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00:00:09Iran's army warns of an imminent US attack in the coming
00:00:13days. The central military command says it will
00:00:16retaliate. Hello, welcome to
00:00:19TRT World Live from Istanbul, I'm Hazm Seaker, also head on the
00:00:23program.
00:00:25a of Amid the destruction and Israeli army attacks, one artist in Gaza finds a way to
00:00:29balance his art, we have a special report.
00:00:33Ukraine launches a massive attack targeting several
00:00:36in cities, including Moscow, as Russia wraps up three days of
00:00:40its general election and poles close in
00:00:43Germany where the Fire Right AEFD party is expected
00:00:47to extend its rise in more
00:00:49states.
00:00:54of
00:01:01in
00:01:13of Iran's
00:01:14of central military command says the US
00:01:18is planning for another round of attacks days after President Donald
00:01:22Trump stated he's considering annihilating the country.
00:01:25Trump says he has a big decision to take in
00:01:28of the coming days. Iran has found to retaliate to any US
00:01:32attack saying it will not hesitate to targ target US
00:01:36of bases and interests in the
00:01:38of region and countries who support the
00:01:41in attacks, but Iran still seems to be holding out for diplomacy as well, the
00:01:45of country's head of security
00:01:46of says they have delivered Washington seven conditions to
00:01:49restart
00:01:51of negotiations via Qatar, among them is the release of its frozen assets
00:01:54and an end to the naval blockade.
00:01:57a Trump may take up the Iranian proposal when he...
00:02:33of
00:02:40of
00:02:44of
00:02:58of Washington
00:03:01of expectations in Iran are not very
00:03:04high for these negotiations given the history
00:03:08of negotiations between Tehran and the Donald Trump administration, the
00:03:12first time that Iran and the Donald Trump
00:03:15administration started negotiations that was in the spring
00:03:19of 2025 and in the middle
00:03:21of of those negotiations the United States in Israel attacked Iran, the
00:03:25same
00:03:26of scenario was repeated in late February of this year.
00:03:30and
00:03:31of when the presidents
00:03:32of the two countries back in June signed
00:03:35document, both
00:03:37of them signed the same document, the Islamabad memorandum of understanding,
00:03:41we saw that that mou also unraveled
00:03:45a within weeks, but it seems that Iran wants
00:03:48a return of both sides to the Islamabad memorandum of
00:03:51understanding, provided that the United States adhears to
00:03:55all of its commitments
00:03:57of and gives guarantees that it will not attack. Iran again,
00:04:01among the points that Iran wants the United States to
00:04:05do, the demands that Iran have from the has from the United States, one
00:04:09a of them is the release of Iranian frozen assets. Tehran has billions of
00:04:13dollars in frozen assets abroad, another one is
00:04:17end of war on all fronts, not only in Iran, but Iran
00:04:21wants end of Israeli attacks in Lebanon and in Gaza as
00:04:24well, refraining from
00:04:26in interfering in internal affairs of Iran, Tehran as long
00:04:30in accused of of the United States of formenting and encouraging protests
00:04:34and riots in Iran and Tehran wants the United States to
00:04:37of stop this, stop cooperating with opponents,
00:04:41the opposition
00:04:41of the Islamic Republic, Iran says that the United States is supporting them
00:04:45and wants Washington to stop this support, halt any form of
00:04:51in aggression.
00:04:56Mohammen Guda is a professor of middle east economics at Hank.
