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The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, is leading a team to inspect the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and has described the mission as "very complex". They are walking into a live conflict, with continuing sporadic shelling in the area. The aim is to spend a few days stabilising the situation and the agency's chief wants a permanent monitoring mission at the plant -- Europe's largest. The Ukrainian ambassador to the IAEA, Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, told Newshour's Razia Iqbal that the IAEA team would not establish who was doing the shelling, but it will look at the safety of the plant. (Photo shows the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Credit: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)
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