despite soaring temperatures, raging wild fires and shrinking water reserves, the world's largest economy, it still splits along ideological lines. so can it ever reach consensus to avoid catastrophe? climate wars ought to on a j 0. which side is winning chaos or control? what does a new forever proxy war mean for america and nato? as long as americans keep consuming prices are going to keep going up. why didn't joe biden see inflation coming? how did we get so much raw? the quizzical look at us politics. the bottom line. ah, despite chinese opposition you and rights chief michel boucher lay releases a long awaited report on the plight of the country's week as graft.

ah, i'm the banker. this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up through and nuclear inspectors travel to separation to check the ukranian nuclear plant for damage. after weeks of shelling, nearby the foreign ministers agree to make it harder for russians to visit the block. this as russia shot, some major gas pipeline to europe again. ah, on foot survivors scramble for aiden pakistan was, was, is received with fears portable diseases ro despite chinese objections, the un human rights chief is released a report on china's treatment of its weaker minority with ours left in her term,

chinese president, id paying has been criticized over a major crack down against the weakest in the region. option. jang, around a 1000000 people were placed in prison like indoctrination. camps for argue and correspondence. james bays joins us now live from the un headquarters in new york car. james, of course this is only just been released, but what more can you tell us about this report? was you seine? this is the report here released in the last 15 minutes in fact, 13 minutes before midnight. geneva time. that isn't itself controversial, will come on to that in a moment. so haven't had a chance to read all the 48 pages. but very quickly, we've been going through the conclusions. and the main line is this serious human rights violations is how they're describing what the chinese have been doing to the weaker community inch. and then they say that, um the, there it is all part of an anti terrorism law system. and they say that this

framework, which is vulnerable to discriminatory application, has in practice led to the large scale arbitrary deprivation of liberty, of members of the weaker and other predominantly muslim communities. the report goes on allegations of patents of torture, ill treatment including forced medical treatment and adverse conditions of detention are credible as are allegations of individual incidence of sexual and gender based violence. so pretty strong conclusions in this report is much delayed report and also worth telling in eve that as soon as this report was published, the separate document was published by the chinese mission to the united nations in geneva, which very much it says that it doesn't agree with the findings that are in the u. n. report, the words in this actually match what the chinese ambassador to the un here in new york told me earlier on when i asked him about the report ahead of its publication

. yeah, from the opposed to such reports, we all know so well that the so called the scene young you too, is completely a issa, completely fabricated. ly, auto, of political motivations. and it's proposed definitely is to undermine china's stability. and to all the struck the china development, james, and as she mentioned before, the timing of the release of this report is significant. isn't it? this report, the high commissioner for human rights. michelle boshoway 1st commissioned her team to work on it over 3 years ago. and they've been working on this report we told about a year ago, told it was almost finished. and yet it didn't get published. when she went in may to see for herself the situation of the wiggers. ah,

the report wasn't published then either. and they were led to lots of people asking why the report was being suppressed. madame bachelor said, i will publish it before i finish in my job. it's interesting, after her trip in may, she decided she wasn't gonna see her 2nd term. whether that was linked to the criticism of her trip a to china isn't clear, but she wasn't seeking a 2nd term as i commissioner for human rights and she was going to end her job when her 1st term ended on the 31st of august. well, it was the 31st of august in geneva just a few minutes ago midnight. and the report was only published 13 minutes before she finished her term. did her team or any of her visors think this was a way to bury a controversial report, but i can tell you if you look on social media in particular, twitter, the actors, human rights activists and journalists in europe and asia have been following this . an extremely closely the rather clumsy way we publish at the last minute i think has bought it more attention than it would have got otherwise. right down to the

wire. james? yes. let's see what impact, sir, if any, it has james base with you and in new york, a thank ah united nations inspectors of arrived in the southern ukrainian city of separation on a mission to prevent an accident. europe's largest nuclear power site there, which is under russian control. the team travel to ukraine after weeks of shelling in the vicinity of the power plant. raising fears of a radiation lee to raise a bow reports and give, ah, it took around 8 hours for these international atomic energy agency team members to which they somebody to return. their plan is to evaluate conditions inside europe's largest nuclear power plant for a few days where, where we are a team of experienced people. i've been here for the best and brightest safeguards and safety security. and we will have

a really good idea of what's going on along shelling in the past weeks has raised concerns or the conditions inside the plant. it's a difficult task, as they will have to evaluate the potential damage. the conditions of the personnel and weather safety systems are in place of this room. we'll go go back into mac is an expert on nuclear disasters of what he says that even though this happens, it's yeah, nuclear power plant is nearly indestructible. there are many things that could go wrong. other it can be destroyed, probably only if it's shorter to very special purpose was very, very powerful venetian us. it's gonna be ah damaged simply because of some occasional a bumble rockets at full nearby the visit is taking place as you quine. staging a counter offensive in the south trying to begin what precedent follow the middle? kolinski says is the liberation of territories occupied by russia. ukraine fav it

