way from senegal towards the canary islands, we could see some wet and windy weather here, certainly on sunday. and as we move down south, it's a much quieter picture. some of that rain, trickling into angola, much dryer for botswana and south africa to hannah's book. sing plenty of sunshine at 30 degrees celsius. ah, the fallen counting, the cost liberty is deposited, hold up thanks to get their own savings. what's the way out of the financial crisis? china under pressure to help poor nations with dead blood whose plus zimbabwe and promise results old farming techniques to cope with drought. counting the cost on al jazeera oh going door to door for votes people and for moscow controlled regions. and ukraine

are deciding whether to become part of russia. ah, robinson, this is all 0 alive from doha. also coming up the us plans to unblock internet services for a rainy and says to find restrict access to social media. during protests, article fiona's downgraded but still poses a threat to canada, ates, bracing for what could be one of its strongest storms. it's been a been a perfect journey. i would do it all over again. ah, an emotional farewell for tennis star wars, jo phaedra as he plays his final professional match before he retires, rush has pushed to annex for regions. and ukraine moves into

a new phase with authorities going door to door and a so called referendum. there not reports that armed soldiers of forcing people to vote. the votes man to decide whether the kremlin occupy davis should join the russian federation. a critic say the outcomes already been decided. the referendums are taking place over 5 days in the hans dun yeske zappa leesha aha song, be covered about 15 percent of ukraine's territory. that's about as big as hungry. gabriel allison has joining us live from keith gate. what more do we know about what's happening with these votes? well, i got to say it's very tough to get real 1st hand information there because this is a of vote if you will. that is happening in a very unprecedented situation and a large area. the size of hungry at 4 different regions, but more than that happening in the middle of a war zone, really. and of course, with the russian appointed officials over seeing this vote with no free media or

at least very restricted media in the areas where the voting is taking place. as well as no international election monitors at all that are independent. it's hard to get a real clear picture of what's going on, but based on what we're seeing on various different sources, telegram and elsewhere, and talking to people in the area and family members here in ukraine that have been talking to many family members there. and those ration control areas, there's certainly some indication that in certain locations there appears to be what, what appears to be normal, organized, voting but in, we're also seeing reports and seeing video of what appeared to be russian appointed officials going knocking on people's doors, accompanied by russian soldiers asking people to vote. critics are saying this is clear coercion and saying this isn't really a vote at all. it's more of to officials and keith are just saying that this is

just a big show by, by the russians in order to seize land. this is a little bit more of how the referendum is going in the dentist region of ukraine, a russian appointed election official tours. the polling station. this is one of 4 regents where people are voting to join the russian federation, the young pro. so young, we grant the right to vote to all citizens the don't yet the people's republic as well as abroad in a nearby park, people under the watchful eye of the russian state, say they welcome the referendum sierra. russia has always been on mother lands without since we had no one left. he crane abandoned us long ago and was from yeske . you must have us. there 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 pulling stations, the protocols being written and so on. this is kind of an invitational democracy bottle where pictures are important. 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. 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 lived with us with

. there are no legal mechanics in the ukrainian 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 percent 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. and gabriel, they were also on the sidelines of all of the scientists. not that ukraine's downgrading diplomacy with the run, because it says runs been supplying attack jones to russia. what's the latest with that?

his late night address, president loved amir zelinski said that he is going to be revoking the diplomatic credentials for their reigning baster. here in ukraine based in keven, dramatically scaling down the, the rate in embassies presence here. he says, because iran is providing drones to russia that he says, are being used here to attack ukrainian troops in this war. he quickly cited that one incident where iranian provided drone used by the russians hit and government building in odessa, killing a citizen. so these drones are highly powerful precision, drones with munitions on them. some are used for surveillance and he said that the ukrainians have been able to shoot down 8 of them, but clearly they are clear threat to ukrainians soldiers. so this is their

ukrainian government's response to that basically telling their iranians to not provide these drones to the russians, but clearly they are. so he's decided to expel the iranian ambassador here. ok, well thank you very much indeed. given elizondo talking to us from keith, the us says it's prepared to impose more sanctions on russia if the kremlin moves to annex parts of ukraine. white house correspondent, kimberly hall goods. good mor from washington, d. c. the white house, calling these referendums, shands and illegitimate. now it is the belief of the white house, according to white house press, secretary, korea, john pierre, that these will be manipulated in terms of the results. as a result, the white house will not accept the outcome of these referendums and also they believe that they will very much be manipulated. now we can tell you that as a result,

