TRTWORLD — Across The Balkans
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[00:00:10] You're watching TRT World, I'm Imran Garta,
[00:00:12] a reminder of our main headlines: the Iranian military says it has received
[00:00:16] information that the US has decided to resume attacks on the
[00:00:19] country. It's warned that any new strikes would trigger
[00:00:23] sustained retaliation against American bases and interests across the
[00:00:27] region. Tehran meanwhile says it has said Washington new set of
[00:00:31] conditions for restarting
[00:00:33] of negotiations that includes the release of frozen Iranian assets and ending
[00:00:37] the US naval blockade.
[00:00:41] Our positions are completely
[00:00:43] in clear, rational and non-negotiable. Our messages and
[00:00:47] conditions have been conveyed explicitly to the other side through
[00:00:51] intermediaries, and the enemy knows full well that
[00:00:55] the
[00:00:55] of path of deception and unilateral imposition is
[00:00:58] closed.
[00:01:00] of Yemen's ansarulah houtis continue to trade fire and
[00:01:04] accusations with Saudi
[00:01:05] of Arabia. The Iran-backed group claims the Saudis have launched 28
[00:01:09] strikes across the country in the past 24
[00:01:12] of hours. It comes after the Hutis said they had attacked the Saudi capital with missiles and
[00:01:16] drones on Saturday. Israeli war
[00:01:20] planes have bombed several locations in southern Lebanon. They
[00:01:24] targeted the towns of Bani Hayan and Alkantara in the Marjayun
[00:01:27] district
[00:01:28] of the southern part
[00:01:29] of of the country. nearly 9 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on
[00:01:33] Lebanon since 2023.
[00:01:37] At least five people were killed in Israeli strikes across
[00:01:40] of Gaza on Saturday. Israel struck a civilian vehicle in Gaza
[00:01:44] City killing one person. Fatalities were also reported following
[00:01:48] in strikes on Jabaliah and Musairat.
[00:01:52] Ukraine has launched more than a thousand drones at Russia in one of its largest
[00:01:56] attacks
[00:01:56] of the war, hitting the Moscow region on the final day. the country's
[00:02:00] parliamentary election. Russian officials say drones stugs at Moscow killing
[00:02:04] of at least
[00:02:05] of three people,
[00:02:06] of damaging an oil refinery and residential
[00:02:10] of buildings. German chancellor Fredrik Mert has suffered another major
[00:02:14] electoral setback, his CDU won just 4.9%
[00:02:18] in Mecklinburg Western Pomerania. It's worst state
[00:02:22] results since 1949 while the far
[00:02:24] me right AFD finished first. The CDU also came second in
[00:02:28] in Berlin behind the left. Murt called the results
[00:02:31] a disaster, but says his government will continue
[00:02:36] of with its reform agenda. The news continues here on TRT World, scoreline is
[00:02:40] next.
[00:16:31] It's time for debrief, your quick wrap-up of 30 year old's top
[00:16:35] stories from the week.
[00:16:53] of fierce fighting between yemens and sarthis and the saudi back
[00:16:56] government forces, that may have changed the equation because the hoothis
[00:17:00] now control the entire western coastline of Yemen, the drones
[00:17:04] targeting Saudi Arabia's east-west pipeline forced. shut it down. It's
[00:17:08] a 1200 km pipeline it carries crude from the all producing
[00:17:12] east to the red seaport of Yanbu. The advance raises
[00:17:16] concerns about another major shipping route as vessels
[00:17:19] through the straight of homoz has slowed to seven to 10
[00:17:23] commercial ships per day. The stability of oil
[00:17:27] prices depends on the reversal of decision by Saudi Arabia to
[00:17:30] shut down the all important east-west oil
[00:17:33] pipeline. Those prices peeked three days ago and could...
[00:17:37] spiral further in the coming days, the world is suffering enough with the the
[00:17:41] closure the st straight of hermus, so we cannot also afford to
[00:17:45] add the bubblemind up into that equation, the
[00:17:49] whole world is going to suffer, hotis say they have launched a fresh
[00:17:52] wave of strikes on king Khalid airbase in Saudi
[00:17:56] Arabia's southern city of Kames Musaid, shortly
[00:18:00] after those strikes, the group accused Saudi Arabia of conducting
[00:18:03] 54 strikes across the country a space 24.
