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nato defense ministers meet in brussels to discuss russia and weapon shipments the ukraine. ah, it is great to have you with us this hour. i'm cyril benya. this is al jazeera live from dough are also coming up hundreds of thousands made homeless and at least 500 people are dead in nigeria is worse flooding in a decade. teetering on the brink. the international community insists government reform is the only way out of lebanon's economic crisis. i'm french monahan and doha, are one of counters biggest attractions is getting a new look ahead of the world cup. ah. so the final day of nato meetings with defense ministers discussing how to best

deal with moscow and increase arm shipments to ukraine. secretary general in stoughton berg pledge the alliance is all support for ukraine, saying it will stand with the country as long as needed. we will a stand by ukraine for as long as it takes we will step up our support and in particular, we will provide more air defense systems. so to ukraine, also outcome the very strong message from the national community yesterday. the vote in the u. n. will to clear condemnation of the legal annexation of ukrainian territories on the clear called on the shelf institute into diverse these positions and to respect to the integrity of ukraine and germany sent the 1st the for promised air defense systems to keep on wednesday. it says, this is the most modern weapon it has in its possession and will improve ukraine's rates of shooting down russian cruise missiles. on the same day,

french president demanded mac hold promise to send an air defense systems and radars to help protect against drone attacks. while the discuss this hot bill, hamid isn't keith and natasha butler is at that meeting in brussels. natasha, let's start with you. it looks like ukraine's demands of being partially met, at least more weapons are on their way to ukraine. that's right. britain and frogs both both promising more and missile defense system for ukraine, as well as other weaponry and ammunition that adds to those pages, waiting made by germany, the netherlands and the united states. we've also had here at nato headquarters a bit earlier. nato defense ministers for 14 member states, including germany and belgium, signing a joint declaration to agree to jointly buy more and missile defense systems. not at this stage. we don't know whether that would be to replace some of the dwindling

domestic stocks as they sent some of this weapon reach ukraine, or whether those would be to send directly to ukraine. but either way, what it does show is a real sense of commitment to try and support ukraine and also to also keep demands because, of course, flow to me as lensky. the crating president has been saying over the past few days, the what his country really needs is. and as she's particularly in light of those multiple missile strikes that we saw a little bit earlier in the week, we'll hope that you're in cave. what are people they're saying? do they feel that western powers, that nato a doing enough to help you? crane? people always say that they bank all the countries that are supporting ukraine. but you know, you just mentioned earlier this week when there was more than 80 strikes, loans against ukraine, including here a key. and people always wonder why this guys haven't been closed. that said the

man that ukrainians have had ever since the very 1st days of the war president for the mirror, the landscape having repeated that many a time, but surgeon, the now getting air defense system is the priority. because if there is one military up that the russians have at the moment while they are losing ground on the battlefield, why they trying to regroup and bring all these mobilized soldiers to the front lines. well, the one advantage they haven't been able to strike ukrainian cities as far as libby, which is by the polish border. so certainly more air defense system is something that would be very welcome in, especially in cities like me call i am up a region that come, i would say on a daily basis. the missile, oh, rocket attacks. now this with also do un resolution that was passed yesterday in

new york, calling for the territory of integrity or condemning the annexations that took place a couple of weeks ago by the announce like the kremlin, claiming that now don't you add to guns parts of the re job and parts of the region where within the boundaries of the russian federation, that would be welcome to. but many people will also tell you here that do you and has, has had many more resolution in the past about doing toyota integrity mainly in 2014, when condemn the annexation of crimea. again, in 2020, when it called for all the russian troops to pull out from that peninsula. so un resolutions are good there. symbolic president landscape talked about it, saying that it was a historic move. but again, there is frustration to against you and the ukraine has been asking over and over

again to actually expel russia from the security council. something that is not on the table at the moment. but put those 2 together more pledge of missile defense system missile. and un resolutions, i think ukraine does feel the support of the international community. honda bill hamid reporting from key natasha butler in brussels. thank you. both. the russian and turkish leaders have joined other regional leaders in catholic stand for a summit. latimer pollutant is expected to hold talks with a retro viper one to discuss the war and ukraine. he's also due to meet the amir of guitar. shake them in, been home. i don't funny in the 1st session and spoke about rising prices and the growing role of asian countries in global politics. more than 500 people have died in nigeria is worst floods in a decade. unusually heavy rains lead to the destruction of tens of thousands of homes. the government is starting ariel assessments of one of the worst hit areas

in a number of state. thousands of people are trapped in remote communities and at least 1400000 are displaced. interest is an outcome capital of a number of states armed men. first of all, how extensive is the damage? what are the 1st was the 1st feedback we're getting from that assessment? well, the assessment is from the way as we speak, but what we've so over the past few days and we've across nigeria is struck in hundreds of thousands of months, completely destroyed thousands of villages and communities still under water. like you said in the introduction, thousands of people still cut off because of the flood. busy waters coming into orca. yes. today, it was a shocking picture below community submerged people, trying to rescue what they can,

