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ah, the remains of the congo leads freedom fighter police lumber, are returned to his family more than 60 years after his assassination. answering we're swimming worlds, governing body bars, many transgender athletes from taking part in top competitions for women. ah, wanting to throw on tens of thousands of people on the streets of brussels, demanding help to cope with the rising cost of living is the latest and biggest day of action planned by labor unions. they are calling for better pay and working conditions and more investment in the public sector. and they say both the government and the private sector need to step in. this is what i came loose to defend purchasing, howard the citizens because demonstrate is the only way to make the change. we

cannot cope and know even with 2 salaries as we will have am a medical teacher. both of us are working. we cannot get our head above water. you must think these are purchasing power. however your lab, your life is becoming more and more difficult gasoline eating fuel. if we lower the taxes to 6 percent on electricity and gas and then it will make the population happier and the nation won't suffer. now, last month, the inflation rate in belgium hit a 40 year high of just under 9 percent. that's largely down to the energy crisis and food inflation into 21. nearly a 100. 80000 people received help from food banks, and that's a record for the country. prime minister, alexander de cruz says, inflation is affecting all belgians, but he's yet to come up with measures to tackle the problems. sebastian has more from brussels. i'm in the middle of this, so fairly large rally in the heart of brussels right now. and i work with you on strike gathering here against the very high cost of living in alliance.

these programs like shopping trolley, for example, because they say it's an answer to go into a supermarket who, groceries, because we simply can't afford it. groceries, i'd be more confident that all has gone up with more than 10, even 20 percent. inflation is more than a percent. and on the other hand, their wages can't go up more than 0.4 percent because of the belgium law. so this is why if we make us label, you and your to belgium have call for this general national pride here florida, you say it's a chaos there in the transport sector in belgium, all over this chaos today because people are not working there right here. it's not only the sector but the metal, the workers, health care workers, right here, people from all sector from all the different labor union. i here to show their anger and 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. it all started with the energy prices going up months ago. and then the war in ukraine started to make the prices even go up higher. and that has led to this serious crisis. many people are feeling day by day now. now the cost of living crisis is also affected the outcome of legislative elections in france with the president losing his majority in the national assembly. his interest coalition lost dozens of said, say new left wing alongside bunch on luke melon shore has become the main opposition. he's now calling for the coalition to form a united globe. rico. the chaos it has been left by the defeat of micro count spill into a national assembly. that'd be the worst thing for our country. that's the reason why, even though i don't have the authority at the moment, of course, i'll go by what's decided by each individual party. but i believe we must be and must state the united alternative. that is to say, nope, should become

a single group in parliament, bearing the pen and her father ride national rally party hills and celebrating up to 28 seats into 809. the pen last the presidential election to macro early this year. supposed to consider, cuz i think that everyone considers that this is a victory for the hot sample monitor. now we're entering the assembly with a very powerful group of m. p. 's with the 1st opposition party ahead of left home and to me. and consequently, we're going to be able to walk in the position as i had requested from the french people. we will operate with full power, with all the needs that are granted by the constitution to an opposition group, which is the 1st one in the family. so the whole house moving powers, what it was a dreadful night of course for emmanuel micron and his centrist in parliament, losing a 100 seats, losing the absolute majority that they'd 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 they 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. they'll 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 wanted a hook up with a 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 fall left, but as you were saying, the far right as well or in the pen making a major come back off to coming 2nd in the presidential election, increasing vastly her parties standing in parliament here she says,

she'll fight on on issues like immigration, unemployment, and security. and she made the point at her party in pure party terms, is now the 2nd largest in the parliament. after years of conservative rule, columbia has elected its 1st left wing president, full arrival fighting gustavo petro, defeat of the right wing populous rodolfo hernandez, but rose running made francere marquez will be columbia's 1st black female vice president. trees by reports awful bugs. ha, ha ha. 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, wondered why you're not, i want to cry. this is the 1st time we are 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 where liberals and conservatives have been sharing power for years. oh yeah, i agree with the beginning that of change. these 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. the have elected center left precedence in recent years. on sunday evening, he was presented to his supporters by his running mate, france, jamarkis, who will be columbia's 1st, afro colombian woman vice president. look at, we are writing history right now. 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 gentile voters that have been screaming that from now on columbia changes. oh, better the, its 77 year old populace relo fernandez, who was referred by many as the king of tick tock. oh, but better will face many challenges. 47 percent of the country did not vote for him annually say he will have to negotiate his reforms in congress for this is not only the 1st time that oliver and candy it is been elected in columbia. but also the 1st time that we have op left when congress to, because back to study godaddy, social movement behind gustavo better was able to elect, ah, a good number of congress members saw. he will have art a congress that is in favor of him, not a complete majority has and car bama jaretha in congress. but he has a good number of congress members. and dad is also

