ah mm headlines right now, you're an international. the international atomic energy agency team arrives in is up at audrey city to examine europe largest nuclear power plant. i'm it constant shuttling by key of the mission aiming to prevent a possible public disaster with while european power speak out about africa. nations facing starvation, only 2 of ukraine's weeks carrying cargo ships have headed to hunger stricken countries as the others goes to the world's richest nation. accolades poured in over the last 24 hours when mikhail gorbachev ending the cold war. we look at what's been missing from the western media coverage, and you want it to running shorter bomb delivered to ukraine with stock pile to

running on fumes process. the u. s. supplies may reportedly be deficient to supply more aid, although that play was firmly rejected by the pentagon. a very good morning to you. more about here at oxy international in moscow. it's now just off the 4 am on thursday. well, we do start with the latest developments from the ukraine conflict. a team of experts from the international atomic energy agency has now arrived in separate or to city located adjacent to the nuclear power plant. the agency chief wants to create a permanent mission at the site and assess the state of the facility after repeated shunning attacks. my mission mission that seeks to prevent a nuclear accident and the reserve at these important, the largest, the biggest nuclear power guns in europe, the, the whole of europe,

not only in ukraine. so this is what we are concentrating. now this comes in with a drone attack, damaging a city administration building and not a good that that's located really close to the nuclear power plant. local official said no one was hurt. another drug and was shot down. according to the russian military, have been numerous recent attacks at the nuclear side and the nearby city by ukrainian forces. this is all according to russian officials. now, the visit comes after another global watchdog honesty. international came under 5 for its criticism of ukraine. already this month had published a report accusing the ukrainian military of violating humanitarian law. i'm just the claim that ukraine was a deliberately putting civilian lives at risk. why placing its military assets very close, if not, with in civilian infrastructure. the report on human shields sparked fury in kiev,

which led to amnesty, issuing an apology. are now independent experts are set to review the findings of the report. we spoke with a former us defense to pop and security analysts, michael maloof. he told us earlier that the investigation must be in partial because the alternative would be catastrophic. it's very western dominated, as you can imagine. so it's going to be, it's gonna take a western more western perspective on things and, and that seems to be the crux of this entire crisis in the 1st place of these versus west that i. but i'm hoping that they give them more impartial analysis of the safety upkeep of the facility. because the, the alternative would be very, very, very serious for all of europe and perhaps the world because of the radiation leaks. and it's really imperative that the inspectors ensure that their

leaks are minimized and that there is no way that and, and, and to encourage ukrainians, especially this to quit firing on it. it just makes a logical sense. i mean, the policy of, of the ukrainian statement is just numbing it's, it's amazing. and i think that this is just something that they stop showing it naturally. it's going to lessen radiation concerns now to don bass, where, according to local authorities, one civilian was killed and for injured after our tillery hit a 5 story residential building in the don't ask. republic, ukrainian shells directly had one of the apartments. meanwhile, according to the russian defense ministry on the eve of the new academic year of the russian side is implementing a set of measures to protect the educational institutions. the ministry has also sent to the un locations of old school starting work. and i don't yet can lugens

republics and call to stop shelling of these objects by the cranium side room and culture ever ports on the latest blast. and they don't ask republic. this is the result of a direct hit by ukrainian artillery against this 5 story apartment building. i'm standing it. what used to be the kitchen, that's the bathroom, has the living room over there, or the apartment now is completely destroyed. fortunately, the owner of this apartment was at work when the strike took place, his life was saved, however, at least one person was killed and 4 were wounded as a result of this ukrainian nationalists, artillery attack, or hudson shall hm. yeah, i'm like, i wasn't here. i came home from work, looked at my apartment. and so basically that's it. i don't have an apartment anymore. if i were at home, i would have been killed. the attacks are happening every day,

or change the driver who was killed or right here on this spot. who has sir 62 years old? his name was her, vladimir. he was here. delivering furniture and his life was abruptly ended by a ukrainian shell. this is a spot where he took his final breath, tanza. these are the kinds of shell fragments was, was, was you. my wife was near the shop when she was injured by an explosion i was till around. 3 fragments hit her. people here were rescued, but the driver could no longer be saved as of this is our everyday life. now, the worst thing here, a silence. you start to tense up. you know, this is the bomb shelter hall. the local administration. employees have been forced to hide here on a daily basis. i mean, they need to be here all the time in order to continue serving the citizens of noah

