it is a focus in south africa. they're scattered, chows that are especially heavy, but they are there ah ah, under silent stones, they once prosperous fishing village sinks beneath the mud, parliamentary elections ignite, few survival, re that will determine the future of this defeated and politically divided community. a microcosm reflecting the plight of a nation witness? venezuela. a sinking resolution on a jessina. ah pakistan's, former president pervade mas sharon has died in dubai after a long illness.

ah ha, you're watching al jazeera alive from doha with me for the battle. also ahead. the u. s shoots down a suspected chinese spy balloon bay. jean called it a violation of international practice. she lay extends a state of emergency with hundreds of wild fires burning at least 22 people have died. and hope frances holds a large massy juba calling for forgiveness as he wraps up his historic visit to south cigar. ah, thank you very much for joining us. former pakistani president prevents machine has died at the age of 79 after a long illness had been living in exile in dubai. since 2016 al jazeera fell high, rod takes a look back at my sharps life and the controversy surrounding his political career

. her resume, sheriff was living in exile for years. fighting to clear his name for the former, pakistani president was charged in connection with a 2007 assassination of former prime minister been as their bhutto. he was also sentenced to death off to being found guilty of treason before a court in pakistan overturned it in 2020. the head of the military had seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999 and served as president from 2001 until 2008. after the 911 attacks sheriff aligned himself with the so called war on terror, general myself is another medical impression here. this is not a war against it. it is, and this is a lot against his. he also supported the war. enough gun is done. he tried to balance relations with the u. s. and tribal leaders, michelle, af, late to said the united states threatened to bomb pakistan if he didn't commit to

fighting cause us. michelle was criticized for failing to improve the economy at home. and men ties with india that's despite a high profile visit to grow, where many had hoped it would lead to better relation firing. pakistan's chief justice in 2007 proved to be his fatal political move. yeah. in that street protest. melbourne was the bill bull gone, i read my future in the hands of the nation, and the people let them be their judges. and ultimately, the man who survive multiple assassination attempts was forced to resign. a year later, he lived in exile for a while, but the law of power was too attractive. he tried to stage a political come back in 2013. the i was thinking the government would call me back and say, said pakistan. but that did not happen. today my nation ordered me to come back. i

came back, put in my life in danger to save pakistan. instead, he was arrested and charged with murdering benefit bhutto. the 1st woman democrats equally elected in a muslim majority country. the government allowed me sharp to leave in 2016 to seek medical treatment for a serious illness. general, more sharp, though, had always denied wrong doing, and maintained the case against him was politically motivated. that springing now al jazeera command hider in is rama. bad for so come out. sheriff had been living in dubai since 2016. what are the initial reactions? first in pakistan, the news of his death where most of august on the market is made day to day. so the new gods coming on cash made that song. but mode of a. this is a mind with a mix legacy did i support. ready you great services for this country,

how things going and do i sell them for dead guy, laughed a dentist for days and they were suffering from my red dizzy and gosh, what the cause of their dead? all. so now we are daughter. that did family members me again to dish god, read that the body will be brought back to budget on they've been message message of condolences from the joint chiefs of the military that the board, the navy, the army shut off of god, has done a lot for their military fortune ran a war didn't fall, was so new. the god got main again, sad news for a country that they're struggling under nick and nominate crisis hit by a wave of attack. kamali talked about he his mixed legacy. what will pakistani will remember him?

most for when one thing that he was the man i shared revenue share and end up august on the electronic media by private dies. ready by allowing several john to come on air and to be able to have predicted debate show that the gods also proved to be had down for the genie led out of the body. but could not or back. also, the fact that he gave a large for not just the military by dollars. sure. go ahead. improve august on a major over the debate. important instruct drug drug economic contributions relatively when you compare with other lead edge was relatively better. and also because of the fact that united states wanted by august on to be a launching pad for to operate ations next on after september 11th. a dad dad was a non popular, difficult decision for getting

a shout out to make. because the people of august on did not want to get involved in that wall show. indeed they will be critical for him. i know he had to go supported by golly, go he tried to make a political come back by launching a party condition that you were then or something that you could not continue. and of course today, august on age receiving yet another sad news that one of the former lead. busy the controversial one, no doubt. i had no mol. thank you for that. come out hydra live in eastern. i'm a bought in other world news. china has accused the us of overreacting after a shot down a balloon off the coast of south carolina. it pentagon accused beijing of spying, but china and face it was a weather balloon that straight off course. patty co hain has more. a clear shot as it happened, a missile hit the high altitude balloon and it begins its descent. in end 2 days of

