talk series, the big picture takes it in depth, no friends inside episode one on elegy sierra, the towns and villages and ukraine's 1st on region are flooded after a down a time, which has force thousands to leave their homes. the you're watching l g 0. like from a headquarters and don't find any you navigate to also coming up. fire breaks out or to fuels. i phone some. john's capital is the army and paramilitary forces fight for control off of weapons. factory outdoors is dangerous and just about every part of our state, not just bond will communities, but literally everyone. air quality alerts issued for parts of the us east coast

smoke from hundreds of fires burning in canada of blankets at the skies. fair on foot, francis is recovering after undergoing surgery for an abdominal pretty ok. but this latest hospitalization is revising concerns about is now the hello ukraine's president was calling on international aid organizations to help and rescue efforts following an attack on a dime in 1st on region. thousands of people have been evacuated off to the breach on nova closed down, caused widespread flooding. russian president vladimir putin as accuse key if, if disjointed them with the backing of western powers but keeps, as russian forces mind the down months ago, the down links the bank so that the pro river, held by russia on the south side to ukrainian held territory on the north charles

dartford reports from her son. there is a sadness the pervades these flooded streets. soon off, the rushes invasion of song was attacked and then multiplied by russian forces. and now launch aries at the city on the water. many of the people who were turned up to the crating army. we took care of us on late last year, being evacuated from their homes. yes, everything was demolished. the. it's frightening. the 2 story houses had been swept away and the somehow through the floating down the river, there was no one there when evil ukraine accuses rush. you have destroying the cockles there on the do the pro river and causing this terrorist attack to prevents in advance across the me. pro river towards russian occupied crimea, says keith, russia says ukraine is responsible, and it's also moving thousands of people to safety on the opposite russian occupied

side of the river. this is one of many streets here in cash on safety, completely flooded. we understand that they were a hundreds, if not thousands of people that were living here until this dime was destroyed. and now they've all been forced to leave i. this is about mines that may have been dislodged and carried into the city by the flood search. volunteers prepared boats to help the search for more traps. people cages kind of key cats with good china is violet. us divided all can i know we was shouting and banging on windows, there are no it people are only animals. the water there is almost over the sun pers, evacuation buses are full. the young and old. we take with them a few belongings like pets. at the which is usually it's very hard to

explain. honestly, it's so hard to speak very hard. i don't know where i'm going. we were taken out and now we're on a and the city had already experience some of the was suffering in. this will now meet the flood waters and destruction. it's people are forced to ensure even more chunks, drop it down to 0, gibson, oven watson is head of media for the international red cross, and he says the humanitarian needs and the 1st on region are extensive. already there was huge volubility within the local population. many people that fled because of the fighting prior to that, and those that remained with people that have limited liability, that may be sick, that could not leave. and so of course, now with these floods the, the situation was dramatic. uh, the international committee of the red cross um, particularly through our partner on the grounds, ukrainian red cross has been evacuating people from the scene. so 800

people and a one. and i'm today 55 people are evacuated by the ukranian red cross. and we are working extremely close to the new crime with diversity printing and red cross. we provide them with technical support and other support. so the red cross movement is present and supporting. uh, but uh for us there is this emergency phase now which is really rescuing people from where they are. and that includes people that really cannot move told i've no mobility, but then there are longer term needs that we will need to support communities through. of course, the land. what's, what's happened here is that this is an area that have significant land mine and explosive remnants present. now the fact of this water is washed through the means that those land mines am are now no longer boxed. so we don't know where they are, but you know, there's a lot of them. and of course this land is,

is agriculture around. so this really, really deals a terrible blow to people's ability to, uh, to make a livelihood, to have access to drink well water. so those are the types of issues that we will be looking in. the longer to your shop of alova has more on what russian officials are saying about the down collapse with had from present pace and regarding the disaster. and he discussed it with tag as president other one during a telephone conversation. the russian president cooled the destruction of the cold scott, pop blonde, a bump barrick action by kias. i think that it was instigated by the west page and stated that the breakdown of the power station was a clear example of kids terrorist messes. so now we've had from the russian top officials a re. 1 i think the destruction of the cold sketch and all of the place, the blame solely on kid, by the way,

