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russia takes another step towards annexing of fort ukrainian regions while the west says the move is illegal. ah, i'm terry johnston. this is al jazeera well law from day or so coming up were on the front lines with ukrainian forces as they continue their fight to retake territory from russia. a show of strength, the u. s. and soft korea fly bombing drills in response to north korea is latest and longest missile test, a billionaire buyout is back on it on mascot says he'll go ahead with his plant purchase of twitter for the legal battle. it may not be open just yet. ah,

ah, russian president vladimir putin is finalizing his plans to annex for ukrainian regions. the upper house of parliament approved legislation which now head to putin . but on the ground in ukraine, moscow's forces are losing territory and to separate battle france. mohammed val reports from moscow. if they did not love, and so it was the $170.00 members of the russian senate unanimously voted yes to the annexation of 80 percent of ukraine's internationally recognized territory. despite international condemnation uses the country close on monday, the lower house did the same gravitational. she wouldn't stop watching industry report feature today the u. s. have subjugated almost the entire western of mobilizing it to turn ukraine into a tool in a war against russia. drugs just like hitler, st most european countries to war in an attack on the u. s. s. r. just like then, today's west midlands are bound to fails goods. one signed by president vladimir

put in the new constitutional laws become official in russian federation. and moscow will redraw it's federal map and that of ukraine here on the battlefield, that a yellow t is different. russia only partially controls. the 4 regions it has claimed its army has been losing ground across the territory. its been occupying last month president led me to put in and now the mobilization of up 230-0000 reservists. 200000 of them have already been deploy training is underway in 80 centers across the country, but it's still being trained to 5 portable i'm to thank you. good. i need to launches reveal, train them how to run into battle, where on the very days, the wonderful after weeks of confusion and protest against the mobilization thrushes defense minister said again showing to reassure the public some of the

call up was only for army service with some young conscripts for routine compulsory military service want to be deployed to the front line. but that was listened the challenges russell, facing in its efforts to consolidate gains on the ground, nor in selling its war, both at home and abroad, had fun and da 0. moscow well, has a look at the areas russia wants to annex. well, these are the 4 provinces. the criminal says voted in referendums to join russia. the air in red shows what russian forces actually control was, says, all of on the scan. the hands will be part of its federation, even though it's not in full control of these provinces. as for hess all known the separation of further south, many areas are outside moscow's control. the criminal has yet to clarify what exactly it's claiming me. crane's president says his troops are making rapid and

powerful progress against russian forces in the south and east. charles stratford travelled with one of the units that's part of the counter offensive in eastern ukraine. the drive to tank positions on the eastern front is often a long body isolated roads hidden in the forest. under wet autumn leaves, we find ukrainian soldiers with the 5th assault tank regiment tanks here had been vital, preventing a russian advance as ukrainian troops continue a counter offensive that has recently taken thousands of square kilometers from russian forces. the forest will offer less cover from russian drones and as strikes in the coming weeks and months. heavy machine gun far echoes through the trees throng of the final preparations. the signal to move is given the near full to year old

t 72 tank moves out from under the trees. it's a 5 minute drive to it's firing, position, exposing the crew to rush we follow it to a nearby field and within a minute the tell tale winding sounds signal it will fire in seconds. a minute later, a 2nd blast to the tank has moved into its operating position. we understand that they are firing a russian positions about 3 kilometers from here. the tanks operating here a part of a wider counter offensive in the east. that is seen great success in recent weeks. time now is of the essence moved back into color before russian forces locate the foreign position and reply. this tank a soldier tells us, is one of around

a 100 that russian soldiers abandoned. in the past month when they fled, the ongoing ukrainian army advanced. suddenly, the sound of a jet fighter approaching we struggled to see it through the leaves apart, was its screams. overhead. alexander says he has a wife and child waiting for him when the war is over. that he doesn't know when that will be the or who follows over the lyla. our role as a tank regimen is very important because we are preventing russian forces from moving forward as our troops advanced. nicola tells me he's not worried about the possibility of a push by thousands of new russian conscript as part of russian president vladimir putin. so called partial mobilization. don't matter. how many man they,

they bring it, is that don't matter for us. our machine guns can shoot what 100000 gallons a minute. if you shoot 5 or 50, i don't think our a machine gunners will be tired. ukrainian military says it's winning bank territory in the east bit by bit day by day. so far. evidence on the battlefield, at least, suggests moscow's military response is yet to come. char stafford, al jazeera, eastern ukraine. georgia is that government is facing a political dilemma as more russians seek refuge their most trying to avoid the present that imap routines. military colon order announced last month influx is putting pressure on a government as trying to tread a fine line between moscow and the e u. m. on con reports from tbilisi. it's empty now, but in recent days, george's parliament has seen a serious rift open up between the government and the opposition. and there's

