>> this is dw news, live from berlin. the nuclear watchdog for the u.n. calls for a safe zone around the ukraine nuclear plant. what is of ongoing shelling posing an ongoing threat to safety as russian and ukrainian forces battle nearby. also coming up. >> famine is at the door. today we are receiving a final warning. >> chilling words from the one

about water and food shortages. they have combined to leave half the population pacing extreme hunger. liz truss names her cabinet. she is promised -- has promised a bold land to address soaring energy costs. plus, thousands of homes and businesses are underwater after monsoon flooding in pakistan. we will hear about efforts to drain off the biggest freshwater lake in the country and divert dangerous water flow away from populated areas. to our viewers on pbs and the united states and around the world, good to have you with us. the united nations nuclear watchdog is calling for a

security zone to be established around ukraine has embattled -- ukraine's embattled nuclear power plant. it was gravely concerned about the situation at the plant, describing conditions as untenable. this comes after our team of experts visited the site last night. since russian troops took role -- took control of the facility, kyiv and moscow have accused each other of risking a radiation disaster because of shelling near the site. iaea chief warns of potential catastrophe, saying the plant has sustained significant damage. >> the psical attack, wittingly or unwittingly, the hitshis facili has received and that could personally see

and assess together with my expertis simply unacceptae. we arelaying with fire. something very catastrophic could take place. this is why we are provoking the esblishment a safety zone limited to the perimeter and the plant itself. >> for more on the story, i am joined from los angeles by an engineering professor at the university of southern california. he also worked as a safety inspector at nuclear power plant around the world including chernobyl and fukushima. this report paints a troubling picture of the situation on the ground. what do you make of it? >> thank youor having me. it is a very sober report.

i think they deserve a nobel peace prize. >> what is written between the lines? >> i think the area i am mostly concerned about is the pillar three about the staff condition, operating staff and the potential for human error due to fatigue and stress. th constant distress and potential for human ever under extremely stressful conditions, all of thesere unfortunately a recipe for disaster. >> a big concern for the workers

at the plant is the fact that the occupiers seem to not know what they are dealing with. how big of a risk factor is that? >> thais aery important issue. the u.k. ambassador says these are not workers and were, they are hostages working at gunpoint. i cannot agree more with that characterization. >> we do know that the building is housing first nuclear field as well as damage. how worrisome is some of that? >> i did not even talk about the infrastructure and physical damage. those facilities and also the cough of power. all of these are very important, concerning. but what is going on at the un security council, it is a little

disappointing. this is the third meeting of the un security council. this is unfortunately with all due respect for these distinguished ambassadors. i think the un security council needs to be more proactive. they need to empower a commission, something in 1999 for iraq. in the court, it is a technical inspector and technical assistant agency. what ware dealing with is a peacemaking d politica negotiation which is above and beyond the capability.

>> the u.n. wants to establish a security zone around the nuclear plant which is something that would be very desirable. how much leverage do you think they have in pressing forward with this suggestion? >> the demilitarization was originated by the secretary-general almost a month ago. immediately, russian forces and all of them came out in the first security council. again, right now, there is a euphemism they are using called protectionism. i don't think the russian federation will accept that protection zone or demilitarization as being proposed by iaa.

my hble assessment is that we need to elevate this plan to escalate to the level of the political gotiation and security council needs to be more proactive rather than setting do and listening to the pontification. >> many thanks. >> thank you. >> ukraine says three civilians have been killed by russian missile attacks near the eastern city of kharkiv. that said he has seen much of the shelling but ukraine is reporting progress on his counteroffensive in the south. >> hit by rockets again and again. kharkiv is ukraine's second largest city. its position in the east and the russian border has made it a target throughout the war.

