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tax. also in the news, a 3rd wave of infections, gallows paste in south africa where only one percent of the population is fully vaccinations and minerals that power technology. the u. s. has plenty of them that will look at why it's worried about china's market crit and then for germany all back on track of football, the european championship off the losing the 1st month. and they'd be in the title holders, portugal for 2. ah, well, this sunday armenians are deciding whether to give their prime minister another chance after a painful defeat in the war against as the by john last year nichol passion. yeah. he resigned back in april and the snap parliamentary elections hoping to renew his mandate. the reformist is up against

a former president of the near rabbit cutty. how did we get to this point? well, the loss of territory to azerbaijan really hurt pushing young, popular support. there were people actually calling him a traitor. despite that though, this is still a tight race and that is possibly because his rival mystic shoddy on face as a corruption investigation that actually goes back to his last days as president way back in 2008 when he was accused of accepting a bribe from a business woman, the election could also decide the future of the sci fi. a deal with us by john russia sees passion yon as the guarantor of that peace agreement which it helped broker. so let's check in with rory, challenge reporting from yet of on today. hi, rory, how has it gone today? we saw plenty of people outside the polling stations earlier on. yeah, it's a, it's been a fatty healthy turn outs. i think so far there has been a few hours of voting left to go bit. the stats that have been provided so far suggest that compared with the last election in 2018,

the turn out so far is moving ahead of where that was at a similar points in the day. the war last year. certainly hanging over this election as a great big shadow as the reason why it is taking place a toll. but there are a great many other things at stake here than just the outcome of that was just the that the see spot, the person who next occupies the building across the square behind me. that's the prime minister's office, is basically going to have to tackle a huge and daunting list of all manias, problems, yes, as a nation in trauma because of that defeat. there is also that the refugee and p o w problems that have come from the war. but that's a big issue with the economy. there's a big issue with developments and there's a reform program that passion has started and obviously wants to, to push through it. there's a lot of people in this field of candidates for $26.00 parties and the lion says

the front run is though all passion. yeah. and the former prime minister and rebecca cherry, i'm who is a former president at the answer, a former carry on is essentially a moral storage area and former president who has positive painted by scandal. the question is, one of the votes, who's going to choose for i, how are they feeling about each of those candidates, given this great crisis to the country has gone for a while, i find it interesting, rory that the race appears to be quite as close as it is because well, mr. katrina and you would think this would be a great opportunity for him given his opponent is running off to. well, let's face that losing a war. yeah. well, i would say that was a fairly natural assumption would be that it's a prime minister, the last a war as disastrously as nicole fashion. and it would be political history, but doesn't seem to be the case. you know,

the analysts that we've been speaking to here in the people on the ground, etc. i'll say yes that he does carry song, blame a lot of blame for that to face, but it's not just his responsibility alone. you can point to decades many years, at least of missteps over confidence in the military of missed opportunities over a whole the army, etc. i'm not, not just sitting on responsibility. that's also what he's been saying in, in the, the bus since the, since the war was lost. that a lot of the groundwork for that defeat, who pre dated him and also as you said, you have a cherry and who is not a squeaky clean carrot. he has a lot of package that he's carrying. i mean, he is trying to unify opposition and in what is a very kind of disparate field. he might be successful in that, but it's an uphill struggle with people often thinking that he is yesterday man.

and shouldn't been given another chance. ok, just after 5 pm. and yet until a few hours of voting that's we'll be back with. we're a challenge, a little later on to other news and supportive iran, new president of celebrated his victory on the streets of terror on the hotline abraham racy was declared winter on saturday in an election marked by voter apathy and economic hardship. pretty conclusive. he went around 62 percent of the vote, bops just on the half of eligible voters, didn't take part the low turn out, underscoring the challenges ahead when the former chief justice takes power in august. the new president elect has only a few weeks to boot together, his cabinet before taking office in early august, still cert, jabari. take a look at what shape it's frankly to take so you that a show of unity. horrible. while these 2 men are on opposite sides of the political spectrum in iran, what comes next for the president elect? abraham, right, you see is the exact same procedure president how sandrani has gone through twice

to be said. as long as you will pass 1st, the results of the election have to be approved by this body known as the guardian council. it is made up of 12 men who are legal and islamic experts they will certify the results within a week after the interior ministry announcing the winner and about a month after election day and endorsement ceremony by the supreme leader confirms the new president. then within days of that, the new president makes his way to parliament for another inauguration ceremony which is presided over by the head of the judiciary. following that president elect, right, you see has 2 weeks to introduce his new cabinet to parliament who votes on each of the 1900 physicians in the new government. once the majority of the 290 member parliament votes in favor of a candidate, then the person is officially a minister. but there are 3 high profile cabinet posts which need the final

