she's a war, this is very much for the house in the media as well as on the battlefield. the listening post dissect the media on al dedira chile is going to the polls in a historic attempt to change its constitution. 50000000 people are eligible to choose between a welfare state and strengthen rides, or to keep a constitution adopted under the dictatorship of augusta. finishing julie referendum on al jazeera. ah ah, are you i mission to inspects ukraine's up. patricia plant is delayed to both moscow and keep blame each other for attacking the route to the site. but waking pros and cons and having caught so far,

we are not stopping. ah, robinson, this is audra 0 live from doha. also coming up with 4 people are killed in fighting between rival she i factions in iraq's southern city of basra. the un says china may have committed crimes against humanity. i guess we got muslims provoking a furious response from beijing. plus i'm seeing bas ravi and pakistan southern sin province where people in towns like this are using mud walls and sandbags to hold back to flood waters. ah, and we're going to begin with a developing story out of ukraine. what a team of you and experts is trying against the odds to assess the safety of

europe's largest nuclear power plant. ah, both ukraine and russia are blaming each other for a jack steer the russian occupied zap patricia nuclear plant and southern ukraine has led to hours of delay to the urines. much anticipated mission to the facility is being heavy shelling in the area and along their prearranged route, ukraine's nuclear agency says one of the 6 reactors has been shot down because of rush and mortar attacks. i am going to consider the possibility of establishing a continued presence of the i. e, a at the plant which we believe it's indispensable to the stabilize the situation and to get regular, reliable, impartial, neutral updates or what the situation is there. so we shall slack we are moving now . thank you for your interest is very important that the world know what's happening here. let's go live ter theresa ball and keep it seems is getting

increasingly difficult the for the inspectors to get anywhere near the plant there . what's the latest on their journey? well we've been following their trip closely and there's been intense shelling in the past hours around the inadequate or a city that's about 50 kilometers away from the somewhat easier region where they were located in medical that that's where the nuclear power plant is located. and that's where they have to, they have to cross a front line ukraine length checkpoint and later on a rush and check on from what we're hearing is that they're already crossing through the grey zone. it's the space. so the area that exists between the ukranian and russian checkbook and they're hoping to make it to the plans later today, there's been, as i said before, ukrainian government is saying that there's been intense shelling that had kindergarten, a health facility that at least 3 civilians were killed in those strikes but on the

other hand, the russian ministry of defense says that they were there was that some saboteurs tried to went inside and medical data. and that there were planning some types of attacks. and that's why there was shelling some parts of the area. are you crazy saying that this is not true, that this is an excused that they're trying to manipulate the visit by the i a and all of this is important because there's been that once again, a one of the reactors or how to be shut down mostly the safety systems are in phase one's against there's 6 reactors and only of 5 of them are not working properly. and only just one of them is on right now. and that's why it is so important for the steam to make it as soon as possible to evaluate the situation on the ground. i can understand theresa there the point about the dog, the necessity to check with regards to that one reactor. what are the wider issues with regard to the nuclear plan? what is that they're going to be trying to check? well, up since rush i took over the plan 10 took over the area where that plant is located

. they have established a military base there. there's been constant fighting and shelling across the front lines from they are in fact they have been attacking ukrainian cities from bare and ukrainian forces have been attacking on the other way around. so there's been some damage that thing cost to the plans a few days ago. there was a report that some shelling came very, very close to where the nuclear fuel is located and also to where the radioactive waste it last located. and that's why it's important for the steam to arrive there to verify the safety of the planned to verify the condition of the workers there. let's not forget that the plant was occupied by russia with ukrainian technicians inside ukrainian government is extremely concerned about the conditions of this technicians. they're saying that some of them have gone missing. some of them have gone to have been tortured among other things and they're working under duress, they're stressed and they have to know how they're doing. and of course,

