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a nobel prize for chemistry on as a green, a way to build molecules and a technique. the judges say, isn't genius on a delayed response off to a pipe? a pipeline leak is being blamed for a major oil spell off the coast of southern california. ah, on a gas prices in europe and the u. k. have risen sharply by 25 percent on early trading, raising phase of soaring bills and inflation as winter approaches. limited gas supplies, combined with rising demand as economies recover from the pandemic. not seen prices hit highs, not seen in more than a decade. several british energy supply as meanwhile, have collapsed amid the gas price crisis. 9 companies have already ceased trading. this year alone, european member states are calling for new regulations to cub runaway energy prices . and really,

consumers and businesses. the european commissions has brussels will explore setting up common storage facilities, the gas, and also focus on a shift to renewables to end dependence on imports allowed. as there is economics editor added, ali has more on those pipes. this is a failure by the europeans to make sure that they got enough energy for this winter . now at this time of the time of year, they should have filled the storage tanks up enough to cover for the winter supply . we're currently at 72 percent fall that's, that's a well below where they should, they, they should be, that's a 10 year low for the 1st time that's happened. and the trouble, the trouble is that there's other parts of the world which actually need the energy as well. so we're all going to be paying a lot more to keep warm this winter in the northern hemisphere because of europe's failure to fill this storage tank. now russia has said, look, we're ready to pump more oil. so punk pump more gas through the power lines if it's

needed because we, they want to see a gas shortage. they've already being blamed partly for the crisis, for not sending enough gas through the pipeline through ukraine. now it, russia argues that it, you know, concurrent contractually it's actually a sending all the gas that is required to. but at the same time, they want to see the north stream to pipeline which connects to germany to come on line so that they can pay. so they can avoid sending more gas through ukraine for geo political reasons. and sending us directly to germany, the germans say, well, is that good? it's gonna take another 4 months for them to certify the recently completed pipeline. while the ears vulnerability to the surgeon gas prices has been on leaders, lines as they meet with western balkan countries. insta, vignette, the president of the european commission ass lavender lion said this could be the time to speed up the transition to renewables. it is

a serious issue. i think we have to be very clear that the gas prices are skyrocketing and her, but the renewables of the prices have decreased over the last years and our stable so for us is very clear that with energy in the long term, it is important to invest in renewables that gives us stable prices and more independence because gas is imported, 90 percent of the gas is important to the european union. while our correspondent has about, there is an murder where you need has had been meeting. she says there's a divide over how to respond to this gas crisis. because natural gas prices have been soaring, consumers can expect their bills to go up, particularly a, with the winter months here in europe arriving soon. now you lead as though our defy did on the approach to take ref. countries like a france and spain who believe that there should be bold action. they believe that

the commission should help you governments to try whether this storm, if you like, perhaps with subsidies or a being popped up a financially. on the other hand, you have countries who wanted more, a cautious approach. wait and see said, are the dutch prime minister mark router along netherlands, along with germany. believe that perhaps in a matter of time that this crisis could be over. so they, they would prefer to wait and see it right out either way. or the commission is expected to announce some measures next week or rising tensions between the us and china are causing ripples across the taiwan straits. in taiwan is one of the key issues and a deepening strategic rivalry between beijing and washington. and tony's defense minister says tensions with china now and their worst and for decades. this all follows for days of repeated incursions by chinese warplanes into the islands air defense own robert bride has more from hong kong. the approach of nearly 150

war plains in waves sent over several days, has clearly alarm taiwan speaking at a session of tie one's parliament defense minister to choir chang, warned that in 4 years china would be capable of invading the island, which was only china does not currently possess such capabilities, but we must consider the consequences. in our judgment by 2025, they will have more comprehensive capabilities. taiwan regularly holds drills to prepare for such an invasion. thanks in part to sophisticated military equipment from its ally the united states. it's so far been confident of deterring any aggression. but china's rapid military build up has been closing that gap, engaging in put enormous pressure psychologically, and operation on taiwan in taiwan society as well as i one our forces.