a something that are signs that he could harbor success. in his turn. 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, as a cedar border, of course i would to alexander amputee, who's lying for us, sen. booker, a manager, obviously the country digesting a huge decision and a decision that will be quite historic for the nation in the years to come. absolutely this victory seen as significant for a number of the reason also his story because as you were saying, because this is the 1st last government in the country, the history, the country is obviously also very divided on one side. you have a huge number of colombians that feel represented truly for the 1st time by

a government in this country. and on the other side, you have a large number of the population that looks up. gustavo, based on what he represents the government that he's proposing with, with fear, they fear what alaska governments could mean. they fear what the reforms could bring. they have a look at the example of a neighboring venezuela and what happened to the country and the economic and social crisis that has gone through after a little over a decade. the last piece, the rule. so we are in new uncharted territory here in columbia paper, though in his speech last night, said that his will be a government, a reconciliation of the national reconciliation of peace. that he will try to speak to everybody who is willing to have a dialogue with his government. he has been proposing

a sort of national dialogue. he already managed to get on board a number of centuries, politicians and movements to try and bring forward the many reforms that he is proposing. he will have a hard time though. he doesn't have a majority in congress. he will face a strong opposition from the establishment. the parties who are also divided though, i think he will face that a lot of opposition. but from arriving from different points in that a united front, the again, desa government that he will get in power in on august the 7th. so he has a little way to go. and what will we will see him due probably until dentist try to get as many other people and, and move man a on. busy board for his programs of reform. thanks so much on a sand. allison drum pnc that was in columbia still had here on out is there

a floods in india, bangladesh and china have dozens, dad, 1000000 stranded, and food and fresh water in short supply. also, health workers in zimbabwe say they are underpaid and overworked, and now they're working with the job. ah, the journey has begun the faithful world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package today where we got widespread st. charles and thunderstorms threat to southeast asia. at this time, the year. where's the dry period? you might soon get. well, it's not with a moment. we got some fairly heavy rain ran. sumatra, singapore may be qual, lumpkin up towards thailand, and then we have a lot of ram born. in fact, i think in brunei and brenda said, baker, one the capital. there will be thunderstorms for the next 3 days. not particularly unusual. they're not particularly heavy either. the seasonal right where this range

locates the sofa. the line corps, the plum rains, if you're like and it runs up to china towards japan. mon whole lot will eventually move north. but currently it's hot. the north jans at 40 and these rains aren't as heavy as of late, but they will pep up again. i think by the end of the week. and you still get rain ahead of it's that significant sherry stuff, thunderstorms going through beijing and towards the northeast of china. at the other end of the line, the monsoon frontier, this light black line is just a little behind where it should be, but it's sort of irrelevant because all those all moving north, you see the showers in northern india and pakistan. good news for bangladesh is no more to top up the flooding that the flooding really course carry on for the next day or so for pakistan, shout, don't forget, and the whole sauce to get hotter. but it was a nice few days off, wasn't it? kat official and line of the jen, she's one of the most popular members of the don't you will. san quin maximum the

netherlands has traveled the world as you an advocate for inclusive finance for development. how does she ensure the advocacy reaches those we needed the most? come majesty in maxima of the netherlands to town, i have told stories of orphan. we don't grab both and soldiers. it is a rare privilege to tell the stories of my own people to a global audience with ah, what about you, what you all deserve with me, the whole rovner reminder of our top story. tens of thousands of people on the streets of brussels, that demanding government. how to cope with the rising cost of living is the latest

and biggest day of action planned by labor unions. they won't for investment in the public sector. also, the cost of living was a major issue in the french election. that's left president manuel macro with no clear majority. a laughing alliance led by john luke, millennial is now the main opposition. the fall right, is also make tickets. and gustavo petro has been elected columbia's 1st left wing president, and in decades of conservative rule, the former rebel fight as secure just over 50 percent of the vote. 3 points ahead of right wing populates 2 rodolfo amendments elsewhere g, a z. as in boy, have gone on strike and protest against low salaries and poll working conditions. it's the 2nd war count by nurses and other health professionals since the pandemic began. how rumour tasa sent this update from holiday health workers in zimbabwe. know they are 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 the races was 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. like to say, that is no way in near enough. these are professionals, they have degrees, other quality cations. these are the barbie's middle class, and they say they can afford to survive on the need to 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 are treating just a general civil service. it's common knowledge that the currency is imperial, but they have not taken action. most 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 locus who work in is 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, but the workers say the lowest of them take some less than $100.00 a day. they want at least $840.00 american dollars for the lowest paid worker. they say being payden's embalming dollars symbol is not feasible because of the currencies rapid evaluation. the belgians hunted over the last known remnant of the democratic republic of congo assassinated independence leader. the family of patrice lumber received his goal tooth during a ceremony at the royal palace of brussels. the member played a major role in the dances fight for independence from belgium. he was abducted and assassinated in 1961. millions of congolese were killed under colonial rule. leanne by e is a co founder and co director of african futures, action lab mit. she says symbolic gestures aren't enough to bring to our 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 the acid. and the policeman was involved in this association kicked his fingers in his tooth. and that's what the investigation, that's what the when the, the commission, the commission that has worked on the circumstances 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, by his family. and this for this friday is still going on can use after, after that, the request that the most for consumer community is certain victims are not taken

