the 1st episode of this series exposed the imperial origins of the drug trade. commerce was good wire, empire was good for the former. so these things very much want together and opens passage from the far east to europe and the united states. guns need money, only money in these mountains is open drug trafficking, politics and power. the era of empires on al jazeera ah al jazeera, with more bodies have recovered in bangladesh after a fire and a container,

jeff owned the port city of shorter graham kills more than 40 people ah general by this. and this is all to see, relied from doha. also coming up, russia missiles had targets in cave as fighting and eastern ukraine gets more intense and is really b j. p sacks, are top official for offensive remarks against the prophet muhammad. i'm creating an opportunity out of a crisis. how young innovators in south africa are learning lessons in the coven pandemic. as the city emerge from locked down and struggles with a high unemployment rate, places like innovation, city encourages and empowers people to work together across all sectors. ah, emergency crews and bangladesh are recovering more bodies from afar. that's sewer,

container depot. at least 40 people have been killed in the southeastern town of said, a condo in the port city of shorter graham. the blaze sparked a large explosion as firefighters rushed to the scene. some of the containers were being used to store flammable chemicals. about $450.00 people have been injured many critically and the actual cause behind the incident will be revealed when it's investigated. as far as i know, the deputy commissioners office has formed the prob committee, the fire brigade must have launched a separate investigation or will do so. my fathers, audrey has more from docker lay 10 hours on the blazer is still on. not in that intensity. of course, but many of the containers have films coming out, small flames coming out of them. firefighters are worried that if there are chemicals in any of those container, that could be a clear danger to the neighborhood and the public around did the spatial unit. a barn with the military is helping the fire fighters now to salvage operation. there's lot of chemicals on the ground. the neighborhoods around that container

depot are polluted with, foul smelling air. people are saying they're having breathing problem. the hospitals are overwhelmed in chip or arm or chuck program. we call it now. many of the patient has been brought to dock on now and the government as announcing compensation package for the victims family. and as far as we know of their prob, comedy has been formed, but nothing confirmed has been reported as to what was the cause of this fire. we know that this is a private depot. what the firefighters did said that they were not warned off any chemical containers presence in that depot. and even if they where they should have kept separately, not with, along with other containers, that commodity take style and other items that typically chemical containers has to be in a guarded place. with a fire fighting acute mense near by this company did had fire fighting equipment, whether they were activated during that time is hot and all the most of the people

injured and died was due to that explosion. that is what cause most of the injuries and bad, and it is also due to this chemical field people inhale. several large farms have broken out and bangladesh and recent use was many people killed and injured. they've often been blamed on poor safety measures and a lack of regulation last year. a blaze it drinks factory outside the capital killed 52 people. many had been trapped inside in 2019 that nearly 70 people were killed in a fire in dhaka in cramped, high rise. apartments also used as chemical warehouses in 20. 12 ablaze it, a garment factor in the capital, kill the 117 people. and one of the countries worst industrial accidents, the factory supplied. western closing brands are hammered. mansell islam is the managing board member of the bangladesh, red crescent society. he explains the chaos in responding to the incident is a, i got a lot of people, but the all that was me see,

didn't know that even tell the people what is in that container. so that is a big thing. but now our symbolic get home last night. now what they did in the beginning because the people who are like injured at their time to take them to the hospital. you know what i was going to talk to the medical for the hospital, some private hospital and some of the people, even 5, we get men back there. what that they became seriously injured. some of them had their laws then and legs our volunteers as well as general people there for us, is it when that part is a small fire, it will go away and the fire we get him. but then we can fuel when it was a big explosion, it is very frustrating because our volunteer debt also i think, i guess they didn't get a situation because the owner is the bonus. if they don't give the information to the hard to get company to learn for 2nd to see who our volunteers, how do we know how far they can do it?

