an architecture in a state of neglect that but the city has the ability to law tourists, whether foreign only bunnies ex, about yet, the authorities have done nothing to preserve the historical monuments and bring life back to this place. tripoli is considered the 2nd most archaeologically important city, proud of the nominal empire after the egyptian capital cairo, the montessori mosque is among some of the structures remaining from that here on remnants from other ears as well are found here the tripoli, history is overshadowed by a turbulent recent path and a grim reality. a donald trump of the miger republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. u. s. president joe biden takes aim at his predecessor in a prime time speech ahead of key mid term elections. ah,

i'm how much of jerome this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up with a nuclear plant in the middle of a war zone. you in experts carry out their 1st inspection of this equity. she a nuclear facility despite shelling nearby a race against time to hold back to water in disaster hit pock, a son as some areas in the south brace for more flights. china walks down 21000000 people in the city of chang do as the country doubles down on its 0 coven palmas. ah, you as president joe biden has launched a scathing attack on his predecessor and those republicans who support him. he said donald trump and his backers pose a threat to the very foundations of the united states. he also said that equality

and democracy are under assault, across the u. s. too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump, with the magar republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. i want to be very clear, very clear up front. not every public. you're not even the majority. republicans or maggie are republicans. not a republican embraces. are extreme ideology. i know because i've been able to work with these mainstream republicans, but there's no question that the republican party, today's dominated driven, intimidated by donald trump in the mat. you're republicans more now on the speech from our white house correspondent. kimberly, how can it's not surprising that the president mentioned donald trump by name,

given the fact that it appears to be a calculation on the part of the white house for some time. now we've seen the white house increasingly aggressive in terms of the language that the president has been using in his speeches towards the republican party and particularly the president. it is a strategy that was tested in the spring. and increasingly, what we've seen, woven into the speeches is this all for mag, a reference, as you say, the make america great. again, reference in to sort of categorize the republican party at least a faction of it as being extremist in nature. as the reason that the president in his party are doing this is because this has been somewhat successful in a really pointing out a vulnerability of the republican party referencing the january 6th attack on the u . s. capital something that many americans were horrified to see. it,

it's an image that conjures up a very painful memory for many americans when they felt that democracy was in fact under attack. and so this is something that, the republicans, i feel as a vulnerability and democrats are seizing on that in advance of the congressional elections. which are now about 8 weeks away. and so this is a deliberate strategy on the part of the democratic party and the white house. our bill schneider is a public policy professor at george mason university. he joins a sly from washington, dc. great to have you with us a bit. let me start by asking you much, president biden has started really calling out republicans for what he calls maga extremism. and, you know, many democrats had wanted him to do this much earlier. why is he finally using his bully pulpit now? is this simply about the mid terms, or is there a lot more play here? how he booked? he would say there's a lot more play. the future of democracy says,

history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage political violence is fatal to democracy. he hopes that theme resonates and that the public sees this mid term election as a vote really on the security of our democracy. that's very important because otherwise, this president and his party, the democratic party, are in trouble. of the president's party usually loses intimate term, almost always loses support and without a majority in congress, president biden has no hope of passing anything in the next 2 years of his presidency and bill, you know, president biden is known as an establishment. moderate democrat, are americans going to be surprised by how fiery he was in the speech tonight? yeah, i think so. he's a, he's a mainstream democrat, and he works mostly behind the scenes. as a professional politician, that's how he gets things done. and he called attention to number the number of things that he has got done. his message was, republicans are extremists who sometimes endorse and re even resort to violence. my

god, they're talking about there's a faction of the conservative movement, the republican party that's attacking the national archives of all things. the national archives, which is demanding that donald trump turn over the records that they brought with them to florida. that this is outrageous to most americans, and he's, you know, joe biden is trying to make this an issue. it's the most promising issue he has with the one thing he did not mention in his speech was the one threat that americans perceived in the do republican party. and that's abortion. the supreme court decision on abortion removing abortion has constitutionally protected, right. that was the most serious an issue to it is the most serious issue to most democrats. and interestingly, the president didn't talk about bill. president biden has been dealing with low approval ratings for a while now. but lately he's had some major legit. legislative wins. he's gained

