[000:00:00;00] ah ah, the headlines on off the international that europe's largest nuclear power plant comes under attack. moscow says the deputy ology facility has been shallow by cubes forces, 13 times over the weekend. photo ukraine is nuclear energy agency is accusing russia. here backtrack on its claims that russia was behind a deadly missiles strike on polish territory. it admits the pox. the projectile are ukrainian. a thought of the u. s. is nato and warsaw official said was likely launched by

a ukrainian air defense system. also ahead for $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 pledging the county every last cent to financial aid allocated to key of the pot. he wins partial control of congress with, from the stores of shape the weekend off international moscow slams. a dutch courts rolling on the mh 17 plane crash as quote biased and politically motivated for a pair of russian nationals are convicted and sentenced to in absentia with as we walk away into sunday evening here at moscow, it's great to have you with us with a weekly program, of course, is where we run down the top stories of the week and today. so europe's largest

nuclear power plant ends up at all. she has once again come under attack. the russian defense ministry claims ukrainian forces 5 more than a dozen rounds of shells at the side in just the last 24 hours. however, report say that ukraine's nuclear power agency has actually accused moscow of carrying out the strikes and the head of the international atomic energy agency has cold for protection zone around the plant. and for an end to the shelling which could risk that of a catastrophic nuclear incident. here's our senior correspondent. this is the 2nd day that's ukrainian. artillery has been selling this up at ocean nuclear power plant, the largest in europe yesterday about a dozen lodge calibus shells. artillery shells struck the territory of the nuclear power plant. the facilities are there 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 pool that sure 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. 1 yet more shells struck power lines these a power lines that feed all the system safety systems. the coolant systems, 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 the, 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. a 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 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 develop defenses. i immediately, nevertheless, 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 side, already various sources. they're blaming russia again for shelling itself, just as they did of blame russia for striking a poland. for example, when it emerged immediately after the de wasn't washer, 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 the reason meltdown does approach a nuclear power plant, the, the largest in europe, there is no telling where the radiation the fall out, which way the winds will blow it. 5 people have been killed, 18 wounded in a mass. shooting had happened at a gay nightclub in colorado. the deadly incident happened in the us state on saturday night. now, as we understand, the assailant armed with a rifle open, fire on visitors at club. whew! in the city of colorado springs, a police say one of the injured is in fact the suspect himself, and he's being treated in custody. as randy stein, ambulances were, of course, deployed to the area to transport those to hospital. now, when it comes to the attack as motives,

those details right now are unclear. though it was back in 2016 that a shooter with islamic state sympathies are killed. 49 people that was at a gay nightclub in florida. so key of has ultimately back tracked on his previous claims that have missile, which had a polish village this week killing to was fired by russia. ukrainian air force spokesman has considered the several parts of the project dollar, apparently ukrainian. while president zelinski, who initially said the missile had actually coming from the russian military, despite adamant denials from moscow, 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. so 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 that situation. we have to be fair and honest until the investigation is over. all right, important to give you just a touch of background here that the missile crashed in a polish village near the ukrainian border on tuesday, killing to a number of polish and ukrainian government officials are very quick to point the finger at russia, but later pretty much soon after the polish nato and u. s. officials said it was most likely a ukrainian air defense missile that had v it of course. meantime some polish politicians are even cold for an apology from ki evan, even for compensation, for the victims families. now the incident did lead to a while, a pretty rab public rift between ukrainian it's western allies, jer, biden's national security advisor was reported to have a asked key of officials to tread carefully with their accusations. u. s. president himself also reportedly refused to talk with zalinski on the phone following the

incident. in fact, for a moment here house his how the american leader responded when asked about ukraine's version of events. i know, despite our western officials, including joe biden saying, there was a lack of evidence. the western media outlets went on a war path, plastering accusations that russia was to blame for, quote, attacking a nato country and putting the planet on the brink of world war 3. well, let's go deeper into some of the finer details. here's our correspondence. marina cost. 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 need,

