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a throw makes history at columbus 1st left his leader more than 60 years after his assassination the remains of congo, its 1st elected leader are returned to his family and swimming well governing the body eyeballs and many transgender athletes from taking part metal competition with 1st, a mental macaroni has lost control of the national assembly in france. his centrist coalition lost thousands of seats an election that's fragmented french politics. a new left wing alliance, led by john lee militia, has become the main opposition, while marine le pen and her far right. national rally party are also celebrating after turning 6 seats into 89. so swan lets you s sure it units. this situation represents risk to our country, given the challenges we have to face both at the national and international levels

. but we've got to respect this vote and draw the consequences of his own. it would be happiness, she dress your it so totally unexpected situation. one never seen before. the derailment of the president's party is absolute, and we have a child or a political goal in less than a month. and of course, live to paris. now joanna hall is danny by 1st there and joiner, a significant moment in french politics. absolutely. nick and behind the scenes there, the large green gray wouldn't do as to the assembly now. so now open as they are only on this occasion. the day after an election to allow the new parliamentarians to arrive and accept their accreditations. and it comes after a bruising and humbling night for emmanuel micron and his centrist ensemble coalition lost a 100 of their seats in the parliament and their absolute majority that they'd enjoy the course for the pop 5 years, giving them more or less

a free hand to govern the narrative, resolve, and arrogant president reelected just 2 months ago. who took his electorate for granted to bailey, came out to campaign ahead of this election and has been taken down by a new coalition of the left and the far left on those all local men. show now that countries official opposition determined just the wat macro and plans to reform the pension and welfare systems. what it means for the centuries now is that in order to have any chance of governing effectively, they've got to find new alliances inside the parliament. it's thought they will turn in negotiations almost immediately to the traditional right. the republic out whom they've done business with before they won just 61 seats. now the 4th force in parliament here. not as easy as it sounds, given that a number of rubric rep rippled we can deputies have already said they want know hook up with the ruling party and so it leaves macro on the centrists staring down

the potentially nightmare scenario of 5 years of deadlock government at a time of soaring inflation and worsening economic crisis in from engender the other big story the election of causes is the rise of the far right at yes it is, maureen le pen and her national rally party have done extremely well. she having just bounced back from losing 2 macros in the 2nd round of the presidential election. at 8 m. m p 's. they had going into this election in the parliament that is now increased to 18. i and he'll be marching through those doors in the next few hours, a great great brace, strong showing for them. and it really illustrates the extent to which positions on the extremes of politics on the left and right that have grown consistently through the 5 years of micron, centrist rule of continued a pace. it is now the case that almost half of all the seats and the french parliament had taken up by political positions on the far left and the far right.

a jonah, thanks very much. indeed, a jonah hall reporting there from paris. thanks very much. okay, we've crossed now to belgium, where we have a delegation from the democratic republic of congo. it is there to collect the remains of slain or independence icon. this is the scene in brussels at the golden truth of patrice lumber. who is the country's 1st prime minister, is all that is left of him. he paid it, played a key part in the aussies fight for independence from belgium, which was later, abducted and assassinated. and now that choose, is it being handed back? it says, all the remains of the essay, of disseminated companies, independence, heroes, or theories. remember, he was shot dead by firing squad, back in 1961, a with the tacit backing of belgium. and now we have this restitution of the tooth to the family. it's been demanded by the mom by family,

and it's been given back by the belgian king felipe at. and it's going to take place before an official ceremony. and it's been called by the king as a turning point in the history of diplomatic relations between the 2 countries. let's friggin our correspondent malcolm where we can take us through precisely what this is about in the symbolism of it. and you know why it's so important now. okay, everything is fine. so yeah, you said it was 60, as you guys gave it to the member. became the president of the prime minister, the democratic republic of congo, congo, was a belgian colony. from the end of the 900 century, up until that point. and it was one of the bloodiest chapters of european colonialism up to 10000000 people were killed for the harvest rubber from congo for

