money goes on al jazeera, what we do, and i'll just, sarah, is tried to balance this story and he's the people who allow us into their lives, dignity, and humanity. ah, the u as says iep killed the later of i. so i will abraham elcuro, she in a ride in northwestern syria. this operation is trust me, was merc is rich cradle going to take out terrorist threats, no matter where they try to hard anywhere in the world. ah, hello, i'm emily anglin. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up turkish president, rage of type odo on holds,

talks in ukraine. it's the latest diplomatic effort to come tensions with russia. west african laid as a worn cruise are becoming contagious, as they hold an emergency summit on the military takeover in burkina, faso. and course in the crossfire in columbia, fighting between rebel groups intensifies sparking a spank of kidnapping and killing. ah, you as president joe biden says, the leader of iso is dead to following a large scale counter terrorism operation in syria bite and said abu abraham l. hi, shameed elcuro. she blew himself up in a cowardly act. at least 13 people, including 6 children, are reported to have been killed during the range by us special forces. it happened in the town of atman in italy, province. he will say they heard shelling and gun fired during

a 2 hour battle. it was the largest to us raid in italy, province since an attack back in 2019 that killed the previous leader of i. so the driving force behind the genocide of the city, people in north western iraq in 2014. we all remember the gut wrenching stories mass slaughters that wiped out entire villages. thousands of women and young girls sold into slavery, rape uses a weapon of war. thanks to the brave our troops. this horrible terrorist leader is no more. as our troops approached to capture the terrorist in a final act of desperate cowardice, he with no regard to the lives of his own family or others in the building, he chose to blow himself up nicely to the vest. but the blow up the 3rd floor. rather than face justice for the crime, she has committed taking several members of his family with him just as his predecessor did. let's bring in our white house correspondent,

kimberly how can kimberly, we heard from boston and he certainly wasn't missing words. right. so kimberly, what you make of what by and said about this attack and particularly mentioning that civilian casualties were the focus in terms of making sure that they weren't as many civilian civilian casualties. well, the u. s. president certainly had been under criticism for the casualties given the fact that we have learned that they are children. and so as a result, we did notice that the president delayed his address to the nation by about one hour, given the fact that there was this push back, one could assume that there may have been some discussion with his communications

team to craft the message and get a better sort of clarity in understanding of what happened on the battlefield so that, that could be explained to the american people. we now understand that what did happen and how this played out is that as the special forces were moving in, we understand that the ice, a leader detonated a suicide vast as well. there was an effort to evacuate some of the members of the house. apparently the immediate family members, according to the military, were used as human shields, and were also taken out in that suicide vest detonation. so this is the explanation from the u. s. military. we know though, that often on the ground you get a different account regardless what we know is that the planning for this attack or execution of this operation, if you will, was about 4 weeks in the making the u. s. president,

a had personally ordered this. we also know that he watched this being executed from the situation room out of the white house and as well, we can tell you that this is something that said the president over saw with his vice president national security team. and so this is something the president we spoke about from the city, the white house, but certainly this is something that ah, the president had certainly ordered the military to execute and it was completed. indeed, thank you very much for that update. kimberly how can live for us from the white house. ok, moving on now in, in the lightest diplomatic effort to ease fees of a rush, an invasion of ukraine turkeys president is in kia for talks with president for letting me celine scheme. turkey has a good relations with both countries and hopes to act as

a mediator. moscow has condemned to u. s. decision to send more troops to eastern europe, and nato says the kremlin moved $30000.00 troops and weapons to bowers. i have the last few days harder abdel hum, it has more from care. i think it's a, it's a relation to that is improving by the day in these economic does. a very important for both countries and in turkey has always said that it, the territorial integrity of ukraine must be respected in the past president air to one has also said that it would be very unwise of russian president vladimir putin to have a military escalation or indeed to invade ukraine. so turkey was very clear on his position or all along. and actually, i think there was a very symbolic imagery when he arrived at the presidential palace earlier today. he was received and read pomp and that the turkish president stopped looked at the

