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go patrols, economic and political reforms unleashed forces he couldn't control causing the breakup of the soviet union. ah, hello robin, you're watching al jazeera like my headquarters here and also coming up today. it is pakistan to laurel. it could be your country, the you in appeals for $160000000.00 dal boxed on those massive flooding leads one 3rd of the country on the water. and tens of thousands of the capital of the us state of mississippi falls to q for water after flooding damaged its main treatment plant. ah, buttons of prego mikhail gorbachev. the leader who helped end the cold war and presided over the breakup of the soviet union, hostile, at the age of 91 fall into

a poor farming family. in 1931, he rose to become the most powerful man and the communist government. initiated a massive program of political, economic and social change and was praised in the west as eastern europe moved away from communism and soviet influence. but he was blamed in russia for leasing forces that led to the collapse of the soviet union in 1991. victoria gave me looks back on his life. i me as let me call gorbachev, change the kills the 20th century history. his legacy though is valued more by some than by others in the west, he is revered as a great statesman, a nobel peace prize winner, who played a decisive role in ending the cold war to many russians. he's the man who allowed the soviet empire to collapse, exposing millions to hardship and humiliation his legacy is that he allowed, or the peaceful collapse of the soviet union. it did not use massive, forceful,

keep eastern europe ah, in the empire. and that he deserves credit. but it is not that this was hunger came in, trying to undermine the system. he tried to re, formerly, as a young man. gorbachev study galore at moscow state university. he went on to forge a career and the communist party eventually becoming its general secretary and leader of the soviet union. but the command economy gorbachev inherited was failing and there was shortages of food and consumer goods. which of try to fix things with glass, most and perestroika reforms that were to revolutionize the soviet system. where the or should you ladies, if we need more enterprise, more democracy, more organisation, and more discipline, then we will be able to bring perestroika up to full speed and give new impetus to developing socialism saturday. his leadership also led to a revolution in relations with the west,

face to face with you as president ronald reagan. gorbachev signed a treaty, eliminating an entire class of nuclear weapons curbing the nuclear arms race. it was the beginning of the end of the cold war. soon the berlin wall fell, and after a failed qu, by hard line is in moscow, the soviet union itself was dissolved a gorbachev. resigned. zillow, pleasantries here in this situation which follows the establishment of the commonwealth of independent states. i hear by cease to exile as the president of the soviet, you know, you. so you did most not, we're still president. there is a cell awarded the nobel peace prize in 1990 gorbachev remained in the public eye watching democratic progress erode and relations with the west deteriorate. well right now, the present russians are. i b, m are both in trying with military force to rebuild the soviet union, to reintegrate through forceful means,

kind of do the gorbachev. where jesse mikhail gorbachev, united nations secretary general and 20, the terrorist says the world, los, the towering global leader, russian president vladimir putin has expressed his deepest condolences hope itself with his famous crimson birthmark, with one of the most recognizable figures of 20th century politics. and one of its most influential let's say let's look at me how garbage has like and see now he drove through reforms aimed at reviving the soviet union's economy. 19 eighties was a time of survey, economic hardship for countries in the communist blog. her story camera, russian word that means restructuring was the name given to a series of reforms. the gradually decentralized many businesses, producers could now set their own prices. and while glass norse, meaning openness, same to instill a spirit of transparency, the reforms bank fired has food prices spiked for millions,

eastern receiving government subsidies, growing instability, instability led to the collapse of the ussr in 1991 out there as rob reynolds has interviewed mikhail gorbachev and has more on his legacy was an enormous contrast to the elderly, enfeebled man who had preceded him, whose only goal was to uphold a failing status quo. here came mikhail gorbachev, a member of a new generation and not of the old communist who had lived and worked under stalin, but of a different generation. more of a technocrat, more of a man with ideas. and he did have ideas about how to change the soviet union, how to allow it to, to develop and survive, glass nosed openness in english, perestroika, that means restructuring glass. no, st gave russian and other peoples living in at that time the soviet union,

the opportunity to speak out are to, to, to talk about their society to talk about their leaders to examine. and this is, i think it's very important. the history of the soviet union, the horrors that the people endured under stalin under lenin. no subject was taboo anymore. but it, it was a process that you could like into sort of opening of a steam vows or something like that on a very complicated apparatus. and once that valve was opened, the whole thing became unstable and eventually just broke apart. leaders across the globe of him paying tribute to mikhail gorbachev. russian president vladimir putin is expressed of deepest condolences and says that heals and telegrams to his family and friends us present. joe biden has called gorbachev a rare leader who made the world safer. the united nations secretary general.

