ah ah ah this is dw news life from berlin. nuclear experts are on their way to inspect ukraine separation power station. a u. n. team plans to survey the safety of the russian occupied plant. it's all right. it says it has shut down one of its reactors due to ongoing shelling near by the un accuses china if possible,

crimes against humanity and should john a major report says there's evidence of torture and abuse inside capsule. wiggers and other minorities china rejects the charges, also the race to get aid to flood hit pakistan, millions without basic health care raising fears, especially for pregnant women and children as water born diseases spread. also coming up, keeping up with corona virus, mutations, europe is said to follow the u. s. lead in approving updated coping 19th vaccines targeting the only cranberry it ah, ah, i've been fizzle. unwelcome nuclear experts from the international atomic energy agency are on their way to ukraine's giant sap a risha facility. they aiming to check the safety of the rush, an occupied plant,

which is seen several near disasters in recent weeks. rush installed authorities in the nearby town of eden hoard i accuse ukraine of drone strikes on the power station. the rush is accused of shelling, ukrainian held nickel pole on the opposite bank of the nepa river. and other areas near the plant, including the city of salaries, yet today the plants operators said it had shut down one of its reactors juju on going fighting near by leaving only one reactor on line. the head of the i. e. a rafa grossi said the mission is going ahead despite the danger, we are moving. we are aware of the current situation. there has been increased military activity, including this morning. until very recently, a few minutes ago, i have been briefed by the ukrainian regional military commander here about that and the inherent risks. but weighing the pros and cons

and having come so far, we are not stopping. we are moving now. we know that there is an area, as you know, the so called a gray zone, where the last line of the ukrainian defense comes and before the 1st line of the russian occupant of your buying forces begin where the risks are significant. at the same time, we consider that we have the minimum conditions to move accepting that there is a very, very high d, w corresponded. mathias ballinger is standing by for us in separation. but here's what more can you tell us about the un teams mission today? you know, they have left this morning or in the direction of the front line. um we are hearing that they're stuck now at the ukrainian on the ukranian side at a checkpoint or and they're selling in the greys on that he has just talked about. um, so it's unclear whether they can proceed to day fighting seems hard to have escalated

a little bit in the area that concerns the news from the place itself, from in our door. and also from the road there. the road has been according to ukrainian authorities. the road has been shelled by the russians in the past few days already several times. and so that seems to be the reason also, according to the ukrainian sources. we don't have a confirmation from the other side for that particular news. that seems to be the reason why they cannot pass at the moment. we will see later whether they will have to return or whether they can move on mathias, this is extremely dangerous mission for the inspectors alone. what they faced there at the plant, but then just getting there as well through this fighting and, and it's hard to work out who's doing what isn't it? it's pretty difficult. it's actually, as far as we know, the 1st time that this authority has to cross the frontline in a war,

they are inspecting usually nuclear and nuclear weapons programs and new nuclear plants around the world. but they are, it hasn't happened yet that one of these i'm facilities was in a fighting zone. and it's very difficult to figure out many things right now because what we are seeing is that there is constant shelling. russia is accusing ukraine or shelling from over the river. look, if you look at the geography a little bit. and her daughter is just on the south side of a water reservoir. all the territories around it are controlled by the russians and the territories north of the water reservoir are controlled by the ukrainian so the ukrainians would shoot several kilometers across the water. why the russians have been shelling from the particular site that established of this power plant. these

places on the other side that on the ukrainian control. now who's shelling what is very difficult to say. but according to some residents i've spoken to, the shelling seemed to be coming from close by that would exclude that it came from the ukranian side. however, this is not really hard evidence. we don't know. there's also news that the ukraine has descended a parachute is in order to take back the plant. that's what the russians have said to day. also very difficult to veri, verify, but according to the military strategies that would be highly improbable. it would be suicide mission because all the territory is controlled by the russians. there's no supply line and he would send these people basically into hostile territory without a back up. but that's the news that came out today. so you can see the environment is really, really murky. informational environment and mathias, this isn't just about inspecting the plant. and this is also about monitoring this,

this facility long term. that's what they're hoping to do. a grossi saturday that they want to leave, inspect, is behind when the mission, when, when the main part of the mission will leave. and we'll, we'll, we'll travel back in a few days some so should stay on site. and that's actually something that would be very sensible. to do because you can of course, create a picture for several days, but to maintain that picture, if something else is really going on there. meaning if you move out, for example, military equipment from there, along to a mission would for example, maybe ensure that you don't move it back or they would even, they would see at least if you move it back. if that's the, if that is one of the cases, of course, these systems also the security system that they need to monitor their and that they are checking upon. now,

