over the hills, a company with a disturbing images from the city of done now as the premium strike kills 13 civilians amid the continuing attacks calls were across the don bass for a vote to join russia with president bite. it says washington will defend taiwan is beijing takes military action, going directly against the longstanding one china policy. and while the u. s. is pushing south africa for the green energy policy, the country faces a series of widespread power outage with

from moscow 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 front lines and the don bass and ukraine. russian troops continue to hold the eastern part of cooper beyond despite regular shelling of this city by cabs forces. while heavy fighting is ongoing in the cities of young pole and craus neatly, mon, that remain under the control of the russian lead forces. and sole adar, ongoing clashes are reported there as well. and to john, yes, 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. oh,

yeah, with just this comes as the civil chambers of both lugens and dynastic people's republics have called for an immediate vote on whether the republic should become a part of russia. our cheese moran gods. diaz has more details. this is 8 years after both regions voted hosted referendums on independence on leaving ukraine. what followed was 8 years of civil war for friendless shelling. and this year, you know, this has 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 joy. 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 tub and to join russia once had for all which would, which would carry all sorts of consequences at 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 the next but also against russian territories . and the europe and the united states natal nations would be supplied weapons rockets miss off 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. but 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 on the day of the vote 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, but certainly perish as a result of that. but experience from the 2014 shoes, a referendum can be held even during violent armed conflict, as it was then among the logos this, there's a lot of hoop even here and can so on those, you support russia. the, the, if this happens in the near can lugens, it could happen and your son province, you grades have san province in separate province where people could all to vote to

join russia. there's been little by way of official reaction from, from moscow and from officials of this we have heard from the leader of the communist party rushes communist party, which still holds a lot of sway him welcoming these potential referendum to join russia. he has also said that his party has been for the guns of the gods and the nearest people's republics, joining russia for many, many years for the past 8 years. and it is expected that more officials and more parties will come out in favor of logan's could. the nearest, adjoining the russian federation ah, co vine ends 1st. a one on one interview and over 6 months caught the public by surprise. as his comment sparked criticism from health officials and ordinary

americans from his claims that the coven pandemic is over to stating that inflation is under control, ortiz caleb mop, and 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. it's not you right me. i can make of sound like. busy of a sudden my god, it went to 8.2 percent of the highest inflation rate. mr. president and 40 here 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, co, good 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 a pen. demick isn't like boot cut genes, where you look around to what people are wearing and declared over. let's not give bite in the past for the pandemic is over. imagine if trump said it. and what about 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. 2 with reflection, supercede we have fewer democracies in the world today than we did 15 years ago. fewer not more fewer akin the son of course, president harris. last week. president harris and i would come

down. thank you very much. trisha used to produce 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 artsy new york. the same interview infuriated china as president by then directly said that the u. s. would defend taiwan with military action if it was attacked, contradicting yet again, america's 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 version. yes. may pal jaelyn 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 will material rooms. the white house had to walk back by the statement, saying washington's policy has not changed. this, as the official us position doesn't commit to military action to defend taiwan, but instead says military aid to be island. the latest batch of funding for the island was announced in early september and includes over a $1000000000.00 and arms with an array of anti ship and anti aircraft missiles to be delivered. the weapons package comes a just a month after you as how speaker nancy pelosi visited taipei, which prompted major chinese military. g drills surrounding the island. a number of

us lawmakers followed on pope policies heels and reiterated washington support for taiwan. earlier we spoke with professor benjamin chow, who question, if the u. s. is even capable of getting involved in the taiwan issue. one is clear, you said that u. s. is moving away from strategic ambiguity when it comes to to tie 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 u. s. encourages tie, want to send the souls to mainland china, the usb risk b. c. think the missiles 2nd recently cleared that you break free president of china has surpassed the us presence in the region. increasingly, more and more scholars argue that the largest threat to the. busy web security is the u. s. b, yes. not to the other 2 to 3 years in the last 100 years, but not for china. china, her cell don't really fight

a war since it opened up is economy to follow up. cost is whether it is credible or on this kind of france. what we see otherwise is that there are numerous cases of loose things to a digital mortgage store. credibility in the american foreign policies, the u. s. and a huge majority of the world and also one trying to principle, so through majority of the world will not be on the u. s. side. that for you, as senate report outlining the cia torture program will not be published. this after a district of columbia court ruled that 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 for least far outweighing the public's interest in disclosure. the report details of the practices which were initiated after the $911.00 terrorist attacks in 2001 for as us back were swept up and black site prisons

around the world with only some of the apprehensions resulting in formal charges. parts of the report were leached by a democratic senator in 2014 and presented as proof of torture of afghan detainees . it includes findings that ca interrogations were more violent than intel officers ever admitted to lawmakers. earlier i spoke with former ca, officer, ray mcgovern. he noted that no one has been held accountable for the highly controversial c a program. when people say, well, mcgiver, why do you get a little upset about this? well, i get upset because it's illegal, but because because it's wrong, people don't do that. the other people and people, i think that that's why they made it illegal. besides that from a practical point of view, as general kim and 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 get them to tell more about weapons of mass destruction in iraq. there weren't any or other things about ties between our kinder 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. 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 on televisions. 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 is continuing to push south africa toward the green energy policy and away from coal. that's just by a wave of power outages across the country. that of force people to cope without electricity, or corresponding corolla that lot talks with vocals who say effective 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 a pause. 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 and further behind. this is probably the

