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is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm still raman. you are watching the news of life and my headquarters here in the hall coming up in the next 60 minutes a show of solidarity. european leaders are key to discuss getting more military aid to ukraine. also general strike into nicea thousands of protesting against the president's economic policies. police in brazil say they found the remains of an indigenous research on the british german missing in the amazon 10 days ago and underwater volcanoes. the un team takes the dive in the mediterranean to research the risk of synonymy. and forward a warning from us open organizers and gulf. a 3rd nature of the season gets under way to compete. and the break away live series could be bad from the p g. event and the future.

welcome to the news. our a european show of support is underway in the ukrainian capital. the leaders of france, germany and italy have met president blood of his lensky on my 1st visit to keith since the war began. earlier, manuel, macro shoots and many a druggy toward as being russian soldiers have been accused of committing abuses. present, michael said he saw the evidence of war crimes in the town. ensure you are here at earth on a side that has been destroyed. indeed, the russian army stopped and several other cities near body massacres has been perpetrated. and we have had the 1st traces of what our war crimes on this investigation. we are cooperating very strongly. i would like to think all the french dams, experts and magistrates who has been working on this from the 1st day alongside the experts. ukraine is also top of the gender in brussels,

where nato defense ministers are discussing the build of, of troops along the alliances, east and borders. now this meeting sets the stage for larger nato summit. at the end of the month, us defense secretary lloyd austin said they needed to give ukraine as much military capacity as possible. eventually we'll want to work with our allies and partners to build a capability that they tend to sustain themselves over time. but we really are focused on what the leadership believes that his current needs are in this right. and i think we're gonna, that the international community has got a, a pretty good job over of providing that capability. but it's never enough. and so we're going to continue to work hard to move me as much. kimberly, as we can, as fast as we can in took to ensure that ukraine can be successful on about one, wednesday, the white house announced an additional $1000000000.00 in mil trade for ukraine. it

includes anti ship, rocket systems, artillery and ammunition. there's also 225000000 in military aid. jody me now from brussels. isabela. she's still a senior fellow at the cast mia? pulaski foundation in poland, diesel. so former polish diplomat and nature official, good heavy, we're the say on the program. congress begin that with the fact that ukraine's president, once weapons and those european leaders and keith today are happy to appoint, give then to him. but what's more important to both sides weapons or e e a membership? well, i think everything is important at this stage. i mean, this visit counts an important time because, you know, the truth is that we've seen was the russian military have been doing it since it's barbaric and they, they, they amos as distraction ukrainians. good. the free 40 is in fact baker's, we also have a remaining president can see at 1st hand on the can can,

they can convey to serve more, i'll try you crazy help to defend itself because that's the only way to prevent the barbaric. so yes, added the weapon supplies extremely best with disgust yesterday in russell. but the perspective of the membership is also important because that's about the future of the country. any grains have the right to think of themselves, you know, ask the country that can develop in the same way, must have a repeat again with waiving, shedding europe. if i talk about b e, u as a separate issue, just like turning this into, let me focus all on nato because i wanted to ask, as you mentioned, there is a native meeting going on in brussels right now. what do you expect the tone of the you might say, either press conference or the sounds coming out of that meeting towards ukraine. what we're ready, you know, it's, the 1st part is concluded and there was a special meeting which was actually led by west. so coordinating the military

assistance and the good news is that 1st the number of countries was the 1st meeting has grown over 50. these are countries not signing to you. and the assistance is becoming much more focused and what needs to be done to base 1st that you know, the supplies of my sophisticated nate or somebody would then have to flow through grade, such as, you know, multiple launch rockets, systems and defense. and, you know, also a helicopter space because it's important to basically make how good that's the good news at the 2nd thing, however, is also the, the fact that both nato and individual always have to prepare for this conflict. to be all for a long term nature, and that has big implications for later security and highlight and european security center with major has forget it's on housing for all of that. and that includes beating up in our basement flag and adopting a new strategic concept which would much better reflect the actual music you re,

to rely realities of today's about rush, every song about china might be additional charges, et cetera. so you know, this meeting today and yesterday it's actually preparing the ground for, for, for all the formatting which may jump to gara operating your view. you actually, you know, ensure that we, we, we can look after our security collected sets, okay. you just mentioned earlier that europe and they to has to be focused, and that's very much the case in the sense that the united states is sending what nearly a $1000000000.00 worth of military aid. it was announced yesterday by president biden in a range of areas including coastal defense as well. does this put will pressure on e you nations, for example, you might say to make sure that they also help as much as they possibly can in terms of military hardware when even the germans, i think, were suggesting that some of that dated military hardware could be

