only got it more on a skid out and go so men do not. she named the la nilly dazzling lucille my last lot, lucida has been a fool and we are not returning fund fee to the lawyer. ah, we don't recall a similar reaction in the west in 2015 when residents of crimea were left without water and electricity due to ukraine's actions moscow head salts. that's what it calls a western hypocrisy of the un security council pods. in response to an emergency session over russian strike from ukraine's critical infrastructure. with 35 russian prisoners of war are released after negotiations with key f r t. his. some of the harrowing stories with some of us were forced to walk and crawl after being shot in the knees. they brought one guy to the camp. a man had been shot in the knee. they

told him crawl, do it somehow. we don't care on the militants reports to leave kill at least 30 civilians in ethiopia, sparking fears of another armed conflict. less than 3 weeks after the t gray war ended in a ceasefire with moscow to the world. this is our see international. i'm peter scott's here. with the top stories at mid day this thursday, thanks for joining us. as a representative to the un slumped wall, she called western double standards. she was referring to the criticism of russia over its actions in ukraine, while ukraine's blockade of crimea. and the dom bus was overlooked. thus, as the un security council gathered urgent meeting over dummies to critical infrastructure across ukraine, falling russian stripes. soon your mortgage is a day many lamented that the residence of ukraine are at risk of being left without electricity and water. but we don't recall a similar reaction in the west in 2015 when residents of crimea were left without

water and electricity due to ukraine's actions not to mentioned the dumbass, which has been starved of economic oxygen for 8 years. on wednesday, ukraine saw country wide blackouts after a series of russian missile strikes on major cities. the water supply in some areas was also cut off with ukraine's energy infrastructure severely damaged after 2 months of russian attacks. moscow says his goal is to weaken, gives operational capabilities as a response to the flow of western arm supplies to the country. here, blamed russia for causing damage to residential areas. on wednesday, miss r fragments fell on a residential building in kiev. the russian ambassador to the un says that ukraine in defense systems are to blame for casualties. miss debris found at the scene were marked with the words no lift which appears to belong to an air defense system similar to those washington sense key f 2 weeks ago. neighboring. moldova has also faced power outages with the country pointing the finger at moscow over it strikes

on keith's energy infrastructure. moreover, officials have summoned the russian ambassador. meanwhile, power is gradually been restored. their european parliament has recognized russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. the move was slammed on surprisingly by moscow as well as a number of any peas, jerry mariani was among those voting against the move and he sold out see that the resolution will only exacerbate the situation. so can you pet actually succeed? said normal that the actions of the e u lead to an escalation of the conflict, instead of contributing to the conclusion of a peace treaty. having voted this week for resolution, recognizing russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. the european parliament pursues exclusively its own communicated tasks, since there is no concept of a state sponsor of terrorism in the european legal system, i call our parliament is saturated with unconditional hatred towards russia. these parliament will support any measure that goes against moscow's policies, even if it will not bring any benefits. the

e u has exhausted all possible means in this war. we are already at the stage of preparing a 9th package of sanctions against russia. after 8 months of war, and some believe that it is necessary to insist that these shameful sanction being pose and moscow, which we did not want to apply to the taliban movement in afghanistan, nor to his lammas groups in the sa, held up what is left for us, after the exhaustion of all possible sanctions against moscow, it leaves war, the sponsors of this resolution, want to push us to war. absurd. well that the reaction coming from moscow on the label puts on russia by the you, parliament. we delve deeper into western and you lawmakers selective approach regarding the ukraine conflicts that's coming up a bit later in the program. so do states you 35 russian prisoners of war have been released to us negotiations with t f. according to the russian defense ministry. the ministry claim, the troops faced grave danger in captivity,

and the faces are now receiving medical and psychological help. i will soon be taken to moscow for further treatments. we heard some of their stories with the former prisoners describing torture by their captors. steven mccain him is as some of us were forced to walk and crawl after being shot in the knees. they brought one guy to the camp. a man had been shot in the knee. they told him crawl, do it somehow. we don't care. let's go to the pony show just to live. some people were forced to participate in videos in propaganda and in my camp it was very cold . they didn't really feed us. my friend was taken to the resolve battalion. they beat him, drove needles under his nails. he had a wound, they just removed the bone and that's it. no, no pain killers are like louisa. what is his performance? as soon as i saw the russian uniform, i immediately calmed down. but i immediately thought, thank god, this nightmare is over the days they were very long. it was very cold. meanwhile, as incense fighting continues in the don barza correspondence rod gasdio was up the

front line revolting. also, the weapons deployed, the russia's hospital, is vast and varied. some weapons we see often some less so ah, this is the sort of thing special forces tug along small yet devastating. if you use it right, ah, or the part is single walking fluids. the system was standard grad rockets but does so in

