u. n. framework. so do you think that these new military journals by china could finally force the us to stay away from tie one i tell you this is to show that china has the capacity to defend the integrated and us oriented as so there is no so called a international water, there's no so called the michel line across the highlighted states. so the u. s. actually need and should respect to the current it, not just the china and all the members in the international static. as you said, washington keep saying it fully respects the one china principal on paper. right. and yet it continues to send military support to tie one. is there a possibility for an arm conflict between washington and beijing?

well, i think i was able to, we, we have down not a to, to have these because these are sorry, rise to defend us. us are indeed actually it's not depends on trying to national security and entries, but i say i said it's un tata principles. because the u. s. want to have a new introduction to system based on a so called a democratic autocracy. they will have the 2nd democratic summit and put, tie one of them because it's not starting to state other t unit of international systems. so that can lead tendrils, which are undermine the principal and the condition of the water war 2 system in response to policies trip beijing sever ties with washington and several key areas . well, this trip lead to yet more retell it harry measures from beijing. well yes,

because we have the empty decision law. not anyone want to somebody to taiwan from the mainland. well, be we, we will have to use force to to terran the u. s. and the u. s. japan airlines not into phantom next phase of china. so this is military jail actually show the capacity of china in doing so. a way wang director of the center for european studies, china's remnant university. thank you. thank you. mass celebrations in the streets of kabul, marking one near since the taliban regained power in afghanistan. the fundamentalist islamic group quickly restored its control over the central asian country. as the u. s. withdrew its occupying forces last august. taliban fighters and their supporters chanted slogans in front of the deserted u. s embassy in couple on monday with many saying that the new government has

liberated the nation and restored security. the festivities were stifled by a massive explosion reported in the afghan capital with the government thing. 2 people were wounded. a local journalist gave us this report. on monday, the islamic government of the taliban was celebrating the 1st anniversary of their victory over the americans who left afghanistan on the same day last year and the taliban established their own rule. meanwhile, there was an explosion in the capital cobble which cause chaos later. government officials said the bloss occurred in a vehicle. it may have been about metric device or mine, but we don't know about the nature of this blas yet here in the streets of cobble. people strongly believe it was a bomb planted by the enemy to subvert our celebrations. as the u. s. conduct it conducted its chaotic pullout from afghanistan. back in 2021. hundreds of afghans fled to the airport, hoping to get out of plane and flee the war torn country. for many, the rush to evacuate turned into a tragedy. we heard from

a father who lost 2 of his sons in the airport exit is in our special coverage. now this is sobbing here. zaki was killed. well savvy, still missing to recall my seat. ah eric, i love him rosa. when i should have gone, these governments collapsed. my son called me and said, dad, we're heading for the airport. i asked, why are you there? what's going on? the americans are taking us to the u. s. a. my son replied. zacky was 19 years old and sabby was 77. when they reached the place, they called me again and said,

dad were inside the airport now don't worry. i asked them to come back because i feared something bad might happen. they said no dad, the americans promised to take us to the was a few minutes later i got a call from abbey's phone. someone told me that zachary had been killed here with me a little bit. when you see people hanging on to the sides and wins of your plain, then why are you taking off? i heard from the international media with us said our pilot had a perfect plan. really, how dare you fly in such circumstances. all their claims regarding human lives and human rights are a complete law. mm. the

big yoga. and the security of the airport was completely under us control. even the taliban were scarce winter and they did not allow people under the premises. it was definitely a complete negligence of their security measures till the last, the wounds and misery were all brought to us by the usa. we know very well that they claim to protect animal rights come to rescue animals and danger. but here they did not even rescue people in this particular situation. maybe we have gowns or muslims are not as important to them as the animal. well we bringing you more

enough, ghana, stan, and how it's people have been trying to get their lives back to normal. since the turbulent us pull out in our special coverage throughout this month. no nation, no nation is ever done anything like it, you know, with the idea that my 2 brothers left for the one was 2 others to michigan. ah

mm. saudi arabia has been strengthening ties with russia and china despite all the threats of sanctions from washington. that's after biden's recent trip to the middle east ended without any significant result. archie is caleb martin has more. the escalation of the conflict in ukraine has certainly re shuffled a lot of relationships globally, but not necessarily in the way washington wants at a time when the united states is announcing that they will punish and sanction anyone investing in russia. you have a top saudi investor announcing that he will do just that, no shame in doing business with moscow. but when it comes to the united states, saudi arabia is diversifying its investment portfolios. it has already decreased its holding of us treasury securities by 36 percent over the last several years.

meanwhile, business in the country, joe biden once said he was going to make a pariah, is going great guns. a 90 percent increase over this quarter last year, amid this flow of cash, saudi arabia has announced it has no interest in playing politics with the oil markets. when we get into the co cooking room overview of the building. as you may recall, everybody and his politics at the upset goal of that, and that culture has been with joe biden was unable to condense the saudi crown prince to increase production and drop the oil price as he wanted. and while joe can beg all, he wants saudi arabia standing firm that they are keeping energy out of politics. meanwhile, the united states says it is still committed to the region. americans not going anywhere. america can be counted on to remain in the neighbourhood. and as a support for the countries in their security,

that is an american priority. saudi arabia is not so sure. in fact there cozying up to america strategic rival china. the china saudi relationship is going from strength to strength. they not a stance to see and often us of declining power, while china ice arising one, a, saudi arabia will treat this as an opportunity to become less reliant on the united states, thus making itself less vulnerable. yes, pressures, it's quite likely now that the se will begin to use increasingly china's currency and it's banks and it can be expected of many of the gulf monarchies well follow. and similarly, this is important for china to establish a dependent partnerships that his partner soon demonstrates ability to withstand the pressure of washington and steel trade with china. the chinese leader is set to visit saudi arabia very soon. and the shanghai co operation organization is writing

about how these anti russian sanctions are reinvigorating middle east asia trade relations. it's a new day on the global markets and the united states isn't able to force hands the way it wants did. that's becoming more and more clear each day. caleb martin, archie new york. ah. several wall street banks have been considering returning to trading russian bonds for those who want to sell their assets. having reportedly received a nod from washington despite the u. s. sanctions on the market. bloomberg has reported that j. p. morgan and bank of america are among the banks offering the move. the u. s. treasury department has said it would not be a violation of un sanctions for individuals to wind down their positions. bank of america has sent a note to investors saying the trades would be for those seeking to dispose of their russian holdings. the u. s. ramped up at sanctions against moscow after russia began its military campaign and ukraine in february,

with many western banks withdrawing from russia and deals in the nation's assets being halted. jack ross moves and in economics and politics professor at st. mary's college in california says them move, exposes a loophole in the u. s. sanction regime. what it represents is that the sanctions are for holes and oftentimes even than the u. s. government as a lift and temporarily perhaps, but and unless lifts them law in notches, gas and natural gas in oil in europe. but they be surprised how much of the industrial commodities i have had the exemptions, especially for american corporations who need nickel and some of the other ra, a key resources. so the, the sanctions are pretty much a shambles except for certain military goods. and this is just another example that the banks are really exposed if they're gonna just hold onto the deck, that they have the russian net and they can't do anything with it. just another example that they're all kind of

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