used the forgotten truth of the country's modern history. the forbidden real park free the rise of the machine on a jet. i denisia named that 1st female prime minister, but will it be enough to ease pressure on the price? ah, play you watching al jazeera live from bill. how would we fully back people also coming out a warning that the humanitarian situation in ethiopia to drive region is spiraling out of control. the un fairs, people are starving to death, demanding justice for the victims of the baby with 40 explosion families rami in

support of a judge who has been forced to suspend an investigation. and last forever. the u. s . declared. 23 species expend. scientists say that exhausted efforts to find them. ah, tunisia has a new prime minister. she is not lab dean, a geologist with little political experience and the 1st woman to hold the position . present site has tasked her with forming a government for weeks has been under pressure to appoint a new premier after he suspended parliament in what the opposition has called a coach. bennett smith, 3 for some tunis, national a boot and has been plucked from a relative academic obscurity and thrust into the spotlight by unity. as president said, she becomes a prime minister at a moment of national crisis. why? the president has been under mounting pressure to name

a government after he dismissed the prime minister, suspended parliament and assumed executive authority in june. a move opponents called a qu, why the law many yet? i see a lot more citing corruption is our starting point. we will vote relentlessly to do this and to respond to all requests to news. he ends in all fields including health transport and education. my god, help you and your team that i hope will be for him quickly to catch up on time. lost to the quarrels and disagreements in so many ministries that became arenas flowing with blood. the professor of geosciences were booed and has little government experience. her appointment comes just as political parties and civil society groups were becoming increasingly frustrated with the president's failure to consult with them in the 2 months since he seized power to unity as powerful workers union is not impressed with the announcement was. 6 either way, altogether with full transparency and we are partners in london,

we agree amongst ourselves. school, we have people whose faces in peaceful and civil struggle that will point towards the same goal, which is in the best interest of the country. the major political parties could try to challenge the legality of food and appointment at any policies. her new government tries to enact without the suspended parliament's consent, the national boot and is a name of prime minister. but she served at the pleasure of a president who rules by decree. so what real power she has to act independently remains unclear. the prime minister will be under pressure to move quickly to seek financial support for a budget and debt repayment. talks with the international monetary fund were put on hold in july after president side power ground bonus. alger 0 shooting is being called, the world's worst hunger crisis. in decades, people in ethiopia,

the gray region are starving to death. that's the warning from the un humanitarian chief mountain griffith. i recently visited the region and said, hundreds of thousands of people are in urgent need or food aid, fighting between regional forces and government troops began integrate in november last year, alexia bryan reports. this boy is a victim of what the you in says is the world's worst hunger crisis. he may not look it, but a dime, a ways is 14 years old. his uncle said that after spending months hiding from violence in ethiopia to dr. region, he weighs less than 15 kilograms, and he's not alone. the un estimate, hundreds of thousands of people are suffering famine conditions and try and millions more at risk to fighting left many hospitals and clinics closed or destroyed the combination of lack of medical care. most of the health institutions that are inoperable and lack of food will mean that people will start to die.

fighting broke out into gray, november between ethiopian military and the regional force. the to gripe people's liberation front. were looking at almost a year of fighting that had a tremendous impact on the economy and the culture and the ability of people to produce food. so now which we see, but many people, they only have one mule per day. the quality of their meals have also deteriorated . some people and now eating roofs and flowers to survive. the un says a de facto government blockade of the region is preventing food, medical supplies, and fuel from getting in. something the government's denied. if you know is, is a stain on our conscience because the, the facts show that accessed to gray, where we have been wanting to have a 100 trucks every day arrive in too great to meet the needs of the over 5000000

