reason why you should be alive, you to find something to believe. john story is a story of ho story, victory, and whatever i can do. to help him, i went to a u. s. president joe biden's democratic party is expected to clinch control of the senate following mid term elections, but the extremely narrow margin of the vote can chose a country that's highly divided in the stories that shape the weak russia withdrawals that stripped from the city of her song that made fears that ukrainian attacked the local dumb could cause catastrophic to ahead. the fact that i'm here today with a delegation to review cooperation, to see how we can pick it forward to create a long term sustainable basis. i think changed most of offices, russia, india,

focus on energy stability and a multi polar approach to global security. that's moscow. host the indian foreign minister. plastic if you didn't quit testing in to fill out a land and the ocean and landfills leg pull up with the ongoing un climate change conference address is rising pollution levels. western countries come under fire for using africa as a dumping brooklyn for millions of tons of plastic with, with the top stories from the past 7 days. and right up to the moment developments as well. this is the weekly on rti hello and welcome. we begin this hour with news from the us. the democrats appear to have clinched role of the senate following

this week's mid term elections with a key race in nevada set to be called for the party with 1906 percent of votes counted another close contest in the highly divided states of our is owner was recently normally decided for the democratic parties, counted the 2 with those victories. the opera chamber of congress is expected to remain under democratic control. while in the lower house of representatives, republicans look set to gain a majority. so where does this leave the u. s. and who gets the main political se then for the next 2 years, are ti spoke to commentator and talk, show host the most burg on that a lot depends on what happens in the, the house. the house is very much within reach of the republicans taking control from the democrats. so anything that would be passed by the democrats in the, in the senate, you would assume, and i would hope,

would be shut down by the republicans in the house. so it would be a stalemate again for the biden agenda. i mean, there are things the senate could do like judicial nominees and senate business. it will be very good for the democrats. but for bills, the laws of again taking the house is key for the republicans in that. well, that will just about negate the, the gains in the senate by the democrats us president joe biden. meanwhile, is out of men. his goals will be achieved regardless of the outcome of the election . here's what he said of a fundraiser in chicago. recently. if we lose the house and senate, it's going to be a horrible 2 years. the good news is i will have a veto pen. holly, we'll bounce, you know, that is the question of the statement comes amid rather on favorable numbers for the democrats, according to a c, b, s, exit pull at the mid terms. almost half of the respondents say about current

policies are harming the country on issues that americans find important. inflation on abortion over half gave their votes to the republican party. while jo biden's, personal re thing appears to have plummeted to with 2 thirds of responding, saying they don't want to see mr. biden running for president again. may not. americans noted many flaws in the election process itself this week in several states voting machines when done, while paper shortages and other districts left and no means for people to cast their ballots. technical glitches out polling stations have also driven fears of electoral frauds. while as the vote kind finishes up, which we expected to do already 5 days later, by the way, today, both main parties, something on an age old post election game, treating accusations of a rigging with more on how about on remind the americans trust in their electoral

system here sure us corresponding kill market. we've got scandals about the potential result in the u. s. mid term elections and voter distrust is riding high . now, a poll taken by the new york times and coordination with st. college shows that 71 percent of americans feel like democracy is under threat. now you may feel like you've heard that before. back when trump one in the 2016 presidential election, his democratic rivals widely describe the results as a threat to democracy. you can run the best campaign. you can even become the nominee. and you can have the election stolen from you after trump was declared victorious, the flood gates were opened. there were all kinds of conspiracy theories, congressional investigation sanctions on russia. there was even an impeachment trial, who was it who was banging the gavel over those who objected as congress moved to certify the results, county is not an order valid, even with the mary a shine by the american or no date when the joint

session, no debate vote is no debate, 16 years low debate and the matters are. yes, joe biden was vice president back in those days presiding over the senate. now he's been elected president and those election results have also been contested, surprising, not really, but the fraud happened. the election in many ways was stolen, but it begs the question, is it really that easy to steal an election in the united states? now with all these accusations of dishonesty being thrown around by both sides, it's not really shocking that as a result about 59 percent of the public maybe more did not have faith in the integrity of the us election system in 2020. but at least this idea that russia was somehow the nefarious puppet master was put to rest right. now americans who believe that donald trump was unfairly robbed of reelection,

