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a social with a with russia, warns that ukraine may conduct a massive provocation around the embattled stopper roget nuclear power plant as moscow calls on the west to get key ups forces to stop shelling the facility. the owners were evicted by the premium groups. and now, well, whoever used to live here, they simply have no place to return to our tea visits a little gone to town deserted by cab troops after a heavy fighting, as the local militia now deals with a daunting task of clearing away the ukrainian munitions o kenyans are deeply split over william rudolph presidential election when
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with joy, greeting the result in some areas, while riots take place and others mass celebrations in afghanistan, capital markets one year. since the box us pull out and local efforts to overcome that deadly legacy, stay tuned for our special coverage with good morning for martine or national studios in moscow, and fiorella is a ball with this ours most pressing new stories from the globe, happy or joining us russia has warned that kia may conduct a provocation around the embattled supper, osha nuclear power plant and south eastern new crane, calling on the west to get keys to stop such options as regional nuclear security is at stake. ukrainian forces are preparing for large scale provocations around the zap, rosie nuclear power plant with a regiment of
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a 1000 troops of ukraine's radiological chemical and biological protection forces. having arrived in nichole, one civilian was reported killed on sunday in a strike within the vicinity of the plant and local officials have said kids forces conducted the attack. local authorities also say the city of enter called are where the nuclear facility is located was also shown by ukrainian forces on monday, the embattled facility was a focus of talks between russians, defense minister of the us and the un secretary general. on monday. moscow has called on the international atomic energy agency to visit the plant, but has worn that it's currently on say for them to cross the front line from the cranium side. the man who ones headed the soviet union, nuclear radiation safety body bladder mir coolness of outline the potential dangers the world would face. if this upper rosie plant took a direct no nebraska, there are 6 power units operating at the nuclear power station. no one has ever
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calculated what can happen to a pressure shell if you hit it with a missile. no one could have thought of such a thing. 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 denita 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 on the baltic countries and the territory of western ukraine. meanwhile, local official se russian lead forces had been n, nancy and danny, as to republic,
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reaching key ukrainian strongholds on the front line. the neighboring logan's republic is under full control of russian lead forces and the retreating ukrainian forces have left behind. last supplies of amused ammunition, artes eager, stano 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 some of get made, but they abandon both soviet made and western supplied javelin, marseilles, british and laws, equally alike when ukrainian troops and this little village received in order to fall back. it was already too late. russian troops had critically closed in making their escape a herculean task key of forces, ram light on their feet. so
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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 will disarmament are examined? those that are deemed safe to 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 the locals out of their homes, or made them sit in the basements and used them as shields. as we've been covering this war in the dorm bass, we've seen countless civilian households,
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which have been repurposed 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 this, we have no place to return to ah, has of at least 35 defense ministries are set to take part in an international security conference, which is about to kick off in greater moscow. let's bring in our correspondent don quarter, who is at the event now and we'll be monitoring it for us. don, what's so special about this conference either fiorella? well, like you said, i'm right here right now where the 10th annual moscow conference on international security is set to take place in just several hours. it's organized by russia's defense ministry, and over 700 people from friendly countries of countries friendly to russia. we're
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talking about military specialists and dive and government defense officials. they're attending this conference to discuss issues of international security. now this year's conference will address international security in the context of a new multi polar world. and it's also going to address regional issues of security in the continents of asia, africa, law and south america, as well as, as well as in the middle east. so that this is especially important right now because of the fact that of ukraine conflict is raging on tensions are high around taiwan and washington is continually trying to pressure neutral countries into aligning themselves against russia. that's why this event also acts as a forum for russia to conclude military agreements with its allies and partners, offering them the latest available military technology there is in the world. now. vladimir putin did also mentioned earlier. what makes specifically this conference so unique, it's taking place alongside to other major international events. here in moscow,
