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libby, an official c. they are on course to register candidates for december's elections. but many hurdles remain before the vote. a british robots who was detained by egyptian officials for espionage is wowing art lovers with her works. ah, ethiopia military has carried out more air strikes in te gray as a renewed campaign against rebels who control most of the region intensifies among the sites hit small z facility in the town of antwan being used by the te gray people's liberation front to manufacture military equipment that's according to the government's fighting's, been going on for almost a year. but air strikes and bombardments by ethiopian military increased over the past week. that's forced the u. n. to cease humanitarian flights to the regional

capital, mckelly mcbride's. and as a strategic advisor with sir hon, research a think tank, focusing on politics and security in the horn of africa, he's been comparing the military capabilities of the ethiopian military and the te grier enforcers. on the one hand, a c o, p is a state, a government which had until recently, one of the most powerful militaries on the continent. and it has access to military assistance from allies. it has been purchasing weapons and ammunition, including drones, but also conventional armaments for ground forces for the last few months. while the t d f for the grand defense forces is isolated as a blockade on the, on the to gray region, which means they don't have resupply. but at the same time,

it is the 2 grand forces that seem to have taken the advantage or the initiative they have retaken control of most of to gray region. and they have now taken the offensive into neighboring alpha. and i'm hotter regions with the intention of lifting the blockade on to gray and bringing the yoke in federal government to the bargaining table. the areas that have been bombed the facilities are far behind the front lines. they are at best sort of dual use facilities that could be civilian, might have been re purposes for. ringback for military reasons, but in general in warfare, you know, this sort of strategic bombing aiming for targets that really don't have any tactical or immediate value has as a very mixed record at best. and in some ways it seems to be galvanizing

the 2 grand defense forces and their supporters. columbus president says the arrests of the country's most wanted drug trafficker is the biggest hit to the drug, treat this century though. ro, antonio suger, who also goes by the name or tanya, was captured in a remote part of the country, close to the border with panama. on saturday, he is the leader of columbia's biggest drug cartel alessandra ramp, yet he is live in bogota as a central. how is the news being received where you are? well hello, everybody here agrees that this is a very significant deresa and a major victory for the government of yvonne. and he was looking for days kind of success. given the fact that security has there been war

sitting in a number of regions across the country in the last couple of years. so definitely is significant. but at the same time, people don't seem to give to this arrest the same kind of weight, their importance to. for example, the death of pablo escobar back in 1993 is something that the instead the president duke was suggesting was comparing to this arrest to that, that where he announced the capture. and that has to do with the fact that columbia, who lives to the height of escobar, is a power believe that those were much scarier times, especially in cities as a pablo escobar attack the columbian state in many cities, planting bombs, for example. and also the fact that at the figure of the drug, lord at st. change so much a public squire was a very public figure larger than life. and he was also seen as

a sort of robin hood, very many poor colombians in the case ever to nearly said a very, also very powerful figure in particular, in the north west of the country. but somebody that most people didn't really know besides his name. and besides the pictures that the police has shown of him in that has spent most of his life hiding in the jungle. no one knows that he was captured. but i don't think it's going to change much because the problems in the country remain the same for no, no, no, not, not the daily. i don't think it will have the same impact as death of pub, glasgow. that cause the real change in the country and within columbia society, the service doesn't feel to say. so i listen to what happens next. but we understand that the colombian government wants to comply with the extradition request to extra died or to near lead to the united states. we don't

know how long that will take. there is of course, an extra dish and treaty in place in the country and the nil was 1st indicted in the us back in 2009. so more than a at deck in the go, there have been since a number of subsequent indictments, both in new york and miami in 2015. and later, she is requested by the us on a number of charges he will eventually we'll have to respond to the u. s. also offered the $5000000.00 for any information that helped capturing them. we don't know if the also there will be a payment to in this case because many details the details are still unknown, but the expectation is that you will indeed at some point and up in the us and

many hope that a fee will start talking there more many of the secrets of his organization here in columbia could be known and also the many international connection that the golf clan, as it is called, has internationally to move at tons of cocaine across the world in the us, in europe, in particular. so there's a lot of expectation in this sense. what nobody really knows is what will happen with a list of the drug trade. if you ask most experts, they'll tell you that as long as there is the man's for cocaine, and new leaders will appear that will replace him. k, alessandra ram, pnc life for as a from bogus on the center. thank you. sergio guzman is the director and colson gerald columbia. at risk analysis, he says, the arrest will have little impacts on the drug. why did basic equation of the drug

