price is high on the agenda. up front, returns mclamore hill, talk through the headline, challenge the conventional wisdom. italy looks the right wing party fortelli italia, is ahead in the polls. could a decisive victory overcome the gridlock faced by recent government. the listening post examines and dissects the world's media, how they operate, and the stories they cover with rising prices, causing hardship and discontent across the globe. we were caught on the human cost attempt a tackling the crisis september on al jazeera. ah, the ones new k, a watched oak says ukraine's apparition, a power plant has been cut off from its main power line off to sustained shelling. ah,

no, i, mary, i'm nazena you with al jazeera, also coming up on the program. ah, russians of all ages bid farewell to the last soviet leader mikhail gorbachev, but president putin stays away. the death toll from floods in pakistan has risen to a $1265.00, at least a 3rd of the victims, a children. and a few lead forces nasa to counsel the launch of it's our to miss moon mission 1st. second time. a 3rd attempt could happen later. ah, well, i come to the program and we've been following developments in ukraine. very closely . tensions are still high around those up for asia nuclear power plant. the

international atomic energy agency says the rushing control facility is again lost connection to the last remaining main external power line. a mid ongoing shelling, but it continues to supply electricity to ukraine's national grid through a reserve line. the 3 other power lines were lost earlier in the conflict. on saturday, motion backed officials at the plant was knocked offline by shelling on thursday the head of the ones. tommy watched. other of attacking the plant and risking nuclear catastrophe. al jazeera is gabriel. alexander has more from keith. well, the security and the safety situation are very both very tenuous down in the separation nuclear power plant at this very hour, precisely because there was this main power source on the plan, the last remaining permanent power source there. as you mentioned, the 3 others had already been knocked out during the war. this one went down. that's the bad news. the somewhat good news is that there's backup power system was

able to kick in. and that is what is providing power to the nuclear facility at this hour. but that is not the ideal situation. this is essentially running on backup generators, if you will, to put it in sort of simple terms and you never want to be doing that at a nuclear power plant such as this, especially one is large as this is the largest in europe and provides over half the energy to all of ukraine. so this happened now also at a very critical juncture, was just about 48 hours ago that raphael grossi the director general of the international atomic energy agency, visited the power plant. he's left in a reporter in speaking to the media 24 hours ago so that he was very concerned about the situation. and there are still several i. e, a staff members professionals that are there at the plant and they are the ones

that reported the current situation. so they're monitoring it very closely with their ukrainian colleagues. but let's also remember that this plant is controlled by the russian military right now. when all the developments russia stay energy company, gas, promising siemens energy is ready to carry out repairs on all $31.00 gas pipelines . germany is now available to carry out work gas from now on friday that it will not resume gas delivery through the pipeline. after a 3 day shut down, saying an oil leak was detected and repairs have to be carried out. but you are being commission says the move is under fallacious pretenses chose moscow is an unreliable supplier, simenon, hershey and eliza. she knew she was in recent days, russia is trying to put even more energy prussia in europe. progress, coldstream gas pipeline has been completely stalled. why they doing this. russia wants to destroy the normal life of every european waiter in all countries of our

continent. and it aims to reclaim and intimidate all of europe, every state where russia cannot achieve this by force of arms, or it seeks to do this by force through energy weapon, which is trying to hit europe with poverty and political curls. where okay, not that rocky did you, she was did this ritual now william hero. and in order to protect ourselves from this, all of us in europe, not even more unicorn, even more coordination, even more mutual amenities or 70000 people have been protesting in prague, demanding that the chat government resign. they accused of pay more attention to ukraine into its own citizens, demonstrators, voiced opposition to nato, and the european union, condemning that government support of sanctions against russia. protest is also called faction to tackle soaring energy prices. a prime minister peter fiala said that at those protesting were pro russian and against the interests of the czech republic, the loss leader of the soviet union mikhail gorbachev has been lay to rest at

moscow cemetery next, his wife, reisa thousands of russians. young and old filed passed his open casket to pay their respects the head of the burial, hungary prime minister victor old man was the only foreign leader to attend the funeral, which was snubbed by russia's president. but same opinion said he was too busy to attend. a haunting 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 indian, the cold war thurston control room. i think this man deserved a people's farewell ceremony. he's a historic person no matter what some people feel about him. he did a lot and i think he did more good. you some think that he did more bat july of that thought in last year he was the man who started democratization in our country, opened it up for the world. i came here to express my gratitude to him for that. so

