phone existence was only exist the because the deadline for possible for an military intervention in niger loons, another african nation, algeria rejects any such action saying it would be a threat to its own security as well. ukraine is accused of firing up or rush of renter's supply missiles at a great start. can next try me with the recently incorporated impression region of 1st solve one miss. so hit the structure while the rest were intercepted. 78 years ago to the us and decimated the jump and the city of hard russia. in the 1st ever use of an atomic bomb, the left tens of thousands of civilians did. but the country's leader uses the solemn anniversary to instead take a month, rushing on

a train, crushing silver and practiced um pills. at least 13 people that interest scores more with several of the cartridges. the, with the top story from the past 7 days and writes up to the moment developments sounds well. welcome to the weekly on our t introduction. as a deadline and post by a grouping of west african states for a nice year to reinstate. it's us the president edges ever closer. the old jury and president has taken us down against any potential military intervention in the country. he sites the risk exposed to his own nation by the threat threatening with military intervention in these here is a direct threat to a serious and we completely un, absolutely rejected. problems should be resolved peacefully. oh dear is not alone

in pods or any on. in fact from yesterday we saw that there's some, i know me costs from the northern part of the country, you know, starting to polls and the former military. yeah, i didn't vision or an integration for us in new jersey saying that these are phones upstairs. consequences for people. in fact, region, you know, nicki cheryl board as h, as broad as we around 7 nigerian states to the north. and these are a lot because they're saying that any in invasion, serious consequences in terms of the trade in terms of security and these northern states are all sort of states unite to have that happen properly. and uh, i'm missing times on local bandage. so right now what was. ready news i'm, i'm, i'm excited as i've, i've so far been in for. ready that for us, you know, that's been affecting straight in these places for instance. and so with all you

know about shares are bought out with these are we see about, you know, what's from the sure have that i have been able to call me to nigeria and, you know, show you that. so by too. ready are unable to do to make sure it's, you know, they are trained. so this is, this is basically what we're saying. i'm also an expert. the car security experts in nigeria are also wanting that you know about the echo as must explore in. ready to the highest degree, you know, diplomacy which, you know, the military men back to overpower in leisure. usually trying to paraphrase when the requested that you said on friday, who said about, you know, that they're going to give diplomacy a chance for, we'll just see. and for us to. ready saying that it is ready, you know, for a possible military and based on the offense, you know, the, on the dialogue and, you know, besides satisfied the impulse so far, do not, you know, restore president mohammed but sue to power. so is that is what,

what we owe as bad for us is my question, positioning this issue is that it was to be invalid or if it wants to negotiate with these are ministry man to be able to restore the chance to make a party, to the present and for us as also really speaking and saying that this will not disclose to uh the military funds or, you know, 8 strategies when each will not say when it will strike in in these areas. so if it goes both ways we have in the past days with seeing molly's book, you know, do you know, do issues try statements and, or make the top comments saying that it's of course are these items don't have to. alicia military or security forces can make sure that would also mean that you know, and for us, which one young nation fixed such as security forces in the process of finance. what we're seeing, we're not sure how the,

what that's going to happen or the school situation way out in the coming days. but what we do know is that the rash, serious concerns right now, you know, just people in so. ready even ask the deadlines and for us, you know, at the sheets the last we as nearly as well friends, how supported military auction to being taken to return the crew for some on the reasons behind not i'm what you're really and possibly has to do with it. all, here's our t contributor, mutual bars, where would be 2 leaders in asia, or possibly get the idea that france had any interest whatsoever and intervening in its former colony. well, it might have something to do with the statement that was put out by the french presidential palace, anyone attacking french nationals, the army diplomats, and rights of way would see france respond immediately. an intractable e, the president of the republic will not tolerate any attack against france and its

