[000:00:00;00] ah ah, russian air defense systems to repel multiple drone attacks by ukraine in russia's crimea peninsula, that's according to local authorities. and the u. s. announces additional military aid to ukraine, worth $775000000.00. all russia underlines that is using such weapons to sell residential areas. you gas prices surge after gas prompt shuts down the north stream, one pipeline for repairs, while europeans profile over the backlash from their government sanctions.

mm. 6 am here at our teen or national studios in moscow. hello. from wherever you may be watching us, i'm fiorella is about this hour's top news stories from around the world. glad to have you with us. russia's air defense units repelled multiple attacks on crimea overnight with the russian peninsulas. aerospace violated by ukrainian drones from different sides r t z. your stuff gives us more. it is very difficult at this stage to sort facts from, say, here, say as to what's going on as to what's happened in crimea. now again, the most basic understanding that we have here right now is that the, what could be a ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle breach the russian as space the and so, russia's defense systems are well worked as they were suppose to now again, others,

for example, other sources they say that this could be not a ukrainian drone, but rather ukrainian missile or a ukranian shell aimed at the peninsula. but again, so far, what has been confirmed that whatever it was, it didn't deal any damage. it didn't cause any destruction on the russian peninsula . so like it is safe and again the officials on the ground in crimea, they have released the state and they have stepped forward saying that the peninsula is very, very safe from these attacks. but again, the region is quite a bit on edge right now, because ukraine has made it abundantly clear that it considers crimea a valid target and basically anything, any military will, any military facilities that are located, that while they are, they could be attacked and that they are looking to attack them and again, even the russian federal security service recently had confirmed some successful operations carried out by apparently ukrainian diversion groups. so any,

anything that is going on there any, any sort of information coming out of this russian peninsula, like even the, even the a defense systems just working again as they were supposed to be met? well, they are being scrutinized and well people, they do tend to get a little bit nervous, so there you have it. but again, no doubt with no destruction so far and already some experts have released their opinions. they have stepped forward saying that all of this, that all the slater's fact desilva, ukrainian armed forces and them targeting the russian peninsula. the fish could be just them, testing and seeing if they can, how far they can go, and how far they can get. and what they can achieve and how impenetrable the russian air defenses are in that part of the country. moving now to america, where the u. s. has announced an additional military 8 packets. ukraine worth

775000000 in the belief that the conflict is at a near standstill. the package includes additional ammunition for high mar systems and more howitzers. along with 15 scan eagle recognizance drones and my resistant and armored vehicles, the new ammunition also includes high speed anti radiation missiles with a range of at least 50 kilometers designed to seek and destroy radar equipped air defense systems. friday announcement brings us military assistance to key up to 10600000000 since the beginning of biden's administration with the u. s. department of defense. now claiming that the help is forcing russia to pay, quote, a high price, we want to make sure that ukraine has a steady stream of ammunition to meet its needs. and that's what we're doing with this package. you're seeing the russians still paying a high price with ukrainian attacks, especially using that hi me, our system. but they are incurring these costs and not able to advance. however,

the u. s. supplied weapons are not just being used by ukraine for military purposes, according to don bass and russian officials. they are also being used to shall, residential areas of don. yes. can other regions controlled by russian lead forces, along with the preacher, all detention facility were captured, ukrainian soldiers were being held, which led to the deaths of 50 p, o, w, 's, and 73 more being injured. it retired us air force lieutenant believes that while the conflict continues to be financially profitable to the u. s, it will continue with its supplies. half of all of that money goes directly into the pentagon. so the pentagon has received the money and the pentagon and its contractors are shipping the materials pretty much as soon as they can over to ukraine. but it's not really connected. i don't think to a strategy as much as it is a domestic spending program. none of what the u. s. is providing will assist in any reclaiming of territory. it's simply, in fact,

increasingly is defensive on what's left of ukraine. and i think as long as there's money to be made between the ukranian elite and the, the military industrial establishment in the united states and, and some of the other european countries as long as money is, is it long as this war is profitable? it's going to continue for them, so they're not going to acknowledge anything. this is the policy is astounding. here, i think in many ways another example of hi marcy hughes occurred in the don bass city of bethel. darcy, however, a western report has a completely different take on the shelling. the daily mail published a video claiming that the recent shelling of svetlana darcy was carried out by russia. yet the people in the footage itself, se the town was shelled by nato type artillery in the highmark rocket system, which of course neither russia nor its allies possess. it's marked a number of mocking commentaries,

