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hello, i'm the ball here. this is the news, our life. doha. coming up of the next 60 minutes. turkey says an agreement has been reached to ensure the exports of grains stuck in ukraine. where live with you and where 60 general antonio guitars is about to speak. for lancaster, acting president declares a nationwide curfew off to protest a storm, his offices calling for his resignation. joe biden meets his re, lead is on his 1st presidential trip to the middle east or former chancellor ritchie's tonight tops the 1st round of the conservative party leadership race to replace outgoing u. k. prime minister burse jones. i'm joanna roscoe with the sports as england international raheem selling completes his being moved from manchester city to chelsea. ah

the begin with breaking news. the turkish defense minister has confirmed that a deal has been reached during talks in istanbul about securing the export of ukrainian gray. and it could go a long way to addressing a global food crisis. these are lies, pitches of the you inspected. general antonio terrace is addressing reports less listening. we have seen that critical step a step forward to ensuring the safe and secure exports of ukrainian foot products through the black sea. in the world darkened by global crazes to they at lusts, we have a ray of hope, a day of hope to ease human suffering and alleviate hunger on the world's array of hope to support developing countries and the most vulnerable people a day of hope to bring a measure of much needed stability to the global foot system. since the war started fits, i have been and that lining the importance of having ukraine's foot products and

russian food and fertilizers fully available in world markets. i travel to moscow and keith, to propose solutions for both problems every day since we have been working the round the clock with intense, via the scene stalks with countless moving parts. more technical work will now be needed to materialize to those prognosis. but the momentum is cleared. in the end, the aim of all parties is not just an agreement between the russian federation, ukraine, but the new agreement for the world's. i think the government have to key for their outstanding efforts to convince his thoughts and that political role going forwards . i think russian and ukrainian officials for their constructive engagement. i salute the commitment, the whole part is working to secured an agreement for our common humanity. united nations pledges to lou our full body to support the follow up and i sank. our un

themes lead by rebecca greenspan and martin griffith's all was responsible for the preparation of you and plan to day is an important and substantive stamped a step on the way to a comprehensive agreement. we must also do more for struggling people and developing countries, getting pummeled by a fool then a gin. financial crisis is not the very making. we must do more to up. all those leaving on the margins are on the world's countries. on the brink of bankruptcy, families on the edge of famine. finally, let us never forget that these thoughts that happening in the midst of a bloody conflicts. people are still dying. fighting is still raging. but hopefully news from east them will show the importance of dialog. that's us thinking speed ocean from that ray of hope to help light away to

a desperately needed negotiated solution for peace in line with un charter and international law. thank you. carol and margaret, your voice in america as she could, you just give us some more details, please, and found the progress itself and what the sticking points are. and if there will be some sort of a ceasefire for the ships to new in the final, there was a very substantive progress or in and i would say a brother agreement term. if you look at to the m, the presenters statement made by the turkish minister of defense that was already a public. there was a substantial agreement on many aspects. namely the questions related to the mechanisms of control are related to in the system. of course, the nation and the,

relating to the questions of mining version to many of the concrete i would say substantive aspects. but of course these was a 1st meeting that the progress was extremely encouraging. we hope that the not the delegations are coming back to their capitals and we hope that the next steps will allow us to come to ave a formal agreement. jay is from al jazeera secretary general. how soon could there be a signing of this deal? could it be as early as next week, and i know it's not a done deal yet, but could you see from this further diplomacy potentially to end the war? i never liked to make predictions because of the predictions usually are never respected. and we are hoping that sir,

will be able to reconvene her very soon. ah, i'm sure of her next week and oak flea will be able to have a final agreement. but as i sat there, we still need the lot of good wheel and commitment by all parties. they have shown it. i'm encouraged, i am optimistic, but it's not yet fully that are the 2nd question. i think we cannot overestimate the importance of these agreements. the disagreements is an extremely relevant early step in relation to addressing the foods prizes together with the efforts we have been making in relation to the excess of a russian for them 20 lasers to the global markets. but sir, i do not see immediately the perspective of