interest, and by french nationals, they mostly just mean one guy named mister uranium because the jail is francis top supplier of it, providing 15 percent of its total supply and defense of the european union and the mineral is absolutely critical to power. frances nuclear reactors, you see frances energy independence is ironically, very dependent on these. yeah. which would explain why french president and even mccaul sounded awfully angry about something happening a whole continental way. now we've been hearing multiple western press reports for the military june task now in charge has cut off exports of both uranium and gold to france. and that comes as really bad timing for paris, which has become even more reliant on its nuclear power plants after cutting itself off from russian gas with the rest of the you to impress the frame present virus whiskey and kind of the same way that codes party guys work themselves into a frenzy and dump things like jump off a roof to impress girls. journey is already on the verge of the industrialized

because you're exactly nomic engine can't run on wind and sun, who knew apparently, not berlin, but at least france had not completely bought into berlin's green fantasies and moscow called all the nuclear power plants. although macklin was certainly heading in that direction, so plan b after the russian gas cut off was to power them back up. but now these jazz has suspended the exports of the radium that they require with the immediate effect. but hey, no problem, the right, because frank, it has other suppliers like has it stand and use that to stand except who are she controls the transport of those here. rushes nuclear giant gross out them. whoops. that doesn't really repairs with much wiggle room. now that it's in conflict with all of these uranium suppliers last and all be selfish for an interest though is the will of the citizens of these you have to be allowed to do what we want to

point. the president, we need outside years must not impose people up on us to manage us. that's the end of it. as citizens of news. yeah. we're against the french military bases. the american faces, the canadian, and the tentative basis. all those for and base is that all you need. yeah, we don't need them. the power armed forces must not give into any blackmail. new share is resilient. we are resilience. we produce our g, d. p is more than enough for us to survive. we call on the armed forces, the security forces to resist those attempts to blackmail us. it's interesting when it comes to the conflicts in ukraine, back home makes it all about the interest of ukrainians. but when unrest breaks out in the shaft, it's all about french interest. it wasn't that long ago. a bit of time. prime minister shows a middle name was, i'm dressing, france on the world stage, and exposing its colonial interests in all their glory, where somebody don't care level. this is a child who works in

a gold mine in volcano fast, so it's one of the poorest nations in the world from sprints colonial money for booking of faso, which has gold in return they demanded 50 percent of every single key, not 5, so exports and dropping the call for some of the french treasury, the goal, the, this child goes down the tunnel to extract most liam's up in the causes of the french state. so the solution is not to take the africans and bring them to europe . the solution is to free africa from saxon europeans who are exploited and allowed these people to leave or for they have in the and mack home might try to dress up and justify his actions and frustrations as defending democracy in asia rather than economic new colonialism. but the reality is that the emperor really is just standing there in his fancy lackluster boxer shorts. by this point it's wasn't the event the same a split 2nd and the 10s of thousands of lives on change the world forever. today

marks the 70, a feller, grocery of the atomic bombing of hiroshima well citizens and guess lucky bore the brunt of american power. 3 days after that, well, estimate say around a $100000.00 people were killed instantly. many more lost their lives from the consequences of radiation exposure. use a portion of the r t document tree atomic message documenting how washington was waking up the same fate for the soviet union one. and you may find the following images disturbing. the the,

those little kids who just stood and looked at the time then suddenly the pump. so the stayed up there with bodies and over the place there were mothers looking for their kids. i heard children told me that even once they saw their children's faces, they couldn't even recognize them. the policy of the united states government at that time was to subdue the nation of defend anything i could do to help the

american dropped one bomb on hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. when this bomb, we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction, has been done as the greatest achievements of organized science in history. my back was completely burned to the bone pots of my body caved in, and my rips posting to my hearts and longs. it is still very painful. today, after the explosion, i was in hospital for 3 years and 7 months the so why did the us stop the palms? the best way to start answer debating. and i think that truman was hoping for a dual strategy. one was to try to drop the bonds and hope that japan would surrender before the russians got in. so the russians would not get all those

concessions that we had promised them. number one and number 2. and equally, if not more important than the americans would try to send a message to the soviet union while people flooded onto the streets, all told russia on sundays to mark the anniversary and speak out against the use of atomic weapons. a special collaboration was held in the cities peace memorial park attended by high low. busy low officials, it's included the flower leading ceremony and solemn speeches, but there was no mention of us responsibility. instead, japan's fine minister took aim at bruship saying it's most good that poses a nuclear threat to the world. because i did a, the deepening divide among countries of a nuclear disarmament, as well as nuclear threats made by russia and making things much more challenging. but because of a circumstance is all efforts to rid the world of these weapons. and rallying

