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00:00:15Iran security chief says the US has been given seven
00:00:19a conditions for restarting talks as president Donald Trump
00:00:21of considers his next move in the
00:00:24of conflict. Donald Trump is due to meet Gulf leaders in New York on the
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00:00:28of the UN General Assembly. as shipping disruption goes on in the strate of
00:00:32hormos. hello and welcome to TRT Worlds live from
00:00:36Istanbul and Chafer Hustan also coming
00:00:38up. A refinery is a blaze
00:00:42after hundreds of Ukrainian drones launched
00:00:44a at the Russian capital on the final day of parliamentary elections
00:00:49of and weeks after a far right party scored its first regional election
00:00:53victory since
00:00:54of World of War II. German voters are going to the polls in
00:00:57Berlin.
00:01:02of
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00:01:12of Iran has
00:01:16laid out what it wants from the US
00:01:18in preconditions to restart negotiations on ending their
00:01:20of standoff which has expanded into
00:01:22of a conflict threatening the whole region. Security chief
00:01:27of of the country mosen razay says seven conditions happen delivered via Qatar. As Donald Trump
00:01:31prepares to meet Gulf
00:01:32of leaders on the sidelines
00:01:33of the UN general assembly in New York. Iran has not detailed all
00:01:36seven demands but says they include the release of frozen Iranian assets
00:01:41of and an end to the US naval blockade. An Iranian
00:01:44in delegation including president Masud Paziskiyan is due to head to the
00:01:47US for the general assembly. Donald Trump told US
00:01:51outlet axios that he has a big decision to make on whether or not to restart
00:01:55attacks. Raahami has more on this from the
00:01:59of Iranian. capital: firstly, I have to say that
00:02:03expectations in Iran are not very high for
00:02:07these negotiations, given the history of negotiations
00:02:10between Tehran and the Donald Trump administration, the
00:02:13first time that Iran and the Donald Trump
00:02:16administration started negotiations, that was in the spring
00:02:20of 2025, and in the middle of those
00:02:23of negotiations, of of the United States and Israel attacked Iran, the same
00:02:26scenario was repeated in late February, of this
00:02:30year and
00:02:32a when the presidents
00:02:33of the two countries back in June signed
00:02:36document, both
00:02:38of them signed the same document, the Islamabad memorandum of understanding,
00:02:42we saw that that mou also
00:02:45of unraveled
00:02:47in of within weeks, but Iran has always said that it will never
00:02:51abandon diplomacy
00:02:52a all
00:02:53of together, of it of it in may, it continues
00:02:57of to
00:02:58of engage in diplomatic talks with United States and now we are
00:03:01hearing that again Iran is exchanging messages with
00:03:05the United States via
00:03:07kuti intermediaries specifically via
00:03:10of Qatar and Pakistan about the seven points and
00:03:14seven demands of Iran, as you said in the
00:03:17of introduction, the
00:03:19of secretary of Iran supreme National Security Council Mohsen Ri has not been
00:03:22very
00:03:24of specific about Iranian demands, but it seems that Iran wants
00:03:27a return of both sides. both
00:03:30of the United States and Tehran of course, to the Islamabad
00:03:34memorandum of understanding.
00:03:36of Iranians have said that if the United States returns to the Islam about
00:03:39MoU, then Iran is ready to do the same, provided
00:03:43that the United States
00:03:45of adhears to all of its commitments and gives
00:03:48of guarantees of that it
00:03:49of will not attack Iran again. Among the points that
00:03:53Iran wants the United States to do, the demands that Iran have from
00:03:57the has from the United States, one
00:03:59of them is "the release of Iranian frozen assets, Tehran
00:04:03has billions of dollars in frozen assets
00:04:06in abroad and cannot access them
00:04:09of because
00:04:09of the US sanctions and Iran wants the United States to
00:04:13of allow it
00:04:14in to
00:04:14of get hold and access these funds. Another one is
00:04:18end of war on all
00:04:20of of fronts, not only in
00:04:21of Iran,
00:04:22of but a Iran wants end
00:04:23of
00:04:24in a of Israely attacks in Lebanon and in Gaza as well, refraining from
00:04:28in interfering in internal affairs. Iran Tehran as long accused the United
00:04:32of States of formenting
00:04:34of and encouraging protests and riots in Iran and Tehran once the
00:04:38of United States to stop this, stop cooperating with
00:04:41opponents, the opposition
00:04:43of the Islamic
00:04:44in Republic. Iran says that the
00:04:45me United States is supporting them and wants Washington to stop this
00:04:49support, halt
00:04:50of any form of aggression, probably it means economic
00:04:54of aggression against Iran and also lifting the US
00:04:59of of naval blockade. Iran has said that um "if the
00:05:00in United States does not
00:05:01of lift the naval blockade, Iran will not reopen the straight off
00:05:04moves. The Saudi led Coalition says it has
00:05:08intercepted houti ballistic missile targeting Riyadh
00:05:11of of and stopped a wider attack. on several Saudi cities, but the Huti say
00:05:15their missiles and drones hit sensitive sites in the capital and aramku
00:05:18facility in yanbu causing large fires. Following the
00:05:22interception, black smoke was seen rising near King Khalid international airport in
00:05:26Riyadh. Houti officials claimed the operation was a direct response to
00:05:30hundreds of recent Saudi air strikes while denying allegations of
00:05:34targeting civilian areas. The coalition says attacks also
00:05:37targeted civilian areas across Bish, Thai, Farasan and
00:05:41Yanbu. Meanwhile. Hothi said they will keep up their strikes until
00:05:45Saudi military operations
00:05:46and now in Israeli strike
00:05:50a civilian vehicle in Gaza City has killed at least one person. This
00:05:54raised the death toll on Saturday alone to five people, including people
00:05:58killed in other attacks across the onclive in Jabaliya, Nosairat and Gaza
00:06:02City.
