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i'm ne, palka. this is al jazeera life and dough. so coming up, protest against the politicians, at least one person is dead. following a day of unprecedented demonstrations in sri lanka, these are a live pictures from the u. k, with the 1st votes is taking place and the conservative party leadership race to replace outgoing u. k. prime minister poorest jumps. days, oh the is going to be funny, isn't kenya feel the effects of the supply of fertilizer from ukraine runs 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 bice ready prime minister ayala pete biden. we'll also meet with palestinian leaders in the occupied west bank. he's

been a steadfast supporter of israel for decades. and this expected to face questions about the killing of palestinian american journalists, sharina, blackly greater stability. greater connection is critical, is critical. why my ad, 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. that remains in my view, the best way to insure the future vehicle measure of freedom, prosperity, democracy for israelis and palestinians with light. stephanie decker was in west jerusalem with more. it's the 1st visit of joe biden. as u. s. president to the region, it's his 10th in total lender. joe biden made it very clear in a short speech at bavarian airport. but the 1st time he visited the region was in 1973 and highlighting the strength of allegiance and friendship between himself for

as an individual, but also between the americans and israel. interestingly enough, he never really mentioned the palestinians by name palace palestinian palestinians . he did say that even though it was a long way off far, he did admit those saying that the 2 state solution was the best way for but we do know also that reporters were briefed on air force. one thing that there would be no announcement when it comes to revival of middle east peace talks. ah, now the u. s. president has a busy schedule on thursday. i'll be meeting with the interim prime minister yellow p till the meeting with the israeli present. and 15 minutes we understand allocated to opposition leader benjamin netanyahu, that on friday morning, briefly he'll be in occupied east jerusalem. visiting the augusta victoria hospital there. we expect him to announce around a $100000000.00 in aid to palestine hospitals and occupied his jerusalem. it's historic, in the sense that the 1st time a u. s. president is moving away from the old city in occupied is true some,

but certainly palestinian feeling here is that the trip in terms of their role is really paying lip service. you will then move on to bethlehem in the occupied west bank meeting with palestinian president, mahmoud abbas, but really for less than 2 hours or so. the palestinians, of course, the trust has been eroded. they want accountability also when it comes to the killing of our colleagues should in our block, claire the family, still calling for accountability for justice or we do understand that the u. s. secretary of state anthony blinking had a conversation with the family on wednesday, but certainly the americans have made it clear that this trip is not about the palestinian issue, but more about integrating israel into the region. o co media and swollen cares reporting a 26 year old man has died from tig asked inhalation. during protests in the capital, colombo there was growing anger in the country of the prime minister was appointed acting president. thousands have gathered at the offices of prime minister ronald rick from a singer in colombo to demand his resignation. despite

a state of emergency being declared, protested scale, the walls are broke through the gates. they've also entered the state t. v and radio offices security forces 5 tear gas or the crowds, but they haven't dispersed vanelle fernando's this in colombo, she explains the opposition to ronald rick grimacing. he only returned to parliament through the sort of back door because the of the one national list, which is a very technical allocation of one parliamentary seat to the, to his party was given to the party and run into the committee assume that seat. so it's not as if he has a public mandate, and even when president go to obey roger boxer with that huge public outcry and his brother, my him, the roger boxer a resigned. and he brought in running a victim, a singer. there was a massive outright because people said this man has no credibility, that he has no legitimacy. who earlier step barson spoke to one protest. her who

made an appeal to the international community not to supports will anchors, embattled leaders of you don't like violence, but that is what you're g, aren't wireless at the right eye quotes, he can gain the polar, he can mobilize them legally and he can crash outdoor as he can thrive in the punter and no offense to me company, that's the plan. he's a mazda mine, and please, i am asking even as a community born custio's grandmother, he's the biggest 311 feet on top right now. he's the biggest, biggest deal any longer. he's more treated, he called that our doctor. how are you personally affected by the clayton? i am, but we don't go to school right now. all you knew was it even the columbia university's floors and the public life peace will last. we start down and you can see this is not the column will like eat one. he's dying empty on the street is hardly any car he eats at the at this time. usually the how high athletics and the spots of good.