a disagreement. i think in any case these demonstrated that the parties are able to ever constructive dialogue. and these is of course, very good news. but for peace, we still have a long way to go. okay, one moment. what role will the un play in this agreement? saudi one roll, well the you and actually play in the free, but we will be together with the russian federation, ukraine and turkey in making sure that the next steps of coordination of control of naval implementation out of that and together effectively. and the where is fully engaged in that a common efforts you had. so you had to go to your stumble for the final signing ceremony. and what level of credit does

the united nations deserve? right? the u. n is coming for a lot of criticism. we often hear a lot about the when's good offices role, you're good offices, role in terms of moving parties towards a peace agreement. you say that that's difficult. does the un therefore deserve some credit in this, in these negotiations? first of all, we don't know yet the, all the forum old agreement will be established. obviously, i will be ready to interrupt my all of those to go to wisdom ball. if that is the case for everything is organized for that purpose if necessary. and if it happens, then there are other ways in which agreement can be formalized and earn your 2nd question. sorry. is there any credit? is there some credit here? i never claim credit for the when or for myself. and i think that we have been working her and i think that that would work

was vital, but i also do not minimize the credit of all the other key. the elements of these agreements, credit of the 2 parties on the credit of the turkish government. so i think that will be very happy to share that credits to everyone with everybody. thank you very much. oh no, that was the you answer the general antonio gutierrez, giving her an incredibly important to statement sir, at the you and there about the breakthrough in negotiation, sir, between russian ukrainian, a turkish military delegations who have been meeting with you and officials in istanbul. hope of resuming exports, of ukrainian grain from the black seaport of a desa. all of this of course, of course, as the global food crisis. worse and you can probably see a are,

does better get it to a james bay's asking a question to antonio terrorist. there the overall response, though from the 60 general is that so all of this is extremely encouraging a use the phrase ray of hope multiple times when it comes to what all of this means in terms of easing the pressure on global food supplies. it does, of course, re some very, very big questions, though about how all of this will be managed in the black sea. i'm considering that it is one of the most heavily mind waterways in the world. and of course, the black sea is, of course, on the edge of one of the most brutal conflicts in europe since the 2nd world war as well. so, huge logistical questions yet to be asked, but a step most certainly in the right direction. let's bring in our diplomatic add, sir james base. james. of course you managed to put a question to antonio gutierrez, as i was saying that he use the phrase ray of hope and the phrase all extremely

encouraging. should we be encouraged diplomatically by this apparent progress? well certainly the u. n. has been working on this for some considerable time, some weeks trying to get to a deal. they haven't got a done deal yet, but they seem to have the technical agreement ahead of the final political agreement with further talks to take place in the next week or so. and potentially from the secretary general. he's just leaving him now to go to that signing that is likely to take place in assemble, the secretary of stopping for a few moments after he spoke publicly to give us a few details of the record of how he saw the situation. clearly the un sees this as a positive moment, but that not going to claim victory in this case until until the deal is, is finally done. the 2nd general just come back, i'm just know he's talking again to

a report off the record, so not comments that we're going to carry life i believe. but the 2nd general still still here, chatting to reporters about this. and clearly i think the un sees this as an important moment. could do a great deal to alleviate the global crisis. remember, there are 22000000 tons of grain that are trapped in the ports of ukraine, mainly in the port of a desa. and that's not the only thing we're talking about here. the other part of this was the russian grain. russian grain is not covered by any sanctions, russia drain and fertilizer, but he's got caught up in all the sanctions. so it's important to get that out to market as well. and those are the 2 aspects of this. what's going on a sample is technical agreements and particularly military agreements and how the inspections of the account the ships will be able to get in and out of the kitchen navy playing a role that the us playing

