TRTWORLD — News 20260920 220000 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. [00:00:00] as President Donald Trump prepares to meet Golf leaders in New [00:00:04] York this [00:00:05] week, [00:00:08] today on the diplomatic front as well, our [00:00:12] positions are completely clear, rational and [00:00:15] non-negotiable. Our messages and conditions have been [00:00:19] conveyed explicitly to the other side through [00:00:22] intermediaries, and the enemy knows [00:00:25] in full well that the path of deception and unilateral imposition [00:00:29] is closed. [00:00:33] of [00:01:00] expectations in Iran are not very high for [00:01:04] these negotiations, given the history of negotiations [00:01:07] between Tehran and the Donald Trump administration, the [00:01:10] first time that Iran and the Donald [00:01:13] in Trump administration started negotiations, that was in the [00:01:17] spring [00:01:17] of 2025, and in the middle of those [00:01:20] negotiations, the United States and Israel attacked Iran, the same [00:01:23] scenario was repeated in late February of this [00:01:27] year, and when the president the two countries back [00:01:31] in June signed document, both [00:01:35] of them signed the same document, the Islamabad memorandum of understanding, we [00:01:39] saw that that mou also unraveled within [00:01:43] weeks, but it seems that Iran wants [00:01:46] a return of both sides to the Islamabad memorandum of [00:01:50] understanding, provided that the United States [00:01:53] in adheers to all of its commitments and gives guarantees that it [00:01:57] will not attack [00:01:58] of Iran again, among the... [00:02:03] of of points that of Iran wants the United States to do, the demands that Iran have from the has from the United States, one [00:02:07] of them is the release of Iranian frozen assets, Tehran has [00:02:11] billions of dollars in frozen assets abroad, another [00:02:14] one is in the war on all fronts, not only in Iran, but [00:02:18] Iran wants end of Israeli attacks in Lebanon and in Gaza [00:02:22] as well, refraing from interfering in internal affairs of [00:02:26] Iran, Tehran has long accused the United States of [00:02:30] commenting and encouraging protests and riots in Iran and [00:02:33] Tehran wants the United States to stop this, stop [00:02:37] cooperating with opponents, the opposition [00:02:40] of the Islamic Republic. Iran says that the United States is supporting them [00:02:43] and wants Washington to stop this support, halt any form of [00:02:47] aggression. For [00:02:51] more joining us from Washington DC is Raed Jarar, he is the [00:02:55] policy director at democracy in the Arab world, now [00:02:59] Down. [00:03:05] divide this up into to three parts, let's look at the foreign policy aspect, then we look [00:03:08] internally, and maybe if we have time, maybe we look a bit his historical and [00:03:12] philosophical with this Iran policy from the Trump [00:03:16] administration, it's very hard to to find an [00:03:19] element of sense to it, it's I'm going to destroy [00:03:23] them, there's a [00:03:25] of deal, there might [00:03:26] be deal, I'm going to destroy them, I'm going to destroy them, there's a deal, and so on and so forth, and we swing... [00:03:30] Israeli role in affecting President [00:03:33] Trump's judgement, because from United States [00:03:38] of interest, there is no question on whether or not the United [00:03:42] States should reach an agreement with Iran, that is in [00:03:46] the US interest to reach to a comprehensive agreement with [00:03:50] Iran as soon as possible and get US assets [00:03:54] and troops and interests out of harm way, harm's [00:03:57] way, unfortunately what we see every now then is [00:04:00] that Israeli prime minister Netanyahu [00:04:03] a successfully lobbying the United States to [00:04:07] increase its pressure on Iran or even attack Iran in the [00:04:11] last few hours and couple of days there are [00:04:14] even speculations about an impending [00:04:18] in attack either on Yemen or Iran [00:04:21] proper, it [00:04:22] of seems like the US is sending more assets to the region and [00:04:25] sending notifications and warnings to US citizens in [00:04:29] the region. doesn't make any sense, that's absolutely not within the United [00:04:33] States interest escalate war there, so I would [00:04:36] say, I agree with you that there is [00:04:38] in flip flopping going on, but I think the flip flopping [00:04:42] comes from the Israel