[00:18:07] hours three people, including two children have been killed, the
[00:18:11] saudi led coalition air strikes in Yemen's Thai city, that's according to
[00:18:15] hoothy run media, two others have been injured in strikes
[00:18:18] elsewhere, meanwile Saudi Arabia says that it will respond firmly to hoothy
[00:18:22] attacks that injured 13 civilians in three Saudi cities on
[00:18:26] Monday, but Riyad will not be getting military help from the Trump
[00:18:29] team, which is rejecting the idea of US air strikes on the
[00:18:33] hooties, and instead offering intelligent support, the
[00:18:36] Trump team reportedly does not want to open up new front in the
[00:18:40] conflict and wants to concentrate on the war with Iran. uh, we've
[00:18:44] also
[00:18:44] been engaged in direct conversations with the hoothies themselves. The
[00:18:48] hootis reportedly assured the Americans that they're only
[00:18:52] targeting Saudi infrastructure, but not trying to restrict
[00:18:55] shipping in the Bob Almondab straight. In the latest wave of
[00:18:59] strikes, Saudi Arabia says a test down a Khuthi launch drone that was
[00:19:03] heading towards Islam's holy site, Mecca. Hutis have denied that place.
[00:19:07] "the United Nations says the latest round of fighting across the
[00:19:11] country has now displaced more than
[00:19:13] 125,000 people since the beginning
[00:19:17] of this month alone. nowhere it seems feels far
[00:19:21] enough from the frontlines, more than 2,400
[00:19:25] people have crossed the sea to gibouti in recent days. for
[00:19:29] families like these, the road has taken them away from the
[00:19:32] frontlines, but not beyond the reach of this war. this place
[00:19:36] from..." because the war, a drone hit us
[00:19:39] and my wife died after being struck by a shut
[00:19:43] up here, she died, my three children were
[00:19:47] left, i fled with them to Aden as displaced, by
[00:19:51] god we do not possess even a single grain of
[00:19:54] floor, Iran will end right after the
[00:19:57] making before, but it land right after the Iran wants to make
[00:20:01] deal so bad, they're calling
[00:20:05] constant, military
[00:20:06] is running critically. thought on munitions after months of war with Iran.
[00:20:10] That's according to the Pentagon's inspector general, warning a report to
[00:20:14] Congress that US stock powers have been significantly depleted. From
[00:20:18] February the 28th this year, the US threw everything at
[00:20:21] Iran, pounding targets across the country, from
[00:20:25] the air and from the sea. But
[00:20:29] the early collapse the regime predicted by the Trump administration
[00:20:33] never materialized, so the campaign
[00:20:35] continued. It did so, the military burnt through
[00:20:39] supplies of missiles and interceptors. So between the 1st of
[00:20:43] April and the 30th of June, the US has spent
[00:20:46] $33.4 billion dollars, two-thirds of that. or around
[00:20:50] 22 billion just on munitions alone. In bigger
[00:20:53] weaponry, the US has lost four F15
[00:20:57] jets, seven tanker jets and 30 reaper drones.
[00:21:01] This comes on the heels of another media report that says that the US
[00:21:05] has exhausted 80% of its missile
[00:21:08] interceptors. We have so much ammunition and munitions
[00:21:12] as they like to call it all over the world that we can always take from if we
[00:21:15] want, and this is a relatively little
[00:21:19] warfare. This is not a big war, but the defense secretary Pete
[00:21:23] Heggsed recently appealed to Congress for billions of dollars of
[00:21:27] extra funding for the war. U.S. House of Representatives has passed
[00:21:31] its third attempt a war powers resolution to curb President Trump's
[00:21:35] ability to continue with the Iran military campaign, though it's
[00:21:38] unlikely to advance through the Republican held Senate. The United
[00:21:42] States may have committed war crimes an attack carried out
[00:21:46] a school and sports stadium in the first few days. of its
[00:21:50] war on Iran. The United Nations Backed Human Rights Council
[00:21:54] had a harsh assessment the US air strike on the primary
[00:21:58] school in Minav, which killed more than 150
[00:22:01] people, most them children. Indiscriminate, the report
[00:22:05] called it, and that the US failed to take the necessary steps to
[00:22:08] verify the target. The findings of
[00:22:11] it are striking, to
[00:22:15] say the least, from our end, I think it
[00:22:19] underscored. is the fact that there needs to be accountability. here's the
[00:22:23] news and brief where we bring you even more top
[00:22:26] stories.
