activists on lobbying hard to keep them arguing that their communities, lifestyle, and cultural identity is under threat in the year 127180 a young italian merchant set out on an extraordinary journey. having travelled the furthest reaches of the mongol empire, marco polo world view was radically altered. beijing, the city established by cooper car, is still to day join a strong nod. now in china is again a superpower. we reflect on how the relationship between east and west has changed marco polo on al jazeera. ah but you k holds a minute silence in honor of queen elizabeth. this is the scene at westminster hall

right now, the final few hours for mourners to bid farewell to their queen. leaders and or else from around the world gather in london ahead of her state funeral on friday . ah, cyril benya, this is l 0. live from door also coming up in the show, fear the flooding and landslides as hurricane fiona barrels across puerto rico and knocking out the power grid. and us. how speaker nancy pelosi slams azerbaijan for what she calls illegal. attacks are media ah, begin in london where the queue for members of the public to see queen elizabeth lying and state has now closed a minute's silence was observed across the united kingdom.

ah. and world leaders continued to arrive in london on the eve of the funeral, among them us president joe biden, who paid his respects in westminster hall, rory challenge has more from london taking his turn with the tide of people that have been flowing past the queen's coffin for days now, us president joe biden came to pay his respects in london to sign the book of

condolence, and to offer his recollections for the celebrated monarch. she was the same in person this year as her image, decent, unable, and all much service and harsh go out to the royal family. came charles in all the family. and so last that leaves a giant hole. and joe biden is, of course, to join hundreds of dignitaries at a funeral. that is an unprecedented challenge for britain's police and security services. the brief is simple, keep everyone safe, but the execution could hardly be more complex. it is the most nightmarish scenario for a security paradigm in the world. it's something that i've never encountered. olivia kita is a security analyst who's looked after us presidential candidates. we talking about once in a lifetime event, with possibly $500.00 heads of states,

kings and queens and v i p coming at the same time at the same place. but then you have on top of that, potentially millions of british that are going to be lining up the street. so it's, it's a double one. me nightmarish scenario. not. it's what the british police have got to deal with. more than $10000.00 offices have been deployed potential threats to being checked off suicide, rooftops, anywhere and attack could come from the platinum jubilee. the 2012 olympics math and carnival london is no stranger to massive public events. but the cities, matthew collins, has nothing compared to the queen's funeral. here. westminster abbey. the biggest policing operation ever was what he called it for my city, a policeman. nicole worth his warning against any alarm is him, though. if you don't hold an event, this don't hold anywhere else in the world of london because london is so well rehearsed at managing instant, managing threats like this. if you look out the window here,

you will see thousands of police officers on the street. on sunday evening dignitaries arrived for a reception at buckingham palace hosted by king charles the 3rd an extraordinary gathering of the world. presidents, prime ministers, royal's governors, and more. the word unprecedented is so often used. but at certain times, no other word who will reach helen's out, his error london, a queue to see queen elizabeth's coffin has now closed. those who are already in the queue before 8 30 pm london. time will still be able to view the casket and pay their respects, watching live pictures right now. since wednesday, hundreds of thousands of people have joined the mammoth q to see the queen lying in state. al 0 spoke to one mortar, who lined up for more than 12 hours to pay her respects. my name's lucy and i am from bristol, i be waiting in the queue since one i am this morning just straight away with such

athens people everyone say friendly lives to such a great atmosphere. everyone's of the head of the same reason that want to come and pay their respects to someone who gave literally her whole life to our country and to the commonwealth. so, standing in the queue for what seems like a lot of ours really is nothing when you think what she did for our country. i think mclean mean so much to so many of us i think go power certainly as a thing that i think comes to mind you know, to have the fema leader of our country for so many years up against so many man. and she kind of show them how to do it and just to give her whole life. i think that's just remarkable. really. people have come from like we've only come from bristol, which is not that far. we may. but if i the least i feel like and dave, along with some of my friends, i was that it went from being very jovial and quite light hearted in the queue when it was chatted. and then we walked in and

