the me . ready the news russians had to the posts for parliamentary elections that many opposition candidates, so i clicked it on the ballot. ah, i'm not inside this is out. is there a lie from joe? also coming up, australia is prime minister defense, a new security impact. the u. s. u k, that will see more nuclear power. some marines in the asia pacific region emotional

scenes in mexico and the 1st batch of prisoners released on their presidential decree, reunited with families and an ancient treasure trove and nice. and that's got us down, finding a balance between extracting rich mineral wealth and preserving the nation's heritage. ah, holes are now open across russia for parliamentary elections. people have 3 days to cost their ballots for representatives in the duma recent polls suggest support for the governing. united racial russia party is at an all time low. however, many candidates who are opposed to president vladimir putin have been excluded from the ballot. a schedule of corresponding ben smith who is live for us in moscow inside a polling station. and what is the criminal hoping for from these elections?

its hoping that at least united russia will keep it super majority impala most allows the party to change the constitution on challenged. but it's threatened because of the unpopularity of united russia, while vladimir putin, himself remains, can, can, has reasonably robust support popularity about sort of around 60 percent or so. united russia down to around 27 percent. and the fears are the rushes voters will take out their frustrations with the poor economy, with corruption, with strong, with struggling, crumbling infrastructure to take out those frustrations on united russia. real incomes also down here, 11 percent. so all those frustrations might be lumped on united russia. the kremlin will hope that if united russia, supporters will come out in large numbers to vote, and the opposition with voter apathy will stay at home. this pulling station which

has been open for 3 hours. there's only have $26.00 voters so far. the friday is often quieter because it's a working day. voting is spread over 3 days on sunday is expected to be the busiest day. and also opposition support has been asked to wait till sunday to vote. because there is less risk that if the weights the last minute that there's any possibility of that vote perhaps being interfered with in some way. conversely, we've seen some long queues outside some polling stations, particularly remote areas of the far east of russia, where civil servants or soldiers have been taken to vote. and elect scene of only supporters have listed the candidates. they are backing through a system called smart voting. can you explain to us how that will work? well, that is one of the ways you can check this is the smart voting app release. bi election of only support is

a new type in here where you are voting suggests. who should vote for that out has been blocked now on apple and google play store. i was able to download it yesterday, but it's not available. it's not available today. and the idea is that the volley supporters of identified a candidate in each area of voting, who is best placed to dislodged the united russia candidate. it doesn't matter who the candidate is for, although it turned out most of them seem to be allied or connected to or supported by the communist party. but they consider that kind of best place to displace that person and in local elections last year when they ran a similar scheme. when a particular candidate was highlighted, they got 10 percent more votes, they estimate, which is enough to dis, launch a united russia, a candidate in many respects of the hoping that people will find out of the list who they should vote for. if they are an opposition supporter and vote for that 1st, and that is the only hope, really the opposition of god making any sort of impact money. thanks to that,

bernard smith efforts live in moscow. australia's prime minister's got morrison says a renewed alliance with the u. s u k should not come as a surprise. under the agreement, the australian government will get nuclear power submarines seen as an effort to counteract asian influence in the pacific. but china says it will only intensify an arms race. morrison says china has no right to criticize the new alliance. we just doing what we need to do to keep the straight insights and protect our national interests. i mean, china do the same thing. they have massive investments in the military capabilities, including the, in this area and astride it doesn't rise issues around that. all countries will take decisions in the national interest. we believe this will lead to the peace instability and security of the region. and that is, i think, a view that is widely shared about the impact of this arrangement. and we encourage all countries in the region to engage in that way. let's get more now from rosalind

jordan in washington, d. c. the u. s. u. k. and australia reportedly agreed to form a new defense alliance on the sidelines of this year's g. 7 summit in england, washington in london will help it by a fleet of nuclear power submarines. the main reason for the alliance containing china, we spoke in detail about china as the stabilizing activities in beijing is efforts to course and intimidate other countries. contrary to establish rules and norms, we will remain clear eyed and our view beijing's efforts to undermine the established international order. we discussed the competition of china at a number of levels that require us to respond and to increase resilience. this does not mean that there are not constructive areas for engagement with china straight.

it continues to sake dialogue with china without pre conditions. not surprisingly, beijing condemned both the alliance and the submarine deals may war. war who attended the export of highly sensitive nuclear power submarines technology by the united states and britain to australia once again proves that they are using nuclear exports as a tool of geopolitical games on adopting double standards, which is extremely irresponsible. attending in washington journalist pummeled the ministers with questions about the security path is check in china's efforts worth offending it or offending long standing partners. this is about enhancing our, our cooperation, our work together ultimately about enhancing security stability in the pacific. it is not aimed at any country. it's certainly not aimed at holding anyone back.

