migration policy, which includes incentives for countries to taking more migrant over let's bring in ra reynolds, who's covering that summit in that los angeles. hello. they ro, we just heard from the u. s. secretary of state, he was quizzed about a range of things including the decision to exclude the leaders of cuba, venezuela and nicaragua, at the summit, that new migration declaration and also whether the us should contribute more financially to the region. what stood out to you most and how did he address these questions? well, i think of the, the cloud that's been hanging over the summit is this boycott. as a result of the exclusions and in speaking about cuba, nicaragua, and venezuela, the secretary of state said that one of the purposes of this summit is to advance and strengthen democracy and to see how best to serve the people of

the communities in, in the hemisphere. and he said it's very difficult to do that and to engage with countries on that basis. if those countries are ruled by people who do not respect the will of the people and are not democratic. so that was his reply, which, you know, we didn't get that from joe biden, the president, we didn't get that detailed reply there. we did hear from the president the other day very briefly when he was asked about the boycott by the president of mexico, guatemala, honduras, el salvador and other countries. did asked by a journalist, would that hurt the summit? did it bother him? he said, no. busy so that was something i think that puts, it puts kind of a period after that. controversy, also talking about so many different things. the 500000 doctors got that's

awfully ambitious plan of 500000 health professionals. if not, you know m d 's that would create a lot of that would go to alleviate a lot of suffering in the hemisphere. you know, of that cube up sent it's doctors because it has actually an excellent health care system. and a trained many, many doctors who were then sent to impoverish communities in brazil in venezuela all around the hemisphere. and that was a, an example of soft power the q demonstrated and continues to demonstrate to a certain extent that was very welcomed by the hemispheric by the people of the hemisphere. he also was asked about the l. a declaration. and one thing that was interesting to me, and i guess maybe i and in our conversations we haven't emphasize this enough. but the goal of this declaration is not entirely to end migration to freeze people in

place and prevent them from moving from one place to another. but rather, according to the intentions, at least as, as stated by the united states and the other countries to create halfway for safe, orderly, lawful migration. the idea is that migration you can actually act as an economic catalyst. that migration is in fact necessary for a healthy economy. and we've got a labor shortage in the united states right now for a number of reasons, including the coven pandemic. but also because it, because of over the last administration by donald trump, there was an effort to exclude and prevent people from migrating into the united states illegally or illegally. and that there, there is a role in economic growth for migration. so i guess i'd like to, i'd like to circle around to that and emphasize that. but again,

saying that there is no that, that it is unfair indeed to the people who are migrating to have this done in a chaotic predatory unsafe manner. so they're trying to smooth that out. there's also the element of cracking down on the human trafficking networks and gangs, the so called coyote days who smuggle people across the border for, you know, the price of their life savings. and sometimes don't really care whether they survive in the process or not. so there's an awful lot there there's, there's been a lot in this summer. and i think that anybody who's been watching it will come to realize how, how deep some of the divisions are, how huge and enormous some of the problems are and how much time it's going to take to deal with them. and that's another thing that, that entity blink and said that, you know, the real test of these declarations and these agreements will come

a year from now maybe longer. maybe you know, the work of generations in the case of resolving issues like poverty and lawlessness in some countries. so again, a great deal to be said, it's a big hemisphere. so there's a lot of questions, a lot of a lot of points to be made. yes, it certainly is a complex region. you've been covering this summit over wake. obviously the migration declaration is one of the biggest policy announcements. but what's to that to you throughout the week? other than this migration agreement? let me, as you go in there, like a more than i had in the morning who the i think the very urgent. it's a concern about a global warming mass about how the countries in this region, many of them are particularly ah, vulnerable to global warming. the up a caribbean nations, their leaders, we're, we're, we're, we're shouting in from the rooftops, figuratively speaking about how this is a,