it was just like, you could have a pin drop. it was just the atmosphere just swim. like the utmost respect. silence. it was just was overwhelming. actually. i just have seen on the tv yesterday few hours ago and then to be here. now. i believe i after 12 and i think it's by 12 and a half hours. we've been in the queue. it's been worth it. 100 percent. i just, there's lots of little things flashed in my head like last the moments i seen on tv and thought this is probably the cases i ever got to her. and i was able to say thank you so she didn't think about anything but her amazing. i mean, i feel quite humbled actually, and just privileged to be the amendment history that we're probably never going to see again the queen's funeral is putting extra pressure on essential services. many appointments and operations long awaited by patients are being canceled and other funerals are on hold. hurry faucet reports from london.

britton's national health services experiencing its longest waiting times on record as tests and treatments put on hold through the pandemic work their way through the system. on monday, thousands of appointments have been postponed for the public holiday of the queen's funeral. i had an appointment canceled on monday, so i came up day and i think that's fine. i'm glad that they were able to see me a different time. i quickly if i was really, really upset. i do understand why they're expect the queen. i don't know what i just had my blood's done because i didn't see that bad on monday. i think it's very unfortunate that that's happened in emergency treatments and urgent procedures will still go ahead as planned. that reduced staffing means many other appointments will be hit. family doctor appointments will also suffer with many medical centers shut for the day. over 3 as anxious is obliged to go by

the national holidays at the same time. we have to look after our patients, so we are sort of stuck in the middle where we have to bug respect the public opinion as well as the government opinion for example. and so i think, you know, it's probably a very difficult situation that the interest is anathema and is the country prepares for the queen's funeral. others being put on hold. funeral director francis l cook has seen one plan ceremony on monday, postponed the fear it would be overshadowed and that people might not come. she says she's heard of other families, especially those who booked commissions, having funerals cancelled against their wishes. the feeling is that, you know, if it's their mom, this died. their mom is more important to them than the queen. however much they love the queen. and because of the long you meant to grief around the sort of taken away some of the sort of as opposed to how they feel they can grieve for an event on this scale. one day of national pause were widely be seen as appropriate. but

for those who've been negotiating the delays and backlogs of a cobit health service that one day could have been a much price de surgery or cancer treatment. at the very least, it's a reminder that the multiple problems this government faces will remain after the morning period ends. and they'll need to be dealt with harry for said i'll just euro london. and to other news now, and millions of people in southern japan had been told to leave their homes as typhoon none middle may landfall on sunday depends whether agency has warned an unprecedented strong wind high wave and a risk of land flight tens of thousands of homes on the island, if you should have been left without power, it's expected to move north and bring heavy rains to the main island upon shoe next . and in the u. s. territory of puerto rico, more than a 1000000 people are without power. after the island was hit by hurricane fiona winds, with a maximum speed of 140 kilometers an hour had been recorded and people had been

urged to remain indoors. president biden approved an emergency declaration for the island, which is still rebuilding after hurricane maria 5 years ago. this would get bad. we had to buy bose to cover glass doors so that they wouldn't get destroyed grandma. but on the left, i think we have learned a lot from last time. we didn't prepare for the storm because we thought nothing bad would happen. i look what happened. so this is why we are preparing ourselves this time, amber apollo generator power. my shut down and nobody knows when he's coming back of the morning as she have her tansy is live in washington dc. she have what are you planning out and what's the national hurricane center telling us? well, this is the latest up day. the heavy rains from piano will continue across puerto rico through tonight and the over the dominican republic. and later into monday that just tonight, sunday into monday, local these rainfall amounts will produce catastrophic life threatening flash

