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ah, i carry johnston. this is out of there, alive from doha. also coming up, a drought is declared for parts of england as temperatures continue to saw. and millions suffer from the lack of rainfall falling at water levels in the river rhine cause it shipping delays and push prices up in germany and neighboring countries. and supporters of iraq is shortly them of target asada, a back in large numbers outside parliament, demanding early elections. ah, where we begin with breaking news out of the us in the past hour. the author, salman rushdie, whose writing lead to death threats from iran in the 1980s has been attacked while on stage in new york. let's get more on this with kristen salumi,

who's in new york or krista know what do we know so far? well we've just been gathering information and bits and pieces. this attack happened just over an hour ago. salman rushdie was as a dad, just taken the stage to give a lecture in a town in western new york. this is a rural part of the state. and he was there to talk about his writing and his work. it's a place where they whole black shirts and it's also considered a resort. and people in the audience, including an a p reporter say that a man, as soon as he was being introduced rush, he was being introduced, a man jumped on stage. rusty was seated, he ran up to him and began either punching or stabbing him. obviously it was a very chaotic scene at the what exactly happened is still coming to light and

being worked out had a we don't know his exact condition on twitter. there have been a pictures of a man on a stretcher being loaded into a helicopter. according to this twitter feed, the, this was rushed ye, there's other things, but there's a lot of conflicting information. so i want to caution that we don't know exactly what his condition is or where he's been taken right now, but by multiple accounts from the audience, he was assisted and taken off stage to be treated. and the man who did the attack has also been taken into custody. now this is an attack of a man who is a prolific writer, a novelist, an award winning writer, but perhaps best known for his book, satanic verses which was released in 1988. and as soon as it was released, caused an uproar in the muslim world because some muslims consider it blasphemous.

it was banned in several countries. and the iranian leader at the time, my itala khamenei issued a fatwas for him, basically a call for his death. and one organization raised money, i'm offering about a $3000000.00 reward. if he were to be killed in and rushed, he went into hiding for 10 years. i'm still writing and still putting out books. and in recent years has been more out in the open obviously here he was at an event giving a lecture when this happened. so the iranian government, which an a has after that walked back from the cause for his death. but the no others, scholars say that once it's issued, it's out there. ah, it was a, it was in it was issued. so we don't know what the motivation was. we don't know

who the person was, who did it, and we don't know his condition, but clearly i was a scary situation. he was attacked i. he's been taken to a hospital. and ironically, the a lecture that he was given was about living in exile and writing and exile in his time experiencing that. okay, will of course have more on this sir as we get it. but for now kristin swim in new york. thank you. now, extreme dry weather conditions across europe, a hunting tray, then raising concerns about food supplies. a drought has been declared across large parts of england, 9 of the last 12 months when dryer than normal across the u. k. as a whole. the national farmers union is wanting that up to half of the potato, keratin onion harvests are expected to fail. meanwhile, in germany, larger ships and barges can no longer pass parts of the rhine river because of the low water level. cargo is having to pay for multiple shipments to get their goods

delivered because vessels failing with reduced nodes. and in france. wildfires have forced 10000 people from their homes, ease, satellite monitoring service as blazes in france, spain and portugal have already made 2020 to a record year for wildfire in south west europe. avoid china has more now from the southwest land. this is usually one of london's i see the kind of green islands in the middle of the concrete jungle and look at it at the moment. you can see how dry and parts to is. this isn't ready grass anymore. this is basically straw where i'm standing is usually right on the edge of rush me upon. it is much reduce the moments this water level as it was a couple of months ago. well, you can follow me and i'll show you how far is now have to walk gates. i think 15 meters also towards the rubber disgruntled ducks and geese. they're not very happy

about it. this is happening all over the country basically. ponds like this drawing up resume was drawing up. i was out reporting a month ago or so on the day where he's reco sats in england, where the temperature smashing $340.00 degrees. since that time, there has been neither the barest smattering of rains. there is a drought announced the much of this country. what it means is that it gives the water company's license to start putting in restrictive measures measures that would stop people say, sort of taking particularly long showers or, you know, water that gardens, that kind of thing. some parts of the country already have made these announcements . yorkshire water has announced its 1st hose pipe back in 27 years. that's going to be coming in on the 26th of august that you've got south eastern southern and welsh

