South africa. Ah, this is al jazeera and these are the main stories. Now japans formerly the sions are ave, has been honored in a rare state funeral World Leaders joining i minister from you because she the in paying tributes. I be, was assassinated in orange. You die while campaigning ahead of parliamentary elections. Ah, for many people in japan are on the hockey about the funeral, largely due to the cost. The government says its spending nearly 12000000. 00. What mcbride has the latest from turkey . For me . Okay, there. The co Prime Minister has led to the condolences offering his own tribute to sions, or ave it was his, a controversial decision to go ahead with this state funeral. And it has proved to be extremely unpopular. And a lot of polling that has been taken up and he paid tribute, titians ave saying that he should have lived a lot longer saying that he was a compass for both japan and the world. He reminded the gathering and there are well over 4000 people, including many
This is al jazeera and these are the top stories. The sour poles have closed on the final day of referendums, held and for russian controlled regions of ukraine and whether they should join moscow. They include don isc and la hans can. The easton parts, of course on and separation in the south cave and its western allies have criticized the poles as a sham mohammed. Val has more from moscow love to me to put in from day one, when not to find them was announced. He declared that she would accept the results immediately, and the expectation is not. But after the announcement of the results, probably after tomorrow, the russian duma will meet and they will endorse the results. And the feeling is that this is a complete the media talking about high turn out. So this is a concluded process. It will be closed in a few hours, maybe, maybe its about to close. So it is a fait accompli these regions are going to join russia. Russia is going to make that official in a, in a speech by president vl
Length. And that will not take much time, but time is running out for dog or cell. Got golf and in need of hell. I with al jazeera, these are our top stories. Russian president Vladimir Putin has praise. What he says is chinas violence position on the war in ukraine who met president , she didnt paying on the sidelines of the Shanghai Corporation organization summit. And it was back, hist on a says he and southern ukraine is at risk of flooding off the Russian Forces struck down with several cruise missiles. Officials say the water level of the river near creevy reed roads, around 2 and a half meters after the attack. Ukraines president Vladimir Lensky has met the president of the e. U commissioners lavonne to land, and says avant, lands 3rd trip to ukraine. Since russia began its invasion in february, gabriel is under has been following the meeting in cave. They spoke between behind closed door meetings and briefly spoke to the press. Afterwards, were said that they talked a lot about
A man on tuesday. The Public Prosecutor has ordered the arrest of 3 people in connection with the collapse. Ah. So this is out there are, these are the top stories and thousands of our medians are protesting against Prime Minister nicole passenger. After more than a 100 soldiers were killed in renewed fighting with our supplies, young accusing him of betraying the country after he said he was willing to sign a peace deal to ensure the security rule on top is would be cup. I officially state that no paper has been signed. Moreover, no paper is going to be signed. There is no talk about any paper. This information as a conspiracy to demoralize our soldiers standing at the border. Where Gabriel Gavin is a freelance journalist covering the conflict between armina and as a by john and he has more whats been happening in the area . Well, i think these are some of the largest protests that youre about as seen in recent years. And youve got a lot of people coming out turning up to the pilot bu
A russian lead Security Alliance is sending a Fact Finding Team to armenia. Yerevan has asked for military help in its latest conflict with assa, by john more than a 150 soldiers have been killed on both sides since monday. Protesters in armenia have accused Prime Minister nichol, partially out of betrayal. After he said, is willing to sign a peace deal to ensure security. Ashley on later said nothing is official. The southern ukrainian city of creevy is at risk of flooding after Russian Forces attacked a dom using cruise missiles. Some people have been asked to evacuate their homes after water levels. Rules on a nearby river cable is under, has more from were hearing from the mayor of cleary who saying that about 100 are homes there have been flooded. And a partial evacuations are taking place of some of the neighborhoods of creevy. It does not appear to be catastrophic flooding. Nevertheless, it is still causing Serious Problems because this damn, or was hurt by several russian missi