is this idea that everybody does deserve it, and that's just by virtue absorbing here the, the international atomic energy agency chief warns of a potential nuclear incident at russia's 1st nuclear power plant, which has previously been targeted by you find in forces world leaders and detect giant rally behind the telegram founder pub, older office defends government, arrest him over 12 criminal charges. some are calling it a persecution of the people. meanwhile, the chief of facebook and instagram dropped a bombshell letter openly admitting to suppressing information about the club and 19, and the biden family corruption on this platform at the request of the us government, [000:00:00;00]

the coming to from our headquarters in moscow. this is our t international, i'm rachel rupe on the head of the international atomic energy agency says, russia's course can. nuclear power plant is at risk of an atomic incident. raphael groceries spoke after personally inspecting the site in the embattled border region . the danger all to proceed in a nuclear accident has emerged near here regarding the operation of the new capped power plant. what i seen is that the station is operating at, in very close to normal conditions. however, it is clear that all of that does not deny the fact that that has been activity near here. i was informed about the impact to drones,

how he was shown. some remnants goes signs of the impact they had. and, and i'm far from that. the fact that we have, as i said military activities a few miles from here and a few kilometers from here to make it. yeah, i mean media at point of attention. we've had a chance to be it directly from the head of the international atomic energy agency . rafael quasi and indeed has confirmed definitely threats over nuclear disaster here at the close nuclear power plant, which is just me, a columbus is away from the place where i'm standing right now. he's very real. i make no mistake. he did say that right now, according to what he has seen, the plans use that pricing. i'm under the conditions that are close to normal, but last could change in an instant basically, according to the heads o v i a d,

hey, this thing that sets apart this facility here from many of us, is that the type of a react to it uses and boost reactor is not protected. so while other facilities may have very submitted on those built around at the nuclear reactance that are actually designed to withstand a hits that can be compatible to an airplane pulling down on them. this facility, it simply does not see the scope of quite a simple structure uh, very much of a like a residential building which is not designed to withstand a need somebody to bolt source. and this is very dangerous because one of the things that i have brought file across the has confirmed that he has seen evidence direct evidence of uh, cv drums and face control stripe scattering down the case of this loop at facility . now, of course need to know if that's the beauty of the blank because it is simply piece of he doesn't not have a mandate. so under forty's,

not likely they say you don't do that, their job is to observe and reports. and again, most assign blame, but we see it from russia. indeed ukraine has talk. he says that the phrase, the, the so the degree overthrown, that they found do just a 100 meters away from a nucleus storage waste, a facility. so while a rough of boss has not confirmed it, i will brother, he abstained who carried out the strike. well, it's k a k forces who are right now advancing that he's trying to advance of the coast region that has the one speculation that the nuclear power plant itself could be. one of the goal was to be captured on this power ponds. 51 of the goals and in the wake of this process, or see the head of the international atomic energy agency has said that while leads facilities as leverage or as blackmail materials and no attack

should happen. basically, you should be carried out to gauge a nuclear power plant. it 1st thing is to observe the basic principles that the i e and i myself established at the united nations security council. namely that under no circumstances a nuclear power plant should be attacked. that a new camp out that should never be needed to rise at the nuclear power. that's your task board. each safety systems are deep and without any interruption. if we can assure these things, i'm sure we would be fine. we are suggesting certain technical things, which we believe would be useful in terms of avoiding the possibility of, of these. but at the end of the day, again, these may sound silly come on sense and very simple. don't that back and look up our problem. so this message do not set tax facilities like you wanted the course region is the message that the off i will see will be bringing to key of next week

