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[00:00:10] Saudi of Arabia promises to retaliate after Ansar allahuthi's
[00:00:14] attacks on airports as the Yemeni group claims its
[00:00:18] targeted Riyad in a fresh
[00:00:19] strike. Hello, welcome to TRT
[00:00:23] World Live from London. I'm Hasim Seaker also ahead on the
[00:00:26] program. The US Democratic Congresswoman.
[00:00:30] a accuses president Donald Trump a political
[00:00:33] intimidation after immigration agents raided her
[00:00:36] home. Ukrainian president Vuladimir
[00:00:39] Zelensky says it's increasingly clear Russia does not want a
[00:00:43] US proposed energy cease fire after strikes on six
[00:00:47] energy facilities. And a major cyber attack
[00:00:51] hit fridges and freezers in supermarkets across France,
[00:00:55] spoiling food estimated to be worth millions
[00:00:58] in of
[00:00:58] of dollars.
[00:01:15] of Hello, Yemen's ansarullah
[00:01:19] huti say they have launched a fresh attack in the past few hours
[00:01:23] targeting Riyadh's international airport
[00:01:25] of as well as base in the country south. Saudi Arabia
[00:01:29] confirmed that Khamis Musad base was targeted saying the
[00:01:33] danger has now passed. Saudi Arabia has vowed a
[00:01:36] strong response to recent houti attacks its capital's
[00:01:40] main international airport. It also
[00:01:44] extended the suspension of all flights to and from Riyad as the Houti
[00:01:48] step up their
[00:01:49] of attacks. At least 14 people were killed and more than 300 injured in the
[00:01:53] deadliest attacks so far on the Riyad International Airport over the
[00:01:57] weekend. The event of...
[00:02:00] weeks are serious, our response must be
[00:02:04] equally serious, energy security cannot be
[00:02:07] taken for granted. for Saudi
[00:02:11] Arabia, this circum
[00:02:12] this circumstances have tested our
[00:02:16] a infrastructure, our institution, our
[00:02:20] a people and our resilience, they have also
[00:02:24] tested decision made long before the present
[00:02:27] crisis. is a
[00:02:31] former
[00:02:31] of Saudi government advisor and a visiting senior fellow at King's
[00:02:35] College. He
[00:02:36] of says the Houti's motivations are clear. This
[00:02:40] is
[00:02:40] in a way the their only way to get back at Saudi
[00:02:44] Arabia and this is by attacking the civilian
[00:02:47] targets. What more, what more to make point for
[00:02:51] them is to hit um the airport or hit any other
[00:02:55] civilian building to have the uh,
[00:02:58] in to have the media, the global media. attention to it, but ultimately it
[00:03:02] doesn't really change the the
[00:03:05] sequencing on the ground. this is a word that has to happen
[00:03:09] unfortunately, they are, as you can see by their actions,
[00:03:13] they are a terrorist organization that allows
[00:03:16] themselves to do things that are completely out of international norm.
[00:03:20] last week they were, they
[00:03:22] of hit an electric generator in Medina, so
[00:03:26] it's just
[00:03:27] a more
[00:03:27] of the same, but they've they... very they
[00:03:31] have calculated well that hitting a civilian airport such
[00:03:35] as the one in riyad or the one in Damasmam the kingf
[00:03:38] airport would
[00:03:40] a make for enough international media attention to generate
[00:03:44] a form of embarrassment towards the Saudi government. the his have been hard
[00:03:47] of to defeat because they don't have the same responsibility, they don't have the same
[00:03:50] norms. youthi is movement that doesn't have the
[00:03:54] responsibility of a government, it just has the responsibility to keep building
[00:03:58] its missile
[00:03:59] or or its drone. capacity in this case and to keep its people in
[00:04:02] poverty and to claim that
[00:04:04] it is doing it for
[00:04:09] of a divine reason and being from a certain part of Yemen that's the northwestern part that's very
[00:04:12] mountainous they
[00:04:14] of unfortunately know how to dig in and live in caves and tunnels and what have
[00:04:17] you now this war is very different from the previous one because this
[00:04:21] war will most will with a high certainty will include ground
[00:04:25] forces which has never been which have never been interjected into the
[00:04:29] Yemini theatre. before and this is where
[00:04:32] of the the the balance will shift, because before it was based
[00:04:36] on yemeny ground forces with the
[00:04:40] of saudi
[00:04:40] and ally
[00:04:42] of support, which is happening as we speak today, but going
[00:04:46] forward, this clearly is not enough, and the yemini
[00:04:49] factions need the support of what is known
[00:04:53] as a joint forces command formations coming from other countries in
[00:04:57] order to be able to keep pushing upwards. and removing
[00:05:01] uh thehies from the
[00:05:03] a newly from the newly conquered territories and the one that they've
[00:05:05] of conquered for the last decade. in
[00:05:09] Yemen, the government's military says it's targetted.
