to the cause of many people's lives, at least in the short term, whatever, calling the way they're being urged to consider where it comes from and where it'll end up. there is no channel that covers world news like we do, we revisit places the day. i'll just really invest in that and that the privilege as a journalist, ah june is in term or the president. that else is a month one. curfew a day off the firing, the prime minister of freezing parliament. ah, of him or on calling this out, is there a life? and i also coming up back in touch of north and south korea, restore the hotlines a year after year of radius on the white house refuses to ease. pandemic travel restrictions because of

a 3rd of cases of the contagious delta vary and i will tell you which countries just one that 1st gold medals and then pick history ah june is is facing it's worth crisis in a decade of democracy after president car side sees control and dismiss prime minister his from mississippi. the president's imposed a nationwide nighttime curfew for a month. and the armies on the streets side has also removed the defense minister and the act thing, justice minister out there is bureau and tunis has been rated by security forces. and it's journalists have embodied from their offices. the army stopped to parliament speaker from getting into the building to hold a meeting, he's accused or present of staging a coo but k side. a says he's following the constitution and his actions were necessary after a day, a violent process over unity is economic crisis. and the handling of the pandemic,

lower burden manly revolts the rival camps from different sides of the political divide have been protesting outside to new jersey as parliament. so mark go spilling over into violence. once again, the country is in turmoil. on sunday, people took the streets and several cities in mass, and the government protested less than 24 hours later president case said, made a bold decision. he froze parliament and ousted prime minister, which i'm a teaching adagio. i find it surprising how some people talking about a so called cou, i have followed the constitution, the conditions were met. and among these conditions, they were procedural terms. and all of these conditions were respected. i've been

invited the prime minister that i have dismissed and informed him that i call the house speaker. and i told him that i will be resorting to article 80 of the constitution after which i declared the exceptional measures and the presence of permanent danger. and you said, my son is 78, but there was no constitutional court to decide whether the move was legal under article 18 on the street tennis in the cooling for change. many fed up with the political cellmates and economy in crisis. high unemployment rates, and the mishandling the pandemic, the in the party, which holds most seats. and parliament has recently pulled the brunt of their anger . we have this political crisis match, the was conscious that we have ever had international have 100 people dying every day from growing numbers. and then we have also a huge crisis. so at this point, you could kind of just because, you know, are exhausted, they are scared,

and nobody knows exactly where we are heading. need political time and civil rest, security for the stormed without a warrant. the offices of al jazeera and trueness and expelled stuff. what they closed the office without providing any reason. a group of men came in wearing security in civilian clothes. they broke into the office and took the keys and said they were the instructions. speaks them to you. inspector general gave his reactions were dismayed by the usa reports. and we hope that all reporters, including the ones that al jazeera will be able to go about their work without harassment. and we want to make sure that as we have the situation on the ground in tunisia, that press freedoms are respected. with the fear that lizzie could slide back into full revolt, similar to the 2011 jasmine revolution, the

e u. n. a u. s. a cooling for com and the un is following the situation closely. bought a decade home from the revolt, the brought democracy to his hands are defined is what direction that country should take lower. but among the out of there are, there's been international condemnation of the force closure of their offices, reporters without vote. it says it denounces the action in june as by security forces and calls on the authorities to respect, press, freedom, and pluralism. and the international press institute says, the raid on out there is office is a gross violation of press freedom and an active intimidation to science, independent media, your secretary of state antony blinking has urged that you knew the president to respect democracy in a phone call. he off site to maintain dialogue with all sides. earlier white house press secretary, jim saki struck a similar tone. we are concerned about the developments in tunisia which come as

a ton asian authorities are seeking to stabilize the economy to front a resurgence in the cupboard 19 pandemic, and improve living standards for all tunisians. we are in touch at the senior level from both the white house and the state department with denise and leaders to learn more about the situation. urge. com and support tunisian efforts to move forward in line with democratic principles. how does she has more from washington? those developments are under close watched by the us and today and a phone call between us state department secretary antony blinkin. and the president of tunisia, lincoln told sides that he should adhere to the principles of democracy and human rights. and said that open dialogue was needed between all political actors and the technician people. lincoln follow that up with a tweet, saying that this was a good phone call and that he was able to express his support for to easy as

