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this is al jazeera ah. hello, i am emily anglin. this is the news al alive from doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. protest is inter lanka, stone, the home of the president. his anger grows against rising inflation and months of shortages. president got to buy a raja puts a has reportedly fled to demonstrate his posted videos of themselves inside his home, taking a dip in his pool. a long mask pulls the plug on a $44000000000.00 plan to buy twitter, but the company says it will suit to make sure the deal goes through. tribute. poor in japan's assassinated form, a lady shook bay and police acknowledge there was a security lab fluff. i'm gabriel's onto along the anacostia river in washington,

d. c. were scientists are using muscle to help make this river healthier. that story coming up. i'm in for the ons. deborah will play her wimbledon final with an entire continent, cheering her on that to news the news amy to come, the 1st arab an african tennis player in history when a grand slam title on saturday. ah, hello, we begin this news now with breaking news from shall income, where protest is in the capital, colombo. i've stormed the official residence of president. gotta buy a raj pack sir, demanding his resignation. people from around the country have converged on the city. they are protesting against a month long economic crisis and widespread shortages. they called saturday the day when the president and his government would have to go. some of the protested

occupies the president's home, have been taking advantage of his facilities, including having a deep in the swimming pool of the historic building. the president was take him to safety earlier, but his whereabouts are unknown. shall enter is in the middle of a series economic crisis. it's run out of foreign currency and doesn't have enough to pay for imports. part of the problem is a lack of visitors. tourism is a crucial source. so foreign currency, but tourism revenues dropped dramatically after the 2019 easter bombing. and the coven 19 pandemic president got to buy a roger pucks or has been accused of economic mismanagement. a series of tax cuts contributed to creditors downgrading shalon cars racing. then at last april was your pucks, a band fertilize the imports, saying sure lanka would be a 100 percent organic farming nation that affected agricultural production,

drove food prices up and fueled the need for imports. alright, michelle fernandez reports from columbia present goat albert roger pox and his government had been put on notice that if he didn't go that the hall of sri lanka would take to the streets that would come and basically sit in until they saw his exit. as you can see behind me the crowd, i mean essentially in the far this sense the presidential secretariat, but tens of thousands of people are still streaming in to colombo in any way they can. on our drive. here we saw dozens of people on foot with backpacks living around colombo, even people who had been walking from out of colombo were also hearing that trends which had been our sort of halted our people, storm rear stations, and literally forced her away employees to put trains on the tracks and bring them into colombo and the one thing they see that they are taking that country back. 2

days the independence day for me. been born in this nation, not mine in 48. because today, we have fought far freedom from the tyranny from the scoundrels, from the black gods, from the rascals, the rogues, and the li, the politicians who have run our nation below ground 0. and this is exactly what the government tried so hard to prevent. the thousands of people converging on the capital to urge the president and his government to go. they brought in a curfew, they had to remove it the next day. they essentially wanted the distribution of fuel, whatever little stocks were available were frozen. i essentially transport public se transport was stop, but people were not giving up. and if you look at the far back around the sherlock and flag flying high, the roger boxer regime, the government of got our beer,

rodger parks and his brows brother present. my and the roger potter was so sort of keen and strong to talk about nationalism. but the people here see, this is the true spirit of sri lankan and they want their country back show you them sing a is an economist at frontier research. she's hopeful the demonstrations will bring about meaningful political change in the country. for the last few months, there's been a complete crisis of confidence in the country and the country's economy because we've been handled and what brought us here and with leadership that has essentially been refusing to move away from that thing and from that leadership. so that has led to be huge issue. so the ease now some sort of hope along a lot of people that change you can really habit and want that change happen once it was a head i'd that has this really do change. they some sense that the policy change policy reform can be implemented now and can actually be accepted by the people

that the p in the going to will be voted for their response to the changes that will become future last time that the government or all of the people really protested. they want to be change the premier to left the time before that on the 31st of march. when again there's a huge wedding of beepers. organic food is a big change in government. the be changing the people back to the minister as some of the key can normally take regard to miss. so would that have been changed in the past? so i personally do feel that it is increasingly make that the president have to take some sort of step away. now you're seeing a piece of the president's own party calling for him to step down. now, with the deprive mr. call the present some sort of new arrangement and it seems likely to be some change happening now. you can't really ignore the people voice when it's as low as it is that the united states. but do think that use change coming, and it's up to us to hope and, you know, make sure that, that change really, really do need to actually change in the pals and doctors changes in reform. okay,

