[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, a 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 and the stories that shape the weak r t joint experts from the un nuclear watchdog who've been inspecting the bottle itself, arose yet power plants with the facility coming under intensive attacks by ukrainian forces, according to the local authority with leader of the soviet union,

mikhail gorbachev died this week at the age of 91 in law school, central hospital for a prolonged illness be examining his historic legacy a deadly scenes in iraq on monday with at least 30 people killed in clashes in baghdad. those armed protesters storm the so called green zone, where government offices are located in pakistan, 6 immense humanitarian support. so after devastating floods ravaged the country of more than 30000000 people. not facing starvation with broadcasting from moscow. i'm, you know, a lot. you're welcome to the recap of the main news headlines from the past 7 days of today this week. so fighting,

escalating your europe's largest nuclear power plant in southeastern ukraine. here forces made several attempts to recapture the russian held zap rogia facility. but where repelled according to russia's defense ministry. the m o. d say's up the latest attack by ukrainian trips was carried out with 8 drones that were and by russian forces. local authorities also claimed key as military shell, the plums territory from across the didn't epr river on saturday, damaging the last remaining power lines which link the facility to the national grid. the crew operating the plant, say the nuclear reactors remain stable. well, that all came amid a visit to the plant by the un nuclear watched on the international atomic energy agency. the team has inspected the facility with some of the experts remaining on the sites with plans to stay there indefinitely. the a chief admits the quote,

physical integrity of the power plant has been violated. the current situation leaves much room for concert. i will continue to be worried about the plant dealer . we have a situation which is more stable, which is more predictable. it is obvious 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 2 week of nights and this is something that cannot continue to happen . but rushes military sat down on friday alone, more than $300.00 ukrainian soldiers were observed. crossing the upper river in dozens of boats close to the battle nuclear plant, the m. o d, caesar, and half of those vessels were, quote, eliminated with the remaining boats retreating. a local murk claimed ukrainian forces were trying to prevent the arrival of the un. experts by all means possible

didn't use the she was shirley or live in for some time. now the ukrainian armed forces have been shelling residential areas and zap erosion nuclear power plant. the residence of our city, a scared ukraine seeks to disrupt the arrival of the i. e. a commission. that's why they detained the mission. at the checkpoint, 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, which we have evidence to show the i a a that the opposite is true. i hope the head of the mission mr. grossey has enough understanding of the current issue. ortiz igor shakuntala was among the very 1st journalist alpha nuclear plant to report on the visit by the u. n. t. me file. this report 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 up

a 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 a quite a scene here at the dap ruskin nuclear power line. he's special mission with the international atomic energy agency. i will see 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 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 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 says another piece, another device, another piece of the drone. you can see that it is brand new. it is year 2022. so it is very,

very new. this particular well paying this particular drone has failed to do any damage to deal any damage to the facility because it had been down. but this is not the 1st time that things like this devices like that are being used against the facility. you can hear and see the water still 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 that roscoe nuclear power plant, who from phoebe downward you can see the aftermath broken windows and this warehouse stands abandon it used to be producing liquid nitrogen, which is who shall do 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 or i made continuing attacks on the nuclear power plant. alan surroundings, the un acknowledge rushes, commitment to ensuring the safety of the i. e. a team. 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 though the inspectors are safe. russia has now requested a meeting of the un security console. so without world powers are obliged to hear the conclusions of the a mission independent war correspondent, thomas rooper. believe the shelling purportedly by ukrainian forces shows give 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 have tried to stop this in the last minute, but it didn't work as soon as the team arrived at the place at the spot. 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 a clue about about weapons artillery and all this stuff. they are nuclear experts, so their job is to check with the station. the problem is it's an order whether they are working well, whether there's a 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 experts. the last leader of the soviet union mikhail gorbachev died this week at the age of 91, many top politicians from around the world express their condolences here in r t. we've been taking

a look at the legacy of the man who ended the cold the who's, who's the former soviet leader passed away on choose the in moscow central hospital. and after a prolonged illness, his funeral took place in the russian capital on saturday. a host of political figures came to pay their respects, including the hungarian prime minister, victor or former russian president, dmitri met the head of busters from a number of the new countries. the russians also lined the streets to say their goodbyes in the ceremony that lasted more than 3 hours. when mchale 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 called for the world to be seen as united an interdependence instead of divided into communists than capitalist countries. he saw the balance of interests of different nations as a way of solving international problems. universal bodies to be recognised above all others, whether they be religious or national. the 1st and only saw the 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. the moves were hailed in the west thanksgiving by his american counterpart, ronald reagan, but hastened to collapse in industry and dire shortages of consumer goods at home. he's also gained by many and post soviet countries for the violent conflicts that erupted following the chaotic breakup of the ussr, the scars of which remained today, as well as expressing his condolences kremlin spokesperson,

dmitri pascall said gorbachev was naive and expecting the country's political sacrifice as to lead to a more equitable world's wish actually cheer polite 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 in there would be an internal romantic period between the new soviet union and the collective wes, this romanticism was not justified at the remains of honeymoon century. did not what account, i'm not a bloodthirsty dennis of our opponents showed itself with marina. that which though impress cohen at all, made mikhail gorbachev, won all the most prominent figures of the previous century. no, we heard from pavel polish jenko who work closely with the soviet leader has 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 intensity. his conviction, his views. and i said, in addition to that, of course, it's his personal rule and two's being snow percentage over all these years. ok, let's turn attention the program now to germany. work flushes erupt. it on something between police and activists, protesting against continued weapon supplies to ukraine. police dispersed the demonstrators using pepper spray unbuttons in the city of castle, with germany being the 5th biggest arms exporter in the world. hundreds of people calling for the country to stop the production and delivery weapons, including lethal aid to keep those rallying. also attempted to block the entrance to arms factory,