a highly more mobile way. you can set this up anyway in the clearing in the woods for example. it's very easy to set up very easy to dismantle. i'm very easy to get away with it that i will, chicken will put it in. this is designed for sabotage and reconnaissance group does not as it drive out, set it up, fire and fleet. it's very quick we, they don't understand what it eats and words firing from a couple days back. our voice at frontline told us they couldn't hear our shots on the explosions of over the phone. so this is a conflict, at least for now, largely for in the trenches. artillery is king rockets or aces, but there is also something else. something that stalks these fields and did spas, tara, among ukrainian, and nationalist fighters who

the t o. s one. sponsor pills or some 5. mo barrick multiple rocket launcher system. that flash burns everything within range. trenches to protect from vis. ah great is be the testing ground for both native states and russia. both sides have learned which of their weapons work well, which don't and what to do about it. on least battle ground. the next generation of conventional weapons are being born. more precise and more deadly than ever before . more, i guess the of r t from lugens creegan ah, over to africa now where 10 soldiers were killed on tuesday in the latest you hottest attacks in shot. the situation in the west african country still remains

unstable with the army sterling to contain an insurgency launch some 13 years ago. the soldiers from shot had been sent to support an army post when officials say they were attacked by bo her. i'm terrorists, and he had his group remains active in the region regularly attacking both soldiers and civilians. gone as president hushes concerns over the islamic insurgency and the saw hell that threatens to destabilize the entire region of west africa. he made the comments at a meeting of the acr initiative, which is a group comprising 7 west african countries. to day, the terrorist groups emboldened by their apparent success in the region, are seeking new operation grounds. a development that has triggered software drift of the menace from this a hell to coastal west africa concerns loom over the possible resurgence of jihad, his screams in the arid sa held region, including burkina, faso, neesha, untried. this comes as western powers led by france, withdrew peacekeepers from molly. after nearly a decade,

nearly 2000 people had been killed in a 179 of sites in the salvage. and in the 1st 6 months of this year. as, according to a recent report by the african center for the study and research on terrorism, business journalist western saki told us more about the crisis in the saw hell. and the acronym is that challenges in dealing with that insurgency. this a house in the most rapid, gorgeous vall, an extreme is activity of any region in africa over the past 2 years. the region is also in next, those of criminal networks on illicit traffic and as experienced arising from my head. valez in 2005 volunteer went observed in the a hell specifically book he enough a soul for molly and western the j 22 into one represent is 70 percent increase of the previous year. it is continuous on, on, interrupted escalation of balance evolving. militant islam is, goes to the region, says 2015 has caused

a lot of diverse teaching impacts and property and lives of individuals in the country. he's a cra, he should you pass resulted in little, tangible action in 2084. he started doing tonight in member countries, conducted joint military operations on the borders, which resulted in the arrest of about $700.00 suspected terrorists and gun members . and to see how many weapons says then the trench of ga is, bruce has only grown, was staying in africa. the conflicts in the aroma region of ethiopia has intensified with militant groups reported to killing at least 30 civilians. and this comes less than one month after a ceasefire was agreed in the northern secret region. clashes between the romo liberation army, a nationalist merchant group, and government forces have shaken the region. your own people are the country's largest ethnic group and accused the prime minister of failing to contain the growing crisis. the governance has also allegedly on local militias who are accused

of attacks on civilians. these factors have led to national sentiments gripping the region. earlier we spoke to africans to these professor, either kill you visa, who says that a scale of this conflicts may even exceed the t great war. well, it is absolutely worrying. ordonia is the largest stating the federation with 50 to 60 percent of the population. and the area of operation of the or liberation army in auto. mia has extended all the way to the neighborhood of 30 canada. and instead of for responding to the honest lot from the liberation army, the government has taken to bombing them with drones. so if this escalates, it's going to dwarf what was happening in the northern part of africa. so it's absolutely worried or ami. a people are asked, they're demanding that they should be included in the governing of ethiopia and

self govern in the mail region. that should be simply seen as a legitimate demand and legitimate demands must be addressed. if he appears to. yes, civil conflict saw a sci fi agreement earlier this month. that included a disarmament plan, which itself included reconstruction projects and distribution of supplies. tiguan militants are also supposed to united with the federal army. the war began back in 2020, falling, a breakdown in force between the government and the t great people's liberation front, a paramilitary group. formally, the ruling party of ethiopia, the conflict has led to thousands of deaths on his brought the country to the verge of famine. vesicles could be so again, what he says, the conflicts could quickly spiral out of control. or mia, the area of operation of the rama liberation army is larger, much larger than to cry integrate, what worked was basically the c h that they could envelope the area of to drive

