to, to be taken lightly off because we have seen must have been the united states yet the neighboring country are seen so many countries who, who took the fall. and right now, when i see malaysians that you do at the very relax case. the guy with 19 delta variant is spreading rapidly through the asia pacific region. the philippines is banding travelers from malaysia and thailand. people in manila have been queueing up for vaccines restrictions have been rein posed there and in the provinces until the end of the month. elsewhere in the region, even remote island, nations that had remained isolated for much of last year as seeing a rise in infections. tiny, cheng explain, grieving relatives watch as the body of them mothers removed from a hospital in fiji, the cause cove. at 19, the pacific nation has seen

a significant rise in daily cases in the past week to more than a 1000 a day, and a rising death toll. the curve at 1900 delta variant is now widespread in fiji, even though 70 percent of the population has received one vaccine chart. and there's widespread cooperation with the vaccination roll out to the benefit of everyone else. and they've got your family. busy and friends, the neighbors, some of the most remote islands in the world. many of the pacific nations have been under strict lockdown for the past year. and in some cases, recorded 0 domestic transmission of covered 19. but the delta varying has changed all that. and it's clear the only way out of vaccines. that's the only way i don't think those we have any other option then try to actually anyone. we can of course . ringback subject to, to what is what is safe there is i don't really think there is any other way for us

to, to get out of this crisis invited to the vaccine role that has just begun quite a challenge in a nation of $83.00 separate islands as part of the global kovacs vaccination initiative, but who are, who has now received several shipments, but with cases rising in the region many award, that won't be enough for the 1000 tosser some, it's not really not for the heart of oblivion for, nor the. so we still need more packing in mainland southeast asia. there was a feeling that the worst of the pandemic was passed here in thailand. they only had 61 cove in 19 death in the whole of 2020. now, there are more than that every single day. vietnam was touted as another curve at 19 success. strict controls who kept early cases isolated and transmission well under control. now the vietnamese authorities a saying thousands of new cases every day. a 3rd of the countries under locked down

conditions, and despite talks to produce vaccines domestically, at this stage, less than half a percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. tony cheng elders there. that's returned to one of our top stories now that the van of lebanon, where a club, a former prime ministers, have chosen nation. but mccarty also a form of prime minister to form a new government. in lebanon's political system, the prime minister must be a sunni muslim. the speaker of the house has to be a shia and the president merrier. 9 christian last week, prime minister designate, sat her weary step down after negotiations with president michelle michel own on forming a new government failed. the country is suffering its worst economic crisis. in modern history, the lebanese pound has lost 90 percent of its value in the last 2 years. 9 selim is a professor of international affairs and diplomacy and notre dom at university in

lebanon. he's joining us live from bay route via skype. hello there, professor. thanks for joining us. firstly, what more do we know about nat geo? but mccarty this is because he has been in the, on the mention 39 a. m b. and he has to repeat it 2 times as a prime minister. and he joined the prime minister, who support will have supported wide sometime mister todd, how did he has said to become prime minister now having failed to form a cabinet. oh, how do you know she got? they hadn't step in with the support of the club for 4 or 4 minutes. there are certainly prime minister, including including madam set out,

but this is not enough for mr. hardy to become for mr. coffee will become prime minister, actually mr. to call to getting the support of the 2, she better be the speaker of the funding and to both of whom actually support the and this has given a push for coffee to probably get in the mediation, which will today's the tomorrow monday in the presidential. mister michelle probably will get $69.00 or 70 deputies to name mr. caught the out. he needed to be name it 62 because the want him up now is the total number of member of parliament is 128, but there are 67. whoever designed so you need to $61.00 to, to be a nominate. well,

the only indication shows that missed me. copy to morrow will be nominated for a 2nd. it is easy to nominate someone for make up in a difficult task is to form this way, which mister thought, how did he would not report over the past 9 months to remain? sorry, just just to get back to my car, te, tell us a little bit about what we can expect from his leadership style. specifically mr. mccarthy is an ally with ally united states. and if anything coming up, mr. regarding to the prompts over the 5 days a number last week,

it looks like the last 11, all supported by mr. thought how did he did it by the united states has got to the order prom at the expense of the and i asked reported by iran. and i don't know if the 11 of the major supports sort of hits in the, on, on the speaker of the find them at mr. betty is a close and i, or how do you read and we got the so it seems as though the american saudi alliance has the upper hand versus iranian syrian, russia, i'm rely on so russia, one indication seems to be stepping back from this whole process process syria is drawn it up either it's on a metal to go to the problem, which has been sunk into for the past 11 and a half years. so this has that saudi arabia as the united states to drive but to