. this is what he told me when i asked him what his, what the purpose of his trip will be. and basically what he's, he's gonna tell zalinski, basically a message of peace, a message or were strange. and basically a message you to have free body all around the world to keep the heads cool. i'm most allow a massive nuclear dissolves to happen. so moscow is working closely with the i a to ensure the safety of both occurs and that is that promotion nuclear power plants that's according to the head of rushes, atomic energy corporation. that's not good. i see on the screen our colleagues responded to the invitation quite promptly. they arrived and thoroughly examined the situation at the plant. they saw the tension that exist today in crew charge of the side of the operating plant, the construction site, and saw the set of measures that ensure safety. first of all, from the workers and the facility itself. the i a shared our concern that an attack

on the occurs can be pieces, could be a hit on the entire industry, and would cause the repairable damage to the development of nuclear power plants in the whole world. the results of specific attacks have been presented and there can be no ambiguity as to who carried out from the strikes. the i a, a, operates by its own rules and norms. we will work together patiently and continue to bend our line. but we realize that in addition to the a public work, there's also work that escapes the television cameras. and it's not published on the pages of newspapers and you need diplomatic work. we have agreements that this work will go in the right direction w, as in an objective one is showing where the threats come from and what needs to be done to prevent the realization of these threats. this is not the 1st and far from being our last meeting, but it should be noted that mr. grossey made several more of the goals on this,

on our interaction with the exception rogia a nuclear power plant as well. and when it remains at the top of our agenda, as well as the curse can be, if we agreed on the i use immediate response to any manifestations of aggression. both ends up rogia and the cruise for each of our correspond that had a chance to interview the mayor of cortez who broke down the local situation in detail for more than 2 years now. and so we have realized that the course can nuclear power plant is close to the border. security measures were already strengthened at that time and for those and the events that took place now in early august have of course, and they'll have left their mark and the measures had been further increased. every resident of the town now knows that if there is a rocket alert, one should go into a windowless room and wait for the alert to end. before the beginning of the school year. the question arose as to how the educational process will take place is

welcome. now we are starting it in an online format and we are preparing additional safety measures. and of course, we want the children studying in our schools to receive a quality education for now, additional security measures will be taken in the towns, educational institutions, or we are constantly improving them, saying that since the nuclear plant is closest to the border with some of these, we understand the dangers that we have today. everyone wants to live in a town where there is a guarantee, there's nothing bad will happen. all law enforcement bodies are now working as a single mechanisms. sure for to there is the ministry of defense. there is the russian national guard. there is the ministry of internal affairs. there is also the territorial defense of the town and then at the moment from well, there are prepared people who have been training for over 2 years. and that's quick us just how active is the enemy now, according to your data in trying to arrange such

a very dangerous provocations at the coast and p. p itself. it's loaded so we're, so i'm, is this not for discipline. if you yourself are here, you have heard the rocket alert several times today, so this alert goes through the entire course region, including chord chop. it is clear that we have a potentially dangerous facility and a nuclear power plants are interested in the entire world. community knows the cases when they're been nuclear accidents on this just to remind ourselves that it was so this is the 3 mile island in the us. in 1979. this is that your noble accident in the soviet union in 1986 i needed to send as well as google shame in japan in 2011. we've seen the consequences. and now we faced the same things here. the head of the i a said that not only ukraine, but all of europe, flu field, the consequences sort of, it depends on which way the winds blow up. if something does happen to residents, of course you on top realize that there is

a potentially dangerous facility here that your noble catastrophe, todd great lessons to all mankind, including us like cabins invasion of vs course. the region was supposed to stop moscow's advance on the battlefield. in don bass, that's the admission from ukraine's top military commander who says the results have so far fallen short as the one of the goals of the course of operation was to divert enemy forces from the direction of pol cross cross the enemy understands this. and so they continue to concentrate efforts on pop ups because of the course of operation has diverted the enemy's forces. 230000 soldiers were transferred and the number is growing, which are the enemies still continues to gain strength in this area. um, meaning like a city of pop ross mentioned by the ukranian general there is currently in the hands of kids forces, but the russian military is gradually pushing toward the area as part of its main operation to liberate the donuts for public. meanwhile,

in russia's cursed border region, a fresh revenue of you find in attacks on residential areas has been pushed back. according to moscow, it says you have has lost at least $6600.00 troops and hundreds of armored vehicles during this invasion so far. us all right, joining us from florida now its former c i a analyst and ceo of burg associates that larry johnson, larry uh, according to your cranes, top military commander. the invasion of kirk is not pulling up the way you have. what's your assessment of the situation at the moment that he can't get his story straight for starters? so 1st he claims that the operation was designed to get russia to shift soldiers from the don boss in order to relieve pressure on ukrainian soldiers facing off against the russian advance and forced them to go up the curse. gimme claims that that's what happened. but that didn't have the 200,

