well largest film industry, bosnia goes to the poles in the election that will be what closely by both the you and russia. october on al jazeera, there was a time when the aka wango river flowed were enough to sustain life in the northern calahan deserts all year round. 2 but that's changing. we followed 3 men in different parts of the alcove, mango doubted as they faced drought, wild animal, and man made threat in the constant fight for survival, risk in it all. but swan on al jazeera undercover reporting an exclusive stories explosive results, al jazeera investigations. ah,

at least 70 people are dead after a boat sinks off the coast of syria. ah, hello them laura kyle. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up. are you an investigation body says there's evidence of torture and sexual violence in areas of ukraine that were occupied by russian forces for moscow controlled regions of ukraine. a voting to decide whether to join russia. the west says it's an illegal land grab and the u. k. makes a big bet on tax cuts and borrowing as it tries to avoid recession. but critics say the budget does little to carbon pollution. ah, at least 70 my grants have died off their vessel, capsized off the coast of syria. more than 20 people have been rescued,

but many more is still missing. survivors told officials the boat left northern lebanon on tuesday and was bound for europe. then a hodder has the story. emily sam is in shock. person's family was on the boat that sunk off the syrian coast on thursday. they have buried 9 year old me and 6 year old maya lundy, but there are 2 brothers and mother are still missing. they really didn't them. i brought me the 2 kids did. what about the other is when they bring the others to me, i can't say more than this. my heart is broken. it's the deadliest migrant boat tragedy in lebanon. in years, passengers were hoping to reach europe and a better life. families and friends waited at the border with syria as the dead, and few survivors were brought home. not all were lebanese, some were palestinian and syrian refugees,

but all shared the same story. one of poverty and desperation. i held for a 2nd number the outlaw. if i get the chance i will leave if there is a boat here right now, i will get on it with my 2 children. and i do, well, i don't wanna lebanon's economy began to spiral 3 years ago. the political elite blame for decades of mismanagement and corruption have still not agreed on a recovery plan. in anguish of a lot of poverty is what pushed we sam to sell a property and his house to go on the boat. and then he lost his wife and children . yeah. our government doesn't care about the people and our living conditions. oh, just a few months ago, a migrant boat sank well being pursued by the lebanese navy. dozens of people drowned. many of them are still missing. what the hell is then? yeah, great. got all with some rest, everything knowing that there was a 70 percent chance the boat would sink. that's how desperate he was. so many of those who attempt the journey or from the impoverished north,

which has been neglected by successive governments. despite the dangerous migrants continued to leave from the shores of northern lebanon, the united nation says the number of people who departed or tried to has yearly tripled since 2020. it says so far this year. the number is nearly 3500. but security sources tell us that's a conservative estimate and it's no longer just young people. whole families are trying to escape. what many here say is a hopeless situation. center for their ashes era, northern lebanon and investigation by the united nations has found the evidence of more war crimes committed in territories occupied by russian forces in ukraine. investigators vista, 27 towns as well as graves and detention centers. and keith chan have cock give,

and so me, they say the evidence points to violations, including late torture and confinement of children. they base their findings on interviews with $150.00 victims and witnesses. cameras under joins us now from a cave and a pretty grim initial findings of this investigation of the game grim and very troubling. this was the united nations investigative team that was here in ukraine in june. they visited more than a dozen different communities and towns and also interviewed more than $150.00 eye witnesses and alleged victims. and their findings indicate russian war crimes, both beatings, torture, rape, and probably what perhaps could be most troubling in a report that is full of a lot of grim details. is that the un investigators found evidence that russian troops raped and tortured ukrainian children,

some as young as 4 years old, were victims of war crimes. now russia claims that they do not target civilians and they deny participating in any war crimes. but certainly this report by the united nations seems to backup ukrainian. investigators claims that they've documented tens of thousands of russian war crimes themselves. also the newly liberated area in the northeast of ukraine, that ukrainian military has retaken from the russians just in the last week. and a half or so the u. n. investigators haven't even visited those areas yet. and there are reports from individuals on the ground there. it's some of the bodies of ukrainian soldiers and civilians that have been exuberant show signs of torture as well. so certainly in incredibly troubling report from the united nations that

