warming with the legal timble august butcher's, 4 years ago, the government is theory and the on the east, the ban on the timber trade. but that decision only opened a flood and controlled leak and lugging sanity own home to more than $5000.00 was to japan sees more than $1500.00 of them. i found them the law motor regional, and they're far from safe because the vision is under pressure to save them after the resumption of looking under kind of cultures. oh i, we just the doing what we need to do to keep the straight insights and protect the national interest australia as prime minister dismissal china's outraged response to a new security alliance with the u. s. u k. ah

. and i, why money inside this algae airline from doha also coming up a regional security block led by china and russia, push a gun installed. new lead is to follow what it calls a moderate par. russians head to the polls for parliamentary elections, but many opposition candidates saw excluded from the badge and the u. s. needs closer to introducing cope in 1900 booster vaccinations. despite the w h, i warning it's unnecessary and irresponsible. ah, china has accused the united states and australia of colluding to smear its reputation. and the latest fallout after the 2 countries joined burson in a new alliance. the u. s. actually is a state and defense met australian officials on thursday accuse china of making

expansive and legal maritime claims. while many see the new security agreement as part of efforts by the west to contain china's growing influence in the region, australia's prime minister is struggling off paging. we're just doing what we need to do to keep the straight insights and protect our national interests. i mean, china do the same thing. they have massive investments in the military capabilities, including the in this area and strike doesn't rise issues around that. all countries will take decisions in the national interest. we believe this will lead to the peace instability and security of the region. and that is, i think, a view that is widely shared about the impact of this arrangement. and we encourage all countries in the region to engage in that way. well, australia will also tear up contracts french made submarines in favor of subs with us, develops nuclear power. and that's riled. paris, which is also angry about being left out of the new alliance. rosalyn jordan has

the latest from washington d. c. the u. s. u k. and australia reportedly agreed to form a new defense alliance on the sidelines of this year's g. 7 summit in england, washington in london will help it by a fleet of nuclear power submarines. the main reason for the alliance containing china, we spoke in detail about china's di stabilizing activities in beijing efforts to course and intimidate other countries. contrary to establish rules and norms, we will remain clear eyed and review a beijing's efforts to undermine the established international order. we discussed the competition of china at a number of levels that requires us to respond and to increase resilience. this does not mean that there are not constructive areas for engagement with china straight. it continues to st dialogue with china without pre conditions. not

surprisingly, beijing condemned both the alliance and the submarine deals war war. the leon, who attended the export of highly sensitive nuclear power spring technology by the united states and britain to australia. once again proves that they are using nuclear exports as a tool of geopolitical games on adopting double standards, which is extremely irresponsible. attending these in washington journalist pummeled the ministers with questions about the security path. is check in china's efforts worth offending it or offending longstanding partners. this is about enhancing our, our cooperation, our work together, ultimately about enhancing security stability in the pacific. it is not aimed at any country. it's certainly not aimed at holding anyone back. the announcement of this new alliance could signal that the u. s. president joe biden has decided to

reshape american foreign policy, bolstering new alliances to deal with new threats. while telling old partners that change is not a diplomatic death knell. rosalyn jordan al jazeera, the state department, china's foreign ministry insist spacing is focused on regional piece, but all there's only interested in provocation. sugar on the south china sea, taiwan and hong kong, china. the position is clear to us unless trailers are colluding with each other and for selfish geopolitical gains or smearing china, their interfering and chinese domestic affairs. as facts of proven china, not only a major engine for economic development in the region is also for stability and peace. china development represents a force for peace in the world and the regions development, katrina, you in beijing says trying to feel the alliance will cause irreversible damage.

