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welcome to the show, joe biden has arrived in israel on the 1st leg of his visit to the middle east as you, as president. he was greeted and tel aviv by israeli prime minister yala speed biden will also meet with palestinian leaders in the occupy west bank. he is being a steadfast supporter of israel for decades, and is expected to face questions about the killing of palestinian american journalists, sharina apalachicola. greater stability, greater connection is critical, is critical for my dad for all the people of the region. which is why will be she will discuss my continued support, even though i know it's not in the near term interstate solution. i remains in my view, the best way to insure the future equal measure of freedom, prosperity, democracy for israelis and palestinians is light. oh, stephanie deca joins us live now from west to reese limbo. stephanie, how carefully choreographed is this trip by j button

while he's really made it the address there, you played part of it to, to these really audience choose a domestic audience. he's facing a low polling ahead of midterms and terms of geography. he's currently at the holocaust museum here in jerusalem. he's arrived from tel aviv yad vashem accompanied by the acting prime minister by the president and by the defense minister. and then he'll be calling it and i shall have an early night and then to mar, really as a political day where we are expecting a press conference with the, our la pete and u. s. president biden. but really in the bigger picture, this is a trip about, you know, the local geopolitics, and as the americans have said, you know, bringing israel into more of acceptance with its neighbors. briefly. he will be meeting the palestinians, but they have no high expectations, even about his dns, highlighting that you know, he's spending around 2 days here in israel and less than 2 hours with present mahmoud abbas in the occupied west bank. stephanie decker in west friesland,

thank you. will as bringing gideon levy use a political commentator and color mister hartz, he joins me now live from tel aviv. now when it came to the previous us president donald trump visiting israel, he did it almost immediately, but it's been a long wait estimate for joe biden. would you make of the timing of all of this? no, when you really judge or the american president or the administration is council, the same, their insurance is different from time to time. but there is no country in the world that the united states is supporting. so much financing, i mean political a support without any conditions, no conditions, nothing in return and their president by then we should continue these already see and therefore accept of their authority. i don't see much difference between him and a doctor. what is the arrival of joe biden to israel ahead of elections them mean

for it's divided political playing field much it is then why would expect them by the end of the day? i'm afraid to say that this is, this is at 3 or 4 local communities. this is a chip which is quite holo, there's really nothing on the agenda. the main core issues are told to be ignored, namely that but it's been an issue that will be some niceties, some photo unity is it for sure helps. yeah, that be to establish some kind of image of a stage man by the end of the day, few hours. go by then we leave here. it would be totally forgot. it seems to be an extremely awkward position for joe biden to be put in launch the because he's meeting both sides of the political spectrum. but he doesn't know who's going to be

in power in a few months time. it must be a difficult type for for him to walk. so maybe it's a good reason though to come in such a diet. you know, he knew each in advance that this is really a twilight image between one government and the other. but i seem to that american interest is quite here to try to who in college and supposed to be, even though i'm a steady with today. no, it was who's been germany, but you know, he was the only 0 a need to present them by then she was all the others you much more she's you can leave a political commentator and call them to her. it's live and ton of a thank you. thank hill. oh it's for lancaster. thousands of people have taken to the streets and anger after the prime minister was appointed acting president. please 5, tear gas in an effort to disperse. the crowds gathered outside ronald vic, grimacing as office and colombo. he's declared

a state of emergency. protest isn't scaled walls and broke down the compounds gates they demanding his resignation. he r just the lawn gun. yeah. 3 long gun dividends, iowa, to save the country, served them on the land. in 2 consecutive days, the president of this country, i confirmed that he's going to reside. but up on, you know, we have no clue for mason. nobody's indignation. so that is why yours is people out here or this thing and urging odami, i did bucksta who's been days resignation immediately so that the person will back to the normal vote of life. he's or place president, go to buy a roger packs who's fled to the mold eaves off to bumps a pressure for him to go. the speaker of parliament side to the constitution when he appointed vick from a singer to the presidency on the savvy. as the president has left the island, i was informed that in terms of article $37.00, subsection one of the constitution,