he says that 230000 fired the translation correct. 230000 russian soldiers were moved up there. well, that's not the case either. russia already had troops stationed nearby. russia did not have to draw down any of its forces and the done boss, that's number one. number 2, the only one who actually pulled forces from the don boss, dynette, skin, particular, and re deployment occurs with starsky. and, and, and that is widely acknowledged by many ukrainian atlas is having been an incredibly stupid, foolish thing to do. because it has now weakened, the defenses ended on boss to such an extent that we are seen. russian forces advancing multiple kilometers a day, taking some entire towns and villages in taft. without it, you know,

having to fire a single artillery round. meanwhile, and cursed. they like to tell that they were controlling a 1000 kilometers square kilometers. that's just nonsense. there. they're in intrenched positions in specific locations. they don't control the routes of communication, the roofs. they don't, they don't have the means to be easily resupplied without having re supply vehicles destroyed. they don't have the ability to use arbor at. well. it is russia that controls the skies. so, did this, that when you've got a senior military commander like source ski. so detached from around for this, it tells you how much trouble the ukrainian, sorry, i just cut out a lot of our zaleski has said. another aim of the cursed offensive was to force russia to negotiate on better terms. better terms for ukraine. is that likely to happen? so no, it's not. it's not going to happen. in fact, if they've been tracking comments made by both of the foreign minister,

so good law interrupt loved it off. and the deputy foreign minister of mister rabbit, cough us both have been very, very forceful in recent days in a way that is uncharacteristic and knowing something having studied what both man, how they conduct themselves in public, they're not speaking in 10 perfectly. what the reflecting is that, and then they, they've made it very clear that the west has crossed a line. now that this invasion into russia that is taking place, incurs represents a step over the line. this is when you got german forces with german tanks rolling through territory that was once controlled by the nazis during the great patriotic war, awakens memories and russia that are not easily extinguished. and so they've made it very,

quite the point that the united states in the past has been made much the provocative tour. and it's hidden behind its geographic barriers provided by the atlantic and pacific ocean. and they both made it clear that the united states could no longer be should no longer feel safe, that it is plain with fire. and the fire the united states is plain with is radio potentially radioactive. even if the prospect of peace talks is not possible at this moment, larry, does it look like russia and ukraine can maintain the conflict from much longer at this rate? you know, ukraine can be trained, doesn't have, they don't have the reserves. they don't have the productive could be a capacity to resupply themselves with artillery shells with patriot missiles, with hi maurice. and the fact of the matter is neither does the united states nor the rest of nato. what this war has exposed is actually the military and the

lack of mil, adept within nato, and in the united states in particular, that it does not have vast reserves of weapons in warehouses. that is basically gone to the cupboard and nap the, the cupboard and the cupboards out there. that if they are forced into any kind of sustain military conflict with russia, they would exhaust the resources within a spade of the $2.00 to $3.00 weeks. for the maximum, the other element here is lack, lack of military power. the west simply cannot match russia in terms of the combat capable, military force this deployable to the field. the u. s. claims that its restrictions on the use of americans applied weapons by ukraine inside russian territory is still in place in cuba of wants those restrictions lifted up. do you think the us will ultimately give care of what it's asking for? because i think the us so far has given care of everything that as, as,

as well guy, i think they're going to come up with are coming up with a back door method was just reported within the last 2436 hours that ukraine has developed ok, what is essentially they call it a drawing, but it's essentially a cruise missile capable of traveling 700 kilometers, read capable of doing the kinds of things they want. the other us supplied missiles, do i guarantee you? i don't have any inside knowledge. nobody's given me a classified brief, but i bed the bed of that large sum of money. that, that cruise missiles, that drone was produced with the help of the c i a and british intelligence though it would be not unlikely for something like the old lockheed martin skunk works to produce that. so they, they dress it up, i call it i called her the transgender cruise missile itself identifies as ukrainian, but it's probably a for an origin. larry,