he started the economic reforms. 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 issue is because garbage. it was not received it strongly to inclusion, wants to and appears to be and, and, and betrays himself as a strong leader. ah, forgot about your gorbachev. was often respected and revered. more in the west than at home in russia. eliza knew all this. when did you just gonna be in the bay warner more that highlighted in this television advert from the 1990? i don't about charlotte. unfortunately. what about you did not make russia about the west because the west didn't want that to happen. war, but you're 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. 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. 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. 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 ah

the death toll from pakistan's catastrophic floods continues to rise. another 57 deaths have been confirmed. 25 of them children focused on his grappling with an unprecedented relief and rescue operation with all then a 3rd of the country under water. and 33000000 people affected, at least a 1265 people have been confirmed dead after weeks of record monsoon reins and melting glasses in northern mountains. more than $440.00 of the dead children i level body set up to coordinate. the relief effort is met for the 1st time chaired by prime minister shabani sharif. aid has been flowing in from a number of different countries, but the head of park is dan's largest charity says millions of people have yet to be waged. and there are now warnings of famine because of crops and live stalks that have been destroyed, or millions of people have just been displaced by these floods. among them, thousands of pregnant women with no access to maternal facilities. same was ravi

met some who were taking refuge in an empty government building in the city of soccer. in sind 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 . the twin brothers are and must say. 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 a lot,

but i have big hopes for them in my house. but look at these kids, what conditions therein sitting here hungry, no bed lying here in the hate. oh, 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 end are being forced back onto the strict we've been speaking to the families about 5000 people. living in this block of government plan has been displaced from their homes by the flood. they come from all over the province as well as bullets. 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 here alone. 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. oh, when her son asks for cold water is in basra, the older 0 sucker sin to pakistan. still a had for you on the program. ah, why this plays fox alarm and the evacuation of a wal mart store in mississippi and syria williams is

knocked down to the us open and what to expect to be the last match. if had 27 year tennis, ah they're great to see a red off the bat. here's an update on our typhoon as it starts to nudge further toward the north. the outer band still lashing taiwan was some pretty intense falls of rain. it's a forecast on sunday. let's see where it goes on monday, still further toward the north. now eastern portions of china. we do have some weather alerts in play here for some heavy rain. but again, you'll see the bulk of that activity out over the east. china's seat. now again, let's look around the korean peninsula in japan. so ahead of this already, we're getting some torrential downpours. that's on sunday. and we'll start to see this incoming typhoon looking like it's going to make a potential landfall for south korea to stay. and to when stay here and just look

at this, the dark of the color, the more intense the rain is falling down under. we did have some moisture latent systems across both coast. the worst of it really falling toward the northeast of perth and northern areas of sydney. but by and large on sunday, most of the action out over the open water here is a closer look at still just a few showers across the coast of new south wales and for southern areas of queensland, out of rain across new zealand. so quickly here, sunday, but watch all this wet weather moving in to the northland region and the escape. it's going to be a washout there. that sure weather ah oh, the land of the free americans never been a during the marble sheet. the black people with no reach for democracy may be excludes divisions and struggles and america's electoral system. a fight for and

against equal representation. and the democratic process is the country that's learning how to be a democracy, but it's not there yet. one person, one vote on al jazeera lou. ah, welcome back and look at the main stories of following. now, the international atomic energy agency says the russian control facility of is operator, is the cannibals connection to the last remaining main external power line. a made ongoing shelly, but tick continues to supply electricity to ukraine's national grid through a reserved line. mikhail gorbachev,

the loss leader of the soviet union has been laid to rest to moscow cemetery next to his wife. thousands of russians fall passed his open casket to pay their respects out of his burial, but president houston said he was too busy to attend. and the death toll and pakistan's floods has risen to a $1265.00. around a 3rd of the victims, a children, the head of the country's largest charity says millions of people have yet to be reached. now nasa ruled out another launch attempt in the coming days for its automate one moon mission space. agency had to postpone the launch of its giant rocker earlier after a few leak. it was the 2nd time in a week. a technical issue has derailed. last off, nasa says leak is too complex to fix the matter of days and a 3rd of time will be delayed until at least late september launch period. 25 is definitely off the table. we won't be launching this period ends on tuesday. we will not be in launching in this launch period launch period 26 and 27

