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dozens are killed, and more bad weather is on the way protest. her stay dressed, city and outside vans. presidential palace demanding the prime minister, dissolve the interim government and the rent prices climb at a regular rate in turkey will look at why they went up by 3 times the global average. ah, collin pow, one of the leading figures of american military and foreign policy for nearly 2 decades has died at the age of 84. his family confirmed the new saying paul died from colbert 19 complications. he was a 1st black american to serve as both secretary of state and as a country's top general, our white house correspondent, kimberly hawk. it looks back on his life and career. colin powell spent his career breaking barriers. he was the son of jamaican immigrants and spent 35 years in the

u. s. army. he led combat forces in vietnam and eventually became a 4 star general. powell was ronald reagan's national security adviser in the 1980s in 1989, george h. w. bush made him the pentagon, top military officer, chair of the joint chiefs of staff. i will do whatever broken the united states directly to do and what the bush administration wanted. the invasion of iraq in january 1991 in response to his invasion of kuwait several months earlier. and with unrelenting, overwhelming use of military force. the powell doctrine was born. you have to kind of clear understanding of why they're being committed for what purpose. and it can't just be, we're seeing all this terrible stuff because the gulf war turned power into a hero. many wanted him to run for president, but he refused. instead,

powell broke the color barrier once more. he was the 1st african american to serve as secretary of state during george w bush's presidency. during that tenure, powell did one thing that ultimately changed his reputation. he argued for the invasion of iraq in 2003 before the un security council acts and iraq's behavior show that saddam hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction. the evidence for powells case turned out to be false. he accepted responsibility for helping to lead the country into what power later called an unjustified war. since i deeply regret that the information, some of the information on all that some of the information i presented with from multi source was wrong. and it is a lot on my record. but yeah i, there's nothing i can do to change that blocked over time petals regret turned into

disillusion with the republican party. he endorsed democratic presidential candidate barack obama in 2008. the visibility when spar because of the inclusive nature of his campaign because he is reaching out all across america. he gave similar reasons for backing hillary clinton over donald trump in 2016, and did the same for joe biden in 2020 with joe biden. the white house, you will never doubt that he will stand with our friends and stand up to our adversaries. never the other way around. after the storming of the u. s. capital on january 6th, 2021. by then president donald trump supporters. powell announced he was quitting the republican party and he called on trump to resign. not surprising from a man who had always believed in duty to country before politics and had devoted his career to just that current u. s. secretary of state antony blinking has paid tribute to con, empower,

i believe, sugary palsy, years as a soldier or what made him such an exceptional diplomat. he knew that war and military action should always be a last resort. and to make that so we need our diplomacy to be as robust and well resource as possible. he called for increased funding for state, which then as now was just a fraction of the pentagon's budget. he modernized the state department, putting a computer on every desk, and he believed deeply that america was an exceptional nation, that we could and should lead with confidence and humility. and that the world was safer when the united states was engaged and its allies and partners were united. and the u. s. secretary of defense lloyd austin has also praised powell saying he's lost a friend and mentor. the world lost one of the greatest leaders that we have ever witnessed, almost lost

a great huffman in the family, lost the tremendous father. and i lost to a tremendous personal friend and mentor. and he has been my mentor for a number of years. i always made time for me and i could always go to him with what tough issues he always had. great, great counsel we. we will certainly miss him. i feel as if i have a hole in my heart just this morning of this just recently. now bringing our white house correspondent kimberly hawk live in washington. kimberly lots of reactions and tribute to con. pow president biden has just released the statement. yes, he has and well, it is a lengthy statement. i think it's important to note that he is once again underscoring what we heard from the defense secretary lloyd austin. that in fact, a general, powell embodied what the president called the highest ideals of both warrior and

diplomat. noting his groundbreaking efforts to break racial barriers by them remembers him as a friend, he says, i'm going to miss being able to call on his wisdom. and that is what so many are experiencing in terms of the grief and shock. in fact that colin powell is now gone, we should point out that his family noting in their statement that colin powell was fully vaccinated yet still died of complications of coven 19. so one of the other reactions that we is coming in right now is from nancy. pelosi, the house speaker, who acknowledges that, well, the vaccine can certainly mitigate some of the risks. it doesn't eliminate them entirely. she says, as we pray for the general powells loved ones, we pray for the families of the nearly 725000 americans who have been taken from us by this vicious virus. it is a reminder of the toll of this pandemic touching all areas and aspects of society.

