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i'm about to say this is out as you alive from don't also coming up. but as his break into the prime minister's office calling for ronnie wicker, who song had to quit after his appointed acting president a 66 year old hong kong active as known as grandma wall pleads guilty to charges of unlawful assembly v a z. oh, the is going to be 5 me bombers in kenya, feel the effects as the supply of fertilizer from ukraine ones out. aah! joe biden has arrived in israel on the 1st leg of his 1st visit to the middle east as us president. he was greeted and tel aviv bias randy premier seattle appeal biden. we'll also meet palestinian leaders in the occupied. west bank is been a steadfast supporter of israel for decades,

and he is expected to face questions about the killing of palestinian american journalist sharing a booklet 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 has always been the objective we both had. stephanie zach is joining us live from jerusalem. and stephanie, give us an idea of what the agenda is going to be and what the palestinians i'm to israel particularly or expect to notice. well, present biden is currently being briefed done by the defense minister of any cancer . he's taking a tour. i still at a ben curry and airport intensive eve being shown at the iron dome, which of course is a israel's military method that they used to intercept rockets from, gauze,

and also being showed the iron beam which is in you laser system not yet being employed. on the ground, of course, israel yeah, of the usaa is a major donation. and when it comes to money when it comes to the military here after that, we expect him to come out here to jerusalem. and very soon around 16000 police officers have been deployed ah, across the area to secure his visit. he staying not far from where we are, roads are blocked. he will still be visiting later today the holocaust museum here in jerusalem before retiring for the night. now thursday, tomorrow, a busy schedule, particularly he'll be meeting with the interim by minister. yet repeat. there will be a press conference we are expecting. also, some questions are given to the prost. he'll be meeting with the israeli president also with opposition leader benjamin netanyahu will then be attending a sporting event in the evening before then on friday morning, moving toward the palestinian issue. if you will, visiting a hospital and occupied his true sum. it's the 1st time historically that

a president, a u. s. president will be moving away from, let's say occupied his truth when it comes to the old city and actually moving further into that part of the city announcing from what we understand a $100000000.00 in grants to the policy and hospitals. and then moving on to the occupied westbank, bethlehem, specifically where he'll be meeting with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas. you're asked me what to the palestinians and israelis expect, well i think we've heard you know very much what israel is getting out of it. an allegiance, a strengthening of what is a very strong allegiance. introducing israel, let's say strengthen their ties with their arab neighbors. the palestinians are not expecting very much at all. in fact, the americans have been very clear that this is not about renewing stalled peace talks. the yes, there are economic and financial handouts and also when it comes to the killing of our college in ab laughlin calls for accountability there that the americans have, let's say, dismissed if you will, in terms of accountability at the moment. so certainly the palestinian feeling is

that they are a bit of a footnote when it comes to this specific trip. the 1st of us president joe biden as a president here, stephanie deck and western russo and stephanie, thank you very much. do you have some faces for june? had a 40 year high of 9 point one percent. that's higher than predicted. prices and food in housing are increasing much faster than average u. s. incomes with black and hispanic americans. hardest hit. although oil prices have dropped the little, the cost of petrol and diesel is so far higher than a year ago. the euro's dipped below parity with u as dollar and trading on wednesday. it's the lowest valuation of the u currency since 20 or 2, as being driven by fears of a global recession. investors are anxious about a lack of growth across the unison that are also concerns and supplies of russia. gas might be cut to to the war in ukraine was growing younger and sh lanka. after the prime minister was appointed acting president,

thousands of gathered at the offices of prime minister renewal wick, i'm saying in colombo to demand his resignation. despite a state of emergency being declared, many have scaled the walls have broken through the gates. protesters of also entered the state tv and radio offices. security forces of fire tear gas at the crowds, but they haven't disbursed one of them. michelle fernandez is joining us now. from colombo, in a part of the city were demonstrations, have been taking place. it's been a very long and clearly a very remote tuesday in colombo, particularly. but of course, also for, for sure lanka, for viewers who are just joining us to bring this up to date. if you could and what's been happening. so basically we have the day starting with that rather sort of startling news that present gotta be a roger boxer, had managed to flee the country that happened in the early hours of the morning. he was on a military flight that took him to the more lives, obviously,

