a threat to health. wow. and morning in lebanon, funeral is, are held in beirut after the worst street violence in more than a decade. ah, i'm group in afghanistan linked to i so says it's behind a bomb attack on the largest shia mosque in the southern city of kandahar. at least 41 people are said to have been killed and dozens more have been wounded. there was an attack last week on another mosque in the northern city of condos. stephanie deca reports will couple. the explosions ripped through friday prayers, reports suggest several suicide bombers were involved in the attack. this hello. there were 3 people. the 1st one entered and killed the gatekeeper. and the remaining 2 entered the must hit. they were armed, they opened fire 1st, then all 3 detonate themselves together. many of my family members were killed there, then wow! ambulance crews rushed to the scene. casualties mounted. this is the largest shia mosque in kandahar. the province is taliban heartland. in the south of canis dawn, the groups birthplace and stronghold, and this significantly, the 1st attack of its kind here that is 2nd on is she a place of worship in 7 days. last friday she a mosque was attacked and conduce in the north east of the country. more than 60 people were killed as they to attended friday prayers. and i so suicide bomber entered and detonated his explosive. among them. there appears to have been an increase in pace and geographical scope and attacks carried out by iceland. afghanistan over the last couple of weeks on the taliban is always said that it is the only group able to maintain security across the country. with that premise is now being challenged. and despite the taliban saying it had the idol threat under control, just a few days ago, the interior ministry giving a press conference asking taliban fighters to be cautious among their ranks, hinting at concerns of infiltration. the holiday de la de la bars, so that if someone is found in any of army units linked to iceland, let it be known that the unit commander will be interrogated and the unit will be dissolved assaults below. it's 2 months since the taliban took control of the country, having to adapt from insurgency to governance. and despite a diplomatic push abroad, millions of dollars of much needed international donor money are still being withheld. as the international community demands a more inclusive government and the protection of women's rights and those of minorities agencies awarding of a humanitarian catastrophe. as the country is running severely low on cash. salaries haven't been paid and months. millions of people don't have enough to eat . and winter is coming all this compounded by an unpredictable security situation with new dynamics at play. stephanie decker al jazeera cobble. the findings offered compensation to the family of victims of a drone strike in cabal. 10 afghan civilians including 7 children, were killed in the august 29 strong. and during the final days before the u. s. troop withdrawal and pentagon offered sincere condolences and says it'll work towards relocating, surviving family members to the u. s. for my kind of life for us in washington dc, might this was a tragic incident. it was widely regarded also as an embarrassment, the u. s. must be hoping this brings some sort of closure to things. well the thing is the beginning of the process, rob, because this is just the beginning of the discussions. no sons have been discussed . the compensation took place between the ceo of the n g o that employed, zachariah mighty, who was the employer who was killed along with 9 members of his family. it was a virtual consultation. on the other side was the under secretary of defense for policy. now they were basically opening discussions as to how compensation can be paid and down the line in discussion with louis. it will come up how much compensation is going to be paid. this is not unprecedented. back in 2019 more than 70 such cases were conducted. payments were made ranging from $135.00 to $35000.00. but why this is complicated is that normally these discussions are held by regional commanders on the ground. they all know us troops in afghanistan any more. so this is not being dealt with at a distance by the under secretary of state for defense, for the policy department. so he's talking to the c o n g o that employs the killed man. he will be talking to lawyers as well as that goes down the line. but further complicating this is that to the secretary of defense, lloyd austin, has guaranteed that the men surviving family will be repaired, crated to the united states or brought into the united states as is their wish. now this is a method that is dealt with by the state department. so what's another government organization that is going to need to get involved in this whole event, but you're quite correct. it was a great embarrassment for the us military. one must remember 2 to 3 weeks off to the attack off to the 10 were killed. during which period time, the pentagon insisted that it's carried out in attack on the suicide bomber. a took 3 weeks only off the news media reporting. otherwise, the pentagon admitted that it had committed a horrible mistake as it was put at the time. but now the discussion so opened, they will continue. complicated, as i said, by all those factors. mike, thank you very much. i my kind of talking to us from washington dc but it's please say the fatal stopping of u. k. politician david amos is a terrorist incident. the 69 year old was meeting members of the public church and his constituency. when he was attacked, a 25 year old has been arrested on suspicion of murder. that even baba reports from southeast england. does that conservative member of parliament died of his wounds having been stabbed several times during a meeting with his constituents in southeast england, essex police said a man had been arrested at the scene in a church hole in the seaside town of leon. see, the 25 year old was arrested on suspicion of murder and night was also recovered the investigation. it's very early stages and he's being led by officers from the specialist and counter terrorism commodity. we made it clear at the time of the incident that we did not believe