his success in weakling, coven 19 special. every thursday on d. w. ah ah . d w. news line from berlin. after record breaking rains, pakistan's flood victims paste a new threat. water born diseases are spreading among those affected by historic flooding. more than 3000000 children aren't worth good illness and malnutrition. also coming up in the program, the u unveiled plans to cap the price of russian gas to undercut moscow's ability

to wage war and ukraine. latin to put in his back in europe will freeze follows through and brazil marks 200 years of independence when election just around the corner. will look at why critics a president bull scenario is using the bicentennial to boost his own election hopes . ah, i'm here until thanks for joining us. we start tonight in pakistan where millions of people who've been affected by record bridging floods are now confronting the threat of water born diseases. tens of thousands in the heart provinces are falling ill after drinking contaminated blood water. doctor said that they've been treating thousands, suffering from diarrhea, skin infections, and other ailments. 3 year old at champ,

has been feverish for days. ever since the floods badly damaged his family home. and they've had to sleep out in the open. he didn't get any medical treatment at the start because the family couldn't afford to go to the doctor by the end book ira that my son fell ill a few days ago, because i didn't have the money to bring him here. but i found it. i got, the doctor says he's got malaria, i think he's getting a bit better when i go either i can i am i recorded, i read on aloud for safety than the stagnant water means mosquitoes couldn't quickly spread malaria, but medical facilities are basic in this remote area of the southern sinned province at each kumar runs a small practice and is always busy. most of his patients can't afford to pay some damn more of that. we can't really treat patients for free to live,

but we do it anyway. but they still have to pay for the medicine. i think there's a lot of disease starts out. most of the children often have several illnesses at once because they're drinking contaminated water, but you are told i am money vinegar. it's not just medical treatment, which is lacking. food is also in short supply. most of these market traders are farmers whose fields are flooded. they also have to deal with the extreme heat aside yankee lay on my house and the harvest have been wiped out yet. i said there's no shelter from the heat in the water in the fields, a still waste deep. they did a vine. my business will go bust actually hadn't to hear it hasn't rained in this region for about 10 days. but the water cannot run off because the ground is saturated. scientists fear the harvests in the next 2 years will fail. i, a jazz ali and his family are in

a desperate situation. their house is uninhabitable. parts of the roof has collapsed and they live in fear of the next rain, full in agony. morocco meant that a government has to help us. our home has been destroyed or rocky, the children are sick. i shanna but, and we have no work. i'm really worried about the wiring and my unity login as our now don't get a chance. there's no food and the family is having to survive on a few cups of tea a day that will not sustain them for long. earlier the w spoke, i used to say that said the car, a pakistani climate activist who joined us from new york. we asked her about her biggest concerns for the coming weeks and months in pakistan. what looks like a natural disaster right now and is slowly becoming a humanitarian crisis is about to multiply tenfold and we as

a country are now prepared for it. and globally, we are not prepared for it. flooding in this part of the world is not new. neither are monsoons. in fact, if the climate crisis, and because the climate crisis is going to continue to get worse, he's flood, you're going to become the normal. the country right now is just, it's responding in an emergency, it does not have a plan for next month to come and the illnesses that will come out of it. in addition to that hungry people get angry. i'm focused on g d. p is 9 percent cotton and cotton and 30000000 acres of coff has just been completely destroyed. and that means and internally there's going to be social collapse. if not, political uprising. the global north should assist us financially, but it is not just that what is happening to in pakistan is an issue for all

because this is, this can be the reality for the rest of the world. if we don't take the climate crisis seriously, if we don't stop our emissions yesterday, what is the flight and what we're seeing and this extreme suffering can be your home, your family, your land in the next coming years. if we, if we don't stop our production of fossil fuel, russia's president vladimir putin has told an economic reform and what the was, look, that sanctions against his country are a danger for the whole world. he also condemned moves by g 7 nations to impose a cap on the price of russian oil and u member states, looking to new to surprise cap and russian gas. this comes as you country's face growing energy crisis as winter approaches. with them go ideally newsletter may a potent struck a defiant tone at the economic form in vladivostok where he had you, he said, any efforts to isolate his country with futile stressing that moscow now was looking to the east and iran for new opportunities and not one to mince words,

putin was straight up about what he thought of the westward sanctions against his country. and i fear russia is coping with the economic, financial, and technological aggression of the wesley's hughes. i'm talking about aggression. there's no the word for it. a little bit more in currency exchanges and stock exchanges. i've stabilized him as we are in the gracie that years with he said the sanctions were causing world wide instability and compromised europeans quality of life. economic crazy western governments began imposing sanctions on russia. after invaded ukraine in february. since then the european union has moved to cut its reliance on russian gas and oil causing energy prices to saw. the situation deteriorated further at the beginning of september when russia state own gas company gas. brom said it was closing a crucial gas pipeline to the you again the crime. and since the closure is due to