[00:05:16] which has been the scene of intense fighting between the two sides, there
[00:05:20] has also been heavy fighting in mad with yemeny government forces releasing
[00:05:23] footage, it says shows positions being
[00:05:26] targeted, the hoothies are warning the us not to enter the war
[00:05:30] in Yemen and issued a warning as well to employees of Saudi oil
[00:05:34] facilities and
[00:05:35] airports.
[00:05:39] US becomes
[00:05:40] if involved the
[00:05:40] in the aggression deliberate over the decision to respond, rather
[00:05:44] there will be a swift and painful response targeting the US and all its
[00:05:48] interests in the region, wherever we can reach them. we warn all
[00:05:52] employees and workers at Saudi oil facilities and airports to stay away
[00:05:56] from these sites, as they have become legitimate targets for Yemen,
[00:05:59] particularly as the situation is heading towards a full-scale
[00:06:02] escalation.
[00:06:07] in Sana has the latest on the fighting across the
[00:06:09] country. we are talking about about that we are having
[00:06:13] two narrations that the hotis say they have carried out or
[00:06:17] started or resumed this these operations or attacks
[00:06:21] by the hoothies on on Saudi Arabia's vessels and also
[00:06:25] continue to escalate
[00:06:27] to towards the seaports and now we are having this
[00:06:31] newly developmentts in on their attacks in
[00:06:34] on the airports of Riyadh and different
[00:06:38] airports in in Saudi Arabia's kingdom so far the
[00:06:42] the houthies saying that they have escalated in order to
[00:06:45] put more pression Saudi Arabia to uh to lift its blockade
[00:06:49] and also to to allow yemanes to benefit from their
[00:06:53] wealth and to allow also yemenes to start to
[00:06:57] resume talks to to go back to the negotiating table
[00:07:00] the
[00:07:01] hothies leader known
[00:07:03] as his latest
[00:07:07] speech he mentioned that the they are they are
[00:07:11] not to go going
[00:07:12] to uh abandoned their what he described as their legitimate demands and
[00:07:16] they will continue whatsoever are the consequences until their
[00:07:20] demands are met so far the on the other side we are talking about the Saudi
[00:07:24] Arabia's official who talked about that the the the
[00:07:27] security of energy is something could is
[00:07:31] is not couldn't be bargal which could be
[00:07:35] described as this way so the are both sides
[00:07:39] are demand to continue this war we what? we are having on the
[00:07:43] ground that the continuation the first battles in the around the city of
[00:07:46] tas, especially that the internationally recognized government spokes
[00:07:50] person mentioned that they have carried out nearly
[00:07:53] 1,800 operations
[00:07:56] on
[00:07:57] the south
[00:07:58] on the houthies. Iran has offered
[00:08:01] to facilitate talks between Saudi Arabia and these,
[00:08:05] it also called for a political solution to the
[00:08:08] conflict. The... Yemen
[00:08:12] issue should have been resolved a long time ago through the same agreement reached between the
[00:08:16] Yemenies and Saudi Arabia. You know that road map had been agreed upon between
[00:08:20] Yemen and Saudi Arabia and we had also stressed that we support the
[00:08:24] implementation of whatever understanding had been reached between
[00:08:27] them.
