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nearly 100 people have now died in a fuel tanka explosion. a call to action in see don acts of his path and nationwide strikes is both civilian and military officials refused to compromise and heading in the right direction. we take a look at scotlands transition from oil and gas to renewables. ah, iraq's prime minister has condemned an assassination attempt on him as a cowardly attack. and on drone talk, said mister far academies, residence in baghdad, in the early hours of sunday, he's unharmed. gum fi and explosion were heard in baghdad. green said, exactly, you are shot even got to all of those who were worried,

my residence was targeted in a cowardly attack. thanks to god and he's grice, all of those working with me and i are doing well. i would like to inform you that our heroic and courageous armed forces a working non stop for the stability and security of the country. these cowardly rockets and these cowardly drones do not help in building nations, nor can they be part of any future. we are keen on building our di nation with respect to the state it's institutions and also establishing a bright future for all iraqis. i call upon every one for calm and constructive dialogue for the sake of iraq and the future of iraq. my made at the why he'd has war from baghdad. a drone loaded with the explosives attacked their incidents of a prime minister was called to me in the green zone. in that he tweeted that he is

unharmed and he is blaming what he calls. in his words, the missiles of treachery, this is very linked to the what is going going around the green zone for weeks. now, the protests that is rejecting the results of the election of the parliamentary election. but, but these protest as are led by opposite political parties that are affiliated with a iran, now these political parties are very skeptical about this as a nation attempt, the spokesman of his butler brigades, iranian armored group here in iraq, just to stated that it caused me is trying to play the victim rule by trying to appear as a hero, as the victim who faced death for, for the country, for the sake of the country. so the political parties,

especially those affiliated with a on, are very skeptical about this assassination at him. but remember, that have been similar attacks carried out reportedly by pro iranian groups and targeted the civil locations in the green zone over the past months. rhonda slim is from the middle east institute. she says, call me as long how to issues with power military groups backed by iran. they had lots of resources and they have the manpower they have what they re, they had lots of financially, sofas, resources. after all, you know, billions of dollars are located every year. in the rocky budget for the has the shabby which is the umbrella for a lot of these militias, in addition to whatever they get from iran, also what they get from other illegal activities that they are engaged. the relationship between called the me and the iran back into the ship has been tense

for the long time. you know, one of the, i mean, recently some of these malicious people have been handed indictment in a tribunal of having kill some of the processors during the process last 2 years ago. so the problem is advisor, the lead doctor and he showed me and how she me was estimated by what suspected to be members of these it on back, you know, communication. so they have been, you know, in this, in this double floor them and called me and, and, and they stand to benefit the mold from basically, you know, for think causing me out of the picture. so this is an attack not only against causing me. it is an attack against the whole political class. it really amounts to a qu, attempts targeting a prime minister residence with the intent to kill him is in my opinion,

a cool attempt. it has failed. thank god, but it's still a go at that serially owns government has declared that a fuel tank explosion in the capital free town is a national disaster. at least 99 people have been killed. 100 others who was severely burned in the accident are being treated in free towns. 3 hospitals. the cities already stretched health service as close to breaking point. alexander lurch reports all that remains from the devastating tanker explosion in the free town suburb of wellington. the blast happened at a busy junction after a fuel truck collided with another vehicle. witnesses say crowds of people trying to collect the leaking fuel before it suddenly ignited the resulting fireball incinerated shops and market holes and engulfed near by cars and buses. they are bonds, cars and our bodies underneath. we cannot give them one full access in 2nd decency

