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00:00:00shipments facing a 12 and a half percent duty. Washington
00:00:03introduced the measures over forced labor concerns targeting
00:00:07products like chemicals and optical equipment.
00:00:10Singapore says it found no evidence of forced labor in its
00:00:14exports but warned that restrictions could hurt global supply
00:00:18chains. Meanwhile, Brazil's central bank
00:00:21has cut its benchmark interest rate for fourth straight meeting,
00:00:25lowering it to 14%. But authorities say they will
00:00:29remain. cautious as higher oil prices and inflation risks
00:00:33continue to cloud the outlook. the latest decision comes less
00:00:37than two months before Brazil's presidential election, with inflation
00:00:41remaining key concern for many
00:00:43a
00:00:46of voters. and Australia posted a trade surplus of $1.4 billion
00:00:50dollars in June
00:00:51a after deficit in May. the surprise recovery was driven
00:00:54by nearly 10% jump in exports led by stronger
00:00:58shipments of metal or and coal,
00:01:01of but analysts say
00:01:02a Australia's trade position is still weakening as the
00:01:05of long-running commodity boom begins to
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00:01:22let us look atuh some of our top stories um
00:01:26this hour, and Iran's...
00:01:30says it has reached an understanding with oman a route for ships
00:01:33transiting through the straight of
00:01:46Baits is in the studio with the
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00:03:56Hello and welcome back to the news hour reminder then of our
00:03:59a top stories and Iran has said that it's reached an
00:04:02understanding with oman on route for ships transiting the straight of
00:04:06homos. The Pakistani
00:04:09a mediators have been speaking on these US Iran talks saying
00:04:13that it hopes the Homas agreement will lead to the resumption of
00:04:17of discussions. Israel's continued challing
00:04:21in southern Lebanon has wounded at least four people in overnight
00:04:25strikes, taking place as delegates from both countries
00:04:29are in
00:04:29of Rome. discussing the
00:04:33in of next phase of a gradual Israeli withdraw
00:04:33of from southern Lebanon.
00:04:38of of now three people have been killed in overnight strikes by Russia on Ukraine's eastern city, all
00:04:42of Balakilia in the Hakiv region.
00:04:45of of rescue operations are underway as team struggle to clear Debry. It
00:04:49comes after at least 17 people were killed and dozens
00:04:53injured by a barrage of Russian missiles and drones that was launched at
00:04:57Keiv and the surrounding region. Earlier
00:05:00on Wednesday. Now, soon after the attacks,
00:05:04Ukraine's president spoke with NATO and its allies
00:05:08calling for more support. Vladimir Zelensky has also been...
00:05:12hosting the UK's defense secretary in kieve telling him that
00:05:16Moscow wants to further escalate the
00:05:18conflict. we think that we need the
00:05:22unanimity and we need strong support
00:05:24from from your country and from all other European France
00:05:28that it this is a signal also that Russia gives us
00:05:32and to the wall that they don't want to stop and I
00:05:36think that they want to continue and I mean increase
00:05:39escalation yes using the... ballistic missiles
00:05:43and we have our estimation, i want to share with you, we
00:05:47have estimation that they will have, they will increase the production of
00:05:51such ballistic missiles.
00:05:54okay, joe Flynn joins us live from key,
00:05:58and joe, these, there is an obvious optic
00:06:02here, isn't there in Russian strikes on Ukrainian
00:06:05territory, just talk us through the
00:06:07latest,
00:06:11yeah, as you men and we overnight saw few
00:06:15casualties in places, including in
00:06:17the the eastern part the the front line, but also in the north insumi as well, russian glide bombs there
00:06:21hitting sumi city, injuring number of people and also resulting
00:06:25a couple of deaths,
00:06:26it is normal evening, normal night for Ukraine, but one that is
00:06:30increasingly concerning of course in the context the ballistic missiles and the lack of
00:06:34air defenses that Ukraine currently has, Vladimir Zelinski there talking
00:06:38to uh the UK defense minister was streating, we know that he has been having conversations
00:06:42yesterday. to
00:06:43with Mark Rutter about how Ukraine can accelerate
00:06:46access to European partners, interceptors, things
00:06:50that are actually able to shoot down these ballistic missiles, because currently Ukraine
00:06:54basically has nothing. The key element of this is the US Patriot
00:06:58system, there are conversations between Kiev and Washington
00:07:02DC over both access to patriot systems, to patriot
00:07:05interceptor missiles themselves, but also about Ukraine's ability to
00:07:09manufacture patriots in the future. The... key fact in all of
00:07:13this is the lead time that it would take to to do so, even with
00:07:17patriot systems getting green lit today, we would still be looking at the middle of next year before
00:07:20those will be able to come on stream and possibly even later before they're actually able to be
00:07:24integrated into Ukrainian air defense. In the meantime,
00:07:28Ukraine is working incredibly hard to try and boost its own
00:07:32defensive um domestic manufacturing
00:07:35capabilities, defense firms here that we've been talking to over the last couple of days and that we
00:07:39are talking to uh in the the coming days as well - are really
00:07:42trying to move forward quickly tandem with their European partners,
00:07:46but there are significant road blocks, chief among them is how they
00:07:50pay for it, and those are conversations too that both NATO and Vladimir
00:07:54Zelinski will trying to have in European capitals. J, there are also
00:07:58other pressures aren't there facing um President
00:08:01Zelensky uh domestically um
00:08:05within within the party and his cabinet as well, um, we've
00:08:08seen people being put to one side and and new positions or new...
