a, c, b and the same it about them. a percentage of a correspondent is almost hit by ukrainian military shelling. russia says he has a counter offensive are little more than a classical ploy. drama, more weapons support in the west. south africa host, the world's 2nd largest mining exhibition and bringing cutting edge technology to thousands of investors with queen elizabeth the 2nd case. longest ruling, monica dies, age 96,

a 70 year range band with colonial era. the diminish role in our house, on the with also coming up a major european publisher has called for a band on chinese owned social media platforms, thought of using it of collecting personal data with, from las go to the world. this is out the international. my name is peter scott. and these the top stories this hour an insane counter offensive knots how the russian envoy to the un describes ukraine's latest offensive. adding, it's little more than a desperate effort to get more weapon support from the west. but silly napoleon just says that ukraine did, however, we take several villages, but there has been no such breakthrough ortiz broadcast, different reports from the from line. put off a short lull, the ukrainian counter offensive,

so called counter offensive began here in kennesaw region about a week ago. for the 1st few days, there was ferocious fighting. the ukrainian side took a number of small villages on the outskirts of russian control territory, but we saw at what price those villages, which have no strategic value would take it hundreds, perhaps thousands of ukrainian soldiers perished just here in kennesaw on region, we saw of course, the were the world saw the videos of hundreds upon hundreds of ukrainian ambulances ferrying soldiers injured in this offensive away from the front lives, the hospitals, and nikolai, and giveaway rogue 2 cities. are you creating controlled cities nearby, but this same offensive has now been repeated up north in kirk of region, where they took over the town of vala, clear

a bigger town than anything they had taken over here. in kennesaw region, the russian contingent in the town retreated in good order. there was fairly a fight for the village. for tactical reasons, they choose to retreat, but your greatness is trumpeting this as huge as a huge victory. they are claiming that their counter offensive is working despite all the evidence of the country, and that is the extra ordinary losses in material losses in tags and armored personnel carriers vehicles which now liter the battlefield here in here, san province. we were there closer to the front lines yesterday, this very difficult to film all of this because most of the losses are in the grey zone and no man's land between brushing lines and ukrainian lines. and they are, they are throwing everything they have into the fight. that is our pillar attaching suicide, drones. everything that the, the west supplied to you, craig,

is now being thrown into the grind a, along with ukrainian troops. who many of them we have seen again the videos online? believe they're being used as cannon fodder given all the losses that they have taken. we've also seen huge lines of civilians in cars. desperate to get out of the file, the firing lines, a huge fuse again, hours and hours law of waiting to get out of there to russian control territory deeper perhaps into russia, to escape the fight. given the fact that ukraine has increasingly begun to use artillery high mas american rockets to attack civilian targets in north america, holtgrewe. yesterday a 5 story apartment block was devastated. 6 people. a 6 civilians killed whether ukrainian la rocket like that near the roof. it took down every floor,

all the way to the ground floor, but again, this continues here and your song every day. every few hours we hear anti air defense is far and away. at more euclidean launches in the field, closer to the frontline belly, 20 kilometers from here. we also hear that ukraine encounter this counter offensive these, these troop charges ceaseless, but they haven't stopped. and again, that ukrainian forces are suffering tremendous casualties along the periphery of the front bloods and staying with ukraine and italian reporter has been wounded by a ukrainian mind while covering chaos. movements in the south of the country, russian soldiers came to his 8. this footage you're seeing now shows the damage vehicle that had been carrying the journalist to the contact line. he was abandoned by ukrainian soldiers who'd been accompanying him and his driver died on the spot that's according to russian or authorities. here are 1st on accounts from those of the scene

with me, we were in position when we heard an explosion. we reached the car and realized it was a foreigner who did not speak russian. well, we understood that he was of military journalist, marcia, from italy, from milan. we gave him 1st aid as he had multiple shrapnel wounds. he was then given something to counter the pain. and after that, we pulled him from the car and carried him through the minefield. ukrainian troops were firing at us and we staggered our movements so as not to get hit. but in the end, everything went fine. the journalist is now receiving medical treatments and his life is understood to be out of danger. in the news, the biggest african exhibition of mining equipment comes to a close to day friday in south africa after 4 days is being billed as the

