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i don't want them in their neighborhoods. well the united nations has asked the governments around the world to provide dozens of helicopters to get lifesaving supplies to pakistan some eight hundred thousand people remain trapped after the country's worst ever floods with more than seventeen million people affected to get an inside look at the situation and find out what needs to be done we spoke to the un's deputy envoy to pakistan his interview is coming up next. some see it is the catastrophic of the century and the u.n. has devoted all its resources its calling upon the international community to help pakistan in this a massive get this trophy disaster. as a un special envoy in. pakistan how do you assess the you
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rule at this time i believe the united nations has been a very important partner to pakistan for the pakistani people for decades we have been working in this country and some of the worst crisis. which affected the people of pakistan the influx of afghan refugees thirty years ago the different natural disaster of this country is experiencing unfortunately on a very frequent basis so we are with pakistan have to be with pakistan will be with bikers and such united nations of course in its rule of coordinating not only itself. but also the international community the various aid organizations which are coming in to help. here to certain to be streamlined help the government of pakistan assistance which is now
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gradually unfortunately coming to this country the united nations. secretary general mr ban ki moon has already up on the international community to help some media reports say is that this call was not smith properly and how do you respond to that i believe it took all of us. a little while to understand that this was one of the biggest if not the biggest natural disaster. we have seen in living memory took us a while to understand when we did realize that it was not only the flash floods which hit the north in the very beginning but as the secretary general after his visit during his visit said a slow rolling moving tsunami affecting the entire country. i think we are waking up the international community. is waking up has woken up and
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is now contributing it is to all of us pakistan of course the first the pakistani people the well known pakistani hospitality which has also worked so well when all the people came from swat in two thousand and nine to host the brothers and the sisters. that now is coming to fruit we have seen considerable contributions coming in to pakistan to the united nations but also to the many aid organizations who are now rushing to to help this country. however. we are still in the beginning. there are still hundreds of thousands of people displaced every newly displaced. every day every week more and more people. impacted in the same time having people returning all of it
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these people also need assistance they are now rebuilding their houses they have to rebuild their livelihoods start again maybe cleaning and clearing out their fields they need to be helped so the needs will be maybe should not only in fact from a useless get stuck with the initial amounts which have been mentioned the appeal of the united. the appeals done by other organizations by the government itself it is just the beginning we're still assessing and we cannot even do the full assessment because it's still happening how much would be really needed so we have seen almost a billion dollars now coming to pakistan in kind donations but also in cash let me put this question is maybe it's a political side a bit but this is what i have touched where we're when i visited the area. and in this in the in the south everybody is complaining of the. nor the
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decrease of the shortage of the aids that reach into these areas they are complaining they are very angry against the government let me ask you what type of cord the nation is between the you and the government of pakistan in order to put a mic in it's sort of mechanism to distribute this assistance and make sure that this is a system reaches reach to these fifty's well. first of all i think i'm not saying the people are right of course the people are frustrated they lost everything and they see only a portion of the needs is actually covered. again i believe in. the shower. as we have been operational there now for four years and even though our warehouses were all affected. the world food program lost
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thousands of tons of food other organizations lost a lot of other items we were able to response in fact liberia has been better covered than others now it is clear that only a fraction of the people has been covered satisfactory. problems of access just unbelievable unbelievable if you believe that i mean if you imagine that eight hundred thousand people is not a million i simply cut off. any where in the world that would be an unsurmountable challenge for any government for any action this is one of the massive as we have agreed destructions that have been ever faced in the in the in the world or it's in the you know century. with the flanders come from the north into the sea and then there is. a warning by the united nations that the disease is . a chronic disease would spread in the areas was affected what is the how
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the you were in will deal to. contain these diseases in the. fifty's well again the united nations has been present and working with the health authorities in the country again for decades on the over the kitchen of paul your etc so there is a capacity on the ground and again intertwined with. the government health structures. sort of deserving and the need there may be and may have been even before but still there's a capacity to respond. there has been a very. a high level consultation involving and chaired by the prime minister himself to address this issue because it is of concern again because of the rather poor state of health of many of the people let's not forget that before the floods occurred the food insecurity was enormous in this country
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a lot of people did not have enough food on their plates every day poverty is a big issue here so you have very weak people. and these are in many cases in most cases the ones of most affected are the poorest of the poor they are the ones who have been cultivating in the river beds or working in the river beds for some of the owners so there are people in a very very poor nutritional status these are people who already where you will find a lot of these diseases present it is not new. so if you see reports on. these are not really killing you but you would have scabies escape or something what has been there all the time. but of course the combination of displaced exposure to the weather shelter. no clean water.
