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you're watching all your life from headquarters in ohio. also coming up burning through fields for sun mountains. wildfires, torch, france and spain. as parts of europe bake under extreme temperatures, the leader of tennessee is biggest opposition. party faces trial ration of a new she is accused of financing. terrorism. sherlock has opposition leader withdrawals on the presidential race, to support a rival candid as the parliament needs to choose the country. next leader ah hello. the russian president vladimir putin is due to take part in a summit into the wrong that's being overshadowed by the fall out from the war in ukraine. talks with iran, president of human e, c, and turkish liter reggie play early on are meant to focus on syria. the 3 countries

have all been involved in the conflict there and are trying to restore, submit stability under the so called us donna piece process for school. sardar is joining us from to ron russell. tell us what's on the agenda on what we expect to see. well, syria is one of the most important issues with a on the agenda of this meeting so that russia withdrew its force of the majority of his forces when the war began in ukraine. iran, i'm turkey, are the significant companies that have important military presence in the syria recently took as president jeff taper. don't say that turkey is planning to conduct a military incursion into syria, to create a ticket with the security zone. and to clear the area from the curtis on group wifi, which is affiliated with the p k. k. and also to create the thieves on for the safe return or defeat in refugees. however you run family or poses this idea. recently,

the iranian foreign minister was in turkey and he said that you run understand certain security concerns, however, and middle reparation is not the solution. right. doctor and he went to damascus, met the syrian officials and trying to pay away for a diplomatic solution. so today, while these meetings between turkish and the random officials are, are taking place there, syria for a minute, they're also going to be in town. and he's going to be brief about the meeting between the turkish and the iranian leader. so later today, they're also going to be a summit of the, the got on to her countries of the us on a piece. tall thrush are turkey and iran. and during the press we'll see whether they have reached an agreement or not. one of the, another important issue is that the green export from ukraine, so russian and took issue. presidents are also going to meet today into iran. the expert here are seeing that what the technicality is. these 2 countries have agreed . however, a political decision is needed to, to, to create a safe passage through the black sea to, to, to load. if you can,

you're going to be export from the force that is to stumble and from the stumble to the international market. today we're also going to see whether that political decision is going to be announced or not. another important meeting is going to take place between the iranian, the president, brian bracy and the russian president of them are put in today. so while these meetings are taking place today, we have just received an important announcement that the russian guest from and you want national oil company have find a memorandum. so he runs the national oil companies, managing director said that this agreement, or the deal is worth of pounds of billions of dollars. and it is the biggest investment in iran's industry in its history. so both iran and russia are under heavy sanctions from the western countries and is to sanction he nations are seeking the opportunities to de interim to they will not. they are relations in terms of the security and economy. ok. thank you so much,

russell or so we'll start reporting some to her on and on that point of sanctions. let's bring in elgin 0 senior political analyst model shorter. he's joining us on skype from the high on the issue sanctions. my one as was saying, is the west a power on the sanctions against russia? to what extent do you think putin seeking to bolster ties with iran? bye bye. now going to turn on oh yes, absolutely. there's a 100 percent intention to do so. lots of these are contacts could have happened and actually fact they started on the phone between the 3 leaders about the us than a process. but i think i put in found it's a quite a timely after biden visit to the region for him to do more of the same. and in fact, her, his meetings with 2 important regional powers, iran and turkey, certainly overshadows, are biden's meeting would say, with alike sofa bahrain, or united arab emirates and so on. so clearly there is a, there's

a strategy behind this and not only to discuss, so syria, but also for russia to once again, re emphasize and reinstate it. our role as a global power, if one can say so ab, by a gordon eating many of its steps with turkey and syria and resolving some of the outstanding issue like in syria, ukraine and so on. so what, so what's a, do you expect me perhaps the most movement on or something concrete to come as a result of these discussions taking place in sam there is a sense that they might reach a deal on the export of 5 grains from ukraine through the black sea, there's a possibility for that because as an international outcry about food insecurity, especially in the south. so i think there is a will on the part of most,

including ukraine's a need to export. it's great for hot currency, for russia to seem like it's a responsible player and for target to be the mediator and an important issue that really touches on most of the walls. i think that's one issue. the other one is we will look to see if they can reach a deal on that question a turkish invention or to expand its security zone. you mentioned it before that odd iran on russia was that i took one of those 2. in fact, the united states, of course, is that as well. so you can imagine iran and the united states don't agree on anything, but they do agree that that turkey should not be expanding a, it's at security, there's on to 30 kilometers. so there's a number of things that we could see at coming out, but i think the most important bit of it is they what i would like to call that

