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a long series of witches. donald trump attacks the decision to appoint a special counsel, to oversee investigations into the former us president. ah, no, by this. and this is, i'll just rely from doha, also coming up. unsworn silly as a polling station in kuala lumpur 21000000 people are legible to vote what's been described as malaysia most competitive elections. ukraine's capital face is a complete power shut down as russia keeps hitting energy sites with air strikes and preparations are underway. a cutout is bought out for an influx of football fans coming from saudi arabia. ah, we're going to begin in the us. donald trump is criticizing the decision to appoint a special counsel to oversee investigations into the former president. jack smith,

a former war crimes prosecutor, will lead probes into trumps handling of classified documents after leaving office . as well as trumps, attempt to interfere in the results of the 2020 presidential election. smith's appointment comes 3 days after trump announced he'll run for president again in 2024. this is a rig deal just as the 2020 election was rigged and we can't let them get away with it. we can't do it. we cannot let this happen to our khaki. i've been going through these investigations and hoaxes and scams. from the day i came down the escalator, a trump tower, and you'd really say enough is enough. got to get back to work, got to prove that we have a great country again because right now it's not great right now. it's a laughing stock all over the world. earlier us attorney general medic, garland said he'd made the decision. so the justice department could remain independent. 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 department's commitment to both independence and accountability, and 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. charge of cash was got more on donald trump's reaction to the announcement. there had been reports in u. s. media that trump's advisors had said not to speak about this so quickly as the decision to appoint a special council was just announced hours ago. however, trump went ahead and spoke it would appear to be a gala at mara lago. he repeated many conspiracy theories that had been debunked

and he went on to call the appointment of the special council, a quote, horrendous abuse of power. and he said it was the latest in a series of which hans from democrats, while himself, he called one of the most honest and innocent people ever in our country. that's what he said, word for word. this was not a legal defense of any type i and so it just from hearing it. and as he made this long speech to his supporters, it was perhaps apparent why some of his lawyers would have advised against it. now he is claiming that this is joe biden's doing the current u. s. president. the white house has said that there was no involvement whatsoever . and this decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate trump. and in fact, there, it may be that president biden didn't even know that this a decision that this announcement was being made to day a melissa, able to casting their votes. him was expected to be the tightest general election

since independence in 1957. malaysians are chosen from 945 candidates for coalitions are hoping to win the 222 parliamentary seats at stake of thorns, louise at a polling station in calm poor. what's difference about this election? florence while it's highly competitive because voters have more than 2 strong contenders to choose from. none. one of them is the national front. it's lead by i'm no party which is i suppose the best way to describe it is the grand old party of malaysian. and they've been dominant in malaysia politics until they were finally defeated in the last election in 2018. and then as the opposition, the alliance of hope led to by former deputy prime minister turned opposition leader onward it brian. now the opposition has been making steady gains and they won the last election 4 years ago. and then you have the national alliance, a relatively newcomer, but old faces,

their main parties are the malaysian islamic party and also burst such a splinter group of unknown. now, all these parties have had a stint in governing malaysia. so voters will also be able to choose to decide who to vote for based on each party's performance in government. now complicating matters is the fact that they're 6000000 new voters because of automatic voter registration. and because the voting age has been lowered to 18, it's not a small number 6000000 considering this is a population of around 30000000 people. analysts say this group could be the wild card that could swing these election, so they're not just the most competitive, but also being described as one of the most difficult to predict. i'm some big names. the malaysian politics have got quite a lot of stick in this openly. absolutely. now this election, some analysts have described it as really for malaysians to choose between 2 visions of the future malaysia that they want. do they want to stick with mall the

same or do they want to try something new? now, if they choose to stick with more of the same, then it would mean voting for i that the national front or the national alliance. the problem with the national front, as many of the top leaders are tainted with corruption. its current chief is on trial for corruption. its former chief is former prime minister, not your brother, who's been jailed for corruption, money laundering, and abuse of power. now if they choose the national alliance while this party, the coalition is not tainted with corruption, not like the national front, but they are associated with the old way of doing things. and that is divide and conquer of playing up racial and religious differences. for example, as chief in one of his recent campaign speeches urged voters not to vote for the opposition. the lines of hope saying that this is a dangerous vote. you also accused christians of working together with jews to christian eyes, malaysia. and then the, the lines of hope, the main opposition group. now this block is seen as more liberal, more multi racial and more reform minded. and to outside us, it might then seem like an easy choice. but in multi racial, malaysia, it's

