florence louie, al jazeera, myanmar. >>> emergency water supplies to the maldives. a fire at a plant has led to severe shortages of water, caroline malone explains. >> drinking water has been brought into the maldives from india to help make up for a shortfall on the capital island of mali. >> there will be another five flights tomorrow, there will be ten flights of drinking water to be carried. we have also made arrangements of two ships to move to maldives. >> 150,000 people live in mali. there was a fire at the production plant used to serve the island on thursday. >> mali is very heavily populated and hence our lienls e on one plant for desalination. there is water available in the rest of the country. water is being released even now and from tomorrow onwards, additional water would be released to the public. >> maldives is an archipelago. some have lived with water shortage before. bull the maldives says china and the united states have confirmed that they will insis assist in g water supplies going again. caroline malone, al jazeera. >> the icc's chief prosec

florence louie, al jazerra, wall los angeles lumpur. >>> on sunday we'll take to you iraq's capital baghdady that always been displaced by fighting yet again and this time by isil. >>> 14 years ago the u.n. set an en thighs as tick plan for mankind called the millennium development goals alleviating poverty and access to clean drinking water were some of the items on that agenda? so what has been achieved as the 15 year deadline now approaches our diplomatic he ha editor jams has this report. >> reporter: at the dawn of the mmillennium the then u.n. president kofi an nap launched a plan to improve the state of the world's poor. >> within the next 15 years i believe we can have the population of people living in extreme poverty and insure that all people, girls and boys ali alike. particularly girls receive a full primary education and halt the spread of hiv aids. >> reporter: that was 14 years ago. the targets he set became known as the millennium development goals and had a 15-year deadline. with one year to go, it is a mixed picture, significant progress has been made on reducing the numb

florence louie reports. >> this is supposed to be one of the busiest shopping streets in town. it's usually l full of russian tourists but it's quiet since the russian ruble fell. he doesn't remember when the business was so bad. >> it used to be would i sell 20 to 30 coats but i haven't sold anything lately. >> a popular selling destination because the goods are cheaper than in russia. as you can see the shop signs has not just chinese characters but also cyrillic script. appeals more to a russian sense of style. one of the few towns in china when people can pay in rubles. shopkeepers say they still sip the currency but they don't take any chances converting it to local money immediately. on the other side of town there's little activity at this warehouse. this man who runs an import ex port tradingexport company says some can run. >> chinese economy will be better next year. the russian governments is also taking steps to stabilize the ruble. i'm hopefully hopeful about the future. >> for those who rlg depend on the being russian purchasing power,ing hopefully a knowledge str