water companies. they are also announcing restrictions as well and there are absolutely going to be more of these coming. meanwhile, dominant cane is in berlin with more on those shallow waters in the run to main concern in germany. and so far as these temperatures are concerned and rivers, well, it's the rhine river, and let's be clear. it's not just germany, which is affected by the level of the rhine, switzerland, france, germany luxemburg, the netherlands. they all have a role to play in working at what is happening with the rhine. what matters in one sense is that he's now so much lower than it has been in recent months that certain types of ships can no longer apply their trade along this very large waterway. to give you an example, certain tankers of liquids, like liquid gas and that sort of thing. and now charging 5 and a half times more money per tonne,

they transport and they were back in june. and the thing to say here is because there's so much less water physically in the river, it means that the depths that the river should have 4 ships to pass down. well, they're not the same depths anymore. so now companies who are transporting particular goods are having to, to transport perhaps 2 or 3 boats because the one but they would use which could be fully load laden cannot be well, there's already been a record number while far as across southwest europe, including france, spain and portugal this year, ease satellite monitoring server says fires in france have sent carbon pollution there to its highest level since records began. emergency crews are battling a fire in the jerome region, which has destroyed more than 7000 hectares of forest, or fire fighters and equipment from 6 eve nations arrived on thursday to help. but it smith has more from your on the france, authorities here in the air on say that the fire has been contained overnight

within a 40 kilometer perimeter firefighters have come from across europe. these guys have just arrived from romania, but there are also greeks, austrians, germans, and the polish fire fighters. here in total, across france, the ship, $57200.00 pack tears of land has been burned in wild fires. it's 6 times the full year average in the last sort of 16 years or so. the authority say good here today, although the fire is contained because extreme temperatures expected again, anything in the high thirty's, maybe even 40 degrees c. i don't know how the weather will affect the fire and expect it to be dry again for the next few days. the land is tin, the ground sparks very easily, and that's why the extreme temperatures are increasing. the ferocity and frequency of these fights are the rainy season continues to take its toll in sudan with tens

of thousands of people affected. at least 51 people have died in flash floods across the country. and the families have lost all their possessions and fear things will only get worse. the more rain expected in coming days. even morgan reports from october, a county that's been devastated by the flooding. bessie rama is still searching for it. he can salvage from his home. it's collapsed tuesday after flash floods in mccaleb in northern sudan river now state. it's the result of days of heavy rain in the region and rain water from the east of are flowing streams in the town. this i had the rain started in the morning. stop raining for hours and then while we were open the schemes, the water to pass floods, it says it didn't stop till the next morning. the rainwater is usually just floating the stream, but this time we went over it and no barrier or stream was able to stop it. but here's home was one of more than 1700 homes destroyed by the floods in mccain uptown alone. more than 3000 homes were damaged in barbara county. in what many

hearsay has been the worst destruction. 15 of the law shows us what remains of his once large family home, where rooms warm stood now only rubber remain the order. you know, there were 2 bedrooms there, another 2 on the other side and a kitchen there. the water came, i'm in less than an hour. the houses collapsed. we didn't even have a chance to take out anything because we were busy making sure the people got out alive, with some have left their home to seek shelter after losing nearly everything, but many others have stayed behind. the destruction has left families out in the open. many things they wait here until the end of the rainy season to rebuild their home. but that may take some time because lorine for the coming days. and there are concerns about what's on diseases. the rain and flood watts have damage sewage systems and it's hard to find drinking water in some parts of the town. lay. melina wave, she, there is no access to clean drinking water or to

