experience outstanding shopping and dining offers. enjoy your services will be our guest at frankfurt. airport city, managed by fred bought lou ah ah. this is debbie news live from berlin. pakistan braces were fresh downpours, as it contends with devastating floods. more than 30000000 people are affected by the climate disaster. the government is appealing to the international community for assistance. also coming up, closing the door on russian tourists,

e foreign ministers are gearing up to debate new sanctions against moscow, including an e wide visa bath. and math as next generation rocket is set to blast off and just a few hours that a view of the artemus kicks off, the space saves he's moon to mars program and unmanned capsule will go around the moon. come back to earth. ah and why bluecross? welcome to the program. pakistan's climate minister has told d w that much of her country looks like a small ocean over a 1000 people have been killed by weeks of devastating floods. an estimated 300000 homes have been destroyed. the latest floods are heading areas in the north western part of the country for the south in both. dan and sin provinces are taking the

brunt of the extreme, whether the flooding has knocked out transported communications and a state of emergency is in effect with millions left homeless. the prime minister is appealing to the world for help. it's hard for people in southern pakistan, not to feel that all is lost. vast moving currents have swallowed up their homes and swept away their belongings. sakina dod is in disbelief as she and her family wade through waste deep water. and not thou die of every labored and built a house by investing money. now look at it. we are poor. how will my husband build another house with no job? there's not enough money to feed the children. we are hungry, the model. okay. then everybody got down to the destruction is all around $300000.00 homes. last farmland, destroyed road ways rendered impassable the future from millions here uncertain ahmad above all big. another storm

is coming on. the water will flow into the industry. we're scared of the river by we don't know when the name bank, when will break ya got a, a bic, which was unused on the government has declared an emergency. prime minister, shabazz sharif, joined flight crews, delivering relief supplies. soldiers help local authorities pluck people from the floods. well, aid workers handout tents and other essentials, but help isn't reaching everybody quickly enough. some of the displace field abandoned by the government, and wonder how they will stay safe in the coming weeks. monsoon season is not yet over and more rain and flooding is expected. authorities say by the time rains were seed. a quarter of pakistan could be underwater.

pakistan's climate change minister shade. ramen has returned from the worst affected regions. she gave us a 1st hand account of the devastation. well, as you can see, the image is a heartbreaking. it's not. the sad part is it that it is not stopping. the rain is relentless. the water is coming down in buckets from most of the sky. and we have now in our it's week in the south of the country where it is beginning. many districts are beginning to look like they're part of the ocean. our helicopter sorties are not finding dry land to drop, you know, rations essential services. people on the roof and on bits of high ground, we've had to deploy the navy for the 1st time to operate in the bucket because much of it looks resembles a small ocean. so yes, it's quite devastating. it is

a climate catastrophe. i'm very clear because the whole of this year we have seen one after another cascade of one after another event, extreme weather event and a guest dime that catastrophes and that started to the in early march, late february when we went straight from winter to spring pakistan, became one of the hardest places on the planted crossing 53 degrees in the south. and that it's triggered agreed de la public stress. it triggered the us a whole season, a quarter 5, which we had to back in areas that we already have little cover. so it's been a very stressful time and then of course, this unrelenting packet and climate change minister shay ram and they're speaking to us earlier. russia and ukraine have again accused each other of artillery

strikes near these apparition nuclear power plant. there are growing fears at the fighting could cause a massive radiation league. current winds would blow radiation over southern ukraine and into parts of russia. according to a recent map from ukraine's atomic energy agency communities, there are preparing for a nightmare scenario. people are queueing up in towns. neil is up for the chef power plant for this green tablet. it's eileen and could help protect them against a radioactive leak. pillow issue, we little told them adult should take one tablet. i have a child, they should take half a tablet, abusive with google, and they've been worried about a nuclear disaster since polio. the feel of ross soon after russia invaded ukraine . ah, the simple polish. we brought up the false diamond window when the plant was

shelled, the frost. i'm with emergency workers, a training for the was moving victims who have been exposed to radio, active cloud, cleaning them and testing levels of radiation on each other. does up regia power plant as europe's largest nuclear facility? ukrainian workers have continued to run it throughout the war, but it's occupied by russian forces. but you currencies compromises safety, which would they could come by and where there's lots of heavy equipment and the plans in country compet vehicle trucks and even the tanks on the live divine. the worst of all that in the last 3 weeks, they put this equipment near the power units. number one, and number 2 in the middle of off official means there are now like minds out of the dilemma. russia and ukraine, blame each other for shelling around the facility as the power plant stands exposed

