a with ah kiev backtrack. so it's claims about russia was directly responsible for a deadly myth. i'll strike on polish territory. it admits parts of the projectile actually appear to have been ukrainian. that's up to you as nato on warsaw. official say it was likely launched by a ukrainian per defense system also ahead $11800000.00 is going to assistance including for direct budget support. the question is, is ukraine now the 51st state of the united states of america, u. s. republicans pledge that collins every central financial aid allocated to key

of the party, wins partial control of congress. and also in the stories that shape the weak, moscow, slum, say, hague ruling on the age. 17 thing crush us biased and politically motivated. after a per a russian nationals are sentenced in a top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well. welcome to the weekly on r t. i'm, you know, need to get to those headline stories in just a moment. but 1st, the nuclear power plant in upper rogia, europe's largest, has come under attack again, the russian defense ministry say's not ukrainian force has fired more than a dozen runs of artillery shells out the site over the past 24 hours. the head of a i. e, a has call for protection,

so there on the plant and for an end to the shelling which risks causing a catastrophic nuclear incident. let's get more from our senior correspondent morale castillo high murat, the international atomic energy energy agency chief, previously say, quote, we are playing with fire in regards to attacks against the power station take us through this weekend's developments. while this is the 2nd day that ukrainian artillery has been shilling this upper ocean nuclear power plant, the largest in europe. as you mentioned yesterday about a dozen lodge caliber shells, artillery shells struck the territory of the nuclear power plant. the facilities that they're already significantly damaged and repaired multiple times by previous ukrainian strikes to day, again, twice they have launched more than a dozen shelves in totality. again, at the nuclear power plant, we knew

a could well according to reports from the scene from authorities there. ah, what a vote was. several of the shells struck a coolant pool which are the facilities housing, the coolant pools, which pump coolant to the react is to prevent a meltdown. several more shelves. a said to have struck nuclear waste dry storage facilities. yet more shelves struck power lines. these a power lines that feed all the system safety systems, the coolant system, the waste management systems that feed the power plant that allow for its continued operation. that is unclear, of what those lodge caliber shells were launched by the weapons in particular. but there are, there are too many choices either the, the soviet made systems that ukraine had in its hospital houses of but, but it is running low,

knows it is entirely likely that the shells fired at the nuclear power station may been launched by u. s. a. native supplied. m 777 houses. for example, caesar self propelled artillery. canons. again showing the the, the danger, supplying crane. continuing to supply ukraine with, with such large caliber, devastated artillery systems are 155 millimeter 100. 52 millimeter caliber shell. can do a lot of damage. of course, the facilities, the new, the reactance themselves are those are all zeros, power plug or reinforced. they were built by the, by the soviet administration. way back when they were, they were built with, you know, the cold war in mind so, so, so that is something that allows for a little bit of optimism that they won't be able to break through lives. the defenses immediately, nevertheless,

striking up dea coolant systems and the power lines that is what led to catastrophe and fukushima. for example, when, when the tsunami there destroyed the, the many safety systems that allowed the nuclear power plant to remain in operation, we have the i a, a now ringing, alarm bells, again calling for an immediate she's from the ukrainian side, already, various sources. they're blaming russia. again, for shelling itself, just as they did a blame russia for striking a poem. for example, when it emerged immediately after the de wasn't russia that it was ukraine behind that strike. similarly, it has already been proved that ukraine has struck at the nuclear power station or before in the months prior to today's and yesterday's events. nevertheless, there hasn't been a lot of pressure internationally on you, craig,

to stop this rad them shelling that he's, you know, putting the entirety of the european continent at rest. because if god forbid what happens and there is a meltdown that is approaching nuclear power plot the, the largest in europe, there is no telling where the radiation the fall out, which way the winds will blow it. taken through the developments there are t senior correspondent, murat, gusty f k. another is developing story to day 5. people have been killed an 18, more wounded in a must shooting up a colorado gay nightclub at the deadly incident happened in the us state on saturday night reports stay thought the assailant open fire with a sniper rifle on club. she visitors in the city of colorado springs, police department officials say one of the injured is the suspect, himself and is being treated while in custody. ambulances humping deployed to the

area to transport those injured to local hospitals. details on the attackers motives remain on clear up this time. in 2016, a shooter with islamic states. sympathies kill 49 people. now the gay club in florida here has backtracked on its previous claims of a missile, which had a polish village this week, killing 2 people was fired by russia, a ukrainian, or a for spokesperson has conceded that several parts of the project i'll actually appear to have been ukrainian, or president lensky, who initially said the missile had come from the russian military. the spy document denials from moscow has also appeared to change his perspective on the incident is how many times, as you kind said, that the actions of the terrorist state will not be limited to our country alone. pissing nato territory with miss isles. this is a russian missile attack on collective security. this is

