in the u. k is enormous, we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg. we had something called modern slavery. i, i've just been surrounded with dot com, rush you, and point summons. so why haven't company's needs to thought to understand that this is exploitation? if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, and there are some very, very nasty people out there. al jazeera investigates britain's modern slave trade holding the powerful to account. as we examined the u. s. his role in the world on al jazeera, ah, as far as johnson fights for survival, as the u. k. prime minister receives heavy criticism from resigning ministers. and at some point, we have to conclude that enough is enough. i believe that point is now

awe about this, and this is our does have a life window hub, also coming up calls her protests in sudan as the military removes the 5 remaining civilians from the governing council. alas, funerals held in south africa for 21 teenagers who died in a bar in mysterious circumstances. a dramatic rescue in china as tropical storms leave large areas flooded in the east and in neighboring japan. ah, the british prime ministers remained defiant, vowing to carry on and his role that's to spite a string of resignations over the last 24 hours, including 2 senior cabinet members bought us johnson faced tough questions inside

the u. k. parliament. both the finance and health ministers of step down and tuesday, saying they've lost confidence. and johnson following a series of scandals that made his crisis centers on the revelation that johnson promoted an m. p. despite knowing about allegations of sexual misconduct, a government minister was accused of sexually assaulting a young man. i want to quote the victims account. he says, he grabbed my ass and then he slowly moved his hand down in front of my groin. i froze. i said that's no easy listening, but it's a reminder to all those prop picked out this prime minister just how serious the situation is. he knew the accused minister had previously committed predatory behavior, but he promoted him to a position of power anyway. why?

oh, this is because that individual, the old member for time was no longer has the conservative when he no longer has a job, he's no longer as soon as i will do it. made aware of the allegation that he's just when i heard this is because of the complaint that was made and he lost his job. he lost his status as a conservative and p. and he is now the subject i, mr. speaker of an independent investigation to the complaints and grievances are panel and that is in tardy. right. i want to say to him, mister speaker, i want to say to him that i a bow, a bullying and abuse of power anywhere in the house, in this party or any other party. i want to take you to london because boris johnson is now facing the heads of a group of parliamentary committees. they're going to question him on the u. k. stand and ukraine war. and it's followed and the rising cost of living in the u. k . but of course, johnson may also be grilled on the series of scandals involving him and his

government. let's listen, i'm fabulous. it was it is our intention to start with the great issues facing nation and to move to the question all. ready integrity and politics and related matters towards the end of the session. i'm. unless you wanted to dispose of those matters immediately. first. i'm darby submitted your tweet, yagi or be got it done right? very good. i'm. i'm afraid i will pull you up. if your answers are pressing on time, so that we can do with that latter topic fully improperly at the end. and if you'll answer too long, i'm afraid we will just retain you until we have completed business. so i'm every incentive future. i'm p as crystal as possible, and that goes to questions as well. college, we will start on the topic of ukraine with the chair of the foreign affairs

committee. and the lines this has been brought together to dissuade russia from further actions, and indeed to push russia also to next heights as cleaning out a window of opportunity before the wind starts to bite. and cornish is dollars to fracture as energy prices in europe. rise in homes across our country, stop to suffer even to concentrate on building that alliance. and yes, and thanks to the if you look at what the u. k. just done over the last couple of weeks, i think that the efforts of u. k. diplomacy u. k. strategist, security, i'll talk to be very considerable. and the g 7 outcomes were the upper end of expectations. nation certainly again for we both exceeded expectations in the, for the level of unity and virtually every country rival table and later

determined to help present lensky in that window of opportunity. describe and you're seeing, of course, the prices rise around the world is the ports the desert closed variables old occupied what are you doing to make sure that the food is getting out from the black sea, with such weaknesses available is able to get out how are you supporting the united nations and what he doing to prepare those states, including the middle east, the course nafrica, who are facing enormous food poverty and the possibility of migration and the pressure to that will cause. so 1st of all, on the, the grains he held hostage in odessa, we're working with the us actually generated carriers a who's, who's leading the negotiations. the turks are clearly crucial. they, they had, although the waters what the case offering is both the mining capabilities, including a remote

