update in the meantime the united nations has asked governments 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 affected want 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 and his interview is coming up next on r.t. . 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 mess if at this traffic disaster. as a un special envoy in. pakistan how do you assess the you role 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 all the different natural disasters this country is experiencing unfortunately on this very frequent basis so we are with pakistan have to be with pakistan will be with bikers and. 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 those who we are here to certainly streamlined help the government of pakistan assistance which is now gradually unfortunately coming to

this country the united nations. secretary general mr ban ki moon has. a bomb the international community to help pakistan some media reports say is that this call was not submit properly and how do you respond to that i believe it took all of us a little while to under. stand 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 broken up and

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 into 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 of it these people also need assistance they are now rebuilding their houses they have to

rebuild their livelihoods to start again maybe cleaning and clearing out the fields they need to be helped so the needs will be and we should not only in fact from a use this get stuck with the initial amounts which have been mentioned the appeal of the united nations the appeals done by other organ is. 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 where when i visited the area. in this in the in the south everybody is complaining of the. north

a 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 u.s. 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 system reaches reach to these affected well. first of all i think i'm not saying the people are rights of course the people are frustrated they lost everything and see only a portion of the needs is actually covered. again i believe that in in the shower. as we have been operational there now for four years even though our warehouses were all affected. the world food programme lost 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. the problems of access are just unbelievable unbelievable if you believe that i mean if you imagine that hundred thousand people if not a million i simply cut off. anywhere 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 ever faced in the world or in the century. the flanders come from the north west and since 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 the un will deal to.

contain these diseases in these within the fifty's 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 is a capacity to respond. there has been a very high level consultation involving him and 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 because. the food insecurity was enormous in this country

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 the ones of most affected are the poorest of the poor they're 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 displace the exposure to the weather. no clean water.

etc etc you bring this all together you have the already existing diseases and it becomes dangerous however the. has been is 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 highest level bringing all the actors together to to really take work on an action plan take action work on an action plan and move forward my last questions and maybe one of the most interesting points that is building dams. the government of pakistan has always been in controversy of certain dams special dams

and several times in the north west and even in the insults in your long term plans did you. assess how you would convince the governments. build such dams that 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. consults of course the big a bilateral friends do have of how it would shape us 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.

and dams are the management of water in the context of how it flows and where it is retained and how it refills 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 of course which needs to be addressed in the long run again let's take together the trinity let's see what is the best technical solution to it and it's not up to me to decide which is the good one of the bad ones. to the to the experts to work together and i think again it's an opportunity for this partnership. we have. the friends of democratic

pakistan process which in fact has been misunderstood for long as a pledging and donor event. which is not. it is in fact. the requirements for change for reform addressing policy view have come up with an energy plan together under the new development bank. looking forward now to the implementation of the energy plan which 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 want to and the floods will be managed and not to have the water as an enemy but as a friend thank you very much if you can.

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security forces a claim the number of victories in russia's troubled north caucuses killing of a forty minutes in august alone. home village of the leader of the chechen republic has become the latest target of. a series of attacks on hispanic immigrants has raised fresh racial fears in new york the victims say they've been targeted by african americans. far to central russia nursing homes killed nine people and left to severely injured first against said it could have been started by a man who set himself alight to commit suicide. while all those stop top stories to come in full at the top of the for you here with me but in the meantime take at the end. of the way on day one at the u.s. open hi bill yes we already know some of the players who are in and out of the u.s. open and the last grand slam of the season find out who that's next.

welcome to the sports thank you for joining me and here are the top stories. off we go the u.s. open gets underway with davydenko and dementia cruising through that evening matches. while an off pitch battle bottom side cbs blame the referee for their one nil defeat at the russian premier league. and cowboy training superstar tom cruise looks on as the professional bull riders take to the arena. that start with tennis where former finalist elaine adventure has reached the second round of the last grand slam of the season the u.s. open the trial same place where six one six two win over all got votes about from by the roofs also through his fellow russian police that trayvon of who had the

better of sweet young hunted lawson ukraine's you're not wondering coke finally overcame in three sets earlier french open champion francesca schiavone became the first woman to go into round two italian three seeded sixth is in cruise control in her right there against japan's a uni marita winning it six one six love in just under an hour. on the men's side and danko was the first big name to take to the court where the number six seed played local man michael russell was made to come from fourteen down in the first set before eventually winning the match in straight sets. moving on to football and in the russian premier league bottom side sabir have lodged a complaint about the refereeing in monday's one and defeated sanjay siberians side questioning the penalty that cost them up against a point referee at a time that colored by a point to spot four months into the second half. of it so i have them area the

midfielder converted the sport itself. what turned out to be the only guns a guy also tried they should be on the edge of the penalty later in latch if the wrestler plays the way that lane's. meanwhile transferred actually praised his senate team after they won three mill at lucky much most get their six points to the top with a late miguel downie scored because it is a very quickly taken so it takes off to seventeen minutes then things got worse a lockout ten minutes into the second toss off they had midfield at dynegy tobin's he sent off for a second delo caught and it was in it just ten minutes to take advantage of that extra man with more controversy and it's on the book out of net is on the line of lots of defender stood still expecting the crew for offside that's the referee didn't blow his whistle and the goal stood to nel and that another ten minutes later the man showed off lost it from outside the area of the last nail into the