we're going to bring michelle fernandez, who is at those protests, even at colombo, we're having some issues with the internet. we believe some of the security forces have actually shut down the internet seminal if you can hear us what's actually happening where you are. so right now i've come slightly outside sort of the immediate circle of those protests, the president out of pure it to get to envision what we had do because it is jammers and her mas tons of it in the spirit of is it have put in place but what we're hearing, it's an amazing picture to proceed unfolding that at pens up. it book. it's an absolute see if faces in the area, not this best buy it beaten or cook you there being no fewer, there being no public transport. sometimes people asking where such

a massive groundswell of you've been beaten, spurned up a bit, is the apple of ticket and a with been a president of europe looks at the government and that is a to at dep, visible debt or it is of that valley. i got a google home now so far away hearing that obviously we had those d is where the desert as over ran the president palace essentially, you know, literally breaking down a wall. you had people in the swimming pool and all of that, while the president we heard as we deliver it in the meantime, at that not to report at and the put it on to me, the one at the colombo harbor, 2 ships being loaded with luggage. now there is no confirmation who was left that it, but there are reports that he did as

a part of the raj parked the families. but those are reports that are massive convoy, a vague goes into the international airport. so those are reports. we're hearing the prime minister due to sit down with all party leader openings that. 2 okay, now we're going to leave it there because that audio is struggling a little bit. as we mentioned, we believe the, the internet has been caught as a result of those protests. we'll try and cross back to a little later. thank you very much. okay, moving on now in a long mask has confirmed he's at terminating his $44000000000.00 tank over of twit up. now the social media company says it will serve test the seo to make sure the agreement goes through katya lopez, haughty young reports. a $44000000000.00 deal to buy. twitter is now off the table. the richest man in the world, elan must says, he's terminating the contract 3 months after locking in the agreement,

he accuses the company of failing to provide information about fake accounts on the platform and whether they make up fewer than 5 percent of users. twitters board chair says it kept its end of the contract and is planning to sue. i think twitter probably would prevail in this. i would think simply because there are there. if a deal know he must, can get out by paying a $1000000000.00 fine or going to our pets, but it's hard, fine. a $1000000000.00 penalty. and my guess is that that's what he's trying to prevent is not having to make that goin, dollar payment for money. the focus now turns to stocks and whether twitter and tesla will take a hit. i think investors want to see must just get back to focus has the space x because twitter from the beginning is just really been a distraction of been overhanging stock. musk fit to take over twitter your controversy. back in april, the critics were concerned, the tasteless c e. o would promote misinformation on the popular social media site,

especially on matters related to politics and health. musk said the acquisition was about stopping censorship and defending freedom of speech. analysts say the billionaire may have experienced buyer's remorse, or he's trying to walk away. and the way these contracts are structured, it's very difficult for buyers to walk away. their, their use contracts are drafted with a hot to, to provide a high degree of certainty for the sellers. now terminating the $44000000000.00 contracts will have to play out on the legal front. and social media will surely have plenty to say about it. can be a little bit of a young jazeera ok, let's bring in child author, who's a journalist, specializing in social media and technology. he's also the author of social warming . he joins us from london. child, thanks so much for being on this news. our. why did a lot mascot cold fate about is still, is this a case of buyer's remorse?

well, it was always a rather vain sort of project. it was one of those things where someone suggested to him, hey, what a by total, if you find new twitter. so fascinating and he, oh, that's great idea. let's, let's do that. didn't do the proper due diligence of actually looking at what the value was. all these complexities making about spam accounts was actually something he should have done and was offered the chance to do by twitter before he actually signed the papers to given 44000000000 dollars for control. so what he's saying now almost same for last a few weeks about while i need to actually see the data, right? this is really just the long chaffetz. it's simply a distraction from the fact that i had the stocks of toes that he was gonna use to buy the company, went down twitter stock went down textbooks. jenny went down. it was just too difficult to raise the funds. so it was a partly buyer's remorse, or would be buyer's remorse. sir, it was the realization that running

a social media company is much more difficult than that looks especially in play. was pending on my twitter and the fact that he wasn't actually going to be able to, to raise the funds without effectively semi bankrupting himself. so charles, on that point, you're citing, there isn't much merit in what masks, lawyers were saying about the social media platform filing to provide that information about those fake accounts. they've been providing him with details about that, the so called fire hoses, tweets, you could see everything in the sky entry today. and what, what was consistent you said, is it's very difficult to figure out what accounts of spam and what accounts are not. i mean, the, some counts a semi automated does that make them spam some accounts or actually run like people . and they'll advise them. it's very difficult to do. you have to have years of expertise and effect which they do have. and for in almost to come along and say, well i, i think that you use a jo fi. my $7.00 to $3.00 is spam. actually isn't going to cut it in a court of law. he's really going to get trembled. or if it's you get that far it,

