a joe biden imposing these sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy. so there's your boomerang itself. a top storage on the week here on our fi, international fighting intensifies near the russian, held up at all. she'd power plant that's in se in ukraine. that's why the u. s. nuclear safety watched all the i a e, a visiting site crushers military says it repel, but several ukrainian attempts to storm the nuclear facility in recent days. these as of regiment captives are now making their way back to you. then the prism, the one that was shelled by their comrades to speak the captive off,

but tally and soldiers who in july to via the shedding of their detention facility in the village of yell enough, good bye ukrainian troops news from you see 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. and the final leader of the soviet union that mikhail gorbachev died this week, asia 91 in moscow. central hospital after a long illness. here with our team will be looking through his historical legacy during this edition of the weekly and have a look at these pictures. at least $70000.00 people hitting the streets of prod, protesting soaring energy prices and slamming the government for failing to tackle sky rocketing inflation with as we run down the week's top stories on today's main headlines, it's a pleasure to have you us for this hours edition of the weekly on asi and to

national. so this week has certainly seen fighting escalate, right near europe's largest nuclear power plant, and se in ukraine, as key of force is made several attempts to recapture the russian held dep auto. she power plan, they were the repelled. that's according to reports by the russian ministry of defense. a russia's military has said that more than $300.00 ukrainian soldiers were observed crossing the juniper river and dozens of boats rather close to that of and battled nuclear plant. a russian forces eliminated about half of those vessels. the remainder are believed to have been aborted during the mission. local authorities, also se ukrainian forces shell, the problems territory from across the river on saturday. damaging the last remaining power lines from the facility to ukrainian control territory. the crew operating the plan says the nuclear reactors remain working and apparently in normal condition. now it's all amid the visit to the upper or reply by the un

nuclear watchdog, the international atomic energy agency, the t as inspected the facility with some of the experts remaining on location with plans to stay there indefinitely. or the un has acknowledged rushers commitment, though to ensuring security for its officials with the a 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 world powers will have to hear the conclusions of the i a mission. and all correspondent, the region, one of many is eager to don off. he was though, among the very 1st journalists to be at the nuclear plant, to report when the u. n. team's visit you around me is arguably the biggest nuclear

scare that the world has seen since the caribbean missile crisis between the soviet union and the united states. this is this up a raska nuclear power plant. you can see some of the react has 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 ruskin nuclear power plant. he's special mission with the international atomic energy agency on both. you can see him walking right beside the man in the 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 this few hours to put together a lot. a key things i needed to see i saw of your explanations were very clear 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. it 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 yet 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 dripping here because the shelling phase of them to have broken the pipes here and well, the personnel. they still haven't had time to fix them because well, the shelling hadn't stopped this place was where the 1st mortar shells landed and hailed down upon the rosco nuclear power plant, who from phoebe, down as 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,

it's not rational and it is making basically the work of the whole facility very difficult or elsewhere on the front line. rushes military says it has destroyed more than 50 ukrainian artillery unit as well as 6 ammo storage facilities. and just the past 24 hours that i have been, as we understand, no substantial troop advance is reported by either side over the past day. meantime in the don't ask republic survivors of a deadly attack a couple of months ago by key ebs forces on a detention cam for captured members of ukraine's extreme as to as off battalion and i'll be returned to prison. the attack in july left more than 50 people dead. many will wounded the surviving as elf soldiers were treated for their injuries. and a hospital in john yet. ah, he is correspondent, a roman cause a ref, interviewed some of them. and we do need to say, as in all such cases involving prisoners,