war, which is a very inflexible supply and, and in elastic demand coming from the united states in europe. and other consuming countries, so just a changing auto nil ah, is going to be quickly replaced by other drug king pins. we're going to continue taking advantage of that basic equation that their supply and there's demand. and people will continue doing cocaine in the pacific coast. and in the caribbean coast, where the glendale world for operates, these cartels don't manage the cities, but the rural areas, parts of that would allow and you can your parts of the wire hook, oak parts of charcoal remain under the control of many of these organizations. now, the government has the full ability to move and to participate in operations in these areas. but after the government leaves these organizations take control. i think it's an unquestionably a victory for the government and for the authorities that are able to demonstrate

that they have the ability to have intelligence assets to have a, an, a very closely coordinated operation against the most wanted criminal of the country. so i don't want to undermine the importance of what that means, but strategically the larger picture doesn't suggest that this is a game changer all libya's election committee and commission side elections in libya. but there's still some question that's what kind of elections libyans will see. will they be a general election with the parliamentary elections, what we see a parliamentary presidential election simultaneously? those are questions that have yet to be resolved, as the size have yet to agree upon a constitutional framework for those elections to be held. now, earlier today, imagine say at the head of the high national electoral commission said a few things. one you said the commission will not deviate from its commitment to

implement free and fair elections. he says we plan on opening the door for candidates to register and the 2nd half of november. and this is really where the divide happens. who can run for president, what kind of powers the president have. according to the libyan political agreement, signed in 2015. the high council of state, based in tripoli and the house of representatives, the parliament based and eastern libya, have to agree upon this framework to hold elections. here and in tripoli, they've set some conditions. they voted on the conditions for who can run for president. that bar you have to control eastern eastern libya. they've allowed, they voted for condition that allow for have to, to, to run for president. now whether or not the very side, the high council state and the parliament can agree upon a framework within these couple of weeks of, in order for the election to be held us schedule. we're not really sure. and we're

going to have to wait and see what kind of solution the various sides come up with an order for libyans to be able to carry out the vote. man mars military has accused the un of trying to incite violence in the country. un has warns there could be mass atrocities. after reports, thousands of troops are gathering in the north. the special report her own myanmar says the tactics are ominously reminiscent of those deployed before a bloody cracked and on the rank of minority in 2016. but the gender says the u. n . is using human rights as a political tool to intervene. indian mars internal affairs, still a head. so now to sierra tear gas is phone protest is in see don. after they block a major breach in the capital and the husbands of jails, british iranian charity worker takes his protest to the heart of the british establishment.

ah, i've been some big hailstorm in, for example, idaho recently as what sweeping in from the pacific is fairly cold. air coming hits was still fairly warm and in the central plains. now the whole system wandering going through the great lakes. i think you'll find the eastern seaboard particularly stormy the next day or so. but immediately it has been the pacific coast. and even on monday, california still going to get hit quite hard. we've had a huge amount of rain and snow. the whole lot is going. sas is a cold front, the behind it is cold up. the advice is driving the mountain to the past, probably closed. they will be paris, jesus flash flooding light in the central valley of california. and when warren is mostly at their strongest in, for example, washington or b c. but all down the coast, it's not particularly good. that's how the rains got to allay and san diego. this

is an early and wet start to what i spoke earlier when to really from the look at that that that was the worst. the storms has gone to the rockies by tuesday. the next one is coming in this may me a rain story come late tuesday is something more. seasonally normal. rick who make landfall sunday night or early morning, it'll fall upon a hurricane. but his main risk is going to be once again the amount of rain it brings to this part of mexico. they will be flashlights and but slides. ah. but the climate has changed every year for millions of years, decades of talk. but the little action is all about distract, create confusion to crate, smoke and mirrors the shocking truth about how the climate debate has been systematically supported. the oil industry was a main bank roller or opposition to contact the campaign against the climate. do

you think that's a bad thing more shoot to have did? was yours? you could think absolutely. on august eve lou. oh, they says al jazeera, a reminder, all the top stories this are ethiopian military has carried out more airstrikes in the t. grey region was a renewed campaign against the rebels, intensifies findings been going on for almost a year. but our strike sand bombardments by the government increased over the past week. columbia's president says the rest of the country's most wanted drug trafficker is the biggest hit to the drug trade of the century. dial antonio with