came up with charts and graphs and theories of their own. they even stormed the u. s. capital, a few people died and a lot more of gone to prison. democrats said the 2016 election was no good. republicans say the 2020 election was no good. and who do they blame each other? of course and nothing is really changed. there's now already a steady drumbeat about the possibility of fraud in the mid terms. there's no question and it's been right why they reported that there was widespread fraud and irregularities across this country. many of us were warning about the fact the democrats unilaterally fundamentally altered our voting system. inside 90 days, we warn of the state of nevada was just simply not ready to give us a fully fair and secure election. if i, if i was united states senator, on the day of the certification, i would have stood with senator cruz and senator scott and that small handful of

senators who had the courage to stand up and say we, let's hold up on the certification of this election hillary clinton is saying that the presidential election sat for 2 years from now is going to be stolen. right wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election. so with american politicians on both sides telling the public not to trust the election results, is it any more shocking that we're seeing more and more distrust of the election, integrity from the u. s. public divisions among the u. s. power structure are getting deeper, that crack in the liberty bell is getting bigger and distrust and disgust is also brewing beneath the surface. caleb martin, r t. new york. russia has completed withdrawing its troops from the city of her son and other locations on the right bank of the dim. yep. or river, the defense ministry saves it's being done to avoid potential unnecessary losses

among troops amid the danger that ukrainian attacks could destroy a critical local dom. no, this decision was explained by the commander of russia's operation lawyer. maybe somebody, somebody anthem, 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 shilling of the car hob sky, hydro electric power station. under these conditions, the most appropriate option is to organize defenses along the line of the denise river. what catastrophic flooding was predicted, if ukrainian forces had succeeded in destroying the dumb. the high water would also have complicated supply which, which were being used to deliver food to the russian army, as well as local residents. while eliminating the dam would also jeopardize fresh

water supplies to near bring try me to reduce the danger to civilians. russia has been evacuating tens of thousands of local residents from the her son region on this capital. in recent weeks, while defense minister surrogate, shall you also ordered the creation of a new line of defense in the urea, something else to tell you a bite, a stable situation in other frontline areas was the close by the m o. d 2 as well as a successful interception of up to 90 percent of incoming ukrainian rocket attacks . while moscow also said the ukranian army had lost around $12000.00 soldiers last month, some 8 times more than russian losses. we spoke to former u. s. marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter, who said that by relocating troops, russia has deprived ukraine of its pretext for destroying the del if 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 a, a prophylactic move on the part of the russians to prevent the ukrainians trying to have justification for blowing up the damn. and the russians had been preparing for this by evacuating the civilian population and critical infrastructure. so it's not like the russians just made this up. the russians have been pointing out for some time now of the risk that is accrued by any forces and civilians. imagine next, let's say the russians didn't evacuate and next week the damage is struck by ukrainians . and is breached. now, the russian leadership has to explain why they didn't evacuate, why they didn't get the civilians out of the way, why they didn't get the russian service members either way, if they thought it was a possibility, why didn't they take the appropriate actions?

you know the story to tell you by today, india's foreign minister has called for closer cooperation with russia and made what he calls a stressful situation on energy markets are teeth, donal quarter was up the ministers media conference here in moscow. what do you see as the intent of the west, specifically the united states in pressuring india for these relations? what stance will india take in the future towards russia as a result of this pressure? the fact that i'm here today with a delegation to review our co operation, to see how we can take it forward to korea, to long term sustainable basis. i think saves most of all. i think you can see the obvious and christian commitment i would type in keeping that relationship stronger . instead, that clip we just saw was the indian foreign minister's response to a question that i was lucky enough to ask at the press conference that came after his meeting with russian foreign minister, sir gay,