it's possible they were speaking under duress. after having spoken with a captive a zolphi regiment, the 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 want to be a soldier going on there or i'm not ready to answer yet for i student fees and i, i don't belong to myself. so i cannot. right now i'm not the 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. i need to rest. half a year ago. everyone was focusing on their careers. and now everyone 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 values from your see 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. 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. yeah, impact. i have a profound sense of empathy, even before this i understood that people don is going to ga squandered. there were tired of women to constant threat. there were motion exhausted, was so hard for them to endure that the so many years. nobody to carry these as off . regiments captives are now making their way back to your lenika prison. the one that was shelled by their comrades back in july, most of these people were injured when the ukraine is 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. room one call for have arti than s people to republic? ida temp are 7 in the morning here on a sunday in moscow. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev. he died earlier this week at the age of 91 and many top politicians from around the world, expressed their condolences and here were naughty. we take a look through his legacy on this edition of the weekly. ah, the funeral ceremony for the former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev has taken place . it was saturday here in moscow. the 91 year old passed away tuesday in moscow,

central hospital after a prolonged illness. now, a host of political figures came to pay their respects, including the hungarian prime minister of victor, audubon, a former russian president to meet you may have your death and ambassadors, my number of e u. countries. meantime, a hundreds of russians lined the streets to say their goodbyes to the lost leader of the u. s. s. are in a ceremony that lasted more than 3 hours to see the truth. 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, we talked being called the and smiling at best, that when europe and asia, thanks to gorbachev. he was a very decent man. for me. he was diverse wesley dale, the country i study when gorbachev wanted to do a lot, but he failed. but i am grateful for him trying. i am big. you assassinate you 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 nichol. gorbachev, overhaul the soviet union's foreign policy by introducing that of the new political thinking doctrine, he called to see the world as a single unit, not as a separated communist or set of capitalist countries. a gorbachev implemented the spread of social, political and economic reforms, including the complete democratization of soviet policies, intending to boost the economy. sophia leader was well known for his role, of course, in the fall of the bowden wall, november the 9th 1989. and that led to the reunification of germany after being divided for almost half a century ago. but y'all was also responsible for a major nuclear disarmament break through with america. when in december 1987, the soviet union and the u. s. agreed to eliminate all of their land based intermediate range nuclear missiles. now, despite what was certainly

a batch of controversies, gorbachev was still widely considered one of the brightest and most significant politicians of his time. in here at our tea, we spoke with pavel palace cheng co, who worked with gorbachev as his chief english language interpreter. he says the soviet leader was well 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. i 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, she preserved his own fault into his conviction, his views. and i said, in addition to that, of course, this is a personal move and two's being snow, authentic or were all these years and estimated 70000 people took to the streets of prague to express outrage of a surging price inflation and to demand the resignation of the check government, master of the city center. the protesters condemned the government support for anti russia sanctions that have ultimately caused energy costs just to go through the roof. and demonstrate has also carried signs announcing the czech republic

membership in both the e u and in nato. the rally came a day off, so the government survived the no confidence vote over its handling of the energy crisis. the country struggles with its worst price inflation in 3 decades. the prime minister, whose cabinet is among europe's most vocal supporters of government, the flesh, the criticism, claiming the mass protest was organized by pro russians sympathizes. influenced by the kremlin. we spoke with political scientists and stuff on guy, it says that you, you should expect more protests like this one erupt. thing throughout the block in the very near future. sorry, these are, are creating some kind of conspiracy theory narrative. i'll russian again the powerful check republic that is $100.00 people to go up on the street. 2 of course,

i believe that this will only enrage people and that brought us are only likely to be more right. you became hijacked by natal, natal interests and interest washington. i wonder where as european countries are suffering and they are paying high price for this is only a breeze before the storm, which will cover all face of european union. this falls in security unemployment will come at that trust will create social sanctions. society are shifting gears to pakistan. now we're over 30000000 people have been badly impacted by floods. death toll right now. it's approximately 1300 is i'm about has put out world wide coals for humanitarian help as devastating monsoon rains that started in mid june of not put an entire 3rd of the country under water packer. so

