a, a with disturbing images from the city of dun ukrainian strike killed 13 civilians amid the continuing attacks calls across the don bass for a vote to join russia with president biden says washington will defend taiwan if beijing takes military action. going directly against the longstanding one china policy and infuriating china. and while the u. s. is pushing south africa towards a green energy policy, the country faces a series of widespread power outages.

a lot of scouts of 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 front lines and the don bass and ukraine. russian troops have been holding control over the eastern part of cooper, despite regular shelling of the city by key ebs forces. while heavy fighting is ongoing in the cities of young poll and crosby, lea mon, that remain under the control of the russian lead forces. and so the dar ongoing clashes are reported as well. and to the darnedest city were 13 people, including 2 children have been killed and at least 8 others wounded and a ukrainian artillery attack on a crowded public area. on monday. a warning you may find the following images

disturbing a ah, just this comes as the civil chambers of both lugens and on nets. people's republics have called for an immediate vote on whether the republic should become a part of russia. archie corresponded murat garcia, joins us live now from the hearse on reagan. now murat, what more do we know about this latest initiative? and has there been any comment from moscow so far?

what we've seen within a matter of hours, both the civil chambers of the didn't, it's people's republican, the guns people's republic booth appeal to the heads of their respective republics, to initiate referendums, across state referendums, to join russia once and for all. this is 8 years after both regions voted host referendums on independence on leaving ukraine. what followed was 8 years of civil war for friendless shelling. what we saw yesterday that we have has been happening for 8 long years. some days it's. it's not as bad some days. we have 13 people dead in the, in the single strike. and this year, you know, this is pushed people over the years to seek security from russia. they have their bag, they have appealed to russia to protect them. and also to let them join this isn't

anything new, it's what, what is new is that they have appealed, officially to the heads of their states to hold referendums in the near term. and to join russia once had for all which would, which would carry all sorts of consequences. it would certainly be seen as an escalation, because now ukraine wouldn't be at war with, with just the pro, the republics, the breakaway republics of lugens can yet, but also against russian territories. and the europe and the united states natal nations would be supplied weapons rockets, missiles, to ukraine, to wage war against russian territory. so suddenly, as this food for thought there. but it would also have other consequences, such as the unification of local law with russian federal law, as well as the, the financial systems, the labor rules, and much more than the military is as well would be out,

would be joined together. certainly a lot of a lot of different changes, but what ukraine has done with, with the shelling, endless shillings is made people we are asked the question, is it worth it now holding these referendums when the situation is, is so drastic when the situation is so violent many people could potentially die. 1 on the day of the voter or whether it's a stretch it out of the course of a week. for example, ukrainian chilling would be as it is now, ceaseless people would, would certainly perish as a result of that. but experience from the 2014 shoes that the referendum can be held even during violent armed conflict, as it was then among the logos this, there's a lot of hope. even here you can song those, you support russia, the, the, if this happens in the near can, logan's, it could happen, have san province euclid's, have san province in separate orgy province where people could all 2 votes to join

russia to do away with 3 decades. and the ukraine them under encroaching nationalists are teens moran guys. the ad. thank you for that report. jo biden's 1st one on one interview and over 6 months caught the public by surprise as his comment outraged both health officials and ordinary americans from claims that the co that pandemic is over to stealing that held get control of inflation ortiz. caleb martin explains 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 stroll 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 u. s. president. so you write me, i can make it sound like. busy of a sudden my god, it went to 8.2 percent of the 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 in spite now for someone who's been a top official since 1972 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, coded 19 is over, but all you have to do is look at the number of cases that's been rapidly rising.

my goodness, these folks are clue this. it's no wonder the parties a train wreck is going to parents would be my tweet theme through november and beyond. sean's democrats keep playing these games with our lives. he doesn't get to just declare a global pandemic. all them is to president append demik isn't like boot cut genes, where you look around to what people are wearing and declared over. let's not give bite and a pass for the pandemic is over. imagine if trump said it, americans who are worried about him being the oldest president in us 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 who are exclusion super so we have 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 19. thank you very much. trisha was to permit 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 t. v cameras for 200 days straight ala bobbin r t new york. the same interview deeply infuriated china as president by then directly said that the u. s. were defend taiwan with military

action if it was attacked, contradicting yet again, america is a longstanding one. china policy but would us horses to send the island? yes, if in fact there was an impression on an attack. us forces us men and women would defend taiwan in the event of a chinese invasion. yes. may fall yellow yet. join us 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 independently. see that china strongly deplores and rejects it and is made solemn complaints with the u. s . side were material room. the white house later walked back by then 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 the island. the latest batch of funding for the island announced an early september included over a $1000000000.00 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 years. a lawmakers have followed philosophies, trip, and reiterate at 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 ambiguities when it comes to the high one question, but we must 1st asked if the u. s. is able to to defend taiwan

effectively even if it wanted to. if the us and kelly just tie, want to send you sold to mean i tried a u. s. b c. think to try to missile. second, we cleared that tree, president of china has passed the us presence in the region. increasingly, more and more scholars argue that the largest threat to the world security is the u . s. the year starts 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, follow up cost, whether it is credible or on this kind of what we see otherwise is that there are numerous cases of lewis, things to digit before it gets built in the american foreign policies. the us and a huge majority off from work and dos when trying to principal. so the majority of the well will not be on the us side the for us. and that report outlining the

