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joe biden is arrived in israel. his 1st visit to the middle east as us president. he was greeted and tel aviv bye is really premise of yet le pete biden will also needs palestinian leaders in the occupied. westbank is been a steadfast supporter of israel for decades and is expected to face questions about the killing of palestinian american journalist sharing a black lab. the connection between the israeli people and the american people is blown deep. it's blown deep generation after generation. a connection grows. we invest in each other. we dream together. we're part of what as always been the objective we both had. okay, stephanie doc is joining us now live from western loosening. what's happening today? stephanie?

while we just heard the conclusion of speeches at banker in he's now going to meet with his rating defense minister benny gans, where he'll be briefed by the military on various israeli security systems including the iron dome which is of course a system that israel uses to intercept rockets from garza and also something called the iron beam. this is a laser based system that israel has been working on. it is not employed of physically on the ground at the moment, but this is something that they're going to be discussing after that is expected to come here to drew's them, the main highway between tel aviv andrews and will be closed, the roads around where we are already being close and immense security presence on the ground here, rob $16000.00 extra police officers, including of course, secret service that are monitoring the security situation. and as we mentioned, as he mentioned his present biden mentioned, he will be passing by and visiting the holocaust museum before retiring in his hotel for the night. thursday sees a very busy schedule for president biden. he will be doing the political rounds

here in israel with the intra my, the acting prime minister in lapierre, also meeting with the alternate minister briefly. natalie bennett, also opposition leader of benjamin netanyahu and the president. we also will be expecting a brief press conference and then he may be or may not be attending a sports event in one of the main stadiums here. so that's the plan. and then on friday morning is allocated to the palestinians. he'll be visiting a hospital and occupied his drew some. this is the 1st time that a u. s. president will be moving away from the vicinity of the old city more into east jerusalem. ah, he's expected to give a grant around a $100000000.00 to the policy and hospitals there. and then we'll be moving to bethlehem in the occupied west bank to meet with president mahmoud abbas. but it's going to be a very brief visit before getting on a direct plane, which is for the 1st time will happen from la eve or to agenda where he'll be a calling that g. c. c, conference,

stuff. the thanks very much stephanie decker bringing us up to date from west jerusalem or join me. onset now is our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins. now, when the president was speaking just a few moments ago, he talked about his personal connection with israel. he talked about the shared technology that the both countries have. he also briefly mentioned the 2 state solution. what he did not do in any way was refer to the palestinians by name or in fact in any other way. but what do you make of them? well, he also acknowledged that there would be no sort of agreement in his words, in the near term. that's almost essentially admitting that he has no impact on bringing these 2 sites together, which has been a foreign policy goal of most american presidency in my life time. and so that doesn't look good for joe biden, coming in here. it almost projects weakness. as soon as he set foot on the ground, and that is exactly, it was the opposite of what i think this administration was hoping to project. the

white house has been very clear that what they were hoping to do with this visit is to strengthen dead, the ties that exist between the united states and a strategic allies. of course, israel being that's key strategic allied, the united states, the u. s. congress. democrats, republicans always backing israel, but when it comes to the impact of the united states said they have been very clear, there is going to be no shuttle diplomacy. the u. s. president acknowledging that as he's hit the ground. and so that i think under scores that there is this waning influence, the, the united states has in this region, there's a lot of speculation, isn't there about why this, but this visit is actually happening in the 1st place, because it's taken him 18 months and into his presidency to actually come into into the region. what do you think is going on? well, if this has a lot to do with what's happening in the united states, this is a precedent that is deeply popular with americans,

at least when it comes to the rising prices of every day. items including gas prices, the cost to fill up a gas tank has hit record highs in the united states. we've just had the headlines and inflation now as it are 41 year high in the united states. so this is a pressure president, this under pressure to bring those prices down to the cost of filling up a gas tank. and so he's going to saudi arabia to speak with saudi leaders about pumping more oil to increase supply as so in many ways this visit to israel's kind of tacked on to that. oh, of course, officially the united states is saying that this is about seeing that those ties between saudi arabian israel are strengthened. but that is something that was already taking place was already introduced prior to joe biden, with the introduction of the a. it abraham cords and of course the ties between israel and, and arab nations. but this is now being expanded and israel's also made no secret

