jim: this is dw news. live from berlin. tonight vladimir putin says russia does not want to destroy ukraine. putin says there is the need for more massive airstrikes and cities continue to come under attack. people say they have nowhere left to hide. also coming up tonight, liz trust, scrapping tax cuts and firing her finance

chief, hoping to calm bottled financial markets by those measures. and anger over a controversial law in turkey. the government says it is going to stop fake news. critics are wanting the legislation will simply filing dissenting voices -- simply silence dissenting voices. ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers watching on pbs, in the united states, and to all of you around the world, welcome. president vladimir putin of russia says his country does not want to destroy ukraine and that there is no need for massive new airstrikes. but the bombardment of ukraine is not over yet. moscow has been carrying out a campaign of high intensity strikes on towns and cities for the past five days. an ukraine's people say they have nowhere left to hide. reporter: more destruction, more desperation.

facing another round of shelling, after days of continued attacks, the cleanup will be massive. >> you know what i can tell you? we are not used to the missile strikes. the only thing is, we are told to hide, hide where? we don't have any place to hide nearby, you can't hide in the cellar because you will be trapped by debris and no one will find you. so we go outside and we wait until it is over. reporter: the fresh missile strike is part of a continued barrage. but russian president vladimir putin says the high intensity attacks in ukrainian cities will not continue. >> there's no need for massive strikes. at least for now. we will see from there. reporter: putin also declared his massive mobilization of russian oops is most complete.

>> this work, the mobilization is coming to an end already. as of now, 220,000 of the mobilizer already joining the armed forces, of the 300,000, i believe that within two weeks, about two weeks, all mobilization activities will be completed. reporter: meanwhile in the region, russia is urging civilians to leave the area. >> the presence of a large number of civilians makes it difficult for the military to maneuver, and most likely, it is dangerous for life. reporter: in recent days, ukraine has retaken much of the russian occupied region. kyiv fears the region could proceed an escalation in russian attacks. brent: earlier, i asked a minute telling -- a military analyst of what he makes of fulton calling off massive strikes in ukraine. >> probably there's a need for

russian military to evaluate the impact of the strikes. it is known that they have spent a large amount of munition end of munition and other rockets which are in short supply. but at the same time, t strikes have caused international condemnation. brent: we are also hearing from mr. putin that he does not see a need to expand the draft any further. could this be in response to public anger over conscription? >> quite possibly. there's been a lot of anger and public condemnation and video shared publicly across russia and around the world. but also, there is a need for russia to essentially see how the mobilization is going at this point. how many soldiers are actually enough for the combat they are planning. and therefore, a certain pause and reevaluatn is probably necessary for the ministry of defense at this point. brent: we have seen reports about the number of rockets, the number of missiles russia had to

use just in the attacks this past monday. we are talking about shortages of weapons. we are talking about the shortage of well-trained soldiers on top of that. can russia continue to sustain this type of onslaught? >> i think that is a great question. i believe we are in a relatively uncharted territory. there are a lot of unknowns at this point, what russia can and cannot do. it can certainly plug its manpower problem with new recruits annually mobilize forces. but these are not the same quality forces that went through the combat in the first seven months. russia lost a lot of good quality soldiers and officers. it can have enough buddies at the front -- bodies at the front, but will the actual content to be a substitute for quality? it is hard to predict where russia will go. brent: sam bennett, giving us excellent analysis on this friday. thank you.

for several days now, russia's been launching airstrikes across ukraine. one incident in kyiv stood out and was viewed the world over. you may remember seeing these images right here. this glass pedestrian bridge, which is a key landmark in the blast that nearly destroyed it. you see right there? the solitary figure, you had a very lucky escape. our correspondent managed to track down the man, the man on the bridge. reporter: every morning, before work, he takes a walk through kyiv's riverside parks. across the bridge built a few years ago. last monday was no exception. it was an extraordinarily beautiful autumn day. >> i was standing on that balcony over there. reporter: it was 18 minutes