keeping up appearances in the sense that these are too important regional power. beth russia is a global power and it is a middle eastern power. and that it, all 3 of them are basically defacto and studying what happened in gender just couple of days ago, which is as the united states tried to coalesce some of its alliances in the region . russia tried to coordinate with some of its friends in the region as well. okay, we'll leave it there. thank you so much. marilyn mazata and speaking to us, intel from thinking a scorching heat wave wrecker temperatures and raging wildfires are risking lives and threatening homes and large parts of western europe. spain is one of the worst hit countries firefighters are battling dozens of blazes which are for thousands of people to flee their homes. the investor off is joining us now from to borrow. that's and zamora, problems in update us on the wildfires. well we're here about

5 kilometers outside the town of tamara, at a wind farm where just since we've been here for the last 10 or 20 minutes and we've seen flames engulfing entire hillsides and smoke rising from the base of these wind farms, you can observe the base of these wind farms completely block in by fire in some areas, and there are fires that are still burning, spreading with the wind in the direction of the wind, beyond these valleys and over the hills. since we've been here, we've, we've seen helicopters coming in filling up with water and then trying to dump them on as many of the active fires as possible. we've seen at least 2 helicopters make their way here. when we arrived, you could see fires burning, uncontrolled, all over the area across the shoulders of these hills, just sort of bouncing up and down and jumping from one area to the next. we're hearing sirens,

there are police on the ground trying to cordon off the active fire areas and helicopters continue to make runs dropping as much water as possible. you can see just between if we can pan the camera to that there's fire and flames. jumping just between the hills now as soon as they put out one area of fire helicopters, they have to then spot and head to the next one, the fire moving almost as fast as the helicopters that are trying to put them out. we've heard reports this morning, the fire fire rescue workers are optimistic, the government is optimistic that they can put out these fires more quickly today. temperatures have gone down, but the fact is there were about 37 fires burning yesterday. 20 of them out of control. there are 30 fires burning today. 20 of them are still out of control. and even though the wildfires are reportedly calmer today,

the fact remains that there is still high heat even though the temperatures have gone down. the winds are still high even though they have come down a little bit, but they remain high enough to be able to spread these fires and the conditions are extremely dry. this is the lowest precipitation that this region has seen. drought conditions have persisted for many years, but this is the dry us. this region has been in a 1000 years and the conditions still remain perfect for these fires to continue to spread. thank you so much. same bas ravi reporting from barbara and spain. still ahead on, i'll just 0. why demonstrators in panama have torn up the deal with the government on fuel price cuts. and in agriculture architectural nod to eric, heritage will take it inside the stadiums that will host the middle east 1st before the world. ah.

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oh. the me. hello again. the top stories on al jazeera, iran is hosting a summit on the war in syria, be overshadowed by conflict in ukraine. the turkish and iranian leaders will be joined by russia president vladimir putin was on his 1st trip outside the former soviet union. since the invasion, a scorching heat wave and raging wildfires are resting lives on threatening homes and large parts of western europe. the blazes have burned through 1000 detectors in spain, france, portugal and greece. through lancaster, parliament has immediate colombo. where is now a 3 way race for the presidency?

a list of candidates has been presented to m. p. 's officer, one contender pulled out the opposition leader, subject prim. adolfo says he's withdrawn to back foreign minister, dallas, i'll have her room on the interim presidents run with grimacing. is one of the other candidates. a final vote is expected on wednesday when nelson enders has more from a demonstration in columbus. the kind of protest you're seeing behind me is the increasing sort of voices was about ronald vicar missing his candidacy. and there's a lot of opposition to that in parliament today. we saw that form a process where nominations were handed over to the secretary general of parliament . now there were 4 that were named and expected, but just before the nominations were handed over, we heard that the opposition leader was withdrawing from the rest. the reason he said was that he and his party these debbie had decided to support the candidacy of

dallas, alabama. alabama is basically a fairly senior politician, part of the sort of parent party that then evolved into the roger box that kind of faction lead s l p. p. or dallas. i sort of was sideline due to the time of the roger boxes. he's, he's not obviously as a carries magic as mine, the roger pox o as forceful, but he does have a silent support. what we're hearing from the sergeant prima dasa cam is that the reason for him withdrawing is that there is an agreement that has been reached between sergeant ray madison, dallas, alabama, basically that such a claim without a will back a lobby, rumors bid for presidency on the basis that when, if and when he becomes president, he would then call on sergeant bremar dasa to form a government and make him prime minister. meanwhile, the acting president, runner, vicar massena,

