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ah, i'm robinson, this is our does here live from dough hob also coming up. russia's invasion of ukraine dominates the un general assembly world leaders of denouncing plans by 4 ukrainian regions to join russia. article fiona strengthens to a category form as it moves up the atlantic ocean is left a trail of destruction and parts of puerto rico. my. the dominican republic rescue efforts are underway in australia to save hundreds of wales, stranded on a beach. we're going to be alive from tasmania. russian president vladimir prudence calling up reserve as to fight in the war in ukraine. he made the announcement during a rear address to the nation. the defense minister says the partial mobilization will involve drafting about $300000.00 personnel. the decision comes as russian

troops lose ground to ukraine's counter offensive in the northeast. meanwhile, moscow, back separatists and for ukrainian regions of said bill hold a referendum to become part of russia. she threw in your credit. mm hm. but yet it is necessary to support the proposal of the ministry of defense and the general staff to hold a partial and military immobilization in russia. i repeat, we are talking of a partial mobilization only, but only people in the military reserve will be drafted. the priority will be on people who served in the armed forces. you have military specialization and experience already there. those drafted before being sent to the places of service will have mandatory additional training relying on experience gained during the special and military operation of the decree on partial mobilization has been fined in one give a amazon who is joining us live from caves. we're getting some more information about what this partial mobilization is going to be about, but it's going to take time to put all of this into place is not

yeah, sure is because these are reservists that are being called and they're being called to being called up it goes into effect immediately. russia is saying that they are going to go through re training and military bases before being sent out onto the front lines or at least onto the cranium battlefield. but some analysts are saying that this is going to be tough for russia because these aren't necessarily the best fighters, the best fighters were the ones that potentially were already on the front lines of the war here. and so that this is going to take time for russia to get some of these reservists retrain to get them to bases and then to deploy them out into the field. so it certainly is not anything that will be an immediate solution, per se for rushes shortcomings on the battlefield here in ukraine. but certainly

it's something that the ukrainian military is watching closely because they now know that assuming russia goes for with this there as many as the $300000.00 reservists boots on the ground if you will, that russia will have at their disposal. moving forward in this war, and obviously the forces are going to be facing off against 300000 reservices as they move up. just talk us through where ukraine stands in terms of the counseling, what personnel and what material it's putting forward and putting onto the front lines. while the initial reaction from the ukrainian says they are not too concerned about this. i mean, it's clear, certainly a lot of more soldiers that russia is putting into the fight, but the ukrainians feel that they have 2 things very much in their advantage that they had since the beginning of the war. and that only growing more. so in the last 7 months since this war's been going on, and that's number one, motivation,

they feel that the ukraine, the cranes feel that they're very highly motivated, defending what they feel is very much their land against what they feel is very much an illegal full scale invasion by russia and they also now in the last few months have been getting more and more sophisticated weapons from the west, from the u. k, from germany, from france, from poland. but also primarily from the united states that is given more than 15000000000 dollars, 1000000000 with a b and military aid to the ukraine, answer sophisticated weapons that they've been using quite effectively. so not only stop the russian advance, but actually push the russians back and re take care torrie, as we saw in the northeast offensive were the ukrainians in a matter of almost a few days. retook almost all of the northeast region of how to keep. so the ukrainians feel, they are in a very good position and they feel that they don't feel too much concern with

hundreds of thousands of russian reservists now potentially in the battlefield. they feel that they feel that what they've shown so far is that they can contain the russians and that the, the war from their standpoint will not change. gabriel, thank you very much. gave it allison to talk to some keys, or what are the means in hockey? she tells us more about what the russian military mobilization means for ukrainian troops on the ground. this is a country where there's multiple front lines here in the north east of the country . do ukrainians have been since the beginning of the month a going ahead with the counter offensive that has taken a really everyone by surprise. and i'm supposing also the russians considering how quickly they retreated and they abandoned the hard key region. now ukrainians have been saying that they were the russian soldiers here who also had among them some of the separate it forces from the guns region were understaffed.