every time i'm checking if all my volunteers that has the, if the after the single incident, we have an investigative committee, we have some punishment going on by steve. that is a plenty to go. lot of invest is going by this is economy can go very high, but with this parallel, lee, the law in forcing agency 5, we get all this or it is not been in all of the private. yes. even some of the government facilities, several miss. all sorts of the outskirts of ukraine's capital key after weeks of relative calm. he has largely been spared from major attacks since russia refocused its military campaign on the east of the country. the bus drivers got more funky, the air and sirens here has been a constant reminder that every part of ukraine remains under threat from attacks

from russia, from the sky. so certainly there is a certain basic level of preparedness, but they've become so routine that largely people don't really rush to bomb shelters. there isn't that much of a perceived threat of attacks within the main city center. but what we seen this morning, the dramatic events that happened in the capital city in the east of the city this morning, certainly do draw a line under one simple fact that ukraine is not a country that is in command and control of the skies over its territory, and as long as that remains the case, the threat of russian attacks anywhere in the country will never be 0. what we do know is that where there were at least 2 missile strikes in the eastern side of the city, east of the new pro river that runs through the center of the capital. keep these strikes. we saw that 4 missiles hit an area in an industrial area at a rail yard. 3 others hit a tank repair facility at this rail yard. these are industrial spaces. they are

home to large manufacturing factories and large lots where there are warehouses. and what we're hearing from the ukranian government is that the misses came from. she 90 to 95 strategic bombers that were launched from the caspian sea. certainly a very high profile attack on the capital today. russia's presidents threatened to strike new targets if the west supplies ukraine with longer range missiles, lottery, put and made comments to russian state media. but he didn't specify what you targets. he was referring to last week, joe biden said he would supply keys with advanced precision rocket systems. after receiving assurances, they would not be used to strike targets inside russia. because then you will look in your book. if they supply them with this, then we'll conduct our own appropriate conclusion. use our tools which we have enough of and we will strike those targets, which we have not yet been hitting. the head of the roman catholic church has called for real negotiations and a ceasefire. to end the war in ukraine,

pope francis appealed for all parties involved not to be humanity to ruins. he made the please during his traditional people blessing overlooking saint peter's square and his ruling b. j. p. has suspended is national spokeswoman over comments about the prophet muhammad comments made by nipple sharma and a television debate sparked protests from muslim groups. the body is also expelled at the deli media operation, head naveen comma gene dahl. and the statement, the b j. p says it strongly denounces insult of any religious personalities of any religion. the part he also said it is strongly against any ideology which insults or dom means any sect or religion. sub uh, nothing as a journalist based in new delhi. and she says, this incident is bringing more regional attention to the issue of hate speech in india. the bgp has benefited a lot from mobilization against muslims. but in this instance,

there has been an international law rights to pay out. so in the gulf region on middle east countries have now this issue has now come to their notice. so it's, it's outrageous. so o, 2 days before this has happened to day when no border and another be functionally have been put on suspension. and they will no longer be day or 2 days before this happened, the sort of ideological head of the, of the b g, b, which his daughter says she did say we respect or religion. oh, it is. it is a matter of testing the waters. how far can we go with the anti muslim rhetoric without having a blowback? many of them loyal, is this a bordeaux dead in goes actually are very happy to abuse muslims. and in this case they went on to the prophet. 1 this is the rhetoric that they support. i think

it's had a good snowballing effect. i think something like the cotton is free stumbling. it's good because this is nothing short of it speech. india has one of the was largest muslim populations. so it has come to the notice of the boy that this is happening, and i think it will be harder for the official at least you cannot say on this eventually. even if you are mobilizing against muslim south korea's military says north korea has fight at least 8 short range ballistic missiles off its eastern coast. but believe to have landed outside japan's exclusive economic zone. launch is the 18th by pyongyang, this year. japan's prime minister says the miss all tests can't be tolerated. so she doesn't work. what does the height did better? since entering this year, north korea has repeatedly launched ballistic missiles, including the new icbm,

