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support for ethiopia as prime minister as federal forces battle advancing rebels from the north. libya's presidency council suspends the foreign minister and bars from travelling, but the interim government is rejecting that order or plus the girl was president daniel or take that is going for a 4th consecutive term in infections that are being widely described as fraudulent . the question is, how many people will actually go to the poems? i'm devin asked with the sport mexican voc 2nd. that alvarez makes history stopping kind of plans to be a leverage round to look on the 1st undisputed steep middle wait, while champ. ah, welcome to the news, our iraq's leaders have condemned with their calling an assassination attempt on the prime minister as

a heinous and cowardly attack. arm drones targeted muster fall academies, residence in the highly secured green zone in the early hours of sunday air. mon con reports it's been called and attempted assassination and explosion followed by gunfire on prime minister must have alcorda him, his residence in the most secure part of europe that heavily fortified green's own of baghdad. according to the prime minister's office, drones carrying explosives were used in the attack, caught him, he was unharmed and spoke to the nation shortly after. it had me with to all of those who were worried, my residence was targeted in a cowardly attack. thanks to god and his grace, all of those working with me and i are doing well international condemnation. the attack was swift, the u. s. issued a statement of relief that the p. m. was unhurt and called it an apparent act of terrorism. rhonda slim is from the middle east institute. she says, call me as long had issues with paramilitary groups,

backed by wrong. they had lots of resources and they have manpower. they have what been re, they had lots of financially sofas, resources. after all, you know, billions of dollars are allocated every year in the iraqi, a budget for the shabby, which is the umbrella. what a lot of these militias, in addition to whatever they get from in on the iranian backed militia groups have been protesting, says your total 10th election, which they say was subject to fraud and corruption. the father lines lost a significant amount of seats. the supreme court has rejected most of the allegations of fraud. so far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. iran cut our desert. let's get an update from how much more than that i had. he's joining us from baghdad, so no claim of responsibility yet. we know the investigation is ongoing, does, according to security officials where, where to think, stand with the investigation would i

will do enough. according to the security national security cabinet. the investigations are underway, the national security cabinet, coles. it a major threat not only to the prime minister but to the integrity and security of the whole country was tending now in one of the areas near the green zone occupied by the protest address. and these protest as we have been speaking to many of them they deny they deny that they, they have carried out the attack. but they say that it could be of course, treated by a 3rd party to ferment violence between them and their security of force. you know that at this is this attack or comes after the fridays violence between the protest her as and the security forces. and now these protest says the blame called the me

himself for crack and for what they called crack in down on the the protest us now international and local and regional condemnations of that attack, including get the state department to which offered her a to take part in the investigation, as you can see, these protested as, have been occupying this area since since the friday. and there is another, another location near the green zone that has been occupied by anger protested as for 3 weeks now. and they say that they're trying to put pressure on the government . they're trying to put pressure on the electoral commission at to respond to their demoss. as you know, that these protest her as they have set up tents and they say that didn't receive the condolences for the victims of there are violence on friday and they say that they will, can neil protesting here until the electoral commission. i responded to that,

to their demands. now they have, they have popular mobilization forces. the military arm was of the political parties that lost in the election. and as you know, that have been animosity between the public mobilization forces and the government of color me. but they deny they have carried out the attack despite the fact that populate mobilization forces are accused of carrying out similar attacks by drones, targeting several locations in the green zone. also including u. s. military facilities in the past. but this time, they still deny it. in fact, the lead of say that did accusing causing me of trying to play the victim's rule. and it also the saying there could be a 3rd party behind the trying to for men to violence between that processed out his end security forces. okay, thank you so much man without then why had that for that update from by the dads? well, hundreds of thousands of people have been rallying and several ethiopian cities in

support. are government forces who are battling a rebel advance. the largest demonstration was held in the capital of these album, concern is growing after the year long conflict against dig. ryan rebels intensified the t p l. f has capture its strategic towns along the road to the capital and it's threatened to move in on these above. many countries have us citizens to leave off to the government, declared a state of emergency. well, in recent days, if your prime minister has had social media post blocked by facebook on twitter for asking citizens to take up arms against the grand rebels. but on sunday i met took a different tone calling for national unity. he tweeted this, if you o p o r a beauty is in our unity. when we stand together we can overcome anything. we stand on the shoulders of our ancestors that paid great sacrifices for us than n saying today. we stand committed to laying a solid foundation for generations to come. let's find out what's happening on the

