ah, and they wanted me to become a forgotten film pioneer. leaning. he finished and arnold fun. between hitler and hollywood. in 1932, they set out into the icy wilderness of greenland to create a life threatening a film project that became a major milestone in their lives. love, seduction and power ice cold passion starts october 8th on d. w. 70 years ago. this man was born and while in the past his birthday was an occasion for friendly, hockey matches, and tiger cob gifts, this one probably finds lottery potent and a less celebratory mood. his war is failing, his people are rebelling, his back is against the wall. but at least one of his plans seems to be working.

his saber rattling is being heard around the globe. he was president joe biden. the says the atomic threat is that it's highest since the cuban missile crisis. and warns the world is at risk of nuclear armageddon. i'm nicole ferla, him, berlin, and this is the day ah, with the russian invasion of ukraine's marks a real turning point, throws european novelties. but we need enough air defense systems to prevent russia from leaving people without heat and electricity in the winter. once again, we've cost, we've moved with force. we managed yesterday to close the latest rounds of hard fighting sections with what should nitrogen want to make it impossible for

russia to use nuclear weapons. this shows that the european union is determined to continue making them pay for his war of aggression. oh, also on the day the nobel committee says its choice for the peace prize isn't a message to vladimir potent, but the winners don't re blank a list of his birthday guests, either human rights advocate, o b o skin from below bruce the wrong you right? organization, memory, all the ukrainian human rights organization center for civil liberties, for our curtains, nuclear threats to be taken seriously. or is it just scare tactics?

a question, the international community politicians, experts and people like you and i have been pondering for weeks now the u. s. president has weighed and more clearly than ever before. according to joe biden, the risk of a nuclear armageddon hasn't been hire in 60 years bite and warned that russian leader vladimir putin is not joking when he talks about using nuclear weapons falling losses on the battlefield in ukraine. but the white house insist that there are, at this point, no indications that russia is preparing an imminent use of nuclear arms or russian forces are losing more ground to ukraine's counter offensive in the south and east ukrainian. president roland or zalinski says the progress has been rapid, but the counter offensive comes at a terrible cost on both sides with these positions are well $40.00 point. ukrainian soldiers have withstood several months

of shoving in the trenches. the lines haven't moved to most of that time. recently, things started shifting up ahead. they've started to protect russian positions more aggressively. by year performance in some directions, we have been able to move forward. even right now an attack is going on. let us, we try to put them under constant pressure things, so it'll go our way with several young girl do hope to prove, let me show you where i guys live. miss hodge's stay for several months. the army doesn't have enough personnel to retake them in and out more often. this group is getting ready for the cold season. whoever employed here work early. as you move forward in winter, we will have to heat all the space and we'll be in head on by then. let's hope so for god's sake. 2 days ago

a shell hit just above their beds. look, thankfully the roof is so well, building couldn't get through hostile naperville. further behind the lines, ambulances wait for injured soldiers to evacuate into hospitals were told that 3 ukrainians were heard by a storming, rushing position. frontline, paramedics had them over to an ambulance that shuttles between the war zone and the hospitals. oh, granting authorities have admitted to roughly 10000 dead soldiers as well below estimates of russian losses. but neither side are releasing precise or credible number. oh, this time none of the injuries seemed to be severe for the school yet. ruth.

the counter attack is costing ukrainian blood the paramedics say they've become busier recently. or bishop on nick a matter. the number of injured is higher during the attack because our guys move forward to the positions of the russian villains. and then it's easy for the russians to hit them because they know their positions well. and can shelburne unit like him to some it was it's in at the right. paramedics returned to their waiting position. they don't know when the next trip to the hospital will be. they know it will come. let's bring in doctor wearing. i'm iran of the defense studies department at kings college in london, dr. moran. welcome to the day i want to start by asking you about these armageddon from mars. the u. s. president made or we back in the age of mutually assured destruction. i think we'll have to think about the fact that our president

biden is working more on the informational and diplomatic era. now when he's talking about the armageddon, because we have to put it into context, he mentioned the cuban missile crisis, but that's actually not accurate to the close of the world came to a nuclear armageddon was in 831. the early warning radar system in the soviet union malfunctioned and a detective 5 ballistic missiles and heading its way. so i think even during the cuban missile crisis, there were back channels to try to work it out. and i think a lot of what is being published and what is being displayed is not the whole story . and it certainly, while he's saying that, you know, there is this great threat. at the same time, the united states and russia still working on the new star treaty, and apparently they are making some advances despite what is being sad in the media