a series of north korean actions threatened the peace and stability of the region and the international community, and cannot be forgiven by any means. the launch is disc listing. miss all is also a violation of international law and i strongly condemn it. we have already made a strict protest against north korea. we had all the launch comes a day off to south korea and the u. s. held a joint naval exercise in international waters off the japanese either to walk in norway, military officials say the 3 day drill was meant to boost their readiness for what they called north korean provocation. australia's prime minister says a dangerous maneuver by a chinese fighter jet, put an australian air force plane at risk in the south china sea. anthony albany says his government is raising its concerns with beijing. i can confirm that on the 26 of may i, rec, p, i maritime surveillance aircraft was intercepted by chinese j. 165 aircraft during what was a routine maritime surveillance activity in international air spice. in the south

china sea region, the intercept resulted in a dangerous maneuver which did pause the safety threat to the p 8 aircraft and it crew. the strategy in government has raised at concerns about the incident. still had an al jazeera, 11000 kilometers from chief, while the world's biggest exports of a grain is under threats from the war in ukraine and cleaning up everest. we're going to tell you about our campaign to improve conditions of the world's highest mountain. ah ah hello there, it's all about the heat across northern areas of south asia in particular for northern areas of india, places like new delhi, sing hot and dry conditions,

dangerous heat here and it is going to continue as we go into the new weak temperatures, edging up into the early forty's, across northern areas, but for pakistan you can see the whole coming in 46 degrees. it's going to be on the up this week. lots of hot and dry conditions with just a light wind. but some relief we have to head further south, we got the southwest monsoon, bringing some heavy arrange the likes of carola as well as sri lanka, some heavier thunderstorms popping off around go and for the north east. once again, we will see some thunderstorms rumble there, but much of the wet weather is going to be concentrated around the bay of bang goal . now as we move to east asia, it's looking wet, wet, wet as well. it was much of the korean peninsula on southern areas of japan, we could see up to $200.00 millimeters of rainfall here. and of course that brings a risk of flash flooding. you can see it working in western areas of han shoe. the temperature will recover. however, in tokyo picking up, but for places like beijing we are going to see things cool down. it's

a similar story for shanghai, for hong kong, thunderstorms and humidity on choose day that to whether, ah, how do states control information? there's no can go if you try to search to work gentlemen, you find it is fine to me who how does the narrative it public opinion, the headlines guide and that allowed the children to continue to die to how is citizens? good, listen, we framing the story. i'm here to document the war crimes for muted by with his resume, the listening post dissects the media. on out, is there lou?

ah, watching or is it a reminder of our top stories? this are at least 40 people have been killed and 450 injured and a large, far in bangladesh. blaze broke out as a container. storage facility for flammable chemicals were reported to be in camps . and he has really b, j. p has suspended it's national spokeswoman over comments about the prophet muhammad, the for sharma may be allegedly derogatory comments and a television debate is sparked process for most of the groups. several missiles starts up at the outskirts of ukraine's capital keith injured, at least one person. cities being spared major strikes for several weeks after russia refocused. it's offensive to the east of the country. farmers in brazil are complaining about a spike. and fertilizer price is caused by the war in ukraine, with about 30 percent of the supplies imported from russia and bellows. farmers of

feeling the effects of a war, thousands of kilometers away. monica, you're not getting reports from prison, topple us in brazil. farmers in southern brazil are feeling the economic branch of the warn ukraine. 3 months after russia's invasion. they're still able to secure fertilizers for their crops, but a very high prices or, but as you said, daughter know brazil is the world's largest soil producer, big good. and it's the only international giant green producer that is almost totally dependent on imported fertilizers, 86 percent of what the country needs comes from abroad. and much of it to you from russia and bella russo, despite international sanctions against moscow, russian ships are still being able to dock a brazilian poorer such a gumble. this is not enough for market as big as brazil's, the war has complicated the logistics of importing products from that part of the world, generating insecurity among investors. that's why fertilizer prices have skyrocketed

