ah ah, in the top stories of the week, carolyn onto international fighting, intensifies near the russian hill orgy power plant in south east in ukraine despite the un nuclear safety watchdog b i. e, a. visiting that site, crashes military sided repelled at several ukrainian attempts to stole the atomic facility in recent days. these as all regiment captives are now making their way back to the prison. the one that was sheltered by their comrades. i'll speak to captive as off, but callian soldiers,

who in july, survived the shedding of their detention facility in the village of yoga by their own ukrainian troops. phoenician muse if there was an exchange of prisoners, if there was a chance for me to terminate my contract as a service man, i was terminated with the final leader of the soviet union that mikhail gorbachev died this week. page 91 in moscow, central hospital offer a prolonged illness thrown off international. we'll be looking back through his historic legacy during this edition. not the weekly and more than 70000 angry people take to the street to prague protesting, storing energy prices and slamming the government for failing to tackle sky rocketing inflation with

the choosing your favorites right now, running down the week's top story. welcome to the weekly authority international. so this week has certainly seen fighting escalating right around in europe's largest nuclear power plant. it's in southeast, in ukraine, as key as force has made several attempts to recapture the russian held up. she power plot, they were ultimately repelled. that's according to reports by the russia ministry of defense. rushes military has said that more than 300 ukrainian soldiers were seen. crossing the d n. f, a river and dozens of boats relatively near that of the embattled nuclear plant. russian forces eliminated about half of those vessels. the remainder, i believe, should have been aborted during the mission. a local authorities, also se ukrainian forces shelled the plans territory from across the river on saturday. damaging the last remaining power lines from the facility to ukrainian controlled territory. the crew operating the plant says nuclear reactors remain

working in proper normal condition. now it's all in the visit to those apples. you're planned by the humans, nuclear watchdog, the international atomic energy agency. the team has inspected the facility with some of the experts remaining on location with plans to stay there indefinitely. un has meantime, acknowledged russia's commitment to ensuring security of its officials with the russian defense minister today stated that the ukrainian group of sub source 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, the inspectors safe. meanwhile, russia has requested a meeting of the un security council. so the world powers will have to hear the conclusions of the i. a mission. are correspondent in the region is eager to dine off. he was among the very 1st journalists to be at the nuclear plant in time for

the un teams visit. he 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 raska 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 both. you can see him who can right

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 u, a v, 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 gripping 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 ruskin nuclear power plant. in phoebe downward, 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 you look rational and it is making basically the work of the whole facility, very difficult. elsewhere on the front line, moscow's defense ministry has released pictures of ukrainian armored vehicles that were destroyed after they attempted to encroach on russian positions of russia's military. also associates destroyed more than 50 ukrainian artillery units, as well as a 6 ammunition storage facilities in just the past 24 hours. but as we understand, there would be no substantial troop advances reported by either side over the past day. me in time that i, that's republic survivors of a deadly attack a couple of months ago by key ebs forces in a detention camp for captured members of the ukraine's extremist as our battalion. and now being returned to prison. the attack in july left more than 50 people dead

and wounded many more. the surviving ass off soldiers were treated for their injuries and a hospital in don yet. and our correspondent roman quarter of interviewed some of them. we do need to say as an all such cases involving prisoners, it's possible they were speaking under duress. after having spoken with the captive resolve regiments are 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 again, i'm never again. or i'm not ready to answer yet for i student fees and i, i don't belong to myself, so i can not right now and 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. i need to rest. so 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. denise, some you see if there was an exchange of prisoners, if there was a chance for me to terminate my contract as a service man, or i will terminate it. most of all, i feel sorry for the children that other civilians who aren't involved in the conflict but are still harmed by it. their annual product. yeah, and, 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 exhaust her was so hard for them to endure that so many years is just not ready to keep these as of 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 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 as people who are like the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev died early. this week of the age of 91, a many top politicians mar, round the world, expressed their condolences and here on our team, we take a look through his legacy on this edition of the weekly ah

the funeral ceremony for the former. so a good leader mikhail gorbachev took place in moscow this saturday for the 91 year old passed away tuesday in moscow's central hospital after a prolonged illness. a host of political figures came to pay their respects, including the hungarian prime minister of victor, audubon, the former russian president to meet you at vietnam and ambassadors my number of a eu countries. meantime, hundreds of russians lined the streets to say their farewells to the loss leader of the ussr in a ceremony that did last 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 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 the forfeiture of wanted to do a lot, but he failed. but i am grateful for him trying. i am big you assassin,

