following dangerous roads from the holy land and beyond to day taking the shuttle, professor showers travel to china events with surging questions of had a relationship between east and west as j. o marco polo on al jazeera. ah alger 0 rate with no i the last president of the soviet union mikhail gorbachev dies at the age. busy of 91 hailed and the west blamed in russia. gorbachev helped end the cold war,

but also overseas the breakup of the u. s. s. all ah, alabama. laura kyle, this is al jazeera live from dough ha. also coming up, accused of threatening a judge pakistan's, former prime minister and wrong con is due in court. will be live in islamabad and com in the capsule, but a rocks prime minister threatened to quit f rivalries continued. ah, began gorbachev the soviet anita who helped ends. the cold war has died at the age of 91 born into a poor farming family. he rose to become the most powerful man in the communist government. gorbachev initiate the massive program of reforms and was praised in the west as eastern europe moved away from communism. and he was criticized in

russia for failing to prevent the collapse of the soviet union between jason b looks back on his life a call go, but you've changed the cruiser 20th century history. his legacy though was valued more by some the, by others in the west, he's review. it is 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 forster 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, we 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, nose and perestroika reforms that were to revolutionize the soviet system. where the goal should you lady that we made 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 sil pleasantries here in this situation, which follows the establishment of the commonwealth of independent states. i hereby cease to act as the president of the soviet union. you so uniqueness. nope, was not residential, is a cell awarded the nobel peace prize in 1990 gorbachev remained in the public high, watching democratic progress erode relations with the west deteriorate? well right now the present russians are, are boucher trying with military force to rebuild the so you have to reintegrate through forceful means kind of do the gorbachev legacy michelle gama talk united nations secretary general antonio terrace says the world flo, the towering local leader, russian president vladimir putin has expressed his deepest condolences, which off with his famous crimson birthmark was one of the most recognizable

figures of 20th century politics. and one of its most influential leaders around the world have been paying tribute. russian president vladimir putin has expressed his deepest condolences and says he will send telegrams to go which of family and friends us present. joe biden has described him as a rare leader who made the world safer. heres actually general antonio good terrorist that gorbachev did more than any one to and the cold war peacefully. he says the world has lost a tower and global leader for his prime minister burst. johnson says he admired the soviet needed courage and integrity and french president. manuel micron has praised gorbachev, calling him a man of peace. and he thought about as a former us ambassador to the united nations. she says gorbachev leaves behind a mixed legacy. it will be a man who entered 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 ignored. you 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 trying to get some refused mix out of the soviet union. he understood how to make that deal and we got some out. big crisis at the time was the street in he was

a brilliant leader. he helped and the empire open of the country and the glass knows process and his 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 that people didn't have the prosperity that should have come with the collapse of the soviet union. and it late and asian to where we are today, which is an autocratic czar that is invading his neighbors from all the news now in pakistan's ambassador to the un says his country did not cause climate change. and his calling on wealthy country to shoulder responsibility for millions of people affected by recent flooding. one 3rd of pakistan is under water and more than $1100.00 people have died since mid june. ah, the 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 virtually nothing to global warming. ah, so certainly we are in a geographical location and with certain other cuz circumstances with the largest number of glaciers ah, that feed into our rivers. 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, or to 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 ends. actually, darrow is appealing for 160000000 dollars in emergency aid to help more than faster 3000000 people in pakistan affected by these mass and floods. and having a terrorist says he'll visit the country next week. pakistan is a wash in suffering. the pakistani people are facing them on soon 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 need. 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. me while hundreds of supporters of pakistan's, former prime minister in wrong con, have gathered outside his home to prevent his arrest. con is due in court on contempt of court challenges and the anti terror laws. i think you can say he threatened police officers and the judge involved in the recent arrest and one of his top aides, if convicted, he faced this 6 months present time, and automatic disqualification from running for office that's close live to come on . hider is outside that court house in islamabad and come out, are expecting the former prime minister and wrong. com to appear himself in court. yes, indeed, they will appear before the court read or contempt. georgia. i've been brought

against damage or any of god. as in a reply to the court said that embrun cons comments that came into public rally against a police chief, as well as a judge, or because he had not understood that this would be your dental office. and not a magistrate acting on behalf of the state and of god, therefore, not giving a favorable reward, dick and mister gave a k. sure to read it. really. it really did. why do the former prime minister show indeed m ron con, willing to take back head words and they did an expectation that the court may, i said, i said this aside, but as you mentioned, it does have grave consequences than good. he is found guilty of condemned and that you mentioned re correctly. that itself could lead to disqualification from politic

