[000:00:00;00] ah, a ukraine shells a chemical plant in the don? yes, for a public setting. fire to the building and halting for dutch. and that's just weeks after a similar attack than a civilian facility by kiev. lead for the league of a cloud of hazardous gas help. but with conditions us congress and being asked to consider a future aid for india should only be given if it improves its human rights record . we hear from a former indian foreign secretary who suggest that when it comes to human rights, washington has to start with itself. now they will dig

a moral high ground to say that they are the defenders. like, look at the usual, this is a, there my 1st at dental in one call. look at the shooting that the list constantly is. schools in mall is treated. can't blame russia this time a major online persuasion campaign uncovered with a new report revealing that both meta and twitter deleted accounts, pushing western narrative in the middle east and central asia. their mid doesn't do terrorism case didn't ban my life coverage on, on, on, on the screen. and they're trying to ban me from politics because there's a case of contempt against former pakistan prime minister him wrong, can speak exclusively to r t in the aftermath of being charged with threatening current government officials,

much to the anger of his supporters with ah, hello, from martina national studios in moscow from wherever you may be watching. welcome to this hours tops news stories from around the globe. i'm carol isabel, happy to have you with us. we start with developments in don bass. fire breaks out at a chemical plant in the don. yes, republics, eastern city of boil of co, after relentless shelling by ukrainian troops. the blazes soon extinguish with all operations now halted. local officials reported ukraine fired around 40 shells at the facility, causing a large blaze. emergency services quickly managed to extinguish the flames with the plants director stressing risk of harmful emissions or environmental disaster had been averted. the attack came nearly 2 weeks after ukraine bombed a brewery in the don. yes, capital, which led to

a cloud of toxic ammonia guests leaking around the city. as a relentless shelling of civilian infrastructure and residential areas by ukrainian troops continues. moscow says more than 25000 civilians have been evacuated to russia, despite fears, opposition by care. that after russian troops provided nearly 480 tons of humanitarian aid on thursday alone to war torn regions of ukraine, don yeske and lugens republics ortiz collette algebra re visited. one of the many camps set up by russian forces to provide long awaited medical help for civilians in the city of several donna's number in there. the people went to him by order the command of the missionary boon forces. his special medical team has arrived in the city of several 1000 asked to provide assistance from medical care in the city and his medical unit that a mobile unit to quit with the latest equipment examination on the malice exec in his own life, the campaign was organized in accordance with the request of the airborne forces to

help the people in several genetic this is a comprehensive campaign. it consists of providing medical care in the form of a general hospital. patients are being checked by doctors behind me right now. a could metal to via to certain medical services will be available to more than 200 people. in addition, more than 30 types of essential vital medicines will be distributed to the people. to day antiviral disinfectants healing, white men's dressings, iodine. what people need every day were distributed. we also immediately hand out medications prescribed after a doctor's examination of cathedral, nay, on the let you have the money. see this event as a lifeline and the ray of hope for a gradual return to normal life in a city affected by ukrainian bombing medina mon cobra. pretty like this. how p c here is no help when the koreans were here. then practically,

no one came to us who began to receive help only when the arrival of russian troops how many people are there in the city? it was very difficult in the city in winter. every one had winds. i don't even want to tell you out how to put me on returning to normal life in a city will not be easy in light of the days on the destruction left by the ukrainian military presence. however, russia is restoring what was destroyed by keith mercenaries and healing the winds of dawn last residence sir. u. s. law makers. i've been asked to approve a financial aid package worth millions of dollars for india. but the congressional research service has suggested that such assistance could be linked to improvements in the countries human rights record. the biden administration requests $117000000.00 in foreign assistance to india for the financial year of 2023.

congress could consider whether or not condition so all of such aid on improvements in human rights and civil liberties in india. the biden administration's request was made a month after us id chief samantha power traveled to new delhi. then during the visit, america, human rights concerns about india were not mention. despite much previous criticism from american officials, which you deli, repeatedly rebuked. signing its constitution had safeguards to insure democratic practices. earlier we spoke to a former indian foreign secretary conwell se ball, who says that america needs to solve its own human rights problems before it points the finger elsewhere in the cost of this money. and we will give this money to because we have very well established rules and regulations regarding foreign money coming into india to end jewels and other things. and if this money is intended for a critical purpose, then i don't think our rules will allow this,