you know, an existential issue for them. the president of paraguay, we don't think of tear away very often as it was threatened by and rising, sees, or anything because it's a, an, a landlocked nation. but he was saying that that they've suffered from droughts, wild fires, brush fires, or all sorts of problems related by climate change. and again, the theme from many of these countries is ah, well, we didn't the minute that we're not responsible for this man. we didn't know have but with millions of automobiles and, and tens of thousands of coal fired power plants like like the united states and in europe and china and japan and india. do we are suffering from a problem that we didn't create? and therefore, there is this sense among these countries that of the wealthier countries, the countries that do bear more of a share of responsibility for a global warming through, through their emissions, should

a support and the i know and, and help the countries that are, that are suffering and, and don't have the resources. so, you know, the climate change is, is often not exactly the most important political issue in some places. of course, people think it's very important in some, in some political parties in some countries. um, maybe here in the united states it's, it's, it's always kind of on in the background, but important to many people. but it, these countries, it's of literally a matter of life and death. and again, you know, it's all tied together because migration is of a multi multiple reasons for migration multi factor role situation. but one of them, one of the reasons is you can, is climate change and environmental demons, devastation, hurricane storms, floods, landslides, these forced people to leave their homes, desperate people who have nowhere to go and seek safety where they can. well,

we appreciate your work away. thank you very much for keeping us across. what happened at the summit? reynolds live for us in los angeles. thank you. for a while. a group of thousands of central american asylum sake is in migrants have had to stop their journey towards the us while they wait for paperwork the mexican issued humanitarian visa allows them to transit fraley towards the us. for a memo wrap low is in cheapest state. with some of those trying to make the journey know the most of the cries of desperation from migrants in weeks from mexico. they're calling on authorities to grant them humanitarian transit visas. after waiting for days, this family from venezuela had finally had their paperwork approve the documents, allow them to move freely through mexico and make their way toward the us southern

border. and the guy after almost 3 weeks, this represents one less obstacle, at least. now we have a permit to transit country. now we need to figure out how to get the money for bus tickets and try to look for work. most of these people arrived here as part of a migrant care event that left the city of cuppa schuler. near mexico's border with guatemala, on monday the massive people marching on the road seemed endless. frustrated with the slow pace, some moved on ahead. other people chose to wait for their transit visas. and in just a few days, what was once a caravan of thousands, mostly cease to exist. maria and oscar also from venezuela had decided to make their way toward mexico city by bus, along with their young daughter and about a dozen other migrants they are exhausted but optimistic that their

hardships will soon be over. we have seen the truth is this has been very difficult. we cross the jungle, there were many people who died, others who couldn't go any further. i don't wish what we've been through on any one . we've experienced hunger and thirst, but we have many hopes and dreams of arriving at our destination. it's a long road toward the mexican capital. once there, they'll only be a few days away from arriving on the doorstep of the united states. with their transit visas in hand, many migrants will continue north aboard buses like the one we're on. now. those traveling without the necessary paperwork, run the risk of being detained and sent back to southern mexico to start their journey again. madrid up a little al jazeera, she, us mexico inflation in the united states as he to 40 ye high in spain, driven by the rising cost of food and petrol. the federal reserve is expected to

high interest rates again next week, putting even more pressure on household budgets. patty calhane filed this report from washington d. c. inflation and america is beginning to bite. now the highest, it's been in 40 years. prices rising 8.6 percent over the year through may. and it isn't just about numbers. it's about sacrifice. it's rough. i'm in this area is so high. taking all your money in, just have to sit down and eat less. it means americans paychecks simply don't go as far as they used to flying costs. 37 percent more rent. that's up almost 7 percent and food is across the board. more expensive. the price of chicken up 5 percent in a year. you my phone. typically one price for the same weight and then go back a little bit higher. you know, the biggest increase by far gas,

it is up by almost 50 percent in just a year. according to gas buddy, that the website, the track caught the average gallon of gas in the u. s. is $5.00 the highest, it has ever been. there are numerous reasons for the rising prices. a spike in food and energy costs resulting from russia's invasion of ukraine, is one poodle price, i guess in america hard. but other prices are rising because of the ongoing supply chain issues triggered by the coven pandemic. there's too much demand, not enough supply. and a shortage of transportation capacity. president joe biden is also blaming company consolidation for many of the increases for 99 major ocean line shipping companies that ship from asia to the united states. 9843 consortia. these companies have raised their prices by as much as 1000 percent. congress is