a role in the inspections. those are the sort of technical details that seem to be on down. they seem to have a technical agreement in place. meaning i think that the un certainly believes it can go public on this. it's been very guarded. it's told us on the scenes it's been doing talks, but it didn't want to be too positive until now. now they feel they've locked in the details that they can go positive with it. and hopefully that will give it the final push to a political agreement, or in the next few days, possibly the next week or so. sex general, due to go on his annual li. but he says ill, ill interrupt that and go to stumble for a political agreement. or i james her will leave you for the time being and go to said m costio lou, who joins us now live from, from miss trumbull low, played a cinema is some bowl laid host to these all important talks. but what's turkey's position and all of this well, may of this is definitely a un project, a big project that has been initiated by the united nations. of course,

turkey took an important role in this project as it has very strong political and economic, a relations with both ukraine and russia. first, the full turkey provides most of its grains from both the ukraine and russia, and it host the largest coast in the, in the black sea. so basically turkey, it is the currently given the situation between the western allies and russia. turkey is the only open channel who can talk to both countries on behalf of an international organization like the you and that's why turkey mediate mediated through this process. as far as i've known from a, the, a turkish officials so far, the most important topic has been a, the security and safety of the low to stick with that is hope to be open it through this diplomatic and military agreement that is going to be signed very soon,

a turkish defense minister had just delivered his statement in his statements. he said that the meeting was held in a very positive atmosphere and both russians and ukrainians agreed upon. is some technical details including the establishment of coordination center in a stumble and joint conte fools at the port exit, an arrival points, and navigational safety on transfer routes. so, and navigational safety and the control of the pores are the most important topics because this trade, a great trade from ukraine, has been helped through 3 ports. and 2 of them are already under russian control. it is the only, it is only the odessa port and that is under ukrainian control. but as you have also said before, it is had the waters of oda support are heavily mines. so basically, as far as i learned from the sources,

they are working on opening 2 routes to canals, a safe routes from odessa, port it to exports, the grains it to the black sea and to the a global markets. but. 9 you've russia has some concern, andrew, to korean has some other concerns. russia is concerned that the it through this route, if the control is not established enough, a ukraine can receive arms from the western allies. on the other side, ukraine is terrified that it or this is the, is the port that russia has been a trying to invade it for a while and a rush i most go can violate in a time given they a given the process so far, we have witnessed that when it comes to ukraine and russia, some agreed points and may change depending on the situations. apparently the technical delegations will continue the the, the to discuss the details of the security and safety of the roads and

a health establish a joint coordination center in a stumble. as far as i have learned, a russia wants turkey to be the guardian, sir. oh this, oh, that's a mechanism a but given the fragile condition a turkey has its been ukraine and russia and turkey wants an international mechanism at this case because for turkey, politically, it's has shown that it is standing with nato. it is against the russian aggression and assault towards ukraine. but so far, it has tried to keep its relations of men with moscow in a stable level, given that turkey has many strategic corporation with russia in syria, libya, and other places me as to them, costeo lou on those all important talks in istanbul, attempts to have stepped towards, he's in the global food crisis. thank you. ah

. now a nationwide curfew is in effect and sri lanka, off to unprecedented demonstrations in the capital. colombo, local meteor is reporting a 26 year old man has died from tig ass inhalation. thousands of people gathered at the offices of prime minister ronald victrum, a singer in colombo to demand his resignation. of the prime minister was appointed acting president, protest to scale the wolves all broke through the gates. i've also entered the state t. v and radio offices security forces, 5 tea gases crowds, but they haven't dispersed. michelle fernandez is in colombo. she says police of clear protests is from the prime minister's office who tickets? 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 too, 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 a 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. so why our protest is demanding the resignation of sterling cars acting, president, runner, victrum, 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. it rang a singer was appointed prime minister by go to par raja parks in may after may hinder roger packs who resigned from the office under pressure from protests demonstrate to c v rema singer as an unelected leader with close ties, the former president, and very much part of the political elite responsible for for lancaster, economic crisis, or alan keenan's, the seniors for like a consultants at the international crisis group. he joins me now from london. welcome to the program. so we are in a bizarre situation now where i go to pyre. roger pac sir has fled, run o v. grandma singer is now the president, the process for a bunch. continuing to, to deepen the crisis is, seems to be worsening. where do we go from here?