while relations between, by june and camera are in very bad shape. an analyst that i've spoken to here says that this really is the nail in the coffin, that if there was any opportunity for the relationship to improve this really close that often, we do expect the relationship to remain frosty, for at least some years to come and china's relationship with these other countries through the u. s. and the you can also worsening. china has repeated its rebuke. of this security packed accused these 3 countries of harboring a cold war mentality of creating an exclusionary block and of interfering in china's internal affairs. we had an, a statement released by the chinese embassy in australia earlier today. and in that statement, it said that a strictly should handle its relationship with china in a genuinely independent manner. meaning to say that baiting sees australia is acting as little more than a porn of united states in the region and it see that reflected in this trade back in this exchange of this nuclear submarines. john as president gigi paying is

calling for a smooth transition in afghanistan, an edge, the new government to follow what he called moderate policies, asian lead the meeting, and project stones, capital shondae, to discuss the taliban take over the shine. guy cooperation organization is the 1st major summit regional countries since the group sees power last month. my mistakes have expressed concerns about an influx of refugees and the risk of attacks was trying to move to engage with a taliban, its setting its sites on afghanistan, vast mineral resources, the interim government, once china is recognition. so mining can begin. but as charles dropped reports from masonic, the plans could threaten some of the nation's archaeological treasures. the we follow the telephone guns on the motorcycle up through the gorge to a platter high in the mountains of lucca province. this baron isolated place in

eastern afghanistan is believed to hold the 2nd largest copper or deposits in the world worth at least $50000000000.00. the chinese flag flies over a make shift mining camp. in 2007, the former afghan government signed a 30 year lease with a console team of chinese state owned companies to start mining work here. it never did. and the taliban is in control now. that ed morgan, who of the yellow, our country is economically very weak. we hope the mine will help the whole country . if the work is not beneficial for all that guns will restart the process and give the contract to someone else on the taliban fighters. that is through the gate for the guard working for the chinese companies refuses to let us film. coming said i look, look at our camp, but you cannot record the last chinese stuff to flee. what became

a fast deteriorating security situation left in early august. but years of fighting between the taliban nato forces and the afghan army is not the only reason why excavations have not started yet. this valley is absolutely full of history. buddhist zoroastrian. ok, let's just say stretching back to 2000 years. the taliban say they're going to do all they can to protect the archaeology. here. before mining for copper on the other side of the mountain starts, these ancient ruins were once a thriving city on the silk route. between china and europe, its inhabitants were mainly buddhists with the article with our nomads. when we were traveling through these mountains for years, says this man, the surface was smooth when we had no idea. there was an ancient city beneath.

yet a local taliban official guides us into tunnel is to show where afghan and foreign, archaeologists have been working for years to remove artifacts before the mining starts. but just like the chinese minus the archaeologists also fled when the taliban arrived. we walked to hot, so on a cliff where he reveals one of the estimated 500 buddhist statues, was carved into the mountain side in 2001 the taliban caused international outrage by blowing up giant buddhist statues in the clips of bombay on. so we'll do something like that here to that for normally when i was a 2000 years old, the chinese made an agreement, the artifact, they have to be taken away and protected. if we wanted to destroy them, we would have done it when we took control, but we didn't protect them. really. it's unsure when the archaeologists will return

. and experts say until china recognize the taliban government contracts are signed with previous afghans administrations are all on hold. these mountains could unlock immense wealth. afghanistan, the taliban says the archaeology will be moved and protected. first, afghans and the world watched to see if the new rulers of this country keep their word. cha, stafford al jazeera. miss isaac, i've gone to san paul. they're open across russia and parliamentary elections. people have 3 days to cost their ballots for represented to in the do, this poll show support for the governing united russia party is at an all time low . however many candidates who as opposed to president vladimir putin, have been excluded from the elections, but has been at smith's reports from moscow. the opposition is still hoping to make an impact in russia's election. and they all started against me. lubano,

an independent candidate supported by the communists. he says he's surprised, he's made it this far. most potential candidates not linked to parties approved by the kremlin. i have been prevented from stand by others have been arrested or forced to leave the country rather likely with the worth yet to conduct the thank you for getting rid of strong candidates from the right and the left. but the main danger here is both to apathy. so we're telling people that we have a chance to give a forceful head, but 3 thirty's. again, at least a few feisty deputies into the state. duma, lavano competition in this part of moscow. gainey, who with his wife olga hosts, one of the most popular politic shows on russian television. it's pro kremlin propaganda not pop off standing for united russia party backed by the president, but has 3 quarters of the seas in the state. duma. the latest polls give the party just 27 percent support, even though vladimir putin enjoys a 60 percent approval rating. rushes election commission says the vote will be free

