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coming out of the next 60 minutes. the idea he's will be able to visit with you on team sets off to inspect ukraine's nuclear plant up to shelling from spheres of radiation. m on con, supporters gathered outside his house. as the form of pakistani prime minister appears in court. iraq's prime minister threatened to quit with political conflicts, continues to descend into violence and macau, over shelf dies, aged 91 world leaders reflect on the legacy of the man who helped to re shape global politics. i'm joanna roscoe, with the sports as top ranked women's play as tumble out of the us open, including reigning champion and the right economy. with after weeks of negotiations, investigators in the u. a nuclear watched all golf. finally on the way to the

russian occupied zap alicia power plant and ukraine, the i 18 left key valley on wednesday morning ukraine and russia had accused each other of shelling around the largest nuclear facility in europe. that raised fears of a possible radiation leak. this with us, you know, we have a very, very, for there to perform, to assess the situation there to help study license depletion as much as we can. i am really conscious the relevance of these 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 to visible as life and us know from keith. this visit was regarded

as a matter of urgency, but it's taking a very long time to, to, to organize. finally, the team is on its way. do we know any more about what they're going to be trying to find? well, it's definitely a big challenge. it's a big test to, it's a long drive for them to be able to get there. they left a very early in the morning this wednesday about an 8 or 9 hour drive. so it's not clear yet whether they'll be able to make it in the day. but what we do know is that ukrainian officials are saying that intense shelling has been ongoing around that area. the russians took over the city of in order that that's where the nuclear power plant is located and from there they have been attacking the front line, the ukrainian frontline that's on the other side of the river. that's the support asia region, the city of nickel board where we're told intense shelling has been ongoing in the next few hours. so what are they going to be trying to find? i mean, ukrainian official. so saying that they gave them

a very specific list of things that they need to check while they're on the ground of things to find out whether they're working properly. but among the most important thing is finding out why type of damage has been committed. if any at all, what to see to wait and on the ground. what's, you know, how ukrainian employees you in, in technicians are doing inside the plant because they have been working under extreme pressure because they are controlled by russian for soldiers. and also is whether the system, the safety systems are in place. so it's a big challenge. it's a big, big task and it's not going to be over any time soon because we're told that the hold inspection could take several days to this. of course, this is as you were talking about hopping against the backdrop of the fighting that's going on in the country. while most definitely fighting isn't still going on, especially right now, or lies are on the southern part of the country we're hearing that later report says that the russian of forces are attacking back ukraine in the past few days. we

have heard that there's been a counter offenses by ukrainian forces to try to kick, take back some of those cities that have been occupied by russia since the beginning of the war. among them is the fit, the area of had a so and it was one of the 1st starts a regions to fall under russian occupation that they were trying to continue to take over the southern part of the country all the way towards the city. for lisa, well, they were not able to do that because they encounters fear, ukrainian resistance, and that's why precedent felons get has been promising the population and telling them that he's going to try to liberate those areas. well, that's what they're trying to do. now. intense fighting is ongoing and it's not clear yet how long this is going to take. let's not forget that the front line has been very stable for the past weeks. none, none of those forces have been able to make any major accomplishments. so we're gonna have to see whether there is that ukrainian forces have enough weapons, whether they have enough manpower to be able to liberate many of the cities that

have been occupied by russia. just as you're saying, they're too much of the fighting has been moved towards the east of the country. but of course the, the, the in charge of ukraine has been fighting a battle, fighting this war for several months. what is the assessment of how people in ukraine are actually feeling about the conflict at this point? well, it's quite impressive because in spite of the war, in spite of the hardships, in spite of you know, listening to air, raid sirens almost all the time in different parts of the country, people are still believing. but they have a chance of winning the war. they continue to support press it and landscape about his attempts to liberate many of those cities that have been occupied by russia. so support runs very, very strong. still, at least in many of the areas i have been able to visit, but still there is also a humanitarian crises ongoing, especially towards the southern eastern part of the country where the entire cpu have been devastated. i was able to travel to the city of nikolai, of what,