gloves and urban funding across puerto rico and portions of the eastern dominican republic, along with mud slides and 9 slides, an area of higher terrain. and this is interesting here it is forecast according to the national how can center to continue to strengthen after moving away from puerto rico on the dominican republic as it has to, towards the 1st that the turks and k cost and then onwards. so we're getting a better sense of a track, it seems to be taking, moving, initially north west, skirting the dominican republic, touch keiko's, and then mid week, perhaps then taking a turn, taking a turn to the east, and that's where things get but even more frightening, apparently than because, you know, we have forgot, sorry about how for me to write and put a, recur with the category one storm. and it is expected to be category one. why that traverse is put a recall. so that's, that's a 140 kilometers. now, he said now,

but it could be up to 153, but by been weak in this could be a category 3 storm up to 208 kilometers now as it had to the bahamas. so that would be the 1st major hurricane of the atlantic seas is the 3rd hurricane the atlantic seas. but that would make the 1st major arc and of the atlantic as she have returned. c, thank you for your coverage. and she was just telling us that the hurricane now heading towards the dominican republic, which of course shares an island with haiti, a country already in the groups of widespread looting, triggered by the rising cost of fuel. leah harding has more. protestors lit these tires on fire in haiti's capital. aah! they're angry about high fuel prices and crime and want the prime minister to resign. inflation is at its highest in a decade and gang violence has left hundreds of people, debt and displaced thousands people in port au prince have been forced to shelter at home as fighting and gunfire. break out. the government called for. com,

allowing people to come out of hiding to find the one thing they've been living with out with water, wembley, you know, glad to be because of the blockades in the country. it's been at least 2 or 3 days since i've had access to water. john denise vale lives on the outskirts of the capital and had to wait in a long line to fill up his container. he is thirsty and hot with daily temperatures here, climbing up to 35 degrees. cuba mcdonough, if it wasn't for places like this, we would die from thirst. we can't find non potable or potable water. this is the only place we can find it. water companies had to stop deliveries to the city amid the violence. in 2010 an earthquake destroyed much of the infrastructure and it hasn't been rebuilt. the issue of clean water is a problem. we put clorox in the water to be able to drink it. we just can fight water. petrol and diesel are also hard to find. government fuel subsidies recently

ended and nearly half of the country relies on food assistance to survive. leah harding al jazeera, a still a head on al jazeera, special trains take ukrainians back home to eastern towns, lift in ruins, after rushes, retreat, and free at last. now to sierra journalists detained in egypt without trial for 2 years, is out of jail. ah . hello, we have no fewer than 3 stones on the side of the caribbean. last, last, that's pulling out of the by this madeline. i will pull out of the way as well, but main focus of course is on fiona, which continues to intensify. the moment we're looking at winds of around a 100 kilometers per hour. not far off for our can intensity and it will become an

increasingly building hurricane as we go on through the next couple of days, we'll say the main threat really for now at least is the very heavy rain we have. we have seen some big down polls. this is guadalupe $249.00 millimeters of bright in 24 hours. this is dominique or $310.00 millimeters of right in 24 hours. and in fact, in the space of only 6 hours, we had a staggering $194.00 millimeters of brian. you see the position of the storm there . now, pushing out of the year, the lay words pushing across sir, puerto rico and running across a good part of the dominican republic for monday, flooding, right, certainly likely, at this stage. and in that wet weather will be drawn up towards the turks and take a silence. pushing up towards the bahamas in the coming days, me while across the u. s. while a wet weather is around the lakes, southern parts of canada. and we also got some very heavy rank causing flooding and strong winds for california. ah,

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silence has been held across the united kingdom on the eve of queen elizabeth, the 2nd funeral on you to see her coffin has now closed since wednesday, hundreds of thousands of people have lined up to see the queen lying in state. you as president joe biden, and the 1st lady paid their respects to the queen in london earlier up to 500 foreign dignitaries from 200 countries were in the city to attend the funeral. and more than a 1000000 people in the u. s. territory of puerto rico or without power after the island was hit by hurricane fiona winds, with the maximum speed of a 140 kilometers an hour, have been recorded. also speaker of the us house, nancy pelosi has pledged support for our media. after recent fighting on the border with our by john, she's the most senior us official to visit the country. the 2 countries have been in conflict for decades over the disputed region of nagondo, kara back tony, shang reports from the armenian capital yerevan ah.