if and then not time when dependent with them uprising some groups calling for session, patrice. and by the time off, the west, the former colonial power belgium and the us for military support to try and put this rising down. they didn't give it to him that return to the u. s. i thought to the soviet block who the time, of course, in competition for influence in africa with the u. s. and this really riled his the western powers. and in the subsequent decades, numerous sources that come out saying that both the cia i'm the belgian intelligence had plot to try and assassinate him. in the end it was agents of, of the west chosen success and the food safety seco, who killed him with a firing squad as you said. and then a belgian police officer disposed of his remains in a barrel of acid. have it kept this one too, as a trophy,

took it back to belgium where it's been, ever since. not for 2 that we are expecting to be handed over to the members family in this ceremony in brussels today. all right, welcome. thanks for the time being, we'll back with you as things proceed in brussels time being thanks a lot. well, tens of thousands of people are expected in the streets of brussels to protest against the rising cost of living there they protested. been organized by labor unions. let's begin steadfast and who's in the belgian capital stuff. tell us more about what the strike is about. exactly. well, instead of being at their factory offices, sir, than to thousands of workers, employees here in brussels, are expected on this razor gatorade right now as to say to protest against the rapidly increasing cost of living. the 3 largest labor unions here in belgium,

how sad they are fed up. they really want the wages to be and 3, it's quite a noisy protest actually come here. right? have really gone up dramatically. energy prices, of course, have risen here in europe since the start of the war and ukraine. but because of that food prices rat, coffee all have in 3 is what more than 10 percent. the inflation in belgium is a point 3 percent. and compared to that, the wage has been only rise by 0.4 percent. that's due to a law that has a wage standard here. and bout him. and that's exactly what these people here, the 10s of thousands of workers are protesting against today. so how is the government responding to these tomorrow? well, the workers have now massively signed a petition for i think parliament, good,

it's got to do so wage standard act that has this wage gap. and that means that parliament has to discuss it so day. hope that this law will be reform, but that will, of course, take time. meanwhile, the government is giving subsidies, stood a porous people here in belgium to go with the high prices. but that's why i'm not enough. so if the way rainy are going to be high enough to cope with the brides is a lot needs to be happening. and a lot of people here in europe, not only in belgium, are worried that very, very tough times are a half step. thanks to that sense, that vessel reporting that from brussels. thank you. now to years of conservative rural columbia has elected its 1st left wing president form a rebel fight. gustavo patrick defeated the right wing populace rodolfo and unders petros running mates. frontier marcus will be columbus 1st. a black female vice president to resume reports now from barto. the rain did not stop thousands of people from gathering outside gustavo beatrice headquarters,

o. b economist and former left wing guerrilla. when the elections with just over 50 percent of the vote, it's anywhere in columbia the 1st time and left when candidate has won the presidency, i don't know why you're not, i want to cry. this is the 1st time we're going to have a popular government from the left, from the people of those who have suffered the armed conflict. and he is someone who represents us. the people on the streets. these people have been demanding change in this country, were liberals and conservatives have been sharing power for years. oh yeah, i agree with . they believe that they've been getting a little bit of change. this was petra's 30 to presidential bid. he's now

a seasoned politician who's victory at columbia to the list of latin american countries that have elected centered, left precedence in recent years. on sunday evening, he was presented to his supporters by his running mate, friends, jamarkis, who will be columbia's 1st, afro colombian woman vice president. locate we are writing history right now and the new history for latin america. what is coming here is change real change in which we commit to life itself. we are not going to distant chantelle voters that have been screaming that from now on columbia changes. oh petro defeated 77 year, partly solo for a man. this who was referred by many as the king of tick tock. but better will face many challenges. 47 percent of the country did not vote for him and only say he will have to negotiate his reforms in congress ferrett. this is not only the 1st time that oliver and candy it's min, alec, that in columbia,

