stones from across the network on al jazeera, 2 stories astray will win challenging traditional female stereotypes in a male dominated society to make a difference. if i go, of course, we'll pull into the ravine. how families look like. the water is highly contaminated. bolivia in the cloud. rescan it all on al jazeera. ah, it is obvious that that the plant and the physical integrity of the plant has been violated several times. a un mission to the separation power plant wraps up, but it's leaving inspectors behind. ah,

on i carry johnson, mrs. al jazeera where live from doha will also coming up for people are killed in fighting between rival shot factions in iraq's southern city of basra. i'm seeing bas ravi and pakistan southern since projects where people in towns like this are using mud walls and sandbags to hold back to flood waters. the un says china may have committed crimes against humanity against swingers and other mostly muslim groups in ching. jang provoking a fierce response from beijing. a team of you and experts are assessing the safety of europe's largest nuclear power facility in ukraine. the i 8 chief rafael grossi has left the russian occupied at supper. asia plans for 5 others are staying back to raise about reports from keith

ah. renewed fighting around the sub, what it's yeah. nuclear power plant in the city of in order that did not prevent the un nuclear watchdog team from crossing the front lines. ah, in spite of the dangers, the team lead by the international atomic energy director ref i ludo c moved ahead to begin the much expected visit. i saw a lot and i helped by people there. we were able to, i was able to work the whole site. moscow says keep center sabotage team to try to recover. europe's largest. no power plant that's been under russian control since march, 1st as old roosevelt, a 6th 20 am to teams of ukrainians saboteurs. 60 men stroll. you 7 speed boats attempted to land on the banks of the kafka water reservoir, some 3 kilometers ne, to the super easy a nuclear power plant. he denies all accusations and says moscow is trying to

manipulate the visit. carried out attacks around the city to terrorize the population and the ukrainian employees inside the plant. their well being is a major concern for ukrainian officials. keith says one of its reactors had to be shut down because of the shelling on thursday. and it warn't about the possibility of a meltdown if the plant goes offline completely. the visit is expected to last for a few days until the un team on the ground can evaluate the dangers on site. the situation around the nuclear power plant has had authorities here in keep on the edge as they're hoping russia will demilitarized the area. but russia has already said it has no plans to remove its troops any time soon. that is how i'll defeat active. the chairman of russia's 2nd largest oil company has died after falling from a hospital window that's according to russian media reports that wilma got off was being treated as a clinic in moscow. the lou coil chairman is one of several high level russian

executives who died in the last year. in july, a shipping a c with twice the state energy company gas from was found shot dead in his swimming pool. let's bring in a bill browser now he's the founder and see what hermitage, capital management, and author of read notice he joins us from london. welcome to the program. so what do you make of the circumstances surrounding this death will you know it? so i think it's more i, if you have one person falling out of window that suspicious, but when you're of 8 or you'll executives, oil and gas executives over a short period of time, all dying under mysterious circumstances, it looks like a pattern. i think that this is a pattern that's connected with a fight inside of the pudding regime over who gets the spoils of the oil and gas industry. and based on what i can see,

it looks like he was pushed out the window because somebody wanted to add something which he was standing in front of and wouldn't let them get it. what indeed, who would gain and how that the if what you're saying is correct? well, we don't know exactly his business dealings what he was involved in, but as a theory, imagine that that somebody wanted an asset or a stream of cash flows coming from luke oil. that didn't make sense for the company . and he said, i don't want to give this money away from the company to these people. and what's the best way of solving that problem? get rid of the person standing in the way that that's one theory. i don't, i don't have any specific knowledge, but that's what the case was, but that's the kind of thing that happens in russia all the time that people are murdered in order for other people to make money. you mentioned russia, them, and there was a reported plot against you at one point, but russia would say, well, you're simply guilty of crimes. how would he respond to that?