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. coach often a lot, he liked the foundations of a free democratic russia. good about of overhaul the soviet union's foreign policy by introducing that of the new political thinking doctrine called to see the world as a single unit, not separated by communist or capitalist countries. gorbachev implemented the spread of social, political, and economic reforms, including the complete democratization of soviet forces. soviet policies, i should say, intention was however, to boost the economy. the soviet leader was well known, of course for his role in the fall of the berlin wall that was the 9th of november in 1989. of course i did lead to the reunification of germany after being divided from 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 and the us agreed to eliminate all of their land based intermediate range nuclear missiles. despite what we're certainly a batch of controversies, gorbachev was still widely considered one of the brightest and most significant politicians of his time. and here at sea, we heard from pebble polish china who worked with gorbachev as his chief english language interpreter. he says the soviet later was well known for his ability to listen even to those with contrasting opinions. well, he 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 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 convictions, his views. and i said, in addition to that, of course, his personal was and twos being snow, authentic, or were all these years. india's 1st domestically built aircraft carrier, has off the 17 years of construction and testing, finally been commissioned. the ship has been named the ins, the current, which translates to courageous in sanskrit. our prime minister modi attended the

ceremony, noting india has now joined the ranks of countries with a no how and indigenous technology to build this key. navy asset prime minister believes the event has filled the country with new confidence fill. the planes on the carrier still have to go undergo additional flight travelers before the ship becomes fully operational. for a short time ago, i spoke with ben a go pull of the legal, a former indian naval officer, said the aircraft carrier is built as a parent and serves to ensure piece. ah, it does take on some time for us. oh, primarily because it's the 1st victim and it is completely indigenous from their design. do the what a goal i would say about setting up wasn't of the content i indigenous 20 play percent is you know, important of from our friendly foreign countries and moody and different false. i would not say that he's famous for war preposition, but having

a big not patio is as steadily as it and creates that better than value. and for us in the notion of peace and we like to maintain in the notion as the zoloft be that all day. so that is no kind of competition or, you know, geopolitical competition with any country. but b, r e is to protect audio, is that an automatic? then we got it, the best options and input and there's an estimated 70000. i angry people hit the streets of prague to express outrage of a surging price inflation and to demand the resignation of the check government amassing of the city center. the protest was condemned. the government support for unseat russia sanctions that, of course, energy costs to skyrocket. demonstrate has also carried signs denouncing the check republics membership in both the e u. an nato. the rally came

a day off to the government, survived, and no conference vote over its handling of the energy crisis was the country struggles with his worst price inflation in 3 decades. and the prime minister, whose cabinet is among europe's most vocal supporters of key ebs government, deflected the criticism, claiming this mass protest was organized by pro russian sympathize as influenced by the criminal. no political scientist, a stiff on diet, says the e. you should expect more. protest is one. a rough thing throughout the blog in the near future. authorities are, are creating some kind of conspiracy theory, narrative russian, again, a powerful, a check republic, a 100000 people to go on to see. of course, i believe that this will only raise people and that brought us are only

likely to be more or less. you became a hijacked by natal. i might need those interests and interest all washington to london, where as european countries are suffering and they are paying high price, this is only agreed before the storm, which will cover all face of european union, this whole insecurity, unemployment, so et cetera, will create a society to pakistan now, over 30000000 people have been badly affected by floods. the death toll reaching nearly 1300 as i'm about has put out world wide coals for humanitarian help as devastating monsoon range that originally started mid june of now. but a 3rd of the entire country underwater. the pakistani army has constructed relief comes to provide help for those displaced on to treat the wounded number of countries of pledge assistance, including turkey,