international men to once more is much more meaningful. what are to contributor culture is of the view washington target at the 2 cities with atomic bombs because they haven't previously been flattened during the war. prior to the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki saw us air force under the command of curtis and the may have conducted 5 month long fired bombing of all japanese cities, which was estimated to cost $3.00 over 330000 civilian debt. and this, this, this was completely invitational, may actually in fact keep practice for the fire bonding of tokyo on the japanese of the chinese city of the time of december 1944. and the he employed $200.00 us bombers drop over $500.00 tons of incendiary weapons, a cost the depth of $40000.00 chinese civilians. but at the time that they excuse

was, due to find was a very strategic support in the city. they have to stop the japanese that dance. and as i said by, by the time when us decide to drops and dukes on 0 shima rules, there haven't been many other japanese cities. that's the less intact for them to bomb the ukraine. how struck a bridge which connects crimea under her southern region with a british supplied storm shuttle miss. i'll not coming in from the local governor. what for more. busy was it for less cost live to ortiz? steve sweeney. steve, hello, tell us more about the strike and the bridge itself as well. this is a bridge that links crime aid to the castle in region, which has recently been incorporated into the russian federation. and on sunday afternoon, that bridge came under a truck as we understand from 12 storm shadow missiles. of course,

these are the british based long range resolves, which was supposed to be a game changer for ukraine. now motion a defenses, a monies to intercept most of these missiles, one did brief. those ad defend cease causing some damage to the bridging chunk guy we, we've seen the footage circulating which shows what appears to be a hole in that bridge. now the local governor is saying that to this is really, this is a passenger bridge is not really used for the military and of course crime, it has become something of an obsession for ukraine. you probably recall um, before the counsellor offensive started, there was talk of a beach faulty in crime be here in the summer. now. course, that seems a long way off as we're seeing ukraine's counter offensive running into serious difficulty and fighting. but because of that, we're seeing more more these type of attacks, whether it's with the storm shadows. and we've seen that drug and attacks on the

bridge in the opposite direction the the coast bridge has of course, come on to fire tragically to people the amount of women, the mother and father were killed in an attack very recently. um, the daughter was wounded and of course she, she is being offered those attacks. how being condemned by russia as terrorist attack spot in the wake of ukraine's counter offensive fighting. we're seeing more more these kind of a trucks targeting civilians. well, on the you have seen the aftermath of ukraine shelling of civilian areas. first tons, steve, including in the past 24 hours. yes. um, on the saturday night to just off to 10 o'clock in the evening, there was a series of explosions that were incredibly loud, is splitting um the 1st 2 or 3 sounded uh, pretty much like uh, all tillery far the old. and we kind of all to the refund that we have been done yet. but then if this was followed by a series of mini explosions, very,

very close together, which is kind of terrific of a cluster munitions, of course, these all the munitions of bond in more than $100.00 countries, but were recently supplied by washington to ukraine and the white could be spinning accounts to offensive. now these were a civilian areas that came under attack last night. we attended the scene of the a don't yet see university of economics and trade. and there was a huge fire, a massive blaze, which tool through the lead time of the, of the uh, building. uh they were on the scene that was something like, i guess around $105.00 engines, scrolls of firefighters. and they would open nights to bring that blaze under control. uh, earlier in the day, 86 year old woman was killed in the queue, but he said ships give region of don't yet. so take, this is one of the regions on the outskirts of the city comes on to regular attack, but it is believed to gain that this was the results of a cluster munition attack. we return to the scene today and we found one of

absolute devastation, the boats, the, the entire building is boons. how we will around the sides of the building. and we could see where the roof is folded in a inside there a, a inches of a wall to where i think a mixture of fi just buffering to pull out the fire. but it was started the internal water systems. i what we did find where the use, i don't know if you can see these, but these are like very so a fragments of what appears to be a cluster reading issue. and then we could see from the damage on the roof, but they were many small holes like almost like a, a save a which indicates a game that these cluster munitions we use. local officials said that the munitions did explode, india, but we have to re, is right. once again the, this was the target into a civilian and we have the university around the university lies a apartments, people's homes, shops where the locals go about that diety business. we spoke to