offered to ukraine with a bit of a revamp. yes, that's fine. i mean, you know it's, it's not, i'm not trying to be sort of, you know, trumpeting the, the great virtue of us that the truth is us is, is, is leading the way. i mean, he's a natural leader, nato, that he's bringing houghton to bring various countries particular used to be called all europe into line because many countries on the region in which are great niece, also scandinavians, a new page have been doing them it. so, yes, it matters because it's, it's when you go that sort of money into integration, that means you series. moreover, when present by now understand, call the present lensky estimate. he specifically mentioned that that was confirmed by the minister again we here we keep on the long haul that's, that's important as well because it involves a lot of things that needs to be done. such as, for example, you know, increasing that production of defense material in all nato countries that can do that. it's about, you know, preparing the troops here for potential confrontation which was not the case for

some years. so there's a lot of things and also the batteries. yes. the budget tank brought in as well. so all this is coming, falling into one piece, which is, which is crucial if we, we have to, we have no choice. you have to wait for patients which was not started, but it's a, it's, it's a challenge that is real and it's these concrete after that everybody. so that the why to pick just, i mean i want to just home and really on yourself because as you are a polish from a polish diplomat, give us a sense of the debate that people and politicians in poland to having happy to help ukraine fearful of russia, i mean what, all the opinions that right now? well the, you know, social pollen, the pollen was one of those countries that you know that, that was aware of the fact lead was much, you know, you know, pull so much more eyes wide open when he comes to you know, the behavior of rush aids, both for history is longer reason and also, you know, we know how, you know, what, what russia today, unfortunately,

has developed into. but the important thing is that, you know, it's, it's, it's the people, it's, it's big not even require any kind of special information policy from the government. it was a natural reaction. now it's about 4000000 ukrainians who have across the board. and many of them actually space, so it's not just, you know, a metro policy so much, you know, it's a matter of kind of, you know, a human reaction. so if you like, war has come through at least the brilliance component and the issue now and that east discussed the law it's, it's, it's about making sure, but other countries, particularly those of you have mentioned, in fact, those represented by the free, you know, president chancellor is visiting currently here, essentially have the same, do i feel good opinion pulse or is it and you know, so whole warfare t in some western european countries. so that, that should change because, you know, we, we need to be in some value to reach out to have, you know, laura will win because, you know, we cannot allow this kind of barbarity to, to have to, you know,

what made without a response. so he'd pull it, i think people are aware of this, but yes, there is a bit of keep to because, you know, these are, these are tough times, but we have to say we have to survive them. and we have controls with gradient central geography. it's good to get your inside rubbish. estella from the casea. pulaski foundation in poland. thanks so much for your time. so like if i plenty had here on the news, i including the roxanne, steeper, into political deadline, after influential shia cleric looked, outsider, said his party won't take part in any upcoming election. also, 8000000 australians are urged to turn off the lights while energy crisis is also regulated to take unprecedented steps and install the avalanche shake things off in the open game of the stanley cup finals far will have all the sports action coming . ah,

no tennessee is may, may be union is on strike, to demand an increase in salaries and concessions on leaving reforms. up to 3000000 people are part of the powerful tennessee in general labor union, thousands of its members. how the rally and capital tunis. well, it's the latest crisis, putting pressure on the government of present case saeed alexia. bachman is in tennis with more thousands have gathered into new sin support to the general labor union. the u. g t t. it's rare that they come out with a general strike which started at midnight, and this includes all the public sectors. we've had a 96 percent turn out. and that includes the whole of the transport section that has been no international flights. the ports are closed buses, major, the organizations like the national administration. i've not gone in to work that

includes the national power and the water company. so pretty much the whole of tenicia is on strike. and to booby nerdy to booby its leader, gave a rousing speech, saying that the huge e t t is supporting their members who is very careful not to set himself up as some kind of opposition or political force. however, the u. g t t is at loggerheads with the government that it says isn't supporting its workers . the government has been trying to get a major consolidation loan from the international monetary funds. but them international monetary fund, demanding major reforms in the country, and that includes austerity reforms, such as cutting the national salary to booby said that he's not actually demanding so much for wage raise. and salaries and wages have been stagnating for the past 23