the latest things they're gonna have to check is that the safety systems are in place. this nuclear power plant i build to resist. ah, you know, there was thought the some next for he told us it was and destroy a boy. but you know, if it's hit directly, it can suddenly cause damage. and there could be a radioactive, a leak, and that's why it's so important for, for the team to arrive there. the population on the ground is concerned. this country has the history of a nuclear disaster. china bill, back in the 1980s, so more suddenly, ukraine's interest in for this team to arrive there as soon as possible. yeah, to reserve say we're going to be checking in with you regularly as the team attempts to make its way towards the nuclear plant. but for now, theresa bowl in came. thank you very much indeed. rushes foreign minister insist small screws up holding its end of security guarantees for the you and nuclear inspectors, we dulu sure we're doing everything to ensure that the plant is safe. and for the i a, a mission there to carry out all of its plans. they say that they are not in a position to say who is in the wrong there's of course they would be shown all

those traces left as a result of ukrainian bombardments, ukrainian sharing. we insisted that the mission must include experts in ballistic. right? so i hope we are going to find out, or rather we know everything, but i hope that the international community will get this opportunity to come across as a nuclear arms control specialist who used to work with the i a he says the shelling near the plant is extremely dangerous of the 6 reactive to have what were already in shut down status and only 2 have been operating at any one time over the past several months. so of the to react as why it was shut down probably because of last electric power. so each reactor unit has the backup generated free diesel electric generators as well as to back up. so the separate nuclear power plant does have a backup power supply. but however, we still need the nuclear power plants derived on regular transmission power,

not back up diesel generated a team has 3 sets of experts. one group will assess the nuclear safety systems, the safety systems of the safety of the fuel, the emergency shut down, the emergency car cooling and the power supply. another team will as test the security situation, the physical security situation, the damages and so on. and the 3rd team will be looking at the nuclear material, doing nuclear material accountancy and servicing the i. e. s. cameras and seals and the nuclear fuel ponds. and the reactor areas, the power plants containment structure has a pick steel liner over by a great cover. but no nuclear power plant is designed to survive a war situation or hits from artillery shells. so any firing of any type in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant is very irresponsible and extremely dangerous. the chairman of russia's 2nd largest oil company has died after falling from

a hospital window. rival montana was being treated at a clinic in moscow. the lucas chairman is one of several high level russian executors of died in the last year in july, a shipping c oh with ties to the seat energy company. gas problem was founded, shot dead in his swimming pool. in iraq at least 4 people have been killed and fighting between rival shy factions. ah, the southern city of basra remains on and jeff to violence began on wednesday to engines or high after. sadly dr. al serra said he was withdrawing from politics. his supporters and a run back forces engaged in heavy fighting in baghdad. earlier this week, dasa jabar is get more from baghdad. according to officials there, 4 people have died so far as a result of those clashes that began to overnight in the northern part of basra. and what we understand is the armed wing of most other all southern movement that

is known as sariah. salam has lost 2 of its members there. and then on the other side of this conflict to members of a site that belongs to christ. because ali have also lost 2 of their fighters there. these 2 men have been in a war of wards online on twitter, a official affiliated with most other all southern has tweeted a warning to corvalle saying that to rein in his what he calls a disrespectful malicious and mad dog coastal sali himself, who is the secretary general of this group, it says she had group that is backed by iran, has also taken to twitter, urging his followers not to be upset by any insults hurled at him and not to react . he's also issued an order to close all their offices across the country. we've spoken to some of those members in back that as well. they're in the process of

closing up all their offices belonging to a site, but he also treated a reference to most other all southern father saying nothing is important, but faith. and this is certainly going to warrant a reaction from federal souther himself in the coming hours likely. and he said that he doesn't want this to be spread any further. he's trying to de escalate the situation that is unfolding and bus routes. after months of delay and attempts by beijing to block at the un human rights office is released a report that strongly criticizes china's treatment of wiggers and other mostly muslim minorities. it says there's evidence that alleged atrocities and she jang may constitute crimes against humanity. china says the un human rights office is a thug, an accomplice of the u. s. victoria, getting the reports around you. italia. shares michelle bar chalets long awaited report is a damning indictment of china's treatment of the week population. it found the

