for safe that mm hm. and then international anti corruption, excellence award boat. now for your hero, ah, the funeral of the last soviet leader is to take place in moscow. the president fled amir putin will not attend. ah,

until mccrae, this is al jazeera alive from doha, also coming up. hundreds of thousands rarely in argentina in support of democracy. after an assassination attempt against the vice president. ness is most powerful rocket. eva is on the launch pad for its 2nd attempt to hit to the men's office plus ah, 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 paying tribute to the soviet union's last later ahead of its ahead of his burial and moscow mechanical which off will be laid to rest in the coming hours.

the kremlin says president vladimir putin will not attend. and your summons looks back on the life of the last soviet later i can read that 54 years old mikhail gorbachev became the youngest leave, rue, the soviet union. and he was to be the last few would doubt that he changed the course of 20th century history, although he is revered and respected more in the west than in modern russia. one of his biggest achievements was signing a disarmament treaty with you as president ronald reagan, but took out a whole class of nuclear weapons. it earned him a nobel peace prize. joe biden cited this achievement in his tribute describing gorbachev as a man of remarkable vision. he said the result was a safer world and greater freedom from millions of people. 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 guitar less 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 van de lion said gorbachev played a crucial role to end the cold war and bring down the iron curtain. it opened the way for a free europe. many rushing to see him as the man who stood by, as the soviet union disintegrated. his legacy is dead. he allowed, or the peaceful collapse of the soviet union. it did not use massive force to keep eastern europe ah, in the empire. and with that, he deserves credit, but it is not that this was sung came and tried to undermine the system. he tried to reform. gorbachev, used perestroika or restructuring to reform, a stagnant economy that had seen people shorter food and consumer goods. and he

used glass 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 on a horse london, devil to ship president put in russia. and it's president of digging new trenches in europe and has started a horrible war in ukraine. it's now we think and mikhail gorbachev and realized what he did for our country and all of your vision. gorbachev held as a man of peace has died. it's only when his country is every engaged in war and ru

simmons. how joseph? earlier i spoke to nina crush over the grand daughter of the soviet leader, nikita khrushchev. i started by asking her what she thought of the kremlin reaction to mikhail gorbachev. death. the way gorbachev is being perceived as that because of him, ah, because of his appeasement to the west because of his friendships. because he tried to make russia a global country or part of the global community. the west actually undermine the soviet union. been the soviet union collapsed and so we were respected. we as the soviets or the russians, and now we are not. so it's a very conflicting a conflicted legacy here. and i think the kremlin has been so far, quite respectful of, of li issues because garbage was not received a strong leader and fujen wants to and appears to be and, and,

and betrays himself as a strong leader. how significant do you think it is that he's not being buried like how many of the soviet leaders within the kremlin walls? what can be written to that we have garbage, of course, would be buried at the never david. she's cemetery because he has not been president of a country that has not existed for 31 years. and i also think that it's wonderful for us, for those who are going to attend the funeral, that that to put in is not going to be there because otherwise it would be all blocked. probably would be 5 minutes for normal people to get there. and so in some ways, i am quite pleased the way the kremlin has handled it. and also of course, this time for those of us critical of the war, critical of the kremlin. that's it all. so at quite momentous, momentous stuff. i am because gorbachev opened the world, he gave peace, he was at noble piece price. and now all of this sort of basically his staff is the

last nail into the coffin where we, the russians of the system buried those promises of freedom and glass missed and perestroika. hundreds of thousands of people have marched and argentina in defense of democracy. after the vice president, christina fernandez to kirschner survived an assassination attempt. a man pointed a gun at her on thursday night. but it didn't go off, monica young. yon accused reports from bonus, otter'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 said none this the kiersten it no, no, it isn't. when wait 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 on 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, but also video shows the moment the vice president was being confronted by her assailant while getting supporters outside her home on thursday night 35 year old fit and, and one that has survived one kid pointed a loaded gun to her face, but apparently it was jammed and she escaped unharmed. can you give me a bit of money? she call me there. 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 condemned the attack, including right wing brazilian president, j will sonata, who was stabbed 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 boring of support in sympathy has given for none. this a boost at a time when she needs that 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 a site is chilling. his former president has back home less than 2 months after he fled from unprecedented protests could by a roger pox have returned early on saturday from bangkok and was greeted by ministers and politicians on his arrival. he is blamed for pushing the nation towards financial disaster for japan as government ran out of foreign cash reserves and was unable to pay for imports, leading to wide spread shortages. g 7 nations have agreed to set a price cap on russian oil. and if it to weaken moscow's ability to fund it's for