years is particularly with the crisis induced by cov, it, that pretty much shut down the economy as he's demanding the government actually sought out the economy itself. because we're seeing fuel prices, food prices going up and inflation growing. so this has been an a major turn of events. but what we, we expect to see is possibly more strikes as the union and government continue to disagree about the best way forward to iraq. our influential shia cleric booked other outsider has made statements about his political future. so those says he won't be involved in the next selection of the politicians. he is accused of being corrupt to take part. now the leader of the largest block in parliament made the statements the closed meeting. just days after 73 members of his party resigned to them. piece of this means rock places more political uncertainty after an 8th month 8 month, pardon me. deadlock and failure to form a government,

anna got rights. i decided to withdraw from the political process to avoid associating with those corrupt politicians in any way. neither in this world nor in the hereafter, as well, like you as well, like you, you really did well in obeyed. so i thank you. what i want to tell you is that in the next stage, i will not participate in the coming elections. also with corrupt politicians, if they participate, this is a pledge between me and god, i know not been sore as the project director of the iraq initiative, a chance from house. he says, so those decision to step down could be strategic. it's important to consider how we got here, you know, so the one an election last october a month or so ago. and he was adamant that he was going to take the power from the electoral victory to form a majority government. and he was going to exclude his opponents and he failed. he couldn't, although he had the numbers, he could not form

a government that was to his liking, that was a consensus is big change did not work. and so he was stuck. another tool that other tries to use in the past is his sort of access and to look relations with the street with protesters. he's always tried to be at the same time, an establishment finger having been in government for many, many years as well as an anti establishment populist figure. and this balancing is what we're seeing right now. so as he failed to form a government that he wanted, he now wants to leverage his other side is how people aside his so you know, social base to try and put pressure on his opponent in another way. the big question, however, is, will it work this time? the bible ministration has reiterated calls for a fair and thorough investigation into killing of al jazeera journalist, sharina bleckley, the palestinian american was shot dead by israeli forces while reporting in the

occupied with bank last month. president joe biden is due to meet his railey unpublished indian leaders when he travels to the middle east next month. what we want is obviously for this to be fully investigated and if there needs to be accountability had accountability had at the end of that investigation, we've called for thorough complete, transparent investigations into her death. and we're going to be watching this very, very closely. i don't have any additional details on what an independent investigation would look like. i just don't have that for you today. but i don't want you to walk away thinking that we don't want this fully investigated and for that investigation to be thorough and transparent. now, police and brazil, things that if i didn't find the bodies of an indigenous researcher, and a british journalist who dissipate 10 days ago, investigate to say a suspect in police custody confessed to killing bruno perrera and don phillips and buried the deep in the amazon forest. mechanical reports now from re edition error, it took brazil's police 10 days to find a place where indigenous expert barone,

a barrier, and british journalist don phillips were allegedly buried. policeman said, a mighty la costa, a local fisherman confessed to the killing and led them to the burials site. more than 3 kilometers into the amazon jungle. rogo rivers, where the crime happened. levy found the bodies bedded human remains found there will be compared to dna samples obtained from the families of biddy at and phillips, the journalists wife of his son. that of some buying has issued a statement saying that the family can now find closure. but she also says this should be the 1st step of a broader investigation into crimes committed in the amazon video. and phillips were allegedly ambushed on their way back from the job id, valley, and area twice the size of japan and home to the world's largest number of un

contacted indigenous tribes when they went missing on june, the 5th local communities organized search parties and asked the government for help them of joy hood, the english who worked with bruno video for 11 years, told us they had both been threatened for trying to some top illegal fishing in the reservation. some months ago we followed baby it up on the same path. he took dumb phillips, part of research for a book was writing about conservation, and the amazon the indigenous expert was helping java, the tribes track down trespassers and stop them from stealing fish on the river. we met a mighty old acosta. one of the 2 men were ordering to the police killed bid era. and phillips, the case stirred up the international community for brazil's president j able seattle was asked about the investigations during his meeting with joe biden. and

british prime minister, forrest johnson said that the search for phillips should be a priority. community leader, paloma doable, says investigations must continue, because he believes there's much more to these to death. illegal fishing has been associated with drug trafficking in this part of the amazon, which borders peru in columbia. the indigenous people of the job id valley say it's time for the brazilian government to take the threats they've been facing for decades. more seriously. monica nike, vall, jazeera, rio de janeiro, now latin america's largest economy is struggling with inflation. brazil, central bank has raised its benchmark rate by half a percentage point. it's the 11th hike, with indications of mold come. rising food and fuel prices mean will families a buckling to make ends meet. and the grim pitcher continues around the world as country struggle to recover from the economic fall out of the pandemic supply chain

