really de la summer satellites are all gone. i witnesses experienced the terrible events and this the world should not forget. shuttles 1972 and big massacre. stuart september 3rd on d. w. ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, pakistan's prime minister appeals for international aid, after devastating flooding. the country struggling to get help for thousands of people displaced by historic water levels that have now claimed close to a 1000 lives and burning off gas satellite images pointed to evidence that russia

is wasting large volumes of its stop in a huge flare close to the finish border. ah, monica jones, good to have you with us in pakistan, prime minister shabazz sharif has appealed for international help as authorities deal with some of the worst flooding and the country's history. close to a 1000. people have been killed since monsoon rains began and june. hundreds of thousands more have had to leave the homes. pakistan has declared a state of emergency to deal with a disaster. surveying the damage. prime minister, chabad sharif, gets a 1st hand impression of some of the west affected areas. this year's monsoon was exceptionally ferocious washing away roads, destroying bridges and damaging hundreds of thousands of homes. this is the moment

a hotel collapses into the flood waters. another angle says people fleeing and panic, thousands of people are in need of immediate help. the government has been delivering 8 parcels to those have been cut off and promised financial aid to affected families. but it's a mammoth task. some 30000000 people a set to be affected. ah, if you had a if the flood of 2010 was one of the biggest in our history, but i feel that this flood has caused even great to havoc. ha! there is extreme devastation all around. also more than 900 people are dead, that he will grant this is the seen and will, rural baluchistan. villages here a living and makeshift tense. others sleep under the open sky along with the animals thumb would yarmouth of the hands are a biggest need?

yes, we have a shortage of food items too, but tense are the top priority that the united nations has allocated $3000000.00 us dollars to enable 8 agencies to respond to the floods in pakistan. but the government says a lot more was needed to get aid to all those who need it. and for more on this she went to terry and crisis. i spoke to adil share rus county, director for care international in pakistan of thank you so much. the situation is bug sun is extremely tough, like the provinces are extremely lake and no suffering from this flag situation, but not just on and same problem says out hearted from this emergency. but recently lost one week to keep the keep rolling and some parts of the job, especially the southern job cities are also affected from the flood. and day by day,

the situation is getting extreme, the worse because more and more rain and flooding is coming. and it probably will still continue for another like 10 days to 2 weeks. and situation even will get worse. incoming did lemon soon rain the region experiences monsoon, rain every year. what makes the situation so bad this time around? so you're right, like the focus on is on the one. so an area so months old grand happen every year. but at the same time this year, these were having heavier than the expected rain, which happened every year in the season. which means that the outflow of the water, which comes on different river and different box is it came double or sometime even more than stately communities who are living nearby to those water areas but worst effected when the outflow of the water became like alarming. and the water still continues, indeed the idea that way,

like that is huge to all station and climate to especially in below, just on and same as of now more than 33000000 people are affected across the country. approximately 6400000 people are in dire need of support immediately. and people are literally living just under the roof because there's like, you know, a large need large population or i, and pakistan of course, has called for international help. now what exactly is needed? so d, a bill probably will be launch early next week by the government or august aren't which are we are also monitoring. but at the same time, the images need on ground are under richard transitional integration to which are required for the diesel of food is another bigger need which is required in terms of like cooking items. they are required or mosque you to a nodes and low stroke management including rec, seen and like storks,

services are required on at the same time late you know, the water borne diseases may come from those. so health services are also required, but immediate new life serving support in terms of shelter, food, cooking 8 am minister, hygiene kids and other hygiene groups are required by the community. all right, thank you so much said he'll share as country director for k international reporting for us right now in pakistan. thank you. thank you so much. ukraine's stayed energy operator has warned that there's a risk of radioactive leaks at the separation nuclear power station. it says repeated russian shelling had damaged infrastructure at the plant. moscow earlier accused ukraine of bombarding the facility which it took control of in early march . the warning comes after the power station was temporarily knocked off the grid this week, causing regional blackouts. the u. n. st nuclear watchdog has already said it hopes

to send a team of experts to the plant within days. meanwhile, energy analyst day russia is destroying natural gas stocks. they claim massive burn offs at a plant near the finished russian border. waste 10000000 euros worth of fuel every day. finish residents have reported seeing large flares and feeling much warmer conditions. the facility prepares russian gas for transport to germany, a valuable commodity, vanishing into sin air. while the rest of europe struggles with shortages of natural gas, russia seems to have too much of it. analysts have taken special interest in this russian gas terminal located in port to via bay near the finished russian border. the north 31 gas pipeline to germany, starts in puerto via and, and u l. n. g plant has been built at the site. satellite data collected by a norwegian energy consultancy suggests that the so called flaring of gases taking