little agreement on anything related to russia. the govern says that since september 21, a 115000 russians arrived, the opposition says the figures closer to 500000. well then the an opposition politicians see that as a national security threat, a lot of georgia. i think that that because of this government on this government is kind of anti weston government on a kind of, you know, gambling with russia and puts in so i mean, rush on influx is definitely a huge threat for that. here are the parliament, the ruling at georgia dream path. it keeps up it's election vouch of having a good relationship with russia and joining the european union. the country wants to become a bridge, if you will, between the european union and russia. the vice chair of the foreign relations committee says strengthening ties with russia is now a big ask. relations are bad tense and so

dangerous for georgia because we don't have diplomatic relations and russia presents an existential threat to georgia is independence, territorial integrity over the country. in the very early stages of his bids, you membership, many feel that this is the time to press more forceful membership of nato in european union is the most important in order to protect the georgia to warranty and territorial integrity and the security. but the problem is that it's because of the war in ukraine. it is unlikely that georgia will get nato membership anytime soon. but as far as the new membership, i think georgia has quite good chances, their memories of the 2008 with russia still fresh hair. the graves of dead soldiers are still well tended. the image is coming from ukraine are familiar. and a reminder of the russian georgian war that's often described as the 1st european

war of the 21st century before the war and ukraine. russia had no problem with the country wanting to join you. but to day what russia, thanks, or when the e will allow them to join the club is unknown. it seems that george's dream of being a bridge between russia and europe is further away than ever. emerald con our desert tbilisi. a north korean missile launch has prompted condemnation from japan, south korea, and the u. s. a group of western allied countries have called for an emergency meeting of the un security council. it's north korea's longest range miss on yet and nuclear capital ballistic missile. and the 1st to fly up for japan since 2017 south korea. and the us responded with a show of strength at firing 4 surface to surface missiles of the east coast and conducting air drills. u. s. o st van joint drills with japan. we condemn this dangerous and reckless launch of a long range,

ballistic missiles that move over to pan and it posed an unacceptable threat to the japanese public. this action is a clear violation multiple resolutions adopted by the un security council. and again demonstrates the threat the p r. a i holds both as it relates to it's a law for one program, but also it's for the financial program and the threat to its neighbors as well on my hand and joins us live now from washington. d. c. so mike, strong reaction again here from the us very strong reaction, those words are dangerous and reckless. were echoed by all branches of the bite and administration that was stated at the white house. we heard it from the pentagon and also there from the state department. as the senior leaders of the administration, the secretary of defense, the national security adviser, as all have been in touch with their counterparts in the region as indicating the

depth of the concern about this. but the reaction to the latest miss, our launch was swift and us forces joined south korean forces in terms of conducting exercises. a task career itself brandishing its own muscles systems in a show of strength and a demonstration that it would not be aunt gunned by its neighbor on the peninsula at the same time as well in the wake of the missile test, us marine fighters for, to have flu exercises with japanese fighter aircraft over the sea of japan and was a coordinated and massive reaction to the latest muscle loan short muscle test. remembering that there have been sun 40 tests by the north koreans since the beginning of the year. that is $42.00 missiles fired from 20 separate missile tests, and there's mounting concerned within the united states. and of course, south korea and japan with this ongoing,

what is viewed as provocation by the neighbors off as north korea. but once again, great concern from the u. s, in addition to those conversations, i mentioned, president biden spoke to the japanese prime minister early on the day to express his concern. the usaa is attempting to get a un security council meeting underway to discuss this latest escalation, but above all the u. s. and its allies intent on the show of strength to show that they will not be cowed by these ongoing missile activities from washington d. c. there are mike hannah. thank you. said i had hair on al jazeera kenya goes green, will take a closer look at the countries at geothermal energy revolution. ah,

and tis a patient is rising. and so is the atmosphere a you ready for the, with most of my cattle aways. hello, we got a very heavy right in the forecast, the central parts of china, long line of cloud here to sliding out to the east, tennessee across south korea, extends its way into those central areas. kula coming in behind. some very wet weather there in 2 central past couple of days ago. woo hon was getting up in the mid high twenty's the 15 celsius here on wednesday, something of a change when we were changed to into word japan, 21 celsius there for tokyo. still a few showers around on wednesday, but it should brighten up as we go on into thursday. shall was there to the korean peninsula and noticed that wet weather still in place across central parts of china . 13 south. she said this state for we had some big down pos, possibility of some localized flooding because that rain really isn't going anywhere too quickly. south of that,

