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hello monte, inside. this is out there, lie from doha, also coming up desperate for help, aid stops trickling into pakistan. millions of flood victims have been waiting for assistance for weeks. on ukraine tries to retake control of cassandra. russia says the assault has failed. so earlier in braces for more to wrench rain all to months slide over the weekend. cale 6 people ah hello, welcome to the program. we begin in rock with face fighting between security forces and supporters of the shiite leader mcdonald solder has ended off to he threatened to disavow his own movement. sada supposes began leaving the iraqi capitals green zone just moment softer. he called for an end to the violence will not give me

these yet. what the hell? now, i will not committees. you ought to go. there were some brutal militias, but the satirist shouldn't be vulgar. i still believe them. my supporters are disciplined. that's why if you don't withdraw from the parliament within 60 minutes, i am not going to be the solder is movements leader again, obama. i don't even want you to stage a peaceful demonstration. oh my dad's been rocked by 2 days a face battles which broke out off the sutter announced that he was quitting politics. a nationwide curfew has now been lifted. on funerals had been held for some of the victims of the violence. at least 30 people have died since monday and 700 injured. let's go live to our corresponding magnet abdullah, he'd who is in baghdad for us. 60 minutes ago mcdonald sauder ordered his supporters to fully withdraw from the green zone and, and the violence. it seems like they have heated his coal well, they have a source to carry out with his instructions,

his wishes it. now as you can see right behind me, the kid a few has been lifted and the people's movement of getting back to normal here and around the green zone. so the supporters have a sort of to dismantle that sense to, in the sit in that as been last thing before over a month. now, so this is this new development very important, more political theme himself has just in his speech condemned to do those involved with the military confrontation. those were engaging in the violence, this owning all these as he calls it. this organized chaotic actions. his, his water and his supporters, if they do not carry out his wishes by, it was the one immediate refrain from the violence, then they will not be belonging temp anymore or the he will be disowning them. so

there is with very rapid change in the political scene here in and around did the green zone the rule has this started gun shots have this topped know, maybe 3 confrontations. all of a sudden, before this slide, we were watching so that the supporters with their weapons walking back that way, coming from the green zone and moving towards that neighborhoods on foot address could change and the political scene and also an in the field in the, in the in the past hour and the question now, what is going to happen next? and i mean, this change, drastic change rapid and swift change on the ground. well, what would it have impact on the political atmosphere? we know that the political rivalries continue and there is no, there is no sign of it for us. that is no sign of mediations between the rival

factions to bridge the political gap between them now. okay, so that support those are, was the one putting out from the parliament premises. the question that will the problem be able to convene again, that does not seem to be happening anytime soon. there is a case in the supreme court to be held to look into a plea or a petition submitted by the support that demanding dissolution of the parliament will that happen? that remains to be seen. but in all cases, this latest to speech by so there has been praise wife to many petitions here in the including the k take 5 minutes and the speaker of the parliament. many politicians, they said they see this as a move to or this, the escalation, my mood looked out. i saw the repeated in that speech an hour ago,

more than once that he has retired from politics. but of course, he is at the heart of this entire situation. so the question is, as you say, what happens next, but who can replace him? with that does not seem to be easy, at least for the time being because the, the fact like i mentioned in the previous lives the fact that he's, i don't think there is ignatius from the political process does not mean that the sudden movement is vanishing. no, there's not going to happen overnight. if i may say that said that movement is a chill, very strong. it's been on the ground. it has military wings on the ground. it has the majority of supporters in many cities across iraq, including the capitol about that. yeah, the majority of support is in that. so now it seems that the whole process is

moving. so this is again another round of mediations, but by whom or how far it's going to achieve this time that remains to be seen. but we have been hearing reports from the north from the go to this region about possible mediations by curtis politicians, namely negative numbers in the prime minister of the code of this region. and also from a religious leaders that at the heart of this conflict, as you know, that to many people relying on leaders to intervene to put an end to this conflict. as you know that what happened over the past 2 days is a conflict, political and military conflict between cher functions. it's an intro, a complex. so many people who are relying on a religious leader is going to be in and to put it into this something. but again, we have a parliament on hold. the parliament sessions are not happening. the supreme court,

the supreme court is supposed to look into a plea submitted by so the supporters demanding dissolution of the parliament with that will happen anytime soon. we have to find out. thank you for that update minute of the wade that for us in baghdad. let's bring in ruba ali al has sunny. she is a post doctoral research associate at lancaster university where she studies iraq. she joined just from manchester, england. let's start with the speech that we heard from mcdonald solder, just 60 minutes ago. we you surprise by his speech where he went on to condemn his own supporters for the violence telling them to get off the streets. thank you for having me on. the speech was not surprising, but it was too laughable. and he keeps on denying his responsibility and everything that has transpired over the past 24 hours when we all know that he is at the heart