t y. the ability to recover are good at and the insurance of the vessels that might be used to carry the, the great on down out from the out through the boss for us. we're also because we're looking at other routes in addition to a convoy through the boss for us i, we're also doing what we can to help smaller packets of a brain go through land roots or in need of the of the river done. you know that way, and we're, we're spending money off reading the ways to, to that end. and you're starting to see some, some growing quantities of grain coming out or not via the black sea, but by a race. and we're seeing, as you know, we're seeing enormous pressure on the weaponry that goes in to ukraine. we're seeing a lot of promises and certainly from many countries here deliveries in a promised. what are you doing to increase the production and cooperation between

omnes companies, around europe, and around the united states and canada to increase the supply? the u. k. lead to way in inaugurating the ramstein conferences, which are 4 countries together to supply a weapon. return to ukraine. and, and the americans and i very much of the lead on that and are certainly providing the, the bulk of, of what's going in. and we'll be doing more in august as the copenhagen corporate structural in another military donor conference. there, there is a community the supply is continue to to go in the ukrainians are steadily getting the kind of kid that they, they need it again to repel were expelled the russians from where, where they are. but it's also very important that they are trained to use the, the m l r s a lot more to roach a rocket systems effectively,

so that it's very expensive. weaponry is, is put videos. now you fix your florence actually forget me, has explained that victory ukraine means taking back every single square inch of crane sol including crimea. what's your view of victory? we can't give you credit in the koreans. that's for them to decide the presence lensky to set out his i, his ambitious. it will ultimately be for him to decide what the terms that he wants . but he's been very clear that he would like to return at least to the status quo and t for the 24. and so what do you or what your viewable victory for us? i think that that's i think the victory for, for the president's would be a result, but at the ukrainian people i feel is the right one at the moment. i think i'm right can say 90 percent more of ukrainians believe passionately that there should

be no deal that involves land for peace and they want the russians expelled. i've literally part of the territory. other pollutants inviting you company defaulting. the nature agreement together in the or other, the european and american agreement together in making sure that coalition sustains the ukrainians, even when the wind to price is stopped bite. i think what was meant to bullet at madrid was how anxieties about the fry ability of the coalition. i will prove to be and find it. not because the logic of the situation is simply demand international unity. there's, there's no other solution. there's no deal or offer even if the ukrainians wanted to do dealer of land. the peace of putin is offering any such deal. he still remains awfully maximum list it. and that's why we have to continue to support lensky in the way that we are. and, and accepted round the table and part of your commitment to sustaining ukrainian

operations entity. why to push military operations, your increased a 2 and a half percent given that the various international organizations. and indeed our own statistical agencies do not foresee any growth in the u. k economy in the coming years. who are you going to take the money off in order to increase the defense budget? well, i'm a loss of my review, your premise about the, the, the greater the you a call in the coming years. and if you look at the, both of them to come to this in the, in, in later sections. but in both the i m f and the c d. c us going back to at or near the top of the, of the great leave. but i will be sent it and maybe i'm sure, but the the am i the 2 by 5 is a logic. it's just a pretty, it's just a prediction. it's based on the, i think, reasonable assumption that we're going to can have to continue with the investment . so they came the future combat aircraft system and the, and new yorkers,

agreements with the australians and the americans. these are very, these are very big projects, though they'll be expensive or the right things of the country. and so the last question from me will be on sweden and finland clearly that membership of nato's an extremely important event. not just for them, for all of us at one of the implications for the guarding of the high north in particularly b integrity, the united kingdom in scotland as part of that are in the alliance. and what are the commitments that the u. k. is willing to make to increase corporation with sweden and finland, not just in military supplies and also training young. thank you. we already do a lot of cooperating with the joint expeditionary force. the jet, as you, as you know, is up there in the, in the high north of the, the addition of a finland in the sweetness, great moment for the alliance. i think it was, it will strengthen the alliance and it tells you we need to know about putin and