passed 8 a.m. -- past 8:00 a.m. that was that they putin launched more than 80 missiles at ukraine. surveillance cameras caught the moment. he was lucky. >> i was standing at the other side of the bridge, opposite the explosion, near the bench. and the pressure wave from the explosion went underneath. reporter: the rocket hit just next to the bridge, on the walkway in the park. three days later, the creator of the rocket left has already been filled in, workers are repairing the rest of the damage. the bridge is slightly damaged and closed off to the public for now. >> hey, man, you are famous now. reporter: the video of him on the bridge went viral. ukrainian tv reported it. >> wish you a guardian angel. reporter: he has recovered well

from the shock. >> you just start to value life more. you understand that you need to live everyday to its fullest, and not to put things off until later. reporter: just after the blst, he went to his office -- blast, he went to his office, like any other day. brent: the british prime minister today sacked her finance minister and scrapped plans tax cuts -- planned tax cuts, hoping to calm financial markets were read by the government's economic plans. reporter: another political earthquake, shaking london. not even 50 days in office, and prime minister liz truss has already sacked her most important loyalist. >> i acted decisively today because my priority is ensuring that our country's economic

stability -- ensuring our country's economic stability. i will always act in the national interest. this is always my first consideration. -- reporter: many see this as a scapegoat. they wanted to radically lower taxes to boost the economy. >> i'm not going to cut the additional rate of tax today, mr. speaker. i'm gointo abolish it altogether. reporter: they did not say who would pay for that. financial markets panicked. mortgage rates shut up. and pension funds faltered. when journalists asked her why she did not resign, trust repeated the same refrain. >> what credibility do you have? >> what i've done today is make sure that we have economic stability stability in this country. reporter: the former foreign minister jeremy hunt, now taking over britain's finances. trust says she will scrap some of the planned tax cuts.

this is unlikely to reassure her conservative party. she herself might be pushed out next. brent: critics say lose trust sacked her finance minister to save herself. i asked our london correspondent if the finance minister was the fall guy here. >> they have been long-standing political friends, also personal friends. i don't know whether they are anymore. but they definitely were responsible for this budget that caused so much turmoil in the markets. they definitely also bore the handwriting of liz trust. she was definitely standing behind it. you see in a snap called the british people also know that. and they think liz trust was as responsible as he for the turmoil caused in the markets. but liz trust today judged

that something had to give him something needed to go, her finance minister, rather than herself. brent: that is how things stand at the moment, but things could change quickly. how much support does liz trust have been her own party at the moment -- in her own party at the moment? reporter: trust has made two big mistakes, one was announcing the tax cuts -- the tax cuts that the financial markets were judging to be unfounded and by the public, tone deaf. so that was her first big mistake. she's made another big mistake. and that concerns her own cabinet. when she took over as prime minister if you weeks ago, shesacked a lot of people in the cabinet -- she sacked a lot of people in the cabin and filled them with her supporters, so she does not have a unified party

behind her. she's got a lot of people with an ax to grind. and these people are now plotting. they want -- a lot of them want to see the back of her. so this is not going to be the end of her problems. we are expecting it to become worse, in the days and weeks to come. brent: it is definitely a critical moment in the u.k. politically but also for the political establishment and the economy as well. thank you. iranian activists have launched an online appeal calling for fresh nationwide protests, against the clerical leadership. the movement triggered by gina amini's death has entered a fifth week. a new social media video shows people in the southeastern city chanting antigovernment slogans. the supreme leader says that no

one should think that they can uproot the islamic republic. the demonstrations are not dying down, despite a crackdown that has killed dozens. and though the protests don't seem to have a single leader, women are playing a major role here. reporter: this is what outrage looks like in iran. people who feel ey have nothing left to lose. fearing imprisonment or worse. many disagree strongly with the government's rules on dress for women. and that someone had to die for breaking them. >> in my opinion, they should remove the hijab altogether. anyone who likes it can wear it and anyone who does not does not need to. reporter: iran is a religious state and the official interpretation of shia islam relies on a fundamentalist view of women's and men's roles.

