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ah . after locking out pile and destroying homes in cuba, a stronger hara can ian is approaching, florida. i'm threatening catastrophic damage. ah hello, i'm adrian finnegan. this is al jazeera alive from dough. also coming up the european union at russia. both systems suspect sabotaged off the gas leaks. appear and rushes nord stream pipelines plus i over here in baghdad. supporters of cheer, clinic, montana, or seller, come from police during a parliament session, over the resignation of that speaker. and up to 13 years guineas, former leader,

mussa camacho, and 10 of us go on trial for the killing of 150 people at a stadium. ah, a powerful category for storm is bearing down on the state of florida. how are can in, is expected to make landfall along the southwest coast in the coming hours. early up, it knocked our power in cuba. people in florida, bracing for its impacts and have been born of catastrophic flooding. the states covered up is warning of a nasty 2 days ahead. leah harding reports the warm waters in the gulf of mexico are making hurricane in even stronger from space . it's seen swirling over the caribbean. oh yeah. this woman in cuba weeds through waters inside what's left of her home. it also went to italy. it was the

disaster. i've never seen this before. we lost everything. nothing is left. as you can see. now, florida is next. you need to evacuate. now you're the governor of florida told people and it's south west to leave as the waves get taller and stronger. so this is a major, major storm. it's something that we knew was going to be significant. that the strengthening of this over the last night, you know, has been, has been really, really significant, is potentially that it could, data could make landfall as a category 5 with the lack of power, many or downloading a free app called zillow. that works like a walkie talkie and can be used with little to no cell phone signal drive. it was the number one downloaded app during hurricane harvey in 2017. other preparations include stocking up on food and water. and this creative trick,

if you have especially an old laptop sitting around and then the storm is coming, keep it plugged in, keep the battery charge. and then even if you never turn the laptop on, it's basically a gigantic battery pack that you can use to get several charges out of your phone. despite the various tips, officials say they are still concerned, residents may be apathetic. i do have concerns about complacency. we're talking about impacts in a part of florida that hasn't seen a major direct impact in nearly a 100 years. there's also parts of florida where there's a lot of new residents that have never experienced this type of threat. so my message to them is still take this very seriously. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration predicts $6.00 to $10.00 hurricanes will form in the atlantic this year. half are expected to be major lia hardy, i'll do 0. i was serious nasa sannie is in tampa in florida. well it seems like florida has done so far, the maximum it can

a let alone the different calls from the officials to all the residency year to really, really take this one seriously. unlike other storms, because many florida is as you know, one through many stores before and that survived literally. but this time i from washington to the local tallahassee. a government in florida the called is take it seriously and, and, and really leave they, they started 3 to 4 days ago. now the airport is closed, the schools are closed. everything around me is closed. there's not one bit why can buy little piece of bread, for example, or auto put gas in my station. so yes, it's america, our florida is ready. but there is always a little number of floridians who won't his that. busy call, who won't leave those areas, and that's a real danger. many decided because they just think they can ride this store, they have enough expertise, what we call that knowledge of the sea and the movement of the nature. so they decided to stay and they are just by the sea and they don't,

he doth cold. there are other cases where they're just people who just can't leave and have no health for social family reasons. i talked to this lady who are the, this gentleman who is deaf and blind is on it a his on it isn't us a 10 story building and just decided to stay because he just has no help. so there are those cases here. once it starts, the authorities are saying, buddies you are on your own, nobody will come to the rescue. russia has called for a un security council meeting over damage to 2 of its north stream gas pipelines in the baltic sea. the european union at nato say there was leeks, would you to sabotage? nod stream. one usually ships gas directly from russia to germany, but deliveries was suspended by russia earlier this month because of a stand off of the sanctions. denmark and sweeping 1st reported the leaks through the on the born home. shipping near the lions has been restricted. a norway is deploying its military to protect its oil and gas installations. steadfast report