well, that's what they say to everybody who's some who's trying to oppose the regime. i, i have many friends in the russian opposition who are currently sitting in jail, who they've accused of crimes. the only crime that they've committed is criticizing the regime. this is a dictatorship that goes after everybody who is in any way calling out the truth. how influential would rattle my gun off have been there in any case? well, i would say that he is somewhat influential being the chairman of the board of one of the biggest oil companies in russia. as a very important job. he probably isn't as influential as the ceo of luke oil, a guy who named budget alec pair off who had to resign because he was put on the sanctions list. but he's definitely an important player, but potentially more important because of the resignation of, of alex barrels. if you're right that, i mean, who might the finger point tack in terms of who may have carried out allegedly

carried out this incident? well, generally these types of incidents are organized by the secret police. they call it the f s, b m, p. your listener is may, may not know the name k g b, which is the previous secret police, but it's now the f s b. and this is an organization that regulate carries out assassinations and frauds, and all sorts of other crimes, both economic him and otherwise. and we've seen them do many other things. very similar to this. would you be expecting more of this type of death than in the certain, or the circumstances that we're in now? politically? well it's, it's the, the reason for this type of actions is that the economic pie has shrunk as a result of sanctions. the amount of money sloshing around moscow was a lot less than he used to be. and so, and because there's less money, there's more people fighting over that money. and when people fighting over money

and russia usually leads to murder, so i would expect more murders to happen for sure. who brought out we very much appreciate your time. thank you. thank you. now in a show of growing military cooperation, russia and china are holding wargames the week long drills are taking place and rushes far east tennessee of japan for stock of 2022. busy involves more than $50000.00 soldiers and thousands of weapon. it's including a craft and warships program on web is a search for the s raton, m. s. school of international studies at 9 young technological university. he says, ties between china, russia have grown stronger. i think it is a case of the proverbial i'll scratch my back and you scratch mine. and i think we saw this in terms of how things are played out over the course of this year. and we saw the cd, russian invasion of you're creating and

a chinese look the other way. i didn't really join the majority of the international community and in pushing against that. and likewise with ins, administration has also turned on the other way when it came, when has come to the issues of taiwan question and china is concerns about foreign interference in, in this particular issue. so clearly there is a concert of saw going on between these 2 countries. and i think the military exercises clearly provider a clear strategic signal that they will who operate in coordinate, military affairs together. now of course, additional members joining into this exercise, countries like mongolia and nicaragua allows, i mean it's, it's, it's quite disconcerting because these countries were formally allies of the former soviet union coming on board in this enterprise. and it's a sign that russia is telling the world that it's not alone, and it has,

it has covered our friends that will recovery be leader of poland, governing party says he's country will be demanding 1.3 trillion dollars in world war 2. reparations from germany, while the figure follows the release of a report on the costs of nazi germany, is likely patient from 939 to 1945. out of stops across skills, a member of the european parliament and a form of polish foreign minister. he says the call for reparations from the governing party is a political move. nazi germany committed unspeakable crimes in poland, up to $6000000.00. citizens dead and up to half of our economy destroyed. but at potsdam, the reparations that were decided upon by, by the pictures of the 2nd world war assigned to poland, 15 percent of the soviet reparations claims. and we were cheated out of most

of that. so you could actually argue that it's the success of the state of the soviet union that owes us those reparations, hopeless leadership here in poland, is it knows full well that legally, it's almost impossible to move this agenda forward. but they have a policy of attacking ally for germany. and it seems to play well in some parts of the right wing electric. germany is our ally in nature is a most important economic partner with whom we have a trade surplus. and, and i personally think that at a time when to choose armies or trying to conquer ukraine, when we have an actual present danger in the east, is not the best time to be picking fights with our western friends. and alex, germany has announced that will charter another floating natural gas terminal,

as part of its plan to stop relying on russian energy. the terminal will have the capacity for 5000000000 cubic meters per year and will be ready for use in the winter of 2023. it will bring the countries total number of terminals to 5. now 3 days of morning had been declared in iraq's southern city of basra flooring violence between shiite rival armed groups. 4 people were killed and 10 others wounded on thursday. i came at days after fighting in the capital of sparked vine announcements by she ought physically them ton of her as he was quitting politics of the white reports from back that i do. this is the aftermath of fighting between shirley. i'd groups in the center of bus militants affiliated, 2 influential lead to the southern exchange. it fired with a splinter group,

backed by iran. both sides suffered the casualties. and even at night, people started together. here, intense gunfire went on and machine guns aircraft weapon and was even the children with screaming. people are afraid in the homes, cause breaks apart. well, the house here were impacted by gum. far. as i saw, there was firing, woke up terrified. i mean, the area here had become a frontline, was god is our witness. boshra turned into this car was impacted burned. this one broke apart. oh, dear shop, burned even our homes were hit, our children kept screaming. ah, bustle, iraq's main oil producing harbor. and this escalation in violence, fullest plate in combat. dead on monday. the political crises pitts, full wars of the powerful shad political lead that looked at a southern against mostly iran,