from the north area from the south or far. aha, and be here, been national defense and sources are, is not going to be put under siege. it's really large. it's also the heart of the economy of ethiopia. it's where the captain city is located, which is about 50 percent of the german economy. if it's not resolved very quickly, it's going to spiral out of control. and that would be really bad for you, not only for your patient, the former faculty, in general. in other news, e. u ambassadors have failed to come to an agreement on the russian oil price cuts according to the european commission for energy. meanwhile bulgaria says it will allow russia's 2nd largest energy company, luke oil, exports, crew products to europe, partially bypassing unseat russian sanctions. the deal will generates around 350000000 euros to the country and were transfer a production revenue to bulgaria instead of the netherlands or switzerland. the agreements also pay the way for russian crude products to be delivered to other you

states. let's take a quick look at how this deal avoids the bond on russian energy exports to the european block. the u has an embargo on russian oil exports in place. but since the creed will be refined in bulgaria, it will be considered as produced in that country and therefore becoming eligible for export to europe. and a journalist irina slobs believes the you shouldn't be motivated by ideology when it comes to bonding russian energy supplies. homemade, this is good news and the next to him, we got the reply and it has been the property of russia for years. i think the european union must find the way between ideology politics and your policy on pragmatism. big is the true faith that they the particular vehicle is insured for fly globally. europe is where the intellect mall suffering owners own citizens in all of continual days,

but you're signaling who knows how long it's ironic really. and it bits with vicki lives that europe is stalking up on kills on oil on cold coming from russia. besides in fennel divisions, the faces a possible class with the u. s. as germany and france are pushing forward. so for industrial policies, such as more states subsidies for businesses as the u. s. implements policies that could in turn, the threats in the european economy are the contributor, rachel moss has more so it turns out that all the talk of unity from american officials about the need to confront challenges together with the european union. and precisely where us profits begin, even if it means that those economic gains comment europe, expense, and european officials seem to be panicking over what now increasingly appears to be and inevitably realty, as washington makes a power play for european industry. we must clearly tell our

u. s. partners that it is a major problem for us. it could create a major shock on european industry. the u. s. has just entered this new globalization before our eyes to develop its industrial capacity on american soil. europe must not be the last of the mohicans. there are only a few weeks left. once the act is implemented, it will be too late for us to achieve any changes. it was only earlier this month that you, us treasury secretary, janet yellen vowed to work with european allies to help them understand how the biden administration's inflation reduction act was actually a good thing for europe. but france and germany in particular, still art. see it that way. the leader of german chancellor olaf schultz is social democratic party. lars cling bile has just warned that german industry is on the verge of bailing to the u. s. which has reliable cheaper energy, attractive tax incentives and the supply chain and labor climate that hasn't been

hopelessly deregulated by the incompetent tinkering of brussels bureaucrats. western economic, alice generally concur with the dire assessment and warren of industrial shut downs for germany. and the looming recession for the euro zone. meanwhile, the french government is shoveling 10000000000 euros in aid out the door to businesses in an attempt to buffer the skyrocketing energy costs. that is, even though french president a madman, mccall had previously accused schultz of distorting. and i'm leveling the european economic playing field by giving a hand out of 200000000000 euros in aid to german businesses. but now, rather than squabbling with each other exclusively, europe's 2 largest economies, germany and france, have officially announced that they're going to team up and go head to head with washington. well, hey, you don't change a team that wins, right? no doubt the bite administration is shaking in his boots,

particularly when those boots have done about 200 laps around shoals and back home . while they've been busy trying to tie their own shoes while ost also fighting over whose brand of shoes provides an unfair advantage over the other. nonetheless, berlin and paris are now announcing a new europe in sovereignty fund to help businesses invest and stay in europe. basically, it's now a contest between the u. s. and the you over who can out spend the other with government subsidies. we're talking massive transfers of wealth from taxpayers to select corporations. so much for those free market capitalist values of the west is always talking about now on both sides of the atlantic. western governments will be picking the so called winners who get government cash fellows. and the losers who don't just like during the coven pandemic, or with the economic crises of the past 2 decades. and bailouts for businesses aren't the only thing on which washington and brussels are set to square off. take

a listen to the blocks, chief diplomat, yoseph burrell. certainly the united states are our most important allies, but in some cases we will not be in the same position or on the same approach towards china. we cannot think that we can build a future without taking into account the enormous strength of a country that is called to play its rightful role in the world due to its size due to its economic strength. nice to see that you hasn't yet completely lost its survival instinct and is so far refusing to follow along with washington's demands to get belligerent with the world's 2nd largest economy or to cut ties with the use on trading partner. but one can never underestimate brussels propensity for enthusiastically leaping off a cliff whenever washington comes along, offering a friendly slap on the back. and finally, a european parliament's resolution bonding russia, a sponsor of terrorism, was condemned as absurd by russia's permanent mission to the you. there is from

