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ged said to markets independent, they made fears russia could intensify its attacks. any potential damage does up ratio is suicidal. the un edge is russia and ukraine to protect europe's largest nuclear plant warning the fighting is increasing danger of a disaster. ah, hello, you're watching al jazeera alive from doha. i'm 40 back people also coming up malicious, former prime minister begins a lengthy prison term after court rejects his appeal over one of the world's biggest financial scandals. a former detective these guilty to our role in the killing of brianna taylor, a case that sponsor protests about racial justice in the us. and brazil's president welcomed involved heart of a portuguese emperor. critics accuse him of playing politics

for we begin in ukraine as it commemorates 31 years since the end of soviet rule. but this year, as independence day celebrations, are strikingly different. the countries on edge after warnings, russia may ramp up its attacks, streets are empty in the northeast in city of khaki, where strict curfew is in place. authorities in the capital key have banned mass gatherings for the whole week. a day coincides with 6 months since the russian invasion began, and the u. s. has warned moscow is planning to strike civilian infrastructure in the coming days. but as al jazeera, teresa bore reports from keith some ukrainians are still finding ways to mark the occasion. it's national flag day in ukraine. precedent followed me the salons, he attended a ceremony to honor the symbol of the fight against the nation. cities across the east and south had been occupied by russia. ukraine is fighting to get them back.

new calling there was an emergency, we would never recognize someone's callers or nor land, and in our skies were always ready to the fin, or blue and yellow flag. i asked now to commemorate heroes who give their lives for both colors. with a moment of silence, olivia ah ukrainians. also marking 31 years of independence from soviet rule. the government has displayed russian tanks and are more vehicles that have been destroyed during the past 6 months. ukraine and official se moscow had been hoping to hold a military parade in central key to celebrate its victory. but this is what we got instead. veda, bucklin is confident, her country will prevail. we pray every single moment for the war to be over. we believe in our army, and we're sure it's going to be over with our week to rebut. it just depends on the time. ah, you crane. he's on high alert presidency. lensky says bloody me to pull,

denise plotting fragile souls and us intelligence agencies have warned russia maybe play, try again, government buildings or civilian infrastructure. keep as far from the front line as only rarely been hit by russian missiles. since your queen enforcers managed to push russian soldiers out of the city, back in march, but or 40 or cautious or have banding public gatherings and are asking people to take the air, raid sirens very seriously. rule since february, thousands of people have been displaced, injured and killed. osha is that reminder of the atrocities russian forces committed in their attempt to take the capitals. 500, he says. he's still helping to bury there, remain found in mass graves across town. yet, do we need to do the key? i think that neither i know anyone who lives in ukraine who witnessed the walk and understand what happened for now. we are surviving on adrenalin. but after

everything that's happened, i'm worried that the aftermath will last decades. 6 months on ukrainians are fighting for survival against an enemy that is unwilling to retreat. it is i will, i'll just see down the top you and officials have again raise concerns about the danger at the rush. unoccupied apparition, nuclear plant in ukraine, the calling for the immediate withdrawal of troops, andy demilitarization of the area. the un security council held an emergency meeting to discuss fighting near the facility. ukraine reported further shelling at the plant on both saturday and sunday, which damage infrastructure. the head of the u. s. atomic watchdog says a team is expected to travel to the site within days. if talk with russia. successful agreement is urgently needed to reestablish the parisha as purely civilian infrastructure and to ensure the safety of the area. we must be clear that

any potential damage to the plant or any other nuclear facilities in ukraine, leading to a possible nuclear incident, would have catastrophic consequences. not only for the immediate vicinity, but for the region and beyond the paraphrase, the secretary general blunt warning. any potential damage does operation is suicidal or both moscow and keith have accused each other of hitting the plant. russia controls the area, but the facility is still run by ukrainian workers schedule because that's what i want to show you. now a photo of the destruction on the territory of this apparition, nuclear power plant. as a result of the shelling by the ukrainian armed forces, we have a whole slew of such photographic evidence and we disseminated it this morning as an official document within this security council and the general assembly as a dance to me. so we expect that the i e, a mission will take place in the very near future and the agency experts will confirm the real situation at the station. we stand ready to extend the maximum

