that there is not enough for everyone, but they are still the lucky ones here across the way where the road has been completely washed away, or people cut off from other villages as the trucks begin to empty, panic returns and people jump the queue once again, making sure, the weakest in the crowd, women, children, the sick and elderly don't get pushed to the back of the law. that often requires force lena to move. they train and ship it with emission challenge. back for more attention and cultural tradition. hollywood thing. as you lou

ukraine's president says he needs more weapons while nato defense ministers meet to discuss their strategy on the war. ah, it's great to have you with us this our, i'm several danielle, this is al jazeera live from dough, also coming up hundreds of thousands made homeless and at least 500 people are dead . and 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. and wildlife experts warn of a steep decline in global animal population. ah, it is just after 11 gmc, we start in brussels, where defense ministers have been discussing how to best deal with russia and

increase arm shipments to ukraine. and president vladimir lensky says that ukraine currently has only about 10 percent of what it needs for its air defenses, and has ruled out diplomatic contacts with russia. nato secretary general in stoughton berg pledge, the alliance is full support for ukraine, saying it will stand with the country as long as is needed. we will 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. germany sent the 1st to for promise to air defense

systems to keep on wednesday. it says it's the most modern weapon and it's possession and will improve ukraine's rate of shooting down russian cruise missiles . french president, the menu, and i quote, for his part promised to send an air defense systems and re doors to help protect against drone attacks. natasha butler is in brussels. natasha. tell us a little bit more about what nato members are trying to achieve. at this summit, it seems several of them have already said they're going to increase their military . a crane well as no doubt their turn, nato member states are listening very seriously to validate ears. lensky, the ukrainian presidents calls and demands for more weapons, particularly for florida. miss lensky. he says he wants an air shield. every crane and lights are of those recent a missile attacks are from russia that targeted civilian infrastructure, civilian areas, and that is something that is really been talked about. here. there is

a sense of urgency. we heard from the nato, chief, he and stuart and berg saying that supporting ukraine as best as we can is really are the number one priority of the alliance right now. now what that means is sending more weapons, but particularly a missile defense systems. britain, france have joined a list of members member states that are saying that they will send such systems to ukraine. we've heard ready at the same from germany, formed the netherlands and from the united states. a lot of this technology is very advanced, is very high tech, as so there are pages from amber states also that they will help you crenan soldiers to train and how to use some of that more advanced weaponry are also a little bit earlier today. a defense ministers form a 14 nato member states signed an agreement or to jointly purchase to jointly by a defense miss our systems. now these are ones that would be sent on to keith, but that would actually be kept up for domestic use to try and secure the security

of our member states. because what's been happening is, as these weapons are being sent on to ukraine, domestic stalks are dwindling. so member states, very careful that they, they say that it's very important that they continue to insure their own security. of course i latasha butler reporting live from this nato defense ministers meeting in brussels as find out now how ukraine feels about all this. hod abdul hamid has more from keith. i think the crane is a feel that they getting more of what they need, but certainly not enough. that is something that has frustrated president will of the me, as in nancy, ever since this war has started, he has been calling for more weapons to come into the country quicker. or he has received out today a new shipment from germany. he has in received in the past these high myers that are high tech i mobile activities systems that have at that have helped a lot specially under ground to regain territory. but when it comes to air defense

system, the president seems to be frustrated. saying that he only has 10 percent of what he needs. and that's because over the past few weeks, air strikes have increased dramatically. not only cruise missiles, but also iranian main drones that have been striking. so it is as sort of a race against time for ukraine at the moment. please parties. the chief executive officer of political consulting firm has me, sim, global, and a former director of policy planning at nato. he explains. rushers, current military strategy, a military point of view, what russia is doing is actually the big the idea is to, to set up to spread taro among the population is more political secretary got weapons than anything else. and basically when the time that the russians are running kind of quite low on their stock and therefore they would get, the price would be monday or what it can do is from the current front line

