ah, a a headline zonati international as one civilian is killed. another one wounded off the reports of ukrainian army shelling of houses and apartment buildings. you can see right, that floating heavy damage and they've gone yet to republic. also in this i was program african folding their own problems and the mass that was caused by the global not ever, the ongoing un, a climate change conference addressing issues. for example, rising pollution levels of western countries are coming under 5, using africa and look at those pictures, right? that as a dumping ground for garbage, a couple of dead politicians have one elections in to us states. their names were

simply not removed from the ballot. what is the next 2 years you tend to do differently? nothing. and then you have it from the american president, joe, by refusing to change, call us on the policy making this quite public frustration and approval ratings. diving to new with dr. good stories and guesses for analysis, and this i was program on r t international. i was always a great pleasure to have you with us. let's take out some of the latest information now from that of the ukraine conflict to where they don't ask for public reports coming in a renewed shelling of residential areas and some unverified imagery, i should say from social media here, you can see buildings in flames. it's off to shelling this thursday morning. as we understand there would be no reports if any casualties as of yet, but another shelling incident and on yet over night

a civilian was killed. another one wound to look at these pictures right there. you can see the aftermath, homes and apartments that ultimately caught fire following the strikes. now, as we understand here at our t civilian areas have been hit with the american high mars rockets of the neighboring lugens republic. these images are in the city of santa a. 6 houses were damaged by 4 rockets. as we understand local infrastructure and a business, we're also hit official say only civilians live in this area. so we rushed out with the cameras to speak with the locals. and we hope all is well for the low good. i was being crushed under the rubble, but i managed to start creeping out from the debris. the whole ceiling fell on me in the dark. somehow i got out of the rubble. then they took me to the hospital. thank god, i was not badly hurt, but this is all harmless. a rocket from the high moss fell into this house. this is a high explosive fragmentation rocket. the shell went through the roof. the explosion occurred in the room itself. we found all the fragments from the rocket

in the basement or a public, his hit with such missiles every day. this is a completely peaceful area. civilians live here and there is no military equipment . now, the namibian president has blamed western countries for the current climate crisis . branding the states as criminals, even adding that western energy consumption is placing a serious burden on the poorest nations. well, here at our tea, we heard from a journalist at the cop 27 summit, who explains how european countries entrenched in that green agenda. i've. in fact, themselves stepped up the import and usage of fossil fuels. as leaders from all over the world have gathered here in egypt to discuss how best to come together and fight climate change. some media houses have missed the message of unity. these cities, an article by the new york times has laid the blame of a slow auction in buckling coupling emissions at the doorstep of russia president,

along with a couple of his partners mister putin, supporters hail from some of the most powerful and polluting nations. she's paying of china and india's no rend ramadi stepped up after the attack on ukraine to buy immense volumes of russian, coal, and oil at bargain prices, cushioning their own economies from a global energy crisis. while allowing mister putin to keep profiting from energy exports to spite western sanctions. it seems that even when it comes to the climate, this space for politics, the article though fails to take a long, hard look at the actions of the so called good guys. i either west take the new york times at it's what and you'd think they were come on neutral angels. but that's not quite the truth. for example, did you know that games in california use more electricity than some entire countries in africa? and china and india are being criticized for buying call the darkest forcing fuel. but why is there no reference to how europe has taped up?

they are use of that very same data force in fuel, importing 8 in record quantities from places like south africa. coal is said to remain a critical input for affordable and reliable power generation, not only in the developing world, but also in highly industrialized and developed nations, which have recently increased deer reliance on coal to meet the energy needs. to be more precise in the 1st 5 miles of 2020 to a long e u countries imported 40 per cent more than they deed in all of 2020 to $1.00. plus you have probably read about how countries like germany, austria, denmark, underneath the lands, half all is restrictions on coal fired power stations at home. also europe's oil imports, another polluting fossil fuel just hit 2 years high. it saves many statements and not being tested because these nations have the right political views. do they get

