all the big, these young catch, our husbands staging, simulation and conducting training exercises for security forces. a number of global safety indexes, right? cuts are at the top. last year, 200000 fans attended the era feet because there's hope that perhaps this november's world cup will some day be a kind of dry rod for hosting the olympics. ah . a dramatic rescue as people get desperate in flood, devastated pakistan way they've been more than a 1000 deaths ah,

watching al jazeera live from to how with me for the battle. also ahead warnings of a potential nuclear accident as both russia and ukraine. again, accuse each other of shelling near these operations nuclear power plants and nasa reaches for the moon again at this time with its most powerful rocket. yet i had a mand luna mission in 3. i'm the dream baba in blackpool in northern england, where the cost of living crisis is already hitting a halt, where people are now facing a huge rise in energy prices. ah, we begin in pakistan where relief and rescue operations are underway in many parts of the country. more than a 1000 people have died after weeks of rain and flooding. these are the scenes from a rescue operation in baluchistan. military helicopters have been deployed to help

those stranded by flood waters. people are desperate for how they're running out of food and drinking water. they also need medicine to combat the threat of waterborne diseases. bladder gone, a lot of flood water entered our village. our homes are submerged, some of our relatives have died and cattle to not receiving any relief from the government. i'll go with them and many have been left to fend for themselves. in parts of baluchistan, people are wading through neg, deep water to safety, carrying whatever they can command haida is in the town of chester in northern pakistan, where people were forced to flee as flood waters threatened downs after reeking have walk in by lou, just on and southern province of the florida now reeking, have off and the type of thing for robin, the district of georgia and north shirt off a badly head. as you can see, more people are now taking refuge on the i'm one more direct link for our do. it's

about the people that have been here for the past 3 days. and pro i share sometimes using more of the how did that already on the water, on both sides of the road, what we've been able to see it entire really dated under water. got me into the guide in order to dry your how do i still in the my family, the go daddy junior? we are open skies. we need dentist and bedding as we have lost our entire belongings. the flood has washed away everything. they've been able to bring out their life or their cross country or whatever and how and missing. and that is going to be a huge lot when you think about the fact that gone, she'll go again, register dropped really badly. dami, the government of gods has not taken adequate measures to mitigate the effect of climate change. it was over 10 years ago that buckets on so that it was flags. and

it was that the government would be prepared to deal with another crisis. given the fact that they were already warning in play over 50 percent of the country population is now under red because the water barn and the fact that it takes some time for them to read better, their lie and al jazeera zane the driving is in the city of la kana, in 7 pakistan residents here it tell us that what we're looking at now that water wasn't there before and they say it looks like a lake. it looks like an ocean. it looks like a see. and what was one there? were there homes, villages where people live and what we're hearing from the folks that are speaking . this is decorae country. where steve's room relatively, really there is less police presence here and they are worried about things being

stolen. they're worrying about what few possessions they were able to salvage from their flooded homes being now stolen from them. so what they're doing is that they're loading up whatever they can. they're carrying it in shoulder, deep neck, the water, they're carrying out whatever they can on their head, loading them up on trucks, one village at a time per truck trying to get out of here. they don't know where they're going for . sure. but they say what they're looking for, they're not waiting around for help. they're going out looking for work, any labor work that they can find. you're looking for aid, they're looking for ways to save and feed their children. frauds are also causing destruction in neighboring of ganeth than thousands of homes and large areas of farmland have been destroyed, tally beneficial, see at least 182 people have side lower burden my me reports. this is the aftermath of weeks of lashing rain in the front suns cuz she district the floods proved too much for these mud bricked homes. as waterloo,

finn families were forced out last week. people were hoping for some respite that didn't happen. that the flooding was unprecedented. in the history of to she, it destroyed everyone's houses, livestock and agriculture lands. people are homeless, they sought refuge in the mountains. across the north and east, the government says building 20000 homes have been damaged all swept away, and the 200 live lost. rescue workers say it's compounding most pu crises from an economy in free full to spreading disease and a shortage of food. we are in the midst of harvest season, a harvest that many families relied on for their economic well being. afghanistan has been in the midst of one of the worst humanitarian crises, the sierra that has been fueled by a worsening economy. a few kilometers north nangle hall. these were the scenes on

