why are you talking about a better quality of life when people's lives are being cut short by these really well q patient? so what palestinians here, one is more pressure on israel. they want to see adding gauge with when it comes to that these process that leads to the end of the israeli occupation. but they're not seeing any of that. they're seeing that although we're having and we're talking about the democratic president, they see his policies regarding palestinian, similar to those of his predecessor, their republican donald trump. and they don't see that by denunciation is interested to fix. would they've been seeing a person who has been saying, give away mistakes, such as moving the u. s. embassy from television. we also heard advise in yesterday saying that his position on jerusalem has not seen. okay, thank you for that. nita abraham it's, it's just web pointing out if you're just joining us. we're, what we're watching is coverage of the meeting between president mac newt abbas and

the u. s. president joe biden. they're both currently in bethlehem. they are due to a sit down and have a meeting, which is, as we've been hearing from my correspondence, not expected to last very long. president biden then heads to saudi arabia next. so both the leaders meeting at the church of the nativity in bethlehem. well, prior to arriving in bethlehem, a u. s. president biden was at the augusta victoria hospital in east jerusalem, where he was meeting with all the representatives of palestinian civil society organizations and a head of that meeting. president biden had he, he made a pledge of a $100000000.00 to support hospitals in support of the palestinian health services

. and then at the end of the speech, he had an exchange with one of the hospital staff. let's have a listen to that. i have a question about hospitals there. sure you don't, i'll do it privately. i am an american really seaman from new jersey visiting policy and i vote for you. i am a mirror with intensive care gonna mark hosted with it. thank you. no problem have or what we need more justice, more dignity and thank you. thank you. thank you folks. appreciate very, very much. thank you. let's cross over to john hallman, who is in occupied is riffling, who was listening to that exchange at the hospital. what more can you tell us about what happened? it was of much of an exchange rate. he was it, it was just basically the president saying that he wasn't going to take any questions that were related to hospitals. you head what the head nurse with pediatric care of an intensive care pediatric unit, actually at

a nearby hospital that asked him and he basically said, well, no, get a response dyson finally. but it's interesting what she said because she was speaking about dignity, and that's something that president biden had just said. he said we talked about the commitment to the palestinian people in terms of health. and he also said dignity. and he said that something that his own dad said is that everyone is entitled to a big net. say that something that the palestinians i think would say, will that needs more than just some money for a health care system. it requires a bit more than a full g cell network for the occupy west bank and gaza and for other bits of financial assistance, what it needs is for the united states. it should start moving the dial in terms of negotiations at wards a to a, to a, to nation, a 2 state solution in this region. and exactly how that's going to look, that was interesting is when we sort of taken over the crumbs here because printed applied and really didn't want to get into it. at told in this speech,

he just thou on hospitals and his families, experiences in hospitals and how grateful he was. foods, doctors and nurses. but just at the beginning, he mentioned that he was from an irish catholic family. and he said that the catholic be vi receipts ration, quite similar to the palestinian palestinian situation in some respects, talking about the background with britain. interesting, but anyone knows that history. and then he called it a poem, by shame this haney. it talks about what's in a life time a lot for tied away with justice from roy who rise up and hope and history rhyme in the poem that talks about a miracle taking place. right? should he cause that? and i think that will punish things would say was that in this case, it doesn't take a miracle, it takes the united states that actually puts that within it. list of priorities. now think you've just heard from me, death. i'm for. kimberly, that's pretty low down the list of priorities for president vide ms. administration on this trip was concerned with a lot of other things. and as you heard from leader,

the meeting with the presidential with the palestinian president is due to be quite sure. and after that, his moving on to saudi arabia. so this is really squeezed on and it doesn't seem like a trip that's going to move that doll very much a tool in terms of palestinians and what they considered to be their rights and improving their situation. and john, you were out of protest, this serene abu i clay a little earlier this morning. i didn't, that protest is still going on. the family and support is off serene, clearly very upset about how the u. s. and president biden has dealt with the whole issue they were and they were actually mostly israelis because the palestinians here mostly both boycotted that throw states because i asked for police to allow them to do it. and that meant that they couldn't really a vocalize, any of their sorts of been sick me is and they just had to sort of stand that by the side the road. so ended up being quite small. but i did talk to

