testing the global community around the world already a clear gap has emerged between rich nations and poor ones when it comes to vaccinating their populations from the geo politics to the pure economics. the misinformation, the latest developments, what's going on here is very different. first off, the back thing comes in the form of a nasal spray, special coverage of the colona virus pandemic. on a jessina o. u . s. s strikes heads, iran bags militias on the rock theory, a border group say 4 of their members have been killed. ah, i'm sammy say them, this is out just they're alive from the hall. so coming up south africa becomes the lazy country to re impose cobit lockdown measures to combat the rapid spread of the delta vary. and the protests in the occupied

west bank about with walls following the death of the prominent critic and rescue teams. race against the clock to find survivors of a florida building. kalonde. ah, the us military is conducted as strikes in iraq consillio against iranian bank. the militia 2 locations in syria and one into ronko targeted both along the wrong serial border. the ranks popular mobilization forces, say 4 of their members being killed in the attacks. the pentagon is released a statement saying, president biden has been clear. he will act to protect us personnel, given the ongoing series of attacks by iranian bank groups targeting us interest in iraq. the president directed further military action to disrupt and deter such

attacks from washington, d. c, his rasa, and jordan. now, late on sunday, the paragon announced that the orders of jo brightened the u. s. president. the us military launched defensive precision air strikes against 3 targets, 2 in syria and one in iraq. the targets are, are ron backed militias, according to the pentagon groups that have been trying to launch drone attacks on us forces and bases inside iraq. the pentagon goes on to say that the president used his constitutional authority to order these air strikes in order to protect us forces, who are in a rock, providing training and support to the rocky military mode up. the lad joins us now live from baghdad. so what kind of reaction are we getting from the popular mobilization forces?

will send me the resistance or the iraqi resistance. that's the umbrella that includes. the popular mobilization forces has just issued a statement saying that it's going to retaliate what he calls it. the blood of the fallen soldiers is going to avenge the death of the fallen soldiers that were killed by the american air strikes on the border between syria and iraq, left it at night. now, this attack comes only a couple of days after vigils were shut down when near to the american consulate in be in northern iraq, and also follows a speedo by tax, by a drones a long ship again as to american military facilities, including get a said military base in the province and also american military facilities near

the international airport. as you know, this is in terms of the attacks and counter attacks that between the american military and also, and the iran backed out with groups. namely those under the popular mobilization force, the public mobilization force also stated a parade at the anniversary of establishing the armored group in the city of the day after the day after day tried to state it and by the dead. but they were rejected by the government of a prime minister, most of a company. and now this attack, it comes as a retaliation of the debt tax luncheon by the iran backed army groups and get american military facilities. but if this resistance

group that issued is statement, if they continue tacking american facilities, we may witness attacks and counter attacks. they say the resistance groups or what they call themselves, the resistance group. they say that the american military presence in iraq is unconstitutional and against the mandate of the house of representatives and begins the will of the iraqi people. but meanwhile, the government of most of us called me, says that the presence of the american soldiers in iraq is by virtue of an agreement on the r helping, fighting tourism. namely the a slam of the state in iraq on the bond. all right, thanks so much my mood wide now as have been reporting, this is the 2nd time president joe biden has ordered military strikes in the region . the 1st was in february against some of the same iranian bank groups that

followed rocket attacks on the us spaces. the pentagon says there were 5 drone attacks on us led coalition personnel in the bronx since april. and the us says iran backed militia, including cat, has belong, say, the show that use the facility that was attacked on sunday. laurence cove is a senior fellow at the center for american progress. he's also a former assistant secretary of defense. he says the us is keen to send a firm message to iran. i think they are very significant because this is only the 2nd time the president biden has use military force. the 1st strike was almost exactly 4 months ago. the end of the end of february, i also think it's significant that he attacked rainy and back courses. at the same time, the negotiations are going on about reinstating the j. c p. away because i think he wants to send a signal that yes, we want to get back into the nuclear agreement,

but we're not going to let you do all these other things. and then finally, i think it's also a signal that even though the united states is getting out of afghanistan, we're not leaving the region. we're going to keep troops in iraq until we can see that the situation is stable. we don't want isis to come back into the syria iraq border. these are theoretically part of the iraqi military, but they're under a rating and control. and basically they would like the united states to get out of the region. so a ran, could extend its, its influence, the iraqi government likes us to do these things because they don't want to take on the ready and back militias themselves given the, you know, the percentage of the ship that live, that live in iraq. so this, i'm sure they coordinated this with the iraqi government. now in iraq, i feel is claiming responsibility for