and under and under, equipped in this part of the country, as the russians had moved a lot of their capabilities to other areas like the don't batch region like histone region in the south of the country where also another ukranian counter offensive. ringback is expected, so there is need for the russians to have more personnel here days need to for them to have more military hardware here. some monies and associates follow the wrong united services institute. he explains why president putin's ordered a partial mobilization. you look at russian estimates, for example, russian tender vitamins. yeah, but i just made a statement and said that in some areas the occupied regions, ukraine has got a 3 to one manpower advantage. generally for a successful candidate, vincent, for a military standpoint, you need to have between 2 or 3 times. many forces on the right hand side that on

the russian side, and the russians are hoping that even if it's not not turn the tide of the war and lead to market russian territorial expansions, it will help to avoid defeats either withdraw that we saw from carr he's a few weeks back initial assessment from the russian military and also for rush lawmakers that general mobilization is not necessary. i general mobilization would also be much more controversial or show politically, for example survey. sure, i give the repeat defensiveness, made it very clear as students and conscript under the age of 27 are not going to be brought into this war. this is just going to be a mobilization pro reservists and that's a very key decision because the popularity this war amongst those 1830 significantly less that is amongst those who are in their forties or fifties. ah. the green war dominated speeches on the 1st day of the un general assembly several

western countries of accused russia returning to imperialism. diplomatic editor james bay's reports from new york excellency's. ladies and gentlemen, our world is in big trouble, but un secretary general. antonia could tara setting a grim tone for this meeting among the many conflicts in the world, continue to rage. one the war in ukraine will dominate proceedings this week. and as the meeting was taking place, news was confirmed that in the ukrainian provinces of lou hands and don't ask votes within days, will take place on whether to become part of russia. this was the reaction of the us ambassador to the un. they will not be recognized by anyone in the international community. they were not recognized in 2014 and it will not be recognized at this time around. it is illegal annexation of another countries territory. nato secretary general told me he believes russia may be acting now because of the loss

is it suffered during the recent ukrainian offensive such different law have and no legitimacy recall sir, they are his shame or a friend. those on the they would not change the nature over the war. this remain so war of aggression against the ukraine on her. it represents an escalation. ah, because if suddenly this faith or is which are a partner, ukraine are declared as part of russia. that'll further escalate the conflict. the general assembly heard from 2 leaders who maintained a dialogue with president putin throughout the war. the president of turkey, a recipe type odor. one, help negotiate a deal to expose the grain from ukraine. he says there now needs to be a dignified end to the war, tennessee president emanuel macro of france in an impassioned speech was much tougher on russia. although not over bal. you, as i am speaking to you now, there are russian troops in ukraine and 100. as far as i know,

there are no ukrainian troops in russia. that's a fact. and we all have to recognize that the longer this war goes on for the more it threatens peace in europe and the entire world. and it leads to a wider, permanent conflict whose, where the suffer entity and security of every one will only depend on power loss. what we have been witnessing since february 24th is a returned to imperialism and colonialism. good. ukraine is expected to be one of the focuses of president by speech, the general assembly on wednesday. there's also a speech delivered by the video by present zalinski and on thursday, a meeting of the un security council as part of minister level again on ukraine. james bays al jazeera of the united nations. how can feel? no, it still gaining strength as it rips through the caribbean. it's not being classified as a category forced on residents with the tucks and tackles items would be in order to take shelter. hopkins left a trail of destruction in the region, killing one person in the dominican republic, and 4 people in puerto rico. i offer reports from some one

hurricane fiona bears down on turks and keiko's islands making landfall as a powerful category. 3 storm, threatening to devastate the tiny caribbean archipelago in the dominican republic. crops have been destroyed and houses damaged by the 1st major hurricane of v. atlantic season. oh, me, johnny, all this area of farming it depends on production on the crops and everything was destroyed. there was nothing left. a lot of people headlines to great bananas, coffee, co, everything is gone. for the hundreds were forced from their homes by widespread floating in puerto rico among them, other bare to reels and his daughter, martha, who are now staying at a shelter with other displaced people, walk around the 2nd, the all my faith, a strong i know god will help me, i lost everything, but if god took everything away, it's only because he has something better planning for me. in the wake of the storm

