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explosions reported and several ukrainian cities, including the capital king, president lensky, says there are dead and wounded people. the blasts come hours after president runner putin's blame chief for the explosion on the main bridge connecting crimea to mainland russia. ah, you're watching al jazeera alive from our headquarters and del himes. eddie nowadays are also coming up. north korea says it's recent missile tests are designed to simulate striking south korea with tactical nuclear weapons, protest sensor one cons. i don't sing the government crackdown and demanding the release of demonstrators on the train. that's dividing communities in mexico, mexico, your cotton peninsula. why? the president's plan to connect parts of the area is receiving a welcome. oh

hello. so we begin with breaking news from ukraine, where several explosions have rock the capital key, even several other cities. the state emergency services says there had been deaths and injuries, although it's not clear yet how many they reported russian strikes are the 1st on cheve, in many months. last have also been heard in multiple cities in ukraine's west. the vive, which is close to the polish border, and turnip hill, then the pro and central ukraine and close to the front lines has also been hit. let's bring in, we're a challenge who's falling developments for us from today? he's joining us on the phone, rory, so multiple strikes and central key runs right across ukraine. this morning. tell us what happened and what you heard. and so well, i think we're going through at least a 3rd wave of rockets coming in right now that the many, many explosions in here this morning just in the last minutes or so. you counted 3

rumbles, not too close to where we are at the moment, but not too far away either. the way it came in about 20 minutes ago to very large explosions near where we are. remember, this is monday morning. so these attacks seem designed to cause maximum cottage during the morning rush hour, basically, they're all injured and dead, but it's not yet known. how many that's according to the states emergency services, the early indications of the 8 people being killed that was an hour ago before the latest ways of attack so that it's almost certain to go up significantly. now q 50 may be totally clear. sky was appealed to all residents in the city, he says stay in shelters, and it says no urgent need is better not to go into the city. a tool. central street, basically being blocked off by police emergency services could work. the metro system is down. this is something that kick the city of the capital city hasn't

experienced a month opposite. he's been hit, recent stays and weeks. the key of a lot of the been bad, this kind of thing, since the some at least. and people that really stop paying attention to the right sirens. i think it's a very, very different reality in this monday morning. yeah, we're, so you're saying the capital has not been hit for some time now. so this will be very troubling for people in keyvonte. yeah, absolutely how this will change the calculus teams the way in people which people go around that daddy business you know, other, other parts of the country have been it's much more frequently than i've said in recent and recent months and, and over the country today. this morning that seems to be pretty much no major and 10 so that that isn't being hit by the moment that are being strikes in cognitive base meet pro. it's

a man pill overnighted apparition with it too. but that has had many, many strikes in reaching dave made some of the attacks seem to be on industrial and civic infrastructure like electricity stations and, and ryan, et cetera. but a lot of it seems pretty indiscriminate just coming down in streets and he's enters the, the president lensky has just put out the statements. and he says that they're trying to destroy some, what goes off the face of the the trying to destroy people who are sleeping at home, kill people, to work in, denise proven key if and the rate doesn't subside throughout the ukraine. that's basically means that you know, that's going on across the country or miss alt hitting. unfortunately, they're going to please do not leave shelters. take care of yourself and your loved ones that's going to be strong. i think there's no doubt it when you crying. this is like the mid pretends revenge for the cut bridge, and he's taking it out on the softest progress that ralph, which is civilian rory. just one more for you while i have you with us. i wonder if

you can tell us a little bit more about the weather there were specific targets that were in teams . well, i mean, in case the videos i see, you know, so you know, go down the street to them. i mean, because there's absolutely no control to do the videos that i'm looking at the moment. so that's a strike extra playground. he's great. so next to next are playground in chicago park right in the middle of downtime. so that's not exactly a strategic calling. it is it their video showing, but in cars and university buildings, government buildings, perhaps that might have been what the intended target was. but you know, these are not obviously not particularly precise weapons that are being used at the moment. they're coming that pretty heavily on different different sorts of environments, but certainly in the middle of a built up city like if you're going to kill 2 billions,

