ah, with as you can see, the building is there still a blaze as fire fighters are trying to put it out. that's all to be careful because their root can collapse and it's time our correspondent reports from done yet shopping centering gulf did a massive blade after local officials reported shelling by ukrainian forces r t gains access to those up arrows. yet nuclear power plant, which russia has been calling on the international atomic energy agency, to visit a constant missile being fired of the plants, the fears of a cherry noble and nuclear disaster. you can judge for yourself about the danger of

such attacks. literally a 150 meters from here is the plants are 5th power unit, and it is to working with the world health organization wardens. the unfolding humanitarian crisis in ethiopia is worse than what's happening on the ground in new crate. despite most of the ada available, flowing to keep on india will forge its own way in the world and not get into external pressure. that's what the countries ambassador to russia tells our team. india always takes decisions on its own based on this, on national interest. i'm keeping in mind whatever it feels, it's basically its own country people, and that's all we need to do with across the world around the clock. this is our t. welcome to the global news roundup this wednesday. i'm, you know, the u. s. wants to see russia's strategic exhaustion. so according to russia's

defense minister survey shall go, who is speaking out of defense meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization. minister shall go also reiterated that russia is seeking to minimize casualties among civilians in the ukraine. conflict. couldn't spears a garage in massage or use military operation? the ukraine, russia 40 follows the norms of humanitarian law. strikes a carried out with precision weapons on ukrainian military infrastructure. everything is being done to avoid civilian casualties. of course is slow down the pace of the offensive, but we're doing this deliberately. so the military of race is being conducted in accordance to the original plan, old toaster to be completed. the goal of the u. s. and it's accomplices, is to bring about rushes, strategic exhaustion in order to eliminate its competition in ga political affairs, as want us to warn other states from pursuing independent foreign policies. here while russia stresses it is trying to minimize civilian casualties, a shopping center in done yet has been hit by shelling,

not local officials are blaming on ukrainian forces. the building was engulfed in flames. now our correspondence in the city rahman cost red takes us through boy were driving along with a de net skull fire department said to a supermarket, that was us rock early in the morning. here in a don as fumes of smoke can be seen from every port of this city. apparently, a fire department from all over that's out there on the scene at the moment firefighters are still fighting at the blaze of this supermarket. you can see plumes of smoke are still everywhere. now this says supermarkets or a mega market as they call it here, sells everything from a food items to a medicine to anything else that's the locals might needa. i myself picks up humanitarian aid from a this supermarket numerous times in order to deliver it to places here. and then

as people republic where they needed. now the choir fighters just asked me to move over just a bit in case just to put us out of danger if you will. now, at the moment, local authorities are reporting that there were several strikes against this supermarket right now. it looks like it's completely destroyed, asked for the situation around this area. now there isn't as single military as structure here, so it looks like it's so obvious that the target was a civilian infrastructure. the strike took place at 10 o'clock in the morning. the supermarket was open at 8 o'clock and i this place is very popular among the local residents. as you can see, the building is still a blaze, as a wire fighters are trying to put it out. that's all it to be careful because the root can collapse at any time. employees or the supermarket are now trying to salvage as much of merchandise as possible at the moment they can even speak so

as they can even give us the account because there's still quite a lot to be done. room on coffer, m r t. the next people's republic. or something else to tell you about today. the long awaited mission by the international atomic energy agency to the zappa, rosie a nuclear power plant could take place within days. that's according to the bodies director general. the facility now under russian military control has come under continued shelling in recent weeks with moscow blaming ukrainian forces for the bombardment. and the plant is the largest nuclear power station in europe, and the shelling has stopped fears of a new killer catastrophe with the potential experts say to be worse than the turn noble disaster. they states, such an incident, could affect many countries, such as turkey and other near bring nations of ukraine, r t rushes alexia rep, and is the 1st international journalist to report from the sprawling territory

group. nice if you would be optimistic responses the largest power plant in europe suffer raja is being shell daily by the cranny military recently as a result of yet another attack, one civilian was killed on the spot and yet another was fatally wounded. still, the station continues to operate with its reactors, generating energy with the checkmark once or club, no, either not softening. we're currently near one of the pumping stations up as approach a nuclear plant ukrainian shall landed here and late july. you can see the consequences of that shelley right now for yourself, but this station continues to work as the main equipment is located in the basement bottled, when you call it, by the while at the around continued to reach this crater within the vicinity of