. so with an answer this morning, for us to get ill find out body counts, of all those affected scores of burn victims are being treated at free towns, hospitals. the number of patients to overwhelming to allow families inside the relatives wait outside for news. scanning a growing list of victims. altima timbo lost his younger brother. he left tom and said who was going to buy bread for us to eat. when i heard about the explosion, i went to the scene and i saw my younger brother lying down. he was burnt all over . i felt so bad. i loved him so much. the government has promised the best care for those affected doesn't. thank ye. yes, that is what we had additional doctors in the ground and sufficient nurses, government pharmacy was open or medicines, and the pharmacy was used to treat the wounded for free, so far to have resources to stabilize them. we have people seriously wounded in the intensive care unit, sierra leone underfunded health services,

last hundreds of experienced workers during the 2016 ebola epidemic. the world health organization says it's now dispatching supplies and bern experts to help the west african nation. yet even as the clear up continues, authorities warned the death toll is expected to rise. alexander, lurch al jazeera and internationally mediated plan to get c dawn back on the way to democracy, appears to be in deadlock with both sides. rejecting proposals. pro democracy activists have called for 2 days, the civil disobedience against any power sharing arrangement, the military who say the generals who lead last month on takeover. i've also refused the plan. the father alcohol is on the increasing global pressure to the store. the civilian lead government hippa, morgan has more than the talks from call to wall talks between the military headed

by general and then put the album han and the civilian component. or rather the efficacy. the civilian coalition has so far failed to produce any results. despite mediation efforts by the united nations, despite called by the united states for with the ration of the civil transitional government, and the release of prime minister of the land has been detained since october 25th when the military took over. now that law has resulted in type of security for prime minister abdulla from the who is under house arrest. asked for 2 of his 8. he has been demanding the military return back to the fact the school before the military takeover, which was on october 24th when he had a civilian government, which he was the prime minister of general adams at the abraham says that he will appoint a civilian government made up of technocrats, people not affiliated with any political parties and talks by various size and various mediation teams, including south sedan, including national figures here in the country, has failed to try to bring the 2 sites together with each side,

adamant that they want. they want their position to be the one that that is dominant over the talks. now this all comes as a food, nice professional association calls them people for more strikes. so tonight on saturday, they have called on civilians to set a barricades on the neighborhoods. and on the main street to encourage people. and also it is the number of people who would go to work on sunday and monday they say that the best way for them to show them military, that they don't want a military rule or an army. that taking over the transition period is to go on general, strikes and civil disobedience. at least 15 people have died in a crash. on the outskirts of mexico's capital, a transport truck collided with 9 vehicles and a toll booth on one of mexico cities busiest highways. authority say it appears that the trunks brakes failed 5 others were injured. a number of the vehicles caught fire gangs in hazy and creasing lea targeting scores and

students, the un children's agency. unicef says criminals are forcing teachers to pay so called protection money or risk being abducted. john hinton reports from puerto prince ha, in haiti's capital. learning is a dangerous business. the education of the youth of port a prince occurs behind iron gates beneath spiral blades of barbed wire. in an atmosphere of pervasive fear. oh, i'm afraid that the gangs might come and kidnap me. i don't feel good, but i do it because i love school. principal vill dress older bear runs this school on a shortage and funds and students a few crisis leaves many out of work and unable to afford education nor even the commute said to everyone worries about kidnapping, but we keep working. we operate on fit for many of haiti's youngest and most

vulnerable getting there is the most dangerous part of the day. i sometimes have gunshots on my way to school, although i'm for. i don't have trouble going because i live close. as a haiti's, children has become a black market commodity. in recent weeks, the countries powerful gangs have increasingly used a vacuum of political and police power in the capital to rob teachers and snatch their students for ransom. a week ago this school was open, then some gangsters spotted a parent at the bank, followed in here, killed the parents in injured several others. now like many schools in haiti, this one is close. parents arrived to find uniformed children on stretchers, leaving teachers across the capitol, afraid to come to work, but often showing up anyway. i hope they'll be a change because the way we're teaching kids right now in the summer is not favorable. my hope is that the situation we have right now will change,