parade there and said, slab o gray, you know, which means glory ger crane. i think that says a very strong message on where he stands when it comes to this crisis. the problem is he is a native member of the suit employed. he is also there difficult position because he does enjoy job. he does enjoy a good relations with russia even though they don't agree on certain files. for example, on syria and olivia, but jerky would like to keep that relationship while going ahead with his relationship or with you great and being. and they to member the 2nd largest army of neighbors as it certainly a very important position there. the president of gunner is warning the series of race and crews, and other countries in west africa could be contagious, and must be contained not a qu, add ho, hosted an emergency summit of eco was latest in the capitol acro,

the regional zation discussed a range of sanctions to punish soldiers who deposed became a fossil government last week in the 3rd country in the 15 nation blog to have a military takeover in the past 18 months. an interest is following developments for macro. the options before these lead days, ace, to see how they could see from the funds. i guess this, i guess the cool part is and what stuff like that. however, we've seen over the past one and a half years, how the money and readers or the money inventory rulers call the block of west africa needed and continue or caution out there in transition program. supposed to be removed, jettisoning or setting aside the suggestions meant by a course. now, some analysts security analyst and political analysts are wondering if the next approach to dealing with a problem in west africa is the deployment of security forces. also,

just to deal with our partners in the region, however, there is no much appetite to do with that at the moment. if you look at the continent or the sub sub region, if you look at the problems happening in those countries, many countries are having to deal with their own internal problems. nigeria, the biggest contributor to any west african military deployment, is having its own problems. dealing with book, dealing with iceland, dealing with vendor tree kidnappings. taking hostages for run some in the region. you're talking about a thing about value, which is having its own security problems. you're talking about booking a fossil. you're talking about several countries including charge which is also just a butter radio, buckle hardened in, dealing with crisis like this in west africa. bomb explosions in kidnappings, in colombia during the past month of killed, at least 50 people. rebel group, baffling for control of cocaine smuggling in the oil. which region of around come

as alexander ramp. yet he reports the attacks. a terrifying communities. workers are busy reconstructing the actor martinez building in the center of the vienna. last month, a car bomb exploded, destroying much of this flock. the students, a former fight grab both are being blamed for the attack, which killed one person, the buildings house, human rights group, social organizations, and unions lay nomic us if we were holding a security meeting because of the way the conflict with evolving with direct attacks against social organizations and community leaders got that out the far distance or accusing us of sympathizing with the n. and that's how they justified attacking us. ok, an oil rich region on the border with venezuela has been mostly com since the signing of a piece deal between the government inside rebels in 2016. but violence returned as far as dissident groups began to fight

e l. n. rebels for control of drug trafficking in contraband routes. since the beginning of the year, more than 60 people have been killed. others kidnapped or forcibly displaced. at that time though, they've got the sister of security guard see me on that. got killed in the explosion, says locals are terrified when this war is sad and my brother is just one of many victims. everybody's anxious because we don't know what will happen tomorrow at the moment. even on a quiet day, people can sleep, can't rest. well, they fear leaving the house. yes, everything has been affected. i normally at 6 30 pm, the streets of the center of san may and i would be alive with people shopping. but since the conflict started, shops are closing early and people are hurrying home, fearing another possible attack. and on top of that, the mayor has imposed a curfew every night, starting at 9 pm. the government has increased its military presence. the area

under the violins has pushed more than a dozen health workers to quit after hospitals were also threatened by the groups. hey, catholic priest, albert, he'd elders holding healing sessions to help workers deal with trauma. lisa, he says part of the problem is that the military is mainly protecting the oil infrastructure in the region long neglected by the government, as always thought equal. it's a problem that goes back in history. the government has always prioritized, protecting military infrastructure. instead of the people, the church has asked the president to re open the door to appease dialogue with the yellow divorce. supposed to be a meeting in stockholm, the government didn't go. we're also trying to talk to then dissidence, but to we are on our own for hundreds of left others like sonya lopez promised to rebuild and continue their work for the people, even if it might cost them their life. allison that i'm p a t al jessia sort of in