but hopefully where we go from here is the escalation, i think come strong messages need to be sent to run out the crew missing and to the strong military to to hold back. and um, to resist the urge to smash the protesters, which i think perhaps partly big out of anger at the fact that his private residence was destroyed in an arson attack last weekend. i think there is signs that renelle is personally bitter at the protests and wants to use by any means necessary to, to see, to qual, it. that would be a disaster because that would play into the hands that would, that would strengthen those elements within the protest movement, who are itching for violence, which seems to be that element seems to be a growing. and it's important to, to note that the protest movement of for fire for months now has been extremely peaceful, very creative, playful, smart, and restrained. and it would be

a disaster if that, if that shifts. and if we have escalation on both sides of this current political ally to have in the eyes of the demonstrators at least left the country in economic terrible. what makes ronald vick from a singer of those around him think he can still carry on doing the job? well, that's what's most striking. i think i think the fact that dom, that 1st of all, the run of the crew missing and accepted the prime minister ship in may when nobody else who excepted got obvious offer. because they didn't want to sustain his, his time in office. renelle did. and his acceptance of being acting president, now when go tabio has fled the country, but still not resigned. i think that that betrays a sense of entitlement inheritance and the sense a lack of understanding of how deeply illegitimate he and the ruling sort of political a lead appear to the vast majority of rockets. that's a very dangerous situation to sort of clough ahead, you know,

with business as usual, when the, you know, the masses of your country, of find you illegitimate. and if they want to go to the i m f as they do and to international creditors and say they are credible government, where the credible plans to reform the economy and reform the politics of the country in order to stabilize it and. and when support from from the i m f and creditors', this is not the way to do it, right? or you need a government has at least some credibility. sure. and talk specifically about the i m f or what does all this and symbolic instability do in terms of promises of support from the i f i m f and other international donors. i mean, just looking at the numbers here, the aquatic strawberry, the country has a $50000000000.00 foreign debt. how to even begin turning all that around? well, you begin bit bit by a bit and i think you begin with a stable government that has some credibility with population. and that can last, i mean, i think what's really needed is an interim government established through the constitutional procedures by parliament. ah, that will last a couple of months,

maybe 23 months, and then go to actions where a new parliament can me and can be elected that has the democratic credibility of elections. and in the meantime, a credible plan needs to be presented to the i m f. i think it's already um, some portions of it have already been negotiated. but um, but the longer this sort of this instability lasts, the, the harder it is to, to make a persuasive case to the international economic community. all right, alan keenan. good to have your program. allen keenan, see us for like a consultant search in special crisis group. many facts. j boyden has arrived in israel on the 1st leg of his 1st visit to the middle east, as you, as president. he was greeted in tel aviv biased, any prime minister. yeah, le peed bite him. we'll also meet with palestinian leaders in the occupied west bank. he has been a steadfast supporter of israel for decades, and it's expected to face questions also about the killing of pasting an american journalist sharina black lamp. kimberly, how can,

how's this report the purpose of us president joe biden's trip to israel in saudi arabia is not entirely apparent, but just moments after landing in tel aviv biden made clear what he would not achieve to we'll discuss my continued support. even though i know it's not in the near term to state solution, i remained in my view the best way to ensure 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 al clay,

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, like 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 change 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. those that are related, but will biden 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 hit al jazeera to ha was saying with this sir, we are joined on, sent by al jazeera senior political analyst, mo, and that bashar mo. and shortly after joe biden landed in tel aviv, he gave an all important speech on the tamaqua of the airport. and he said, the relationship with israel is bone deep. we dream together, but apparently that doesn't apply when it comes to hopes of a 2 state solution. why don't always seem down beat on that from the outset?

