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hello until mccrae. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming out shall anchors, former president go to buy a roger pox returns after he fled, protest triggered by an economic crisis and new life and a world destroyed pakistan's, devastating floods force, pregnant women and girls to give birth and shelters. also awe tennis star, serena williams loses in the 3rd round of the us open and what's expected to be the last match of her career. ah, mourners a paying tribute to the soviet union's last leader ahead of his burial and moscow, mikhail gorbachev will be laid to rest in the coming hours. the kremlin says president vladimir putin will not attends. these are life pictures from moscow of

mourners queuing up to file past the body of one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century. a western leaders have praised gorbachev as a towering statesman who helped in the cold war. but his legacy as a leader who oversaw the end of the soviet union has received a cooler response in russia. he died at the edge of 91 in moscow hospital after 2 years of serious illness. andrew summons looks back on the life of the last soviet leader. and me that 54 years old mikhail go to. so 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 his 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 that took out

a whole class of nuclear weapons. it turn 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. 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. antonio, guitarist the un secretary general, said the world has lost a towering global leader, committed multi naturalists and tireless advocate for peace. the u 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, your 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, forced to keep eastern europe. ah, in the empire, and with that, he deserves credit. but it is not that this was sung came, men tried to undermine the system. he tried to reform and gorbachev used perestroika or restructuring to reform, a stagnant economy that had seen people shorter food and consumer goods. and he used glass knolls, 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 on with rushes,

invasion of ukraine comes the danger of further east west conflict, sullen a horse lunt, unstable to president putin. russia and it's president of digging new trenches in europe and have started a horrible war and ukraine. it's now we think in mikhail gorbachev and realized what he did for our country and all of your vision. gorbachev held as a man of peace has died. it's only when his country is heavily engaged in war. andrew simmons, how let's bring in to me trip of each. he is a political analyst at receiver dinner. he joins us via skype from moscow. thank you very much for being on the program with her that the kremlin has stopped short of giving him a full state funeral. why do you think that is will because sir, the leg is your what a bunch of his very contradictory nevertheless. so president bush in the kima to bay the last tribute to war. much of yesterday when there were

a few of people he did not participate in their facial ceremony by the general journalist trying to break her the bad soviet tradition. when every you leader heaped her criticism and the scorn on the previously the accusing him of all the problems. so bridget wants to break that tradition. he's respectful to was going on just like he was respectful towards johansson. however, it is obvious that war mucho's sir, legacies contradictory. look, none of these western leaders who braced him so much came to bathe their last t v door, but off neither a chance of america in the form of johnson america will not know the french or breaches, fetus. they will break the world by john, but they didn't show up. now. why did that happen? because it is clear that the west was not quite sincere when it said that the cold

war is over. we love russia, and mister gorbachev is a hero, and he made russia about on the west. unfortunately, what about you did not make russia part of the west because the west didn't want that to happen. war much of certainly wanted it to happen. i mean, a lot of western leaders wouldn't have been able to get in there because, or, you know, because of the war in the ukraine and the restrictions that have been put in against them. so, i mean, surely that's playing into this as well. no, there were no restrictions on weston leave us. they would restrictions on us or you know they put restrictions on present port in they impose sanctions which is unheard of on our foreign minister survey law grove. but we never said that the western leaders cannot come here. they can come, it is the west, especially the vortex. there's why discussion now, a total ban on tourist visas for russians to visit europe. this is unheard of. this

is a racist. we're not like that. we are irregular to reseal western leaders here in moscow to see them pay tribute to work much of but they didn't want to. and i think this is also very indicative of their attitude. they used to work much off and they never, i think they never were quite sincere with him when they said that the whole. ready was or where they thought they wanted the cold war. and officially they said it was a truce like, the war is over. a merry christmas, the war is over. maybe christmas was a very good about you said you'd, he believes in it. the west did not believe in. okay, well, you know, as you've mentioned and as we have seen it, gorbachev has been widely celebrated in the west of helping to in the cold war. and we see, you know, hundreds if not thousands of people lining up to pay their respects to him. now. so what do you think his legacy will be within russia? will i interview gorbachev several times, sir? so i can tell you that he had a huge personal charm,

not only withdrawn that is about to with just about every person he spoke to. he was a very soft, kind, engaging man, personally. however, or for a political leader. sometimes you need firmness and the firmness he sometimes select no dollars, but there, there was this problem. however, i think that the, in general, people in rush are free to have any views on board. but there are people who are raised here with, you know, what forward are the good sides of his room there now lying and up next to you know, the surgeon and palace where that the last tribute displayed to him. this is actually the former, a median calls of the most called gentry from the times before the revolution of 1917. so this is an almost state funeral, i would say. but there are people, of course, why very critical of worship. because this is that they quoted me all his rule. on

