oh, structure for did ramirez in molina families, the pain is unbearable for their relatives were killed last week during a military operation ordered by the venezuelan government. security forces accused him of being part of a colombian rebel group and said they died in combat. but neighbors and family members insist they were innocent, taken from their homes and executed under pressure venezuela's defense minister by the made by the reno, said the armed forces were applied to the friends that come through from irregular groups that added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border with the investigative ah

voting gets underway. and frances parliamentary elections, presidents macros, coalition faces a tough challenge from a left wing politician. ah, you're watching all to 0 live from a headquarters, and i'm danny. now, brigades are also coming up, china says any foreign interference in the region is doomed to fail and vows to fight to the end to prevent ty, one's independence. desperate for fuel, sir lanka considers buying more oil from russia as it faces its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years. what man didn't change yet? what made the change now? i renewed coast for tougher gun control laws in the us. thousands of people rally across the country after a series of mass shootings. ah,

ah, the poles of opened in france in the 1st round, the ferns, his parliamentary elections. president, manuel microns coalition currently holds the majority of seats in the assembly. but he's facing a challenge from a left wing block nearly 2 months after being re elected. today's poll results. we'll decide whether my chrome will have enough support in parliament to pass his reform agenda. but bring in joan a whole. he's joining us from paris covering these elections for us. so talk us through what's at stake and these election, jonah, well, as you say, the polls open in these legislative assembly elections, the national assembly, the lower house of parliament. they come 2 months after emmanuel macro won his 2nd term in office, making it clear where the peak of executive power lies. but how will laws be made? how will government actually function? that's what this is all about. now, 5 years ago, micron want to clean sweep of both the presidency and his coalition, the parliament as well this time around things could be

a little less clear cut because he faces a challenge. as you mentioned that not from the far right as he did in the presidential, but from the far left john luc mellon, sean, who came a strong 3rd in the presidential race, has put together his own coalition of leftists of communists, of greens. he's attracted strong support from the young of a program of environmental protections. he wants to raise taxes on the rich, he wants to raise the minimum wage. he wants to lower the retirement age policies in stock contrast to microns, so called reform agenda. and indeed, if the left is do very well, if they get a majority millennial and wants to be prime minister as well. and that would usher in an arrangement known as a cohabitation. here in france and a pretty uneasy cohabitation. it would be 2 opposing parties in control of the presidency in the parliament for the 1st time in more than 20 years. yeah. don't tell us more about the far left than if they were to do very well. how that might affect the way france is governed? well, the key number is 20909,

the seats that either coalition center. so the fall left would need to win to have an absolute majority in the $577.00 c chain. but that will be decided until the 2nd round run off next weekend. it's just the 1st round here now. and electoral reporting restrictions mean, i can't update you on the actual opinion poll numbers, but if the far left did very well, if they were to successfully threaten macros, majority well, that could lead to uneasy government. it could lead to haggling in negotiations with other parties. tradeoffs compromises all of which potentially, undermining the government's ability to deal with vote, his real and central and main concerns. the cost of living crisis here in france as it is elsewhere in europe. soaring inflation spiraling, especially prices of food and energy. all right, thank you. so much john hall reporting from paris. china's defense minister has issued a stork warning for an interference in taiwan is doomed to fail way from hers address . shangri la dialogue and singapore are focused on beijing stance on taiwan.

tensions between china and the u. s. are front and center on the last day of the summit. on saturday, the us defense secretary lloyd austin, accused beijing of intimidation and aggression towards taiwan. china says the islands re unification with the mainland is inevitable. she's a law firm, john, during your we will resolutely crush any attempt to pursue taiwanese independence. let me make this clear. anyone dares to see taiwan from china, we will not hesitate to fight. we will fight at all costs, and we will fight to the end. this is the only choice for china. jessica washington is that the singapore summit where she's been following the address by the chinese defense chief. he characterized beijing's approach as one that is inclusive one that is supportive to helping the region develop. one that it has serious ties with the region that is respectful of the region versus the way he characterized washington as a meddling on the helpful partner in the region. apart from it,

