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a pledge to provide more weapons systems for ukraine as nato defense ministers meet in brussels. who tend to blame europe for its energy crisis and says russia is ready to supply gas to the rest of the continents once again. ah, i'm carry johnson. this is al jazeera, well i from doha. also coming up doc, king responsibility last in denial. u. k. prime minister list trust is under fire from the opposition says how many budgets will leave people worse all civil disobedience sit in saw staged in fact, refugee camp and occupy the east jerusalem and protests against a siege by israeli forces.

ah, they chose secretary general once member states to send more air defense systems to ukraine. this week has seen that some of the biggest russian air strikes across ukraine since the start of the invasion. 12 cities were targeted. nato defense ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss the conflict. i welcome to an $8.00, so are providing air defense systems. that is extremely important and welcome to recent announcement by, by germany and also did the delivery of german defense systems. so to ukraine, i think we all have see, you know, why this is important. the horrific the in this can, the attacks against the ukrainian cities civilian killed, a civilian critical infrastructure, destroyed an o, please, to tax on the, on the energy system. the energy infrastructure is serious as we approach

winter. so all of this demonstrates urgent need for more and defense for your crane. let's go to natasha butler in brussel. natasha the us defense secretary lloyd austin, is currently holding a media briefing following that meeting. what will come out of it so far? nasa lloyd austin said he had gathered together 50 countries. this is part of this ukraine defense contact group, a group of 50 members that look at ways that they can best help and support ukraine . he says, look, the fact the world here shows that rule matter the right matter. he said that sovereignty matters. he said the contact group had a very interesting and to see very significant meeting. they looked at ways in which they can try and send more weapons to ukraine. that's one of the main reasons behind this group that was set up off the person's invasion of ukraine. me

relatively a regularly one of the main types weapon we know that key one for missile defense systems. that's something that the modem is. let's give ukrainian president has asked for over and again and lloyd austin said he outlined some of the weapons that have been agreed. we know that germany is sending extra ad missile defense systems . the netherlands, also now it's the same today. at the u. s. is expected to send some also lloyd off the north they said look, every single time that they may have who seen escalate the situation ukraine most recently with these multiple missile all the tax across the country and civilian infrastructure. civilian targets. lloyd austin said this i need really heightens and hardens our resolve nato, to do more, to support ukraine. ok, natasha butler, not 1st in brussels with more on that. thank you. or ukraine's energy minister says russian missiles of hit around 30 percent of the country's energy infrastructure

around the $300.00 areas were left without power following the russian. the tax on monday and tuesday, the mayor of the western ukraine institute, the census will take months to repair energy facilities. that $100.00 dream is innovative, where parts of the city were temporarily left without electricity. as a result of those russian attacks, local officials have said today that all the utilities are back on line, that water services have been re establish. and that electricity services which had been disruptive due to those russian air strikes that occurred on 2 consecutive days this week, monday and tuesday, the electricity was back on in all parts of the city and the region. now i can tell you that according to the local residence that we've been speaking with throughout the day, they are breathing a sigh of relief on their breathing. a sigh of relief because electricity has been re established because they're no longer any black out there. back in the light

here, but they are worried about what exactly is going to come next. and when we've been speaking to people from living throughout the day, they're saying that the reason for that is because there are people who are still somewhat afraid to come back out into the city with is a city and a region that 4 months had not experienced any airstrikes i had not experienced any attacks. and we were speaking to residents throughout the day. they were telling us that because of that other until this latest round of, of air strikes, that there had been a growing sense of complacency here. that there had been a distance between the residents of this city. i'm not really feeling like they were part of the war that is going on in this country. russia's president said, europe who was to blame for its energy crisis. but in i put in a said gas could still be supplied by a part of the nodes string to pipeline. that's intact. but germany cancel the project off to russia, sent troops into ukraine. rashad mitchell to dick bostwick. russia is ready to

start the supplies. the bull is in the e use court. so to say, if they want to just let them open the tap and that's it. but here, we're not restricting anyone in any thing, including our readiness to supply additional volumes in the awesome winter period. rama vall is in moscow with more on hooton's remarks. present. let me put in was speaking to a large conference about energy here. it's called the russia energy week, and he said that the pipelines and the energy in general should be kept away from politics. he said, the energy has nothing to do with the energy crisis and the pipelines and all of this has nothing to do with a war and ukraine, that this is a shared interest between russia and the western partners in this. and it has to be,