a really significant escalation. action is needed. sure. ah, voices. i don't know what happened this time. we don't know 100 percent. i think the world also does know what happened on present in that situation. we have to be fair and honest until the investigation is over. some background, a missile crushed in a polish village near the ukrainian border on tuesday, killing 2 civilians. within hours, a number of polish shun, ukrainian government officials claim the projectile was russian fired. but later polish nato and u. s. official said it was most likely i ukrainian era defense missile that had gone off course. some polish politicians have goal for an apology from kiev. uncompensated for the victims fundings. the incident led to a rare public rift between ukraine on that's western allies. as jew biden's national security advisor was reported to abbas he,

of officials to tread carefully with their accusations. the u. s. president himself also reportedly refused to speak with mister zalinski on the phone following the incident. here's how the american leader responded when asked about ukraine's version of events. you react with the despite western officials, including joe biden saying, there was a lack of evidence. western media outlets went on the warpath clustering accusations that russia was to blame for quote, attacking a national member, and speaking about the potential for world war 3 ortiz, marina customer of a has been delving beyond those headline. the media can be very powerful and very dangerous, especially during the time of war. one misleading statement could settle a chain of events which could change the world as we know it. and we were almost on

the brink of world war 3 this week. when the western media sought reporting with certain see that a russian missile had landed in poland, a senior us intelligence official says fresh and miss as crossed into ne to men that poland, killing 2 people as senior u. s. intelligence official, there was no proof of anything at the time. only the 1st images of the brass images which showed what appeared to be fragments oven as a $300.00 raw kids. that's part of a soviet era missile defense system that key of continues to use today. but that, that a matter to the west, the russians were, of course, to blame. and within minutes, the story spread like wildfire with politicians and journalists started calling on nato to at sac russia and invoke articles 4 and 5, which mandate member states to determine

a collective response. whenever one of them is it's hacked and then it turned out that it was probably a ukrainian missile that crossed into poland. awkward to say the least. but it took several hours for a pizza, correct? their version of the story. you would have thought that you asked me there would be more careful with their reporting, especially after their apic blunders with the invasion of iraq. for example, when ever on was sold on the premise of weapons of mass destruction, which were never found. we have found a number of instances of covers that was not as rigorous as it should have been. in some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified, or allowed to stand unchallenged. looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re examining the claims as new evidence emerged or failed to emerge. we should have warned readers, we had information the basis for this was shakia than widely believed. those are

exactly the kind of statements that should be published on the front page and we're saying the sale fell playout all over again, and never stopped. really remember the syrian chemical attack? or are there gadhafi viagra story? or the u. s. claims about the russian army supply in its soldiers with viagra. go to says he, the family, when you see the women and girls have been house for days and buildings and raped when you hear the testimonies of these women who tell you about russian soldiers equipped with viagra, m, on other things. it is clearly and military strategies if upright call later revealed that she had no evidence to back up those claims. it was just what she was told by ukrainian officials, but the truth didn't matter at the point that it's the damage had already been done . and now it's as good as facts for those who watch western media, no apologies, no retractions, nothing new for the us. well,

i had several jobs. one of my jobs was that of analyst. i also was an interrogator, and indeed, brief the press. when we see a wanted to circulate this information on a particular issue, this information is not necessarily not necessarily a lie and maybe a half truth. and we would pick out a journalist. i would go do the briefing and hope that he would put the information in print half truths and visit information. so there's rail journalism. that's the recipe for success. american style, nearly every wall that has started in the past 50 years, has been a result of media lives in the media could have stopped it if they had searched even off. if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda, they could have stopped it. but what does that mean? well, that means basically populations don't like walls and populations have to be fooled

into walls. so next time you see a headline in the mainstream media, don't be so quick to judge tweets or jump to conclusions because for all, you know, it might be a fake story generated to get a particular result, sometimes with undesirable consequences. and this week that could have been world war 3. earlier i spoke with broadcast and author option returns. they who highlighted the global dangers of careless reporting about the conflict. we've seen the associated press published claims on the missile, insolent and pollen citing anonymous sources that turned out to be wrong. they retracted the story somewhat, but i would suggest that few saw that apology compared to the initial flashy headlights. the year november 2022. in later years may be seen as the closest we got to global annihilation and