you know, massive destruction has been ongoing. there were thousands of people have been pushed to flee from their homes where people have been injured and thousands have di. so most certainly support continue to run high people continue to believe that there is a chance of winning this war of liberating those parts that i've been occupied. but, you know, as i said before, we will have to see whether ukraine has the strength, it has the resources, it has the manpower to be able to liberate those areas, and that's currently under russian occupation. theresa. thank you very much indeed . theresa. both talking to us from keith like a sons' former primer, so even on con, has arrived at core to face. charges of contempt is also facing charges on to the anti terrorism act. earlier hundreds of his photos gathered outside conn's home, buying to protect him from arrest, prosecutors say construction police officers and a judge involved in the arrest, and one of his aides is convicted. he could face

a 6 month prison term and be disqualified for running for office will. it's crossed to come on hider who's outside the court house in islamabad. so come on, has 2 charges against him. he is in court to day talk us through what is likely to be happening when a former prime minister came round honda arrived at gore de la la bernard goal and right now the proceedings are under way. de chief judge de include heading raja, the chief justice of the slum, obadiah, god. oh, getting the 5 member bench observed that he was expecting an unconditionally a polar j from emron hon. a shared data dead, the important to nor dead day a cord of god was expecting that a proceeding that under way of condition, the condemned gauge, which but gains to the fact that during a rally, enron han, criticized one of the judge away, proved a judiciary. raymond,

of the key staff officer of embrun con doctor again m round conn. and du rally said that he had evidence that gilbert tortured to extract a confession out of him and id said to move by the judge. what's gone driven, joe, saying that they were dig that judge do. cord show dagwoods guns, drew and contempt off guard the la di gord issuing a notice to him and then started deborah feedings of contempt of guard. by a deb lloyd's probably armed him ron hahn well, acquiesced to their demands of duct god. relent boiler j. gotten to his a. donny wood and their name. ron hahn had a misconception that digital neg, negative, and magistrate who was acting on behalf of the federal state. each of gods of god,

is of god's blame the government, sorry, of fall or manipulating dish against him as a political weapon. enron kind of got a bearing. i would a very small game in one way galleys inside. you can see the media behind me. so this is a contempt of gold case, and i've got to via can rick did. it didn't dance, perhaps, as, as pension from politic for 5 years and also a bridge into but that did quite unlikely because he what happens at god today the other geisha against damage but gaining do, and to get a resumes great beer in that tomorrow and death guards the at the blame day or the case against him saying that gala inside gain the police and undermining the arter david, which don't amount to generate them at lloyd. i've got, they've been saying that this is politically more day where day that m rhonda has committed no act of data. and i did was basically his opinion that he expressed ridgewood misconstrued so

a lot going on against him. ron khan had lloyd's of gods are confident that he will come out of days. he's got the support of the people. even the chief judge judge observed at enron, out to popularity. he said at a time, gone by again, not come back. words spoken from the mouth can not be a good show, a lot happening, hide drama and dad at the time when the country is suffering from it's was a crisis, a flood, and the people of buckets honored expect their lead, esther unite to drive to help them rather than getting embroiled and political bickering, as we've seen from all over the last 2, certainly talent con has been able to rally tens of thousands of supporters. as you say, this is coming at a very tense time in the country, irrespective of what happens in court. one would imagine this is just gonna add to the, the political tension that the country is facing. absolutely

that belinda girl denture, and an instability of gods and also played in go for management of that get dr. b by lake baghdad. les dash to go to the people who are suffering, who have been devastated by the flood. instead, every day they're watching their television screen and a boiler to get written, their dad and that date for died unfolding before their eyes come out. thank you very much indeed. come all fido talking to us from outside the courthouse in islamabad. iraq's caretaker prime minister, says he's going to resign if the political crisis and unrest and the country continues. most of all economy addressed the nation after 2 days a violent protest in bagdad heavily fortified green zone. the chaos ended when powerful she, i'd, political leader mocked out of sudden, ordered his supporters to withdraw on tuesday. at least 30 people were killed and hundreds were wounded. the protests were sparked by saunders announcement that he was quit and politics will have the men who none. and i will 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 am proceed to leave my post in accordance to the iraqi constitution. that's an appropriate time, my dear people, our country iraq is bleeding and has been bleeding for a long time. at such a cost, he dos at about his following developments in baghdad. it's unclear how serious those threats are that are made by the and the current iraqi prime minister must have fall academy, who himself has been in the position since may of 2020. he was also appointed as a caretaker, prime minister. but the political upheaval in this country has just continued and he, in that speech seemed very, very frustrated and tired from the ongoing political crisis that has been dragging on and now reached a very violent days in the over the past 48 hours here at the iraqi prime, it is,