antonia good terrorist says gorbachev did more than any other individual to bring a peaceful and the cold war. he says, the world has lost a towering global leader. the british prime minister, boris johnson, says he admired gorbachev. courage and integrity to bring an end to the cold war. and french president, mackerel has praised him calling him man of peace. on the days of our top story intervention, rains and flooding of now submerged one 3rd of pakistan and killed more than $1100.00 people. these images show the catastrophic level of flooding across the country. the united nations is appealing for $160000000.00 need to help more than $33000000.00 people. affected by the deluge is described the flooding of unprecedented climate catastrophe. the secretary general says he may visit the country next week. pakistan is a washing of suffering. the pakistani people are facing the monsoon on steroids,

the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding. the climate catastrophe askew, more of the 1000 people with many more injured. let us all step up in solidarity and support to the people of pakistan in that hour of needs. let's stop sleep walking towards the struction of our planet by climate change. today. it is pakistan. to morrow it could be your country. call either has more from shera where 2 major rivers have flooded. i'm at a place called hara bod, which is also the confluence point between 2 major pockets on the river. behind me, you have the river cobble coming from the west. and toward that end, the river end us, which comes from the naught. now boat are said to be in high flood. and although

the situation up noted now improving where the water is receding, there is a grave tread that this large water body is heading out toward the province of sin and is going to hate southern punjab that is focused on cotton growing bay. and gordon is, of course, bog, it sounds, cache grub. my dad will also devastate populations that, that situated close to the river bank august on has seen massive deforestation, which of course is coming founding the problem that is worrying and the river beds . and of course, there are now high population density along the water body. the country now has to think very seriously if it wants to mitigate the crisis and deal with future flood right now. the grave threat is board 2 areas which are in the upon job and the province of st. and head in the k p k province. people are now cleaning up and

returning to their homes. my dad is, of course, going to be the grave threat of waterborne diseases from the stagnant water. that remains upon kissane's ambassador to the united nations is holding a wealthy countries to shoulder responsibility for the millions of people affected by the flooding. august on, along with the un once $160000000.00 in emergency funding to secure food medicine and shelter. many occurrences, pakistan didn't coals the climate catastrophe. developing countries have been talking for some time now about the issue of loss and damage from a, from a climate change. and this is a, i think the most vivid illustration are of the impacts of climate change in a country which has contributed were actually nothing to global warming. ah, so certainly we are in a geographical location and with certain other ca,

circumstances with the largest number of glaciers. ah, that feed into our rivers. ah, this is a, a of a disaster of epic proportions. and it has been obviously called a caused by climate change. the estimates are you are being made as we speak are, are our initial estimates, either the damage to the economy itself could range over $5000000000.00 into $10000000000.00 of damage from on to infrastructure to livelihoods, to crops were, are too productive facilities. i. so it would be, it would be a huge cost in terms of rebuilding for pakistan. are we to run into billions of dollars. but we will obviously be making more precise estimates. at the moment we

are focused on relief. we will then go to rehabilitation, and thereafter into reconstruction. the governor of the us state of mississippi has declared a state of emergency in the regional capital jackson, where residents have no drinking water. and that's after the water treatment plant failed. jackson's aging pipes have left the city in crisis the years. now the national guard has been called in to help distribute clean water drawn engine reports. the water in mississippi's largest city is undrinkable. do not drink the water. i want to be clear. please do not drink the water. a 150000 residence of jackson, the state capital cannot drink. water cannot reliably shower flush the toilet or battle their cities fires. governor tate reeves on tuesday declared a state of emergency one with no end in sight. i can't give you a timeframe as to when we will be pushing out of safe drinking water. days of torrential rains have swollen the pearl river,

mixing sewage and drinking water and overwhelming the city's main water treatment plant, causing it to fail with the city. unable to afford the repairs, the state is offering emergency funding. this gets into quite possibly the billions of dollars in so that is far beyond the city of jackson's reach to be able to accomplish that. on a long time, jackson resident bernard smith saw it coming and stopped up. all we're trying to stop go on was just a plan because there's stuff that don't fall in any instances when you know you and i don't where this happens. you don't just, all of a sudden you add to your supply, they always tell me. they can't bite you. if you see a bird, jackson population is largely black. a quarter live in poverty is one of many us. it is suffering water supply problems. and until it can restore its water treatment plant and feel its aging pipes, residents will have to make do with boiled water,

bottled water and plenty of patients. john henderson, al jazeera will still had here on al jazeera a nation divided. we'll have more on the corruption trial of christina fernandez, the cache nor the full president and current vice president of origin tina and the south african president is in the heartbeat or other post faces tough questions in parliament over a corruption scandal involving his thumb. they stories the bright ah, the journey has begun. the b for world copies on its way to castle book, your travel package today. here's your weather update for asia. thank you so much for joining in. we'll begin in pakistan and afghanistan. a much more quiet picture here, just the odd showers popping up, but of course we're in a law,