so we can function where you will despite the dangers each day, thousands of children arrive in class after braving the capital streets. but for many, the price of education in haiti, his simply become to hi john henderson, al jazeera, puerto prince still ahead on al jazeera fears of renewed conflict in kashmir. families more than those course in vine and security in the region is stepped up and kale san a music festival in the us state of texas. and 8 people were killed in a crowd such ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies. the winter sponsored my cattle ways. now the winter fronts been on its way down through iraq, but it's lost his impetus mass, although there are

a few showers narrow heights and the blue represents ranges which will tron go south is not much to it. now is just a bit of a push. in fact, you see, even though the snow forecast in afghanistan and in the western side bet temperatures in the cities are still in double figures and not yet down towards 0. whereas we got wrong, the opposite going on here is actually warmed up. recently. it's 30, nicosia, and 28 in gas evening. i'm out of 24. you're about 4 above average. so everywhere took you the levant is walden, should be this time to your room. the average i'm good did of sunshine as well. let me walk. you had to choose day and the shower still around with a hint maybe of something around the go. so i think some of the embers might get a few shall sit in the back of a mile. it's a less likely event for doha. it's still wall in baghdad, above average. but you know that to the event and iraq now for the shop glasgow. nothing's happening, the eastern side of the rift valley. now just

a few shells neath, you know, if you have been highlands. but if you're an act all your guinea nolan angle or d r conquer, you'll get oh, the weather sponsored by casara always. ah, the stage is said, and it's time for a different approach. one that is going to challenge the way you think we're ditching the sailboats and we're digging into the issue from international politics to the global pandemic. and everything in between. join me if i take on the lars dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradictions upfront with me work lamond hill on al jazeera ah

ah! how they welcome back you watching al jazeera melinda. our top story is this. our rocky prime minister, mr. for our economy has survived in that fascination attempt and arm drone targeted his home in baghdad green so it comes amid political tension around the results of october election. number of people killed off, the fuel tank exploded and serially owned is now at least $99.00 off top and when the time to collide it with another vehicle. at a busy junction in the capitol, freetown, pro democracy activist ins, you dont have rejected an internationally mediated plan to return to a power sharing arrangement with the military. instead, they're calling for 2 days of civil disobedience. morocco king says control of western sahara is not negotiable,

as pension. fly with algeria about the dispute territory. king mohammed the 6 says moroccan sovereignty in the region would never be up for discussion. morocco claims the former spanish colony of its territory for algeria backs wesson's horace, polis sorry, of front independence movement in the conflict. a series of attacks on civilians in indian administered kashmir as walked fears were renewed. conflict in the region. authorities have stepped up security to avoid further unrest. have any metal has a story that her family is mourning the loss of its eldest son. shy, the jaws were shot nearly a week ago. his brother is so overwhelmed with grief he faints. his mother implored him to wake up. she says he's all she has left after losing showerhead. i saw he was on his way from work at an apple farm. we have been waiting for him when we got a call saying he was shot dead at a checkpoint. and she'll be in district,

we don't know what actually happened. authority say she had was caught in the crossfire between param and if you for who and what, because suspected terrorists that happened of the injured administered fish may suffer. it's what violence in month in october, at least $33.00 people were killed like shot hit 10 was civilians, government in thought by india and pakistan. the dispute territory has long suffered tension and indeed administered. push me has seen a decades long armed rebellion against new daddy's rule 2 years ago. the indian government to vote regions autonomy and imposed one of the strictest lockdown in history. for the fueling resentment on the recent incidents have triggered memories of the 1990. when insurgency was at its most violent, targeted killings of minorities as common. and led to an exodus of thousands of fish meeting the the government has responded by putting most soldiers in patrol and they often frisk people, member of the prime minister and reigns remote. the party jumped, the party,

denounced this comparison, and insist the security measures will prevent further attacks to cover the p. i go back then, separatist and militants room freely. that doesn't happen now because they don't have any present dentist are becoming irrelevant, which is why they're targeting anom civilians and migrant. some political analysts accused the government of failing to stem a sense of alienation among the regions. youth that is fueling a separatist movement in the region. this is so work. creating a huge sam, something's short, the among the masses and they appealed that they are back to the situation that was with them. they're very lee and other part subdomains. gush mute in the early nineties, when m so jam, she was active to speak. a police investigation is underway into the civilian killings and security forces have detain hundreds of people for questioning over

