the mastery case on al jazeera o episode of this series exposed the imperial origins of the drug trade. commerce was good wire, empire was good for the former. so these thanks very much want to go and opens passage from the far east to europe and the united states. the guns need money, only money in these mountains is open drug trafficking, politics and power. the era of empires on al jazeera ah britton's prime minister barak johnston survives a major leadership test, but move forward with a we can group on his own party. ah,

hello, i'm diamond jordan. this is al jazeera live from dell, also coming up the you and warns of a human trafficking crisis targeting women and children fleeing the war in ukraine . leaders at the summit of the americas looked to address migration along the u. s . border. but mexico's president boycott to the event. and putting 10000000 students to the test, china's university entrance exams begin under the shadow of coven 90. ah. or as john smith held on as butcher's prime minister, after surviving a confidence vote spot by members of his own party, he says the outcome was a convincing and decisive result. but the scale of the rebellion has waste questions about his future at westminster. 211 conservative m. p 's voted in johnson's favor and a 148 against that means 40 percent of his colleagues refused to back the prime

minister all but in reports from london. a victory for the prime minister, but far from convincingly the vote in favor of having confidence embarrass johnson to say it was 211 folks and a vote against was a 148 votes. and therefore, i can announce the parliamentary party does have a raucous reaction from boris johnson supported with no disguising the enormity of the 148 m. p. 's who voted against their own leader. so convincing result, a decisive result. what it, what it means is that as a, as a government, we can move on and focus on the stuff i think really matters to people mrs. picket recently feverish speculation about policy, johnson's political future had been relegated somewhat by last week's 4 day

national holiday in honor of the queen's batman jubilee. the public brewing, which greeted the prime minister at friday service of thanksgiving for the queen was an ominous indicator. ah, a random sample of london commuters confirms a certain degree of public disillusionment. several hours. so tele actually that he got bold. that was almost like africa turning point. despite securing a solid atc majority in the general election just 2 and a half years ago for his johnson has enjoyed months of controversy and criticism which have steadily undermined his authority chief among them the party gates saga, where johnson and many of his staff were found to have flouted cove, it locked down rules at downing street gatherings. johnson became the 1st p. m. judge to have broken the law while in office deficient inquiry into those events, criticized a lack of leadership. the british public are fed up set up with

a prime minister who promises big, but never delivers. fed up with a prime minister who's presided over a culture of lies and lawbreaking. the heart of government fed up with a prime minister, who is utterly unfit for the great office that he holds, its victory for boris johnson, but hardly a ringing endorsement of him and his leadership. one commentator on monday said johnson's appeal within the party was a mile wide, but just an inch deep. and so it seems. johnson himself will undoubtedly battle on fighting tooth and nail to retain his grip on power. but his options are rapidly dwindling. the current rules mean it will be at least 12 months before a new confidence vote can be caught. the questions about the prime minister's judgement and credibility remain and precedent shows that surviving a confidence vote often represents only a stay of execution for tory leaders. rather than a full reprieve, pull brennan,

al jazeera westminster. what donna hall outside the houses of parliament looks at what lies ahead. while convincing decisive the words used by boris johnson but make no mistake, this was no comfortable wind for the prime minister. he's lost an enormous chunk of his own party. in fact, a larger chunk than teresa made his previous s a last in 2018 in similar circumstances. and within 8 months, she was gone. opposition party leaders, of course, circling, talking about his reputation in tatters. he's or 30 shots, but the real question is, what will those rebels do next? 148 of them to they simply fall in behind the prime minister now or will they continue to look for other ways to frustrate his premiership. perhaps standing in the way of government policy or coalescing around a favored candidate to replace him in order to pressure him to quit. the problem is there is no stand out favored candidate. and so the prospect looms of