prior to the telephone cole with the legend piece. and mr. added, want had a conversation with present the landscape you crane offering to create a commission with the participation will be un russia, ukraine into k, to investigate what actually happened the whole hopes got done. basically, we understand that you create a keys as russian troops of blowing out the time. russia claims that the power station came out of the ukrainian shutting. but there is also a version that it could be an unintentional disaster on the job co ops, to, to improve putting maintenance on the damage due to the damage caused. so of, as the experts now say that the destruction of the time may negatively affect both sides of the conflict. the huge fire has broken out at a fuels at po and this to the east capital near a weapons factory. the battle between the army and the pair military rapids support

forces has intensified in southern her son. uh cartoon. excuse me. they are assessed say they're inside the weapons factory located in the mood area. but morgan has more from under me on the pricing between the sudanese army and the power military rapid support force has continued on wednesday, and it's mostly been concentrated in the southern parts of the capital costume. now since the early hours of wednesday, residents in the southern parts say that they were able to hear heavy exchange of gunfire between the rapid support forces and the sudanese army fighting has been concentrated around a weapons. manufacturing company that belongs to the sudanese army in the late hours of wednesday, the rapids support forces says that it was in control of the company. but sources in the army say that the rapids support forces were only able to gain control of parts of that's complex and not the entire facility. it's one of the largest weapons manufacturing in africa and residents around the area of concern that they

will lose their lives in the crossfire between the rapids, support forces and the to the news army as fighting continues the reported hearing heavy artillery as to what's been launched by the sudanese army against positions of the rapids support forces around the complex. and there's also been a fire at the fuels apple, and that's raising more concerns amongst civilians. they say that they will loud explosions around that apple which also contains gas in the area. and because of its vicinity to the weapons company, they're concerned that they will be more explosions because of the ongoing fine things. civil defense which is usually deployed, firefights is unable to deploy them at the moment. so residents say that they're concerned, they will be more explosions. and should the fire reach the weapons company, it will destroy most of the southern parts of the capital. he but morgan onto vera on through man. tons of millions of people in canada and the northeastern united states are being told to stay in doors because of smoke from wild fires. there are more than $400.00 walls. fire is now burning in canada and they've caused the air

quality alerts across several provinces on states. new york city skyline has been blanketed by a veil of smoke and the states governor says all residents should use caution. it has an immediate impact on people's health. your rotation to the eyes, the nose, breathing, coughing, so and even shortness of breath. so our message right now is going to be reiterated multiple times because it is simply stay indoors. outdoors is dangerous and just about every part of our state, not just bolivar communities, but literally everyone. let's find out how people are reacting to this and bringing christmas salumi. she's joining us from new york. so how are people handling it where you are christian? well i can tell you as the day has progressed, we've seen fewer people out in about more people wearing mast taking the advice of those government officials. but we are seeing people come to the riverfront behind

me here or next to me where i am taking pictures of this cloudy sky line, not cloudy, hazy. skyline is a better word with that red sun. as a result of all the particulate matter that's in the air right now. uh, outdoor activities are also getting cancelled all up and down the east coast. and especially here in new york city activities that were planned for outside of been canceled. beaches are closing tomorrow. school activities are being cancelled outside the schools themselves are open, but outdoor activities are not happening at the schools. and this, as i said, is happening up and down the east coast 12 states and total have issued air quality alerts, but new york is considered the worst, the air quality index, the way it's set up, a rating of 50 is considered good air quality over 300 is considered dangerous new

