the corners of the lo and across all sides, chalk away out of the join at the top, on the forums powered by blue. ah the warm welcome follow home, but bow as ivory coast. former president returned to nation he left in the grip of civil war. but will he bring com or great attention? ah, to this is out there life on the also coming up, a choice of for just out until pose open in iran, with a hard liner who backs nuclear talks predicted to win the presidency. a dark his

day in the pandemic craft canister on a record 101 current of ours. death in one day with a warning. hospitals can't cope. and kenneth cohn does ambien liberation. heroes left the country for nearly 3 decades. dollars aged $97.00. ah. larry spent a decade in exile and now former i recall president law by bu, as returned home the 1st time since being ousted during the civil war, a small number of loyalists are allowed to gather at the airport in every journal to welcome the 76 year old back, more thousands more lined the streets to catch a glimpse of him secured his tight across the city with police using tear yes and lie fire to disperse large crowds of supporters. a former history professor served as ivory coast president for a decade until 2010 when he was defeated by current leader, us on what

a ha. but he refused to accept the result leading to a 4 month civil war, which led to the death of at least $3000.00 people. a year later, he was captured by un and french backed forces. he became the 1st former head of state to go on trial at the international criminal court on charges of crimes against humanity at becca was acquitted in 2019 and has been living in brussels since his release in the same year. and ive oriend court sentenced him in up century to 20 years in prison for looting the central bank. although he still very popular at home, there is a chance it could be arrested until addresses at ly 1st in abbey jones. tell us how the return is going so far. well basically while celebrations nearby, he's supportive. we are from 50600 meters per quarter. now a divided part been for the last one i want that's been good. it's free for portals

in buses, on cars, on motorcycle moving towards the headquarters just far away from where we are now. and this is telling us they are going to party all night in the midst of excitement. you also hear anger, you hear about prostration. we also hear about the possibility of challenging the party in power yet to clear is that or is back home 10 years after. and the process of recommendation could take longer than expected. a lot of people that i didn't pick up and by the way, expected return could lead to a form of reconciliation. and. busy john, in the morning this afternoon and continuing into tonight, is that mr. lauren bubble will have a very, very difficult task. reuniting

a country, many people want to how he re qualifies this project, which is now divided. and then that will give them an indication of whether or not this is the right person to leave the reconciliation in recalls. but this is deeply divided and we took an auction on the street today. the point to a very, very deep divide in ivory coast and the current leadership did to facilitate his return. in some ways, you mentioned that the efforts towards reconciliation is actually a formal process to follow. or is it just that they kind of figure it out as they go along? the lauren for the last decade reconciling i bought it what it looked like, the government didn't take that profit. so largely civil society

organizations and victims have organized themselves to try to find out what happened and like one of this person mr. motors told me, and i need to hear that everybody in this country is 1st. everybody has been a fortune. it's only supporters of the holding party who i've been in the position . everybody in this country with a person will be other now. also people are still very, very angry. mister boyce give him his part in your supporters with the president of his party, the government especially not providing enough security along with thousands of supporters of bubble into the apple to wait a minute. there was a yes that could be generated and nobody knows exactly what the support is. i guess that's why the security forces prevented from that into the airport. now you want

to be done like this tonight, with so much presence of security forces. they want to mix up things don't get out of that. now it's important for the next one week that could give an impression of why this countries. but at the time for the time being, the temperature in many other parts of hybrid goes is very, very high. a lot of people really, really scared the things to get out of hand unless what sites the jump into the unites very close to, to generate and live in the machine for. thank you very much indeed. ah, no, just hours until pose, open or concerns a few iranians will cost their ballot for president. there are suggestions that

