and so the socialist president, legacy law, i'm buying for votes, but which one was to re elect to brazil's highest office, ongoing, special coverage on al jazeera money. lo, drake corruption, vast losses and embezzlement. they smuggled that money. of course, with the knowledge of a letter. i offices in de la al jazeera well tells the story of the near being done . the collapse of kabul bank in 2010. where are these people? how come they will never question? how come i was? never person questions that happen over afghanistan to the next decade and beyond. the couple that crashed on out his era. ah, we have a deal, the world's richest man on musk buys twitter for $44000000000.00. his 1st move,

sacking its top executive. ah, it's great to have you with this. i'm cyril benya. this is al 0 alive from dough are also coming up in the show. the battle for the dumbass intensifies as russian soldiers edge, closer to seizing the ukrainian city of backwoods. pakistan's ousted prime minister enron con, holds his long march towards the capital to force an early election. who will be brazil's next president? we report from the swing states as the 2 candidates head for a tightly fought run off on sunday. ah, the world's richest man, the lawn must, has taken control of one of its most influential social media platforms. twitter, he is now officially completed. the $44000000000.00 purchase or mosque was seen walking into 2 headquarters on wednesday carrying, carrying this carrying

a sink. and so ends a 6 months saga, filled with accusations and legal challenges. his 1st move as head of the company was firing at least 4 top executives, including the ceo and chief financial officer. he announced the acquisition by tweeting the bird is freed, but the european commission was quick to remind the billionaire that actually in europe twitter is going to have to fly by you rules. there are certain activities which are not compliant with a v a with the rules regulations in laws in the member states, things related to hey, speech, to criminal activities, to terrorism, et cetera, et cetera. what's all of this going to change for twitters users? that's what we asked kristin salumi a short while ago in new york. yellen musk has long said that he wants to roll back restrictions on the platform. he's said in the past that he would reinstate former

president. donald trump, trump, you may recall, was removed from the platform for tweets that were deemed inciteful relating to that capital riot where violence broke out at the nation's capital. this is raised a lot of concern among civil society groups who say that they want more content moderation. not last, they're worried about hate speech and misinformation permeating the platform. if he goes through and does a rollback, those restrictions must seem to acknowledge these concerns in a tweet that he put out directed at advertisers. on thursday, he explained his vision for the platform, saying that he sees it as a public square where people can express differing views and debate, differing views, a way to bring people together. but he also said that it couldn't be a free for. 7 all hell escape where anything could be said with no consequences.

and clearly he's concerned that advertisers might be turned off if people start withdrawing their platforms, their profiles in protest of his acquisition root. president trump, however, expressed some remarks and made some remarks in response to the takeover. he said that he is glad that the platform is now in, quote, seen hands. he made that statement on his own social media platform, which he started after months after he was taken off of twitter. a den ives is the managing director of with bush securities in new york. and he says that the hard part has only just begun for elan must there is a lot of, i think uphill battle in terms of what you can do with freedom of speech. mine is ation talk about trump. but then it's all about advertising. that's really going to

be the question now going forward. for most the easy part was buying it, the hard part is going to be fixed and it can be very difficult, herculean task. and that's why this all seems easy on a white board. but now we actually has to do it, and remember 44000000000, in my opinion, probably the most overpaid for a tech m and the acquisition. and aol time warner continues to be a head scratcher. and that's really going to be the focus going forward. when you do rich person, the world, you can do that and i think now it's all going to be about. you also have other investors involved. you need to bring advertisers back on to the platform and twitter. it's been a disaster for the last 4 or 5 years. so when it comes to much balancing all this is really going to be the focus and you trying to cut potentially 30, maybe 50 percent of the the workforce. and that's, that's going to be some difficult days at the twitter, but it comes down to the shareholders. it's a pop the champagne moment given what they all my god from us.