support possible. let me stress that nuclear security and safety is an absolute priority for everyone in the world and russia mos immediately and without any conditions is ro, is troops, stop all provocations, all shelling it is unacceptable. this russia is deliberately putting all of us on the brink with a global nuclear disaster. algae fair as christian follow me, has been following developments from un headquarters in new york. well, the united nations has called on both sides to refrain from any military activity in the vicinity of the plant and to withdraw troops from the area. they say that the tension and the competing narratives is exactly why the united nations in international monitors need to get in there. they're calling for access for a team of investigators from the international atomic energy agency to get in and

russia and ukraine both say they want that as well. russia says they've been on board for a visit from the i. e a to the site since june. ukraine says that i just earlier today, their foreign minister was in touch with the i. e. a. this is the ukrainian ambassador speaking at the meeting earlier, saying that things are progressing and logistics are being worked out. and also that ukraine would like to see a permanent presence of the i. e, a at the site until they can regain control of it. now preparations for this mission, according to the un, are in fact ongoing and the i. e, a director general, raphael mariano grossi made a statement earlier today saying that he does expect that mission to be possible in the next couple of days. if these final issues can be worked out what those final

issues are, are a bit vague from all of the parties concerned, but everybody says they want it. i and everybody's hoping it'll happen in the next couple of days. in other world news, malaysia's former prime minister has begun a 12 year prison sentence after its talk, court threw out an appeal over a multi $1000000000.00 graft scandal. a g brother was found guilty of money laundering and corruption in 2020, with malaysian authorities, accusing him of stiffening cash from a state funds known as one m. d b. for him, 3 reports from harlem for 190 bro zak is seen leaving court with a police escort after losing his final appeal. malaysia's former prime minister begins serving a 12 year prison sentence and must pay a $46000000.00 fine. he had been found guilty in 2020 of illegally accepting $10000000.00 from a former subsidiary of state investment fund, one mtv. his departure from court was in stark contrast to his arrival earlier in

the day. because it 1st, i like to thank everyone for showing up and showing me your support. i have tried with all that i can, but everything i proposed to the court is rejected. his lawyers had attempted to postpone proceedings and even tried to have the chief judge removed, but failed. malaysia's top court was unanimous ruling nudges. defense was, quote, so inherently inconsistent and incredible that it failed to cast reasonable doubt. on the prosecution's case, lawyer say they have not ruled out seeking a review of the decision. no jeep could also seek a pardon from the king. of course we are very sir, because we lost the appeal. i only see that really sick comfort and solace. in the words of a grip indian duress, who said that the all my dear lord de dispense perfect justice,

some supporters were visibly upset when the decision was announced. analysts say the judgment will have political implications. not only not you will have a blessed night to night, but the party to which would be long term, namely, no, i'm no party would also have to ponder very carefully as to whether they would continue to align with in terms of claiming innocence or they would draw a clear line of demarcation between the party and such dead. so for example, the party would have a refresher image. the ruling will also make it more difficult for no judge to stage a political company. he'll lose his parliamentary seat and won't be able to contest the next election. the damage to his reputation is severe. not only was he the 1st prime minister to lose a general election in 2018,

he's the 1st to be convicted. not jeep, still faces several more trials linked to the looting of one mtv. he has denied all charges. florence louis al jazeera calling him. in the usaa former police officer has pleaded guilty for her role in the death of brianna taylor, a black woman, shot and killed during a police raid. taylor was killed in her home in 2020 her deaths font protests over racial justice and police brutality. across the u. s. federal investigator say kelly good lead conspired to create a cover story and added aligned to the search warrant. as bringing shebra tansy in washington, dc for it she had how significant is this conviction? well this will be finally then, the 1st person to be held criminally responsible for the killing of the raid that lead to the killing of brianna. this is where it gets slightly more complicated there. you'll remember the department of justice charged for officers and for over