continents leading exhibition in the field. elektra, mining africa, has a 50 year long history and is 2018. expos saw 30000 people visit exhibition presents cutting edge technologies in mining, electrical and automation fields. attracting investors from all over the world are te correspondence career. both left sadler brings us more details for 50 years. electro mining africa has been a corner stone exhibition for businesses and professionals in the mining electrical automation manufacturing, power and transportation industries. from all over the continent, but following a to yeah, i 8 is due to the coven. 19 pandemic is my annual event is back with a bay. the vest wag group is a brazilian company expending into the bricks. countries with presence in china, india, and now south africa that countries decades long,

chronic electricity challenges present an opportunity for new bricks. putnam, by getting our efficiency hire usually each step of deficiencies around 20 percent less losses. we are making available more energy for everyone. we are actually capable of doing less costs for the total cost of ownership from our customers and at the same time help growth on, on, industry and overall country because we're lowering their losses on, on the grid. energy shortages and power cuts in south africa have curtailed growth across economic landscape. for years, mining has been the bedrock of south africa, g, d, p. but some investors say it's not all doom and gloom some you know that he really dog summary. some of you know, he's still getting off the money industry is it still grew you until now? now that because the current, the, you for a so slowly go away. so i think

a loss also, governments would be how was there's a plan rebuild to plan the reconstruction plane for south africa would have to include the rebuilding of the country's dilapidated railways. millions of dollars worth of public infrastructure has been vandalized and stolen. but for mining companies servicing of their own railway infrastructure, it's a non negotiable conditions. underground months have many, many kilometers a rail and the ground at require maintenance due to corrosion of tricks and, and upkeep of the tricks. and this product allows the ro maintenance crews to come cut out sections, replace them with sections, or in cases where the cages that go underground aren't able to accommodate long rail sections. they pre cut the rails done and roll them and it, and it allows that the operation to be completely repetitive, with, with perfect air tolerances for fall, the connections they impact of the global pandemic. and the economic decline that

was already visible in the south african economy prior to coven 19, have all shown as what light on the effectiveness of the partnerships that south africa hayes, and more and more company from the developing world, continue to think and find opportunities in each other's economy and the sentiment here and electro mining africa conference is that sustainable solutions and partnerships in the energy and mining sector. it's exactly what countries like south africa need right now that i'm willing to change on his work for r t international. in other news, queen elizabeth the 2nd has passed away at the british were from his residence in scotland after recurring health problems. she was 96 years old. dozens of people gathered near london's buckingham palace as news of her death spread throughout the country. and the british flag was lowered on all government buildings across the u . k. earlier this year, the queen celebrated her putting him jubilee mocking 70 years on the throne road.

his son has now become king, king charles the 3rd. let's take a quick look at the legacy of queen elizabeth the 2nd britain's longest bowling monic. my margaret true. i feel too much for you to share the danger. ah. renew every one. in the end, all will be well, ah, she came mechanic and a driver. and she sat up with normal other girl recruits in classrooms and learned how to take up the trucks. i did cab before you my, when i was there is no short shall be made to deal with. and the carol family which we i was hi.