grounds and bring in my mood. he is joining us from this about to tell us about the, the marches that have been taking place and how much in support of the european governments. how big are they quite big. that in tens of thousands took to the streets of addis ababa ali in the morning and gutted to us where, where usually public gathering some national a day celebrations are held in the hospital for just about the time to alton them numbers, most of them draped in the if you're be unplug the whole idea that it most certian was to drum up support for if you appeal defense forces, who in many ways have been a challenge, alyssa days leading to those games we have seen at the rebels making. it was trish to this morning, walk managed by a suburb of city administration,

particularly the mayor advantage a bench and in house pitch to the protest. us, he said that if you pm's were free to take care of their own affairs and say, external interference, thus executive, what you called it from countries that if you, if you had aaliyah on seeing those eyes was not only unbearable, but i'm acceptable. i'm that it should stop and of course the fighting still going own hundreds of kilometers away from my to some of my my say in that is available be ease a state of emergency. and people are still going about their business system as, as a open shops are open. people are just going around their businesses as they would any other time. but the whole by the prime minister for you, philippines to, i'm themselves. and many people have responded to that and to day on many frontal climes civilians are fighting alongside your president principals. i'm mad so we

have a situation where international evacuations are continuing and to grind forces, according to reports, are advancing on the capital. i wonder if you can tell us how far are they and what's going on militarily right now. what is it is hard to say exactly where they are of the moment. because the last we hired of them was in the town of can be say about 325 kilometers away. there are some unconfirmed reports that the, the hub retreated from dr. town. we do not know for sure whether this is the case that it's very difficult to say exactly where the rebels at this point, because gender some have been allowed to go to the wall forms. and again, this is betty cox. again, we know about the hub allies, some of them with in the auto motor engine, like the auto mall, the british,

an army. we do not know exactly where they are, but in around our desilva thinks of betty normal as we speak during. thank you so much mohammed and for that updates from ethiopia. in libya, the presidency council has announced that its suspending to foreign minister. now slam anguish is accused of administrative violations. she's also been barred from traveling just days before an international conference on libya in paris. but libya's transitional government has rejected that decision. it says only the prime minister has the mandate to appoint counsel or suspend members of the executive. we have our libya correspondent malik traina here, maddox, joining us from dell, how this time. so i like any more clarity on what she's accused off and what they mean by administrative violations. well, the presidential council, which is the highest authority of belonging to the government of national unity. i

think they were infuriated when they, her reports in as little min goose gave. they gave a statement to hurt in an interview. a few days ago, i opened up says she was willing to work with us authorities and british authorities to the actual edition of a libyan citizen over the lockerbie case. now if you remember the locker be a case was a terrorist though of plot in which a bomb was put on a plane that blew up over lockerbie scotland, where 200 over 2, over 270 people were killed or so she said she was willing to actually date the lead suspect to this case, he's currently in libya, and that really angered the presidential counsel they're responsible for foreign policy according to the roadmap. and so they say that she overstepped her boundaries a st, saying that she was willing to expedite the citizen are so just so case is really the divisions that are, are taking part inside the in term unity government at the moment. and, and malik,

we do expect to hear a little bit later on today or more detail about the electoral process, the upcoming electoral process for the parliamentary and presidential elections. what will we learn? well, they're going to say that they're going to open up registration for candidates to register for presidential and parliamentary elections. those are scheduled to take place on december 24th and just around 6 weeks. but there are still a lot of questions that have been unanswered. for instance, libya still has no constitution. so you know, over there, open up the can't the registration for candidates for present, for president. but yet nobody knows what kind of power a president has a see the chief of staff if he's, is he responsible for the military? what kind of checks and balances? are there going to be with the legislative blanche the the, you know, the parliament. so a lot of questions remain to be answered or we're going to have to wait and see what kind of solution are they come up with. but for now,

a framework for these elections to take place hasn't been agreed upon. but the national electoral commission is still moving its way forward is still paving the way for these elections that are scheduled to take place. and just under 6 weeks, we're going to have to wait and see what kind of, you know, what kind of tension, what kind of things are happening. we're going to wait and see what this means in the next couple of weeks. yeah, not electoral press conference taking place right now. in fact, we're just watching at a moment to go on our screen, so keep an eye on it on that and let us know what comes out if a thank you so much. my name is trina reporting from dell from once more a head on the altar and is our including preserving history. the efforts to save a 100 year old buildings in liberia's capital as an act of remembrance to its trouble pass. a criminal investigation is launched into a stampede that killed a people at a u. s. music festivals to the chase for the former, the driver's title takes an unexpected turn ahead of the mexican grown pre gemma.

