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a recap. no sign of relief as heavy rain and flooding. sweep through parts of northern and southern india and armed gangs kill dozens of people in nigeria as troubles northern reach. ah, haiti's, justice minister says a criminal gang is demanding $17000000.00 for the return of 17 foreign christian missionaries. a group of most of the americans and one canadian was kidnapped as they left an orphanage near the capital portal prints on saturday. if the agents and other u. s. officials are now helping haitian law enforcement police in haiti say a well known gang is behind the abduction. al jazeera john hendern has more from millis brig, ohio, outside the headquarters where those christian missionaries are based. this gang

$400.00 no, was all which means $400.00 simpletons, has placed the price of a life at $1000000.00. that's a total of $17000000.00 for each of the 5 men, 7 women, and 5 children who have been held hostage after being taken outside for the prince, where they were building an orphanage. it's not clear whether that will be the ultimate number or whether that number will be paid. this becomes an ethical problem for christian aid ministries here in homage country in ohio, because they ask people for money and they get about a $130000000.00 every year from various donors around the world. and those donors aren't necessarily going to want their money used to fund this kidnapping machine that has gone out of control in haiti. what we know about that group is that they've kidnapped a number of people before, but sometimes those people have been abused physically, sexually. sometimes they've been denied food and lived in rough conditions,

but globally we also know that generally about 90 percent of people who have been kidnapped are ultimately returned, usually for ransom. that's the way they do it in haiti in general. but that ransom of $1000000.00 per person exceptionally high. and now we've got an organization here that has to make the ethical choice of whether they'll do that in here in the country. that is a very difficult question because we talked to a woman yesterday. you said it may be god's will that these people don't live through this experience. any rock supporters are probably radian factions, are protesting against the result of last week's parliamentary election. oh bonnie, linked to the paramilitary group known as a popular mobilization forces saw big losses in the election. fans in baghdad have been gathering to demand every count, mahmoud abdullah had, has more from the back

a capital, thousands of angry protest her as are protesting in front of the green zone in baghdad, demanding a manual recount of the votes of the legislative election. now these protest her as their supporters of the political parties, most leesha political parties that last in the election, many of them here, despite, although they are in civilian uniform, many of them are military individuals belonging to the popular mobilization forces that are commanded by a members of the shia political parties that last and the election the protest that is to have set up dozens of tents here. and they say that planning to continue protesting here in this area, blocking several roads leading to the green zone until their demands are met. they

say that they are accusing the election commission of fraud of vote rigging. they say that our end to the national parties are intervening and the election an are also directing the results of the election. these are accusing the government of collaborating and what they call a vote. rigging, tindy in our landslide and floods are affecting regions in the north and south days of heavy rain has caused death and damage in corolla and o t. r. a kind. a lake in the tourist city of 90 town has over old flooding streets and houses heavy rain across the area for the past 3 days as came at least 24 people in the mountainous region. many pos remain, cut off after bridges collapsed and main highways washed away. the coastal state of caroline is also bracing for more flooding. near capacity dams are being opened as

more rain is predicted on wednesday and a so t people have died in the southern states. his last week, thousands of people have been moved to relief camps, but with high coping, 900 cases in the state. there are concerns about infections in shelters. is a random is in one of the worst effect, a districts in careless state and has this update. we're down stream from catalyzed biggest water reservoir. that's the it okey dam, which is releasing $100000.00 pieces of router every seconds. now the government is doing that is releasing washer from 3 dams because they rapidly filled up with a to renshaw, rain over the weekend. and that means that people living in live in downstream along the patio river as far as the city of co ci have been put on alert in case of flooding from the release of water. now they're doing this because there

is more heavy rain predicted for all of kettler from wednesday, and this is what the states water resources minister told us about the preparations dinardo. i'm worried for all the dams are under control now. and the government has made all arrangements regarding the location of people living near the catchment area of the dams and also to other places where this water could flow. no one is relocated as of now, as the water discharging is in a limited and controlled manner. now what the government is trying to do is of the, the kind of disaster that happened during the months in floods of 2018 when at least 400 people lost their lives. the government faced criticism of both delaying the decision to open the waters to release the worship rather from the reservoirs. and then once they made that decision for not giving any notice to people who were living downstream, those are both scientist reasons to some of widespread damage and destruction.

