i wrote the montessori mosque is among some of the structures remaining from that hero remnants from other ears as well are found here. but triple. his history is overshadowed by a turbulent recent path and a grim reality in the year 1271 and a young battalion, mitchell, set out on an extraordinary journey. carrying letters from the pope for the great public. com marco polo traveled through water leaders following dangerous roads from the holy land and beyond. to day chasing the shadow. professor jowers traveled from china to venice with searching questions of how the relationship between east and west as chang for marco polo on al jazeera. ah, the un is atomic energy team, a rise in the ukrainian city is operation said to inspect europe's largest nuclear

plant for possible damage. ah, you're watching the al jazeera ly from de how with me for you back. people also ahead. european union takes another stand against moscow. it's now agreed on you visa restrictions for russian tourists. scenes of desperation, hodges era joins pakistan's army on a mission to deliver aid to victims of catastrophic floods. and the u. s. justice department says more than $300.00 classified documents were found at donald trump's florida home. only see the former president teen also try to obstruct an investigation. we begin in ukraine, where investigators from the you and nuclear watchdog have arrived in the city of operation, which is home to europe's largest nuclear power plant. they'll be checking the safety of the plant once they're able to gain access. the facility is under russian

control, but run by ukrainian staff. both ukraine and russia have accused each other of shelling around the nuclear plant, raising fears of a possible disaster. but that makes it a few days and we are able to establish a permanent residence, residence better. and then it's going to be problem that these 1st segment is going to take a few days or less. you know, this is part of the ukraine currently occupied by forces. it is clear for us, this is a great feeling we are here are, are, are already legal competence, clearly established by the safeguards agreement with the rehab. with that ukraine. let's speak to algiers. theresa ball in keith. theresa,

bring us up to speed with the latest movements of the team. and what will they be exactly looking for on the access to the facility? well the team is led by the director of the i a at i file get all the and what he keeps and statements as soon as he arrived to the region. this is the area where the nuclear power plant is located about 50 kilometers away from where they are. he said that he had no doubt that the plant belong to you, queen that it was currently under occupation. but they were hoping to visit the plan to begin inspect the plans on thursday, and they were hoping also to keep it like a stable mission controlling the situation on the ground. in the past few days, there's been intense shelling all around that area when the russians took over the plans back in march, the established a military base there. and from there they started launching several attacks against city crawford in april river. so intense shelling have been ongoing all

around that area for the main objective would be to talk to the personnel. ukrainian technicians were working in durham, closely monitored by russian soldiers that the safety systems are in place and, and the level of damage that has happened there because of the fighting ongoing. you know, there's lots of expectation about this visit. ukraine is hoping that the i e, a will be able to convince russia demilitarize the area, but rush, other than that has that said in the past that they won't do this. so we're gonna have to see what tug 4th success they're able to achieve. and meanwhile, the fighting continues across ukraine to reset, especially in the south bring us up to speed with what's been happening on the front line. well, in the past month or so, the fighting has moved towards the southern and eastern part of the country. but now all eyes are on the south because ukraine is the only offensive, not from the defense. if it's a counter offensive to try to take back some of the 2 cities that were occupied by

russia at the beginning of the offensive when the war 1st began. russia began the invasion, taking several cities off the fight off the south, and they made it to the city of had a son. they were not able to move forward because they were stopped in the city of nikolai, as well. now, of the ukrainian government is trying to attack several france all around the area of had a son. it's going to be a difficult fight. ukrainian government is asking for more work funds for more support from a width western allies. and there are people here many are telling us that they're hoping that ukraine's bravery will be able to have help. it will kick the, replace the weapons that they miss. but still, most of the people that have spoken to here support ukraine's move. they know that this is going to be a very long fight. it's not going to be easy, but they're hoping that ukraine will pervade to reasonable live in key. thank you. meanwhile, european union foreign ministers of agreed to suspend a visa deal with russia, which will make it harder and more expensive for russian citizens to visit you

countries. brock's foreign policy chief made the announcement after ministers met in proc natasha. but last, more from paris. until now, the russians wanting to travel to the european union were given preferential treatment for visas under an old agreement between moscow and the you. but that is going to be no longer the case. after meeting in prague, the last 2 days you foreign ministers have agreed to make it a lot harder for russians to gain visas to travel because he is going to be a lot more complicated in terms of administration. and it is going to cost a lot more money now the u foreign policy chief use that for that reason for the for well, there were 2 main reasons. one, he said it's a question of security. secondly, he said that most you, foreign ministers agree that it was simply inappropriate. the russians were coming to the european union, a lot of them for leisure, for holidays,

