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north career advance, it's racing. miss al launches were a test of nuclear capable, weapons, and plans to carry out more of them. ah, hello, i'm namely anguish this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up. russian president vladimir putin blames ukraine for an explosion on the main bridge to crimea, calling it a terrorist attack protests in sri lanka denouncing the goblins crackdown and demanding the release of demonstrate it. and it's the train that's dividing communities in mexico's yucatan peninsula. why the president's plan to connect parts of the area is we're saving a cool welcome. ah,

ah. north careers says it's the latest miss al launches were to test it's tactical nuclear weapons, which it said were to wipe us and south korean targets. kim jung own, also acknowledged plans to conduct more of the tests. kim said the launches were in response to joint naval drills between the us and south korea. from mcbride has more details from san the north koreans have said very little about this flurry of miss ballistic missile activity that's gone on pretty much on, unchecked for 2 weeks continually launching of these missiles the last week of september, the 1st week of october and then today, monday, the official north korean news agency comes out with almost a pronouncement, a long declaration of exactly what it's been doing. the dates of the tests, the types of missiles being launched and tested with photographs showing kim jung

on the low north korean leader overseeing all of these tests. and basically the headline to come away from this is that the north korean say the goal that they have been doing is carrying out what they call tactical nuclear drills. this is the supposed to development of a smaller tactical nuclear devices. now, these are the, the kind of miniaturized nuclear warheads that you would put onto a rocket or a short range ballistic missile. it does require an awful lot of a technical advancement of technology and technological know how in order to do this, and it's unclear just how advanced the north koreans are in developing tactical nuclear warheads. but certainly they are working on the delivery systems for these types of warheads, and they've also, as well as carrying out to assure to range ballistic missiles. probably the most serious development of the past couple of weeks was last last week on october. the 4th, they launched an intermediate range ballistic missile right over the top of japan

that landed in the pacific ocean. that caused obvious alarm from all of that north korea's neighbors. it's the 1st time they carried out such a loads like that in 5 years. and at the north korean say that that is a new type of missile. they also say that they have been practicing and developing the technology to have to have explosions in the air above the ground. now that's the kind of delivery that you would you, if you were launching a nuclear device. russian president vladimir putin is called the blast on the bridge connecting crimea to russia. a terrorist to act burden has blamed ukraine's special services. the coach bridge supplies moscow's troops in southern ukraine and is the same as a symbol of russian power in the region. ukraine has not claimed responsibility from you, though. there is no doubt. this is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying russia's critical civilian infrastructure. its authors, perpetrators,

and beneficiaries other security services of ukraine. how does ear as it, johnny tanius, is near the bridge on the crimean side and has more on the russian investigation. how they allow maleah? les said there, yes, here double is a sailor. the process is now exceptionally difficult, long lines of vehicles waiting on both ends of the bridge from the russian side and the peninsula to as checkpoints were set up on both sides. we can see from this side the damaged part of the vehicle road bridge. search involves both vehicles and individuals. the process may take hours. vehicles have been released in groups escorted by security, all the way through for security and logistic reasons. as only one side of the bridge is currently operational, the train carriages that caught fire as a result of the explosion remain as they were. the railway truck will resume operations later this evening, according to the russian ministry of transport. in the meantime, russian security personnel still following up with forensic inspections and

investigations initiated by the technical committee formed by president putin. the committee is also responsible for restoring the bridge and resuming normal functions. as i said, security measures are not limited to the check upon some both ends. but along the whole passage, especially the bridge, since it's inaugurated in 2018 has been under tight security measures. it's equip not only with some balance, thomas, but also defense systems. the security measures extend far beyond the areas near the bridge to avoid traffic congestion. amid the high number of vehicles approaching the bridge, palais sin shall anchor have been accused of mistreating, peaceful protest as at least 6 people were arrested in the latest demonstrations. violence erupted after demonstrators were told they couldn't assemble on a public promenade. anal fernandez, reports from colombo protested here on this very public promenade called the gold