for at least 5 years and possibly a 101012 months unlikely to happen. all lied of god will be on the court. and this is at the time when the people of fog it's on, would be expecting that the political leadership should unite and hell. 33000000 of it said didn't do it in dire need of help after don't devastating floods uncommon as it come all in pakistan for anti terran norris to be used against political leaders. yes, anti chair laws as well as can came to now other politicians have been accused of condemned. the court has been lenient in some cases. they have sent some political leaders to break the net read. however, the anti terrorism law age. i've got another matter around con will be appearing in court after he got back from that court till the 2nd. so he will be appearing in

that anti database gauge, which is seen as politically motivated because it did not involve any act of data that this was politics. and the government is trying to use this as a tool to try to get qualify and run hon or to put them in prison because they see him as a major challenge to the multi party coalition. that is ruling at the moment. come on. hi there. joining us that from as long as thanks very much said i had her on al jazeera relatives demand on says as a such team struggles to a trade the wreckage of a boat off the coast of lebanon plus, do not drink water to be clear. please do not drink the water water crisis and mississippi people in the us state capital a warned not to use public supplies ah,

with some now for your weather update across the middle east and africa. thank you so much for joining in plenty of hot sunshine to go around here is still those bursts of rain across western areas of yemen as was in the forecast to continue to linger right up until the end of the month. and here we are last stable for september, much more com pictures we looked toward afghanistan and pakistan. maybe a few showers a toward the north, up against the foothills of the himalayas. still high temperatures across areas of the law that will pay the colors on dark. the red, the hard, the temperature, amman at 38 degrees and take a look at the 3 day forecasts right now. this is going to be an extended period of heat going rate through into next week. your september average is 31. the record for september is 40 and we got you in for 38. so getting pretty close there. central africa getting striped with some pretty solid bands of rain around bungie

with a high 30 degrees in our usual storms. around late victoria to the south. you know, for south africa its entire coastline from the northern cape province, stretching over to quasi luna tao. we've got blustery winds in the forecast. her think gus anywhere about 60 to 65 kilometers per hour and same goes for that coast of mozambique and that may spread some showers for north central areas on wednesday sale later. ah, new voice is heating up the airway. lot of chinese listeners with. kimberly here, but i really think in their own country shifting paleface, the rise of citizen journalism has changed everything. how do you happen? it happened on social media and the undeniable impact of the mainstream narrative. australians went to the pole with those images front of mine is a water very much came forth out in the media as well as on the battlefield. they're listening post. dissect the media on al jazeera

lou. ah, hello again. you're watching al jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this our mikhail gorbachev, the loss leader of the soviet union has died at the age of $91.00 for which i presided over the end of the cold war on the lifting of eastern europe. i am cotton but fail to prevent the collapse of the ussr pakistan's as it's not responsible for climate change and is calling on wealthy countries to help the millions of people affected by recent funding on foot of pakistan. this underwater and hundreds of supporters of pakistan's, former prime minister, enron con,

of gathered outside his home to prevent his arrest, thought, as expected, and cool to have comments. he made an speech, prosecutor's moment, to charge him with contempt of court. it seems when the united nations nuclear watchdog has set off for the zap reach a nuclear power plant in ukraine, the i. e, a delegation left cave a short while ago after meeting president vladimir semanski on tuesday. you created russia of accused each other of shelling around the facility. fighting of course, international concern about a potential disaster. yeah, i am team is being given access to inspect the russian control site with us. you know, we have a very, very forth there to perform, to assess the situation there to help study license

recreation as much as we can. i am really very conscious the relevance of this moment, but we are ready to use rate, so we will be reporting. but after after the mission, we're going to be spending a few days there. teresa bo has more from keith. there's been lots of 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 have. what do you fit in that meeting with president phil 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 not going 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 40th of shelling the area. some of those shelves have come very, very close to where the nuclear fuel is located and even the radioactive waste and 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 level of damage that has happened to the plant to feed that t crating and technicians that i working there are doing okay that they're not working under duress, which is what the korean government is saying because they're being closely monitored by russian soldiers and also that all the faith safety systems are in place. the resignation says a ship carrying wheat from ukraine to the drought stricken horn of africa. as talked in djibouti. the ship was transporting 23000 tons of grain as the 1st vessel