a couple of people that protest is re lease and they said this isn't just about to ring. this is actually about a number of palestinians that have been killed by these railey military and there's no investigations. there's no justice, there's no follow up. and i think the, the family as well of sharina blackly of said the same sort of thing. they talked about the fact that the u. s. investigation into this said that even though the bullet was lightly 5 by the israeli military, it wasn't with the intention of killing the journalist. they said that really taught to an abdication of responsibility, a white washing. in this case, the united states hasn't really moved more to get to the bottom of this, to speak more to the soldiers who might have been responsible. possibly in other things that could have helped to provide some sort of justice may feel that it's more the status quo that in those sort of investigations don't get to be to the bottom of things. so they thought background that should looming large over this

trip, especially today when the president is heading and is now in the occupied westbank and even to get this across. but separation will, he will have gone past a freshly painted mirror with the journalist face on it to get there. so this is something that is in the minds of palestinians, especially during this visit. okay, john holman, out there for us in occupied east harrison. we'll leave it there for now and return to nita abraham, who is in bethlehem for that meeting between president mahmoud abbas and the u. s. president biden. we spoke a little earlier. you were there monitoring at that meeting there at the church of the nativity. you spoke of the frustration of journalists about what is happening there. what about the people? how do they feel about this trip by president button? a love seat on social media. many people calling on the palestinian authority not to even host by then or have ms visits after what they say is an

ignorant, sorry, and totally ignore to the palestinian issue. they believe that the 2 state solution is a word that just came for a 2nd or 2 in the press conferences, but it didn't really come on high on the agenda that no talk about the continuing expansion of illegal is really something that's no talks about future p profit that would lead to the end of the occupation. plus the other hand, when we are seeing many talks about financial, a better quality of life. if we even make call it that is saying that we're not that we're not looking for problems. we want better economy, that's economy is not going to happen just by hand out by financial assistance when they want to know the israeli measures that are holding the palestinian economy

to these really practices and violations. what they want is to be able to travel freely between cities without is really chuckling. what they want is support their children and their relatives and their friends not to be killed while they are even protesting or just going about their daily lives, what they want them not to be confiscated. so what kind of simians want is mary political core? what they're getting and what the heating it's new in statements when it comes to the us administration, talk about bringing or, or drinking viewpoints together, this tossing issues. it's not to me or that they want for physicians from the us administration from the world. and we've also seen campaigns by v is really human rights organization of saying, mr. president,

this is apartheid. they want the world to know what is happening to them, but they feel that their issue is being get low on the trunk. they feel that they're being forgotten and they want the world to know what it means that they've been living for decade under the israeli occupation. okay, thank you for that. neither abraham ma correspondent, the in bethlehem. well less returned to our white house correspondent committee holcombe. i think has time to look at the next stage of this trip because that's the whole whole point. you were referring to the this meeting with mahmoud abbas a so short, and then he's heading straight president bonds, heading straight off to saudi arabia, where perhaps the crux of this trip really lies. yeah, the president has said repeatedly that he is really excited about being the 1st president to make this historic trip from tel aviv bangor in airport to jetta.

and this is something that he has touted repeatedly as being significant. and if anything, he's been looking for headlines, this will probably be the 1st time he might actually get the headline he's looking for back in the united states. i. and this is when americans might actually start paying attention to his trip as well. because the reason the president is going is to try and get the saudis to pump more oil to bring down gas prices. that's what americans care about. but the problem for the president and all of this is that he's not really offering much to the saudis to get them to do that. they're quite enjoying most experts say the high energy prices. and so this is going to be the challenge. he's going to be meeting with the saudi king. we know that uh, but only because of his frail health for about 30 minutes and then the rest of the meeting is going to be with the crown prince. and that's where things get controversial for the u. s. president, given the fact that us intelligence has said that possibly the crown prince may

