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obtained by cnn suggest otherwise. cnn s sam kiley has more on a potential diplomatic breakthrough in an attempt to avoid a nuclear disaster. here s more from sam. yes, it could be seen as some kind of diplomatic breakthrough that the russian president has endorsed the idea that the international atomic energy authority, the body responsible for inindividuallating, if you like, nuclear power stations around the world, should be allowed to go to the zaporizhzhia nuclear power station and check it out, and install and reinstall the monitoring systems. the fact of the matter, though, is that this is a repeated russian offer and amidst a russian rejection of the international community s demands that they demilitarize the nuclear power station and the town around it. the reason the international community wants to see that is that this has been the locus of fighting. it s effectively on the front line. we know for an absolute fact, jim, that there are missiles being fired ....
From ukrainian eyewitnesses. we ve got no independent corroboration of that. in this wider context, of course, this is of deep concern to the international community because in the view of lately, the french president, emmanuel macron who rang vladimir putin in the last 36 hours asking him to dial down, to deescalate around that nuclear power station because if there were a significant accident, the words of the turkish president, it could be another chernobyl. in the words of the u.n. secretary general, it would be suicide. it would be suicide for the russians because, of course, they ve got no means of communicating some kind of or controlling some kind of meltdown in that environment. but this is a clear indication of just how things are so difficult to solve, right across the front lines whether it s nuclear weaponry or the much wider diplomatic issues. jim. thanks to sam for that report, and this just in, actor ....