news ah ah the e u gives war torn ukraine, the candidate status to join the block. president volota mars lensky held the decision as a unique and historical moment. ah, my mama to do this is al jazeera alive from door, also coming up a victory for the gun lobby in the us. the supreme court declares carrying guns in

public in the state of new york, a constitutional right desperate. please for international help as survivors of afghanistan's earthquake struggle for food, shelter, and water and medical staff involved in the care of diego, mary donna, are set to go on trial. we hear from the argentinian fans. ukraine has taken a major step towards membership of the european union after the leaders of member states voted to give the war torn country e. u. candidate status. president of all of them is lensky has hailed the decision as historic. moldova has been given the same status. it's the 1st step and what can be a long application process. but as natasha butler reports from you headquarters in brussels, it sends a strong message to russia. ah, just days off to russia began its invasion of ukraine. keith applied to join the

european union. 4 months later, you leaders at a summit in brussels, approved the request, and put ukraine on the path to future membership, were decided to grant to the 32 ukraine and moldova. then you are ready to grant to the suitors to ga. once brodis will be addressed, there can be no better sign of hope for the citizens of ukraine mould of an georgia . in these troubled times, ukraine's president followed him. is lensky called the east decision, a unique and historical moment and relations. we have just received the european union candidacy. this is a victory. we've been waiting for this 120 days of the war. and even 30 years of our independence. it usually takes years for a country to gain candidate status. after applying some you official said fast tracking the process would prove the block solidarity with ukraine as

a defense itself against russian attacks. a sentiment echoed by the head of ukraine's mission to the you at a gathering in the city. it's important for the whole country, for the whole society, and it's important also for the granular army to have a clear reason what we are fighting for. we are fighting for the future. we are fighting for the modern independence over european country. becoming a candidate country is only a step to be granted. membership is a long and arduous process. the could take many years. some western balkan countries have been waiting for more than a decade for progress on bay. you beds, leaders from the region. we're also in brussels to urge you officials to speed up the process north, macedonia, albania, serbia, and montenegro are all candidate countries the world to achieve full membership. we definitely support the candidacy status for ukraine. we also support the candidate

status for mal dover. we are very thrilled that the georgia is also being given the european perspective, but we also ask our european partners not to forget about or leave the western bolton's behind the use approval if keith candidacy sends a strong message, not only to ukraine, but also to russia, but despite moscow's fire, power and efforts, keith is determined to look west. natasha butler, al jazeera brussels. maria missouri is a ukrainian m p, and the head of the ukranian delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe. she says she thinks her country's session will be fast as it fulfilled much of the e. u criteria. started way before in 2014, when the country has decided it's fortune to it's coming back to the european family when be a very complex association agreements. fucking stand on trades ecology,

human rights, other instances, the war mansion like anti corruption infrastructure, where it plays, we have some sales, 63 percent of that association agreement documents and we have filed to question years. the last one had 9 books on spring break, besides questions from the european commission. and today the talking to members who were adult say their vote, for instance, all 3 or belgium side for us, the not the lens, bronze in germany. we had the chance to talk to them here and try to book i'm very confident that the answer will be closer to the only thing which is remaining is the west. and also this is extremely important to receive this candidate. because so many people are not from the fight in 40 in legislation, but also in the field of actual fight for freedom. democracy and the commonwealth

values. we're sharing, it's every medical worker, it's every 3 personnel, men and women. it's every student, every business person, every politician. so i definitely think that this is a fair political decision. however, ukraine has no intention to jump over any proceedings. we will follow the further roadmap to finalize the reforms, and to prove that we, it's not a gift. it's something we really deserve. the u. s. gun lobby in the united states has won a significant court victory just weeks after a string of mass shootings. the u. s. supreme court has ruled that the century old gun laws, new york state, violate the 2nd amendment right to bear arms and must be relaxed. krista salumi has more from new york arrest for gun crimes in new york or at a 28 year high, a racially motivated shooting in the city of buffalo. recently left 10 people dead