absolutely, no, he seems to say that theoretically, he is forced to stare solution. but this is not going to happen. but what does this really mean? because the united states is not only a supporter of israel, it is the biggest supporter of israel in the history of israel without the united states support is, are, could not exist. israel occupation of palestine could not gone. so the united states is complicit in the israeli occupation of palestine. the fact that biden is the 1st american president in recent memory that does not why does not spend political capital in order to advance the cause of peace. is a cause of alarm that his administration is not serious about walking. it's falk. of course, when you compare biden's visit to another reason, of course you as president donald trump, it was one of his 1st trips abroad,

wasn't a drum when it comes to biden, though he's dragged his heels. it's been 18 months. why? why the delay? why the timing? i tell you something he's dragging his heels. but in reality he's walking in donald trump's footsteps. because let's just take a brief look at what's happening and where he stands. the iranian nuclear deal is basically out. so you're a beer is back in. and human rights is way down. if that smart, reminiscent of tromp, i don't know what is and of course israel is front and center and human rights are now not only on the question of saudi arabia, question of egypt, question of israel palestine, question of apartheid. so really all in all, while few radically by then speaks about certain values. in reality, he is following in trump's footsteps. of course, underpinning all of this trip are huge, concerns about energy prices, particularly the pumps in the united states. it's no secret, of course,

that said bite in his keen to court the, the, the saudi leadership. this, despite the fact that after the murder of jamal kasha g biden said he wasn't going to have any dealings with the, with mom had been salmon a tool. is that likely to change? you think? yes, i think there's this new pragmatism that the, the by then the session is boss. think about the art pragmatic. they're not over ambitious. they live in the real world, and hence they're gonna have to make these fortune deals with autocracies. so this is happening by the way they do it all the time with israel is as human rights record is not great, it's been killing journalists as well. so i don't think there's any problem for an american administration to make these sorts of d of those as of pragmatic deals with autocracies. i think they will definitely do it through so debbie and by the way, they've been doing it for the last 7 years. support thing, so with the war in yemen, said an expensive arms sold their a be on so so forth. so all in all, while they speak in lofty terms about human rights. but america uses human rights

in order to pressure the likes of iran, russia, and others, and simply thrice, to extort some of its allies in order to advance its interest. how would we define this? said this, you had us administration when it comes to ambitions in the middle east. it seems to be more willing to take a backseat may be as a result of soaring prices back home. what is underpinning the direction that this administration is hoping to take in the person who is probably the most important question and i think there's 2 layers to it. then it's almost paradoxical. on the one side, they're saying we're not going to go back to the it to the years of george bush, barack obama and donald trump in thinking that we're going to be transforming this area that we're gonna do. we do nation building that we're going to support any sort of arab spring, et cetera, et cetera. on the other hand, biden is in the region, not only for oil prices biden is in the region because russia is in the region. because china is hugely in the region today, economically, strategically and every other way, military exercises with iran,

already in 3 occasions with russia and china. so america biden feels that if he's gonna confront and contain russian chinese interests, he can just do it in europe and southeast asia. he must also do it in them, at least. so america is back in the middle east also to confront russia to contain chinese influence and to be almost to work with. so called old fashioned allies in the sim, old fashioned american way, which means quite cynical, living human rights democracy in everything else on the site or imo and great to have here. thank you very much. mon bushera al jazeera senior political analyst, right us inflation for june has a 40 year high of 9 point one percent higher. the predicted prices of food and housing are increasing much faster than average us incomes with black and 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. like kinda has more from washington d. c. these latest figures indicate that inflation continues to saw. it is up by some 1.5 percent on last month because 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, maybe weeks, in order to try and come to 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's 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 well who rec? reading travel, for example, is up by 43 percent over the past year, ren up by 5.8 percent comp, prices 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 its administration being held responsible for johnson group. and as a professor of economics of massachusetts institute of technology, he says, that's concerned that the situation could get worse. the figures are very confusing right now. this is one of the most confusing set of conflict and economic indicators that we seen in a long time. we've got some find 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 it's, it's going to be constant something which is sort of a vicious fire or where people fear inflation. so they raise prices, which causes more inflation. and that's where the big debate is in economics is right now. if i conflation, it's really about just consumer household balance sheets. it's really just about the fact really in some sense, inflation at this point, it's almost more of a political concern than economic concern. i think that we are in a situation, remember, prices did not go up 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 uh, the politics of our country. more than economics, panama government has announced measures to curb the rise and fuel prices and some essential free products. it follows nationwide protest alessandra ram realty

