formation left to their own devices were calling to inform more recent foreign conclusions and are coming to about world events. right? ah, the headlines onto international europe's largest nuclear power plant comes under attack. moscow says the deputy 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 fears or raise the plans by cause a vote to find those in the breakaway province with serbian number plates on that cause but escalate already high tension here backtrack on is claims that russia was behind a deadly miss all strike on polish territory,

as it admits policy of the projectile of more than likely ukrainian. i thought that the u. s. nato would warsaw officials say it was likely laurens to buy a ukrainian at 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 as u. s. republicans pledge to counter every sent to financial aid allocate a big key of the part he wins. partial controlled congress with good to have you with us here for the sunday program from moscow, one ot 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 of a catastrophic nuclear incident. here's our senior correspondent, but i guess they have. well, this is the 2nd day that ukrainian artillery has been selling 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 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. yet more shells struck power lines. these a power lines that feed all the system safety systems, the coolant system, the waste management systems that feed the power plant that allow for its continued operation. it is unclear what those lodge caliber shells were launched by the weapons in particular. but there are, there are too many choices, either the, the soviet made systems that ukraine had in its hospital houses of but to,

but it is running low in those. it is entirely likely that the shells fired at the nuclear power station may be launched by u. s. and native supplied m 777 houses. for example, caesar self propelled artillery. canons, again showing the the, the danger of supplying you can continuing to supply ukraine with, with such large caliber, devastating artillery systems or 155 millimeter 152 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 sud, already various sources. they're blaming russia again for shelling itself, just as they did a blame russia for striking a poland. for example, when it emerged immediately after the de wasn't russia that it was ukraine behind that strike. similarly, it has already been proved that ukraine has struck at the nuclear power station or before in the months prior to today's and yesterday's events. nevertheless, there hasn't been

a lot of pressure internationally on ukraine to stop this random shilling that he's, you're putting the entirety of the european continent at risk. because if god forbid worst happens and there is a meltdown at this approach, a nuclear power plant, the, the largest in europe. there is no telling where the radiation the fall out, which way the, the winds will blow it. it's kathy with us, as sophia's precedent has warned, of hell on earth breaking out in kosovo. if local police continue to mistreat serbian residents of the breakaway province id escalation, talk to do to take place between both sides on monday. although service 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 with

a fears or escalation combat. the breakaway province plans to go ahead with controversial ideas to find any one driving in the area with so be in license plates. again, they 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 i subs from northern cause of oak walking and old public institutions resigned on mass. earlier this month. the u. s. foreign policy, chief warren, that serbia and cause of over on the brink of a dangerous crisis. blaming what a cold 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 in a bit to find any sort of recognition caught a jay ano plus obey inside. they want to law for serbia to recognize them in any

way, shape or form and license plates. so one way of doing it serves don't have to accept re republic of coastal license plate. that doesn't, it's not written anywhere in the agreement. you know, so what it is, the one that's violating agreements. and 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 cooperative saw, you know, they use sanctions. ah, humanitarians, bombings, interventions, et cetera. they've never sanctions, and you know, the court k or other albanian leaders were one obstructed that these agreements, which were signed under a western auspices. so get on 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, all extra legal arrests kidnappings. they don't use any of those instruments off in coastal and against odd to prime minister of so called coastal corte, which means that they're not really serious. you are watching the weekly, as 5 people were killed and 18, more wounded in a mass. shooting at a gay nightclub in colorado. the deadly incident happened in the us state. on saturday night, according to reports, they fell into a 22 year old male who open fire on patrons, club q and the city of colorado springs. one of the injured is in fact, the suspect himself is being treated in custody. 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 attacker's 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 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 the present. in that situation. we have to be fair and honest until the investigation is over. that's good 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 smith albert had via, of course, in some polish politicians, even called for an apology from kiev and for compensation as well for the families of the victims. now the incident led to a well a rare public rift between ukrainian, its west and allies. jo biden's, national security advisor was reported to a boss, kiev officials to tread carefully with their 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. what's your reaction with?

well, i guess 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, attacking a nato country and putting the planet on the brink of world war 3. well, let's to lift a cup us here and get to the smaller fina details is maureen, across from 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 officials says ration misses, crossed into nate, amend that 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 t of continues to used 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 on was 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 on challenged. looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re examining the claims as new evidence emerged or failed to emerge. we should have warned readers, we had information the basis for this was shaky than widely believed. those are exactly the kind of statements that should be published on the front page, and we're seeing the sale fell playout all over again, and never stopped to really remember the syrian chemical attack, or the good duffy viagas story. or the un claims about the russian army supply and its soldiers with via gra, because he says he,

the family. when you see the women and girls have been held for days and buildings and raped when you hear the testimony of these women who tell you about russian soldiers equipped with way, agra m. o. another thing, it is clearly a military strategy 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 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 analysts. i also was an interrogator, and indeed, brief the press. when we see i wanted to circulate this information on a particular issue. this information is not necessarily, not necessarily a lie and maybe a half truth, and we would pick out