fish in colombo. have been told that they can't demonstrate are due to us number of bureaucratic measures. as a result in a, in a sort of a sand of an argument with a police officers, we've seen that some of the policemen have been told to kit up. they've got, they got gas masks on. they've obviously got their batons at the ready. this is the crowd of protest. ers essentially who have got together. they've come together basically to mark a number of months of protest and also demanding an end to the government, a repression, as they call it. they say that the government is on a major which hand to crack down on protesters who are behind the anti government protests that lead to the change of government and leadership are. and they said that this is a purely public place that they have the right to do so. now, one of the things that they have talked about and expressed concern about is

a bill of creating a bureau of rehabilitation. and what this means, because it essentially allows for the use of what it is called minimum force against those that are brought in for rehabilitation. any mind and everyone can be taken under custody of the government, can be sub, legally subjected of torture, can be legally forced fed bid drugs are prevented from if they tried. do i leave the st. dad, there, it's term that this camp and then they can be forcibly brought backing to the center and or medians. is, is forced under be player to any means, including himself, minimum force, the anger, the frustration at the mismanagement of the government that has brought an otherwise up a prosperous. and an essentially a country with so much potential to its knees hasn't died down. and people are speaking out, a landslide in venezuela has killed at least 22 people and more than 50 a missing torrential,

rain swept tray trunks and debris from surrounding mountains into the community of to harris. the government says it's working to rescue people trapped on demand higher can. julia has been downgraded to a tropical storm after it hit nicaragua. it brought heavy rain and high winds. is that slammed into the country on sunday morning. it's now headed towards el salvador and guatemala. the u. s. national harry consent to has issued a warning for life threatening flash floods and muslim dozens of feed dead after a boat capsized in nigeria. it was carrying 85 paper when it was swamped by flood waters seen and nam breast ain't 15. people have been rescued. many of those on board had been left homeless by the flooding. the head of the roman catholic church says the treatment of migrants is criminal and sinful. hope francis was speaking out as easily prepays for a new right wing coalition. government vowed to crack down on illegal immigrants.

it aim baba reports one by one. all the people of dr. broker, the precarious rescue in the mediterranean, as volunteers help refugees and migrants, often over crowded boats. but others haven't been so fortunate. according to human rights watch, at least 1200 people died, trying to reach europe between january and september. this year, she was a lawyer schuman. i got a bottle of the hospital. and on sunday, the head of the roman catholic church, unexpectedly referred to the ongoing tragedy. his castillo celestial. shirley damian, on the exclusion of migrants, his scandalous in date, is criminal, as he it makes them die in front of her and so to die. the mediterranean is the world's largest cemetery. the exclusion of migrants is disgusting. it is sinful, honey. some will see his comments as a warning to georgia, maloney, who's expected to become italy's prime minister late of his month. her brothers of

italy party came 1st in september's election, part of a right wing coalition that wants to speed up repatriation and introduce tougher asylum rules. is warned, will not change. and the league and the feelings that people have relation but certainly will help, you know, does good support migration to have some kind of a standing in, you know, easy to shoot and landscape out before the election. georgia maloney called for a naval blockade of north africa. well, she got a shamika, they were all going on. it's not clear why europe cannot help italy defend the use external borders overlooking the mediterranean by negotiating with the libyan government. one of her coalition partners, the lager party, is headed by mateo, sal vini, italy's hard line, former interior minister. last year he went on trial for abduction and dereliction of duty over his refusal to let a charity boat bring rescued migrants to the island of lampa. do, sir, while he like his old job back political soci say maloney's resisting,

hoping to get you backing for her plans to stop people leaving north africa. nadine barbara al jazeera, still hair, done out his ear and tapping into a new source of water. the living community that's down deep from the precious liquid. ah hello, they will start in the middle east and levant, and it's a largely settled picture, particularly across southern areas. up in the north, however, we've got a system pulling across turkey and the black sea bringing some wessa and when she weather to the likes of georgia, armenia and as the by john and knocking temperatures down slightly across those more northern areas. now there's still a lot of heat to be found across iraq and kuwait temperature. however, expected to dip down ever so slightly. it will pick up slightly in doha,