sir, said that at the duality of the state and non state needs to end. and he also said that the arms that have been used against the iraqi people should be used to protect them. a he said that he was willing to step aside if these disputes between the various factions would add don't come to an ent. he just seemed a to me as saying that he's not really able to carry out his duties with all this political infighting that is ongoing, as well as the violence that us crew been created as a result of it. at what would happen if he does choose to leave office is that the president would be in charge of the country and then the president would have a 15 day period to appoint another caretaker prime minister who would take over that position until the next elections are held in this country, julia supreme court has begun hearing presidential candidate royal i biggest challenge to the election results. it's going to sit until september, the 4th,

but english rival, william, brutal was declared the winner with just over 50 percent of the vote. 4 of the 7 electoral commissioners refused to endorse the result. what anger says the outcome is flawed and should be declared null and void. malcolm web has more from nairobi on the arguments. the supreme court will consider. i would have identified 9 areas that 9 questions that they want to answer over the coming days of hearing. and they include whether or not the electoral commission database and online system was hack . riley were doing. and his team alleged the team working for william route main rival hacked into the system and change the result. retail seem denied that the court wants to try and establish whether or not that's true. another area that they want to look at royal is coalition of also alleged. this is a discrepancy between the number of votes costs for the president, the vote in the other election for members of parliament,

senators and local government a significant significantly larger number of cost for the presidential paul could be seen as evidence of balance stuffing. that area a question or concluding question that they say they want to on if indeed william roots, i did in fact get more than 50 percent of the vote. the result that was announced by the chair of the electoral commission. and if the irregularities significant enough to nullify the election, in which case the court can order a re run, the constitution says that that has to take place within 60 days for the motor head in the news, including do not drink water to be clear. please do not drink water and water crisis in mississippi, even in the state capital are told not to use their own tubs. if use pakistan to model it could be your plea for help in the face of an actual calamity. the un

office for a $160000000.00 for pack her son. found it all made for when you return to the final grimes planning the season. coming up with joe ah, less you offer reasons for the millions affected by flooding and pakistan, our expanding army helicopters of arrived in remote parts of the country that had been cut off for days. tens of thousands of people, a stranded b u n's launched an appeal for a $160000000.00 monsoon reins of submerged a 3rd of the country. more than a 1000 people have died. august hands ambassador to the un says his country did not cause climate change, but it's bearing the brunt of it is coming on. wealthy countries to shoulder responsibility for the millions of people affected by the worst floods in pakistan, a decade. one 3rd of the countries under water, more than

a 1000 people have died since mid june. 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 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 ca, circumstances with the largest number of glaciers. ah, that feed into our rivers. ah, this is a of a disaster of epic proportions. and it has been obviously called a caused by climate change. the estimates urgent are being made as we speak are our initial estimates. either the damage to the economy itself could range

over $5000000000.00 into $10000000000.00 of damage from 4 until infrastructure to livelihoods, to crops, 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, the governor via state of mississippi's declared a state of emergency in the original capital jackson. people don't have clean drinking water after the treatment plant was overwhelmed by floods. jackson's aging pipes have left the city in crisis for years, but i shall guardsman 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 residents of jackson, the state capital, 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 it's 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 stocked up. i would try to stop, go on war to supplant their stuff that don't bold in any instances when you know