offices with various crimes related to the raid 3 of those. they're more not bureaucratic. so silver important. it's a bureaucratic side of falsifying search warrants and lying about them that leads to the killing of people like brown at taylor in their homes as part of no, no grades. so kelly, good look, now house pet guilty to falsify the arrest warrant that convinced a judge to, to, to allow it to go ahead and then conspiring to cover up what she did with the other officer. it saw that she will be giving evidence against 2 of the other offices who have been charged by the department of justice. so those are 3 offices, then charged the bureaucratic side of the raid when other office has been charged with excessive force. this is the officer who basically stood outside brianna taylor's apartment, just shooting wildly into the apartment, despite the fact that he couldn't see anything. there were blinds down on a block out. but he was just firing away with it with his guns. he's going to be charged with excessive force. again, he was acquitted on that charge or in the state court already though once. but we

should also remember them that this leaves the 2 offices who are actually inside brianna taylor taylor apartment, who bust him. they claim that they announced themselves brown, tennis boyfriend who was the big said, said they did not. they're the ones who actually $510.00, yes, many sharps inside the apartment, 6 of which hit brown and one of which killed them that hadn't been charged with anything inside. one of them was recently trying to sell a book to simon. she sto which, which, which after a public outcry, so when she's back down from, from, from distributing the other one it's reported is trying to get his old job back. so it's clearly welcome that people are being charged by the federal government, the constitutional crimes. but this is clearly fatal all out of state level but, but it's still being looked at as a lease something moving forward that the people are slowly perhaps beginning to be held accountable for, for the staff. thank you for that. she ever times the live in washington and

prosecutors in the u. s. state of atlanta. in the u. s. t. v of atlanta have decided not to prosecute the 2 white police officers involved in the killing of a black man in 2020 ray shot broke was shot dead after the officers responded to complain that he'd fallen asleep in his car to drive through restaurant when they tried to arrest him, books grabbed a taser from them and find it as he ran away. one of the offices then shot him in the back. still ahead on al jazeera, a funeral is held for parole. kremlin commentator gaia de gainers ukraine denies its secret services planted the comp bomb that killed her, and how ongoing is impoverish youth could bring about the 1st government change in almost 50 years. ah.

hello there. let's look to north america and from the satellite image, you can see this area of dense cloud lingering over southern states in the u. s. not shows a clutch of severe storms that brought torrential rain to northern areas of texas, causing flash flooding in places like dallas. now the us weather service says more than $230.00 millimeters fell in parts of dallas, and that was the 2nd rainy is 24 hour period on record. we haven't seen this much rain in about 90 years. now it is going to clear up by the time we get to friday is an improving picture. we'll have the temperature start to improve, but it does remain rather wet with those storms sitting stagnant li over those central states of the southern u. s. elsewhere for western areas, the heat continues to build for the likes of seattle western areas of canada and along much of the west coast of the u. s. it's a similar story for the east coast. those storms has shifted off out to sea, leaving hot and humid conditions in places like new york city and washington dc.

but it is a very wet story across the u. s. gulf coast, as it is for western areas of mexico. tropical moisture moving in, bringing some heavier falls to the west coast that show ever ah, this november will come into cut off. a domain of it gets closer with every step of the way. i'm going to go over that with a new sure. each month i seems, can expect some strong support hearing counsel bringing the latest news from the teams and friends in different regions across the globe as they looked away to their model. petto, 2022. the woke up. come back with everyone else. oh no, julia. ah

ah ah, welcome back. our top stories on al jazeera of his sour ukraine is set to hold muted independence. these celebrations after warnings. russia may ramp up its attacks as strict curfew is in place in the ne hinsley of khaki and authorities in the capital key have been to mass gatherings for the whole week. malaysia's former prime minister has begun to 12 year prison sentence after the top court throughout and a p over a multi $1000000000.00 graph scandal that g bras back was found guilty of money laundering and corruption in 2020 and our former u. s. police officers be guilty for her role in the death of brianna taylor, a black woman, shot and killed during a police raid at her home. federal investigators c. kelly. good lead. conspired to

