ah, a with it's a horrifying and disturbing scene. many people were killed, new or store disturbing images coming from dawn bask where at least 13 people, including 2 children are killed and a massive artillery strike or ukrainian forces and done nest city center. according to local authorities, we hear from residence there in the shell right over my head right here. the only thing that saved me was that i stepped out. china is outraged after president biden's those washington will defend taiwan if aging attack this going

directly against the longstanding one china policy with and then on another concert. and while the us is pushing south africa towards a green energy policy, the country faces a series of widespread power outages with from lost out to the world. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories this hour. we begin with the latest from the don bass were 13 people have been killed and at least 8 others wounded and ukrainian artillery attack on the city of don. net that's according to a statement by the mayor. now a warning you may find some of these images disturbing. the shelling, targeted crowded areas in the city center. this footage shows the aftermath of the

hit on a busy central square where civilians including 2 children were killed while they were stepping out of shops and waiting for a bus. now we blurred out images of the human cost of this latest attack by cubes forces. the attack came in 3 waves. you fast shall landed behind that building of a where the bank is. we do not know where the 2nd one men did. you said one fell right here. there's a bus stop here, a cafe, a market. this is the center of our neighborhood. no one uses cars here. it's a pedestrian area know from, you know, i'm looking in the global, but only the shell flew right over my head right here. so the only thing that saved me was that i stepped out with what they're doing is horrible. you try to survive the boat, it's just impossible. i left for russia, but now look, i've come back would result what i see with you to louis or j correspondence.

maxine altura was in the area covering the aftermath of a previous attack. when he heard about the incoming shelling and rushed to the scene, he brought us this report to the internet because once again been sheltered, the central bach who commissar street has been hit, leaving at least 13 people dead. it's a horrifying and disturbing scene. many people were killed near store, they were just customers were passers by before you while we were documenting ukrainian shelling of another part of the city. this latest attack occurred with the civil chamber of the lugens people's republic has called for an immediate vote on whether the republic should become a part of russia. the chamber says that such a move would facilitate reconstruction and further development in the republic, as well as to ensure protection from ukrainian forces. lugens officials say they

are confident that the republics residents will vote in favor of the move, as many have hope to join russia since the conflict broke out. and don mass 8 years ago, officials in the neighboring done esque people's republic, and the hearse on region have also said they may hold similar referendums. political analyst, dimitri babich says that people have gone to believe that russia will guarantee their safety and provide stability. i don't even think that it will be a part of that rational therapy, and it will give all the support that all the ration therapy tap. it will cover the protection of russian media, g, legal protection. it will be defended by all the minds of the russian states, and basically this is what people really want. they want protection, they want guarantees that they will not be back to create. you know what that means or the principle that he behaves on the conditions that will become

a part of your grade again? well, the key of the local here, the conditions continue to kill people that so now they're patient as wrong. and they want to become a part of russia. that's true. who is the economic loser in the ukraine conflict? the european union, that's from the former group prime minister who slammed the block sanctions policy say neither russia nor the u. s. has suffered any significant impact. here's our t fear, l isabel was more on the european backlash as leaders say they are shooting themselves in the foot in attempts to ban russia. while most high ranking western politicians and power refused to admit that sanctions against russia have thus far been ineffective against the country and have rather been more burdensome to their own nations, it seems that form or politicians, i've been more willing to say the truth out loud even russia is not losing

economically, the rubel has become one of the strongest currencies since the rise in natural gas prices. russia has managed to become the regulator that turns the energy supply tap on and off. europe is going downhill at the moment, and in my view, there's a very clear leadership deficit, a deficit of thinking and strategy. the former greek prime minister acutely noted that the u. s. is itself not losing economically and said that it is europe and the world that are entering a protracted cold war that will result in serious economic consequences. others pointed out that europe is actually helping russia more than ukraine with these sanctions. 7th sanctions package in preparation. who cares? you has now st. exponentially more money to russia and oil gas and coal purchases than it has said, ukraine and aide oil prices are up ruble as even stronger. some are still concerned