seems to refute russian claims that they have not participated in war crimes of grade and yet gave, even as these reports of war crimes continue to surface, russia is in occupied areas going ahead with referendums on whether or not to join russia, they are, it's day one of what we think will be 4 days of plan voting and these referendums. and to be perfectly frank, it's very hard to get clear information from where the voting is taking place for multiple reasons. this is not a normal referendum. there are no international election monitors there. there's not free media to assess what is actually going on. and it's a referendum taking place by russia, by russian appointed officials inside ukrainian territory. with that said,

we've from 2nd hand sources and from telegram, and what we've able to gather from the various officials from where the voting is taking place. some indications are it's happening fairly normal. they're sort of normal voting at polling places. it looks fairly organized and structured, but we're also seeing other videos and other reports of what appear to show russian appointed officials going door to door with russian soldiers asking people to vote and, and critic saying, clearly coercing them to vote in favor of, of joining the russian federation question, the bottom line is this. russia says that this is a normal referendum, allowing people to choose if they want to join russia, but ukrainian see it much differently. they're dismissive that this one top ukrainian officials summed it up best probably went by summarizing their views by saying this is not a referendum. this is simply propaganda exercise which is being described

as a referendum in the domestic region of ukraine. a russian appointed election official tours a polling station. this is one of 4 regions where people are voting to join the russian federation, the young program or so it's young. we grant the right to vote to all citizens of the donita people's republic as well as abroad. becky is a you, in a nearby park, people under the watchful eye of the russian state. say they welcome the referendum for sierra. russia has always been our mother lead. without it, we have no one left. you crane abandoned us long ago. languishing, yes, you must tell us. there are no international election monitors, only those invited by russia. media have been tightly controlled. many western analysts say it's nothing more than an exercise by the kremlin to shape how people think about russian occupied parts of ukraine. look, this is no referendum. this is no expression of will do. but at the same time,

they will to say, face a meaning, getting observers, meaning, filming stories of work when voting of pulling stations, the protocols being written and so on. this is kind of an invitational democracy bottle where pictures are important goodness. in some areas, russian installed officials said they would be going door to door with police to invite residents to vote. critic say it's clear intimidation bora, under international law, it is illegal to hold referendums during conflict and where people are under threat . most countries, as well as international body, such as the european union and united nations, have said they won't recognize the results. the head of ukraine's election commission has told us the vote violates the constitution or she live with us as a whip. there are no legal mechanics in the ukranian constitution to give up territories. this is completely unconstitutional,

under martial law that we live under. now, it is prohibited by ukrainian laws to organize any referendum on our lands. in 2014, russia held a referendum in crimea, in which it alleged 96 per cent to the people voted to join the federation. 5 days later, the annexation of crimea was signed into law. it now appears that same process is happening again. but in a much larger area, in the middle of a war, and with more at stake for both ukraine and russia. gabriel, as hondo al jazeera keith. meanwhile, finland, as considering barring most russians from entering the country, officials say traffic and the border has sharply increased since president vladimir putin ordered a partial military mobilization deland as one of the few. and she points into europe for russian systems after a number of western countries and pace restrictions because of the invasion of

ukraine and authorities in kazakhstan are also reporting an increase in the number of russians entering the country. videos from several different crossing points across the border. so large traffic cues has exxon and russia the world's 2nd longest continuous international border. the british government has unveiled a package of economic measures meant to stimulate growth and ease the cost of living crisis. the budget includes measures to designed to tackle rising energy prices. chances of the exchequer was a quote on the plan is expected to reduce inflation by 5 percentage points. knowing the cost of living is also another tax cuts and reforms aimed at boosting economic growth. how force it has more from london, just 2 weeks in office. this government is making an intervention on a historical scale. the chancellor said that the aid for households in their energy bills was going to cost $66000000000.00 us dollars. that's an estimate. and only just for the 1st 6 months, many analyses say it could exceed