both because the city is under russian lead forces control. and as the headline for the video contradicted its content, karen ko, it's called skis again, says it's not the problem of one outlet, but the problem of journalism in general today, our mainstream were legacy media, has gotten so lazy over the past 30 years. they really just our mouth pieces for government, we don't have an independent media in the united states and we haven't for some time that's, that's kind of the, that's kind of the problem. i don't think individual journalists are, you know, refusing to, to report news, but they are failing to get their fax from any other source except the u. s. government. and as kevin dobbs, the law branding those who take humanitarian aid from russia as criminals, artes roman culture, a visits the people of mary you bowl to ask what they make of the new legislation

ukraine has passed, and you so cold collaborator, to so law on august 16th and making any one in ukraine who accepts humanitarian aid from russia, a criminal. we are now in murray pal at one of the distribution centers where people come to receive this humanitarian aid that you law makes all these people, potential criminals. and so we've talked to a few of them and they shared their opinions with us about what they think about the new law, talking to them over the progress of his birthday. how can people live without feeling? most of mary jo pol city is now at work. they have nowhere to get food. such laws can only be passed by terrorists yesterday. i think in their mind, i think it's not normal, even if key of sent its own help. it would be strange, but they do not send anything and have forbid people from taking some one else's aid. although people just need food so as not to starve. and they want to sentence them. knowing of goodness of a family, well, i have 2 small children and russia has really helped us. when my son got

a loaf of bread, he was happier than ever before. but is that a crime on our part? yes, amanda made out. who should we have starved to death? with all due respect to ukraine, they did not help us at all when you call neither the military nor the state. while the russian military was giving us water to drink, people were drinking from puddles out of sheer thirst. i would like to ask, what would those who adopted this law banning them from receiving aid? do you have starved? i don't want anyone to go through what we went through for this humanitarian aid sensor in murray, who poll is a fully loaded. it even has a children's center right here where kids can play while their parents are receiving them much. he needed humanitarian aid. now this particular center used to serve at least 7000 people per day at the peak or the conflict back in the mail. for example, the numbers are much lower at the moment because the situation here is not as dire as it used to be. however,

at the moment with this and you law in key about collaboration is thank he is still considers these people ukrainians. each one of these people receiving the humanitarian aid is a suspect, including their kids from on call 3 of our t. maria holden as people's republic. i think it's absurd and i think it's wrong. obviously. i mean, how could bringing humanitarian aid be collaboration, ist of anything that is considered condemned both. right. i think we should encourage people to bring humana, cherry, and aid. i think we should encourage russia to bring humana cherry in a. do you crying? why would you create a disincentive to doing that, even to criminalize bringing humanitarian aid international humanitarian law as best exemplified by the geneva conventions. but others as well requires

to provide the necessities of life for the people, food medicine, water. that's the whole point of humanitarian law. and the geneva convention as more and more of ukraine's neo nazi as of battalion fighters are captured by russian forces. some prisoners are being investigated for a legit war crimes. former french service men, adrian bouquet, who was known for his previous revelations of ass off actions over the last 8 years of the conflict. visited the battalions captive members. a warning. some of them could have been speaking under dress. i am now in a secret detention center were meeting captured officers of the as of battalion were being kept under strict guard. ah ah ah. well,

it was exist. as you can see, the tattoos a real, the nazi tattoos. your civil, slightly camouflaged crosses are chained and a bit different. the signatures look, this is a painted swastika. here's another similar dial. our other symbols. look at this one over the top. there's a helmet of the s s guard. and this is a small touchy, there are hundreds of fires. it says rooms and swastikas. when i say hundreds, i mean, and this is just one example to show you. it's a reality. i had you ever killed or shot civilians?

nation by orders of my commanders. i shot at the vehicle was carrying people know so you were shooting an unarmed civilians only because you've got the orders. well, not exactly. it was dark. the bus had tinted windows and the driver didn't stop on demand. do you understand that what you have done is a war crime? turns out that i do while you were hiding that as of style plant, did you know women and children were dying from the shells hitting their flaps in the center on it? there was a war going on and there are 2 sides, not one engaged in the fighting. ah, gas prices in the e. u. have risen sharply after russia's gas prom on friday announced a temporary pause in the transit of gas to europe for scheduled pipeline

maintenance. european gas prices shot up nearly 5 percent after the news was announced with the north stream one pipeline. now scheduled to be closed between august 31st and september 2nd. and that comes on top of what is already a tenfold rise. the vice president of the german parliament has called for a band to be lifted on the opening of the north stream to pipeline. as soon as possible with winter fast approaching, the federal minister of economics must do everything to ensure that we have more energy available, which would open nord stream to as soon as possible to fill our gas storage facilities for the winter. getting gas from nordstrom to is no more immoral than from north stream. one is just a different tube. the politicians stress that if the pipeline is on blog, it will allow germans to survive this winter stressing that's the federal government's primary duty. some businesses support the lifting of sanctions with an open letter urging chancellor shoulds to end the barrier for the benefit of the