a free pass? because the coal and oil isn't russian. many commentators question this, just not the new york times. european countries want to turn africa into europe's gas station. they want to lock africa, a gas pathway that will leave africa with stranded assets and leave the 600000000 africans who currently don't have access to energy without the opportunity to power their future prosperity using the incredible renewable energy potential that exists . the world is going through historic changes and much upheaval, and these days it feels politics is brought into everything. even climate. one of the message here at cope 27 is that if you do that, if you want the while to have a clean record, make sure you have a clean record yourself slim on yearly r t news. showmanship. egypt also at the cop $27.00 conference in egypt or the us climate. and why john kerry announced a plan to raise money for climate action in the developing world. the scheme would

give carbon credits to companies wishing to offset their pollution emissions by investing money in green enterprises abroad. we have to accelerate the clean energy transition and my friends. it takes money to do that is why i am so pleased today to be joined with my good friends, russia, the rockefeller foundation, and andrew steer those fun to announce a new partnership to catalyze private capital to accelerate the energy transition in developing countries. now the goal of the group is to lure a $100000000000.00 in financing by 2030 again. outs plan is aimed at top money from private funds on big emitters to finance developing nations, transition to clean energy at the investments will enable companies to get so

called carbon credits and bring their emissions balance sheet to net 0 however. and the idea has been met with strong resistance from environmental groups and climate expose themselves. they say it will give polluters a license to stay with business as usual in line with his goal though some of the partners for the project are enormous pollutants. me, for example, pepsico, which is one of the wells leading producers of single use plastic bottles. early the un released to report on these types of net 0 commitments and warned that such pledges posed the risk of being little more than greenwashing, if not backed up with action plans. the absence of standards, regulations, and brigitte, involuntary comp, and markets is deeply concerning, targets must be reached through real emissions cuts. let us try to lent him on this right now. crossing life to political analyst are jamie mighty, joining us here on the program. a very warm welcome to use are great to have you with us on naughty international. if you would just help me out for

a moment. had did this whole, this whole proposal. it kind of reminds me of the kyoto protocol when governments had had certain amount of credits for their admissions. but it also turned out that if they didn't use all that credit, some countries could sell credits to other countries. that was the kyoto protocol. this is something else, and i'm still a bit confused by it. can you put into layman's terms what, what, what is this proposal about? well, it's fundamentally the way you've described that, you know, the whole carbon trade swabs is basically a way for companies to continue doing business as usual and to send some finances in the hope that the recipients of those finances use them unreal green projects. but there's been a lot of gentle, is moran this showing that sometimes that's exactly what doesn't happen. and oftentimes is window dressing, and people just go to florida. switch already exists and say, here we, here's where we actually did the green economy funding. so it's not exactly something that should be embraced and it doesn't deal with the derek problem if you thinking about africa, their massive problems of water supply,

massive problems of deforestation which occur as a result of communities in rural areas, not having sufficient energy. then they have to go chop firewood and cook with the fire. so if you trying to reforest the world to save the world's lungs, so to speak, to do have to look at those push factors which create the kind of habits in environments like as africa, which are the real issues. you know, water supply as well as pollution as well as the deforestation. those are the big 3 energy conversation is a secondary, if not tertiary conversation in the african landscape. it's really, really interesting perspective coming from you, jamie, i appreciate having you on the show and i really, really good to get your angles here on our team to national you said if this new proposal by the u. s. climate envoy, john kerry, is not going to help. then who does it benefit? who's behind it? why push it? well, it looks as if there's a push right now to have a symbolic gesture. you know,

to say we're doing something in africa because as, as was outlined earlier, a lot of the, you know, g 7, the, the western countries actually buying a lot of call right now. and they're well off track their net 0 targets. and if you're going to miss your targets, you want you at least want to have an example that you can bring to the world and say, well, at least we're doing these particular projects in africa. but i don't particularly see those project because having the right impact in africa or being necessary for way africa is right now and it's developmental journey. but a good look at the leadership going into, you know, this and this seemed to them to be one of the easy winds that they could then take back to the f electorates. jamie, we are talking about an awful lot of cash. it's a big part of money right now. they've told us envoy proposal. i mean it looked jamie, any chance tara alteri motives to manage such a scheme,

