ah, a with the top stories of the week here, one r t international, the fighting intensifies near the russian and held up at all she power plant in the southeastern ukraine. the despite the un is nuclear safety watchdog b i a, a being on site. a reference military says it repelled several ukrainian, attend the storm. the facility and recent base this off regiment captives are now making their way back to you. linda prison, the one that was sheltered by their comrades to speak to captive as off, but talia and soldiers who in july survived the shelling of their detention

facility in the village of yellow laska by ukrainian troops. the news from you, if there was an exchange of prisoners, if there was a chance for me to terminate my contract as a service man, i will terminate it fido leader of the soviet union. and mikhail gorbachev died this week aged 91 and moscow central hospital after a long illness in the program will be looking back to his historic legacy during this edition of the weekly and have a look at the crowds here more than 70000. taking to the streets of prod, protesting, storing energy prices and slimy, the government to fail to tackle out of sky rocketing inflation with it is great to have your company as we run down the top stories of the week and of the day. welcome to don't artic nation. well, this week certainly has seen

a fighting escalade right around europe's largest nuclear power plant that is in southeast and ukraine. as keeps forces have made several attempts to recapture the russian held zappa grocery power plant, but they were ultimately repelled. as, according to reports, by russia's ministry of defense, a russia's military house at more than 300 ukrainian soldiers, was seen crossing the juniper river in dozens of boats, relatively near that of the embattled nuclear facility. we understand russian forces eliminated about half of those vessels and the remainder, a believe to have been aborted during the mission. a local authorities also say ukrainian forces shell, the plans territory from across the river on saturday, damaging the last remaining power lines from this facility to ukrainian control territory. now the crew operating the plot says the nuclear reactors remain working in normal condition. it's all limit the visit to those apples replied by the u n's

. nuclear watchdog, that of the international atomic energy agency. the team has inspected the facility with some of the experts remaining on location with plans to maintain that of a permanent presence. meantime, the un did if knowledge rushes, commitment to ensuring security for the i a e. official, russian defense minister today stated that the ukrainian group of service or is trying to capture the station in order to use the mission as a human shield. we are glad that the russian federation did what it needed to do to keep keep our inspectors safe. meanwhile, russia has requested a meeting of the un security council, so that will powers will hear the conclusions of the i a mission. and one of our correspondence in the region is eager to don off. he was among the 1st journalist at the nuclear facility to report on the un teams because it you around me is

arguably the biggest nuclear scare that the world has seen since the caribbean missile crisis between the soviet union, the united states. this is this upper ross can nuclear power plant. you can see some of the react as number one and 2 nuclear reactions. and in fact, it is being shelled, relentlessly. and russia has been very much concerned and has been trying to draw the attention to this very big problem, trying to raise it to an international level. and finally, a special monitoring mission of the international atomic energy agency has paid a visit to the facility with quite a scene here at the dap ross can nuclear power plant. he's special mission with the international atomic energy agency on you can see him hilton bryce beside the man in a suit here. he's basically being claimed and he's being shown the sort of

extensive damage that's been dealt to the facility we were able in these few hours to put together a lot. a key things i needed to see i saw of your explanations were basically right here. next to me, you can see an, a you a read basically a combat drone that was down just days ago above these upper oscar nuclear power plant. if you very interesting details, i'm pointing to which side could have used this drone again. russia does not import any, but here, for example, you can have this little chip plate and everything that you see here is written in english like you have parachute left wing and so on. so the russians, they simply don't use english language for anything military. it is very much out of the question and here another piece, another device,

another piece of the drone. you can see that it is brand new. it is year 2022. so it is very, very new. this particular well paying this particular drone has failed to do any damage to deal any damage to the facility because it had been down. but this is not the 1st time that things like this devices like that are being used against the facility. you can hear and see the water still gripping here because the shilling phase of them to have broken the pipe here and well, the personnel. they still haven't had time to fix them because well, the shelling haven't got this place was where the 1st mortar shells landed and hailed down upon the ruskin nuclear power plant. you can see the damage. you can see the aftermath broken windows and this warehouse stands abandoned. it used to be producing liquid nitrogen, which is crucial to the functionality of the whole atomic power plant. now, well,