right. and how our americans, we've heard the political reactions of course, but how americans remembering column power. well overall he is being remembered as very kind, generous man who led by example. well he was. 8 very much ground breaking in terms of the racial barriers. the positions that he held that no african american had held prior. what was significant is that he let his work speak for itself that he was as comfortable talking with kings and queens as a diplomat, as he was the mechanic that would fix his car at the side of the road when he was famously fixing a rug flat tire in an ordinary american sop to help him not realizing that he was helping a man of his stature. and this is how he conducted himself and it was the humility that he was known for. that also i really broke the political barriers that we find

in the united states. now the fact that right now in the united states is deeply divided. colin powell identified initially as a republican, but he really his duty was to his country not to party. later he switched to support democratic candidates, including joe biden, who is remembering him and thanking him for that. but most of all remembering him as a friend. kimberly, thank you very much for that. kimberly hallett, with the latest reaction there from the white house is now bringing curt volker, who served alongside secretary of state colin powell during the george w bush administration. ambassador, vocally to became the u. s. ambassador to nato. he's joining us from washington, d. c. thank you very much for your time ambassador. okay, thank you for taking the time to speak to us today. i compile is being praised as one of the most respected public figures in american public life. just reflect on the general power that you knew 1st. what did he value the most? well, he was the 1st and foremost, always a gentleman,

as was just certain that last bit in the news piece. he treat everyone with respect to g melody decency. he would listen to every one. he was never one who was losing his temper or dictating, changed. he was truly a gentle man and a pleasure to work with. he was posted to, to nato several times during his military career at a time when there was a lot of talk about nato expansion and bringing some former soviet countries into natal. how. how did he feel about that? well i worked with him very closely on that in 20012002 new secretary of state. i was responsible for those issues in the national security council, and he was methodical. he cared about the people of those countries. he wanted to see them be successful. he cared deeply about nato, and he didn't one nato to be weakened by bringing in countries that were not ready . so he worked very methodically with his staff and with others in the

administration to try to make sure that we're working with those countries, bringing them up to native standards that we were doing things the right way with our eyes that we were also keeping capitol hill well informed you, he was very methodical about the process. a lot, a lot of people outside of the u. s. when of course, remember con pow, awful having defended the american decision to invade iraq in 2003, we all remember his presentation at the united nations to justify the war in iraq, which was faulty. we know. and he later came out and said, he made a mistake. do you think, you know, this will be a stain on his legacy? i don't think that it is going to overshadow all the other things that he did in his career's. it's a fact and it can't be erased, but he accomplished so much else and knew so respected in so many other ways that i don't think that will dominate. and,

and also recall that at the time there was an intelligence consensus that saddam hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction. and as you said, it turned out that hadn't been wrong. and he felt, sir, that it was a mistake to have presented that at the security council when the intelligence was wrong, but nobody knew that at the time. all right. what, what, what do you think he should be remembered to for the most? well, i think his leadership style that he was a courageous individual, you know, he knows we just talked about. he stood over and took responsibility for things. and he famously said that if you're not pushing somebody off, you're not doing your job. so he was tough about what he was trying to accomplish, but he did so with grace and with distinction, and i think people will never that bastard of oak. or thank you very much for talking to us, kurt volker, joining us there from washington. thank you for your time. thank you. i, let's turn our attention to some of the days. other news now and flooding and