[00:08:30] Reza hatami has more from Tehran. Well, Iran has great
[00:08:34] influence over Yamen's hoothies. Tehran doesn't deny that
[00:08:38] Yemen suthies are it's alah. Iran doesn't deny that
[00:08:42] it has. provided yemensuties with support, economic
[00:08:45] support, diplomatic support and military support at certain times,
[00:08:49] but aran insis that Yemen's Hothies make their own decisions
[00:08:53] and the decisions that Hutis make are
[00:08:56] not made by Tehran and they they make independent
[00:09:00] decisions, so Iran is offering to
[00:09:04] help, on Sunday evening, Iran's foreign minister Abbas
[00:09:08] Araqchi had a phone conversation with his Saudi canterpart Faisal bin
[00:09:12] Farhan. so despite height and tensions between the two countries, between
[00:09:15] Iran and Saudi Arabia, these two regional rivals
[00:09:19] continue to have diplomatic engagements at
[00:09:23] high levels, this was the first phone conversation between
[00:09:26] the top diplomats since the Yemen
[00:09:30] war started. Iran says that the situation in
[00:09:34] the Arabian peninsula has no military
[00:09:37] solution. Tehran maintains that the only
[00:09:41] way to settle. This is through political means and Iran says that
[00:09:45] it is ready to facilitate talks between Saudi
[00:09:48] Arabia and between Yeman Southis. Iran says that war
[00:09:52] between the two countries between Yemansuthis and Saudi Arabia
[00:09:56] only serves Israeli interests. Tehran also
[00:09:59] says that road map for peace agreed by Yemeni
[00:10:03] waring factions back in 2022 that
[00:10:06] UN backed road map should be the basis for
[00:10:10] negotiations and for diplomacy. to settle this
[00:10:13] issue turkish president
[00:10:17] strongly condemns the attacks
[00:10:20] king international airport over the weekend he was speaking
[00:10:24] about the a joint defense agreement signed with Saudi Arabia and
[00:10:28] Pakistan. Erdovan said the work to establish a permanent
[00:10:32] institutional framework is
[00:10:33] continuing.
[00:10:38] We condemn in the strongest terms the attacks carried out by
[00:10:41] the hoothies on Saturday against King Khalid international airport
[00:10:45] in Riyadh. We ask Allah to have mercy on our brothers and
[00:10:49] sisters who passed away. stands with Saudi Arabia and its
[00:10:53] Saudi brothers in the face of these unlawful and inhumane
[00:10:57] attacks. We're continuing our efforts to establish the
[00:11:00] institutional framework for the joint defense agreement. We signed with
[00:11:04] Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on August 7, and we're
[00:11:07] advancing our defense cooperation along two main things:
[00:11:11] first, we're working toward the goals of collective defense and
[00:11:15] regional cooperation, second, we're taking the necessary
[00:11:19] steps to ensure this cooperation a
[00:11:23] permanent and functional. institutional framework, as is the
[00:11:27] case with NATO, activities under the joint defense agreement
[00:11:31] will be conducted in accordance with our national
[00:11:33] legislation. we are continuing our efforts to submit the
[00:11:37] agreement to our grand national assembly in the coming days to complete the
[00:11:41] domestic ratification
[00:11:42] process.
[00:11:51] US immigration officials rated the home of Somali bor
[00:11:55] Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in the early hours of
[00:11:59] Monday morning. Omar is democratic US representative of
[00:12:02] Minnesota and an outspoking critic of President
[00:12:06] Donald Trump. She said the raid was an act of intimidation and
[00:12:10] vowed not to be silenced. Investigation is thought to relate
[00:12:14] to Armar's immigration
[00:12:15] paperwork. President Trump spoke to
[00:12:19] reporters earlier about Omar's investigation and
[00:12:23] said this. "this appears to be the
[00:12:26] latest and certainly the most dramatic development in what has been a
[00:12:30] long-running investigation into Ilan
[00:12:34] Oma's immigration history and even her her
[00:12:38] overall family's history, including claim that she
[00:12:42] married her brother to get him into the United States, claim
[00:12:45] she's dismissed as a disgusting lie. this
[00:12:49] morning FBI agents sealed off the road where she lives here in
[00:12:53] Washington and..." was seen coming out of her
[00:12:56] house with various possessions including
[00:13:00] documents all part of this
[00:13:03] investigation uh now it's significant because in just
[00:13:07] 22 days time Ilan Omar will be asking
[00:13:11] the people of Minnesota uh those within her
[00:13:15] district to vote for her to stay in Congress and the
[00:13:19] protocol usually in the United States is that the justice
[00:13:22] department does not carry out of operations like this
[00:13:26] within 60 days of an election, even
[00:13:30] if they believe that a crime has been committed,
[00:13:33] because they don't want to favor one side or the other, so obviously
[00:13:37] critics of this operation and supporters of
[00:13:41] Ilan Omar are saying that this is blatant election
[00:13:45] interference, she comes from a country
[00:13:48] that is a non-country
[00:13:51] and then she comes over here and she complains about our constitution. "I
[00:13:55] think she's a terrible person, but that's really up to
[00:13:58] the Dok. I have nothing to do.
