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voting for france's next parliament president, manuel microns coalition faces a tough challenge from a left wing bloke. lead by joan duke melon sho ah, hello, hello raman, you are watching. i'll just alive my headquarters here in doha. coming up in the next 30 minutes, china found to fight to the end to prevent taiwan independence accusing the us, the whole thing, asian country to choose sides also running out of fuels for lanka now, just a weekly ration to address shortages that have led to nationwide protests, nearly half a 1000000 people play ukraine's walkable dover. but is the former soviet state also and a threat. its prime minister speaks to us here, and i was just there. ah

. but there's some breaking news coming out of the us, or a bipartisan group of senators of agreed on a framework for new gun control laws in the wake of a series of mass shootings if passed, it would be the most significant legislation on gun control in decades rolls jordan, his life for us in washington d. c. rods, do he have more idea about the detail in this document? well, we don't have a final text, but of the 20 senators, 10 republican, 10 democratic who have been negotiating the terms of this saw gun control package have released some of the highlights. it would provide funding for states to conduct out what is known as a red flag. got chuck on of those people who for mental health reasons or other reasons should not own any sort of weapon, whether it's semi automatic,

fully automatic or other type of firearm. it would provide funding to provide a mental health of services for a students and their communities. it would also include an expanded background checks for those people who are between the ages of $18.21, so that their records, their criminal records could be searched for when they were younger than age 18. that's a 1st that you would see juvenile, low criminal records, and other records being examined to determine if someone should be allowed to own one of these weapons. now, the final text has not been pulled together. the senate majority leader taller. charles schumer says that as soon as there is a final text, he will bring it to the senate for, for a vote. the u. s. president joe biden has also just released a statement saying that while the bill does not contain everything that he thinks

should be included, he says that is a 1st good step in the right direction to protect our communities from gun violent roles. you like our colleagues in the americas, certainly in north america have been following and reported on gun violence for number of years now. we saw major demonstrations and marches across the us yesterday. oh, is that going to be a sigh of relief to think in the public domain that something is finally going to be done? because obviously there's a long way to go, isn't the? there is a very long way to go. now that it's important to note that so one gun control advocacy group has come out in support of this legislation, but i don't know whether it's going to be enough because what we have seen in the wake of the mass shootings a most notably in buffalo, new york and involved a texas has been get rid of these a are 15 style type by rifles. these military type rifles altogether. this

legislation which the 20 sen say they've achieved an, an agreement on, does not outlaw any sort of semi automatic rifle. certainly not anything that resembles or is part of the a r 15 family roles children in washington dc force. thanks ross, not to europe. ha, voters in france are choosing that new parliament and an election that could determine if president manuel macro will succeed in pushing through reforms. macros coalition has a majority of seats of national assembly, but he faces a strong challenge from a new left wing block as journal reports. 2 months after returning emanuel macro to the presidency, french voters are electing a parliament high in their minds. the climate crisis and cost of living is it possible like history? so i think the essential question of our era is climate and the planet. and that important things must be done immediately. measures and needed in terms of the

current situation to deal without purchasing power and competitiveness. the question is, how do we despise the current situation? keep moving forward. microns, centrist ensemble coalition faces a strong challenge from a far left alliance built by john luke mellon, shaun. if the leftists greens and communists do well, they could block much of microns agenda, making france, as one analyst pointed out ungovernable, the countries ungovernable. if you have a weak majority, that does not mean that you can run the country and you very well have in the next month. a huge uprise of people saying, well, we are not happy with the presidents decisions. we do not consider that the piece can solve a problem. so where can we solve it? and you can have this st. let's say st. democracy, france has

a strong tradition of st. protest like the yellow vests that made microns 1st term, so uncomfortable with their demands for economic justice and political reform. this election could provoke similar scenes. the left is coalition has its own ideas about how to deal with frances cost of living crisis, soaring inflation that alone you policy and the war in ukraine. it is entirely possible that in the new parliament, the centrists could find their way blocked. at every turn. 5 years ago, the manual micron completed a clean sweep of power with his centrist winning the parliament as well. his 2nd term as president could turn out rather differently. jona whole al jazeera paris ukraine says rushing, shelling and several of the nets because caused a huge fall to chemical plant, where hundreds of civilians are believed to be sheltering. moscow has been focusing much of its fire power, the eastern region. the governor of the hands says ukraine still controls the