worst, i think we be possibly looking exposure, which effectively means all of us with regard to with grove hours ago. we should effectively meet the end 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 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 meadow. what our 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 ask them as time continues to take the real costs to businesses. and more often, this is the soundtrack to the black up to be fed to customers can a just kinda menu out from the loop because i mean you remain the same but good. we're the $1.00 to $2.00 to lose. there's no gain with these legit. it's very close to 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 if you know what people cross south africa is an aging fleet of coal power stations and be our approach to breakdowns. 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 janice. but the e u has prioritize fuel over food in the midst of the global hunger crisis. this comes 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 ad oxfam international labeled to 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. the 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 magnitude as nearly 350000000 people are on the brink of starvation in africa. soaring prices and crippling droughts have made the situation even worse in east africa. the continent phase as a fertilizer shortage, as prices have risen significantly due to the conflict in 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. suit crisis is it started from the 4th this conflict of your fool. we need to find a solution of course and in to 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 wrong way of analyzing a problem. ah, now to a religious rights controversy where india's supreme court is presiding over an appeal by a large group of muslim students after school girls were banned from classes for wearing a he job back in february, indian advocacy groups denounced the lower court decision as one of the quote, robbing women of an education are cheese. runjun sharma has the story in the south and in state of canada golf. in february this, your muslim 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 a jobs in 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 her job to allow them to do so. now the cotton in the hour forcing young muslim girls to make a terrible choice between education and what they see as their feet. now, the case 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 banned the he job in educational institutions, then i do suspect that many other states might move in the similar fashion.

religious leaders believe that the he job control was the, has been fueled by the hindu nationalist government in india to do all muslims of the religious and cultural space. it's actually a known issue which has been blown out of proportion and made into a big issue already that many goes, have already dropped out in canada that does that coming that dough. many goes a stop going to school. a number of muslim girls, including the petitioners see that wearing a job is 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 why hinder men decide what mostly women should wear? that's not fair. any benefit? the logic behind the sedan it's completely flaunt. i don't think it makes sense. you have started with the banning he job in the universities and 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 goes fear, the clock may be set backwards. region sharma, r t, you delhi. a high ranking you politician has suggested that turkey should face sanctions a bit, joins a china lead economic alliance. the shanghai cooperation organization, or german, m p, says nato and the e. you must keep a close eye on turkey's president aired on. may go in the european union must ask themselves how long they will let air dawn dance around on their noses. nato member turkey is doing more to circumvent european sanctions on russia than china. air dawn puts the brakes on finland and sweden joining nato, and now he wants to join the s c 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 had said turkey nato

state has been leaning away from western influence in recent years as it builds ties with the east. we heard from use of aram, editor at large of turkish broadcast or t r. t world who says turkey doesn't need permission to set its own foreign policy . total. 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 are taken by the you taken by the united states at the time they tried to restrict the turkish 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 on. it seems that turkey is interested in taking part in

the shanghai from 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. and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all of the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you right back here at the top of the hour. ah, ah, ah,

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race move is on often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult. i'm time to sit down and talk with with me. pony welcome to was a part of the humorous journey. one of the most recurrent mythological themes in human history invariably brings the protagonist back to where the old began,

proving time and time again. that's what had been searched for was already inside. this archetype of pattern now manifests itself in this deep rise in russia's domestic travel, as russians faced with visit restrictions in the west, left to explore the reaches of their own country. does every journey indeed leave home? well, to discuss that, i'm now joined by bugs on bullets of popular travel blogger and russia, self appointed ambassador for the arctic and the forest. but on the study done, it's great to have you with us today. yeah, i'm glad that i was paul's cross. the eastern economic forum appears in previous years. all green, the former was attended been man international guys. example, next few subordinates. yeah. not so many. mann middle school and the number of russians in, nor traveling abroad is also gwendolyn. the other hand, domestic travel seems to be as arise now in russia dominant again, many

a touring the country. he loved ca, you think it's because they have no choice, or is there really a lot of interesting things to see in russia? sheffield, number prince of simple, michael bruce thought, i believe it's what they call the silver lining will approach to solomon. but i think it was difficult for people to view russia as a place to explore a series, mainly because international destinations clearly had services are much better quality to offer produced and they were easier to get to not just bay and you're all set up with that the tier rusher was really behind lay in terms of tourist infrastructure and quality of service upon coming at now that people have started traveling around russia or so i'm really happy to see that for many. and now discovering that there's so much more to it than they thought about it late by cow girls, is not the only destination in the east elevator, but this for you so much more beyond that, watson, that in fact crossly our skeleton, which is located here by cow,

it is right in the middle of russia halfway between its western, most when you mind eastern mosul, point source gemstone, i feel great. the see my subscribers exploring the article go and the russian far east with their unique echo systems. and there's a lot to see there to me and what's important which came in. it's also a lot cheaper to visit on compared to well established tourist destinations. surely what i'll see also we're developing transportation networks here. so some of the leading russian air carrier runs regular flights from moscow to most destinations. and the russian far east will cause to the airfare to day score compared to say 5 or 10 years ago. he's so much more affordable. he is to so many interviews, nurse thought certainly such us a you've certainly got a bullet on bed, leslie of nas others near boise miller. not what? wait until you're saying it's about comfort? come for solitude, service and affordability. is there anything else or is this the recipe for a good trip? i wasn't.