shopping to go to the beach when there are people dying in ukraine, when russia's war continues in ukraine. it seems that all you foreign ministers were agreed on the point of making it harder for russians to travel, but they were some countries the baltic, say for example, they wanted a full ban on russians, obtaining visas for the you. but countries like germany and france were against that, they said it would be counter productive. they said it would fuel anti you sentiment in russian. that wasn't a good idea. i should just say though, of course, that all the russians that appear on the sanctions list, of course, already prohibited from travelling in the u. this is very much for other russians, mostly tourists. the war in ukraine has dominated talks between the foreign ministers of yvonne and russia. in moscow. iran has refused to directly condemn m. oscars invasion of ukraine. the u. s. has accused sirano supplying russia with

jones a claim it denies. amenities also discussed the van nuclear deal during the meeting with lucy of your mission blown m g street. we've also talked about the settlement of the rainy nuclear program and administer thanked us for a very committed position there in terms of negotiations and getting his nuclear at the on the table again. and we insist that all the sanctions should be completely done away with us in line with the un security council decision was issued at the matter fair. on the call you to look carefully reviewing the draft text for revival of the nuclear deal. we are looking into how we could get a strong endurable agreement. firstly, the, i 8, should drop. it's pulled the motivated demands about iran's nuclear activities in the secondly man, all sides show respect a new deal after the sign. the u. s. one should act realistically with their demands or removing their sanctions against her past. mean, pakistan's army is on high alert for more flies in the south of the country. the indus river has been swelling for weeks, threatening another wave of flooding. the latest warning makes the work of relief

and rescue equals even more urgent and the people they are trying to help even more desperate zombies. robbie has more from the village of parents abide in the southern sins province. oh, this is the face of hunger in soon to describe what is happening here as desperation. trivializes the extent of the suffering we spoke to for xena, she was headed into the fray. she says she had no choice, you know, oh have you been with you? go no, no houses have fallen down. you don't have to decide. we can't shade our children from the sun. no houses have been some edge. i swear to god, there is nothing li, i will our belongings have been washed away. we pull our children are sick. they are just sitting there. senior army officers leading this relief operation, tell us their orders are use a light touch,

help everyone. but making sure the weakest in the crowd, women, children, the sick and elderly don't get pushed to the back of the law. often requires for the the armies arrived at this village, this much needed humanitarian supplies. food mostly. and there's been a scramble at the supply truck because people here know that there is not enough for everyone. but they are still the lucky ones here across the way, where the road has been completely washed away, or people cut off from other villages. and they are just hoping that someone is able to swim some supplies over to them. who is the most deserving. who should go 1st, seems to be an impossible decision. but if any of you bought a gentleman, there is no reason to worry. god willing a room will get something. okay, but calmly wait your turn and everyone will get help. reassurances bring peace,

but only briefly. i as the trucks begin to empty panic returns and people jump the queue once again. that survivor say not to do sir, is to choose death. if they don't good food will just a dirt and die. what else can i do? i don't have any bread. i don't have any water. all the children was starving. bringing order to the chaos caused by floods is an unenviable task. and one that is only just begun. jane basra, the older 0 paranoia about village synth pakistan. the u. s. justice department says it has evidence that former president donald tom seem was hiding classified fires at his store to home. it also says his team was obstructing an investigation into whether he legal, even most top secret documents from the white house. in a court filing on tuesday, government lawyers say it was that evidence that prompted the search of tramps my

local residence at the beginning of august, more than 320 classified documents have now been found there. drum says the search was politically motivated. allen fisher has more from washington donald trump and his team of said, look, we have been speaking to the f b i. we offered them all the documents. what we found out from the f b i's that the several times had approach donald trump's team and said givers all the documents and back in june, they were handed a series of boxes and they were told by donald trump's attorneys. that said, that's all we have, we have no more. but the f b, i was suspicious, not least because the asked to look in a couple of the boxes and all tramps champs team said no, that that's not going to happen. and then they got intelligence from other sources . they said there were still documents there, which is why we saw the read on the 8th of august when the f b, i went in and no turns out the phone more than 100 classified documents. they

released a picture of some of those documents laid out and is quite startling because you can see in red and yellow top secret clearly mark. so what are the f b i seeing about this idea of appointing a special master? they're saying, 1st of all, look, we don't need it because we've reviewed all the documents. secondly, the claim that some of these documents should be returned to donald trump is absolute nonsense because these documents don't belong to him. the actually belong to the us government. and here's the thing, they're saying that the court should consider that it's clear from the evidence that some of these documents have been moved and concealed. trying to block the u. s. government's investigation, and that is what could donald trump and his team in legal jeopardy? still had on al jazeera, the legal battles of pakistan, summer premier to continue him, ran country his contented core charges and will reflect on the life of a man who changed the face of level counties. former soviet need any hand. gorbachev has died at the age of my 2.