the ukrainian power company says russian attacks on the power grid have cut capacity to the capital key by around a 3rd. the most recent russian strikes have led the warnings that rolling blackouts will be longer and more frequent. every faucet reports on how keep residents are coping. with darkness falls or the keys it falls. heavy street lights turned off, household saving power, neighborhood cycling through blackouts of the weeks of sustained russian strikes on the countries energy grid. ukraine's president, using the darkness in his nightly address. not near them. we are not afraid of darkness. the darkest times for us are not the times of the light, but those without freedom. during daytime life can seem deceptively normal for the recent presumption of strikes on the city and the mounting pressure on civilian infrastructure is bringing the war ever closer to home. in my apartment, no,

i really how we could temperature, like most of your cleaners. but of course, i'm worried, i don't know what we can this back from in the future. the russian campaign over the last couple of weeks has been highly systematic targeting not so much large power generating facilities, a smaller substations that transfer the electricity to the rest of the grid, soviet era, and with parts that are hard to replace, restoring supply is proving difficult it's a tactic that threatens homes, businesses and the digital space here at lanet. they provide internet access to hundreds of thousands of customers that serve as automatically switch to a diesel generator. when the power's cut and the sell any of us know normal cream, i may be sure no in the population usually gets information, alerts, news explanation from the government. it's usually all done through the internet. and so people here having to improvise generators are in scarce supply disappointment for natalia and alex under who are looking for extra insulation as

well. but that was also sold out home. they said they're doing their part to save power, but almost everything in their apartment runs on the tricity. for all their positivity, the pain of this war intrudes all too easily. memories of the last winter, when they were under russian occupation in a nearby village, or informing their fears of the coming one. will you up when the new meters, unless you will. they don't know how to fight a war, so they start bombing, the civilian side gets die. many people with disabilities already horrific things outside the label to night is closing in and the temperature is dropping across. steve, across the ukraine, people are bracing for a long, difficult, dark winter hurry for sit al jazeera keith and seeing an ukraine finding is intensifying and eastern dumbass her russia is shelling the cities of mc alive in bad moods, where there is a fierce battle for control its forces are edging closer to seizing that city.

mercenaries from the russian military company wagner group were also involved. i said big has more now from bottomless. there's exchange a fire taking place between the ukrainians and the russians. the russians have made some gains, but they're still not in back what the ukrainians are said that they have managed to repel those attacks. and everywhere around us is signs of destruction. you can see the car burnt out behind me. there's buildings on the other side. you can see that they've been damaged the chalet, shuttling and rockets the powers out in the city as well. and constantly we are hearing the battle and is fighting, taking, taking place. now what we do know is that we were here back in may not the route that we took into back with. we can't take that routine anymore because that roach, the russian forces have eyes on that road and can target it. so we have to come through a different route. there's definitely few people out in the streets. many people

have already left. there's no electricity at, but there is a significant battle taking place. we have seen increased military activity, at least from the ukrainians here, here in this earth in this city. but also many people are choosing to stay in the seller's inside. even here you can see that the are, the power cables are down. a former pakistani prime minister imran han and his supporters and marching on the capital to call for early elections. they started the 380 kilometer walked islamabad in the eastern city of la hor, officials say the protesters will be barred from entering the capital. can step down after losing a no confidence vote in april, he has been charged with corruption, but says the allegations are part of his opponents efforts to keep him out of politics. come on, hider has more now from the hor, a

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realize that we important the rate. it may be it gone, and the u. s. world food program is scaling up. it's a dilemma known as the country suffer is one of the world's worst economic crises. nearly 2000000 lebanese and syrian refugees depend on food and financial aid, and with a political vacuum looming, the financial meltdown is expected to get worse. they know how to reports. good food options are limited for many in lebanon, affected by the collapse of its economy. many items are now crossed off from their shopping list. i used to buy 3 or 4 kilos of tomatoes. now it's one or even half a kilo. everything changed. i can't afford me to a chicken. we are only buying essential. the collapse of the local currency has affected people's purchasing power. the world food program says the average salary in lebanon now covers 24 percent of basic food needs. it's helping feed one