us federal officials have promised to increase aid and support to puerto rico. hundreds of fema and federal responders are on the ground in puerto rico, including us army corps of engineer power restoration expert and urban search and rescue team. heavy rains from fiona cars, flooding across the us island territory, leading to damaged roads and collapse. bridges. here in southern puerto rico, tens of thousands of residents are depending on construction crews like this one to restore running water to just some of the communities worst effected by hurricane fiona. the us national hurricane center is warning fiona will continue to gain strength over the coming days. manuel did up a low al jazeera sun one puerto rico. i'll just see it as well. the presenter jeff harrington's get more on the storms progression. her came, fiona has ballooned into a category for storm. so here's where it is right now just to the north of turks

and keiko's in the atlantic spinning around there. but let's track out this together. we're, it's going, it is going to close in on bermuda in the days to come. now this is not good news because earlier this month we had storm earl passed through this area. so the ground is saturated. so this means any more rain is certainly not good news, and it is forecast to maintain its category for hurricane strength. now at the same time that's thursday, by the way, i want to take you to canada's maritime provinces because we are just getting down with rain. you brunswick, prince edward island, and nova scotia. but check this out on friday. there we go. there we see fiona racing up the atlantic. that's a picture on friday and it's still raining across canada's maritime provinces. now i think at some point over the course of the weekend, probably on saturday, this is gonna make landfall. nova scotia, province in canada, probably on cape breton island. i think we're gonna be dealing with category to hurricane conditions. now,

one important point here is that this will no longer be considered a hurricane. and a major reason for that is because it's left the tropics, but this is still going to be a weather maker. it's still going to pack a punch in terms of that rainfall and winds, as well. i still head on al jazeera ah, wearing to fight own protesters in the philippine capital, a promise to never forget. one of the countries darkest feuds, my plans thought to be the biblical garden of eden nationally turning into a desert wasteland. we talked a struggling farmers in iraq's southern marshes. ah, for an update on your world's weather will begin in australia. good to have your long and there is the risk of seeing some flooding across southern queensland cross

coastal sections of new south wales. so what do you say we go in for a closer look? and part of the problem here is this rain is just stalling out across the coast of new south wales. the heaviest bursts of rain will be between brisbin and sidney on thursday, afternoon zealand. also the risk of seen some flooding across the north island. these cape region has been, is under a weather alert for rain here. you could pick up 2 months worth of rain within about 24 hours. southeast asia looks like this are heavy as falls of rain will be around southern sumatra, western areas of borneo and same goes for southern vietnam around which in, in city you're in for 30 degrees on thursday. there's been some exceptional heat in southern china round way, lynn. for example, we've probably matched maybe even exceeded the september temperature record the other day. you are 39 and we've got some bursts of rain across western areas. the beginning, the river valley, a line of storm stretching from carbon just starting to push into the korean peninsula on thursday. so press play. here it is on friday, it's going to be

a watch show for young yang. and at the same time, japan's main island upon you, some foundry downpours in the forecast for you see soon the there was a time when the uk of van gogh over the clouds were enough to sustain life in the northern color, harry desert all year round. 2 but that's changing least one or 3 men in different parts of the van go down as they faced drought one of the animals and manmade in the constant fight for survival, risk and all. but swan and i'll just lou .