her person. still a hair done al jazeera shockwave throughout the met and verse, and share as the share price of facebook's parent company falls by 25 percent. and will tell you why india is sending only one athlete to the winter olympics despite being home to some of the world's largest skincare. ah, let's go with your weather report for the middle east and africa. hello everyone. great to see you. we have some disturbed weather across still events. we'll touch on that in itself. but look at this southerly push of air. re add may hit 30 degrees on friday. let's go in for a closer look because it's not just react through the golf though. 125. look at you wait 27 degrees. could see some sand in dust stirred up. i think it's going to stay dry here. most of that energy will be across western areas of iran,

high temperatures for southern buckets, don grouchy, $31.00 degrees that rain peters out across the northeast, the pockets done so those temperatures will come up. ok, here we go to the levant right now, and some thunder downpours could be expected. here it's kick down those temperatures. ramallah just the high of 9 degrees flooding a possibility for south africa. we're talking pretty much durban rate in 2 port elizabeth. we've got an incoming tropical storm 1st. i want to show you what it did to maricia is. it's our top wind speeds of about a 155 kilometers per hour, so that down trees more than $200.00 millimeters of rain. and by saturday it's looking like it's going to make landfall long that east coast of madagascar. and that's going to generate some severe flooding in the days to come. ok, that's it for me. we'll see you soon. take care. the frank assessments for china will benefit from their corporate strategy if the rest of

world to get informed opinions at all costs market on needs. enough products from critical debate wide report claims that need to come and interest, then she'll threat to rush up, but it's precisely, he's actually that created the insecurity in the region in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera lou. ah hello, you're watching al jazeera, i'm emily anglin, a reminder of our top stories this our, you as president joe biden says, the leader of iso is dead following

a raid in northern syria. special forces conducted the operation in italy province . biden said, the leader blew himself up in an act of desperate cowardice. at least 30 people, including children, died in the attack. turkeys president is in here for talks with president for a lot of me zalinski. it's the latest diplomatic effort to ease fees of a russian invasion of ukraine. moscow's condemned us decision to send more troops to eastern europe. and west african leaders are holding an emergency. summer shaft and military leaders toppled became a facet government last week. the eco was chairman, says the number of crews in the region is becoming contagious and must be contained . facebook's parent company is suffering one of the biggest ever stock market. why pounds matters. share value fell at 24 percent in early trading on wall street . that plunge followed losses on wednesday, which wiped milling $200000000000.00 off facebook's value. other social media

companies such as twitter and pinterest are suffering losses to for more on this story. let's bring in at christian salumi whose life for us in new york. hello there, christian, why a facebook own shares in free fall? yeah, well, to be clear, the company's still made $39000000000.00 in profits last year, but the share prices have been falling dramatically. they're down some 25 percent. that's the biggest one day drop for facebook in its history. and it seems to be because quarterly earnings were below expectations for one thing. and predictions for the current quarter are also being downgraded as well, so the profits are suffering. this is in part due to changes to apples privacy policy is, believe it or not, less sharing of user data by apple is having an impact on facebook's ad revenue.

this is an area where they've been very strong and for investors in the past. we also have the fact that tick tock, competitor media, social media platform, has been growing in popularity while facebook, many are speculating, has hit a ceiling in terms of its potential growth. so all of that seems to be having an impact on what has been a huge performer in the market until now. what impact? because he's had on the share market overall. kristin? well, we're seeing the tech heavy nasdaq stock market index trading lower today. it's down about 2.7 percent, which is after it was starting to have a bit of a come back. tech stocks were rallying this week after having a rough start to the year. there was great earnings reports coming from microsoft google alphabet that had all seemed to be going in the right direction and

