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this is al jazeera ah hello, this is in is our on al jazeera, fully back to go live from our headquarters in doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. voting is underway in france as parliamentary elections. president macross coalition faces a tough challenge from a left wing alliance. ukraine says renewed shelling by russian forces in the east has caused a fire at a chemical plant in severe donates. also the sour china says any foreign interference in the region is doomed to fail and vows to fight to the end. to prevent tie one's independence and desperate for fuel. sri lanka announces rationing of petrol as the countries in the grip of its worst financial crisis. in over 17, i'm trying to get raska with the scores, including formula one as chelsea cook starts from the front of the grid in azerbaijan, that can the ferrari driver finally convert poles to the top,

the podium on his false attempt. ah, thank you very much for joining as voting is underway in the 1st round of francis parliamentary elections present amended. my course 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 ball results. we'll decide whether my car will have enough support in parliament to pass his reform agenda. life to algae, here is john hall in paris for so john a just what is at stake in these elections? the french voters are setting about electing a parliament. it'll be decided in 2 rounds. this is the 1st round, of course. so next weekend, we'll have a result, 2 months after emanuel macros was return for the 2nd time to the presidency. how

will the country make its laws? how will it actually be governed? that's what this is all about. now, 5 years ago when micron was 1st elected president, his central coalition completed a clean sweep controlling the parliament as well. this time around things could be a little less clear cut. and that is because, as you mentioned there of a strong challenge from the far left a coalition coalition led by john new mill and sean, who finished a strong 3rd in the presidency. he's put, built this coalition of leftists of communists, of greens. he's attracted strong support from the young over a program of environmental protections. the coalition wants to raise the taxes on the rich raise the minimum wage. it wants to lower the retirement age as well. and if indeed, he wins a majority with a coalition. does y'all knew the management manage on himself? we'd like to be prime minister. now you've got to go back more than 20 years to the last time. anything like this happened. it's called cohabitation in france and an uneasy cohabitation of that 2 opposing parties in control of the presidency and the

parliament. and so how, how might that affect the way francis government surely commit on tional and the coalition from the left end up doing well. well, electro reporting restrictions mean we can't talk about actual predictions or opinion polls, but if they do well, even if they don't win an outright majority with 289 seats. the fall as coalition might have a potential to block, much of the centrist coalitions, legislative agenda that would lead to negotiations with other parties. macro would have to talk in all likelihood with the right it would lead to haggling to compromises and all sorts of other difficulties. as one analyst said to me at a time when france, like many other countries is facing a cost of living crisis, with soaring inflation, it could potentially render this country ungovernable. jonah, thank you very much for that, john hall live there in paris. let's discuss this further now with an elizabeth

moody who is a political commentator based in paris. thank you very much for joining us on ology 0. elizabeth, how do you gauge to move in front to day? how big of a threat is generally made? optional is aligned to my cause, absolute majority in parliament to be honest and not unless there is a match. major upset, i think sean admin or shoals alliance because it's not his fault alone. but i think his alliance has got momentum and they might get close to majority. it seems almost impossible that in a country which has voted in the presidential elections, but 2 thirds on right when candidates that the left could get that close. but that's what it means when you get your manage to organize a alliance of all the parties, even if they disagree among themselves. yeah. ok. he, i with this is the 1st route. what's going to you really interesting is the 2nd round in a week's time. when you've got the of the candidates that remain above 12 and

a half percent of the registered voters, they can stay. and so it's not just going to be one candidate to get to another one . like in the presidential election. it is going to be actually possibly what we and france called triangular elections, which means that you have say, a macaroni stop you have right when you're what's left of them. and then you've got, you got the new purse, the min offshore thing. and that is one instance in which, if they can't get to terms one with the other one in which men are sure mean or sure, and peace could get in. but that's only in the, in the 2nd round next week. and michael's faith in himself is that at the end of the day, people will be scared of jones banashali may or may not. it may or may not work. i, as you say, this is only the 1st round to day, as you alluded to and it is about this new 5 party alliance from the left. the far left. they have huge differences among them, especially when it comes to international policy, for example. so what is

