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hello, i'm rob matheson and this is the news are live from doha. coming out of the next 60 minutes. i angry protests in sri lanka after president goes to wire roger pack. so please, i had of our promise resignation, demonstrators colon the prime minister to quit after he's appointed his acting president and declares a state of emergency. joe biden is expected to arrive and israel in the coming hours and his 1st trip to the middle east. as you, as president, a 66 year old hong kong, active as known as at grandma won't plead guilty to charges of unlawful assembly. and in support. her time and could be very close to roger federer, the force he wrote is opened up about his future and hinted good bye to tennis isn't far away. ah, we're going to begin this news. our insure lanka weather's growing anger after the prime minister was appointed acting president. thousands are gathered at the
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offices of prime minister renewal wickham singer in colombo to demand his resignation. despite a state of emergency being declared, many have tried to scale the walls or break through the gates. protesters of also entered the state t. v and radio offices security forces of fire tear gas at the crowds, but they haven't dispersed. was that vaskins live for us in columbus? that step we're getting our lines from agencies and that protesters have actually entered the office of the prime minister. what more do we know about that? hey, that's a corrected. the protesters have for managed to to go into the prime minister's office, said the gates were open, that the security forces have backed off. i was just inside of the promises of the prime minister's officer protest. this are on the balcony, waving their flax is a real victorious mood there. go celebration. so to say
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a temporary victory. that's how the protests is considered, is because they are taken over fully this bit licking of the i meant as to what you should go to a but for them to build matt and about com a move, there's a parade of people going back from the prime minister's office because it's completely full of people that are built, they thought a going back and going to a different it with, with the old it asked for the 5 minutes this resignation at wow, obviously we're having a few problems getting the signal from, from columbia as you can imagine the situation there being as it is, some signals are probably a little bit difficult to get there. we'll try and get stuff back later on. but shamira dead, a watcher is one of the protesters in colombo. he says,
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president roger pox is playing games. what is happening is really a really ugly example of where dual credit abuse or abuse abusing of persecution or pause because right. know what is happening is literally a joke, right? so we have a president. and then when the president bees, otherwise i'll keep writing some or was he said he's that we are a prime minister, can look after the duties of the president. right. and now they have actually appointed and acting crazy. and if you read the constitution very general, the only circumstances i'm in which an acting president can be appointed is only the president resigns, which he hasn't, right. i mean they're out there and he was, we have even seen the letter. so i only. ringback the letter exists, right, the letter will be coming. it hasn't come. i mean, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, i mean these to drive to resignation with it. but i'll tell you what the, what the real problem you see, right?
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so the president is using his resignation letter as a bargaining. you know, really ugly. again, the president basically wants to ensure the safe block to face the wrath of the people. and then he's, he's actually using this last trump card. he's a resignation letter as a sort of a sort of a get out of jail free card. and that is really, really an example of workers to show us. so that should not happen if it exists, it should come to the late want to bring in guy shanwick, not audra. he's an economist and senior research associate at the overseas development institute. it's a think tank based in london. he's joining us now from columbus. so thank you very much indeed for being with us. whoever eventually becomes president of sure like it is still going to be facing the same economic problems that the country was facing before. how much trouble is shoreline actually in economy is in quite at dias state, we have something called thanks lation,
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which is 50 percent inflation and a declining economy. we expect growth to be minus focus minus 6 percent this year. people are living on one knee, let day. poverty has risen to 3 quarters of a 1000000 people, partly linked to the heat, of course, and all of these kind of troubles and at, on long queues. for many things i see outside my window 3 mile cues for fuel. and some of these people have been sleeping in back cars for 3 days. so it's pretty bad at the moment. and deb, i think, you know, we need to now hopefully move away from the politics once a new president is appointed on the 20th of this month and begin to really tackle this humongous economic challenge of the countries facing. yeah, these are challenges, as you say, are enormous because there were negotiations going on with the international monetary fund. there were also pledges that had been received from the world bank as well as loans that have been taken out with countries like china, shoreline, cuz financial responsibilities are really enormous compared to most other
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countries. how is it going to be possible? do you think to be able to turn all of those around and i'm gradually gets sher lanka back on track. so we have a 14 debt crisis. the foreign debt, which is owed to international credit is, is something like $50000000000.00 plus dollars as we stand today. but it's debt 3 payments of about 600000000000, but the debt really needs to be restructured properly. and that was talking to china as well as private practice before we can get and i live program which will help take us out of this. and the reason why i'm that program is important is that it will help build confidence in investors and also the other a stakeholders that sheila is going on the right. like the i'm, if program will increase taxes, it with grades utility prices, it will raise interest rates to control inflation. and the important part of this also that we will get a lot of economic lage. so that will be there,
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but that will take 6 months to probably coming to be because we need this agreement with the credit has to be shown to be on the board. and also the i'm, if i have to come and do some further diligence. now in the meantime, she longer needs what they call, bridging finance, from other countries. and one estimates that she long ago, we need something like $10000000000.00 this coming year to keep the economy going. this is not paying debt, this is just to be do basic import fiorella and food and things of that nature and to provide social welfare for the work we're really hurting. and india has stepped in as a basic, a 1st responder with the $3.00 to $4000000000.00. and that's very useful. but we really need an aide consortium of many countries to have a take us out of this terrible, terrible human get in disaster. just basically what you're beginning to see on the street just briefly. so what one would imagine that this is not something that can be done without the cooperation of the people within shoreline care. given that the