a government in dysfunction of a number, 10 downing street machine dedicated less to the welfare and benefit of the country . and to simply keeping boris johnson in power. the human trafficking crisis is unfolding in ukraine, according to the united nations, which says, perpetrators are taking advantage of the war. the security council was given a start picture by the us special envoy for sexual violence in complex 4. put it is, and human traffic goes. what is known a tragedy in which energy, women, and children fleeing the content being targeted for trafficking and exploitation, in some cases facing further exposure to rain. but the risk while seeking refuge. there been multiple reports from survivors of rushes. soldiers breaking down doors to basements, where women were sheltering and raping them. these terrible acts were done in front

of their children. and they were filmed by the russian soldiers. these are bone chilling accounts. it was crucial to ratchet and up off accusations off russian service personnel, committing crimes of his sexual nature. since the very beginning of our special military operation in ukraine has become a favorite tactic of the key regime in our western colleagues. wilkerson salumi reporting from the un says it's mainly impossible to determine how bad things really all they're worried that the actual number of women and children who've been sexually assaulted is much higher than the 124 cases that they have documented so far. given that 90 percent of refugees leaving ukraine are women and children, there's also grave concern that they're subject to human trafficking and sexual

predators. course the outpouring of support for these refugees from european countries has been greatly appreciated. but the special representative, worried that predators were taking advantage of the situation and shared some disturbing stories of questionable people who had been circulating around these camps, offering rides to women and girls, and so on that could easily be preyed on in that situation. they say there's not a lot of vetting of the people who are coming to help in some of these instances and they called for more vetting to ensure that trafficking is, is kept to a minimum. you and nuclear watchdog is sounding new alarms about a ukrainian plan that's under russian control. i h heave raphael, bruce. he says a team is trying to reach this apparition planned to make safety checks cross. he says he's particularly concerned about warnings from ukraine's atomic regulator.

they've lost control of nuclear material at the plant, which is the largest in europe. of course, i must say that whatever, whatever we would do at as somebody tia is something that, that the ages he alone is going to be doing when he comes to safeguards or safety or security activities. and this is part of our legal relationship. boy, there you great. so we cannot to invite others, 3rd parties too. but there has been some discussion. i cannot reveal everything because i'm stealing the process so far, consulting we, the ukraine, or north shore russia, that there could be some international presence to add on to the, to the team gotten their dominant, came as more from berlin, one of the starkest messages coming from mr grossey, the director general of the i a, a regards the security, the safeguarding,

and the safety not only of the plant but the staff there. and he says that in the opinion of him and his agency, 5 of the 7 central pillars of nuclear safety are now compromised. and that the ukrainian government has told his agency that they are no longer in a position to be able to provide the details about what's taking place there because it is now in the hands of the russian forces. the interesting thing here is that mr. grossey said that he believes the safety and security and safeguarding off ukraine's nuclear facilities is now one of the most pressing issues that the world faces. and he says that it is of pressing urgency that his agency be able to get back into facilities such as at as a procedure to be able to see what has gone wrong and to try to put it right. so quite a stark message from mister grossey. interestingly, in so far as iran is concerned, mr. grosses view was that some of the behavior by the iranian government is making

it more difficult to be able to bring some sort of positive statement from his agency. these avi talks specifically, he cited 3 specific sites in iran, where his agency says it has evidence. that enrichment of uranium has taken place. mexico's president has followed through with a threat to boycott the u. s. hosted summit of the americas this week and that is manual up as upper door is skipping it due to cuba, venezuela and nicaragua, being excluded. the u. s. as it understands our bottles position but won't include countries. it deems to be undemocratic. mexico was and it's foreign minister in the president's place. in up with somebody, the less i made a guess, they cannot see a summit of the americas if all the countries of the americans do not participate or they can be. but we consider that this as a continuation of the old approach as well as summit in los angeles aims to address

how to reduce migration at the us mexico border among other regional issues. on monday, another group of refugees and migrants set off from southern mexico, heading north, they time their departure to coincide with the summit. money rapid travelling with the group near the mexico. what a motherboard of thousands of migrants set out from the city of dublin schuler in the early hours of monday. many are mothers with young children who despite the heavy rain push to keep pace with the rest of the crowd. oh, there's numerous nationalities among them. but the vast majority are from venezuela . oh, all want to reach the united states, but i, when i was alarming, i left my country in search of a better future with god's help. if he permits, i will reach the u. s. border and find new opportunities and help my family. it's already been a long and difficult journey for most. and many are now finding that mexico has its