some momentum. democrats now, believe they have some head winds leading into november. does the speech he gave tonight? help him? i think it does. he's trying to re run the 2020 election, which he be in which he beat donald trump, even though troy board admitted he did defeat donald trump. and he wants to do it again in the mid term. he's not on the ballot, but his party is so he talks a lot about the things he's a, he's accomplished, the messages i deliver. what did he deliver? infrastructure, prescription drug prices are a reduction in those gun safety sometimes with the republican support veterans, health care benefits are big climate change bill, student loans, forgiveness of student loans. that a lot of those things are relatively small, but they are very important to a number of voters. so his messages, republicans are extremists who resort to violence. i believe in delivering for the american people. bill schneider public policy professor at george mason university . great to get your perspective. thanks for joining us. sure. the head of the u. n

. 's atomic watchdog has warned that the physical integrity of europe's largest nuclear power plant has been violated raphael grossi and his team, and finally had a chance to inspect this upward. each year complex in ukraine, keepin moscow and both accused each other of attacking the plant and risking nuclear catastrophe that isabel reports from ukraine's capital aah! renewed fighting around the somewhat e t a nuclear power plant in the city of a note that did not prevent the un nuclear watchdog team from crossing the front lines. he's part of the dangers. the team lead to by the international atomic energy director f. i little c moved ahead to begin the match, expected visit, go glossy, said he was able to inspect vital equipment. i worry i worried. i worry and i will continue to be worried about the plant until we have a situation which is more stable, which is more predictable. it is obvious that that the plant and that physical

integrity of the plant has been violated several times by chance, by deliberation. moscow says, keep center sabotage, steam to try to recover. europe's largest. know here, power plant that's been under russian control since march. first of all, rosen malott at 620 a. m. to teams of ukrainians saboteurs, 60 men strong. you 7 speed boats attempted to land banks of the kafka water reservoir, some 3 kilometers ne, to the supper is your nuclear power plant. he denies all accusations and says moscow is trying to manipulate the visit. carried out attacks around the city, to terrorize the population. and the ukrainian employees inside the plant, their well being is a major concern for ukrainian officials. keith says one of its reactors had to be shut down because of the shelling on thursday. and it warn't about the possibility

of a meltdown if the plant goes offline completely. that visit is expected to last for a few days until the u. n. team on the ground can evaluate the dangers on site. the situation around the nuclear power plant has had authorities here in keep on the edge as hoping russia will demilitarized the area. but russia has already said it has no plans to remove its troops anytime soon. there is how i'll defeat active. edwin lyman is director of nuclear power safety at the union of concerned scientists. he says the i e is mission is crucial, but suspects it may not be long enough. i think this mission is very important. i just to have the ability of a 3rd party, relatively impartial group, assessing what's going on was very important. unfortunately, of the main part of the mission only seem to have lasted a few hours. there are a about 5 i. e, a, inspectors still there for

a few days and there may be an enduring presence after that, but to really get a sense of all the potential damage in the state of the equipment and the state of mind of the workers there that seem really need to be there longer and to have more expensive inspection the reactors themselves are under reinforced concrete containment building. so they have some level of protection, but they are vulnerable to it, to damage to other parts of the plans that are not as well protected primarily the off site on a power source as well as the emergency on site power sources. these are not as well protected as we've seen the off site power has gone down a few times already recent weeks, a forcing some of the reactors to shut down. and nuclear power plants are vulnerable if they don't have access to reliable a stable offsite power. so that,

that is the major concern. still ahead on al jazeera come down to a crucial vote on chiles future. we'll hear from our latin america air. and why tennis star, serena williams has put her retirement on hold. a journey has begun. the 3 full world copies on its way to catherine book, your travel package today. hello. i will start with an update on our super typhoon just off the coast of taiwan, a very organized system that you can see. the clearly defined eye on the storm. it's well organized and it is going to bring some very heavy right answer. very strong winds. 250 kilometers per hour towards taiwan is not going to hit taiwan, but the out bands will bring some live, the showers long. a spouse of rain in here as we go on through the next day or so.

