aah al jazeera with all. ready deadly clashes between rival armed groups erupt and libya's capital sparking fears of a return to civil war. ah, i'm mm hm. mm hm. jewel mrs. algebra live from doha. also coming up. the un is set to launch an emergency appeal for $160000000.00 after flood submerged large parts of pakistan. the united states plans to appoint

a diplomat for the arctic region as russia and china. i strategic opportunities. and pope francis name's new cardinals. who could help choose the next leader of the catholic church? ah, we begin in libya, where at least 23 people have been killed and more than 100 injured during intense battles and tripoli. it follows a build up of rival forces over the past week. after a dispute about who should govern, the violence is raising fears that the country could return to a civil war. malik traina has this report from tripoli. smoke in the skies of the capitol, holmes hospitals and businesses hit with heavy artillery. across several districts and tripoli. clashes erupted early saturday between rival armed groups,

the fighting occurred and densely populated areas and continued into the night. the cautious have been ongoing since last night. they stopped for a bit and then continues. many of the victims were ordinary people, tired, scared, emotionally, and physically drained. these people were trapped in their homes for hours before they were pulled out. city officials are calling for an end to the violence to the civil society. institutions interest, police strongly condemn the armed classes in the city and hold the participation parties responsible for setting civilian, blood, intimidating, security, destroying, private and public property. there are 2 governments claim to be in charge of the country. one recognized by the international community based in tripoli, the other drawing its power from the country. the hazard ms. rice says the only way

forward is for elections to be held. and what day, mentoring with an ad, it is the residence of tripoli who are paying the price. they are the victims. the population of tripoli is nearly 3000000 people and they don't want either government. they want to vote for whom they want empower elections. of the only solution. things have calmed down since the fighting began, but people here still fear that libya may be on the verge of a full scale conflict. now trina al jazeera jibley. earlier i spoke to our correspondent mike hannah and washington d. c. i asked him about the reaction from the international community. well, the u. s. ambassador to libya has issued a statement asking the parties to end their conflict, calling immediately for humanitarian corridors to be established and saying as well that the country has to get back to the political process that had been in place

until it fell apart in december. at the ambassador insisting that the only route to avoid this conflict is the un sponsored political process designed to lead to elections. now the un secretary general has also added his voice to those expressing concern. he's issued a statement calling on the parties to begin negotiating in their conflict. get back to piece talks. we've also heard from neighboring countries to libya, such as egypt. as soon as here have all issued calls for com asked for the opponents to move back from each other. also a message of concern from turkey, which has a military presence in tripoli itself, although it is not yet involved in the fighting. but we've also heard from the governments of the u. k. of the netherlands. so there's mounting concern internationally as the events sent tripoli unfold. and mike, it's obviously a very complicated situation on the ground there in libya. it has been for a while now. are there concrete steps of the international community could take

right now to help the escalate? the situation well, view a state department or 5 days ago was expressing concern about a looming crisis in tripoli. and one of the points it made was that the u. n. must move as quickly as possible to get a special representative back in libya to begin negotiating with the parties. now the un security council is due to meet on libya within the next few days. the whole issue of resuscitating that piece process is likely to be brought up again. but undermining all these attempts to end this conflict is that the conflict goes beyond what we are seeing at present within tripoli itself. it's a schism that is based on something that goes back to her. when mama gadhafi was thrust out of paula, and that is a schism between the east and the tripoli. government in the west. that is the government, internationally recognized. but in the east there is

a quasi government which has set itself up as such. and these 2 parties, although there had been a truce in place for some 2 years that underlies everything that is happening in libya to day. and that is a schism between 2 powerful entities and to get through. they negotiated settlement . it's these entities that have to get big could begin negotiating. not just the factions that are warring and tripoli itself. so it's a massive issue, a massive problem, and something that the u. n is certainly going to address and coming days. unprecedented flooding across pakistan has now killed more than 1000 people in less than 90 days. more than 30000000 people have been affected. the worst monsoon season on record has left nearly half of pakistan under water in remote villages of send province. diseases spreading and anger is rising against the government as zane bus robbie reports. but me order. yeah. so no space and body are covered in

bug bites and lesions suited men. sickness in the aftermath of the floods, the discomfort too great for a 2 year old to comprehend. her family says she cries all night. let it be mighty. i might have been children sick, look at her, they'll vomiting a lot and have diarrhea. doctors come from time to time and give medicine, but they don't seem like enough. some are getting better, but some getting sick. health is limited to piecemeal local efforts for now. desperation leaving no room for decorum. with those too small or too weak to brave the crowd are left to console the tread. even volunteers admit whatever they are doing is not enough. indeed we are, but a boat. there is a lot of need here, but as far as our capacity goes, the population of the entire region has come here. one person cannot do everything