have ordered the killing of the wash in to post journalist shemelle shoji back in 2018. so the u. s. media is highly focused on this reading between the 2 leaders, or will it be a handshake? how will these 2 leaders greet one another? the white house is really trying to downplay this, saying it will be a that they're focused on meeting, not the greeting. and it's the substance and that the president will be meeting a range of leaders because when he's in saudi arabia, he will be attending a summit. and energy summit, we're a number of leaders from the gulf states will be this is about energy. and the other big issue, the white house says that's going to be focused on is the fact that there's a concern about a security vacuum that china, that russia, i, is really focusing on this area. and if the united states isn't reassert itself, they could be eclipsed. and so this is another big focus of the trip. in fact,

it is the focus of the trip. and that's been the challenge in all of this for the palestinians. is they really feel like a bit of an afterthought in the president's kind of rushing to get there? and kimberly, it's interesting, we talk about optics, we talk about how the u. s. is a viewing president biden. how, i mean, when we look at saudi arabia ha, to what extent do you think they trust? president biden, specially off to a, some of the things that have been said about cited saudi arabia by president bought in, not too long ago. i mean, he's going not expecting wanting them to increase oil supply, but they are not necessarily going to comply. they, it's a really good point that you bring up the relationship goes back to the 19 forty's, the mid 19 forties between the united states and saudi arabia, in terms of their very tight bond and ties. i one expert that i consulted with, oh, while back said that basically this issue,

well it has been difficult for both sides and given the length and depth and breadth of the relationship, they're going to be able to move past it. but it certainly was assembly by fisher. i'm referring to is the death of jam alca shoji. but they are going to be able to move past it. and so there are many that believe that it is joe by is responsibility to do that. that's what this is about at the same time, what they're also looking for and all of this. and we will have to quickly mention about this is sandy rabies on security concerns as they share a security concern of iran, just like the united states. they believe that this is a fundamental threat and the united states has said look at we're working on that. we are trying to bring iran back into the j. c. p. o, a or the 2015 agreement to limit ron's nuclear program. but obviously that has not

gone very well. so as saudi arabia is saying, we would like to see what your plan b is mr. president. and we don't exactly know what that plan b is. so they're sort of wondering and waiting as well. so they've got their own questions. so in terms of the relationship, they are looking a little bit sideways at the precedent as well. and there's a lot of skepticism. thank you for that. can be ok. it our white house correspondent now to her lanka where prime minister ronelle victim a singer has been sworn in as acting president of to go to by roger pox. resigned in the wake of mass protest against the state of the economy. after his swearing in the new president promised to restore law and order in the country and establish a unity government, it from a single will hold the post until a permanent leader is elected. that process will start when parliament convenes on saturday. will ronald vicar missing

a comes from one of shoreline coast elite families. he leads the oldest political party since 1993 served as prime minister 6 times, but as not survived for a full term even once the $73.00 old was involved law in last month talks with the i'm f for bailout package and a new budget, a mid a spiraling economic crisis, but he remains deep. he'll deeply unpopular amongst the protesters. hundreds of them fought with security forces and occupied his office on wednesday as good a steadfast and whose life for us in colombo. steph said we know how unpopular renelle, vic misinger. busy is what reaction has there been to the fact that he is now into him president and will be carrying out for the next moves for the foreseeable future? well, it wasn't a surprise to people here that he was going to be sworn in today as the interim

a president because he has been acting president for the last couple of days already. the main focus will now be here at parliament. this is the parliament building here in columbus. there will be a special session to morrow to prepare for the presidential vote, which will happen in a week or so from now. the date that's mentioned is now july 20. the key question dan, is, will, the, will handle become a cylinder figure? the acting president now be formalized and voted in as the president. and that's of course, a lot of there's a lot of resentment about that with lots of people here in sri lanka, we've seen, of course, the protests on the street for the last couple of months. but also after i got the by your parks, i left sri lanka, there were lots of people still on the streets. go into the prime minister's house, you are still then the prime min, so become a singer and they were asking for his resignation. so there is a real feeling here that not done yet that they have now achieved 50 per cent half