or should we just expect everyone to be on the best behavior? well, i'll tell you in africa, i'm definitely always skeptical of some of the leadership that receives any amounts of money with a foreign aid for this kind of developmental confessional funding. but also it's very important to point out that other commitments have been made historically of large amounts of money, but they never materialized. so there's a big gap between some of the environmental commitments which have been made and what actually gets delivered on the ground. so i wouldn't take these particular numbers as being money in the bank as it is right now. all right, jamie, my political analyst joining us life or when are you into national great conversation. i look forward to having you back on the program sometime soon. thank you. thank you. oh, that's cut does come amid arise and concerns. the african continent is being hot as ted, my plastic waste. you can see the picture behind me. it's basically being sent from western countries. europe in particular random,

erica. so open out to our africa correspondent, catabolic tattler. he actually scales some of the mountains of rubbish to bring us this story. plastic issue, we quit us, it fills our air, land and oceans. and landfills like this are full of it from my this current tooth brushes, shoes, clothes, tv removed, 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 plastic info to the city to south africa. the only looking at the economic benefit that it has for the country, the environmental best is not even be discussed at the stage 20 companies as they

are 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, plus the waste makers index in the global north than producers. and creates this global plus think use crisis. an average american or a united kingdom citizen will produce about a 100 kilograms of plastic waste annually. now one responsibility do they, bay to the global wasteland they've created. this is mainly supposed to benefit the country. oh, because we don't death. most of the blessed. exactly supposed to have in south africa to make products. some africans have come up with a plan. then i'm with ira works with can sign is collections and not for profit

company in the education space. they turn plastic into briggs and they saw this plastic from where ever we can get it and times even buttoning 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 fish and they dip into up, affecting us as well. from 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 billed by that same community for, for as what is important is plastic is going to affect everyone in the world. so what we're doing here is we're inviting different communities from different areas to come and 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 got 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 mass 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 up bill campbell, it adds a $40.00 in johannesburg. the joe biden has refused to consider changing the direction of his presidency. despite admitting that much of the american public is dissatisfied with the part the country is on. the american leader made the comments while also expressing relief. the rival republicans didn't make bigger gains in the midterm elections. what in the next 2 years you intend to do differently? nothing overwhelming majority america, people support the elements of my economic agenda. i'm confident these policies are working and that are on the right path. and we need to stick, i can't guarantee that we're going to be able to get rid of

inflation. the stipend came as vote counting in the nation's high stakes. mid terms continues with the control of the senate, yet to be determined and the other chamber of congress, the republican party is projected to gain a majority in that of the house of representatives. well, let's learn more straight live now in new york, there's kellum often good afternoon to you, caleb, do if you would just take us through some of the more interesting aspects of the selection that really aren't getting much traction in the mainstream media. sure. on tuesday, state representative tony deluca from pennsylvania. he had a smashing victory. he won 86 percent of the vote. now that's a pretty big majority in an election. and it's also particularly shocking that he won this victory. pretty pretty big accomplishment on his part because he died on october 9th. he was dead. however, under pennsylvania law, if your name is on the ballot after there printed,

it can't be taken off. so tony deluca won the election despite being dead and he wasn't the only one i in tennessee, there was a state representative who won the election. barbara cooper. she was also dead. yet she won the election. now this is not uncommon in the united states for a dead person to win an election because the ballots are printed ahead of time because their name is on the ballot. and it often forces local municipalities to carry out special elections, which then cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. if they elect a dead person, obviously that dead person cannot go on to serve their term. so they, after then have a special election was the voters will elect the actual person who will serve the office. so i, it is quite inconvenient, but this is a loophole in u. s. law that happens in many parts of the country. and this is all interesting in light of the fact that we continue to hear concerns about what's gone on in arizona in maricopa county. what's going on in detroit. we heard donald trump speaking up

about voting machines and computer glitches. we also hear concerns from the other side of the aisle, from democrats. they are talking about voters suppression, arguing that results in georgia and other states are not legitimate because of laws passed by republicans intended to curb voter fraud there. calling these election, deny, or laws claiming that they were intended to suppress the vote. and over all the public's fate. in the u. s. alexi system is declining on both sides of the aisle. we have americans being critical of the election system, 74 percent of americans hold in the lead up to the vote said they felt the country was moving in the wrong direction. 71 percent of americans, the old democracy in the united states in some kind of danger. however, yesterday we heard joe biden speaking in the aftermath of the vote saying everything seems to be all ok. his tone suddenly change and he's not going to change the direction in which he's been running the country despite the fact that