approval from ron's highest authority. those include the foreign minister intelligence minister and the defense minister poem, but i them don't. but the logic behind that is because the position of supreme leader is that of the head of the country. he needs to be directly involved in choosing those ministers whom he will be dealing with, alongside the president mosaic or fast to shake it in. the basic convention is that the supreme leader deals with foreign policy issues. he also deals with all security issues in the country and in turn deals with the defense minister. he is the commander in chief of the countries forces. so that's why the supreme leader has a say in who fills those portfolios and governance. omar that has a rollins, a president has a big job ahead of him. the economy is struggling after years of devastating us sanctions. and indirect talks on the 2015 nuclear deal are still happening in vienna, in the hopes of reviving the agreement and lifting sanctions. but the chief justice

is coming into office at a time when all levels of government are run by conservatives, which will likely make his job easier than any of his predecessors, including picking his cabinet ever have right you see, will have to choose 1900 people to form his cabinet 2 weeks after his confirmation ceremony by the supreme leader, it is possible for the president elect to appoint the candidate who dropped out of the race and endorsed him into his cabinet. and this time around race, he will most likely reward, said lily, in other words, is a connie for their support during the election sources, safari al jazeera will they, israel's new prime ministers, wasted no time condemning gracie's inaction when natalie bennett says it should serve as a red flag for world powers who are working to revive that you create you re food selection is i would say the last chance for the world powers to wake up before

returning to the nuclear agreement and to understand who they're doing business with. these guys are murder, mass murderers. a regime of brutal haman may never be allowed to weapons of mass destruction that will enable it to enough to kill 1000 millions. more on this story now with harry force it in west jerusalem and harry, what struck me there is that those cabinet meetings? certainly when prime is dennis and yahoo is empower, you're used to hearing him speak in hebrew, addressing his cabinet. this was an english and i'm wondering if that was a very purposeful decision. i think it must have been yes, i mean, natalie bennet's, mother tongue is also english. i mean, he's the son of american migrants to israel and his english is probably not quite as good as benjamin netanyahu even. but, but yes, he decided to make these comments in english because he wanted them to be heard far and wide to a cabinet that would be of well me expecting to hear him speak hebrew. so yes,

this is a very deliberate message about the new government's position on the iran nuclear deal, but also enough tele baritone. put us personal credentials when it comes to this. because of course, he is being attacked from the right for being part of the government, which extends to the far left in israeli politics. benjamin won his way out of the door last week. was talking about him not being able to stand up to iran on the nuclear issue, not being able to stand up to joe biden, his ministration on the iran you clear deal. so he has his own political considerations to, to think about as well. and there are reports as well in these really media that this election could potentially give some kind of operating space for israel to try to change the position even to some extent, if not entirely of the by the administration. that there might be a pause in negotiations,

and this is the time to try to stop pressuring the us administration to get it closer, at least to israel, is very hard line point of view. natalie. but it's very hard line point of view against any re entry to the jcp. speaking of the us, we've got the head of the israeli army heading there to washington. and then the defense minister with their not long ago, i think the president's heading has what's going on at the moment. yeah, i mean, there is a great deal of diplomacy, especially on the military front, especially on the iran front, between israel and the u. s. at the moment, to some extent, the timing of this particular visit isn't entirely deliberate. there been attempts to have this visit several times in recent weeks and has been delayed for numerous reasons. this time he is going of the co hobby, he's meeting the us defense secretary, the head of the joint chiefs of staff, the national security advisor, also the head of center. com. and there's some reporting here in israel,

suggesting that that is an attempt to try to because israel is now cost as part of the sent come operations branch within the us military. the middle east branch that there will be attempts to try to work more closely with some of the arab nations with whom israeli started normalization in recent months. and so there is that bit, but overwhelmingly there is the issue of iran co harvey himself is very hard line on this issue. he got out ahead of benjamin netanyahu zone language earlier this year in speaking against the j. c. p. o, a speaking against the by the administration's incoming signals as to how it wanted to deal with it. so he will be arguing that point very hard. and just this very day as well. his term has been extended by an extra year. not uncommon for is ready chiefs of staff, but his term amount expire at the beginning of 2023 and carry full set for all of

them from west to rhythm. a road that links eastern and western libya is reopening for many years. the prime minister of the new national unity government began the task by getting on a bulldozer and symbolically removing the amount of earth. 2 sides. the 2 sides of libya were controlled by rival administrations in their allied militia. since the fall of long time later, want to get down in 2011. these 5 was find the grade last october. i've kind of sounds president, sharp county has replaced 2 top ministers in charge of security of taliban fighters escalate their advance to take more territory. general bas mila humvee has been appointed as the new defense minister. previously he held the defense and interior ministry positions also served as the army chief of staff. and there's also general abil sutter motor car. we, i'm sorry, motors qual, who has been named as a new interior for these new appointments. do comedy look at time. you've got

