heating up the airway. lot of chinese listeners with kimberly here, but i really think in their own country shifting power, they say the rise of citizen journalism has changed everything. how do you happen? it happened on social media and the undeniable impact of the mainstream narrative. australians went to the pole with those images front of mine is a war is very much came forth out in the media as well as on the battlefield there listening post. dissect the media on al jazeera ah cellular plants in the middle of a was a new, an expert to given access to this upper region. nuclear facility is obvious that the plant and the physical integrity of the plant has been violated. ah,

i'm the bulk of this is al jazeera ally from london also coming up. and increasingly bleak pitcher emerges from disaster, hit pakistan and some areas in the south. the still brace for flooding colin's ruling party to demand $1.00 trillion dollars from germany. reparations for the knots evasion during the 2nd world war plus reaction to a un report accusing china of a crackdown or muslim minorities beijing says the accusations of lies ah the head of the u. n's. atomic watchdog has warned that the physical integrity of europe's largest nuclear power plant has been violated because of the war, new crane, raphael grossey and a team of experts travel for hours through a war zone that came under intense shelling. before arriving at those upper region

nuclear complex ukraine of russia have both accused each other of shelling the plant and risking nuclear catastrophe. during an invasion. this already costs thousands of lives to raise up a report from the capital. keith ah renewed fighting around the sap. what eats yeah . nuclear power plant in the city of a note of that did not prevent the un nuclear watchdog team from crossing the front lines. ah, in spite of the dangers, the team led by the international atomic energy director, i finally, we'll see move to head to begin the match expected visit ago. glossy said he was able to inspect vital equipment. i worry, i worried i warry and i will continue to be worried about the plant until we have a situation which is more stable, which is more predictable. it is obvious that that that plant and the physical integrity of the plant has been violated several times by chance. by

deliberation. moscow says keep center sabotaged team to try to recover europe's largest nuclear power plant that's been under russian control since march. first of all, wasn't milan at 6 20 am to teams of ukrainians saboteurs, 60 men strong. you 7 speed boats attempted to land banks of the kafka water reservoir, some 3 kilometers ne, to the supper is your 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 children have been returning to school in the russian occupied city of mary apple. many educational facilities were heavily damaged during the invasion. students carried russian history books as they entered class and the russian national anthem was played. according to the school administration, there are more registered students now compared to the start of russia's invasion. my reopen was captured by moscow's forces in may of the month of incessant bombing . russia was holding military drills with several countries to the friendly with the kremlin, including its most powerful ally, china. the weeklong exercise is taking place in russia's far east in the sea of japan vall, stock 2022 involves more than $50000.00 troops and thousands of weapon units

including aircraft warships. the other countries taking part include india, syria, and nicaragua, defense ties between russia and china, have grown even stronger since the invasion of ukraine, which the chinese government has refused to. openly criticize the chairman of russia's 2nd largest oil company has died after falling from a hospital window revealed my gun off was being treated at a clinic in moscow. the lou coil chairman is one of several high level russian executives who have died in the last year in july of shipping ceo with ties of the state energy company gas problem was found, shot dead in his swimming pool. ah, southern pakistan is bracing for even more flood says the surge of water heads down the in this river record monsoon reins and melting glasses of triggered the worse

flooding disaster in pakistan's history and is being blamed on climate change. health officials have reported an outbreak of water born diseases, and the un says more than 3000000 children need of humanitarian systems. is now thought that a 3rd of pakistan is covered by flood water, or scenario, the size of the whole united kingdom. more than a 1000000 homes have been destroyed or badly damaged so far. 1100 people have been confirmed dead. and another 6000000 are in desperate need of help. the long term effects are set to be bleak. 80 percent of the country's livestock have been killed and a huge amount of crops have been wiped away. i'll just hear zane bus ravi has more from sin province. well, we've been talking for days about flood water is coming from the north in 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 in 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 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 are 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, seen. and this water, it is unknown how long it will be standing here. well, 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 him, imminent breach. and this water flowing through into the town and further on is still very real. in other news, china has reacted with fury after you and reports that crack down. i'm mostly muslim ethnic groups in the shin jang region may amount to crimes against humanity . the report on weaker than other minorities was released by the u. s. top human

