ah ah ah this is dw news live from berlin, pakistan, braces for more devastating floods. rivers have again burst or banks. agencies are racing to bring food and medicine to the millions affected by the weeks of heavy rain. and un inspectors are worried about the safety of europe's biggest nuclear power station. experts plan to stay at the plant in russian occupied ukraine,

despite more reports of fighting, plus a return to middle earth fans of the lord of the rings. finally, get a glimpse of the new made for t. v. pretty cool. we look at one of the most expensive series ever made ah unexpired. welcome to the program. after weeks of extraordinary monsoon, rain and floods, devastating all across pakistan, this humanitarian crisis there is expected to get even more drastic. southern pakistan is preparing to be inundated again as a wave of water surges down major rivers from the north. already some 33000000 people have been affected and more than 1200 have died. oh, this flood, but

a town in the southern province of sinned is already preparing for more shoring up existing defences and building new ones. with huge areas, still submerged authorities, a warning even more water is surging down river from the north a, b, b, but not ag. bonnie o'brien, dolder more water is expected to flow, disagree with what that is. we've been working to make and reinforces dikes since early morning. dawning i, we have been doing not doing this down that i, we will save i down dead and i say i gotta make a long push as buckeye. but that will be an uphill battle authorities, a trying to evacuate people before the new flood waters hit. millions of other pakistanis have already fled their homes. now they're left scrambling for food and shelter. like here in the northern punjab region. made efforts

all across the country have been hampered by the sheer scale of the destruction and extent of the need. we wanna, we have in the space by the water for the bus 15 days. we have lost everything. but until today we had received nothing. but with more flooding, expected in the south and more rain forecast for september pakistan could soon be facing an even deeper humanitarian crisis with a reef jabbar tan is the pakistan director for the non governmental organization, water aid. he just came back from in province and tells us more about the situation over there, over images that he sent us earlier. well, the situation is there to, we have a, you know, flooding that came in. so some people out in the room still within the religious or there is, as you can see, to see if you have gone to the embankments,

all the roads, whichever hired around it, i didn't define and they are now living there without any, you know, any leg support systems the because the left with all was nothing you can see, you know, on, in the speak to the 0 on they would come with was their clothing and some of the basic stuff they could take with them. and what do you also see now it is actually, it is also converting into a huge disbursement emergency as well because hundreds of thousands of people are on the move this, you know, millions being stranded in their own really is there is of 1000 who have come out to cities to do whatever it is drain and they can, they can fly and or an empty building. they can find their house still. so that's the situation. and then there is also a 3rd emergency, which is the public health emergency because it also the rise in malaria and, and called raw and you know, and entry and then what related diseases. so we're looking at multiple disasters, multiple emergencies, yes. the created by fluids and,

and climate change. but i think it, you know, the scale of it is huge. i mean, it's beyond the capacity of, you know, even any country earth that, you know, if it had feared something like this, it would not be possible for it to book it. and you're talking about the risks of, of spreading water born diseases. and we're just looking at those pictures tense, lined up along a body of water from which i assume people are getting drinking water. and also using a suit is that, is that part of the problem? you, you know, you can't get a separation. exactly. and, and, and, and, and also even view this is people displays, but those who are living middle in the villages, they also don't have good water sources contaminating. so whatever the water source is, even the dry land is actually contaminated by the flood waters. because it has contaminated groundwater also, and that's something via and focus on focusing on with these people, you know, to make sure that they have clean drinking water to make sure they have

a letter that especially for letting become such an important issue. let me just ask you quickly, aid relief is arriving in the country, but flood started weeks ago. what took so long? well, i think it came in bits and pieces actually and, and also i think we didn't realize the gravity of the country didn't realize the gravity of the situation till it all came together because we had 1st flips in. well actually before this we had the heat, we're so people were dying because of heat. and then we had floating in the south and then in the west and, and then we had floating in the north. so i think the cumulative effect once it starts coming in, that's when people started realizing that it's a huge disaster. so yeah, it took us awhile, but i think now they do, you know, the government and international community has started. somebody is born, it's much, much smaller than what is needed, but some it is now coming in, although it just trickling in at the moment. okay,

thank you for your time. a reef jabber can from the end geo water, a pakistan. thank you for reading. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines. a military court in me and mar, has sent in song sung, sued she to 3 years in jail with hard labor closed, who's a court reportedly found the ousted leader guilty of electoral fraud in the 2020 elections when her party won a landslide victory. she's already serving a 17 year sentence. police have arrested a man for supposedly trying to assassinate argentina's, vice president of footage sows him pulling a gun on christina fernandez. but you know, shots were fired. the president, alberto fernandez, was unrelated called it the most serious event. the country's been through since returning to marcus luc ketta has cancelled hundreds of flights as pilot stage one day strike there in

