we need to take america to trying to bring people together trying to deal with people who can left behind is only 4 months to go to the world cup and the clock is ticking as teams and fans prepare the cat. so a 2022. we'll have updates from different regions across the globe. this month, the focus is on africa. pan senegal mountain challenge for the tropi to winning the africa cup of nations will be cameroon. gonna to nicea, omar, o, cope. it's the alicia. join us for the world. go count down on al jazeera. ah, we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china,

russia. maria will seek to bill this moment with active principle. american lavish? yes, president joe biden says, america's not going anywhere that will stay committed to its allies in the middle east. ah, hello, i'm darned, jordan, this is al jazeera alive from dough are also coming up. hundreds, dion wildfire, destroy homes and livelihoods across europe. as millions bake in a heat way that set to break recourse poles up now opened in pakistan, went by mister shabba. ashery is facing a popularity test against formerly that human calm and community kept us bombs to feed the city. why? mexico's looking to local food to county, so in price. ah,

joe biden has told, middle east leaders, the u. s. is invested in the region and is not about to give up influence to russia, china or iran, the u. s. president. now, in his way back to washington, after concluding his 4 day middle east trip his 1st since taking office. it was a tor aimed but bolstering ties in the region. auto dot white house correspondent, kimberly hawk. it explains. biden's fail to achieve what matters most for the american public bringing down oil prices. joe biden wrapped up his 4 day middle east tour with this pledge. united states is not going anywhere. the u. s. president spent his final day of his trap meeting with leaders from the gulf cooperation council, along with jordan, egypt, and iraq. his goal is to reassert america's leadership role. one he fears is slowly being eroded by geopolitical rivals. zone becoming clear to me.

now how closely nor woven america's interests are with the successes in the land. we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china. russia were ran by didn't faces high inflation back home, driven partly by a spike in energy prices. so he's pushing gulf leaders, including saudi arabia, to ramp up oil production and bring down fuel costs a goal. he's failed to achieve the comb. lincoln, we don't like to have the magic. the kingdom will carry out its role with regards to oil and gas production, as it announced increasing its production capacity to $13000000.00 barrels a day. saudi arabia will no longer be able to increase production. beyond that. returning to the u. s. empty handed is a problem for president grappling with low approval ratings. biden's also being criticized for resetting relations with leaders,

accused of human rights violations among them, the saudi crown prince, the c i. a believes mohammed bin salman may have approved the killing in 2018 of journalist shemelle cause shall g, but referring to the invasion of iraq, the saudis counter, that america has lost its moral high ground mistakes like this happened in other countries and we saw a mistake like this being committed by the united states in a border. despite the controversy, the white house insists the meetings were a diplomatic when, even as biden returns to the united states with little to show for them. kimberly help hit on al jazeera and that a meeting of regional leaders cutters. amir chef to mean been hammered out, fanny reiterate to the importance of solving the palestinian issue. i'm about to look you shad. i'm and i'll be the arab countries and despite their differences and have unanimously agreed on the arab piece finished it, which expresses

a readiness by all of them to normalize relations with israel. if it agrees on a settlement based on international legitimacy and resolution stipulating withdrawal to the 1967 border is within peace across florida, it will be improper for us to abandon our initiatives just because israel rejects them, are 0 senior political analyst, matawan bizarre, says biden's visit hasn't done much to gonna trust in the arab world. got a leader that me been hammered. who would it best when he said, no, we, we, we all speak about international law, international values and international norms. but why are they apply differently? and i would add why they are quite differently in ukraine than it is in palestine. both of them are occupied and both there is in russia there and is earlier except 3 . israel is an alive united states and but a by them wants to distance himself,

not think the responsibility for supporting these early propitious throughout all these years. and once again, we seeing now just, you know, a couple of days after is what one day after he's been there that their violence is, you know, come back and, and is rose bombing a garza once again. jewish settlements is expanding and that is going to be announcement about $4000.00 your units. so again, as the cut that in either said, you know, instead of illegal jewish settlements when an advance peace settlement. unfortunately, this is the 1st american president that does not spend kept it capital. what ethical capital to advance the cause of peace, which is in any by itself, a cause for alarm, for most of those present in palestine and arab world. at least 300 people have died from heat related causes across spain and portugal, and a week of extreme heat as cause while faster spread in much of southwestern europe

