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fears the outbreak in haiti could proved catastrophic and obedience parliament in peaches and discharges president director for violating the constitution. ah hello, thank you for joining us. us president joe biden has just touched down in the u. k . on his 1st official trip abroad since taking office, the 8 day visit to europe take thin g 7 and nico summits, as well as talks with russia's president vladimir putin next week before departing, and joe biden outlined his hopes for the trip, saying it's about america rallying the world's democracy's lion making clear to drive the euro from the united states or the g 7

is going to go well, the trip is a chance for buy them to show other world leaders that the u. s. values, it's partners and allies. after for rocky years under donald trump, allen fisher reports from washington, d. c. joe biden's, 1st phone trip as president markson you phase in the corona, virus pandemic. and us relations with the rest of the world. after a series of virtual meetings, the heads of the leading 7 global economies will meet face to face in the u. k. at this time, there will be a us president who has left deliberately disruptive donald trump repeatedly confronted otherwise, leaders over trade, climate change, and even the prospect of bringing russia. but into the g 7 group. what happened under the trump administration is that it really shook a lot of countries. views of the united states as a partner, as an ally and part of biden's job is trying to restore those ties, restore that image of the united states in the eyes of those countries. precedent

biden will also meet with nato leaders and aligns donald trump talked about leaving . the argued he was ready to purchase a traditions and fellow leaders to deliver on his agenda. trav spent 4 years tearing down nato criticizing. other countries in europe suggesting that united states would be better off without it, why are we tied down here, et cetera, etc. and so i think biden sees this as an early opportunity and an early public opportunity to demonstrate his personal diplomatic skills. the top presidency questions challenged and up ended. many traditional american political and military positions. joe biden might be able to smooth over the cracks, but he can't guarantee that things will be that way after the next election. that relationships that were taken for granted will continue as they always have biden's biggest challenge will be his summit with russian president vladimir putin. a man he suggested, is a killer, a man. he believes that behind recent cyber attacks on the us. a man who says

america should prepare for some uncomfortable truths at the summit. there are no illusions about the state of the us, russia relationships. so the number one priority will be to these put this on a stable and predictable track. need to show that there are real costs and that this is an administration that will stand up to russia's d, stabilizing behavior, or the leaders hope they're gathering. we'll send a message, things are getting back to normal. joe biden believes he has to send the same message after 4 years of donald trump. i was for sure i'll just either at the white house. well, our diplomatic editor james base joins me now from truro and cornwall in western england, where the g 7 summit is taking place at. so james, would you think the main focus of the summit will be while is a lot to focus on, given the state of the world. clearly the world is not quite in the same mess. it was in a year ago because some people are getting vaccines and slowly that is spreading out to 2 countries around the world, but many are being left behind. so cobit,

i think, is issue number one, but related to cobra is the, can all make devastation caused by this global pandemic which has affected every part of the world. so that's certainly issue number one. the other issue that will be there for all his meetings. i think is the issue of climate change because remember, president biden signed back to the paris climate deal. and as a really ambitious agenda ahead of another important meeting happening again here in the u. k. actually in glasgow in december to try and get the world with some, with some new vicar and some new targets for climate change. so that's those are, those are the big issue areas. but then i think there are also the problems that they face in terms of other countries because this is a meeting of democracies, both the meeting that's taking place here and comb with the g 7 and then nato and

the e u. but they've got to work out how to deal with 2 other countries, powerful countries in the world. they, of course, are china and russia, trying to get a united position among all of these partners and allies of the u. s. and how to deal with those countries. and once they come up with the nice position, then to put that into action and the big test i think will come at the end of this visit when having got the backing of all his partners. president biden does was one of the hardest things for us president to do, to sit down with the russian president, vladimir putin, may well end up some sort of confrontation, certainly on some issues. there certainly won't agree on many issues. so that the end of what is, remember the u. s. president's 1st foreign trip after 5 months in office? absolutely. and do you think because it's his 1st foreign trip there, will that we're going to be seeing business as usual between the,

the big western democracies after 4 years of donald trump? well, there's a very big difference from 4 years ago. in fact, 4 years ago, almost exactly 4 years ago, president trump made his 1st trip. and his 1st place he touched down was saudi arabia big there at the time, in saudi arabia. none of us knowing what president trump was going to do, because we've seen the unpredicted predictability in his 1st few months as president. we'd seen his presidential campaign, and of course that i'm predictability continued for all of his 4 years in office. it certainly disturbed many of the u. s. is allies privately, they really didn't know what was going to happen next. and i think it put real strain on some of the alliance is particularly nato. well, honestly, i've been told by some who close to nato leaders. there were points where they felt that it was possible. the us could have just pulled out of nato. they were that