york and the last 2 hours has hit 484. and the mirror says that they haven't seen anything like that since at least the 19 sixty's. so the situation here has gotten worse as the day has progressed, and in fact, it's now considered the worst air quality here in new york in the world. you didn't have to follow the news to know something wasn't right in new york. it's very unexpected. like it really happened out of the blue light that to my children. i'm like, isn't me, wasn't really foggy out here because it was that bad that i put my, i think was something wrong with my eyes. they're like, no, it's all. yeah. air quality so bad, you could see it in smell it. when i opened my apartment door, the hallway smell like smoke, which was something that i have never, you know, experience before. new york may have had it the worst, but it wasn't alone. 12 states issued air quality advisories all as a result of wildfires. north of the border in canada. you know,

the levels that people, if they were to be outside, especially if they're exercising, breathing faster, they're going to be inhaling particulates at concentrations that normal smokers would inhale, state officials or advising people to stay in doors as much as possible. the view here in new york has ranged from hazy to barely recognizable and to be clear, there are no clouds in the sky. this is all particulate matter from canada, a 1000 kilometers away. and yet it is blocking our view of the skyline of manhattan, just over the river, barely a kilometer away from philadelphia to washington d. c. as far south as north carolina schools cancelled the outdoor activities, when i got back from school my, my head was hurting on as having really bad headaches and them. i know. so i live in the very old and the very young as well as those with heart. a respiratory

conditions are being advised to wear masks, outdoors. scientists, blame. unusually dry and hot conditions in canada for fueling more than 400 active fires there. and there warning this could be the country's worst wildfire season on record. people across the country are being affected, are seeing vulnerable people at risk, outdoor affects cancelled. kids having to be kept inside at recess. in new york, the air quality alert has already been extended until friday, but that may not be the last of it candidates wildfire season. typically last until september, kristen salumi al jazeera new york and that situation and canada does not seem to be getting any better. there are more than $400.00 wild fires raging there. some 200 of them have been described as out of control. the fires season. normally starts in april and goes until

september. it's not unusual for canada to have wildfires, but there's been a too little rain up there. the temperatures have been high. so the fires have been unprecedentedly bad and i couldn't be the worst fire season for canada ever. they are predicting so while the situation here in new york may get better in the coming days, we could be right back in this situation again in the days and months ahead until the fire season is over. okay, thank you so much for selling me for about a day from new york or the real sector of state anthony blinking has met sony arabia's crown prince on the gulf cooperation counsel for and ministers blinking is on a 3 day visit to the kingdom relations between washington and re, i'd have been strange for years, but this is the 2nd high level us delegation to visit in as many months. and the crown prince also spoke on the phone with the russian president vladimir putin, about oil production. well, the meetings coming to saudi arabia is restoring relations with iran to ron has

reopened its embassy and re odds 7 years after it was closed. the move follows a deal brokered by china to re establish diplomatic relations. dorset jabari has more on the prospect of a saudi embassy. reopening into ron. it's been 7 years since there was much traffic on that street here in north carolina. but despite the fact that iran is officially reopen, it's a embassy. and re, at this building is still not operational because the last time it was opened, the building this was the scene here in january of 2016, following the execution of a prominent c, a cleric and saudi arabia. these actions loved the saudi government to cut all ties with their own. it's appears of diplomacy and at least 3 countries media, including on the, on your off, find the china to manage to secure an agreement between your own and saudi arabia

to resume relations. iran deputy for administer for counselor affairs. i would rather be equally set to move. we'll see the regents go towards greater stability, progress and prosperity for now. it's not clear or when officials and re i will resume operations here a but it, it, what is clear is that it's just a matter of time and logistics. know that the government is happy about the refreshments we us all day around is how they feel about these development. ask you to them what we can expect positive impacts, but i don't think it will last long and could be affected by other countries interfering because saudi arabia wants to keep relations with both united states and iran. i'm no expert in politics, but we should wait to see what happens. a still a heads on al jazeera, the end of a dictatorship era constitution for truly as the new electro council goes back to the drawing board. i'm gabriel's on to in new york city,