see in some process or influencing information in your cabinets in particularly discovery and just to jump in the i don't mean to interrupt about we're just limited with time. yeah. just focusing again back on lebanon. i mean there are right of challenges that country faces. where does this new prime minister when or elected tomorrow? where does he begin? when the me copy has the support of things like that. they had the support and may get the support of the crass and the bank. and i don't see that, but i'm in dire need to get support financial support to restart it. it's the economy and it's export and import and problem. but it's equally the backing up to do

subbing for that's like by one of them i think sunny and the 1st. that's what i need, the cabinet is to deal with the problem of the value of the go to the b b. it seems as though that mr. mccarthy has supported outside support, less support and i think states and saudi, it's tremendous to be thinking how much domestically he would be able to form the cabinet. because the formation, like i've been to put them on, was proven to be it more difficult, but the century to be nominated to be the head of a prime minister miss that is or the 5 minutes to do things the extra. but i'd say things out on the ground, that's the biggest challenge for me. got. thank you very much my present. i'm so sorry. we do have to move on, but we appreciate your insight. thank you very much. and it's going to be interesting to see what happens over the wakes in coming months. that was 9 selim,

professor of international phase and diplomacy at no time university. thank you very much. welcome. welcome. the u. s. deputy secretary of state, wendy sherman, is heading to china. she'll be the highest ranking, bought, and administration officials to visit the country on the 8th as her visit. china's foreign minister had this warning for washington because of the u. s. has been using it's trying to put pressure on other countries and thinking it's superior to others. we need to tell the us, clearly there's no country in the world, but it's superior to others. and there shouldn't be one. china will never accept any country that claims to be superior to others. if the u. s. has not learned to treat other countries equally, china and the international community have the responsibility to help us learn this lesson properly. graham on web is a research fellow at the institute for defense and strategic studies at mann young technical university in singapore. he says there areas where washington and begging

code to improve time. ms. sherman is up for an uphill battle coming into chad, tension to day to, to meet her chinese culture partner to try and set the tone of this highly deteriorating relationship. right? if at all possible right now, that's the narrative that's coming out from washington. that china is really in a country or a government to to be suspicious of. and right now i think in se asia, the region to withdraw, lloyd austin will be visiting by tomorrow. first op singapore is to remind all partners here in the region that day should really be more watchful or not take, you know, chinese support that's coming into the region. terms of capital in terms of chinese businesses coming into the region for granted the be, you know, the sort of get an agenda behind that and everyone should be more vigilant. at this

point in time. it's all up to, you know, both aging and washington and officials and both sides of the fence to not to be distracted from what's really important, what's really common between all parties and they get caught up in these issues about it's all trying to see and also of course, by espionage and all and the like me, these things are really important. but i think we also need to look at the more at the, at the areas of which more cooperation can be forged right now in terms of these hotspots. i think that's not where i think we'll find beyond food. russia has held its annual show of naval strength. it paraded war ships, submarines in weaponry on the naval river in st. petersburg and in the gulf of finland. but experts say such displays masking disconnected discontent rather with some of russia's armed forces. sonya k jaeger report,

ah, a game of the national tried not to subtlety, a chance to display russia's naval might and even boast about it. especially the president vladimir putin. your new way in the middle school for that i see the russian navy today has everything i needed for the guaranteed defense of the motherland on national interest. and we are capable of detecting any under water above water avalon enemy. and if required to carry out an unpreventable strike against the annual procession of war ships and submarines from the new river infant petersburg to the naval island of crunch, dot takes about 2 hours an opportunity to show off russia's navy route the nations self esteem from the mother, she, i feel nostalgic, happiness, pride for states that it has such ships. we know 1st hand how americans and

europeans are scared to them or others as well as pride. there is concern that it was probably the would you put the video, we're proud of our fleet an army bill. on the other hand, i would not like to rattle the sabre. i mean, we can show that we are a powerful state, but not attack and demonstrate aggressive behavior. i don't like, it just stays before military officials had announced tests of new weapons designed according to putin to be invincible. advances that have been critical for a full stop, fell into disrepair after the cold war, but yet lacking strategy, russian federation has for the fleet. yeah. no fleet, specific fleets, baltic fleet, and lexi fleets, and they are not connected in one system, and she cannot reach from the one sleep to another. well, sunday's naval display is about proving, otherwise it comes a month after russia said it had fired warning shots and dropped bombs in the past