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etc etc you bring this all together you have the already existing diseases and it becomes dangerous however the has been is an ongoing response the deployment of the necessary medical kits to the various existing structures medical teams volunteers being deployed so we hope but again there is no guarantee of course we hope to be able to contain it all together. but there is certainly major risk and again that's why we have a meeting on the high. bringing all the actors together to really take work on an action plan take action work on an action plan and move forward my last questions or maybe one of the most interesting points that is building dams. the
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government of pakistan has always been in controversy of certain dams especially dams and dams and several times in the northwest and indeed in the cells in your long term plans did you. assess how you would convince the governments to build such dams in the to avoid such a catastrophe in the futures are not up to us to convince the government. in fact up to the government to in fact review together with its partners who are coming forward also with the financing of these projects. and some of the private. of course the big a bilateral friends who have of how do to shape this however. in this context we are looking forward to a comprehensive plan. of. build back better and avoid in fact future disasters so the extent possible of this extent.
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and dams are the management of water in the context of how it flows and where it is retained and now it refilled. the water table and so on that is obviously one of the big issues in in fact the century of climate change and global warming where this needs to be addressed i mean some have predicted more and more of these crises. and again also we should recall that statistically seen in every year pakistan is affected by floods so it is an issue which needs to be addressed. in the long run again let's take together a paternity let's see what is the best technical solution to it and it's not up to me to decide but which is the good one of the bad one that is up to the to the experts to work together and i think again this is an opportunity for this
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partnership. we house the friends of democratic pakistan process which in fact has been misunderstood for long as a pledging and event. which is this not and it is in fact exactly to address. jointly the requirements for change for reform addressing policy view have come up with an energy plan together under the leadership development bank. looking forward now to the implementation of the energy plan which we have by the way hydro energy is one of the major elements and in the same way let's combine this with with looking into how water and the floods will be managed here and not to have the water as an enemy but as a friend thank you very much if you get.
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wealthy british style songs it's time to. go. markets. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred the global financial headlines. the
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headlines here on. security forces in russia's north caucuses have stepped up the terror crackdown killing over forty militants in august alone the home of the leader of the chechen republic has become the latest target of gunmen. fire in central russia has killed nine and left two wouldn't critical condition evidence suggests it may have been started by a man who set himself a light to commit suicide. and series of attacks on hispanic immigrants has raised fresh racial fears in new york the victims say they've been targeted by african-americans who don't want them in their neighborhoods. and up next all the sporting news with azure.
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hello there welcome to the sport good to have your company and this is what is coming up six points clear is an international community to extend their lead in the russian premier league. clubs stuff by turkey russia lose to the hosts of basketball's world championships. and each creature whose king is he wins the first fed ex playoff tallman but woods also has a good day. we start with the football though whereas in the case which is held his plays after their three no win over your committee this in pittsburgh side word of the champions league midweek by a walk said but split he says his men were true professionals and expected them to band span the wind puts them six points clear at the top of the russian premier league and they didn't waste much time struggling off their european hangover little downy scoring from a quick free kick to seventeen minutes i things got even worse for your help me
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since the second half i think they had midfield to me though been sent off for a second yellow card. and it is a need just ten minutes to take advantage of the extra man and maybe you control the sea alexander who could also net it is the line of lotto defender stood still expecting offside but the rest didn't play i go to and then another ten minutes later shirokov blasted from outside the area to drive the last mile into last place perfect three nil the final score lines any service a goal six to the top two games in hand dropped to ten. to scale seven points adrift in third place after two one home win over a line year by a blasting in for the first i was dancing for joy after that one i toss it scored the next in the set. half. of the provider in this one. so too nearly
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twenty minutes to go missing the would stay like this before so they gave you notice of each trip of in the penalty area any injury time you'll go for this the rest and a consolation. the penalty turned out to be the difference in tom's one nil win at home to normal moscow goes for siberia when dennis followed in school. stepped up to school that sport kicked one of the all the way it ended then tom's moving up to the nominee. confirmation of those results you're here to scar being the only capital side to three points to a mighty and in amish drug world. and a look at the standings then after getting weak nine teams any six points clear at the top a nice cushion for them with two games in hand over to being to scare a seven points adrift as we say but also have two games to play while at the bottom
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sabir and i propping up the table a point behind that day have played one game less. so sabir will be looking to move off the bottom on monday when they travel to fellow rookies angy who are twelve seven points off the relegation. zone in england sunderland grabbed a last minute penalty to win one home to match the city who missed the chance to go two points behind premier league leaders chelsea down ben next time spoke to get the black caps victory after carlist service had missed an open goal for city bolton came from two gold standard c. two at home to birmingham wonders goalkeeper u.t.s. goal line was sent after thirty seven minutes and if another tourist goal gave liverpool won their victory over west brom and their first win of the season aston villa go forth after beating everton one nil at home so quick look at how the tigers look in england chelsea still top the only team with three victories out of three so far second united and now it's villa who are fourth but at the bottom