it has to be safe guard against any trouble because that will affect the economy of russia and will also affect the economy of the european and the world. and he criticized placing a cap on oil and gas prices saying that he's also going to be negative for the international economy development. basically, he seems to extend a hand of reconciliation to the western europe in case they want 1st to secure the energy to secure the energy flow. and 2nd, to come to terms on how to fix the damage or energy ministers are meeting in prague to find ways to tackle high gas prices. 15 members of the european union want the price of wholesale gas to be kept across the block. they don't want to richer countries in europe to be able to buy gas at higher prices. the group argues the cap would help curb prices before expensive gas applies, enter the market, reach power plans and drive up electricity bills. that proposal is based on 3. i

did is setting limits on the cost of russian gas imports go sheeting of the gas price with other supplies and establishing a ceiling on the price of gas used to generate electricity. but some u. member states disagree with the pan wants alternative options, including a limit on gas consumption and some of the packages for businesses and consumers. we need to finally step up and implement the common purchasing of gas. we need to speak to our partner countries or which supply europe with gas, in order to help bringing down the excessively high prices. we have to coordinate our demand reduction measures even more. and in particular, we understand now much better how the spot market price of for gas is influencing all the contracts. and we are confident that it is possible to find

common ways to reduce at prices, but at the same time to avoid rationing and to ensure that still market forces i'm place to help us limiting demand and speak to dominic k. now who's following the meeting from berlin? so dominic, how deep are the divisions here? the interesting thing coming from this missing is the unity of purpose that pretty much everyone involved in the meeting said that they wanted to bring to this problem. they all want to try to resolve the issue. they want something to take forward. the european commission says it has proposals to do precisely that. the european commission says that next week it will outline formal proposals which will bring together trading indexes, pricing indexes, which will help to make the common acquisition of gas

a reality. their goal being that as a block gas can be purchased in 2023, at least in one rather than in $27.00. different ways as it were for the 27 different member states. that's the stated ambition. but the problem here is there does appear to be a degree of disagreement, as it were about the nuts and bolts. but clearly the view coming from the european commission at least, is the need to come up with something tangible now, rather than perhaps wait months for winter to take hold and the urgent need for gas, given high prices to become even more of a difficulty for everyone who has been discussing the issue at the summit in prague . ok, dominate. kane, thank you very much indeed for that update for now. thank you. i saw the head on al jazeera 100 stairs, in homes on the water nigeria struggles to cope with its worst flutter unit, decade on me and mars to pose either

a sentence 2 to 3 more years in prison on charges. she describes as absurd. ah, anticipation is rising and so with responsible at all anyways, at low they're within clear skies across much to be stager at the moment. certainly for china across more central and southern areas, temperatures have come down to more average values at this time of year 23 in whoo han, as well as $23.00 in shanghai, some cloud affecting coastal areas and the north west with rain moving its way toward beijing on friday, but lots of clear skies before that cloud sweeps across the korean peninsula. so improving picture as well for japan. the rain moving away, leaving lots of sunshine and warmth in tokyo,

is going to get wet up for the south of china. thanks to a wet and windy weather that's trying to form in the south china sea. it is strengthening. it's like you to bring some very heavy force to parts of indo china . vietnam in particular on thursday is looking very wet as well for much of the philippines. we have got some flood advisories out in the north and the wet weather intensifies across northern areas of borneo on thursday. now as we move to south asia, lot dryer across northern areas of india, particularly the north east. a lot of that rain has now shifted a further south, intensifying on thursday along the west coast with some shop showers in the south that show other to with sponsored by cats all day ways. in a country with high youth unemployment, one organization helps turn school children into entrepreneurs will come tell us what i mean by that was fundraising, empowering them to reclaim their future retention them out. we'll prorate the

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missiles of his around 30 percent of the countries energy infrastructure around $300.00 areas and left without power off the russian attacks the mayor of the western city. the viv says it will take months to repent energy, to submit russia's presence in europe is to blame for its energy crisis and potent said gas could still be supplied by one intact part of the north stream to pipeline germany. cancel the project off to russia, sent troops into ukraine. british prime minister, liz shaw says, come on. the fierce criticism from the opposition during her 1st prime minister's questions since the government so called many budget shook financial markets. trust and finance minister quasi qua time made a you turn on part of the budget that proposed tax cuts for high owners, but she stood by the rest of her fiscal plan. during her leadership contrast, the prime minister said my quotes are exactly, i'm very clear. i'm not planning public spending reductions. is she going

to stick to that? i absolutely. oh we and spending a 1000000 pounds of public spending. what we will make sure is that over the medium term, the debt is fooling. but we will do that. not by cutting public spending, but by making sure we spend public money well now are caught in the in mar, has sentence to pose lee the unsigned suit she to 3 more years in prison on charges of accepting a bribe. the new sentences added to previous convictions and extends her total prison term to 26 years. since she has denied any wrong doing, she's been held in solitary confinement in a prison in the capital since june. she was detained in 2021 when the military seized power from her elected government. tony chain has more from bangkok, this latest sentence 2 sentences. in fact, although both to run concurrently,