saturday people waiting to be rescued after deluge of water in gulf that forms destroying much needed fruit trees and crops. in the years since the taliban had been in power, afghanistan has been logic cut off from international funds. now it's asking for help was to come mo, mo, who, more than 1000000 families need urgent aid from foreign countries, such as clothes, trends, and food. and i was out of here, people at the west chum and border crossing between afghanistan and pakistan, who caught up in the flooding magazine rescue operations are on the way. boat with more rain full coast. people have little time to grapple with the loss of life and livelihood. lore about among the al jazeera, at least 7 people have been killed. rafter, severe flooding in eastern sudan,

torrential rains destroyed around 4000 homes in cassandra states, forcing people into make shelters. nearly 70000 hector's of agricultural land is underwater. the state government is appealed for humanitarian age. thousands of people have been killed by flash funds into don in the past 2 weeks. the the war in ukraine and russian rocket and artillery strikes have have cities near these operation nuclear power plant. fighting near the facility has talked years of radiation leak. it's been under russian control since the early days of the war. officials in the parade or have begun distributing id tablets to residents. the move comes after 2 or the reactors at the nuclear power plant we're disconnected for a time on thursday. traceable is following developments from keith. while the sub what he can clear, the power plant continues to be a big concern,

not only for ukraine, but also for the international community. the russian ministry of defense accuses the ukrainian forces. also, bombing, at least twice, very, very close to where the nuclear power plant is located. they sell that shilling was very close to where the nuclear fuel is located and where the radioactive waste is located. so there is a major concern on going there, but also ukrainian force is from the ukranian government and saying that it's the russian for actually shilling from the plan. the plan was taken back in march. the russian forces established a military base there from where they have been attacking ukrainian forces to other part. so definitely it's a big, big concerns. what been going on there, and that's why or 30 have started distributing i o d peels in cities around the plant lead. don't forget that ukraine already suffered from a nuclear disaster back in the, in the past to know well is one of them. so the very concerned that something like

this could happen again. i didn't pills are the ones that help you protect the thyroid gland if anything where to go wrong. and while this is happening there, the fighting is still ongoing, especially in the southern part of the country. where we have heard that ukrainian forces have been targeting crucial military bases. russian military bases around that area. there's also been they have been repelling russian attacks, trying to take over the southern part of the country charities in the u. k. a warning, the dramatic increase in the cost of electricity and gas will completely wipe out the incomes of poor households. millions are now faced with a choice of feeding their families or heating their homes. and even barbara reports from baffle in northern england. it matched a football club. and like every her game, they're collecting donations for the local food bank. but things are slow, very slow. this supporters club right by the stadium is part of the initiative. it says donations have dropped, his energy price rises bite. you know,

people are not able to give us what they would normally would like to because a very i don't know, very generous football funds at a local community because we all from round here. and it's a real shame, bobby much a long time blackpool fund, but he says an 80 percent increase in energy bills will seem to stop him leaving the house. so have to put the shells her because he eat nice looking for wolves every day. and again, post the mental health a short distance away visitors are making the most of the sunshine. this town's been a popular holiday destination since the 19th century. but that's not the whole picture step away from the 3 front and that, that probation becomes obvious when the low pay commission came up with a list of the 20 most deprived regions in the u. k. several of them were in

blackpool, many of them just a stone's throw away from tourist attractions, like the famous tower. no one to vent that the rise in energy prices is worrying residents and businesses alike. hey, miss hewitt has run this pub for 25 years. inflations force him to increase prices recently, but he says higher utility bills could force him to close during the week from 70 years of age as it was and came across it during the week from, from other egless and billy and people leaks. and the shame i know you won't even go away, come in for the heat down on the beach. we meet her with his wife and 5 year old son visiting for the day. he says that doing all they can to cut costs, but it's tough. it was just past the shops and i just kept that boy outside the shop because he's going to hobbs they should have, i am toy up my food. the cost of living crisis means people across britain already