training. some other news making headlines right now. the u. s. navy says 2 of his worships have sailed to the taiwan strait is the 1st that show a force since a recent escalation of tensions between china and us back taiwan. the self rhode island is under constant threat for mainland china, which says it could use military action to bring taiwan under its control. germany is filling up its gas stocks more quickly than expected. despite rush in supply cuts. the government says it's on target to fill 85 percent of its gas storage facilities by early next month with the current levels of 82 percent. berlin hopes to stop using russian gas next year. e foreign ministers meeting in prague this week are expected to make it more difficult for russian citizens to travel to the european union. they may suspend a 2007 agreement, giving preferential treatment to visa applications from russians. the measure fall

short of the total travel bands, some member states are demanding. poland and the czech republic for example, have already stopped issuing baez's to russians. others may follow. i asked dw corresponded ban vega in brussels. what it might mean for russians who want to travel outside their country. there's no trouble been other kinds of reasons do be issued, for example, for russians who want to settle to study here or to visit family. this is possible . but as for the tourist, visa will be severely cut back. many countries have announced that now, but for russians, there's also a way to circumvent the turkey, for example, allows visa free travel to it's tory. so if you want to vacation on the sea, you can still do that as a russian been re got their reporting earlier from brussels. flights have resumed, and shops have reopen in tripoli, following done battles at left dozens, dead. after months of relative calm residents of the libyan capital,

fear the fighting between 2 rifle, militias, loyal to different administrations, could escalate into a nation wide war. libya has already been rocked by civil war and political upheaval. since dictator mar, qaddafi was toppled in 2011 residents of libya's capital tripoli dealing with the latest full out from the countries enduring political turmoil, cottage shops and burned out cause. with the result of his fighting between rival militias at the can on friday night and loss of into saturday. lighting began after midnight job at around 1 o'clock at night. so initially there was early light shooting, then it became heavy like the people inside the houses all fell terrified. i don't know any one who tried to leave their homes and could not get out there. ha, i'm with how left london militia clashes on escalation and the power struggle

between libya's to governments. trip to the base government has been backed by the u. n. to bring about national elections. it's headed by up to meet de baber. he's the ex, out parliament, based in the eastern city of santa has appointed arrival. prime minister, thought he basheba both claim leadership over the country to pay those out in the streets of tripoli on saturday evening to reassure supporters that we will not leave this country to these miscreants like that. this is our contract, this is tripoli that we will defend it with dignity and pride class. well, you thank god you're safe with those who were killed. we wish them goldsmith. you haven't. a lot of a debate with malicious. have won the day, but the fighting a stamp and hopes for peaceful outcome to the stand up between the rival governments of the years of chaos on conflict. the divided country is

never, far from the next fly up in violence the u. s. space agency nasa is counting down to a high stakes lunar lodge. space enthusiasts have flocked to cape canaveral florida to watch the maiden mission of the art of his program blast off his schedule just hours from now. the plan is to san an unmanned capsule around the moon and back to earth. if all goes well, future flights will carry astronauts to eventually set foot on the moon again. and although beset by delays and cost overruns, artemus aims to use the moon as a springboard to marsh alive look at nasa space launch system rocket. and orion spacecraft ready on launch pad $39.00 b and less than 2 days. the rocket is ready and so is the u. s. space agency. this year. this is the a single step that starts the journey of

a 1000 miles buckle up. everybody. we're going for ride to the moon. charlie's last, it's been half a century and nothing is feeling the pressure on his aviation. it is a new rocket and a new spacecraft to send humans to the moon on the very next flight. this is something that has not been done in over 50 years and is incredibly difficult or or buy up with a lot has changed on it since neil armstrong uttered those iconic woods. but these days they are better cameras and fast superior technology. the apollo. why computer, i have heard out about the same memory and processing power as the bob on your car key. think about that for minute we flew to move that for the international space station. let's also evolved theme is society. one of the stated ambitions of the

autonomous mission is to put the 1st woman and person of color on the main likely astronaut jessica watkins. i certainly would, would be a just absolutely thrilled to be able to be a part of the effort to, to go to another planetary surface, whether it be the moon or mars. the latter goal looms large in nasa sites. the agency views the ottoman program as a stepping stone for a voyage to the red planet and the establishment of infrastructure in space. need. we need landing pads, we need communication systems, we need distributed power, and we hope to have a sustainable presence on the moon. maybe with our bases research stations on the moon, maybe with industry on the moon. we would like to demonstrate technologies in operations to live and work on a planetary surface, other than her power. back of 50 years after they made history on the surface of the main. it's clear that martha is eager to do it again. but before the american

dream of living there can become a reality. monday's test flight will need to be a success. and coming back to earth into the studio and over to doc film, which is up next our reporter travels to egypt. stay tuned for that. and of course, you can always get the latest from d, w dot com and on our social media, twitter and instagram nasty w news course will have much more news for you right here at the top of the hour. so don't go anywhere with blue cross. it's been a pleasure having you, thanks. departure into the world today. this means flying to a foreign planet in the 16th century.