region and so many other we go to them, you make the effort. we care. ah . after a difficult here armenia whole the now collection that could be a referendum on last year conflict with as a by sean. ah . hello again. i'm can all fund to maria here in the hall with the world news from al jazeera. the last chance for the world powers to waco. israel's new prime minister, necessarily, bennett, condemned a wrong president elect cobra. him right. he see calling him hang, man of tough round of he is a conflict. libya reopened the key road, linking east and west as part of the sci fi deal signed last year and they are the

minerals that power our technology. the u. s. has plenty, but we look at what's worried about china's market grid. ah. so armenians are deciding whether their prime minister should get another shot at the leadership after a painful defeat in the war against as a by john last year nichol passion yon, he resigned in april. he announced the snap parliamentary election hoping to renew his mandate. reformist, up against former president, robert custodian, for a challenge zonker respond covering this one from yet of what's turned out. looked like today, rory pretty high. it looks like we've been out. so polling stations throughout the day and been despite the steering heat, this effectively the weekend very been key. the people coming out of the paulding

stations that we feel the fact that we see just a way to compare this election to the same one in 2018. well the, the figures are up. so yeah, that's head out is looking pretty healthy at the moment since you ever get to the building behind me, that's that the prime minister's office is going to have a long list of things that i need to do really difficult things. there is, of course, the trauma that this country then at the moment because of that devastating the last year again as the by john, you have a country that is grappling with prisoner of war problems. it's got refugee problems, but that are also economic issues, development issues and issues to do with political polarization, etc. we have 2 candidates who were leading the field. one of them is the, the acting prime minister, nicole passion. and he is trying to persuade voters not to throw him and his reformist agenda out just because of that catastrophic bid it to re defeat. his

main rival is rebecca cherry. and he is trying to persuade voters not to judge him by the brother doughty legacy of his. he is in office as president and to trust him is a strong man who's going to reset. armenia is military strength. there are plenty of people though, who don't really like either of these 2 options now for them it's a choice as well to be hold on nose and within one or 2 we just ignore the elections whatsoever. but as i said, election turned out to sate vomiting pretty good. so it seems that most people are making your choice. rather, it's interesting that it is the close, isn't it re, given what you've just described as these 2 men, one who's lost a war one, who's had all these corruption problems dating back? what is it now over 12 years, 12 or 13 years and yet it's still

a very close race. yeah, yeah. and it surprised me as well. i would say that sierra, probably at maybe unwritten, but perhaps all this rule of politics would be that if you're a prime minister and you lose of all the not going to be in office, but that too much longer yet. that does not seem to be applying here right now. i mean, or at least it's not obviously applying what i have to wait and see what happens with the election and he does end up in that building behind me. but yeah, the certainly you can all right, nicole passion in off in these elections and he does still appear to be the slight favorite. that is, i think, bouncer numerous different reasons. one of them is that he's managed to say hold on a 2nd. i've only been in power for 3 years. this defeat was a long time in the making. we had many, many years of sponsored, international mediated negotiations to try and sort house the know that the new

going to kind of problem that's not me. that's on previous administrations and he's also managed to, i think say that the people like robot carrion that history people. they are of the park there. the kind of dinosaurs of armenia politics and he's the future. i'm the he should be given another chance. thank you, rory. challenge ladies from amin is elections there. and yet, yvonne on to other news, supporters of iran's new president have celebrated his victory on the streets. on the hotline abraham racy was declared the winner on saturday in an election marked by voter apathy and economic hardship. he did win around 62 percent of the vote, but just on behalf of eligible voters to part at low turn out, underscoring the challenges ahead with the former chief justice takes power in august. when your president elect has only a few weeks to put together his cabinet before taking office in early august,

