ah ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin un nuclear inspectors arrive at ukraine's upper breeze ship power plant after being delayed by nearby shelving a plot to check the safety of europe's largest nuclear nuclear facility, which russia now controls the where fighting has already forced to shut down one of its reactors, also on the program you and accuses china of possible crimes against humanity. the

human rights commission report concerns beijing's treatment of wigan. muslims in the jin chang, province, and details. evidence of torture and abuse. china rejects the charges and devastation on an unimaginable scale areas of southern pakistan. brace for more flooding. as water surgeries, downstream from northern provinces, world health organization says more than 6000000 people are in dire need. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. nuclear experts from the international atomic energy agency have arrived at ukraine's at giant zappa risha, a nuclear facility. i hope to check the safety of the russian occupied site, which was seen several potentially catastrophic failures in recent weeks. idea to

be international, the nuclear watchdog wants to set up a permanent base. despite the danger posed by nearby missile strikes, their mission is to prevent a nuclear accident. they know they're heading into a war zone, but that won't stop them. the u. n team is determined to inspect the sapir region nuclear plant. after months of haggling to gain access, we are moving are, we are aware of the current situation. there has been increased military activity, including this morning. at the same time a we consider that we have the minimum conditions to move, accept think that there is a very, very high ukraine says one of the 2 operational reactors at the plant has been shot down due to russian shelling. both

sides have accused each other of bombing areas near the facility. last week. damage to a transmission line knocked the planned offline, heightening fears of a radiation leak or even a react to meltdown. in the event of a nuclear leak, it will be difficult if not impossible, to provide humanitarian assistance. it is therefore high time to stop playing with fire and instead take concrete measures to protect this facility and other like it from any military operation. as combat continues on ukraine's eastern front, all eyes are in south region, hoping to prevent a disaster that could reach far beyond the countries borders. let's have a look at this with ross pale, who is a nuclear security expert in the department of war studies at kings college london, and welcome to the w. so we have civilian inspectors tracking nuclear facilities in

a war zone. this sounds like the most dangerous mission a, b, i. e, a is ever undertaken. is it i believe this is the, is used to working in pups technically challenging conditions, environmentally challenging conditions, such as in carrying out inspections in so barrier and other places like that. but to do it under conditions of military conflict, this is, i believe, a 1st and very dangerous for them, the very brave individuals. and so they are either so as they go there that, that their hope is that they will be allowed to establish a permanent presence that even as the, the missiles fly overhead. do you think they are likely to get permission to do that? very difficult for me to say, i know that the process of getting even this fall, i initially permitted for the inspection has been a long period of negotiations,

reached this point to go to the point of having a permanent presence established would require a lot of additional commissions, i believe that some within the russian side have said they would accept this, this all pops less came on the korean side. i'm. i'm yet to see if information on what that would be by a personal opinion on whether or not they would be interested in accepting that. right. so, so when they go in then these inspectors, but they're allowed to go where the russians are, allow them to go, but will the ultimate report will not be their own work. will that also have to be assigned off by both sides. i would hope that as an independent entity the i would be able to produce whatever reports you wanted to. again, without knowing the full conditions of the negotiations that led to this point. it's difficult for me to say, however, if there was an acceptance by the idea that it would allow reports to be redacted or controlled by the science, i would be very surprised. so what will they be looking to establish when they go

in? so they will be looking to establish a few different things. first of all, that the critical safety and security systems of the plans are in place, intact and operating as they should be. and if they're not, they will be looking to make, make that information known. they will be looking to assess the conditions of the ukrainian staff who operates in the very, very strong, terrible conditions. and then they will also be looking to force safeguards, inspection, which means they will be looking to assess whether all nuclear material should be at the plants is still in place and informed expect it to be a non has been removed. ok, so they look at what's happening, they check for problems and then they have to present a report with recommendations and then cross, i think is presumably the but russia and all ukraine will say, yeah, fair enough, we will make these changes to a certain extent. yes,

