to look for common ground ah ah, while the un calls for ensuring security of this oper, roget nuclear power plant cap opens relentless fire on the ukrainian city and which is good with local officials warning that at least 7 shells exploded near europe largest nuclear facility. they have found only today, 7 empty tank mine. now they're carrying them away into this abandon ukrainian fortification, which very soon will be no more. as in mining operations, continue across r t takes a closer look at the work of russian stoppers in the area. a new report claims un

peacekeepers in the democratic republic of congo, rape young women and abuse. local. we heard from the victims desperate stories with me. i lost my daughter until she was pregnant. he one soldier matter pregnant and i have no place to play my right around the deal. see they have not produced anything. they just re paul system of us. they must believe with 6 am here at our can turn national studios and moscow. good morning to wherever you may be watching i'm fear all is about this hour's top news stories from around the globe. at least 7 ukrainian shells have exploded in the vicinity of the approach in nuclear power plant, as keeps on slot against the city in southeastern ukraine, where the facility is located, continues. that's after the un secretary general met with president lensky to urge

to the, for the plants safety. there could have been a potential nuclear disaster, but so fortunately, it's been avoid itself for or for now as a ukraine struck the city all for and they're good. are late on a thursday, and at least as 7 shells landed near the upper origin nuclear power plant. and now it's cell one of the largest of its kinds in europe. and if it was a stroke during the shilling that could spell a potential nuclear disaster, not only for ukraine, but for all of the neighboring countries as well. at the moment, a local authorities are say that's radiation is currently ads and normal level in zapata, georgia, and the vicinity. now this is not the 1st time that ukraine is shelling of the area near the nuclear power station. the word talks held and training city all of full

evolve on thursday between president zalinski a. you and chief antonio, cherish and turkish presidents. ah, urged the gone, ah, now turkish president, so warned of dangers of another church, noble disaster should the situation continue. meanwhile, hung a un secretary general, antonio gutierrez, is calling for common sense to prevail in this situation. let's have a listen. common sense must prevail to avoid any actions that might endanger the physical integrity, safety, or security of the nuclear plant. the facility must not be used as part of any military operation. instead, agreement is urgently needed to re establish zapata asi as purely civilian infrastructure and to ensure the safety of the area russian, the defense minutes see are continuously a warning of the public cans at the world or for a potential, a provocations by ukraine in the area of up our osha and other areas of ukraine as well. uh, they issued this particular statements on thursday morning before their tax anees

just come on, rushes, defense ministry is under the impression that you crane, along with its patrons, is planning to play the provocation cart that causing what they consider a minor accident at the nuclear power plant and really thereby disrupting the normal and safe operation of the facility while putting the blame on russia. elsewhere, our reports in crimea, authorities are saying rush and the missile defense systems were a working on the thursday evening as a 0 one enemy, a drone was shot down in the build becca airport. oh, also local officials sir said that anton missile defense was used in a city of fur carriage and the that sir right next to the new to build a bridge that connects a crimea with the mainland russia. now local authorities, local officials are saying that sir, no one was so wounded in their thursdays, an incident in carriage and in bel back. and there is currently in no immediate

said danger to the citizens of crimea or to it's bridge cross live now to arvin war, a vice chair for the libertarian national committee. antonio gutierrez stated, that the common sense must actually prevail over the zap r o g nuclear power plant. do you think that's possible, given the constant attacks on the plant by ukraine? war generally never makes common sense. i mean, war in itself is the idea of a brutal government taken to the extreme, where things are settle with force and through voluntary action. and this really illustrates the importance of non governmental solutions. a problem right now are facing all kinds of shortages, trade issues and whatnot. in which government are present, preventing individuals from trading freely, or in this case preventing individuals from a safely providing electricity. the key here is that there is no such thing as

a good government that the russian government is evil and run you created government is good, is that people who settle things by force will always cause more problems than anything that they could possibly. so there's obviously a lot of politics going on. do you think that western leaders are ready to focus on the very real threat of a potential catastrophe rather than the politics of the situation was the leaders are kind of in a bind here, right? because they're on one side, they said like, you know, brushing the russian government the evil and ukrainian government is good, which kind of makes them put them in a position where they have to find a way to argue that literally anything that ukraine does is good, simple fact is whether it's russia, settling things by force or ukraine, settling things by force. the honda mental issue is that things are being fed by force and we settle things by fours in the area for nuclear power. you're going to lead to can lead to very catastrophic problems. i do believe that western powers

