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ukraine says at least 12 people have been killed in russian shelling in the city of the upper region. what you got mostly, what you will. and as ukraine's counter offensive pushes ahead in the east, we're in a town re taken from russian forces. ah, hello there, i'm to saw the pay and this is out there. i live from our headquarters here. and our ha, also coming up rally is held across the us against the over the timing of abortion rights protest as judge burgess to turn off a democrats in next month's midterm elections. and saving a piece of afghan history from the auction block. we explain how experts are working to recover artifact stolen from central asian. ah,

ah, well we begin with development in ukraine. at least 12 people have been killed in a russian attack and the ukrainian city evaporation. ukrainian officials say residential areas were shelled over nice and bad happened just hours after an explosion collapse. the section of russia road and rail bridge linking the mainland to the crime in peninsula. on saturday, the russian occupied operation nuclear plant, lost its power supply because of shelling, the problem, switch to emergency generators, to keep reactors cool. rush divers are now to examine damage to the cut straight bridge. it was reopened to traffic hours after the blast. president louisa lensky says ukrainian troops also involved in very tough fighting new the eastern time of backlash. and the don't yet, screech and russia says it's made gains that where we challenges in kid with more on the shelling and upper region. zach parisha, the city has experience nights after night of this,

the civilians there have been repeatedly pounded by russian missile and air strikes . attacks, often hitting apartment buildings and holmes. it's indiscriminate at best. it's a intentional worst. i think ukrainian certainly feel that it is intentional. that's why they describe russia as a terrorist state. the latest round of air strikes were told by craner authorities 12 miss alice laurence from russian plains last night. at least one apartment building hits 5 homes destroyed. now, what happens possibly to trigger this one, of course there was the attack on the crime in bridge which ukraine at the moment is not expressed explicitly saying it was responsible for. but there are more hints, more situation from leaders nor thirties. the fronts in the east and the

south are not moving at the moment as fast as they have been. in recent days, the ukrainian vance paused or slowed down. but fighting does go on, and my colleague charles stratford has been to the frontline village of tosca, internet's pop. last announce region, a warning. and so some of our view as there are disturbing images. now in chinese report, bomb craters, destruction, and the obliterated remains of people's lives. the closer you get to the new eastern front, the more dead russian soldiers you find. the valleys of shells and rockets crush back and forth belongings of russian soldiers, little the road. from where they would dug him just a couple of days ago,

the ukrainian army now shell them in the town of camina, where they fled, stretch near value at anna's. it's been the terrible. there's been no life with our neighbors left. and the russian soldiers took over their houses, but when they left, they were running, panicking on the straight russian military uniforms in abandoned homes. the soldiers common did now empty bother detritus they left behind. the surrounding forests had been pulverized by exploding shells. tanks, apc's, and all manner of burnt out vehicles lying the road ukrainian rocket launchers moved to positions ahead. while while, while archie that we were sitting in our basement for $3.00 to $4.00 days, chests arriving, they were so much selling and then they fled into the forest. we crossed the partly

destroyed bridge, which is near collapse. the smashed school bus is empty. bar 2 dead russian soldiers hanging at its sides. the bars of swarming flies, the only sound of the terrifying explosions bottle. can you refer me to wants defending? how can you use an elderly woman appears at her gate that she describes the russian literary yesterday? yes, they were moving everywhere, driving on the road, lots of vehicles, but i'm afraid to speak about it. she says, have it ever used. oh oh, she doesn't even flinch when a shell explodes close by. yes, and i couldn't when the russians gave us humanitarian aid, she continues. there were about 700 of us that many left for the russian side, that just before the ukrainian army, liberated the village. we slowly move up the road castle to avoid the unexploded