[00:14:02] Israeli forces have launched a drone attack on refugee
[00:14:05] camp in South Gaza, killing two Palestinians.
[00:14:09] Paramedics say several people were wounded in the attack which struck near the city of
[00:14:13] Rafah. The refugee camp there shelters thousands of
[00:14:16] Palestinians have been displaced several times in Israel's three-year
[00:14:20] war, more than 74,000 have been killed with the
[00:14:24] toll. rising almost
[00:14:26] daily.
[00:14:30] Israel's military continues to expand its so-called yellow
[00:14:33] line in the east of Gaza City with more
[00:14:37] than 65% the strip now under
[00:14:41] Israeli army control. the line divides Gaza into two zones, an eastern
[00:14:45] area where Israeli forces remain deployed and prevent Palestinians from
[00:14:48] returning and a western area where more than two million
[00:14:51] Palestinians have been pushed and forced to live. under further
[00:14:55] restrictions. Abdul Wahaab Hamed reports from Gaza on
[00:14:59] how people are trying to make living near the yellow
[00:15:02] line. I am here in one the neighborhoods in
[00:15:06] eastern Gaza City. This area is very close
[00:15:10] to the Israely military controlled areas in Gaza
[00:15:14] known as yellow line. There in the background that
[00:15:18] whole area is under full Israeli military
[00:15:21] control. The yellow line determines how
[00:15:25] much of Gaza Palestinians here can actually live
[00:15:28] in. The problem is this line was supposed to
[00:15:32] stay frozen until full Israeli
[00:15:35] withdrawal from Gaza. and until
[00:15:39] Donald Trump Gaza piece plan moves
[00:15:42] on, the second phase the plan uh moves
[00:15:46] on, nothing of that happened, Netanyahu has described
[00:15:50] the foot print as 53% to
[00:15:54] 60% control over Gaza, and now he is
[00:15:57] saying the next step is 70%
[00:16:00] control over the Palestinian coastal enclave,
[00:16:04] this is naif, he lives in distance. and
[00:16:08] has lost his home inside the Israeli military controlled
[00:16:12] areas in the gaza strip known as the yellow
[00:16:14] line. living very close to the line
[00:16:18] determines how much he close and other families in
[00:16:22] this neighborhood close to their homes, to their schools
[00:16:25] inside those areas. moving the line
[00:16:29] on means this family has to
[00:16:33] move with it. bullets are
[00:16:36] everywhere. we feel threatened all the time, we can't even
[00:16:40] sleep at night because of fear, our lives are very
[00:16:43] difficult. was injured
[00:16:47] by straight gun fire near the yellow line, the bullet is still
[00:16:50] lodged in my head, i'm
[00:16:53] in lot of pain and i'm still suffering from the
[00:16:56] injury, you can imagine what
[00:17:00] that means for families living in this
[00:17:02] neighborhood, they have been displaced many
[00:17:06] times again. and again they set up their
[00:17:09] tents, settle down, and suddenly
[00:17:13] they're told to move again.
[00:17:17] negotiations over Trump's Gaza piece plan, the second
[00:17:21] phase remains dead locked.
