freedom in asia, but as china tightens its grip on the city journalists fear, they can no longer speak truth to power journalists and media organizations like oral us, half soil, respect, and comply with them all in 2019 increasing fears that china was eroding hong kong, so autonomy and judicial independence, spots, months of massive, sometimes violent protests, the national security law, which criminalizes terrorism, secession, subversion, and collusion with foreign forces was introduced in 2020. it might be a could lucian talking to you now. accepting your interview. it has become a dangerous depression, that dangerous occupation for people who are still interested in quoting the facts . ah,

china's leader, she jen paying coals for military growth and defends his policies on taiwan and hong kong at a major party congress. ah . has them seeka, this is edge, is it alive from the also coming up promising to balance the books, the u. k. new chancellor says he can fix the country's finances. a fight between inmates leads to a fire at iran 7 prison known to hold political detainees. and we follow the flights of people a nigeria, we've lost everything after the west flooding in a decade. ah, we begin in china what president she jin is said to be confirmed for

a historic 3rd term, making him the most powerful communist leader since mounts a dung g used his opening speech at the twice a decade. communist party congress to call for faster military growth and defend beijing's 0 coven approach. he also raised hong kong, saying it must be ruled by what he called patriots. patrick falk has more from beijing. u. t outlines and the key achievements of the party talking about how it had to successfully managed to curve at 19 defended curve at 19 policy. that, of course, is very much in focus. it talks about raining in hong kong and bringing an end to the unrest. there and opposing taiwan separate his forces. he also talked about how the anti corruption of jer drive had achieved a resounding victory and had eliminated risks from the party. but all of this really is part and parcel one might argue of trying to justify what was previously

an unconstitutional 3rd term. and of course, we are expecting present, she to secure that's a 3rd term at the helm. he did also say that the government approved the political system in recent years, and we are of course, expecting some potentially big changes to the political system. he said that the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation was irreversible. so that seems to put an emphasis on the need for continuity. taking a look at who's involved in china's party congress, out of a population of 1400000000 people, nearly 100000000, registered party members, about 2300 will attend the congress. these delegates are handpicked by the party. they will endorse a group of about 200 people. and this is the parties central committee, which oversees all aspects of the government and military. and the committee then elect 25 members who form the politburo. the party sets their agenda and decisions

are made by consensus. this group then chooses the standing commit to the usually around 7 people, which assumes legislative powers when the people's, the national people's congress is not in session. and the general secretary chairs this committee, adrian brown looks at. she didn't things that political rise. the president cheating pings, grip on power, would now appear absolute. if he has enemies, then they're hidden or unknown, or both. but some of those who chronicled, she's curious, say you don't get to the top of chinese politics without eliminating rivals and making enemies. he does, but it needs to be said that the congress has an active state pageantry. the fact that this congress is happening means that these rivals have already been largely pushed to the sidelines. after becoming communist party chief a decade ago, she vowed to root out dishonest officials,

both high ranking tigers and low level flies. the campaign went down well with the public, especially when it in snared powerful and wealthy figures. bocce eli was the rising star of chinese politics, even tip as a future president. but within months of he becoming leader bo was serving a life sentence for corruption and abuse of power. no one was untouchable, including john kang, the man who'd be in charge of state security. he said he's also serving a life term for corruption and disclosure of state secrets, and the purge is not over and more than 4000000 people have been caught up in it. so it's been a very effective tool, procedure paying to both instill discipline within the communist party, but also clamped down on his rivals. other analysts say the continuing campaign against corruption ahead of this congress would ensure that she strengthens his

hand over appointments to key decision making bodies. she has let china per decade now he's expected to end precedent by being appointed to a 3rd term as party chief. so having seized control of the chinese communist party, seizure prim, then seize control of china and china has become a lot less free, a lot more oppressive, far less open than it was. 10 years ago. it's an accumulation of power. i've seen since chairman now and nobody to since him has built a personality called as strong adrian brown al jazeera a president, she didn't thing also refused to rule out using force to take control of taiwan in his speech. she some gordon fuji, that shit resolving the tie. one question is a matter for the chinese

a matter that must be resolved by the chinese. we will continue to strive for a peaceful reification with the greatest sincerity and utmost if it. but we will never promise to renounce the use of force, and we reserved the option of taking all measures necessary. this is directed solely, i didn't appearance by outside horses. alexander one is a professor at cam can university in taiwan. he says the island is in a very different different situation to hong kong. try wanted to know hong kong hong kong was turned back by the united kingdom and the entire one we are republic of china. last week we just celebrated the 111 1st day of the republic. so cross tre relations is more of a equal footing relationship. and of course, psychologically taiwan. people does fear that if we fall