oh jeez. completely completed. i drove up to us and become a thing that then bought these would be some people say when before you passed, completely ruined us. that is to be gathered here to the door doors moons, and this guy mal illustrated government undisturbed economical. i'm a guy who bts passing our community, but got a flat the country early to leave you don norman, that he resigned or not. you feel the same visual you some later already use on news. so something you didn't do was bad. chimera door guy is one of the protests and colombo. he says president roger pac sir is playing games. what is happening is really and a really ugly example look where democracy abuse or abuse, abusing of constitutional pause because right, know what is happening is literally

a joke, right? so we have a president, and then when the president, these otherwise fighting some overseas, up in east that with the prime minister can look after the duties of the president . right. and now they have actually appointed an acting prison. and if you read the constituent very general, the only circumstances under which an acting president can be appointed is only the president resigns, which he hasn't, right. i mean they're out there and he was, we have even seen the letter. so finally the letter exists, right? the letter will be coming. it hasn't come. i mean, how, how, how, how bad it is to drive to resignation with it. but i'll tell you what the, what the real problem is here, right? so the president is using his resignation letter as a bargaining. you know, really ugly, again, the president basically wants to ensure he's safe block to face the wrath of the people. and then he's, he's actually using this last trump card. he's a resignation letter as a sort of a sort of

a get out of jail free card. and that is really, really an example of a constitutional palace. so that should not happen if the exist, it should come to the light. another news, members of the parliament in the united kingdom, i have just finished their 1st vote on who were placed boys, johnson. these are of course and piece of the conservative party. 2 candidates have been eliminated and 6 are left. let's get more on this with jonah hole from london . jonah, where are we with this whittling down process? well, yes, a field of 8 has now become a field of 6 with jeremy hunt, the former health secretary and foreign secretary out with just 18 votes. the benchmark was 30 votes among their m p. colleagues. not eames are howie, who was only elected, put into position as chancellor of the exchequer last week after issue sooner resigned. he's out of the leadership contests with 25 votes. the key numbers,

though, of course, are at the top of the list. the front runner had been among and peas. anyway. rashid soon act, a former chancellor of the exchequer. he remained so with $88.00 votes, but surging into 2nd place, the rather less well known, at least in terms of the public, but somebody with all the requisite experience penny mordant, a former defense secretary, the current international trade minister, she in 2nd place with 67 votes and coming 3rd list trust who had been one of the favorites, the current foreign secretary. now why this important surge of any more than the 2nd place will that is because of a crucial bit of brand new polling that came out today. suggesting that among the members, remember when this field is whittle down to just to it will be put to the members of the conservative party. did it just decide on a new winner, a new leader of the party, and therefore, the new prime minister, the members, appear to favor penny morton. and by some margin,

when they were asked who they wanted to succeed, or as johnson, they said by far the greatest number any more. and when they were asked to decide on head to head contact contests between mordant and sooner and wouldn't. and more than one angelie both times and so eyes are now turning relentlessly towards penny morton. she has become the bookmakers favorite this afternoon. she appears to be able to go on to support for both the left and the right of her party. and crucially, her copy book is not tainted in anything like the same way as the others by association with boris johnson and the scandals of the last couple of years. and join a want all of these predictions, all of his poetry about what might happen within the confines of the ruling. conservative party, it does beg. the question of course, who is running the country looked all intents and purposes, proper government is somewhat in abeyance. this is a can't take a government now,

but johnson sits at its head until the 5th of september, when his successor will be announced ministers in place. many of them are new to the job. they were appointed last week and they are all consumed by the ins and outs of this leadership contest, huge issues in the country at the moment. inflation cost to live in crisis and so on. the government probably not getting to grips with them and to add to the disarray next week. the government has called for a vote of confidence in itself. now ostensibly, this is a response to labors, attempt to call a vote of no confidence in the government. they wanted to see bar johnson out sooner than the 5th of september. well, the government, who controls time in the house of commons, refused that. i said there's no point in a vote in chorus johnson. he's already resigned there now calling about themselves . in reality, this will be an opportunity for paris johnson to deliver of untasted valid victory speech on monday. but why to them that this is likely to be seen as deeply self serving, self promoting and unnecessary in the current context. jana whole live in london.

thank you. us inflation for june. it a 40 year high of 9 point one percent higher than predicted. prices of food and housing are increasing much faster than average u, as incomes were black and hispanic americans hardest hit. oh though, although oil prices have dropped to little, the cost of petrol and diesel is still far higher. and a year ago, russian and ukrainian delegations are meeting in istanbul for talks aimed at ending an impasse on food exports. the united nations and turkey are trying to ensure the safe shipment of millions of tons of grain stuck in ukraine ships. there are held up by a russian blockade, and the black sea is cor shortages and price hikes and several parts of the world. you grounds food production and the food and fertilizer produced by russia must be brought back to old markets. despite the wash. we have been working hard on the plan to allow for the safe and secure exports of ukrainian produced foods. so the

black sea and the russian foods and fertilizers the global markets. i think the government's evolves for your continued corporation. still had allowed to sarah a 66 year old hong kong activists known as grandma wong leads guilty to charges of unlawful assembly. us looks to gain the upper hand over china and the battle for influencing the pacific. ah, the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package today is effectively wet season for the philippines moment in particular 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 was

a big shout to the south that you follow, right? emphasize to the philippines than to was still away. 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 overseas. it's 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 south 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 a thunder, 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. as for india, my roster has been very wet recently in the walling. still in my roster and in good