the us started reporting with certain see that a russian missile had landed in poland. a senior us intelligence official says fresh in miss as 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 of an es $300.00 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 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 sale fell playout all over again, and never stopped to really remember the syrian chemical attack, or the good daffy viagas story. or the un claims about the russian army supply in its soldiers with via gra, goes, it says deformity. 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 and see from 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 though it's as good as facts for those who watch western media, no apologies, no retractions, nothing new for their 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 the c, i 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 this 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 live in the media could have stopped it if they had searched enough. 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 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 earlier my colleague, you know, neil spoke with broadcaster and author action were, can see who ultimately highlight of the dangers and the recklessness of careless reporting. about the ongoing conflict. seen the associated press published claims on the missile incident and poland, citing anonymous sources that turned out to be wrong. they retracted the story somewhat, but i would suggest a 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. to know, go for 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, his forces at least 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 nato 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 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 of back forces are saying this will be forgotten very quickly. it's great to have your company today. a number of us republicans have demanded that no more money be sent to ukraine. also calling for an audit of the previous aid, the by the 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 you crane'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 litski have in our government? this is outrageous, and the american people deserve answers. the order demand follows the us having

already spent nearly $55000000000.00 on a to ukraine this year with $37000000000.00 and extra help requested by biden, from congress. that is, i get this 20 percent more money than the entire annual defense budget of the russian federation was so bitter battles in washington politics, ramping up a gear as the as a whole, i should say, a power dynamic is shifted in the united states. of course, it comes off to the republicans, one back control of the lower chamber of congress this week, setting up, i should say, a tough couple of years ahead for the biden administration to get his policies through. however, that's not even the biggest issue for the american leader as the g o. p 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. we talked with i retired u. s. i force lieutenant colonel, karen crept koski of she 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, you know, through 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 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. you are watching the weekly hero nazi so russia has accused a dutch court of bias saying it's voted on the shooting down of melissa airlines flight that makes 17, as a politically motivated to ruling against most 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 hague has neglected the principles of impartial justice in favor of the current political situation, thereby dealing a serious reputational blow to the entire judicial system of the netherlands. the hague district court sentenced 3 people to life in prison in absentia, the downing of the plain of don bass. july 2014. the men to russians under ukrainian have denied any involvement on the 4th defendant or russian national was acquitted. the court stated, he didn't believe that the accused individuals had intended to shoot down a civilian aircraft believing instead they were firing at the military target. the judges also had this to say is not over them. and you see the civil 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 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 the origin of the materials provided. so the court concluded that the flight mh 17 crashed a few hours following take off after being hit by a missile that had been supplied and transported from russia. the obama administration at the time repeatedly said it would make it so well made public, its intelligence reportedly proving russia's involvement. although 8 years later, it still hasn't publicized the intelligence or 298 people on board. the boeing were killed and those convicted of the attack of in order to pay more than $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 wasn't actually 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 of among the reaction we got to this week's verdict was from a dutch john list. as sonya vander and she claims the trial appeared to lack objectivity. humbleness, it was a show 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 smith. yeah, i was to be expected this show a trial, it would be like dead. and if it's president in get that you receive it,

they just 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. 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 ukrainian and fella. so straight away they blamed russia, russia, and it is, and that's it actually. so i think this whole trial is candy shoot. start with old pieces of evidence. they have from both sides. and then you can speak about a real fair trial, and this is not, haven't got back with us. as the biggest sporting event on the globe kicks often cut out in less than an hour. the world cup getting underway before a bowl is even kicked the tournament. has been engulfed and

a string of controversy with focus on the planets best players taking a back seat to a host of other some describe as even media driven. it's use a reporter isa ali has more from doha. this is, of course, the 1st woke up 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 of which is the most expensive in history by some observations, because often over $200000000000.00 organizing this more than any other well 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 criticism has been coming in form. oh,

actually zation number's been 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 at 6 and a half 1000 number is the total number of migrate that it cuts up since they won that well, cup bed is not linked to working on site. another line of attack from the western media has been around cultural issues, things like to talk and their rules around drinking alcohol to big outpouring because just in the past few days, changing their minds hitting the alco not be stuff in stadiums. and of course around l g b t, right, as well, an issue which of course in watching the world is alien but for europeans, for north americans in particular seems to be the priority. linda, right. trump's all of

a human rights this onslaught has been seen and the knots of accusations that it's a talker. see, and no less than the c for president gianni in santana himself yesterday in doe, giving an impassioned plea and criticizing a pool. perhaps a more arrogant and colonial attitude towards cutoff that's night, 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 bad parts have been asking people to come here. they've been welcoming all people 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 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 saw the kind of criticism in the lead up to the world cup in russia, 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, else 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 filament, the politics i play, of course, has also a small, tiny matter of a world cup to be held. our website will take you through all the issues with on and off the pitch and catherine over the next month. of course that is on t v dot com for now. i thank you very much for joining us for this sunday traditional program called the weekly top headlines of the week and up to day. plenty more to come your way when we return. that will be at the top of a i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings accept where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about

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