fractions, or taking a toll on major manufacturing economies. the impact of locked down measures in shanghai and china's production hubs. that still being felt the war in ukraine is any adding to the crisis. sanctions on russia and blockades of ukrainian ports are limited grain exports and driving up energy and food prices around the world. australia's newly elected government is facing a perfect storm. inflation is up, fruit prices are rising, and now there's an energy crisis. it's forcing regulators to take unprecedented measures. as sarah clark reports now from brisbin. this is one of australia's busiest fruit and vegetable markets. it's normally a hive of activity, but after a series of extreme weather events less fresh produce is being delivered to city markets. as a moment, the growth along the rhetorical white man do the paper via web wavelength have blood through fog in about 3 or 4 weeks, very cold weather articulation themself. and we toria that hulu or the store supply,

kentucky fried chicken, has substituted let it switch cabbage in its burgers. the floods combined with the labor shortage as a result of border closures have also pushed up retail costs. whether though, the wired man and as the mom quarter have to go up because people want product. it's not just a shortage of fish projects. australia has been plunged into an energy crisis with the national market operator. suspending market pricing to avoid power outages in up to 5 states. the war in ukraine has led to a global gas shortage prompting australia to rely on its aging coal fired power stations, a quarter of which i currently offline. despite being a major producer, 90 percent of the liquefied natural gas produced on the east coast is exported to china, south korea, and japan. that actually means that there's only a little bit left and the little bits left is sold on the international spot market

. and of course, we are having to purchase that back for domestic consumption at prices that have gone up, you know, a few times or more. the energy regulator has intervened and set a price cap, but many families will still be struggling to heat their homes. as a struggle experiences, a series of cold fronts. it means people are dying because they don't put their hating on, and people are dying because they need access health care. but they can't afford to . and people are dying because their health is in such dire straits because of the fact that they can afford to eat properly. the gas crisis and food shortage, just to of a number of challenges facing the newly elected labor government. with this in mind, they've agreed to introduce new cost of living measures in the type of budget to deliver on election pledges on child care wages and medicine. until then, the government warned is unlikely to be any immediate reprieve. sarah clark, audi 0 prison. now the bank of england has raised interest rates to 13. yeah. hi.

the $25.00 base point time is the 5th consecutive increase aimed at tackling inflation. the bank has also cut great forecasts for this quarter. the british pound tanked against the dollar after the announcement. now the b 5, the bank of england came just a day after the us federal reserve increasing interest rates to the highest levels in the be 30 years. also a bit to inflation by reducing consumers spending. but my kind of reports from washington d. c. that could have a negative impact on the batted us economy and lead to recession. dan osmond was expected, but no less shocking. at today's meeting, the committee raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 3 quarters of a percentage point resulting in a one and a half percentage point increasing the target range so far this year. the only potential rail flight and unemployment rate near a 50 year low with job vacancies at historical highs and wage growth elevated.

but this is offset by soaring inflation, which the rates type is intended to curb. prices across the board increased by nearly 9 percent last month alone, as inflation reached the level not seen in decades. the interest type will increase the price of mortgages and insurance among other things. but the fed hopes that are also damping consumer spending, which in turn should reduce inflation. my colleagues and i are acutely aware that high inflation imposes significant hardship, especially on those least able to meet the higher costs of essentially, like food, housing and transportation. we are highly attentive to the risks, high inflation poses to bite. so both sides of our mandate and were strongly committed to returning inflation to our 2 percent objective. and that would be welcomed by a suffering public y'all. i have got to slow it down. it stretches, gallon and mill of mom, we don't know the $6.00 every 2 days that go to say what the mil for

chelsea lewis and her family inflation is not an abstract statistic. it's an everyday burden that determines whether there's food on the table or whether she can drive her twin high school kids to track meets the search and prices is particularly hard on people. still recovering from the economic ravages of 10 demik . this is been a rough time and then with the, you know, the recent with the ukranian situation and then the gas was the shooting up. it's just like this world is, is, is certainly even more for the ones who were already struggling to keep their head above water. so it's kind of like now i can speak for myself. you kind of feel like you're drowning in a sense. chelsea is holding down several jobs while studying for a degree, but she couldn't cope without a government safety net. in particular, a housing subsidy known as section 8, food stamps, about $800.00 a month. my daughter who you just met. she's on social security. that's how we're

managing. but the good blessing is before we moved to georgia after 6 years and being on the section a housing voucher program, i made it to the top of up to the fits announcement, the white house, which continues to play much of the gloomy economic outlook on russian president vladimir putin section in ukraine, said it was doing everything to steady growth, and that's little comfort to the louis family, which regularly plays a board game called the game of life in which players get into debt, take out insurance, make investments, spine property, and so on. but they have little or no control over the real game of life being played out beyond these walls. one off ramp and inflation and rising interest rates in which the consumer is always the lose a high kind of jazeera washington. the protest as an eastern indian behind state have been attacking trains and blocking roads. as angus spreads over a change to the military recruitment system,

