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a major counter offensive by ukraine in harkey. ah, i'm in room, this is al. did your alive from doha also coming up the crown of the united kingdom of great britain, the northern ireland is soley and rightfully come to the prince charles philip. off of george king charles the 3rd is formerly proclaimed as britons oldest, new monarch, and a ceremony televised for the 1st time sweden heads to the poles where the country's 1st female prime minister is up against the rising ripening. plus he gets well, number one, he gets round, tick wins her 3rd grand slam title had the u. s. she just

rushes grip on northeastern ukraine appears to be weakening as ukrainian forces claim. rapid gains. president vladimir zalinski says around 2000 square kilometers of territory has been retaken since a counter offensive was launched earlier this month. now, russian officials in the harkey region are urging all residents to evacuate. the areas in red had been under moscow's control. but in the last 24 hours, key has captured a number of settlements. it retake in the city of coupons, near harkey and forces are closing in on nearby ism coupons. as important as it lies on russian supply routes to the dumbass. ukrainian special forces have released images of their soldiers inside the city. keefe says significant gains are also being made in the south. in response to the advance, russia has said its forces are regrouping. but a pro russian separatist leader admits fighting has been difficult. gabriel elizondo has more from keith it's an ambitious ukrainian military offensive in the northeast. that is retaking land in towns occupied by russia military. that is now

in retreat by saturday night and cleans had reached a zoom about a 120 kilometers from southeast and the regional capital hot keep city leveled over a, you know, brought bottom of the reconnaissance group. and the special forces are already here and assume it's lori to ukraine, of the soldier said, is soon home to a major rail line is strategically important. and was a russian military strong hold for months? no more. russian forces in the city fled as ukrainians closed in video showed ukrainians also recapturing copy on another key supply line city and and by clear retaken by the ukrainians. a day before, a top commander raised the flag as a sign of victory to day where completing the liberation of balak lea, a because big city in our offensive annual funding, i'm sure this is not de la city,

but the war has taken its toll up in the recaptured town of graco, their destruction can be seen everywhere. lisa, there are a lot of damage. buildings in this village is almost completely destroyed upon the rush of service men occupied it referred house there, a huge garbage pile. some place you live to those lives behind ammunition. bully from the other things are used to rule the world bank estimates. ukraine will need $349000000000.00 in aid just to rebuild. by saturday night, the russian defense ministry admitted to withdrawing their troops from ki towns in the northeast, but said it was an operational regrouping. but many people on pro russian telegram channels or calling it something else, a defeat, and one high profile russian military analysts said that their troops are now in an operational crisis and that the ukrainians have seized the initiative. in this war,

gabriel's hondo al jazeera keith ukrainian president volota moore's zalinski says the approaching winter could be a turning point for reclaiming territories from russian troops. there are 90 days ahead, which will decide more than 30 years of ukraine's independence. 90 days will decide mold and all the years of the existence of the european union winter will determine our future. and what the risks are. harlan ullman is a military expert and a former advisor to the u. s. defense department. he says, ukraine has undoubtedly managed to make rapid gains in the northeast. this is clearly a tactical victory for ukraine. what has been extraordinary and people will study this forever for a long time as to how ukraine has done so. well, militarily, i emphasize this is tactical. this is still a strategic stalemate. russia is incapable of dominating ukraine, and ukraine is not capable of seizing back all the territories and don boss in

crimea that russian occupies so while this is certainly a tactical victory, and i think ukrainians will probably prevail in terrace on the question is, will there be a negotiated piece, that is the issue. russia cannot process with winter coming, and possibly climate change may make the winter far more miles. both sides will restock their ordinance and their people. will this be a huge stalemate that will just continue to destroy ukraine, or will there be a decisive action? i don't think so. what we need to do is to look how we can end the war on terms favorable, certainly to ukraine, and give russia an exit strategy that is acceptable. that becomes the issue. otherwise, this is world war one, not with trench warfare, but with attrition warfare. that is going to be devastatingly deadly to all parties, ukraine and russia. ah,