which will bring some slight release the humidity, but it is expected to be back for much of the rest of the week. a few showers around coastal areas of the red sea, but a largely dry picture in south. now it's looking west for the north west of africa . we've got some storms and showers, thanks to a weather disturbance moving across the mediterranean. and along that central bound of africa, more heavy rains to come on tuesday, particularly for the ivory coast. and was we move down to the south of the equitorial belt? it is an exceptionally hot picture with heat waves affecting botswana and northern areas of south africa. that's not helping the felt fire conditions here. some rain trickling into eastern areas. analysts due to cape town at $26.00 degrees celsius. that's however, ah, bangladesh is move in tens of thousands of him to move from the world's largest

lucky g. on to with our informed opinions. i believe that armina and other bridges should have bilateral negotiations. we've been pulling that for me. anytime political debate is the cobblestone controls, we'll take the whole inside story on al jazeera lou . ah, oh, hello you, what? you know g 0? i'm emily. ang, when he's a reminder about top stories this hour. north grey says it's lightest miss al launches were to test its tactical nuclear weapons, which he had said were to wipe out us in south korean targets. lady came, joan own,

has overseen the military exercises and says he will conduct more of them. vladimir putin has called the blast on the bridge connecting crimea to russia and act of terror. the coach bridge supplies moscow's troops in southern ukraine. he blames, keeps a special services, but ukraine has not claimed responsibility. and a landslide in venezuela has killed at least 22 people and more than 50. i'm missing. torrential rain swept tray trunks and debris from surrounding mountains into the community. if to harry is the area it receives a month's worth of rain in just 8 hours. the government says it's working to rescue people trapped undermined. protests have been held in bosnia herzegovina against the result of the recent election, named pro russian, bosnian serb blade. and mil around dodge was named president of the province of republic, soap scum bot,

bosnian election officials say they are concerned about irregularities and vote. rigging and investigation is now underway. the final results of the votes in bosnia i yet to be announced. austrian president, alexander van de belen, is projected to secure a 2nd 6 year term after vote ending on sunday based on a partial count. he has a clear majority to avoid a run of the 78 year old is a former leader of the grains and gone abroad popularity by campaigning on promises of stability. the official result is expected on monday, and germany's ruling party has one original election in lower saxony. provincial results show the social democrats a leading. the 3rd of the vars. it's a boost for chancellor love shown, says he faces a series of crises including potential energy shortages caused by the war in ukraine. the parliament in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region has voted

to end, extend its term by more than a year and pays fail to hold elections last week after parties disagreed over constituencies and seats for minority groups. your position says the extension is unlawful. mohammed up to whitehead has moved from baghdad, 80 lawmakers out of $111.00, have approve the extension of the current 5th term of the parliament in the kurdish region. that has happened amid the objection from the opposition parties that say that this move is not relying on constitutional article. they say it's against the constitution because the this should happen through elections that are due to be held in november in the kurdish region. on the other hand, unless say that this move has been, namely taken by the 2 major political parties in the kurdish region. the democratic

party of kurdistan led by miss old, but sunny and based in bill province. and the patristic union of kurdistan based in so many problems are led by puzzle color bonnie: the son of the late iraqi president, july tale by and say that this move on has been taken by the 2 major political poses in the kurdish region to pave the way for things to be sorted out in, but that because the 2 major part is in the could this region are supposed to reach consensus on naming a new president of the republic. and that if that happens, that could prove the paved, the way for a new government to be forward in but that, and that could end the political crisis in battle that and he government protest continue across iran despite a violent crack down by security forces are in