you in a long way this happens, you don't just all of a sudden you add to your supply. they always tell me a snake, a bite. you, bird 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 it's aging pipes. residence will have to make do with boiled water, bottled water, and plenty of patients. john henderson, al jazeera incident, widespread flooding is killed, at least a 100 people. casala state in the countries east is one of the hardest hit areas. 36 villages. there are completely surrounded by water. more than 30000 people are struggling for shelter, medicine and for food. some parts of the country have been flooded for nearly a month. hoover morgan's joining us now from consider in sedans,

east or we were just looking at some of the pictures. there are very dramatic pictures of our elements of the flooding. this must be a very difficult time from many of the people there. yes indeed, thousands of houses have been damaged, not just in casala state, but inches in a state where we are right now. in fact, you can see behind me some of those damages that has been sustained on houses, where people here forcing them to leave their homes and seek shelters elsewhere on dry land. now, more than 5000 homes have been destroyed here into the estates alone. since the thought of the rainy season, about 2 weeks ago, many people saying that they have been caught off guard. they've never seen such amount of far torrential floods coming. this of course not coming from the mile river, but coming from up lands from a valleys upstream in 2 areas that have never seen such floods before. so people here have been quite devastated, have been forced to leave their homes,

lose their properties, many of them saying that they were not able to seek shelter with families because even families, homes have been destroyed. and so they were forced to be out in the open, waiting for aid and assistance from relief organizations and from the government. and it is the government and the, the release organizations, are they able to supply as enough aid to people who needed one would imagine given the scale of things, but they must be quite stretched. john fortunately i think we've lost our feed to huber there who was joining us from gazillion sedans east. as you can imagine, communications are difficult in that region. we will try and get back, of course, at some point later in the next few hours. now, the former president and current vice president of argentina, christina fernandez de kushner, his own trial accused of corruption. the verdict is due later this year, but supporters of responded angrily to prosecutors calls to jail her. daniel swan,

the reports from one to service, the former president inter and 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 corruptions 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 prosecutors over 5 days during those 5 days and listened to those accusation that were not accusations that were a fiction. a script, a very bad one. besides being false, it about the gothic one day. 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 and cyrus please controlled by the opposition lead. city government

responded aggressively provoking strong criticism from the national government, including the president out berto fernandez. the supporters now keep a daily vigil outside the home on the survey, but pretty 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 has still to win our democracy. she did so much the schools, the city metro gave food to the poor, equip see universities and gave away to housewives. christina, for this, 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 find see the future of their trouble. country who have maybe a former president, the wife of a former president. and now i can see the vice president kitchen. i have been around for long enough to have made plenty of friends and lots of enemies. for

opponents you the form president quarter houses either were picking alive to moscow . russian foreign minister, 2nd love rob is holding talks with visiting iranian foreign missouri. are saying a deluxe plan or holding a press conference less listen area. that is, that particular day you just, the, you look of my major corporation in the economics is fair with where we are developing before a real nice potential will not use mother to mother you. despite the a record of that, a sanctions appear to we should missive so for low velocity, 6 months, and we'll train settlers trade turnover. it was example $2700000000.00 us dollars deductible. and usually rural the go to nico. whoop, i am sure that to the next quarter, it will be even greater than you missed, but i think i missed you, but we missed the bilateral and your commission on the trade is going to have

it shipped to a meeting very shortly. and we will look at all the issues on the agenda. mastery can image it physically as problems being encountered by our economic we partners and stakeholders. we also spoke about accelerating slumber in the east 40 fled ship issue was the trade union trade agreement between iran and russia. we are really in the conclusive phase of those stations now and thinking about a constant. so continual trade agreement to i think it was, it was needed given the situations of situations in the middle, in the world at the moment you pretty nearly knew,

we both agree the line being adopted by the west and the international community as a whole is unfavorable and we believe that all they're trying to do is to impose western style in the principles which have nothing to do with the graphic alternatives subsidy and the and which was enough to trampled underfoot. the whole idea of the 72 we are against, says physicians, our physicians converge with mentality, those both the un mission we and other partners we were in favor of acting to show you some stuff in the framework of friends of russia un will show us few organizations in this mission,