a journalist i would go do the briefing and hope that he would put the information in print half truths. and this information, so does rail of 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 even off. if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda, they could have stopped it. but what does that mean? well, that means basically population spend like was and populations have to be fooling towards. so next time you see a headline in the mainstream media, don't be so quick to judge tweets or jump to conclusions because for all, you know, it might be a fake story generated to get a particular result. sometimes with undesirable consequences. and this week that

could have been world war 3. earlier, my colleague unit o'neill spoke with broadcast her and author action to return, see who highlighted the dangers and ultimately that have the recklessness of careless 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 regard to global annihilation, an a p associated press and all its fellow nato nations. stenographer media masquerading as journalists, wat 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 is forces at least nature 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 nations as it has a lie. the timeline here is started with lamar zalinski, immediately calling on nato countries to react. then the a p story comes out. and then the fact starts to emerge. there's a backwardness to all lab, isn't there? every one who went so quickly to assume that nature's 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. 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 ukraine and to start auditing where the money when we're funding ukraine's budget, with, with the term at $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 alecky 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 20 percent more money than the entire annual defense budget of the russian federation. so bitter battles in washington politics are certainly

ramped up a gear. the power dynamic shifts in america. it comes off to the republicans, won by control of the lower chamber of congress this week. it's ultimately setting up a tough couple of years for the, by the ministration to get his policies passed through. however, even that is not the biggest issue for the american leader, is the job he has promised to investigate joe biden himself. his team and his family's business dealings are investigation is about joe bad. and we already have evidence that would point that joe biden was involved with 100 buying and only so, so we will have the bank records and that's our, that's our focus. we're trying to stay focused on was joe biden directly involved with 100 buttons business deals. and is he compromised? that's our investigation. we were talking earlier with retired us air force, lieutenant colonel. karen create koski. now she believes that washington's policy towards ukraine is primarily driven by big business interests and profit

the united states. so defense establishment is making a lot of money, you know, 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 january, many of them do not see the benefit of conducting this proxy war and funding this proxy war in 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 it's well that of the world cup was officially kicked off and cut out. but even before a single bowl had been booted the tournament had been engulfed in controversy. the focus on the planet best players taking a backseat to a host of other or some describe media driven issues as a photo isa lee has this story 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 is a source of excitement. however, there are some who thought, welcome that in much the same way you can see an outpouring of criticism for kids are in the lead up to this. well, a lot of which is the most expensive in history. i some observations because

often over $200000000000.00 organizing that more than any other world. talk together a couple of these, all of you that the infrastructure that building is not just for the walk up but will be used going forward and they've been planning to update things like travel moves and so on. that criticism has been coming in the form of accusation 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 at bid is not linked to working on site. another line of attack from the west, the media has been around cultural issues, things like talk and their rules around drinking alcohol, a big outpouring because just in the past few days, changing their minds using the alco not be stuff in stadiums. and of course around

l g b t, right, as well, an issue which of course and watch of the world is alien before europeans and 4 north americans in particular, seems to be the priority. linda, right, that trump's all of a human rights. this onslaught has been seen and the beliefs of accusations that it's a talker see and no less than the fee for. ready present gianni in santino himself yesterday in dol giving an impassioned plea and criticizing a pool, have a more arrogant and colonial as cheap towards cutoff that's i've 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

next 3000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people. and the countries from their parts have been asking people to come here. they've been welcoming all people and saying come and enjoy football. and they to get asking people not to politicize. the events here like many that question, whether for example, those quoting, for boy quotes of how will do the same for america when they co host walcott 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 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 an expo coaching sort of funding criticism in the lead up to the world cup in russia, accusations of russia, hooligans, we're going to attack at people who 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 and tapes 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 course law appreciate you joining us here and off international as we come to from moscow. it's right now nearly half past 9 on sunday evening. it is breaking news this our hero naughty as we understand now at least a 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 were 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 bring up the numbers here, as we understand now, an area of some 2000 square meters is said to have gone up in flames. again,

this is a central district in moscow. it's nearly half past 9 sunday evening minus 3 degrees celsius outsider. for now, the cause of the fire is not yet understood. my more updates on that breaking news story available for you in the almost immediate future at r t dot com, as well as our tesa telegram channels. odyssey and gab, we hope to see you soon. ah ah oh oh oh oh, i

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i want to welcome to well to part during the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result was once described as the definition of insanity. but when democrats close to retaining the us senate, it is now being positioned that's almost a great new deal. can america pull itself from its current economic and political debacles by repeating tires mantras and holding on to the same old beliefs? while to discuss it, i'm now enjoined by rob you re author off zan economics. mr. your, it's great to see here, great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. as you are now, even before they say latest midterm elections, you've criticized the bite and 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? i heard the mid term results were better than i expected for the democrats. i replied that the estimates in the united states for having actual results for the oxygen are up to one month for weeks to, for we know whole center, which does country down as well. i can tell you with few hours, a technologically sophisticated country like the united states and the entire month time votes and so, so there's this situation in united states where doesn't seem to be a statement quite his of all holes in action and get results that are meaningful in the timely manner. amy, not be it may not be good for the country, but it certainly it seems to be good for, for the people in power is that.