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rushes president recognizes the independence of moscow control regions in ukraine. the un security council will meet on friday to condemn of the annexation. ah, i've had some secret. this is, i just need a line from the also coming up. thousands of russians fleet to georgia off the president vladimir putin ordered a military mobilization for the war in ukraine. in strength, things to a hurricane, after being downgraded briefly, storm is being cold. one of america's worst, brazil's presidential candidates face off in a debate just days before election, all show incumbent jail both sonata trailing the and russia

is taking another step towards annexing parts of easton, ukraine. president vladimir putin assigned decrees recognizing the occupied regions of harrison and zap for easier paving the way for formal annexation on friday. this follows the referendums organize this week, which western countries have denounced as a sam. ukraine has called an emergency meeting of top officials. president vadim zalinski says they'll be a robust response, but i do need to give you a key on the eve of those steps. russia shows with its aggression early on the battlefield, but with its aggressive policy. it continues to provide artificial referendums. and here it's a defense of us for that all our partners, all the civilized world, leaders and certainly france support ukraine. the united states are want to be very clear about this. united states will never, never, never recognize russia's claims on ukraine. sovereign territory is so call

referenda was a sham and absolute shame. the results were manufactured in moscow and the, the true will of the ukrainian people is evident every day is a sacrifice to live, to save their people and maintain the independence of their country. un secretary general antonia garage has said the rushes plans to annex the occupied parts of ukraine cannot be accepted. on triple magic editor, james bass has more from you and headquarters in new york. these are the strongest comments from the un secretary general since the start of the war in ukraine. he talks about so called referenda, which don't reflect the genuine will of the people living in those areas. and on the plans for annexation, he says they go against international law and against the un charter, the founding document of the united nations. it since against every seeing,

the in social community is meant to stand for it flogged the purposes and principles of united nations. it is a dangerous escalation. it has no place in the modern world. it must not be accepted. the un security council will meet on friday. the u. s. and albania have been working on a draft resolution condemning russia. there is, of course, little doubt that russia will veto such a resolution, but already the u. s. ambassador to the united nations linda thomas greenfield, has said that she will then take the issue to the un general assembly. a russia has accused in the u. s. chief of taking sides in the ongoing conflict mohammed vol, is in moscow with more on that. moscow is not listening to what mister god gutierrez is saying, the law a moscow is in another world. russia is bracing for celebrations and the historic speech by vladimir putin. president vladimir putin, tomorrow. so, i mean, the logic here is very different. we are in the, i'm, i mean, i'm talking from

a place where, i mean, things are seen from a completely different perspective. russians are bracing for what they called the correction of history. i think that those territories belong to russia, and that it was wrong in the 1st place to, to let them go. and now it is time. it is the coronation of this, of the sacrifices given by the but by the russians during this war and before. and it's, it's just less than 24 hours before the before it starts. and that is when the president vladimir putin will sign this agreement with the leaders of the for break away regents who have already landed here. moscow. i don't think that russia is really listening to what the secretary general of the united nations is saying, and they think that the you and is taking one side in this conflict. a u. s. president joe biden says he's getting reports that many lives have been lost off

the harken, e and hit florida. local media say at least the 13 people have died in one of the strongest ever. harkins to hit the stake. tactical haine has the details. whoa, destructive winds, record storm surge and in some places up to 30 centimeters of rain that fell in just 12 to 24 hours. another record breaker. we got out the door, swam out the doors was here. we got over there. and we walked away around the whole side of the house from the roof line, and then swam over that on 2 storm and it broke all the rules here. a really long time my chimney came down. i was afraid it was gonna come through the roof and crush me and now in its wake this search for those who survived. and those that didn't, there been more than 700 confirm rescues and there's likely many more than that.

