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investigations related to donald trump. ah, let me back up. this is al jazeera life from london, also coming up a mass exodus from twitter as stuff rejected or must ultimatum to sign up to holocaust working only warnings, a complete shut down of keeps power. greatest possible is ukraine says russian missile strikes of disabled list. half the countries energy system added a last minute. you turn world cup organizes say alcohol will be restricted at stadiums during the tournament. and cattle ah, we begin to the united states were an independent lawyer, or special counsel has been name to oversee to justice department, to best occasions that the former president donald trump attorney general merrick

garland, his appointed war crimes prosecuted jack smith to lead probes ansley unlawful retention of classified documents and trumps mar logo home. and the 2021 capital riots and transfer of power following the 2020 election move comes just 3 days after trump formerly announced his 2024 candidacy. i do want to 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 employ, 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. bahati j. castro. so live on this 1st in

washington, d. c. in id to time. if this speaks volumes, doesn't it? mid terms are over in 3 days off the trump announced he wants to run for president again. that's right. and the appointment of this special council jack smith is meant to serve as sort of a fire wall during this very politically sensitive moment. just after trump has announced that he is going to seek a 3rd term in office, and as biden says, that he is intending to run for reelection. who is jack smith? was he currently up until this announcement worked as a war crime prosecutor at the international criminal court at the hague? so now he is d. c bound, where he has about 3 decades of experience working in the u. s. capital, he led the department of justice in public integrity section in the to 20 ten's winning high profile convictions of corrupt politicians who were republican and

democrat. and that may be one of the key qualifiers which made him an attractive candidate for this pick. because this is someone who people will have described as a political by the book, a consummate professional. now what will smith do? well, he will immediately take over the oversight of these 2 federal criminal investigations into the former president, which includes trumps alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his transfer and retention of classified documents that may have endangered national security to his private home. after he left the office, now it is notable that the the special council here will oversee these investigations and will then recommend whether or not the department of justice should indict trump. however, the ultimate decision on whether or not to indict that still lives with the

attorney general himself and what he wants about himself. donald trump saying about all this, right, well, he was just on fox news in which he called the now's one of the special prosecutor, unfair and political that was widely expected as his response. we also heard from his supporters, including senator ted cruz saying that this was a weaponized, asian of president biden's, department of justice. it's point it should. it's noted though that the white house says it was not involved in any way in this decision. and in fact, it appears that biden may not have even known that the noun smith was coming today . but it comes with no surprise that president former president trump, and his supporters would now try to scrutinize jack smith, the new special counsel and his background for anything that may paint him as partisan in order to discredit him. after all,

we saw that same playbook used against a previous special counsel, rob muller, who had investigated the trunk campaign, and it's possible ties with russia molar. who is a republican and was appointed. when trump, with an office by republican administration, even he was slandered as partisan by trump and his supporters, all of which is to say that now jack smith has his work cut out for him and everyone is saying speed also is of the essence here is supposedly the appointment of the special council will not slow down the investigations, because if it doesn't have these investigations continued to drag closer and closer to the 2024 presidential election. well, perhaps that's more fodder for trump then to paint himself once again as the political victim. right, let's see how quickly this whole thing proceeds. hardly any. thanks or us lawmakers . hakim jeffries has formerly launched a bid to become the democratic leader in the house of representatives. jeffries

would be the 1st african american to had a party. quakers in congress, the former, the current chamber speaker, nancy pelosi, and she was stepping down from her leadership role on thursday. but jeffries were b minority leader after republicans take control of the house in january, having emerge with a majority in the mid term elections. ah, to it's, it's troubles appear to be deepening with reports that hundreds more twitter employees of quit in response to an ultimatum of from new chief exec the executive ellen mask. he told workers to sign up for long hours at high intensity on thursday or leave with 3 months severance pay. twitters office buildings around the world have also been closed until next week. casting doubts on the social media platforms ability to keep operating on friday, ala musk, e mail, twitter staff, asking any employees who write software code to report to the 10th floor of

twitters office in san francisco. crystal walker is a journalist, specializing in digital culture. he believes twitter could very quickly be struggling to stay online. this is troubling, and obviously it is worth pointing out that we are to stays away from a significant global event. the world cup in which we expect that there will be lots of people trying to congregate on twitter to talk about it. so this is a really poignant, risky moment for you must be doing this because obviously that being planned, put in place for large global events like this. but whether or not they are actually the human beings that to enact those plans. if anything goes wrong with less suits and so twitter entities form stuff that i've been talking to say that they see a pretty rapid stick or degradation of the site over the next few weeks with potentially not being here by christmas unless something changes. ukraine's prime minister says waves of russian missile strikes of crippled almost half the