if you launch these kinds of things. ok, we're letting go for now. thank you so much for that update for re challenge reporting from keys for earlier, the russian president vladimir pushin called the blast on the bridge connecting crimea to mainland russia, a terrorist act, the russian president, blaine, ukraine, special services. he sets a hold a meeting of russia security council later on monday. the courage bridge supplies moscow troops and southern ukraine is and as soon as a symbol of russian power in the region, ukraine has not claimed responsibility youth. 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. i. so that was the russian president speaking earlier on. we're just taking you to the life picture right now in the key that's coming to us right here at al jazeera, we've been reporting to several explosions, rocks and not only the capital in ukraine,

but several other cities right across the country. the state emergency services say there have been deaths and injuries were not clear yet on the exact numbers with you, those numbers as when we get them right here at our 0. so these are the live pictures from the capital key, where as you can see, that is the aftermath of several explosions that have wrong the city early monday morning. let's bring in who had need. now she's joining us from any pro. so there have been multiple strikes across the country, including we understand in the need per where you are. tell us what you heard. yes, sir. jenny started about $78.00. we heard the loud explosion followed by a series of exclusion and the last one. and then the standard was about 10 to 15 minutes and it was happening more or less at the same time when i started even this

is still been the largest i ever do need need or started. 0 thing that we just been try and, and my team knows they didn't have increasing. we were nearly on a daily basis. and quite d, one. just yesterday, 20 people died whenever conventional building was this part of the country, the air strikes where we think and more and more convenient targets we're being now we don't have this picked up. what happened in the, at the moment, you know that at least one residential being with the rest. no, sorry, not giving us any indication of what's happening. i can tell you that the 1st time that i am going to be down in the shelter worried,

i'm wondering what's gonna happen because of the large and really it was reporting how troubling the sense for people in the capital key. because keep itself hasn't been hit for for a long time. so again, this must be very troubling for people. and in any pro it didn't say something, and i would say this is not all new people in the new person. it's also something couldn't people in the bridge, even though they hadn't been taught more often, siren goes off people and you don't know when it lands going to be intercepted. and one person was just a couple of days ago was telling me that you standing there. sorry and feel like shooting not knowing where to know what to do because it can be any read any time.

and often new ones will actually do it on the text and by their side. and since i've been using my cell phone to me, 100 would be a ground, get emily, which they adapted to the ground with the have their sun is up in those from the air. sorry, very troubling moments. very scary moments. and i think what are you ready? talk several times more like pro who as being a piece. right. let's just me and this is very scary for everyone involved. so could people be worried now that this signifies a significant escalation then in the war. a it doesn't i don't think it comes out of supplies on the. 9 the rush

to more says had been obliged to retrieve, for example, from the northeast region. they've also been pushed against region. they've been hearing the net. so there was an expectation that at some point west will respond. it has already. 5 and so we would say that the way especially that, as i said earlier, like her team. and we also need for what we can go and they were the video that was killed in that that, that way. 1 that and i think last night, also when the russian president pointing the finger, put the 1st time in the back on the grades in for me my you pointing the finger at

craig. i think people are telling me ok, thank you so much for that update from any pro has been hanging there. and once again, that is a live picture from the aftermath of several explosions that have rocked, not only the capital this morning key, but also several cities right across ukraine. and we have heard from a presidential aid to ukraine, president the lensky saying this, quoting, i'm quoting that the new russian rocket strikes are another signal for the civilized world. but the russian question must be solved by forest. we will bring you all the latest information out of the crane as when we get it right here on our 0. but we will move on and we'll tell you about north korea, because if meters has the latest missile launches were a way to test the ability. if it's nuclear weapons, to wipe out american and south korean targets can also acknowledge plans to conduct

