oh, sure, most of the globe if you really want to know what's happening in the world right now, you need to be watching out here. ah, britton's biggest ral strike in 30 years is underway. is unions worn over the summer of discontent? ah, hello, i am emily and gwen. this is al jazeera alive from dough house coming up, struggling to get aid into flood, hit ne, in india and bangladesh. the military steps in to a live, to food and fuel to submerged areas. left off in south korea, the country successfully launches its 1st domestically produced space. rockets and

columbia is last. rebel group says it's ready for pace, talks with the new president. ah hello and welcome to the program. it's 9, g and chain. the biggest ral strike in britain. in 3 decades is underway, tens of thousands of workers have walked out, demanding better pay and job security. they've rejected a wage increase of 2 percent, while inflation is at 9 percent. we're joined now by poll brennan, who's at london's waterloo station. hello there, poll. how was the morning peak impacted by this strike? ah, it's, it's a profound impact. the waterloo stations, a station that i use actually to commute into london and working days in to see it is deserted as it has been in this morning. rush out this morning against quite

extraordinary. i thought at least some trains running into here. i'm looking at my shoulder and see a few people that have come off the train from around like all 9. i think it is halfway down the station. but that only happens every 10 or 15 minutes and in between the station is likely deserted. apart from the security staff in the hive, his jackets in c o my shoulder across large swathes of the network, there are no trains at all. so in excess of 50 percent of the network, he will not be able to get anywhere by train for well, essentially for the rest of this week, 3, strike days through to next saturday on the days in between those 3 strike days are going to be operating a very limited service you talking about maybe $4000.00 services running out well, normally there would be some $20000.00. those trains the all running gone run by ass left drivers, which is a different union, not the r m t, which is in disputes and god and the people and the gods are our managers who've

been brought in to stand in for the gods who are on strike that the nature of the dispute is over pay conditions and jobs, the r m t saying at the and see which is the union saying that the proposals for efficiency savings that the network operates and network rail are proposing would jeopardize safety network rel, saying that some of the practices that have been allowed to continue on the railways are simply out of date. antiquated from the arc is one quotes from network rail. and look, there is merits on both sides. at least a little strike is going on. talked all continuing and we spoke with network rail about the experts. ation that those talks will at least continue and try to find some, some compromise in the coming days of ellison. we will continue to do all we can to find that sweet spot of compromise, sir. is affordable food for the employers affordable for the taxpayer? affordable for the fair po. and we are empty and our employees can live with. they do once decent payrolls, we want to give them one. we just need some compromise,

a bit of given tell you couldn't negotiating table to find that to that sweet spot . and pull, as i say, credit households in britain and in many countries if facing the toughest economic conditions in decades. so we are likely to see more industrial action going forward . indeed look, the orange is not the only union that is agitating, overpay, and conditions of the moment we've had pay suppressed in this country. busy for a number of years now, and that was fine in a way, while inflation was extremely low when prices were not rising very quickly, but the effect of the war in ukraine, an energy crisis is a result of prices going up dramatically. inflation expected to top 10 percent in the next one or 2 months has brought into sharp focus. the big difference between price is rising on the actual money in people's pockets, people's disposable income. even those people with full time jobs. some are saying that they are having to fall back on some benefits even go to food banks in order

to put food on the family table. in particular, it's public service workers. we're talking about teachers. we're talking about doctors, nurses, and i will talk about local government workers as well. now they've already been told that they really shouldn't expect or they should expect that below inflation at pe rise. and that would be somewhere around 2 or 3 percent. and that's really, you know, it started to get people are unhappy and, and so the teaching unions in particular are i and up what the r m t are doing and pondering whether there might be like action in britain schools as well. this is shaping up to have the potential to be a summer of discontent. thank you. the radius apt to spade po brennan, at a quiet waterloo station and key to bangladesh now and the worst flight in years could be about to get worse. more rain is forecast and major rivers are expected to rise. millions of homes are under water and authorities are struggling to deliver emergency supplies. the worst flooding is in districts in the north and northeast