democracy. now the u. s. has been hesitant to call this a qu, why, how spokeswoman said that a thorough legal analysis would 1st be required, but that if this is determined to be a coo, then us a to, to need, you could be on the line that totaled $1400000000.00 since the countries revolution and 2011, much of that money going toward the military and security expenses. best buy money is a professor of political science at the university of waterloo and canada. she says the president's takeover is not the solution to to news. he has difficulties the article of the constitution is really about extreme situations and not to to sort of discount enormous economic and socio economic challenges that are facing. and we've seen protests on and off since january. certainly, i don't think that's really qualifies. i think it really was written in the spirit

of being sort of an external threat or an internal catastrophe. this is not one of them. and i also add that the fact that you've had the president take over the role of the public prosecutor sucking the justice minister, the defense minister, and also preventing parliamentary from coming into the parliament. it all doesn't bode well. it all sounds like a program in the fact that we've seen the military on the streets preventing parliamentary from coming into the parliament. that's very worrying. i think we have to be very concerned there. and again, by virtue of taking over the defense ministry and, and installing and military person to be the no active person in charge of the interior ministry, that's not, not a good sign. i mean, i think we're really have to be concerned here. i mean, it's not a coo yet, but it starts to look like the president is popular. i think he received his, you know, his election through, you know, overall i think through the 2nd vote, a very popular response. so he does have support. but the way to have this resolved

is, think about a national coalition government, perhaps even again, getting lawmakers together to come up with a plan for recovery for to easier. and of course, you need to national community to help because it's an economic crisis at the core of this unemployment pen, demik, last of tourism. it all is frankly, a perfect storm for to museum. and it's really suffering adult. the united nation says at least $57.00 people died after a migrant boat capsized off libya. it happened near the city of homes on monday. survivors say 20 women and 2 children among those who lost their lives. warmer weather has seen an increase in the number of migrants traveling to europe from libya and she is here as old as the leader of north korea and south korea agreed to restore communications channels and improve relations. the agreement follows the exchange of several letters between south korean president moon j

n. and north korean leader kim jong and burns office says the communications channels between the 2 korea were tested on tuesday. now robert bride joins us live from sole rob. this is a very significant development, but is it more significant for north korea or south korea? north korea has in the past use the cutting and then the reconnection of the hotline as a way of showing its displeasure at any given moment. but certainly the reconnection now is very significant for both because it comes after a year where we've seen relations virtually at a standstill, and at times even slipping back into some of the old acro, many of the past these, this line was cut last june. when relation soured, and in fact, relations got so bad that the north koreans actually destroyed with explosives, the liaison office that have been set up to try to improve relations with the south

. and it does come with the i significant moment. we are marking the $68.00 anniversary of the signing of the armistice that brought fighting in the korean war to an end and ignore the career. it has been marked by a visit by kim jungle into a cemetery for the war dead there. and it does seem as though this is timed to coincide with that. while relations have officially been at a stalemate for the past year, has been revealed with this announcement that the number of letters have been passing back and forth between the 2 leaders over the past year, which seems to have resulted in this breakthrough now. and certainly here in south korea, moon j and the president has made the restoration of relations with the north, a whole mark of his administration. he has less than one year left in office and would daily like to get things dialogue back on track. but how is he going to do that? and is there any indication for the north koreans that they want to restart island?

there have been some optimistic noise is being made by both sides on both sides of the dmc. in south korea, we have had a statement from the presidential office saying that the 2 leaders do see i to why and that they want to restore trust. a similar statement from the north koreans saying that they whole korean nation wants to see relations or recover from what they call set back and stack nation. and it does come at an interesting time with diplomacy from the us side, wendy sherman, the deputy secretary of state has just completed a visit to this part of the world. she had meetings with allies in south korea and also in japan and with her counterparts in china talking about a range of different issues. but one of the common themes has been the pursuit of a nuclear ice korean peninsula, through dialogue that fits in with the biden administration. wanting to continue diplomacy with north korea and holding open the the door to talks at some level.