. and now gun control activists say the violence is only going to get worse. the supreme court has ruled new york's law requiring anyone who wants to carry a concealed handgun show what's known as proper cause is unconstitutional. justice clarence thomas wrote the 63 page decision. he says, the constitution protects an individual's right to carry a handgun for self defense. outside the home. the decision was based on a case brought by the new york state rifle and pistol association. criminals are the ones that are causing the crimes in the cities, not, not legal, gun owners, not lawful people, because it's a decision. new york elected officials were bracing for and they didn't hold back their criticism at the court's decision. this decision isn't just reckless. it's reprehensible, it's not what new yorkers want. this keeps me up at night. new york's mer says it will set back efforts to rain in gun crime and gun deaths. former police officer,

kirk burke halter agrees when the impact of the more guns on the streets of new york, and i am of the opinion that does not make a city. this populace safer. and here is why even trained long foresman offers, trained military personnel quite often don't hit what they aim and we see this all the time throughout the country, right? innocent bystanders, children the elderly and sulk. warf that is struck by stray bullets who are unintended targets. the rolling comes in the wake of high profile, now shootings at a time when pull show, the majority of americans prefer stricter gun control laws. the decision will impact not only new york but other states with similar restrictions including connecticut, massachusetts, and california. the ruling is a setback for gun control. advocates who've advanced legislation to tighten gun laws at the state and federal level. states need to be able to make laws that

protect their communities. new york is not like montana new york officials are promising to pass new legislation to restrict guns insensitive locations that will satisfy the courts and keep their citizens safe. kristin salumi al jazeera new york . the u. s. house select committee is holding its 5th hearing into last year's storming of the capital building and whether then president donald trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. the fam, or acting deputy attorney general robert donahue, described how he responded during the near daily discussions between trump and members of the justice department about allegations of voter fraud. i felt in that conversation that was incumbent on, on me to make it very clear to the president what our investigations had revealed. and that we had concluded based on actual investigations, actual witness interviews, actual reviews of documents that these allegations simply had nomura. and i want to

try to cut through the noise because it was clear to us that there are a lot of people whispering in his ear, feeding him these conspiracy theories and allegations. and i felt that being very blunt in that conversation might help make it clear to the president at these allegations were simply not true. all right, let's cross to heidi joe castro who's lie for us from capitol hill. heidi tell us more about what we've learned regarding former president trump's pressure campaign toward the department of justice mohammed. we learned that this campaign in the description of these witnesses was relentless, that between around christmas time and the january 6th riot that unfolded here, the president was on the phone or in personal meetings with top officials at the department of justice, almost daily, save on christmas itself and that this campaign was to pressure the department of justice to without evidence claim that there was loder fraud and that the election had been stolen, which essentially is a lie. and when those officials

a fuse to cooperate with the former president's request than were told of an extraordinary meeting at the white house, which happened 3 days before the riot in which trump essentially pitted his own. a man, a person, a lawyer within the department of justice at low ranking official who was really the only person he found, willing to play ball with his unfounded allegations. his name was jeff clark and trump wanted to elevate clark to be the top boss of the department of justice, the acting attorney general. and at this meeting, it was headed between clark and the actual attorney general, jeff rosen who essentially had to fight for their jobs. rosen told the president at the time and he was on the witness stand today, saying that he refused to comply and an assist in reading the lie that the election had been stolen and that trump would have fired him save for one thing. that's

because he and his aids at the darkest part of justice went armed with the knowledge that if rose and were fired and replaced with clark, there would be a mass resignations at the department of justice. and they told trump the firing. rosen may result in hundreds of dio, j employees, in washington, in across the nation resident resigning in protest. and that ultimately made an impact on trump who hold back on the plan. but mohammed, the big picture is here that that investigative panels trying to sell is how extreme trump's efforts were to compel the department of justice in their words, to conduct the department of justice to do his bidding. and ultimately, how that effort failed, but how he later went on to call the mob that descended on the capital on january 6th. and the high b at this stage, what's expected to happen in future hearings? yes, so we have 2 more at least plan and they will occur in the month of july that we'll

focus more on this. the violence of january 6, in which we saw rioters descending on the capital resulting and deaths in an attempt to try to stop congress from certifying jo biden's when ultimately that effort also failed. the certification went forward, though it was delayed, and it trump, of course, has been under investigation for whatever role he played in that ever since. and i should remind people that this is a political investigation happening now on capitol hill. but there is also a criminal investigation unfolding in the department of justice and may or may not have trump as one of their targets. all right, that's heidi joe castro live for us from capitol hill. still ahead on al jazeera communities come together in indian administered kashmir. as the regions largest river versus banks, and indigenous protesters in ecuador celebrate as they take over a cultural center, sealed off by the military.