technical issues, contract to obligations and international sanctions. placing the blame firmly on brussels, you officials refute his claims and accused russia of trying to blackmail the block . they would truly say we are using energy as a weapon and they put themselves in a situation. i don't know what to do now. do they painted themselves into a sanction corners only to last week? g. 7 nations, a great to a russian oil price cap to rain in russia's revenues and stabilize energy markets. now the use commission president is also calling for a cap on gas. we aim at lowering the cost of gas. and therefore we will propose a price cap on russian gas. of course, the objective is very clear. we all know that our sanctions, deeply grinding into the russian economy with a heavy negative impact,

but putting its partially buffering through fossil fuel revenues. so here the objective is we must cut rushes, revenues, which put in uses to finance is atrocious. lauren ukraine, while poaching has called the latest move, quote stupid. the use intention is clear, even if the details are not yet. the plan is expected to be tabled at the european energy council meeting on friday. brazil's president valuable snarl has told his supporters to make a stand as the nation marks the 200 anniversary of its independence with political rallies planned across the country. critic saying, he has transformed what should be a day of unity into a campaign event that they fear war heat, that they fear he will use to undermine next month's election. pitney bowes indicate that he's lagging behind his left wing rival lula da silva. it was supposed to be a celebration of 2 centuries of independence from portugal. but president jerbill,

so narrow, made every attempt to turn it into a political event. less than a month before brazilians vote on their next president. he knew through all this feeling it though poor, by little gorges, the brazilian people are taking to the streets to day to celebrate 200 years of independence and eternal freedom that what is at stake is how freedom our future will do. also at stake is both scenarios job as head of state polls show the president trailing behind x president. louise in asi olu la da silva by double digits. also narrow has called the contest a battle of good and evil. and in front of a sea of supporters, he denied the numbers from leading pollster, dot tafoya, with a bit of word play. walking no, hey, here there is no lying thought left. either foyer. here is our data

people about boy, here is the truth. here is the will of an honest, free and hard working people thought live with a bit about our dog. it's not the 1st time that bull sanara has called the electoral process into question. he's being investigated by the supreme court after aggressively criticizing the electronic voting machines that brazil has used for decades. audits found no issues with the system. but not everyone in the streets was celebrating protesters in rio de janeiro called bull scenario genocidal and worried that he would use the military to claim to power even if he loses the election. because i know that for 28 years, the cry of the excluded demonstration has taken place to protest that independence is not complete in our country, especially this year. this demonstration is fundamental since precedent, both scenarios together with moderate congressman and the military is threatening a co in our country,

eliminating all work his rights and increasing expectations. what i found some in life in it's 200 years of independence. brazil has seen revolutions, military rule and scandal. the election in october and the president's response to a potential defeat will be crucial and deciding its future. i'm join now from flor novelist by journalists mathias a, but from the german public broadcasting network i day. so the full show barson are trailing his main challenge a former president louise in us. you lula da silva. why has both an arrow loss support? yeah, one reason is the base behavior during the corona pandemic. and what's an hours delay in buying vaccination doses? his and his dad play of the crisis and was really an issue for many people and it

led to to satisfaction among society. another point is m, the most narrow err repeatedly attacked, the supreme court of brazil. and so many people are little bit scared because of this attitude and, and they, some of them won't vote him, won't it again for him after they will to firm in 2018. they might not do so in this year. all right, we just heard in the report that the bull scenario has already question the integrity of the voting system. if he loses, what do we think? will he go quietly? yeah, that might happen because his primary critics of the lecture electronic rewarding system is permanently happening in the last month. so his follows, as we heard today as well here, flo nobliss and they believe him and they won't accept maybe. and if wilson are, won't win the elections and 2nd of october, so

a lot of position in the society and can be recognized. and that might be really a little bit chance for october that might elect lead to a to a really an issue here in political cried yet. oh yeah. all right, that was what he is ebert in the brazilian city. a foreign apo is reporting for us . and his reminder of the top story we're following for you. in pakistan, millions who've been affected by record breaking floods are now facing the threat of waterborne diseases. doctor said that they've been treating thousands suffering from diarrhea, skin infections and other ailments. the european union has unveiled a plan to cap price. as for russian gas imports, the measure is aimed at undercutting moscow's ability to finance his war against you. brained russian president, vladimir putin has condemned the plan and threatened to cut off all fossil fuel exports to the youth. don't forget, you can always get more

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