people there. we've never reached that. we've never had that, and it's been about 10 percent of that. over the last 2 or 3 months, the un humanitarian chief says ethiopia leaders appearing into the abyss and he's calling on all sides to stop the fighting. for this man, made famine gifts worth alexia o'brien al jazeera president rash. i've typed early. one says, piece in syria depends on relations between turkey and russia. he has talks with the russian president vladimir putin in sochi, which coincides with an increase in s, trying on turkish bank opposition fighters in serious italy province. last year. the 2 countries sponsored or cease fire deal to stop fighting in the region. russia is serious. mean, our lie was turkey, supporters support fighters who were trying to remove present michelle aside from the new promotions or sometimes difficult, but with a positive and final result. our department of learn span compromise is beneficial

for both. i specially believe that there is a very big benefit and turkey and russia keeping stronger relations each passing day. the steps we have taken with russia relating to syria is of utmost importance in while jordan has fully reopened its main border crossing with syria in an effort to improve economic activity. in both countries, syria has been struggling with the impact of us sanction van a decade long civil war, jordanian and ebony officials have urged washington to ease its measures in order to facilitate trade in the water country view and face at least 350000 people have died in the conflict of them and we value the decision of his excellency, the minister of interior for cancelling the back to back transportation system for shipping. this will ease the flow of goods carried by jordanian trailers to syria. it will also easy entry of goods carried by theory and trailers to jordan from lab

and on and syria. this decision came at a time when there is an increase in imports to syria by 600 percent through the acrobat port may have put on this opening of the board that would be cheapest for traders. if a jordanian trailer and to syria, it would cost less than transferring goods between $2.00 of them at the border. families of victims of last year's baby was born explosion have held a rally in support of the judge investigating the incident on monday. terry baton had to suspend his probe after a complaint by a former interior ministry and then a whole jury for some lebanese capital family members of more than 200 people killed in the bay report. the explosion aren't angry and they're standing behind a judge under fire from lebanon's political establishment. thought it better is leading an investigation into one of the largest non nuclear explosions in world history. it's been more than a year, and there are no answers that i thought is doing that i job going on.

and that's what the price and the politicians are being accused of obstructing the prob, to avoid accountability authority, say the blast was caused by highly explosive material stored at a warehouse in the port illegal challenged by former interior minister and had much, no accusing baton being biased has led to the prob, being suspended, the case presented by the minister must present with no legal basis and in front of a court to have no jurisdiction on the. so it's going to be dismissed. but meanwhile, meanwhile, it's a way to store covers it from 292272021. the theater where john wouldn't have taken action against parliament is now in recess a time. when m. p. 's lose their immunity from prosecution since july. but our has been trying to initiate the prosecution of those believed responsible for failing to act once they were told of the potential dangers of the materials stored at the

port. that's because one of the very rare judges who did do everything in his power to go after the space on the evidence that he has. they started with media campaigns against him. harassment reports at the tar is reported to have received a verbal threat from his the law that it would remove him by any means. the iranian back group has not commented. we have reached a new level in this country where the judges that cannot be bolt or drive, now are threatened, but not only threatened threats and publicly using the press investigation is leading somewhere where they will. they don't want to go. but ours predecessor was removed in february by a similar legal challenge brought by senior officials. he had accused of criminal negligence. so far the investigation is focused on who was responsible for unsafely soaring stuff, highly explosive material supports,

but it's still not knowing what caused the fire that triggered the block. and there are unanswered questions surrounding the ownership of the ammonium nitrate. these families say they won't give up until they get justice, but they know they're up against assistance that shields the power. then their elders, either the death toll from a battle between rival drug gangs that a prison in ecuador has res, into at least 100. to go 40 inside the prison with guns and knives and explosives, at least 5 people would be headed. it took police and military 5 hours to regain control of the facility. more than 50 prisoners were injured. still ahead on al jazeera, why i've got his sons fanatical and economic crisis will hurt some of the countries youngest, dry gadding. and will tell you more about the former japanese foreign minister from your case. she was said to become the next prime minister after winning the ruling

