[000:00:00;00] the who's a former philippine president benita kina has died after being hospitalized in manila. he was aged 61 ah collect the whole rahman watching on their life. my headquarters here in joe hall, coming up in the next 30 minutes and alleged and strike the market is to grow region killed, doesn't. the government is accused of delaying medical access. the phone calls any pro democracy newspaper. the apple daily prints its last edition.

it's the latest victim of china's crack down on descent in the territory and seeking reconciliation. full rebels in columbia meet the man and women. they kidnap, including a former presidential candidate. ah, welcome to breaking news from the philippines. the former president, benito akina, has died after being hospitalized on thursday in manila, the 61 year old who was the son of 2 democracy icons rule the country from 2010 to 2016, and presided over a period of steady economic growth more on this from a correspondent in the philippine capital gyla gollindo, i mean jamila, the announcement when it did come only confirmed really the whispers that had been circulating for many hours. how is this news not being delivered to the why to

public well, our own sources have confirmed that indeed he passed away this morning. but we were told also that his siblings are now in the capital medical center where he was taken early this morning. and that they are set to make an official announcement soon. we have yet to hear from the philippine government official statements coming from the philippine government. but you know, president benito quino has been out of the public eye over the last few years and there were persistent reports already that he had several health issues over the past few years. so he'll of course, jamila, you know, political legacies can be obviously quite controversial. but his legacy will perhaps, will be of a man many respected. he tried to heal the wounds, but his own political family history was peppered with both sadness and success. indeed that mean you know, president b need walking or be noisy. he is mostly known. here is someone who was all too

familiar about the difficult pains of achieving democracy in this country. his parents were democracy icons, his father, the late senator benito, r quino was a fighter during the time of march. former, during the time of the former president mark was during the period of martial law. he was shot dead in the time of manila airport in 1983. the death of his father actually push for as we called the people power revolution, which then propelled his mother to become president over the next few years. he was obviously president aquino, a member of the opposition. he held several government positions, but he led you was really kind of a side politician in 19080901 of the coolest rogue soldiers actually shot him 5 times as he was trying to defend his mother from these rogue soldiers who were still loyal to former president mark was but it was the death

really obvious mother in 2010 that also pushed for the public and for him to basically run progressive in the 2010. and he won overwhelmingly. and so hail, you know, during the spirit, within 2010 to 2016, the philippines was considered the economic rockstar in asia. he. the country was growing up an annual rate of 6 percent. he stood up against china and filed the case against china. the international tri view, the tribunal is actually wants. it's quite a mixed legacy. at this point, we're hoping to get more information from the family over the next few hours. indeed, we'll check in with you as and when that happens with alan doug and force that in manila. now the therapy military is accused of delaying medical access after an alleged, as strike on a busy market in the to dry region, which killed dozens of people. the 7 month old conflict has escalated in recent days, mid reports of rebel advances, while elections were held outside the country. now the u. s. and the u. n. of

called for an investigation, the tory gate and the reports, the relatives of the injured wait outside a hospital for news. following the bombing of a busy market in the village of to goga ne p, p as t gray region. some of the victims of route here to the regional capital mckelly 30 kilometers away. but many more we did a believe to be trapped in the village health workers. se soldiers blocked medical team from reaching the seen a lot of people waiting unit, but they didn't get service. and because of the locus of the road, i mean, if any, the u. s. state department, school days, reports credible and said in a statement that denying victims urgently needed medical care is heinous. and absolutely unacceptable. we urge the ethiopian authorities to ensure full and unhindered medical access to the victims. immediately. they called for accountability,

i call for an investigation for what has happened. but more broadly, we have made clear our position on the issues in to grade. we have asked for a cease fire. we demanded a cease fire. the attack happened during some of the most intense fighting since the conflict between the army and t gray, regional forces began in november. it's not been confirmed who carried out the attack, but military analysts say evidence overwhelmingly suggests the ethiopian air force is responsible. the frankly, nobody else who could have done it. the air try and air forces not operating in the area. the to grants have no air force. who else could have done as it must have been an ethiopian jet? i don't think that will come as any surprise to anyone do you and has expressed deep alarm at the reports of violence and says it pushing for access to the region . the situation in the air remains very, very volatile. it's important that everyone engaged in fighting

do their utmost to protect civilians to obey international humanitarian law. this conflict is now in its 8th month. she, great opposition. parties say more than 50000 people have been killed while the un says more than 350000 have been pushed into famine. last week, the african union launched an independent inquiry into alleged human rights abuses in the region after widespread accounts of massacres and sexual violence against civilians. this attack may will be added to the growing list of atrocities to investigate victoria to be al jazeera hogan's pro democracy newspaper. apple daily has printed its last edition. its been full of clothes after its assets were frozen, and top executives were arrested. the newspaper is the latest institution in the city that folded under pressure and spacing, impose a new national security lot. if you could. paula has more from hong kong. i'm at

