and society, that's the bottom why he got caught up with a, getting a, getting my ideas, the french republic, his long proclaimed, but just would eat modern france in a full part series. the big picture takes an in depth let france infocast. the concluding episode on al jazeera ah, russia's president vladimir putin visits to her on for a summit on syria with iran and turkey. his 1st trip outside the former soviet union, since the ukraine war began,

ah, clubs, the whole roman you're watching out as they were life we're headquarters here in denver. also coming up, saving temperatures in london, calls flies to break out in the city as britain and most of europe swelter in a record heat wave. just 3 left in the raise to become the leader of the british conservative party and the u. case. next, prime minister and the leader of tennessee's largest opposition party appears in court for she knew she is accused of financing terrorism. ah, welcome to the program. russian president vladimir putin is integral to take part in a summit that's being overshadowed by the fall out from the war in ukraine talks where the ron's president and bohemia, you see, and turkish need a recipe 0 to one. a meant to focus on syria. the 3 countries of all be involved in

the conflict there and trying to restore stability under the so called astonished piece process. let's go over to the source of the correspondent to the following event force into her on that incredibly important visit for president putin on so many levels to project his influence really in the region. what lead has practical importance and also symbolic importance as well in terms of the practicality. so it is his 1st international with that of the, to the former soviet republics. and he's now inter run and he wants to show the world that he and, and his country, they're not isolated in the world. and he and his country are still important players in the regional affairs, in this part of the world on the other hand. so he met the iranian minister, a sort of president the vine bracy took his president by one animal for the iranian supreme leader. so today, during their meetings with, during his meeting with president avalon, based on the report that we are receiving from the people who are familiar with the

issues with the meeting. the said that that the great deal, the green export from ukraine was at the table. so the experts and the officials are seeing that on the technicalities, both russia and ticket, they have agreed, but now it is time for a political decision. so later tonight, when there is a press joint press between the leaders of these 3 companies will see more whether they have reached an agreement or not. on the other hand, when all of these meetings are taking place in inter around today, now it's been an important announcement that the russian guest room and iran national oil company have agreed on a memorandum. they found a memorandum and iran national oil companies mentioned that i could say that it is worth $40000000000.00 and it's the biggest investment in iran or your industry in its history. so in all of that sense practically. so it has an important and symbolically as well. and remember that what russia and iran are on the have

international sanctions. and this to sanctions, these companies are seeking to, for charities to, to, to, to, to boost their economy relations and also the security corporation. what we talk about the fact that the war and ukraine may be top on the agenda, how much of a smoke screen a has syria become in terms of the install, the process. will it be really practically get done here? give a thumb. it is a continuation of a piece process which $33.00 zeron took. you rush out of the guarantors country for that process, which is aiming to put an end in the to the 11 years of war in, in syria. russia off there in region of ukraine had been through majority of its forces from, from syria, however, is still an important to layer in these equation as it has very strong ties with the mass. because, but now you run on turkey, particularly are the companies that have significant military presence in,

in syria and the turkish president paper one just recently said that turkeys planning to come back to you for a minute. the incursion into syria to create a ticket with the security zone to clear the regents from the curtis on group y, p g, which is affiliated to pick. i can also to create the safe zone for the saved return of the syrians. and this is an idea that iran women, they were for the so the run in 40 minutes, there was a non current is simply and he said that the defense truck is security concerns. however, a military operation is going to further the stabilize the region and syrian today during the meeting between runny and supreme leader and took it out. one. how many the supreme leader here on said that any minute reparation is not going to only syria, but is going to hon. turkey as well, and trying to prevent turkey off conducting such a military cause. today, during this trial, after some that we are expecting a presser,

and we'll see whether these 3 come to go to companies are going to reach an agreement that shows or, or, or come up with a concrete road map regarding the piece process in syria. and also come back to when the press conference does happen, emily, within the next few hours results of the force that inter on, well joining me now line from mclean in virginia on skype is hillary man, leverett, she see the political risk consultant st. and for the middle east noise at the white house and state department, miss man leverett, always good to have you on the program. and thanks for your time, the meeting might have been convene to discuss the piece process in syria, but pops no one's under any illusion, but the what when you cry will be high upon the agenda. yes, the warning crane is high on the agenda but, but so as syria, i think as your correspondent noted, there is real disagreement between turkey and iran over what turkey proposes to do in syria and turkey's growing relations with israel. so that is something certainly to watch, but i think the larger piece here is not only the war and ukraine, but

a real shift in geo politics, global geo politics and geo economics. 2 big things that are being discussed at this, at this trilateral meeting. our 1st and foremost turkey is looking to not pay for its energy imports from russia in the dollar. that may sound technical, but it's incredibly important. if turkey moves away from the dollar and starts to use either its own currency, the lira or the russian currency to buy russian energy imports, that will be a huge change in how the dollar is priced and, and settled out how oil is priced and settled. and that is really what gives the united states. it's great power around the world. and what is called dollar had gemini, it's our ability to use the dollar in every transaction around the world. now turkey did this earlier when he bought the as 400 military system from russia. and now may be doing this with the dollar. that's going to be critically important.