about provocative restrictions, lamentable one, former minister of cyprus, took a step further admitting that the sweeping sanctions haven't just been ineffective, but in reality, back fired against all of europe and are further flagrant violations of international legal principles. yet the imposition of sanctions that are fact and even delegated to have proven to be more elusive than originally foreseen at best, the sanctions are ineffective and have done little to tackle the legality of the invasion. at worst, they have backfired. not only against the economists of the states imposing them, but also guests the rule of law that the democracy is imposing such measures to port to uphold. while former politicians continue their criticisms, hsbc bank has proclaimed that a recession is unavoidable. massive protests against sanctions and nato in response to soaring electricity costs have become popular in the u as the effects from the cut in russian supplies begin to show.

ah. unlike former politicians, able to voice their concerns on the sanctions without political backlash. german parliament member sarah vag, inch neck of the left party has been threatened with expulsion by members of her own party. first speaking out against germany's foreign policy and nato. but the idea that we are punishing putin by plunging millions of families in germany, into poverty, and that we are destroying our industry while gas problem is making record profits . yes. how stupid is that? the german left us went after green liberals and social democrats, as grandiose idea of unleashing and economic war against their most important energy supplier, calling for an end to the sanctions on russia and demanding a negotiation with moscow to resume gas supplies. this was unacceptable to her

enraged colleagues. the fact that the left party parliamentary group let wagner take the podium last thursday and the bonus tech and what she then one should have known, let loose was too much. while most current western politicians remain and denial of their current economic reality, the truth is clearly catching up to them. the more time passes and the higher the cost of energy impact their nations. while russia remains largely on skates from the sanctions. how far are they willing to go to show putin and how long the politicians be able to stay silent as more of them are forced to speak out to answer the demand coming from their own citizens. creek diplomat, we're newbies, chris and thoughtful. it says that to solve the ukranian conflict. western countries in russia should negotiate in the 1st place. the big loser in this, in this conflict is sir, is europe the european union and its people,

this so called leadership is adopting stupid measures. that goes contrary to the interests oh, by europe, we are big now with the energy prices and european people that was paying this for the stupidity. oh, the leaders. so energy prices in europe would be who, who, her sanctions and start discussions to full ethical discussions between the washer and russia could are, oh, china has a lashed outlet, jo biden's recent statement, and when she said the u. s. would send troops to defend taiwan. if it was attacked, but would us forces to fin the island? yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack. us forces us men and women would defend

taiwan in the event of a chinese invasion. yes. me from yellow yet. jointly last remarks seriously violate the one china principal and the provisions of the 3 us china joint communiques breached the u. s. commitment, so to not support tie one's independence and send a severely wrong signal to the separatist forces of taiwan is independent. they see that china strongly deplores and rejects it and is made solemn complaints with the u. s. side were material, the white house later walked back biden's statement, saying washington's policy has not changed. this as the official u. s. policy doesn't commit to military action to defend taiwan, but instead sends military aid to be island. the latest batch of funding for the island announced an early september included over a $1000000000.00 worth of arms, and includes an array of anti ship and anti aircraft missiles. the package comes

a month after us house speaker nancy pelosi visited taipei, which prompted major chinese military drills surrounding the island. a number of us lawmakers have followed philosophy trip and reiterated washington support for taiwan. earlier we spoke with professor benjamin chow, who questions, if the u. s is even capable of getting involved in the taiwan issue. one is created said to us is moving away from strategic ambiguity when it comes to the high one question, but we must 1st asked eve the u. s. is able to, to defend taiwan effectively, even if it wanted to, if the u. s. and kelly, just tie one to send missiles to mean i try to us race b, c, think charge missile 2nd. clear that 3 percent of china has caused the us presence in the region. increasingly more and more scholars argue that the largest

threats to the. busy security is the u. s. the year to the other 2 to 3 years in the last 100 years, but not for china. china. so don't really fight a war since it's opened up economy. the follow up cost is credible on this kind of plan. what we see otherwise is that there are numerous cases of lewis things to a district before it gets built in the american foreign policy, the us and a huge majority of from world and also one kind of principal. so the majority of the well will not be on the us side. 5 in controversial remarks over taiwan is not the only thing that is raised eyebrows around the world. with more on one of the president's speech spark, widespread backlash. here's our key, caleb mob been for the 1st time and 200 days joe biden decided to do a one on one interview with american media was a great opportunity for the president to make his case amid emerging economic woes

