the filipino as a woman, it is a rare privilege to tell the stories of my own people. so a global audience. african countries have struggled to reclaim many of the artifacts taken by european colonizers. and this is our experience of our identity . in the final part of this new series, museums and collectors still hold precious assets like the been groomed, few have been returned, but there's still a long way to go. and progress is painfully slow. restitution africa stolen with pottery ation on old your 0. ah . a nationwide curfew is now in effect and sir lanka following a day of unprecedented demonstrations where at least one person died.

ah, how many parker this is al jazeera life and dough also coming up. so by to meet this re leaders on his 1st presidential trip to the middle east. a possible breakthrough. it talks in turkey aimed at securing the experts, would have ukrainian grain where live at the u. m. and former chancellor richey soon act tops the 1st round of a conservative party leadership race to replace outgoing u. k. prime minister burse johnson ah, a nationwide curfew is now in effect and sri lanka, off to unprecedented demonstrations in the capital. colombo, local media is reporting a 26 year old man has died from t gas, inhalation. thousands of people gathered at the offices of prime minister ronald bicker. i'm a singer in colombo to demand. his resignation of prime minister was appointed

acting president, protest of scale, the walls all broke through the gates. i have also entered the state t v and radio offices security forces 5, tig asked of the crowds, but i haven't dispersed. vanelle fernandez is in colombo, she says police have cleared, protested from the premise is polished with tear gas. 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 all 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 in complete darkness. electricity had been switched off,

so all of these people were close to the barricades. i'm and, and wondering what was happening, and literally, with, with no warning, not that these people were pushing against barricades we were right there. when all of a sudden there were kia gas volleys you did here earlier in the day, there was almost a bucket load of into into canisters. it seems like the military has not run 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 a strategy people started running in all different directions. soya protests is demanded. the resignation of selling cars acting president ronald rick grammar, singer. the 73 year old didn't win a seat in the country's 2020 parliamentary elections. or did any of his u. n. p. party instead he was nominated to a seat. vic, ma'am, a singer was appointed prime minister by go to buy

a raja packs or in may after may hinder roger pack. so resigned from the office under pressure from protests. demonstrate to see vic from a singer as an unelected leader with close ties to the former president and very much part of the political elite responsible. so lancaster economic crisis are ronnie, amor. sariah is an opposition member of parliament for the national people's power party. she says the needs to be new elections. what people expected to day and people were sort of gathering to celebrate the victory of law. all of the projects that have been taking place was the resignation of the president and the resignation of the prime minister. neither has happened. instead, we are now stuck with do presidents because the president has the former brideau godaddy, raj, epoxy hasn't resigned. he's appointed an acting president in his absence. and the agreement that all of the party leaders reached to be the speaker few days ago that these 2 would resign,

that the speaker would act as far as acting president and dad. then for the body mind who would be called on the 20th to elect a new president. all of these things are now looking on certain, although the priming is a brand new bit from a senior today has indicated that parliament. we'll go ahead as schedule. however, the critical issue here is for both radi promising. hm. and go to have a raj, a boxer to resign without designates and it's going to be extremely difficult to get people off the streets. the ruling regime has a 2 thirds majority of which is why the opposition parties have been pushing for the dissolution of parliament. because we feel that this parliament no longer has any digital messy. there is no longer accepted by the people of this country. and just as much as the president of the prime minister have to leave early months has to be dissolved and a fresh election be called as soon as it is feasible in order to establish up

a government that has some, some trust and confidence of the people and has a mandate to actually be ruled. so biden has arrived in israel on the 1st leg of his 1st visit to the middle east as yo as president. he was greeted in tel aviv bias rarely prime minister yell appeared by them. we'll also meet with palestinian leaders and the occupied west bank. he has been said far supporter of israel for decades. them is expected to face questions also about the killing of pasting an american journalist, corinne abu aclu. kimberly how can, has this report the purpose of us president joe biden's trip to israel in saudi arabia is not entirely a parrot by just moments after landing in tel aviv biden made clear what he would not achieve. will discuss my continued support. even though i know it's not in the near term a 2 stage solution, i remain in my view,

the best way to insure the future equal measure of freedom, prosperity, democracy for israelis and palestinians like this admission is likely to enrage palestinians as biden, to set to meet with the head of the palestinian authority, mahmoud abbas on friday. palestinians are pushing for the u. s. to reopen its consulate in occupied east jerusalem limits settlement expansion and press israel for accountability in the killing of al jazeera journalists, sharina abu ackley, who is a us citizen. such goals are a challenge with elections looming. future israeli leadership is uncertain on thursday. biden meets with caretaker prime minister. yar lockheed and conservative hardliner, former leader benjamin netanyahu, who may be plotting a comeback that makes the white house aim of improving israeli saudi security ties