by me has been deployed to help with relief efforts. dozens of people have died since the storms began back in april. havea chantry has more from sil head, in ne bangladesh of a thing, and so that city things are much more severe and war from the outcome of the fit. in the rural areas, we drove miles and miles on saw village homes washed away or submerged. people are desperate need for dry shelter. they need fresh water and food. we have visited shelter, of which is overcrowded. there got a very limited number of relief. the government has deployed defense forces personnel here over a 100000 people. so far i've been evacuated and rescued, but many in the years are still maryland and need to be rescued. things that i've bought in the northern bangladesh, particularly in korea graham, over 250000 people are stranded. neighboring districts are also flooded. many

experts when people are, are doing government or declared this region as emergency disaster zone. now this is a 2nd way of a plot that hit this area last month to lead region was made by flood. this is the 2nd row, which is worse and more than a century. government is trying, it's vast. prime minister is scheduled to visit this region today, some time she might be even here. now the rain forecast has been there, but it has been luckily dried a big relief for the people harboring for drains and not the eastern india in mega lion. some things could get worse because the water flows from that into the sort of my best in which is called here and we're going to bail bangles. so there is clear danger, a more flood if it rain. so crowded, staying dry, which is a good thing. in india's neighboring ass on state funding, land signs have killed dozens of people. soldiers have been deployed to get supplies to areas that are cut off houses of homes and fields across

a. some states continue to be inundated with water rescue and relief operation got on for people's workspace plan good. we are in the district. this is one of the worst affected districts in the region and have just. 8 retired from rescuing about 3 families from a real life that boat has rescued about 50 people over the last few days and we are on what used to be feed. the team here says the biggest challenge is there's rising water level over here. water levels are about 15 feet deep. that's nearly 4 in the hot nita. the other 3 strong water car is our big challenge. exact residents over here said that because of the parents will be overflowing river many home and people have also been away. no cost to save the toll from the flood continues to rise. more than nearly 5000000 people have been affected,

and many people have died over the last 24 hours. homes are under water wheels are inundated and mostly people are anxious to waiting for water level to see the way to stop so they can return home and start building the live south. korea's 1st domestically develop space rocket has successfully imported dummy satellites into over it. it has flight was the 2nd attempt after one fell back in october. newry is designed mainly for non military missions, especially satellite launches. mcbride has more from go home county. we're just hearing a briefing from south korea, science minister, who says the place has now been confirmed as a successful launch. so this is a 3 stage rock. if you remember that it was last october, the 1st law to base type of rock. it actually ended in failure during the 3rd stage . it, hey bernie and it to quickly. so the, what the satellite did,

he got up to the velocity it needed and it was seem to be a failure. at this time round. we are hearing that it has apparently had a full bird about 3rd state. they've managed to reach the velocity needed. so there is now or what they call a performance verification satellite. basically, a dummy satellite, a test satellite, now orbiting the earth 700 kilometers above it. just where it is meant to be. so this will be music to the is over of the science community, the space community here in the south career. and we've had a very busy afternoon. this is william, one of the few vantage places where you can see the narrow space center, which is about 50 kilometers across the water behind me and big chairs here as they saw that rocket going up in the air and they'll be more cheers or across south career as they hear it has been a success. french president manion crohn is due to maint far rightly and m marine le pen and other political party chiefs. after he lost his majority in the national

assembling. and you left wing alliance that base on milk malice. sean has become the main opposition, but neither maelin sean norland pen are eager to work with the president and hash about the reports from paris. familiar faces and new ones. french and peas arrived at the national assembly after parliamentary elections on sunday. the delta humiliating blow to the french president, his centrist alliance failed to secure a majority of to pick gains by the far right party and a new left wing alliance. that is now frances main opposition force lucille to negotiate. the success of the left was that we were able to unite to offer an alternative to mark on socially and 3rd policies were sent even remote in her constituency. in northern france. far right leader marine, the pen was in a point mood after anti immigration party won a record number of seats. yes. aquatic. as soon as william manion mc hornby able to do where he was. no, no, the answer is no. no is

