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. lauren taylor. this is al jazeera alive from london. also coming up. ukraine says it's destroyed key russian positions in it's offensive to take back the southern the house on region. com returns to rocks capital after supporters of shortly demo tundra souther heat is cool for them to end their deadly protests. thus to day. it is pakistan to morrow, it could be your country. un appeals to a $160000000.00 to help pakistan where millions of lives have been devastated by what is described as a mom seen on steroids. i know mikhail gorbachev, the former soviet president and one of the most consequential leaders of the 20th century has died at the age of 91 born into a peasant family in 1931. he rose to become the leader of what,

what was once the world's largest country and ever saw a massive program of political, economic, and social liberalization. gorbachev presided over the end of the cold war and the lifting of europe's on cotton. but failed to prevent the collapse of the soviet union. he won the nobel peace prize in 1990. a spokesman for russia's president vladimir putin has expressed his deepest condolences. john hall has more. mikhail gorbachev left office in 1991 recent survivor of an attempted hard line, communist qu, but victim nonetheless, of unstoppable change. the vast soviet empire at suddenly ceased to exist. gorbachev left behind a moscow reduced in stature, the capital now of a newly independent russia. ma, of course he was her very, very disappointed man because he was an if house not only by the russian state. oh, so he stayed bud by the russians. i mean,

he used to that very popular. he'll be remembered more warmly abroad than at home go b. as he came to be known, one the confidence of world leaders by dismantling the structures of the cold war. he played a crucial role in the re unification of germany. joining east with west as the berlin wall fell last last and perestroika formed the new, more attractive face of an old phone. he became secretary general at the time when the soviet economy was beginning to collapse. he realized that he had to make a very serious choice in open up to the west. and when over the confidence of the west, after 70 kids, of very hard mutual distrust this was, the task was almost insurmountable. as the wolf fell. so the ussr itself began to crack and crumble many regret the loss of empire of superpower status. and they

blamed gorbachev still. he was the one who presided over the collapse of the soviet union. he is not appreciated by his own countrymen. he is despised by many forgotten by i think a lot more de maurier, though the young are at the least kind of and build the people because they feel that he gave them freedom. what he given them was democracy and his hundreds of thousands of russians protested against allegedly rigged elections. in the latter years of letting me put in the presidency, the old soviet leader lived to see democracy flipping backwards. but then you made a news news. you can compare the selection with those of 198919191 those 2 occasions. the voting really was fair and democratic. but every election since then

has been flawed. tens of thousands of russians across the country have demonstrated to free and fair elections and the process of democratization has found new strengths. these young people, this new generation is very important to me. they have not abandoned democracy and democracy will not abandon them or she avoided the nobel peace prize in 1919 go be . and his famous crimson birthmark remained in the public eye. less consistent is his legacy valued more by some than by others. european commission president also from the line says that gorbachev was a trusted and respected leader who opened the way for a free europe. and that his legacy is unforgettable. and within the last few minutes, also had reaction from the un chief saying that gorbachev quit changed the course of history. let's look more war about that legacy was oral brown is a professor of international relations and political science at the university of

toronto. he joins his life. thanks very much for being with us. so complex legacy. what would you say the main achievements were focal? which of it was a complex legacy. and people tended to project on to him that which they wanted to see. he came and tried to save communism and to preserve the soviet union any failed in both. he remained in lifelong marks, his learners who thought the lennox revolution was correct when he spoke of. but democracy did not understand it in terms of what we know as liberal of democratic democracy. and his legacy is that he allowed for the peaceful collapse of the soviet union. he did not use massive force or keep eastern europe in the empire. and with that, he deserves credit. but it is not that this was some came in trying to undermine the system. he tried to reform and he tried to make communism more gentle kinder.

