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protest is in our media called the prime minister to step down after more than a 100 soldiers killed in fighting with azerbaijan. ah, and i'm to clog this is out there alive from doha. also coming up, sweden's prime minister announces her resignation after an unprecedented wind. by a far right block and sundays election. thousands of mourners pay their final tribute to queen elizabeth her body license state in western and the taliban rejects a u. s. plan to move billions of dollars in afghan assets to a new trust in switzer. ah, so we begin with protests in armenia. thousands of people voicing their anger against prime minister nicole passion, an after more than a 100 soldiers were killed in fighting with us by john protests. his court for

passion, yet to resign, their accusing him of betraying the country artery said he was willing to sign a peace deal to insure security. asked nan later said nothing had been made. official rules on tar up is wish me cup. i officially state that no paper has been signed. moreover, no paper is going to be signed. there is no talk about any paper. this information as a conspiracy to demoralize our soldiers standing at the border. or gabriel gavin, as a freelance journalist, covering the conflict between our media and as a by john and has more on what's been happening in yerevan. well, i think these are some of the largest protests that young man has seen in recent years. and you've got lots of people coming out turning up to paula building and chance going out, calling for the prime minister nichol finance resignation. but i think actually the number of people who have a solution, which is, you know, we need a different leader. we need a different government is actually very small. lots,

lots of people. certainly the ones i spoke to that didn't know what solution to this complex days. i mean, it has come under attack over the last few days, we've seen massive bombardments, huge evacuations of towns and cities along the border. and what people are really worried about as a repeats up to 2020 war where i mean, it was forced to basically give a whole lot of significant sway there. it's terrible of territory was inside as a beyond it's nationally recognize borders. armenia is asking a russian lead regional security for to intervene in the conflict more than 100000000 troops and 50 as a by selling the soldiers have been killed in 2 days of fighting funerals were held in as by john for some of it. soldiers, it is the worst violence war 2 years ago. and he disputed nicole car back region was killed 6500 people. as about john made significant gains in and around going to occur back in 2020 partly fighters from turkey. turkish president thrust type one has blamed armenia related clara total mon, this attitude will of course have consequences for armenia,

which not only does not fulfil the terms of the agreement that was signed after the war of now got no cut back, but also constantly displays an aggressive attitude, sweden's prime minister has announced she will resign after suffering defeat to a far right block in sunday's election with 99 percent of the vote counted magdalena anderson sent a left line to secured 173 seats in parliament. a social democratic party is the country's largest with around 30 percent of the vote, but moderates, sweden, democrats, christian democrats, and liberals are projected when 176 seats in the 149 c parliament. the sweden democrats reformed from a neo nazi party and only entered parliament in 2010 except when 20.6 percent of the votes, moderate leader over christus and will try and form a government. his right wing party got 900 point one percent. as here now from poorest mama, after less than a year in office, this was magdalena additions,

final press conference, sweden's 1st female prime minister, and don't see a hug button. it looks like the full right wing parties have received just 50 percent of the votes in the election and in parliament, they have a one or 2 seat advantage. it system majority, but it is a majority. so tomorrow i will be for ask for my dismissal as prime minister and the responsibility for the proceed going forward will now be with the speaker and the parliament again. the man waiting to take the mantel is the leader of the moderate party. oh, christa son being his center right coalition winning a parliamentary majority when the final votes from sunday's general election were counted on wednesday night. that you may be here until with some law. my messages that i want to unite, not divide, look at what unites, but also respect, real differences of opinion. i want to instill hope. also big problems can be solved. we've solved big problems before. and if other countries can and so can we?