185 people have been killed during the unrest according to the new way, based around human rights groups. the protest spreading to schools and universities demanding a regime change. the rest was ignited after 22 year old martha and many dining police come to the last month. she'd been arrested for violating interest coach. russell santa is into ron and says, the protest so strong. today's protest or centered around the universities such as m u. k. b university, such as element tabatha, university into iran, and also galen and cosby university. so the students here are, are still continuing their protests, but comparing to the protocol to police. yes, they are a little bit smaller, they're smaller and a super addict. but so far we haven't seen the protest on this is the student, the students in the university is are demanding the crackdown to stop. and also the d. p and friends to be released at the officials are seen that the menu of the students have been released by those who have committed the serious crimes are

going to be tried. so that is making the situation quite delicate here and but as of now we can say that they are small and sporadic, but they are definitely still far away from dying down. treated pie thing is with the quincy institute in virginia. he warns the government crackdown on protest as could get worse. i think the number of dest show themselves that this is rather brutal crackdown. it should not have been any that whatsoever. mindful of the fact that these told us have overwhelmingly been peaceful. but i think it's also correct to say that the full school of the town that the, that the government can show has not yet been seen. i suspect that the government suspected themselves that if they didn't go added to hard in their view, the focus would slow down and die down. and we have now seen that that is absolutely not the case. that anger is a mess,

and there's not been any concessions by the government yet. so the idea that these would die down seems to be a miscalculation, but that may also mean that they may change your tactics and actually go at it much more bitterly than they have done so far. signals coming from says, speeches, the government officials have made seems to indicate that it's just in toxic can be taking place within the next week or 2, if not even sooner. and again, we have seen when the government has gone full out and for instance, there were hundreds if not thousands that were close killed in 2019. so there's unfortunately a high risk for far more blood sugar than we have seen so far. the united nations is considering ways to help hygiene, tackling it's deteriorating security situation. gangs have blocked a major port to protest against the rising fuel prices. the prime minister has asked for an international, specialized armed force to deal with the violence. but that's angle,

some haitians she had tansy met them. once again, we're seeing headlines across the western media that haiti is all scheme for international intervention in order to prevent the chaos. so we often see on television screens occurring in that country. but here at washington, a coalition of some, $100.00 diaspora groups have gathered outside the white, i to say, no, we do not want international dimensions. i got the last thing that haiti needs. i'm going to want to organize the pressure. so francois louis, why not? why not intervention right now? you know, do you want him to haiti? form was 15. is that why did they leave us cordova more miseries? in fact, before the you and came, we didn't have any gains in 80. the economic conditions begin worse after the earthquake, even to the un, him the you and was in haiti all those years. that wouldn't even hold it democratic elections every time, do you. and again, as the elections in itself did not go well. so therefore, we don't want the un,

we don't want the u. s. a sense troops in, i hate it. we want nations themselves to take care of the of this issue there, let heavy alone that asians we will decide who the leaders should be from to operate. thank you very, very much. thank you sir. the own savannah. according to the asper here, i live in demonstrations in haiti as well. peaceful demonstrations look, don't send more troops and to haiti to stand out of the way of a representative democracy and a anti abortion rights. supporters have matched through mexico city and in protest, cold in favor of women. it's the 2nd consecutive here, the march has taken high from the capital. the protest was organized last year after abortions are up to 12 weights when team criminalized in least 10 states. and planned for a tourist training, mexico could be going off the rails train, man is one of the president's major projects. and as john home and reports,

it's run into strong opposition from environmentalists and engineers. there were trees here once we had a jungle here. when our of our last healthy younger to mexico and it has been destroyed by a big project in mexico. that is cool. that in my trim i as a key project to president, and those men will lopez over the door a re wait to connect result, towns like can coon and to loom with attractions immaterial of the countries you could time peninsula. it's meant to run in a 1500 kilometer loop, but the most controversial line is here. the 68 kilometers of track on the car being coast originally was meant to run along this road. but hoteliers complained and the government changed its plans. instead, the train would hack through one of the continents largest jungles. not one single tree will foe. that's what the president said. i will do that. but it's not just