worried about the situation. so yes, we president biden a return to normal, but i don't think the trust with the us and its allies is quite that in the way it has been in the past. and one of the reasons for that is that president trump is not completely out of the picture. he could run again. he could be back in 4 years time. he could indeed, and we are, of course, waiting to hear from joe biden to make a statement. now that he landed in the u. k, that should be in the next half hour or 45 minutes or so will take life for the moment. james bays are diplomatic editor speaking to us from cornwall. thank you. while you as president joe biden is also revoked at trump era executive orders which sought to ban the popular chinese owned apps, take talk and we chat. biden's administration says it will conduct its own review of several foreign controlled applications to determine whether they posed a security risk to americans. while president don trump issued

a series of orders of concerns about the way that data is being collected from users. ah, the you and is warning that people in me are facing a massive loss of life from disease and starvation. following fighting in the east of the country. weeks of protests against the military, seizing power led to a violent military crackdown. which rights groups say has already killed at least 849 people, most of them civilians. some protesters then joined the villagers informing local defense forces. many armed only with home made guns, catapults and crossbows. the military has responded to these uprisings with artillery and they are strikes. what conflicts have also flared in the borderlands, where some 2 dozen ethnic armies have been fighting the state for decades?

the un says 100000 people fled their homes to escape the fighting. in state alone, often hiding in nearby forests, laura burden manly reports who ne, low hopes the small underground bunker will shelter her from the expected air strikes. when the military moved in with bombs and artillery far in march, hospital schools and public buildings were attacked. more than 100000 people for me and must pay in. state fled their homes, many escaped to nearby, for now they're working to protect themselves against what they expect to be more bloodshed. i go down below that without burn, like in the soldiers are going over the line using the tackle too much current. people live comfortably and safely, but right now we have to leave our homes and hide from the will of these

people. from keynes internally displaced kemp it to her tongue, tried to find a way along the banks of the solving river to safety in thailand. the neighboring kaya is one of several regions where all of the groups are fighting back against february's clues. what elected leader on su, cheat was deposed. we believe that there blockading this area. this is again something they do on a regular basis. they will deny humanitarian assistance to any area where they believe there is resistance to their rule. so, you know, food is doc getting through the potable water medicine, other things that people need. the un envoy says mass deaths could occur from starvation, disease, and exposure. the hunter is blocking roach that could provide the aid organizations and those who are trying to get to them access to these people. and i've also heard

a report, a credible report to just today, but landmines are being laid on the road leading to the forest, where these desperate people are with the wet season about to begin malaria and dank, a fever could also spread quickly, very, to the wondering if there were a lot of middle, some of the women are pregnant and were closer labor which makes it hard for them to travel. some have newborn baby that need a lot of supplies that you to paul has been in a tooth. how come to 15 years and lose what it's like to face hunger? and the concert threats from the military went to new or new order, but he does all. every day i had to follow the news and what the me soldiers were doing and how the were going to come in. so we'd know all the moves for now people have no choice but the barricade themselves into what a very flimsy shelters,

and hope they'll be enough to keep them safe from the next air strike. lower by manly. as the 0 gun men in northern afghanistan had killed at least 10 the local workers employed to clear landmines by a british charity. when they say that they scale the walls of the compound in baghlan province and gathered the workers together before opening fire. 60 more being treated for their injuries, the government is blaming the pallor, van, but his spokesman has belied responsibility. the victims worked for the halo trust, mind clearing, organisation you know, violence has kind of stuff is at the moment, but the most of our work across country we can operate safely. what seems have happened is that this arm group entered. they wanted to find specific people of particular ethnic group and then murdered 10 of them and wounded further 16 and the local taliban actually came to our assistance and the taliban himself has

denied responsibility. so my suspicion is it's a different organization. doctors without borders says 10 of its members are being held by an armed group in northern molly. it's the same region where a french journalist was kidnapped 2 months ago. this, as the head of eco also says that he's been assured that there will be a return to civilian rule. in molly, a delegation from the block of 15 west african countries has visited molly following the countries a 2nd coup in 9 months. military leader as see me going to was sworn in as transitional president on monday. that's after he deposed the country's civilian leaders late last month. going to has promised to hold elections in february of next year. and south african woman has given birth to the 10 healthy babies that's according to local media. dennis world records is investigating. if it's a new international record, it comes just one month after

a 25 year old molly and woman gave birth to 9 babies at a hospital in morocco. the current world record holder is an american woman who had 8 babies in 2009. the most children delivered in a single birth to survive. pretty impressive, still to come in this half hour. a russian court weighs up a ban organisations linked to jail, the kremlin critic alexis and a traditional art form delivers a modern message of dutch opera, warns the world to look after the environment ah ah, hello there, it's a warm and wet picture, weather wise toward the end of the week for europe,