the announcement of this new alliance could signal that the us president joe biden has decided to reshape american foreign policy, bolstering new alliances to deal with new threats. while telling old partners that change is not a diplomatic death knell. rosalind jordan al jazeera, the state department. this ranita lions means france has lost a multi $1000000000.00 contract to bills, submarines for prime minister morrison has defended as governance decision to pull out of the deal. i understand they're disappointed and that that's very, very clear and we'll work through those issues. they're important part of france, particularly here in the pacific where we have so many shared interests. and so i will work through that and that's necessary. we don't have any issue with what you know, obviously france and particularly navarro group with the tech class submarine was seeking to do. it was a good submarine. it was a conventional submarine. and that no longer made need. so we had to do what was a now national interest, and i'm sure the prism of con,

would always act in france's natural and national interests and, and so too much to strive it. while despite that, the french government is angry, accusing no strains of stopping them in the back from paris. natasha butler. as this report, the french president emanuel macro, greeted anglo merkle at the least, a palace for farewell dinner. and she prepared to step down as german chancellor, but he chose not to mention the diplomatic crisis that has shaken his government, leaving fat with foreign minister to them all, both as we say in france, it's radius dive in the back, we created a relationship of trust with australia and today that trust has been broken, australia has pulled out of a 5 year old, multi 1000000000 dollar submarine deal with paris after signing a new defense packed with the us and u. k. aimed at countering china's influence in the indo pacific region. the white house for to discuss the defense packed with paris before it was announced by the

french authorities contest that this union lateral, brutal, unpredictable decision reminds me. a lot of what mr. trump used to do. biden's decision to sign the pact and exclude key allies is likely to further strain transatlantic relations. it may also both the growing sentiment in the e u that the u. s. as an increasingly unreliable partner and the block must become more autonomous. today the you adopted and delicious 1st in the best strategy, which is straight to that your bents want to tell you wrong in that region. and france is katie driving actor in that matter. it's unclear what action the french government could take over. cambra scrapping of the contract. the agreement was known in france as the deal of the century, which is why its collapse has left paris feeling particularly angry and betrayed. natasha butler. i'll just sarah harris. a new presidential order in mexico is set

to release thousands of prisoners, but judicial experts doubts how effective it will be. the 1st batch of inmates have just left prison. john harmon reports the mix goes president is looking to get some of the countries, 220000 prisoners out of jail, with a new decree about 680. is scheduled to be set free in the 1st batch. gonna propose he so they leave it at the amos to free. whoever is sick or old and whoever shows they been tortured. he's one jonathan. he got out 7 days ago after being inside for over 10 years. falsely convicted of kidnapping. he's then go, friend, a law. the police made one of the real kidnappers implicate me. the detectives told him if he named me, one of them would go free. and if not, that pen, formal kidnappings on the legs. he went through hell imprison,

cancel tuberculosis. but jonathan could already have been released under existing laws which allow wrongly convicted prisoners to get out. so could others who are set to be freed under the new decrees, though, suffering ill health, torture who he speak business languages weren't allowed to translate through the trial. they're all covered by existing legislation. if they would not be in it, this resolution doesn't give anyone any more rights, nothing for prisoners or those on trial. what does that foreign? and i think it's just to give the appearance that we are moving forward on that is the most critic say what's needed is not more legislation, but will power within the judicial system to give people that right. this is jonathan is clear. his sons name alone. he said, i mean, you know, course are you the, when me honestly, i had to white through the judicial system and it was a vile swamp. if you haven't got money or a good lawyer,

your relative is just going to be stuck in there. i know so many cases of innocent people who haven't got a dollar and the and i stay. this isn't the 1st time the government's announced that things would change. we'd been here before last year an amnesty was declared for low risk prisoners. there was mentally flood early releases, how many people go out in the, in the seller's less than 50. but at least this new initiative shows that the government has some ways to do something in total, there are moving to 1000 cases. being reviewed, said dorothy, the hope is that this new mechanism works rather better than others have in the past. john, home in mexico city. a while thousands of migrants are gathering under a bridge between mexico and the u. s. state of texas, waiting to be processed by us immigration. local authorities estimate more than 10000 people stop living at the make shift camp. your support agents say that

providing basic services, but a false becoming overwhelmed by the thousands of people, mostly from haiti, cuba and venezuela. anymore. i expected to arrive in the coming days. fill ahead on algebra, a broken justice system, united nations acute have been as well an official of torture, sexual violence, an arbitrary clinic attending scrap paper and autism. bob, when office finds value in the old note, ah, it's another beautiful sunny day of 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways booted world's best airline of 2021. let's go at september 17th. here's her weather for europe and africa, more flooding once again. this time in northern italy, scooping up 87 millimeters of rain. so we had flooded our streets here around the