. in the u. k. health authorities are urging people to take precautions as forecast to say the weather is likely to hit record temperatures on monday and tuesday. but in barbara ripples in parts of southern europe like here in spain, forest fires and nothing new but could conditions experienced in the south soon be the normal swear. here in britain, the government's been holding emergency meetings and for the 1st time a red warning has been issued for the heat rather than floods or winds. people are being warned as a 50 percent chance of temperatures reaching 40 celsius more than one degree above the all time record. the extreme haste been pumping its way out of the north west of africa, across a bone dry, spain and portugal wooded area of low pressure just off shore. and lads is giving an extra surge to that. he lows and highs well they are driven by the jet stream. of course, the high moves out of the way in a heat comes right in across a good part of france as we go on through the next few days. eventually pushing up

broad across the u. k. by monday and tuesday, a studies found heat waves across europe have increased $3.00 to $4.00 times faster than in the rest of the northern mid latitudes, including north america. and much of that is driven by changes to atmospheric circulation, known as the jet stream. whether or not that's directly due to human activity. scientists say our continued use of fossil fuels means we're already seeing what was previously predicted for 2050. we're still increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which means global temperatures are increasing. and this means that this is probably something that will the errands be cool, he lives in 3 decades to come to one thing might also be to change that compensation. that actually, it's not a, it's a question about life and death and not just want a global south, but also far citizens in the u. k. and despite news for it's concentrating on scenes like this, you can help all thirties, a warning, the heat can be deadly, even for healthy people. climate change has been driving extreme temperatures for

decades, and the heat is killing more and more people. here in england, in the summer of 2020 more than 2 and a half 1000 excess decks were attributed to heat waves and they've only become more intense and more frequent. since then, the british red cross predicts, but the annual heat waves death toll could have tripled by the middle of this century. in much of europe, the increase in heat waves poses urgent questions about how society adapts from education to working patterns, to transport and housing. some believe it's high time. we faced up to a hot future. nadine bob al jazeera london and in china, electricians are working to maintain power grids that are under strain due to the scorching temperatures. they're nearly 80 cities. it should read alerts this week with temperatures, forecast to exceed 40 degrees celsius. now voting has begun in a local bi election in pakistan's punjab province, which could end up having national implications. prime minister shabanni sheriff's muslim league holds a narrow majority in the provincial assembly,

but that's under threat from inbound cons, p t i party, taken the province would be a major wind for the former prime minister, was ousted in april, will come al hi to join us live now for a polling station in the whole come out. so all eyes on the punjab as these make or break bile actions take place. how do you see the situation on the ground that ah will indeed go again, gary, violation focus on normally. i do not that fact a lot of people but they didn't day they do jail election and a do not jive with it. that was all excited that god or day every day angel days did over 3000 bowling station. about 4500000 people will be a doctor. there was 52000 police men have been put on duty in order to insure the law and order 8 men gained and they couldn't get through to an

election. thank god. the prime minister gun shop, bob chevy became div minister only of being able to come up and running on to party member effects. dog effective guards were then dead qualified by the election commission of august on after the court ruled that there were no block. broad thing under pakistan, dr. constitution article, it could be a so indeed a bigger leg kinda got one job. it got our, our, i had got it done. again again, the fair. i not fooling begun about do i the goal and really come to an end about read g m v dot com. i'll just talk us through why these elections are so crucial for the province and what are the broader implications for the rest of the country . while indeed, actually the fun job has more electron seats for their national assembly than all

the provinces put together. i thought they did, indeed, the power hard there. and when it comes to politics, the most populated province. and it should not be forgotten that the chief minister, who were the jews ministered at the dying. but the time being i was not able to get a simple majority read outdoor defect. good doin did there's going to be through journal regards. whoever wins end up one job will not only form that you might as well. not only have that you minute, but for to have waited implications because that i mentioned the pond job had more heat and an accident. it's emily than all the problems is put together, and it may get made dr. domino a job with definitely john lane. the senate job shop are shortly but got down the narrow majority debt. and so it will be to just put him on the windows feed. however, both sides are saying that they're going to the next gen ritual,

have to wait and see what happened. but indeed your gym locations for the rest of the country. when a jump is just ridiculous, keep problem. all right, i'll come, i'll hide a life of the in the whole. come all, thank you a lot more so to come here and al jazeera, the mental trauma of rushes, moore takes its toll on soldiers on new frames, front lines and india bands. single use plastics occur pollution batch menu, not ready to make the switch or not stay with us. ah, with hell i was saying some flooding recently into the you a year study saying some recently into amman. got another system to were give some cause for concern. you can see the circulation, which had brewed up into northern parts of the arabian sea amount, is making its weight was at east the side of her mom. and we are lighted. see some

big down. pause as we move into next week. certainly something to keep an eye on north of that they go more hot sunshine business as usual. 50 celsius on the cards . therefore baghdad, rothermel pleasant around that eastern side of the mediterranean for northern parts of africa here. again, lousy fine and dry hot enough in car at 39 still she was still plenty. a shower was up towards the north, the northwest, their northern parts of morocco, p. a showers to across the heart of africa. the easily ways coming from ethiopia, central african republic, right across sir nigeria, pushing across southern parts of molly all the way into sierra leone, maybe a shower, to, to come into our center goal. not too many showers. i'm afraid. across the eastern side of africa, east of the riff valley still disappointingly dry, the drought effectively continuing here too much rain. therefore somalia not too many showers to their course eastern part of kenya and tanzania.