of course, those strong quotes on taiwan. the minister also talked about all the content of issues such as the south china sea. he raised to that he himself and his counterparts in all zealand have successfully been able to manage these issues . and that freedom of navigation is in fact not under threat, as the u. s. minister said yesterday in his address, he also added when talking about the south china sea, that it is important that countries that are actually in the region should prevent countries that are outside the region from turning these waters into trouble sees. so throughout the speech, really a message that the asian region is for asia to manage and that the us should really not meddle in its affairs. china also to route the chinese minister also throughout

the speech, accused washington of attempting to bully china. that was something that he alluded to many times throughout the speech. he also stressed that they would never fully all the countries in the region. and he really stressed that that is the point of difference between washington and beijing's approach. adrian brown is following the developments from hong kong. well, we've heard talk before about war over taiwan, not just from china, but also cools from the united states. it's been going on for decades. we've heard this hostile language, time and time again. the difference now of course, is it, militarily, china is much stronger than it was 5 years ago. and of course, 10 years ago, it now has an aircraft carrier and several more in the pipeline. the message, the overriding message, coming from the defense minister from china to day was this the time for trying to contain china is ova asian on asian countries. though, of course, of feeling nervous, they don't want to find themselves in

a position where they are forced to take sides. they want to deal with china because china is the regions biggest economy. they want to deal with the united states because the u. s. is the world's biggest economy. china is also concerned about something else. it's what it says is a nato style security block that the united states wants to establish in this region. now that block would comprise japan, australia, india, and the united states. and china has accuse united states have tried to 3 hijack countries in this region beyond taiwan and it remains the principal flash point here at the moment. there is deepening concern on the us side about what it says are dangerous and provocative. ariel and also naval maneuvers. being taken by its military, not just in the area of taiwan, but also in the south china sea and the east china sea. and the big worry is this is that the military brinkman ship could one day,

spiral out of control. feagins defense minister has told the summit that the regions biggest security threat is not conflict, but climate change. pacific islands are seen as some of the most vulnerable in the world to changing weather patterns. it v g. we are not threatened by geopolitical competition. in our blue perceive it continent, machine, guns, fighter jets, gray ships and boom battalions, not our primary security concern. the single greatest threat. glo, very existence is climate change. it the sentence where he hopes and dreams of prosperity. human induced, devastating climate change, sri lanka, prime minister says he may have to burn, buy more oil from russia to ease fuel shortages. that's the spider pushed by

western leaders to block russia as energy exports. in the aftermath of the ukraine war, there been months of protest calling for the government to resign. us through lanka, faces its worst economic crisis since independence, and made raising global prices a severe shortage of foreign currencies, preventing the imports of basic goods such as food, fuel and medicine. that you went, his warning could develop into a humanitarian crisis. we need the fluid and now we are negotiating with private supply. the stuff that we gwen by anything, it's a private supplies with us and we buy from them. part of it that issue here is that there's a lot of white going around which is, which can be source back informally, to iran or russia. sometimes you may not know what you're buying, but we are looking at other sources of oil. well, their traditional sources from the middle east garvey,

been taking where we have been purchasing foot minova and then fernandez has more from colombo at the moment. we're having a essentially consumers queuing up at petros sheds like this. now at the moment there's a tape or going right across the shed. this one has about 10 fuel pumps, but there is no fuel. and we've got people sitting around waiting, other people for queues that stretch for several kilometers. these are cars. these are motor bikes. these are 3 below the popular sort of form of taxi here in shall anchor, as well as a whole lot of laurie's and things like that. now, just people i just had random a quick sampling. when i got here to set up up, there have been people waiting here from 530 this morning that's more than 7 hours ago. and they say they're still no sign of a fuel bows or having come into the shed at least 2 of the people i spoke to said