airport of milan. more than 30 people had to be rescued. so dingey boats were dispatched there. and you know what? there is the threat of more thunderstorms over this area through central parts of italy as while the eastern shores of the atria see and then some cells through hungry slovakia, poland and ukraine. big thunderstorms on top for friday. the weather through the northeast black sea region in turkey, pushing into georgia, but otherwise smooth sailing. athens has a high of 33 on friday, but we'll crank that up to 37 crease on saturday, with an abundance of sunshine. also sunshine for iberia, save for northern parts of portugal and the northwest of spain, where we do have somewhat weather pulling in north western europe. a run of rain for the republic of ireland and the united kingdom. not everyone will see if it's still the threat of it. cloud cover for central parts of europe and look at minced only 10 degrees on friday, off to western africa. and our storms, not falling at the same intensity that they have been over the last few days.

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how are you watching out as a reminder of our top stories, this, our polls and now open across russia for parliament re election. people have 3 days to come. that balance for representatives in the duma or many opposition candidates have been excluded from the balance. australia prime minister has defended a new security deal saying a renewed alliance with the u. s. and the u. k. shouldn't come a surprise. got morrison has rejected criticism from china and france about the agreement asian leaders, a meeting, intox dawn's capital de shanay to discuss the taliban take over of us guns don't shine guy corporation organization is the 1st major summit of regional countries since the taliban took over and the states have expressed concern about the possible influx of refugees and the risk of terrorist attacks. a schedule correspond, charles trafford, who's lived for us in cobble, tell us

a bit more about the meeting. what is the focus? the focus of this meeting can really be surmises and effort by these big regional neighbors of gone as stone to try and come together and better cooperate and coordinate in the face all the crises that is unfolded in this country. since the tale, bon, re took power last month. all these countries participating have shared an overlapping interests. i think a lot of the focus, certainly from the international community will be looking at, for example, china's comments coming out of that meeting. we know that china have those very real interests in afghanistan. we know, for example, there was a ton of delegation that was invited to china to meet with chinese officials in july. we know that the chinese have some very solid economic interests in this

country. we don't expect china or any of the participants in this meeting to call for recognition of the tyler bond governments. as i say, the majority of the focus we understand will be on better cooperation between participating states. and of course, they will include russia as well. another massive neighbor to this country with very real security concerns. we've heard from the, the russian government, president putin concerns about what he's described in the past as a security spillover affecting, for example, tajikistan, which neighbors russia very, very real concerns by the, the russians also with respect to the flow. all the drugs out of this country, of course, this is all about and has repeatedly said that it will crack down on drugs those days are long gone. we know that i've got to stand was world's greatest producer of

opium. this out about said that that's this, that's not gonna happen anymore. they've also promised the international community that this country will not be used as a launch pad while groups to launch attacks against foreign states. also participating of course, will be pakistan. but that has very real concerns, again about security and about an influx of more refugees over 3000000 african refugees already in pakistan from conflicts that stretch way back to the 1980s. and the war with the soviet union. also participating as an observer is iran, again, similar issues with respect to security and an influx of refugees. also, we expect the iranians will be raising the issue of the she a community here that has, are, they will be pushing for more proof that the child about government can be more inclusive, can get involved members of the has are the sheer community. so there is

a lot that hangs on this, this conference because of course, of the chaos that, that this, since that has happened since the taller bone it took control. now we traveled outside of cobble yesterday, southeast to low gall province, trying to look for evidence of some of the very real chinese interests that exist in this country. this area is very rich in natural resources. most especially copper. and this is what we found. we follow the harlem on guns on the motorcycle up through the gorge to a platter high in the mountains of lucca province. this baron isolated place in eastern afghanistan is believed to hold the 2nd largest couple or deposits in the world worth at least $50000000000.00. the chinese flag flies over a make shift mining camp. in 2007, the former african government signed

a 30 year lease with a console team of chinese state owned companies to start mining work here. it never did. and the taliban is in control now. that ed morgan, who of the yellow, our country is economically very weak. we hope the mine will help the whole country . if the work is not beneficial for all that guns will restart the process and give the contract to someone else on the taliban fighters. that is through the gate for the guard working for the chinese companies refuses to let us film. coming said i look, look at our camp, but you cannot record the last chinese stuff to flee. what became a fast deteriorating security situation left in early august. but years of fighting between the taliban nato forces and the afghan army is not the only reason why excavations have not started yet. this valley is absolutely full of history.