bombs and shrapnel that is ripped through move vehicles, bodies, hill ah, barrel income shows land clues is been attent showing here in the last few minutes is a few soldiers behind me that are running towards this village off the village has been completely destroyed in this area as ukrainian forces push forward along this road towards the town of camino. what the actual quote you got mostly what you were you. we could hear a drone overhead got got, got, go now if you don't want you cause destroyed, show which verified ukrainian soldiers as they run the boy. all stratford al jazeera, tortured east of ukraine. hall, russia says road and rail traffic has now resumed on that major bridge connecting crimea to man on russia. now,

as we reported that it was damaged in that explosion early on saturday. well, let's show you where that explosion took place and explain why it so significant. take a look. the areas that shine and read are under the control of russian forces and they're separate just allies. the couch bridge is a critical roots supplying moscow's trips in southern ukraine and the naval port of sylvester pole. well let's bring in mohammed val. he joins us live from moscow with more on the russian investigation into that explosion. mohammed, this was obviously a fairly symbolic bridge for moscow. they're demanding answers. it's a very key infrastructure facility for us and it has healed ushers, attempts, or measures to integrate ukraine after it had a next it in 2014. so it's very, very important for, for the russian federation. and that's why a vladimir put in the president has appointed a special committee to investigate that reason causes behind the blast. and also he

gave the responsibility of security in crimea totally to the federal investigation bureau or the russian intelligencer services since yesterday saturday . and we understand that the, the divers are on the water sensor at 6 in the morning trying to find clues are behind the glass and also above the water line. a lot of it is a search and inspection going on. yes, to the russian officials, many of them a, a lot of the blame to ukraine. they pointed out ukraine are responsible, but not on the highest level air. the head of the year, the chairman of the year for a relations committee in the state duma. he said he had no doubt that ukraine was behind this sir, this blast. but he said once it becomes official, a punishment. it should be severe. also the head of the claim in parliament

a he said that the ukrainian vandals have reached the cry, me in the crime, in bridge with their bloody hands. so some of the, some of those statements yesterday was very direct. but since then, russia has played down that type of rhetoric and they are looking for a real clues behind the blast. of course, that bridge itself is only partially functioning. good news for russia, but bad news. but in the, in the, in the minds of russians for ukraine is a well, very euphoric yesterday about the total destruction of the bridge. so it's gonna take time before the full, eh, the full truth comes out here. rush, and let me see, continue following that crazy man down there with all the latest from us. ok, thank you. now, while more now on the power cut in ukraine's russian control upper region nuclear plant, robert kelly is a distinguished fellow at the stock home international piece research institute. and he explains why this recent incident that the power plant is not allow me to

call the, the reporting we're going to use or for what we see is that there are 4 major power lines leaving the plan. and when the plan is operating itself electricity over the $750000.00 boat lines, all 4 of those lines have been cut. therefore, the plant can't produce electricity and solid, and so it's been shut down. what it needs, some smaller lines come from the nearby cold warning plants if you keep the safety systems going in as far as we can tell, those are working. the height is that it's on the generator is a little misleading as well. there are 20 generators on the site, each of which has enough fuel for 10 days. they can be shared when the 6 units, and any one generator can keep any one plant. cool. so the, the history that's going on about the danger and what's happening is quite overstated. now, moving on and marches have been held in the us in support of reproductive rights.

and come 6 months after the supreme court ended federal protection allowing women to have an abortion organizes urging people to vote for politicians who support abortion rights and next month's midterm elections. she returns the reports now from washington, dc. yeah, this wasn't just a margin support of the right to an abortion. this was specifically focused on mobilizing turner for the upcoming mid term elections, to defeat those who support the rolling back of female reproductive health care. with the chums, our power, our votes, you know that this is a very anti democratic initiative. we know that this is something that the american people do not support. and so we're here to make sure that folks have the opportunity to make their voice a start and then make their votes heard on november. since the supreme court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion in june, the issue is because of a focus on mid term races across the country for the us congress, the state governorships and state legislature. i