. last year, each of these bags, with one ton of fertilizer, used to cost $600.00. now farmers are paying twice as much for the same amount. brazil's president able so maddow visited moscow shortly before vladimir putin ordered his troops to invade ukraine. you. he said latin america's largest economy would be neutral in the war because the business with russia is fundamental. fertilizers are sacred for you also not as stanley as the support of brazil's powerful agricultural lobby. even here include them, thought bodies were 75 percent of the population is of ukrainian descent and he's running for reelection in october. the clerical mac is from what's happening in the greenest, terrible book. brazil has to think about itself. you cannot get involved because 30 percent of the fertilizers report come from russia and bella rose,

which kind of thing from brazil has announced a 3 decade plan to reduce the countries dependence on imported fertilizers. but experts say it could also take decades before there are any results. meanwhile, farmers in brazil are hoping for the war to wend. monica and i give al jazeera but then thought body's brazil, hundreds of israeli settlers stand. they are like some moss compound at dawn under the protection of his really forces encouraging lead to confrontations with palestinian worshippers. it follows violence last week. doing is really flag marches in the muslim quarter of occupied is to rosalyn. i'll just say the media network continues to demand a rapid, independent, and transparent investigation into the kilo as journalist in the occupied west bank shilling. a barclay was shot in the head by his weary forces while she was on assignment. and janine, on the day of a funeral is really forces storm the procession and started beating mourners, causing pall bearers. thomas drop her casket that didn't stop thousands of

palestinians from marching through occupied east jerusalem to take part in her funeral and burial. members of the international community have condemned her killing and continue to call for an investigation. a barclay was without a 0 for 25 years, covering the story of the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. lebanon has warned israel against any aggressive action in disputed waters were. both states hoped to develop off shore energy. thus, after a ship arrived off the coast to produce gas for israel. lebanon's president michel own said any activity would amount to an act of aggression and a provocation. israel says the field in question is within its exclusive economic zone, not in disputed waters. china has launched 3 astronauts into space on board. the shen su, 14 spacecraft, the crews going to spend 6 months completing the construction of the chunk gong space station banker got our reports. ah,

3 tag knots, a chinese astronauts carrying their nations pride and the emission of making china the world news space superpower. so the blasted off from the church one satellite long center on the edge of the colby desert. oh, and in 15 minutes reached lower earth orbit. the launch was broadcast live wednesday television. a sign of china's growing confidence in its technological might ongoing a long march to f, y 14 carrier rocket has actually said the shenzi, 14 branch space grove to the designated orbit, the solar panels of stretch and operated normally. no, i announce the sions zoom, fortune, man, spacecraft launch mission a success. the mission is full of symbolism. the 3 are part of china. second generation of astronauts you young is among them. she was the 1st chinese woman in

space and is now making her return after 10 years since. oh, it gives me great pleasure to be able to grow up in this era to integrate my personal dream with the interests of the whole country and to be entrusted to complete the country's fast mand manual rendezvous and docking mission was the shin . so 14 spacecraft was assigned keeping temperature, oxygen levels, humidity, and comfort in mind. with advances in it's talking system will tell her over the year during previous rendezvous in docking the orbit control strategies were all decided and implemented by ground teams in the current fast automated rendezvous docking all the orbit. control strategies are generated from calculations by the spacecraft and then independently implemented by the spatial in 2003, china became the 3rd country to launch a man spacecraft into the earth's orbit. 42 years after the former soviet union

send the 1st human into space. but since 2016 under president, she's in pain missions to the moon and mars have accelerated precedence. she says, turning china into a space, superpower is a critical national priority. as space exploration becomes the new battle ground for chinese competition and influence. back up there, i'll dizzier journalist lee, one right covers the space industry and he says china's pushing hard to establish himself as a space power. i think now the prospect of a chinese woman are man on the surface of the moon. within the next 10 years is very real indeed, and they declare that that is their ultimate objective, the speed with which they are building this stage is really extraordinary. and there is nothing comparable in the history of space life. and this must cause

particular concern for the russians, because we're now at the point where the chinese appeared to be overtaking the russians as, as, as a big space our and that will cause enormous consternation in moscow. the russians made absolutely clear and publicly that they were looking to the chinese, potentially as their new partners in space after the invasion of ukraine, when all their western parker's pulled back decisively. now we see the chinese play and very, very cautiously, the idea now the china and russia will collaborate on a movie base, is beginning to look a little bit less certain because china is being very, very careful how it goes. russia in the weight of the ukraine invasion, politicians in the u. s. territory. puerto rico have held our public hearing to

