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a heap wave that set to break record. ah, you're watching all your life from headquarters in del hi, i'm getting you navigate. also coming up. russia says it's renewing offensive on all fronts, and ukraine is its operational pause is ended. polls have opened and focused on what prime minister ship sharif is facing a popularity tests against the former leader. him on ton, joe biden, back in washington, after renewing ties in the middle east, but no extra oil to reduce us fuel prices. ah, hello, a summer heat wave has swept europe, sparking wildfires, and leading to hundreds of heat related deaths from portugal, greece and spain are among the worst hit countries. at least 3000 people have to

flee their homes, is a wildfire burned out of control in a mountain range in southern spain. many evacuees are staying and it makes a shelter in the nearby city of malaga. was very fast. we had to get made. i didn't think i didn't take it too seriously. i thought they had it under control and i was quite surprised when ever it started seemed to be moving our direction and then we were told to go show. no, we've left last off behind that we just found a few essentials and her. we've just grabbed a few essentials and just ran really. and by that stage, everybody along the state, the calculus was on the move cars and, and on. and then straight the will of ambulances and fire engines and, you know, movement, everybody, him to pay? well, we got to, yeah, the thank you they, i think we hell, hey, i'm working like this. and then i see her,

the fire and the air force her white. and then what worse, she was like a said and that was the 1st time i think it smelt okay. or some of the most serious fires have been in portugal where the temperature is expected to hover around 42 degrees celsius until later in the week. dozens of fires have destroyed thousands of hector as a forest and brushwood this month. and more than a 100 firefighters are working to extinguish blazes on the greek islands of crete, hot and gusty winds are making their job difficult. people have been evacuated from a number of villages and holiday villas. in the u. k. health authorities are urging people to take precautions as forecasters project record temperatures on monday and tuesday and team baba reports from london in parts of southern europe like here in spain, forest fires and nothing new, but could conditions experienced in the south soon be the norm elsewhere 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 flood. so winds, people are being warned as a 50 percent chance of temperatures reaching 40 celsius more than one degree above the old time record. 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 be arisen because life in 3 decades to come. the one thing might also be to change that conversation. but actually, it's not that it's the question about life and death and not just for the global

south, but also for citizens in the u. k. and despite news reports concentrating on, seems like this. you can health authorities, a warning, the heat can be deadly, even for healthy people. climate change have been driving extreme temperatures for decades and the heat 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 that the annual heat waves death toll could have tripled by the middle of this century. 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 of a 0 senior meteorologist everson fox explains what's driving the extreme weather in europe. where heat waves has occurred because the heat has been pumping its way out

of the north west of africa, across spain and ports where we have seen a record breaking temperatures. carla cloud just off shore from the iberian peninsula, been drawing winds in from a suddenly direction that's going to continue making its way further northward as the source high. this area of high pressure here just ease is a little further east. was it opened the floodgates for that heat to surge up across surf france pushing up towards the u. k. by the time we come to monday, tampa is here getting up to around 35 celsius in london or more touch warmer still as we go on into tuesday and somewhere across the u. k. to into the south and east or suspect. we'll see temperatures getting close to if not touching. 40 degrees celsius. thank me. by wednesday something a little fresher, just topples in from western past that he just searches into central parts of europe or is it down to climate change? that's the big question. well, as you can see from these nasa chars, climate scientists have been telling us for decades now that we are led to see an

increase in the severity and the frequency of heat ways because of global warming. and we take a closer look at the u. k. here's some of that evidence here as well, since 1900 to 2002 temperatures of reach 35 degrees celsius on 9 occasions since 2003. we've seen that occur on 7 a k to 7 out of the 10 hottest years here. have occurred since 2003 in china, electricity searching to maintain power grids that are buckling under the strain of relentless heat waves. 60 cities including shanghai have issued red alerts, meaning temperature is exceeding 40 degrees celsius. are forecast for the next 24 hours. mike helton is a climate change expert at the australian national university. he says reducing greenhouse gas levels quickly is proving difficult, meaning people will have to adapt. there's a particular thing that's happening and that's particularly related to changes in