a rocket attack on an electrical power station. the attack happened in the city of tomato rocks, ministry of electricity says the sell off had the power station suffered severe damage after it was hit by. could you show rockets? give me a devastating 3rd wave of covered 19 is from to tougher restrictions in south africa . presidents around the f o, the address the nation and set out new lockdown measures for 2 weeks. all schools will start closing on wednesday night on curfew. has been extended and is also abandoned all gatherings and the sale of alcohol delta very 1st to take it in india has led to the recent surge, amount of africa was a nation. we are in the difference. they to waive that by all indications. seems like it would be worse than those that have

preceded it. the peak of this 3rd wave looks set to be higher than the previous 2 waves. the 1st wave. if we recall last that 15 weeks, the 2nd wave lasted nearly 9 weeks. we don't know how long this one will last, but indications that it could last longer. hospitals are overwhelmed than running out of oxygen. as robin smith explains from cape town, all indications, right now what we're being told is that this 3rd wave is going to be worse than what we experienced in the 2nd way. and this is no, but an expected government was expecting that the 3rd wave would actually hit us, not as hard as the 2nd wave did. and this was because they weren't expecting damper variance to come to the africa. but now what the 3rd is,

the adult variant that is most dominant in full. that's got the moment you played that bite from the president. he went on to say that, you know, private, public confidence, the bottling, under the pressure. we are hearing reports of ambulances keeping outside of people, being turned away for treatment for admission into hospital of people being treated at home, but not having enough oxygen uh, hospital beds, running or hospitals running out of space on oxygen as well. and what we also use, you've made it very clear that the current restrictions clearly are not working. people aren't giving them either the case knew how the secretary says bringing and then to the current a virus pandemic is he's most immediate priority. sound good job. it is the form of finance minister and replaces mat hancock whose resignation was forced by scandal. shakeup puts more pressure on

a government that's been heavily criticized for the handling of the pandemic. the countries now dealing with higher infections. we are still in a panoramic and i want to see that come to an end as soon as possible and that will be my most immediate priority to see that we can return to normal food and as quickly as possible. not got a lot of work to do. i'm sure you appreciate that. and if you can excuse me, i'd like to get on with it. australian kevin 19 response committee is due to alden emergency meeting on monday. as cases of the delta very continues to spread around the country authorities in the state of new south wales. our warning infections are likely to increase considerably 18 new locally transmitted virus cases where the fault is there. on monday, a 2 week long found was imposed at the end and the weekend rather, and sidney after an outbreak of the highly contagious delta strain. fight

restrictions have come into effect in bangkok and other type provinces for a month. construction sites, a closed in door dining and gatherings of more than 20 people. a ban. tony chang is bank kong. more on what these restrictions are means for the economy. terrorism is funded monthly to the economy here the big hope had been to reopen on the 1st of july and came the government pulling the book at sandbox because it's been almost impossible for terrorists to get hit. everyone coming in and be they tie or foreign has to do a mandatory 14 day warranty. and that's been the case the most of the last 12 months. it really killed off the tourist industry in many areas. a lot of those businesses have been hanging on with the hope that this summer we would start to see people coming back. so now if you are fully vaccinated, you can, if you bought the right visa, go to. you'll have the stuff on the island, but you won't be stuck in a hotel for the 14 days after that you can get back on the mainland china. but the

problem is hotel buffington, particularly high. i think given the global situation, people are not keen to spend that kind of money on a holiday and tyler, but also domestic terrorism with the, with these new long individual provinces, putting their own current rules in place. so that anyone coming from bangkok now has to do 14 days for going up to the north for example. and that's going to make it very, very in addition to which the vaccination program, which the government is rolling out is going very slowly. they were trying to get domestically produced supplies faster than the ground. that seems to be a problem. at the moment, we've only got about 7 percent of vaccinate and i think people are very well until that program can be fully rolled out. the chances of opening up a very, very slim will still ahead on al jazeera, it's known as the white gold of renewable energy,

but argentine is struggling to extract lithium from it's called flat. you why the hello good to see where dialing up the heat said cross the middle east fell jaffar of 50.2 degrees. this now means that your 5th day at 50 degrees or above, and i think we'll get a few other spots across the middle east in there as well. so baghdad, we've got 50 degrees in the forecast for you. well above average, you know, where else we're starting to see those temperatures. climb is, is we head toward the levant, check out some of these temperatures aleppo, 40 degrees right through areas of turkey as well. the sea resort city of on talia 40 degrees and also one cypress nicko. c. a 41. all of these while above average except for going to eastern africa. we've got to talk about some bouts of heavy

weather. rain, i should say, moving through south sudan into the central african republic. and because of just how intense this rain will be, we are running the risk of seeing some flash flooding, particularly as we head toward the west of juba on monday. okay. towards that south and we've got a weather maker pulling in to the western cape. look what it does, said the temperature in cape town, 14 degrees. but really, let's run this story by the numbers now because we're going to be last with a lot of rain. $38.00 millimeters of rain and then we're going to see those we pick up at a pretty good clip as while projected at about 72 kilometers per hour. on monday, the india has been devastated by the covey. 19 pandemic. the one when a makes the frontline work risking their lives to treat the sick and very the 10 we understand the differences and similarities of