use more good demons. every type of rocket to go after or power agree, a power generator. and this is why i think you need more radar and more just for the nato countries in order to deny putting kind of parallel tactics. i think that the balance that the nato countries thought we did meet with the united states . i tried to get rides in responding and pushing back on escalation. be a political military escalation. and at the time, not sending a check back to even worse. it's going to show a russian president vladimir putin has met guitars, a mere shake them in bahama tani. the leaders are attending a regional summit in catholic stem model cut. i had huge investments in russia. these investments are successful and diverse. and as you mentioned,

the trade volumes are not up to our aspirations. however, we have opportunities to develop and both of these developments and trade volumes, especially in certain domains like infrastructure, agriculture, and energy. more than 500 people have died in nigeria worse floods in a decade. and usually heavy range lead to the destruction of tens of thousands of homes. the government is starting aerial 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 have been displaced. my interest has the latest from the capital of a number state, a number of states. it's a, it's a massive, massive disaster here in another state. like in many other parts of the country. now there are 2 major rivers in niger, the niger and the benway, and the all flowed down south. and these waters, as the call, as we go down the join waters from other tributaries that invaded communities,

especially those living are along the coast river and areas. these areas are completely submerged, playing into all kinds yesterday, playing into a number yesterday. it was a devastating scene below us. now we understand that the government set up several comes housing, thousands of people. they try to deliver much supplies as possible to these people who need assistance. some communities have been completely cut off the governor of the state. charles took a muscle to do is talking about roads and bridges completely destroyed by the flood disaster. now jordan, joining me now to talk more about the impact of this disaster and what help is being render to such communities that have been impacted by this disaster is governance also new to set. thank you for joining us today. talk to us about the impact of the, the magnitude of this disaster and how you're dealing with it as a huge one. why that as wiped off by literally about 7 local governments in number us that i fest with 3 of them and then to 5927. and they have

hundreds of billions of value in terms of properties from land agriculture to produce and to tell it sub matched on the water. we don't know what this would mean, whereas us in the situation and i still do boats, that's the only way we get into them on them in the infrastructure that will have. but this is terribly overwhelming because this was never anticipated. understand that cameron wand nigeria that it was going to open up the dime and so on and stuff like that. this happens every few years on the part of my surprise actually is we haven't taken this seriously as a country. ah, one expected that in the federal level that we should treat this as a national emergency. actually required an emergency appropriation by the national assembly. which should have hundreds of billions get into these states, or by now farmlands warms properties just completely ravaged,

hundreds of billions governor to us salute or thank you so much for your time. now nationwide we're talking about massive damage in several states. nigeria has 36 states and we're talking about more than 33 states impacted by this is flood is a was ever seen in decades in this country. traders in ghana, protesting against the new sales tax. and many of them worry that they could be driven out of business. gordon robeson has more traitors 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 save the new 18.5 percent b a t or value added tax on sales isn't fair. it was that on one product on one product, the government is charging compounded taxes. the manufacturer has already paid v a t. the government is expecting me who is in kumasi to pay the same rate or the 18th,

which is $18.00. and the government is expecting those coming to buy from me to all to charge the same $18.00. 0, treatise. we're already feeling squeezed, gone 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 though, something was contracted, then next momento got us is monday. been wanting is about 200 cities. i go to sub i have in this condition, these stalls are closed in protest, but some may end up closing for good traitors born of knock on effects to the whole infrastructure of food distribution where they're man distribute as in the us on through them. and as others help is to be really helping to serve them middle pots that is the northern part of ghana. and in this case, if the government doesn't come into us as well,

coming to rob live that funded this yas implement on us is going to get some effect leaving their markets. oh, proteus like these are spreading to other regions as merchants lock up shop in solidarity with those in ashanti tax authorities have held talks with the traitors, but so far the 2 sides have not found. the compromise warden robinson algebra is still ahead on al jazeera explosions. in iraq's green zone is parliament meets the trying to finally elect the president will be live in baghdad. and we'll take a look at sweden's experiment to grow, but it's pulling future proof grain. stay with us. ah, anticipation is rising. and so as the atmosphere a, you read the wet spots of my cattle aways. hello. we've got