are basically expects that support of the s l p p. but all is not. are sort of, well there either. so this is the background in which that election in parliament will take place. on wednesday, the number of people known to have died after a boat capsized and central pakistan has more than double to 50 local governments. as the vessel was overloaded when it sank in a river and studied about district, most of the passengers were women and children going to a wedding. nearly 90 people i've been rescued, comma hider has more from islam about a board i kid gained on the river in dodge in southern punjab, had claimed the lives of at least 50 people, search and rescue a still underway or door right now. it seemed that dog went missing, i presumed dead because they said the monsoon season, the river that orland dot cutter and for strong the board that they were traveling in were there dilapidated board? a most of the boards do not take into account safety procedures such as life

jackets. these boards are not wood dad, normally powered by employ wide engines. however, the rescue who reached this bar had to discontinue, was because of dog i. we are told that this morning go to people and again, searching for dogs when missing a bad dimension because of the strong cut and many of those bodies may have been ripped away. there's only highlights the dangers of not falling safety procedures and also a lack of interest from the administration. but report, i stand there waiting about exactly how many people who are on board normally did it, nor headcount when people are overcrowded to board. however, don't read does or waited, and this is indeed another tragedy that could have been avoided the head of tennessee as largest opposition parties due to go on trial accused of financing

terrorism. but i should have a new she was speaker a parliament until it was dissolved last year by president crisis. i had, it comes just days before a controversial referendum on the constitution, which is prompted weeks of protests leach of oakland as a journalist space. and soon as she's joining us from there, so tell us more about the charges against it. if i knew she and, and to what his responses the, the challenge is he faces all of money laundering and also that his party. and he has received foreign financing via an association and co nama. it has to be said that the people who, who run nama have already yet been released. but he is. he is facing the judge of instruction today. i vo as sort of further interrogation. he has an army of lawyers with him. so the, this is a precursor chart. she being arrested and then possibly detained,

awaiting trial. so these are very serious charges and that under the counter terrorism law. so this is this deep concern that sam, he could be in danger of being detained. so at least a tell us a put us into context for us and just tell us how it all lead up to this point. so of course, last year i sighed, froze parliament. and then there was the plenary session on line of a 120 members of the parliament who vote age to add it to roll back on chi sides, what they call it. the qu, they said his regime was illegitimate. this happened on march 30th. and following that county side, started investigation, introduced 20 of them. so i rush again a, she was cold to the terrorism legal pole for interrogation then, but he was very quickly released. so this has been ongoing and a course where

a height of the referendum and to russia canoe, she and they knocked a party in terms of political power. all one of the biggest positions to kai side. and he is that of reaching for one man rule in tenicia. so this is a big political trauma and certainly leading i, members of an after party a calling it that and that saying that j, this is a political piece of theatre i. that is for the show that it's of home of propaganda, but they are deeply concerned about what the outcomes could be to day. thank you so much. let's of oakland joining us from tunis. everyone on board a domestic flight in somalia, husband, rescued after their plane crash, landed flipping upside down and catching fire. the job at airway flight was on route from by daughter magus issue with 30 passengers on crew. and it crashed on the runway in the capital. some people suffered minor injuries in the accident. an

inquiry has been launched. violence in sudan, southern blue now state has sparked unrest and several cities. thousands of house up. people have set a barricades in attack, government buildings, days of violence between the hausa and birdie tribes and blue nile have already left. at least 79 people dead and a 150 injured tribes began fighting overland access last week. a large gas explosion in the chinese port city of changes has caused part of a multi story building to collapse. 3 people are missing, following the blas which injured 11 people, the cause is under investigation. prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the gunman who killed 17 people in a high school shooting in florida and 2018 nicholas cruz pleaded guilty last year. a jury will decide his sentence in proceedings expected to last several months. she returns the reports. the prosecutor is attempting to convince

a jury that has no room for the consideration of mitigating circumstances when deciding whether nicholas cruz should be put to death for the 2018 laundry stone. when douglas school shooting, given the premeditation and cruelty of the crime, i'm going to speak to you about the unspeakable about this defendant's goal directed plan, systematic murder, mass murder, of 14 children. and that's what a director at teacher and a coach crews that even recorded a sofa and video days before boasting about his chilling intentions. oh, my name is nick. i want to be the next school shooter, 2008. and my goal is at least 20 people with an a r and some trace around. some 50 family members of those killed were in the courtroom as the prosecution recounted cruz's methodical killing spree. the 1st witnesses were

