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russian forces still occupy europe's biggest nuclear power plant at zaporizhzhia. the situation there remains unstable. my guest, rafael grossi, director general of the international nuclear watchdog, the iaea, has been there in an effort to avert disaster. with zaporizhzhia in mind, why is he pushing for more nuclear power right across the world? thank you, it's good to be with you again, hello. it's great to have you on the show. i think we have to begin with the situation in zaporizhzhia, the huge nuclear power plant in ukraine. you've spent months trying to stabilise the situatio...

silva. now on bbc news, it's time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. russia's invasion of ukraine has generated all kinds of shock waves military, humanitarian, economic and nuclear. leave aside putin's dark hints about russia's readiness to contemplate first use of a nuclear weapon, russian forces still occupy europe's biggest nuclear power plant at zaporizhzhia. the situation there remains unstable. my guest, rafael grossi, director general of the international nuclear watchdog, the iaea, has been there in an effort to avert disaster. with zaporizhzhia in mind, ...

Inspectors in an unplanned and programmed, not programme inspection to a place that, by the way, we have visited just a few months ago. you know, the first one, this r&d thing, we had visited in the month of september. but nevertheless, we said, ok, there are these allegations. we go, we clarify this thing. we put it to rest. i guess, but you've got other very important work on your plate, as well. so let's quickly turn to another arena, highly contentious arena, and that is iran. you are not a direct participant in the negotiations to try to revive the deal which control — or should control...

So, two of the teams have, i believe, completed their inspection work. so you tell me... there is one that is finishing right now. right, tell me what the initialfindings are. i will be able to do that in the next few hours. it would be incorrect for me to do it now because they haven't returned. i mean, they haven't reported back to me. does it fill you with alarm, mr grossi, that the russians are making these allegations? because we've seen a pattern of behaviour... of course! this is exactly why we decided to take this unusual, extraordinary steps to send inspectors in an unplanned and prog...