there was an explosion at the apartment sure. pieces of tile hit my child's back and the ceiling collapsed on my head. everything immediately filled the room. >> rescuers are still searching through the rubble, if survivors on the attack are in the city center, several people were killed in other strides in the region and air raid assignments -- sirens ran tough on tuesday morning. in the country south, kyiv said it is successfully pushing back. ukrainian troops lost a counteroffensive last week and said they already regained territory. this video appears to show soldiers raising a ukrainian

flag that had been held by russia since early on in the war . >> a short while ago, i spoke to our correspondent in kyiv and i put his or her that ukrainian counteroffensive in the south seemed to be gaining traction. >> exactly, the counteroffensive in the south started in early july so it is nothing new. what is new is that it has been a week or so that it has made significant gains in the south. i would love to tell you more about those gains but the situation being so critical, so sensitive, there is no regular updates as to which villages have been liberated, as to where exactly the army is fighting against the russian occupants. it is all a very sensitive topic. there are some videos on social media despite the request of the ukrainian army itself to not

talk about so as to not give clues to the russian army about the situation. we can see the videos. they also show a lot of russian tanks, russian equipment being destroyed on the side of the road and it looks like it is getting traction on the ukrainian side with volodymyr zelenskyy even saying, talking about the liberation of two villages that finally, this is where they're floating. it is the fact that russia has this. it wanted to do the same as it

did in crimea. it cannot do that at the moment because of the counteroffensive. >> the united nations says that in the first half of this year alone, more than 700 children have died in the emergency nutrition centers across mali. the country is now on the brink of famine. almost 8 million people. that is about half the population. barring a massive influx of assistance, that region is likely to see a full-scale famine in the coming months. >> southern somalia, this is what the worst drought in decades looks like. people displaced by climate change and conflict.

thunited nations humanitarian agency has been sounding the alarm for some time. >> i have been charged to my core these past few days by the pain-and-suffering. we see so many somalians and during it. famine is at the door. today we are receiving a final warning. >> it has been four seasons in the -- in a row. a fifth one is on the way. the problems in somalia run even deeper. decades of civil conflict, mass displacement and one of the lowest standards of living in the world. >> what is happening in africa is a threat to a way of life which is -- has sustained

milies andommunities for generations. it is not just lack of rain for four seasons, for many families, it is an end to the way they have lived. >> a grain shortage triggered by the were in ukraine have made the situation worse. this entire region is on the brink of extreme hunger, waiting in vain for the drought to end. >> earlier, we spoke with united nations world food program in nairobi. we asked him which groups would be most affected by a full-scale famine. >> it will affect the most vulnerable first. that is young children. it is the elderly, it is those living with disabilities. it is those who have been internally displaced by this terrible drought across four consecutive seasons. we have been saying for months that we cannot wait. we know from the past it will be

too late. the last major famine in somalia claimed more than a quarter one million lives, half the people that passed away died. we have not been waiting. we scaled up our assistance, our food and nutrition assistance in somalia to the highest levels ever. we have more than doubled the people we have reached. it is imperative right now that we are able to get the funding and resources to maintain and further increase that scale up. as we heard morgan griffith say just yesterday, we are in the last minutes of the 11th hour. we have to stop this right now. >> let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. >> nasa has released new pictures of the tarantula nebula captured by the james webb space

telescope. this shows detail the structure and composition of the nebulous gas and dust. the nebula lies in the large mega lanna cloud galaxy. some 161,000 light-years away. hundreds of student protesters clash with police outside of the presidential palace from santiago to file -- chile. voters in chile rejected a new progressive constitution and a referendum that would have included education reforms just yesterday. liz truss gave her first speech as prime minister, pledging to boost the economy, tackle the crisis and she promised a cuts and security at home and abroad. britain's fourth conservative

prime minister in six years. she is facing labor unrest and soaring energy prices. let's listen to what she had to say earlier. >> we will transform britain into an aspiration nation with high-paying jobs, safe streets and where everyone everywhere has the opportunities they deserve. i will take action this day and action every day to make this happen. i will take action this week to deal with energy bills and to secure our future energy supply. >> i spoke to our correspondent and asked her about her picks for the cabinet. >> many of the top positions are held by ethnic minority mps. so it is not a cabinet full of white men.

the deputy prime ministers are both female. that is something very striking. the other thing you can say is it is a cabinet that is mostly consisting of supporters of liz truss. she had been urged by conservative observers to build a cabinet of people who have not previously supported her but she has not done that so it is mostly allies mostly from the right wing and mostly brings tears. -- brexiteers. it is a cabinet she has built in her own image when it comes to their convictions. >> let's talk about support. she was elected by 80,000 conservative party members. how does the rest of the country feel about her question mark --

about her? >> she has been elected by the conservative party and the rest of the party needs to be convinced that she is the person to lead people out of many crises. inflation is skyrocketing up to almost 20% forecasted in the next months. on top of that, the country is facing the cost of living crisis which is is -- which is exacerbated by high energy bills. liz truss has been in the cabinet for quiet a while but she is not that well known to a lot of british people, her profile is not very high. the conservative party is trailing by the opposition labor party. liz truss is also trailing behind when she is compared to