the jet stream. that's a, a high level, very fast moving band of air that circulates the globe. and at the moment on that's being changed by climate change. and that's bringing in this particular case, very hot air from side india across towards china. at this point, our emissions globally a going up, they're not turning in round the corner and starting to go down. and if way to limit the effects of climate change, like the heat wise, we're saying all the files that were saying we have to reduce those emissions very rapidly. and very significantly going down something like 45 percent by 2030. and we are a long way from that at the moment. but given that we haven't been able to turn around those greenhouse gas emission trajectories, it means we have to adapt to the climate change is very experiencing now, and we'll experience over the next decade. so everything from putting more green spaces in cities to cool the cities down to i having more heat reflective building materials and road materials so that they don't absorb the energy but reflected

back out into the atmosphere. ah, russian missile strikes have had a number of towns in ukraine. it follows a declaration from moscow that it was ramping up a tax in all operational areas. russia says its force is destroyed in arms factory in the city of the ne pro, for more on this. let's bring an alan fish are joining us from keep. so what can you tell us about what more is happening on the ground allen? well, what it appears is that there's a war of attrition dale pain in different parts of the country. in the south. you have the russians who reinforcing their positions improving their security rearming their soldiers there. that's all in preparation for. busy the ukrainian said would be the movement of $1000000.00 man army towards re taking the so that, that claim is perhaps more aspirational than actual practical. but it means that the russians are taking up time by defending the positions they've got in the south

. meanwhile, at the russians we are told, are preparing for an assault on the remaining part of lou haskell, the region that they don't control, which would give them the entire control of the dorm bus read. you know, in the meantime, what we're seeing are a number of missile attacks in both those areas. and just in the last few hours, we're hearing that in micheal of there has been a series of attacks in stone and upon the still going on at the moment at least 3 people killed their where's the ukrainians are saying that they attacked a russian position near cache sun, they managed to destroy a couple of ammunition dumps they claim they've killed $36.00 russian soldiers. of course, i'll just say the can independently can fare any of these claims. and we have the russian seeing that they intend to start ramping up military operations to exert maximum pressure that presidents lansky heathen keys, sees that as a russian threat to make as much damage as they can, particularly in civilian areas and the ukrainians. continue to insist that the

russians are targeting civilians in this war and the point to a missile attack on friday, which killed at least $25.00. the russians are saying that when they fired the missile towards what appeared to be an apartment block and a building complex, they were actually actually targeting a ukrainian navy position something that the acadians deny. so we're seeing kink claim and counter claim which we've seen for this war. we're seeing a war of attrition where the russians are digging in in the south and in the don bass were the attorneys of digging in, preparing for a big russian assault. meanwhile, we should all remember that the war in ukraine has no be going on for more than 20 weeks. thank you so much. alan fisher reporting from keith. a cargo plane operated by ukrainian airline has crashed near the northern greek city of karbala. local media reporting 8 people were on board. they say the plane was carrying tongues of dangerous materials, mostly explosives,

greek authorities say that flight was traveling from serbia to jordan. but there yet to confirm details about the cargo and the passengers. the method is, is a 15 cent air measurements at the moment have not shown anything, but nonetheless, instability of the field was observed and other words, intense, smoke, and heat, as well as a white substance that we do not recognize. so a special armed forces team has to inform us of what it is and whether we can enter the field. a voting has begun in a local bi election and pakistan punjab province, which could have national implications. prime ministers, shit about sharif muslim league called a narrow majority in the provincial assembly, and that's under threat from m o cons p t i party taking the province would be a major win for the former prime minister who is ousted in april. come hider is following these elections, joining us from the horse. so all eyes on the punjab as these make or break by elections take place. come on. how do you see the situation on the ground?

what's going on as you can see that a large crowd behind me, this is a police station or what the sergeant holding station read a truck, the fun job. 4.5000000 people will be exercising their right to watch and the bi election. and it turned out to be under a 100 minutes georgia. i'm dr. bod. done the prime minister ship. i should be in the running for the minister provision. he wasn't able to get the majority only off 20 members of iran on bargain effected to the court. then row that was against the constitutional blog article, 63, a weight based crossing. and therefore the bi election is being held now. so it did

