this very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time to sit down and talk with russia. say it's withdrawing troops from the city of her song that made fear is not ukrainian attacks on our local done could cause campus profit flooding. also ahead in the program today, african folding mail problem and the mass that wasn't caused by the global not with the ongoing un climate conference addressing, rising pollution levels. western countries come under fire for using africa as a dumping ground for millions of tons of voters spoke clearly about their concerns. what the next 2 years, you had to do differently,

nothing. u. s. president joe biden refuses to compromise on his account for reversal policy making despite play like rage and approval ratings. plummeting to near historic blows while a ever increasing inflation and energy prices lead to a new round of protests in brakes done belgium, large brick cities are seeing violent flashes between protesters and life policy with light from moscow. this is our team. my name is you know, neil, i'm 30 minutes of news and views start. now we begin with the latest from the embattled, her song region, russia,

essays now it's withdrawing troops from the regional capital at another locations on the right bank of the didn't yet for river. the defense ministry say's its being done to avoid potential unnecessary losses among russian forces. amid the danger that ukrainian attacks could destroy a critical local dom situated right here, let's take a listen to what the russian commander in charge of operations have to say. further before move what it said, it's somehow somebody of them. the enemy is firing randomly at the city. for this reason, it was decided to evacuate the population from the right side of the river. we provided everything possible to ensure the evacuation the plans of the enemy to create flooding of territories can lead to dangerous consequences. this is confirmed by the constant shelling of the co op sky hydro electric power station. under these conditions, the most appropriate option is to organize defenses along the line of the denice river road. yeah, indeed,

official se catastrophic flooding could occur if the ukrainian forces succeed in destroying the down. the high water would also complicate supply routes, which are used to bring food to the russian army, as well as local residents, while eliminating the dom would also jeopardize fresh water supplies to the neighboring crimea region, to reduce the danger to civilians, russia has been evacuating at tens of thousands of local residents in recent weeks, while a troop withdrawal was supported by russia's defense minister circ a show you who also ordered the creation of a new line of protection. general sir a v can also reported. busy on the what he called, stable situation in other frontline areas. on the intersection of up to at 90 percent of incoming ukrainian rockets by ukrainian forces. he said that ukrainian army lost her on $12000.00 soldiers last month alone,

around 8 times more than russian losses. former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter sais that by relocating troops. russia is depriving ukraine of its pretext for destroying the dom. i think another thing that the russians are doing, by withdrawing from the right bank is reducing or eliminating the justification that ukraine could have been blowing up the damn. now the russia is evacuating the city of care song and the right bank. there's no reason for your grain to, to blow this damn. so i think rushes literally removing any justification ukraine could because of russia, remained on the right bank and continued to defeat ukrainian attacks the ukrainians once their forces spent might come to the conclusion that the only hope they have in preventing a rushing counter attack is to destroy the dam in flood the region. so i think this

is also a, a prophylactic move on the part of the russians to prevent the ukrainians trying to have justification for blowing up the damn. well, the president of ukraine's biggest ally, the united states wasn't exactly on the ball when talking questions from the press this week about the conflict. jo, mine managed to confuse her son with an iraqi city. i think the context is that weather and i would they pulling back from felicia and the army from the the care song the the city of care sigh. nevertheless, president biden still hopes style to his country's aid to ukraine, which is contesting. her son will be quotes on interrupted. however, the american leader confessed that the types of health available are restricted and we don't always conform to keep the amount from we're not our website,

marty dot com, the full story. right, let's turn attention to dumbass and the situation in done yet, scott city now where the regional capital came on to renewed overnight shelling by ukrainian forces, according to local authorities. this unverified footage is said to show civilian areas being targeted. official save a shelling, killed one civilian and left another wounded. sabbath sack was the latest of many conducted by he f forces in the will. the ukrainian military has been accused of targeting anyone who sees them as a hostile force in any real sense. and not long lasting enmity was recently confirmed by some of the countries troops themselves. here's what several as of battalion fighter said in his views with bloggers and media outlets about the pro russian sentiment of the don bus population. but at the noise, how could you describe the moods of people in merry you, paul, before the war started to get them in percentages and how many of those you

encountered were pro russian? does this up a sample for the 60 percent of people were pro russian, they wanted to go to russia the same as in donna's and la guns. there has always been a large pro russian part of the city. and so the only thing i know is that 70 percent of people marry you, paul, supported the russians. just to give you a sense of the situation, the new russian regions have an approximate population of 6000000 people. u. n data shows that almost 3000000 people from those regions have moved to russia. that's refugee since the start of the conflict. the chief editor of m v. media yellows, procurement is worried about the western media. normative is based on glorifying the actions of neo nazi as well finders and dom bus even though they were never welcome there. the surgeon leach. good. did they meet that they were there not well, but my job due to people really didn't want them. they are in the 1st place and as