00:06:03It is the latest Israeli violation to the cease fire signed in October
00:06:07last year. More than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in
00:06:11Israeli attacks. that agreement and
00:06:15dozens of Israelis have also intruded into the al-aqsamos
00:06:19compound and occupied is Jerusalem under the protection of Israeli
00:06:23police, some of those who made it inside performed
00:06:26Jewish prayers and rituals in the courtyards. It comes
00:06:30just hours before the Jewish celebration of Yommipur.
00:06:34Palestinian officials warn that the growing number of such actions are part
00:06:38of attempt to change the status the holy site and control access to the area.
00:06:45English music star at Sheron has apologized to fans in
00:06:48Philadelphia for how he has handled the controversy over the dropping of American
00:06:52rapper Macalmore. He was removed from the singer's latest US tours
00:06:56after stadium owners objected to pro-palestinian
00:06:59comments he made a stage during performances in New
00:07:02Jersey. Sheeran blamed the promoter for the move.
00:07:06All of Sheeran's remaining opening acts and his backing band then pulled
00:07:10out in solidarity with.
00:07:14but this week the criticism was about something much more important and i've had to
00:07:18take uh and make difficult decisions and i am making mistakes
00:07:22and i'm so so
00:07:24sorry. what happened in
00:07:27israel music festival on october 7th was
00:07:30horrific and compounded centuries of jewish
00:07:33pain.
00:07:34what is happening in gaza is a catastrophic
00:07:38and unjustifiable and disproportionate. my heart has been.
00:07:42broken by the scale of devastation and loss of civilians
00:07:46lives, of children's lives, and
00:07:50the systemic injustice we're seeing unfold in the west bank cannot be
00:07:53overlooked.
00:08:06huge wave of Ukrainian drones have been launched at Russia in one the biggest attacks
00:08:10the year so far, more than 400... 50 targeted Moscow where at least two
00:08:14people were killed in the strikes and apartment blocks and oil refinery was also hid
00:08:18in the early morning attacks causing several large fires.
00:08:22officials say most the drones were intercepted, ukrainian drones also hit a bus in
00:08:26Herson in the Russian controlled region of Ukraine, killing at least two
00:08:29people, one them an election official.
00:08:33Sunday marks the final day of voting in the Russian parliamentary
00:08:37elections. It is the first since
00:08:41Russia launched its war on on Ukraine in 2022 and these are
00:08:44live pictures coming to us from Moscow, remember president Vladimir
00:08:48Putin earlier said the votes would underline the public support for the Russian
00:08:52army fighting on the frontlines. Anti-war
00:08:56parties have largely been barred from contesting in these elections
00:09:00and also for the first time residents of
00:09:04Ukrainian regions now under Russian control are also
00:09:07voting. There are 3.5 million voters in the four territories of
00:09:11Donats, Son and Sapuritia. Keve has called
00:09:15the voting in these territories illegal and urged foreign governments and
00:09:19international organizations not to recognize the results.
00:09:23Show has more from Moscow. One the polin
00:09:26stations in Moscow and we are seeing that there are people who
00:09:30come here to cost their ballot. Most them do want to do that through
00:09:34the paper ballot, some are doing that online through the terminals that are available
00:09:38here as well, but we understand that to this moment the overall.
00:09:43wide turnout has reached 45% and obviously there are
00:09:47expectations that that will be much higher on the final day the voting the
00:09:51polling stations open also opened overseas and we understand that
00:09:54Russians even in Europe uh in those countries that are considered as
00:09:58unfriendly in Russia may beecting their ballet and exercising
00:10:02their right but interestingly we are seeing very high turnout in the
00:10:06so-called new territories of Russia Herson Zaparia
00:10:10Doniesk and the Gansk People's Republic. in those territories, in some them the
00:10:14turnout has actually exceeded 70% already, and in the caucasus
00:10:18republic like the Chechan Republic, we also seeing the turnout being
00:10:22quite high and most the people who come to the... stations, they
00:10:26say they don't want to waste the opportunity to cost their ballet, because
00:10:30many are saying they don't want their vote to be pre-ordained and
00:10:33their vote to be used otherwise than they say. the
00:10:37MOD has confirmed that there has been more than h more
00:10:41than 1600 Ukrainian drones that were
00:10:44intercepted as they were approaching the Russian
00:10:47capital. This is one the largest attacks by Ukraine
00:10:51against Russia
00:10:52and we know that's
00:10:53in the Moscow region at least two people. were killed, there have been
00:10:56numerous multi-story and private residential houses that were
00:11:00hit and more than 20 people were wounded, three children
00:11:04among them. the oil refinery in Moscow has also come under
00:11:08attack, it has been set on fire and we are hearing a lot more
00:11:11from the central election commission had el panfil who is
00:11:15saying that uh in some the regions the
00:11:19country, those were the election officials that were targeted by
00:11:23Ukraine, obviously Moscow. says that this is attempt
00:11:27by Ukraine to derail the free choice the Russian
00:11:30people, but obviously we understand that this is the first time that
00:11:34these elections are taking place in such a situation and
00:11:38all the uh new territories of Russia are also
00:11:41participating in this vote, so this is closely monitored
00:11:45by the observers and also by the Russian officials who are saying they
00:11:49do what they can to make sure that people come in safety to cost
00:11:53their ballot.
00:12:00Regional elections are underway in Germany's Mackelberg,
00:12:04western Pomerania and the city of Berlin. Chancellor
00:12:07Frederick Murs could find himself a political pickle. Two weeks ago, the far
00:12:11right AFD party had its best ever results in the former
00:12:15communist East and has been pulling strongly this weekend too.
00:12:19Shady
00:12:24the left and the... right as voters in the eastern german state of
00:12:27meclenburg forperman head to the polls on
00:12:30sunday, we need an alternative and that
00:12:34alternative is alternative for Germany, the right-wing
00:12:38alternative for Germany party is leading, but the center left
00:12:42social democrats are hot on their heels.
00:12:46I'm pleased that all polls show that a large majority wants to
00:12:49continue my work as state premier. We are a strong and beautiful
00:12:53state and there's still. many issues that I want us to tackle together, the
00:12:57economy, jobs, education. That is why I appeal to all
00:13:01citizens to vote SPD.