there's no prospect or no talk of those talks actually taking place anytime soon, but certainly the restoration of this hotline would be an optimistic step in that direction. robert bride, thank you very much. that is rob, rely for us from sol still ahead on al jazeera. so long narrowly avoids a default on its debts. serious financial problem is the latest from columbus on its britons largest and most powerful was ship. why is i hate to live the heading to the south china thing? i choose hello from dell. her nice to see you, here's the weather forecasts for the middle east. we've got a wind blowing down from iraq into saudi arabia. so that swirling around the sand

in dustin places like riyadh where we've got a high of 45 degrees. also dealing with some briskin fear, swain's, as we head toward southern portions of pakistan, so the risk of sand and dust storms for grouchy pretty well. almost every day this week we've got rain toward the north, impacting the hor, and is one of odd in the forecast on tuesday. you know, for turkey, once again, the black sea region getting hammered with some heavy rain here, but across the rest of the country, a nice run of sun it, it stumble over the next several days after africa. and we've been dealing with flooding in sudan about 10000 families we know impacted by the floods. here we see those heavier pulses of rain sudan pushing into chad and a cluster of cells for areas of northern nigeria in the forecast on tuesday. further to the south, we will see some rain move in to the western cape, but you know what, this isn't a whole lot for cape town. really, the bigger story will be the winds on tuesday. so i show you those guys thing to

about 55 kilometers per hour and keep till we've got you in for a high of 15 degrees on tuesday. that sure weather forecast see you soon. the question is about the board and determined to succeed. it can feel that you want to keep on training by obstacle. i'll just tell themes fine story of the group of the money women into the future. their dream of playing football for that country. despite its culture and traditions, we are in the somalis authority and it's difficult for people to accept tomatti put both girls and girls and just in awe

the a the out is there a reminder of our top stories? genius. he is president a fact of the justice and defense ministers. a nighttime curfew has been extended and gatherings have been limited on sunday. he dismissed the prime minister. i freeze on parliament us extra blanket that you need him present to respect democracy in a phone call. he said to maintain dialogue with so says the leaders of north and south korea have agreed to restore communications channels and improve relations. the agreement follows the exchange of several letters between the south korean president j. n and north korean leader, kim jong and so long because it governs has, it's repaid a $1000000000.00 bond before a choose they deadline. but concerns continue to mount over the nation's financing

and its ability to meet major foreign deaths so long because economy was already struggling before the pandemic, but lockdown measures. and border closures, of course, the vital tourism industry to collapse. that's caused a shortage of foreign currency. the government now only has enough to pay for 3 months of impulse. it's cut back on bringing in some items from board. pushing price is higher for consumer goods. payments of $500000000.00 and $1000000000.00 are due next year. now, michelle fernandez joins this live at from a columbus so long. it's in a precarious position. is it gonna default on it that the government basically says it's in decent and confident position. they do acknowledge that there are some what i spoke to the statement is the finance i just wrote is office is just behind me the finance minister in columbus and they are

putting on a very brief face. however, when you talk to analysts, you look at the rating agencies and you talk to businessmen and people on the street. it's not the same row as the picture that we're heading. now, ford importer that i spoke to has said that when they go to the bank, obviously this documentation, there is a transfer of money in order to bring down goods that they are having issues. the banks are telling them they don't have dollars. he said this provides an issue where sort of move in flow of good is affected. that being told to wait a week, sometimes 10 days or sometimes not even given the time frame. and this has caused issues because basically the banking sector, the treasury, has found that they are having a shortage of foreign currency. now we did hear that of the reserves. we had something like just on the $4000000000.00 in reserve in for him. got him here is a now obviously almost 15111 part of that one quarter of that has been paid out