it was a ceremony rooted in centuries old tradition. but for the 1st time in history, the british public and the world saw the event that makes a monarch live on television. charles, the 3rd was officially proclaimed as britons new king. and accession council met at saint james's palace in london to make the proclamation, holborn, and reports from london. oh, with a balcony, it's a james. his palace to a fanfare of trumpets and in front of expectant crowds, the heralds proclaimed the accession. oh, the crown of the united kingdom of great britain, the northern ireland is solely and rightfully come to the prince child. philip offered george, become our only lawful and right foot liege lord charles,

the 3rd 3 chance res majesty the king. ha, ha ha ha ha pip. minutes earlier, the extension ceremony itself had been somber and administrative, but no less momentous. in the front row, 6 former british prime ministers stood shoulder to shoulder. this gathering comprises the king's privy council, his senior political advisors, and the new king still mourning the loss of his mother solemnly accepted the mantle of monarchy. my mother's reign was unequalled in its duration. it's dedication and devotion, even as we grieve, we give thanks for this most faithful light. i am deeply aware of this great inheritance and the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty,

which have now passed to me. the orders or council were read out one by one, the new king giving his approval to each approved and then with a signature and a bow, the king was formerly proclaimed. yes, correct century is our role proclamation hardly changed since the middle ages. never before brought kathy on the walls of the pallet serves to emphasize the stability and continuity of the royal line. queen elizabeth's reign is over. can charles stepped seamlessly into the roll of head of state? as protocol dictates, heralds were dispatched to the city of london to take news of the proclamation there for she a spectacle. there are very few that can rival the grandeur and ceremonial that surrounds the british royalty. elaborate titles, protocols and robes kept their roots in medieval pageantry, the and all the while the

crowds of well wishes and mourners continued to gather from near and far. i'm here to see haitian history, which may not be in our lifetimes, from green to kink. you will not get to see that again because the next one i want to be all men. so it's a memorable time to be on occasion. like the last few days. been so hard to take you all in. so yeah, i think we just wanted to come down here to show and help make those next steps into having a king pinch in the middle of last year. i was going to change everything. change in how long the roll family and everything a process husband didn't. i think one of those fundamental changes was visible in the parliament gathering for a ras saturday session. the prime minister and other party leaders renewing and updating that oath of allegiance, pledging their loyalty to the king. returning to buckingham palace,

there is much for the new king to do. the official period of morning continues. a state funeral awaits a coronation. the fallen and the line of succession is maintained full brennan, al jazeera central london jane charles's 2 sons and their wives came together to look at the tributes and flowers left for their grandmother outside windsor castle . the 4 royal spend more than 30 minutes. speaking to members of the public, it's the 1st time the 2 couples had been seen together since harry and megan left their royal duties and moved to the us. our diplomatic editor james bays was at buckingham palace earlier. he has more on what to expect in the days ahead. we have a lot more information that's coming in the last few hours of exactly what's gonna happen between now and the funeral, which the date has been confirmed. i think we will guessed it was going to be monday, the 19th of september. that's not this coming monday, the monday after. but, but in that time, a lot of things that are going to take place. king charles is here in london. he'll

be meeting the secretary general of the commonwealth here in london on sunday, clearly as the head of the commonwealth. that's one of the most important roles. he has that 56 nations that he is the head off. after that, we will have the king and the queen consort here in london, going to the house of commons and the house of lords addressing both of those chambers with a speech from king charles and then it's off to scotland. and we know, at the same time the coffin of queen elizabeth will be in scotland and there'll be members of the public able to pay their respects still ahead on al jazeera, with $1.00 of the longest reigns in history and wealth to match. we look at the vast fortune of the late queen elizabeth the 2nd and thailand's heavy monsoon rains, if washed down thousands of snakes and there invading people's homes.

