ever been a real democracy, the black people never experience. democracy may be excludes divisions and struggles in america's electoral system. a fight foreign against equal representation, and the democratic process is the country that's learning how to be a democracy, but it's not there yet. one person, one vote on al jazeera. what we do in al jazeera is try to balance this story and leave the people who allow us into their lives, dignity, and humanity. ah. ready the last president of the soviet union mikhail gorbachev dies at the age of 90. 1. hailed in the west and blamed in russia. gorbachev helped end the cold war process or the break

up the ussr. ah, hello there, i'm laura kyle: this is al serra live from doha, also coming up. com in the capital, but a rocks primers are threatened to quit. if rivalries continue and do not drink the water ought to be clear. please do not drink the water. a water crisis and mississippi people in the us state capital a want not to use public supplies. ah mikhail gorbachev, the leader who helped end the cold war and presided over the breakup of the soviet union has died at the age of 91. born into a poor farming family in 1931, he rose to become the most powerful man in 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, and russia for unleashing forces that led to the collapse of the soviet union. in 1991, i tore gatsby looks back on his life. i recall gorbachev changed the cue so 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 allow for the peaceful collapse of the soviet union. it did not use massive, forced to keep eastern europe ah, in the empire. and with 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 class most and perestroika reforms that were to revolutionize the soviet system where the whole goal 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. bethany, 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 cielo flourishes. here in this situation which follows the establishment of the commonwealth of independent states, i hear by cease to act as the president of the soviet you know, you. so you did most not was talking as a gender 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 ibm are booked in trying with miller free force to rebuild the so during integrated through force for me kind of do the gorbachev legacy,

michigan. i talk united nations secretary general antonia the terrorist says the world flew to towering local liter, russian president vladimir putin has expressed his deepest condolences, who was off with his famous cribs and birthmark, with one of the most recognizable figures of 20th century politics. and one of its most influential leaders across the globe have been paying tribute to mikhail gorbachev. russian president vladimir putin as express his deepest condolences and says he will send telegrams to his family and friends. us present, joe biden as cool. gorbachev, a rare leader who made the well safer united nations, actually general antonia good terrorist says gorbachev did more than any other individual to bring a peaceful end to the cold war. he says the world has lost a tower, and global leader, which is prime minister burst johnson, says he admired gorbachev's courage and integrity to bring an end to the cold war. and french present to my new micron has praised him, call him

a man of peace. and he sought a bag as a former us ambassador to the united nations. and she says gorbachev leaves behind a mixed legacy. it will be a manual ended the cold war, who opened up the soviet union to possibilities for peace with the west. integration with the west, he understood the need to have russia embedded and integrated with the west, even if it may contain keep a slightly different system in russia. i expect there will be stern noting of the passing of a former leader, but vitriol on there on the right and the social media even already see it on twitter and instagram of the calls that he's a traitor. and so i think the kremlin will be dignified about his passing, but mom on too much of the legacy on a personal level, he was very engaging, warm,

a quick, quick till after i had the opportunity to meet him in the ninety's with senator ted kennedy for who was working and the big issues there were to try to get some refuse next out of the soviet union. he understood how to make that deal. and we got some out. big crisis at the time was the i n f treaty and he was a brilliant leader. he helped and the empire open of the country and the glass knows process and is revered in the, in the west for really being a partner for a number of years in a way that we hadn't had internally. it went south on him because the reforms didn't take hold of people didn't have the prosperity that should have come with the collapse of the soviet union. and it late and asia where we are today, which is an autocratic czar that is invading his neighbors avenue. now, in pakistan on boston to the un has his country did not cause climate change. and he's calling on wealthy countries to shoulder responsibility for the millions of

people affected by recent flooding. one 3rd of his country is under water and more than 1100 people have been killed. 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 the country which has contributed were truly 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 due, 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 too productive facilities. i. so it, 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, aaliyah and sasha generous, appealing, 460000000 dollars in age to help more than $33000000.00 people in pakistan affected by those massive floods. and having a terror says he will visit next week. pakistan is a washing suffering. the pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids,