the u. s senators very often believe that individually for many that all the world and then ship the intersection at which the world would go. now they would take a moral high ground to say that they are the defenders on human rights. look at the issue of this ism and i still haven't been able to solve my 1st, i tend to their own problems. look at the shooting that list constantly in schools in more than streets. innocent people are being killed. children are being killed, but there is no consciousness this. even if some other countries, yeah, can point out all these things to the united states. you know, they don't control the international information is controlled by the west and his agency. so this is all kind of a posturing and show and embarrassing in the of the s of use that are working against us. and behind this, let me tell you, is our position on the ukraine crisis. they are very unhappy that we haven't

condemned to russia. we haven't voted against russia, and this is one way that certain lobbies in the united states are actually paying us back by eating at us on the issues of human rights and minority rights and things like can't blame russia this time. a new report reveals, matter products and twitter deleted accounts, promoting western narratives in the middle east and central asia. r t is caleb martin, brings us the details is always supposed to be those evil conspiring russians who are spreading fake news with their box and their troll farms, making us distrust our oh, so benevolent western leaders and are great democratic western institutions. but it looks like some shady internet activities had just been uncovered and they're coming from the united states. how joint investigation found an interconnected web of accounts that used

a septic tactics to promote pro western narratives in the middle east and central asia. these campaigns consistently advanced narratives promoting the interests of the united states and its allies, while opposing countries including russia, china under room. we believe this activity represents the most extensive case of covert pro western influence operations on social media to be reviewed and analyzed to date. so fake news from the u. s. state department bashing, russia, china and the iran stanford university. and graphic i issued the report and meta, the parent company of facebook and instagram provided the necessary data to promote the narratives. the now deleted accounts, shared news articles, calling for a ban on russian tv channels. they called on central asian nations to curb chinese influence and so on. here are some details of the operation. the operation talk it russian, speak in central nation,

old and says in focused on praise in american aid to central asia in criticized and russia, particularly rates foreign policy. facebook's post self and had fewer than 10 locks . it don't make 10 post gain more than 1000 reactions. it was pretty shallow stuff . photos of models doctored into profile pictures, synthetic hash tag campaigns all to help push a pentagon version of world events. of course. now facebook says this is the 1st time that they removed a foreign influence operation directed by the united states. now that's interesting, as many suspect, this is definitely not the 1st time something like this has happened. meanwhile, what about all the other voices that have been accused of being russian bots are simply said on popular things that have then been silenced by the tech giants. what about all the other voices that have been simply asking questions about the war and grain only to be silent over the past few months? now we shall see what new information surfaces in the coming weeks, months and years. but one thing is clear,

the narrative that russia is spreading dis info, while the leaders of the united states simply believe in transparency and democracy has been completely blown. it is now a matter of public record that the united states has been spreading this information across the world. an innocent victim of war, that's how pope francis referred to the death of daria do geena, a russian journalist killed in a car bombing over the weekend. his comments sparked criticism on social media from ukraine's ambassador to the holy c. today's speech of pope was disappointing and made me think about many things. you can't speak in the same categories about aggressor and victim. how possible to mentioned one of ideologies of russian imperialism as innocent victim. daria deanna, the daughter of prominent russian philosopher, alexander doogan, was killed in a car bombing in moscow. russian authorities have accused ukrainian special services of the murder,

while ukraine has denied any involvement. we have requested a response from the vatican, but are yet to hear back. let's discuss this live now with john laughlin, a political scientist, an international studies specialist. pope francis is referred to daria deena as an innocent victim. why have this comment? sparks such discontent among ukrainian officials? well, you're right to use the word officials in the plural, because you've quoted the ukrainian ambassadors and i only see, but there was a advisor in the presidential administration and kia who also made a remark about doria to dinner, describing her as a propagandist and not offering any sympathy, but instead implying as the ambassador did that she deserved to die, it makes you go, makes your blood run cold when you read these kinds of things. firstly,

because we all assumed that alexander dugan was the target and that dar, his daughter. daria got into the car in his place by accident, but these ukrainian officials seem to be saying that she was the target after all. and by saying what they've said in their tweets, they are saying something very dangerous and nasty indeed. and that is, that people can deserve to be killed, murdered because of things that they have said because of things that they have said. in other words, daria, do, you know, said not to be an innocent victim because of things that she has said, we all know that she was not a competent. she was not fighting in the war. she's not a soldier, she's not in uniform. but we seem to be the ukranian seem to believe that saying things is a crime which merits murder. after the killing many mainstream media pushed a dehumanizing narrative and for sizing dig in as