weaker and other mostly muslim groups held in detention camps have been subjected to torture. including forced medical treatment and sexual and gender based violence . bachelor report with commission more than 3 years ago was due to be published last year. it was finally released 30 minutes before her term as un human rights chief ended. china has condemned the report. it says its policies in shing jang fight, what it calls terrorism and provide weakness with better economic opportunities. each other to their full leader people back off the so called assessment is orchestrated and produced by the us and some western forces and is completely illegal and void. it is a patchwork of disinformation that serves as a political tool for the us and other western countries. to use zing jang to contain china. this assessment based on anti china forces violates the mandates of

the o. c. h. r. in the past bachelor's face, criticism for not being forthright about the persecution of the weaker community. her visit to china re, may, was widely condemned as a whitewash with the us state department, calling it a mistake human rights group, say her report is better late than never. this is a blueprint really for a member states, especially those who sit on the human rights council to adopt a resolution that creates an independent and international mechanism so that you can start investigating these crimes. and you can start identifying the perpetrators and prosecuting those perpetrators. hello, this is the latest of many reports, detaining human rights abuses against weakness. but this one carries the weight of the un and those campaigning for justice. hope it'll mark a turning point. victoria gates and be al jazeera, patrick fox and beijing with more on the chinese government's reaction. with

a fierce response to come out of the foreign ministry in beijing today gives you a little bit of an idea. all the pressure, the office for the high commission of human rights was under not to publish this report spokesperson one when been said the quote. so called assessment was illegal null and void and said it violates the principles of objectivity. and if you read between the lines, it did sound very much as though this criticism was being directed specifically at michelle bachelor and accused our office of being an enforcer and accomplice all the u. s. but this angry reaction also gives you a bit of an idea of just how damaging beijing finds all of this. you know, a lot of the findings in this reports aren't exactly new, but this report carries the weights of the un, which does mean that countries in china and various international bodies, all going to be under pressure to act accordingly. and you know, this response from china will be seen by many as an attempt to create an

alternative narrative. and to on the mind the united nations human rights efforts so hard and al jazeera, the wife of malaysia's former primers. and now she was, i've sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption. a performance by serena williams may retirement plans. ah . the journey has begun. the, the full world camp is on its way to cat your travel package today. here's your weather update for asia. thank you so much for joining in right off the bat, an update on super typhoon we've got just to the east of taiwan. but look at this, the outer bands just stretching in taipei on friday, and this will actually continue into saturday as well as the disturbance really

just meanders in this area here. also see those winds in type here, pick up. so here's a 3 day forecast. i think gusts of about 60 kilometers per hour seems likely on saturday. the rain will peter out throughout the day on sunday and teams will finally start to dry off. on monday, the super tech food moves further toward the north for japan on friday. here's your forecast getting strike with some solid bands of rain for southern areas of honju island, in addition alerts and play land side alerts in some cases as well because it has been a really soggy forecast. as of late off to the bay of bengal, i wanted to draw attention to why spend all in sick i'm state, we're seen some heavy falls of rain on friday. give you a wider view of india right now. the heaviest of the rains have mostly petered out, but we're still keeping some intense bands through karnataka on friday and it remains dry across both afghanistan and pakistan. karachi has got a high of 34 degrees on friday. that's a snapshot of your weather bye for now. i a special airline of the journey.

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so is this, so i'm ukraine and russia are blaming each other for attacks that have delayed a un mission to assess the safety of europe's largest nuclear power plant. inspectors are traveling to the zap lucia facility in southern ukraine. at least 4 people have been killed during fighting between rival she eyed factions and the southern iraqi city of basra. tensions remained high and iraq after influential shark leader mcdonald sada said he was withdrawing from politics. they are going un, human rights chief, has released a report saying there's evidence china's treatment of the weaker minority moments to crimes against humanity. beijing rejected the study as an attempt to undermine its stability. pakistan's army on high alert for more floods in the south. every province in the regions being devastated with sin, the worst effective rec or monsoon rains have led to the desk of about 1200 people . nearly a 1000000 homes have been damaged or destroyed since june,