more tests. kim said the launches were in response to joint naval roles between the u. s. and south korea. rob mcbride has more from sol. 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 called tactical nuclear drills. this is the supposed 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 advancements of technology and technological know how in order to do this. and it's unclear just how advance 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 as neighbors. it's the 1st time they've carried out such loans like that in 5 years. and 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. so as a rob was just saying, kim john own, made acquiring tactical nuclear weapons, a top priority. it a key party congress in january last year. tactical nuclear weapons are different from long range, strategic nuclear weapons, as they can be used over short distances. they can be deployed in many different ways and even fired as artillery shells on battlefields. the size and power of these weapons can vary from less than one killer on to $100.00 killer tons. by comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima, in the 2nd world war was 15 kilo tons. north korea revised its nuclear doctrine last month. this law includes using preemptive nuclear strikes to protect itself. if an enemy, nations tries to remove conjunction from power and kim has declared the north,

an irreversible nuclear power that speak to leon, and petrov was a north korea specialist and a visiting fellow at the australian national university college of asia on the pacific. he's in sydney and he's joining us live, welcome to al jazeera. why would tactical weapons be a priority for north korea? now? all on the korean peninsula has been at war welsh for the last 70 plus years since north korea tried to unify the peninsula by force and found itself under count per tech, arm bolt. and back then even the soviet union or china would not even think about sharing nuclear technology with the chemo regime. but the these days, the indigenous nuclear technology, which kim john owen, has inherited from his father and grandfather became the trump card for the gym survival and look at what is happening in ukraine are looking at what moscow is

facing the world is this. north korea has shifted quickly, shifted it flats from strategic or long range, missiles and the weapons of mass destruction, which potentially made target the far away countries who is something more nearby threads, wave tactical weapons. theresa, how we go back to north korea in actually developing these tactical gear weapons where the nuclear weapons would use the same technology and the production all far highly enriched uranium or process plutonium. but the yield for delivered by the device would be much smaller. and of course the size of the warhead or a bomb is going to be smaller, which can be mounted. not only in the rocket, even if it's a shorter arrange me file, but can be also dropped from the airplane, brought closer to the frontline on the truck or brought by

a submarine and detonated somewhere in the near the coastal line. so what i mean, and i actually resorted to using them well, is the problem with sparks from one is that it's going to affect the launch country as much as the also the destination land or the enemy. because it depends on the direction of the wind. also how tough that technology is, not going, it hasn't stuff that's it's nuclear defy this for the last 5 years. and the most recent death was a hydrogen bomb. the start menu player weapon, which was much more powerful and certainly it would be a suicidal attempt to use that pipe of weapons. so that's why kim jong and is much more focused now on something over more precision strike with a low yield delivery with potential threats to be delivered. not only to the

enemies from far away, but from nearby and south korea is still place, which is where i'm 38000 us troops station and also the u. s. allied countries have their assets around the korean peninsula as well which may be destroyed or defeated just once. thank you so much for speaking to us from sydney mark. you're watching al jazeera. here's a reminder of the latest developments in ukraine. russian mythos rights have been reported across several cities in ukraine, including the capital chief. the state emergency services says people have been killed and injured, although it's not clear how many loss of also been heard in cities in ukraine's west, including the fi, close to the polish border. internal poll denise pro and central ukraine, and close to the front lines. i've also been head, let's bring in how much val for reaction out of moscow. so what are we hearing from

the kremlin home? i don't these that boss in ukraine? well no, the, the last thing that was heard from here was when president putin actually pointed the finger of accusation at ukraine as being behind ukrainian intelligent services as being behind the blast that destroyed a part of that bridge in cash. and what we know is that before that there was a, a huge number of statements by execute by you, by russian leadership. and also here to, they met viet f, the deputy chairman of the national security council. he said that he had no doubt, even before the investigation. yeah. the results of the investigation, but you can was behind it. many other said that yesterday and all of them, all of them reiterated the need for russia to a to deal a severe punishment against ukraine. some of them yesterday,

some of those leaders yesterday, a party leaders and so on are asked the, the leadership here to strike at the vital infrastructure services and facilities across ukraine and thus possibly what is happening to they seeing those likes in cave and other cities. so russia has begun its retaliation immediately after hours after the announcement of those results. and for people observing this it, i mean, what happened at church seemed to serve russia very well because, i mean, what was going on was limited to the front line. and for almost a month, russian army received defeat after defeat. and russia needed something needed to do something, or on the one hand to take the attention away from the defeats out the frontline. and on the other hand, to punish ukraine or more much more severely than just that than just at the frontline. and that is what sir happening now. so i am,