00:08:12stepping into these positions, but I want to just concentrate um
00:08:16very quickly on the price that
00:08:20Ukrainian forces are paying. Um, how are we
00:08:23on conscription, because there were issues number of months
00:08:27ago, and do we still have this element of war
00:08:30fatigue?
00:08:34Yeah, there is definitely an element of that at the moment,
00:08:37Ukraine is trying to conduct this conflict in
00:08:41a very asymmetric. sense that is to say that the Russian tactics that they've employed for
00:08:45most the last four and a half years have really focused on
00:08:49what many people consider to be an expendable attitude towards human life in
00:08:53and around trying to take frontline positions, particularly in the
00:08:56Donbas area, that's where of course we see most the heaviest fighting, that is
00:09:00where we have the largest number of uh small FPV drones that
00:09:04are um being seen in in video on social media and
00:09:08um we saw instance of that this week, but how that manifests itself going
00:09:11forwards? think is is is key in this drone conversation, because the drones of
00:09:15course bring a very different advantage, they are able to save human lives because they don't put
00:09:19people in danger in the same way. okay, Gelflin, thank you very much
00:09:35you what those stock piles are comprised of. they do remain
00:09:38heavily dependent on foreign support. President Zelensky.
00:09:42said that Keeve couldn't intercept any the Russian
00:09:46missiles that were targeted at it on Wednesday,
00:09:50overnight, Tuesday into Wednesday, because they had nothing to shoot
00:09:54back. Now after the attacks, President Zelensky, adding that
00:09:57supplies of air defense missiles fell by two-thirds in
00:10:01the first half of this year, compared with the same period in
00:10:052025, so the army is experiencing a
00:10:09shortage, particularly of those US-made patriots.
00:10:12missiles, the president has requested
00:10:16license to produce patriots domestically, but the white
00:10:19house hasn't yet made decision, we did have the decision, but
00:10:23then the president rolled back. that President Trump, so Keve is also
00:10:27aiming to produce its own interceptors. Ukrainian defense
00:10:31company Firepoint is currently developing an interceptor known
00:10:35as the Freyer project. So that's where we
00:10:38stand. For further analysis on this, I'm joined now by
00:10:42Alexe Muraviyev, who is in Perth in Australia, a
00:10:46senior research fellow in defense and strategic studies
00:10:50at Edith Cawen University. Welcome to the
00:10:52program, just how... pariluss a position is
00:10:56Ukraine in at the moment?
00:11:00Look, Ukraine right now is is in completely different
00:11:03position to compared to where it
00:11:07was when uh Russia launched its invasion uh of
00:11:11the country. Right now Ukraine has almost lost all
00:11:15of its indigenous defense capability, Russia managed to destroy
00:11:18it, and is now entirely
00:11:21dependent on on on the supply of western military.