. that being sad, as we know from the, from the cuban missile crisis, the concept of mad mutually assured destruction. so i think russia is pretty well aware of the fact that if it were to use nuclear weapons, that the united states would retaliate. and i, if the, if might be anything president put, it might be anything but not suicidal. so from this perspective, i think it's more a message to the public pre election that he's biden is trying to protect america, rosin and you know, a real threat proceed because i think real threats are also not publicized in that way. so you say a potent wouldn't really across that line that for him it's not actually victory or as biden put an armageddon. absolutely not. i think we have to make a distinction here between the strategic weapons, strategic nuclear weapons and tactical nuclear weapons. and obviously everybody is

referring to that one short sentence, but inside it's not a blog. however, it's always taking out of context and being re cited. but we have to understand the background. we also have to understand the russian military doctrine, which emphasizes non nuclear strategic deterrence. and according to that doctrine, what russia would do is use nuclear weapons only if it is being attacked by nuclear weapons. so as a retaliatory strike or if it stayed, hoard is basically us take when it's being attacked by some other conventional bath and weapons, such as the basically the u. s. global from strike capability, which has been scaring russia. however, i don't think that this conflict will go as far as to trigger one of those scenarios. and as far as practical nuclear weapons are concerned, which have

a much lower yield up to 50 kilograms of explosive, they will, would generate a lot of radiation in the air making the areas of habitable. so it wouldn't be very smart to put into use them because essentially here would end up with wasteland. possibly with a blow back of radiation going towards me and towards russia. so in these are scenarios bass and look very feasible and very efficient for him. however, he likes to use nuclear faber and rattle from time to time to kind of send a message. and since we don't know anything for sure, obviously it works. it's worked 10 years ago and it's working. now let's talk about himself. you say he's not suicidal and he's been branded a man man, a mastermind? both. how do you see it? i think certainly put in has made some mistakes. and he has been trying to be this

strong man for russia. and he was trying to reassert the rushes position on, on, on the global aaron. however, i don't think that he's completely mad as he would resort to the use of nuclear weapons. i think what is happening right now is that putting has to somehow deal with the mistakes that he has made in ukraine, the miscalculation of how the things would turn out. and basically what he's trying to do is he's, he's trying to stay over this information space and fill it with the was a kind of russian narrative more than anything else. so we have 2 levels here. we have the military level and, and russia and the russian animal, these a somehow have to cover all the losses on the battlefield. and so they have to feel that information base. but again, as i'm saying, i don't think he's absolutely insane. i think he's probably a good succession,

maybe last good of a strategy and he is trying to, to basically cover up old old mistakes. right now. russia doesn't seem to be able to make games in ukraine these days. you're an expert in military strategy. where do you see their shifting for now? it does look like they're going to focus on pounding cities like upper region into submission. is that where this is going? well, right now, with the problem russia has on the battlefield, is the shortage of manpower. so it's obviously it's an advantage for the ukranian forces who have received training a kid from natal, who have received weapons to conduct those counter offensive. however, russians are still making some progress around bottle. we cannot say that they're completely inactive. i think they're waiting for reinforcements and they're waiting to shift to their counter terrorist operation. prior to to the annexation all of

those territories. it was a special military operation. now that they will be shifting their tactics. and what the ukrainian forces are trying to do is capture key city is they want to capture lucy chance can, they've been moving into that direction and they're trying to all will stretch russian troops, knowing exactly that. they don't have enough manpower to exercise. what in soviet operational art is called actual on defense. and so they are trying to use recognizance drones to look where is the, the fans is at weakest and attack at those points. and right now we're seeing a lot of troops being sent to the front line ends up maricia. actually it's not correspond that's very important. now bud appreciate which might iraq to any time. and that would essentially, if the contra offensive there is successful, that would cut off the weight to crimea, and that would be