they also need to be monitored long term. russia has said that they would be ready to leave a few inspect is there's a long term mission. um, so the hope of course is that this can happen. but as with anything in this mission, we don't really know what will happen in 5 minutes. so we don't also know whether there's anything long term as always, but he has thank you very much for your forte mike martin is a former british army officer and military analyst. i asked him about the likelihood of russia emitting an extended monitoring mission at the power plant. russia's playing games at the moment. your listeners, viewers might recall this. at the beginning, there was a big argument about whether the team was going to come through keith through the training side, whether it's going to come through russia, the russians lost that battle. so now what they're doing is playing games and saying, well, you know, you can only come for a day or you've got to cue up like ever now. so the checkpoints, we can't give you extended passes. really,

it's just in the russians hands. we've also been reporting on ukraine's counter offensive in on the days now about whether or not it will go ahead and in what form, what more can you tell us about what's going on we don't want to go into too many details for obvious reasons. and the ukrainians operating a very strict media blackout, but the offensive has started. and the phase that they're in at the moment is what's called a shaping phase. and what you do in a shaping phase is you take out infrastructure. so the training that has a couple of bridges over the last 48 hours, you continue to cut target air defense, command control and supply. there's, there's probably about 10 or 20000 russian soldiers in that pocket. north of the pro river. it will be impossible to kill every last one of them. so what the crating, the trying to do is shape the battle field to create situations where they collapse

or run away. but we shouldn't expect this to be quick. it's 10000 russian soldiers . but we will see this play out over the next month or so. at the same time, i think it's important to bring up these reports that we're hearing of us intelligence officials saying that russia's military is facing a v, a man power shortages. but at the same time, there have been reports that the credit is also assembling a 3rd army corps. what can you tell us the well, i think there's 2 things we have to look at here. one is quantity of soldiers. i'm one is quality. and russia has suffered from a lack of both throughout the war. and, you know, they've taken fairly substantial casualties as well. so the 3rd army call, they try to assemble 15000 soldiers and they've managed to get about 5000. and if we look at the quality, a lot of these guys are, they've extended the age limit to 60 their reports and then offering prisoners

early release to go into it. so that will be about 5000 and very poorly trained. some reports say they're getting 2 weeks a soldiers. i think the russians are intending to position them in the north of the country to create a kind of a diversion or demonstration because it will mean that ukraine will have to tie down some units up in the north of the country. but really, i think what this is, is a bit of a distraction, you know, a little annoying that ukraine has to deal with, but it's not substantially going to affect what is going on in the south now. so on and in crimea. a question of quality, no quantity, as you heard there for military. i was mike martin. thank you very much. thank you . the united nation says chinese detention of weekends and other muslim groups in the northwest. and she jang region may constitute crimes against humanity. in a long delayed report, the un human rights office said there was credible evidence of torture, forced medical treatment, and sexual violence in camps, which by jing calls training centers. the report urged china to release all

detainees and explain the whereabouts of the disappeared. the chinese government opposed the release of the report and rejected the accusations as a western backed foss. human rights groups have welcome the findings as a powerful rebuttal to beijing's long standing denials of abuse. this report should be a wake up call to the international community as to the reality of what is happening in jin chang. there is now ample evidence that the chinese government is committing grave human rights abuses in jang, including crimes. under international law, the u. s. findings are just the latest in the long line of damning reports on china's treatment of muslim minorities. i asked correspond, and fabi incredible what stood out to him about this one. well, many of the facts were already well documented before, but the u. n. report gives it a whole new level of authenticity and also urgency. and yet it's,

or i would say that the report is very strong because it's not only based on the witness of human rights victims, but it's also based largely on official data government data. and that puts the chinese government in a really a weak spot because they always deny any wrong doing them but, and, and don't even agree on the facts. but if most of the information is provided by the government itself, and that doesn't really make a lot of sense. so really the pressure against the against aging is really increasing. we mentioned their potential crimes against humanity. can you expand on that yet? sure. so report says that and they are really grace, i'm human rights violations and possibly even crimes against humanity that, that is basically one of the most severe possible accusations. and the report specifically, mentions are forced labor in those or political re education camps. and it also mentions m, torture,

