[000:00:00;00] ah ah why don't we need 3 above? i only need $11000.00. i need 11000 both gimme a break. pressured by the president, us state officials say donald trump was pushing them to overturn the election result here about ah, lauren taylor was it out 0 live from london. also coming up,

russia warns of serious consequences over the blocking of its rail line to its baltic sea outpost. israel's outgoing government promises its collapse will not mean a return to benjamin netanyahu. moraine forecast for bangladesh fierce its most serious flooding in years is about to get even worse. ah and her state election officials have told the u. s. congress that they were personally pressured by then president donald trump, to overturn the result of the 2020 election. they've testified before the 4th hearing of the house committee investigation into last year's capitol hill right to swing states that have been in focus during tuesdays hearing our georgia and arizona. the committee has heard testimony from georgia sector of state, as well as arizona's state leadership, arizona's house speaker russell bowers. a long time republican has spoken about

a phone call with president trump after the election. he says, trump pushed for his team to be allowed into the state capitol to present what they called evidence a vote of fraud. but he refused. up to that time the, the circus i called with the circus, had been brewing with lots of demonstrations. both of the counting cetera at the capital and other places. and i didn't want to have that in the house. i did not feel that the ovens granted in its absence, merited a hearing and i didn't want to be used as a paul. i didn't know castro has more from capitol hill. what's notable is kind of the lopsided balance of power. here you had the president of the united states personally calling these election officials who are republican in the swing states that had gone to joe biden. and we heard from that top election official in georgia, brad rapids, burger describing this phone call from trump,

in which trump deliberately asked for one more vote than what joe biden had. one in georgia, i asked for his response to that reference burger told the committee that he simply couldn't do it. he said he had followed the law and there was simply no vote to be found despite the pressure to find those votes by president trump. and he suffered personal consequences to that he said his wife was harassed and his daughter in law had her home broken in 2 similar story from arizona where we heard the republican house speaker saying he got a call from rudy. giuliani trumps personal attorney and juliani nelson said, hey, we're all republicans here. help me out. goes not is a public policy professor at george mason university. he says, trump committed a crime by threatening public officials. hearing president trump in his own voice in his own words, threatening public officials. this is a crime. it is interference with an election, particularly in torture. you heard him talk to brad robins. burger, find me?

11791 votes so that i can win the election. that is illegal criminal pressure on a public official to interfere with the result of an election. and the question is, will the justice department now under president biden see fit to issue some sort of criminal indictment or criminal charges against the former president? that's the bottom line that people are waiting, waiting for. ah, the russian territory in the baltics is emerged as a new frontier of tension between moscow and the you of a ukraine. russia has threatened with you anna, with serious consequences, after it halted rail transit of several sanctioned goods to kellen. in grad, dominic cane has more from the german capital berlin. this is the main port in colleen in grat. it's facilities are important to the russian economy. for this is the only all year round ice free port,

the country has on the baltic sea. many products essential for the local population in the russian exclaimed, come by, see that many more come by land and are now being stopped. and if people in the stalls are to be believed, e u sanctions are hurting christner. it's a story can i think we should pack up our belongings and leave because you can't go anywhere. this has never happened. i think not only me how many people are planning it now or even regretting that they are living in colleen ingram reaching out. any of those sanctions target specific license that transit new territory this case higher rail through lithuania to and from russia that sanctioned goods. e, steel and other arg was made from iraq or will no longer be allowed to transit early training. it is done with consultation for the european will european commissioners and under the european commission guidelines. in many ways. claiming grad is a historical anomaly once part of what was called east prussia,

but taken by the soviet union from nazi germany at the end of world war 2, then became part of the wider ussr. but when that country died in the early 19 ninety's, the russian federation chose to hold on to coline. great. and so it became an exclaim, separated from russia proper by the newly independent baltic states. which helps explain why officials in moscow are so agitated by the impact of sanctions. and have warned the people of lithuania to expect retaliation for their government's actions at that premium. because this example shows that you cannot trust either verbal statements by the west or written ones. no, russia will certainly respond to such hostile actions about appropriate measures are being worked out between departments and will be taken in the near future. their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of a for a new height. well, it's a threat. some lithuanians have long anticipated baltic renters differently from