-- she is not doing too well in the polls. now is a time to shine. she can really set the agenda and she can make yourself known to the british people. >> she is up to a difficult start. -- off to a difficult start. >> herzog is on a statement to germany where he has called for closer ties between the two nations. this is the anniversary of the munich olympics massacre were 11 teenagers were killed. he also visited the german nazi camp here. >> israel and germany's presidents paid their respects to the victims of the holocaust at bergen-belsen. addressing germany's parliament in berlin, he spoke about the effect his father's stories had him -- had on him as a child.

>> my father, the sixth president of germany was one of the first officers that liberated the death camps in germany from the jaws of the nazi beast. i shall never forget how he described to me the horrors that he witnessed, the stench, the human skeletons and -- striped pajamas. the destruction, they hell on earth. before visiting bergen-belsen, both president late remembrance reads at berlin's holocaust more. it was another symbolic act to show that neither country could forget the horrors of the nazi regime. whether we want it or not, the memory is a deep part of our identity as a nation. the people who carry in historic

memory such a dark, abysmal and impossible experience is not a people like all peoples. the state visit to germany also marks the 50th anniversary of another horror that israel can't forget, the munich olympics massacre. a day earlier, germany apologized for mishandling a terror attack in the olympic village in 1972 which left 11 is really -- israeli team members dead. at bergen-belsen, germany's president warned that the country must remain strong. faced with the millions murdered in the holocaust, every form of anti-semitism that sadly still exists in germany is an alarm signal for our country. the visit ended at a memorial for one of the mosfamo

victims of the holocaust, and frank murdered like her sister just months before the liberation of the camp, a reminder of the terrible suffering that these two nations are determined will never be repeated. quick pakistani authorities are trying everything they can to prevent pakistan's largest lake from overflowing and swapping nearby towns. water levels are said to be dangerously high following record monsoon flooding. satellites show the scale of the disaster following a severe drout, monsoon rains and melting glaciers have submerged a third of pakistan. millions have lost their homes. we have this report from pakistan's hard hit province. >> they have lost everything. they put their savings into building a house which they finished only two months ago in the southern province here. the floods have wiped out their

home and all of their hopes. i worked my whole left to build this house. i have never owned a home before. we were so happy when we finally managed toave engh to build it. i don't know whether that will ever happen again. he and his son are both carpenters. his wife built a workshop but the hopes were quickly dashed. it rained nonstop for 17 days and the walls were overcome by floodwaters. luckily we have relatives nearby and ware living with my cousin. there were four or five other families here. ey are just simple laborers buthey helps becae they are family.

on the way into the village where the family is now staying, the scale of the destruction is clear. the water here is also waist deep. eight people normally live in their tent accommodation. now, more than 30 are crammed in. >> my kids are sick but we can't get any medicine. we can't even leave the house. >> the family needs medicine, food and clean drinking water but there is little prospect of any improvement. this is the agricultural minister in a region that is 90 percent flooded. the food means areikely to fail this year. collect the water in some houses is a maître d'.

the wheat harvest will be devastated this year and next year. the water in the fields has to drain away. it is likely there will be no harvest for two years. many here feel the floods will from -- will mean food shortages. although it is one othe countries th the lowest greenhouse gas emissions, pakistan is a victim of the change. the village elders say it has not rained this hard in a hundred years. of course it has led to global warming and climate change. the government says more than a million people are affected by the flooding. the authorities are promising financial help for those in need but they have not received anything so far.

he doesn't know how he and his family will cope. >> please don't ask me whether i will ever be able to build another house. i feel helpless and completely overwhelmed. i have never cried before in my life. i am just trying to stay strong and be grateful for what god has given me. the big hope now is that for his son, the dream of owning his own home one day become true. >> stay with us, after a short break, i will be back to take us through the day.

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>> news and analysis from france 24. these are the headlines. the u.n. callsor a safe zone power plant, in ukraine,nuclear occupied by russian troops. the situation is untenable they say. russia blames the german gas giant, saying supply will not resume until