all over the u. s. even as the country faces the continued threat of a deadly pandemic. and it morphed into a movement calling for police reforms. sometimes it was violent, but mostly it was peaceful. we asked people to describe what america is now feeling . i think people want change and i think people are willing to do whatever it takes to get there. one friday, millions of people in america are expected to celebrate what's called june 18th and unofficial holiday. commemorating the end of slavery in the united states. this year in the wake of the nationwide protests, there is a growing number of calls to make it an official federal holiday. as people see it as a great opportunity to take to the streets, to continue to let their message be heard. ah,

final rounded parliamentary elections in france, president manuel macaroni coalition, the hopes to hold off a challenge from a new left his blood. ah, and i'm the cloud. this is out 0. life also come we up choosing between a former rebel or millionaire colombians vote for president to mid rise. the anger about inflation and inequality ah anger on the streets of june is yet protested. keep up the pressure on the president as he tries to change the constitution. thus, how climate change in human activity of forcing change of mount everest praise come ah. so voting is underway in france in the 2nd round of parliamentary elections that

could decide the future of president manuel mac homes reform agenda. the 1st round showed micron, centrist coalition, just to head in a tight race with newly formed left wing alliance. that joe hall repulsed now from paris. it is a parliamentary election that will define the limits of a manual macros power to enact reforms in his 2nd term as president, amid economic crisis at home. and on the international stage. going to switch to the vote was with my hope is to have a large majority for the presidential party. so bills and reforms that are needed can be voted through calmly. it's something that would be very difficult in a divided assembly. but microns centrist majority is at risk after a strong challenge by a left wing coalition, under jean luc, manage on that look set to become the country's main opposition. at a time of economic and social crisis, people want decisive government. they want answers. what happens if they don't get more people on the street more demonstrations, more he, these are like,

crisis. i will say it's probably a legitimacy crisis that can lead to more social movements, for example. so that will be the real crisis on the streets. the outcome of the vote them may signal the return of z. les joan or yellow vest type protest, the blighted microns 1st term. what also seems clear is that the excitement of re manual macros, centrist political movement, neither of the left nor of the right has fizzled out in 5 years. there is real voter, disillusionment and apathy low turn out both the presidential election in april and also that these parliamentary ones now with a majority of registered french vote is not even bothering to turn up to vote in the 1st round last weekend to share national this is a neighborhood of elderly people. young voters are not interested, they don't vote yes. they're worth nothing, not one of them as any value. they are all con auto and bandits and france is not what it used to be. it raises questions about the legitimacy of

a government endorsed by only a thin slice of the electorate, and it points to a political landscape in which fewer and fewer french people feel they have a stake, or even much interest. jonah whole al jazeera, paris sir, microns places, allies in the cabinets rule happy reelection. 12 of the 15 members of france's council of ministers had favorable results in the 1st round that are likely to pass through to the 2nd. but 3 ministers are facing a tough challenge at the ballot box. if they lose their seats in the national assembly, they will also lose a cabinet posts that's from james shields is a professor of french politics at work university. and he describes the growing voter apathy in france. this is the paradox of these 2 closely aligned elections in the presidential election, michael was on the ramparts, seeing that the french voter had to tom note to, to, to, to,

to block the extreme, right? know he's on the ramparts, saying that the french voters must know to block the extreme left. what a reflection of is the pick, the 5 years of micron and power has half hot on the political landscape. we know a centrist block, a far right gloss, a far left block, and almost nothing in between. the electro calendar has been the same for the last 20 years. and it's only now that we are seeing these records levels of abstention, 2017. and again, to the i think the deeper reason is that we're in a prolonged period and trans of widespread disenchantment with politics, with politicians, with political parties of all stripes. and that's a bigger question, even hanging over what you could call the democratic process. a growing public

feeling that elections up point that there's no point because it changes nothing for the better. this was the reason most cited by abstention us last weekend. so i think we need to pete to that. and it's a sentiment that particularly affects younger, modestly educated walking class voters who are the most numerous and deserved thing the pulling to it's. now colombians of 18 was seen as the most fiercely contested presidential election in recent memory. it is the 2nd round of voting for my career to fight against a petro is running to become the country's 1st left wing president, and he's up against the millionaire businessmen. rodolfo hernandez, a little outside of whose being compared to former us president donald trump. as under ramp, yes, he joins us live from outside upholding station a book or a manga, and not as andre. so voting has begun.

