u. s. secretary of defense lloyd austin, has paid his tributes to colon power. the world lost one of the greatest leaders of we over with mission.

u. s. secretary of defense, lloyd austin, has paid his tributes to come into the world, lost one of the greatest leaders that we have ever witnessed, almost lost a great husband in the family was a tremendous father and i lost her a tremendous personal friend and mentor. he has been my mentor for a number of years. i always made time for me and i could always go to him what, what tough issues he always had great break counsel we. we will certainly miss him . i feel as if i have a hole in my heart just this morning of this just recently. in other news, a special session of the u. k. parliament is underway to pay tribute to sir david amos following the conservative emp, his death on friday. members of parliament began with a minute's silence for they colleague said david was stabbed to death while meeting members of the public in his constituency. east of london, they said, 5 people have now, di, did you to floods in landslides triggered by heavy diamond, southern india. thousands of people had to be relocated as well. china's economic growth is flowing as its post. pandemic recovery lose

u. s. secretary of defense lloyd austin has also praised powell saying he's lost a friend and mentor. the world lost one of the greatest leaders that we have ever witnessed, almost lost a great huffman in the family, lost the tremendous father. and i lost to a tremendous personal friend and mentor. and he has been my mentor for a number of years. i always made time for me and i could always go to him with what tough issues he always had. great, great counsel we. we will certainly miss him. i feel as if i have a hole in my heart just this morning of this just recently. now bringing our white house correspondent kimberly hawk live in washington. kimberly lots of reactions and tribute to con. pow president biden has just released the statement. yes, he has and well, it is a lengthy statement. i think it's important to note that he is once again underscoring what we heard from the defense secretary lloyd austin. that in fact, a general, powell embodied what the president called the highest ideals of both warrior and diplomat. noting his groundbreaking efforts to break racial barriers by th

u. s. secretary of defense lloyd austin, also praised pow, saying his last a friend and mentor. the world lost one of the greatest leaders and we have ever witnessed all my lost a great husband in the family, lost a tremendous father. and i lost to a tremendous personal friend and mentor. and he has been my mentor for a number of years. i always made time for me and i could always go to him with, with tough issues. he always had great break counsel we. we will certainly miss him . i feel as if i have a hole in my heart just this morning of this just recently, last spring in. kimberly, how can our white house correspondent, not live from washed in? kimberly lots of reactions and tribute to con pow, bring us up to speed with the latest at the latest coming from the u. s. president joe biden, who is remembering his friend, general colin powell as a man who embodied what biden is calling the highest ideals of both warrior and diplomat. but most of all friend, in fact, he said that he will miss being able to call on his friends wisdom. someone who was a trusted confidant in good times

u. s. secretary of defense. now calling the situation troubling and a paramount challenge for his department. and that's far from the only issue to facing america's armed forces. the moment over the past 2 months, several offices have publicly spoken out against the military's top brass over a range of issues. with the most notorious claims coming from the marine officer steward sheller, he called for leaders to be held accountable for the flawed withdrawal from afghanistan and is now awaiting trial for speaking out, keller, morphine looks into why the u. s. army has been thrown into such disorder. the case of lieutenant colonel stuart sheller certainly raises a lot of questions. says criticism of the military certainly happens a lot these days for officers came forward publicly recently condemning the u. s. military over a whole host of issues including vaccine mandates as well as alleged marxist indoctrination. apparently they've lost faith in the u. s. military and instead of obeying they are revolting. all i

u. s. secret secretary of defense lloyd austin, has paid tribute to pow saying his last a friend and mental the world lost. one of the greatest leaders that we have ever witnessed almost lost the great huffman and the family was a tremendous form. and i lost her a tremendous personal friend and mentor. he has been my mentor for a number of years. i always made time for me and i can always go to him with, with tough issues. he always had great re council we. we will certainly motion. i feel as if i have a hole in my heart. just this morning of this just recently when i speak to our white house correspondent, kimberly how kato's life from the white house kimberly collin power set out. i drove cove in 19 related complications, even though he was double vaccinated. what as a family said yeah, the family made that a very prominent aspect of their announcement on social media saying he was fully vaccinated. but going on to talk about the last than the grief that they are feeling saying we have lost, remarkable, and loving husband, father ground, father and great american. so certainly it is painf