and it is forecast law for the monsoon rains in its forecast to extend into mid september heavy falls of rain for the western gadson india, particularly around marashi, around to move by and just outside and then we've got some torrential rain also long that border with west spin goal and 2nd on wednesday, off to japan. you know, this southern island here cheat you jima. so record wind gusts of 174 kilometers per hour. all had to do with this typhoon. this is about a 1000 kilometers just toward the east of tokyo. also 2nd, records for rainfall within 24 hours. let's strike out where this is go and it's equivalent to a category for storm by the way, it's dipping further toward the south, but it's going to keep its distance from a taiwan that's the forecast on wednesday. and by thursday, it's going to inject some moisture to taiwan, but nothing major. we do have the slug of rain crossing over the waters between korea and japan running into northern horseshoe and hope, cato and some thunderstorm, alerts and play for southern areas of hon. you on wednesday,

that's your update. we'll see later. airway issue ally of the journey, debating the issues of the day produce as always, dan, criminalized around though boundaries of rights. these are just members, there people are families and our friends in our community member on our online i, jewel voice fisma to iep don't believe in dialogue. the political crisis must be soft with the political solution as climate change progresses, there are some people who are pleated, that they're just going to have to read. there's no recognition about what we're ready facing the street. oh, now j 0 lou. the me

looking back to what you all do there with me. so the reminder of our top story is because gold, which of the last name of the soviet union has died at the age of $91.00. gorbachev resided over the end of the cold war and the lifting of eastern europe. i'm current that failed to prevent the collapse of the us treasury rains and flooding and submerged one 3rd of pakistan and killed more than 1100 people. the united nations with appealing for $160000000.00 and $8.00 to help more than $33000000.00 people affected by the deluge. the capital of the us state of mississippi has been left without saying, running water authorities in jackson's they've pumped up the water treatment plan to fail because of complications from the flooding of the pell river. earlier this week, the a team from the united nations nuclear watchdog agency, the i a e, a has the meeting,

ukrainian president bottom insulin ski in keys. the delegation is due to trial to the rich nuclear power plant. ukraine and russia have accused each other of shelling around facility, which has breaches. he knocked offline last week. the fighting has drawn international, concerned about a potential disaster. the i. e. a team is being given access to inspect the russian control side. actually it is very important for us pressing demand for the i a and the demand supported by all world leaders concerning the immediate demilitarization of the plan. we ask for the removal of the rush military duty and the liberation of our plan. it is that the zapper easy a nuclear plant must return to ukrainian control the school only this way we can eliminate any risks regarding nuclear power. theresa bo has moved from cave. while the 14 member delegation is already here in key, it's being led by the director of the

a little bit off the who earlier today met with president lead me to fill in the sky. there's been a lot of 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 their 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 okay that they're not working under duress, which is what be when your government is saying, because they're being closely monitored by russian soldiers and also that all the faith safety systems are in place. the ukraine's military says it's destroyed key russian positions, weapons, and warehouses as a trustee by the occupied southern region of cas on most because on which board of the black sea was seized by russia. at the start of the invasion. 6 months ago present lensky says, troops are pressing on with a counter offensive. he says russian soldiers to flee from a further life. but moscow says its repelled attacks and heavy losses on ukrainian

troops. the mary queen, 2nd largest city of car keys, says at least 5 people were killed in a russian strike earlier. residential buildings and a natural damage. emergency workers have bored people to stay in doors of give, has been heavily bombarded throughout the complex ukrainian forces of managed to repel efforts by russian troops to take the city the united nations as a ship carrying wheat from ukraine to the drought stricken hold of africa. has dr. djibouti, the ship was transporting 23 tons. 1000 tons of grain is the 1st battle to make the journey to the regions is russia evaded ukraine 6 months ago? the ship will be transporting to deal to eat the opium experts say it's enough to feed $1500000.00 people for a month. the u. s. as 82000000 people eat food 8 across eastern africa because 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 commence, what we want to see is more food flowing. we need from wi fi perspective. millions of tons in this region in ethiopia alone, 3 quarters of everything that we use to distribute originated from ukraine and russia. if he, a peer is being accused of targeting civilians in drain strikes and the northern to gray region, the head of the main hospitals as bombs london close to its building in the to growing capital mckelly, there were no reports of casualties fighting between the ethiopian government and to grow and rebels resume last week after a 5 month low. and please in madagascar say that 19 people were killed and 21 injured, but they had been filed a car trying to still police station monday. the shooting took place in the town, congo, security forces have said reinforcements to restore order. please say,

