RT News - August 31 2024 (17:00 MSK)

The French left-wing opposition launches a bid to impeach the president, while the right wing calls on people to take to the streets in an anti-governmental demonstration. Five civilians are killed and many more wounded in the Russian border region of Belgorod as Kiev shells residential buildings with cluster bombs, this confirmed by the local governor. Moscow says Kiev's ongoing incursion into the Kursk region has turned into a bloodbath, with Ukrainian forces unable to reach any of the goals it set. Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Minister brands the very idea to attack the region as naive. As Telegram creator Pavel Durov faces up to ten years in a French prison, Iran's ambassador to Russia criticises the West's so-called support for free speech.