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scenes that we have seen particularly today, but certainly over the last few weeks, do you think that there is going to be enough trust between the people of sher lanka and whichever government structure is eventually put in place to actually move these processes forward? and get, as i say, sure, lanka back on to some sort of track towards financial prosperity again. so political stability is very, very important and trust with the people is important. and i think what the politicians bought in parliament and outside have to realize is that the social contract has been broken in sri lanka. the politicians have to show that they're concerned about delivery for services to the people and do it in an honest way. and get rid of these cut up practices that some politicians have been following. every $1.40 need has to be properly accounted for and the public sector has to really deliver services. so with the foreign aid, we are hopefully getting it has to be provided right through the country to all the regions from the north east of the country,
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right through to the deep south. and every dollar has to be bought. me accounted for. and later down the line, i think we'd have to also begin to do things like abolish the executive presidency and move to west minnesota system, which is critical as well as make sure there are things like acid declarations of parliamentarians and so on. so i am relatively confidential, unco can come out of this with political will and the right set of policies with an i miss program as well as political system restructuring. and a lot of hard work amongst the people. and one hopes that we can build a country we are located right in the middle of indian ocean with a very strategic location and we are very busy and deeper. and so one is hoping that we can come out of this property relation to working at our church, sir. we appreciate your time and thank you very much for joining us on hold, sir. thank you very much. the bar head on the new zone, including travel chaos in europe as airports limits, numbers and unions go and strike. we're going to be live in denmark and spain, and
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a deep dive into the cosmos. the 1st pictures from nurses james webb telescope reveal a sea of galaxies. and later in sports, one of the favorites, the woman's european championship looks a spot in the quarter finals. ah, you know, i suppose it enjo biden's on his way to the middle east on his 1st visit to the region as you as president. the 1st stop is israel was secured, he's been increased. i ahead of his arrival bye and we'll also meet palestinian leaders in the occupied west buying. biden's been a steadfast supporter of brazil for decades. he's expected to face questions about the killing of palestinian american journalist sharina blocker. mike hannah reports from washington dc. it since his days in the senator joe biden has been an ardent supporter of israel. were there not in israel, the united states of america would have to invent and israel to protect her interest in the region as vice president near bomb administration. he took point on
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what we're still considered a viable negotiations in the palestine. israel conflict. ah, these began to alter in 2010, where new israeli settlements were announced on the eve of abide and visit to the region. something the u. s. viewed as a slap in the face by then israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. we've got a big agenda today. but as president joe biden was eager to host the new prime minister, naphtali bennett in the white house, and reiterate his unwavering support. you are a school always be there for israel. is an unshakable partnership between our 2 nations on arrival. president biden will be to buy a le paid yet another prime minister, though he's in an acting capacity until i get another round of israeli elections later this year. the political uncertainty in israel is another hurdle to long term
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diplomatic discussion. president biden will also meet with the opposition benjamin netanyahu. a close ally, a former president, donald trump. we may well return to paula later this year. this would require another reset in us israel relations. human rights issues will also loom over president biden's visit to israel and the occupied westbank, where he's likely to face shop questions about the u. s. report on the killing of i'll just the or a journalist sharina black clair which bound she was likely killed by unintentional gunfire from israeli positions, but could not reach a definitive conclusion about the origin of the bullet that struck her. the inconclusive report was met with anger by palestinian officials and family members . i suspect the president will try to use the report in a positive way. the indicate that the us was willing to take a look at this issue. this is something that the trump administration almost
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certainly would not have done the killing of serene i bought. clo was not an isolated incident. open the years, dozens of media individuals and organizations have been the target of israeli army forces in may last year, a building housing international meet the offices, including those of out 0 and the associated press were destroyed in an air raid. there were no course was really accountability then either. and despite the pledges of the bite and administration human rights issues and likely to impede it's desire to keep israel as it's closest and most valued ally in the region. my kind of, i'll just sierra washington or joining me now here on set is or what has corresponding kimberly, holger, kimberly it's taken jabard me 18 months to make this trip to the middle east or to donald trump for months. wires, biden, making this chuckner, you know, in many ways, it's not entirely clear why joe biden is making this trip now. in fact i,
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it's taken him a little bit of time as you point out. oh, what we know about all of this is that the president is trying to make an emphasis on really asserting american values in sort of showing up some of these alliances. but at the same time, oh, this is puzzling to many americans, given the fact that on the campaign trail, joe biden, it really said the exact opposite. he said he wanted to try and focus on american issues as president and really kind of de emphasized the middle east and the priority that many presidents had placed in the past. so what it seems to be is that some of the domestic crises, if you will, that are existing in the united states right now may have taken hold and are really kind of pushing the president in this direction. for example, the rising gas prices that are really a record high prices in the united states right now. the fact that the president is
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under pressure to bring these prices down has really driven him to meet with saudi leaders. and so we know that that is something that he is in is driving this visit, but at the same time, we also know he's visiting, of course, israel. and that makes that look like a little bit of an after thought. so, oh, this is a bit of a complicated visit for the president because the purpose of the visit is not entirely clear. and his advisors have not done a really good job of communicating to the media, to the american public. why it is happening now. and really what the overarching purpose of this visit is, it could be a bit of a diplomatic tightrope and on, on my deal of funds for, for joe biden. but when would budget, he's meeting yellow, p to 2nd prime minister of israel course is also going to be meeting benjamin netanyahu. that was the former prime minister of israel. there's a lot of speculation that benjamin netanyahu is going to go back into office, or at least attempt to netanyahu have very strong relationship with donald trump.