party leadership. ah hello there. let's start in north america. we think very wet weather over the past few days in the u. s. and you can see behind me that cloud, it's going to affect more central and southern areas in the days to come. we've got a weather system that's pushed out towards the east. and we've also got tropical moisture rising up from those gulf states. and that's going to cause this band of cloud and rain, some storms all the way from the canadian prairies to the midwest, and further down to the deep south, some very wet weather to come for pots of texas. we are also seeing things turning rather wintery for those 4 corners states. by the time we get into friday, so snow for colorado, for the northwest, so it does dry up. we saw

a weather system move in. it has moved east now taking with it the wet weather, but there is more wet and windy weather to come for western parts of canada, british columbia like you to see that wintry mix pull in as we go into the weekend . now for the east, it is looking a lot dryer, some fine weather to be found across the south, east of the u. s. but we are seeing that heavy rain affecting those gulf states and that moves into mexico, particularly on the eastern areas. we want sunshine and showered much of the caribbean and major hurricane sam is pointing out to the east have been new to taking the wet and windy weather with it. the l just a real world reveals dramatic pictures from garza in may 2021. i've lived there for a number of years and there is nowhere safe and god's account done to his really missile the tax on for time of why we're

tired of businesses and media organizations simply below note goes a 60 minute warning on our just 0 ah, the me, you're watching 0 reminder of our time stories. clinician is president, has appointed a geologist with little political experience as the country's 1st female foreign minister, his task nash novel. then when forming a government last week, the president denounced he would rule by decree and ignore the parts of the constitution which prompted the un is calling on the government to allow from date

into the dry region. humanitarian chief on griffith as wanda region is facing the world's worst hunger crisis in a decade. and families are the victims of last year sport explosion in lebanon, and have demonstrated into the force of the judge investigating the the black on monday. because had to suspend his pro bathroom complained by the former interior amenities us republicans have called the withdrawal from afghanistan, an unmitigated disaster at a congressional hearing into the conflict. defend secretary lloyd austin joined chief of staff chairman mach. milly and the head of central command appeared on the 2nd day of hearings, and joe biden has been accused of lying about recommendations to keep shoes from the ground and playing down warnings of a taliban victory. general minnie says there is a real possibility extremist groups could rebuild as early as spring taliban sitting a couple significant emboldens the radical g movement globally. the analogy i've

used with many others is it likely will put a shot of adrenalin into their arm and defense secretary lloyd austin told the committee that he did not support keeping troops in afghanistan for longer. that in my view, there wasn't, there is no, was no risk free status quo option. i think that the taliban had been clear that if we stayed there longer, they were going to recommend attacks on our forces. i think while we, it's conceivable that you could stay there. my view is that you would have had to deploy more forces in order to protect ourselves and accomplish any mission that we would have been assigned. now around 80 percent of people enough ganeth stan are addicted to drugs and many children with a come crumbling economy and insufficient aid rehabilitation centers and now running out of the medicines they need to treat them. osama being dr. it has this

report from couple this appears to be an ordinary classroom. for these children are being treated for drug addiction with mothers who were addict student pregnancy. some became indirect uses in the room. for this, it was when they were breastfed or their parents smoke, drugs in their presence does say that has on that make oh, this is q. we contravene his identity. he is 12 years old and loves to thing. when he became a heroine user, after injecting himself using his father syringe, i think the un office on drugs and crime says, half of the parents of gun his son who use drugs give them to their children. when addict can affect the whole family. that's what happened to all nervous. she's on suicide watch. show me make a month because of my husband, i became an addict. i have 2 sons and 3 daughters. all of them are here. i'm scared

of my kids becoming addicts because i've seen how terrible i guess what my husband should at the center has run out of medicine because of the economic crunch and assets free by birth and government. since it's all about to go over the country, doctors and other staff members have not been paid for months and you and says only 10 percent of addict to read the treatment or rehabilitation they need. if i make some of these centers for addicts are not enough, there should be more centers and good treatment plans. some addicts are homeless and they live under the birth bridge. get a special this is the bird bridge in cobble. we cannot go closer to film, and some attics here have threatened to stop people with their syringes. one can be used by many people and spread diseases such as aids and hepatitis heroine meth cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis are all readily available. according to the united nations 90 percent of the world elicit or be a drugs originate in august on the taliban has announced it will ban opium