into consideration. so the we bedroom is willing to take very symbol adjuster, very simple and easy. but the ad, so with pairing, allowing justice to to happen. this is not happening and it's not happening. whether it is been here in belgian, it's not happening when we look in the different countries where it has, it has the legacy more than 230 people have reported, have been killed in ethiopia, in an attack in the aroma region. witnesses say the victims belong to the uh huh. ethnic group. the aroma liberation army has been blamed for the attack, but it says it's not involved with european is an ethnically diverse nation, but is experiencing widespread tensions with hundreds of people killed in recent years. much of the south and west is inhabited by the aroma people who make up the largest group in the amana region to the north. the community is the 2nd largest

conflicts have largely been fueled by groups demanding more land and power journalist samuel gratitute, has more from addis ababa more than 230 people have died. that number is expected to go much, much higher this morning. the prime minister prime minister abbey a med 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 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. air which are again at least

230 or i'm higher people of 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 lanka has closed schools and shut down non essential government services for 2 weeks to preserve fuel supplies. it comes on the same day as the government sits down or sits down for bailout talks with the international monetary fund to cope with a spiraling economic crisis. now the government says it needs a $5000000000.00 lifeline. a lack of foreign currency is led to shortages of food medicine and fuel. mental fernandez has moved from colombo, the 10 member delegation of the i am of 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,

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. some of the things that it has insisted on is a proper tax regime. 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. millions of people in bangladesh stranded by the worst monsoon floods in a century, risk of food and water shortages, neighboring india is also affected in bunger, their setting is wreaking havoc in northern and northeast and districts, and is expected to get worse with water levels rising in major rivers, the army has been deployed to help with relief efforts. millions of homes remain under water. roads have been cut off and local levels are closed. doesn't the people have died since the storms began in april. of childhood has moved from senate in the northeast of bangladesh. 60 percent of the film, the region is devastated by flat water. one of the was in more than

a century. people are desperate for fluid and fresh water. you can see miles and miles after village homes like this submerged in water. 29000 of actors are farmland when under water, devastating poultry is livestock, the fisheries, and crop. the government is deployed military, navy coast got an air force, at least 100000 people have been evacuated, are rescued so far. there is still clear danger of more flood because the flood forecasting center, say the next few days. there's going to be more rain, which will make things worse, and the water coming from office bank that will also make things much worse than what it is northern part of bang. this is also devastated because most of the major rivers are flowing over the danger level. many people are doing their government to declare these areas as disaster zone. the situation in india's ne, in a som state is described as critical flowing, heavy rains and severe flooding. barley middle has more. one of the affected areas

in certain 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 people here to flee their homes and set up camp across the road on the national highway. now, as you can see, people are going up and down, waiting for 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 states. but the see are 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 that they have made, drove us over here more vulnerable to flooding when it rains. so there's storms are continuing to buy a large part of southern china, triggering floods and landslides rainfall in some areas has been the heaviest in 60 years. now this was seen as a fire engine was swept away in gwen dong province. millions of people have been displaced. heavy rain is typical in the early summer months, but these storms last longer and the more intense than those in previous years. the head of global aviation body, i alter, says that he's confident the industry will return to profitability. and 2023 asian leaders are meeting and cut off to discuss hiring and re growth. as airlines

recover from the pandemic, it plunge a sector into the worst of financial crisis in its history. swings, governing body, as though to to been transgender athletes from elite womens events. the head of world swimming says he hopes the ruling will, in his words, protect the competitive fairness of the sport. and the richardson reports are really very important moment for us. it's an announcement that sent shock waves around the sporting world, swimming world governing body fina voting to ban that 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 our, of our events. wilson 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 am 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 being to reconcile inclusion and fantasy.

swimming is the 2nd olympic discipline after rugby to introduce such a band, why most of the sports used to start their own levels as a basis for allowing trans women to compete 5 and not too much. i did not see this coming, but 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 through that capture. that's all the sports now. have to decide if with its proposed open category hot. swimmingly has set a precedent that they wish to follow. jang andy richardson, al jazeera marin ah no, george 0 miss l robinson. doha, reminder of our top story, $70000.00 people on the streets of brussels,

are demanding government out to cope with the rising cost of living. it's the latest and biggest to have action planned by labor unions. they're asking for.