other will be confirmed as more data comes in the president tour in the agency. the deals with disasters warned the death toll could be shocking. this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida's history. the numbers of still are still unclear, but we're hearing early reports. what may be substantial loss of life that would put the number of dead over 2000. and it's going to take a while to find out the true scale of the disaster. the loan bridge to settle island had large chunks washed away, and many roads are still unpalatable. and it's not over. we are expecting the storm to continue making its way to georgia, south carolina into north carolina. maintaining tropical storm force winds. deadly storm surge and rainfall of up to 12 inches. us store storm that experts say was made stronger by warming waters. now people all across florida are seen the true cost of climate change, cattle haine, al jazeera. in brazil,

the final presidential debate is on the way ahead of sunday's election form of president lewis. inasmuch luna da silva is the front runner. he's been leading his nearest rival incumbent jaya both so nato, in opinion polls will be run off later in october. if no candidate gets 50 percent of the votes for more now let's speak to manuel rapids. he joins us live from rio de janeiro so many. how important is this last debate this evening in rio de janeiro? could this have a significant impact on the minds of as yet undecided voters in brazil? certainly swing that undecided vote is very much the strategy here for the candidates on that stage. this debate has reached the halfway mark at this point. it's also marks the last time that the candidates are going to see that each other face to face before brazilians had to the. busy polls on sunday, october,

the 2nd so far, what we've heard from, from the candidates, we won't get meyer down, but the details and rules of the actual debate itself with their 7 candidates on the stage, including incumbent president jadem ball. so natalie and the other leading candidate. we've seen your la, the syllabus so far. what we've heard is a basically a targeted attack of former president lula who is leading in the polls by as much as 50 percent of pulled voters here in brazil. this is significant, we'll get to that in a 2nd. but right now the strategy is swaying the minds of those undecided voters. we've already heard from presidential vote. so that of who's been speaking directly to women knowing very well that he's not pulling as well as his rival, a former president lula when it comes to female voters here in brazil, president bush. so now it was very much trying to close that gap between himself and, and lula who is leading by as much as 50 percent. again,

this is important because according to electoral law, here in brazil in order to win the presidency in this 1st round election that's taking place on sunday october, the 2nd a candidate must receive at least 50 percent of the vote plus one vote. now we will find out on sunday whether or not either for president lula or president j. u. so now you are able to obtain that thresh hold a 50 percent plus one if they are unable to do so. the scenario that were expected that's likely to play out is a run off election that 2nd round of voting would take place at the end of the month on october. the 30th and these elections in brazil are being seen as some of the most divisive in the country's history. there's a lot at stake is and they're both nationally and for the rest of latin america. this election has, without a doubt been one of the most polarizing in the history of brazil. and a lot of that polarization is being driven by the rhetoric from the 2 leading

candidates from presidential bull sonata. and from the former president luda on the one hand form the former president. 2 lula has been painting this picture of shay annabelle scenario as this far right wing anti democracy candidate. on the other hand, you have j bowles, so that was painting lula as a left wing radical who is threatening to push brazil and the rest of latin american for that matter toward communism. the one thing that we do see in common from voters, especially the ones that we've been speaking to over the course of the past few days here in, in rio de janeiro is that everyone, or at least most of the people that we've spoken to see this election as a critical battle over the future of brazilian democracy. all right, man, we're wrapping life 1st there in rio de janeiro. thanks very much, abbas now and his supporters insist there is no way he can lose our latin america editor, unless you know now reports from sao paolo ah,

motorcycle caravans. are the prelude to his public appearances? there followed by supporters, cries of metal or legend. the minute they see president jade bull sonata. his middle name is messiah, and he believes god has chosen him to lead brazil. his fans think he has a different sort of superpower, your forge war garbage there from your book. but i'm a lawyer, but i'm wearing a batman costume because i see pulse in arrow as a super hero without a cape, a guy who fights an entire system, defender of family values against abortion. wow. jade bull sonata was born here in the state of south power road to a family of humble needs. he loved weapons and joined the army, but was expelled for bad behavior. then became a congressman for an obscure right wing party. but after 74 year terms, he began to stand out. oh,

