good information left to their own devices. we're trying to on far more reasonable foreign conclusions than are coming to about world events. right. a headlines on all the international. europe's largest nuclear power plant comes underwrite attack. moscow says the jap, what was your facility was being shelled by tbs forces team times over the weekend . although ukraine's nuclear energy agency is accusing russia. he has back tracks on its claims of russia was behind a deadly mythical strike on polish territory. i did, it admits the parts of the project, i'll ukrainian, that's off in the u. s. nato and the boss or officials say it was likely launched by a ukranian at a different system. also ahead $11800000000.00 is going to

assistance, including for direct to budget support. the question is, as you pray now the 51st state of the united states of america, u. s. republicans pledging the account every single sent to financial aid allocated to key f as the party wins. partial control of congress. also in the stories that shaped the weak aradonda international as moscow slams, a dutch court's ruling on the mh 17 plane crash shots, quote, biased and politically motivated off for a pair of russian nationals are convicted and sentenced in absentia with all right, it is time for our traditional weekly sunday program here on out to you international . so good to have you with us. we are running down today's top headlines on the main highlights of the week. so europe's largest nuclear power plant and sap at all . she has, once again come under attack,

the russian defense ministry claims ukrainian forces 5 more than a dozen rounds of artillery shells of the site and just the past 24 hours. however, a bullet say that ukraine's nuclear power agency has actually accused moscow of carrying out the strikes. and that of the international atomic energy agency has called for a protection zone around the plant and for an end to the shelling which could risk a catastrophic nuclear incident. is our senior correspondent bo, this is the 2nd day that's ukrainian. artillery has been shilling this upper ocean nuclear power plant, the largest in europe yesterday about a dozen lodge cannibal shells. artillery shells struck the territory of the nuclear power plant, the facilities. 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 i 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 of the soviet made systems that you can add in it's awesome 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 been 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 artillery systems or 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 zeros. your 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 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 those develop defenses. i immediately, nevertheless, striking

a thea 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 side, already various sources. they're blaming russia again for shelling itself, just as they did of blame russia for striking and poland, for example, when it emerged immediately after the de, wasn't russia than 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 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

is, 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 full out, which way the, the winds will blow it. 5 people have been killed, 18 more wounded in a mass shooting vista, a gay nightclub in colorado. but the 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, hugh in the city of colorado springs and police say inside one of the injured isn't actually the suspect himself. he is, as we understand now, is treated in custody. ambulances, of course, were deployed to the area to help transport those to hospital. as of yet, the details on the motives behind the gunman or unclear it was back in 2016 that

a shooter with islamic state. sympathy is killed. 49 people at a gay club in florida. so one of the biggest stories of the week ikea is now back tracked on its previous claims that of miss all which had a polish village this week killing to was fired by russia. ukrainian airforce spokesperson has conceded that several parts of the project project all are apparently that if ukrainian, well, president zelinski, who initially said the missile had come from the russian military to spider, adamant denalis from moscow also appear to change his perspective on the incident. how many times, as you claim said that the actions of the terrorist state will not be limited to our country alone, hitting nato territory with missiles. this is a russian missile attack on collective security. this is a really significant escalation. action is needed. so 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 on us until the investigation is over. and so i try to give you some background here. a missile craft and polish village near the ukrainian border on tuesday, killing to a number of polish and ukrainian government officials were very quick to point the finger at russia. but later, if i soon after polish nato and u. s. official said it was most likely a ukrainian air defense massage that via, of course, of some polish politicians, even called for an apology from kia and even that of compensation for the families of the victims. now, the incident i did lead to a while, a rare public rift between ukraine and its west and allies. jo biden's, national security advisor was reported to have a key of officials to tread carefully with their accusations. the u. s. president himself also reported he refused to speak with the agency on the phone after the incident, though, here's how the american leader responded when asked about ukraine's version of

events with despite our western officials, including joe biden saying, there was a lack of evidence. the western media office just went on a wall, paused, just lost during accusations that russia was to blame for, quote, attacking, and nato country and putting a planet on the brink of world war 3. that's still deeper and it is, are some of the i should say, fina details, his correspondent, marina customer. the media can be very powerful and very dangerous, especially during that 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 certain see that a russian missile had landed in poland. a senior us intelligence official says

