by political and corruption scandals. oh, but all that didn't stop mo, google obtaining you candidate status in 2022. ah ah, the headlines on off you international. but europe's largest nuclear power plant comes under attack. moscow says the apology facility has been shelled by key ebs forces. 13 times over the weekend. total ukraine is nuclear agent. things are quarterly accused. russia of the stripes. here backtracks. one is claims that russia was behind a deadly missile strike on polish territory. as it admits the palm, the projectile actually appeared whooping ukrainian. that's off of the u. s. nato and warsaw efficiently said that it was well likely lowest way ukrainian air defense system. also ahead for you $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, u. s. republicans budget account. every central financial aid allocated a key f to party wins. partial control of congress. also in the stories that shape the weaker nazi moscow slammed. the dutch courts rolling on the mh 17 plane crash, shows quote, biased and politically motivated for a pair of russian nationals convicted and sentenced in absentia with all right, with highlights today's main headlines. welcome to the weekly on out you international itself. traditional sunday program for you. so europe's largest nuclear power plant is ends up at all as you get to come under attack. once again. russian defense

ministry claims ukrainian forces fired more than a dozen rounds of artillery shells directly at the site over the past 24 hours. however, reports say ukraine's nuclear power agency here is a huge moscow of carrying out the strikes. the head of the international atomic energy agency has called for a protection zone around the plot, and for an end to the shelling which risks a catastrophic nuclear incident. here's our senior correspondent, but i guess be f. well, this is the 2nd day that's ukrainian. artillery has been selling the sap at 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 are what a vote was. several of the shells struck a coolant, pulitzer, 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. it is unclear 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 to,

but it is running low in those. it is entirely likely that the shelves fired at the nuclear power station may be launched by u. s. and native supplied m 777 houses. for example, caesar self propelled artillery. canons, again showing the, the, the danger of supplying you can continuing to supply ukraine with, with such large caliber devastating. ah, tillery systems are 155 millimeter 100. 52 millimeter caliber shell, can do a lot of damage. of course, the facilities, the new, the reactors themselves are. those are all upper osha power plant are reinforced. they were built up by the, by the soviet administration, way back when they were, they were built with, you know, the cold boy and mine so, so, so that is something that allows for a little bit of optimism that they won't be able to break through those de defenses,

i immediately never less striking a 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 cease rob the ukrainian sud, already various sources. they're blaming russia again for shelling itself, just as they did a blame russia for striking a poland. 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 ukraine to stop this random shilling that

he's, you're putting the entirety of the european continent at risk. because if god forbid, worst happens and there is a meltdown that is approaching nuclear power plant the, the largest in europe, there is no telling where the radiation the fall out, which way the, the winds will blow it. ardo state side. now, with 5 people have been killed in 18, more wounded in what's been called out of a or a mass shooting it again, night club in colorado. and the deadly incident happened in the us state on saturday night. now as we understand the assailant armed with a rifle open, fire on guests at the club. q in a city of colorado springs, a police say, one of the injured is actually the suspect himself is currently being treated in custody. of course ambulances were deployed to the area to transport some to hospital. as of yet details on the attackers. motives of pretty unclear right now,

though in 2016, a shooter with islamic state sympathies are killed. 49 people. that was also at a gay club though this time down in the sunshine state of florida. i one of the top stories here that's been on the last couple of days on out see a care of as a back track on its previous claims that a missile, which had a polish village this week killing to was fined by russia. the ukrainian air force spokesperson has conceded that several parts of the projectile actually appear to have been ukrainian while a president zalinski who initially said the missiles that come from the russian military despite adamant denials from moscow, also appear to changes. but perspective on well on this issue, have a look even how many times as you claim 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. so sure. i was,