laugh rav. i wanted to know what india was planning to do. in the face of increasing the western pressure for its friendly relations with russia. and if new delhi would, i join in on the western calls for a price cap on russian oil exports. but based on the indian foreign minister's response, it looks like india is not really buying into that. he reiterated that russia and india have long, had very close relations and that new delhi relies on moscow to provide the indian people with affordable energy. as regards the, you know, the or the oil supply issue, and all that is that is a, an festival that is a stress on the energy markets. it is odd fundamental obligation to ensure da da indian consumer has the best possible access on the most advantageous terms to international market. on induct respect. ah, quite honestly,

we have seen dot a d. indian shad relationship has worked to advantage. now we also heard from the russian foreign minister survey laugh rob, who said that the talks were very successful. he said that he talked a bit about plans on the russian side to provide india with clean atomic energy, as well as plans to increase the trade volume between the 2 countries in the future . we previous reports, we have welcome to the positive dynamics of our bilateral trade. by september, the turnover had increased more than 130 percent. the provision of a new site for the construction of a russian designed nuclear power plant will allow india to provide clean and safe energy in the future. we discussed in detail the state of the prospects for military technical cooperation, including the joint production of modern types of weapons. so it looks like what foreign minister circ a live or offset about these talks about them being successful was correct. and the decades long friendly relations that russia and india have enjoyed will continue to

persevere. despite the fact that around the world, there's quite a tense geopolitical landscape right now. the united states has branded a so called non market economy for russia and nibbling washington to artificially inflate prices for imports from russia and other kremlin, as lashed on the measure, saying that while at might not directly impact moscow, it will certainly cause more pain for the global economy, we see a growing understanding to a lesser extent in america, to a greater extent in europe. that these sanctions have not been able to stabilize the russian economy, but are bringing a fair amount of turbulence to their economies. primarily the european one americans are resistance, although they also suffer from inflation due to the chaos in the energy market. this is one of the steps in the continuation of this really destructive line, which in no way contributes to the stabilisation of global economic markets. the

designation will allow the us to raise duties on russian imports in order to mix similar domestically produced items more appealing to local buyers. it follows numerous other restrictions the washington has imposed on russian products. in recent years, the u. s. is also branded industrial rival, china and none market economy to we heard from new york based investment, monetary mich firestone. this is this new move by washington the most yet another sanction slot down on most. this is just another form of sanction. and it's of punishment from the united states, and it's also a diversion in the united states. in europe. we've got 20 percent, a real rate of inflation at 20 percent. we've got governments that are lying about it. and the united states government is trying to push price caps on russian oil, which is the most ridiculous, bizarre thing i've ever heard of in my life. so you can't blame the price, increases in the supply chain disruptions on anything that had to do with the

ukraine conflict. you have to look at what biden's policies are, and you have to look at what the case policies are. so you had a green new deal which declared war on fossil fuels. you had net 0, which declared war on fossil fuels to go into green energy, which is the latest crisis. and this is what led us to higher energy prices and higher inflation. so they're diverting attention away from that reason to try to come up with another reason to blame somebody else. and this is just another form of sanction to try to assign blame for their mass. ok time to take a look at what's been going on. the cop 27 summits, the world's leading recycling organization. plastic bank will take part in the ongoing conference in egypt and really into the dressing. the alarming rise of global pollution africa it's hardest had by about having become

a gigantic dump side for plastic waste center from western countries are te correspondent, colorado bo let us, brave the mountains of rubbish to bring us the story. plastic is ubiquitous. it fills our air, land, and oceans and landfills like this are full of it from my this current tooth brushes, shoes, clothes, t, v remote, you name it, it's a plus big 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 ways, and most of our ways is also organic. so where does this come from? when eva, people talk about plastic input, the decision to south africa, the only being economic business at that it. as for the county, the environmental 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 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 this global wasteland they've created. this is mainly supposed to benefit the county her because we don't have most of the blessed exec be 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, a lay sosnazz plastic from where ever we can get it at 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 then it end 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 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, lynn, 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 mess that was caused by the global not. and is these kinds of solutions that must

be echoed and the you and cob, $27.00 climate change conference. and maybe just maybe those who pollute must pay the lute for the clean bill. cut will, is that for out of t drive is back will stay on the continent because you've done this president has heavily criticized quote, western double standards about green energy. as reports emerge that germany is dismantling a large wind farm to expand an adjacent open pit cold. my now is your re investing in its own fossil fuel power industry to bring must bald power plants back on line in a truly perverse twist. we are told new western investment in african fossil fuels as possible, but only for oil and gas resources that will be piped and shipped to europe. this is the purest hypocrisy. while the president's words came in