rights official on her last day and office michelle virtually have visited china in may human rights groups of accused china of putting more than a 1000000 people in detention camps where many say they were tortured, abused and forced to abandon their language and religion. ashley's report mostly corroborates those allegations, but the chinese government says it's nothing but lies. acheed i drove her forward if 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 that 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. patrick falk is in beijing with more the chinese government's reaction. well, the theorist response to come out of the foreign ministry in beijing today gives

you a little bit of an idea of 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 her office of being an enforcer and accomplice of 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 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. or

token isa is the president of the world. we get congress. he says he hopes to report papes away for tangible action by member states some comp, saliva testimony, and some expert testimony answered the document at this all showed later today to join us government atrocity against women in genocide. so no, it's just just report not occur and they're saying is it general state they're taking but it was we were, we were just saying is crime against humanity. so this report is not very satisfied from for what site, because really did it really a really terrible and it's done and the explain of 0. but holder, as they say, this is the important it is the some previous to the, to the bay or in the opening sinus, a crime. 3 days of mourning have been declared in a rug southern city of boswell as following violence between rival she had armed groups. at least 4 people have been killed and 10 others wounded. by came days

after fighting and the capital spoke by sheer political leader, but tired al sadi announcement that he was quitting politics by mood up the war had reports from baghdad. ah, i knew this is the aftermath of fighting between shad groups in the center of bus. sarah militants affiliated, 2 influential leaders looked at a souther exchange. it fired with a splinter group backed by iran. both sides suffered casualties on bill cyber since, you know, even at night on people started to gather here, intense gunfire went on machine guns, 80 aircraft weapons, and no one, even the children were screaming my people were afraid in the homes are cause break apart or the houses, he were impacted by gunfire. that's all i did. i mean, there was firing, woke up, terrified by me. the area here had become a frontline. god is our witness. boshra turned into marshal. this car was impacted,

it burned. this one broke apart. oh, dear shop, groaned even our homes were hit, our children kept screaming. ah, bustler is iraq's main oil producing harbor. and this escalation in violence, fullest fighting in baghdad. on monday, the political crises pitts, full wars of the powerful shad political leader looked at a souther against mostly iran aligned parties um, parliamentary groups, southern supporters emerged as the biggest party in parliament in elections in october, but weren't able to form a government. you like, has had, they can't take a government ever since in baghdad. the supreme court has postponed rolling on a petition fight to buy. so that is movement until next wednesday, it demands the dissolution of parliament and early elections. but this agreement between the political rivals goes beyond that. my mood abdullah hides al jazeera

but that still to come this half hour, the usa to alaska, alexis 1st indigenous women to congress. b t out famous face students had back to school them from spit in a months time my classrooms could be empty again will tell you why. i ah hello, we've got some welcome sign of rain coming in to parts of western europe over the next couple of days. see this little area of cloud here. some lie be showers, just bring up, are associated with this area of low pressure, but to just drift into the channel. feeding some wet weather into pos, france, and also across southern areas of england and wells in ill meet up with this cold

front. this the blue line here that will sink for the south is as we go into the early part of next week. so some proper rainfall in the cart. we hope already got some proper rifle just around the balkans associated with these areas of life pressure which are not in the way a little further eastward. so bulgaria, rumania, seeing some very heavy down pause over the next day or so possibly some localized flooding. as a result of that much of the met, generally dry and find one or 2 showers. i, which was about the eric small parts of spine. this wet weather that already showing his hand for friday across a good part of france, west of whether to just coming in to ireland, pushing into western scott from for northern ireland. and there you go. it gathers a pace as we go through sat they wet and windy weather coming in for many cloud and my coming to central parts of you at this stage. plenty of weather across central parts of africa at present, particularly into nigeria. possibly she's been flooding here that re all the way to sierra leone. ah,

with lou ah, reminder the top stories here on al jazeera, the head of the u. n. 's atomic watchdog is one that the physical integrity of