south look men in germany. the point where the old stream pipelines commercial investigations are ongoing, here at the baltic sea ice into what actually happened. of course we heard yesterday from sweetie says i smaller is that there were explosions recorded. and the most european lead us here agreed that it was very likely sabotaged. but who has done this, who could be behind is this is still a big question mark, and many here are not waiting for any results of this investigation to come out. and blame game is ongoing. the europeans of finger pointing at russia for being behind this. although it's their own pipes, they say this could be some kind of warning that more actions could be taken. and the russians, on the other hand, are saying that the united states have the most to benefit if the oil prices are going up. and actually the foreign ministry spokeswoman from most cub motor. yeah.

cobblestone has put on her telegram channel that russia wants to call a special session fraud. and you unsecure with the council in what she calls investigating to sabotage acts towards north stream. so there's a lot of accusations going back and forth. but meanwhile, europe has been shocked of course, by the fact that this has really shown the vulnerability of its energy supply and the danish defense minister. asthma to the nate, the nato chief installed in burke, saying that this energy supply really has to be more secure it the europe in union, and the u. s. are planning to impose more sanctions on russia holding what they say, what they call sharp referendums in ukraine. the pilots were held in the washing occupied parts of cassandra, apple regime donuts and lou hands of crimson back to authority. say the results show the people of overwhelmingly voted to join the russian federation. separatists reported huge margins of victory saying that in lieu hands,

98 percent of voters favored annexation of 0100 bel hamid traveled to southern towns in ukrainian controlled territory to hear what people there have to say about the votes. it's all was the same desolate scenes go, sounds destroyed, saw less. this is the cause to green is being to regain control of land that was occupied by russia. we are in vehicle media in the north of histone region. the look on the faces of those who state tell the story. here, there is no sign of referendum, but the russians are just 5 kilometers away. and people their vote to decide if her son should join the russian federation. the referendum is a sham, according to the kind of son administration. now in exile or someone from us, we are getting information from local people there. you should understand. it's not

a referendum, it's a movie. everything is done for the cameras. there was no preparation, according to the law. they are coming to people's houses with weapons and forcing them up. they catch them on the street. gina voted with her feet by escaping to the crane inside. she won't show her face because some of her relatives are still in the russian held part of his son. she's worried about what could happen in the days to come. it's very difficult for us to speak to people who are living in areas under russian occupation. and from here, it is impossible to reach those areas. so we as andree, if he could call his mother who is still in her son and tell us what is happening there. about 200000 people have been displaced by the war since it started 7 months ago. and re is one of them. my father died 3 years ago, but when soldiers came to visit my mom, they were lucky for her. my dad to vote. there was some people who voted for russia,

but not in big numbers. many others have fled regions where the river and it has taken place. over the past 5 days, marianna had stayed in russian controlled part of that body. jeff was 7 months. she says, being forced to vote was the last straw, but for his is to lassie lana. this is a bittersweet moment and a bottle fit. it angers me all your life. you grow up with people, you work with them, you live next to them. and then all of a sudden they embrace the colors of russia, and they are happy and smiling that they are part of russia. and while the international community has declared the referendum illegal, ukrainians feared that the vote will mean even more and more devastation before they regained control of their country. and that, that, i mean, algebra in southern ukraine. thousands of people of fred russia since front of me a put in, issued a mobilization order last week, prices for flights from moscow sword. after the announcement,

those were places like turkey or the u. e and former soviet republics, like georgia and armenia, sold out. long traffic jams formed at land crossings into neighboring countries. roads into georgia, kazakhstan, and long julia, have seen an influx of russians looking to cross. the crossing from st. petersburg to finland could soon be restricted. that's after the finished government announced that it will been washing tourists in the coming days, will russia's north of setting up a region that borders georgia has announced. restrictions on cars arriving from other parts of the country. tens of thousands of been trying to cross into georgia waiting for hours at the border. the online service yon dex maps says the traffic jam leading to the verb, the laws border crossing, stretched for around 15 kilometers on tuesday. the governor of turkey is southern province and talia says an increasing number of russians who have arrived on returning home. said of course yearly reports from his stumble,

