[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, for the 1970s was a pivotal time for cinema in theater in the middle east and north africa agreed to be there. in the 2nd of a 2 part series al jazeera world meets the creative risk takers who broke new ground for censorship. and developed their own voice in the seventy's in the arab world stage and screen on al jazeera. ah pakistan's former president prevents mer sharon has died in dubai after

a long illness. ah, pa, you're watching al jazeera alive from doha with me for the back. people also coming up the battle for back move, report so fierce fighting as mercenaries from the russian wagner group try to take control of the ukrainian city. the u. s. shoots down a suspected chinese spy balloon bay gene calls it a violation of international practice. and po francis holds a large, mycene, ju back calling for the given as, as he wraps up his historic visit to south to don. ah, thank you very much for joining us. former pakistani president pervis machine has died at the age of 79. after a long illness he had been living in self imposed exile in dubai since 2016 that a hierarchy takes

a look back at my child's life and the controversy surrounding his political career . for rasmus sheriff was living in exile for years, fighting to clear his name. the form of pakistani president was charged in connection with a 2007 assassination of former prime minister ben as a bhutto. he was also sentenced to death after 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 $911.00 attacks sheriff aligned himself with the so called war on terror, general michelle of is another american impression here. this is not a war against it. it is. and this is a lot against this. now he also supported the war enough canister on he tried to balance relations with the u. s. and tribal leaders. michelle later 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 many times 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, it led to st. protest. melbourne was the bill bull gone. i raised my future in the hands of the nation and the people, let them be the judges. and ultimately, the man who survived 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 safe pakistan. instead, he was arrested and charged with murdering ben as a bhutto. the 1st woman democrats equally elected in a muslim majority country. the government allowed sharp to leave in 2016 to seek medical treatment for a serious illness. general was sure of though, had always denied wrong doing and maintained the case against him was politically motivated. life took him out, hyder in islam about 40, so come out of what are the reactions in pakistan to use us prevents michelle stephan. and what legacy does he leaves behind where they have a white bread condolence messages from they military wayne enrich all 3 services offer decked and darlin said i'd rela,

deposits on the prime minister by shirley was created, offering as condolences and all to his family to bear this particular loss now was shut up. god had taken no law as a military chief in 1998. just a few months off. he was there, pointed at military j a road, waited a long girlfriend above is the prime minister. now why should he decided to sac came a didn't try to come back to the country. a jack dropped prevented from landing and buckets on and got led to a cool enrichment shut up the fall off and was later after a desperate random. i've pointed out the president, now shut up, god lived a make legacy. a supporter will tell you that. but just on saw relative progress regards of alliance with the united states and the coke or water on get out. sandra

viewed financial assistance from the united states to facilitate that invasion of august on and of course made a lot of enemies for him. but he also shared in a new revolution in the media by allowing private janos to come on air. and some of the john white, great, degraded people, said that, that good one of the major contributions to the country on the economic front a and all get a program like huge idle power dime, boshra. you also agreed with the chinese to base why the board monday at a, b and c. so although it will be the member the political party, what against them? because he had to initiate gauge anti corruption lord. and he said that most of the buckets on the politicians are committed to huge corruption gander then that it wanted to bring them to the book. he wasn't able to click on that run by now, why should d for david to leave the country after that?

that would be mediated and got their mark up august on. however, people that grudge progress on will be shut out now normal and the fact that there was a man who was also very popular. but at the same time, white going traverse should come hider in his room abad. thank you. the the battle for control of the ukrainian city of back, marty is intensifying the head of the russian via the messenger group says, this is fighting. the city has been the focus of moscow defensive for weeks. now. ukraine spreads been voted means lensky warns the situation. the front line is getting tougher. as russia was more troops towards the front line. let's go live to zane bas robbie, who's in key for as a what's the latest you're hearing about this battle for back? well,

these latest comments from guinea pigs in really line up with what ukraine's government has been saying all along. that the fighting will continue even in his address in his daily evening address last night. president whatever zalinski said that but move remains ukraine's fortress a comment. he's made several times in the last few weeks and they will fight as long as they can. but he has confirmed several times in the last few weeks that the fighting in the east is very intense in the mood is currently the major flash point in the war in ukraine. there are flash points throughout this country. but, but this is where we see ukrainian forces and russian forces face to face in active fighting. i'll just hear a had a team in buffalo just weeks ago. our own ukranian producer describes the kind of fierce battle st. battles fighting for one building at