00:05:00university of foreign studies, he says trump is looking for a way out
00:05:04given the global economic implications caused by the
00:05:07in Iran war. Iran holds now many
00:05:10of the cards, I think the their... having a very strategic
00:05:13moment in hand, us, of course, mean the republicans
00:05:17are are witnessing major mean
00:05:21opposition in us, we have inflation, we have
00:05:24rising fuel prices especially in us, we
00:05:28have of course the hoouti escalation in
00:05:32Yemen and Saudi Arabia, so all this is taken into consideration, i
00:05:36think the Iranian leadership, they are choosing the right moment to
00:05:40side their so-called seven terms
00:05:43and and I would like just to point out that they say, as you mentioned
00:05:47earlier, stop military actions on all active fronts and all
00:05:51I think also means Yemen, which is a big thing, talking
00:05:54about at the same time, so I think it's a very
00:05:57strategic move, and I think President Trump has lots to think
00:06:01about at this moment, this is very good time to stop and to
00:06:04rethink why are we here at the first moment,
00:06:08because the inflation, the the economic
00:06:11pressure. that all of us are witnessing right now and we will witness more and
00:06:15more if this escalation goes on whether with Iran, whether with
00:06:19Yahudi, whether with hormos, I think
00:06:23sooner or later this has to stop President Trump, I think
00:06:27he understands what's happening, he understand the economic pressure, he is witnessing the
00:06:31economic pressure in US by himself, and I think he needs
00:06:34to stop and he will, I think rethink what's happening now with
00:06:38Iran, we need to reach some sort of concession.
00:06:42right now and the economy is the key economy is the real key that's
00:06:46happening around here, i have to say that before this war
00:06:50Korea was or Japan, Korea, China was looking at the middle east a
00:06:53very different light, nowadays nobody is talking about the middle east, they are only
00:06:57talking about the oil, everybody needs the oil, everybody needs the prices to go
00:07:01down, inflation is being affected by every household around
00:07:05here, so I think this is an international cry, let's say not
00:07:09even a code, it's cry for for. all those big
00:07:13powers to stop and rethink what's happening right now and the inflation it as
00:07:17you have mentioned is is growing even in us the oil
00:07:20prices is the extreme
00:07:23you know us right now so i think this needs to stop this president trump
00:07:27he has many ways of stopping this through diplomacy through other
00:07:31means but this mean ongoing conflict with no end i
00:07:35think it has someh to stop because all of us are suffering
00:07:38right now an Israeli strike a civilian vehicle in
00:07:42Gaza city has killed at least one person. This raised the death toll on
00:07:46Saturday alone to five people, including people
00:07:50killed in other attacks across the enclave in Jabalya, Noseirat
00:07:54and Gaza City.
00:07:55It is the latest Israeli violation the ceasefire signed with Hamas in
00:07:59October last year. More than 1,300 Palestinians have
00:08:03been killed in Israeli attacks since the
00:08:05agreement. A force displacement and
00:08:09prolonged blackouts have silenced many of Gaza's. creative
00:08:13voices, yet ammit the ruins, oneself balance
00:08:16artist refuses to give
00:08:17up.
00:08:23reports every object he touches is just waiting to be balanced, it
00:08:27looks like magic trick, but isn't. i
00:08:30started practicing the art of balance in 2018 with very modest
00:08:34resources. over time i discovered that this graph relies
00:08:38entirely on the point of balance and the center of
00:08:40gravity. inspired by renowned kurium
00:08:44balanced artist nam bayon, the former fitness coach studied
00:08:48techniques online, training to find the precise folkrum
00:08:52of almost any object, by 2019 his backyard
00:08:55performances were gaining attention
00:08:58across. began
00:09:01sharing my videos and the response was overwhelming that inspired me to
00:09:05turn professional, eventually attempting to balance objects on moving
00:09:09surfaces, but the war brought everything to the stand still. there was
00:09:12simply no space or proper equipment left.
