all along this pathway. an urgent international appeal is launched to help the millions of people affected by the flooding in pakistan. just look at all this water. it s like being in the middle of the ocean, except those are people s houses, and the water levels here are rising. and japan declares war on retro technology after discovering almost 2,000 government processes are still carried out using minidiscs, floppy disks and cds. president biden has made an impassioned speech in defence of american democracy. he warned that donald trump and what he termed maga republicans represent a form of extremism that threaten the us way of life. he urged all americans to come together to defend american democracy regardless of their ideology. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. i want to be very clear. applause. very clear up front. not every republican, not even the majority of republicans are maga repub
by the flooding in pakistan. just look at all there is water. it s like being in the middle of the ocean except over there are people s houses and there are people s houses and there are people s houses and there are many more in far flung communities and the water levels here are rising. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. inspectors from the united nations have finally arrived at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in ukraine, which has been occupied by russian forces since march. shelling around the plant has led to fears of a catastrophic nuclear accident. ukrainian troops are pressing ahead with a counter offensive in the nearby region of kherson, to retake areas seized by russia. our correspondent quentin sommerville filed this exclusive report from the front line, in the donbas region of eastern ukraine. and a warning, there are some distressing scenes in his report. in donbas, there will be no harvest. as russian shells fall about us, these
after she knocked out the number two seed at the us open. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 1am in zaporizhzhia, in ukraine where a team of un inspectors have begun their checks on the nuclear power plant which has been caught up in the russian invasion. the team from the international atomic energy agency or iaea had to cross military checkpoints into territory controlled by russian forces. they ll stay on site until at least monday as they assess how safe or unsafe the facility is, after being struck several times by fire. the head of the inspectors, rafael grossi, had this to say about what he had seen. i went into the units. i could visit the emergency systems, the diesel generators, the different parts. so we have the control rooms of some of the nuclear power plants there. so we chose 3 4 key areas that i needed to see first hand, and i was able to do that. with his analysis of the day s events, here
aground in turkey s bosporus strait. it s halted shipping through istanbul. turkish officials say lady zehma suffered rudderfailure, but was safely anchored. the ship is one of six that left black sea ports in ukraine under a un brokered export deal. rosmah mansor, the wife of ex malaysian prime minister najib razak, has been sentenced to ten years in prison. she was found guilty on three charges of soliciting and receiving bribes to help a company win a $280 million project. just days earlier, her husband started serving a i2 yearjail sentence for corruption charges related to the state owned fund i mdb. chengdu has become the latest chinese city to be locked down after a fresh outbreak of covid i9 as beijing continues to pursue its controversial zero covid policy. around 21 million people have been ordered to stay indoors, with just one person per household allowed to go out for essential shopping.
and it s all become too much. our children are hungry, she says. we re not getting any food, why is no one helping us? the water is coming from all sides from the overflowing indus river and the mountains in the north, and in the middle of it all are people growing more desperate by the day. pumza fihlani, bbc news, dadu. rosmah mansor, the wife of ex malaysian prime minister najib razak, has been sentenced to ten years in prison. she was found guilty on three charges of soliciting and receiving bribes to help a company win a $280 million project. just days earlier, her husband started serving a i2 yearjail sentence for corruption charges related to the state owned fund imdb. chengdu has become the latest