a long lasting dispute over the east african crude oil pipeline, a joint project by uganda. tons, and here it's a big one. the pipeline plans, the stretch around 1500 kilometer starting from lisa through the tons in the and interior right. to the coast here of tangle. now the undertaking would help utilize you can this. busy large all reserves and also supply other countries by that tons in the, in coast that all should stabilize oil prices in the region. well, the project was launched by french oil jain to tell energies, but was criticized by the new parliament over alleged violations of environmental and human rights. the block has called on the international community to pressure you gander on tons near to stop the operation. the east african legislative assembly, however, is standing up to about european pressure, demanding the project continue. while adding about the e, you should intervene less in african issues. others, do you,

parliament is over legislative. what they should do is go back to the you and focus on the issues that a fact that people of the european union. so what people think about h r t, africa has spoken to uganda and residence, asking what they feel about the issue is they have never been a bit of loyal list of the wisdom concept of extractive industry like my head of state. but to be streaming the french when that something of national interest is up speak. i've always had 3 questions. the issue of sovereignty. who owns it out? don't walk with your bears. who owns africa? is it still the new opponent of this world of the past? ought to be, we gaining independence. i view this guys a envious of us, that we don't have glass of natural resources when they come, they really need to step process. if we never come to an understanding of owning

ourselves, then we shall always be running on some one's finger, drops, antiques, you know, to, we need to make that choice of moving forward. we don't have to wait for someone to tell us what to do or not to do. yeah, we have to leave like that as his as of late that i do not really understand. wave in our president is writing someone telling them you are a hypocrite. he let him be any pl, quick 2. or we also got the thoughts of miss are in a jag, kenyon geopolitical analyst on the controversial viewpoints that western powers have been raising about uganda's pipeline construction. they've truth in the fact that the wisdom of shooting from full of hyper piracy in the interesting that you can feel when lovely got a feel of the lowest common footprints is being dictated to what time they can you . but hyper crossing might not take away, but this project going to move through region that i would speak inhabited by people, people must be compensated with a lot of land rather by brand new. one of it was from about 10 to 14,

from one. yes. so the content around the environmental impact, the content with about the human rights abuses that already been witness in the baby must not be matter to be disregarded. simply because the with some power, hypo claim they utterly due to mentally dismissing the conference because we are an independent country that should be able to make independent the vision of our development. we know what is best for us. a quite extraordinary story tool next to john daly, ex neo nazi skinhead, fled from the u. s. to israel in the night after his own getting attempted to murder him for being jewish or documentary to mix towards his life since then in escape from naples. ah ah

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a place in ocala, florida because baseball which was a pool hall, but also places we hung out a lot of the owner thought it was sort the type of security. and one night there was someone that showed up that he really did not like. and he wanted us to make the guy i used to wear these rings, thinking that if i am somebody was going to cause more pain and it did every time it can face, it would scream and we had me hitting him. kids is going to my kidding and one guy broke his hand, punching so hard. some entrepreneur harder and harder and harder and eventually got loose. one shoe came off, never joking his wisdom across the parking lot. and as soon as they got him out on the ground, i walked through the guy to kick. it's basically kind of soft at 1st. i remember the guy cried out, mom and mom. i just thought one. thank you. when i was doing really brief cakes that if you let just father, you know,

it evolving the rest of your life. so i made like a switch, learning how to turn my conscience off at that point. this kicked evelyn and walked off and left him. he wasn't black or hispanic, not a person of color at all. he was just a stupid white guy doing stupid stuff. there was no wrong place at the right time. in recent years, we become accustomed to hearing how the jewish agency for israel as rescue jews from areas of distress, like super sloppy chechnya, and brought them to think the here in israel. but when we hear that the jewish agency has rescued a young american jew from daytona beach, florida. that's another story altogether. the story of john daly, welcome john. his story begins back in 1990 on a beach in florida. what happens to think of 7.