of was to keep, but telling them therefore, for a long time. and certainly that's the good. there is some truth in it. and, but the horrifying thing is that these other fighters are glorified in the western media. what we know about the shelling of the seat these from already sees 2014 up to this day is that the when the grainy and troops have losses when they are beaten in the front line, they revenge not to the front line of the russian troops but they. ready will shoot and they have been shooting and they will keep shooting very far behind the front line to the sea really reaches so that the soldiers in the front line positions feel themselves guilty for the destruction of the sea really populated areas. and that is the punishment strikes what we have been speaking for over 7 years. that is what's happening now in the dorm bus region,

they are punishing from their losses due to civilian population. ok. all right, another of a headline stories today, the world's leading recycling organization. plastic bag will take part in the ongoing top $27.00 conference in egypt to once again raise the alarming rates of global pollution. the african continent has the hardest hit becoming really a gigantic dump site for plastic waste sent there from western countries are to correspond code boat to raise the mountains of rubbish to bring us the story. plastic is ubiquitous. it fills our air, lands and oceans and landfills like this are full of it from my this current tooth brushes, shoes, clothes, t, v remote, you name it if the plastic world, but africa is faring better than is global counterparts. and according to the u. n . environmental program,

the continent produces the least amount of global plastic waste. and most of our ways is also organic. so where does this come from? reliever people talk about plessy input the decision to south africa. the only thing economic benefit that it as for the county environmental the best is not even be discussed at the stage. 20 companies are said to be responsible for more than half of the global single use plastic waste. and none of them are in africa. and according to the 2021, plastic waste makers index in the global north that produces and creates this global plastic use crisis. an average american or a united kingdom citizen will produce about a 100 kilograms of plastic waste annually. now what response ability do they,

bay to the global wasteland they've created? this is mainly supposed to be in effect the county. oh, because we don't have most of the blessed exam we supposed to have in south africa to make products. some africans have come up with a plan. then i'm with sarah works with the can sign is collections and not for profit company in the education space. they turn plastic into briggs and the softness, plastic, from where ever we can get it and times even battling with locals in exchange for stationary and such items. plastic that would otherwise be filling the air, polluting the water systems and causing diseases. when people been plastic in the community because they've got no way to damp it, it causes in people breathe it, it causes type 2 diabetes. it causes cancer and it also causes aging. so those are

the main hazards that one can think of. but besides that, it, when it goes into our water, it also causes our problems is fire is water, animals our content like your fish and things like that. and then when they eat the plastic, we end up eating that fishing maybe end up affecting us as well. from a hill to point of your plastic is cut into smaller bits and is put into a 2 liter bottle and the must all way between 550 and 600 grams. and before you know it, viola, you have a school, and soon there will be a bigger one here with a science lab, as well as toilets. and it will all be run on solar power, all in an impoverished community, but also build by that same community. so for us, what is important is plastic is going to affect everyone in the world. so what we are doing here is we're inviting different communities from different areas to come

in live what we are doing, give them the same skills that we have got. and then they go back in, they do the same in their own areas. so far we've put 5 communities that we've identified that will be training and then helping them also to set up a similar environment like ours africans as solving their own problems. and the mess that was caused by the global not and is these kinds of solutions that must be echoed and the u. n. club 27 climate change conference. and maybe just maybe those who pollute must pay the lute for the clean bill campbell, it had to $40.00 in johannesburg. i want to tell you this next story as well. rampaging inflation rates and energy prices have led to a new rod of protests in 2 european union member states. major cities in greece faced violent flashes between protesters and ride police.

ah hm. i did get extremely chaotic, not public and private sector workers walked out in a union organized 24 hours strike to protest against the rising cost of living. the rallies were the biggest seen since 2015 when greased receive controversial. b allied funds from the e. u. and the i m f, the other countries grappling with a 12 percent inflation rates while of the highest in the u. that's despite the greek economy being expected to grow over 5 percent this year. thanks to stronger than expected tourism numbers. the strike disrupted public services all over the country, including ferries to recess,

many islands and calls school closures and staffing shortages at hospitals. yeah, as well as that enormous cues at public transport stops, were witness to at metro stations close. the buses taxi's real with services. they were cut while rental car agencies, they were apparently inundated with people, eager to secure some sort of transportation. here's what one of the protesters had to say. let me now so will salaries need to increase and the fat taxation system needs to be abolished. the government must stop stealing from us who will not leave simply to work who must leave for the sake of living, not just to survive. while in belgium, people flocked to the streets for strife to protest against high living course. there. at the time this, fudge was taken only one metro lung was working in brussels on the country's railways, and ford said significantly reduce service. belgium's main workers union says gas prices have risen. 130 percent. and austin, mommy, they look,