. toys sca my, they have to be working from here in order to not endanger their lives. there may be a lot of us hurdle, regular strikes occur every day, almost constantly. we sit here, we also work here. it is unrealistic to go out right now according to the locals. ukrainians were shedding this territory for 3 days straight. it's still not clear what their target was, but what we do know for sure is that there is a school right there. there is a football pitch where kids come out to play right now. it's quiet here in north america, but the residents are ready to hide in bomb shelters at any time because artillery strikes by ukraine can begin at any given moment. room on call for have r t,

the nest people's republic. western partners very excited about the arrival of, of the 1st few cranes ships carrying great into hunger stricken while the horn of africa, which adopted your booty on tuesday. the un envoy, very proud of the effort. the cranes grain is getting out and it's getting to the world's hungry ukraine is one of the top 5, ex quarters of corn of wheat and barley of sunflower. and much of that grain historically has gone to a fairly poor countries in north, in the mid east and north africa of africa. although only 2 ships carrying ukraine's wheat naturally heading for countries and desperate need while doesn't have a dozens of others. i should say, well, that kind of 1st world countries that's according to the un, let's a good of him. are on the story. his axes, donald quota, brave commander, the u. n. chartered ship carrying ukrainian weights to east africa and it's finally arrived in djibouti. and since august 14th,

the western mainstream media has been hyping it up to no and the united nations chartered ship brave commander will depart ukraine for africa in coming days after it finishes loading more than 23000 metric tons of wheat in the ukrainian port of pip, any a u n. official, said the vessel, the 1st specially chartered by the u. n. s. world food program to unblock food shipment, stuck after russia's invasion of ukraine, will head towards a booty from where the grain will be transported to ethiopia, the restarting of food aid from ukraine could mark a major turning point in the fight against worsening global hunger. we heard about it again on the 16th of august, and then again on the 18th of august and 2 days after that, the un secretary general praised its mission as well. so moving to see in the stumble, the w. f. p. ship brave commander, loaded with tons of ukrainian wheat, destined for much needed hunger relief in the horn of africa. i salute all those involved in this amazing humanitarian operation. at long last,

the ship made landfall on august 30th and was as if hunger on the continent was about to come to a definitive end. it took 2 weeks to travel here from southern ukraine. the suite is meant to feed $1500000.00 people in ethiopia for a month that it is not enough for a country facing several humanitarian challenges. food security experts call it a drop in the bucket for the vast needs in the worst hit horn countries of somalia, kenya and ethiopia, the nation where this 1st shipment is going, oh wait a minute. why did all of east africa only get one ship if they're so desperate for food? un records show that ukrainian grain went to other places as well? ireland, greece, italy, countries that are not exactly hunger stricken while ukrainian officials are wiping their hands clean of that. since after all, the free market decides the destination for the cargo has been negotiated between the supplier and the buyers, and they are totally commercial activities. we don't decide where it goes. it is

a free market. however, not everyone spying that alibi. 34 ships with grain went off odessa. only one went to africa, the other to europe and usa, ukraine as rescuing nobody from hunger. only one out of 34 ships exporting grain from ukraine went to africa. so much for the western fake concerned about hunger in poor countries. all that media attention for a single ship and the plight of starvation and africa. was it all really because the west is so concerned about starving africans, or was that a big p r stud to boost key abs popularity around the world? were the 1st place, the blame this on russia isn't as actually, of sir, was the food crisis has been around for a long, long time. this is cynical, and this is part of the geopolitical oh, propaganda. come from united states in european countries. and i've watch it's very carefully watched policies of the bible ministration and new new africa strategy,

which i just wrote about. the secretary state lincoln's trip to africa last week and is still with hypocrisy. and for the french foreign minister has a warrant at citizens that may be facing rolling blackouts in their homes. this winter, as the energy crisis grows, amid on going anti russian energy sanctions for you one day that we are producing less electricity. and there may be moments if it's very cold, where we can have a problem to supply electricity. in such case, we'd cut off by a rotation neighborhood by neighborhood for no more than 2 hours. one second comes in a gas problems. notice it will stop providing a leading french utility company with any more natural gas. the cut off comes offered fail to pay for supplies, transferred in july. a gas problem says the flow won't be resumed until the french