they did this yesterday as well. that's federal, obviously diesel, similar stories. because people are beginning to find that they do not have a, they're required fuel to do any of the things they need to do. so this is heating at multiple levels, whether it's industry with its factories, whether its transport or whether it's food supplies, or whether it's the man on the street getting into his cow, his motorbike. so it's really beginning to feel like a massive crisis as people no matter even if they stay in queues for days or hours, can't seem to find the supplies they need. well, the average price of petrol in the u. s. has now hit more than $5.00 a gallon. that's the highest cost since 2008. prices are well above that. in some states. fuel in california is ringing in at $6.43 a gallon. fuel prices are being blamed for driving the countries highest inflation

rate in 40 years, and it is expected to continue to rise. gabriel of his anto has more from buffalo. the price of just about everything is going up in the united states, including the cost of petrol for the 1st time in 20 years, one gallon, or about $3.00 leaders of petrol is averaging more than 5 dollars. here at this gas station in buffalo, new york, it's just under that it $4.99 a gallon. just in the last month. the price has gone up about $0.63. and in the past here about $2.00, there's a whole host of reasons on why it's going up so fast, but it's primarily comes down to 3 things. it's this sanctions on russia due to the war in ukraine. there's also just more people traveling by car this summer here in the united states as well, pushing prices up, and then even the threat of a hurricane or a tropical storm, reaching the south east of the united states. this time of year it's fairly common

that shuts down refineries and also will drive up prices as well. but the bottom line is, is that gas is becoming much more expensive in the united states and really everywhere around the world. but people here are really feeling it, their pocketbooks still had on al jazeera tenzing is governance, is forcing muscle hooters off their ancestral land will tell you why. and we planting the rain forest weavers at columbia and communities trying to revive their environment. ah, he has begun the full world copies on its way to the castle. travel package to the hello there. let's not in north american, it's been all about the intense heat across the southwest of the us,

but we are going to the temperature dipped down slightly. things are going to cool down for places like california, thanks to more wet and windy weather that sweeping in thanks to low pressure, pulling into the pacific northwest. so some heavy rain rolling across the plains, we could see some flash flooding or flooding here. and by the time we get to monday, that's going to work its way up into southern areas of british columbia, a western canada see some of the more severe winter weather on the way. now it is gonna cool down for the likes of california temperatures dipping down slightly across the south, but we still have heat advisories out here. there is going to be some relief for the east coast as that system pushes off for the east temperatures, rebounding up into the mid to high thirty's. now, there is a bit of a trickle of rain affecting the gulf of mexico, but much of the heavy rain can be found in costa rica. we could see up to a 100 millimeters fall in the next 24 hours. and of course, that could mean more flooding here, and we're watching a disturbance that's forming off to the coast of mexico with some heavy rain along

the west coast in the days to come. but mexico city seeing a bit of rain and sunshine at $23.00 degrees celsius. i saw official ally of the journey american people have finally spoken. america is isolate when america is all balanced, the world becomes more dangerous. the world is looking at us with a mixture of sadness and with the election behind us. will the republican party dump truck your weekly take on us politics? and i think that's the bottom line, unprompted and uninterrupted discussions from a london broadcast santana on al jazeera. ah ah ah,

hello again. the top stories on al jazeera, the sour holes of opened, and france in the 1st round, the parliamentary elections president emanuel macros coalition currently holds the majority of seats in the assembly, but he's facing a challenge from a left wing block. china's defense minister waif on her has warned that foreign interference in taiwan is doomed to fail. addressing a top security conference and singapore, he said beijing would fight to the end. if taiwan try to declare independence, sher lancaster prime minister says he may have to buy more oil from russia to ease fuel shortages. protests have been calling for the government to resign as the country faces its worst economic crisis since independence. hundreds of marches have been taking place across the us to demand tougher gun laws. they come after a series of mass shootings including one at a primary school in texas and another at a supermarket in buffalo, new york,