u. s. deputy assistant secretary of defense for east asia. sir, thank you so much for sharing of use with us. thank you. thank you very much. ok, let's go to iraq. now on sunday, the country will hold its faith election since the 2003 u. s. invasion that toppled the rule of the then president saddam hussein and early pole was one of the main demands of demonstrators during the protests in october, 2019 that. so hundreds of iraqis killed. but many people are skeptical. the ballot will create the change that protest is called for ali. hashem reports now from baghdad. on sunday, ali intense to vote for the 1st time in his life. 2 years ago, he saw another fest urine square. oh, thousands of people who came to the streets in protest against corruption, mismanagement, and foreign medlink in iraq suffers, was only 70. and he joined them here and it will be dodge on a good done and nannan they are she at the beginning we were hoping to force a change. we made some baby steps than they confronted us with violence. they killed a lot of young people. s

u. s. deputy assistant secretary of defense for east asia. he says north korea is sending a message to the us senate i think it's quite wiring, not just for south korea and japan, but actually for countries throughout the world. the ability to launch ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons from a summer rain gifts north korea much greater reach than many people had believed it had before. now of course they haven't moved that summary far from their coast yet now they haven't shown the full capabilities. but when, when mercury has shown over the years as the ability to do what it says. so the continue or testing of nuclear weapons expansion of their ballistic missile arsenal . and now this additional summary blanche ballistic missile. i show that that was re as a threat again, not just to the region but to the entire world. oh, they've been very direct about their message. both of these launches and displayed new missiles earlier in the year. what they're saying is they don't trust the united states. they don't trust the rest of the worl

of ty, berto on disgust. anchor is request to acquire f. 16 fighter jets. the u. s. oppose as the attempt because anchor a purchased russian missile defense systems. meanwhile, u. s. secretary of state antony blinking told china's foreign minister one ye to stop it's aggressive actions towards ty, $11.00 accused the u. s. of supporting pro independence forces into one. well, our white house correspondent, kimberly hacket joins us now from rome. she is across all of this forest at kimberly, i'll get to the g 20 communicate just a moment. but one of the most anticipated meetings there was on the sidelines between biden and other one things have been pretty intensively did their bilateral actually managed to smooth anything over well, according to the white house read out, this was a meeting that was productive. it was also candid, but there were a constructive progress on a number of issues that have been sort of festering between the united states and turkey for some time. the 1st issue that really has been a problem for the to has been over the issue of defense and security in the united states. not too happy that turkey recent years purchased a missile defense surface to a

u. s. relations have been strained since turkey's acquisition of a russian air defense system. also, the u. s secretary state sat down with his chinese counterparts. disputes between beijing and washington range from trade to security and taiwan. then there's boris johnson and emanuel mack home. they've agreed to work towards de escalating a post breakfast. fishing dispute between france and the u. k. we have our diplomatic editor james bay's covering all of those. he's joining us from room. so james, plenty obviously happening on the sidelines. but what's the take away message when it comes to that all important topic of climate change leaders had to call 26 summit in glasgow next ordering earlier on, some of the leaders went to the center of rome to one the best known places, the chevy fountain where you know, the tradition is you make a wish as you throw a coin into the fountain, i am sure many of them wished for greener environment, vironment for the prosperity of the planet. but campaigners say it's not about wishing, and it's not about wishful thinking. it's about action and there are real concer

u. s. secretary of state vocally opposed the plans in a tense phone call with the israeli defense minister therapy in unions. talk court has ordered poland to pay a fine as more than $1000000.00 a day. it's part of a deepening dispute between you and it's my mistake. about polish judiciary. al jazeera has spoken exclusively to one of haiti's, most powerful gang leaders. armed groups like the one run by jimmy shall as a control, large parts of the country violently enforcing their authority. there also causing a severe fuel shortage chose they had told rob reynolds what it will take to end the blockade after philip. his name is jimmy shell, say we're commonly known by his childhood nickname, barbecue once a haitian police officer. he is now the leader of a powerful confederation of gangs called g 9, which controls much quarter prince in its suburbs. with an automatic rifle strapped to his chest shells a took us through the garbage strewn alley ways of la celine, a sprawling slum. he urged us to show the world the desperate poverty in which millions of haitians live out their lives without b

