a new one. yes, i'm with the usually book a little booklet with at least 30 people are reportedly killed under the 700 injured in clashes in baghdad. following there were times from politics of the leading shia cleric who opposes us influence in iraq. 1200 ukrainian troops, the code and a butch defensive old of my president is the lensky in the country. so that's, according to russia, class ecuador joined the other latin american countries and a noun. think it was find a free trade agreement with china as a expounded activity in washington, a

very warm welcome. see you. this is our t international with the latest world news update. it's great to have you with us. and we start with a rock where at least 30 people have reportedly been killed and over 700 injured and ongoing clashes between protest is authority in the green zone of baghdad. the process is storm. the government offices on monday and supportive leading opposition, shia cleric mac honda, our father who announced his final retirement from politics and had a power struggle in the country. early on tuesday, the cleric is supposed to leave the streets within an hour with a report was coming from bog down that people have started to disperse. the unrest began as outside his followers stormed the republican palace. a king meeting place

for a rocky heads of state and foreign dignitaries. units of the regular rocky army have been deployed across back that would say force is using live bullets and take us to disperse the crowd. the latest on rest sparked wayne and todd to find the announce he's quitting political life and closing his offices. his party has been unable to form a government despite having won the largest number of seats and the federal elections last october. and for the support is, are protesting in support of his call for a new national mac, canada. our father is the founder of this address movement, a rock leading she a political group. it became a symbol of resistance to the us led invasion in 2003 and helpful militia to fight american troops during the occupation of iraq. it also wanted by the us government if he's a lead role in the killing of a washington, she a rival in 2003 and the weight of the american invasion and occupation of his

country, mac tyler l father went on the record with some, damming criticism of washington bush reportedly said that his picture will be hung in every iraqi house. no, no, my dear, your picture is now under iraqi. the popularity the united states is diminishing day by day if not every 2nd. we reject the presence of the american army or even the coming by the us forces we reject them. we do this as an act of occupation, thought he said, almost alleviate political and security, unless one by dancing on saga have enormous support in a rock. but is more military followers are bringing tales to the country. he has amended amount among his followers. and the last elections be about a $160000.00 bows all together for his political part. so that basically is the base for his power. that's an all iraq in

back particular, he has a large number of what this book that there is no issue with the problem with the militias. the ironically cool piece which is militia connected to mr. i sent that a good history. so yesterday we had very all day long nights moving by the machine attacked many launch government, post engine, people, even targeted civilians to ukraine now were 1200 of caves. troops have been killed and a failed offensive in the country south. as according to russia's defense ministry, moscow stays the ukrainians, also lost $48.00 tanks and almost

a 100 other armored vehicles off the trying to advance on 3 fronts at once. and being beaten back by the russian military bush to fence. if it's said to have been ordered by president zalinski and came amid intensified ukrainian shelling of civilian infrastructure and southern regions which are controlled by russia, one of the latest attacks hit a key bridge in kirsten region. this on verified amateur footage appears to show the immediate aftermath of the bombing that bridge is mainly used by civilians. local authorities have set up an alternative pontoon bridge to help people get across, but it has also been shelved by ukraine's army. and in the neighbor, it's apples. yeah. region. local russian backs all 30 say ukraine has once again shout the city and of and a goes off on your screen is the aftermath of a previous attack which wounded 9 people on sunday. and a gods always locating it as afo. she a nuclear power plant, which is expected to be visited by a delegation from the international atomic energy agency. later this week,

that's after the facility was bombed multiple times with russia blaming ukraine for attacking the site, which could spark a nuclear disaster. we call it reaction from some of the residents of n a go down. the list of this is horrifying. i have no words. this is over the top, they're just shelling civilians. this is complete lawlessness. we'll see it on luxury. after the explosions and fires, we began to look around. i found the shell fragments, and there is a hole on the 2nd floor where i found even more fragments, which have been sent to law enforcement authorities. and now to don bass, why russian lead forces are intensifying their offensive to take back major strongholds held by ukraine ortiz egleston of reports from the front lines. ah

drone footage is become a fundamental part of the when ukraine. it helps a just artillery fire. it helps confirm hits. it strips the enemy of morale on the outskirts of the town of solid r. there's no rest for ukrainian and russian. how it says we are basically the epicenter of an artillery duel between the russians and the craniums. in fact, the positions of both sides are so close that we can only hear has the shells it like that the russian side, but we can hear the ukrainians firing them. so essentially we can follow the whole root of any shell coming from the ukranian side from the moment it was fired to the point just like that to the point when it was over our heads and

