trying to surround this area in order to isolate to school with detailed coverage, real power, still live in my how much sick he takes all the major strategic decision from around the world. the water rose so quickly at this new jersey apartment complex. it caught many people off guard. ah, jordan is foreign minister defense, a new security package from the us in the u. k. that will be more nuclear power submarines in the asia pacific region. ah, i money side, this is algebra ally from coming up. russians head to the post parliamentary

elections, but many opposition candidates saw excluded from the barracks. living in fear, migrants in southern mexico, desperately try to avoid deportation. and an ancient treasure trove in eastern afghanistan, finding a balance between extracting rich men will well deserving the nations heritage. ah, australia is prime minister scott morrison says a renewed alliance with the u. s. and u. k. should not come as a surprise. under the agreement, the australian government will get nuclear power submarines seen as an asset to counted asian influence in the pacific. china says it will only intensified owns race. morrison says china has no right to criticize and new alliance. we're just doing what we need to do to keep the straight and safe and protect our national interests. i mean, trying to do the same thing. they have massive investments in the military

capabilities, including the in this area. and strike 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. well, reacting in the past, our, china's foreign ministry says the alons is a provocation and an attempt to undermine its position in the region. 9. i wasn't sure on the south china sea, taiwan and hong kong china, the position is clear to us. most railey, are colluding with each other. and for selfish geopolitical gains are smearing china. they're interfering in china's domestic affairs. aspects of proven china. not only a major engine for economic development and the region is also for stability and peace. china development represents a force for peace in the world and the regions development. let's go to katrina you

who is life for us in beijing. katrina. where do these developments leave china's already strained relationship with australia all clearly this relationship is in a very bad state. we had a statement released earlier by the chinese embassy industry earlier. it echoed similar sentiments about non interference. and it also said that a strictly should handle its relationship with china in a genuinely independent manner, replying that they didn't really sees this move as australia, acting essentially as a porn of the united states in the region. now we had even stronger comments today, unsurprisingly on friday by the sensationalist chinese state media newspaper, the global times that had a front page article. and in that article it said that australia was really mocking itself out as an adversary of china. and by making this move, it also made it so vulnerable as

a potential nuclear target in the event of open conflict. of course, that is a very sensationalist sentiment, but it does reflect the fact that many here in china do see this move as a publication that was an unfriendly at best. and what it is really shocking is the way that the relationship between cambra and aging has essentially just completely unraveled in the space of less than a decade. we had in 2014 the chinese president, she didn't visit australia. and during that trip we was taking pictures with koala visiting sporting event, signing mon memorandum of agreements with camper, and it was really seen as the apex of that relationship. and now we see a strong arming itself with nuclear submarines to face the china thread in the region as it sees it. and this relationship has really taken a tumble gradually. we had in 2017 the foremost ready in government and not to be for an anti foreign interference laws that were clearly targeting china that we had

last year. the trillion government, again criticize china and demand and international investigation to the origin of the pandemic in every step of the way. we've had more steps criticizing china for it's a treatment of the week is the handling of the democracy, activists in hong kong. it's increasing assertion and aggression towards ty, one and these steps of the infuriated aging. and we've seen as a result. these acts of economic coersion were china has plays trade restrictions on china to done on australia, sorry to damage australian export. that really did rely on china use customers, so we saw damage done to a threat and exporters, for example of wine beef lobster. and it is really difficult to see how this relationship could work in the future. but that being said, the only bright spot in the remaining kind of stability in the relationship has seemed to be the continuing of trade, specifically in the trade of resources such as i and all. many thanks for that said

katrina, you that for us in beijing let's get the view from the us with rosalind jordan. 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 and london will help it by a fleet of nuclear powered submarines. the main reason for the alliance containing china, we spoke in detail about china as the stabilizing activities in beijing's efforts to course and intimidate other countries. contrary to establish rules and norms, we will remain clear eyed in our view of beijing's efforts to undermine the established international order. we discussed the competition of china at a number of levels that requires 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 seek dialogue with china without pre conditions. not surprisingly, beijing condemned both the alliance and the submarine deals war war. the leon kayden who attended the export of highly sensitive nuclear power, simmering 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. and washington journalist pummeled the ministers with questions about the security pack is check in china's efforts worth offending it or offending longstanding 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 u. s. 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. rosalyn jordan al jazeera, the state department. while the renewed alliance means france has lost a multi $1000000000.00 contract to build submarines for strayer, the prime minister marson has defended his government's decision to pull out of the do. 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 now national interest, and i'm sure the prism of con would always act in france is natural in national interest. and, and so too much to strive it. polls are now open across russia for parliamentary elections. people have 3 days to call that balance for representatives in the duma . recent polls suggest support for the governing united russia party is ass and all time low. however, many candidates who are opposed to president vladimir putin have been excluded from the ballot as geisha by the smith, who is live for us in moscow outside a polling station. but what is the hope that kremlin is wanting to achieve me selection? the currently will hope that united russia and other allied parties will retain its super majority in the state duma, allowing it to change the constitution if they want to. now this polling station