getting clearance from the maldives. and that happened in the early hours of the morning. this obviously, after the president tried to leave the country on a number of commercial flights yesterday, but being tortured immigration officials, refusing to stand passports of his entourage and, and other complications. so he had to look at other options now. then what happened as the day progressed, one of the 1st things we heard from prime minister on a vicar missing her was a declaration of the state of emergency island wide and curfew in the west. and province. this statement came from his office a saying runner, v, grimacing that has acting president imposes. those regulations and people were quite taken aback because obviously with president gotta be roger. busy boxes resignation, pending, there were still no room for prime minister on a vicar singer to take over as acting president. however, we found this, this ruling. there were certain rules that were put out that the armed forces were

told to arrest people that were coming in sort of crowds in laurie's and things like that. so that happened. and as the day progressed, every one was waiting with bated breath because the 13th of july was that dd of that did that present got our b roger boxer had named as the de he would submit his resignation. but as. busy of this time 730 p. m. local, we are yet to hear or see any signs of that resignation. what we have heard is the speaker of mine the above ordinary saying that the president had told him that he would be sending that resignation. he communications have all been through the speaker. we haven't heard any statements from him. but as of now we haven't had that. the other thing that has just happened within the last hour or 2 is that party leaders were summoned to an urgent meeting by the speaker of parliament, or at 5 pm this afternoon. all of them attended. ironically,

the prime minister of the acting president, as he has declared himself, did not attend the party leader, some of whom i spoke to said there had been an unanimous decision to cause for prime minister on a vicar massena to resign. and they did that ah, but they had also told the speaker in the same breath, that if he does not heed, they're called to resign. they wanted a message passed on to the president, gotta be roger boxer. they wanted the president to sack the prime minister on a vicar missing her before the president submitted his resignation. the background to that is according to sri lanka constitution. the moment the president submits his resignation or says he stepping down, the prime minister automatically assumes the rule as acting president. so for across the board, all the parties that don't want this to happen. mind you of the legitimacy a credibility of runa vica, missing her, who lost his own parliamentary seat,

could not marshall any seats in the last general election, entering parliament through the back door, being appointed on the nationalist. then being sort of kicked upstairs as prime minister in the void created by the, by the resignation of reminiscent mind the raj boxer. people can't even fathom the fact that his prime minister, after losing his seat, they don't even want to think of the possibility that he will assume the role of president. michelle. thank you very much indeed, guzman or fernando, bring yourself to do to her from colombo own dirt. the media in the maldives is reporting that the sri lankan president tobias lodge. epoxy is actually heading to singapore having stopped off in the mall. do so after fleeing. oh, sri lanka, no sauce from seca is a former presidential candidate and retired army chief. he says people are, micky had cleared the don't want more of the same leadership. that means the people are not that being the bottom and hit them and right the bottom and davian out

there on that and specially it comes in not that's a really good thing. it's a very unpopular person. so he's been deciding net, but he did the guy has it that the 40 and the but the whole it both ways and the final will be to take place as we shall not be, but in place for people to continue and be about these people who are struggling my business. you know, i don't understand why the people said that you didn't have the product again to us . i think people have no other choice. they have continually these ones, you know,

put in the general secretary of people's action for free and fair elections, and the executive director of the national peace counsel of sure lanka. he says it's appalling, the state of emergency and a curfew have been imposed. you know that president taba is out of the country. we have not yet to be did not see his resignation letter. we heard about a resignation letter, but it was not public shown to us, so he did not come on television and announces resignation. and then be suddenly heard that prime minister, right over promising had assumed the position of the president. but that didn't matter so much as the fence, but it also announced that he had had a curfew. and not only a coach or an emergency throughout the country. and this was quite appalling because here is a peaceful protest. a peace food is a peaceful revolution. route pieper company, the government, got