and we have also talked about the settlement of the you favorite program and the minister you playing tess for very committed to position in terms of negotiations on the whole. and when you're getting this nuclear deal on the table again, manually and insist thereby that all the sanction should be complete. famous dunaway raises a personal one, but that in line with the un security council decision, us, we are at a conclusive stage with iran on that in negotiations on the, on the news. we also welcomed iran. iran, the joining of the shanghai corporation is organisation. the decision has been

taken, and at the next meeting we will be signing the register of memorandum of understanding as to the obligations of fi r. i am back in september that its been some canned but we also talked about the tracy menu carrion situation in syria. will be a summit into iran shortly about that, which we hope will come up with a stable mechanisms for providing that equipment that you would use. and also for ensuring stable situation with regard to the humanitarian use problem in that country. especially in the face of

these unprecedented western sanctions illiteracy. we also checked out what is about other regional issues. the middle east settlement, the problem, the palestinian people, african is don, jim and iraq, transcode kasia and the or jessica region. we also talked about the situation in ukraine and about how we put our view of the situation at the moment to iranian and using the opposite number to get on. and when you might say around what i see, which and understands russian concerns about testability and security. and it says, says that the abstract judgements, political, social and all this is due to the d, stabilizing politics of nature. and the u. s. for that is for those we

agreed in these negotiations to continue through regular meetings with the iranian minister. we have a whole number of agreement, structural which will be left, enshrined or materialized in national specific, concrete actions. the name of my god and express my gratitude for whom welcome and the hospitality and the 4 fresh. during our discussion today before everything we delivered the message from one of the european leaders and they ever since demand from a request from the respected president. with regard to your friend there of id

regarding t and she's in war and you korean and we need to delivered and discuss those ideas minister loud and also my young candidate. jenny shed some light on the ukrainian conflict conflict and where that goes today show your grand particularly and some of the humanitarian crisis. we're actually the about of the needle prisoners of war, which is a serious issue. and also the latest to my new phone, which is a concern for the international community. we also paid attention to that mr. low mentioned a few points with that. and also some of the initiatives that the most taken

to stop and also that into we discussed that, oh, everything should be used in order to solve this conflict and especially that challenge. iran is ro visa the nuclear card, which is player n for the use of nuclear has committed to about to do a john on tony call by law profit resolve the issue pack the band data commission, and also mr. laura mentioned way more the bond key from the time we talked about the economy trans, the banking tourism and lament

3 corporations and defend and clarity. we talked about that and we were plays that the root of on and moscow relation is on the right track and pursuing the national interest of both countries. and so the agreements between the leaders of the 2 countries is the ongoing and will be followed up by we are committed to develop the relation on our relationship, our economic relations given our the potential to both aidan in moscow have and what they got to janice done, we also was also discussed and with regards to kennesaw and we stressed that on a continuation of the month of may bring countries of have candidates done in order

to test the situation upon its fun. and also in forming inclusive government with the participation of all nationalities and in afghan is done. and we also expressed consent or consent of the spread of terrorism from canada. we're going to talk it says j d m. i was also discuss all the change shifts and politics is to be about what's considered and we also the hormone tab komatt should be able to drafted as an o. so our negotiations will continue with regards to syria and to and to data. my results conflict and also the economic problems that they are faced with with regards to yemen. we believe that the

continuation of fire after that on. yeah, man, been wrapped, it call 1000000. shouldn't need that to be based on the on the money leaders that are more and also of the stress on political negotiations on, on. but what have a job that all sides showed the engage in negotiation and old side should pay attention to the dia, conditions off 20000000 men, women, and children. and also this human fashion should be broken and it should be like a at all. but i'm caught, i'm going to go, there has to be where they got to it. we talked about the recent

events in it all. we are committed to support at all. and we agreed that since fast ability and security hardening, but all caught fast on part through, we are happy in place that the situation is off. the intended situation with regard to security is improving off. we are aware of the political situation and the way the leader, the political leaders, are playing a crucial role in bringing peace and security to the country. we also are keeping an eye on the changes in libya and international interference in this country to head on in moscow. is that

mean kish yan pam? all yeah. is there more supporting that lived in depots right to to decide happy future. how about doing kathy? and we also exchanged our final views today but, and bought them out of the approval of the parliament of both countries. this will, this document will be implemented and in the very near future economic commissions, between russia and iran will be held very soon. thank you. you're a new tradition pleases follow road. i'm was, i couldn't have been,