own challenges holloway, for this elderly woman. the inclement weather is too much. fortunately, paramedics are close by. her daughter says they're desperate for the nightmare to be open in the morning and look, i know they love you. i will follow home with amy and we're hoping they'll give us use visa there. many of us migrants here. we need help. i just like this woman. there are many people here, children and disabled people who get tired. many people died in the jungle on our way here, pregnant women children. there are children who fated just behind us saying it's the largest migrant care van to set out from southern mexico this year. but for a group, this size to stay together. frequent rests are needed, especially for families traveling with young children. after several hours of walking, the group has taken a break from the punishing heat of southern mexico. they're tired, you can see the exhaustion on many of their faces. but just about every one we've

spoken to says they're also committed to continuing their journey to the u. s southern border with more rain forecast. the decision has been made for the group to stay put. they'll rest for now, but the plan is to take to the road again after midnight and make it as far as they can before the heat sets in once again. manuel rap below al jazeera g up uh, mexico was not so here now does air including investigators try to work out how a deadly blaze began to contain a demo in bangladesh. an airline provokes anger by requiring some african passengers to prove who they are, by taking a language test for that state. ah hello, we got plenty of hates across north america at the moment and plenty of summer

storms. and of course, we have got all remains of tropical storm alex, just making his way to the north of bermuda. next clutch of unsettled weather, coming in across the plains, tied up with these areas of low pressure, some very heavy rainfall coming through. big hail and some gusty winds, pushing across the lakes, easing further east was stretching down across the appalachians towards kentucky, tennessee. and then we got the next area of answer to whether coming from but as you can say, tab, which is quite widely, getting into the twenty's or even into the thirty's as we go on through the next day or so. similar picture shows become more widespread. ethan down across the southern plains by the stages we go on through wednesday, we keep the heat. it will be humid just around the eastern seaboard, $33.00 celsius theft, dc. getting up to 26 in new york. we'll see twenties there too because western parts of the us, plenty of vast sunshine stretching down across a good part of the region. mexico will say see plenty of sunshine now as well,

but we got the trial and of what was tropical storm alley. still bringing some heavy showers across up western areas of cuba down towards yucatan, potentially good rash, a showers there through central america elsewhere. fun and semi. ah, the cross to well, young, active isn't organized there on the moon. i. i heard in the 1st of a new saying to people in new york city, use different tools and means to fight institutional racism and police brutality. this is indeed a nation wide problem. network wires, a systemic solution. generally he chains on al jazeera. ah

ah, welcome back, a correct amount about top stories here. this our british prime minister, boris johnson, has survived the confidence float, hating the result as decisive, but more than 40 percent of conservative m. p 's voted against it. are damaging revelations about lockdown breaking government politics. a team from the u. a nuclear watchdog is trying to reach the russian controls operation plant in ukraine . they're worried about warnings from ukraine's atomic regulator. they've lost control of nuclear material. lot. mexico's president has confirmed, he's boycotting the u. s. hosted summit of the americas this week. and as manya lopez abra door objected to the exclusion of cuba, venezuela. nicaragua, countries which washington considers on democratic investigators in bangladesh or trying to find the cause of a massive fire to shipping depot. at least 49 people were killed. the blaze which

began on saturday, set off explosions that were heard several kilometers away. don't get charged reports from cit. aquanda. people here still in sharp explosion that should then turn neighborhood around the depot mohammed or is one, is just one of the people who are badly injured. we are observing the fire near the depot gate and then in a blink of an eye, there was a major explosion and suddenly flaming metal debris hit me on my head. as i was running to seek shelter in a shop. authorities are still searching for the cause of the fire. i'm enough for them to get a miss burnett. what am that? what we have initially learned from the explosion is that this happened you to a league of hydrogen peroxide, and it is what likely crated, the spark charities are helping victims and their families begun to hold up on noodle. or we've provided a balance services to those who were injured or died from the fire incident. and

