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hello, get adrian finnegan here in doha. this is al jazeera, also coming up a new life in a world destroyed pakistan's, devastating floods force. pregnant women and girls give birth in shelters. the big count on his began master's. most powerful walk it ever is on the launch pad for a 2nd attempt to head to the boons or bit clos, ah, tennis to serena williams loses in the 3rd round of the us open and what's expected to be, but must match if a korea russian backed officials and southern ukraine said that europe's largest nuclear power station was knocked off line by shelling on saturday. the report and electricity light inside this operational plant has been damaged. comes just after the visit of

the head of the u. n. z nuclear watchdog to the facility. this could live that a key vouchers here as gabriel elizondo is the 1st one more to we know about these reports, game of the plant being taken offline. based on our calls and reporting here over the last several hours. we just don't think those reports are incredibly, are very credible. and this is why because it came beaver, from an official in the region who was appointed by russia. and no official. russia official from russia has backed up these claims. and also we haven't heard from any of the ukrainian nuclear energy officials here as well. they simply just haven't had any sort of comment about this. and certainly if the power plant was taken offline, they probably would have commented about it also. and this is important. the i e a still has some members of their team they're,

they're going to keep 2 members of their team. they're permanently, they say, and the a has not had any comment about this either. so the big picture is, what we're getting here is again, this is what we've had in the past, and this is what we're going to have in the future claims of something that's happened. and then perhaps counterclaims as well. what's different now is the fact that we do have these independent observers there that being the i a officials and this is going to be a challenge for them. certainly moving forward in terms of how do they respond to this going forward. they're certainly in a very dangerous situation there that's without any sort of doubt because they are right in the middle on the front lines of this war zone. but now how they deal with these sort of claims of shelling and or the power plant, perhaps going offline or not offline. this is going to be key moving forward. the bottom line though is right now as of saturday anyway,

we do not have any credible reports that who has been that is offline. at this moment, i was here is gabriel alexander live in ukraine's capital case. gave many thanks, rushes energy giant gas pro says that it will not resume gas delivery through the lord's stream. one pipelines, germany, after a 3 day shut down, the company says an oil leak was detected and the repairs are needed. the european commission, so to move his under fallacious pretences and shows that russia is an unreliable supply of gas. prom says the will now ship natural gas through to europe through ukraine gas prompt decision came out of the g. 7 nations agreed to set a price cap on russian oil in an effort to hurt moscow's war efforts in ukraine. finance ministers from the world's richest economies. also hope that a cap on crude oil and petroleum products will help to reduce global energy prices . russia has responded saying that it will stop selling oil to countries that agreed to a price limit. fulton,

if i don't postulate putin is taking another step towards cutting supplies, let's it would be a violation of the contracts. every one hopes that will not happen. if it happens, it is clear that there will be consequences, but it is also clear that we've been preparing for months for this risky, so we must not underestimate it. but certainly we are not going to be intimidated will be on the mourners in russia. have been paying their respects to the last leader of the soviet union. mikhail gorbachev. ahead of his burial in moscow, president vladimir putin did not attend the funeral out seriously. a harding reports thousands have lined the streets of moscow to bid farewell to the last leader of the soviet union. mikhail gorbachev was credited with changing the course of the 20th century by india. the cold war president vladimir putin has paid his respects but is not attending the funeral. other western leaders are not attending either. the kremlin has been so far, quite respectful of,

of li issues because garbage was not received a strong need and fujen wants to and appears to be and, and, and betrays himself as a strong leader. ah, forgot to much off. gorbachev was often respected and revered. more in the west than at home in russia. renewal this, when did you just kind of in the day moon us one more that highlighted in this television advert from the 1990. i got about you all out. unfortunately, what about you did lot may garage a bottom of the west because the west didn't want that to happen. war but you certainly wanted it to happen. he went on to win a nobel peace prize after signing a disarmament treaty with us president ronald reagan, removing a host of nuclear weapons. joe biden sided this achievement in his tribute, saying the result was a safer world and greater freedom for millions of people. the treaty was the