under chinese rule, we could be treated as bad as in hong kong. but i have to say that taiwan is no hong kong. we have our own constitution, our own forces, and our own practice in elections. we are totally different from hong kong or russia, says 11 people have been killed in a shooting at southern border with ukraine. the defense ministry says to attack as open fire at a military training ground, the in belgrade. the area has been shelled in recent days in what russian officials say were miss aw, strikes by ukrainian forces to was in a terrible event happened yesterday on our territory on the territory of one of the military units. there was a terror attack committed. many soldiers were killed and wounded. all of the wounded getting help. i want to express my words of condolence to the families of

those who were killed. we are by your site. let's talk now to them how much vol in moscow. so what more we hearing about the new shelling in belgrade has the news across the russian state media and particularly ad very media that is very close to the states talking about new shelling belgrade and talking about a rockets hitting several areas around the city. and one of them hit the airport. this airport has been closed since the beginning of the war. one of the pictures that was one of the videos that was added by one of those media outlets showed as smoke rising from a spot to near the airport. belgrade has now been described by some of these

sources of a war zone, like a new war zone. months after russia launched this war in an attempt to lay the russian fears of an attack from abroad, saying about trashes on the threat. and it has to protect the steady 3 russia after that has a next large areas from ukraine in the name of security for its own territories, and also the name of people or communities. russia says belong to it. historically or. but belgrade is interesting because it's very close to how keith, it's about an hour drive from the 2nd city, the 2nd ukrainian 2nd largest ukranian city of hockey. 40 kilometers away from the border with ukraine. and now this shelling has become repetitive and it's been going on since april. not clear what the reaction from the kremlin and national for it is will be. but expectations are that this is going to be the cause for

a new offensive, probably on car keep itself because the consideration here is that russia has so far a failed in securing those areas, particularly is citizens and communities near the borderline. many of them have left area during the last several months, so it's virtually a war zone and russia considered that the mission will not be completed until no such threats on its territory can be repeated. mama vall, in moscow, thank you. now the u. k. is new, chancellor has vowed to fix public finances after his predecessors, economic plans led to chaos. jeremy hunt says he will increase taxes and title control on public spending. investors sold british government bonds when kweisi quoting, announced a string of unfunded tax cuts last month speak. now to andrew simmons, who's been following this forth in london. so andrew,

what else has the new chancellor been saying today? while really jeremy hunt was trying to spell out a plan or the russ state of a plan right now are aimed at trying to quell this onslaught or, or from the markets on the british economy. a by convincing the, the city that he will be more or less turning around what less trust had planned. in fact, what he's actually talking about is the polar opposite to what truss had promised or the conservative party in the leadership challenge. so firstly, he's saying that he will have to raise some taxes, not cut them. or he's also saying that he will be cutting spending in some parts, but will 1st of all ask every single government department to make efficiency savings. if they don't do voluntarily, he may well come down and say this much has to be cut. so there's the

starter, he has then to balance the books. i may have to cut further into it. so there are sort of echoes here of 2010 during david cameron's prime minister, when he was prime minister mom, when there was a whole sways of cuts in public services. he was that was put to him in a t v program on sunday morning. and he said, look, i was a minister that it will be anything like that. we're going to be a caring, conservative government. we will look after the people, it will be tough as a tough times ahead. he said it will be difficult. but he said that that was the case that was put to him that mortgage rates are, are increasing at a much higher rate than back in 2010. there's going to be another one percent, a likely increase in the coming month from the bank of england on top of all the other rises and inflation is rocketing. so willis, convince the markets on

a monday morning. that's the big question. as for less trust. well speaking to the prime minister at her country residence pm's residence in buckinghamshire, not exactly a country retreat this weekend. she is really fighting for her job. it's being made clear by a number of conservative mpm ex ministers. that really everything is she's promised as being reversed and in a, an absolutely extraordinary rao or within government about whether the needs to be a new prime minister right away. and that is going to be addressed again on monday . although it's being talked about all the time. the expect ventures and annex ministers and indeed some cabinet members as well. we're reliably informed. so yes, this is still a crisis. and it has to be said that on friday when liz trust reversed will not reverse. but a did you turns effectively on 2 main planks to her promises and all arrest that is

addressed by her new finance minister, chancellor and her also quasi quotes ng was fired. so that did not convinced the market. on friday the pound fell against the dollar, and government borrowing increased again. so will of the chancellor now. com the markets may be, but he says he cannot give full details for another 2 weeks when the fiscal report will be shown and that will be monitored by the fiscal statement. so office for budget responsibility, which verifies what the government's promising. basically, a do things at up. can the government afford to do what it says it wants to do? now, once that's done, the hope is they'll be stability, whether they'll be a new prime minister by then remains to be seen. or i entered thanks left, andrew sent his life for us in london. ahead on al jazeera