a number of them and again, they said that they were fairly certain that it was a cluster munitions a time. so it was damaged to some of their uh, their homes as well. but we have to say that the use of a cluster, munitions is bind, and it is a war crime under the geneva convention. yeah, indiscriminate weapons that basically there is much damage as possible at steve. thanks very much for giving us a sense of what is helping during the crowd to stay safe. ortiz, c sweeney. will ukraine also attempt to the number of other attacks throughout the week? a while, many of the strikes were intercepted by russian defences, russian oil tank to in the black sea. i'm the moscow city business center, were damaged by drill. net tex independent dutch journalist on columbus, sonia of funding and a. so he's the targeting of the capital is an effort to distract from ukraine's lack of progress on the bottom 5th. and i think it's an act of desperation because what we will know is that you crane is losing

a little bit to suit. we don't hear anything in western media anymore about the battlefield actually. yeah, this is an ethical terrorism in my opinion, and this is what we saw in this engine to be out before i've tried strong weather. us fridays drove all the way from do you ever need to kill people? so i mean, it's possible to do it from a long range. that's it. that's what we know. so it's, it's a distraction. it's like a p r stones. what your brain is doing to distract from the real problem. and the real problem is, even though they have a lot of material from the west to change and so they're not winning on their maybe . yeah, they, they're not winning. they don't have enough manpower. this is also what we know, so it's a destruction from the real situation. saudi arabia has hosted 2 days of peace talks regarding the ukraine conflict. no more than 40 countries, took part, but not russia, which wasn't invited. one of the countries who attended india is national security

adviser said that suggested that none of the suggested resolutions would get filed . people. currently several piece proposals have been put forward each, have some positive points, but none is acceptable to both sides. the key question that needs to be addressed in the medium is whether a solution that is acceptable to all relevant stakeholders can be found. the key of was expected to push forth its own 10 point proposal. small sco has repeatedly said there can be no settlement without security guarantees for russia. china, which has taken a neutral stance in the conflict on previously offered off a piece part of its own, has sent a representative as to the talks in jetta. while international consensus over the conflict has proven difficult to obtain, during recent meetings between the e u and the community of latin american and caribbean states, there was a failure to agree on a joint ending statement. in response to russia not being included in the saudi

hosted talks, mexico refused to attend. we spoke with the international director of the citizen news sites. denise, what i'll get you up. we say is in any conflict, it's generally accepted that old main protagonist need to be present. so that's the thing. no point in having these type of police investigations use. one of the 2 major parties in conflict he's not present and the mexico is one of the is it seems to be one of the major countries, major governments that actually understands this basic concept. i believe, i believe we are actually going to see a domino effect from the, from some of the decision of the display, all of us over and over to not attend the summit on the platform for me. next on the summit, i believe you're actually going to see more and more countries demanding that russia were also invited. i believe that the, i believe it was a little south africa, columbia isaac fascination in india will, uh, also,

uh, vermont the thrush and the presence of these discussions is, like i said, is do a basic concept of diplomacy and negotiations use for the to as from the 2 parties and for informed and conflict to be present at the same, at the same time. otherwise we can make sense of no sense. so a train crash and southern pack us down has taken the lives of at least 30 people, an injured more than a 100 more when multiple car register we are leaving some overturn just a warning. some viewers may find the following footage disturbing reports had said some passengers remain trumps inside the minded wreckage. with rescue teams working to free survivors, an additional train house being dispatched to the seat and to provide relief um transport the injured, the reasons behind the derailment remain on those of the countries. prime minister