but it was a system that proved to be under reformer, will tell me about his relationship with the western leaders. how did he build up those? those? those key relations he gradually warmed up to dealing, especially with ronald reagan. he understood that the soviet union was in deep trouble. he knew that had fallen greatly behind it tried to accelerate development . the whole purpose of his report was to make soviet union able to compete with the west. in the meantime, he appreciated that he needed peace. that they needed to be agreements on the nuclear armament on intermediate and to clear forces and all that was positive. but at the same time, we really need to understand that this was not someone who was a subversive influence, a deliberate link within the soviet,

within the soviet union. he always god, that the collapse of the soviet union was a geopolitical catastrophe. share that with the latter mirror. couldn't any was oddly enough bored. yelton really had the democratic ideas. who said that if you want to have freedom with the russian people, you cannot deny the latvians estonians and lithuanian you cannot deny to the ukrainians. gorbachev was pretty harsh on the gradients. for example, he was recently tell me about that. do you think he made the world a safer place or more, more dangerous place? he made his evil place, but not by deliberate design. he made a safer place because he tried to have an external accommodation when he tried to save the system internally after he was released from captivity by the hard liners

he came back among his 1st words on the tarmac and mosque was that he wanted to give the communist body, the kiss of life, the communist party by that point, was basically dead. so he never understood his own system. but he refrained from using mass violence, and that is what he deserves credit. and just to go back to his kind of is passed through as a kind of a communist sort of system. how did he rise from it? from the competing in a, from a peasant family, essentially to, to being what he was, what he was mentored by the k g b. he was mentored by a european drop off who had been the ever k g b and then became the head of the soviet union. and the reason he was brought in was that the leaders who preceded him, he kept dying one after the other. they were very elderly, a brake and effective,

and here was someone who was the tick hewlett and energetic who is going to save the system, was going to find ways of reforming it without allowing for its disintegration. and that was a contradiction that he could not resolve. all right, thank you very much indeed. taffeta nest professor, very international missions and political science at the university to him to thank you. thank you for having me on and ukraine submitted tre, says it's destroyed key russian positions, weapons and warehouses. as it tries to take back the occupied southern region of house on most of has on which borders the black sea was seized by russia. at the start of the invasion, 6 months ago, president low to miss lensky, says, troops of pressing on with a counter offensive is urged russian soldiers to flee for their lives. but moscow says its repelled attacks and inflicted heavy losses on ukrainian troops. current president, bottom incident is how talks were members of the international atomic energy agency

and keep the un nuclear watchdog team is on an urgent mission. to safeguard the rational combined separation nuclear plant, which is europe's largest ukraine and russia, have accused each other of shelling around the facility, which was briefly knocked offline. last week you created officials consider the dangers of radiation leak so high. they've begun handing out id tablets to nearby residence. the i a, a team lead by director general fire grosse hopes to travel to appreciate on wednesday for one day visit. last week. it is very important for us pressing demand for the i a and the demand supported by all world leaders concerning immediately me the transportation of the pond. we asked for the removal of the russian military unit, and the liberation of our plan is that the upper easier nuclear plant must return to ukrainian control the school. only this way we can eliminate any risks regarding nuclear powerful in terms of both following developments from ukraine's capital.

keith, while the 14 member delegation is already here in key, it's being led by the director of the a file off the who earlier today met with president lead me to fill in sky. there's been not have. 1 concerns about how they're going to be traveling all the way to support each. it's a long drive. it's about an 8 hour drive. and there is, there's been some accusations from the ukrainian government saying that shelling was ongoing around the area where the team should be able to make it all the way to what do you fit in that meeting with president lensky? he assured them that he was going to try to guarantee all the safety possible during that drive. he also said that he was looking forward, that to be a team would be able to convince russia to withdraw from the area to the militarize, the area in order to guarantee the safety of everyone. you know, there's been lots of concern about what's happening in that plan. the russian

