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anyone my cross ho alicia is facing a challenge from a left wing block led by is on the balance on the watering holes. is there a light from a headquarters in ohio dirty navigate? also coming up, china says any foreign interference in the region is doomed to fail and vows to fight to the end to prevent taiwanese independence running out of fuel. sure lanka, and also a weekly quota to deal with major shortages lead to nationwide protests. why, man, big change your what? the man, the change now a renew post for tougher gun control laws in the us. thousands of people rally across the country offer a series of not shooting. ah,

hello, voters and france were casting their ballots in the 1st round of parliamentary elections. president, manuel microns coalition 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. the results will decide whether micro will have enough support in parliament. the past has reform agenda and elizabeth moody is a political commentator based in paris. she says the 2nd round may introduce a 3rd party to the race. i think sonic middle shoals alliance because it's not his fault. he 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 for 2 thirds on right. when candidate said the left could get that closed, but that's what it means when you get your manage to organize an alliance of all the parties, even if they disagree among themselves. are he, i would,

this is the 1st route. what's going to be really interesting is the 2nd round in a week's time, or 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 another one, like in the presidential election. it is going to be actually possibly what we and france called triangular electrons, which means that you have say, a macros. east up, you have a right when you're what's left of them, and then you've got, you've 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 short, men are sure m p 's could get in. but that's only in the, in the 2nd round next week. and emma michael's faith in himself is that at the end of the day, people will be scared of genetic menache or it may or may not. china's defense

minister has issued a stark warning for an interference and in taiwan is doomed to fail way from his address at the shangri la dialogue and singapore are focused on beijing stands on taiwan. tensions between china and the us are front and center on the last day of the summit. on saturday, us defense secretary lloyd austin, accused beijing of intimidation and aggression towards taiwan. china says the islands re unification with the mainland is inevitable. john, your, 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 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 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 beijing would never fully all the countries in the region. and he really stressed that that is the pointed difference between washington and beijing's approach. wendell mac is a taiwan based military journalist. he says, china will likely end up taking control of the island. they had claim taiwan as a, as a runaway province and renegade province. and they expected to come back to the motherland just as hong kong did. and will there be a war, i don't know, but the chinese certainly have the advantage in the air and seeing now. so it's, it's looking dark for tile on, i know we'll push till they own it. they're not going to stop the folks in

washington change office, the new administration, the new state department at, but china never changes. they will push till a on it. there's no question about it. they did that in the 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. and taiwan doesn't have the military capable to do that to help even so if it's going to be a us, china fight for an island, the united states doesn't really recognize as a country. there's a big problem there. fiji defense minister has for the summit that the regions vegas security threat is not conflict, but rather climate change. pacific islands are seen some of the most vulnerable in the world to changing weather patterns. in fiji, we are not threatened by your political competition. in our blue pacific continent,

machine guns, fighter jets, gray ships and burn battalions. not our primary security concern. the single greatest threat. glo, very existence is climate change. it the sentence where the hopes and dreams of prosperity, human induced, devastating climate change. sure, lanka is limiting the amount of fuel people can bi weekly. it planned to impose quote us to deal with a severe shortage. but the energy minister did not specify how much motorists will be allowed to purchase. the government is under intense pressure after months of protests, against its worst economic crisis since independence. it's also coping with shortages of food and medicine. now fernandez has more from columbus. it's a sort of a double edged sword at the moment. i mean, we've heard this announcement from the minister 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 are put into action. what you see behind me is a busy patrol station air. in the heart of colombo, this station actually has fuel stocks, but there's an on ending line of vehicles, both petrol and diesel. there are 3 wheelers or the local taxes. there are essentially motor bikes. people who've been queueing up for hours is 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, ah, you know, food on the table earning their money at. 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 close the bows as haven't even arrived yet. so things are really bad. so one thing that will happen if the rationing actually happens properly, 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 given the sort of chaos we have seen in recent weeks, our people will want to see that the government is able to actually do this. this for line can prime minister says it may have to buy more oil from russia to is shortages. we need the f word, 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 to part of it. that issue here is that there's a lot of ways 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, traditional sources from the middle east. we've been taking where we have been purchasing foot ukraine's has russian shelling in the east of the country has cause a huge fire at a chemical plant that's where hundreds of civilians are thought to be sheltering. it happened in sierra danielle square. russia has been focusing much of its fire power. the governor flew hands, says ukraine still controls the chemical facility. president, viola, reza lensky. insist ukraine will win the war with russia, but he's asking allies for more ammunitions and weapons. charles stratford has more from chief. we came off the phone to a ukrainian deputy commander inside that city. several the next one of only 2 cities. now that is not under full russian control in the loop. 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 estimates that up to 2000 civilians may have died in sever the next amidst this heavy fighting. now this comes at a time when the ukrainians are complaining again that they don't have enough