many other countries of european union. didn't have any illusions about that rule or attempts, and they d a so fracture, a threat to one or all of the baltic states would constitute a threat to nate. so many in the atlantic alliance maintain an armed presence there on this was the german chancellor visiting his country soldiers in lithuania, just 2 weeks ago. like many other european leaders, all of shots says his country will defend every centimeter of nato territory. donate came al jazeera berlin. russia's president says he will modernize his army in response to growing international threats. let me put in outline plans on tuesday, including making rushes ground troops more combat effective for future conflicts as machinery which we will continue to develop and strengthen our armed forces, taking into account potential military threats and risks based on the lessons of modern armed conflicts in our priority is equipping troops with new weapons systems

that will determine the combat effectiveness of the army and navy in the years and decades to come. in addition to the new weapons already tested, troops are receiving s 500 air defense and missile defense systems that are unmatched in the world. yoyo buck roku. yes, attorney general merritt garland has made an unannounced visit to ukraine. he met ukraine's prosecutor general irina benedict over to discuss international efforts to identify and prosecute russian individuals involved in war crimes. i'm here to express the unwavering support that the united states for the people of ukraine in the midst of the unprovoked and unjust rush from invasion. here to continue our discussions between myself and the prosecutor general of the actions of the united states as taking to assist the cranium authorities and holding accountable those responsible for the atrocities for the war. crimes that the entire world seem.

united states is sending an unmistakable message. there is no place to hide. we will, we and our partners will pursue every avenue available to make sure that those were responsible for these atrocities are held accountable. the regional governor of ukraine's 2nd largest city ha, keith says at least 15 civilians were killed by russians shelling on tuesday of to weeks and relative calm russian forces have intensified bombardment of the region. i mean, several attacks in recent days on sunday ukrainian authorities warned moscow trying to make hockey a new front line in the war. the city was heavily damaged at the beginning of the conflict in march. a school in ukraine's at jeanette's region has been hit by russian shelling original governor released this video, showing the building in the city of tica in flames. no casualties were reported. officials hates the 3rd school in the city to be hit by russia. and one of 200 schools destroyed across the internet's region. ministers in israel's outgoing

government avowed to prevent or come back by full prime minister benjamin netanyahu . a fragile cornish announced on monday that parliament would be dissolved. it means israel can expect its 5th election in less than 4 years with polling predicting no clear winner. and smith has more from west jerusalem for a year, benjamin netanyahu has been working to bring down the coalition that ousted him from power. and he's managed it by blocking the normally automatic renewal of a bill that extends israeli law into the settlements. now netanyahu sees a pop back to the prime minister's office. luca been lucky, i intend to form a strong national steady government, but i think the atmosphere changed. show i can feel it. i mean i hear from the people who show up, we now want to will change. we want to return the state of israel to the place to service. and i intend to do it together to with my friends. the outgoing 8 party

coalition was the most unusual in his railey history. made up the hard right liberals on palestinian israelis from the arab list. they came together to get rid of netanyahu, but they claim other achieve. i must say that themselves because the government was a pretty good government. was corp between ubs and jewish. it wasn't the fixing. the committee. was a very good minister, especially in man came in is someone corporation. and then i think that this government to was very good for the citizens. i like this whole suggest benjamin netanyahu. quote, when 60 of the $120.00 seats up for grabs in the classes the election won't be held until towards the end of october until then. yeah, la p. israel's entering private israel. i was conducting military drills in massa fietta in the occupied west bank is the 1st ex size in the area since these ready

supreme court rejected a passed in an appeal against firing zone that the court decision means that palestinians could be forcibly evicted. you'd abraham reports from my suffer yet southeast of hebron in new york. you fight west bank. these really army has put up these targets here in miss after in preparations for military exercises that are expected to last for one month. this area is called mass asset office and people, i've recently lost an appeal at the israeli supreme court to stay on their lads. these really supreme court effectively gave these really the green light to evict palestinians as these really army declared. the area of firing zone is we can go, this is fine