a word that in piece for michael's alliance, unlikely to hear a lot in coming weeks as they try to work with other parties to push through the president, reformist agenda. no, we will not have a contractor governments. allah, ah, contract between the whole 2 bodies. that's not something we're going to do. this analyst says that macros m p's may have to work bill by bill. another option is try and seek an alliance for each law. an entry for me will buy, so either an alliance with the left, when it is or text, more inclined towards the left or with the right. the results of the parliamentary election of shaken a political system where power sharing is rare. this newspaper says that the results were slap in the face for emmanuel mcgraw was this one says that france is now going to be ungovernable. frances government spokeswoman put on a brave face and said the party will find

a way it will be difficult will of course, need imagination, audacity and openness, micros meeting party members and allies to consider what to do next. as a president who prides himself on his ability to navigate through a crisis, he finds himself in the middle of one. he'd rather have avoided, and that will shape his 2nd term. natasha butler. i'll just sarah paris. still head on al jazeera ban on cotton clothes made in china's shim jung region. forces retailers into uncomfortable choices. ah hello there for se, asia, it's a very wet picture. indeed, with singing enhanced rain pull into western areas of indo china. you can see the dense clouds, there's a big fall on the way from me and my southern areas of thailand,

a lot of that rain trickling down the malay peninsula and inches, much of the indonesian we could see up to 70 millimeters of rainfall here over 24 hours and of course that could lead to some flooding. now that heavy rain skirts across into borneo brunei, we'll see some of the heavier falls on thursday. but for the east, this for the philippines. well, it is an improving picture. there will be more sunshine than showers on thursday. those showers, however, affecting the se, stretching all the way down to fiji, some of those trickling into the northern parts of australia. we've got wind warnings out for the top and wind warnings as well for southern areas of western australia, but fine and dry for large areas of the country. got high pressure in charge, but it is going to get wetter as that system pulls its way over. the south. been more settled for the southeast, with temperatures on the rise. but the wet weather isn't very far away. we've got sunshine in sydney and as we hope across the tasman to new zealand, plenty of sunshine for both islands. a little bit of rain up in the north,

but we will see temperatures continue to climb down in the south. ah. with this, the ocean witness claim is witnessed. different, says witness, change witnesses, happiness, witness. law, witness. sunlight, witness the flood witness. last witness. charity witness, confusion, witness. clarity. witnessed family. i'm witness friends, witness the beginning. witness. the end witness. life witness on al jazeera lou. the

hello. are you watching? 0. i'm emily angry. he's a reminder event of stories this alan written facing. it's a biggest rel strike in decades, tens of thousands of workers have moved out on the job, calling for better pay and job security unions have warned. the strike could lead to coordinated action across other industry. emergency workers in bangladesh and northeast in india, struggling to deliver food and drinking water in several regions facing to the floods. more rainy forecast and major rivers are expected to continue rising and south korea 1st domestically develop space rocket has successfully put a dummy satellite into orbit. it was this 2nd attempt after a failed test flight. last october. the head of moscow as powerful security council has arrived in the callum in grad, it follows lithuanians decision to stop the transit of some goods to the russian

territory. the province is separate from the main russian federation. it's wedged between lithuania and poland on the baltic, seen the restrictions effect to be only round route between the isolated territory and the rest of russia. lithuanian officials say the band is on good sanctioned by the you. it includes coal and some metals. the kremlin has about to respond if access isn't restored. that's bringing that don't mccain, who's monitoring developments from berlin and joins us live. hello, they dominate, took us through these latest developments in this escalating tension between russia and lithuania. what's happening today at least, is that the russian government has called in representatives of the e u, but also of lithuania, to protest at what it believes is the denial for it of

its ability to maintain contacts via rail between coline grads. as you were explaining which is not physically part of the mainland of russia, with the rest of the russian federation, and protesting about what you were explaining there. emily, what, what's been the main focus of the past, 44 hours or so. the interesting thing here is that yesterday in luxembourg, not just the luxembourg foreign minister, there was the council of foreign ministers mats, the high representative, your said. beryl also spoke about the situation and said from the lithuanian government perspective, but also from the e. you perspective what is being done by the lithuanian government is not some sort of unilateral action against russia and russian interests. rather, it is the decision to implement the sanctions at an e. you level that the e u at a pan european level decided to impose on certain russian items. and so the lithuanian government is saying this is not unilateral action. what we are doing is