ministry of defense has been accusing ukrainian forces of shelling the area. some of those shells have come very, very close to where the nuclear fuel is located and even the radioactive waste on the other side. ukrainian government is saying that it is the russians who are doing the attacks from the plant that was taking over by russia overall. the most important thing is to verify that a level of damage that has happened to the plant to feed that the cranium technicians that are working there are doing ok that they're not working under duress, which is what be bringing government is saying because they're being closely monitored by russia soldiers and also that all the faith safety systems are in place. i iraq's prime minister was stuff cuz he me says he will the kate, his post. if the country's political crisis continues. president bar, i'm sorry. i said one way out could be early elections. supporters of iraq's power

of all she needed, a motel sadder withdrew from baghdad heavily fortified green zone. earlier after he ordered them to end their violent protests and he's 30 people were killed and hundreds wounded as unrest spread across the country on monday, following south is an ounce meant that he was quitting frontline politics. well, has the men who none, and i was that if they want to continue to create disputes and complications and not to listen to the source of reason that i will make a moral decision. but i'll proceed to leave my post in accordance to the iraqi constitution. as an appropriate time, my day people, our country iraq is bleeding and has been bleeding for a long time. much such a costly bagdad correspondent w. i had looks back of the day's events after 2 days of violence, but that's heavily fortified. green zoom is empty of protestors. a sharp

contrast to earlier scenes. violence broke out on monday when powerful shea at leader looked at a sudden an hour said he would quit politics. a day later, he apologized a cold and his supporters to stand down and go home. i'm not committees yet. what the hell? now, i'm one of committees. jablonka. there were some brutal militias, but the satirist shouldn't be vulgar. i still believe them. my supporters are disciplined. that's why if you don't withdraw from the parliament within 60 minutes, i am not going to be the solder is movement leader again, obama. i don't even want you to stage a peaceful demonstration. ah, it's not the 1st time said supporters have forced been way into the presidential compound. they've been demonstrating for months. this is a political rivalry between 2 different parties are sides of the spectrum,

one side and trying to maintain the consensus agreement of the console. ational democracy, impulse 2003 iraq and the other side, which is such a small vent, trying to a revamp the political system in iraq. ha, his party won most parliament seat in elections in october, but failed to form a majority coalition. so that it may have told the supporters to stand down but with such intense rivalry at the heart of the iraqi politics, there are fears that it's only a matter of time before case on violence is repeated with abdougla had elijah's era baba still to come this half hour a ship carrying desperately needed wheat from ukraine to the drought. it horn of africa, docks, injure beauty. and why man, who held up a bay route back is accusing the government of holding his money hostage.

ah ah, here's your weather update in a minute 15. thank you so much for joining in. we'll begin in southeast asia. it's our usual spells of showers and some thunder downpours would be found here. but let me take you to this island in japan about a 1000 kilometers east of tokyo, chichi jima. we saw record windows for the month of august $174.00 clicks. all had to do with this typhoon here, equivalent to a category for storm. not just one for the record books for the winds, but also the rain scooping up more than $200.00 millimeters over the span of 24 hours. so let's track out together where this typhoon is heading. it's dipping further toward the south, but staying east of taiwan, that's a forecast on wednesday press plays. he where goes on thursday. yep. still staying east of taiwan, but it's going to inject

a lot of moisture into the atmosphere and pick up that surf as well in time. big drop in those temperatures for chung ching at $29.00 degrees in, drenched in rain, across northern areas of japan's main island. of honshu into whole cato down under we saw some records here his what a lot, what is stay in august and a 129 years for parts of australia's outback in queensland state. but i think the worse of the rain will be a long that border with new south wales and queensland on wednesday. that's all i've got. i'll catch up with you later. bye for now. ah. 2 stories, strong willed with challenging traditional female stereotypes in a male dominated society to make a difference. if i go with whole families with the water is highly contaminated,

living in the class risk in it all, al jazeera. oh, a reminder. the top stories you know, to 0 think how gorbachev the former soviet president and one of the most consequential leaders of the 20th century has died at the age of 90. 1. which off presided over the end of the cold war and the lifting of europe on caution, but failed to prevent the collapse of the soviet union. ukraine's military says it destroyed key russian positions, weapons, and warehouses as it tries to take back the southern region of house song at moscow