if we look rational and it is making basically the work of the whole facility, very difficult. well, away from the front line in the don't ask republic or survivors of a deadly attack a couple of months ago by key f forces on or the tension cam for captured, members of ukraine's extreme as to as off battalion on our being returned to prison, the attack in july left more than 50 people dead. many more wounded. the surviving as of soldiers were treated for their injuries and a hospital in don. yes. and our correspondent roman of course, or if interviewed some of them. and we do need to stay here in the program as in all such cases involving prisoners, it is possible they were speaking now under duress. after having spoken with a captive a zolphi regimen sir, members, i took away a couple of things. and number one, the most of them don't want to fight anymore. and number 2, they want to see their families again. however,

their fate is unclear at this point. will they be exchanged or will they be tried? you wanted your soldier again, i'm ever again. ah, i'm not ready to answer yet. so i still am beeson, i. i don't belong to myself. so i cannot or right now i am not that idea. i'm not ready to stay because i did not see my family for a long time. so i probably won't go out to fight honey to rest. half a year ago, every one was focusing on their careers. and now every one i know just wants to have a family horn. we all understood that the most important things in life are your family and your health. the prima venetia. mm. you see if there was an exchange of prisoners, if there was a chance for me to terminate my contract as a serviceman, i will terminate it. most of all, i feel sorry for the children and other civilians who aren't involved in the conflict, but are still hard to buy it. yes i am, but i have

a profound sense of empathy. even before this, i understood was that people don't ask until ganske wanted. sure. there were tired of women to constant threat. there were motion exhausted, was so hard for them to endure that so many years. since nobody to keep these as off. regiments captives are now making their way back to jaelyn africa. prison. the one that was shelled by their comrades back in july. most of these people were injured when ukrainian shell struck their barracks right now. they've been healed by the local medics who saw them off and they're hoping that he crating shelling all not happen again from want to call for have arti, than as people to public good of you to join us here for that edition of a weekly on arts he or the last leader of the soviet union,

mikhail gorbachev. he did passed away earlier this week at age 91. i'm any top politicians, moran, the world, expressed their condolences. so her naughty, we take a look back to his legacy on this edition of the weekly. ah, the funeral ceremony for the former soviet leader has a well, it took place in moscow this saturday. at the 91 year old passed away tuesday at moscow's at central hospital after a long illness. now, a host of political figures came to pay their respects, including the hungarian prime minister of victor, audubon, or the former russian president to meet you may be at f and a number of ambassadors from various e u countries. a hundreds of russians at lined the streets to say that goodbyes to

the last leader. the u. s. s. are in a ceremony that ultimate, he lost it more than 3 hours, looked to see what she knew i came because this is the last page of a play that has already been written. it is impossible to assess this period unambiguously. but it was very colorful indeed. we started as we talked, being called the on smiling at best. but when europe and asia, thanks to gorbachev, he was a very decent man. for me. he was diverse, where cd del the country study ones for bunch of wanted to do a lot that he failed. but i am grateful for him trying an ambiguous attitude towards gorbachev, but i've always liked him. as i get older, i understand how important his personality was for the development of the country. gorbachev did a lot. he laid the foundations with a free democratic russia, mikhail gorbachev. overhaul the soviet union's foreign policy by introducing that of the new political thinking doctrine. he called to see the world not as a single unity, not as

a separated communist and bunch of capitalist countries. he sold them as all united . he did implement the spread of social, political and economic reforms, including the complete democratization of soviet policies, intending to boost the economy. the soviet leader was well known for his role in the fall of the berlin wall in november, 1989. of course that led to the reunification of germany after being divided for nearly half a century ago to watch off was also responsible for a major nuclear disarmament breakthrough with america. when in december 1987, the soviet union of the us agreed to eliminate all of their land based intermediate range nuclear missiles. despite a number of controversies, gorbachev was still widely considered one of the brightest and most significant politicians of his time. and here at r t, we heard from a puzzle palace jenko who work closely with gorbachev as his chief english language interpreter. he says, the soviet leader was known for his ability to listen even to those with opposing

opinions. well, she is a very authentic person. the way she looked and acted publicly was exactly the way she was. there was no difference between the public persona and the individual that i was really close to, i must say for so many years she was open, she was warm, she knew how to talk to people. she understood dignity, as you always respected people with different views. and she was always ready to listen to listen to people who were sometimes very different from both ideologically in other ways, but at the same time preserved his own authenticity, his conviction,