they're also emphasizing that the release of the water from the dans is being done in a staggered and in a controlled manner and catalyst chief minister that the state lead to that i vision has said that they have increased the number of relief camps of shelters in the state to 40, keeping in mind that as well as all of those people who all ready lost their homes over the past week, the thousands who are in shelters more might need evacuation because of the release of the water from the dams. and if those heavy rains which are predicted for wednesday do come through health care workers in ethiopia to gray regional calling on the federal government to lift the siege on mckelly. a shortage of medical supplies is worsening. a humanitarian crisis in the region. the un says 400000 people are experiencing farming and i for the 1800000 people are on the brink of it

. journalism you'll get to choose as there is no end in sight for the blockade on to gray. this doesn't seem to be any compromise from the ethiopian side out from a t p, a level a. what we've seen from, for example, those, those thoughts are protesting. integrity is trying to express, the pressure is been going on and local clinics and hospitals trying to kick take care of so many victims. and so many people that are in need of medical help and a system that's almost broke down. and that's why they were protesting in front of the u. n. trying to express what's been happening and thus what we're beginning to see from a distance. 91 percent of the population are in need of some kind of emergency aid . and according to us aid close to 1000000 people are facing famine like conditions that the need is so much overwhelming. you know, you can send and so many so much trucks from w. p. the factors, the need to so much and the people are in need of the support are just

overwhelmingly so much and there's only so much you could do and much of the pressure i've seen it. i've traveled to the region, you know, in last the earlier this year, what be beginning to see what we've seen from far as and from near is the fact that the hospitals are just being overwhelmed with not enough medicine to even treat the most basic needs. at least 43 people have been carried by attackers in nigeria. soccer tell states gunmen stormed a market in california on sunday and they're sold carried on into monday morning. attacks by hom, gangs have been increasing in northern nigeria. id trace has more from my butcher. these attacks have been carried out by on gross in the north that have been operating in the north for them for a state in particular. they've been there for more than a decade, and they've killed thousands of people displeased tens of thousands,

most of them crossed into neighboring countries like michelle public. and because of recent military operations, they have been dislodged from most of the forest areas they've been occupied in zone for a stage. so some of them have spilled over into neighboring states like so could, although they keep talking. so could from time to time in from that basis in some for, and other parts of north western idea. but now we understand that these benefits, according to officials, also have moved from their basis after they've been dislodged by military as strikes and ground operations there. and they are targeting communities in other parts of north western niger, especially a states like sort a state that a lot of government spaces in the north west of the country. like just in the northeast of the country where i bought them another. and i've been operating there is little or no government presence and spot in areas nor infrastructure, no security presence, kidnapping for rent. some is high right now in the north of the country and in this office and for parts of my g y,

i'm groups have been gathering hundreds of millions of dollars since they started the operations. so a lot of criminal gangs and of course the individual caching in on the, on the lucrative business, illegal business and way in northwest of nigeria. so that's the situation at the moment. still ahead on al jazeera la palmer's ok. no interruption shows no sign of slowing thomas tell us, stay away from the future of their crops and for the health. and just what is facebook matter? very is all about to look at how, hiring 10000. why? because in europe can be the future from the social media tight. ah hi there, good to see you getting going on your weather forecasts for the middle east right now. we've got some rain hanging around the caspian sea and there is the risk. some