but also the 1st time that we have our left when congress to. because back to his study godaddy social movement behind gustavo veteran was able to elect arm a good number of congress members saw. he will have art a congress that is in favor of him. not that complete majority has in car bama jaretha in congress, but he has a good number of congress members. and dad is also a something that the signs that he could harbor success in his attorney. i saw peter will take off his in august for many, his government will empower the people in the country who have been ignored by authorities for years. but he said well, and if cedar border was returned to brussels now were a delegation from the d. r. c. the democratic republic of congo is collecting the remains of its slave independence icon. patrice, remember, i say remains, but in fact, it is an unusual story to say the least there remains. in fact,

one is just a single golden tooth, which i assume is probably within that or box it is being held there. if the purple box is going to be handed over to the family, and it's interesting because the a gold does gold crowned tooth is all the remains of the saturday to companies independence hero patrice. remember, he was shot dead by firing squad in 1961. with the tacit backing of the, the former colonial power belgian now that tooth has been handed back to the number of families a very symbolic moment. and indeed, king felipe, or belgium is called this restitution a turning point in the history of diplomatic relations between the 2 countries. and he is also a presented his deepest regrets for the wounds inflicted during the colonial period . at that happened back in 2020 millions. died under bells,

rule under what was then known as the congo free state. and as i say, the year lemme was shot dead by a firing squad. in 1961. with the backing of belgium, his body was end buried in a shallow grave. it was then dug up and transported 200 kilometers in turned again interred again and zoomed in, then hacked to bits and finally dissolved an acid in the tooth is all there remains, but it's highly significant. as we see, these are ceremonial events take place, and there's a belgium and congolese official delegations there. and they've been welcomed by the prime minister alexander to crew at, in a short while the tooth will be placed in a coffin, and then the coffin will be carried. add to what is known as a hall of mirrors, followed by the family at very important occasion. something we're going to be marking throughout the day and find out more about her why this is so important.

that's a situation in brussels right now. so moving on, severe storms are continuing to pound large parts of southern china, triggering floods and landslides rainfall in some areas has been the heaviest. in 60 years, this was seen as a fire engine was swept when gran dong province. millions of people have been displaced. heavy rain is typical in the early summer months, but these storms lasted longer and a more intense and in previous years. well, the situation remains critical. it is northeast and a some state falling heavy rains and severe flooding there. luxurious to cut off, the military has been deployed to assist with rescues of relief efforts at the homes of 2000000 people and now underwater hobby metal or a join just now for ranga in this some state it poverty. tell us more about the situation itself. desperate it is as mass devastation across the state. and we are in wrong. yeah, this is one of the was affected areas in the state. in fact,

many villages over here are inundated the submersion water and that's forced many people to flee. and they have gone right across the road on the national highway and i camping out and found this road that you see behind you. that is a lifeline for this area, connects about 40 villages and is now under water. can see people have been waiting up and down to go home and get the supplies in some thoughts off the showed the water is about a knee deep that's up to the waist for many across the state. about 4000000 people have been affected by these floods. at least a 150000 of them are in release camps. there is also devastation of key infrastructure. so highways and ridges they have all, ah, you know, been so budge and by unaffected by these floods. but death toll is also rising in the last one week. more than 20 people have died in a sam. yeah, it's very,

very difficult situation and people getting the help that they need. evacuation efforts are underway, of the military has also been deployed to rescue people's relief efforts are going on in fact, as a release scammed right across the road and we visited that they are distributing food people. he also, they are getting some of that advantage than son right now is the fact that that could be of many want to board and vector bond diseases because of the situation that you see behind the, you know, the thing that this river that's been overflowing is their main source of water and is now polluted and could become a breeding ground off for many diseases. so at the release cap that we visited, they're also testing for diseases like malaria. probably thanks to the tip. hard to tell reporting that from some state or shall anchors, holding urgent bailout talks with the international monetary fund as it struggles to contain a spirally economic crisis. government says it needs