to counter chinese, russian. and iranian influence in the region, much more difficult without him to call the u. s. administration. and it's president, want to visit the region with a motivation to create peace and stability. they should revise their foreign and regional policy with a look at public opinion across the region and changed their behavior according to the realities on the ground level. one on biden is a president under pressure and in need of a foreign policy when with low approval ratings, record high inflation and congressional elections in november biden's meeting with saudi leaders. later in the week, he hopes to convince them to pump more oil to bring down record fuel prices. in the united states, joe biden strip comes out of an urgent need regional issues and a growing desire to make america's voice clear for what it is on that his administration. the urgent need. yes, oil prices,

inflation the urgent need are all eyes who are continuously uncomfortable with their eyes of the united states and are looking for alternative. but we're biding seats to project american influence with his trip failure to accomplish any significant foreign policy achievement could backfire and underscore just the opposite. the declining presence and power in the middle east of the united states . kimberly help him out his era to ha, now al jazeera has learned that there has been a breakthrough in talks and turkey aimed at securing the experts of ukrainian grain, russia, ukraine, turkey, and the you and have also been negotiating the return of russian grain of fertilizer to global markets, a deal could go of a long way to addressing the global food crisis. ok, well let's speak to our diplomatic as a james base. he's live at the un. if indeed this is

a breakthrough. it could be significant. james toes will could be very significant indeed in less than an hour. in fact, in about 50 minutes time, at this podium, the un secretary general is going to be speaking to reporters were told by his spokes person that will be positive news. now i've been told by 2 very senior un officials that the has been a breakthrough in those talks in a stumble that they are close to a deal or perhaps even have a deal. i know that the secretary general's been working on this very, very closely for some weeks practically 3 weeks ago that i was 1st told. the 2nd general might be preparing to go to stumble for assigning. and i think it's quite possible way hit going to hear from the sex general that he will be on his way to stumble for a signing of a deal that deal would be so important. because of course, there's 22000000 tons of grain that is trapped mainly in the desa and other ports

in ukraine. the other part of the deal would be russian, fertilize, and grain that's not covered by any sanctions, but it's got caught up in the sanction. so there's an idea, try to bring that back to market. there would be un inspections of trips of ships that came into a desert to pick up the grain rushes insisted on that. there would be the turkish navy, a scorching the ship's through the black sea. very, very important. what we're going to here, i think in the next hour how long ago of course it takes to alleviate the global food crisis, is a big question. because the grain has been blocked for a long time, and it's going to take some time if they do get this deal confirmed, to get the grain out through the global networks to the parts of the, of the world that are going to need it. some questions here at the united nations, for example, do they need a un security council resolution to endorse this deal? i spoke to a senior diplomat a short time ago, said that would be certainly something that they would like. on the other hand,

i'm told by the russians that they're not particularly keen, the security council getting involved on in endorsing any deal that has been done in this stumble. or i, james, we of course, will keep a close eye on all of these positive sounds. coming out of those critical turkey talks james base with you and there. thank you. now, still head on al jazeera, travel chaos in europe. as adults limit numbers and unions go on strike, us looks to gain the upper hand over china in the battle for influence in the pacific. ah, with that the monsoon wind is picked up recently. now, you know, when, when it burst a huge amount to cloud came across the arabian peninsula, it's still there,

but there's not much rain associated with that. but there is still a wind and that catches seller. and as you know, it gets increasingly cloudy and drizzly. there i think that's just about started. now. elsewhere it's dry. occasional shall seem likely no man more especially what's 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 and the atmosphere very hazy at the moment. it's going to get farther. dusty around react, humidity's quite high randa heartland 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 is spot on average. and this on shore breeze for egypt, the levant keeps things down below the 30 mark, rather pleasant. as all, we have seen a pick up an increase in the shower in ethiopia, highlands, and in sudan, south sudan. but may be some good news in the whole of africa. it's 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 become rather more

widespread on friday, fingers crossed. ah frank assessments. it sounds like you don't expect anything to change the problem in lebanon. it's actually structural lebanon needs and use of contract in order for it to solve this problem in food opinions, international communities, on the goal of this, my security community, a government has knowledge to be in depth analysis of the data global headlines. this is going to be very hard to explain to the public that instead of pushing back, you know, it's actually got 2 members inside story on al jazeera. ah

ah, you're watching al jazeera, remind of our top stories this our a nationwide curfew is now in effect and sri lanka, off the demonstrations. local media says a man has died from tig asked inhalation during process. thousands gathered at the offices of acting president ronald big from a single demanding his resignation. joe biden has arrived in israel on his 1st visit to the middle east as u. s. president. he promised to advance israel's regional integration light and we'll also meet palestinian leaders in the occupied west bank o members of parliament for the british conservative party have finished the 1st vote on who will replace or it's johnson. 2 candidates have been eliminated. the stakes are left. let's get more. they stare with the jona hole in london. jonah. so where are we in this whittling down process?

