peril yet in spain state imposed them easier was enshrined in law. diminishing the plight of countless victims of franco's 36 year dictatorship. put a group of survivor has launched an international law suit hoping to bring those accountable to justice and force the country to acknowledge its fascist, passed the silence of others. weakness on al jazeera ah warnings from the you ends, invoice, canister. the taliban is all about ready to take over the areas of the country once the last foreign troops pull out. ah, hello, i'm down. jordan, this is sarah live from dell, also coming up the battle of a voter rights republicans in the us senate block and you build that would have

made it easier for americans to vote. spain, parton's capital and separate as leaders who declaration of independence led to the countries worse political crisis. in decades. i'm pleading for help families in southern iraq say gas flaring is to blame for poor health and what the government is step in. ah, welcome to the program. there are new fears about growing instability in afghanistan after a string of recent military gains by the taliban. its fighters captured the main border crossing with 2 g cust on earlier on tuesday. and the you and envoy for afghanistan says the groups taking control of more than 50 districts in the past month. well, this kind of violence have increased significantly since the us announce plans to withdraw its troops by september 11 to 0. diplomatic editor james base has this report. the security situation in afghanistan has been

deteriorating for years. but what the security council heard in this virtual session was the most grim briefing. yet, i cannot over stage to the council. my concern regarding the present situation in afghanistan. in recent weeks, taliban activity has been focused on a number of key provinces. these pictures from conduce in northern afghanistan, where the provincial capital conduce city looks at risk of being surrounded. special representative lions said the un believes this may be a deliberate strategy. more than 50 dana stand. $370.00 districts have fallen since the beginning of may. most districts have been that have been taken surround provincial capitals suggesting that the taliban are positioning themselves to try and take these capital one. for since i fully withdrawn the

taliban, deny they were responsible for many of the recent attacks. but african astonished foreign minister. her niece at mar, told the council they all behind them, and it's a clear breach of that deal with the u. s. under the international energy, our only the west fire source. so by the united states, troops withdraw the massacre, school lists kabul raxon h. as in the address on file is inflicted associates off the president biden announced to pull out of us troops in april. his secretary of state antony blinkin came up with

a plan to build on the talks and doha, with the peace conference in stand bull. so the taliban and african government could work together. that plan now lies in tatters. and most analysts believe the african people who suffered for decades of war and are likely to face an intensified conflict. un experts preparing for a major humanitarian emergency. james bays al jazeera iran says a number of state link news websites have been seized by the us government. this is the message reaching anyone trying to look at the english language press tv site, or the arabic alum channel. the yemeni who the rebels are my sirius satellite news channel was also targeted. the message says, the f b i and department of commerce have taken control, but neither has acknowledged it runs next. president says he'll put the needs of his people 1st form a chief justice abraham racy, who's under us sanctions secured victory over the weekend in an election with historic low turnout. rice. he's used his 1st speech to the nation to set the tone

for the next 4 years and indicated how he plans to interact with foreign powers. dosage. battery has more than 10 ross. a warm welcome for iran's 8th president elect in his hometown of measured at the embers of shrine. crowds had gathered to hear what their newly elected leader abraham, right. you see have to say on the issues that affect them. racy spoke for a little more than 30 minutes, and most of it was religious in nature. but he did have a message for the people of her on. that's the subject cottage you have a job big shuttle method in domestic politics, domestic policy, and foreign policy. the focus should be on the dignity of this nation, and the focus should be on the fact that in any negotiations, the dignity of this nation should not be hurt in our domestic policies in foreign policies, in the kind of interactions that we're going to have with any countries in the world, the focus is the protection of the dignity and prestige of the iranian nation. can all this was raise his 1st address to the nation. although it was short on

specifics he had made promises to address the problems facing iran. he said his administration will focus on justice, even respect and dignity to improve life for iranian field. he also promised to insure a mass vaccination against colbert 19. as soon as he takes office earlier on tuesday, the current government of president has sandrani responded to comments made by us officials who called fridays presidential election manufactured and neither free no fare as man that a c o c minus on a miss from a political point of view, we consider the statement as an example of interference in iran's internal affairs and again, be international law. we condemn it. the u. s. government is not in a position to comment on the electro process in iran or any other country. but 48 percent of eligible voters participated in the presidential election,

