amans is editor at large at the hill. he joins us from washington, d. c, via skype. good. happy with us. so how do you think americans are viewing biden's handling of the tornado disaster so far? well, i think so far so good in the sense that they see a president who is really good at talking about grief. i mean, he's had so much personal grief in his own family that when, you know people are lost, it's one of the areas that joe biden is, is, you know, often lauded that he can connect with real people in their time of great stress. so i think that's going pretty well. i think, however, you know, he's in kentucky which is a state that supported donald trump. overwhelmingly, only one of the kentucky cont, congressional delegation traveled with him or a republican, but only one congressman to get the sort of glimpses of partisanship in the midst of tragedy. and we don't know, i mean, president barton has not been able to overcome all of that, but i think he's, he's, you know, from the rest of us are watching what's going on. you know,

i think the president is saying and doing the right things. do you think now in america, a lot of things are highly politicized. did you think this will help turn around? maybe his, his poll numbers or, you know, it's really hard to predict. i mean, he said there are no red tornadoes, and there are no blue tornadoes. today, you know, referring to partisanship and whether, but i, you know, i think that the, you know, the country is divided a lot of ways and, and now is the country divided? not only the parties divided, but the parties are divided within each other. you know, you see that in the republican party, you know, divided on so many things like january 6, you see the democratic party divided between those on the progressive last and others like joe mentioned, interest in cinema. senators who are, are, are far more centrist. and so i think in this time it's hard to be effective on anything. i think joe biden, in my view, made a big mistake after not declaring victory on the infrastructure bill,

which passed bipartisan majorities in both the house and the senate. and looking at how he could build on that bipartisanship and find common ground and move forward. and instead, you know, a major piece of legislation that would require the social contract in the united states, but only really supported by the progressive left. i think that he made a mistake there and those numbers are reflecting that as he mentioned these in the heart of a red state, do you think he might be able to cross some of the bipartisan red lines? well, i, you know, i think, you know, in a moment of stress like this, reaching out to people in need delivering and showing those people in kentucky who are most in need. those families that a democratic president is going to make sure that services and support are there for them, is something they will feel and see if they get this right. and i think other parts of the country will to. but jeff, remember senator ran paul of kentucky,

a very controversial prominent high price profile senator has voted against aid to other us citizens in other states after natural disasters. and so there's a bit of, you know, kind of hypocrisy going on, where a senator or a republican senator, a libertarian senator, is asking for support there. and i think people see that as joe biden, ignoring that, and say we're going to help people where they're out there they are. and we'll see whether that message resonates. it's too early to tell, but i mean, it is a powerful message and he's ignoring the political lines this morning that ran paul has not been on the right now on the side of helping folks after natural disasters . and he's making sure the u. s. government is there to help these people, and so i think it's a powerful message, but we'll have to see whether it resonates more broadly, you know, in the, in the weeks ahead. all right, thanks steve. good to get your thoughts. thank you so much. frances reducing its

military presence in northern molly as the government accuses it of abandonment. the troops were deployed in 2013 to help prevent attacks by fighters linked to ida and iso. but molly's prime minister says the threat is still there, homage. vall has more ceremony tomorrow. the departure of more french troops from northern molly. this is the 3rd military base in the region to be vacated by french troops during the last few months. the bases into the solid and key done have already been handed over to marlene troops. france has decided to withdraw more than 2000 of it, floated from the south region by early next year. but it's not because the so called war on terror has been won, or domestic peace has been maintained. armed groups linked to al qaeda and isis have stepped up their attacks across the region. the latest of those targeting un peacekeepers in northern molly earlier this week. this morning and molly, 7 totally un peacekeepers died and 3 others were certain seriously injured when

their vehicle hid an improvised explosive device in the bond. yara region of central molly. the peacekeepers were part of a logistics convoy traveling from 20 to savari. interpretations differ as to why france has decided to reduce its military footprint in a region that for a long remained part of its strategic presence in africa. i was standing, however, is the level of unease between parties and bummer coal since the overthrow of molly's democratically elected president ibrahim rebecca kita in a military cool laughter. focus france along with the a you and other regional bodies condemned that takeover of power by force attempts to persuade than you lead us to restore power to civilians have failed. so half attempts to speed up a process that could lead to an election in the next few months. reports the crew leaders are in secret tours with a rush and private security force,

known as the wagon group has worse and political attentions with france and molly's allies with a group of 5 neighboring countries. france began redeploying gets military after a surge of attacks in mighty book in a fossil and nisha french troops. however, continue to operate in the city of gout. one of the hot spots in northern malia france says they provide support to you and peacekeepers in the region. 2000 of those peacekeepers remain in tim buck, 2 after the french withdrawal. both they and marlene troops in the area are facing frequent attacks by armed groups. after 9 years of french and you and military intervention, the situation in modern is just as precarious as ever homicide. i'll just yellow form a south african prize and jacob zoom, his lawyers are appealing a ruling setting aside is medical parole and ordering him back to jail. the 79 year old is serving a 15 month sentence for contempt. he defied a constitutional court order to give evidence of the corruption inquiry allegations