are aware of the dangers and are concerned about the dangers, but it really painted themselves into a corner by picking one side of the other and can't really now in a political sense, address or handle or adequately think about the threat ukraine for its par, accuses russia of both, showing the plant and keeping fruits. there isn't this a contradiction. why would russia show its own in any kind of war? depending on which side and infrastructure is considered to be controlled by the other side of have an incentive at the very least as far as wars based on incentive, which is kind of dubious anyway. but he still has an incentive to try to damage the infrastructure of what they perceive as the other side. if it's a, it's an obvious whether a true or false, the obvious statement to make the other side is, is doing something that's inherently dangerous. again, this is something that goes back to the fundamental nature of this war. i mean, any, any kind of, or any kind of disagreement settled through violence rather than through voluntary

action, individual choice. trade and commerce is going to have these kind of very disasters, potential side effects. and that's what we're seeing right over here. ok from, from ukraine's perspective what could possibly be gained from showing the plant. so if the plant is seen as being under ukrainian control, then obviously showing the plan to just simply the damaging the infrastructure of the other side. if the plant is being seen as, as under russian control and ukraine doing, the same thing would be seen damaging the infrastructure of the other side. a thing about a war war is inherently destructive. at the extreme opposite of trade in every way whatsoever trade is inherently constructive, war, inherently destructive, but war is that natural extension of the mindset that says we need to have government solver problems. in the case of any disagreement between ukrainian individuals and russian individuals. there are so many better ways fell disagreements than dis. this is the government's way of settling something and it

is the worst possible way to settle something. i've been laura vice share for the libertarian national committee. thank you. thanks for having me on. meanwhile, the mining operations continue across the territory abandoned by camps forces r t z g or stano, takes a closer look at the russian national guard sappers working in don bass. one of the main rules of the dawn bass that is written in blood 2 is follow the roads and do not go astray. we have broken this rule to day, but only because we are in the good cans, in the good hands of the sappers of russia's national god. essentially, they have found only to day 7 anti tank minds that will laying around the roads in the fields. everything is rigged here. now they are carrying them away into this abandon ukrainian fortification, which very soon will be no more because all 7 of them will be detonated inside. not a single day goes by without new deadly finds. before following through with the

control detonation, all roads are caught and off within a quarter of a kilometer radius. this is what a detonation of about a 100 kilograms of t and t looks like every undiscovered explosive device has a potential death sentence to careless civilians, many of whom are farmers and no matter how many minds are found each day yields new harvest dish currently figures book every crossroads here, every road junction where a lot of transport travels through is heavily mine, especially roadside. sometimes there are mine fields and the roads through them are completely blocked by mines with so you may pay a very high price for a lack of attention. i'm again,

donna reporting from the don bass art c o trading food for sax raping young women and abandoning the children conceived a recent report has shed light on years of wrongdoing. by un peacekeepers in the democratic republic of congo. many locals have been left desperate me. i lost my daughter who died while she was pregnant, and one soldier met her pregnancy and i have no place to claim my rights government to expound this un mission from the contract. but in my house, there is a wound. my nissan is peacekeepers. i wouldn't don't them. i would say must my daughter went to them to ask for a job, finding a job is difficult. so she started cooking for them a few days and she was rated. my daughter is desperate, she now has psychological problems. we hope that one day this mission, legal control and we are not going to be discouraged. we will continue to ask for the departure of the un mission because we know that it has no business here since

they arrived and they say they have not produced anything. they just re power sisters. now mothers, they must the report is based on 2500 interviews, many with girls and women who claim to have been assaulted by the peacekeepers, along with children, conceived from the r t correspondent, corolla taught law, brings us the details. shocking levels of poverty displacement, brutal attacks by groups and fighting the democratic republic of congo is one of the world's poorest and most war on countries. in the world, however, twin twin already bleeding wound. a recent report claims the united nations peacekeepers, which have been in the african country for 20 years, have rape young women traded food for sex, father, and abandoned thousands of children in the c allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse among un peacekeeping missions. and nothing you had no systematic research on