in 3 lebanese. and what are the mark for the past 2 years? the situation is catastrophic for the currents used evaluation, hurt us. we used to eat 2 meals a day. now we barely can afford one and its potatoes. most of the time. we spend 3 times more than our income. cheaper goods have since flooded the market, but despite that food prices increase 30 percent this year and more than 1500 percent since the economic crisis began in 2019 can and g, but be we used to buy goods from the west, but people can pay $1.00 for a chocolate bar now import from turkey and syria because it's cheaper. the political class blame for decades of bad policies and corruption is failing to address the crisis. the situation could get worse as the country heads to what could be an extended political vacuum. hardaman failed to elect

a successor to president michelle lounge police office at the end of the month. it won't be the 1st time the country has been without a leader, but this time around, there's likely to be no government to take on executive powers. this is no longer a middle income country and there is little social justice, many like ultimate symbol, have no social protection and are forced to find any way they can to survive the new reality. then they're osha zita bailed a senior u. k. government official says northern ireland will hold an election within 12 weeks. chris seated harris as the minister responsible for the province, which is part of the united kingdom. his statement comes after politicians failed to meet the deadline to restore a devolved government. one of the main reasons no government has been formed is because of a dispute over the northern island protocol. so what is that? well, when the u. k, left the e u. new trade rules were needed because the european union requires strict checks on some goods from non you countries. that meant potentially creating

a hard border between northern island, which is part of the u. k. and the republic of island, an e u country. well, that would have ripped apart the piece deal that ended decades of violence between the 2. so that you can, that you signed a deal that included a protocol which effectively moved the border between northern island and the rest of the u. k. some goods arriving from britain and now checked that northern irish ports, well, the unionist party, the d u. p says that that undermines they're placed in the u. k. and it has refused to let northern ireland form of government until this protocol is scrapped for re challenge has more on this from belfast. the democratic also unionist party basically pulled out of the power sharing executive collapse that executive under the good friday agreement. there is this sharing of executive functions ready between the d p which once northern are to stay as closely aligned to the united

kingdom as possible and shin fain, which ultimately would like northern ireland to join with the republic of ireland. now the cause that's the executive was collapsed by the people it pulling out. there were elections in may in those elections, shin phase one for the 1st time. and they became the dominant party. but there has never been a functioning executive of the back of those elections because the d. p kept on blocking the formation of a new one and her. and that is the system that is basically just run out the time the deadline has expired. at that time, at one minute past midnight on friday morning, the automatic, the result of that is that's what we've just heard from chris eton harris, that there have to be new elections. we don't know the date of those yet, but they are going to be held within 12 weeks from now. so there we are. that is

the result of breaks it. and it's the results of the objections, the nor the modern irish protocol of the, of the d u. p. when there we are, rory challenge reporting from belfast still ahead on al jazeera, it's crunch time in brazil with the election just around the corner. but experts say misinformation could lead voters astray and forest fires a raging and spain with official saying, there may be more to come this. we can stay with us. ah, anticipation is rising. and so is the atmosphere. are you ready for the way spotted my cattle aways? hello, the weather set fair for the korean peninsula. we will see some showers. meanwhile, just pushing into japan, cyclical northern and western parts of the country. little area of ro pressure just coming in across the sea of japan. that will bring some rain into western parts of

honshu, wetter we deal, whether they're into qaeda as it moves through cooler air pressure weather does come back in for the 2nd half of the weekend. so we'll see it taking a little less form. should we say into tokyo that meanwhile, across sir se, asia, the story really has been about the very heavy rainfall that we have seen making his way toward the philippines over a 100 millimeters of right to northern parts of the philippines in significantly higher rate, down towards the south as we go through the next couple of days will tropical storm . now gay will make its way across the northern philippines, bringing more heavy and sundry downpours and the likelihood of widespread flooding . we have seen flooding in the south recently, hopefully a little dry here as we go on into our sunday. but a rash of showers there still towards north has tropical storm will make its way out into south china sea. eventually running towards vietnam brings a very wet and would you wasn't safe, a large system, this one. so that will be watched by the flooding here as well. just have a little bit of flooded out. we'll start the parts of india cheaper hope further