a health clinic. my daughter is now sick in a tent nearby, while we'll try to salvage what we can. but there is no medical treatment available . at least 15 people have been killed as a result of heavy rains and flash floods around sedan. those who survive to say they're not sure how they'll be able to rebuild their lives. after losing so much, he been morgan on to 0 better by county regional state. said a head hair analysis era, former us president donald trump says he won't oppose the release of the f. b. i warrant used to search his florida. we visit the sides of the world's worst nuclear disaster to a survivors. a warning it could happen again. ah, judy has begun the faithful world copies on its way to castle group your travel

package to death. let's go with your weather forecasts for asia. so we had warned about this in karachi and it deliver, look at this rain wind swept rain where the windshield wipers go and full blast. i think we're going to see a repeat of this on saturday. here's why we got this disturbance in the arabian sea . so that's chucking rain into croce right across in our province. so actually from jacob a bad rate through to new washer. i think that's where we're going to see the heaviest downpours on saturday. now for india, once again, we've got something that's getting going in the bay of bengal that's wip in rain around all sides. a weather alerts in play for both edition and westbank all states certainly the risk of seen some flooding there. now for china, it's looking like this, still rain locked in to the pearl river valleys. so some showers for hong kong at 31 degrees and look at this heat across the yang, super valley. yep. shanghai we've got in for 40 on saturday and another burst of rain to go for flood hit areas of sol. so that's certainly not good news. a tropical storm on our hands. it's going to run right into eastern portions of honju

. this is gonna dump a lot of rain for tokyo, so the teams thinking about 60 millimeters of rain but not just the rain. the winds will be a factor as well. gusting to about 65 kilometers per hour on saturday. i'm going to leave you here. i'll see you soon. kat official ally of the journey. the important thing if you are walking around in beirut was noticed to be in the line of fire. from the holiday. paula, we heard gunshots. i was the 1st one to flee the hot. the battle lasted 3 days and 3 nights and there were no prisoners of yet controlled a holiday inn under control of the region around. and that's why it was such a bloody battle. an icon of conflict at the heart of the lebanese civil war, beirut, holiday in war house on al jazeera. ah

the me without with a reminder of our top stories, ortho foam and rusty has been attacked while giving a speech in new york. new york police say he suffered the stab wound to his neck, has been trans, ought it to hospital. his debut novel, the satanic verses prompted death threats from iran in the 1980. the u. k. government has declared a drought in parts of england, seen the dr. jay's eyes since 935. some regions have already announced water restrictions binding people from watching office or washing bonds in france. spain and portugal have made 2020 to a record year for wildfires. in southwest europe, use of satellite monitoring, so this says 5 front offense,

carbon pollution there too. it's highest level since because began former us president donald trump says he went oppose the publication of the warrant that allow the f, b i to search his home. us attorney general says he personally made the decision to search trumps florida state. on monday, garland has asked a federal court to release the warrant colonies a matter of public interest. i'm involved ripples. he's described the f. b, i search of his florida state of an american unwarranted and unnecessary and breaking. but donald trump says he's encouraging the release of the warrant, even though it was drawn up by what he describes as radical, left democrats and possible future political opponents. the request unsealed, the warrant is array or move by the us justice department. good afternoon. and according to the attorney general, that's because trump himself disclosed the search. i personally approve the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second,

that apartment does not take such a decision lightly where possible in a standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search. and to narrowly scope, any search that is undertaken. if the motion is granted, the water will be made public and could reveal what investigators were looking for . its reportedly connected to allegations, the former president removed sensitive files from the white house search warrants usually to main last fight during offending investigation. let's say the public interest is mounting along with fear the violent responses from some of the far away supporters, claiming that things may have been planted by the f b. i. and extraordinary allegations that matter what the circumstances out with donald trump, no matter what he has done, he is always able to present himself as the victim. on thursday,