the cleaning facilities was created last saturday due to shelling by ukrainian forces. you can judge for yourself about the danger of such attacks. literally a 150 meters from here is the plants, 5th power unit. and it is still working just around the corner. not that, no, i mean that it's only for at the moment the radiation at the station as well as the surrounding areas is within norms. the showing that mostly auxilary equipment, hydrogen and oxygen facilities. we're trying to repair the damage as soon as possible, so that the nuclear plant will not have to halt its operations. i deem the art that he 12345. you can lose cow when you look at this building and try to figure out how many shells landed here. but the defense ministry has accurate statistics on how many times ukrainian forces fired at this approach a nuclear plant. and it is ready to share that data with the global community, including with the i e a. but no one is in a hurry to come here. yet,

at this approach, the nuclear plant out of 6 power units 3 or under scheduled repair to are working normally. and one is working at about 10 percent of its capacity to ensure its own safety. with the cooling system. beauties to cloister chung with shattered glass walls damaged by shrapnel. this is the lesser evil that can happen as a result of artillery shelling of a nuclear power plant. even according to the most conservative estimates, in the event of a detonation of the nuclear reactor, a radioactive cloud could cover half of europe. it would take at least a decade to eliminate all of the consequences. digitally as a puddle. sky is just people. the territory of this apparition plant is really impressive. it takes at least an hour to just walk around the power units. but from the view of a satellite to reconnaissance drone, the entire territory can be seen all at once. if russian heavy artillery was located here, that would have become public knowledge long ago, the photos would have been published all over the media. but that is not happening because there is no heavy russian weaponry here. the west is deliberately

concealing, keeps shelling of his approaching plant, making russia a scapegoat for everything that is, what moscow's envoy to the un has said during a security council meeting. the plan was attacked again in recent days. ross's representative reiterated that moscow does not use the facility for any military purposes. most who are new. i think us this is started today. we again heard the old broken record, rushes to blame for everything. the real background of the events around this approach in a nuclear power plant is shamelessly hushed up obvious facts or hinder denied. all this is done with one single purpose to whitewash their key of commanders, no matter what they do. they have carte blanche for the most unreasonable actions in the knowledge that they can be justified by their patron. in any case, contrary to the false claims of the key of regime and as curators, russia does not deploy heavy weapons on the territory of the nuclear power plant and does not use the station for military purposes. the russian defense ministry is

ready to provide the international atomic energy agency with high resolution images, which show that weapons, especially heavy ones, are not located on the territory of the plant. ukraine is today, marking 31 years since its independence from the soviet union. presidente lensky has bond any celebrations in kia, though, saying russia could use the day to attack the capital less big to former security policy analysts in the office of the us defense secretary michael maloof on this. michael good to have you on the program today. thanks for your time. on their independence day countries normally celebrate just that their own independence in, at decision making policies, et cetera. is that the case with ukraine? as you said? while absolutely not, it's pathetic what, how the turn of events have occurred here. their independence day had had

a provision in its proclamation of independence that they were remain non aligned. they violated that severely by wanting to join nato. and from there it threatened security of russia in, in, in golden nato to expand further. and it's all because of ukraine that we're in, the mess that we're in right now. and i think that they have no reason to celebrate because they have not lived up to their own principles if you will. places one of the most corrupt governments in the world. you've previously said, michael, ukraine is upon of the west. that's what has become and how did, how does not in manifest itself? well, it has manifested itself into the mess that we see today. and it could get worse, this is the problem. and this, and the consequences could be years in the making for it not only the countries in

the region, but all of europe, even the country is as far a field as. ready asia, africa because of the damage and the, and the, and the messing up of the, of a, of a, a system of supply demand for vital food, necessities for other parts of the world. this has been a, this has been a tragedy and it's been a disaster. and if only ukraine had lived up to what it had agreed to in the midst one admins, 2 agreements, we wouldn't be in this predicament right now. but we are where we are. so we got to deal with the consequences and we've got to deal with a west that is using ukraine as upon for a larger picture of trying to isolate russia to and to basically they want regime change. washington,

what regime change given some of the people who are in the, in the, by the administration. so this is, and i, and i don't see it anything unless the biden and administration loses next in 2024. i mean, otherwise this disaster is going to go on here. washington just committed another $3000000000.00 of arms. where is that money coming from? i mean, this goes on and on, and we don't have the infrastructure for continuing to supply those kinds of weapons. and then back doing a, a backfill for the european countries that are also providing arms. and yet they're going to be expecting that. so i, i think this, this whole or mess would probably just die of attrition eventually because russia isn't going anywhere. and it's possible that the european countries will finally say, this is ridiculous, and we've got to change course because we're because they're going to be feeling