and many people uncertain whether or not help will reach them as authority. so saying that they are trying to assess this equation from the air. now, people here, number of states affected by this disaster, i've been waiting for help for more than a week. now, remember that these are just at least 75 people. many people are still on the account of what we seek, simply because the water level in that we are still very high and dangerous for people or you might just walk us, but i just this community or even try to resume recovery work. so people on such an exactly what's the scope of this thing, but i can tell you the different stitching disaster but in many parts of night get out. yesterday we were talking with an official approximately might just manage managers who told us that the water at the central parts of nigeria has symbolized a little bit. and water is moving down south. that means that a number of st. expect more flooding and down river before the delta,

a lot of activities expected dropping. and that breaking up or more damage if the water rains into the delta into the atlantic ocean downstream. ok. so still the developing situation. you told us and some people have been waiting for help for the better part of a week. we also said in the introduction to this, more than a 1000000 people have been displaced from their homes. so is the government getting them the help that they need? one talk to a lot of people in the refugee come internally, different process that will tell you that they haven't seen a, from the official why what we, what we are expecting today here in august when we spoke with the emergency management officials, he told us about trying to present some relief materials from the central government through the state government for distribution to victims. we understand that dozens of times have been set up in our number of other parts of nigeria since

of parts of august. if for example, i've been completely cut off nuts, why in apple job capital? because patrol and other supplies are being credited by the front people are facing long queues of because of the shortage is. so we are talking about hundreds of 1000 . so even 1000000, why it comes all taking shelter, would that relative simply because, you know, you're not, she'll talk to them who have been taken all of it taken over by basically what i can tell you that goes facilities are, those aren't enough to house those people displaced by the disaster across nigeria, we'll keep following the story. as you mentioned, some communities still completely stranded and cut off from the outside world in dire need of help and interests reporting from nigeria. thank you very much. and traders in gone are protesting against the new sales tax them. many of them worry that they could be driven out of business. gordon robinson has more traders and

gone as ashanti region are closing up their shops, their ceiling, their stalls with a red band, a symbol of their protest against new taxes. merchant saved the new 18.5 percent b a t or the value added tax on sales, isn't it? was that on one? put the government, it target it compounded tucker demos puts us already paid. the the company government is affecting me who is in commodity to pay the same rate of but the traitors were already feelings. we used gun as currency. the cd plummeted, 40 percent against the dollar over the past 9 months. it's pushed up the price of imports at a time when inflation is already soaring. food prices have more than doubled in the past year. this week, before we even went to this, close down. some there was ton rest of it, then that's momentum. got us. if one of the been wanting is about 200,

how go to somebody in this condition. these stalls are closed in protest, but some may end up closing for good traders worn a knock on effects to the whole infrastructure of food distribution. we demand distribute that in the region. and i said there is a help is to be really helping to sell the middle part that is the northern part of ghana. and in this case, if the government doesn't come in to us, it's well coming in to relate the funded the implement and it's going to yet some of us live in the markets o protest like these are spreading to other regions as merchants lock up shop in solidarity with those in ashanti tax authorities have held talks with traders, but so far the 2 sides have not. the compromise. wooden roberson al jazeera is still head on al jazeera lebanon slides, deeper into financial crisis, as politicians store on government reforms. and we will be taking

a look at sweden's experiment to grow what it calling future proof grain. they with a sedan. ah, anticipation is rising. and so is the atlas with wanted my cattle aways. how i recent days have seen some very heavy rain making its way across western parts of the met. it's right in. this is the offending area. cloud. quite an intense area of low pressure bringing some rather wet weather in across the western met through sardinia, heading towards eta. sensation of italy over the next couple of days. father northwell got blustery down the hall square scattering a showers rolling in across north west of europe. and in this area of low pressure to sliding towards the breast peninsula, bringing some really heavy rain or the more persistent rain. this one pushing across northern parts of france, heading towards the low countries into western parts of germany. as we go on 3

thursday, there's that wet weather, it will be intense and begun thundering, downpours there for southern italy, easing over towards the iron sea, pushing across greece as we go on through thursday. further east, generally, not too bad. we will see where to weather making his way across a good part of greece as we go through friday. ukraine generally try 14 celsius, therefore keep moscow dry. 9 celsius, he blustery showers, continue. hoster northwest rather more persistent rain sinking down to southern parts of france, spain, portugal at fine, and rise as the case caused much of north africa stood a few shows up towards the northwest and still some very heavy right for good part of nigeria to with sponsored by cattle and i was jumping to the street when no topic is off the table. i don't think that anybody should be borne to privilege to dinner at the end of the day. we are the subjects of little family plus one person's opinion. but what's yours? amplify your voice. the judicial system in mexico is incredibly weak and it is not