create a cover story. a hundreds of people get, have gathered in moscow for the funeral of pro kremlin political commentator darya de gina. she was killed in a car bombing that russia blames on ukraine a deem baba reports. alexander duke, in listening to tribute to his daughter daria to get her, was killed on saturday in a car bomb attack near moscow. a father says she recently told him she felt like a warrior the price that we have to pay can be justified by only $1.00 thing, the highest achievement victory. she lived in the name of victory and she died in the name of victory. our rush and victory, our truth, our orthodoxy, our country and our empire. daria took in her was $29.00 and worked as a commentator on a nationalist, russian television channel, just 2 days after the attack. russia's federal security service or fs, be named

a ukrainian woman as the perpetrator. it said she'd rented an apartment in the same building as to gonna, ukraine has said it does not resort to tara tactics, blaming russia's own government or security apparatus. it typically came things, month for even years, often never for a political mergers to be sold and yet a f as b, the russia securities, those claims have done as a matter of hours. and i think everyone looking the kind of details that providing, ah, you come to the conclusion, there's nothing credible about the story that they have put together. how much influence to gain has over the president, vladimir putin has been the subject of speculation inside and outside russia. what's clear is he and his daughter expressed far right. nationalist views in public and strongly supported the invasion of ukraine. but they've both been placed on international sanctions lists for spreading misinformation. witnesses say alexander duke in decided at the last minute to travel in

a different vehicle from his daughter, social media footage showed him looking on with the car still in flames. president putin has never publicly supported him, but he's called the car bomb evil and posthumously awarded to give her the order of courage medal nadine baba al jazeera, prevails, prize of enjoyable scenario, has held a cannon. fire salute to welcome the preserved heart of the countries for december, the boned organ of don pedro the 1st on loan for brazil. $200.00 anniversary of independence on september 7th. dro broke away from portugal in 1822 and asked his heart, returned to the city of porto after his death. and we'll be on public display in brasilia during the celebration. such was open. it is with great satisfaction that we gather this morning as part of the celebrations tied to the bicentennial of brazil's independence to receive this important relic that represents beyond

bravery and passion, the immeasurable strength of our 1st emperor. joining us now, a lie from sao paulo in brazil is oliver stone, coal. he is associate professor of international relations at the j to leo vargas foundation. thank you very much for being with us on algebra, oliver. so both scenarios, critics have accused him of playing politics with the bicentennial celebrations, and fanning the flames of nationalism. well, would you agree with this? what do you think his intentions are and bringing back the emperor's heart? what is he trying to achieve? a proof hello. fully, well, there's actually a tradition in brazil to bring back the copes of it's to monarchs on milestone anniversary. so this has happened in 1922 and also 50 years later when brazil celebrated the 150 years. but usually, actually this has not been a politicized the fair because the monarchy is really not something that is

visible period in brazil, public debate. however, now there's been somewhat of an on the lions between those who had just told you about the military dictatorship between the 190964 in 1085. and those were actually monica who would like the monarchy to return. and both of these groups in a way and us tells it sort of a mythic past of stability and belief that things used to be more stable and just better in the past. and there are today. and i think that the president, in a way is using this moment to say that he is the candidate of stability of continuity. right? because 2 months down the line, we have presidential elections, a very polarized situation in brazil. and i think that the celebrations certainly occur in this particular context. do you think that both scenarios presidency has

in bold and, and strengthened these movements that you talk about that the monica? yes. all in a way the pro monarchy movement was really quite obscure until quite recently. so most people didn't really pay attention. that was the referendum in 1903, and the monarchists lost in the land fly. and the vast majority of brazilians preferred to be a republic after democratization. and in the opinion, polls show that this would still be the case. however, the rise of tonight has allowed the monarchists is a swim and is slipstream and gain more visibility and both and told you about a pass that mostly for ins agree never really existed. and now there's been a descendant of the royal family, has been elected to parliament. and in to some extent, this group has gained more visibility and political influence thanks to the presidents. and so how of resilience reacted to this decision to bring back the