the details important? ah. but 1st, we'll tell you about sierra leone, because the government has now declared the explosion of a fuel tanker and free town and national disaster. at least 9009 people are confirmed dead. scores of others are severely burned and being treated in the capitals. 3 hospitals. medical workers say they're overwhelmed, alexander lurch report. all that remains from the devastating tank or explosion in the free town sub above. 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 nearby cars and buses. they are

barnes cars and our bodies on the knee. we cannot give them one full access in 2nd decency. so with an answer this morning, fossil gets ill, final 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. so relatives wait outside for news scanning a growing list of victims. awesome. and 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 it. thank ye. yes, that is what we had additional doctors in the ground and sufficient nurses, government pharmacy was open or medicines in the pharmacy was used to treat the

wounded for free. so far they have resources to stabilize them. we have people seriously wounded in the intensive care unit, sierra leone underfunded health service, 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, morocco's kings says control of western sahara is not negotiable, as tension flared with algeria about the disputed territory can, how much sex as moroccan sovereignty in the region will never be up for discussion . morocco claims the former spanish colony as its territory, but algeria backs the poly, sorry, of front movement in its fight for the independence of western sahara. ran mars military. you may have committed crimes against humanity. that's the assessment of

a you and body investigating the actions of the military since it sees power in a cool. in february, it's told al jazeera mike hannah, there is evidence of systematic attacks on civilians. what we've seen more recently is an increase in violence by the opposition. they call for civil war and small groups for me. and frankly, this obviously increases the violence and complicates our work. there's issues about what violence is lawful on both sides. and the situation simply gets more complicated and day by day. now the mechanisms role is to collect co, late, preserve the evidence, to have no power of prosecution. how important is it to retain the evidence and collected over a period of time? evidence will degrade over time. memories will fade witnesses,

will die. graves will be with the bodies will degrade over time. so it's important that while the crumbs are fresh, the evidence is preserved. but also, i think, aside from whether any court ever handles the material, it's very important for it to be preserved. it's important for victims to know someone who cares about what happened to me and someone is, is collecting this. they believe me. they want to know what happened, and it's very important that potential perpetrators know if you commit this act, someone is collecting evidence and hopefully that will act as some type of deterrent to further horrendous violence. you'll mechanism started to her 2018 the year after the events of 2017. you mention what the us has described as essentially genocide. is there a process in which having acted with virtual impunity at that stage, the military is enable to continue to up its game so to speak, resulting in the qu,

in february, you know, mike, after the coo and after the uptick and violence against peaceful demonstrators and me and more, we received a daily wish of communications from people largely in me and mar, wanting to share evidence with us. and also asking us, please, we need accountability, please. we need to hold people to account, bring us justice. how important is your collation of evidence in terms of bringing this to a halt, stopping the cycle. i think it's critical and we want to be the central repository, collecting all relevant evidence. because some day this may be used, we're going to collect it. we're going to analyze it and we'll prepare files that will facilitate prosecutions in national or international courts. at least 2 investigations are on the way into what caused a stem p. a music festival in texas. 8 people died and dozens were injured after crowds pushed forward during a performance by robert travis scott on friday night. witness to say some people

were forced together so tightly. they started hyperventilating hydro customer reports. it was supposed to be a night without worries and escape from the stress of the pandemic. as 50000 people mostly youngsters in their teens and twenties, gathered before an outdoor stage to watch houston warm wrapper. travis scott. oh, but the energy quickly turned to panic. the ministry tried performing, it's like people like talking 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, and the city's mayor has offered condolences to the victims. families with vows to find answers. this incident is being thoroughly investigated and reviewed.