ah, hello, the weather's sloshy set fair across the middle east. stay with the coming days more, very hot sunshine, not too much wet weather around a little cloud, just around southern parts of the peninsula, southern end of the red sea. seeing some showers you can see how they just run up towards that far, southwest of saudi arabia, temperatures here in dar 41 degrees celsius, a good deal hotter still for a good part of iraq, q weight temperature. still getting up into the mid forties here. similar pictures he go on 3 monday. notice it does warm up further for doha. humidity goes down, the temperature comes up still in the larvae side with terms of that heat across that eastern side of the mediterranean, levant staying very warm. in date of failure, walked across north africa, was still seeing some very high temperatures, particularly up towards the northwest. quite

a rush of showers through central africa nigeria, seeing some very heavy rain and on the easterly waist, which continued to post their way further westward, pushing over to ward. so synagogue to was the gambia over the next day or so joining up with a heavy showers that we have across the democratic republic of congo. a few showers there at the eastern parts of kenya. eastern areas of tanza near some went by the, to just around the southern cape, on sunday, grassy pushing up towards the eastern side of south africa. ah, in the year 127180. the young italian merchant set out on an extraordinary journey . marco polo followed the sucrose designer to the heart of the empire. retracing his steps, how a modern day explorer discovers a last words and a reminder of what and whose lives history. marco,

on al jazeera lou. ah, you're watching out 0 reminder of our top stories. the salad ukrainian forces are regaining territory from russia in the northeast. keith now controls the eastern city of coupons. near far, keith, the president says ukrainian troops have reclaimed 2000 square kilometers this month. king charles, the 3rd has been proclaimed the new sovereign of the okay, 2 days after the death of his mother, queen elizabeth the ceremony held at saint james's palace was broadcast, live on television for the 1st time. king charles's 2 sons and their wives came

together to look at the tributes and flowers left for their grandmother outside windsor castle. the queen's funeral will take place on september. the 19th at westminster at the british queen was one of the world's most famous women. she was also extremely wealthy with a huge property portfolio and an estimated personal fortune with hundreds of millions of dollars or a challenge has more during the tour. 2 the green la duncan, the brings are wears, each minted carnes themselves, and the queen kept one as a souvenir. she famously never carried cash. despite being the face of it throughout her long reign, my government will continue to work. queen elizabeth was one of britain's wealthiest women, a monarch landowner, property tycoon, collector and investor, with an estimated personal fortune of about $500000000.00. the queen and the monarch have a due role. one is the head of state in which everything is disclosed and therefore

all the financials are freely available to. she also had a role as a private individual and as a private individual, financial information is not necessarily to be disclosed to the public. her own wells came in part from her mother's estate properties including balmoral castle and scotland, a vast stamp collection artworks and beloved resources. i have to add one majesty the queen as monarch. she owned one of the biggest property portfolios in the u. k. the crown estate includes parks, shopping centers, offices, business and residential property, profits from the estate, which is an independent commercial business, got paid into the u. k. treasury, which in turn took 25 percent of the profits, and paid them to the queen. the seas called the sovereign grant. privately, she received money from another estates, the duchy of lancaster,

which has held entrust, the sovereign. it's worth an estimated $682000000.00. the queen started paying tax voluntarily on its income in 1992 in 2017 and investigation called the paradise papers found about $13000000.00 had been invested by the dutch . he legally off shore. in a caribbean tax haven. he did nothing wrong. it wasn't illegal, but most people for that all her investments when in britain and they were in blue chip companies and it did tanisha image of being whiter than white. it looked as though she was acting like a city fund manager. it's unlikely will ever really know how wealthy the british queen was with her wealth represented an outdated institution of monarchy for her support. as though she was a valuable asset worth the coins and notes. she appeared on re challenge how to 0