flights to stumble and anchored. i fully booked from russia a but this time that people, the russian people are preferring to extend their stay. so this is interesting case and i spoke to some real estate agencies, the non tonya. they are telling me that more and more people are coming or calling them to ask for is 6 months or one year long term rentals in onside. yeah. and outside, it has become a very important attraction, attractive destination for russians ukrainians, iranians cossacks occurred with people and around more than 50000 russians have gained residential, residential permits in the last couple of years. but when you come to a stumble again, we are hearing from the turkish airline companies that they flights are still full of books. they return slides are booked like 99 to 5 percent,

but we are hearing more and more stories these days that russians was coming to turkey. if i'd prefer to stay for longer time to see what's going to happen in their country as the a partial mobilization decision has been put in place as since last week. so to come here on al jazeera, we profile a former brazilian president luna the silva as he prepares to challenge the incumbent and sunday selection. ah hello this in. so some fresh weather coming in to the arabian gulf as we go on through the next couple of days. i say in this much matches lot, you try hot and sunny. 30 a celsius here in doha for thursday, a few showers just stop towards georgia and even these will retreat away as we go

13, friday might catch a shout from northern parts of iran. much of the middle east will be dry and sell this fresh was 35 celsius, was trying to get to 35 on friday afternoon. so not too bad, becoming increasingly pleasant. hope of the coming days and weeks. well, as you draw across northern parts of africa, you might just catch a rogue shower just around the straight. soft rotor in north america could catch a shower or 2, plenty of showers across central africa. still some live the ones they're into southern chad into were cameroon, southern areas of nigeria, some wet weather that to into a toga, grassy pushing further eastwards across liberia, joining up with a heavy shower that we have a cross central africa with the seasonal res. pushing further south, it's now as they should have yet down paused there through the bomb, pushing across into the democratic republic of congo. we'll see some showers now pushing into northern areas of anger over the next day or so. and noticed some wet weather making its way across southern and eastern parts of south africa.

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hello again. this is al jazeera. let's remind you of the main news. the south end has strengthened into a category for her reckoned as it hurtles towards florida. people are being warned of catastrophic storm searches earlier. the hurricane left cuba without power rushing back to authorities in full regions, view crane se the results of referendums held over 5 days show that people have overwhelmingly voted to join the russian federation. keith, it's western allies say the vote was a sham masa. me, these parents have filed a complaint against the police who arrested that daughter in iran, demonstrations continually the 2 weeks after nationwide. protests began. a rights group says that at least 75 people were killed in the unrest. critics accused police of firing directly at protest is among those arrested. is the daughter of the former president hush or meet russian jaunty of his ears? russell set up is in aaron's capital tech, ron. he's with a stout life. how significant is the arrest of the daughter of

a former president russell? well, it's not significant in terms of the, its potential impact on the iranian politics here. however, it's important for protested to have her support and, and naturally having the support from bras, angenie family as well. so she's the daughter of the former president of iran. hush me roxanne jenny, he was a, one of the founding fathers of the islamic republic and one of the most influential figures in the more than history off iran. he was elected twice as the president and he, he played a crucial rule, particularly after the war between iran and iraq. but in the last years of his life, he has been quite critical to what establishments and the government here. and since then he and his family had been having target by the that there, by the government and establishment here. so the arrest or pfizer, ross and johnny, his daughter is not happening for the 1st time. she was arrested from 2009. and then in 2012. so this is the 3rd time the security forces. and the source official