the one hand, he was there, man who helped and the cold war. on the other hand, he did not manage to resist the collapse of their, of the state that he ruled out. he was so in that sense, theoretically, a failure and the all russian. so i divided on his legacy. however, i would say the following. he was not alone too. and the cold war without made you pull the gift changes that took place in the soviet union before him. in 1967, the lankin seventy's, when people became more humane. when they read more, when they became much more cultured than in the beginning of the soviet period, without that the end of the cold war would not have been possible. so he was not the only man who entered the cold war. and in the same way, he was not the only man who was responsible for the collapse or the soviet union. we are responsible for that. we did not manage to prevent as we see now, a very,

very not peaceful o collapse of the soviet union. we now see that it was not peaceful a lot of terrible events fault, of course, at no, of course, this is all happening in the shadow of the war and ukraine. we've heard from previous guests fed gov, which of was not a not in favor of the invasion. so i guess how, how is he going to be remembered from that point of view? well, publicly he didn't say anything on the recent events. so one of the things that happened since february i bought a, he very publicly supported the reintegration of crimea in karachi, in 2014. he supported william sanctions then. and for that reason he was banned by their ukranian regime. he will not enter your grade. he was a persona non grata in ukraine, which is absurd because i think you green owes him

a light degree, your green old mister gorbachev, its independence back in 1991 and he was half ukrainian himself. so i think this story of a very, very, i would say contradictory or it is a very contradictory story, war batch off and the ukranian war. i think a historian should remember that he was happy that great near which is mostly russian. speaking became about russia again. but obviously he felt very badly about this war because i think he understood it was one of the consequences or his failure in 1991. it was one of the consequences or his inaction. them. okay, we'll have to leave it there. thank you very much for your time. that's to me. 3 babich for us from moscow. ah brushes. energy. john gaz problem says it will not resume gas delivery through the

north stream, one pipeline to germany after a 3 day shut down. the company says an oil leak was detected and repairs are needed, but the european commission says the move is under fallacious pretenses and shows russia is an unreliable supplier. who gets problems. decision came hours after g 7 nations agreed to see the price cap on russian oil in an effort to hurt moscow's war if it's in ukraine. finance ministers from the world's richest economies, also hope a cap on crude oil and petroleum products will help reduce global energy prices where russia has responded, saying it will stop selling oil to countries that agree to a price limits. the serena williams has said she wants to be remembered as a fighter after bringing the curtain down on her 27 year tennis korea at the us open. she was knocked out on the 3rd ra rounds by ilo, tommy john of ej, who was 2 years old. when william's turn professional in 1995 would during her

career williams, 123 grand slam titles, a record in the open era. after her met sheepish and emotional farewell to the crowd in new york, but did leave the door open for a potential return. i and i wouldn't be, i wouldn't be serena with my life and i'm just so grateful to every single person that's ever said go sorry in life so great here any chance to reconsider? i don't, i don't think so, but you never know. i don't know,

it's rob reynolds reports, how williams is not about to fight away. his report contains flash photography. serena williams dominated women's tennis winning 23 singles, grand slam. the 1st, when she was just 17, along the way, she and her sister venus inspired a generation of young players, especially women of color. man grew up watching her. i mean, vassar reason why play tennis and you know tennis fingered predominantly white spread. it definitely helped a lot because i saw so many looked like me. in her decades in the spotlight williams became much more than an athlete. she was and is a cultural phenomenon which put herself out much more broadly as a celebrity personality than your typical athlete is able to do that begins with her dominant place and sport since 2011 williams has been a goodwill ambassador for the un children's agency. unicef,

visiting developing countries to promote education and sports, part of her commitment may come from her own family's financial struggles when she was a child. this gritty south l. a neighborhood is where the williams sisters got their start playing on those tennis courts right over there. now that she's leaving professional tennis, serena williams will have a future full of ventures in philanthropy fashion. and hollywood williams reportedly is in discussions with a film studio to executive produce a biographical series about her and her sister. she did not want to be defined solely by her tennis brand, so she reached out and, and placed herself in fashion and clothing lines. she also had a child, and so she promoted health and wellness from others. in addition to athletic wear and wellness products, williams has dozens of lucrative endorsement deals from promoting gatorade to