just corruption where a global audience becomes a global community. the scariest part of this moment in my country is this toys for a more weapon. the st. oh, now g 0. ah ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder of our headlines this hour. it is the final day of nato meetings with defense ministers discussing how to deal with moscow and bitter arm ukraine. germany sent the 1st of 4 promised air defense systems to key on wednesday. russian president vladimir putin has arrived in cas expand for a meeting with regional leaders. he is said to meet the turkish leader. and the

amir photographer, the disgust to warn you, create more than 500 people have died in nigeria is worst floods in a decade. the government is conducting operations to rescue thousands of stranded people after floods blocked roads and destroyed villages. lebanon's economic collapse is accelerating in the absence of a government recovery plan. the international community has made clear that the only way out of the crisis is through a deal with the international monetary fund. but as xena holder reports, politicians have made few steps towards government reforms that would unlock such a plan. lebanon's economic crisis is heading into its 4th year. the state is nearly bankrupt. it can't buy fuel for electricity. infrastructure is falling apart. while institutions struggle to afford basic operating, call that

a desperate need for hard currency. the international community made clear any funding will only come from the international monetary fund. that means reforming a dysfunctional system blamed on decades of the management and corruption. but there hasn't been political will ruling any, doesn't want to reform because it to undermine the structure of their power that has been going on for for 30 years. now. the country's leaders have refused to open the books at the central bank. they fail to pass laws to investigate all financial crimes and stop billions of dollars being transferred abroad. instead, the shared interests of the political and financial elite have lead to bank customers, suffering losses and being denied access to their savings. any financial program

between the i m, f and lebanon would involve passing structural reforms, and anti corruption measures to improve governance that's likely to hurt the interests of politicians accused of using the state for the interests of themselves and their associates. this was once a middle income country, but the local currency has lost value and its financial losses are estimated to amount to $72000000000.00. that is 4 times the size of the economy. officials say they remain committed to the path laid out by the i m f. but there's still no consensus on a recovery plan. major reforms normally economic was, can go on with any on normal circumstances in live and we need stability on the political level. all the while one of the world's worst meltdowns deepens by the day, seneca, the al jazeera battles, iraq's parliament is holding a session to attempt to elect its next president. yet again,

the nation has been stuck in a year long political deadlock with rival parties unable to come to consensus since elections in october. last year. lahood abdullah had joins us from baghdad. mah who had electing a president is the 1st step towards getting the political system back on track. is it going to happen with will lawmakers have started to arrive at the hit quarter of the parliament in order to vote for a new president of the state after one year of political tension that has derailed . not only electing a new president of the state, but also forming a government and also providing services for the people who are so frustrated in streets now. elder for a president, for a new president to be elected at he or she needs at least $220.00 at low makers to vote with the yes for them. and if he or she is not winning,

and the 1st session then or in the 1st round of voting, then a 2nd round voting should be held. and this who owns all o a wins. the majority of votes would be the 2nd or the next president of iraq. now, according to her, at facts on the ground, we have been hearing from low makers from party members and old occasions. also indications on the ground to day suggest that abdullatif rashid, he is one of the founding leaders of the pituitary union of kurdistan. he's the one most likely a closer to this election this a candidacy. just because he's one of the most popular persons in our party and plus, he has won the confidence of the democratic party of could this is one of the major

parties in the kurdish region. so now decision is about to start. whoever is going to be the next president needs to have at least $220.00 votes with yes. when i went ahead in baghdad, thank you very much. is really forces have arrested $25.00 palestinians during raids in different parts of the occupied west bank in 24 hours. the palestinian prisoners club says most of the detainees are from the occupied east jerusalem area and its suburbs. there are also reports of confrontations between palestinians and is really forces of issue office refugee camp, which has been blockaded since saturday. at the syria now were local media is reporting 17 soldiers have been killed in an explosion on a military bus. this happened in the damascus countryside. there has been no claim of responsibility for that attack. a jury in the u. s. as ordered right wing conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay nearly a $1000000000.00 damages the his false claim that the 2012 sandy hook school

shooting with a hoax. the money is compensation for the relatives of the $26.00 victims and an f . b i. officer who was called to the scene, had a co hand reports latent job. the jury, please listen to your verdict as it has been recorded. they have been through so much the emotions of this moment clear in the court room. the man who publicly denied their children were slaughtered in their classroom, who called them actors, and unleashed his followers to harass them with death threats. that man, alex jones will pay for what he did. estimation slander damages asked the future $25000000.00. be a most little disrupt them the past and future. there are 2000600 doubt. jones is already facing one judgment for $45000000.00 for this conduct. but this was by far the biggest penalty, $965000000.00 to the families of h students and staff that were killed in their sandy, her classroom. and in f