so you can see that wet weather to swirling away rolling around our system, which not is a little further north, which as we go on through sat day sin, a similar position. so was that right? sat said is going to be with us for a day or 2 and that will cause extensive flooding across a good part of i want to be that is the side of the on it. and damaging winds, of course, when windy to into a good part of japan over the next day or so, southern parts of the korean peninsula. also seeing some a wet or weather showers there to, to northern parts of child farther south. it is generally try with plenty of sunshine, that same super typhoon bringing some very heavy rain into northern parts of the philippines. lose on a particular saying some lavish hours, longer spouse of rain over the next couple of days. possibly some localized bearing elsewhere for malaysia added in asia, it's sunshine and showers. cats are airway official airline of the journey, debating the issues of the day frog use as always,

dan criminalized around the boundaries of rights under number. there people are a family event, american meeting members, cornell online at jewel voice. this made it to, we don't believe in dialogue, political crisis for most vsoft with a political solution as climate change progress is there some people who are in places that they're just going to have to made. there is no recognition about what we're ready facing the street. oh, now j 0 with ah, you're watching, i'll be 0. a reminder of our top stories this hour. you as president joe biden has launched a scathing attack on his predecessor, donald trump, and those republicans who support him. he called them extremists and said they pose

a threat to the very foundations of the united states. the head of the u. n. is nuclear watchdog has warned that the physical integrity of europe's largest nuclear power plant has been violated because of the worn ukraine fail, grossi and his team finally got a chance to inspect this up. what he's, she, a plant on thursday southern pakistan is bracing for even more floods as a surge of water heads down the induced river record monsoon rains and melting glaciers have triggered the worst flooding. disasters in pakistan's history is now thought that a 3rd of the country is covered by flood water. that's an area the size of the united kingdom. more than a 1000000 homes have been destroyed or badly damaged so far more than 1200 people have been confirmed debt. and another 6000000 are in desperate need of help. the long term effects are set to be bleak, 80 percent of the countries livestock had been killed and a huge amount of crops had been wiped away. same bus robbie has this update from

southern pockets on send province. well, we've been talking for days about flood water is coming from the north and other areas and coming down towards saying that we, we found where those waters have been stopped. people in this town of marian w district have been using sand and dirt, dirt at this point of time in the floods taking on a premium role and trying to hold back to flood waters. people are trucking in san filling up sandbags and warning people to stay away from these mud walls that have been built around the town to try to keep the water out of the town out from keep it from pouring into the town. know where i'm standing at street level is about 5 or 6 feet below the water line. let me show you where that is. you see the mud wall there behind me. and if you come up here, this is where the water level is and it goes on for a great distance. you can see everything is submerged. there are bits of road there, a little high enough for people to be able to walk,

to get to where they need to go into the distance, our residential areas, our villages, our shops are people's homes and businesses. and there are rescue operations happening here. there are police and emergency vehicles or military vehicles in boats, and what they are doing is trying to shout out where they can. they're taking boats into those areas to try to reach people that need help. just here, police are trying to call out to anyone in these buildings to see if anybody needs to be evacuated. this is still a very, very active seen. and this water is unknown how long it will be standing here. but what people are hoping is that these, the sandbags, these dirt embankments, these make shift dams that have been built by the people that live here. the hope is that this will be enough to keep the water at bay until it dries up until it's pumped out. and people are being warned to stay away because the threat of more water coming the threat of an eminent breach and this water flowing through into

the town and further on is still very real. the chinese city of chang do is in lockdown after reporting $157.00 locally transmitted cases of cobra. in 1900 millions of residents are being tested. the lockdown will initially last for 4 days, but may be extended chain. due is the largest chinese city to go into lockdown since shanghai lifted his restrictions in may. china has adopted a so called 0 cobra policy in recent months. catherine bennett is chair and epidemiology a deacon university's institute for health transformation in melbourne. she joined us on skype from there. good to have you with this, catherine. why does china keep hearing to the 0 covered policy? and what is the in game here? well, i think that is the key question. if you're holding it out, trying to keep that virus at bay, we know that and in china knows that you cannot continue to keep a cron outside the borders. this is a very infectious version of the virus. it's also persisting and other parts of the