the prime minister, mister ronald rick grimacing, was appointed to cover the duties of the president while protested or refusing to accept his appointment and avow to continue demonstrations, the armies top general, his appeal for com, them says his forces will respect the constitution. all right, well michelle fernandez joined this now from colombo in another part of the city where demonstrators, demonstrations have been taking place. manella extremely busy and turbulent. they, they're in colombo, briefly walk us through how things are for transpired. literally in the last half an hour. the protest is standing outside the main junction that leads into the sri lankan parliament complex. have been t a guest once again. we were literally right on the edge of the crowd and there was an oil mighty sort of movement of hundreds, if not thousands of youngsters,

mainly who had essentially flocked to the parliament. this is looking towards all the developments they were told that parliament would convene on the 15th. it's almost to, you know, look towards that for tomorrow. but what happened was, when we drove into the area, the area was pretty much incomplete darkness. electricity had been switched off so all of these people were close to the barricades. 5 and, and wondering what was happening and literally with, with, nor warning, not that these people were pushing against the barricades. we were right there. when all of a sudden there were tear gas volleys. you did hear earlier in the day that was almost a bucket load of indic empty canisters. it seems like the military has not drawn out because we did see within the short space of about 2 or 3 minutes, that there were at least 10 or 15 canisters let loose in all directions, with the darkness, obviously,

and strategy people started running in all different directions, there's a kind of a, a park and a water park, and a sort of a sitting area and people just started spreading all over. there were essentially also some of the, a sort of, some of the protest as there was some baton charging in the dark in the mealy, no one knew exactly what was happening. so that's the latest in terms of this heavy, heavy military presence that we've seen near the barricades and miller law. up until now the military, the police are being largely light handed in their approach to get the feel with that is changing at all. well if you just look at the way it the day has unfolded to day, we had a number of locations and flash points. now it was not to say that the protest as were what threatening life and limb. yes. for example, if you look at the prime minister's office this afternoon,

they were pushing to try and gain entry. and obviously there was a, a human lion of military holding that foot. not letting go, but the tear gas rolling. and now the sort of baton charges seem to be going over the top. what some of the human rights activists keep pointing out, and i can still hear a couple of more canisters. the fumes as i speak are very, very strong. it renders one almost breathless, like you're having a ways that you can't breed your skin bones. but basically, what human rights activists have warned, the police and the armed forces as well to realize that the need to be conscious of what a legal orders are. and particularly in this power vacuum, where you are having the prime minister run a vicar missing. oh, who is assume the rule of acting president of calling out all these troops?

there are some very important questions to be answered and people are just sitting around either throwing up are trying desperately to catch their breath or trying to recover from that t a guess. it was such a thick, thick wall of smoke that most of the people in every single direction had to navigate through. mal, do stay safe, michelle fernandez there in columba now. so why are protested demanding the resignation of sir lancaster acting? president herano, vic from a singer, the 73 year old didn't win a seat in the country's 2020 parliamentary elections, nor did any of his u. n. p party. instead, he was nominated to a seat figure i'm a singer, was appointed prime minister by go supplier roger packs are in may after may hinder roger packs are resigned from the office under pressure from protests, demonstrators, c, v grammar singer as an unelected leader with close ties to the former president and part of the political elite, responsible for thrilling because economic crisis. okay,

well let's bring in the irony amara sariah. she is an opposition member of parliament for the national people's power party and joins me now live for from colombo. welcome to the show. so we find ourselves very much in the bizarre situation where the president has fled abroad, presumably to the mold is possibly as far as singapore. we have the man that nobody wanted to be president. now president, surely all of this is just inflamed tensions, much worse than it could have been oh absolutely. 1 and what people expected to be and people were sort of gathering to sandy brant, the big 3 of the objectives that had been taking place was there is a patient of the president and the designation of the prime minister 9 to has happen. instead, we are now stop. we do presidents because the president has the form of a pop, so hasn't resigned. he's appointed an acting president. he's absence.