the pinch of what they're probably beginning to feel the pace because they're already got severe energy short just that's the reality on the ground, ukraine was not a rush rush was not a threat to any of the countries. it will not be attacking the nato countries and unless they're directly attacked. and i think that all of this going to be avoided . hi, how long the high far does this go back? mike? when did, can become a quote pull of the west, when did it lose its independence in state of furs? well, it goes back to the overthrow of the democratically elected government. back in the 2014 and, and i think that we saw the characters who were involved in in that that could occur. and that was joe biden is vice president of the united states. and victoria newland who is now he is under secretary of state for political affairs. they were

intimately involved in that. and i think that they are directly responsible for creating this imbalance that we're now seeing ukrainian officials say that the, the conflict involving russia is ukraine's bottle to be able to quote, make its own decisions. now that's a multifaceted comment, is it how, how, how is that? why are they seeing it in such a way? do you think like, because of course, there's so much input from the west, from countries. and yet they think this is their chance to make their own decisions . well, this is their attempt, and i think that the as a consequence, they have blown it there. they're no longer in charge of themselves, frankly, the way that they're conducting them. so their total reliance on the west, after all it's the, the united states for example, is paying for the, the bureaucrats and the army. and in addition to supply and things that are

actually keeping that, so that sublet of a government intact and, and functioning but barely. and i think that this is going to probably recede and begin to get old, even for the american people in a very short order, because the biden administration has never explained what the point is of doing of going to protect ukraine's borders. we're not protecting our own southern border in the united states. and as far as i'm personally concerned that given how the by the ministration has, can, has aided and abetted the cartels and allowing now and, and i'm limited illegal migration to the united states. the democrats and the biden are, are not only complicit in this, but they are basically a criminal ok institution itself. as a consequence, the views of michael maloof, former security policy analyst in the office of the us defense secretary michael,

as always, thank you. thank you. the humanitarian disaster unfolding in ethiopia is worse than in ukraine. the warning from the head of the world health organization who's criticize the motivate, flowing into the country compared to what key of is receiving. i can tell you that the humanitarian crisis integral is more than ukraine without any exaggeration. and i said as many months ago, maybe the reason is the color of the skin of the people into gray. i haven't heard in the last few months, several months now. even the head of states talking about the to gray condition anywhere in the developed world, especially to gray, is just one example of a global humanitarian crisis. we are here, you are hearing from you in agencies as well as private groups that for this year alone, they need just under $50000000000.00 to be able to provide for more than $200000000.00

vulnerable people. now, many of these people are in the middle east and are in africa, and where as the money that has been sent to ukraine has been forthcoming. what we are witnessing is an alarming short forward of many, an aide reaching the middle east and africa. of course, question needs to be asked why the discrepancy and this is a question that is pinpointed and highlighted by martin griffiths of the united nations. this is the biggest funding gap we've ever seen. mostly because the number of vulnerable people who need support is increasing fast. now, in the 1st 7 months of this year, the u. n. was able to raise only a 3rd of the money that is needed. at the same time, the money that was needed for the ukraine has been plentiful. so if i could just break that down to gray region in nor than ethiopia now, county has been a civil war since november 2020. and the figures point to 4500000 people who are

in urgent need of emergency food. of that number 3 quarters of a 1000000 will be starving within the next few weeks. the world food program has also reported that by october, this year it will have run out of food for people in ethiopia. if you move across to bangladesh, there you have your where hinge and refugees. now we're talking here about a 1000000 displaced people who all need emergency assistance. they are fully reliant on that. and any kind of decreased funding will affect, shall to, will affect nutrition, will affect sanitation with result that many of them i'm barking on dangerous boat journeys to try and reach a better future if you move across to somalia. here, there has been a devastating drought and a fixed point to at least 1000000 people there who are internally displaced and another 7000000 who are facing acute, sued security or insecurity. at the same time,

you have 7675000 syrian refugees in a camp in jordan. they've been they since 2011. and that kemp is an urgent need of repairs. these no electricity. and there's an alarming humanitarian crisis unfolding there. by comparison, you look at the ukraine now they the initial pill went out by the united nations for moving $6000000000.00. that was to assist ukrainian, refugees, both within the country and outside the country. not only was that appeal mates, but even more money was raised. the 2nd appeal is also on track to being met. so of course, the question needs to be asked why the discrepancy? and this is the question that is answered by the you in agency spokesperson. the war and ukraine has illustrated very starkly how it is possible to rapidly and extensively mobilize support for refugees and respond to humanitarian needs. when political commitment is there a situation nice way you have aid agencies like the you and hcr that are having to