the you and as well as 160000000 dollar appeal for emergency funding was in bus ave is live for us in san province zane. i know that people there have been struggling to get aid. now of course that are fears of more flooding. that's exactly right. that alert you just mentioned has turned into an active operation. i'm standing here in the town of mary endowed the district. and this is the town under imminent threat from flood waters. let me give you an idea of what's going on here. behind me is the work going on of trying to damn up the water with mud and sandbags. the. the crews here are building mud walls, filling these bags with sand, to try to block the water that has come right up to this town. we've been talking for days about water rising from the north, are flowing down from the north, towards the same province. and this is where it's, it's come. now, these mud walls are holding back, the water, the street we're standing on is about 5 or 6 feet below the waterline. and the work

you see going on here is dirt being trucked in. and these mud banks are being built here and then reinforced the sandbags on top. now we're just going to walk over here to show you exactly where the water line is. if we just walk a little bit this way, you'll see that these walls have come up about 5 or 6 feet. and if you just come up these walls over here, this is where the water line is now. and this is where the work is happening. the military is here, they are telling us that a dam has burst in below just on province, and that is sending more water this way and the water line here is higher than it was yesterday. if we zoom into where you see, there's people in the water trying to reinforce the existing mud banks and really is a race against time. you're taking the sandbanks as high as they'll go to try to keep the water from coming and rushing into the town that is behind me. and then beyond, you see how far the water extends in all of those locations as far as the water goes, as far as you can see, are people's homes,

their businesses. there's still people trapped out there, cut off because of the water rescue operations are underway. and where people can walk where shallow enough, you do see people walking over, walking out with any belongings, walking their friends and family out. but the water just keeps going on and on. and they're happy. the military is having to use boats to try to rescue people to try to pull them out. but again, this is a race against time. the water level is rising and the military, the police are warning people to stay away from these embankments. they are still loose and there is an imminent threat there that could be a breach. and they are worried that when that happens, there will be too many people here. people keep coming to see what the threat is. it is ominous standing water, and they know if there is another to lose if there is any more water, if any more dams or opens or if there is another wave of the monsoon season, then these walls will not hold saying i know you're going to be staying there and watching that situations, the flood waters come in and the preparations for financing basra,

a life for us in sin. thank you. like us on the former prime minister on cons. pre trial, bail has been extended after he appeared in court earlier, is charged on the anti terrorism laws of comments. he made it a recent rally. prosecutors accused him of threatening 3 policemen, and a judge ma hydra was outside the court in islamabad. the former prime minister im ron conroy due to appear in the court earlier today. however, your tornado told the anti terrorist court that they were the credible threat against enron conn, and therefore, idea that he should be excused from the proceedings. however, the anti terrorist court said that he would have to show up, so im ron con. then coming to the guard, he was therefore, less than a few minutes after wait. the court adjourned until the 12th of september, granting him additional bail till the 12th of september. so dramatic development,

head id, antiterrorist god. and of course a lot of people again, coming into board of him, ron founded, supported, were standing on the other side. there was a heavy police presence and we talked to some of the party leadership about what we're likely to happen next. i'll tell you what, know what in the world you find such an example that here is a person speaking against torture. and this government has put down some charges on him. this is insane. what people are pakistan have decided to untie, nation is standing behind in ron hahn. and the demand is very clear. they want image it free and fair elections in pakistan. and that is the only way forward m ron hahn will now be appearing before the anti terrorist court on the credits. are many legal experts in this country believe that the charges leveled against them are frivolous and that did not stand a chance of success. however,

it is going to be interesting to see what happens next, a quota malaysia's sentence, the wife of former prime minister, nancy ross, extra 10 years in prison after a corruption trial. last, mom on saw, was convicted of 3 kinds of bribery over a contract to supply schools with solar power. a husband, nat geo began a 12 year prison last week after being convicted of corruption involving the malaysian state fund, one m d b. phones. louis has more from holiday parks. the judge has sentencing ross my month to 10 years in prison. now this is not the maximum custodial sentence, the maximum is 20 years in prison. this is what the prosecution had asked for, but the judge is imposing a 10 year prison term. now he's also a loud a fine of round 970000000 ring it. that's about $220000000.00 us dollars. if i'm not wrong. however, the judge has also said that a stay of execution is allowed. this means she will not be going to prison