ah, the journey has begun. the 34 world camp is on its way to cattle book your travel package to here's your weather update in a minute 15. thank you so much for joining in the good news across afghanistan and pakistan. all of those rains have fizzled out, say for a few showers around is slomo, but up against the foothills of the himalayas, where the monsoon rains, or pepin up the western guides of india, particularly, you know, for a careless state. there is a deadly landside there killing at least 6 people and there are weather alerts and play for some more. torrential rain on thursday, also rain through the mall deeds and for long. but i gotta take in north of the philippine, see we've got it super tight phone here. so at its worst so far anyway, we saw there was winds up to 260 kilometers per hour, making it equivalent to a category 5 hurricane. so here's where it is on thursday. it's actually going to

join up, meet up with a tropical depression. so it's staying east of taiwan, but watch how it blossoms on friday. the outer bands of it are going to strike taiwan taipei with some torrential downpours. here as well, and we'll see those winds pick up. okay, back to the here and now let's go to japan's main island of honju up and down. when you see some outbreaks of thunderstorms here. meanwhile, across the northeast of china, looking good plenty of sun in harbin with a high of 20 degrees. ok, that's all i got for you. i saw official airline of the journey. 50 wolves had years in palestine. they also have eyes and architecture is used by our desolate tail wiseman reveals the room of architecture in his really occupation, everything in this panorama. he's a tactical tune within the architecture of the patient. just need to know how to

decode the architecture of violence. part of the rebel architecture series on al jazeera. ah ah, you're watching al jazeera alive from doha. recap of our top story says our investigation is from the un nuclear watchdog. are in the ukranian tanner's operation. way. they'll inspect europe's largest nuclear power plant. ukraine and russia have accused each other of shelling around the nuclear facility. european union foreign ministers of agreed to suspend a visa deal with russia. the decision will make it harder and more expensive for russian citizens to enter the block. and in pakistan,

army helicopters have flown over areas cut off by devastating floods. rescue teams have found out to some of those areas where millions of people are waiting for help . more than 1000 people have died in less than 90 days. to the us now and the governor of mississippi has declared a state of emergency in the regional capital. jackson, people don't have clean drinking water after the treatment plant was overwhelmed by floods. john hendrick 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 capitol, cannot drink to 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 long time, jackson resident bernard smith saw it coming and stopped up. i will try to stop go . oh, war to supply because this 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 they can't bite you. in the vert jackson's population is largely black of quarter live in poverty. it's one of many u. s. cities 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, lifestyle, white house correspondent, kimberly. how could, kimberly, the biden administration has put fixing infrastructure as one of his key priorities . but what does this situation tell us about how hard that's going to be? well, it is difficult and just to give you an idea of the american rescue plan that you might remember that was big legislative goal of the bible administration. it was passed in march of 2021, and this allocated hundreds of millions and billions to fix americas crumbling infrastructure, particularly in areas where there are these racial and economic disparities such as we see in jackson, mississippi, where there is a 25 percent poverty rate and it's largely african american, there really isn't the tax base to fix the infrastructure that we see when it comes to water treatment. and we've now seen it overwhelmed by this flooding. so that's

the long term fixed. but even though the money's been allocated, the repairs are far from being complete, and this is going to take some years. and so as a result, what we know is that the by the administration is now gone a step further in this white house as just declared and emergency for the state of mississippi. and what this declaration does is it will allow for the next 90 days for there to be additional funding. this will allow for 75 percent of the funding this necessary of the state to be mobilized so that this is going to allow the states to tap into the resources it needs to make sure that the people on the ground and jackson are going to get not only drinking water but the water, they need to do simple things like bathing or even brushing their teeth because they haven't been able to do that for about 3 days now and for the foreseeable future. and so this is something that this white house says is a priority. what we know from the white house press secretary, is that right now? the president is in close consultation with state local officials on the ground.