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we'll get back a good remind about top stories here on al jazeera us president joe biden has wrapped up a full day trip to the middle east, south and israel and end, but in saudi arabia biden says he won't get the region be influenced by china, russia, or iraq, extreme temperatures of cause while fires is spread because parts of western europe out of control blazes a force, thousands of people from their homes and hundreds of died from heat related causes . and voting has begun in a local bond mixed, and understands some job problems which could end up having national implications. toshiba sheriff's muslim league holds a narrow majority in the provincial assembly that's on the threat. inbound cons, p t i rushes military as far as missiles and shells across ukraine. that's off the declaring it's ramping up. attacks in the east ukrainian official. sadly, 17 civilians were killed, including 3 in the northeastern city of 2,

hugh eve. that bodies were found in the rubble of a housing block on school. 3 others had been injured. and russia says it's destroyed ukrainian military targets in the western city of denise pro. moscow says long range missiles it schools of ukrainian fighters and a military facility on friday. ukraine says the rockets hit an industrial plant and a nearby street at the 3 people were killed and 50 injured. now, doctor say they're concerned about the mental health of ukrainian soldiers returning from the front lines. lessing, more serious brain injuries and post traumatic stress cases. but as alan fisher reports on the outskirts of keith, the best the doctors can do at the moment is punch 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, who needs to, nor 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. we're going out to molly. i'll just eat a 1st made 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 he can't leave behind. not easy to get away from was going in your, in your, in your had a page and some kind of you know, flashback flashbacks. you know when you just close your eyes and everything is start to blame faster and faster and faster on your head. and sometimes it's very much he struggles with his memory. he gets anxious when he used the missing

assignments, but still, he thinks he's lucky. i was lucky because i am still alive and i have 22 hands and 2 legs and i can walk and i can remember something that is very, very good because a lot of horror guys are actually is a, died for, for ukraine, for freedom for, for 4 hours the used various techniques here to help recovery the physical and the artistic, the even half pet therapy. the horses are a popular diversion that us oh cool only. it's hard to help while they're actively serving with the military. we have to stabilize them and get them back to the front . the real work will start when the war ends. marina, the average stay for patients here is around 3 or 4 weeks, but the recovery that takes a lifetime. alan fisher, i'll jazeera on the outskirts of keep

a cargo plane operated by ukrainian airliners crash near the greek city of karbala . local media is reporting 8 people were on board and the plane was carrying tons of dangerous materials, mostly explosives, greek authorities to the flight was heading from serbia to jordan. but of yet to confirm details about the cargo or passengers, people living close to the crash site have been told to keep the window shut and stain doors. vigils been held and shall anchor to remember those who are killed in the ongoing political unrest. anger of the soaring costs of few food and medicines as lead to months of anti government protests, got to buy a roger pack, so who fled to singapore was forced to resign as president prime minister, ronald wriggled my single serving as acting president. many demonstrated, according for his resignation to or so long as, as the president has defended his record, saying he took all possible steps to prevent the country's economic crisis. on saturday, his resignation letter was went out to parliament. but despite his claims,

essential, such as food and fuel, astute in short supply as michelle fernandez report from columbus, the scenes outside this metro station and at fuel sheds around the country is an example of the complete chaos caused by the economic crisis in sri lanka. i mean, just at this federal shed, queues have known to sneak more than 10 kilometers around for people waiting for fuel. it's impacted not just personal vehicle users. it's taxi cabs, it's the industrial baycove is essential services. it's every one that is really struggling to get on with their day to day lives. it's about me getting back and forth to work mostly been walking for days and days on end. this is my 3rd better cue. oh, i've never seen one this long before. never stayed this long before, not eaten, not drunk properly. so it's very stressful. and people finding a day to day living like this q that you see are the 3 wheelers. it just sneaks

around and round before it actually gets to the bedrooms. are these people just get 5 liters of fuel sometimes waiting as long as 7 days for that? and they must queue again so that they want what they want is a system that allows them to get on with their day to day lives around a 1000. hungarians have held a protest against prime minister victor all ben, it's the latest in a series of demonstrations against his government. protests began after major tax icon, small businesses position leader peter mark. as i addressed the rally saying, or benz campaign promises that turned out to be lies, or bands been in power now for more than a decade. but discontent of inflation is posing a major challenge to his rule. watch perez abroad my year, i'll make sure he thought you got the government is currently planning such austerity measures that people cannot tolerate them any more. for example, changes in taxes teaches on to paid. they cannot make