date back to his time in office for me, the miller has more for janice book. will jacob zoom or was supposed to have and testified before a commission of inquiry into what is being termed state capture in south africa basically, corruption, he did appear that inquiry, but on 2 other occasions either wouldn't answer questions and on a 3rd occasion left abruptly and he was then ordered to return to that commission, which he refused to do, and instead sort a legal order 2 of weight appearing at the commission of inquiry. this was in taken to the constitutional courts who found that he had undermined the rule of law. he was supposed to have testified, and this is why he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court. he get, he was given a specific amount of time to hand himself over. and that eventually did happen at the 11th hour. but going back to the current situation is facing it again

goes back possibly to the form of presidents relationships with key political viggo's way. in this instance, the one now former commissioner for correctional services allowed for jacob seumas medical medical role. and now the court has found there was unlawful because the commissioner at the time bypass the parole board. and this is why it's said he should return to jail. the international committee of the red crosses warning of a major humanitarian crisis in somalia, which is again in the grip of a drought. it's forcing families to leave their homes in search of water and grazing land for cattle. victoria gates and b reports waiting for water, severe drought in somalia central gal good at region means people are reliant on humanitarian aid to stay alive. the drought combined with recent fighting between the somali national army and armed fighters has been

a disaster for this region. a 100000 people have had to leave their homes in girl and moved to make shift camps on the outskirts of town on the back on the soccer trap. i'm 50 years old and i've seen many droughts, but this one is the worst. the fighting has also forced people to flee. these things have all come at once. intense shelling damage several buildings in girl, including its main hospital and other hospital was destroyed in a fire tank or become while energy for the hospital had a lot of patients admitted when the disaster happened and the entire hospital burned down this morning. a number of people arrived here thinking it still exists . they had not heard the news. people will suffer. a lot of humanitarian organizations are doing what they can. but demand grows along with the population of the camps for aid that's in limited supply income a lot on the recent clashes that occurred in curial have had a big impact on people's lives. health facilities, including key referral,

hospitals, had been destroyed or partially damaged. key water infrastructure has also been damaged. as a result displaced, people are desperately in need of water, food, shelter, and health services care agencies have scaled up efforts that say more support is needed with their livelihoods destroyed. many of the displaced will continue to stay in the camps long after the drought, and the fighting is over victoria gate and be al jazeera, habitat destruction climate change and growing pesticide use of threatening africa's bees. and according to scientists and kenya, who say that crucial role as pollinators of crops and wild plants is at risk. but there is hope africa could avoid the destruction of these seen in north america and europe. malcolm web reports from more anger in kenya. the other caught a trees on james worries, farm we're under producing by about

a fish. he says he didn't even know until he joined the research program here in kenya disorder. that's when he learned about pollination and about the crucial role of pollinating insects and become more do moving towards like having a 100 cows, but only one book. it can't handle all the skulls if you have countries, but without enough pollinators. the flaws will be there. many multiple initial will take place, so your produce will be reduced. as part of the research project, james started keeping b's on his farm. and then not visiting the cottage flowers, they're busy making honey. james cells expert said the pollination short food shows there's something wrong with keeping peace. can help scientists say that the pollination gap has been effectively closed and that the because the trees and now producing their maximum harvest,

they're right next to the beehive. researches say that the bees themselves facing some grave threats. the un program of spraying locust that is played east africa over the last 2 years, added to an already increasing use of chemical pesticides. pharma. i've used them to help me growing populations, demands of food be they're also threatened by destruction of their natural habitat to make way for farm land and growing cities, changing climate posies, new threats. the scientists working here at africa, leading insect research center say there's a lack of data compared to other continents. samples of pollen grains from b hives can help filling some of the picture as can samples of food crops. in them, they found pesticides that are banned in other continents and signs of over the years. they are also keeping in studying dozens of species of wild bees which play

a greater role in pollination, but a more vulnerable than the bees that a cap to make honey, they will let in scientists, michael latter says the destruction of bees caused by intensive agriculture in europe in the us or it could be avoided in africa to that we would be able to learn from the mistake that have been done before, and use more agro ecological approaches to sustain these ecosystem services, and to have a sustainable production and also a sustainable increase in production and i think there, there are lots of solutions. many small hold farmers are already practicing them. james is one of them. the scientist said, be keeping on a farm can offset the destruction of natural pollinators. protecting the rest of the ecosystem will take more. malcolm web al jazeera miranda can yeah. matthew niel is a professor of and tamala, g at iowa state university. he explains what they've done to avoid the destruction