and inflicted heavy losses on ukrainian troops. supporters of iraq powerful shot either mechanical cetera, have withdrawn from baghdad heavily fortified green. soon after he ordered them to end their violent protests, these 30 people were killed. iraq's prime minister says he will baked his post if the country's political crosses continues. the united nation, it says a ship carrying wheat from ukraine to the drought stricken horn of africa as docked in djibouti. a ship was transporting 23000 tons of grain. it's the 1st vessel to make the journey to the region since russia invaded ukraine. 6 months ago. a shipment will be transported to ethiopia. experts say it's enough to feed $1500000.00 people for a month. the us says 82000000 people need food aid across eastern africa because of extreme weather. surging food prices and conflict. we've already seen a reduction of 15 percent in wheat prices globally. since the blacks,

the initiative commenced. what we want to see is more food flowing. we need from w peace perspective. millions of tons in this region in ethiopia alone, 3 quarters of everything that we use to distribute originated from ukraine and russia. dividend county is an independent consultant who has previously deputy country director for ethiopia at the u. n. 's office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. he joins us live from washington. d. c. thanks very much for being with us. i much difference will. will this particular shipment make you think? thank you. thank you. on the arrival of the clean ship, ginger, good. you symbolically very important and the commodities that are being provided are desperately needed. but it is a drop in the ocean compared to the level of what is required for both ethiopia and the horn. i'm putting this welcome news in context. a devastating war that is displaced $1000000.00 and cost hundreds of thousands of lives. ethiopia is also

experiencing a drought not seen and decades with 4 can 2nd field raids and grim prospects for the rainy season. ahead. ethiopia has a foot deficit of some $4000000.00 metric tons. the vessel brave commander is carrying $23000.00 metric tons. so how difficult will it be to it? and given the, the conflict that's going on that, how to get will, will it be to get some, as we actually mtv opiate or getting the weakens. ethiopia should not be a problem crossing into djibouti and into the facilities that wi fi in the government manage. i should not be an issue at all. the question really, really be getting it from those warehouses to communities in need and northern ethiopia, particularly in t great and communities that are experiencing drought to the center and south of the country is that is that it, that's the problem is the kind of distribution of it within a few peer what $23000.00 metric tons is not very much. it is extremely welcome. but if you look at the amount of the food deficit around

$4000000.00 metric tons, that would be more than 50 or 60 ships. so this is one and it's incredibly important, but as, as the previous speaker was just saying, we need far, far more than just one ship to, to reduce your bill it to you to reach the opium and to get an entity gray this year since january until the 1st of august is about $6100.00 trucks been managed to get entity re, there will prove program says it needs a $600.00 trucks per week. so $23000.00 metric tons equals out to about $575.00 trucks. which means that the best that just arrived is about one weeks worth of food trucks needed to reach teaberry. tell us about the situation overall in the horn of africa and how critical it is it to increase in the amount of food that it been brought into the area but also address other issues. well,

as i was saying, there's a, there's a massive food shortage in the country hannon and across the horn. the greater horn . and the previous figure was talking about the importance of ukrainian wheat to the owner of africa with 2 thirds of wheat being provided to the horns or at staple products. so the absence of ukrainian week for the last 68 months has been massive price spikes, grains brakes, oil price products, and the price of oil spikes really cuts down on what families, particularly poor families, can afford. so the surging prices amidst again for consecutive failed, reigns with the 5th possible field ran in front of us, means that tens upon tens of millions of people are, are looking for food. so the, the arrival of the ukrainian ship is vital, but many more ships need to pull in port dividend cont, thank you very much. and if it doesn't do it in ethiopia, rebels in the northern to gray regions where they're trying to advance further into