a time. close quarters combat oftentimes 20 meters away far enough for russian forces in ukrainian forces to throw grenades at each other. so it is a very intense situation in the city of move and what we're seeing now what the ukrainians are struggling. admittedly to cope with is a kind of in circling a pincer of movement that russian troops are trying to make there not only trying to fight and take over the city of, but they're trying to surround it from the north and the south. they're trying to take over suburbs in the surrounding areas of the city and try to cut it off from its supply lines. there will be pressure on the wagner group on the wagner chief to try to deliver this city before the one year anniversary of the russian invasion. and there is now wanting pressure on the ukrainian forces to not let this city hall, which way this battle. ready goes, is still an open question, and a vain odessa has seen intense rush and strikes which have damage electricity infrastructure. there are

a lot of people left without power for some time. what's the latest on, on, and situation in odessa? that's exactly right. military experts describe this campaign of russian air strikes and missile strikes on the civilian power. good of one is as one of the most effective things that russian forces of manage to do to hit infrastructure across the country. since the invasion began, what we saw yesterday was an accident and industrial accident of some kind of major substation that knocked out power across the region, leaving an estimated half a 1000000 people without any electricity. today, the government energy minister announcing that they have had some success. critical infrastructure power has been restored. what they're talking about is drinking water, wastewater, sewage systems, and heating that system is back online. a 3rd of the people affected have had electricity restored, but many of the half a 1000000 people remained without electricity in their homes. and that is the kind of work that they say will take weeks to restore,

will take weeks to get power back online to those homes of a lot of me or could risky. the chief of the national power company described the maintenance work that is going on at the substation. he talked about these a substations that have been hit by missile strikes like cars that have had an accident. you can repair them, you can get them back on the road, but they're never the same. and so what they're dealing with is trying to cope with systems that are broken down to trying to make the repairs where they can. but they say they never know when it will break down again. vain. thank you for the update st. robbie live in keith. meanwhile, new european restrictions on russian oil are coming into effect on sunday. this includes a ban on fee born oil products and a global price cap of a $100.00 a barrel on premium russian oil products and measures are aimed at reducing rushes ability to fund this war in ukraine or some been job. it has more from moscow before the war. russia used to sell your product approximately $3000000000.00 a month. and here it continues to tell

a product about $14000000000.00. european union used to be the largest export market. wanted by china and korea not now being overtaken by india, china, and a gray area of unmanned market. russia, you, the main method is transported worth by a network of a pipeline delivery country. and interestingly, it continues to be ukraine. what is people using the pipeline? secondly, if you the in network of tankers which very richly loyal before it's all over the world, and they have no come sanction from the good union that you had said caps and russian beavers and fuel oil and don't ship, which are found not in compliance, would either have insurance financing and they won't even get everything but the china has accused the united face of overreacting after washington shot down each balloon off the coast of south carolina. the pentagon accused of aging of spying,

but china and since it was a weather balloon, that street of course, particle henry for some washington 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. i should have shot that winning carts insane. instead of letting it travel all the way across you that is, that 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 down last wednesday, decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground. and decided that the best

time to do that was we got over water within our, within 12 mile limit, successively took 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. there already, several us navy and u. s. coast guard ships on the scene. they plan to use us navy divers at unmet submersible to bring it to the surface in the next few days. and then the u. s. 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 that. 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 far fetched. but us analysts say the fact that they believe a similar balloon is travel in latin america makes this theory more likely. i did not believe that it was just a weather balloon loan. of course it would be quite a coincidence if we have this a loon going in to us air space, while apparently there's another one of frosting 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, patty calhane al jazeera washington. the head of the roman catholic church has held a large margin mass mass in south sedan. before leaving the country. frances has called for peace urging people to put down their weapons. his historic visit is part of a 6 day trip to africa on saturday. the port met people affected by the years long