which officials consider a respectable turn out. despite that figure being the lowest ever for presidential vote, abraham racy managed to get nearly 18000000 votes. while president elect will take office in early august is clear. the challenge of the faces will be many. he's already made large, sweeping promises including fighting corruption, improving the country's economy and maintaining your own best interests in negotiations with the wes. but it's not clear yet. if you're able to deliver on his promises, sources safari, al jazeera, to us republican senators, a block to sweeping voting rights bill put forward by the democrats, 3 fifths of the senators, duly chosen, and sworn not having voted in the affirmative. the motion is not agreed to democrat, so show to the 60 votes required to launch a debate on the legislation. they argued. the election reform package contains measures to counteract laws,

passed and republican held states which restrict voting access to my kind of joint live. now from washington, dc mike, so senate republicans of stones, they opposed to this build so no surprises than it failed at the 1st totaling congress. indeed, yes, this vote was to put the bill for debate. tenant failed, as you say at that very 1st hurdle, it was a part of them vote completely on party lines. republicans had been adamant they would oppose this bill to a person. democrats were adamant that they would favorite to a person whether there had been some debate earlier in the day. one senator holding on put some changes, but he eventually agreed to join the boat, giving a total democratic block in terms of supporting the measure. but with that for the best in place, which means that 60 boats are required for the motion to go to the bait. it is now over at this particular point in time. the senate majority leader, chuck schumer,

spoke directly up to the boat and he said, this makes very clear that both the suppression has become part of the republican platform. an issue he's going to pick up on in the days ahead saying that the fact that democrats voted on mass in favor that democrats, republicans voted on mess against what an indication about where the different parties stand on the rights of americans to vote. and mike, so what happens next, because as you say, democrats, a greatly concerned about what they see as an erosion of voter rights in many states across the country. very much so, and this is not really going to end here because although it would appear that this bill is dead at the moment, not being able to get that 60 votes, there's no likelihood for doing so. the debate among democrats now is going to be about the phillip bus itself. there are many democrats to insist that they must do

away with the filibuster in order to pass legislation like this. this would have been passed if it was the simple majority that the democrats plus the vice president with a costing vote. but there are some democrats to insert that the filibuster must remain in place. now interestingly enough, darren to remove the filibuster only requires a simple majority. that is the plus one. so certainly is going to be intense debate with the white house, possibly as well as bringing pressure to bear on those democrats who don't want to introduce a bill about that. because many are arguing that without the filibuster being removed, that democratic legislative platform is did right at the beginning, given the fact that so much legislation requires 60 votes as opposed to a simple majority. all right, i might kind of life us there in washington dc. mike, thank you. if you're happy, as prime minister has branded monday's election a success, despite many voters in the countries conflict zones being left out of the process

of the homage says the pole was ethiopians 1st attempted free and fair elections. but as voters, the weight provisional results, some opposition groups are crying foul. they say ballot boxes, what tampered with. and this stuff attacked where residence in, if you have to guy region say fighting has flared up in recent days, north of the regional capital, michaela, they say fighters loyal to the former regional ruling party and had several towns including undergrad, where people celebrated until e. c. o, p and retrans soldiers arrived. the ethiopian military has denied reports dismissing them as fabrication reports of violence come a day after elections took place and most of the rest of the country. no date has been set for the poles there, spain, my minister pedal. sanchez has pardons, 9 jailed cadillac separate his leaders. they were convicted of sedition in 2019 for their role. and the regions failed. 2017 independence been the problem is a deeply controversial move and opposition party se they'll challenge it in court.