sources here are seeing that the reason that she has been arrested is because she is for walk into protest against the, the government. we do not know how long will she stay in the, in the prison. however, for the protest as having her support is quite important, but we should know that she is not one of the leading figure in this protest. what about other people who are part of the protest? how is iran dealing with those who are supportive? well, last night in some cities they have been there have been protests, but we can see that they are losing the momentum in terms of they are secure. the participation is, is declining, and we do not know whether it's not clear whether this is because of the internet restriction that has be put by the government or whether it is because of the security forces. having a heavy presence in the streets. and also they are heavy handed measures against the protesters as well. but so far,

we can see that they are losing the momentum and also the president of iran. abraham bracey is expected tonight to, to deliver to, to have a televised interview with iranian journalist from the state tv. so he's also expected to, to briefly probably talk about the ongoing crisis in the country. and once he speak about this and the about the government's policy, we will have more details. i'll just serious russell said are reporting life from iran capital to wrong. and it actually did russell free rockets if at the highly fortified green zone in iraq's capital baghdad, 7 people injured that happened this parliament was discussing whether to accept the speakers resignation. it's the 1st time that i am peace of met since supporters of the ship politician laptop asada held a city in parliament in july and the other side of supporters march towards parliament, but were dispersed by police soldiers heroes halle ali ashan was at this process.

security forces were pushed back from diarrhea to square right now on the entrance of a gym. woody bridge. as you can see, many of those. oh, good supporter. i'm trying to push their way towards the bridge. now right now, clashing good security forces, throwing stones on them in an attempt to cross the bridge to watch the other side of this training stone. and i over here, i go over 7 issues, and we are internal issues with connie, 44, and we over regional medlink international mentioning i mainly oh, the situation that's unfolding right now. as you can see, because it was, as you know,

are pushing towards the end of the hedge towards the end of the bridge. they've got out of control a security forces on attempting to get back to the square where we are going to where we're going to in order to close the bridge. once again, opening the bridge will give that thought that the, the chance to go towards the green zone, which is what security forces are trying to prevent from baghdad. maria, him a j 0. at least 9 people have been killed and 28 wounded in iranian strikes on iraq's kurdish region to iran says it's targeting terrorist groups. strikes have repeatedly been carried out on the rocks. kurdish region was processed mountain iran over the death of the kurdish woman. massa minnie and police custody iraq has

summoned a ron's ambassador and he's really raid on a home in the janine refugee camp in the occupied west bank turned into a gun fights for several hours for palestinians died. the release targeted relatives of a man killed in april after attacking people in tel aviv john henry reports from ramallah. early in the morning is really forces arrive at a refugee camp in jeanine. a bulldozer leads the way is really army troops. fire an anti tank weapon attacked it called the pressure cooker designed to get people inside the building to flee. leaving this home in flames. then begins an hour's long armed confrontation that leaves dozens wounded, some dead. this mobile phone video appears to capture the moment one gunman is killed. at a nursery nearby sounded gunfire since children scrambling. the target of the raid was the home of relatives of rod cousin. a gunman who killed 3 israelis and injured

several more in april and bar and television. he alluded israeli forces for hours before they finally fatally shot him. this video shows he's really forces drilling holes for explosives in his home in september. then demolishing it with a blast. the israeli army says on wednesday it was looking for 2 gunmen suspected of carrying out recent shooting attacks. one of them was chasms brother abdul rockman saudi chasm. his now lost a 2nd son, rod chasms. brother abbot died in the attack on wednesday, although we were the they demolished our house, but those only bricks that are going to destroy our technician. they killed my sons by then or dead to the i live in heaven with believing god in accept his will. the raid follows an increase in armed palestinian attacks on his railey targets in the occupied west bank, especially in the northern cities of janine and nobliss. the palestinian authority

