ah, a special look at a special country. iran from above. start september 16th on d, w. ah, ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin. un nuclear watchdog. warren's military safe zone is needed around ukraine's is operation nuclear plant. gap claim by the head of the international atomic energy agency addresses the un security council warning that if shelling around the facility does not end something

catastrophic could occur. awfully coming up. authorities in pakistan make it difficult choice as the country's largest fresh water lake threatens to burst its banks. rural residents are left dealing with the decision to flood their villages in hopes of saving more populated area. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. the united nations secretary general says russia and ukraine must cease military activity near this operation nuclear plant and agree on a security zone. antonio good terrorist warned that any damage could spell, catastrophe for the region and beyond. his words echoed those of the head of the new un nuclear watchdog. it's rafael garcia that time speaking to the

security council. but his 1st time reporting on what he seen with his own eyes at this apparition, nuclear plant broken. we are playing with fire and something very, very catastrophic could take place. this is why in our report, we are proposing the establishing the establishment, sorry, of a nuclear safety and security protection zone. grossey says it's not possible to work normally and safely at the plant. it's short staffed, the staff, it does have an overworked and communication with the outside world is difficult and he says military vehicles are getting in the way. our concrete recommendation these regard is that the military vehicles on equipment that are currently present in buildings inside nuclear buildings on this side be removed from the russian ambassador accused key of shelling the plant and said there could be serious consequences. a griffin deserves to look the responsibility lie solely with key if

it's western supporters and all those in the security council who don't have the courage to call things by their name and stop. the reckless actions against this power plant would be useful for those. despite russia, song and dance here today, to avoid acknowledging responsibility for its actions, russia has no right to expose the world to unnecessary risk. and the possibility of nuclear catastrophe. nothing new at the security cancel. russia and western nations at loggerheads once again with no end to the conflict in sight. sean, bernie is a senior nuclear specialist with greenpeace. i asked him earlier to assess the danger coming from this nuclear plant in the middle of a war zone. well, there's important information in the i e report, and it's perhaps maybe the 1st time that the i really explained the scale of the read the risk to the plant, the,

using the words catastrophic to describe nuclear plants and safety is unusual for the international atomic energy agency, they normally promote nuclear power, but isn't, there's important evidence in here. i think we're concerned that there's not enough explanation about what the russian government and the nuclear industry of russia rose. atom are actually doing the plant, which is a factory planning in these coming days. to reconnect the plant to the russian grit and not effectively stealing a nuclear plant. the idea is unfortunately silent on that stealing a nuclear plant. that's quite a prospect. the un has spelled out conditions needed to secure the nuclear facility . are you confident that the necessary steps will be taken to make the plant safe? well, unfortunately, only quick power plants have real risks. this is a unique situation with a nuclear power plant in a full scale war, the russian ambassador shortly after the presentation security council. last night

said that is not serious to consider a demilitarized zone that effectively is only one step towards the safety of this nuclear plant, which is demilitarization un stuckey general called explicitly for that. the director general of the i e. mr. grew, sees referred to a nuclear safety and security zone as far as the perimeter fence that won't stop the damage that's being done by russian shelling to the grid system to the transmission lines that are essential for keeping the plant safe. now you're a nuclear expert. you deal with these sorts of things, the safety issues, tell us if something horrible does happen at the plant, what would be the consequences? well, the range of consequences would be from limited to extreme. and that really depends upon the, the sequence of events and the scale of radiological release. unfortunately, this apparition plant, there are 6 nuclear reactors. but there are over 800 tons of highly radioactive

spent fuel in the cooling pools. these are pools of water inside the reactor containment, that must be kept cool. otherwise the water boils off and you start getting releases of redo activity inside the containment. but it also can escape for the react to cores themselves again in enormous amount of redo activity in the, in the fuel courts. the worst case scenario is that you end up with a nuclear meltdown similar to what you had in fukushima. there are 6 reactors on the separation site. only one is currently operating at low power, but that in itself is hazardous because it's not stable, that reactors is operating to power the turbines and supply up just to the plant. because the, the site is cut off from the ukraine grid at the moment. so it's a inc. streamline dangerous situation. the consequences would be potentially very large contamination of southern ukraine, but also beyond ukraine into europe. sean burney,

nuclear specialist with green pace, thank you very much. for talking with us. thank you. let's catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. germany paid tribute today to the last leader of the soviet union. mikhail gorbachev minutes silence was observed in the parliament and the bonus talks, present babble boss spoke of his policy decisions that led to the end of the cold war. gorbachev died last week at the age of 91. he was buried over the weekend in moscow next to his wife. russian president vladimir putin has told an economic form in vladivostok that the developing world had been cheated by a landmark grain deal struck by the united nations, ukraine, and russia. he said, exports, we're not going to the poorest countries as was the going. we also call for more cooperation with asian countries, which china has been hit by