what a field of 8 is you say reduce now to 6 out of the race after the 1st ballot of voting among conservative m p 's this afternoon go jeremy hunt, the former foreign secretary and health secretary, also nadine holloway, who was appointed to position of the exchequer only last week, but it is what is happening at the top of the race that is far more interesting. of course, the front runner up to now, richie su neck. the former chancellor of the exchequer comes out again on top in this round of voting with 88 lives trust. the foreign secretary who had been 2nd to sue not drops down to the 3rd, but still in the running with a may just serge into 2nd place. by somebody who is not a household name, but has all the requisite career experience a former defense secretary and international trade minister, penny mordant, not what accounts for this surge of momentum behind penny morton into 2nd place? well, earlier on the in the day she launched her own campaign,

apparently very successful, very assured and impressive. her speech to members was 2 m p. 's was and new polling data out on monday suggests that any more than is by far and away more popular with the conservative party membership then than the other 2 leading candidates. so that is of course, the membership, not the m p 's who will decide on the new party leader and prime minister to replace for his job. so when they vote on the last 2 standing candidates, when they were asked who they thought should replace bar is johnson by far the largest number said penny morton, when they were asked to choose who would win a run off with richie sooner and also with less trust the majority said, or the largest number said penny morton. and so i is now turning firmly towards penny morton. she is the new book maker's favorite. in this race, she appears to be able to garner support from both the left and the right of her

own party. and importantly, her copy book is far less tainted than the others by association with boris johnson and the scandals of the last few months. join up many thanks, john hall in london. the un says the price of fertilizer has tripled in the past year while production has half. it's a knock on effect to russia's war new crane, both for major fertilizer exporters in kenya, farmers have been forced to scale back, which is threatening harvest hermitage, so 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 the there is no,

no harvest in there in the gardens. 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, me, rudy is in trouble. his beans have failed. he says he couldn't afford fertilize on the south under quite i know grandma, i might have to give up on farming than me, but it's something i've done all my life in mail, but it is not working. 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 use a mormon your to nurse day crops. ah, that farm is here. say using only manion is not enough. the plants also need the

potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen from fertilizers to grow bigger, faster, and to produce more food. prices of animal feet are also rising. sometimes there is government subsidized fertilizer, but it's in short supply vicious or crash. where the surprise of the rumor to use. i don't, i will definitely we don't know how long committed and this is the, this tuition oliver. you don't know how low. so we, i just bring to god that the, the shouldn't. so that you come back to normal. it's frustrated when 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, keandra county, kenya, 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 200008 day in london's busy a sample heathrow is said to make matters even worse. we chelan sells more from mulligan himself in 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 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 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. while 249 of them were disrupted across by 15 of those were cancelled 234, delayed the way answering peak holiday season. the u. k. foreign office has changed it. travel advice for spain to warn of the disruption of this god of industrial action. but there is a but all this. the spanish ministry of transport basically has a legal requirement on, on airlines to men's hain, a minimum service. hundreds of emergency workers in france are battling wild fires across the southwest, around 1500 hacked as of already burned with the fire spreading under hot and windy conditions. thousands of residents and tourists had been evacuated, cell in spain's western region. extra madura fire fighters have been trying to

contain a fire that burned up to 3500 acres of land. a few 100 people in surrounding villages have been ordered to evacuate. the places of also swept through to a neighboring portugal where officials issued a red alert in 16 districts. europe has been sweltering under a summer heat wave, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees celsius. in some parts. the u. s. 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 would blacken. hispanic americans hardest hit. although oil prices have dropped to little. the cost of petrol and diesel is still far higher than a year ago. panama government has announced measures to curb the rise and fuel prices and some essential food products. it follows nationwide protest alessandro ramp. yeti reports for 2 weeks, brokers to take him to the streets of panama,

the mainly 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 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 lowered in tina could at the so blend cove it in the worrying 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 not. but i'll, 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 say that, but on tuesday protesters called the offer insufficient, demanding larger reductions, found to keep up the pressure on the streets. annually say the problem lies in an unequal economic recovery. following the pandemic is no middle micro. okay, stop or is it bando 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. so looking close, panamanians are wondering why if the countries bring at 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. international strike is set to go

ahead on wednesday, alison deity al jazeera, the united states government has pledged to triple its funding for pacific island nations. us vice president carmella harris made the announcement during a meeting of the regions leaders in fiji is seen as the latest attempt to counter china's growing influence. wayne, hey, report some pseudo 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, abbas decided to leave the group over a dispute about who should lead the forum. it's been suggested that china was behind the decision after a period of increased diplomatic activity in the region. and it was in that light of geopolitical rivalry that the u. s. stepped up with an unprecedented address at a time when we see back seeking to undermine the rule is or lima santa. the united states announced a funding boost for the pacific islands and

a plan to open embassies and kiera boss and tongue 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, thought, sumptuous. most was if you are a very happy that a lot of follow up on as know or 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. durn. are both here in suva, with big delegations assigned that this pacific islands forum is being taken more seriously than ever before. presenting the smaller nations with a prime opportunity to capitalize a former prime minister of fiji and former leader of the forum. sit of any rum

booker has told al jazeera that australia and new zealand have taken the region for granted for too long. we felt that the association and all the assistance and corporation of every repaired and ours 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, 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 from hong kong, another day,

another hong kong activist on trial. this time an elderly woman whose often taunted police by waving the flag of britain, the former colonial power 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 then. she's been arrested and imprisoned multiple times. he wants track 3 again, cathy 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. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the.