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until mccrae, this is al jazeera alive from doha also coming up. and you can have plans in the middle of a voice on you in experts carry out their 1st inspection of this operation nuclear facility. despite shelling nearby on the lock down the chinese city of ching, to impose this new cove at 19 restrictions, including mass testing to try and contain the latest outbreak and uncharted waters . for india, it sits to water, its 1st home built aircraft carrier, as it tries to catch up with regional rival china. 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 back has posed a threat to the very foundations of the united states. he said that equality and

democracy under assault across the us, maggie republic is do not respect the constitution. they do not believe in the rule of law. they do not recognize the will of the people refuse except the results of a free election. and they're working right now as i speak in state after state, to give power to the side elections in america, the partisans and cronies. empowering the election deniers to undermine democracy itself. by good forces are determined to take this country backwards. more now on the speech from our white house correspondent kimberly held kit. 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 speech is the, is this all for mag of 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 the head of the u ins. atomic watchdog has warned that the physical integrity of europe's largest nuclear power plant has been violated. raphael cross, he and his team have finally been able to inspect this operation complex and ukraine. keven moscow have accused each other if attacking the plant and risking nuclear catastrophe. teresa bar reports from ukraine's capital aah! renew fighting around the sub. what is your nuclear power plant in the city of in order that did not prevent the un nuclear watchdog team from crossing the fraud lines? ah, in spite of the dangers,

the team led by the international atomic energy director ref, i live at osi moved ahead to begin the much 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 sent a sabotage, steam to try to recover europe's largest nuclear power plant that's been under russian control since march. first of all, rosen malott a 6th 20 am 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. the 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 any time soon. there is how i'll defeat active. the chinese city of ching do is and locked down after reporting $157.00 locally transmitted cases of covert. 19 millions of residents are being tested. the lockdown will last 4 days, but may be extended. ching,

to is the largest city to go into lockdown since shanghai lifted its restrictions in may. patrick fork has more from beijing lockdown and chung do as significant. not just because the fact that it's a massive city, it's a city of 21000000 people. the capital of citron province, it is in fact the largest city to go under a locked and since a shanghai went under a bruising 2 month long locked down earlier this year. but also because jim do is a key manufacturing hub home to lots of automakers and tech companies and accounts for 1.7 percent of china's g d p. so this is going to have very serious ramifications for china's economy. and it's coming after just a $157.00 cases were reported there. there's going to be 4 days of math testing to go along with this locked down, but authorities haven't said how long it's going to last for. meanwhile, sions and has put under semi locked down several key districts, including bow on and nan, shot districts, nan char, home to 10 cent,

as well as the drone maker, d j i. our entertainment venues are shut altogether in. restaurant dining has been limited. there's also going to be tighter health checks, their notably factory activity contracts for the 1st time in 3 months in august and another sign of the impact that covered curves as having on china. but the latest development showed that policymakers absolutely want to stick to this 0 covert approach. catherine bennett is cheer and if a demila g, a deacon university's institute for health transformation and melvin, she says china's 0 covert policy is not sustainable. china nano is that you cannot continue to cape um, a kron outside the borders. this is a very infectious, a version of the virus. it's also persisting in other parts of the world, even that have the same previous lodge waves because of its evening skype ability. so if you're going into this, continuing waves of coven 0 approach implies that you are waiting for something to

change, and that you're trying to stay safe until you can achieve that. and i think that's got to do with that that's got to do with the vaccine program there. they have a number of m, r n, a vaccines under development that promise beta protection from severe illness. and we know that they're 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're the effort to go into with hundreds of cases that 21000000 people in quite serious lockdown is not going to be sustainable long term. in previous last down 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. so to go into it for days when that's about the incubation period of on the chrome. and we're looking at, this is a, be a 5 wave. you wouldn't get know whether you had it contained. so for those things

very short for a major lockdown unless is a massive campaign to do the testing and reassure the health authorities that this isn't actually the threat that they are thinking. so maybe this is an early assessment phase. it's the last day of campaigning for chili's constitutional referendum, which will be held on sunday. the promised to re draft. the document followed violent protests against equality in 2019. the final version was written by especially elected assembly and presented in july a latin america editor lucille newman has more when we are on the final campaign rally on the line to vote. 2 against the new draft constitution or their re travel reject vote. there are only a few 100 people here very, very few. indeed, there are in the aspect waiving the chilean flag and vowing to do everything in their power to stop to lead from having