there's nothing so bad and sweet and that it can't be fixed with all that is really good. but christensen's policy is no longer the biggest in his coalition. that place goes to the far right suite and democrats who took more than 20 percent of the vote for the 1st time. having been welcome into the establishment by the moderates. they had received the democrats as, as maturing somewhat and like, changing and how to some extent, the rhetoric, basically the country has not been able ready to have the influx of migration in a good way. there will be some changes in, for example, there will be further restriction of the migration policy, for example, suite and democrat leader me auctions, popularity has gone up, particularly among young people and women, and made sweden's rising violent crime rates and segregation. many swedes fear the influence of the far right and wants to hold on to the countries welcoming inclusive values. it's

a concern that makes the right wing coalition uneasy allies and of the new parliament's 1st meeting on september 27th of kristen's chances of becoming prime minister. being complicated by the fact that some junior members of his coalition don't warm the sweet and democrats to have any ministerial posts. but with the sweet and democrats being the biggest party in that coalition, there are some tough talks we have. in the next 2 weeks poll reese, i'll just era malemad. ah. thousands of mourners had begun to fire past the coffin of queen elizabeth the 2nd . she is lying in state at westminster. hope the next 4 days. these are life pictures. a q fi comes as long it's sneaking through london is morning wait to to pay their respects. metropolitan police says the queen's funeral enlightened state is the biggest security operation. it's faced. you have gotten taliban have

rejected a decision by the us to transfer 3 and a half 1000000000 dollars in frozen assets to a swiss based trust, which will then distribute the funds when needed enough. going to stop the power button of demanded the assets be sent directly to the afghan central bank from $9000000000.00 of afghanistan's foreign currency held by foreign banks, but froze enough to the taliban to cave a couple. last year. u. s. government is very criticism for holding back afghan funds in the country faces. widespread hunger and poverty president set a policy of enabling $3500000000.00 worth of atkins central bank reserves to be used for the benefit of the people of afghanistan of keeping them out of the end of the tolliver. with the afghan funds, the united states and our partners are following through with that amendment with a concrete step for ensuring that these additional resources will contribute to helping relieve hardship and suffering in afghanistan. in particular, we would like to thank the swiss government for the partnership to ensure this

effort would be possible. this fund will protect and preserve the app can central bank reserves while making targeted disbursements to help stabilize afghans and the economy and ultimately supported people and work to alleviate the worst effects of the manager in crisis. mike is falling of elements from washington, d. c. when the by did, administration froze, the money that was being held in the united states, which belonged to the afghan central bank, the d. b a. that was just over $7000000000.00 in funds. now what happened is that 3 and a half 1000000000 of that was kept to deal with pending cases by victims of the 911 attacks. the other 3 and a half 1000000000 has now been allocated across to the swiss bank, which will be watched over as it were by the us representative a couple of african representatives as well as a swift banker. now the taliban have nothing to do with this amount, they have got no access to it whatsoever. the us being very careful to make clear

that none of these funds are going to go directly into afghanistan at this particular point, written into what the u. s. is doing as well is that it's a signal to the central african nissan bank, the b b a that it has got to step up its game. it's got to demonstrate in coming months that it is independent from as a taliban, which claims to be the government of the country. so there is a possibility at some stage, a long way down the line that that money that is now in that swiss bank could go back to the d a, b to the central a gunny stone bank. but the way this money is going to be used, well, it's going to be a while before we see exactly how you craze. president has visited an area in the northeast of the country that's been recaptured from russian forces floor there is landscape met soldiers in the city of indian and held a moment of silence. the fallen troops rushing forces for the area last week. she craned, lost a counter offensive lensky herd from prosecutors who claimed residents had been

tortured during moscow's 6 month occupation. ross is on our side so, so it mandates we will come. i didn't know when. and nobody knows when we have plans. so we'll come because because our lamps and is hello people. that's why we'll come well, as a lensky says, ukraine has recaptured thousands of square kilometers in the kalki region in the past week is government is calling on the west to speed up weapons deliveries to back to military's advance. the credit flags are flying in the cities of is a you and a copy unscrew located on railway lines that service supply routes for russian troops. ukraine says it's also made gains in the south nickerson, but in the slow pace, auto ham had travelled to bacteria which she crane recaptured early this month that she spoke to people there about life on the russian occupation. it was a trip organized by the ukrainian police,

