[000:00:00;00] a, [000:00:00;00] with a protest, you're set un trucks on fire, in the democratic republic of congo after claims that peace keepers vehicles have been transporting insurgents near the robe, london border, also a head on the program. this is the pits, the very bottom rung of it thriving, elicit economy. john is that it filled with abandoned mind like this on our key crew in south africa ventures into a colonial. you're

a gold mine currently used by locals. desperate to make ends meets and made mass hit. looters. we from cold shows at 4 and 5 americans believe their country is put out of control just a week before critical us mid term elections with a demo proud hearing, they could lose their dominance in government with around the clock across the world. this is our team from the team and myself, you know natal, hello and welcome to the program. protesters have set fire to un trucks in the democratic republic of congo. locals claim the peacekeepers. vehicles have been used to transport insurgents near the red. one didn't border i owe some background to the scenes,

there has been fierce fighting between congolese government forces and the m 23 insurgent group in the border region. the government believes the militant group as being supported by neighboring rolanda. on tuesday, the un mission said it would conduct a strategic withdrawal from an area where m 23 has been advancing. here's what people on the streets of the frontier city of gama, upset about the situation. i got to figure out we ask him our president to help us to remove the un mission from here. and the fog holloman's is not able to fight these rebels, give us weapons to fight them. that will be done. one is going to not do best and because of his rebels, we have fled o home. that is why we're angry. and we were just burned these un vehicles because the mission is making us suffer. got to know what else will thousands of people protested in gama financing, alleged rwandan aggression and support of m. 23 fighters out some allocation by the way,

rolanda denies the situation in the d. r. c's east has worsened in recent months, and last weekend and search and seize control of 2 major towns, doubling the territory. they now hold after fierce fighting with the military. earlier the d. r c. expelled the rwandan ambassador and also recall that top envoy from back country independent analysts al, could tango, who specializes in the regions? politics is not the situation gives the congolese government. now the mandate for military solution. when you look in the congo as a new camera in east africa community, for instance, the expectation was peaceful. everyone and prosperity for every one. anything can happen any time. the things understand is that con, glazed, interesting these for the sunny congress, titles that and the malaysian of convoys serious to do that. and the leaders of

colon political leaders of google needs to give answers to the needs of mission, which ever answer it is including military asses changed or nothing can be excluded of his level. ready it's monday to. ready congo leaders to give solutions to the situation, including military was his daughter. all these are economy, whoa. all about the results geez, in the east and bottom, congo. ready being taken away by a different forces around some bridging to deal with a lender is proven by made reports. let's move south of there on the continent to south africa. want to tell you about this as well. a major mining company a set to layoff up to 2000 workers, citing a currently unprofitable business structure at big rush vacations, the huge cost. my said, bonnie's stillwater has jeopardize the livelihoods now local miners and spark

concerns that they will continue working in the shops illegally. as, as many desperate people in the region have already taken to earning a living in on license i bond and gold mines are t correspondence carnival letter as the story this is the pits, the very bottom rung of a thriving elicit economy. john, his bag is filled with abandoned mind shops like this, with tunnels that continue to dot it's landscape. and really why it was one is known as a city of gold. this out, i guess it's on one and i came here to mind. gold can i have been doing this for about 5 years, but i left my parents back home as well as my wife and my 2 kids. so who yeah. all the discovery of gold and diamonds around 1852. brought the always of the british empire to south africa, bows 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 companies, the british imported even cheaper labor from south africa's neighbouring countries . a legacy of migration that continues to day, south africa as 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 them as amas. which literally translates to the gamblers as new of desperate undocumented foreign nationals who come down in mind these shoves for the little gold that's left on the ground. do silly, suzanne? well, as it is, the tools we use are chisels and hammers. we also use pans and water to wash up the cold out. there are still a lot of cold left under ground. hello and we work in dangerous conditions. these

men mostly originate from the saw to 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 goals. the resellers buy it from us why 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 cards 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 alam izzy, i'm not, i'm good dear to see if one of us is injured inside the mine. we help each other. we take him out, take him to hospital and visit him there to help put 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 darrow 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, whether it 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 as left here for these men to fight over cannibal, attached for oddity in johannesburg. ah ok, let's bring you know, the latest in the ukraine conflict, tugboats evacuating civilians from a conflict zone in the her southern region has been targeted by gunfire from us yet on identified individuals, we should say no one was reported, harmed in the attack. the local residents were being transferred due to concerns about your premium shelling in the area. that was also an attack on civilian areas reported on tuesday and another region that recently voted to join the russian federation that done yet. republic, ukrainian artillery fire was said to have damaged a kindergarten at restaurants and residential buildings. there are 2. nevertheless, the region is undergoing a vast reconstruction process as ortiz from on cost risk can tell us more about several towns and villages in as an, as people's republic have been completely destroyed by ukraine and artillery