government respond to its members like oh, yeah, risky, liberal since the government cannot do anything without europe, it should go and shake up europe. the price of electricity must be decoupled from the price of gas. it was a real sick. so they were on a general strike because people can't pay the bills anymore and we can't put up with those who are making excess profits. maybe the shareholders are making a lot of money and there are workers who are struggling to get through the month. sissy, we're also with that, we asked the government to nationalize the price of gas and electricity so that everyone can benefit from a minimum level of comfort. la poland and ukraine appear to have been quietly urging moldova into taking military action to seize the neighboring territory of an unrecognized breakaway state. as a polish mp says, his country will support multiple was armament efforts, while a ukrainian official sat an incursion into the region would make history. if

a sufficient contingent of the ukrainian armed forces enters transist, you from the eastern side as well as police forces from the moldova side to restore law and order in the de occupied territories. not a single person will oppose that for its part. russia won't be able to prevent this in any way. the territory in question is a narrow strip of land between the de nestor river and ukraine's border, though it declared its independence from both over in 1990. but its sovereignty is not recognized by any un member states, the intense fighting with moldova erupt before a cease fire brokered in 1992 with russian support. the conflict remains on results . we heard from former german lawmaker martin dolder, who sees attempts to heat all this frozen conflict a month to an escalation against moscow. if we look at, you don't know if the escalation,

the population of my go over and off trans missed you know, for sure they want to piece and they don't want to be a new crop of a wall, which is less mainly by the us. and it's again, some escalation, again, it's a dilemma because if you don't address by your own and you have contact us which address, which wanted further, that escalation, we have a situation where certain act us try to. ready each of the frozen conflict like the conflict and ma, go over what i think is a very good idea of what is happening already to find allies as well in the united nations like the countries of the south. all like, like china like this, all american,

like the african countries and other countries who as well want peace and promote, i'm not in favor of escalation, policy like that. the job biden has refused to even consider changing the direction of his presidency. despite admitting that much of the american public is this self is fine with the path his administration has taken. the american leader made those comments while expressing relief. his rival, republican didn't make bigger gains in the mid term election. voters spoke clearly about their concerns. they're still frustrated. i get it. what in the next 2 years you intend to do differently? nothing. i'm not going to change the direction. i said i ran for 3 reasons. i'm going to continue to stay remo. that statement came as the vote content, the nation's high stakes, mid term ballot continues with a razor thin race taking place for the control of the senate. while the other

chamber, the republican party is projected to in a slight majority in the house of representatives, are to kill up north and how's the latest for us? but the reaction from the u. s. president. the contact the the election is very key to understand. now, the big red way, the suite that was predicted for republican doesn't appear to have materialized, however, there were substantial victories. republican one wonders if joe biden would be talking the same way. if that red way added he'd materialize, he seems to have tell him things down from before the election when he was talking about democracy being at stake. it's sad. 2 about how he still has is, and on the veto pan. now it's important to know that despite the fact that joe biden seems to be turning things down, bold in the united states indicate that 74 percent of us public is still unhappy with the direction the country is moving in. 71 percent. believe that democracy is

at stake and in question and under threat in the united states. these are some ohio voters that you spoke to. i think the climate extremely right across the board. again, it's kind of area where we fan. unfortunately, a 3rd of the country doesn't care about the facts, the truth, the honesty, and never going to get in the way of what they want a belief. now the rhetoric in the united states and the lead up to these elections was especially heated allegations of being fascists wanting to destroy the country . putting democracy in the question were being hurled left and right. donald trump's, he took to the podium and he had this to say in the lead up to the mid term vote on tuesday. this country has gone crazy to view support the decline fall of a man. then you must absolutely must vote for the radical left crazy people, the radical left democrats. now we've also heard from the democratic side

complaints about what they call voters, suppression and voting regulations. they say were intended to suppress the vote. the level of voter suppression is beyond anything that we saw in 2018. we can't say that whatever happens tonight is a fair and equitable election. and we've heard some pretty shocking rhetoric as well. for example, alexandria how's the court has the representative from new york recently accused prominent tv host who's been critical of us foreign policy tucker, carlson of being a terrorist. here's what she said. there is a major news channel that is fueling political violence. one of the largest sources of death threats that i get is tucker karl's in. this is like what's to catholic terrorism is. so we have a widespread polarization within the united states. that also indicated that alon mosque, the billionaire in the united states, who recently acquired twitter, maybe the subject of some kind of investigation were alleged for and ties and the

manner in which she's been running twitter in the short time since he's assumed leadership. joe biden said there may be some kind of investigation launched against the alon mock so white, an interesting day in the aftermath of the mid term vote, of which there was a lot of heavy anticipation and nervousness among the u. s. ready political stablish men and the public kill us up and we discussed the current political situation in the us with a puddle of guess who expressed opinion generally that the democratic party is actually rather on democratic right now. the united states preaches democracy all over the world, but they don't practice it here that's been known for some time. and it's becoming more and more clear. and i don't think it's going to sit terribly well with the american people. it's an american, it's an democratic. the reality is that this is of to party, country of sorts and that all the,

