oh, there's no medical reason why you should be alive, new 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. democratic party is expected to clinch control of the senate following midterm election, but the extremely narrow margin of the vote college shows a country that's highly divided into stories that shape this week. russia with roles, its troops from the city of her song, amid fears that ukrainian attacks on the local dom could cause catastrophic. alter ahead. the plastic su with feel a land and ocean and landfills like this. pool of it as the

ongoing un climate change conference address is rising pollution levels. western countries come under fire for using africa as a dumping ground from millions of homes with the top stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment developments as well. this is the weekly rti and the one welcome. we begin this hour with news from the u. s. the democrats appear to have clinched control of the senate following this week's midterm elections with a key race in nevada set to be called for the party with iran. 96 percent of votes counted. so that's a projected blue when in the silver state. while another close contest in highly divided are as zona was recently normally decided for the democrat parties counted it to with those factories,

the opera chamber of congress is expected to remain under democrat control. but its republicans who looks at to gain a majority in the house of representatives, meaning things have gotten tougher for the by the administration to get its policies past will join me live now in the studio, r t fiorella isabel, to go through this hi there for ella, last 24 hours, i would suggest for the dams, but the overall picture for them far from rosie take us through the latest anyway. right, so this was a very narrow victory for the democrats in the senate. were talking about 50 seats to 49. and we're talking about catherine cortez mass, those victory over previous attorney general adam, looks all and this was of course, she was seen as a more vulnerable one in the senate. and right now there's also races in the house of representatives. as you mentioned in california, oregon in arizona that are up for grabs,

they need to secure 20800 seats in the house in order to have the majority. and democrats are actually behind republicans in that. so what we're seeing is a situation that has a tug of war, right? we have, we have a, it's going to be difficult for either party to push what they want to push policy wise. and many have been questioning why this election didn't result in a red wave considering how so many people are upset with joe biden policies. the state of our election systems in many places is indeed pretty embarrassing. but so honestly were the results of last night's elections. republican swore they were going to sweep a red su nami, you want to republicans to we're not simply because they're so great, but because democrats are so very bad and that's not an overstatement. so what happened? yeah, i want to point out as well that this all comes amid almost record low personal approval ratings for the president joe biden himself,

on the administrations. there are concerns that don't end there. right, so i, for the longest time, democrats have been going after republicans and the g o. p vilifying the vast majority of the other half of the country that was either republican or maga, supporting. and joe biden talked about democracy being at risk. but democracy is only at rest when democrats are at risk, it seems, and they're not counting on these voters. let's, let's take a hm. 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. right. so um, when jo biden's approval is at a, you know, less than 10 percent of people under 40 actually approve a strongly approve of joe biden. we're seeing that at least 52 percent trust republicans more on abortion and inflation. we know that inflation was

a huge issue. we know that abortion was a huge issue. 79 percent of people think the country is out of control. 66 percent do not want to have joe biden as president. again, the people again are questioning why this results and so many have pointed to potential election fried. let me get this straight. 72 percent of voters say america's on the wrong track. only 42 percent say they approve of the job. joe biden is doing 58 percent. say they feel more worried that america's best years mail ready behind us yet? no. redway, congratulations to president biden. his rate on trump's home. the rest of pro lifers, his illegal intimidation campaign against the supreme court, his censorship of opponents and threats to jail and harassment of any one who questioned his election, helped steve off red wave. so why democrats promote democracy abroad and they're talking about putting this through at home. there are so many issues that they're

not addressing. the election fraud accusations are just dismissed as conspiracy theory. even though there is data showing the long lines, the machine's not working. and of course this undermines trust in the process. also the fact that they are still counting ballots in california in oregon, in arizona. so that just basically makes a sector of the public feel like they cannot trust in the system. therefore, the seem, this tug of war is not only going to continue and the public is going to continue and policy makers and the applause in the political system, of course, and the mistress are not being entirely addressed. i did not hear ella isabel, this. our thanks really well just staying with the story we spoke earlier to commentator on talk show who steve molds, bergen, how they projected result may re ship the balance of power in us politics. a lot depends on what happens in the the,

how 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 republic any 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 and laws of again taking the house is key for the republicans in that well, or that will just about negate the, the gains in the senate by the democrats. ready now, as the summit concludes in cambodia this sunday, there's discord among attending top officials on what the common message from it should be. russia is foreign minister, a surrogate lever off. explain the stand off you for no collective decision on

a joint statement has been made with the united states and its western allies insisted on absolutely unacceptable language regarding the situation, ukraine music or minister left off went on to say that washington updates nato allies are seeking to weaponized asia on swell the u. s. lead military block to contain russia and china rather than support such regional organization. ations as i see on the statement came as a number of western countries, including us, trillion new zealand. saddles have been invited to attend the se on groups meeting to discuss international cooperation with our cross live now to don mclean, gil manila based geopolitical analyst and author. always good. the have you on the program? don? yes. so there we have at no joint statement. busy feeling the a status summit as the russian f. m. dean's a declaration on the ukraine conflict. inappropriate for a conference on cooperation. is he right on that?