it also appears to be looking to undermine ty, when's president saying when, who has been coal to the idea of closer relations and is seen by china as an obstacle to its ultimate goal of unification. with these latest incursions it seems bay jing wants to send a message about the changing dynamics across the taiwan strait. not only to taiwan, but to the international community, including the united states. at a time of increasing tensions with washington. in an apparent attempt to deescalate the situation, you as president joe biden weighed in on the ongoing tensions by didn't seem to confirm the united states continued commitment to giving china diplomatic recognition in return for bay ging not threatening taiwan militarily. we agree. bye bye. i want agreement that we are new, we made it clear that i'll be doing i

this late is spent comes that is significant moment for the 2 neighbors with china . having just marked the october 1st anniversary of its founding and taiwan about to celebrate its national day and both with very differing ideas of what their future relationship should look like. robert bribe al jazeera hong kong. now the nobel prize and chemistry has been jointly awarded to, to scientists for their development of a precise tool for building molecules. the royal swedish academy of sciences as the work of benjamin list. and david mcmillan has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research and has already greatly benefiting human kind many molecules. it can be mirror image was from one another, so there can look like a sound like that and pretty much the same, but not exactly. and that looks like on important, but in biology it's hugely important. so the human body can react completely

differently to the same molecule. if it's right on the left hand it, in the worst case it can be the one version can be an effective drug. the other walk on that bad side effects. so it's hugely important to be able to control that . and that's something that when achieved with its molecules, is molecules by themselves are left handed, or i turn it and can transfer that to the target to work and specifically derive one part on one of those nobel orient benjamin list said he was surprised by the committee's decision basically worked a professor, david mcmann, and i have discovered in around the late ninety's was that there is a 3rd class of catalysts available, which with which we can make all these molecules if we need like drugs and send molecules, but also plastics. pretty much everything that surrounds us and the new class that we discover organic molecules before we thought they are only enzymes and transition metal complexes that can be used as countless. and we found simple small

organic molecules that you can isolate from, from natural materials. and some we even make an own body like the amino acid proliant, which we used as a catalyst. and that was really a shock even to us at the time. i. li, i spoke to jennifer near sanchez, the content editor for chemistry, wild. that's the monthly news magazine published by the royal society of chemistry . she explains the significance of their discovery. melanin list showed that you could use small organic molecules. so things made from carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen to, to guide and you're, you're chemical reactions. and you need to very mind that chemist want to make molecules in very particular ways. and you can often make you can make molecules in different ways. but if, if that the wrong mirror image of each other, then that can have consequences, especially when you're making pharmaceuticals, you want to make your molecules need to be very precise. and by using an organic

molecules as catalyst, it's got lots of benefits in terms of the environment in terms of costs, metals out from very expensive and also in terms of toxicity. and so the work of these chemist, his is got incredibly far reaching am applications and it is work that is is, is only going to be expanding over the years. and yet this is a really, is a very interesting and nobel prize. it wasn't exactly what we were maybe expecting that definitely big names in the field. but they one at the top of our predictions list. i've got to say that, but that does not mean that it's not an in an incredibly important award capitalist suggest their central to everything in chemistry. not ron's foreign minister has disgust reviving the nuclear deal with his russian counterpart on a visit to moscow. jose, mira de la hin says he expects nuclear talks in vienna to restart soon. russian foreign minister says lebrun says he's also spoken to the u. s. secretary of state

on the need to restore the deal. the biden administration says a returned to the record as a top priority, but iran has accused washington of sending mixed messages. ability labord with bruce um, got to the she was in the submission of should we talk to both methods and ways of sorting out the iranian nuclear matter. we and the iranians are convinced that the only way to reach an agreement according to the resolution. 2231 is a necessity for every party to adhere to and abide by that sort of balance which was sought by the resolution. while turkish and azerbaijani forces have conducted joint military drills and near the border with iran, the 2 countries expanded their defense ties after last year's war against armenia and the disputed to go on a car back region. this trail comes after relations wasn't between baku and terran, around supportive armenia and as a by john's relations with israel. iran held a military exercise along its border with as a bygone last friday. mostella had here on al jazeera,