of his resignation, triggered the developments of the past 24 hours. and his followers blindly follow him as they repaired in many times, such as to say, as long as that leader tells us to jump into the junk and see. so there's i question whether they did anything without order. we had him again say that he is retired from politics, as you say, as you've puts it, he is at the heart of this political deadlock. so how do they move forward without him they cannot move forward without him. the whole crux of their cause. you know, martyrdom, and when they put on the white shrouds which his father used to where it's the symbolism of their willingness to diet for their cause. so you know, to be

a center to an outside. the really doesn't make self they cannot move forward with either the thing must have been order to do what they did are there was, you know, maybe a tiny difference in opinion, but i was question. i don't think anyone within his movement would question him to the point, but they would pick up arms without being told to do so. so him saying that he is retired. do you believe he has? this is a negotiating tactic on his part. moved to the other who are dealing with the boy quiet for he has resigned from politics many times over the past few years, especially within the past year. at this time, last year in august 2021, he declared that he was forever quitting rocky politics. and this was right before the 21 october's elections. while he claimed that he has quiz

and resigned to iraq, iraqi politics, his political party and coalition maintain their momentum and they had to move about developing and they were mobilizing voters. so as soon as he was back back before the elections, they were all compared and ready to vote. ok, so we are here now after 2 days of violence on the streets. we know at least 30 people have died, many hundreds injured. what happens next? what is looked out, thought is intention here unusual. his intention is to demonstrate to his counterparts, but he has leveraged and he is unpredictable to a great extent which gives him power over the counterparts. they cannot predict what he's going to do next, due to in history flip flopping on issues, in fact,

the logical tool that he's of the cancer counterparts. he also demonstrates that he has a large following, but will do what he says, and that's in itself is power the kind of power, the whole, the other parties want to and cannot quite how not to the same extent. so he has the numbers. he has the follower shift in the sense that they're very loyal to him and he's demonstrating that's about me. it kind of have iraqi baltic and without my presence, we are in the stalemate. and this is basically we have seen over the past year, there has been no government formation with 11 months. he was demonstrating that if you want to form a government, i have to be part of it. and not only do i have to be part of it, this is with, from the counter birth. he's saying i want to reform, and this is ironic because he is a part of the establishment is part of the system and he has finally acknowledged

it. but the question as to what extent is he willing to move forward? is he willing to hold his own accountable? because, you know, all iraqis know that his party held the ministry of the house for the longest time and run to the ground that the ministry is suffering and it has almost collapsed drain called it. so what is he going to do to hold his own accountable? perhaps that's the best stuff for him to move forward. that was really good to speak to ruba lee l has sunny a postdoctoral research associate at lancaster university. thank you. still ahead on al jazeera and he is election battle heads to court. presidential candidate rialto didn't launch his his challenge after rejecting the resolve earlier this month and a choice of 2 very different candidates. the brazilians find out why this residential tv debate call heated

ah, richard, he has begun the faithful world cup is on its way to cattle. brooke, your travel package today. here's your weather update in a minute 15. thank you so much for joining in. so we've had this typhoon equivalent to a category for hurricane cars, quite a debt, devastating destruction on she to jemma in japan. that's about a 1000 kilometers east of tokyo. said a record for wind gusts in august, a 174 kilometers per hour. and also rainfall is wal scooping up more than $200.00 millimeters over 24 hours. so here's where the typhoon is moving, dipping further toward the south. i think it's gonna stay east of taiwan. so that's a forecast on wednesday. let's show you this on thursday. get mighty close there, so we'll inject some moisture into the atmosphere and whip up the surf there. big

time. in time there's been a big drop in temperatures for chung ching on thursday, with a high of 29 degrees. now back to japan in the main island of honju getting clipped to with this solid band of rain into a hole kado thunderstorms to be expected for southern honshu on wednesday. now for india, the heaviest monsoon rains really will be marashi karnataka into carola and also around west bengal into si come states on wednesday. and for pakistan and afghanistan, we're in a law for those monsoon rain, so much calmer conditions. jacob bad has a high of 34 degrees on wednesday, official airline of the journey. the oppression of an ethnic minority and man, mom goes back many days. the intention was to make sure that rangers were no longer entitled to either basic rights or citizenship, right. al jazeera explores the history and motives behind the systematic