women are required to dress modestly. that includes covering their hair at all times in public. this is a core value of iranian law since the revolution in 1979. child custody and divorce settlements favor men. who can also prohibit wives from working in certain professions. women are not allowed to leave the country without their husband's permission. women receive far less inheritance when a parent dies than do brothers, and they face discrimination in inheriting husbands' estates as well. the iranian government does not seem poised to change discriminatory laws. rather, the senior mullahs have blamed the west for the protest movement. but that has not stopped the widespread chants. woman, life, freedom. that have been ringing out throughout the country -- across the country. brent: earlier today, our washington bureau chief spoke with the u.s. under secretary of state for civilian security,

democracy, and human rights, and asked her what could be done, from a u.s. perspective, to support iran's protesters. reporter: the united states is taking a number of concrete actions to support the iranian people. peaceful proteers who re showing tremendous courage, in demanding their universal human rights. for one, we have swiftly mov to impose costs on those who are perpetrating this brutal crackdown, which involves not only killing and maiming of peaceful protesters, including students, young girls, and young ys, but also the arrest of scores of journalists, activists, cultural figures, as part of this ever widening violent crackdown. so, we move swiftly -- moved swiftly to sanction t

so-called morality pice responsible for the death, whose tragic death set off this eruption of public outrage. welso sanctioned the minister of interior, responsible for t widening crackdown. the minister of communications, who was overseeing the disruption of internet acces to nearly 80 million iranians. on that final note, we have moved decisively to issue a general license from the department of treasury, which is allowing american service oviders offer new tools and new platforms to the iranian people so that they can continue to communicate with one another and communicate with the world, to shine a light on what is really happening on the ground. brent: turkey's parliament has passed a controversial new media law that people deem to be spreading disinformation could be put in prison. the government says that it

wants to stop fake news and misrepresentation. critics say the law will be used to suppress democracy and free speech. reporter: smashing a phone with a hammer to protest the controversial law. they sent out a warning. >> you have only one freedom left. the smartphones in your pocket, which have instagram, facebook, youtube -- which you can communicate with. today is october 12. if the lob pass is in the parliament, you can break your phones and throw them away like this. reporter: but the bill, which was passed by the ruling -- proposed by the ruling party, was passed despite the warning. and it does not just further restrict expression of social media. it could also pose a serious threat to freedom of the press. allowing the jailing of journalists for up to three years on what critics say are vaguely framed disinformation laws.

>> no one understands what those words mean in legal terms. because there is no definition of anxiety, fear, panic for example under turkish law,. and it is not clear who was going to decide what information is misleading. reporter: turkey already has a low press freedom score. its arbitrary jailing of journalists and the ak party's control is 90% of press landing in -- landing among 180 countries on the index in 2022. which traditional media -- with traditional media already severely destructive, social media has served as an alternative platform. but that may soon change under the new law. >> the disinformation law can be described as the last nail to

the coffin of press freedoms in turkey. given complete power to erdogan and his men to restrict free speech, to jail people, including journalists, and also to remove content from digital media, which remai our only archive of good information in turkey. reporter: with elections in, many fear that the law will be used to silence critical voices in the media. brent: for more now, i am joined by a researcher on turkey for amnesty international and london -- in london. good to have you with us. we hope what's happened in the past decade or so to the media in turkey, it's been systematically put under the reins of the government, under the state. is there any more left to do, in terms of silencing dissent in the media in turkey? >> well, as you described, the

situation is already bad. but this new law can actually cause a dramatic change for the worse. amnesty international, it is very clear that this law is not complying withso there are manyc articles in this new legislation. but at the center of them, there's an article called article 29, which actuay creates a new cminal fense that any person who publicly disseminates country information for the sole purpose of creating panic, in a manner likely to disturb public peace, could be sentenced to prison from 1-3 years. there are three components here. one is the country information, the false information. which does not describe -- is not well described or defined well in this law. which will give the courts of the discussion. the courts will turn into

institutes of truth almost. not in the legal sense. but also in the sense of what is true and what is not. but such blanket prohibitions on dissemination, disseminating information, using concepts like false information, panic -- these are all incompatible. the international standards require states to use the least restrictive measure to achieve such a specific purpose. brent: what about any challenge to this? i understand the turkish opposition wants to appeal all the way up to the country's top court, trying, to get this legislation thrown out. if i am reading you correctly, it doesn't sound like the chanceof succeedinare very good. >> actually,ot only violates international law, bu turkey's own constitution. in normal conditions, the constitutional court -- it is

