power lines to water main. detailed coverage is up a little hard to think about from around the world at the peak, probably season like 4 feet one. so the record on for a 3rd of the country is under water. more than 33000000 are suffering from hunger disease and displacement. the word stories about children who are drinking from the same water with a dead cattle was float al jazeera questions. climate change play a role in the deadly down poll. we had to 1750 millimeters of this kind of been going to sink any place. the full report focused on the great deluge on al jazeera . ah,

so russia is up a house of parliament, finalize his plans for annexation as ukraine continues is offensive to retake territory. the tanks operating here are part of a wider counter offensive in the east that has seen great success in recent weeks. ah, hello, i'm darned, jordan, this is al jazeera liar from dell are also coming up a show, a strength from the u. s. and south korea, the allies launched their own missiles in response to a north korean weapons test. talks between columbia as government and the country's largest remaining rebel group a back on 3 years after they were cooled off on the bumpy takeover of twitter. by 1000000000 there either must appears to be back on, but the legal battle may not be up. ah,

wasn't president putin is finalizing his plans to annex for ukrainian regions at the house of parliament approved the legislation, which now had to put in for his signature. but on the ground in ukraine, moscow's forces are losing territory on 2 separate battle fronts. mom advise reports from moscow if they did not go out. 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 clothes and shoe. she wouldn't stop witching industry report feature. today, the u. s. have subjugated almost the entire western, 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 plans are bound to fails was good. one find by president lied to me to put in the new constitutional laws, become official in russian federation. and moscow will draw it up and that of your claim on the battlefield. the reality 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 under way in 80 centers across the country, but it's still being trained to 5 portable i'm to thank you. good. i'm a 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, sought to reassure the public of the cooperate. it was only for army service with some young conscripts for routine compulsory military service. want to be deployed to the front line. but that won't lessen the challenge, is russell, facing in its efforts to consolidate gains on the ground, nor in selling its war, both at home and abroad, had fun and a 0 more scope. so here's a look at the arrows that russia once dynamics. these other 4 provinces, the criminal says voted in referenda to join russia. aaron red shows what russian forces actually controlled. moscow says, all of the next come to hands could be part of its federation, even though it's not in full control of these provinces. as care sun and separation farther south, many areas are outside of moscow control. and the kremlin has yet to clarify what exactly it's claiming. meanwhile, ukraine's president says his troops are making rapid and powerful progress against

russian forces in the south and east. out as he was charged, stratford met one of the units as part of the counter offensive in eastern ukraine . the drive to tank positions on the eastern front is often a long, muddy isolated roads hidden in the forest. under wet autumn leaves, we find ukrainian soldiers. with the 5th assault tank regiment tanks, he 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 long of the final preparations. the signal to move is given

the near 40 year old t 72 tank moves out from under the trees. it's a 5 minute drive to its firing position, exposing the crew to rush time. we follow it to a nearby field and within a minute the tell tale winding sails signal, it will fire 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 following position and reply this tank. so to 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 with its screams overhead. alexander says he has a wife and child waiting for him when the war is over. but he doesn't know when that will be near who you follow them on the left. 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 conscripts as part of russian president vladimir putin so called partial mobilization. don't matter how many men they,

they bring to it don't matter for us. our mashing guns can shoot $100.00 fall out the minutes. if you shoot 5 or 50, i don't think our machine gun us 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. cha stuff. al jazeera, eastern, new grade, north korea, as latest miss, our launch has drawn condemnation from japan, south korea, and the united states with washington calling it dangerous. the nuclear capable. ballistic massage is the 1st to fly of a japan in 5 years. south korea and the u. s. responded by firing for surface to surface missiles of the east coast. the u. s. also around joint drills with japan rather bright as more from the south korean capital. south korea had promised

a resolute response to a tuesday's launch from it's military and overnight tuesday into wednesday. local time, we have seen what that response is with the firing of these 4 missiles from south korea is east coast out into the sea that separates the korean peninsula from japan were told that 2 a 5 by us forces 2 by south korean forces, they are set to have been surface to surface missiles which hit their targets out at sea. there was also tuesday, a joint ad drill by u. s. and south korean forces. the flying drills over on the other side of the korean peninsula in the yellow sea that separates the korean peninsula from a china apparently, a south korean f 15 fight to jet dropped to guided bombs on a bombing range out in an island in the yellow sea. at the 1st we knew about the launch of the missiles came from residence in gander. the city on the east coast reporting on social media hearing the launch is happen also reporting

a large explosion and the fireball with images have been released on social media repairing to show this explosion within the confines of a military base. and it does appear as though a missile exploded on launch or just after launch, the south korean military says it is looking into it, but it is highly embarrassing for the south korean military. here. this all comes at a time of escalating tensions, of course, with the, with the launch of the tuesdays missile and intermediate miss all over the top of japan, possibly in response to navy drills that have been happening off the east coast and were told that the a one of the ships taking part in that the ronald reagan, the 1st aircraft carrier, to be deployed on exercise in 5 years, has now actually been turned around and sent back to the e. c. the sea of japan. because of the current increased intentions for several countries, including the u. s. of course, for an emergency un security council meeting to respond to what they call the north