world. even that have seen previous large waves because of its evening sky ability . so if you're going into this, continuing waves of coven 0 approach implies that you are waiting for something to change. and you're trying to stay safe until you can achieve that. and i think that's got to do with the that's got to do with the vaccine program. they have a number of m, r n, a vaccines under development that promise beta protection from severe illness. and we know that they are in trial phase, but they don't yet have those m r and a vaccines ready to roll out. so i suspect this is trying to keep the virus at bay until they reach that point. but you know, the effort to go into with hundreds of cases, but 21000000 people in quite serious lockdown is not going to be sustainable long term capital. do you think that china will continue to

in effect, go into these lock downs? as long as the vaccine program isn't completely ramped up? look, i suspect. so i think some people are questioning whether it'll stop even after the vaccine program rolls out. it will depend on the effectiveness of the vaccine. and there is this window you have to go through. we saw it here in australia where we had high vaccination rates, but you still had a high infection rates with the i'm a con variant, a cause it was immune escape. and so, while you might be protected from severe illness and out hospitalizations are very much reduced when the virus was finally allowed to be, you know, on the go out of that wall circulating in the wider community. it didn't have the same impact. hannah hospitals, as we saw at a c's in the previous years. so china is still in that difficult situation where if they don't have great effectiveness against the bi illness, with all micron with the current vaccines that have rolled out, that they are looking to protect the health system and to stop this turning into an

even bigger crisis so that's the challenge. question is whether you can hold the virus at bay long enough and have a fast enough vaccine roll at 2 to not say days rolling, large scale locked hands, continue. you don't. ching do is the largest chinese city to go into lockdown since shanghai lifted its restrictions in may. do you expect catherine, that this lockdown will be extended beyond its initial period based on, on what we've seen thus far? or how things have played out before in china? is, is this gonna be extended more than just the initial 4 day period? well, that would be the worry. it's how in previous lockdown there was a heavy focus on testing to try and understand where the virus was in those populations. and whether it, it was looking contained to go into it for 4 days when that's about the innovation period of on the chrome. and we're looking at this is a, b i 5 wave you wouldn't know whether you had it contained. so for those things very

short for a major lockdown unless there's a massive campaign to do the testing and reassure the health authorities that this isn't actually the trick that they are thinking. so maybe this is an early assessment phase. i don't think we'll know that for a couple of days what they finding and whether or not this will then continue into a period where the locked in itself is part of the transmission control strategy. all right, catherine bennett, chair. and after the me r g, a deacon university's institute for health transformation, thanks so much for joining us. thank you. china has reacted with fury after you and report that a crack down on mostly muslim ethnic groups in the changing region may amount to crimes against humanity. many wiggers who fled to turkey fear the report will be ignored by the international community. katya lopez, her the on reports. this shopping is stumble, has been a refuge for mac harem, since she and her daughter left north was china 5 years ago. her husband and 2

other children were left behind and ching young. she hasn't heard from them since she fears a you and report that condemns china's treatment of wiggers and other muslim minorities will largely go ignored. shame that best sell all that. oh, it's been 5 years of as living hair. china has killed our young people and left our children orphaned. the united nations isn't doing enough. michelle, that she'll let release the report. 13 minutes before her term as you and human rights chief ended. it found that weavers and other mostly muslim groups and detention camps have been subjected to torture, including force, medical treatment, and sexual and gender based violence would could have known though us any. this is not a case of turks away gisele muslims, or jose, this is the case of humanity. we're not calling for china to stop just because the wages of any person with the hash. and brian must know that this is wrong. the