last month. my can, i reports from washington d. c, brain kept away many, but did little to diminish the spirit of the thousands that came to protest about more than 19000 people in the united states had died in gun related violence this year alone. and after the recent massacre of elementary school children and new bol, the texas, those here insist that enough is enough. we're not asking for a lot washington dcs mayor summarizing the feeling of all at the rally. what that man didn't change your weather man thing change now we need a new american, a majority of americans whose share a bow used to let their senators know that they need either need to make change now or get out of our way. for too often. we've had so many mass shoes

across the country and we're not gonna sit around our houses in just let ahead. we're gonna come out. we're going to, so congress and everyone, one of our elected officials, they're we, we need them to do their job. many traveling from out of state to attend this rally to lula, came from massachusetts to attend this rally. what do you want to see? why did you come? you know, i came here because of my school. and they found bullets like bullets in the bathroom. the boys bathroom, so it made me feel like i needed to be here for that reason and cause that this gun violence is becoming a huge problem. oh, the rallies took place across the country. i read, ron, including buffalo, still reeling from a racially motivated attack in may. that took the lives of 10 black people at

a local market. it has shredded or our very existence. people are scared to go into stores. our kids are scared to go to school. it was the day on which hundreds of thousands of americans came together with one common message. mike hannah al jazeera washington, 30 soldiers in india had been charged in connection with the killing of civilians in a botched military operation in december. police say the soldiers used indiscriminate and disproportionate force when they shot and killed 6 miners in the northeastern state of nag, holland, mistaking them for an armed group, 8 civilians on a soldier, died when angry crowds confronted the troops police, and soon as you have arrested, a journalist after he made comments on al jazeera about president, case of finance. so now how do you said the president asked the army to close the headquarters of the u. g t t union and put some of its leaders under house arrest? he said the army had refused. the union has called for

a national strike on june 16th in response to government proposals, to remove food and energy subsidies and freeze wages. i'll just do media network continues to demand a rapid, independent and transparent investigation into the killing. if it's during less than the occupied, westbank city and barclay was shot in the head by is really forces while she was on assignment and jeanine on the day of her funeral is really for a storm the procession and started beating warner is causing pall bearers 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 her killing and continue to call for an investigation. a broccoli was with al jazeera for 25 years, covering the story of the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. in sudan protesters are demanding a return to civilian rule. security forces fire,

it's your gas. and after demonstrators barricaded streets were burning tires on thursday, delegates from the main pro democracy alliance met with military leaders for the 1st time since last year of school. a 2nd round of talks had been postponed as a key group representing civilians is refusing to participate. in the, the we believe is going to put unit to end the coo and ensure a safe exit for both the military and the people towards democracy, justice and a new society. we didn't go to these talks to reinstate a new partnership with the military. went to put an end to any partnership, military forces to return to their barracks, to do their job. but this is obvious. this is the peoples de mamma, and the democratic regime should be established. the real civil authority, even why policemen has been killed in a confrontation between security forces and mass i, herders and northeastern tanzania, the mass,

i were protesting against the demarcation of land to create a wildlife preserve in lowly condo. that's near the serengeti national park activist. say some demonstrators were injured by live rounds, they say communities are under pressure to leave their ancestral lands to make way for private hunting expedition. the government says at once to protect the region from human activity. edward per rockwell is the director of ping goes for induction . organization working to defend the rights of indigenous people in tanzania. he says the government has not followed clear procedures, the lender and the old. and then we didn't like the marcell simply now in is really and many of these be made years have been purchased by their landlords. but unfortunately now the land controlled area where the students with natural resources have that right. we're going to add new. so there have been

a lot of controversy and i think that they have never been in one said, telling that part of the story. and the matching is difficult to be the case in the start from court of justice, which is the media on the 2nd bar before even the permission of the case. the government is planned to be on the land and basically threat to pass that productivity to teams. very difficult to get all the information on our area because nobody is free to talk about because of the unforeseen. but i thought i would be very issue that we belong to them in the government the government plan. so that is really where the problem is. i think if it was to me, they're very clear procedures in the last year or how to, how to protect and learn from or change the categories from the village. learn to