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what kind of dynamic is that going to create one joe biden meets the tumor? well, it's not an ideal dynamic that's for sure. and in fact, what jake sullivan, the national security advisor, has said, is that oh joe biden, who has a much experience when it comes to meeting with world leaders, given his vast experience in us politics is very comfortable meeting across the political spectrum. but we know that the u. s. president is not comfortable with meeting with benjamin netanyahu, and certainly it's not ideal for him to be meeting with a caretaker leader. either. this is not oh, what the president would like in terms of advancing us interests and when it comes to benjamin netanyahu. obviously his close relationship with donald trump is also not going to work in jo biden's favor. and the big risk of course, is if benjamin netanyahu were to come back into power. this could really be a problem for joe biden. given the fact that he often had
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a way of just sort of circumventing the white house in previous years under barack obama and working directly with congressional republicans. so this has the potential to make joe biden look weak on the world stage, which is certainly something that he does not want to project right now, especially as we're looking ahead to congressional mid term elections in november here. and joe biden has always made a big thing about his, his belief and a strong israel under the us role within the region. having said that, over the previous few years, that us role has been on picks, if you like, by successive administrations, and talk us through what the impression is of the u. s. role in the region now and whether it intends to, to re establish itself, whether it's changing direction is definitely changing direction. and the problem for this administration is that this visit may in some ways, just underscore exactly what they're hoping not to do. and that is to underscore the declining role of the united states in the middle east. and,
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and this could be sort of shown, for example, in the fact that the u. s. really wants to talk about the importance of convince, sir, not only the israelis but the saudis, that the iran nuclear deal is still a valuable tool to be revived. but a, in these meetings that took place last month and cutter, for example, the united states was unable to get any concessions from iran. so once again, it's just showing as the u. s, it comes to this region that is not really able to achieve the great things that it may be what had been able to promise in the past. so that is one of the problems. and the other big issue is that we see iran also in its growing ties with china, with russia and sort of flexing its might. and so this is a real crisis for the united states right now. and a, it's one that has been complicated, of course, by the war i'm the brushes invasion of ukraine, the energy crisis. it's complicated,
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and joe biden is under enormous pressure. i think what you could say in all of this is that this is a high stakes visit, not just internationally, but also domestically for the present. he needs a foreign policy when we're going to be watching carefully over the next few days and it could have consequence. yeah, kimberly, thank you very much. indeed. it's kimberly hawk at our white house correspondent urine, doha. well, stephanie jenkins joining us live from west to rouge. let's talk about the, the visit in israel itself survey. what's going to be happening? well, we're expecting air force one to arrive here and just about 2 hours for now. landing has been korean airport in tel aviv, ah, the welcome will be carried out by intern prime minister a yellow p or to these railey president will be the isaac hartzog. the americans have made it clear. however, because of the weather, because of scheduling and because of covert, apparently, the president will not be shaking hands, there'll be no personal photo opportunity. so it will be
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a more low key affair if you will. he will then be meeting with the defense minister benny gans at the airport as well. initially they were going to travel to an air base to look at the iron dome system. this is of course israel system which it uses to intercept missiles from gaza and also what's called the as the iron beam system and use system a laser system that isn't practically being employed yet, but is in development. he will then, after all, that it won't take that long. come here to jerusalem. the roads will be closed around $16000.00 extra police officers have been employed. the roads are blocked around where we are very close to where present biden will be staying is expected to visit the holocaust museum and then retiring for the night. not too late to morrow. he has a very busy schedule ahead with political meetings with public statements. so certainly this is the impression a lot of preparations happening here in anticipation for this visit. earlier on stephanie, i mentioned that jo biden's expected to be meeting with palestinian leaders in the west buying. what do we think that the palestinians might be hoping to get out of
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that meeting? while the police seeing an issue? i think with her being frank is really seen as a footnote to this trip. he's not coming with anything in hand. really concrete when it comes to reviving long story piece talks. the last time that happened here was in 2014 joe biden. here as vice president the last time he visited the region and 2010. he's very well versed when it comes to the complexities of the let's say the state solution what he is going. busy to do he's going to carry out a historic visit to a palestinian hospital in occupied. his drew some this is the 1st time that a u. s. president is going to venture away from the old city going further into east jerusalem. of course the palestinians. this is their future capital of any state he's going to be announcing around a 100000000 dollars at age is going to all some of the gulf countries to, to, to match those 4 hospitals and occupied is true some, but policies will tell you, this is really just paying lip service,