yes. can actually we have seen very big lines here in central credit. among obviously people are very exciting and voting for one of their own at the beginning and printer that you introduce got 64 percent of the vote in the 1st round here. 67 percent in the surrounding region of sent them that a nice expected to do even better than that today, at least in this region, given the fact that a lot of people who voted before the establishment, the candidate in the 1st round, so that he go good, yeah, this is expected that you choose this in this the 2nd round, the long lines here, the candidate himself was expected to vote around noon local. you steady surprise. the many has the, has done throughout this campaign,

changing as mine and showing up just as the polls opened in another pulling station close by from where we are. gustavo pay 3 instead started. it is a going to a catholic mass at a church in downtown book, and he's on his way to vote to as we speak, according to his people. as you were saying, this is expected that to be a very close selection of very the vice of election where i'm majority of columbia and one to see change went to change from the traditional establishment. and they have 2 very different choices that promise that change, and we're going to see in a few hours who will be the next president's column or so very devices. but just how close do you think it will be? well the expectation here is that there that the 2 candidates are neck and neck.

are the polls we've seen that are now 7 days that are older. tell us that if you look at all the poles, they had the 2 candidates within one, within one percent of the vote. so this current could turn out to be as close as the election in many years in columbia. more than 20 years, at least the since the last time and election was this close according to the polls . and also if you speak to the candidates, deans, they'll tell you that they have no idea what will happen. so there's a lot of tension excitement with that. now, columbus a country that it used to getting their results quite quickly. v and electra alto, these here have a quick, quiet count system that usually gives resolved a couple of hours at the most after folds close by. they are already saying that to day people might need to be comp cuz things could take much longer. and we could

even face a situation in which we will not know tonight the who the president will be. and it might take a little bit longer or another time to appreciate the telephone from pity, reporting from columbia to chin is you know, where protest as a back on the streets to oppose the president's plans for constitutional referendum . next month. the country's main opposition party say they will boycott the vote. as for troy b, no reports o position politicians, lee protest against president ty, isiah, in the capital, cheating they keep sage of corrupting democratic institutions and wanting absolute power and control attitude as it is. so for them in this new constitution of k site has been written in secret, we don't recognize it, brittany, a constitution that's been agreed to by the people. it's not a constitution written by people who support him. side suspended parliament and

assumed executive powers last year. and dissolved it in march. he's also sacked dozens of judges. he wants the referendum next month to change. chinese he is constitution. a draft version is due to be published on monday. char law and bad garden, leslie, god willing on the 20th of the month. i will, according to the law, submit the draft constitution to the president. this being the maximum date for the submitting of this draft side has band polls and political advertising and told international election observers. they're not welcome turn out in the referendum is expected to be low. or these are one of these years known as the black decade or the years during which chinese you wrote it's greatest constitution and established institutions, including supreme judiciary council and the independent national. 34 elections. the institutions built by the revolution and built by the martyrs uttered a threatened by chi saeed. and his group.

oh, these protest is say, they won't give up. they don't believe the vote in july will be free. oh, fair. they say say aid has too much power and democracy is in danger. victoria gate and be al jazeera latino from willing to revoke men who has more from jews. well, we're seeing a series of demonstrations in 3 days and things, but there is some kind of building about again, i propose referenda or announcing the 1st draft of the new institution. so this is why they not today. and also yesterday, me, so the free to store it tells you you've been excluded from the national. they are testing. they will say say that again to the referendum. and generally they say in hopefully there's a lack of enthusiasm who this referendum, you know, people are not clear exactly what the question sort of being put

a pretty good big social project. yes. until people see something. right. but they don't know. so we've also seen the judge is a good week right after the 57 judges who are such like i signed from june 1st. and also we saw a general strike on thursday, which is a rare occurrence. they, the main labor union came out, which meant all the public facility here not 0, bangladesh is facing, is, was flooding in more than a 100 years affecting millions of people. trips have been called in to help rescues at a tiny country with a tiny port is having big problems with ship traffic will have more why the gumby

of struggles with important matter to the entire region. ah, with now it looked particularly wet, recently, western bonia and in java and the central and some philippines. and i think these be areas to fix on again the next 24 hours. equally in parts of southern vietnam, cambodia, the showers look big and the same is true singapore and call lumper poaching mean 3 days of little wind and thunderstorms on a daily basis. maybe not a big surprise them that the seasonal right is rather more organized in china. it is given flooding recently on g, but this flooding is slowly easing because the heavy rains move to the north. that little line that it was a yank. see the picture for monday then is that wave goes off. sure. heading to was

q. sure. she cocoa, but mostly missing japan and allowing still some rain but not much in the southwest of china. this is the position of the seasonal rate of the moment that has the rain for north have been some rain in beijing to the might be a few more shells, but it's still hot here at $34.00 degrees. now the monsoon trough has moved a long way north. now as you can see, but the shower is really ignoring it. it's raining virtually everywhere. and that includes the north of india and all them pakistan where you would please to know the shows are welcome and they do reduce the temperature quite a bit. ah, with the oh oh