a common goal and what, what is join french voters to them? is it just about blocking my co? ultimately, it's also the fact that we have seen the disappearance in france in the past 5 years under a menu in my course, seen the disappearance of what used to be the traditional of political parties, left and right center, right, and center left. so on the right to the republican party has more or less self. destructed happened in 2017, but it certainly has this time with baby because of the candidate who has a perfectly acceptable candidate for probably a majority of the french, a completely sort of failing to, to materialize a bit. and she was under 5 percent of that, which is quite disastrous for the, the, the party that used to be was the policy of the goal. and on the other side, the surface had already sort of pretty much sort of crumbled 5 years ago. and this time they had the wrong candidate and he does go to paris mayor who is on butcher

and who schooled at 1.7 percent of who wrote. so you live a whole mass of voters on either side who feel what became of the policy. i want to vote for i because these makes me policies have but potential go to this, but they've not been able to to sort of make them vote and on. so the, the new purse is minerals instinct, which was a good instinct to say, look, this at least there will be a candidate on the left were and what, who will create, oh, be part of an alliance that has a chance to get the, i don't on too many people said up, we just do not on the left to be completely absolute from the french political debate. right. as a john, our correspondent in paris mentioned we could be faced with a situation where you have a so called cohabitation government, a prime minister, from the left, germany made on shore and the president of course a michael. how would that work? exactly, and what would it mean for my course reforms and, and the way, francisco well, we could be, i don't think it's very likely, but there's

a possibility and we have seen computations in the past. we have seen them when a possible deal. cohabitate once with jack shock and, and actually twice was actually hot. and, oh, this is will surely financial wants to force the front whole situation because the french system is very clear. he of presidential system and the president has precedence, precedence over the prime minister on everything and bought a dog. but there are 2 domains that actually written constitution. one of them is defense and the other one is foreign policy. so foreign policy and defense candy, the president, it's because it's constitution was written for general the goal, and that's what he wanted to have permanence. he also did not imagine that he would have to be done. but in other tubs, especially in terms of the economy, then of the middle shore party, the new purse would probably be able to pass things in columns. they would need

a majority try to question and what they gain to post. because in that alliance, you've got people who really disagree. you got people who got basically what you can if you want to be sort of simplistic, say they've got the typical marks as few about about the economy. and you've got also some sort of socialist and social democrats, the equivalent of social democrats who believe in a market economy, shared us where the thing was, hold on. thank you so much for talking to us about this. thank you for your insight and elizabeth, smoothly joining us there from paris. ah, ukraine says more russian shelley in the east has caused a massive fire at a chemical plant where hundreds of civilian, vast sheltering it happened in sierra dounia square. russia has been focusing much of its high power. the governor of hans says he crane phil controls the chemical facility. the ukrainian president voted me. lensky says his country will win the

war with russia. but his asking allies for more ammunition and weapons. let's go live to key van cha. stratford who's there for is johnny. what more you hearing about this fire, this chemical planted and severe to nets? well, a few minutes ago it came off the phone to a ukrainian deputy commander inside that city. so for the next one of only 2 cities, now that is not on the full russian control in the loo, ganske region of don bass, that deputy commander saying to us that yes, there had been heavy shilling of that chemical plant and that it was on fire that chemical plant, a vast, great soviet built industrial complex that before the wall used to produce fertilizes and building material. and it's located in the south east of the city. we understand close to the river close to the river that separates the town. several minutes from the town of lucy chanced, which he tells us is also getting heavily shelled. we asked him whether he could