turn out could be low, with many voters disillusioned after several candidates were blocked from running. a conservative head of the judiciary abraham racy is widely seen as the front runner, with support from hard liners was it was a, he is former chief of the revolution regard. the perennial candidate, he's run and last 4 times already. i mean, who's saying as you today, how shimmy is the youngest candidates at 50 years old. and the former deputy parliamentary speaker and of the nasa her matty as the former central bank governor needing opponents to paint him as responsible for wrongs economic words. he supports reviving the nuclear deal with western powers and we would like to, i said vague and tyrone, but fast his report on how economic concerns could be a major factor on the streets of iran. there's one topic that everyone is talking about, the economy hit by some of the toughest sanctions iran has ever seen. as well as what some believe is government mismanagement,

the coven pandemic has caused the economy to plummet further in 2019 the country. so widespread demonstrations after a fuel price, like, according to the iranian government, more than $200.00 people were killed in violence, the still unrest, but it's not limited to fuel prices. the muslim social goods, we saw our basic necessities since last year. prices of some items have gradually increased by 30 to 50 percent pastor noodles salad dressings, junior tomato paste. everything you can imagine has had a 30 to 40 percent price rise in just $1.00. yeah. iranian cough. it's a famous around the world. but even this trade has been hit hard and they blame it on many reasons, but usually it's the sanction we have to live, but we're struggling economically. certainly the main reason is these thanks and but management has a significant role to the new president would have an uphill challenge when it comes to the economy. when he can show us that we didn't have the chronic problem

with always faced his inflation. it's always been high in the past decade was 40 percent on average. we had 2 inflation shocks in the last 4 to 5 years. inflation in the short term, could be controlled by interest rates, which in turn leads to recession. we can't continue going on with the card 40 percent inflation anymore. the government should fillets budget deficit and implement reforms. the size of thereon many people earn less than $150.00 a month. the woods here have adverts for laborers, usually paying less than the minimum wage on get and the cost of living is very high. it's very difficult. people have many problems, rents, and other miseries. you don't know whether to pay to rent or do shopping. only god helps us officials should think about us renters. the youth in the future. i just feel ashamed when i can't buy something for my kid a times. i can't really buy what i want for her. okay. i mean, once that can be,

conditions are very bad, the price of cooking oil used to go up once a year, but cooking or butter went up 4 times. last year we can, we can meet our condition wasn't good, but it wasn't very bad either. now i can't buy butter or cheese, i expect from the new government to make goods cheap in this poor neighbourhood, some still hope things can change its working class areas like this one across iran . the establishment relies on fritz core support. i'm working with standard of living must be improved if the new president is there any sorts of success? i said big i just there are there on the coastline. not too big. tell us what the expectation is on turn out. well, so far, if you look at the polls carried out inside the country, it's not going to be very high. now. the lowest turn this country ever had in presidential elections is around 50 percent back in 1993. now some of the polls are saying that it will be less than that, but i can tell you is last year's parliamentary election here had the lowest turn

out since the revolution in 1979. it was 42 percent nationwide. and here in raleigh province, it was around 25 percent. so if it is less than 50 percent, and abraham right, you see the lead in this election? i knew who is also the judicial chief, the conservative candidate, if he manages to get just under 16000000 votes like he did last time, he will become iran next president. now many here think that it's already a done deal, that there was no real opposition to your brain, right? you see? so he would definitely be the next countries president. that's what many people believe. so the question is how many people are going to charge? what percentage of the vote is going to get and what is going to do to make the daily lives of iranians? iranians better. but if you'd be watching state tv here, they've been pulling out all the stops to get people to come out to vote. they used a religious arguments, the political ones, and the nationalistic ones. but while we were being out on the street that he's here and there on, there are many people telling us that they're not going to vote. they don't see the candidate that they want in the election because of those disqualifications. and

many people just feel like done over the last 4 years because of the present test. and ronnie, of my time, the handling of the economy, i said vague. thank you very much. indeed, i've got us on has recorded its highest number of current of ours death in one day since the pandemic began with aid groups warning the situation in the countries spiraling out of control. 101 people in the past day died with international committee of the red cross saying cases have risen 2400 percent in the past month. hospitals are already full in many areas, with oxygen supplies, running out less than half a percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. so fall dr. neela navarez is the president of the afghan read credit. and she told us about the difficulties facing afghanistan's pandemic response. first, the eastern part was head and slowly not, not slowly but it quickly after that,