the last few weeks. but child's family disputes the official version of the incident and wants a more thorough prob, they say they're waiting for justice and struggling to cope with the void left by his passing. pardon him, ethel al jazeera, new deli protest. as in georgia, calling for the release of the former president, mikhail successfully thought his valley was jailed last month when he returned to the country after being convicted in absentia of obese of power. he is now on a hunger strike, and demonstrators are demanding his transfer to a private clinic because he's getting weaker authority, say the 53 year olds, vital signs on normal thousands of people in poland have taken to the streets in renewed protests against the nation. strict abortion law rallies response by the death of a 30 year old, pregnant woman, doctors didn't terminate her fetus despite determining it would not survive. the

woman's family says she was denied life saving treatment because the doctors was scared to break. the abortion law. poland began enforcing a near total ban on abortions in january police in the us. so investigating what lead tristan paid at a music festival in texas. 8 people died and hundreds were injured after the crown pushed forward during a performance by the rapid travis scott on friday. night witnesses say people so crowned together, they started hyperventilating hydro castro ports. it was supposed to be a night without worries and escape from the stress of the pandemic as $50000.00 people. mostly youngsters in their teens and twenties, gather before an outdoor stage to watch houston warm wrapper, travis scott. oh, but the energy quickly turned to panic. the miniature strikes reforming. it's like people like, like they top in front of them. they're running, they're going crazy. and pushing and everything, i don't know where i guess like

a group of people or somebody just version and then everything just by you. it was compressed like you were just compress the whole point. witnesses reported being squeezed to the point of suffocation and for some victims cardiac arrest. all of the identify deceased were under 30 no parent, no friends. no sibling should see their loved one off to a concert via world are known artists and not be able to expect them to come home safely. and when we read these ages, 14162121232327 just breaks your heart. even as the victims were being treated, the concert continued for another 40 minutes. according to police, the performer paused several times to call for medical attention for ailing fans.

and this young woman frantically tried to alert a camera operator to the worsening crisis. houston police have opened a criminal investigation in the cities mer, has offered condolences to the victims. families would vows to find answers. this incident is being thoroughly investigated and reviewed of thoroughly, it is important for us to ascertain from last night what took place. what happened? oh, where missteps may have occurred. it's still unclear what caused the crowd to surge . the police say there was a credible report of some one injecting a security officer in the neck with an apparent drug. the officer fell unconscious and was revived with nar, can a medicine to treat opioid overdose alada narratives out there right now, a lot of all social media and even last night i think that all of us need to be

respectful of families that make sure that we follow the fax and the other day. investigators say at this stage, nothing is confirmed, and nothing is off the table. heidi joe castro al jazeera president j biden's pushed to require employees of launch businesses to be vaccinated against coven 19 is facing a legal challenge. a federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the move. the mandate requires companies with more than a 100 employees to ensure their staff all vaccinated. those who haven't received the job are required to be tested weekly. several states have sued the administration saying the mandate is unconstitutional and illegal. the government has until monday to respond at scotland as well leader in the transition to renewable energy, but they are still plans to develop a new oil field in the north sea. even though many platform scan, unused net clock reports from chrome, it's

a fat in northern scotland. it's not a view you'd expect from a village, high street, 300 kilometers north of the climate talks in glasgow. a vision perhaps of the future. unused oil and gas rigs parked off in chromarty furth, not pumping fossil fuels from the depths of the north sea. the perth is a barometer of the state of the you case, oil and gas industry. when there's a downturn, it gets pretty crowded. these platforms are awaiting new contracts. the contracts will be few and far between as the move to renewables gathers pace. at the end of 2019 the oil and gas authority estimated there were between $10.00 to $20000000000.00 barrels of oil still to be recovered in the north seat. in fact, as i speak as a bit underway to open up the johns combo oil field, about 250 kilometers is to the north of it around the shetland islands. but the reality is says the move away from fossil fuels gathers pace. sites like this will

