the, the on the head of the russian mercenary wagner, group is reportedly dead. you have gaining precaution, was listed as a passenger on a plane, the crash north of moscow. hello, i'm kimberly healthcare. this is l g 0 life from the ha. also coming up, japan begins releasing treated radioactive water from the focus stream at nuclear plants into the pacific ocean, despite opposition from its neighbors. used to me or president, trump is convicted in

a court of law. would you still support him as your party shores? donald trump blooms over our public and presidential defense. he refused to attend the voting and zimbabwe as general elections extended by one day after delays. the opposition is accused the government of rigs, the, the head of the russian mercenary group, wagner is reported to have been killed in a plane crash, rushes, aviation agency says you've got a promotion, was on a private jet flying to st. petersburg, when it crash north of moscow, there were no survivors among the 10 people on board version was a long time ally of president vladimir putin who let him mutiny of his men in

southern russia 2 months ago. laura han begins our coverage and this is the move in so that the embry across the jets came hustling from the sky in the to be a region north of moscow. all 10 people, including 3 crew members, were too often drawn out from the rushes, aviation agencies confirmed the valid number that she put both if any precaution was among the passages flying from moscow to saint pete spoke, look, report states, too loud bangs were heard, and multiple videos posted on the social media appeared to show the jets of via you probably move disliked radar map shows the moment it disappeared. the remains of all 10 bodies to be retrieved from the sites and a criminal investigation. this, on the way, the main investigation department of the investigative committee of the russian federation initiated

a criminal case on the fact of an aviation accident. and it's very region on the grounds of a crime on the article 263 of the criminal code of the russian federation football . just 2 days before goes and shed his 1st video. since it's a boy to use it against boxes and forces in june brushing emergency services and looking at 2 theories, a possible explosion on the plane. and the probing into the regions air defense systems. laura con, ultra 0 as well to 0. that means our economy is at the scene of the crash and severe region heavy. i mean, because what's on the block? i mean, he a means the crash site is completely closed and surrounded by various russian security services investigations that the lowest at the scene of the crash, 10 victims have been confirmed and there remains have been recovered a few months kind of how get some by the shot moments ago, we saw a large vehicle that came from the direction of the crash sites. it contained

caskets and large boxes that are believed to carry some of the remains that were found at the record should be it. i mean, who if you look behind me, there is light that appears in the a rising on your screen. it is the place where the security services and also the russian investigators. and now investigating the circumstances of the crush heavy he had sources from the back of the company confirmed to i'll just hear that progression was killed in discretion. but so far, the russian authorities have not made any official announcement and have not confirmed the death of the leader of the group. perhaps in the coming hours, we will receive more details regarding what happened. you have the, perhaps it will be statements by the russian investigative committee that's working on location with not only gentleness, but as we were told here, even some security services are forbidden to access the place where the private blame of production crash. the meantime, russian mercenaries belonging to wagner group has been active in west africa in recent years. in fact, for those and released his latest video,

reportedly from moly, nicholas hawk has more on their reactions from back. as i spoke to officials from the central african republic for the back, the group has been active for a number of years at key allies to the government there to fight off the arm groups . they say they are in morning. there is rolling information on local news about his death, also the same feeling in these year where there was a qu recently, and where the supporters of the crew were waving russian flags that were hoping for the intervention of vag. are they also greatly disappointed with the announcement of his desk? and last but not least, is molly, where there are up to 2000 wagner fighters, active working with the 1000000 miller children to. and that's where a precaution made his last video address, saying that he was there to free africans from the tax of arm groups link to al qaeda. and i so i knew was calling on the russian fighters to join his call. he was

there just a day ago meeting with uh, the multi 1000000 agent to see me going to now with his dad. the question is, who are they going to be able to speak to? it is a said back for the countries that have used the wagner group as an ally and the value of group has also been key for russia to extend its influence on the african continent. but there was a sigh of relief in paris or in washington dc. where they saw the extension of the vaca group in africa as a threat. nicholas hawk algae 0. the car from all of this, robert personnel is a senior fellow at the customary fair kashmir pool laskey foundation. and he says, this incident shows that russia isn't being governed by rule of law. this reminds one much more of a kind of asset of john glands. type, all should have, you know, sampling scores that anything approaching even to multiclass him also, i also know most state because, you know, nobody, if, if, if he was

a responsibilities people for an attempt to include a top aso said, then they should be try and you know x x, the traditional healing is, is just, you know, lots from top to normal thing to go and this is russia. and by the way, i'm not 100 percent. sure it's probable. wherever you know what you really know. establishing collaborative p may well have been even in indication that she would like she regarding to be gone. but who knows who know it was. so, i mean, this is the thing, it's burial packed and, and it's, you know, there may be some interesting developments the, all right to japan now, where the controversy will release of treated radioactive water from the focus shim at nuclear power plant in japan, has just begun the dumping in the pacific ocean comes 12 years after the earthquake,