and fair hymns is about him at the group of the criminal lives in a state of permanent political crisis. attentive, 15 percent drop in support with for them be a catastrophe. the only way they can prove their worth is to get a few more votes at every election. if united russia got just half the seats in parliament, it would mean they are close to failure and maybe at the next election, no one would vote for them. observing military exercises earlier this week, president putin has all but won the war against his political opponents. but supporters of jailed opposition leader alexa, navarro. ne, have come up with one tactic that seems to have resisted everything the kremlin has thrown at them. smart voting. it's the system calculates which candidates are most likely to defeat united russia. voters asked to cast the ballot accordingly. no matter their own affiliation. 30 years ago, the parliament acted as a real set on executive power in one to nearly impeach,

former president boris yeltsin. today, it's a robust passing into law without question. all the legislation proposed by the kremlin, the best, the opposition can hopeful is to deprive united russia of the super majority that allows it to change the constitution. bernard smith, al jazeera moscow still to come in a civil trial begins putting all street his government in the dog over handling and cave. at 19 outbreaks in the sky with the national fiend and mexico prisoners are released on the presidential decree and reunited with loved ones. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day of 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways booted world's best line of 2021. hello, good to see you. i don't want to keep you hanging. so right off the bat, we'll get to the latest on tropical storm, sean, too,

as it crashes into southern areas of japan. very serious weather alerts here in play. landslide warning for the southeast of q u, southwest portion of cocoa and in terms of rainfall amounts. look at this chicago upwards of how 300 and i'm thinking for q issue. we could top out about $200.00 millimeters of rain over the next 24 to 48 hours as we go a bit further toward the south. some dry spells for indo china, but heavier pulses of rain picking up for southern sections. and for the philippines thinker, heavy spouts of weather will be relegated, war, the southern islands, north of devour. and north of manila, we still have that flood, watch in play, but the rains starting to lose their intensity for this part of the country off to the sub continents. and we do have something cooking up in the bay have been gall. so that's going to throw wet weather into bangladesh. also westbank all in india and coastal sections of b, m r. and then that potent disturbance that we had overlooked pradesh now shifting

into roger sun. so about a 100 millimeters of rain can be expected. it stays dry for southern sections of pakistan. karachi has the high of 39 degrees on saturday season. the weather sponsored by cattle airways, boated world's best airline of 2021 frank assessments. by way. it is a lesson against freedom. surprising informed opinions what you saw happening, get some mark. it was $42.00. there was also petune is the critical debate that we are here. it's not between kula and any other. great, then we have gone through here between the 2 years re running to keep people in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on our jazeera oh, the

the me welcome back here watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories that our china has a keys the u. s. and australia of colluding to smith. it's a reputation after the 2 countries joined burson and a new military alliance. australia's prime minister, shrugging off facing ganga. john as president using paying is calling for a smooth transition in afghanistan and the new government to follow what he called model policies. asian leaders are meeting in touch. it's dawn to discuss the taliban take hold open in russia. parliamentary elections, people have 3 days to call about it. for representative in the duma many opposition candidates have been excluded from the bad news.

all through the government has being taken to court. a keys of not responding quickly enough to cope with 900 outbreaks in ski resorts. the civil lawsuit is the fust of 15 such cases, more than 6000 people from 45 countries say they were infected during a viral outbreak. in the resort of the schools as guys who dominic cane who is live for us in berlin. so dominic took us through 1st the, the background of this case. well the substance of this case specifically is who knew what about what was happening. these are the cobra 19 in issue. when did they know it? and what did they do about it? because this, this place issue is renowned, is in some, in some guys is as being like an a, b for on ice a party town for the skiing fraternities around europe. this particular place. many