a 100000000 overtime. on top of that, these new taxation announcements, they're going to cost some $50000000000.00 us dollars and largely benefit the best off in society. cuts in income tax, especially the top rate of income tax for those earning more than a $168000.00 us dollars a year. cuts from the tax on buying houses as well. the prime minister list ross says she's not worried about redistributing wealth. she's worried about growing the economy. 2.5 percent here is the target up from the current 0 point one percent negative growth. that the u. k is experiencing the opposition labor party says that these plans are unfair and they won't work. iran to army as warning that it will confront water cause enemies as protests continue against the death of a 20 year old woman in police custody mass. i mean, he died last week up to being arrested by the so called morality police for allegedly violating the countries headscarf policy. iran state television is

reporting that at least 26 people have been killed during the unrest rights groups put that member much higher. but then abraham lacy has ordered an investigation to her death, but he called the demonstrations acts of chaos. this maria mazar. hm. go to their house. they have always been protests and we hear their demands. but there is a difference between riots and protest. nobody accepts riot just by act. if ever a demonstration against policy or anything else in a random we have freedom of speech. can we say on different levels? there are differences of opinion. that's not a problem at all, but when there is a riot, it's different than a protest. mean is, and pro government counter protests are taking place in iran, including in the capsule terror on the rallies, seen as a response to days of demonstrations following the death of martha mimi from pharma, and from a young is electra and politics and instructional studies at the university of cambridge, she says, the iranian government will probably launch

a violent crack down against protest. we are seeing many of the same steps being taken in the playbook of public control that the government has developed for protest in the past. so we are seeing that the internet has been shut down that the watch app instagram, all of these platforms are unavailable. so we're not seeing a great deal of information come out and it's hard for protesters to communicate. and also we are seeing the level of violence growing. in fact, that's been one of the things this time is that the young people and the older people in the street seems to be more willing to attack the police and overturn their vehicles. we haven't seen that as much in previous protests, so the level of anger is much more severe this time in the street. and of course,

the government will choose to point to a lack of public order to violence and riot in the street as a an excuse to crack down. and when they do cut down, we know the people in the streets. no, they have been extremely violent. have shot many protesters point blank in the past and have already done so in this last cycle of uprising about austin all stars he present. macklin abbas has challenged the united states to prosecute those who killed al jazeera journalist showing a blackline sharing with kill. it was shot while it's on assignment in the occupied west bank in may. an independent forensic investigation found that israeli soldiers deliberately killed her, abbas made the challenge during his address at the united nations general assembly . local hamilton boulevard. you have all heard of serene albert, our claim, or not. she was shot and killed by a sniper, the sniper, deliberately kilter,

and israel recognized that the sniper killed her uncle, and as well as her palestinian nationality. she was also an american citizen. i dear the united states to prosecute those who have killed this american national, but they won't. why? because they are israeli sil had hair on out as era. we need a massive overall when they're massive upgrades in infrastructure. whether he can struggle to pick up the pieces after hearken, fiona leaves a trail of destruction. and italians had to oppose on sunday. but just how will the incoming government tackle a crackling economic crisis? ah, the journey has begun. the 34 world copies on its way to catherine book, your travel package today in the philippines see another tropical disturbance has

formed from massive thunderstorms and has been given a name. and over the next 2 or 3 days, it'll go across lose all producing likely flooding and keep moving west as to the south china sea towards the coast of viet nam. now this is normal as time the air and its problem is not the strength. the wind is the amount to renew, bring with it, but it is to be expected and south of that increase in the likelihood of big thunderstorms in western body. and sudden sumatra seemed to be the case beyond that, their daily events, big thunderstorms, or just showers, and another named little tropical spider. it's not significant in the wind strength again, but it will bring rain therefore some potential for flooding men honcho, which is already fairly wet, given recent events and still here it's $29.00 degrees in tokyo, less humid bless heart in the korean peninsula and most of china which is cool down she and 17 degrees. and there's rain, creepy along western and of the yangtze river. but it's warming up in china again.