and so nami was destroyed, nuclear reactors, there the japanese government and the u. n's. nuclear watchdog says it's safe to release more than a 1000000 tons of cooling water for japanese fishermen, as well as china and some pacific island nations. all disagree. well, how to come up? got marie, is live for us in fukushima and how to go talk to us a little bit about what locals are saying about all of this. there's been a lot of controversy, a lot of build up, and now it's actually half a day. what is the reaction right, so as you mentioned, the japanese government says that this release is safe and necessary in order to the commission to plan. it's also got in the go ahead by the i a, the un nuclear wash shots. but some locals are condemning the japanese government plan. you might be able to see behind me, there is a process going on at the moment where locals have gathered to state why they

disagree with japan flat. we also spoke to a few of them earlier today when they were staging a protest outside the dye to nuclear power plant. they cited how in 2015, the japanese government agreed that it would not release treated radioactive waste water in the ocean without 1st getting their approval. but as we're seeing today, just has still gone ahead with the discharge. right. and is give us a sense of how this is going to happen in terms of the process. how is this water actually being released? is it happening slowly? is it going to be sort of expels all at once? how is this being done? yes, so we're talking about about 1.30 $3000000.00 tons of water and it's going to be discharged over the course of 30 to 40 years. so it's a relatively slow discharge. tesco, the plant operator said that it will be jenny releasing it initially at 1st in smaller portions and testing get more frequently. so in order to discharge the

water typo will be di, boot and get with seawater 1st to ensure that it needs 148th of japan concentration in terms of safety levels. the water is in pumped into an under seat tunnel, one kilometer off shore, which is connected to the pacific ocean. now in japan, looks to release around $312000.00 times of waste water, which is roughly equivalent to 30 tanks. now in this 1st to discharge, which is expected to take over the course of 17 days, about $7800.00 metric tons will be released. and according to test results announced earlier on thursday. the 1st discharge contained around $63.00 federals of $23.00 and a radioactive isotopes per liter. now that's below the world health organization standard for drinking water levels, which is around $10000.00 barrels per liter. all right, how to come montgomery courtney lived there for us on that very controversial release of that waste water. thank you so much. all right, we're going to talk

a little bit more about this with somebody who really knows the details because he's read the i a a report that's the nuclear watch truck agency that sort of looks over all of this . his name is chung. yeah, he is a professor at the institute of nuclear engineering. it's system science and he joins us live now from taiwan. talk to us a little bit about this report you've read. what we understand is that the isotopes have been cleared from the water. there is an assurance of safety, but how do you know that that really is the case. ok. so what we have now our report is wrong. kapco on japan and i a part of it too that they are released by a yeah. we saw that the majority off the radio, i so top radioactive bodies, our thoughts have been filter college. okay. as a majority, but not all the water has only very low level radioactive isotopes. i'm treating

him is the only one that can not be filtered. and so that's why they drop it. these are tied to the uh, the, the tray they water. and that really base the water into the ocean according to the data as it should be all arrive because all the other radioactive barza, tops are now in the very, very low. busy level and what is a good buy for this of ocean by the ocean. water should be no particular home to the environment add to the to the house of the general. busy public, but my opinion is the toner, sorry. did you want to jump in there? do you think the diluted water that still contains isotopes is going to be enough to reassure the public that the fishes safe, that the water is safe? if it still has what the public views has been contaminated?

yes. yeah, because the levels of the father, radioactive isotopes are so low. okay. and so i the shoot pose no harm to the general topic. but the problem is people, especially o r t o in time on, they all concern is the release water. it really is treated water really come thing just the treating him. okay, so my suggestion is the japanese drama shows in by the whole country to participate monitoring the water at the discharge point in the ocean ball quote, for the treated water. so for example, time one was on the market to the higher your team, o, n o r is it for analyzing the tree like water, but at this point, because the water is not being discharged. so our 3 more countries should be parted

. who would a discharge point to collect the sea water sample by themselves? and so they can do their own and not us is to make sure that the 3 didn't want to release into the ocean are really okay or not. okay, so for now, according to the report r o y, with the treaty watches. but the real concern should be if this is also true, all the readings water in the ocean as the discharge. busy and very quickly later, let me jump in 11 last question because we're almost out of time, given the fact this is a slow release is going to happen over decades. is there the fear that the accumulation of water was low levels of isotopes could allow for the build up of isotopes making the water ultimately dangerous? you know, that's not the case for trivia is there is only trade trade here. mass a oil has a very low vs the call. all have a lot about 10.3 years. but that by