certainly, it is important for us to ascertain from last night what took place. what happened, where missteps may have occurred. it's still unclear would cause the crowd to search. 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, a lot of narratives out there right now. a lot of them are social media and even last night i think that all of us need to be respectful of the family. make sure that we follow the facts and evidence. investigators say at this stage, nothing is confirmed and nothing is off the table. heidi joe castro al jazeera parts of bosnia capital, have been submerged by floods and land slides after heavy rain raising rivers in

this area, have a region burst. their banks forcing hundreds of people to evacuate their homes. jamal show you all is there and sent us this report. torrential, rain and severe weather has caused widespread flooding across several parts of bosnia herzegovina, burying cars, houses, and damaging roads and facilities. the country is no stranger to floods and lance lights, but people see the sheer amount of rain it's fallen in the past. 48 hours has been unexpected. yet noise have what a short all of a sudden the rain started falling in within 10 minutes because were covered by water. and all of this, the breeze came in in the towns of con, it's on the south of the capital. sorry val, heavy machinery was brought in to clear the streets, but many roads will still need to be repaired before they can be used again. emergency services have been deployed across this municipality, as well as other areas of the country, not as log on systems. people and machines are working hard to repair the damage.

this is only one of the many affected locations along the red river, a popular tourist location, restaurants and businesses have also been hit hard. despite having a robust drainage system built to weather storms, the amount of water proved too much. the entire drainage system has been plugged up . we cannot clean it fast enough. what can you do? thankfully no one was hurt and thank god, it's only material damage that can hopefully be repaired. the local mayor who was on site monitoring the situation told al jazeera that by friday afternoon, some 60 truckloads of debris had been removed, but several towns in the area remained cut off with roads leading in and out of them unusable from the fact that the amount of rain that fallen in the last 36 hours equals the amount that usually falls during an entire month. many businesses at homes have been damaged, but it's too early to assess the full extent. on a national level, the government has stopped short of announcing

a state of emergency, but phase the situation is serious. people here are taking it upon themselves to fortify their homes, stacking some bags and other objects to friend off against the floods. was the most severe damage caused by the flood has been outside of sorry, a vote here in the capital. the rainfall has been consistent. raising river of olsen as a result. fears that unless the weather improves parts of this is you true, could be flooded dramatically. so yeah, i'll just the it up. sorry, i have a still ahead on the, i'll just renew our fears. if it renews conflict and indian administered kashmir families more and those caught in violence of security is stuffed up. taking a new direction. we look at scotlands, transition from oil and gas to renewables, name r double s g victory over bordeaux general law got story and the rest of the action coming up and

a getting going on november 7th. here's your weather forecasts. we've got a system that's parked itself in the western mediterranean. it's just within rain around all sides here. it's going to be especially problematic for the valley. eric's some powerful winds here as well. they're going to generate waves. let's call it anywhere from about 4 to 5 meters high. go bit further toward the east for tapping into a south facing wind. so liquid does the temperature and toronto $25.00 degrees. things are starting to dry up for croatia and bosnia after that intense rain that we saw round the eastern med temperatures are above average, here is stumble is mere antalya on cyprus, nika, caea up to a high of 31 degrees on sunday after the northwest. right now we're going to get blasted with some powerful winds for northern in eastern areas of scotland. i think

these wind gusts could exceed a 100 kilometers per hour and we've got some disturbed weather for the baltic states and a cool pool of air. here. it's been rainy now for days across the northern areas of all jerry, a just west of alger enough, $87.00 millimeters of rain. that's about almost a month's worth of rain in that short span. and the rain is still coming on sunday . with the high of 15 degrees in algeria, and we'll continue to see that wet weather over the next few days. and now you're up to date soon. ah, ah, 25 years ago and a new era in television news in the middle east began with a 2 part documentary series marking the 25th anniversary of al jazeera, telling the story of the channels lord. now it became a recognized global brand. ah,

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hello again. the top story is on the al jazeera news hour. it walks leaders have condemned with their calling. it is saw some nation attempt on the prime minister as a heinous and cowardly attack. armed drones targeted most of and call them he's residents on bag dodd's green zone. in the early hours of sunday, thousands of people have rallied in ethiopia, capital, and supportive government forces battling a rebel advance. the tig ryan rebels of captured strategic towns along the highway to the capital and threatened to move in on our d soft elbow. libya's electoral commission says it would open registration on monday for candidates in presidential and parliamentary elections. the vote is scheduled to take place on december 24th, and that's according to a un back plant. more now on our top story and the attack on the iraqi prime minister his residence. let's bring in say, doing a key nanny who's a middle east analyst focused on iraq. he's joining us.