sugar, is the leader of columbia's biggest drug cartel. libby is electoral commission says candidate registration for december's elections will begin next month that the countries to vive a legislative houses have yet to signed on how the vote will work. security's been steps on the in the rocky capital bank dance, were supporters of proven rainy and political parties, a staging sit in there, demanding of we can't so votes from the parliamentary election held earlier this month, but moved. abdulla had, has more from back that security measures that have been tightened near the green zone and baghdad, after the protest has tried to storm into the green zone. and they say that they will, they will continue protesting here until the election commission return is what

they consider hijacked votes. now these protest her as our supporters of the political parties that lost in the legislative election. they have given the election commission at 72 hours as to martin are to end on monday afternoon. and they say that if the election commission is not responding to their demands by a conducting a whole recount a manual recount of all the votes, then they will take matters into their own hands. on the other hand, the election commission says that it has received over 1400 complains and appeals so far. it has turned down a few hundreds of them and it as it will look into the appeals and complains only the appeals and complaints that are supported by evidence. now these protestors have tried to storm into the green is own. the green zone is

a very significant area because it has a high profile at headquarters of several international and domestic institutions, including our diplomatic missions. and i also including the u. s. embassy. now, the protest her to say that they will continue protesting here until the election commission. it responds to their demands. they have set up dozens of tents, and they say that they will not leave this place until the election commission conducts a manual recount of all the votes. pro military pretences incident have blocked, to major routes in the capitol. as tensions grew between the generals and the pro democracy movements tear gas was far to clear the protest as in khartoum relations of soured between the military and civilians. sharon power in

a fragile transition government. it's supposed to lead sedans to elections after a long time, leader or moreover, sheer was pushed from power in 20. 19 huber. morgan has more from cotton. the response comes after the processes in front of the presidential palace where they've been staging a section for over a week. now, trying to expand the area of the sits in to try to pressure the government into dissolving itself. and a new cabinet be formed by the prime minister. now the reason why they states that sits in front of the presidential palace is because most of them are pro military. they want the military to take over and take charge of the country. many of them telling all to 0 that they want the military to handle the affairs of the nation until elections are held because they said that the government is not representative. now the governor of her tomb issued a statement just after the dispersing of the protesters saying that those who are behind the blockade off the bridges and the roads are members of the former ruling

party, which was also from power on april 2019 following months of anti government prose, as he said that there also uh parts of the group that are participating in front of the city and, and trying to destabilize the, the, the country and trying to make it very hard for people to move. so that people can be a get frustrated to the point that they're drawn into violence now and again, the sit in has been going on for more than of for more than a week with protests as demanding that prime minister, the land of dissolved his cabinet. and that the result of a split between the force of freedom in change coalition. that's the ruling coalition. that is right now running the government. the un says climate change is to blame for intense flooding. incense sit on the worst in the region in 60 years. around 700000 people have been affected in the livelihoods of 11000000. more are at risk or cyclical dr. it's in flood zone common in the region. a recent report has

warned of increasing climate shocks. across much of africa in molly gunman have killed at least 10 people in an attack on a base of a paramilitary group known as the gun to i. so it happens in the northern region of go, the group was formed in 2009 and is backed by the army. it's still unclear who is responsible for the attack. nicholas hark has been falling developments from the car in neighboring senegal. another brazen attack in mali this time it against a government backed militia called the gondo e. so which in the ser, i language means the children of the land. this is a group made up of former military soldiers as well as local militia groups that have joined forces, a camp that is home to over a 1000 soldiers into places 10 minutes drives away from the un base, as well as the french backhanded base, at least 10 people were killed,

many more were wounded. no one has claimed responsibility for this attack. no human rights watch accuse the malia and military as well as government backed militias of extra judicial killing. and this has increased since there has been an effort by the 1000000 government to support government backed militias. the united nations security council are asking the government of bomber co, led by former military june to a semi goiter to organize free and fair elections. as soon as possible, currently, they're scheduled to take place at by february 2022. however, there has been signs by this government to delay those elections. we're here to listen to the transition authorities and determine the best way to support them in their full efforts to realize this transition. we also come with clear messages on

the need to organize the election, implement the piece agreement, and stabilized the center of molly. the crisis in molly has spread beyond its borders to neighboring leisure and burkina faso at stake. here are the people in this a hell. over a 1000000 people have been displaced because of the ongoing crisis, with the humanitarian situation degrading rapidly as a tax increase. 10 was soon nations awaiting to see if there ambassadors will be asked to leave turkey after president wretch of tanya per to one cold for their expulsion. that was in response to the u. s. and other western countries issuing a joint statements calling for the release. selfie? jell, businessmen, osman corolla? he's been accused of involvement. sinay failed coo and 2016. and a financing nationwide processed 3 years earlier. was becca stones. electrical