paternity linked to a new school. that's the un mission in the see has apparently been carried out until now. researches interviewed one girl who alleges she was traffic by half emily and impregnated by soldiers when she was only 10 years old. she's now 16, and this is her recollection of what happened and was very young, just 10 years old. i realize later on that i was sold out in my aunt, the man with brain beer in the pop to share with me some girls apparently faced abuse while begging for humanitarian assistance. another girl shared with research has her account of how she was sexually assaulted by a number of un peacekeeping personnel when she was 13. and the fallout from then on people started wondering how this little girl got pregnant. they lost so much of me . i felt so insulted. all of this hurts me so much. the research also says the

youngest girl that be interviewed, that was impregnated by un peacekeepers, was just 10 years old. and then one in every 2 mothers. well, under the age of 18, when they conceived according to the report, many children were left abandoned and hence fatherless. my father left my mother while she was pregnant. she gave birth after he was already gone. people disturb and hurt me so much. they say they will chase me because i'm a foreigner, i'm suffering, i feel hurt when i see you and agents passing by because other children have their fathers. but i don't have mine. i would like to tell my father to think about me wherever he is. he should know that i don't have a family. if my mother dies, who will raise me? they, when they the ways of allegations contains over 400 reported incidence of p. keep a father, babies says 2007. the report is based on almost 3000 interviews with members

of the con release community. and emily changed you and personnel from 12 countries . those accused of fathering children include soldiers, doctors, and even photographers. although the report points out the length of prosecution for these offences by peacekeepers due to their immunity, the un says that it's strongly condemns the behavior of those who violate and undermine the values of the organization by abusing and exploiting those who are looking to the un for protection, but the number of the victims of this renders abuse can be had to come. there are potentially thousands of children left behind by piece campus in the democratic republic of congo. part of the problem is that some of those deployed seemed to be treating these missions as an opportunity for sucks, tourism and sexual crimes, that they're unlikely to commits in their home countries. this all came to light after a number of violent protests against un peacekeeping forces in the eastern

b r. c. i made calls for the us to withdraw from the area 15 people have been killed in an p u and protest in the last week. in a take the view and chief antonio gutierrez said could close into the wall cracked the government has been trying to get the mission to leave for 2010. and the you in has been in the process of drawing down the offer. asia says 2020 protest, meanwhile, say the one that you went to leave because it failed to protect civilians. although they is a long history of sexual violence in the region, it is perhaps more shocking when it comes from someone who is meant to protect you . got a bill is that when i put in from john, is that for a federal judge has ordered 3 of america's largest pharmacy chain to pay $600500000.00 to, to counties in the state of ohio. rolling that the firms must be held responsible

for their part and feeling the opioid epidemic are to caleb mop and has more. the u . s. centers for disease control have revealed some shocking numbers when it comes to the details of america's ongoing opioid epidemic. the number of deaths across the country reached nearly 108000 in 2021. that's an increase of 15 percent over the previous year. on top of a 30 percent increase in 2020 drug overdose deaths in the united states have actually gone up and increase every year since $970.00, except for 2018 with americans dying around the clock. the public wants some accountability. this is common. the form of the new court ruling against walgreens, walmart, and cbs sports and ohio. i have rule that the firms must pay over $650000000.00 for their responsibility and distributing addictive medicines. these companies are rending the fabric of society apart. they should not only show remorse,

they should show, they need to rectify what they've done and they won't do it. so the judge is doing it. the judge who issued the ruling observed that in lake and trumbull county, ohio, cbs walgreens, and walmart made it rain when it came to pain pills. a lot of these medical drugs irresponsibly hit the market, and as a result, the counties had to pay roughly $1000000000.00 in public health costs. now the corporations maintain their innocence and say that they're being scapegoat for a society wide problem. we never manufactured or marketed opioids, nor did we distribute them to the pill mills and internet pharmacies that fueled this crisis. instead of addressing the real causes of the opioid crisis, like pill mil doctor's illegal drugs and regulators asleep at the switch. plaintiff's lawyers wrongly claim that pharmacists must 2nd guess, doctors in a way the law never intended. and many federal and state health regulators say interferes with the doctor patient relationship. now these 3 pharmacy chains are