poised to pass a bill that would give us regulators more power over the shipping companies. but that likely won't have an immediate impact. and next week the federal reserve is poised to raise interest rates again. meaning debt will be that much more expensive for merican and when interest rates keep rising, people feel well, credit is bus easy to access harder to buy a home. that's also, you know, a negative, but these are the sorts of things that have to happen. i do say the central bank needs to take action. it is taking action in attempt to stabilize the u. s. economy with americans pain. a heavy price paddle have al jazeera washington international travelers to be knighted safe will no longer have to take a corona virus test to enter the country in the us centers for disease control and prevention says the measure is no longer necessary. most non citizens still have to show proof of vaccination in the country. there are hundreds of thousands of head

caves of protected jungle in columbia. as amazon rainforest is being destroyed every year, trays are being burnt or cut down to make space of cattle, ranching, mining, and drug growing operations. in the 1st of 2 reports, al jazeera is alexandra ram, p s. he flies over the amazon to assess the damage and illegal road cuts through what used to be priest the rain forest around the cemetery of centuries, old trees reduced to dust. look, those are big patches and most likely for cocoa fields or cattle ranching, which will definitely disconnect this area with data runs and n g o that protects the colombian amazon. he brought us on a 5 hour long flight across 5 national parks and supposedly protected indigent plane up. none are intact. criminal hands are grabbing land and burning trees for intensive agriculture, kettle ranging your coca farming, la magnitude elaine,

the magnitude and the intensity of the destruction that we are able to see over 5 national parks on the most bio diverse area of colombia in the middle of the fragile transition between the andes in the amazon, that is a warning call, not only for columbia, but for humanity as a whole. the colombian amazon is lost over a 1000000 actors of rain forest. in the last 5 years, an area larger than the island of cyprus, rodrigo says, a complex web of interest are to blame, pre medicate, all i knew. first of all, this has to do with the international conglomerate, interested in cheap land for the world agro commodities market. more than a 1000000 heads of cattle have been introduced in this area surrounding the cheery became a national park alone. that is because it is also a way to longer money from drug trafficking and illegal mining. the level of deforestation accelerated up to the government signed a piece deal with 5 rebels in 2006 today. huge ranches extend for as far as the i

can see. one of the 1st things we notice as you walk through the spurn patches of the jungle is the silence. gone are the sounds of the animals, the birds, the inn 6 that live in the forest. all that amazing biodiversity turned into ashes . colombian president, divan. duke a pledge to cut deforestation by half by the end of his durham in august. i know virtually optimistic promise row, yet the military until the for a station initiative and new laws targeting dose, causing environmental devastation, are starting to pay dividends mostly middle tanya, this open at the 1st years of this operation have been questionable because the military exclusively went after the core people logging and not the mastermind if we also had an outdated legal framework because believe it or not, grabbing land wasn't a crime here, but under pressure internationally, things have started to change. in recent months, a major land grabber and to local mirrors were ready for the changes that offer

a glimmer of hope that things could improve before it's too late for all alison. and yet the l. just some with it and glove yada. and in our 2nd report from amazon alexander ramp, yet he visits the community working to can serve the most sensitive and important areas of the rainforest by supporting other ways to make money in the region. and you can say that it 13 gmc on saturday right here on al jazeera to the u. k. now, and the government there has been given the green light to proceed with a controversial plan to st. asylum seekers arriving in the country to wander. a british judge rejected arguments from charities and human rights groups that the policy was unlawful with a barbara has more from the course a defeat for opponents of the government's ruin the program, at least in the short term, the u. k. hi, court says next tuesday's flight to porting the 1st group of asylum seekers. took