his aggression countries as peaceable as us with sweden and finland have decided to join later or premise to good to see you again, we're establishing that the world is getting more dangerous the next decade is gonna be very bumpy. indeed. i want to focus on you k defense capabilities. despite the injection of 24000000000 pounds, the integrated you seen at phillips was cyber and space, which is welcome. but it's come at the expense of cuts 2 or 3 dimensional services at your last appearance, here, prior to the russian invasion, you boldly stated that tanks on not the answer to the defense of ukraine, but the old context come sets of tank battles on the european man, mass all over and you're watching our da 0 bringing you coverage of the you. case parliamentary liaison committee had synchronous representation for the heads of the house of commons select committees. but what it is doing is essentially grilling prime minister bars johnson about the work of his government on a variety of different subjects. he just been giving evidence so certainly for the

last 5 minutes or so about how the government has been reacting to the situation in ukraine. now interestingly, the meeting itself, which is chaired by sir banner jenkins, who's an m p. m has decided that it is going to deal with for want of a better face, the elephant in the room, which is the scandal that has been surrounding bar as johnson and his government at the end of this meeting rather than at the beginning. and these meetings can take quite a long time. so to that end i'm going to bring in nadeem baba who's a belie for us at downing street. and nadine, this meeting is very different in as much that from primary as question time, which we heard earlier on today. the it's, it's essentially the one politician gets a chance to ask the prime minister or one question. and that's kind of the primary, the prime as a can deflect it or answer it if he wants. this is very different. there is an opportunity here far. bees, parliamentarians, these politicians to really get to the knob of stuff with the prime minister. and

of course, we're all looking to see what they're gonna ask him towards the end of this meeting about all the situation that his government finds himself in. that's right, i'm afraid i didn't hear the end of your your question, but at this experience at these em, parliamentary committees can be brutal for the people who are on the receiving end of questions. and the chair actually told her, told his colleagues at the start of the meeting, that he reminded them that he was on the privileges of the privileges committee, which is investigating whether boys johnson liked to parliament over what's known as party gate. the or parties which i went on at number 10 down the street here which led to her all those fines being issued by the police for breaking covered 19 roles including 4 boys, johnson himself. so he said, let steer clear of that. we don't want to prejudice anything there. they will get to what he called matters of integrity during this meeting. and he warned bars

johnson. but if he tried to speak at length to limit the time left for integrity matters that they would just extend the meeting. what will happen, we know later in the day is that there'll be a meeting of the 1920 to committee of back bench conservative m p 's and the press already strongly being brief for now. but that that committee will try to move to change the rules. the rules say that he can't face another vote of no confidence for a year after winning one last month, despite 41 percent of his m. p 's opposing him. next week there will probably be a new executive in place, many of whom want specifically to change the rules so that they can get rid of the prime minister. so watch that space to in this is that the, the tone of this meeting is very different to the one that we heard during part premises question time, which was very strong kissed arm of the leader of the opposition making some very pointed, very, and clear statements we have also seen a succession,

all resignations, or from to, from the cabinet, but also sub subsequent and other ministers as well. one of them, of course, was a sachi chevy. the former, who is now the, the former health minister. just bring us up to speed with can a, where we are with the resignations and the nature of the confrontations that the prime minister is facing at the moment. that's right. of course, it's still only 2 cabinet ministers who resigned, but they were senior members of the cabinet or venice whole succession in the last few hours it since tuesday evening and 3 prime ministers. questions of junior ministers really amazing numbers. i think we're up to around $26.00 resignations in total if i've done the sums right. just in the last half an hour or so. 5 more ministers resigned together in

a letter to the prime minister saying that the government is not able to function under current circumstances, saying that the issues that have come up and the way that they've been dealt with have basically a blocked effective government saying that boys johnson should go for the sake of the party and of the country. right now he does not see minded to do so. there was a lobby briefing earth earlier on on wednesday in which number 10 told journalists that he had, he did wolf contest any vote of no confidence. if it happens, always referring to the rules, those to have to be changed in order for another to be allowed within the next year . they can or we think be changed fairly easy. now, given how much of a swing there has been, among people who are on the payroll, those junior ministers who might have voted for him in the last vote of no confidence. then we're into guesswork. what will happen if he loses? a vote of no confidence will for his part. and saget javert said that he needed to

