[000:00:00;00] ah, which is what ever you ah, all the on strike in belgium, all flights owls are set to be cancelled those thousands protests against the rising cost of living. ah, hello. nicholas misses out 0 life and are also coming up. seeking a bailout sri lanka, begins talks with the i m f on how to address soaring food prices, and

a few short ah, the remains of congolese leader and independence icon that street number is returned to his family more than 6 years after his assassination. will lie from one of the areas in bangladesh, hardest hit by flooding, your fears of food and water shortages ah, so tens of thousands of demonstrators converging on the belgian capital to protest against rising cost of living. it is the latest and biggest day of action plan by unions. they call the day if strikes to demand better pay working conditions and more investment in the public sector. industrial action has severely disrupt transports versus airport has cancelled all outbound flights. were last month, inflation rate in belgium, hit

a 40 year high of just under 9 percent. it's largely down to the energy crisis into food inflation. in 2021, almost 880000 people received help from food banks and to record for the country. prime minister, alexander de crew says inflation is affecting all belgians. these yet come up with measures to tackle the problem the spring instead, rest and in the belgian capital a capital step. tell us more about the strikes reba. i'm in the middle of this so very large ramey in the heart of brussels right now. again, the ring here, a very high, most of them again, i just these programs i for the shopping trolley for example, because they say it's an answer, but the going to have a market tool, groceries because we simply can't afford it. groceries anymore. company lab all has gone on, but more than 10, even 20 percent inflation is more than

a percent. and on the other hand, their wages. com go up the board and 0.4 percent because of the voucher law. so this is why if we make us labor union in belgium, have paul ford is general national pride for the airport. actually, it's a chaos there in the transport sector in belgium all over it is chaos today because people are not working there right here is not only the sacrament, the map of the workers, health care workers. i hear people from all sector from all the different labor union i here to show their anger. they say, we can't live like this anymore, and we're working hard. and the companies are actually making more money because of the high prices at all. started with the energy prices going up months ago, and then the war in your grade started to make the prices even go up higher and that has left this serious crisis. many people are feeling day by day. now. how's

a government responding to the demand strike while the workers have signed a petition massively, so they are forcing parliament to reconsider this wage lod. i've had this gap on the increase of weight to so they want to reform this or to have the government has given subsidies to the poorest people. so they can pay for the energy price at lower taxes. but it is all very limited. it's not enough. and this is a little bit belgium, this is a crisis bank, the whole region, the whole of europe, that maryland even as a higher inflation of more than 10 percent. so the government is really struggling that trying to help a selected group of people. but at, by far not enough, so people really predicting difficult time to happen or is that thanks versus that lesson reporting that the cost of living crisis. she's also affecting the outcome of the french election with the president losing his majority. the national

assembly has centrist coalition, bloss dozens of seats, new left wing alliance, led by john luke manager as emerged as the main opposition. she dressed, jo, it's a totally unexpected situation. absolutely unheard of. the collapse of the presidential party is total and no majority is presented. we have achieved the political objectives that we had set her selves in less than a month to bring down the one who with such arrogance, had twisted the arm of the whole country who had been elected without knowing what for marilla pen and her far right national rally party were also celebrating of to 28 seats into 89 at the independent lost the presidential election to macro. earlier this year. agenda is live outside the national assembly empower. senate tell us more about her, how things pomp out what it was a dreadful night of course for emmanuel micron in his sentry sim, fallen losing 100 seat,

losing the absolute majority that they had for 5 years able to govern for 5 years with essentially a free hand, they will now need to make alliances, new alliances in parliament, if that to get any legislation through. and he has a big reform agenda that he wants to push through whether that is on an ad hoc case by case basis, or some sort of formal hook up is yet to be seen. that will be talking pretty much immediately to the republicans of the traditional rights who are now the 4th force in parliament. they 161 seats micro needs 44 seats borrowed from somewhere to make a majority, whether he's able to do that with them or not. he's not entirely certain the number of them said they don't want that he hook up with the ruling party. and so the prospect is there for at least partially deadlocked government in the next 5 years with an economic crisis. of course, worsening all the time. that's what the only problem he faces for centrist, hemmed in increasingly in this parliament. now, by rising forces on the extreme, not just the left and the follow up, but as you were saying,

the far right as well there in the pen making a major come back off to coming 2nd in the presidential election, increasing vastly. parties standing in follow up here, she says she'll fight on, on issues like immigration, unemployment, and security. and she made the point of her party in pure party terms. is now the 2nd largest in the parliament is what she had to say. suppose because one can see that because i think that everyone considers that this is a victory for the hotel room or not. you're not, we're entering the assembly with a very powerful group of m. p. 's were the 1st opposition party ahead of left home and to me. and consequently, we're going to be able to walk in no position. as i had requested from the french people. we will operate with full power with all the means that are granted by the constitution to a position group, which is the 1st one in the family. so again, what now lightly to see more on rest as macro, try to push through unpopular reform. but

