a monument to the soldiers to the data. you know, if we're going to be offended by everything, every negative part of our history, we have to get rid of everything. oh, a headlines here. what else into national, europe's the largest nuclear power plant comes underwrite attack. moscow says that's epidemiology facility has been shelled by 13 times over the weekend. although ukraine is nuclear energy agency is accusing russia here, but back tracks on its claims that russia was behind a deadly missiles drive on polish territory. because it admits parts of the project called likely ukrainian us off of the us, nato, and of warsaw. our official said was almost certainly launched by a ukrainian air defense system. also ahead for you $11800000.00

is going to assistance including for direct legit support. the question is is ukraine now the 51st state of the united states of america u. s. republicans pledge to counter every last cent of financial aid allocated to keep the party wins partial control of congress. also on the storage of shape the week here in our t, moscow slams a dutch court ruling on the mh 17 plane crash as quote biased and politically motivated. after a pair of russian nationals are convicted and sentenced in absentia with great to have you with us here for the sunday weekly program on our team to national, running down the top stories of the day and 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 you enforces fired, more than

a dozen rounds of artillery shells at the side over just the past 24 hours. however, report say that ukraine's nuclear power agency has accused moscow of carrying out the strikes. now as we understand the head of the international atomic energy agency has called for protection zone around the plant. and for an end to the shelling which risks that of a catastrophic nuclear incident. here's our senior correspondent. well, this is the 2nd day that's ukrainian. artillery has been selling this approach a nuclear power plant, the largest in europe yesterday about a dozen lodge caliber shells. artillery shells struck the territory of the nuclear power plant. the facilities 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. 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 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 arsenal, houses of but, 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. a native supplied em 777 houses, for example, caesar self propelled artillery. catins, again showing the the, the danger of supplying ukraine continuing to supply ukraine with, with such large caliber, devastating artillery systems, or 155 millimeter 152 millimeter. calibus 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 shilling itself, just as they did a blame russia for striking a poem. for example, when it emerged immediately after that, it wasn't russian, 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 winds will blow it. 5 people have been old and 18 wounded in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in colorado. the deadly incident happened in the us state on saturday night. now, according to reports, the assailant is a 22 year old male who opened fire on patrons of club hue in the city of colorado springs. one of the injured is in fact, the suspect himself is being treated in custody. the police chief said the 2 people inside the club confronted and fought with a gunman and prevented further violence. when it comes to the attacker's motives right now, they are unclear. well,

key of has back tracked on his previous claims that a missile, which had a polish village this week killing to was fired by russia. ukrainian f, or spokesman has consider that several parts of the projectile are apparently ukrainian, while president zalinski, who initially said that the missile had come 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. hello. action is needed most, 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. all right,

let's give you some background here. a miss all crashed in a polish village near the ukrainian border on tuesday, killing 2 civilians. a number of polish ukrainian government officials were quick to point the finger at russia, but later polish nataline u. s. official site. it was most likely a ukrainian at defense miss all that had gone, of course. meantime some polish politicians and even cold for an apology from kiev and that of compensation for the families of the victims. now the incident led to a rep public rift between ukraine and its western allies. as dro biden's national security adviser was reported to have asked key of officials to tread carefully with their accusations. the u. s. president himself also reported he refused to speak with zalinski on the phone. after the incident, though, his how the american leader responded when asked about ukraine's version of events . you react with

now, despite our western officials, including joe biden saying, there was a, a big lack of evidence. a western media outlets just went on a wall path, just plastering accusations that of russia was to blame for quote, attacking a nato country and putting the planet on the brink of world war 3. let's get to some of the uh, fina details. now here's our correspondent, 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 media started reporting with certain see that a russian missile had landed in poland as senior us intelligence official says, depression massage crossed into nate, a member of poland, killing 2 people, a senior us 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 of and as a $300.00 rocket. that's part of a soviet you're a missile defense system. that key of continued to use. 6 today, but so 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 all nato to attack russia. and both articles $4.00 and $5.00, which mandates member states to determine a collective response whenever one of them is attacked. and then it turns 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? so version of the story, you would have thought that us media would be more careful with their reporting,

especially after their epic blunders with the invasion of iraq. for example, whenever i was sold on the premise of weapons of mass destruction, which were never found, we assigned 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 and 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 were signed. a sale fell playout all over again, and never stopped to really remember the syrian chemical attack. or are there gadhafi viagra 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 could tell you about russian soldiers equipped with way, agra m. o. another thing it is clearly a military strategy to 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. 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 necessary, 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 does 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 lives in the media could have stopped it. if i had searched a been off 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 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. well, earlier my colleague, you know, neil spoke with broad costa and author action return, see who hopelessly highlighted the dangers and the recklessness of careless reporting about the ongoing 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 to know, go for 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 forces,