make the total time to be served 26 years. that will get her out of jail at the age of a $103.00. and birmingham jails are very tough places. now, there may be an opportunity at some stage, once the military have feel they have established their position, where they broker some sort of deal. they make an announcement, they will that they will be lenient. but i think at this stage, they're looking at elections in the autumn of next year. we're already seeing a political machinations and parties lied to the military, john, to, to put loyalists in place. think care there is no chance at this stage. they will be releasing on time to cheat because they know full well that if she was to contest that election in any way, she would win overwhelmingly, as she has on the previous occasions where she's been on the ballot paper. palestinians in this far thought refugee camp and occupy these jerusalem have

demonstrated in protest against today's long siege by israeli forces is really army has blocked entrances and exits. since saturday off a soldier was shot dead in an attack. one of the checkpoints, those in the campuses that have been collectively punished under holding marches and vigil on wednesday. if abraham is next to the camp in the blockaded town of anata. uh huh. this has been the lives of palestinians since saturday, showing their ideas to the israeli soldiers here to be able to enter or exit the shop, all refugee camp through another village where we are right now. but the cars haven't been allowed to enter israeli forces said that the perpetrator of a shooting attack that left one israeli soldier killed, is from the shop, bought refugee camp. people say it, this is a policy of collective punishment whereby the whole town, the whole neighborhood is being located. and that's why people have started

a strike. shops have closed, the people have stopped going to work as well as schools. if i'm a good, i'm sure people here living under one of the worst blockades, an unjust and unjustified siege on a talked took place here 5 days ago. and people here have nothing to do with these . riley army has been grading and closing our fruits. not even allowing the medics to move tension has already been on their eyes for a few weeks now in different areas in the occupied west bank. just to give you an idea in the past month alone, 3 israeli soldiers were killed in different shooting attacks. there's a new group in nablus, palestinian young man who are taking up arms and vowing to keep doing shooting attacks. they're called the lions den and they claimed responsibility for killing an israeli soldier on tuesday. in addition to another palestinian group in jeanene thing and say they will continue seeking revenge. nobel peace prize gloria to

malala. ny has visited parts of pockets thought affected by floods. she's been in send province to maintain international attention and humanitarian support for her home country. the floods have affected more than 33000000 people and killed more than 1700 since mid june. by jerry is battling some of its west floods in a decade. heavy rains have affected the south for weeks. when the 300 people have died, stephanie dec reports from roads, gardens, homes, all submerged. in some cases, the flood waters have reached as high as the roof tops. la guy, i love them. we are left with nothing to cope with life. we now get into the fast floors of our houses in canoes. i don't know how we're going to get back from what's lost from the flood. we don't have anything to eat. nigeria has been battling heavy rains and catastrophic flooding for weeks. more than half

a 1000000 people have been affected according to the national emergency management agency. but oh wow, we were not properly informed on the magnitude of what we will face because if they did, we would have had made plans to evacuate. we thought it was the normal flooding that happens every year when the river overflowed its boundaries. but this isn't normal, yearly flooding water levels are the worst at a decade. according to aid workers and millard, a sudden the flood came suddenly and met us unprepared. all the houses and the camp which served as settled as for farmers are under water. most of the world. more than 300 people have so far been killed by the floods. on friday, a boat capsized that was overloaded with people escaping the floods. 76 died. 27 out of nigeria, 36 states have been affected. the waters are showing no signs of subsiding in authority. say the situation is quote. beyond their control, stephanie decker,

al jazeera, negotiations have resumed between south africa state logistics company, trans. net. and it's employees, ongoing strikes of the firm, overweight disputes are affecting the country's economy. i mean, many reports from johannesburg. the strike has come at a very difficult time for south africa. it's trying to resuscitate an ailing economy. north america relies significantly on imports and exports facilitator that people around the country. and the ongoing strike is costing the economy millions of dollars every day. for now, the flow of goods has flowed quite considerably, but not stopped entirely. it's important to remember that those ports in dublin and cape town also see the neighboring countries. and while these people have been affected, were at city deep in johannesburg, it's a trans hub for vital goods. the strike action has slowed the movement of goods, not only at those ports, but also at places like this. while

a small group has come out to process joe, more than a full 1000 work as a country, once a 10 percent way to the government has so far offered less than half of that. and it continues to be a sticking point. the strikes effect to the transportation of iron or, and coal from south african mines, mining companies, a warning the strike stop exports and cripple production, especially at a time when there's a demand for coal. the shipment of agricultural goods is also address. farmers are worried about the limited shelf life of their products and they're worried about just how badly they will be affected by the strike action if it continues. people in france, so struggling to my petrol as refinery and storage workers hold a strike stuff coil. john's compound energies, an excellent moville of walked off, the job, demanding pay rises. the french government is ordering some to return to the sites,