why anti government protest as in southern iraq say, taking to the streets is more effective than heading to the polls. every morning the fishermen lay before the dead sea under comeback by late evening. but the catch of them not as good as they used to be at hereford from bangladesh, where pollution and climate change are devastating fishing communities. ah, ah. the southwest monsoon beginning to retreats, hello, a few weeks behind schedule, but here's what it's looking like. the rains not as active as they have been for that reason, but still some heavy falls can be found maharaj straw rate in to go up, but all bread and amber weather alerts have been dropped over to the south china

sea. we've got a weather maker swirling around its whipping rain around all sides here. so north of mandela that a $130.00 millimeters of rain and then for northern in central parts of vietnam, about $200.00 millimeters. and then this also happened on high nan province in china. water rescues here more than 30 people to flood water is about a meter and a half deep here. all caused by that weather maker spinning around in the south china sea. now for southern sections of china, temperature is dropping in grey lin $33.00 degrees and we've got our plumb rains falling between the yellow and the yangtze river valley. and also some bursts of some intense rain can be expected for eastern portions of china. we go into the korean peninsula, the plum brain slamming into here as well, but the bulk of the energy stain out toward open waters on thursday, between korea and japan. and speaking of japan, those temperature is now starting to come down just a bit for tokyo, with a high of 25 degrees on thursday that show up they bye for now. ah,

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the sour gas prices in europe and the u. k. have risen sharpening, raising phase of soaring bills and inflation as winter approaches. limited gas supplies of combined with rising demand, as economies recover from the pandemic tie ones defense minister says tensions with beijing or at their west and 40 years. that's off to a record number of chinese aircraft ends at the islands air defense earn. he said, china could launch an invasion within 4 years. nobel prize in chemistry has been jointly awarded to scientists for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction. the royal swedish academy of sciences as the work. i had a great impact on pharmaceutical research. now, an investigation is underway into when all authorities and a pipeline company in california actually learned about a major oil spill. it's now managed, it took it 3 hours for a pipeline to be shut down once the damage was discovered. alexia bryan,

reports of huntington beach, in california. an ecological emergency is unfolding. look at it, look at it everywhere. oil puddles on the once pristine, sand and work isn't, has met, suits cone, the shore on a clean up mission. any discharge boil into our sensitive coastal waters is damaging to the environment and it is disruptive to the economy at a minimum. this is a significant incident and i want you to know, ah, how seriously those of us that live in work in california take it computer. but as the days pass more questions being raised about how quickly authorities and the pipeline company responded to the incident. the coast guard was 1st notified of dirty water on friday night. at that time, in the approaches nightfall, she can be very difficult to see on the water. the information from the reporting source, the coast guard investigator spoke with was inconclusive. so it was saturday morning before it went out to investigate the reports that same morning about who i am. an

alarm had sounded and amplify energies control room warning that pressure had dropped in the pipeline. early finding show, the company waited more than 3 hours to shut it off. the pipeline had been split open and apparently dragged more than 50 meters along the ocean floor, possibly by a ship's anchor. it st. hundreds of thousands of liters of oil spilling into the water and on 2 beaches and protected marshland. california's governor says the spell is more proof, aging oil platforms need to be phased out. so it's time once and for all to disabuse ourselves that this has to be part of our future. this is part of our past, and we can moralize and talk about the good old days. we can talk about how important these rigs have been to the prosperity of this country in the middle class. but at the end of the day, this is about the sailor of normalcy versus the fresh air progress. safety