firm reports that we've been hearing of the last couple of days about hundreds of civilians sheltering underneath that chemical plant. in several minutes, he was unable to confirm that he estimate stood up to 2000 civilians. may have died in sever the next amidst this heavy fighting. but of course we have no way of independently confirming that it's believed that at least $10000.00 civilians are still in that city. and we, when we asked him whether there was any kind of ongoing evacuation of those civilians, he said that it was very perfunctory, very sporadic, and the majority of the people inside, severed in it, civilians are refusing to leave. we've also spoken to the mayor of the town of papason and now positive was taken control of by the russians about a month and a half ago. it is to the south east of several and ask about 50 kilometers the mer

there. and he's out of papason and now, but he saying that the russians are pushing out of papa's now and yesterday took control of a village, a village that we actually visited, or very close to about a month and a half ago. the village of verb rifka, he said that raw since it taken control of that village in a big we understand to try and surround those cities of lucy, chance and civil than it is. now this comes at a time when the ukrainians are complaining again that they don't have enough weapons from the west on those western weapons that they have been allocated or not getting here fast enough. so there are huge concerns yet again to day for room closely. ukrainians ability to be able to defend that city and for the up to what we understand could be around $10000.00 civilians, either trapped inside that city or unwilling to leave. charlie, thank you for that char stradford live there in cave. as lots more ahead on this al jazeera and use our including what good man didn't change your what the man,

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mainland is inevitable. the law, the general, we will resolutely crush any attempts 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, or we will fight to the end. this is the only choice for china al jazeera is jessica washington is at the summit in singapore and has more on the chinese defense minister speech. 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, 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 oregon have

successfully been able to manage these issues. and that freedom of navigation is in fact north, 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 seas . 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 gene 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. as bringing adrian

brown in hong kong. now, adrian, these 2 superpowers are used to this strong language that we've heard. does it feel different this time around? always interests more the same? well i think given that taiwan and of course ukraine were the dominant themes of this security conference, harsh language was to be expected and harsh language is what we got. but there's no doubt that during the past few months, the language has got more blunt at the finger pointing more ferocious. now putting the sort of verbal sparring on to one side. the situation in the skies of taiwan off the coast of taiwan is, according to lloyd austin, the u. s. secretary of state bic theorists, defense secretary, i'm sorry, becoming much more serious. he has accused china's military, it's air force. it's navy of carrying out maneuvers that he says, ultimately threatened the lives of u. s. service men and women,

and he says it has to stop. now, the worry of the us is that this military brinkmann ship could at some stage, get out of control, such as has happened in 2001 when a u. s. surveillance plane was involved in an incident with a chinese fighter plane and had to make an emergency landing at hein, an island. the u. s. is worried that something like that could very easily happen again, which is why lloyd austin, as we saying we need to have better and improved communication between the 2 sides on ukraine. we of course heard from the ukranian president, he once more accused russia of basically sabotaging the rules based order. it's a sort of charge we've heard from the united states against china in the past. a china of course, maintains it is neutral. it says that he wants it to be peace talks and it says that ultimately sanctions are counterproductive,

even damaging. and china stressed once more that it is a partner of russia, not an ally, but it's the position that some delegates have taken issue with. and the chinese defense minister adrian also outlined his vision of regional security in the asia pacific a do some of the countries in that region worry that they may soon have to choose sides. yeah, i think, i think they do. i mean, a lot of these countries have china as their largest trading partner. they need to be on good terms with the most important economy in this region. but at the same time, they also want to have good relations maintain good relations with united states. the world's most of the world's biggest economy. so they find themselves in this difficult position where they may 1 day have to take sides and they are very worried about that. i think it's fair to say that some of these countries are just as wary of the united states as i also are of china. adrian,

thank you very much. adrian brown, live there in hong kong. well, let's speak to wendell minnock about this sir. a bit more, i his a typo base military journalist joining us live from there. thank you. and for being with us on this issue of taiwan has become it seems a flash point of attentions between washington and b. g. you have china today threatening and all out war over taiwan. how seriously do you think we should take this threat? well, are china normally it makes these kinds of threats. and so not news here in town. one, at least are they, they had claim taiwan as a runaway province and a renegade province, and they expected to come back to the motherland just as hong kong did arm and there, well, there be a war i, i don't know, but the chinese certainly have the advantage in the air. busy and seeing now, so it's, it's looking dark, fertile on it. but as you say, i mean