country's energy system. as temperatures drop and snow continues to fall in the capital, officials and key of a warning that a complete shut down of the city power, greatest possible. authorities have been working to restore power nationwide off the strikes and several regions left millions of people without power on earth. they be un, is warned of a humanitarian emergency because the power and water shortages bank has more from the western city of the if in some cases the temperature is already below 0. and that's a major concern for authority president lugging miss leslie. i said there's about 10000000 people with 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 have been experiencing those electricity brackets as russian a 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 missiles, at least according to the korean, went over into poland to go to people, the crane and the arguments back it was a russian massage here from the farm and here he says that they are now 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 is unlikely that that was a russian. we saw that when cross the border to pull it in 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 richer region. the missile strike on thursday. the death for that when it hit the residential building has gone up to 10. and the nuclear power plant is the nuclear power plant. the russians occupied the class, the 3rd resolution urging russia to stop action against the ton. the 1st train has left ukraine's capital kia for her song after the crucial rail link between the

2 cities was restored. the journey is being called, the train to victory will arrive in the recently liberated regional capital and saturday. workers have repaired damaged tracks and carriages vandalized by russian forces. the majority of ukraine's rail network has remained operational during the war. thus, despite repeated attacks, kanyes former president m a wonders leader have agreed on the need for fighters to withdraw from captured territory in east and democratic republic of congo. m. 23 fighters have made major games in recent weeks. advancing towards goma, as fighting with government forces intensifies the congolese government as accuser wonder of supporting the group. but bewanda denies this or her route kenyata 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 thousands of residents have been forced to leave their homes.

welcome web reports to reserve a for our 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. what 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 sneak walkering getta. i was in our village then the fighting started, and one of the bombs hit our house. my husband lost his legs and died. i was taken to a hospital near by, but no one could help me until was brought here, uncle conger. his fighter jets had been bombing positions of m. 23. an armed group widely believed to be backed by wonder, while they were wandered. denies it more than 200000 people, have fled to fighting and m. 20 three's recent advances. the people here left

everything behind when they ran life in to come to tough and it 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 a much for those who have been trapped by the fighting. neither side let people who even ambulances cross the front lines, areas controlled by m 23, have been cut off from humanitarian supplies. i c r c says the few health facilities that remain open in areas where they're 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. in the conflict area has been looted. a lot of health personnel have left the health stretches so people can find health care. it seems incredible that jack,

semi glory is alive. he's just 12 years old. he had multiple gunshot wounds in his chest and legs. un peacekeepers found him on the roadside and brought him hear. said they do, shall quatro marchese. we feel very traumatized by all of this. we are living in the camp in the rain without even plastic sheets for shelter were only asking for the people in power to bring he's 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 on a are among the 10s of millions of congo leaves who don't benefit from the countries vast mineral wealth. and there also, among those who suffer the most in the seemingly endless conflicts the control of it. malcolm web al jazeera coma, democratic republic of congo, still to come this half hour with their classrooms destroyed. we hear from children who are forced to work to support their families and serious city. rocca run

an india launch is its 1st privately made rocket space. ah, how low they australian se remains on major alert for flooding knots despite the severe weather conditions easing here, but rivers continue to rise and there's more wet weather working its way in. but the heaviest rain is light teeth fall across victoria as well as tasmania. thanks to that front, that stretching all the way down from the top and bringing thunderstorms all the way to new south wales, more southern and western areas. by sunday, it does blow its way further through, but it could bring some hail as well as some heavy rain and stronger winds to coastal areas as well. now, behind that we've got cool wind blowing in from the antarctic, and that's going to knock temperatures down. certainly for the likes of melbourne

if we have a look at the 3 day 15 degrees by monday and that rain isn't going away. no rain isn't going away as well for new zealand for both islands. here we seen some very heavy falls on saturday, pulling into christ church. temperatures are still fitting slightly above the average. it will continue to pick up as we go into sunday, some dryer days ahead for christ church. but the rain, as you can see behind me, is never very far away. now we moved to southeast asia, some very heavy falls to come to the likes of the southern vietnam and cambodia. we could see some flooding here over the next few days. heavy rain for the philippines . ah, on cutting the cost, dfcs sandbar has collapsed. what's next for the crypt, currency industry? why a tech companies lay off thousands of employees plus weeks full of the water ukraine to speed up the transition to renewable energy. carter,