00:13:05The AFD's momentum comes off the back of securing a whopping.
00:13:0943.8% the votes in neighboring
00:13:12Saxony Anthol state elections earlier this month.
00:13:16That results saw a historic defeat for Chancellor Friedrick
00:13:20Murz's conservative Christian Democratic
00:13:23Union. "there is lot of frustration, we
00:13:27never had such a bad chancelor in Germany, I have to say it
00:13:30like that, the AFD has been gaining
00:13:34popularity for several years, often capitalizing
00:13:38issues surrounding migration, policies include
00:13:41closing the border to asylum seekers and re
00:13:44migration, meaning sending people born outside of
00:13:48Germany back to their original countries and
00:13:51mass, but
00:13:52how does their attitude and approach land
00:14:25so there are no clear cut favorites. Still, the Macklenburg
00:14:29Forperman vote is not just about who wins, but
00:14:32more of measure the country's overall political
00:14:36mood. The AFD's rise and the CDU's
00:14:39losses are being linked to Chancelor Mertz's declining
00:14:42popularity. He now faces increasing pressure
00:14:46from within his party to step side, and
00:14:50so Sunday's elections may just determine his
00:14:53fate. Edward stashi, TRT
00:14:56World. And now let's get some analysis from
00:15:00Ulrich Brookner, professor of European Studies at Stanford University
00:15:04in Berlin. Uldrick, great to see you, good to have you here with us on TRT World. We'll
00:15:08talk about the future of Frederick Murs a bit, but first let ask you something that I've been thinking
00:15:12about for the past one hour. See after the end of World War II, I'm sure
00:15:16many across Germany and in the region and I would say in the world
00:15:19hoped that we would never see the rise the far right in
00:15:23Germany again, yet. Here we are today, the
00:15:26AFD has made significant gains in the country, just two weeks
00:15:30ago, they got a majority, I mean they got,
00:15:34it was not a majority, but 44% the votes, which is is... far ahead of any
00:15:38other mainstream party in Saxony, and now it is
00:15:42expected that they might make gains in these elections
00:15:45as well, so my question is, how did Germany get
00:15:48here? first of all, we shouldn't
00:15:51overestimate the rise of
00:15:54alternative of Deutschland or right-wing parties in
00:15:58general, when I was a student in the 1980s
00:16:02when we had two Germanys
00:16:05and we looked into... what kind of country
00:16:09is this and what's the social demographic
00:16:12situation to answer your question about will it ever happen
00:16:15again? and we had this very strong official
00:16:19narrative that it will not happen again and we have strong
00:16:23institutions when we have checks and balances and there's a lot
00:16:27of civic education, but Paul's also
00:16:30showed that the mindset of lot of people is pretty
00:16:34authoritarian and Germany wasn't a diverse.
00:16:37society, because only with pluralism and diversity
00:16:41you learn to embrace the greatness of living with others
00:16:45and get inspiration and innovation, and this has
00:16:49not happened in East Germany, and the
00:16:53connection with the system and the identification with
00:16:57the rules and the procedures and the institutions the Federal Republic
00:17:01of Germany isn't as strong in the east as it is
00:17:05in places where I grew up Bavaria in the
00:17:08western part the Federal Republic, so it's one thing to
00:17:12just officially announce it, and it's another thing
00:17:16to have mindset of people that could be
00:17:20tapped under conditions of social media and
00:17:23miscommunication and emotionalizing
00:17:27campaigns to a degree where we do not openly
00:17:31discuss what would be the best thing for Germany or you as a
00:17:35German citizen, but
00:17:36it is much more... about alternative facts,
00:17:40different reality and triggering
00:17:44emotions to create wave that populist
00:17:47could serve into office. All right, correct me if I'm wrong, this did
00:17:51not happen all of sudden, it happened gradually. What do
00:17:55you think is the main driving factor behind
00:17:59this mindset? There is no single
00:18:03driving factor. On the one hand, any government,
00:18:07no matter. if it's run by mats or by different
00:18:10party that addresses the massive
00:18:13list of reforms both domestically and the
00:18:17challenges from outside would need to do
00:18:20unpopular things that an open
00:18:24society and a system in which you can freely say what you
00:18:28want would lead to pretty bad
00:18:31support rates for whoever is in power because
00:18:35it is unpopular to cut expense. to shift
00:18:38priorities, to make the country more resilient, there
00:18:42are many, many things that are coming from
00:18:46outside like high energy prices due to russians full scale
00:18:50invasion in ukraine or what is happening in Iran, so
00:18:54lot of
00:18:54it isn't homemade, but the previous government
00:18:57also postponed investment which
00:19:01now pile up and make it extremely complicated to
00:19:05finance all these necessary infrastructure. investments
00:19:08to become strategically more autonomous from the United
00:19:12States, to deal with the competitiveness problems with
00:19:15China, so there's a long list, it's kind of a perfect storm that if it
00:19:19would be one crisis after the other, a government could
00:19:23potentially handle it, but if you struggle with six or
00:19:27seven major challenges at once, you do need to
00:19:31do unpopular things and that fires back, and this is primarily
00:19:35why Chancelor Frederick Murs has approval ratings are extremely low,
00:19:39in fact he had to cancel his upcoming trip to the United
00:19:42Nations General Assembly in New York, and that brings me to the question, what
00:19:46does the future hold for Frederick Murs? Well, if it
00:19:50would be so simple by replacing one head by
00:19:54another, and then Germany would sail into a brighter
00:19:58future, then we could do it, but we live
00:20:01a situation in which the problems don't go away by
00:20:05simply replacing a person potentially communicates
00:20:09better, there's also lot to blame him for why he
00:20:12has such low popularity rates, but I don't
00:20:16personally think that A, there is candidate who
00:20:20currently would want to take his job, because as I
00:20:23said, it is not a mission in which you gain
00:20:27much, and on the other hand, it will be complicated
00:20:31to find enough support within a coalition, and Germany doesn't
00:20:35have majority voting system, so it's not like a presidential
00:20:39system that the winner takes it all, you need to coordinate
00:20:42conflicting positions, and in the end you need a compromise
00:20:46candidate, and I currently don't see anyone doing it, so
00:20:50even if the result today will not be great for the
00:20:54CDU, it will certainly not be as devastating
00:20:58as two weeks ago in another part of East
00:21:01Germany, mats will stay in office, I usually don't
00:21:04make bolt forecast, but in this case I think we won't
00:21:08see different chancellor in the coming weeks. fascinating
00:21:12insights, professor, thanks very much for joining us here on TRT
00:21:16World, I really appreciate your taking out the time, thanks for having me.
