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columbia swings to the left, choosing former rebel gustavo petro as its next president. ah, you're watching al jazeera life and the headquarters and del heim didn't navigate. also a heads half ron celebrations by the foreign less, but a setback for president menu or macro. as his centrist alliance loses its majority in parliament, millions of people are stranded by flooding in bangladesh. forecasts was warned. there could be worse to come. parades and st festivals are held across the us to celebrate june, 13th, a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery. so

after decades of conservative rural columbia has elected its 1st left wing presidents. gustavo petro, a former gorilla, and former mayor bogota, has won a clear majority over the right wing populace. rodolfo hernandez, with more than 99 percent of the votes counted so far. petrow has won more than 50 percent against 47 percent for his rival. hernandez conceded defeat a short time ago. commodities place that are meant that i accept the result as it has to be. if we want our institutions to be firm, i really hope that the decision that has been taken will be beneficial to everyone and, and the columbia will go on the path of the voting on the 1st round. i wish chris double petrow all the success and thank you to all colombians for having accepted my proposal, even though it was the losing one. so both candidates have been promising radical change. gustavo petro victory means a swing to the left in a country that long, but a bastion of the right. the former rebel fighter has promised to tackle inequality

on protect the environment. his defeated opponents is construction magnet results for hernandez. he stood as an independent candidate, but had the back of most of columbia as traditional conservative establishment series of bo has more. from outside the stucco petros headquarters in bo goes off. this is difficult to explain what's going on. yeah, right now there's thousands and thousands of people that are coming out of their homes inside of the rain and coming right next to where we start with headquarters are located. i've been talking to people who have been displaced by columbia. cons that people who have been processed in this past year and whose friends were end you're doing the process that happened during the parent administration where people were processing again, tax reform. there's people here who believe i'm not convinced that appraisal is ready and is the man to carry out the reform that columbia need is the actual. he

was a youngest. i left when get guerrilla fighters, he became an economy, is made to run a congressman then may your of go with that and now he's columbia record, and then that's why there's thousands and thousands of people here for a little bit that had made several pen things wrong, this is among them who we think the war on drugs to rethink oil and gas echo patient in columbus like you're telling me that they want the amendment racking in columbia. for example, he's also on the claim to care for the environment. what has been crucial this election is also, he's running me a single mother who has also been defending the environment and has been receiving death threats in the past few months. so that's a

most definitely do people here are some then that he was. so that is a senior bogo. so let's now crossover thomas andre petty, who's joining us from book ira manga hernandez, conceding defeat, were you are, i'm a sandra. what's the mood like amongst the supporters? well, the truth is that practically all of the supporters of the, for the man, there's already a last, the headquarters of its campaign that you see behind me the door even has closed. now, this was all very quick. after they discovered that their preferred candidate lost the end, even if the supporters are a minority here, dave came out and are taking to the streets. we just saw a caravan of cars and motorcycles with better supporters waiving the columbia flags. and so far, so and so forth. and obviously again, they're

a small number here, but they are coming out because this isn't the story election among the supporters of rodolfo hernandez. instead there were long faces even anger. we saw people crying because they were expecting their candidate to wait and really so i think it was a surprise for the majority of them that instead pedro came in 1st and among them i think there are really 2 groups of people. one are the ones that the fear, the government of gustavo fair through that fear, the possibility that a left is government could turn columbia into another venezuela, into a country, and tour boil over with economy can and, and so in an economy can social crisis. but there are another group of people here that instead the are saying that they're hoping that goose double play that. okay. and bring some of the change that he's promising to do that, all sort of those. but man, this was promising to do and they were happy that with foot man,

this called very thorough and told him that he is making himself available to, to, to support them in bringing forward the some of the changes that he's proposing. and look, this was expected to be a very, very close selection. we were also here considering the possibility that we would not have known who the next president would have been for many days. the government, the current government was worried of new demonstrations and protests. instead, the federal came in 1st with a large enough number of votes that he's the clear president and i think that there . 6 opens the possibility of collaboration with the other foot man this and with the other politicians, especially since with and i'm pretty sure we're going to hear him now say that his 1st decision that will be to start as sort of national conversation and try