german people. we used craftsman no for many conversations with our customers, that the vast majority are not willing to sacrifice their hard earned standard of living for ukraine. it's not our wor either. do you want to be the chancellor who drove germany to ruin? do you really want to sacrifice your country? as the energy crisis deepens with an increasing number of europeans voicing their anger, a german minister has branded those speaking out as enemies of the state are t contributor rachel mars and has more. so basically the ear creates a crisis with their sanctions, which by the way they can reverse at any time make their citizens pay an increasingly high price. beneficial, portray those who object to their mismanagement as extremists, a german interior ministry spokesperson has said that quote, we can assume that populists and extremists will again try to influence protests to

their liking. and now the interior minister of the german state of north rhine west follies framing those who opposed other extreme government measures as equally unreasonable amid the energy crisis. you can already tell from those who are out there. the protestors no longer talk about cov it or vaccination, but they are now misusing people's worries and fears and other spheres. it's almost something like new enemies of the state who are establishing themselves. writing escape goes to blame just as the projections for european economies are getting increasingly grim. the u is finally admitting that they screwed up. now just kidding. they're not. by the way, while norway is currently enjoying record high oil and gas profits, european oil and gas executives are reportedly mumbling discreetly about the need to prod oslo into cutting its prices for europe. so what if norway just says no, is norway going to be framed as a troublesome nationalist? just like you citizens who resist the policies of the block?

well, actually, possibly, if a recent op ed in the financial times is any indication, it is crucial for europe to avoid falling into the resource nationalism trap. no one should suggest that no way be treated as a profiteer, but it is worth at least debating if anything can be done to bring down prices. turning up, the taps to full capacity is already appreciated. doing it at a price that helps soothe paying for european economies might be in noise interests to british citizens soaring energy bills are also set to rise. 80 per cent in october with price is increasing by 15 percent. just this week. a new citizen movement called don't pay you k is pledging to stop paying their bills altogether, started october 1st. if the price hikes persist it simple, we are demanding a reduction of energy bills to an affordable level. our leverage is that we will gather

a 1000000 people to pledge no to pay if the government goes ahead with another mess of hike on october. the 1st. even if a fraction of those of us who are paying by direct debit stop our payments, it will be enough to put energy companies in serious trouble. and they know this. we want to bring them to the table and force them to end this crisis. what are your pin officials going to do? slap the populist or extremist label on every retiree who's pension doesn't cover their winter heating bill, and has the audacity to complain about it. well, at this point, i wouldn't put anything past them. sanctions crippling european economies have not hurt russia enough, despite europe's expectations. that's according to the hungarian prime minister in an interview with the german newspaper. firstly, the west cannot win the ukraine war militarily. secondly, the sanctions have in no way destabilized russia. thirdly, their damage to europe as immense. fourthly,

the world has not lined up behind the usa and ukraine. many countries are actually not supporting them at all. it is quite possible that this war will put a symbolic end to western superiority. it's not the 1st time that victor or band has criticized the e. u. sanctions having previously also called them counter intuitive. while calling for peace talks. we spoke with a senior research fellow at the global policy institute of london who says that the west is finding itself ever isolated me saying base it in the west is finding itself increasingly isolated that made this into the prime issue of foreign policy. but the rest of the world, just as the isn't buying what the west is selling and various reasons for it. they obviously, with some the non western countries like india and china have pretty much said that this major expansion in the face of roses,

russian opposition was bound to end. it does not, there are just, there's just been no way that the west can bore in alms and expect the ukraine went the way into the military. so, but the outcome again would be very questionable. the west isn't in any real position to wage a war in the eastern europe, they don't have the manpower or the means of getting military material that so i think is right. i know that this is a policy that makes very little sense, and it's just in the destructiveness for the sake of destructiveness, ah, malaysia's ex prime minister is to make one last effort to overthrow a court ruling that found him guilty of corruption. thus banning him from office, he denies the accusations, play me,

my case is politically motivated and the judge was biased. now she for isaac was voted out of office in 2018 and arrested shortly after. after the country's new leaders accused them of power abuse and money laundering, including the theft of $4500000000.00 us dollars from one m. d. b militia state funded investment fund. in 2022, he was sentenced at 12 years in jail. but now his attorney is challenging the outcome while his client is out of jail on appeal. this comes as the country hold snap elections with ross acts party attempting to achieve a political comeback. one anti b was co founded by rise up while he was prime minister to promote economic development. on being voted out from office. he was accused of abusing his position to illegal you receive at least 1000000000 with the help of goldman sachs international bank eurasia center vice president. earl rasmussen,