[00:17:24] with this expansion the yellow
[00:17:27] line, this means that the areas Israel control is
[00:17:31] getting bigger with only one single
[00:17:34] fact, less space forest. to
[00:17:38] live, Russia is
[00:17:41] continuing to attack Ukraine's energy facilities, that's despite the
[00:17:45] so-called energy cease fire declared by US president Donald
[00:17:49] Trump on Sunday. Russia's yet to comment on Trump's claim, but
[00:17:52] Ukrainian President Vuladimir Zelensky confirmed several gas
[00:17:56] facilities were hit since the ceasefire announcement. Paul
[00:18:00] Hawkins has more, a
[00:18:04] grocery store in Kakive.
[00:18:11] or what's left of it? the Russian missile killed three
[00:18:14] people. It's so hard to describe how a
[00:18:18] child was lying there, already covered up, and the father was running around
[00:18:22] her, crying and screaming. It's so terrifying, it's impossible to
[00:18:26] get through something like this. The thermal power plant
[00:18:29] 1 km away was also hit. I think that record
[00:18:33] was also meant for the thermal power plant, but it hit the civilians. "there
[00:18:37] are no military facilities there at all, nothing. 7
[00:18:41] and a half hours earlier, president Trump said both sides had agreed not to
[00:18:45] target energy
[00:18:46] infrastructure.
[00:18:50] well, we want to believe this. 10 minutes had passed since they promised they wouldn't target
[00:18:54] energy facilities, and there have already been five
[00:18:56] strikes. Ukraine says Russia has hit energy generating
[00:19:00] facilities more than 200 times in the past week, as part
[00:19:04] of renewed campaign before winter.
[00:19:08] "Neither country has confirmed any sort of deal to stop attacking power
[00:19:12] plants, but we are ready for an energy
[00:19:16] seasfire, we are ready for any mutual
[00:19:19] format, anything
[00:19:21] that is not one-sided. Ukraine is scratching
[00:19:25] its head. President Trump only signed off on more Russian sanctions less
[00:19:29] than a month ago, now he's waving them with high diesel prices and
[00:19:33] mid-term elections around the corner. Washington has also reported.
[00:19:37] threaten to reduce military and intelligence assistance if Ukraine
[00:19:41] continues striking Russian refineries. After some puzzling
[00:19:45] moves in recent days, Europe should stand up and act
[00:19:48] decisively. This must be a week
[00:19:52] of strengths. He was speaking at an EU foreign
[00:19:56] ministers meeting where strength appears to mean more
[00:19:59] sanctions. He will least close to 1,600
[00:20:03] assets and companies and persons. It's the largest list.
[00:20:07] Union has come, it could make it harder and more expensive for Russia to
[00:20:11] make its weapons, but analysts caution that sanctions alone haven't stop
[00:20:15] Russia so far. On Sunday after initially criticizing
[00:20:19] the deal, Vladimir Zelensky had President Trump say it's time for Ukraine to have
[00:20:23] new leader. Tell Putin, give us two
[00:20:27] months, 60 days of total cease
[00:20:31] fire, 60 days and we will organize
[00:20:33] elections. On Monday came the Russian rebute.
[00:20:39] "I do not think he deserves respite. We continue to achieve the goals the
[00:20:43] special military operation, some of which will be partly funded by
[00:20:47] American money as Trump seeks to achieve. his goals in next
[00:20:51] month's mid-term elections. Paul Hawkins, TRT
[00:20:55] World. I'm following the failure to
[00:20:58] agree on an energy infrastructure truce, Donald Trump has once
[00:21:02] again urged Ukraine and Russia to reach
[00:21:05] deal. All I know is that Zelinsky and
[00:21:08] Putin have to get together and end that ridiculous war. Uh, this
[00:21:12] month they lost 32,00 people in that war and
[00:21:16] it's ridiculous, so they have to get together and get it done. there is
[00:21:20] disaster. did
[00:21:22] you see the numbers that just came out this month? 32, mostly
[00:21:26] soldiers were killed, young people, 32, killed.
[00:21:30] that war has to be over with.