physical torture. and it refers also to the very drastically plunging a birth rates and some of the counties and since young and our experts and researchers have attributed that to foster realizations. however, what the am report did not do it did not answer the question whether, what happened in cindy and constitutes, or genocide, or cultural genocide or not. it doesn't really mentioned that question based on the facts or of what you mentioned to her about this evidence, from official documentation what what, what would you say about the reaction of bay jenks? yes. so in the 1st reaction, basically baiting denied em. every thing it doesn't really um, deal with the criticism. it only says that this un report as a stand by a western governments. and what will happen probably is that our, the government here will ramp up and censorship. i don't think that the criticism will find its way into the chinese public discourse and also probably sitting ping,

the state leader will m a ramp up and the nationalism here, because in 6 weeks there's a historic party congress during which he will most likely proclaim a 3rd term in office and during their time am yet a stability is key for the leadership here and they don't want to deal with any criticism or anything that could cause instability in the i. so i think the national listen will only get worse and the coming weeks from anthem, probably let me just briefly at that. show them they will establish certain rate of that and yeah, yeah, there will establish and the rate of that basically the west is trying to limit china's rise and they will basically victimize themselves and don't want to deal with any criticism. okay, javion chrysler in beijing. thank you very much for the insight. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines. russia and china have begun a series of military drills in russia's far east. first since 2018. moscow says the

weeklong exercises will involve over 50000 troops from multiple countries. begging says its involvement is unrelated to tensions over taiwan or the war in ukraine. authorities in gibraltar say the hull of an oil tanker has broken after it collided with another vessel and ran aground. but its oil spill has been contained. the thank it was declining spain, southern coast, when it collided with a ship carrying liquefied natural gas. on monday, brazil's amazon rainforest is experiencing the worst august forest fires in over a decade. new government down, it shows the number of fire alerts is higher than in 2019. which so devastating. blazes that show the world experts blame the brazilian right wing president jaya books and out of a rolling back environmental protection rights of the amazon. far as the united nations says, millions of people in pakistan without access to medical care following devastating floods. hundreds of healthcare facilities have been destroyed or damaged. after

heavy rains emerged up to a 3rd of the country, the floods have led to more than a 1000 deaths and left survivors at risk of malnutrition and illness from water born diseases. we thought hun scans the soaked ruins of her home. the mother of 9 daughters lives in northern pakistan, smart district for weeks. it has rained here nonstop. the water flooded their home, almost completely destroying it. carefully that and all gathered. good people ask me what i lost, but it's impossible to even guess all our whole house has been destroyed. who's got a girl? there's nothing left. nothing at all is left in this house. go good record, give me. yes i'm the pakistan monsoon season began in june extra saying that there has been $4.00 to $5.00 times the normal amount of rain this year. turning rivers into raging torrents. the flood waters reached the home of re thought, han and her daughter boucher a few days ago. well alley melissa, man,

we are just about to pack our bags. when the water came, letting it roll is very quickly up to our next visit. we left our bags behind and climbed up onto the roof to save our lives down to the sea. but i will humble, more than $30000000.00 people have been affected by the flooding with damages estimated at more than $10000000000.00. food, water, and shelter in particular or in short supply. pakistan's prime minister shabani to reef has promised immediate aid. every benita and we spent in a very transmitting version everybody would reach the movie, there would be no race at all. as to clean up work begins, disease is spreading throughout the areas affected by the flooding. there's also a shortage of medicine including and swat district as an exam doctor,

i don't have enough money to go to the doctor by medicine that we have source for us and we're getting heat rashes on our skin. crowded them, her daughter bushera was about to get married. we thought han had spent months making new garments and preparation for the wedding all destroyed by the flooding. she doesn't know where to turn to a totally helpless missouri my daughter and i are suffering badly. i can't cope with the severe consequences of the flood. i just don't know how we'll get through this, but certainly brazoswood will just some of the adding back yard, good gun rebuttal. for now, we thought han and her daughter are staying with friends, but they have no idea what their future holds. ease drug regulator is expected to authorize the 1st cobit 19 vaccines for the army cranberry. and although they do not talk at the latest strains, the adapted vaccines, bye bye bye, take pfizer and madonna will be discussed at

a meeting of the european medicines agency on thursday. this comes a day off the us health officials approved updates to cover 19 vaccines that do target the latest strains of the only covariance between booster shots could be available in the us. in a matter of days, e u. authorities say they hoped to approve a separate files of vaccine adapted for the latest on types in the full. is more on why coven 19 vaccines needed and updates, and how it's been done? to help fight off coven 19 vaccines induce defensive measures in the body. among them are the production of protective antibodies that can recognise and latch on to the surface of the corona virus. especially it's spike protein that can stop the virus from docking on to cells to infect them and flag it up for destruction by other immune system defenders. but if the structure of the spike protein changes due to mutation,