it is all over the country, almost cobalt, with its 4500000 population is really and very big shortage rehab. and fortunately not received an oxygen plants on time and that was another big problem currently do. oxygen shortage is huge. a little bit under control by the ministry of public sheltered cells. unfortunately, our national partners, faith to bring on time hong kong as largest pro democracy newspaper has warned, the press freedom is hanging by a thread of to 5 of its executives were arrested on the china's national security law. police rated apple daily news from the 2nd time in 10 months, accusing it of colluding with what the government calls foreign enemies to hom, china. adrian brown has more from hong kong. the office of hong kong is most

popular newspaper. once more a crime scene. in an operation involving up to 500 police journalists will order to leave the newsroom while their computers were examined. fight executives were arrested, including the papers editor in chief ryan law. all were taken by police from their homes during early morning rates. there suspected of being involved in the publication of articles that encouraged foreign countries to impose sanctions and hong kong. the suspects have been arrested on strong evidence that they are conspiring to endanger national security. the action is taken against the criminals who make use of journalistic work as a tool to further their criminal activities. the newspapers owner jimmy lie was arrested and charged under a new national security last year that followed

a previous raid on the apple daily lie is serving a 20 month jail term for taking part in unauthorized assemblies. in may police prose, more than $64000000.00 in assets belonging to lie. and on thursday, for 2000000 more belonging to 3 companies linked to apple daily. the papers known foot soft and strong criticism of china's government mixing pro democracy discourse with celebrity gossip. when the national security law was imposed on hong kong, almost a year ago, the territories chief executive carried said it would only effect a small number of people. since then, almost a 100 people have been arrested and more than 60 charged including leaders of what's left of the pro democracy movement here. lamb says that that law has ended months of calles here and restored stability. and stability is what china's leaders

want most right now as the ruling communist party repairs demarc. it's $100.00 anniversary. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong. the army in nepal is using helicopters to rescue people stranded by flash flooding in the foothills of him. a live, at least one person has died and 7 is still missing after rivers burst. the banks following 3 days of monsoon reign, robbie has more. the monsoon comes to nepal every year. farmers rely on heavy rains to revitalize rivers and their crops, but no flesh floods and landslides made worse due to the loose soil from past earthquake for people living in the foothills of the himalayas. the perils of the wet season have only just begun yet to think about making a new start. all the riches that we are in lie in that house which is now covered

in mud, and it's not accessible. we don't have anything now, not a thought about way to go and how to go. soldiers have been air lifted in and have rescue dozens of people, but many more remain at risk. and since paul chuck, district and heavy rains are expected to continue for at least the next 2 days. the situation is being compared to an earthquake 6 years ago saying something about this. flush flood is attributed to heavy rainfall and upper lying areas, incessant rainfall and movement of masses underneath the glaciers. trend down hill . these have dumped into low lying areas here we suspect it's a glacial outburst. survivors are streaming in to make shift shelters. more are likely to come was approved for us, took away our land properties and all the documents of value. our family of 4 must survive either by doing labor or any other means of the conditions. go back to normal. villagers traditionally go to the highlands this time of year to escape the

summer heat with climate change and soil erosion from urban development have made the impact of seasonal rains more severe every year. more than $200.00 people died during the pause, monsoons last year. and a season that once symbolized the renewal of life is now associated with hardship and then basra, the algebra doesn't come with a 0. why stroke? because the president will give american holiday on friday and how it commemorates the end of slavery and boldly going where no chinese astronaut has been before. 3 men now in residence, in the countries fast by station. ah, ah hello, there are clear skies and sunshine continue to dominate for central and north

eastern areas of europe as we move towards the weekend. but for the west, it's still a very wet picture. the heat is still there, but that rash of thunderstorms continues running from portugal into spain, france as well. and the british, i see some of that wet weather. we seen flash flooding in madrid, we could see more where those thunder re down paws tend to be heavier and last longer. but as you go to saturday, we would have weather system working its way in bringing some of that wet weather to ireland. and norway will see those thunderstorms as they work their way up north . so wet weather on the way, but centrally look about sunshine, clear skies coming through for germany, for austria and poland. and if we look at the temperature over 3 days for berlin, we're sitting in the early thirty's, so 10 degrees above average from what we expected this time of year though, a little bit of cloud will come in for the wet weather. we have to go to the balcony. romania seen some of those heavy showers. we could see some flooding here

