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and forces officials to open near overflowing dies as the hunger crisis claims more young lives in northern missio pier reports of government air strikes on mecca lay, which is the capital of tea and efforts continue to secure the release of a group of foreign missionaries kidnapped in haiti after visiting an orphanage. ah, colon power. one of the u. s. is leading military and political figures for decades has died at the age of $84.00. his family confirmed that powell who was suffering a form of blood cancer, died from cobit 19 complications. he was the 1st black american to serve as both secretary of state and the country's top general, our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit looks back. now on colin powell, 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 advisor 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 have a 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 or 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. 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 block over time pals, regret turned into disillusion with the republican party. he endorsed democratic presidential candidate brock obama in 2008. the visibility will expire 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 in 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. and kimberly joins us now live from outside of the

white house is. so can really he was of course, as you've just been saying, such a key political and military figure in the u. s. ellison little bit more about the tributes being paid right now. you as president joe biden, referring to general colin powell as embodying the highest ideals of both a warrior and a diplomat. but also talking about how important he was as a friend to the president saying that he was a trusted confidant in good times and bad. and that he will miss being able to call on his wisdom. and we also have heard from the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who is noting that coven 19, than the pandemic, has taken the lives of so many great americans. this being no exception, but reminding oh ordinary americans about the enormous loss of life that has occurred saying as we pray for general powells love,

once we pray for the 725000 americans that have been taken from this vicious virus . and of course, a cannot be underscore the importance of colin powell when it came to breaking racial barriers when it comes to public service and barack obama. former president noting this, talking about how he helped a generation of young people set their sights higher. he refused to accept that race would limit his dream. so certainly he is be remembered as someone that all could look up to and even inspired those that are currently in office, including the secretary of state antony blank and as well as the defense secretary lloyd austin, take listen security. paul was simply completely a leader and he knew how to build a strong and united team. he treated people the way he expected them to treat each other. and he made sure that they knew he would always have their back. the result

was that his people would walk through walls for him, the world lost one of the greatest leaders and we have ever witnessed all my lost a great husband and the family lost a 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, i'm what, what tough issues he always had great break 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. and kimberly, by colon powells own admission, he made a mistake when it came to supporting the 2003 invasion of iraq to what do you think that, that mistake, what role do you think it will play in,

in his legacy in the united states? well, there's no question that there were many people of, most in the democratic as well as republican party that were unhappy with colin powell and the argument that he made back for the invasion of iraq that led to an enormous loss of life based on faulty intelligence. but it was his ability to admit that mistake to regret that mistake. but to also note that there was little that he could do to change it except to move forward or to continue to live his life as an example to strive for better. and so, even though there was that one very large blemish in his career, it is not being remembered in isolation as they remember his life. but instead they are remembering the totality of his achievements. the fact that he was able to inspire so many to not look at skin color, but to look at achievements and that he achieved so much and showed so many what

was possible if you set your mind to it. and that is how he is being remembered, but we should also point out that, well, he acknowledged that mistaken. and the faulty intelligence. it did start the beginning of a disillusionment for colin powell with the republican party one that ultimately led to him leaving the party earlier this year. the fact that he felt the party had been changing. that's why, even as he identified as a republican, he later in life endorse democratic presidents, including joe biden. given the fact that he felt that it was a party, he could no longer belong to, and that it no longer fit with his values. in other words, he put his duty to the country before any allegiance to a particular political party. and that is how he is being remembered as so many trivial support in that that as an example of how so many americans could conduct their lives based on his model. kimberly how can with the latest that from the

white house. kimberly thank you. ah, flooding and land slides have now killed at least 35 people in the southern indian state of carola ah, shocking images. their entire buildings have been swept away by strong river currents. thousands of people are staying in shelters as cleanup operations continue. but more heavy rainfall is expected this week. our india correspondent, elizabeth per annum reports now from catania. one of the worst affected districts. zenith asylum goes through the debris of what was until 2 days ago. her hone in her hand. the only possessions she's left with an umbrella, a small purse, and a pair of sandals. she lost everything in the flood which swept through quite damn