his views. and i said, in addition to that, of course, it's his personal rule and choose being snow. authentic or who is use an estimated $70000.00 people hit the streets of prague to express outrage over surging price inflation and the demand that of the resignation of the check government. amassing the cities under the protesters condemned the government support for anti russia sanctions that have caused energy costs to go through the we have a look at these pictures. demonstrate is also carried signs announcing the check republics membership in the e. u, a nato. the rally came a day after the government survived and no confidence vote over its handling of the energy crisis. as the countries struggles with its worst inflation in 3 decades. and a prime minister,

whose cabinet has among europe's most vocal supporters of key government, reflected the criticism, claiming the mass protest was actually organized by pro russian sympathizers. influenced by the kremlin, a political scientist, a stuff on guy, it says the you should expect more protest like this one. a rough thing throughout the blog, in the very near future authorities are, are creating some kind of conspiracy theory. narrative russian again a powerful are in check republic, a 100000 people on the sheets. 2 of course, i believe that this will only enraged people and that brought us are only likely to be more or less. you became a hijacked by natal. i may need those interests and interest washington to london,

where as european countries are suffering and they are paying a high price, this is only agreed to storm, which will cover all face of european union, this whole insecurity, unemployment, so et cetera, will create a society to pakistan, now we're over 30000000 people have been impacted by floods. the death toll as we understand is nearly $1300.00 is i'm about has put out world wide coals for humanitarian assistance as devastating monsoon range that started in mid june. put a 3rd of the entire country under water. the pakistani army has constructed a 147 relief, come to provide help for those displaced and to treat the wounded. a number of countries have pledged assistance including turkey, the u. e and china. the cost of the damage caused by the deluge. estimated right

now though it's 30 days to be $10000000000.00. one local journalists sent us this report from one of the most severely damaged areas. typical finds that you had the most of the continuing rains, which lasted from $5.00 to $6.00 days off. the level of the swan river rose to height as of several small flooded rainwater drains, emptying into the main river. in any minutes, the rising water level in the swamp rivers smashed into taurus hotels and houses on both banks. the destruction due to the floods in this area is beyond comprehension . the sailor village them and is done with our business is gone. now we need some protective measures and we must be re settled far away from the river banks because it's a flood. we were not informed by the administration about the possible de la shortage . and now we have lost everything because of the negligence of the authority. like a love for them, the dead looks on of the flood has destroyed a lot. many people have been deprived of their property to king many hotels parking lots vehicles all washed away alone in these america. johnny said that he got about,

according to the statistics provided by local authorities, 17 people were killed while molden seemed to harry tales. and over 200 residential units were swept away both. okay, around 40 schools in different areas, the completely destroyed what the food bridges swept away, different parts of the district, resulting in transport, disruptions in the area. okay. communication networks don't work. so thousands of locals and tourists as stranded in the mountain areas that the red food shortages, the edge to the destruction of roads, bridges, and civilians are facing a difficult situation. now, serbia is caught in the middle of a proxy war between eastern and western powers. that's according to the balkan republics president, alexander of butch, who says his country is trying to walk a fine line between making inroads with the e e. u and maintaining its traditional trade ties with moscow. there is literally a proxy war between the great powers east and west happening in serbia through political actors, through the non governmental sector,

through the media and various social groups. you can see it on the streets every day in every sense. we are trying to survive with as few wounds and scars as possible. who church expressed doubts of the e. you would actually grant membership to serbia as his country refuses to succumb to prussia to recognize cause of o's, an independent state. he added that while belgrade has also rejected western sanctions against moscow, the restrictions have nevertheless taken a toll on soap is economy by cutting off russian oil supplies. last week, the u. s. state department's point man on european affairs, gabrielle escobar, said his time for bell grey to forget the narrative that calls of i was a part of serbia over now to a local reporter at nicola, your which he explains angles to this controversy, a constant instability in costa when they talk, yeah, which is an integral part of serbia according to resolution 1244 of un security council. but it has no effective control on over it for over 20 years due to

presence of international trip there. and especially due to natal baseball mon fill, which is a located near a wash of us. due to this, it is expected that nato will try in the following days to open up a new proxy war in serbia to diverge the attention from it's inevitable loss in ukraine. since the project of special proxy war in ukraine has failed. as we see now, due to the new failure for canyon offensive in the south and their incompetence to take over caps on and some other housing areas and proportional to crimea. now the western planners are diverging their attention to when he was on conflict. and unfortunately for sort of as many times in history surveys again on the cross roads between the interests of great powers and it's not just holler regarding costello, we had them last week to call the euro pride in