a gully can go ahead. pro refugee groups had argued the policy was unlawful, and they were backed in court on friday by the you and refugee agency, the you and hcr. she outlined the hopelessness of the judicial system. i. englander, it doesn't have facilities, it doesn't have lawyers, it doesn't have interpreters, it simply doesn't have the capacity to deal with this. but of course, that is not the issue. are the factors that rwanda is unsafe? it's a place where any opposition to the current government is often locked up. we don't want to see refugees locked up. we want to see refugees look after safely. but the judge here said it was important. the home office be able to implement immigration control decisions. he's allowed the groups to appeal vote that's going to happen on monday. all along. the government's accept it that they would be legal challenges to its plan while insisting it would soon be sending people to rwanda. but it's still possible. it could face a white, a judicial review, including into whether

a wander, in fact, is a safe country to send vulnerable people. the u. k. and rwanda announced the agreement back in april. the 1st stages involved a payment of more than a $150000000.00 to the rwandan government. the british government hopes the scheme will deter people from crossing the english channel from france in small boats. last year 28000 people made the dangerous journey. say for this year, more than $10000.00 people have done so. but experts doubt that the ruined scheme will change much. you take government has already been in the range. busy what had been described as hostile environment policies toward my guns and assigning seekers . and he said now people come across the board. and on the contrary, reducing the google for, for claiming a title increase if the document you go for now, the flights to rwanda accounting theory begin in the next few weeks. opponents of the rwanda scheme will try to convince the court that the entire policy is unlawful

. the deem bob al jazeera london and jeffrey robertson is an international human rights lawyer. and for me, you and judge it says the decision is sure to be contested in the supreme court. all that was decided today was that the government policies of. ready reporting these people to these asylum seekers to rule and off shoring, sending them from one of the wells, pictures, countries to one of the world's poorest to be processed will be examined in detail on monday. i mean, it's a lot extraordinary that it is taking a day it will, it does involve an allegation that burton was breeching international law. the refugee convention of 1951 seems to imply a duty to britain to examine whether these people are genuine asylum seekers

and to give them asylum if they are or not. send them off to ro and the other way around the world. they raised an international obligation to look at whether they are genuine asylum, sleep seek is fleeing from persecution, then some of them ah, 100 persecution from the taliban. and so it does strike many is being unethical. ready and christian churches have condemned it the home office, people who will be implementing it. their union has been part of the legal protest . so it's a very controversial policy and it's wrong that it should be decided. in a day, al jazeera media network continues to demand a rapid, independent, and transparent investigation into the killing of its journalist in the occupied

westbank, sharina abu aqua was shot in the head by israeli forces. while she was on a simon dingy name on the day of her funeral israeli forces stormed the procession and started beating mourners, causing pole where it's to almost 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 to killing and continue to call for an investigation. shame was with al jazeera for 25 years, covering the story of these rally occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. ukraine officials have made another play for heavy weapons from the west. as the eastern city of severed onions continues to come under russian fire. the ukrainian military says there's no chance of holding the city without the delivery of all of those weapons that have been promised by the west. it's the focus of moscow's

advance, and one of the bloodiest flash points in the war with up to 200 ukrainian soldiers being killed every day. done them a new, a somebody doing this a coin currently. it's more common this area, but it all started here. 5 grad missiles landed on the skull. it's difficult for us . the houses burnt down the shells. we're flying them out for good. you love them. bumble blower. you to screw a bomb, hit our house. it fell through the roof, penetrated the ceiling in the hall. it's now lying there. somebody needs to take a look at it in case it explodes of rows of meanwhile, there are warnings that a cholera outbreak in the southern city of mary, a pole could claim that thousands of lives corpses left to wrought on the straits and broken sanitation systems being blamed for the outbreaks, the cities mer is urging international agencies to establish humanitarian corridors, to allow remaining citizens to leave. the port city was bombarded by russian forces for weeks before it was captured. and the u. k. has condemned to death sentences

handed down to 2 british men in dumbass as a great just breach of the geneva convention. the 2 men, along with american men were captured while fighting for ukraine. they were convicted by a pro ration court, the being mercenaries and the separatist held eastern region, u. k. government does not recognize self proclaimed authorities and says it's working with ukraine to the q of a release. not only my mom at the moment the process mentioned is based on the legislation of the don. yes. people's republic. because the crimes we're talking about what committed on the territory of the t p. ah. everything else is the subject of speculation. i would not want to be getting involved with the work of the judicial and lauren for spin system of the don't use the people's republic, russia and china. i have opened a new cross and bought a breach in the 8th to boost bilateral trade. russia transport minister says the