a. how small policies in iraq are pushing for new ideas to change the political landscape. oh, i'm calling for change. demonstrate is back on the street to the museum, demanding the president and his government stepped down and we come back. ah, there is more rain on the wave, her flood hit areas of se, australia high for one. but 1st here's where the disturbance is. it's going to spin up in the bite now, you know, last time with that deluge we saw south africa duct in dodged it, but not this time to what weather there on monday. and as we go up for a water view, we'll see that what, whether move further east at toward tuesday, back toward w, a few clouds around perth with

a high of 21 degrees off to new zealand. we go, temperatures have come up, we've got some showers, both for the north and the south island, but no weather alerts in play here. so that gives you an indication. it's not going to be anything major, but where we have had some major rainfall is around this tropical storm. northern areas of the philippines, extreme flood advisories in play, but this disturbance will now intensify into a typhoon as it drifts across the south china sea and closes in on hun on. over the next few days, temperatures have come down, cross china's yellow river valley, but still keeping the warmth there through the gang, seeing the pearl river valleys. so hong kong at $29.00 degrees and at what weather is sliding up japan. so 1st it was in queue shoe now plaguing the main island of honshu. some showers never really too far away from tokyo, with a hive 23 degrees on monday. that's it. that's all too soon. ah,

becoming a living legend that a young age was simply not enough. he transformed his influence on the pit into political clout that brought peace to the ivory coast. posted by eric counselor, football rebel, the life of it. he had got the bullet seated with politicians and no da da drop by the i volumes of the war on al jazeera. ah oh, a again, this is just a reminder of our top stories. this, our president sheet in thing says china must ensure hong kong is ruled by what he

calls cheers. he made the comments at the twice a decade. communist party congress in beijing. russia says 11 people have been killed and 15 wounded in a shooting at its southern border with ukraine. defense ministry says 2 people opened fire at a military training ground in belt. got a view case new chancellor has vowed to fix public finance. his office predisposed economic plans led to chaos. he says he'll increase taxes and title control on public spending. i ron's government says the fire that broke out that evan prison into iran on saturday was caused by fighting between inmates over night. smoke was seen rising from the facility and gunshots, word to detention center holds many political prisoners, shall say. at least 9 people were injured in hot if this file was caused by a fought between some prisoners in the sewing workshop,

the workshop was set up to create jobs for the in my vessel. father is life is now in toronto. so what is the latest you're hearing on this now? while the fire started around the 10 pm on setter, they local time in, in tech round, they have seen that the blazes and the smoke rising above the famous evian, evian, a prison and based on their that the v there was that we have received the can see that is not on the hat, it wasn't happening on the in one word, but in different parts of the, of the prison. we could see that they are really there. they are burdening so official statement or as was that there was a collage between their prisoners as some of the prisoners set fire on on did the warehouse or deceiving workshop in, in the, in the prison. and after that, 8 people have been injured, toronto governor mos in missouri right immediately after they did that, that, that the incident, he went to the prison and let investigation. he said that those prisoners who set

the fire are those who have been charged based on their financial frowns and taft and dead. their political prisoners in the either put like a prison is in every imprison, didn't get involved in the incidents. so, but right after that we have seen that all the roads around in prison have been blocked by security forces and also people gathered in the streets and there was support reddick protest around the prison. so despite all of these official statements that are still questions that remain on, answered one of that is that there is no official explanation regarding the explosion so far what has caused the explosion. and also another question is that why would the prisoners risk the lives with hope of no escape and also set the fire on the warehouse that the blazes could quickly spreading to their wars and claimed their lives. so, imprison is one of the biggest prisons in iran,

and perhaps the most famous one there at least 100 of the political prisoners that are still kept there particularly dead that the foreign citizens and that are charged based on suffice for, for, for the food and that is or collecting sensitive information from iran and sending back to the companies. they are cap, they're including 3 american citizens. one of them is, is the american amazon and also did that, the children or the former president, how she met up st. johnny is near san a mathee roughs on johnny and pfizer graphs on jenny. they're also there. and today the family of least a statement said that the map iraq sent and received a call from the security forces. and they asked him not to come back to the prison because he was on the 3rd law for the weekend. so we do not know where that is going to. they extend it or not. but based on this statement, will understand that the situation in evian prison is still not fully brought under control and it is still delicate through its disability. did the turbulent history . there has been several attempts to close it or to move the prison out of to run,

but so for all of that attempt failed. yes. still a very fluid situation narrow so said dar our lifeless into ron. thank you. i'll try, nationalists, jewish groups have stormed the alex, a mosque compound under the protection, always railey police. it happened on the 6th day of the jewish holiday. israeli forces restricting the entry of muslim worshippers to the mosque grounds in occupied east jerusalem since sunday morning. witnesses say the ultra nationalist groups gathered at the gate to the mosque chanting and dancing iraq's new prime minister, abdullatif rashid is set to form a new government after months of unrest. but around the capital, small political parties have been gathering to remind the government they want radical change. zane basra, we has more from baghdad, the the bread freedom,