district and the southern state of kettler on sunday. again, linda broke out in the morning. i heard on t v that there is a red alert in a few regions, but the water level started to rise. so suddenly, 1st it was as high as my head in soon it rose to my neck. somehow i managed to move to higher ground, but everything is gone. nothing is left here right across the road from the river, which swept away zenith. how's? the jos family looked through their belongings to see what they can salvage. they haul him is still standing. but anything left in the house is covered in mud in it are the best number. this is the 1st time in our life that we're experiencing this kind of situation. but our grandfather told us there was a similar flood in 1957. the last time there was a flood, we had water up to our doorstep, but not this bad saturdays to wrench of rain led to land slides which killed dozens of people and flooding which has displaced thousands. this church on the border

between the 2 worst affected districts caught a m and indicate is housing around 200 people who have nowhere else to go. it's one of more than a 100 shelters in the state housing, thousands of people who are in the same situation. and that's a concern, because cadillac continues to record the highest number of clothing, 19 cases and deaths in the country. healthcare workers told al jazeera it's difficult to impose covered 19 protocols doing such disasters. and we've been telling people to take care and follow the kobe protocols as much as possible. we're also providing them with masks and medication, but they're not able to follow the rules because they're in a panic mode after losing everything. flooding from monsoon rains as an annual occurrence and catalogue. but environmentalists say it's leading to more disasters such as landslides, because the stuff for areas increasingly becoming more for the human interventions,

which are actually creating problems, getting full hill so being leveled and we see a lot of deforestation and mining happening in the area with more heavy, well protected later in the week, emergency response teams try to clear as much debris as possible from rivers to prevent any further destruction. elizabeth per on al jazeera cooking, cadillac, hospital officials, a c, c o, p, and forces have launched the air strikes on the capital of the northern t gray region, killing 3 people. if he appears military has denied carrying out any assault on mecolas, but a tv station controlled by the degree in rebels and an aide worker also reported the air strikes fighting between government and the grand forces has intensified spreading into neighboring amara and a fight. well, the violin says force tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in those regions and the far a shortage of food, food,

and medical supplies is putting many at risk there, as well as in t gray as ethiopia government restricts aid deliveries. priyanka gupta has more. 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 i name is ellen lewis in on the doctors told me 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. they gave me some syrup and tablets. she passed away exactly a week away on sunday, hopped them a curly. it's marked thousands of families in a few years. i'm high region who is sheltering in the city of the se, from fighting for the north. tens of thousands of people have led 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 p 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 in with olden 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, even the escape, the war of the people will die of hunger. there is nothing, everything is closed, no markets nothing this little while a few p as kaufman is accused to blocking supplies to areas under rebel control into grey t p. other 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. and i even had dental. den north him 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. 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. then he told me he was interested in me. i said, please do anything you want. and then he raped me on a spokesman for the rebels and to grey has denied accusations of using grape as a weapon of war. but as a conflict grind so on for nearly a year, if he opens who already had so little feel as though they're not losing everything, priyanka got their alta 0 still to come in this half hour. a key ally of nicholas maduro appears in a court in miami, after being expedited to the u. s. the face charges of money laundering and canada . those prime minister visits the graves of children who died in former reservation

schools. after being criticized for going on holiday over the country's 1st truth and reconciliation. ah hey, there your world's weather update begins in europe and we've got a weather makers striking us with some heavy rain whales right into central england . but there is some warm air to be found will call the dividing line pretty much copenhagen's of north of that, a cool pool of air. we do have frost advisories across lithuania. and then south of that, look at this. we've got some temperatures in the 20s, but my, all my things are gonna change. check this out. a comes crashing down in london by the end of the week. just a hiv 12 degrees, it's below average, but hey, it's, it's gonna be dr. continues to be dry across iberia, some of the best weather on the continent were hanging on to some thirties, a seville at 32 degrees, but look at this,