am i to my train? i oh i, i had a chance to join in the shed objective of creating a safe, stable future of her people and from the planet on which we depend. none of us underestimates the challenges ahead. but history ition between nations come together in common cause. there is always room for working side by side. we have the amenities to emerge in some audible problems and

triumph over the great use of adversities for more than 70 years. i have been lucky to meet and to know many of the world's great leaders. and i have perhaps come to understand a little about what made them special, the united kingdom and around the world. people have risen magnificently to the challenges of the and i am so proud and moved by this class, indomitable spirit, to young people in particular. i say thank you for the part you have played me. queen elizabeth, the 2nd was the leader of the british commonwealth, bringing together more than 50 countries. but the census support has been called into question in recent years, particularly in africa without the correspondence policy or explains well,

if i can provide you the perspective here from africa, of course, for many, the queen is a symbol of the greatness of the u. k. but she is also a symbol of its demise. you have many countries in the world, particularly countries here in africa that gained independence from the crown during her reign. and mrs. despite her attempts through the commonwealth to re establish the empire, the queen never acknowledged any wrong doings on behalf of the royal family or on behalf of the u. k. in terms of its colonial history and its colonial policies here in africa. so for example, if you take south africa way, i am, if you had to ask the average person in the street, what they think of the british royal family. many of them associated with south africa's colonial past. and their colonial past obviously paved the way for the implementation of a parties. i must mention at the same time though, that the queen was friends with the iconic freedom lead and nelson mandela. and she

was seen as part of the soft power that put pressure on the apartheid government and bought about its demise. having said that though, the queen paid little attention to africa. she seldom mentioned africa. and all her attempts to keep the empire alive through the commonwealth did not seem to work here amongst african countries. this sentiment expressed in the next clip is very much representative of the feeling on the ground here, amongst many africans shoes, becoming a row of and here we know about chinese prison, a judge in ping, or russian president vladimir putin. not the queen is also feeling on the ground that with the passing of the queen, the commonwealth itself might become irrelevant. so, with the queen now gone, you have issues of mere colonialism. issues of africa's poverty no longer receiving any more attention than they did when she was alive. so it's no wonder then many

here feel that the u. k has lost africa, largely because again, many people here will tell you that the queen simply did not care about this continent. i was just thinking about the star of africa. i mean, it was the common diamond that was found in south africa basically and was given was named after the man you are in the mind. it was given basically to the wrong family on the things we have about $400000000.00 in right back crown and building calls for it to be returned to africa in terms reparations. i mean, i was a very difficult one when you think about how many countries were talking about and how many people were talking about reparation. beverly from slavery to colonialism . i still don't saying england's origination anymore that they can actually afford to come up with reparation. in the cynics say, the commonwealth is the british empire on the cheap, which i suppose if you look at it and you can still go to go argue with that. but

then again, having said that, despite breaks it, which i don't think is domination any good at all. and what i think is that there will be attempts to keep the commonwealth together. anything, any form of brotherhood of nations is a good thing. no matter who you are, which country you are, cher shortsightedness is the you reportedly prepared to decide if a visa facilitation deal with moscow were suspended. russian spoke formerly as a carver bluster to those times abandoned tourist visas for russians. looking to enter several baltic states and poland, i told that you can actually recall that freedom of movement is guaranteed by a number of international legal documents. we require confirmation that for our citizens and the international community. these documents are now dead for the ball . the countries of restoring yet left the 20th along with paul, and it's now clear to everyone that the basis of you'd be except and is

a statement divorced from reality according to which would be the thing e u countries. as they say, if some kind of privilege they must be earned for a loyalty in support for the policy of the 4 countries are preparing to introduce a band on russians entering the church on september 19th. while the european council is to decide today, if it be the facilitation do with moscow will be suspended. now that would leave many russian tourists look into trouble for the you facing a more expensive and difficult application process of the contributor to martin has more. remember that lines of george orwell. dystopian novel animal farm, that all animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others. while the european union seems to have ripped a page from orwell, with its new visa policy for russian citizens, which has just been officially published. so under the new rules, russians will have to pay more for a visa to visit e you, $80.00 euros instead of $35.00 processing could take up to $45.00 days as opposed