of its desire to improve economic and security ties as well. so, and this really has not a lot to do with the impact of the united states, the soul of the united states is trying to put its is stamp and on regional influence. in many ways this trip is starting to underscore the fact that there is that declining influence just the opposite of what the united states may be trying to rejection. kimberly thank you very much. indeed. kimberly halted our white house correspondent. thank you. well, our diplomatic editor james base spoke to the head of amnesty international of the united nations. douglas coloma said barden must demand accountability from his job, including for the killing of al jazeera journalist, sharing of an accurate killed by israeli forces. the center of repression and oppression is in tel aviv that center must be addressed as such. a massive human rights violations including ours demolition, including and none the recognition of palestinian between communities and including

killings. extrajudicial killings, that includes indeed the killing of our american, palestinian journalist, sharyn and the united states. and president biden must demand accountability the press release that was issued last week with regard to the killing of, or of john at least cherry in was shamefully shameful. that he's not what he's being expected from president biden on his visit to israel shows the opposite. he must demand accountability for sharing and, and any one that has been explored, your ticket judicially executed. you must demand an end to house demolitions. you must demand that bed when communities be recognized so that they can live in peace immersed demand and, and to oppression and repression. then more ahead on the news are including the

$66.00. you will, hong kong activist, known as a grand ball won't pleads guilty to charges of unlawful assembly. and then there were age burton's tories begin to whittle down the list of candidates hoping to replace boris johnson. and on the eve of the open championship, we hear from the world's best golfers as they prepare to battle for the clara jug. ah, now ensure a length or weather's growing anger after the prime minister was appointed acting, president thousands are gathered to the offices of prime minister reinhold, with from a single in colombo to demand his resignation. despite a state of emergency being declared, many of scale, the walls all have broken through the gates. protesters have also entered the state t. v and radio offices. security forces have far to tear gas, good crowds,

but they haven't dispersed. was that vaskins lifeless in colombo step, tell us where you are at the moment of what's going on. i don't feel like it on the evening i stole in here in columbia. and as you can see, the crowd to sail on the streets and has been t a gas fired here at the house of the speaker of parliament, then they show in 2 hours on claim. when you can lift it up and show us law, they showing to us how many of tear gas canisters have been fired here just at this one location. oh so you can feel the gas really heavy in the air. if you look at it like doesn't. so what kind of stuff? so crowd is here now they have moved away from the prime minister's office. they've taken over control of the prime minister's office, and now they want it to go to parliament. but they stop here at the speaker's residence because the speaker of parliament has currently a meeting with the party leaders to discuss what's going on. what's gonna happen,

max here in 3 after the president has slapped the country and is this really strong hold for the prime minister to resign and step down as well. so it's all now in the hands of the speaker of parliament together with the other members of parliament to figure out a plan. and that's what they here want to put pressure on. they really want the prime minister to resign to have been demonstrating, protesting the whole day. there has been a lot of d, a gas fire at them, but they're still here on the street and they're really angry. they say there's no food in this country, but look at the security forces. have all these canisters of d, a gas to fire at. these are gonna be that protests, as these are people from all walks of life. you can see women are here, man are here, there's all families here that got out here and it's already getting dark, but this is not stopping any time soon. instead, if, if i understand correctly, it was the parliament speaker who denounced that upon claim that the prime minister rick on the singer had been appointed acting president by a, by

a raja coxa prior to record roger packs up, leaving the country. but there are questions aren't there about how legal that process actually is really clear about whether or not the prime minister is actually legally entitled to do what he's doing. oh, no, that's a very good question because we only found out about this delegation of power. so to speak by the president to the prime minister, hours after the prime minister already had declared himself as acting president. and he immediately declared a state of emergency and curfew here in colombo and other parts of the country. so only hours after that, there was this news that the prime minister said that the president had officially handed over power to him. so there's a lot on clarity about this whole process. and of course people are really angry about it. they say we really want both of them to step down to have all sat,

the prime minister is involved in what's happening in that we long had a crisis. the huge price of the bankruptcy where the country is in right now. they say has also been caused by the prime. minnesota is for them no reason for the prime minister to state. they say done all the protests that we have done here. and the last couple of months would be in vain. they want a real change here and they want to have influence over this plan for the future off the country. so thank you very much and needs to have us and talking to us from outside the speakers office in colombo. let's bring in from michelle fernandez. michelle has been following the day's events as well in other parts of colombo, mano, a very, is this confusion about whether or not they are the legality of the price. the prime minister situation exists, talk us through what you have been seeing today and what your understanding of what the current situation is. so as the day dawned,