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he's then going to travel to bethlehem. this is again on friday meeting with balancing present mahmoud, abbas. but again, around just under 2 hours allocated to that before he flies directly to jetta. i think this trip is more about the bigger geopolitics than the policies. and of course you've been hearing there also. in mike hannah's package, the palestinians of lost trust in the americans. not just since the trumpet administration recently, also because of the killing of shooting. i walk low and the americans carried out an investigation guaranteeing to the policies that they would not hand over to the bullet to the israelis. but while it was these ratings were carried out at that forensic investigation saying it was inconclusive. the americans then concluding in the end that it seemed that the israelis had killed her, but that it wasn't intentional. and that was part of tragic circumstances. so calls remain of course on behalf of the palestinians for accountability. this will be raised, of course, but again, as you mentioned, we're going to be frank about this. anything that will sort of revive any closer talks reviving talks between israelis and palestinians. certainly we're not
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expecting any of that. stephanie, thanks very much. indeed. stephanie deborah, talking to us from west jerusalem on ohio maha mata is the journalist and executive director of plus $972.00 magazine. he's joining me now from tel aviv good to have you with us, sir. i'm the impression that i'm getting a is that essentially the core of this, this trip is saudi arabia, on that israel is essentially a stop on the way one would imagine that is not going to get on terribly well with the israeli leadership. what do you think of the israel might have been hoping from this visit from joe biden? i think for the israeli leadership, there are 2 main goals for this isn't the one is internal and political as was mentioned, we have upcoming elections. this is a caretaker government, i think in a way for you to repeat the newly appointed bremond story. this is an opportunity to show that he can kind of played big. he can get that sort of endorsement from by didn't not an official endorsement course, but i think also for bye this is
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a reason to kind of push against the chances of benjamin canal coming back. so that's the internal political aspect of elections. and the other is israel, desperation of wider steps toward normalization, with the arab world, especially saudi arabia and other computer as well. and i think dad very much connects to biden's wider agenda in kind of the strength of the alliance with our nations in the region. as far as i understand it, and the, there was a statement that came out on the, from the, the news agencies just about an hour or so ago saying from the iranian foreign minister, ministry, saying that recent talks between iran and saudi arabia were described as being promising it seems to me as though there is a process that is going on between saudi arabia and other countries. and iran is the u. s. actually in step with that, or is it slightly lagging behind from what you're saying?
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my impressions very similar that they are lagging behind. i think if we are looking at the reasons for this visit, that actually might be one of them. the realization that the u. s. is gradually losing its very strong foothold in the gulf area and that to the gulf and other countries aren't joining in reconnecting with running you ways that are threatening american germany, the region. that is probably one of the reasons here. i think whereas the palestinian cush question that these really question are not central historic that question of whether or not by didn't successful in kind of regrouping our nations to the side of the americans. android agreed towards normalization as well. those are the interesting questions via the strengthening ties with iran. yet with regard to as is you described of the u. s. had you believe within that within the region? the way that we've been hearing, and certainly kimberly hawk at our white house correspondent was describing it that the american policy has been to. and even shall we say unofficially disengage form
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matters in the region because it had become such a focus over the years for you, for us administrations if the countries within the gulf and the slightly expanded region are actually doing their own deals with iran. and that would subsequently lead to some sort of shall we say, if not peace, then i got kind of mutual understanding then that would actually work in america's favor, wouldn't it? because essentially it would no longer feel the necessity to play a role or such a great role in the region. that's true, that sort of thing. this is a moment of decision for the us, decide whether or not it doubles down on fighting iran on this kind of american axis version. the radian russian access her paradigm, and kind of demanding countries to get into stuff without obviously that is what is role is pushing for the very strong anti ran stance. but as you said, i think definitely there is another option for the u. s. and that is to create
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a lesser tensions run through these renewed connections of our nation. so these are passed that by then we'll have to choose between and we are yet to see where he goes with this. thank you very much indeed that so how you might are. thank you very much indeed for joining us now. does either, sir? thank you. thank you. still had an al jazeera and then there were aids written stories begin to whittle down the list of candidates hoping to replace bars. johnson, elderly eve of the open championship. we're going to hear from the world's best golfers as they prepare to battle for the clerical job. ah, the journey has begun. the 3 full world copies on its way to catherine book, your travel package to day and some parts of your per very hot heat wave really in
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accepting nominations for the year 2022 from february 15th until august, 15th this year. for more information go to w, w, w dot h t a dot q a slash e m blue ah, you want to know the 0 reminder, our top story is this. i was growing anger in sir lanka where thousands of people are gathered, a prime minister renella victim sang his offices in colombo, demanding his resignation. protesters of also entered the states. t. v and radio offices. the speaker to parliament confirmed that's ronald wickham,