some dry weather in the forecast for eastern parts of japan. over the next couple of days. you see this little line of cloud here, a garage he gets pulled out into the open waters, brighter sky. come back in behind. nice to larry of high pressure to start to settle things down. so you can see temperatures recovering in tokyo to around $21.00 celsius for friday, find a dry there for the grand peninsula, find a dry cost, much of china, and it stays that way as we go $1.00 through saturday. so not looking too bad at all. taiwan will still see some rather live you showers from time to time. showers in india asked that tending to retreat away from my northern most parts, please to say up to was or to are kind up to was nepal. northern areas of in the, as you can see, it is lottie, try and find the monsoon range. sinking further south was western parts, on the other hand, still seeing some live showers, longest spells of right as we go through sad stay good. scattering shares into central areas where to weather over towards the east, and we'll still see some pretty wet weather. they're into a good part of swank,

on the other side of the boat, been gall bangladesh. generate dry, but we will see some where to where the started to sneak its way in here. me and mar, also seeing some lively showers, longest spells of rain and gone with a top temperature of $31.00 degrees. the weather sponsored by cat, our neighbors. oh well that is going blind from the rare genetic disorder as the sun beholds, the beauty of the world for the 1st time, roberts may be seen for the last. ah, that has this genetic disorder been passed on to his son? witness a sky without stars. on al jazeera oh the

the me watching else is 0 reminder of our headlines this hour is the final day of nato meetings with defense ministers discussing how to deal with moscow and better arm ukraine. ukraine's president says his country has only 10 percent of the air defense. it needs. russian president vladimir putin isn't catholic, span seeking support. he had met with regional leaders, including the mirror of guitar and turkey is reader and more than $500.00 people have died in nigeria is worst floods in a decade, the government is conducting operations. the rescue, thousands of stranded people after flood destroyed villages, security officials in iraq, c, 9 rockets of hit baghdad, 4 to 5 green zone. local media is reporting that a number of people have been wounded. this came as iraq's parliament is holding a session to attempt to elect the next president. yet again,

lawmakers rushed to the parliament hall after the explosions and said that they would carry on with this session. so let's check in with what we had. he joins us from baghdad. ma had given what happened this morning, is the country any closer to having a new president? ah, willa. it's now quite following the multiple rocca to attack that to did the in and around did a heavily fortified resume that his home to the parliament government offices. along with the international diplomatic missions, several people alert, wandered in good insecurity individuals and civilians. because some of the rockets that were fired landed in the air density populated areas outside of the fence of the greens on some one rocket hit a mosque. another hit the headquarters of the railway stations up. now, security forces in the area have been deployed, and del prime minister k take

a prime miss, and most of our company has given instructions to the security forces to maintain older and to prevent any possible attacks. so that the parliament decision being held right now. we can go that without any incident, as you know, that this comes as the parliament is now holding a session to elect the next president of the republic after one year of political instability. that derived the election of the president, the formation of the government. and the nation of a new prime minister at because of the rivalries, deep division between the political blocks. so now with $269.00 lawmakers inside this session, they're now they're not did the decision is now being it convened to elect a new president of the republic. as you know that that's required at least 2 thirds

of the 200 and the excuse me, 329, the total number of that lawmakers. so by constitution, 2 thirds of the total number of the market is, is it required to start the session to elect your president of the state. but with getting we've been getting reports from the, from inside the session and suggesting that the pro iranian coordination framework, that's a parliamentary block. it is requesting to name there know many, well how much he should any for prime minister at once. the new president, other public is elected as you know that. so then he is so controversial and he's been rejected by lawmakers including the those affiliated, 2 influential either looked at that a southern ho rejected as with any back in july. and that's part of the reason that they stated protests and occupied the parliament for over a month in it. oh good. so we have to wait and see how this is unfolding. the

parliament is cont, is continuing its the session to elect the new president of the republic where we also witnessed today here in this whole that one of the opposition parties is boycotting this session for what they consider the nepotism and favoritism, and lobbying among the political parties inside the session holes. all right. love mom who dabilla had. thank you very much for falling this forest. we're going to keep monitoring this and find out whether iraqi, the rocky politicians or elect their president, which will be step one on getting iraq back on the road to a more normal political system. lebanon's economic collapse is accelerating in the absence of a government recovery plan. international community has made very clear that the only way out of this crisis is through a deal with the international monetary fund. but as xena holder reports, politicians have made few steps towards government reforms that could unlock such