polls overwhelming the show, americans are not happy with the job he's doing. there were substantial victories for republicans on tuesday, but it wasn't the massive red wave that many had predicted. so in light of that, we see joe biden saying he's going to continue on the same course. so i appreciate it. thanks for joining us. we'll see you soon. will bit other in this program. i did speak with civil rights attorney robot, the p. o. now he believes the electoral system is flawed, outdated, and needs to be changed for the votes to be fair. i think there is a flaw in our electoral system that we do have here in the united states. in that we should have more flexibility when it comes to secretary state's office and local boards elections to be able to change things balanced all the way up until the election day. i would say we've had situations where people were convicted criminals who were unable to serve for authors, but we weren't able to take them off of valid from that situation for individuals have been indicted or scandals have come out at the last minute and parties very

much would love to be able to switch those candidates out, but we're unable, unable to do so. i think we have to update our electoral system in this country to make it easier to switch things out. when a candidate either becomes incapacitated or is unable to serve for various reasons, including death, a lot of items waiting for you right now online that policy dot com a bit of a confusion of conflicts. poor old president joe biden getting a muddle over the conflict in ukraine. confusing her song with for lucia. of course that was back in iraq, a big battle in 2003. the was great to have your company for this, our program from moscow. thank you for joining us here. it has been another bad day on the crypto market with values plunging. it's off the world's biggest crypto currency exchange pulled out of a deal to rescue with smaller rifle as a result of corporate due diligence, as well as the latest news reports regarding mishandled customer funds and alleged

us agency investigations. we have decided that we will not pursue the potential acquisition of f t x dot com. so the collapse of the deal, so the price of bitcoin plunged to a 2 year low, other digital coins. well they went down as well. the us regulators to raise concerns of the firm. it's mismanagement of client fun. it's in fact the concerns about a f t x is financial health or poorly triggered $6000000000.00 worth of withdraw. the numbers are hard to get your head around, but it's time to learn more is joining us right now in our studio is a crypto a car is you want to produce christopher m's joining us here at moscow. great to see you. thanks for coming in for the very great to have you here, chris. i just got to ask you what is going on christmas for the last few years we've heard nothing but crypto being the part of gold, you know, the leprechaun under the rainbow and all this kind of stuff. now it seems, maybe i'm wrong, but the crypto currency, the seemingly dying of rapid death. maybe i'm wrong. tell me more. yeah, i mean,

it's a great question. he said, i've been fortunate to be around this interest quite a long time. so we've seen these kinds of peaks and troughs quite, quite a lot. the one thing that's really interesting about the specific one is we, you mentioned f t x, 50 x really was an exchange that the u. s. government put up is that post the boy the found the somebody them freed? every fcc board, everything. he's the guy, he's sponsored all of these big us football teams, etc. and then this guy has now, you know, seamlessly been very serious. it looks like mismanaging this business to an astronomical level. but what i would say just, just for anyone watching don't be too concerned this happens encrypted very, very well. i've heard you guys say this before as well. you know the true experts in the couldn't no, well the always say look at dies, don't panic. it's just a deep, it's a trough, whatever you want to call it. and i love that you're saying this. i really, really do because i'm not the biggest crypto guy, but i need your information. so what about this market plunge we've seen today?

you're saying it's a trough, it'll recover nothing to see here. so again, a really great question say, you know, i'd like to compare to crypto to other nascent industries because seeing the thing called the internet that everyone said, all this is a fine, it will die out. well, i think we'll, we'll, we will know that that didn't happen. you know, like any nascent industry. it's an industry that's bossy under regulated, which is a very actually big issue for the industry. it's an industry that a lot of government don't understand which also causes problems because in order to regulate you have to understand and what we've seen here and we've seen previously the 1st have a big trip to exchange crash was from exchange called mountain dogs, which is monumental, this one is actually a lot bigger, but at that time, people for the well but so far as the space evolves and grows and matures and as governments start to understand it more regulated, more, you're going to see these big bits happen less and less. and less, this is part of the issue is neither chris, i mean the regulation by government, this is some of the crypto county supposed to be against supposed to take out the

