TRTWORLD — News 20260920 170000 UTC 454 transcript segments Google Speech-to-Text API Automatic Transcription (Chirp) Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:10] Iran's in army warns of an imminent US attack in the coming [00:00:13] days. The central military command says it will [00:00:16] retaliate. Tehran says it also wants [00:00:20] negotiations to restart and warns failure to end the war [00:00:24] means the straight of Humus will stay [00:00:26] closed. Hello and welcome to TRT World. [00:00:30] of from Istanbul, I'm Hasim Seaker, also head on the [00:00:33] program: Ukraine [00:00:35] of launches a massive attack targeting several cities, including Moscow [00:00:38] as [00:00:39] in Russia wraps up three days of its general [00:00:41] election, and poll's close in [00:00:45] Germany, state elections there with exit polls showing [00:00:48] Chancellor Friedrick Meck's CDU party has lost [00:00:52] ground in both regions, [00:00:54] including [00:00:59] Berlin. [00:01:04] of [00:01:15] Hello, Iran's central military command says the US is planning for [00:01:19] in in another round of attacks days after President Donald Trump says he will make a big [00:01:23] decision in the coming days. Iran has vowed to [00:01:27] retaliate against any US attack by targeting US bases [00:01:31] and interests in the region. On the diplomatic side, [00:01:34] Iranian officials have [00:01:36] a delivered Washington seven conditions to restart [00:01:38] negotiations. Trump may take up the Iranian proposal when he [00:01:42] meets gulf leaders next week. Among the conditions are the release [00:01:46] of frozen assets and an end to the US naval [00:01:49] blockade. [00:01:52] Today on the diplomatic front as well. Our [00:01:56] of positions are [00:01:57] of completely clear, rational. [00:02:04] of [00:02:11] of of [00:02:16] of [00:02:19] of of [00:02:30] to reopen the straight of [00:02:31] hormos. [00:02:35] details iran seven conditions but says deep mistrust continues [00:02:39] to shape the approach [00:02:40] to negotiations with Washington. expectations [00:02:44] in Iran are not very high for [00:02:47] in these of negotiations given the history of [00:02:51] negotiations between Tehran and the Donald Trump administration. the [00:02:54] first time that Iran and the Donald Trump [00:02:57] administration start. negotiations that was in the spring [00:03:01] of 2025 and in the middle of those [00:03:04] negotiations the United States and Israel attacked Iran, the same [00:03:08] scenario was repeated in late [00:03:10] a February of this year, and when the presidents [00:03:14] of the two countries back in June signed [00:03:17] document, both [00:03:19] of them signed the same document, the Islamabad memorandum of understanding, we [00:03:23] saw that that mou also unraveled within [00:03:27] weeks, but it seems that Iran once [00:03:30] a return of both sides to the Islamabad memorandum of [00:03:34] understanding, provided that the United States adhears [00:03:38] to all of its commitments and gives guarantees that it will not [00:03:41] attack Iran again. Among the [00:03:44] of points that Iran um wants the United States to do, the demands that Iran have [00:03:48] from the has from the United States, one [00:03:51] of them is the release of Iranian [00:03:54] of frozen assets. Tehran has billions [00:03:55] in of dollars in frozen assets abroad. Another one is [00:03:59] in the... war on all fronts, not only in Iran, but Iran [00:04:03] wants end of Israeli attacks in Lebanon and in Gaza as [00:04:07] well, refraining from [00:04:09] a interfering in internal affairs of Iran, Tehran as long accused the United [00:04:13] States of formenting and encouraging protests and riots [00:04:17] in Iran and Tehran wants the United States to stop this, [00:04:21] of stop cooperating with opponents, the opposition [00:04:24] of the Islamic Republic, Iran says that the United States is supporting them [00:04:28] and wants Washington to stop this support. halt any form of [00:04:32] in aggression. Mamen Guda is a professor [00:04:36] of Middle East Economics at Hankook University of foreign studies. He says [00:04:40] Trump is looking for a way out given the global economic [00:04:43] implications caused by [00:04:45] in the [00:04:45] in Iran war. Iran holds now many [00:04:48] of the cards. I think they they are having a very strategic [00:04:52] moment in hands [00:04:54] of course I mean the Republicans are witnessing [00:04:57] major I mean. position in US, we [00:05:01] have inflation, we have [00:05:03] a rising fuel prices, especially