and he made his career basically using this bad behavior as an instrument to become famous. his, the one who's safe. think of that? no one has the courage to say for example, the criminal should be shot on sight that he'd rather his son die in a car accident than be gay. he's seen as a racist and suggests a woman's place is in the home. during former president jim andrew sets impeachment session, he dedicated his vote to the officer who tortured her during brazil's military dictatorship. does the fancy also now was the reincarnation of the devil war to retirement along with admiration for the president? a combination of hard line, conservative values, and nationalism. i'm convinced millions of resilience. this like these remarks, as communism is becoming president his loosened gun laws,

even though 70 percent of brazilians oppose the move. he's expanded agricultural and mining frontiers in the amazon rain forest. and when brazil's death toll from covered 19 became the 2nd highest in the world, he showed little compassion insisting people go back to work even before there was a vaccine door. the wall, i put them here, i am sure afforded that i am sorry, but we are all going to die one day. we have to stop being a country of sissy's dog law, youngblood. here you go. also not has often been compared to donald trump, whom he greatly admires. both the charismatic and anti political establishment. both showed disregard for democratic institutions like the supreme court in congress. and like trump most in madison, tolerance and sensitivity to the needs of the poor and his handling with the pandemic, could make his 1st presidential term his last c and human al jazeera. so paolo

alright, still ahead on al jazeera, a nationwide strike grins, france to a halt. will tell you what workers are demanding from the government and the u. s. and pacific on and lead us vow to strengthen that partnership. as america tries to get the upper hand on china's influence in the region, ah, i was 1st, the story is still about ian. that's crossed as florida an hour and is just coming out over opened water, all part of a system that runs up the eastern side, the safe last, the concentrated energy as you well know. so we should look at that. we'll zoom into it because it's like the co backing and make landfall the eye that is on the coast of the georgia or more likely south carolina. when does that, he won't, so it won't be a tropical storm will be a tropical psycho. so this is

a generic term for spinning storm with winds at this level friday evening. local for the i to come on shore costa rains. well ahead of that and rain could still be a problem as could i think a storm surge, much less to be saw in florida, but still a potential problem for somebody like charleston, for example. so that's the picture then for friday, and then not been a warmth in the middle, once against showers, still showing up in the mountain state of the rockies in particular. and it's still hot down in los angeles at 28 degrees. ok, caribbean wet again. certainly for lesser antilles, but there are shares virtually everywhere. as you can see. mexico looks that much dry have to say. and it's been heavy rain recently in western venezuela in columbia, and you see where the shower liked to still be repeated tickly in the western amazon. ah ah,

with guns in their hands and faith in god that their site. many american republicans believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen from donald trump, whitish nationals, midland, a mentally authoritarian and it is anti democratic people in our investigates. help the spread of wild conspiracy theories is undermining us democracy america's authoritarians park to on a jazeera lou . the me again, you're watching. i just a reminder of on top stories this out ukraine, as called an emergency meeting as top officials after russia said it would next for ukrainian regions on friday. that's after referendums in these areas where

according to moscow, people voted overwhelmingly to join russia. us president biden has warned how can ian, could we the deadliest in florida history and has declared a major disaster hearken, knocked out electricity to more than 2500000 homes and businesses. final presidential debate is underway in brazil ahead of sundays in election president louis enough. the silver is the front runner, even leading his nearest rival incumbent child bull sonata, in opinion polls. a thousands of russians have fled the country since president let me putin issued an order to call up hundreds of thousands of reservists to fight in ukraine. many are going to georgia where at the moment russians can stay for up to a year. a correspondent, enron con, is that the border it took alexander and his friends 24 hours to get into georgia. most of it was spent waiting in a car. eventually, they rented some bicycles,