north is fine and dry to with sponsored by cattle and a ways the duncan bones were gone is an important part of indian culture. it's no surprise in many people want to but can be missing one dogs and one pretty. okay. sorry about family expectations and cultural tradition. i guess the way now with the reality of working in the giving industry 40 with, ah ah, you are watching l 0. a reminder of our headlines this our tech 1000000000 your

lawn musk has completed his takeover of twitter and fired the company's top executives. the $44000000000.00 deal ends in 6 months saga over mosques, attempts to buy the social media platform. fighting in the dumbass region is intensifying as russian and ukrainian forces fight to recapture loss of territory. russia has continuously shelled the cities of mich alive and baltimore and former pakistani prime minister enron khan, and his supporters and marching on the capital to call for early elections. they started the 380 kilometer, walked islamabad from the eastern city of la hor, con. step down after losing a no confidence vote in april. if the opinion polls are right, brazil is about to have one of the closest presidential votes it has ever seen 2 days before the run off. there are just a few points between incumbent joe your ball scenario and his challenger with the masula to silva. and that is why eyes are on the southern states of mean us should ice as our latin america. it's or lucy newman reports. it could be the voters there

who decide this highly competitive race. the capital of ministry at ace doesn't stop moving to the sound of campaigning. this is preserves more significant battle ground state. where left is candidate lou let the cba has a very slim lead but haven't been at once the incumbent president jane also now don't out of office and she's appealing to women who make up more than half the voters along with on. if i want to be bo scenario is a massage dentist and sexist man, he'd made offensive comments to female journalists to women. he said that women should earn less because they get pregnant. so of both scenario wins, women lose a basically a converted law lives here. most americans why move nearby. c all gone into women a want to make them feel

their threat. cleanest should ice is regarded as a micro sample of the brazilian electorate and a dis busy watering hole. politics is on everyone's lips. oh, support on his eye. so no, we've never had anything like this kind of polarization in brazil before joe thought or thought both. the nora is my man, i'm not going to vote for a former convict. you have to be crazy to vote for lula ah, in this upper middle class neighborhood, also not a support. you sing the national anthem, dressed in the brazilian flag in line with their candidates nationalist stance. it's not gonna philip. i mean, bold scenario is totally profoundly dear. how can someone who supports a family be against women is no way in rural blue. my venial voters tend to support lula, but abstention is high, especially among the poor who often can't afford the bus to go to vote. i think one

of the reasons why louis is spending a lot of time in his relas amos is his lack is exactly to try to make those voters go to vote. if this race is as tight as most predict, every single vote will count, especially here in ministry dice, where no brazilian president has ever won without winning the state. to see a human al jazeera room, a dino brazil. fighting between government troops and rebels in the east and democratic republic of congo has forced more than 40000 people from their homes. got her lopez hota young, has more these families have nowhere to go. their possessions reduced to the items they can carry. there among tens of thousands of people in democratic republic of congo who been forced to leave their homes. it's now too dangerous to stay in their village as fighting between troops

and m. 23 rebels comes closer to the museum. baumgartner massage. the m 23 fighters were shooting bullets all over our village and north kiva province. that's why we had to flee. we had to in order to stay alive. for many, a makeshift shelter is now home, and it's difficult to find food. stories of violence are shared every day will don't get in a coma get asked when it was 1 o'clock in the morning. when we 1st heard gunshots, we had to flee because the situation became unbearable. the fighting has de stabilize a central african country. it has accused its neighbor, rwanda of backing the rebels to gain control of strategic regions. beyond group is one of many and eastern to your congo. it's resurfaced and sees more territory after years of being torment, forcing people out a good, the called reversal field is, are we estimate that at least $40000.00 people are already displaced in that just