a $5000000000.00 lifeline, or lack of foreign currencies, led to shortages of food medicine will fuel supplies due to print up within days and no fernandez is more from the capital columbia. the 10 member delegation of the i am have held meetings at the prime minister's office. that's a building you see behind me are led by the chief of mission peter brewer. now essentially sri lanka has run out of options and he's hoping that the i'm, if will come through in terms of assistance because things are dire over my shoulder just and on the other side of the present. prime minister's office is fuel cues, and this is the situation around the country, kilometers and kilometers of cues as motorists tried desperately to secure the supplies they need. and it's not just fuel, it's food, it's cooking gas, it's medicines. the government can no longer afford to pay for these, and that's the reason it's calling on the i m f. but the i m f has obviously

a number of conditions we're hearing from the prime minister's office. that debt, restructuring or a pop proper plan, that re lanka must present in terms of how it proposes to pay back. all the money has borrowed is one of the key things that the international monetary fund wants to see from the government of sri lanka, before it will take discussions forward. or some of the things that it has insisted on is a proper tax regime or so that government revenues a can come up to a decent level. the other thing is an end to subsidies. so a very much a pointer that times are going to get tougher before they can even beginning, begin to get better or so as much as the i m f team is here. there are some tough decisions and tough times ahead. at least 230 people have reportedly been killed in ethiopia in an attack. me a room, your region. witnesses save evictions, belong to the am har ethnic group. you rumored liberation army has been playing for the type,

but it says it's not involved with your peer is an ethnically diverse notion, but it's experiencing widespread tensions with hundreds of people killed in recent years. much of the south and west is inhabited by the room. people make up the largest group in the am hara region to the north. the and har community is the 2nd largest. the conflicts have been largely fueled by groups demanding more land and more power. journal samuel get at you has more from half of more than 230 people have died. that number is expected to go much, much higher this morning. the prime minister prime minister r b i am at tweeted saying his priority, our priorities ed, referring to his government is to bring peace and security. but it's been a challenging few years to your band ethiopians where there was an attack her last week and gun bella were a majority of the city, was overpowered by

a or or amo liberation front, which the government has accused of being a terrorist organizations. in this organizations, when they're defeated somewhere else, they tend to react in other parts of ethiopia, as we've seen yesterday this last weekend, or which are again at least 230 or i'm higher people offer ethiopia were killed. but once again, that number's are expected to go much higher and the government is expected to react as pressure to act as mounting approaches have been held in pakistan against the rising cost of living there. the demonstration in islamabad was organized by supporters of former prime minister in ron con. they're blaming can successor by sharif for the crisis. fuel subsidies. we slash recently under pressure from the i m f. the government is trying to revive a $6000000000.00 bailout package. tens of thousands of re hinder refugees have held

a protest in bangladesh. demanding to be returned. home to miramar is more than a 1000000 ranger live in congested cancer, and se bangladesh of the fling, a brutal military crack done in 2017. they had no access to work or education. repatriation towards between the 2 countries resumed this week after being stored for nearly 3 years. cutter is hosting world aviation leaders as the industry works to recover from the coven. 19 pandemic, which plunged the global aviation industry into its worst financial crisis in its history. losses are estimated at more than $200000000000.00 over 2 years. during that time, more than 2000000 jobs were cut. and now there's a scramble to hire tens of thousands of employees for security screenings are causing delays. the shortages of lead to flight cancellations, especially in europe. the war in ukraine has also doubled fuel prices,

which is also spiking flight costs. as i have been job aid has more from the summit . there are a number of challenges which faced not just the airlines, but passengers as wells, including co related restrictions. what is different this time around? a lot of people are not wearing masks a lot more people are vaccinated. but that does not mean that this is the gold industry standard all over the all over the world. because airlines countries, airports are not necessarily talking to each other. we've been speaking to industry experts about not just corporate and security safety related challenges, but others as well, including a global challenges such as the war and ukraine, such as high oil prices, which are being translated into higher costs for flying for passengers. and then there is the shortage and as one seal was putting it to us, that this is not an industry which is like a taxi, where you can switch it off and on and in. the governments in the wake of the pandemic have not really dealt with the crisis as the expected them to. so now there is