. similar story for ukraine, and greece, seeing a flute, few showers with some of those brisk winds kicking about in the islands. and as we move over to north africa, it's a bit of a windy picture for morocco. the city defined by military occupation. there's never been an arab state. he with the capital of jerusalem. everyone is welcome. but the default sexual that meant in the colonial project. that's what we refuse, was one of the founder of the settlement with this and the story of truth to the eyes of its own people, segregation, occupation discrimination injustice. this is our side of the 21st century drew for them, a rock and a hard place analogy 0 ah

ah, one of the top stories yolanda 0 for my i recall president a home by bowers returned home the 1st time since being asked to during a civil war more than a decade ago pose is set to open in a few hours in iran presidential elections, president. he has appealed to people to cost that balance voter turnout is expected to hit record lows. and i've got some record at the highest number of current of our staff in one day since the pandemic began with 8 groups warning the situation in the country as far as control and the next few minutes us president joe barton will sign a bill into law creating a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery to speak to fisher in washington dc. so or what's happening on well,

we've seen some of his guests that have been arriving over the last hour or so for the event. they'll take place in the white house in about 10 minutes. he's signing this into law. so june 13th becomes a federal holiday. so what is june? 18th marks, june 19th back in 865 when union soldiers finally made it to parts of texas and told slaves that they were free. so why is that significant? because it came 2 years after the emancipation proclamation from abraham lincoln. these were the final state slaves to be free and every day since that every year since that day we have seen this occasion being mark, there's been a growing call for this to be a federal holiday over the last few years. finally, it was passed by the house on wednesday, and it will be signed into law by joe biden. the number of campaigners, the thing like this is good. it's important is significant, but, and the, but it's very important and the, but is that a number of people who voted for this in the house and also in the senate are also the people that are holding up a real issues for african americans here in the united states,

they are not supporting a police reform and justice reform. they are not doing anything about the states who pass laws over the last few months, which many people believe have made it much more difficult for black people to vote . they are not discussing any terms, the possibility of recreation people have been affected by slavery for many years going on and they see and they're not, they're not keen on slavery and discrimination being taught in school. so they say these issues would have to be address because it's all very well having a federal holiday. but if you don't go to the systemic problems in the united states, then it seems as if not a huge amount of gary has been gained in the past 156 years. the guaranteed federal holiday will be celebrated on friday. that's because the 19th is actually on saturday. so the 1st federal holiday mocking the freeing of the slaves will be to morrow. allan fisher, thank you very much. the urine is against the human rights situation and minimize

deteriorating and fast. it comes of the violence following the crew continues. videos posted on social media for most of the village of kin. my in my gray region bent to the ground. but it just say government troops, fire guns at them for burning nearly all $200.00 homes and cattle on tuesday. while the current national defense force, one of the regional groups ranged against the military says fighting and chaos state has started again. tony cheng reports from my house on, on the time me and my border this is some of the a that's been hastily pulled together by a current organization and had to be sent across the border. and to me were still more than a 100000 people sheltering from fighting with very little shelter themselves and very little food or drinking water. they've got blankets here to protect them from the cold rain jackets. it's the monsoon season, the water medicine and food up at the front,

but also big plastic buckets for storing water and cooking pots, because they think those people are going to be there for some time. there has been some seas. fuzz announced in certain areas, but many people are reluctant to return home. those that have found bodies lying in the streets where they were shot. many houses destroyed by heavy artillery, 4 or 5 set by me on mommy. and a lot of people are concerned that well, the thing now is a repeat of what the mommy did in the 1990 s. when they conduct to the policy of sports for the thing, the car, ready out of their homes, burning everything behind them and posting them across the border into thailand, zambia founding president kenneth county has died at the age of 97. he left the country for nearly 30 years from independence and helped other african nations threw off the shackles of colonialism. matessa as more on his long life in politics