what is next? charles? and we're going to say a protracted legal battle between the billionaire and twitter. now it's very likely that twitter assume through the courts are for at least the $1000000000.00 that the air, the exit penalty clause states. he should pay and possibly for more because they could say, well, he said you're going to buy us. you haven't actually give us any good reason, not the buyers. he said he'd give us $44000000000.00. so we like the whole amount and they might, in that respect, be able to pursue him for more and be able to get him to pay more than the $1000000000.00. but i'm very sure less than 40000000000 or just to make them go away from pursuing him through the court. so for twitter, it's mainly upside because they spend some millions of dollars in fees that are passing through the cause. and they get at least a $1000000000.00, possibly more. for him, it's pretty much hold down sign because he spends millions and if he can somehow get away from paying the 1000000000, that's actually quite unlikely. given the venue of the course, we should, delaware,

which tends to favor reading where the companies or the company documents are prevail. charles, what are the prof. ramifications of this? so will this impact how the platform functions and what about the current employees as well? or taught us suddenly went through a period of her a destabilization. while this was all up in the air, there was a few personnel changes made immediately after musk made his bed. people weren't happy about it. there was a fair bit of unrest under the new chief executive had only been post for a few months. i think now they're going to feel relieved, at least than they can start to. at least. i would start to think about the ways that the could unlock the value that does exist in twitter. i mean, we've just been hearing about all the disturbances in sri lanka are here in the u. k. we recently had a political crisis and all these things are amplified and played out to some extent

through twitter, twitters become so essentials of a fabric of the modern world. that it's incredible that it's in fact a company which barely scrapes a profit and mosque was true. it was correct. i think in thinking that there's much more value to be found there. twitter hasn't found that yet at the moment is basically functions as a sort of a billboard advertising company where you put up brand names and brand overtime, but in a recession, which waiting to be heading into, that's not a very stable form. that has to be the 1st one that gets pulled away. there's a lot of value in twitter if it could only find way to target adverse to people's interests and what they want to know about. and it hasn't ever focused itself on being able to do that and do that well, even though people show their intent all the time by who they follow and what they tweak about. so there's huge value there. and we know that we really want to have to it around because we keep on using it. and because it becomes the underpinning

for so many global events, and yet they can make a profit there's, there's a clear contrast there, which if the chief executive is really serious about leading children to know the rest of the century. but then i think he will look to find a way through that. it's going to be interesting how it plays out. thank you very much for your time, charles arthur, a gentleman specializing in that social media technology. appreciate your time anymore. head on his knees, our including a tense encounter in bali, the u. s. and chinese foreign ministers try to put their relations back on track. this is a dark, dark day and the security council divisions in the un security council threatened critical, a deliveries from millions in northwest syria plus in sport, the host go top of their group as morocco fight for africa's biggest football title . ah,

the police chief in the japanese city of nora, where the former prime minister shims obey was assassinated on friday, says he can't deny there were problems with the security ave was shot while speaking at a political campaign event. police are investigating if the gunman named as 41 year old debt, so yeah, yeah, a gammy acted alarm florence louis reports young and old. they've come to pay their respects to former prime minister sions. obey gunned down at this very corner of nora city. just the day before, mourners have laid flowers, beverages, and written tributes, thanking arby for his service, product that only hall, i'm really shocked because i thought ave would continue his efforts to make the country better. my child's name includes the turn, cooney, which represents the beautiful nation, built by abbe

a motorcade carrying abe's body left a hospital inara. his wife, a key was seated in one of the vehicles. his body was brought back to his home in tokyo, where a crowd of mourners, including friends and colleagues, had gathered obey who was still a lawmaker in the warehouse, had been campaigning, inara for the upper house election on sunday. when he was gunned down. police say a 41 year old former navy officer has admitted to shooting our bay, telling them he was disgruntled with a specific organization he believed. ave to be a part of the assassination has shocked japan, a nation with strict gun ownership laws and low crime rate. abbe, japan's longest serving prime minister was a highly popular and highly controversial figure. who tried to chart