people looked at part of the summer, which was very good for the skiing, but also for what they call the appraise sky. the bars and restaurants, other venues, the people would like to congregation to party and celebrate after a hard day skiing. the interesting thing here is the questions about who knew what, when many of the places concerned in particular, one bar called the kid's last will. that ball was full of people in the 1st week of march, 1st few days of march, many hundreds of people. many thousands of people will have gone through that bar on the bars around it. and they were impact the venue, hundreds of people drinking, alcohol, partying, and the sorts of stories you hear of what they were, what would they were doing and what happened to them after with classic symptoms of cove? it now, the interesting thing is the question about who knew what, when the austrian authorities were alerted by the by slammed dick counterparts such

an icelandic skia had returned to reykjavik from austria, having been an issue and tested positive. the icelandic authorities allotted the austrian authorities. but it took some time until the austrian authorities really clamped down in chicago. and when they did, people say certainly the people pushing this case today. they say that the way that they clamped down was kale sick, forcing many hundreds of tourists and skis into packed buses and coaches where they were sneezing and coughing for hours on end before they got to that to their venues . that's the meat of the case that the people bringing this case, that's what it all revolves around. we haven't yet heard. how are the people being, as it were prosecuted in the civil case? have they will approach their argument, dominic so what could the significance us any potential outcome be? well clearly in the 1st instance, this is the 1st time that the prosecutions have been bought a civil case, not

a criminal case. the 1st time that that's, that's all foreign. he's being, as it were, brought to book for what they knew, what they did about it, and what it might mean. clearly other towns in australia, but other towns in the alps, places where many people would have congregated back in the, the late winter, early spring of 2020 will be watching on to see how this works. remember also that in other parts of europe. so in france, for example, you have a formal investigation underway into a form, a minister health minister in france. and yes, who in the early months of 2020 was looking into covered was looking off the covert cases as it were from a ministerial perspective. the time she was closer to saying that there were only a few cases, it wasn't something so much to worry about. and yet afterwards, once she had left her position, she was also closer to saying that she was a, she believed that it soon army was coming in her words. that is, in other words,

many, many covert cases could be expected. so she is under formal investigation. if you put that together with what's happening in australia today, you begin to see that as i said, this whole idea of bringing people to book for what they knew about cobra back in 2020 and what they did about it. course. one other thing to say here is that on the other side of the equation, we still have in germany. but in other places, too many, many people in society who deny the who believe that covert is not what people the authorities say it is. and who's gone to court to try to prevent mask mandates and that sort of thing. so it's worth bearing all of these factors in mind when we look at what's happening in australia today. money, thanks for that dominic cane invalid the us food and drug administration is due to hold a meeting on whether to approve the booster shots produced by 5 by a tech panel of independent vaccine advisors will vote on whether there's

a need for additional doses for people age 16 and older top health officials of warned that some fully vaccinated people may not have enough immunity to cobit 9 team. leaders from the west african regional block eco, why have imposed sanctions on guineas, military rulers, and demanding elections be held within 6 months. guinea was suspended from e class last week to medicine, k, remove the president off a condi from power of a special un representative for west africa on this. the hail says the body will never endorse unconstitutional, changes of government, the government, democratic the united nation opposed to number of values. it is a mechanic alternation. we condemned it detached in any conditions and therefore we will never endorse unconstitutional changes. and the united nation is clear on this would simply hold that what has just happened in getting your money or mishaps and will be very quickly rectified among protesters in argentina. angry about worsening

poverty, have been demanding more jobs and better social 8. they say president, alberta fernandez hasn't delivered on promises to improve living standards. theresa bo reports from when is aries? me, me to go over the center of when a site is demanding jobs and food assistance? thousands of people from the poorest areas. when a site is roxanna, body care says she has 3 children and no work in the last year has been very difficult. my husband got some work in construction, but with the soaring prices, we cannot pay for everything. i didn't. 100 government have increased cash handouts and aid to assist the poor, but people here say much more needs to be done. inflation continues to force prices up every month. jeopardy could be going to be a government is trying to implement austerity measures and pay the i miss at the