00:09:16Israel's war did more than this place Ahmed, it interrupted
00:09:20something. he had spent years building, no place to
00:09:24practice, no equipment and no
00:09:26connection. after the world out, had to stop all
00:09:30together because there was no internet connection to share my work. we were
00:09:34constantly being displaced from one place to another. balance
00:09:38requires stenness, but ahmad's life offered almost
00:09:41none. to do this he needed absolute focus, but how to
00:09:45find that focus when you're constantly on the
00:09:48move? still he found a way back to
00:09:52it, not in a studio, not with the proper equipment, but
00:09:55with whatever he could find around
00:09:58him, only recently
00:10:01have i managed to start posting simple videos on social media once
00:10:04again, this circumstances have changed, his equipment
00:10:08has changed, but getting back to his art is a way of reclaiming a
00:10:12piece. of life he lost due to war,
00:10:16my ultimate wish is for my talent to reach the world and for everyone to
00:10:19realize that balancing isn't an optical
00:10:22illusion. place where
00:10:25almost everything has been thrown off balance, ahmed is trying
00:10:29to find his again. Abdullahab Hamed, TRT World,
00:10:33Gaza. A violence flared in the
00:10:37occupied West bank after an illegal settler was shot dead near
00:10:40Ramala. Separately, the Israeli army says its forces killed a
00:10:44Palestinian motorist who they claimed was attempting to run them
00:10:47over. The attack took place at the site the formally evacuated
00:10:51illegal settlement in
00:10:53the northern occupied West bank. Dozens of Israelis have
00:10:56intruded into the Al-Aqsa Mosk compound in occupied East
00:11:00Jerusalem under the protection of Israeli police. Some of those
00:11:04who made it inside performed Jewish prayers and religious
00:11:07rituals in the courtyard. It comes just hours before the Jewish
00:11:11celebration of Yommipur. Palestinian officials warn the growing
00:11:15number of such actions are part
00:11:17of attempt to change the status the holy site and control
00:11:20access to the
00:11:21area.
00:11:34A huge wave of Ukrainian drones had been launched at Russia in one the
00:11:38biggest attacks the year so far. More than 450
00:11:42targeted Moscow where at least two people were killed in strikes
00:11:45on apartment blocks. An oil refinery was also hit in the early
00:11:49morning attacks causing several large fires. Officials say most the
00:11:53drones were intercepted. Ukrainian drones also hit a bus in
00:11:57Kerson in the Russian controlled region of Ukraine, killing two,
00:12:01one them, an election official. A Sunday marks the
00:12:05final day of voting in Russian parliamentary elections. It's the
00:12:09first since Russia launched its war on Ukraine in 2022.
00:12:12President Vladimir Putin earlier said the votes would underline the public
00:12:16support for the Russian army fighting on the front lines.
00:12:20Anti-war parties have largely been banned from contesting the elections.
00:12:24Russia's the election agency said their systems were attacked by
00:12:28hackers for second day and for the
00:12:32first time residence of Ukrainian regions now under Russian
00:12:35control are also voting. there are three and a half million voters in the
00:12:39four territories of Donietsk, Luhansk, Herson and
00:12:43Zapurigia. Kiev has called the voting in these territories
00:12:47illegal and urged foreign governments and international
00:12:50organizations not to recognize the results.
00:12:54And has more on the voter turnout.
00:12:58I'm at one the polin stations in Moscow and we are seeing
00:13:01that there are people who come here to cost their ballot. most
00:13:05them do want to do that through the paper ballot. some are doing that online
00:13:09through the terminals that are available here as well, but we understand that
00:13:13to this moment the overall russian wide turn out has
00:13:17reached 45%. and obviously there are expectations that
00:13:21that will be much higher on the final day the vote in the polling stations of...