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singer is now acting president as well as the prime minister who's taken over from autobiography, pucks, who's fled to the mall deeds ahead of a promised resignation. joe biden is said to arrive in israel and becoming ours, and his 1st visit as us president, the white house wants to improve is railing. saudi relations. body biding, is expected to face questions about the killing of shirley. now. okay, let's give you more on that top story and the violence and also protests that we've seen in the colombo initial lanka are denisha, samara. there is a lawyer who specializes in constitutional law. she's joining us now from colombo. bam, thank you very much. indeed for being with us. now my understanding is that an official from the prime minister's office has said that to be president roger boxer had informed him of the appointment of the prime minister as acting president under article 37 point one of the constitution. now, there seems to be a grey area about whether or not this is actually
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a legal process. can you explain to us what the situation is? yes, of course. so just to clarify the position in the constitution, the constitution does make the president to appoint the prime minister as acting president when he's unable to perform those functions specified reasons. but of course the question we had this morning was we did that had in fact happened or not . but later in the day we've had the speaker make an announcement that the president has informed heating and then also the prime minister that the prime minister on become a thing that has been pointed as acting president. but we have had no confirmation as to whether acting prime minister has been appointed. so this morning there was a lot of uncertain jenco mile because what was anticipated was the resignation of being the president. and also that is ignition, not the payment,
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but things have unfolded in unexpected ways to me. with regard to the leaders that we have seen leaving the country with regard to go for by a judge approximate. and his brother basil, for example, just talk us through what the legal implications of that are. because of course, one would imagine that there may have been legal cases brought against those 2 men and others with regard to the failure of the country's economy. where does that leave them? not outside the country. so the exit that you presidency under constitution enjoys immunity from diego action except where his actions may have violated on them in threats. so until and on this he resigns, he will enjoy that community. but as far as i fall, my minister of finance is and son that would not apply to him and he would remain accountable under the law the country. but the question is not just to take nico
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legal order constitution request, nbc, we've had now for 7 months, people coming out demanding that the executive president and also the prime minister, resigned from office. and we've had now almost since saturday 9th of july promises being made often during those resignations and the current to a model that be have but he can in columbus is the design of the failure of the prime minister. and he is that the be presidency to tender those resignations. so really what was happening today is was indicted preventable. just as we were talking, we're looking at like picture smug side, the prime minister's office. we can see crowds of people moving around there. we did have a report earlier that people had actually been able to get him to the prime minister's office. one would imagine that even if the prime minister has been a lot of has been appointed as acting president, this kind of action is going to make it incredibly difficult for him to bring any
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sort of regulation, any sort of law to the, to the country is or where does the situation stand with that is he actually going to be able to do anything? it is important to remember that the current prime minister was appointed to the 9th of may. and this happened to now for the bins. i mean, it's still mine that are so what happens to be a former president and also a brother of our current president? every that there is a very clear moment in sri lanka, constitutional governance, where much of the peace demand made by the peaceful as she could have been delivered in the week of me. but i don't mean to say now acting, president accepted the appointment of prime minister. it is important to remember that his party had only one feet in parliament and that 2 located by the nationalist. so to begin with, there was a very significant question about the digital must be him taking leadership of the
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country at this critical point. and that question not just must remain. and that is, in fact what is being the public congress that we have seen and important. i think you remember that the protest by the people has been on pretty been done piece for organic. and it's difficult to find anyone and she has not participated in these in some form or not because people are hard due to the economy crisis that is going on. and many of the view that the price isn't really a manmade crisis, which is why that is to be mindful, accountability of those indeed issues. so you are right, that is a very serious question about whether the current leadership can bring this to be need to be need in order to address the fact it's really interesting to get your thoughts from this man. thank you very much. indeed. initially, some other travel chaos is expected across europe. airlines
