because said natural habitat, isn't there any? well, there's one place in the hands of the city where they're welcome. they're coming out now with a king cobra, which is the largest venomous snakes in the world. this is one of the few places where they milked them for their venom. this is the red cross snake bomb, a regional hub, the anti been in production. hello. this center produces enough anti venom to most of south east asia. there are some parts of the world west supplies, but desperately shalt spiraling costs. dwindling supplies. the shock is being felt around the world with the war in ukraine, triggering gas supply uncertainty. europeans bracing themselves for an unprecedented winter. al jazeera reports on the human costs of the winter energy crisis. ah, as i am 23 fighters make ground in the east and

d r. c. but one does president who's accused of backing the group agrees they must cease fire and withdraw from captured territories. ah, on the bulk of this is al jazeera life and london also coming up a mass exodus from twitter. a stop rejects evil must ultimatum to sign up to hot cold working, or leave warnings. the complete shutdown of keeps power grid is possible. this ukraine says russian missile strikes have disabled, almost half the countries energy system. and in a last minute, you turn, woke up organizers say alcohol, what be sold to stadiums during the tournament, and castle ah kenya's, former president, melendez, leader, have agreed on the need for fighters to withdraw from captured territory and eastern democratic of congo. m 23 fighters have made major gains in recent weeks.

advancing towards goma, as fighting with government forces intensifies. the congolese government has accused her wonder of supporting the group, but were wender denies this route kenyatta visited the d. r. c. earlier this week, as facilitator of the east african community lead talks, attempts to restore peace will resume on monday in nairobi. hundreds of people have been killed and nearly 200000 residents have been forced their homes. malcolm webb has more from near the city of goma can, is foreign affairs ministry has said it is statement former canyon president of her kenyatta and had a phone call with random president pull tagami, in which county had agreed on the need for an immediate cease fire and that could be made also agreed to assist the east african community facilitator that kenyatta whose facilitating p stokes assist him to urge the n 23 to cease fire and withdraw

from the captured territories. those the territories to the north of where we are goma the m $23.00 is taken over the last year, particularly in the last few weeks and 20 threes widely understood to be backed by rolando they were one the denies it. ag, former president kenyatta is facilitating talks, which are meant to continue in angola capital on monday. so people will be waiting to see if indeed m 23. and the congolese government forces will stop fighting. they've been fighting, even in the last 12 hours or so. there have been reports of, of gunfire and bombs still going off and if they will indeed withdraw from those territories ahead of those sorts that are meant to start on monday morning. so as we were saying more than 200000 people have fled the fighting as it edges closer to the regions main center. malcolm fall this report earlier from goma number 2 is there a for i was pregnant with twins when a bomb hit, her house shrapnel was blasted into her leg and thigh and she passed out. she was

rescued and brought to this hospital run by international committee of the red cross, which i see are see in coma in democratic republic of congo. an emergency says arion section saved grass and maurice. but they'll never know their father nick walker and get i was in our village. then the fighting started, and one of the bombs hit our house. my husband lost his legs and died and i was taken to a hospital nearby, but no one could help me until was brought here. congos fighter jets have been bombing positions of m. 23. an armed grape widely believed to be backed by wonder. well, they were wonder denies it. more than 200000 people fled to fighting and m 20 three's recent advances. the people here left everything behind when they ran life in the county. tough and that hasn't been much help. here. they're lining up to register

with the humanitarian agency, hoping that more help will come soon. but things much. for those who've been traveling by the fighting. neither side let people who even ambulances cross the front lines, areas controlled by him. 23 have been cut off from humanitarian supplies. i c r c says the few health facilities that remain open in areas where it is fighting have no way to get medical supplies from goma. we have been told that there is a lot of wounded, but they just don't manage to reach a lot of health. you're actually in the conflict area has been looted a lot of health personnel have left the health stretches. so people can find health kit. it seems incredible that jack, semi glory is alive, is just 12 years old. he had multiple gunshot wounds in his chest and legs. un peacekeepers found him on the road side and brought him here of it there too. we