4th, 5th, have destroyed several ammunition depot and all major bridges. i will allow russian troops to cross the jennifer river. everyone here knows that this is going to be a long fight, but almost every one is convinced that ukraine will prevail, armament not only armor, but experts like an equal abilene's crop. say the offensive is a major challenge, and ukraine has bravery to make up for the weapons. it lacks offenses is quite a challenge and seen it's quite difficult. complicated seen, you need to orchestrate the application all for a lot of men, power, a lot of equipment. so you need to, to, to do it, sir, to have an effect. you need to, to breach the tactical depth of defense. say you need to more follow national on you need to interdicted the russian possible russian or counter mo, still, ah, as i said, chances are quite higher. ukraine's government continues to demand more weapons from its western allies to push its offensive soldiers on the front lines. i fighting to defend their country. i believe their time has come to regain the

territory. they have lost it. he said, well, i'll just either give you foreign ministers or agree to suspend a visa deal with russia, making it harder and more expensive for russian citizens to visit countries. and the european union member states were to divided to agree to a blanket ban though it is estimated more than 1000000 russian citizens. event of the block mostly through land border crossings is the beginning of the ukraine conflict. the eas foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, says suspending the visa deal will have a real impact on the knowledge was partially suspended for a special collect use groups of people or ratios and under printers and now is fully suspended. it means it will significantly reduce the number of new visitors issue by the you members stage is randomly or difficult for could be longer. russia has again shut down the gnawed stream one pipeline. this time for 3

days, citing plant maintenance. it's the mainly delivering gas to germany and the rest of western europe. the closure is mosque as latest move to significantly reduce gas exports and retaliation for sanctions imposed of the horn ukraine. where the leaders have paid tribute to mikhail gorbachev. the last leader of the soviet union, remember, hang, remembering him as a towering statesman who helped and the cold war. but his death has received a cool response from russia. the country is engaged in a war with ukraine to regain some of the power loss when gorbachev presided over the union's collapse. he died at the age of 91 in moscow hospital after 2 years of serious illness. andrew simmons reports i at 54 years old mikhail gorbachev became the youngest lever of the soviet union. and he was to be the last few would doubt that he changed the course of 20th century history. although he's revered and respected, more in the west than in modern russia,

one of his biggest achievements was signing a disarmament treaty with you as president ronald reagan, but took out a whole class of nuclear weapons. it earned him a nobel peace prize. joe biden cited this achievement in his tribute describing gorbachev as a man of remarkable vision. he said the result was a safer world and greater freedom from millions of people. antonia guitarist the un secretary general said the world has lost a towering global leader, committed multi naturalists and tireless advocate for peace. the commission president ursula, on the lion said gorbachev played a crucial role to end the cold war and bring down the iron curtain. it opened the way for a free europe. vladimir putin said gorbachev had a huge impact on the course of world history. he deeply understood reforms were necessary and strove to offer solutions. many russians see him as the man who stood

by is the soviet union disintegrated. 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 men trying to undermine the system. he tried to reform. gorbachev, used perestroika or restructuring to reform, a stagnant economy that had seen people shorter food and consumer goods. and he used glass mills openness and freedom of speech that led to parts of the eastern bloc wising up against communism. it was the beginning of the end of the cold war, one state after the other broke away anglo merkel, former german chancellor spoke in her tribute of the fear in east germany with expectation the tanks would roll in, but quite the contrary,

wasn't long before the berlin wall came down yet now 30 years old with rushes. invasion of ukraine comes the danger of further east west conflict on a horse, london, devil to ship president put in russia and its president, digging new trenches in europe and have started a horrible war in ukraine. it's now we think and mikhail gorbachev and realized what he did for our country and all of europe. gorbachev hailed as a man of peace has died. it's only when his country, his every engaged in war and ru simmons. how dizzy? earlier i spoke to bellowing opposition, leaders for atlanta. second, oscar, she says gorbachev remains a controversial figure in belarus, and the fate of her nation is tied to ukraine. under his rule, repressions, the crist people felt what freedom is his actions and his pool is also