of a british worship. in crimean waters. britain denied the incident, saying it had been a gun re exercise. and a comparative displays may be more about pleasing. a domestic audience is also a very, very serious confrontation between the russian navy and the russian army, which controls the entire military time generals. the naval commanders are very, very bitter. and they very much use this occasion of this naval special day to vent their disappointment and disapproval of the military command, and which in himself, it is more than just a matter of pride, but perhaps also of a legacy of his own making. sony diagonal. i'll just there up that mexican state of mich we're can, has same some of the countries worst violence in recent months. a local gang is in a turf war with a rival criminal organization from a neighboring state,

which is 0 visited the at the center of the battle earlier this year. now john holman, has this update on the situation? in a pro al jazeera visited the mexican town of ag aliyah caught between 2 criminal groups, nova cut off from the rest of the state, mitchell county. it was so i slated that we were the 1st journalist to get there since the fighting between holly's co, new generation, cartel and cartel, who metos intensified food. petra medicine was scarce with the call to will continuing. we want to check how the villages were doing now . the answer, worse, like all the people are leaving the town, leaving us more and more isolated. we can't get down the highway to the town, so we stuck up in groceries and work materials. it's hard to get food medicine and the government doesn't respect the agreements that they've made. raphael owns a local carpentry workshop, but doesn't know how long you can keep it going. even the internet and cell phone

signal are on the blink, kept cutting out. hello, so you said cause the tech services are non existent, nobody can give maintenance to those services or the internet, or even the electricity plants. it shouldn't have been like this. back in april we heard the police promise. they cleared the gang blockades of the only paved road connecting glee with the nearest town, puts in gun i asked villages if that's happened. this one wanted us to blow his face to fear of reprisals. he doesn't know whether it's a fos alive. the government hasn't done any of the things that promised this sleeping, eating by the side of the road. they're like iguanas, in their trucks. we go past and they look at us like zombies. you'd think that the national guard is there to serve us, not the other way round. in fact, what villages and journalist who tried to travel to actually recently tell us is that there are now 5 checkpoints, all belonging to the war and criminal groups down that road. in the middle of the

mow, there's actually an army check point. we told it's just round the corner, just a couple of 100 of me is from one of the criminal ones. but the army either calm or doesn't want to clear the road. and that's why we haven't been able to get there. and that's why we're reporting this from itsco city. actually you became a national issue before the midterm election. the president himself said he'd visit the person. suppose this is really right. yes, i will visit just after the election. yeah, i know, i believe, as i know all of the municipalities in mexico, i spent the night there. mickey, i can tell you that in front of the main square, there's a hotel where i've stayed. you'd have trouble staying at that hotel now. it's been burned out, but 2 days later he changed his mind anyway. boy, yeah, this bundle will leave. i'm not going because i don't want to stir the pot with the sensationalist press and our adversaries. while he worries about the politics of a visit, the inhabitants of the town, just hoping that someone,

any one can come and help them, john home, and i'll just hit a mexico still ahead on al jazeera, the 1st world record at the tokyo olympics, goes to these for astronomy and women will coming up with jemma. ah, something was going to change. anything really changed. this is systemic violence that needs to be addressed at its core. we are in a race against the area and know what to say. so we are all looking at the world as it is right now, not the world. we like it to be. the devil is always going to be in the details. the bottom line, when i was just there, i'm besieged by a violent crime and drugs. confronted by racism and integration out there, a traces, a history of 1st generation lebanese australians, exploring the conflicts and the struggle for acceptance. once upon

a time in punch bowl on our 0 i what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they're going through here and we believe everyone has a story we're hearing. oh a it's time now this boat with gemma in london. ah. the us men's basketball team went into the taking games, our favorite 2 and

a 4th straight gold medal. but now they have it all today. that's often shock. 8376 feet by france. the 1st much they've lost and then picks since 2004. they've had 25 straight victories since they were last beaten in athens. 17 years ago. the americans now need to in the next 2 games against iran, the czech republic, for the 2nd time in less than 2 months, the world's number one gulf, a john rom has tested positive cove at 19 ending his olympic dream. the spaniard twice tested negative after playing the open earlier this month. but a 3rd came back positive before he sets off for japan. in june, he had to pull out of the tournament. he was leading off to contracting the virus and potentially lost a $1700000.00 in prize money. he says, this is a great reminder for all of us that we are still in a pandemic. i'm things are not over while roms, not the only top 10 go full test, positive out of the games. as andy richardson reports from tokyo. well, number one,