a president to leave the country, but peacefully now the protest does have occupying, occupying some of the key state buildings. the presidents, secretary at the prime minister secretary at the president house, president time this is house. and now that's another office of the, of the, of the prime minister. so i suppose a state cannot accommodate that. this also has to stop by the supposed to be need to get a government that the people have trusted. and that is where we are. we want the all party government to be appointed very soon and we were hoping that would happen, but it is. but now this, this, this maneuvering that is taking place that all these process be delayed because very bad for us because we need to have a handbook, cohesive government soon to be able to get out of the economic more s with that

internet go ship with the i'm, if you convince friendly governments that we are to get the united to get it as people we are united, it's simply the additions are not united people. we want to tend the message to the international community. we, we need your assistance and we are ready to absolve the assistance you give in the proper way. still had on al jazeera travel chaos in europe as airports limits, numbers and unions. gordon strike and the u. s. looks to gain the upper hand over china in the battle for influence in the pacific. ah, the journey has begun. the 34 world camp is on its way to catherine hook your cattle package today is effectively wet season for the philippines moment and particularly for the north. and if you take that line across that it also is going

to include cambodia sometimes vietnam but more immediately thailand and mean by that there also are big shouts. the south that you. busy follow right, emphasize to the philippines than to was so the way see the band archipelago and the west, west papua, otherwise it's pretty well scattered showers in there are periods of quite prolonged dry weather in india and melisha. melisha had indeed sudden and central china, which is maybe a little unusual. this is a seasonal right now. it's very obvious. he was quite focused and for the line across to japan. flooding is likely from this. and it's been raining heavily in the korean peninsula, and it'll go back in there again, shanghai, to the sas of all. this is in the remarkably dry and quite hot weather. indeed, that is a new record. 40 degrees of there about just hit his record did yesterday, we might maintain that heat for a day or so. then the showers come down probably bit asunder, but it might disperse or actually hit the city. but for the sas part, from occasional chairs around the south coast, it's very dry for china. after india,

marashi has been very wet recently and the walling still in the her astra and in good europe for the next day or 2. i saw air with visual airline of the journey blue. ah, ah ah, wherever you go in the world, one airline goes to make it feel exceptional. katara always going places to go. ah ah,

you want to hold a 0 reminder of our top stories this our jo biden's arrived in israel and his 1st visit to the middle east as us president. these promised to advance israel's regional integration biden. we'll also meet palestinian leaders in the occupied westbank us inflation for june, hit a 40 year high of 9 point one percent. that's higher than predictive prices of food and housing are increasing much faster than average u. s. incomes with black and hispanic americans. hardest hit. was growing anger, ensure lanka, with phases of people are gathered to the offices of prime minister vanilla with thomas in colombo, demanding his resignation, is taken over as acting president after go to buy a bunch of pucks up, select the country the veteran, hong kong activists known as grandma wall has been jailed for 8 months, the 66 year old pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful assembly. she's one of more

than 10000 people who've been arrested during rally's, calling for political reform. adrian brown reports from hong kong. another day, another hong kong activist on trial. this time an elderly woman who's 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 and she's been arrested and imprisoned multiple times. he wants her truck free again. and 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 are 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 toners melodies, condemned the presence of a u. s, as sawyer and an area of the south china sea,

it claims beijing said the u. s. has been fold past due to the potter cell islands, which china occupies, but are also claimed by taiwan and vietnam. the u. s. it's 7 feeds said unlawful and sweeping claims in the south china sea pose a serious threat to the freedom of the seas. travel chaos is expected across europe . airlines have been forced to counsel thousands of flights due to strike action and staff shortages. the decision to limit the number of departing passengers to 100000 a day at london's busiest airport he throw is said to make matters even worse. where we challenge is more from malaga 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. they are going to be doing that this week. they're going to be doing that next week. and the week after, and on top of that, you have a strikes from easy jets or crew as well. and other low cost airline. 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 in june. and they are demanding, well, easy jets of demanding, better pay ryan air or 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 of the strikes, the 12th of july, ryan, air flights were disrupted. well, 249 of them were distracted across by 15 of those were cancelled at 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 requirements on, on airlines to men's hain, a minimum service. here as goblins place to triple it's funding for pacific island nation's bureaus. vice president campbell harris made the announcement during a meeting of the regions leaders in fiji. it seen as the latest attempt to counter china's growing influence. wine, hey, reports from super 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 think back seeking to undermine the rule as or lima and united. 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 . as 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 law. oh pardon. as noah 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, durn 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 run booker has told al jazeera that australia and new zealand have taken the region for granted for too long. we felt that be association and all the assistance and corporation a we've had in the past was enough to, to keep the cohesion of the region. or unfortunately yo, 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 fresh on a talks with in russia and ukraine, 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