stilson jabari has the look now at what shape it's likely to take see 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 has. sandrani has gone through twice to be said. you'll pack 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 needs the final approval from ron's highest authority. those include the foreign minister intelligence minister and the defense minister poem, but at them don't book 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 for us to shake it. if 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 and chief of the countries forces. so that's why the supreme leader has a say in who fills those portfolios and governance, omar iranians, 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 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 will drop out of the race and endorse him into his cabinet. and this time around race, he will most likely reward, said julie and connie, for their support during the election store safari, l 0 on israel. a new prime minister wasted no time in condemning

bases election with enough tele benefits. it should serve as a red flag for world powers who are working to revive the nuclear deal. rate 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 must never be allowed. weapons of mass destruction that will enable it enough to kill thousands of millions or forfeit with more on that from western than you would expect. natalie bennett, to say something like this. he certainly has been extremely vociferous in his opposition to the jcp iran nuclear deal. and he's making those comments in english, in a cabinet meeting to his colleagues with him. and you should be expected to speak in

hebrew says obviously a clear message to the outside world. he has been coming in for a great criticism from the full prime minister benjamin netanyahu, certainly on his way out of the door. netanyahu kept on criticizing bennett over his in netanyahu's view inability to stand up to iran. and so again, you would expect it to be fairly hard line in his comments about racy whom he also called the butcher of tehran and saying that of all the people that jose could have chosen, he chose this man. so again, that, that is a fairly natural kind of response to those criticisms from that, you know, who also said that, that, that it wouldn't be able to stand up to the rate to the administration of president biden on the j. c, p. o, a. and there are reports, at least in the reading media, that senior officials believe that this election could lead to a delay in negotiations to return to that deal. and therefore potentially

a window of opportunity to try and press the u. s. a bit more in favor of israel's position on the deal. now people in ethiopia in northern ticket region will not take part in mondays. general elections, government says the conditions on the ground just don't allow for the vote, but has promised to hold them one thing, stabilize. the thing is more than 2000000 people have been displaced by months of conflict, which is also false. tens of thousands over the border into 10. have a morgan reports from gathering stage along the border with this little coffee shop in cuba. camp is where some refugees hangouts to escape the scorching sun outside. it's also where they come to talk about the latest development in their home region of the great in northern europeans, which is their fled to escape fighting. and today, most of the conversation revolved around if you, if this parliamentary election on our, on they are. i love my country and to more of their elections, i would like to vote, but the conflict in politics, and if you have ruined many,

many things, we've been excluded as if t gray was not part of the few people. and that really pains me. conflict erupted last november and if he appears to agree between the government and the regional take re people's liberation front or t p l f. the ruling party, if you appeal for 27 years, they will also from power in 2018. following years of protest and new government was formed, led by prime minister abbey met, who promised reforms and free and fair elections in 2020. but they have been twice postponed due to the corona, virus pandemic, and logistical problems. many here of voting age cast ballots in the to green regional elections, which were held in september last year that was not recognized by the federal government. and was one of the factors behind the conflict. the regent. $7000000.00 people want to be taking part in. if you're parliamentary election this year, many who fled to camp here say after the violence of witness back home, they don't feel they're missing out. right. group have accused both the left and

federal government of committing atrocities in the conflict. refugees who've arrived here have reported being tortured, beaten, and imprisoned because of a gram identities. every trans troops fighting integrity for the government have been accused of human rights violations from masculine, to sexual violence. to blocking a to those in need. refugees, also accused militia, the term is i'm her region of carrying out killings integrate. are you going to be, i'm her, are militias came to my house that night and beat my husband and try to force us into a military truck? i was 6 months pregnant and the neighbors told them to let me go because of that. we skate, we saw the malicious kill many people, including my 30 year old neighbor here in this coffee shop. the read it is that the conflict integral has divided a country that was already unraveling and that election would further destabilize if someone will want to. there is fighting in other parts of europe,