middleman. but i was always say to my friends, you know, i just have my personal opinion was crypto will never go legit because the government's caught regulated. what's your, what's your thought on the? yeah, this is a really good point. so again, you're completely right if you've ever read mr. toast white paper on bitcoin, the entire idea was to build a peer to peer electronic cast system, right? so the idea is doesn't get regulated, but you duty to regulate the business and practices around running a business in this space. that's my personal view. so, you know, normal things like that, then $500000000.00 seal may, if they've just bankrupted their company, usually pretty good idea. you know, low cost or other people's crypto. they have money in this case, i'll call it money because i believe it's money. no cost to their money, don't be responsible with it and don't sort of have like a pirate. those the usual things. and you know, if you take some, some regulators and starting to look at the space and go, you know, the regulations that we wrote, they are actually completely wrong. we need to go back and we need to look at the fundamentals of good governance and best practice, which you would have if you run

a shop. for example, if you're made all of all of the, you didn't give you a mate, all of your be in the shop for free and say you back later, i can you run a business correctly. and that's really what needs to happen. what, what do you say then chris to, to our view as right now who are watching this? because i remember a few years ago now somebody said to me, look, if your taxi driver is talking about it, you're too late to get in on it. okay. a you telling me in and view as right now that actually it's still a good time to get into crypto. okay, so this is a really good question again. so what i would say about about trip. so if you're dealing with a highly volatile assets, so please don't go out and re mortgage your house and buy as much as you can, which unfortunately, it seems in this last run. a lot of people did really it's, it's not the same as getting a mortgage and buying a home. it's a, it's, it's, it's something what i always say to people specifically when we look a bit coin, which is obviously the 1st. so in the one that is what most, why the 9 i would say, look, it's digital gold. if you, if you've got some spare money and you'd like to buy some, you know, might be,

my strategy is always been buy it. don't look at it, leave it the 10 years and leave it to your grandkids as a really interesting concept. but i mean, christopher, and you just just mentioned digital goals that are to be digital gold. or there does seem to be this, this perpetual argument on line between crypto county guys and the gold bugs is a lot of gold bugs talking about this bhaskar reserve currency. the bricks are working towards and it's going to replace the dollar. and it's going to be back by gold. what else? there's no, don't listen to that. you should be buying crypto. why is that such a discrepancy between the gold bugs and the crypto guy? yeah, i think i think it's your point, which he bought a fairly a. it's a philosophical point, really. it's no crypt guys. the thing is in my view, cbc don't solve any issue really. that just allows people, it actually allows government have more control and seeing where your money is the right block, right? you can see everything, right? so it means there will be no, there'll be no way that you can save some money for a rainy day, or, you know, my grandma yesterday maybe leave and pass on to the mattress. that's gone. it actually said they can quit guys still,

they've used the technology they built and they using it for something which is not aligned to their their philosophical views. but yeah, yeah. christopher, listen, i'm running out of time, but i'm going to ask you before i get, i'm hearing about different central banks around the world, preparing to unveil the crypto currently the in just last week, turkey and hanker road. they're preparing to unveil that the, the turkish crypto lira. i've heard in the u. k. they also had something as well, if there are a number of countries russia as well. what does this mean? because if you, if you want to look at the unregulated crypt code and then you've got the government's coming out with what will i guess, be regulated a central government crypt currencies. what is the future going to be made this again, another really good customer ought to want to, i don't have the answer for you. but i would say is that you're not going to see an end of bitcoin because all of the crypto currencies that say the themes and the big quinn's the world. because the way in which these structures means they fund them, it's fundamentally impossible to bomb them without shutting down the whole incident

. right, right. and where is c? b c's will. i think they're going to have a very interesting place in the world. they're going to play a very important role in, in really proving accountability for reserve currency. you know, how many us dollars all there in the world? how many us dollars are actually worth something? we don't know. we know the russian group example is backed by gold, but this will allow the russian government to show the world for every rouble insect relation. that is, let's say a gold bar in the vault that comes in just right. that's right. that's exactly very, very good point. and this is just quickly, christopher, going back to what, what's many medical, the breadbasket of the world, africa, for example, a lot of for a lot of a lot of attention being paid to africa these days. whether it's a g o, economical, economical, climate, change all the stuff in the other energy. of course, there's a lot of development there, an interest in digital currency on, on the african continent. but what is the situation with crypto with it now? is it, is it really early days fledgling or how would you describe it? it's very different depending on which african nation you guys see that if you, if you take, take kenya for example. it's a good.