00:11:25technology, the Ukraine also faces different sort of
00:11:28challenge, which is logistical challenge,
00:11:31because
00:11:33it it it
00:11:33it is, it is supplied with a multitude of
00:11:37of different defense systems and each them
00:11:41require unique approach, each them require a
00:11:45different set of munitions, and that just
00:11:49amalgamates the problem, and and once the
00:11:52Ukrainians are sort of continue to make request and please
00:11:56about - needing more of western support, I
00:12:00think there is needs to be a reality check, because since
00:12:04the since the start the war uh the western coalition
00:12:07supplied Ukraine with some 100 air
00:12:11defense systems and several hundreds of surface to
00:12:15air missiles, well by comparison when
00:12:18Ukraine became independent in
00:12:221992, it inherited a full integrated air
00:12:25defense system from the Soviet Union, which at that time
00:12:29comprised just over
00:12:31220 air defense system,
00:12:34so if you if you compare it, the western allies the
00:12:38past four years supplied half of what Ukraine
00:12:42inherited from the former Soviet Union, and that's a
00:12:45significant chunk
00:12:49of western supplied military technology,
00:12:52something that cannot simply be sustained. in terms of
00:12:56continuous supply forever because uh systems dry up and
00:12:59when when munitions dry up or the russians destroy
00:13:03them one by one and and and
00:13:06and and the west is facing a significant dilemma because the
00:13:10stocks that the west has of advanced air defense
00:13:13systems as well as munitions is not endless
00:13:16and certainly the war in in Iran that's been said
00:13:20many times have dried up what what the United States managed to
00:13:24accumulate. "and the production capacity the
00:13:27United States predominantly
00:13:29and to less extent some uh key western European countries
00:13:33is quite limited
00:13:34to replain stocks for for their own forces in the first
00:13:38instance leave alone to whatever they can share with the
00:13:41Ukrainians. Alexay, we are heading into winter,
00:13:45these talks that were were held in last 24 hours were part of a winter
00:13:48resilience meeting. I'm just thinking if nothing
00:13:52is done and we head into winter..." "what sort of
00:13:56territorial advantages does Ukraine
00:14:00risk losing if NATO and its allies do
00:14:03nothing, can they afford to not do
00:14:06something? look, I
00:14:10mean it's it's a question whether they can afford not to
00:14:14do something or whether they can afford to strip themselves
00:14:18uh metaphorically naked if if they seriously
00:14:21considering that there is going to be clesh" between Russia
00:14:25and need around the year 2030 if not if not
00:14:29early and and certainly when it comes to strategic and defense planning,
00:14:33it's not about uh just responding to whatever is happening right
00:14:37now, it's also thinking over the horizon and and
00:14:40obviously defense procurement requires a pretty
00:14:44lengthy time spends in in terms of what Ukraine is
00:14:48risking of losing while the Russians have been very clear what what they want in terms
00:14:51of territorial grabs, they want the... remainder the
00:14:55danbas region plus parts of what they describe as
00:14:59novrossia meaning parts the
00:15:02Perisya as well
00:15:04as Herson regions which are currently under Ukraine's
00:15:07control, but even even that I think one the
00:15:10key challenges that we face when we try to
00:15:14understand Russia's intentions in
00:15:16in in Ukraine, Russia is not so much preoccupied about territorial
00:15:20expense, they are there to destroy the capacity of
00:15:24Ukraine. to posse any security risk down the track down the
00:15:28track and and and therefore they focusing on on
00:15:32literally dismantly in Ukraine's human capacity as
00:15:35well as its um defense capabilities and and
00:15:39by that they also sort of dismantle whatever
00:15:43NATO is is is having because NATO is effectively given
00:15:46away significant chunks of this arsenal to to the
00:15:50Ukrainians so this is in my view what
00:15:53Russia uh pursues in the first instance so
00:15:57whatever whatever Ukraine may be losing between now and and
00:16:01winter may look insignificant in terms of territorial
00:16:05expense but what would be
00:16:07significant can be measured in terms of
00:16:11how many more soldiers Ukraine will lose, how many more civilians
00:16:15Ukraine will lose and how many more military equipment which is really
00:16:19expensive Ukraine may lose as results of this
00:16:22ongoing campaign with the
00:16:32Myanmar's leader is in Thailand on an official visit
00:16:36as Bangkok push. for re-engagement with its wartorn
00:16:39neighbor and Asian, the regional block. now their
00:16:43leaders have been barred from Asian summits since
00:16:462021, when Min Ong Hang
00:16:50staged a coup against the elected government of
00:16:53Angsansuchi. It all led to a civil war that killed an
00:16:56estimated 100,00 people. Min is the
00:17:00subject of raft of western sanctions and has been seeking
00:17:04international legitimacy since becoming president
00:17:07April and this follows an election that he won
00:17:10overwhelmingly by an army-backed party in the
00:17:14absence of any viable
00:17:16opposition. So uh,
00:17:20the president is currently a two-day visit to
00:17:23Thailand uh on Thursday, putting a
00:17:27trade and cross-border crime on the agenda along
00:17:31their shared frontier. Now, just to put things into context for you,
00:17:35Bangkok is seeking closer cooperation. particularly against networks
00:17:39that have survived repeated crackdowns um as the former
00:17:42junter leader tries to restore formal ties in the region so let's take a look at
00:17:46one of those issues. now the
00:17:50UN has pointed out that town in southeastern
00:17:53Myanmar, it's known as Mawadi, has now become a
00:17:57major cyber scam and human trafficking hub.