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have been forced to cancel thousands of flights due to strike action and staff shortages the decision to limit the number of departing passages to a 100000 a day at london's busiest airport he throw is said to make matters even worse. that in a moment, we're going to hear from paul reese, who's in copenhagen 1st. let's go to rory challenge. whose life for us in malaga, in southern spain, rory, we're just heading into the holiday season particular for the u. k. of course, it's a popular destination for a lot of travelers from the u. k. what's going on there? while it's not good news, if you're looking at it from the point of view of for the customers, the travelers, ryanair, cabin crew in spain are now in their 2nd day this week of or 4 days of strike. they are going to be doing exactly the same next week, 4 days of striking, and exactly the same or the week after. easy jess,
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another low cost air line is also going to be striking. this weekend, friday, saturday, sunday, and then another 3 days at the end of the month. now what both of these are companies are for the employees. these companies are trying to do is get better pay and better conditions. they say that the conditions that they operate under are not in compliance with, with spanish labor law. they've already had strikes earlier on in june. and sir, the an idea of the, the, the kind of level of disruption to we're looking at. well, you know, yesterday the 1st day the strike on the 12th of july, ryan, their flights in spain were disrupted. 15 cancelled 234 delayed. this is going into peak holiday season. the u. k. foreign office has changed. it's a travel advice for spain to take into account and that the strikes and, and warn people from the u. k. traveling about them. but there is a big but here,
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both the spanish governments and the air companies themselves are trying as hard as i can to take the sting out of these strikes that the spanish government, the transport ministry has basically said that on the end, the roots, the has to be a minimum of more than 50 percent service per day. now there aren't many routes that have more than 2 planes or 2 routes per day to travels with a. so that basically means that pretty much all of the flights actually have to be legally running ryanair has also brought in, stops to cope with any disruption that that is. so here at malaga, the haven't been any cancellations today. a few delays, perhaps, but it shows that yes, there is going to be some disruption, but not necessarily as much as you might think. really, thanks very much indeed. does worry john's talking to his from malaga, but we're going to go to paul reese, who's in copenhagen forest. another airline that has been having problems over the last few weeks or so s a s. and there has been disruption for passengers in the
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last couple of weeks. is there any sign of light at the end of the tunnel? or yes or up there is the pilot unions full scandinavian airlines, s i s. and from here in denmark, from sweden, which is just across the bridge from here and from norway, are meeting with as a, as in stuck home at the moment to try and solve this strike this been going on for 10 days now. in fact, they're all still cancellations on the boards here at castro pat port in copenhagen at the destination, such as san francisco, los angeles, up to stock home sites still plenty of disruption. they've been around $900.00 scandinavian airlines pilots on strike. more than 2000 flights, canceled tens of thousands of passengers affected either not being able to get to that destinations at all. being indeed, surrounded on holiday. now these as i,
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as pilots have made some exceptions and as some have flown out to fetch people. but that has sold over the last few days as well. now i want these talks, the sticking points in these talks surround the 560 also pilots. they will let go during the current of ours. and i think by essay us now the, the pilots want them to be hired back under the same terms. what can't deny it. even airlines have been doing instead is using to of that subsidiary companies to hire new staff at lower right. and that's what the pilots union has not been happy about at all. but as i say, those talks ongoing in stockholm at the moment to try and end this 10 day strike that's been costing as a us around $10000000.00 a day. it was any indication of the positivity of the talks or not they share price of as they as has gone up around that 10 percent on wednesday morning. as those talks commence. let's pull res bringing up to date from copenhagen pull. thank you
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. the veteran, hong kong activists known as grandma whoa, has been jails for 8 months. the 66 year old treated guilty to charges of unlawful assembly. she's been detained several times, as is known for waving a british flag while taking part in the 2019 pro democracy movement. adrian brown has more from hong kong. well, grandma wong is the nickname that was given to her by young protested during the demonstrations here in 2019 a wong whose real name is alexandra wong, has been a political activist now for more than 10 years, but she really rose to fame. during the unrest in 2019 because she used to wave a large british flag at many protests. and of course that was to the authorities, a flagrant provocation because of course, britain was the former colonial rule here. and he tried to give the impression the people were still homesick or colonial rule. now one appeared at the court behind
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me on wednesday, she was convicted on 2 counts of a legal assembly in january, and the magistrate sentenced her to 32 weeks in jail. that's around about 8 months now. it's not the 1st time that one has been jail. that has happened on 2 previous occasions. she's also been arrested on multiple occasions. but it is a reminder that here in hong kong, the room for political descent is getting narrower. all the time, 8 candidates of made it onto the ballot hoping to replace bars. johnson as the leader of the you, case conservative party, for much as her as she soon ox. the favorite be kicked off his campaign on tuesday . the 1st of a series of votes is going to take place later on wednesday. the case next, prime minister, be announced on september, the 5th johnson announced his resignation under pressure from the part in connection with a series of scandals. let's go more in this with john hall and london, john a talker through what this sending out process that is happening or how does that