not the 1st corporations to be held liable for the ongoing wave of opioid related deaths sweeping america. however many are asking why the government seems focused on punishing corporations for the effects rather than dealing with the underlying causes of the problem. after all, the big sums of money currently being paid out by these corporations is not going to bring back anyone's dead relatives and has got to do very little to restore the damage to communities across what was once the prosperous american heart land. caleb bought them r t new york international recovery advocate, robert g cantor claims the government is doing a lot to fight the opioid epidemic. that bureaucracy is slowing down the process. well, we have, there's 3 reasons why overdose federal go and go straight. talent is in the united states, the skyrocketing and they all know fentanyl and fentanyl. the fentenol is being manufactured in china. it's being brought in and wrapped into the drug

cartels and mexico. it is extremely powerful and it's really good and it is being put into or laced into just about every other substance, whether it's heavy and whether it's cocaine, even marijuana. there was a tremendous amount that's being done in banking is international. over those awareness day, we just have fentanyl awareness day. there were commission, there were task force, but would you have to understand is that the wheels of congress term very slow and so a bill is introduced and then the bill has the committee committee will most bills dine, fortunately, if it isn't past the house again, has to go back to committee, and then eventually be signed by the president. this takes a lot i'll sit former pakistani prime minister amer, on con, has the noun, see a rest of a closed aid, who was detained last week for allegedly making controversial remarks about the

country's army. descending into a banana republic. the civilized world will be shocked at our levels of barbarism. the worst part is an easy target has been chosen to make an example of fruit torture and without a fair trial con, claims the arrest of political allies. shabazz gail is part of a quote, conspiracy targeting him and his party gill has been charged with the addition and the x p. m claims he was also tortured, while in police custody. emerson khan was ousted from power in april, following a vote of no confidence by the pakistan parliament. while the former prime minister blamed a u. s. plot for his removal in may con, urge his supporters to take to the streets and a wave of protest erupted in the capitol. the arrest of gil now threatened to put the country at greater risk of social unrest. shan dana goals are a member of pakistan's. national assembly believes cons and guild political party.

p t i is now being repressed, especially when the crime in this experiment is samara punch him and b t. i says that this is a conspiracy he doesn't say without pleasen. we have plenty of fools that things are happening in a way to the i myself was in the high court. i was in the police station. i bigoted and harassed by the nationalists and these blackstone on minute issues, but just to ensure that we fall into like now when it comes to the issue of shabazz gill and the conspiracy. the idea is that mr. gil should sign a confessional statement. this is the gossip we had. again, we have no proof of this. but mister shabazz gill has said that the kinds of questions that were asked of me what to do with what and prior chairman and antoine eats, who he meets in particular, one particular general. and they were trying to get him to sign a confessional statement that m bron hahn is anti army and anti establishment, which is as far from the truth as it gets. the impression on the street is that if you are a p t i worker or a p t i, party member,

you will be subject to all kinds of abuse. the law doesn't matter and that is a very dangerous base for pakistan to be it. so if you combine the issue of being a slave of the west, if you combine it with others wanting to take advantage, of course in peter, listen, take advantage back a son and the boss has knocked with focused on 1st. we've put others 1st and we paid the price for it. as you, as president joe biden, marks the signing of the inflation reduction act, america's largest ever climate investment. doug, as his administration's biggest victory ahead of the mid term elections, it appears that things are not as rose colored as they seem us journalists, manila chan explains what's actually behind the new bill. i certainly think there's a lot more than meets the eye. there are a lot of people outside of president biden's family who can just call him joe, or just call him up for that matter. but that's exactly what microsoft founder bill gates did to push the newly side inflation reduction act over the finish line. now

you might be wondering why bill gates, one of the world's richest men with lobby so hard for a bill about inflation. buried in the over $700.00 pages of this bill. are sections concerning green energy plans and how this ties to annual savings for american families. things like 30 percent tax credits for solar panel installation on your home, which the bill estimates could save families around $300.00 per year on energy bills or tax credits between 407500 dollars for those who buy electric vehicle. here is language in the green section that will help the buy did administration achieve it's climate goals by the year 2030 such as the installation of more than 100000 wind turbines. part of a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a 1000000000 metric tons. sounds like good stuff,