factor, and the [00:04:46] Iranians, as we mentioned, with that seven-point [00:04:49] proposal for restarting negotiations, and at the same [00:04:52] time preparing for a potential imminent [00:04:56] ground invasion and escalation, which is which is extraordinary. [00:05:00] Right, I want to tap into your expertise domestically [00:05:04] now, mid-term elections coming up, how much of all of this has to [00:05:07] do with posturing and messaging and [00:05:11] political survive. for Donald [00:05:14] Trump, lot, and President Trump is [00:05:18] very worried about domestic [00:05:21] politics that are linked to the Iran war [00:05:25] or affected by the Iran war, so don't forget that in [00:05:29] the United States usually foreign policy is not that big [00:05:32] on US voters minds, but what's big on US [00:05:36] voters minds is going to the gas station and seeing that [00:05:40] diesels for six dollars a gallon, and gas is four or five [00:05:44] dollars a gallon, that is something that Americans can [00:05:47] see, and they are connecting the dots to the [00:05:51] gas prices being linked to the war of aggression that [00:05:55] President Trump waged on Iran with no congressional approval [00:05:59] and no UN security council resolution authorizing it, so [00:06:02] it's Trump's war that is leading the prices up, prices [00:06:06] at the grocery store are up, interest rates in the United States are [00:06:10] up, as of last week that... the first time that interest [00:06:14] rates go up and this means that people will won't be able to afford to buy [00:06:17] a new home, new car, so the economy is really [00:06:21] suffering and that will definitely affect president Trump and the Republican [00:06:25] party very negatively during the upcoming [00:06:28] elections, so some what we're seeing now is President Trump is [00:06:32] trying to do some damage control, to control [00:06:36] that narrative and the damage, some of it is him actually [00:06:40] losing control over what's going on, and freaking out and just [00:06:44] saying things that he thinks will work that day without a [00:06:48] comprehensive long-term strategy or or like [00:06:52] a PR strategy that he has to deal with the [00:07:11] might the... [00:07:12] who lessons who the Iraq war, those echos and ripples of [00:07:15] history, how much of that might [00:07:19] inform us now when we look at what this [00:07:23] administration is doing with [00:07:43] Washington DC, I would say unfortunately very [00:07:46] little, DC has not learned from its mistakes [00:07:50] in the past, whether it's the Iraq war, whether it's the Afghanistan [00:07:54] war, whether it's the Vietnam war, it repeats the same mistakes [00:07:58] over and over again, and President Trump run a [00:08:02] platform of not repeating these forever [00:08:05] wars again, run a platform of putting America's [00:08:09] interest first, and we're seeing that platform. crash and [00:08:13] burn every day because [00:08:16] these know unpredictable, unreasonable politics [00:08:20] and [00:08:27] say, it's the system that is very [00:08:31] difficult to change, like you have the military industrial complex in the [00:08:34] US, we have you like politics that are [00:08:37] very, stuck in the same place, but it's [00:08:41] also ' Trump and his relationships to [00:08:45] Netanyahu, his corruption, his personal relationships, [00:08:49] I would say it's a combination. Many of Trump's [00:08:52] supporters are shocked that he promised he's going [00:08:56] to be an exception to these kind of of [00:09:00] of personal pressure by foreign leaders, but it seems like he is [00:09:04] just following the same [00:09:19] continue to trade fire and accusations with Saudi Arabia. The [00:09:23] Iran-backed group claims that in the past 24 hours, the Saudis [00:09:27] launched 28 strikes across [00:09:29] the country. It comes after the hoothies said they had attacked the Saudi [00:09:33] Capital with missiles and drones on Saturday with black smoke seen [00:09:37] above the airport. The US has advised its citizens not to [00:09:41] travel to the western. cities of Taif and [00:09:44] Yambu. Israeli war planes have [00:09:48] bombed several locations in southern Lebanon. They targeted [00:09:51] the towns of Bani Hayan and Alcantara in the Margiun [00:09:55] district in the country's south. Nearly 900 people have been killed in [00:09:59] Israeli attacks in Lebanon since 2023 and more than one million [00:10:03] Lebanese people