attracted from what had been seen as a potentially willing platform for the republicans to focus on the economy. crime and jo buttons, personal on popularity as president, the post address those issues do still dominate voters concerns. but the democrats sends a big opportunity to mobilize even their most dissolution divisions. a handful of counter protests and showed up at the rally too. who argue that the whole debate was based on a misunderstanding? and there is no statement of abortion in either direction in the us and so they return it to the states. and so we think it's a lot of misinformation but that's precisely why abortion rights activists say, it's so important to get out the vote locally. since june republican govern state to state have restricted access to abortions. in addition, joe biden says congress could codify the right to an abortion into federal law. if the democrats had a few more votes in congress in vogue, that's

a promise multiple democratic presidents have not kept in the past. not long ago, it seemed like a real possibility that the democrats would be completely wiped out in these midterms because of inflation and jo biden's low popularity ratings. but now the democrats hoped that republican overreach on abortion, will lead the democratic base and swing voters to vote democrat. despite their disappointment, and what they've achieved since taking control of congress and the presidency. schubert, nancy al jazeera washington, i'll still ahead here on out of their questions raised on to is really forces killed for palestinian teenagers in 24 hours in the occupied west. ah, anticipation is rising. and so with the atmosphere, are you ready with sponsored?

my cattle aways, right is lucky, a bit more seasonal. now in east asia, the temperatures in southern china should been so high for so long are being brought down by this encroaching clay, which has brought rain with it. of course. now mostly it's a sunny looking picture man and into monday's forecast. hong kong come down by a couple degrees because the breeze is a bit of a noise leads a little bit dryer in tie one and the rain. it looked so heavy of the korean peninsula as good back wash of some snow, maybe into north korea. but mainly be talking rain that raise been heavy on its way through japan and is still there on monday. by the time you get to choose tank, the rain is clearing out of the weight. nothing much there to replace it. so we're more or less where we should be for a change. this is for nearly bill october. that is not quite as it should be. as you know, it's been raining fairly heavily a long way north in india through new, daily and beyond. certainly in the poll or been some flooding here. now the monsoon trough effectively or efficiently is only about here,

but we seen it dry all way down to was hodge about beyond until this came back again. this is unseasonably, wet, weather, and slow to move. by the time we get to choose so you could still see wanted to shout in the finals of pakistan. although for the most part the country is now dry . the weather, sponsored by cattle and i was 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 their dead cattle, the slope. how does your questions, the climate change play a role in the deadly down react? 1750 millimeters of this kind of in can sink any please, the full report pakistan. the great deluge on al jazeera. ah

oh, kind of a watching out there. let's remind you of our top stories here at this hour. at least 12 people have been killed in a russian attack in the ukrainian city of the upper region. ukrainian officials say russian forces shells residential areas overnight. in mother battle and eastern ukraine as intensify as cubes forces try to advance and to put your hands, creegan, thousands of russian troops have retreated in recent days, even behind major destruction. not as have been held in several u. s. disease in support of reproductive rights. organizers are urging people to vote in next month, mid term elections for politicians who support the right to abortion. israel supreme court has overturned ban would have prevented the palestinian israeli

ballade to party from running and next month's parliamentary elections. there blood's appeal was filed after the electoral commission voted on thursday to disqualify the party and was accused of rejecting israel's existence as a jewish and democratic states. the petition to ban ballade was submitted to by a right wing israeli party. on a funeral has been held for a 17 year old palestinian male killed by israeli forces during a raid and the jenin refugee camp is really soldiers have killed for palestinian teenagers in the occupied west bank in 24 hours as needed. abraham reports last 4 words, friends of 17 year old, mozilla dad will remember her young man gone too soon. israeli forces killed mattie with a bullet to the chest late on friday. that was after confrontations in his home town of missouri. i'm going to be between past indians and israeli soldiers, when local said they were trying to stand off an attack by israeli settlers,