persecution of the right hand in me in law. exiled on out just era lou lou, welcome back, watching al jazeera mind. i thought top stories this our. com is returning to the iraqi capital is supporters of the she lead him look, tato solder have started leaving dad's green zone gave us support as an ultimatum to end their demonstration, which 10 vaunted on monday. a nationwide curfew has now been lifted face fighting, a ruptured off disorder announced he was forcing politics. 2 days his the boot is baffled with

a rocky security high security green zone hit by several rockets. monitoring organizations in pakistan, all struggling to get aid to more than 33000000 people affected by the worse floods in decades. more than 1100 people have died since the monsoon rains began in june. and most of those deaths have been in rural parts of the southern and sin province . but people live in basic mud and brick houses. same as ravi is the story of one remote village in chicago district where people are just desperate. until the monsoon rains came last week barcode elise was the newest house in the village was never but okay, that a big man. and it started raining and my neighbors sent their children to my house as well because my place was new, it was safe. there was no fear. suddenly at 2 in the morning, there was a loud crash. and the entire roof came down. on the low,

16 women and children were asleep inside at the police wife, young son and 3 other children were crushed as your mother. he feels helpless, he says, his household wiped away. traditional structures in rural sin, affordable for the poor, are usually suited to the terrain. are being overwhelmed by the effects of climate change. the weather has become so extreme. so suddenly people said the building techniques, their fathers and grandfathers used to make houses just aren't strong enough anymore. focused on producers less than one percent of global carbon emissions, but suffers some of its worst effects. mohammed sustain last 2 daughters and a son when the roof collapse. a message to the world from a grieving father. nursing me go and help me. i've got my friend go to my fridge

about lego. the rain was not like this before. i just want to tell the world, prepare yourselves, go somewhere safe. my advice is don't sleep under ruth, may god keep your safe. i wouldn't wish what happened to us on any one. his wife was in the house at the time to get the money, but she now clings to the children. she has still in shock. she hasn't said much since it happened. they put their children to bed where they thought it would be dry, where they thought it would be safe. men slip out in the open to give women and children more room. the best of intentions met with the worst of fitness. in basra v l 0 she car poor since province pakistan my dad has more from now. sharon went to major rivers have flooded. i'm back to a place called hen abad,

which is also the confluence point between 2 major pockets on the river. behind me you have the river cobble coming from the west, and toward that end, the river in which comes from the north. now both are said to be in high flood and although the situation up north is now improving where the water is receding, they did a grave thread. this large water body is heading out toward the province of sin and is going to hate southern punjab. that is focused on cotton growing bay, and gordon is of course, bug. it sounds, cache grub. my good will also devastate populations that situated close to the river bank. august on has seen massive deforestation which of course has come to funding the problem that is worrying and the river beds. and of course that are now high population density along the water body. the country now has to think very

seriously, if it wants to mitigate the crisis and deal with future flags. right now, the grave threat is bored to area richard and upon job in the province of sin and head in the k p. k. province. people are now cleaning up and returning to their homes. my dad is going to be the grave threat of war to borne diseases from the stagnant water. that remains least 6 people have been killed in a month slide. necessarily young's capital flash floods caused a section of a hail to collapse, airing t homes. i met addressed reports by the time help arrived. it was too late for many who lived here, including children. but even after the last body was filed, neighbors continued to dig through it wobble in the horrible salvage of what the residence described. what happened fortunate puts him up. all of

a sudden i just saw the bulk of mud and palm trees up rooted from the stump. the mud which fell destroyed these 3 houses, which caused the death of 6 people. the destruction. also leaving many a homeless. la. yeah, well, we leave here because this is where we manage to pay cheap rent. i don't have the money to pay for an expensive house. emergency workers say to more people were killed in frito as the result of the torrential rains. and evacuation order has now been issued to our president ceci b. e. p and other agencies actually continue assessing the reefs around and advise other houses within this area to voluntarily communicate why the india, me and or the agencies work more than susan police. forget the other 100 and then down so that we could move in for that. president junior's mother bure issued

a statement, sending condolences to affected families. he was described centred young as a walt 3rd most vulnerable nation. when it comes to the impact of climate change. if, despite a government ban 5 years ago, people continue to build settlements in disaster prone areas in and around frito. as seen here, the consequences can be fatal. i'm a decrease algeria. aconia supreme court is holding a pre trial hearing to outline the process, the legal challenge into the results of the election held earlier this month. william bruce, who was declared the winner before the 7 commissioners who over saw the polls, refused to induce him, his rival awry loading. it says the commission system was hacked and wants to recount, believing it will show he one welcome web is in my baby with more was the next chapter in the struggle for power here and can even started the supreme court and

