yes with ah, you as president jo biden's, democratic party should clinch controlled off the senate office, securing more seats this weekend in the mid term election. western policies are trying to weaponized the region. so that's the warning to asian and pacific countries from russia's foreign minister as the assay. and summit wraps up with the stories that shaped a week or 2 international. a p steel office, 2 years of violence achieve through dialogue. officials from ethiopia and the te gray region agree on a cease fire and to open the door to humanitarian aid. also,

russia withdraws its troops from the city of san and it fears that ukrainian attacks on our local dan could devastate the air. i top stories of the week, today's main headlines as well. welcome to our sunday program. the weekly went out to international. we to begin this hour with the news from america, the democrats appear to have clinched control of the senate following this week's midterm elections. as a key race in nevada is set to be cold for the party with 96 percent of the votes counted. so that's a projected blue when in the silver state. while another closed contest and arizona was narrowly decided for the democratic party's candidate as well. now, with those victories, the upper chamber of congress is expected to remain under democratic control, but its republicans will at sect to gain a majority in the house of representatives, meaning things have just gotten tougher for the biden administration to get its

policies passed. earlier. my colleague, unit r, neal, discuss the latest without ease, fear rather is about. so this is a very narrow victory for democrats with 5249 in the senate. 50 for democrats. now this is because catherine cortez moscow. best fit, former attorney general adam like salt, giving them that lead. this is after the arizona victory and the victory of course of john federal men and pennsylvania. this now may say it's less important for the georgia race which will take place in december to determine any sizable difference . because b, p harris can actually cut that tie and in congress to though we have still a, the races going on both being counted in california, arizona, in oregon. and of course neither party has breach. so 218 majority that is needed and many are questioning why this right wave that was supposed to happen according to republicans did not happen. and according to many,

it has to do with inflation. it has to do with the fact that perhaps voters voted against the trump in discourse. and also abortion issues were very high. young voters said come out to vote, jen z did. and of course, the other accusation is election fraud as well, even before the election freleigh defense of joe biden. i recall k, mike. he said that whatever happens essentially that he's got the answer in his office to push through certain policies that that v were the veto. democrats have, for a long time, been accusing half of the country of being deplorable republicans all being involved in january 6, have been really going against a vast majority of the country and even accused rush of having hackers to undermine the election. yet when democrats, when, then that means everything is good, and joe biden talked about exercising his use of vito power. 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 pan. this is of course, with the fact that joe biden's approval rating is in the tank. i mean, according to a c, b as pull 46 percent of people think that joe biden's policies have actually hurt the economy. 52 percent trust republicans better on issues like abortion and inflation and 79 percent of the country. think that the country is out of control, which says a lot about why people don't have trust in the system. and of course, for some, this has been enough to question the integrity of the u. s. selections. 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 be behind us, get no red wave. 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 help steve off red wave. so we're talking about long lines . we're talking about machines that didn't work. the fact that we are still counting ballots here and of both i mailed her as well. there's no paper and st. claire, there is really no chain of custody in the united states election. so of course, this is why people are accusing this in many other countries. you get the results the day of and or the day after, at least. but democrats of trying to normalize this, say, well, this is because we have so many vote by mail ballots. so obviously, the vast majority of people are not trusting in the system because they have, they have questions as to why this is happening now. the democratic party says this is a victory for the american people as a whole. however, they have been largely accusatory of anybody that thinks differently. anybody that has been questioning this,

there's been intimidation tactics. there's been all sorts of things in the electoral process in the united states. so a lot of people are saying this is keanna. this is embarrassing, and it seems that democrats promote democracy abroad while still having these sorts of issues at home. and what this does is it's going to lead to a tug of war in congress, both in the senate and the house of representatives where little policy work actually gets done as the se in some had concludes income bodie, there is discord among top officials on what the traditional final statement should include a russia's foreign minister. so her lover of explained the standoff like, you know, collective decision on a joint statement has been made because the united states and it's western allies insisted on absolutely unacceptable language regarding the situation in ukraine. a lot of other that washington and as nato allies are seeking to weaponized asia,

ultimately to contain rusher in china rather than support such regional organizations. as i see on the statement that came with a number of western countries including orcus allies, australia, new zealand, attended the asked you in groups meeting to discuss the various forms of international cooperation. and we spoke with global affairs analyst at dawn mclean . gail, who believes global competition for power, is coming at the expense of regional security. what we're looking into now is that there is a clash of not only material power, but also ideology and of course perceptions towards the order of asia as a whole. so what we can see here is that because of this particular clash, which also aligns with a distribution of power to shift china, india, japan, russia, the united states all engaging in this particular critical hotspot, geographic hotspot, 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 will look into as young since 960 s of the n has endeavored to maintain its centrality within the continent to ensure inclusive dialogue between minimal major powers. but with what is happening now, we're looking to the erosion of that audience in charlie p. 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. it's good to have you with us. after 2, he is a violence. the ethiopian government and militants from the northern take gray region. this week signed a peace agreement to cease hostilities. negotiations began at the end of october,

after the ethiopian army captured several major talents that were previously held by the local insurgents. according to a published document, the parties agreed on the withdrawal of troops including foreign forces from the conflict zone. in addition though, they've taken on a shared responsibility of protecting civilians and ensuring that unhindered movement monitoring and verification team formed by the african union will be established to assess the implementation of the commitments made with what we are able to achieve today. a with him on to and tom, so action bomb