the u. e. and china. cost to all the damage caused by the deluge is estimated to be $10000000000.00 that's according to his mom about and one local journalists sent us this report from one of the most severely damaged areas. typical pine, such as the most of the continuing rains which lasted from $5.00 to $6.00 days off . the level of the swamp river rose to height because of several small flooded rainwater drains, emptying into the main river and only minutes the rising water level in this. what were the smashed into taurus, hotels, and houses on both banks? the destruction due to the floods in this area is beyond comprehension. the sale of those them and is done with 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 louis 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 i make a johnny said that he got about, according to the statistics provided by local authorities, 17 people were killed while more than 70 hotels. and over $200.00 residential units was swept away both around 40 schools in different areas, a completely destroyed fortune bridges has 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, the right food shortages, the edge you to the destruction of roads and bridges and civilians are facing a difficult situation. now. at least a 30 people reported killed more than $700.00 injured this during clashes and baghdad comes after a leading shia cleric, mac tata al sabah announced his retirement from politics and spoke on wretched and the nation's capital. ultimately, between government forces and demonstrators who stormed government offices in the

iraqi capital earlier this week. here's some footage from the streets. ah, i just a brief background for you, mac toyota. al sandra is the founder of the sawdust movement, iraq's leading shia political group. he became a symbol of resistance to the us led invasion in 2003 and helped to full militias to fight american troops. is also wanted by the u. s. government over his alleged role in the killing of a washington backed shia rifle in 2003 now in the way called the american invasion. the erotic cleric was a vocal critic of washington and particular of george bush. junior bush reportedly said that his picture will be hung in every iraqi house. no, sir, no. my dear, your picture is now under iraqi fi with the popularity the united states is

diminishing day by day, if not every 2nd. we reject the presence of li, american army, and even the bombings by the us forces we reject them. we want to view this as an act of occupation, or we spoke with a political and security analyst out from baghdad. who says that al saw that a has enormous support in iraq, but is more militant to follow as are the ones bringing chaos to the capital. he has amended amount of among his followers. and the last election be about a 160000 miles all together for his political part. so that basically is the base for his wow. that's in all iraq in baghdad is particular, he has a large supporters. but there is no issue with the problem with the malicious,

the ironically cool piece which is militia connected to mr. i sent back in vague history some wagner yesterday and we had very all day long nights holding my membership. i attacked many large government post and engine, people and even targeted civilians. 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 pushing back launching a petition to keep open nuclear power plants that are set to be commissioned, switzerland decided 5 years ago to shut down all of us nuclear reactors following the meltdown at japan's fukushima. however, thus far,

it's succeeded in only closing one of the full power stations sign. awesome. our politicians have formed a group called stop blackouts and are looking to gather a $100000.00 plus signatures to ensure the remaining nuclear ponds. bonds continue to operate. this comes off at the swiss government last month, told it citizens to stock pile firewood candles and food. meanwhile, in france, the country's media announced the notion of carbon cards as a way to control energy consumption. that's in the context of the controversial carbon neutrality push. the cards would work as a system of quotas. aims to limit c, o 2 emissions for those whose consumption exceeds the allocated limits that a prospect of buying energy credits from people who have unused quotas. providing in theory and escape from strict limitations. now as europe try to store up energy reserves ahead of the wind. so while refusing and sanctioning russian energy all at the same time, my colleague, you know, neil earlier asked our guests how it's all really 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 they automatically, well, depending on gas and oil and also on cool, 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 hindered 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 was not this thing. the actually can. i mean, this plain erica needs and therefore we should just plug 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 this war. they made a mistake before the war refused to talk to the russian. they refused to consider other means going to email. 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 out a propagandist or something, there's no real a way of discussing the matter in them all. 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 plant black cards, head off shortages? are they the answer for small, small craftsmen or small communities for individual households?

not possible to overcome this energy crisis, because then anyway, not the main use of the energy industry. other people are like that the industry will call ups, as well as a self inflicted crisis here in germany, where the government doesn't take the interest of the population. but the interest of some trans atlantic policy in europe and the us government, the family, this is i'm of these people, just the tell you just this is and i just don't believe it or book a showing that in germany was again and now she said that for several years, you're going to start to train by finishing her. she says that they did the most asian, there's truth and germans won't be happy, but they'll priorities to k. she's elected in germany. they german thing. i mean, i mean, he's an adult it up so the, i'm wrapping up this out addition of the weekly here are not international. thank

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