will really depend on the options that the team comes back with likely on monday or early tuesday morning. so our confidence comes through what we're going to learn in this. when we're ready to go back out there, we'll go back out there and try for another launch. alan fish has more now on the days events in cape canaveral. this is miss launch control at a t minus for hours and 45 minutes in counting, the rocket was primed, the cone don't underweight, but his feeling of the giant rockets began. it became clear that in that famous phrase, we have a problem. the last name has recommendation of no go for launch to the nasa test rector and launch wrecker a leak on the link pumping liquid hydrogen into the tanks was found engineers ran through the plans to fix it was rector charlie blackwell, thompson just called a scrub. but in the end had to admit defeat the launch scrub for saturday. we'll go

when it's ready. we don't go until then and especially now on a test slide, because we're going to stress this and test it. and test that heat shield and make sure it's right before we put 4 humans up on the top of it. it's the 2nd time in a week the much to eat. optimist project had to be stopped short of launch. on monday, it was an issue traced back to a faulty gauge. i can tell you when you strap into that rocket, you are very grateful that you've got a large team like this that knows what they're doing and they're not going to let you go until it's gathered in the parks and on beaches across florida. space coast, hoping to see a lunar launch, only to leave disappointed my brought friends with us and foreign mercer and our friend son's birthday. hovering the big candle to go off,

but it didn't in last year. ever seen a rocket go up. there's nothing like a heart pounding, i mean, shake your whole body and it's just something to say our committee has been plagued with delays with overruns them with a soaring budget. but nasa believes that even a short delay is worth it for a mission that will stretch over years and stretch the frontiers of space. allan fisher, i'll gita cape canaveral. florida. amy sampson is a florida base space in science, john les, who writes for space dot com. she joins this via skype from orlando. and to amy the last time we spoke, but we were expecting that we'd be on the moon by now, i guess this shows what can go wrong and what a complex operation that says yes, it does. so at the i'm connection involved in this league was actually part of the previous league only. nasa engineers thought that they could repair it and,

and today the leak was actually a little bit greater than it was on monday. so they're definitely going to have to go back to the drawing board and probably take the rocket back to the vehicle assembly building before they can try again. how disappointing is this? because there was so much excitement and anticipation in the head of the 1st launch to the lunar surface and half a century. obviously this is now the, the 3rd, the 2nd time it's not happened. oh, there's definite disappointment. i'm here locally. it was estimated that there were, i think, 400000 people coming to the area to watch this launch. so the public is very excited about it. they just sort of need to hang in there and wait a little bit more to see that next launch to the moon. when is it likely to happen? again, this is took, gave out to late september, possibly october. does that indicate how, how serious and challenging this?

this problem is? yes. so it is definitely going to take a couple of weeks and i know that they have a few different options as far as what to do. they can try to troubleshoot it at the launch pad, but it's summer time here in florida, and they have to make sure you know that the, all the pieces of the rocket are protected against the rain. and when you're at the cape, you also have to deal with, you know, seabreeze and possible salts and all of those good things. so the other option is to roll it back to the assembly building. and i'm assuming that if they do that, it's probably going to be more like october than september. how just put it into perspective for us. how serious is a persistent hydrogen league? they've already made several attempts to try and fix it and they haven't managed. yes it's, it's pretty serious. um you don't want hydrogen to be to be leaking on the launch pad when you're about to lighter rocket. that's for sure. i'm so yeah,

it's going to take a bit more work than what they were expecting. so that's a little bit of a disappointment. very difficult to answer this, but what do you think? i mean, if they say possibly september october, but, you know, could it be delayed until the end of the year, end of this year, possibly next year? i mean, anything's possible, i would think that october is probably the more likely timeline than september, but we'll see, we'll see how it goes. i think nasa is expecting to have a little bit more information as they go through the data that was collected from the launch today and the rocket and have a, a better idea probably monday or tuesday on when they can launch. remind us why this mission is so important. yes. so in, during the apollo era, you know, we put boots on the moon, we put flags on the moon, and now nasa wants to go and do science and do some really important, you know,

