[000:00:00;00] a human intellectually works well with the washer, with with special mission, with the international atomic energy agency. he's basically the way that he's being shown, the sort of extensive damage that's been dealt to the facility in the stories that shape the weak r t joins, experts from the un nuclear watchdog who inspect the zeros yeah. power plant with a facility coming under intensive attacks by ukrainian forces, according to local officials, a loss leader of the soviet union. mikhail gorbachev died this week at

the age of 191 of the central hospital after a prolonged examination is historic legacy ahead o at least 30 people were killed in clashes in bagdad on monday as arm protesters storm. the so called green zone, where government offices are located. the violence was sparked after a prominent shia cleric, i noticed his resignation from politics after months of stalemate and trying to for my new iraqi government and emails released by us. attorney general claim to show that by the administration, in a quote, incestuous relationship with big egg aimed upset with life for moscow. i mean

a real and you're welcome to the recap of the main news headlines from the past 7 days on today to this week. saw fighting escalate near europe largest nuclear power plant in south eastern ukraine. t. f forces made several attempts to recapture the russian held zappa rosier facility, but were repelled according to russia's defense ministry. the m o day said south, the latest attack by ukrainian troops was carried out with 8 drones that were dying by russian forces. local authorities also claim kids military, sheldon plans territory from across the napa river on saturday, damaging the last remaining power links lines linking the facility to the national grid. not the crew operating the plant say that the new killer reactors remain stable. that all came and then a visit to the plant by the u. n's, nuclear watchdog, the international atomic energy agency. the team house inspected the facility with

some of the experts remaining on location with plans to stay there indefinitely. the i. e. a chief admits the quote, physical integrity of the power plant has been violated. i think about the current situation over the embattled facility leaves much room for sensor. i will continue to be worried about the plan deal. we have a situation which is more stable, which is more predictable. it is obvious that that the plan and the physical integrity of the plan has been violated several times by chance, by, by deliberation. we don't have the elements to assess that, but this is a reality that we with that we have to week of nights. and this is something that cannot continue to happen. russia's military sat down on friday alone, more than $300.00 ukrainian soldiers were observed crossing their dinner river in dozens of boats close to the embattled nuclear plant. the m. o. d, caesar, and half of those vessels were, quote eliminated,

and the remainder aborted the mission. the local mirror claimed ukrainian forces were trying to prevent the arrival of the un, experts by all means possible to get in the senior, but surely don't leave any 1000000000 but some time now the ukrainian armed forces have been showing residential areas and the approach a nuclear power plant, the residence of our city, us get ukraine, seeks to disrupt the arrival of the i. e. a commission. that's why they detained the mission. at the check points, they tried to destabilize the situation and give false information to them that the russians are fighting on their own positions. this is a standard scheme by which the ukrainian media provide information. but we have evidence to show the a that the opposite is true. i hope the head of the mission, mr. grossi has enough understanding of the current issue. meanwhile, our t's eager itala was among the very 1st journalists of the nuclear power to

report on the visit by the u. n. t 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 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 very great here, 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 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. 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 racial and it is making basically the work of the whole facility, very difficult, engorged dana foul and made continuing attacks on the nuclear power plant down dead surroundings. the un acknowledge russia's commitment to ensuring the safety of the i. e. 18 at the side. russian defense minister today stated that the ukrainian group of serbo stores tried to capture the station in order to use the mission as a human shield. we are glad that the russian federation did what he needed to do to keep the keep our, the inspectors are safe a message which really didn't get into western headlines that it, while russia has not requested a meeting of the un security council. so that world powers are obliged to hear the

conclusions of a mission. independent worker responded, thomas refer believe the shelling purportedly by ukrainian forces shows kiev didn't want the un experts to see what was happening at the nuclear facility. the interesting thing is they shelled indigo dara. and the region in the morning when the, when the team didn't arrive, there's also looks like you have tried to stop this in the last minute, but it didn't work as soon as the team arrived at the place. at this point. there was no shelling any more reported. so we have to see how key if we have, they are not really rational. they are not military experts. so they don't have a clue about about weapons artillery and all this stuff. they are nuclear experts, so their job is to check whether the station the power plant is, is an order whether they are working well. whether there's danger from a technical side. that's why i'm not expecting very much information from them about the selling. because it's not that job and they don't have the ability for these, these nuclear experts,

