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nato calls water putin's rhetoric dangerous and irresponsible as the russian president says, he'll station, tactical nuclear weapons in belarus. ah, you're watching al jazeera alive from a headquarters. and so i'm getting you navigates, also coming up. cuba votes for the 1st time communist cuba holds an election without a castro as party leader. what an honor it is to be here in town. and on the continent of africa, the u. s. vice president comma la harris touches down in gonna will look at why the african continent is at the center of a global power struggle and turning jail birds to bookworms. how prisons in the philippines are supporting inmates education for a better future. ah,

ah, hello. the european union has warns beller roost could face more sanctions if it hosts russia nuclear weapons. the u foreign policy chief, joseph burrell war and the move would be an irresponsible escalation, an threat to european security. the russian president vladimir putin announced that he would position tactical nuclear weapons in belarus on saturday. ukraine says russia is holding by the roost nuclear hostage and is calling for an urgent meeting of the un security council. i said the bush bro. gleaton houston, alexander lucas shinkel is right. he said listen where your closest allies, why do the americans deployed nuclear weapons and their allies on their territory trained the crews, pilots? how to use this type of weapon if needed? we agreed that we'll do the same without violating our obligations union. i emphasize without violating our international obligations on the non proliferation of nuclear weapons. well, last week, putin, warren draw so would be forced to react if the u. k. supplies ukraine with armor

piercing ammunition containing depleted uranium. he says russia has stockpiles of similar weaponry, but has stopped short of using it. meanwhile, ukraine's upper reach a nuclear power plants remains at risk. it's come under repeated shelling the you and nuclear watchdog chief is expected to assess the damage later this week. susie snyder is the program coordinator at the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. she says the agreement between russia and belarus could have catastrophic consequences. it increases the risk of the use of nuclear weapons by adding more actors who might potentially have the ability to drop nuclear bomb. it creates a potential for, for chaos and miscommunication. and that's a risky scenario at the best of times. and a time of conflict, i think, is really stabilizing very these weapons are, if used would be, would have results, similar or greater than what we saw in russia and nagasaki in 1945 there.

hugely, they can cause huge catastrophic harm. and there is no recovery from any health care system they could deal with that type of catastrophe. it doesn't matter. the size of the weapon, the long term consequences are also something that we just don't have the capacity to cope with. it's highly problematic. the nonproliferation treaty is not explicitly say you cannot store weapons in another country, but the pilots in those countries are trained to use those weapons and that would require a transfer of control. and that is prohibited under the nonproliferation treaty. the international criminal court is investigating whether attacks on ukrainian civilian facilities, including water supplies on power plants constitute work crimes. russia has reportedly targeted energy infrastructure, forcing teams to work relentlessly to repair the damage,

often in dangerous circumstances. i'll just hear a spoke to andrew to end up an electrical engineer in charge of repairs in keith with them. so this is one of the most extensive damage sites in queue. if 4 of the city's most important power lines were damaged here and 60 percent of the city was without power. my team and i spent 2 days repairing the damage. it was snowing, there was frost. he was raining. the damage was extensive. all the wires were laying on the ground. it was a very difficult job. dark of them was dis voiceover globally when we were working here the missile attacks continued. the guys we worried about their wives and children at home. the so using years loses young. yup. i'm not afraid for my life. i'm afraid for my team. they're worried about their families. their families worry about them. but our work is to quickly restore power the all new gle only. lord you god bless you,

bye yards luck of my team. i incredible people. they are not afraid and work hard to bring our victory closer. their work is important because everything depends on power, stations. heating system, schools, hospital, water supplies, bakeries, everything. earth that i'm either it is thursday about ambria much into october 10 . russia has regularly attacked our energy facilities. it was one of the most difficult winters for our country. jasa, myrtle them was the new i'm from didn't yet region and in 2014, i moved to maryville. there. i experience shelling and did emergency repairs after shelling. but he was completely different. but who would have thought that in the center of europe in the 21st century, miss sides would fly over the capital over country like ours. this is tara, right. well, for 3 of them, i feel a great responsibility because we do the work that no one else will do for us. i know there are only a few electrical workers like me who are restoring poem,