alone. displaced by the floods. people here have been living like this for weeks. still some say they are the lucky ones. in more remote areas, cut off and stranded people have nothing to do with the main problem. now local leaders say is draining standing water to prevent disease and give people away home . but the more immediate need is to keep them alive. to survive for these people living in the villages, they need dance. they need food items, and we are trying to make packages for each family so that they can survive for a week. and then again, we give them another beggared next week. this is how we are planning to make sure that the message is be patient. help is coming. but there have been protests and people are angry, that it has taken so long to address the aftermath of monsoon rains that have been

pouring down for 2 months. plus, survivors are setting up, makes it camps, but many of them arrive to safer ground without even it's hard to hang over their heads. they're living out in the open. the sun is going down and this is how so many people across the province will sleep tonight. and more than likely many more nights to come. zane basra b o g, a 0 lower con district, send pakistan and neighboring afghanistan floods are causing widespread destruction . to find sheer in the northeast is the latest province to be swamped by heavy rainfall. thousands of homes and farmland are destroyed, followed by an official say, 182 people have died there appealing for international health. was to come all model more than 1000000 families need urgent aid from foreign countries, such as close 10 and food was the shrinking of the arctic has opened new maritime routes and large oil and mineral resources. and that's strong rival power such as

russia, china and the u. s. to compete for strategic influence. on friday, washington declared that it will name and ambassador at large for the arctic region . during his visit to the arctic nato secretary general warned of russia's increased military capacity, and china's growing interest in the region installed and met with justin trudeau, the prime minister of canada. one of the 8 arctic nations need those news to teach . the concept identifies rochelle capabilities in the north to teach challenge for the whole alarms. russia has set up a new arctic command. it has opened hundreds of new and former, so it's era arctic military sites, including air fields and deep water ports. russia is also using the region as a testbed for many of its new and novel weapon systems. obviously, a climate change is creating greater accessibility to the arctic and bringing with

it real concerns and challenges around that. but as well, the ill fated unjustifiable decision of russia to append nearly 70 years of peace and stability of a rules based order by invading a peaceful neighbor has changed the way we need to look at the arctic. jessica shabby and his president and ceo of arctic 360 a consultancy focusing on north american arctic development. she joins us from nuclear greenland. jessica, the u. s. has said that it will create a position of arctic ambassador at large. what message does that send to russia and china, and is it actually going to help with diplomacy? or is this just going to escalate tensions? no, i think the disappointment of an arctic batter is really just the latest demonstration

of a range of initiatives. but the united states is undertaking, obviously this equates to the status of the marketplace for the united states. in a way we can face a continuation of, you know, what, what the trump administration started. but the real difference here with the buy it in administration is the focus on soft diplomacy and the power that's off diplomacy has, you know, the warning, of course is another addition, you know, to the growing list of reasons why the art is becoming more important. strategically around the world, you know, we, as you mentioned, new new trade routes, but we also have greater access to resources including including the critical minerals that not only china by the rest of the world want the news to transition to the new green economy. so you know, united states like many regions, they understand that the orton and really the reason with this new article

mastership is because having boots on the ground and being able to engage and go around and have conversations with high level diplomacy on ongoing fashion is important. and the importance of diplomacy and engaging and strengthening cooperation in terms of the united states and a lot of it's not like mine and nation including canada. this is the key to strengthening our, you know, strength of multilateral institution and the multilateral economic and political order. and so, you know, the u. s. e. diplomacy that has the key in their way to influence the strengthening this rule based order. and it's their way to strengthen their own strategic position within the region. and also beyond, you know, we've heard today we've been out of here in new greenland. you know, it's the regional conference, but it's also has a lot of international

r to players. and outside the architect, i, agent, states, et cetera. it's been said over and over again. jessica, i'm getting a little bit fresh and you're right, i'm sorry to interrupt you, but i, i just want to get back to something that you mentioned. you talked about one of the options being in all this perhaps boots on the ground going forward. you know, how much do you think from your vantage point, we're going to see nato beef up at security in the arctic, in order to counter russia and china and, and how much more of a footprint will nato have in the arctic going forward? well ok, some natal is increasing their their presence. that's for sure. and we know that we do dr. young bird today visiting canada. but when they put on the ground, i don't need military boots. i'm talking about diplomatic boots when you, if you want to, you know, if you want to engage and have diplomatic relations, you need to have presence and you need to be at the table in order to have influence. and i think everybody and especially the arctic state themselves, they want to see this region of the region of cooperation. a region of you know,