00:21:21Nearly billion people across Africa still rely on wood and charcoal
00:21:25exposing them to many health risks, but a Nairobi based companies using
00:21:29carbon finance to make electric stoves affordable. Hope Kirubi
00:21:33reports. Breakfast for Mary
00:21:37Cavutha now starts with the press of a
00:21:40button. For this canyon mother of two, the
00:21:44switch to electric induction cooking has slashed her daily
00:21:48fuel costs. The stove. also allows her to prepare
00:21:51hot meals safer and faster inside her
00:21:55home, without the hazards of toxic smoke that
00:21:59contributes to about 85000 deaths every
00:22:03year on the continent, when i compare it with the charcoal it
00:22:07is cheaper, because like a day when i was using the
00:22:09charcoal, find that i'm using around about $1 us with the
00:22:13charcoal per day, and with this one, when i buy a token of
00:22:1780 us cents, it lasts me the second
00:22:20day, to make clean cooking alternatives
00:22:24accessible, manufacturers like b use
00:22:27carbon finance and pay as you go plans to heavily
00:22:31subsidize upfront retail costs. the
00:22:35Nairobi based company says it has distributed more than
00:22:397.3 million stoves across 11 African
00:22:42countries. Build in computer chips, track
00:22:46cooking data in real time through GSM allow.
00:22:50the company to sell verified carbon credits to
00:22:53international investors to fund the discount.
00:22:57only way that clean cooking is going to scale on the continent
00:23:01is through carbon project finance
00:23:04and so it's
00:23:05a great modelments can earn revenue from it, we earn
00:23:09revenue, customers get an amazing product, they would never get
00:23:13unless they had that subsidy that's brought by carbon project
00:23:16finance. in june, africa secured
00:23:20million dollars in clean cooking financial commitments,
00:23:24according to the international energy agency, but
00:23:28critics argue that building an entire green energy
00:23:32transition on volatile carbon markets poses a
00:23:35massive risk for the continent. if we depend
00:23:39holy on carbon credits to support the
00:23:42transition, it will be extremely slow,
00:23:46and it will not happen at the pace that we need it ' The other
00:23:50issue for carbon markets is before you can trade on the
00:23:54carbon market, you need to build the asset. Back at Mary's
00:23:58home, her old charcoal stove sits outside
00:24:02next to piles of fuel still used by her
00:24:05neighbors. And while policy experts debate on the
00:24:09future of carbon finance, millions of families
00:24:13across the continent cannot afford the upfront
00:24:16costs needed to make the clean energy switch.
00:24:20Hope Kirubi, TRT
00:24:22World. The Democratic Republic the
00:24:26Congo is rolling out an Ebola vaccine for health workers. Around
00:24:302000 professionals directly involved in the fight against the virus are
00:24:33set to receive the jab for new Ebola is strain. It is part of a
00:24:37study to measure the effectiveness the new
00:24:40immunization. More than 3,600 people
00:24:44have died in the current epidemic. In
00:24:47Nigeria, Africa's biggest refinery hasso. its doors to investors,
00:24:51billionaire Alico Dangote is seeking to raise 1.6 billion
00:24:55US dollars in the continent's biggest initial public offering or
00:24:58IPO, and it is already drawing huge interest.
00:25:02Kubra Akkoach has the story: a chance to
00:25:06own a piece of one of Africa's biggest businesses,
00:25:10shares in Alico Dangode's giant oil
00:25:14refinery recently went on sale, giving Nigerians
00:25:18a stake a business that... has already transformed the
00:25:21country's fuel market. now we are owning back our Nigerian
00:25:25oil, so I believe the group investing in that group is
00:25:29lifetime opportunity, being, imagine being a part
00:25:33owner of something that is Nigerian that will grow, the
00:25:36$1.6 billion dollar share sale is the
00:25:40largest initial public offering in the African continent
00:25:44and in the history of Nigeria. It's also country's first
00:25:48fully digital IPO. that retail
00:25:50investors, several investment apps crashed
00:25:54as people tried to buy a minimum of 10 shares
00:25:58costing around $40. by the end of day one
00:26:02we had cleared around 70% the backlog and by the start of business on
00:26:06day two we had cleared 100% the backlog and
00:26:09now we
00:26:11you know are good to go, we've increased our capacity just
00:26:15by you massive orders of magnitude. Africa's
00:26:18richest man says the aim is to make ownership accessible
00:26:22to ordinary nigerians. now we're looking at what do we
00:26:26create? what do you want to really create? what you want to
00:26:29create is the likes of amazon, of
00:26:32Microsoft, where people bought these shares for next to
00:26:36nothing, and now those shares have become
00:26:39something big. The refinery has shaped Nigeria's fuel
00:26:43market since it began operation in 2024, helping
00:26:47the country that once relied heavily on imports to
00:26:50produce more of its own. It can process 700 thousand
00:26:54barrels of oil a day with Dangode planning to more than
00:26:58double that to 1.4 million barrels a day by 2020.