a taiwan has always been a source of constant friction between beijing and washington. do you get a sense that is different this time around and that beijing may be altering the status call regarding taiwan? i know will push till they own it. ah, they're not going to stop. the folks in washington change office, the new administration, a new state department at china never changes. they will push to a on it. there's no question about it. they did that in a south china sea. now they own it. it's there's, they're not going to give it back. they're not going to negotiate. one doesn't have the military capable to do that. but, but i didn't recently hinted even though of the state department later on how to retract some of what he said that he would defend taiwan if it was to be attacked by aging. do you see that happening?

you know, with bite in talking about focusing more in asian security issues. well, that happened during the bombing ministration as well. and of course, later for trump, but there was no uptick in military support for time one. there were some arms cells, but the japanese didn't do anything. there's a lot of talk about japan getting involved into one defense issues and increasing the security expenditures. and they really haven't done anything australia the same saying that a pretty slow getting on board on some of this stuff. so if it's going to be a us china fight for an island that the united states doesn't really recognize as a country. there's a big problem there. thank you so much for talking to us about this. thank you for your time. wendell many, a military journalist joining us from type a to sri lanka now where the prime minister says he may have to buy more oil from

russia to ease fuel shortages such despite a push by western leaders to blank russia's energy exports because of its invasion of ukraine, the shrunken scott, it's she lankin government has also announced the weekly she will coulters in order to manage the shortage of in months of protest calling on the government to resign as the country shall. lanka faces its worst economy crisis since independence. a severe shortage of foreign currencies preventing the important basic goods such as food, fuel and medicine. we need the food, and now we are negotiating with private supply. the stuff that we gwen by anything in the private supplies with us. and we buy from them. part of it that issue he a, that there's a lot of white going around averages which can be source back informally, to iran, ot russia. sometimes you may not know what or you're buying,

but review and looking at other sources. i would that are traditional sources from the middle east, or have you been picking where we have been purchasing for me now? fernandez is like correspondent in shall angus capital, columbus. so me now the government announcing fuel rationing from july 1st. what does it mean for people and, and how they are reacting well, it's a sort of a double edged sword at the moment. i mean, we've heard this announcement from the minutes of energy content video saker a little while. oh, earlier today. the fact that he has no choice but to start registering consumers, and then basically giving them a guaranteed caught up a week. now it all looks good when he announces it, but obviously for consumers, it's going to mean that they're going to want to see this actually put into action . what you see behind me is a busy patrol station air in the heart of colombo,

a vis a station actually has fewer stalks, but there's an on ending line of where he goes both petrol and diesel. there are 3 wheelers, all the local taxes. there are essentially motor bikes. people who've been queueing up for hours. this one gentleman who's just sitting a little bit off camera that's been here since 6 o'clock in the morning. and he still hasn't got all the supplies he needed. now people obviously have much better things to do things like getting on with their lives going and putting of food on the table, earning their money. they cannot afford to spend a, you know, 234 years, sometimes 10 and sometimes as bad as 24 hours in frederick used sometimes at fuel stations which are closed. the buses haven't even arrived yet. so things are really bad. so one thing that will happen is the rationing actually happens. police people might be able to save a bit of time. they will have a guaranteed amount of fuel that they will be able to get. but give them the sort

of chaos we have seen in recent weeks. people will want to see that the government is able to actually do this. me now. thank you for that. me now. fernandez, live in colombo and the average price of petrol in the u. s. has hate to more than $5.00 a gallon the highest since 2008. right. is it well above that in some states fuel in california is ringing at $6.43 a gallon rises. being blamed for driving americas highest inflation rate in 40 years, cable is under, has more from buffalo, new york. 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 at $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 pocket books. still ahead on the news, our a building boom in the gambia fields, via surgeon the money sent home from abroad. you branch, same franchise, mcdonald's golden arches are getting as russian. we launch in mass post pushkin's