and shortly after what we heard was an announcement by the prime minister that he as acting president, was imposing a state of emergency countrywide and was extending the curfew in the western province. now lots of people reacted with disbelief because they did know the present. gotta be roger boxer had left the country that happened in the early hours of this morning. and we, we heard that term information that he had fled on a military plane out to the maldives. but what happened was nobody knew how run over grimacing, who was exercising that authority or do as the day went up. you know, as it progressed, we had information from the speaker that the president had informed him that he had indeed authorised running vicar missing her and to act as acting president. but bear in mind, no one has seen any proof of this. there's no written authorization. and as a result, given the happenings injury longer over the recent weeks,

people are very, very skeptical. now having done that, i've been a v, the prime minister who has called himself the acting president will goes on to basically set up a committee of the 3 armed forces chiefs and the defense secretary, claiming that they have been set up to restore law and order in shall anchor. now i have just heard from a couple of the party leaders who had that meeting with the speaker that you had step referring to. ah, they have just finished that meeting. and apparently one of the key things unanimously. they had all called for prime minister runner, vicar missing, or to resign, to step down. now the a strange thing is the prime minister o acting president as you wish to call him, did not turn up. obviously he thinks he's got, you know, bigger priorities on his plate, but definitely the political process is to be the priority. now the sort of

peaceful and the sort of a comp transition to power, but he didn't turn up. so what the party leaders unanimously my social is so me had asked the speaker that in the event that that resignation letter of gotta be raj, a buck so still to be a received by the speaker. but if the prime minister run a vicar missing her, does not heed their cause to step down, they have conveyed to prison, go toby roger boxer through the speaker that he should sacramento vicar missing before he tenders his resignation. the thinking behind that the background behind that is sri lanka constitution allows for the prime minister automatically to become acting president the moment the president steps down. so party leaders are trying to circumvent that. they're trying to not allow that to happen. so ether, unovia, grimacing, does not heed the party leaders collective called to step down. they have asked the speaker to ask the president to sacramento vicar missing her before he sends in his

resignation. so that's where things stand from. what we're hearing so far, michelle, thank you very much. do. michelle fernandez talking to us from the other part of our columbus with those protests have been taking place. let's bring in shaneka and ross. and monica is the opposition member to parliament representing the thomas national lines. he's joining us now from colombo. thank you very much. indeed, sir. forbid for being with us. or what is your opinion about what is happening in the country at the moment? thank you for having me on the program. i just like to add to up know that the situation has chaos, has a rice in the country because the president promised that he would resign from the country that he would resign on the 13th of july when the protest as to where his office and his residence on the 9th of july and just like college presidents as being full on food promises and full of false promises and will your shipment guns

even with his resignation, he has failed to resign that he has promised. so that time right now is almost 7 pm in colombo and we still haven't seen a single resignation letter from the president. however, at the same time, primary surrounded sigma was also appointed as prime minister by president. what i did, i did actually, when he is older brother mine, that i did actually signed following a law protest that happened on the 9th of me. which was, which are which then led to state sponsor, terrorist backing the full breakfast on the 9th of may. and i know the kind of thing of the appointment has also not been accepted by lumpkins because he did not even be in his seat in parliament. he came to the parliament to the nationalist, so there is no way that the country is going to accept running to become a c, as even as the acting primary stop acting president even for a minute or even for an hour or so. and best buy me around to become a scene, needs to resign, along with president, would have it as part of the says being the key to of the primary demands of the

protest this and to these 2 demands are made. i'm not, i don't believe that the long can, but this doesn't stand down because they do not see a way forward that we've done it because in the hot seat, at the same time, it's important to note that the government of sudan got the main ruling party had 2 thirds majority in parliament and i still believe that they have majority in parliament. so if party mondays to according to our contribution once the president resigns, a private of the should be chosen from parliament within 7 days. if its, if its lifted the parliament to choose another president within 7 days, naturally they're going to propose any leg member from the ruling party. we just lost all these girls. we just lost all this economy crisis back to being president . so it has happened in the past, maybe the government, the ruling body should allow for a minority government calling and because opposition has numbers than the government in parliament. but the people have rejected that the main building for

the jennifer, my part of the students that i let me ask you, forgive me for interrupting you, but you've raised a very interesting point, particularly for those of us who are watching all of us develop from, from outside shoreline care that one of the fundamental issues here to, to those of us about watching appears to be a massive breakdown, entrust between the people in sri lanka and the government process. not just the central government and the ruling party, but the actual process itself. how is whoever takes over as a leadership, whoever takes over as prime minister and as president? how do, does the government rebuild that trust with the shoreline can people before it is able to move forward in the process with some sort of process to actually make things better and sure, lanka, well, it's a very painful and long process to recovery for the c lumpkins and in terms of trust building measures with the public. i think the 1st point for trust building mission should be that the president and the prime minister should not be people