alongside that we're also providing emergency medicine, food and clothes to those who are affected. although firefighters managed to bring the deadly blaze under control, the containers are still smoldering. clearance and salvage operation is still going on. you can see the level of devastation. i can smell film. that's chemicals on the ground journalist we're only given few minutes to check out the premises. and then we were told to leave this area because there is clearly more danger around victims, families crowd, the corridors of the hospital. i met the game i. li, i said, well, kelly, my nephew is truck driver. he came to 12 k to the container, des pay that night, but he never got the chance to unload the goods. and instead of severely injured due to the installation, the owners of the container depot said they will help the victims. i won't go on to look at that one little our main goal is to help those who are injured and help the families of the dead on an urgent basis. and the company will help the victims, families for the rest of their lives and even better children's education expands.

many of the containers contain internationally recognized clothe brands. and while safety standards have improved in factories in recent years, experts say more needs to be done across the entire supply chain. turnville chaudhry al jazeera sit our condo, bangladesh. no more than 11000000 students across china are writing their university entrance exams. they're dealing with the added pressure of coven 19 restrictions. students with symptoms are swab done, moved into isolation to complete their paper exams at national event. chris students on language mats and another subject of their choice will katrina you joins us live now from beijing, katrina. so cobra restrictions are being eased across china, but they're still pretty strict for the students taking their exams. that's right. finally here in beijing, some measures have been used. they have been able to get these infections down to 0 . so now restaurant dining services have resumed,

gyms and entertainment been usable, so opened, but schools are not taking anything to chance. they've required that students taking the gal cow and the families did not travel or do not travel in the lead up to these exams. when entering the school, they have the health kit checked, it needs to be green, they have the temperatures checked, and if they have any abnormal temperatures or fevers that quickly isolated so that they don't take the exams with peers. and if you still live in an active area where there is an occurrence outbreak, those students are completing their exams under a closed loop systems. well, now the gal co here, as it's known, is really considered decisive. and a young person's life. it said to make or break your future. and that's because it determines ultimately employability and here in china because of the slowing economy. and because of the pandemic, it's harder than ever to find a job in the job market, according to some local reports. as few as one and 5 university graduates are able

secure positions this year. and that's why it's so important. and students typically spend about 2 years preparing. and we spoke to one student who studies 13 hours a day in the lead up to this test. now this year, a record number of students are taking the gal cow, almost 12000000. and throughout this critical preparation period, they've been living under the pandemic. so they've had to deal with locked downs, disrupted an online classes some in areas that were severely affected by coven, nice, and they've even had to do with food shortages all the while preparing for these exams. yeah, and as you say, katrina, it is a big deal. we've heard of traffic being diverted, construction stopped on even ambulance is on stand by for stressed out exam takers . i think that goes to show how important these are and how authorities are really going out of their way to make sure that the conditions are right for the students. we were just filming outside

the school and authorities that blocked the roads in order to make sure that shootings aren't distracted by noisy traffic. there are stories of students who are stuck in traffic going to school, calling the police to be escorted to make sure they get there on time outside every school you have phi and then a quarter of a team. other medical teams on stand by in case there are any emergencies, and governments also even set up local, psychological stress, hotlines for parents and students dealing with with any gal cow related issues specifically. so it really shows how important this test is for the future of the young chinese taking it. alright to katrina, you live for the invasion, katrina. thank you. now israel fragile coalition government has suffered a major setback after failing to pass a bill extending protections for illegal israeli settlers and the occupied west bank emergency regulations which expire at the end of the month. i've been in place for decades. they allow illegal settlers to enjoy the benefits of israeli

citizenship and law, while palestinians live under military rule. as well as justice minister has worn the governing coalition may not survive. it had failed to pass the legislation. jeremy to network continues to demand a rapid, independent and transparent investigation into the killing of its journalist and the occupied west bank showing what was shot in my head. i was ready forces while she was an assignment in janine on the damp funeral israeli forces storm. the procession has started beating moments, causing cool barrels to almost drop her casket. lot didn't stop. thousands of palestinians were 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. barclay was without 0 for 25 years, covering the story of these ready occupations. she was known as the voice of palestine . the former leader of the extreme right wing, proud boy's group, is facing a new charge over the january 2021 attack on the u. s. capital and rica,