led to the collapse of for its union. so it gave for opened, that means opportunity for us. there are some people and it says, gained independence and freedom because of this. you know, some people believe that bill or was, is the last piece or for the usaa know creek that after the collapse of the soviet union, there dictatorship in our country was, were established. so people didn't have chance to enjoy freedom. the property in bill was, was initialized again, a bit like return soviet symbols, you know, could you be in billers is still who could you be leave in under the think the ship means to leave in fear. you are afraid still something wrong. you are afraid to be in the teens. you don't have to a tuesday to choose parliament or president elections. i just, you know,

another read to some people i have to say like to leave on the did the should because you don't have to decide on anything we just have to fulfill with people about safety. but after you leave in democracy, you will never agreed for the ship again. there are people who had to flee the country because of oppression. continue this fight. in exam, we have a lot of people inside the country. still don't agree with this regime and they fight with they means it's so difficult. so fights in the conference were like anti probation actually. and the completion of the regime and on that like coffee ration or 3rd conference like russia and simultaneously, we have to like fight for your brain because we understand that the face of your brain and fatal bills are interconnected. so i'm sure that dent it's bent, it was absolutely d friends and our people will not stop until our full peak during so to come

this half hour flooding devastates large, massive sudan, at least a 100 people have been killed. thousands displaced. ah, then spain's famous tomato street fight. let tomantino returns after a 2 year high. ah let's get going with your weather update. we'll start this one off in southeast asia. thank you so much for joining in. so it's our usual spattering of showers, and thunderstorms particularly intense across southern st. motrin. but i wanna bring you up to speed with a super typhoon we've got spinning just north of the philippine sea. so at it's worse so far, we've seen those winds up to 260 kilometers per hour. that's equivalent to

a category 5 hurricane. now let's truck out together where this storm is going on thursday. it's east of taiwan, but it's also going to join up with a tropical depression and beander in this area. let's put it forward on friday. see where it goes. it's going to go bit further north, but the outer bands are striking at taiwan with some pretty solid bands of rain, including taipei with a height $29.00 degrees off to japan. let's go back to the here and now on thursday, really up and down a honshu island. we've got outbreaks of thunderstorms here. down under for australia quite the difference in temperature is for the outback. alice at 14 degrees birds fil though at 22. and you know, sydney is seen it's wet, is january to august period in a 164 years. and another spot is very what is south island of new zealand. but most of the action contained toward the southern outs that europe, they've, bye for now. as

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accusing the chinese government of committing serious human rights violations in its chin. jang region, china has baffled to block the report, which says there is a discriminate he discriminatory component to restrictions that often directly or indirectly affecting weak is or other muslims. united nations inspectors of arrived in the ukrainian city of separation, which is home to europe's largest nuclear power plant. they'll be checking the safety of the russian control plant once they gain access, which is expected to be thursday. you foreign ministers of agree to suspend a visa deal with russia, making it harder and more expensive for russian citizens to visit countries in the block. the decision came as russia again shut the main pipeline, supplying gas to europe by let's get some reaction to our top story. this our, the release of that you add report on china's treatment of its week of minority rush on our boss is executive director of the campaign for week as assistant goshen

was detained by the chinese government 4 years ago and is currently serving a 20 year prison sentence, so welcome to al jazeera. i know the report has only just been released and a will take some time to digest, but your initial response to what you've read so far. thank you so much for giving me this opportunity. the fact so presented as is no denial of them. basically it confirms everything that we have been saying, although it doesn't say it's definitely genocide or crimes against humanity. the. the language is little bit week, but that we are very happy to see the, the report being released. and what is the absence of those key phrases or crimes against humanity or genocide that indeed some countries like the united states. another sorority unilaterally agreed to cool what's happening in shy, what is the absence of that from this report? mean? well, we have been really disappointed in united nations and the general secretary,

good terrorist and definitely michelle bash away. because the michelle ashley was her visit to our home and she basically parents everything, the chinese government set and look at today. she waited for the last 20 minutes of our last our last day in her office. and i think she is being influenced by the chinese government and she didn't have the courage to stand up. so i hope that un will use their influence and the position to advocate for the freedom of all eucharist. definitely based on the previous track record, my hope is not very strong as we've waited and waited for this report for years. and she did the excellent job, but i think it's being weakened somehow. but we still hope that un will follow it's finding principles and the whole chinese government accountable

for crimes against humanity and the genocide. and they can do that by taking the 1st that 1st tangible action and kicking china out of the un human rights council. a country that is committing those kind of for crimes like, you know, it covers the report covers mask, the pension, torture violation in the camps and covers the mass really is and covers missing and they forcibly disappeared. family members of so many people, and they are so many evidence that being confirmed through all the chinese government's own legal documents and also with the activists and the weaker organizations. it is time for you and to take a tangible action in our as you mentioned earlier, i'm speaking to you today at the cost of my own sisters freedom. my sister doctor, which in of us the most as genocide, is being detained in retaliation for my activism. this month's, you know,

