we build up has been closing that cap and making enormous pressure psychologically and operationally on taiwan would in taiwan society as well. i want our forces. it also appears to be looking to undermine ty, when's president saying when, who has been cold 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 jane 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 it by degrees. this latest bank comes at a significant moment for the 2 neighbors with china having just marked the october 1st anniversary of its founding and tie, one about to celebrate its national day and both with very differing ideas of what their future relationship should look like. rub, mcbride, al jazeera hong kong. a delegation of french senators, meanwhile, has arrived in taiwan as relations between the southfield island and beijing. worse in the group, led by senator alisha will meet president fighting when before the trip, china's ambassador to france wrote to re shaw wanting him to cancel the 5 day visit, making opposes international engagement with taiwan. china and taiwan speak during

a civil war. in 1949, but china still considered it a breakaway province. the eruption of the comm brave you have. okay. no on the spanish island of la palmer has intensified. it's already prompted the evacuation of 6000 people and destroyed nearly a 1000 homes. john hall reports it's already the largest eruption on this volcanic island in a century, and there could be weeks left in it yet. but for many, the damage has been done. roberta lay all watched helpless as the church in his local town square crumbled under the lava. no, sir. no, sir, no, no, they're well over a yard, but i had to be on the girl. beside it stood his father's house, and his uncle's house also destroyed generations of the layout family had lived in the town of tod. okay, for 200 years now,

much of what they built there is gone. shame. but then sir, a horror novel helplessness horror. it was like a horror movie. at night in my dreams, i only see the volcano, only the volcano eating everything, but what worries me most is not my future, but my family, my father who's lost everything. and also my 3 brothers, my uncle, and my to cousin sort of in the road to tanaka, is paved in volcanic ash. it's raining down on us all the time. down there, a police roadblock prevents any further travel towards what were homes, businesses, a school. and of course that church all now entombed beneath a river of cooling lava. and it's still coming. just look at that this eruption shows no sign of slowing down. as the central vent widens, new threads appear, exploding gas bubble sent lethal projectiles called love bombs. hurtling into the

sky. you wouldn't want to be hit by one of these. and on the outskirts of todo k itself, fresh lava threatens yet more destruction. one does that amena, one, the southern arcadia one. when will it, and when will we be allowed to go back there? we don't know what the future starts when the volcano stops, my future will be here on this island or into decay if it's possible. and my family agrees well, we'll stay here and get on with our lives and todd, okay, is not alone. and nor is the layout family, more than a 1000 buildings have been swallowed up, swathes of valuable farmland consumed. roberto says he'll rebuild and told okay, he says will rise again. such his life in the shadow of a volcano. jonah whole al jazeera la palmer. i'm returning now to the tensions between taiwan and china that we were reporting on earlier. let speak to cynthia

watson, who's in the asia pacific analyst and is joining us from maryland in the us. thank you very much, cynthia, for being with us. i saw a number of western allies of taiwan have expressed concern i china's open display of, of military might in recent days. but it's a difficult balancing act for them is devs, kenny, a for to anger bay g. it's extraordinarily difficult and thank you for this opportunity and, and i have to say, this is just my personal assessment, but i think that we all forget how important the trade ties are between most countries and china and china is quite chrome, as we've seen over a long period of time to use each and every instrument available to it to indicate to states that he disapproves of their ties with taiwan. i would also go so far as to say that one can't say that taiwan has out eyes because there

are just a handful of states that literally recognize taiwan. there are states that have engagements with taiwan that have economic ties with taiwan, but not diplomatic relations. so it's a, it's a really fine balancing act, right. and we've seen what's happened with hong kong where the international community, of course, condemned what, what's been going on on the territory there. we saw some sanctions from the u. k, but didn't do more, i guess, to address bay jeans, influenza in hong kong. can we expect anything at all when it comes to taiwan? i don't think so. there been discussions recently of states in east asia, that sound as if they are considering taking a more over position on taiwan. but i simply find it unlikely because fishing has made clear that they will respond. the tension is between taiwan and mainland china