00:27:02nine: the company also plans to launch a massive refinery
00:27:06plant of Kenya's coast, linking it to the East African
00:27:10market, but despite the excitement, investing
00:27:14is still out of reach for many Nigerians, we are trying to
00:27:18survive, it's a good development, but it's
00:27:22not for for the poor, for poor people like us,
00:27:26but if you have money you can invest in it, but for we we
00:27:30are trying to survive, keep it going. "the IPO
00:27:33values the refinery at around $49 billion dollars, more
00:27:37than twice what it cost to build, while Dangode is still
00:27:41set to control 87% the company, for
00:27:45investors buying now, the real question is, if Dangode
00:27:48can deliver on his company's share value. Cubra
00:27:52Akoch, TRT World, and that's all for now, don't
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00:28:13its chork hold on the amount of aid entering the Gaza
00:28:16strip. And more than million people in Gaza are
00:28:20facing emergency levels of food and security. Palestinians
00:28:24are facing death and destruction a daily basis under unending Israeli
00:28:28air strikes. On Sunday alone 92 people were alonery
00:28:32civilian. is trying to get their hands on
00:28:34food,
00:28:40at least 30 people, 28, more than 2 dozen palestinians 92
00:28:44people died of starvation, nearly half the dead
00:28:48children, and the UN agency says that
00:28:52Gaza's children need food, water,
00:28:55medicine and protection, and above all they need a cease
00:28:58fire.
00:29:23The Balkans is at the crossroads of history,
00:29:27foreign influences always weighed heavily on the
00:29:30people. The war in Ukraine
00:29:33has tested the fragile
00:29:35car.
00:29:40As global powers consider their next steps, few take
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00:29:46want.
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00:30:18headlines: Iran has laid out what it
00:30:21wants from the US before the restart of any negotiations on ending their
00:30:25standoff and the conflict threatening the region. Security chief
00:30:29Mosent Razi says seven conditions have been delivered. via Qatar as President
00:30:33Donald Trump prepares to meet Gulf leaders on the sidelines the United
00:30:37Nations General Assembly in New York next
00:30:40week. The Saudi Lad coalition says it has
00:30:43intercepted houti ballistic missile targeting Riyadh and is stopped a
00:30:47wider attack on several southeast cities, but the huti say their missile and
00:30:51drones hit sensitive sites in the capital and aramku facility in
00:30:55yanbu causing large fires. An
00:30:58Israeli strike against a civilian vehicle in Gaza City has killed at least
00:31:02one person, this raised the death roll on Saturday alone to five people killed
00:31:06in other attacks in Jabaliah, nusairat and Gaza
00:31:10City. It is the latest Israeli violation to the cease fire
00:31:14signed in. October last year,
00:31:18dozens of Israelis have intruded into the al-Aqsa Mosk in
00:31:21occupied East Jerusalem under the protection of Israeli
00:31:24police,
00:31:25some of those who made it insight performed Jewish prayers and
00:31:29religious rituals in the courtyards. Palestinian officials warn that the
00:31:33growing number of such actions are part of attempt to change the status the
00:31:37holy site and control access to the
00:31:39area. English music star at
00:31:43Sheron has apologized for how he handled the controversy over
00:31:46dropping Makelmore from his US tour, he was removed
00:31:50after a stadium owners objected to pro palestinian comments he made a
00:31:54stage during a performance in New Jersey, at Sheron blamed the
00:31:58tour promoter for the move. week the
00:32:01criticism was about something much more important and I've had to take
00:32:05uh and make difficult decisions and I am making mistakes and I'm
00:32:09so so sorry. huge
00:32:13wave of Ukrainian drones. have been launched at Russia in one the biggest
00:32:17attacks of this year so far, more than 450
00:32:21targeted Moscow where at least two people were killed in strikes on apartment blocks
00:32:25and oil refinery was also hit in the early morning attacks causing
00:32:28several large fires. Ukrainian drones also hit a bus in Herson in the
00:32:32Russian controlled region of Ukraine killing at least two people, one them an
00:32:36election official. That's all for now, the news
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00:32:42us.
00:33:11This is Malawi, the country known as the warm. part
00:33:15of Africa due to its friendly local culture, landlocked
00:33:19between Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique, it is a place of open
00:33:22plateau's, forested highlands and one of Africa's
00:33:26great lakes. Lake Malawi supports fishing communities and
00:33:29extraordinary biodiversity. Its national park is UNESCO world
00:33:33heritage site, renowned for hundreds of species of colorful
00:33:37sichlet fish, most them found nowhere
00:33:40else.
00:33:47"the capital le Longway is Malawi's administrative and political
00:33:51center. It brings together government institutions, expanding
00:33:54neighborhoods, busy markets and the quieter green spaces
00:33:58woven through the city. Beyond the capital, agriculture remains central
00:34:02to the country's economy and daily life, but much of it depends on
00:34:05rainfall, leaving farmers exposed to
00:34:09increasingly uh frequent dry spells and
00:34:12floods." "
00:34:23you see this area here was occupied by houses, the whole area here
00:34:27from up the and people are gone. cyclones ed and
00:34:31freddy cause deaths and widespread damage, showing how a country
00:34:34responsible for only very small share of global emissions
00:34:38can face some the climate crisis's most serious
00:34:41consequences. as a government we know and ' are
00:34:45aware the issues of climate change and what we are doing
00:34:49now is to make sure that Malawi is resilient, we have to build
00:34:52resilient amongst our small holder farmers. Malawi
00:34:56is also working towards a different future. its national development
00:35:00vision places agricultural commercialization, industrialization and
00:35:04urbanization at the center of its ambitions, and its latest
00:35:07climate plan aims to cut emissions by as much as
00:35:1054% below projected levels by 2014,
00:35:14while strengthening resilience from solar-powered agriculture to renewable
00:35:18electricity and battery storage, the country is testing how cleaner
00:35:22energy can support that transformation. anoher is that balance
00:35:26between development and climate resilience more urgent than
00:35:29agriculture. here in celima district, one farming community is
00:35:33testing whether the same sunshine that's beating down in their
00:35:36fields can also provide the power that's needed to keep them
00:35:40productive.
00:35:44this fields offer a glimpse of what farming in Malawi could become,
00:35:48water can be pumped onto crops when rainfall is unreliable,
00:35:52allowing farmers to cultivate more land and potentially produce
00:35:56beyond a single rainy season, and the energy moving that
00:35:59water now comes from the sun. initially before this project
00:36:03came in uh they were using much the grid
00:36:07electricity so they had to pay much the bills which
00:36:10was not sustainable for the people. this is the lafu rice
00:36:14irrigation. in Silima District, it's owned by the
00:36:17government,
00:36:18but it's run by local water users association representing about
00:36:21425 small holder farmers. The scheme
00:36:25has 182 hectares. is of irrigable land, but project
00:36:29organizers say farmers have been unable to use all of that area
00:36:33effectively because the cost of powering its irrigation system.