reports for 2 weeks, brokers 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 already have 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 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 persuade protesters order 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. by that with the objective of finding concrete and feasible solution inside their money that but on tuesday protesters called the offer insufficient, demanding larger reductions and vowed to keep up their pressure on the streets. annually say the problem lies in an unequal economic recovery. following the pandemic is no middle macro, establish bundle, the macro numbers a bit on a few items, logistics, the national airline mining and, and the panama canal. but the growth did not trickle down to the population while prices went up in. so working class panamanians are wondering why if the country is grant 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 allison, that a deity al jazeera, conservative politicians have been voting for a replacement for prime minister boys johnson his due to leave office when his parties choose a successor. but as the dean barbara reports johnston is still set to be in post until september. 8 ah, a sing along opposite parliament with some cabinet members competing to replace the prime minister following must resignations within conservative ranks summer wandering, who's really running the country? yes, but inside the commons forest johnson insisted he'd be leaving with no regrets. i'm . it's a speaker. i'm also proud of the leadership that i have given and i will be leaving . i will be leaving my head. hell hon.

we have a new child's. lo, accepted a job from the prime minister on wednesday afternoon and then told him to quit on thursday morning. ah, and the new education secretary, his studio ministers, have literally been giving the middle finger to the public. ah, it is truly the country's loss that they will only be in post for a few weeks. i cannot announce the result of the ballot held this afternoon on wednesday. initial voting by conservative m p. 's narrowed. the field of would be leaders to 6 names are next prime minister, someone gaining momentum, is penny mordant, a trade minister and former defense secretary. she's far from a household name, but tipters, the party activists favorite with the next general election. all those opportunities and the vision that the british people had half leading european union will not be me. we must,

we not election. i'm your best shot. i am the candidate labor earlier but the newly appointed joncelyn deems a hallway is eliminated, as well as former foreign secretary jeremy hunt. the result of the final stage of voting among fewer than 200000 conservative members is expected by the 5th of september. so we're slightly closer to knowing who will be the next conservative party leader and hence prime minister. once we're down to the last 2 candidates, it's up to the party membership. most of them over the age of $5052.00 thirds of them, men, whoever they choose, will face huge challenges, not only in reviving the party's fortunes, but in dealing with multiple crises. this winter. nadine bob, out his era, london, 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 to parting passengers 200000 a day in london's busy us,

apple. he throw it set to make matters even worse. where we challenge as morph, malaga, and 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 strike sprawl. easy jets, a crew as well, and other low cost airlines. 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 jews. and they are demanding, well, easy jets of demanding, better pay ryanair are demanding better conditions in line with spanish employment law. and as an idea of the kind of disruption that this is creating. yesterday the

1st day the strikes, the 12th of july, ryan, air flights were disrupted. well, 249 of them were disrupted across by 15 of those were cancelled at 234 delayed. they were entering peak holiday season. the u. k. foreign office has changed it. travel advice for spain to warn of the disruption of this god of industrial action . but there is a but all this the spanish ministry of transport basically has a legal requirements on, on airlines, too, maintain a minimum service. the veteran, hong kong activist, known as grandma wong, has been jail 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 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 was track free again. catherine. 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. according to parents, as former executives of japan's fukushima nuclear plants must pay $97000000000.00 and compensation for failing to prevent a disaster is thought to be the largest amount of compensation awarded in japan. 3 of the focus shima plants, nuclear reactors, went into meltdown after soon army and earthquake hit japan and march 2011. tony

chang reports from tokyo. wednesday's decision here, 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 a tokyo electric power company. tapco. this decision is very complicated. the court has essentially ruled that a handful of former executives of tapco have to pay out $95000000000.00 us dollars in compensation. that enormous sum is clearly going to be appealed and appealed. are ongoing, already, with decisions yet to be made by the supreme court. furthermore, this case was brought by shareholders of tapco not by the invite to individuals involved in the disaster. and so a decade on those he lost their land and livelihood in africa. shima disaster still waiting to be fully compensated. now the mystery and the majesty of far away galaxies have come into sharp focus. for the 1st time,

nasa 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 reynolds as more 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 week's 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 plus $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, navy 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, still ahead on al jazeera. on the eve of the open championship, we hear the world's best golfers as they prepare a bottle for the claret jog. that's coming up and sport. ah ah ah.