a p associated press and all its fellow nato nations. stenographer media masquerading as journalists brought us to the edge before it was hastily rode back . and i should say in fairness, and while we must give our condolences to the 2 polish farmers killed by a zalinski is forces at least nature diplomats have been briefing that zalinski is a liar. and i'm not sure how that to affairs in the state department, given how many tens of billions of dollars has been handed to what nato officials of briefing privately, as quoted in the, even the mainstream media, ne, 2 nations as it has a lie. the timeline here is started with lamar zalinski, immediately calling on nato countries to react. then the a p story comes out, and then the fact starts to emerge. there's a backwardness to all that, isn't there? every one who went so quickly to assume that nato circled article 5 will be invoked,

i think, should be discounted from future geopolitical stories because they are dangerous sources that endanger the whole of humanity. but of course, already those who support the nature back forces are saying this will be forgotten very quickly. a number of us republicans have demanded that no more money be sent to ukraine, while also calling for an audits of the previous aid that the biden administration has sent a fuel. he has war effort hi time to stop sending any more money. don't send another penny to the ukraine and to start auditing, where the money when we're funding ukraine's budget, with, with the term at $11800000000.00 is going to assistance, including for direct budget support. the question is, is ukraine now the 51st state of the united states of america? and what position does alecky have in our government?

this is outrageous, and the american people deserve answers. the audit demand follows the u. s. having already spent nearly $55000000000.00 on aid to ukraine this year with $37000000000.00 and additional help requested by biden, from congress 20 percent more money than the entire annual defense budgets of the russian federation. or bitter battle in washington politics have ramped up a gear as the power dynamic shifts in the united states. it comes out to the republicans, won by control of the lower chamber of congress this week. setting up a difficult 2 years ahead for the biden administration to get their policy through . or even that's not the biggest issue for the american leader of the g o. p. as promised to investigate joe biden himself, his team, and his family's business dealings. our investigation is about joe bud and we already have evidence that would point that joe biden was involved with 100 buying

on his bill. so we want the bank records, and that's our, that's our focus. we're trying to stay focused on was joe biden directly involved with 100 buttons business deals, and is he compromised? that's our investigation. but earlier we spoke to retired us or a forced lieutenant colonel current could tell us getting, who believes washington's policy towards ukraine is primarily driven by business interests. the united states defense establishment is making a lot of money out, you know, to via the american taxpayer. in depleting all of our reserves of old weapons, sending them to ukraine, that frees up production lines for more of what we want. and then of course, justifies demand to the congress that our own budget, our own military budget can be increased. so this is something that i think benefits, it's viewed by american government, people as you know,

have benefits. it benefits america, not in the way that we think of a war. but just in the way we think of a business military business. the next house of representatives that will be sworn in in january. many of them do not see the benefit of conducting this proxy war and funding this proxy war and ukraine. it's very clear that we don't have the resources to throw away anywhere and certainly not to conduct a proxy war that has no real benefit to the security of americans. russia has accused the dutch court of bias saying its verdict on the malaysia airlines, mh 17 plane disaster is a politically motivated ruling against moscow. in passing its judgment, the court preferred to ignore the fact that all the conclusions of the dutch prosecutor's office are based on the testimony of anonymous witnesses, whose identities are classified as well as on information of dubious origin and

materials transmitted from the interested party. the s b u, which has been repeatedly cop, providing false and contradictory information. we deeply regret that the district court of the hague has neglected the principles of impartial justice in favor of the current political situation, thereby dealing the serious reputational blow to the entire judicial system of the netherlands. the hague district court sentence 3 people to life in prison and upset year for the dining of the plane over dunbar. on july 17th, 2014, the men to russians on a ukrainian denied any involvement. while a 4th defendant, a russian national, was acquitted. the court stated it didn't believe the accused individuals had intended to shoot on the civil norcross for leaving. instead, they were firing at a military target. the judges also have this to say he's not over them and you see the defense presented as an arguments that the prosecutor's office has a constantly one sided view which has been upheld throughout the entire

investigation. useful. the essence of the defense line is that the prosecutor's office has adopted the point of view of the ukrainian special services from that point is that the prosecutor received many materials from ukraine security service . however, the prosecutor's office has also carried out its own investigation and has confirmed the origin of the materials provided. the court said that the flight made 17 cross a few hours following take off after being hit by a russian supplied missile. and wherever the strike was not direct leading to russia, all 298 people on board were killed. those convicted of the attack will no need to pay over $16000000.00 euro to the families of the deceased. but the attorney of the acquitted defendant says he wants to know why all of the wreckage from the aircraft wasn't analyzed by western investigators. it was not taken into account by the court, but we don't know why. and that's the problem of this summary vertical to say.