fronting for a fancy swiss watch company. all part of a carefully cultivated public image williams may be leaving the court on them, but she will be part of popular culture and commerce for years to come. rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles, still ahead on al jazeera, the hundreds of thousands, really in argentina in support of democracy. after an assassination attempt on the vice president plus. ness is most powerful rocket. eva is on the launch pad. the 2nd attempt to get humans back to the moon. ah, the journey has begun. the 34 world camp is on its way to catherine group. your travel package today. hello, we got a proper taste of ot and weather coming into northwestern parts of yet nice little hook,

a cloud here that is make this way across ireland across sir. western parts of the u. k. will produce some heavy rainfall as it does. so we need the right, i'm afraid it won't be quite as bad as we would like into southern parts of england whilst. but even here we should see some showers, a long spouse of rain over the next couple of days. little bit of wet weather there to central parts of europe. and also down towards the southeast. we got some heavy showers just around bulgaria, pulling away from our romania things will quiet down as we go on through the next steps. i still want to shout in to southern parts of the ukraine as well. lobby showers there into central parts of europe, southern parts of germany. there's that wetter war. persistent rabbits have warnings in force just across our parts of our northern ireland island. western areas of scotland and that wet weather will swell its way in as we go on through the next couple of days. and he noticed it does turn a little wetter, welcoming for coming into parts of indian wells. at that stage. westmeyer was a fossil sustain, some showers may be a shower or 2 to parts of space, but not too much to speak of,

largely dry to cause northern parts of africa parish out into central airs of africa. bill, quite of them, it has been wet about the making its way for the west. cats are airway official airline of the journey. easily thief heating up the airway. lot of can you listen? actually, kimberly here, but i really think in their own country shifting palate a case, the rise of citizen journalism has changed everything. how do happen? it happened on social media and the undeniable impact of the mainstream narrative australians went to the pole with those images front of my is a war that very much came forth out in the media as well on the battlefield. there listening page. dissect the media on al jazeera ah ah,

you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories. the sour russians are paying their respects to the last soviet union leader ahead of his burial and moscow mccalla. gorbachev will be laid to rest in the coming alice, the kremlin, says president vladimir putin will not attains russia's energy. john gaz problem says it will not resume gas delivery through the nordstrom one pipeline to germany . after a 3 day shot down, it says an oil leak was detected and repairs on needed. was showing his former president has back home less than 2 months after he flayed from unprecedented protests coded by a roger pox. it was blamed for pushing the nation towards financial disaster. his government ran out of foreign cash reserves and was unable to pay for imports, leading to widespread shortages by japan are returned early on saturday,

flying in from bank hawk mil fernandez reports from columbia. the former president is now in the official government residents allocated to him, the billing just over my shoulder on the other side of the road, there's a police checkpoint that he arrived in the country late in the hours of the 2nd of september. and many people are wondering, it happened so quickly in terms of his return as to what exactly his plans are. the public security minister to run. alice, who i spoke to says it's way too early to say what he will do or what exactly he's going to take up that that will come out in the next few days with roger boxes, obviously are not going to bow to politics. younger brother battled roger pox a has met with the party, the esl b p. are trying to take stock of what went wrong and where they go from here. but for the moment there is a heavy security presence. yes, thoroughfare is allowed. there's no barricades blocking the roads, but there is a heavy presence the military and even as you can see,

people are gods posted up on the balconies keeping a close watch on the surroundings or we heard form protesters like i said, that they're taking stock and trying to decide where they go from here, but their battle cry was gotta go home, getting the president out of his office, which they did. so it's not about, you know, his personal, a safety a, but it remains to be seen where and war to go to abby or roger parks or will do from here. the head of pakistan's largest charity is warning of the threat of famine. after monsoon rainfall destroyed crops and livestock. more than 1200 people are known to have died in the worst flooding in a decade. many are at risk of water borne diseases. the southern province of cinders pricing for even more flooding. with ellison's of pregnant women are among those displaced in the floods, and they have no access to maternal facilities. his own best ravi made some of them taking refuge in a vacant government building in the city of sacre and send province. a woman poised

to bring new life into a world stricken by calamity. families weighed down by poverty so extreme. it is a burden carried from birth. no, i don't have anything, no money nor axes to adopt nothing. i don't have any support. i could die. my baby could die. i don't have any money or a doctor. i don't have anything. nothing, no food drink, no medicine, not even a pill for the pain home either is do any time now and has been suffering for days . twin brothers are and must save. now, 10 days old came with the last wave of monsoon rains. their mother fled baluchistan province with them in her belly. but the floods followed their father is still their roads cut off and they have no way home. i don't want them in the house. i have big hopes for them in my house, but look at these kids,