of this could seep in to tater on, so we look at the next 3 days and we'll call it about a 40 percent chance of seen some showers on thursday, your temperature 1918 degrees that's below where you should be for this time, the year off to pakistan, temperatures come down just a bit, sin karachi, $36.00 degrees, and islam abad. up to 33. the high for you on wednesday. turkeys northeastern black c region has been striped with some heavy rain as of late still there on wednesday . but it will start to peter out as we get throughout the day. central africa right now, you're gonna right into the democratic republic of congo. we're seen some pretty big storms flare up here. i'd take you further toward that south because we do have some rain dancing around now central and northern parts of mozambique. but if we look toward the west and gola namibia will start to see that slide into botswana and western parts of south africa on thursday. but look at this, cape town, 27 on wednesday. now let's go to thursday and we really see that rain organizing in

those parts, especially some bursa, brain for western areas of south africa. cape town has a high up 21 degrees. ah, gotta one of the fastest growing nations in the world. ronnie casa, needed to open and development school track international shipping company to become a p middle east and tried and wanting skillfully math, 3 key areas of development who filling up from it. so connecting the world, connecting the future while the cato catalyst gateway to whoa trade. like the

ah, they're watching algae 0 live from doha. recap of our top story. this. our height is justice minister says a criminal gang is demanding $17000000.00 for the return of 17. for in christian missionaries, mostly american and canadian group was kidnapped as they left, an orphan. h. a capital portal presence on saturday. flags in india kills dozens of people in northern and southern regions. large parts of our condo have been cut off, and in carola rescue teams are preparing for working conditions as dams overflow and health care workers in ethiopia. dry region calling on the federal government to allow crucial supplies into mckelly. a shortage of medicine and equipment is worsting a mandatory crisis in the region. south korea, as north korea has launch at least one ballistic missile into the sea of japan. it

says a weapon may have been designed for submarine launches. it trilateral meeting of intelligence, cheese from us, japan and south korea has been held. they agreed to strengthen corporation, though it is very regrettable that the country has continued launching missiles since last month. you thought you'll see, i'd rather not predict north korea's intentions of firing the missiles from my point of view, but i think we must continue making efforts on grasping the situation and collecting information al jazeera, katrina, you has more now from beijing. we have conflicting reporting as to exactly what happened. south korea says, one missile was launched a bit. japan says true missiles were launched, and at least one of those missiles could have been launched from a submarine. now if that's the case, this will be the 1st time north korea has successfully test launched a missile from a submarine. previously, they only did so from test bulges. now, shortly after the launch, south korea security council met there were they were deeply alarmed by this

incident. they expressed deep regrets, echoing the japanese prime minister's sentiments. later we had a response from the u. s. government using strong language condemning the test and urging the north korea to refrain from any d, stabilizing activities. now, beijing foreign ministry has also chimed in using softer language. it said that all parties should maintain restraint and commit to peace and dialogue. china is definitely watching all of this very closely. now, this is the 8th. the missile test that shown young has conducted this year. the last one was just a few weeks ago at the end of september when phil young claimed to have tested hypersonic missile. now the timing of all of this is very interesting. it's in the middle of south korea is big diplomatic. push to try to reengage north korea in the d nuclear zation process that stored under the previous us administration under donald trump. and today on tuesday, the intelligence chiefs of the us,

japan and south korea all met install to strengthen their cooperation. so this could, this test could be in response to that meeting. and also it takes place. while in south korea, we have a weapons trade said the a dex. trade for taking place where various asian countries, including south korea shopping and looking to upgrade the defense systems. graham, on where busy defense analysts and research fellow at my young technological university. he says, north korea is trying to remind the world of his development program. i think we are looking at a convergence of considerations that have amounted to why, you know, young young had decided to do what have done. and, you know, executing this dismissal test. presumably, a submarine based launching to solve to, you know, to communicate if you will receive a rattling of various things in the least. of course, i mean,