some of the guy has no tentative olive branch loaded with consequences. the spanish prime minister has been pushing hard to revive talks with catalog separatists and hoping that a pardon for the movements 9 in prison leaders can open the way for dialogue. we are responding to mother to the spanish government has taken this decision because it's the best of catalonia, the best for spain and correspondence to the spirit of hominy and co existence in the spanish constitution. yeah. it's not without opposition. sanchez finds himself in the middle of a storm because outside of california, it is deeply unpopular. more than 60 percent of the country against the move and parties from the center to the hard right have capitalized on that discontent. but the procession is movement. the pardon do not go far enough. the cattle and lead to

said only an amnesty would be acceptable, as he could cause to continue the fight for independence. but i suppose water bellamy thea. it's time for an amnesty on the right to self determination. it's time to agree on the referendum. it's time for a solution to achieve more internal consensus. yeah, the illegal independence referendum in 2017 triggered the biggest political crisis of the country have seen in decades. the 9 succession of leaders was sentence in 2019 for their roles in the vote, including catalonia, the vice premier, spain supreme court, which oversaw the trial has also rejected the pardons. as it says, those sentence have shown no remorse. while the ruling is non binding, it could be cited impossible future legal challenges in the constitutional court which could send the 9 back to prison. the difficulty for the process session is argument is that while it is very vocal, it is still in the minority. in catalonia,

big part of spain is still just about the preferred option that mr. sanctioned. his dilemma is that he is leading a minority government and can ill afford to squander the support in the parliament . he also needs the support of catalan nationalists parties. their leaders know that this piece offering won't be extended by the prime minister's opponents. it is an enormous gamble, yet those determined to move on say the pardon are the only way to repair the deep divisions that still linger between the 2 sides. so did i ever go out there or professional break here and just there, when we come back arise in corona, virus infections in some countries that use china's vaccine concern, among experts and losing it says we live in our israel blockade of garza has dried up the production line at a soft drink company, lorna. ah,

ah, how i was saying it's a very heavy rain recently just around the midwest seems a very heavy rain to just around the eastern seaboard of the us. now this cold front has been sliding its way across. central and eastern parts of canada brought to a nasty tornado into chicago in the process. links all the way back down to the deep south where have seen some very heavy rain. but the overriding feature for much of north america really is the heat. temperature is very much on the high side, many places getting paid to the mid thirty's, still getting up around the 40 degree mark or higher for phoenix. so that steering, he continuing across the south west. not quite a hot up towards the northwest up towards that western side of canada, but temperature still doing quite nicely here as well. thank you. she was continuing to central parts of canada, sliding

a little further south. it's over the next couple of days. we'll have you shout into the south east of the us and we, we like to see further flooding problems here as we go on through thursday based out what to whether it's a central canada down across the northern plains. that we've seen a very heavy rain recently into panama, nasty weather system. rumbling away here, bringing some squall, the winds, and some heavy downpours, thunder and lightning, banging away more heavy showers for the western side of the caribbean. the weather bag, energy and change to every part of our universe. or small to continue the change all around the shape, my technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you and your business.

ah the me. welcome back and pick them out of our top stories here. this our telephone fight as of captured stones main border crossing with tissue to stone, raising phase, and growing in stability of a recent military gains by the group. the un says it's taken more than 50 districts in the past month. iran, the president elect abraham res, he says he worked to defend its interests, him to go see ations with phone towers. us that's called his when in fact he's election manufactured, which the wrong denied us republican senators have blocked the key voting rights

bill put forward by the democrats. democrats say the election reform package contained measures to cancel at no cost and republican lead states, which restrict voting. and now the kremlin has warned that people who haven't been vaccinated are faced with limited options to work and could be discriminated against. russia reported another 546 deaths on tuesday. its highest daily rise since february, and its vaccine rolled out has been slow, only 18000000 of its population of 144000000 have received at least one dose. governments offered lucky drawers to attract people to get the job and said, those who don't make it salary cuts or even get fired. well, the white house has admitted it'll miss president joe biden was target to not get a 70 percent of all that out. by the 4th of july. us officials say they need a few extra weeks to reach that goal. due to vaccine hesitancy among young