we've got the heat continuing to build across west, in areas, but centrally and to the east. it's a wet and cooler picture. we've got the threat of thunderstorms continuing across the balcony. we'll see those sundry downpours affecting sabina serbia and north macedonia. grease as well thing, some weather weather, with funder storms in athens and southern parts of italy. we'll see some thunder re down ports and some showers hungry as well is going to see the wet weather as a south eastern areas of germany. we've got some flood alerts there and there's a flood warning for east in areas of france where those down ports are going to be particularly heavy, but things change on friday and things start to dry up. the sunshine comes back and let's look at the temperature empowers. we're going to be touching 30 by the time we get into the saturday for the british isles. it's a pretty similar picture, cloudy on thursday, but the sunshine come through on friday. but the heat really is on for the iberian

peninsula. look at those temperatures, $34.00 in madrid with a few showers affecting nor than areas. and as we had to north africa, it's a hot and dry picture across the north. the abuse and then accused by the government of failing to safeguard their families. and the fault lines investigates, institutionalized victim, blaming that is leading to survivors of domestic abuse being separated from their children. how many of those removal do you think were absolutely necessary? probably like 510 percent of the cases that most the abuser needs to be held accountable. not the mother failure to protect on a jazzy oh

a back is that reminder of the top stories on al jazeera us president joe biden has landed in the u. k. on his 1st official trip abroad, the 8th day visit to europe will take in g 7 and nato summit, as well as talks with russia president vladimir putin next week. the united nations is warning of a massive loss of life in me and mar, from starvation and disease following fighting in the east. the you and envoy says urgent action is needed in your state where a 100000 people have fled to providing and government in northern afghanistan had killed at least 10 local workers employed to clear land mines by the british charity, the halo trust. now for more than a year hate, he escaped the devastating impact of covert 19 reporting, few cases and death,

but now it's crackling with its 1st serious outbreak. it's here to administer a single vaccine chart and health official say the upward trend and infections could prove catastrophic. traceable reports. the escaping gang violence importer prince. over 500 people seeking refuge in this fort stadium under the protection of the red cross. among the displaced are almost a 100 children and pregnant women, but it's not just the gang, they're afraid off in the middle of up and demick. it's also cove at 19. 42, we are afraid because we don't know when the virus will hit us. that's why we're asking the government to do something for us because we've lost everything during the gang violence for the past year and a half of the go with 19 pandemic. the number of cases in haiti have been considered to be low, but in may, the numbers of cases study to rice. dr. boyer brinker who is working at the

hospital in port princess. she has already lost friends and relatives to covert 19 . no part yet what's under my lead? good. and we understand that cove. it became a big reality in haiti now. now like before, when we have one or 2 cases and we had doubt about this disease. but now there are a lot of families effected by cove it and we also hear more and more people are dying from the disease. haiti is the poorest country in the americas. it has only around $240.00 cove in 1900 bed for each population of over $11000000.00 people. and i see the increase of coven in haiti is a problem. a lot of our hospital is already occupied and we don't have a big sense of a covert that can take 202300 patients. at the same time, haiti has not received a single vaccine dosier to prevent corona virus, a lack of resources, infrastructure, and testing, or a major concern. the numbers of cases in death are relatively low compared to other countries. but dr. say the actual figures are probably much higher the country

is also now in the middle of a political crisis. protestors have been taken to the streets against the government's attempts to reform the constitution and gang seem to be in control of entire areas across the country. many are afraid of going to a hospital and being caught in a firefight. we are the state in this country. the police is not strong enough to do anything without us. nothing can function in this country. the pen american health organization says haiti will be receiving vaccines soon through the kovak. distribution system is also helping increase supplies of protective equipment for health workers. but it's a violence and in security that has many terrified in the country. a major problem when trying to fight a deadly infectious disease. that is, i will, i'll just euro all day, a russian court has been hearing a petition to outlaw political organizations linked to jail. the position leader. i

like st. county, if approve, they will band of these allies from running and rushes parliamentary elections later this year. the criminal critique is serving a 2 and a half year prison sentence for parole violations related to an embezzlement. conviction. when a smith is following events for us in moscow as so, bernard wants the prosecution's argument for bending down these group. barbara, this is a mom at the late night court session here in moscow. it started at 10 o'clock this morning, wednesday in the courts and on the close by 5 o'clock. so it's an indication clearly that the authorities want this issue want the court to rule on the volunteers organization sooner rather than later, prosecutors argue that the found, these anti corruption organization wants to achieve destructive goals of forming public opinion. that it is necessary to change power in the country,