and as it heads somewhere close in the vicinity of the russian artillery positions . bloody gruesome street fights within the town limits have slowed down russia's advance in solid r to a trickle ground. troops are relying on artillery support to clear the way, but keep troops realized that too, while on other parts of the front, russia out shells ukraine, roughly $20.00 to $1.00. here the ratio is way more close. ukrainian shows blow a black smoke at an uncomfortable distance. offices on the ground q our escape, the moment a brief flow comes amid the storm. ah, ah. mm hm. i get done of

reporting from the don bass r t next week, bring you the latest on afghanistan and the trials and tribulations are made. civilians who are still struggling to pace their lives back together a year after they dissolve to s. u. s. military withdrawal left a country in tatas. ah, according to a recent poll, 50 percent of americans think the war in afghanistan was a mistake. the u. s. senate has also criticized the binds in administration for the hasty with that you are describing a push pull out is a legacy of american betrayal. ortiz donald quarter, has no people clinging on to a plane for dear life, only to fall to their deaths, a suicide bombing chaos that was kabul. one year ago, as the u. s. withdrew its troops from afghanistan, that was,

according to joe biden, a success 20000 people evacuated to safety. that numbers more than double, but most expert solar possible. no nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all history. the only the united states had the capacity to will believe you to do it and we did it today. if biden's disorderly withdrawal succeeded in doing anything, it was depriving the u. s. puppet government in couple of any chance to defend itself and the run up to the pull out u. s. air support for the afghan military was cut off. american troops, abandoned bagram air base without even warning the afghan commander there. all the while washington knew the country, security forces would only be ready to act on their own. no sooner than 2030. it's no surprise. the afghan military just cut and ran. special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction found that the single most important factor in the afghan national defense and security forces collapse in august 2021 was the u. s.

decision to withdraw military forces and contractors from afghanistan. these events destroyed fosters morale. in a matter of days kabul fell to the taliban. once it did, thousands of people were left behind afghan collaborators, even american citizens, to fend for themselves against islamic fundamentalism. the failure of senior biden's administration leadership to plan for this fateful day, resulted in a rushed evacuation of hundreds of thousands of americans, 3rd country, nationals, and afghans. it left behind hundreds, possibly thousands of american citizens. tens of thousands of afghan partners and a legacy of american betrayal of allies. this failure of leadership cost u. s. military personal lives and has left tens of thousands behind to an uncertain fight under taliban control. it wasn't long before outrage ensued across the political spectrum in washington. president barnes was today was hollow. one

american left behind is one to many, the fact to his president biden, the bands and american son of gaston live in them at the mercy of the taliban. and isis k, the president made the morally indefensible decision to leave americans behind dishonour was the president's choice. may history never forget this cowardice? oh, then it is clear to me that we could not continue to put american service members in danger for an unreasonable war. i also believe that the vacation process appears to have been a graciously mishandled. i think it has been an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. this is going to be a stain on this president in this presidency. i think he is going to have blood on his hands for what they did. 20 years of military occupation over $2.00 trillion taxpayer dollars down the drain. hundreds of thousands of people killed at the end of it all. us back president ashcroft gone? he fled the country and was accused by afghan officials of taking millions of dollars with him. the same man that washington itself described as paranoid and

undermining for moral a year later, the u. s. still refuses to come to terms with its failure. that's cross live to longest now from the u. s. and it's a ration black many thanks for joining us on the product. i mean, it's good to have you with us. first of all, what do you make of the criticism by the u. s. senate of the withdrawal from afghanistan, a legacy of american betrayal. they called it you agree with that when the withdrawal was chaotic? ah, perhaps a little bit more that it should have been, but it was an amicable but we would leave. and it was inevitable that the departure would be k audit from the very beginning. this was a public government collapse was inevitable. and in a sense, the african army rapid collapse was somewhat of a blessing because it avoided perhaps a year or 2 unnecessary bloodshed. this government has always been

a mirror facade and the instant that we cease to profit up in collapse. our problem was said we ever occupied afghanistan, which has always been the graveyard of nations. i know what are your thoughts on those. he might say the us betrayed afghanistan and it saw the allies in the region . well i think its own portion and any anytime that you you withdraw from the country that youre occupied. you're going to have this happen son for treated. but the fact is that we, we had stayed for 20 years, the american people had been convinced to invest fabulous sums of money that went into swiss bank accounts or, or arms manufacturers. and for wealthy politicians,