to get as large as coalition, as he can to, to, to have support for these reforms that he's hoping to, to bring forward. the other thing that i got here from the people who support that, there's a man, this is that they want this movement to continue. there is a majority against it, traditionally establishment in columbia, and i think that this in that sense is definitely the beginning of a new era. okay. yeah, thank you so much on the sandra for the time being on there on your screen is a light fixture from bogota. that is the campaign headquarters off of gustavo petro . we do expect to hear from him shortly, and as soon as we see him appear, we will definitely cross back and listen to what he has to say now that he's been elected as columbia's 1st left wing president, a pretty significant day for the country will move on and tell you about elections elsewhere, because there are early projections that are coming out in france and they indicate

that president 21 micro has fallen short of an outright majority in the parliamentary elections after a strong performance by rival parties. the final result could also see micros health and environment ministers losing their seats. microns campus projected 2 in 224 seats, making it the biggest walk. but that is short of the $289.00 needed for an absolute majority. that could push through key policy reforms abroad left great alliance, the new law headed by zone luc 1000000, shall is on track to becoming the largest opposition party with a predicted 149 seats. for the big surprise of the night is the projection that marina pens far right. national rally has made huge gains. the pants parties predicted to an $89.00 c. that's 11 times more than one back in 2017. her party will not be able to form a parliamentary group for the 1st time since 1986. natasha butler has more from paris. the day that seemed to start well for emmanuel,

my craw as he met supporters in northern france ended in disappointment by sunday evening. an estimated results showed the french president's sentries block, failing to secure a majority in the final round of france, his parliamentary elections. some of macros, top officials and ministers even lost their seats away. that city with you. this situation represents a risk for our country. given the challenges we have to face both at national and international levels. but we've got to respect this vote. andrew, the consequences, as you know, there was celebrations at the headquarters of a new left wing alliance that is emerged as the main opposition. the block that includes the far left greens, communists and socialists has galvanized, voters fed up with the macros, policies ship. you know, it's a totally unexpected situation. one never seen before. the derailment of the president spotty is absolute, and we have achieved a political goal and less than a month celebrations also for the fall,

right. marine the pens party projected to win 10 times more seats than it previously held. it set to become a significant parliamentary force with laura leigh set. did you the ra before you? you'll be sure to see your ideas on immigration. security and unemployment defended in parliament. turn out was low reflecting in electorate increasingly disillusioned by politics. few than half of those eligible cast ballots. among those who did issues including inflation and climate change were on their minds. the projected results are a major set back for president mcgraw. he wants to forge ahead with his agenda that includes welfare and pension reforms as well as tax cuts. but to do so, his centrist lines needs to work with other parties that are unlikely to make the president's life easy. you will have to negotiate those missing seats together majority and the only a party that seems available for that is the traditional right. the republican

party, which comes force in the, in the number of 4 seats, but enough to produce a majority with mr. michael's party. it's a very big surprise because the republicans did very badly in the presidential election only 2 months ago. and they come out as a king, maker of the political situation in france. in 2017 macros party won a parliamentary majority in a landslide that enabled the president to push through often controversial reforms . at times in the face of street protests. his 2nd term is already shaping up to be very different. and so is the parliament more fragmented than ever, but perhaps a more accurate reflection of france, his political landscape? natasha butler, al jazeera paris. one of the main opposition parties into naja is threatening not to recognize a possible deal with the international monetary fund. the constitutional free party

has joined the trade unions and rejecting the i m f package that would include a wage freeze and higher food prices. there's increasing anger against the president's economic and political reforms. victoria gayton, b reports. her position politicians, li protests against president heis. i aide in the capital tunis, they key side of corrupting democratic institutions and wanting absolute power and control over to his it over them in this new constitution of k site has been written and secretly, we don't recognize it. premier constitutions that's been agreed to by the people, 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 is constitution. a draft version is g to be published on monday. in

charla and bad garden lesson 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 site has banned polls and political advertising and told international election observe as 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 to nicea wrote its 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 or to day threatened by kai side and his group. oh, these protest is say they won't give up. they don't believe the vote in july will be free or fair. they say fight has too much power and democracy is in danger.