to make the journey to the region since russia invaded ukraine 6 months ago. a shipment will be transported to ethiopia. expert say it's enough to feed $1500000.00 people for a month, and that's nowhere near enough. you an estimate, 82000000 people need food 8 across eastern africa because of extreme weather surging food prices and conflicts. we've already seen a reduction of 15 percent in weak prices globally. since the black sea initiative commenced. what we want to see is more food flowing. we need from w p. 's perspective. millions of tons in this region in ethiopia are alone. 3 quarters of everything that we use to distribute originated from ukraine and russia . iraq's prime minister says hale resign if the political crisis in his country continues. mustafah academy addressed the nation after supporters of shiite leader mc tara al sada,

withdrew from baghdad heavily fortified greens and at least 30 people were killed and hundreds wounded in unrest on monday, following saturday announcement that he was quitting politics. we'll have the men who know and i want that if they want to continue to create disputes and complications or not to listen to the source of reason than i will make a moral decision. but i am proceed to leave my post in accordance to the iraqi constitution at an appropriate time, my dear people, our country, iraq is bleeding and has been bleeding for a long time. at such a cost, he, what they will and lebanon have protested against draft legislation. they say would make it even harder to get their savings out of their bank accounts. since 2019 lebanese banks have imposed strict limits on the withdrawal of foreign currency. economy has plummeted over the last 3 years and one of the wealth west financial crises, experts say the capital control bill will be ineffective unless the government also brings in a wide ranging economic recovery plan. awesome,

i'll shake hussain was at the protest. 2 weeks ago, he took people hostage in a bank at gunpoint to demand funds from his lot savings account. he says the system needs to change the law had, but we came to protest to get back the money. but the thieves in there stole from us are cool on all the revolutionaries to come to the street in large numbers. so we don't lose the money they 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. a search team that found the wreckage of a migrant boat off the coast of lebanon, says it's unable to bring it to the surface. divers also haven't recovered the bodies inside the sunken vessel. then hotter has more from tripoli in 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, no matter in another. 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. se otherwise. hope alone is sharlena the army vessel hit the front of our boat, which is taught to come in. and at 1st we didn't realize the bushes thinking, i saw a sailor twice, telling them to hit the front of our boat. the captain of the submarine report had 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 above me, or they were killed in cold blood. we want to transparent investigation and if they were serious about the truth, they would bring the boat up. relatives of the more than 30 people missing or not only asking for justice. what do they kill 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 somebody's near and inside the shipwreck, but they were badly decayed. the tragedy in april wasn't the 1st for 11 on 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. i don't diesel, my children. i one thing. it's more 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 that are there, osha, 0, tripoli, northern lebanon, the taliban in afghanistan, a celebrating one. yes. is the departure of the last u. s. soldiers from the country. a set of fireworks and the capsule kabul, and declared wednesday public holiday. us left afghanistan after a 20 year loan wall that so tens of thousands of afghan civilians and fighters killed, along with more than 2000 american soldiers, is facing a great humanitarian crisis. and political isolation of women a being banned from actively participating in society for president and current vice president of argentina. christina fernandez de kushner is on trial accused of corruption. the verdict is due later this year, but caused by the prosecution to have her jailed and provoked angry responses from her supporters and her schriner reports from one osiris. the former president and

current vice president of argentina. christina fernandez, the kitchener is on trial. in the case, it's 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 going into fixing on 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 about this or 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 is 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 i, when i left visible and 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 for them. okay. i mean, she did so much the schools, the city metro gave foot to the poor, equip see universities and gave her wage to housewives. christina fernandez, the kitchen that divides opinion like no other. but this trial is about much more than whether he's guilty or not guilty. it's about how many argent time see the future of their trouble country. so take that we 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 former 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 him saying 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 of you all. now if we don't find it, it gives us hope that we still have justice an argentine 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 an 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, our residents have no drinking water. as after the water treatment plant failed. jackson, the aging pipes have left the city in crisis for years. now the national guard has been called in to help distribute clean water. john handle 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 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'll will try to stop, go on war to supplant their stuff that don't bowl 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, a snake came by to give you the burden. jackson's population is largely black of quarter live in poverty. it's 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, bottled water and plenty of patients. john henderson, al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera. these are our top stories mikhail gorbachev. the last 8 of the soviet union has died of the.