00:13:25also opened overseas and we understand that Russians even in Europe
00:13:29uh in those countries that are considered as unfriendly in Russia may
00:13:33becusing their batlet and exercising their right, but
00:13:36interestingly we are seeing very high turnout in the so-called new
00:13:40territories of Russia Herson Zaparia Doniesk and the
00:13:44gansk people's republic in those territories in some them the turnout has
00:13:48actually exceeded 70% already and in the caucasus republic like the
00:13:51Chechan Republic we also seeing the turnout being quite high
00:13:55and most the people who come to the polen stations, they say they
00:13:59don't want to waste the opportunity to cut their ballet, because many are
00:14:03saying they don't want their vote to be pre-ordained and their vote to
00:14:07be used otherwise than they say. the MOD has
00:14:11confirmed that there has been more than more than
00:14:141600 Ukrainian drones that were intercepted
00:14:18and they were approaching the Russian capital. This is
00:14:21one the largest attacks by Ukraine against Russia. "and we know
00:14:25that
00:14:25in the Moscow region at least two people were killed, there have been
00:14:29numerous multi-story and private residential houses that were
00:14:33hit and more than 20 people were wounded, three children
00:14:37among them, the oil refinery in Moscow has also come under
00:14:40attack, it has been set on fire, and we are hearing a lot
00:14:44more from the central election commission had el panfil who is
00:14:48saying that in some the regions the
00:14:52country those were the election officials. toward targeted
00:14:55by Ukraine, obviously Moscow says that this is
00:14:59attempt by Ukraine to derail the free choice the
00:15:02Russian people, but obviously we understand that this is the
00:15:06first time that these elections are taking place in such a
00:15:09situation and all the uh new territories of
00:15:13Russia are also participating in this vote, so this is
00:15:17closely monitored by the observers and also by the Russian
00:15:20officials who are saying they do what they can to make sure that people
00:15:24come. in safety to cost their
00:15:26ballot. the Russian forces struck
00:15:30a civilian evacuation center in Kramatorsk, setting the
00:15:34facility a blaze. panic spread with workers at
00:16:08Western Pomerania and the city state of Berlin. Chancelor
00:16:12Friedrich Mertz could find himself a political pickle. two weeks ago,
00:16:16the far right AFD party
00:16:17had its best ever result in the former communist East and has
00:16:21been polling strongly this weekend too. Shady Edwards dashty
00:16:25reports. It's a tussel between the
00:16:29left and the right as voters in the eastern German state of
00:16:32Mecklenburg Forperman head to the polls on
00:16:35Sunday. and that
00:16:38alternative is alternative for Germany. The right-wing
00:16:42alternative for Germany party is leading, but the center left
00:16:46social democrats are hot on their heels.
00:16:50I'm pleased that all polls show that a large majority wants to
00:16:54continue my work as state premier. We are a strong and beautiful
00:16:58state and there's still many issues that I want us to tackle together. The
00:17:02economy, jobs, education. That is why I appeal to all
00:17:06citizens to vote. The
00:17:10AFD's momentum comes off the back of securing woping.
00:17:1343.8% the votes in neighboring Saxony
00:17:17and Holt state elections earlier this month. That
00:17:21results saw a historic defeat for Chancellor Friedrick
00:17:25Murz's conservative Christian Democratic
00:17:27Union. There is lot of frustration. We
00:17:31never had such a bad chancelor in Germany. I have to say it
00:17:35like that. Immer here. "the AFD has been gaining
00:17:39popularity for several years, often capitalizing
00:17:42issues surrounding migration. policies include
00:17:46closing the border to asylum seekers and re
00:17:49migration, meaning sending people born outside of
00:17:52Germany back to their original countries and
00:17:55mass, but how does their attitude and approach land
00:17:59with voters? generally generally
00:18:03speaking, the issue of migrants,
00:18:37more of measure the country's overall political
00:18:40mood. the AFD's rise and the CDU's
00:18:44losses are being linked to Chancellor Murz's declining
00:18:47popularity. he now faces increasing pressure from
00:18:51within his party to step aside, and so
00:18:55Sunday's elections may just determine his
00:18:58fate. shad Edward Stashi, TRT
00:19:01World.
