A looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Hello im daryn jordan this is counting the cost on aljazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week russia seizes control of libyas Biggest Oil Field despite losing ground moscow flounce libya with warplanes and russian. Currency crisis default hyperinflation lebanons economic paralysis devastating exposure so is it time for a marshall fund. Weaponize and data and dissent from ation to manipulate elections hostile nations are using Artificial Intelligence to get past the best media defenses. Well despite being driven out of Eastern Libya by Government Forces backed by turkey warlord he for have to continues to blockade the countrys oil exports and with the support of russian mercenaries is seizing control of the countrys oil fields and its ports starving the country of much needed financial resources. Well have
25 families and we have a twostory house. We cant build it ourselves and we dont have a plot. We have a closed circle, all the packages. We collected all the documents in our hands, but nothing is being done. Temporary housing, a modular town , for many ukrainians, such houses have become a real way out of the situation, because we need to restore what was destroyed by the russians. Astronomical sums are needed, which ukraine does not yet have. It is not known to you specifically, so it is better to start on your own if it is for you maybe serhiy kostesh ictv facts of the week the only chevron news that brings victory closer, our purpose is to be as the best, every day we prove it in practice, our work is lower than the enemy, it is our duty to protect our people, our operations change the course of the war where we work, the enemy has no chance of success, we are the whole village of ukraine. Glory to the special Operations Forces of the armed forces of ukraine, we do not notice them
Three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. We start in brazil and a Landmark Summit to protect the amazon rainforest. The leaders of eight South American countries that share the amazon, have gathered in the city of belem. Scientists are concerned that, deforestation in the amazon may be approaching an irreversible Tipping Point. Brazils president Lula Da Silva is hoping for a co ordinated regional approach, to tackle illegal mining and logging as well as other environmental crimes. Our reporter Azadeh Moshiri looks at whats at stake in the summit. The amazon is, of course, beautiful, but its also hugely important in the fight against climate change. And thats because it stores so much carbon dioxide, which drives the Climate Crisis were currently facing. And yet the forest is under threat of deforestation. Now, 60 of it is located in brazil, which is why the country is taking the lead in hosting eight other countries in south america who share the amazon.
Hi there. Thank you for being with us. We begin in ukraine, where at least five people have been killed in a Russian Missile attack on residential buildings in the eastern ukrainian town of pokrovsk. Ukraines Interior Minister reported that the strikes also injured at least 31 people. Among the injured are at least 19 police officers, five rescuers, and a child. The head of the Donetsk Region said the strikes damaged a hotel as well as shops and administrative a hotel as well as shops and administrative buildings. Meanwhile, ukraines Intelligence Agency announced that it arrested a woman in connection with an alleged assassination plot against president zelensky. The woman was allegedly preparing a russian air strike in the Mykolaiv Region during mr zelensky s visit to the area. Our ukraine Correspondentjames Waterhouse has the latest. So these are quite interesting allegations from the region. Sources from the Security Forces told us they have arrested a woman who is accused of travel
Diplomatic efforts to find a resolution to the crisis have stepped up a gear with a warning from washington. Speaking to the bbc, the us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken has voiced his concern that nigersjunta might turn to the Russian Mercenary Group wagner for help. The group is active in neighbouring countries and its leader has welcomed the takeover. The coup leaders are currently Standing Firm against calls to restore democratic rule. Heres what mr blinken had to say about wagner a little earlier for sure we have concerns when we see Something Like the wagner group possibly manifesting itself in different parts of the sahel. And here is why we are concerned. Because every single place that this group, wagner group has gone, death, destruction and exploitation have followed. Insecurity has gone up, not down. It has not been a response to the needs of the countries in question for greater security. I think what happened and what continues to happen in niger was not instigated by ru