advocates have pushed the years for tougher rules on detecting spills and things like automatic valves to shut down the flow of oil. but the industries resisted such measures because of the costs involved along this coastline. beaches could remain closed for weeks and the pipeline companies being investigated for possible negligence. experts say it's too early to know the full cost to the local economy and environment. alixia brian al jazeera, now u. k prime minister barak johnson says his government will change the direction of the british economy and move away from what he called uncontrolled immigration. giving his keynote speech to the conservative party conference, johnson promised to end a broken model of low wages and low growth. the also to the present stresses and strains which are mainly a function of growth and economic revival is not to reach for that same old lever of uncontrolled immigration to keep wages low. the answer is to control

immigration to allow people of talent to come to this country, but not to use immigration as an excuse for failure to invest in people in skills and in the equipment, the facility machinery. a pipe francis says he feels shame for the scale of abuse uncovered and the roman catholic church in france. an independent inquiry revealed on tuesday than an estimated 330000 children, were sexually abused by those within the church. as ranks of her span of 70 years decided to speedy me elevator. i would like to express to the victims my sadness and pain for the trauma they will suffered. and also my shame, our shame for the incapacity of the church, for too long to put them at the center of its concern by assuring them our prayers . i pray and we all pray together to you, lord, the glory to us is the shame going. this is the time of she's,

i encourage the bishops and you, your brothers, who have come here to share this moment. i encourage the bishops and religious superiors to continue to make every effort so that similar tragedies do not happen again. with to the pandemic now and migrants and libya have begun receiving their jobs against cove. 19 libyan officials with the support of the ones migration agency launched that vaccination drive in detention centers. they want to cab infections in the centers when migrants are living in poor conditions. the access to health services and to the vaccine for migrants is our top priority. and guides extremely important that as many people as possible are vaccinated as quickly as possible. in order that together, we can overcome the pandemic. nobody is safe until everybody is safe. while meanwhile, russia has recorded more than 900 deaths for the 1st time since the start of the

pandemic. the country has the highest number of deaths in europe from covered 19, nearly 213000 in total, but also has the 5th largest number of current virus infections in the wild. vaccine uptake has been slow and a majority of russians still say they don't intend to get the job alley i spoke to sergei, follow he is the deputy, the editor in chief of profile weekly magazine. he explains why russians are unwilling to get vaccinated. i think of the main problem of the wireless is that a lot of people reject to make a box. and, and i know the people in one of my friends which are strategic and they say never, never, never. and the same time as for me and my family, we have got some aid in march of this year and we feel our so really well. but still the people like me,

we are minority. so i think the problem is works in age. many people are big chairs, they're discussing this topic in internet and social networks. and the kind of for mass appeal is food for the last 2 months, or maybe for the last 2 year. for the main opinion is against the vaccination. they say it's impossible to wait for the vaccine for the time. so probably they try to to use something not real. now moving on and libby as parliamentary elections has been postponed for a month by the house of representatives and broke. they were originally scheduled for december, that would have been the same time as the presidential vote. but politicians are in a dispute with the unity government and tripoli. they say electing

a new president should rather be the priority. speaking of elections this month, legislative paul and iraq was one of the top demands of anti government protests back in 2019 more than 600 people. they were killed during those demonstrations. and the city of nasiriyah saw the 2nd largest number of casualties. now many people dare say they'll boy caught the election movement otherwise hid reports. october will see iraq's contentious legislative election, but for many in the city of nasiriyah, the month is associated with grief and dissent. security forces have killed at least $150.00 of the cities young people since october 2019 they were part of the anti government to protest known as to screen a nation wide movement that eventually ousted prime minister idol abdul. maddie said jets or todd was an activist whose comments were directed against corrupt

