ah, with a, with protesters said un trucks on fire in the democratic republic of congo after claims the peacekeepers, vehicles were transporting insurgents near the rwandan border. also head on the program. this our, this is the pits, the very bottom, wrongs of a thriving elicit economy. john, his bag is filled with abandon might have like an rti crew in south africa ventures into a colonial era goal. mine currently used by local to desperate to make ends meet amid mouse losers. a recent poll shows that 4 in 5

americans believe their country is boat out of control, just a week before critical us mid term elections with the democrats, fearing that could lose their dominance in government. ah, from moscow to the world, this is our t pleasure that help you with us today. let's get into our top story. protestors have set fire to un trucks in the democratic republic of congo. local, say, the peacekeepers vehicles were being used to transport insurgents near the red. one then border i. oh, yeah, this issue has been simmering for quite some time. there has been fierce fighting between congolese government forces only at su,

named m 23 insurgent group in the border region. now the government believes the militant group is being supported by neighboring rolanda. on tuesday, the un mission said it would conduct this strategic withdrawl from an area where m 23 has been bouncing. is what people in the streets of li, frontier, city of drama, upset about the situation. and i know that to figure out we are asking our president to help us to remove the un mission from here and the fog. all amount is not able to fight this rebels, give us weapons to fide them dumb on his phone, not to test it because of his rebels. we have flatow home. that's why we're angry. and we would just burn these un legals because the mission is making us suffer. you've got to know who's out yet thousands of people in all, protested ngo, my denouncing rwandan aggression and a lead support of m. 23 fighters. that st allegation, by the way, could galle denies the situation in the d. r. c's east has worsened in recent

months. and the last weekend and search and seized control of 2 major tines. doubling the territory. they hold after fierce fighting with the military. earlier the d r c. expelled or a london ambassador, and also recalled its top envoy from that country. independent analysts, alice had 10 gay who specializes in the regions. politics say is that the situation gives the congolese government the mandate for a military solution. when you look in the congo. ready as a new camera in the east africa community, for instance, the expectation was peaceful every one and posterity for every one. anything can happen any time in the same understanding that convoys interesting to me as for the last 21 reason, tired of that. 6 and malaysian of convoys seriously don't, or that, and the leaders of colon political leaders of global needs give answers to the

needle mission, which ever onset is including military asses. tinker. nothing can be excluded of these narrow it should mandate full o congo need is to give solutions of the situation, including military one for georgia. is that all these is it kind of like, whoa, all about the originals does in some bottom, congo being. ready taken away by different forces around some bridge, and it's been a windsor alumni by made reports. well, let me just south of there to south africa where a major mining company is set to lee of up to 2 follows and workers citing a currently unprofitable business structure. the huge cuts by so by me a still water has jeopardize the livelihoods of local minors. on spark concerned

stuff, they would continue working in the shops illegally that says many desperate people in the region of all ready taken to earning a living in on license abundant gold mines. r t correspondent cannibal latasha. house. the story, this is the pits, the very bottom rungs of a thriving elicit economy. john is vague, is filled with abandon myself, like this, with panels that continue to dot if landscape is really why it was once known as a city of gold. this out to you soon as i'm one on i came here to mine gold and i have been doing this for about 5 years. i left my parents back home as well as my wife and my 2 kids. the discovery of gold and diamond around 1852, brought the full weight of the british empire to south africa, both militarily and economically, to control the resources and the profits from his colony. but in the early 20th

century, the african national congress was formed to lead a defiance movement against the colonialists. and when more and more black men refused to dig up the earth for colonial company, the british imported even cheaper labor from south africa, the neighboring country. a legacy of migration that continues today, south africa and some of the deepest gold mines in the world up to 5 kilometers down. in some instances, illegal miners like these. i know locally as ramos, which literally translates to the chambliss as lieu of desperate and documented foreign nationals who come down and mine these shops for the little gold that's left on the ground. dishes in the series m wells is the tools that we use are chisels and hammers. we also use pans and water to wash up the gold. oh, there are still a lot of called left under ground and we work in dangerous conditions. these men

mostly originate from the photo them, bob away and mozambique. men and women continue to stream down to south africa, attracted by the seine minerals and it's a big and coordinated business. but it's also inherently risky and fraught with danger. but who is actually funding these activities? as a lot of us, we just sell the gold, the re sellers, buy it from us, so we don't work for them. we do this work for ourselves. meaning theft has been around since my aiming itself. and in some instances, illegal gold miners will pay legitimate gold miners up to $800.00 for the use of the access cuts to clock in and out like regular workers. sometimes an entire line of people is paid from security guards all the way to winding engine drivers and minus. but the costs are far less for band and wayne chefs like these. but they're