emperor a time? i mean, as you mentioned, the presidential election is just around the corner. do you think this will help both narrow, narrow, the gap in the folds. we know the latest both have showed that form of present duda, maintaining a significant lead over both scenarios. will this help him? you think? oh, it's sir. quite a turbulent moment right now with saw it a very unstable economic situation, but certainly movements in the polls mostly has been wives in recently due to increased to a public spending. and i think he's certainly using this moment to project himself as a statesman and somebody who'd like to project just ability. so i think particularly . busy those who ever since fab saw, you know, things used to be better in the past and who disliked the volatility inherent to democracy could certainly be attracted to the kind of missile saying the kind of show that the president is putting on or on the occasion of brazil's or 200 years

university. thank you so much for talking to us about this oliver's tongue sancho joining us here from sa panel. thank you for your time and insight. thank you very much. man gola is on the eve of its most tightly contested election in 3 decades prison jour, lorenzo. and his ruling people's movement for the liberation of angola, want 6, and it's 47 years in power. but the stakes are high in africa, 2nd largest oil producing nation is fine, huge oil wealth poverty, inflation and corruption ran rampant more than 60 percent of an goldens are under 25 years old. and more than half of them live below the poverty line. the opposition led by presidential hopeful ad alberta across the junior is hoping to capitalize on this. official polls have his party coming 2nd, but he's expected to pick up support from millions of 1st time voters. merisa lorenzo is an africa political unless at the can. so tim, see control risks,

she says the election will likely come down to on goal is economic circumstances. going to gone through quite a tough time in the past 6 to 8 years. so in 2015, it entered into a recession, which would last for 6 years. and then of course, already being in a recession, it was hit very hard by the code, 900 demick, especially when oil price, oil price crushed in april 2020. given that it's, that's a major revenue earning, and those, you know, really had an impact on so if your economy conditions that were not that good to begin with, i think that's definitely contributed to a sense of disillusionment with the ruling party. the other thing is that when president finance, who took over in 2017, there was a kind of renewed optimism in the country that perhaps he would open up the great civil society space that he was whole local connections that perhaps the board was

brought to macroeconomic stability that might start to trickle down, but of course, that hasn't entirely happened. some of it has been a lack of political will. other things have been just global shocks, but this is really contributed to this feeling of delusional. and, and this is, this is what you know, could potentially see the employer late and not fair as well as it has had previous election according thailand is said to hand down a ruling that will decide if the prime minister can remain in power. they've been protest in the capital bank call. go ahead. a court decision calling to find minister for your channel to sit down. you took power in a co, in 2014 opponent. say he should step down on wednesday when he's 8 year term is in lebanon. a launch block off the port structured damage in the bay will explosion 2 years ago has collapsed. it's the 3rd time storage facilities at the port have crumbled. in the past month. this time 8 storage tyler's were brought down. the

port explosion in 2020 killed more than 200 people. a fire has been burning since july as wanting rain fermented in the summer heat. i thought a bit though, did that, did it look good? we're demanding the government to put out this far in the salo that have been burning for a month and 16 days. i don't know why we are pushing them to do their jobs and that was their job is to put out the fire, the solos of falling one off to the other due to the negligence, voted daniel admins at done been angry. it feels like my house is bleeding, my heart is pouring frustration as a lebanese woman. i'm frustrated like what was happening in my country. i'm frustrated by this big crime until now. they've been laughing at us and not telling us the truth. why, what's happening. and they live in a's. no, i don't see them as lebanese. the former head of security at twitter says the company has no idea how many fake accounts are operating on the social media

platform. peters that coal has filed a whistleblower complaint with u. s. officials in it, he alleges the company misled regulators of audit cyber security defenses, and was negligent and trying to rule tot fake accounts. twitter says the allegations are a false narrative, riddled with inconsistencies. john ty, is the chief, is the chief disclosure officer at whistleblower aid to which is working with peters atco. he says he hopes the allegations will lead to action being taken by law enforcement. we encourage congress to, to, to do its job. you know, hold hearings if necessary to get vitamin, some of the stuff legislative necessary and not just in this country. but obviously countries around the world have an interest in, in twitter, meaning its commitments to its users, you know, supporting the democratic process and elections are stopping misinformation. the.