europe's largest nuclear power plant has been violated because of the war and ukraine, raphael crossing and his team of experts travel for hours through a war zone to inspect this upper asia. blunt southern pakistan is bracing for even more floods as a surge of water heads down the industry. river. record monsoon rains and melting glasses of triggered floods that have killed nearly 1200 people since june. the last 4 people have been killed in the rocky city of basra during fighting between rival. she ain't factions tensions a high after she i leader mc todd al sada said he was withdrawing from politics. now a federal judge has deferred a ruling on whether to appoint what's known as a special master to review documents that the f b i sees from former us president donald trump is the latest stage in the dispute that erupted to after trumps mar logo residence was search last month, the justice department is investigating how documents were taken out of the white

house. okay, well let's get straight to alam fisher, who's live in washington, d. c. allen wallace trump are hoping to the achieve with the opponents of this so called special a master in light of these documents seized by the f b i well, it's a tour hearing that has just ended and the judge has said that she is going to defer a decision that means it could come later today to come to morrow could come sometime over the weekend. we have no indication when it will actually come in. there's been a lot of rhetoric and a lot of heated discussion about this. but it boils down to a pretty simple argument and will the appointment of the special master, do you real the investigation by the f b? i know, but it might delete slightly. donald trump is essentially saying, look, the documents were taken were hes at. they were covered by executive privilege because they cover his time in office when he was president. and there are documents in there that should be covered by attorney client privilege at what has

been argued in court. and it seems that the judge is heading in this direction, is she me? well, grant the idea of a special master, which is essentially an independent pair of eyes looking at these documents to see if any are covered by attorney client privilege. but perhaps not those government documents, that would be part of the investigation. because of course, when donald trump says these are his documents, as the government has said, actually they're not even when you were president, they belonged to the us government. what is interesting is that donald trump has made a big deal over the last couple of weeks since the read on the 8th of august, that he had declassified all of these documents. that is not something that has been entered into legal argument and speaking to an expert in the last couple of hours. they say there's a couple of reasons for this. first of all, you don't go into court and see to judge something that you can't prove when you don't sadly, don't say anything to

a judge that might possibly be alive. earn allen despite sir his best efforts trumps finances. are back in the spotlight or walking tellers on that right, this all goes back to 2019. remember michael cohen, he was donald trump's personal lawyer. and of course, he was to jail for making a payment to a stormy daniel's to keep her silence in the run up to the election campaign. she was an adult film star who allegedly had an affair with donald trump. while he was giving evidence at the oversight committee on capitol hill and he said, look, donald trump for years has obfuscated his finances to try and gain advantages when getting loans from banks and also to try and pay less taxes. we over say, committee went really, we'd like to investigate that more. and so the asked for all of the financial documents from missouri is hoya. donald trump's attorneys. no, donald trump has been fighting since 2019 to stop that happening. and this has gone

to many, many courts know donald trump has agreed that on a limited basis, they will be able to look at some of the documents, documents, which particularly pertain to donald trump's links with foreign governments. and any of the trump companies links to foreign governments and foreign entities between 20172018 if they're talking about any links at all, to saudi arabia to russia, that sort of thing as well. what is interesting is mothers, who are donald trump's accountants for many, many years, and put out a statement earlier this year to say, look, we disavow this financial documents, you cannot put any stock in what we have written over the past 10 years. so this is something that the house oversight committee will continue to investigate how much of it will be made public that will depend on what the committee decides when he thinks alan alan fisher there in washington dc. bolan's ruling party says it will

demand $1.00 trillion dollars from germany as reparations for the nancy invasion during the 2nd world war, the figure follows the release of a report on the costs of the nancy occupation of poland from 939 to 945. poland, right. when government says the country has not been fully compensated, but germany insist compensation was paid in the years after the war. dominic cane has more from berlin. in the 7 and a half years that i've been reporting for al jazeera from berlin, i can count several times that such sentiment has been expressed in warsaw. but it never really gets c friendly reception, as it were in germany. because the view from successive german governments has been that the agreement that was made in the early 19 fifties between the 2 communist governments, one of poland, one of east germany, that the polish side would waive their right to compensation in their view was binding. and that has been the view that has pertained pretty much since that point