a piece of luck. he says, otherwise, they might still be on the other side. his clay wife left his homeland. everybody knows that the push goes, the ballistics is wrong on my opinion, and you don't a fight in the war. and you know, of course, i don't want to kill nice people. most of the people i'll just respond to feel the same way about russia's war and ukraine. and while they are certain of that uncertainty awaits them. ego is a military age mail eligible to be called up in russia's partial mobilization. he crossed the border on foot. my wife is waiting to cross the border with coca with on don't know what times they will cross. the border falls for the men part of the society. so it is just like kill them, a lot of the game, you know, so you never know you when the lose. so my wife told, told me 2 days ago,

just go i will follow the shopping of borders has become a concern. one of the few roots out of russia, i finland has now been close by the finish government. and that's likely to mean more people arriving here. before the crossing has become a political hot potato. what the government says is, before the announcement of partial vocalization by the russian. there about 5000 cars crossing a day. that figure has gone up to $11000.00, but opposition politicians. i think that's nowhere near an accurate figure that the, the actual number is for larger than that. but for the russians who are coming across, they are allowed to stay in the country for a year. but uncertainty actually awaits them. they don't know how long they can afford to actually stay it. and more importantly, what awaits them when they do eventually get back to russia and con our desert. the last, the border crossing of stocks in the u. s. dropped to their lowest level since late

2020 as recession fears persists. investors are worried about the impact, interest rates will have on inflation. the s and p $500.00 index is down more than 8 percent this month. that's the worst september performance. since the 2008 global financial crisis, and a british pound reversed early a losses on thursday prime minister lives trust, defended a government's economic plans that cause chaos on financial markets. earlier in the week, investors have been worried about the scale of bothering needed to fund chancellor quasi quite things, tax cuts. and what we've done is we've taken decisive action. first of all, to make sure that nobody is paying more than a typical fuel bill of $2500.00 pounds. that will come in this saturday, but also to reduce our tax burden to make sure we grow the economy and also curve inflation. and that's so important, it's a difficult time. it we're facing

a global economic crisis brought about by putin's war and ukraine. and what was right, is that britain took decisive action to help people get free. what is going to be a difficult winter? or david haneke is the director of the u. k. trade policy project. he explains why the bank of england had to intervene in the bond market. there finish the u. k. gilt market. the government bonds were the yield rights, their interest rates were going up. and that's what the bank of england had to step in to stop, because that affected a lot of pension funds based in london for fairly complex financial reasons as to why. but it may well have rendered some u. k pension funds insolvent. and that may well of how to knock on the fact of the assets. so there is some concern that the, unless the u. k. situation is stable because london financial market is so important. there may be knock on effects and they're

a little bit unpredictable as little as we learned in 2000 night. not entirely clear what assets are being traded, where. so the book, as far as the method is concerned, this needs to be stabilized then quickly. they want to take action and arguably the issue has been, they've taken too much action. they took action to stabilize energy prices, which were looking like they could, you know, go incredibly high level people couldn't afford. but at the same time they pushed through some fiscal changes. and those have been controversial. those looks that to deepen the current account deficit, which was already a little bit worrying and i think that was seen is not particularly credible by the market. so there is more than one thing going on here as the backdrop of a few years of political instability. so quite a lot going on. and what you think government needs to do is to re refine restore. it's credibility that it is a good actor that london is a safe financial center. i'm was still in that sense of instability,

uncertainty as to what comes next. a demonstrators in france are protesting the high cost of living pension reforms and president emmanuel macros. policies trade unions called a 24 hour strike demanding high a pay for their workers. natasha butler reports from pears. thousands of public sector workers protested in paris. they say they're overworked and underpaid, and they're angry at the french government's plans to reform the pension system and raised the retirement age. something they say, what he wrote, they writes, he probably call you crystal. i started working very young and i'm fed up and we're retired and all around us are young people in the 20s who can find a job. so i should be able to retire. so they can work. i can enjoy a few years of my life while still in good health, that if not, we can barely survive, we can pay our electricity bills. at some point, our salaries have to increase. the french government says that it's doing all that