learn that they shoes and there were procedures are not being followed. and townsend has signed the framework gas export agreement with energy giant shell and could or if implemented the deal with the a new liquefied natural gas plant, built in the coastal town of lindy by 2029 as part of time to me as efforts to export its vast coastal gas deposits. the government says the project would significantly change its economy as ship carrying $16000.00 sheep has sunk off. the su kane ports in su, done the ship's crew have been rescued. it's not yet clear how much of the livestock survives local media. reports the accidents as the result of overloading rescue teams. we're trying to bring the sinking ship to harbor before it fully submerged by the ports. fighting continues around the eastern ukrainian city of c.

a. verizon? yes. the regional governor of lou. hans says keith is still in control of the chemical plant that's where civilians are sheltering. meanwhile, president vulgar zalinski insist that ukraine will win the war with russia, but he's asking allies for more ammunition and weapons. the european commission president ursula vander lion has met with ukraine's president to discuss a request to join. the european union vander lion who arrived in chief unannounced, says she expects the decision will be made in the coming days. she also spoke about support for ukraine to rebuild cities. when the conflict ends. the path is known. it is a merit based path forward. it is a pass where i must say, i highly appreciate the enormous efforts and the determination of ukraine in this process. the people of ukraine have proven incredible strength and motivation and

stamina. so i am deeply convinced that we will, together, you will overcome this horrible atrocious war. we will, and you will rebuild this beautiful country and modernize ukraine. here was president joe biden as promising federal funds for new mexico after the largest wild fire in state history. the fire is destroyed hundreds of phones and burned through 1300 square kilometers of lands. the flames started as a control burn set by the u. s. fire service, but quickly spread. some people are suing the fire service to get more information about the government's role. biden says the people who have been impacted will be fully compensated. a degree of responsibility as a government who's had to deal with the communities who are put in who searched jeopardy and under to damn. announcing frederick drummers covering 100 percent of the course. her new

protective measures from the notes critical mentioned the runes recovery hundreds of thousands of hector of columbia. as amazon rain forest are being destroyed each year to make space for mining cattle, ranching and drug trafficking in the 2nd part of our series. alger zeros on the center and petty visits l. capital. that's where people are trying to change things for the better route. the charlie's stopped cutting trees 5 years ago, like everybody here, she used to log and burn the forest to make space for cows and farming. despite it being protected lane, but now she tends to are growing plant nursery part of a community forestry program aimed at changing the ways of farmers living in the colombian, amazon. and the last i called it, they always his new life nursery, because it's about giving new life to the trees that many have cut, mistreated and burned in the project financed by norway. along with columbia. the

foundation for conservation and sustainable development involved over a 100 families living in the northern areas of the colombian, amazon. they promised to end logging in exchange for sustainable alternate if they are also former coca farmer. all miss garcia is leading a number of these projects. we met him as he was working on a live fence made of trees away. he says, to rebuild connections between parts of the for it is thought about it, but all these trees grow. they stick together and monkeys, and other animals will use them to cross from one section of the forest to the other. is just an example of the change in mentality of how we can live protecting the forest. most of these projects were created following the signing of a piece deal with 5 gravels, 5 years ago before a station sword, as the gallery. yeah, lefties territory, opening up more land for cattle ranching and other damaging activities. but it's an

uphill battle. criminal groups are destroying huge swats of the forest deeper into the jungle, while many local farmers who abandons profitable coca farming after the peace deal say they need more land for food. not far from route to be farm. we found people planting seeds in a recently cleared area. lonely. come on in the only way we have to survive is kyla tumble implant, what you see duca corn planting. we don't have an alternative. no support from the government. they made many promises. we got rid of coca, but nothing happened in exchange for that. but all may say the real enemies are powerful businesses that are clearing much larger plots of land. he cautiously take us to another huge devastated area. and you know, what i mean knowing are going on until the government arrives with technical assistance and land titling and organization in a way that protects the population and the environment. unfortunately, the for station will continue.