loyal and compassionate friend is how his neighbor adam le dad, where members maddy minutes after he was lead to rest. he used to dream of having a good future. he's someone who love life and going out. he was going to be too soon. palestinians say not only is there no accountability for these killings, but the violence against them is being used as an electoral tactic. head of elections in november, palestinian say is really politicians hoped to get more votes by increasing a hold on them. people here say math, these are only paul was trying to defend from an attack. by the way the secretary was turning into the most why haven't severe in the west bank. 2000 out of the $114.00 palestinians killed by israeli forces in the west bank this year. a 3rd were shot in gene in the northern westbank, early on saturday to palestinians were killed during confrontations afternoon

israeli reed in the jean refugee camp. and it's about council, across the injuries are focused in the upper body part was one of them was a direct vote to the head and the other was to the neck. and the 2 men arrived at the hospital in their hearts talked. we couldn't resuscitate last night. and the rates have recently been met with arms confrontations in the place. israel called the wasps nest. military analysts assuming there are hundreds of armed palestinians inside the janine refugee camp. last week, these really military approved the use of thrones for targeted assassination as palestinians use of gunfire increases largely unarmed in the face of a violent military occupation. palestinians say they can only rely on themselves. recent polls suggest the palestinian support for an armed uprising against israel at 48 percent. the odds of achieving peace are low, but standing still,

the young hearsay is no longer an option. i need that but him al jazeera. he occupied the thing while in his railey soldier has been killed now and 3 others wounded in an attack on a military checkpoint and occupied east jerusalem. these railey army says that palestinian gotten and opened fire on the check point near the shoe off a refugee camp. a search for the alleged attack is ongoing. israeli media is reporting the london based company and a gin is to begin testing a pipeline from an offshore gastric and the eastern mediterranean. and this comes days after israel rejected lebanon's request to amend draft maritime border agreement, proposed by the u. s. lebanon objects to 3 clauses. the 1st relates to a borderline created by israel more than 20 years ago, and is now marked by boys 11 on one language and the draft to be changed to avoid accepting this line as an international maritime borders. it also objects to the

location of the kind of gas field and lebanese exploration block that extends into israeli waters 11 on refuses to pay any profits from the gas field to israel. but israel says the field may fall under its exclusive economic zone. and lastly, the route, once french oil giants total energies to work with 11 on separately from its projects with israel. bennett smith is following developments for us from western attempts have been going on for years to demarcate the maritime border between israel and lebanon. the been us broker talks and they were pretty close. we understand to reaching a deal last week, the 11, almost happy with the draft, and particularly about these boys that have been put in the water by the israelis lebanon. didn't want those to become identified as an official international maritime border. now this essentially seems to be having a knock on effect on a carry sh project. this project is in israeli waters is

a gas field that is rail is getting ready to exploit and pump gas from. and there are reports today that is going to start testing the pipes to see if it's possible to see everything secure. there's no leaks at the standard sort of engineering testing. now the issue with courage is that previously has bala b m iran back to group in lab on has said it could attack courage. if an overall agreement with israel on drilling rights is not reached. now, previously, israel had been sort of waiting for this agreement to be waiting for this agreement to some 11 on before it fully started exploiting courage, which is in its territorial waters. israel is now said, regardless of any deal with lebanon, it's going to progress with this, with his own or oil field. now if these tests pan out, israel says within weeks, they could start pumping oil lots from the energy company, energy. and that is exploiting the block with israelis. so the question is,

what is the risk to his rail of starting to pump gas from courage bearing in mind that it has not reached a full deal with lebanon over his maritime borders? well, the economy, climate change crime and immigration will all be on the minds of us versus when they had to the polls. on november, the 8th, the elections are crucial for president joe biden, and his democratic party, alan fisher explained. in a months time, the american public will go to the polls for the midterm elections. for many. this is a referendum until biden's 1st 2 years in the white house and it's supposed to be believed . it won't be good news for the democrats. what remains clear is that american politics is still incredibly devices. so what's at stake will in the house of representatives, everything, 435 congressional districts. some are solidly republican,