there is a very long q behind. that's been like that since the morning. it's several hours, several hours wait, if you're in that queue, pulling in rush, it's been spread over 3 days to try and prevent that sort of thing. and this is a very unusual sight to all the people in that queue are clearly working. age on friday is a working day, so they've taken a lot of time out of that working day to go and vote. now united russia will hope that there are support is, will come out and vote in high numbers. the opposition that hoping the opposition support is will not come out and vote united russia is under pressure on the $27.00 support of the population of those who are voting age because russians are struggling with crumbling infrastructure, poor living standards, corruption, particularly 20 percent of the population living in poverty and while vladimir putin himself personally remains popular about $6067.00 popularity,

the fear of this party that's allied to the kremlin is a vote, will take out their frustration on united russia party. now the next scene of all me supposes have listed the candidates. they're backing through a system called small voting. can you explain to us how that's going to work? this is an invalid. he's listed by his support. you tap on that and you put in where your supposed to vote, and he suggests to you should vote for that now as been blocked on the apple and google store. it was available able to download it yesterday. and the idea of small voting is that wherever you vote this organ navarro is, organization is highlighted. individuals who are best placed to defeat the united russia candidate. it happens that they seem to be mostly allied to the communist party, but there are a lot of the individuals involved as well. and the hope amongst the valid support

is, is that people who want to reduce united rushes influence in parliament will vote will be candidates on in local elections. last year, when they tried a similar system, it showed that about if they, if they name somebody that person got about 10 percent more of the vote, that would be enough than to dislodge the united russia candidate. but he's the only hope that the opposition really have of having any sort of influence in the state. duma. i may hope that people will also go to vote later on sunday because they say that there is less chance that if you're in opposition supporter, you go later on as late as possible to vote, but the vote could be interfered with. many thanks for that, bernard smith in moscow still ahead on al jazeera in the democratic republic of congo. the threats from groups making it difficult for people to make ends meet and anger on the streets of what is areas with claims the

president has failed to deliver on his he can only use hello good to be with you right off the bat. we've had some exceptional heat through parts of australia. we're talking about alice up to $37.00 degrees over the past 24 hours. we haven't seen a temperature this high this early in the season in 80 years, but look at there's a front slices through sphere, 25 to crease on saturday. also we're seen some friends raced across the bytes out. we've got wind rain which will be heavier times as while and gusty conditions has mania. hobart we could see those winds whip up to 70 kilometers per hour, per se. we've got nice conditions at 20 degrees, but watch this. i'll show here. up to wednesday, you may touch 30 degrees off to new zealand and we've got a bit of a reprieve before next system races across the tasman temperatures here doing

pretty good and we've got some sunshine in the forecasts starting to dry out for south eastern portions of china, but a batch of rain from young jo rate down to the yangtze river valley. and i do want to get you the latest right now on tropical storm, sean, too, as it crashes in to southern areas of japan. we do have some very serious weather alerts that we need to talk about. so landside warning after that se portion of q issue and southwest areas of chicago on saturday, a sock, has got a high $29.00 degrees c soon. the in hong kong has become a dangerous one or one east and those who refuse to be silent. now 0 me morning,

allow government al jazeera as a, you know, i the me, you're watching out a reminder of our top stories. our australia is prime minister, has defended a new security deal saying a renewed a launch. the u. s. in the u. k. shouldn't come as a surprise. got morrison has rejected criticism from china and trans about the agreement holes now open across russia. the parliament reelections people have 3 days to call the balance of representatives and the duma many opposition candidates