who have been part of the government because destroyed the country's economy for the last 2 years. the breakdown and trust this happened, but people have lost faith than hoping parliament. they died parliament system as well because the majority ruling party has a 2 thirds majority. they have, they have at every single point they have brought in laws that is unhealthy for she lamp and they have passed it just because they have majority support in parliament . so, you know, the way forward is for people to see that somebody that has not been part of this corrupt system that has not somebody who has not been part of creating dismiss, should lead the company and should be accepted to the acceptable to the people. otherwise, it's going to pass even more care and the people of the country are not going to extend the product through continuing beeble end up becoming a country like libya. so right now i would like to urge the international community to intervene because if the president by mrs, do not wish to resign, it is the job of the international community intervene to make sure that they resign on behalf of the 22000000 to lot of people we have seen in the past in the 2

in 2009 during the last is of the woman. thousands of people were killed by the state on state forces. there were, there was a note, there was that people urge to invest your community to intervene. however, no interventions were done and we have not thousands of them are people at that time. so i'm not saying that it's a whole situation right now, but it's a humanity in crisis in terms of food security and all that. so i think it's time that the national community to be, especially countries like india, america, europe, in japan, australia, united kingdom, all these countries need to intervene because that is the only way that the prime minister in the prison, by going to resign a lease for interrupting you unfortunately, time is against us, but we're very grateful to you. thank you for being with us and i'll just here so thank you very much. thank you for having. thank you. thank you. thank you. as a place for june header, 40 year high of 9 point one percent higher than predicted prices of food and housing and increasing much faster than average us incomes with black and hispanic americans. hardest head, although fuel prices have dropped,

the cost of petrol and diesel is still much higher than a year ago. the euro has dipped below parity with the u. s. dollar and trading on wednesday. it's the lowest valuation of e u currency. since 20 o 2 is being driven by fears of a global recession, investors are anxious about a lack of growth across the euro's on. there also concerns the supplies of russia. gas might be count due to the war in ukraine. china's military's condemned the presence of a u. s. destroyer in an area of the south china sea. it claims beijing said the u. s. s. ben full party of the potter cell islands, which china occupies, but are also claimed by taiwan and vietnam. the u. s. 7 fleet said unlawful and sweeping claims in the south china sea pose a serious threat to the freedom of the seas. so that and hong kong, active as known as a grandma wong has been jailed for 8 months. the 66 year old pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful assembly is one of more than 10000 people who been arrested

during riley's calling for political reform. adrian brown reports from hong kong, another day, another hong kong activist on trial. this time an elderly woman whose often taunted police by waving the flag of britain, the former colonial power her grandma wong is the nickname she was given by protested during the unrest in 2019. she also stood out because of her age 66. wong, whose real name is alexandra, began demonstrating more than a decade ago since then. she's been arrested and imprisoned multiple times. he wants track 3 again, 3 again. anyhow, 6 months ago she was arrested again. one's already spent more than 6 months in custody. on wednesday, the magistrate convicted her of 2 charges of a legal assembly,

sentencing her to 32 weeks in jail. that's almost 8 months. her 3rd jail term in almost as many years. one made headline 3 years ago during the height of the pro democracy demonstrations. when she vanished for 14 months, she was arrested by chinese police after crossing the border a day earlier, another elderly protest, her who also once attracted attention, was sentenced to 9 months for attempted sedition. couso you is 75 and has stage 4 colon cancer. there were now concerns he may die in prison since 2019 more than 2800 people have been prosecuted for protest related offenses. the security law imposed by beijing in 2020 has effectively criminalized descent here. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong, as part of the weather, his rob, spain is the hardest part of europe at the moment,

just across the board. in portugal, there are warnings out of effectively a heat wave. continuing net for look at the satellite pitch you think? well, that looks a bit odd because this looks like it's bringing in shout, and indeed that line there. is that a thunder storms? so will it come on shore? i think it's unlikely you might see some evenings under further north. certainly is cloud use a little bit of light is rain possible basically though things don't change very much today the the forecast is still about 38 in lisbon. now that is the hottest day after day. it does indeed cool down. so something has changed in portugal. at least we can only hope, but that's not true across the border in spain. this will remain in the middle forty's for a long time, and there's no prospect of immediate rain, which means we'll see more of this. this is in portugal. central portugal, the fire still burning, still being false, but if man does it, the weather is not going to help at all. it's going to continue for quite a while yet the heat itself is also going to spread out a sprain in porch cool, probably across the western solid europe into france that up towards the bridge

else, but it'll take a couple of days to do it. so i take years for saturday, it looks like this. then the 5 day forecast for london suggests a possible new record. next tuesday. so head on al jazeera, travel chaos in europe as airports limit numbers in unions, drones stripe, plus he protesters in panama, tell the government itself up to top fuel prices is not enough patterns for to shop the loss of a yankee is in the final leaning against the sonata ah ah