and the agreement that all of the party leaders reach to be to speak a few days ago that these to would resign, that the speaker would act as far as acting president and dad. parliament would be called on the 20th to elect a new president. all of these things are now on looking, uncertain, although the priming is running a bit from us. we had to be, has he kicked at that? probably mine. we'll go ahead and send you. however, you critical issue. he's a board. rodney, we're going to see about to resign. we dial designation. it's going to be extremely difficult to get people off the streets to deescalate the tension and the violence that you're seeing now as a pushing back on to percent of women. conflicting stories about whether or not this resignation from go to a higher roger box, or is actually going to come

a tool. apparently, there are words for the speaker saying that a letter has been tabled in the bay may or may or may not have seen it. what is your understanding from your viewpoint? yeah it's, it's very confusing because as you said, that being contradictory reports, the speaker has stated that the nato, a busy day should, will come once a reaches a point of safety. now that's, that's where downside me is when that exactly that will be at what, what he means by of, by a safe location. he's currently be understanding the body of trying to leave the mod, so till he leaves and reaches his next destination. apparently this letter of resignation will not be appreciated. he had a dog so that that's, that's the uncertainty a sort of interrupt. i mean, as

a member of parliament yourself, surely you must be concerned that all of this instability will just simply a road trust and all politicians from across the political spectrum. no, no, absolutely either that anyway with those that of resignation of the president and the prime minister. now the pressure is on parliament a. 1 during the protest itself, the parliament was heavily criticized by the protest us for its ability to actually intervene meaning for me. and this is, this is mainly because the department now as it stands is constituted with the 2 thirds majority in favor of the body. that is representing the president as, as the opposition. we are very much, i don't want to back 40 mean being able to push through the kinds of reforms or to influence the decision making process within the parliament. that the ruling regime has a 2 thirds majority. so which is why the opposition parties have been pushing for

a dissolution of argument? because we feel that this fundamental along the has any digital mercy that he's no longer accepted by the people of this country. and just as much as the president of the prime is to have to be highly monday has to be dissolved in a fresh election because as soon as it is feasible, you know, it did to establish a government that has some i'm just going to actually do or roy or rainy? i'm ira sariah. thank you so much for your insights. a member of the opposition, a parliament for the national people's power policy. thank you. thank you. now plenty more. i had all the news i including oh, protested in panama. tell the government it's over to offer to come fuel prices is not enough. travel chaos in europe. possess thoughts,

limit numbers and unions go on strike. electrons force one of the favorites. women's european championship books of sports in the quarter 5. ah, us inflation for june. it's a 40 year high of 9 point one percent higher than predicted. prices of food and housing are increasing much faster than average us incomes with black and hispanic americans, hardest hit, or the oil prices have dropped to little. the cost of petrol and diesel is still far higher than a year ago. okay, well let speak to mike hannah, he joins this lie from washington, d. c. i, mike, what does this say about the state of the us economy? well, these latest figures indicate that inflation continues to saw. it is asked by some 1.5 percent on last month's figures, which were in themselves

a record high. so this blow to the bite and administration, which has been intent on reducing inflation, but also it scared the stock market because now very clearly the reserve bank is going to increase interest rates in coming months may be weeks in order to try and counter this ongoing inflation, president biden has issued a statement in which he says, these figures are not entirely accurate as saying that they do not take into account the drop in gas prices that have occurred over the last 30 days. now prices have dropped by some $0.40 a gallon over the last 30 days, which is the one bright sign. if one could see it in these particular figures. president biden saying that even this drop would have a major impact on family is struggling to cope in this rising inflation. but looking at the other figures it makes will her refill reading air travel, for example, is up by 43 percent. over the past year,

ren so up by 5.8 percent car prices up by 11.4 percent. these are disturbing figures and certainly are going to probably have a massive impact on the november election with president biden and his administration being held responsible. many thanks, mike mike haller in washington, d. c. a cable. joining us live now from lexington, massachusetts is jonathan greenberg. he's a professor of economics at the massachusetts institute of technology. welcome to the program, sir. i'm firstly, can i get you to, to unpack these figures for us, why the numbers going the wrong direction? you know, i, d, the figures are very confusing right now. this is one of the most confusing set of conflicting economic indicators that we've seen a long time. we've got some fines that the labor market is incredibly robust with a large increase in hiring according to some surveys and a low unemployment rate. on the other hand, we have other concerns that the economy is slowing down based on slow economic