one of the newspapers that i've already sold out of apple daily in the early hours . i've received some fresh coffee and as you can see behind me, there's a steady stream of people coming to get their coffee. now, apple daily, faster this printing about a 1000000 copies and expected to be sold out. to put this into context, hong kong has only around 8000000 people. so, but apple daily had in its last edition, made a course to show how it's been so important to hong kong pro democracy movement. and one of the things they've done is made a special supplement here showing all the major stories that covered. many of them are process and the both the offline, the number of papers that sold. and this will be the most to ever add $1000000.00 previous call, previous highs for around half a 1000000 during major event by protest and anniversary. and on their front page here they have

a picture of the scene outside their headquarters last night and into the early hours of the printing process made their final run. you can see they were surrounded by supporters and normally quite industrial area where their headquarters are and there's the title. the headline says home home, people say good bye to apple daily in the rain and at the, at the bottom here at the sub headline, they say we support the awful daily with a sense that they are leaving with a lot of sentiment and emotion. here. that's bringing steven vines, he's a journalist, north or all the defying the dragon book, hong kong and the world's largest to take to ship to is gonna via skype from hong kong. and steven, just set the scene for us in the mood where you are, as people talk about the closure of the apple daily. is it sad resign deflated, or just general acceptance? maybe all of the above. i mean,

there is great sadness as we've just turned in that report. people have been both expressing their support and also wanting to preserve the memory of apple, daddy by going out in the hundreds of thousands to buy it in the circles that i move in, which obviously is largely composed of other people in the media. there's a mood of great fear because not only has the paper close down the own me, surviving mainstream opposition, newspaper, mainstream opposition media, i should say in the arrest yesterday. one of the column is to just that now there is such a thing is so crime, you don't just have to be involved in political activities. if you express in the payment in a newspaper, you can also be arrested. this is very chilling and being so where does this really leave sort of the red lines that media operators have to be aware of when it comes to what can and cannot be said to sort of the censorship areas. very unclear at the

moment. it is very unclear, indeed, the chief executive carrying alarm was asked as a press conference earlier this week, whether she could tell journalists who are attending it, where the red lines were. and she made this very chilling comment. it's the same comment as you would hear from official in banking. she said, eugene, unless you know what the limit. so in other words, she won't spread it out, but she will say you're responsible for what we write. we may well decide about you, right? there's something that causes the red lines. so unlike the situation on the mainland where more less, nothing is permitted in theory. quantitative is still committed in hong kong. we don't actually know how much and what would be the repercussions of crossing a red line that actually hasn't been spelled out. well, why does this leave then? hong kong in terms of the international media hub because it was always, always have

a vibrant international media had some of those. suddenly the print media moved shortly after the national security law was even sort of suggested and imposed on on the area. well, that's a question that lots of people are wondering about. i mean, hong kong is already diminished as an international media. but you still have major news agencies here. you still have newspapers less than they were before. and i know for a fact that everybody in those organizations is reconsidering their options. i think that's the aftermath of the closure of aphrodite, which is no small thing, is going to accelerate the discussions that are taking place internally within those organizations seem funds good to speak to. and thanks very much for your

insight from hong kong. thanks for joining us. while still her stella had here on al jazeera, the un walls of the straw catastrophe in madagascar where millions are on the brink of starvation and tech on a job look, fi has died. the creator of one of the 1st anti virus software was found dead in his trail. so in spain, ah, now the weather in florida continues pretty humid. these thunderstorms which are on a frontal system and are edging out of, of most of comp several years. we'll hang around and produce more thunderstorms in florida. otherwise it's pretty fine weather until once again, you look to the midwest in the central plane states, and to some degree up the mountain west as well. but these orange top showers on developing on the fatty sloan. we've got, i think

a pretty decent torrential downpours, therefore probably flooding chicago as a case in boy. but you run it through buffalo and eventually eventually towards toronto, as well as forecasts for chicago, with lowering temperatures. torrential downpours for friday and saturday sling leaving sunstone rather a brighter day on sunday. now throughout the gulf of mexico and the caribbean recently and now it is pretty much daily showers or thunderstorm from the small islands to well, continental parts of the us and cuba. the blue is obviously the showers can, could replace. you might want to go to escape these and how fine sunshine now i'm afraid not thunderstorms a thursday, friday and saturday for the south where the season is different. there is tremendously wet and cold weather in europe. why the

no place, and so i go on with say, press brit treated of the car about a media hub and vital vantage point during the 1st truly televised war from the roof. we could see the declaration at the american embassy, where the most iconic images of the conflict of vietnam were transmitted to the world. this was the front row seats, the final stages of the war, saigon, caravel, a new episode of war hotels on al jazeera, the ah, ah, the challenges there with me. so the reminder of all top stories, the former philippine present, benito akita,

