the pastor's birthday was an occasion for friendly hockey matches and tiger ca, 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 furnish in berlin and this is the day ah, the russian invasion of ukraine box, a real turning point, throws european novelty. but we need enough defense systems to prevent russia from leaving people without heat and electricity in the winter. once again,

we've cost we have moved with force. we managed yesterday to close the latest rounds of hard fighting sections with what should nitrogen 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 it's choice for the peace prize isn't a message to vladimir putin but the winners don't re blank a list of his birthday guests. cyber human rights advocate, o. b, all the skin from below root the wrong human rights organization, memory, all the ukrainian human rights organization.

so for civil liberties, are persons 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 following 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. voluntary 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 shelling in the trenches. the lines haven't moved through most of that time. recently, things started shifting up ahead. they've started to protect russian positions more aggressively by year proponents 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 pressuring, so it'll go our way the reversal. several young to go. do want to prove, let me show you where i guys live. miss always is 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 fewer,

kelly was evil thought in winter. we will have to heat all the space it will be in his own by then. let's hope so for god's sake. 2 days ago, a shell hit just above their beds. what o'clock? thankfully the roof is so well build and couldn't get through hospital nipple mill . 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 hospital. oh grain, you know, 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 seem to be severe in the for the school that woof the counter attack is costing ukrainian blood the paramedics say they've become busier recently. or bishop on the muscle. the number of injured is high 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 shelven, you're never going to summer because it's in the right. paramedics return 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 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. the close of the world came to a nuclear armageddon was in e q, 3 ones. the early warning radar system in the soviet union malfunctioned and it detected 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 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 them, 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 a biden, is trying to protect america rosin and you know, a real strat 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 plea everybody

is referring to that one short sentence, but inside it's not a block. however, it's always taking out of context and being recited. 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 retaliate, re strike, or if, if they'd hoard is basically 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 killer pounds of explosive, they will, would generate a lot of radiation in the air making the areas in habitable. so it wouldn't be very smart to put into use them because essentially he would end up with wasteland. possibly with a blow back of radiation going towards crimea towards russia. so in these are scenarios doesn't look very feasible and very efficient for him. however, he likes to use nuclear fabre 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 non suicidal and he's been branded a math 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 reapply for thrushes position on, on, on the global arizona. 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 put in 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, and we'll use a somehow have to cover all the losses on the battlefield. and so they have to feel that information. but again, as i'm saying, i don't,

i don't think he's absolutely insane. i think he's probably a good position may be last good of a strategy and he's trying to the, to basically cover up all those 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 the mission. is that where this is going? well right now with the problem russia has on the battlefield, is the shortage of manpower. and so it's obviously, it's an advantage for the ukranian forces who have received training and kit 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 morisha. actually it's not correspond that's very important. now bud, appreciate which might erupt any time. and that would essentially, if the counter 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 counter offensive successfully remains to be seen because of 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 the authoritarian regimes, tormenting millions around the world. the norwegian nobel committee once again took a stance by handing its peace 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 yes, peace prize is awarded to human rights advocate o. s b ali, asking from billers the russian human rights organization, memory, all ah, the ukrainian human rights organization, santa, for civil liberties. 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 l says there stand by the recognition of their efforts to hold the invading russian army accountable. a still, graham, we are documenting russian military war crimes in ukraine to write the whole

country with the most of the land. 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 this ryan is watching. the committee also recognize 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. set up an email that yours cowboys at this price gives us fresh moral strength. i know that but moral approval for all of us and for many of our colleagues live and not only within memorial money are you there 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 is prize was not intended to be a direct message to the russian president a with a 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 him and he has putting a he's in use now on the black sea in southern ukraine. but he has house people. ukraine reacted to the nobel peace prize announcement. well the announcement that to the organic, the organization center for civil liberties gets the prize has been welcomed in ukraine and a 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 representatives from the 3 countries representatives 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 aggressive and other ministers said that a, 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 could 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 rop annoy 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 france to destroy a centuries old legacy. stone figures known as mo, i were 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 there around $1000.00 moy on the island, and estimated several 100 or ineffective area. one descendants of the 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 those who use up to the people lago, it's unesco status as a world heritage. so it has brought over 160000 to 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 basis. i'm going to chile and has more. john, welcome to the day. what are authority saying about the state of the statues? yes. incredibly, something to,

to wake up to this morning to 1st been burning for more than a week now in the, in a 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 can actually be recovered and, and whether these mo, i will be, will be okay to, to sit on the island as they have done for lost a 1000 years that can the statues be accessed right now to assess the damage properly? i believe so. yeah, i know on the island doesn't been this week or this year actually. i mean it's, it's a revenue he puts, it seems that i'll kill a, just a slow you guys go to make that way to the area. the fire is still burning in places, but in a much, 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 rap annually 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 been call it. and no one quite knows where they came from. i mean, they all the embodiment of ancestors to the indigenous revenue people on easter island in the area affected as well. it 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 it's a lot to play as to how they actually want me to close the i did the renewal, i kind of laying the side of tracks for example, and laying on that box not stood up on, on studying stone platforms. good out around the island with deadlocks to the sea, but they're incredibly improved. please 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 in june. yes, so president gabriel burridge, the chillies chillies president to the moment said that he's going to make sure there's an investigation of 30 repeated on the island as well. so you acetate, is that 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 seems like it could have been a far caused by caused by people on the island, so we're not quite sure yet, and it would be difficult to speculate. but those are the early signs of this was a man made made event wrap annually or easter island, as it is 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, there are almost a 1000 mo, across the islands in various states if estates is 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. so another thing that's very interesting is that during the pandemic, the people who live on the other to try to make the audit for more sustainable, growing food and trying to not have to rely on imports of food and water. the money you try to put 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 can stand on its own place culturally and economically. tang bartlett instantly hasn't been sheila, with an update on the situation on rap annoying 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 on twitter at the w news and myself, nicole underscore. let me make sure to be in touch for now though. thank you so much for spending parts of your day with a, with,

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