growth. so we don't really honestly know what's going on to be to be clear. one thing we do know is inflation is up. and the big question in everybody's mind is, is this going to become what's called entrenched is this can be constant something which is sort of a vicious fire or where people fear inflation. so they raise prices, which causes more inflation. um, and that's where the big debate is in economics is right now. but what, what sectors of u. s. economy are most fragile to a spike in inflation? well, i mean, i think, i really, if you have a spike inflation, it's really about just consumer household balance. sheets, it's really just about the fact really in some sense, inflation at this point is almost more of a political concern than economic concern. i think that we are in a situation, remember, prices did not go much at all. during the pandemic, individuals have a lot of extra money because of government support. so i think that basically the

real issue with inflation is really what it does to the policy for our country, more than economics. and who has the power to affect change here? is it is the politicians or is it financial institutions? oh, i think honestly neither has much power. honestly, you know, the headline number inflations gas prices, which doesn't depend much on what either of those parties do are, i think that the fed has the most power of anyone which in setting interest rates. and the big thing they have to worry about is, as always, they have a dual mandate, which isn't the one hand to insure price stability. on the other hand, to try to promote economic growth. and the question is, does the fed think that economic growth is still overheated? in which case they need a large interest rate increase. and that would be indicated, for example, by the robust growth in jobs or the fuel economy is under performing, which is more about the slow g p growth, in which case it would want to sort of slam on the brakes. right. and what about

the risks ahead? i'm thinking to political risks, lingering after effects of covered 19, possibly bringing about further locked downs in china, the war, new crane. how might a perfect storm of problems continue to worse and the issues there? once again, we are a perfect storm is right that turns over use, but it seems like a pretty good match here. we have remember cove, it is not over. certainly in both the i have been in the logical sense and economic sense is still massive. lack of supply chains that will get resolved for being slow in being solved. you've got the war, you've got the lock down to china. you've got lots of uncertainty going on right now. so the fed, once again, is trying to figure out how to deal with that. i think debate right now is between 2 sides. one side would say, look, the fed needs to make sure that people are comp inflation one come back, and that means a large rate increase, even if it risks saying use economy back and recession. the other side says, no,

wait a 2nd, there's too much uncertainty right now. there's not enough evidence, just a large rate increase defense, keep an eye on things. and the piece of evidence base site most is the fact that long run inflation expectations still remain low. that individuals don't convince this is a long run problem, but rather short run problem. so that's, i would suggest that defect is not easy to really stay on the breaks right now. sure thing gruber, great talk to you. thank you very much. so think group professor of economics of massachusetts institute of technology right panama government has announced measures to curb the rise and fuel prices and some essential 3 products. it follows nationwide protest alessandra rub yeti reports for 2 weeks brodis to take him to the streets of panama. the meaning, 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 read

a 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 that he had since been joined by construction workers, students and members of indigenous groups in the central province of their ag. west protesters blocked the pen american highway affecting access of goods to the panama canal, from other central american countries. president lowering t not got d, 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 or out of 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 with the objective

of finding concrete and feasible solution, in fact, they might, it had been on tuesday, protesters called the offer insufficient, demanding larger reductions and vowed to keep up the pressure on the streets. analysts 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, and the panama canal. but the growth did not trickle down to the population while prices went up in. so working class, panama means a 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. allison and dick d al jazeera. so the handle al jazeera, the a. so the is going to be 5 me. farmers in kenya feel the effects of the supply fertilizer

from ukraine, runs out the u. s. looks to gain the upper hand over china in the battle for influence in the pacific. and on the eve of the open championship, we hear the world's best goal. first is a pat of battle for the cloud jug that's coming up in support. ah. with that the monsoon windows picked up recently. now, you know, when, when it bursts a huge amount cloud came across the arabian peninsula, it's still there, but there's not much rain associated with it. but there is still a wind. and that catches salon. as you know, it gets increasingly cloudy and drizzly there. i think that's just a stretch started. now. elsewhere it's dry. occasional shall seem likely no man more, especially with the side of yemen and southwest saturday to north. that of course

is hot and dry as you'd expect it to be there. occasionally, a breeze in the atmosphere very hazy at the moment. it's going to get farther, dusty around react, humans. he's quite hi randa hot the moment because a little, when did the gulf. otherwise, the pictures, as you might expect to be, the searing heat in iran's just dropped back a little bit. sure. as at 37, actually spot on average. and this onshore breeze for egypt, the levant, keeps things down below the 30 mark, rather pleasant. as all, we have seen to pick up an increase in the shower in ethiopia, highlands, and in sudan, south sudan. but maybe some good news in the whole of africa is not going to relieve the drive all the famine. but the help at least is the hint of a few showers in somalia during thursday. they might be repeated to become rather more widespread. on friday, fingers crossed ah, the undercover reporting phase works for me in the new no. what one we're gonna do