green stock in ukraine. ships are held up at ports and faced the danger of mines laid in the black sea. it was added to the pressure on the global food supply, leading to shortages in several parts of the world. the un says the price of fertilizer has tripled in the past year or production as hard. it's a 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 harvests. animal tasa met some of them in campbell county, l u n. g here is worried is a shortage effect lies in kenya. he says a bag that used to cost $20.00 is now around 60. that's too expensive for many farmers here. the are going to go and hunger because there's nothing because there's no food in for the food there. there is no nor harvest in there in the gardens. so the are going to go hunger. there is, oh, there is going to be 5,

mean i in this place, one of his neighbors, frederick, me, rudy is in trouble. his beans have failed. he says he couldn't afford fertilize on the thunder quite. i know a glimmer. i might have to give up on farming. that means, but it's something i've done all my life in mail, but it is not working. fertilizer which provides a new chines needed to help crops growth 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 stay 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 heat are also rising. sometimes there is

government subsidized fertilizer, but it's in short supply vicious crisis where lisa, pri, of the room or to use. i don't, i will definitely we don't know how long committed this is the this tuition oliver didn't know. hold on. so we, i just bring from 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 or al jazeera campbell county, kenya. the un security councils passed a resolution to extend cross border age deliveries into series, last rebel held region, but only for 6 months. permission for shipments from turkey into northwestern, syria expired on monday. after russia vetoed an attempt to renew the mandate for

the year, our diplomatic editor, james bass, has more from the united nations. after days of uncertainty, the security council renewed permission for humanitarian aid to flow from turkey into syria. but for just 6 months, it was deeply controversial. the u. k. france and the u. s. abstained a resolution with a 12 month timeline, which is what the you and an 8 agencies requested was defeated on friday when russia used it's vito. the vote we took this morning as what happens when one council member takes the entire security council hostage with the lives of syrian men, women, and children hanging in the balance. the resolution that was finally passed was very similar to the one russia had itself proposed on friday. then 13 out of 15 council members had voted against it, norway and ireland introduced the new version. look, 1st of all, this was not

a decision taken on the basis of a russian draft to day. this was a cold ban holder, russia air ireland and to know raise a draft. now the words different. i think on the face of it, you may look at that and say that change, but you know that the devil is in the detail. and i think if you look at the checks, there are significant differences. what is different is a pause requiring the un secretary general antonio good terrorist to provide report on the age situation. by december, he gave me his reaction to the new resolution. we have been asking for the renewal of a cross board. the point as it is essential for, for the people in italy, it's a matter of life and there are many of them that we have asked for a renewal over whenever the secret was 6 months. but i strongly hope that after the 6 months or it will be renewed,

the head of the human rights group, amnesty international says the events of recent days show the work of the security council is now virtually paralyzed. after the rule, donald a different system, the security council, as well as he's clearly demonstrating that she has upon the end of its past right now. something else need to come up with just a 6th month extension. members of the security council will have to renegotiate humanitarian aid in syria in january. that's a time of year when conditions are particularly tough for people in northern syria because of the harsh wintery weather. james bayes al jazeera of the united nations . ah, this is all it is here. these are the top stories. joe biden has arrived in israel on his 1st visit to the in middle east as u. s. president, a promise to advance israel's regional integration by mill.