weapons from the west and 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, mostly 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. still heads on al jazeera, replanting the rain forest. we visit colombian communities trying to revive their environment. and new brand, st. french fries, mcdonald's golden arches, are getting a russian relaunch in moscow's pushkin's square. ah, the journey has begun. the 3 full world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package today is this very heavy rain, seasonal rain,

just about here where you've got one wave of cloud going through in southern japan, small islands, just off the south, the q shoe and you for that line back in towards southern shine. you can see from the orange center, the chances are we'll get more flooding. this is seasonal flooding to be expected. does of course, displace some people because you tend to get landslides with or just extensive reading. but there it is. and that's the next wave developing. she'll spread out towards q, she might just catch chicago as well, and there are quite a few showers now further doors around the yellow sea for example, and hitting beijing, keeping the temperatures down little bit here as well. a project, so the westwards. it's more or less extension that same seasonal ray, because we caught southwest monsoon for india. it's burst through by her astronauts just catching the southern part of good europe as showers are ahead of it, it's the official monsoon is here. and there now shall break yet all over this central part of india not as extensive as they were in the northeast. in the north,

where the britain windy still blowing it's quite hot time is quite dusty. an occasional shower is seen to want to grow in the middle of, for example, sinned province. so even in pakistan, even though the mountain hasn't yet burst, your occasional showers, chatter airway visual airline of the journey. there is no channel that covers world news like we did as a roman correspondent. i am constantly on the go covering topics from politic letters of environmental issue galeb. this camp is like nothing ever seen. but we want to know, how did we think that people we revisit places day even when they're no international headlines. there are really invest in that, not to privilege. as a journalist. ah

ah, how are we on the top stories on al jazeera, this, our voters in france are casting their ballots in the 1st round of parliamentary election president demanded. my phone's coalition holds the majority in the assembly, but he's facing a challenge from a left wing law. sure lanka is imposing quote, to limit the amount of fuel people come by each week. its suffering, its worse economic crisis and independence, which severe shortages of fuel food and medicine. china's defense minister has warned that for an interference in taiwan is due to fail. addressing a top security conference and singapore, he said, basing would fight to the end. if taiwan tried to declare independence, hundreds of marches have been taking place across the us to call for

a 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 kind of 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 900000 people in the united states have died in gun related violence this year alone and up to the recent massacre of elementary school children in new fall 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. why demanding change? you know, what made the change now? we need 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, that 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. oh, what do you want to see? why did you come to you? i came here because i 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 god,

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 ultra 0, washington a policeman has been killed in a confrontation between security forces and mass i heard or is in northeastern townsend. he, on my side, were protesting against the land being marked out to create a wildlife reserve and lowly on jo, near the serengeti national park activist. say some demonstrators were shot and injured. they say communities are under pressure to leave their ancestral lands to make way for a private hunting expeditions. the government says wants to protect the region from human activity. edward pearl quote is the director of ping goes for him. that's an

organization working to defend the rights of indigenous people in trans any. he says the government hasn't followed proper procedures, their lender. and then in the old days, we didn't like the marcia simply now in is really and many of these be made years have been purchased by their landlords. but unfortunately now the land is also where the ministers was built with natural resources. if i have that right, we're going to add new. so there have been a local governance. see, and i think they have never been in one said, telling the story. and the bad thing is that the court date is the case. the court in the start from justice, which is due on the 22nd and by before even munition vacation. the government is plan to be on the land and vision, at least a threat to human life. pass that product to do is very difficult to get all the