including the somali region aroma, and venetian google on the most prominent opposition. figures are in jail of the government, for layman. this is a country of law and order, but this is a line. and i don't think this election will be democratic process. those hearsay, even though the votes are yet to be cast and their results haven't been announced. the outcome of the election is unlikely to change the trajectory of africa, the 2nd most populous country, people, morgan, onto 0, who bought camp the body state, which were the next. and then the 3rd wave of infections gathers haste in south africa, where only a fraction of the population is fully vaccinated. the peruvians on both sides of the recent presidential election, a still not satisfied with the outcome. the

however, was seen some very heavy rain into southern parts of china recently more of the same as we go one through the next couple of days, anywhere between the, the young see and the per river. and that is courtesy of the my you front, which is now the process is just pulling out into the open waters. bryce guys, the last dry for japan, but the heavy rain will sink a little further south was it makes your way towards the taiwan as we go through monday and on into tuesday, and that will cause some localized flooding that rain also eventually making his way into hong kong north is that it is generally try the way a few showers in the korean peninsula may be a few showers to just running into that western side of japan. penny a shower across south east asia, some lobby. once they're into the philippines received some big and heavy rain there. it's a northern parts of bonnie, i was seen some rather wet weather to into a good part of java should be started to dry up here. but those shells will continue over the coming day. so i was continuing to the western side of india, the monsoon rains, taking a little bit of

a breaker such kind of staggered there along the western, got small, so for around southern possible roster down towards carola, shell is continuing to into bangladesh in the boot ton of itself is some flooding from the pole, the challenging the way mainstream media record. the news stories like these should be easy pickings for political reporters out of all power to account how it is in journalism is breaking them on the destruction of civilian property. this is all evidence for farm trials and the rate of speaking we've been getting stories of john taken from the houses in the middle of the night and tortured the listening post covers the way the news is covered on his era. oh,

a good without the where these are the top story. armenians of voting and of snap parliamentary election. the sunday prime minister in equal passion, yon resigned and triggered the vote, hoping to renew his mandate of the last year's defeat. and the war with answer by john supporters of iran, the president of celebrated his victory on the streets of to her on hotline abraham . dicey was declared the winner on saturday in an election marked by voter apathy and economic hardship. and israel's new prime minister. naturally, bennett described braces when in the final wakeup call for powers who are trying to return to the 2015 nuclear deal.

south africa government is tight and it's covered 19 restrictions to fight a 3rd wave, which is expected to be worse than the last one in some areas as organ smith reports from kate on coping with the virus largely depends on where people live and how much money they have south africa is in the grip of a deadly 3rd wave of cove. at 19 infections, the army has been deployed to assist doctors in the most populous province of carting. 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. hot 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 code 19 in december last year. i've never felt as sick as in my whole life as, as i did fax, those 10 days say it was quite scary for me. but luckily for me, we live in my house and i had a i see you doctor looking after me. so we had things like, you know, we had sat monitors and the monitors and just a few 100 meters away. thing is all very different people living here. she also toilets and full time social does something 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 way 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 saying that 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 the most real feeling of they've been to do many here on all waiting anxiously for more developed nations to respond. robin smith, algebra kept on a road that links east and west in libya is reopening after many years. the prime

minister of the new national unity government began the task by getting on a bulldozer and symbolically removing a mom's law. the 2 sides of libya were controlled by rival administration and their allied militia. since the fall of long time, they de mama could duffy in 2011. it was a ceasefire. finally agreed last october. and here is what the prime minister had to say. as a part of that road was reopened. any more about it? it is my pleasure to be part of this historic day as the reopened the main art reconnecting that used to be at what's west it would enable our people to reunite as the duct is of division and separation have gone forever. when i take this opportunity to call an all the beans to steal away from rift malice, or hatred and to join hands to rebuild our country, to take libya forward. that's got amount of training. who's on the coastal road west of the city of sir. it is a huge symbolic step, malik, but maybe you can take us through what will actually happen and what can result from this? well, it's