d tells us involvement if it's his word again against the government. and i'm sure the u. s. has got a role here because we know that her, that goldman sachs is involved. we know the us hence has a plea bargain with one senior christian found guilty. the key manager for her, for that area of the world. ah. so, you know, there's, there's, there's an aspect, so as evidence being handled by the, you are, i'll be turned over or confront with malaysia. i'm out of the whole thing there, the, the on it, you know, who's who's to are, who's to say that he's correct. and he, he got this words, it says we're who's to say that he's not before, you know, it's the, it's the government that's bringing the case, the government probably back by the us government that providing whatever evidence

is being used. i the as an uphill battle, and then the question is, was the judge actually biased? the thing? so that's another question on that. ukraine is perhaps the most, one of the most of the world. you see anyone going after mister berlin? remove the power. absolutely. so, so they played the much, much role of much deeper role in this than, than people realize. and so specially here we've got other high officials from other governments that happened to be allies of a certain government. and you have a very, very well respected influence. so brokerage company of another certain government that's involved a new chinese government, me, me highlighting american policy. foreign failures is enjoined. 37000 likes on

twitter that says relations between the 2 countries. continue to simmer on the back of controversial high level u. s. government visits that i pay everyone needs a clear understanding of himself. so does a nation. the mean, published by a spokesperson for china's ministry of foreign affairs, highlights us foreign military actions seen by many as failures and finishes with an image of the destruction of the world trade center. on $911.00, we spoke to angela juliano, a political and financial analysts who sees me as a legitimate attempt to highlight american hypocrisy when it comes to its international affairs. china has clearly understood that the long term plan of the us is to do something similar to your claim, fight russia, ukraine, the fight rush out in last. your question or to the last european. what they want to do in taiwan is exactly the same fights china up to the last day when nice or to

the last japanese or to the last asian. so china now is getting much more aggressive there, exposing what the us as being doing over the last decades. all the crimes against humanity it is, you know, the exposing the us for what it is. the u. s. is doing, victor signaling around the world. it is pretty much similar to what if hitler was actually talking about human white of jews. 70 years ago would be exactly the same . it's a pure poker c, and it's just, it's just in china is actually exposing that and gloss off the movie on to latin america. we're brazil for my left us liter lula da silva, remains a front runner and presidential elections scheduled for october. to silva has served us president for 7 years in 2003 received 47 per cent of this. a poor inner recent opinion. paul, while acting president gyre boss, an arrow

a right wing politician had 32 percent. what is at stake at this moment as democracy against fascism? what is at stake at this moment as democracy against barbarism? we guarantee that 33000000 brazilians can have coffee, lunch, and dinner every day, or they will die of hunger. i am overcome with emotion to be back here, which led me to a rebirth that saved me to become president of the republic, which was the best thing for our country. earlier we spoke to a political scientist who thinks that despite also narrow, still being in the race lula has the momentum nowadays in brazil, the only stability of principle is it would be on a strata, job title sonata, to imitate, while trump had done in january the 6th, 2000. thank you, won in u. s. o many general those say man

a general's not all of them was mainly general saw trying to force the electoral port, hulu, not a steam, the electronic volt in brazil because we have a very reliable system. and insistence saying that the system is not reliable. there are many gunmen in brazil, more than 600 people asked palletization to have guns in brazil because of will sonata and he may have some possibility to go to the 2nd round. but nowadays, i would say very consolidated, like the 1st was each almost we knew the 1st wrong. and wilson are trying to pull his get, ah, and now to our special coverage on last year's u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan. 12 months on tens of thousands of afghans who collaborated with washington still cannot get the special visa promise to them. ah,

or message to those women and men is clear. there is a home for you in the united states. if you so choose and will stand with you, just as you stood with us ah! subbing in the night. the taliban captured the province. we were in rat. we fled to flora and then to how monday port we arrived and couple with lots of difficulties. as each plane took off, we hoped to be on the next. we tried always to get out. it was a nightmare for my family and me. it's been 11 months since then. i still have the same nightmare. he, this pentagon is facing questions about whether u. s. troops may have shot afghan civilians following a devastating suicide bombing last year.

ah, excellent. mm hm. although i have been living in albania for less than a year, we are in a tough situation. we abandoned our lives and came here. we worked in afghanistan, we had jobs, but now we don't. we do not know what to do. what will happen to our lives in future? i urge the americans to pay attention to afghan citizens living in 3rd countries. we are waiting for our cases to be processed, but in the past 11 months, we have not received any answer by the consent, exited of a return to our country depends on the economic situation and security issues. afghanistan must be in contact with the international community, and people must be assured that they are living in a secure,

economically good situation. that is not the case. now. there's more special coverage on last year's u as chaotic pull out and it's global consequences to come. this month on r t stay tuned. no nation, no nation is ever done anything like it in all history. a