some are solidly democrat, but there are a few that can be flipped. and the republicans know that a net gain of just 5 seats will give them control of the chamber. that would mean nancy pelosi is no longer the speaker. pushing through the presence agenda. she would be replaced by republican, almost certainly kevin mccarthy in the senate, 35 of the $100.00 seats that up for grabs. but only 10 of those are thought to be competitive. at the moment, both sides of 50 seats with tiebreaker decided by the casting vote of the democratic vice president. now both sides know that a net gain of just one will give them control of the chamber. traditionally, the president's party doesn't do well in mid terms. donald trump lost 40 house seats. barack obama lost 63 in his 1st mid term. so what are the key issues for voters? first, there's inflation. the cost of everything seems to be going up and not just the basic cost of food, stuff and wages aren't rising at the same level. the economy as most people's

number one consent. there's also the cost of filling up your vehicle. it's expensive and with opec, and i think production cut is going to get more expensive justice people are going to the fall. so it's all bad news for democrats. right. well, not necessarily. the supreme court's decision to overhaul abortion rights in the united states has led to more women and democrats registering to vote. they believe the only way to protect abortion is that the ballot box and the democrats also see the poles that suggest americans want to restrict access to some weapons. and they believe that the only way to do that is to give them a majority in the mid term elections. if the polls are to be believed, then the republicans could well when the house and just fall short in the senate. but we've learned one thing over the last 6 years. it is that american politics is highly unpredictable. well versus in australia are costing their balance to decide

who will be the next president incumbent alexander under belen, who's taking a 2nd term in the launch. the ceremonial role, opinion polls suggest the 78 year old is the front runner. but it's unclear if he'll win outright in the 1st round or whether a run offered will be necessary. now grieving families have gathered in buddhist temples and thailand to say prayers for those killed in a nursery last week. a form of police officers shot and stabbed 36 people, including 24 children. and the care is and it was i saw on in the ne, warning ceremony is being held for 3 days ahead of funeral services for the victims and cremation. historians and cattle say they've intervened to stop the sale of nearly a dozen manuscripts stolen from afghanistan on they were being sold in prestigious auction houses as if f t was never reported. now the group of expenses were within to pole in the wild customs organization to preserve afghanistan's heritage and

history. and some of the injured aid has a centuries old chron from central asia. still in pristine condition. 700 volumes of chronic manuscript from china and southeast asia. the collection of the national library, or one of the largest of its kind, is behind the books, the headquarters of a project to track stolen artifacts. him a ya, we launched that project in 2020 with the fall and was custom organization and the international federation of libraries to insist on the fact that the manuscript also suffering from trafficking and you see it is a disaster. so everybody speaks or whether but our killer g, but we forget the manuscript, stefan and his colleagues recently discovered people allegedly linked to the former government were trying to sell an ancient koran for more than 1000000 dollars. i immediately contacted the interval and asked to act,

so it was not so easy because actually the, the 5th was never declared to the police in capital. so officially that could not of action. then it's more complicated because the, when institution is more difficult because of the political situation in afghanistan, and it's not related cases, visio, we find the lead between 5 and 10, many states and say, invited countries, members of the taliban guard of understands national museum these days protecting what's left of the collections. some historical sites have withstood years of different powers fighting for control of gun son. the dock as effort or arch of victory, and parkman is more than 100 years old. after years of wars and conflict, much of abundance on historic heritage has been destroyed. and the last time they were in power, the taliban said they will protect and preserve what belongs to all us on a stark contrast to the group's destruction of buddhist heritage. when it came to

power in the 1900 ninety's media museum 1000000 gallery, we are protecting the national archive museum gallery library. an important places for the storage artifacts of canister should be preserved. customs agency or station at the airports. and we managed to intercept a lot of artifacts that were being smuggled and they were taken to the museum. but returning stolen antiquities isn't that simple. with them, countries don't have to promote the collision with that. can you stand today? so they don't want to read you something and they don't talk of night the korean government so that they use that as an excuse very often. so it's difficult to find the lead me to know. in the case i'm mentioning for us and then we have all the evidence you so a teeth, we know which it shouldn't be risk digits. and until the taliban and international organizations work together more gone, heritage is likely to dis.