conflict in south to die. still ahead on al jazeera protest in iraq after a young youtube longer is killed by her father. she lay extend a state of emergency as hundreds of wildfires continue to burn at least 22 people have died. ah, the heaviest rain yesterday i saw or was reported in these callan montana beyond bornea, but of course it could you think be anywhere from this satellite picture. there are areas where it's going to concentrate and that might be a repeat versions rep bornea, plenty of malaysia that has bit of a gap to south. the southern philippines do look fairly potentially wet and these pictures aren't far away from java. that is housings like the moment call lump within 3 days of sundry rain,

it could well be overcast rat. monday was the fairly unusual event that australia is queens and the guest the shower at the moment seasonally. that is correct. it's not as warm as it should be further south melbourne's, on east 21 degrees, as you can see. it is warm in westminster alia, and circulating off the coast have a look at that. not yet, but possibly to be a named cycling. and of course probably hit land in the meantime, this is tuesday's forecast back showers the coast looking fine for queens and nor shall sharon sells up in new south wales once more recalled warms. well very nearly of the last day or so in saffron blash. i think is the furnace effect, which is right in the west. walton the east. well, it's not quite extreme or monday, it's not bad looking 24 to need and 29 in christ church. ah, the corona of ours 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 skinned . the big picture traces the economic disparities and institutional racism that is seen united kingdom faded citizens. britain's true colors part one on al jazeera. ah ah, welcome back. a recap of our top stories on al jazeera, this, our former pakistani president, the president sheriff, has died after a long illness. he'd been living in exile in device in 2016 after being found

guilty of treason and sentenced to death. the court in pakistan overturned that sentence in 2020. the battle for control of the ukrainian city of back more is intensifying the head of the russian wagner. mercenary group says, as he is fighting the city has been the focus of mosque was offensive for weeks now . and at the head of the roman catholic church has held a mass to end his 3 day visit to south to dod. oh, francis met with internally displaced people and has called for an end to the violence in south don t rock. now a protest, a being held after a young you to braga, was killed by her father. he admitted to strangling tea by ali on wednesday in the so called honor killing. the father was reportedly upset about his daughter's decision to live in turkey. the 22 year old fred from her family. after accusing her brother of sexually assaulting her, my mood abdougla had asthma from baghdad. as you can see right behind me,

those are rights advocate activists and human rights. members, there are message today is that clear to the iraqi judiciary. the want, the judiciary to a change or amend article number 4 or 9 of iraq's penal code, which as they say, gives a green light, some kind of a green light for fathers and brothers to kill their sister or daughter at that. pre tickets of all, not killing they have been chanting a little while ago. that's all not a kill. there is no own our own killing. they tell you that they are addressing the government, the parliament, the district council today in order to set rules, to protect women from domestic violence. as you can see, light behind me, they have been raising bad notice. have been raising bad notice to demand justice

for the death of ally. there have been there have been many un reported cases like it was a case. but as you know, that because of the fact that there is no certain article in the penal code to protect women or female jewelry. people in ecuador heading to the polt, 3 legs, local officials and vote on constitutional reforms. many observers see the referendum as a test for president get more lawful, whose approval rating fits at less than 20 percent. alexander on p a. t re force and the capital kito. apathy and frustration are on the rise among voters in kito ahead of sundays, wide ranging referendum, promoted by embattled president, get more lasso to address the countries deteriorating, social and economic conditions. we have no faith in politicians for all the scandals that happened recently. people has lost trust in politics. if that goes on

with an approval rating below 20 percent, a hostile congress, mounting governments, corruption allegations, and a dramatic rising gang related crime. conservative president lasso has been left with little space to maneuver, thought that the 8th referendum questions, which cover security issues, reducing the number of lawmakers in congress, environmental protection, and the possible extradition of ecuadorian could help him regain initiative. and we got a balance with those popular popular consultations usually become a referendum on the current administration. but in this case, despite the president's major loss in political capital, the referendum has strong support because it addresses fundamental issues for the people. that critics argue that last was hoping to use the referendum for a personal political when a way to try to boost to port for his failing presidency, to the detriment of the countries democracy was political. the former president of ecuador, the constitutional assembly,