make it very difficult and distraught and heartbreaking choices. the simple reality is that in the next few months, they will be large numbers of people who are helpless and who are in desperate need of humanitarian help. who will simply not be receiving us poll asleep and are now despite an energy crisis taking hold in the e. u. pollings president is calling for this month calling of the north stream to pipeline, which was bill to supply gas from europe, from russia to your let's get the take. busy on this from rti caught you peter, rachel marson. hi there, rachel. so you've got europe and countries and $100.00 seeking to get gas prices under control. but also at the same time turning their box on rush and gas on it is citizens. i suggest feeling the brunt of the decision. yeah, well, officials across the european union have been pushing this unity rhetoric pretty

hard lately. but as various member states start eyeing tough times on the horizon with energy inflation and cost of living crises, that solidarity looks like it's about to be tested. some countries are on such a blind anti russian footing that they're promoting scorched earth policies. the polish president is now saying that he wants to see that nord stream to gas pipeline dismantle, which would literally burn the energy bridge between russia and europe. these radical remarks come at a time when germany, which heavily subsidizes poland through the u is indeed trouble. cheap russian gas powered by germany were power germany to the status of the economic industrial engine of the european union. it was the use own sanctions and germany's total delusion that green energy could do all the heavy lifting without rushing gas that now in peril. this status. meanwhile, belgian prime minister, alexander de crew,

is warning of $5.00 to $10.00 difficult winters for europe, which is just astounding. here we have the head of state of a european country who's talking like he's a mere observer. why isn't he screaming to the roof talks about the need to plug the gas back in. and french officials now are coming to the realization that frances long neglected nuclear power plants and low water levels for reactor cooling. mean that a returned to a greater dependence on nuclear power may not be the panacea that they figured it would be. you might recall that hungry was the only e country to initially refuse to cut its own gas supply from russia. but now fears are reportedly emerging within the e u that bulgaria could be next to come to its senses. and a new interim government appointed by president room and rod of could exploit the opportunity it it october 2nd general election to re establish an energy lifeline

with russia. this is all according to media reports. now rad of, by the way, is a former air force chief and mic fighter jet pilot, who apparently isn't prone to the need. you're for us, a phobia of his predecessor who was ousted in a jew nonprofit. it's folk. the sans could also be shifting in italy, where right wing italian prime ministerial hopeful georgia maloney slammed the eas energy policies on the campaign trail. edaly is not in an easy cetacean, even the best efforts of our government have left us in a difficult situation. public debt out of control were in the heart of europe in skyrocketing energy prices that had bringing families in businesses to their knees . energy prices are hitting record highs across europe this week, and governments are now in a race against time to save their own citizens and economies before they crumble under devastating costs. in a situation that you have to admit entirely of their own making

r t. contrary to rachel marston taken us through that we will continue to make decisions based on our own national interests. that is the message from india's ambassador to russia who was speaking during a commemoration event in moscow marking 75 years of indian independence. not one such decision is strengthening ties with russia, new deli, how's already increased its oil purchases from moscow, where it's reached f record in june accounting for nearly a fift of overall imports. now india is set to cooperate with russia in the military sphere as well. indian truce will join russian forces and military exercises set to take place. at the end of august, india always takes decisions on its own based on its own national interest. obviously, there is the new reality. there are, you know, there are many banks which are sanctioned. there are logistical issues, there are payment issues which have to be overcome. we have to find the way forward

. there is tremendous school for increasing our trade in economy corporation you've seen just in the last few months at a certain change in the direction of trade. we certainly buying lots more oil from russia and fertilizers also, but i think there's a greater demand from russia for many more products. consumer goods, food processing items, auto parts, a lot of areas which can get this thing, including of course, traditional items like we're also mocking 75 years of india, russia, diplomatic relations. and i'm sure that this wonderful tradition, we have a free shipping quote. christian will continue, went into the future. and another story to bring you the former mirror off you catherine burke, gift guinea roy's men has been detained for his public criticism of the actions of the russian army and on boston. ukraine knob is according to media outlets, citing the russian ministry of internal affairs. now the maximum penalty under current laws designed to prevent the spread of false information, the by the russian armed forces is up to 5 years in prison. ment,

police also reportedly rated several properties linked to mr. royce. the expert has previously been fined 3 times under rush laws against discrediting with that for months the siege off the old style steel plot son been the focus of the ukraine conflict. but civilians were also locked in their houses by ukrainian nationalists in the same city. marty bull. next, we tell their story clubs. lou to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms. race is often very dramatic, development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful,

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