remember the g, like joan, the yellow vest protests that blighted his 1st turban office, they were calling for economic justice. the seeds are certainly there now for something similar to take place. as i said, spiraling costs, oregon place, and the cost of living crisis hitting the worst off in society. here people will not take kindly to the idea of deadlock government. there's also a question of participation. the majority of french voters did not take part in this election. 3 quarters of young voters did not take part. they don't trust their politicians to be able to solve their problems. and so certainly there is the chance in microns 2nd term that people may choose to take that problems to the street are generally, man, thanks very much. i jen how reporting that from paris. shanker is holding urgent, bailout told with the international monetary fund as it struggles to contain asperity economic crisis. the government says it needs a $5000000000.00 lifeline. a lack of foreign currency has led to shortages of food

and medicine. all fuel supplies are due to run out within days. we know fernandez is more from the capital of colombo. 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 led by the chief of mission pizza brewer. now essentially sherlock has run out of options and he's hoping that the i m f 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,

a battery 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 our 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. beltran is handed over the last known remnant of the democratic republic of congo assassinated independence leader. family patrice, remember, received his gold tooth during a ceremony at the royal palace in brussels, remember played a major role of g. elsie's fight for independence from belgium. he was abducted and

assassinated $961.00, millions of congolese, were killed under colonial rule. lilian irby is a co founder and her director of african futures, action lovett, mit and she says symbolic gestures long enough to bring to or to, to put this, this actually initiative into a broader context. and what we know from, from the remains of the body is that the, we have to consider the, the context of the nation. so it has, his body has been dissolved in an acid. and the policeman was involved in this was the condition, kept his fingers in his tooth. and that's why the investigation. that's what the when the commission, the commission that has worked on the contents of his, of his edition has revealed in 2001. but after that,

after the 2001, my commission, there is also a tribe has been marched by, by or by his family. and this for this, right, it's still going on can use after. after that, the request that the most from consumer community is what certain victims are not taken into consideration. so the we bedroom is willing to take very simple adjuster, very simple and easy, but the ad so with pairing. so allowing justice to to happen. this is not happening and it's not up and whether it is been here in belgium, it's not happening when we look in the different countries where it has it has its legacy. i still ahead here now to 0 global ation at across res. we look at the challenges facing affect, the cut off needs to be industry lead and they decision that sent ripples through the sporting world, swimming, governing body butters,

to ban trends. gender athletes relate women ah, the journey has begun. the seasonal rains every now again in southern china get quite vicious. and we had a report of a tornado in this line is that could be want to more, but more likely just tend to get flash flooding in the cities as well as, as basically, and it's seasonal. and it comes down by tuesday. the heavy rain by this time's gone up towards chicago. a southern home shoot. took it on the edge of it, and he read 2729 for you. it's hot still engine and is not quite record breaking. it's getting close it's. it's been hot. shot the spring nearly summer in this part of china. every now again, punctuated by showers. as is the case in beijing on tuesday. and probably wednesday, they could be substantial showers. the rain here has become rather lighter,

as you can see along the yankee. and we've has, as you well know, extensive right up in a sam call study in northern bangladesh. the forecast of rain mart topped these floods is more south than it was before though his having him to western bangladesh, west bengal and be half next day or so. more use for rain and may be less destructive is what's happening in northern pakistan. although these are big thunderstorms and can cause local difficulties with temperatures well below where they should be in cowboy. it's a relief from the heat for central know the pakistan, but not in the surf cat, official airline of the journey. frank assessments, it sounds like you don't expect anything to change the problem in lebanon. it's actually structural lebanon needs, and you also contract in order for it to solve problems informed opinions. it's not your communities on the goals, my security community,

the government has knowledge to me in depth analysis of the days global headlines. this is going to be very hard to explain to the public that instead of pushing back on, you know, it's actually got 2 members inside story on al jazeera. ah ah and again you're watching out 0 remind about top stories this hour and protests being held to the belgian capital against the rising cost of living labor unions. of course, for nationwide strike. they're demanding better pay working conditions for land or is holding agent bailout talks with the international monetary fund. as it struggles to contain a spiraling economic crisis. the government says it needs a $5000000.00 lifeline. a delegation from the democratic republic of congo has