a plan. my crisis is heading into its force here. the state is nearly bankrupt. it can't buy fuel for electricity. infrastructure is falling apart. while institutions struggle to afford basic operating costs, there's 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 tomorrow 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 reform normally economic was, can go on with any on normal circumstances and live and we need stability on the political level. all the while one of the world's worst meltdowns deepens by the day, then the elders ita bailed at the syria now were local media is reporting 17 soldiers have been killed in an explosion on a military bus. it happened in the damascus countryside, and there's been no claim of responsibility for that attack. israeli 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 through salom area and its suburbs. the form of the former police officer in the us state of texas has been charged with 2 counts of aggravated assault, shooting and gravely would need a teenager. earlier this month,

james brennan, san antonio police department shot 17 year old eric captain with eating hamburger and his car. the city's police chief described video of the shooting as horrific over an end has been fired. the victims families say eric is still unconscious in on life support. and you report from the world wildlife fund says animal populations around the world have declined sharply in the past 5 decades. it says metals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have seen a 69 percent drop since 1970 populations in the bio diverse regions of latin america and the caribbean declined by a staggering 94 percent in the same period. alessandro ram, p se reports spun cheese, gaza national park, and columbia. these are dark times for wildlife around the world. the w. w. f latest living planet report says, wild animal populations are in shop the klein,

and that nowhere is the loss or concerning than in latin american. the caribbean were monitored populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have declined by 94 per cent since 1970. the this in one of the most bio diverse regions of the world across east, in the region are changing very rapidly. and unless we borrow something, whitney, we can phase, ah, ah, a catastrophe. humans are mostly to blame since 1970 the region as seen dramatic habit at last, due mainly to agricultural expansion, the for a station in the amazon to make space for cattle. ranching is threatening the entire world's climate even here high in the indian mountains. the expansion of the agricultural frontier has greatly impacted the environment potato an onion feels dot the landscape well over 3000 meters of elevation,

endangering animals like the spectacle. bear with their silver lining. juggled with dana. this is the plea with deanna locally known as cardon, is the and the embarrass main source of food on the restoration efforts like this when in columbia, ching guys up park aim to replace damaged environments, but the, the park has prioritize areas that before becoming protected, where heavily altered by agriculture and capital and that haven't been able to recover, learn, we're slowly recovering them now with native plants. similar programs elsewhere of proven successful helping restore once threatened species like guerrillas in africa and brazil's dollar turtle. it is important to understand that even the figures of so dramatic and the stakes are so high, we believe that we still have time to make these changes the

world leaders that are due to meet at the 15th convention of biological diversity. december. once in a decade, oppertunity experts say to implement those changes before it's too late. and he said that the al jazeera king guys are columbia alice, through his eyes, the africa regional director for w w. s, and has more on why animal populations are plummeting. i'm afraid it is bound human activity. it is about on sustainable hunting pill legal wildlife support. ching, it over fishing. it is deforestation. and it's also a because the corridors that we need for these wildlife to rome have now now full of human settlement. agree can be converted to agriculture. i've been used for transportation and for logging. so yes, human activity plays a very big role there. and in africa, this is very scary because 70 percent of our people depend on nature for

livelihood and our own government over 50 percent look to well to nature for their wealth and for their natural capital. we have the results of a competition to crown. the fact is there in an alaskan park and it has ended with a 635 kilogram winter. the animal nicknamed bear force one. got all of the pun, got the most votes beat. it's nearest challenge. by more than $10000.00 votes, north american brown, there's stocks that reserves to survive during the course of the winter hibernation season. a war drought and extreme weather have caused worldwide wheat and grain shortages in an increase in food prices. however, in sweden, warmer temperatures have led the record breaking harvests. the country is spearheading research that could end up helping farmers around the world protect their crops from climate change. or reese reports from the last sweden the

it's the last day of the harvest in solid in southern sweden. but this week isn't destined for the nation's bread baskets. this is the test feel that the loved men in farming cooperative. where manager, tina hendrickson, has a mission to breed crops, the, to future proof. we developed new right 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 resistant 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 record 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 and disease causes a talk to something that the breed.