protested try to break into the station to attack for people detained, over the kidnapping of and by the child and the murder of his mother. the child has not been found and the investigation is continuing. iraq's prime minister says he'll quit the political crisis and his country continues. mr. alkahottie me address the nation that to support that she needed to set a, withdrew from by heavily fortified greens and at least 30 people were killed and hundreds wounded and unrest across the country on monday, following others about that he was quitting politics. well, had the men who none, and i warned that if they want to continue to create disputes and complications and not to listen to the source of reason than i will make a moral decision. but i'm proceed to leave my post in accordance to the iraqi constitution. us an appropriate time, my day people, our country iraq is bleeding and has been bleeding for a long time. at such

a cost. the former president and cohen vice president of argentina, christina fernandez, dekessa, is on trial a case of corruption. now the verdict is due later this year, but caused by the prosecution to have jailed have provoked angry responses from his supporters. though shribel has more from point as iris the former president encouraged vice president of argentina. christina fernandez, the kitchener is on trial. in the case of dividing the nation, the prosecution say she led one of the biggest corruption syndicates in the country's history. she calls it a political which one is going to see on this trial started with this fiction that was recounted by the persecutors over 5 days. during those 5 days and listened to those accusation that were not accusations that were of fiction. a script, a very bad one. besides being false about it, because he does think one day to the prosecution is cooling for a 12 year prison sentence of

a lifetime ban on the vice president holding public off. if one opposition, politician, even demand deter execution in response to supporters took to the streets outside her apartment in one of the cyrus, please controlled by the opposition lead. city government responded aggressively provoking strong criticism from the national government, including the president, berto fernandez supporters. now keep the vigil outside the home on the 3rd of able to read i, when i left, when you put one of our main political leaders on trial in such a weak case, you undermine democracy and a lot of blood to spill to win our democracy. she did so much the schools, the city metro gave food to the poor equipped to universities and gave away to housewives. christina, for this, the kids that divides opinion like no other, but this trial is about much more the whether he's guilty or not guilty. it's about

how many i can find see the future of their trouble. 3, a former president, the wife of the former president. and now argentina's vice president with a kitchenette has been around for long enough to have made plenty of friends and a lot of enemies. her opponent to you, the form of president, the symbolic of the corruption, this blighted argentina for generations. they want to prevent her standing again for president in next year's elections. a sunday i thought he got out of handling it will be historic for argentina, but it's the 1st time a female president convicted for a fully proven corruption crime that it serve as an example for all the all. now if we don't find it, it gives us hope that we still have justice, denija tina, and this has only just begun that it's on christina kitchener and the 12 other accused is expected lay to this year. whenever the outcome i can feel will be divided by an increasingly bitter conflict. and this one, they're al jazeera,

what osiris south african present. so roa poses, says he's not trying to avoid accountability for a scandal involving his farm. composer has been answering questions on a range of issues from members of parliament, and he's been accused of covering up theft of a large sum of foreign currency at the farm. in february 2021, the post had refused to comment on the matter, citing ju process. so i stand here and soon i'm a poster not being unwilling to be accountable one to be fully accountable. and i'm saying once again that unlike and it's important and even those who are dealing with this matters, i've said important that to me given space and time to deal with all the aspects

of this matter of me. the miller is in johannesburg law. what the president said during his questioning, he may not necessarily be under any additional pressure compared to the last couple of months arm following the scandal being exposed to be know that parliamentarians have asked him similar questions before these questions have also been put to him on public platforms and via the media and he's maintained that line is remain tight . lips saying that they should follow will he will followed you process he's willing to cooperate and that he's willing to deal with the necessary authorities on this matter. so not much has changed from a poor, so at least the stance that he's taken. despite these questions coming up again and this time in a parliamentary session. where parliamentarians asked a number of questions around pertinent issues in south africa, including the scandal. now what has begun is a parliamentary process to potentially investigate what happened at the president's private game farm. and if potentially there would be reasons to impeach the

president. that would be up to parliamentarians, a committee or commission that they would form to further investigate this particular issue. aside from that, there are also authorities who are busy with an investigation as well. so it may be some time before we have any other answers from the president, he maintains that he had done nothing wrong and he has got receipts. he's got a documentation to account for the money that was at his residence. and so not much less developed in terms of south africans learning anything more about what exactly happened. and many people i suppose waiting for that due process to be completed. ah, your job is, are with me. so robin der walt romando, of all top stories, recall gorbachev. the last leader of the soviet union has died to the age of 91.