taliban fighters, as we said, gaining ground, they're taking districts, they're extending their control. there is low morale among some african forces, even leading to some of them. abandoning their posts altogether. more than $500.00 civilians have been killed this year with the tax escalating across the country. a surgeon, bonds which comes in the us and its allies withdraw their troops. they're scheduled to be all out of afghanistan by september. the 11th and talks between the taliban and africa and government are continuing in color, but the violence appears to intensified. at the same time we spoke to him said out about this, a security analyst, this is the taliban will continue to gain ground. if the international committee doesn't stay engaged after the us withdraw it finally buns approach it and do it up at the moment. they believe that they withdrawal of the us and that reported it to me and vacuum as you know the vacuum and they are capitalizing on the, on the other side of the game. i did the same time now and also

showing up in the hot or negotiations. so i think every know that the violence, undisturbed in violence will increase and for that the government has to be off the taliban. fiction will increase the military and economic assistance of the international community would be crucial if be abundant. the government withdrawal, i believe we will, we will witness needed to be big before the time of bond. but if the international community remain engaged with the panama, with one another, with the government and pressure in order to reship political to me, then in the future, the theme somehow plain. but if all of these things doesn't happen, then the future is grim. we are 16 minutes past the hour, and here's what's coming up. if you didn't understand before the pandemic or the

small interconnected planet we're on showing, you must understand that now you're going humanitarian chief tells of the, or how the pandemic is exposed flaws in a system that is supposed to help. and so if you, if you have trouble ticket, i region will be left out of monday's parliamentary election for now. but last refugees replied to sit down how i feel about that unsupported dramatic theories. the n b. a. playoffs reaches its climax. possible action is coming up a little later. mm. well, south africa government has tightened its coven 19 restrictions to fight a 3rd wave, which is expected to be worse than the last ones in some areas. drilling since results not from kate on coping with the virus largely depends on where people live . and of course, how much money they have. south africa is in the grip of a deadly 3rd wave of cove at 19 infection. the army has been deployed to

assist doctors in the most populous province of haunting, almost 2 thirds of the countries active cases have been reported. their hospitals are under pressure and supplies of oxygen are becoming short. the situation was similar in the western cape during the 2nd wave at the end of last year. but experts believe that province won't be as hard hit this time around. part bay in cape town, is often described as a microcosm of south africa, informal settlements, skirt, the boundary of sprawling estates. mcmercer lives here and contracted cove at 19 in december last year. i've never felt as sick as in my whole life as i, as i did fax, those 10 days say it was quite scary for me. but luckily for me, we live in my big house and i had a i c, u,

dr. looking after me. so we had things like, you know, we had sat monitors and the monitors and just a few 100 meters. the way things are very different people living here. she also toilets and full term social distancing is not easy. and families can into these tiny sex, do not have the luxury of isolating in the provincial health department says poor people are at greater risk and blames those better off for spreading the virus. the 3rd wave in this province as primarily been driven by people that live in the area . so the people that can isolate the people that can warranty the other ones. it's not been the adding to the behaviors. south africa as covert 19 vaccination program has faced several obstacles and only one percent of the population is fully

vaccinated. it still does a lot about equity and staying in the world. we could have prevented quite a lot of data that will come out of the said way. if we had access to vaccines earlier and fairly when you again have to stand in line, it just kills just kill. and it's, it's, it's the most real feeling of they've been do you do? many here on all waiting anxiously for more developed nations to respond. robin smith out there are kept on and some other cover news. the palestinian authority is returned a batch of vaccines to israel, of the counseling of vaccines swap deal. the palestinian authority, says israel, the initial shipments included doses that expire sooner than agreed under the deal . israel was to send up to 1.4000005 doses and an exchange. palestine would send the same number later in the year. something completely different here. the technology that moves and connects and entertains us. none of it would work without

rare earth elements crucial to today's tech and china. we'll significant control over their global supplies. now, the united states and up is when a change that that's reynolds report from los angeles. this is the mountain pass mine in california. the only rare earth's mine in the us, if you are like many people, you're probably unfamiliar with new dime, e. m, get a linear m, this prose e m, and more than a dozen other oddly named rare earth minerals. but you probably are familiar with smartphones, computers, television set cars, solar panels, wind turbines, and hundreds more, a technological devices, including advanced weapons, all of which are made possible by the special magnetic and conductivity properties of rare earth where it's had electronic properties which,

which caused a manufacturing and technology revolution. this is basically what's allowed, the, the absolute, universality of high technology, 90 percent of rare earths are mind and processed in china, which also manufacturers, most of the finished products that include rare earth, china as a stranglehold on processing. even the or produced here in mountain pass asked to be shipped to china for processing, and we pack it into the slings and then we ship it to china, low labor costs, and lax, or non existent, environmental regulation keeps china on top. the situation has led to concern over us japanese and european economic and military security. if china were to cut off supplies of rare earth finished product, it could devastate the economy. we also have to push back against unfair trade