in US, we [00:05:06] have of course the hoouti escalation in [00:05:10] Yemen and Saudi Arabia, so all this is taking into consideration, [00:05:14] i think the Iranian leadership, they are choosing the right moment [00:05:18] to side their so callalled seven terms [00:05:21] and and i would like just to point out that they say as you mentioned [00:05:25] earlier stop military actions on all active france and [00:05:29] all i think also means yemen which is a big thing [00:05:32] you know talking about at the same time so i think it's a very [00:05:36] strategic move and i think president trump has lots to think [00:05:40] about at this moment this is very good time to stop and to [00:05:43] rethink why are we here at the first [00:05:46] moment? because the inflation, the the [00:05:50] economic pressure that all of us are witnessing right now and we will witness [00:05:53] more and more if this escalation goes on whether with Iran, whether [00:05:57] with Yahooti, whether with hormos or Babel, I think [00:06:01] sooner or later this has to stop President Trump, I think [00:06:05] he understands what's happening, he understand the economic pressure, he is witnessing the [00:06:09] economic pressure in US by himself and... "I think he needs [00:06:13] to stop and he will, I think rethink what's happening now with [00:06:17] Iran, we need to reach some sort of a concession right [00:06:21] now, and the economy is the key, economy is the real key that's happening [00:06:25] around here, I have to say that before [00:06:28] this war, Korea was or Japan, Korea, China was looking at the middle east [00:06:32] a very different light, nowadays nobody is talking about the middle east, they are [00:06:35] only talking about the oil, everybody needs the oil, everybody needs the prices [00:06:39] to go down, inflation is being affected by..." every household [00:06:43] around here, so I think this is an international cry, let's [00:06:47] say not even a code, it's cry for for all those [00:06:51] big powers [00:06:52] to stop and rethink what's happening right now, and the inflation it as [00:06:55] you have mentioned is is growing even in us, the oil [00:06:58] prices is extreme us right [00:07:02] now, so I think this needs to stop, this president Trump, he has [00:07:06] many ways of stopping this through diplomacy, through other [00:07:09] means, but this, I mean ongoing... conflict with no end, [00:07:13] i think it has somehow to stop because all of us are suffering right [00:07:17] now. Israeli war planes have bombed several locations [00:07:20] in southern Lebanon. they targeted the towns of bani [00:07:24] hayan and alcantara in the marjayun [00:07:27] district of the southern part the country. Israel repeatedly [00:07:31] breaches US back security deal with Lebanon. [00:07:35] nearly 9,00 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon [00:07:39] since 2023 and more than 1 million leban [00:07:42] people are displaced from the [00:07:45] attacks, an Israeli strike [00:07:48] a civilian vehicle in Gaza City has killed at least one [00:07:52] person. This raised the death toll on Saturday alone to five [00:07:56] people, including those killed in other attacks across the enclave [00:07:59] in Jabalya, Noseirat and Gaza City. It is the [00:08:03] latest Israeli violation to to the cease fire signed with [00:08:07] Hamas in October last year, more than 1,300 [00:08:10] Palestinians have been killed. Israeli attacks since the [00:08:14] agreement, a force displacement and [00:08:18] prolonged blackouts have silenced many of Gaza's creative [00:08:21] voices, yet amid the ruins, one self-tought balance [00:08:25] artist refuses to give up, abdul wahab [00:09:20] everything to the stand still, there was simply no space or proper equipment [00:09:24] left. Israel's war did more than [00:09:28] this place ahmad, it interrupted something, he had spent years [00:09:31] building, no place to practice, no equipment and no [00:09:35] connection, after the world out had to stop all [00:09:39] together because there was no internet connection to share my... [00:09:51] to do this he needed absolute focus, but how to find that [00:09:55] focus when you're constantly on the [00:09:57] move? still he found the way back to [00:10:01] it, not in a studio, not with the proper equipment, but [00:10:05] with whatever he could find around [00:10:07] him, [00:10:12] social media once again, his circumstances have [00:10:16] changed, his equipment has changed, but getting back to his art is [00:10:20] a way of reclaiming a piece of life [00:10:34] a place where almost