an incoming weather maker. it's going to give us some rain, northwestern spain, northern in central areas of portugal on wednesday, much quieter weather pitcher across the southeast of europe, where we had that to renshaw, rain in greece, the remnants of it now over turkey's northeastern black sea region. so tribes on still getting into that driving rain on tuesday or in this weather broadcast right now in africa where the storms are bubbling up. cameroon nigeria. but also as we looked toward benito, go gone a rate through into the ivory coast. so abidjan has a hive 27 degrees on tuesday that shout they ah! most people will never know what's beyond this happening. silence 100000 forms. to touch danger every day. most people will never know what it's like to work with. every breath is chris

with but we're not most hulu. ah, a reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera, colin powell, one of the top u. s. military and political figures for almost 2 decades has died at the age of $84.00. powell, who had a form of blood cancer, died from covered 19 complications. cleanup operations are continuing in, catalyze southern india after devastating floods. at least 35 people have died.

most of them in landslides. thousands of people are staying in shelters and more heavy rainfall is expected. and the hunger crisis in northern ethiopia is spreading with lives now at risk in amara and afar regions as well as in te grey ada deliveries are being restricted by ethiopia, government, which launched a fresh air strikes on t g rise capital earlier. russia is closing nato's permanent mission in moscow. the move is in response to the expulsion of half for russia's mission by the western military alliance nearly 2 weeks ago. it's also closing all other nater related missions. they to accused the 8 members of being undeclared russian spies the streets of course, upon so largely empty after unions and organizations called a strike to protest against haiti's dire security situation. the mass action

follows the kidnapping of 17 christian missionaries from an ohio based group. they were taken by a gang on saturday after visiting an orphanage. the u. s. a sent a team to haiti to help locate and release the 12 adults and 5 children. haiti has been struggling with spike and gang related kidnappings in recent months. what rosalind jordan is live from the state department in washington, d. c. a rosalyn. good to see. you've just been at a state department briefing and just ended. what did they say about the efforts to find the missionaries? well, there is an inter agency effort to try to find the 17 people, 16 us citizens, one canadian citizen and of the 17. in this group 5 are children. they were leaving an orphanage as part of their work in haiti on saturday when they were abducted. they haven't been seen and the group that allegedly has kidnapped them has not made any public demands. but

u. s. officials both here at the state department and at the white house saying that they are working with their haitian counterparts to try to run down the clues to try to find this group and to try to rescue them as quickly as possible. now certainly this is coming against the backdrop of vas, burgeoning violence across haiti, where armed gangs are said to be really in control of big chunks of the country. they don't respect the authority of law enforcement. some have suggested that they may be working on behalf of some of the powerful politicians. but todd, regardless, this is become a country which the u. s. has said to us, citizens don't travel to it unless you absolutely have to. now of course, this organization is very much um, in has been in the country for some decades carrying out educational work, humanitarian, a support, religious education. and they had been there, you know,

just, they had just come back really to try to assist again after the research earthquake . and so certainly there is a real level of concern. but you know, officials are not talking too much about who exactly these people are for privacy reasons. rosalind jordan with the latest that from the state department in washington dc of ozone. i thank you. a columbian businessman and the close ally of venezuela's president has appeared in a u. s. court on charges of money laundering. alex saab was named by the nicholas meadows government as an envoy to the venezuelan political negotiations in mexico. more than a year after his 2020 arrests in cape verde, the movement was widely criticized as an attempt to delay his extradition to the us . after it went the head, venezuela suspended negotiations with the opposition that were said to resume over the weekend. the u. s. justice department charged

a sub in 2019 over an alleged bribery scheme that was part of a low income housing project for the government that was never actually built. they also accuse him of running a corruption network that allowed that sob and maduro siphoned off funds from a state run food subsidy program and sob. and the business partner at face charges of money laundering their alleged to have me moved to $350000000.00 out of venezuela into accounts that they controlled in the us and other countries. they risk up to 20 years in prison, or sub, was detained june last year, when his jet made a refueling stop in cape bird. he was travelling to tehran, where he was allegedly send to negotiate deals to exchange venezuela gold. for iranian petro will then, as well, president nicholas medulla says his country will denounce the charges of the un. he branded sobs, arrest the kidnapping, which shows the u. s. does not want peace in venezuela. lima could deal