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carto cutters, gateway to world trade. lou ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories this, our ukraine has taken a major step towards membership of the european union. after the leaders of member states voted to give the war torn country e. u. candidate status. president volota moore's lensky has hailed the decision as historic. the u. s. supreme court is handed down a landmark victory to gun rights advocates. it ruled that restrictions put in place by new york state on carrying concealed handguns and public are unconstitutional.

the u. s. house select committee is holding its 5th hearing into last year storming of the capitol. the former acting deputy attorney general described the near daily discussions with donald trump, about allegations of voters. there are urgent appeals for international help. after afghanistan's most destructive earthquake in 20 years. at least 1500 people have been killed and entire villages reduced to rubble. people and practica province are desperate for food, shelter and drinking water. aid is trickling in, but it's not enough given the scale of the disaster. or some been job aid reports. ah, even at night the search for the missing continued in easton of lundstern. it's a race against time before the rescue operation turns into recovery of the dead. then using bare hand and shovels to free those buried under the rubble in the remote villages of host and buck beaca provinces were in bed when hundreds of homes

and buildings were destroyed by the powerful earthquake monotonous lois for the spirit i was sleeping. and i felt a strong tremor. the roof fell on us. i hardly goes out of the house. and when i looked back, i saw my wife and daughter under the rubble in the next room, my nephew, his wife and his daughter. they died. i lost everything in the blink of an eye. ah, as the scale of the devastation becomes clearer, of understands currently does a realizing the challenges in providing relief and shelter for the displaced lords were already in disrepair. and now they are blocked or destroyed by ensuing landslides. after the quake. afghanistan with its various agencies and ministers, launched a joint operation to assist the injured and dispatched a specialized teams by helicopter to provide medical assistance and emergency meeting was held by the prime minister. and it was decided to provide urgent financial aid for compensation. the prime minister appealed to foreign agencies and

organizations to assist the gunny people in these difficult circumstances of. hi, nathan is already facing a humanitarian disaster. most international aid, dried up in foreign and stuff, pulled out. when the taliban took over last year. the government, which calls it, says these la cameras, it accuses wold powers of callous behavior for freezing assets and stopping aid for millions of afghans. as you know, we do not have our teams do not see if you need to take people under the from under the rubble of these has to be like most of the efforts of the defacto for if he's at least $15000000.00 will be required immediately international and regional head will be crucial, as it will likely take months and years to recover from the devastation of loans, who feel abandoned and let down by the international community say or they can do is pray for both the dead and those who survive. my beloved over there,

you know bill, all so worry is a journalist joining us from toronto. bill, all thanks so much for your time. let me start by asking you, you've been speaking to many people on the ground and practical province where things stand right now when it comes to the rescue operation. and where do they stand when it comes to relief? epis was the detail, the hard baking. we are continuously getting reports of the entire families being wiped and destroyed. for example, it's again a while as a former african senator who is currently and gan district, the last 23 members of his family. and he continuously complained to me that the villagers had to basically literally use anything that they had including the and, and troubles to basically look for survivors. so 1st of all, in the technical teams were never dare to basically save people who have been saved . and now, according to many residents, people need shelter. people need food,

especially children who are, you know, living under the sky and, you know, very rainy and sort of chilly conditions where also, you know, getting an account from the taliban where they are painting a very rosy picture. that is there in 5. food is on its way for the victims. some of it might be through the reality is that the roads are simply not accessible. you know, they will learn lives and they've been lack of helicopters because, you know, after august 15th over is only handful number of helicopters live with taliban and it will take actually years for these very did you communities to recover not only from the tragedy of losing entire families, but also how they could rebuild my homes, my homes, that wore the investment of lifetime. i actually spoke to one of the family and the

person called ali who was visiting from saudi arabia where he was working. and he was killed among 13 of his family members. ready this is a region that actually sends a lot of people to gulf countries. you know, where they were. traditionally, the taxi drivers, product drivers from going to saudi arabia been doing this, but they, kids below, sorry interrupt. you. let me ask you the military situation. afghanistan, it was already die or even before this earthquake, how much worse has gotten since the taliban took over last august. and how much more difficult is that made it to get aid to those who need it the most? when the $1.01 go over $1000000.00, generally, we remember the phase, you know, a roll of economic hardship and prices. specifically when the united states of

america started freezing the assets that belonged actually that people understand. so the economy completely collapsed as lack of cash. and whatever help is there, it's there to buy limited a shape and form by united nations and other in use. the fact of the matter is that the afghan government is paralyzed. if you have complaints from civil servants to teachers, the others will not been paid. and the prices of food commodities have gone up your trade at a village district level as a sort of, you know, been impacted. it's also important to mention that in the eastern provinces of color and north close to 15000 cattle or died as a result of heavy snow and flash floods. these are boards confirmed by dollar mines security officials and their incident reports. and this is only happening weeks before that he will either wear villagers and i was would have been thinking to

