3 years that will change the will forever. but jillions journey around the world, september 7th, on dw, with ah, ah, this is dw news life from berlin pakistan asked the world for help with devastating flooding. flash floods kill nearly a 1000 people, hundreds of thousands more homeless and a state of emergency is in force. also coming up, russia accused of destroying gas stocks that could have gone to europe. satellite

pictures show a huge burn off close to the finish border. ah, monica jones, good to have you with us. pakistan is appealing for international assistance as authorities deal with devastating season of flooding. nearly a 1000 people have been killed since monsoon. rain began earlier than usual in june . hundreds of thousands more have had to leave their homes. a state of national emergency is enforced. surveying the damage, prime minister shabbas sharif, gets a 1st hand impression of some of the west effected 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 are set to be affected. ah, if deabner, if the flood of 2010 was one of the biggest in our history, but i feel that this flood has caused even greater havoc. ha, there is extreme devastation all around. also more than 900 people are dead radio again. this is the scene and will rural baluchistan. villages here, living in makeshift tents, 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 jo, west all is to enable aid agencies to respond to the floods in pakistan. but the government says a lot more was needed to get aid to all day so needed. i spoke to ideal sheriff of care international in pakistan and i asked him about the scale of the crisis. oh, thank you so much. the situation is bugs sounded extremely tough lake. could the provinces are extremely lake, no suffering from the flood situation below to sign and st brought into that hearted from this emergency, but recently lost one. we keep here, rollins and some parts of and java strictly the southern ben job. cities are also corrected from the flood and div by the the situation is getting extreme me worse because more and more brains and flooding is coming. and it probably will still

continue for another late. and d as 2 weeks and situation you and when get worse, incoming did not monsoon rain or the region experiences manzona 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 and so. so rand happen every year, but at the same time this year, these are heavy days, 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 specially communities who are living nearby to those water areas where the worst affected when the outflow of the water became like alarming and the water still continues, indeed, the idea, that's why like that is huge to all station and climate, to, especially in baluchistan 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 a large need large population. right, and, and pakistan of course, has called for international help. now what exactly is needed? so d, a b probably will be launch early next week by the government of august aren't which are we are also monitoring, but at the same time would be immediate need on ground or shelter. richard, traditional integration to which are required for the diesel of food is another big need which is required in terms of like cooking items. they are required or mosquito nodes and low stroke management including rec, seen. and like stock services are required on at the same time late, you know, the water bonded diesel may come from this or else, or was that also required,

but immediately life saving support in tons of shelter, food, cooking, item minister, hygiene kids and other hygiene trips 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 energy operators warning. there's a risk of radioactive leaks at the separation nuclear power station. the agency says repeated russian shelling as damage the plant infrastructure. moscow has accused ukraine of bombarding the facility which i took over in march. the power station was temporarily knocked off the grid this week crossing regional blackouts . the u. n's nuclear watch stock is hoping to send a team of inspectors in the next few days. meanwhile, energy analysts say russia is destroying natural gas stocks. they claim massive burnouts at a plant near the finished russian border waste $10000000.00 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 $31.00 gas pipeline to germany, starts in port to 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, or,

and shame on. but interestingly, flaring actually continued despite the partial operations being resumed. women are extreme one 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. and 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 geo politics,

but it could also very much be technical issues and possibly even safety issues from that standpoint. russian energy company gas problem has not commented on the burning off of gas at the port to buy a facility. the use has a key is to rush out using gas as a weapon to fight back against sanctions imposed over the war in ukraine and asked, it will be, is russia analyst constantine agood? why he thinks russia would burn off millions of euro's worth of gas. one version is that or is not a finished facility? maybe they like storage speaking whenever you see gas war and pull to kind of on the agenda, you can be sure it's about politics and your politics from the, from its point of view. this huge player i think, is the signal to europe. look what kind of a winter awaits you. i would look at it as a very political gesture, especially bearing by the fact that this considered or rather well very well known

in more school, that putin is very much into details of everything that concerns gas. you know, everything about, you know, gas pumping and you know, cubes, 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 to via is the starting point for the north stream one pipeline. and you mentioned putin sending a signal to europe. so please do remind of 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 r. i think that's what pull to this trying to desperately show. is that a very hard winter awaits a, 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 or technical problems, whatever they call it. in view of the use instinct 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 the much more fanciful fashion. he doesn't use russia, analyst constantine eggs in vilnius, not in mexico, where the military is implicated in a notorious human rights scandal. $43.00 students disappeared in the southern city of equality and 2014, according to official accounts. they were abducted by corrupt police and handed over to a gang to be murdered. now, a government official alleges that 6 of them were kept alive for days. a local army commander then ordered to their death. these protesters had been demanding answers about their missing relatives for years and of a 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 government ship. this woman 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. who said that he is famous. for many, the revelation is a bombshell he 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 on men 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 were also issued for soldiers. police and officials suspected of involvement. in the case. the u. s. justice department says 14 boxes recovered from the florida home. a former president on the trump in january contained classified documents. the details emerged in a heavily sense at legal document that explains why the f b. i searched the morale august state earlier this month, crossed out in bold black lines page after page. dis, affidavit hides more than it reveals, but it has made clear that the f b i and the u. s. justice department are carrying out

a criminal investigation. the f b i searched donald trump's estate and motto lago earlier this month and left with 20 boxes of documents, many containing classified material, some labeled top secret. trump is suspected of having taken these documents with him after he lost the 2020 election. and he was keeping top secret documents owned by the federal government in his private residence, meaning an unauthorized location for this type of document. so under the presidential records act, removing official records of this kind may constitute a criminal offense the former president slave, the polity. latan getting him for political reasons. many people expect him to run again in 2024. but us authorities are concerned that his actions may have threatened national security cotton president joe biden is staying out of it. we feel that it is not appropriate for us to comment on this. this is an

independent investigation that the department of justice is leading. that's something that the president finds is an important thing to do for the department of justice to have that independence got to be a very hard so far. no formal accusations have been made against trump, but the affidavit has revealed why the thought at mara lago was necessary in the eyes of federal investigators. you're watching dw news, and we'll be back with the latest at the top of the hour. in the meantime, thanks for watching oh, live and on demand pod cast language courses, video and audio. any time anywhere.