a lot more complicated malay ethnic group make up the majority of the country around 70 percent. this is the dominant ethnic group, the muslims, and they have special rights and privileges. the 2 blocks that are capable or willing, i should say, willing to promote malays special rights and privileges of the national alliance and the national front. whereas the alliance of hope is seen, has, has promised assists, has promised needs based assistance, as opposed to race based aid. florida. thank you very much. indeed, obviously, it's very complicated. we're going to be talking to years, the votes going, but for now florence louis can call them both. thank you very much. ukraine's prime minister says waves of russian missile strikes of crippled almost half the country's energy infrastructure officials in kiva, wanting that a complete shut down of the city's grid is possible. the un has warned of

a humanitarian emergency because of power and water shortages keeps mer. vitale. plesco says preparations of being made for rolling blackouts throughout winter. we have fob, prepare and have follow for a warm staff. we have from litigation reserve for medication, but those will be very unusual. unusual station, we hope it's not happens, but we have to be prepared for that. i said beg has more from a snow covered levine. in some cases the temperature is already below 0 and that's a major concern for authority. president bludgeon is less. yes, it is about 10000000 people without electricity as just know for the main electricity provider has said that they're trying to keep the black at short and on the schedule, many people around the country i've been experiencing those electricity back up as russian. so i have talked to energy infrastructure in the last few days. some of the biggest massage beverages in this country has space since the start of the war

world, allegedly, one of those missiles, at least, according to the korean, went over into poland until 2 people. the crane and the arguments back, it was a russian massage. now we hear from the farm and 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's unlikely that was a russian massage that went 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. ukrainian adamant beckett was a russian massage out in the country. there's a richer region the missile strike on thursday. the death count for that. when it hit the residential building has gone up to 10. and the nuclear power plant does the nuclear power plant. the russians occupied the class, the 3rd resolution urging russia to stop action against the king. his former president and wanders leader, have agreed on the need for fighters to withdraw from captured territory and

eastern democratic republic of congo. maternity fighters had made a major games in recent weeks. advancing towards goma, the congress governments are accused rwanda of supporting the group. but could golly denies this hundreds of people to be killed and nearly 200000. they've been forced from their homes. malcolm lab reports to his area for our i was pregnant with twins when a bomb his, her house shrapnel was blasted into her leg and sigh 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 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 when the denies it more than 200000 people have fled to fighting and them 20 three's recent advances to people here left everything behind when they ran life into come to 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 tracked by the fighting. neither side let people who even ambulance his 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 there's 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 goma. a lot of help 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's m a 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 here or fed there. do you shall, quadrille marchese. we feel very traumatized by all of this. we're living in the camp in the rain without even plastic sheets for shelter when they were only asking for the people in power to bring peace. 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 they're also among those who suffer the most in the seemingly endless conflicts, the control of it. malcolm web al jazeera gamer,

democratic republic of congo, still ahead on al jazeera by the blood in us business, the founder of failed testing stars. i was sentenced to prison for defrauding. investors are going to tell you what ill on mosque was trying to do now. after hundreds of employees quit under water, being cold is sign or resign ultimatum. ah, how low they let start in north america and winter has certainly arrived with the 1st snowstorm of the seasons and the major storm working its way across. northern and eastern areas of the u. s. and eastern parts of canada. not bringing heavy snow to the likes of new york, we have had a state of emergency declared for the south of this. we are expecting some wintry

weather as well to effect parts of texas on saturday. but the worst of that weather is set to effect western parts of new york buffalo already saw that snow started fall on thursday. we could see up to 1.2 meters by the time we get to sunday, that is nearing historic levels. but that bitter cold is set to bring temperatures down, not just to cause eastern parts of canada, but the north east of the u. s. and it is likely to affect driving conditions and visibility as that snow falls through to sunday. elsewhere across a new you as it is an improving picture down in the south. still a bit of a wintry mix plaguing texas as we go into sunday, but much dryer and quieter for the west coast as the santa ana winds start to die down. now for northern parts of mexico, we are seeing some heavy rain start to pick up tickets for that east coast. it is set to pull across to florida. by the time we get to sunday, ah