beginning of the end of the cold war, one state after another broke away from the soviet union. and it wasn't long before the berlin wall fell, failed. who against him later came a failed qu by hardliners in moscow. the soviet union itself was dissolved, and gorbachev resigned and can yet now more than 30 years later, with russia's invasion of ukraine, comes the danger of a new cold war son on a horse london step, also should president put in russia, hundreds, president, digging new trenches in europe and has started a horrible war and ukraine. it's now we think mikhail gorbachev and realized what he did for our country and all of europe. gorbachev died at the age of 91 in moscow hospital after 2 years of serious illness. and while he was hailed as a man of peace, he is left at a time of war. leah harding al jazeera. earlier i spoke to con,

clearly the former irish times correspondence moscow. i asked him 1st about president plot to be put in his failure to attend the death of a former and a new 3rd term instead is always a dangerous times. i recall what happened in china $989.00 on the challenge square events. i was there for the lead up to about and they originated from the depths of who, who ya bung, who was the reformist leader of the communist party until he was deposed couple of years earlier when he died. that was an occasion for demonstrations the day which escalated into channels squire and i am sure the loving fortune has in mind. the dangers of people coming onto the street to commemorate a former who is somebody that russians will remembered our broken freedom, free press, freedom of information, freedom of demonstration. and i think that's why there is such a heavy security presence on the street today. why is that such a contradiction?

do you think in how his legacy is viewed between the former soviet union and the west is despised by so many people that we do this because he just socio with the hardships that accompanied the last 2 or 3 years of the soviet union was in the west the bringing the coming of gorbachev to the communist party was seen as something that was bringing russia back into the fold after the 7 decades. so we junior, when it was closed off from the west. and these know, seen someone who fits into the democratic mall, who wrote boston by jill elections, he's not seen on stark contrast to blood in her person who has mich there, about information only controlled by the kremlin. the freedom of thought is almost inconceivable. now, because of the way that the still propaganda is yours,

u. s. media are reporting that a pilots is threatening to crash his air craft into a wal mart store in the state of mississippi. there crofts been circling the town of tupelo mobile now on the pilot contacted emergency services to make the threat, which has prompted the evacuation of the store and surrounding area. at least 10 buildings have been destroyed are for petrol tanka exploded in ogen states. in southwestern nigeria report say the truck overturned after an accident. pictures of the aftermath of been posted on social media. there are no reports yet. of any deaths or injuries, millions of people have been displaced by the worst flooding in pakistan's history . among them, a thousands of pregnant women who have no access to maternal facilities, al jazeera st bas ravi has met some of them who are taking refuge in a vacant government building and the city of succour in sin 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. poison the area. i don't have anything, no money, no axis to a doctor, 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 or drink, no medicine, not even a pill for the pain. her me the is do any time now and has been suffering for days . twin brothers amar and musgrave, 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 there. roads cut off, and they have no way home. i don't want that in my head, but i have big hopes for them in my house, but look at these kids sport conditions therein. sitting here hungry, no bed lying here in the hate. 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 district. 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. 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 here. why would i be sad? she says children are a happiness, a blessing. she's optimistic, not every day will be the same and conditions will improve. but her smile fades when her son asks for cold water is in basra, the old 0 sucker since focused on still to come here on our 0. ah, how india plan is to address the problem of unfinished homes was billions of dollars. ah, ah

ha, we're now seeing some very strong winds. very wet weather, blustery down paws sweeping just to the east of taiwan as sour typhoon makes his way into the east shawnasee. so that position of the storm at the moment early may be rice slowly, big down poles, coming in across a good part of taiwan as it punches its way across to rico islands. to walls yeast, china see eastern path to try to sing some big downpours, longest spells if right notice a wet weather to, to the north of that, this is associated with the seasonal front letter by a front that's bringing some big down poles in across north gray this system sinks by the southwards, at typhoon makes, his way farther north was to, to look, set to merge as we go on through monday, going on into choose day, making its way across the far south of south korea as we go through tuesday. fall always this state, it does pick up speed though, so thankfully it shouldn't be too wet for too long, but there will be heavy down, pause, and the will be flooding across the rate is certainly something to watch out for

over the next couple of days or seen some very strong when some wet weather snow the parts of the philippines associated with that same system. more showers here as we go on through west sunday. wet weather, coming through once again. monsoon showers continue across march of indo china penny a showers elsewhere for malaysia. and indonesia, ah ah ah ah, blue