still fraught with danger. hammer told i live busy, i'm not, i'm good. dear god, if one of us is injured inside the mine, we help each other. we take him out, take him to hospital and then visit him there. but around 3 years ago we had 3 fatalities here. more gold has come out of south africa than the rest of the world combined with over a 150 years of tradition. there a huge secondary market for golden south africa. and it's the 2nd hand jewelry and the registered precious metal dealers that i suspected of financing this elicit activity to darrell. yoga you, the most money i've ever made is about $1200.00. i can send it home and my family can buy the things that they need. i didn't was in true capitalist form. when course rose big mining houses picked up their profits and left. they left pits like this. littered all across the province. and they left the little bit of gold the left here for these men to fight over. got

a bill in charge of the and john as well, let's move the program to the latest in the ukraine conflict. now, a tugboat, evacuating civilians from a conflict zone in her southern region that was being targeted by gunfire from a z at all. no identifying individuals, no one who was reported harmed in the attack. the local residents were being transferred due to concerns about ukrainian shelling in the area was also an attack on civilian already as reported on tuesday in another region that recently voted to join the russian federation. the done yes, republic, ukrainian artillery fire was said to have damaged a kindergarten restaurants and residential building at their nevertheless, the region is undergoing a vast reconstruction process. as ortiz remind cost, red can tell us apart. several towns and villages in the nest peoples republic have been completely destroyed by ukraine and artillery. showing right now we're in

a town offer vol, navarra. most of the city looks like this. according to the mayor of vol, navarra, 80 percent of people's houses have been destroyed. now, many russian regions have been fast with rebuilding of the city. now this particular apartment building is being built by she labinski region in russia. and this is just one of many bridges who are working all over the nest people's republic trying to rebuild infrastructure and the lives of the locals, which is the lar school who said that, for example, 85 percent of the cities infrastructure was damaged, residential houses and apartments $22.00 houses are listed for demolition. we have one problem now which is the gas supplying fighting on the front line left the gas pipeline broken. and the head of the region promised to build

a new pipeline from mary opal with the help of the russian federation. and by the beginning of december, this problem should be resolved apart from restoring rhodes, construction of brand new apartment buildings. she labinski region is also rebuilding schools and the kindergarten is now. this particular kindergarten was nearly destroyed by ukrainian artillery shelling. now it is ready to welcome kids come december. now this is just one of many schools and kindergarteners that were destroyed and now completely restored for the kids to attend down as will of emma have. and i suffered a direct head to our society and completely demolished of all and re danish restoration. repay tended to a major overhaul, everything was restored, the entire building has been renovated every room. we also have an old building wherein stations are being completed. this is a typical scene for the major part of the city of vaal nevada. now this is

a future construction site. as you can see, this house has been reduced to rubble by the ukrainian artillery locals. hope that this soon will become a thing of the past from on costs or m. r t vol. never had the nets, republic. and just to tell you an extra from an rti documentary, a bind to russian war journalists has been shown during an meeting of the un security council. now that was done to highlight the challenges media crews faced while reporting from conflicts held a stigma upset with losses. this, with almost a 1000000 look renewed by me. my on facebook, licensed azelli's looted a couple of new when you minute colossus. underwear and you know things natural place heard you was just wishing live the least so. but i think my cell is more

knowledge of you roses. the should lou of sort of life certain i submerged them for the redundant couple. i replaced the toner. yes. oh, good, good feather williams. i sidney. but me warned jesus. and we should i should i am your belief literally. hey, obama. yep. russell, not still in that office here with that there isn't what those are my a similar machine them of a couple that brought me up more about the some with a professional we were sharing with

me. i really does give you a sense of the situation on the ground, doesn't it? at the full version of the documentary currently still in progress is expected to premier. next month you'll be able to watch it on r t dot com. ah, serbia's president has put the country's military on high alert and rising tensions with the break away costs of a region non softer officials. they're tightened restrictions on vehicles with sir being license plates. belgrade has said that a number of all night into fi drones were recently spotted filming military installations and trip arrangements near the regional border as well. sir, be a how scrambled aircraft to monitor the area of potentially shift on any foreign military or craft in while germany has to serbia, it will face consequences over its close ties. with moscow,

a german official told the reuters news agency, the belgrade must choose between moscow or the e. u. the license plates issued by the way, saw served in cost of our rec roadblocks, fire guns into the air in protest. cost of oak considers itself an independent country and has insist that the residence there used locally issued plates for their vehicle. the merger came into effect yesterday. they choose they, here's what some serbians think about in the if say what is being done and why is not clear to me. the people are getting upset and unnecessary attentions are being created. no one benefits from this. neither them nor us, because of in prime minister, courtesy has to give in to people don't want more. with this decision, the government and christianized graduates high chains, a new sanaa citizens for less cross live. now i to political with alexander

