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president joe biden wraps up his 1st middle east trip, assuring leaders, the u. s. won't abandon the region to china, russia or iran. united states is going to remain active, engaged, partner, wish ah, on carry johnston. this is al jazeera, well live from. also coming to lancaster, unpopular president may be gone or the country is still running out of money to pay for basics like fuel. we report from columba wildfires spread further across southwest europe, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. a trauma of war is taking its toll and ukraine, the reports from a hospital that's coca with cases of mental stress disorder. ah, you as president joe biden has just wrapped up the high stakes for they tore them,

at least it started an israel and ended in gender saudi arabia. well, just to hours ago, biden laid out his strategy for the middle east and the room full of regional leaders, including saudi crown. prince mohammed been so man biden promised, the u. s. would not walk away from the region. let me state clearly that the united states is going to remain an active, engage partner in the middle east. as a world grows more competitive and the challenges we face more complex zone, becoming clear to me that how closely with america's interest are with the successes in the least. we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china, russia. we're will seek to build on this moment with active principle american leadership. when he was president, was hoping to get some concessions from saudi arabia on raising all production to

ease rising gas prices back home was going back without a commitment from the kingdom. so to come look at, we don't know if you had the magenta kingdom and it's all a fleet of opec had announced it can produce a maximum of 13000000 barrels a day. the kingdom has knows, pay capacity to increase production. beyond that, the issue of human rights hung over the u. s. presence entire trip to the middle east. he was criticized for meeting mohammed been so man. on friday, joe biden said he raised the killing of jen, this jamal shoji with the crown prince and said he believed in some man was responsible for according to saudi arabia is a foreign affairs minister. the crown prince pushed back his word. highness also mentioned to the president to mistakes like this happen in other countries. and we saw a mistake like this being committed by the united states in a bought a job. and that the united states took steps in order to deal with those who are found guilty and to ensure that mechanisms are put in place to prevent this from

happening. can 100 crump and explain to the president that the king of sergio has taken measures to ensure that a situation like this cannot happen again the for his one hand. this also mentioned that a number of countries in a number of countries around the world. you have situations where journalists are killed in that of those countries have to take steps in order to bring those responsible to justice and to ensure that it doesn't happen. and then he also raised the issue of the policy in american journalist that was killed by the israeli defense forces and the need to ensure that this issue is properly dealt with. so these issues, unfortunately, mistakes happen all over the world. and the important thing is to deal with some effectively indecisively. earlier i spoke to our white house correspondent, kimberly, how could she says biden is going back empty handed from this trip. it's not good for this president because there are a number of factors that play. first of all,

most americans weren't paying attention. that's a big problem. the other big problem is if they were about the only thing they were paying attention to was the, the negative more salacious headlines that happened. and that was the fist fun with ma had been solomon. the fact that that the president essentially lost a bit of his moral high ground. the fact that he said the foundation of his foreign policy was human rights. it here he is sitting down with not only the saudi crown prince who has been accused of being human rights abuser. but also there were other world leaders in there as well that have had similar accusations made against them . and so this is a real problem because the america's moral authority has been eroded. the president is, is appearing that he is selling out for economics, and that's not sitting well with many americans. so again, many americans who are consumed with the high inflation cost consumed with paying for high the fuel costs, food prices,

all of that are either we're focused on that not paying attention or focus on the negative headlines. the main cracks of why the prisoner was here and that was to get the saudi kingdom to pump more oil to kind of increase supply, bring down those high energy prices so that americans in the united states were not paying such high fuel costs to fill up their gas tanks or petrol tanks a well that didn't happen. so instead what they did was that kind of said, we'll look at, we have this fact. she shows that in july and august was going to happen is there's going to be an increase in production above 50 percent of normal levels. but the truth is opec already announced that back in june. so this was nothing new. and so they were trying to kind of portray this as a, as a some sort of deal that had been secured. but in fact, that wasn't the case at all. the president is going back empty handed, and he has to tell americans that to lancaster parliament has begun the process of choosing the next president and