an armed man tried to breach and f b. i field office assistant, he, he was shot and killed in a stand off with a police pulse on trump social media platform from an account bearing the suspects name mentioned the attempt to storm the f. b i office and encouraged others to prepare for war. the man is also believe to have been part of the january 6th attack on the capital one, just as cross over to mike hannah. now in the washington d. c. mike, what's the latest on this ongoing saga? well, donald trump has said that he is willing for the warrant to be unsealed that we are still to hear from his lawyers. the department of justice has put that request into trumps lawyers asking for the warrant to be unsealed. they had them till 3 o'clock this afternoon, that's in a few hours time to respond, at which stage the judge who heard the initial case. we'll decide whether or not the warrant is going to be unsealed. if the tramp lawyers agree to the unsealing,

then the judge will go ahead. it's simply a matter of a written filing by all parties is no in for in court house meeting. but if there is contestation, then there will be a meeting, a discussion in the court house, but to make clear as well that 3 elements here, one is the affidavit, which the justice department filed to get the judge to pass the warrant. that's that warrant. the 2nd element, the 3rd element is the infantry that the f b i took when they searched the premises at morrow lago. now the judge should he want to could decide that one or other of these elements could be opened. he could only allow the warrant to be unsealed, or he could allow both the affidavit and the infantry and the warrant to be unsealed. that's entirely up to the judge. it's also obviously up to trump's lawyers, whether or not they are going to contest it. how long this process is going to take?

we really don't know at this particular point. every courthouse has its own protocols, but we will have some understanding by 3 o'clock, whether or not the trump lawyers are contesting the matter by kind of thank you or for an update from washington, dc. supporters and opponents hope influential. she, our leader mc tada al serra rallying in iraq's capital. both sides have gathered outside the green zone. their parliament sutter has urged his supporters to keep up their demands for political reform. after months of deadlock, backlit of the la had, has more from just outside the green. so the 1st scene here in jet re, a neighborhood need about the dad's the green zone. not very far from the other protest. and these are the, a supporters of the coordination framework. they've come from civil of cities across iraq, there in the thousands, as, as you can see right behind me. and this, they say that they are chanting against it, the other supporters,

the chanting in favor of the former prime minister, louis albuquerque, the arch full of che, at later looked at her. i saw that they say that what is happening in the parliament is a violation of the state at sovereignty of the state legitimacy and that they are calling on. there are in fact demanding the some other supporters to immediately leave the parliament had quoted so that they can give opportunity for state offices to operate. once again, on the other hand, as you know that other supporters i've been staging they sit in inside the green zone in front of the parliament setting, got dozens of tents and they say they will not leave until the demands are achieved . the demands include the problem be dissolved and a linux has be held as a way out of this current political impact. but me, while other supporters i've been calling for the colleagues on the police and other cities to take a street and to sign

a petition to the part of southern recently have been at, in a way or another, have been alleviating the intensity of his rhetoric, calling on the protested here in judea to keep it peacefully. and meanwhile, security forces have been deployed in the area to prevent any possible flesh between the 2. but i haven't brought com has returned to us here in the o, not today's of nationwide anti government demonstrations has been anger about the rising cost of living, protest his or demanding at present jewish, why the vo steps down. at least 27 people have been killed, including security personnel. the government has imposed a nationwide curfew. you ends at nuclear, watchdog says military action around the ukranian nuclear plug must stop immediately. russia ukraine are blaming each other for the shelling of this apparition. plant ukraine says it's ready for possible evacuation in the event of a nuclear catastrophe. or ukraine is home to the side to the wells worst nuclear

disaster. the 1986 channel meltdown killed hundreds of people and spread that radioactive contamination over much of europe. survivors of that disaster urging extreme caution around this operation. some financial reports functionable the path to the chernobyl power plant is barren, overgrown, and lonesome. this amusement park near by was due to open 5 days after the 1986 nuclear meltdown whose name is now synonymous with disaster. it never did. 36 years later, radiation levels are still well above normal. in some places that's high v shaka, the silica the reading is about 16 times normal inside explosion. ravage reactor number 4, now shrouded by a large container. radiation levels remain high. vladimir forbid,