the white house has decided in consultation with allies to impose economic penalties . but the weight has not saying specifically what those penalties will be. we are prepared to impose additional swift and severe economic costs on russia along with our allies and partners in response to these actions if they move forward with annexation. as we said in today's g 7 liter statement, the united states will never recognize this territory or as anything other than part of ukraine because it belongs to the people of ukraine. we stand with our partners around the world in rejecting whatever fabricated outcomes. russia announces, we do know, however, that this comes on the heels of escalating rhetoric from black repute and the russian president who has threatened to use nuclear weapons. and we also know that the white house has set at this time that it is not adjusting its nuclear posture,

its own nuclear posture in response. the mobilization of army reservices continuing across russia, president vladimir prudence looking to bolster his forces in ukraine and the highest eastern region of ja kotia and indoor stadiums been turned into a reception center for those called up for military service. on wednesday the kremlin announced $300000.00 reservists would be drafted. that's out a ukrainian force is pushed russian troops out of huge areas of territory in a successful country offensive this month. nazareth all signals logically? well, i didn't expect it. i went to the kindergarten with my daughter and they gave me the core that paper in the street. i came here at once. i'm fine keeping cam. i won't be away for the long. hopefully. somebody does my relatives crying. the most difficult thing is to say good bye to the kids. more cognition got off more, of course, and ready to protect the motherland that not now was not this time for sure. luma,

it's not my war when now is the war of russians in ukrainian asked me not mind though. ruth, of it has been held in washington in honor of masa omni, whose death spark protests in iran and around the world. dozens of gathered in front of the lincoln memorial. all these signs and chanting masses name iranian police are accused of beating up the 22 year old. our to she was arrested for wearing her head scarf too loosely. yes. a group of women in chile have also rally to highlight what's happening in a run their chanting for women's lives and freedom. iranians say tv says as many as 26 protesters and police have died since violence who ruptured over ominous death to han's limited internet services to try to clamp down on the growing descent. the u. s. government's easing exports restrictions there to improve online access. it says the move could help protesters get around state surveillance and censorship. the c e o of space ex you know,

musk says it'll activate its satellite internet service. starling in a run wasn't jordan's got more from washington dc. the usaa government has announced that it is going to try to make it easier for iranians to do just that by imposing what they're calling a general license to make it possible for tech companies based both here in the us and overseas to provide this sort of software, these sorts of platforms and other material to iranian citizens so that they can not only access the internet, but a tried to do so without being detected by the iranian authorities. this is everything from cloud based platforms, to social media platforms, to virtual private networks, or v p and all of this sort of technology that has really developed in recent years . the u. s. is allowing these companies to make this kind of of equipment and

software available without running the risk of being sanctioned by the us treasury department. now it's fortuitous that this announcement is coming right now in the days after the death of mos on nini. but u. s. officials have told reporters that they were working on this policy with tech companies for the past us several months, really trying to get a sense of what was available, what could be provided, and what things needed to be put into place in order to make it possible for these companies to provide these services to iranian citizens. jim anderson is a technology analyst and he explains why washington's move will be challenging. there's a tremendous amount of complexity and when you impose something like export controls, as the u. s. has done you very much locked down a whole lot of things, whether those are what you intended to lockdown or not. i think it's fascinating though that the us is now thing we want to ease that. we want to try to allow the internet to be in the hands of the people and it's obvious why they would like to

do that. so i think the practical implications is something like star link which involve satellites, of course, that are up in the guise. but also receivers on the ground. now you're starting to think about ok. things that might not have been possible before with the or controls now may be possible. and that's very much something that the u. s. government is going to want to encourage, you know, citizens to be able to get, get information at a time when they are. there's certainly protesting what the government is doing. it's like a cat and mouse game. what you do is you ease the export control who say i want to put the equipment in the hands of the citizen, say a star link receiver or some other kinds of routers, or other internet equipment that was illegal before this to be exported by u. s. companies, but now it's legal now it may still be illegal in iran because they operate under a different set of laws obviously. so that's the cat and mouse game. and i would expect to see i ran start to try to counter those kinds of things and then the u. s . will counter the counter move so it, it very much ends up being at our mouth games, whether any individual citizen is able to look at instagram on any given day or any

given device. that's very much an open question, but clearly what we're trying to do here is fight a battle effectively over access to information. the u. s. would like for access to be more open. iran, at least at this point in time, would like for it to be more restricted. still had an al jazeera waiting to bury their loved ones, palestinian se israel is withholding the remains of family members as a form of punishment. ah hello there. let's have a look at the weather across europe and things of turned cooler and west. we are likely to see some areas of heavy rain over the weekend, particularly in the south and in east and not softer. a cold front worked its way down from the north. thanks to some northerly, blustery wins that are brought temperatures down for the likes of london and paris