at least nato 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 now to 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 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 have demanded that no more

money be sent to ukraine. models are calling for an audit of the previous a that the biden administration has dispatched 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 lensky have in our government? this is outrageous. and the american people deserve answers. will the audit demand follows the u. s. having already spent nearly $55000000000.00 to ukraine this year with $37000000000.00 and extra help requested by biden, from congress. that is, get this 20 percent more money than the entire annual defense budget of that of the russian federation. well, so bitter battles in washington politics ramping up

a gear as the power dynamic shifts 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, well, should we say a fairly tough 2 years ahead for the biden administration to get his policies passed through. however, even that's not the biggest issue for the american leader, 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 will 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 overtime usaa 4th lieutenant colonel. karen, quit 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, you know, 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 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 it's voted on the shooting down of melissa airlines. flight m a 17. is a politically motivated, a 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 caught 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

hey, good district court sentence 3 people to life in prison and absentia for the downing of the plane of a don bass. july 2014 the men to russians on ukraine in denying all involvement. while a 4th defendant, a russian national, was acquitted. now, the court stated it didn't believe that the accused individuals intended to shoot down a civilian aircraft for leaving and said they were firing and military target. the judges also had this to say, you're sort of over them and you see that 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 our flight

made 17 crashed a few hours following take off after being hit by a missile. there had been supplied and transported from russia. the obama administration at the time repeatedly said it would make public intelligence report li, proving russia's involvement. although 8 years are on, it still hasn't done that. all 298 people on board, the boeing were killed. those convicted of the attack of in order to pay more than $16000000.00 euros 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, which was ignored by western investigators, is also 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, i'm sure, let's say our arguments in our views and please on those aspects,

you know, they were basically wired that all of the wreckage wasn't being investigated. i should say. now, among the reaction we got to this week's vote, it was from a dutch journalist of sonia van the end who claims a trial appeared to lack of objectivity, have listened to it was a shill 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, it was to be expected. did this show a trial? it would be like dead. and if we get to unprecedented in get that you receive that 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. 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, and it is, and that's it 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 fair trial and this is not i haven't thought so the festival of football, that is the world cup is officially kicked off in cut out if we're showing the live pictures before me behind me, i should say right now however, though, before a single ball has even been kicked the tournament, i had to say it has been engulfed in controversy with focus on the plan as best plays, essentially taking a back seat to a host of other was some describe them as media driven issues is reported isa ali in doha. this is of course,

the 1st well cut to be held in the middle eastern countries, and so forth and billions of people around the world. this is a source of excitement. however, there are some who thought, well, come back in much the same way we can see now for 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 with 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 jobs and so on. but that criticism has been coming in for a q. they should numbers being plucked out from the guardian, for example. and 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 a cultural issue, seems like a top and there rolls around drinking alcohol to big outpouring because talked just in the past few days, changing their minds and saying the alco not be stuck in stadiums. and of course around l g b t, right, 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, that trumps all of a human rights. this onslaught has been seen and the been lots of accusations that it's a talk prosy and no less than the fee for. ready president in santino himself yesterday in dough giving an impassioned plea and criticizing a pool, perhaps

a more arabic and colonial attitude towards cutoff that's i've had focus is 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. we should be apologizing for next 3000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people. look, countries from their 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 boys, both of us will do the same for america when they co host to walk in 2026 and asking for example whether americans use right trickle. 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 an ex volkhart. 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 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 close the law. so amid all the politics on friday, there's also a closed out of the tiny matter of a world cup to be held. so our website will take you through all the issues on and

off the pitching. thought it over the next month, r t dot com. you can get loads of the information that you need from the world. couple, 20 to 22. well, it's a nearly half step in the evening both here at moscow and in katara, where the world cup is officially kicked off. we'll have more details for youth when we were at the top, the top of a ah ah, ah

ah, do you watch it for almost completely removed from day to day watch the american people . and so the american people, i believe it provided good information left to their own devices. we're trying to on far more reasonable 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 colonial history that canada has with indigenous people and communities.

and it's a shameful history and a history that kind of doesn't like to talk about not until just into those election in 2015 with it abuse of colonization. finally shattered a on being 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 school victims the prime minister tackle the scandal from.