but friends will say, well, yes, that's how a democracy works. if you want to change the regime, you should be able to vote for somebody else, but nevertheless, this is the prosecution's argument. now, if the court ruled to declare a value group extremists, it will put them in the same category of i'll kind of here in russia as far as groups and even the jehovah witnesses on, it will probably be the final blow to an organization, the election evolving has built over years to try and challenge a lot to me. and i should say that this case has been in the works now since april . and so nevada is older, our organization is already wound itself up, knowing that base within the pipeline, the court's ruling will offend essentially, make it all official. and so if it does go ahead, if it is approved, then it will band around these allies from running in rushes from entry elections this year. what will be the consequences for, i guess,

any sort of pretend said democracy in russia? well, what it means is, up to 10 years in jail, if anybody is found to be in a leadership role of an extremist organization such as nevada, it means up to 8 years in jail. if you will found funding an organization such as no boundaries what the russian government values, ministration is essentially done is use the court and parliament to cut off any avenues that there are legitimate opposition to vladimir putin government in parliament, a couple of weeks passed the law finding anybody who had been a member of an extreme, its organization in the previous 3 years from standing parliament and all this comes ahead of parliamentary election the due in september while, but it may have who to personally remains popular is united. russia party is not the valid the support to say they'll try and still use tactical voting to take away

support from united russia. bernard smith, following developments in that case for us from our school. bernard, thank you. i'll be, as parliament has voted to impeach president ilia, to matter after an investigation concluded that he violated the constitution. the president's rolling pena is considered largely ceremonial. but meta has regularly clashed with the prime minister, a d rama. he's accused of breaking the rules of his office by siding with the opposition during election campaigning 2 months ago. obeying his top court now has 3 months to decide whether to back his impeachment john syrup lewis's following events for us from the capital tiana. that could still be a constitutional crisis arising out of this because this is not over. the parliament may have voted to impeach the president, but it is not solely up to the parliament. the parliament will now send the result

of the vote to the constitutional court. it is for that court to decide whether the president has to leave office and that is more complicated matter because the court is non partisan and it has to decide things on strictly legal grounds. so this is not over the political acts, if this is over tolerant, has expressed the will essentially a prime minister at the robber and the socialist party is base has been the motive force behind removing president. never, ever since he and prime minister rama broke ranks over a political spat in 2019 about when exactly local government elections should be held. as a prime minister rama felt at that time, the president position favored the opposition democratic party. ever since then, he vowed to remove him. in fact, he held a parliamentary session in june of 192 to begin the process of removing him. he sentient the president in that session that the time. so we still have

a ways to go and legal and constitutional terms. german opera and indonesian deforestation might seem unlikely partnership. but conservationists and musicians from indonesia are using the music of wagner to spread the message about their fast disappearing forests. that vassal went to a performance in amsterdam. oh, to indic i am culture of indonesia in the i is the goddess and protector of the forest. the opera sung in both sky and german from watkins during destiny bloom and chose the history of how to forth were destroyed in the valley, montana on borneo and south east asia. both these stories are about woman that is protecting the tree of life and

a man that comes to attack the tree because he wants knowledge and the tree starts to die. and then we have to figure out what we do. and we want to address n i d for a station in cali mountain and the causes of deforestation that come from the west . one of the stars of the opera is to me because you who sell for him south how to treat disappeared. it's thought nearly half of the rain for was in cali month and has been lost in the last 30 years. blue. being a can we need to remind 2 worlds that any i does not like humans to destroy our forest and take away her rights to protect it. i really want to ask the people in europe and the people in the west to say what is left for worlds of our a forest help us help us. 6 0, video illustrate to destruction of the rain forest uprise

being used as a universal language to convey an urgent message combining ancient songs with figures and dates, the audience is taken on a journey of the rain, forest destruction, a musical reminder that ancient may have more humanity long time ago, about an impending disaster. i told the agent of the when the guy and tribe learned that great and a search for power eventually will destroy nature. composer. know, salim yadi and no glass studied korean culture and took its musical instruments to answer them. that ticket me doesn't allow it to when you, when you lie we can learn a lot from the technologically greed and consumerism are very human. and this is what we want to discuss in this performance. we should not leave this global problem in the hands of local communities to solve barbara. 2 0, not only last in the end, the granddaughter of any,

i think the broken pieces of the tree of life back together and wrote on does not survive his attack as he accepts that. greed is not the way an optimistic note at the end of a tragic e post that humans can turn the tide. if we accept or guild steadfast and al jazeera answer them find out much more on that and everything else that we've been covering on our web site to the address al jazeera dot com. ah. and now a reminder of the top stories on how to 0 us president joe biden has landed in the u. k. on his 1st official trip abroad, the 8 day visit to europe take saying that g 7 and nato summits and talks with russia president vladimir putin next week. it's a chance for biden to show the u. s. values. it's partnership partners and allies after.