a few showers down towards hong kong or hong kong should be largely dry temperatures here around 30 degrees celsius. some shots, showers as usual across much or southeast asia. if you live you showers into the philippines or some parts in particular. some where to whether to, to western areas of body. i, some showers there into smarter unusual showers. across a good part of indo china squeezing out the last remnants of the what was tied to nora across northern parts of india to with sponsored by cattle. anyways. the british political party it with the labor party is a criminal conspiracy against its members. newly obtained documents reveal members silenced, suspended, and full staff. mike on this is unbelievable. free speech was shut down. an exclusive investigation. the labor files hot one on

al jazeera. ah ah, you're watching are the 0 reminder of our main stories now. russian president vladimir putin is finalizing his plans to annex for ukrainian regions. the opera house of parliament has approval legislation, which now headed to putin for his final signature, ukraine's president says his troops are making rapid and powerful progress against the russian forces in the south and east, unless announced, he says dozens of towns and villages have been liberated in the past week, south career in the us have carried out bombing drills in response to a miss sandwich by north korea. this summer went over japanese territory prompting

international condemnation. billionaire long musket says he'll go ahead with his original plan to buy twitter for $44000000000.00. you know that to the social media giant mosque agreed to pay the price he offered months ago before trying to quit the deal. the news comes ahead of a trial in which twitter was set to seek an order, forcing him to close the buyout mosques effort to acquire 2. it has been a bumpy one. in april, he agreed to purchase the social media platform for staggering $44000000000.00. 4 weeks later, the has that seo pulled out of the agreement. training twitter had misled him and the public about the platforms problem with the user security and spam accounts. in response twitter soon musk the social media giant ledges that he was trying to pull out of the deal because his personal wealth had fallen. well, twitter has confirmed they've received that musk latest offer. the company says they intend to close the deal at the original $44000000000.00 price tag. when roger

chang chang, i should say, he's the executive editor of c. net. he says it's nearly impossible to know what musk will do next. plus the name of the game is unpredictable and must have been as unpredictable as expected in the month long soap opera. you know, we were weeks away from a trial public trial. 5 and, you know, a lot of the completed, you must not want to take part in a protracted courtroom battle. a legal battle may have brought to light things that he may not want to shed. and so this is the easy route and beyond, you know, beyond the, the trial nothing certificate has changed. the duration was, is a big deal. you must have been a controversial figure. he's been outspoken user twitter and says he's a champion of sprit free speech that could have huge round occasions on what

twitter might look like. once he takes control, right. he's talked about trying to make it over, presume it's, it's town square feeling. so it's more of an open platform, but we don't really know what that means and whether or not he understands on navigate some issues between the tension between free speech and harassment and all the complexity then tell their former us president donald trump has asked the supreme court to intervene in a case involving classified documents seized from his lago state. he's asking justice is to block part of a lower court, smoothing is prevents and independent arbiter from vetting more than $100.00 documents. from 16 says, a review of the falls is needed to determine whether they are in fact classified in the u. k. an inquest has opened into the death of an unknown black man who was shot by police in south london. 24 year old chris trevor was shot through the

windscreen of a con september police had linked the vehicle to an earlier firearms incident, but cover was not a suspect. his family has asked for a quick decision whether criminal charges should be brought in the case. columbia as government says it will restart. peace talks with the leftist rebel group next month, talks between the n and former president, yvonne decatur governments broke down in 2019. it's the largest remaining gorilla group in the country after the peace deal signed with fog rebels. in 2016, the country's 1st left wing present to stop. petro came to power, promising to make peace with several armed groups. on the sandra ramp, yet he has more from book a tough there are new circumstances that of best better, definitely helping among them. the fact that there is for the 1st time, left the government in place in columbia that the president, gustavo paper was himself rebel. and non group n a youth,

and this is something that the 1st commander of the land has also recognized during the announcement from kodak as earlier today, essentially saying that the fact that they feel that the dialogue will be easier with the government. also the fact that the venezuela is on board and president nicholas and my buddha said that he will be mediator in this process is very important because during the last decade or so, the l m as an expanded greatly its operation inside the venezuela and they are now operating and at least that doesn't venezuelan states, so it would be impossible without venezuela to advance in the stocks protested in booking if i so have called on the regional block to stop meddling.