of their demands. but they see wickham a singer as part of the raja box or family that he is part of the elite. he has been in government as she sat so many times and so many years and they really want something different. they want a real change. but the main question of course, is we'll, they get that change next week, seyfarth and there for us in colombo, thank you. well, got a bye, a roger pox, his resignation marks the end of a turbulent presidency. that is loss of nearly 4 years. michelle fernandez has more the rise and the fall of one of the country's most controversial leaders. he was healed as a hero in 2009 when he led the military victory again. she lancoste hamilton goes and won the presidency 10 years later. but it's a different story now, after tens of thousands of people over and his official residence and office, demanding got of a raj boxes resignation. he doesn't seem to have the caliber of leadership that was

required either to be a strong leader or to have the political sense of the ability to make the deals. the former army officer left the army early and moved to the united states. returning years later, to serve as secretary to the ministry of defense. after his older brother minder became president, sometimes called a terminator, he was accused of using hid squads to kill, abduct, or disappear dissidence. and critics chargers i denies. but his fortunes changed with the shock defeat of my and the roger boxer in the 2015 presidential election until a coordinated attack on churches and hotels. on easter sunday, 2019 revived old fears about national security. got ave roger box. it announced his candidacy for president shortly after boasting he was the only one who could

ensure the safety of citizens ah, for the bubble burst in record time leaving a trail of broken promises and disappointment. for many, a short sighted tax cut, an overnight ban on chemical fertilizers and a tourism set back from the 2019 easter bombings and the pandemic along with mismanagement and corruption, roger lanka, to it's, was crisis in decades as criticism of him increased, present drudge parks of began to crack down on social media and of the platforms. ahmad, been it either they live in a, i have given a media freedom. in the 14 months i've ruled, i have not pressured any media. but if they miss years this, there are laws and methods that can be used. hon, i will use these. we are not good. some say go to the roger puck, so was the most powerful defense. second, she ever

a critic said that didn't make him a good president. i don't thing, he said, mr. hayslip. and i'm a boy that he has not been able to dare say like the best or that, or the fight or the intellect. but what in subject, instead of doing that, the isolate bed his last associates, who all they say? yes sir, that he beckle sir. riddle sir, observers see the need to protect themselves from prosecution, has kept the raj boxes fighting for their political power. and the choice of go to obey roger boxer as proved, a costly one, not only bringing down the president, but his entire family. in a fernandez, ojo 0 colombo, other affairs of violence in iraq's caps on baghdad, where thousands of followers of an influential shia cleric have gathered from mass press, looked at our thought or called for the gathering. last month he ordered,

members of parliament affiliated him to step down, deepening the country's political crisis as gay to manage abdel why he'd in his life rest in bagdad mother, what's going on? oh oh, when, as you can see here in the background, liza tens of thousands of supporters of the she, i clinic and political leaders looked at us suddenly. they have gathered from civil provinces across iraq here too. and saw that a city in about dead to perform a congregation mass prayers. this is upon request from look to the southern himself, has been calling on to his followers and supporters across iraq to come to baghdad, to perform this congregation at mazda tribes. now, this is very special because it comes at the heart of a political unrest that is, following their stalemate in iraq and after $73.00 parliament,

a members affiliated to look to the southern who quit it from the parliament over the disagreement. whether iranian backed parties over forming a new government. this is 9 months after the legislative elections in october last year. now, we've been talking to people here, followers these up worshipers. we have been telling us that you want to send several messages to day regional local messages at local messages, including that they're backing them up to the southern. that is supporting him in his stance in his what they can fight against corruption and injustice. be janelle message that they're totally rejecting. got any normalization with it is read. this also could be a read as a kind of a sure force these numbers are meant according to many people here too. so that

looked at us so that as a political and religious leader, it has many people backing him in iraq. and if he's moving on in his sight again, is what they colton corruption, an injustice. then he has got a lot of supporters on the ground. ma'am and abdul, why he that 1st live in baghdad. china has recorded at slow as economic growth since 2020 a slump is being blamed on and 0 tolerance code. 19 policy which is interrupted industry and flattened consumer spending. second quarter g d p growth, just 0.4 percent as compared to the same period. last year. economists warned the government's full year grace target a 5 and a half cent is out of reach. adrian brown, of course. more than 2 decades, china's economy has been the dependable engine for global economic growth. but that engine is starting to splutter. he can,