i do have that issue. that was the change and hands of trade, particularly in the area of energy. and my 2nd question is that the economy and the modern era as an official economic era, and some countries are using the function as to the pressure which jeopardize the interest of the country. that we have experienced for 2 years and iran and the last few months check. what do you think this taking hostage of countries was made to another you know, deal with ruby. you probably should draw conclusions but what's happening in the

world. i don't think that any people is not interested in the security of those except when of course somebody is going to take her hostages over possibly a movie should do to over the last 10 years we have been planning on food. let me just a moment. i'd say sion of an economic situation and this economic situation with the world bank usually it is about essentially this is dominated by the u. s. in its satellite said, no one can say that quite clearly. and the reliability of this a globalization has been shown over the last 2 years, quite clearly. and it has merely meant the strengthening of the exchange rate of a dollar. it has

a completely overtaken the trade global trade system. so we have to think about the future and not just to come to the hasty conclusions, but to, to try and what cost an economic system which would be dependent of the american dollar. so you can use me because i am interested in both string, their own foreign policy ideas and interest. we have actually spoken about this with the iranian side this morning. and that's one of the main reasons why we wish to strengthen our economics for ation with their glitchy. we ration for 2nd love role there. and so you to press conference is holding with visiting iranian foreign donaldson arbor of de lucky. and we've been discussing the situation around the iranian nuclear deal. the situation in ukraine city, afghanistan, the south caucasus,

as well as was the caspian sea. and of course, the trade length of both country i have between them. interestingly, the iranian foreign minister had said prior to leaving for his visit, but the main agenda of the visit for, at least for him, was to end the summoning war in ukraine. he said, some european countries, it approached, ran to play an active role in the crisis he had there talked about the fact that he had, in fact, delivered a message to the russian foreign minister from a european leader regarding ukraine. i want to bring in mohammed moran be, he's a professor at the university of techline. he's joining us via skype from tucker. and so thank you very much indeed for being with us on al jazeera and the russian foreign minister had said that to her and understood russia's concerns as far as ukraine was concerned, regarded those concerns as legitimate. why is it to that to, to crime would be able to play a significant role in terms of trying to find some sort of solution to the ukranian situation. i think is because the iranians are

from the very beginning, they pointed out that while they oppose war, they recognize that nato broke its promise not to expand eastwards and nato was involved in the coo and ukraine. and also, nato was supporting right wing malicious in the country. there was suppressing russian speakers, especially in the dumbass and east south of ukraine. and of course, the nato countries never allowed or never put pressure on kia, to implement the minster courts if, if those agreements were implemented, we wouldn't have had this war. so the russian see iran as an honest player and the wrong criticized is the united states and europeans core. not dealing with issues in

a more reasonable way within the context of the minster course. so the russians do listen to iran, and that is why senior european officials or at least one. but i know i asked the iranian president to help to see if there can be a solution. and that is part of the reason why this meeting took place. now obviously ukraine and, and the western governments were denied many of the allegations that the, the russians with me would make, with regards to ukraine. i want to ask you though, about a statement that a pentagon spokesman made on tuesday about a shipment, allegedly, of iranian unmanned aerial vehicles that arrived in russia. the spokesman is alleged to have said that russia had received 2 types of drones, which were russia was going to be using in to attack ukraine and crimea. now, even if fat allegation is unproven, nevertheless, the allegation exists. how difficult does that make it for, to crime, to be seen as an honest broker between both sides in order to try to find

a solution to this situation? well, again, there are 2 things. the issue is not one of an allegation. iran doesn't consider western countries to be the global policeman. iran has again, long relationship with the russian military. and the russians. and the iranians have had a long history of exchanging technology and cooperation at the different level. so that is nothing extraordinary, although i can't comment on, on this particular issue. but what i can say is that the 2 sides have, have a close military relationship that goes way back before any, any of the, any of the issues that arose and ukraine of the past few years. so if the, as i said while the run to poses the war, the fact is that western countries were involved in the way. i pointed out. and if