neighboring areas. but are still open to piece talks. fighting in the m hara region, south of rebel how to gray erupted last week, ending a 5 month truce. the government of prime minister avia made and the to grab people's liberation front and blamed each other for unleashing renewed hostilities . access to northern ethiopia, severely restricted. and it's not possible to verify claims by the warring sides. the fighting has hampered international efforts to try to end the near 20 to month conflict in the right. because our prime minister says his country is facing the toughest moment in its history. after record breaking floods, the government and the un have issued an appeal for a $160000000.00 to help it cope. 2 months of heavy rain, i've left a 3rd of the country under water, affecting 33000000 people. as 15 percent of the population of an 1100 people have died including 380 children and many homes and roads have been washed away. you in

chief antonio, the terrors is expected to travel to pakistan next week to see the devastation 1st hand is warned that other countries could soon face similar disasters. pakistan is or washing suffering. the pakistani people are facing them on soon on steroids. the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding. the climate catastrophe, a skilled more be 1000 people with many more injured. let us all step up in solidarity and support to the people of pakistan in their howard of needs. let stop sleep walking towards the struction of our planet by glamour trains to they. it is pakistan to warn or it could be your country. a rural parts of the southern sinned province had been hot, hardest hit by the flood disaster. some children were killed when the homes they were sheltering in collapsed around them. shameless robbie spoke to heartbreaking

residence in the chicago district until the monsoon reigns came last week. burger ali's was the newest house in the village with melbourne, but don't get that a big. i mean, it started raining and i, my name is cynthia chill went to my house as well because my place was new. it was safe to live. there was no fiano garage, but suddenly at 2 in the morning there was a loud crash gog on and the entire reef came down. oh no, no. 16 women and children were asleep inside at the time. oh, but ali's wife, young son and 3 other children, were crushed to have it on your mother. he feels helpless. he says, his household wiped away and look at the traditional structures in rural sin. affordable for the poor, usually suited to the terrain, are being overwhelmed by the effects of climate change. the weather has become so

extreme, so suddenly people say the building techniques, their fathers and grandfathers used to make houses just aren't strong enough anymore. pakistan produces less than one percent of global carbon emissions, but suffers some of its worst effects. mohammad hussein last 2 daughters and a son when the roof collapsed. a message to the world from a grieving father menacing. leah garvin helped me. i've got my friends got my preserver lego. the rain was not lightless before. yeah, i just want to tell the world, prepare yourselves, go somewhere, save my advice as don't sleep under rose. may god keep you all safe. i wouldn't wish what happened to us on any one. his wife was in the house at the time to get my money and she now clings to the children she has learned the laws are still in shock. she hasn't said much since had happened to them. they put their children to bed where they thought it would be dry,

where they thought it would be safe. men slept out in the open to give women and children more room. the best of intentions met with the worst of figures. in basra ave al jazeera shakara poor said the province pakistan. dozens of people in lebanon have been protesting against draft legislation. they say would make it even harder to get savings out of their bank accounts. since 2019 lebanese banks have imposed straight limits on the withdrawal of foreign currency, the economy has filed over the last 3 years in one of the world's worst financial crises. experts say the capital control bill will be ineffective unless the government also brings in a wide ranging economic recovery plan. asana shakes, hussain was at the purchase 2 weeks ago, he took people hostage in a bank at gunpoint to demand funds from his own locked savings account. he says the system needs to change. another law had that we came to protest to get back the

money, but the thieves in there stole from us. i call on all the revolution raised to come to the street in large numbers, so we don't lose the money. i want to steal. every one needs to be on the streets to day. we will have to stop this draft law by force, and we will have to return all the money by force. it all has to be done by force. the u. s. space agency, nasa says it plans to launch its new rocket on saturday. are 2 engine problems delayed the 1st attempt, the successful launch of the optimist rock it will be a major step towards another mand moon mission. the malfunction on monday surfaced as the rocket fuel tanks were being filled with super called liquid oxygen. the artemus program is the successor to the apollo missions of the 19 sixties and seventies. ah.