the cost on all just live o would winning documentary is from around the world $1.00 out to 0. ah ah, welcome back. a reminder of the top story seo and al jazeera. the u. s. attorney general has appointed an independent lawyer to lead the investigations to classified documents, found a dull trumps florida residents and aspects of the capitol hill riots. mary collins said it was necessary after trump announced he would run for president again in 2020 fool to it's his troubles appear to be deepening with reports that hundreds

more employees have quit and response to an ultimatum from the chief executive. isla mask. he called on workers to sign up for loan. how is that high intensity of the state leave? and ukraine's prime minister says, waves of russia missile strikes, of crippled almost half the country's energy system. officials and key if a warning that a complete shut down of the city's power grid is possible, as temperatures drop and snow forms in the capital, a mass funeral has been held for 21 family members killed and a building fire, and nolan garza 21 members of the same family died in the blaze of the 2 body refugee camp on thursday. several of the dead were children. you'll know l side reports dal march carrying the bodies of 21 members of the authority of family. all who killed by a fire at their home in japan repeated care most to our children had the sofa table

. this tragedy has affected every one. we slept through a terrible night. i came home and found my children crying out of grief and fear. may god have mercy on them about her. but if the thing that happens in garza is because of his blockade, we live within one harder. so the asagwa, the neighbors said the family had gathered to welcome home to celebrate the birthday of met here up with a year who had just obtained his ph. d degree overseas. but shortly after neighbors heard screams and so smoke billowing from the apartments windows. and people try to enter the 3 story building, hoping to reach the family, but they were prevented by the intense heat and many were injured. the 21 members of the upgrade, your family have died in the fire. now their bodies remain and separated as they are bury tear together in the cemetery. o israel's 15 year siege of

garza and its tight restrictions on the interior of the equipment in material has left the civil defense and fire department in the occupied territory with limited sources. eye witnesses say that some major reason, none of the victims were saved. police investigations also indicated pachel stored in the residential home fuel the fire that was caused by a gas leak. most people in garza store fuel in their homes as winter approaches to provide heat during long power cuts. and i bet on them we express our full solidarity with the entire audi ray of family and their relatives. and we confirmed that the unjust is riley sage. that caused the lack of capabilities for the civil defense and of the department. this is the major reason that the high number of victims in this tragedy of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas in palestine.

your factions, godsa announced friday would be a day of mourning for those who died and they called for international pressure, the m, israel, spokane, of the strip of the years of conflict. families in syria as struggling to send their children to school. barry have to work to find work to support their household and the covey. 19 pandemic has made the situation even worse. the city of rocca has some of the highest rates of child labor as sit in cost yearly reports. nearly 12 years into the syrian war child, labor has dramatically increased the northern city of rocker and elsewhere. what children working long hours in difficult conditions for many boys education is a luxury because they have to find work to provide for their family. many of their fathers have been arrested or killed during the war. jacobo hammer is 16,

but he's been working in the mechanic shop for 8 years. he says it was not easy to make the decision to drop out of school, but it was necessary them in the sinister album, magellan, because of the war. we couldn't learn anything in school, no one, even. so i've learned his job as a mechanic. it's better than wasting my time she several schools and rocco are damaged or does for during the fight against iso more than 70 percent of them are still on the same condition. according to the ngos, 13 year old mohammed has worked as a sweet vendor for 3 years. he would rather study, but he must support his family because the cost of living is rising by the day. while a dinner bad? no, and the idea nobody, it's difficult to work outside when it's cold and i can't even push this trolley in some places. we can't afford school. even with this job, it's barely enough to buy bread boil. cast them as the father of 3 boys and

a girl. all of his sons come to work despite their young age, been as military, my study is better for the kids, but unfortunately we don't have good education. it's useless. oh, so i decided so my son to learn a profession which will help him earn money at least syria has seen a lot in the past decade in its struggling city of rocca, a generation of kids nav risk being lost, forced to choose between going to school or finding work as a matter of survival. seen em casala l 0 north korean state media as kim young and inspected a test of his country's new intercontinental ballistic missiles. early on friday, which landed just 200 kilometers west of japan. tokyo confirm that north korea's ballistic missile landed in it's exclusive economic zone and says it's capable of reaching the u. s. mainland kim is reported to have warned that if enemies threats continue, his country will respond with nuclear weapons. and military moves against north