called, among them, a teacher who set of students were writing valentine's day cards of characters. and shakespeare's romeo and juliet. when the shooting began, it just kept going and going and going as a student to capture the scene on cell phone video also spoke with just sitting kind of like sitting down foot and she captured was played to the jurors. only the audio could be heard in the public gallery, which proved too much for some cruises defense council chosen to defer an opening statement until later in the trial. however, it's been reported that among the mitigating factors the defense would like to produce evidence of brain abnormalities, pre sustained as a fetus. after the shooting survivors formed the gun control group march for our lives now soon as a powerful voice from the gun control debate. parents of the dead also remained vocal as seen just last week at the white house when a brief fall the heckle joe biden for not doing. the jury must reach

a unanimous decision to recommend the nicholas cruz we put to death. otherwise he will face life in prison without parole. she everton see al jazeera, at least 13 in may have been killed and fighting in a prison in ecuador, 2 others were injured and the violence in a town 80 kilometers in the capital. quito 44 inmates died in fighting at the same prison. in may, the government blamed gangs vying for control of territory and drug trafficking roots a deal on fuel prices between panama, the government, and protesters, house collapse. on sunday, the government agreed to freeze the cost of fuel for 3 months, but protest her say they want more concessions. indigenous groups angry about fuel and food prices have been blocked. a major highway for more than a week. on the center of reports. prove testers in panama burn tires, unblocked roads, once again in the capital in across the 3. in a meeting on monday morning, the majority of protesters literally tore up the agreement, reached with the government late on sunday to end of located in exchange for

further reducing the price of federal law. we had told the government, we had to consult with the rank and file. the agreement was signed under pressure. the people have decided and comply with their decision. we want to tell the education minister who could not be here today. there is no agreement unless the issues behind this crisis or result prove that there's now one more than the government's plan to reduce the price of fuel medicine and food unions and indigenous groups are now demanding a national negotiation to address political corruption in disgust. larger political reforms we have said repeatedly that there has to be one negotiating table. we have said that it's structural issues need to be addressed. no more come and go on a few cents reduction on gasoline prices. some with a cost of food since businessman keep accumulating well. the government so far has

not responded the blockades independent american highway, the connex panama, with the rest of central america, and is the country's main route for basic goods. entered a 3rd week. economists warned the demonstrations of cost the country millions of dollars in losses and are leading to shortages of fuel and food. monday, most stalls at panama mean produce markets close early for lack of fruits and vegetables. oh franklin, the what he put a little. everything is stuck, a few things arrive on my little tomato onions, peppers, or keratin potatoes, ali. and usually we can only sell 30 percent or so of what arrives. the rest is already ruined for being blocked for days for you. i'm a face is increasing social unrest in getting further away from finding a solution to ended. i similar good al jazeera amazon has followed legal action against the administrators of more than 10000 facebook groups that

coordinate fake refuse on its websites. fraudsters behind the group solicit bogus refuse for hundreds of products, often in exchange for money. amazon says, holding those accountable is important to protect its customers. katara has built 7 new stadiums specifically for the world cup which begins on november the 21st. the venues are described as feats of architecture, with a non to sustainability. natasha the name reports the stadiums of the 1st world cup in the middle east are architectural mirrors of era culture and heritage. a tent used by bedouins, an ivory cap warned by pious muslim boys and men, a gold colored handicraft. we've invested a lot of during the dishonest is prior to the construction to make sure does what to vote was being built for good for, for the tournament is being cubed for the legacy and the local earnings and even

the local league. nance. welcome to lou sale stadium home to the final match and the closing ceremony. up to $86000.00 fans will enjoy unobstructed views of the field. the roof contains one and a half times the amount of steel as the eiffel tower, and sons of a unexperienced. awe nearly from a supporting points of view, it'll be unprecedented and really spectacular. i can't emphasize otherwise enough. stadium 974 is the 1st venue in fi fi history that will disappear. the $974.00 recycled shipping containers will be dismantled to give way to additional waterfront development after the world cup. the beauty of the stadium is the, it will have many more opening games in different countries and different cultures and in different locations. but also because i think the 1st stage in the world

which, which has this overpowering sustainability statement to it. in addition to stadium 974 seats, and components of other venues will be donated to developing countries in need of sport infrastructure. with the non profit group carbon market watch says to offset emissions. the material would need to be used multiple times, especially if shipped thousands of kilometers away by using recycled materials, reducing construction costs, and developing green and living spaces near stadiums. cut are is hoping it created monuments to sustainability that will inspire future world cup host natasha game, l. jazeera, doha. ah .