a living and so on. this is why we have to come out to the street and say, he cannot go any further. like this. gunman of killed 10 people and wounded 2 others in an attack on traders in indonesia as pop. while province, the attackers are believe to be separate. his rebels and members of the west upon liberation army, local police, a most of the victims were immigrants, from other indonesian islands. violence is intensified in the province since last year. and rebels set fire to several schools and kill 2 teachers. in sudan, at least 33 people have been killed in over a 100 others injured in the blue nile state during days of violence between rival tribes. the governments declared an overnight curfew in 2 towns. members of the houser and berta ethnic groups began fighting after pharma was killed early this week. resident say, the violence hasn't stopped, but not a foolish on the sudanese american public affairs association. she says these tribal conflicts made worse by the ongoing political instability. this is not new,

it has been going on for decades. it's, you know, the climate change definitely has a big role into this. but the biggest role that plays into this is the political instability of the country. and the fact that the current cool leaders exploit these types of fights for their own benefit, because the muslims trying to center this is denise public. is that either us or in a stability? we've seen these in blue nile, we've seen them in eastern sudan in all regions of sudan that are unstable. and they have several tribes that were cohabitate in peacefully in the past. would have happened though during the p to redeem the national congress party and of the huge government they spread messages of racism and hate and urban migration in the country that lived these tried to clash over these resources. but not only that, but excess of that to severe violence. and in some instances, local civil wars. india has banned several single use plastic items and plans to

phase out more by the end of the year. but many of those who use and manufacture plastic products say they aren't ready for the transition. having a child report from the dental india has a plastic problem. 3 and a half 1000000 tons of waste is generated every year. most of it from products that are only used once. now the government has been 19 single use plastic goods, including straws and cutlery. sam street vendors say they're aware of the ban, but have no other option. in new delhi, the state government is promoting paper and ban board, tentative forgot to be policy, political armada for past they alternate with our policy is at 2 levels. so our focus is on alternatives. this enforcement is bad, nor the state is doing what we are doing. we have brought together people from across daddy who are working on alternatives. so shopkeepers and users who feel they don't have options. i can see for themselves in white,

if he worked together on this band will be successful. working the stuff, but manufacturer said the industry needs more support. it's a good start, but it's definitely not enough because we falsely don't have enough knowledge. shaun's work. we don't have enough suppliers. we don't know if 2 or more to plastic bags are buying what products are we going to use in order to? we also don't have manufacturing capability to solve the country right now. why? plastic is restricted in some states. this is the 1st nation wide ban. prime minister marion's removed the, announced it in 2019, and the government finalized it last year. but some uses industry li does, and vendors say they need more time to switch to green alternatives like these. the industry employs millions of people, including factory workers and recyclers, waste management researchers said the band requires a transition. india has this huge challenge that we have to walk. we have a very complex inform, lose

a sick day enterprise based on me. and we have to see that why we have to address the problem of reducing plastic. we also have to see that livelihoods or not plus government agencies in new delhi, see inspection teams have collected more than $150000.00 in fines. violators could also be arrested. more products are expected to be banned over the next few months . as india aims to become single use plastic free by the end of the year. pardon him at the largest era, new delhi. now the cost of food and other basic goods is becoming too expensive for many mexicans when now the president wants people to grow more of their own vegetables locally. but economists say that won't be enough to stop communities from going hungry out there was manual wrapping reports now from mexico city. this family farmers in the mexican capital or harvesting no piled cactus. no bonnet

is a staple food in mexico and just one of several important cash crops produced in the community of milva, alta yankee, sup rosen palace. 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. look for a mosque ingram and follow 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, skyrocketing 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 words that inflation could reach as high as 10 percent by the end of the year. i completed the problem worse since, and we see the inflation rate, which double digits the repercussions in terms of inequality and poverty would be devastating. the mexican government seems confidence that promoting sustainable practices and investing in small farmers like those in melba eyes that 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 below al jazeera mexico city. now pride celebrations of return to the south korean capital for the 1st time in 3 years off being put on hold. because of the pandemic reign wasn't enough to damp and the procession making its way through central soul to celebrate the l. g. b t q. community police were on alert of thousands of church backed counter demonstrate as rallied in nearby streets. there was no significant disruption, as revelers waving rainbow flags made their way to city hall. all the news, of course, at our website david is on your screen al jazeera dot com ah .