. so the heavy rain on saturday will be concentrated in northern areas of a city. places that for drought just a few months ago, we'll now see some heavy rain and we could see flooding here. now that wet weather does shift its way further east. behind it however, we have got some heavy rain for northern areas of paris. it's been wet and windy for the 0 islands, but gaston starts to work its way west out to sea. now, western areas of russia are also seen the wet weather. however, that does the ease as we go into sunday. it's going to push east that system, bringing some wintery weather to the likes of the alps. it'll be wet around the adriatic sea and also in more southern areas of italy farther north. some more rounds of rain rolling into the north west of the u. k. britain, an island deceased scattered thunderstorms is going to be scattered as well. that rain in spain, madrid, seeing the temperature tip down. it's going to be cooler. ah,

frank assessments differ. united states that you're running the program was there with opinions. i believe armenia and other regions should have bilateral negotiations. we've been calling that so many times. critical debate is the commonwealth now still something that king charles, we'll take in depth analysis of the data global headlines inside story on al jazeera blue. ah, you're watching old 0 reminder of our top stories. this are the 2nd day of

a referendum to annex for most all held regions. and ukraine is underway. that reports that armed soldiers have been going door to door to get people to vote. officials say some residents been threatened with punishment if they don't cast a ballot. the mobilization of army reserve us is continuing across russia. moscow's announced that 300000 people will be cold to fight. and south ukrainian forces pushed russian troops out of thousands of kilometers of territory and a counter offensive this month. and the u. s. government announced his easing exports restrictions to iran to improve internet access. that's after on limited online services to stem protests over a young woman's death in police custody. okay, well, as we've heard, russia is stepping up. the mobilization of army reserve says ukraine's counter offensive continues. the move is forcing thousands of russians to flee their country, but crossing easily into finland and the east may not be an option. helsinki plans

to make it more difficult for them to get in always has more from the volume or border crossing in finland. there are no longer many ways to leave russia, but this is one of the, the board with finland that volleyball, 3 hour drive from st. petersburg, where the numbers departing seemed to be increasing. the wake of president vladimir putin. partial mobilization of the russian people. crowded with league and now while if there has been more traffic crossing from russia to fiddle, and since wednesday evening, no particular restrictions were next or border to the shaken zone. so he performed star checks. most people are traveling into finland on tourist baez's. copy room luck, we'll give you. one of those is to be treated just kind of an engineer from st. petersburg, on his way to helsinki and then charl anchor, where he hopes to be safe from a call up to fight the war in ukraine. when did you decide to, to leave russia 2 days ago? because of the mobilization?

yes. i don't a have a least of for a mobilization but ice good. how did you get through the border of? oh good. good. no question. so always good. just go and leave russian border. police said that 6000 russians came into finland through this crossing alone on thursday. double the number of a week earlier. friday was another busy day with cues stretching back some 400 meters. elaina gruff over has been commuting over the border since february. she doesn't believe most people are in any great rush to leave. i don't feel any cur, around people here on the borders, so it's very, very calm. not like some people think it is later calm turned into almost total quiet as evening draws in head. there's just a few calls left from the long queues of the morning. most of the russians have

tried to get across the border seem to have been successful. those could be the lucky ones, report to the finish media. se ministers are working on a plan to get around the principles of the shing, an agreement on freedom of movement. by claiming that finland's, acceptance of russian tourists is damaging it's international relationships. pull race out his era volleyball on the finland, russia border. the remains of had a can shown are heading towards canada. people there are being one to expect very strong winds, even though it's weakened to a post tropical storm. hundreds of thousands of people have lost power. nova scotia is the 1st bands of the storm head. eastern canada, patty gall haine. reports hurricane fiona made 1st landfall in puerto rico. last sunday, where half of the u. s. territory is still without power. it marched over the dominican republic, destroying homes and businesses, as it went, then brushed the bahamas and swept by bermuda on friday. and now it's on track to

make a very rare hit on eastern canada. total rain fall amounts again, we're looking at the some of the same numbers we were looking at yesterday with the 100 to 150 was some localized amounts that could exceed a 150. and the gray area that you see on the map here in nova scotia is for 4 areas that potentially could it see the $150.00 millimeters. currently a category for storm. it may lands a post tropical storm bringing potentially dangerous storm searches, winds and likely massive power outages. people shouldn't be dancing that may sound self evident, but don't go to the water and try to be a big shot. don't, don't surf, we go surfing, hear that. that's, that's great, but don't sure from the hurricane. and as it passes, all eyes will then turn southward. another tropical depression in the caribbean has formed that forecast, her se could grow into

a powerful hurricane. likely to hit the u. s. state of florida in the coming days, particle haine, al jazeera pakistan's prime minister's appeal to the un general assembly for urgent action on climate change shall, is, sharif, says, pakistan still needs help follow, devastating floods. one thing is very clear. what happened in pakistan will not stay in bog is done as the sector john, so candidly stays hot spot, like bob is don ford in the moon, in the 10 most diamond vulnerable list of countries, but a met less than one percent of the greenhouse gases dead out of burning art planet, it is therefore entirely reasonable to expect some approximation of justice. under the young people of rallied in new york demanding more action to stop climate