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ah, what a 0 mind of the top stories this on. those going on going to lanka with thousands of people are gather that prime minister venue victim slingers offices in the colombo, demanding his resignation. is taken over as acting president south or go to buy a raj, epoxy fled the country. us inflation for june had a 40 year high of 9 point one percent. that's higher than predicted. prices of food in housing are increasing much faster than average us incomes with black and hispanic americans. hardest hit. jo biden's arrived in israel and his 1st visit to the middle east as us president is promised to advance israel's regional integration biden. we'll also meet palestinian leaders in the occupied west bank. well, johnny min allen said is i'll just hear the senior political analyst. my one big shot when joe biden spoke when he got off the plane. he talked about the

relationship with israel, talked about his personal relationship with israel. he talked about sharing of technology. he made a brief reference to what he regarded his as his support for the 2 state solution. it didn't made mention, palestinians a tall. what's your taken all of this? well, i mean, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say, what today is israel to morris palestine 1st to give him the benefit of the out. but in real terms, that's what joe biden is all about. he's about is red and his special relationship with israel. and among all the presidents that i've reviewed since 1948, i think the job by them comes closest to be not exactly over ambitious, over zealous support of israel. but the more systematic slash theological stars, strategic ally of israel, among all u. s. presidents. the 1st time he landed in israel was in 1973. now 50 years later he sounds the same. when he 1st met that premier,

so called golden me at the time. now he's meeting with yale, appeared a much younger prime minister. he's a much older president, but he sounds just the same is his yes. think about israel and more than happy and passionate to support the jewish thing that they are white as corresponding kimberly hawk. i was told, telling me earlier on that the impression that is given in the states that the focuses on gas prices is on fuel prices. and the prices at the pump, that is the priority of the americans. joe biden has made it clear that in america is his priority. domestic politics is his priority. when it comes to things like this, he's doing this trip in it, to israel on his way to saudi arabia. and the suggestion is that the kimberly was putting forward is that this essentially has been tacked on. it's maybe not an after thought, but it's a convenient stopping point to so to rebuild. why do you think that he's decided to make this trip now, given the fact he's been in office for 18 months and only now he's coming to what let us for this. we're barack obama's 1st visit. israel was 40 years after he took

office. but as than tom's for his visit, the zone was 4 months after he took office. so dog by then comes right in between. almost so half way into his presence. but what's more important are the circumstances, domestically and internationally. so i would say the following job by then strip comes out of an urgent need to address regional issues and a growing desire to make america's voice clear for what it is and that his administration the urgent need. yes, oil prices, inflation the urgent need are all eyes who are continuously uncomfortable with their eyes of the united states and are looking for alternative. but china like russia, like europe and so on, so forth. and that does not make any american present comfortable. but there's a growing desire, as i said, in order to make america's voice clear as what america once, because everyone's confused about what does widen. want we still not know what by

then once we probably won't know what by them one but come saturday, but at least we know more or less what he stands for. and that's the 3, these diplomacy deterrence and the escalation, he wants to bring more stability, more predictability to america, foreign policy towards the region. he doesn't want any of the over ambitious programs of barack obama and the arab spring. ah, donald trump and the crazy ideas about moving fuel for or george bush and mission building. so what he's saying is we have limited means we're going to switch these means to the ends, our ends, our stability, as i said, the escalation to parents and diplomacy, including reaching a deal with iran over the nuclear geo. whoa. and thank you very much indeed. i know we're going to be talking to you as this trip continues. any moves on to saudi arabia in that of that is, but for now. thank you very much indeed appreciative. the u. s. government's place