cost of the working class. we other one, suffering the crisis in need genuine jobs with decent salaries. the economic situation and the handling of the pandemic has put a huge dent in the government's popularity to put it in last sunday. the parents party last in 17 provinces. during this country's primary elections including nike stronghold, the province. one site is the law has exacerbated the big divisions that exist within the administration, especially between president of man this and his vice president. christina fernandez the gerstner on wednesday, the minister of interior and other left leaning government officials close to christina for a man. this offer their resignation to the president. louis argentina is currently negotiating a 40000000000 debt with the i m f. and the president is trying to reduce the deficit and organize the economy. but he's, vice president is not going along with it. it's about this guy,

even instead he wants to increase social spending to both the parties chances of winning on november's legislative elections almost as an economy say the dispute is having an impact on argentina's chances of recovering from the damage. i will tell you that one thing is putting some money on the streets to improve their chances. and remember what the issue is, whether you are going to do that and not deal with the m s and continue printing money. nobody is going to benefit from that and the crisis generate, i let it go for a man this road on twitter. this is not the time to raise the disputes that divert us from our pass. argentina is in the middle of an anomaly. and now political crisis and why the ruling coalitions continue to dispute and struggle over how to find a way out. there are millions of people who are filled with uncertainty about what will happen with the economy, with their income and their lives. there is trouble as a feeder when a fight,

if thousands of migraines saw gathering on the bridge between mexico and the u. s. state of texas by waiting to be processed by us immigration. local authorities estimate the more than 10000 people are staying at the make shift camp us boy. agents say they're providing basic services, the migrant mostly from haiti, cuba and venezuela. many more people expected in the next few days. mark obama has endorse candidates. prime minister just intruder ahead of monday's general election. this is the 2nd time obama, his voice support for judo, who leaves the center left liberals today called for the early vote. taking approval for his handling of the pandemic pulse suggest the plan may have backfired . tudor is trailing the conservative challenger. aaron o, 2 a new presidential order in mexico is set to release thousands of prisoners who are wrong, imprisoned, or are considered low risk. but judicial experts on convinced it will be effective

. john holman, has this report mixed goes president is looking to get some of the countries, 220000 prisoners out of jail with a new decree about 680 is scheduled to be set free in the 1st batch proposal. so they live in the midst of free. whoever is sick or old and whoever shows they've been tortured. he's one jonathan. he got out 7 days ago after being inside for over 10 years. falsely convicted of kidnapping his then go, friend, a law regional. the police made one of the real kidnappers implicate me. the detectives told him if he named me, one of them would go free. and if not that pen for more kidnappings on the legs, he went through hell imprison, cancel tuberculosis. but jonathan could already have been released under existing laws which allow wrongly convicted prisoners to get out. so could others who are

set to be freed under the new decrees, though, suffering, it will help torture who speak indigenous languages weren't allowed to translate through the trial. they're all covered by existing legislation. if the affordable no this resolution doesn't give anyone any more rights, nothing for prisoners or those on trial. what does that foreign, and i think it's just to give the appearance that we are moving forward on that is most of the critics say what's needed is not more legislation, but will tell within the judicial system to give people that right. this is jonathan is if you hadn't cleary's son's name alone, he said, i mean, that was your nikosa. you. when me honestly, i had to wipe through the judicial system and it a vile swamp. if you haven't got money or a good lawyer, your relative is just going to be stuck in there. i know so many cases of innocent people who haven't got a dollar,

and then i stay. this also isn't the 1st time the government's announce, the things we've changed. we've been here before. last year an amnesty was declared for low risk prisoners. that was mentally flood early releases. how many people go out in the, in and you tell us less than 50, but at least this new initiative shows that the government has some way to do something in total, there are moving to 1000 cases. being reviewed, said dorothy, the hope is that this new mechanism works rather better than others have in the past. john home and al jazeera mexico city. ah, this is al jazeera, these, your top stories. china has the keys, the u. s. and australia colluding to smear its reputation onto the 2 countries, joined burson in a new military alliance. under the agreement,

australia will get access to us technology for nuclear power submarines. let's try this. prime minister is shrugging off fishing dagger. i won't sugar on the south. china sea, taiwan and hong kong china position is.