00:36:37at first we had a problem here because uh when
00:36:40pumping water are using what electricity, now electricity was
00:36:44very expensive to farmers to the extent that
00:36:48we couldn't afford to pay money
00:36:52electric system abuse. three large electric pumps had already been installed
00:36:55here under earlier. European Union supported
00:36:59program, but according to the project brief, operating them with
00:37:02electricity from the national grid was too expensive. Now a
00:37:06partnership involving the German agency for international
00:37:09corporations energizing development program and the
00:37:13global energy alliance for people on planet is introducing
00:37:16another option. These pumps are very important because it helps
00:37:20as a farmer we are pumping the water from here going to the our
00:37:24field there, like before we are just ' we
00:37:27just uh receiving the water for water season now, but
00:37:31once is once they put those pumps there so it helps
00:37:35us to to to farming maybe thrice per
00:37:39year because the irrigating but we are just get getting water from here
00:37:43going to the our field there so those pumps are very
00:37:46important before this project uh we were using the
00:37:50escom electricity you know and once the GS to
00:37:54bring those projects now we're using the the solar
00:37:57the solar pannos there, so it helps us because to pay
00:38:01the electricity for the ESCOM was very expensive, now we
00:38:05are because now are using the the pan solar panels there so for us it's
00:38:09easy so maybe we our harvest was less but
00:38:13now will be higher
00:38:15so the technology here is not creating water nor kind of protect
00:38:18farmers if the water source itself runs dry what it is doing
00:38:22is removing one major obstacle which is the cost of electricity needed
00:38:26to move that water onto the field, we can no longer
00:38:30now rely on rainfield agriculture, so we are
00:38:34concentrating irrigation to complement red fed
00:38:37agriculture.
00:38:47the project reflects much wider challenge. Malawi's government
00:38:51says the country's agriculture remains overwhelmingly dependent on
00:38:55rainfall. it estimates that almost 408 thous
00:38:58hectares are suitable for irrigation, but by 2023
00:39:02only around 149,000 hectares had been developed.
00:39:06the government also acknowledges that the expansion of smallhold
00:39:09irrigation has been slower than growth in privately managed
00:39:13schemes. in malawi, the food security situation of 2
00:39:17million farming households is on the line as result the in of
00:39:21phenomenal. ineyo
00:39:23panatsogosin.
00:39:27Chifuwa
00:39:28mumalira
00:39:34achichitika,
00:39:39anawa ndipo anawo
00:39:40chinani,
00:39:44dry spells and becoming
00:39:48more frequent making
00:39:49irrigation increasingly
00:39:50important
00:39:57to recover enough money to maintain the infrastructure over
00:40:00time,
00:40:01that makes the way lifu is managed as important as the
00:40:05technology itself, the farmers association must be able to operate the
00:40:09system, collect sufficient fees and finance repairs
00:40:12after the original project support ends, the ref
00:40:16irrigation scheme is is owned by the Malai government but managed
00:40:20by the farmers, so the government
00:40:24give it to the farmer so that they can manage it, so everything that you see on.
00:40:27if the irrigation scheme there, the
00:40:31pumps that you see there and the rice ming that you see here, it's all
00:40:35managed by the farmers, they pay for their own maintenance,
00:40:39ideally
00:40:41but the way they managed that the farmers they have got an annual fee which
00:40:45they pay uh for the operations the
00:40:49of the the cooperative, the operations the uh rice
00:40:52irrigation scheme and is from that fee which they use to manage the
00:40:56operations. like paying for electricity, paying for the maintenance the pumps
00:41:00and there, so that's how it is managed. lifu is part of a wider
00:41:044 million dollar AG energy program that aims to benefit more than
00:41:085,00 farmers across Malawi. the opportunity here is to
00:41:12use clean energy to make irrigation more affordable, bring more land
00:41:16into production and give farmers greater protection from unreliable
00:41:20rainfall. we have quite a number of projects under this
00:41:23program uh, it is assisting our farmers a lot.
00:41:27especially in the rice skins in Salima, we also have
00:41:30energy projects in Chirazulu, there are about four or eight
00:41:34districts that are covered, you know, it has helped our farmers a lot
00:41:38in terms of not just... food security, but for a small
00:41:42horder farmers, they're actually changing their mindset to
00:41:45say, we need to be commercial, they are also
00:41:49earning incomes especially our women and the youth,
00:41:53because that is the call of our population in terms of
00:41:57small horming. meanwile, getting the water onto the fields is just
00:42:00beginning. once the rice is harvested, farmers still need an affordable way to
00:42:04process and prepare it for sale, and here in lefu, solar
00:42:08energy is part. in that stage
00:42:10too.