cultures across the world. so no matter what, i'll just bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. i'll just being around oh, a welcome back here watching out 0 time to recap all headlines. the u. s. military is conducted and strikes against iranian bank. the militia, 2 locations in syria and one in iraq were targeted. the rocks popular mobilization forces, se 4 of its members were killed in the attacks. a devastating 3rd wave of code 19 is from the top of restrictions in south africa. they include the closure of

schools and the tension of a nighttime curfew and the ban on old gatherings through case new health secretary says bringing an end to corona virus is he's most immediate priority. sergeant javin is the form of finance and replaces not hang. resignation was full spy scandal, israel's newly elected prime minister, enough taliban, it says chad, the corona virus, competent meeting. despite having one of the worlds fastest vaccine rollouts and indoor mosque mandates has been reinstated, as new infections rise due to a localized outbreak of the delta variant. israel reported 113 huge cove. it's 900 cases on saturday. and then the oxide, west bang the violence classes between rival palestinian groups over the death of a prominent critic of the palestinian authority. these are the themes and bethlehem . we're right police, you've got done grenade from protest i there was

a similar situation. romanella anger growing. there over the death of his odd bananas who was arrested by palestinian forces on thursday. his family says he was dragged away and severely beaten. stephanie deca has more the chaos on the streets of it. among the group of pro government supporters march down to where around a 100 protesters had gathered peacefully chanting slogans against the palestinian authority. protesters were beaten, and members of the media were aggressively targeted. many se been a concerted campaign against the press camera cards were for to be removed and taken. a colleague had his camera smashed. we were surrounded by thugs who forced us to bring down the satellite antenna on our old hosting trucks. there are security members, you know, but with the civil clause, the related to different security groups and military intelligence and the which called the,

the president gods. also this is part of that. most of them, you know, they are not civilians. the security is the 4th day of protests following the death of palestinian authority. critic, these are burnett, according to his family, who was beaten in the middle of the night, entertained by members of the palestinian security forces. last thursday. anger at the government here is rising. 84 percent of the palestinian people say in pulls that the palestinian authority is corrupt. so that's the 1st issue. the 2nd issue is that the p a has become an authoritarian regime. they are arresting activists. they are beating people in the street and left, but not least to palestinian people want to struggle for freedom, wants a struggle for justice. the settlements are expanding and we see the p a and the p . a role has been assisting the occupations preventing the post and the struggle seems like this rarely seen here. and large number of security forces were

stationed not far from this and did nothing we reached out to various members of the government. no one has so far given us the response, the level of intimidation over the media over the last couple of days has been. female journalists have been beaten with sticks. we were severely intimidated, not to film to bring down our life capabilities. and they continue to watch us to the point where we couldn't even take out our mobile phones. and all this prompted by a protests of only around 100 or so people. stephanie decor, ultra 0. my law in the occupied west, back fighting between them and government forces and healthy rebels is that thousands of people dead in the oil rich region is the government's last northern stronghold and has implications for peace negotiations. the charlotte bonus explains just a warning. reform contains flashes. the dusk and marrow only illuminates the offensive on germany government forces. darkness has done nothing

to stop their recent offences. after almost 7 years of war, merab is the front line. the area is the saudi best government, last stronghold and northern human. it is rich in natural resources and both sides . belief controlling merit means controlling peace negotiations. the city has become a hub, unlike an operational room for the o. d coalition to attack him. and that's why they think by killing mad this actually will, will clear all know to pm and hundreds have been killed since fighting escalated in merit in february since thursday. the government says the iranian, but who fees have renewed their assets, attacking them from the north, south, and west. the us is fighting and merit is a serious threat to achieving a truth. what time did you estimate it? when we thank god, our morals are high and the tribes are joining to support the battle on the front

line. merab used to be a relative safe haven. it attracted hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting in other parts of the country. the people fed up of the situation in march . 1000000 people found in his hands and people set up and they all one who backing the government under finding that the seats for them, the only hope for truth and all the peace in yemen who fees fire to miss alt this petrol station in merab. earlier this month, filling up his car was to his sag. he'd taken his 2 year old daughter with him to a market that morning. they too had settled in merab after being displaced by fighting further north tar here and leanne would 2 of 21 people killed any of her that has happened. she was such a fun child. she loved having fun, a lot and light choking around her dad adored her. he was in love with her good