the curse of nuclear power plant isn't far from the fighting. russia says the site has already been attacked by ukrainian drones. the head of the i, a raphael grossey, has visited the facility and warned against targeting at what sort of risk already potentially looking at here to. well, i think you, i think one of the risk for that for that particular facility, as i understand it, it does not have the normal containment building that is around some of the more modern nuclear power plants. but i think still ukraine has limited ability to strike it. it's not, and that's not to say that they're not going to continue to try. but uh, you know, russian is already on notice that they are the intended to hit. so with appropriate air defense systems in place, i think frankly the, the plan will be secure. but i don't dismiss that the both the ministry of

defense and the ministry of foreign affairs are going to use any effort to try to hit that plan for all the propaganda purposes that they can in order to correctly paint the ukrainians is a rogue nation. that have no regard whatsoever for the safety of people with when it comes to nuclear power plants. right, well, if it there from r c i a analyst and ceo of verb associate's, larry johnson. larry, thank you. great to have you on. thank you, rachel. well, it has been 3 days since the arrest of telegram ceo pub altura, of upon his arrival in paris. the messaging platform is the chief, has been detained in connection with 12 alleged crimes including complicity and drawn, profiting, and of the distribution of sexual content on his platform. tech times politicians and some world leaders have sharply responded to the french move, a really degree. you saw those problems, the rest of this for young fellow?

yes, they are that strict. when it comes to the internet, they took him and put him in jail and threatened him that he could serve a 20 year prison terminal. that's because bob holder of that as violated their governance over the internet, you better while you're here to help with that. while i think the governance is not acceptable, no official through the country, you have a responsibility and permission from what you can't let anyone, mileage a governor and others and what that should not happen. some of them may be in the broadcast and i'm sick talk, live, instagram, facebook lifetime, etc, etc. on tele grandma, even though the in prison ins found her in that pulse of persecution, maxim pressure and blackmail in the twisting, the arm of social media and alternative communication networks around the world for to see the use of power globally persecution to substrate. because people do rove is an interesting case. back in 2018, russia started a mild legal prosecution on that day, 26 organizations from the west side, the request to the russian state,

not to violate freedoms. it's only being 5 or 6 years. it's become completely normal for them to arrest him to the mon, the shut down if telegram in the western world. everything has become reversed. things are changing in accordance with wisdom interest. the international leaders aren't the only ones left to outraged by possible drugs arrest in paris are to so my chart took my call to get nicky aaron through the reactions. so after drugs of rush, these type giants are freaking out and naturally so because they're scared that they would be next in line. i mean these type c os are sending on spin lot to ice right now. it goes from illinois, most of the seals from bull who even came out and vocalize the reason why he decided to leave europe stating that there are concerns is something similar. this happened to tell them what happened to his own platform. but some theories did come up as to why the southern war has started against telecom,

and one of those series is because of ukraine. now if you are a telegram user, you would know that telegram is one of the very few media is that still allows people to see what is happening in the front lives in real time. it allows you to read and see things that are being ignored or even shadow bands in other medias. so maybe tells or i'm not being controlled by any government has made western governments a little bit worried. but let's hear more on that. when you say you are committed to freedom of expression, you are lying. we have a letter from france that proves this. without a doubt, we had to shutdown rumble in france because you have no commitment to freedom of expression. it would be helpful to the global public to understand more details about why he was arrested. the us government declared war on those parts of the internet that are not under its control. anything that is not subject to the us deep state mass surveillance dragnet, like silicon valley big tech hostages must be assimilated or destroyed a mega blowed was the beginning,

then tick tock. now telegram and we know who's next, but definitely is best mood of nervousness right now. that this could be the tip of the iceberg, the more people will be targeted is there anybody here should be worried? one name in particular of kept on coming up over and over and that is ellen must. now, we have heard read comments from a former us official, benjamin a retired lieutenant and american politician who was a key witness to trumps impeachment. now he was quite open in his breath, too, in mazda and essentially hinted that may be, must will be next a while during the whole front citizenship is arrested for violating french rule. this has broder implications for all the social media, including twitter. there's a growing intolerance for platforming, this and phone malign influence and the growing appetite for accountability must could be none of us. i mean, it is clear that some agenda here is being pushed. it's,

