in the year 1271, the young battalion mitchell set out on an extraordinary journey. carrying letters from the pope for the great cooper car. marco polo travel through wardrobe, leaders, following dangerous roads from the holy land and beyond to day taking the shuttle. professors showers, travel from china events with surging questions of how the relationship between east and west as j. o. marco polo on al jazeera blue . at least 2 people are killed in the rocky capital in unrest that followed influential? ush, she, i'd meet him knocked out our sarah, announcing his withdrawing from politics. ah,

the wanting al jazeera live from door, i'm fully back. people also coming out because sounds, government warns it could take years to rebuild rafter. catastrophic floods devastated much of a country. you and nuclear inspectors are heading to a russian health power plant in eastern ukraine after weeks of shelling nearby. and a technical glitch grants not as powerful walk at shortly before its mission to them. ah, so we start any rock where a nation wide curve fuel imposed by the army has come into effect. that's after supporters of the influential shide leader, mac tad are santa stormed at the presidential palace in bagdad. at least 2 people have been killed and dozens injured in the violence. the protests came after solder

amounts, he is withdrawing from politics. his supporters have been holding a sitting outside parliament for a month. iraq hasn't had a functioning government in nearly a year. as bringing our correspondent in baghdad, mahmoud abdel, why had it's been quite a 10 situation in the rocky capital in the last few hours the curfew has now come into effect. tell us by what's been happening. moment willfully tense an abrupt situation, especially with the security forces using get live ballot to disperse, the protest her as along with tear gas canisters and also with there is sticks. we a little while ago we were hearing bullets of whistling past us at this spot. that's why we're in protection, give all the team here. so as you know, that this hurts, other supporters has told me the position la palace to day following his tweet resigning from all the political process. but a ticket prime minister must have,

as cousin me gave commands to all security forces to be on high alert to after that we were in the presidential palace that we witnessed that the attack by security forces on white police on the protest to reserve the used as it said, live bullets, i tear gas canisters and also is ticks to disperse. the protest as a curfew is in place right now, started at 7 p. m local time or we don't know how long this is gonna last, but we know that for certain there's not only in baghdad, but for other cities as well. the coffee was in place. there is a state of chaos inside the green's on her right now. okay, so remind us and how we got to this point, mahmoud and, and what does sadder is resignation him saying that he is tapping away from politics effectively means for you rock well in the resignation, despite the fact that it's

a was through will from the whole political process, but it is been read as a kind over a probably a few like kind of escalation because he mentioned in his resignation today that he is not going to interfere in what the professors will do. it means that he will not be able to control them and that will exactly what happened immediately after the, the tweet they moved in all directions from their location in front of the parliament. as you know, they're sitting for a month now in front of the parliament. they moved inside more to earth. many other state institutions inside the green zone, including the presidential palace and occupied it, or that is before the right police, along with security forces came and dispersed them with live bullets, gas to gas canisters, and also with the air sticks. as you know, this is a, there are normal consequences of frustration as you know, that this has been the case for 10 months now. the country has hasn't have

a function, government, except the case take a government for 2 months now. as you know, that the political deadlock between rival politicians in iraq has led to a derailing of forming a new government, halting the election of a new president. and it consequently halting of operation in many states in institutions including including the parliament itself, as other supporters have been camping out of the parliament for more than a month. and now this tuition, it seems to be escalating, especially with up to dead from other supporters and more than 20 others injured according to security sources, amber that and will keep a close eye on the situation with the of course mahmoud abdougla had is our correspondent in baghdad, iraq, not more tut, asada has been a crucial figure in iraqi politics for a long time. the shiite leaders sadness movement is one of the most powerful factions. he rose to prominence after the end of fem. hussein's leadership in 2003 is demanded. the departure of american truth and is again,

