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voting is underway in france's parliamentary elections. bill determined if the newly elected president will have a majority to push through his reform. ah, you're watching al jazeera life from headquarters in del heim, jedi and abigail also a heads. china says any foreign interference in the region is doomed to fail and vows to fight to the end to prevent taiwan independence. demanding change with the man, the change now a renew posts for tougher gun control laws in the us. thousands of people rally across the country after a series of mass shooting tons, any enforces are accused of trying to force my people off their land to make way for again ah,

hello. polls have opened in the 1st round of frances 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 reelected. today's poll results will decide whether macro will have enough support in parliament to pass his reform agenda. but if you'd like to join a hall, who's outside a polling station and parents to talk us through what's at stake in these elections, jonah will go back 5 years to the 1st time in manual macro won the presidency and he completed a clean sweep of power at that point, winning the parliament as well. this time could be a little less clear cut because of that strong challenge you mentioned from the far left john, new man. and sean has put together a coalition of leftists of communists, of greens. he wants to raise taxes on the rich, raised the minimum wage, and let them know the retire with age. and if he wins a majority,

he wants to be prime minister as well. well, let's take a look at what's at stake. the implications of all that. my guest is emmanuel, do flee from the institute of european perspectives. thanks for joining us. we can't talk about because of reporting restrictions, polling figures, predictions and so on. but let's talk about the possibility of a strong far left showing. how damaging would that be for emanuel microns agenda? well, i to change a lot of things. first of all, because of my coin still president the council of human union, if there is a strong majority from the left, is ecologist movement socialist communist. assuming it's a citizen, leftist, they would be clear shift from a pro european stance to a more, let's say it until i get tim, or maybe more, less accurate person, let's say, for active gilpin position. this is exactly what the new best, the new union for the new new new father scholarship, popular union,

bitching together, ecologist, socialist, communist and, and leftists are, would be very more of a harsher on the european union process. that's the 1st, but diplomatically, what does it mean? i mean, if i have coalition has strong environmental programs, but what would it do for solving people's real problems here, the cost of living crisis, soaring inflation, what it would change a lot of things on that perspective. but there will be wider gaps in between the members of that coalition because they are not going on on the same agenda. they made a pragmatically electoral collision, but they already said that the next time they will not be raising together. and they always said that once they are elected, we cannot say how much will be elected, but a lot would be legible. far more than the previous that we can say no more than 60 socialists. there were more or less 17 populace,

there were more left. so the communist there will be more more, but again they will be huge changes in the way the parliament would be composed. first of, i'm not sure they will coalition in it same group, some arguing the fact that ecologists will have their group communist will have the group so she will have a group and so forth. it could make her very difficult. got it. in other words, intimate villains, haggling, it means negotiating with other parties, it means comp. ah, is it stable government? not really. it was not the same perspective 20 years ago. first of all, it was equation accreditation because the president lost the election, which is may not be the case there. the problem is different, different as different majority votes. in with that,

we can say that 577 m piece to make a majority. you have to have 289 and p thornton any? what? 88 press one. if you have $289.00, then you have a majority, vary and stable majority. but to majority this time, as you mention puzzle nicole will maybe not have this majority last time we had 240 and peace. so he didn't need anybody to rule this time. he will have to have a coalition. the question is not very difficult to find. it is with his opponent from the conservative party, even they, even if they have maybe one 3rd of the m p 's, they had less time. they can be, let's say, i had you say this in french a. m o, a tentative party or they can be playing the major will even they even if they don't have a lot of empties and brittany coming back to the 1st question about what it will

change for the ruling of this country. well, of course, if you have a strong minority, the question is about the number of employees you have. if you have 76 m p 's on a number of 7577, you can launch what it we, yukon is censorship. mostly. if you're not in accordance with the law, you can sense of that clause. it will delay the procedure of abiding by that law and application of the law and manual. we're gonna have to leave it there. but an illustration there of how difficult governance could become in a new parliament here, the results of which we won't know until next week comes 2nd round. the 1st round of voting underway as we speak. i don't, i thank you so much. donna hall, reporting from paris. china's defense minister has issued a stark warning for an interference in taiwan is doomed to fail wife on hers address to shangri la dialogue and singapore 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 u. s. defense secretary lloyd austin, accused beijing of intimidation and aggression towards taiwan. china says the islands re unification with the mainland is inevitable. 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 and is respectful of the region versus the way he characterized washington as a meddling, unhelpful 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 did, he raised to that he himself and his counterparts in oregon 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 traveled, 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 beijing 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. fidget, defense minister has told that summit that the regions biggest security threat is not conflicts but climate change. pacific islands are seen a some of the most vulnerable in the world to changing weather patterns. in fiji, we are not threatened by geopolitical competition. in our bill, pacific continent, machine guns, fighter jets, great ships and boom battalions, not our primary security concern. the single greatest threat. glo, very existence is government, change it the sentence where you hope and dreams of prosperity. human induced, devastating climate change. sure,