alongside her armenian counterpart, nancy pelosi paying her respect to the genocide memorial. the speaker of the house of representatives appeared moved. but the message was clear. the united states is standing firmly alongside armenia in its time of need. later in the day, after meetings in the national assembly, she was equally resolute and meeting again had a particular importance to us because of the focus on security following the legal and deadly attacks and as a by the edge that they hang up on the amine a territory, we strongly condemn those attacks. we, in our delegation on behalf of congress, which threatens prospects, are much ne piece agreement, but pelosi wouldn't be drawn on how the u. s. might contribute to the peace process we were here to listen to. i mean, is security need, she said,

but conceded the russia had broken the seas far. that's currently in place. initiate either series on the streets of the capital protest is called for an end to the russian broken piece process under the collective security treaty organization, or c, s t o o. we have an alliance with russia, which is not protecting us. and we are at a dead end. we are like hostages in our own country, but our mean is in europe and that is it. we are a european country. can you hear people are shouting out of c s c l out of c s d l a. pulling out a common place written. everyone agrees. it's not. you go romney? oh, those me. she was guessing. what is it? no one knows exactly what everyone wants. american support. no one can agree on how that my work in practice i just did. and here on the border talk a piece seems very far away. the recent outbreak of fighting has left these villages

deserted. after farmers pled the shelling that hit the homes. and the military moved in as boy hing defect ease that at this moment other by johnny's targeting civilians. and the result of the quick response from the international community it, which is not good in the vast grass lands and hills on the border. the pathway to a permanent piece remains elusive and out of sight. tony chang al jazeera european, azerbaijan has condemned nancy pelosi for her comments on the board of conflict with armenia calling them a serious blow to peace efforts. is foreign ministry described philosophy as a known pro armenian politician, and branded her remarks as absurd, unsubstantiated and unfair, as a by john says, the latest fighting was the result of a large scale military provocation by armenia and charles stratford reports from the town of shoshua, which was retaken by the a series in the war with armenia in 2020. the town you can see behind me in the

valley there is what the armenians calls their panic out. the ass aries, give it another name, they call it con can days to panic, hurt is calling to the air is occupied, illegally by the armenians. this is very much a frontline in the self declared republic of nagondo. kara back a republic that not a single country, not even armenia recognizes. now this particular area, as every forces took back control of it in 2020 after what they describe is it being occupied by armenians for 30 years. interestingly, oscar the camera man, if you could pull down and have a look at the road down here, this road is called the latch in corridor. it is the only road that connects stepanek bert with the border of armenia and it is regularly a flash point. it is sir, policed by russian peacekeepers in the last 1020 minutes or so. we've seen what we

understand is armenian military moving along. it. people here tell us that there are regular skirmishes. heard in the surrounding hills between what they say could well be power, military armenian power, paramilitary groups, and, and, and as airy fighters here as airy military here. but we've also seen in this town at the town of sasha some incredible rebuilding that's been going on in the last couple of years. the r, as air is very keen to begin reconstruction, they are being very successful and very quick in rebuilding roads, hotels renovating mosques. the church here as well. and there is a huge infrastructure push going on here. a russia has intensified it strikes on ukrainian civilian infrastructure over the

past week following set acts on the battlefield that's according to the british defense ministry. ukraine recently recaptured a large suede of the northeastern corky region. special trains are running for residence of bella clia who want to return home following 6 months of russian occupation. listen to what they had to say for could that should numbers couldn't. it's as if where and she noble nature has taken over here. no one did anything for half a year. nobody trimmed the grass and bushes. bill everything is overgrown. profit. just ask for miss rosters. it's scary. i'm still scared of being here. i've still kept this feeling that any moment a shell could explain to an airplane, could fly. eva, i'm still scared to be her. the russian army wants to recruit contract soldiers to fight in ukraine. mobile trucks have been sent out in different parts of russia to attract volunteers. they're being offered nearly $3000.00 a month. now that's almost 3 times the national average wage. the war and ukraine