stephen's influence. his movements swept to victory and elections in october last year, winning $73.00 seeds. but after months of failing to form a government, he ordered his m. p. 's to resign in june. and his supporters have protested in central bank since july and briefly occupied parliament. early i spoke to shami, ron marco's, and assistant professor of international relations at boston university. she says it's unlikely cut off thought i will disappear completely from politics. what's interesting and what kind of differentiate this recent, these recent developments from development in the past was that in many ways are actually seeing what fathers doing take iraq in iraq politics to the point of brinkman ship. and i think that's a dangerous game where we're seeing the kind of 0 song game being played out that it affected we held government hostage with no strategy. well, that's a bit, i think, different from, to an extent different from what we've seen in the i think in many ways on

a kind of strategic level. it signals that he is this anti establishment. and he institutional kind of post 2003 arrangement that has been put in place person and figure like a kind of lead iraq potentially toward a new task. and it will be interesting, you know, resigning from politics is not necessarily the same thing for me from being completely absent and being a political and so thought very well resigned from politics. what is he going to play in a political role and where iraq goes next? and i think i'm kind of more or less optimistic about that part of them being moving from, you know, resigning from politics to being in a political figure that will just let you know elections kind of dictate the government formation process with so far he hasn't allowed we've seen over the past 10 months, iraq, he's unable to form government, and really over the past couple of days to see the ultimate culmination of that, which is this kind of national i see both slaughters camp and other. and i think

one of the things and developments i'm certainly key in the following is, is there an opportunity in room for outside mediators to come to have these groups come to some sort of a political. so even if it's a temporary one to actually for government moving forward and here kind of paying attention to what you know, he's going to do and it's position and iraq as a mediator though we haven't seen that b signal yet. but i don't see how this could be brought to and that explicitly by relying on these groups that were the base for mobilization to begin with. and now the world news pakistan says it could take 5 years to rebuild after devastating floods. the unprecedented rains have killed more than most. okay, they've killed many people since june, and the planning minister says that caused at least $10000000000.00 in damage. a

sonic bol is wanting a food shortages because of how many crops have been lost. military helicopters have been deploy to help those stranded in remote areas. come on, hider is in swat, one of the worst affected areas in pakistan. he has this report where i'm standing right now. you can see all these draw. now these are all 4 brought by the raging gordon, unheard our grinding effect, in fact played red. i'm standing, we're shops and building. there's no time left of dog. we have one of the residents are broad toward our dorm, where the family went to the doctor drug. and he told us that was one of the most frightening experiences he had ever been here. i've got that now going to show us his house and tell us about the damages that have happened here wanted as it so ago. but it was to him when the water came into our home,

many buildings close by, wiped out. there was a bridge that too is gone. we left just a loss on our backs, but everything else is right at the family. and we're lucky to be able to get out. he, of course, has gone back to retrieve whatever valuable belongings that may still be left. you can say that a box containing personnel, a bag bag reading. and if you're going to the cab virginia, traditional gap in the area, some boys family members are still busy. exactly what happened to the extremely lucky. but there are also unfortunate people who lost everything the child is just good enough to ship about. 30 to 40 homes were totally destroyed here . people are seeking refuse in the mos in school. it's many horton here were

destroyed the, the large have the re key role than bridges. and although international lead maybe a driving, it is going to be difficult to start to get to places where it is needed. most famous ravi has more from the city of so core in sinde province in southern pakistan. we've just heard reports that the loss of human life is now estimated to be closer to 1100 people. but we hear accounts that suggest the death toll will end up being much higher. the countless number of taken interest people as well. and how would this place we've been driving around the province and a common sighted people just on the side of the road with all of their belongings, everything they own because of things like this flooded fields and flooded villages . now one thing to remember about send is 70 percent of economy depends on