long debate about what to do about this massive air balloon suddenly saw something take off. again, i knew it was a missile and you can see the explosion. you should have shot it that winning the insane. instead of letting it travel all the way across, you thought it was just that. i think it's terrible that they let it get this far start with. and what i've heard are more and more of china claimed it was a weather balloon that was blown off course. president biden says he gave the order to shoot it down last wednesday, decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground and decided that the best time to do that would be we got over water within our, within 12 mile limit the successively took it down. the pentagon says in f $22.00 fighter jet launched a single missile to bring the balloon down into us territorial waters. pentagon officials say now they're turning their attention to recovering the balloon. they

think it's going to be a fairly simple operation. they're already several us navy and u. s. coast guard ships on the scene. they plan to use us navy divers and unmanned submersible to bring it to the surface in the next few days. and then the us will decide if they want to publicly and the debate offering proof of what this was. it's still an open debate because huge balloon was in fact, following the air streams of the area and that it has a tractor of it. it is not loitering over montana, it was shot off the eastern seaboard. so at this juncture, this idea that this is somehow a spy ship that was liberally said by china seems a little bit farfetched. but us analysts say the fact that they believe a similar balloon as travel in latin america makes this theory more likely. i do not believe that it was just a weather balloon loan off course it would be quite a coincidence if we have this loon going in to us, aerospace,

while apparently there's another one crossing latin america a simultaneously infringing upon other countries here. space another strain in an already frayed relationship, which was supposed to take steps toward improvement on saturday. instead taking a step back. particle, hey, al jazeera washington, will i speak to evan resnick about this is an assistant professor at the as roger raton. i'm school of international studies at neon technological university is joining us from singapore. thank you so much for being with us. what do you make of chinese reaction to the shooting down of this suspected spy balloon? it says the reaction from the u. s. was excessive and that it retains the right to respond. what might this response be? oh yeah, i think this is the reaction you would expect from both sides countries spy on each other or routinely adversary spy on each other,

quite routinely the u. s. and trying to spy on each other a lot. it's been one country catches the other red handed. the temptation is, is the resistible to make a sort of propaganda victory out of it. you see countries spy on each other regularly. the chinese deny this was this via crab. they say this was a civilian weather balloon. the pentagon saying that another chinese balloon was seen over south america. why, why would the chinese need a balloon over the u. s. when they have advanced satellite systems that could do the job, could, could this have been a provocation by beijing or more of a miscalculation it would seem that in light of the secretary of state lincoln, him in and visit to beijing, but it was unlikely to have been a deliberate ploy by the chinese to ramp up tensions. i would just see my unusual given the, given that the timing, it probably was a miscalculation. so where does this leave now? the relationship between aging and washington secretary said lincoln, as you said,

was due to visit a meeting that it would seem the chinese wanted. will that still go ahead and where does it need the relationship? you think it's unlikely to go ahead in the imminent future president, president biden spacing strong political headwinds he doesn't want to seem like he's appeasing the chinese the time when he's just intercepted this surveillance aircraft surveillance balloon. the republicans are all critic are criticizing him for not being strong willed enough in dealing with that with that incident. so it sounds like any, any chance of the meeting taking place in the immediate future is unlikely, which is unfortunate given, as you said, the relationship between the 2 countries has been extremely hostile over the last few years. thank you so much for speaking to us. evan resonates, joining us, dan from singapore. thank you for your time. thank you. the war in ukraine now and

power has been partially restored in odessa, after a fire substation left nearly half a 1000000 people. without electricity, the government says it will appeal to take care to help restore power to those still affected. the facility was damaged by repeated russian missile strikes. new european restrictions on russian oil are coming into effect on sunday. this includes a ban on seaborne oil products and a global price cap of a $100.00 a barrel on premium russian oil products. the measures are aimed at reducing rushes ability to fund its war in ukraine. osama bin javin has more from moscow before the war. russia used to throw recruiting product reports would be for william goldman and it continues to sell products. what about $14000000000.00 european union to be the largest export market, followed by china and korea. that's now being overtaken by india, china. i'm a greer, you on moon market. russia, you the 2 main methods transported oil worse,

why a network of a pipeline to live in countries? and interestingly, it continues to be, you bring water from using the drills were pipeline. secondly, in network of tankers with failure, wrestling oil defaults all over the world, and they have no comp functions from the european union that you have set up for diesel fuel oil. and those are not in compliance. will either have stories financing, and they won't even get services for the riff. in chile, 22 people have died in wild fires that are sweeping across southern n, central regions firefighters say they're now more than 250 different active fires covering almost 500 square kilometers. the government has extended an emergency order in 3 regions. defies. have been sparked by an unusually hot summer heat wave . it's somewhat a 100 and we're working on multiple sources of forest size that added to the

weather high temperatures and a lot of wind of cause great destruction, both in vegetation and building a non arctic blast has hit part of the united states and canada with fuel winds pushing temperatures down into the negative double digits. cable is under, has moved from boston. scenes captured from a live camera show, the coldest temperature ever recorded in the continental united states. at the mount, washington observatory and research center in the state of new hampshire, where the windshield dragged the mercury down to an incredible minus 79 degrees celsius on saturday. the arctic glass has brought sub 0 temperatures to large parts of the northeastern united states and canada temperatures across the region. plunging to dangerously low levels in boston, massachusetts, where it hit minus 33 with wind chill. the biting wind made the cold at times.