it is silence the media as much as you can at. but if the parent, the script, the intended scripts, then it's fine and freedom of speech is suddenly on the works. now other european officials also came forward warren and must not come to europe and they've highlighted europe, censorship issue in europe, we are now faced with censorship. with the stink of regime long live freedom of thought and of speech will be the next to be get the great and inconvenient you on mosque. the european union is threatening a law must with dire sanctions and oft or what's happened to the tele drawn boss. i strongly advise you law must not to come to you or even to the court hearing. he has with me in september in dublin. don't come a long. i've been asking you to come, but don't come. no. because you cannot be sure that you will not meet the same

fate. so it seems that the situation in europe with free speech is quite tight, whether it be journalists or the c. o is it seems that anyone that goes against the their narrative is over with. there's a lot of names being jobs and yet logs the book. it doesn't seem to be one of them . why is that? now? a few days after the seo of telegram have all durable arrest, as after burton dropped this bombshell of a letter, essentially at claiming that the democrats were forcing him to censor speech on his platforms. in, in 2021, senior officials from the biden administration, including the white house, repeatedly press, star teams for months to assess or certain call read 19 content, including humor and so tar, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree i believe the govern pressure was wrong, and i regret that we were not more outspoken about it. now, it wasn't just about cove and he also wanted to mention that he was requested to

add sense or the new york post story on the biden family controversy. corruption almost on the eve of the 2020 election. now the pretext that was used for that is that that was a russian misinformation. that as we've learned, that if anything goes wrong in the us, somehow the russians are the ones to blame. however, the 5 and family corruption scandal turned out to be confirmed even by of congress investigation and now suffer birth admits himself that there was no basis to claim the story was russian. this information it's has been made clear that the report and it was not the russian, this information, and in retrospect we shouldn't have demoted the story. dora has always taken pride in, refusing so cooperates with authorities and well russia did not arrest him for he's a strong stance. he did end up in front of jail over the same issues, but i don't like door of soccer bird has been directly cooperating with authorities for

a very long time. and maybe that is actually why he has not been arrested like europe has. so what it looks like here essentially is that if you cooperate with a government, then you're safe. but if not, then you go to jail. now, mind, do the west claims to be really committed to these ideals of freedom of speech, right? they praise themselves to be this place where rights a we speech are taken very seriously, but the door of arrest has no shown us something different. it has shown us all the why, so it's no wonder that it became some kind of wake of call for the other type science around university professor aside, mohammed mirandi says the rest of the telegram chief is a heavy reputational below for the entire western world. the writing government was upset to that he, the telegram did not cooperate with the iranian government at any level whatsoever . and whether the running government is right or wrong. the point is that the

rodney has never tried to arrest him. but the west which insist that they are free and they are, they support human rights. they have arrested him and there is no condemnation in the wes, this is another heavy blow to the west because the, the, the one guys are the, or the genocide in gaza has expose the west for being a brutal and barbaric violating human rights. more than any other part of the world on a, on, on the one hand, especially as are doing it openly and in front of the eyes of the world. and on the other hand, they are now cracking down on social media type forms, whether it's meta, whether it's x or twitter or telegram is clear that the west is clamping down on the media. and what they want is basically people to, to live within the framework of the narrative or a bay, or listen to the narrative produced by the legacy media. and so the west has,

has shown itself, needs to be supportive of human rights, nor to be supportive of freedom of expression. the us justice department has filed a revised indictment against donald trump. accusing him of trying to overturn the results of his 2020 presidential election lost a joe biden. the new case aims to circumvent a recent supreme court ruling. the state of trump is at least a presumptive li, immune from criminal prosecution for actions during his presidency. the republican nominee has it back at the latest move, calling it a which hans and an attempt to interfere. and this is valid where he faces cala harris. all right, well that is a look at the news for now. in the meantime, be sure to visit our website, our team. com for the very latest breaking news and updates by the