solidarity with russia. now again, keep in mind the timing here, this is february this year. this was the time of the whole world was on tenterhooks expecting that putin was about to start a big war and invade ukraine. and there is brazil s president hopping into putin s proverbial lap. he goes to moscow, does this big three day official trip to moscow, has this big meeting, this big photo op with putin. he denied that putin would launch any war in ukraine. for good measure he explained how brazil was closer than ever to russia. don t worry world putin is great. he s not going to do anything bad. he s my guy. one week later of course putin invaded ukraine. which was awkward for the brazilian president. but now today, brazil s president has decided that he will handle that very embarrassing turn of events the way i m sure we all wish we could. he has decided that he will dump it down the memory hole and close the door on it. bolsonaro, brazil s president today decreed that all
after his putin meeting on that trip. president of brazil made some headlines. for saying that his country, brazil, was quote, in solidarity with russia. now again, keep in mind the timing here, this is february this year. this was the time of the whole world was on tenterhooks expecting that putin was about to start a big war and invade ukraine. and there is brazil s president hopping into putin s proverbial lap. he goes to moscow, does this big three day official trip to moscow, has this big meeting, this big photo op with putin. he denied that putin would launch any war in ukraine. for good measure he explained how brazil was closer than ever to russia. don t worry world putin is great. he s not going to do anything bad. he s my guy. one week later of course putin invaded ukraine. which was awkward for the brazilian president. but now today, brazil s president has decided that he will handle that very embarrassing turn of events the way i m sure we all wish we could. he ha
The international atomic energy agency said today, that the head of the iaea is going to be the mission of nuclear experts to chernobyl sometime in the next two weeks. to try to assess how much damage was done by the russian occupation there. they say they re going to do quote, nuclear safety security and radiological assessments. of the site. and they re also going to try to set up new monitoring systems. to replace the was the russians all looted and stole, presumably without even knowing what they were for. yeah but all this is happening of course while the war is still underway in ukraine. while russia please hell-bent on taking over all of ukraine or least all of it that they can destroy enough to seize. and while the russian soldiers that occupy the chernobyl exclusion zone or out of there now, that s why the ap was able to get in there today. russian soldiers as of right now, as of tonight, they re still at a nuclear power plant that isn t mothballed and stop andra don t like ch
Willing to do things that were previously thought of as unthinkable. today, i m conscious of the fact that the finished parliament, finland, they start debating whether or not they re gonna join nato. that s one of the things where he threatened that he would put nuclear weapons more in play, the nuclear weapons in the baltics if inland and perhaps wean think about joining nato. we also saw this test of very highly touted test of a presumably new type of nuclear weapon. today by russia, cnn today quotas officials saying there are more concern about the threat of russia s nuclear weapons than at any time since the cold war. how do you feel about that risk as somebody who say these things for living? i absolutely cannot rule out the possibility of russian nuclear use. i am less worried about this than i was a month or two back. at the beginning of the war, that first time of the war putin came out and made a very explicit nuclear threat. and i was pretty nervous at
no. i think that was a very good summary of the nuclear situation on the ground. my primary concern is about the nuclear power plant that russia is currently occupying at zaporizhzhia. that s an operating plant, it needs much more active cooling than chernobyl does. spent fuel on the site is much more highly radioactive. it s not surrounded by a large exclusion zone. so russia s behavior extra noble was reckless, it was dangerous. but i think the immediate nuclear power accident recurring this war has always been the operating plants. and fortunately russia has now left chernobyl. we had in a much first day than a found it. but as you read pointed out, zaporizhzhia is still under occupation. and zaporizhzhia, forgive my pronunciation, that s because they can get, it is a gigantic plant, is a currently