the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding. the climate catastrophe has killed more than 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 destruction of our planet by climate change to they. it is pakistan. to morrow it could be your country. come, i'll hide a has law firm that now shera where 2 major rivers have flooded. i'm better place go head abad. 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 in dust, which comes from the north. now both are said to be in high flood. and although the

situation up noted now improving with the water receding, they did a grave thread. this large water body is heading out toward the province of sin and its going to hit sudden pun job that is focused on cotton growing bay. and gordon is of course, bog. it's on sketch grub. my dad will also devastate populations that situated close to the river bank. august on has seen massive deforestation, which of course is common founding the problem that is worrying and the river beds . and of course that 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 florida. right now, the grave threat is bold to area richard and upon job and the province of sin and head in the k p. k. province. people are now cleaning up and returning to their

homes. my dad is going to be the grave threat of war to borne diseases from the stagnant water that remains. iraq's prime minister says he will resign if the political crisis in his country continues. mister alcott am cutting me addressed the nation of the supporters of shanita, mac, tulsa, withdrew from baghdad heavily for mike meantime. and he's 30 people were killed and hunters wounded in unrest on monday, following saturday announcement that he was quitting politics. oh has the manila and i want 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 that i am proceed to leave my post in accordance to the iraqi constitution at an appropriate time, my day people, our country iraq is bleeding and has been bleeding for a long time. at such a cost,

he still has head on out his era, relatives demand answers, and the search team struggles to retrieve the wreckage of a boat. on the case of lebanon and a nation divided by the corruption tribe, a former president brings thousands of on the streets of argentina. ah, here's your headlines for the america. it's great to see you will begin in the bottom end of south america. santiago came really close to matching your winter temperature record you are at 30.5. the record by the way, is 31. but check this out. a big drop in temperatures on wednesday, just a high of 12 degrees. but we were verse that pattern where we had that cooler air toward the river plate, the southeast of brazil and paraguay. your temperatures are now on the rise for

wednesday, tharp and of south america, their persistent rain, still a problem for the pacific coast of columbia. and after central america, it's really, again the pacific coast that we're seeing getting pelted with brain sim, goes through the yucatan peninsula and at western side of cuba. there had been some concern about the flooding in mississippi with the pearl river reaching a flood levels. but by most accounts of flooding was not as bad as it could have been after the great lakes, the ne, some storms have swung through here. so big drop in those temperatures, toronto just 23 degrees. and after the west we go high pressure and play. so plenty of 0 hi, temperatures, seattle, portland, we've got heat alerts in play here that stretches through california into southern nevada. so vegas coming in at a hot 42 on wednesday sir later. ah, the count and the fee for will come 2022 approaches. every continent is turning its

eyes to kanto. we have a feeling great to sporting events in the world won't be the only thing capturing everyone's attention beyond football. immerse yourself in internationally renowned entertainment, auto culture. cattle has everything you'd want in the destination. in fact, it's the obvious choice for the 5th a will come 2022. so why go anywhere else, hulu? ah, no, again, you are watching al jazeera has a reminder of our top story is this our mikhail gorbachev. the lost leader of the soviet union has died at the age of $91.00,

which was presided over the end of the cold war and lifting the all the eastern, eastern european europe and carson failed to prevent the collapse of the u. s. s. r pac hassan says it's not responsible for climate change and it's going on wealthy countries to help the millions of people affected by recent flooding. 20 rains of submerged one 3rd of pakistan and iraq's prime minister says he'll quit if the political crisis in his country continues. suffer al, cutting me address the nation all to support the powerful she might need them all sorta withdrew from baghdad, heavily fortified green zone. for him from the united nations nuclear watchdog agency, the i a, a has met ukrainian president brody. mr. lansky in keith allegation is traveling to this oper, reach a nuclear power plant. ukraine and russia have accused each other of selling around