buddhist zoroastrian archaeologist say stretching back to 2000 years, the taliban say they're going to do all they can to protect the archaeology. here, before mining for copper on the other side of the mountain stops, these ancient ruins were once a thriving city on the silk route between china and europe. its inhabitants were mainly buddhists with the article, the tower were no match when we were traveling through these mountains for years says this man, the surface was smooth when we had no idea. there was an ancient city beneath. come yet. a local taliban official guides us into tunnel is to show where afghan and foreign, archaeologists have been working for years to remove artifacts before the mining starts. but just like the chinese minus the archaeologists also fled when the

taliban arrived. we walked to hot, so on a cliff where he reveals one of the estimated 500 buddhist statues, was carved into the mountain side in 2001 the taliban caused international outrage by blowing up giant buddhist statues in the clips of bombay on. so we'll do something like that here to that for a long road. i was a get back to 1000 years old. the chinese made an agreement, the artifact to have to be taken away and protected. if we wanted to destroy them, we would have done it when we took control, but we didn't. we're protected normally. it's unsure when the archaeologists will return an expert say, until china recognizes a ton of on government. contracts are signed with previous afghans. ministrations are all on hold. these mountains could unlock immense wealth. afghanistan, taliban says the archaeology will be moved and protected 1st,

afghans and the world watched to see if the new rulers of this country keeps their word. cha, stratford al jazeera miss isaac of cornish, non ladies from the west, african regional block eco asked, have imposed sanctions on guineas, military rulers, on their demanding elections be held within 6 months. guinea was suspended from e class last week on the military co removed the president of the con, day from power. are you in reports as venice? well as judges and prosecutors are not upholding the law and all being used as tools a state repression? investigators say justice officials are playing a significant role in serious violations and crimes against opponents of the government. a latin america edison, the c and human has this report. charges of human rights violations in been his whaler unknown, knew. but the natives report by you. in fact, finding mission pinch oblique picture the report from october 2020 to august this

year focuses specifically on what the mission described as the judiciary system. fraught with systemic impunity lack of due process and pressure against judges and prosecutors by high ranking state actors. former judges in prosecutors interviewed reported that day and their family members had been subject to a threat and intimidation. nearly half of the form of judges and prosecutors interviewed by the mission left when as well as due to 50 times. according to the report security, unintelligence forces continue carrying out arbitrary arrests brutality and even killings against real or perceived government opponents. or those who question there, we can all make interests and abuses of power. it adds that instead of providing protection against violations and crimes, the venezuelan justice system is acting as an accomplice. special concern to the

mission is that when that we continue to document serious allegations of torture, sexual violence, and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment perpetrated grim during the arrest all dances. in 67 of beef, they p nice appeared in court with clear marks of mistreatment. the report specifically single south venezuela's chief prosecutor today william sab, for declaring that, and prosecutors are in positions of trust, thus infringing on their independence. the un mission lament that in the last 2 years, the business wayland government has refused numerous requests for information or access to investigate within the country. while there was no response to our request for comment, then as well and government officials have repeatedly denied charges of impropriety and systemic abuses of human rights. to see a human al jazeera,

cuba has expanded its mass vaccination drive for children as young as 2. and the only country in the world to vaccinate children that young it comes to health officials report a surgeon delta infections among young people. human authority say that locally produced cove in 1900 vaccine is safe children. france has suspended around 3000 health care workers for failing to comply with coven 19 vaccination orders. now reports has led to surgeries being delayed at hospitals. inoculation was made compulsory for health workers in july, and the deadline was september. the 15th, at one of several measures. aimed at increasing vaccination numbers and bob way has a long, painful history with holly pe, inflation, many old bank notes from that time. and now with las one office to the found a way to use them. need buck finding value in something worthless

artist prudence. to me, to our turns unloved zimbabwe and bank notes into works of art depicting the daily lives of women and life during the corona virus pandemic. and then the great thing for people to see can be your teeth on things. so when someone looks good and then people get that the pain, you think that is call them a decade ago, zimbabwe and watched as hyper inflation obliterated. that currency as national debt sword robert mcguffey is government responded by increasing the money supply, printing bills of ever increasing value, including a $100.00 trillion zimbabwe and dollar note. when the economy crash, the bill became worthless. many was simply thrown away. a lot of people when they see it, they've all been there most the time they get most people get in

and lot of people, a lot of being just wake up in the media. you in your account is no longer functional. the days of out of control price increases are long gone. the international monetary fund has almost doubled zimbabwe economic growth forecast this year. time now hoops they started to reclaim the past and he'll the present. i don't believe barker al jazeera 3 tie cannot have returned earth after 90 days of board, china's national space station, the caps, who landed in the g. o. v does it have completed the fed of 11 missions needed to finish the space station by the end of next year as china's longest. yet the next mission, last 6 months. the me this is algebra, these, your top stories,

polls now open across russia for parliamentary election.