michael is a former senior, a security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense in the u. s. and you are very welcome. was this just hypothetical thinking, michael by the us defense secretary, those are marks or is there something more concrete at play here? wouldn't nato make that live? well, i think this is all part of a concerted action by the united states once again to to wrap it up, pressure on, on moscow, basically to contain russia in its own sphere of influence. it's clear that lloyd austin, the us defense secretary, hasn't learned anything from the lessons, going back to 2008 when us was trying to push most georgia and ukraine into into nato. but it was, it was, it was the membership itself, of, of nato, which decided against such a move because of the concerns of moscow reaction. and, and for, for moscow it's clear that such accession of border states would be a red line for moscow of nato. and it's all, and it comes at a very interesting time with under secretary of state for political affairs, victoria newland, and her visit. most recent visit to moscow in which

lawrence cope, former assistant secretary of defense and natasha at lynn stead u. s. foreign policy special. thank you both for your time and, and your thoughts today are on the life of colin powell ah to the rest of the days news now and flooding and landslides have killed at least 35 people in southern india's or the southern indian state of carola over the last week rescue operations by the army and navy are continuing to look for the many who are missing. thousands have been stranded in parts of the coastal state and authorities fear the number of dead could yet rise significantly. one of the worst affected areas is caught a young and low, but brandon's been monitoring the situation there for us. what's happening here in and many other parts of cadillac with going on with people from the officer trying to clear this bloody group all debris into the trees which were up along with bands. this is really important because the rain is starting again and heavy rains expected for wednesday. that's really important to try to clear as much of the block away as possible to

u. s. secretary of state vocally opposed. the plans and a tense phone call with the israeli defense minister. european union top court has ordered poland to pay a fine of more than $1000000.00 a day. it's part of a deepening dispute between the new and its members say about holden's judiciary. a facebook whistleblower has leaked documents showing how the company encourages divisive and emotional posts, rather than factual content. it started in 2017 when facebook began treating emoji reactions as 5 times more valuable than a traditional like. the theory was simple posts that prompted lots of reaction, tended to keep you as, as engaged, and that was good for facebook's business. but the company's own research is confirmed and 20. 19 that posts which sparked angry reaction emoji were disproportionately likely to include misinformation, toxicity, and low quality news. that means 3 use facebook promotion posts. they're purposely sort emotional and often angry responses were very maggie is the ceo of connect safely dot org and internet privacy safety and security organization. he says facebook has an immense amount of responsibility

u. s. secretary of state vocally opposed the plans in a tense phone call with the israeli defense minister. fear being unions. top court has ordered poland to pay a fine of more than $1000000.00 a day. it's part of a deepening dispute between you and it's fantastic about poland is traditionally a facebook whistleblower has leaked documents showing how the company encourages divisive and emotional posts, rather than factual content. it started in 2017 when facebook began treating emoji reactions. it's 5 time is more valuable than a traditional, like. the theory was simple. post that prompted lots of reaction tended to keep uses engaged in bat was good for facebook's business. but companies on research is confirmed and 2019 that posts which sparked angry reaction emerges were disproportionately likely to include misinformation, toxicity, and low quality news. that means for 3 years, facebook promoted posts that purposely sought emotional and often angry responses. larry maggie is c e o of connect safely dot org. that's an internet safety privacy and security organization. he's, as facebook h

security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense, michael maloof, who told me that talk of the a session is just another example of the u. s. trying to contain moscow. well, i think this is all part of a concerted action by the united states once again to, to wrap it up, pressure on, on moscow, basically to contain russia in its own sphere of influence. going back to 2008, when us was trying to push both georgia and ukraine into, into nato. but it was, it was, it was the membership itself of nato, which decided against such a move because of the concerns of moscow's reaction. for, for moscow, it's clear that such accession of border states would be a red line. every the feeling, the coven, just dragging on. well, the u. k. government's emergency crone of ours powers have just been extended for another half a year. it comes of the country recorded its highest daily corporate debt to since march, but also as protests increasingly take place against the vaccine. passports are correspondent in london. shabby edward's dusty, takes up the story for us. the house of commons has just waived through the government's flagship corona