growing threat. we condemn this dangerous and reckless launch of a long range ballistic missile 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 that the g p r a i hold both as it relates to it's a law for one program, but also it's mission program and the threat to its neighbors as well. columbia, as government says, restart peace talks with left as rental group. next month talks between the l. n and former president even do government broke down in 2019. it's the largest remaining gold group in the country after the peace deal side with far the rebels in 2016 countries. first leverage president gustavo petro, came to pay

a promising to make peace for several $150.00. as more from the 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 a mediator in this process is very important because during the last decade or so, the l n as the 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 so so, so to come here now does air including a new investigation in the u. k. takes a hard look at the government's response to the corona. virus pandemic. and tenea goes green, will take a closer look at its geothermal energy revenues. more in that ah with hello, it's so quiet across the middle east at the moment. lots of hazy sunshine around we had a little bit of already money missed and folk just around the golf hair, but said nothing too much to speak of. 39 celsius here in the hospital, a temperature 40 by touch warmer into a key weight at baghdad. once again,

some wet weather up towards the black sea just around the caucasus. and we'll see cooler, just tucking in behind. here take onqua for example. 20 celsius 40 batch around 17 here on thursday is that cool ranch? a sink a little further southwards and east was no great changes to the south of that, but we could touch 41 celsius but a dry fine and sunny weather across european peninsula. try and find your cause, much of northern africa, a few showers into northern areas all valgy area for time to spinning out of that sir. western side of the mediterranean east. in areas of spain, seeing some live, the showers could see a little bit of localized flooding here. same flooding recently just around the central african republic because those aisley waves spell off the, the open highlands, heavy showers rod across central parts of africa. pushing across ashley into guinea, pushing across to was southern areas of molly usual showers cross central africa, little more the way of what to whether the northern parts of angola, bellagio try to the south.

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welcome back to mind about top stories here. this our south korea in the u. s. of carried out miss solemn ad drills, most sponsor missile launched by north korea. young fight. it's longest miss. i'll get on tuesday, went of a japanese territory prompting a government warning for people to seat cover. russian president vladimir putin finalizing his plans to annex for ukrainian regions. the upper house of parliament has approved the legislation, which now had spot to put in for his signature and ukraine's president says, his troops are making rapid and powerful progress against russian forces. in the south and east of mister lensky says, dozens of towns and villages have been liberated in the past week. george's government is facing a political dilemma. as more russians seek refuge, they're most trying to avoid president putin's military call up announce last month . the influx is putting pressure on a government that's trying to tread a fine line between moscow and the you. and when con reports from the capital 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 this little agreement on anything related to russia. the goblin 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 because of this government and this government is kind of anti western government and i 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 i dangerous for georgia because we don't have diplomatic relations and russia represents an existential threat to georgia's independence, territorial integrity with the country in the very early stages of his bid. that you membership many feel that this is the time to press a more forceful membership of nato in european union is the most important in order to protect the georgian civil and he 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 another 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 head. the graves of dead soldiers are still well tended. the image is coming from ukraine are familiar. and

a reminder of the russian georgian wool that is 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 you 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. m. ron con, our desert, tbilisi. billionaire ela must says he'll go ahead with his original plan to buy twitter for $44000000000.00. and a letter to the social media giant mosque agreed to pay the price he offered months ago for trying to quit the deal. and he was comes ahead of a trial and which twitter was set to seek an order. forcing him to close the buyout . roger chang is the executive editor. i have seen that. he says it's nearly impossible to know what musk will do next. but the name, the game is unpredictable and ill i'm ask, has been as unpredictable as expected in this month, long soap opera. you know,

we were weeks away from a trial, a public trial, and he'll allow the completed. you must now want take part in a protracted courtroom battle. a legal bow may have brought to light things that he may not wanted shed. and so this is the easier route and beyond. you know, beyond these, this trial, nothing significant has changed about the situation. what this is a big deal obviously are you are musk has been a controversial figure and he's been an outspoken user of twitter. and you know, he says he's a champion of supreme free speech that could have huge ramifications on what twitter my look like. was he takes control, right? he's talked about trying to make it or would presume it's, it's a town square feeling. so it's morgan open platform, but we don't really know what that means and whether or not he understands how to navigate some issues between the tension between free speech and harassment and all

the complexities then tell their protested and became a fossil of called on the regional block to stop meddling. the ecolog delegation met the new military leader. abraham pro, re just days are to the 2nd coup in 8 months. demonstrate as akins, the original body of interfering and internal affairs and many a calling on russia to help nicholas hawk as more from duck off tourist is a russian movie for an african audience. russian fighters from the wagner group are seen helping african soldiers combat armed groups, shoulder to shoulder. for russia. this is an effort to win hearts and minds in country suffering. attacks from al qaeda in iso for france. it's russian propaganda on a visit to brook enough ourselves, capital walker dooku in july, the french general in charge of the counterterrorism operation back. can in this a hell warned of the dangers of dealing with the wagner group. with the arrival of