condemned the re with prime minister him a homage. dia saying palestinian blood has become a ticket in the upcoming israeli elections. some israeli leaders say the palestinian authority appears to be losing control on the west bank. alice, dinny, and leaders say the rise and attacks on his railey forces is due to frustration over the lack of a peace process. the oslo accords that promise palestinians their own state nearly 30 years ago, never created one in the generation. it's grown up since then. is growing impatient ah, hours after the attack, the funerals were under way, as is required under islamic tradition, but they are only likely to increase rising tensions on the west bank. john henderson, al jazeera ramallah, north korea has 5 to short range ballistic missiles off its east coast. they were launched from the soonest area near the capital joan gang. so a condemned north korea saying that it will continue operations to the turn north korea from more military action. the bank of england is warning of

a risk to the you case, financial stability after the pound dropped to an all time low against the us dollar. on monday, traders were concerned over new chancellor, quasi cor tangs package of tax cuts and the amount of money being borrowed to pay for it. the i m f says that it will increase inequality on thursday. the bank of england stepped into by government bonds to help bring stability to the financial system. india's government, us band, the muslim organization called the popular front of india for 5 years. the government accuses the group of being involved in anti national and terrorism related activities. several members have been arrested or detained, and raids across the country. it also says the group has a secret agenda to radicalized parts of society. the town of guineas for president and 10 others is underway in the capital con. agree. they're accused of being responsible for a massacre that happened on this day, 13 years ago. at least 50. so 157 people were killed and 1200

injured in the unrest. they were attending a demonstration, protesting against mussa tomatoes, intention to run again as president the following year. i would address reports from the capital deal, but there is still a lot of anger, 13 years up to this months ago. a lot of people are angry that nothing has been done in 13 years. some are grateful that this process has taunted after 13 years. and that is what many critics of the school i saying, a b government of all that kind of a w is trying to capitalize on. they say that they would only wait to see the end of the process. yeah. before commenting on whether or not this is a politically motivated trial or in fact it's a move for justice for victims of this massacre. 13 years ago, brazil's former president louis ignacio lula da silva, has widened his lead over incumbent jaya, boston our in the latest opinion. polls ahead of the election on sunday. in the run

up to the vote, we've been to las place of birth to retrace his political career. our latin america editor lucio newman reports from pen bull co, a remote dirt road in northeastern brazil, the country's poorest region. this is where it, aldo santos takes us to see where his cousin, reecy nasir lula garcia. i was born or at least an exact replica, the home of donnelly, and do louis mother. you original fell down years ago. this was the typical house of subsistence farmers made of mud in coconut tree sticks, with no running water or electricity as his toilet thinks it won't buy the prosecutors yet as wise. it's important to reconstruct the story for future generations so that they can assimilate louis story and realize that they too can fight for collective justice in these times of individualism, but our dories. this was the bedroom with a family of 10 slept, and this suitcase was used as a closet until lula. the mother who was illiterate,

decided to take all of her children to sao paolo never dreaming who one of her youngest sons would eventually become. newly began working at the age of 14 and went on to become a formidable trade union leader and founder of the workers, pardon, or p t. he had little formal education, but an abundance of christmas and negotiating skills. in 2003 newly became brazil's 1st working class president. he introduced sweeping social reforms to combat poverty. and this distinction of working class resilience from providing educational ruler to fresh water access for people like palmer gomez, missy amal, welcome. i began to love lula long ago, like a father, a hero, because honestly, he embraces the cause of the poor. emotional, massive housing projects also help lift 33000000 people from poverty during his 2

terms. which coincided with the boom in prices for brazilian commodities, brazil's economy sort, where they were, we had all was not well. nagging charges of corruption had long surrounded him and his political party. a multi 1000000000 dollar graph scandal exploded after he left office in 2010. just as the economy began regressing ha, millions of brazilians turned on lula, demanding he go to jail. now, what would happen if lula is not imprisoned? he will return to power and keep stealing is the ringleader of them all. he was convicted and imprisoned on charges of money laundering and corruption which he denied, but was released 18 months later when the supreme court ruled that all of louis convictions be an old. because of suspect procedural practices now, 12 years after he left office with more than 80 percent approval ratings in older.