chemical facility was a lot of his landscape insists that ukraine will win the war, but he's asking allies for more ammunition and weapons. charles profit has more from the capital, keith. we came off the phone to a ukrainian deputy commander inside that city. several of the next one of only 2 cities. now that is not under full russian control in the loo ganske region, or 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 of boss, great soviet built industrial complex that before the war used to produce fertilizes and building material. it's located in the south east of the seas. he will 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 severed the next. he was unable to confirm that he estimates stood up to 2000 civilians. may have died in several minutes 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 are not getting here fast enough. so there are huge concerns yet again today for basically ukrainians ability to be able to defend that city. and for the up to what we understand could be around $10000.00 civilians either attract inside that city or unwilling to leave. a human train has been formed in solidarity with ukraine outside the european commission building in brussels. people are sharing their support. so you couldn't, you candidacy has a lot of his lunch. he signed an application for membership. 4 days after russia launched his invasion in february. the e u executive will make

a recommendation next week on whether to grant candidate status, but the process could still take decade and other recent applicant for e membership is ukraine's neighbor to the west. moldova, the former soviet state phase, it could be drawn into the conflict. moldova already has russian soldiers on its doorstep. about 1500, a station to the moscow breakaway region of trans mystery of russia says that part of a peacekeeping agreement transistor is that as you see, jazz border with ukraine. moldova is one of europe's poorest countries reliant on cheap russian gas. it's government wants to change that and link it's electricity. great with the use in march. the country has also taken nearly half a 1000000 ukrainian refugee is the highest number per capita of any european country. while earlier i spoke to the mold open, prime minister, natalia garcia, i asked her if it's difficult for her country to maintain its neutral stance. it is

a very difficult situation, and moldova has been hit by a shocks or multiple shocks, and one after another. ah, you know, the kind old countries were facing the consequences of the coven pandemic. in october we had a, an energy crisis. and so we were seeing high inflation even before the war. and now of course, or the consequences of the war are extremely dire. we do need to, ah, you know, maintain a balance or we need to, um, you know, help our people understand how to get through these difficult times and oh, you know what comes next. so, are we, we are very certain about our european choice. and we hope that are that european union member states agree, russia,

obviously it says it's defending its russian ethnic speaking moldova, in trans mystery. and i come back to that question that the ra russian troops, us and apparently there for peacekeeping duties, yet there's never been any conflict to waive the majority of moldova and trans mystery. so have you not told russia to remove its troops off your land? we need to have international law upheld and we need countries to be certain that their sovereignty and territorial integrity is protected under international law and the current multilateral framework of corporation. and moldova has used this framework to constantly and consistently call for the withdrawal of the russian troops from the mold of an territory. there has been an agreement on this, and this has not happened a i, i, you know,

we continue to say that the troops are stationed on our territory illegally. and we continue to appeal to the international community to support us in ensuring that international commitments are upheld. we are a neutral country and this neutrality is not only enshrined in the constitution but is largely supported by our population. but of course we do have to consider, you know, what other guarantees of this neutrality and how this helps moldova, to maintain it. sir, security and stability. prime minister of mold. i was speaking to me earlier while still had here on out 0 family and friends of 2 men missing in the brazilian. i was on hold a vigilance hope stayed at finding them alive and new brand, same french fries. mcdonald's golden arches are getting a russian re launch in moscow's pushkin's square that story after the break.

ah, the journey has begun. the fee for world copies on its way to katha book your travel package today than the last day or so. so much has been a good focus of heavy rain, less so up in cambodia and vietnam and i think that's sort of repeatable. so from central sumatra, through qual, lumberton singapore and to walters western side born ears were the heavy rains likely. but it is fairly widespread, strat, indonesia, and the philippines, just a little less so on the mainland. but still you got the daily showers in hershey in city, for example, which occur in the afternoon. and it turns up a bit gusty. otherwise, the wind is very light humidity's quite high. the seasonal rains in china are repeating themselves, but edging ever slowly southwards. they do catch q shoes in chicago, but not on shoe tokyo's warmth. $27.00, we'll just save a bit of

a dropping back to $22.00 on tuesday and there's rain to be found rent, beijing and g. now in the yellow sea, this is daily showers, rather slow move you have to say. but on tuesday, from the yangtze south was, it's largely dry, with the exception of shanghai. and if you follow line the same monsoon front when, because of course, the se sponsored in india has reached mon bye. but there is showers ahead of it, breaking out in good rat in rochester. most of north and india of course, is still dry, hot and dusty that goes for pakistan too. but there are occasional showers breaking out to relieve the heat cas airway. ah, ah oh. ready oh,