everything has been thrown off balance, ahmed [00:10:38] is trying to find his again, abdul wahab hamed, trq [00:10:42] world gaza, [00:10:45] violence flad in the occupied west bank after an illegal Israeli settler was [00:10:49] shot dead near, separately the Israeli army says its forces [00:10:53] killed a..." Ian motorist who they claimed was attempting to run [00:10:57] them over. The attack took place at the site the formally evacuated [00:11:01] illegal settlement in the northern occupied west bank. [00:11:05] Dozens of Israelis have intruded into the al-Asa Mosk [00:11:08] compound in occupied East Jerusalem under the protection of [00:11:12] Israeli police. Some of those who made it inside perform Jewish prayers [00:11:16] and religious rituals in the courtyards. It comes just hours before the [00:11:20] Jewish celebration of Yommipur. Palestinian officials are warning the [00:11:24] growing. these actions are part of attempt to change [00:11:28] the status the holy site and control access to the [00:11:31] area. British music star Ed Sheeren has [00:11:35] apologized to fans in Philadelphia for how he's handled the [00:11:38] controversy over the dropping of American rapper Mclamore. He was [00:11:42] removed from the Singer's latest US tour [00:11:46] after the promoters objected to pro-Palestinian comments he [00:11:50] made on stage during performances in New [00:11:53] Jersey. Shera. Shiran blamed the [00:11:56] tour promoter for the move, all of Sheeran's remains [00:12:00] remaining opening axe and his backing band then pulled out in [00:12:04] solidarity with [00:12:05] Mclamore. [00:12:18] A huge wave of Ukrainian drones have been launched at Russia in one the [00:12:22] biggest attacks the year so far, more than f 450 [00:12:25] targeted Moscow where at least two people were killed in strikes on apartment [00:12:29] blocks. An oil refinery was also hit in the early morning [00:12:33] attacks causing several large fires. officials say most the drones [00:12:37] were intercepted. Ukrainian drones also hit a bus in [00:12:40] Kerson in the Russian controlled region of Ukraine killing [00:12:43] two, one them an election official. [00:12:47] A voting has ended on the final day in the Russian parliamentary [00:12:51] elections. It is the first since the Ukraine war with. [00:12:55] launched in 2022. President Vladimir Putin earlier said the [00:12:58] votes would underline the public support for the Russian army [00:13:02] fighting on the front lines. Anti-war parties have largely been [00:13:06] barred from contesting the elections. Russia's head the election [00:13:09] agency said their systems were attacked by hackers for [00:13:13] second day. For the first time [00:13:17] residents of Ukrainian regions now under Russian control are [00:13:20] also voting. There are 3.5 million voters in the four. [00:13:25] in these territories illegal [00:13:32] and [00:13:32] has called urged the foreign voting governments and international organizations not to recognize the [00:13:36] results. for more details [00:13:40] joins us now uh from moscow dasha what is the [00:13:44] latest you're hearing on how the voting has been [00:13:47] going [00:13:51] now? well we have now the data from the central election commission which is [00:13:55] just that these parliamentary elections have actually exceeded the [00:13:58] turnout from the previous years, more than [00:14:02] 56% of Russians showed up at the polen stations or cost their [00:14:06] ballet online, this is the highest number [00:14:09] than in 2021, in 2016, [00:14:12] 203 or 1993, so that [00:14:16] does show a lot in terms the [00:14:20] people's desire to cost their bullet and exercise their right, [00:14:23] we also hear in that in... Moscow the turnout has increased to [00:14:27] 51% and this voting has been [00:14:31] preciding indeed in the so-called new territories of Russia of [00:14:34] Donietsk Lugansk Zaparishia and Herson and this is where the turnout [00:14:38] has also been very high more than 70% to all of [00:14:41] those territories. We also hear in that voting is over [00:14:45] in some the overseas territories in foreign [00:14:49] countries where the voting was taking place at the ambassis of [00:14:52] Russia and uh the Russian authority. is are saying that what [00:14:56] Ukraine tried to do was to derail these elections [00:15:00] by launching the large scale attack against Moscow, the Moscow region. [00:15:04] The latest numbers suggest that up to 2,0 Ukrainian drones were [00:15:08] intercepted over the past 24 hours and Moscow [00:15:11] insists that what