the i will post is findings either directly to the un, all the participants, or it might may make those findings public. i'm waiting to see exactly what the response from on that will be. but i certainly doesn't have the power to enforce things. it's a verification agency, it's a technical agency that looks for information and then reports on the truth is there not to the national community through the united nations on this member states to implement what has been recommended or not as they choose ok, good. talking to us very clear. thank you so much for joining us. rossfield nuclear security experts at kings college london. thank you. we can go to the city of operation and join d w. correspondents. you said booting up welcome mathias. so inspectors have now arrived at what happens next while they're there and they should start their inspection. there many things to inspect the they have left this morning. this car

is what they left behind, probably as a backup and arrived in the afternoon. i don't know, they probably haven't really been able to solve their inspection yet, but we have no official information about that. but what they will have to do now is they will have to check the damage, assess the damage that has been done to the plan by what they're selling that has been happening. what they also have to do is to see whether all the security systems are functioning, power plan, how many systems that should ensure the cooling, most important thing will continue even if even after you, even after a power line is caught, or even after a reactor goes off the grid or something like that, there are generators and there are several systems and all the systems need to be checked whether they're still functional. they would probably also take a look what's happening to the nuclear waste that's there, or the nuclear fuel, the, the fresh fuel with everything is still in place and they would also,

after the working conditions of the work of the people working. now this is a very tricky situation. the people there have been working there before the war that employed by the ukrainian agency that runs the plans, but the management has been replaced by the russians. they need to work together. there were reports about them being threatened or being or disturbed in their work and all this is put up potential security risk. so we see there is a long list of things they need to do and we don't know at all how much time they have for that. so that's a pretty tough task. ok, so time is against them, but the hope is that they can they can establish a presence that beyond the 2 or 3 days. but this inspection yeah, that's what they have said. and the rest of the site is also said that they would agree to that, but everything can change all the time here and they want to leave a few of those who traveled their behind i am i, i would suppose that the general director will not stay for months there,

but some of the other stuff, some of the experts would be able to monitor what's happening. why is that important? because um, 1st of all, in a day or 2, you can created a picture and that you where you won't see behind. but if people are there longer, they will eventually notice some of the things if something is not in order, they will have more time to speak to the people. but there's also the thing that you need to monitor the long terms conditions. for example, what we've been hearing from engineers that have talked to us that have fled, that a maintenance wasn't meant ends where it wasn't done anymore in the past few days that will have consequences that might not a few few months. that might, these consequences might not be felt immediately right now, but in a week or 2 in a month or 2 in half a year, they might already be felt. so this is also something to monitor. so for the security of this plant, it would be crucial that they can stay there, that they can monitor what's happening around the plant, the fighting the damage,

but also the working conditions and the conditions inside the technical conditions inside the plant. ok, thank you for that much. yes. which is pulling and a city of separation. well, as the school term start said, ukrainian students returned to their classrooms back ho. others starting their education elsewhere as refugees. schools here in germany have been rolled around 160000 ukrainian students after their families made the difficult choice between returning to ukraine or starting from scratch in a foreign country. which i think with one a displaced child the house is. mother prepares him for a new school year in a new language. kim, listen, lean come here. you should eat if you're going to school soon by yourself. yeah. right. so after breakfast, 6 year old clean will settle for his very 1st day of school. he and his mother natalia, have spent 2 years preparing for this day,

but russia's invasion of ukraine forced them to change their plans. i had no faith bumper, double. yes, i went to kindergarten and before kindergarten, i went to school for a bit. all that out of school course, his either got out of there again, you are good, but he went to preparatory class and we're getting ready to start 1st grade and he of but instead you're going to school in berlin. so you started learning the ukrainian alphabet. mm. hm, but are continuing with a german word, sidney, me as gifts law, though when the war started natalia and clean and 2 nights and a bomb shelter after that, they left ukraine, heading forest to poland and then to germany where natalia had friends. she hoped to go back home to ukraine before the school year started. but it's still dangerous there. oh, should i bed from failure by one with the news again yesterday i follow it all the time. and i saw that they were showing again going, oh, i don't know, i don't want my child to be there on the dock. now clean is going to

a public school in berlin. it takes him 10 minutes to walk there. all of the classes are in german and he has already learned a couple of phrases. or you have your school room, how it short from hello and good by. what can you say he'll i can say thank you and please bounce. give me the ga. thank you, and please, what else did, what did they say when it's time to eat as an esl adult can we and before that, wash your hand a while now it's time to rush to class. they don't want to be late. the german culture ministry estimates that $160000.00 ukranian children attended schools and germany this year and additional burden for the education system. schools need more teachers. but not only that, that us, since we're the household of one of the main problem is that we don't know for sure if these kids are going to stay here for the next 5 or 10 years. or if they'll