has died after being hospitalized miller on thursday. the 61 year old roles from 2010 to 2016, and presided over a period of study economic growth. the u. s. is condemned and strong on a busy market is to grow region, which has reportedly killed dozens of people. health workers in the village of a toga told the associate associated press that soldiers blocks medical teams from reaching the scene. and people in hong kong are flocking to newspapers done to get the final edition of the pro democracy newspaper. the apple daily. it's been under pressure sensations. national security little came up with a top executives been arrested and its assets frozen the be as path towards finding lasting piece as received a big boost. the country's foreign minister says mercenaries could be out of the country within days. she said, progress had been made at talks with world leaders in germany, directed his part of a plan to reduce violence ahead of national elections in december. adam rainy has

wolf darlin. the berlin conference was marked by promises to help libya transform into a democratic and stable country. we have a responsibility, particularly in this moment, to demonstrate that democracies can deliver to actually see libya. hopefully take a course of security, freedom, independence, backed by the international community. the conference co hosted by germany and the you in was a follow up to the 1st libby a conference held 18 months ago with a cease fire in place. libby as interim prime minister said the country will hold elections as promised on december 24th. when you would send us one and a half years ago, libya was threatened with collapse. the economy was on the verge of collapse. we saw social tensions and divisions. today, we're in a critical phase, but we're also in a very hopeful phase. today, we can speak with a unified voice and say,

we will not return to war. all parties in berlin agreed. foreign fighters and mercenaries must leave libya, and that libyan malicious must be demobilized and disarmed. according to the un, some 20000 foreign fighters and mercenaries remain on the ground and libya assigned some analysts say shows libya is not on the right path. the remove method was on the ground today. then the last conference. there are now more weapons on the ground, and the last conference there had been more violations of the since the last one, the last 5 women insisted that the foreign forces withdrew a few days and they haven't. here at the conference, germany foreign minister made a point of saying, partner nations and organizations are no longer just talking about libya. but talking with libya and lydia as foreign minister made a point of saying what her country's expecting here. the people of my country pin. so much hope and the 2nd conference of the berlin process,

my people are looking forward to seeing more concrete measures which have a positive impact and the ground. it's time for actions because my people have heard enough. it's not clear yet if the participants will deliver such concrete measures so far, they've made promises. in the past, some of those have not been kept. adam rainy al jazeera berlin, the former colombian presidential candidate who was kidnapped and held by fog rebels for 6 and a half years has come face to face with her former captors on live television. ingrid betancourt, the parents, as part of columbia's truth commission. it's meant to document an official account of the country's 5 decade, a war allison around pnc has more from bucket on. it was the 1st time that former presidential candidate ingrid betancourt came face to face with her former captors . now demobilized park fighters at a public event organized by the countries to its commission. they were going to

execute the year leaders accepted responsibility for tens of thousands of kidnappings. earlier this year on stage and in front of cameras, betancourt criticized which she described as the lack of empathy during an emotional speech. your mrs. c. talk estate is bracey. i need you to express that you feel this shame? is it a social shame? because colombian society is complaining about what you did boys love at windsor, or is it the shame of the soul? you can hear i wanted to hear you talk from your heart. not in political terms. from your heart. with inquiry was held in captivity for more than 6 years. be those of her in the jungle made headlines

worldwide. as due to her rescue in a cinematic military operation in 2008, making her assemble of one of the most, hiring crimes of columbia, the internal conflict, the farm systematically kidnapped more than 20000 people, has a way to finance their war against the state and terrorize entire populations on wednesday from a far commander, regal, and the new repeated their regret. neither not up with it. nothing can explain what justify your pain. we are absolutely conscious of it. we don't pretend to excuse ourselves with any argument. they weren't people involved in the conflict, but innocent victim of it. that's why we understand if they had those who don't feeling client, forgive us. but it was, you know, i mean, they said another victim escaped testimonies and wednesday said they were indeed ready to forgive better now. but i know i have forgiven to stop poisoning my spirit

and stop generating hate and resentment like armand aconia, who returned to his capture a magazine in a book he received with a hostage. and then he has kept until now get up in italy. i want to ask you all to do this humanly and even in humanly possible for peace of this country. help us please. overall it was an emotional and highly symbolic day in a country still deeply divided on the reasons for its decades long conflict. and that struggling to heal deep wounds, to help forge a more peaceful row the heads, allison and the i'll just the, you gotta the results of ireland melissa has resigned. ricardo silas is facing a criminal investigation into whether he obstructed a police probe of illegal logging in the amazon rain forest that follows the federal police rates talking him and other officials who allegedly allowed illegal would exports. mulkey and give husband from reiteration error. he kind of thought