right. but the biggest beneficiary of this green section could be bill gates himself. so he's not worried about saving a couple $100.00 a year. let's be honest. he's a very wealthy man, but gate stands to make billions and billions of dollars through this inflation reduction act, now signed into law. so perhaps this is the legal loophole effectively if you are rich enough. you are then powerful enough to lobby for your own interests and that's exactly what bill gates did. and americans should find this very concerning because this is not how to mocker. see, is supposed to work. billionaires should not have more pulled than the average. joe and joe biden, we've heard constantly criticised oligarchs and autocrats. yet here we have american billionaire american oligarch, bill gates admitting that he swayed the direction of the newest law in the land.

that is going to impact tens of millions of people in the years to come. ah. yet another large industrial firm has fallen victim to europe's energy crisis. as a major aluminum producer in slovakia has had to quote close shop due to storing electricity prices with more on the impact of what's been called the youth suicidal sanctions. here's our t contributor, rachel marsden, pulling right recall few weeks ago that it was german industry representatives who were bracing for the impact of the european union's own anti russian sanctions. but now other countries within the block are facing similar threats to their industrial production. as a result of brussels, self imposed sanctions. now you nations are all in the same boat and that boat is pretty much a dinky that's taking on more water by the day while they're focused on shaking their fists a russian president vladimir putin. so tangible results are surely right around the corner, right? it's always darkest before dawn and all that. or maybe that's just the lights

shutting off because europeans can't pay the bills. so now it's a norwegian own slovakian aluminum plant, the supplies all of europe that set to stop production by the end of september, jeopardizing $300.00 full time jobs. so how important is this operation? the smelter, exactly. this laval co, aluminum smelter is a key supplier, not only for slovak companies, but also for other european ones by stopping production. europe will be forced to import aluminum from countries like china or russia. so there is the c e o himself saying that you sanctions specifically meant to target russia or harming production to the point that the e. u will now have to turn to russia and china for its aluminum sounds like something that the you is desperately going to need. so you know, hurry up and maybe sanctioning cause that's kind of the direction they always seem to go. now belgians inc, producer nursed are also announced this week that it's smelter in. the netherlands

will go offline starting in september, due to the skyrocketing price of energy, starting to sound like hungarian prime minister, victor or bon was maybe on to something when he said last month that europe quote shot itself in the lungs with anti russian sanctions. that could destroy the european economy. and now even the head of germany's parliamentary energy committee is referring to economic suicide. energy sanctions against russia have turned out to be a serious mistake. a major recession in germany is inevitable. in the energy sector, the economic downturn is primarily due to the sanctions, as well as statements that russian energy supplies will be cut off regardless of existing agreements or contracts. jeopardizing the energy supply of europe's largest economy is hara kiri. it hurts citizens and the industry and does nothing to help ukraine. so things are looking pretty grim for the you right now, but they're nonetheless sticking it to vladimir putin. right. well,

if these eas sanctions were actually hitting their intended target, then you probably wouldn't be going so far as to entertain the idea of a travel band for ordinary russian citizens. grasping at straws there something that brussels is set to discuss at the end of august, and which runs against so many of their previously stayed intervals. meanwhile, according to russian economy, ministry document reported by reuters moscow energy export. revenues have shot up by 38 percent in just this year. now remember what you commission, president ursula vander lane said back in may, that quote, putin must pay a price, a high price. but with each passing day, new evidence suggests that the ones paying the very highest price as a result of the use best efforts. well, they're europeans, meanwhile, was sanctions against russia. failing to affect the u. s. in the same way. they have cripple b e u countries. cnn claims europe would like to rebuild ties with russia. once the

war is over, here appear in economies will want to re establish ties with russia. no, certainly is this beneficial to those countries, but it could all say, pray valuable in a post conflict propaganda war to convince average russians of the benefits of european values independent journalists, look, luc revelez says the west as being forced to reconsider its strategy. the mainstream narrative is changing slightly, or in with mr. soleski telling us that we must do this in europe, and we must have got on the the hence, so the european union states. i continually nervous and they don't really like it. mister schultz in germany doesn't say much, but he doesn't like being told who can get to the sign can not like telling, for example, of old russians can't travel to to europe, which is the ultimate.