foreign minister, had a similar response. the european parliament adopted resolution recognizing russia as a sponsor of terrorism. i proposed to recognize the european parliament as a sponsor of christianism. the resolution was passed with 500 out of 705 members voting in favor, if the aides against on the rest abstaining. while the motion has no legal consequences for moscow, the block household for legal free work to be developed in the u. this is difference from the u. s. list of state sponsors of terrorism, where countries face economic consequences, one's listed lots. he takes a closer look at western double standards, which have once again emerged following the resolution declaring russia, a state sponsor of terrorism. the deliberate attacks and atrocities carried out by the russian federation against the civilian population of ukraine, the destruction of civilian infrastructure and other serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. amount to acts of terror against the

ukrainian population and constitute war crimes that you pay in parliament seems to have a very selective memory. and that appears that the only people who are categorized as victims are those that the west supports anything else or anyone else is ignored . so let's break it down a tax against the civilian population of ukraine. well, where was the european parliament in the last 8 years? thousands of ukrainians had been killed by their own so far. and remember the tragic scenes from the odessa massacre. no outrage, no accountability whatsoever. the parts no resolution about russia targeting residential areas, schools, hospitals, and so on. i haven't got confused for a 2nd, assuming that this was about the ukrainian forces bots. no crimean bridge, anyone at one point they mentioned a threat to a european security. well, hoop law process, nordstrom, gas pipelines, which pass through europe, rasa says it's not guilty. how about the videos of russian peel doubling has been

tortured in violation of the geneva convention. that doesn't matter either. they only remember rules and regulations when it's time to use them against russia. the resolution also blames russia for the global food crisis. even though russia agreed so green deal with the cranes to ensure those who need food the most will get it so far. it's europe who got most of the grains, apparently under the u. n. world food program, which implies assistance to countries and need only 2 ships were loaded. i emphasize only 2 out of 876-0000 tons of food were exported on them. of the $2000000.00 tons, this is only 3 per cent that is sent to developing countries. grocer doesn't need any good pain deal or the crane so help out those in need. it has announced that it will not only send $500000.00 tons of grain to the poorest countries for free, but it has also already exported sand point $5000000.00 tons of grain to countries

in asia and africa 30 more on their way. and they're aiming to bring that number to 50000000 tons with fertilizers by the end of this year. and now let's see what the european parliament is accusing rush of. whereas russia has been weapon, ising food and hunger since the beginning of the war. whereas russia's deliberate actions, including destroying stocks, disrupting production and imposing quotas on its own exports of foodstuffs and fertilizers, have exacerbated the global food security crisis unless have on. so another aspect of this resolution was just comical when you consider who it's coming from. the european parliament is accused of russian armed forces and proxies of targeting civilians in other locations other conflicts, including during the 2nd chechen war, the 2008 to russia, georgia war, and the syrian civil war, as well as libya. and that goes on and on. so when russia defends its own region from terrorism, like in chechnya, it's terrorism where russia response an attack on its peacemakers. like in georgia,

that's also terrorism. and when a country asks russia for help in the fight against terrorism and russia provides it like in syria, you guess that that's actually also terrorism. however, when america, europe provide weapons and funding that ends up in the hands of terrorists, they are freedom fighters. thankfully, the world is much bigger than the european union ending united states of america, no matter how hard they tried to silence voices that refused to follow their line. ortiz, rory, sushi was joined earlier by experts in the fields of human rights on international law to discuss the potential consequences of the measure. i think it just adds fuel to the fire, certainly. but i just want to say that how ridiculous that is, you know, people need to be reminded that the 1st world leader to call george w bush, after 911, was potent to offer condolences offer help on the war in terror and gave help in

the war in terror, particularly an afghan stay where russia still had assets after the soviet presence there. and of course, well, and i've been to syria twice. i was last year and there you see that the russians have help fight ice is there while it's the u. s. in the west, which is help them at time. right. so that's the irony of these types of resolutions, but they're dangerous resolutions because what it means is that it's going to cut russia off from the west, on a, on a fairly min permanent level. but on a long term basis, and i just don't think that's good for anybody. those are the main stories this i do head over to all websites r t dot com or our social media pages or telegram channel for more news. bunny's peter scott's on the back again at the top of the hour with another rundown hope see of them. the

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disliked volunteer and i do thanks for my community in try to make a difference. no one ever dies and says that i wish i had a better job. they say i wish it more time's been with my family. i wish i could have explored some of my interests of music or ard, or church or being a baseball coach. and so i just think we're at a moment where we're going to have machines and artificial intelligence produce a lot of things much more cheaply than we've ever seen before. we're going to have the potential for abundance. and when we have abundance, what we should do is give people the chance to live out their dreams, whatever they are. and that's the gift of this moment. if we don't turn into the hunger games, we already spend millions of dollars every year in this country to try to address poverty and economic insecurity.