place here at unusual levels. we observed that russia has been wearing ever since july 11th of mid july, which coincides with the maintenance that occurred or began on one. but interestingly, flaring actually continued despite the powerful operations being resumed, one or 21 back in late july, russia has reduced gas exports to europe, leaving it with a large surplus of gas. that could be one explanation for the burn off. experts said at western sanctions could also be to blame. they say flaring might be a sign of russia lacking the proper equipment to operate. the facility bearing does come at a cost for both economically and environmentally. there's a loss associated with wearing, obviously, because you're burning off those valuable products that could otherwise be sold. so

i would say flaring isn't, you know, it is only done if necessary. and that's why we've seen widespread, minimize glaring over the years. but i would say it's if, if russians doing this, it's possibly due to, you know, geo politics. but it could also very much be technical issues and possibly even safety issues from russian energy company. gas problem has not commented on the burning off of gas at the port to via facility. the u has accused russia using gas is a weapon to fight back against sanctions imposed over the war in ukraine. let's discuss this now with steel. the use russia analyst constantine a guy who joins me now from the alias in lithuania. constantine, good to see you from your perspective. why would russia burn off? millions of euros with of gas. well monica, one version is that or tolbert is not a finished facility. maybe they like storage speaking whenever you see gas war and

puts in kind of am on the agenda. you can be sure it's about politics and your politics from the cremeans point of view. this huge flare i think, is a signal to europe look what kind of winter awaits you. i would look at it as a very political gesture, especially bear in mind. the fact that this considered or rather well very well known in moscow, that putin is very much into details of everything that concerns gas. you knows everything about, you know, gas pumping and you know, tubes diameter and stuff like that. so i'm sure that something like that would not have happened if there wasn't an okay from the cronan. right, well, i mean, you mentioned that the terminal at port elia is the starting point for the north stream one pipeline. and you mentioned putin sending a signal to europe. so please to remind of, ah, how this all relates to the energy crisis in europe at the moment?

well, it's not an energy crisis. it is an energy blackmail by russia and a i think that's what put in this trying to desperately show is that a very hard winter awaits. ah, the european union, the european continent because essentially can shut down north 31 the gospel. i'm already did a few days ago, shutting it down for 3 days for sensibly servicing purposes of technical problems, whatever they call it. in view of the use instinct, a decision to get off 2 thirds of all the gaps that imports from russia. now, next year, this is definitely something that put him, pays a lot of attention to, and this is something that he's going to instrumental lies more and more probably in a much more fanciful fashion. all right, a constant. alexa, also talk about the environmental aspect of this massive and ben off. well, the, the, the environmental consequences of that, or, of course,

hard. and again, if you look at the northwest of russia, about 1500 kilometers to the north of portfolio, there's a huge nichols melted, which is also of a big concern to environmentalists in the european union in europe. gentlemen, are they the crumbling, they know that a north western europe is very much concerned about environmental issues, not the counters of an assistive to that. so i think it's basically adding insult to injury tissue. i mean, we really do not care. that's how read the signal. all right, did obvious analyst of russia. analysts constantine agatha in vilnius. so thank you so much for this constantine. thank you. to mexico now where a shocking allegation directly implicates the military and one of the country's west human rights scandals. 43 students disappeared in the southern city of equality in 2014, according to official accounts. they were abducted by corrupt police and handed

over to a gang to be murdered. now, a mexican government official has alleged that 6 of them were kept alive 4 days before being handed over to a local army commander who order to their death. these protesters had been demanding answers about their missing relatives for years and of long pushed back against the official story. the government investigation at the time concluded that the students were abducted by corrupt police and turned over to a drug gang that killed them at this rubbish dump before burning the bodies and throwing the remains in a nearby river. but independent experts have repeatedly debunked this account. last week, a government truth commissioned confirm some of their worst suspicions, saying the army was aware, but in da thing to stop. what happened to these men? now the commission's head has made and even more serious allegation that the army itself held and killed, at least some of them in shippers. women allegedly,

the sick students were alive for as many as 4 days after the events, and were taken and killed on orders of the colonel. allegedly, the van colonel jose rodriguez perez, hostility is finished. so many, the revelation is a bombshell made. i'm which at that he says that it makes me very sad, angry and helpless that so many years have passed and they've given us so little information. and what little information there was were lies. gavia was that unmet theda. but after so much time, the truth may finally be coming closer. last week, the former attorney general, who led the much criticised 1st investigation, was arrested. he faces charges that he committed abuses, including torture during his investigation. dozens more arrest warrants will also issued for soldiers. police and officials suspected of involvement in the case

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