as we understand that president putin is also expected to hold a meeting of russia security council later on monday. and what we expect to come out of that according to what we have a present put. it is expected also to speak after that meeting. usually they don't announce the timing. and usually those speeches also are not a broadcast live. but the expectation here that put in might be going to announce some kind of for a retaliation measures, or to put what happened to the, into a context saying that russia has resorted to this. because now it has become a situation of international terrorism and, and by the way, also mid of a mission that earlier today he said, we are now going to eradicate terrorism in ukraine. the source of what's that, what's happening in those strikes against russia? so, i mean, there was, there were even rumors and reports in the media he had in the last week that of

russia might be thinking about changing the status of the special military operation and naming it in anti terrorism operation. we don't know if that's going to be the case if a president put in is going to announce that. but certainly russians are waiting for a major, a major commenter from president putting about was happening. okay, thank you so much. mm hm. and val reporting from moscow a land slide in venezuela has killed at least 22 people and more than 50 are missing. torrential rain swept tree trunks and debris from mon tunes into the city of to hide us. the government says it's working to rescue people who are trapped under my under powerful storms, expected to hit more countries in central america after making landfall in nicaragua. hurricane julia has been downgraded to a tropical storm. a broad, heavy rain and high winds isn't struck nicaragua on sunday morning. the storm is

expected to move along the pacific coast of honduras el salvador, and guatemala protests against the government, or continuing across iran despite a violent crack down by security forces. ah, the norwegian based iran human rights group say at least a 185 people have been killed. the protests are spreading to schools and universities with people demanding regime change. the unrest was ignited after 22 year old massa almond. he died in police custody last month. she had been arrested for violating years on head scarves. the malaysian prime minister smiled sabri jacobo, dissolved parliament paving the way for national elections to be held in the coming weeks. the election date will be announced by the election commission. ismael said in a televised address just a few moments ago, and 76 people have died when a boat capsized in nigeria. it was swamped by flood waters in a number of states. thousands of farmlands and crops have also been washed away,

sparking fear of food shortages to sir lanka, and police have been accused of mistreating, peaceful protest. her is at least 6 people were arrested in the latest demonstrations. violence are ruptured after demonstrators were told they couldn't assemble on a public promenades. when a 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 sound 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 as 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 aren't to crack down on protesters who are behind the anti government protests that lead to the change of government and leadership. 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. anyone, anyone can be taken under custody of the government, can be sub, legally subjected dodger can be legally for sped, be drugs are prevented from if they tried. do i leave the st. dad? they are, it's termed at this camp, and then they can be forcibly brought backing to the st. and obedience is, is forced on to be player to any means including who's effingham, of course,

the anger, the frustration at the mismanagement of the government that has brought an otherwise up prosperous. and an essentially a country with so much potential to its knees hasn't died down and people are speaking out. a pond for a tourist train and mexico could be derailed. trend maya is one of the presidents infrastructure, mega projects. but as john holeman reports, it's run into strong opposition from environmentalists and engineers. there were trees here once we had a jungle here, one of our last healthy youngel to mexico. and it has been destroyed by a big project in mexico. that is cool. that in my trim, i keep project to president and of as manuel lopez over the door a re way to connect result towns like can coon and to loom with attractions and material 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. but it's not just above the so that could be affected by the tray. this is the delicate cape system beneath a subterranean land, water filled sink holes and underground rivers. what is the risk for these caves in this cave system of the trend might collapse collapse. there are hundreds, maybe thousands of caves in this, in this part of the trim this case systems and they're grown reverse in this area are the core of life here. the jungle above us lives. thanks to the water of

floating this river. in a cru environmentalist secured an injunction against the section of railway between can coon and saloon, citing environmental concerns. government carried on construction by using a national security decree. in late september, the judge, you granted the injunction. rescinded team's decision. as for the deforestation, the government says it will be mitigated by tree planted just elsewhere. in the back to 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.