americans, nearly 2 thirds of us adults have had at least one dose. while more than half a fully vaccinated. there are demographic groups and sometimes populations where it's more difficult to reach. we've seen that, and we've talked about that as it related to early onto hesitancy. we were seeing and communities of color or some more conservative communities. and we've seen, it's been a great deal more difficult to get to get young people between the ages of 18 and 26 vaccinated than adults who are older than that. hence, we're redoubling our efforts. well, some of the most vaccinated countries which relied heavily on chinese made jobs are experiencing a resurgence in code 19 outbreaks. a report by the new york time shows countries out pacing the u. s. in vaccination rates, such as bahrain chile, among donia, they rank among the world's top 10 worst outbreaks. it's res, concerned over there, effectiveness on cobit 19 various. that's looking, dr. marcus. pleasure. he's the chief medical officer at the association of state

and territorial health officials. they joined us via skype from charlotte in north carolina. mark of good to have you with us. so many of these countries thought that the sign of form vaccine would, would allow them to lift restrictions, but instead they're experiencing this new surgeon infections. should we not be asking major questions about the truly efficiency of chinese made vaccines? do you think? yeah, it's alarming. i mean, we wouldn't expect to see that many cases, some, some of the chinese have slightly lower effectiveness than the ones we're using in western europe in the united states. but, but not, i don't think a lower and enough effectiveness rating to, to see these kinds of numbers. so it does make us concerned that maybe they're not quite as effective in preventing cove it as we had initially hoped. yeah, and it is interesting because because vaccines made in the west like 5, and after them have been effective, it will, they have been effective in flooding the spread of the disease. do we know what

differences there are between chinese vaccines and western made ones? while we have limited information about the chinese made vaccines, partly because we're not using them here in the united states term, western europe. i mean, we have a very diligent and transparent process of evaluating the vaccines that we're using . so we understand them a lot better. the, the faxes that were made in china are made differently as well. they're in activated vaccines, so they're much more like the traditional form of vaccine we have. whereas the ones that were using in the united states and western europe are genetically modified vaccines so that they are quite different in the way that they're made and produced . yeah, i'm scientists seem to be battling to understand why countries with high inoculation rates like the facials bahrain, for instance, and now suffering these new outbreaks. but china isn't about to say it's vaccines aren't effective, but can they make them better? do you think? well, the big question i think is,

is how effective the vaccines are in preventing people from becoming severely ill or dying. and we've not seen as much data about the chinese vaccines on, on that matter. and as long as the vaccine is, is effective and preventing people from getting severe disease, then i think the vaccine is adequate and then we'll do what needs to be done. so i think that's the piece of information we need next about the chinese manufactured vaccines. dr. mark, especially good to get your thoughts. thank you very much. indeed the talking to algebra. thank you. thank you. now israel has allowed some exports from garza to resume a month after the troops that ended its 11 day offensive in the territory. but many border restrictions remain in place causing a shortage of raw materials in garza and for the closure of a major soft drinks company, costing hundreds of jobs. you may also report from gaza. every abandoned industrial, surrounded by silence, with its tangle of metal cubes, in conveyor belts,

all turned off. the soft drink. supplanting godsa has the hushed atmosphere of futuristic graveyard marketing manager, her mammy as she inspects his factory. now quiet production line from the local must not come in. our factory has been totally shut down due to the closure of the border crossing. know raw materials have come in for 60 days. we depend on those materials. so we were forced to send 250 employees home. we hope that the crossings will reopen and this crisis for years, the g group had a captive market of 2000000 palestinians. living gods is narrow castille strip. israel long term located keeps them behind a 40 kilometer concrete and barbed wire fence. gaza has to borders, but most of its goods comes from the one control by israel. many palestinians we spoke to hear say, israel strategy is to struggle, garz's economy and cut off all but

a triple of humanitarian aid. in the hopes of turning people against my critic, see the tactics as an unjust collective punishment against the entire population of god. so gods as economy has deteriorated, our recent tightening of these rarely located has led to shortages. 90 percent of goddess factories have closed, terminating more than $85000.00 workers. said as lost his job when production was suspended at the soft drinks factory about noise. they had the loss that i support my family from a single source, which is the factory. it's now shut down and everyone who relies on it is suffering . there are new other jobs here. all the other workers are at home waiting for god's help. there will be more than 80 percent of people in gaza live on $2.00 a day or less and the majority would starve if the united nations did not provide