encouraging investors come back into these tech stocks. but facebook really seems to have shaken confidence in the future of some of these tech giants that are, we're always considered a no brainer winners. no matter what. and that just seems to be weighing on the tech markets today as well. as you mentioned earlier, twitter is down spotify, it is down and other streaming service as well. so it does seem to be having an impact shaking investors competence if you will in the tech world. appreciate that update. thank you very much. kristen salome live for us in new york. so in the u. s . in california had its gold rush almost 200 years ago. now that is on for lithium, the highly prize metal is a key component of batteries to power electric vehicles in the drive to combat global warming. let's go live and to rob renounces in the sultan, seen southern california holiday rather looks beautiful way you are. what's

prompted the increase in the popularity and lithium? well, you know, this area, emily of this body of water, situated in the middle of an arid, windswept desert. it was once touted as a playground for the american middle class, with fishing and boating and all sorts of water sports. but that dream died long ago as the salton sea became increasingly polluted. the fish died, the resort communities along the shoreline withered. but now there's a new dream of bringing prosperity to this impoverished region and helping to fight global warming california's salt and see shimmers like a mirage in an arid land. but its waters are nearly lifeless, full of salt and agricultural chemical run off the farm and communities near the

sea are among the poorest in the us with high unemployment and nearly one and 4 people living in poverty. frank salazar is a local resident and activist. what we lack is opportunity. you know, i think opportunity is what we need here in this, in this county. the salt and see is shrinking as streams are diverted to farming on windy days, toxic dust from the dry lake shore fowls, the air. we look at the asthma levels of our local children. when you look at the cancer levels of our local residence there through the roof, but far below the seas, flor lies a vast reservoir of super heated water rich in la c. m. the element used to create batteries for electric vehicles and a key to slowing global warming. we have what some of described as a saudi arabia of lithium here in the state of california. the stakes are high, not only for the regions, future prosperity, but for us national security. the u. s. wants

a domestic supply of lithium today. more than 80 percent of all, lithium is mind in australia, chile, and china. but the salt and seas, treasure trove of the mineral, could change those numbers dramatically. we expect to produce a 3rd level in from this site. it's incredible. resource companies are already drilling what you say in the background. there are 2 production wells full diameter wells that will produce enormous amounts abroad to fade the plant that which will be located. he state and local officials envision a lithium based industrial complex with battery factories, an electric car manufacturing well paint job with benefits that currently are in here in imperial county. i salivate when i think about it 510 years down the road. how big it can be? conservationists like eileen anderson, approve of the environmentally friendly extraction process, powered by geothermal energy. they hope lithium projects will generate funds to

restore the salt and see which is a crucial stop over point for migrating birds. and she's looking at the big picture and for going to transition to clean energy and get off our fossil fuel induction. the fans going in being keen proponent hope for a region down on its luck. and a planet heating up by and the estimates are that lithium extraction will begin in earnest over the next couple of years. and when it reaches its peak, according to the u. s. department of energy in this area could produce $600000.00 tons of lithium per year. that's an awful lot of batteries, lithium ion batteries for clean energy cars. and thank you very much for the update ro reynolds love for us in california. britain's prime minister is fighting

for his job as more and pays from his body submit letters of no confidence in his ladyship. 54 conservative m pays and needed to trigger the vice boris johnson's resisting and chorus of coal for his resignation. after an internal inquiry criticize his serious values of leadership and police are investigating 12 parties seem whose home, while the rest of the country were under locked down, restrictions during the hall has more on the story from london, where the prime minister is continuing to go about his usual duties, including visiting ukraine this week, despite the pressure to quit. he certainly not out of the woods by any manner of means old though the sort of intensity of the recent weeks of this crisis has subsided somewhat. that's because of an ongoing police investigation. now that could take weeks or months to complete, but of course, this is still a party that he's troubled by what is what it heard, what has happened that he's asking itself very serious questions about whether mr.