landslides have killed at least 35 people in southern india, in the state of carola, in the past week rescue operations by the army and navia. continuing to look for the many, missing thousands have been stranded in ports of the coastal state authorities, fear the number of dead could dry significantly. one of the worst affected areas is caught, i am al jazeera elizabeth. barnum has been monitoring the situation there and has this update. what's happening here and many other thoughts of kind of weather going on with people from the office to respond to this and trying to clear the luggage all debris into the trees which were up along the river banks. this is really important because the rain is startling. again and this heavy rains expected for wednesday, that's really important to try to clear as much of the plot which ways as possible to prevent further flooding. entire hose have been reduced to nothing but trouble

with spoken to people who had devastated good luck with everything. they had nowhere else to go. now we've got the concrete and metal way all over this will that it has been washed away homes that have not been reduced to every single position that people own is covered in mud. so there was a lot of recovery work here to do, and the rescue teams are still searching for some people who are missing. there was a move and a lot of these people who lost their homes and to more than a 100 relief camps that have been set up. and that's complicated because, you know, the court of the situation in canada is, it's been recording some of the highest numbers of cases, in fact, the highest number of cases and death in india for months. so authorities are trying to keep the numbers love at shelter. so that they can maintain the system, things are trying to contain advice to situation as well as managing the flooding

still had on al jazeera children at brace cow. the fighting in ethiopia to guy region is affecting vulnerable people in other areas. and we'll have an update on the search for the us and canadian missionaries kidnapped in haiti. ah, oh, hello there, let's look to the middle east and levant, and we're seeing some cloud pulling across eastern areas of the mediterranean, bringing some wet weather to syria, and to pots of lebanon as well. and that's thanks to a weather system. it's blowing across the black sea towards the caspian sea. we are going to see some heavy falls around coastal areas of iran. we could see some localized flooding with that rain, but further south it is looking a lot dryer. a lot finer as well. some misty mornings in katara and some cloud

cover remains on tuesday, but it does ease on wednesday, and the wind will die down. it's looking very hot across western areas of saudi arabia. and as we move to central africa, we have seen those hot and humid conditions continue across the democratic republic of congo, as well as the central african republic. those clusters of storms are going to continue to brew across the gulf of guinea. some heavy falls on the way when i jerry, by the time we get to wednesday, it'll be uganda that see some heavy rain. we could see some flooding from that. that was a move further south. it is going to get wet across western air as you can see, angola and pots of namibia, seeing some of that rain. it does y up both eastern areas of south africa. janice book coming in at 20 degrees celsius with plenty of sunshine. ah straight propaganda media censorship and the roy, isabel authoritarian rule,

went up one day, the system has been turned from elect road and lockers into a competitive reporter in the shade. i looked at the left for power and hungarian through the experiences of those who live it every day. that is a pressure to us. but we have to be very careful, of course, have to be brave enough to support how democracy dies. democracy may be on al jazeera lu ah, watching al jazeera alive from doha reminder of our top stories, column, powell, one of the leading figures of american military and foreign policy for nearly 2

decades has died at the age of 84. his family confirmed the new saying he died from coven 19 complications. paul was the 1st black american to service both secretary of state and as the country's top general. at least 35 people have died because of floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain. in the southern indian state of carola, the army and navy are carrying out rescue operations, and thousands of people have been relocated. now sudanese force is a fire t gas to disperse protestors in the capital cartoon. they're demanding prime minister abdullah, hum dog dissolving true government. others calling on him to step down, protest. so say he's economic policies of negatively affected living conditions. so don's transitional government has slashed fuel subsidies and adopted an exchange system that's hurt value of its currency. here morgan is outside the presidential palace in costume with more. for the 3rd day, thousands continued together in front of the presidential palace here,

invested in the capital harpoon. now protest i have been staging and demanding prime minister of the lamb, doug, dissolve, executive cabinets and form a new one that they say should be more preventative. of the people who participated in the december 20 revolution, but eventually led to the, i'll think of former presidents all metal proceed. now, while there are a few 1000 here, 100, went up from this presidential pilot, just a few kilometers down to the office of the prime minister. actually held an emergency cabinet meeting to pressure him to dissolve that cabinet that he was meeting with. the police stopped them from advancing to the office and as it tried to sound the office, they were met with here. but this shows how far the force i said, are willing to go to voice the demand for the government to be dissolved. and it's not the only process that is currently happening in the country in the east in read, the faith processes have been demonstrating for a month and now and have sat down the main floors as they demand the government