class and the defending champion for tampa bay lightning maker, stanley cup finals for a 3rd year in a row. you'll have to stay with us. we're back up to the board. ah! with that unseasonable windy weather's rolling away from scotland towards the coast of norway. but if you're not up there, then everywhere else feels rather more summary in most places, quite warm in some places. some pretty big showers and i'm thinking really of east to new york, particularly romanian down to was greece and turkey. the case during sunday was the hint of showers growing further west and it's quite warm in france, very warm parts of spain that tends to hint at growing showers. it could become quite big sensitivity when kicked up by the i was for example,

the picture on monday is quarter wet. we're ready from southern poland. all right. as of august, not as sharon notice. and then towards turkey, with a bit of breeze picked up through the gin. but the real heat. this isn't tempered, the tall it handle is here is in spain in southern portugal, the something of a heat wave warning here it tempered further. don't see by showers here, but in this corner was temperatures in the forty's we are hotter than we should be at this time. the year we're approaching record values. 45 in cordova, for example, is the record for june. now asked her, of course it is hot hot in the doors, but in the middle of the sahara desert there is a plume of cloud and yes, that means showers that far north. ah mm mm. you want to help save the world? sneeze into your elbow.

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a. this is a news our on al jazeera, fully back, people are reminder of our main stories this. our voting is underway in france, in the 1st round of parliamentary elections, president mannion mccoy, about the cast his ballot. his correlation currently holds the majority of seats in the assembly, but he's facing a challenge from left to wing block. ukraine has russian shutting, has caused a major fire at the chemical plant. in severe dough. net 100 civilians are reported to be sheltering back and forth, trying to push back a russian offensive in the city and china's defense minister way fung her. has warned that for an interfering thing taiwan is doomed to fail. addressing a top security conference in singapore, he said beijing would fight to the end. if taiwan tried to declare independence.

in avenues in india, 30 soldiers have 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. it happened in the northeast and fate of non land mistaking them front for an armed group. 8 civilians and a soldier died when angry crowds confronted the troops. police, indonesia have arrested a journalist after he made comments on al jazeera about present, kai said, falla 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, and transparent investigation into the killing register unless in the occupied west bank. sharina actually was shot in the head by israeli forces. while she was an assignment in janine, on the day of her funeral is really forces jerome the profession. and sodding be beating morning is causing full berries 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 continued to call for an independent investigation. sharina lockley was with al jazeera for 25 years covering this story of the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. now a sharp increase in the amount of money sent back home by expand this fueling and investment boom in the gambia. it's a sign of hope for an economy that's been battered by the coven 19 pandemic. and as i'm address reports from banjo, the influx of cash is even drawing some back to a country lunch time approaches. how much i mindy and how staff are getting ready

for it has now become a routine, getting swamped by customers. orders stop coming by for 2 hours before lunch. young owns to restaurants and is 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. what i've learned, i learned over there because i love video that i just wanted to bring all that knowledge and then just chill with people that you can really make it back home. but really status having the biggest slice of remittances from campaigns aboard. this us based, realistic developer has sold dozens of properties in the gum piano and is building a set of 36 bungalows here. how i mean, no troubles sell it. and again,