00:19:05is a professor of European studies at Stanford University in Berlin. He
00:19:09believes Chancellor Metz will withstand this storm because not
00:19:13all of Germany's problems are
00:19:15homeground. On the one
00:19:18hand, any government, no matter if it's run by mats or
00:19:22by different party that addresses the
00:19:26massive list of reforms both
00:19:29domestically and the challenges from outside, would
00:19:33need to do unpopular things, because it is
00:19:36unpopular. to cut expenses, to shift
00:19:39priorities, to make the country more resilient. there
00:19:43are many, many things that are coming from
00:19:47outside, like high energy prices due to Russian's full-scale
00:19:51invasion in Ukraine, or what is happening in Iran, so
00:19:55lot of
00:19:55it isn't homemade. if it would be so simple by
00:19:58replacing one head by another, and then Germany would
00:20:02sail into a brighter future, then we could do
00:20:06it, but we... live a situation in which the
00:20:09problems don't go away by simply replacing a person who
00:20:13potentially communicates better. there's also a lot to blame
00:20:17him for why he has such low popularity
00:20:21rates, but i don't personally think that a there
00:20:25is candidate who currently would want to take his
00:20:28job, because as i said, it is not a
00:20:32mission in which you gain much, and on the other
00:20:35hand, it will be complicated. to find enough support
00:20:39within a coalition, and Germany doesn't have majority voting
00:20:42system, so it's not like a presidential system that the winner takes it
00:20:46all, you need to coordinate conflicting position. and in
00:20:50the end you need a compromised candidate and I currently don't
00:20:54see anyone doing it, so even if the result
00:20:58today will not be great for the CDU, it will certainly
00:21:02not be as devastating as two weeks ago in
00:21:06another part of East Germany,
00:21:09mats will stay in office, I usually don't make bold forecasts,
00:21:13but in this case I think we won't see different chancelor in the
00:21:16coming weeks in Nigeria, Africa's
00:21:20biggest refinery has opened its doors to investors. Billionaire
00:21:24Alico da Conte is seeking to raise 1.6 billion
00:21:28US dollars in the continent's biggest initial public offering or IPO
00:21:32and it's already drawing huge interest. Kubra Akoch has
00:21:36story. A chance to own a
00:21:39piece of one of Africa's biggest businesses shares in
00:21:43Alico Dangode's giant oil refinery
00:21:47recently went on sale giving. Nigerian's a
00:21:51stake a business that has already transformed the country's fuel
00:21:55market. Now we are owning back our Nigerian oil,
00:21:58so I believe the group, investing in that group is lifetime
00:22:02opportunity, being imagine being a part owner of
00:22:06something that is Nigerian that will grow. The
00:22:09$1.6 billion share sale is the
00:22:12largest initial public offering in the African continent
00:22:16and in the history of Nigeria. It's also country. first
00:22:20fully digital IPO aimed at retail
00:22:23investors. Several investment apps
00:22:26crashed as people tried to buy a minimum of 10
00:22:30shares costing around $40. By the end
00:22:34of day one we had cleared around $70% the backlog and by
00:22:38the start of business on day two we had cleared 100% the
00:22:41backlog and now we are good to go, we
00:22:45increased our capacity just by you massive orders
00:22:49of magnet. Africa's richest man says the aim is
00:22:53to make ownership accessible to ordinary
00:22:56Nigerians. Now we are looking at what do we create? What do you
00:23:00want to really create? What you want to create is the likes
00:23:03of Amazon, the likes of Microsoft, why people bought these
00:23:07shares for next to nothing, and now those shares have
00:23:10become something big. The refinery has
00:23:14shaped Nigeria's fuel market since it began operation in
00:23:182024, helping. the country that once relied
00:23:21heavily on imports to produce more of its own, it can
00:23:25process 700,00 barrels of oil a day, with
00:23:29Dangode planning to more than double that to 1.4
00:23:33million barrels a day by 2029. the company also
00:23:36plans to launch a massive refinery plant of Kenya's
00:23:40coast, linking it to the East African market, but
00:23:44despite the excitement, investing is still out of reach for
00:23:48many Nigerians. "we are trying to survive, it's
00:23:52a good development, but it's not for for the
00:23:56poor, for poor people like us, but if you have money you can
00:24:00invest in it, but for we we are trying to
00:24:03survive, keep it going, the IPO values the
00:24:07refinery at around $49 billion dollars, more than
00:24:10twice what it cost to build, while Dangode still set
00:24:14to control 87% the company, for investors
00:24:18buying now, the real question."