i, wherever you go in the world, woman line goes to make it feel exceptional. katara always going places to get a look about watching. i'll just say with me. so he'll run the reminder of our top stories, a bipartisan group of us senators as agreed on a framework for motus to gun restrictions in the wake of a series of shootings under the sensitive deal thought he would keep guns away from people deemed to be a threat in france, casting their balance in the 1st round, the parliamentary election. manuel macros coalition holds a majority in the assembly, but he's been challenged by

a left wing alliance. will properties ling to mister protest as have been demolished in the indian state, which a production authority say that only pulling down illegal buildings rights groups have previously accused. the governing b. j. p. carrying out demolition to intimidate, must have a vigil is being held on k, pick up on the beach and re addition area for 2 men who went missing in the brazilian amazon brunet pereira, a well known defender of indigenous rights. and don phillips, a british journalist disappeared last sunday. please say they found what appeared to be human remains in a remote area where the pair were last seen. monica, you have attended the vigil in rio friends and journalists who knew dom ah, and also who knew that all nor met here to ask to put pressure on the government just so they could. ah, really look for them. his wife just wants them to find a dom phillips alive or dead,

but she wants him found. they want to know what happened to him. but they're also saying that this movement is, is for a bigger cause, a cause that are both dom and bruno, ah, stood for which was saving the amazon. and right now i'm year with the president of the core at foreign correspondent association here in brazil. and he's gonna tell us a little bit more about this. why is this vigil happening? it's happening because the family and his friends and also we, the community affording correspondence members, you weren't to know who went to press the competent authorities to find out where our d. we need to know that is that simple was or is progression. we need to know, we know they'll tardy is, has audi conditions of finding it out. so we are here to make sure that we are mobilize it and we won an answer in i'm talking about not only the family

in the name of the family and friends, but also about audi. affording correspondence, now 30 soldiers in india have been charged in connection with the killing of civilians and a botched military operation. december, please say the soldiers used indiscriminate a disproportionate force when they shot and killed 6 mine is in the northeastern state of north holland, mistaking them for a group of armed men. 8 civilians and a soldier died when angry crowds confronted the troops. more properties linked to mister protest as have been demolished in the indian state of utter pradesh. authorities say that only pulling down illegal buildings, but writes groups of previously a keys, the governing b. j. p of carrying out demolitions to intimidate muslims. the destruction follows days of valleys, against 2 former bp officials, but making remarks against the prophet mohammed that many consider offensive. sunday had. she's a senior advocate to the supreme court of india. he says,

destroying the properties is an abuse of power. demolition are legal in the last book, but they are not legal if they are meant as the price it. let me look at this with . if under the municipal all your painting does not conform to them. then after you are given an after you have an opportunity to take the right only in the last instance can emulation be ordered, and that can be subject to review by the court. emulation cannot be ordered as it prices events or as punishment for any criminal like today, what is happening is that he protests and is suspected of organizing protests then his how's the, how's that he lives it. even if it doesn't have to be under his own. sometimes

comes out of these action to leave the odyssey of law. and i suspect that if they are standing in the whole point of time in the future to come down very heavily on that you cannot demolish a man's house. but practice, you cannot link it to the focus, neither 2 different thing altogether. so it is in my view, yet it is in my view and abuse of power. sir lancaster is limiting the amount of fuel people can buy per week. it plans to impose rations to deal with a severe shortage. however, the energy minister hasn't specified how much motorists will be allowed to purchase the government under intense pressure. after months of protests against the worst economic crisis since independence is also dealing with shortages of food and medicine due to a lack of foreign currency minova. and as of more from colombo, 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 stalks, but there's an on ending line of that. he goes both petrol and diesel. there are 3 wheelers or the local taxis. there are essentially motorbike 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 bows is, 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. over prime minister says for lanka, may have to buy more oil from russia to ease those shortages. we need the fuel and now we're negotiating with a private supply. you stand that grand by anything. it's a private supplies with us. and we buy from them. part of it. they should have that as a lot avoid 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 the sources of oil. well, that traction sources from the middle east. we've been taking where we have been purchasing for reporters without borders is calling for an end to impunity in regard to the killing of ounces of j machine. actually, it says that a proper investigation into serena's death has still not being carried out. although it's been a month since she was shot in the head by israeli forces while on assignments in jeanine. on the day of her funeral israeli forces storm the procession and started beating mourners, causing pull barriers. trinity drop her coffin, but i didn't bounce with palestinians marching through occupied east jerusalem to take part in the funeral and burial members of the international community of condemned to killing and continue to call for an investigation. jury was with al