indeed a through your debt for market on what you know was really good. the ruling party, which gave me power often award of not confident i took relation of political party join gotten the election which will decide the fate of this particular problem. yeah. tell us why the elections are so crucial in the sense that they could have national implications. come out indeed, all one or 2 hundreds done by election do not draw a big crowd, but they did. indeed. i had a daughter, bi election, big god. it's a make or break for board. the political parties, the fun job had the most seats, but they're not send it, send me more than. busy all the other province, this put together, they did the most powerful. busy and they did the great boss, good of the country and also the fact that whoever went up on jobs as

a very strong and that, that centered read ron pon party, a day. but to make a come back. if you're going to be able to do a window stage, it will definitely have ramification for what happens and it's my boss that job a domino effect. thank you so much. come on hi reporting from of or a vigils been held in sir lincoln to remember those who were killed during the political unrest. anger over the soaring cost of fuel, food and medicines is like 2 months of anti government protest. got by a roger fox, who fled to singapore was forced to resign as president prime minister reynold from a single serving his interim leader. many demonstrators want him to resign. to still ahead on al jazeera community cactus farms to feed the city. why mexico is looking to local food to counter soaring prices and india ban single use,

plastics occur pollution, but many are not ready to make that switch. ah ha, that extreme heat continues to build across western parts. if you're going to see the clear skies for many, little more, cleared up towards the northwest, their casa northern ireland was to pass a valid far north of scotland. but otherwise high pressure really in charge of the layer of low pressure pushing some of that warmth further north would say as we go on through the next couple of days to see the heat transferring out to spain into france and eventually hops across the channel into the united kingdom, 3536 celsius, a possibility of a 40 you have been hearing about that on the news. possibly for 40 by tuesday afternoon. hey grass. she makes its way further east,

which is we make our way into the middle of next week. so as long as you drive 5 boys, it hot some sherry way, just crossly north west, pushing into scandinavia. little bit of wet weather too into the far east of year where it is somewhat cooler. i received some lively showers, longest bells arranged the central parts of africa, the pulse of east lake there, the easily waves driving across while i'm making a fair way north. ashley, southern near central to southern parts of new jesting, some of that wet weather, southern heart sofa. marley martini could catch a shower or 2, some rudy heavy downpours into liberia possible as he had flooding there for celia . ah frank assessments. it sounds like you don't expect anything change there, problem, lebanon, it's actually structural lebanon needs, and you also contract in order for it to solve this problem. informed opinions, international communities on the goal of this my security, and thus creates

a government that has no legitimacy in depth analysis of the data. global headlines . this is can be very hard to explain to the public that instead of pushing back. no, it's actually got 2 members. inside story on al jazeera lou ah, ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, a summer heat wave has swept europe, sparking wild fires and leading to hundreds of heat related debts. transport to go grease on spain are among the worst hit countries. russian missile strikes have had a number of towns in ukraine. it follows

a declaration from moscow that it was ramping up a tax in all operational areas. and voting has begun in a local bi election in pakistan's punjab province, which could have national implications. prime minister shibel series muslim league has been challenged by the party of former pakistani leader iran con you as president joe biden has arrived back in washington after a 4 day trip to the middle east on saturday, he told a regional summit in saudi arabia, the u. s remains engaged in the region and will not give up influence to russia. china or iran. biden's tour was aimed at bolstering ties. but as our white house correspondent kimberly hawk, it explains, he failed to achieve what matters most to 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 trip meeting with leaders from the gulf co operation 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 how closely interwoven america's interests are with the successes, moline, we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china. russia were ran by didn't face as 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 looking. we don't have to have them adjust the kingdom of carry out. it's rolled with regards to oil and gas production,

as it announced increasing its production capacity to $13000000.00 barrels a day to put saudi arabia will no longer be able to increase production. beyond that, returning to the us 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 ca believes mohammed ben selman may have approved the killing in 2018 of journalist jim l, cuz 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 rape. despite the controversy, the white house this, the meetings were a diplomatic when even as vied and returned to the united states with little to

