[000:00:00;00] with obama protective own existence, with a special mission, with international atomic energy agency, he's basically being played and he's being shown the sort of extensive damage that's been dealt to the facility in the story that shape the weight, the car t join the experts from the un nuclear watchdog who've been inspecting the bottle zappa roads. you have power plant with the facility coming under intensive attacked by ukrainian forces, according to local officials. the law leader of the soviet union mikhail

gorbachev, died this week at the age of 191 central hospital after a prolonged, in the examining his historic legacy. a deadly themes in our rank. on monday with at least 30 people killed in clashes in bagdad as arm protesters storm, the so called green zone, where government offices on foreign embassies are located. email is released by u. s. attorneys general claim to show the biden administration in a quote, incestuous relationship with big tech ames censuring a life for moscow. i mean a lot. you're welcome to the recap of the main use headlines from the past 7 days

today to this week. saw fighting escalate near europe largest nuclear power plant in south eastern ukraine. kiev forces made several attempts to recapture the russian held zappa rosier facility, but were repelled according to russia's defense ministry. the m o. d. c is the latest the time by ukrainian troops was carried out with 8 drones that were done by russian forces. local authorities also claim key military shell, the plums territory, from across that the net river on saturday damaging the last remaining power lines which links the facility to the national grid. the crew operating the plan, say the nuclear reactors remain stable with them all k, i made a visit to the plant by the us nuclear watchdog, the international atomic energy agency. the team has inspected the facility with some of the experts remaining on site plans to stay there indefinitely. the

a chief admits the quote, physical integrity of the power plan house being violated. the current situation leaves much room for concert. i will continue to be worried about the plan dealer. we have a situation which is more stable, which is more predictable. it is obvious that that the plant 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, that we have to recognize something that cannot continue to happen. or russia's military said that on friday alone, more than $300.00 ukrainian soldiers were observed crossing the juniper river in dozens of boats close to the embattled nuclear plant. the m. o. d, caesar, and half of those vessels were cooled, eliminated with the remaining boots, retreating to local mer,

claimed ukrainian forces were trying to prevent the arrival of those un experts by all means possible in this union, but surely done living better in some time. now the ukrainian armed forces have been showing residential areas and also nuclear power plant, the residents about city. let's get grain seek to disrupt the arrival of the a commission. that's why they detain the mission of the checkpoints. they try to be stabilize the situation and give false information to them. the russians are firing 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. rtp, great shit down the 4th, among the very 1st journalists something nuclear plant to report on the visit by the u. n. t 5. this report, 4th, 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 and 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 a 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 shall have your explanation for basically i right here. next to me, you can see an, a u, a v, basically a comma 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 says 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 thing, 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 rosco nuclear power plant, who can phoebe down and 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 racial and it is making basically the work of the whole facility very difficult. well, it made continuing attacks on the nuclear power plant as e girl was going through and its surroundings as well. the un acknowledge rushes commitment to ensuring the safety of the i. e. 18 at the side. russian defense minister today stated that the ukrainian group of sebo 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 or russia has not requested a meeting of the un security sancho so that the world powers are obliged to hear the conclusions of the i. e, a mission independent war correspondent thomas per believes, the shelling purportedly by ukrainian forces shows that key 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, this 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 anymore 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 really 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 their job and they don't have the ability for these, these nuclear experts, not military expert. the last leader of the soviet union mcdaniel

gorbachev died this week at the age of 91 many top politicians from around the world express their condolences here on rti. we've been taking a look at the legacy of the man who entered the cold war. 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 saturday. and the host of political figures tend to pay their respects, including the hungarian prime minister, victor, or bun, or russian president, dmitri mac, get the busters from a number of the russians, also lined the streets to say their goodbyes. and the ceremony that lasted more

than 3 hours mikhail gorbachev. legacy is a multifaceted one. he overhaul the soviet union. foreign policy by introducing the new political thinking doctrine, which thought relations with the west and brought about the end of the costly cold war. gorbachev call for the world to be seen as united, an interdependent, instead of divided into communists and capitalist countries. he saw the balance of interest of different nations as a way of solving international problems. universal values ought to be recognised above all others, whether they be religious or national. and the 1st and only soviet president also wanted to see the world free from all nuclear weapons by the start of the 21st century of domestically mikhail gorbachev implemented the spread of social, political and economic reforms in moves were hailed in the west, including by his american counterpart, ronald reagan, but hastened the collapse and industry and dire shortages of consumer goods. at

home is also plain by many and post soviet countries for the violent conflicts that erupted following the chaotic break up of the ussr scars which remain to this very day. and as well as expressing his condolences kremlin spokesperson to make repair scoff, said gorbachev was naive and expecting the country sacrifices to lead to a more equitable western approach to russia. if need be 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 leave 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 that the romantic honeymoon century did not what account. i'm not a bloodthirsty dennis of our opponents showed itself with marina. that which though,

impress colon marine, while all that we've been going through, there are maids mikhail gorbachev. one of the biggest figures of the previous century. we heard from pablo palace jenko, who worked closely with the soviet leader as his chief english language interpreter . he says mister gorbachev was known for his ability to listen particularly to those with opposing 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. 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 walk into the system which and his views. and then i said, in addition to that, of course it's a personal move and to be it's no authentic or we're all these years. okay, let's take you to germany know where plush is cover up there between police and activists, protesting against continued weapon supplies to train police dispersed demonstrators using pepper spray on buttons in the city of cosell. i was insulted day with germany being the 5th biggest arms expert in the world. hundreds of people call it for the country to stop production and delivery of weapons,