shelling right now. we're in a town or 1st of all, nova, 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. richard miller school was interested 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 road construction of brand new apartment buildings shall i. best region is also rebuilding schools and kindergartens. 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 philip im, i have a friend, i suffer to direct head to our society and completely demolished the will and re danish restoration to repay tended to meet her over home. everything was restored, the entire doubting has been renovated every rain. we also had an old building wherein stations are being completed. this is a typical scene for the major part of the city of all 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 call for f r t vulnerable had the nest republic. something else to tell you about an extra from an r t documentary about russian war journalists has been shown during a meeting of the un security council that was done to highlight the challenge as media crews faced while reporting from conflicts on a stick. the upset with us is this with almost a 1000000 what really, by me, my odd fish, by your licensed azelli's looted, look up to the new when you money because fund where and you know, for things national,

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the professional, we were sharing with you so much with the full version of that documentary currently still in progress is expected to premier next month you'll be able to watch it on our t dot com. i can know the story. we are closely following to day sir b as president. how's? pup the country's military on high alert and they'd rising tensions with the break away cost of a region. that's after officials there are tightened restrictions on vehicles with serbian license plates. by the way, belgrade has also said a number of all my dent, if i drones, were recently spotted filming military installations on trip arrangements near the regional border. serbia house scrambled to aircraft to monitor the area and potentially shoot on any foreign military or law. germany has to serbia, it will face consequences over its close ties. with moscow,

a german official told the reuters news agency that bel grade must choose between russia and the you will a license plate. the issue has really capitalized, increasing hostilities with serves and cost of erecting road blocks and firing guns into the air in protest at cost of an authority considers the area on independent country and housing system residents, their ease locally issued plates for their vehicles. now the measure came into effect on at choose the let's have a listen to what the serbs think about it. to me, if say i what is being done and why is not clear to me, which 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 gradually tightens a noose and our citizens always good to welcome live onto the program dr.

stephan guy, a professor of the institute of european studies in bell grid. thanks for your time today. stephan at serbia has put it's military on high alert, but also said diplomacy is the best way to de escalate tensions. what you think could happen here? i think that this does not depend on the serbian side serbs are serbia's estate. ah, we'll do everything not to ah, be involved in some kind of a, of a military conflict. and it will do everything to prevent that. but i'm not sure what might come out of this. so we had at least a dozen on similar situations in the last 5 or 6 years. however, they were not as potent as this one is because it was in

a completely different international environment. now, with the real a war in the east of europe to with the all of nato members participating in that, in the war efforts against russia one way or another. this brings a completely different flavor to the story because serbs are seen by the west and this is not the near thing. and it did this last for last 200 years as the pro russian sacrament of the european continent. so this is exactly what happens now. you've mentioned that this german ultimatum, and this really brings a chilly i'll it say a memories to search because the germans are issued twice. sacha, ultimate was once in 1914. that was all she had the time. ah,

which are which should have actually started world war one. and the 2nd ultimatum was in 1941 on where the kingdom of yugoslavia at the time was supposed to join a fact that hitler and it did. but that provoked of course, the unrest within the population because the serbs remembered were one and still it is with germany. so this kind of rhetoric from berlin really brings up bad memories . but what is different? it is that the germany is now a political and the military midget, which is unable to, to, to say a word about what happened in the north when in the north stream. i nodded, we have these messages that surfaced by liz trust, the famous message that says it's done at that coin size a with the attack against them horse stream. ah, there's no signals from germany. there's no, not, not

a single vision. let me just put some background into what you were saying there, because i want to go a little bit deeper into it. you mentioned there, but germany essentially b. e, you trying to pressure sir, be over it's relations with, with russia. could sir, be a, become an e u member and still maintain close ties with moscow? serbia is never going to become the new member and this was all to the table, at least in my opinion, and an 8. ah, since that time the, you know. busy pretending that it wants serbia in its own, you know, as a member, safe and the, all serbian governments were pretending that we are going into this direction. but this was kind of a, a couple of key theater where everybody knew their role in pretending. so now it's even really less likely that the, any of the remaining states of the so called western mulkins the another. busy