. have have existed of course for a number of years now, but they've increased quite seriously recently. do you believe that beijing might be building towards a move perhaps to retake taiwan by force? i think it's always possible that i think it's unlikely. i think what's happening instead is that beijing as signifying to east asia, maybe these uncomfortable with united states trying to resurrect stronger ties with other states in the region. i think the australia summary deal. ringback was probably an a perfect example of that for everyone to notice it. put beijing back on his heels. said you think that's the reason behind the, you know, them the military training and, and you know, the fry over over taiwan territory that we've been seeing recently from beaching. what, what a trying to achieve or show

a jim does not feel that the communist party does not feel that he can back down on this issue. and i think that they are trying to show the domestic audience as well as foreigners, that they are, was resolute on this issue, and that taiwan is from bedrooms perspective. a non negotiable issue. what taiwan thinks of that is a different issue. but i think that beijing feels that anything that they do on this, any sort of flexibility could be something held against them by their own population and could be misinterpreted by outsiders as flexibility when they don't believe that this is a negotiable issue. ringback cynthia watson, thank you very much for talking to us about this. thank you for your insight into iran's foreign minister has discussed reviving the nuclear deal with his russian counterpart during a visit to moscow or san mere abdulla he and says he expects nuclear thompson

vienna to restart soon. russian foreign minister said leval says he's also spoken to the u. s. secretary of state on the need to restore the deal. the biden administration says i returned to the accord is a top priority. but iran has accused washington of sending mixed messages. turkish and as a by johnny forces have conducted joint military jails near the border with iran. the 2 countries expanded their defense thighs after last year's war against armenia in the disputed nagondo quarterback region. israel comes out to relations worse and between back o n t ran over yvonne's support of armenia and as a by john's relations with israel. iran held a military exercise along his border with as a by chan. last friday. they still said, i explains the reason behind this military trail. well, the sources that they have talk from the turkish side and the also bill jones said that they said that it was not app polanski a joint military thrilled because just couple of weeks ago there was a military real conducted. busy by us there be john turkey and pakistan,

and iran was furious about it because it was, it was accusing this companies or this stabilize insecurity in the region. but then when the tension starts to escalate between azerbaijan and iraq, particularly rhetoric, lee. and then the other b genocide started to arrest some of the pro iranian actor, the figures in azerbaijan, and also putting a control on the trucks that are carrying the materials from the iranian say to armenia down the situation. got escalated, an iran, initiated a military, a military exercise their right after their there has been a decision. it came by surprise. the token azerbaijan, as of retaliation, are going to start a joint military exercise in natur one which very much symbolically is important. because on one hand, it is neighboring iran, on the other hand, it is close to the region. i did that the zang as or

a quarter door that was agreed to be oper to be opened in the day after the agreement that has been signed her last year after the call before to for these cut by war. so that wasn't a plant one, but it is the act was seized that as a retaliation to the iranian military exercise to the u. s. now, where resident in huntington beach california have filed a lawsuit after an oil spill off the coast of orange county investigation, suggest as ships anchor hit the underwater pipeline that rupture dansville tens of thousands of gallons of coiling to the ocean. accounts may, i says the beaches may be callous for months. esco live to rob reynolds who is in huntington beach, which has been affected by the soil spell. so what, what are we learning rob about the causes of this while spend? well it's, it's, we don't have an exact cause yet, but there are some strong suspicions that you can see behind me. the huntington

beach pier and the, and the shoreline and the waves washing up on the beach, each wave carrying. unfortunately, we did some more a crude oil, and this spill stretches for many kilometers south of here. now, divers went down to the location where the breach of the pipeline took place. and they found that the pipeline was a distorted. it's a 1200 meter section of the pipeline that was moved, displaced somehow about 45 meters. now, these are not little pipes like you'd have in your kitchen or your bathroom. this is a very large steel pipe covered and concrete according to amplify energy. the company that, that runs this a whole platform in pipeline. so it is not easy to move, it doesn't move with waves or water. so the suspicion is largely now on whether or

not at some point it ships anchor, contacted, make contact with the pipeline and dragged it that, that, uh, 45 meters of the head of amplify energy said it was shaped like a bow. oh, so it was almost on sort of 2, it's 2, it's breaking point and there was the result. there was a 33 centimeter gash in the pipeline. now there's no, there's no oil leaking now, they've shut down the pipeline. but this is all part of a larger story. you can't really see it that well, behind me of a try with this sort of limited of technology that we're using here to show you. and if you can see there, there are ships, wind up at anchor, all over the southern california coast, the biggest port in the united states. the ports of long beach and los angeles are to my north here. and all these ships are now unable to anchor because the board is