aligned parties and parliamentary groups. others supporters emerged as the biggest party in parliament in elections in october, but weren't able to form a government you like has had a caretaker government ever since. in baghdad, the supreme court has postponed rolling on a petition wide to buy so that his movement until next wednesday, it demands the dissolution of parliament an early elections. but this agreement between the political rivals goes beyond that. my mood, abdullah hides al jazeera above that. so the head on al jazeera, a lifeline for sher lanka, the international monetary fund approves a $2900000000.00 node tackle clifton economic crisis. ah,

here's your forecast for the 2nd of september. great to be with you. starting in the middle east, we're really there's no change in the weather pattern, plenty of hot sunshine to go around. still the odd burst of rain for western areas of yemen, and certainly the possibilities some of that activity could leak into mecca with the chance of showers or thunderstorms. there it remains, dry and quiet across afghanistan and pakistan were in the law for the monsoon rains . now probably until about mid september, still the risk of some showers around islam of bought up against the foothills of the himalayas. disturbed weather still in the forecast for its stumble on friday. sinners pick up through the boss for us as while. and we're keeping that heat through the levant, we'll put the colors on dark, the red hard the temperature level at 42, a mine at 37. your temperatures are now starting to come down over the next few days. certainly the risk of seen some flooding across a huge swath of the democratic republic of congo. really, south sudan,

including juba as waltz on friday with a hiv $31.00 degrees wind. still the big story across south africa. so for the northern cape province, the western cape, and there was winds have shifted around to northerly. so that's pumped up the temperature, for example, in durban to high of 25 degrees on friday. enjoy season. the frank assessments, how much support is there that street protests that we've seen and across the rest of the country, the st movement has been very good that's happening in the court and the people across the country informed opinions we will say more of what is happening is that climate change is making them work in depth analysis of the days global headlines, rocky is credited by some. we're really, we're storing it, lease credibility to critics would say he couldn't play the part of a politician. what do you think went wrong inside story on al jazeera? ah

ah. once you have a reminder about top stories now, a team of you an expert, has inspect to the rush and controls operation, nuclear power. can ukraine international atomic energy agency chief has already left the site? the 5 others are staying behind the chairman of russia, the 2nd largest oil company who died off the phone and from a hospital, according to russian medium. the new coil, chapman is one of several high level russian executives who have died in the last year yacht going un human rights chief, has released a report saying there's evidence china's treatment of a legal minority amounts to crimes against humanity. beijing rejected the study as

an attempt to undermine its stability. pakistan's army is on high alert for more floods in the south. every province in the region has been devastated with sinned. the worst affected record that monsoon reigns have led to the deaths of about 1200 people. nearly a 1000000 homes have been damaged or destroyed since june un has launched a 160000000 dollar appeal for emergency funding. st was robbie has this update from well, we've been talking for days about flood waters coming from the north and other areas . and coming down towards saying that we, we found where those waters have been stopped. people in this town of marian w district have been using sand and dirt, dirt at this point of time in the floods taking on a premium role and trying to hold back to flood waters. people are trucking in san filling up sandbags and warning people to stay away from these mud walls that have

been built around the town to try to keep the water out of the town out from keep it from pouring into the town. no, where i'm standing at street level is about 5 or 6 feet below the water line. let me show you where that is. you see the mud wall there behind me. and if you come up here, this is where the water level is and it goes on for a great distance. you can see everything is submerged. there are bits of road there, a little high enough for people to be able to walk, to get to where they need to go into the distance, our residential areas, our villages, our shops are people's homes and businesses. and there are rescue operations happening here. there are police and emergency vehicles or military vehicles in boats, and what they are doing is trying to shout out where they can. they're taking boats into those areas to try to reach people that need help. just here, police are trying to call out to anyone in these buildings to see if anybody needs to be evacuated. this is still a very, very active scene. and this water,

it is unknown how long it will be standing here. but what people are hoping is that these, the sandbags, these dirt embankments, these make shift dams that have been built by the people that live here. the hope is that this will be enough to keep the water at bay until it dries up until it's pumped out. and people are being warned to stay away because the threat of more water coming, the threat of an imminent breach and this water flowing through into the town and further on is still very real. china says a you and report on its treatment of wiggers is full of lies of the months of delay and attempts my beijing to block it. the un human rights office has released the findings of its investigation into alleged abuses of mostly was the minorities victoria gate and be report around you. italia. michelle bar chalets long awaited report is damning indictment of china's treatment of the weaker population. it found that wiggers 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 wiggers with better economic opportunities. each other to the full lead up, he will balk 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 but serves as a political tool for the u. s. 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 week of community. her visit to china re, may, was widely condemned as a whitewash with the u. s. 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 sent 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 gate and be al jazeera. patrick fog is in beijing with more on the chinese government's reaction. well, the furious response to come out of the foreign ministry invasion today gives you

