in this film, we go back over the last 500 years, a whole 90 history of tribes, boris rebellion and colonization, and explore how and why man still plays an important regional role today. ah, nato. nato stands together, job inhales nato's unity and reiterates his country's unshakable commitment to the military alliance. ah, i'm about as in this is all just even live from bill, also coming up, remembering the victims of covert 19 in the u. s. members of congress observe a moment of silence as we just told approaches 600000 on home the u.

k. prime minister delays plans to ease covered 1900 restrictions in england. as a number of cases, there arises and warnings of a possible radiation making, one of china's nuclear power plants, but ranging dismisses the concerns. ah you as president has promised rock solid commitment to nato following his predecessors criticism of the military alliance. joe biden has won than an attack on one member is an attack on all speaking after the nato summit biden reaffirm the groups unity ahead of his meeting with russia's leader on wednesday. russia and china are both seeking to drive a wedge in our transatlantic solidarity. we're seeing an increase in malicious cyber activity,

but our alliance is still strong foundation. nato stands together. that's how we met every other threatened the past. it's our greatest strength as a meet our challenges of the future and our many and everyone. everyone in that room today understood the shared appreciation. quite frankly, that america is back. all russia and china have been a main focus of the summit in brussels. leaders have agreed to respond to moscow's aggression after trip build up on ukraine's border. the airlines also declared beijing a global security challenge. they also discussed foreign troop withdrawal from remote gonna stand with turkey. thing is going to need logistical and financial help to keep its forces in the country after nato forces pull out. white house correspondent, kimberly alcott has more from brussels following his meeting with nato leaders. us president joe biden, once again identifying the greatest challenges to the security alliance. continue

to be china and russia says both nations are seeking to drive a wedge in that alliance. and to that end, the u. s. president forecasting how he expects to approach his meeting with the russian leader when the 2 will sit down face to face in geneva. on wednesday, the us president calling latimer putin, a worthy adversary, both right and tough. but at the same time, well, there are differences between the 2 countries. he also believes there are points of common interest. but if the united states continues to feel the impact of russian aggression then the united states says it will respond in kind. you as president, also talking about the concerns about the imprisoned russian opposition leader electing a volley. and whether he might die in prison, us president saying, and fact that he believes if that were to happen, it would be a tragedy. and also commentary on russia's perspective. when it comes to human

rights, christy. bettina is a policy analyst on the u. s. e. u relations nato and transatlantic security cooperation. she says biden's, attendance at the summit before meeting russia as president sends a strong message to moscow. present, abide, and alluded to the fact that many leaders had thanked him for having this meeting with president. what's important about the meeting in geneva is that yes, president biden is coming into the meeting representing the united states of america. first and foremost, that is true. but president biden goes on this trip after having deep consultations with the g 7 with nato, with the e u. one president by that goes into that meeting. he brings that interest. he brings the values and the community of the west of nato and the you in the trenches relationship with him. in many ways he speaks on behalf of everyone. and

that i think is really important. having these events having the bilateral conversations with leaders, president biden met today, for example, with, with the baltic leaders who have very strong interests and concerns about russia's behavior. having had that high level set meeting right before meeting president potent, there's an ideal scenario for showing solidarity within nato and solidarity against the aggression now are members of congress. and the us have held a moment of silence as the number of covered 900 deaths. their approaches, 600000 democrats and republicans, student steps of the capital building in honor of those who died. the u. s. a. comes for 15 percent of the worldwide corona virus death toll. but with more than

40 percent of the population for the vaccinated, the death rate has dramatically slowed since january. well, let's go live to my kind of in washington dc. mike. unfortunately, we're used to talking about very large numbers when it comes to cobra, 1900 in the us, put this into some sort of context for us as we get closer to 600000. well, we've had the vaccination roll out for a number of months now and that this particular point, nearly 50 percent of the american population is fully vaccinated. but the infection has not gone away over the past week. let's just take a look at the figures from 25000 new cases recorded every day in the region of 400 deaths being recorded every day. but to put this into a context, one has got to understand that exactly a month ago as this numbers with 57 percent higher. so that's a massive drop over the past month, which would appear to be absolutely attributable to the rollout of the vaccination