the government announced this week it would overall its armed forces, hiring process loony. employ new staff between the age of 17 and a half and $21.00, and most for only a 4 year tenure. if you tend to reduce the average age of military personnel and cut pension costs, you got to be taken 1st to exempt for the indian army needed to exam was left the 1st postponed. the theory examined later did away with it, was over whether his ever to hello welcome to look at the international forecasts. well, i'm afraid there's no shortage of dry and dusty weather across the middle east at the moment. not too many showers to speak of what a keen shamal setting in through friday, driving its way down across at eastern side or saudi arabia towards us here in cart . i'm pleased to say the winds is of a touch. as we go on in to sunday, saturday and sunday, but we have got a fair amount of lifted dust and sand to watch out for few showers up rather caucasus charles have one or 2 showers to just around the southern end,

the resi western pass of yemen. plenty of showers, meanwhile, across the gulf, a guinea southern nigeria, seeing some lively storms. very heavy rain there into liberia as we go through the next day or so. drifting a little further westward. sierra leone also seen some of those showers along with garner. i joined up with the showers that we have across cameroon, gabon, the easing across northern part of the democratic republic of congo. lovely weather therefore, under party stays dry over the coming days. one or 2 showers into kenya now quite as many as we'd like to see on a 2 showers also making the way into work. mozambie not so welcome away. this wet weather which will sweep across the western cape, south africa, see some wet weather as we go on through friday, saturday, and moving farther eastward for sunday. well, still had here on al jazeera, we speak into civil refugees. her amongst the 13000000 people, forced to leave her homes during war and a street name change with a political message in the us capital. the little glove. the water now started to

start forward for the enemy, start looking to inspire the arab fighters of tomorrow. all those details coming straight after the break. ah, it's the you case. biggest hospital with eventual capacity for 4000 with 19 patients built inside a london conference center. it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites are under way the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close, extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than any one thought.

ah, jews here. when ever you ah, ah ah, ah, go back to watching the news out with me. so rob, no reminder of our top story, the leaders of france, germany and italy, have met president blot lensky on that 1st visit to keith since the war began.

macro and shoots and many of the top of been where russian soldiers have been accused of committing abuses. nato defense ministers also discussing ukraine and the build up of troops along the lines of eastern borders. us defense secretary lloyd austin, said they need to give as much military capacity as possible as soon as he is made may be in, in his arms, trying to demand an increase in salaries and the post government reformed thousands of its members. how the rally in the capital tunis that the fighting ukraine has dramatically pushed up the number of people displaced round the world. and that figure has crossed a 100000000 for the 1st time. the refugee agency says the scale and speed of the crisis are out pacing solutions wall than 12000000 ukrainians of fled the war. 3 po grundy and the united nations high commissioner for refugees says that global displacement is elegant to get worse. new conflict sir, emerge. old conflicts are not resolved,

and because the causes that push people to flee are becoming more and more complex and violence, persecution, human rights violations, but also m to an extent, climates, extreme climate phenomena, and the climate change inequalities. even the pandemic, everything conspires to make the situation very difficult for people in certain countries, and their only option is to flee. and there, this is why we've seen this bigger grow year after year and reach now more than a 100000000 people. this still almost 6000000 syrian refugees in the middle east. i've just come back from bangladesh where in a tiny and very fragile area of the country, 1000000 refugees from member of the ro hinge, a community have been living for the past few years and the list is very,

very long. so the size, the complexity, the difficulty of finding solutions, all of this illustrates the, the, the nature of the problem. we're dealing with syria and suffering from the world's largest displacement crisis due to the war that began 11 years ago. the zip code the reports, millions of people are still living in poverty. handed up dollar is a victim of serious war. more than 13000000 people, that's half the population before the war are in a similar situation. either forced to flee the country or are displaced within its borders, and i'm recent asian, and probably more. i am 70 years old. i prefer to die than live in poverty in misery. and without my children who are now scattered everywhere, for most life in exile is becoming more permanent. and the opposition controlled north. hundreds of thousands of syrians are being moved out of tense into concrete