sell the capital. so it's a massive mommy blow for our homes. especially when you hear the stories of hailing destroying sort of food and other contra props. and places like and elsewhere, and below just finally and very quickly and how big of a challenge is going to be able be to provide shelter for the displaced. i think this is going to be the work of months if not years, only if it's done properly because you're talking about thousands of people, hundreds of homes and we don't hear about host problems where you know that destruction is not as big as, as part of the knows where in the country we are getting boards of children and civilians, either dying because of the or whether or because they're stuck in those villages and valleys. we have to really remember i want to stand is too big. earthquakes like, you know, florida is john harkins and there's

a risk that there will be more tremors and, and risk of more flesh lines. and that risk is really, all right, blah, sorry, thanks so much for joining us. heavy rainfall in indian administered kashmir has triggered landslides and flash flooding. regions. largest river has breached its danger. mark and flood warnings have been issued for the regions. largest cities for longer. katya lopez hold on, has more. what threats and homes partially submerged this community in indian administered kashmir. this trying to stop things from getting worse. c heavy rainfall caused a canal and boot camp district to burst its banks. now this neighbourhood is bearing the brunt as their associates to wales gilbert, we were sleeping and hurt people's cries, were flood water started coming in. many houses are damaged, uneven party fields are under water. damaged crops will meet

a huge loss for us. robina says she feels helpless. all her belongings are damaged. went to bite. you took quite a lot of love, love work with you. nothing much is left now. my nephew had a close call, but he was somehow safe from the flood waters. it's so high you caught him in take out items from inside the house. heavy rain and snow fall has triggered flash floods and landslide and recent days. roads are blocked and cars stranded rescue teams have started moving people from below lying areas to safer locations. yeah, the good and he's a told me that one of the land slides covered in area of about a 100 meters. if it doesn't rain in the next few days, it will take at least 2 days to clear the debris. until that happens, families are doing what they can, stacking sand bags and putting a barriers to try and save what's left. castillo sicilian hodges ear.

hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes as record floods . threatened southern china. heavy rains pushed water levels in the pearl river delta to its highest and nearly a century long dong province. a manufacturing and logistics hub is among the worst hit. muddy flood water has inundated shops and buildings in several areas. emergency crews and turkey are battling a wildfire in the southwest there, tackling the flames from the air, sea, and land as they spread surrounding areas. strong winds and high temperatures are making the job more difficult. there are fears of a repeat of last year's fires. the devastated thousands of hector's, of land along vgm coast. indigenous protesters in ecuador have taken over a cultural center and kito that had been sealed off by the security forces for a week after 11 days of a nation wide strike against government policies and the rising cost of living. the occupation has been celebrated as a victory by the protesters. the house of culture has traditionally given shelter

to indigenous demonstrators when they come to the capital. but the government had blocked access as it strives to contain the protest. 8 medical personnel involved in the care of argentinian football star, diego, madonna, will face a public trial for criminal negligence. they're accused of failing to take proper care of marijuana when he was recovering from surgery. he died 2 years ago at the age of 60, after an operation to treat a blood clot in his brain. i'm just here, it's theresa bo has more on how origin tinian fans are feeling the football legends last even more. now that the world cup is approaching, i'm here at the vehicle. my don't have a deal. mean going to fight is, this is the club where the home, i don't, i began his career in i didn't doing yours and this is an emotional day for many of those who love my dad or not in argentina. mostly because the judge has said that there is enough evidence to try those who were in charge of taking care of my keys, including urology. hi, theresa nurses,

among others for being accused of simple homicide. a very serious charge here in argentina that could lead to up to between 8 and 25 years in prison. prosecutors are saying that there were a series of conduct been a conduct that ended with the motto and death. my own app was operated on a blood clot in his brain and that he, after that surgery, he should have remained in the hospital, which is what his daughters want to vote. instead, he was taken for a whole series of recordings that appeared if you can hear some of those taken care of them, of floating to keep his family away mostly and allegedly for profit. and this is why they're now going to try. and madonna is a national hero in argentina. godlike figure that continues to be loved by many and this is, this will be the 1st well copying cuts are without him being in a team as a coach or involved with the play. you're still people in argentine are very

excited about the world cup with you and messy leading the team. and those of he would talk to say that even though i don't, i won't be here physically. they say that he will be supporting the team from heaven. ah, the 0 and these are the top stories. ukraine has taken a major step towards membership of the european union. after the leaders of member states voted to give the war torn country you candidate status. president vladimir zalinski has hailed the decision as historic, moldova has been given the same status. the u. s. supreme court has handed down a landmark victory to gun rights advocates. it rule that restrictions put in place by new york state on carrying concealed handguns in public are unconstitutional as governor, the state of new york, my number one priority is to keep new yorkers safe. but today the supreme court is sending us.