where to a rare diamonds could fetch tens of millions of dollars at an auction. that story coming up the the brought to you by visit capital had a low that let's look to north america. and the story is about the hazardous air quality, thanks to wald fi is a binding in the eastern parts of canada. well, that suspecting northeastern areas of the us and further fields we have one is that we're expecting not to last for quite a bit of time. those some rain may bring some relief in places after the west of this, i'm much west to picture. we've got those daily rounds of rain affecting the walk. he's here however, for western parts of canada and the pacific northwest with temperatures remain

above average for this time. if yet cool up for the desert, a south west, but a lot of heat, still pouring into miami, it will be hot and humid yet with what to weather, coming in on friday. and that joins up with a batch of nasty storms bringing some heavy down pools to the likes of the bahamas as well as cuba and jamaica. the good news is it's looking back. so for hey, teen from the day off to those devastating floods. thanks to the heavy rain that is rain effecting now southern parts of central america. i think kira, however, for mexico as we go into friday, the temperature picking up in mexico city. so 2 degrees celsius, lots of sunshine and heat as well for monterey, and can cool at 30 degrees celsius on friday, and that to well, of the quote to you by visit castle is the conflict into time continued some correspondence or on the ground to report every angle, if the story had been ongoing between the hours and the 16th army

available, be easier to say than a 100. i'm suiting this refugee is why you have to be registered under what kind of access page this dispute does not get to where it is needed, so it may not get there and all the challenges ahead is your state without just the rest of the business development the, [000:00:00;00] the coloring on the top stories on to 0. the cranes president is calling on international aid organizations to help and rescue efforts following an attack on a gentleman 1st on region. thousands of people have been evacuated off to the

breach on nova cove, out of town cost widespread flooding. moscow on chief accused, each other for talking to a fire has broken out of the field, and the surgeon is capital. and there are weapons. factory battle between the army and the parent most re rocket support forces has intensified in southern for to more than 400 walls fires. burning in canada have sparked air quality alerts. in the several us states, tens of millions of people are being told to stay in torrents because of a hazardous air quality. sheila is back to the drawing board to try to replace its constitution. the 2nd attempt in less than a year. a new electoral council will have 6 months to present a new draft. i'll just there was lot in america added to understand new and reports from santiago when by way elected delegates were sworn in to again, begin the process of writing a new constitution for chile. this time, there are only 50 of them far fewer than the convention the drew up

a draft constitution last year, the chileans ultimately rejected as to radical. opening the council president vote each appealed to delegates to seek consensus, beautiful, to delete a subcategory miles. this constitution will bring all citizens closer to politics, but it will highlight the importance of dialogue between people who think differently to reach a quote for the good of the country. a constitution that was the end of a long term certainty instability. but it's the 1st council was dominated by the left. this time the pendulum has swung the other way. with conservatives now dominating the chamber. in an attempt to avoid the mistakes made last time, congress appointed a bi partisan commission of experts to write a preliminary draft of head to obtain defining truly as a republic. the guarantee in social rights and equality is alissa and vicious version than the last one. however,

the right wing republican party has enough votes in this column. so now to visual anything that he chooses. and that is truly fears that a new constitution that is supposed to finally replace the one written under julie's form and military dictatorship will fall far short of what the country needs for the. remember, if this process has to take charge of the social demands that lead to an important uprising in this country, that will be the key challenge for this council. it's a concern even for monica and conservatives like gloria hot look at the name of the key. you have to avoid falling into the same trap we did last year and which majority imposed at school without listening to the minority. that would be a mistake, because we need a constitution that will be respected by governments from the left and right and the center. there must be a consensus to outside extreme right wing protest is many of whom

supported the former dictatorship decried the council as a big trail, while inside delegates promise dialogue and cooperation. the question is, will it last you see in human al jazeera santiago? i hope francis is recovering from abdominal surgery in rome. vatican says there were no complications, but the head of the roman catholic church is expected to stay in hospital for several days. the pontiff appeared in good spirits during his general audience in saint peter's square, just hours before being admitted. this is the 86 year old 3rd hospital space and since election as pope same. the copay, he's fine, and then he's a week and he's speaking with a he's a told him, are you okay this afternoon uh that hopeful i went to did you merely, i'll spit out of the legal jim abbey when you see talk, i've told you that because that he had the post support to be hard. yeah. with the