politicians. his advocacy for equality and freedom of his speech were widespread. his mother says she hasn't heard from him since he was kidnapped by gunmen in september to last year. she doesn't know where he's being held, or even if his alive and yet his b. m looked enough for them in the dominant political party and the city is behind it because he was so critical and outspoken about their crimes and violations. candidates posters of the freud or band in many parts of the city and angry protestors have burned down the headquarters of several political parties. no wife and his friends are familiar, revolutionary faces in nasiriyah. they believe the whole editorial process is a false because it's been hijacked by the same political parties. they, those up, again, is 2 years ago. to fill out the sharing, the majority of revolutionaries are against the election because it will give legitimacy again, to unwanted parties. and their armed groups,

which killed and kidnapped our friends, but what they gather to mark the 2nd anniversary of the anti government to protests . hearing the famous i'll have booby square in the city centered they demanded justice for their falling protesters. and freedom for those held in captivity. now there is a new anti government movement on the scene, along with a number of protest her, as ella eric abbey has formed a political front called in to dad, resolve, smoke and inclination, and your daughter lot left edge. we believe we can also be part of the political system. there's no law preventing corrupt political parties from running for office . but if we gain people's trust and become part of legislature, we can make change even on the long run to know up. and son will shudder people's anger. he is triggered by poor services, economic collapse, and high unemployment. like other cities in southern iraq, no city yet is suffering from neglect. religious clerics have urgent iraq is to cast their votes in the parliamentary election. so they can take part in shaping

gun you administration. but many here in the city, i believe the election will not bring to what they hope for. instead, they say the revolution is, is still happening and taken through the streets is the best way to get their message across my mood up through i had until you are in the city, a city southern iraq. ty activists are commemorating 45 years since a brutal massacre at a student protest for democracy. 46 students were shot, beaten to death or hanged from trees by paramilitary police and royalist mobs. they were accused of being communist sympathizers because they protested against the return of an authoritarian military ruler. the events went never officially investigators and a man a contentious point for anti government protest as he returned to the streets of thailand last year. now climate change and pollution are threatening the livelihoods at one of the oldest efficient communities and bangladesh. rivers. once

teeming with fish on our empty, leaving many without jobs, tandy chattering reports now from cit, aquanda. they have been fishing in the coastline in the bay of bengal for centuries, using skills and trade pass down through the generations. but bangladesh has once driving him the fishing community of more than half a 1000000 people is now facing a devastating threat to climate change. quarter m dash now in his forty's has been fishing in the best since he was a teenager. like his ancestors on whether we should. i'm li just isn't enough fish to catch on like the days of our forefathers. because of changes in the environment and climate tv, there are more psych loans now. but your pattern changed frequently, which is why the fish stuck is diminishing, given in the peak sessions. now we don't get enough. the bays natural ecosystem are also under severe threat by environmental pressures. every morning the fisherman lives for the deep sea and they come back by late evening. but they say the catches

are not as good as they used to be. they blame partly the weather and the pollution in the sea cushion dollar from a local charity that assist the community fears the traditional way of jolla. dutch, which is what they're known as here, is gradually eroding because of new challenges. as fish is declining, they have to ship the appropriation for our fishing to other but that didn't or people, those who are living on fishing since they're not. it is very difficult for them to switch off from fishing to other profession. but yeah, you know, ation not now shipping to jobs or do business to our better are deliver live, don't it said that some manage to find work as unskilled day laborers in the nearby ship breaking industries or work as richer pullers on it. so we're facing many problems like the recent lockdown and the annual fishing balance posed by the

government. as fishermen. it's hard for us to find the way many of us have also taken out. loan was the so it's hard days for us auto legacy. several large rivers empty into the bay, occurring vast tides of untreated sewage, plastic and waste, from ship breaking yards and other industries endangering, sensitive married life. last night allan sided brushing them all the various industries you see around here are polluting the sea and humming the fish, stuck on a fishing net, get caught in the propellers of the ships. sometimes even authorities cut fishing nets, but we have to continue that. this is our way of life. environmental expert, one gradual accumulation of pollution in the bay of bengal, and changes in the climate could toes and even far the threat to fishing communities like the jello thus along the coastal regions of bangladesh. tunbridge chaudry, i'll just either ship a condo, ah

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