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 the situation. we have to be fair and honest until the investigation is over. that's. i'll give you a bit of background on this. it's basically what happened was a missile crashing a polish village near the ukrainian border on tuesday, killing 2 civilians. now, a number of polish ukrainian government officials were very quick to point the finger at russia, but soon after a polish nato and us official said it was most likely a ukrainian air defense miss alberta. v. it of course. now some polish politicians have even called for an apology from kiev and compensation for the families of the victims. now, the incident, as you can imagine, it will lead to a pretty rep public rift. i should say though, between ukraine and its western eyes, a jo biden's national security adviser was reported to have asked key of officials to tread very carefully with their accusations. the president himself also reported

refused to speak with the lensky on the phone after what happened. but here's how the american leader responded when asked about ukraine's version of events. what's your reaction to what you said that we're not, you know it just by the western officials, including joe biden saying there was a lack of evidence. the western media outlets essentially went on a war path, plastering accusations that russia was to blame for, quote, attacking a nato country than it was going on about the one, the world being on the brink of world war 3. so here's our course walnut marine a quarter of an out building perhaps beyond the headlines 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 started reporting with search and see that a russian missile had landed in poland. a senior us intelligence officials says ration misses, crossed into nate amendment 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 rocket. that's part of a soviet era missile defense system that t of continues to use today. but that, that a matter to the west, the russians were, of course, to blame. and within minutes, this 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 epic blunders with the invasion of iraq. for example, when ever almost sold on the premise of weapons of mass destruction, which were never found. we have found a number of instances of coverage 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 shaky than widely believed. those are

exactly the kind of statements that should be published on the front page, and we're seeing the sale fell playout all over again, and never stopped to really remember the syrian chemical attack, or the good duffy viagas story. or the un claims about the russian army supply and its soldiers with via gra, because he says he, the family. when you see the women and girls have been held for days and buildings and raped when you hear the testimonies of these women who tell you about russian soldiers equipped with way, agra m. o. another thing, it is clearly a military strategy. a prank 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 that point did it's, the damage had already been done. and now it's as good as fact. well, 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 i 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 this information soul does 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 live in the media could have stopped it if i had searched, even if there hadn't reprinted government propaganda, they could have stopped it. but what does that mean? well that means basically populations don't like was and populations have to be

folding towards. 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 just a bit earlier, my colleague union o'neill spoke with broadcaster and author african return, see who essentially highlighted the dangers of candace reporting about this 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, what us to the edge before it was hastily rode back in, i should say, in fairness and while we must give our condolences to the 2 polish farmers killed by a zalinski, his forces at these native 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 are, briefing privately, as quoted in the, even the mainstream media. and they do 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? everyone 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. let's get out here with us for the sunday program from moscow. a number of us republicans have demanded that no more money be sent to ukraine. also calling for an audit of the previous 8th, the biden administration has sent a fuel key as a 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 went. we're funding ukraine's budget with it, with trauma, $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 the lensky have in our government?

this is outrageous, and the american people deserve answers. so the order to demand follows, the usaa having already spent nearly $55000000000.00 on a to ukraine this year with $37000000000.00 and additional help requested by biden, from congress a 20 percent more money than the entire annual defense budget of the russian federation. so a better battles are remaining in washington politics. they ramped up a gear as the power dynamic shifts in america. of course, it comes off of the republicans, one back control of the lower chamber of congress this week. the ultimately setting up a pretty difficult 2 years ahead for the biden administration to try and get various policies through. however, even that's not the biggest issue for the american leader as a job, he has 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 hunter