it can to shield people from inflation, but it won't back down on his pension reform plan that it says would make the system farrah. mit who? gilmore, on ergo, we will also implement a pension reform. we can do it in a fair way at a reasonable pace. we can guarantee that reform will be effective if we allow it to finance our social protection system. does that mean a number, a small approach as and strike, save the rising cost of living in france? over the past few months, but this one is by far the largest with workers from across the public sector and more trading and says, unless their demands are met, it will not be the last. that is, the point of the strike of today is not in it, so i hope it is going to be the sort of an absurdity in the coming winter or strikes and resistance all across the different what been friday french present. emanuel mackerel has wanted to reform the pension system since his 1st term,

but pushing it through now is clearly a risk at a time when so many people feel that their lives a hard enough. natasha butler, al jazeera paris. are you as president joe biden is pushing for closer ties with nations in the pacific islands, as china extends its influence in the region hosted leaders from the region at the white house. my can reports from washington d. c. it was a 1st ever us pacific island summit and it reflects abided administrations concern about deepening chinese engagement in the in the pacific. an absolutely critical strategic region. more than a dozen countries came to washington for talks with members of the biden administration, the u. s. making very clear that a ones to deepen and continue with relationship with all of these nations. president biden insisted that the relationship must continue and it must get

stronger. a great deal, this is our world is going to be written in in a pacific over the coming years in decades and the pacific islands are critical voice in shaping that future. and that's why my administration made it a priority to strengthen our partnership with your countries. the pacific island countries account for some 15 percent of the earth's surface and the u. s. is leaving no stone unturned in terms of continuing deepening this relationship. and as an added enticement, president biden invited all the leaders of the pacific islands to come to the white house for dinner, making very clear that the us is intent on strengthening, deepening this relationship with an eye on chinese expansionism. a pakistan is repairing train tracks that have been damaged in recent floods. hundreds of laborers in the southern since province had been working to fix them. it's been

more than a month since the floods shut down the railway, leaving thousands of workers without an income change or expected to start running again. next week. australia is set to end mandatory home isolation for co, with 1900 patients. 5 minutes to anthony albany, announce the 5 day home. quarantine will be scrap from october. the 14th is one of the last restrictions off to the country east. many of them in the wake of higher vaccinations senior member of cut as well. cup organizing committee responded to the latest our protests against workers involved in the tournament by denmark. khalid is so weighty says the host country has made reforms to its migrant work laws and look forward to welcoming every team. he foresaw reports from the world football summit in seville, spain, 7 weeks until kick off in the 2022 world cup. and cutter is putting the final touches to more than a decades worth of preparation and expansion. new stadiums,

you infrastructure one entire new city. but as the teams prepared to come summer stage in quiet protests, denmark's kit will be turned down, including a black shirt, which the manufacturer calls the color of morning, saying it highlights the deaths of thousands of migrant workers in world cup construction projects. basically come take a thick at the world football summit in seville on thursday. the message such concerns have been and are being properly addressed. we have to say that there has been a lot of improvement that, that, that are and that, that happened. and that on that front, we views the wards got in a very positive way as a catalyst to drive this chain. denmark isn't alone. england's football association is calling for compensation for workers who died or were injured. the team captain, posing with a pro l g b t, arm band, homosexuality is illegal, and cutter for cut this tournament is a major play for global recognition and reputation. so how will it handle such

protests or all the teams will come and we'll play. some of them will come in at the front, the front where than than the other. but at the end of the day, or this tournament is going to be a successful this tournament is going to be one a tournament that gentleman in the books of history for years and years to come under intense scrutiny. since it won the bid cutter is made reforms to its labor laws, allowing migrant workers to switch employers and mandating improved working conditions . but rights activists. the reforms aren't fully enforced and death linked to working practices have often gone uncounted purpose. labor law requires compensation when those that the work are related. and so we do need to ensure that those deaths are investigated and that they are preventative measures from taking place to ensure that that's not happening in the 1st place at this major football industry event. the talk was of what the 1st winter world cup would bring. high quality play a compact, culturally diverse tournament.