ukraine, finance ministers from the world's richest democracies also hope a cap on crude oil and petroleum products will help reduce the global energy prices . with russia has responded saying it will stop selling oil to countries that agree to a price limits. lighter rushes gas prom announced it will not resume guest delivery through the non stream one pipeline to germany. after a 3 day shot down, the company says an oil leak was detected and repairs unneeded, but the european commission says the move is under fallacious pretenses and shows russia is an unreliable supplier. the u. s. state department has approved a potential arm sale to tie one with $1100000000.00. the package includes empty ship missiles and radar systems. tension has been high since u. s. house beacon and c pelosi visited the island last month, prompting china to conduct military drills around taiwan. china claims the island

as part of its territory. the u. s. steel will still have to be approved by congress. metric fog has more from beijing. while the ones have come as much as of rise, that beijing reacted angry to this development. so the chinese embassy in washington said that it would severely harm china. u. s. relations and peace and stability in the taiwan straits and said that it would take legitimate and necessary counter measures. the u. s. stance on taiwan is meant to be one of the strategic ambiguity, but this will have sent a very clear signal once again to beijing that washington is prepared to back the island. and the timing is significant. despite the fact, the present biden said that the package had been under consideration for some time with it being announced. so close to this period of height intentions in the wake of nancy pelosi, his visit. it does demonstrate to china that so the u. s. won't be cowed by it's acts of military aggression or attempts to change the status quo. it is worth

noting that since august 3rd, they've been an average of 10 chinese military aircraft crossing the median line every single day. and unless say that this is an attempt to shrink the buffer zone as part of its cognitive warfare, but also to give, tie one less time to react in the events of a chinese attack. but all of this really goes to say that the stakes are getting increasingly higher. the still ahead on al jazeera ah, how india plans to address the problem of unfinished homes with billions of dollars and chilly will soon vote on a draft constitution described by many as a model for the future. we'll take a look at who endorses it, and who doesn't? ah,

hal, i was see that good splash of rain coming in across northern parts of the philippines . this is the, the monsoon showers are driving their way through here. all linked with our typhoon, which is making its way. furthermore, pulling away from the philippines just to the east of taiwan civic bay, had 70 millimeters afraid in 24 as the next 24 hours or say could bring further outbreaks of heavy rain across at western side of a loose on to plenty of showers around here, showers, continuing across a good part of indo china thailand, seeing some heavy showers, cambodia, southern areas of vietnam. more of the same as we go on into monday. noticed by monday, some pretty wet weather, also affecting a good part of indonesia. so we will see some wet weather sliding in here. one or 2 showers little further south. still some cherry rain coming across parts of australia to the east. and also to the west of australia we have a little weather system here which will greatly weakened us. it bumps into this

large area of high pressure that we do have just around the bite there. this area of low pressure looks quite a significant feature. thankfully it is pulling away. so wet weather, just making its way away from that eastern side of australia, but still some showers there, but the next couple of days. wet and cool weather, making its way for the sealant. ah phone counting the calls back as don is suffering from destructive floods. what will it cost be already struggling economy they all take wage. it is rich in natural with that. how was global warming impacting economic potential innovation hub openings in cap housing, the cost on al jazeera mm. holding the powerful to account. as we examined the u. s. is role in the world on al jazeera. oh

ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder about top stories. the solid russians of paying their respects to the last soviet union leader ahead of his burial and moscow without gorbachev will be led to rest. in the coming hours, the kremlin says president vladimir putin will not attend. russia's energy, john guess problem, says it will not resume gas delivery through the north stream, one pipeline to germany. after a 3 day shot down, it says an oil leak was detected and repairs unneeded. hundreds of thousands have launched in argentina in defense of democracy. they took to the streets die off to the vice president, christina fernandez. the coachman survived an assassination attempts the

head of pakistan's largest charity is warning of the threat of famine after the recent monsoon, brains destroyed crops and livestock. more than 1200 people are known to have died in the worst flapping and decades. many are at risk of water born diseases. the southern province of sins is bracing for even more flooding. among those displaced in the floods of thousands of pregnant women with no access to maternal facilities . zane beth raphi has mit some of them taking to taking refuge in a vacant government building in the city of soccer 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 anytime now and has been suffering for days. twin brothers are and must have. 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'm on them in the house. i have big hopes for them in my heart, but look at these kids, what conditions they ruined. sitting here hungry. no bed lying here in the heat. oh, she needs help. she says her children need help me displaced by floods and seeking shelter. survivors occupied this government apartment complex in the city of succor . 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 speaking to 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 the province as well as bullets son 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 never here. i'm happy to be sad. we hope conditions approve not every days the same. but her smile fades.