john rome and american bryson to sham by both rules out of the golf tournament. having tested positive cove, it 900, both testing positive just before the departure for tokyo. i guess if you're looking for to some solace for those golf is involved. that is, that there are 4 of the major tournaments that they're involved in every year, which perhaps still have more prestige from the limping events but, but so many of the athletes in so carries the constant cloud that they live on the constant fee they live under the 5 years of hard work and preparation could just go up in smoke if they do test positive, or identified as a close contact with somebody else's tested positive for corona bars. more better news for the ios. he has come in the form of 2 new sports that of my pig debbie's on sunday, surfing and skateboarding. skateboarding particular was designed to be held in the middle of tokyo with fans up close and personal for the athletes. and of course, that is not possible. jude because 19, i'm very fortunate, i'm a journalist,

i'm able to go into some of the venues. and i was able to see that the great tim, big story that is of the japanese suna e k. rebecca, who had leukemia in 2019 spent 10 months in hospital amazingly, got a self healthy and ready for these games. now, unfortunately, in opening relay events, her team couldn't quite make it through to the final. and you just wonder how different that might have been. if you had been full of passion, home support. you had andy mentioned skateboarding that in the 1st to ever pick go metal in the sport was won by a japanese skater, 22 year old you 2 or gave me to the men st. title, the competition featured 7 rounds and 4th time. well, champion and favorite niger, houston of the usa struggled in the heat and finished 7th. that was also good news for japan in women's tennis with a name. yes, soccer winning her opening match in straight sets. a soccer who let the olympic coltrane haven't played in nearly 2 months after putting out the french open it to protect mental health. but one of our biggest rivals was number one. our recent

wimbledon champion, ash bossy, is going home early, having them pick singles. campaign was cut short when she lost to spain's sorrows. 3 best toma in high match. in swimming, there was a massive shock on sunday when 18 year old on at half new e one. the mens $400.00 meta freestyle, he qualified for the final by only 14 hundreds of a 2nd half nearly is just the 2nd. she needed to win gold in the pool and becomes the false olympic champion from the north african nation. i did the gate to all the people. i say to them, you got you got the champ, now? i'm so happy to get a gold medal. and this is the family and friends of american summit case kayla. she won gold in the 400 meta individual medley. they were unable to watch live in tokyo because foreign support is not allowed in japan. the us men's and women's team on the totes of 6 metals in the 1st session on sunday. and that performance tension of

the most decorated olympian of all time. when that michael felt unbelievable. so you just almost 4 and a half 2nd, 5 2nd, toughest tv severely from that. and i don't want i don't want it to me. that's what i've been talking about it. i think pretty much all morning the difference in this is the legal impacts compared to ones in the past. in my opinion is every single person in the finals had a chance to go about australia's women at the 1st wild record of the competition in the 4 by 100 meters freestyle relay sisters. bronte and kate campbell were part of the team. i know these other girls are like my family and we've really grown up together, but okay, literally my family. so to stand up with my sisters, it's pretty incredible. every single career has a journey to go on and for us being in the real, i has always been a high point and we've always really loved that i think,

upset in the women's right race with amateur, a cyclist, anna keith, and hopefully taking victory. the 30 year old who's without the professional team finished 75 seconds ahead of 2019 well champion enemy van blues and she's the 1st austrian to win a cycling gold medal for 125 years that tried of unreleased and actually thought she'd won the race when she crossed the line. she was unaware that keith an offer had already finished. in the most important race, you're not allowed to ride with communication. what we normally do. it should make the raise more interesting. i think it's made the race very confusing and i think also when i was alone in the front, i had to oscar t v. motor person. what was happening, what was the event is what was the times. so i think that those far from professional and very disappointing with if have dish iteration,

the most important race of the. yeah. in montana for years, history was made on sunday as to siblings, one gold medals on the same day. japan's of a triumph in the women's 52, a kilogram. judah, competition, just hours before her brother have see me to go to the men's. 66 kilogram final talented family there. indeed, they won't be a 3rd gold medal for the british tennis play. and the murray this year that the city, so i'm defending champion have pulled out of the men's singles tournament because of the right quote strain. he'll still play in the double se disappointment for another british metal hopeful this time. and ty, quando, tucson gold medalist j. james was beaten by kimmy eliza day in the round of 16 and is it a bronze medalist in rio around is now competing for the refugee team after effecting to germany? so this is how the meadow table looks off the day to china. still out in front. they now have 6 goals, and 11 metals, i ro,

host japan and 2nd one go ahead of the united states. but it, south korea, the russian olympic committee, italy, australia, and france. and that is all your fort from me for now. i'll be back with more a little bit later. jim, congratulations to those. the swim is 5 for now. ah ah ah, ah, ah ah, ah, all this on just the united states is ending in 20 year military present enough kind of done, but what it meant for the country. 11 piece showcases use dealing trailblazing environmental policy, able to with the country of all present,

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