a government for the people. as iraq's new prime minister begins forming his government, a group of smaller political parties with no warmed wings. communist and reformists young and old men and women, met in buck dog, calling themselves the forces for democratic change. they want officials to stop bickering and get to work. i need to know when the next one, those who govern to feel the suffering of the people iraqi blood has become so cheap. we have lost our national treasures. our waters are gone dry. there is widespread unemployment and suffering in the past. iraq was a top ranking country now where at the bottom of the list of decades of decline in iraq, some say has happened at the hands of people in power who came out of nowhere. how did the charlotte, the 2 political islamic forces to those in power to extremists with a she has sunni or could we say you've ruined a rock?

you stole it, you destroyed it. they came on the back of american tanks and a loyal to intelligence agencies of countries like it on saudi arabia and so on. all of them have a rocky blood on their hands and have stolen public wealth. all of them a corrupt. the consensus here replace old faces with new ones. iraq's future is secular and the best governments focus on the common good can. i took all of this month, but we didn't want symbolic government that says that doing nothing. we want government that takes action crease jobs fights, poverty services re paves roadside like softer the agriculture and private sector seems so out of the message from iraq is in. this is a simple you were tired, started school, then they are the alternative. and the old guard political plans that are dominating the national conversation, right? we're not the only ones on the political dialogue, not division unity and love. children are the future. it's the kind of idea was of

that may seem out of place in iraq's political landscape. but a rockies here say that is exactly what their country means. seen basra, the old 0, booked up or has been a 2nd night of violence in the tandem on a neighbourhood of tunis confrontations between troy protesters and security forces . have been going on since friday after the death of a young man. the family says he was killed by security forces and his in ministry of interior is yet to comment. and i comes after a day, a protest across it's in his years capital on saturday, with people struggling to cope with the food and fuel shortages. their rhetoric and b has more oh, crowds gathered in the center of tunis lake youth, president high side of corrupting democratic institutions and wanting absolute power. hi manny i came here today because of the queue and the miserable conditions

the country is in today. there is no water or milk, no sugar and no petrol. and we have a president who is only interested in power. ah, the 2 parties organizing the protests have long been bitter rivals. now both are focused on the fight against cy age leaders of the national salvation front coalition, and the free constitution party. urge to newton's to boycott, december's parliamentary elections ah sharper dorothy. i am the tunisian people who fought 50 years. chrissy will not allow this crew to settle . they'll see me extent of mismanagement, incompetence and failure. ah, at both rallies, protest is called on say to quit enchanted the people want the full of the regime. the slogan of the 2011 revolution which spark the arab spring, people are getting really quite frustrated for those 2 pants. those ones who are fighting for democracy and those are just fighting for kind of bread and being able

to live about a life and know what they got to put on the dinner table at nights. the government hasn't commented on the latest protests side says he's working to improve the economic conditions he inherited from his predecessors to that end, that unity and government is just secure. the 1900000000 dollar loan from the i m f . but these protest is say they won't give up, they don't believe the upcoming vote will be free. all fair. they say i eat has too much power, and democracy is in danger. victoria k to be out is era. i work as in nigeria are struggling to reach hundreds of thousands of displaced or people displaced by floods. the oil producing region is the latest to be hit by water that's already devastated. northern central and eastern parts of the country. how many greece reports from attorney, one of the worst affected areas in southern nigeria? 2 weeks after family member was swept away by the flood,

the ga us still waiting for the water to recede. so they can bury their even after no sandwich are low to very i from from the level of water here. it could be at least a week before they are able to do that. many other families are waiting for news. any news about their missing relatives go barrel council took her chair. it was a work place until 3 weeks ago. now it's been taken over by hundreds displeased by the flood it was the destination for dozens who drowned last week, fleeing from rising water levels threatening there for nearly 3 weeks. it's been way in general be and her family called whole times. she says are tough for everyone. then she had one better face to better face, a little more detailed, admits used by media and the focus of friends on what in the something

that could also be trust issues the big you was them by to them. that does my to that well, got 55, my favorite go to this local gotten with community with the finish. many areas that completely cut off and the feet of the residence is still unknown. one of the biggest challenges of delivering a to victim of the flight. yeah. number of states is the level of water 2 weeks since the flight. then it's little time it's receding, but that's not the only concern here. quite as of the probe. yeah. for separatist movement also active in this area that is set to be a reason why some officials are staying away. there isn't a lot of national emergency management or juicy, which caused.