episode of the homes of china has denied any abuses. it says is policies inching young fight what it calls terrorism and provides a wiggers with better economic opportunities. each other with the so called assessment is orchestrated and produced by the u. s. and some western forces and is completely illegal and void by just fable oh, countless stories of torture and separation are shared within the weaker community of do salaam says he hasn't heard from his brother in 5 years. and the more of a bill, a bit of this report should have come out early. hello, this isn't something that can be put on hold when a group is being destroyed, it's not appropriate for humanity just to watch for a couple of years in the report recommends the chinese government take steps to release. weaker is detained in training centers. prisons or detention facilities. the weaker community hopes for the same, but fears their course will largely be ignored at home and abroad. katya little

miss of the young al jazeera. it's the last day of campaigning for chillies. constitutional referendum, which will be held on sunday. the promise to re draft the constitution followed violent protests against inequality in 2019. the final version of the new document was written by especially elected assembly and presented in july it insurance gender equality. indigenous rights and environmental protections are latin america, editor lucille newman has more what we are at the final campaign rally on the julian. so plan to hold. 2 against the new draft constitution or there are a tassel reject, devote there are only a few 100 people here very, very few. indeed, there are in use the aspect no waiving the gillian flag and vowing to do everything in their power to stop to me from having the constitution which they believe is too radical. restrictive to vague and which one does stabilize the economy,

particularly as well as chillies, political system now and the other side of town at this hour. there are tens of thousands of others. we plan to approve the new constitution. they are very, very gregarious. they sound very confident, they say that this new constitution will give julie what it has always needed, and that is a more just society where the state guarantees, health, education, decent attention, schooling, and much, much more effective. this would be the 1st constitution in the world that specifically recognizes the problems of climate change and the need to protect the environment. some very, very strict articles and that's what the people here say goes too far, that it would make it difficult for minors. and for investment in this country other other than that though, there is, there are a lot of doubts about the details. the devil as they say is in the details. so both people on the approve and the rejects side have said that if this constitution goes through more changes have would have to be made. perhaps the most interesting thing

of all is that this will be the 1st, next and ever where it will be mandatory for everybody to vote, including including people who had not previously registered. that means millions of young people will go to the polls for the 1st time, and it's still unclear. just wouldn't how that will go. so far, the polls indicate that the majority of children of chilion are going to reject this constitution as it stands now. and are asking for to do it for the country to start all over again and rewrite a new constitution, which would be at least in theory, ready in a year's time. but if it does, when, if the approval high does, when you only by a very, very small margin. again, it is still too close to call at this point. but we'll have to see what those millions are telling to never voted before i will decide when to go to the polls on sunday. serena williams, his retirement is on hold after she won her 2nd stray tennis match at the us open.

the 40 year old is expected to hang up her record at the end of the tournament. david stokes has more. oh really? yeah. serina williams will tap what could easily have been the last batch of her career. she is $123.00 grand slams, but it's currently ranked outside the top $600.00. the american was up against the world number 2, and that come to vote, but produce some trademark shops to make her mark and the acne set. she eventually took it on a toy break and the record crowd of maybe $30000.00 started to believe me . things were laquata though, when it was stony, an opponent back in the 2nd set, comfortably taking it 6 games to to but somehow serena found a higher level in the decider against a player 14 years her junior. she shared the fighting spirit that's delivered so much success since she turned pro is a 14 year old in 1995. and if the 2 hours 27 minutes from

court, she wanted 6 to to progress around 3 is the 1st time in over year that serena has posted back to back wins. this still little let me will see the mecca to see you know, in a 2nd i thought, oh my goodness. i did my best effort to this to me. and so really i just wanted to just keep trying and see what, what i can do and just do my best. and i was really excited to be honest. friends with that ticket to new york were able to watch it. big screens outside happy that the serena show will go on for now at least it was excellent. excellent. i'm so she's done it before and she can do it again and i think she's really proving to hear that she still got it. you know,

this is a pretty racist country. i think so really about 9 was, oh, these people sharing were her before the tournament. not many gave serena a chance of winning record equaling 24 grand slam. but now the perfect hollywood ending might just be on the cards mixed up, she faces the unseated australian. i let him none of the folks how to 0. ah, i'm how much of room and do with the headlines on al jazeera us president joe biden has launched a scathing attack on his predecessor, donald trump, and those republicans who support him. he called them extremists and said they pose a threat to the very foundations, the united.