the president iraq afghanistan reportedly fled with $150000000.00. he drove 4 carloads full of cash, and they couldn't all fit aboard the helicopter and some, some cash just had to be abandoned on the, on the card tarmac. so even though they're, they're always going to be unfortunate circumstances when you depart. the fact is we never should have been there. we were in, in violent conflict with the culture of, of afghan, a stand. we were flying the rain. most sodomy flag over the american embassy and we were just in the terrible conflict with the way that the people live. and during much of the time that we were transitioning to create this afghan army, about a 3rd of all us casualties. people killed in afghanistan were killed by the

same troops that were trying to train. so it was just a disaster. the u. s. was grotesquely overstretched. there we, we fell the same way that the british spell that the soviet style. now the united states, fortunately, it was done with surprisingly small amount of bloodshed. we did lose 13 troops at the very end. i don't believe they were, they were killed by the taller bond. i think they were probably killed by al qaeda or isis or some, some other operatives. but the taliban had every interest in having a smooth departure and that was set back for them as well as for the united states . now of course, we find ourselves and made the conflicts in ukraine where the us,

the us is against you, have pouring and huge amounts of money and weapons. do you see any other similarities between the 2 conflicts? and do you think there's a possibility that things might play out in a similar manner? i think one of the, one of the things is that a driving force for the united states involvement in ukraine is the massive sales weapons. and the tremendous amount of, of sort of free cash that's floating around available for diversion by the suns are very prominent us senators and all of these deep state actors, the ukraine. it has a tremendous amount of wealth that is owned by the government. and just recently ukrainian parliament has boated to to do a crash program of privatization, which will turn these,

these tremendously valuable assets over to 2 different foreign oligarchs who will come in and pick them up at pennies on the dollar. to some extent, this is what happened when russia transition from, from the soviet union, the federation of russia. there were a number of oligarchs who took advantage of the privatization and, and president brought some order and restored order to that and put it into it. but now you see so landscape embarking deliberately on a program that will basically give away the wealth of the ukrainian people to foreign oligarchs. when i called the boys from doors the world, i cannot mix for these people who were all dabbling in. and the fine art of

profiting from war. so there are tremendous similarities there. there is no american national interest and being at ward in ukraine where we were going in aimlessly, we do not know what our objective is. and we are going in with a tremendously reckless attitude. you look at the, the, at the showing of the chaperones via nuclear plant, biggest nuclear plant and all of europe who is firing the, the shells, the rocket propelled shells that are hitting the nuclear power plant. it isn't russians, it's ukrainians. now, if truth were to be known, there are reports that the american operatives are actually operating.

the high mars systems, my guess is they're not uniformed paypal, they're probably mercenaries, black water type mercenaries. but the us, if they wanted to stop the, a dangerous showing, as i presided, they could do it tomorrow by simply ordering that. and i hope we get a camera picture on what's actually happening. there's potentially a nuclear power plant late this week when it's visited by the i e. a delegation. so we'll look forward to that many thanks for joining us on the program. richard black, former republican virginia state senator, will be appreciate your inside. thank you very much. the washington claims is worried about the unfolding european energy crisis and his promise things to help deal with the threat of potential shortages which have been prompted by us lead sanctions. now the top white house aide says have confidence that europe's

commitment to ukraine will not be affected. so despite b, e use problems on the home front. we're concerned about potential energy shortages in europe as the winter approaches. we'll be latched up with allies in partners to try to do what we can to alleviate any shortages coming through. what we see from a diplomatic perspective, what we see on the economic front. and frankly, what we see on the security assistance front is an impressive and absolutely unchanged sense of resolve in unity over supporting ukraine. well, i'm afraid it looks like it's now europe's turned to find out that washington's promises aren't worth the paper on which they're written. in a letter that the wall street journal editorial board has described as bullying. u . s. energy secretary jennifer granholm has instructed the nation's top refiners, including exxon shelby p and chevron, to refrain from exporting fuel at a time when america is european allies are in deep need, given the historic level of u. s. refined product exports. i again urge you to focus in the near term on

building inventories in the united states, rather than selling down current stocks and further increasing exports. granholm cited quote, historically low inventory levels of gasoline and diesel in parts of the country as the justification for looking out for america's interests. first, the last thing, the biden and the democratic party need right now heading into the november mid term elections is a fuel shortage. that risks handing victory to the republicans. brussels was led straight down the garden path by washington and sanctioning its own cheap gas supply from russia. recalled back on june 27th, that the e u and the white house issued a joint statement saying that they were quote, working together to find ways to further reduce rushers, energy derived revenues in the coming months. and that quote, the united states and the european commission have made important strides towards reducing the european union's dependence on russian fossil fuels by decreasing