ca, torture program will not be published. this after a district of columbia court, rural, do the report would compromise what 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. their report details the c i is practices which were initiated after the $911.00 terrorist attacks in 2001, 4 in suspects were swept up into black site prisons around the world with only some of the apprehensions resulting in formal charges. parts of the report were leased by a democratic senator in 2014 and presented as proof of torture of afghan detainees, and includes finding that cia interrogations were more violent than intel officers ever admitted to lawmakers. earlier i spoke with former cia officer ray

mcgovern, he noted that no one has been held accountable for the highly controversial ca program when people say, well, missouri where 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 think 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 beds are. best destruction in iraq. there weren't any or other things about ties between al qaeda and d rock. 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. and as an army officer and of course, as an employee, i was just trying 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 servers. i gave that back to the head of the house intelligence committee, saying, i don't want to be associated with this agency. 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 us continuing to push south africa towards

a green energy policy and away from coal. that's just by a wave of power outages across the country that have forced people to cope without electricity. archie correspondent, corolla thought, lot 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 opposing 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 you. 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 further bearing. this is probably the worst proceed with possibly looking exposure, which effectively means all of us with regard to 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,

they won south africa to give up coal. but coal has been not only a source of energy, but also an employer to over a 100000 people. in the 1st instance, that term green energy, the only thing green about it is the name nothing else. now that is on the one hand, on the other, 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 there, 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 operated by s, as time continues to take,

the real costs are 2 businesses. and more often this is the soundtrack to the black . ah, to be fed to customers, can it just kinda menu out from the loop because i mean you remain the same but good. we're the one to, to, to lose this. no gain with this legit. it's very 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 generating on the small business. that's not something you do likely because it's a high cost plus the over it's, you know, what people cross south africa is 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, i'm a pasa, 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. the e u has prioritize fuel over food in the midst of the global hunger crisis. this cons, after the european parliament refused to amend a law which would have stopped the use of food crops and fuel production. i just as the expert at oxfam international labeled the vote, a missed opportunity to help solve the situation. the outcome is deadly for the hundreds of millions of people who are staring straight into the jaws of hunger . european parliamentarians are choosing to put the interests of the powerful and greedy biofuel lobby before the millions of people around the world who are struggling to find their next meal. meanwhile, the un food program director warns of a, quote, global emergency of unprecedented bang shoot as nearly 350000000 people.

on the brink of starvation and africa, soaring prices and crippling droughts have made the situation even worse in east africa. the continent faces a fertilizer shortage as prices have risen significantly due to the conflict and ukraine. at a time when the west is blaming russia for the global food crisis, archie spoke with mozambique ambassador to russia, who says the 3rd crisis has been an ongoing issue starting prior to the current conflict. so crisis is india. it started eva from the 4th. this conflict of your fool, we need to find a solution of course and in the war, the comfort is one of the ways of solving the crystal food crisis in the world, but little snot attached to the food crisis to, to conflict. it's, it's a, it's a room way over analyzing the problem ah, now to

a head cover controversy. indian supreme court is presiding over the appeal of a large groups of muslim students. after girls were banned from school classes for wearing a he job back in february. indian rights groups have slammed the lower court's decision as one of quote, robbing women of education are cheese. runjun sharma has a story in the south and in state of karnataka. in february, the c r was them, students wearing a jobs were stopped from entering their college. the students argued against that decision, calling it a while asian of their fundamental rights. but the states high court upheld the ban on muslim woman wearing a jobs in educational institutes. the court said, the prescription of a school uniform is a reasonable restriction and that students can not object to it. 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 hour forcing young muslim girls to make a terrible choice between education 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 the cut market 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 was he has been fueled by the hindu nationalist government in india to rob 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 that many of those have already dropped out in canada that are coming that are 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 8 o'clock in the court judges or hinder men decide what muslim women should wear. that's not fair. any. so yeah, the logic behind this job and it's completely flawed. i don't think it makes sense . you have started with the binding, he job in the universities and schools and then it's going to come to work places and then maybe public places. what do you want from us with a little more that the supreme court will see the matter differently? muslim goes for the clock, maybe set backwards. runjun sharma, r t, new delhi. a high ranking, a politician has suggested that turkey should face sanctions if it joins a china lead, economical lions, the shanghai cooperation organization, or german m,

p. 's says nato and the e. you must keep a close eye on turkey's president air on nato and the european union must ask themselves how long they will let air on dance around on their noses. nato member turkey is doing more to circumvent european sanctions on russia than china. air due on puts the brakes on finland in suite and joining nato, and now he wants to join the s t o together with iran. it is time for a robust turkey policy. turkey is currently considered what's called a dialogue partner in the organization. european politicians have said that turkey a native state has been leaning away from western influence in recent years as it builds ties with the east. we heard from you says era editor at large of turkish broadcast or t r t world who says turkey doesn't need permission to set its own foreign policy. because why do you need to get permission to partake in multilateral diplomacy or

improve relations with countries that the you find uncomfortable when we look at the actions taken by the you taken by the united states at the time they tried to restrict the circus diplomacy, restrict turkish foreign policy, restrict turkish weapons, procurement. it backfired on the west. it's backside on the us, it backfired on the you. and to continue down, it depended that so i don't see any difference with this going. i'm, it seems that he's interested in taking part in the shanghai for cooperation organization from the report that we're seeing, that it could be a possible application for a membership in the future. and when you look at the circus present the participation at this time, it was a very fruitful. that's all for now. be sure to check out our t v dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see right back here

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