. president biden. making reference to that in terms of saying it's tragic that large numbers of people are still dying. but at the same time, the fact that the infection rates and the death rates are dropping so significantly as the vaccination rolls out, shows that there's a possibility that the virus is now being put on the run and figures from throughout the united states show very simply those states in which people are getting vaccinated, the infection rates all lower. mike, i know that joe biden has been wanting to get to like a 70 percent vaccination rate by july. the 4th that's of course, independent in the united states. just give us some idea of how the roll out is, is happening across the country. whether not it's very even, or is it a bit patchy still? well that 70 percent is what some experts contend is. the point at which i heard you minute immunity is reached,

which would be basically an end to the pandemic within the united states. however, the problem is, is that it's very sporadic geographically throughout the united states. for example, the states with the highest vaccination rates in the month in the east. everyone in the top 9 is an eastern state. the states on the bottom of vaccination rates, all happened to be in the south all console. places like that. and also, which is another complicated component, there appears to be the political element because all those states at the bottom of the table in terms of registering vaccine happened to be republican. so this is a critical issue, given the fact that you now have nearly 50 percent of americans being vaccinated. but the concern is that this may be reaching a peak from content that all those who want to be vaccinated have already been vaccinated. so the bigger may now stay static or rise very little in the weeks and months ahead. so the idea of reaching that figure of 70 percent by july the 4th

appears exceedingly unlikely. mike, thanks very much. indeed. my kind of talking to us from washington d. c. while the british government is delaying its plan to ease restrictions in england by a month, the final stage of lockdown was due to be lifted next week. but a rising case is linked to the foss bedding delta variant. which 1st originated in india, as prompt to the government, pushed back a full reopening. paul brandon reports from london, which are like a home testing test kits being handed out in kingston market. square. this barbara a south west london, one of more than 20 across england was sharpie rising infection rates have prompted intensive search testing to identify and isolate cases. the steepest increases among young people and school children groups, which haven't yet been vaccinated. statistically, they're less likely to become seriously ill. the concern is about the various katie

. we want to try and keep the case rate as low as possible, having the virus spreading because we know more spreads more likely to get more mutations and more variance of the virus that may actually escape faxing. we don't want to see that side in the market scratch bhaskar entertains that passes by with music venues closed for the past year. tim o t has survived on loose change and a part time job. the latest postponement provokes a weary shrug. emotion responses. i want to play gigs again. i mean, i want to go out and want to do i live in florida and the logical responses like back at the start, looked down. i was, i was criticizing the government not being tough enough. you know, people were dying and it would be be hypocritical, now to say like, come on, let me say gigs, you know, i honestly, i don't know, june 21st have been the freedom day here in the u. k. and postponing it has undoubtedly been

a really serious dilemma for this prime minister with his libertarian reputation. and as the european summer has arrived, the appetite for mixing and socializing has already increased. but the advice from his scientific advises was stock continue to unlock as planned. and hospital admissions would rapidly reach the peak seen in the 1st wave last year. by being cautious now, we had the chance in the next 4 weeks to save many thousands of lives by vaccinating millions more people. i, once the adults with this company have been overwhelming, the vaccinate, which is what we can achieve in a short space of time. we will be in a far stronger position to keep hospitalizations down, to live with this disease. and to complete our cautious, but a reversible roadmap to freedom. more than 56 percent of u. k. adults are now fully vaccinated and extending restrictions into the summer