the facility, which was briefly knocked offline last week. the fighting has brought international concern about a potential disaster. the a team is being given access to inspect the russian control site. last week, it is very important for us pressing demand for the i a and the demand supported by all world leaders concerning immediate demilitarization of the plan. we ask for the removal of the russian military unit and the liberation of our plan. and it is that these upper easier nuclear plant must return to ukrainian control the school only this way we can eliminate any risk regarding nuclear power train. the bo has more from cave, 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 the sky. there's been a lot of. 1 concerns about how they're going to be traveling all the way to

somebody to 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 a 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 to be attacked from the plant that was taking over by russia overall. the

most important thing is to verify that 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 you government is saying because they're being closely monitored by russian soldiers and also that all the faith safety systems are in place. the marriage ukraine's 2nd largest city cock give says at least 5 people have been killed and russians strikes, residential buildings and the nursery were damaged. most of the workers have want people to stay in doors. hockey has been heavily bombed throughout the conflicts, but ukrainian forces have managed to repel efforts by russian troops to take the sissy. united nations as a ship carrying wheat from ukraine to drought stricken horn of africa has docs and your booty and ship was transporting 23000 tons of grain. it's the 1st vessel to make the journey to the regions 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 u. n says 82000000 people need food 8 across east and africa because of extreme weather searching food prices and conflicts. the solomon islands has temporarily bound u. s. navy ships from entering as ports decision comes weeks on the pacific island nation, signed a security agreement with china in april. western governments concerning the solomon islands could provide china with the motive foothold in the region moratorium will apply to all naval ships. cynthia watson as an independent asia pacific analyst, she says the relationship between the u. s. and china may explain the decision, but the may also be on the faxes. i don't think that it's something that should be interpreted unless we want to make it into something. as a grandiose move on the part of aging, to force the solomon's to do something with it. that may in fact be what happened.

but there are other plausible explanations as well that have a lot to do with internal politics within the solvent. and we are forgetting that as the idea of great power competition makes everything into a 0 sum equation, trying to has tremendous issues right now. not the least of which is that they've announced as of today when the party congress will occur in october, which will become the primary focus of what happens with in china for the next couple of months. c, u. s. has made that accurate accusation at the same time trying to regularly accuses the united states of things. and we don't accept that as gospel either. my point is simply that if every thing in the world happens as if it were solely driven by great power competition, that leaves out a lot of possible explanations. u. s. navy says it's foiled an attempt by iranian

forces to capture an unmanned vessel and release these images, which i said to show the iranian ship towing the small american vessel before it was let go. of us as the sail join explorer was being operated by his feet in the gulf sale, joan is capable of carrying out data collection missions, which is to and mapping for up to one year. they were lebanon, have 3 been protesting against draft legislation. they say would make it harder to get savings out of their bank accounts, says 2019 lebanese bank for them, whose strict limits on the withdrawal of foreign currency economies spiraled 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. the such team that found the wreckage of a migrant boat that went down off the coast of lebanon, says, unable to bring the vessel to the surface. and i was also haven't recovered the

bodies inside the sunken boat. families of the victims say they are reliving the pain. then a hodder has wall from tripoli and northern lebanon. for months on survivors are reliving the pain of losing family members at sea. they were hoping to make it to europe, but their boat was intercepted by the army off the coast of northern lebanon, and circumstances disputed till to day. remember, colonel had of our goal is to know who is responsible for sinking the boat. we still don't know. there have been contradictory statements. the army said the boat wasn't hurt. if the captain of the submarine said it was heard from the front. a few days ago, a privately funded search team located the wreckage more than 450 meters beneath the surface. the army says it was overloaded and collided with the navy vessel while trying to get away. survivors say otherwise, let not alone is sharlena the army vessel hit the front of our boat water started

to come in. and at 1st we didn't realize good bunch of sinking. i saw a sailor twice telling them to hit the front of our boat. the captain of the submarine reported signs of damage at the front of the boat, but says his team didn't have the capabilities to retrieve the vessel which is partly buried under silt on the sea bed, mac, a bully, horn, or still killed in cold blood. we want a transparent investigation and if they were serious about the truth, they would bring the boat up. relatives that the more than 30 people missing are not only asking for justice. what, what they killed my daughter, at least give me her bones. this is all i want now, so i can pray at her grave. the search team says it found some bodies near and inside the shipwrecked, but they were badly decayed. the tragedy in april wasn't the 1st for lebanon in september, 2020 a migrant boat drifted at sea for days without food or water before it was found,