and you can say firing range fighting. now, activists from the surrounding areas came here. they took out those targets as a way to prevent the israelis from conducting exercises in the area where they look at all these vast areas of israel occupied parts of data and 1948 other parts in 1000. 67. not only can they train the israeli army over there, but the american and russian was to come here to our lands instead of these really military presents the demolitions, the military drills all seen here by people as pre new to forcible eviction. that could take place any minute now, but people tell us that these scare tactics are not working. they say they've lived here for decades. this is home and they have nowhere else to go. pasting, you know, 40. so man was killed after being stabbed by israeli settler in the occupied west bank on tuesday. witnesses say the 28 year old palestinian was working on his land . when a group of settlers attacked him,

palestinian ministry of foreign affairs has condemned the killing human rights expert say, there's been an increase in violence by settlers against palestinians in the occupied west banks still to come on out. a 0 south korea's space program takes off its 1st hungry rock. it sends satellite into orbit. ah hello. the weather's large. he sat fair across much of australia. lots of lovely. some shy. we've got some blustery showers just rolling through the by turbo. see some wet weather, just clipping the far southeast. they are just running across victoria and tasmania . charles, have a little bit of wet weather. also just edging its way towards the far south west of wu wei as we go on through the next day or so. but elsewhere she can see the skies are largely clear,

fine and sunny. we go one or 2 showers possible to southern parts of new south wales as well. this must be showers just clipping. a good part of tasmania for thursday. tried to make their way towards new zeta, but new zealand looks generally fine and dry until we come to the weekend when the cloud will gather and we'll see some wet weather eventually pushing in here as well . some rather wet weather, making his way towards the korean peninsula of parts of japan. at present, we seen some very heavy rain caused, caused southern parts of china. i'm pleased to say it will be a little dry here. the main range is pushing further northwards by the powder, ripening up towards beijing, towards the yellow sea, towards the korean peninsula. sinking further southwards, begun foundry down paws coming in here. chance of some localized fighting even into south korean. back to central parts of china. also wet and wanted to showers with japan. ah,

african stories from african perspective, most of them are never boy, one that has not been a good machine because of the voice of machine actually make. i mean, is short documentaries, by a filmmakers from kenya, he breaks down into something, buckets and ivory coast colors. i live here in scrap yard animal africa direct on al jazeera lou ah, ah, from under the top stories, you'll notice 0. the u. s. congress has held the 4th hearing of the house committee

investigation into the january 6th capitol hill right last year. it focused on how former president donald trump tried to pressure officials in swing states to help him overturn the 2020 election was up. russia says it will retaliate often if you and your stopped transit of some good to clinic drug rush and exclaim is separated from the mainland and lies between lithuania and poland. restrictions a part of a range of you sanctions, ministers in israel's outgoing government about to prevent a comeback by former prime minister benjamin netanyahu. fragile cornish announced on monday that parliament would be dissolved bangladesh has sent troops to try to help millions of people trapped by flood waters in northeastern areas. is the worst flooding in the region in more than a century. and a ton veterinary reports from phillips. the government is struggling to get drinking water and food to those affected sugar. ali is a life stock farmer for lost his home in the floods. he and his family have been

living on the side of this road for almost a week now without any kind of help, i guess. oh grandmother yeah. could go and see the condition of her home. what is the point of talking about it? it is only a law who can provide, he is the one who gives and who takes away. i much sweety begum is waiting for a government assistant on the outskirts of the city of slip. after carrying 4 hours . she is beginning to lose hope. oh, there is russo older and my home chest steep is sitting here waiting thoroughly, but allison so far with his iep. nothing. i'm forces have rescued or evacuated, more than 100000 people from 2 of the worsted districts in the northeast. many others are still stranded in remote rural areas. this is one of the many schools in sham gone young silica region that has been used as make sure shelter for those villages were effected by the flood. most of the people took shelter on their own.