a dispute for better pain conditions from germany's largest carrier. some 800 plates for granted in munich in frankfort. around 100000 passengers are affecting europe's largest nuclear power plant is the latest cause for concern in russia's war with ukraine. the u. n. has sent a delegation of experts to assess whether it has been compromised. they have now reported that the physical integrity of the shop, or asia plant has been quote, violated inspectors toward the facility which sustained damage from shelling 5 of its 6 reactors are now offline. several members of the team now plan to stay on the russian occupied site, despite reports or further fighting in and around separation. earlier i spoke with our correspondent mathias building and i asked him if he could tell me more about the un teams assessment of the facility. no, i can't because they haven't released it yet. there will be a press conference later today,

but they haven't said much about that. they've just said that they are there and they want to stay there. we don't know what they found. what we know is that there were some videos, i'm sorry. what we know is that we've seen some videos of them walking around and we've seen some things that we shouldn't see at the nuclear power plant. for example, military trucks stored inside one of the whole is there isn't like very small indications we've also heard from ukrainian sources. but again, that's only one side that's not confirmed by the idea that there are that there did, they didn't get access to some of the very crucial places. but again, this is something that needs to be confirmed by the i a later today. they will have a press conference in the evening and now to ukraine's offensive against russian forces to recapture territory in the harrison region in the south of the country. there are questions as to how far has progressed both sides have claim success on the battlefield, but details are scarce. ukraine, military leaders say they have destroyed ammunition depots and bridges in

a bid to disrupt supplies for the russian forces. that these reports have not been independently confirmed. russia denies any progress and says it has routed ukrainian forces to get some clarity on all this. i'm joined now by justin bronc. he's a senior researcher in the military team at the royal united services institute in london. welcome justin. ukraine started that counter offensive a few days ago by the end of the week. what do we know about how it's going? well, we don't know an enormous amount because the ukrainian government and military have effectively ask for and then try to enforce a media blackout in terms of any detailed reporting of any information about how that was progressing. in order to deny the russians operational intimation, because the russians presumably get a great deal of use out of the extremely high granularity of information that we

get to that consoles about movements most of the time. so interesting that they've been very successful and shutting down. we know that ukrainian army is not necessarily ready for large scale maneuvers warfare as we would see in the west. so particularly commodity inflammation to brigade level or above. because you currently had a few formations that were trained, used operating at brigade level before the impatient. those that have been training place the potential for systems 2014 and they've been used extensively all over the front as a sort of fiber data. and so i've been interested quite heavily. ukraine of c mobilized a huge number of people from february with national liberalization, but it takes time, it takes months and months to, to get new volunteers, to states where they're useful on the battlefield. and far more time to make them into large scale, usable formations. so what you're probably doing is more of

a probing and attrition strategy here, putting pressure on the russians around caisson, where the russian forces are on the west bank, the river that usually isolated from their supply rates compact to anywhere else in the front. and so they can be kind of pending and forced to defend the politically important position by caisson for the russians. but the military is a difficult place to defend. it's a little bit like sarah nets wasn't the bus for the green place to apply fishing and make some games before the weather. shut things down in november. right. well the one thing about which there's no doubt is what the ukranian president has said . blooded mirror, zalinski is called on russian soldiers in the region to flee. why they still can you think this is more than rhetoric? i think the director because i'm the signaling is a key part of the strategy. we know the russian forces are suffering from very variable morale and in many cases in many units, they have very serious morale issues. and so that strategy of both the rhetoric

from zalinski and of course, taking out the bridges across that my pro is emphasizing to russian troops that they don't have easy route retreat. that will be guaranteed. so trying to potentially entice units to fall back on probing along the lines with ukrainian forces to kind of try and exploit, you know, identifying exploit areas where russian forces may crack and move back. so definitely trying to play a role and signaling of course, to western partners that this is a long term flight. the credit is committed to that they do intend to take back with us and speaking of the western partners, don't none of this offensive. i think you'll agree would counter offensively, if possible, without the massive weapons deliveries. ukraine has received from partners in the west. the ukrainian prime minister will be here in germany on the weekend. and he already announced that he'll be asking for more military aid in an interview. he said, we need a shift in the philosophy behind weapons deliveries. with that,

i mean, modern tanks should also be delivered up just in a, coming back to you. why hasn't any western countries supported ukraine with such top of the line? thanks. well, the primary reason is that it's not clear that you crating the brain on forces would be able to use and efficiently yet. because of course, when you supply tax the tax themselves and not necessarily the difficult, low western tanks tend to be very heavy and can't go over many bridges without specialized equipment. but the key thing is tanks or any effective if used on mass with ahmed infantry. so you can, you don't just have to have the tanks in significant numbers, the logistic system to support them. they use a huge amount of fuel. they need to be transported to close to what they're going to be used to just explore that. but also they need on the cost know, cars, right, infantry can keep up with them and support them. i'm. so what you're talking about is building on mechanized for gate size forces, and that takes time. you can't just apply them any packets with the earnings really . and he's