b i agent who was also targeted by jones. i can really just tell them what we are able to accomplish just to simply tell the truth. it shouldn't be this hard . and it shouldn't be that during the trial, jones didn't. in this case, telling the family he's done apologizing. something he defended a flight. of course, i've apologized for passing. i said hurtful feelings, but i wasn't the 1st person the question. and i apologize, years ago, it's estimated a jones in his companies are worth between $135.00 and $270000000.00. he is trying to shield his assets by declaring bankruptcy, but that's not always guaranteed to work still and will say this could make future conspiracy theorist think before attacking victims of her risk crimes. again, these families last young children, 67 years old, 6 teachers also died that day. jones was in court the back on the airwaves using

this trial to raise money. not for those he hurt, but for himself, we're not scared, and we're not going away. and we're not going to stop and literally for hundreds of thousands of dollars, i can keep them in court for years. i can appeal this stuff. we can stand up against this travesty against the billions of dollars they want. it's a joke. so please go to info or store dot com, unrepentant still, but now potentially eventually he might pay a very steep price. patty gall haine al jazeera washington war drought and extreme weather have caused a worldwide weeds in great shortages and an increase in food prices. in sweden, however, warmer temperatures have led to record braking harvests. the country is spearheading research that could help farmers around the world protect their crops from climate change. while rece reports from this fell off the it's the last day of the harvest in small live in southern sweden. but this week isn't destined for the

nation's bread baskets. this is the test field at the loved men and farming cooperative. where manager, tina hendrickson has a mission to breed crops, the to future prove. we develop new bride this week to make sure that the right is, can still produce a big yields as possible. even if the climate change is what we really want to produce is varieties that are robust to a lot of different time. it's for her team, it's been a decade long process. 45000 types of wheat have been whittled down to an elite sheaf of just 10 resistance to extreme heat, drought, and floods. the knowledge could be crucial further south the worst droughts in 500 years of caused crops to fail in italy, france and germany. farming here used to be challenging because of the cold. not

anymore. 2022 has been a bumper harvest for sweden. an indication perhaps that the agricultural industry can benefit, at least in the short term, from the effects of climate change. as the heat moves north, sweden's, growing season has become longer and warmer. september's in the south have been 2 degrees celsius above the average in recent years. but farmers are aware that the good times might not last long. this fall has been recalled breaking really. and we've had all the, all the great components related to a good year. we will probably see more extreme weather. so it seems like in this region that once the rain comes, it comes more. and once the dry weather comes it's, it's for longer periods, changes in climate bring changes in disease causes a talk to something that the breathing process also tries to combat. sweden's harvests may help with the current food shortages in other countries. but in the

long term, the biggest yields, maybe in the lab, full re how does era follow sweden? now you will be happy to learn that a competition to crown the fattest beer in an alaskan park has ended with a 635 kilogram. when are the bearers nicknamed beer force? one got most boats beating his nearest challenger by more than 10000 votes. north american brown bears stock back reserve to survive the hibernation season. in case you didn't know that one of the guitar is best known, cultural institutions is reopening to the public ahead of the thief. a world cup. the museum of islamic art has had an extensive redesign to make the history of the atlantic world more accessible than ever before. since and mana has more one of cataracts, most iconic landmarks, the museum of islamic art, widely known as the mia has reopened. after more than a year of renovation, designed by renowned architect, i am pe, the building itself is considered

a work of art. many if the renovation are subtle, with great efforts made to preserve the original vision for the museum, look. the entrance has been widened and opened up as part of the redesign, but the biggest changes are in the gallery. and the way the artifact displayed. the me as grant atrium, houses, 18 galleries, bringing together thousands of artifacts from across the islamic world. one of the challenges was making this accessible to a wide audience. to put it this way, we had beautiful objects. they were due to full showcases. but there was very little story in context about them. so what we did is, 1st of all, the introduce to visit the trail. so people follow a trail and have a little story. if you follow closely, you get an idea about, you know, this, let me well, the culture, the history, the religion. we introduced religion, for example, there was nothing on religion before. one path for the spread of islam,

from the printed word, to artistic creations, to the development of his love community. there's also been a push to appeal to an international audience. one path takes visitors from the mediterranean to the gulf, through to iran, and beyond. the indian ocean and southeast asia also totally new. we never had southeast asian, the indian ocean, but specifically with the origins here. and with so many people from this area and being indonesia being one of the biggest muslim countries in the world, we really thought that should be included. the curators also want to stimulate the senses. there are plans to enhance displays with a video, music, and even smells special exhibitions are being mounted to coincide with the world cup. one focuses on baghdad. iraqi capital was once the jewel of our culture. so it's an appropriate choice. as doha briefly becomes the center of the sports world capture plans to open at least 3 more made.