likely the constitutional court will decide that it is not compliant. obviously, we will see if they cast out on the independence of judiciary in turkey. and we don't even need them to see how government actually duly interferes in close affairs. so there could be political pressure. but if the constitution court reads its own judgment, previously on freedom of expression, then there is no way they can allow this law to st. this is also happening in the context of upcoming elections. it is an additional reason why the position wants to challenge -- the opposition wants to chlenge this. there will be similar prohibitions, but this is actually much worse than before. brent: where does this leave journalists working and reporting from turkey? >> journalism, as your other

guest in the package sent, is under extreme pressure already. according to t reporters without borders, 90% of turkey's broadcasting media are under control of the government. turkiye doesn't have a strong objective in media ywhere even bere the government crackdown -- anyway even before the government crackdown. but slowly journalists started utilizing social media to create independent voices and objective journalism. this law is an extreme threat on that area. not only generalist activity, but any member of the public. -- journalist actity, but any member of the public. this lter could be good under a human rights compliance and human rights sensitive government. this law would be about under

any government becauseeople don't know if th can keep safe, if they will get into trouble they criticize government. they can still be charged under this law. brent: we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. here's a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world -- five people have been killed in a shooting in the u.s. state of nortcarolina. the 15-year-old boy suspected of carrying out the attack is in critical condition at a hospital. president joe biden expressed grief and urged action on gun control. three center-right parties are forming a new coalition government in sweden. the swedish moderate leader said that his party will join forces with the christian democrats and liberals. backing the coalition part of. climate protesters have thrown

soup over vincent van gogh's masterpiece "sunflowers." activists defaced work the protests against u.k. government investments in fossil fuels. police arrested the two people for trespassing and criminal damage. a new documentary film about the jailed we can look sounder, julian assange, is getting its premiere right here in germany here in berlin. "ithica" follows his father's quest to free his son as his son battles u.s. demands for his extradition. reporter: supporters for julian assange gather in london to show solidarity. he has strong support from those who are committed to press freedom. not least his former lawyer, now his wife. >> this is an enormous,

monumental injustice of a man who is being persecuted by the authorities for using the coercive powers of the state in order to try to punish him for doing the right thing. reporter: the journalist, editor, and activist who founded wikileaks and was behind major leaks including u.s. arm intelligence during the iraq war is not the center of a new story. a documentary focusing on julian assange's father's for his relief is receiving its german premiere while assange is kept in a high security prison in the u.k. awaiting extradition to the u.s.. we are he may yet stand trial for espionage. the film has high profile contributions. and the intensity of a very personal story. >> we are here. we want to get him out.

reporter: the film explores family bonds and issues of press freedom, against the backdrop of assange's restrictive movement -- restricted movement from ecuador's london embassy in 2010, to his arrest and incarceration in the u.k. jaylen 2019 -- jail in 2019, where he is now awaiting an uncertain future. brent: you're watching dw news. after a short break, i will be back to take you through "the day." we will be right back. stick around. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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mark: welcome to "live from paris," world news editor analysis from france 24. political turmoil in the u.k. as prime minister liz truss does a u-turn on the infamous budget. ukraine's forces continue their week of advance. meanwhile, russian officials scramble to event weight -- to

evacuate. french trade unions are split overpay riser deals and refineries. more than a quarter of actual stations have run dry. this is "live from paris." thank you very much for being with us. the british prime minister is making a massive u-turn on a financial plan unveiled last month sent financial markets into a tailspin. she spoke to reporters this friday. she said that now she would in fact support an increase on

corporate taxes. earlier this friday, the u.k. finance minister, landing from his trip to the u.s., to go to downing street to be set as chancellor of the exchequer. quickly named afterwards, jeremy hunt. >> i met the former chancellor earlier today. i was incredibly sorry to lose him. he is a great friend, and he shares my vision to set this country on the path to grace. i have asked jeremy hunt to become the new chancellor. he is one of the most experienced and widely respected government ministers and parliamentarians, and he shares my convictions and ambitions for our country. mark: we're joined by an associate fellow for the euro

program. we always appreciate your presence. have you ever seen or heard anything like this in your life? >> no. i'm not sur that it willy. actually save liz truss. i think that her days are numbered. she has sacked her closest friend and closest colleague in the new government. he seems to have gone because he was too radical in suggesting tax cuts which were not funded in the budget, but actually, that is exactly her policy. really, the confusion and despair in the ranks of the conservative partly ash barty in parliament seem to be all over the place. i think they are literally counting her future in if not days then weeks.