are displaced due to the [00:10:06] attacks. An Israeli strike a civilian vehicle in [00:10:10] Gaza City has killed at least one person. This rail raised [00:10:14] the death toll on Saturday alone to five people, including people [00:10:17] killed in other attacks across the enclave in Jabalya, Musairat and [00:10:21] Gaza City. It's the latest Israeli violation to the... fires [00:10:25] signed with Hamas in October last year, more than 1,300 Palestinians [00:10:29] have been killed in Israeli attacks since the [00:10:31] agreement. [00:10:35] Forced displacement and prolonged blackouts have silenced many of [00:10:39] Gaza's creative voices, yet ammit the ruins, one [00:10:43] self-tought balance artist refuses to give [00:10:46] up. Abdul Wahaab Hamed reports [00:10:49] every [00:10:53] object he touches is... just waiting to be balanced, it looks like [00:10:57] a magic trick, but isn't. i started [00:11:01] practicing the art of balance in 2018 with very modest [00:11:04] resources. over time i discovered that this graph relies [00:11:08] entirely on the point of balance and the center of [00:11:10] gravity. inspired by renowned, curian [00:11:14] balanced artist nam bayon, the former fitness coach studied [00:11:18] techniques online, training to find the precise folkrum [00:11:22] of almost any object, by 2019, his backyard [00:11:25] performances were gaining attention [00:11:28] across. began [00:11:31] sharing my videos and the response was overwhelming, that inspired me to [00:11:35] turn professional, eventually attempting to balance objects on moving [00:11:39] surfaces, but the war brought everything to the stand still. there was simply [00:11:43] no space or proper equipment left. [00:11:46] israel's war did more thaned, it interrupted [00:11:50] something. he had spent years building, no place to practice, [00:11:54] no equipment. and no connection [00:11:58] after the world out had to stop all together because there was no [00:12:01] internet connection to share my work, we were constantly being displaced from [00:12:05] one place to another. balance requires stillness, but [00:12:09] ahmad's life offered almost none. to do this he [00:12:13] needed absolute focus, but how to find that focus when you're [00:12:17] constantly on the move? still he found [00:12:21] the way back to it, not in a studio, not with the proper equipment. [00:12:55] place where almost everything has been thrown off balance, ahmed [00:12:59] is trying to find his again, abdul wahab hammed, trq [00:13:02] world, english music [00:13:06] star Ed Sharon has apologized to fans in Philadelphia for how he's [00:13:10] handled the controversy over the dropping of American rapper [00:13:13] Macalmore. He was removed from the Singer's latest US [00:13:17] tour after promoters objected to pro-Palestinian comments he made on [00:13:20] stage during performances in New Jersey. All of Shirin's [00:13:24] remaining. opening acts and his backing band then pulled [00:13:28] out in solidarity with [00:13:30] Maccamore, but this week the [00:13:34] criticism was about something much more important and I've had to take [00:13:38] uh and make difficult decisions and I am making mistakes and I'm [00:13:42] so so sorry. what happened in [00:13:46] Israel and at the nov of music festival on October 7th was [00:13:49] horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish [00:13:51] pain. What is happening in Gaza? is a [00:13:55] catastrophic and unjustifiable and [00:13:59] disproportionate, my heart has been broken by the scale of [00:14:02] devastation and loss of civilians lives, of [00:14:06] children's lives, and the systemic injustice [00:14:10] we're seeing unfold in the west bank cannot be [00:14:12] overlooked. Sharon made the [00:14:15] apology as he opened his latest concert in Philadelphia as we said where pro [00:14:19] Palestinian demonstrators had rallied outside. Some were [00:14:23] shearing fans with cancelled. get tickets in support [00:14:26] of [00:14:27] stance. [00:14:38] Russia's ruling United Russia party is on track for a comfortable victory in [00:14:42] the country's parliamentary election. Partial results show it's won [00:14:45] just more than 57% the vote. President Vladimir [00:14:49] Putin has presented the election as a test of support for the [00:14:53] war in Ukraine. critics say genuine opposition has largely been [00:14:57] excluded from the political system, while the Kremlin argues national unity and [00:15:01] tighter controls are