a bold way for it for japan, economically and diplomatically. a born strategy thinker always tried to look beyond japan's horizon in order to broaden japan's diplomatic horizon. in an age, when our gigantic neighbor is growing very much rapidly, personally, he is worn and the friendship once or did last. it turn lea, i'm not exaggerating. he remembers people once met, he wouldn't forget dots. his personal charm improved tributes have poured in from around the world. the un security council held a moment of silence and u. s. president joe biden has ordered us flags to be flown at half mast

and night vigil will be held on monday, and our base funeral will take place on tuesday to be attended by close friends at florence lee al jazeera. and joining us now from tokyo is freelance journalist, phoebe amorous. so hello there. phoebe, as we mentioned before that report, the nar police chief has said he can't deny. there were problems with security. so where to from year absolutely have said that they will do everything with what went wrong with each of the incidents is available. ready because some critical voices viewed at phone that the suspect can clearly be seen approaching. they holding the bad, doing a and moving towards him without any kind of intervention. and also that there should be a lack of coordination between police officers on the ground. but this is also

a highlighted just how japan does security kind of political campaigns, which politicians are very close. the public senior politicians do have highly trained officers with them. but this is more for chris compact physical situation as opposed to something he got a firearm. but in this case, before that have gone armed as people have pointed out, were things like 3 d printing mullen, gees. it's possible that even with japan, very strict gun control laws that fire on campus and to rich. so we may have a vision of exactly how the security is out on political campaign. and phoebe, it's saturday night day in tokyo, we understand that the upper house elections will be held tomorrow. they'll still go ahead. but the government clearly came to show that a warrant given to this violence yes minute, the tissue that had strongly condemned that she could not electric muscular head. i

was humble of japan's democracy to come through an act which is being viewed as a direct attack on japan's democracy. and it will be interesting to see exactly how this inter didn't play out in booted behavior analyst of projecting that the routing party, which were the members, could she sent it to expand it even more? it already protected the? well, if that the case might be in the physician, she worked towards revising japan possible competition. now that with a lot of they want to return to military pos, highly controversial and divide the public. so it didn't concern david rushes, actions ukraine, the right to china and create weapons development. the public is potentially warming up. she's been kind of show me how that out is election for the memorial election for a but it could be that it result in his legacy things. right. we really appreciate,

appreciate that update freight on janice favey, m a, rasa that you take care. thank you. washington d. c has had one of the most polluted rivers in the us for quite some time. scientists trying to change that the anacostia river being brought back to life in experts, trying to keep it healthy using shellfish. gabriel alexander report. it's a body of water that was so polluted for so long. it was often referred to as america's forgotten river. but thanks to a slow and steady cleanup effort to anacostia river has improved to the point where aquatic life can actually be seen swimming in its waters. again, this is clarified every day and the water down here. and now the continued improvement to the washington dc river ris with the fresh water muscle and the part clam part. snail like shellfish is creating water. marine biologists from the

anacostia watershed society. have released over 26000 native muscles into the river . they act as sort of a natural vacuum cleaner. to cleanse the water muscles are, are filter, filter feeder, so they help clean the water. one muscle of the size of the most we were collecting today can filter between 10 to 20 gallons of water a day. so when you add up the numbers in a year, that's a lot of water that they can filter. now the muscles filter the equivalent of $106.00, a limping sized swimming pools of water every year. this is what they filtered in less than 2 hours, but propagating muscles and reintroducing them to the river has had a dual impact, clean the river, and help keep them from going extinct in the united states. we need to work to conserve muscle because greater than 70 percent of them are listed as endangered.

threaten or are just like conservation concern. and there's like 300 species of fresh water muscle in the united. hey it's so when you think of like 70 percent of that 300 species, they are great risk. in many ways these muscles are coming home because before this river got so polluted it kills most of them off. there are more than 80 different types of muscle species that lived here. it was in 2018 biologist started reintroducing them in an experimental project. and it appears to be working for a once polluted river now on its way back to being healthy. thanks in large part to a most unlikely shellfish. gabriel's hondo al jazeera washington still ahead on al jazeera. some one has to grip this moment and make the right decisions . the race begins to replace u. k prime minister barak johnson,