shall. glad throw, marchese, we feel very traumatized by all of this. we are living in the camp in the rain without even plastic sheets for shelter, while we're only asking for the people and power to bring what he so we can go home . because we're used to doing our own work and living by our own means, jack and his uncle hit him. honor are among the 10s of millions of congolese. he don't benefit from the countries vast mineral wealth. and they're also among those who suffer the most in the seemingly endless conflicts for control of it. malcolm web al jazeera, goma democratic republic of congo. ah, twitter struggles appear to be deepening with reports that hundreds more twitter employees of quit in response to an ultimatum form. the new chief executive, he long musk. he told workers to sign up for long hours at high intensity or thursday,

or leave with 3 months severance pay to with his offices. bill of his buildings around the world have also been closed until next week. casting doubts on the social media platforms ability to keep going on friday, low mask, email, twitter staff asking any employees who write software code to report to the 10th floor of twitters office in san francisco. as go to gabriel elizondo who joins us now live from new york, new york. and gabriel are having fired or forced many twitter employees. to leave mosque now appears to be inviting some of them back for a chat. is he back pedaling? he appears to be and he's not only inviting him, he's actually sort of demanding they come back based on this email that he sent on friday. the last 24 hours or so. busy have been really remarkable. he said to an e mail to all employees, do not come into the office,

the office will be closed. then he said, all of your key card security cards to get into the office will be shut down. then on late thursday, with his ultimatum that he issue to employees saying either quit or commit to my vision for this company. it appears that hundreds, if not thousands of the remaining employees quit on thursday night, and now on friday morning, must apparently back pedaling. now, sending out another mail, demanding software engineers and people that code do come back to the san francisco office. and also in that email saying that twitter employees, the ones that are remaining, at least around the world, are in the united states, should immediately flight to san francisco, the company headquarters for in person meetings. now it's really remarkable because when you almost bought this company about a month ago, it had 7500 employees around the world. he immediately fired about half so as of

about 24 hours ago, they're only about $3000.00 employees left. and now with the mass resignations, it's anybody's guess, but by some estimates as many as half of the remaining 3000 quit on thursday night . so i think musk is really back pedaling. and calling employees back to the office now and what is really been erratic behavior by the ceo of twitter or even before he bought the platform, musk almost predicted the owning twitter would be something of a headache. does all of this now raise the prospects of the platform collapsing altogether? well, it certainly could, because it's team of engineers that really keep the thing running and several teams entire teams that work in different departments. these are the people behind the scenes to do all of the coding and, and what have you there really keep the site operating and functioning. they simply quit. and i think that's why you're seeing must calling some of these people back.

if they choose to come back up to see on that because he's he see, he needs these people there to keep the site going. and it's, you know, there are 200000000 daily users of twitter around the world. these are people that log into the site tweet and or reply to tweet every single day or 200000000. and, but it's also used by not only influential people and journalists, but also governments use twitter to inform their population and people in their country about important things that are happening. so if twitter was to collapse even temporarily, it would certainly have huge ramifications around the world because it's social media site is so important. so people are watching it very closely. and there are some twitter engineers that have quit the company that have said listen, this thing if, if people aren't, if he doesn't hire more engineers and people don't go back to the company, it is in real risk of degrading and then potentially going offline. so that's what

everyone is watching closely over the next 244872 hours until must can stabilize the situation even if he can stabilize the situation at the company is certainly the, the question everyone is asking. now. they certainly are 10 times for twitter. indeed, gabriel is on de live in new york and many thanks. ukraine's prime ministers as waves of russian missile strikes of crippled almost half the country's energy system. as temperatures drop and snow continues to fool in the capitol, officials and key if a warning that a complete shut down of the city's power grid is possible, the authorities have been working to restore power nationwide off the strikes in several regions left millions of people without power on thursday, the u. n. is warned of a humanitarian emergency because of power and water shortages. he gives maritally. clinico says the city is facing a huge electricity deficit and preparations of being made for rolling blackouts. 3