mark: the writing on the wall as far as you're concerned. certainly there's a real hangover from what happened at the party conference, too. is there a fear about what might happen next? >> the one thing that may save her is that they are terrified of having a general election, and there's no obvious successor who might win a general election. the conservative party has got itself into an appalling mess, really, beginning with boris johnson and all the trouble he got into about not telling the truth and not being a serious prime minister, but liz truss was the best they could come up with, and i'm afraid she's proving to be anything but a success in the eyes of the public. her opinion polling rates are

disasters. mark: she likes to think of herself as in the cut and mold of margaret thatcher. this is a u-turn, isn't it, on every aspect of that budget? >> she really has abandoned the core of the policy and program with which she got elected, which was tax cuts and deregulation, a real liberalize her, a free market here. she said this is very much in the spirit of margaret thatcher. the truth is margaret thatcher was above all somebody who balanced her budget before she cut taxes, and that's the problem. i think liz truss has just got things back to front. market: an election is basically

the only avenue you see on the horizon? >> if opinion polls are accurate, the conservative party is running 30 or 40 points behind everybody else in the opinion polls, and they would be massacred in any election, so they would do almost anything to avoid an election, and as i say, that they be the one thing that saves liz truss from being forced into oblivion and into resignation. mark: the idea of imposing another leader of the conservative party and by that, another prime minister on the british people without an election -- it seems a bit much, doesn't it? >> yes, i think it does. i think it would be very unpopular. the conservative party has got itself into a terrible bind. they cannot win five staying in

power. they cannot win by leaving power. i think one or two wise old heads are saying this -- it is about time that the leaders of the conservative party did whatt is good for the country rather than just what is good for their party and themselves, and i think that is the problem they've got themselves into. boris johnson just wanted to be prime minister. this trust just wanted to be prime minister -- liz truss just wanted to be prime minister. they have not persuaded the public that they had a nationally sane and sensible economic policy to really prevent this country falling into a very serious economic recession. mark: associate fellow of euro policy at the chatham house, appreciate it. we will wait to see how that

situation develops, and the bigger picture is the future of liz truss. next, the latest from ukraine. kyiv says its armed forces taken back more than 600 settlements, including at least 75 in the strategic hair sans region. >> barely two weeks after moscow illegally claimed the annexation, and evacuations have alady begun. russian officials on thursday urged citizens of the strategic region to flee towards southern ukraine. >> following the address of the head of ukraine's personal region, people are leaving for

other regions of the country. we will provide everyone with free accommodation and everything necessary. those who decide to stay permanently in their new place will be provided a home. >> the first arrival of evacuees has already been reported while others have made their way to the occupied crimean peninsula. despite the heavy bombing, more territories have been retaken by ukraine. >> the fact that they left the shells and scattered only some of the powder shows that they fled very quickly. >> if we move weekly, there will be many losses. we don't have to hurry, but we need to crush them. >> for moscow, meanwhile,

propaganda effort is underway to firm up support back home. in its operator, well-equipped russian fighters have been prepared for combat, but until fighters mobilized by moscow, kyiv will push its counteroffensive on the southern run. mark: vladimir putin this friday said he had no regrets over missile attacks this week that have killed dozens of civilians. he also said there's no need for massive strikes on ukraine. he made the comments in kazakhstan where he traveled for a meeting with the federatio anits stas. the russian president went on to say that his call up of russian reservists will be over in two weeks and there are no plans for further mobilization. >> this mobilization work is coming to an end. right now, we have 220,000 out of 300,000 people mobilized.