september, which is a case where by a special methods they are trying to impose. instability within serbia. serbs have gone out to the street 2nd time in 2 weeks. and there's been a massive protest or as sort of quality t. r. in belgrade, on 28th of august, on sunday, with tens of thousands of people in belgrade with the cross says we'd, serbian flags and russian flags. we'd icons with their christian motives and they were protesting. good. that's only because of announced your pride, but against l. g. b t propaganda and their influence on our education on exclusions and on every a scale of public life within one country. and it is waged by the west. they are trying to push serbia into the anti russian wagon to impose sanctions in russia and

to be on the anti russian side that completely until that happens. so be, i will be under the influence and there there would be a measures against serbs and serbia in that way, according to us, russia hasn't imposed any requests on serbia. he's his justice said thanks many times for official belgrade, for not imposing sanctions and not siding on the account. the russian side, the scenes, the beginning of special military operation due to the 1st of september coming there are a larger escalation coming here in cost without any doubt that we will continue to follow situations from the 3 for the rest of the day from coming through so my name is nick was don't waste energy. that's the swiss government's plea as it launches a voluntary energy saving campaign, amid potential shortages. however, some politicians are fighting back launching a petition to keep open nuclear power plants that are set to beat decommissioned.

that's what's really decided 5 years ago to shut down all of its nuclear reactors following the meltdown at japan's fukushima. however, thus far has succeeded in closing only one of the full power stations. now, some politicians have formed a group called stop blackouts. they're looking to gather a $100000.00 plus signatures to ensure the remaining nuclear plants continue to operate. this comes off to the swiss government last month, told it citizens to stock pile firewood, candles, and food. meanwhile, in france, the country's media analysis, the notion of carbon cards as a way to control energy consumption in the context of the controversial carbon neutrality, push the card as a system of ratio quote, his name's limits, c o 2 emissions. and for those whose consumption exceeds the allocated limits that the prospect of buying energy credits from people who have unused quotas providing

in theory, an escape from strict limitations. now as europe tries to store up on energy reserves ahead of windsor while refusing and sanctioning russian fuel at the very same time, my colleague unit o'neill, earlier i saw guests how that's going to work. you see, it seems to me that we are her leaving the consequences of a policy with just initiating the german gains, but it is a land which is to get paid of nuclear energy. and of course then the automatically, well, depending on gas and oil and also on school, i don't believe so much and nuclear energy. i think the energy energy crisis could be overcome very easily. stopping the sanctions open. all stream to which you know is in by the german government. and then in germany it would have no problems with energy. the sanctions are not working down. that's something that will not this

thing that actually can, i mean this point, i mean, and therefore we should just of them, but it's impossible to love them because it would mean that the european union need to, and cetera have to admit that they made a mistake and they made a mistake in the school. they made a mistake before the war refused to talk to the russian, refused to come to the other things going on. and we are being the price of all those mistakes. everyone who is really trying to discuss what's going on and making proposals which could work up a. ready or something, there's no real a way of discussing the matter in them or martin. then on the overall situation, you'll be well aware that people across europe, small business owners, for instance, it bigger businesses to are opening their bills in the morning. and just being shocked by the size of what they have to pay will energy conservation measures such

as cap, sun room and water heaters, rationing even plan blackouts, head off shortages? are they the answer for small, small craftsmen or small communities for individual households? it's not possible to overcome this energy crisis, because then anyway, not the main use of the energy industry as we go on, like the industry will call ups, as well as a self inflicted crisis. here in germany where the government doesn't take the interest off in the population, but the interest of some trans atlantic our in europe and the us government, the family, this is them of these people. just the tell you just want it. this is, and i just don't believe it or book a i felt in germany which again and now she said that for several years you're going to start paying by finishing her. she says that the demo station there's to

them germans won't be happy, but they'll priorities to k. she's elected in germany. they german, thanks. i mean, i mean, he's a doctor, absolutely appreciate you joining us here for the tradition of the weekly on arthur international. what a week it has been. any stories you want to catch up on just check out our t dot com also a telegram odyssey gab, we're all across social media platforms for the meantime, your weekly returns the top of the out with the sanctions package. russian flags vessels from entering you port belgium bo gary lithuania, romania in italy, where the announce that there would be close to russian ships for with this talk of rerouting oil and gas export to asia and stuff. but i,

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