. so the, some of the parties agreed on a main point not to impede the delivery of humanitarian aid. according to the un, at least 20000000 people in the country are facing food insecurity due to the military conflict, but also the drought and inflation. beyond that, i 13000000 ethiopians, a said to be in need of emergency health care, all 4 and a half 1000000 have been displaced from their homes and the conflict in ethiopia, northern take right region has raised since the sound of a decade. really, the violence originally erupted when government troops to deploy to fight the so called a people's liberation front, near the border with the fighting has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. we spoke with independent journalist undo alamo to say, who believes that the piece deal could serve as an example to resolve other regional conflicts on the continent. if you'd say, for his wisdom me to have given birth thing about these companies

like now the after the signing of the deal, most of the wisdom. yeah. i'm not properly. i know i'm not interested in forcing about daily, like just stroke goes away down. logan. she will be african probate by the africans. so the, it's a good list for the other countries as well, to avoid and extend interference in their own issues. because if we see the more becky interested to accomplish, the more the conflict will be worse and takes into a different angle in the different bricks is building algebra. africa's largest natural gas exporter has become the latest country to apply to become a part of the ever growing blog. but they are jerry and foreign ministry has

formerly submitted a membership request which was warmly received by both beijing and moscow. the alliance has recently gone that increased interest argentina and iran have already applied to join turkey, egypt and saudi arabia of stated that is i as well to become a part of the block. it is a good interest in this global association is very, very high. and continues to grow. it's not just algeria argentina in iran. in fact, there are more than a dozen such countries. story. brick says an international trade association comprising right now of 5 major emerging economies in brazil, russia, india, china in south africa. but soon to be many, many more. now the total gdp of its members is some $27.00 trillion dollars. the population in those countries of 3200000000 people around 40 percent of the globe. and the group appears a line to compete with

a western lead g 7 group of economies. because a g d p of $45.00 trillion dollars and a much smaller total population of about $775000000.00. we heard from an algerian inflammation communication academic who says the north african country and tends to play a major role in the bricks, family, and that of the emerging multi polar world. what? because over the position are in the, in africa as what are in the world besides that, as you just mentioned, that we have so many important sharla. well, socially economy political going to study for phone chinese. more than that because of the historical report because i deal with the dish and we read the china and busha about come to the days of the defendant of junior. therefore we expect a lot more than that. i want to hit the ball and there is

a said we want to how to get out. so i want you to be to be there. what do we want that boy that was there. and there is the one that i'm looking for. we aspire to play a role within the big and the brakes and such is the union role that i'm getting. what is the does not need for more background from india, and i'm not sure what that is. and of course we have the position that i offer i shop so so. busy some extent is young and they want to have it say in the world, they don't go on the one step companies, usaid by didn't. alright, let's talk ukraine. as russia has completed, withdrawing his troops from the city of her son and other locations along the right bank of the river,

the defense ministry says it's being done to avoid potential unnecessary losses among troops. amid the danger that ukrainian army people could be talking about of, well, a critical local down, you can see it right over there. that is the natalia to health goddamn. the deficient was explained by military top ross just a bit earlier this week. but it was lawyer, maybe somebody, somebody on 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 shilling of the whole sky, hydro electric power station. under these conditions, the most appropriate option is to organize defenses along the line of the denise river. and we can see the dime right here. catastrophic flooding was fed, if ukrainian forties had basically succeeded in destroying the dam. the high water would, of course, have complicated various supply routes which were being used to deliver food to the

russian army, as well as that of local residents now destroying the dime, but also jeopardized fresh water supplies to neighboring crimea, to reduce the danger to civilians. russia has been evacuating tens of thousands of locals from out of san region added capital. in recent weeks, the displaced people have been given all sorts of humanitarian aid and being transferred well behind the front lines. now, a new line of defense has been established in the region, while the ministry of defense also disclosed the week that nearly 90 percent of ukrainian rocket attacks have been intercepted. moscow will so claim that the ukrainian army lost around $12000.00 soldiers last month, some 8 times more than russian losses. but we spoke with former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter. he believes by relocating the troops. russia's deprive ukraine of a pretext for destroying the dan. 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? russian soldiers who are not often deployed for combat duty, avia, nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces that military branch mocked anniversary on sunday, but certainly didn't get the day off. instead they've been conducting large scale drills in western russia is unties. as sophia newness reports, you spike seemingly desperate attempts by the wise the swipe your brains, by alas, sorry, under the rock, the dangers of their existence are allegedly still present. and not just for russia buckle the entire world, especially given the conditions those labs have been operating. large scale. neil ok, we're drills of the russian nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces. i kicking off 2 days, some 300 kilometers for moscow near the cedar office. grandma and their relevance of the man can that be more clear and present,