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after demonstrators barricaded streets with burning ties on thursday, delegates from the main pro democracy alliance met with military leaders for the 1st time since the takeover in october. not only we believe digital sooner to and the cool and ensure safe exit for both the military and the people towards democracy, justice and a new society now man ran out of georgia. we didn't go to these talks to reinstate a new partnership with the military grant to put an end to any partnership levels of the military forces. she returned to their barracks to do their job. while this is obvious, this is the peoples demand, and the democratic regime should be established on the real civil authority, even though i ship carrying 16000, she passed, sank off the so came port in sudan. the ship's crew has been rescued, but it's yet. it's not a clear how much livestock survived. local media reports that said the vessel was overloaded,

rescue teams had tried to take the ship to harbor before it said managed. a policeman has been killed in a confrontation between security forces and my i heard is in ne, in times via the mass i were protesting against the land being marked out to create a wildlife preserve. in leon door, near the sorry, getty, national park activists say some demonstrators were shocked and injured. they say, communities are under pressure to leave, then festal lands, to make way for private hunting expeditions. the government wants to protect the breach in for human activity. and what proc, why is the director of pengo for him and organization working to defend the rights of indigenous people in times in the year? he says the government hasn't followed proper procedures, they lend it to the world. and then we've even met the mostly how simply now is really and many of these be made years have been purchased and article by their landlords. but unfortunately now the land is also in the area where the students

are with natural resources that have that right. we're going to add new so there have been a local driver, and i think they have never been in one said that part of the story. and the matching is that the court date vacation in the start from justice, which is the media on the 2nd. and before even the munition of the case, the government is planning to be on the land and basically said to pass on to teams very difficult to get all the information. but because nobody is free to talk about just 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 probably me,

i think if it was to me, they're very clear procedures in the long run, you know, or how to, how to protect it, to learn from or change the categories from the village. learn to learn that the issues there were procedures are not being followed. and anthony has signed a framework agreement with energy giant shell and equinox to export gas. if implemented, the deal would see a new liquefied natural gas plant built in the coastal town of lindy by 2029. if spawn of tonton is efforts to exploit its vast coastal gas deposits. the government says a project will significantly change the economy. syria has confirmed major damage at damascus international airport during and is really a strike on friday at the runway said monitors, say, a control tower, several hind of an reception. those were also affected. the airport is now out of service and flies to being diverted to

a level. israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against government or allied troops in syria since the civil war began. bear in 2011, iran and venezuela had signed a 20 corp agreement during president nicholas montoya's trip to tehran. deal means they'll work together in sectors, including oil, petrochemical, st, tourism, and culture. the 2 countries are expanded their relationship even as they faced us sanctions. victoria gets me, reports raises venezuela's, president nicholas maduro, and iran's president abraham racy, meet in tay ran and agree on a 20 year cooperation deal were lava. oh, matter with this government cooperation has taken place in the fields of energy, economy, science, agriculture and defense girls. the signing of this agreement is another step in expanding relations in the coming years. venezuela's close ties with the ran date back to its former president hugo chavez. but under madura, the to opec members have become closer since both was sanctioned by the united

states. by my symbol, we will be witnesses of the coming years. our countries will confront the difficulties they face and create a new world. the youth in venezuela, the youth in iran, must know that the world of the future will be a just world without imperialism. iran already supplies venezuela with crude oil and provides technical support to its oil industry. but unless say missouri's trip is also about solidarity. i do think that it is significant that the 2 countries are trying to join up against american pressure arm. and we have to remember that they're not alone. we also have countries such as russia and china at the same time . however, we have to remember that all of these 4 countries they have different grievances when it comes to the americans. missouri's trip to iran coincides with the summit of the americas that taking place in los angeles. washington didn't invite him to the high level meeting. speaking at the summit, u. s. secretary of state anthony blank and said then as well as president should

resume talks with the countries opposition. in our judgment, venezuelan led negotiations between the majorities and the unitary platform. are the best path that we can see are to trying to restore to venezuela and some of democracy that they clearly deserve and clearly want. it's a call that's almost certain to be ignored. instead he ran and venezuela united against a common enemy appeared closer than ever victoria gate and be al jazeera, hundreds of people have taken to the street across the u. s. did a man tough a gun last day come after a series of mass shootings including one at a primary school in texas and another and a supermarket in buffalo, new york, last month. my can every force washington, rein kept away many, but had little to diminish. the spirit of the thousands that came to protest about more than $19000.00 people in the united states have died in gun related violence