in this later silver in bond, which many people had speculated that the government my default on, but the government says it's managed for me to commitments the pointing to the fact that. 4 they have never defaulted so far, and they don't intend to stop now. just briefly, you know, the rating agencies of downgrades, it's long. they say it's bad. fiscal management is not the case. well that certainly was the rating agencies have said we've had fits basically talking about unsustainable levels of debt and this kind of reckoning the entire system. moody has also put on a watchlist saying they're looking at the situation. one analyst i spoke to said it's very simple in terms of what the government needs to do to analyze the situation of its foreign inflows to get a proper picture to essentially come up with

a proper road plan and then build confidence. so you said the 1st 2 key to a building international investor confidence in sri lanka, and this will impact on the phone to me and how it goes into the future. we know for them to say thank you very much. i japan supers outside. if i know me a sock has been eliminated from the tokyo olympics, the thought was knocked out in the 3rd round of the tennis tournament against the form of friendship open. finally spar keeta, laundry gun drew server of the czech republic now and the richardson joins us live from a toe care. andy, this is a big blow, not just for tennis because she's kind of the face of tennis. right? yeah. and also the, the face of these games of seattle lighting, the olympic culture at the opening ceremony. one of the real global superstars of

japanese for she, she transcends tennis to a great extent. a fairy tales always go the way you will than cigarettes. limpy games you have taken the last couple of months off. she missed the french open, and wimbledon talks about the mental and physical demands of being constantly in the spotlight and on, on the tennis treadmill. so to speak and didn't want to speak to the media ahead of the french open and as a consequence, withdrew from the tournament. but she was back in fresh and fit and ready to try and win that 1st olympic title. but you know, stories in sports and always in the way you want them to the big picture though, for japan, these are lympics is still very good. they've won a telling pick gold medals so far left. not a lot of excitements around the country in table tennis where the mix team one gold, 1st of gold for japan, in fact sports china, so dominant. normally since table tennis has come into dealing picks in 198828 of

the 32 gold medals so that the overall picture is good. and that is starting to just shift public opinion a little bit. and i think people having this sort of existential crisis here as to whether or not they can on the one hand, supports that jeff and exactly taking part in these olympics. but at the same on question, the wisdom of these games going ahead during this pandemic. now on the a couple of days ago, we were talking about how the stolen that was coming in was helping one of the and then picks both surfing. but that's no longer the case is actually a hindrance to some of the other yeah, we saw in the trap and this morning was pretty wet and wild prefer the weather is not as bad as, as we might have said a couple of days ago. it's a tropical storm. there are, there are some, some high winds and rain, but cancelled for example, rescheduled some of the arch re enrolling for today the traffic this morning. i was not sure on one by bermudas floor, duffy, her country's 1st ever gold medal. the surfing finals are ongoing at the moment

though on the surface surface loving it. they're getting, getting some big waves as a consequence of this storm. another point of interest. headland, diaz of the philippines last night in the weightlifting, she won the 1st of a gold medal for her country. so some records being broken, left right and center. one of the great stories of alaska lympics was the fiji rook, the 7th team. they want their 1st gold medal for the country. they are going well again, this time out the streets, the quarter finals, they be seen g b this morning in the final pool game, really convincingly, they find the quarter final later today against australia. so another story to keep an eye on that and richardson live from to okay, thank you very much. uncle. first trial under his national security law is sent to deliver the verdict. and the coming hours told young kid is accused of riding his motorcycle into a group of police officers. he denies charges that been fighting session and

engaging in terrorism. the law was introduced by mainland china in 2020, in response to pro democracy protest. it gives the authorities wide ranging powers to crack down and what they call the verse of acts. in the middle of its worst economic crisis in modern history. lebanon's parliament has chosen a billionaire, as the new prime minister does it hence, veteran politician and the g. coffee is a businessman who has been prime minister twice before. he's promising to save love known from his crippling financial crisis. but critics have previously accused him of cronyism. and by getting rich from questionable means is a charge that he denies me. the white house is refusing to buckle under pressure to lift coven 19 travel restrictions for non americans. the delta vary and appears to be spreading yet 3 out of 10 people in the us haven't had the current of ours vaccine. my candidate