milam on her last, surrounded by leon's favorite toys and a battle looming every louder. c fighting intensifying is the prospect of peace fuels the war. charlotte bellis o jazeera. now the death toll from the collapse of a florida apartment town 3 days ago has risen to 952 people still accounted for. rescue work is recovered for more bodies from the debris on sunday, john 100 reports from 1st sight. with a rising death toll in dwindling hopes of finding survivors in the sir side, building collapse rescue workers have been battling rain fire and the cloth. as rescuers rummaged through tons of rubble from above and beneath a structural engineer tells al jazeera the collapse seems to started in the buildings foundation and the thinking landfill. it was built on deck might be something to do with the foundation settlement. it might be something to do with

d is some of the columns that might be deteriorated over time. remember, this building is close to the shoreline. and when you have structures, especially countries, sectors get across the shore line. there it's 40, it's forced to salty. see what it kind of explain. the deterioration of the country search and rescue teams cut a deep trench through pancake concrete and mangled metal and made a grim discovery. we continued all night to build that, that trench. and as a result of that, we were able to recover for additional bodies in the rubble as well as additional human remains. first responders say this is still a rescue mission, noting survivors could live on in so called void spaces. so avoid space can be created by pretty much anything if a wall falls and hit your refrigerator. instead of coming down to the floor, maybe

a piece of furniture. maybe someone could be in a bath tub with a piece of wall over them, and the back of itself is avoid space with any space that could sustain life, family members or donating dna to identify those last in the champlain towers, south. but the search has been hampered by fire and rain. there is another worry just north of the building. they came down. there is another building called champlain tower north built at the same time with similar materials and residence there are being offered the chance to voluntarily thank you way. over the next 30 days, miami dade county officials will be inspecting it and other older high rise buildings, hoping to avoid another catastrophe on the sinking sands of miami beach. the chances of finding survivors decreased by the hour and by the day that the refill scattered throughout and its compact is extremely compact. so it's a very slow process where we have to sure we have to stabilize the best we can as

we're moving through. after the rescue come the forensic engineers gathering samples from the collapse concrete and steel and putting their findings into computer simulations, we will try to replicate disputed by different simulations and based on the loss you have in your computer environment, simulating the same type of failure. then you will have a better understanding of what factor or factors cause this failure. but 1st rescue workers are toiling around the clock to ensure that anyone who is managed to survive within avoid in the rebel is discovered before time runs out. john henderson, al jazeera surfside, florida class. the world moves to more renewable energy demand for lithium is growing. the mineral is used in batteries and phones, laptops, and electric vehicles. argentina has large reserves and the potential to be a world leader is in producing lithium products. but some fear it comes at the

expense of water supply to raise of reports from july province. lithium extraction is well and away at the level full flats in the province of who, who is in northern argentina. it is referred to as the wire gold of renewable energy. that's what the market is going to need to increase lithium extraction, but also manufacture batteries to add value to the production chain layer a. we are trying to establish a small supply chain of lithium batteries. so we can meet with the demand. one area of demand is the transformation of fudge and tina's large public transport system to include electric, but lithium production is a priority for argentina's government. it's minister of production says that government has already signed deals with several companies. china is a major player in the business and has been increasing its presence in the region.

democracy, the endo, would you see us? we're seeing lots of interest in the possibility of investing in the country. last week we signed a memorandum with a chinese company that has already producing lithium in argentina and is hoping to advance into batteries. and we signed with another chinese company to build batteries and cars are not going to be you're seeing lots of interest because of our natural resources, industrial history and technology that allows us to plan ahead. lithium, ion, batteries, rechargeable and lightweight power. the most used electronic devices on the planet from cell phones to laptops. much of that, lithium comes from what is known as the lithium triangle. i didn't pino bolivia until you have a wrong 70 percent of the words. lithium research. the lithium is liquid, ryan reserves no k to install flat, like this, when thousands of liters of water are necessary to pump up the brian research to the surface there later on, distributed in evaporation pools. communities around this area are concerned that

unless you extraction could complicate though access to water. people here depend on these false labs to make a living. dining and lament flores is part of the indigenous communities in the area. like on the i to be in which one that ancestors have been living here since before the argent times state, and now they want to invade it. we haven't seen any serious studies on what will happen to the water. it is something that worries us that we are concerned about what is being done to other salt flats in the region. they are broken dirty and we don't want that to happen here. and that's why scientists like victoria flexor, i working to find alto native ways to extract lithium. so we are looking at both disruptive technologist means technologies that do not need to evaporate water to extract lithium. and we are also looking at where we michael, upgrade to the current about technology. and we are looking to try to we

gather some of the work that he's currently lost during of operation. it would be an inconsistency to extract lithium for a, for a greener world. and for a greener economy, if we are contaminating the regions or the locations around the bosses, developing technologies is expensive and will take time. a major challenge for developing nations quite trying to find a balance between conservation and growth please. i will as the theda pool, we urgent tina ah, and let's take you through some of the headlines here now just 0. now the us military is conducted as strong as against iranian bank. the militia 2 locations in syria and one in iraq with targeted both along the border, iraq's popular mobilization forces, se.