including military support to kid that was rallying, also attempted to block the entrance to an arms factory. and uptake in violence in iraq again, at least 30 people were killed and more than 700 injured this week during the violent classes in baghdad. with a struggle for political power spilling onto the streets. demonstrators, storm they supposedly secure green zone or government offices and embassies are located. the political attentions between rival, she factions, have paralyzed. the formation of a new government from once less than by leading cleric looked dear that he was quitting politics due to this. they made a younger,

from his supporters against security forces. on the other she groupings on elsa dia, himself, he became a symbol of resistance to the us led invasion in 2003 and the help for militia to fight american troops. he's also wanted dead or alive by the u. s. government over his alleged rule in the killing of a washington back sheer rival in the same year. but in the wake of the american invasion and occupation looked at alpha deer was a vocal critic of the us. and in particular from our president george w bush. bush reportedly said that his picture will be hung in every iraqi house. no, no, my dear, your picture is now under iraqi. the popularity the united states is diminishing day by day if not every 2nd. we reject the presence of the american army or even the coming by the us forces we reject them. we do this as an act

of occupation. well, they political, unsecured, analysts from baghdad told us all said, dear has enormous supports in the country. but the chaos being seen this done to extreme the script loosely linked to the he has some men, this amount of, among his followers. and the last elections, he agreed about a 160000 votes altogether for his political party. so that basically is the base for his balance, and 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. is the problem with the malicious dia, ironically call these coal, which is the militia connected to. and mr. i sent that

and made this 3. so wagner and we had a very hard day and long nights on bombing by the initial attack to many launch, government posts and engine people had even targeted civilians. major international military drills kicked off this week in russia. the ball stock 2022 exercises to involve armies from 14 countries with some 50000 troops in attendance. r t correspondent don quarter. he flew over to watch the i'm here in the russian far east, near the city of la vall, 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

with right behind me, 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, ah, and there it goes. iraq, it flying right towards that flare? 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. an incestuous relationship that's out to us attorneys general have described bit ties between the white house and big tech. the louisiana on missouri officials released a series of emails demonstrating what's more than 40 employees of the current administration as well as some u. s. agencies have dawn to precious social media platforms, the sensor 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 this document 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 as 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 dis 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 and peers 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 them to take down an instagram parity account. doctor anthony felt she 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 comes right after confirmation by matches 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 moved to sensor this story about hunter biden's lock top. that was published by the new york post office of didn't go quite as far as twitter did. however, mark dr. burger did speak out about that this week he admitted the f b. i reached out to him. now what'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 she 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 the, by ministration 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 directions. 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 by then 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 sensors because it was propaganda. whatever that means, it was censored because it might hurt joe biden. that is the definition of police state behavior. so certainly a lot of state care and a lot of concerns, especially as we get closer and closer to that mid term election with top social media dance like facebook and twitter already saying that they plan to act against when they see as misinformation an enemy of the state, that's how jo biden's been branded by former us president donald trump, who's hit back at the current american leaders, had talkin him and his supporters. he's an enemy to say you want to know that the enemy of the state is him and the group that control him would use, circling around him. do this, do that. you're going to do this, joe, right? it's unsettling. but on surprising to see so many liberals get on board with biden's vilification and marginalization of half the country,

this must be what germans experienced in the 19th thirty's. bad news. evil has declared itself good news. there is no moral ambiguity is clear now if it wasn't before that america is occupied by a nazi regime watch the moment cnn slowly adjusts the camera settings when the blood red lighting behind dark. brandon is looking a little too authoritarian boast. persuasion america. the regime has dropped its mask completely well on thursday nights in a prime time speech, president biden blasted donald trump and had particular ire for his pseudonym miger or mick america. great. again, supporters claiming that they are a threat to american democracy too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal. i will not stand by and watch. i will not the will the american people

be overturned by wild conspiracy theories. we told ourselves that american democracy is guaranteed, but it's not. we have to defend it. magar republic is looked at american c, current agent, darkness, and despair. they spread fair and lies. the u. s. leader emphasized that so called a election deniers undermine democracy as they refused to recognize the will of the people. though you may remember back in 2016 after donald trump's victory himself many top democrats were similarly voicing their own discontent with the presidential vote results. i believe he knows he's an illegitimate president. he now was there from then actually when the election in 2016, he lost the election and he was put in the office because a russian, jennifer anacio, his president elect, has a legitimate president that we have a president who if in fact it is proven has been assisted by the russians, and may in fact, not be

a legitimate president. you have noticed there they to us marine standing behind mr . biden during his address. now they have spark debates within the country. as such, use of military person now may be considered as politicizing. the military itself. the white house claimed was just a gesture of respect for service members. arvin vote, a former vice chair for the libertarian national committee in the u. s. c's, american politics is imbued with hatred as both sides of the big 2 parties so deficient. well, we're seeing that the hatred isn't really between democrats and republicans. we're seeing a great amount of disenchanted with government on both the right and the left. in the past. there was a sense that once somebody was elected president, he would strive to be the president of everybody try to represent all the people, not just his side, but that certainly has changed with both on the left and on the rate president, striving to represent the views among their followers only,

rather than the views among the people. i think that joe biden is making that classic mistake. we see from democrats, which is conflating, the us government with the united states. and among the right among the left, among libertarians, there's plenty of hope in the united states, there's plenty of of joy in the united states. the hatred of targeted towards the federal government towards state government. because those entities have become too big. they become too intrusive. they're inter interfering with their lives domestically and they're interfering with the lives of other people internationally . so it's not that people who are on the right are people libertarian. don't like america. we love america. we just hate the american government. and also all the state governments that interfere with our live life is a recap of the news week that warms i'll be back in 30 minutes with more. do hope

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