now they're in desperate need for food and fresh water. even residents in urban areas with better drainage systems are effected. sleep on the on, but he wanted to he night. i'm with we've never seen floods like this in a lifetime. our home has water up to the hill. plenty, now we have no running water and electricity with nail using rainbow youth youth bucket. they will only cover laura during her visit to their your prime minister. shake us in our said future building development should take into account the number of natural disasters that bangladesh experiences. many of this people are still recovering from the last month's pre monsoon flash floods level. and like we left our homes, take shelter here is no food or fresh water. it would help if we got some relief from the government so we can get by for the poor road on farmers. we have lost everything ill take months if not years to rebuild their homes. they need all the assistance they can get. but help is yet to come than we children. al jazeera sil

at north is bangladesh. in india's s m state flooding and landslides have killed dozens of people. soldiers have been deployed to help with rescue efforts and distribute supplies. flooding has cut off 3 districts in the barrack valley with some water in the city of sil char, reaching away steep, nearly 330000 people from awesome living in shelters. after escaping the flood waters. stephanie mitchell has more from the flooded indian community of ro, ha, which is in the nato and district of san how the homes and fail across a song continue to be non dated with water rescue and release operations are hard for people who we are in the gall, this is one of the was effective districts in the region and have just. 8 retired from rescuing about 3 found needs to live really live role has rescued about 50 people over the last 2 days and we are on what used to be seen. the tv shows the

biggest challenge is the rising water level. was water levels are about 15 feet deep, that's the only floor in the hall meter. we also say strong water chorus are real big challenges residents over here. because all supposed to be overflowing river many home and people have also been swept away. now got to stay, the tours from the laws continue to rise. more than nearly 5000000 people have been affected. and many people have died over the last 24 hours around the water field in on day 2. and mostly people are not ranches to waiting for water level to see the way to stop civic and return home and stop the building their life and floods reached reco novels in southern china after weeks of heavy rain rivers. birth, the banks in 2 provinces, forcing thousands of people to leave for high ground. local authorities in the city

of going to say the beijing river is expected to reach water levels seen once every 100 years. south korea says it is successfully launched a test commercial satellite, which could mean one big lee put space industry follows the failed launch of a similar rocket last year. from brian reports from near narrow space center of south korea, south coast. me with this launch, south career has joined an exclusive international club, one of only a handful of nations able to put satellites into orbit commercially. the 3 stage rocket called newry meaning world was carrying a one and a half ton test satellite up to 700 kilometers above the surface of the earth. a 1st attempt last october failed when the rockets 3rd stage malfunctioned that added

to the anticipation of this launch, bringing large crowds to the beaches, facing south careers, narrow space center. they weren't disappointed. the engineers believed they fixed the problems and that this time yury will become the 1st home grown south korean rocket to put a satellite in orbit. eat of them all on the legged burner. i came here for the 1st launch and it was a disappointment when it failed. so this time i'm hoping for success until once a hannon at the moment of ignition. i said, wow, i met then the roar of the rock. it made me so proud. although more exciting a call, i feel like we've joined the ranks of truly advanced countries to 70 minutes after the launch. the countries science minister was able to claim success are coming at a one fellow koreans. the sky of the korean universe has been opened wider. now the government plans to increase the technical reliability tongue and stability of the

new re rocket thrown for more launches by 2027. this launch has further accelerated the pace of rocket development on the korean peninsula. north korea says it launched its 1st satellites years ago. many analysts believe that was just to cover for the development of its long range, ballistic missiles. rob mcbride, al jazeera go hung south korea. police, if i tear gas and beaten people with sticks to break up protests against fuel price rises in nepal. pachel increased by 12 percent on monday, pushing up fairs for public transport and costs for businesses. it holds governments as the price rises and needed to help stay turned all corporation pay for inputs. 7 recent ecuador of use tear gas to disperse hundreds of people on the 9th day of antique government. protests. countries military has described the unrest as a grave threat. thousands of indigenous protest as much through the capital quito on monday to demand