a major earthquake and it's southwestern province such one. earlier this week, the 6.8 magnitude quake triggered landslides and shook buildings in the provinces, capital chang do, which has population of 21000000 a. at least 74 people have been reported killed. a fire at a karaoke bar in vietnam has killed at least 12 people and injured many more. o t men, city officials are investigating the cause. and vietnam's prime minister has ordered inspections of venues prone to fire, including karaoke bars us month 3 people died in a fire at such a bar in hanoi. why not? okay, now, what the us has started a massive rule out of new coven. 19 vaccines designed for both the original strain of the corona virus and on the chrome variance government. the visors said that in addition to the new boosters, it was likely that annual vaccination shots for cove, it would become the norm, similar to regular flu, vaccinations. pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country's largest

fresh water lake from overflowing and adding to the misery of millions affected by flooding. workers have breached a dyke of lake mon charge to try to control the overflow, but that means nearby villages have been inundated, while more densely populated areas have now been spare. pakistan's largest fresh water lake keeps getting bigger. said by months of rain, lake man char, in southern pakistan is close to overflowing, putting hundreds of thousands of people in the area at risk. if we tucker over here, so wholesale entity, it, it would be dawn. so the situation is stuff we had trying to convey and had been fighting since last. what year dark engineers made it difficult decision to cut into an embankment to direct the flood away from the most populated areas and flood dozens of nearby villages instead. authority say the emergency breach has already

displaced a 100000 people, but local reporting suggest the number could be much higher. many who fled say they haven't received any help from the government. dominic, debbie bunn, when the water breached the lake, we got scared and left our village and belongings going forward as we took our children and ran and came here that i get one day. we arrived at 2 in the morning and it's been 3 days and nobody's come to help us in that way. most of us are staying under the open sky. only. i may say bit and on their own and in harm's way. and no one knows for how long living in makeshift camps on higher ground. the displaced face a range of health risks, such as water born and skin diseases, say experts that bad but the children missed the hind because there's no

replacement feel. hi. there is no peace. there are lots of mosquitoes han, it's very hot. we've asked for an electric fan, but that's impossible. the children's education has been stuck to getting food is also very difficult. we can't even cut because decimal to every way. the decision to divert the flood waters has spared the larger cities near lake mon char, for now, but at great human cost elsewhere. but with more rain expected to fall this month, pakistan's disastrous summer might not be over yet. under a lead gallery is with the united nations children's fun unicef. he joined us earlier from pakistan, southeastern sind province and told us more about what he's seen there. i have been in 3 districts out of the many infected in this province right now, which is the most effective province of the country. why i have seen hundreds and thousands of people and problems of people on the road sides. i'm very where i go,

where ever township i visit its water on both sides of the road and its just people sitting on the road side waiting for help. there is, of course, certain there are certain camps that have been set up their accounts, but there are still, there are no, no more capacity in that in those camps. more camps are still being set up. a lot of work is being done, but there is still so much more to be done. and i see hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of children without food, without, without seen water. there is this, this, the stagnant war, flood water lakes, as i've been calling them around the, around the province and somewhere there are 6 feet deep. somebody there are 5 feet and cities where you've just where i just mentioned the months or late this, the city surrounding the month, legs i can try and so many of the city the entirely drowned and there is, there is danger looming. so what we see now is just women and children who are waiting for whatever they can get food, nutrition,

health related services. pregnant ladies are up and women are still waiting for any services. and there are men and families and communities who are in the camps on the road side, whatever's coming their way. they're just, you know, your organization specializes in helping children in these situations. they're among the most vulnerable. are they getting the help they need for the most part? well, the people, i mean we are the organizations or whoever on ground they're trying their best units of is also trying our best we have brought in just just by just suited to go to metric tons of age, which are fly. that is now handed over to them and is going to the people we are trying more to get more aide and more supplies. it's more about supplies right now so that we can also get other supplies into the hands of the people who are most in need. but as i said, it's just, i mean the effort is, is gradually reaching as many people as it can reach. and there are so many people

out there still still is still on the move, still stranded in the flooded areas and they're still hard to reach. so we need more help. now official say a 3rd of the country has been flooded over 1300 people are confirmed dead millions of homes destroyed. you think pakistan will ever be the same it's going to be a difficult, difficult journey for this country. it's going to take years to come back to at least even the point where we were before this flood and even that was not an entirely ideal point. of course the system in terms of so many things, challenges for children, women i can speak for it's just that. i mean, it's definitely not going to be the same for this country, but we, this is the country where the people, the volunteer effort has been great and the support that, that the global community, i think is good right now, but more as needed. but yes, absolutely. it is going to be a difficult time to undress rigari with unicef and sin province,

pakistan. thank you so much washing dw news. just reminder of the top story we're following for you this our united nations nuclear watchdog is calling for security zone to be established around ukraine's embattled zappa ratio nuclear power plant. by a chief roughly grossey says he is gravely concerned about the situation at the plant. i'm terry martin for me and all of us a dw news, thanks for watching an interest in the global economy. our portfolio d. w. business beyond. here's a closer look at the project.