any army has constructed, many relief comes to provide help for those displaced and to treat the wounded. a number of countries have pledged help including turkey, the u. s. e and china. cost of the damage caused by the deluge is estimated to be about $10000000000.00 that's according to his mom. about meantime, a local journalist sent us the following report from one of the most severely damaged areas. deborah uncle pine said she had the mustard, the continuing rains, which lasted from $5.00 to $6.00 days off. the level of the swamp 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 where the smashed into taurus hotels, and houses on both banks, the destruction due to the floods in this area is beyond comprehension. the villa village them and is adamant that our business is gone. now we need some protective measures and we must be resettled far away from the river banks because of the 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 of their love for the dead looks on of the flood has destroyed a lot. many people have been deprived of their property, the king, many hotels parking lots vehicles all washed away in these america. johnny said that he got about, according to the statistics provided by local authorities, 17 people were killed while more than 70 hurried sales. and over 200 residential units were swept away both okay, around 40 schools in different areas and completely destroyed what the food and 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 right food shortages, the edge you to the destruction of roads, bridges, and civilians are facing a difficult situation. now at least 30 people reportedly killed more than 700 injured during clashes in baghdad. it all comes after leading shia

cleric mac tada al sabah announced his retirement from politics, spoke enormous unrest in the nation's capital. this was between government forces and demonstrators who stormed government offices in baghdad. earlier his footage from the streets. ah, now a brief background for you mac title saw that is the founder of the soldiers movement . that's a rocks leading shia political group. he became a symbol of resistance to the us that invasion in 2003 and helpful militias to fight american troops. he's also wanted by the u. s. government over his alleged are old and the killing of a washington backed shia rival back in 2003. now in the wake of the american invasion on ultimate occupation, the iraqi cleric was

a vocal critic of washington and george bush, junior, in particular, bush reportedly said that his picture will be hung in every iraqi house. no, sir, no. my dear, your picture is now under iraqi. feel the popularity the united states is diminishing day by day. if not every 2nd. we reject the presence of the american army and even the bombings by the us forces we reject them. we want to view this as an act of occupation. we spoke with a political highlander security analyst from baghdad, who says outside that it has enormous support in iraq. but his more militant followers are the ones bringing chaos to parts of the country. he has so mendez, amount of among his followers and the last elections, he agreed about a $160000.00 votes altogether for his political part. so that basically is the base for his that's all iraq

in baghdad is particular. he has a number. what is large number supporters, but that there is no issue with the supporters. the problem with the malicious, the ironically called the school, which is the militia connected to mr. i sent that invaded history. so wagner yesterday, and we had a very hard day and long nights on moving my membership attack to many enlarged government post. and in general, lots of people had even targeted civilians. serbia is caught in the middle of a proxy war between eastern and western powers. that is, according to the balkan republics president alexander, to vote church who says his country is trying to walk

a fine line between making inroads with the e. u and maintaining his 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. future ch, expressed doubts of the e e. e. e would actually grant membership to serbia as, as country refuses to succumb to pressure to recognize cause of i was an independent state. he out of it while a bell great has also rejected western sanctions against moscow. the restrictions have nevertheless taken a toll on soviet 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 o as a part of serbia. a message was slammed by belgrade and local reporter nichol. i jo,

which explains angles to this controversy, to be a constant instability in cost of i method here which is an integral part of serbia according to resolution $124.00 to $4.00 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, basil which is a located near or some of it is expected that an 8th will try to open up a new proxy war in serbia through diverge the attention from ukraine as many times in history surveys again on the cross roads between the interests of great powers, and it's not just only regarding quote, so they're trying to push serbia into the anti russian wagon to impose the sanctions in russia and to be on the anti russian side. that completely thrush hasn't imposed any requests on serbia. he's his us fed thanks many times

for official belgrade, for not imposing sanctions, and not citing on the counter offer inside the scenes, the beginning of special military operations. thousands of odds and tinian have been marching in one. i thought i was in solidarity with vice president christina, to cut off for a gunman, apparently tried to assassinate her on thursday night, a leading politicians moran, the world condemned. the alleged to talk on the coach, not the south american countries, former president. she is also struggling with the ross of corruption charges that could ultimately land her behind bars. a supporters have denounced all the allegations as politically motivated. that's as often tina has been gripped in the recent years by extreme political polarization and a crippled economy off the spanish correspondent ignacio who b as the story when a be as, as that a city is getting cold and when a series but tensions at the plaza de mayo are hot, as people continue to gather,