. it was 1954, zambia gaines independence from britain for many who were there. it was the time for new beginnings. people had high expectations from zambia, the 1st president kenneth calendar. it was an exciting time as one by one liberation movements in africa, gained independence from the colonial masters colon the rules ambia for nearly 3 decades in what was effectively a one party state. as life got tougher for the poor. many became frustrated and angry. some blamed the struggling economy on colon, the socialist policies, as a puppy, that as he lamed zombie and had had enough after 27 years and power that be as founding father was defeated at the polls. then he did something that still very ray in africa. he accepted defeat and willingly step down. he had been forth from the political arena through the ballot box, but he didn't disappear in the years that followed. he had a troubled relationship with subsequent zambian government. at one point, he was

a keys approaching a coo and they had to fight to retain his ambient citizenship. in quarter. later, he became very nice. the eldest statesmen, engaged in numerous charities, and glad to be willing back the trust and affection of meanings ambiance, many se they'll always remember his trademark white handkerchief, but also the fundamental roles played helping other neighboring countries gain the independence for years than be offered, refuse to african national congress members during a party in south africa, the am radio freedom was allowed to broadcast from the capitol, the sucker it was under code is protection that the ac wait for an arm struggle been a diplomatic one against the apartheid regime. zambia also helps to bob again, it's independence from white minority rule in 1981. and after a long life spent at the center of politics cohen there lived out his final years at home in the country. he loved the zambia. he had helped lead to freedom like you

who government is love the labor of love. the 1st crew to be sent to china's new space station has successfully dogs to 7 hours after blast off the 3 astronauts on the ship. jo, 12 mission. we'll spend 3 months in orbit, katrina, you report on a mission to set up their new home. that's how these 3 chinese astronauts describe that task on board china space station. can who mander in the heavenly harmony the spacecraft bloss it all from china is going to be does it on thursday morning lord was described as a complete success by the country space agency. it's the 1st time china has sent astronauts into space in 5 years. and the longest demand mission, it's attempted to date. the crew members are led by new hi shrunk at 56. he's the oldest chinese astronaut to be sent to space. when media will a bathe, orders, and instructions and to keep calm while carrying out admission. so as to

successfully complete the mission, one home for 3 months, they will perform maintenance checks and construction. while living in the chin heard cor, module that was sent to all that 2 months ago. their mission is the 3rd of 11 required to complete the space station next year. you can go joins the international space station that has been in operation for 2 decades. nasa band china from being involved in the station because of security concerns. and experts say that's called problems when it comes to information sharing, while the lack of communication, we don't know what's going on, trying to keep this cause very close, which chest. and that means that they've got their own web, but they're getting fabulous results. i mean, aging 1st, cent manage space in 2003, and since then it's invested billions of dollars toward the goal of becoming a major space. power. china became the 2nd country to land rover on mars in may. it was the 1st to last one on the far side of the moon in 2019. and in march,

china announced it was coming up with russia to build a research based on the mood within the next 2 decades. the crew on board the can go are under a lot of pressure. the mission has begun just days before the chinese communist party is 100 you on a bursary, on the 1st of july, and the government wants to uphold the country's achievement and space. as proof of its success, so there really is no room for error. the astronauts boarded the space station about 7 hours after lifting off from earth. paging says the can go will function as a floating laboratory and mark a continuous chinese presence and space. so the next 10 years, katrina you out or are aging. ah, the top stories are now to 0. he spent a decade in exxon. but for my, i recall president law by boy has not returned home. the 1st times it's being asked to during the civil war.