a brief session that former present got to by russia paxis resignation letter was read out. prime minister, i know, week room a singer is serving as acting precedent until a new leader is in place that should happen within the next 7 days. meanwhile, the energy minister says that any kind of help is welcome from friendly nations to solve the economic crisis. a shortage of foreign exchange means it shall anchor, can't import essential items including fuel medicine and fertilizers. initial meetings have already taken place with india and russia. we have made request, we never have made request to every family nation. so any country that comes from the bus, we appreciate that right now. the indian government is the one to come to that has provided us with the credit line off the bus and has more on the situation insurance from columbus rippling fuel show just really paralyzing 3 long at the moment. one sector that is very badly hit is also the medical sector. housework has

have been given priority on a saturday to get fuel. so in this queue, you can see doctors, nurses, all kinds of medical workers, but the priority is not been given everywhere because other people are affected as well. the other problem is that patients don't have fuel to go to hospitals to seek treatment. so the medical association for doctors saying that the health care system is nearly collapsing doesn't cause it continues on able to get the fuel and decimal any of the fuel shipments. so that reminds the guilt because of the collapse in about 2 weeks time. what will happen then the patients will die without the drug patient will die without seeing the workers or that doctor. so time is running out to a doctor say if the medical. a equipment the medicine and fuel is not going to be supplied within 2 weeks. the health system could left completely no extra

precedence, honey, come a thing has now released some emergency fun for food and fuel at madison. so that's a welcome announcement, but it remains to be seen all these people here, while the supplies will arrive. a more than a week of extreme temperatures is cause while fast to spread in much of southwestern europe. a pilot lost his life in northern portugal when his water bomb a plane crashed. temperatures are reached at $47.00 degrees celsius in parts of the country. more than 11000 people have been forced to evacuate the different region in southwest france in the face of out of control fires grease as sent to fire fighting equipment to help 810000 hectares of land in school. and at more than 300 people have reported the died from heat related causes in portugal in spain. but the temperature has been hovering around 40 degrees firefighters are struggling to bring it in. flames under control,

which are devastated coastal and countryside areas or italy is coping with its worst drought in 70 years. as a result, farmers in the north are struggling to salvage their crops. as adam rainy reports from the po valley, the losses could exceed more than $3000000000.00. this is where italy's longest and most important river, the po, looks like right now. parched in it, dangerously low levels. it's water provides the life blood for farmers who produce italy's most valuable crops, walking through his field of stunted corn farmer, adriano tune. your lo, the son, and grandson of corn growers, shows us the damage wrought by the drought. ah, christa was tunnel is brutal this year. this comb will just be throwing away all because of the drought because it hasn't rained in months can on this year, i'm totally wherein threw down river where the po empties into the adriatic

engineer rodolfo lot. anti shows us how the current is running in reverse, from the sea to the land, because the river is so low. looking over maps, he shows me how salt water is entering nearby farmland, lead into says salt water barriers are failing because they weren't built for such dangerously low river levels. he regularly monitors the salt levels in the river. he's never seen at this bad. this is him of, in the seems like it. i mean it's now registering 25 grams per liter. that means that sea water, so water level here should be one gram police to be able to distribute to farm and and the effect of so much salt water incursion, burnt crops, worthless and withering in the field. many fields poisoned by salt water may not even produce crops next year. it's not just a problem for agriculture. muscle farmer paula munching says he'll lose 30 percent of his harvest from this lagoon on the po delta this year. for oil to cost them,

all of these muscles are all dead fresh water from the po hasn't made it here so they just die. seems like this are increasingly common along the po. whole area is usually covered by water. now exposed, turned in the beaches are islands of sand in the middle by the river, usually flows. and those who provide water to farmers in the po valley say they're not just worried about this summer's crops. but about years to come a once in a lifetime, drought shows how life could change here forever. so the, with the mechanic with, if we lose this resource, we have had for centuries, will have to abandon our excellent crops. we'd give up our whole cultural heritage, a frightening prospect as people here and millions of others around the world struggle to adapt to changing climate. adarine al jazeera in the po valley of northern italy while still to come, the hair on al jazeera community cactus of farms to feed the city. how mexico was