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i hello, what else is there? i'm emily, and when he's a reminder about top stories and demonstrators in the sure lankin, capital, colombo, have stone, the official residence, the president got to buy a raj approx demanding his resignation, protesting against a month long economic crisis. and widespread shortages, ela mosque has confirmed his terminating is $44000000000.00, hey, cover a twitter, the test to see. the legal team says the company breached the deal. the twitter will soon month to enforce the agreement and to her carrying the body of the assassinated, former japanese prime minister mission bay as arrived at the residence in the police chase. and was to be narrow, where i was shot on friday,

says he can't deny they were problems with the security. returning to on top story now, when the protest ensure lanka, the roger pucks of family has dominated politics, ensure lanka for 20 years. let's take a closer look now. may hinder roger puck said the current president's brother came to power as president in 2005 and let the country for 10 years. he appointed his 3 brothers. his government ministers got to buy a raj, a pack, so won the presidency and 2019 and immediately appointed. his brother, making the as prime minister, met him. that was replaced by ronald vick rema finger in may. when angry, protest is carrying tortures showed up at the same gates of the residence of the presidential residents. they have now stormed demonstrators accused the brothers of cronyism, corruption, and economic policies. that, of course, the current crisis. for more in this, let's bring in and pack. you saw the sarah wagner moved to who is the executive

director of the center for policy alternatives. he joins us from colombo. so pack us off the what avi alternatives to a raj, a pucks, the government. well, as soon as the presidents resignation is announced, the prime minister becomes the acting president according to the constitution. and that is for a period of 30 days within which parliament must decide who amongst such members will be elected to serve the remainder of the raj boxes. that's the constitutional position. and i understand that the prime minister, mister, the machine has called the lead up meeting of all party leaders. but that's the legion of the opposition always in hospital at the moment that he know his party with him. so do you think that these protests are strong enough to lead to that change and enough for roger pucks that to stand down? yes, i think so. i mean, i think the general expectation is that an announcement

a resignation will come either today or tomorrow. i think the whole question is, is where is 1st and raj flexible in terms of going to exile and all of those things have to be worked out which i presume and also what the transition is going to be like. where think vision at the moment of protest is swimming in the president's pool, and they've also been in, he's what appears to be his bedroom and in his bed. they're not actually destroying the place. they're actually being quite respectful. but what does that say about how they feel about about the president at this time? well, i mean, as far as they are concerned, the president is the principal source of this crisis at his, you know, managing his mismanagement to public affairs, his lack of pump sewage, what has led to this fine. so it's the end of the frustration that has led them to storm residents. and now that the bus that it's this going into the bedroom into

the swimming pool. and all this kind of thing is to express offensive. we have now got power back in our hands. what's it like living in sherlock, at the moment you're in colombo, the capital. how, how does it to do basic, everyday things like buying groceries and fill your car up fields? it's really hard because asians, you can move about easily, the fuel cues, mass, you know, major kilometers long. and you know, you don't have the basic food stops and you don't have the basic you have a patient and hospital. so it's pretty, pretty bad. how of how you same security forces reacting, understand that you've spoken to some protest is and we heard earlier today that they've been t get fighting to the crowd, which has been reportedly largely peaceful. what can we make of their, their moves towards the protest is i think the security forces, i mean, you know,

they have their families and that families are similarly effective, back to the general population. so i don't think that they have cavities. great talk for those. that might well be some members of his fall, the brigade that will be regiment, sorry, which may be so loyal to him. but i think the vast majority of them. so the see that the writing is on the wall. while we really appreciate your analysis on this package, se are of animals to the executive director of the center for policy alternatives. appreciate your time in the news. our thank you. moving on now and us secretary of state antony blinking is wrapping up a visit to bali for the g. 20 foreign ministers. meeting tensions between the west and china have been front incentive during the event on friday. blink. and spoke about the discussion he had with china's foreign minister, one e. i conveyed a deep concern to the united states regarding beijing increasingly provocative rhetoric and activity toward taiwan. and the vital importance of maintaining peace

and stability across the taiwan strait. and i relate our concerns about the repression of freedom in hong kong, forced labor, the treatment of ethnic and religious minorities, and that the genocide inch and job. now, none of these are easy topics, but the united states 6 always to be consistent voice and human rights and fundamental freedoms. not to stand against china or any other country, but to help advance piece security and human dignity. and biting hasn't actually condemned to russia's invasion of ukraine and just days before the g 20 meeting assigned to so called normal limits partnership with moscow. after the saturday meeting with lincoln one e said, the 2 countries need to get their relationship back on track to missouri about china and the united states are 2 major countries. so it's necessary for the 2 countries to maintain normal exchanges. at the same time, we do need to work together to ensure that relationship will continue to move