france the u. k. and germany say they have serious doubts about iran's intentions to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. one iranian negotiator has accused the you being partial. earlier this week, the humans nuclear watchdog published a report saying it could not verify whether to ron's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes. the international atomic energy agency said iran stockpiles of enriched uranium, have grown by more than 12 kilograms. thousands of supporters of former pockets on the prime minister in ron khan. i have attended a rally in good drawn walla. con is facing multiple legal battles, but he continues to demand new elections. he's been charged with criminal contempt and terrorism for threatening a judge who had ruled against one of his close age con, submitted a document to a court on wednesday, expressing deep regrets. over his remarks, the un secretary general says he's never seen climate carnage on his largest scale is what he witnessed in pakistan. antonio cherishes and send the province to assess

the devastation caused by the worst flooding in decades. same as rob reports from lark on. when the un secretary general comes to town, it usually means things aren't going well, but they may get better. and tony gutierrez has made his position clear climate change caused the floods and pockets done a disaster forced upon poor countries by rich was. so it is time to settle the bill . the government and millions of people affected by floods, hope his visit helps lucid western per strings. what is your message to the people who are anchored firmly in the worst part of my message is that to the world as a responsibility to support them, the world must l. pakistan at the present moment for pakistan to be able to rescue all the people in those that emetic circumstances. the un delegation has heard 1st hand accounts from survivors and rescue teams of tragedy, suffering and growing desperation. the reins and the raging reverence may have

stopped for now, but that does not mean that all the danger is gone. what the pakistani government is trying to showcase here in this place where people have been taking refuge. want to illustrate the un secretary general that despite the fact that much of the dramatic weather is over, there still remain for the people that are living in or near. the flood zone will still remain immediate threat in their lives. nowhere more so than in since province were earlier this week there was a forced breach of the country's largest fresh water late settlements sacrificed to safe cities and remote villages is where people need the most help. i think people are slow to react because the problem is so big that it seems unapproachable. and the 1st thing is to just take a 1st step and get your team here, get your boots on the ground. volunteers say the government must cut through red tape. if be the does or not the, the process is not sped up fast enough,

then as gonna is gonna end up with a lot of people left with no help or no, the board no kind of relief, no kind of rehabilitation. international aid is arriving, but it quickly becomes clear that it is still not enough. metrics tell us people are suffering from malaria waterborne illnesses, serious infections that started a small words. they admit people need more help than they are able to give. zane basra, the l g 0 arcana. since august the heavy monsoon rains and flooding and thailand have caused an additional crisis, thousands of snakes are being forced out of their hiding places and are invading people, homes. emergency services in bangkok are being overwhelmed with calls one, every 15 minutes. tony chang reports and emergency cool rehab and the start of a well practice drill. but these firefighters aren't packing their houses these days. they're more accustomed to a different threat. this is the snake wrangler. a former police officer,

now head of the reptile rapid response team to day thereafter, a poultry poaching python digesting its meal at the scene of the crime. along with the getting up, we've got to be fast. he says the trap went work, it might get away. the 3 meet along serpent tries to escape, for there is no where to hide. after a short struggle it's bundled into a sack and taken away back at the station, they've got 2 rooms full of these slithery home invaders. conditions are overcrowded, but at least they get fed emergency services across bangkok are receiving 60000 snake related colds a year. twice as many as 5 years ago, dounia. the reason why we found more snakes in houses is because the aggressive expansion of the city about they don't have a choice because their natural habitat isn't there anymore. but there's one place in the heart of the city where they're welcome. they're coming out now with

a king cobra, which is the largest venomous snakes in the world, and by extension, one of the most dangerous. and this is one of the few places in the world where they milked them for their venom. this is the red cross snake font, a regional hub, the anti venom production. the extract the poison as part of a show to educate the public. although this center produces enough anti venom for most of southeast asia, there are some parts of the world where supplies a desperately short in south africa. and in india because they had on have the official and deep and on friday with her. and the beek family call company day stop producing because they lack of profit back at the station. the sneak wranglers practicing his skills affected over 19 years, but his advices don't try this at home. oh tony ching,