colonial term, by the way, from the 19th century a that any of these countries are going to be joining you. this is not going to happen. but ever the last of these are this really a language ultimatums is, is still being imposed on us. and it is very disrespectful to say the least, and i don't think it really will have any facts precisely because it doesn't have a fact. ah, it is why we see the possibility of some kind of a god forbid military escalation. yet on that point, just brief if you would step in because we saw i mentioned before, drones being used to fill in serbian military installations over the last number of days that's been alleged as well. belgrade has said, the foreigner craft will be shot down. how significant development would that be?

this would be a significant development. similar incidents happen before and serbian military register this i bought that did not act. i think that was a mistake. ah. and now brumley that the overtones window and is opened. broadly, some forces see an opportunity to continue with pushing to borders. basically, serbia is being tested as a state and also the se, torrance of serbian population as well. and now there's literally no a maneuvering space and the serbia has to defend its people. and, and it's interesting, i repeat, no, nobody wants to war here and especially not our population.

since the ninety's were really a decade of wars and, and international sanctions and, and all kinds of unrest. so, but nevertheless, if i, if for surveys a factor, i'm sure it will show beat. yeah, worrying escalation there worrying in terms of tensions as well in that area. staff a will keep a close eye on us here in our to international has always stuff in gaiety professor at the institute of european studies in belgrade. many thanks. thank you. ah, now at less than a week now before crucial mid term elections in the u. s. a republican governor has last night, claiming much of the media remains fixated on the last presidential 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, log and all that. i know the press love to talk about it. people are talking about what is happening, their pocketbooks every single day. when, while a new poll has reveal nearly 80 percent of americans quiz,

believe their nation is out of control, while former white house press secretary, jan sucky has admitted her fellow democrats are worried. that supports for republicans is rising. 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 them political commentator, steve millsboro believes the failure to get a handle on soaring 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 having and 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 of 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 heck broke loose. and the democrats decided that would be what they would run on. well, abortion is ball and 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 on last, her intention to south asia pakistan has entered a 5th day of protests led by the former prime minister in run, come who is travelling to the capital islam a bond with a view to staging a political come back government level, local journalist sent us the following report. good. a week. they went on with amazon. when enron khan calls for protesters to go to islamabad, they will all go because they believe their leader. that is why people trust him and have joined him this last day i. we have joined him because im ron khan is

standing for the truth and justice. we will follow his every step. we will go to islam about on foot. i will stand by him until i die class. i'm gonna go him run con, resolve problems he has promised this. we are going to islamabad in our own vehicles . i support a sub with grab a bit. median is lamar. we other thing is fall of odd. think ever done,

or not seats in a couple of weeks. former is really ambassador to the united nations deli delane, has slumped. the un ordered to amending foreign inspectors be allowed to examine the countries nucular facilitates a un general assembly committee recently overwhelmingly voted to pass that resolution, including, to compel israel to dispose of any atomic weapons it may have. 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. the un resolution is aimed at preventing nuclear proliferation in the middle east. israel has never admitted to having nuclear arms, but many experts and intelligent services consider is an official nuclear power with the capacity to produce such weapons. well,

some is really officials have however, openly spoken about recognizing their country as a nuclear state. major general isaac ben, israel said that it's time to level with the public about its arsenal, as the weapons are the one tool that can ultimately deal with regional rivals around the other day. it's too late to stop here on gaining the technology to international criminal lawyer. christopher black sees israel has sought to maintain a secret advantage of the only nuclear power in 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 the nuclear nonproliferation treaty as 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 it's 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 is to suppress anybody else from gaining nuclear weapons, reading nuclear potential as syria or iran. and remember, it's attack to your ran it attack syria and 27 to bomb it's nuclear facilities. it's assassinated iranian scientists, and many other people to try and prevent any, any other middle east and power becoming a nuclear power, as they are noted, states supports them. so the international community so called which means really means united states and is western allies is not going to put in any pressure on israel to exceed or follow through on this resolution.

christopher black taken us to the end of this news block that isn't danger midway. can use round up for now, but our programs, they're just beginning to see what's coming up enrollments. this is the for most prior to february 24th. ukraine was just another eastern european country . since then, the conflict and ukraine has created deep divisions all across europe. and beyond russia, in europe today virtually have no common ground. this may be the case for a very long time to come