povich in belgrade for his take alexander, good to see you today. serbia put its military on high alert though he said that diplomacy is the way to go. what do you think could happen in this situation? well really, the main problem now currently is the prime minister of so called cost of all i've been cur key because he's refusing any sort of compromise even the western powers here by the united states as your country school who have recognized the costs as an independent state they're asked currently to postpone this decision about license plate to give more time to up for a compromise solution. but he's refusing to do that. and as a result, of course, tension on writing and he has done that several times over his mandate over the past year or so. so, you know, we have

a person in please do not who is obviously intent on causing trouble. and the problem with these western warnings, you know, that you know, the, the quint, the so called quinn, the u. s. embassy. they've all asked them to postpone. but, you know, been asked him to tone down before, but it is just words. he has never read any consequences for his hard line spans, you know, they just, they were just saying, well, they don't agree with what he did, et cetera. but they're just no consequences. there's no pressure for him at all to execute what kids government and previous governments in priest didn't have time. so if the kind of, it's once again, it's a kind of a civil, hypocritical stance on the part of the wet in words they are trying to be constructive but an actual they are totally supporting the extreme side. again,

i always make the parallel with ukraine. that was same thing with ukraine and misc agreements. they never put any pressure on here. as a result, we have war and now i'm afraid of a similar scenario. and close of this keeps up. well, not very point, a possible breach of serbia's earth space that's being spoken about. it would be a sizable development. those that are appear alexander to be evidence to support that or was that the other side of the border? well look, this is not a border chang. actually it's an administrative line. because according to un resolution, $1244.00 cost was a part of serbia, and yvette resolution is still active. it's still valid. nobody has resend it. russia and china support support it in an end, the security council, more than half the states in the world don't recognize castillo as an independent

state. so actually even cost itself is a part of serbian territory. but what's happening inside corso, itself is it's another breach of this un resolution. nato is allowing so called cost of to build up an army, according to the resolution. was supposed to be militarized, was members supposed to have an arm, but now they're actively arming them. and more arms are coming in each day, each week they're sending young men to get training just like ukrainians are being sent for training to natal states. so once again, they're making a little new hotspot here and nato, and that they're encouraging actually cost to build up an army to beat the ledger and draw have no place in cost. so it's not supposed to be supposed to be the notarized place until

a peace agreement is reached. can i touch upon another aspect with you as well? the, the e, you trying to pressure serbia over its relations with russia? could serbia become any member and still maintain close ties with moscow? you isn't allowing, it's either insisting on or serbia join in joining the you sanctions against russia in order to just advance in our, in your integration. they're not even promising. serbia, you membership of they're just saying, well, you need to harmonize with you foreign policy and you know, you'll be, you'll be a little bit closer to the ego. but that's, that's become a, you know, it's almost an ultimate 8 m. c. want advanced on your path, you've got impose sanctions on russia and also

a service and clearly informed by germany in the 1st place that it has to recognise . so call course the law if it ever wants to be a part of the, a member of the e. u. and of course, that's something that's unacceptable to any one to any government in belgrade. it's on fact you doesn't have a serious, a serious intention on ever accepting us, serbia, they're just using the coastal issue and the russian issue to $1.00 to $2.00 wield additional pressure against the serbian government. yeah, we await to see at what occurs then in this region and the coming hours and days. alexander, always good to have you taken the program, alexander, public, political, unless life from belgrade. all right, with less than a week now before crucial mid term elections in the u. s. a republican governor as last thought, claiming much of the media remains fixated on the 2020 election,

ignoring the pressing needs of people today. you are in a bubble. if you think anybody's talking about what happened in 2020 or talking about mar lago and all that, i know the press love to talk about it. people are talking about what is happening, their pocketbook every single day. we lost a new poll, has revealed nearly 80 percent of americans quizzes, believe their nation is out of control. while former white house press secretary, gen sucky. say's for at fellow democrats are worried, but momentum has shifted to words. the republicans, people are fearful about where the momentum is going and some of these races. yes, there are very encouraging signs, like the record early vote numbers, but numbers and some of the house races are not where they should be. i think it's a reflection of the fact that democrats are kind of worried about where this is going right now, and it felt worse over the last week or so. we'll talk show host on political commentator steve malik berg believes that failure to get a handle on storing prices stateside is playing badly on the reputation of the

democrats right now. inflation is out of control. prices are just about everything out of control and you have an administration that is not even admitting it not ending in admitting that it's a problem in our country, but basically forming it as a worldwide problem that is out of the control of this current administration. and people, people understand, you see, what happened was, is that the democrats put all their eggs in the abortion basket. back in june, the u. s. supreme court overturn roe v wade, which had given women the right to an abortion. and now they did, the supreme court said it should be up to the states. well, all hell broke loose and the democrats decided that would be what they would run on . well, abortion is pulling down the list of voter concerns, down to about 7 or 10 on the list and what's at the top, the economy, inflation crime. and i don't even think that people are honest with the posters. i