to triple is funding for pacific island nation's u. s. vice president, pamela harris, made the announcement during a meeting of the regions leaders in fiji as seen as the latest attempt to counter china's growing influence. wayne, hey reports from suva. an empty chair at the table isn't the show of unity. pacific leaders wanted at 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 back 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, thought, sumptuous. most was if you are a very happy that a lot of follow up on as an hour, pay more attention to the pacific. 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, done a 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 a 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. we felt that the association and all the assistance and corporation of every head in the art was enough to, to keep the cohesion of the region. a. unfortunately, jo, everybody's eyes opening up to, ah, 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. one was a parliament for the british. conservative party had begun a 1st vote on who's going to replace boris johnson. 8 candidates made it on to the ballad for the next leader of the party. former chancellor wishes so like as the favorite. he kicked off his campaign on tuesday. the seams of boats will take place and the u. k is next, prime minister will be announced on september the 5th. let's good morning. this was

john hall in london. how important are the votes of the tories inventory m, p 's in terms of who eventually is going to become the, the prime minister. while the boat to these m. p 's are crucial course in terms of whittling down this rather broad field of 8 candidates at the moment down, eventually to just to in a series of votes over the coming days. by eliminating those who fail to win a minimum of 30 boats. those final 2 then however, will be put to the membership of the conservative party, not to the fees. and he says that at that point that the calculus potentially changes and changes dramatically. so that while right now it looks as it pretty soon as a former chancellor of the exchequer is out ahead. well in advance in terms of n p endorsements. he's got more than 50 at the moment. off to him perhaps let's trust the foreign secretary, the most likely among m. p. 's. but it is

a 3rd candidate, penny more than the former defense secretary and now international trade minister, who in terms of the latest polling information seems to have an almost unassailable advantage. according to opinion polls among the members. when asked who the members wanted to succeed, baris johnson by father grace a number, said penny mordant. when put up against richie and loose trust head to head, she beat them both handily in terms of that latest polling. and so, increasingly, as this field is whittle down, the 1st round of voting this afternoon, eyes more and more turned towards penny morton too seems to be drawing support from both the left and the right of her party and whose copy book crucially is far less tainted than the others by close association with boris johnson and the scandals of the last few years. so while this campaigning and voting is going on, who's actually running the country?

well there's a can't take a government bars, johnson still in position of course, and he has reappointed ministers to fill the holes of those who resigned last week, but it is a can't take a government. it is a lame duck government. another time when sensible, prop government has seldom been more necessary. inflation close to 10 percent, much of the country in the grip of a cost of living crisis. the railways on strike, the ports in meltdown. and the country enduring this leadership contest and to add to all the disarray next week. it's been announced. the government is tabling a vote of confidence in itself for his johnson is going to lead to open the debate . on monday this ostensibly a response to labours failed attempt to do the same to call a vote of confidence in the government by naming boris johnson directly and criticizing the prime minister, the government said there was no need for that. he's already resigned. so this is ostensibly a pluck hater removed, but it's far more likely to be seen as self interested, self promoting and deeply unnecessary in the current context. jonah,

thank you very much. indeed, john hall talking to us from london or travel chaos is expected across europe. airlines have been forced to cancel violence of flights due to strike action and staff shortages. the decision to limit the number of departing passengers to a 100000 a day at london's busiest airport he throw and set to make matters even worse, roaring challenges, more from mulligan in southern spain. what we have for going on at the moment is the 2nd day of for 4 consecutive days of strike action by ryan air, cabin crew in spain, that they are going to be doing that this week. they're going to be doing that next week. and the week after ad, on top of that, you have a strike sprawl, easy jets or crew as well and other low cost air line. they are going to be striking for 3 days, friday, saturday, sunday, this week, and then another 3 days at the end of the month. now both of these airlines have already been walking out earlier in the summer that they had, sir,

strikes it in june, and they are demanding, well, easy jets of demanding, better pay. ryanair are demanding better conditions in line with spanish employment law. and as an idea of the kind of disruption that this is creating yesterday the 1st day the strikes, the 12th of july, ryan, air flights were disrupted. well, 249 of them were disrupted across by 15 of those were cancelled 234, delayed the way answering peak holiday season. the u. k. foreign office has changed it. travel advice for spain to warn of the disruption of this god of industrial action. but there is a but all this, the spanish ministry of transport basically has a legal requirement on, on airlines to maintain a minimum service. vagina talks between russian and ukrainian delegations about green exports is taking place in turkey. united nations and turkish officials are