[00:21:34] in France, hundreds of supermarkets were hit by an unprecedented cyber
[00:21:38] attack that heated fridges and freezers up to 50 degrees
[00:21:42] celsius. fires and large scale food damage estimated to be
[00:21:45] worth millions of dollars has been reported, and some the country's biggest
[00:21:49] supermarket chains were hit in, including car 4, which said
[00:21:53] 80 of its stores were affected. Peter Allen has
[00:21:57] more on this from Paris. It's an
[00:22:00] absolutely extraordinary event, something that has
[00:22:04] captured the imagination the French consumer in of course
[00:22:08] very negative way. I've just been getting lot of
[00:22:11] technical details about what happened through one the
[00:22:15] large supermarkets affected, and what actually
[00:22:19] happened... was that hackers managed to get through to
[00:22:23] an old software program which um
[00:22:27] affected around
[00:22:30] 400 supermarkets, that's a significant number,
[00:22:33] yes there are 15, odd supermarkets across
[00:22:37] France, but 400, including many here in central
[00:22:41] Paris being hit in this way, is of course
[00:22:45] something of huge concern, what I'm hearing is that it was a
[00:22:48] Danish company called Danny Foss,
[00:22:52] which was regulating these temperatures independently,
[00:22:56] remotely from outside the supermarkets and their old
[00:23:00] software, they are arguing, was
[00:23:03] affected by these hackers, they are saying they accusing the
[00:23:07] supermarket of not updating their software to prevent an
[00:23:11] attack like this, they're saying it's a security problem, they told the
[00:23:15] supermarket how to deal with it because they feared attack like this, but
[00:23:19] the attack... happened on Sunday, lot of managers came in on
[00:23:23] Monday morning and they found anything up to half their stock completely
[00:23:27] ruined, millions of dollars worth of food
[00:23:30] ruined. Of course, food security is huge issue
[00:23:34] for any modern society, any ancient society as well, but particularly
[00:23:38] now when you have um uh fridges and
[00:23:42] freezers and the like which are so vulnerable to attack, these were
[00:23:46] vulnerable to attack and the hackers managed to get a prosecution.
[00:23:50] has been launched, prosecutors are trying to find out who is behind all
[00:23:54] that, there is already suspicion that Russians
[00:23:58] might be behind it, whenever there's a hacking incident here in France, they
[00:24:02] always blame the Russians, but of course they need the evidence to prove it,
[00:24:05] but huge huge concern here at the
[00:24:07] moment, thousands of people have marched
[00:24:11] towards India's supreme court, as widespread protests over
[00:24:15] alleged electoral fraud continue to rock the country,
[00:24:19] they want the election chief. to resign over what they say is the removal of
[00:24:22] 130 million people from voting registers. nearly
[00:24:26] billion voters went to the polls in India's last general election in
[00:24:29] 2024. Mohammed Haji
[00:24:32] reports.
[00:24:36] It could be one the biggest political challenges India's government has
[00:24:40] faced in more than decade as new week brought a fresh wave
[00:24:44] of unrest. Despite security
[00:24:48] measures described as fortress. like in New Delhi, once
[00:24:51] again thousands of people marched through its
[00:24:54] streets, leading them in the front
[00:24:58] left seat the bus and fresh from his own detention was
[00:25:02] opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, and people are seeing the
[00:25:06] Narendra Modi is blocking the whole town, he is putting
[00:25:09] 30,00, 40,00 police officers outside, for what, until
[00:25:13] the constitution is upheld until the election commissioner
[00:25:17] resigns, until the election system is...
[00:25:52] Protesters have been out almost daily this
[00:25:55] month, over the past three though, they say
[00:25:58] police have become more heavy-handed, thousands.
[00:26:02] of people were detained. They've also been blocked from the
[00:26:06] city's biggest protest sites. They're now calling on the
[00:26:10] government to let them in, and if it doesn't.