. the other thing to bear in mind here is that if one looks at the map of europe, which followed from world war 225 percent of what had been germany, was effectively taken from germany and given to poland in some way as reparation to poland for poland, for what germany had inflicted on it's all the, the disaster that the war was for the polish economy for the polish people. there's no question about that, but it is worth bearing that in mind. and it is also worth bearing in mind that whilst we have heard that view expressed by the governing body in poland, the opposition in poland says that they believe that what is being expressed now must also be said, they said this back in 2017. the what's being expressed now is more designed for domestic consumption in poland than as something that might achieve something on an

international level. a pike. a sunny court is extended former prime minister emron cans bail in a terrorism case. carne appeared in court on to tight security on thursday. he's facing charges over comments he made at a recent rally. prosecutors accuse him of threatening islamabad. police chief and a judge. campbell hider was outside the court and the pakistani capital the former prime minister, im ron conroy due to appear in the court earlier today. however, there tornado toward the anti terrorist court, that there was a credible threat against her m, ron 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 den, coming to the court. he was dead for less than a few minutes after which the court adjourned. october 12th of september, granting him additional bell till the 12th of september showed dramatic development

. head id, antiterrorist god and of course saw a lot of people again coming in support 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's a person speaking against torture. and this government has put down some charges on him. this is insane. what people are pakistan have decided. the anti mission is standing behind in ron fun. and the demand is very clear. they want image it free and fair elections and pakistan. and that is the only way forward m ron hahn will now be appearing before the anti terrorist score on the credits. are many legal experts in this country believe that the charges leveled against them are frivolous

and that does not stand a chance of success. however, it is going to be interesting to see what happens next. you, a state of alaska has elected his 1st indigenous woman to congress, democrat. mary pol told him as beaten former republican governor sarah palin, who was hoping for political comeback. leah harding has more republican vice presidential nominees. sarah palin. sarah palin knows a thing or 2 about close elections. governor sarah palin, the graduate of alaska, the former governor of alaska is best known for her and successful vice presidential run with john mccain in 2008. when he lost to barack obama, you can actually see russia from land here in alaska. when alaska went to the polls to elect a new member of congress in august, you, helen found herself in a 3 way race or we have just begun and we it. is that a fight for what is right for alaska incarnation,

but she was defeated by mary pol toola who was now the 1st native american woman to represent alaska in the house of representatives. being alaska native is part of my ethnicity, but i'm much more than my ethnicity and i'll be looking forward to working forward . ah, for all alaskans here in this, in the short see, the special election was called after the death of the former office holder. alaska has the highest proportion of native americans in the united states, and the vote was the 1st under a new system there with voters listing candidates in order of preference on the ballot. governor sarah palin, special special person, thank you. and palin is already planning another comeback with an endorsement from former president donald trump. she's gained support in historically republican state writ of a national after pol toll of finishes. this term left, she and palin are due to face off again in november. and

a bid to fill this same congressional seat for the next 2 years. we a harding al jazeera friends students are returned to school after the summer break, but many classrooms will be without teaching for 1000 vacant posts have not been filled. and the government is leaning on substitute teachers to fill the gap. teachers unions blame the shortage on low pay more. the role of teachers has been undervalued. natasha butler reports ah, maxine collier, 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 fed manpower content. you know, 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 this year. for 1000 staff teaching jobs in france or unfilled, say, the french governments 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 format. sure, no, this training gives us a lot of pointers, tools and resources, but then it's clear we will have to learn on the job. so 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 would be one today's to be able to work in good conditions to be better paid and have smaller class less 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 a strike at the end of the month, because they say the government is out of tune with their concerns. it's ayesha butler, al jazeera, paris, us and russian aster lord say their training hasn't been affected by political attentions ahead of the soil space mission next month. the team will have the international space station on september the 21st for a 6 month mission. russia has said it will pull out of the i assess after 2024 of focus on building its own outpost nasa. astronaut frank, rubio says a good and strong relationship remains in place between nasa and the russian space agency ross cause mos ah the top story is on our.