keep order. our work determines whether and how fast the light comes back on, but russian state media is reporting that a ukrainian drone loaded with explosives has injured 3 people. the explosion occurred in the center of the town, a cure of esque and russia to the region. it reportedly damaged 3 residential buildings in the town about 220 kilometers south of moscow. president vladimir putin says russia and china are not creating a military alliance chinese presidency. jim payne, recently met putin and moscow. the russian leader says, the military cooperation between the 2 countries as transparent. he's accused western nations, a building a new power access that resembles the world war 2 alliance between germany and japan. while ukraine's football team have just begun their european qualifying campaign and a game against england at wembley, it's the team's 1st competitive game in 6 months. as the russian invasion continues, the english f a have invaded more than

a 1000 ukrainian refugees on their host families. a special guest for that match. and just getting to wembley taken more than a week for some of the ukrainian squad. 2 groups of players traveled by train and bus from their respective cities into poland, while the team's equipment was driven from keith. the players and staff flew from poland to london, joining other members of the squad who arrived from across europe. all their home matches will be played at neutral venues because of the ongoing war of the cranium . sports journalist andrew toto has more on the teams build up to the game over the past year. it's been very difficult to get in and out of the crying because obviously there are nice lights due to the war. so you can say that they might not have the best of preparation, but potentially, and i can compare it to england, to travel, to naples, come back and everything else, they might be slightly fresher in terms of fitness. i think it's, it's always symbolic. it just to see the thing playing, it's showing defiance for

a it's very, very much here. we know that's for beyond the rounds of current affairs and people that watch the news. so little kids will be watching this and seeing that ukraine playing england and understanding so the story behind all of that has an impact that will be the same. so i've been watching that time in ukraine. they just 190 minutes where they can forget about day to day troubles. of course they'll be wanting to go for the when it will be good to start the qualifying campaign. we have a victory. as we know against england, there's a lot of time will be great manager said dining and all one of the top 5 teams in the wowza. so they understand the challenge ahead of them. but as we know, england can sometimes have a few blips. they've got a few injury issues, the score slides to play it. and like i mentioned about the fitness problems because they've already played against it late this week in a competitive game,

had to travel extensively as well. while she kind of been relatively calmly based in london. getting about that daily daily routines and you know, i think they're as prepared as they possibly can be, given the circumstances given the timeframes and everything else. ah, voters in cuba are electing a new national assembly. no campaigning has taken place and there are no opposition . challenger's voters will instead endorse nominated candidates, the countries facing rolling power blackouts. and the cost of living is a major concern for voters series of reports from the cuban capital. we're here in a holding station in havana where people have been coming since very early in the morning. took, has their valor that they're picking. the members of the national assembly hall will eventually elect this country's next president. among the candidates, i former press and by we've got the current president, me in the canal and people we have to pick among the candidates in their district.

you can see right here, some of them in this case is mighty like after she's the daughter of her will catherine, once they go inside this building, they'll have to select in a ballard like this one, whether they would vote for every one, for some of them just for one and they can also pass a blank, a blank of old candidates had chosen by a commission that loyal to the communist party. there is 470 candidates for 470 seats. and that's why critics say that you ones do not have the possibility of choosing members of the opposition are not present. among those candidates. and abstention has been on the rise into recent years, especially if compared to the times of fidel castro, where a q were every q and a voting age will cast a ballot. this election is happening in the middle of an enormous economic hardship . wherever you go. people tell you about the difficulties they have to find medicines and food,