but many villagers turned up to meet the visitors, expressing not only relief, but also shocked at how quickly the occupying forces left. for months, they were cut off from the world. living in fear, says old gay by nova, these are tears of relief after she witnessed the celtic retreat of russian soldiers. ha! we found 16 of them hiding in a cellar with nowhere to go. others left with stolen cars and bicycles. that's how the russian retreat was. it was on september the 6th. when did you call the ran away? you didn't leave, fell as they ran away and that, that somebody officers flat 1st and left the lower ranks behind was like the next day to miss else. he's the only school in the village, a very brief guy. that's where they were based, says nadia. then they left behind, uniforms and ammunition to print, she thinks they bombed it, to destroy evidence of their presence. her daughter used to study in this classroom . so i likely, i was the 1st significant win for do ukrainian since they started this character

pensive at the beginning of september. and as we were driving here, we so similar scenes of this fraction along the road. now this is very similar to what we had witnessed north of keven places like boucher and in when the russians pulled out earlier this year. as we drive towards the city of ballad, clear more scenes of a hasty withdrawal as an army. this arrays selling from afar, this territory, it has just abandoned here the occupation. how was the police station up to 8 people were held in these window left them? one of them was counting the days long days of beatings and torture. in some cases, forensic experts, a force in some new house, one of the 2 self proclaimed pro russian republics were also here. not far away, walk crimes investigators are ready at work. 2 bodies are being viewed and they are so far,

no traces of the mass killing clean in boots. north of you clean says this has reclaimed 300 communities home to about 150000 people. but russia still holds large parts of the country. the hasty retreat may signal you cleans struck 1st, when the russian defences were weaker than how many others. the ref, bella, clear in north eastern new credit. chinese president, seizing, paying is expected to meet the russian leader vladimir putin on the sidelines of a summit. and is beckett's done? it will be the 1st time the pair met in person since start of the war in ukraine. she arrived on wednesday and was met by president a shove cut to ms. york. leaders from the countries that make up the regional block known as the shanghai corporation organization, are expected to discuss global security. and the expansion of beijing's belt and rhode initiative still had here. now da 0, you leaders come up with a plan to deal with the energy crisis. that may be easier said than done and will

tell you why the u. s. state of california city internet john, amazon ah, the journey has begun the faithful world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package today. it's still much hotter than it should be in iraq. what the temperatures are coming down. the wind is picky japanese, more or less a northerly, so temperatures back down to the middle or slightly lower. forty's still a bit of, of where they should be, but not extreme as they were. and you'll notice that the winds a bit more, a contrast with a color background on, and that tends to pick up the dust when it's been hot and dry. so like, had, have rather dusty atmosphere seems to be there really on the eastern side of sadie answered bach. rain and answer was cut out as well. where $42.00 is a couple of kids, but the average to be on that it looks pretty normal. this time of the year,

showers do show themselves and saudi occasionally in the high ground in yemen as well, and sal alice still catching the edge of the monsoon that from the equator northwards in this part of africa. the showers have been recently quite heavy, causing flooding, and they tend to do that the campbell crossing clubs and you see they are there in southern chad, the heaviest crumbs are probably to the west of that, but something showing up in weston congo and down towards the pots i goler. now given the seasons changing slowly, if we go away from the equator, you'll notice, but the big attempt, your variations, it looks dry. now, most of south africa, johannesburg, those sing a temperature rise from 25 to 28. by friday kat official ally of the gen debating the issues of the day frog use as always, dan criminalized around the boundaries of right now their people, their families and our friends are community members on a or online jewel voice. this made it to we don't believe in dialogue. political

crisis must be off with a political solution. as climate change progresses, there are some people who are in places that they're just going to have to meet. there's no recognition about what we're ready facing the street. oh no, j 0 with a and again you watching out 0 remind about top story is this out and thousands of all medians are protesting against prime minister nickel passion of 2 more than a 100 soldiers were killed in renewed fighting with john, accusing him of betraying the country and said he was willing to sign a peace deal to insure security. sweden's prime minister make the li madison,

that's an option. resigned. and he sent to left coalition that was defeated by like when the block in sundays election. mourners are finally post po from the queen elizabeth the 2nd well you stated with me, so hold for the next 4 days a q 5 kilometers long. it's making through london smallest. wait to pay their respects. an armed woman and a group of activists have held up banks in lebanon, in a desperate attempt to accessories savings. the country's economy has been in crisis is government has imposed controls on task, withdrawals, cash withdrawals, and make it difficult for some people to pay that bills then from there. and they're becoming more common in 2 separate incident hours apart, armed people enter bank, demanding their own money. lebanon is in crisis for 3