a sustained plan to supply them over time with guaranteed amounts of equipment. so that not only can they plan on when they're going to have it, i don't know. but also the russians will know that that will continue. ok. ok, that's all the time we have. thank you for all that inside justin brock of the royal united services institute. this week, many students across europe are heading to their classrooms for the start of the school year. but some students will be studying twice as hard teenage ukrainian refugees are learning the local curriculum in their host countries and finishing their ukranian studies online all while coping with the pain of being separated from their friends. back home. d w. terry schultz met with one such student in belgium, the 1st day of school for many children, a time of excitement looking ahead to the new year and catching up with friends. but it's not that way for everyone. this day is full of pain and worry for 14 year old. christina begins sca, she's heading to class in belgium,

but all her thoughts are with her friends starting their school year and keith. she was texting with one of them on the train here. and it hurts horrible. i just went all back in ukraine. and i want to all that stuff when it ought to stop. unlike the tidy classroom or waiting, christina, she's not sure how many of her friends in ukraine will attend school in person. because it's so dangerous when will air alarm, everybody needs, so go ah, under ground in woman shelters. christina will also complete coursework online at her ukrainian school after arriving home from her belgian classes each day. christina's english tutor, asana bolder, was impressed with her high intelligence and convinced her mother to come to belgium. so her schooling could continue during the war, full de explains, this goes far beyond improving the prospects for one student. i want to ensure that

the next generation of ukrainians it will come on board, the be highly educated. we'll see how everything works in europe. so then ukraine has a chance for a better future. boulder helped find a place at the barrett out. institute in maryland, which welcomed christina and other refugees with open arms. the schools doing everything it can to help christina and the other ukrainians feel more comfortable . they started a class just for them to learn dutch more quickly so they can join regular courses . the director says as soon as the war started in ukraine, he had students coming to him to make sure there would be spaces here for ukrainian refugees. it's something we pride to reach with our pupils, so it's nice to see that they beg their responsibilities as young citizens and they are coming people who are all going through through a hard time still, even though she appreciates, finding safety and belgium. christina can't stop thinking of being back in keith. i . every i la start for member of our homeless in ukraine and

have some quinn inside. and after all my friends say, i want to work to you. i want to see i want to hog you. she's happiest recalling their classroom antics from february 23rd to day before the war started to have fun plane. and she dreams of how the next day might have turned out differently. i want to let you know what is serial happened. if i woke up, not about i hear from my mom, christina woke up, we're a started, i imagine what happened if she come to my room, say you have a math test to day unit 0 to school and i you will. good in my life, christina will continue her life. but these tests are not ones any teenager should have to face. american president joe biden has given a speech on primetime

t v telling voters that former president donald trump and his supporters threatened their democracy. the mid term elections are in a couple of months, they'll determine who controls the house of representatives and senate. and his address via an accused, trump supporters of undermining the rule of law and rolling back the rights and freedoms of citizens. by this democrats are only narrowly, i had an opinion polls, but issues like inflation and abortion have up at ended. the political place is more from the burden speech to marcio. what's happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump, or the miger republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. miger republicans do not respect the constitution. they do not believe in the rule of law. they do not recognize the will of the people refuse except the results of a free election. and they're working right now as i speak in state after state,

to give power to the side elections in america, the partisans and cronies. empowering the election deniers to undermine democracy itself. my forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an america where there is no right to choose. no right to privacy? no right to contraception. no right to marry who you love? as a moron! this is bringing a reporter in us. analysts, peter roland dahl. thanks for being here. peter biden. like we've never seen a fiery speech thrashing trump. i mean, this is a big change in it. yeah, i mean, you know, donald trump likes to call them sleepy joe, but you know, watch out. trump looks like sleepy. joe is a woken, i mean this, i think was really the biting that dems. a democrats wanted to see, you know, and day one, he was feisty, was forceful. he was not pulling any punches up. tom now bite is really tried to

pain himself as united in chief, the guy who spent decades in the senate, working with republicans across the aisle who could get things done. and he really had a rude awakening, asked precedent, you know, realizing this is not the washington that he came of age. and republicans have tried to, to really block him at every turn. and we're seeing kind of a more extreme wing of the party taken over the republican party. were loyalty to trump, really, in some cases, trump, or you know, or, or more important than the constitution. there's a sizable majority of republicans who do not believe that bite in was legitimately elected in 2020. we've seen a rolling back of, of rights that americans for decades to, for granite such as abortion, access to the ballot. and so with this speech bite was essentially pitying this as a fight between you know, almost good and evil democracy versus authoritarianism,