forward along the right track. it's important to stay committed to the principles put forward by president. she's in ping mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and when, when cooperation. because that serves the interests of the 2 countries, and it is also the shared aspiration of the international community. and now does there is jessica washington is in bali with more on the g 20 meeting. while the official proceedings, if the g 20 foreign ministers meeting is really now over the world is still very much looking at what's happening in bali because of this foreign ministers meeting between the us secretary of state antony lincoln and his chinese counterpart one e. it is the 3rd meeting ever and their 1st meeting since late last year. and now this is part of a recent surgeon, diplomatic activity between us and chinese officials. that includes, of course, a phone call between the u. s. president joe biden, and chinese president. she didn't being in march and also talks between defense officials in singapore general way for her met with the u. s. defense chief lloyd

austin. and those talks were also part of this flurry of diplomatic activity that we've seen throughout the course of these talks. we often see the same topics come up. of course, these are closed meetings so we can ever be certain exactly what comes up. the contentious issues such as the situation in taiwan. often a matter of discussion, we know that the u. s. has concerns that china is helping to change the status quo and is increasing its aggression in the taiwan strait. but from beijing perspective, its concern is that the u. s. is meddling in its internal affairs. it considers taiwan to fundamentally be an internal, assess of aging, to manage. and also consider that the u. s. is meddling in matters that concern the asia pacific and that should be managed by asian countries. we have heard from the chinese foreign ministry. they mentioned that the talks would focus on bilateral relations between the 2 countries, as well as some regional and international issues,

including likely the war in ukraine. we also heard from the us state department who noted that the talks may also include matters of regional security. importantly for this part of the world, se asia, those talk may also extend to the crisis in me and my serious president, bashar al assad, has visited the heavily damaged northern province of left for the 1st time since war broke out in the country 11 years ago. and he supervised a partial re launch of a major power plant in the east and countryside, as well as a water pumping station electricity networks and other infrastructure were ravaged by the conflict which is estimated to have killed up to half a 1000000 people and left millions of others, displaying russia has vetoed a resolution of the un security council that sought to extend a deliveries to syrians in the last a rebel controlled northwest region. the u. n. is warning closing the cargo through the bad l. how

a border crossing could be catastrophic diplomatic editor james baynes explains from the united nation. i would see things severe, acute move in as things stand. this may end up being the law shipment of humanitarian aid, food and medicine from turkey into northwest syria. i believe you can collaborate even nodded. 4.1000000 people rely on this lifeline, but it must be authorized by the un security council. and in the council chamber, there's deadlock, a resolution to allow the crossing to operate for another 12 months was supported by all members. apart from china, which abstained, and russia, which used its veto. russia then presented its own rival resolution allowing the crossing to operate for 6 months, but it didn't pass. it was only supported by russia and china. this is not a moment to mince words. i have long said that this is a life and death issue. and tragically,

people will die because of this fault. and the country who shamelessly deploy the beetle to day negotiations will continue. the current authorization for the border crossing runs out at the end of sunday. but russia doesn't sound in the mood for compromise. teach you some one her proposes our draft. so we would not say that this is our intellectual property. if someone proposes our draft for the 2nd time, why not? if not, if not, i'm say, i think that the pages over. so he asked the u. s. ambassador with the russians, unwilling to compromise, will she have to pack down and accept the russian proposal. now that would be very humiliating for you, but it would be better than nothing, wouldn't it? his resolution was nothing. ah, we got 99 percent of the way there with the russians. we gave them 99 percent. they it made it, they got 99 percent and they are holding out for one percent to continue to give

support to the syrian regime. obviously tensions around the council table of increased because of the ongoing war in ukraine. but this is about more than security council theater and drama. it's about millions of syrians their lives at risk from starvation or lack of medical treatment. james pays al jazeera at the united nations. the u. s. president has signed an executive order to help protect women's access to abortion, and contraception, terabyte and criticize what he called and out of control supreme court, which recently overturned, drove a wide dilemma ruling that guaranteed the constitutional rights to an abortion across the us. i can reports from washington dc, the new measures today, the president blasted the supreme court's recent decision. striking down at the 3 year old ruling guaranteeing women a constitutional right to an abortion. and this was not a decision driven by the constitution. in spite of those justices,