i think that in the next two weeks, all of the mobilization will be complete. mark: two brothers have admitted planting the car bomb that killed and investigated your list. they submitted not guilty pleas in a case earlier in the day, but after a lengthy break, their lawyer said they had agreed to acknowledge guilt in exchange for more lenient sentence. the generalist had become the scourge of the rich and powerful due to her scathing exposes of corruption. officials say -- the cause of it

last -- a blast in a mine in turkey is under investigation. president trump has issued a lengthy response to yesterday's january 6 congressional hearing. the 14-page memo repeated familiar talking points but did not say it he would agree to testify before the committee. the committee subpoenaed trump to appear. members decided to issue the subpoena after resenting evidence to show his complicity in orchestrating the attack on the capitol on january 6. >> in a 14-page written response, donald trump hit back at the january 6 committee after it issued a legal summons for the former u.s. president to testify, evading the panel's demand he instead rendered his claims that the 2020 election

won by joe biden was rigged. >> it is a witchhunt of the highest level, a continuation of what has been going on for years. >> trump's scathing response comes a day after the january 6 committee voted unanimously to subpoena the former president. across eight hearings, the panel has unveiled evidence showing trump's involvement in schemes to overturn his 2020 loss, which led to his supporters' violent assault. the committee released a video showing leaders asking for help while sheltering at an undisclosed location at the height of the violence. >> they need massive personnel now. >> trump has defended the rioters, calling them patriots, and was later impeached for inciting the mop to storm congress to hold -- help the

transfer of power divided. -- two halt the transfer of power to biden. mark: china's internet sensors are on high alert against any disruption to what will apparently be a landmark communist party meeting. it begins on sunday where xi jinping is expected to secure an historic third term. let's take a look at the issue regarding these protests and what is inspiring it, the zero covid policy which xi jinping has imposed across the country. many are unhappy that in the period since covid-19 first emerged in china, that they have

faced basically a constant series of confinement and isolation. people in china very unhappy about the way this is being imposed. >> this is what china's zero covid policy looks like from the inside. a unique perspective into what hundreds of millions of people in china go through every day. >> we do these tests so often now they have become part of our daily lives. >> i have been questioning this new normal. >> i don't want to criticize anything. i just want to show the reality to the public so people can make up their own minds. >> to live in china means to obey health restriction. residents here can be locked up at any moment in the name of anti-covid measures.

earlier this month, menlad in ppe close down an eire airport because of 30 cases in the region. >> there are hundreds of people trapped inside. further west, the whole of one provinces on strict lockdown even though some districts have zero cases. this man has been stuck for 10 >> there are no covid cases here. the whole -- there' no valid reason t lock people up in their homes. i have no idea when i will be able to leave. >> in shanghai, an eerie sense of deja vu. barricades have once again been erected around apartment buildings. last spring, the city was locked down for two entire months. >> i arrived this morning for a cleaning job. the police are telling us to stay weannot leave.

>> meanwhile, the capitol, beijing, has become almost inaccessible for the rest of the country. as with every party congress, security is tight, but covid-19 has become another reason for authorities to restrict movement during the highly sensitive political event. mark: it is time now for business. >> trucks are well into their third week and have seriously disrupted some eyes. after the government intervened earlier in week, the situation improved slightly, but still am a 20 85 percent of asians across france are facing supply problems -- still, 28.5% of stations across france are facing supply problems.

the hardline union has rejected the deal that was offered. action could spread to other sectors this morning. >> total energy may have managed to win over two unions with their pay increase deal, but they he been rejected by the left wing cgt union. >> these unions are going agree to a deal behind the backs of the strikers -- it will not put off our movement. >> the cgt is pushing for a 10% raise, citing profits as energy prices soared. in total, four of the country's seven refineries remain shut. the strike is also continuing in several depots where fuel is stored before being transported to petrol stations, meaning lines outside gas stations in northern france and the paris area are continuing. motorists sometimes lineup for

hours to fill up their tanks. >> the right to strike is an established right. i myself have been on strike, but now they're going to get a 7% raise and they want 10%. they are getting carried away. >> it is the french way of doing things. it is very different from america, but it is working. otherwise they will never get what they think is right. >> after three weeks of locates, the french government has forced some strikers back to work over fuel depots, a move that infuriated unions. they have hardened their tone, calling for a nationwide sector strike on tuesday. taking a cue from dar refiner colleagues, workers at some nuclear power plants.