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we're talking about army 2022 and the international army games. and vladimir putin also said that by having these events take place around the same time, it's going to give international visitors the opportunity to participate in all 3. we're also going to hear a speech from the russian president today at the beginning of the opening ceremony for moscow's conference on international security. so that, combined with the fact that we're going to be seeing over a 1000 tanks, helicopters, plains, and missiles, all that combined means that this year's conference is guaranteed to be interesting . our correspondent don quarter. thank you don. ah, in kenya, all eyes are on a much contested election for head of state, as a declared winner is the east african nations current deputy president william rudo was just slightly above 50 percent of the vote. the result sparked riots among the
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political opposition. ah . according to the official count, ruder received 50.5 percent of the vote, nearly defeating former prime minister raleigh o dina. but 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. rudo, who ran on a rags to riches story argue that he was best positioned to represent kanyes youth
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and poor citizens. adina, on the other hand, built his campaign on highlighting his opponent's hypocrisy, claiming rudolph wealth had been acquired through corruption. local reporter armando t. n. o has more, it is a moment can have been anxious, waiting for to get to know the presidential, the left in the year 2022. and as it turns out, the presidential elect ease, the former deputy president, doctor william some way. and it is an election that witnessed a lot of calmness but the and that the continued to grow as kenyans were waiting to know the president. dang sure. there was killed between the 2 top contender over this election, one team of being that came that one's a team. and the other team being the, as the middle of that team, which was headed by the leader of the opposition. right. armando for security
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personnel was able to come this attrition by taking them outside the members of the opposition and led to the as the middle and more than one k. no one can accomplish for quoting kills, and after then we a sure 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 on 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 ship date on duty. and african affairs analyst can boost the re believes that despite kenya's political divisions, everyone shares the hope that the president elect will follow through with his campaign promises. it was the very anxious bid been 6 days of waiting, and it was actually the climax of what was calling most agents. and through the day,
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people been waiting bill standoff in the quiz shown. finally. good reason can you say comically doing very badly doldrums the cost of living is high a little and in the course of the campaign promised to address what's called production. and then by giving more subsidies from us to try and get to things to get business, it's multi and coming, going and productivity. that's what it means that he has to do right now. in spite of the hub of the country divided, i think at some point kenyans off to place the tough choices ahead of them. foot policy, buck banner, begin to address the admitted switches to comic crisis in the country. ah, mass celebrations in the streets of couple, marking one years since the taliban regained power in afghanistan, the fundamentalist islamic grew quickly restored its control over the central asian
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country as the us withdrew its occupying forces last august. southern fighters and their supporters chanted slogans in front of the deserted u. s. embassy and cobble 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 saying 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 caused chaos later. government officials said the blas occurred in a vehicle. it may have been in magnetic device or mine, but we don't know about the nature of this last yet. have in the streets of cobble . people strongly believe it was a bomb planted by the enemy to subvert our celebrations. as the u. s. conducted
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it's chaotic pull out from afghanistan. back in 2021. hundreds of afghans fled to the airport, hoping to go on a plane and flee. the war torn country for many of the russia evacuate turned into a tragedy. we heard from a father who lost 2 of his sons in the air poor exodus in our special coverage. this is sobbing here is zaki was killed. wells, avi still missing? coma. ah, they go by sarah rosa, when i should have gone these governments collapse and my son called me and said, dad, we're heading for the airport. i asked, why are you there? what's going on?
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the americans are taking us to the usa. my son replied, jackie was 19 years old and sabby was 17 for 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 as i feared something bad might happen. they said no dad, the americans promised to take us to the you. with a few minutes later i got a call from abbey's phone. someone told me that zachary had been killed with when you see people hanging on to the sides and wings of your plain, then why are you taking off? i heard from the international media what the 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.