housing units. it's some relief from the cold winter's and hot summer's, but it's not home. opponents of the government, civilians and fighters, men, women, and children were forced to move in government troops gradually recapture territory over the years of fighting about and up. none is a 100 sovereigns or it's not easy leaving home. it's painful. there is a lot of pain and i hope to return one day and live under a new system of government. 11 years on front lines still divide the country and the regime and the opposition are far from a political solution. a new generation has only known war and life in camps for many of the displaced. returning to president bashar assad, syria is not an option in the absence of safety guarantees, political reform and justice in a 100 me problem. 5 years ago we left our homes are livelihood now. my husband was

killed in order through here and there is nothing for us, but time has done little to erase memories of a violent conflict which is now in a stalemate. but when i'm going to be forced us from our homes, after heavy bombardment, they destroyed street by streets, they dropped power bombs and killed so many people who besieged in hungry, serious displacement crisis has been described as this century's largest human exodus. many have been forced to find safety many times over, but their troubles are being compounded by a collapsing economy. it's a stark reality across the war torn nation where 60 percent of the population are facing hunger. seneca, they're al shahita. thank you. stacy brussels wire, lloyd austin, the u. s. and defense, zachary speaking, listening to what he has to say said that made ost task would be to build, quote, the structure of peace. and he said, what me,

what we must work patiently. he said that we must work patiently and careful with carefully advancing with practical realistic steps in the light of circumstances and events as they occur. and that's just what this alliance has done. since russia is indefensible, invasion of ukraine and we have had to face events that we all hope would never come to pass. and this alliance has met the challenge with the termination, with resolve and above all, with unity. together we have responded swiftly and decisively to rushes, baseless and lawless and reckless invasion of ukraine. nato has shown the world that it remains the essential for um,

for consultation decision and action on transatlantic security. we are all proud to stand with the brave people of ukraine as they defend themselves in their democracy in their sovereignty. and during this enormous crisis in europeans, european security, we're proud to stand together to strengthen the rules face international order that protects us all our work together is indispensable. and these ministerials are invaluable. it's an opportunity to consult with one another and to share ideas. and to ensure that the alliance is prepared to face the challenges of today and tomorrow. together we have risen to the challenge of putin's war of choice. in russia's assault on trans atlantic security,

our allies have activated nato's defense plans. they've deployed elements of the nato response force and they place tens of thousands of troops in the eastern areas of the alliance, along with significant air and naval assets under the direct command of nato and supported by allies national. the deployments and nato is also making plans to strengthen us deterrence and defense posture for the longer term, especially along the eastern flying over to highly productive. this ministerial has laid the groundwork for important discussions and decisions at the nato summit in madrid later this month. now nato is also close to welcoming to new members to the alliance and finland and sweden have made the historic

decisions to apply for membership. and that reflects the appeal of nato's core values. the values that united us as an alliance remain strong and timeless. and so does our shared vision of a stronger rules based international order. in a more peaceful world? i am deeply proud of the progress that we've made over the past several months. now the good work much continued. during our time together, i've encouraged my fellow ministers to do even more. we all share the responsibility to procure, prepare and provide ready capabilities and forces to prepare this alliance for the challenges to come. nato's preeminent task is not change to the van

each and every alloy sovereignty territorial integrity and independence. while i was load, austin, of course, the defense equity for the us speaking in brussels at the nato conference. it's a ministerial meeting of 2 days preparing well lead as a nato, a lead, as full as summit in the dread. he said, went through the main points of what nato is all about, and how it should be supporting you, crane. and she'll be taking questions now from the preschool. let's bring in all white house correspondent, kimberly how can he's following events for aside from washington d. c. and of course, all of this leads to an announcement what last night i from president biden about a huge amount of money and military support for ukraine. yeah, that's right. and not only is this an important announcement, but you heard there is the defense secretary was talking about what the united

states is hoping is that this announcement of more aid military aid for ukraine in terms of military hardware will encourage the european partners to in turn do the same, you heard him say at the tail end of the speech that we played there, that all nato members must share in the responsibility of providing for the ready capabilities for the alliance to defend their sovereignty. what he's referring to, even though you crate is not a member of nato, that that is exactly what is happening right now. is that they, there is this belief that there is an obligation of nato and all of the members within that alliance to help ukraine defend its sovereignty against russia's invasion. so that is a not so subtle nudge to all of those members and the heels of this announcement made by the united states. this additional,