months is testing public patience. drifting may be enjoyable on the river, but not in business or politics. pull, brennan, i'll just era. kingston, you can't depend on mac has not stopped the main causes the push people to flee their countries. the one says the number of refugees around the world increased by 3000000 last year war violence, discrimination. they have continued, no matter what for a while depends. this is why the reports this year's report which applies to 2020 indicates a further increase. we went from 79500000 refugees and displaced in the previous report to 82400000. this time, i still had an order 0 on time, so she goes on trial 4 months after being deposed by me and mas militarism and the

new face of israeli politics leads the coalition. government of 8 parties could face his 1st major test on tuesday. ah, ah, it's time for the perfect journey. the winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello that but got some very heavy right into central and eastern parts of china. the moment the plum rains, the i, my you front company located fairway, north ashley area of low pressure will continue to just pull its way further east, which dragging that rain out into the china sea. just running across the far south of the korean peninsula. heading towards que shoes of the parts of japan central as a panel for 6 lobby showers. as we go on through the next couple of days, the possibility some localized flooding system makes its way through. it tells right back back towards beijing more hearts and humid and wet weather rumbling away,

more sundry down pools coming in here. then as we go on through the week, founder is shabbas ph across the philippines from lobby showers. there was a good part of indo china for much of malaysia, its usual case. those heat of the day shall show, popping up in the middle part of the afternoon, may while more heavy rain continuing around northeast and parts of india up towards dash seizing into napoleon. it makes his way further north was looking at snow across more than half of nepal, more heavy rain continuing to across at the western side of india, the heavy showers, the flooding rays will continue across much of the western gats. ah, sponsored pay cut on airways one half go fish and half lebanese. so diversity is really important to me and i'll just era is the most diverse place i've ever worked . we have so many different nationalities and this is these brought together in

this one nice organization. and this diversity of perspective is reflected in our coverage, giving a more accurate representation of the world we report on. and that's a key strength of answer here. ah, the i want to remind the top stories of this. our president joe biden has reaffirmed the united states commitment to nato, amongst a major shift from his predecessor donald trump summit in brussels, members of the alliance, often times against russia, an accused china of b. a security challenge, members of congress and the u. s. has held

a moment of silence as the number of covert 19 death approaches 600000 us accounts for 15 percent of the worldwide corona virus death. u. k. government, delaying its planned to use restrictions in england by amongst the final stage of lifting restrictions was due to be counted out next week. but why isn't the case it linked to the delta valium, which 1st originated in india, is from to the government to push back a full reopen. wells is taking office us president joe biden has repeatedly said america is back. and so our old alliances odyssey this diplomatic editor james base, looks at how nato might change under his leadership and the challenges faces. for the 1st time, for over 4 years, nato's most powerful member. as the leader who is firmly convinced that the value of the alliance we do not view nato as a sort of

a protection record. we believe that nato is vital to our ability to maintain american security for the next. next remainder of the century. when nato was founded in 1949, he had a clear mission waging what became known as the cold war and making sure it didn't become a hot one. after the fall of the berlin wall, nato troops were deployed to try and hold the peace in the balkans and, and in 2003, they radically changed their mission and sent troops to afghanistan in nato's founding treaty. the king clause is article 5, which says an attack on any member state is an attack on all the nato countries. it's only been in vote once in 2001 after 911. this year, nato allies were given no choice but to follow president biden's decision and pull out of afghanistan. but they know the taliban are emboldened and there is

a considerable fear of what comes next. they will be a power vacuum. there will be a tussle for power between the current government, the taliban, other groups such as isis that of forming. and of course that is going to cause a huge amount of instability. lots of sadly civilian casualties. and of course, a spill over into the region and perhaps internationally with terrorism. and so all of that is going to reflect very badly on the long term reputation of nature. nato now has to find a role in a multi polar world with china. and once again, russia seen as its main adversaries. but there's little doubt its mission in afghanistan has left its resolve somewhat diminished, and its reputation more than a little damaged. james bay's outages era london, miramar deposed leader also. so she is expected to face more charges on the 2nd day of a trial. proceedings began on monday behind closed doors. so she was charged with breeching