there was any immediate threat to anyone else in the area. many in leon c found it hard to believe what happens. yes, i've heard anything bad about him. i tried to help people in that yes, crazy, and he was really involved in the political holes of westminster. meanwhile, shock and dismay, david with a man who believe passionate thee in this country and in its future. and we've lost to day a fine public servant and a much loved friend and colleague. ling time for debate. david amos had been the m p for south and west since 1997 and a conservative member of parliament since 1983. he was one of the longest serving members of the house of commons to talk about animal welfare generally cruelty to animals. a defender of animal rights colleagues describes david amos's kind, compassionate and well light. he said to have been keenly dedicated to his regular open door meetings with constituents and enjoyed bringing their concerns to the floor of the house. he's not the 1st m p to have been killed in the course of his duties. most infamous, in recent times was the murder of labor party, m. p. jo cox in her northern england constituency. in 2016. she was stabbed in short by a far right supporter a week before the bricks at referendum. it can't be beyond the width of man to provide some form of security to members of parliament whilst still respecting our tradition of being able to see your m p. so, you know, when it's coming up, you can roster on a police officer to be in the room if that's what it's going to take. david amos is killing, has clearly created a great amount of shock here in his constituency and around the country. but it's also raised once again, questions of how politicians can maintain contact with the public. they represent. nadine barbara al jazeera leon see in south east of england finance have been held in lebanon after 7 people were killed in bay woods, worst street violence in more than 10 years. armed men, including unidentified snipers on rooftops exchanged gunfire for more than 4 hours on thursday. the political party has bhalla and its allies had organized protests to demand the removal of a judge overseeing an investigation into the 2020 boot port explosion. the judges association has rejected calls to dismiss him. bernard smith is in bay roots were the latest on the blast investigation. and the fallout from thursdays fighting that most lebanese politicians don't seem to want this investigation to go on. they don't just want terry retire removing from his pros post as the leading, investigating judge that are interested in the investigation going on. because it's on billy unveiling and will unveil some dirty secrets. lincoln corruption and lebanese politicians judge retired and only want to speak to politicians allied to his bala. he wanted to speak to a christian general, a kristian politician. he wanted to speak to lebanon's former prime minister hassan doubt. so there were a wide range of people. he wanted to speak to and this investigation has the broad support of the lebanese population, because they not only want justice for the people who were killed in last year's explosion. but they want this as a demonstration, if you like, that there is still some to some sort of rule of law in lebanon and an ability to hold people accountable. a government is called a day of mornings, or most businesses and government offices are closed. as bowler has said that it will not be dragged into a civil war, but a senior leader of the group hashem just as a field in sad at the funerals today that we will not that the blood of our martyrs be in vain and has bala has repeated the accusation that snipers from the lebanese forces her from the christine lebanese forces party ambushed. she either has buller supporters as they came to protest in this part of a route. i'm in an area that divides a christine neighbourhood behind me from a shiite neighbourhood over to the other side. there remains a military presence here. pretty lebanese forces have denied very strongly that they did ambush at these has bowler supporters carved on the street from the town for puerto rico because the po good keeps failing. they say the private company, which took control of the islands electro grid in june. she'd hand control to somebody else. others are angry about like a maintenance and repairs. the power authority to say they've had to throw out medicine is because that would be most power cuts in recent months of counseling center is joining us live on skype from san juan, puerto rico. he's a former secretary of state and left handed governor of personal reasons. it's good to have you with a son, i'll just see. and so thank you very much. indeed, i've seen a variety of different figures about with regard to the size of the process. something anywhere between a 1000 people in 4000 is that representative of how people generally feeling about the situation in puerto rico. you know, basically i always go to google earth before i, before i had see these activities to measure the space. you know, and facts are fast and you know, you can't put a square meter for people can only put one per person per square meter. so i think it was more like a 1000 people. and i'm sorry, then fading. and it's really organizers falls because what they did was, instead of looking for the minimum common denominator and attract everybody who is, is as problems as norma, they only attracted those who are against privatization who are against my contract . who wants to go back to the political, electric power authority, which for 70 years mess up our electric system. but rico, so if they had reformulate the way that they attracted people to the, to the mark. you could have had 510152025000 people and not the meagre, no more than 1000 people that you had. but we have a private company. we just came in there doing some things, right. we're doing a lot of things wrong. and they have to get their act to get from the brief amount of reading that i was able to do with, as the company luma does seem to be stuck in an almost impossible situation. because in the one hand, it is trying to provide some sort of electrical supply, but it's also doing it with the power grid that is essentially being