a list of concessions from the president. a calling for lower fuel prices and for limits be imposed on echo doors, orland, mining industry, president grandma, so as vending off calls to resign and is expanded a state of emergency to deal with unrest. a texas safety official says law enforcement response to the rob elementary shooting last month was an abject failure and that police could have stopped the shooting. within 3 minutes of the gunman, entering the building, the director of the texas department of public safety told a state inquiry that there were enough offices at the scene to deal with a suspect. many didn't have adequate training. even across as the on seen, commander put the lives of officers added the lives of children. these 3 minutes of the subject, 100 west building, there was sufficient number of armed officers, warring body armor to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject. the only thing stopping

a hallway of dedicated officers from and in room 111 and 112 was johnson commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children. the authors had weapons who children had none. the others had body armor. the children had none of their training. the subject had none. britain is struggling for its biggest rail strike in 3 decades. tens of thousands of railway employees stocked work that demanding better wages to cope with inflation in the u. k, which is running at 9 percent o. brendan reports from london. london's waterloo station is one of britain's biggest and busiest, but not today. not this week. 3 alternate strike days on tuesday, thursday and saturday, interspersed with 3 days of minimal service. mean, travel, misery for millions. this kind of disruption is just ridiculous. everyone knows their wellpaid. how was the journey? oh, oh,

probably call me from hardon over. i was supposed to dictate when to suffer. because on 4 times, because it was fine by now, going to 7th, this does is going to take me very, very long. the journey between one and a half hours is too much and everybody's like a message on the group. but that is heavy traffic on the road as well. so let's see only around 20 percent of the normal services running and only on half of the network, mainly the lines running into big cities. in many rural and regional areas, there is no train service at all. the dispute between the r m t rel union and the employers network rather than train operating companies, is largely of a pay. and the impact of inflation on work is wages. but the government, which directly finance is network rail, has also ordered it to find 2 and a half $1000000000.00 of savings. network rail says that's possible if staff accept

new working practices. but the union says that will means 3000 job losses and jeopardize safety. they want to rip up our terms and conditions that we've negotiated with the companies. they're even threatening to lower pay an extend work hours in the train operating companies. and the majority of our members have not had a pay increase for 2 to 3 years. so we've got a lot of problems we will continue to do. we can to find that sweet spot of compromise, but it's affordable for the employer to fordable for the taxpayer. affordable for the fat tire. and b r n t, and our employees can live with at his regular meeting of cabinets, prime minister boris johnson, branded the strikes is unnecessary and wrong. he called on the british public to stay the course during what's expected to be a lengthly disruption. the u. k. economy is experiencing the combined effects of rex it to war in ukraine and its effect on energy costs, as well as the inflationary pressure of the post pandemic recovery. and rail work

is not the only ones complaining. the r m. p is one of britain's strongest union. some might say, most militants of unions with their ability to paralyze the rail network during an industrial dispute. but the concerns that the r m t have raised about the difference between peoples pay packets and the cost of living at the moment. the rate of inflation are shared across many different industries and other professions teachers, doctors, nurses, local government workers, all have pay deals in the pipeline with the government and they're likely to be offered less than the rate of inflation. and that means a summer of discontent is looming, poll brennan, i'll just era waterloo station videos have been released showing that the largest fossil forest found in the southern hemisphere. the parent forest site in the south of brazil has 164 tree logs that are 290000000 years old. logs of an extinct tree variety are still in an upright position, which is rare for fossils like these. they were discovered when

a road was cut through the area to give access to an industrial site and it's international yoga day. and that means india's highest profile enthusiast is back in front of the cameras. prime minister, nor, and remote practiced with thousands of participants in missouri in front of the cities palace, celebrations had been muted for the past 2 years. because of the current of ours pandemic. but with fewer covert 19 cases this year, yoga sessions with huge numbers have been held across the country are ah, are one of the top stories on our 0 state officials of told the u. s. congress that they were personally pressured by then president donald trump. to overturn the result of the 2020 election. the testified to the house committee investigations 4th hearing into last year's capitol hill. riot. arizona's house speaker says trump