winter. we have fob prepare and have follow up for a warm staff. we have mitigation reserved medication, but those will be very unusual. unusual station. we hope it's not happens, but we have to be prepared for that. as i bake has more from the western city of live. in some cases the temperature is already below 0 and that's a major concern for authority. president logic is less. yeah. said there's about 10000000 people without electricity as just know for the main electricity provider has said that they're trying to keep the black hat short and on schedule many people around the country i've been experiencing those electricity records as russian strike have targeted energy infrastructure in the last few days, some of the biggest massage beverages in this country has space since the sauce of the war world, allegedly, one of those mythos, at least according to the korean,

went over to poland until 2 people mccraney and the arguments that it was a russian massage here from the farm and he says that they are not a part of the investigation and they want to be open and constructive. but what we're hearing from poland, the united states and nato, is that it's unlikely that that was a russian. we saw that when cross the border to poland until 2 people, it's more likely that it was one from the ukrainian defense. but the investigation isn't finished, but ukraine is adamant. beckett was a russian massage out in the country. there's a breach of region. the missile strike and there's a, the death for that. when it hit the residential building has gone up to 10. and the nuclear power plant is a nuclear power plant. the russians occupied the class, the 3rd resolution urging russia to stop its action against the sun the just 2 days

before the world cup begins, organizes have announced the alcohol will not be sold at stadiums. it's reversal if the original plan to sell beer around the 8 stadium sites within the ticket to perimeter, the public consumption of alcohol and public intoxication of both the legal in cancer. but alcohol will still be available in fun, parks and license bars. available now obviously and cuts are also and lakes and premises and that will continue for some of the additional fans arms and fun activities is also available for the fee for fun festival, for example or fee for it released a statement saying a decision has been made to focus the sale of alcoholic beverages on the fee for fan festival, another fan destined other fans that destinations and license venues. removing sales points of beer from stadium perimeters is the change from 2014 when fi for lobby, brazil, to change the law to allow the sale of budweiser beer in stadiums during the world

cup. brazil had banned the sale of alcohol in sports stadiums for safety reasons. and there was a ban on the sale of alcohol at all champions, league and euro per league matches until it was lifted by way for in 2018. and in england, fans have been banned from drinking alcohol in the stand since 1985 to stem hooliganism . they can drink in the stadium concourses though. for fans in doha, had a mixed reaction to the announcement, funding, etc, for event. and watching tv is more enjoyable when you're not drinking because drinking will distract you from enjoying the game. and that might lead some problems with the 5 and on the stadium, you're the front verse and get our call somewhere else, i guess. but i mean, it's not the same thing i looking forward for the odyssey for to chase decision. maybe that might have been, i don't know, just enjoy the game. these things. yes, i can understand people are disappointed, but we really want them to see the matches in the helene waterman and they would

love each other. they were loving for testers, have gathered across iran at the funerals held for those killed this past week. and demonstrations, you know, was held in is a 9 year old, can follow, his mother told crowns he was shot by security for since the state officials say he was killed in a terror attack rights group. say 342 people have been killed since demonstrations began 2 months ago after the death of master, meaning the custody of the morality police. meanwhile, mobile phone footage appears to show a fire the ancestral home of ayatollah khomeini protested. surround the sites in the video, romania was said to be born in the house. the semi official has been news agency denied. there was a fire. the u. s. government has recommended immunity for saudi arabia cram, prince and a law suit related to the killing of journalists yamaha shoji. it's a reversal of promises made by president joe biden during his election campaign. u

. s. intelligence concluded, but haven't been salmon or to the killing of cash or g who was murdered at the saudi consulate in istanbul. 4 years ago mohammed bin solomon was recently named saudi prime minister, and the biden administration now say that position should shield him from legal action brought by casualties. fiance, the judge, would decide whether to grant immunity. sarah lay al whitson, is executive director at democracy for the arab world now, which was founded by jemma shoji. she says the decision to recommend dignity looks like a concession by the white house. it's also very clear that the title of prime minister was exceptionally granted to mohammed been some man for the sole and exclusive purpose of avoiding a prosecution. in order to make a ploy of a head of government immunity. the biden administration had ample opportunity to weigh in before this title was granted to make clear that he was not immune and they chose not to. instead they delayed and delayed giving mohammed been so man the