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so the situation will definitely get worse before it gets better because it will take time for those water levels to come down there. is it shred of good news? if we focus on the forecast on monday, that is that heavy rainfall warnings have been downgraded to rainfall alerts, so the rain is still falling in the zone, just not at the same intensity as it has over the last few days. pre monsoon storms have cool things off in the northwest of india, stretching from delhi to punjab states. so temperatures are actually below average here. next, stop se, asia, we've got this slug of rain moving across java pushing into borneo and we can stretch it, pushing into southern areas the vietnam and right across cambodia on monday, plum rains doing their thing and they've done quite a number on southern sections of china we've seen a number of land slides here from the gangs, the river valley toward the south. it shooting out toward the east trying to see so japan, southern most islands will get drenched here in time. we've got a lot of heat across the yellow river valley, with some spots,

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hello again. the properties on al jazeera, this, our who self assess row has been elected. columbia has 1st left wing presidents, ending decades of conservative rule. with nearly all the votes council, petro has won more than 50 percent again, 47 percent for his rival, the right wing populace rodolfo fernandez. early projections indicate president micron has fallen short of an outright majority in france and parliamentary elections. it means he could struggle to push through his reformed protesters, have been back on the streets and soon as yet to oppose the president plans for constitutional referendum. they say a crisis i just tried to tightened his grip on power, and they're threatening to voice off that vote. a memorial has been held in honor of al jazeera journalist should be in a block list. it marked 40 days since she was killed is really forces shot shooting in the heads while she was on assignment in janine and the occupied westbank. that

abraham reports from the ceremony. it kind, humble and strong woman with an infectious smile. these are some of the qualities people here say they remember about shooting about ugly. i mean come in an official ceremony marking 40 days since is there any forces killed her palestinian say they lost a member of their own family. a presence they came familiar with in the past 25 years, a highly respected journalist who never thought she was to senior for any story. i think there is no other choice except like and love to you was she was honest. celine was diary. so ian was everything good and was a palestinian official read a speech on behalf of president pamela bass. he said she'd in and her reporting exposed truth and irritated the occupation. ah, there's no doubt among palestinians here as to who killed kitty. many have signed

a petition demanding her killers be held accountable. they want the international criminal court to investigate. lana, if it be him, we rejected a joint investigation. we did not give them the bullet, but we urged that the rifle that killed abu o'clock be submitted to the i. c. c. because the mom she is killing shocked many people across the middle east and beyond. at home. it's almost impossible to miss the impact she had or even from inside this really jails palestinian prisoners managed to smuggle drawings they painted for shooting. oh, she'd, he never lived to see palestine liberated from these radio occupation. the palestinian government spokesperson said she will be remembered in history books. she really leaves the legacy of a bad journalist. many hearsay will remain in their hearts and minds in her life and in death. the daughter of palestine has been a unifying figure to palestinians. across the political spectrum. neither of raheem,

al jazeera rama la, the occupied westbank celebrations and marchers have begun in the us to mark june, teen gods, the national holiday commemorating the end of slavery. so it's the 1st time today's been a federal holiday officer. it was signed into law by president joe biden last year, but there's already been criticism, not all states have made it a paid day off work. and also, there are corporations who been accused of capitalizing on what should be a moment off, remember, and let's speak to mac elani, who's a director of the center for african studies at johns hopkins university. he's joining us from baltimore, welcome to al jazeera. so this is of course a hugely significant day on the issue of cur, commercializing the day. are you concerned that june? tina is at risk of, of losing its meaning when i risk of

losing its meaning. i think it is a long celebrated holiday in the black community and there was no need for the federal government to recognize it for us to celebrate it. i think what is at risk is that it becomes a marketing ploy. it becomes something vacuous that companies states or the government can say they're recognizing this is to struggle with this is start celebration and not really doing anything substantive. and i think the attempts to market it and to make it something that those empower can do to suggest that they are responding to the desires and demands like people really misses. kind of the concern to people had with the making martin luther king's birthday, a federal holiday where a number of communities protested businesses that stayed open on that holiday,

boycotting the state of arizona until it recognized holiday. and so i think this is one of those things that it always happens in a context like this when the larger society recognizes and gets a not to what people are doing and there's a bread of collapsing it. but i don't think that it lessons or diminishes the holiday for us ourselves, for black people, we will continue to celebrate it as we've done for over a 100 years now. and i don't think that that will be diminished at all. got it. okay, let me ask you on the issue specifically, joe biden, making it a, a federal holiday, which he did last year. but so far, what we know is it only 18 states have in fact pass legislation that would provide funding for, for employees to take the day off. and why do you think that is i would imagine it's some of the same reasons why you see these