sky still it your noble engineer rushed to the plant the day of the meltdown. yeah, the deal, but the road you lost on. so when i got there, i was expecting to see the reactor mom. what i saw was the crater left by the explosion. the near wide area that onions with this apparition, nuclear plant taking fire repeatedly and frontline fighting and southern ukraine. local say it could pose in even greater danger. your po box could give should not be e. butch. when she su i worked at some herbal and i witnessed the tragic consequences of the explosion. zapora richer could be 234 times bigger lunch and herbal. and i'm very worried about which believe it or not. this is the center of the town of cricket. that's the cultural building behind me. on the day after the mil vantage or noble, all 50000 residents were evacuated and not a soul has lived here since. now nature his reclaim the landscape on which prep it was built. the president of the company that owns his apparition plant says russian

forces have placed trucks and explosives inside turbine holds near the reactor and are firing from the plants ground. russia blamed ukraine for the strikes on the plan. does not all knock later as they continue in this way. unlike true nobles, vladimir forbids. key says zapper asia is europe's biggest nuclear plant in it lies in a heavily populated region, but doesn't receive with us this year. but this won't happen in russia. the westwood pill, the consequences bulgaria, romania, moldova, and poland. he hopes both russia and ukraine have learned the lessons of journals to the land that surrounds upper region doesn't also become a nuclear waste land for decades to come. john henry and al jazeera, the true noble exclusion zone, ukraine satellite images appear to show destroy that russian war planes an airbus in crimea. something moscow had strongly denied. ukraine says 9 planes were

destroyed, a series of explosions this week. the images suggest at least 7 fighter jets were blown up. russian officials say the blas may have been caused by a careless smoker. meanwhile, russian forces appear to have hit a block of flats, new cream with vacuum bombs. i shall neither broo cost pictures that appear to show the destruction of buildings in the dawn, yet screech and vacuum on them. a very bombs are from a devastating explosives of a similar size. it's not clear if the buildings individual to sky were occupied. australian courts as find a google $42000000.00 for collecting location data from android users without their consent or suits was filed by australia's competition and consumer watchdog. in july 2020, they said a google setting allowed the tech giant to collect, store, and use personally identifiable occasion data. google fix the issue through a software update in december 2018

o argentina's monthly inflation for july was a highest in 20 years. at 7.4 percent. it means that while cumulated inflation for the year so far is more than 46 percent is projected to rise above 90 percent or the end of 2022. i know shamela visited the countries oldest bakery to find out how people are coping. luca bay korean lucon about an hour's drive west of one osiris was found in $1875.00 by marcos. his great great grandfather, angelo, an immigrant from lombardy in italy. it's overcome several economic crises and marco's his confident it'll survive the one now unfolding it out of him. do you know if he's a heartened to millions or perhaps very good at coping because we're used to living this way. and maybe because our grandparents have managed to survive every one of these crises, they had to face cell at the sun disorders. but it's tough. he has to be alert to increase his and the price of almost every thing, especially flower, him fuel,

plus the art and time pace a weakening against the us dollar while keeping his 30 plus staff and his customers happy. bread is one of life necessities, whatever the cost, it was in $1875.00. i continue to be at the heart of the battle to keep price is affordable, and the community functioning. the bakery workers like these ovens at 4 am, 7 days a week. there have been many changes in the past 147 years, but some things remain constant. the scales for instance, made in london even before luka was founded. and of course customers with an appetite, but less and less money to spend alien the yeah. look what we do now is consumed less. we don't buy as much as we used to. so we keep costs down. or we take advantage of the promotions happening. hyperinflation that more than 3000 percent hit argentina in 1989,

then social and economic catastrophe in 2001 easy. so is there is a determined meter. it's, it's like when you have, when you're sick, you're a fever, you measure fever, you're measuring fresh. but this doctor calls the cost is the underlying monetary interest appointees which bring generated isn't fresh. those argentine and the luca bakery of victims of crippling foreign debt and the war in ukraine. we saw the price of flour rocket in bond issue, $99.00. it bread is something that's been around for hundreds of years and will continue to be sold for several more centuries yet because it must and is difficult to lose his food this good. whatever. the price that you show there, al jazeera luca argentina. ah.