think that a lot of them are afraid to answer questions and be identified as evil. republicans don't forget, joe biden classified mag, republicans as a semi fascist. so who in their right mind, wants to tell a stranger on the bone or yeah, i'm voting republican. so i don't even think that these polls are accurate. i think it's worse for the democrats. the u. s. government housing whitening it's control over major global online platforms under the guise of a supposed campaign to retire. disinformation, according to classified state documents, published by the investigators news outlet, the intercept with more and the tears ortiz maria phenomena. big brother is bigger than you would ever think. not only is the american government to watch in its citizens, but it is also censoring them. that's according to a huge story, released by the intercept,

whose journalists looked at hundreds of documents and emails, mainly obtained by leagues to show how the department of homeland security or d h. s, and f. b. i have for years been closely collaborating with top social media platforms like twitter and facebook to sensor various kinds of content onto the batter, fighting dis information. the department plans to target inaccurate information on a wide range of topics, including the origins of the coven, 19 pandemic. and the efficiency of coven 19 vaccines, racial justice, the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan and the nature of your support to ukraine. toys are responded saying we do not coordinate with other entities when making content moderation decisions. and we independently evaluate content in line with a tweet rules, but the evidence seems to suggest the exact opposite. it's former legal affairs and policy chief am on the 1st to be fired by ellen mosque, met monthly with

a da chess and not only her facebook created a special portal for the government to rapidly request that take down of content, including parody accounts and anti government pandemic policy stuff, but social media is just the tip of the iceberg. the da chesko is to totally control tag joins to like wikipedia or microsoft. here is what is executive a former dia chair. so facial himself, text that the director of the department of homeland security in february, platforms have yet to get more comfortable with governments. it's really to say how hesitant they remain. the calls were for an expensive role of the government's agencies in shaping the information ecosystem. but how this information is defined by the government has never been clearly articulated. the inherently subjective nature of what constitutes disinformation provides a broad opening for

d h. s. officials to make publicly motivated determinations about what constitutes dangerous speech. the d test justifies all that by saying that misinformation can push people to terrorism, but it seems they knew that what they were doing was bad because they hired 3rd party companies to do the research so that it didn't look like government propaganda. subcommittee members discuss designating a point of contact as a clearinghouse for trusted information x and mister hale suggested designating the i sex as a clearinghouse for information to avoid the appearance of government propaganda. but the government's role was hard to sweep on to the carpet as the f b i was deeply involved in the case. as documents show miss danilo, the agent of the federal bureau of investigation known for crushing they hunter by the laptop story briefed. the d test is cyber security and infrastructure security agency. on her vision of the ideal media miss,

tim low was asked to provide her thoughts. she stated, we need immediate infrastructure that is held accountable. we need to early educate the populace, and that to day critical thinking seems to be a problem. currently, the department of homeland security was set up post 911 to counter foreign terror groups. and now it's fighting disinformation. is this america's new war on terror, or is it at terror on its own citizens freedoms? guaranteed by the 1st amendment. maria phenomenal with the report. now the former is really ambassador to the united nations dummy dun and slammed you in order demanding foreign inspectors be allowed to examine the countries nucular facilities are un general. assembly committee recent be overwhelmingly voted to pass that resolution, including to compel israel to dispose of any atomic weapons at man.

that's unfortunate because all those countries who voted on this resolution should ask themselves, what is the source of instability in the region? is it israel or iran? what is the danger and the threat to the region? and i think that they all know that the threats coming from iran and not israel. well, the un resolution is aims, are preventing nuclear proliferation in the middle east. israel of never admitted to having nuclear arms, but many experts and intelligence services consider it to an unofficial nuclear power with the capacity to produce such weapons or so much really officials have openly spoken. however, about recognizing their country as a nuclear state. major general isaac been israel has said that it's time essentially to level with the public about its arsenal as the weapons are the one to but can ultimately deal with regional rivals around. he added that it's quote,

too late for to run for getting the technology as well. no international criminal lawyer, christopher black sees israel has wanted to maintain advantage as the only nuclear power in the middle east. israel has nuclear weapons and is not condemn, but iran, which does not have nuclear weapons, is sanctioned to condemn because they might develop a civilian nuclear program. north korea is sanctioned because it has nuclear weapons even know it is not a party to the non patient for non nuclear nonproliferation treaty and says, all these injustices were the policy rules and the american allies are allowed to get away with doing things, but nobody else is allowed to get away with as just double standard and exceptionalism, as we've seen in every other instance in the west where america and its allies, israel, as in now and a position where it has nuclear weapons and its entire strategy.