to the current 10 to 15. and multiple entry visas will be tougher to get. the e has also said that it could ask for more documents from applicants. the question is, what kind of added information could they request? and this is where they risk betraying their own stated principles. because apparently, the e considers that some russians are indeed more equal than others. but who exactly the e, you will remain open to certain categories of russian visa applicants traveling for essential purposes, including notably family members of you, you citizens, journalists, dissidence and civil society representatives. so in other words, there's a political litmus test for a you entry russian dissidence and civil society representatives who denounced their homeland and adhere to the you and western agenda will get a green light. it's not hard to imagine. that's what the e e was referring to when referencing the extra information that they could request

from visa applicants. but the you itself denounces discrimination on the basis of quote, political or any other opinion. it's right there in black and white on the commission on website. any discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, color, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion. membership of a national minority property, birth disability, age or sexual orientation shall be prohibited. discrimination on the basis of birth is also a if no, no for the you, but that hasn't stopped baltic, you member states, lithuania, latvia, and estonia from unilaterally planning a total russian visitor ban at land border crossings for later this month. and on september, 1st, finland, cat, the number of visas issued to russians by 90 percent. all this means that russian visitors to the e u who enter through land crossings in these neighboring states. because recall

that direct flights between the you and russia have been suspended, are being singled out. these member states are violating the e principle, not to discriminate against people based on birth. and brussels. well, really doesn't seem to mind. apparently, when it comes to russia, anything goes for the you. as long as the end justifies the means of a major publisher that's owen's politico, and business insider has cold for a been on chinese own social media platform, tick tock, citing the needs secure, the privacy of his uses. tick tock should be banned in every democracy. we have at the moment, and now you've take with dealing with china, we hand over personal data to the chinese government. it is of course, a tool of espionage. usually words like democracy and ban don't walk hand in hand. democracy is about the free exchange of ideas,

a market place of interpretation, where the people get to make up their own decision, but not when countries like china come into the picture. it's similar to how r t has been banned across europe for daring to challenge the nato interpretation of events and ukraine. either follow the globalist line or you must be silence. that's the way a lot of western voices are talking these days. notice that no one's calling for a ban on instagram or facebook or google, despite their well known relationship with the u. s. government and it's intelligence apparatus. do you remember the cambridge analytic a scandal? 87000000 facebook users had their personal data turned over to a private firm that used it for political purposes. outrage and lawsuits ensued on average, how many data points to space book? how about each facebook user? i do not know off the top my head, so the average for non facebook platforms is 1500. it's been reported. the facebook

has as many as 29000 of data points for an average facebook user. you, it, many, many talents of this story are the original bad guy or the guy who took the data from facebook and sold it to cambridge analytic guy, the political firm in a word. was it wrong to do that where you wrong? at the time where the thing we're doing anything wrong that was just our normal business as usual practice. i think right now absolutely are viewed as wrong. now that we know how people feel about it, she spook has disclosed that food parties can access to what you may have thought was private information. studies show that social media outlets are constantly tracking you and collecting your info. instagram was found to be the most invasive of the apps with 70 percent of your personal data collected and stored. whistleblowers, like edward snowden have told us over and over about how u. s. security agencies are in need deep and americans private information. the facts are there, if you care to hear them drop out chip is essentially an application that the an

essay can push to your phone either through. i'm tricking you to download software, essentially via one of those mechanisms. they send software to your phone that essentially takes over your phone and allows in a say to send commands to it that collect your data that monitor your s m s, the turn on the microphone, the camera, et cetera. donald trump tried to get tick tock band for alleged shiny his ties, and he failed to do so. so now this wealthy german dob for says it's time to get this censorship process going again. he owns business insider and politico among other publications. so his opinion matters, i guess it's not enough that alternative voices are being banned from many platforms. now this, censorship has got to extend to making sure that alternative platforms cannot compete. they say it's in our national interest and that free speech has to stop somewhere. well many americans are. ready looking at the rising costs of gas and

food struggling to pay their bills and asking themselves, who is all this censorship really serving? caleb martin, r t new york. for those are the main stories this are, do you feel free to head over to our t dot com or our social media pages for more on any of the stories you've just seen on is peter scott. thank you for watching. ah a with

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