decide the future of their political status. legislators proposing 3 options, stated independence or free association. puerto ricans are us citizens, but are not allowed to vote in presidential elections, and also denies. second, federal benefits and other shootings been reported in the u. s. these are 3 people have been killed and nearly a dozen injured. it happened in one of the most popular shopping and entertainment areas in east coast. city of philadelphia, officials have several called active shooters were at the scene. no one's been arrested so far. venture capital funding in africa has grown dramatically over the last decade. and yet many fail to see the power and the potential that exists on the continent, especially when it comes to innovation. still more ports kept on know the south african silicon valley. cape town has long attracted foreigners with its pristine beaches lay back lifestyle and vibrant culture. but

a tech helps them merge and the cost of living there is a crucial need to equip the cities youth with the tool necessary to try this newly established hob called innovation city. 6 to accelerate growth among start up by bringing young entrepreneurs of various business interests. under the thing group, we will try to figure things out. it's founder quino. chemist said it wouldn't have been as successful pre pandemic in a lot of ways covered has been one of the best teachers we could have ever had. never before. has the world collaborated the way it has to lift us out of this pandemic? and it's no different with business. we've got some critical issues that we need to sort out, especially on the african continent. and we can only do that through collaboration . the north can foundation recently launched a $200000000.00 growth dedicated to innovative african stone up that focus on making a positive impact on the other b. c. or following soon,

as the city emerges from lockdown and struggled with a high unemployment rate, places like innovation, city encourages empowers people to work together across all sectors lena, to greater job creation within the continent. venture capital funding in africa had an all time high last year, meeting more than $5000000000.00. but some say the success of a startup depends largely on the one calling the shots. leadership is a fundamental issue, because we've seen the converse of that. we've seen what happens on this continent when you put dictators people who don't allow for democratic processes to work or for inter printers to thrive. so leaders need to, in some ways, care the path so that successful and talented people can thrive through that. leaders like napoleon, the thing that were moved to see how the pandemic impacted the lives of those around him. he quickly realized what was needed most beyond a handout was the empowerment of a community. and so the next chapter was born and event petering renown guest

speakers to quit young creatives, but the business sacrament over come similar challenges. the benefit of investing in africa and it's idea, napoleon says resonates beyond borders. africa's got something unique to offer to the world. we refer to ourselves as a global citizens because through technology, through the internet, we are now part of a global community. we want to take that even further when a creed, more jobs, more platforms, walbert unities and want to be part of the global conversation. a conversation impacting life from the african continent and the way those on the outside pruitt roof out of the rack take down the ball is marking world and vitamin day by campaigning to clean up the himalayas. napoleon melody has been leading community efforts to improve conditions on the world's highest mountain. people have been

clearing robbers from mount everest and other peaks for at least 2 months. the campaign team says is collected more than 30 tons of waste. i'm yet alone who has more from cup under climate scientists have been saying that as small fossil fuels are bond globally, the planet is i heating up. this means that the himalayas are losing their reflectivity as black carbon pollution. particulates are been deposited on the mountains, which means the snow and ice is melting much faster. this in turn is triggering devastating floods, flood down stream, impacting, impacting lives, agriculture, infrastructure, and fresh thought is of water. now we're not just talking about nepalese living at the foothills of the mountains, but about 750000000 south asians in this region. of course, napoleon south asia alone cannot deal with this issue and it requires global commitment and co operation. ah, to address this global challenge or from what we understand the waste that's been

collected at in the fall mountains and at their base camps are sorted into decompose zable waste like food and paper and non decompose, we'll wait like oxygen cylinders, old tens are tin cans and batteries on the local authorities are, will deal with the decompose the ble waste in their specific localities. while the non decompose zable waste is being transported to cut men due to management, to waste management centers for recycling. ah, and to be re used. no volcanoes interrupted in eastern philippines, covering turns with heavy clods of ash. the blast from the bullish on volcano lasted about 17 minutes. it was caused by boiling water under the crater evacuations or underway. no injuries had been recorded. ah.