overloaded wine because during the cobra lockdown period, people in the united states just started buying stuff. all kinds of stuff, much of which was made in east asia. so all of these ships are now trying to unload their cargo, their, their containers and they have no place to put them. so this, i think feeds into the whole question of whether an errant ship got out of position dragged its anchor and may, at some point have contacted this pipeline. there's also now some legislation underway being introduced in congress that with a ban, any further leases for oil drilling or exploration on face in federal waters which is where all of these platforms are and calling for the gradual phase out of oil extraction and the governor of california gavin newsom said yesterday that this type of oil exploration and extraction should be not in the future of california or

the united states as part of the past rom. thank you very much for that. rob reynolds reporting a lie from huntington beach in california, with a dutch court has rejected a request to get rid of the corona passage, said the government can require people to be vaccinated or provide a negative test for them to get into restaurants, bars, and other public places the government introduced a pass in september despite opposition in parliament, in brazil, growing numbers of people are struggling to afford food because of the economic fall out from cov 19. there's been outrage after photos were shared of people scavenging through a heap of animal carcasses to find something to eat. traceable has a story. eating every day has become a challenge for people like eddie done. a former prisoner who lives on the streets

of re others unable surviving here the past year, he says, has been a challenge live. we're got his brothers up on the rear issues. as the beginning of the pandemic, the streets are very crowded, and everything is become very difficult. now, no one stops here to help us. there. a lot of people dying because they couldn't get emergency aid. the impact of coven 19 has devastated brazil. almost 600000 people have lost their lives, and millions have been forced into poverty. i mean, rising food prices and unemployment. researchers say at least 19000000 brazilians are struggling for food. and recent images of people's calving animal carcasses for scraps of food have shocked the country as the difficulties people are facing each day sinkin. lucky begun with i've taken meat from the truck many times. we take the meat and are happy. but now there's a lot of demand because every one has caught onto it. they either taking it from the truck or straight from the supermarket. at the beginning of the pandemic for

sales press it enjoyable. tornado campaigned against locked down. so saying hunger was worse than coven 19. that's why last year, the government distributed emergency cash handouts to help families and businesses . but this year, government aid has been dramatically scaled back. no problem is that on the one hand, he has a very new liberal, all ah, minister of economics that does not want to spend does not want to provide direct help for, for the population. also not always campaign against the program. so he would say that both of amelia was an immediate how dad lula and the politicians for the workers party from better use to buy people's votes, to buy bose. ah good will. right. so as a substantial is a program that was g. people from working there is an idea ideological barrier

at the soup kitchen in real hundreds of people actually everyday to receive a meal there in desperate need of help. if i were to buy learn of we pray that can really pre ago i was working. i had a job, i rented an apartment and i was able to pay the rent. i worked and under salary every month, then the panoramic game. i lost my job. i couldn't pay my rent anymore. volunteers in the soup kitchen say, most of those coming here face a similar situation. we have lost their jobs and cannot afford to pay a rent anymore. 20 years ago, brazil became a success story when government programs pushed millions of people out of poverty. now it's an example of the government's inability to deal with the consequences of coven. 19 it is i will, i'll just cedar. the still ahead on the news hour after a few weeks of downtime the us open champion is ready to resume playing or hear from our in sports next tuesday.

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whole ah ah ah, that us forces gemma. thank you fully. the full extent of boss lane as a financial problems has come to light as it's revealed they were technically bankrupt. when joe, on the porter took over his president in march bosses c o says the club would have been dissolved in april. if it was a public limited company, speaking as a news conference at the new camp on wednesday, fair and reverse have criticized a former president of joseph maria bought the mayor's running of the club as a disastrous, revert,

as accused at the previous board of signing play as they couldn't afford and offering inflated wages, the club has since a drastic, a reduced it's payroll, which is one of the reasons they can't give lena messy. a new contract. is edie. that on the gets the son jimmy during 2 and a half years barcelona didn't generate profits to pay for all these investments. so all the investment during this period of time was done by borrowing money. it is true that had it not been for the coven 19 pandemic. it would have been $18000000.00 instead. but we are talking of about $593000000.00 better than i much mike louder gonna. we know very well that we must have a competitive team. we've taken a series of very harsh decisions right now. but both the president and sporting director know very well that we must have the best team we can get. and we will put all our efforts to achieve that horrible either the results of this order, which was commissioned by bosses. note ministration showed when they took over in march. the club had debts and future liabilities at $1550000000.00. barcelona