the majority said, this was non to decision and driven by history. opinion polls indicate the majority of americans agree with the president on this. a respected pew poll indicating 62 percent and that abortion should be legal. in all almost cases. despite this, at least 9 states have been devotion with more than a dozen states expected to do so. in coming weeks blanked by his vice president and the secretary of health. president biden insisted that it was up to congress to pass legislation, restoring. roby wade and this in turn would need people to vote for pro choice candidates in the november elections. the challenges go out and vote for god sake, there's an election november vote, vote, vote vote. consider the challenge accepted court the president and signed an executive order aimed at lessening the impact of the court's decision on american

women. it instructs the justice department to ensure the safety of abortion patience and providers, including setting up mo bile clinics near the borders of states restricting abortion access. another part of the order directs the health secretary to investigate how to protect the supplies of medication and increase public awareness around reproductive rights. the president has also directed that access to emergency contraception and i, you d's be expanded by the federal government. this is a direct response to what he characterizes as a threat by a supreme court justice in his concurring judgement. 2 weeks ago, justice clarence thomas suggested that the court should reconsider the constitutional right to contraception, even among married couples. my cana ouch is era washington. the 1st candid and seeking to replace paris johnson is british prime minister,

have announced to their standing. johnson has angered many in his own party by insisting he'll stay on for now rather than hand over to his deputy. and a banner has the latest a day off, devoris johnson said he'd stepped down attentions turned to what and who comes next around the newly cleaned up palace of westminster. the talk is of a clean break of restoring trust in governments. someone has to grip this moment and make the right decision. and friday, the 1st, the political, big to be 6 announced their standing of the previous chancellor receives sooner and i have been my career when people together soon, next, one of 2 cabinet members who's resignation lead to a torrent of judy administers quitting. and johnson eventually giving in that should be a new leader. but on thursday, johnson insisted he'd stay in post until the new leader was chosen a process that could take many weeks within the party. initial opposition to him

staying on in the interim seems to be weakening. i don't think that it would be appropriate for us whether we around the cabinet table or in any other part of the british government. just to kind of down tools and say actually you know what, we're not going to do anything until the new boss is in place. we have a duty and our duty is to govern what's due to happen is all the conservative members of parliament get to vote on the leadership candidates. it could take several rounds before they narrow it down to just 2 names. assuming neither drops out, it's been up to the wider policy membership to pick a new leader. what's different this time is it's not a different type of policy. it's not parliamentary deadlock. as it was over, teresa may with her credit to get her breakfast deal through. in this case, the problem is the prime minister and in particular, the problems of judgment. his integrity and the fact that he really lost confidence of so many people in his government. and that meant that, that it's like weird that he's continuing the opposition labor party still save

johnson isn't gone soon. they'll try to force him out using parliament. he shouldn't be desperately clinging on when he has had to leave office because of his disgraceful conduct. and that's why i say the tory party should remove him, and if they don't, we will step up in the national interest and bring them voted no confidence. it's unlikely though that enough, conservative m p 's would back stomach in 2 weeks, parliament breaks for the summer, leaving westminster to the tourists and leaving the choice of prime minister to fewer than a 150000 conservative party members. but between now and then, plenty could happen to change boris johnson's timetable for leaving downing street . the dean baba al jazeera london, was them, pilgrims are marking the 1st aid of 8 l ada in mecca. oh, this is expanded high,

she is now coming to an end. after 2 years of survey restrictions. because of the pandemic, 900000 people were able to attend the seed. most of them came from outside saudi arabia. that is still less than half the number that took can't back in 2019 still head down al jazeera spot is coming up and the wimbledon finalist, aiming to inspire a new generation of the african and arab plays, will be live from to media after the brain ah ah

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it's kind of his fault. he's far with all your 10 affection. yes, thank you so much emily. the highly anticipated women's wimbledon final gets under way later on saturday, tennessee has ons. deborah faces, alina rip, i can tina with both players looking to make history. an entire continent will be watching jabber with bated breath. well, number 2 says she's hoping to inspire a new generation of arab and african players. laura burton, manley reports 12 year old iowa knows exactly who she wants to be when she grows up. thanks to old zibert grandson success nel feels like a realistic target for a young go from to nicea. oh so so such an godzilla, i think ons is a great player and i dream of being like her. she plays so well and i want to reach her level one day. if i can. javan has won a place to the wimbleton final becoming the 1st african woman to re,