fresh and miss alice crossed into nate, amended 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 blast images which showed what appeared to be fragments. oven as a 300 rocket. that's part of a soviet era missile defense system. that key of continues to used today. 6 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 attack russia. and invoke articles $4.00 and $5.00, 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 same thing. play out all over again and never stop 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 testimony 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 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 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 visit information. so there's real 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 they 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 by like was 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. early in the program, my colleague, jenna neal, spoke with a broadcaster and author action to return, see who ultimately highlight the dangers and the recklessness 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 ab associated press and all its fellow nato nations. stenographer media masquerading as journalists brought 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 elia 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 started with lamar zalinski, immediately calling on nato countries to react. then the a p story comes out. and then the fact start to emerge. there's a backwardness to old lab, 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. a number of us republicans of demand that no more money be sent to ukraine. also calling for an audit of the previous a that the biden administration has sent 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. the ordered demand follows the u. s. having already spend nearly $55000000.00 on aid to ukraine this year with $37000000000.00 and additional help requested by biden from congress. get this. so

that's a 20 percent more money than the ins hire, annual defense budget of that hope. the russian federation, well bitter battles and washington politics have ramped up a gear as the power dynamic shifts in that of the united states. it comes, of course, after the republicans won back control of the lower chamber of congress this week, as setting up a tough 2 years ahead for the biden administration to get its policies through. however, even that's not the biggest issue for the american leader. the g o p has promised to now 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. we were talking earlier with a retired

u. s. our 4th lieutenant colonel. karen crit, koski, who believes that washington's policy towards ukraine is primarily driven by big business interests the united states. so 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 freeze 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, 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 to house of representatives that would 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 word that has no real benefit to the security of americans. russia has accused the dutch court of bias saying it's voted on the shooting down of melissa airlines. flight m a 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 wells 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 are 3 people to life in prison. in absentia, the downing of the plane of a don boston, july 2014. the men, 2 russians on ukrainian have denied all involvement. while a 4th defendant, a russian national, was acquitted. the now the, he a court stated it didn't believe that the accused individuals had intended to shoot down a civilian aircraft believing and said that they were firing the military target. the judges also had this to say he's not over them and you see the to the defense presented as an argument that the prosecutor's office has a constantly one sided view which has been up held throughout the entire investigation. so the essence of this 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 that the origin of the materials provided with the court concluded that flight mh 17 crashed a few hours following take off off to being hit by a missile that had been supplied and transported from russia. the obama administration at the time repeatedly said it would make public its intelligence reportedly proving russia's involvement. although 8 years later, still hasn't done that. all 298 people on board, the boeing were killed and those convicted of the attack had been ordered to pay more than 16000000 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 still the problem of this summary verdict 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 on

sure. let's say our arguments in our views and please on, on those aspects. but among the reaction we got to this weeks, i thought it was from a dutch journalist. sonya vanda and who claims the trial appeared to lack objectivity, abolition. it was shown trial because 1st of all, they did not really do a thoroughly investigation in the beginning, and the malays required. it was not allowed to go to the place of the accident later on. they were allowed to, but yeah, it was to be expected. did this show a trial, a would be like dead, and i think the president in get that you are 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 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 in ukrainian and fella. so straight away they blamed russia, russia it is, and that's it actually. so i think this whole trial is candy should start with all the pieces of evidence they have from both sides. and then you can speak about a real sad trial and this is not haven't what is good to have you with us for the sunday program from moscow? of course, the biggest sporting event on the globe, kicking off and cut out in just a few hours. of course, that is the world cup. getting underway before a ball is even kicked at the fif, a world cup, the tournaments been engulfed, and a mirage of controversy with focus on the planets, best players taking a back seat to a host of other some describe was even media driven issues or puerto east ali and 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 vote welcome back in much the same way we can see an outpouring of criticism for kids are in the lead up to this wildcat. welcome, which is the most expensive in history by some observations, because often over $200000000000.00 organizing that more than any other well 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 travels and so on. but 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. with closer

inspection, at 6 and a half 1000 number is the total number of migrate that it cuts up since they won that well, cut a bid is not linked to working on site. another line of attack from the western media has been around a cultural issues, things like a top and there rolls around drinking alcohol, a big outpouring because just in the past few days, changing their minds in the alco lot be stuck in stadiums. and of course around l g b t, right, as well, an issue which of course in watch of the well this alien for europeans for north americans in particular seems to be the priority. and right that trump's all of a human rights. this onslaught has been seen and the knots of accusations that it's a talk prosy and no less than the fee for. ready present gianni in santino himself yesterday in doha, giving an impassioned plea in 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, equation 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 next 3000 ds before starting to give more lessons to people looking from their parts have been asking people to come here to be 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 focus, how will do the same for america when they co host walcott 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 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 next welcome, of course, we sort of find the criticism in the lead up to the wall up in russia, with accusations of russia, hooligans, we're going to attack people who've visited the country. of course, no such thing transpired. and of course, accusations well of 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 to tear approach to how a human rights of you cross law, amid all the politics that play, there's also the small matter about world cup to be held. website auto dot com taking you through all the issues on and off the pitching,

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