practices by competitor nations that have hollowed out the u. s. industrial base and undermine our supply chain security. despite their name, rare earth aren't really that rare at all. right now on the united states, mining companies, my iron or flash age, or as are coney am or some other commodity. collectively throw away enough, recover the rare rush to me, 85 percent of global demand. kennedy proposes using those wasted minerals in a combined corporate entity to counter china's near monopoly. old fashion concept called operative to shiva shamans g ford motor company. they could all be owners, partial owners of the cooperative, and the co operative would produce for them, finish metallic alloy,

and magnetic products. whether that model becomes reality or not, it's clear. world leaders have become aware of a global rare earth supply chain problem and are finally taking steps to address it . rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. very pleased to welcome june teufel, drier to the news, our professor at the university of miami, who wrote an article titled, china is monopoly on rare earth elements. and why we should care, june, i guess we should care because it's dangerous when any one country has a monopoly or anything. but in this case, it seems the chinese have really exploited. it's far further than we might have expected. that is certainly true. and i don't think we realized that some people didn't realize it, but they weren't being listened here. and it only became clear to us after that

nasty fishing boat incident in september 2010 when a chinese fishing both around and considerable damage to 2 chinese japanese coast guard cutters. and the japanese government wanted to put the captain on trial for damaging state property, which according to videotapes, the definitely did. and the chinese government said no, don't even think about it given back. or we're going to impose a rare earth embargo on you. and just really scared the japanese because they absolutely need those rare earth for the catalytic converters in their cars. and obviously the car industry is very, very important. do japanese economic health. so what i'm trying to understand it goes from what we heard and that report someone in rob's report, who said that actually rare is probably

a misnomer. there are plenty of these in the united states which aren't being mind properly. why is the us missing else on this? well, here i think the answer is in your word properly, because we used to mine rare earth in the united states. and in fact, given the lesser demand for rare earth to time, we were doing pretty well in terms of efficiency. but the problem is, with the properly environmental regulations became much more strict. and we couldn't mine days properly according to the new regulations. so companies switch to out sourcing this, to china, where environmental protection regulations, at least at that time, were very lax. right. and of course, costs were lower. so it comes down to the same thing isn't and not just in rare

with mining, but in particular manufacturing. so much gets outsourced to a place like china, a lot of the time because it's cheaper and easier. and then the complaints come in later on that, oh, it all works, gone to china and we don't have anything at home. that's exactly right. and at the time, it was considered a, well, this is part of the globalization trend. it's unstoppable. and we will say head on the knowledge chain way, the united states, japan, europe, et cetera. and we will out source these lower technology items to china, which is great, grateful to get them. and it's good for china because they employed more, more chinese and it's good for us. and it didn't work that way because china was never intending to stay just the factory to the world in rare, or anything else. just quickly, june, you know, there have been, was conflicts,

whatever you want to call them for years over oil, over land, over water. i river minerals, the kind of thing which could eventually, given the demand, given how important technology is to us, that they could be, you know, for over the future where they definitely could. but there are better ways to deal with this. and one is to incentivize our own production of rare earth, and a lot of research is going on right now on how to environmentally safely produce these rare and processes these, these rare earth. and the japanese government did seek out on australian corporation linus l y n. a f and we're close to bankruptcy, it rescued it from bankruptcy. and they now produce rare earth in australia

and process done in leisha. and i looked into this and because i thought, well, are we just out sourcing pollution to malaysia, which would be a terrible thing to do for poor militia. and it turns out that at least according to the people i've talked to, this is being done in a sustainable way. so, so far, that's a win for japan, for australia, and for malaysia. but it's not nearly enough. japan needs 100 percent of its needs and it's getting 30 percent of its needs from their japanese who are technologically very competent people. as we all know and did find a lot of potential in an island, an area around an island in japan's exclusive economic zone. something that is not contested by china, right? at least yes. and they,

it's called me nami tre. shima. if you care to look it up. but the problem is that the processing is very expensive. you are digging through mud and quiet and in a 10 hour day they are japanese are only managing to extract 10 percent of what would make the extraction price feasible. june type will try talking rare, earthy minerals on the news. i thank you for your time june. we appreciate it. okay, bye bye. thanks for having me. you're welcome. there is plenty more ahead on the news are a symbol of math morning on brazil. beach is off the current of our death toll, the apostles. half a 1000000 also what albania learned from its initial curve in 19 response and the challenges that health care systems to faces. and in support. the former us open champion, putting himself, been a promising position to win the future.