change. the march was one of many held in various cities as part of friday's global climate strike. the protesters want more aid to be given to poor countries, which have been hit by severe weather. hundreds of families in the occupied westbank said they've been forced to wait to bury the remains of their loved ones. they say their family members bodies are being held by israel. natasha named reports, but our 6 year old to laugh speaks to her mother every day. she talks to her at her grave site, and she talks to her photos at home stu, good, her act that he, i missed her body. i missed her face most, and i missed all of her catalog. graham path. my a funny was killed by israeli soldiers in 2021. the day the ph. d student died. her family says she was talking on the phone and her car veered as she approached a checkpoint. the israeli military says she attempted to ram into and stab soldiers

. it took 14 months for the military to return her body to her family and had without the seller. ah, if, if my old ahead sula, knew the remains had been returned. if i didn't give her the chance to see her mother one last time, she would have blamed me forever. we made a wreath of flowers and used the scarf to cover most of my face, sula, saw it, and gone emotional, but in the end, she accepted it. the national campaign for retrieving the bodies of martyrs says since the 19 sixty's, the israeli military has withheld the bodies of 350 palestinians killed by israeli soldiers. they were suspected of carrying out attacks. the campaign says that's a violation of international law and the geneva conventions. the bodies are held in morgues or in secret numbered graves. the israeli military says it withholds the bodies of quote terrorists in accordance with government policy up held by the supreme court. the military won't divulge the number of bodies it's withholding or

the location of cemeteries citing security reasons. but as the bodies are buried with dignity, the family of mohammed sha ham is still waiting to bury him after he was killed during a raid last month or the drama that fill on woodrum. this is an arrogant and criminal occupation if they could chop his body and feed it to the dogs. they would. they hate us. so laughed father. hussein. so since her mother's death, the family has done its best to support her. and then now ha, i want to be by her side and love her galen and let him pass. who seen says the families waiting for the bodies of their loved ones need support too. he's calling for protests so that all palestinians can be buried in the soil of their homeland. natasha, rename, else's era abode dease in the occupied west, bake uganda's health minister. he says the death toll from an outbreak of abolla

has climbed to 11, though the 1st fatalities from the virus, their sins. 2019 officials say they've identified a total of 11 confirmed cases of the highly contagious virus that several other people are suspected to be infected. hong kong has announced it's got a scrap, it's covered 19 hotel quarantine policy for all people arriving in the territory. the controversial systems gonna end on monday more than 2 and a half years after it came into effect and said, travelers will be asked to monitor them selves for symptoms for 3 days. after entering the city preflight p. c, our tests are also being dropped. italy's in the home stretch, when a general election campaign final campaign rallies had been held ahead of the ballot on sunday, former prime ministers use every county has told a crowd in rome. the vote is a historic one. his country trailing and the polls were far right coalition led by georgia maloney opinion polls of tipping her as the country's 1st female prime

minister demonstrators in mexico have attacked a military base to protest the disappearance of 43 students nearly 8 years ago. ah, the protests is blame the army for those deaths. they try to storm a military camp in the capital. mexico city police retaliated with tear gas. in august, mexico's truth commissioned blame the security forces for not stopping the violence . manufacturers played his final competitive tennis match before retiring, but the 20 time grand slam champion was unable to finish his career on a high losing to the team world pairing as a lever cup in london. all vanover reports taking to the court for the final time go to a federal partnering with long time rival rough. i own a dow to round out as 24 year korea. and fittingly the match being played in london . the city with federal one,

the 1st of us 20 grand slam titles. back in 2003. the 41 year old has struggled with injuries, the past 3 years. those still able to, well, the crowd. even if the shot didn't count, even at the end of roaches, career is given a something we've never seen before. pharaoh leaves the game 3rd on the list of all time, grand slam champions by novak jock of edge, and raphael nadeau. he won a total of $103.00 atp titles in korea that included an incredible $1251.00 victories. this was maestro spent a total of $310.00 weeks as boiled number one, a messing more than a $130000000.00 in prize money throughout his career. it's been a been a perfect journey. i will do it all over again.

oh thank you so much and it's been amazing. thank you everybody. so many people cheer me on. and you guys here tonight, wins the world, wiping back the tears. fedora, 1st thing is rivals before paying tribute to his family. the girls to boys. my wife's been so supportive and she couldn't stop me long time ago. she but she didn't. she kept me going and allowed me to play. so it's amazing factor her sentiment by those in the stands shared by fans everywhere. paul van worth. how.