long lines of people trying to get gasoline and constant blackouts. eloy bureau is a lawyer and political analyst focusing on cuba. he doesn't believe the elections will result in any real change for the country. i believe that they are not at its significance for the majority of the cuban people because we are not elected anything, but even a cuban people are bowden. but they are not elective. you represent the if they are just boating, were candidates adware previously elected by do communist party. we are not hope in any change. we're not expecting any change in the island because the electrons in cuba are just the sign to gave us symbol of legitimacy to the regime. so any regions need some kind of legitimacy and the electoral system in cuba is the sign for it. i can say that in cuba, we didn't have campaign, electron convenience, like, you know, in the rest of the war. at least not in the way that the rest of the world no or,

or create. but in cuba with the government, the regime creates electorate campaigns only directional electoral campaigns. they gave a lot of resource for. those can be they move those for percent around the country . they have contact with the people. they have the state media for them. they create content related with the candidates at blood, least with the most important, for example, the president of the republic. so just they spent money in electoral campaigns, but they just spend money to elevate god their own candidate. he was vice president of harris has arrived and gone on the 1st leg of week long trip to the continent. she's the highest ranking official from the biden administration to visit the region in recent months. she'll also travel to tanzania and zambia. we are looking forward to this ship as a,

for the statement of the long and enduring and very important relationship and friendship between that people the united states and those who live on continent. i'm very excited about the future and that i'm very excited about the impact of the future of africa on the rest of the world, including the united states of america today. more as a senior policy fellow at the center for global development on a former liberian minister. he says the biden administration's charm offensive as in stark contrast to what we saw a to what was seen rather under donald trump. the previous administration didn't see strategic value to deepening the relationship with africa. the body administration was to step away from that. the u. s. has been present on the continent for a long time, but it's mainly been through humanitarian assistance, development, aid, and security. and so engage in africa through a prison of

a problem. what we're seeing now, the difference we're seeing here is engaging africa to a prison opportunity. and so this built on the, you had the new africa strategy that was launched in august of last year. and in the africa liter summit, and so this is the 4th high level visit us going to be another one day secretary of the church of the day of education is going to be in zambia. so we see this as sort of high level engagement with africa, see in africa, apartment, and i simply a problem for the last 20 years. there has been a significant increase in chinese influence on the continent. china has been such a massive player in africa as infrastructure along with that came a rise enough in china's inch influence on the continent. now because the us and china are where power competitors are, the u. s. c's, china as a peer competitor. and so if that is the relationship in which a 0 sum interpretation of it, it means any game for china is pursuit as

a loss for the united states. still ahead on al jazeera waking up a different time zones, how a dispute over daylight savings in lebanon is causing chaos and confusion and switching allegiances. hunter, us officially establishes diplomatic relations with china, after suffering ties with taiwan. ah, the who's i there, great to see you. thank you for joining in here is how the start of the week is looking like. and we'll start in india, i think anywhere from our natural, per dash rate through to time on. now do, could see some thundering downpours here, maybe even some hill storms mixed in as well, but it's now contained to this eastern side, whereas the last few days, we saw it in the northwest state of punjab. few tornadoes there over the span of

a week. it is quite in pakistan and afghanistan, but here comes the next westerly disturbance. it's over iran, so it's spreading some showers in tater, on monday with a height of 15 degrees. ok, there had been some spotting in west java province. still downpours right across the main island. there on monday, start to dry off in parts of montrose southern sumatra anyway, and we've had a lot of heat for indo china. also parts of china as well. hang on island, some spots about 40 degrees, but now the rain is falling there. so that's putting the cap on temperatures. that rain had pretty much been parked over the pearl river valley. it's now slipping into the south china sea and high on the island on monday. had quite the vigorous system over japan. look at that, most of the action out over the pacific. so what a way to start the week. plenty of sun in the forecasts in tokyo mix of sun in cloud anyway with the high of 18 degrees on monday. enjoy the start of the week. the news in

north korea supreme leader kim jones sister is emerging as a likely successor one or one of these to investigate. north korea is most powerful woman. on l. j 0. i 0. when ever you lou ah, hello. the top stories and al jazeera, the sour that you use. foreign policy chief is warning beller roost not to host