opportunity to craft this up ploy for immunity. the bind administration didn't have to say anything to the court. they chose to inter their affairs. afghanistan's taliban rulers would impose public actions, accused executions rather once again, out of its supreme leader ordered the parts of it to slam. it law should be fully enforced. shaking about solar eclipse, the other half told judges to enforce rules allowing hangings and amputations for thieves. robber anchor par reports. when the taliban regained power in afghanistan last year, it promised to water down the harsh rule. it exercise during the 19 ninety's, but many are concerned that went happen after the supreme leader shake hubbard tele . consider reintroduced hangings and amputations for thieves were listed in walk a mil at that. taliban court spokesman says the order to re impose such parts have

strict to slam acts. law was always the government's intention that the law should i be or no, but cargo. punishing thieves wrong to his alcohol drinkers and killers is islamic shari'a, and this is why shake habits your law has given the series of recommendations to policy and plan of these lam. a camera is to follow islamic shari'a based on the qur'an and her di, good stanton, meda. i'm obviously on my head or says she been a siri says her daughters have suffered a year of loss. they're no longer allowed to go to school or university. and as of last week, they can't get to the park, but she says, new guidance, what punish in criminals will set up kind of stand back in on us will be a corner and a man. they should have proper justice for cleaners. they should not be hanged, stoned ought to have their hands amputated in public. some analysts say the taliban is trying to further its legitimacy by applying islamic law to its fullest extent.

do you need, do strict rules and laws because her i've got to stand is not the only islamic government are we of more than 50 sloniker governments. and some of those are governments such a shitty, a load, or a plate. but there to restrict and justifying that public floggings and executions were common under the taliban until it lost power in 2001 when the us and allied forces invade it. the question for many is whether the c prim leaders order will lead to a repeat of the past. and if it does, the taliban could face even further isolation. barbara anger aicpa al to sara. the u. s. and south korea have held joint air force drills, hours after north korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, which landed just 200 kilometers west of japan. south korean, an american fighter jets flew information off the east coast of the korean peninsula. the u. s. also held military drills with japanese forces. tokyo

confirmed that north korea's ballistic missile landed in it's exclusive economic zone and says it's capable of reaching the u. s. mainland is the latest in a series of launches by north korea. it comes as asia pacific leaders, whole trade talks, l. a summit, and thailand us vice president carmella harris gathered allies to condemn the launch while outside protest as gather to demonstrate against the ty regime. tony chang reports from bangkok, leaders from around the asia pacific region gather for the opening of the apec summit at the top of the agenda. urgent economic issues facing the nation's hyperinflation and the looming recession. but as the news that north korea had fought and intercontinental ballistic missile broke, the united states and its allies met to discuss what they called north korea's provocations. we so we can get these action, and we again call north korea to stop for either. i'm awful. the same

a lot on behalf of the united say i, we have for our iron clad are gonna come away from that report to bring you live to washington d. c. no, a us attorney general mary garland is about to speak about a special council on who will investigate the classified documents found at for president. donald trump's for the residence was listed as described in court filings in the district of columbia is the investigation into, into whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power . following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the electoral college vote held on or about january 6th, 2021. the 2nd is the ongoing investigation involving classified documents and other presidential records, as well as the possible obstruction of that investigation referenced and described in court filings in a pending manner. in the southern district of florida,

i'm joined today by deputy attorney general lisa monaco us attorney for the district of columbia matthew graves and assistant attorney general for the criminal vision. kenneth pallete, assistant attorney general for national security. matthew olson could not be here. he is currently in germany representing the department at the g 7 home affairs and security ministerial us attorney graves has been ably leading the investigations into the events leading up to and on january 6, he and dozens of assistant us attorneys and other prosecutors have taken on the monumental task of conducting over 900 prosecutions in defense of our democratic institutions. criminal division prosecutors under the able leadership of assistant attorney general police have played a significant role in those prosecutions. assistant attorney general olson has been ably leading the team responsible for investigating the matter involving classified