saying that he's the guy to take this fight to take this on when it ok peter roller don't. thank you so much for that, is that one of the most expensive tv shows ever made has finally made its debut. the rings of power is the prequel to the popular lord of the rings and hobbit films. the store has moved on to the small screen and takes place 4000 years before the events in those adaptations of g r r, toll kings novels. a days of peace. begin. the waiting is over for the lord of the rings, fans. this series is not based on a particular j. r. r. tolkien novel. but on the righteous extensive background essays, we thought our choice would be an ending. resort allen night with never seen the skies are strange. the actors say the offer is still very present. everybody in this, in the job, so passionate about

a we could talk about him all the time. i know i, but so many conversations the legend doubt. in fact, i'm not upset the legendary anymore because my fellow classmates, if you roll their eyes and i said the al, with less reliance on c g i, that in the movies and some terrific attention to detail we're safe yesterday actually had on, on the wall is massive chart about how scale works and how tall and characters my half what characters are on the line. and then we had to learn about how i'm perspective so i could be acting opposite you about where they place you with the elation that one of the smaller one of us is to allow him beyond the darkness, tempting shadow for years old and the mountain. the filming of the 1st season,

a new zealand reportedly cost over $450000000.00 with him. if you are still not sure if you should tune maybe d w's, cultural correspondence, scott roxbury, who happens to be in venice unhealthy. decide scott, this is amazon most prestigious streaming project to date with costs at the top, a $1000000000.00. it's more than double the budget of a big the most expensive movie ever. so, is it worth it? well i guess that depends on your how, how big a fan you are. um um both of the shonda in particular of, of, of the series of the lower the rings a franchise to say that you do see the money on the screen. i mean, this is a bigger, more impressive, more spectacular tv show that i've ever seen up. and this sort of scale and scope

of it does, i think, match that of the, a famous peter jackson a movie. so to course we're global a block busters of, so they definitely put their money where their mouth is, and they put it up on the screen. and i also think that having 2 episodes of this, a series of that the sort of scope um and the so the depth of storytelling a, in this a lot of the rings, a series also does match that of the films at least a so far. but will, of course, the real proof will be in the pudding when this show goes out and whether or not earth fans worldwide embrace it. because with a budget this high with so much being spent on the series failure just isn't an option. this really has to be the one series to rule them all. their failure isn't an option. and it's particularly wow. tricky when there's competition because this is going to be going had to head with a new game of thrones sequel that dropped 2 weeks ago. i read beginning to see a new era of,

of tv in yahoo you think is going to win the battle of dragons here. who i don't know if i've got to put my but money on one dragon or, or the other at the moment only to see how the bo series sort of, uh, play out that they actually are quite different. a site being setting fairly similar uh worlds on, but when it comes to sort of the size of the shows, you're definitely right. this is a new, really a new era. the budgets for these a shows are astronomical. i'm, if, you know, maybe 10 years ago, you're talking about the golden age of television and tell in series i'm trying to do sort of a dark drama in a way that before only sort of a grown up movies i used to do. now i think we're entering into almost a block buster phase of t, v series with these massive a shows that basically i tried to take on blockbuster films on. and i think this could be the kind of a television that defines the next 10 or 15 years. okay, did abuse, got rocks for foreign force from venice. thank you for that. and a reminder, the top story we're following for you parts of southern pakistan are bracing for

even more flooding. a huge amount of water is moving down the induced river toward syn province forcing millions of people to evacuate. northern cities also remain into dated for earlier rains. more than 1200 people have died in the flood. so you're watching dw news coming up next. the ukraine counter offensive can keep push the russian army back in our show. deploy spicer, thanks for watching. ah ah. with

you to the point in strong opinion. clear positions, international perspectives. ukraine says its force has had broken through moscow's frontline defenses at several points in the southern each and it's near half sauce . you crane counter offensive, can it push the russians back?

find out on to the point to the point next on d w. growing fees in asia. so i've come to tie, want to speak with foreign minister joseph lou. d w reporter richard walker. in taiwan debate, his china following russia's lead and planning to take its neighboring state by force, east this region on a slippery slope towards a devastating conflict. how do we resolve the exclusive interview? while in 60 minutes on d, w. ah, in 50 years ago the international gathering of peace and cooperation becomes the scene of

a horrible tragedy. arab terrorists, armed with sub machine guns, went to the headquarters of the israeli team, and immediately killed one man. and that this will be the last time i saw him life or worse, fears realized tonight, they're all gone. how i witnesses experienced the terrible events and this, the world should not forget the long shuttle. the 1972 olympic massacre. start september 3rd on d, w. after weeks of build up, ukraine says it has launched a counter offensive to retake territory seized by russia. in the 1st weeks of its invasion officials in chia said their forces had broken through moscow's defences in several areas of the front line. here, the city of hassan, as the pushback got underway, the you agreed online.