oh, wherever you go in the world, one airline goes to make it feel exceptional. katara always going places to go. ah ah. and are getting, you're watching out 0. her reminder about top stories this hour and voting is underway in france in the 2nd round of parliamentary elections. president, manuel macro needs a majority to push through his plans to raise the retirement age and cut taxes. colombians of 18, once seen as the most fiercely contested presidential election in recent memory. it is the 2nd round of voting for my gorilla fight. gustavo petro is up against

millionaire. businessman rideau for hernandez protest. his engineered 0 back on the streets to pose the president's plans for constitutional referendum. next month, the opposition says the pi site is trying to tightened his grip on power that threatened to point out the vote. a memorial ceremony has been held in honor of al jazeera journalists, shreed of wax monks, 40 days. she was killed. israeli forces shot serene in the head while she was on assignment, and janine and the occupied westbank. members of the international community have condemned to murder and continued to call for an independent investigation. serene was with al jazeera for 25 years covering the story of the israeli occupation. if abraham has more from the moral service in ramallah coming to the events side, the war is passing through this place. it is a petition that people can get to sign. and it says that shooting log will not go in vain. and people here are writing their name,

demanding accountability for what they call a beloved murder. hundreds of people have gathered. i came here to this from a la cultural palace to commemorate the 40th day since shooting was killed. we hear a lot of words of condemnation. people are angry, frustrated, they want the world to see what is happening to those who sell the truth or carrying the people voices, the world shit in with someone who was very well known, very much respected. so loved and we see that when we see people coming here, signing, writing her words, i was just scrolling through this book and i so a lot of heartfelt messages had a. busy colleague and friend devoted with it,

he says, i never expected you to be the new you were the one who taught me how to write the news. i never expected that this would happen. people here are saying words. condolences of remembrance. people say that she was someone who is not also strong, but also empowered women in the palestinian society to know that they can be on the front lines respected. and a 3 she hated for within to loosen marina camp was an argentine lawyer who served as the 1st prosecutor of the international criminal court from 2003 to 2012. he says more institutions needs to be mobilized. the go to have to do justice for she read me and probably i just see the issue to more. she ran not just to show demonstrations. i think what we're doing now is how people can mobilize

institutions to the just is for sherry as you say, the bulletin board. so i just see that show the bullet that bullet provide. i mean this yet, that this is a kind of bullet you by the riley told you that all the nice. yeah, confirming that, but it was important because it would show vide, how can you describe the bullet? they know it in the community is building you cannot should it randomly. in fact, when i wasn't cheaper the of the national committee court, we charge get us the security forces to use live ammunition against them. operations. it is a different is it is allegedly erased told the are shooting a group of journalists who either defined themselves clearly as generally they have

meant that they have to sign in the chest. so it's clear. so how is possible, should it provi it? so that isn't very important, but it's not enough to got to make a criminal case because criminal cases are about individual ripples ability. allan prime minister male martin has warned the u. k, that unilateral changes to post breaks that agreement would be very serious. british government says it would introduce a law to ditch parts of the north, not a political. the agreement to governs checks on goods being shipped to the region, european union since that brace international law and has taken the legal action by good as in india, the suffering it's worse flooding in more than a century. as monsoon rains, the region, thousands of people have died ne bangladesh and the indian state of awesome. i've been the worst officials in the district have still had say the flooding is the

most severe and record. millions of people have been effective. both countries have to put soldiers to help with rescue operations is more heavy. rain is full cost. time the challenge has more enough and coolness in bangladesh. many people, especially in the remote villages, are still maroe and they're desperately trying to rescue this people. many of the homes actually totally washed away, even within the city centers are flood. many of the hospitals got inundated with flat water, which is complicating situation for the rescue people. at least those who are harmed are hard during the flood as far as the military and navy goes there right now, very much concentrating and rescuing people who are in maryland. but people are also in desperate need for fresh water and food. i mean there is really a major challenge right now, particularly when you go into the show and i'm going to valley of the lead division . it is basically a lake area. a lot of the village are very remote just to reach them. itself is

challenge whether many of the houses are filled. there is a question you got understanding contacted zillow, just select an indian, not just us experience, a major flood, just end of last month somewhere and may. so they're just recovered. when we have the 2nd wave of flood units i've had warned in last may, during the flood that at least 1500000 children in this lot affected areas are prone to via water burn disease as malnutrition and even drowning. so obviously every much challenging environment, the forecast says that it could possibly rain. it's a monsoon season. if it rains again and if there is a torrential rain, things could again get worse. well, it's enough in poverty, metalli's body developments from the daily so incessant rains have devastated parts of india's northeast and caused heavy flooding. in the state of a psalm, at least 32 districts have been affected. that's about 3000000 people,