decimated by the, the phenomenon that there, there is been going through. is there a way that you can see that the, that is through this, that is round this and might at least satisfy some of the people in puerto rico that the company is trying to move it forward? no, the 1st thing is they're not in charge of the generating side of the system. that's still the hands of prayer and they're having generating problems or having they've had to shut down plans. they're doing preventive maintenance during the summer, which is the time of the year that you have the highest demand for electric power, all the air conditioning is running and all that. so they're not, they're not in for lack of energy. and they're only in charge of transmitting and distributing what little power is being generated by forever. but i think now there's going to be of greater overview of the governor has order the energy bureau to have a greater overview and make sure that things get done right. on the other hand, you're not getting the needle, for example, that this week, a community in the i don't live with other items that have been bought by the navy forever. i had not had power for 20 years. they started having power this week. so law was doing some things right. and it's correcting failings that prep i've had for decades. but still, it's too little, somewhat too late when they have to improve their under a lot of pressure on they because we're now, as i mentioned before, we're hearing stories of people who are having to, for example, throw medicines because they are there. freezer systems are fridges, are going on the blank because they aren't getting enough power and so on. there is a risk factor to this, isn't it? there is a danger eventually that if this doesn't get resolved to some degree soon than people could start facing significant risks to their health. well, the electric ah, employees, a printer who are, were, or left out of the job at prep up that you had was financing the activity today. they're not interested in getting better service if they're interested in getting everything sent back to prep up, which is where they used to work for the past 2 years. there is no real alternative but to help new wow, improve the service and use of federal funds to get the system improve. we have $10000000000.00 assigned by the federal government to basically redo the electric system. i personally believe that as we knew the redo the system, we should try to design and bill of system not based on fossil fuels, but based on when you will energy from here into the future. and we want to have any problems that way because the sun is never turned off. it's really good to get the benefits of your experience in this circuit. kenneth mcclintock, we appreciate it. thank you very much. indeed. thank you very much. still had on al jazeera former taliban commander makes his bringing a new york court over the murder of 3 americans in afghanistan. it's really scary to think that your baby and maybe cause could be compromised. families are left relying on the river after fuel contaminates the water supply of a remote canadian arctic community. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day at 35000 feet the weather sponsored by cattle airways, but did world's best a line of 2021. hello there. let's start in south asia in the south, west one soon as continuing its retreat south taking the wet weather with it, but it is gonna turn rather wet up in the 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including 7 children, were killed during the final days before the u. s. troop withdrawal atlantic on this call to strike a mistake. british police say the fatal stopping of u. k. politician david amos is a terrorist incident. the 69 year old was meeting members of the public at a church in his constituency. when he was attacked. a 25 year old has been arrested on suspicion of murder. 7 activists in hong kong are due to be sentenced with their roles and last year's pro democracy protests. they refused of organizing and inciting others to take part in the unauthorized assembly. from applies life for us in hong kong with more talk us through. what's going on, rob yeah, this is a further court cases relating back to the protests that we've seen over the past couple of years. the pro democracy activists see. this is a further attempt by the authorities using the legal system using the courts to further clamp down on any type of descent here in hong kong. there are 7 defend table being found guilty of the charge of inciting others. take part in the legal assembly. now this goes back to a july, the 1st protest last year july. the 1st is traditionally here a day for people to go out and protest. it's the anniversary of the hand over of hong kong, back to chinese rule. but it came during the height of the kobe 19. they were restrictions in full set, just stop people assembling because of cobra. 19, these people have been found guilty of breaking those restrictions that 5 of the defendant, that's the, arrived here at this court in that the one side district of hong kong by prison van . because they're already behind bob's either denied bail, or some of them actually already serving length. the stretch is imprisoned for other charges relating to demonstrations that last year and the before 2 of them were out on bail they arrived here going through the front doors of this course. there was a couple of speeches, some of that supporters were here, chanting, support for them as they went into court. one of them is a well known activists that jenkins, seeing he is nicknamed the bowl. he has been involved in political activism here in hong kong for decades of time in prison, talking to him before he went in to hear what his sentence will be. he said he wasn't very optimistic about this place. not optimistic about hong kong. a case if like an hong kong view, just given what's perceived here is the track down on free speech in the past couple years. yeah, let's talk about the free speech because i would imagine that this case, like the others that have gone before i've been watched very closely by supporters . a democracy in hong kong. there is a real change here. it's that change completely in the