ah, we want to go to 0 reminder, our top stories, this are russian president vladimir putin sans to partial military mobilization to boost the special operation in ukraine. it comes ahead of referendums by moscow backed separatists and for ukrainian regions. they want to become part of russia. ukraine wars dominated speeches of the un general assembly. the number of western leaders of accused russia of a return to imperialist u. s. president joe biden is also expected to address the war later on wednesday. i can fiano, still gaining strength as it rips through the caribbean. it's now been classified as a category for storm. the hurricane left a trail of destruction in the dominican republic and puerto rico even though demonstrating in the philippines to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by former president ferdinand mark or senior protesters

are vowing to never forget the human rights violations. an extra judicial kim's carried out under his rule, human rights groups also accused the government of destroying records in an attempt to sanitize the country's history, ferdinand marco's junior, the marcus, his son, and the current president, denied the allegations. while from all i speak to barnaby logan, john in his life from the valley. in the manila barnaby clearly sent still some bitter memories of that time. what's been happening on a truck right behind me. so i don't know if you can see the crowd right behind the truck, but there are thousands of protesters here in the mood here. if i remember, this is a country that avoided for a 2nd. marcus presidency, 31000000 volts. that's the most number of, most of any philippines president, since the ouster of the current president's father ferdinand marco's senior. and

there has been a lot of historical distortion going around affording to these protesters here. and according to the critics, for example, that the marcus family already had well before the 1st marquess was president. and therefore it could not have been that there. well, right now has been ill gotten or is that the father was a, was not a dictator. everything that he did was in the interest of national security, this is something that the son, the current president write it in. marvin junior, i've also said himself and so these are what they say, the historical distortions that they want to push back. pushing back right now, they want to keep pushing back. rob, pardon, on marcus, jr. has been denying these allegations. what role is he playing? if any, in this day of commemoration, once you've been saying nothing really wrong of the current president brand new marcus junior. he's in the united states right now,

and in fact, just several hours ago, he delivered a speech before the united nations general assembly. and in that speech, he did mention human rights, but only in the context of working with the united nations to improve the human rights situation. in the philippines, there was no specific reference to the human rights record of his predecessor, president would be a good retard there. no specific mention of the human rights record. all of his father, ferdinand marcus, senior of course. so we did not expect him to make mention of any of these because even during the election campaign season, he was not billy, as showing questions about these and human rights abuses and the corruption that his really is being accused of. now this year presses in the united states, that's not making these port testers here happy, because there is, he's standing contempt judgment against him in the united states in relation to

a human rights last lawsuit. and he's there right now enjoying the protection of diplomatic immunity. rob barbie, thank you very much indeed that barnaby lo, talking to us from manila, people in iran have been protesting after the death in police custody of a woman arrested for violating the dress code security voice as it used tear gas and demonstrators and several have been arrested 22 year old marcia armine was detained by the morality police more than a week ago. she died in hospital and friday to being in a coma. but he did i any wrongdoing and blame her death on a heart attack. women have been cutting their hair and burning their head scarves and defiance. oh, goodness, have also taken place in istanbul in solidarity with women in iran, while in toronto, members of iranian community, called on the world to break its silence over her death. hundreds of whales have been found stranded in australia. its food,

about half of them are dead. the pod of at least $230.00 mammals beach to on to tasmania is west coast time to say they appear to be pile of wheels, which are known for stranding. and large numbers are rescue teams. heading to the area, people are being warned to stay away. let us bring in laura beavers. she is a reporter with a b. c news, tasmania. she's joining us mccauley. hands near the strand. good to have you with us and talk us through what's been happening 1st of all, to try to save the remaining wells. we. yes, rob these stranded wiles were discovered this morning by workers from a nearby fish farm. now they have stranded on ocean beach. it's a beach just outside of mccory harbor on tasmania is west coast. and it's a beach with very rough seas, so it's quite a difficult place for rescue was rescued was from the tasmanian parks and wildlife service, the department of natural resources as well as tasmania police,

a bane on site all day about half of those wiles was still alive when they arrived this morning and i've been doing things like dowsing them with water covering them with went blankets, digging trenches around the whales. basically trying to keep the wiles that are still in head still healthy and same like they'll survive in good condition and trying to get some of them back out into the ocean. it's pretty difficult because this big wise and currents around here. so that makes it very difficult to drag the wiles out and to keep them from stranding again. now we've actually same quite a bit of help from these ne bye fish farm workers. they obviously have boats. they have maritime training and safety equipment by previously been called on in while stranding. and again, by taking part in these rescue, it's going to be a long night for the rescue as and we're just going to have to wait and say how many of these wiles remain alive, remain ready to be saved in the morning as more risky was arrive yeah,