natural gas demand, cooperating on energy efficiency technologies, and diversifying enter supplies. great. so where's the help from america? now while the truth is that washington just doesn't currently have the infrastructure to meet europe's massive needs and faces environmental pressure against any such expansion. so the e was stuck having to run door to door worldwide, begging for gas while the u. s. energy secretary tells it's fuel companies, kids turn off the lights, hide behind the couch and pretend that no one's home, especially if it's that you guy looking for energy. meanwhile, here in france, prime minister, elizabeth bona just told an annual meeting of the countries corporate executives to draw up quote, energy sobriety plans. oh, we're all just so drunk on energy here. we need a sobriety plan. so basically, the french government is now resorted to treating its corporate citizens like drugs in a pub at last call and threatening to cut them off with rationing. speaking of hubs,

those in the u. k. now risk mass closure over energy costs, by the way, the ceo of multinational shell oil and gas company isn't sounding too optimistic about any of this. it may well be that we have a number of winters where we have to somehow find solutions through efficiency savings through rationing and a very, very quick build out of alternatives that this is going to be some how easy over i think is a fantasy that we should put aside easy to say for a guy making around 6000000 british pounds each year to dictate how the working class ought to live in sacrifice. or for us energy, secretary, granholm, or for western establishment deletes who don't struggle to cover basic living costs as they skyrocket. it's a scam, but they don't care because they know they personally will escape the consequences of their own policies. so when the french president announces that his people are facing the end of abundance,

he's not talking about himself. he is not facing the end of abundance, none of them are mac crown, and all of them understand they will always be re and always be protected. they know that for certain, washington is looking out for its own interest. first and foremost, an individual member states should consider following hungry example in doing what's best for their own people, you know, hungry with it's new nuclear reactor announcement built with russia and it's new gas deals with russia. they should be looking out for their own people and independently securing their own energy need before it's too late. or the u. s. is accused of undermining china sovereignty in tie one. beijing has both faith in america's bank chaos. china's influence in latin america is growing with ecuador, the latest countries who are not a free trade agreement with beijing. i could always production, trade and investments minister julio, jose prado announced that the administration of president guillermo le su, seeks to achieve a free trade agreement with china. this year,

ecuador join. you are quite panama colombia, aunt nicaragua, in signing such agreements or 21 latin american countries are also passive aging belt and road initiative. since 2002, china's total trade with the latin american countries have skyrocketed from $800000000000.00 to nearly $450000000000.00 in 2021. journalist gregory will puts face at americas dominance over latin america. the latin american countries is waning. china is offering much better conditions in terms of its investment in terms of the deals it's offering to latin america. and so it's making it a lot more interesting for the countries of latin america to switch towards china instead of the united states. and of course, the fact that the countries in latin america have have had social movements that have moved the government towards the left, basically with it,

which are more critical of the united states. at the same time as china has become a much more viable trading and investment partner compared to the united states, the summit of the americas that took place in los angeles this year earlier this year was basically a big failure because lots of governments and latin america decided to boycott, their participation are refused to participate in that summit and to the u. s. essentially sabotaged its own summit, which was the 1st and over a decade our in our, in on us soil. and so that was a very embarrassing situation, and it's really quite stunning how you know, all these foreign policy experts from in the bible and ministration did not seem to think that this would happen in the past. there are literally in the back pocket of the united states government, and that is definitely no longer the case, especially with what had been what some have been calling. the 2nd pink tied

to russia is crimea now where life goes on despite the nearby military conflict plus massive western sanctions. first imposed in 2014. we spoke when italian entrepreneur he moved the peninsula 13 years ago and opened an ice cream shop in the city of service, topple, robust, so lately, plans to move saying that with the ongoing european energy crisis, it's much easier to do business in crimea. it also say the sanctions do do no significant harm to screen business. and despite the fighting in ukraine and don't bass, he felt quite safe in crimea. all the problems we solve in 201415 because after death, you know, we are here. everything on my italian product is made the bit the with a 95 percent pro doctor from from russian meal for fresh cream for italian product that i use for business. no problem because

they came before they came, they came in during the period they became now people old, make the scandal. bees in spring of the stuff from italy. this company they could unload along the timer. but anyway, will everything case cummins come in? no problem. so far, you know, we didn't starting february now he said, how was though, actually didn't know that somebody's gone everything good. was there pretty, pretty good. i was wanting to leave now, you know, with survivors we surviving going in this by this. it probably is a little be, you know, dangerous to where we can see. our business is going on a family's gould, a my, me, babys now started to go to the school. and so i and i don't see big problems you know, when you, thanks joining us aeronautics international will be back in 30 minutes with the very latest. we'll see that oh,

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