biden, only so, so we won't the bank records and that's our, that's our focus. we're trying to stay focused on was joe biden directly involved with hunter biden's business deals, and is he compromised? that's our investigation. so we had a chat a bit earlier with a retired us air force lieutenant colonel karen quinn, koski. now, she believes that washington's policy towards ukraine is primarily driven by business interests the united states. so defense establishment is making a lot of money, you know, to via the american taxpayer. in depleting all of our reserves, old weapons sending them to ukraine. that freeze up production lines for more of what we want and then of course, justifies demand to the congress that our own budget, our military budget can be increased. so this is something that i think benefits. it's viewed by american government, people, as you know, it 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 a dutch court of bias saying it's voted on the shooting down of malays, or airlines flight mh 17. 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 hag 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 sentenced 3 people for life in prison and censure for the bounding of the plane over don bass. in july 2014 at the manner to russians under ukrainian have denied all involvement. while the 4th defendant, russian national, was acquitted the court ferry. they didn't believe that the accused individuals had intended to shoot down a civilian aircraft believing and said they were firing in a military target. and the judge is also at this defiant not over them. and you see the, the defense presented as an argument that the prosecutor's office has a constantly one sided view which has been upheld throughout the entire

investigation. 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 concluded that a flight and 17 crushed a few hours following take off after being hit by a missile that had been supplied and transported from russia. the bomber administration at the time repeatedly said they would make public intelligence reportedly proving russia's involvement. although 8 years later and still hasn't now all 298 people on board, the boeing were killed and those convicted of the attack of in order to pay more than 16000000 euros in the family of ceased. but the attorney of the quick defendant says he wants to know why all the wreckage from the aircraft wasn't even 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've got to this weeks, i thought it was for my doctor journalist sonya found the claims the whole trial appear to be lacking 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 to go to the place of the accident later on. they were allowed smith. yeah, it was to be expected that this show a trial is going to be like dead and i think it's a dentist in yet that he was 6 of that used to ignore defects. and this is what

they are doing. the radar evidence was never 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 also ukrainian back 7379. so actually, you know, it's in ukrainian and stella. so straight away they blamed russia, russia, and it is, and this is actually, so i think this whole trial is candy shoot. start with all the pieces of evidence they had from both sides. and then you can speak about a real sad trial and this is not happened. well, it's ok to have you with us for the sunday program from moscow. of course, the, the biggest sporting event on the globe, it's picking up in, caught, in just a few hours when the world cup gets under way. before a ball is even kicked the 2022 fif of wells cut, the tournaments made engulfed in

a well mirage of controversy with focus on the planets best players taking a back seat to a host of other some describe was media perhaps driven issues reporter isa i leant though, how takes us through the built 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 we 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 this more than any other world talk together. a lot of companies 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 acute ation. numbers being plucked out from the guardian, for example, say 6 and a half 1000 workers died in the building of the stadiums. with closer inspection, at 6 and a half 1000 number is the total number of migrate. it cuts up since say one that welcome a bid is not linked to working on site. another line of attack from the western media has been around cultural issues. things like talk and their rules around drinking alcohol, a big outpouring because just in the past few days, changing their minds and saying the alco lot be stuff in stadiums. and of course around l g b t writes as well, an issue which of course in march of the world is alien before europeans for north americans in particular seems to be the priority. linda, right. but trump's all of

a human rights. this onslaught has been seen and the benefits of accusations that it's a talker see, and no less than the fee for prices. ready johnny and santana himself yesterday in doha, giving an impassioned plea criticizing people have 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 model lessons to others. but in reality, situation is maybe not that good either. i think for what we europeans have been doing in the last 3000 years around the world who should be apologizing for next 3000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people at mccarthy's from 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 is whether for example, those quoting for boy, close of how will do the same for america when they co host to walk in 2026 and asking for example, whether americans, human rights recruit. some would say that racist approach to how they'll treat the african american population, the prison population that find support. 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. next woke up and of course we sort of find the criticism in the lead up to the world cup in russia, accusations of russia hooligans were going to attack people who visited the country . of course, no such thing transpired, and of course, accusations, well elf human rights abuses in china, where most they are hosting 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 course law. well, amid all the politics that play of course has also a small matter of a world cup to be staged. our website will take you through all the issues on and off the pitch. of course we cut out over the next month, plus plenty more. besides the details waiting for you, they'll be updated to what at least 24 hours a day. it's all in r t dot com for the meantime. appreciate your company for this sunday weekly program. we were ton with more at the top of the i look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such order to conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we

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