fun pays its bill in full. and from the powers to claim that moscow was using energy as a weapon. now we discuss all this with economist and political commentator. like a hammer course, it is justified because if the european tell them we don't pay you, we would pay euro's. but those euro's we freeze right away, so basically not paying. so who is, who would supply anything? when he told you, you won't get paid. i mean, that's totally normal and guess. and then europe is not the only client forget from they can sell the gas wherever they want in the world. and india and china, they demand the guess they want the guys, they pay for the guess. so it's totally normal that you don't supply anything anymore. the people don't, don't, don't pay. this all comes as fears about power shortages have grown off the russian energy. john gas from this week halted gas supplies to germany via the north stream

one pipeline, due to a scheduled 3 day maintenance project. this adds to compounding problems in europe, which certainly is seeing that the inflation rates rising, even surpassing 9 percent, largely driven by that of soaring energy prices. now faced with sky recruiting energy bills, european businesses have been struggling to find solutions. one italian ceramics company is office employees to sacrifice sleep and start earlier in the morning with the firms bosses saying that would help to reduce electricity costs. the workers have also been use less climate controlled. ceramics so traditionally viewed as one of the most energy intensive businesses. now the last leader of the soviet union because gorbachev of course, has died of the 91 year old passed away in moscow central hospital after a long illness. let's take a brief look through his legacy now. here on asi international.

ah, of course i go to watch off overhaul the soviet union's foreign policy by introducing that of the new political thinking doctrine, which ultimately thought relations with the western brought about the end of the costly cold war. a good which of cold for the well to be seen as united, instead of divided into communist and capitalist countries. and so the balance of interests of different nations is a way of solving international problems. universal values have to be recognized above all others, whether they be, be religious or national. soviet liter also wanted to see the world free from all nuclear weapons by the start of that of the 21st century. well, the outcome didn't turn out has rose years. gorbachev had envisioned following his

a well, the altering decisions. the nato military block expanded to the east and conflicts was seen in post soviet countries. and the consequence, some alleged from his overseeing of the collapse of the soviet union, is that of the current ongoing crisis in ukraine. well, let's learn a bit more about this now. and what about to steve guild, a radio, some political commentator joining us here live on auto international. good to see you today. thanks so much for coming on. obviously it's been just over 24 hours now since the death of the final former soviet lead of a globe, which of time in charge lead to a seismic shift in global power. and of course, the collapse of the soviet union. in brief though, how would you view his legacy? you know, i think like most historic figure, there's going to be 2 sides to the coin on one hand as you point out, or you oversaw the collapse of the former soviet union in the cold or so good and bad. i think for most russians today, they will have to acknowledge the prosperity that the freedoms that are there in russia are achieved beyond what could have been

a change or sustain under the former system. but at the same time, it has shrunk the influence and geographic reach of russia and is put things like the ukraine war at the forefront that might have been prevented had the former soviet union stayed together. so i think the easy answer probably be the simple answer is it's a mixed bag about gorbachev. legacy we have seen the different reactions haven't weighed for, from various leaders around the world. and certainly media outlets from, from western ones, russian ones, chinese ones regarding corporate jobs, death. why do you think there is such a difference in the way certain countries in the world cover his legacy? well, i think your part of it is because change is difficult in the political sphere, and i think the world has changed dramatically since the soviet union saw the countries spring off onto their own. saw the, the soviet in fluids, sort of redress a little bit into their current, russia. but i think that the strength of the russian economy,

or even with the sanctions that have been imposed because of the ukraine, more, the strength of the russian economy. it's power in the world both as a economic power, as well as a continued political power is still there is just different how to i was going to ask you, but as we just making sure we have a good signal here, so sorry, we are getting a bit of a patchy signal, steve, but i wanted to ask you though, obviously gorbachev. he really a tie. and he really reached a bit of a celebrity status with his or western partners in america in europe. and he was, he was, he was a highly heralded for the change that he bought and, and rightly so, today though vladimir putin at the helm of russia, he is credit his for, really rebuilding this country since the collapse of the u. s. s. are but he's got really very little love, very little respect from his western professional part. and why do you think there's such a difference between the way the west treated gorbachev and the way the west treats putin? i think that is interesting and you know,