a scramble to re hire all those people to get back those resources back into order . the gc see mean the region and specific has done well because many of the, the airlines including the one here in potter did not completely go off the grid, but other areas including europe and especially africa. there is a really big struggle and some airlines that even facing up to a $1000000000.00 being stuck in the african region where countries are not having, are not able to pay back these airlines. and not just able to make profit. they're barely trying to break even let's set you back to belgium, where a delegation from the democratic republic of congo is that the royal palace of brussels to collect the remains of a former independence leader assassinated more than 60 years ago as important symbolic occasion. the independent tariffs, patrice lamar, who was shot dead by a firing squad, 1961, his remains were all but destroyed apart from this single tooth. it has now been returned to his family and comes at

a time when the belgian king can felipe. as cool does restitution a turning point in the history of diplomatic relations between the 2 countries. i. let's bring in malcolm webb, who joins us from nairobi in kenya, who's been following these events. it's an extraordinary story, isn't it? malcolm with his gold tooth, but a tooth that holds as a huge symbolic importance to the nation of d. r. c. patrice lymphoma was extremely popular at the time and he was leading up to independence from belgian colonial rule. he traveled all around the congo. he was an inspiring speaker, and you gotta remember this. it was about a depressive that it gets in terms of european colonialism in africa. was king. leopold belgian king lethal to the end of the 19th century, who colonized this enormous chunk right in the middle of the african continent, which is today the democratic republic of congo. and he kept it in his own personal

feast. hm. and it turned out to be stream lea lucrative, mainly, mostly from robot, the global demand for rubber stored at the beginning of the 20th century for making tie as the vehicles than the agents of kingly, upholding congo. force the population, the harvest rubber from the forest. i'm sorry for cutting off people hand up to about 10000000 people died. so by the time patrice lamont was campaigning for independence, certainly his messages resonated with many connelly following independence. he faced uprisings in some parts of the country to return to belgium, the phone and former colonial power into the us to ask for military assistance which they didn't give him any turn to the u. s. s or not proved too much for the u . s. and belgium to tolerate,

along with the democratic and socialist messaging. and so in the subsequent decades on slide, the belgian intelligence on the, the, i have plot the try and assassinate them. but in the end it was agents of their chosen successor. the bhutto safety seco, who executed him in the firing squad while a belgian official by and it was a belgian police officer. disposed of, patrice le, mom was rein remains in a power of acid. just keeping that 250 took back to belgium. and that's what affected to be handed over in this ceremony in brussels today. yes, it is been how do they with great ceremony, it will soon travel. i think it's gonna replace in a coffin and travel up that red carpet. what will happen to the tooth eventually expected to go back to can shatter initially the capital of democratic republic of congo. and the tool planned is going to be taken around different parts of the

country before being entombed in the capital. with this follows just 2 weeks ago, the belgian king, felicia visited democratic republic of congo. it was his great grandfather's brother, king leopold, the colonized congo, and unleashed brutal violence and extracted extraordinary wealth from congos natural resources. these things appear to be part of a drive on the part of belgium to include improve it public image with regard to it very bloody colonial past. and this can actually be traced back to the murder of joyce floored and floyd in the us 2 years ago. which led to the birth of the black live matter movement, not from the activity in belgium to the faith that choose of king leopold, which there were still several in belgium. belgium hadn't really addressed it

colonial passed up till that point. this led to this apparent drive on the part of belgium to try and improve its image regarding a felony or some thanks very much. leave us a much report. it was important day with the swimming well governing body, if you nor has voted to restrict transgender athletes from taking part in elite women's competitions. 71 percent of its member organizations. back the change it's stipulates female transgender athletes will have to prove they transitioned before they reach puberty. the new policy is the strictest by any and the big sports body . ah, so this is out 0. these are the top stories and the french president of manuel micron had suffered a setback after his centrist block of failed, secure, parliamentary majority and elections. way for left in the far right,

made big gains. that's left macklin to reform agenda in doubt. belgian has had the day with the gold to the patrice lumber, to