not military experts. the last leader of the soviet union mikhail gorbachev died this week at the age of 91. then each are politicians from around the world express their condolences. here in our t, we've been taking a look at the legacy of the man who ended the core the the former soviet leader passed away on tuesday in moscow central hospital after a prolonged illness. his funeral took place in the russian capital yesterday. a host of political figures came to pay their respects, including the hungarian prime minister, victor, or bon former russian president. dimitri made bed of busters from a number of

e u countries. many russians also lined the streets to say their goodbyes in a sort of money that lasted more than 3 hours. when mike l. gorbachev. legacy, it's a multi faceted one. he overhauled the soviet union's foreign policy by introducing the new political thinking doctrine, which thought relations with the west and brought about the end of the closely cold war. let's go through that. gorbachev called for the world to be seen as united and interdependent. instead of divided into communist and capitalist countries, he saw the balance of interests of different nations as a way of solving international problems. universal values had to be recognised above all others, whether they be religious or national. the 1st and only soviet president also wanted to see the world free from all nuclear weapons by the start of the 21st century. well, at home z mikhail gorbachev implemented the spread of domestic social, political,

and economic reforms. the moves were hailed in the west, including by ronald reagan, but hastened a collapse, an industry and dire shortages of consumer goods in the soviet union. he is also blame by many and post soviet countries for the violent conflicts that erupted following the chaotic bri up of the ussr, the scars of which remained today, as well as expressing his condolences kremlin spokesperson. dmitri pess golf highlighted corbett shelves, rose colored expectations of trusting relations between russia and the west, which have no sour would use that it is good. we've actually sure to light mikhail gorbachev is a statesman who will forever remain in the history of our country. many argue about the role he played, but the fact that he was an extraordinary person, a unique person, is unequivocal. he is known, remembered and will be remembered all over the world. gorbachev gave impetus to the end of the world war, and he sincerely wanted to believe that that would end and there would be an

internal romantic period between the new soviet union and the collective wes, this romanticism was not justified in the romantic honeymoon century, did not walk out, i'm not a bloodthirsty nurse of our opponents showed itself on their way and that there were 2 of them close that we mentioned there did mc mikhail gorbachev full of the biggest figures of the previous and trees in many ways we heard from pavel polish jenko had worked closely with the soviet leader as his chief english language interpreter. he says mister gorbachev was known for his ability to listen, particularly for those with opposing opinions. well, she is a very authentic person. the way she looked, 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 preserved his own welcome to his to mention his views. and then i said, in addition to that, of course, it's a personal move and to be in snow percentage over all the years. no major international military drills kicked off this week and russia, the vos, doc,

2022 exercises involve armies from 14 countries with 50000 troops in attendance. r t. corresponding don quarters been watching the action. i'm here in the russian far east, near the city of laval, stock at one of 7, a huge staging areas for joint military exercises being organized by russia's ministry of defense. 50000 troops are participating here from 14 different countries with russia and china being the stars of the show. there's also thousands of pieces of military hardware. so let's get right to the fun stuff ah, life i'm, you're seeing an anti tank weapon being fired. and over here we've been hearing some artillery happening throughout the military exercises as well. you just heard that right now. flare being fired off.