well, 1st of all, thank you so much for having me. and it is indeed quite problematic in terms of the future of interstate interaction and engagement, particularly in asia. and this particular scenario was actually bound to happen, particularly because of the conflict of interest between major power is 29 states. russia. and of course, other major power is in the system, but of course such institutions are the lead. this was initially the main purpose of having such situations was to create dialogue and long partners, particularly major powers, nazi i between you know, with each other. so this sort of thing was bound to happen, in fact, many were expecting such discord and particularly because of the notion of real poly deacon international interaction. so we are looking into this and how this may

reflect, particularly with the coming g 20. absolutely, yeah, that's another interesting expert. one other point and what circular ralph had to say. he said the u. s. and nato are trying to militarize the asia pacific region by seeking to involve the lights of japan, new zealand, and canada in the office. security at park. what were your feelings are learned? well, looking into the statements of form in the sale of rubbing his contribution to the east asia summit was to emphasize the unfolding, multi polar dynamics of the continent. additionally, the need to prioritize inclusive arrangements over exclusive ones also serve as a major plane in his statements. you know, the russian foreign minister also had the series of bilaterals with this southeast asian counterparts. so what we can see here is the push towards in passivity at a time of significant geopolitical shift to talking about the us china power competition. we're talking about the worry of other traditional nontraditional

security issues, but this often comes at the expense of the developing world. and this is the point that foreign ministry lover of may. i think i'll even maybe be all of that. because if we talk about orcas, that of course said pock between australia, you can the u. s. if, if there's a demand by these nations to try and get involvement from from other states, could essentially boned them into a conflict with, for example, china, if some kind of dispute did occur. right. and while a shooting war may not be in the works anytime soon, we have to understand that the problems that are being driven by these arrangements, these power competitions come at the expense of the security architecture of asia. and, you know, going back to the main core of these meetings, we look into us since 900 sixty's of us has endeavored to maintain its and travel

within the continent to ensure inclusive dialogue between and among major powers. but with what is happening now. we're looking to the erosion of that audience and trying to be discord within the block. and at the same time, the proliferation of exclusive arrangements for that matter and the delusion of existing multi lateral frameworks. so this becomes very problematic in terms of the security architecture of the region. and then unfortunately we're looking into something like this. it's worth more deeper. and sol as this is in fact something that is quite worrisome for regional state. a very, very pertinent point because as you say, i'll see on one of their aims is to get more involved, the more global cooperation with big world states. but on the other hand, how independent then are the and countries when those states get involved, how in dependent are they from keeping their,

their policies free from foreign and interference, right? no, that is a very good question. in fact, we have to understand in the context of several conflicts that are also on going up to this very point. we must understand that south east asia, the nature of south east asia, is very dynamic. it's a very dynamic region. compulsive, diverse group of states. with very short term and long term interest. so given the fact that the international external forces take sides, we have to want to spend the se agent states maintain particular independence in terms of their decision making. as we can see with what they have been doing based on the ongoing conflicts around and beyond the region. so what we can see is that while there is a mounting pressure towards the unity allows the we look into the individual actions of states and we see variations which definitely point to their desire not to bandwagon freely and without really considering their immediate interests. so

this is what we're seeing and this has been consistent with se, asia fascinating stuff. don mclean, galle, manila, bay, steel, physical analyst, and author. thank you. thank you so much. now the united states has branded russia a so called none market economy enabling washington to artificially inflate prices for imports from the country. the kremlin flash died at the measure, seeing that while it 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 destabilize the russian economy, but are bringing a fair amount of turbulence to their economies. primarily the european one americans are resistant. 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, thereby making similar domestically produced items more appealing to local buyers. washington claims the move is being brought in because of expense of government involvement in the russian economy. it follows numerous other restrictions of the us house imposed on russian products in recent years. america earlier branded industrial rival, china, and none market economy to we heard from new york based investment manager, which firestone is this new move by washington? there might be yet another sanction against 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 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. the can other development in the wake, russia has completed withdrawing its troops from the city of her soul and other locations on the right bank of the didn't. yep. or river the defense ministry phase

. it's being done to avoid potential unnecessary losses among troops amid the danger that ukrainian attacks could destroy a look of. the ramifications of the in the area of the decision was explained by the commander heading rushes operation. but there was a lawyer, maybe somebody, somebody on them, the enemy is firing randomly at the city. but for this reason, it was decided to evacuate population from the right side of the river. we provided everything possible to ensure the evacuation the plans of the enemy to create flooding. a territory can lead to dangerous consequences. this is confirmed by the constant shilling of, of sky hydro. sanction, under these conditions, option is to organize defenses along the line of the denique for river. when you will, catastrophic flooding was predicted, if ukrainian forces had succeeded in destroying the dom. the high water would also have complicated supply routes which were being used to deliver food to the russian army, as well as local residents. eliminating the dom would also jeopardize fresh water

supplies to neighboring crimea, to reduce the danger to civilians. russia has been evacuating tens of thousands of local residents at from the hearse on region and its capital in recent weeks, while defense minister surrogate shall do all the war to the creation of a new line of defense to protect this region. a stable situation in other frontline areas was the close by the m o d this week to as well as the successful interception of up to 90 percent of incoming ukrainian rocket attacks. while mosque will also said the premium army had last around $12000.00 soldiers last month, some 8 times more than russian losses. while we spoke to former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter, we say that by relocating troops, russia has deprived ukraine of its pretext for destroying the 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. ready and critical infrastructure, so it's not like the russians just made this up. the russians have been pointing out for some time now. oh, 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, if 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?