western countries did not think this, your senior european officials did not think that iran had that credibility. they wouldn't have approached iranian leaders. so regardless of what, what one thinks of the kind of that can ukraine. everyone has to accept that it's not black and white. and the demonized ation of russia and western countries in nato countries is not going to lead to peace. mohammed don't know why he forgive me for interrupting you, but i'm very sorry, i'm afraid. time is against us. but we as always appreciate your being with us and i'll just, you know, so thank you very much indeed for your time. thank you. whether un says many of the disasters over the past year could have been avoided and says the impact could have been reduced in others, which weren't avoidable. june 2021 and 22. bizarre says to the lives of about $10000.00 people and they cost more than $280000000000.00 in damage world wide. the u. s. has been looking at how the effects of extreme weather events could be

reduced and studied. 10 emergencies from earthquakes to drugs, floods, and wildfires, and said the causes of disasters need to be identified such as erosion that can lead to landslides. like in haiti and sandstorms and madagascar, the report also suggests better warning systems could have reduced fatalities during a heat wave in canada and flooding in lagos, nigeria, it says that needs to be more focus and designing and implementing sustainable solutions. or jack o'connor's a senior scientist with united nations universities institute for environment and human security is joining us by skype from bon. so thank you very much. and for being with us on al jazeera, i understand that you're saying that has its don't need to turn in to disasters. let's look at pakistan. which of is going through its own critical situation at the moment it had intense heat waves, followed by massive, deadly flooding from your studies. what are the methods that could have avoided a situation similar to that? well, i think what we see there is

a repeating pattern of places being caught unprepared for weather extremes. and i think that there's been a message getting put out there that climate change is going to be bringing more extreme and more frequent, severe weather events. and we still flow to prepare for this or not just the severity, but as you see the variety of heat wave followed by a flood. and so when we're talking about governance that could reduce these kind of risks. we need to put more attention into as you say, things like early warning system modeling and start to expect the things to occur and prepare for them rather than being caught unprepared. i was looking through the summary of the study that you produced and some of the solutions you put forward were let nature, what do it's do it's own work innovative work together to enhance collaboration, secure livelihoods, and consume sustainably. i do appreciate that this kind of report is necessary to

keep on top of the changing situations. but with respect, this doesn't really tell us anything that we don't know already. why is this stuff not already happening? if it is absolutely key to the kind of avoidance that you're talking about. absolutely, the report is targeted to for everybody to read. so not just government scientists . and so it is fairly general, and we do know about some of the solutions. but as you say, actions are still not keeping ahead of disasters. there are barriers to implementation, and there are contexts that make it solutions difficult to implement. and part of that is the into connectivity of disaster that we go into in our report. so the main thing with these solutions is not specifically that they are something completely new. but one thing that we suggest to do is design some solution packages to move away from implementing solutions in a isolated way to be able to tackle one problem from different aspects. and we

suggest packages for each of the 10 cases in the report. just very briefly about how do you think he would be able to persuade to governments and corporations and it did indeed individuals around the world to take the kind of action you're talking about when previous efforts haven't really worked totally well, what could you do differently? yes, this is one of the key questions. so in this report to report about disasters, one thing that we want to do by having a big focus on solutions is to try and show a positive message. it's perhaps the case that there is a lot of explaining how bad the problem is and we're still flow and action. so perhaps a positive message can reach out, but also showing how and actions are connected to such terrible catastrophes. try and get the message through that. what you do, where you are can in our, into connected, well, have a contribution to a disaster on the other side of the planet. so we appreciate you being with us and

i'll just, jeff a call. thank you very much. indeed for your time. thank you. the hud. gov itself. the last leader of the soviet union's died at the age of 91. the average have presided over the end of the cold war man, the lifting of eastern europe, iron curtain. but he failed to prevent the collapse of the ussr. let's good andrew simmons in london for more. there's been a lot of response to this, particularly international. we've talked to some of the tributes. first of all that i've been coming in for got, which of not surprising. it's not surprisingly far and wide came all of the attributes to this man and the highlight really, the main one is that he changed the course of history for the better put in himself, has sent a telegram. it says a huge impact on the course of world history was made by this man. he deeply understood that reforms were necessary. he strove to offer his own solutions and to