ah, and there it goes. iraq, it flying right towards that flare? hm. western media outlets like their spiegel and the daily mail are reacting to these military drills as if the west's worst nightmare has come true that moscow and beijing have united against them. as despite the fact that western sanctions against russia and washington's provocative actions around taiwan are actually creating the situation where moscow and beijing have something to unite against. nevertheless, russia's deputy defense minister says that these drills are purely for defensive purposes and not aimed at any country in particular. now, russia's defense ministry has a lot of interesting plans for the coming days, like vladimir putin is going to be personally observing these exercises on september 6th. and we're also going to have the opportunity to observe the navel drills as well. so keep an eye out for that. here on our t international,

i'm donald quarter reporting from near vladivostok kept, let's bring you to germany know where clusters of erupt did between police and activists, protesting against continued weapon supplies to ukraine. some of the footage we have here at police disperse the demonstrators using pepper spray unbuttons in the city of castle on saturday, with germany being the 5th biggest arms expert in the world. hundreds took to the streets, the cold for the country to stole the production and delivery of weapons to being military support to keep. the demonstrators also tend to block the entrance to an audience factory. you can optic in violence in iraq. at least 30 people were killed and more than 700 injured this week during violin classes in baghdad. it came as a struggle for power in the country spilled on to the streets. rocky demonstrators

stormed the supposedly secret green zone, where government offices and embassies are located. ah, on some back run to the scenes political tensions between rivals she functions of paralyzed the formation of a new government for months. the announcement by the leading shia cleric looked out at al serra deer than he was quitting politics to. to this they may lead to anger from his supporters against security forces and rival she groupings also dear became a symbol of resistance to the u. s. they then patient in 2003 and helped form a militia to fight american troops. he's also wanted by the u. s. government over his alleged rule in the killing of

a washington back she arrival in the same year. well, in the wake of the american invasion and occupation, the iraqi cleric was a vocal critic of the u. s. and in particular, former president george w. bush 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 do this as an act of occupation while a political and security analyst from baghdad till this elsa deer has enormous supports vocal in iraq. but the kiosk being seen is done. he believes to small numbers of militant groups, loosely linked to the ferry. he has amended amount of among his followers. and the last election, he agreed about

a $160000.00 bows hold together for his political party. so that basically is the base for his wow. that's all iraq in baghdad to particular he has a large number of supporters, but that there is no issue with the support. the problem with the malicious, the ironically call the school, which is the militia connected to administer. i sent that, invaded the street to wagner. and we had a very hard day and long nights bombing by a ship attack that many launch government, post and engine, people had even targeted civilians. an incestuous

relationship. that's how to us attorney's general hub. describe the ties between the white house and big tech. the louisiana uh, missouri officials released the series of emails demonstrating what more than 40 employees of the current administration as well as some u. s. agencies have done to pressure social media platforms to censure content. we have already received a number of documents that clearly prove that the federal government has an incestuous relationship with social media companies and clearly coordinates to censor freedom of speech. the department of justice is cowering behind executive privilege and as refuse to turnover communications between the highest ranking biden administration officials and social media companies. they're referencing what they say are a series of documents. and now they're saying that these documents show conversations between top social media platforms and around 45 federal officials. specifically

when it comes to content loaner ration and those good old words of misinformation and dis, information that we have heard so much about lately. now specifically, when it comes to facebook, that's a big one that's mentioned here. and in one of the conversations at facebook, official actually talks about meetings directly with the white house. i know our teams met today to better understand the scope of what the white house expects from facebook on misinformation going forward. in our previous conversations, i've appreciated the way you and your team have approached our engagement, and we have worked hard to meet the moment. we've dedicated enormous time and resources to fighting this pandemic, and consider ourselves to be partners in fighting the same battle. now speaking of this information and there is then this conversation where he at another facebook official talks about reaching out to the cdc directly and asking for help with their policy. we have been talking about in addition to our weekly meetings, doing

a monthly misinform debunking meeting with maybe claim topics communicated a few days prior. so that the c d. c can bring and matching experts and chat casually for 30 minutes or so. yes, we would love to do that. now that line of conversation am curious, just gone both ways. here. there are also emails that were sent by the white house cove in 19 response team, in which they were reaching out to facebook actually asked in them to take down an instagram parity account of doctor anthony fancy. facebook's response was to say, yep, on it. so there was no push back there when we had that back and forth between those 2. when it came to content, moderation was extraordinary. really, isn't it a comes right after confirmation by meta c o. mark zuckerberg, that the f b. i interfered in the 2020 presidential election by pressuring his company to center ledge, russian misinformation and the hunter biden laptop story to. that's right. you may remember back in october 2020 facebook and twitter took really unprecedented and