making difficult choices. next month, the new prime minister will be in office. the need for urgent action couldn't be clearer. nadine baba al jazeera blackpool, still head on al jazeera libby as you and bash guffman says is taking control of the capital latter day of fighting between level malicious and why the definition of these apartments in india c as a crack down against corruptive out ah, the journey has begun. the, the full world cup is on its way to catherine book. your travel package to the hello. there are more records be broken in pakistan this time in baluchistan province or 39 year old monthly rainfall record closing in on $300.00 millimeters of rain and not too far away in afghanistan,

a just outside of cobble we've seen flooding as well, but take a look at the sky conditions there were back into the sunshine. so that's the good news for both afghan hassan and pakistan. the rains are starting to peter out. still a few showers though in the forecast on monday, the rains are picking up across india. we can trace it out through to pradesh mother pradesh tale and ghana karnataka careless spilling into town. well now do. that's where our heavy is falls of rain will be on monday. we've seen some pretty intense rain shift from the yellow river valley in china down to the yank. see, but look what this is done. it's dropped off those temperatures for western and eastern sides of the yank sea. so chung ching 37 degrees just so last little while you're temperatures about 45. now off to japan, things are starting to dry off top to bottom across the country, but rain never really too far away from tokyo and we got this storm here. we'll continue to keep tabs on it, but it's still early days, so it's hard to say exactly where it's going to go. but check back with us and

we'll have an update for you. meantime, looking good and beijing with a hive. 27 are monday. cats ha, airway official ally of the journey in the year. 1271. a young battalion merchant set out on an extraordinary journey. carrying letters from the pope for the great coupla. com, marco polo travelled through water meters following dangerous roads from the holy land and beyond. to day, from the shadow professors showers travel from china to venice with searching questions of how the relationship between east and west has changed. marco polo on al jazeera with ah,

watching al jazeera alive from doha reminder of our top stories. more than a 1000 people have died after unprecedented mountain rainfall in pakistan. more than 33000000 are affected by the worst fighting decades. nationwide emergency is in place. flooding is also causing destruction in afghanistan, thousands of homes and large areas of farmland have been destroyed. taliban officials say at least a 182 people have died. and in ukraine, russian rocket in artillery strikes have hit cities. newton's operation, nuclear power plant. fighting near the facility has talked, fears of radiation leak has been under russian control since the early days of the war. now, rebels in tig rye in northern ethiopia, say they've taken control of the town of war. dia, in the neighboring m. hire a region very ported less than 200 kilometers from capturing the city of bare c, a manufacturing hub. and this comes 2 days after

a government day tried that targeted the rebels stronghold of mckelly. at least 4 people were killed, including 2 children. a unicef says a kindergarten was hit, the government so targeted military sides. the conflict between the rebels integrate and government forces began nearly 2 years ago. a ceasefire was agreed earlier this year, but fighting resumed last week, samuel get to choose an independent journalist in artist algebra. he has more on the latest fighting in um her. what we know so far is that the organ army has left po, they say, fearing that a fight within the city will are faked so many people in so many will be so many people will be affected. they have left a couple. busy and they say they're in the suburbs of global, but in terms of capturing any other towns or villages or cities, we're not in a position to verify. we've, i've heard the rumors, the united nations is said to be on the age in terms of not being able to deliver

the kinds of aid that's needed in the region. but again, kabul is and i'm horror, the fighting was in omaha and there was, i mean, there are a few days ago, there was an air attack that was committed by the ethiopian government side in which they have said that they're fighting a terrorist organization. and they're in it to really bring this country and tugged the open government to saying there are provoked into getting into this conflict, this latest conflict that t p never saying otherwise. but there was hope that there was going to be some kind of negotiation to bring this to an end because this conflict begun in november of 2020, approaching it's 2nd year has been a facing no just the to gray region, but it's been coming to m r and r 5 region for the government for the open government to say that the t p f,