lancaster prime minister says he may have to buy more oil from russia to ease fuel shortages. that's the spider pushed by western leaders to block rushes, energy exports in the aftermath of the ukraine war. the government has announced weekly fuel cold us to cope with long queues, petrol stations. there have been months of protest calling for the government to resign. us to lanka faces its worst economic crisis since independence. a severe shortage of foreign currencies, preventing the imports of basic goods, such as food fuel medicine. the u. n. is warning and could develop into a humanitarian crisis. michelle fernandez has more from columbus. at the moment we're having a essentially consumers queueing up. i'd petra's sheds like this. now at the moment there's a taper 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 said they're still no sign of a few about that. having come into the shed, at least 2 of the people i spoke to said they did this yesterday as well. that's petro 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 co,

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 that can't seem to find the supplies they need. hundreds of marches have been taking place across the us to call for 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. i cannot report in washington dc. rain kept away merely but did little to diminish the spirit of the thousands that came to protest about more than 19000 people in the united states have died in gun related islands this year alone. and after the recent massacre of elementary school children and you've all the texas, those here insist that enough is enough. why not asking for a lot washington dcs mayor summarizing the feeling of all at the rally where

demanding change your when demanding change? now we needed to 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 it happen. we're gonna come out, we're going to, so congress and everyone, one of our elected officials and we, we need them to do their job many traveling from out of state to attend this reli. tallulah 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 really want real car 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, stella had on algae 0 new brand, same french fries, mcdonald golden arches are getting a russian re launch in moscow's christian class. a building boom and gumby, our fuel by

a surge and the money set foam from abroad. ah, ah thou watching the rainfall amounts at recorded for yesterday and the heaviest was somewhere in sumatra, which is maybe not a big surprise. consider the amount of cloud, but the focus always changes. and on monday, i think it'll be a similar area. but as a line, it takes you across to borneo as well and suit of ways he and java and quite possibly the philippines going to be seeing widespread sher, it's eased off though, in cambodia and southern viet nam, thailand's, looking relatively dry. astro straight was his proper change of the season. now. huge amount of cloud everywhere as you can see. but really that's just over the top of what is a morning frost, which spreads right up towards truckle queens and so really cold starts the day.

the sun relieves it, and for the most part you looking at a nice looking day, there's another little system rolling in from the west. in fact, it has given some proper rain in person dry a day with no straight at during monday. and that increased the wind eventually in adelaide cloud. kevin could put a pot of victoria, but it is nothing like the wintry seen you saw about 3 days ago. that's headed off towards new zealand. and yes, this at least 2 more days of this persistent, cold and snowy stuff up in the mountains and particularly warning on the hill passes of course. but if you're in the lee in christ church, it's ok. the what happens in new york has implications all around the world. it's the home of the united nations. it's a center of international finance, international culture. to make these stories resonate requires talking to everyday people to normal people, not just power brokers, and that's where al jazeera is different. the mayor of the city announced that he

was doing the way with the curfew. that was, that was to get everybody off. it's international perspective with the human touch zooming way in and then pulling back out again. lou. oh, the hello again. the top stories on al jazeera people in france are voting in the 1st round of parliamentary elections. president, 2 minute micro coalition holds the majority of seats in the assembly, but he's facing a challenge from a left wing law. china defense minister has warned against foreign interference in taiwan. he was speaking at a top security conference and singapore. he said beijing would fight to the end if

taiwan tried to break from china. sure, lanka, prime minister says he may have to buy more oil from russia to ease fuel shortages . for testers, have been calling for the government to resign. as the country faces it's worth, economic crisis and independence, a policeman has been killed in a confrontation between security forces and mass i heard, or is in northeastern tons any of the mass. i were protesting against the demarcation of land to create a wildlife reserve in lowly on the near the serengeti national park, active a se sum. demonstrators were injured by live rounds. they say communities are under pressure to leave their ancestral lands to make way for private hunting expeditions . the government says it wants to protect the region from human activity. at red, pearl quote is the director of pen goes for and that's an organization working to defend the rights of indigenous people in towns. and he says, the government has not followed clear procedures that

we didn't, what they might say simply now in the village. and many of these v made years have been purchased and buy the land laws. but unfortunately, now the lender is also in the area where the students with natural resources have that right. we're going to add new. so there have been a lot of and i think they have never been down. no one said, telling that part of the story and the bad thing is that the court date is the case of in the start from justice, which is the media on the 2nd. and before even the munition of the case, the government plan to be on the land and basically said to pass that productivity to teams very difficult to get all the information. but because