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work? well, 8 candidates, as you say, are in the running. now on this, the 1st day of balloting among conservative party m, p 's, remember those 8 needed to secure the support of 20 of their colleagues in order to get to this point. now the bar is raised, they will need 30 votes. if that to stay in the race, if they don't get 30, they're eliminated. and so it goes on until they're down to a field of just to those 2 candidates will then go before the conservative party membership around the country during a summer campaign. before and eventual vote, and as you said, the announcement of a new leader of the party and therefore prime minister on the 5th of september. what does this all tell us about the splits that are within the conservative party because this was never going to be a polite race? was it was always going to be pretty nasty at times. no indeed. and so it is proving. and remember, one of the reasons m, p 's held back from getting rid of boris johnson sooner was the fear that there
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wasn't an outright success. and this contest is, is illustrating that as you say, 8 people in the running. now for the vote, it has be, well, these are the faces of division and fractional within the party after 3 years of scandal written. so the roller coaster government under boris johnson, unsurprisingly, one thing that unites all of these campaigns is talk of returning politics, replace of honesty and trustworthiness. but this is an all consuming race, not just for the candidates, but for the party, the parliamentary party, the m p. 's entity for the government. it's now a placeholder government, of course, at a time when sensible, decisive, effective government has seldom be more necessary. inflation at 10 percent, much of the country in the grip of the cost of living crisis, the railways on strike, as we've heard a little earlier on the airports in meltdown as well. yet in view of this contest, the country must re, she's sick before the chancellor looks to be the man to beat. he's already secured
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. more than 50 public votes, unpopular in some quarters of the party for what described as unconcerned the tax rises. he's promised fiscal discipline and then to bring taxi's down his closest content to perhaps the foreign secretary, ms. trust, release trust, who has won the support of johnson lloyd is she looks to be was sort of johnson continuity candidate. will they make it through? well, there's a way to go yet, look to the campaigns of penny more than the former defense secretary. and tom took not an m p who has never held a post in government. both have the potential to upset things yet. jonah, thank you very much. indeed, john hall talking to us from london. the us government's place to triple its funding for pacific island nations. yes, vice president campbell harris made the announcement during a meeting of the regions leaders in fiji. it's seen as the latest attempt to counter china's growing influence. mine, hey, reports from suva, an empty chair at the table isn't the show of unity. pacific leaders wanted at
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their 1st in person meeting in 3 years curable, decided to leave the group over. a dispute about who should lead the forum. it's been suggested that china was behind the decision after a period of increased diplomatic activity in the region. and it was in that light of geopolitical rivalry that the u. s. stepped up with an unprecedented address at a time when we see banners seeking to undermine the rule s or lima santa. the united states announced a funding boost for the pacific islands and a plan to open embassies and kiera boss and tongue of the prime minister of tongue . i says, discussions about the embassy began, well before the recent publicity about china. but if a battle for influence is under way, it could be good for the region boys i'm. she was most passive young. a very happy that a lot of follow up on as an hour pay more attention to the pacific.
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and the issues that we face, australia and new zealand are the traditional power brokers in the region. the leaders of both have spoken of their concerns about security deals. china has been signing or trying to sign with some of the smaller pacific countries. australian prime minister, anthony albany, c and his new zealand counterpart, jacinta ra, durn. are both here in suva with big delegations assigned that this pacific islands forum is being taken more seriously than ever before. presenting the smaller nations with the prime opportunity to capitalize a former prime minister of fiji and former leader of the forum. sit of any rum booker has told al jazeera that australia and new zealand have taken the region for granted for too long. they felt the b association and all the assistance and corporation of every head in the art was enough to, to keep the cohesion of the region. or unfortunately, jo, everybody's eyes opening up to, ah,
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what else there is on the final day of meetings? leaders will release a joint declaration that will address shared values, aspirations, and unity. but there's concern among some here that with increasing geopolitical competition. keeping this group united will become increasingly difficult. wayne hey, al jazeera soother taught us as a suing elan mass for pulling out of a $44000000000.00 deal to buy the social media platform. it says the billionaire has contractual obligations which is refusing to honor because they no longer serve his personal interests. master said he was withdrawing from the deal this week. it uses twitter or failing to reveal the number of fake accounts on its platform. now it's a view of the universe that we've never seen before. nasa has released more images from the james web space telescope and was powerful ever launched into orbit. include a pictures of a dying star, a stella nursery, and what's described as a cosmic dance of galaxies. a giving sciences insight into the universe as it was
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billions of years ago. sports coming up after the break with jemma. she's going to explain why these players in the spanish fleet were dancing in south korea. ah ah ah.