and dropping approval ratings. biden, however, turned it into a total train wreck after watching the president's for all around for 25 minutes with a pretty sympathetic sounding reporter. it seems like more americans are now questioning his competency. let's take a few highlights right now. inflation is at 8.3 percent. that's pretty high but not according to the us president. so you may, i could make a sound like. busy of a sudden my god, it went to 8.2 percent highest inflation rate. mr. president and 40 year i got that . but guess what? we are. we're in a position where for the last several months it has his spite. now, for someone who's been a top official since 972 and always lived in mansions, maybe it isn't so bad. but for average american statistics show they are being squeezed. at this point, we've got the u. s. army urging soldiers to apply for food stamps in order to make their pay go further. when it comes to the pandemic, joe biden said,

code 19 is over, but all you have to do is look at the number of cases that's been rapidly rising. furthermore, biting did not give much credit to americans who may think he's not at the top of his game. when asked about his lo approval ratings, he shifted the conversation. the impact on the psyche of the american people. as a consequence of the pandemic is preferred. think of how that has changed everything. now people's attitudes about themselves, their families, about the state of the nation, about the state of their communities. cova did it not him classic dodge. and what about americans who are worried about him being the oldest president in u. s. history and constantly tripping over his words. well, not just his words. some people ask whether you are fit for the job, watch me. proof of the put his in the not exactly reassuring if you watch him. a good may circle key with tanks,

but will never gain the hearts and souls of the writing. people with the students we had fewer democracies in the world today than we did 15 years ago. fewer not more fewer than the son of course, president harris last week, president harris and i because how could i mean with thank you very much, appreciate it, mr. wise guy over here. well, that's the president of the united states. i think all recognition is due to his staff for the very good decision they made. everyone can see why they kept him away

from tv cameras for 200 days straight. caleb, bob and artsy, new york, a full us senate report outlining the cia torture program will not be published. this after a district of columbia court ruled that the report would compromise when it called national security. the report contains highly classified information about the c. i used attention and interrogation policies and procedures that would compromise national security of for least far outweighing the public's interest. in disclosure, there were for details the cia practices which were initiated after the $911.00 terrorist attacks and 2001 foreign suspects were swept up into black site prisons around the world with only some of the apprehensions resulting informal charges. parts of the report were leaked by a democratic senator back in 2014 and presented as proof of torture to afghan

detainees. it includes finding that c, i interrogations were more violent than intel officials ever admitted to lawmakers . earlier i spoke with former c i officer, ray mcgovern. he noted that no one has been held accountable for the highly controversial cia program. when people show almost every way you get a little upset about this. well, i get upset because illegal a because because it's wrong, people don't do that. so other people and people. i said that's why they made it illegal. besides that, from a practical point of view, as general kim ins pointed out, it doesn't work, it doesn't give good solid information. so why did they do it? that would come out in the complete report, but it's very clear that they had orders to try to squeeze these, these people and,

and get them to tell more about what been so bad destruction in iraq. there weren't any or other things about ties between al qaeda and iraq. again, there weren't any. so people were tortured some other than confessed to these things just to stop the torture. but there was never good information coming from them as an army officer. and of course, as the employee i was destroyed to find out this was going on a matter of fact, i gave back my intelligence commendation medallion, which i was given at retirement for especially commendable service. i gave that back to the head of the house intelligence committee, saying, i don't want to be associated with this agency. the senate intelligence compete. people are, are equally afraid of what will happen to them. if they release the report, whether torture is going on now. who knows,

all i can say is that no 10, no one was held accountable for this. the u. s. is continuing to push south africa towards a green energy policy and away from coal. that's just by the way that power outage is across the country, that it force people to cope without electricity or g corresponding corolla. that law talks with locals who say ineffective government policies are leading to the closure of small businesses. $45000000.00 to help south africa transition away from coal. this was the announcement by the white house following a meeting between us president joe biden, as well as the south african counterpart. so i'm opposed this at a time when blackouts have been intensifying in south africa, so much, so i'm a plaza cut short his working visit to attend to this potentially disastrous situation. that not only threatens the national economy, but also his own president looked,