a little bit of an idea of the pressure. the office for the high commission of human rights is under not to publish this report spokesperson one. when been said the quote, so called assessment was illegal now 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, michelle bachelor, an accused or office of being an enforce, an accomplice all the us. 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 and china and various international bodies are 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 undermine the united nations human rights efforts,

rebels in ethiopia, in northern to grow region. so if you, p and or train forces have launched a major offensive against them. and the statements need to grind people's liberation front, says the joint offensive is on multiple fronts, were fighting between the government forces and the rebels resumed last week, after 5 months. now. welcome web, has more from nairobi, enabling kenya and to the military forces is said that the federal government forces and every trained forces of launched an attack in the northwest corner of the great province near the border with eritrea says, the town of bo is under a full from the tact that coming from full directions and to green forces are holding their positions on the heavy shelling. the government hasn't responded ethiopian government hasn't responded directly to the claims that it has said that

the grey and forces of intensified their attacks and the killing and displacing civilian trained government hasn't responded to the side that it's been a c 5 the last 5 months that was broken last week when fighting resumed, and it was initially concentrated around the southeast corner of the gray province to graham forces and are claiming the northern front is opened as well. but it's not the impossible to verify any of these claims. access is heavily restricted, and there's an ongoing communication black out in the grey provinces. the international monthly fund has reached an agreement with sh lanka to provide around $2900000000.00 in emergency financing as a country faces it's worse economic crisis since independence. and now fernandez reports not from columbus. it was an announcement speed delincia lanka had been waiting for. i am f stuff and the authorities have reached staff level agreement to support 3 long because economic policies with

a 48 month arrangement under the so called extended fund facility, off about $2900000000.00 us dollars. shalanda asked the i miss help in march of the economy face collapse, and he ran out of money for food, medicine, cooking gas and fuel. tens of thousands of she lumpkins were forced to kill flir essentials. the crisis led to months of protest, their force, former prime minister, mind the raj boxer to resign, and his brother, president boot albert, to flee. the country. news of an agreement on a bailout has brought a sense of relief to many here in j lanka. at some observers see, it may be premature to celebrate. we stand ready to a, put this agreement to our management and then to our if management approves it to then put it forward to the executive board. as soon as these are conditions that i

mentioned are satisfied. so we, we do need to await out for these are conditions to take place. the main condition is for sheila got to come up with a workable plan to pay back the money it owes the i m f is also asked for increased taxes and end to subsidize electricity and fuel and stringent efforts to stamp out corruption. the government has already begun implementing some of those reforms to an interim budget. hi there. we had an agree me a paper and tax management must play an important role in increasing revenue, including increasing tax collection, tax compliance and preventing tax evasion. i propose making it mandatory for everyone over 18 years to register with the inland revenue department, the respect of of their annual income and tex holidays, fema $2900000000.00 from the i. m f will make a huge difference to sher lanka. but in order to secure dallas funds,

it must come up with a proper plan of how it will pay. it's mountainous depths for the people. if she lanka, that can come fast enough. minute fernandez, ojo 0, colombo, serina williams. retirement is on hold after she won her 2nd straight at tennis match at the us open. the 40 year old is expected to hang up her racket at the end of the torment. debit stokes has the action. oh yeah. serina williams walked out. 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 concert right. but produce some trademark shots to make her mark in the acme set, she eventually took it on a tie break, and the record crowd of nearly $30000.00 started to believe. hm. things were not quite a 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 1995 and after 2 hours 27 minutes on thought she wanted 6 to to progressed around 3 is the 1st time in over year that serena has posted back to back winds, at least a little and they will see the nicholas in you know, in the 2nd i don't know, my goodness. i go get my best effort because eskimiya and so i really, i just wanted to just keep trying and see what, what i can 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 on big screens outside

happy that the serena show will go on for now at least it was excellent. excellent. i am. she's done it before and she can do it again and i think she's really proving to hear that she still got it with a pretty racist country. i think so really about was oh these people sharing her a full the tournament. not many gave serena a chance of winning a 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 them none of the folks out there. ah.