being able to enhance trade and cooperation and. * not a region for heights intentions, and so i think the strategic move to create in the bathroom is to actually g escalate tensions. it's a mechanism for having those important conversations for having those ongoing and deliver it conversation in an ongoing fashion. i mean, that's what diplomacy is all about. it's about creating trust in relationships and i think we are at a critical point right now. and we, if you on here in do we have a whole host of representations, permanent representations that are opening up here in new fi like united states, i think by permanent representatives here the u. k. e, you are all starting to have now their own diplomatic presence. and so i think the real effort is moving forward in

a diplomatic fashion. nobody wants to see hayden tensions, and by default, of course, because the invasion with ukraine, we have finland, we have sweden now joining nato. you know, nato is here. natal has arrived. we're kind of back to you. so all right, present relations about the arctic, but that's why in this is why the, the investor ship and why diplomacy matters so much more today. and so horton critical right now in this time, all right, that's jessica shabby and who is president and ceo of the arctic 360 thank. thank thanks so much for joining us. thank you. francis of ame 20 new cardinals and a ceremony at the vatican. the appointments include more candidates from africa and asia, as the roman catholic church pushes to become more diverse. and as adam rainy reports, those cardinals will eventually play an important role in choosing the next pope. ah,

in placing the ceremonial duke kept on the head of 20 new cardinals at the vatican, pope frances deepened his hold on the church. 16 of the new cardinals joined the ranks of those under 80, who will pick his eventual successor when he dies or retires. francis is now named nearly 2 thirds of the eligible electors who will choose the next pope. one of the new cardinals is bishop robert mcelroy, a 68 year old progressive from san diego, california. by elevating this lesser known cleric, frantic is passing over other high ranking clergy in the us who say catholic politicians who support abortion rights should receive communion. mcelroy supports frances, his work. i make the church more inclusive and i think it's important to reach out to groups of what the po possess us to do, who have been marginalized to have been kept out of the mainstream. whether that be because of their lives. economics,

or of the race nationality or their gender, or of sexual orientation. many of the new cardinals come from the global south. an area of priority for francis, for countries are now represented in this class of cardinals for the 1st time, mongolia, paraguay, singapore, and east timor. it is clearly francis church now more than ever, but that doesn't mean the next pope will be in his mold. if we look at the story of the catholic church conclave, so the moment when it hope gets elected are pretty much surprising. often, a reformer pope is elected from a pretty conservative conclave, as was the case we spoke frances ah, may be too early to say just who will follow. pope francis, but he's still doing what he can to increase the odds. it will be someone who has received his blessing. adarine al jazeera vatican city arch still ahead on al

jazeera, we meet members of crimea has taught our community who've been forced to flee because of russian attacks and space agency nasa fires up the world's most powerful rocket as it prepares for a historic moon mission. ah, the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to a castle book. your travel package today. every province in pakistan somehow, some way has been impacted by this flooding caused by the monsoon rains. here we are in k p. k province toward the northwest clogged roads with just all that water . and the good news is the rain, the monsoon rains are starting to fizz allowed. and the indication is we'll get into a bit of a law until the middle of september. but for now on sunday,

that rain still falling from his love about to the hor, off to india, we go. and it's really the eastern side and southern sections that are blanketed in rain drive toward the west from new delhi to buy. but some showers may sneak into the state a muffler roster. now here we go toward the east. we've got heavy falls of rain for be har into the pradesh and the forecast on sunday. and next stop or go into china . finally, some relief for the eastern gang see river valley temperatures in shanghai down to 29 degrees. it's because we've got these showers in storms and also a cool pool of air. jung joe, just 19 degrees. you should be $31.00 for this some the year. the other day we had so called gorilla downpours in tokyo. that's what locals call it when it's really torrential rain and still some rain in the forecast for tokyo on sundays. so it's kicked back. your temperature is a bit too high of just 26 degrees on sunday. that's a snapshot of your weather bye for now. the official airline of the journey

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people have been killed during battles and tripoli between arm groups backing rival administrations in the east and the west. the violence follows a build up of forces jostling for control of the capitol. unprecedented flooding across pakistan has now killed more than 1000 people in less than 90 days. more than 30000000 people have been affected in what pakistan's climate minister calls a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions. the u. s. will name and ambassador at large for the arctic region. the shrinking of the arctic has opened new maritime routes, as well as large oil and mineral resources that strong rival power such as russia, china, and the u. s. to compete for strategic incidents. there been large clashes in argentina where police of battles, thousands of supporters of vice president, christina fernandez, the kirshner. the protest came 2 days after prosecutors called for a 12 year prison sentence, for kirschner, they're pointing to alleged corruption. when she was president,

the demonstration happened outside her home in the up market neighbourhood of the capitol winners. i'm gonna be on the phone with the you in has condemned an ethiopian government air strike that killed at least 4 people, including 2 children on friday. unicef says the attack hit a kindergarten in mckelly, the regional capital of to guy. the government has denied targeting civilians on saturday, federal forces withdrew from global a city just south of to guy. the conflict between the rebels and government forces began nearly 2 years ago as his fire was agreed to this year, but fighting resumed last week. there been a series of attacks in russian controlled crimea in recent weeks, members of the to talk community fled the region when moscow to control and 2014. some are now living in ukraine, but they're determined to return home one day. beau has that story from keith law, members of the grey, me in touch, our community gather every friday at this mosque just outside of ukraine's capital