but it being the 5 india has halted production of the pharmaceutical factory after conflicts and produce that was linked to the death of children in the gambia, the health minister for the state of her yana. it says the facility violated several protocols. if i was a medical that's issued by the world health organization last week, the w h o warned cough syrup maiden, india could be linked to the death of nearly 70 children in the west african state . lab samples showed the medicine was contaminated, india is the world's largest exports of generic drugs, but its regulatory structure is widely seen as inadequate. a framework as been criticized, being fragmented, and disorganized, with the central authority lacking autonomy. and with dozens of state regulators and health departments, coordination is difficult. well, this is led to poor enforcement of rules on drugs and the lack of accountability.

mexico has been named the most dangerous country for environmental activists. the global witness organization says more than $54.00 were murdered. last year. many are continue to work despite death threats. we spoke to one of them. i just went out of the st. louis so yeah, we're going to the center palace. i'm quin carlos lotus. i'm not only for the people's lenoir or defense fraud in morales per ventless color, and i'm part of the organic resistance and industries that want to take over out a rhetoric which literally is a sector in our main problem, is the auto industry. it causes terrible environmental damage and has become a great threat for the defense movement and indigenous community center. knocking the recycling. we are really interested in keeping our readers clean and growing or confused with good handmade of figures as dana community with principles free of rog, dealing corruption. those things that international corporations and capitalism route to orlando make equal on your policy you make was way international statistics. the

most violent and risky country for environmental defenders. referring to the number of people in these feel models. and this before with all the will worry, was about the police were being arrested or jail for demonstrating either. now we are afraid of being warders, but oh, i seen an honest comparison or burner in this fight. some year was killed by a local organized grind group that's part of a bigger carter. nicholas connie generation, whose present has increased all over the country, especially wherever a big industrial complex is in project. was a unit complete that implies that there's total impunity, the protection of it was doesn't have enough resources or structure to protect us, even the connections among the carton, local, state, and federal governments. our own plain view that i mean to wake as i leave them, you know me, celia, but had to leave home for fear of a he'd been calling me in. but 6 months later, one of the managers of this factory told people in the community, there's already one death from wireless. it will take just another death in pueblo,

so we can start operating overloaded as there is on the stubbornness that it's our lives. we are risking our libertine integrity, but it's also everybody's livelihood on the line. we had to keep on fighting for our community. sometimes we're able to stop the advance of this industry's other times. we're not young with every thy fight. thing is another day of life for our future. that's what keep us going on. now it's the 2nd and final day of reconciliation talks between the leaders of palestine rabo political parties in algeria. meetings are the latest effort to solve a more than decades non rift between us and patter of the previous agreements failed. well am i says, govern the gaza strip for since defeating president mac with a bus potter party in the parliamentary elections in 2006 armed conflict broke count off, the father refused to recognize the results for that ended. when i'm as forced out of garza since then,

the palestinian leadership has been divided us around the gaza strip and potter governs the west bank. let's bring in that german as out. he's the thought movement spokesperson and member of its revolutionary council joined us from berlin. welcome to the program. so talks in the past were not successful. what makes these talks different? do think well behind every break. so, and every story of success, there must have been many, many a failed attempt. and we had enough of that in fact, but we are truly sincere about concluding this reconciliation process with the success and we want to lead it to a happy. and what makes us believe is our own determination, that this is the only way to form a nation of a national state of punishment. an independent state of balance them has to be created for this to be brought about. we need the national unity. we know how

important that is, and we know how dangerous it is to live without it. and that's what keeps us going . the all the, any significant concessions that the battle movements can give to ensure the success of the agreement where we are not the owners of, of the, of the states. we are only one movement and we believe in power sharing on the basis on free and fair democratic election. so we aspire to farm national unity government with us and others. also we believe that the only way to, to do this is to have a free and fair election in the entire land or palestine. and we believe that is what should happen. and i need to correct something that you said in the introduction. when you said that, i didn't accept the results of the elections, of 2006, in fact, president about authorized to form a government in his name. and then the us government in 2006 rejected the

parameters the world cooperated with us up on like the international legitimacy, the international revolution. they are a police initiative. all of that was rejected by us in 2006. and that led to the failure of the 10 government, which was the 1st of come up in 2002. do you think that israel has some margin of pressure when it comes to fact which may obstruct reconciliation? it's there could buying power. it's the power that is committing terrorism and violence, it is pursuing pressure on our government, on the, on the government of the policy in a 30 day by day. and actually what you see, you know, in the, in the west bank encourages the targeted killings, the assassination the, the, the following types of political and.