safer than he'd been home and then international anti corruption excellence award boat now for your hero, hulu. ah. what about transport would you need? thank you. england and national raheem sterling has completed his move to chelsea from manchester city. chelsea have reportedly paid around $59000000.00 for the

forward her assigned a 5 year contract for slight to feed her 40 folk salon english time. but the blue bit darker selling is already joined up with his new team on their pre season tour of the usa. earlier he penned a letter saying good bye to munches, says he fans after winning 11 laid to titles with the premier league champions. a french inquiry is planed organizes the way for champions league final for the security chaos that led to some funds being tear gassed and locked out of the match . the french government initially blamed liverpool fans and fake tickets for the crowd. problems that delayed kick off in paris in may, but a senate report released on wednesday late the blame on paris police wafer and the french government for chain of failures that led to the shocking scenes outside the stadium. vans in singapore enthusiastically welcomed the team on the latest of their pre season tool

. they'll play crystal palace and friendly there on friday. and they'll be looking for better results than the full mil. last to manchester united in thailand on tuesday and plays from spanish puts via been making the most their pre season trip to south korea learning some came loose that were made famous by brent bands like bts. ah, they will play a friendly with premier lee club taught them on saturday, depending women's euros champions, netherlands take on portugal in the next few minutes and they look for their 1st win over this year's tournament. they drew one on one with sweden in their opening game between and their 1st victory of the campaign, earlier against switzerland for janina roper, broke the deadlock in the 2nd half luna. bachman cancelled it out in each eliza the switzerland's. real good old. 19 year old hannah venison then came over to sweden

bench to school the winter with $21.00 result price tina this sea, with full points on to tennis. now 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 but to stop, i don't think i need the tennis. i'm happy with the little things like when my son does something right. and when my daughter comes home with a good, great, but federal also admitted haste, determined to return from his injury layoff, he hasn't played a competitive match from will 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 taken 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 job at anytime soon. maybe this 3rd place on the all time list is something is factored in his decision as well, with just a federal scaled back, his schedule to prolong his major career. tiger woods is done the same and he's hoping it'll pay off at the open championship, which starts on thursday. non treason scotland is hosting the tournament and would says the course means a lot to him. as it's where he won his 1st open title in to 1000, to complete the crit grand slam. the significance of winning this event at the home of golf is not lost on his fellow play as 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 what winning and open it's. and andrew says it's it's

it's one of the highest achievements that you can, that you can have in golf. and whether that, you know, there's a lot of great players that have a want to have one opens and maybe not. one opens at st. andrews. so i think it's unfair to say that a golfer's 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 joyce the clair 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 it 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 sport for you. well, no one's coffee scheffler is preparing for his 2nd appearance and the tournaments have been in great form in the major's this 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 picking me when this week just stuff like that. i mean, i don't think i was the favorite maybe going into the masters. i'm not sure if i've been the favorite really going in any tournaments that may not be the true perception that's just mine, but i don't read a ton of stuff. so for me, i don't really feel like whatever being number one wouldn't, wouldn't, would be. and, and be a star joel and bead has become a french citizen,

making himself eligible to play for the olympic silver medalists. the philadelphia 76. his center was born in cameron, but applied for french national theme was granted it earlier this month. it leaves the door open to him joining up with the host for the next gains in paris in 2024. all right, that is a useful for now. i have more free later need. great, thanks la. well, that's it for me. the bulk of this news app is over to lauren taylor in london. just a moment time with all of the days news you all without a 0. ah . the saudi difficult, so unless i la la la la la. listen, why is one on one? the how do you to visit well, cancelled a philistine bitten from such for ya. latin about the fisa yada. that can of little sob isn't done. wilkin went to shower in the cod. there's topics you how that if

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