[00:26:14] If you don't give us date in the next 24 hours, then we will be
[00:26:17] compelled to give another call for a protest and we'll have no choice
[00:26:21] but to hit the streets. The electoral commission has
[00:26:25] denied favoring any party with the changes, saying deleted
[00:26:29] voters can reapply, while the ruling party. has
[00:26:32] accused the opposition of trying to destabilize India and
[00:26:36] seize power. It is the prime minister silence though, that
[00:26:40] many find deafining. All while protesters
[00:26:44] vow to raise their voices even louder, not
[00:26:47] just in New Delhi, but across the
[00:26:50] country. Mohamed Haji, TRT
[00:26:53] World. Bangladesh is
[00:26:57] preparing to bring its first nuclear power plant online,
[00:27:01] hoping ease. the persistent electricity shortage is there,
[00:27:05] the Russian built project has brought jobs and investment, but years of
[00:27:09] delays and concerns among some nearby residents have tempered
[00:27:12] those expectations. Unis demorol
[00:27:14] reports. Bangladesh's
[00:27:18] first nuclear power plant has yet to generate electricity,
[00:27:22] but in this nearby classroom, it's already sparking
[00:27:25] ambitions. My friends and I want to become
[00:27:29] scientists and we hope to work
[00:27:31] at the plant after graduating. in nuclear engineering, the $13
[00:27:34] billion rupe project promises major new reliable source of
[00:27:38] electricity for a country reliant on fossil fuels and struggling
[00:27:42] with frequent power cuts. once fully operational, its two reactors are
[00:27:46] expected to meet more than 10% of national electricity demand, a
[00:27:50] significant input for a country of almost 180 million
[00:27:54] people. plant management says the first reactor is scheduled to start up by
[00:27:58] the end of this year. built with Russia state nuclear company,
[00:28:01] Rosatom, the project has brought thousands of Russian workers and new
[00:28:05] business to the area, but the pandemic and sanctions on Russia have
[00:28:08] contributed to delays and for some neighbors anticipation is being
[00:28:12] tempered by concern.
[00:28:16] I am old now and I'm not afraid for my own life, because
[00:28:20] I feel I am nearing the end of my life,
[00:28:24] but I worry about my children and grand children, I want them to be
[00:28:28] safe, they need safety more than I
[00:28:30] do. say stringent safeguards incorporate
[00:28:34] lessons from previous nuclear accidents
[00:28:38] farmer shares some of her neighbors concerns, but power
[00:28:41] cuts make irrigating her land difficult.
[00:28:45] hope we get electricity for 24 hours without interruption as the
[00:28:49] plant is near my home. for bangladesh, the promise extends well
[00:28:53] beyond, reliable electricity can keep factories running,
[00:28:56] farms irrigated and homes lit after years of delays, the
[00:29:00] country is waiting for that to become part of the reality of everyday
[00:29:03] life. TRT
[00:29:06] World. Economic devastation and
[00:29:09] continued Israely attacks have kept many residents displaced from southern
[00:29:13] Lebanon. That's despite a supposed truth between the two countries, but in
[00:29:17] one village, people are taking matters into their own hands, setting
[00:29:21] up a market to help local vendors and revive the spirit the
[00:29:25] community.
[00:29:30] In southern Lebanon, war, destruction. and losses of
[00:29:33] monumental proportion have given people every reason to live in
[00:29:37] agony, but at this newly inaugurated Saturday market in the
[00:29:41] southern village of qufarsir, agony is opposite to the spirit
[00:29:45] in the air. Instead, people have come from near and far to enjoy
[00:29:49] fresh food and other local products. Today I
[00:29:53] came to support my hometown in my region. We want to contribute to
[00:29:57] the success of this beautiful market. Initiatives like these give
[00:30:00] us hope and optimism. especially given the current
[00:30:03] circumstances. The initiative, which brings together dozens of vendors from
[00:30:07] across the region, is only in its second week, but already authorities
[00:30:11] say it's having massive success. We make this
[00:30:15] market, and we
[00:30:18] hear from people, it's very good
[00:30:22] idea and excellent
[00:30:26] markets for all the people and for far and for
[00:30:29] the area. Markets used to be common. in the south, but the
[00:30:33] war has made large swaths the area a nogo zone.
[00:30:37] they're also especially helpful because so many traditional stores are
[00:30:41] still closed. the reason the market is here because
[00:30:44] the surrounding town is insecure so the people cannot go over
[00:30:48] there plus the expenses of uh the gas prices and so
[00:30:52] on. so we felt this an opportunity for the town and th the
[00:30:56] different town the surrounding town to come and display their product.