seems i'm upset. use of them of the by well, that in the last most close a pains and the very old friend now or so some of cozy the syndrome. so we that the doctor's, we decided to proceed to operation. really challenge was more from outside the hospital in rome. the pipe francis says be the white cat. he's been talking and the vatican tells us that everything went without complications behind you is fix. but it was still 3 hours of surgery here at the gym at a hospital. and right, these places where pipes come to get their medical attention. there is a special paypal suites, and that is where the pipe is recovering. now from his 2nd abdominal operation within 2 years, the root cause of all this is a condition called targets. a key lysis which happens. so kind of happened when you get older. you can develop some pockets and some patches in your intestines, but you can get build up with stuff they can get infected. it can be a very painful and debilitating condition. that's why 2 years ago,

he had an operation to remove the c $0.03. and because of his colon, this latest operation died was to correct the hon. yes, that was most likely caused by scott's issue from earlier operation that was done on the general anesthetic, which we understand the pope doesn't like because of how long he felt it. so it came to recover from the honest ethics in that operation 2 years ago. but clearly this hand here was considered serious enough to overcome those qualms. how long was it going to take him to recover? well, these and 86 year old man, he said you're going to be in the hospital for a few days at least. but then his schedule for the next few months is still pretty busy. he's got a trip to portugal in august the trip to montgomery a few weeks after that. so despite the fact he's now the new man, he's just be nope. right. so don't he's got other health conditions. the pipe is still a pipe and the pipe is a very busy. individual always happens out to 0,

right. the former us vice president mike pants is officially joined the race for the white house, pensive, challenging, his former boss. donald trump is among a growing number of republicans hoping to unseat joe. by the next year, the relationship between the parent became strained after pens rejected trumps order or to overturn the 2020 presidential election results to always be grateful for what president trump did for this country. i've often prayed for him over the past few years and i prayed farmer again today. i hope you would come around and see that he had been misled about my role that day. but that was not to be so let me say, stand before you today is

a candidate for president to say to the republican party. the republican party must be the party of the constitution of the united states. to very rare and jams are going up for sale at an auction in new york on thursday. one of the stones is the largest of its kind ever to be sold. the other is unique for its color and combined, they could get close to $75000000.00 or more. gabriel is also reports from new york . you are looking at the largest gym stone to ever be put up for auction. this is true, wonder of nature of this, that 55.2 carrots. it's double the size of the next largest gemstone ever. so the 1st thing that really stands out about this is its size. so any of ruby over 5 carrots is 10 carrots is exceedingly right. 20 carrots is almost a uniforms that have one at $55.00 care. it's it's it's on president. the gym was the star of the show when displayed on

a models hand in new york. ahead of set the res auction on thursday, where it's expected the sale for over $30000000.00. but it's not just the size that makes this jim stone so special. it has a unique bid, they'd red hue and experts say it's perfect. we preserved with no blemishes. the ruby was discovered last year in mozambique by red gems mining company. who is going to need to know that this is a unique, this is the one, it's not going to come a game. and, and that is a uniqueness. and that's where the impacts equity stuff. and these auction house here in new york will auction off the rare find. but also a 2nd diamond is smaller with good fetch, even more money. this is a rare 10.5 carat diamond expected to sell for over 35000000.

it's called a purple ish pink for it striking color discovered in both swan, i bite the beers company. the diamond underwent a 6 month process of being fashioned into a cushion cut to show off. it's a rare colour found only in 3 percent of the world's diamonds. a giant size gym, and a super rare diamond boat. now up for sale to anybody with a lot of money to buy them. gabriel was on to, i'll just eat a new york. the hello again. the headlines on al jazeera ukraine's president just calling on international aid organizations to help and rescue efforts following an attack on a down in the person region. thousands of people have been evacuated off to the