covered 19 regulations, illegally possessing walkie talkies and breaking import export roles to other charges including bribery or jews to be read out on tuesday. the county penalties of up to 15 years in prison. so she's been under house arrest. this is a military coup in february. what could you say the charges are bogus and politically motivated, doctor assassin is the spokesperson for me, most national unity, government, and former special envoy to the un. it says the military jones is determined to strip also to cheat of her political power the case against i was fascinated and our president is a show try. it has nothing to do with the law. it has nothing to do with just is it has everything to do with prolonging of military who are going to tear or a nightmare. this is a bri,

fix vantage. it's a fraud child, a game to her. when denounced these fraud charges against our policy and the president, we mean the military is the to mind to ban her for standing for elections. and they are preparing phony elections where only the candidate who are approved by the military hunter will wind seems far so february, nearly 900 civilian people. a mere ma have been killed by the military hunger. they include 7, the 2 children, and nearly 6000 brave people. mamma, being detained duty curly. and now one full program is saying, 6400000 people in minima will be without food by the end of october

2021, and have population of my country, which is 54000000. that means 27000000 people of my country will be living under the populi, by the end of the year, this year. thousands of people to be evacuated from their homes after an explosion at a chemical plant. in the us state of illinois, massive plumes of black smoke can be seen for several miles away. but emergency workers say there is no danger to air quality at ground level firefighters. planned to let the fire continue to burn the building is pretty much consumed. we're thinking that this is going to be a several day event to have all this product burned off. and that's the best thing that we can do right now. and the main thing is that we don't want an environmental nightmare to occur and, and the reason we can that we would cause that is by the use of water streams. so we're letting this product burn. and that's the safest thing that we can do,

because we're so concerned about the, the product run off into the waterways. we did the operators of a nuclear plant in china, fixing what they say is a performance issue after concern was raised over a build up of gas emissions as follows, reports of a possible radiation leave the facility in kwan don't province. the chinese state operators as activities in the power station meet safety standards and the surrounding environment is secure. the plants, other operator, french energy giant adf, is called for a meeting with its chinese partners. you for andrea on. the gunderson is chief engineer of fair winds. energy education and he explains what the problem is likely to be. i have a little nuclear fuel piece of nuclear fuel. this is, this is an example, and these are stack 12 feet high. and they're wrapped in a metal wrapper. that metal wrapper in theory keeps all the nuclear radiation from

this fuel, from getting out at least one. if not more of those though, she's metal sheet about a stick as a dime. have cracked in the releasing radioactivity into the water inside the nuclear react. that it's a gas, it's called the xenon encrypted noble gases and they appear to be building up inside that nuclear reactor. and some reports say they're also leaking out of the nuclear reactor. and the right thing to do would be to shut the nuclear reactor down. and look for the cheese that are leaking and replace them. and it does appear that the chinese want to do that right now. within the nuclear industry, there's not a lot of trust. in, in the chinese nuclear program, they tend to make things look better than they really are. this reactor designers have numerous problems. that components will have to be replaced in the next year

or 2 because of cracking. and so nuclear engineers within the rest of the world of our resident rather than to trust what comes out of out of china for information. israel government is a part approved a jewish national launch, a move that risks in same intentions of palestinians. a day after prime minister in the family balance came into power. far right groups, plans and march around occupied east jerusalem's wald old city on tuesday. attentions remain high after recent fighting palestinian groups have called for a day of rage against the march. as it has coalition ranges from the far right to the left of the political spectrum and includes a palestinian israeli party and that is raising questions about how is going to govern and how long it can last. are the faucet reports from western resume.