nobody is free to talk about because of the issue that we belong to them and the government is saying that the land is the government plan. so that is really where the problem me, i think it was to me, they're very clear procedures in the long run, you know, or how to, how to protect the, learn from or change their categories from the village. learn to learn that they shoes and they were procedures are not being followed. a 2nd round of talks aimed at resolving through john's political crisis has been postponed indefinitely. the main civilian blog has refused to take part, saying the meetings lead legitimize last years. military crew, there been more protest and several cities to demand the return to civilian rule. security forces fire to augusta have to me, while demonstrators burned tires and barricaded streets on thursday, delegates from the main pro democracy alliance met military leaders for the 1st

time. since the coo, we believe, is going to put unit 2 and the crew 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 calls 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 it is obvious. this is the peoples de mamma, and the democratic regime should be established real civil authority. even the police and his young have arrested a journalist after he made comments on al jazeera about president places hired for law. he 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 fries wages. al jazeera media network continues to demand a rapid, independent on transparent investigation into the killing a fits journalist and the occupied westbank city and la clair was shot in the head by is really forces while she was on assignment in jeanine on the day of her funeral. is really for a storm the procession and started beating mourners, causing pall bearers to almost drop her caskets. that didn't stop thousands of palestinians for 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 of what was with al jazeera for 25 years, covering the story of the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine, while the golden arches are gone. but american style cheeseburgers are on the menu in moscow. again. the 1st mcdonald's restaurant in russia has reopened under

a new branding and ownership. the chain is now called delicious, full stop. mcdonald shut all 850 russian outlets in march following the invasion of ukraine. the new restaurants are all owned by a local licensee, but the american company has the option to buy back its locations. within 15 years, a sharp increase in the amount of money some back home by expanses fueling an investment boom. in gambia. it's a sign of hope for an economy that's been battered by the coven. 19 pandemic, and is, uh huh. is reese, reports from banjo. the influx of cash is drawing some act to the country. lunch time approaches. how much i mindy and how staff are getting ready for what has now become a routine, getting swamped by customers. orders start coming by, fall 2 hours before lunch. yamuna ought to restaurants, and it's already planning more with money she saved up in the united states. coming

back home, it's like the best thing for me and yeah, it was good going whatever line i learned over there because i loved got no video that i just wanted to bring all of that knowledge here and then do chill with people that you can really make it back home, but really status having the biggest slice of remi doses from gibbons aboard. this us based, realistic developer, has sold dozens of properties in the gum piano and is building a set of 36 bungalows here. have, i mean, no troubles sell it? and again, the reason is because people have known me in this business, we have known it overseas and i'll do an in here from real estate to hospitality and retail diaspora represents is a key to the local economy. it's one of the most significant sectors of ha, could, i mean, it's as much as almost 50 percent of a g d p. meaning that

a lot of can been said out overseas and money to support their families and more increasingly also to develop real estate. i'm send their family and children to school with a fibrillation of 10000000 people. the gumby i received an estimated half a $1000000000.00 in rem mitosis from citizens in the diaspora. in 2021 got jumped quite 50 percent gone. unprecedented $778000000.00. this quantity cannot be followed from coverage 19. now these ones help to transform the economy of it's more what's public and basic. and it's people. operators of these online trading platform sell organic home gold, groceries to carpios abroad. but we wanted to get a portion of that remittance market and carried them to, i mean, food health, not only food, what healthy food, organic food, it house, luke and pharmacy as well. or them flows expected to grow,

as the economy recovers from the impact of copied 90, officious, a hoping remittances will have returned, lost jobs during the pandemic, and create even more jobs of the growing number of unemployed computers. army decrease al jazeera by june the gambia. he was president joe biden is promising federal funds for new mexico. after the largest wild fire in the states history. the fires destroyed hundreds of homes and burned through a large stretches of lands. they started as a controlled burn, but then quickly spreads. some people are suing the fire service to get more information about the government's role. biting, says the people who've been impacted will be fully compensated. i think we have a responsibility as a government has to deal with the communities who are put in such jeopardy. and today, managing the federal government is covering 100 percent of the cost was

the protective measures for the next critical months of the rooms recovery. hundreds of thousands of factors of columbia's amazon rain forests are being destroyed each year to make space for mining cattle, ranching and drug trafficking. and the 2nd part of our series, i'll zeros alessandro and petty visits a cup ritual, where people are trying to change things for the better route the charlie's stopped cutting 35 years ago. like everybody here, she used to log and burned 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 i last, i called it, they always have 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. 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 also former coca the farmer own. ms. 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. it's 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 abandoned 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 cut tumble implant. what you see duco, 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. 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 yet that i had, we haven't, i mean knowing aqona until the government arrives with technical assistance and land titling an organization in a way that protects the population and the environment. unfortunately, the for station will continue the community for as the program is small and does not.