looking to local food to countess soaring prices. an important river in northern syria is running dry. why? farm is all blaming turkey for the problem. ah hello, they will look at africa in a moment. the 1st of the middle east and we've got some very unsettled weather to come into southern areas once again. places like unlikely to see flooding, rains possible. flash floods as that area of low pressure brings the wet and windy weather on shore from next week. now that wet weather is expected to work its way further east, and if we don't get a shower or 2, we are likely to get that heavy cloud pulling into places like the u. e. and katara and southern areas of saudi arabia for the north. this is a much dry, a hot,

a picture, high temperature once again for western areas of iran and iraq, the temperature touching 50 degrees in baghdad on monday. and we're continuing to see a lot of heat pull across the north of africa, sandstorms affecting not just morocco, but further south temperatures, expected to climb across coastal areas and in the northeast corner. for egypt, for example, for cairo well above the average, touching $41.00, at least until tuesday, for the south of this much wet across that central band, thanks to those easterly ways, much dryer. unfortunately, for the horn of africa and for western half of southern africa, who showers, dribbling into madagascar as well as mozambique, and zimbabwe, rather dry and sunny in cape town. ah, it is only for months to go to the world cup on the clock is ticking. as teams and

friends prepare for cats or 2022, we live updates from different regions across the globe. this month, the focus is on africa and synagogue amounts a challenge for the tropi to winning b, couple of nations. we've become a rude. gona tunisia over rock curb, it's still the show. join us for the wilco countdown on al jazeera lou. ah, you're watching out a reminder of our main stories now. u. s. president joe biden has just wrapped up a 4 day tool of the middle east. it started in israel and his ending in saudi arabia whiten, laid out his strategy for the middle east in the room for the regional leaders. he

promised us would not walk away from the region to land cuz parliament has begun the process of choosing the next president. prime minister, i know a singer is serving as acting president to a new leader is in place that should happen within the next week. more than a week of extreme temperatures has caused wildfires to spread in much of southwestern europe. firefighters are struggling to bring in the flames under control which are devastated coastal countryside areas. for russia military says it's destroyed ukrainian military targets in the western city of denise pro. it says scores of ukrainian fighters and a military facility were hit by a long range missiles on friday. at least 3 people were killed and 15 injured in the strike. ukraine says the rockets hit an industrial plant and the nearby st. ukrainian officials say russian rockets also hit

a commercial warehouse in the city of odessa. there were no reports of casualties. here says moscow has increased attacks and western ukraine is intentionally targeting civilians. well, doctors in ukraine say they're concerned about the trauma. soldiers are being exposed to on the front lines, the thing a significant spike and serious brain injuries and post traumatic stress cases. but as an fisher reports in the outskirts of kids, the best the doctors can do at the moment is patch them up and send them back. the are the injuries of war. you can't see the trauma, the damage from the front lines. this clinic on the outskirts of keith tries to help the patients have p t s. d post traumatic stress or significant brain injuries . christina was neat sinner is the clinics director. emphasis. lou then you are patients of people who lived through the events of the war. a work is focused on psychological trauma that they suffered and we work with them to give them strength

to go back to the front line. and we'll go over now to molly. i'll just see the 1st mate audrey at the beginning of the war, a former soviet soldier. he signed up as a volunteer for the ukrainians just days before the fighting started. but on the outskirts of mighty pole, he came under fire. something can't leave behind, not to get away from what's going in your, in your, in your had paid and some kind of you know, flashback flashbacks. you know when you just close your eyes and everything, you start to blame faster and faster and faster on your head. and sometimes it's very much he struggles with his memories. he get anxious when he is the miss outside it. but still he thinks he's lucky. i was lucky because i am still