ah, hello again, this is al 0. let's remind you of the main news, the south washing backed officials and sort of ukraine so that europe's largest nuclear power station was knocked offline by shelling on saturday. it comes down to the visit of the head of the u. n's duty a watchdog rushes energy giant gas prom says that it will not resume gas delivery through the lord warm stream at the old stream. one while the pipelines, germany, after a 3 day shopped out, it says that an oil leak was detected and the repairs are needed. the company says level sent natural gas to europe through ukraine. russian has paid their respects to the lost leader of the soviet union. mikhail gorbachev was laid to rest in moscow. president vladimir putin, however,

didn't attend the service. the count down has begun. final preparations are under way for the launch of the also missed one mission, the 1st step to send humans back to the moon. these alive pictures of the nasa rocket, where the launch director has given the go ahead to re fuel a vehicle before launch later on saturday. the 1st attempt failed because of engine problems. earlier this week, the out of his program was announced by nasa in 2017. it'll be powered by the massive space launch system or f l. s. at 98 meters tall. it is the most powerful rock it have a built. the ryan cap, she'll sits on top of the s ls and will eventually take astrid old, steep into space for this flight bow. a crash test dummy will be on board. but in future missions, the capture will take for astronauts till the bell include the 1st woman and the 1st person of color to walk on its surface. let's go live out of the kennedy space

center in florida. i was here with alan fisher. is that for a so ellen, 3 and a half hours to launch the excitement builds again. exactly glorious morning here on florida space coast as well. you can see behind me people have been gathering since before dawn, hoping that they will get a view of the rocket as it launches the 1st space mission. really since 1972. there is a problem though. we know there was a problem on monday when they tried to launch, they thought then that there was a problem with the fueling and it turned out to be a gauge this time. it's another issue with fueling to get the rocket off the ground . you've got to mix liquid oxygen and mix with hydrogen. that is a slight problem with the feed to the hydrogen tank. and so they are working through the process of trying to sort that at the moment, but for the time being they're still hoping that that to a window that they have for the launch between 2 and 4 this afternoon. so in about

4 hours time, it will still go ahead, but clearly there is a concern if there was for any issue a postponement today they would try again on monday if it was a much bigger problem that involve the rocket being wheeled but essentially into the workshop then you'd be looking at a launch sometime in mid september, but clearly they're hoping that with the weather today, there is going to be a window there for 2 hours. they will be able to get the mas rocket up and into space. what's the atmosphere like the in southern florida? people come to to wash the law says you say the rub reminiscent of the apollo program of the late seventy's early seventy's, isn't it? well people go excited. of course, when the, the challenges wind up and columbia went up, the space shuttles took to the sky. people were excited to see them, but really interest kinda window. but now people are excited because this is

a trip potentially to the moon. no optimist, one won't go to the moon. it will go into an orbit around the moon. when you talk about the crash test dummies that are on board, when you think of tv and was plastic dummies in the car, through that, these are much more high tech, much more sophisticated. and they'll be a lot more scientific readings that they'll be able to judge to exactly the impact on the human body in particular, on the female body. because of course, we're hoping to send a women up in october and onto the moon in the 3rd mission. but people here are excited, all the roads are incredibly busy, the hotel, their own tier, people are setting up positions on the balconies. and it's just difficult to get into this part of southern florida today. so remember, optimists will launch. it will not go to space, but it will go into a lunar or but optimist to what should follow in 2024. it will be

a mission with people on board, but again, it will not land on the moon. an optimist 3 is the one that should go to the lunar surface and will act as a base to go further into space, including possibly a mission to mars itself and a couple of people on social media asking me why is it cold optimist. it's because apollo had a twin sister, a twin says his twin sister was called optimist. and so that is why it is called optimist. that of course, that is, that is the name of the mission and activists. one we hope will take off in just a few hours time. our service alan fisher reporting live from southern florida. many thanks and date island leah enterprise is a space journalist. he says that regarding the future missions that alan was talking about, it's unlikely that nasa will hit it's publicly stated targets. to be honest, privately they themselves admit that it's

a stretch to get women and men on to the surface of the moon. if so quickly, i think more likely 2028 for a landing. there will be a woman on board. there will probably be at man on board a man on board as well, but it could of course be to women and there will also be a person of color. but yes, they are trying to do this, but it's a big ask. and as we see again today with allen reporting problems, again with liquid hydrogen, fueling, this is ground all day because this is exactly the problem they've had. every time they brought this rocket out to the launch pad and it's fingers crossed, because right now they just started again, refueling, liquid hydrogen. let's see this time if they can get through it without another leak. a great many people see the moon as