a large co and have a lot of treating him in human body is only 2 weeks. okay, so it will not cause any of your malaysian be fact you one body. all right, we're going to have to leave it there. chunk one. yeah, we appreciate you joining us from taiwan with your expertise. thank you. north korea says it's failed and it's 2nd attempt to place a spice satellite in orbit. the 1st try and may also wasn't successful. the latest lodge prompted an emergency warning and japan, north korea space authorities say they will try again in october. well, in the united states, 8 republicans hoping to be the next us president have held the 1st debate. they criticized president, jo bivens, economic policies for it's part of our abortion by a change and energy policy. the front runner ad former president donald trump

wasn't in milwaukee. he's do the surrender in charge. later to face racketeering and conspiracy charges to overturn the 2020 us election result there. i'll just there. as john 100 has the latest from wisconsin in the 1st republican presidential debate of the 2024 season began as a verbal wrong. and it just continued that way. now, going into this debate, it seems to me many people like the guy who has a target on his back would have been florida governor rhonda santa advanced because he is a distant 2nd to trump in those polls about 40 points behind. but what really played out today was that there was a newcomer, a bombastic newcomer, a little reminiscent of the 2016 campaign who kept countering the other candidates on point after point. and they went after him time and time again. and that was the background. the swami who is a bio tech entrepreneur 38 years old and he disagreed with the others

on a trunk, already supported on many issues on the war. and ukraine said was unnecessary and issue after issue when it came to climate change. he was an owl right? deny or he said it was a hoax. and from there rhonda sanders got a word in edgewise here in their former vice president mike pens defended his administration. he defended what he did on january 6th, 2021. when he refused to help trump overturn that election. well, donald trump's advisor has surrendered to authorities in the us state of georgia, rudy giuliani, trump as 17 others. are accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 us presidential election in that state. aus is here as alan fisher reports from atlanta, a man who made his political name chasing the bosses of organized crime. those

photographed and fingerprinted in a georgia county jail. rudy giuliani was one of donald trump's top live tenants. a man who vigorously pushed the idea. the 2020 us presence until election was stolen . i see a man just after less than a note inside. there was chaos as people strain to hear what you wanted to say. this is a constitution in american history having conducted one of course the taxes on the american constitution. the former new york mia is the most high profile of the 19 defendants to go through the process in atlanta. so far, he's not been released when a $150000.00 bill also processed at the jail. sydney pope, the trump attorney who pushed several outlined dish. i'm done prove, and conspiracy theories about how the election played out. the city, you know, waits for the opinions of the biggest name. donald trump, himself security,

has been stepped up around the jail where he'll be processed on thursday. he says he'll plead not guilty to charges. he was the center of abroad criminal conspiracy to try to change the result of the election. and it was here in an online interview on wednesday evening. he again criticized the legal case against them. the people say it's a fraud. the people see it like this horrible district attorney from justice a little while ago from essentially, atlanta is fulton county. she said basically, i don't have any right to challenge an election, but basically they're showing me and they're saying you don't have any right to challenge and of your challenge and election with guy to indict you and put you in jail protest. theirs and supporters have started together at the court house and the deal both pushing their own points of view. i don't know, donald trump and get a fair trial in atlanta. i mean,

he had uh only 23 percent of the fulton county that voted for him. i mean, i would like to see him. i would like to see it moved to a different uh, i guess to be in new york ever. so he can get there tomorrow. donald trump is expected to you in georgia on thursday evening. some suggest the reason for the late arrival is to avoid traffic in new jersey and here in georgia. but the more cynical suggest is because donald trump wants to hit prime time television in the united states. i'll look for sure, i'll just eat a adelanto. stop for a short break. still ahead on al jazeera india and make space history land like a spacecraft for no other country has touched down before. stay with us the, the

hello. they will have a look at africa in a name of the 1st to the middle east. and despite the rising heat, we have seen some unusual, stormy weather sweep into the south west of saudi arabia. stormy conditions with a lightning strikes effecting places like mecca. the good news is that has ease things of quite a down, but the heat continues to build 41 degrees celsius the on thursday, we'll see that replicated. so the east of this in a rock as well as q 8. we could touch 51 degrees celsius thursday into friday launch the dry and hot picture for much of the region. a slight wind could kick up some dust as we goes into friday, around some of the gulf states, but temperatures picking up. and that should mean that the humidity will ease, not much in the way of rain here, and that's similar across the central band of africa. less rain than we normally see for this time. if you just found the storms rushing across nigeria into southern parts of neesha much wyatt for the north shot was coming in full morocco.