an uptick and violence in iraq. again, at least 30 people were killed and more than 700 injured this week during the violent classes in baghdad. when a struggle for political power spelled on the streets, demonstrator storm this supposedly secure green zone, where a government offices and foreign embassies are located. the elliptical tension between wible sheer functions have par allies, the formation of a new government from the moment by leading sirius video that he was quitting politics due to the steel made it to longer from his supporters against security forces and other she grouping on also did himself, he became a symbol of resistance to the u. s. that invasion in 2003, and helped form

a militia to fight american troops. he's also want to dead or alive by the u. s. government, you know, brazzel lead role in the killing of a washington back. she a rival in the same year when the wake of the american invasion on subsequent occupation looked under also dear 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, 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 awnings by the us forces we reject them. we view this as an act of occupation or a political and security analysts from back told us all said, dear has enormous support in iraq. but the, the chaos being seen as done to extremist groups loosely linked to the correct. he

has so many, this amount of, among his followers. and the last elections, the gain about a 160000 miles altogether for his political part. so that basically is the base for his power. that's in all iraq in baghdad to particular he has a number. what is large number supporters, but there is no issue with this problem with the malicious, the ironically cool piece, which is the militia connected to mr. event that and vague history. so magnet and we had a very all day and long nights morning by this is an issue. i'm to

attack that many large government post and engine. people had even targeted civilians. pakistan's climate change minister is demanding that quote, rich polluting countries pay their dues to islamabad because they break their own commitments to cutting emissions and thus have pushed pakistan into a climate disaster. sure, you rockman insist that reparations are long overdue. in any case, we have contributed less than one percent to greenhouse gas emissions. we all know that the pledge is made and multi lateral forums have not been fulfilled. there must be some level of climate equation said that the brunt of the irresponsible carbon consumption is not being laid on nations near the equator, which are obviously unable to create resilient infrastructures on their own. the remarks come must pakistan has been calling for a mens humanitarian support for up to 33000000 people to the recent floods which ravaged the country. according to initial government estimates,

the devastation has caused $10000000000.00 worth of damage. the debts on for just under 1300 people are craft with relief goods from various countries, including turkey, the u. e. china and france being landing in pakistan. a local reporter, ascentis. this report from one of the most effective areas. if sub marked 10 days, then you can see the flood water is still in this residential area. there are many houses damage, water. they feel that life is not normal. these people say that they have and they don't have food. they don't have clean drinking water. they don't have, right? so there are forest flat diseases in this area. and they said that there is no chance of this water to be pulled out from this area. so that normal life can begin to modify money that most of the furniture is still there and the water can move inside because the water is too deep that i don't have

a boat or some other means to leave. i keep standing, had day and night completely help run is what his name is. a power law invited me to his house. everything is in the courtyard and you can see the children. they have a kitchen, utensils and items. everything is outside. so to dry it in the sunlight, they have a fan and you can see everything is there as much insight damages. they cannot live inside this room. they have to clean it or you can see the mock up the water level to that line fits. so this one has to manage has to have anything again has to

build everything again. my finish, i did, i got married only a month before the floods since my childhood. i had been saving every penny for my wedding. i built his home now it has gone at all, so my sister is not well, she has had a high fever, the flooding. i hope we don't have money for any medicine. i appeal to the government to help us rebuild everything. i cannot do this alone. each house, each family is facing a situation like that. they dont have clean drinking water. they don't have food, they don't have shelter. the children are affected by the flood diseases. so this is a situation and my son has been, i mean the law are to be not yet pakistan. an incestuous relationship? well talk to us. attorneys general have described the ties between the white house and big tech, louisiana, and missouri officials released

a series of emails laying out what dozens of employees of the current administration as well as some u. s. agency did in order to precious social media platforms to center 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 to 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 disinformation and there is then this conversation where yet 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 mison fo debunking meeting with may be 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 appears to have 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 message c o mark kerber, that the f, b, i interfered in the 2020 presidential election by pressuring his company to center, alleged 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 or the story about hunter biden's laptop. it was published by the new york post office of didn't go quite as far as twitter did.

however, mark, soccer bird 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 bi 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 centered 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 that mid term election with top social media giants like facebook and twitter are ready saying that they plan to act against when they see as misinformation or us legal specialist on media, on line or house why washington has apparently been targeting opinions on social media that i tend to any way challenge the mainstream, normative. what i don't understand is why don't we talk about section 230, had the communications decency act. now the whole idea is i, this is the immunity, this is the, this is the life blood of social media platforms where they said the only way that

we can survive is if you guarantee that you cannot sue us for libel and slander. because after all, we're not publishers, we don't do anything to send sure what is or is it being said? so please provide us with this immunity. well that's not true. they said, for all the time. and what i find even more interesting is, are these, these politicians who do nothing but every 6 months or a year, they'll bring in the usual suspects, drag him into congress, and then all is forgotten. weird. the only ones talking about this, but the people who could really do something, namely the congress and the senate, and by the way, government all over the world. dear, dear, asleep at the switch. you're not doing anything. they're just saying this is terrible. while fires raging in northern cal 6 down of force, local authorities to declare a state of emergency in the region, one person has been killed on another 10 injured including 3 rescuers. according to the countries emergency ministry,

almost 2000 people have been evacuated to safety. while more than a 100 homes have been destroyed. incredible pictures on the blaze covers unary of the size of runs, 80 football pitches in all russian meteors reporting that fires have also broken out in russian territories. and me, craig, gum region will keep across both of those. i'd breaks not as a recap of the week, thought was, but to keep in the no to day do give our twitter page a fall, amuse views, and plenty more. besides, to be found there. good bye. ah . 2 yet the bill

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