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west ham and stoke are yet to pick up any points and everton have slipped into the drop zone. in spain joe as a marine is the league of adventure has got off to a disappointing start his reality dread start with how it would go with a straw away at new york at a marina i had led into an unprecedented trouble last season reale were hoping he could help them in two years without a try for several good chances by bagging now they guilty missing on more than one occasion i do think making some great saves they deny yeah. defending champion boss lerner had no problems de finding the net three no open victory for them away race and sound from that little messy opening he's just great being politically. and then a punch from the right people can i landed the fate of yes volley begin for the second i. think the third playing for you standing down to the people on the end of a cross as powerful had
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a goal on his boss that day. now the basketball world championships team russia have lost the host david glassman made a mess of the second quarter missed one where they added only seven points while the turks managed seventeen the russians woke up in the final period winning it nineteen seventeen which obviously wasn't enough to catch their opponents sixty five fifty six the final score there to leave the group while russia a third and play bottom side ivory coast on wednesday in the meantime the usa have claimed their second to second victory of the tournament this time mike who speaks men slovenia little chance beating european side by ninety nine point seven seven kevin durant's that the american speaks twenty points while another heavy love added ten and eleven. in other news police have a thirty five year old man who's at the center of the cricket match fixing scandal involving pakistan cricket agent he was released without charge after being
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arrested on saturday on suspicion of conspiring to defraud bookmakers. a british tabloid alleged it paid him in advance for details of three no balls which were bowled by pakistan in the test against england several pakistan players of also being questioned by police captain someone but mohammed a man mohammad asif and camera and acma were all interviewed the manager the team manager gabble saeed said the claims were unproven england won the final test on sunday and the series. has been the new event of ghosts fed ex playoffs beating martin lead in a playoff at the barclays in new york while tiger woods did enough to make sure he qualified for next week's story bank championship woods had been a mixed call and had to finish in the top one hundred this wheat grass and he did it by carving a four under sixty seven in his last round meanwhile led was hoping to win the barclays out right after starting the day with a three shot laden had teapots victory here but missed the first part and then the
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second part of a play off with an after lead par the. birdie after this effort from the rough set him up with a winning puck there was a touch of fortune or a touch of gritty and let you decide anyway he leaves the fed ex standings with three more torments to play luke donald and patrick hurrying to finish down the field to go wild card picks for the european ryder cup team. and joining them on your painting is italian edoardo molinari after he won the johnnie walker classic at gleneagles three goodies in the last three holes in a one shot when i regret it from the strike. to formula one now former champion lewis hamilton has returned to the start to the top of this season standings following a simple when at the belgian grand prix red bulls mark webber started from pole but was slow out of the sand cleared the first corner of the spar track down in sixth
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place and want to make full use of the strains to lead the race from then on his adventure be the first. crossed the finish line whether clawed his way back to second spot in this accident race but it was not enough to keep him on top of the standings the night trailed hamilton by three points whether dreadful teammate sebastian vettel finished outside the form remains third overall ahead of defending champion jenson button and i know we both crash diet. they came home for just a six in the driver's championship. it was a great weekend. very very tough race for me i think the same for everyone but. train for just a race that went smoothly but mostly with the tricky conditions when it started to rain. pollution temperature in the tires and not really knowing how much you can push in each corner and break free quite late and locked my wheel and wired in turn a pair and g.'s i was you know they were different how do you stand over me because
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i was able to get away with it. while the moto g.p. danny patrol has won the indianapolis grand prix the spaniard passed poetry to our local favorite band by saying held on to take the big three by the half second screen letting to try to narrow the gap and i believe you are entitled to sixty eight point seven miles to go at the bunny finish the race beat them hard to balance you know roughly. for. now the last grand slam of the tennis season starts today with russia's succeed you cannot have a janky playing home favorite michael russell in the first round of the u.s. open at the top seed in action include roger federer and andy roddick he's feeling better about his preparation. i was probably always very concerned about large rajput. but flying cincinnati and. clamoring for it was really big for me so. i'm not as concerned.
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provocateur magic part of the world's coverage. and in the women's draw rushes lena dementieva is the twelfth seed faces olga. defending champion kim clijsters also start their campaigns against unseeded opposition with close is relishing the chance to retain her current plan does not any different than last year absence you have a few more probably unanswered questions but i think this year. i know what i have to do if i want to try and do a small ascended masters. but more pressure on the pressure is the pressure is on the side you know. putting you into the spot and maybe one of the three different. sides of the pack and. that is all the sport finance more active. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get
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