go, and he basically a come recommended that colleagues should do the same because they could not continue to be lied to. he said he was lied to by number 10, downing street over party game that there were no parties. it turned out not to be true. and during his statement, which was really heard in silence, his fury was obvious. treading the tight rope between loyalty and integrity has become impossible in recent months. and mister speaker, i will never risk losing my integrity. i also believe a team is as good as its team captain, and that a captain is as good as his or her t. so lot he must go both ways. the events of recent months have made it increasingly difficult to be in that teen sedans, military leader general of the fata. elbow han has removed the 5 remaining

civilians from the governing sovereign council on monday. he then answered no longer negotiate with civilian groups. on a transitional government, the main civilian alliance is called for more demonstrations. or could morgans joining us live from the capital cartoon? if i would wonder what's gonna be happening with the talks, but also what's happening with the protest was on the ground as well. while the tripartite mechanism that's made up of the african union, the un mission here in sedan. and the regional i got body announced on wednesday afternoon that they are counseling the talks because it was meant to be held between the civilians and the military components offered and political parties. but with the military withdrawing from those talks, there is no one to go see a way to form a transitional government, even if it is supposed to be civilian the transitional government. so they're cancelling those talks, but they will be talking to political parties and other stakeholders to find a way forward and to come up with a new methodology to be able to hold negotiations to and finance political crisis.

now, people on the street, the protest as they have been professing, and they've been continuing with it in 4 days now since the june 30th protest mass protests that lead to the killing of at least 9 protesters and the enduring of more than 500 processes have been out of the 3 saying they want to put pressure on the military to completely abandon them politics and returned to the barracks. the fact that the military is withdrawing from the south for them, they say is not satisfactory. they say they will be calling for more escalation, more civil disobedience and strikes and will continue with their systems and process until the military gives up leadership completely and returned to the barrack hipaa. thank you very much. indeed. have a morgan bring us up to date from call to south african president of i'm a photo has attended the funeral a some of the 21 teenagers found dead in a bar 10 days ago. 2 other teams were buried separately by their families. forensic teams investigating the deaths have not released report. the students had been out celebrating the end of their exams. fontinella has moved from johannesburg. so this

is taking place as a number of questions remain around exactly what happened on the sunday before last . when these 21 bodies were found in that tavern 18 of the people killed during this part that was held at the tavern, are being buried in the funeral. this morning 2 of them were buried yesterday and one earlier this morning. the majority of though of them though are, are being buried in the proceedings that we see in the east, in east london. and the, the, it's likely that the president's proposal would at least touch on the issue of under age drinking. perhaps highlight what might have gone wrong despite there being a number of questions around that. but we have in recent days, seen the liquor board talk about possibly laying criminal charges against the tavern owner for selling our liquor to under age patrons. and also perhaps revoking

the license of that heaven. and this is as investigations continue into exactly what happened. i'm about 10 days ago. we have heard from police who say they really want to make sure that this investigation is thorough and they come up with the answers that many of the loved ones of these victims are looking for many families affected by the death of those 21 young people it has been speculated to that this might have been due to carbon monoxide poisoning or a generator that was used during that party. that might have leaked some sort of gas. i'm the minister of police, but he clearly has ruled out that this was due to a stampede at the time and that people might have been locked in that tavern. it really does remain unclear, but they are also 16 of victims or hoops of 16 people who survived that tragedy who were treated for a ty chester for difficulty breathing, a vomiting back eggs and headaches. so, you know, this has helped investigators,

at least try to identify what might have happened by that forensic report and the toxicology report of you to be released. a report released by the united nations as found that nearly 830000000 people around the world went hungry in 2021. that's up nearly 50000000 to the year before and a 150000000 more than in 2019. the agenda gap has also widened nearly 32 percent of women were classed as moderately or severely food insecure. in 2021 compared to more than 27 percent of men. and around $45000000.00 children, younger than 5, suffered from wasting, which is the deadliest form of malnutrition and increases charged risk of death by up to 12 times. well, kenya is one among one of the many countries hit hard by food shortages. how to move tasks is joining us from what your country. one of the worst affected areas, talk us through what it's like there, how very well right now is towards the end of the day