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this are for me you as president, donald trump's criticize the appointment of a special counsel to oversee investigations into am. former war crimes prosecutor jack smith will lead to the probes. vote is underway and malaysia's general election opposition leader on what you became cost is ballots. and denying voters are choosing from $945.00 candidates for the polls set to be the tightest since independence enlightened. kenya's, former president, under wanda's leader, have agreed on the need for fighters to withdraw from captured territory in eastern democratic republic of congo. is comes as m 23 fighters have made a major games in recent weeks. leaders from around the asia pacific region are gathering in bangkok for the 2nd day of the apex summit. the trade talks being overshadowed by north korea, firing a ballistic missile on friday. the u. s. and south korea, how joint military drills a few hours after the launch. apec leaders are also discussing inflation,

climate change, and the pandemic. johnny chang has moved from outside the summit in bangkok. the fact that there's announcements, an announcement, a tool i think is probably a good result. yesterday we saw those side by meetings about north korea. statements released by the united states and its allies condemning the hiring of that in the continental ballistic missile. we also saw a statement released by the apec secretariat about the war and ukraine, but very much word for word pretty much what we saw from the g 20 that most of the countries here condemned the actions of russia. but clearly, not the acceptance of russia and china who represented here, i think we'll, we can expect some kind of communicate at the end. but i think the big points of this meeting was that the, these people were able to come until. and the fact that it wasn't overshadowed the

other 2 big summit through the state in the past 7 days. it asked in the g 20 and volley by other issues, namely and the war and ukraine. i think the, the atmosphere here has been less charged. we've seen lots of bilaterals, there was the opportunity for chinese prisons cheating, paying sit down with his japanese counterpart, although we didn't hear very much from that meeting. was apparently pretty productive. and i think the fact that the tree is so many of these diplomats and leaders haven't been able to meet face to face. and they have had this opportunity now not just here, but in bali and pen beforehand. and funeral is being held for 21 family members killed in a fire in a residential building in northern garza, 7 of those who died with children, the blazing gulf, the 3rd floor of the block in the w refugee camp. when the family was holding a birthday party authorities out investigating the cause, a plains caught fire and peru after hitting a fire shock on the runway of lemurs international airport. 2 fighters were killed

when the latham airlines plane crashed into the moving truck. they across 102 passengers and 6 crew members escaped unharmed us silicon valley entrepreneur elizabeth holmes has been hunted, a lengthy prison sentence for fraud, a time as the c e. o of blood testing company. toronto's, sponsor documentary is a books and a television. many series rob reynolds reports, fame, disgrace, now prison, formerly high flying tech entrepreneur, elizabeth holmes, was sentenced through 11 and a quarter years in federal prison. on friday homes was convicted of fraud and conspiracy in january in pronouncing sentence, judge edward davila said, this is sad because miss holmes is brilliant. failure is normal, but failure by fraud is not okay. prosecutors had asked for 15 years in prison

homes as lawyers asked for a much lighter sentence of 18 months of home confinement before sentencing homes. apologize saying she was devastated and full of regret. the 38 year old has one small child and is expecting another baby. homes founded thoroughness, a silicon valley start up that claim to have perfected technology that could diagnose a multitude of diseases with a single drop of blood. but the technology never worked. a fact, homes kept secret from wealthy investors, like fox owner, rupert murdoch, and oracles, larry ellison holmes, had a persuasive ability and was able to recruit figures like former u. s. secretaries of state henry kissinger and george schultz to sit on thoroughness. his board, digging by investigative journalists, eventually revealed their noses, thackeray and the whole edifice collapsed 4 years ago. prosecutors also asked for hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution, but the judge deferred