israel's new government is signed and sealed, but can the so called change block deliver on its promises of stability and sanity, of change from the dysfunction of the last 2 years. in the 1st instance, that task falls primarily to the new prime minister, natalie bennett. this was him last week, appealing to his predecessor benjamin netanyahu. the son heard them denial and let go at the country. move on. people are allowed to ward for the establishment of a government. even if it is not you who is heading it, a government that is 10 degrees to the right of the current one, by the way, music to the ears of bennett, loyalists like jeremy salton. but how can such promises fit a coalition that extends from hard right to far left? we can't go to a 5th election. we can't go ahead and continue this situation where we're not making any decisions in this country. and you know what, there are plenty of things that all of the parties do agree upon. if we can stick to that and only do with that. and i'm very cautiously optimistic that we're going to be able to do that. i think this might go down is actually one of the longest

governments in israel's history. that would mean not dealing with the issue of the palestinians or continued settlement expansion in the occupied west bank. bennett is an avowed opponent of a palestinian state and a former leader of the main settler. yes. counsel. the current occupant of that row says he's been given guarantees that settlement building will continue on israel palestine. expectations alone that the self styled managerial government will do anything beyond managing the status quo. and that means continued occupation continued, settlement construction, continued diminished prospects of a 2 state solution. the coalition says it's focused will be on the domestic israeli agenda. but that does include a landmark movement for israeli politics evidenced by the presence of months or a bus in this now famous photo of the coalition deal being done in return, the facilitating this government, a buses, united arab list. once funding for neglected palestinian is ready, towns, policies to end the gun crime that is so afflicted. an amnesty on thousands of

homes built without permits. the you for now centrist? yes, t lead a guy law peed will be foreign minister. taking over the top job from bennett in 2023. if the government last at long, the success of forming this coalition is in his name. and while many people think that the government won't last its full term of 4 years, as you said, if it, if it doesn't, he goes away. having got rid of netanyahu, the primary goal having created a new government. but nothing yahoo remains the very active head of a strong right wing opposition that will try every trick to bring down this new government for natalie bennet attack last week by netanyahu's ultra orthodox allies as wicked evil and a danger to the state. job one is to prove that israel can indeed manage without the man who for so long sold himself as its essential leader herring force had algeria west. jerusalem malicious government has extended

a 2 week nationwide lock down, shutting all non essential businesses that fights a surgeon cases of covered 19 for medical experts say a more targeted approach is required forms 3 reports from calling them for every day at lunch time. could chara soup kitchen in downtown quality pool, hands out food packs to those in need. the nationwide lockdown has shut all non essential businesses until the end of the month, creating hardship for some. there's a sharp rise in terms of people in the forty's coming in for food. and both of them have actually have a job beforehand and it is because of this kind of make yourself the business for years. now the government has extended a 2 week is locked down for further fortnight. citing the high number of new cove at 19 infections,

health care facilities here overstretched. private hospitals have been asked to increase the number of beds for cove at 900 patients. and the armed forces will bill 6 more field hospitals. in addition to the 3 set up earlier malaysia cove at 19 positivity rate of around 7 percent is higher than the w h o 's threshold of 5 percent. furthermore, more than 80 percent of reported infections don't belong to an identified cluster, indicating the infections, asper radek, or online public health policy specialist say, this data indicates a lockdown will not be enough to reverse the trend of rising infections. look for the cases, instead of expecting the cases come to you find test trace. isolate then support. when you do what testing go, it will mean that they positive figures will go much higher than what we see today . but it will also mean that more people can be treated earlier and saved lives.

the government has accelerated its vaccination program including rolling out mobile units in areas where residents may have difficulty getting to vaccination centers. just to 4 percent of the population has been fully inoculated. so far, the government aims to reach heard immunity by december. the slow delivery of vaccine supplies and delays by manufacturers may hinder this gold. florence louis al jazeera col import. many states in india have eased corona virus restrictions, including the capital deli, about a new infections dropped to the lowest level. and more than 2 months, infections picked in may with about 400000 new cases. a day they dropped to just over 900000 new cases on monday, but deaths are still high. authorities in delhi have a lot of shops and moles to reopen. ah.