00:18:01workers, we understand, are lured there with fake jobs into
00:18:05industrial compounds and then force. to run romance and
00:18:09cryptocurrency investment scams targeting victims
00:18:12worldwide. Back in February 2025, Bangkok,
00:18:16you remember cut electricity, internet and fuel to five
00:18:20Myanmar border areas, then tighten telecom banking and border
00:18:23checks. Thailand also helped to free around 5,000
00:18:27people trapped in Myanmar scam centers. Rights groups
00:18:31estimate that more than 5,300 foreign nationals are
00:18:35still being held in four. these sites that have been
00:18:39identified, so last month, Myanmar passed a law authorizing
00:18:43life imprisonment for operating scam center, whilst
00:18:46violent coersion can carry the death penalty
00:18:50if victim dies, the UN is saying
00:18:53that the networks are outpacing enforcement using AI
00:18:57and expanding after taking at least 80 88 billion
00:19:01dollars from Asia Pacific victims in
00:19:032025. Okay.
00:19:07more than decade after a conflict has
00:19:11left deep scars across Syria, many them invisible,
00:19:15years of violence have taken a heavy psychological toll,
00:19:19particularly a generation that has grown up knowing little but war.
00:19:23well, in Aleppo, young Syrians are turning to music and cultural
00:19:26spaces to reconnect with one another and begin the journey to
00:19:30healing. no Cormash
00:19:31reports,
00:19:35the sound of a guitar, a familiar melody or simply
00:19:39singing alongside friends. For many young Syrians,
00:19:43these moments have become far more than music. They are
00:19:47small but meaningful steps toward healing after years of
00:19:51conflict that disrupted nearly every aspect of daily
00:19:54life.
00:20:00I come here to sing because it's a safe place for many people and for
00:20:03me it's a place negative energy. me
00:20:07break the barriers between me and other people, i used to get nervous
00:20:11easily and over time i
00:20:13improved. this is very important
00:20:17space for people who have talent but are afraid and the environment
00:20:21here is very supportive. the
00:20:24united nations says millions of syrians continue to grapple with the
00:20:28psychological and social scars of more than decade of
00:20:32war, but as life gradually returns to normal in post
00:20:35Assad Syria, ers
00:20:38say rebuilding social connections in spaces like this community hall
00:20:42is just as important as rebuilding damaged infrastructure,
00:20:46particularly for a generation shaped by years of uncertainty.
00:21:20but a place of comfort whether for studying, working or connecting with
00:21:23others. It also helps people build relationships with the community
00:21:27and supports them a personal level. Young people here
00:21:31say these spaces offer far more than just music and
00:21:34entertainment. For many, they provide rare sense of normalcy and
00:21:38a chance to reconnect after years of hardships and
00:21:41uncertainty. They say simply spending time together, sharing a live
00:21:45and enjoying everyday moments reflects the resilience of an entire
00:21:49generation. that has grown up through one the most devastating
00:21:52conflicts in the modern era, one that is determined to
00:21:56reclaim a sense of hope and rebuild its future. no
00:22:00commercialt world, alipo, syria.
00:22:03okay, let's catch up with a sport, charlotte baits is here with that, plenty in the
00:22:07sporting world, charlotte,
00:27:03Charlotte, thank you very much indeed, yeah, always plenty coming from the sporting
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00:30:10Hello, you're watching TRT World, I'm laquest for reminder of our main
00:30:13headlines: Iran says it's reached an
00:30:16understanding with Oman a route for ships
00:30:20transiting the straight of Homus, but Terran has also
00:30:23warned that just an agreement doesn't guarantee safe passage
00:30:27through the straight due to the US Nadal blockade. Officials
00:30:31in Washington had hoped. agreement to open the straight would happen this
00:30:35week, president Trump says talks with Iran are still ongoing despite teran
00:30:38earlier denying holding direct negotiations with the
00:30:42US. I can say that the latest
00:30:46situation is that almost all the topics are under discussion,
00:30:50the map, the transit routes, the entering and exiting of...