is looming large over this years. united nations general assembly neither russia's vladimir putin nor ukraine volunteers. the lensky are expected in person. kristen salumi is the united nations in new york. the u. n. is preparing to welcome world leaders at a time of height and tension between some of its most powerful members states. russia invasion of ukraine was denounced in march by 141 of 193 countries in the general assembly. but there's growing concern about the conflicts fall out. ukraine have dominated diplomacy at the un, especially in the security council in 2022. and i think a lot of diplomats from africa. i'm the middle east. worry that other important issues such as the cry, fin, molly, and the humanitarian catastrophe of the famine in the horn of africa. and not getting enough attention. the war has contributed to rising food prices and growing

hunger crisis. each played here represents 50000 people, adding up to the 50000000. the un says are now on the brink of starvation, combination of corporate crisis with climate crisis, the leisure russia and ukraine, the wars from a guy stand to t grey. they're all interlinked. therefore, it's pretty much impossible to, to harvest and grow food and bring it to the market. on the sidelines at this year's general debate, the united states is organizing a global food security summit in partnership with the european and african union. they're hoping to raise $33000000000.00 to keep the hunger crisis at bay and other countries on their side. we know that as this horrible war rages across i, ukraine, we cannot ignore the rest of the world. there are conflicts taking place elsewhere . there are issues that impact that saul, which is why we are focusing on food insecurity. un secretary general antonio

gutierrez worries efforts to protect the planet from climate change, or also taking a back seat. 20 countries are responsible for 80 percent of emissions. and they are also suffering the impact, the record that also fires and floods. but climate fiction seems to be flipped linings. if one serves them g, 20 countries was and the what the to thee as it could be to morrow. perhaps they would find it easier to agree on the rest the guts to emissions. the writing is on the wall for all international visitors to see a vivid reminder of just what is at stake. kristin salumi al jazeera, the united nations, a members of afro brazilian religions are holding a march in rio de janeiro against religious intolerance. the plan to rally comes ahead of next month's presidential election, which has seen one of the most polarized and violent campaigns in brazil's history . monica inaccurate has more. we are here in cobb park, albano,

which is the iconic beach of rio de janeiro. this is a place where every new year's eve, thousands of people dressed in white like these that are around me, come to throw white flowers to the seat. god is yet my shop. he. it's part of the opera, brazilian religion, which has been in brazil colonial time, and they were brought over by the slaves. now they are under increasing attack, mainly by radical evan joe, a called christian. this marge, here today is to fight against a religious intolerance. during a polarized election campaign were politic weighed apart in increasing violence and intolerance. we have people say here, your muslim catholic, evan joe with, but mainly people from the lead religion. just give me

a general last year, an average of 40 instead of political intolerance were registered and this has been just too hard. a brazil hundreds of people have protested in these years capital against frances military presence in the country. any protesters were also seen praising russia and waving its flag. french troops had been fighting armed groups across the sa hell region. their activities have become increasingly unpopular, frowns withdrew its forces from neighboring molly. earlier this year. authorities in egypt have released thousands here. a journalist met on thursday. he was detained in august 2020 while visiting his family and held without trial ever since nasty was accused of membership of a band group and spreading false information. he denied those charges and als is the media network, has continually called for his release 3 of his colleagues. he shall my bill is these, but how the need for him and shake still detained in egypt also without trial and

without charges. here the head on thursday, shortly after his release. thanks to god light this afternoon. the jello authorities came to me and asked me to get ready to leave. i did not know where i was going. after that, several officers and security men arrived and now a tense. i was surprised to see myself outside the whole building and an officer told me you are now free and you can do whatever you want. i was overwhelmingly happy at that moment, suddenly to ease of gyal ended. this achievement took place because of many supporters ungrateful to our resume and at work and his efforts. and to all of my colleagues, i'm also grateful to those who support me inside egypt and sympathize with me ah, several venue the headlines on our 0. ah.