there something else to tell you about the world's leading recycling organization. plastic bank sees it will address the alarming rights of pollution, of the ongoing cop 27 climate conference africa. it's hardest hit by not having become really. i take out the dump site for plastic waste sent there from western countries. r t correspondent, credible letter, brave the mountains of rubbish, to bring us the 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, 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 waste and most of our

ways is also organic. so where does this come from? reliever people talk about blessing input, the decision to south africa. the only thing ethic and let me be necessitated as for the county environment that 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, plastic waste makers index in the global north that produces and creates the global plastic 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 country. oh, because we don't have most of the blessed is that we 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 find these collections and not for profit company in the education space. they turned plastic into briggs and they saw this plastic from where everybody can get in and times the room, but having with locals in exchange for stationery 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 are contained 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 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 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 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 pollutes must pay the lute for the clean bill. campbell, it adds to 40 in johannesburg. can moving a little at north of there from says end of the years long anti insurgency operation. enough for mid rising tensions over the former colonial powers continued military presence on the continent. locals of harold, at the decision. because you want on, i'm pretty happy they've gone, furnish should definitely free on territory and leave. this is good news to me.

honestly, this is a great event. we're lucky to have them gone because we've been praying to see french troops out of our country. we are lucky and happy when the more the minute someone usually will feel better. i'm gonna go and find the force for that same power they used to destroy. they're going to fly away to rebuild this country on this last wednesday, please return my call. i know the end of the back in a position. the am of band can racial beverly, the deputy defense of paris. still staying behind to provide advises, in terms of planning and equipment to the local army on the middle of a gun will sometimes only on demand what france will reportedly keep her on 3000 troops in northern africa to help mention a u. n. report last year. implicated friendship forces in the killing of at least

19 civilians in the north, west african country of molly. the incident capitalized anti french sentiment paving the way for paris to end. it's on the insurgency operation that we heard from political analysts. money. keyma says that african countries should be wary of any attempt by from to maintain its colonialist grip on the continents. no, not the sweat effect. you must like our wishes that france leaves africa. that bar came gets out of our lance. this is a kind of declaration from them, as i said, is fake. it is demagoguery. it is certainly a plan they are putting in place to better choke african nations and particularly burkina faso and we prolong the authorities to per keena to be more careful. martin has never been useful to this. a hell of it has contributed to kill enough. ricky knobby, not enough millions another nigerian enough of all this crowd is what we have suffered and we are still dying. or actually, there are no terrorists in this. i hill mooney,

the france and her side kits are the terrorist and for it is france who kills people. it is france, you provides weapons to people. we need to have the courage to say that is all one word. well, after recap of the week, that was i'll be back in just to we're 30 hope you can join me then in the meantime time to check in with jana for the latest worlds apart set done, that's next mm. with ah ah

ah hello, welcome to well, the part most of us would agree that a bad piece is better than a good war, although it may be just as heartless if not more to the preservation of life and the nature of human condition. but once a war begins and the political moralizing exhausted, so what factors need to be in place in order to ended once and for all? or to discuss that i am now joined by research. rubinstein, professor of conflict resolution and public affairs at george mason university. professor rubinstein, it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you. i'm glad to be here. now you wrote in one of your recent articles that the best time to undertake piece talks is one to parties. the warring parties having stepped out, di, military efforts declared that they would never ever talk to the enemy. do you think

we have reached that point in ukraine? i think they're approaching it. we may not have reached quite yet, but i think we're getting very close to it so that in fact i'm a number of us who are studying the. the conflict on who are in conflict resolution are sensing that the, the, the tide seems to be turned on. you know, that it has been very, very difficult for, for people like me. and many of my colleagues who think that there should be negotiations. and so it's been very difficult for us to get a hearing and it may be the mainstream newspapers, the new york times, the washington post and so forth, are not running or not running our up as are letters to the editor. and he was very distinguished group of people, people like jeffrey sachs, of columbia, or richard falk at princeton and others are finding themselves i have been silenced,

but i think this is changing. and i fact, i notice even in the new york times this morning, there's a quote from an expert in the rand corporation who is beginning to talk about the possibility of negotiations and well before we go deeply more deeply into that can actually oppose what i think is the most crucial question in discussing the possibility of these talks, and that is, who are the warring parties? who do you think are the the sides to these indeed horrific and hard breaking conflict? well, i certainly agree with you about both terrific and heartbreaking. and i think that the, the part is in conflict resolution. the, the usual rule is that you negotiate with the parties who are most alienated and who are using violence against each other. so that the, the immediate parties would be.