council attract, known as the contract in a jewel agreement that was signing up to the last year and they say that they don't want that because they don't want that piece agreement because of it's not being representative. now, the whole issue here is the issue of our presentation. people here who we spoke to that they're not for presented in the government, and that is why they're taken to the street. he c o p as military is denying, carrying out as tribes in the northern to gray region. local hospital officials say 3 people were killed in the time from mikaela, the regional capital, a television station which is controlled by 2 grey and rebels also reported the strikes. fighting between government force event fighters from july has intensified in the past few weeks or the conflict in the northern ethiopian province has spilled into neighboring. i'm higher and our far region vendors, brianca group to report a shortage of food in am, hara is putting many at risk. saba ali move was 3 years old when she died. a month later, her mother with

a surviving infant is trying to understand what happened. but my name is ellen lewis in on the doctor still mean they have no treatment from ma'am, not as children. but i pleaded to them saying please save my child's life. they tried putting the treatment in her leg, her hand, nose and head. they didn't succeed. they told me she was severely affected by manya trisha and could not help load it. they gave me some syrup and tablets. she passed away exactly a week away on sunday. hop them a curly. it's marked thousands of families in a few years. i'm high region who are sheltering in the city of the se for fighting for the north. tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in a para and are far regions scrambling for food and shelter in this busting city. fighting between rebels into gray and the fuel pi military that started last november has spilled into neighboring regions at this hospital, awarded to say, young men and boys too frail to breathe. baddest cause of the conflict with alva.

yellow will. those who died are already dead. even those of us who survived are also dead, even if our bodies are alive, because we don't know who is life of who's dead. first of all, there is misery for hunger. there's nothing to eat, eat, of the escape. the war of the people will die of hunger. there is nothing, every thing is closed, no market nothings as little. one of your peers, kaufman is accused of blocking supplies. 2 areas under rebel control and to grey t. peeler fighters have been accused of committing atrocities. saw other says she was attacked and reaped in august by an armed man speaking the t grain language in our ethos had dental in northern, in the good them in the attackers said to me, we left our houses both to kill and to die. i'm from the jungle, so i have all the right to do whatever i want. i can even kill. you have a good. he raised his gun to me and threatened to kill me. i said okay to his demands. he also asked me for money and i said okay,

one other than he told me he was interested in me there. thought i said, please do anything you want with that. and then he raped me on that bus, a spokesman for the rebels and to grey has denied accusations of using grape as a weapon of war. but as a consequence on for nearly a year, if he opens who already had so little feel as though they're not losing everything . brianca gupta, i'll to 0 police in haiti say a well known gang is behind saturday's abduction of foreign christian missionaries and their family members. they were taken as they left an orphanage near the capital portal prints. it's the latest in a wave of kidnappings which have risen dramatically since the assassination of the president in july was in jordan has more from the state department in washington. the state department isn't saying much about this case, be beyond saying that because there are a us citizens involved, that it is going to be working very, very closely with asian government to try to bring these people safely home. i at

least get them away from other kidnappers. it is worth pointing out that haiti is one of those countries listed as a tier for basically a country that americans should not travel to unless they absolutely have to. and it could very well be argued that the missionaries are working for this ohio based on non profit, had been working in the country for some time. and were road basically trying to provide assistance in the wake of this summer's earthquake. now it's been reported that they were returning from an orphanage going back to their compound near the capital portal plants, when they're rub vehicle was stopped and they were abducted. it's been reported in the united states, press that to one of those being kidnapped was able to get a message out on whatsapp saying that how they were being kidnapped. and that child people should basically raise the alarms and try to bring them to safety. now there