and people are starting to prepare for the evening. this is a typical compound, here are people who are many nomads who used to wait from place to place looking for food and water, but because it's getting hotter and dryer, they're unable to do that anymore. so they stay puts in one area, hoping that help gets them if it's time to pay for a meal for this particular family. and this is the kitchen. you can see some of the utensils out here, but the mothers and grandmothers here say that they have so many miles to feed and they don't have enough food. they need help to reach them fast and quickly. they lots of agencies that work in kenya and the, some of them are trying to help the sounds that have been affected by the drop. but they all say that the main problem, they face that of a lack of resources. they saying that for the couple last couple of months, they seeing the resources dwindle. they seem russians and other things they used to get from donors, also becoming less and less. and some of them say that it could be because of

perhaps the war and ukraine weight, in some cases, some races being diverted to that crisis, which means crisis here, such as the drive in east africa, are given as much attention as before. so this is call more from the people on the ground that they need help, they need it, fos, they say that were nowhere else to go and that they need some kind of assistance. the study for example, have about 8 or 9 people to feed, and they don't have much food to give them. however, thank you very much indeed. that's how much house are talking to us from what your country residence in the ukrainian city of savannah's have been urged to evacuate as russian forces pressed closer, the governor of the den yet screeching says more rockets are being fired into the city. unofficial reports from cave for the last week's libyans has been shelled every day and the russians are moving closer. the cities market was hit, fire fighters did what they could to see what they can. at least 2 people die or with the occupying forces,

shot about 30 cluster munitions in the direction of slogan succeeded, which that united over various parts of the city. some of the shells it to territory of the central markets. as well as in other neighborhoods. bobby ask, is russia's next big target, taking the city would put them within touching distance of control of the whole of the don bus region. and that became their mean military objective after they failed to take the capitol. keith, at the start of the war. you know, the areas governor says it's time for people to get out is millionaire. she thought she meant this, that they said that there were about 350000 citizens estate here in the region that compared with 1600000 who lived here before. it's a very significant quantity. despite what people say, i do care about their homes in their lives, but they should leave. well, this is what it looks like after the russians target your city. this is kurt, keep just 40 kilometers from the russian border. these apartment blocks were home

to half a 1000000 people, one of europe's largest neighborhoods. no. that is little that is livable or civil media come to you. yeah. i was, shall shysters. i didn't see anything for a month. i had laid there in the basement the bud, thanks to the neighbors. they gave me something to drink. my wife is dead. those who survived are stuck nowhere to stay. no were safe to go. in his latest national address, president vladimir zalinski warned of the relentless nature of their enemy or assist the army neural the russian army does not take any pauses. it has one task to take people's lives to intimidate people, to like so that even a few days without an air raid warning is terrifying. latina, they're all miss a chance. fell to the russians on sunday. the signs of battle are all over the city . seizing the don bus region made of la hans contin, it is the russian priority,

and it appears they're committing me to resources to get it done quickly. allen, fisher, i'll just either give parts of china and japan are under water after severe storm swept across the region. although july is tie from season signed to say, climate change is causing extreme weather patterns. more frequently on slow reports . tropical storm a. we made landfall in japan's south west in q. she region early on tuesday, bringing with it heavy rains. that's left streets and homes under water. japan's weather agency has issued advisories for potential landslides and overflowing with us during a kid. him how he handled. it's a similar situation in china where some southern provinces are flooded in the wake of typhoon chapa g topic. when you try to state media broadcast, dramatic video of a rescue or at sailing across the flood waters to rescue a woman trapped in her car homes, farm, land, roads,

and power lines have been damaged. so i, she goes to school. there are more than 40 houses in the area, the worst affected her aquaculture farmers as they need electricity to supply their animals. with oxygen. we deployed repair crews to restore power to the effected facilities as soon as the rain stopped. so heavy, rain and floods. aunt unusual in the region at this time of the year, the typhoon season generally lasts from may to october. but with a climate crisis causing more extreme weather patterns, seems like this could become a lot more common in the future. florence louis al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, boris john.