1000000000 in weapons that has been supplied is the largest now package that has been supplied of weapons to ukraine. it is missile launchers, it is how it serves it as an anti ship systems. and it's also the u. s. military training for the ukranian soldiers in order to be able to use these systems properly. now, why is the united states doing this right now? because there is concern that the russians simply are better manned in terms of numbers in terms of artillery against the ukrainian forces and the ukrainian forces need support. and this is the type of support that they need. and so this was announced 1st by the national security council's coordinator for strategic communication, john kirby. he now says at the white house, this is followed up by announcements, by the defense secretary. and you heard there just now in brussels that this to day

meeting that has been taking place, just sort of outlining the package and once again, encouraging other partners to follow the leadership of the united states. as part of this alliance will continue to follow what mode austin says through the day. but for the moment, kimberly, thanks very much for your analysis. now the u. s. says it's captured a senior iso leader joint military raid in northern syria. honey m. l. kennedy was taken into custody from the village southwest of jerry booth. got up loose. us forces say he is a seasoned bomb maker and was planning attacks now. injuries are reported during the operations. the u. s. house committee investigating the complet acts as a man who was present at the insurrection visited the building just one day before he was a little tall, organized by a republican congressman who denies any wrong doing. the committee will hold its 3rd having later on thursday. allan fisher reports now from washington d. c. it was the day before the capital riot and constituents of republican

congressman body loudermilk were being given a tour of the building. one man in particular seemed interested in stairways and security checkpoints. not the usual tourist attractions. the same man who filmed himself walking towards capitol hill on the day of the riot, making broad threats against democratic members of congress. he has not been charged with any offence or there's no escape. pelosi schumer rattler will come in for the congressman, who's over during the visit said he did nothing wrong. these are folks who have never been washington these and they're, they're weird visitor, congress and they're wanting to speak to the committee. and because the committees never called me and asked me anything, they sent a letter. i mean really, they never sent it to me. your office never, no, never, never received the letter, never received a phone call. never received an email. they send it to you guys. the chairman of

the january 6 committee, betty thompson says the behavior of the group raises concerns about the activity and intent. there have been suggestions, a number of tours and the days before the right. a load some of those involved to essentially study the layout. and will capitol police say there was nothing suspicious about the loudermilk visit? that our calls to reopen that investigation? it seems suspicious that, ah, you need a subpoena for a member of congress to want to volunteer everything. he knew that was arguably relevant to the investigation. why do you need a subpoena? your member of congress is supposed to be upholding and defending the constitution . you should be volunteering like good samaritan, everything you know. the leader of the republicans in the house says the shoes. the committee is more interested in attacking opponents. but the committee is expected to lay out more evidence of other suspicious visits in coming hearings. allan fisher al jazeera washington, well still had hail al jazeera been spall beats in his intended stock preparing for

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made by release of time of fluids with some sometimes high water temperature, i mean temperatures up to 100. the 40 degrees c at 20 meters, and we have a huge amount of carbon dioxide to release the by the sea floor. that poses a risk of a son nami, and it's potential to wipe out entire communities. and while there are advanced warning systems for volcanic activity on land, scientist say a lot more work is needed to address the threat of those underwater. the only an islands are unesco world heritage site. and because of their proximity, researchers say the only way to effectively forecasts synonymy is by predicting one and hopefully alert people. well before it hits the fan, i'm the wave normally most very high speed in the water. it's estimated the 300

kilometers per hour or more. so you can imagine that you can reach a, one of the islands the fuel the, the way forward scientist say is to develop strong early warning system and community preparedness. so that population dense region both here and around the world are spared from an environmental disaster joint wolf, al jazeera. what type of for the historic. so thank you so much. or when the in gets under way and just a were 10 days time and from the games. biggest stars been preparing in germany, tennessee is almost over is through the quarter finals of the w t. a event in berlin. the top feed beat, the park for the united states and straight fed. last year jibber became the 1st arab woman teresa puerto finally went over on the men's tour and holla, nik curious, scored a big went on wednesday. they are feeling lost. the opening said again stephanie said his but then started to listen up,

pulled of some incredible shops and kept them coming. curios eventually wore down his opponent winning the next 2 sets, 6264 to wrap up. the victory. now leave has 31 in their overall head to head. every 2nd seat is out while curious will face public hearing a book that on friday for place. gold see was open is underway. just outside boston in brookline. organize you say they can see a day when players who join a break away competition will be banned from there. this event. but for now, individuals who signed up to play in the saudi backed live series are being allowed to take part in the 3rd major of the season. north america's biggest tor, the p g has band live series players from its events. but the us open is run by a separate body. i'm saddened by what's happening in the professional, you know, professional game mostly as a fan because i like watching the best players in the world come together and play . and this is going to fracture that. i've heard that this is good for the game to