russia, nuclear weapon saying it could face further sanctions. the commons come after president vladimir putin agreed the deal with president alexander lucas and co voters in cuba. are electing a new national assembly? no campaigning has taken place and there are no opposition challengers. voters will instead endorsed nominated candidates. the cost of living is a major concern for voters. us vice president comma harris has arrived and gone out on the 1st leg of a week long trip to africa. she's the highest ranking official from the biden administration to visit the region and recent months. lebanon is facing a political and a religious dispute over its official daytime hours. it's caretaker, prime minister says daylight savings will now begin at the end of ramadan, in april of that allows muslims to break their daily fast earlier at sunset. but christian authorities say they'll stick to a tradition and have put their clocks forward an hour as it's the last sunday in

march zanna hood that has more from bay roots. there is more chaos in lebanon, a country already close to collapse because of an economic and political crisis. this morning, the lebanese woke up to 2 times on, usually at the end of march of this country ship into the summer time. but this did not happen because of a decision, an unexpected and surprised decision taken by the caretaker prime minister, along with the speaker of parliament nobility. this really this decision a caught people by surprise. some institutions like middle east airlines has adapted to the decision. yes. their electronic devices, their clocks remain the same, but they've had to change their flight schedule to comply with the international flight schedule. but, but there's uproar and there's opposition, and there are institutions which are rejecting to comply with the decision. the

argument is it was in discriminant and it shows the way this country has been governed for decades. and it shows how officials and not state institutions are taking decisions without resorting through to parliament to cabinets. and most of the opposition is coming from the christian community, the head of the maronite church, christian parties, because they are concerned that the post in lebanon, sectarian power, sharing system of the president is now vacant. and it is the muslim leaders who are taking the decisions on their behalf. and it's not just that, while those empowered did not give a decision on official reason why this is happening, it coincided with the start of ramadan. and in the league video, you hear the how speaker say, you know, people will, will fast, less, less an hour during this month. so a decision on whether or not lebanon will change to summer timings, which it really has done for, for years now, is causing

a lot of confusion in the country. 3 palestinians have been arrested by israeli forces and the occupied westbank is really for it says rated a house in new shops camp in the east of to cut him. palestinian media reported fighting between israel's army and members of the islamic jihad is really forces said they were pursuing suspects whose earlier targeted and illegal is really settlement. now a growing number of is really politicians are denouncing planned by the prime minister as government to overhaul the justice system. eulley idol fine had the cam asset foreign affairs in defense committee and is calling for more time for the proposed bill to be discussed and reviewed. and revised on saturday. the defense minister also called for the bill to be halted saying the public unrest could threaten national security and really have been demonstrating against the proposed changes for 3 months. i keep an elder as

a political analyst and he doesn't think there's enough political resistance to stop the legislation from being passed. no actually doesn't need the 61 majority. the simple majority is good enough for him to pass this serious of just ratios and to lead us to a judiciary crisis. and this is how it looks like now. they know that there is one boss do is one show in this town. and the actor is benjamin that danielle, maybe also his son has been in your role, especially on tick tock. but you know, it is controlled by our own and the members of difficult are concerned about the their own future. and i think that in a very good day,

we may get 3 or 4 members of the good abstaining not voting against legislation. just because you know they, they care about their own seats. a state of emergency has declared in the u. s. state of mississippi after tornadoes, tor through communities on friday nights at least 25 people are confirmed dads and dozens are injured. when we consume sharif reports, a trail of destruction that stretches more than 270 kilometers. a tornado swept through several towns on its all long journey in mississippi, ripping about everything in its path. rolling fork in the room, mississippi. delta is the hardest hit. nearly half the debts have been reported here. i have seen better days, but this is the worst i have ever this devastating friend law damage. it is hot break. the tornado was so powerful. debris was