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. we're not asking for a lot washington dcs mayor summarizing the feeling of all at the rally where demanding change your demanding change. now we need her 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 a day on which hundreds of thousands of americans came together with one common message. my kana ultra 0 washington. you as president joe biden is promising

federal funds for new mexico. after the largest wildfire in the states history. the fires destroyed hundreds of homes and burned through 1300 square kilometers of land . the flames started as a controlled 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've been impacted will be fully compensated. degree of responsibility. as a government has to deal with the communities were put in such jeopardy. and under today, i'm announcing the programmers covering 100 percent of the cost whom you protective measures from the critical monsoons recovery. hundreds of thousands of hector of columbia, the amazon rain forest being destroyed each year to make space for mining cattle,

ranching and drunk trafficking. in the 2nd part of our series, al jazeera is alessandra p. a. t visit feature where people are trying to change things for the better ruby, charlie stopped cutting 35 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 i 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. foundation for conservation and sustainable development involved over a 100 families living in the northern areas of the columbia, 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 if thought about it. but as 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 before us. most of these projects were created following the signing of a piece deal with fight 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 roots be farm. we found people

planting seeds in a recently cleared area. lonely. come on it up. the only way we have to survive is cut. tumble and plant what you see. duca corn planting us. we don't have an alternative. no support from the government. they made many promises. we got rid of cocoa, but nothing happened in exchange for that. but almost 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 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 if the program is small and does not offer a long term answer. but it shows that there are alternatives to the devastation of the rain forest. and that those who live here can be part of the solution for future generations. allison, that the under the capital,

the golden arches are gone, but american style cheeseburgers are still on the menu in moscow. the 1st mcdonald's restaurant in russia has reopened, under you branding and ownership. the chain is not called delicious, full stop. and donald shall. busy 850 russian outlets in march following the invasion of ukraine. the new restaurants are owned by a local licensee, but the american company has the option to buy back its locations within 15 years. still ahead on al jazeera action from one of the most famous school races in the world. the bell one's faith that's coming up in sports with for 4 weeks, america in gold didn't protest every day, all over the u. s. even as the country faces the continued threat of a deadly pandemic. and it morphed into

a movement calling for police reforms. sometimes it was violent, but mostly it was peaceful. we asked people to describe what america is now feeling . i think people want change. and i think people are willing to do whatever it takes to get there one friday, billions of people in america are expected to celebrate what's called june 18th and unofficial holiday. commemorating the end of slavery in the united states. this year in the wake of the nationwide protests, there is a growing number of calls to make it an official federal holiday. as people see it as a great opportunity to take to the streets, to continue to let their message be heard. i don't have a narrative. i have all my should join me, rochelle carryon up front as my guest from around the world. take the hot p. i me to basically talk, don't worry, some pricing issues here with

ah, tom novice force his joe. thankfully we begin with formula one and chose the clerk's thoughts from po, position for fall, strike, grown pre in the next few minutes. drive response t, as in qualifying in azerbaijan, almost 3 tenths of a 2nd, a head, red bulls, sergio paris, although so fall, occur, has failed to convert those 3 previous poles into wins. cham shipley to max the stop, and we'll start from 3rd. a 3rd good surprise. yeah, everything went well and i managed to put everything i wanted in my lap and obviously took a bit of risk, but i guess i was ever wanting to 3 for the last love and he bade off so very,

very heavy so far read bill and ferrari have dominated at the back who track this week, but many drivers have found it difficult to get around. in one piece, swirling wind has made it tough to turn the cars into the corners. so we could be about see an incident packed as the by john graham, pre beginning in the next few minutes while says champion, patch agreed, is the latest big name. go for to sign up to the saudi arabia backs and live series . he'll join later this month. in the us following charles schwartz was lucrative victory at the inaugural tournament. david stokes reports a tap and put with $4000000.00. south africa show support, so lead from start to finish, to claim the 1st ever lived series, told them and when, and with the biggest prize in go history, flight a full week of, of hard preparation. and i think it's, you know, for the amount that's at stake, what love is put up. um i could see myself doing that form was all the events