the u. s. government knew that kidnapping a member of the dialogue commission and mexico alex saab was a moral stab in the back of the dialogues and negotiations and mexico. the u. s. government knew it and act it was if they knew it or if they do not want dialogue, they do not want piece foreign as well. and also they do not want democracy in progress for venezuela. no kidding. but canada's prime minister in just intruder has visited the site of a former residential school where the remains of hundreds of indigenous children were discovered in may. the school was run by the catholic church and named to forcibly assimilate indigenous children. canadian bishops have apologized for the church as role in abuses from the 19th century to the 1980s. crudo has faced criticism for failing to participate in canada's 1st national day of truth and reconciliation, which took place last month. i. many regrets

about september 30th and my decision to travel, the 1st, of course, was not being able to attend the commemorations here that were so important for the entire country and awakening people to the reality of residential schools. but also to be able to grieve with the community that since may has been hurting and re living past trauma in a way that i should have been here. well, jodie vance joins us live from kamloops and judy. what else they trudeau say as to mom? creator, like their way, while there are a number of hopping still covered in the press conference at the q and a mid indeed happened both online here and in person at the powwow arbor at that cabinets residential school site. my choice discussed about the $212.00 unmarked

graves. certainly the community here wanted to have meaningful action and identifies the bodies of those $200.00 interesting children who are found a ground to hand and turn radar. only one heck, there of 65. have you been search? certainly, this is the tip of the iceberg. and what might be discovered here and another residential schools, sites across canada, prime minister trudeau, i spoke of being committed. i opened through a herd in that clip. he is, he is humbled and apologizing for not being as sooner or had that was roger is with some i rolling in the stands here as to how arbor people certainly feeling the pains of the prime minister having not been does, is were on september 30th for the 1st day of truth and reconciliation, which he said was not vacation, but his day for reflection for all canadians jo ann band ever. so he ran on vacation. that is very much present here. however, moving forward,

it is about trying to identify the 215. this remains of children and grandma grades known as these secrets. i year the apple origin. you're just a mere meters away from where i stand today. a jody. as you mentioned, the prime minister had been invited to visit the kamloops community a number of times as you mentioned, you know, who he didn't even observe some the all the days in observance and, and reflection at why is we decided to go now and ah, well, that's a very good question that i guess community would like answered they didn't get my i think that he would be attending today. i did a very busy time for them to come. let play show up. nick at 1st nisha ever since. back in may on may 27th of this year. when those 259 my grades were discovered by the 1st news here. there was no visit by the prime minister, then there was none. on the 3rd trip in reconciliation. so the why now question is

very present. however, the prime minister has had closed door meetings with elders. the chair chief, her grandmother has here, who was present here and, and did not mince words when she was speaking to the disappointment of mister unity in that his absence on september 30th. certainly today is the day her prime in the us. and she's know she's show all of canada and in doing every when goodness, he will hear that he is true story and regrets not being present and moving forward . he will do better, jody vance, with the latest on that meeting and going on in kamloops. so judy, thank you. more than 1300 prisoners in myanmar have been freed, falling the announcement of an amnesty by the country's military rulers. former inmates were re united with family members as they left a prison in young gong, the military governments. those charges against 4000 other prisoners have been suspended. the amnesty covers people who were arrested for taking part in protests,

me and mars john to leader also said that other southeast asian nations should share responsibility for failing to quell violence in the country. may not lying as spoke after being excluded from the blocks upcoming meeting. much more on that story and everything that we have been covering there are on our website. of course, there it is. the address al jazeera dot com ah and our reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, colin powell, one of the leading figures of u. s. military and foreign policy for decades has died at the age of $84.00. his family confirmed at powell, who also had a form of blood cancer, died from coven 19 complications. how.