ah, conscious of troops and thousands of special military equipment units are involved in the military exercises today. we're going there right now to give you an inside loop in this massive military drills. the exercises are dedicated to the annual day of the russian nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces. a branch of the army established more than a century ago by the soviet military council to counter chemical weapons threats. since then, it has been expanded and now also covers nuclear. in biological defense, these soldiers assimilating some of the harshest battle conditions they could one day face. today's schedule includes the firing of flame throwers, intelligence gathering, and difficult weather, and geographical conditions and other elements of advanced combat training. a flame

thrower is a powerful weapon. it's proven to be very good in the conduct of combat operations in cities. here we train military personnel to carry out assault operations law. they've got these drills. we sanitize the military equipment in the personnel who arrived from the contaminated areas over border. we use a lot of weapons during the exercises. we train hot the preparation is very intensive. we have learned a lot in today's and predictable and eccentric world. everything seems sponsible, but these guys seem to be prepared to handle everything that comes their way. place or sharing a sunday with us here at our t at the wealth leading recycling organization. plastic bang says it will address the alarming rise of pollution of the ongoing cult 27 climate conference. africa is hardest hit by that having basically become a gigantic dumping ground for plastic waste. i his africa correspondent,

catabolic dotala. 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, tv removes 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? reliever people talk about plessy input the decision to south africa. the only looking at the economy business at 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 plus think use crisis. an average american or a united kingdom citizen will produce about a 100 kilograms of plastic waste annually. now, what responsibility do they, bay, to this global wasteland they've created? this is mainly supposed to be less at the county. or because we don't death, most of the places 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 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 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 they did end up affecting as his 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 for, for us, what is important is plastic is going to affect every one 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 of course, 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, you and cop $27.00 climate change conference. and maybe just maybe

those who pollute must pay the lute for the clean bill campbell, it had to for oddity in dryness bag. all right, thanks. returning a sunday with us here at archie international here in the russian capital area, rundown, some of the biggest stories of the week, the heavy hitters and the highlights will be back soon with more. ah ah ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even

foundation, let it be an arms race is on, often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult. time. time to sit down and talk. brewton is the aggressor poon chose this war. today, i'm authorizing the additional strong sanctions with mr. cole, strane that i speak on the billing you're spending more, see more in the rebranding. all in ports of russian oil and gas turbine in imposing these sanctions are bratia as destroyed the american. in fact, mr. bursher boomerang, by way of suffering. the, i mean, they key interest really hitting people in the pocketbook. boys or girls was always

there. i see you using or is your, your router visit or not you. this is going to impose severe cost on the russian economy immediately. and overtime. there is some other stuff that i'm there by the we have list social and then use that for them. are started a little bit a mess this all the emeralds. remember him very and absorb it solely to pull up. its thick body hub. did show that 21st century is with the asians, it. russia is also an asian country and began to develop military cooperation. similar to what nato does in europe. propose, lower gibberish official for, to swing by. look there from nowhere or trade was the search for new markets import substitution. the one sanctions has become part of our about capitalism, neutralize,

if i did with more and more reports of restrictions. however, sanctions has an instrument of influence and nothing you may been used against russia for decades. sunk to limit gaskets, but idea is porter seconds through milk of jack upstairs with how and then did the united states to come up with this concept of sanctions. instead of real military action operation sanctions can be imposed when you don't know what to do. does the united states want to go to war with russia over ukraine? i can tell you right now that that would not be a popular outcome. a given the fact that russia has 6000 nuclear weapons, we have 5500 in any war with russia, with 10 because a global temperatures rise by say, 200000 degrees. meaning the end of the world today, russia is the country with the most sanctions imposed against it. a number that's constantly growing most restrictions against individuals,

the rest imposed on organizations. some experts compare the measures to financial nuclear warfare when you don't have a military option. economic sanctions is the politically expedient alternative, but it's an alternative that doesn't really address the problem it's supposed to address. it's done to a fees, domestic and quality or figure such us on the problem was the question yes yes, click on and get the lawyer out. according to me, it is a posted new york strip of shift by the to sunset, but almost only new dyna, but in the way i'm with digital. and the new lease on is to which the songs. ringback with machine you a pushing engine results that combine you look to just can use them. we video to cover when brazil ration you are doing the apollo must oblong data for shampoo sick dynamic on law and media which is the come through. so i'm sure you can when you

got the visa, we're finishing up a system or la quinta, theater. we have much time. they want to continue. miller, united, it wasn't a good book which has to be strategic, but something from soon the companion didn't approach you easy to get in there for my way. and if i get really curious studying they've done sanctioning somebody creates the cause and effect relationship in the global economy that has a detrimental impact on your own economic activity. ah, you get, we get it up. we do a lot computer. i mean, it comes with a squeak, bigger scale from 0 to reach it, he's going to use you know, you need to kind of.