alive and i have to to, to hands into legs and i can walk and i can remember something that is already very good. because lots of our guys actually a died for, for a crane for freedom, for forever forever. the used videos, techniques here to help recovery the physical and the artistic. they even have pet therapy, the horses and a popular diversion out of college on if it's hard to help while they're actively serving with the military, we have to stabilize them and get them back to the french. the real work will start when the war ends. the average stay for patients here is around 3 or 4 weeks, but the recovery that takes a lifetime. alan fisher, i'll just either on the outskirts of keep finance ministers from gee, 20 nations have wrapped up a meeting in bali and leaving with no file communicate. they discussed the global

food crisis, global minimum corporate tax and inflation. but differences over the war and ukraine prevented delegates agreeing on a consensus statement. peter got enough, is the deputy managing director of the international monetary fund. she says a combination of factors including the war, ukraine and china's approach to the pandemic are impacting the economy. so the most vulnerable countries. you just look at our projections for recovery and emerging and developing economies. you will see that, you know, where we think they will be in about 2 to 3 years. is significantly lower than the, where they would have been in the absence of the pandemic, which is unlike what we see for advanced economy. so there has been a medium term impact medium to long term impact on these economies. now, given that incest rates are going up around the world, that is raising borrowing cost for emerging, developing economies. for example,

we have about a 3rd of emerging markets who's borrowing costs in foreign currency is over 10 percent, or that is an important marker. so it is getting to be challenging times for these economies. gunmen have killed at 10 people and wounded to others in the eastern indonesian province of pop. what the attack took place now and do that. district in the center of the province were rebels from the 3 pepper organization have been fighting for independence. they say all the victims were immigrants, from other indonesian islands, economists and mexico warned that without action to reduce inflation, some communities in the country could face famine as food prices in the country skyrocket, mexico's president undress manuel lopez abra door on mexicans to produce more of their own food and make the country more self sufficient. on a wrapper has more from mexico city. you this family, you farmers in the mexican capital or harvesting, nor pile cactus nor bile is

a staple food in mexico. and just one of several important cash crops produced in the community of milva alta here kisa rosen, or balise suppose here we produce nepal, corn and beans, and the majority of the food will produce goes towards feeding mexico city with food prices. on the rise, mexico's president has called on farmers to increase agricultural production and the government has already set a plan in motion to assist farmers through subsidies last paramus ingram and thought we had all the programs the government has implemented have helped us because costs are rising the cost of fertilizers increased and the economy of the country is not doing long, and one of the governments programs is called sim, bundle vida, or sewing life 1st launched in 2019 as a broad strategy to combat poverty and inequality. today it's being geared towards increasing food security in the face of worsening inflation. but many in mexico are

worried that not enough is being done to rain back sky rocketing prices. oh yes, everything is expensive. the price of over kado, lemon tomato has increased. we can't afford it anymore. some economists in mexico have ward that inflation could reach as high as 10 percent by the end of the year. i completed the problem worse and, and we see the inflation rate, which double digits the repercussions in terms of inequality and poverty. would be devastating. the mexican government seems confident that promoting sustainable practices and investing in small farmers like those in mil baldes will ultimately be the best way to avert a potential food crisis. the u. n. food and agriculture organization have expressed optimism over projects, likes him, but on the visa or sewing life. the goal here in mexico is to expand the existing program by including more crops and using organic fertilizers. and thus moving the country toward food self sufficiency. experts in mexico see that while subsidies

offer a good solution in the short term, the only way to guarantee food security is through economic policies aimed at curbing inflation. manuel did up a low al jazeera mexico city. u. s. authorities say they will seek the immediate extradition of when the taurus drug lords captured by mexican forces. mexico's navy released footage of rafael at cairo quinn tara, shortly after. he was arrested in sinaloa, where he was jailed in the 1980s for mastermind in the killing of a u. s. drug enforcement agent. he was released on a technicality in 2013, but he returned to drug trafficking. mike vigil is the former chief of international operations for the u. s. drug enforcement administration. he says it's a win for the authorities. the drug enforcement administration is elaine it with the capture of colonel king dental, simply because we feel that this is