agriculture. agriculture is at the center of not only the economy but the culture of these places. and this kind of thing has estimated probably this season, and it's going to have problems going forward because replanting and renewing the economy will become a problem. and what we have seen here is that the, the british era levy use in water systems that regulate the flow of water that manage this agriculture. those have been a key part of pocket stones, water management infrastructure for generations. and those are british colonial era build. the worry now is that they won't be ready for what more it's about to come. see can there be zone g is co founder of the baluchistan new faction committee or use driven campaign to uplift, rural and vulnerable communities. he says, the situation in bellucci, son is especially grim baluchistan, is the largest proven for the box and is almost half of the country land. but the same time it is the most underdeveloped provence. if you look at the human

development indicators, 7 out of 10 districts are from below. just thought all 5 was districts from below just on. so it took catastrophe of a different scale. it's pushing balanced on easily 12 years behind what, what it used to be the human dollars. huge take stomach dollars, huge organizations just driven by young people. so lee is working extensively on the release of parts and the problem, what we saw is harder effect healthcare is nowhere to be seen. there's so many kids so many people down with different diseases, malaria color, all other diseases. and there's nothing for that. and the situation is very gram at the moment. our campaign be ways see we have been working extensively since may june, women constantly highlighting this thing on social media. but unfortunately, even on inbox finding media, this thing did not take the center stage. everything's evolved on politics i think

they had. busy they had better things to do than carrying for human life, all their largest problems of works better things to do. i think that they can a good heed of this thing before if they were prepared, if they had, if they had prepared themselves with dense and other food supplies. this wouldn't have been this bad because people you have heard from people from coming up to publish the not been proven. and from send this, this thing has just moved to these provinces and baluchistan. it has been since june, the mid june, the whole of june, the whole of july. and we are the end of august. people are suffering. we've been to a place in colorado, which is the central in the central balloon, on which is on the main. our city highway and not are from the main highway. and when we spoke to the people there, we weren't the 1st ones to deliver help there. how can an organization of such skill and deliver help while the state cannot? i think it's just a matter of mismanagement, and i think they can do a lot better if all their resources and their minds together. still ahead on al

jazeera, why school senior reveal new evidence about the military gentle crackdown and will tell you why israel government is now targeting palestinian textbooks. ah, the journey has begun. the b 4 world copies on its way to the castle book, your travel package today. i there, let's give you an update on the flooding situation in pakistan. as we know, the monsoon rains in a bit of a law right now to most of it has petered out, but still some showers for southern sin province. that includes karachi with the high 33 degrees, but nothing major compared to what we have seen over the last little bit. now for india, so long, the western gas for those monsoon rains are picking up so from a harass dro rate into careless state. on tuesday after china there's been

a big drop in those temperatures chunk chain. finally, after more than $75.00 days of a heat wave, you're now down to 30 degrees, which was below average for this had the year. and we've got this tropical storm looks like it's going to slam into japan, southern most islands, but q shoe and the main island of hans. you won't be impacted by this, but you've got a slug of rain moving your way. and here's where it is on tuesday. through the korean peninsula, let's press place where it goes to stay and to wednesday over those waters between korea and japan. most of it's going to pour into northern honshu and whole kado. but there is the rain not too far away from tokyo on to say with the high 30 degrees. meantime for the northeast of china, a few showers not far away from beijing. in same goes for harbin with the high of 23 degrees. better update by chatter, airways, vishal airline of the journey. does the count down to the people will cut 2022 approaches? every continent is turning its eyes to keta. we have

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he resigned from politics. nationwide curfew is now in effect. pakistan says it could take 5 years to rebuild after devastating floods. the unprecedented rains have killed more than a 1000 people since june. and the planning minister says if cause at least $10000000.00 in damage the war in ukraine now. and ukraine says it's launched a counter offensive against russian forces in the south, including an effort to retake her son. rush on miss sans reportedly hit a market in nova cath kafka in the course on reaching the areas north of crimea and has access to both the black sea and the sea of ass off that isabel has more from keith ukraine's operation on command. so he says that they have launched a series of attacks in southern part of the country. most precisely, they said that they carried out precisely strikes in at least 3 different directions, including in the city. so there's been lots of talk in the past week about the