they will have to do is to increase their own [00:15:15] attacks on Kief in response to that, but no major [00:15:18] regularities have so far been reported regarding those elections and [00:15:22] interestingly people who have been coming to the Polon station. I've been [00:15:25] talking to them, they do say that they don't want their [00:15:29] voice to be wasted, they want to cast it in person to [00:15:33] make sure they cost it the way they wanted and to be clear. [00:15:37] there that electronic voting will not be reinterpreted, [00:15:41] they do not really trust this system, but nevertheless we know that in [00:15:45] Moscow alone more than 300, 3 million and a half of [00:15:48] voters have voted online, so indeed very important [00:15:52] elections for the Russians and the first time that they are voting for the [00:15:56] new law makers uh under the situation where they are in [00:16:00] the conflict with Ukraine and Dasha, as far as these uh [00:16:04] reports of of cyber attacks on uh some [00:16:07] the voting places, how is that uh affected [00:16:11] things overall? [00:16:15] well, interestingly, we are hearing from the Russian authorities in the [00:16:19] central election commission that there have been numerous do as attacks [00:16:23] against the electronic voting system against the [00:16:26] governmental portals, we are hearing that they have been efecting [00:16:30] voting in uh foreign countries, but here in [00:16:33] Moscow um we've been getting some reports uh that... [00:16:37] in some places people could not vote in paper ballots and [00:16:41] they were forced to vote only online, however the polling station where i [00:16:45] was, the situation was quite different, instead people were [00:16:49] encouraged to vote in paper because they couldn't vote [00:16:52] online, that system was off for some time, so certainly we [00:16:56] understand that had some effect, but overall no major [00:16:59] regularities have been reported and the turnout is very [00:17:03] very high. all right, dasha, thanks for that, dasha. [00:17:07] of life for us in moscow. our Russian [00:17:11] forces struck a civilian evacuation center in Kramatorsk [00:17:15] setting the facility a blaze. panic spread with workers at the [00:17:19] facility saying the hub was being used to receive evacues and [00:17:23] transfer them onward to Luzova in the [00:17:26] neighboring hiv region and elsewhere in [00:17:29] Ukraine. this was a transit hab. we were [00:17:33] sending people further to lozova. evacuees were being brought. [00:17:37] Here right now we have people from Droskivka who [00:17:41] were supposed to leave, we're now going to try to send them [00:17:45] safer [00:17:45] places. [00:17:53] Opus have just closed in regional elections in Germany's [00:17:57] Mecklenburg, western Pomerania and the city state of [00:18:00] Berlin. Exit poll show Chancelor Friedrich Mert [00:18:04] ruling CDU party losing ground. [00:18:07] both losing ground to to both parties further [00:18:11] left and the far right. the AFD made gains [00:18:15] in both states following up its best ever regional results in [00:18:19] Eastern Germany last week. it marked the first time a far right party [00:18:23] gained a majority any German state since the second world [00:18:26] war. olrich breutner is a professor of [00:18:30] European studies at Stanford University in Berlin. he believes that [00:18:34] Chancelor Mcs will withstand this storm because "not [00:18:38] all of Germany's problems are [00:18:40] homegrown, on the one [00:18:44] hand, any government, no matter if it's run by mats or [00:18:47] by different party, that addresses the [00:18:51] massive list of reforms, both [00:18:54] domestically and the challenges from outside, would [00:18:58] need to do unpopular things, because it is [00:19:01] unpopular to cut expenses, to shift [00:19:05] priorities, to make the country more. resilient, there [00:19:09] are many, many things that are coming from [00:19:12] outside, like high energy prices due to russians full-scale [00:19:16] invasion in Ukraine or what is happening in Iran, so [00:19:20] lot of [00:19:20] it isn't homemade. If it would be so simple by [00:19:24] replacing one head by another, and then Germany would [00:19:27] sail into a brighter future, then we could do [00:19:31] it, but we live a situation in which the [00:19:35] problems don't go away by simply... placing a person who [00:19:39] potentially communicates better, there's also a lot to blame [00:19:43] him for why he has such low popularity [00:19:46] rates, but I don't personally think