immediately. she also does not have to pay a fine immediately. and we expect that this is because the defense lawyers will be filing an appeal. now, she still has 2 more avenue of appeal left to her. there is the court of appeal and the apex court, the highest court in the land, the federal court. so she has still these avenues to go and we expect she will be taking that route. so she will have to exhaust all those appeals before the, the judgement, the or the execution of a sentence will happen, shall i? and the international monetary fund stuck a deal for a 2900000000 dollar bailout. people have been struggling for months out of the countries worst economic crisis since independence. they face acute shortages of fuel medicines and other essentially, the crisis is led to mass demonstrations of force, the resignation of the president in july, students in france of return to school after the summer break. but some of them may not have a teacher. the french government says 4000 vacant posts have not been filled.

teacher genius, a low pay, and under valuing of the profession as worse of the crisis with our shall bottle reports from paris. ah, maxine could y'all worked as a substitute school teacher in the parish region for 7 years. he had to move schools often and was always on short contracts. he was passionate about the profession, but gave it up because he was frustrated with the system and the instability in ford manpower continued l, you were doing the same job as a staff teacher. your colleagues treat you the same and i had regular inspections like every one that went well. so the job is great, but what's difficult is that after a while it gets tiring because you are changing schools all the time. and there comes a point where you need something reliable as winston did this year for 1000 staff teaching jobs in france or unfilled say, the french government calling on substitute teachers to help alleviate the shortage . some have no classroom experience. so they given a 4 day crash course before being thrown into the deep end said from, as you know,

this training gives us a lot of pointers, tools and resources. but then it's clear we will have to learn on the jobs trade union say that instead of relying on substitute teachers, the government should take a closer look at why there aren't enough staff teachers in the 1st place. they say the problem is that the profession is underpaid and undervalued. as children returned to school in france after the summer break, some say the education system is in crisis. oh really that the what we want to days to be able to work in good conditions to be better paid and have smaller classes. frances education minister, pap and g, i says he understands teachers frustrations. he says salaries will be reviewed before the end of the year, but union say they're fed up of promises. they've called for strike at the end of the month, because they say the government is out of tune with a concerns. natasha butler, al jazeera paris, russian president vladimir putin won't attend the funeral ceremony of the last

soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and said, put and paid his respect earlier by visiting the hospital where gorbachev asked away. oh shall died of the age of 91 serena williams retirement is on hold after she won her 2nd round match at the us open. the 40 year old is expected to hang up a racket at the end of the tournament, but she beat the world number 2 to advance into the 3rd round. david stokes has the action. oh yes, serena williams walked at what could easily have been the last batch of her career . she is $123.00 grand slams, but he's currently ranked outside the top $600.00. the american was up against the world number 2 and that concept right. but produce some trademark shops to make her mark in the acme set. she eventually took it on a tie break and the record crowd of nearly 30000 started to believe

things were not quite to though when her estonian opponent hit back in a 2nd set comfortably taking it 6 games to to. but somehow serena found a higher level in the decider against a player 14 years her junior. she shared the fighting spirit that's delivered so much success since she turned pro is a 14 year old in 90, notified and if the 2 hours 27 minutes on coat she wanted 6 to to progressed around 3 is the 1st time in over year that serena has posted back to back winds in still little label. see then i can see you know, in a 2nd i don't know my goodness. i did my best effort this to me and so i really, i just wanted to just keep trying and see what, what i could do and just do my best. and i was really excited to be honest

friends with that ticket to new york were able to watch it and big screens outside happy that the serena show will go on. for now at least there was excellent, excellent. i would have done it before and she can do it again and i think she's really proving to hear that she still got it. oh, this is a pretty racist country. i think so really about was oh these people sharing her face the pool, the tournament. not many gave serena a chance of winning record equaling 24 grand slam. but now the perfect hollywood ending might just be on the cards mixed up. she faces the unseated australian, i let none of it.