downright painful. if you're really into masochism and whatever. yeah, it's actually great. otherwise people say what the hell am i doing here? people are used to cold weather here in boston this time of year. but this is unusual. the last time it got this cold in boston was 1957 in parts of maine, it was so cold, there were frost quakes. small earthquakes caused by sudden cracks in frozen soil. elsewhere the brutal, cold, complicated the emergency response to a massive fire after train derailment overnight in ohio, freezing the water being pumped to fire fighters. icey roads have made for hazardous driving in some states, like here in oklahoma. but back in boston, temperatures began to creep up slightly in the afternoon,

reaching negative 12. people began to come out and brave the elements having some fun. but this is certainly a deep freeze that people here won't forget any time soon. gabriel's ando al jazeera boston, i still ahead on al jazeera will be lied to you by the capital of sa sedan, where pope francis is holding a big mass as he wraps up his 3 day visit to the country. stay with us. ah, february what i just need rhinos and tigers in the pool, post to the brink of extinction, one or one, he's discovered how they're 14 happy turned around a year on from russia's, a vision of ukraine. jazeera looks at the impact and asks where events might lead from here. rigorous debate, unflinching question. up front mark, lamont hill,

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ah ah, you're watching al jazeera alive from dough with me fully bad people are reminder of our top stories. former pakistani president prevents machine has died after a long illness. he had been living in dubai since 2016. after being found guilty of treason and sentenced to death, the court in pakistan overturned that decision in 2020. and china has accused the u . s. of overreacting after a shot down its balloon off the coast of south carolina. and the pentagon accused aging of using the surveillance graph to spy, but china had said it was a weather balloon. all right, more now on our top story and the death of former pakistani president, prevail, machine of joining us now is mature of side. he was the founder and

a senior fellow at the tablet dab and his law abbas base policy think tank. he is joining us live from islam of right. thank you very much miss r shops id for being with us. perez, masha of was, as we heard in our report previously, a controversial figure who grabbed power in 1999, asking a democratically elected prime minister in pakistan. is that how he'll be remembered by pakistani? what, what legacy does he leaf for pakistanis? he leaves behind a very, i mean, obviously any time somebody, especially in our culture it's, it's a sad moment, especially for the family. and to his credit, he has a family that has not taken advantage of the enormous and unaccountable hour that he will did and use. but his legacy will not be the good things as legacy will be the terrible consequences of his rule for this country. and it's now 234000000 people. perhaps the worst thing that will be attributed to

a shot of is the thing the, the big thing that he did before he took over, which was that he planned and executed the war 1999 with india permanently damaged pakistan standing with western partners but also really eliminated the chances for any kind of reconciliation or normalization in this region. permanently turn india into an adversary that and the thing that is not a fascination. sorry, yeah. the assassination from a prime minister, ben is able to of course, i just wanted to pick up on the concord war you say planned and executed that war. but at the same time, when he was in power, he promoted dialogue with india. what was, what was the relationship like i 5 india content he definitely try to engage in the serious conversation. perhaps the most serious proposal for the

resolution of the media who came about during his period. it's called the 4 point formula and it is attribute to him. but none of those ideas actually produced an outcome. and the relationship has with india, which is maybe the most vexing and complicated aspect of about sunny identity as far as a nation status concern continues to be informed by the voice from the get a war. of course, the reason i said the god of the war is not just because of what it did. india, but also because it permanently talked to kate in the relationship between the bible study, military and elected leaders. so you had a series of military takeovers in this country, but since we left off, as we've had sustained civilian rule, the only problem in the military doesn't know how to take orders from civilians in

this country. and a lot of that legacy is down to michelle education of the war. as, as you, as you talk id with seeing pictures right now, footage of the former president pervasively sheriff with the african leader, the former off gun leader. and also with former us president george w bush and i was going to ask you about the 911 attacks and pakistan decision to support the u. s. s. so called war on terror. he was in power. of course, how did that affect his leadership? what were the consequences of that decision? look, i think that the country continues to suffer from the terrorism that emanated from the way in which the war on terror was prosecuted in this country. michelle, it became a darling for the us. he was very close to george w bush, even lauded by him through and through. but the burden of his decisions have been