lockers puffing tryna was the final score since go six points clear chances are the two games in hand nothing to tense. less than a seven points adrift in third place after to one hundred over a line you say do do me up fired in for the first goal which left him dancing for joy. added the second wagner left with the provider in this one i'm sure the army men would to know a lot with twenty minutes to go and much seemed as though it would end this way with orange stoppage time said again you can shave it just they were good governance committee area of the that's who did the rest and consolation goal two on it finished. and the team did turn out to be the difference in tone as one know when it's time to do not a must that there's a goal is first half in siberia when the nice plodding fouled side against the yakov suva stepped up just for the spot kick one nil is the way then did tom's

moving up to eight. not much point in taking. so confirmation of the standings in it are six points clear at the top with two games in hand over rubin case got off seven points adrift of holes on how to games to play ball following tonight's defeated i'm sure it's a bit stay bottom. in spain jos a marine years leader adventure has got off to a disappointing start after his realm of road side were held to a goal store majorca marino had led into milan to an unprecedented domestic and european trouble last season in three hour hoping he could help them and the two year run without a trophy but several good transplants they came christiane there are now though he's guilty of missing nothing more tension and goalkeeper doodoo also meant some great saves to deny the way out so there was no league debut in new coaching.

however different counties boss alone had no problems finding the net as they trained three nil first game victory addressing santander they know messi opened his account after just three minutes. and i was thinking of tom sawyer the board. members and yes validating the boss a second i that third goal came from signing david via the cross and danny alvarez joost powerful header from his debut with a go i while just a day before the summer transfer window closes spartak moscow is set to lose two players to the english premier league the read why it's reached an agreement how banks have to look to your onic to bombing on the thirty one year old czech republic defender will leave off a six years at the club the details of his move to be disclosed while goalkeepers keep a particular stock is going on a one year loan deal to taught him the croatian will be hoping for

a better time at spurs and strike a roman puppets. he also moved from sparta two years ago has failed to establish a permanent place in manager harry redknapp starting line. while having a musher on i was officially unveiled as a new boss a long affair on monday the argentina midfielder completed his reported twenty four million dollar move for liverpool the twenty six year old joins the council on side on a four year deal more take home wages something to the tune of one hundred forty thousand dollars a week. meanwhile the international cricket council says pakistan's tour of england will continue despite a match fixing claims against some players for pakistan players were questioned by police on sunday after a british tabloid newspaper allegedly paid a middleman for details of three no balls which were bowled by pakistan in the fourth test against england at lord's those questioned include captain salman butt fast bowlers mohammed amir and mohammed a safe and wicketkeeper camera akmal there's no indication they will face

suspension at this stage meanwhile cricket agent masada my ged was released without charge after being arrested on saturday on suspicion of conspiring to do for bookmakers england won the final test at lord's on sunday to take the serious three one. for me to announce two thousand and eight champion lewis hamilton has returned to the top of this season standings following a super at the belgian grand prix red bulls mark webber started from pole but was slow out of the blocks until at the first corner of the spot track down in sixth place hamilton made for use of the australians picked to lead the race from then on the bench to the first across the finish line caught his way back to second spot in this accident pit race it was not enough to keep him on top of the standings and now trails hamilton by three points where his red bull team mate sebastian vettel finished outside the points but remains third overall had a defending champion jenson button and fernando alonso both crashed out ferraris for the paymaster came home forced to stay six in the driver's championship.

it was a great weekend. very very tough race for me i think same for everyone but. praying for just a race that went smoothly but mostly with the tricky conditions when it started to rain. pollution temperature in the tires and her not really knowing how much you can push in each corner and break free quite late and locked my wheel and went wide in turn a turn geez i was you know they were definitely had his hand over me because i was able to get away with it. in the meantime boxing champion vitaly klitschko says russian giants nikolai valuev have has turned down one of the half million dollar offer to fight in the ukrainian heavyweight was speaking ahead of his bat with american shannon briggs the elder klitschko brother had approached us and fellow russian alex on that but that can as well as britain david kay none of them agreed so batali who holds the w.b.c.

belt with instead step into the ring against former w b o champion briggs match will take place in hamburg on oct sixteenth and briggs hopes to make it a quick joke. it's no secret. looking forward to make a difference for. your strange. future. that's how. she. was going out. usually it's. not a monster. and finally actor tom cruise has taken some time off from hollywood to enjoy some real life death defying action albeit only from the stands at the latest event on the professional bull riding tour the american superstar might have developed a liking for bull racing after speccing a fierce pack in his latest film night and day i was fostered in california

watching forty dead devils holding on for dear life despite today's raging beasts all you need to do is stay in the saddle for eight seconds in the championship round which is the easier said than done as everyone time going managed to come out and talk local boy austin miles secured his best win of the season the spanish thirty one stops across america however his feet had to be a match for striding ben jones in a preliminary round also need to repeat the buzz a grosso made everybody laugh by saw the portrayed on softer words. and that's all the sport baseball isn't life in a. culture is the same i understand my family and everybody was on the beat in the five years in the mark bannerman discussions continue whether muslim women should be barred

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