work that could benefit us here on earth. and it's also a stepping stone to mars, you know, so that's one of the masses, big goals. and as we push further out into the solar system, we have to have the technologies, you know, to support that to support astronauts on the lunar surface on the martian. surface and so this flight is the 1st real test flight of the hardware. that is the only hardware we have right now capable of sending people to the moon. so it's, it's an important test. thank you very much from orlando florida. amy lynn thompson, appreciate it. thank you. now, a pilot who threatened to crash his ashcroft into a wal mart store in the usa, mississippi has landed in a field. a small plain suckled above the town of tupelo for several hours. pilot contacted emergency services to make the threat, which prompted the evacuation of the store and the surrounding area, but least the plane was stolen and the pilot did not have a license. the man is in custody and is facing grand lawson in terrorist threat

charges. no one was injured in the incident. protest is in should i am cro quoting for accountability off to for present got borrowed to pox. a returned to the country fried unprecedented demonstrations in july after the country spiral and his worst economic crisis and independence. japan was taken to a government bungalow under heavy security. after landing around midnight on friday . michelle fernandez has more from colombo. he sled as president of sri lanka, but returned on friday with no where to go got of a raj. bazzi flew back nearly 2 months after he fled. angry protested, who blamed him for pushing the country towards economic collapse. he resigned while he was abroad. dozens of m. p 's from his governing s a. p. p party were at the airport to welcome him. those involved in the protest that led to raj boxes exit like manual a summer. second, a say he has the right as a citizen to return,

but we strongly believe that he, he is responsible for the crime crime lot of times as well as are regarding putting up this country to the situation that we are in right now. so 1st here, there has to be a fast track our investigation into other issues that he has created. and he has to come out to the legal system. it, he has to face the legal system. the former president has moved into this government residence. senior security sources have told al jazeera, his wish to move back to his private residence in columbus above was denied because of security concerns. oh, goodness. in the game, the, to the, to the movement. whole, the good a new campaign, 2 years into his term protest is blamed him and his government for mismanagement bad decisions and corruption that draw for lanka to its worst economic crisis in

memory. it's incumbent therefore, upon the government to ensure that there is accountability in place with regard to growth arbitrage boxer. and apart from that, he can live a normal life, i presume. although of course, you know, can he get about, can he be seen around in public is a question that he left the chart from japan? loyalist see, it's too early to indicate what the former president will do now that he's back in the country. after nearly 2 months of trying to find a place to settle. the former president seems to have run out of options. having swept to power with unprecedented popularity, gotta be a roger boxes found out the hard way. that being a wartime leader doesn't always guarantee success in p same minor, fernandez al jazeera, colombo. now serena williams to set that threshold to be remembered as a fighter. after bringing the cut down on a 27 year career at the us open,

the tennis icon was knocked out in the 3rd round, the new york ending hopes for 24th grand slam title. or a smile has more. after more than a 1000 single matches during a career spending close to 3 decades, serena williams is hanging up her rack her defeat in the 3rd round at the us open to ayla tom, lana bitch breeze to an end 27 years on courts. i saw so many years. my daughter lou douglas, ah, but it was my and they deserve everything. so i'm really worried still in mid 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 watching fans in new york. we're also unwilling to accept this. really watch the at i q that the height of her career, you know, at 40 years old. so one of the world's greatest fab, please would say we thought of her then an era a to tell me your name again. 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 along with basketball star lebron james. you're a girl, a me which you go for the sport of tennis, which you've del for women. and what you down for is 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 when $23.00 grand slams in total, a record in the open era, along with 4 olympic gold medals. when she and venus arrived, they actually changed the way the game was played. anne who play the game today. you had coco gall 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 for is smile al jazeera and was energy prices spike across europe and outdoor syndrome are in poland, has turned to pedal power for electricity. it's an eco friendly initiative. it's

using bicycles plugged into generators to power the fill. it allows people to exercise was providing over 50 percent of the electricity required to show the movie. around 3800000 people in poland rely on coal for heating and face shortages and price, high extra winter precision, which emission of a sharper could i actually have a bike trainer at home? i was thinking about how i could rebuild it to charge my phone this winter. we're all good to go to mum that a lot of the more we are learning how to function in a new world that changes so fast. it's important to find new ways of helping our planet with oh.