korea would lead to self destruction. the got 27 climate summit in egypt has been extended after delegates failed to agree on a deal. talks were supposed to wrap them up on friday, but will now continue into saturday agreement on a lawson damage policy. where rich nations compensate developing countries for the impacts of climate change remains. one of the key sticking points caught 27. president summer shook re told negotiators to work faster. in the united states, one time billionaire elizabeth holmes has been sentenced to a 135 months in prison for fraud. and her blood testing start up thoroughness. the company collapsed after its technology was revealed to be launched, the fake rob reynolds joins us live from los angeles for more and this is absolutely fascinating case, isn't it? we'll get to the back story in a minute bit, talk us through the sentencing and caught them well, a need in court, a miss holmes up pleaded for

a lighter sentence. her attorneys had asked for her to be sentenced to 18 months, mostly to be served in home confinement. elizabeth home said she was full of regret and devastated. and that if given the opportunity she would have made many more decisions in a different way. but that did not prevent the judge in the case. edward, edward dab a law and federal court from sentencing her to 11 and a quarter years in prison. the judge said this case is sad on many levels because mrs. holmes is brilliant. failure is normal. the judge said, but failure by fraud is not ok. mrs. holmes. ms. holmes has the 8 small child and is pregnant with the 2nd child. she mentioned that and that was mentioned by her attorneys a number of times perhaps in an effort to obtain

a more lenient set sentence from the judge that didn't work. and this sentence, while not the maximum of a sentence or those 15 years requested by prosecutors, is in line with other significant white collar crime fraud cases. for example, jeffrey skilling, who was presided over the collapse of enron. as you may recall, the number of years ago was given 13 years in prison. however, uh elizabeth holmes is likely to appeal her sentence, and we'll have to see what the outcome of that is. i'll briefly when it comes to white color crime, this was particularly audacious, wasn't it? i mean, elizabeth holmes, company at one point was valued at $9000000000.00. so reminders of how we got to this point, it not only what she valued her company a thoroughness valued at $9000000000.00. it was all completely built on, basically a fake ari,

the machines that there are nos claimed could diagnose multiple types of human diseases. from a simple pin prick and a sample of blood never worked. ah, she at one time hob nob with celebrities and politicians, and billionaires like rupert murdoch, and was treated to foreign in coverage in the media. but then after some dedicated journalists began digging, the whole house of cards came crashing down. the machines had never work. and in fact, some of the tests that were performed actually endangered the health of actual human beings. so it was a colossal fraud on, on many levels, ms. holmes had a preternatural ability to gain the trust of important people, like henry kissinger and the, and george schultz both former secretaries of state of the united states to sit on the company's board of directors. and that gave it a sheen of respectability,

but they of the company always a sort of said that our, our technology is proprietary. we can't have it, you know, vetted by any outside experts or anything like that. and that raised more and more suspicions. and as you said, eventually about 4 years ago, the whole thing was revealed as of fraud. now, after all of her fame and, and, and fortune, ah, ms. holmes does appear to be facing some time behind bars. sounds like a t v drama in the making. rob reynolds live in ella, thanks look. ah, just 2 days before the well cut begins, organizes of announced that alcohol will not be sold at stadiums. it's a reversal of the original plan to sell be around the 8 stadium sites within the ticketing perimeter. the public consumption of alcohol and public intoxication of

both illegal in qatar, but alcohol will still be available in stadium v. i. p. sweets as well as in fan parks and license bars available. now obviously in cats are also in license premises and that will continue, or some of the additional fans, homes, and fan activities. it's also available for the fee for fun festival, for example, or fee for released a statement saying a decision has been made to focus the sale of alcoholic beverages on the fif of fan festival and other fan destinations. and lice has venues. removing sales points of beer from stadium perimeters is changed from 2014 when fi for lobbied, brazil to change the more to allow the sale of being 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 in europe. a league matches until it was lifted by away for in 2018. and in england, fans have been banned from drinking alcohol in the stan since 1985 to stem

hooliganism. they can drink in the stadiums, concourses, though large areas of the northeastern united states around the great lakes have been hit by heavy snow, which is due to continue over the weekend. an official state emergency official state of emergency rather has been declared by the governor of new york state us national weather service as more than a meter of snow could fall by sunday with periods of near 0 visibility. the weather is what meteorologist called lake effect. snow created when the cold air picks up moisture from the relatively warm and lakes. india's 1st properly developed rocket has launched into space. vikram s was built by a start up sky root aerospace with an engineering team of just 200 people. and it only took 2 years. the rocket is equipped with telemetry tracking cameron data acquisition systems. ah.