last couple years. but in particular, since the introduction of the national security law that came into 40 in july of last year because it is so wide ranging the number of offences that you can be found guilty of that to do with the versions. succession isn't even colluding with foreign entities and the trouble with this is it's pro democracy. activists and human rights groups will tell you it is open to so much interpretation. so it has really changed the political dynamic, but also the general feel here in the city of what is permitted now. and the real feeling, especially among activists, that all of the freedoms that hong kong was supposed to be guaranteed have gradually, a very quickly in the past few months of these been eroded away. that was a promise. when this law was 1st introduced, it will be used very conservatively, it only a very few select cases, but in fact, there have been 143 people prosecuted under. there's a whole range of people be that lawmakers or professors or former barristers, and in some case, journalists the prob, aging groups here, the chief executive, kerry lamb, will tell you that this is returned. no, nobody returned a sense of stability to hong kong. but ordinary people have many, or 3 people will tell you that it really has come at a terrible price and you've been left with basically emasculated city ra mcbride's life. first in hong kong, rob things the capital over canadian arctic territories been told not to use any tub water because it's been contaminated with fuel. the colored resident started complaining about the smell of petrol and a water at the beginning of october. but for nearly a week, the city insisted it was safe. alexandra buyers reports the people of the callo it are relying on the river since the beginning of october. they been afraid of what's coming out of their taps, choking petrol fumes when they wanted a glass of water. oily residue on dishes for this family. absolute fear when they had to bathe there 8 month old baby. we're hearing from friends and neighbors and people are getting headaches. are all or there's been other complaints like 5 times . we just don't know it's, it's really scary to think that your baby ah, baby's health could be compromised. and her fears were just confirmed. high concentration of odor was discovered in one of the in ground water tanks at the water treatment plan. the results of water quality testing show exceedingly high concentrations of various fuel components in the sample. in the sample collected from that tank. diesel or kerosene has leaked into a kalu its water system. the government's declared a state of emergency. it's happening in one of canada's most remote cities. the callo, it is in noon of it, the country's northernmost territory, home to a majority anyway, population. the city gets its water from geraldine lake. the water treatment plant is a short distance away, but it's also right next to the power plant, which runs on diesel fuel. both are decades old and badly in need of repair. the city is going to examine the ground, the treatment plant is built on in hopes of finding the source of the contamination . water testing and calories will continue for several months as will the search for who exactly is to blame. ah, to cope the government flying in tens of thousands of leaders of drinking water. bottled water is 5 times the price of the rest of canada. yesterday we gave out about 18000 meters of bottles of water to our citizens. and, you know, when we were done, mothers with, with babies were, you know, saying, you know, what do i know what my baby and i know others were just, what do i do? and it was heartbreaking. it really was probably the worst day i've had as mayor in the last 2 years. but for sema and her family, it's a clear example of one of canada's fundamental inequalities that despite being one of the most water rich countries in the world, $45.00 indigenous communities can't drink what comes out of their taps. and for the foreseeable future, callo, it is one of them. alexander buyers, al jazeera, a former taliban commanders appearing before a u. s. court on terrorism charges has united beula is facing indictments in relation to an attack and have done this time and 20 a weight had led to the death of 3 us soldiers. and the interpreter is also accused of kidnapping, an american journalist and to african civilians. as he bought was extradited to the u. s. from ukraine. last year. the system is following the child in new york. well, according to us, prosecutors 45 year old harvey knowledgeable la is a taliban commander who had more than a 1000 fighters under his command. they say that he was at times also serving as a spokesperson for the taliban in war. dec that province that borders on cobble. he was 1st arrested in ukraine actually about a year ago and charged in relation to the kidnapping of a u. s. and afghan journalist, but these latest charges relate to an attack on us service members that left 3 u. s. service members and their interpreter, dad, they also say he was responsible for commanding forces who downed a u. s. helicopter, in these new charges against him include terrorism charges, and the murder of us nationals. now his attorney mark can be, you know, in court, argued that it was, quote, preposterous for us, prosecutors to argue that he could be guilty of murder in a u. s. court, given these were us soldiers in afghanistan, in a war that the united states started. prosecutors pushed back against that characterization saying that there is precedence in u. s. law to bring charges like this. all of that discussed in court and not beula entered pleas of not guilty against these charges. he's also pleaded not guilty on the kidnapping charges as well. at least one person's died after torrential rains, flooded buildings and roads across greece. overflowing rivers swept through streets and swamped hotels on the western island. the car food, a 69 year old man was killed when his car was carried away by flood waters and the island of if you ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, an armed group in afghanistan linked to i saw that says it's behind a bomb attack on the largest sheer mosque in the southern city of hunt.