a stepping stone to mars. as the human expansion out into the solar system is seen by philosophers as inevitable. or even at papers published, suggesting that humanity at this rate could populate the entire galaxy within 5000000 years. the blink of an eye in geological turns. so there are those who argue it's human destiny. others are more to do with the money. a can we use the resources on the moon and to replenish resources that we are completing very rapidly here on earth? alaska has a to our launch window of the weather, plays a huge role in its chances of success. al jazeera meteorologist, as an folks, if the conditions look favourable for the launch. you can see from the pictures behind me here that there are some lumpy clouds around cumulus clouds. so you may

see a shower or 2 particularly early on monitor their shows could be on the sharp side possibilities in funder as well. so it's yes and no, but i think as we go towards that launch window, it'll improve, you can see all that thick cloud there across southern parts of the u. s. fast where the live the uh, weather is in place. still a few showers just found that eastern side of florida at the moment, but the more active weather should stay to the north of that so should not cause any problems resume in a little closer. you can see whether there has been a fair but a cloud just around the pan handle, just making its way towards cape canaveral. take closer look still and you can see that we, we have got a gentle easterly breeze just feeding in towards cape canaveral or take, take an apple off the chart here so you can actually see what the weather's doing. we've got some showers around very close to the launch site, but they should diminish as we go on through the day. so as we head towards the afternoon, it should brighten up just a gentle breeze, but looking good for the next few hours. everson,

now hundreds of thousands of home buyers in india have been waiting for years to move into their apartments. their allegations of corruption and some property developers have filed for bankruptcy. al 0 as part of the mit talismans, annoyed up in 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 very important because this shows that got option should be it ordained that miss building was the living example of corruption. so it had to go engineer say it will 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 of a 1000000, incomplete homes. what more than $20000000000.00 in and around new delhi, most of them are in the suburb, no ada. this development was planned for more than 60000 residents. the video, the book ashy shoop, 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 onto my exiting and go whatever loans i have taken for my house. and all so i can set them all 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 they industry is actually habituated to functioning in a certain way in which they can ignore almost everything or there can circumvent

almost heavy. no, it's not the death of law that are enough rules. simulations. c 7 the developer has refunded most bias. it says it has lost more than $60000000.00 and has filed for bankruptcy. many hope this case would deter developers and authorities from breaking the law bathroom at the al jazeera no, ida india. serena williams says that she wants to be remembered as a fighter. after ending her 27 year tennis career at the us open, the stall was knocked out in the 3rd round in new york. she was hoping for a 24th grand slam title. she bit an emotional farewell to the us open and what looks like to be a final singles match in a long and decorated career for a small reports have to more than a 1000 single matches during a career spanning close to 3 decades. serena williams is hanging up her racket her defeat in the 3rd round at the us open to islet homeland,

which brings to an end 27 years on quartz i. oh my god. oh, what it all started with and they deserve everything. so i'm really mind. he'll admit the tears she left the door slightly open for a potential return for any chance or reconsider. i don't think so, but you never know. i watching fans in new york, we're also unwilling to accept this really. what's the and i see that the height of her career and she you know, add more to years old. you know. so one of the world's greatest matthews with her

dad. i wasn't really are the told me and i'm, i'm venus, i'm, serena, serena and her sister venus trans santana's. their life story was turned into a movie. former 1st lady, michelle obama is among those who have tweeted her. congratulations, basketball star, le bron change. you're a go, i mean what, you go for the sport of tennis which you've done for women, and would you go for just the category of sport, piri? mom is unprecedented. serina is 40 now but one. her 1st major at the age of 17, was open in 1999. she went on to win $23.00 grand slams in total, a record in the open era, along with 4 olympic gold medals. or when she in venus arrived, they actually changed the way the game was played. anne who play the game today.

you had coco golf, playing madison keys to black women and race was not the big deal. it was that it was 2 americans, and one of them was going home. it wasn't the hollywood ending. many had hoped for serena leaves with her head held high a player and a personality. her sport will miss like no other. far as smile al jazeera, a says check him once again with the situation in southern florida, 3 hours, 17 minutes now, to launch final preparations on the way for the launch of, for the art of us, one mission to moon, all bits. the 1st step to sending humans back to the moon. ah, it is good to have you with a fellow adrian finnegan, hearing though how the headlines.