is a daily press briefing here at the state department and 18 g l 0 will be attending, but it's not clear how much more can be said about this case. because if there's one thing that to the state department has come to find that if it says too much, it could possibly imperil those that they're trying to help. but suffice it to say there is a very much deep concern here in the u. s. government about the status of those missionary workers. russia is closing nato's permanent mission in moscow. the move is in response to the expulsion of half of russia's mission to the western military alliance. nearly 2 weeks ago is also closing all other nato related missions. may to accuse yates, members of being undeclared russian spies, russia's foreign minister announced the retaliatory move in immediate briefing earlier, while blaming nato for the worsening relations. we're most brokerages we don't have proper conditions for basic diplomatic activities as a result of noodle steps. in response to natives actions,

we suspend the work of our permanent mission to nato, including the work of the chief military representative of starting from november. first, we will a special session of the u. k. parliament has been held to pay tribute to sir david amos falling the conservative m p. steph on friday, members of parliament began with a minute silence for their colleague. so david was tapped to death while meeting members of the public in a church hole in his constituency. east of london, shown a whole house more from london. what we don't yet know enough about is the motive for this killing on friday. we don't know, for instance whether david amos was killed because of who he was being david amos, something he said or something he believed in or simply because of what he was a british parliamentarian. and it is that latter possibility that his really struck a note of alarm here in westminster. where you said that debate is going on about how better to protect british m. p 's, who tend not to have protection when they're going about their business. even in

the communities that elected them many say that they are routinely subject to threats. one veteran mc margaret hodge said she'd received $90000.00 abusive social media mentions in just a 2 month period last year. so there are also course a crackdown on social media companies, but it's the business of protecting them physically that he's really being hotly discussed at the moment in these constituency settings, when they go about meeting face to face with people in their constituencies without protection. it's an absolute core part of british democracy is something that many of them apt value and cherish pretty for tell the home secretary is talking about making police protection available to m p. 's if they want it also the use of airport style scanners. now some may embrace that, but others are already voicing real unease at the idea of undermining this tradition. this openness and trust that exists, the relationship between m p 's and their constituents. and i think this debate will have some way to run. one of europe's largest cities has

a housing crisis. many nissan bola struggling to find affordable housing frustrated . university students are protested by spending the night in a park. they saw saddam has the story sit on codec, worked at the real estate agency in turkeys. largest city is stumble. he has how hundreds of people find homes, but now he is on the house, hunt himself, a task that is becoming increasingly difficult. fulton, i've been working in real state in this area for years, and even though i've been making a good salary in a big company, i can't find any suitable housing for my budget. i wanted to move into a new house some time ago, but i had to postpone it because of the pandemic. but meanwhile, prices have increased $2.00 to $3.00 times. a stumble is low on affordable housing, export se gentrification projects demand for foreign nationals and the economy situation worsened by the pandemic or causing the price hikes ran president turkey

how coolant at the record pace, in 2021. with a 29.2 percent hike, that is triple the global average. a real estate agent operating in john get a popular location for many foreigners says there are plenty of homes to rent, but says prices are only going in one direction. took care of undulate, the demand from foreigners is increasingly high that you can't even imagine it. people, especially from the arabian peninsula, are showing high demand for houses here. and in return, they get turkish citizenship around 6070 percent of this rent increase is due to foreign demand to the li ross, dramatic loss of value, and the inflation rate as high as 20 persons are making life extremely difficult for many in turkey. and the skyrocketing rental prices are now threatening to leave students without a roof. some of them spent the night at this park to demand more affordable housing

. one of them is a 23 year old student, j. m, back. she says it has become impossible to find a place of her own sake, the same company, our landlord knocks our door every day. he says he wants to give our house to some one else at a higher rent. 23 years old trying to live as an individual. what will i do if i cannot live in this country as a woman or as a student young? where can i go? the turkish government says it's planning to provide need dormitories for students forced out of their houses. but for many others, secure and affordable place to live is becoming increasingly impossible. racial said that al jazeera stumble ah plugin, i'm fully bachelor window, how the headlines on al jazeera.