basically which hans around critical waste re series. these states that are passing bills banning and teaching, centrally of american history, crucial parts of american history. they refuse to acknowledge anything that actually accounts for the accurate telling of the history of the united states and sort of recognize june team as problematic as that may be to recognize you and you have to recognize that the state of texas for over 2 years did not pay those who are in slave, and it took a federal troops coming in to texas and general order number 3 to declare the end of enslavement and the state of tex's cor black people to be free from bondage. and i think if you recognize that holiday, then you'd have to recognize that part of history. and i would imagine that the same people who are making arguments against critical race theory or against the 161900 projects are some of the same entities that are refusing to acknowledged

june team. so then have it having settle that. i mean, he definitely point to some of the challenges and inequities that are still going on today. how much of an opportunity is june? 18th, not only to reflect on how far the u. s. has come, but also in fact, how much further there was to go. well, i think if black people are listen to in terms of what we've done and the celebration how it's taken on shape and different community, what it's been called in different communities in some places it was called freedom day in some places it was called jubilee. i think that one of the things that can usually be laws that isn't taken into full account is that with june teen, with the celebration, it was never simply about being pre it was now we are free, but we demand that freedom be more than simply being included in the society our

freedom demands equality, our freedom demanded transformation, the political, economic and social system of the united states, which still hasn't happened. i think this is why you had the black power movement coming on. the hills of the civil rights movement by people are full citizens, but then as a demand, the society transform at a more fundamental level. i think this is the same thing that came out of the black lives matter movement. where the demands were that the society transform at a more fundamental level than mere inclusion, which is why you had culminating particularly after the murder of george floyd in 2020, not only a national, but a global series of protests. but then this radical demand for the funding and abolishing police and abolishing the present system, which has been a long demand and the long objective of black radical movements. but i think this is a sign of how that takes on a national book becomes a part of the national conversation. i think that is check in focus and

acknowledging and celebrating it. if that becomes part of the conversation that i think it can have some value nationally. but i think what it does also point out is that this is a practice of the united states of the federal government states and local government is to a knowledge and take something that black people have done cultural practices, political ideas, and then one of them down ship them oh, bear ability to really transform the society to really call the question santiago's law held assumptions that we have and make it something that is merely a celebration, as opposed to god at thank you so much america, my felony. we appreciate your time with us on al jazeera. thank you for having me. now, more than 200 people have reportedly been killed in ethiopia in an attack, and the romeo region. witnesses say the victims belong to the em. hara ethnic group,

the aroma liberation army as an blaine for the attack, but it denied being involved. nato secretary general has warned the war and ukraine could go on for years. young stolen berg is urging western countries to be ready to provide long term support to keep fighting is still raging in the south and east of the country. that's where russian forces have been making slow territorial gains. ukraine is calling for more heavy weapons to push them back. bangladesh has been hit by its worst monsoon floods in more than a century, and millions have lost their homes in northeastern india, dozens have died across the region since the storms began in april. half natal reports from new tele entails northeast is under water. once again, continues, rainfall has caused heavy flooding, impacting millions of people. wanted to lives with gun water logging has created issues for everyone. no one is able to get out of their homes and they can go to the office on my shop is filled with water and it's damaging

a lot of equipment inside. these wasn't w. i said it was a psalms t, it is the was effective. heavy p monsoon storms caused flooding in april nonstop rain over the past few days had inundated dozens of districts. evacuations are underway, and the military has been called to assist. more than a 150000 people have been moved to temporary camps. the sedition had been a little dream because all that had been heavy in folders as opposed to what is and the whole of us army zone in under, under that one done the burns. i did it about is one place to place that also flatten landslides in the neighboring makalya and to prostate. while in bangladesh, more than a dozen people have died and at least 4000000 others are stranded. continuous rainfall is hampering relief efforts, and both countries have drafted in the army to help authorities in india, one several reverse good bus that bank,

whether folk. austin said the rain could ease me to this week, bringing temporary respite. bathroom at the al jazeera new delhi. so swimming world governing body has voted to restrict their participation of transgender athletes and elite women's competitions. 71 percent off member organizations voted in favor of the change male to female transgender athletes will now how to prove they have not experienced any part of male puberty before the age of 12, the new policies, the strictest by any olympic sports, body i and all of you have an obligation to every single one of our athletes. we should not favored one athletes over the other equality is also a key principle for us. this is why we are faced with such a delicate balancing.