bridge will help push annual trade to more than 1000000 tons of goods. china is a major buyer of russian and natural resources and agricultural products. moscow is seeking beijing's help as it faces sweeping western sanctions following its invasion of ukraine. coals for the rest of a former spokeswoman fe india's governing b. j. p. i growing louder, protested, have marched on the straits in a number of countries demanding action. nepal sharma was suspended on sunday after making comments about the prophet mohammed that many consider it offensive. victoria gate and b explains in various cities from you delhi ah, to law. who to deco to dakota. i was in worship is gathered up to friday. prayers to voice that opposition to

comments made by an indian politician. yet i'm not real protesting. as an indian woman made bad comments about the character of our beloved prophet, muhammad. so we are here. nepal sharma is the target of their anger. the former spokeswoman for india's governing b. j. p. made comments about the prophet mohammed during a tv debate. the many say were derogatory, protest is want her arrested for hate speech. we don't know, but i'm your your body gonna be the one ball only one police complaint has been laws against no poor sharma. and despite that she has not been arrested yet. she should be arrested as soon as possible and stringent action should be taken against her. sharma has been suspended while the parties media head in new delhi naveen qu margin. dow has been expelled. he's also accused of making insulting remarks. the b j. p says it strongly denounces insults against any religion sect to ideology, but the backlash is growing. the prime minister of india a should um, all,

and just the nation. i would say a particularly the 200000000 muslims. and i tried to assured them that they will, they advise and feed them will be protected in india as guaranteed by the constitution. countries in the gulf region including cattle and he ran have summoned india's envoys and demanded a public apology. but these protest is wont more, they want to push sharma, arrested, charged and prosecuted. the comments they say are offensive to islam, victoria, gate and be al jazeera synagogue. political stability is often put down to its commitment to serve his m. it's a form of islamic belief focusing on spirituality and in a pace. and as, as at bank reports, the city of medina bays flourishing is a hub for africans, sushi pilgrims and international students studying islam. once we pause these gates, you're entering the town of medina by no alcohol and smoking is not permitted on

its streets. oh, considered to be a holy place by those who visit here. this remote town, 200 kilometers from synagogue, capital decker is a strong hold of to johnny susie's. they have their roots in algeria and morocco, and gain popularity during the anti colonial struggle against the french medina. bye is now a pace of spiritual pilgrimage, forsooth, across africa. and it's also attracted black american students to come and study at school. us african americans as a place or a safe haven for us to practice our religion and learn our religion. also, it's also an invitation back home, given us a piecewise of that, are we the, was lost. so taken away from us on the bottom of the procuring slavery, many of those enslaved came from west africa. so for some, there's a sense this has been a journey of return. when the plane landed, as soon as my feet hit the ground,

i began to cry is the 1st time that i have ever been home. what made you cry? the fact that i was home after 500 year journey. oh yeah. the town and the soupy order a significant for senegal. since independent, every president that's been elected has visited this small town every year. hundreds of thousands of pogroms flock here is the beating heart of the spirituality in senegal. chick, my c say is responsible for western students. he doesn't shy away from how influential the movement is and says synagogues president mackie sally is well aware of their importance. which isn't like us citizens, but we have dis medina, we have this follows that my casela. he used to live here in sam. so he knows his medina, he know what's going on in medina,

he not us. medina is there but where important. but in synagogue i, i but for those who moved here from the united states, it's a spiritual quest with its own challenges. joy fast on is from atlanta. she came here with her children, you know the language barrier, and they were worried about making friends missing some of the foods from home getting used to the food here. but now they love it. they love the freedom. ah, there's no doubt the stu. fees are a social and political force where religion also plays a central role in people's lives. and although in other countries, religious influence may be considered a negative aspect. here it's seen as a positive, even a central ah, i said beg, i'll jazeera within a by synagogue. ah.