president obama was as canceling of his appearance at the united nations general assembly is not going to bring an end to rolling blackouts at the current the countries currently going through because he is himself the sponsor of the current electricity blackouts that we are seeing on the basis of the policy decisions that to him and his government have taken that policy. decisions on energy we ship in economy can catastrophic and financial ruin. as far as con, this problem isn't new. in fact, it's been 15 years of real suffering for south africans who have not only grown desensitized or have also lost hope, will not come to you. we're going further probably on august, probably the worst likely really is be possibly living exposure. which affectively means all of us are gonna suit with grove hours ago. we should effectively mean of small businesses, power generation in south africa. it's not just insufficient,

but also a political question. there's a push by the west to whole south africa up as a model for transformation during the upcoming international climate conference in egypt. this november, the 1 south africa to give up code. but coal has been not only a source of energy, but also an employer to over a 100000 people. in the 1st instance that the term green energy, the only thing green about it is the name nothing else. now that is on the one hand on the other, and it has nothing to do with ensuring that the country is ended. you say kill, it has everything to do with corruption and greedy profiteering. because today, the evidence is that south africa has got supposedly 6000 megawatts of installed renewable power, green energy. and yet we are going through lot shit because not a single megawatt hour ever gets delivered to any user of electricity in this

country. because the so called green energy is not suitable to be on a high voltage, a crate such as the one or pretend to buy s as time continues to take the real costs to businesses. and more often, this is the soundtrack to the black. ah, then to be 50 customers, can it just kinda menu out from the loop? because i mean, you remain the same, but we were the one to, to, to lose this. no gain with this machine. it's data costing long. the businesses, we use high powered equipment, washing machines, dryers, ions are the ones that they're, they're really, journals, they electricity. so you can put a small general review on the small business, or it's not something you do likely because it's a high cost plus the original paper across south africa as an aging fleet of coal

power stations. and be our problem to break down. however, getting rid of them now would be a disaster for the country, as well as for president, settled on the policy. and the longer the blackouts continue, the demo i his hopes for a 2nd term as president, globally shut out of the international from johnny's book. now to a head cover controversy, indian supreme court is presiding over the appeal of a large group of muslim students after girl were banned from school classes for wearing a he job back in february indian rights groups have slammed the lower court decision as one of quote robbing women of an education. our chief run, john sharma has a story in the south and in state of karnataka. in february this your wisdom students wearing a jobs were stopped from entering their college. the students argued against that decision, calling it

a why lesion of their fundamental rights. but the states high court upheld the ban on muslim women wearing good jobs and educational institutes. the court said the prescription of a school uniform as a reasonable restriction, and that students can not object to wit. it's already been a challenge to then go to school in the muslim community in india, wearing a job within me to allow them to do so. now the gotten in the out forcing young muslim girls to make a terrible choice between medication and what they see as their feet. now, the keys has reached in del supreme court and its decision which is expected in the coming days, would have a big impact. if that got knocked at that government section is approved, that you can or band the he job in educational institutions. then i do suspect that many other states might more in a similar fashion. religious leaders believe that the he job control oversee,

has been fueled by the hindu nationalist government in india to resolve muslims of the religious and cultural space. it's actually a nor issue which has been blown out of proportion and made into a big issue already there. many of those have already dropped out in canada that as are coming, that her many goes a stop going to school. a number of muslim girls, including the petitioners see that wearing a job as a fundamental right and an essential practice. and that it should be left to individuals. i don't think a coil. can the court judges or hinder man decides what muslim women should wear? that's not fair. any penalty the logic behind the sedan, it's completely flawed. i don't think it makes sense. you have sergeant read the banning he, darby, lena was, is the schools and then it's, it's going to come to what places and then made me public places. what do you want from us with the little hope that the supreme court will see the matter differently? muslim girls fear the clock may be set backwards. runjun sharma,

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