above the saw that could be affected by the train. this is the delicate cape system beneath a subterranean land, water field, sink holes and underground rivers. what is the risk for these caves in this cave? system of the turn might collapse, collapse. there are hundreds, maybe thousands of caves in this, in this part of the trim this k systems. and they're grown reverse in this area arctic core of life here, the jungle above us lives, thanks to the water flows in this river. in a pro environmentalist secured an injunction against the section of railway between can kuhn and saloon, citing environmental concerns. government carried on construction by using a national security decree. in late september, the judge who granted the injunction rescinded his decision. as for the deforestation, the government says it be mitigated by trees planted just elsewhere in the back on

it. but the impact of track 5 is approximately 400 hector's were reforest thing, 400000 hector's 500000000 trees are being planted in the south west of mexico many more than are being impacted. but what about the people who live in the you company, and what did they think of the train? the bus is that the os family have a small shop in one of the precarious informal settlements along the coast. when, if you tell me which this will benefit us because it will bring work for the young . i think with the maya there will be more need for hotel staff and for the young people who want to grow. i think the government for thinking of that but there are already lots of hotels and jobs in this area. the problem is most pay very low wages. people still live in poverty. the question is, will the government train pay better? and will it be worth the environmental cost, john home and i'll just revert, am i maybe air is suffering one of the worst water crises in the world. years of

drought and war have left millions of people struggling to get enough water. but one community has pulled together to tap into a natural resource underground. as r. hi, rod reports the district of job how to be in the western mountains of libya is one of the warmest areas of the country. but droughts is forth members of the merits, family in the village of hardy, on to dig deep with the health of the local community. they've tapped into water on the ground and in the future in him. yeah. when in the past we had no water source, this is the 1st well ever dug in this area. water tank is used to be brought in from remote areas for a 100 dinars. now it's available here for just 4040 young has relied on sourcing water from the outside. we're transporting it's in trucks across the mountains. a lack of infrastructure in years of conflict makes that difficult along with power outages. lemme when there is no electric power,

the price of water tank is goes up simply because, well, owners incur more expenses for the generators and fuel. we either have no water at all or we are forced to buy it at high prices. with no permanent rivers in libya. 97 percent of its population relies on water from hundreds of meters under ground. 3, what's known as the great man made river. it's one of the largest irrigation projects in the world and cost billions of dollars that has been neglected since formerly, de mama duffy was killed in 2011 and the other community college off. there are 19 wells that need immediate service if maintained these wells, together with the water from the manmade river, means we'll be able to meet the entire district needs. the united nation met officials from water authorities in july to address how to renovate the network of wells and water pipelines across libya until progress is made. those in the most arid areas will continue searching for their own water sources. so height al

jazeera and will go tournament, highlighting the plight of more than $100000000.00 children living in poverty is taking place in kata a month ahead of the world cup kick off her room and tasa met the girls team representing zimbabwe at the strain child woke up for 14 year old zondaway de santos. these weekly training sessions, anxious about playing football. it helps take her mind off her travels growing up in an informal settlement in some ball way as tough. some areas of no running water or electricity. crime is rife. after practice, zondaway tells her mother being part of a football team is helping build her confidence in a safe environment. lucia whenever i'm playing, i see my teammates confident i tell myself, i can also be that confident. so i work hard to improve myself. coaches have

become a role models the coaches actually sending that role from even the sports room to your site with them in the home sitting up. you could have done your homework checking up whether they're going to school or not. so no, because of all of the coach was a volunteer by the way, was trying to also change somebody's like one of those coaches is mercy. when better. she started playing when she was 18 years old. now in her twenties, she's teaching younger players quality. she learned when growing up is us after seizure. we teach them to respect their parents. the change in some of the players is remarkable. their parents say before they started playing football, they were disrespectful. now they do their chores at home and focus on school. record high inflation means jobs are scarce in zimbabwe, a lot of families are struggling. the united nations is 62 percent of the population in zimbabwe is aged below $25.00. many young people live in poor communities.