good information and left to their own devices were calling to far more reasonable foreign conclusions and are coming to about world events, right. a headlines off international. europe's largest nuclear power plant comes under attack. moscow. se zappa ology facility has been shuttled by key f. 13 times over the weekend, although ukraine's nuclear energy agency is accusing russia license to cause trouble for you to raise the plans by cause a vote to find those in the breakaway province with serbian number plates on that cause escalate already high tension he had backtrack on it's claims that russia was behind

a deadly miss all strike on polish territory, as it admits policy on the projectile of more than likely ukrainian. that's off to the u. s. nato would warsaw officials say it was likely longer to buy a ukrainian at defense system. also i had for $11800000.00 is going to assistance, including for direct budget support. the question is, does ukraine now the 51st state of the united states of america, u. s. republicans pledge to count every cent the financial aid allocate a big key of the park. he wins partial controlled congress with good to have you with us here for the sunday program from moscow, one r t international. this is the weekly with the top headlines up to date and of the week. so europe's largest nuclear power plot ends up at all. she has, once again come under attack, the russian defense minutes,

reclaim ukrainian forces fired more than a dozen rounds of artillery shells at the site in the last 24 hours. however, it reports say that ukraine's nuclear power agency has accused moscow of cowering out the strikes. meantime, the head of the international atomic energy agency is called for a protection zone around the plant and for an end to the shelling which does risk that of a catastrophic nuclear incident. here's our senior correspondent, but i guess they have. 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 are 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 shelves were launched by the weapons in particular. but there are, there are too many choices, either the, the soviet made systems that ukraine had in its hospital houses of but,

but it is running low 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 you can continuing to supply ukraine with, with such large caliber, devastating artillery systems or 155 millimeter 152 millimeter caliber shell can do a lot of damage. of course, the facilities, the new, the reactance themselves are, those are all zeros. your power plant are reinforced. they were built 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 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 a poem, for example, when it emerged immediately after that, it 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 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 fall out, which way the winds will blow it. it's kathy with us as serbia's precedent has warned, of hell on earth breaking out in kosovo. if local police continue to mistreat serbian residents of the breakaway province, i d escalation told to do to take place between both sides. on monday, although serbia's president isn't holding out much, customer lead at courtesy has shown that he does not want serves in kosovo. natasha, kosovo. police have no business in the north of kosovo and natasha. otherwise we'll have hell on earth. so be,

it will stand with its people in this case and serves will defend their homes of affairs or escalation commerce, the breakaway province plans to go ahead with controversial ideas to find any one driving in the area with. so being licensed bites again. vague will be fine. the fines are expected to start on monday. however, from april next year, police will be handed the power to seize cars with serbia, a suit registrations in protest at the new regulations as subs from northern cause of oak, working in all public institutions resigned on mass earlier this month. in the e. u. s. foreign policy chief war, that serbia and cause of over on the brink of a dangerous crisis, blaming what he called, quote, unnecessary and counterproductive. tensions. my spoke earlier with political analyst alexandra package. he believed the self proclaimed cause of our leaders made the move and a bit to find any sort of recognition a plus obey inside. they want to law for serbia to recognize them in

any way, shape or form and license plates on one way of doing it serves don't have to accept written republic of coastal license plate. that doesn't it's not written anywhere in the agreement. you know, so what it is, the one is violating agreements and you know, that's why we have this. so that's why we have this crisis in the west. as we all know, they have all sorts of instruments for putting pressure on any one that they deem to be on co operative. so you know, they use sanctions, ah, humanitarian bombings, interventions, et cetera. they've never sanctions. and you know, the 40 or other albanian leaders for one obstruct. uh huh. these agreements which were signed under a westerner auspices. so you know, in fact, you know, when, when the west says they're appealing, well, they don't appeal, they don't appeal to moscow. they don't appeal to beltway. they use pressure. do

you sanctions, there's threats. ah, they use, you know, extra legal arrests kidnappings. they don't use any of those instruments off in castillo and a guest on the prime minister in soho coastal court. which means that they're not really serious. you are watching the weekly, as 5 people were killed, an 18 mile wounded in a mass shooting at a gate night club in colorado. the deadly incident happened in the us state on saturday night. and according to report, the sailing does a 22 year old male who open fire on patrons at club q in the city of colorado springs. and one of the injured is in fact, the suspect himself, he's being treated in custody of the police chief that the 2 people inside the club confronted and fought with the gun when preventing further violence. as we understand a details on the attack, his motives remain unclear at this time. one of the big stories of the week, a key of back tracking on his previous claims that a missile, which it

a polish village this week killing to was fined by russia. ukrainian air force a spokesperson has conceded that several parts of the projectile are apparently ukrainian with president zalinski, who initially said that the missile had, in fact come from the russian military. despite adamant denials from moscow. until then, he also appeared 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, pissing nato territory with missiles. this is a russian missile attack on collective security. this is a really significant escalation. action is needed. i don't know what happened this time. we don't know 100 percent. i think. well, it also does know what happened on present in that situation. we have to be fair and honest until the investigation is over. let's get to give you some background