at least half of whom are in relief camps. the death toll is also climb, being more than 60 people have died. fees have been inundated and that has affected the livelihood of millions of people. now, evacuations are underway. the military has been called in to help with that at least 20000 people have been rescued and it's not just the some the neighboring states have also been effected. for example, in the state of may collier, at least a dozen people have died. and in the state of triple ira, thousands of people are homeless. so this wave of floods was expected. you know, this region receives hiring fall every year, and some flooding is, is season. it happens every year. what's been an anomaly this year in the wave that we reported on, and this time around is the intensity of the rain fall, and that is what has caused people has caught people off guard. now officials,

we spoke to the last time around be with their said they were preparing for this wave of floods because this is peak monsoon season. they said they had relief material stocked up and that they were drawing up plans to get in then rescue people. but there are many challenges. nepal is preparing to move ever a space come because global warming and increase human activities, make it unsafe for a hard has this report. every year people arrive at base camp and nepal to fulfill a long life dream to climb the highest peak in the world. mount everest was once only achievable by leet mountain is, has now become accessible to thousands of tourists and climate from around the world. and that's part of the problem. human activity, coupled with global warming, is having a detrimental effects on every ecosystem, making the ascent on safe at an altitude of 5364 meters above sea level base camp lies on the kimber glazier sciences of warning. the lacy is

melting into alarming rates by as much as one me to every year, especially the issue of melting glass year and the car basses as a big warning that maybe in 10 years, you know, we didn't know more about climate shut, his se cracks and crevices appear over nights and it's putting their lives at risk melted ice, so causing rock falls and can trigger avalanches in the himalayas. in an attempt to protect the natural environment, beneatha, these government has decided to move every base camp to a new location. and that's roughly 200 to 400 meters low, where there is no year round dice. certainly this is the right time to advocate and raise the boys together and not only talk the boys we need to set you down. so yeah, they have been very consistent and every year, but definitely more than 50100 people shows the human ways has been polluted

around 4000 lead to the urine is dumped at base camp every day. and because climate spend weeks on the peak adjusting to the altitude, they generate several kilos of waste, most of which is left on the mountain from fuel use for cooking and heating to empty oxygen cylinders and abandon camping equipment. all this has created a moral and an environmental debate on the human obsession to scale the tallest mountain in the world. thought a height of i'll just 0. well done is me stuff or is the professor in the critical geography case called his london. he says more consequences, the climate change are on the way climate science can tell us that we are 95 percent confidence, 99 percent confident, that all the averages that were in the past or the normal conditions that people used to in the past are not going to hold in the future if you're getting unprecedented floods in the dish or in china, or if you're getting racial males in the higher lives,

i think it is basically symptomatic or whatever we're used to in the past is not going to continue into the future but the bigger issue is what to do about overwhelming is that and what to do about it is at the, at the moment what we see in india and china, many of the parts of the world is as it falling in certain developmental project re, of building infrastructure, occupational songs, floodplains, promotion of river engineering, fighting against the rivers. those are sort of 1900 century early 20th century european tropes which are being replicated at the moment in the local south with potentially catastrophic articles. hopefully building a building of roads trying to build levies trying to him in reverse the size of relo patrol is going to have the kind of consequences if you senior at the moment the gambit as port was one, see preferred destination for cargo,

heading to many west african countries, but a lack of investment has left it short of space and losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year. i would address report now from banjo. you are after days of waiting a ship, offloads is cargo at the port up by jewel. a few kilometers offshore. other vessels are waiting that turn as much as 80 percent of the cargo that arrives here is exported to other countries including begun be as far like geneva seneca, the like of modernization and expansion means the tiny country can't handle increased traffic. and is struggling to maintain existing volumes they bought by new law has a key lent of 400 meters and 5. but this is a where we bring ships alongside. so d min business is the content shipping lamps and access to reserve budget one little andy terminal it as our so constricted in the sense that there's 63000 square meters of storage unit is available. importers, an export to say,

doing business here is becoming more expensive. officious, as much as 20 percent of the cargo meant for the gambia is being diverted to our, the west african ports. if you ask the government businessman, they're rather have their containers come through neighboring ports for cost, timeliness and things of that sort. but as i keep seeing, the abilene gumby and customer, we lose job opportunities and the taxes that we supposed to pay for the taxman in 20. 19 the portal, approaching a loss of succeeded $200000000.00. and while no recent figures are publicly available, economists say that amount has only increased to is prashant one to import. the government wants to open another in the south of the country to south park of san diego and lun locked my label. now the country's not ports development is expected to have cargo delivery times, but that could cause the country up to $500000000.00 money. the country can't afford at the moment. so.