commission says voter turnout in sundays, presidential votes touched almost 90 percent. the incumbent chef cut to music. oil is expected to when he seeking a 2nd term and faces no real opposition. they harding reports. even before these votes are counted, the results of this presidential election and whose becca stand are all but certain incumbent president chef cut mirrors yet is expected when another 5 year term as there is no real opposition running against him. despite that, these voters are hoping to bring about whatever change they can king give me. as she laid there the next 5 years, i would like to see live in standards raised to higher salaries, no poverty, better employment and housing that would make us all happy. yes. me or do you have came to power in 2016 after the death of his mentor, islam cat, him of who ruled the central asian country for 27 years?

with a history of authoritarian rule, the country has never really had a truly democratic election. have the best of a pretty bad lot. there's not now, no one has been able to, has been allowed to emerge to be true to, to do, to be able to mount the, to challenge to mr. new york. with everything that i've said, the positive drug, you have to obviously admit that economic indicators of slips simply because of colgate. ninety's. the pandemic has head is, becca stands, economy hard, raising unemployment and the cost of living, especially in rural areas. even a problem with the, the main problems are in the regions, not the capital in the capital. everything is more or less fine. people have water, gas, electricity, in the other areas. unfortunately, there's a lack of all of this view mirrors you, you have has been credited with helping to boost to arisen and ties with foreign powers. but the country now has to navigate new boundaries with new neighbors in afghanistan,

the taliban. the us is still interested in continuing its military relations with a, with, with us beckers. and then obviously russia is considering just the size of soft power to market power, et cetera. the big question is whether you know the situation, it was in the get this done will spill over to these countries. there's a lot of concern that they at least stay secular and do not fall prey to the extremist influences. as mirrors are, you have went to cast his own vote at a polling station on the outskirts of the capital touch kent. his chances of winning remain around 90 percent. leah harding al jazeera sturgess opposition have rallied against the imprisonments of former president to be care that 2nd feeling the demonstration was hounds near the jail were 2nd actually has been held for more than 3 weeks. he's been on a hunger strike since being arrested. so on his return to georgia,

after living in exile for years, his supporters are demanding authorities, transfer him to a hospital for treatments. the husband of a u. k. charity worker detained in iran, has gone on hunger strike after a court ruled. she has to return to prison for a year, which had ratcliffe has set up camp outside the foreign office in london. nothings, agari. ratcliffe, was arrested into hon and 2016 and convicted of plotting to overthrow iran's governments. but new charges were filed against her just after she completed an initial 5 year sentence. the weird problem, the phone with another concern optimum wonderful to use owners. so i was trying to threaten the prison through here just to make point . government changes pushing for them to do some different and they're

willing to say a new art exhibition in egypt says, promising visitors a unique experience. it's blending creations from thousands of years ago with works made during the pandemic. nadine baba takes a look. they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. so what you might wonder does result is to make of the pyramids. in geezer, she's called ada, and she's a british built robot that uses cameras and a robotic arm to create arts after being detained by egyptian customs for 10 days, a de made it to the site on the edge of cairo in time for a unique aut show her contribution is very large clay sculpture with 3 legs, based on the greek riddle of the sphinx and lying sideways inside a metal and gloss sarcophagus. 8, his hands had to be covered with gloves to protect the electric wires from the water. and clay were astonished by the sorts of technology that are coming through

on the human side. so the mechanical humanoid is actually for shadowing. what can be done biologically? and so we are very concerned about that scope to really keys in today's us, but the wider aren't show his code forever is now it's the 1st of its kind the geese, plateau, a unesco world heritage site. it features pieces by creators from around the world . many referencing the location in their works. washer financing, this data. 10 artists have participated to rejections and 8 foreigners. as you can see, we have huge sculpture. some of them are made and depression factories. it was honestly a great experience. it's about us coming together and the time where in a place where civilization basically started and now it's a rebirth because of covert, we've been separated for a year and a half and humanity starting to come together again. and it just goes to prove that when we work together we can achieve anything. so an international selection of

artists, including a mechanical humanoid, whether they do risk being upstaged by nature's own display. nadine baba al jazeera . ah, i'm alamo, hidden with the headlines on out to serum. if you appears military has carried out more air strikes in the.