the make strategy has been sense buying, quote one, the white house has been to completely discredit the republicans to read, to claim that the republicans are involved with insurrection. to claim that any thing that the republicans did to oppose abide the policy was designed to subvert democracy. it's just, it's, it's really, it, it's an evil evil approach. what has been a recent trend, and this is ben from that both the democrats and republicans have been doing is finding elaborate ways to engage in voters depression, specifically targeting independent candidates, 3rd party candidate by creating huge, valid access hurdle. so the idea that that, that democracy under credits absolutely true. but the idea that it's more under threat from republicans and democrats was absolutely laughable. menu, mac chrome has a notice the end of the mpg harris opperation, but came in africa and it comes 3 months after french troops fully withdrew from

mali. now of its height, the operations for more than 5000 french soldiers deployed in molly and other sa held regions. and let's say from 10 to acknowledge the failure of it. after the gentle and molly abruptly terminated relation. you see the whole $3000.00 french troops are still expected to remain in the region, suggesting it's no longer an external operation, but a less visible presence being the aim. while in molly locals, concerns about their security stations, ration went on strike in appeal to the government. thus, as many roads and villages are reportedly out of the control of molly and forces, which were trained by french troops and were supposedly skilled fighters, we heard the thoughts of some locals. mm hm. they the initiative come down to this finished and was them all, many others from the transportation walkers to provide a solution to the security problem. really, we shall, authorities, will get involved and solving this. that if that the limit of this is

a successful strike, people followed our appeal and we will do our best to advocate our situation with the higher authorities of this country to have our problem solved. we some of her do you, this is our 2nd day on the song of gao road. we can work on this road because the transportation fees are very high. we do not have enough money to afford it. every day the road is blocked, my terrorist. another story to bring you to day a chinese investment firm has spoken light against here was confiscation of its assets for the ukranian war effort, saying it's a violation of international law. we strongly oppose the shameless behavior of the ukrainian authorities concerning the politicization of normal business conduct. the forcible nationalization of the motor ceased company, and the unjustified violations of the legitimate rights and interests of the chinese investors. we exercise our legal rights and are strictly protected by law

ukraine's president zalinski said the national eyes are sets would be immediately transferred to the defense ministry. it's not the 1st time the chinese investment firm has experienced issues in the country. it previously sued kia in the hague, flaming bilateral agreements had been broken. those deals were aimed at ensuring the investments of both parties would not be subject to nationalization. expropriation or other similar measures, a company accused le mars lensky, of attempting to a legally seize what belong to chinese investors. we have always follow the laws and regulations in our activities. we strongly oppose the brutal behavior of ukrainian government, which abuses the concept of national security, confuses right and wrong. politicize is normal, economic and trade practices, abuses, state power, and unreasonably suppresses chinese enterprises. while china, for a specialist,

victor gower agrees of these confiscations by key of go against the norms of international law. i think the chinese, unless they have a full legal justification to launch and litigation against the ukrainian government through a legal means try to get a solution of this dispute. and i would say this also reflect the fact that the ukrainian government, as far as this chinese investment in this company is because is really violating international moms and completely disregarded that legitimate business interest of the chinese investors. and this also sets a very bad example, because if this is not resolved amicably and smoothly, how would any foreign investor dare to make a huge investment in ukraine? ah, something we're keeping a close eye on today. a european parliament commission has sounded the alarm over

widespread state surveillance practices saying government critics and human rights activists and journalists are being targeted years to take of our t contributor ritual marson on the last year we found out that israeli spyware technology called pegasus, had ended up in the hands of officials and saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, now that software pedaled by israel's, and a so group, a company which would have needed permission from the israeli government to export what is essentially a weapons grade cyber tool was then used by these arab countries to attract dissidents, activists, opposition, members and journalists of interest. western press reports citing forensic findings have even tied this software to the luring of saudi dissident and washington post columnist jamal cash o g. 2, a saudi consulate in turkey, where he was then murdered and dismembered with his own sorrow. well, now a new european parliament re for details use of the same spyware for similar

purposes. by top officials of a handful of european countries, namely spain, greece hungry in poland. he, you officials are constantly talking about the importance of freedom and privacy. yet the list of democracies outed as deploying this aggressive spyware just seems to keep growing. the lead you lawmaker in charge of the reports spoke about the boxy manipulation of national elections with the use of spyware directly affects the composition of e u institutions, and the political balance in the e. u. governance bodies. the 4 or 5 governments accused of abusing spyware represent almost a quarter of the e u population. so they carry considerable weight in the council. it's the same sort of double standards that we seen elsewhere. washington made a big show as specifically sanctioning vienna. so group last year although not israel, the state itself but contin.