just looking at the capability development alone, i think the north koreans are trying to remind all of us that number one to serious about this number to the are pushing the envelope when it comes to developing essentially what will amount to 1st year nuclear power keep abilities. so i think that's something that has been rather disconcerting to all parties are, you know, impacted by the, the, are moving baby, baby steps if you will. not as far, relative to the development of other countries that have, you know, undertaken, their own nuclear programs. nevertheless, you know, the where with all the coming, if you will, to find ways walk around to get technical data to get, you know, to get the knowledge transfer to somehow make it then to build these capabilities and to successfully test them. so i think that there's really no cutting off the regime ultimately, particularly in a globalized world, even in north korea,

in consideration of that. and they will, they will find a way to get there. and i think they are telling us the are the head of the european commission says a recent ruling by poland. constitutional court is a threat to the very foundations of the e. u. a polish court war parson, the bronx, treaties are incompatible with the countries constitution. the has threatened the consequence facing the primacy of its laws must go undisputed more than a 100000 poles, rallied in support of the e. u. last week with confirmed the country could leave the block. honorable members, we cannot and we will not allow our common values to be put at risk. the commission will act and the options are all known. first option on fringe moments where we legally challenge the judgment of the polish constitutional court. another option is the conditionality,

mechanism, and other financial tools. the polish government has to explain to us how it intends to protect your appeal money. given this ruling of their constitutional courts on poland, prime minister says he will not be intimidated by what he calls blackmail from the you. do you stand process? so showing no, thank you. today, this process has come to such a stage that it is necessary to safe talk. you do addiction have clear boundaries and i mean must not remain silent when the abridged. that's why you're saying, yes, you'd open when you were selling them and know, do you live in central ism? yes. facebook says it will be hiring 10000 new employees in the european union in the next 5 years. they'll be higher specifically to work on what the social media john calls a new makeovers. many in the tech industry say it could be the next big leap forward in for the internet,

connecting people through augmented and virtual reality of facebook describes a metro various as an online world that's accessible through everything, from virtual reality headsets to mobile phones and game consoles it could have limitless uses or moving workplaces online to consumers shopping and just hanging out with friends. long soccer burke has said it's his company's main priority is already committed $50000000.00 to the effort and has invested heavily in the virtual reality industry. but global push back against facebook has been growing, accompanies facing anti trust investigations in the e. u, as well as widespread criticism about its failure to address online safety and hate speech on his platform. early i spoke to caterina, go on to who is an assistant professor in law and technology at master of university. she says the virtual room contains a lot of opportunity and it will be good for it to happen under european oversight . i think that this is based on a very long mud, a dream or

a dream that has happened already a lot, even in science fiction literature and movies and cinema ta graphy of actually having this online space. that is the cyberspace where people can do exactly the same activities as we can in the offline world. so a lot of commentators have really likened the metaphor as to what we already see is happening in different games. for instance, in fortnight there have been there has been a rise in concerts that are taking place in this environment. now imagine that metaphors as an amplification of such environments where you can have new payment mechanisms. you can have new types of digital content and basically new consumer products. if you look at the blog post that was made by facebook 2 days ago where these plants have been built upon. this reads very much like the p r, equivalent of a love letter to europe. so indeed, i believe that there is going to be quite a lot of leverage from a lobbying perspective that these plans in these negotiations might entail. i think

we can also look at the silver lining show apart from the 3 countries. so i think it's germany, france, and ireland that would immediately benefit from different organizations that would be built by facebook and then attracting several other tens of thousands of employees. but the idea is that also, apart from that, by really creating these products in the european sphere, we could look at how europeans consumer protection. and it's very high standards, are going to impact the development of policies for the new world. man mas military government has started releasing political prisoners. the amnesty grants freedom to those who took part in the anti co demonstrations in april. but most of the civilian leaders of the deposed government, including on fans, which are still detained. mere hardy has our report, the. b cheers erupt as families are about to be reunited for the 1st time in months. these political prisoners scan the crowd,

