📹WATCH: A Russian serviceman released from Ukrainian captivity recalled how some of his comrades had died after being tortured.

📹 An investigation has been launched by the FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration after an incident with an unruly passengers over the weekend saw three individuals hospitalized, including a flight attendant.

▪️ Law enforcement removed a “disruptive customer” from flight 476 which was bound from San Francisco, California, to Chicago, Illinois, early Sunday after it landed at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

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⚡️ Humanity hits the eight billion mark, according to the UN

🇨🇳 🇫🇷 China hopes France will push the European Union to an independent and constructive policy on China, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali.

💬 "After many years of development, China and Europe have formed strong symbiotic economic relations. The sides should expand bilateral trade and investment, maintain the stability and continuity of global production chains and supply chains, and protect international trade and economic rules and order," Xi said as quoted by China Central Television.

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🇷🇺 Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and his 🇨🇳 Chinese counterpart Wang Yi are meeting on the sidelines of the Bali G20 summit. Several other bilaterals are on Lavrov’s schedule today. He’s also taking part in the summit’s plenary meetings. Lavrov has arrived to the island on Sunday and has been in close contact with Indonesian and other officials attending the event.

🇰🇭 🦠 Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen tests positive for COVID-19, halts participation in G20 Summit in Bali - Indonesian Foreign Ministry

❗️ China opposes Russia's exclusion from G20 and other international forums - Chinese Foreign Minister at the meeting with Russia's Lavrov

📌 LIVE UPDATES: Day one of G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia

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🇨🇳 🗣 Chinese President Xi Jinping urged major global economies at the G20 summit on Tuesday to oppose politicizing and weaponizing food and energy trade and lift unilateral sanctions in research and technology cooperation, according to Chinese media.

💬 “It is vital to oppose politicizing and weaponizing food and energy issues deliberately. It is vital to lift unilateral sanctions and cancel restrictions in relevant research and technology cooperation spheres,” Xi was quoted by Chinese media.

▪️ The Chinese leader believes that the problems can be solved by international cooperation on market monitoring as well as the creation of open and sustainable commodity market, using joint efforts to stabilize prices and supply chains.

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❗️ Zelensky's statement that there will be no "Minsk-3" confirms Kiev's position about its unwillingness to negotiate, Peskov tells Sputnik

📌 LIVE UPDATES: Ukraine bombards Donetsk with 22 NATO caliber rounds this morning

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🇹🇷 Number of people detained as part of probe into Istanbul attack rises to 50 - Turkish Justice Ministry

▪️ On Monday, Turkish police apprehended Ahlam Al-Bashir, a Syrian national, on accusations of having planted the bomb, which killed six people and injured more than 80 more.

▪️ A bomb that exploded on Istanbul’s popular Istiklal Street on Sunday has been blamed on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a separatist group engaged in a decades-long struggle with Ankara for Turkish Kurdistan in the country’s southeast that has killed over 40,000 people.

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⚡️Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif tests positive for Covid-19, local media reports.

🇷🇺 🇺🇳 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted a photo on her Telegram channel showing Russia’s FM Lavrov and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the G20 Summit

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📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing the combat training of mechanised infantry units of the Central Military District in the rear area of the special military operation

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🇹🇷🇺🇸 Erdogan and Biden hold talks on the sidelines of the G20

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🌐👶🏾 World population hit 8 billion on Tuesday

▪️The United Nations earlier predicted that the world population will reach a new milestone of 8 billion on November 15 in 2022. According to the UN, China and India are the first and second most populous countries, each with about 1.4 billion people. However, India is expected to overtake China and become the most populous country in the world at some point next year.

▪️“India, the largest contributor to the 8 billion, will surpass China, which was the second largest contributor and whose contribution to the next billion will be negative, as the world's most populous nation by 2023,” the UN sexual and reproductive health agency said.

▪️The global population reached the 3 billion mark in 1960, 4 billion in 1975, 5 billion in 1987, 6 billion in 1999, and 7 billion in 2011. Projections also show that it will take approximately 15 years for the population to reach 9 billion, and by the end of the century there will be about 11 billion people.

⚡️Russian FM Lavrov speaking with the media at the G20 summit in Bali: energy security, food security, health care on top of agenda at G20 on Tuesday. Lavrov says trillions of dollar printed by Western nations during pandemic did damage to poor countries.