a big win for this unity government. when this government came into power, when they were sworn into power by the parliament and march, this was one of the main things that they said they wanted to do was to open this main coastal road that looked that links eastern and western libya. but it's not going to be easy. i mean, he's open it from the side. of course you have to remember that this road has been closed since we have to launched an offensive on the capital tripoli in 2, in april 2019. so it's been closed for quite some time. after, after a nationwide c, as fire was agreed upon last october. the idea was to open this main coast road unify state institutions, including the military, but that isn't the case. at the moment, the military is still deeply divided. you have have to control eastern libya just

yesterday. he had forces mobilizing in the south on the libyan and i'll julian border and just not just a little while ago, one of the, one of the generals that are in the joint commission on half their side in the eastern side, said that the intern prime minister opened the road, but that's a unilateral decision. he doesn't have the right to make that decision. that decision has to be made combined by the joint military commission. the joint military commission is a group facilitated by the un. it has members from western libya and members from eastern libby, a loyal to after. so the road isn't open completely as of yet it's open in terms of western live. you have forces from the internationally recognized government here have open on their side. on the other side though, it still hasn't been opened and it just goes to show that libya still deeply divided. i think many people were very hopeful that this in term government would unify the country. but,

but we're going to have to wait and see what's going to happen. good stuff malik trainer on that coastal road near in libya. now supporters of both of perrys, political rivals have been out in huge numbers. angry about this month's contested election, the socialist petro castillo, who narrowly leads the official count has claim victory, the right wing candidate cake or food you, maureen, seeking to get boats and nods. madana sanchez hands are report from lima. the nearly 2 weeks after voters went to the polls, thousands of build your supporters marched claiming victory. his rival kiko for he morty says the election was rigged, casting a shadow over the result. 7 although for he morning has run a dirty campaign, the number show that castillo one. what else does she want? i for he murray. contests the results that they look at these you're more than $44000.00 both the. 2 saturday electoral officials,

rejected movies with quizzes to know the vote. they said there's no proof of fraud, moody supporters claim, otherwise they have to show us the balance since the election is because they never did well in the opinion polls. and now they are feeling the election. the fraud allegations prompted a group of retired senior military officers to call the armed forces chiefs to reject castillo if he's named precedent. in an open letter, they warn def, electoral officials declared him the winner. the military could intervene, press real fast because i guess the condemned the statement, but i just saw people call me when you see on it. i reject this. not only opposes our democratic values and institutions, but goes against the constitution, and the law of instructed the defense minister to forward it to the judiciary. so it is investigated. the analysts say some politicians are looking for any way to

prevent castillo from becoming precedent if they didn't want to see in a, to this deep political crisis. lawmakers, paving the way to unseat president's sagacity, to take control of congress, their name and new constitutional tribunal. in order for new magistrates to result who wins the election, it pensions across the country are also field by some politicians who are calling for the whistle to be an old citing fraud. and urging for a new round of elections. these electrons are polarized for movie and there are deep res, i'm class division. analysts say the longer the national, not my electoral jury take to determine who the president is, the worst situation that will get on the streets of the country. there will be a looser, neither side, except it could be the candidate with peruvian protesting menu say they are more than ready to fight. but in the center,

i'll just see the limit of the technology that moves and connects and maintain. so none of it would work without rad elements. and crucial to today's tech and china, we'll significant control over their global supplies. the u. s. and others want to change that rub reynolds reports 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 di me, am gal linea 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 produce here in mountain path has to be shipped to china for processing and we pack it into these things 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 is or coney am or some other commodity. collectively throw away enough recovery be rare to me, 85 percent of global demand. kennedy proposes using those wasted minerals in a combined corporate entity to counter china's near monopoly. all fashion concept, call it 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, just going, how far we are, and these are the headlines. armenians are voting in a type snap. the parliamentary election prime minister in equal passion, yon resigned triggering this vote with the hope to renew his mandate on last year's defeat and the conflict with neighboring as the by john, where we challenged more now from yet.