[00:22:31] starting in Gaza, where life after a ceasefire, that's
[00:22:35] merely on paper keeps getting worse. early morning on
[00:22:38] Wednesday, at least 21 people, including 12 children, were
[00:22:42] killed when a damaged building from Israeli bombardment
[00:22:45] collapsed. it was housing displaced Palestinians when it came
[00:22:49] down. rescue workers were searching through the debris to
[00:22:53] try to dig out those
[00:22:54] trapped. my
[00:22:57] grandfather, grandmother and my aunts were killed. my
[00:23:01] other aunt and my cousins were also injured. the building collapsed
[00:23:05] on us while we were sleeping and they pulled us out from beneath the
[00:23:09] rabel. search and risk operations are being carried out with extremely
[00:23:13] limited resources due to the Israeli band and have equipment. Israel's
[00:23:17] war on Gaza has left 90% of infrastructure
[00:23:20] there in ruins, the UN says hundreds of damaged buildings
[00:23:24] currently sheltering displaced families are at risk of
[00:23:28] collapse. another thing at risk of collapsing, humanity
[00:23:32] itself, or so say some creators behind
[00:23:35] AI. artificial intelligence researchers believe what
[00:23:39] their building is raising the prospect of human
[00:23:42] extinction if it continues to develop at the current
[00:23:45] pace. anthropic CEO Dario Amadi has a
[00:23:49] three.
[00:23:50] to work together to set standards
[00:23:54] The companies need about safety standards for release,
[00:23:57] perhaps something about the pace
[00:23:59] of release, but in order to do
[00:24:01] that,
[00:24:06] there there needs to be involvement the government. Industry figures
[00:24:10] say they're backing Amady, but US President Donald Trump, with the
[00:24:14] midterms just few months away, isn't buying the idea of
[00:24:18] slowing down. We're leading China. and AI, we're most sophisticated
[00:24:22] country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way, because whoever
[00:24:26] wins AI wins. Staying in the US, a well-awaited
[00:24:30] announcement on Wednesday has become a national discussion.
[00:24:33] The Federal Reserve has raised the interest rate for the first
[00:24:37] time since 2023. It comes amid high inflation and
[00:24:41] oil price hikes due to further disruptions in the Gulf.
[00:24:45] From credit cards and mortgages to business loans, everything is
[00:24:49] bound to get... priceer in the US. It's a big deal, it's a big
[00:24:53] deal, deciding to buy gas or food. This is an uncomfortable
[00:24:57] reality for Kevin Warsh, the fed chair personally chosen by Donald
[00:25:01] Trump to lower interest rates. They're raising the rates to make
[00:25:04] Trump do his bad as they can possibly do. The big question now
[00:25:08] for Americans is whether this is a one-off increase
[00:25:12] or the beginning of further rate hikes and now let's
[00:25:16] talk about the controversy that's left the world questioning whether.
[00:25:20] Political activism has any place in today's entertainment
[00:25:23] industry. On Monday, American Rapper McLamore
[00:25:27] was removed from English singer at Sheuren's loop tour, his
[00:25:31] crime. I wanted to stand up here
[00:25:35] on stages and stadiums across America
[00:25:39] and say two words that are very near and
[00:25:42] dear to my heart, free
[00:25:45] Palestine. After McLamore's forced exit.