of these we've been looking at this issue in iowa where many of our crops use variety of intact design, including some of the ones that are mentioned in kenya. and we're addressing this in a couple of ways. one looking at how farmers could reduce the use of insecticides that they're using in their crops, but also asking how much exposure bees are experiencing in the crops in an adjacent habitat that's designed for it to conserve them. and what we found is that there are bees that are at risk of exposure to these in fact assigned, they are showing up both in the crops, of course, and in the adjacent habitat, but where farmers are using past management strategies like integrated pest management. we're seeing reduction in that exposure and even the exposure that is there is below the concentrations that are anticipated to cause harm to the just by being small they are incredibly valuable to crop production. about

a 3rd of everything we eat is derived from insect pollinated crops, and farmers need those insects in order to set fruit and seed. and in order to provide this with those fruits and vegetables that we desire. many bees, wild native bees are in decline, and farmers are having to use domesticated honey bees as a way to fill that pollination gap. this is a common practice in the united states where beekeepers rent their hives to fruit and vegetable farmers so that they have a source of pollination. and this is again a common practice used throughout the united states. but even using honey bees is a challenge because all bees are at risk from 3 general sources of stress. pathogens like the borrower might and dry races, pesticide exposure, and then just a lack of good quality forage. or coming up in the news, al oil, false news with jama? yes, it sent me final say the fif. our question is yeah,

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the great to more than they strike is a full sent to retirement, unemotional surgeon guerra and steph curry entered the history. that is the greatest at 3 point, a shooter in n b a history a she nidia is the 1st team to reach the fif of our cup final, and they have an adoption and go to thank joanna roscoe. was that to see the late drama? i. 6 have provided many twists and turns, but not more shocking than at this game. a stadium $97.00 for which to me a, be a dick with an ultimate kick off this match. it was egypt kept in the am a as so. yeah. who made a big mistake in putting the ball into his own net that allowed to miss he had to win this match one now, and they were absolutely good at the end, as you can imagine, is the in plan sharing and the to the team, celebrating on the page but devastation for the egyptian funds who had exited. also

that team had done so well in this tournament. they hadn't lost at all, in fact, all the way up to the semi final. but it is today the a who go through now to the final on sat today. and they'll be hoping to end up $5080.00, a white the last time they wanted. our title was back in 1963. she says it will face host nation catchall, algeria, in the find with that semi getting underway in just a few minutes. and the richardson is covering that game that al, from on the stadium. well, this game is said to be another important test to both the organizes and the council national team. from an organizational perspective, we've got a full stadium for a semi fund with 2 passionate sets of supporters involved. another great chance for them to organize their match, the logistics ahead of next year's world cup and for the capital national team and other important step tools. 2022 important not playing the full algeria team that

european bass players have not been released for this tournament. so it's effectively an 18 that cats are taking on but still an important willing exercise for capital have lost that last couple of semi finals at tournaments after becoming asian champions in 2019 they last out in the last 4 of the gulf cup. and earlier this year, last out in the semi of the gold cup, the north and central american told him why they were playing his guest invitees. and that coach philip santos sang his playing like that. and also as a guest in the corporate america and in a european welcome qualifying group, that is really helped to toughen up his team. and i think we really saw that in the quarter finals where they play the united arab emirates and beat them 5. now those are 2 teams that are normally pretty evenly matched historically, but it was a notable golfing class between the 2 sides. on that occasion, sanchez says even losing tonight will not the rail all the work that him in his place put in over the last 3 or 4 years. but they will be desperate to be involved in the final on the 18th. and that is what the solomon is all about, his place to get used to playing and these relatively new wealth cup stadiums and

getting used to playing in front of an expectant home crowd. well, i'll jerry is, players might be interested in this european clubs, a threatening not really flash the africa cup of nations that would include it's primarily solved by egypt. mohammed sala, algeria, rab morris, the cup of nations is the premier events in african football and set to take off in january income marie, it's already been delayed by a year because of current of ours, but a growing concern about the only grown variance. the european compensation has been lobbying for the postponement that the tournament, and it's now written to fee for informing them they have no intention to release plants, the torment calf in fish study africa, cup of nations will go ahead of planned while we're joined by you guys and sports are list i show coma geisha, thank you for coming to our studio. said, 1st of all, is this threats? what exactly is the ca saying for the e. c, a being selfish, you know, the flares before they joined, the european clubs are african players, they,