a constitution which they believe is too radical to restrictive to vague. and which one does stabilize the economy, particularly as well as, til is political system. now, on the other side of town at this hour, there are tens of thousands of other twin planned to approve the new constitution. they are very, very gregarious. they sound very confident, they say that this new constitution will give chile what it has always needed, and that is a more just society where the state guarantees, health, education, decent mentioned schooling, and much, much more effective. this would be the 1st constitution in the world that the civically recognizes the problems of climate change and the need to protect the environment with 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 reject side

had 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 have 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 financing are going to reject this constitution as it stands now and are asking for to do 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 it will be 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 of children who never voted before will

decide when to go to the polls on sunday. police in chile has confronted high school students protesting in the capital santiago. oh wow, the demonstrate is wants the government to improve the conditions at public schools that also demanding access to affordable, higher education. there's still a hit on al jazeera and mexico, as president delivers his state of the union speech. andries manuel of his blood or remains popular despite a series of setbacks. ah, the journey has begun. the fee for world cup is on its way to castle book. your travel package to death. hello, the weather remains slightly hot and sunny across much of the middle east. no great surprise is here, largely clear skies them wanted to shout still plaguing southern parts of the

arabian peninsula down toward sea, southern end of the red sea, but elsewhere she can see clear sunshine light winds as well. 40 celsius here in ha, a 40 therefore de, by getting up to the 40 still in damascus element, still very much on the warm side, but those temperatures should ease off a touch as we go on through the next few days, friday into sas day, a similar pitch going up one or 2 showers as a said around the solomon of the red sea. johnny the shows that we have a cross central part of africa. big downpours once again into nigeria. it's my central nigeria, western nigeria pushing over towards the can a far so seeing the wettest weather over the next hour. so the, the monster writes have really packed up once again now and pushing over to was shirley i pushing towards guinea more heavy showers, longest spells of rain coming through here with the possibility of some localized flooding. that is also the case to enter the democratic republic of congo. wanted to show us into that eastern side of tans and there may be into a kenny,

albert biologic, stacy roy, southern africa generate ry later what we could see some rain. the cape town cats are airway official airline of the journey, debating the issues of the day from use as always in criminalized around the boundaries of rights under number that people are family and their committee member cornell online and jewel voice this minute to eat. don't believe in dialogue, political crisis from as vsoft with the political assembly as climate change progress is there some people who are places that they're just going to have to make? there is no recognition about what we're ready facing the street. oh, now g 0. ah ah,

you're watching l g 0 reminder of our top stories. the south u. s. president joe biden has accused his predecessor, donald trump, and the republicans who support him of threatening democracy. he won't that they wanted to take the country backwards and urged vote as to reject what he calls extremism. the head of the u. n. z nuclear watchdog has warmed that the physical integrity of europe's launches. nuclear power plot has been violated because of the war, new crime, raphael grossey at his tain, finally, got a chance to inspect this upper ratio plans on thursday. the chinese city of chic do isn't locked down after reporting $157.00 locally transmitted cases of covered 19 millions of residents. a being tested. the lockdown will initially last for 4 days, but may be extended. china has adopted a so called 0 carpet policy in recent months. india is commissioning its

1st home, built a aircraft carrier ins, for crowned prime minister. noreen tremonti is present at the ceremony kashi. this commissioning is the combination of 17 years of construction and tests to enlarge the countries naval fleet, making it one of the few countries able to design and commission such carriers of putney metallic joins us live from new tele festival. how big a deal of this? how big a deal is this for india? now this is a big milestone boat, strategically and symbolically. now i must be grant, which is the name of this aircraft carrier, means powerful or grave. and that is the symbol and bothersome over here. it took about 17 years to build and for test, it costs about $2.00 and a half $1000000000.00. and most of the work from designing to construction to