accounts for people coming from the town of router. right now we're in a cap not far from gama, but as we speak, people are still arriving. we see families on the motor bikes with their children, with their cattle and goats. it's a very difficult situation. the government is no longer just facing the threat of the arm group or with coping with entire villages of people with los everything. katya little missile diane al jazeera, a u. s. oil giant exxon mobil has smashed financial forecasts, recording its highest ever quarter. we profit at nearly $20000000000.00, the company's profits of sword due to an increase in international demand and a lack of supply as a result of the war in ukraine. the result eclipses the figures posted by rival oil giants show and to tell energy is heidi show castro with more on those record numbers. it's the shortage in supply thanks in part to the western sanctions on russia. and these increased demand, especially as the colder winter months come in,

and the profits with amounts by exxon mobil seo. today, they shattered expectations with 1900700000000 and net profit brought in in the last quarter. and that's the 5 pressures from president biden, for us, oil companies to increase production more drastically in order to bring down those prices. well, exxon mobil and now today, it did increase production by 50000 barrels of oil a day during the last quarter. but that pales in comparison, of course, to the $2000000.00 barrels a day in cuts that are coming from opec plus in november. and the fear of the vitamin iteration is that the price at us gas stations like the $1.00 behind me that, that only go up there down currently from the peak that we saw a few months ago. but the average today when i last checked was still $3.76 a gallon, which is so high for the average american. and the,

the biggest fear from the bottom ministration is what that will pretend for the democrats and the upcoming midterm election. depends cabinet has approved a stimulus package of $260000000000.00 to tackle inflation. the package is designed to spur growth in wages and support households with energy bills and the rising cost of living. prime minister for me. ok. she says he will do his best to support people. at least 60 people have now died in the philippines as storm now gay approaches, heavy rains and strong winds caused floods and mud slides in begin to know province . several people were trapped under mud rescue operations are ongoing, and the government says the number of casualties is likely to rise firefighters in spain, a baffling to contain forest fires raging in the bask region. there have been record high temperatures and strong winds in the summer and autumn. the bath country remains on high alert. the forest fires going into the weekend. a tiny island

community off the coast of england says its future is being threatened because of proposals to ban fishing. wholly island is home to dozens of species which the government says need protecting. emma haywood reports laden with lobster and crabs. the crew up with the freedom comes into the harbor to unload the morning's cache. a job they've done for decades, but could lose a fishing his band holy. and it would just devastated completely. there's no way we could possibly carry on fishing from holy island, would have to move the boats and all the gear to other ports. and of course, the trouble with us is the all the guys working from different ports. so mean conflict straight away. and this is what's left of one of this part of england's oldest fishing plates. just a few boats including richard stow out now. all of the say of love, all of a job. it's amazing and you get some beautiful days or,

or you see dolphins swimming around. you. holy island is already protected landscape, one rich in bio diversity. the u. k. government is hoping to create a number of highly protected marine areas, including here, where fishing would be banned. they say the scheme would allow nature to fully recover to a more natural state, allowing the ecosystem to thrive and that they will take the views of the local community, fishermen and environmental groups on gold. what happens out and they really does the fact that anti community because once this tidal causeway floods, holy island is cut off hours at a time. many of difficult for people living behind me to commute over for the mainland loving father. we pray for this holy island for our fishermen and their families inside saint mary's church prayers. aside for the islands community, some of the fishing families work in hospitality. the other main industry on the

island, the economy is not just about losing the fishing and the, the money from the fishing it's, it's losing all those other people who, who do really vital jobs in the community that has been fishing here for thousands of years. we know that it would be the absolute death know of this village. it's just got running. i mean i go to bed at night. i can't sleep must looks turning on line there thinking no one disc, no end. what reason is the for this is just devastating. some wildlife campaign is say, the protected areas will offer a lifeline to the see. many here, a hope all they'll be able to carry on. i'm remain part of the silence future m a. he would al jazeera in northern england. ah, you were watching al jazeera here headlines, tech billionaire.