release from my outside view right now. it looks like it's good for a few folks playing the game, but i'm struggling with how this is good for the game. we've been speaking to daily mirror sports rudder, neil mclean, and he says it will be interesting to see what happens once the us open is out of the way. this last week or 2 is seen a starts of a civil war in the game where the players being completed for and they'll get lots and lots of money. i mean, the live series started in london last week with 48 players. 17 of those were been banned from the pga tour, but they are allowed to play in the major still. so the likes of. busy phil mickelson brought the shambles. patrick, we will be team up in the us open again. well this week, but i was going to be a rare appearance on the, on the actual pga tour. it's been a p j. sanction. what happens in the weeks we've turned to golf for the 4 days? what happens afterwards then all up in the still. so what we're looking at is the

co existence going to be difficult. is live going to take over as preeminent in the world, and is it going to take over from the p j? what is the european? so going to so the peter, to a very quick the band, their play as to spend them. as soon as the event started in london last week, the d p. well, to haven't done that yet, we're still waiting republic direction to them. so what are they doing? the got a strategic alliance with the pga tour, but they haven't come out to the same. so are they tense, it's to actually work along side live, have the live events and have the pga to then the 2nd resort, almost a feed to a to go alongside it. so whatever happens or that are going to be huge ramifications for gulf on its structure. the colorado avalanche have won the opening game of the stanley cup finals. they beat 2 time defending champions. the tampa bay lightning in colorado. andre, or cough skis, scored a minute into overtime to give the avalanche for 3 win, and take

a one. nothing advantage in the best of 7 series. now mixed martial arts is growing in popularity in the middle east. but so far, not many arab fighters have made it to major american promotions. jordan's gerad, i'll follow, he is one of the few, and he's looking to inspire young people from the region. so how molly reports? good job. oh, he's one of the most talented emma may fight as the arab world has ever produced. a nick named the jordanian lion gerard, i'll salon. he is hungry for global success. after proving himself at regional level were submitted on the 29 year old. well, to wait steps into the octagon in atlanta next month, looking for a 3rd straight win in the professional fight. as league. shall god willing, i would represent my people the on a board on my country the best i can. i have great confidence that i will be

a champion. i want to show that a lot of fighters can compete and beat any fighter in the world. so always recent fights have been in the united states. but right here, the middle east, where emma is growing in popularity, the jordanian fight, his efforts are not going unnoticed. this is keta emmy, one of an increasing number of mixed martial arts. jim's in the region. however, very few arabs compete at an elite level. so the rise of the likes of st allowing is giving a sparring fight as hope for to seen are doing well. i would inspire me to also pursue this work because it shows that people were similar. backgrounds to me can also be successful in the sport, but we're all passionate about the law we success could boost the professional fight as leagues plan to expound in the middle east, which is fast becoming a hub for combat sport. oh, the 4 year old promotion is looking to rival the ultimate fighting championship or

u. s. c. which in 2019 find a fire deals to stage bounce and united arab emirates. saudi arabia has also hosted major boxing matches and regularly stages w, w e, wrestling events, middle east is critically important piece of our global expansion. john is an exciting fighter and we believe are all being that affinity with the middle east leading with honor there, there. oh, the law we hope students by the arab enemy styles of tomorrow, but he knows the best way to do that is to keep on winning. so hail ma, leak al jazeera though ha. okay, and that is i work for now with so back to you. thanks very much for. well,

it's been a decade since pierce why? the south korea musician became a global phenomenon with the catchy gangnam style hit. but his recent live performance has been criticized for using water cannon spray on audiences has rob mcbride explains this month is the 10th anniversary of sy achieving global fame with the unmistakable sounds and moves of gangnam style. and as south career welcomes the summer, he and other k pop stars are welcoming, being back with their fans at large concerts, the kind of gatherings that haven't been possible during the pandemic. especially colleges which pay for big names to come and entertain them at this time of year. i'm doing a lot of shows easier on colleges. this is kind of funny or my career's 22 years, but these days i'm talking to myself like, wow, dude, you are very popular. uh huh. they love you. that may be the case,

but sized concerts have drawn criticism for their excessive use of water being sprayed onto the crowds from large water cannon, especially at a time when many parts of the country are suffering from drought. and now he's also being criticized by health officials saying that wet masked pose a health risk making it easier to spread germs just as the country finally seems to be overcoming the only kron variant. that of course, is a reason to celebrate this summer and sigh and its fans would like to be partying. but his use of water, it seems, landing him in hot water. and that's the usa law news after the break with me to stay with us here on al jazeera. ah, i thought it was so i la la, la la la la la,

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