toyota and south stalled lieutenants. are accused of plotting the attack and encouraging others to prevent congress from certifying president biden's election with the new charge against them called seditious conspiracy. is rarely used, carries up to 20 years in prison. brazil's navy is searching for a british journalist who's gone missing and a remote part of the amazon rain forest. dom phillips was on a reporting trip with bruno pereira, bazillion specialist on isolated tribes that were in a region where indigenous groups are under threat from illegal minors. logos and cocaine produces a cabinet minister and democratic republic of congo has been shot dead in his office. orlando hor, her merit was the minister of environment and natural resources. his family says the suspected gunman who was in custody was mirrors, childhood friend, irish airline. ryan is drawing outrage the new test, the south african passengers heading to the u. k. it's quizzing them in a language spoken by

a minority of the population. julian wolf explains ryan air stepping into hot waters after forcing south african citizens to take a test in a language associated with the part height. brian, i should be careful. language is a sensitive issue. they may well end up in front of the human rights commission. withers, the airline says it asks passengers to write an offer cards to prove their passports aren't fake. but the move is causing widespread condemnation. it's not on fe. is just discriminating. the father athletes, including all those. the city of south africa has 11 official languages, with africans used by less than 14 percent of the population offers zulu and closer . but africans was the language of segregation during white minority rule when black citizens were told where they could live, work,

attends school and own land. roughly 20 percent of the population of south africa understand africans, but the rest don't. so you sitting was roughly 50000000 people who do not understand africans. and so i might as well have taken her zulu, which is the biggest language in south africa. and used that if that if you wanted to use one of the bigger languages, while not a british government requirement, ryan air has so far refused to say if it will withdraw the test join wolf al jazeera. not 2 brothers facing corruption charges in south africa had been arrested into by business men regression. actual gupta who are originally from india fled south africa in 2018. the friends of former president jacob zoom up and are accused of using their relationship with him to profit financially and influence government appointments and even policy both deny wrongdoing. interpol issued a red notice for them last year. now the man who's tried and failed to become

kenya's, president for times, is running again. this time, bo rhino dingo. as the backing of the political establishment has worked against him in the past from nairobi. welcome web reports on what's changed. ah, it's election season in kenya, riley. dingo has run for president for time as before he launched his manifesto at an event in the capitol, nairobi will declare corruption, a threat to national security. and as douglas, as well as the government, the secure judges poker absence of aliens. this michelle do we did our 1st 100 days in office. right. has been involved in politics since the 1980s, mostly in opposition. he's never been declared the winner of an election. they many believe he's been raked out of victories before this time. some things have changed

is the 1st time that royal or a danger loading with the support of the incumbent, outgoing president who kenyata with the support of the families that have dominated kenyan politics on business. ever since independence for the british columbia rule . nearly 60 years ago, the 1st time that he's the chosen candidate of the historically dominant political establishment is to kind of backing that his main rival william rito had once hoped for. he's been deputy president in the last 2 governments. 10 years ago, we teamed up with a heroic kenyatta. at the time both were facing charges at the international criminal court to orchestrating crimes against humanity in the violence that followed the previous election in 2007. the charges were later dropped off the witnesses retracted their statement. hulu and retail relationship seems

deteriorated. come on, man, give it to retail, running without the support of his former ally, in spite of being in government for 9 years. and he's now promising change she dialed the problem is inequality economy model. in the last 5 d, it has been taken down take which has only benefit that the creating have them have not who just has a lot. we have to change these economy model kenya's past elections have been mod by irregularities, allegations of rigging and sometimes violent. this time allegiances of shifted and factions, we aligned kenyans a g to vote on the 9th of august, malcolm web out, his era, nairobi, kenya. ah tucker target, the headlines here on here at british prime minister bar was john smith.