have been excluded from the chinese president using paying is calling for a smooth transition in afghanistan and the new government to follow moderate policies. asian need is a meeting in projects. don's capital to shondae to discuss the taliban take over. the shine. guy corporation organization is the 1st major summit of regional countries since the arm to group seize power. last month, member states have expressed consent about the influx of refugees and the risk of terrorism. why has china moves engage with the taliban? it's setting its sides on afghanistan's vast mineral resources into a government once chinese recognition. so mining can begin. as child strafford reports from miss issac, the plans could threaten some of the nations archaeology called treasures the. we follow the telephone guns on the motorcycle up through the golgi to

a plateau high in the mountains of lucca province. this barren, isolated place in eastern afghanistan is believed to hold the 2nd largest copper or deposits in the world worth at least $50000000000.00. the chinese flag flies over a make shift mining camp. in 2007, the form afghan government signed a 30 year lease with a consortium of chinese state owned companies to start mining work here. it never did. and the taliban is in control now. that ed morgan, hugh on the yellow now 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. ok, let's just 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 starts. but these ancient ruins were once a thriving city on the silk route between china and europe. its inhabitants were mainly buddhists with the article. this, however, were no match. when we were traveling through these mountains for years, says this man, the surface was smooth and we had no idea. there was an ancient city beneath.

a local taliban official guides us into tongue 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 on the 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 eclipse of balmy on. so will i do something like that here to that for normally when i was a 2000 years old, the chinese made an agreement, the artifact, they 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 protect early. it's unsure when the archaeologists will return an

experts say until china recognize the taliban government contracts are signed with previous afghans administrations are all on hold. these mountains could unlock immense wealth. afghanistan, the taliban says the archaeology will be moved and protected 1st, afghans and the world watched to see if the new rulers of this country keep their word. cha, stratford al jazeera. miss isaac, i've gone to san traders in north eastern democratic republic of congo. say it's becoming increasingly difficult to run the businesses because of armed groups. a state of emergencies been declared in to re our north kiva provinces. but many fear the situation is not improving. our desire is katherine sawyer, reports now from september in north kiva. this is one of the busiest trade routes in the eastern democratic republic of congo,

merchandise from uganda, canyon and beyond. comes across the border of the town of cas cindy in uganda and into libya. india, congo. most of the goods end up in temple, a business hub in north cuba, province, minerals for mining areas are also transported using this route. but rebel groups in north q and the neighboring 2 provinces have made doing business dangerous. polycarp and veto is a trade union leader and sees the traders enough q and a tory have collectively lost more than half a $1000000000.00 in recent years. because of attacks by armed groups, including the democratic forces about it already through this one. the bottom route will become route tricia middle. a good come in for mining areas or government needs to delete these are both nearly 2 weeks ago. fighters from the armed group, almost a convoy and killed. several people keep not thumb and burned dozens of vehicles.

this was despite the national army and un peacekeepers being present. catholic of police was in his vehicle when they were attacked, he had to flee and hiding the forest. his car was parched, global numerous on the convoy is usually very long, and the security escort has limited. the road is also very bad, so we can't even speed in dangerous areas. sometimes one car can develop a mechanical problem, but the rest of the convoy including the escort moves on the use gaps in the convoy to separate us. most of the drivers here in with him was saying they're not traveling to bornea in the province anymore because of the security situation. they say that being a talked by on to groups the vehicles destroyed. and now with a suspension of military convoys along that route. the situation is just getting worse for them. after we left those security escorts resumed in the region. it's been under military rule since may when the government declared

a state of emergency. why that belief? i mean, we have done the 1st phase of the rebel cleanup. we have secured government territories, we have to get somebody that you are not accessible because of the security situation. now we are going into the 2nd phase to get them completely out of civilian areas and then neutralize calling these drivers back in september and not optimistic. they say they've lost many of their loved ones in that property and have listened to many government promises for way too long without seeing security improve. catherine lloyd, all does era in not give a province in a democratic republic of congo. cuba has expanded its mass vaccination drive for children as young as to see any country in the world to vaccinate children that young come to health officials reported such in delta infections amongst young people keeping authority, say the locally produce coven. 19 vaccine is safe. thousands of migrants

are gathering under a bridge between mexico and the u. s. state of texas. they waiting to be processed by us immigration. local authorities estimate the more than 10000 people, a stock living at the make shift come years age and say that providing basic services, but a false becoming overwhelmed by the thousands of people mostly from hazy cuba and that his whaler. many more expected to arrive in the coming days and tens of thousands of migrants are stuck in southern mexico. the government husband stepping up efforts to prevent them having for the us border that is trying to leave on the constant threat from immigration authorities in criminals. manual report reports from top of chula and the state of chapel. the walking through the back roads of the city of tampa schuler, a group of haitian migrants is trying to avoid capture by mexican authorities.