al jazeera fanco at least 18 people have been killed when a fuel tanker collided with a bus in mexico. the accident happened in the north and state of tom will leap us. both vehicles caught fire and the spilled fuel caused a huge explosion. officials say the death toll could rise as more remains are recovered. a magnitude 7.6 earthquake has struck eastern pop one who guinea, the u. s. geological survey says the quake was at a depth of 80 kilometers a soon army warning that was issued earlier has now been cancelled. swedes are heading to the polls on sunday. crime and immigration are the main issues. the country's 1st female leader is up against a moderate opposition block and a rising right wing hall. rece reports from stockholm. sweden's 1st female prime minister is trying to get her 1st election victory. hey magdalena, i'm the sions, social democrat lead coalition is not connecting the poles with an opposition block

led by the moderate party. but it's the rise of the ranked wing sweden. democrats that she's been warning vote as against. i am very concerned that this weekend democrats, there will be no 2nd largest party park and therefore hadn't very great influence on now, on the not a government and a nodded prime minister in salina. essentially the vote is a choice between under sions, left leaning coalition, and the opposition led by oath kristen of the moderate party. but even if they, when the moderates could be a minority in their own government, the difference between this election i'm the last one, is that the opposition moderate party is now willing to work with the right wing suite and democrats. the other difference is that the suite and democrats are ahead of the moderates in the polls. sweden democrat, leda, you me, august and is hoping to be of krista sons, king micah. his party has shot to popularity as a backlash against mass immigration into us. the sweden, democrats,

and not at all against immigration itself, but it has increased to such proportion. see that it has become absurd. hakim martin was born and bred in sweden, but still feels targeted. i always consider myself a part of the swedish society, but as somebody they look different, we always feel different. some things they are same might sound reasonable, but it's susie coded. it was really shoot quoted in underneath. there is racism. a major factor in this election is crime. sweden has the highest rights of gangland gunman is in europe with most of the perpetrators and victims being of immigrant background. even the ruling social democrats have made that link with policies to combat segregation. but policy might not be what the sides, the selection, yet some so called of the core issues are all to the advantage of the opposition is but the swedish people seem to like magdalena anderson, social democrats, want it to be a presidential election, a choice between her and of his dawson,

the moderates absolutely do not want that. many other issues will come into play, not least the scrapping of nuclear power just before an energy crisis. whoever wins will need to hold sweden's apparent turn for the worse if there to last more than 4 years poorest al jazeera stocker, poland iga, sri and tech has proven once again why she's the world's best female tennis player . she's won the us open to claim her 2nd grand slam title this year. and he richardson has all the details. i run her off at wimbledon in july on jabber was a need to go one better at the us open that you nicea in with a shot becoming the 1st african woman to win a grand slam title in her way was world number one, e g s we on tech, the polish player targeting the 3rd major championship of her career. so we on to like made a lightning quick start the match,

winning the 1st 3 games for the loss of just 2 points. so go from 3 attack. to hit that one. there were a few glimpses of the steely determination that his lot jabbers so much success. but it was, we on say we took the 1st said 6 to just 30 minutes. it was a lot of sense. i had one her 1st knowing finals in straight sets and tries. she might say jabber was struggling to hold her opponents momentum. javert fighting spirit flickered back into life at the right time. a match point saved a title, hopes alive. i break a match boy and saved, but it was 21 year olds we on tech who had the edge in the 2nd set tie, break,

closing out a match to become the 1st polish player to win the us open. but what does this mean to you? man to poland. ah, well i don't know. i gotta come back home and say, i'm pretty sure i can even hear. oh, thank you. i wanna things a me i really, i didn't make it easy for me, but she she deserves to win today. i don't like her very much right now, but it's okay. wow. it's we on 62nd grand slam title of the year, you get confirming her status. she's just the world's best female player most. and the richardson algae zeroes that she has one. ah.