implementing the sorts of things that any you member would do if they were in our situation, the russian government disagrees is particularly angry about it. that is summoned lithuanian and e representatives to it to account for their actions, but also to be the recipients of russian protest at what they consider to be a violation of the sorts of conventions that have been in place ever since careening drought became part of the russian federation and dumb, explain to us why counting ground is so important to russia and it's ongoing invasion of ukraine. if you look at the math, the interesting thing, callin' grad as an ex clave, not physically part of the rest of the russian federation. that is an anomaly. historically it was incorporated into the u. s. s. r. in 1945. after the end of the 2nd world war, when the soviet government,

under marshal stalin decided to take that territory from nazi germany. it used to be hearts of what was called east prussia. it's capital was koenigsberg, now it's called cleaning garage. and so back then because the u. s. s. are included all the baltic states belarus, then there was no, no difference. there was no ex claim status. it was part of the entire integrity of that nation. but when the ussr dives and the russian federation became part of the reality, then you have this ex claim status. and ever since the entry into nato of the baltic states. and of course, poland being there to you have effectively the russian federation, sand which does it were this corner of territory sandwich by nato countries. and so now that you have nice, so countries aligning themselves, many of them with ukraine, you have this potential for a as it were, a,

a tinder box situation. now from the reality of what's on the ground, remember that in lithuania, you have several nice. so countries with their forces that specifically the german government maintains a presence in lithuania and folk. that's why what is being played out now in a geopolitical sense, really matters. because if the situation is of the russian government believes it's being denied access to its own territory, buying a so countries well, you can see how that could have a, particularly, as i said, a tinderbox situation. and that's what's being watched. so clearly right now, not just in lithuania, not just in the you at any level in brussels, love election booking strasburg, but also right across the capital cities of this continent don't. thank you so much . iraqi no. down for us, dominic came live for us in berlin. and us ban on goods imported from china's she's young region is to, to come into force. it's

a major export her of cotton and tomatoes. but it's also where we goes and other was them. groups are being held in detention camps. it's the the move could further disrupt global food, global supply chains. rather katrina, you reports from aging japanese retail. moody has hundreds of stools around the world. but what sets it apart from other international brands is its choice to promote the use of shin junk cotton sourcing materials from the autonomy region in northwest and china has become a minefield. the company's exporting to the us, the week of forced labor prevention act. prisons, all she done goods omni the 4th labor, unless proven otherwise, there are being your house to prove a negative and that to stream to do so, you're going to have implementation problems with this law. on the other hand, china is, is really not making things any easier for itself. what they been doing is restricting

activities within the province of change are making it very difficult for companies to move around. very difficult to get documentation, arrange a commonly used materials are sourced from region, including a quarter of the world's tomato paste 40 percent of solar panels, poly silicon, and 13 percent of wind turbines. people changing is also harm to 20 percent of global cotton supplies. cotton, which either directly or indirectly, ends up in the supply chains of many international fashion brands. a shipment for the retailer unicode with thieves by u. s. customs earlier this year for violating the ban on imports from saint john. it c o has refused to comment on where it's sources. it's colton from saying businesses are being forced to pick a site. the us china dispute. those who do take a stand risk, the wrath of nationalistic chinese consumers. last year, swedish bran h n, n became the target of blankets and lost millions of dollars in sales revenue.