00:42:21Rice grown here in Selima can now be milled and packaged within the same
00:42:25farming community. That gives local farmers access to an important stage
00:42:29the rice value chain, not only growing the crop, but preparing
00:42:33it for sale. And the machinery doing that work is powered by solar
00:42:37energy. This milling facility operated by the lefuor. rice cooperative
00:42:40processes rice for cooperative members as well as for farmers in
00:42:44the surrounding communities. project organizers say the facility has been equipped with
00:42:48a 36 kilowatt peak solar system and 50 kilow hours of
00:42:52battery storage to power its milling and packaging operations. the
00:42:56opportunity here goes beyond replacing one source of electricity with
00:43:00another. if solo can reduce the costs of running this machinery,
00:43:04farmers can gain more affordable access to local processing. the important
00:43:08question is whether those operating savings are being passed to people bringing
00:43:12their rice hair. according to figures supplied by the project, the
00:43:15charge for milling a 50 kilogram bag of rice has fallen from
00:43:19approximately $2.20 to
00:43:21$1.50, reduction of around 30%. that's the
00:43:25report to change in the milling fee. whether it produces meaningful
00:43:29improvement in farmers overall earnings will depend on how much rice
00:43:33they process, the other production costs and the price they receive when the
00:43:37rice is sold. before for processing it ' almost
00:43:4150 bikes you were doing before almost um per
00:43:44day, but now once you are using now the solar system
00:43:48yeah now it's almost
00:43:52250 bs per day and before maybe we are not
00:43:55allowing the community to come here and using it but now we're using the
00:43:59community is also coming here to use the the rice meal there because we're
00:44:03using the solar solar system yeah i like r
00:44:07because uh it's a catch crop yeah
00:44:10we we make money for rice and also it's it's a food group again
00:44:14from uh mayais we can after me we got rice here in
00:44:17Malawi. Malawi's latest national climate plan aims to reduce
00:44:21post harvest losses in priority agricultural value chains by
00:44:2530%. the lifu mill does not achieve that national
00:44:29target by itself but reliable local processing could form part the
00:44:33wider effort to move crops through the supply chain more
00:44:36efficiently. the refue irrigation scheme itself um
00:44:40has got a membership of 465 farmers as it is right
00:44:43now um and
00:44:4654% of those farmers are women which means
00:44:50that like when you look at the
00:44:53green rice fields there expect that
00:44:5754% owning those plots are
00:45:00women uh and therefore the impact of this is not just
00:45:04about like to the men that we have interviewed here but also the
00:45:08women that are part and pass of... are the ownership of those uh
00:45:11rice rice plots and therefore we expect that I
00:45:15think this is a far reaching impact
00:45:18across all I think when you're talking about the gender um impact
00:45:22of this particular project I think it's it's it's it's that because majority
00:45:25the the majority of the farmers uh
00:45:29owning the the plots are women the wider ag energy program is
00:45:33intended to benefit more than 5000 small hood of farmers across Malawi
00:45:36through solar powered irrigation milling called. storage and other
00:45:40agricultural equipment, that figure covers the national program, not this
00:45:44facility alone. fully food, the long-term test will be whether the cooperative can
00:45:48maintain the solar equipment, the battery and milling, machinery
00:45:52and finance repairs and replacement components long after the original
00:45:56project support
00:45:57ends.
00:47:52can i get your perspective on something, the UN environmental program released some
00:47:56really startling uh reporting recently talking about
00:48:00that us overshooting overshooting it 1.5
00:48:03degree target that was set in the paris accord, are you
00:48:07concerned about this possible 1.8 at
00:48:10least degree celsius of global warming as
00:48:14it pertains to agriculture in Malawi,
00:48:18yes we are very much concerned and as a country we have
00:48:21national response to elnino, we have national response plan
00:48:25and agriculture is at the center of it where we are planning
00:48:29to encourage irrigation, we are rehabilitating all
00:48:33our irrigation schemes to make sure that they are up and running, we are also
00:48:37distributing uh drought resistant seeds
00:48:41to our farmers like millet, cassava, potato and
00:48:45sogam, so we are encouraging our farmers to also do
00:48:48smart agriculture where we are saying our farmers
00:48:52we under the farm input subsidy program we
00:48:56are encouraging our farmers to actually make their
00:49:00own uh organic mu so organic
00:49:03fertilizer I should say so that is a countrywide kind of
00:49:07training because we know organic fertilizer keeps
00:49:10moisture so that's what we are encouraging and we want
00:49:13that to be part the agriculture
00:49:16culture.
00:49:35Malawi already generates much of its electricity from urival energy.
00:49:39In 2023, renewables, well, principally hydrocarbons account
00:49:43for more than 90% the country's electricity
00:49:46generation. Now, this facility is designed to help
00:49:49Malawi use more of
00:49:51that clean electricity. the grid needs it. The Kenengo
00:49:55Battery energy storage system in lilong way was commissioned
00:49:58in July 2026. It's Malawi's first standalone
00:50:02utility scale battery connected directly to the national
00:50:06grid and was developed by the electricity supply corporation of
00:50:09Malawi or Escom in partnership with the government and the global
00:50:13energy alliance for people and planet which says it provided $20 million
00:50:17dollars in grant financing. We have commissioned this
00:50:20system and we are sure. that now have a stable
00:50:24supply of power to the nation. the system has maximum output of 20
00:50:28megaws and an energy storage capacity of 40 megw
00:50:32hours. nominally that's enough stored energy to discharge
00:50:35its maximum output for approximately 2 hours, although
00:50:39its actual operation will depend on grid requirements and technical
00:50:43limits. this uh best project does not require
00:50:45any um continuous invest, it's not like a diesel
00:50:49where you have to keep buying diesel, this one is be using. the power that is
00:50:53excess during the day and discharging during the night, it's actually making
00:50:57the grid more efficient, any case they were going to cartel that power during the day,
00:51:01but now we are saying let's keep it somewhere, we'll use it later
00:51:04in the evening. this battery does not generate electricity, its opportunity
00:51:07lies in giving grid operators greater control over
00:51:11electricity that has already been produced. the system is designed to
00:51:15store power when it is available and release it when demand
00:51:18rises, supply falls so the grid requires rapid support.
00:51:23That flexibility matters because clean generation alone does not guarantee a
00:51:26stable electricity supply. Malawi depends heavily on
00:51:30hydropower which the country's climate plan identifies as vulnerable to
00:51:34changing rainfall. the good has also struggled with instability and the
00:51:37restriction octailment of renewable generation when the
00:51:40system cannot safely absorb all the electricity
00:51:44available. diesel powered backup generation has been used
00:51:48to help cover supply
00:51:49gaps. Ndikanakonda
00:51:53ikanati ndithu ipitirere mpaka kuti magetsi achitiki ndithu ngatimene
00:51:56akufotokozera ndioti ife atithandiza kwambiri kumbali ndi
00:51:59biziness. Running
00:52:03power system is like
00:52:07uh let's say three four people pushing a vehicle
00:52:11up hill, now when
00:52:15one the persons out of those
00:52:16four um their energy has reduced
00:52:20or the they have moved out, you expect that that vehicle
00:52:24can come roll down the
00:52:27hill, either the remaining three have to
00:52:31increase their energy to continue pushing it or...