he can see that the world's 2nd largest economy is slowing. and president changing pings 0 tolerance cove at 19 campaign is being blamed. 30 months after it began, but in whoo han, last month he signaled that it was a price worth pay. given the low vaccination rate, no country in the world is able to get it down to 0. so how is china going to be able to do that, particularly with low vaccination, right? it seems a very toy odom earlier this year. business activity and shanghai was brought to a standstill for weeks creating calles and food shortages. now the business and logistics hub is struggling to contain another outbreak with households advised to stuck up on 2 weeks of food and medicine. while many countries are trying to live with cobra 19 along with its multiple sub variance, china, it seems, will not be joining that list anytime soon. and so for now, the economy remained stuck in a stop stop pattern. this week the government has released another batch of

economic and trade statistics, but they don't necessarily reflect what's really happening to the economy. says one skeptical analyst, i think as a, as the reference as a reference. but like all of fishes, the physics we analysts townhouse trying to figure out it correctly in terms of that i think that the key figure that does matter though is the one for annual economic growth that this year china's leaders said at 5.5 percent. i think that's going to be very hard to achieve because there are so many headwinds. at the moment we have inflation taking off around the world. maybe the world economy might think into recession. that means chinese export markets could well collapse with millions of people confined to their homes. consumer confidence is flat. that's why inflations hovering at around 2 and

a half percent low compared to the us and europe. the uncertain economic part is unfolding in a politically sensitive year after the 20th party congress in november, president, she expects to secure an historic 3rd term. adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. well, the bleak economic outlook is affecting many countries. that is the focus of a g 20 meeting on the way in indonesia finance ministers and central bank governance from 20 major economies and volley. for 2 days of talks, discussions will center on the not calling effects of the pandemic and the war in ukraine. us treasury secretary john yellowness blame moscow for the economic crisis . jessica washington has more. we have been her hearing these urgent kohls for action on the food security and to provide context on that my to bring in my guess i him, signer from the u. n. g, p u n d p, administrator. thank you so much for joining us. you. you said that we're facing

the worst cost of living crisis in decades. 71000000 people pushed into poverty just in recent month. how bad is the situation in terms of global food insecurity that the world is facing? well, just to give you a sense in just 3 months, 71000000 people being impoverished hauling into poverty is even faster than coven 19 caused in the 1st 3 months. of that just gives you a sense of the magnitude of how essentially 3 factors have really driven this cost to living prices, food, fuel, and finance, which is why the un sector general established 2 months ago. the global price is responsible in order to alert the well to the cumulative impact that this would have put on your individuals on households on families. but what we are now seeing is indeed on the global economy and particular developing countries where physical space is essentially exhausted, levels of death are rising and now the cost of servicing that, that is also increasing on top of the food and fuel prices. so we are faced with

a very serious prospect. molly's transitional government has ordered the temporary suspension of troop rotations by the un peacekeeping missions, citing security reasons. the suspension is expected to last until talks a healthy coordinated new agreement made comes after molly's government, arrested $49.00, ivory and soldiers on sunday villages, soldiers and mercenaries looking to topple the government, the ivory coast. as the troops were hired by private company to support the un peacekeeping mission. nicholas huck. his moore from seneca is concerns over 12000 un peacekeeping troops from 50 different national these ranging from el salvador, bangladesh, germany, or even egypt. not only is this the biggest and the most expensive un peacekeeping operation. it's also the deadliest over $250.00 soldiers have died. most recently, egyptians in the northern part of the country and it's now facing its deepest

crisis of trust because the 1000000 military genta have grounded all of these soldiers. none of them are allowed to leave the country, and no rotation of soldiers are allowed inside molina, there are talks taking place between the molina authorities in the u. n. to find an end to this crisis, but take a listen to what they're the you and spokesperson foreign hawk had to say. the rotation of contingency is crucially important for the missions, operational effectiveness and the safety and security of personnel. all efforts must be made for an urgent settlement, especially since some of the staff concerned should have been relieved several months ago. and this all started on sunday when 49. i foreign soldiers landed on the turmeric of the airport in the capitol, bama code. the 1000000 authorities accused them of being mercenaries, but the ivr in say this is all a misunderstanding. these are you and.