a decision on that till later. at the height of for fame homes as company was worth $9000000000.00. she hobnob with politicians, celebrities and billionaires, and the media treated her to numerous adoring articles. now it appears she will be spending time behind bars, although she is likely to appeal her sentence. rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles, talk about it on months because some of the companies software engineers are face to face meetings in san francisco. and then e mail mascara, the workers to send him summaries of recent coding achievements. the meeting comes after he issued an ultimatum, telling employees to agree to long hours at high intensity are quite with 3 months severance pay. hundreds of stuff have reportedly left given l as on who's going to move from new york. 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. i've been really remarkable. he said to me, in an email to all employees do not come into the office, the offices 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 backpedaling 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 or 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, there are 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 crystal walker as a journalist, specializing in digital culture. and he believes twitter may struggle to stay on line. this is troubling, and obviously it is worth pointing out that we all just 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 he sees 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 to enact those plans. if anything goes wrong with less susan, so twitter entities form of 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 a not being here by christmas. unless something changes, us republican representative longbow bug has been real active in colorado, auto, her opponent, out of switch conceited. the race was close with a billboard leading by fewer than 600 votes. republicans have taken control of the house with both victory, giving them 2 101900 seats. the democrats have 212 with 4 seats still too close to call me well, how can geoffrey says, formally launched a bit to take over from nancy pelosi is democratic leader in the us house of representatives. if he wins, jeffries would be the 1st african american to had

a party caucus in congress. speaker posey, and she's gonna step down when republicans take charge of the house in january. so the taliban has ordered judges in afghanistan to re impose public executions and amputations. it's clamped down and rights and freedom since coming into power last year. critics say the move could push the country into further isolation or wrong. over reports. when the taliban regained power in afghanistan last year, it promised to war to 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 war. camille, at that taliban court spokesman says the order to re impose such parts of strict as sly mac law was always the government's intention. that the law should i be oh no, but colonel 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 dean. good stanton, maida. i'm obviously out of the head office. she been a siri says, had daughters have suffered a year of loss. they're no longer allowed to go to school or university. and as of last week, they conquer to the park. but she says, new guidance, what punish in criminals will set up kind of stand back in on us for the 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. i see that some analysts say the taliban is trying to further its legitimacy by applying islamic law to its fullest extent. do you need the strict rules in los because of gunnison is not the only islamic government are we of more than 50 sloniker governments and some of

those, sir. governments such a shitty a loss or a plight. but the only restriction justifying the public floggings and executions. were common under the taliban until it lost power in 2001. when the us and allied forces invaded the question for many is whether the supreme leaders order will lead to a repeat of the past. and if it does, the taliban could face even further isolation. barbara and groper al to sarah. ah. that is 2 days before the world cup begins has been announced that alcohol will only be available and hospitality suites in stadiums. it's a reversal of the original plan to sell beer around the 8 sites within the ticketing perimeter. consumption of alcohol, a public is illegal and cut out so is being drunk in public. alcohol is going to be available at fan parks and license bars. it's available now,

obviously in cats are also in license premises and that will continue are some of the additional farms ohms and fun activities. and it's also available for the fee for fran festival, for example, or just over a day to go. and carter is bracing itself or an influx of football fans for the world cup. many of them are going to come across the land border with saudi arabia, petroleum, gate, and reports authority say they're expecting thousands of fans across the saudi. how to do that in the coming days in the lead up to the match between saudi arabia and origin. tina on tuesday now they've overhauled the facility so they have created it in a with car parkway. they're asking people to bring their cars and park them. and what will happen then is that people, once they've been processed, will board pre buses all the way to doha city center. this is where people will come to have their id and passport checked,

as well as their higher cards. this 22 counts is here for that to happen. they'll then put that bag through the scanner and beyond. here is a bank of buses waiting to take them today. hi. we spoke to a couple of people who've been through this process today, and this is what they had to say. it's, it's really good organized. people are coming to help us on the process. part of it is really nice because we are go, we're all going to watch. it's been and i brought also rather to my sound, we are so excited to do this game. i'm gonna play of that plan. and what i do, so for the fans here, that well cut journey is finally underway. when they get on the road to catherine, they will see thousands of flags lining the root, the flags of the world, half of the nations that are participating. and they will really get a sense of the excitement that is building hearing hello.