their players from the countries that they come from. so to say that you're denying them the opportunity to present their countries is absolutely ridiculous. and i think that so many people are not impressed about the statement at this point. he would you say on to impress, you mentioned people that wouldn't be impressed. i mean, african fans and africans in general. and as a continent, you know, this is a nationalistic issue we're talking about or even being projected. and it's not just really the 1st time we saw running this global pandemic that the clubs were consigned when the players were coming back home to represent their countries in the world cup qualifiers. and it's this whole thing because coffee is everywhere. you know, everyone is trying to be safe. everyone is trying to be vaccinated at this point most of the players are anyway. and they also do p c r tests and the countries where they come from. also putting in measures to make sure that you know they're safe and they're playing under the best conditions possible. and so

a pretty big 1st week in the job for samuel essay was the, the new head of the camry preservation. anything from him at all from cath for that matter. well, to be honest to some of that, so he's still celebrating his victory as a foot president, which is a camera and football federation, but can have kind of very strong speaking to the head of media relations at caf luck september. and he was saying, this is a joke, you know, people need to respect african football and know that these players want to be with their national teams. and we saw earlier on the statement from club, the liverpool manager who called it a little tournament. so to add that to, to this if statement is i think disrespectful from european clubs and i think that a lot has to be done to make sure that you know, the tournament goes on and goes on, you know, in a good atmosphere. if i can, if i can just put you on the forehead, do you think the tournament is going to go ahead? the time it is going to go ahead. the caf 6 to jan has spent one week in cameroon,

at this point, and just to put things into context is the former director of football and for africa and the caribbean fever. so he knows exactly what he's doing. the tournament is going to take place 3 and a half weeks from now, and everything is in really come and have done, you know, the most in the last 4 years to prepare for the cup of missions to happen. and absolutely nothing was stupid. anybody briefly touched upon the fan reaction and you and your 1st to read and ask you to elaborate on that. what do you think the reaction of african football fans to this these will be? well, i mean it's under, i should say, last week i was in the car and there was all these senegalese fans who are waiting to see said your money in national teen colors and perhaps try once again to lead his country to the probations. he fell short and his teammates 2 years ago in egypt, but now there's renewed energy in senegal and also, you know, in many other countries in egypt, in june. and these are countries that football is

a religion cameron itself. we're hosting the every couple of nations for the 1st time since 1972. you get the feeling that they're waiting for this to happen. and also, you know, for camera and they hosted the chunk tournament in january of this year. and they just excited once again to see their players playing at home. we of course watch the story with interest to see how it all unfolds. i should come again. thank you so much for joining us in our cups to you and say thank you so much for having now . so out there is exclusive interview with v for president john infant tina katara will be hosting world cup this time next year. but if you forget that way than it could be one of the last to be held every 4 years in fountain, it was lobbying for it to be staged every 2 years instead. and has already won the support of the african federations. he told out there at the current system is outdated. when it was decided 100 years ago, the world cup should take place every 40 years. this was decided in a time when it took you 3 months to travel from europe to south america. is,

was decided at a time where 40 countries in the world were playing football in europe and in south america. and the rest of the wall didn't playful to day. it takes a few hours to travel from europe to south america. and you have already learned the countries who play football. so football being the global sports football, bringing chances to every 1. 1 of argentina's, greatest footballers of the mob major surgery, mcguire has announced his retirement after being diagnosed the heart condition. aguirre scored at $260.00 goes in a decade at manchester city. before moving to boston, elena, the started this season with the 33 route was taken to hospital in october, after experiencing a chest pains and breathing difficulties during a match. he announced his decision at a press conference at the new camp. steph curry has broken the all time and be recorded for 3 pointers. this was the moment during golden states when i brought

the new york knicks a that was 3 points at number 2974 for corey taken him pastor ray allen whose record is good, stood for 10 years. and reggie miller, back in 3rd base legends with that to congratulate curry. this is a special model for sure. and i appreciate know, for the rest of my life in terms of what a mass committee to, to pass a regime goes on the go to coming in to the game. so there are some special say that so for now that a quick recap of our top story. shanicea 3 to the final if the fee for our. com,

thanks foot egypt and go in the final seconds at the same final stadium. and the reason for indict most what i said 21 and 45 g m t and i went up highlights for the 2nd 7 fido between katara and algeria. but after the break we've got another news updates. mm hm. mm hm. with hebron boys breathed and fly pigeons. but in this occupied palestinian city boys are also close to watched vice really forces at times shot on and often arrested.

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22. as this tournament unfold, sorry for the coming days will play a key role. but organize is getting ready to host the middle east. the biggest ever school thing event next year. for the castle national team. it's like it used to playing in front of expect and home crowds. they'll be hoping to convince both the fan and themselves. so they really all ready to take on the world me . ready so you can report a record number of cobit cases with the government warning. the electron variant is set to drive a staggering surge. ah, i'm trying to. this is al jazeera life from london. also coming up us president joe biden visits kentucky days after tornadoes killed more than 80 people in the region

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