leave within a few months, which is completely understandable, i know with the current situation in ukraine, parents don't know whether they'll stay in germany or does anthem concerts. nissan, which plays in dodge from natalia herself, knows families who went back. they see many schools in ukraine teach online because of the danger of bombing is that is the ok. i thought a i have friends who were torn over whether to stay or leave us. now they're there and see if there is great, but at least there altogether, we will add that on on. that last asked. no, but ringing it. if mr. natalia is raising her son alone, what she decided to stay in berlin for now and clean like that. here. he learned how to count in school today. first graders don't do homework, but claim as happy to show up number skills. and how many birds? 3, did he, and black talk took to 456. she is while cream

is in class counting animals, natalia is looking for a new apartment in berlin, preferably not so far from school. she also wants to take a german class herself, said that she can keep up with her son. think i will take a look at some more stories making. her headlines will start in russia where the at the russian energy firm look, oil says its chairman has died following a serious illness. russian lady had previously reported that refill megan of had been found dead after falling out of a hospital window in moscow. lou coil was one of the few russian companies to declare its opposition to the war in ukraine. back in march. and vladimir putin has paid his respects to the later soviet leader mikhail gorbachev, who died on tuesday. according to his spokesman, shudukana issues mean the russian president will not be attending mister gorbachev . funeral on saturday. i b spokesman added that the ceremony would have elements of a state funeral, including a god of honor, russia, china, india,

and syria are among the countries taking part in a series of military drills in russia's far east. their 1st since 2018 moscow says the weeklong exercises will involve more than 50000 troops. beijing says its participation is not related to tensions over taiwan or the war in ukraine. of united nations as china's treatment of wiggers and other mostly minority groups, may constitute cry against humanity. and the long delayed report, the un human rights office said there was credible evidence of torture, forced medical treatment and sexual violence in detention comes in. the north western shin shang region, which bingeing describes as training centers. a china oppose the release of the reporter has denied the accusations over the 220 acre routine. number 3 detention center is the largest in chin jang. and in china,

it's of said as he's like this one where beijing has long been accused of detaining more than 1000000 weigle and other muslim minorities. now a bombshell un human rights of his report says that attentions which it called arbitrary and discriminatory may amount to crimes against humanity. it also said it found, quote, credible allegations of torture, rape for sterilization and forced labor. the long anticipated report was released just 13 minutes before michelle bachelor's term as un high commissioner, human rights ended and followed months of prussia from china to block it's publication. by jesse, this report is a hodgepodge of misinformation that serves as a political tool for the u. s in the west to strategically use jin chang to contain china. the chinese government has long maintained that many of its facilities in chin jang, of occasional training centers. created to counter alleged extremism and separatism

among the regions. muslim majority. but pictures from facilities and chin. jang that will eat earlier this year, tell a very different story. with hooded and bound prisoners forced into stress positions surrounded by police officers. armed with clubs. o d u n report urges china to release detainees and explain the fate of the huge numbers of people were simply disappeared. but with beijing denying, having even committed any abuses, many observers a doubtful it will change its policies in she. jang, well, until yesterday, kenneth ross was the roth was the executive director of human rights watch is now retired after leading the human rights organization for nearly a 30 years and joins us from new york. i welcome back to dw mr. ross. i'm is this report, as china says,

a hodgepodge of misinformation to the contrary. this is a powerful danny report. now we know that beijing has been obstructing and denying trying to prevent the publication this report for a long time. but this is a very detailed report based on multiple interviews with former detainees and others with 1st information. and it describes the horror facing the weaker and other target muslims. if there is so much detail on that, that it just basically gives the lie to be repeated deny. i'm no one can read that report and believe these denials anymore coming from chinese. ok. so let's say the report is read and believed. what does it change? but i think that beijing was desperate to prevent its publication because it didn't want this official refutation of it's why, but this is obviously just step why,