which again they've said as an. busy organization is coming to those regions to, to want to fight engage in all kinds of conflict commie is returning to libby as capital after a day of intense fighting that killed at least $32.00 people and injured more than $150.00. the un backed government says it's taken back full controller, tripoli. groups affiliated to libby as rival power centers fought with each other after a dispute about who should govern. malik train the wraps up saturdays fighting from tripoli. smoke in the skies of the capital homes, hospitals and businesses hit with heavy artillery. across several districts in tripoli, clashes erupted early saturday between rival armed groups. the fighting occurred in densely populated areas and continued into the night. the cautious have been ongoing since last night. they stopped for

a bit and then continues. many of the victims were ordinary people, tired, scared, emotionally, and physically drained. these people were trapped in their homes for hours before they were pulled out. city officials are calling for an end to the violence to the civil society. institutions in tripoli strongly condemned the armed classes in the city and hold the participation politics responsible for setting civilian, blood, intimidating, security, destroying, private and public property. there are 2 governments who claim to be in charge of the country. one recognised by the international community based in tripoli, the other drawing its power from the country. the has him as arise says the only way forward is for elections to be held. and what day, mentoring with an ad got it is the residence of tripoli who are paying the price.

they are the victims. the population of tripoli is nearly 3000000 people and they don't want either government. they want to vote for whom they want empower elections. of the only solution. things have calmed down since the fighting began, but people here still fear that libya may be on the verge of a full scale conflict. now trina al jazeera jibley, hundreds of people in central african republic have march in the capital bungie against planned constitutional changes there he is in prison, 4 south coast, while the owner of trying to one for a 3rd term on friday he ordered the creation of a committee to rewrite the constitution. the opposition says it's the beginning of a dictatorship. 6 people have been killed after track crashed into a gathering in the netherlands. it happened in a town south of rotterdam, where a group of neighbors was holding a party. the truck rolled off

a barrier and into the party as the driver reportedly tried to prevent a collision. to u. s. navy warships are sailing through international water is in the taiwan straits. it's the 1st such transit since tensions with china heightened over u. s. how speak a nancy blows his visit to taiwan earlier this month. china's military says it's monitoring the u. s. navy ships passage and is ready to be his words, defeat any provocation. samir poorer is a senior fellow at the international institute for strategic studies, asia office. he explains why the movement of u. s. ships through the taiwan strait is significant in the us as a call cent. wu ships through the taiwan straits before. but the real significance is the fact that the place you visit happens the 2nd of august. and you know, this is happening is just 25 or 30 days later. it's the sequencing of the speaker of the house, going to taiwan. and the fact that the u. s. is felt confident enough within

a month to send these to guided missile cruises through the taiwan straits. it is extraordinary from us perspective, to be able to project this kind of strength in defiance of china's claims to, to want to reunify taiwan at some point in the future. well, this is actually quite difficult for china to react to because we're talking about the trends in these 2 u. s. guided missile carriers as them, and they, they trans at the taiwan straits and then they're off into the future. g t. so there's nothing the chinese can do in relation to those 2 cruises in particular. but what we've seen in the years in recent past is that the, the chinese have signify signals that displeasure, us activities of all kinds warships and spite plays everything else by ascending their own chinese, across the taiwan stereo identification zone. so that's a very high possibility. i think is another overflights of been almost a chinese plains of the time. one that's an important distinction to don't tend to

fly over time. want to think sometimes we hear this, we think the chinese a buzzing tie pay, they're actually covering the aerial identifications. i'm taiwan, which is sort of an area that extends around the beyond the taiwan to residential tower blocks have been demolished in india for violating multiple building and fire regulations. nearly 4000 kilograms of explosives were used to bring down the buildings that contained 850 apartment. in the east of the capital, new delhi, thousands were evacuated in the neighborhood, and traffic was diverted to allow the demolition to take place. the supreme court ordered their destruction last year, falling a lengthy legal battle was seen as a rare crackdown against corrupt developers and of fish. ab name ital reports from nevada. in india. these are the tallest buildings to be devoted in india. we're right outside new delhi, and this marks the end of a decade long battle between the developer and residents. the towers house about