when her son asks for cold water, then basra of the old 0 sucker sin focused on final preparations underway for the launch of the optimist one mission to the moon's orbit. well, these live pictures of the rocket, which will be refilled in a few hours ahead of the launch later on saturday. the 1st attempt failed because of engine problems earlier this week. ellen fisher is near the launch site in florida. inspired by the words 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 it 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 our to miss 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 that launch. artemus one should take off on its $42.00 day mission,

including a lunar orbit. and there will be numerous tests as well to see if this really will take people back to the moon. for the 1st time in more than 50 years. hundreds of thousands of home buyers and india have been waiting for years to move into their apartments. the suburbs of new delhi have a huge concentration of unfinished residential towers. there are allegations of corruption and some property developers have filed for bankruptcy. of natal has been to northern and northern india to find out why ah, reduced to rubble in just 12 seconds. the culmination of a long legal battle to have these apartment blocks declared illegal in just supreme court ordered the demolition. it also found that authorities colluded with the developer, but i feel like this is the way it was really important because this sure that got option should be it ordained that miss building was the living example of corruption. so it had to go engineers say it'll take 3 months to clear the

$80000.00 tons of debris. the court has ordered the developer to refund the owners with interest. this case has put the spotlight on hundreds of thousands of bias caught up in long legal battles. one property consultant estimates that are about a quarter 1000000, incomplete homes. what more than $20000000000.00 in and around new delhi? most of them are in the suburb. no doubt this development was planned for more than 60000 residents. the video, the book ash group that invested in a property for his retirement, it he has on construction has barely begun. so i bought this property in 2014 thinking that i will get the position by 1617 to the max, and this will add on to my existing income. so and this will add on to my exiting and go whatever launch i have begun for my house and all so i can set them off the

government pass laws to protect buyers in 2016. but enforcement remains a week before that there was pretty little regulation on the way they functioned. so the industry is actually habituated to functioning in a certain way in which they can ignore almost everything or they're can circumvent almost every long. it's not the death of law that are enough. all civilizations the developer has refunded most bias. it says it has lost more than $60000000.00 and has filed for bankruptcy. many hope this case will deter developers and authorities from breaking the law bathroom at that al jazeera nada. india really has a constitutional process in a south american country, captured so much international attention as chillies, new draft constitution. the proposed document will be put to a vote on sunday, and many are describing it as a model for the future. good and chilly itself. recent poll suggests that could be

rejected and sundays referendum from santiago. our latin america is a service. see a newman reports. it's not unusual for hollywood actors like mark ruffalo to weigh in on domestic politics. but why does the star of the hug kara chile specifically cindy's referendum on whether or not to approve an ambitious new constitution. earlier this week, ruffalo tweeted that the proposal represent hope for the world and one that has more equality and humanity and thoughtfulness. and so i know a lot of great people worked on this and the world's looking towards you as a model to address the change of climate and the need for great democracy. so lots of love and we are watching closely, not just actors,

but in hundreds of intellectuals, scientists, environmentalists and human rights activists. economists and feminist from every continent have endorsed chiles, draft constitution, which they describe as cutting edge. one of them is professor rich brandt. the constitution opens a space to rethink how the economic model, the social model and the role of indigenous peoples, the role of women, et cetera, et cetera. and should be in a society of the 21st century. the constitution would be the 1st to specifically acknowledge climate change and environmental protection and guaranteed gender parity. it also introduces structural political and social reforms, such as guaranteed health, education, and pensions, as well as broad recognition of indigenous rights. while many international observers may always have jillions,

like the land to vote against the new constitution, there are many reasons from this information about what it really says is that it is too radical vague, and that it will not guarantee civility in this country. sebastian, edward says, the devil is in the details and it's a very, i'm even never tribe in the world political system, which will create a lot of instability and uncertainty. and if there is a 3rd of there is no investment. the constitution has put raj chile even as the majority of greek, the socially unequal country needs change. how much change, though, seems to be the issue. you see a newman al jazeera santiago, serena williams has said she wants to be remembered as a fighter after bringing the curtain down on 27 year tennis korea at the u. s. hyphen she was knocked out on the 3rd round by the younger anatomy and of it's

during her career williams. 123 grand slam titles, a record in the open era. back to her met, she bit an emotional farewell to the crowds in new york but did leave the door open for a potential return. i wouldn't be, i wouldn't be serena, there was a demon who's with my life and i'm just so grateful to every single person that's ever so serene in life. i'm just so grateful. i mean there any chance to reconsider? i don't think so,

but you never know. i don't know. but as rob reynolds report, serena williams is not about to fight away. just a note. 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. my. i grew up watching her. i mean, vassar reason why play tennis and you know, tennis being but predominantly white sport, it definitely helped a lot because i saw somebody look like me. in her decades in the spotlight williams became much more than an athlete. she was and is a cultural phenomenon. she 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 self l i 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 produced, a biographical series about her and her sister. she did not want to be defined sold by her tennis brand, so she reached out and, and placed herself in fashion and clothing lives. 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.