a legit blaine to russian propaganda, as you were saying. but now we see the pontiff focusing on the tragic loss of her life. what do you make of the different responses to death? well, i think the, the ukrainian responses that i've referred to are quite simply in human. i can't see how anyone can fail to have sympathy for, for the brutal death of a young woman and the fact that they have both these 2. maybe there are more than 2, but the 2 i've seen the fact that they have gone out on record in on written record . not just, it wasn't just a throwaway line made in a, made in a discussion. these were tweets. these were written things. the fact that they've gone on record justifying a murder shows that a large part of the ukrainian war effort is indeed devoted to controlling the

narrative. it's almost as if the narrative is more important than the actual military power on the ground. the opinions seem to think that if they win in the blogosphere that they will. so in reality, of course, i don't think that that's true. i think that ultimately this will be decided on the ground, but it shows the extent to which they are determined to control the narrative. we saw it. of course, when the amnesty international report criticized ukrainian military tactics that provoked absolute fury. and here, because any criticism of ukraine is equated in their mind with russian propaganda. and they regard people who produce the so called russian propaganda as, as worthy of murder of whether you're being mounted. as i've said that i can watch or is i've noticed the pontiff has been very careful with his words of sympathy

when it comes to crane to the ukraine conflict. why do you think that is? well, i think he comes from latin america and he has often made statements which are, shall we say, skeptical about the role of north america in the united states of america. i mean, in world affairs, he is politically on the left. and of course, the latin american left is very, as we know, is very anti american. it's very on to united states. and there is, of course, also the fact that early on in his paper see, he met the russian patriarch carol in cuba and seemed to want to establish links with what is after all, the biggest of all the orthodox churches. so i think those are the political reasons, but equally, i think that just on a basic human level, and that's what they're starting to get case shows, you know, there are some people who have human reactions who see

a young woman blown to pieces and feel sorry, feel sorry for her and feel sorry for her to read father. and there are other people whose reactions are not human. they are on the country in human because they display no sympathy at all. for what up until now we all believed was the tragic as it were, accidents to the extent that she was not the target. but once again, these statements justifying hammer to imply that she was actually the target. after all. and, you know, i do think that this was an act of terrorism. i sent this immediately after it happened, and the purpose of terror, terrorism is to make other people frightened as well. it's not just to eliminate the, the alleged propagandist. it's also to make other people frightened as well. it's too, so tara and i certainly when i had this use, i felt personally concerned because i could also be considered to someone who takes the russian side. and, you know, maybe i'm

a target as well. maybe i deserve to have my car, john laughlin, political scientists and international studies specialists. thank you. though i suspect their problems are going to be our problems, but that will not happen. that's what former pakistan prime minister in ron con, pulled r t during an exclusive interview. this thursday, the wide ranging discussion came shortly after and his law me about court extended his bail after terrorism charges were brought against him. you know, neil spoke to the ousted prime minister. they have made this into a terrorism case, the ban my life coverage on, on, on, on screen and, and they're trying to ban me from politics because there's a case of contempt against me. a since i left office, 4 months back. never has there been such a public response for,

for any political party as it is for my body today, the government is panicking. they out there watching us growing popularity. we were swept up by elections in the biggest province and been job. there were though other tube bi election which was swept. so they're bit scared and that's why they're clumping down. if we go back, mister can 2, when you are, i stayed from power in the spring time. you've mentioned several times that certain documents exist that confirm foreign interference in your removal from power. are you in any position to tell us what those documents may be? well deserve the cipher alert conversation between the bugs on ambassador and washington, and the under secretary of state, or of the you of the u. s. there is a conversation between them where he threatens the pakistani investor. that unless i m, rand hon was removed as a prime minister in a no confidence

a motion that but that still wasn't able as yet that there would be consequences, august sun. the biggest problem is that western countries expect their problems through to become our problems. and some background in april, a no competence vote removed, emron kon from the country's top political position and the x p. m has been holding rally's regularly since earlier this month has chief of staff chavez. gore was arrested on charges of the descent and tortured him prison. according to con, he demanded action be taken against the police chief and a judge which led to the terrorism charges. the former global cricket star is out on bail until his next high court hearing on august 30. first. you can watch our exclusive end up interview with the former pakistani prime minister. iran caught in full throughout the day here on our tea. ah, the brutal legacy of 2 decades of u. s. occupation of afghanistan,