show for them. kimberly held on al jazeera, economist, mexico have warned some communities could face a hunger crisis. the country doesn't tackle raising inflation. food prices are forecast skyrocket by 10 percent this year. but the government hoping to counter that by producing more food locally. manuel, rapids reports from mexico city was this family farmers in the mexican capital or harvesting no pine cactus. no panel is a staple food in mexico and just one of several important cash crops produced in the community of mil. alta here case a pros in barley. suppose here we produce nepal, corn, and beans, and the majority of the food we 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. program must increment that we know the programs the government has implemented have helped us because costs are rising. the costs of fertilizer is increased and the economy of the country is not doing well. one of the government's programs is called sim brando, vida, or sewing life. first 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. so i guess you know everything is expensive. the price of a cato lemon tomato has increased. we can't afford it anymore. so me, economists in mexico have warned that inflation could reach as high as 10 percent by the end of the year is a complete if the problem worse and, and we see the inflation rate reach double digits. the repercussions in terms of

inequality and poverty would be devastating. the mexican government seems confident, step promoting sustainable practices and investing in small farmers like those in millsboro and up will ultimately be the best way to avert a potential food crisis. the you and food and agriculture organisation have expressed optimism over projects like sim bundle vida, 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 insulation. manuel did up a little al jazeera mexico city sunday as a world day for international justice. it aims to highlight the fight for the rights of victims. it's the cause that activists in lebanon had been pursuing for

decades. and then i heard that reports from bay roots living on has never really moved on from its 15 year civil war. 3 decades later, society is as divided, and former warlords are still in politics. a general amnesty has left crimes unpunished. while the families of an estimated 17000 people missing are still waiting for answers. the lack of accountability have deep rooted causes that wed never address at the end of the war, people will continue to find them. so the victim of the car up and i'm just system, i'm still that system is up with an entirely it's a system that suspended the investigation into one of the biggest blasts in history caused by a stockpile of ammonium nitrate at a root support. 2 years on political interference has ensured no officials have

been convicted for them more than 200 lives. last justice has yet to be served among them 3 year old alexandra. we will not get justice. never on. it's impossible. giving the history of you know, everything that has happened to register. there was a time when tracy knows or had hope, but she says the re election of 2 m p. 's charged in connection with the explosion with a wake up call. or you can't us. so criminal to judge criminal the lack of the to coming from the people of 7, we are alone, machine and on. today, lebanon's political and said terry and false lines have been exploited by politicians and the battle for accountability and not just with the baby port blast . and in my own case of my father's legacy, trying to circumvent a geopolitical problem in lebanon. you pay an ultimate price for that well,

how much shot was among the politicians who opposed syrian and iranian influence and lebanon, killed in a wave of assassinations. investigations haven't been credible, and culprits were never caught for his son roni, an independent judiciary and having the tools to pursue justice won't be enough. as a security problem that lebanon is burdened with not every problem in this country as ours. some are and i think those are the steps forward for reform. but the larger picture, i don't think we have control over that. there has been violence when voices are raised. those in power have made the choice between peace or justice said they're also theater. beirut, india has been several single use plastic items and plans to phase out more by the end of the year. but many who rely on the product say they aren't ready for the transition of limited reports from new delhi. 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 banned 19 single used plastic goods, including straws and cutlery. some st vendor said they're aware of the band but have no other option. in new delhi, the state government is promoting paper and ban board. tentative forgot to be policy political ahmad awful. but they alternate. our policy is at 2 levels. some of our focus is on alternatives. this enforcement is that no other 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 plan will be successful. what we can discuss. but manufacturer said the industry needs more support. it's a great start, but it's definitely not enough because we falsely don't have enough knowledge francois. we don't have enough suppliers. we don't know if the motor plastic bags

are buying what products are we going to use in automated? 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, marian's removed the, announced it in 2019, and the government finalized it last year. but some uses industry li does, and vendors said 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 ban requires a transition. india has a huge challenge that we have to walk. we have a very complex, informal, sick day into brides, basic 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 are not last government agencies in new delhi say inspection to have collected more than $150000.00 in fines. violators

could also be erected. 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 5 new mate. the largest era, new delhi. 2 runners have been ejected from the world athletics championships in the u. s. state of oregon after being suspended for doping offences, kenyon, laurence to rona, was due to compete in the men's marathon on sunday. he tested positive for a banned substance, used to treat chest pain, american sprinter, randolph ross was lined up for the what 400 meter heats. and he was banned for allegedly temporary with the doping control process. a brewery in munich is urging its customers to pay for their beer with sunflower oil, because if a global shortage exports from ukraine on russia account for about 80 percent of the world, sunflower oil. and since the war started, it's been in short supply.