>> the wti is down, pricing in under $86 a barrel. with that, let's have a look at the day's trading action. shares were volatile -- the session was volatile this friday with all three major indices accelerating the selloff towards the end of the trading day with tesla shares dropping 7.5%. every sector of the s&p ended the day in the red. the index closed down 2.3%. some major u.s. banks came out with their latest earnings report. morgan stanley shares dropped nearly five percent after completing a 30% slump in third-quarter profit, missing analyst expectations, while wells fargo gained 2%, despite reporting 31%. britain's prime minister has sacked finance minister and backtracked on another key piece

of controversial tax cut that spark market turmoil. under pressure, the british prime minister said she was acting to reassure markets of britain's fiscal discipline by going ahead with an increase in corporate tax. it marks a second humiliating u-turn for the government. it had already abandoned a plan to abolish the rate for income tax. it has caused the british pound to tumble and the government's borrowing costs to skyrocket, prompting the bank of england to intervene. let's hear what mary fritz have to say -- what ordinary brits have to say.

>> it is going to be tough for her. >> she's not listening to the economists that know that never-ending economic growth is a crazy idea. it is easy to say you're listening, but actually, she is not really. mark: i think they must have looked at long way to find anybody who did have a bit of sympathy for her, given what i'm hearing and reading. thank you very much indeed. pakistan is dealing with its worst recorded climate disaster. heavy monsoon rains coupled with melting glaciers led to record floods that caused the deaths of 1700 people at least. millio are being displaced. most villages are still underwater in the south

officials say it could be months before what is left of them emerges when the water finally receipts. >> these villages in southern pakistan are still underwater. many of the aost700 deaths in a province which saw seven times more rainfall than average in august. the provincial government called the crisis climate change catastrophe. rising global temperatures makes extreme weather more frequent. >> this is the mosque, under water. here'she primary school, which is also underwater. >> nearly 8 million people across the country are still unable to go back home. these two men returned to try to

say what they can. >> we are here to salvage metal from our house. we are going to store it for when we can rebuild. exit was the middle of the night when they realized the water level had started rising. >> the water came from the next village. they came in so fast. we already had some flooding from the rain, but this influx destroyed everything. we evacuated our emilys to safety. >> -- we evacuated our families to safety. >> over 33 million have been evacuated as they wait for their homes to once again become habitable, but it could be a long wait. officials sa it couldake months for the flooding to recede. in a province where many people were all living below the poverty line, this family has fled with not much more than the clothes on their backs. this family of seven has been living in a tent more than a

month. >> look, here we have our clothes, and there are our sheets. that's what we brought from our village. we lost everything. >> pakistan has seen a spike in waterborne diseases with 4.4 million ces ocholera, dengue, and malaria. almost every family here has one child at least that has fallen ill. >> the doctor told me my daughter has malaria and my other daughter has a deeper. we were given medicine, but her >> when the waters do recede,p. villages face an uncertain future as they discor the extent of the damage to their homes. in some cases, there's nothing left. >> there used to be a house here. >> this community is reduced to rubble. >> you see all these bricks.

>> the village had already suffered severe letting in 2010, but the surge of water in august was even less. >> in 2010, we did not suffer as much damage. the water rose to high levels, but now it's even higher. i have never seen it this bad before. >> hundreds of thousands of livestock droed, and feels that would have and do for harvest by now were lost. this farmer is desperate. after a drought last spring, he was counting on this season. >> this was my land. lo at all this water. i cannot do anything. >> theorld food program warns the floods have more than doubled the number of people needing food aid, which is expected to reach 14 million in the coming months.

mark: we will bring you more as we get it. stay with us. more to come. >> between 1970 and 1980, a number of japanese citizens mysteriously disappeared. a mystery that was in fact a kidnapping program orchestrated by north korea. in 2002, kim jong- the second orchestrated kidnappings. while the united states supports the victims, north korea has broken off talks.

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