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safer than mm hm. and then international anti corruption excellence award boat now for your hero. oh, a gemma. thank you, rob. we start with tennis and roger federer has given his strongest hint that retirement isn't far away. speaking to a dutch newspaper, he said, i'm a lover of winning. but if you're not competitive any more than it's better to stop,
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i don't think i need the tennis. i'm happy with the little things like when my son does something rice, and when my daughter comes home with a good grade, the federal also admitted he's determined to make a return from his injury. layoff he hasn't played a competitive match for more than 12 months. roger federer now unwrapped as a tennis player because he hasn't played in more than a year, has left another bread crumb about his retirement. he said in an interview this week that when he asked to go, it won't be a big deal. he's taking a lot of pleasure this year when he hasn't been playing just taking on time with his family. he has said that he would like to play. we'll do one more time in 2023 . but one thing to consider with novak brokovich is title. at wimbledon, this year, roger federer is 3rd now on the all time list of major winners. and it doesn't look like he's going to be able to surmount either roth, an adult or joke anytime soon. maybe this 3rd place on the all time list is something that's factored in his decision as well. harris, i'm
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a federal case that's a $103.00 a t p titles. he trials, jimmy connors by 6. he was the 1st to reach 20 grand slam victories. his last major, when was the australian open 4 years ago? federal 128 masters torments only naval joke of ich and ra found. a doubt have claimed more and he spent a total of $310.00 weeks as well. number one, while just as federal scaled back, his schedule to prolong his major's career. tiger woods has done the same, and he's hoping it'll pay off for the open championship, which starts on thursday. sometime jury's in scotland is hosting the tournament, and woods says the course means a lot to him. as it's where he won his 1st. i've been twice in 2000 to complete the career grand slam. the significance of winning this event at the home of golf is not lost on his fellow players either. i think it's the holy grill of our sport. so not
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a lot of people are going to get that opportunity to achieve that, but that's a winning and open instant andres. it's it's, it's one of the highest achievements that you can, that you can have in golf. and whether that, you know, there's a lot of great players that have one have one opens and maybe not. one opens at st . andrews. so i think it's unfair to say that a golfer is career is incomplete with that, but it's, it's certainly up there with one of the greatest things you can do in our game. there's nothing more special you couldn't draw up any better. and for me to joyce the clair jug there, there possibly couldn't be a better, better ending to i'd be okay if i just left this earth ahead that point my favorite golf course in the world, i can play that every day and i get tired of it i don't know why, but it's just, i think the coolest open venue everybody there loves golf as a player it's i think the best place in the world to play salma golf. this is
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unlike any other tournament, really the openness, st. anders and the setting. as you come in, these closing holes is even more graham than it was 7 years ago. so very exciting. i think if you're not getting amped up to play in this open, i'm not sure. you know, not sure is the right, great sports for you. 8 time women's european champions, germany a 3 to the quarter finals of this year's tournament, they beat spain, tune and caution. the giant gemini were gifted a golden, the 3rd minutes after a blunder, the spain keeper allowed a clara to take advantage caps in alexandra hall. then headed in this corner back about the full half time, the germany seconds. the wind to the knockout stage, as a witness in spain will pay them up next for placed in the quarter finals at denmark. catherine, with
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a chance off to be seen finland one mill captain, a little harder than grubbing the winter in the 2nd half danish keeper, lena christensen produced a great favor for full time to make sure if the victory in major league baseball, the cincinnati reds, had lost the lost of 49 games when entering the final ending behind on the school board. well, about losing streak is now either officer, a remarkable victory over the new york yankees. cincinnati went down at 3 nothing but found a full runs in the 9th inning yankees than had a chance to win. but the game ended on a c hut double play from the reds which was celebrating they believed. and finally, a few players from spanish football club, severe happy making the most of that pre season trip to south korea, letting some k pop dance moves made famous by bands such as beat. yes. ah
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no about after that severe we'll play a friendly with primarily club hoffman on saturday as the we'll spoke now. i'll have more a little bit later of jenna. thank you very much indeed. and molly, so you've got to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories, including the growing anger and sher lanka. for thousands of people have gathered. appointments, has run it, which i'm seeing is offices in colombo, demanding his resignation. but more than a couple of minutes on robot assembly by ah mm hm. a weekly look at the world's top business stories
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from global markets to economies, and small businesses. to understand how it affects our daily lives, economic damages with counting the cost on o. j. 0. witness confusion, witness clarity, witness. family and witness. friends. witness the beginning. witness. the end witness. life witness went out. he's 0. it's rush hour at the local community center in lieu batch of 15 kilometers from the border with ukraine. that note that cuts jack is a retired russian language teacher and is collecting goods donated by people from all over europe. thought i of we are helping people on the other side of the border . the ones who stayed behind who can lead since russia invaded ukraine,
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danita has been driving across the border every day. crossing the border is always tricky, but the women say that today they have a lucky day because the border guard is someone they know and it's going to be hopefully much easier to bring down the goods in are done no to is we leave to find a less chaotic situation that in the past few days, people seem less exhausted just i'm, i'm not crying. as you can see. the new dos mission has been accomplished for now, but you will return with more goods. as long as russia's missiles and rockets forced people out of ukraine, ah, ah, angry purchased sin, shall i encounter president, gotten by roger pox of fleas. i had a promised resignation.

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