immigration agents in southern mexico are under federal orders to prevent migrants from leaving the city. there's many migrant suffering. there is no housing. we don't have any money. the hotels are expensive and we have nothing. so we have to try to go on foot. having spotted a government agent, the group quickly scatters to hide in a nearby cornfield. fear is written on everyone's faces. one local resident who has asked us to hide her identity, says migrants or right to be afraid. she says danger lurks around every corner. the weapon on the bus will know this only 4 days ago, a man passed by shoeless, they had just raped his 9 year old son and his wife. the man couldn't even walk because they took away his shoes so he wouldn't run for help. but these people don't go to the authorities, they don't speak out because they had afraid authorities are going to wrestle them and sent them back at the end of the city of about 50 kilometers north of mexico's

border with water mala is experiencing the worst migrant crisis in decades, son had been here for weeks, others months, and their growing desperate to escape the city they say has become an open air prison for migrants. eco might not get in today. i got up in the government doesn't want to give us legal paperwork. and even those who have staples and try to live back here, some i really think through the jungle trying to get out early, but the bandits in the jungle would help them move on. the, the authorities in southern mexico have also been accused of abuse and excessive force, which is why small groups travel along side streets and jungle roads. to evade arrest. one of a handful of security checkpoints leaving the city of double shula and behind the authorities are stopping vehicles that they suspect maybe transporting migrants were then detained and sent back to the city of stuff at shula, or at times their deported water molla,

regardless of their country of origin this group has made it past the 1st immigration checkpoint and are getting ready to board a public bus. they tell us they'd rather be anywhere would hear and are willing to risk it all to get away. monroe's rock, a little al jazeera, stopped to la mexico protest as an argentine or a demanding jobs on an increase in social aid, as anger arising, poverty and high inflation. the government of president albert fernandez has been blamed for failing to deliver on promises to improve living standards. choice a bow reports from when is aries me? they took over the center of when a site is demanding jobs and food assistance. thousands of people from the poorest areas when a site is broken down, every case says she has 3 children and no work in the last year has been very difficult. my husband got some work in construction,

but with the soaring prices, we cannot pay for everything. i didn't 100 government have increased cash handout and aid to assist the poor, but people here say much more needs to be done. inflation continues to force prices up every month. yeah, pretty good. going to be a government is trying to implement austerity majors and pay the i missed at the cost of the working class. we other ones suffering the crisis and need genuine jobs with decent salaries. the economic situation and the handling of the pandemic has put a huge dent in the government's popularity to put less sunday their parents party last in 17 provinces. during this country's primary elections, including nike stronghold, the province of one site is, the law has exacerbated the big divisions that exist within the administration, especially between president of man this and his vice president. christina

fernandez, the governor. on wednesday, the minister of interior and other left leaning government officials close to christina for a man this offer their resignation to the president. louis argentina is currently negotiating a 40000000000 debt with the i m f. the president is trying to reduce the deficit and organize the economy, but he's, vice president is not going along with it. it's, he'll do that this guy, even instead, he wants to increase social spending to both the parties chances of winning on november's legislative elections. almost as an economy say the dispute is having an impact on argentina's chances of recovering from the damage. we're not going to go to one thing is putting some money on the streets to improve their chances. and remember what the issue is, whether you are going to do that and not deal with the m s, and continue printing money. nobody is going to benefit from that. and the crisis will generate a lot of buffer man. this rolled on twitter, this is not the time to raise disputes that diverted from our pass. argentina is in

the middle of an economic and now political crisis and where the ruling coalitions continue to dispute and struggle over how to find a way out. there's millions of people who are filled with uncertainty about what will happen with the economy, with their income and their lives. there is trouble as a feeder when a fight is 3. astronaut ta returned to us up to 90 days on board. china's national space station accounts who landed in the gobi desert, completed the bed of 11 mission needed to finish the base station by the end of next year as china's longest trip. yes, the next mission will last 6 months. ah, this is algebra. these, your top stories, polls and i opened across russia for parliamentary elections. people have 3 days to

call ballads for representatives and the duma many opposition candidates have excluded from the ballot and it's smith has a latest for moscow.