years. people haven't been able to access their savings because of informal capital controls. sally is among them. onto the hand gun. she was accompanied by activists who threatened bank employees before she was given $13000.00 from her account the in this country. this is the only way to get her money, but we didn't still, the money was hard to earn it. sally says she needs the money to pay for her sister's cancer treatment. in a similar incident last month and armed men named with amersham cousin, held hostages at a bank for nearly 10 hours before receiving part of his trap saving g. 2 said he needed money to pay for his father's hospital bills and many others, like sally and bison, who are facing strict limits on withdrawals of foreign currency gathered outside the bank. after the incident that we are ruled by thieves who are forcing us to use

violence, protesters chanted. people are losing patience. the economic collapse isn't it's 3rd year. the currency has crashed. unemployment is high, and government services are nearly non existent. people believe politicians and bankers are correcting themselves while they are suffering as a result of the financial crisis. bank deposits, we're used to fund the safe and covered deficit. now, the space is nearly bankrupt. total losses amount to more than $70000000000.00. there is a lack of political will to agree on an economic recovery plan that would distribute losses. and as the crisis worse, since depositors warn they will have no choice but to take their money by force than their leader bailed. argentine has inflation rate. his head is highest level in years causing food prices to rocket. government says the rate was nearly 79

percent in august. on tuesday, the international monetary fund said inflation was the biggest problem facing argentina's economy. tories about reports now from one of their coping with inflation in argentina is not easy for people like a mighty cycle and what to meet and that modem the couple receives 2 minimum monthly pensions of around a 100 and $70.00 each, but it's not enough. each day they go searching for food in the trashy been secular . then i thought i was going to age with dignity. i've been working since i was 15 years old. the only dream my head was to have our own home. and now look at us. i didn't, tina the inflation rate is soaring and it's having a huge impact among the countries most vulnerable economy estimates that the place and waiting argentina the theory is going to be at least 95 percent. a figure that is literally pushing many people who the streets to try to make

a living and to try to survive. this people here are not wholly trying to find food, but also runs and copper or anything that they can sell. so they can make some extra cash at em, loses if they're lucky they can earn around 80 extra dollars per month selling recycling materials. but that means being on the street every day while madame coffers from epilepsy and still mit has been struggling with diabetes for years to come back to feeling what you bought for 100 the 1st month in 3 months you will. but for 200, they're taking money away from us all the time. i need medicines and i cannot afford all of them. there's over $7000000.00 retirees in june, tina and almost 86 percent received the minimum pension in billings had a problem in a country that has been trying to stabilize the economy for months. inflation look

yes. what inflation does is that you pay the new prices with an old salary that happens to all workers. even though labor unions agree to a 64 percent salary increase, it's not enough, especially when you think the inflation rate will be close to a 100 percent. last week, the new economy minister said he'll massa traveled to washington in search of much needed investment and financing by multilateral organizations, including the i m f, case of but so much. it was just a step further towards stabilizing the economy. a step towards growth with inclusion for argentina, but i believe much more needs to be done. the situation is fragile. we have a battle ahead with inflation. a battle that people liked the law mighty sac, ortho. and while meeting at am border, have come to know all too well. dennis, i will, i'll jessia went sideways. meanwhile, the war in ukraine is putting pressure on euros pockets. the e u says it will change its electricity market to cope with the energy crisis spot

by the coven. european commission president us live on the land, use her annual address to lay out her plan for medicaid as well. for weeks, e. u leaders have been mulling over how best to solve the energy crisis. some member states have already announced plans to help their people. now the european commission has followed suit. we are proposing a cap on the revenues of companies that produce electricity at low costs. these companies are making revenues, they never accounted for. they never even dreamt off. and don't get me wrong in our social market economy. profits are ok, they are good. but in these times, it is wrong to receive extraordinary record revenues and profits benefiting from war and on the back of our consumers. in these times,