possibility of counter offensive launched by ukrainian forces to start trying to move back russian troops. in fact, president of the me to fill in the sky promised and had been telling the populations that the areas had been occupied by russia would be liberated in the next month when, when the war 1st began, russia started moving towards fin from crimea and taking the south up the country, but when they made it to the city of mich alive, the troops were repelled and they were forced back, and that's where they remained in the city of kind of, so that's currently on the russian occupation. now the big question is whether this counter offensive has begun, or if this is a one day offensive, and we'll have to see where the lead. you know, the big question right now is whether ukraine has the manpower, the capacity, and the weapons to start pushing russian troops out of the cities they have taken. meanwhile, a team from the un nuclear watchdog is on its way to inspect these operations power plant in the southeast of ukraine. the head of the international atomic energy

agency, fairly close see, has sought permission to visit the site for months. school c tweeted this picture a few hours ago. ukraine and russia have traded blame for shelling near the facility. europe's biggest nuclear power plant has been occupied by russian troops since the start of the war. the head of ukraine's atomic energy company has called on moscow to remove its true still have the best hope that they will be able to bring us with a final. and the ultimate decision flows about the power plant just to remote for us to establish military. you feel peers and bassett or to saddam has called on the instructional 3 d to pressure rebels from t glide to enter into b songs t p la fighters have taken control of the northern time of all d i n. and they bring a hydro region and reportedly advancing on the manufacturing hub of dessie, about 200 kilometers away and as try keep the rebels stronghold of mckelly on

friday, killing at least 4 people. the government says it targeted military sites, but unicef, the un children's agency, says a kindergarten was hit as his file is agreed early this year. but fighting resumed last week, sammy, i'll get to choose an independent journalist in out it's, i'm a bar, and it's more on this. if you've been ambassador to the sudan spoke earlier today, accusing that cigarettes on the t p, a left in which the open government is assisting the terrace organization, saying that they are really not just killing people, but they're also damaging life stocks, damaging property. and so on. and he also called for the international committee, and he also said those were concerned with mark has been operating in ethiopia to pressure the, to piano, to come to the table and come up with some kind of collusion. and this comes as the u. s. in boy, a mark hummer is heading to a d'silva, trying to speak to different players and try to stop this conflict from really advancing for it. because as the united nation has been saying,

millions of if your parents have this have been impacted, and money more are being impacted still was still money. people heading to the sudan, looking for some kind of safety that's no longer guaranteed at home because of different circumstances. as, as we've seen but this conflict is approaching it's 2nd year again. busy there what's, what's happening and if you're bir or integrate, it's not just happening in a to great. it's also happening in am hara and are far in the children government is saying that said that he, peerless really needs to be stopped. as somebody said to, to, to know, to have the job and government take a more military action that will be more damaging to, to the nation. an investigation has uncovered more evidence of widespread abuses against opponents of the military coup in myanmar right. school says it's documented more than $200.00 cases of soldiers destroying entire villages. a

warning that tony chang report contained some images that viewers may find distressing. smoke rises from a residential compound and shim phone tang and central man mom. the fires have been burning some more than a week. elsewhere in the village, the child remains of vehicles and the human skeleton burn so badly. only the torso remains the villages alleged soldiers arrived on the afternoon of the 11th of august, searching for rebels fighters. they stayed in this buddhist monastery for 3 days, killing and burning. anything that moved this man whose identity we've obscured, survived, but many didn't a human on that day. so many people were injured or killed, shot on the spot. many other people died when they fired artillery and they killed the castle, horses and dogs in the field outside the carcasses of livestock decompose in the sun. for the community, everything is gone. the village of tant lung in western chin state was the sight of