00:52:35another person has to jump in to make sure that they support, otherwise the
00:52:38vehicle roll down and run down all these
00:52:42people, that's what is called
00:52:44national wide system shut downown that okay,
00:52:48maybe there's cloud cover, the power on the solar has
00:52:52reduced, then it means all the other generations have to continue
00:52:55pushing the load, if no any other
00:52:59power source comes in very quickly then the
00:53:03whole system can shut down, so this is what the battery energy storage is doing to make sure
00:53:07that when there's cloud cover on the solar, when there's some intermittens and the like,
00:53:11the battery energy storage can come into make sure that the the supply
00:53:15corporation can continue supplying power to the nation. ascom
00:53:18officials say canango is unlocking about 100 megaws of
00:53:22renewable generation that was previously constrained. that does not
00:53:26mean this 20 megaw battery creates another 100 megaws of
00:53:30electricity. no, it means scom expects storage and
00:53:34improved. management to allow more power from existing
00:53:37renewable generators to enter the system instead of being
00:53:41restricted. base has come at the right time, you
00:53:44know we had the penetration of number of
00:53:48renewal, especially solar, we at 110
00:53:52now, 10 has just been added 10 megawatts
00:53:55and we had lot of
00:53:59instability in the system, but if you look at the generation
00:54:03point of view, solar... gives us the least
00:54:07cost scenario in in order for us to
00:54:11increase generation capacity, so the coming in of b is
00:54:15very important in order to improve the
00:54:18stability
00:54:19for for the system and we researched that the coming
00:54:23in the base would increase would help us have
00:54:27additional 600 thousand connections both
00:54:30industrial and domestic customers. project partners also
00:54:34res made that kenengo will prevent more than 10,000 tons of carbon
00:54:38emissions annually, partly by reducing reliance on diesel
00:54:42generation. that remains a projection. the actual
00:54:45emissions benefit will depend on how the battery is operated, how much
00:54:49electricity passes through it and which source of power it displaces.
00:54:53do you feel as the Malawi is a good
00:54:56place with respect to its climate policies? yes,
00:55:00i feel good, um, i'm satisfied that it is to the
00:55:04right track. buse there's a lot that's happening on the
00:55:07space, there's a lot of support from from donors
00:55:11and and people around us and of course this
00:55:15government's effort to make sure that we move
00:55:17towards electricity sustainability
00:55:21so I'm so excited that as we move towards the next
00:55:24conference it is to have story to tell
00:55:28a positive story to the world you you clearly
00:55:32feel a sense of pride in this ' have you spoken to
00:55:36people since this project began, how are they
00:55:40feeling, are they getting more power? how does this improve
00:55:43their lives? are you hearing from people on the ground? yes, yes, that's
00:55:47for sure, that was the first thing that we had to do, because
00:55:50you know before the commissioning the project we made so much
00:55:53noise, we made sure that, what do you mean you made so much noise? we
00:55:57made so much noise because there's this huge expectation on the on the
00:56:00ministry, we expect us to provide them energy, they much needed
00:56:04energy. yeah, so any any injection or
00:56:08any intervention that is brought to to to us,
00:56:12obviously we get excited, so you we we we
00:56:16checked with people and the all excited, so after
00:56:19the the commissioning the project to have been checking with people, the feedback that is
00:56:22coming is that as there is reduction in the in the
00:56:26power disruptions during big hours, buse we
00:56:29are able now to store the power that is that is there from
00:56:33these renewable sources then what is to to to to push
00:56:37that to the great during peak hours so at this the the
00:56:40blackouts have reduced somehow during peak hours thank you so much for your
00:56:44time
00:57:00thank
00:57:01you b so it success kind of be measured simply by the size the
00:57:05installation, the evidence will be whether it reduces renewable energy
00:57:08catailment, lowers diesel use, strengthens the grid
00:57:12and produces a measurable improvement in electricity
00:57:16reliability.
00:57:59surrounded by stars now,
00:58:01am I going to interview at some point? am I interviewing you today? yeah, yeah,
00:58:04but the fun,
00:58:06nice, all
00:58:10right, is this gonna be your first interview?
00:58:13no, oh, you're a superstar, yeah, no, no,
00:58:17life, this is life's tricky part,
00:58:21yeah, are you nervous? no, that's it, thank you,
00:58:24yeah, thank you, very easy, right? yeah, very
00:58:26easy.
00:58:32thank you, that's
00:58:35crazy.
00:58:56This is a drill, I repeat, this is a drill, get in the
00:59:00closet,
00:59:04so sometimes hiding might be the best choice, sometimes running might be the best
00:59:08choice, sometimes you're going to have no choice but to defend yourself, I don't
00:59:12feel safe at school, nobody feels safe, I
00:59:15think that some the teachers. students should
00:59:18have pistol
00:59:19or something hidden in the classroom to protect
00:59:22the students. i don't want to have to carry a gun, i don't want to have to
00:59:25have a bulletproof vest, but the times in which we live
00:59:29are dictating that. storyteller, the bad
00:59:33guy on TRT
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01:00:17ch for. than the headlines: Iran has
01:00:21laid out what it wants from the US before the restart of any
01:00:24negotiations on ending their standoff and the conflict threatening the
01:00:28region. Security chief mond rezali says seven conditions have been
01:00:31delivered via Qatar, as president Donald Trump prepares to meet Gulf leaders on the
01:00:35sidelines the United Nations General Assembly in New York next
01:00:39week. The Saudi led Coalition says it has
01:00:43intercepted huuti ballistic missile targeting Riyadh and is stopped a...
01:00:47attack on several southeast cities, but the huti say their missile and drones
01:00:51hit sensitive sites in the capital and aramku facility in yanbu causing
01:00:55large fires. an Israeli strike against
01:00:59a civilian vehicle in Gaza City has killed at least one person, this raised the
01:01:03death toll on Saturday alone to fight.