received the only known remnant of an independent leader assassinated more than 60 years ago. the family patrice remember, accepted the gold tooth at a ceremony in brussels. millions of people in bangladesh stranded by the worst monsoon flaunting his sentry are at risk of food water shortages. they bri. india is also affected in bangladesh. flooding is wreaking havoc in northern and northeast and districts, and it's supposed to get worse with water levels and swim rivers expected to rise further. the army has been deployed to help with flood relief. millions of homes remain under water. roads have been cut off and local airport shut down. dozens of people have died across the region since the storms bank began back in april. a let speak not to time to charge, re joins is not from still yet in bangladesh. if you're at the epicenter, really of the ongoing crisis, what's happening there? yeah,

i'm place 20 kilometer from the phillip city. this area is called magic. by there you can see right behind me, lot of this village of miles after miles or inundated with flood water. i've been spot speaking to some of the villagers here. they said they don't have any fresh water. they've been using the flood water, boiling them, and drinking them, and using whatever it means to cook food in a dry space, whatever they have here. and they haven't received any flood. some of the people on their own took shelter, and the school nearby. they received some rice ration from the government agencies and local politician, but nothing else. the government has deployed military, navy, coast guard, even air force rescue. hallie factors are making great conason plied, tried to rescue people from remote areas. so for at least 100000 people have been evacuated or rescued by the military's in this region it's a bangladesh has about a division. so that is one division which is about 4 districts. so it's a big area and at least 60 percent of that division is inundated with flood water.

it is one of the worst in more than a 100 years, according to the government disaster and relief ministry. now the main issue here is getting fresh water food and emergency medicine. some of the hospitals also are inundated, so it's a very challenging environment. and the flood forecasts dad center said that the next 2 days is possibly going to be more rain. torrential rain, which is a bad news if that happens, a flood could actually next 2 days get worse. and so is not than bangladesh, which most of the rivers are going and flowing through danger level. so northern bangladesh is also clear danger or flooding. at least 14 districts are already flooded, particularly cory graham and natural con, eyes heavily flooded. so very challenging situation for the government to deal with . many people large in government to declare these areas as start zone. unless some

things improve as far as rain goes on. so we have to realize select borders with mega le and some of the india is not the same. the rain falls increase their, the water will flow through bangladesh and goes into the back burner. the situation is quite dive over here. are time to make sure that the temperature is re reporting . well, the situation remains critical in india is northeast the san state. fully heavy rains into the flooding, metal has more from one of the affected areas. incessant rain for an overflowing river water has inundated pasta for some states. once again. we are in wrong. yeah, this is one of the was affected areas in the state. many villages are inundated and submerged, and that has most people here to flee that homes and set up camp across the road on the national highway. now, as you can see, people are going up and down, waiting to the water to go and get that daily supplies across the state. about

4000000 people have been affected by the flood. a 150000 of them are in release camps. now evacuation efforts are underway, the military has been drafted in to help with relief distribution as well as rescuing people, but incessant rainfall and continuous rainfall in many parts of the state, have hampered both efforts, flooding is and, and will affect in the state. but the see the reinforce has been normally high according to the met department in june alone. the rainfall has been double of what this month sees. every yo export to blame this partly on climate change, but also on increase human activity like development was building infrastructure. building investments lead they say, have made, drove us over here more vulnerable to flooding. when it rains a severe storms, it continues about a large pots. a southern china tree green floods in landslides. that rainfall in

some areas has been the heaviest and 60 is. this was the scene. the fire engine was swept away and gone. don't province. millions of people have been displaced. heavy rain as is typical in the summer months, but these storms have lots of longer and more intense than in previous years. well than 230 people have reportedly been killed in ethiopia. in an attack in the automobile region. witnesses say the victims belong to the mahari ethnic group. the roemer liberation army has been playing phone tag, but it says it is not involved. do you feel it is an ethnically diverse nation, but it's experiencing whites pretensions with hundreds of people killed in recent years? much of the south in the west is inhabited by the remote people who make up the largest group in the am hora region to the north. the horror community is the 2nd largest conflicts have largely been fueled by groups demanding more land and power

jealous. i'm going to get into his more from 7 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 mad 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 it's your band ethiopians are. there was an attack her last week and gum bella were a majority of the city was overpowered by her or, or more 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, our air which again at least 230. i'm herb. 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. how does your immediate network continues to demand a rapid, independent and transparent investigation into the killing of its journalists and the occupied westbank? sharina workload was shot in the head by his ready forces while she was on assignment in jeanine, deaf, her funeral israeli forces storm the procession and started beating mourners, causing paul bearers to almost drop her coffin. they didn't stop thousands of palestinians from marching through occupied east jerusalem to take part in her funeral and burial. members of the international community have condemned to killing and continue to call for an investigation of work. there was without reserve for 25 years, covering the story of the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. health workers in zimbabwe have gone on strike in protest against low salaries and poor working conditions. it is the 2nd walk out by nurses and