food aid. and now 65 percent unemployment rate among young people is making the situation worse. you may see it al jazeera garza israeli forces are expelling supporters of palestinian families in the occupied east. jerusalem neighborhood have checked your arms. it's part of an ongoing crackdown on protest against the threatened force displacement of dozens of palestinian families and their homes to make way for israeli settlers. stephanie deca has met this tiny street in the neighbourhood of schafer in occupied. jerusalem really is a microcosm of what is happening on the ground here when it comes to the expansion of settlement. that is really satler's jewish settlers taking over areas of policy . and once, for example, this, this is occupied easters, and this is internationally recognized as occupied. this is a place that policies want as in as a capital of any future state. now this is a house that's already been taken taken over by israeli settlers, and then just on the other side of the street, you have a house that is

a palestinian home, but that is already being share. so you have a one part time thing and one part where it is ready, sad to live. often you have is ready, police guarding the sat. there is one of the main complaints here of the palestinians is that they are not allowed to have anyone visit down the street. that doesn't live here. it's very different for when it comes to those who want to visit the israeli settlers. and also they say that the police really protect the sufferers when it comes to the really tension we've seen on the ground here on and off for weeks on. and they are preventing us from here at all. so you're saying that only the member of the cabinet is allowed to come in, but all the others are not allowed of us. we're talking about women of people know nothing here is dangerous or nothing you got anything to do with. if you are a this is your full and without in general 7. according to their low, it's an area which is not occupied. you should be able to pass, but as you see,

when we are dealing with that part of the new community becomes occupied when it's, you should becomes open. if there's anything closer our price out, this is the 4th time. at the heart of the issue also is the fact that is really law protects and actually allows for these kinds of things to happen. so basically, if you look at them, the galaxy of why these houses have been taken over, it's because it's been ruled that this land was owned by a jewish trust over a 100 years ago. but will probably say is they don't have the right to the same kind of legal recourse. the people that live here had to leave their homes in 1948 when the state of israel were established and now with them facing eviction. they say that they don't have the same legal recourse to be able to claim what they say is, rightly they are now people in a small town in southern iraq say, pollution from oil production is killing them. they're blaming the process of gas flaring. that's when oil is extracted and excess natural gas has been taught for leasing c o. 2 and me fame. well the rocky government is investing billions in an

attempt to use the gas for electricity. but as natasha going reports from bala village and barbara many say it's already too late. people living in the village of butler take visitors here. they say gas flaring from oil production decimated their generations old palm trees leaving behind nothing but trunks. when we met the village elders, they said every one, know some one who is diagnosed with or who has died from cancer. so i know i already have cancer and only god helps me. we continue to be worried about families and loved ones. the bus for health department in southern iraq says the pollution from oil production is making people and animals in the area sick. the rocky high commission for human rights says, due to the high rate of cancer in basra, it's demanding the government work with oil companies to combat pollution. that is

happily for 6 or 7 years every year. there is some challenge. political german security, german guys is long term investment. it needs some stuff and it needs some cash on come, which meant the world bank ranks. iraq, number 2 behind russia when it comes to gas flaring, instead of polluting the air, the gas could be recovered and sold or used to generate electricity for millions of people. the bus or gas company is investing $3000000000.00 to do just that. at the romanella oil field, iraq's largest, anything that the iraqi government can do, or it's neighbors can do to create in a stable environment, is good for capturing more gas and for creating a better environment for the iraqi people. the people of butler say the land, their families have been tied to for 200 years is toxic, and they wonder how many more of them will get sick before the government can help

them. natasha game l. jazeera bus route iraq. a village in southwestern china has moved its people to safety. after a surprise visit by a herd of wild elephants, the 14 animals have been wandering through united province for weeks coming dangerously close to several towns. wildlife teams have been tracking the herds that migrates north at one point, getting a little too close for comfort. the people in the village ah, type of ticket, but headlines here on iraq. taliban fighters have captured dennis don's main border crossing, which she kissed on raising fears of growing and stability of a recent military gains by the group. the un says has taken more than 50 districts in the past month. rounds president elect abraham raise. he says he worked to

defend, it's interesting to go see ations with foreign powers. the u. s. s. called is when the fight is election manufacturers which iran denies us republican senate.