testing has been done domestically. a lot of the components were also procured locally. and so this inner india is now a member of a right of a very small and a neat club of nations that have been able to build a warship off this kind domestically. and that is the message that the government is really horning in on. the indian government has been promoting this idea of making india is says reliant nation. it is a matter of big pride for the government and as the prime minister commissions ins, vic run, that is the message he is focusing on. and as we've seen, china's recently had a great a presence in the area. so what does that mean in regards to that somewhat tense relationship? this is being seen as a way to catch up with china. be grant is a big war ship. it is the 2nd aircraft carrier at c, r with india to day,

and is being seen as a potent acid for in the us navy. but in terms of its capacity and capabilities. specifically, it has the capacity for about 1600 crew members and about 30 aircraft. china has also been expanding its presence at sea pretty aggressively, and that has been concerning india recently. there has been a chinese ship that has docked in sri lanka. china says that is erasure arissa ship, but in got believes that that ship was actually concerned because it says that that ship could track it's misses. in june, our china also commissioned in indigenous li bird aircraft carrier, which is according to many experts bigger and has more capacity and capabilities then ins. victrum within the navy also has big ambitions. it has been pushing for another aircraft carrier. this would be the 3rd one to join the other 2,

including ins, vikram, which has been commission today. poverty matalin and you deli, for us. thank you. focused on southern send, the provinces pricing for more flogs for rushing rivers in the north record, monsoon, ryans and mountain glaciers have triggered to the countries worst flooding disaster . so best ravi reports from me, hon. dowdy district where people are trying to save their town from suffering the same fight as so many others. i feel the bags hold back the flood, or risk losing everything. where the road disappears into deep water. there is a desperate race against time. every one must help and every back counts. mere is on the front line of pakistan's flood crisis. a city in a fight for survival. within a few days residence built a wall of mud and sandbags around their town to keep the water out. i've got to get

bonded to anybody to do more water comes, then there will be a threat. but for now the waterfall has stopped. and if at some point there is another breach, that would be a risk, but for now, the city is safe, but it was the optimism in the face of mounting odds part of the job. but some of the cities residents blamed the local government for being slow to act was so per month. there is a lot of confusion here. they only want us to leave when there was a breach. they should have warned people sooner. they're telling us at a time when people can't go anywhere, the roads have already been blocked. look at close to waters come look at close, the waters come, but i fear of even more flooding has forced some to walk out where they can. and where it is too deep search and rescue operations are also underway. but many families remain perilously close to a growing threat. this is a town that is almost completely surrounded by flight waters. local officials tell

us that 80 percent of the 1000000 people who live here have already evacuated. those that have stayed behind or either waiting to see what happens, or they are working around the clock to make sure that this mud wall does not breach. because this must be sandbags. these are the only things that are standing between this town being saved or being completely overwhelmed by flood waters that are everywhere. compounding matters a relief operation, still struggling to get off the ground towns people surrounded a rescue vehicle, demanding food. but there was none to give empty handed and angry. they say they don't know what is worse, not having enough to eat. oh, the ominous rising water at their doorstep. zane basra, the l. g 0 mer down to district, send the pakistan. the 3 days of morning have been declared in iraq, southern city of basra, following violence between the shiite rival armed groups. 4 people were killed and

10 others wounded on thursday. madame de y, he'd reports from baghdad. ah, i knew this is the aftermath of fighting between shad groups in the center of basra . i militants affiliated, 2 influential lead that looked at a sudden exchange. it fired with a splinter group backed by iran. both sides suffered casualties on bills. i think you know, that even at night on people started to gather here are your more intense gunfire went on chicken machine, guns, 80 aircraft weapons, and no one, even the children was screaming me. most people were afraid in the homes are cause break apart. but all the houses he were impacted by gunfire. that's all i did. i mean, there was firing, woke up, terrified by me. the area here had become a frontline. what you got is our witness. boshra turned into more so like this car

was impacted it burned this one broke apart. oh, dear shopped, groaned even our homes were hit, our children kept screaming. hot bustler is iraq's main oil producing harbor and this escalation in violence, fullest fighting in baghdad. on monday, the political crises pitts followers of the powerful shad political leader looked at a souther against mostly iran aligned parties and parliamentary groups. others supporters emerged as the biggest party in parliament in elections in october, but weren't able to form a government. you like, has had a caretaker government ever since in baghdad, the supreme court has postponed rolling on a petition wide to buy so that his movement until next wednesday, it demands the dissolution of parliament an early elections. but this agreement between the political rivals goes beyond that man with abdougla had al jazeera but