800 apartments and engineering teams, had made elaborate arrangements to bring these down. they have evacuated about $7000.00 resident news, nearly 4000 kilograms of explosive roads have been blocked and buildings close by had been covered with this pressure caught, there's also a multi $1000000.00 insurance policy. now the supreme court ordered the demolition last year after resident food, the developers saying the construction was actually illegal. the case has put the spotlight on pounds of incomplete apartments in and around the national capital construction has been stalled. many developers have filed for bankruptcy, and there are also allegations of corruptions. in this case, the court has ordered the developer to refund homebuyers hundreds of thousands of others. i looking at this case, hoping that someday their cases will also be resolved. my excitement is building as

nasa prepare to take another step towards its return to the moon. an unmanned module is set to be launched into orbit on monday. the u. s. planned to put humans back on to the mon surface by 2020 the 5. this is a giant rocket that will power nasa optimists mission name, the space launch system or s l asked it will generate 15 percent moves. why spend saturn 5? which powered the polar moon missions, the s and s will carry the o'ryan capsule into space. it's designed to travel further and longer than the polar lunar lander in time. now says hoping to make history with a 1st woman and person of color on the moon. but this mission was only mannequins on board for the moon landing. they'll be for astronauts. that's one more than the apollo missions 60 years ago. fainted. monahan hi for. this is the world's most powerful rocket. nasa intends to use it to send humanity back to the moon.

monday launch will be a crucial test for the artemus mission letter. the single step that starts the journey of a 1000 miles. so we are going to launch a brand new heavy lift rocket with more lift off for us than the united states has ever produced even more than center 5. we've got a brand new capsule that can sustain a crew of 4 for $21.00 days on flights to the moon, around the moon and beyond the moon. we're going to test all that out. artemus began to journey long before launch day. the booster rockets came by, train from utah. the core ship by barge from mississippi. that's where the world's most powerful engines were put to the test. earlier this year, the rocket will push the o'ryan spacecraft beyond earth orbit several days and nearly 400000 kilometers later it'll reach the moon. it orbit will pass within 100 kilometers of the lunar surface. after collecting the data it needs it will begin

the return trip back to earth. it is definitely getting real. the rocket outside on launch pad $39.00 be will be riding the next chapter of of space exploration and space science. that chapter will include science all along the way, hand in hand with exploration. and i've recently said to our science community buckle up, everybody were gone for ride to the moon. hi, good morning. it's been 50 years since the human set foot on the moon and the next step for the arguments mission. we putting a crew in lunar orbit by 2024 and then 2 astronauts on the moon the following year . but nasa doesn't plan to stop there. it's setting it sites on mars, proving out all the logistics of the habitats and the hatches and the suits. and the rovers and the wheels and all of that stuff. proving that out on the moon is just like artemus one. bind down risk for our damage to it buys down the risk. so we go to mars. we deal with the rate exposure of the radiation on the long term. we

deal with the fact we got to take all of our water in our food with us. the americans aren't the only ones with lunar ambitions. china also wants to land a crew on the moon. by the end of the decade. the new space rates for the 21st century is only just getting started bins and model him al jazeera. i mean to bye gosh, is a nasa planetary scientists, he says this launch is an important step to test. everything is safe before future manned missions for 10 years from 2010 to 20. the u. s. had lost its ability to go to spirits. so nothing happened. we were stuck at the base station which is barely 200 miles away from us. we never went back to the mall, which is half a 1000000 miles from a level of martin, which is 300000000 miles from our lot. so now we are very critical, very important turning point. we have this huge rocket optimist, which is going to take the biggest figure, the medical to the bone by 2025. so this is going to become much more regular. this

is the program, the, the software rocket will perhaps have multiple trips. so this is a technology demonstration bishop. you don't want to put humans on this 1st ship. you don't know what is going to happen. this mission will have maniquan bear with its exploration sensors and with radiation sensors to make sure that the environment inside the spacecraft remains conducive to humans. and then the but the into technology, the exploration experienced. all this is with an allowable limits. and only if this is done, then we will proceed to human rated, which is the next step. but you know, you need to really make sure that everything is safe before he went to get onto the picked up on.