therefore, we have to read the whole verdict in writing, but i'm very anxious to know why our, our arguments were not followed by the court. and the problem is that didn't answer, let's say our arguments in our views and please on those aspects. among the reaction we go to this week's per day calls from dutch journalists. sonya vanden n day, who said the trial appear to lack objectivity. it was a shell trial because 1st of all, they did not really do a thoroughly investigation in the beginning, and the malays required that was not allowed even to go to the place of the accident later on. they were allowed to, but yeah, it was to be expected this show a trial a it would be like dead. and i think it's empress a dentist in yet that you were 6 of that use 8 more defects. and this is what they are doing. the radar evidence wasn't ever taking into account. it was never at taken as a piece of evidence also. and it just,

they didn't take into account and it actually wasn't ukrainian defect matters. what was found at the wreckage, where the numbers often ukrainian back 7379. so actually, you know, it's and ukrainian and good fella. so straight away they blamed russia, russia it is, and that's it actually. so i think this whole trial is candy shoot, start with old pieces of evidence they had from both sides. and then you can speak about a real sad trial. and this is not, haven't just in case you missed that international footballs. biggest event kicks off later. this sunday in cow tar, but before a bold be kicked out the 2022 for world cup. the tournaments been engulfed in a mirage of controversy with focus on the planets best players taking a back seat to host of other some describe as media driven issues reporter isa ali

in doha, takes us through the build up. this is, of course, the 1st well cut to be held in a middle eastern country and so for billions of people around the world, this is a source of excitement. however, there are some who don't welcome that in much the same way. you can see an outpouring of criticism for kids are in the lead up to this a wildcard come, which is the most expensive in history by some observations, because often over $200000000000.00 organizing that more than any of the world talk together. a lot of these argue that the infrastructure that building is not just in the world cup that will be used going forward and they've been planning to update things like travel moves and so on. but that criticism has been coming in the form of accusation. numbers being plucked out from the guardian, for example, say 6 and a half 1000 workers died in the building of the stadiums. you know,

with closer inspection, 6 and a half 1000 number is the total number of migrate that it cuts up since say one that well up bid is not linked to working on site. another line of attack from the western media has been around cultural issues, things like a talk and their rules around drinking alcohol to big outpouring because just in the past few days, changing their minds and saying the alco not be stuff in stadiums. and of course around l g b t, right, as well, an issue which of course and much of the world is alien before europeans for north americans in particular, seems to be the priority. linda, right, the trump school of human rights, this onslaught has been seen and the knots of accusations that it's a talker. see, and no less than the fee for president john in santana himself yesterday in doha,

giving an impassioned plea and criticizing a pool. perhaps a more arabic and colonial attitude towards cutoff that's i've had focuses on the other side. when you pretend to have a moral and give moral lessons to others. but in reality, your situation is maybe not that good either. i think for what we europeans have been doing in the last 3000 years around the world. we should be apologizing for the next 3000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people. a lot of these, some, their parts have been asking people to come here. they've been welcoming all people and saying come and enjoy football. and they to get asking people not to politicize the events here and like many that question whether for example, those quoting, for boy quotes of how we do the same for america when they co host walcott in 2026

and asking for example, whether americans, human rights record, some would say that and racist approach to how they'll treat the african american population, the prison population that finds afford and so, and, and yet that doesn't seem to be from one perspective, at least much in terms of criticism for the united states being allowed to post the next 12, and of course we saw the kind of criticism in the lead up to the wall up in russia, accusations of russia hooligans were going to attack at people who visited the country. of course, no such thing transpired, and of course, accusations, well elf human rights abuses in china, where they are posting the winter olympics in beijing so much in terms of people's criticism for what they see is weston hypocrisy. and the 2 tier approach to how human rights of you cross law amid the politics that play as isa talked us through. there's also the small matter of

a world cup to be held in our website. well, take you through all the issues on and off the pitch in, kept out over the next month, plus plenty more. besides find all that's on our t v dot com is where we leave a recap of the week. that was laurie's here at the top. the, with all your updates that somebody do join to him and live from moscow. this aren't a oh ah,

ah, the elections are almost completely removed from day to day large, the american people. and so the american people, i believe it provided good information and left to their own devices. we're trying to on far more recent foreign conclusions and are coming to about world events. right. very chavez. canada hasn't been very good to indigenous women and girls who have been missing or found murdered because of structural racism, history, the cloning of history that canada has with indigenous people and communities.

and it's a shameful history and a history that canada doesn't like to talk about not until just into those election in 2015 with it to boost colonization. finally shattered a to b on beam elected prime minister, the young head of state give a message to the 1st nations community working together timely the government of canada. sincerely apologize, us and asks the forgiveness of the aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them. so profoundly have to apologizing to residential victims the prime minister.