i understand laura, that it was only a couple of years ago that a hundreds more wales were were stranded along the west coast as well. one can imagine that it must be very distressing for the people who are living near the beaches when this kind of thing happens. if nothing else, just because of the scale, the hundreds of coils that are stranded yeah, well in a terrible sort of coincidence, it was exactly 2 years to the day that about $470.00 pilot wiles, which are the same kind of wiles that have stranded this time by strand this tron inside mcquarrie harbor, which is a very shallow harbor, and i was actually covering that event and it was, it was quite a horrible sight. hundreds of wiles, lying in the harbor, sort of half above water. many people trying to size them and it was quite distressing for the people involved that many people spent hours with each of those

wiles in groups dancing them with water, working with the wiles, trying to keep them alive about a 100 of those were saved. but it was a distressing experience and i'm sure it will be again for local people. laura, thanks very much. and he does. laura beavis reporter with a b c news. tasmania talking to us from mccory had slower. thank you very much. what a scarcity in iraq is forcing farmers to sell their land and move to the cities. high temperatures and decreased rainfall are also affecting the country's famous marshes in the south. i caution reports from surfing some iraq. the higher this drawn flies, the more desert it can see. iraq's famous and historic marshes once covered these lance, what luck any more this is what is left of the pawns, citrus trees. and many other types of proves that were grown on what was a 400 acre farm. because i only, i will no matter what the odd was,

it was gradually dying due to the shortage of water. first, the citrus trees and then the palm trees of died. so many people have left the area that i'm thinking of leaving, but the question is, where should i go? you can sell your land, but what comes after that? no one knows the future, only god does what used to be the middle east. largest food producing region can't feed itself anymore. over thousands of years, the countries to main rivers, the euphrates and the tigris transform that does it around them, into green meters. but now 70 percent of the water that once flow through them is gone, the level of water and the water supply in the country is too low. and we started to see this impact on the very local communities, specific farmers, specifically people who are living in rural areas. those who are counting on that livestock to survive. those who are farming on daily basis. those who use water and

every aspect of their day life everyday. this extends from the very north to the missile port, tamia marshes, the south routh has reduced these famous marcia, some areas to puzzles. and that's damaging the lives of the people, the wild life. and echo systems that depend on them. low water levels are threatening one of the areas famous animals, water before those. these mammals need water to reduce their body temperature and produce better milk. now heard as a forced to by drinking water to keep them alive. the environmental crisis, i pushing them to sell their capital at low prices and leap to try and find better opportunities learned, got usa if what levels continue to decrease, what a cylinder to goes high, the t becomes bitter, and cattle here cannot drink this water. it kills the father is expensive to,

to the lack of water and food, the animals false and die. lots of people have lost many animals. everyone out on the marshes, nose alma shifflett. he has been researching this area for almost 2 decades. what has never seen it this dry. i like always negotiation between near turkey and ian on to we're agree about what as the shared water budget that iraq needs at least to rehabilitate some mad. deb dettori dated their places or like her area with devastation. situation like the iraqi marshes, the continuous decrease of water budget to the i q market. it will change the iraqi marty's to about an area and the area of a woodland of the garden of eden will changed to a desert. in may, al jazeera shot this footage of the marshes. there was much more water to day. it's decreasing, endangering these creatures and forcing their owners to leave their historic

homeland ali hashem al jazeera, tobac marsh's iraq letter been protest in pakistan. send province out of the government, diverted flood waters to rural areas, villages of block to highway. and they say will continue demonstrating until a thought is help them. engineers will use water from a lake earlier this month to try to save a nearby town and city. but that the director of the flood waters towards villages would around a $150000.00 people live. deleted of chin is, is opposition in knocked our party is expected to appear in court. later on wednesday, anti terrorism police detained russia on oci on tuesday with former premier sir ali la ed are accused of sending fighters to wars on such as syria, boston ivy allegations and say it's a political attack. targeting opponents are president high side. ah.