RT News - September 18th 2022 "The Weekly"

Our correspondent gets caught in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk, as at least four people are reported killed in the latest attacks by Kiev's forces.
'A breakdown of democracy': that's the assessment given by the European Parliament to Hungary, stating that the country can no longer be consider 'a full democracy'.
Russian President Vladimir Putin condemns the West, saying it has cultivated the idea of destroying Russia for decades and seeks to use Ukraine in order to do achieve this goal.
Hungary was told "it is no longer a democracy" by the EU this week, despite it having the highest government favorability in the whole European Union by it's citizens.
A look at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and roundup of some of the topics discussed this week.
World hunger: With broken rice exports now in place by India it's expected rice prices with surge. India's rice crop was seriously affected by a virus this year. *
Still on India, Tucker Carlson came under attack this week for saying India has failed to produce such lavish buildings as the British did whilst it colonised the sub-continent. (short)
Azerbaijan and Armenia conflicts have left many dead this week. A roundup of events.
CSTO peace-talks expected as border clashes in Kyrgystan and Tajikistan have continued this week.

* The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) has confirmed that the mysterious disease resulting in “dwarfing” of rice plants, reported mainly from Punjab and Haryana, has been caused by the Southern Rice Black-Streaked Dwarf Virus (SRBSDV). The virus is spread by the white-backed plant hopper, an insect pest, which injects it while sucking the sap from mostly young plants.

“The presence of the virus was detected both in the infected plants and the body of the vector insect, whose RNA was isolated. But the virus was not found in the seeds collected from the infected plants. The virus is specific to the phloem (plant tissues that transport sugar and organic nutrients from the leaves to other parts) and is not transmitted by seed or grain,” A K Singh, director of IARI, the premier New Delhi-based institute, told The Indian Express.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/iari-new-virus-behind-mystery-dwarfing-of-rice-8117779/