europe for the next day or 2 cats, ha, airway official airline of the judge who got cavity with a getting a gun down ideals, the french republic, islam for a claim. but just what ease modern france in a 4 part series, the big picture takes an in depth episode 3 on al jazeera. right. lou ah,

they're watching out a 0. i remind of our top stories this, our joe biden has arrived in israel on his 1st visit to the middle east. as you, as president. he promised to advance israel's regional integration. either we'll also meet palestinian leaders in the occupied west bank local medians for longer. se amount has died from tig asked inhalation during process. thousands gathered at the offices of prime minister ronald dick from a singer demanding his resignation, is taken over his acting president off to go to buy a raja pox of fled. the country members of parliament for the british conservative party of just finished their 1st vote on who will replace boris johnson, jeremy hunt, and the deems a hall we were eliminated while were she soon act and penny mordant holden, early advantage panama government has announced measures to curb the rise and fuel prices of some essential food products. it follows nationwide protests alice under ram patty reports. for 2 weeks growth is to take him to the streets of panama.

the mainly the government take action to combat the high cost of living prices of gasoline. madison and basic food items have doubled since the star of the year. i wrote 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 unsustainable situation. their 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. west protesters blocked the pen american highway affecting access of goods to the panama canal, from other central american countries, president lowering t, nor could, at the so blamed cove it in the war in ukraine for the cost hikes promised to reduce the price of gasoline by 24 percent and fries the cost of $10.00 basic food

items to try and persuade protesters oral photo. lemme go or bow down. one of the problems now hitting panamanians and the world is rising fuel prices and the consequences for that reason i sit 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 have been 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 a dando, the mac 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 looking class panamanians are wondering what, why if the country is granted 6.5 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 in

a national strike is set to go ahead on wednesday, i listened that a deity al jazeera, the veteran, 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 on comb. 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 here. 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 one track,

3 again. and 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 travel chaos is expected across europe. airlines have been forced to cancel thousands of flights due to strike action and staff shortages. the decision to limit the number of departing passengers to a 100000 a day and london's busiest airport. he throw is said to make matters even worse, where we challenge has 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, 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 strikes from easy jets, a 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 in june. and they're 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, while 249 of them were disrupted across by 15 of those were cancelled $234.00 delayed, they were entering peak holiday season. the u. k. foreign office has changed its 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, too, maintain a minimum service. the u. s. government has pledged to triple it's funding for

pacific island nations. us vice president cabella harris may be announcement during a meeting of the regents leaders in fiji is seen as the latest attempt to counter china's growing influence when hey, reports from soother. an empty chair at the table isn't the show of unity. pacific leaders wanted at their 1st in person meeting in 3 years. here, a boss 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 fan in the united states announced a funding boost for the pacific islands and a plan to open embassies and carabas and tongue at 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 sure most passive young a very happy that a lot of our oh, oh pardon? 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. you cinder arden 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 of corporation that 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'll address shared values, aspirations, and unity. but there is concern among some here that with increasing geopolitical competition. keeping this group united will become increasingly difficult. wayne, hey, al jazeera soother. i caught in japan, says former executives of japan's fukushima 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 soon army an earthquake hit japan. in march 2011,

20 chang reports and tokyo wednesdays decision here at the tokyo district. court does set an important precedent. the financial responsibility for the focus shima, nuclear disaster lies not with the japanese government, with the 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 vid to individuals involved in the disaster. and so a decade on those, he lost their land and livelihood in the fukushima disaster. still waiting to be fully compensated for you and says,

the price of fertilizer has tripled in the past year while production has haft is a knock on effect of rushes war in ukraine. both major fertilizer exporters in kenya, farmers have been forced to scale back, which was threatening harvests. hiero metasource met some of them and campbell county l. u n. g here is worried is a shortage of fertilizer and 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 is nothing requisite has no food in for the food. the there is no, no harvest in there in the abundance. so the are going to good go hunger. there is, oh, there is going to be 5 me i in this place, one of his neighbors, frederick, we rudy, is in trouble. his beans have failed. he says he couldn't afford fertilize on new south under quarter. no gloomy. i might have to give up on fleming. i mean,

but it's something i've done all my life, but it is not working with him. fertilizer, which provides a 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 manure 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 real materials

are not available at different re we don't know how long committed and this is the, the tuition oliver. you don't know how long will we i just bring from court that day. it is shut and so that you come back to normal. it's frustrating for you. yeah . who's been farming for 30 years? he's his liking. the land has never been this hot. had him a toss al jazeera keandra county, kenya, or i will. don't forget, you can find much more on our website. the address for that is w. w. w. wps al jazeera dot com. ah. this is al jazeera. these are the top stories, joe biden has arrived in israel on his 1st visit to the middle east as you, as president. he promised to advance israel's regional integration by the more.