they brought back those old pizza hut adds that gorbachev was in as as pizza hut came to russia under, under his leadership. i think he was a different personality than we had seen in the west of, of previous leaders. he was a likable personality. he had a personality, does certainly fit well with, with ronald reagan and that made him more likeable figure to the west. i think putting has missed the opportunity because i think by folks who know him who've actually dealt with him, he's a very likable figure. but that has not been conveyed to the west. maybe he needed a little bit better. p r. and certainly the way the propaganda has worked with you frame or has not helped that at all. but i think he has not tried to play the personality game to the west. and then gorbachev certainly did. i think indeed, the russian president, nowadays vladimir putin has, has essentially come out and said that it's very difficult to trust our professional partners in the west when so many a potential agreements have as he has said, been cost to the side. i guess when you look at a, in the, in the lead up to the military conflict in ukraine for, for months. so moscow sent

a official declarations of concern to, to western partners, saying we're concerned about the expansion of nato. we're concerned about what's happening in ukraine as putin said, those concerns what was simply ignored. now if you speak to the average russian, you get a really mixed response. when you talk about the legacy of mikhail gorbachev, some say he was great, but many others say that wasn't great. and something even sold out the soviet union to the west. also there are some say that gorbachev is to blame for enabling nato's eastwood expansion. is there any accuracy in those allegations? do you think? you know, i think it's the same and politics worldwide. what have you done for me lately? and i think it's hard for, for russians today who are enjoying more freedoms, more religious freedoms, more prosperity for the, for the typical russian than they were enjoying 30 or 40 years ago under the, under the old system. they haven't experienced that recently. so it's kind of kind

of easy, i think, to ignore where they are versus where they were, might have been, had not been any changes. but then again, you point out that the west has allowed the expansion or the talk of expansion of date, of encroaching on russia's borders. that has clearly been a flash point. that in my view, this administration didn't recognize, ignored or take her to the forces. and you claim that they were wanting to cater to and they have made a problem that they could have been, i think, resolved much worse and continues to to be a conflict. but i think could have been avoided. steve, gail radio host and political commentator joining us live on our end to national appreciate that nice chat. thank you. now after the fall of the u. s. is that the post soviet space erupt. it with a so called carlo revolutions. the 1st state to face such an uprising was georgia. back in 2003. the rose revolution took place in the southern corpus. as republic capture was claimed that parliamentary elections had been rigged. a daily mass

protest broke out with people demanding the president resign. demonstrate his eventually stormed into the seat of government, forcing the president of flee and proclaimed a revolution. and just a few days later, opposition leaders suddenly came to power. now, a couple of years later, the tulip revolution erupt in the central asian republic. a critic is done following parliamentary elections in 2005 opposition forces incited mass protest calling for the results to be a null and the vote to be re staged. and thousands stormed through the sheet of government, and the opposition is to control ended with the formation of a new administration and that of the president's resignation. now not all the revolutions worked out for those pushing for change in 2009 and mold over the political opposition. angered at election results, turned rallies into riots which destroyed the parliament building on the presidential residence. a sum showed up with romanian flies demanded that moldova joined, that neighboring state. and waldo was president claimed it was an attempted coup

against him, an excuse to book the rest of provoking the crisis. and the vote was recounted with the balance of power in parliament did not significantly change those. another consequences of the fall of the soviet union have been largely absent from the mainstream media report reports and remembering the call gorbachev and in the headlines over the past 24 hours. chinese media outlets have had a notably different approach with obituaries that criticizing the final soviet president over his policies the beijing global times had gorbachev catered to western powers, particularly america without principal and ruined the domestic economy. it charged that he was a naive and immature leader with disastrous consequences. ah, or it was special coverage or naughty international of afghanistan mocking just over one year now since the withdrawal of western powers, of course, the asian country was ravished by 2 decades of wool and an occupation