what they're saying is that they are going to be committed to resolving this problem the short term, but a, the american rescue plan is designed to help in the long term to repair the infrastructure that we should point out wasn't just a problem with this flooding in fact, it's been a problem for a number of years. kimberly thank you for that. can really help kit live at the white house by his san former prime minister in non con is facing more legal battles, conference contempt of court charges on wednesday. he's also been charged under the anti terrorism act. in a separate case. come out, hydra was at the court in is i'm a bot iran on appearing before the body. hi gordon. that going game gave the chief judge of god for observing that the factory onset that would be expected from him had not come through. there was also observation that had been indeed an apology and renting apology from the former prime minister could have concluded

today. i think that by any international standards and i'm going to take was in the wrong order due to the massive thompson's of order you've been doing. never read any closing. and you just know that the former prime minister will have to appear before the god, not just 7 days proper on stuff. now in case i'm wrong on able to come up to the conditions that include an unconditional apology. but god, what a judgment observed was expected. iran to render an unconditional apology, which did not happen. and if that does happen within the next 7 days,

the court may decide to die and died of god's word, a huge relief for him. ron khan. so important developments for coming at the time when the country and suffering a major deduction. and people are hoping that the political leadership will be able to your night so that they can help people who need them more funerals have been held for some of those killed during this week's violence in iraq. at least 30 people died in about 700 were wounded in 2 days a violent protest in bagdad heavily fortified green zone. the protest broke out after powerful she beat him with tat r. sada announced hid his quitting politics. the fighting ended on tuesday when santa ordered his supporters to spend down dosage bury has moved from bank that i just came back from one of those services held in southern city in baghdad. and i really, it was quite emotional, as you can imagine, with

a family members of the victim, a 38 year old with somebody who was an employee in the telecommunications ministry and a member of the column that is the wing of southern movement since 2003, this victim, according to family, was shot by a sniper in the eye. on monday, when he was taking part in the demonstrations in the green zone, i spoke to his elder brother who said that his death will really reinvigorate his family's belief in most other else other. he will not deter them in any way. the victim, the 38 year old was some. he has 4 children, the eldest of which is 15. i met him at the service and he had very little to say, just overcome with his father's death. his wife is currently expecting your child. she's 3 months pregnant, the family members there say that this is really an example of why they need real change in iraq. his brother said they are asking the international community to

investigate the death of the 31. people who lost their lives in the 24 hour of violence that broke out here on monday. and they are really adamant that deep change political change needs to take place in the country. and sudan security forces are fired t gas that protested, marching in the capital cartoon that demonstrating against last year's military coup and are demanding a full return to civilian rule. the military seas power from transitional civilian government. last year since then, people have protested against the military nearly every week. a tens of thousands of health care workers in garza have been protesting against israeli controls. they are opposing the restrictions imposed on palestinian patients seeking treatment outside garza ambulances of lined up at the nearest hospital. in the north of the strip jazz this month for palestinians died after israel prevented them from

leaving the enclave to receive treatment to lebanon. now if people have been protesting against a draft store, they say will make it harder to access the money in their bank accounts. authorities have strictly limited foreign currency withdrawal since 2019 economy has plummeted in the past 3 years. in one of the was worse financial crises, banks are unable to give people their savings because of a shortage of dollars and mismanagement of funds. a capital controls law is a prerequisite for lebanon to qualify for an international monetary fund bailout. and by some i'll shake hussain was at the protest. sin babbled. 2 weeks ago, he took people half fish in a bank at gunpoint to demand funds from his locked saving savings account. he says the system needs to change, and the law had the we came to protest to get back the money. but the thieves in their 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. all has to be done by force below former soviet leader, me, i gorbachev has died at the age of 91. he played a crucial role in ending the cold war. but his time in power will be remembered in very different, where it weighs in various parts of the world. victoria gates and b looks back on his life. that's good to me. as i recall, gorbachev change the to says, 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 dead. he allowed, or the peaceful collapse of the soviet union. it did not use massive force to keep

eastern europe ah, in the empire. and with that, he deserves credit, but it is not that this was sung came in, trying to undermine the system. he tried to re, formerly, as a young man. gorbachev studied law at moscow state university. he went on to forge a career in 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 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 us president ronald reagan, who, which of 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. as in moscow, the soviet union itself was dissolved a gorbachev. resigned cmo clarissa in this situation which follows the establishment of the commonwealth of independent states, i hear by cease to exile as the president of the soviet you know you. so you did must not was not present. info is a subtle, 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 military force to rebuild the soviet union to reintegrate through forceful means,

kind of, do the gorbachev legacy michelle gonna talk united nations secretary general and tony the terrorist says the world's most, the towering global 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 ah. lo again, i'm fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera investigators from the un nuclear watched on guy in the ukranian tanner's operation, where they will inspect europe's largest nuclear power plant. they'll be assessing the safety of the plant once they get access to it. ukraine and russia have accused each other, so shelling around.