the was delegation to match the new, virtually the abraham charge for the 2nd coo and 8 months. demonstrators achieved the regional body of interfering in internal affairs and many, according on russia for help. because hawk has more fullness and capital tourist is a russian movie for an african audience. russian fighters from the wagner's group are seen helping african soldiers combat arm groups, shoulder to shoulder. for russia, this is an effort to win hearts and minds and country suffering attacks from arcadia, an eyesore for france. its russian propaganda on a visit to brag enough past those capital was due in july, the french general in charge of the counterterrorism operation backend. in this a hell warned the dangers of dealing with the wagner's group. with the arrival of wagner, i see 3 threats. the rise of missionaries who i am real. so just curious if the national interest and i can be plundering and there is

a pain of this information against the action of friends not just in the health but beyond the borders. in 2018 al jazeera met russian fighters from vac, nor training soldiers from the central african republic. but he's a cut off the special adviser to the countries president told me russia was back in africa since this interview. wagner has expanded its operation in mozambique, sudan, the central african republic, and molly, after the coon burkina faso on friday, the new leadership in walker do under ibrahim taurus says he wants to work with new partners, including russia. in western europe rush, i seen by many as an adversary. it's soft power, seemingly eroded by its invasion of ukraine. but in western africa, it's seen as a friend and alternative to the west and france, the former colonial power,

especially when it comes to security and military cooperation. france continues to have a military presence in nearly all of its former african colonies. but this hasn't brought stability to the countries in the south. the french accused the russians of being after broken or fast as rich mineral resources. there has been certain disposition, akin to exploit 3 gold mines in money by wagner. and so the state will have to pay for the services, the ap blunder and resources, but in the face of defeat and military losses. armies in this a hell, including in brooklyn, of faso, see in russia, a military superpower that can bring victory on the battlefield. no matter the cost or the consequences. nicholas hawk al jazeera the car. at least 3 people have died. a nearly 20 are missing off for boat carrying longer. refugees sank of the

coast of bangladesh. the vessel was bound for malaysia. when he rang our fleeing dark conditions in cox's bazaar camp, which houses 1000000 refugees, a radio broadcaster in the philippines has been till now. his home in a suburb of manila, please said perceval, vassar was driving his car and monday night when 2 men on the motorcycle shot him twice in the head. people rather than a capital to demand justice for the string of murders of members of the me. years, vassar was alone critical, that former president realty and his successor and marcus junior relations between media and the government were not that good under dewberry ban on there, i'm arg was administration, we were hoping that it would be a pretty good i bought this shows. i bought a that the same conditions that existed under their bay. oh, are still here. and this is

a challenge for the new government to show that they do respect with them. but they understand that all of journalism that they will bring about why we do our jobs. paris will not broadcast world cup matches on screens in public fans and because of concerns about the treatment of migrant workers in cut up, other french cities have also refused to show the matches. citing the environmental impact the deputy mayor of paris said the decision is based on issues with social conditions surrounding the event. but a french senator who is visiting day, insists cutter has been transparent our position to endorse any decision that's taken locally. and it's not our position to comment on it. what happens locally or concerns the national of france for french politics. what concern i was a french litigation here is that during over meetings and whatever we saw and were whatever we were able to hear we. so

a great transparency from the officials as well as we were able to see concrete actions that were made recently. and that's what we wanted to put light on kenya is making a major changes to his energy supply system. the country is now harvesting geothermal, steam. consultants on the project said we'll cut to greenhouse gas emissions or set lifting millions of people out of poverty. catherine soil reports on the or korea, how thornton my voucher blasts of immense heat dot dozens of vents in the great rift valley. the steam is so hot, you can boil an egg in it to appreciate the power of this heat. there is no, we're better to look the north west of kenya's capital nairobi. this energy is coming from the off and it's essentially limitless. anom warranty is exploring for

new geothermal drill sites for the countries, electricity generating company. it is producing $962.00 megawatts of power, but could do a great deal more, santi, se harnessing geothermal power for electricity is simple. their steam from the ground is on a channel of him, a steam lines, and the steam lines and up in up our place. and that steam, of course, it is separated where the liquid face ice, the can inject a back into the ground. and the steam dry. steam is thick into a power plant and runs at out by generating electricity can yet derives most of its energy from clean sources. it has some of the world's largest, your family, wealth, and plants. it is also the largest producer of wind and geothermal energy on the continent. i think africa stands out now as a viable option to bring about

a change so that africa will make the, the necessary contribution to greeny, the environment. and that's why you'll find major economies having an interest in, in kenya, specifically. and in africa, basically, to hurry vos, the effects of what is happening elsewhere. you can do, francis curry oak. he was recently connected to the greed through a rural electrification program. so that when i'm longer now we have light, we also have fewer cases of test at night. but there are still people in darkness we need to light up the entire village. in most parts, people are now enjoying the benefits of renewable energy. many kenyans are connected to the national breed, while others have installed the wireless system. the government says it wants to ensure every home has electricity in the next 10.