september actually is just coming in marks for years anniversary. see the scar disappearance. we have not heard from her, and we do not know where she is being held out. if she's a life or death and she could be one of the millions of we were forced to work on the forced labor as chinese slave diverse and the, her blood, sweat and tears perhaps going to going into the forest neighbor products you are. and the i, we use daily, basically the companies and countries are using the chinese government source labor products, making all of us you, me and the audience. everybody on enablers of this genocide that should stop. you mentioned tangible action there in reference to what the you and can do. what is tangible action mean? what does it look like? well, the international community has a plenty of evidence and the this report itself, as i mentioned,

one thing that the country is that belong to you and the entity can start the fight against china, the disinformation and the whole china countable. and just like in the united states, we have this, we were forced labor progression act, both aim to sanction officials and entities responsible for the genocide. and so make sure that the countries who are supporting you and all the members states should not using the oil. we're forced labor and they make china enabled china's economy to merger more people. so it's, you know, conducting acts of genocide and crimes against humanity. and it's an a enabling basically the, the other if you're in the resumes to continue what they are doing. so those kind of actions that you and can implement, and now it's on you end is here, the report is out,

and china is conducting those kinds of crimes as the report mentioned. so as the u . n. a, there's a vol never again, and you end up founding principles should protect the suppressed, oppressed people like weavers and all the the other. the muslim groups in the east took st on the ball very much to the united nations. cool going forward. rashonna pass executive director of the company for week is thanks for speaking to us. thank you. now pakistan's army is on high alert from all floods in the south of the country. the in this river has been swelling for weeks, threatening another wave of flooding rescue as have spread out to some of the worst effect and places where millions are waiting for help. all the 1100 people have died in the flooding, which has left a 3rd of the country under water from the village of parents, a bad and sin province. zane bus ravi reports. oh,

this is the face of hunger in sin. to describe what is happening here as desperation, trivializes the extent of the suffering we spoke to for santa she was headed into the fray. she says she had no choice. i read it again. would you go nickel? now houses have fallen down. you don't have tickets. we can't shade our children from the sun. no houses have been submerged. i swear to god, there is nothing left on our belongings have been washed away. we poor our children are sick. they had just sitting there with senior army officers leading this relief operation. tell us their orders are use a light touch, help everyone i would making sure the weakest in the crowd, women, children, the sick and elderly don't get pushed to the back of the line. i often requires force that 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. i know we but if any of you, but i think there is no reason to worry. if 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 so is to choose death. i don't good food will just

a dirt and die. what else can you do? i don't have any bread. i don't have any water. all the children are starving. bringing order to the chaos caused by floods is an unenviable task. and one that is only just begun. jane basra b l. g 0 per ana, about village since pakistan and torrential floods continue to devastate villages in many parts of sudan with at least $36.00 and the eastern casala region cut off by rising water. at least a 100 people have been killed. flood waters also forced many from their homes and gas, 0 estate where hip morgan reports wading through fled. water is the only way at them is mine and his mother can get to their home. they want to pick up what they can after flood waters wreck. the property in what the name incidence dizzier state and their family was forced to seek dryer lands a need for hannah and normally gala,

the more at the hood we woke up alone to water entering the homes, got out what we could, her every hour. there is a house, an hour that's fallen in more a sewage system that doesn't collapse load or a wolf has come down. there is nothing left on that house of veronica shavers. all the other homes in the village were also flooded. when heavy rains hid the state, 2 weeks ago, raines and torrential floods in for them have killed at least a 100 people and hundreds others have been injured. tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed, ham danty or what's up barricades, but his house still suffered major damage, or her husband hern. heron, good had didn't work. why should you abuse? we took out the children and what furniture we could, but the house had been destroyed. we built barriers and a stow draining out the water. we were now, we're worried about the diseases, the water can bring like malaria, as well as other infections at paris. the rainy season has been described by some as one of the worst they've ever seen,

and the downpours have affected nearly the whole country. jazeera is one of the states where the government has declared a disaster. dozens of villages have been submerged here since the beginning of the rainy season, leaving hundreds of families homeless. many have sought refuge on dry lands, but they say they are yet to receive any help at that in asia. i shall amazon another good luck for the day. you hide, we practically made everything because people lost everything shalt off food loss. a health care, the most important thing we need is for the water to be drained, so they can go back and i hear people cry him at night because of the situation. we are a and i often allow you should elbow. adam says he wants the water to recede, so he and his mother could go back and rebuild their home again. but after waiting for 2 weeks now, he has no idea when that might happen. he but morgan on 20. what the name did the, the state ah.