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ah, you're watching al jazeera, my reminder for our top stories this. our local media in sri lanka is reporting a 26 year old man has died from t gas inhalation during demonstrations. on wednesday, thousands gathered at the offices of prime minister ronald big, promising at demanding his resignation, is taken over as acting president off to go to buy a. roger pucks fled the country. us inflation for june. it's a 40 year high of 9 point one percent higher than predicted. prices of food and housing are increasing much faster than average us incomes with black and hispanic americans. hottest hit joe biden has arrived in israel on his 1st visit to the

middle east. as you, as president, you promised to advance israel's regional integration item will also meet palestinian leaders in the occupied westbank. diplomatic editor james bass spoke to the head of amnesty international of the united nations. agnes calamari said by did must demand accountability from israel, including for the killing of al jazeera journalist, sharina abaca 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 house demolition, including and none the recognition of palestinian between communities and including killings. extrajudicial killings, that includes indians, the killing of 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 john ellis cherry, and was shameful. shameful. that is not what is being expected from president biden on this visit. to israel shows the opposite. you must demand accountability for sharing and, and anyone that has been explored, you 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 to oppression and repression. nobody's members of parliament for the british. conservative party have begun a 1st vote on who will replace boris johnson. 8 candidates made it on to the ballot for the next leader of the party. former chancellor richie soon as the favorite. he kicked off his campaign on tuesday. a series of votes will take place and the u. k

. next, prime minister will be announced on september the 5th. okay, well let's get more or less with jonah hall who's live in london. jonah conservative m p. 's. as mentioned, they have begun voting in the 1st round ballot. how important are the votes in terms of who's gonna eventually be prime minister? what we'll have, we'll have the results of that 1st round of balancing this afternoon in about the next half hour or so. and inevitably, a number of those 8 candidates will drop out for failing to receive the minimum 30 votes that they require to move on to the 2nd round. how important are these boats for that crucial in terms of that whittling down process going down eventually to 2 candidates who will then be put to the members of the party at that point, the m p. 's votes seem to matter much at all. and the latest pollings suggests that at that moment the calculus will change entirely. why will? because whilst at the moment we've got the likes of re, she's do not perform

a chancellor of the exchequer. and this trusts the foreign secretary looking as though they are out in front with the most support of the fees. the polling suggests that another candidate, less well known, but with all the requisite experience any more than the former defense minister, the current international trade minister has much, much more support among the membership when they were asked who they wanted to succeed. bars. johnson, she got by far the greatest number in favor when she was put up head to head against this trust and richie. so next she beats both of them in this polling data handily, which is why as we await the results of the 1st ballot, all eyes a turning to penny more than she has suddenly become the bookies favorite. she seems to be drawing support from the left and the right of her own party. and crucially, she has a copy book far less painted by association with boris johnson and the scandals of recent years than the other 2 leading candidates joining with all this proverbial internal baseball with the conservative party and boys johnson. almost yesterday's

money does bank the question? who's running the country and indeed at a crucial moment, inflation running high touching 10 percent, much of the country and the grip of a cost of living crisis, the always going on strike the airports in meltdown. is the government getting to grips with it? will know, i mean this is a caretaker government on the one hand, they don't know how long they'll have jobs for these people in positions of power. or as johnson of course knows, he'll be replaced on september the 5th. but they are also in the group of this all consuming leadership contest, and they really don't have the bandwidth to deal with these problems and get this to make the disarray even worse. next week, the government is calling a vote of no confidence in itself. this is a response to labor's attempt to do that, which was turned down by the government because labor had sought to name the prime minister in that vote directly. and they said one of these already resigned. this is all pointless there. calling a vote of confidence in themselves, of course,