documents and other presidential records, as well as the possible obstruction of that investigation. all of the career prosecutors assigned to these matters are conducting their work in the best traditions of the department of justice. i also want to recognize the efforts of the many, f, b i, agents, and other law enforcement personnel who are assigned to these matters. they are working courageously and steadfastly and are serving our nation honorably. i am grateful to them. we all are. the department of justice has long recognized that in certain extraordinary cases, it is in the public interests to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation and prosecution. based on recent developments, including the former president's announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election. and the sitting president stated intention to be a candidate as well. i have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint

a special council, such an employee, an appointment under scores, the departments commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters. it also allows prosecutors and agents to continue their work expeditiously and to make decisions indisputably, guided only by the facts and the law. the special counsel will conduct parts of the 1st investigation i just mentioned. the investigation into whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with a transfer of power following the true 2020 presidential election or with the certification of electoral college vote held on or about january 6. this does not include prosecutions that are currently pending in the district of columbia or future investigations and prosecutions of individuals for offences committed while they were physically present on the capital grounds. on january 6, those investigations and prosecutions will remain under the authority of the u. s.

attorney for the district of columbia, the special council will also conduct the investigation involving classified documents and other presidential records, as well as the possible dist obstruction of that investigation. to day, i signed an order appointing jack smith to serve as special counsel. the order authorizes him to continue the ongoing investigation into both of the matters that i have just described and to prosecute any federal crimes that may arise from those investigations. mister smith is a veteran career prosecutor. he began his prosecutorial career in 1994 as an assistant district attorney with the new york county da's office. in 1999, he became an assistant us attorney for the eastern district of new york, where over the course of 9 years, he prosecuted matters ranging from gang murders of police officers to civil rights

violations. from 2008, 2010. he served with the international criminal court where he supervised war crimes investigations. in 2010, mister smith returned to the justice department to serve as chief of the public integrity section where he led a team of more than 30 prosecutors who handled public corruption and election crimes cases across the united states. in 2015, he agreed to serve as the 1st assistant us attorney for the middle district of tennessee. later becoming the acting united states attorney. most recently, mister smith served as a chief prosecutor for the special court in the hague, charged with investigating and adjudicating war crimes in kosovo. mister smith will begin his work as special counsel immediately and will be returning to the united states from the hag. throughout his career, jack smith has built a reputation as an impartial and determined prosecutor who leads teams with energy

and focus to follow the facts wherever they lead a special council. he will exercise independent prosecutorial judgment to decide whether charger should be brought. although the special council will not be subject to the day to day supervision of any official of the department, he must comply with the regulations procedures and policies of the department. i will ensure that the special council receives the resources to conduct this work quickly and completely given the work to date. and mister smith's prosecutorial experience. i am confident that this appointment will not slow the completion of these investigations, but men and women who are pursuing these investigations are conducting themselves in accordance with the highest standards of professionalism. i could not be prouder of them. i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity. and i also believe that appointing

a special counsel at this time is the right thing to do. the extraordinary circumstances presented here demanded. mister smith is the right choice. the complete these matters in an even handed, an urgent matter. thank you all. oh, the, you have it. you have been listening to the us attorney general merrick garland who was named jack smith, a veteran career prosecutor, as being special counsel of the justice department's investigation into the presence of classified documents that the former us president donald trump's, of florida home, as well as the insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election rose jordan a standing by a in washington d. c. for more on this, said rose. this would be interesting. i mean, considering that it's only 3 days since donald trump announced that he was there, standing for the presidency uncles. now the mid terms out of the way, all effort saw going full tilt to try and prosecute trump.

well, what we heard of from, of the attorney general merit garland is that it's not just a matter of donald trump, the former president declaring that he is running for reelection in 2024. it's also the fact that joe biden, the incumbent, has all but made his formal declaration, but is, has, i basically left all the hints that he does intend to run for reelection. and so because of that potential perceived conflict of interest, because the attorney general does report to the u. s. president and serves at the pleasure of the president, mary garland, has made the decision which is not a popular one according to was some on social media. to give this work to another lawyer, someone who has justice department experience, someone who has been involved in the invest.