information on our area because nobody is free to talk about because of the unfortunate, but i thought i would be very issue that we belong to them. and the government is saying that the land is the government plan. so that is really where the probably me, i think it was to me the very clear procedures in the long run. you know how to, how to protect and learn from or change the categories from the village, learn to evelyn that the issues there were procedures are not being followed. 30 soldiers in india have been charged in connection with the killing of civilians and 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 naga, land mistaking them for an arm grew. a civilians and

a soldier died when angry crowds confronted the troops. syria has confirmed runways of damascus. international airport suffered major damage during is really air strikes, monitor, say a control tower. several hangers and reception rooms were also effected on friday. the airport is out of service, and flights are being diverted to aleppo. israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against government or allied troops in syria since the war began in 2011. a sharp increase in the amount of money sent back home by ex facts, a thrilling and investment boom. in gum bill. it's a sign of hope for an economy that's been battered by the coven. 1900 pandemic. this ash my, the, these reports from ben jewel, the influx of cash is drawing some back to the country. lunch time, approaches. j. mindy and stuff are getting ready for it has now become a routine getting formed by cost of us order stock coming by for 2 hours before

lunch. yamuna 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 never got no very i that i just wanted to bring all of that knowledge and then do share with people that you can really make it back home. but really status having the biggest slice of remittances from gabby and support this us based real estate 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, the reason is because people have known me in this business, we have known it overseas and i'm doing it here from real estate, to hospitality and retail, diaspora. remittance is a key to the local economy. it's one of the most significant sectors of i could,

i mean it's as much as almost 50 percent of a g, d p. meaning that a lot of cabins that we'll, we'll see is send money to support their families and more increasingly, also to develop real estate. i'm send their family and children to school with a population of 10000000 people. the gumby i received an estimated half a $1000000000.00 in romito says from citizens in the diaspora in 2002 on that jumped quite 50 percent one unprecedented $778000000.00. this quantity cannot be followed from covered 90. now these ones help to transform the economy of it's mold, what's public amazing, and it's people operators of these online trading platform said organic home gold, groceries to gobs 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 the luke and pharmacy as well. with inflows expected to grow, as the economy recovers from the impact of copied 90, officious, a hoping remittances will help return lost jobs during the pandemic and create even more jobs of the growing number of unemployed computers. ami edris al jazeera by june, the gambia. a ship carrying 16000 sheep has sunk off the so came port and sudan, ship's crew. i've been rescued. it's not yet clear how much of the livestock survived. local media reports the accidents is the result of overloading rescue teams. we're trying to bring the sinking ship to harbor before it fully submerged by the ports. u. s. president joe biden is promising federal funds for new mexico after the largest wildfire in state history. the fires destroyed hundreds of homes and burned through large stretches of land. they started as a controlled burn,

but then quickly spread. some people are suing the fire service to get more information about the government's role. biden says those impacted will be fully compensated. the degree of responsibility as a government who's had to deal with the communities who were put through such jeopardy. and under today, i'm announcing the frederick governors covering 100 percent of the cost of whom you protective measures from the next critical months of 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, i'll just the result of sandra visits and company cio where people are trying to change things for the better route the child is 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 red. i last 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 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 a lot of money. 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, left the 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 cooke of 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 and plant 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 cocoa, 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 yet that i had, well, 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. i listen that i'm under united capital reporters without borders this calling for an end to impunity. in regards to the killing of al jazeera journalist shooting a block where it says that a proper investigation into a block as death has still not been carried out. although it's been one month since she was shot in the head by is really forces while on assignments 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 were marching through occupied east jerusalem to take part in her funeral and burial. members of the international community have condemned her killing and continue to call for an investigation. a broccoli was with al jazeera for 25 years, covering the story of the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. the golden arches are gone, but american style cheeseburgers are on the menu in moscow. again. the 1st mcdonald's restaurants in russia has reopened under new branding and ownership. the chain is now called delicious, full stop. mcdonald shot 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.