4 people died including a child. then like now families of the victims blamed the authorities saying they haven't even been told if any of the remains were recovered. yeah, i know these are my children. i one thing, it's not up to the authorities. what happens? these are my children not days, but the search team has ended its mission, providing no closure. to grieving families said hi there, alex is eda tripoli, north lebanon. a tab on an afghani song, a celebrating one year since the departure of the last u. s. soldiers from the country and sent off fireworks in the capital kabul and declared wednesday public holiday. us left afghanistan after a 20 year long war that saw tens of thousands of afghan civilians and fighters killed, along with over 2000 american soldiers is facing a grave, humanitarian crisis and political isolation. as women are banned from actively participating in society,

the former president and current vice president of argentina, christina fernandez de kirshner, is on trial accused, a corruption. the verdict is due later this year, but caused by the prosecution to have her jailed. have provoked angry responses from her supporters, and i'll try my reports from when osiris the former president and current 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 aunt empties that it was on the flexion. this trial started with this fiction. there was recounted by the prosecutors over 5 days. during those 5 days, i listened to those accusation that were not accusations. there were a fiction, a script, a very bad one. besides being false. yes, it does, but it is what is he got sick on daily. the prosecution is cooling for a 12 year prison sentence, and the lifetime ban on the vice president holding public office,

one opposition politician, even demanded her execution. in response to supporters took to the streets outside her apartment in one osiris. please controlled by the opposition lead city government responded aggressively provoking strong criticism from the national government, including the president, alberto fernandez. the supporters now keep with the vigil outside the home. on the 3rd of april, read our legacy berlin. when you put one of our main political leaders on trial, in such a weak case, you undermine democracy and a lot of blood and spilt to win our democracy. samuel, if she did so much this calls, the city metro gave food to the poor. equip see universities and gave her wage to housewife. christina fernandez, the kitchen that divides opinion like no other. but this trial is about much more than whether she's guilty or not guilty. it's about how many argent times see the

future of trouble country. so if you have a former president, the wife of a former president, and now argentina's vice president, this is kitchener has been around for long enough to have made plenty of friends and a lot of enemies for opponents 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 a lot of hinting it will be historic for argentina, but the 1st summer female president convicted for a fully proven corruption crime that it serve as an example for all of you all. now if we don't find it, it gives us hope that we still have justice, the margin tina, and this has only just begun the verdict on christina kitchener and the 12 other accused is expected later this year. whenever the outcome argentine will be divided by increasingly bitter conflict, and so on the al jazeera,

when osiris mississippi's governor has declared a state of emergency in the us state capital jackson, my residents have no drinking water. as after the water treatment plant failed jackson's aging pipes and left the city and crisis for years. now the national guard has been called in to help distribute clean water. on hanjin reports. the water in mississippi's largest city is undrinkable. do not drink the water, ought to be clear. please do not drink the water. a 150000 resident of jackson, the state capitol, cannot drink the water, cannot reliably shower flush their toilets 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. and so that is far beyond the city of jackson's reach to be able to accomplish that . on our longtime jackson resident bernard smith saw it coming and stopped up. i will try to stop go on war to supplant because this stuff that don't bone in any instances when you know you and i don't where this happens, you don't just all of a sudden you you at toyota plan. they always tell me, i can't bite you. in the burbs jackson's population is largely black of quarter live in poverty, is one of many us city, suffering water supply problems. and until it can restore its water treatment plant and feel its aging pipes residence will have to make do with boiled water.