fierce resistance. in september, the gent responded by shilling it then burning down more than a 150 homes. survivors fled across the border into india. the human rights group, ma'am, a witness has been documenting these incidents more than $200.00 in less than a year. it says across the north and the west claim stand on proof the military, it was responsible, we need hard evidence. and we were able to identify that a number of times insignificant circumstances such as the presence of me and my military con boys. at the same time in the same location as when villages were being but to the ground. that's the off. significantly strong evidence recalls, despite these well documented atrocities, diplomatic efforts to engage the gentle persistence of a recent visit by the un special envoy went ahead through just a day after uncensored. she was sentenced to an additional 6 years in jail. and

those interventions have failed to stop attacks like this. children hiding from aerial bombardment, an army at war with its own people. tony cheng elza, 6 palestinian schools in occupied easterel slim are facing closure is really ministry for education has revolt. their permit license is saying that textbooks teach what he calls hate an incitement at asha go name, visited one of the schools for palestinian children. history isn't just learned from the pages of a school textbook. it is the memories and stories their mother's father's and grand parents ensure they never forget. it is their experiences living under israeli occupation mohammed abu alda, but who's in the 10th grade, is also learning about how history can be rewritten by linda from the sub allotted

teachers. me that if something like this happens in the future, not to keep silent or think this is normal. i have to protest like i am now and stand against the occupation and say hello all that the listener. in july, the israeli education ministry revoked the permanent licenses of 6 palestinian schools in occupied east jerusalem. the education minister declined. i request for an interview, but in a statement she says, the schools are using tax books that glorify prisoners armed struggle against israel and their teaching incitement. the schools have one year to remove the books, or they'll be closed. it's like an authoritarian regina that wants to wipe parts of the truth, it from it's his own people and this is happening to 7 years old children. this is ridiculous and we will not allow that since 1975 order. the palestinian authority

has overseen the education of its people can on that thoughtful mamma that i am that we contacted the donors of the educational sector and international community to urge them to take action and stopped as a tech against palestinian educational system in jerusalem. one of the attorneys representing the school says, this is politically motivated, censorship, that breeches the 1995 oslo accords and international laws on occupation. the basic and most common rule and international law regarding occupy territories. whereas the occupant could never rule and occupy territory sovereignty. since one of the main and most inherent instruments of sovereignty is dictation of education, the legal team representing the schools admits the prospects of prevailing in the israeli judicial system are slim. these palestinian se at stake is the erasure of their heritage and identity. natasha can aim el jazeera, occupied east,

jerusalem. the launch of mass as much anticipated aren't him. his rocket has been postponed because of technical problems. it would have been the agencies 1st major step towards a mand moon mission in 50 years. but engineers at the kennedy space center in florida have encountered an issue with one of agents. we don't launch until it's right. and in fact, they've got a problem with the gases going on the engine bleed on one engine. you can't go, there are certain guidelines and i think it's just a luster to that. this is a very complicated machine, a very complicated system. and all those things have to work. and you don't want to light the candle until it's ready to go. i just have

a manual wrapper has more from the kennedy space center and shorter officials here at the kennedy space center have confirmed that a hydrogen leak involving one of the 4 engines of the space launch system or s l less of the arden. this one mission poses enough of a problem to force the agency to delay the mission. now, authorities here in cape canaveral, we're expecting anywhere between 100000 half a 1000000 spectators to be in attendance for today's launch. so you can imagine the scale of the, of the disappointment, by so many people who are expecting to see the launch of the most powerful rocket nasa has ever constructed. now this by no means represents a failure, but it does mean that the launch of artemus one will be delayed to no sooner than friday, september 2nd. now nasa also has other launch windows available in the event of any further delays that europe's biggest st body is underway in london for the 1st time

in 3 years. the more than a 1000000 people are expected to join the problems at the non l carnival. it's usually held every august but has taken place on line because of the car. one of our son demick event traces of history back to 1958 and a gathering to unify the british caribbean community. after a series of racially motivated a button. honestly, i would like it. oh, i love to have missed it. bad. yeah, it's overdue. like 2 years we missed. so yeah, so would you, but i'm happy ah, you're watching al jazeera and these are headlines at least 2 people have been killed during fire.