looking for their loved ones outside this prison and yang on me and march. when they finally find them. tears of joy. thousands of reunions like this are expected to take place in the coming days after me and mars qu leaders issued an amnesty for some 5600 political prisoners. the most were arrested in february, as the military deposed the elective government. others were detained months later, during antique who protest my sister was arrested after someone reported her for publishing books. they ordered 50 books from her and arrested her with police vehicles and military trucks. i hope that she gets released soon. she has 2 kids at home. i want her home as soon as possible. the timing of this amnesty comes a week before the regional block us in is due to meet in an unprecedented move as young leaders have excluded me and mars military leader men on clang from attending

that summit. it's the most severe sanction the block has ever handed to a member state in 5 decades. this is a big deal telling one of the leaders of one of the member states that it cannot attend the summit of which it would've used the footage of to try and demonstrate its international legitimacy to people. and me and me are to try and use that to suggest that they should stop resisting because the kudos in february was complete . and that is a pretty big deal. and it was something that took a long time to get to me and mar. authorities released more than 2000. he q protestors from prison across the country in june, including journalists, critical of the military government. the latest and larger amnesty commons, while there's increasing pressure on the military leaders to engage with their opponents, nearly 9 months after seizing power. that's like this, that have been taken by the on this week, the increase the likelihood of a split within the military. because again, they do care about the appearance of international legitimacy. the former head of

government, all songs to cheat, who was also arrested in february is not expected to be released. many of those already set free, say they were made to sign an agreement, saying they won't engage in political activities in the future. a trade off, many were willing to take to see their families again. leo harding al jazeera. scientists say there's no indication the volcano on the spanish island of la palmer will stop erupting soon. it's been a month since it began spewing lava. the agricultural sector has been among the hardest hit by the destruction. alexander lurch is on the island where his met with banana farmers who say they're worried if they won't have anything left to harvest . for more than 4 decades. jose alvaro has worked in families plantation near the western coast of la palmer, but he says the month long volcanic eruption is now affecting his health. others in

the you know they, i don't feel good. i don't want to work or eat. i don't want to do anything but the situation we are now living and we have to continue in a typical year, alvaro could expect to harvest more than 13 tons of the islands, much prized bananas. but the eruption means the fate of this season's harvest is uncertain. is my last time i don't know if it, but the volcanic effect, everything because of that when it's everywhere. you said these reduce production and income. we are washing their bananas with water and blower. the net it's extra work yet in the end we got practically nothing. when we tried to sell them, it looks like their banners have been funded down inside the same tasty. but on the outside to the eye, it doesn't sell that the lava has destroyed more than a 133 heck tiers of banana farms. scientists warn the erupt could continue for

several months, but say a lesson may be drawn from the islands. history to the position here were constructed or were blended big because the transport saw it from other from other places where they put this on the lava flows on isolated options. so probably the future will, they will do the same. i mean, they will transport in thousands of do we meet this and they cover the lava flow, so they will, they will have new plantations. i mean, the only way to recover once the lava has cooled, there is a chance that some of the land may be reclaimed in the coming months and years. but for the farmers, all they can do is wait for the option to end. while they hope that the help provided by the government is enough to see them through the year. the bananas or the engine of the economy on the canary islands accounting for 30 percent of jobs. the spanish government has designated more than $16000000.00 in financial aid to

help farmers recover. local officials say the government should do more. the you let me see where the dental community, the 14000000 euros of a been provided to the community is a start. but it's only equivalent to what the affected areas produce in just one year. after sunset, the glow from country becker lights up the landscape yet again. and the threat of the love of becomes visible from tens of kilometers away. all alvaro can do is watch and hope his farm is spared. alexander lurch al jazeera la palmer. ah, sir, again, i'm fully back with the headlines on al jazeera haiti's. justice minister says a criminal gang is demanding $17000000.00 for the return of 17. for the christian

missionaries, the mostly american and canadian group was kidnapped as they left an orphan, a. she and a capitol portal prince.