other health professionals since upon demik began, i re matessa, sent this update from harry. housework is ins and bobby know they taking a big risk being out in protesting, calling for better working conditions and pay in the past. some of them has been victimized and erased, as for speaking out over the conditions at the public hospitals and clinics across the country. over the weekend, they rejected a government offer of a wage increase of a 100 percent, but to say that is no way in near enough these off professionals, they have degrees, other qualifications. these are the bobbins middle class and they say they can afford to survive on the nika salaries, that they, this is an act of last resort. we ask the public to hold the government accountable for how they're treating health workers. but more importantly, how they're treating just a general civil service. it's common knowledge that the currencies imperial, but they have not taken action. most of the people you see here don't own houses.

the 100 percent wage increase offered by the government may sound like a lot, but often hit by inflation. it's actually nothing according to the public service workers who work in as embalming. they say with inflation, which was a 131 percent in may. it means a basic not being paid enough to earn a living. the government says that they still want to try and negotiate with the work because the work is to come back to the table. and they say that they can find a way for it. but the workers say, the lowest of them take some less than $100.00 a day. they wanted least $840.00 american dollars for the lowest paid work. or they say being payden's and bobbing dollars simply is not feasible because of the currencies of rapid evaluation. the head of the global aviation, but he, i also says his conference, the industry will return to profitability and 2023. ovulation leaders have mentioned carter to discuss hiring and re growth as a lunch recover from the covey. 19 pandemic that plunged the sector into the worst

financial crisis in its history. losses are estimated at more than $200000000.00 every 2 years. during that time, more than 2000000 jobs were cut. and now this is scramble to hire tens of thousands of employees, but security screenings, a causing delays. the shortages have led to flight cancellations, especially in europe and the war in ukraine, as also doubled fuel prices. camille allow id is vice president of i also for the middle east and north africa and he says, there are many reasons to be optimistic just looking at how well the industry performed this year. the thought of this year, even with a hiccup like the i'm a chrome man to last year on the resilience of the airline, how nimble they had just for each airline adjusts its capacity and what it needs. you can see the numbers just grow month over month and looking at their plans down the road even with like the rising price of oil and stuff like that. as we're still looking very optimistic. yes,

airlines are smart enough to not put all its capacity back into the market so, so the still 2017 percent of that capacity not being used. and of course are reduces a lot of the operational costs or the fixed costs in some cases. so, so they are managing their resources more carefully and achieving the profit. but don't forget, this is their achieving of profit that does not mean that profitable achieving profit, but they have 2 years of losses to, to, to recap, i think most of the airlines specifically in this region calculated their manpower requirements and their resources very carefully and accurately from what i can see, and i think the demonstration of how they restarted again. and they restarted the bang out of foster than anybody expected. and yet, without the problems that were facing in europe, m u. s. is swimming as a governing body has voted to ban transgender athletes from elite women's events. the head of wells forming says he hopes rudy will in his words protect the

competitive fairness of the support his any richardson this is a really very important moment for us. it's an announcement that sent shock waves around the sporting world, swimming, wilt governing body fina voting to ban transgender women from female events. if they've experienced any part of male puberty for the future, it is a policy that we need to introduce in order to protect the competitive fairness of all of our events. and is to a report from a scientific panel concluded that male, puberty gives individuals significant physical advantages in sport. the decision would stop american athlete lea, a thomas, who recently became the 1st transgender swimmer to win a college title from representing her country out the olympics. fina has said, it will now sets of an open category for athletes whose gender identity does not

match their sex at birth. there must be categories, women, man and of course a category for trans women and trans man, a space. i want anyone who loves competing in aquatic sports to have a space and to achieve their goals. in that space. fair competition is a strong hold and staple of our community. i'm asking everyone to take a breath. listen before reacting. listen to the science and experts. listen to the people who have stood up here, and i've been telling you how difficult it is been to reconcile inclusion and fantasy are the middle that go daddy. swimming is the 2nd olympic discipline after rugby to introduce such a band. most of the sports used to start her own levels as a basis for allowing trans women to compete. ha, ha ha. you did not see disconnected. i have believed for

a long time that we can talk about what the barriers to entry look like, what transition requirements look like, but out right bands for any trans woman who experience part of puberty. i didn't see it coming across the other sports now have to decide if with its proposed open category swimming has set a precedent that they wish to follow. andy richardson, al jazeera, easy, ah, all right, let's have a quick check of the headlines here now to sierra and protests being held in the belgian capital gates rising cost of living labor unions of cold for nationwide strike. that demonte better pay and working conditions that person has more now from brussels. i'm in the middle of the so very large rally in the heart of brussels right now. then. 6 so go ahead or who on ry are gathering here to read my

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