wagner, i see 3 threats. the rice of miss narisa, who i in real. so just curious if financial interest and economic plundering. and there is a campaign of this information against the action of france, not just in the sy hell, but beyond 8 borders. in 2018 al jazeera met russian fighters from wagner's training soldiers from the central african republic. by that, he's a cut off the special adviser to the countries president told me russia was back in africa since this interview of wagner has expanded its operation in mozambique, sudan, the central african republic. and molly, after the coo and burkina faso on friday, the new leadership in walk. i do go under ibrahim tory says he wants to work with a 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 seen as

a friend, an 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 have being, after breaking foster's rich mineral resources. there has been certain disposition akin to exploit 3 gold mines in molly, by the vac mathus. and so the state will have to pay for the services, the plunder and resources but in the face of defeat and military losses. armies in this a hell, including in brooklyn, paso, 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 radio broadcast in the philippines has been killed in his home in a suburb of manila. but he said percival in the past that was driving his car on monday night. when 2 men on a motorcycle shot him twice on the head, people run the capital to demand justice, holding a string of murders of members of the media. in recent years, the boss there was a known critic, a former president rodrigo to test and his successor ferdinand market junior unofficial inquiry into how britton's government handled the corona virus pandemic has now begun. a retired judge would investigate every step of the country's response to the outbreak that killed more than $200000.00 people. charlie angela reports at sir gillis, my dad's and that's my eldest sir. the last time amanda henry saw her father robert, looking well in a care home. the country was locking down against corona virus. he was quite a car. it's a was, you know, always jokin,

always sing. in. 4 weeks later he was dead with coven 19 as the cause of death. so his ashes sick, his ashes, now sit in her living room. she blames the government's decision to discharge people from hospitals into care homes without testing them for cove. at 1st, there was so many felons. when they said that priority test in was going to happen for elderly residents and how that didn't happen that was not happening. and when they said they were putting this steel ring around one rebel, people in care homes that didn't happen at all. is decisions like this at the coven inquire, will examine, starting with how prepared or unprepared the country was for a pandemic. there is one word that sums up the pandemic for so many, and that is the word loss. my principal aim is to produce reports and recommendations before another disaster strikes the 4 nations of the united kingdom

. independent of the government. the inquiry will go on to look at the political decisions made during the pandemic, and the impact on the health care system hearings will begin in spring. and the process is expected to last several years costing upwards of $80000000.00. but as broad as the inquiry is, there are gaps, se x, but the socio economic consequences of locking down the country. the impact on education, business, hospitality, that was simply not discussed in government. you would have thought that the inquiry would be giving a raise a sharp focus to that issue. but there's no indication at all that they're going to look at what didn't happen, which was to get advice from experts about all these these other issues, 200000 people lost their lives to come over here in the u. k. each one represented on this memorial rule. now the inquiry says that those suffered will be at the

heart of this process. and to do that, they're going to listen to the accounts of 10, maybe hundreds of thousands of people. the aim to discover what could or should have been done to reduce suffering. charlie angela al jazeera london, kenya is making major changes to its energy supply system. countries now harvesting geothermal, steam consultants on the project se will cut greenhouse gas emissions while also lifting millions of people out of poverty. ontario, as catherine saw reports from the all carrier power plant in nevada, 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 us and it's essentially limitless. anom windy 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, c, harnessing geothermal power for electricity is simple. their theme from the ground is on. if i know of him of steam lines and the steam lines and wrapping up our place and that steam, of course it is separated where the liquid face eyes the can injected back into the ground. and the steam dries. theme is thick into a power plant. and rhonda turbine generating electricity kenya 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 the 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 interesting him in kenya's physically and in africa. basically, to hurry vos, the facts of what is happening elsewhere. yeah. kind of frances karaoke was recently connected to the greed through a rural electrification program, sat on them longer. now we have light. well, we also have fewer cases of tift 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 canyons are connected to the national grid, while others have installed solar systems. the government says it wants to ensure every home has electricity in the next 10 years. the idea is and its goal is not

just to live top the country, but the whole continent. catherine soil al jazeera, all carrier in the rift valley. paris will not broadcast woke up matches on screens and public fund zones because of concerns about the treatment of migrant workers and cut off. other french cities have also refused to show the games. citing the environmental impact the deputy mayor of paris said the decision is based on issues with social conditions surrounding the event. the mice will start aaron judge, a smashed american league record for home runs in a single season. he hit his 62nd the year on tuesday, june a game against the texas rangers. the new york yankees play a beat the tally set by roger maris 61 years ago. the previous records were.