and you go further north west round the tibetan platter. it's even hotter than it should be. the monsoon rains, though, disappearing from russia style are increasing important joe crossing the board towards the hall with potential for flooding cancer official airline of the journey in a time when everyone wants the latest news with speed and reliability or key inflammation spreads around the globe. it's never been more vital trust the technology, which drug sports knowledge, wherever it needs to go with the state of the art secured bandwidth. but let people share almost in full stories as sales staff is helping bring the world closely together as sales space to deliver your vision. ah

ah, again, you're watching out a series reminder of all top stories this hour. at least 70 migrants have died off the vessel cap sized off the coast of syria. authorities say at least 20 people have been rescued, but many more still missing. an investigation by the united nations has found evidence of more war crimes committed in territories occupied by russian forces in ukraine. investigators base their findings on entities with a 150 people. they also visited $27.00 towns as well as graves and detention centers and moscow controlled regions in easton and southern ukraine of voting on whether to become part of russia. the referendums are taking place in new hunts, dannetta evaporation, and cassandra will run until tuesday, crenan. it's western allies, so the vote is a sham. jones,

actually general antennae. a good terrorist has requested an urgent report and the allegations of abuse carried out by aid workers as a you and run the camp and south to don. an investigation by al jazeera and non profit news agency, the new humanitarian has expose years of widespread sexual abuse and a camp for displaced people in. malik how the allegations 1st emerged in 2015, but no action was taken despite a you and lead task force charged with tackling it, aid workers were accused of raping and sexually abusing minors, as well as pressuring women and girls to have sex in exchange for gifts, joshua craze is an independent research on south to dawn and co author of the original report. he explains the delay in the un investigation of cases of sexual abuse. the basic problem is that if you look through all of these task force set up to prevent sexual exploitation, since it was begun in south dawn,

is what they do is they provide sensitization training. they provide hotlines with the task force structurally from mandate from new york. does not do investigations, investigations are left to the individual ngos and you and agencies whose doc members are accused about sex exploitation. and the problem is they look back at ubs found ops them at a huge sex exploitation scandal. and it's funding was caught effectively by hoff. so for none of these organizations is actually materially in their interest to really do investigations to what happens is things are covered up. and all of the measures that have been announced by the un thus far have largely been reactive measures. so then measures about making sure that everyone has training. the problem is there is no pro active investigative capacity within the task force or within these organizations. just give you in a descent. what they do is that they investigate claims made to them beer, a series of mechanisms that report allegation,

claims that like report sexual exploitation allegations. however, many people in coming forwards, many people are worried that will impact on starting a family members who have jobs with these injures. many people are worried that their cases will be dismissed by bodies that are linked to community accident wanna can access or endanger access from the end years. all in 1000000, people still don't have electricity and flattery kind of following hurricane fiona . a storm hit on sunday cause an island wide blackout. more than 3000000 people are affected by new rapid reports from san juan. on the outskirts of puerto rico's capital, some one veto serrano electrician, is helping his neighbor repair power generator cables. in the wake of hurricane fiona, i'd help any one of my neighbors. we're all here to help each other with the generator cables repaired, luis, albert is hopes to power a few appliances in his home. after 5 days without electricity success,

the lights are back on. at least until the petro powering, he says, generator runs out your window. macy blasio, i look at my situation, my think about people who don't have the economic needs and how do they get by without electricity and running water? do those on the island fortunate enough to have generators are managing through the persisting blackout. oh it was on the close. but for low income residents like fernando and he said, well, no electricity has met, spoiled, food and sleepless nights. and i guess, oh, really loud. i think i'll go there if you are saying right now was coming. he's a heat wave temperatures of 40 degrees and we're already filling it. many hearsay power outages have been a problem for years. blaming and antiquated powered rich and poor management by luma. the islands power management company, whatever to settle in energy sector. whistleblower says fiona, dealt a death blow to an already crumbling electricity infrastructure. i think we need