[00:25:50] The tour faced a mass walkout. All four of
[00:25:53] Fetsuran's supporting acts pulled out in solidarity with
[00:25:57] McLamore, including the brother of American pop singer
[00:26:00] Billy Ilish. and shortly before
[00:26:04] the walkout, Ed Sherin issued a long post on
[00:26:08] Instagram before his other support acts withdrew. I
[00:26:12] was involved in the direct talks with promoters along with activists on both
[00:26:16] sides to try and find a mutual resolution for all, and
[00:26:19] blamed the venues naming billionaire Robert Craft,
[00:26:23] Beoga, the Irish Folk band, who also pulled out from the tour
[00:26:27] had this to say about Craft, research how much Robert
[00:26:30] Craft fights the beat. adds movement on
[00:26:34] Wednesday, Maclemore announced he will donate $1
[00:26:38] million from his tour earnings to six Palestinian aid
[00:26:41] groups. He then challenged Robert Craft to match it. Craft
[00:26:45] responded by pledging 2 million for humanitarian aid in
[00:26:49] the region, but despite it all, the controversy has
[00:26:53] raised questions about who ultimately controls the message a
[00:26:57] concert stage, the artist, the promoter or the
[00:27:01] venue.
[00:27:02] and this week we're featuring a piece by 30 year olds mhammed al
[00:27:06] kassum telling
[00:27:10] new documentary NASA stund audiences at the Venice
[00:27:14] film festival a 25 minutes standing
[00:27:17] ovation for a film made in secret by two oscar
[00:27:21] winning Israeli journalists NASA features 24
[00:27:25] Israeli military insiders, intelligence officers and
[00:27:29] soldiers describing what they say is a system. dramatic
[00:27:33] AI powered killing of civilians in Gaza. The
[00:27:36] filmmakers say they felt compelled to document these
[00:27:40] testimonies because the world wasn't listening. The facts are
[00:27:44] very clear, I mean you can
[00:27:50] in they could late
[00:27:50] Starting 2023, they should have been clear to the people listening to Israeli leaders. saying things like there
[00:27:53] are no innocent civilians in Gaza, these are human animals,
[00:27:55] using language that the UN has described as genocidal
[00:27:58] language. Shot on Tel Aviv rooftops over through.
[00:28:02] years, identities digitally altered, voices
[00:28:06] changed. The title NASA comes from an Israeli military
[00:28:10] acronym, shorthand for civilian casualties,
[00:28:13] men, women, and children. The Israeli
[00:28:17] military denies the film's allegations, saying AI only
[00:28:21] assists in identifying targets and that humans make the final
[00:28:25] decision, but the political backlash has been fierce. Israel's
[00:28:29] culture minister called the film vile former Prime
[00:28:32] Minister Naftali Bennet labeled it bloodliable. There have
[00:28:36] been threats to revoke the citizenship the directors. Now,
[00:28:40] more than a thousand Israeli filmmakers have signed the petition
[00:28:44] defending the filmmakers, saying they face a dangerous campaign of
[00:28:48] incitement. Yuval Abraham fears returning home. He
[00:28:52] says the testimonies reveal a war far beyond the
[00:28:55] official narrative. NASA isn't just exposing what happened
[00:28:59] in Gaza, it's exposing what many is... Israelis say
[00:29:03] is happening at home, a shrinking space to speak,
[00:29:07] growing fear of punishment for criticism and the
[00:29:10] government that some believe is tightening control
[00:29:14] over what can be said and who is allowed to say it, for
[00:29:18] many, the back clash to this film isn't just
[00:29:21] anger, it's a
[00:29:22] warning.
[00:29:32] Strat breaks down Turkia's place in the
[00:29:35] world, triggering power shift that is
[00:29:39] transforming volatile
[00:29:40] region.
[00:29:45] Stray talk, understanding the challenges facing Turkia
[00:29:49] and how it's adapting to a changing
[00:29:51] world.
[00:29:56] Straight talk on
[00:29:58] TRT World.
[00:30:10] Iran's army warns of an imminent US attack in the coming
[00:30:14] days, the central military command says it will
[00:30:16] retaliate. Hello and welcome to TRT World Live from
[00:30:20] Istanbul, I'm imran gharta, also ahead on the program. As
[00:30:24] Israeli attacks on Gaza continue, a group of university students reach
[00:30:28] milestone that seemed impossible, graduating after.
[00:30:32] three years of war and destruction. The United
[00:30:36] Russia party is on course to win the country's parliamentary elections as
[00:30:40] Ukraine launches a massive attack across the
[00:30:43] country. And German chancellor Fredrik
[00:30:46] Mertz CDU fails to win a state parliament
[00:30:50] election, the worst defeat in 77
[00:30:53] years.