over the next 6 days, judges and lawyers representing the various parties, we'll go through the evidence that has been submitted while we're doing. and his lawyers alleged that there was elect to fraud his main opponent, william router, the deputy president denies it. the allegations against the electoral commission 5 years ago, we were in a similar position rather than leading the opposition challenged the results. and in an unprecedented move, the supreme court overturned the election in order to re run it in 6 days from now that we're expected to get a judgement and we'll find out if the supreme court upholds the election result as it was announced, dorsey called for a recount or re run of those polls if that happens, it has to take place. within 60 days, according to the constitution, the ukraine has launched

a counter offensive against russian forces in the south in an effort to retake because all region the government says its troops have broken through russian defences on the front line, forcing units to retreat for russia says the assault failed and that ukraine suffered heavy losses of people happened leaving cason to escape the fighting. teresa bo has the latest from keith. well ukraine, the operation on command south which handles a lot of the military announcements happening in this country said that they carried out 3 different attacks all around the area of a phone that's in southern ukraine. and this is happening if there's been lots of talks in the past month about the possibility of a counter offensive president meal for lindsey has been promising and talking about liberating the cities that have been occupied by russia in the south. and many believe that this could be the beginning of it. now, when russia 1st invaded ukraine, they moved into from the crimea and peninsula moved towards taking the southern

part of the country. but there were stopped in the city of nikolai of, that's where they were repelled and take him back. and that's why they have remained in the city of had a song that is under russian occupation. however, what happened to me is what prevented the russian troops from reaching all the way towards the russian speaking sci fi or the for the past month, you know, there's been the contact line. the front line has not moved much. there's been lots of fighting between russian and ukrainian forces right at that frontline, but that hasn't much, much moved much ukrainian forces using western provided weapons among them. the high precision he mars provided by the united states military had been trying to push the russian forces back. and that's why they have asking for more weapons to be able to push them even further. so, you know, it's, all of their situation is ongoing. it's not clear yet whether this is actually

a counter offensive. what's been going on there suddenly raises lots of fishes and lots of questions, whether ukraine has the manpower and the weapons to succeed in carrying out something like this. and all of this is ongoing. while a visit by the i a has already arrived here in ukraine, it is expected that they will begin a visit towards the top $4010.00 nuclear. our plant in the next few days where there be monitoring like the safety, the personnel working in that nuclear power plant lots of fighting and shelling, having ongoing all around that area. and there's lots of concern about, you know, the possibility of a nuclear disaster. brazil's presidential candidates have hell their 1st debate, 5 weeks before october's general elections. the debate produced plenty of drama, but poll. so most people have already made up their mind between the 2 main candidates, monica and a keith has a story. it was the 1st public debate between the 2 front runners and brazil's

presidential election. 6 candidates were on the stage, but all eyes were unencumbered. bright when president jape, also model, and left wing, former leader. reason masula. thus silva together. they have more than 70 percent of the votes. lula who govern brazil from 2003 to 2010, and is leading the poles. blaine ball sonata for the countries rise in poverty. and by you could issue the country i left is a country that people miss. it was a country of employment, it was a country where people have the right to live with dignity with their heads held up in this country will return by ball. so narrow tack lula accusing him of leading a political corruption scandal involving brazil statement oil company, petro, but ice corp, you thought it was corruption, president blue law. you want to come back water for, keep doing the same thing at petro press. wallace spent 19 months in prison before

bribery convictions against him were not putting him back on bristles. political scene by bull sonata was trying to appeal to women. voters denied misogynistic claims against him women. but during the debate, he attacked a female journalist who criticized his response. to the coven 19 pandemic. vera was, would you spell talk with you was vera. you sleep thinking about me, you're a disgrace to journalism. analysts say both front runners did poorly on sunday, but that will unlikely influence the outcome of this unprecedented election. they are totally different for more than lexus and brazil because you have an incumbent president fighting in that former president. and that has never happened was in history. oh, certainly. no president, convent president has started the campaign. you know that vintage regarding his opponent, taxi driver, callous. costa says the debate did not change his mind. your what?

being a premier of me. i voted for both narrow in 2018 because i was sick of corrupt government, a book for him again. vanessa. the son to says she supported lula in still does. focus is a she seal macy. i would prefer a 3rd opinion between lou leanne both scenario. but since we have none, i'll vote for lula, because i know his government has favorite to port, and we're now struggling to put food on the table, also on ours trilling ruler in all of the polls. both men will, will have to win more than half of the valid votes cast to be elected president during the 1st round on october. second, if not, the election will gold were run off on october 30th. monica, in our give al jazeera rio de janeiro. ah, this is al jazeera vizier, top stories com is returning to the iraqi capital support.