necessary during the [00:15:04] conflict. i [00:15:08] probably won't be saying anything original here. i just want [00:15:12] the people who have come to power to finally restore peace and a [00:15:15] calm life for us. that is the main most [00:15:19] important thing today. hope for the [00:15:23] best, hope that the situation will eventually [00:15:27] stabilize, that peace will finally come and [00:15:31] that our lives will return to the familiar course they [00:15:35] always followed. Dasha [00:15:38] Chernishova has the latest from [00:15:40] Moscow, well we have now the [00:15:44] data from the central election commission which suggest that these parliamentary [00:15:48] elections have actually exceeded the turnout [00:15:51] from the previous years, more than 56% of Russians showed [00:15:55] up at the polen stations or cost their ballet online, this is the [00:15:59] highest number than in 2021, in [00:16:03] 2016, 203 or [00:16:05] 1993, that does show a lot [00:16:09] in terms the people's desired to cost their [00:16:13] bat and exercise their right. we also hearing that in Moscow the [00:16:17] turnout has increased to 51% [00:16:20] and this voting has been preciding indeed in the so-called new [00:16:24] territories of rush of Donask, Lugansk, Zaparishia and [00:16:28] Herson, and this [00:16:29] is where the turnout [00:16:30] has also been very high, more than 70% to all of those [00:16:33] territories. we also hearing that voting is over in some... the [00:16:37] overseas territories in foreign countries where the voting [00:16:41] was taking place at the ambassis of Russia and uh [00:16:45] the Russian authorities are saying that what Ukraine tried to do was to [00:16:49] derail these elections by launching the large scale [00:16:53] attack against Moscow the Moscow region. The latest numbers suggest [00:16:57] that up to 2,0 Ukrainian drows were intercepted over the past [00:17:00] 24 hours and Moscow insists that what they will have to [00:17:04] do is to increase their own attacks on keep in respond [00:17:08] to that, but no major regularities have so far been reported regarding [00:17:12] those elections and interestingly people who have been coming to the polen [00:17:16] stations, i've been talking to them, they do say that they [00:17:20] don't want their voice to be wasted, they want to cost [00:17:23] it in person to make sure they costted the way they [00:17:27] wanted, and to be clear there that electronic voting will [00:17:31] not be reinterpreted. ukraine has [00:17:34] launched more than a thous drones at Russia in... of its largest attacks [00:17:38] the war on the final day of Russia's parliamentary election. Russian [00:17:42] officials say the attack targeted Moscow, damaging in oil refinery and [00:17:46] residential buildings. At least three people were killed in the wider Moscow [00:17:49] region while more than 400 flights were disrupted. [00:17:53] President Flodimir Zelinski says Ukraine used drones and missiles to [00:17:57] target Russian oil and logistics [00:17:59] facilities. Russian [00:18:03] forces struck a civilian evacuation center in [00:18:06] Kramatorsk. the facility a blaze, panic spread with [00:18:10] workers at the facility saying the hub was being used to receive [00:18:13] evacues and transfer them onward to lozova in the [00:18:17] neighboring harkiv region and [00:18:18] elsewhere. German chancellor [00:18:22] Fredrik Mertz has suffered another major electoral [00:18:25] setback. His conservative CDU won just [00:18:29] 4.9% in Macklinburg, Western [00:18:32] Pomerania, its worst state result since [00:18:35] 1949. while the far right AFD finished [00:18:39] first. Murtz called the results disaster, but says his government will [00:18:43] continue with its reform [00:18:45] agenda. In Berlin, the [00:18:48] left party has stopped a state election for the first time, putting its Turkish [00:18:52] German lead candidate Eliff Aralp in in [00:18:56] contention to become the capital's next mayor. The [00:19:00] party won around a quarter the vote ahead of chancellor [00:19:03] Frederick Merce CDU, while the far right AFD also had made. [00:19:07] gains there aralp would still need coalition partners to [00:19:11] form a [00:19:12] government [00:19:16] berlin's shared vision won today, our shared vision of an affordable [00:19:20] berlin for all people regardless of where they are from, regardless of what they [00:19:24] believe, regardless of who they love and regardless of what they [00:19:26] earn. is [00:19:30] a professor of European studies at Stanford University in Berlin, he [00:19:34] says the scale of reforms Germany needs would make any [00:19:38] governing party unpopular with [00:19:40] voters. the massive [00:19:44] list of reforms, both domestically and the [00:19:47] challenges from outside, would need to do [00:19:51] unpopular things that an open [00:19:54] society and a system in which you can freely say what you [00:19:58] want, would lead to pretty bad [00:20:02] support rates for whoever is in power, because it is [00:20:06] unpopular to... expenses, to shift [00:20:09] priorities, to make the country more resilient, there [00:20:13] are many, many things that are coming from [00:20:16] outside, like high energy prices due to Russian's full scale [00:20:20] invasion in Ukraine, or what is happening in Iran, so [00:20:24] lot of [00:20:24] it isn't homemade, but the previous government [00:20:28] also postponed investment which [00:20:32] now pile up and make it extremely complicated to [00:20:35] finance all these necessary. structure investments [00:20:39] to become strategically more autonomous from the United [00:20:42] States, to deal with the competitiveness problems with [00:20:46] China, so there's a long list, it's kind of a perfect storm that... "if [00:20:50] it would be one crisis after the other, a government could [00:20:53] potentially handle it, but if you struggle with six or [00:20:57] seven major challenges at once, you do need to [00:21:01] do unpopular things and that fires back. it would be so [00:21:05] simple by replacing one head by another, and then [00:21:08] Germany would sail into a brighter future, [00:21:12] then we could do it, but we live a situation in [00:21:16] which the problems don't go away by simply replacing..." a [00:21:20] person who potentially communicates better, there's also lot [00:21:24] to blame him for why he has such low popularity [00:21:28] rates. In [00:21:31] Nigeria, Africa's biggest refinery has opened its [00:21:35] doors to investors. Billionaire Alikot Dangote is seeking to [00:21:39] raise 1.6 billion US dollars in the continent's biggest initial [00:21:43] public offering, and it's already drawing huge [00:21:46] interest. [00:21:47] Cubra Akoch has the story. "a chance to own [00:21:51] a piece of one of Africa's biggest businesses, [00:21:55] shares in Aliko Dangode's giant oil [00:21:58] refinery recently went on sale, giving Nigerians [00:22:02] a stake a business that has already transformed the [00:22:06] country's fuel market. Now we are owning back our Nigerian [00:22:10] oil, so I believe the group, investing in that group is the [00:22:14] lifetime opportunity, being imagine being a part [00:22:17] owner of something [00:22:18] that is Nigerian that..." the $1.6 [00:22:22] billion share sale is the largest initial [00:22:26] public offering in the African continent and in the history of [00:22:29] Nigeria. It's also country's first fully digital [00:22:33] IPO aimed at retail investors. Several [00:22:37] investment apps crashed as people tried to buy a [00:22:41] minimum of 10 shares costing around [00:22:44] $40. By the end of day one we had cleared around [00:22:47] 70% the backlog. at the start of business on day two [00:22:51] we had cleared 100% the backlog and now [00:22:55] we you know are good to go, we increase the capacity [00:22:59] just by you massive orders of magnitude. [00:23:02] Africa's richest man says the aim is to make ownership [00:23:06] accessible to ordinary Nigerians. Now we are looking at [00:23:10] what do we create, what do you want to really create? What you want to [00:23:14] create is the likes of Amazon, the likes of [00:23:17] Microsoft, why people bought these shares for? next to nothing [00:23:21] and now those shares have become something big. the [00:23:25] refinery has shaped Nigeria's fuel market since it [00:23:29] began operation in 2024, helping the country that [00:23:33] once relied heavily on imports to produce more of its [00:23:36] own. it can process 700 thousand barrels of oil a [00:23:40] day with Dangode planning to more than double that to [00:23:44] 1.4 million barrels a day by 2029. [00:23:48] the company also plans to launch massive refinery plant of [00:23:52] Kenya's coast, linking it to the East African [00:23:55] market, but despite the excitement, investing [00:23:58] is still out of reach for many Nigerians, we are trying [00:24:02] to survive, it's a good development, but