jazeera for 25 years, covering the story of the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. chinese defense minister way thing is warning that beijing will crush any move towards independence in taiwan. he made the comments on the last day, they just top security summit in singapore, the shangri la dialogue. jessica washington has more from the conference at a security summit in singapore, the most highly anticipated speaker of the 3 day conference took the stage with forceful words. dia, job, we. we do not bully others, but we will not allow ourselves to be bullied. but if anyone dares to attack the people's liberation army will not hesitate to fight back troy ashore, speech the covered, arrange a regional flash point, and your we will resolutely crush any attempt to push to taiwan independence. if anyone dares to secede taiwan from china, we will not hesitate to fight. we will fight at all costs. analysts say,

way fung her has made beijing's priorities clear. if he wanted to talk to his audience about what they're doing in asia, what they expect. i want and why the united states is actually responsible in china of eyes for the instability in this region. in the speech way framed washington as a middling power one that tries to create instability in the asia pacific or in his was one that tries to hijack countries in the region to create division. in contrast, way says china's military is a force for p. and so it's really, as new defense minister has told out 0, there are many questions that need answers. we are saying a very significant filled up by china is the biggest military build up that we've seen in the world since the end of the 2nd mobile. and it's really important that that occur on a transparent wife. the pacific has also been a topic of discussion at the summit and following increased engagement from the

gene where really, richard malls says this training is revitalizing its relations with those countries . if we go out into the pacific, allan countries do the work place their interests at the center of aaron cage. mm. and then the risk takes care of itself. we will become the natural partner choice. we have in full for this opportunity. the g defense minister, one of the few representatives from the pacific fielded questions about his regions, ties to beijing and meeting with chinese. of course, everybody knows that we've met the americans. we met the japanese, we met the chinese, we met the australians, you name it. as organizes wrap up this year's summit uncertainty over the regents future remains intended to provide diplomatic avenues to help solve differences. it's also provided delegates the chance to wear their grievances for the world to see jessica washington al jazeera, singapore. the character has authorized russian troops,

planes on ships to be deployed on its territory. present. daniel taken a long time alley of moscow says, a small contingent of russian work, merchants who responded lauren forces russia foreign ministry spokesman says the forces will help combat drug trafficking, an organized crime. nicaragua was excluded from last week's summit of the americas hosted by the us very much use president joe biden as promising federal funds for new mexico after the largest wildlife in the states history. now the 5 destroyed hundreds of homes and burned to cause 1300 square kilometers of land. the flame started as a controlled burn, but quickly spread. and some people, assuming the fire service to get more information about the government's role buttons as those affected will be fully compensated. the average price of petrol in the us is it more than $5.00 a gallon the highest since 2008 price is a well above that and some state fuel in california, for example, it's costing 6 dollars and 43 cents

a gallon. the rise of being blamed for driving americas highest inflation rates in 40 years. gabriel elizondo has more from buffalo. the price of just about everything is going up in the united states, including the cost of petrol for the 1st time in 20 years, one gallon, or about $3.00 leaders of petrol. it's averaging more than $5.00 here at this gas station in buffalo, new york. it's just under that. it's $4.99 a gallon. just in the last month. the price has gone up about $0.63. and in the past year 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 the sanctions on russia due to the war and ukraine. there's also just more people traveling by car this summer here in the united states as well, pushing prices up, and then even the threat of a hurricane or a tropical storm,

reaching the south east of the united states this time of year. it's fairly common . that shuts down refineries and also will drive up prices as well. but the bottom line is, is that gas is becoming much more expensive in the united states and really everywhere around the world. but people here are really feeling it, their pocketbooks. the golden arches are gone, but american style cheeseburgers are on the menu and moscow again. the 1st mcdonald's restaurants in russia has reopened, and the 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 restaurant role in my local licensee. but the american company has the option to buy back its locations within 15. yes. ah, just bear with me. so.