reportedly thrown thousands of meters enter the air, tens of thousands of people in alabama, mississippi, and tennessee, all without power. we could hear really hear lou ruffian by built the house, go into history and drink more, but the toner minute hold would go through. every file or more unknown, to nato's that difficult to predict, but are relatively common in the central and southern parts of the us. but friday's trista was set to be re, it was on the ground for more than an all causing extraordinary amount of damage. because some sheriff unctuous eda honduras has formerly broken off decades long diplomatic relations with taiwan and switch to china. it comes off to the honduran foreign minister,

travel to beijing to discuss establishing ties. this leaves taiwan with only 13 diplomatic allies. china considers self rule taiwan as part of its territory to be retaken by force if necessary. vincent, charles of taiwanese politician and former diplomats, he says taiwan is now focusing on strengthening partnerships with its non diplomatic allies. child has been very intent on taken away to one's international state to political means to economic means into foreign affairs means and diplomatic means. and certainly i think hundreds is reflective of, i mean it's it, it was a bigger blow i guess. a few years ago when i went, the medic always started to switch, given that this is delayed it in the long line of been happening domestically. there isn't a big of a political reaction. is there one was i think people have recognized that china's intent on engaging in the dollar diplomacy to try to switch tele diplomatic allies and the best being we can do about it. and response is to strengthen our

partnerships with not diplomatic allies, including united states, japan, and other like minded democracies around the world. people are more intent and focused on right now, which is the security here on, on regional security, on cross street issues, uninsured, and a great relationship us and other security partners. so that's sort of where to foreign and diplomatic affairs focus is right now rather than maintain a larger amount of diplomatic allies. well, the issue with china is that it's very difficult to compete dollar to a dollar against them. number one, i mean they made a lot of lavish promises that may or may not have countries in the past, but more problematic we use some of these dollar diplomacy have gone to private pocket. and so we thought it's recent. expose a, for example by micronesia president that the chinese ambassador, they're open, the bride, for example, sitting government officials. so that's sort of what we're dealing against and i'm not sure we're going to play that game. the philippine government has partnered

with the united nations to put libraries in prisons. the read your way. our program has been cautiously welcomed by human rights activists. it follows years of violence during the country, so called war on drugs and devout city. prison officials have gone a step further by offering a university education program. barnaby low reports. when mark was arrested for drugs possession and dealing, he thought his life was over. we're trying to stop. would we go to turn it? there was president of the philippines and his cracked on on drugs resulted in the killing of thousands of suspects. but mark says he's found hope, even though he some prison. we are given the opportunity for the whole thing, our studies. we can't reveal marks identity as his case is still in court. along with dozens of other detainees, he studying for college degree in the building next to his cells. it was built in 2017 with the help of a non profit organization. during the height of the so called warren drugs into

turret us hometown, davos city staff members at this jail are pioneering the use of education to reform, drug offenders and other criminals is also the 1st president in asia to offer college degrees. now is one of the 1st and the philippines, institutionalized reading program, and ongoing president ferdinand marcus junior has taken an alternative approach to narcotics crimes. together with the united nations. his government plans to install more libraries like this in at least a dozen more detention centers. this is just quite unbiased. i love that he was his then that we need to provide for them to help on in enabling environmentally there on, especially once they get outside of jail and they will no longer come back a inside knowledge in facilities time spent in the library and studying is considered good behavior, which in turn reduces time in detention. philippine jails are overcrowded by nearly

400 percent human rights advocates. welcome the education initiative, but insisted her to be held accountable. there's no way you can approach the drug probably in the philippines in the humane and human rights away without taking into account accountability for bust abuses, and particularly in the past 7 years. to that end, they have been urging the government to submit to an investigation by the international criminal court. but it just as secretary is defiant or else the due process, hearing the legal process here, you're gonna think over our justice system, none of the local drugs, cases being prosecuted or investigated. however, have implicated the 30 victims family, say it shows they can't count on philippine courts to deliver justice. barnaby low al jazeera davos city sudden philippines. india has launched one of its heaviest rockets into space. october. now we have.