carried by success to elected leaders and military thousands of botany soldiers and policemen have died just last week over a 100 bucks. stomach, policemen were killed in a terrorist attack in the shower. the people who in particular have carried the legacy of decision making decision making that was completely unaccountable to the people from 1999 to 2000 and really 2008. and i think that without understanding the depth of the crisis, the box today finds itself in it. difficult to really appreciate back that was for michelle id. thank you so much for talking to us on our just sarah, thank you. the head of the roman catholic church is holding a large mass in south sudan before he leaves the country. but frances historic

visit is bought of a 6 day trip to africa on saturday. the pope met people affected by the years long conflict in south to dawn. he called on, needed to be commit to peace. let's go live to al jazeera is hiram latasha who is in a jew before as so the pope is celebrating mass before he leaves and some people. and instead of walks days to reach java, tell us about the mood where you are and, and the pope's message to be as the celebrate christmas with wallace above the final day. and so, donna fuel and the team to list mooney mass, the capital g. but some of them on some, on some of the neighboring countries. one awesome with them. what name laura the pub in that they know that his is a one lasting p. apologies. we have lost connection with our correspondent, hiram were teresa, who is reporting they live from juba on the pope's visit to south sudan,

which is wrapping up to day. the pope celebrating a mass there, a big mass in dubai. this was his 1st visit to south sudan of course, the worst youngest nation. and while on this visit, the pope has been promoting peace and reconciliation for south sweden is met, a south was these children who was displayed were displaced by the conflict, and heard about the hardship that they have experienced living in a disgrace camps. so the pope's celebrating their, my sin, japan as mo vaughn and a town in the u. s. state of ohio has declared a state of emergency after a train accident sparked a large fire in the area. a freight train with more than a 100 cars derailed in the village of east palm a sign on friday. 20 of the cars were carrying hazardous materials. emergency crews have been helping people move away from the area. the fire has since reduced in intensity, but remains active in the 2 main tracks. are still blocked. 14 cars,

carrion, vinyl chloride were involved in the derailment, and have been exposed to fire. a young you to video blogger has been killed by her father, any rock sparking outrage across the country that calls for protests to be held on sunday, to demand justice for tea. but ali, her father has admitted to strangling her to death on wednesday in the so in a so called ari kelly. he was reportedly upset about her decision to live in turkey . a 22 year old fled from her family after excusing her brother sexually assaulting her. and ali had gained a following on you to where she both said videos of her daily life. the pakistani government has banned access to wikipedia for falling, for failing to remove what it calls sacrilegious contents. to pakistani telecommunications authority says the online and sick encyclopaedia failed to comply with a 48 hour deadline to remove and lock the content. wikipedia says the move denies

a 5th most populous nation access to free knowledge. much more news on our website, of course that al jazeera dot com, the very latest on all of our top stories on there, including the death of former pakistani president, prevail, sheriff and the legacy he leaves behind al jazeera dot com. i want to show you some way images. now of the pope in gilbert who is celebrating a big mass in the south to denise capital. as he wraps up his suite, a visit to faster than the pope was of course, also in a democratic republic of congo. calling for peace and reconciliation involved in factories next on al jazeera to stay

at the changed pattern night, the weather over europe, all the wintry stuff takes place in the middle, and down to southeast you see declared streaming down. that's really cold air. and in contrast, precious built for the west, which means although it's winter sun, it's doing some work and lifting temperatures, sofa from spain and portugal, the low warnings of low temperature, it's slowly fitting, bit better. but as a real shock, particularly baseline bulgaria is the high temperature of minus 4. athens is dropping down to 5 and that's without thinking about the wind as well. in contrast to wind the southwest leads making things rather be mild in the whole of ireland and scotland and parts of england are enjoying the sunshine as well. but that is where it's stormy. strong winds running down through the adria taking towards the central mediterranean will hit the north african coast 8. find the west. does that cost the worst is to the east through our turkey a good deal of snow falling? and if you say that in cyprus and levant, wind and rain, and there's this shock added to athens and probably stumble because of the wind.

it's even worse. i think the turkey during monday, but for the rest of eastern parts of europe, the sun has returned. it's still cold is no longer windy or snowy below. what is happening in the western met? another storm system growing. ah, the corona virus has been indiscriminate in selecting its victims. it's devastating effects of plague, every corner of the globe, transcending class creed and color. but in britain, a disproportionately high percentage of the fallen have been black or brown skins. the big picture traces the economic disparities and institutional racism that a scene united kingdom fail, it citizens, britain's true colors, part one on al jazeera, a balloon over us dies trigger is a diplomatic storm. phasing denies washington's accusations of.