what conditions they ruined sitting here hungry. no bed lying here in the heat. she needs help. she says her children need help. ah, displaced by floods and seeking shelter. survivors occupied this government apartment complex in the city of supper. in every room, a story of survival and suffering. the city doesn't want them there and turned off power and water. it is hot and miserable. some tell us it feels like a prison. instead of receiving help, they say they've been accused of occupying this place illegally and are being forced back onto the street. we've been treating the families in, there's about 5000 people living in this block of government class. we've been displaced from their homes by the flood. they come from all over same province as well as bullets on province. and they're telling us if they don't want to stay here, they want to go back home, but they don't have any homes to go back to. this is no place for children,

but more are on the way. roxanna is 9 months pregnant. soon there will be another mouth to feed. when i ask her if she is worried, she smiles little. he actually, i'm happy to be sad. he'll much. we hope conditions approved, not every days the same but her smile fades. oh, when her son asks for cold water, then basra, the older 0 sucker since the focused on hundreds of thousands of people have marched and argentina in defense of democracy. after the vice president, christina fernandez to kitchener, survived an assassination attempt. a man pointed a gun at her on thursday night, but it didn't go off. monica young, kiff reports from bonus. audi's. ah crowns marching to the beat of drums

in the center of when a site is old in young, defending argentina's democracy in condemning thursday's assassination attempt against vice president. christina fernandez, the kiersten it no doubt. gibson, when we did ave what happened on thursday was very serious. all democratic rules were broken. we cannot accept political violence. that's where there are so many people here is that there will be no. this government has been under a series of attacks from strong economic lobbies opposition parties and also the judiciary system, which is working for them because of what i mean. i am here to defend democracy and the vice president of video shows the moment the vice president was being confronted by her assailant, while reading supporters outside her home on thursday night 35 year old fit. and and on that i said, bagman kid pointed a loaded gun to her face, but apparently it was jammed and she escaped unharmed. latina bitter money shackle

. meta christina is alive because of some technical reason. we have yet to confirm . the gun with 5 bullets was not fired or although the trigger was pulled by no beef have out of you, the aggressor, a brazilian born man, living in argentina since 1993 is in prison. his house was rated and 100 bullets were found. he had already been arrested in 2001 for carrying a knife. argentine authorities are investigating the reasons behind the attempt. the president, alberto said, and then this being the hate speech in argentina, and decreed a national holiday on friday. so argentines could take to the streets and unite against violence. were leaders, condemn the attack, including right wing brazilian president, j will seattle, who is stab during his 2018 campaign and is now running for reelection. while the assassination attempt has raised all sorts of questions about the lack of security

surrounding politicians in argentina, political experts say the timing will likely benefit the vice president. the out pouring of support in sympathy has given for none. this a boost at a time when she needs it most. the former president is being accused of fraudulently awarding public works contracts while she governed argentina between 20072015. prosecutors have asked for a 12 year prison sentence in a lifetime ban from politics, but that is unlikely to happen. christina fed amended the kitchen. it is also the president of the senate and has parliamentary immunity. she could only be convicted if she loses her seat in the 2023 elections, monica, and i give al jazeera when i say this. final preparations are underway for the launch of the artemus one mission to the moon's orbit. these are life pictures of the rockets which will be refueled in

a few hours ahead of the launch later on saturday, with 1st attempt failed because of engine problems earlier this week. a lighter on saturday nurses, most powerful rocket eva is jude blast off to the moon after the 1st attempt was thwarted by engine issues. the ultimate one mission is expected to lay the groundwork for a manned mission to the moon by 2025. after that, nasa has its site set on mas. ellen fisher is near the launch site in florida, inspired by the wards of john kennedy. then the president of the united states. america started this space race the intention to put the 1st man on the moon. there were many apollo missions and finally in 1969, neil armstrong became the 1st astronaut cassette foot on the lunar surface. there were many, many more astronauts after him, all of them touching the very edges of the heavens. and now the plan is for america to go back to the moon, but not just for the moon sake itself,

this time to establish a base and had to mars and beyond. we were in the space race, we fully thought that the russians were going to go to the moon and had they gone to the main 1st, who knew what could have happened in so that with that space race ignited our passion to get till apollo. and i, but at the same time it ignited all the science that was discovered from just that that one mission, basically apollo 11, where we walked on the moon. and here is optimist, one on the launch pad, the count don't underway. the intention is it will blast off from kennedy space center here in florida on saturday afternoon. now they already had to abandon one launch. that was because they discovered a faulty gauge. they think they've sorted out the problem. so now everything is on schedule for the launch. artemus, one should take off on it's $42.00 day mission including a lunar orbit.