u. s. oppose is that because anchor purchased russian missile defense systems. and you, a secretary of state antony blinkin, told china's foreign minister one year to stop its aggressive actions towards taiwan. wang accused, the u. s. meanwhile, of supporting pro independence forces in taiwan while at south b to our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins. she is across all of this forest in rome, and kimberly, obviously the g. 20 is now wrapping up as those cop climate talks, kick off and glasgow. and as you've been saying, the communique includes this desire to limit warming to $1.00 degrees celsius. but as he is rather empty ambition, given the lack of concrete timelines. yeah, that is what is the reflection of so many that had hoped this was really going to be more robust in terms of a communique and set the tone for glasgow and to sort of inject it with a new sort of burst of enthusiasm. but that has not been the case, as you point out, that final communique saying that in fact, the leaders have committed to ensuring that global warming is limited to 1.5 degrees celsius. and w

u. s. secretary of state vocally opposed. the plans and a tense phone call with the israeli defense minutes minister made abraham as follows. developments from nablus and the occupied westbank for palestinians. one settlement unit is one unit too much. we are standing here in front of the league. it is really settlement of a lead has been here since the eighty's and it has been expanding, has been connected to other illegals, really settlements, an israel with a network of roads, transportation. it has access to electricity and water. and it has also prevented past indians from accessing their lands. we're not just talking about the built up area, but the whole mountain has been off limits to palestinians who own agricultural lands there. the european union's top court has ordered poland to pay a fine of more than $1000000.00 a day. it's part of a deepening dispute between the you and it's made mistakes about poland, judiciary, but against god's solid region is experiencing its worse drought and 40 years pushing more than a 1000000 people to the brink of famine. that's according to an amnesty international report. it says 4 consecutive

on tuesday, it seems that those divisions between poland and the rest of the you are even deeper and wider. the u. s. defense secretary dropped in on ukraine on tuesday on underline, not no 3rd country has a veto on any wish by key f to join the nato military alliance in the future. no 3rd country has a veto over nato's membership decisions for ukraine. and as you heard me say earlier, has a right to decide its own future foreign policy. and, and we expect that they will be able to do that without any outside interference. on those remarks come in the wake of a dramatic spine contentions between russia and ne. so moscow signalled it's intent to pull the plug on its permanent mission to the block in brussels. that will happen in less than 2 weeks. it made the move in direct response to the alliance earlier, kicking out a number of russian diplomats for alleged spine. the kremlin, meanwhile, has described any ukrainian bid to join nato. anton expansionary step too far. he cranes this session to nato would be the worst case scenario. this is the scenario that goes beyond the red lines of russia's national interests. this

of a russian missile defense system. and it's threats to expel diplomats from 10 countries, including the u. s. while taiwan and tre, dominated, as the u. s. secretary of state, sat down with his chinese counterpart anthony blanca and told china both nations should fairly manage their trade competition. and paras, johnson and emanuel micron were again at odds over the post wrecks at fishing dispute between france and the u. k. well, let's now speak to our white house correspondent, kimberly how can she joins us from rome. kimberly, once more, can you tell us about that meeting between lincoln and one year? all we know is that the secretary of state and his chinese counterpart met because there are obvious tensions between the united states and china. add the fear is that those will escalate and spill over into open conflict. and so is the feeling of the united states that to avert that they need to continue discussions. and so that's why this meeting was held, and we know that it had a couple of focuses. the 1st is really to do with the issue of taiwan, the united states, sending a strong warning to china that anything beyond the status quo would be