that a man has been detained after pointing a gun at argentina's vice president. the incident happened when christina fernandez kitchener stepped out of her car. she dr. as soon as she saw the pistol and the man was grabbed by some of her supporters, cochin as backers have been gathering outside her home ever since prosecutors called for her to be jailed and connection with a corruption case. the dates back to her time as president mexico, as president has delivered his 4th state of the union address on dress. manuel lopez abra door is still popular, even though inflation is at a 21 year high. there's also an increase in drug related violence. these proposed reforms to the national guard, including putting the units under the control of the army on while ra paula has more from mexico city, mexican president. i'm this manuel lopez over there. the order delivered his 4th

state of the nation address, eager to town more than a dozen policy advances, everything from improved access to health care and education, to job creation, and even reducing violence nationwide. now, despite worsening inflation in the country, a sluggish economy, and what many a perceived to be in an inadequate response to the pandemic. the president still enjoys an approval rating of about 60 percent. lot of that has to do with an ongoing rhetoric that he's maintained since the beginning of his presidency, that his government is one that is trying to improve the livelihoods of the poorest citizens of the country. take a listen. they may, he generally mean loudly, kia mexico is no longer dominated by an oligarchy. instead, there now exists a democratic government whose priorities the poor, corruption, is not tolerated, nor is there impunity for anybody. in one place that president lopez over the board has lost ground is on the question of violence. the president strategy to pacify the country has been one that includes more boots on the ground. critic say that

further militarization of mexico security forces in the long term is not a solution to worsening violence. members of liberia's opposition and civil society activists, the calling for protests on friday against what they call endemic corruption and president george was administration. the former football star who took office and 2015 denies any wrongdoing. nicholas hawk has more from the capital monrovia on a rented lot at the edge of liberia's capital. is a widower talking to his deceased wife. why did you have to die? he asked, who was responsible for your death, was questions that remain unanswered. gift you, lama was known to be gifted a mandela, washington, fellow. she was considered a rising star of the administration working in the audit department of the library revenue authority. in 202052 other colleagues discovered that $25000000.00 in public funds had been diverted to the accounts of senior government officials.

shortly after all 3 were found, dead. one fell off his balcony. gifts and a colleague were found, strangled, in their car. a state investigation ruled their death as accidents. devil give was est sponsor murder. because for even the report from the liberal government stating that my west sat in got down from suffolk usual, nobody can deliver why i would not risk auntie, who is responsible for the murder of my web in a double form, and they will find obese. they will have no rest gift you was killed because she was investigating government corruption, says human rights activist bungalow level corruption, elaborate as center were dead under burden george ross regime. the personal eyebrows, john inflows, yet should extend that if thou, by law, that a bred the one this legs merchandise should be represented to pass it without

thinking for the, for the people the dog. most often the i bribed did to brought envelopes to pass by laws. in august 3, senior figures of whereas government were suspended after the u. s. treasury imposed sanctions against them. the president's chief of staff is accused of corruption and directing warlords to threaten political rivals. the managing director of the port authorities accused of funnelling money into private accounts and the state solicitor general is accused of shielding, suspected criminals, blocking investigations into government corruption. so we reached out to those admin sanctions as well as government ministers. but none of them were willing to be interviewed. it seems that when it comes to corruption, there is a culture of fear and of silence, with people fearing the consequences of telling the truth, afraid of retribution and of being killed. but for gift his husband,

in the face of threats and intimidation, there is courage. fear is no longer an option. nicholas hawk al jazeera monrovia, liberia, the chairman of russia's 2nd largest oil company has died after falling from a hospital window according to russian media reports. revel malkin off was being treated at a clinic and moscow look oil chairman is one of several high level russian executives who have died in the last year in july, a shipping ceo with ties to the site energy company, guess problem was found shot did in his swimming pool. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. u. s. president joe biden has launched a scathing attack on his predecessor and those republicans who support him. he said don.