it won't be lost, it will give for us johnson a platform on monday, next week to give his valedictory speech. and it is sure to be seen by many as self serving, self promoting and deeply unnecessary. in these times, i'm thinking the twists and turns of british politics are jona, holly london. thank you. our travel chaos is expected across europe. airlines have been forced to cancel thousands of flights to, to strike action and staff shortages the decision to limit the number of departing passengers to 100000 a day. a london's busiest airport he throw. it's set to make matters even worse. where we challenge says more for mulligan in some the spain. what we have 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, and on top of that, you have

a strike sprawl, easy jets, 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. 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 stripes, the 12th of july, ryan, air flights were disrupted. well, 249 of them were disrupted 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 requirement on, on airlines to men's hain, a minimum service. hundreds of emergency workers in france are battling while fires across the southwest, around 1500 hacked hairs of already burned with the fire spreading under hot and windy conditions, thousands of residents, some tourists have been evacuated. and in spain's western region of extreme, dora fire fighters have been trying to contain a fire that's burned up to 3500 acres of land. the blazes have also swept through to neighboring portugal where fishes officials issued a red alert. in 16 districts. europe has been sweltering under a summer heat wave, with temperatures reaching, reaching 40 degrees celsius. in some parts, the fresh round of talks between russian and ukrainian delegations about grain exports is taking place in turkey, united nations and turkish officials of trying to ensure the safe passage of

millions of tons of grain stuck in new crane. ships held up a ports and faced the danger of mines laid in the black sea. it's 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 while production has half. 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 are emma 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 families here. the good to go and hunger because there's nothing. because there's no food in food if there is no harvest in there in the guidance. so the are going

to good go hunger very so there's going to be 5 me. hi. in this place, one of his neighbors, frederic lee, rudy is in trouble. his beans have failed. he says he couldn't afford fertilize on new south under quote. i know grandma, i might have to give up on fleming. i mean, but it's something i've done all my life in mail, but it is not working with him. fertilizer which provides the nutrients 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 using mormon, your to narrow state crops. ah, but farm is here say using only money is not enough. the plants also need the potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen from fertilizers to grow bigger,

foster 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 the roll my to use i not available. and given 3, we don't know how long committed and this is the, this tuition oliver. you don't know, hollow jewelry. i just bring to god that the the shouldn't for that we come back to normal. it's frustrate if one g here who's been farming for 30 years, he's his working. the land has never been. this hod had him a tosser. al jazeera campbell county, kenya toilers military has condemned the presence of a u. s. destroyer in the area of the south china sea. it claims beijing said the u . s. s. ben fold pass near the parasol islands, which china occupies,

but also claimed by ty went to vietnam. the u. s. 7th fleet said unlawful and sweeping claims in the south china sea pose a serious threat to the freedom of the sea. the u. s. government has pledged to triple its funding for pacific island nations, us vice president cabella harris made the announcement during a meeting of the regents leaders and fiji is seen as the latest attempt to count a. china's growing influence. wayne, 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 deny the united states announced a funding boost for the pacific islands and a plan to open embassies and kiera boss and tongue at 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 was of young a very happy that a lot of follow up on as an hour pay more attention to the pacific and, 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 be association and all the assistance of corporation a we've had in the past was enough to to keep the cohesion of the region. a. unfortunately, jo, everybody's eyes are 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, the retros, hong kong activists known as grandma wong 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 then. she's been arrested and imprisoned. multiple times. he was track free 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 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. teresa says it's doing eat all musk for pulling out of

a $44000000000.00 deal to buy. the social media platform says the billionaire has contractual obligations which he's refusing to honor because they no longer serve his personal interests. mosque accuses twitter failing to reveal the number of fake accounts on its platform. still had in sports, relics by why these players from the spanish lee was dancing in south korea. ah.

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focus for the 1st time. master has released images from the new james web space telescope, the most powerful to be launched into orbit, a dying star. and a stella nursery are among the discoveries, rentals reports, size enormous galaxies locked in a cosmic dance, billions of stars, and planets, 300000000 light years from earth. this is one of the spectacular images taken by the web space telescope unveiled for the 1st time. what you're seeing is just a weeks worth of data. think what we're going to learn in 20 years. i think of the answers that we're going to get to the questions. we don't even know enough to know what the questions are to them. and in the process, we're going to learn more about who we are, what we are, what is our existence in this cosmos, ah,