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u. s. oppose is that because anchor purchased russian missile defense systems and the us secretary of state, anthony blinkin also met with china's foreign minister and told him to stop its aggressive actions towards taiwan. one accused us of supporting pro independence forces in taiwan. well that's future whitehouse correspond. kimberly how could she's on the ground for us in rome? so kimberly is even saying the g 20 is wrapping up as those cup climate talks kickoff and glasgow. and the communique though from the g 20 includes the desire to limit global warming, but that seems rather empty ambition, given the lack of concrete timelines with ng some of the feedback already on this communique, less that ambitious and failing to meet the moment there were high hopes for the statements coming out of the g 20 because many believe that it could set the tone for what would take place in glasgow at the you and climate 7. so that's why there is so much disappointment that there is a real failure in this communicate to reach carbon neutrality by a firm date. instead, what it says is that there will b

defense. and the french president, natasha joining the summit after his meeting out with the u. s. secretary of state and parish, as we mentioned earlier, what is emanuel mccaul hoping to achieve? yes, a manual. mcgraw i is expected to brief the other 20 sakes european leaders during this dinner after his meeting with you as a secretary of state as he blinked in that meeting that took place in paris a bit earlier. as far as macro is concerned of the a diplomatic route that erupted off to the august packs and really a really but may tend to made relations between a fraud and washington, particularly strained. macro sees this whole event in which this sir defense packed was signed, seemingly secretly, without any consultations with allies, particularly of frogs as a warning to the e. u that the you needs to do more to look after itself. if you want to become more self reliant, in fact, it was just a few days ago, the micro said that europeans need to stopping. so naive and imagining that the u. s. could be a reliable partner survey much longer the same lives as shown. michelle man, oh my cross sa

u. s. secretary of state on the need to restore the deal. turkish azerbaijani forces have begun a joint military drill near the border with iran. the 2 countries expanded their defense ties after last year's war against armenia and the dispute in the corner caraballo region. while those the headlines and now it's back to al jazeera while, i'll see you after i've never seen so much devastation or experienced how quickly everything can change. as the current of ours pendant surged, the events in india became much more than just story. wow. going to one was affected, we couldn't keep the people we cared about alive, and there were times on air when i had to hold back tears. but every day i was driven to convey the connect of trauma to make sure that despite the high numbers, we didn't forget that every single death represented of families worst moment. and how and not suffering could have been avoided. i became a journalist to tell the story of what is happening, but also show the wider context. i'm elizabeth moran. m mm. more you know when of well yeah. oh yeah. oh yeah. now with oh, wait. oh some of us with a with with a booster a in the my new spot, the ocean go get

u. s drone strike killed 10 civilians in afghanistan. now the u. s military is offering to pay the families of those who die. on friday, pentagon press secretary john kirby said the department of defense is committed to making condolences payments and working to relocate surviving family members to the united states. last week, the undersecretary for defence spoke with the ceo of an aid organization that was mistakenly targeted in the strike. one of the groups workers, some r e ahmadi was the main target in the u. s drone strike that american officials initially called a success. the united states thought they were targeting an isis k cell with a hellfire missile. instead they killed seven children and three adults. last month, we visited the site of this drone strike in kabul and spoke with the families who will now be assisted by the united states. they described heartbreaking and horrifying scenes. in the aftermath of the strike. one man lost all three of his children. i ran to the car to take my nephew and then my wife called to me to take my other nephew. then i saw that the car was burning and i ran to pull out my daughter. she was totally burned. everyone was burned a devastati

u. s. defense secretary, calling the situation troubling and paramount challenge for his department and is far from the only issue facing america's armed forces. over past 2 months, several offices of publicly spoken out against the military's top bras over a range of issues. with the most contentious claims coming from marina to at shelah, he's calling for leaders to be held accountable for the florida withdrawal from afghanistan. he's also now awaiting trial for speaking out out. he's kind of moping looked into why the u. s. army has been thrown into such disarray. the case of lieutenant colonel stuart sheller certainly raises a lot of questions. says criticism of the military certainly happens a lot these days for officers came forward publicly recently condemning the u. s. military over a whole host of issues including vaccine mandates as well as alleged marxist indoctrination. apparently they've lost faith in the u. s. military and instead of obeying they are revolting. all i'm doing is asking open strategic question. this is about principal, i can say this about the freedom of the american people, and i swore an oath to, to protect their freedom. why would you want to serve y