after it cut ties with shin junk suppliers, fearing a backlash, many companies are quietly moving their supply chains elsewhere. u. s. is not the only market and the largest market for china right now is and also europe. so, and the u. s. is 3rd. so although it's a very, very important market, you know, china is, has not put all its eggs in one basket. the bite in administration has accused 18 of genocide saying it's attained more than 1000000 regus and coerced 100000 into working against their will. china has denied the accusation, calling it the lie of this century. katrina, you al jazeera paging. the casa economic form is underway here in doha delegate. so discussing global economic recovery, major business leaders and heads of states santana king, part of the patronage of the emir of cutter. ladies and gentlemen facade to

support the economy and investment and innovation with keeping the values the shared values and keeping the peace is the way to build capabilities to overcome the challenges that faces the whole humanity. for example, the diseases. and also the other challenges we can see and a cutter is responsible as a part of not in the global community to face the global change and its effects on the human. also speaking at the foreign was tesla c o e, long mosque on the acquisition of twitter and his hopes for the future of the social media platform. i mean, ideally i'd like to get like 80 percent of oh, but in north america house, i don't know half the world or something ultimately on, on twitter one or another. but i think one way or another one is safe. the service

that i love that entice most people teach who want to be on twitter and enjoy it and find it informative and entertaining and funny you know, and to something and useful as useful as possible. thousands of protest her have to find a curfew and marched into ecuador was capital kate. so on the 8th day of demonstrations, they demanding the government in war to stop rising food and fuel prices. president, where mo, at last, so has extended a state of emergency to cover 6 provinces. the protests have caused to ecuador economy, millions of stones. one of the last recognized rebel groups in columbia says it's open to resuming pace talks with the incoming president. gustavo petro is a former rebel fighter, and one of his campaign promises was to strengthen the fragile pace process to raise a bow reports from budget. ah, but elena,

by last year says she still cannot believe got, i will put that it was elected president of columbia under the new vice president will be a black woman like her benefits. and i kid you beginning, aka. she was displeased from the province of took all after 2 of her brothers were killed. she now lives in who w at border, where she helps children cope with poverty and violence or joke on film, which one is the input sample? i trust in the petro, because when he was a mare, he helped us a lot. the need to transform this country is real year after year, the same politicians and this country is getting worse each day. many you celebrated course that will be there was victory leading to the right. millions of people have been displaced by the conflict. hello, and many live in places like this. once in dire conditions, people here are telling me that they're desperate for reforms that will improve their life, but delivering on his promise, his won't be c 4 will start,

will pay at all as he does not have a majority in congress. and he will have to negotiate to turn his promises into real change a better way. but not everyone is celebrating this debate happen just outside, well enough home. it's an example of the polarization that exists in the country today. if you go look at, okay, i just hope it won't start fighting with the rich. this man told her because they generate jobs for colombian, society. i hope this doesn't become venezuela. he said, call me, i mean you're young. people has promised to fight inequality, race taxes, and winning go, she'd free trade agreement. he also said he wants columbia to begin transition to clean energy as soon as possible. he clarified during his campaign that this will be a gradual process, and yet i think it remains to be seen in a country that is highly dependent on natural resources for its income. how he

plans to go ahead to promote this transition, which i believe is a very good one for colombia and for the world in a viable way. that doesn't mean putting excessive stress on the economy. and that actually allows him to advance on his more social agenda, the people have said his priorities to start working towards long lasting peace in the country. even though the colombian government signed a piece deal with a fork in 2016, some parts of the country continue to live in conflict. the left wing rebel group known as the e. l. n composed of around 2500 fighters, announced they were ready for talks with better us government. and that's why people leg alina, are excited about this new beginning for the country. and there are she hopes where dialogue and not war will prevail. billy, so i'll just cedar border. it's international yoga day and that means india's

number one enthusiast is back in front of the cameras prime minister nor andro mowdy practice with thousands of participants in my subaru. celebrations had been muted for the past 2 years. and due to the pandemic, but with less a number of cases, this e yoga sessions with huge gatherings were held across the country. ah, hello, you're watching al jazeera, these are the stories we're following. this. our britain's facing it's biggest rel strike in decades. tens of thousands of workers have walked out on the job, calling for better pay and job security and comes a day after strikes in belgium. fueled by the cost of living crisis. unions have warned. the strike could lead to coordinated action across other industries. oh brennan is outside landon's waterloo sanction it's having a massive.