a massive overall when a massive upgrades in infrastructure in the streets. but we also need a massive overhaul in our power generation. the u. s. government has promised to increase aid and assistance to puerto rico in the wake of fione. though many seem skeptical, the help will be enough. in the islands commercial centers, it's clear that lack of electricity is having a damaging impact on the local economy. as night, balls oversight won the sounds of power generators echoed through the streets. and the question on everyone's mind is how much longer will it be before power is fully restored on the island? men will wrap a little al jazeera san juan, puerto rico issa is facing an economic crisis with soaring energy prices. as a top concern, as voters had to the poles on sunday, for the 1st time since world war 2 far right wing coalition is expected to win. and

a stephanie decker reports from naples life has become more expensive all round. it's a routine and a recipe that has been handed down to generations. continuity is guaranteed success . but decades of hard work and now at risk yolo fractured punitive. i been a baker for 40 years. the situation as it is they never been so bad with the gas and electricity bills. increasingly, the costs are raw material, becker, indices of risk or collapsing. we're sounding the lar, if there is no bread and table. so battalions, there is a risk about revolution. this energy prices of swords. this time last year, this was dominique was bill no one or 2 and now resource will go and increase around 600 per cent. into b. c. economists say it's unsustainable. a lot of only darya was going bad. laura for italy, this coming winter will be the toughest. yet the storm of the energy crisis for

hitters at the end of 2021. and then with the war with ukraine, things have become far more complicated. on the side, italy is worse off than other e u countries as we rely more on imported energy and meaning it is more vulnerable to the fluctuations of the gas and electricity markets. one, the one misha. ah, and yet somehow, while walking around, you don't feel how bad things are. the streets here in the city center of naples are busy tourism is booming. it's very difficult to find a hotel room, but this isn't indicative of the real economic crisis that is unfolding here, affecting small family run businesses which make up around 90 percent of companies here in italy. which basically means it's affecting everyone at the morning market . the answer is the same, just like i said, the gear, demographically, we're all in this crisis together. we need at least 200 euros a week to buy food. and that's just the basics. there's no room for any extras here . no job. so i don't make it at the end of the month,

everything has increased to gas light, everything is all right, and my pension doesn't increase until we ask her if she thinks the elections will change anything in the long arrival door? no, i won't go to it. all up yet i'm telling you straight off like an apology, i will have her get selected. it's so the same mass. for now the bread continues to rise. as do the bills. you're all are not a problem. our worries the whoo chair, with political call of come to power with the selection, the problem will not be fixer. so people's anger, we bowler. opinion polls suggest a far right when coalition could, when sundays, vote with italy's 1st female prime minister, whatever the political predictions, the economic forecast is that this is only going to get worse and for whoever wins these elections. that may have been the easy part. stephanie decker, al jazeera naples. india is a film industry, produces nearly 2000 films a year,

making it the largest in the world. as no doubt bollywood is big but has been struggling to fill theaters with the majority of recent releases flopping at the box office. but natal as that story moviegoers are in for a treat. it's national cinema jane. india ticket prices have been slashed to less than a dollar. many shows or so it out. could really i got this thing and then giving hopkins and betsy puppy. so it's really nice that i don't have to put them on the way that i'd like to spend so much amount of money to actually go answered in that . here does the waterloo, hindi cinema often called bollywood isn't crisis. one estimate for just 90 percent of films released in the past 4 months have bombed at the box office. good, luckily schwarzenegger, the but lansing gentile was one of the most anticipated movies of the year, adapted from forrest gump it. stars, one of india's most popular stars, armor con,

poor attendance, forced theatres to cancel. hundreds of shows. in the cinema is a multi $1000000000.00 industry and one of india soft powers. it struggles a part of a global phenomenon. the pandemic has changed how and where we watch movies. many people are also cutting back on entertainment expenses because of inflation. meanwhile, streaming sites have enjoyed an increase in subscribers. there's also a growing competition from regional and global cinema. so those people who were used to best people fed up in the movies and are watching movies. and um, i'm going by the adam are watching french and spanish shows and phones. and therefore there is a certainly broadening off piece that has happened. and certain movies which will meet in a pre, brenda makes an audio for a certain type of audience that audiences change. no. yeah. oh, this chart topping song and recently married couple created a buzz around from.