production. but without enough income from an alternative agriculture that might be easier said than done this man find to escape from another rehabilitation center in cobble that can hold a 1000 people for both of the social workers go out to catch others. but only when they have capacity, drug users must go through detoxification, rehabilitation and social care. many of these men have only been here for a few days. they've been pleading to us to let them leave. but doctors here tell us that they need to stay here for 45 days so that they can go through this phase of a draw and actually get treatment, or keeping people drug fee is a major challenge. up to 30 percent of people had returned to using drugs and those treating them say, unless the economy picks up many more will join them from a job down to the ra, a couple

a quick correction. it's ron 8 percent of people in afghanistan who are addicted to drunk. they're not a t, as i mentioned earlier. or let's take a closer look down at of ghana stands opium trade. during the cold with 19 pandemic . poppy cultivation increased by more than a 3rd. opium is reduced from the liquid extracted from poppy plants since the taliban to control last month. the price of opium has more than tripled. it's transformed into heroin either, and i've gotta stand pakistan or iran, and then smuggled into europe, africa, and canada of gant san producers, more than 90 percent of the world's heroine. but you and estimates it's worth $2000000000.00 a year and accounts for up to 11 percent of the countries g. d. p. when i speak to vander felt bad brown about this. she is joining us live from washington d. c. and he's a senior fellow and the director of the initiative on non state actors at the brookings institution. thank you very much for being with us taliban leaders after taking power. and i guess, you know, seeking international acceptance have said they want to ban opm production. but can

they really afford to kill what's essentially been their cash cow? well, it will be extraordinarily difficult for the tele bond to deliver on its promise, banning your puppy cultivation and keeping that bang for any extended period. it is not only that, it has been a very significant source of income for the tele bond, as you mentioned, but it's been also vital part of the economy of simplification. but nonetheless, the relevant one is that significant portion of the i've gotten economy over the past several decades, including the past 2 decades. this come from the drive, train the other from for an 8. and most of the for an 8 is frozen, suspend is no longer available with a ton of regime and lots of constituent to what i'm very ordinary people who can tell a constituent kind on the drug trade. so,

so they have really profit is from this trade opium conservation has long been a source of income for rural communities across afghan. his son and farmers in the south have said it's impossible for them to, to iran eradicate the trade. but i wonder if there perhaps other industries or activities that would bring in as much financial gains as you well for local people that it's very difficult to accomplish. the international community for the past to that case tried to, to go out and that was pro grants and they struggle for many reasons, including and security. if the tele bond can security, it can perhaps engaging. but international exit is on how to deliver out that livelihood. but we need to be realistic and the best of circumstances that nothing livelihood state 2 or 3 decades to start really bringing the income and

offsetting the other structural drivers. so that is no easy way to do it that way. and again, it's crucial source of employment for people. but with the us warning that a 3rd of a countries population is now facing the threat of famine. how my swapping opium cultivation to food crops help of gown is done and what can the international community due to the fort? well, it's actually not really possible and simple to go from opium poppy cultivation to cultivate the read or hold the cultural products. because puppy but it's much more than simply immediate source of income. it also brings cash that can be used for schooling for accessing medical care for which are challenged and collapsing enough is done so many people already grow. so element of the lines to access for food cultivation, but they need to go poppy to get cash. so how much of

a problem is the cultivation? internally we saw, you know, some as report there the issues of drug abuse among young people. how, how widespread is it? well, unfortunately, the opium substance bis orders had spread, watch over the past 20 years. that knew that hello bon breakfast, brutally in the 1990 s. unfortunately, the international calling and leaving us by focusing on treatment and prevention strategists that compounded the problem significantly. the record to earlier the strong emphasis was placed on the vacation. we know from a lot of other countries that other tools are more important, including methadone maintenance and maintenance, which are almost altogether inexplicable in august on the left hand production approaches such as safe naval safe needle access. for example,