trying to ensure the safe passage of millions of tons of grain stuck in ukraine. ships are held up at ports and face the danger of mont la mines laid in the black sea. it's added to the pressure on the global foot supply, leading to shortages in several parts of the world. the un says the price of fertilizer has tripled in the past year while production has hard to knock on effect of russia's war in ukraine. both are major fertilizer exporters in kenya. farmers have been forced to scale back, which is threatening harvest's hardware. tasa met some of them in campbell county, l u n g here is worried is a shortage effect lies in kenya. he says the bag that used to cost $20.00 is now around 60. that's too expensive for many families here. the are going to go and hunger because there's nothing because there's no food in for their food. there is

no nor harvest in there in the abundance. so the are going to good go hunger. the is oh the, there's going to be 5 me. hi, in this place, one of his neighbors, frederic lee, rudy is in trouble. his beans had failed. he says he couldn't afford fertilize a new surf under quarter. no gloomy. i might have to give up on fleming. i mean, but it's something i've done all my life to the mail, but it is not working with him. fertilizer which provides a new chines, needed to help crops grow, is in short supply around the world. several african countries depend on imports, which before the war used to come from russia and ukraine. food for dodson is most at risk in developing nations, where many farmers may not have the financial resources to deal with the crisis. in some countries, some farmers are use a mormon your to narrow state crops. ah, but farm is here say using only minute is not enough. the plants also need the

potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen from fertilizers to grow bigger, faster, and to produce more food. prices of animal feet are also rising. sometimes there is government subsidized fertilizer, but it's in short supply vicious crisis. where the surprise of that all my to use. i don't have it. death given 3. we don't know how long committed and this is the, this tuition oliver. he don't know, hollow jewelry. i just bring to god that the the shop and so that we come back to normal. it's frustrating for g here, who's been farming for 30 years. he's his working. the land has never been. this hod had him a toss al jazeera camper county kenya. according to pans as former executors of japan's focusing on nuclear plant must pay $97000000000.00 in compensation for

failing to prevent a disaster is thought to be the largest amount of compensation awarded in japan. 3 of the fukushima plants, nuclear reactors, went into meltdown after tsunami and an earthquake hit japan. in march 2011, 40 chang reports from tokyo. wednesday's decision here, the tokyo district court does set an important precedent. the financial responsibility for the fukushima nuclear disaster lies not with the japanese government, with a tokyo electric power company. tapco. this decision is very complicated. the court has essentially ruled that a handful of former executives of tapco have to pay out $95000000000.00 us dollars in compensation. that enormous sum is clearly going to be appealed and appealed. are ongoing, already, with decisions yet to be made by the supreme court. furthermore, this case was brought by shareholders of tapco not by the video individuals

involved in the disaster. and so a decade on those he lost their land and livelihood in the folk, ashima disaster. still waiting to be fully compensated tortoises and suing you long, much 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. must said he was withdrawing from the deal this week accuses twitter of failing to reveal the number of fake accounts on its platform. as president joe biden says, dealing with immigration is a hemispheric challenge, shared by both america and mexico. you met mexico's andras manuel loper salvador at the white house on tuesday. biden says they've committed to investment in an infrastructure of the border. the 2 presidents are also discussing global challenges, such as climate change, as well as energy, food, and regional security. panama government has announced measures to curb the rising

fuel prices and some essential food products and follows nationwide protests. alessandra rump yeti reports for 2 weeks protest to take him to the streets of panama. the men in the government take action to combat the high cost of living prices, of gasoline, medicine and basic food items have doubled since the star of the year. i wrote a very regular protesting everywhere, and we are ready to start an indifferent strike until they sit down with us to discuss and find solutions to this and sustainable situation. teachers were the 1st to demonstrate at the start of july, but they have since been joined by construction workers, students and members of indigenous groups in the central province of their ag was protesters blocked the pen american highway affecting access of goods through the panama canal, from other central american countries, president lowering t,

nor could t so blamed cove it in the war in ukraine for the cost hikes. he promised to reduce the price of gasoline by 24 percent and fries the cost of $10.00 basic food items to try and be swayed protesters, order pro lemme, there will be our one of the problems now hitting panamanians and the world is rising fuel prices and the consequences for that reason i set up talks to address high fuel costs directly impacting the cost of staple foods, but out with the objective of finding concrete and feasible solution. in fact, they money that, but on tuesday, protesters called the offer insufficient, demanding larger reductions and vowed to keep up their pressure on the streets. annually say the problem lies in an unequal economic recovery. following the pandemic is no middle macro, establish bundle, the macro numbers a bit on a few items logistics, the national airline mining and the panama canal. but the growth did not trickle down to the population while prices went up. so working class penimen wondering why

if the countries grants its been 5 percent, they are unable to pay for medicine gasoline. the government is hoping for negotiations with union leaders, but for now more demonstrations are planned. international strike is set to go ahead on wednesday. i listened on dick d al jazeera, i suppose coming up after the break with jemma, and she's going to explain why these players from the spanish league are dancing and south korea. ah