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with one of the bigger yoga love. those i was on the ground. the security of the airport was completely under us control. even the taliban were secure at winter and they did not allow people under the premises. it was definitely a complete negligence of their security measures. so the loss, the wounds and misery are all brought to us by the us saying, we know very well that they claim to protect animal rights come to rescue animals
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and danger. but here they did not even rescue people in this particular situation. maybe we, afghans or muslims are not as important to them as the and i will be bringing you more f canada than and how it's people have been trying to get their lives back to normal. since a turbulent us pull out in our special coverage throughout this month, no nation, no nation has ever done anything like a. mm yeah, yeah. my 2 brothers work for the one wants to always to michigan. ah
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. mm. and china has announced a new set of military drills around taiwan after the islands lead are 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 the u. s. of encouraging the islands independence movement through the sale of weapons and engagement between us politicians and ty, one's local government. despite this, washington has insisted, it does not support independence for the territory as no formal diplomatic ties
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with the island. a delegation of us officials landed on ty pay on sunday to meet with local politicians about regional security, bilateral relations and trade issues. ty, once the fence ministry reported the presence of several chinese military aircraft and naval ships near the island, just hours before the delegation arrived. aging has branded the latest us congressional visit to taiwan as an encroachment on china's territorial integrity. is how you m r g u. s. sen, marcie 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 us joined communiques violating china sovereignty and territorial integrity and funding a serious wrong signal to the taiwan independence. separate his forces. less than 2 weeks ago. nancy pelosi visit to the territory cause an outrage. china to respond
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with full scale life fire military exercises around the island for nearly a week after the u. s. how speakers visits, chinese worship circle the island with missiles and fighter jets in nearby airspace . the chinese government considers tie, wanted sovereign territory and favorite peaceful a session. the director of the center for european studies at china's redman university says washington, irresponsible actions in taiwan threaten global peace and stability for the traditionally the american, a follow, so called to reprint. coming to cost between china and the state and no one china policy, another chain to discuss. but because the plan to have on costs like the president eisenhower and fifties, warning that the u. s. according strategy will be actually hijacked by the scene of the industrial military complex. you'd like the idea that sales weapons
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to your grand reduces their proxy war between the us and russia. and now they want to call this motto across the taiwan strait. this there's more weapons to tie one that will take china to use force and then put maybe more serious sanctions to try to china and then run down the china start rice. so that's the americans strategy. americans don't mix the welsh governance. there were the old want to pay the costs and saudi arabia has been strengthening ties with russia and china despite all the threats of sanctions for marching to and that's after biden's recent trip to the middle east ended without any significant results. our team caleb mop and explains 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
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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 that o quick meeting room overview of the building, as you may recall, everybody leaves his politics at the upside go to that. and that country has been with us. joe biden was unable to convince the saudi crown prince to increase
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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. and of many of the goals,
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monarchies slow follow. and similarly, this is important for china to establish a dependent partnerships that his partner soon demonstrates our 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 once did. that's becoming more and more clear each day. caleb martin, archie new york. ah. several wall street banks are considering returning to trading russian bonds. having reportedly received a nod from washington. that's despite continuing us sanctions on the market. the u . s. treasury has said it wouldn't be
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a violation of sanctions if investors wind down their positions with the bank of america. reportedly one of 2 banks behind the move, notifying investors that trades would allow the disposal of russian holdings, jack rasmus, and economics and politics professor at st. mary's college in california says the move expose as a loophole in the us sanctions. what it represents is that the sanctions are for holes and oftentimes even u. s. government, the ellipse, them temporarily, perhaps put it on the leg, lifts them, not just gas should natural gas and oil in europe, but they be surprised how much of the industrial commodities have have exemptions, especially for american corporations who need nickel and some of the other key resources, so the, the sensors are pretty much a shambles except for certain military goods. and this is just another example. the banks are really exposed if they're going to just hold onto the deck that they have
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the russian debt and they can do anything with it. just another example that they're all kind of a loop holes in the general holes in the whole sanctions regime. ah, firefighters are struggling to contain an enormous wildfire which spread rapidly and rushes rural south. over $300.00 firefighters have been mobilized to fight the blaze which spread dramatically in the roster region and just hours. the fire presently covers an area around the size of $250.00 football pitches and as damaged around $34.00 buildings. globals have been evacuated. the district is in a state of emergency and to aircraft in a helicopter are being used to fight the place. and that's right for the hours, most vital stories worldwide for more video content. check us out on r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on, rumbled gab in twitter,
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ah hello and welcome to cross. well, things are considered on people, started russian special military operation. ukraine is tightened. nuts. it declares it must be independent of russian energy. well, at the same time, terrified moscow might terminate supplies altogether at any time. for the e u energy policy is an ideological struggle. ah,
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there's got these issues and more. i'm joined by my guess, george samuel in budapest. he's a pastor at the guy which will be found on youtube and locals. and here in moscow, we have to meet bob and she's a political analyst and editor at you know me, internet media or a gentleman crossed up rules and back. that means you can jump any time you want. and i would appreciate it when i start out with george in budapest, georgia. very simple question. does the you have a coherent energy policy because it seems like, you know, i don't want to use a heat metaphor, but i, well there their hair is on fire talking about how to deal with energy during the summer. in the upcoming winter. they want to cut so dependence on russia, but they're terrified as i said in my introduction that could be shut off. so i mean, what is it? go ahead. that's exactly right. so we have on the one hand and you.

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