all of the problems that russia at the u. s. i saw a went through a change of many, many things for millions of people, all have shots. the german chancellor said that democracy and freedom and the reification of germany are with the results of the marvelous work from his man. joe biden, the u. s. president said he was a man of remarkable vision, and the result was a safer world with greater freedom for millions of people. he particularly highlighted ronald reagan's work with gorbachev in reducing the arsenals of nuclear weapons. ursula vander lion via a president of the united. yeah, of the european union, she called as she said that it was a crucial work that he did at to end the cold work cold war. and antonio antonio got cherish the, the secretary general of the night of the united nations said that he changed the course of history and was a one of a kind statesman. andrew,

thank you very much. indeed. we appreciate that mandab simmons talk to us from london. i started the sport, his joe rob, thank you very much. how we start a new york question. top names tumbled out of the us open on day to including last year champion m. a writer connor had title defense ended in the 1st round that she was beaten by. well, number 14 is a connie. the frenchwoman is having a great season having into exhaustion takes 37 much winning streak at wimbledon. that's connie took a medical time out to deal with this isn't the 1st sense. never really got back into the game meeting 6363. obviously really disappointing, already. sad to leave here fairly my favorite tournament. but also, i mean, in a way, happy because it's a cream survey, you know, i going to drop down the ranking, climb my way back up and yeah, i mean, i think in a way to talk it will be on my back slightly. and yeah,

i just have have another chance to kinda cool my way back up the now the big saw out of the tournament is to time us open champion naiambi a soccer. she was beaten by danielle collins for the 1st time in size matches between the 2 plays as buckle and the season without major title for the 1st time. in 5 years, 2017 champion. sloane stevens survived a big sca. she had to come from a set down to be well, number 110000000 of belgium, 3 set went up against. well, the one iga, she'll pick the 2nd round. shouldn't they got no problems getting pulse? italy's jasmine pauline, eat the french open champion, getting the job done in straight set 636, love. she's looking to become the 1st polish woman in the open era to reach at least the court. finally, with this woman, to tell us open champion venus williams was unable to follow up to 3 nor into the

2nd round. she felt her world number 14. i'm alison's on site. in straits that mean it hasn't made it past the 1st round at the us open to 2019. she does still have the double title to contend for with this arena that when 2nd seed, raphael nadal made a winning return to the us open for the 1st time since taking the title in new york in 20. 19 the spanish was given a tough 1st round outing, west trading while cart ricky, did you gotta he took the opening said, 6 o. the dow playing only 2nd match after pulling out wimbleton. wim, abdominal injury. all fat. eventually, winning in full set on his 5th match point for time flushing. meadows champion is one of the favorites to win the title this year with rival markovich not playing. having failed to take over 19 vaccine was much here in new york after the year, sir. yeah, my session, you know, it's always exciting non there. yeah,

i went through the it's the staff moment her but then i, i think i play read them off cause was not verified with her here. happy her 2nd match in 50 days, more or less. so are in some way i was not the day to play perfect as a day to to adjust her, make their job dawn and that what they did so happy for that that see carlos alcaraz also made it through after an injury forced his argentine, opponents of us in by as to retire across has been leading the match 7575. to love . the 19 year old is one of those going to take a was the one ranking from daniel, met with him. chelsea's head coach says his team need it's half an hour pop to their secondly, defeat of the premier league season. raheem sterling gay chelsea, a 1st half lead over south hampton for goes from romeo levia. and adam armstrong made them pay. they also lost to leaves last week sa, so softball. soft, soft, soft, defending what stops that pure mentality?

stop it by pure mentality. stop! it was defending mentality. there is no superiority for the opponent. there's no need to give shops away. there is no need. just toughen up and isn't team and showcase from mentality. all right, that's like a sport for now more later. joe. thank you very much indeed. my seat is going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories, dr. the website all 0 dot com on roberson good boy. ah ah. which site is willing keyless or control?

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