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rob. we start with tennis and roger federer has given his strongest hints that retirement isn't far away. speaking to a dutch newspaper, he said, i'm a lover of winning. if you're not competitive anymore than it's better to stop, i don't think i need the tennis. i'm happy with the little things like when my son does something right. and when my daughter comes home with a good grade, but federal also admitted he's determined to 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 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 with them one more time in 2023 . but one thing to consider with novak brokovich, his 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 and adult or job at any time soon. maybe this 3rd place on the all time list is something is factored in his decision as well. okay, so the federal case that 403 atp title thing trials that jimmy collins by 6, he was the 1st to reach 20 grand slam victories. his last major, when was the australian open of 4 years ago, better is 128 masters tournaments and he never took a bitch and ruff amazon has claimed more. and he spent a total of $310.00 weeks as well. number one. well, just as federal scale back, he's scheduled to prolong his major career. tiger woods has done the same, and he's hoping it'll pay off at the open championship, which starts on thursday. since andrew's in scotland is hosting the torment and would as the course means, a lot to him as is why he wanted 1st opens high school in 2000 to complete the career grand slam the significance of winning this events, that the home of golf is not lost on his fellow players either i think it's the holy grill of, of our sport. so not

a lot of people are going to get that opportunity to achieve that, but that's the winning an open instant andres is. it's, it's it's one of the highest achievements that you can, you can have and 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's 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 toy se declared jug there, there possibly couldn't be a better, better ending to. i'd be ok if i just left this earth head that point my favorite golf course. well, i can put 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 unlike any other tournament, really the openness and anders and the setting as you come in these closing holes is even more grand 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, right. sports for you. well no one scottish f la is preparing for his 2nd appearance in the tournaments. he's been in great form in the majors this season. winning them office. i'm finishing joint runner up at the us open. but he's played on the status of the top rank golfer. i don't feel like there's any extra attention on me. there's not. i would say i haven't read much, but i would assume not everybody's pick me when this week just stuff like that. i mean, i don't think i was the favorite maybe going into the masters. i'm not sure if i've been the favorite really going in any tournaments that may not be the true

perception that's just mine, but i don't read a ton of stuff. so for me, i don't really feel like whatever being number one wouldn't wouldn't, would be england. international writing styling has said good bye to manchester city. had of his impending moved chelsea before to spend 7 years with the premier champions making a 337 appearances and scoring 131 goals. he leaves off to winning 11 major titles with man city. chelsea have reportedly paid around $60000000.00 for studying 8 time women's european champions, germany a 3 to the quarter finals of dishes tournaments, baby spain and the great giant gemini would give that a goal in the 3rd minutes after a blunder from the pain keeper allowed clara, to take advantage of captain alexandra then headed in this corner. that was the full half time that was germany's 2nd goal, the wind, 3 to the knockout stage ask route when spain played denmark next were placed

in the quarter finals. denmark kept him with a chance off the beating finland, one mill caps in the middle, harder grabbing the winner. in the 2nd half danish keeper, lena christiansen produced a great saved gesture for full time to make sure the victory and major league baseball, the cincinnati reds, had lost the last 49 games. when entering the final ending behind on the school board. well, that losing streak is now also a remarkable victory. a that the new york yankees cincinnati was down at 3. nothing found 4 runs in the 9th inning the yankee and had a chance to win the game ended on a double play from the red. and finally, a few players from spanish, but will club severe, happy, making the most of that pre season trip to south korea, letting some capable dance, knaves made famous by bands such as the

head of a line, dancing vive, going on. now i think severe will play friendly with the primarily appointment on saturday. that is always full of outdoor. you will have more light, several gem. i thank you very much indeed. now just before we leave you, i'm going to bring you some news that we're getting from agencies. shoreline can president go to bio roger pack site is a party heading to singapore via them all these after fleeing his home country as being reported with them. all these media we're going to have more than that, a couple of minutes. drama that goodbye ah. the saudi good health and so i will follow up on the line that nationwide is one on one. the how do you to visit with counsel the philistine bitten the from the fish for? yeah, we're not in a better for say, yada, that kind of little sob. is it done? well, i can get to shower in the cloud. there's topics here that if wilson thought they're

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