says the reduction of assembly members will reduce representation of remote areas and strength in the hands of the most powerful parties, the stomach for it. don't want to confront up up a lot of good, you know, not that far from solving problems, this referendum could exacerbate some of them. it's like a poisonous apple that shines on the surface. but if you read the questions in an x as carefully you see, it won't solve the security issues or democratic instability even less the environment. it's a tricky and deceitful referendum, unfortunately, all of into last, so barely survived than impeachment, vote after 2 weeks of cost of living, indigenous lead protests that brought the country to a halt. the indigenous leader lay only thus isa is leaving. the no campaign. he says the government should instead comply with the agreements that end the demonstrations. it will be one of the governments strategically a wide, simply amending the agreement and comes up to disrupt random to confound tanks. all

it really wants is to get some oxygen to continue trying. implementing policies that have not worked until now is both polls show the referendum, results could be very close. and on sunday, ecuadorian will all select more than 5000 local officials with the opposition expected to gain seats across the country. even the passing of the referendum might end up being a short lived victory for lasso allison, that impurity and josie quito. chile has extended an emergency alert as hundreds of fires spread. at least 22 people have died in nearly a 1000 have been injured. a heat wave is complicating efforts to control the blazes which are burning across the central southern regions. we called zoom sharif reports. ha, spreading flyers, boom! everything in their palm. forest, farms and homes are 2300 fire fighters have been deployed to control

hundreds of wild fires. nearly half of them a burning out of control. if the water under the media, if we are working on multiple sources of forest fires, that other to the verba high temperatures and a lot of rooms give caused great destruction bought in vegetation and buildings. the fuzz began on wednesday destroying nearly 100000 acres of land. helicopters have been deployed too late to save some dozens of homes. more than 1000 people are staying in shelters. hill seliger with dumber was i left my house with only the clothes i was wearing. there was no time to set up a firebreak. i'm nothing but i think everyone here went through the same situation . the wind speed changed very fast and everything suddenly started to burn. it was all very fast. chili's government is now seeking international support. j tato the legacy. yet he out, we have spoken to several governments to reinforce the efforts there were

previously being made with the companies that provide the services. these request include to search for equipment to bolster to fleet of brigades that can reinforce the work on the ground. we are in contact with several countries in the region such as brazil, argentina, and uruguay present, gabrielle borage, cut short as some of vacation, his government, extending a state of disaster. it allows the military to mobilize to help battle size, as the number of dead gun continues to rise. when we consume should, if under sierra an arctic blast has hit parts of the united states and canada with strong winds, pushing temperatures into the negative double digits. gabriel is under reports 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 hondo al jazeera boston thousands of israelis as they not protesting against their government for 5th successive saturday. benjamin as, yeah, as coalition is the most right wing in israel's history and as widespread anger about his proposal. so we can the powers of the supreme court in mankind reports

from last year slam. oh, again, tens of thousands are out on the streets across israel, protesting against the government. here in western islam are outside the president's house, hoping to be heard. however, the numbers are far smaller than in previous weeks. every saturday they gather, calling this right when government a threat to democracy in the rule of law. because it's a coalition built around ok, all right parties. it's worth noting these protests a, just about israel. not many here are talking about the palestinians, the still peace process or continued occupation. although their numbers are significant, they don't appear to represent the majority of israel society. i think right now it is a vocal minority. we don't know what the majority of his release believe because the issues we're dealing with a very complex and the people we seeing protesting are people in the economic world . high tech lawyers, a journalist, people who feel the threat to understand what this means for the change of israel's

legal regime. a and the demise of israelis, of israel's democracy, of moving on the path of hungary and poland. and perhaps other countries that have moved into an, a, a system of weakening our democracy. the government's less than 2 months old and therefore too early for polling data. but it would seem, the majority of the electorate still supports the government of benjamin netanyahu . i need on there, but she knew it. i am supporting the changes this government makes this country isn't moving or people who aren't letting it move. they must give this government a chance to change. thanks. honey will. i'm right wing. the government should be a right wing one as well. love even the protesters in a minority right now, but they are hoping that will change and will become more mainstream. but here that still means hard line conservatives. the end game for the protest is to force a new election. now they may well succeed in doing that and they may well even get