to grand slam title, to fighter in the open era, introduced to the games a 3 year old by her mother. jabbers says it was her parents who made sure she had access to the game. she loved the world number 2, hopes her achievements will make it easier for others to follow in her footsteps. i want to see more place from my country for, for a murder. the middle east in our, from our, from africa and her, i think we, we didn't believe enough at certain point though we can do it. and now i'm just trying to, to show that and hopefully people are getting aspired jubilee efforts. are already having an impact on the game into nicea, or let the bear to be it, is it on her gotten more people are coming to the tennis center here. and during the last few seasons, the number of memberships has increased, especially from girls. they want to have the same career as ons. it's great that she won the summer final. it is an honor for everybody here. it's means for once

tennis has knocked football off the television screens in the cathy's or to niece on a debit or is it once javert has become known as the minister of happiness into nicea, we are missing joy in our lives because of the social and economic situation, yes, your tennesseans are looking for something that can lift, they spur, c o, o, ready, and national heroes. uber now has a chance to take a popularity to a whole new level. laura, go to manley to 0. al jazeera is elisia log men is standing by life arrests from a to net that owns to her as being called the minister of happiness by people in tennis. yet how popular has she become there? she is hugely popular. and as you know, for the past year, tennessee has been going through a very dark, turbulent era. so yeah, the repeated successes of algebra this year. everybody's been following her success

. it's been, she's literally like a light in the darkness. everybody is talking about her are and i was just on the bus and the bus driver was just talking. i forget about the president. yo, yo, we just want ons to when he's just so excited you, you hear it out and about, you know, people are talking about it. and joe, today when he were at the beautiful grounds of the tennis club in tennis and i was just in the club room. and there are loads of pictures of ons, every single picture she's. she looked smiling. she's positive. she's that is, she's not holding a tennis racket. she's holding a trophy and for to nations. this is just such an uplifting story. after things being very down and negative and bleak, you know what she symbolizes is if you've got talent, if you apply yourself, you can become a star. i is her example encouraging more people there to watch him play tennis.

yes, i mean normally football is yeah, it's almost like a religion here, but we come to the end to the season and you know, now people, you know, people are more wary about tennis. so young people are she kind of really getting injured even if they don't sort of know that much about the game, you know, they're interested in her so that she's really kind of drawing people towards cedar and what's effectually, not a new sports, but a new interest in the sports of tennis, and as you see, i mean there are quite established clubs, certainly in the capital in china. so clay courts, of course, i, but certainly this is inspiring people to get out there and pick up a racket and a half ago. and are there still barriers for young girls who want to place board in north africa? unfortunately, this stella, i mean this is suddenly into nature. this is to do the economic situation and how much investment. yeah, the government is actually able to put into sports facilities. i mean, this is a bit of

a social economic space between sort of the public sector and the private. the private is booming. here though i have to say that this particular club is actually stay tuned. and money is tennis clubs are owned by the states and that membership so kept deliberately low to try and attract more people. okay. yeah, there is, there is a good new story. okay. all right, we'll catch up with you a bit later. alysia evolve. man, i is reporting live there for us from tennis topsy now back talk of ich clinic. curious in sunday's men's final joke that you loss of her sat against britain's camera nori and friday, semi final the top seat head back to win the next 3 and take the match. he's aiming to win this huddle for a 7th time. i'll curios is looking to win his 1st ever grand slam crown yeah, food level, but we definitely have a better relationship than what we,

what it was probably prior to generate this year. but when it was really tough for me, you know, stella, he was one of the very few players that came out publicly and supported means to by me. so that's something i, i truly appreciate football now and host morocco beach synagogue, to go top of group a and the women's africa cup of nations. first half of this match was goal. las morocco took the lead and the 55th minute. it finished one nell top for finishers of this tournament, automatically clench spots that next year is woke up finals in australia and new zealand, morocco and senegal have already qualified while burkina faso. and he's gonna have been eliminated a favorite spain open there. womens 02022 campaign with a convincing for one, went over finland, spain, or bidding for a 1st major with his tuttle. without injured world player of the year alexia, potatoes,

that road just were stunned by the lowest rank nation in this tournament. finland opened the scoring after just 50 seconds, but spain came back to dominate for the rest of the match, wrapping up a comfortable victory, spain, or unbeaten in 23 matches in this tournament. well, champion mattress shopping will be in pull position for saturday. sprint res, that formula ones? austrian grand prix. the mercedes pair of leaves hamilton and george russell both crushed out in the final minutes and qualifying, rushed up and recorded the quickest lap time with ferrari's of charles the clear and carlo stains just behind him. okay, and that is all your support for now back to you and thank you very much for and that seats this news out but don't go anywhere i during finnegan is up next. ah, to so difficult, so a lot of them left, meanwhile ish, one them,

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