has more on this from washington dc. domestic trouble has returned to pre pad demick levels. but with a spread up, the maryland delta variant and the low rates of vaccination in many states. this has become a threat rather than a cause for celebration. despite pressure from the travel industry, the white house says existing restrictions on travel from abroad will be maintained . the more transmissible delta varying spreading, both here and around the world, driven by the delta various cases are rising here at home, particularly among those who are vaccinated. and appear likely to continue in the weeks ahead. in new york, a cobra 1900 vaccination will become and day 3 for all the city. $350000.00 workers for those who refuse would have to wear masks when at work, and also be tested once a week in september. everything's going to come together. september is the pivot point of the recovery september is when many employers are bringing back

a lot of their employee september is when school starts. full strengths. september is when people come back from the summer. september is when it will all happen. the greatest serge of infections is in states with the lowest rate self vaccination, and some districts are not waiting for state guidance to take action. the city of saint louis and missouri is re introducing a mosque mandate, despite significant opposition from some elected officials masked to become a symbol of a political divide in our country. but they're not a bridge too far. as some, i'd say, rather they put the virus in the slow lane and give us time to get more people back to needed. and on a national level, more than 50 medical organizations have issued a joint statement saying a vaccine should be federally mandated for all health professionals. with the knowledge of veteran affairs department became the 1st federal body to formally

issue a vaccine mandate for it's more than 800000 health care workers a sign the biden administration is prepared to flex its muscle in combating colbert 19 despite the real political risk of being accused of federal overreach. mike hannah, i'll just sierra washington us defense secretary lloyd austin is kicking off a week long trip around the indo pacific region. it's a secretary, 2nd trip. so what he has called the defense department priority region. austin is set to speak and singapore today, before traveling on to vietnam in the philippines. he's expected to call for joint effort against what he calls his chinese aggression. in the region the united kingdom is carrying out its most expensive naval deployment in a generation. the aircraft carrier, h m, as queen elizabeth, is being accompanied by a flotilla of navy ships. and its presence in disputed parts of the south china sea

is causing concern florence louis reports from calling them for me. the british navy, biggest and most powerful war ship, the h m, as queen elizabeth aircraft, carrier is leading of the tiller of navy ships on its maiden deployment, the largest concentration of british and maritime power in years. prime minister bars johnson says that deployment will help to strengthen british soft power such as belief in democracy. and the rule of law. analysts say, joe politics is at play. it's also doing it because their attention over taiwan and britain like the you and other major powers have an interest in not seeing that become an armed conflict. and so they have to demonstrate that their country is willing to stand up against the use of force against it. and i also feel it says that early signals of the biden administration, the britain is a player, an ally,

no longer trapped in europe, but able to act independently. the tiller is expected to sail through the south china sea. a large part of which china has laid claim to part of its mission is to demonstrate freedom of navigation in the south china. the chinese government sees this as a provocation. in recent years, it has increased its military spending and grown more assertive in its claims over the south china sea. i mentioned already high them in the spring if you've been, when china begin island building activities in the south trying to see what i'm worried now is that we've the collection of so many military ss in this region. that's going to be the higher chance of miscalculation the you call recently announced it will permanently deploy to war ships in asia waters after the so tell us sales to japan in september,

the deployment is part of the british governments tilt towards the endo pacific. much like the u. s. pivot to asia and the former us president brock obama. it is in part a response to china's growing influence. and that's makes the south china sea, more of a potential flashpoints, florence louis al jazeera qualify for, ah, this out there in these is help stories. she is present affect the justice and defense ministers. a nighttime curfew has been extended and gatherings have been limited on sunday. he dismissed the prime minister and put a freeze on parliament. he was actually se entity blinkin as urge that you needs him present to respect democracy in a phone call. he said to maintain dialogue with all sides id. joe kind of start has more from washington d.