moves to censor this story about hunter biden's lock top. that was published by the new york post. now facebook didn't go quite as far as twitter did. however, a mark sucker bird did speak out about that this week. he admitted that the f b i reached out to him. now it's interesting here is he said that the f b, i was warning him to be prepared for some sort of quote unquote, russian disinformation that facebook needed to be on high alert. and so he said that their decision to censor that story was part of them being on high alert. however, does, of course raise the question of how often this happens. how many times has that by an administration reached out to those social media tech giants and asked them to make certain decisions and how often have they complied as these emails appear to show them? in some cases they were even asking for more and more direction. do the revelations come as a surprise at all? well, with this administration, they become almost more and more expected,

especially when you have someone like president biden, who gave a speech earlier in which you referred to republicans as extremists. there's a lot of building concern about what his administration has done and what it's continuing to do when it comes to those members of the public that they don't agree with. and it's even drawing some comparisons to a police state like this one. take a list. so that laptop was not censored because it was propaganda. whatever that means, it was censored because it might hurt joe biden. that is a definition of police state behavior. so certainly a lot of daycare and a lot of concerns, especially as we get closer and closer to about mid term election with top social media jones like facebook and twitter already saying that they plan to act against when they see as misinformation. rachel blevins taking me through that. no, russia has slum washington over american claims that moscow i'm basing haven't been doing enough to fund the restoration of afghanistan, moscow's,

and buster to the u. n. c. that since the u. s. quote, essentially destroy the gun less than they should be, the ones paying for it. soon as the cynicism of our statements is simply staggering, we are being asked to pay for the restoration of accounts. re who is economy was essentially destroyed by 20 years of un and nato occupation instead of admitting their mistakes and trying to correct them. they are criticizing us for not wanting to play other people's bills from us ambassador to the un linda thomas greenfield suggests that russia should pay for the damages caused by the 20 year u. s. military occupation of afghanistan. the remark came as a war torn asian country as ref, by what looks like a wide spread farm. and washington presently refuses to release billions of dollars of africa and state assets. but the u. s. a risk cease from them. the brutal legacy

of america longest war can still be felt in and going to spend one year, one full year after the u. s. military withdraw of the u. n. has reported about the vast extent of the destruction of the nation according to the un. so 95 percent of the population does not have access to sufficient food that's here know from political commenter alley risky, says the u. s. has cynically started another blaine game. this is a bit strange and trying to get all a party involved war. the united states as a one which takes one which bears the greater extent of responsibility. but to we are used to these statements, you know, the united states on more than one occasion. ah, it's officials do make such cynical you know, such ironic statements. and so, you know, it's basically the world we live in today. but because of the error have great

color competition. we know that to one. so there was a period where boy, the united states was the soul. really poll only power in the world. now this is changing, this is shifting. so i think you're going to see more and more of this blame blame game being played as we move more and more to grid, our competition where the us is encountering rivals in a manner wish didn't occur in the recent past. rivals like china, russia and others, asking next to benefits from efforts, dined the centuries to portray russia as in a rational on dangerous nation. our documentary team lays out the evidence and that she decide, stay close. it's right ahead. ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even

foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic, development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk. oh russia is the gross? no, if injured much about it, we have any quality for russians. we have actual racism, bigotry, against russians. it's now dangerous to be russian in europe. so i work with as possible. if a nation suddenly be disliked all was the hotel it he always there and only

now come to the for the most full, we're showing the most form for so for the is router will be a new one. hasn't been seen before. in their perspective, a given the from the last i need to put in for some unit, the studies before the door i knew that i knew was to get you started. ok. you know people not daniels though. it was things up door could go with that here because that's a theme is usually when he got a question with conservative. i mean it was due to me, delusions wellborn. i wish you, all we gotta do is get him over the head and just tell him the right way to live near is going to do it with. hopefully i will let you know more just to be. i can play