that a there [00:19:50] is candidate who currently would want to take his [00:19:53] job, because as I said, [00:19:56] it is not a mission in which you gain much, and on the [00:20:00] other hand, it will be complicated to find enough support [00:20:04] within a coalition, and Germany doesn't have majority. voting [00:20:08] system, so it's not like a presidential system that the winner takes it [00:20:12] all, you need to coordinate conflicting positions, and in [00:20:16] the end you need a compromised candidate, and I currently don't see [00:20:20] anyone doing it, so even if the result [00:20:23] today will not be great for the CDU, it will certainly [00:20:27] not be as devastating as two weeks ago in [00:20:31] another part of East Germany, Mads will stay in [00:20:35] office, I usually don't make bold. forecast, but in this case [00:20:39] I think we won't see different chancellor in the coming [00:20:42] weeks. Let's take a look at some other stories we're [00:20:46] following this hour. [00:20:54] Thousands of demonstrators have marched through the main avenues in Buenos Aires [00:20:58] during the March of anger to protest the policies of President [00:21:01] Xavier Mile. He has implemented aggressive measures to cut down [00:21:05] government spending, slashing public subsidies, freezing public works [00:21:09] and reorganizing state [00:21:11] institutions. Venezuela has signed [00:21:15] a memorandum of understanding with French oil and gas giant [00:21:19] total energies. The deal could allow the global energy company to [00:21:22] return to a country with the world's largest crude oil reserves after [00:21:26] years of US sanctions. It is the latest a series of [00:21:30] agreements with international energy companies and this comes as Karacas [00:21:34] is seeking new investment in its oil [00:21:36] industry. In Nigeria, Africa's biggest [00:21:39] refinery has opened its doors to investors. Billionaire Alico [00:21:43] Dangote is seeking to raise 1.6 billion [00:21:47] US dollars in the continent's biggest initial public. and it's [00:21:51] already drawing huge interest. has the [00:21:54] story: a chance to own a [00:21:57] peace of one of Africa's biggest businesses, shares [00:22:01] in Aliko Dangode's giant oil refinery [00:22:05] recently went on sale, giving Nigerians a [00:22:09] stake a business that has already transformed the country's [00:22:12] fuel market. now we are owning back our Nigerian oil, [00:22:16] so I believe the group investing in that group is the... lifetime [00:22:20] opportunity, being imagine being a part owner of [00:22:24] something that is Nigerian that will grow, the [00:22:27] 1.6 billion dollar share sale is the [00:22:30] largest initial public offering in the African continent [00:22:34] and in the history of Nigeria, it's also country's first [00:22:38] fully digital IPO aimed at retail [00:22:41] investors. Several investment apps [00:22:44] crashed as people tried to buy a minimum of 10 [00:22:48] shares costing around on $40 by the end [00:22:52] of day one we had cleared around 70% the backlog and by [00:22:56] the start of business on day two we had cleared 100% the [00:22:59] backlog and now we [00:23:02] you know are good to go, we've increased our capacity just [00:23:05] by massive orders of magnitude. Africa's [00:23:09] richest man says the aim is to make ownership accessible [00:23:13] to ordinary nigerians. now we're looking at what do we [00:23:17] create, what do you want to really create, what you want to create is the [00:23:21] likes of Amazon, the likes of Microsoft, why people bought [00:23:25] these shares for next to nothing, and now those shares have [00:23:28] become something big. The refinery has [00:23:32] shaped Nigeria's fuel market since it began operation in [00:23:36] 2024, helping the country that once relied [00:23:40] heavily on imports to produce more of its own. It can [00:23:44] process 700 thousand barrels of oil a day, with Dangode [00:23:48] planning to more than double that. to 1.4 million barrels [00:23:51] a day by 2029. the company also plans to [00:23:55] launch a massive refinery plant of Kenya's coast, [00:23:59] linking it to the East African market, but despite the [00:24:03] excitement, investing is still out of reach for many [00:24:06] Nigerians. we are trying to survive, it's a [00:24:10] good development, but it's not for for the [00:24:14] poor, for poor people like us, but if you have money you can [00:24:18] invest in it, but for we, we are trying to [00:24:21] survive, keep it going, the IPO values the [00:24:25] refinery at around $49 billion dollars, more than [00:24:28] twice what it cost to build, while Dangode is still set [00:24:32] to control 87% the company, for investers [00:24:36] buying now, the real question is if Dangode can [00:24:39] deliver on his company's share [00:24:47] people across africa still rely on wood and... charcoal [00:24:50] exposing them to many health risks, but a Nairobi-based company is [00:24:54] now using carbon finance to make electric stoves affordable. [00:24:58] Hope Kirubi reports. [00:25:02] Breakfast for Mary kavutha now starts with a press [00:25:06] of a button. For this Kenyan Mother of [00:25:09] two, the switch to electric induction cooking has [00:25:13] slashed her daily fuel costs. The stove also allows [00:25:17] her to prepare hot meals safer. and faster [00:25:21] inside her home without the hazards of toxic smoke [00:25:25] that contributes to about 85000 [00:25:28] debts every year on the continent. when i compare it [00:25:32] with the charcoal it is cheaper because like a day when i was using the [00:25:36] charcoal find that i'm using around about $1 us with the [00:25:40] charcoal per day and with this one when i buy a token of [00:25:44] 80 us cents it lasts me to the second [00:25:47] day to make clean cooking. alternatives [00:25:50] accessible, manufacturers like barn use [00:25:54] carbon finance and pay as you go plans to heavily [00:25:58] subsidize upfront retail costs. the Nairobi [00:26:02] based company says it has distributed more than [00:26:05] 7.3 million stoves across 11 African [00:26:09] countries. Build in computer chips, track cooking [00:26:13] data in real time through GSM, allowing the [00:26:17] company to sell verified carbon credits to international [00:26:20] investors to fund the discount. Only way [00:26:24] that clean cooking is going to scale on the continent is [00:26:28] through carbon project finance. And [00:26:32] so it's a... model, governments can earn revenue from it, we earn [00:26:35] revenue, customers get an amazing product, they would never [00:26:39] get unless they had that subsidy that's brought by carbon project [00:26:42] finance. in June, Africa secured $900 [00:26:46] million dollars in clean cooking financial commitments, [00:26:50] according to the international energy agency, but [00:26:54] critics argue that building an entire green energy [00:26:58] transition on volatile carbon markets posess a [00:27:02] massive risk for the continent, if we depend [00:27:05] holy on carbon credits to support the [00:27:09] transition, it will be extremely slow, [00:27:13] and it will not happen at the pace that we need it. the other [00:27:16] issue for carbon market is before you can trade on the [00:27:20] carbon market, you need to build the asset. back at Mary's [00:27:24] home, her old charcoal stove sits outside [00:27:28] next to piles of fuel still used by her neighbors. [00:27:32] And while policy experts debate on the future of [00:27:36] carbon finance, millions of families across the [00:27:40] continent cannot afford the upfront costs needed [00:27:44] to make the clean energy [00:27:52] the news for now, headlines are [00:27:53] next. [00:29:26] the facts and opinions, these people are playing politics with [00:29:29] public safety, the noise and the nuance, they all collide in the [00:29:33] Nexus: there is nothing benying about illegal human smuggling. We look at the [00:29:37] story, how it's being told, who benefits, what others are [00:29:40] leaving out, and why? It's always the elites who ask for it and the ordinary people [00:29:44] who pay for it. We're all you need to know, Nexus on TRT [00:29:48] World. [00:30:09] Hello, you're watching TRT World, I'm Hazm Seaker, reminder of our main [00:30:13] headlines. Iran's central military command says the US is planning [00:30:17] for another round of attacks. Trump says he has a big decision to take in the [00:30:21] coming days. Iran has vowed to retaliate against any [00:30:25] US attack, saying it will not hesitate to target US bases and [00:30:28] interests in the regions and countries who support the attack. [00:30:34] Saudi led coalition says it has intercepted houti ballistic missile [00:30:38] targeting Riyadh and stopped a wider attack on several Saudi cities, [00:30:42] but the hoodis say their missiles and drones hit a sensitive hit [00:30:46] sensitive sights in the capital and a Ramco facility in [00:30:49] Yanbu causing large fires. An Israeli [00:30:53] strike against the civilian vehicle in Gaza City has killed at least one [00:30:56] person. This raised the death toll on Saturday alone.