you know, unfortunately, i mean, as you noted, michelle bachelorette, the un high commissioner for human rights, you know, published this report really on her last you know, last minutes in office. and so she's not going to be in a position to follow through her successor is not yet names or deputy will temporarily take over. so it really at this stage, i think the ball is in the court of the united nations human rights council. this is the governmental body based in geneva, which is the un highest, you know, human rights body. and the report, in essence, calls to the human rights council to act. the right council has never, ever condemned china in a china just been deemed too powerful. but now that we see probable crimes against humanity documented in officially when report, it really is incumbent upon the human rights. there are 47 governments that already have condemned what's happening to jay,

i hope that this report will lead to larger numbers. and finally, a critical mass with the jordy on the right council that will permit the kind of investigation condemnation that beijing is terrified. right. and i think gives us force to change. you've mentioned the pressure that the beijing has exerted to try and suppress a district for to with touch on the timing that it was. it was released on within hours and michelle, a bachelor, leafing. has she in fantasy novels this report it as, as in fact it, it does look like china's work has been done. if, as you say, it ends up falling between the cracks of the, the commissioner who leaves a new permanent commissioner being appointed. but i think that the way and we see a report that had multiple causes and the high commissioner could hear from east this report. her aunt, she was sort of forced into travelling division, she'd been seeking an unfettered investigation. our child had often said you can

come for a friendly visit, is that a nice church? and you wasn't very general until you good terrorist under cut his high commission by agreeing that she should go forth. and so she gets stuck with it. is it which really accomplish not up, then china deluge for with efforts to refute the fact that i was happy to change. so she had to deal with all that information that said, it still was a powerful report. and i hope that you are sector john, who is remaining gnostic on bases trying to try to avoid common heading. now that he's high commission is gone and this is void in geneva. i hope he will stop say something in the human rights council will pick up the mountain and, and really push forward for an investigation. thanks so much for joining us. we wish you well in your retirement kind of throw, former executive director of human rights watch. thank you. now, a couple more stories are making headlines around the world. the governor of the u

. s. state of arizona has travelled to taiwan for talks on economic cooperation in high tech sectors that do says a visit to ty phase, the latest in a string of visits by us politicians that his anger, china, beijing claims taiwan as part of his territory and says that visits in courage, taiwanese pro independence forces brazil's amazon rain forest as say it's been experiencing its worst august forest fires for more than a decade. your government data shows a number of fire alerts is higher than in 2019, which so devastating places that shock the world experts play the countries right wing president, a giant ball scenario for rolling back environmental protections and world health organization says more than 6400000 people in pakistan are in dire need of humanitarian aid. hundreds of healthcare facilities have been damaged or destroyed . after heavy rain submerged to a 3rd of the country. flood serve lead to more than a 1000 deaths and triggered

a major humanitarian crisis with severe, with survivors at risk of disease and malnutrition. refund con 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. every sudden, all gathered. good people ask me what i lost, but it's impossible to even guess all our whole house has been destroyed. we've got to go, there's nothing left. nothing at all is left in this house. go god, we are going to give me. yes. on the pakistan's monsoon season began in june experts 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. when ali animal as among we are just about to pack our bags. when

the water came. what a get rose very quickly up to our next visit. we left our bags behind and climbed up onto the roof to save our lives. i ran to the see, 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, she bounced to reef, has promised immediate aid. every benita and we spent in a very rough wind for sure. everybody would reach the mood, 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 added by the best. and i'm doctor. i don't have enough money to go to the doctor by medicine,

but we have source froze and we're getting heat rashes on her skin crowded. we had them. her daughter bushrod 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 bit of a w more totally helpless muddle with 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 bachelor and we'll do some of the adding backyard goodwill, dudley poodle. for now, we thought han and her daughter are staying with friends, but they have no idea what their future homes and the european union said drugs regulator has approved the 1st cove 19 vaccines adopted to include protection against an early version of the army con variant. for the vaccines hasn't been updated to cover the new, more infectious b i for, and be a 5 versions that are dominant around the world. now this is the day after us

health officials approve the use of updated vaccines that do target. the newest only constraints. you authority to say they hope to approve a separate pfizer vaccine adapted for the latest on mc on types. this also coming up next in d. w. news, asia. as the un human rights office releases a diving report on china's treatment of weak muslims will beijing finally be brought to account for spanish. but we'll have that story ads more in just a moment. and i'll be back at the top of the, of the day with,

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