demonstrating the unity of people and their support of christina kirschner. it must be said that a large rally was already expected in support of kirshner because of the court case in which he was accused of corruption. the case has seen internal political conflict intensify an incitement of hate against the former head of the country. unfortunately, this turned into an assassination attempt. let's hear what the people in the streets are saying about the incident. no way they need it. i came to show support for christina after all that's been done to her for years, christine is the embodiment of love, love for the nation. yesterday's attack is too much and every one has come here to support her. is that since, as you are there, in fact, it seems to me that i have been targeted, that it's not only a blow to her, my, to all the people, a blow to democracy will not back a number of politicians have already been able to visit kirschner for example, the governor of the province of buenos aires alex kissell off a man very close to christina kirshner. he said she was doing very well despite

yesterday's events. but the governor also said that what happened was not just about one person and should be assessed in the context of hate speech that has long existed in argentina. the countries president alberto fernandez, called the situation very serious. it had endow what's happened was very serious, more serious than anything has happened since we returned to democracy a we're following the investigation closely. judge maria kappa. chatty, issued several search warrants for the residence of the brazilian man who attempted to take the life of the vice president. it should be stressed that present fernandez has asked the judge to ensure that nothing happens to the life of kirk enters attacker in order to establish the reasons for what happened and prevent a repetition of such events. a new details have emerged about the prime suspect in the attempted assassination. and as an image posted on line shows, he apparently has a black son tied to is an esoteric neo nazis symbol on his left elbow a previously,

an alleged mash shooter in the u. s. city of buffalo, new york featured a black sun symbol on a white supremacist manifesto that he believed to have written. he's accused of killing 10 african americans in that shooting. now a ukrainian military veteran e quarter. hello scott, who served in the notorious neo nazi as off italian was recently awarded by the pentagon. that the annual us hosted warrior games. the ass off battalion, a main fighting force in the war. tom don bass along had a logo featuring a german whoops, angle symbol used by nazi forces during world war 2. and this footage shows hello scott also had a black and sun tied to that he was awarded by the u. s. defense department for quote, inspiring his team with his personal example. we heard from finished journalist yano. so put conan who, splain, y repeated a neo nazi groups use the symbolism like this by doing

tattoo. they are trying to convince themselves that they are doing some right thing, you know, the moral global m. oh, how me use a crashes fighting people you want to people resistance. they are therefore 0 for a power for a national east ideas of waiting to find. oh gods with some kind of for do or but, but it's, it's a black power. it's a black mass. i have been, i just can tell you a good. i have been over 7 years here in dawn, but don't assume the people's republic and people's resistance. and i don't have any, any tattoos in me. i don't need any, any soon. bows to convince myself from doing the right thing. we are not a criminal us in people's defense. but those people who are, who are,

are dreaming to kill us all or put us to close and tracy camps, probably they need to sign to keep them strong in the, in the huge spiritual stress as a controversial story wrapping up at this hour. the addition of that open the weekly writing down the top stories of the week and of today, really appreciate your company here with us in moscow at r t international we are returning are the top of the blue. what we've got to do is identify the threads that we have crazy foundation. let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult. time. time to sit down and talk.

in spring 2022. europe began closing ports to russian vessels, one after another. the sanctions package bonds russian flag vessels from entering you. port belgium bo gary sweeney. a romania lee announced that there would be close to russian ships to russian vessels carrying, guess i'll call them and i ran or are not covered by a similar decision was taken by canada later by the united states. ah, siberia is a very young nuclear power ice breaker. finishing touches completed, she leaves the baltic shipyard and set sail for her new home.