we are looking back in time almost to the beginning. the image of the so called stephens quintet chose to galaxies, colliding and merging with one another, impelled by the force of gravity. one of the galaxies features a bright spot. scientists have identified as an active black hole, the gas and dust lighting up as it spills into the gravitational event horizon. this image shows a stellar nursery with brightly shining new stars being born at the edge of a vast region of gas and dust. this is the corina nebula, which is part of our own milky way galaxy. the level of detail showing structures and bubbles in the enormous cloud is finer than any other telescope is capable of. this image shows a dying binary star surrounded by super heated hydrogen gas and other materials spun off from the stars core elements which will re form into other stars,

planets. and perhaps in time living things, webb, which was launched in december, is a joint project of nasa and the european and canadian space agencies. it took more than 20 years to build an cost $10000000000.00. it's the most sophisticated space telescope ever made and makes observations in the infrared spectrum, a wave length of light not visible to the human eye. scientists were awed by the 1st images. maybe people in a broken world, managing to do something right, and to see some of the majesty that's out there. finally, this image gives a sense of the incomprehensible vastness of space and time. it is a deep look at a single area teeming with galaxies and stars. the light scene here originated 13000000000 years ago, less than a 1000000000 years after the big bang. scientists promise many more discoveries are

ahead. adding immeasurably to our understanding of the universe that we are a part of rob reynolds al jazeera. all right, tar for sport. know with joe ne, thank you very much. well, we thought 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 best to stop. i don't think i need the tennis. i'm happy with the little things like when my son does something right . my daughter comes home with a good, great, but phaedra all said miss, 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 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 with them 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 of it anytime soon. maybe this 3rd place on the all time list is something that's factored in his decision as well. well, here is some, a federal t statistics, a 103 atp titles. he trails jimmy commas by 6. he was also the 1st to reach 20 grand slam victories. his last major, when was the australian opened 4 years ago? now federal is $128.00 masters tournaments only never took a veteran, raphael that l have claimed more, and he spent a total of 310 weeks as world number one, just as federal scale back his schedule to prolong his major career title it's, it's on the same, and he's hoping you'll pay off at the open championship. it starts on thursday, sn andrews in scotland is hosting the tournaments and woods says, the course means

a lot to him. as it's where he won his 1st open title in 2000 to complete the cat career grand slam. the significance of winning this event at the home of gulf 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 and open. it's in andres. it's, it's, it's one of the highest achievements that you can, that 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 is career isn't completely like 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 be. okay. if i just left this earth ahead that point my favorite golf course in the world, 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, 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 great sports for you. well, the one scott, he scheffler is preparing for his 2nd appearance in the tournament. he's been in great form in the majors, the season winning the master's and finishing joint runner up at the us open. 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 a 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 raheem sterling a said goodbye to manchester city ahead of his impending move to chelsea. the forward to spend 7 years with the premier league champions. he leaves off to winning 11 major titles with city. chelsea have reportedly paid around $60000000.00 for sterling a time, women's european champions, germany as for the quarter finals of this year as tournaments they be spain to know in a class as a group, be giant. germany would give to the goal and the 3rd minutes after blunder from spain, you keep a allowed clara to, to take advantage of caps in cassandra,

then headed in this corner before half time for germany. second, with the wind put them through to the new account sage. when in spain play denmark next place in the quarter finals said mark kept it in with a chance to be seen. finland one? no, captain panilla hardest rubbing the winner in the 2nd half danish keeper. lena christianson produced a great save just for full time to make sure that victory in major league baseball, the cincinnati reds had lost their last 49 games when entering the final inning behind on the school board. well, that losing streak is now over off remarkable victory. over the yankees, since as he looked down free, nothing's but found 4 runs in the 9th inning. yankees then had a chance to win the game ended on a super double play from the reds. and finally,

a few players from spanish football club severe have been making the most of their pre season trip to south korea learning some k ultima is made famous by bands such as the t. yes. a severe will play a friendly with premier lee club taught them on saturday. all right, that is like a sport. now i'm off to learn those moves. i thanks a lot. j. well, that's it for me park of this news. our, you are with al jazeera and go what, oh, this article. so a lot of them. why is one of the, how do you to visit with counseling, philistines bitten from such failure to someone that in about the fisa can a little sob isn't done well. i can dish out in the car there,

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