closed the 202021 financial year with $555000000.00 in losses. the clubs, a salary cap has now been caught to $113000000.00. about a $334000000.00 less than a year ago. and more than 7 times smaller than that of rama, dreads. but the clubs say they have a credible plan to recover. they've already received a loan of around $685000000.00, which they're paying back over 10 years. and all savvy putting their famed la marcia youth academy at the forefront, current player and z fatty one of those. he came through the ranks and he certainly in good company, previous graduates include messy javi and address any aster. saudi arabia will lift its foyer band known cast, sorry broadcast, have been sports and has promised to close pirate websites. the network which owns the tv rights for the premier league across the middle east and north africa has been unable to broadcast in the kingdoms part of a diplomatic dispute. the 2 sides are also understood to be close to settling

a $1000000000.00 claim for damages caused by piracy. the news also being means that new cost the night is a percent. your take a vote by a saudi lead consortium can now be a step closer after it's stored last year to weld, co qualifying an african. now in guinea have played their 1st competitive games since a q there. last month. they were held at one all by sudan, clamour, strike mohammed bio guinea in front, in the 2nd half liverpool midfield. now the case came on for guinea as a substitute, but couldn't make the difference for them. i was to down hit back with 18 minutes to go in the match in america rocco player and he was out in the other game on wednesday. not saying and the pre fight trash talk is in full swing out of ty, since you're in dante waters trilogy. fight in las vegas on saturday. the british world heavyweight champion puts his w b c. title on the line against american router. and there's plenty of history between the t. their 1st bounce in 2018 ended in a draw before fury, one that re match last year with a dominant victory. while that later claimed theory had cheated during their 2nd

contest. so more chinese, i'm living in wildest mind rent free the whole time. 2 years. every to, every time you look, send them a receipt, tyson theory, a semi beam up and then knocking them out. you know, many things that are as many things that are, that i, vis last in the 1st by, along with the sector. you know, and i day as cute game plan. every time he goes to bed before we close his eyes at night he sees a gypsy king. and every thing he wakes up on thinks about in the morning. he thinks that ice and fury, but this time around it. is it just a different feeling? you know, all the way around, you know, just all the ceramic around me, the atmosphere? yes. and it just the energy as a whole. when we was 1st going to fight for, it was a decent mom like a family mom, you know, there when he for his kids and all that. but now, and always a real piece, a garbage piece of rubbish. i look forward to porn on a great performance. come october to night. you know, when are those is going to be in the arena?

they're gonna feel the electricity is in there. i'm going to knock him spock. i want saturday night and i cannot wait to get him in that ring and give him a good i did for sure. i'm not even take it slow of him. i might take you saw him punish him. make him say no mos. yes, i've been tennis champion, emerald connie says she's going to take her time of finding a new coach. the 18 year old parted ways with her former trainer, shortly after her grandson. victory by the connie returns to action on friday at indian wells, making her baby the following a busy few weeks, which included the met gala in new york playing tennis with the duchess of cambridge, kate middleton and attending the world premier at the latest james bond film. a focus is now firmly back on the continuing her career. i'm looking for someone, hopefully with more experience on a high level because like i'm now 22 in the world and it's new to me. so i, i wish i would have someone who had been there and experience the but. 6 yeah, the, my courage, andrew from us open was great and we had

a lot of good times together. but i think for this next chapter, i just want some more experience and that soil sport from me for now, i'll be back with more a little bit later. jemma. thank you very much for that. the nobel prize in chemistry has been jointly awarded to, to scientists for their development of a precise tool for building molecules. the royal swedish academy of sciences is the work of benjamin list. and david mcmillan has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research and is already showing benefits for human kind. early we spoke to jennifer newton who is the content editor for chemistry world, the monthly news magazine published by the royal society of chemistry. and she explained the significance of the discovery melanin list showed that you could use small organic molecules say things made from carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen to, to guide your chemical reactions. and you need to bear in mind that chemists want to make molecules in very particular ways. and you can often make you can make

molecules in different ways. but if, if they're 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 of dollar men in terms of costs, metals often very expensive, and also in terms of toxicity. so the work of these chemists has it's got incredibly far reaching applications and it is what 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. got to say that, but that does not mean that it's not an in an incredibly important award catalysts,

or just their central to everything in chemistry. that's it for this news. our, our knowledge is here, as always, is more news on our website, al jazeera dot com. we'll have more of these coming up a shortly to say, ah ah, on a well on the part of the debate, o pacific people, the ocean, is our identity and the source of well being weak are the ocean when no topic is off the table, it's as children side atmosphere, people are demoralized, they're exhausted and many health care workers are experiencing p t s d like

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