a fatal strategic blow to the russian forces. however, whether the ukrainian forces can conduct the contra offensive successfully remains to be seen because the weather conditions are not in their favor right now. oh, dr. marina muran of kings college in london. thanks for those insights and your time tonight. thank you. lou with authoritarian regimes, tormenting millions around the world. the norwegian nobel committee once again took a stance by handing its piece price to those risking their life and freedom to find for human rights. the year peace and europe was destroyed. the award is shared 3 way among activists and organizations working to hold warmongers and war criminals accountable. the most highly anticipated announcement in a week of awards. at the stroke of 11 in oslo, the chair of norway's nobel committee ended the speculation. this year's peace

prize is awarded to human rights advocate o. s b ali, asking from billers the russian human rights organization memorial the ukrainian human rights organization center for civil liberty together with another the committee informed the winners in chief by phone till so congratulations. oh, oh, it's okay, it's it, sir. oh, it's great. oh, thank you. the c c else is there stunned by the recognition of their efforts to hold the invading russian army accountable. still, graham, we're documenting russian military war crimes in ukraine to write the whole country with the most amount. in particular,

our team went to the key region and the 1st stage when it was liberated by here, we have more than 20000 crimes registered as of now is william wishing the committee also recognized alice bailey etzky, a long time leader of the democracy movement in belarus, he was detained following anti government protests in 2020, and remains in jail without trial. russia's memorial group has also had to battle state repression. for decades, it's been tracking human rights abuses and the fate of political prisoners. but it was ordered to dissolve last year as part of the kremlin ever taught an incorrect down on descent that the premium, the yours coco's, affect. this prize gives us fresh moral strength, or i know that but moral approval for all of us. and for many of our colleagues, lee, and not only within memorial, many our leader at the premium, we consider this price to be a tribute to the russian human rights community. as a whole, it was sold. the nobel committee says this year's prize was not intended to be

a direct message to the russian president with most though it's another stinging rebuke for the repressive regime of vladimir putin, which also happens to fall on his 70th birthday and from war. let's bring in our correspond, am anticipating a he then use now on the black sea in southern ukraine. when he has house people. ukraine reacted to the nobel peace prize announcement. well the announcement that to the organic the organization's center for civil liberties gets the prize has been welcomed in ukraine and ers so thought of as deserved. but her decision to award them at the same time, the same, the price at the same time or 2 decisions and opposition or is in russia and billers has somehow been seen critical here in ukraine. basically not because these organizations or, and, and that human rights defender in belarus were,

were deemed not worthy of the nobel peace prize. that's not the criticism that is voiced here. but the criticism is more that the 3 that that representatives from the 3 countries represented does not of the state but of civil society. of the 3 countries were of awarded at the same time. this was seen as repeating some kind of a narrative about the 3 countries being close together and they have been some very fierce reactions from the ukranian government. for example, presidential adviser said that he found that the nobel peace prize committee had a very interesting concept of peace by awarding the price to organisations from the to aggressive countries. and the country that was addressed . and other ministers said that to this reminded him of moscow's talk about the friendship of peoples. and the,

the criticism here is actually that this plays into the hands of further russian imperialist as it is considered here. narrative of the 3 countries being somehow a unity and it would have been better to award the price to either countries that are less bound together by these narratives or, or to just choose $1.00 of them. so this, this, this, this decision has not been met with, just as not only from the government i cited to governance was, would also from society ah, unquantifiable, unmeasurable air recoverable. that's how the fire damage to the famous archaeological sites on rap a newly or easter island. is being described, authority say around a 100 hector's of land have been raised by wildfire since monday. runing several 100 of the giant carved stone figures known as why rub annoying in the pacific as