all in the name of a civilized war on terror. we examined the horrific consequences of america's policies in the central asian country in special coverage, marking one year since the chaotic pull out of us forces. no nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all history. this friday marks the anniversary of 2 devastating explosions,

a capital airport seen by many to be some of the worst terror attacks carried out during america's war and afghanistan. the bloss, which struck many of those desperate to get on evacuation flights, claimed the lives of nearly 200 people, an injured many more. a warning, you may find some of the falling foot. it's disturbing. the 1st explosion is believed to have been an attack by an eye. so suicide bomber at the entrance to the airport, or crowds were trying to enter, and us troops were conducting check. the 2nd blast followed a few moments later. in the midst of the chaos, sparked by explosions, eye witnesses reported a volley of gunfire by us troops. washington, however, has claimed the shots were from taliban fighters, firing at civilians and u. s. troops. the families of those killed want the u. s. soldiers, they believe open fire brought to justice. oh, we lost our son, linda dudley, black. he had been living with his family in belgium for the last 10 years and came

here in vacation. when the situation changed, he sent his family back by himself, decided to spend several months with me. ah . the telephone takeover made him very worried. he said he had to leave because he was missing his family. he was afraid of me, the careless saying that there are no flies, he would be stuck here. he left for the airport with my other son, but couldn't get inside. ah, we heard a huge sound of an explosion. 5 minutes later we saw tv footage show in blood

buddies and injured people. i went there and found one of my sons, and he told me there was a bomb blast. i asked him, where is your brother? he said he had no idea. he went there and came back saying his brother was dry and injured in an open drain covered by 2 bodies. he didn't want to tell me that my son passed away. ah. when i removed the bodies, i saw my son has passed away. i saw several bullet wounds on his head and body. ah, me, the americans did this cry and why are they they wants to answer. we have a valid question. when the americans came here, what did they do for us? we have seen nothing about destruction, killing blood, and homeless people,

searching multi polarity. i ran a foreign minister, has met with molly's government during a trip to africa in which the 2 countries agree to boost economic and defense ties . molly has praised iranian efforts to confront western sanctions with a terrain official emphasizing the 5 pack the west nonsensical sanctions policy has failed, and nations will move forward with perseverance, stability, and self confidence. molly's foreign minister praise iran's efforts to expand relations with african countries stressing that while others say seat domination iran pursue cooperation. the minister said that the 2 countries will intensify. mutual cooperation and economics technology, science and defense with toronto agreeing to support bama ko. it's fight against terrorism. the agreements come as western countries reduce their support of africa. in august,

france completed the pull out of its troops from molly in the country since 2013 in an effort to combat international terrorism. the withdrawal, however contributed to a spiralling security crisis in the country with attacks on civilians continuing political analysts, christopher holly believes that i ran the involvement is further proof that a multitude of countries are now coming together to counteract western dominance. it will bring a tremendous opportunity to further the fight against the dies sion against the judges. forces that were back financed and controlled in many ways by the united states and nato. the past few centuries on the african continent have been written with blood and genocides. and i believe that now in this twilight of the u. s. to gemini, i think what we are experiencing is a new multi polar situation where china, russia, on a cuba,

venezuela, nicaragua, south africa, many of these countries are coming together in thing. we don't want to rely on the west, you know, the 5 eyes, the u. s. u and nato, we want to rely on ourselves. we want to develop ourselves, and we want to ensure the sovereignty self determination and humanity of the global self in confronting you know, washington and brussels. and now to news from around the world, a huge fire estimated to have destroyed almost a 100 acres of national forests and los angeles county has been brought under control. firefighters have been fighting the blaze in the northeast city of glen doris since thursday afternoon. from the footage, you can see if bus take plumes as smoke, as the blaze is tackled with water. drop from helicopters. forties have not announced any casualties. fire. torrential rains in flood water have left hundreds

of people stranded at the border. crossing between pakistan and afghanistan. with many bridges and roads destroyed. the border is reported to be blocked with authorities yet to find a solution. and those were this hour's top news stories. thanks for watching for more news coverage, head over to r t dot com and be sure to follow up on twitter, odyssey, rumble and gab from our content. see you next time. ah, no nation. no nation has ever done anything like it in all history.

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