johnson is the man they want to lead it. and to leave the country specifically to lead the party into the next election, or whether they want to see a change of leadership at the top. and that's why you're still seeing these trickles of letters going into the bodies. 1922 committee on wednesday. that brings i think, the tally a to 13 publicly, who've done so unknown. the number of m. p. 's who may have sent letters in privately. that of course, makes it quite difficult for the government, for downing street to, to fight. it's really a god action that it has been doing in recent weeks trying to sort of isolate and confront these disaffected groups of empties and tried to win them around. a mudslide in ecuador, his capital, has killed at least 24 people and injured many others. following the heaviest rain in quito for almost 20 years. city late as a being accused of ignoring warning signs of potential disaster. victoria gave him beat reports in

a poor neighbourhood in the ecuadorian capital quito rescue workers search for bodies in the mod. 17 hours of continuous, torrential rain, overwhelmed in a by reservoir monday, sending a wall of water mud and rocks through this residential area. france hernandez is a migrant from venezuela who works in quito for zillow. he was badly injured and his home was destroyed and come home. yeah, for some wireless oliver's. we were so scared we were in the living room and we tried to leave the house. but it was too late, the waiver flood, or to burst through the front door. it was so powerful and broken, doing too. oh my god, this footage was filmed by women living there. it shows a kilometer long deluge of muddy water sweeping down the street. dozens of people were killed and injured. authorities say the area is still unsafe. oh jeez, you must go to them about this woody lou. many things can still happen at the top

side of the mountain launch. lights can still happen. we're continuing to monitor the situation with drones to provide residents with a sense of safety and congress. the man has set up shelters for families, forced to leave their homes, but many say the disaster could have been prevented if the ravines bordering that neighbourhood had been properly maintained. this is not new. it has been going on for a long time. you sent many letters to the municipality, warning them about the danger of the ravine. this tragedy was anticipated. many say they feared they wouldn't survive the mud slide. now those with the least will have to rebuild what little they had to stall with victoria gay to be al jazeera. a coal mine collapse in northern afghanistan has killed at least 10 workers. rescue is managed to save 3 others trapped underground in baghlan province. safety concerns have increased along with mining accidents, often in remote areas and operated illegally. friday will say the

opening ceremony of the badging winter olympics, but only one athlete from a neighboring india is competing for a meadow. athletes complain of little government support for winter sports and few financial incentives to go for gold. penny mitchell has more from the dining, nestled in the himalayas in indian administered kashmir. the town of good mart is one of a chas highest and largest key resorts. he brought, it's also way out of con, 1st took up his key pulls and now he's competing into slalom events at the olympics in beijing committee, skiing queue training. i was trained by my father for the 1st 8 years. he taught me the basics, the state and national level champions also trained here in good mug. they inspired me by and i also learned by watching daniel eventually i started training in europe and other countries. those experiences were great for exposure and skill development. dick america could have, did it in india,

has sent only 15 olympians in the history of the winter games and has never won a metro con is the only entrance with yeah, many of those came to compete said as little money and no internationally recognized federation to support athletes. constraining was funded by his father who runs his key shop. his family and friends also supported him. perhaps the night is a national level nor border who once dreamed of competing at the olympics, due to no support from government and from the private please. i couldn't make it in reality, and i think the stream is going to die in goldberg only. ah, as far as the infrastructure is concerned, we snowboard here on a very, very basic infrastructure. we don't have any slopes for snow borders, no lift for snowboard. over the last few years, hundreds of enthusiasts have attended training camps and competition sponsored by the government. but the local sporting body said more needs to be done to spot and

support putting talent might be on other countries or winning metals. so why not india? kashmir has the best assets in terms of snow. we have slopes and new equipment. we request the ministry to conduct international level tournaments and coaching comes to boost our youth. there is no darth of talent here. we will have more r e cons con. hope to break into the was top 30 at the game. his greater goal is to inspire more people to take up the fort. but no said getting the support that's needed will be an up his dos. bob, you middle al jazeera new delhi. ah . hello, what's going on here? these are the top stories, this l m u s. president joe biden says the leader of isolates did following a right in northern syria. special forces conducted the operation enabling province by the said, the late a blew himself up. at least 13 people,

including children were killed in the attack. the driving force behind the genocide of the city people.