. keep. many of them have been living here since russia next crimea 8 years ago. no, we live here, but in order charles family still living there. he says people in crimea are struggling under russian occupation. what rush and brings to the territory where they come, they bring nothing but crime, destroying mother cry. orphan children were so this in crimea will so this in syria, and now we see they're trying to do this. they could in ukraine. in the past weeks there have been a few of attack them the cranium peninsula, even though ukraine has not acknowledged it's behind them. an attack on the saggy airbase destroyed 8 fighter jets from russia, black sea naval aviation. a further drone attack managed to put russian ground forces on high alert. the attacks in grey me a show ukraine's capacity to strike russian targets deep behind the front line.

press and below the me to fill and ski says he will fight to recover all occupied territories, including crimea. crimea, the tires were deported from an infant by the soviet union. in 1944 and thousands of them were forced into 1014 when russia occupied the peninsula. people here are hoping that when this voiceover may be able to return to the land, the reason, even though we may not from crimea, he says you need more help to win the war. ukraine is a free people. it's not like russian people. we want to live independently. we don't want to be with russia and all we need from actually everything conscious. it's weapon. if it had the weapon, we will fire till that and the international community has repeatedly condemned the annexation of crime. yes, yes, somebody to me let that sheila says the peninsula plays

a crucial role in the conflict in ukraine. fans russia use crimea as a military base hans, her prisons, lansky as a say said her 715 sales strikes a against ukraine from our kenya. peninsula, it's a law daughter of virginia, as the war goes on, ukrainians insist they're fighting for their freedom fully for crimea satires. this is so so about returning to where they belong. very said, well, i'll just see dad, keep serbia and kosovo. have agreed to allow free movement across their shared border. settling and dispute about identity documents. the you negotiated a deal designed to reduce tensions at the border. it says serbia will abolish its entry exit document for kosovo. id holders. kosovo has also agreed not to introduce the document for serbian id holders. the agreement comes after crisis talks in brussels, this week, kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008. but belgrade hasn't recognized

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america plans to put humans back on the moon's surface by 2025. fenton monahan reports. this is the world's most powerful rocket. nasa intends to use it to send humanity back to the moon. monday launch will be a crucial test for the artemus mission. this is the single step that starts the journey of a 1000 miles. so we are going to launch a brand new heavy lift rocket with more lift off for us than the united states has ever produced, even more than saturn 5. we've got a brand new capsule that can sustain a crew of 4 for $21.00 days on flights to the moon, around the moon and beyond the moon. we're going to test all that out. artemus began to journey long before launch day. the booster rockets came by, train from utah. the core ship by barge from mississippi. that's where the world's most powerful engines were put to the tests. earlier this year, the rocket will push the o'ryan spacecraft beyond earth orbit several days and

nearly 400000 kilometers. later it will reach the moon. it orbit will pass within 100 kilometers of the lunar surface. after collecting the data, it needs it will begin the return trip back to earth. it is definitely getting real . ah, the rocket outside on launch pad $39.00 b will be riding the next chapter of a of space, exploration and space science. that chapter will include science all along the way, hand in hand with exploration. i've recently said to our science community buckle up, everybody were gone for ride to the moon. it's been 50 years since a human set foot on the moon and the next step for the artemus mission. we putting a crew in lunar orbit by 2024 and then 2 astronauts on the moon the following year . the mayor brown. but nasa doesn't plan to stop there. it setting it sites on mars,

proving out all the logistics of the habitats and the hatches and the suits and rovers, and the wheels and all of that stuff. proving that out on the moon is just like artemus one by down, risk for damage to it buys down the risk. so we go to mars. we deal with the rate exposure of the radiation on the long term. we deal with a fact we got to take all of our for water and our food with us. the americans aren't the only ones with lunar ambitions. china also wants to land a crew on the moon by the end of the decade. the new space rates for the 21st century is only just getting started. bins in marlin al jazeera ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. in libya, at least 23 people have been killed during battles and tripoli between armed groups, backing rival administrations in the east and the west. the violence follows a build up of forces over the past.