a tremendous victory. more just us in the rule of law. and as you indicated, the united states have been a bounty on kind of king demo. $20000000.00 us dollars. it's the more the biggest reward ever. it's a reward even bigger than the one that existed for chopin's mon and low s for the 1980s. there was only one cartel that existed in mexico. that was the one a lot of cartel, which was headed by cut off king dental. in 2 of his cohorts, and they were tragic gene drugs, cocaine marijuana geral went into the united states. in february of 1985. they decided that they weren't going to kidnap the agent. thank king. that in pre k t j come on in right in front of the u. s. consulate in one a lahardo. they took him to a residence owned by cuddled king dental,

where he was tortured rhythmically, in a very cold wanted manner until he was killed. and then at that point in time, many of these cartel leaders, when he got okey doke, lead to costa rica, we capture them there, and then he was extradited to mexico. and given a 40 year sentence, the un security council has passed a resolution urging all countries to bind the small arms deliveries to haiti, where gang violence is soaring. the un says at least 234 people have been killed or injured in gang violence and ac capital in just 4 days from 8 to 12 of july, a violent crime has affected fuel distribution, aggravating shortages, which of course widespread protests in recent days. show martin bower is the world food program representative in haiti. he says the humanitarian and economic situation in the country is alarming to 277000 people out of those. a few,

$10000.00 tens of thousands are trapped without water and hadn't been since july 8 more or less. so it's been a week since this is gone on. we're very concerned about people's access to food, water, and basic medical care. the fighting needed to stop. we used to stop the last minute terminate to come in religious communities as in doing their best to bring assistance. so those have been affected. we do need to have access to just the way in order to relieve the situation again to just the way it has been cut off and leave for july and we're not able to get essentially supplies. so we've been in touch with communities and we're still inside. religious members of religious communities are allowed in and out among the very few. and they do tell us that the situation is dire, that people are struggling,

and that we need to get assistance and such as soon as possible. gangs are present in different parts of water. prince, they've been able to cut off the road to the south in the case for about a year, there's also been the road to the dominican republic trading or east. that's been cut off for months, and there's currently issues with access, reading porter printed a noise. so that's a ever since made has been a very difficult road for people to travel because again, controlling these areas that farmers in northeast and syria are facing water shortages. the river, they rely on for irrigation and drinking water is drying up before their eyes. a payment dams recently built in neighboring turkey. will you and you want to turn the 1st agency estimate to disruption has affected access to water for about 460000 people in the region of advantage has more know be in the out of the trouble tell you how to me that standing in what was once the middle of the hub already for the

biggest tributary of the fatigue in syria. for centuries, people in the northeast region of husker have depended on it for their livelihoods . but that's the thing of the past, says the farmer at the mailer and no, there is no voice because it was cut off from turkey. they put dams on the river and cut off supply and very close brings and tug wells around the springs and put them to the cupboard waters or cuts off the dial. it is worsening. the impact of dams built on the turkey side of the border. until recently, wheat, cotton barley, rice, were grown in the hub river valley. another farmer says on the ground water reserves are also affected. none alone will let him out of the. today they are suffering leave because there is no what you, when the level of else has gone down. the people who used to live on the harbor river have reached a new level of quality. there is nothing more hammered. hamza adds, that the shallow water is unthinkable. and carbo only,

and i knew most people used to drink water from the problem, but now we don't even let she drink the water because they get sick immediately. working the land is the only way of life. these farmers know. i said, i imagine that i can, the drought has hit us hard. we don't even plans anymore. when we do the crop, di, or the plant seeds on both sides of the river and we take losses. you know, how much agriculture costs these days? or if god has mercy on us and gives us rain water the crops twice and then night dive in. what about the city has been devastated by civil war since 2011 the fighting has forced people from their homes. now the drought is benting, the result of those who have stayed against all odds had fall on to 0. ah.