on this story. so basically a missile crashed and a polish village near the ukrainian border on tuesday, killing 2 civilians. a number of polish and ukrainian government officials were very quick to point the finger at russia, but soon after polish nato and us officials said it was most likely a ukrainian air defense, mis, all that would be it. of course, in some polish politicians, even called for an apology from ki evan, for compensation as well for the families of the victims. now, the incident led to a well array public rift between ukrainian western allies. as jo biden's national security advisor was reported to a boss, kiev officials to tread carefully with her accusations. the u. s. president himself also reported, refused to speak with lengthy on the phone after the incident. though, here's how the american leader responded when asked about ukraine's version of events. i

feel like it's by western officials, including joe biden. they're saying there was a lack of evidence. the western media outlets just went on the warpath. a plastering accusations that russia was to blame for, quote, a, talking a nato country and putting the planet on the brink of world war 3. well, let's say if the cup us here and get to the smaller fina details, is marina cost forever. 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 and miss as crossed into, nate amended poland, killing 2 people as senior us intelligence official. there was no proof of anything

at that time, only the 1st images of the blast images which showed what appeared to be fragments oven as a $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 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 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 we're seeing the sale fell, play out 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 testimony of these women could tell you about russian soldiers equipped with why 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 a wanted to circulate this information on a particular issue, this information is not necessarily not necessarily a lie and maybe

a half truth. and we would pick out a journalist. i would go do the briefing and hope that he would put the information in print half truths and visit information. so there's 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 they had searched enough, there hadn't reprinted government propaganda. they could have stopped it. but what does that mean? well, that means basically, population's done 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, neal folk with broadcaster and author action or a tendency who highlights the dangers and ultimately that have the recklessness of callous reporting about the ukraine 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 to polish of farmers killed by a zalinski is forces at these. nader diplomats have been briefing that zalinski is

a liar. and i'm not sure how that 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 zelinski, 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 was be invoked, i think, should be discounted from future. a 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. also calling for an audit of the previous a, the biden administration had 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 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 audit demand follows the u. s. 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 20 percent more money than the entire annual defense budget of the russian federation. so bitter battles in washington politics have certainly

ramped up a gear. the power dynamic shifts in america. it comes off to the republicans, one back control of the lower chamber of congress this week. it's ultimately setting up a tough couple of years for the biden administration to get his policies passed through. however, even that is not the biggest issue for the american leader, is the g. p has promised to investigate joe biden himself, his team, and his family's business dealings. our investigation is about joe bad 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 retired a u. s. air force lieutenant colonel, karen crit cowski. now, she believes that washington's policy towards ukraine is primarily driven by big

business interests and profit. the united states defense establishment is making a lot of money, you know, through 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 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. so the festival of football that as well, that of the world cup was officially kicked off and cut off. but even before a single bowl had been booted the tournament, hoping engulfed and controversy focused on the planet best players taking a backseat to a host of other or some describe media driven issues as a photo isa. ali has this story from doha. this is of course, the 1st world cup 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 thought, welcome that 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 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 but will be used going forward and they've been planning to update things like travels and so on. but criticism has been coming in 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 in cutoff, since they one that well cut 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 there rolls around drinking alcohol, a 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 watch of the world is alien before europeans and for north americans in particular seems to be the priority is a right that trumps 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 part of. ready johnny in santino himself yesterday in doll giving an impassioned plea in criticizing a pool, had a more arrogant and colonial attitude towards cutoff it's night, 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 years before starting to give moral lessons to people in the country for their part. i've 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 we 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 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 youth cross law appreciate you joining us here and asking international as we come to from moscow. it's right now nearly half past 9 on sunday evening. it is breaking news that our hero nazi as we understand now, at least 2 people have been killed and a large fire which is broken out in a central district of moscow. as we understand the flames ripped through a warehouse where flowers are being stored, have a look at these pictures right here. more than a 100 firefighters dispatched to the scene, we understand they are still battling the blaze. when you the numbers here,

as we understand now, an area of some 2000 square meters is set to go up in flames. again, this is a central district in moscow. it's nearly half past 9 sunday evening minus 3 degrees celsius outside. for now, the cause of the fire is not yet understood. more updates on that breaking news story available for you in the almost immediate future at r t dot com as well as our telegram channels, odyssey and got hope to be used to use i ah ah

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before they say latest mid term elections, you've criticized the biden administration for ineptness, saying that the problem with the liberals is that they believe their own b s. but this strategy seems to be a working out handsomely for them, at least for now, because the mid term results are going to be much better than expected. how do you interpret that? well yeah, i heard the mid term results were better than i expected for the democrats. i would point that the estimates in the united states for having actual results for the election are up to one month for reach to, for we know, whole center, which does country bonus. why? what can i do with few hours? a technologically sophisticated country like united states.