but we'll see a return of the heat engine. is it, you know, seeing $37.00 degrees celsius on friday and the heat continues to be the story down the cool southern parts of africa. but things are looking much cooler in cape town on friday. the across the was young actor based and organizes the move to they to then politically engage the southern just they face couldn't be more daunting here. and they, we were the ones who said lights on what was going on. and the way the tools nice to meet you, then there's nothing stuff that goes 7 or 7 on. there's always in a number sense permission. we have the agency to create the volume of the generation on al jazeera sooner the

the you're watching out does. there are minder of our top story is at this hour, the head of the russian mercenary group, wagner is reported to have been killed in a plane crash versus aviation. the agency says you have guinea propose it was on a private jet which came down north of moscow. there were no survivors among the 10 people on board. the controversial release of treated radioactive water from the focus stream at nuclear power plant in japan has just begun that despite objections from japanese fishermen, as well as china and some pacific island nations, a were public ins hoping to be the next to us president have held their 1st page, but the front runner and former president donald trump wasn't in milwaukee. he's

due to surrender in the us state of georgia. later to phase racketeering and conspiracy charges for over allegedly over turning the 2020 us election result there. the people, as in bob way, will head to the polls for a 2nd day after voting in the general elections was extended until thursday. it comes after reports of delays at some polling stations opposition parties accused the ruling party of suppressing votes and rigging of a contest. algebra 0 is her room, was house that has more from the capital, her, all right, frustration of a high unemployment and inflation. that is why some people didn't leave the queue despite long delays. some putting stations in zimbabwe opened and closed on time. but in others, ballads papers arrived at the end of the day. yeah. yeah. you

want me to see the quotes. you mentioned officials say some valid papers were printed late because of course challenges. there are several polling stations. yeah. election official say it's meant to make the voting per se smooth, that the lines can was foster. but they all logistical challenges. some polling stations in parts of the country opened late presidents images and then douglas is confident he will be re elected. if i think i'm a good dick you didn't know before, which is due on open. this is going to is good release to read in the precise and sort of main rival, nelson semi stuff is also confident but says the delays are suspicious of things is involved with the person who's the man or don't be frustrated.

other people on the want to win the presidency, a candidate must give more than 50 percent of the vote. if there is no outright. when a, a rental between the top 2 candidates will be held in october to commission. his of the sessions at open lakes will close later. pardon with us, i'll just head out to the group of countries known as bricks. nations have agreed to expand the group. on the 2nd day of their summit in johannesburg, south africa says more than 40 developing countries have expressed interest in joining the block. leaders of brazil, india, china, as south africa gathered for the groups annual summit rushes president vladimir putin is taking part in the summit. virtually from moscow. hopefully the miller is in johannesburg. on the agenda at this, rick summits continues to revolve around expansion of the blog. it's already represents. so mold in the global g, d p,

and it's likely that the member states want to increase that influence. not only economically but also politically their peers, so not to be a complete consensus around what happens next, some mid team to expand than others. but certainly all of them very interested in cementing and strengthening ties with developing nations, especially those in africa. the present in president of the sofa had also said that the result was back to improve its ties with african countries. he said he didn't know why brazil had not continued to strengthen those ties in recent years, but they went all back to continue relations with african states you'd also heard from you. so the african president slomo course around the importance of african countries development infrastructure investments, and those kind of issues that could benefit not only the continental, also south africa. but it was also difficult for these member states, their native states. speaking at the summit,

it was difficult for them to stay away from the issue all the ukraine rule in russia's involvement. they've been reluctant to condemn russia for its invasion of ukraine, but they has been some rich rick around how the price is, should be sold. and the one of the criticisms came from the present in president saying that the conflict and ukraine was indicative of the limitations of the united nations security council. and that it wasn't being dealt with adequately. so aside from the crisis in ukraine, the independence of greeks and, and creating a counter way to wisdom governance both politically and economically continues to be of huge emphasis here. that's griggs is an alternative voice. it's a platform with developing nations and one way potentially, they could be an opportunity for independence again, for those member states. i mean, i'm allowed to 0 john this book of finally,

india has become the 1st country to successfully land a craft near the moon. south pole. prime minister, no ranger emoji, called it an historic day. barbara and go for reports to these kids in the schools at mission control, the southern indian city has been to the people applauding as india is 10 grand 3. nanda successfully touch down and doing the south pole in the may. it's the holiday, the prime minister in the red drum. moody said other countries can we build and induce achievement bits of phase builds though. oh, the d n. it really was done by other countries in the future. i'm going put on that on the bridge and the

bar in the door from the global. so you are definitely, well off, as you mean, said fitz, i raised cold proxy. i is now expected to leave the land and take photographs of the moon's surface for 2 weeks. it will help scientists to establish the quantities of our school to reserves, so to be on demand, it could allow future emissions to setup a base for people who are also looking at to explore further into the service system. it could also be a valuable resource, as well as actually not being able to drink it. you can split it to pop into oxygen and hydrogen, which is basically rocket fuel. so if you want to go further out into the service system, it could be, but the movie would be a great staging station for that kind of thing. wednesday, soft landing happened days after rushes past made mission and 47 years and a didn't disappoint.