ah . for the afghan, celebrated the 1st anniversary of the withdrawal of us forces from the country on tuesday with festivities and fireworks. a taliban the board has commemorated were taking control following 2 decades of us occupation, which is estimated to have claimed the lives of 200000 people. taliban government is declared august. the 1st public holiday is what locals have to say. congratulations on the anniversary of our rise to power. and again, it's done through our sacrifice. once again, i want to remind you that nate, who was forced to withdraw its troops under pressure from the major dean. and we should celebrate this day. this is a memorable day and we celebrated with hope i have

a message to the invaders that no one can occupy our country and use our aerospace for negative purposes. on today's the day when the u. s. was defeated, we have come here to celebrate our independence. this is my message. my advice to all countries do not interfere in our administrative and domestic affairs. one of the last gun detainees held in one ton of bay, sadala, and gould was recently freed after a decade and a half in custody. a reprieve. a nonprofit organization of international lawyers fighting against human rights abuses, welcomed his release. oh client, i saw the law haroun ghoul, his has been released from guantanamo after 15 years imprisoned without charge or trial aside is finally free and able to rebuild his life with his family who have waited so long to see him while our washington set up at guantanamo bay on the territory of cuba following 911, of course, it was initially intended to holder,

well, al qaeda suspects that many of its inmates have been held without formal charges and without her legal power to challenge that attention. we did hear from a former inmate a sadala hudden gould about what he went through during his 15 years at guantanamo bay without trial. ah, the americans have their own laura in one ton of my bait. they believe they can arrest any one from any way. that is then might mm ah, it is a long story to mentally. i was shocked. although they was agreement train the afghan government and the u. s. in 2006. the no afghan would be taken to once on my bay. they never respect to the agreement. at that time, prisoners were being released from one ton of my bay. but in june 2007,

i was sent that mental stress was always part of our life because of solitary confinement, leaving you at an abandoned place for several days. sleep deprivation was the worst thing i face and still today i can't sleep peacefully. no way to hide why they were doing all this. they might have reasons for that. ah let's go to the 10 years man. it was not like 10 days, 10 weeks, or 10 months, 10 years, i was not given access to a lawyer to fight my case. ah, blizzard, as part of them, the war was over, the u. s. army had left afghanistan, according to the geneva convention, prisoners will, must be released after the war is over and peace prevails. my question is if they

wanted to use one ton of my beef a justice, then why did their legislatures like in congress approve a law to keep a prisoner that for an unlimited time? is that justice to keep a prisoner without proving his crime in a court? one of the top american military generals once said that they will give the west torture to the prison as a montana a by said they would never joy the rest of their lives. after they were released. i've not seen a single prisoner less than 40 a person that was brought in at the age of $22.00. now he's 42. so don't talk about justice. it was just cruelty in one side of my bay. ah . though that is the psychological effects of detention will remain with me for years. whenever i talked to my family on the phone, they would tales of death, sorrow, and pain in the family. it was the biggest challenge for each prisoner that to face

it alone, with no shoulder to cry on. prison itself is a horrible place. i would say that if you just live in a prison, that is less than the torture you face is beyond your imagination. you lose all hope, but we're muslims, and we believe that one day you will be released day. the americans plan something bad for you, but their wisdom is nothing against the wisdom of god. the use weapons stockpile for ukraine running low situation was acknowledged both by a member states like germany and on a wider level by the blocks foreign policy chief. i'll carry bushnell with day to be an industry for defense. how can we pull the members state buying more equipment because we are depleting alliston actually up or lighting so many capacities for your credit that we have to refill our stocks. i'd suffocating some. as germany's defense minister, i have to be honest,

in the case of deliveries from boone as their stocks, we have now reached the limit. well, i mean, while the u. s. could also be running dry soon. this is a priority according to fears from american officials, a u. s. stock piles of poorly reached a quote on comfortably low level that's according to the wall street journal pentagon. however, rejecting that claim, i'll weapon stocks for the u. s. low and in what instances is it happening? the short answer to your question is no, we take our readiness into account before we make a decision. and so i can assure you that a number of those questions are number one. do we have the ability to execute operations ourselves if it were ever to come to that? and number 2, do we have the requisite equipment and munitions available to continue to train ourselves at a high state of readiness? and in both those cases, we're able to provide what we have provided and still maintain our readiness as a military force. lawful, marcia analyst, alara johnson says the economic crisis in europe will likely make a you citizens think again.