it's [00:24:06] not for for the poor, for poor people like us, [00:24:10] but if you have money you can invest in it, but for we we [00:24:14] are trying to survive, keep it going, keep it going, the IPO [00:24:18] values the refinery at. turn on $49 billion, [00:24:22] more than twice what it cost to build, while Dangode is [00:24:26] still set to control 87% the company, for [00:24:29] investors buying now, the real question is if Tangode [00:24:33] can deliver on his company's share [00:24:35] value. TRT [00:24:38] World. Nearly billion people across [00:24:42] Africa still rely on wood and charcoal, exposing them to [00:24:45] many health risks, but a Nairobi based company is using carbon. [00:24:50] finance to change all of that. Hope Kirubi [00:24:53] reports. Breakfast for Mary [00:24:57] kavutha now starts with the press of a [00:25:00] button. For this Kenyan Mother of Two, the [00:25:04] switch to electric induction cooking has slushed her daily [00:25:08] fuel costs. The stove also allows her to prepare [00:25:12] hot meals safer and faster inside her [00:25:15] home. Without the hazards of toxic smoke [00:25:19] that. to about 85000 debts every [00:25:23] year on the continent. when i compare it with the charcoal, it [00:25:27] is cheaper, because like a day when i was using the [00:25:30] charcoal, find that i'm using around about $1 us with the [00:25:34] charcoal per day, and with this one, when i buy a token of [00:25:37] 80 us cents, it lasts me to the second [00:25:40] day. to make clean cooking alternatives [00:25:44] accessible, manufacturers like b use [00:25:48] carbon finance and pay as you go plans to heavily [00:25:51] subsidize upfront retail costs. The [00:25:55] Nairobi-based company says it has distributed more than [00:25:59] 7.3 million stoves across 11. [00:26:04] African countries, built [00:26:05] in computer chips, track cooking data in real time through [00:26:08] GSM, allowing the company to sell verified [00:26:12] carbon credits to international investors to fund the [00:26:16] discount. Only way that clean cooking is going to [00:26:20] scale on the continent is through carbon project [00:26:24] finance, and so uh, it's a great model, governments can earn [00:26:27] revenue from it, we earn revenue, customers get an [00:26:31] amazing product. They would never get unless they had that subsidy that's [00:26:35] brought by carbon project finance. In June, Africa [00:26:39] secured 900 million dollars in clean cooking [00:26:42] financial commitments, according to the International Energy [00:26:46] Agency, but critics argue that building an [00:26:50] entire green energy transition on volatile carbon [00:26:54] markets poses a massive risk for the [00:26:57] continent. If we depend holy on [00:27:01] carbon credits to support the transition, it will be [00:27:04] extremely slow, and it will not happen at the pace [00:27:08] that we need it. the other issue for carbon market [00:27:12] is before you can trade on the carbon market, you need to [00:27:15] build the asset. back at Mary's home, her old [00:27:19] charcoal stove sits outside next to piles of [00:27:23] fuel still used by her neighbors, and while [00:27:27] policy experts debate on the future of carbon [00:27:30] finance, millions of... families across the [00:27:33] continent cannot afford the upfront costs needed [00:27:37] to make the clean energy switch. [00:27:40] hopekirubi, trt [00:27:43] world. don't forget you can visit our [00:27:46] website for details on all of our main stories, you will find them at [00:27:50] trtworld.com, or you can follow us on x, that's [00:27:54] at trtworld. a couple of minutes, i'll be back with the [00:27:57] headlines. [00:30:04] You're watching TRT World, I'm ImranGarta, reminder of our main [00:30:07] headlines: the Iranian military says it has received [00:30:10] information that the US has decided to resume attacks on the [00:30:14] country. It's warned that any new strikes would trigger sustained [00:30:17] retaliation against American bases and interests across the [00:30:21] region. Tehran meanwile says it has sent Washington new set of [00:30:25] conditions for restarting negotiations, that includes the release of frozen [00:30:29] Iranian assets and ending the US naval. [00:30:34] Our positions are completely clear, rational and [00:30:38] non-negotiable. Our messages and conditions have been [00:30:42] conveyed explicitly to the other side through [00:30:44] intermediaries, and the enemy knows full well.