it can have consequences. the immune system might no longer quickly recognise the invader. ami kron has over time adapted to become all the more efficient for infecting human cells. there are number of parameters and characteristics that make it a really difficult virus to deal with. one of which is because it has changed some of its surface structure by a mutation. and the spike has a number of changes m r n. a vaccines use snippets of genetic code to make the body produced despite protein to stimulate and immune response to source covey. to re writing the code is a pretty fast and straightforward process and changing it changes the vaccines associated spike protein. so why have om across specific vaccines taken so long to arrive? this has a lot to do with 2 factors. factor one,

we're not sure that better adapting and refining the vaccine is genuinely going to afford a market improvements in protecting against future infections. and then of course, at the level of the manufacturer, decisions has to be made. when do we bite the bullet? and actually now produce a new vaccine experts hope messenger r n. a vaccine technology will help us keep pace with new variance of sars covey too. as the virus continues to evolve. and he has to break down the sta authorization of these vaccines, is derek williams from d. w. science. so what is different about these new ones? well, m r and the vaccines they, they act kind of like software that's, that's the comparison that's often that's often made. and in that sense, if you,

if you, if you pursue that particular picture, then these are kind of patches on the software of the original m r n. a vaccines that were made back in 2021. they're tuned to create not the spike protein from the original ancestral virus, which was 1st discovered in on but instead tunes to the bay form b, 5 sub variance on the ground, which are the highly infectious of areas that are currently hitting nations all over the world. and so, so it's an update and that sense, it's a patch on the software and, but it's, it's also, it's, it's not there's, there's another aspect of it as well, which is that the original formulations are going to continue to be in these new vaccines. what's called a bi vaillant vaccine, so they're adding an extra ingredient to the mix. if you, when does this make them more effective and even safer? what's the case?

well, i don't, i don't think that there's any issues or questions. really great questions about the safety of these m r n a vaccine. so i've been given to hundreds of millions of people now in the platform is proven to be safe. and since the change that's being made is not really fundamentally to the platform, it's more of what you would think of as a cosmetic change to the makeup of the vaccine itself. i don't think that people are worried about about the safety issues. the effectiveness still remains to be seen because this is all, you know, really were pretty far ahead of the curve in terms of we're still reacting to on the ground. but we're, we're, we're having to do things in a very, very fast way faster than we've ever actually done before. and so we don't have a lot of effectiveness data yet. it filed in mice, keeping keeping ahead is the hardest part, isn't it? because i mean, we could be in for another very and at some stage or another strain of it. well that's, that's actually to be expected. we, we've seen what for variance now that has succeeded. so we're getting one about every 6 months and on the ground has been around now since last november since 10

months. so. so exports are really expecting a new variant to pop up, possibly as early as this winter, although, you know, nobody can predict the future. but this doesn't put us behind, it keeps us ahead. well, it was, well, it's what it's doing is it's keeping us on track. we've been, we've been reacting to these to these changes and the virus too late and too slowly and, and that's the strength of this particular platform. the m r n a maxine platform, which is that it allows us to react much more quickly to changes in the virus, but we still have to get those things on track and, and production as we just heard. also in that case is, is a big issue. is that speed factor, the, the, the key to ending the pat day? well, ending the pandemic is going, it doesn't matter how good the vaccines are and how quickly we can produce them. if people don't take them and i think back seen fatigue is starting to play a really big role. we've got these wonderful new vaccines and everybody expects

them to, to, to, to do a particular job. but people still have to take them. and i think that that's going to prove to be a big problem moving forward there. williams, you know you science. thank you very much for getting your take the story to some sports news. now. tennis star rena williams has moved into the 3rd round of what's expected to be a final us open before time it should be taught to sit and seed and it come to light in 3 sets. the 40 year old now plays a straight is a young. yeah, to which as he bids for a record equaling 24th grand san title. and a reminder with the top, sorry, why fi for you? the head of the you, when you play a watchdog says the mission to inspect the separation nuclear power plant is preceding today. despite the danger from ongoing military activity, the team will assess the safety of the rational to pipe plant after recent power, 5 years, and nearby shopping. and the united nations report is accused china of possible crimes against humanity for its treatment of weaker than to other minorities in the

north west. and she and john regent. it detailed allegations of torture and sexual violence inside camps which beijing coals training centers. china has rejected the accusation still to come conflicts with tim, sebastian, and full of polish foreign minister battles, swamps. of course i been puzzling. thanks for watching. i'll see you next down. mm. with

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