really trying to prepare? like i did for major sna. my decides to come early and be real prepared because you got 3 rounds. nice. you don't have 4 rounds to maybe catch up with you were behind your 3 rounds. you have to play well all 3 rounds, otherwise you weren't 137 year old short. so also on the team events at the centurion club. so walked away with 4750000 overall is compatriot. any? do plessy finish 2nd for just over 2000000. to put that in context before this week, it had taken him $32.00 events from the european talk to and just they were full $100000.00. see, ah, with such huge prize money and big signing bonuses on offer. it's not hard to see why the saudi arabia back venture has attracted several big names, including phil mickelson and dustin johnson. the more established pga tour in the u . s. is responded by suspending all of its members that have taken part. but it hasn't stopped others signing up major. when is bryson de champeaux and patrick

read the latest stars to put pen to paper. i'm super excited just just the thought of being. i'll be a part of an evolution in a change in golf for the better for me, just a dumb, believable, and been watching all weekend and the format and just the way everything is. and i'm super excited and can't wait to be a part 20 players have not affected to the live series, but for now most of the top 10 is staying put with several of them competing at this week's canadian opened on the pga tool guys can do as they wish if they want to go, they can golf, they want to stay, they can stay. so i wish it wouldn't be taking away from the great story lines and things that are going on on a tour that's been around for a very long time and can in his, in the one of the best places it's ever been. and dom at, you know, it's just a barbara that those guys won't be a part of it. ah, the divided will gold seems set to continue for some time yet with 7 more live series tournament. still to come this year short. so and his fellow rebels,

we'll get another shot at full $1000000.00 in the u. s. at the end of this month at the pumpkin ridge golf club in oregon. they'd stokes out his era. well, as you saw that 3 time major champion, roy mcroy is shunned the live series so far, but he shows the lead at the p. j tools. canadian, i've been going into the final round. the northern irishman who's the defending champion, caught its 6 buddies to sit alongside american tony fee. now they now had a day to remember tying a career low round of $62.00, which include an ego and 7 birdies. 2 time defending champions. tampa bay lightning a heading back to the stanley cup finals. captain stevens duncan scored twice to leave the lightning to a 21 win over the new york ranges in game 6. clenching the eastern conference series for to tampa bay face the colorado avalanche again, one in denver on wednesday in colorado. probably the best team in the league, so as you progress through the playoffs, each,

each round gets tougher, each a pony gets tougher. there is a reason why there's 2 teams left, and that's because there's 2 best teams in league. so i'm going to have our, our handful for sure. and the murray will move inside the world's top 50 for the 1st time in 4 years after reaching the final inch took got the former well, no one beat nick carrie, else in the semi finals your strain was given a point penalty for smashing his racket. was also penalized in tie again for unsportsmanlike conduct. it didn't phase murray though, who won in straight sets and he'll meet matea martini in the final and a big upset at the lee bama open in the netherlands wild card. tim vandalay houghton beach, 2nd seed felix of j aaliyah seem in 3 sets. the work number 205 who hadn't won a match on the atp tour until this week has reached the final ill play. well, number 2, daniel medford for the title later on sunday,

and will finish one of the most famous horse races in the world. the 100 and 54th running of the belmont stakes with one point. $5000000.00 is part of what's known as the triple crown. along with the kentucky derby and preakness stakes, the pre race favorite mo, done ago, was the winner head of nest. in 2nd, both trained by the same man told pledger it was pledges 6 victory in a triple crown right away. and that is all you spoke now have movie later. joey. thank you very much for that. that is it for this news our on al jazeera, but do stay with us. my colleague, dary navigator will be with you very shortly with more updates. thanks orange. ah, we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call al jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that

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