profits must be shared and channeled to those who need it most. but capping the price of russian gas is not part of this plan, because e u leaders could not agree. all they are proposing is a windfall tax on the electricity generators. their aim is to raise around a $140000000000.00 and give it to the member states above all. they want everyone to consume as little energy as possible because many leaders want to break their reliance on russian fossil fuels. obvious auto. i'm glad you're worried about how to become independent from gas imports from russia. they have determined the supply situation in germany to a far too large extent in recent years and decades. hm. and that's why it was necessary for us to ensure the greatest possible speed that we become independent of them. looks english to part of the economy drive means people doing without things that aren't absolutely essential. lafond delaney from the 1st day of autumn at 10 pm. we will turn off the lights in public buildings. this will allow us to

reduce the dale, the lighting of the eiffel towel, and 11 45 pm when the tower closes. the end of the illumination will be time to coincide with the public's visits, which will reduce energy consumption symbolically. it's important. and yet symbolism in september may not help keep people warm in winter. right now, e u gas storage facilities are around 85 per cent full. a figure, some say will be enough for most countries to last to the end of the year. what they will do in january and february is not yet clear. dominic cane al jazeera berlin. the united states has charged 3 iranian nationals with conducting ransomware and tax targeting hundreds of entities around the world. local governments and utility companies for among the victims in the u. s. department shows the attacks took place between october 2020 and august 2022 petticoat have has more from washington d. c. the us justice department has unsealed an indictment against 3 iranian men.

the de hughes of using cyber attacks at hundreds of computers. not just here in the united states, but in russia. israel is united kingdom, and even in iran itself, they say the targets were local governments, utilities, nonprofits, hospitals. what they say these men did is they say that they would get into the computer systems, encrypt the data, and then demand money for the data release. they would send these ransom, those through the victims only printers, the defendants with demand payment them, bitcoin from the victims, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars. and they were threatened to keep the victims data locked up. why sell it to others? if there ran some demands, were not net government official say in some of the cases the targets did in fact pay the ransom. now the us treasury department is also stepped in distinction. the men and others, they believe helped with the enterprise. although the government officials stressed

that they do not believe this was directed by the iranian government, still, they offered a $10000000.00 award leading to the arrest. but the men are believe to be in iran, and even government officials say it's going to be very hard to ever find them in order to arrest them. now the us state of california is suing online retail, amazon for violating anti trust and competition laws. the suit accuses the company of preventing merchants from selling products at low prices on their own websites or rival stores. it says that pushed prices up for customers and prevented competition and controls many 40 percent of online sales in the united states. that's according to research from inside it intelligence. that's more than the likes of apple. wal mart and combined. the california lawsuit mirrors one filed in washington, d. c. last year that was dismissed. but it's going through the appeals process. california officials believe the suit went, suffer the same fate. that's because it comes after an investigation feature

interviews with sellers. amazon's current and former employees, as well as competitors. it afraid is the chief technology correspondence of axis and rec, and use website. and she says the suit in california probably will not have a different outcome to those elsewhere in the u. s. california has said, oh, we have lots of new evidence we investigated for 2 years. and of course, any time you get in front of a new judge, it's a little bit different. each state has its own laws and these are brought under california's competition statutes, which probably differ somewhat from washington dcs. but essentially other courts have looked at similar claims. and not allowed the suit to proceed. so i wouldn't say it's a home run by any stretch of the imagination. the short term is they wouldn't be able to enforce this. but, you know, basically we're seeing a lot of different attacks on the way amazon does business, because as you point out, it does control so much of the retail market. so i think there is a movement to say to amazon, look, you are so big now in retail,

that you can't set rules for how companies price their goods elsewhere. and again, that's sort of classic imp, anti competition law. that basically, if you are the dominant player in the market, you can't abuse that monopoly. and that's the case that we're seeing brought not just here, but also in other suits that deal with things like how amazon sells its own goods versus those from 3rd party sellers. a false grade wildfire in california has destroyed several structures and now threatens several communities. the so called mosquito again, on tuesday in place a county and was initially contained by firefighters. it's been nearly 59000 acres, forcing the evaluation of some 11000 people. rescued, pulled a full month old baby girl from the rubble of a collapse building in jordan and continuing the search for others trapped under the rebel. at least 9 people have been killed and 10 were injured after the 4th story.