become more and more common. whitely wind farms, south of glasgow, the 2nd largest onshore wind farm in europe. across scotland, wind power is a big part of the energy mix in a country that's aiming to be carbon neutral by 20455 years ahead of much of the world here. 215 turbines generate enough power 435-0000 homes. in 2020, nearly 100 percent of scotland energy came from renewable sources. which raises the question, why the need to invest in new oil field at all? this is a, by all of us getting on the same journey. okay, and getting on the revolution because it's more of a revolution than a journey. in all honesty, i'm to 2050 and that's the target is to get us the 2015. net 0 by 2050. so you can't just switch everything off immediately. so oil and gas production is still

a massive part of the economy. it's a massive part of how we holmes are wholly fuel or transport system. so we need to go on that transition. we need to go not revolution and that will happen over a period of time. back in chrome, it's either the yellow stanchions of offshore wind turbines. stan sentinel, ready to be deployed out at sea, where the petroleum platform has rained for decades. and as the all rig becomes slowly redundant, the renewable sector is expanding a pace. the re plans here in the 1st for a hydrogen hub and to create a base for floating wind farms. but the transition away from fossil fuels needs to be carefully managed to make that a success for everybody involved, including the work as we need to make sure it is good quality jobs for them to move into. that means that renewables need to be trading enough jobs and that she has to be a pathway set of people can move from the fossil fuel jobs to the green shops. there is no doubt about the direction scotland is heading in. the question is, how far behind will the rest of the wealthy mcclark al jazeera commitee furth,

scott nicaraguans, had to the poles laser on sunday to pick their next leader. but their choice is limited. president daniel ortega is running for a 4th consecutive term, virtually unopposed, dozens of opposition members have been arrested in the crack down. the correct was rejected. the presence of missions from the on the organization of american states to oversee the poll observers who were invited. however, se elections will be free, unfair, in my heart, say so the best, most democratic, most dignified process that nicaragua has, is to have invited many international delegates were not representatives of the us were not representatives of organizations that really represent the u. s. government pulses out, i think it can already be seen that the country is very well prepared for the electoral process and for the casting of the citizens votes. a latin american addison, lucy newman, has more from neighboring costa rica,

apart from very strong to allies. and it will be no independent observance during the selection. and that includes journalists, in fact, the reason why i'm here in san jose costa rica and not in the nicaraguan capital is that for the 1st time ever, the nickel robin government has decided that foreign journalist cannot into the country. this is absolutely unprecedented. never happened before in nicaragua, nor in cuba, or even the new whaler when there are elections. but that is the situation right now. however, there are journalists in nicaragua, many of them working underground, who are going to be sending information all the time here to costa rica and to other parts of the world to try to keep people informed. tens of thousands of people have gathered to pay tribute to one of brazil's most populous thing is maria mendoza was killed in a plane crash on friday. she died alongside her manager and an aide fans key for hours to bid farewell to the thing at her wake in the ne,

sissy of go on. a pilot also died in the accident in a rural area of the se, in state of mina, re a 26 year old performed country music and digital bolivians of hell. their 1st traditional math wedding. since the start of the pandemic, fancy couples ties are not in a stadium in le pass on saturday with authorities providing champagne and music. many had been forced to postpone ceremonies because of coven 19 months banned by spanish colonizers. traditional mass weddings have been revived in recent years. area. ah, this is al jazeera, these are your top stories. iraq's prime minister has condemned an assassination attempt on him as a cowardly attack. an armed drone targeted must defer academies residence in

baghdad in the early hours of sunday gunfire. an explosion were heard in bagdad screens own.