more than 3000 kilometers off the western coast of chile. burning on one of the most remote inhabited islands on the planet displays turns to destroy a centuries old legacy. stone figures known as mo, i, where carved by the indigenous rope on new people some 500 years ago. but the uncontrollable blaze that has gone on for days is said to have done a repairable damage to the iconic statues. oh, the fire has swept through a vast area of land, some 60 hector's dare around $1000.00 moy, on the island, an estimated several 100 or ineffective area. one descendants of to ralph, i knew we'd have carved the stones. we still lived on the island. they considered the statues to be sacred, archaeologist, believe the mo i,

our representation of ancestors and may have played a role in richmond. the fire comes just 3 months after the island re open to tourists after a 2 year closure due to the pandemic and soon that dollar savings of to the people leg. it's unesco status as a world heritage. so it has brought over 160002, or say, year to the island providing a livelihood to some 4000 residents. now as damages are being assessed. the site is once again closed with john bartlett as a journalist, based on some kevin chilly and has more. john, welcome to the day. what are authority saying about the state of the statues? yes, incredibly, something to wake up this morning to 1st been burning for for more than the week now in the, in the particular corner of the island on. but authorities are saying that they're

not quite sure what the cause of the fire was quite yet. but the damaged the, the stuff, the statues is something that's irreparable, which is going to be very difficult to see how, how any of the damage has to be recovered. and whether these mo, i will be, will be okay to, to sit on the island as they have them to last a 1000 years. can the statues be accessed right now to assess the damage properly? i believe so. yeah, no on the island doesn't been this week or this year if you haven't been over to rappin to reboot. so it seems that i'll kill a just a slow you're going to be able to make that way to the area. the fire, of course, is still burning in places, but in a much too much lesser degree than it was throughout the week. so i think it's only going to be over the next few weeks that we can really ascertain what the damage is being to, to the statues themselves. the statues were carved by the rep i knew people hundreds of years ago. what do they mean to the indigenous population?

still living on the island? yeah, i think it's the sort of misconception around the world that these are kind of big stone heads that are kind of a big cough. and no one quite knows where they came from. i mean, they all the embodiment of ancestors to the indigenous wrapping of the people on easter island in the area affected as well, which was very close to the quarry, or a lot of these were a lot of the, the mo i are actually coughed out and it's incredible when you, when you go there, you can see that the various states of various states completion a lot of these mailing that across the island as well, where they were moved. and there's a lot to play as to how they actually want me to close the either the rebel. i kind of laying the side of truck, for example, and laying on that box not stood up on on starting stone platforms. good out around the island with deadlocks to the sea, but they're incredibly improved the indigenous indigenous population. and i, you say it's not clear how the fire started. is there any, any investigation that is already started because this is, of course,

a major damage. so i'm very important site and she'll yes, so president gabriel burridge, the lease to lease president to the moment said she's going to make sure that an investigation authorities have repeated that on the island as well. it's just, it's a mystery exactly how this, how this did start that people appointed early on to, to this sort of slash and burn tactic in agriculture on the, on the various pos, just that it seems like it could have been a far caused by caused by people on the island, so we're not quite sure. yeah. and it would be difficult to speculate with early signs of this was a man made a man made event wrap annually or easter island, as it's also known is a popular tourist destination was just recently i think at the beginning of august, reopened to tourism. after years of pandemic restrictions, how big are fears that the destruction might affect themed already battered sector?

yes, the like i say revenue through almost a 1000 my way across the islands in various states. if states you completion the, the main, the main ones are the ones that people are going to keep going to the island to visit. there's plenty to do there as well, the wetlands which some of which were affected by the fire as well. their case that on the north coast is kind of this, there is plenty to do on the island itself. and another thing that's very interesting is that during the pandemic, the people who live on the other to try to make the all inform or follow sustainable. growing food and trying to not have to rely on imports of food and water, the money right, apply towards them. so it's, there's plenty to do there. and i think that they've, there's been a concerted effort to make sure that it's an island that can stand on that. so i enjoy culturally and economically. dan bartlett, in santiago taylor with an update on the situation on rap annoy or easter island on the day is almost over, but as you know, the news never sleeps and the conversation continues online. you'll find our team

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