is really known as the non environment minister, the person that became an environment minister to not to protect the environment itself. but to make it easier for the agricultural companies for law get for loggers, for minors, to, to start to, to work in the amazon region. he says he was trying to, to look for nickel librium between economic development and the protection of the forest. we have seen during his time and government was a surge in deforestation. he, the institutions that are there to protect the amazon rain forest. they were dismantled, there was less money, and he was known. and for a sentence, he said, and administer a meeting in april last year, when he said, okay, while the world in the media are distracted by the pandemic,

let's let the cattle heard loose because the person that's going to substitute him is somebody that is already working in the ministry, he is the secretary for the amazon, and he has very, very close ties also to the agricultural companies and landowners. people in madagascar on the verge of starvation, the worst drought in 40 years. the un food agencies as a desperate need for aid, with malnutrition, more than doubling in the past 4 months, alexia bryan explains this days at wasteland and southern madagascar was once airable and fertile. but years of drought mean only a few patches of green remain. the lack of water has destroyed crops and sandstorms cover whatever's left and the layer of dust. the food here has nearly run out. many families are forced to eat and sick the leaves to survive. it took me that in the morning. i prepare the plate of insects,

i clean them up as best i can give them this almost no water. my children i have been eating as planned every day for 8 months because we have nothing else to eat and no rain to allow us to harvest. what we have sewn, 8 groups, a warning of catastrophe, especially for children like these 2 now orphans after the mother died of hunger, the arms of wasting away. while they stomachs a blow said by malnutrition, and they had allowed if i look it up, i rely on god. today we have absolutely nothing to eat except cactus leaves that we are trying to clean up. we have nothing left. their mother is dead and my husband is dead. what do you want me to say? our life is all about looking for capital lees again and again to survive. medic ask is, southern region is the epi center of the crisis. more than a 1000000 people, about half of the areas population need food aid, and the karone of ours pandemic has made everything worse, flowing the delivery of much needed supplies. many of these women and children have walked for hours to get help,

were facing the worst drought in over 40 years. and this is an area where people depend on their own agriculture, home grown school, meals, small holder farmers. this is how they lived down here, but with drought back to back to back. people can't survive. and so the government partner with the world food program, others were doing the best we can. but it's a terrible situation who reigns during this years planting season suggest yet another harvest will fail. the us food agency says the world must act now or a generation could be lost to famine. alex o'brien al jazeera the un secretary general has appealed to the security council to renew a cross border 8 operation into northwestern syria for another year. until you get harish warned that failure to do so would be devastating for millions of people mandate that allowed a truck into the country is set to expire on july,

the 10th. i still really appeal to the members of the council to reach consensus and allowing cross bar little petitions as the vital channel of support for another is a failure to extend the counselors authorization would have devastating consequences . the city people are in dire need, and it is essential to mobilize all our capacities along all channels. but the folks forget that the solution to the student treasure the can only be political city and must come together to agree on their future. it is time to end this decade long nightmare. a computer anti virus software pioneer has been found dead in his jail. so hours after a spanish court approved his extradition to the u. s. jolla mcafee was that to face tax fraud charges rob reynolds reports. john mcafee's anti virus software made him rich and famous, but apparently that wasn't enough. mcafee about to be extradited to the us to face

charges of tax evasion was found dead in spanish jail cell. on wednesday, he was $75.00, mcafee allegedly failed to pay his taxes for money earned in crypto currency. manipulation deals, speaking engagements, and other activities. he claimed the charges against him were politically motivated . in my interest is the self described lover of women, adventure and mystery founded his virus protection software company in the 1980s. it became one of the most popular in its field, but mcafee tired of being an executive and sold it in 1994, reportedly for $100000000.00. he then embarked on a 2nd career of self indulgence, drinking drugs, sex,

and it was alleged crime by his own admission. mcafee was arrested $21.00 times in 11 countries for crimes, including drug trafficking, firearms violations, and securities fraud. he was suspected of, but never charged for the murder of an american x. patriot business man. in belief in 2012 mack at the fled to guatemala and unsuccessfully sought political asylum, increasingly erratic. in his later years, mcafee boasted of his sexual exploits with teenagers and railed against governments . a little more than a year ago, he posted a rambling statement on his twitter feed. we give people power over others to government soon, military. and we expect them not to be corrupt. mcafee was on the run from us tax authorities for several years before

winding up in barcelona. in october 2020, where he was jailed in his final tweet on june 16th, mcafee denied having any hidden assets and said his friends had abandoned him. i have nothing he wrote yet. i regret nothing. ah, i don't see how they are with me. so he rubbed the reminder of our top story full with philippine present. benita akina has died after being hospitalized in manila on thursday. the 61 year old who was the son of pro democracy icons, rules from 2010 to 2016, and presided over a period of study economic growth. jamil allan doug has more from manila,