00:24:20still billion rely nearly
00:24:28people across
00:24:29africa on wood and charcoal
00:24:32exposing them to many health risks, but a Nairobi-based
00:24:36company is using carbon finance to make electric stoves
00:24:39affordable. Hope Kubi
00:24:41reports. Breakfast for Mary
00:24:44Kavutha now starts with the press of a
00:24:48button for this. canyan mother of two, the
00:24:51switch to electric induction cooking has slashed her daily
00:24:55fuel costs. the stove also allows her to prepare
00:24:59hot meals safer and faster inside her
00:25:03home. without the hazards of toxic smoke that
00:25:07contributes to about 85000 deaths every
00:25:11year on the continent. when i compare its with the charcoal it
00:25:14is cheaper because like a day when i was using the
00:25:17charcoal find that time us around about $1 with a
00:25:21charcoal per day, and with this one, when I buy a token of
00:25:2580 us cents, it lasts me to the second
00:25:28day. To make clean cooking alternatives
00:25:31accessible, manufacturers like b
00:25:35use carbon finance and pay as you go plans to
00:25:38heavily subsidize upfront retail costs.
00:25:42The Nairobi based company says it has distributed more
00:25:46than 7.3 million stoves across 11.
00:25:49African countries, built in computer chips,
00:25:53track cooking data in real time through GSM,
00:25:57allowing the company to sell verified carbon credits to
00:26:01international invest. to fund the discount,
00:26:05only way that clean cooking is going to scale on the
00:26:08continent is through carbon project finance, and
00:26:12so it's a great model, governments can earn revenue from it,
00:26:16we earn revenue, customers get an amazing product, they would
00:26:20never get unless they had that subsidy that's brought by carbon project
00:26:24finance. in june, africa secured $900
00:26:28million in clean cooking financial
00:26:31commitments. to the international energy
00:26:34agency, but critics argue that building an
00:26:38entire green energy transition on volatile carbon
00:26:41markets poses a massive risk for the
00:26:45continent. if we depend holy on
00:26:48carbon credits to support the transition, it will be
00:26:52extremely slow, and it will not happen at the pace that
00:26:56we need it. the other issue for carbon market
00:26:59is before you can trade on the carbon market. you need to
00:27:03build the asset back at Mary's home, her old
00:27:07charcoal stove sits outside next to piles of
00:27:11fuel still used by her neighbors, and while
00:27:14policy experts debate on the future of carbon
00:27:18finance, millions of families across the
00:27:21continent cannot afford the upfront costs needed
00:27:25to make the clean energy switch.
00:27:28hoperubi, trt world.
00:27:33The Democratic Republic of Congo is rolling out an Ebola vaccine for health
00:27:37workers. Around 20,000 professionals directly involved in the
00:27:40fight against the virus will receive the jab for new Ebola
00:27:44strain. It is part of a study to measure the effectiveness the new
00:27:48immunization. More than 3,600 people have died in the current
00:27:52epidemic. That's the news for now.
00:27:55Headlines are
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00:30:13headlines: Iran's central military Command says the US is
00:30:16planning for another round of attacks days after President Donald
00:30:20Trump stated he's considering annihilating the country. Trump
00:30:24says he has a big decision to take in the coming days. Iran has found to
00:30:28retaliate any to any US attack saying it will not
00:30:32hesitate to target US bases in interests in the region and countries
00:30:36who support the attacks.
00:30:40The Saudi led coalition says it's intercepted houti ballistic
00:30:44missile targeting Riyadh and stopped a wider attack on
00:30:48several Saudi cities, but the Houti say their missiles and drones hit
00:30:51sensitive sights in the capital and a Ramco facility in Nyanbu
00:30:55causing large fires. An Israeli strike
00:30:59against the...