has ordered a full investigation and i witness spoke to us about the little it's called somebody done. i heard the sound of the crash when we got here. there were carriages lying all over the area. help them as you know, this is where it, the incident happened. there were 12 of us who got here 1st, and we started rescuing the injured people, including children, an elderly people. they were in bad condition. some of them had broken hands and legs. we did what we could just take it on your own. we're going to go for locals in pakistan and say the country's railway system is in drastic native repairs being 5. we have all 3 of us to just pause at 5 pm. now we have been told that it will leave at 8. it may even get as late as 10, we'll wait and you know, we're suffering because of the pool railway system delivery and they're gonna cut all of it. historic talks between the tell about on the us took place and kept tar on tuesday on the agenda topic, such as security sanctions frozen off on us that's on combining their context right

on the law firm. issue ortiz, rachel blevins, has been taking a closer look at how the success of american governments helped shape off countless sounds. grim opium epidemic us when us troops invaded an occupied afghanistan in 2001 opium production store to record levels with the country cementing itself as the world's largest producer of the narcotic substance. now that the taliban is back in power, when did strict anti drug laws, cultivation of the poppy plant has fallen by nearly 90 percent. but not everyone sees that as a good day. for these reasons, the taliban should not be praised for or encourage to persist in that struck them. certainly no diplomatic recognition of the taliban regime should be awarded for it . so in this mainstream argument coming from the west is it taking away opium production removes the final aspect about dennison's economy. as in 2020,

the total value of opiates had a larger share and ask in trade than legal exports. the drugs also contributed to rampant corruption and addiction, which is why they've always been outlaw under the tell about the chemistry on paper . it's new to the u. s. military official struggle to address the epidemic in the country. i'm in the power back you. their presence created in 2001 washington spent an estimated $9000000000.00 on anti drug programs. yup. reduction continued to spiral out of control if we're trying to stabilize the country, we don't want to turn the populace against us. they've been growing pop piece for a 1000 years here, and if we without the fields, we are in publishing them. even the united states institute of peace, which is the federal organization to promote complex resolution, has changed its channels back in 2009. it published an article titled, how opium prophets the channel event. then this year is article on the topic was titled, the taliban successful opium band is bad for atkins and the world. notably,

it's not just the lack of opium production that is impacting afghanistan's economy . it's also the crushing thing ship that replaced billions of dollars in aid from the us. combined with the binding ministers has moved to freeze around $7000000000.00 in central bank reserves. when this has been returned to power 2 years ago, the i. e. a reiterated that it was crucial for confidence, building that blacklist and reward list to be removed and bank reserve has been frozen so that the afghans can establish an economy underlined on for an 8 when job i that announced that he was freezing. the atkin beings reserves back in february 2022. he claimed she was doing it for the quote benefit of the people, but it has only served to contribute to one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world. i find that the preservation of certain property of the afghanistan bank held in the united states by us financial institutions is of the utmost importance to addressing this national emergency. and the welfare of the people of, again,

is done in the same way that the us government says one thing and then does another enough, dana stay on the also appear to have double standards when it comes to where they support opium production being allowed back in 2003, when the us was allowing the drug trade to run rampant in afghanistan. then senator joe biden was counting the importance of eliminating poppy cultivation in columbia for the united states at eliminating coca production in columbia is a longstanding goal of our national drug control strategy. opium poppy cultivation is a more recent development, but it's illumination is also in our strategy that has now been set in motion as us officials met with the taliban this week for the 1st time since their tape goober of afghanistan. nearly 2 years ago. while the talks were start, the vitamin ministration has yet to say whether it plans to lift its sanctions on the country order release the remaining $3500000000.00 worth of atkins,

central bank reserves. it continues to hold hostage in an effort top and the economic crisis that is based on much more than just the lack of opium production as afghanistan struggles to recover from 20 years of us occupation as well. we heard from us, county farmers who believe they were used. so washington cook, new products. you got the, the real beneficiary of the poppy crop was the americans. they took the lion's share of the profit, smith, we farmers, and land owners received only a minor portion. they had a firm policy to destroy us for the last quarter that everyone knows, the americans were taking profits. people weren't rising against them, yet they continued searching people to check points for the killer people who ruined us. then took our assets with them. instead of the project, whether they moved our young people have become addicted to drugs, i know many who have died just from the village over there. the opium plant has

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