vanda, thank you so much for talking to us. about this vander fell back, brought from the brookings institution, joining us from washington. thank you for your time. now reforming japans ruling liberal democratic party is the top priority for a new leader, a former foreign minister for me. okay, shita is set to become the country's next prime minister after winning a party leadership election on wednesday is now preparing to lead the l. d. p. in general elections due in november, floyd 3 has more for me. okay. she there is the new chief of japan governing liberal democratic party. he's also set to become prime minister as his party and coalition partner control. the houses of parliament is the 2nd time the former foreign minister has run for the leadership. after competing against outgoing premier, yoshi day suga last year. in his acceptance speech,

he should have promised to lead the party to success in next month's general election. but that's why i want to firmly show a reborn, liberal democratic party to the japanese citizens and urge them to support us. from today i will deal with all my energy get straight to work, party members around the country and members of parliament, please work with me. a 1st round vote had failed to produce a majority winner and to female contenders dropped out of the race in a run off. he should have faced taro, co, no, and outspoken minister in charge of japan's cove at 19 vaccine rollout. had been ahead in opinion polls, but widely regarded as a safe pair of hands. kesha had the support of lawmakers and beat his rival by 257 votes. 270. analysts say he, she does rise to the premise ship is unlikely to affect defense and international relations. he supports close ties with western democracies to counter china as

growing influence in the region on the economy. kisha has pledged to spend big on a stimulus package and emphasized the need to distribute more wealth to households . but 1st he faces a difficult challenge. general election that has to be held by november. what i expect to see is something ambitious, like a very large stimulus package dedicated to pandemic management and the health system in general. although of course, nothing is really going to be implemented. this can be no evidence of success in time to the election. so when a lot to a large extent he, she does is going to be selling hope and asking the electorate trust him rather than demonstrating any concrete results there. can she, there may be seen as a stable choice. but some analysts say his bland image may work against him in the

upcoming polls. florence louis al jazeera alas, angeles judge has removed brittany's to be his father as a conservator of her estate spirit, thought 2 and 13 year legal arrangement that controlled her personal and financial life. early this year she told the court she had been medicaid against her. will and denied the right to have children. the judge has appointed a temporary guardian and will, will later this year on whether to remove the confederate to ship altogether. now government scientists in the us have officially given up trying to find 23 species, declaring them all extinct. they include the ivory build woodpecker, which has attracted public attention several times over the years. for an confirm sightings, john henry has one. the last of the lord god birds, his vanished into the ether. once the largest american bird of its kind, the ivory billed woodpecker, was called the lord god bird. because according to legend,

that's what those lucky enough to st. this striking creature would say when they spotted it, awe inspiring, attribute from singer, song writers, sophia and stevens. it's one of $23.00 species. the u. s. is removing from the protection of its endangered species act because they are now extinct there. so many species that are in dire shape today, i think sometimes it becomes important to refocus our attention on the ones that we can save and the ones that need our attention right now. and so. so i think it's a, it's a sad thing. it's a difficult thing, conservationist say extinction or accelerating due to climate change in habitat laws. like the forest clearing that largely white, the ivory build woodpeckers sheltering trees from a southwestern landscape that stretched from the swamps of louisiana to the florida everglades. hawaii was home to the most species on the list, including 8 woodland birds in one plant. many of these species,

particularly islands, were rare, or very uncommon at the time that they were sound. and when they were partially, that means that they were not able to benefit from the provisions of the species back. we're going extinct the endangered species act, his save the gray wolf along with american icons like ball, the eagle and the american alligator. but making the endangered list takes years, a dozen on average, leaving 47 species to vanish so far. well in regulatory limbo. others like the disappearing monarch butterfly. still wait. as the planet warms and their habitats dwindled along with their chances for survival, john hindered al jazeera. ah . so again, i'm fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera to.