coming out of this meeting. and similarly, guys, prom not only agreeing to invest money in iran's hydrocarbon sector, but to really try to get iran's ellen g terminal up and running. russia had not done this previously because of sanctions and now they may be doing so. so la, syria certainly is the, is the show, the show at the top of the top of their meeting. these more important issues about food security. the dollar and energy and military topics are, are much more important because they do have a vested interest, generally to see peace in their immediate region. but with the pace comes a sphere of influence. so this is whether you will be concerned because they've been trying to gain their or gone of ass pharaoh influence in the past. what few days as we seen president biden and to the region. and of course, iran and turkey and certainly russia wants make sure they have their sphere of influence as well. so it's all about sort of strategic game playing, isn't it?

it certainly is, and that's again why this potential move away from the dollar in terms of energy imports from russia to turkey is so important. the united states was furious when turkey bought rushes as 400 missile system. similarly, washington is not gonna be happy at turkey, starts j, u elyria, or the ruba to importance oil from russia to keep is very important relationship really doesn't it? one that is important to both nato, as a member with a direct line you might say to dc. and yet it's regional neighbors with russia and a rod at siena. so sort of political em, potential heavy weight in the region, especially when it comes to facilitating issues of, of syria and more recently now we're talking at the negotiation of grain out of ukraine, coming through perhaps turkey and to the rest of the world. they have a great deal of importance at the moment and they to being very clever in the way that, that dealing with the west. and you might say the east absolutely. turkey is heaven

. oh, in nato. we saw that with sweden and finland having to essentially beg person an error to want to be, to be allowed to be members of nato. we've seen a president air to on use his military us system to, to close and relations with russia, with us or by john in the eastern mediterranean, in the black sea food security, with green present air to one has really been able to mine his neighborhood to to read foreign policy games that i think rival anybody else's in the region and globally is a very strong player on the world stage. the u. s. concern over this, this talk of drone exports to russia from iran, real exaggerated, or do we have to wait to see them actually in operation for the international community to, to react? i think this, i think it is real. iran has a very sophisticated military industry that it built entirely on its own. now to remember before the 1979 revolution,

iran military was 100 percent us owned and operated iran, had to completely transform its military industry and build it on its own. and it continues to surprise both regional countries, the united states and other powers, with its military prowess and its ability to create sophisticated military hardware and software. i think this is another demonstration of that sophistication and their ability to export it to a world power like russia is a tremendous sign of, of iran's military industry and its success in keeping, keeping its independence, military economically and politically. harriman leverage is always good to get your insight. thanks so much for joining us from virginia. thank you. thank you. law tries of broken out across london. as temperatures surpassed at 40 degrees celsius for the 1st time in recorded history, several houses were destroyed in the suburb near the east of the capitol. london's fire services have declared a major incident in response to those fires. the cities man said he can says the

forces under immense pressure pull races in london with more of those fires and the reco temperatures until just a short time ago. and we could see the smoke from one of the fires rising over the tower of london and tower break. behind me we think that's from a flyer in a village to the east of london, which started in grassland at damage several homes and completely in ghost. at least one of them has also been a very large fire in woodland, on the edge of the m $25.00, which is the most wide it in circles. london also reports of hundreds of fires around the country. as grasslands and fields reached the tipping point of what they can, what they can tolerate as, as the temperature has gone above 40 degrees of the you take the u. k. and britons, in general, on really adapted to this kind of weather transport system is under, is that the q strain and trains having to slow down many tracks had been buckling

under the heat. and the health services under pressure as well. a lot of the hospitals built in the 19 sixty's or beforehand simply being too hot to allow some operations to take place. there are warnings for people in vulnerable groups, elderly people, young children, those way. those who are already sick, more susceptible to dehydration, heat exhaustion, heat stroke of the world health organization has said people should try and spend an hour or 2 a day in air conditioning. that's really not possible for everyone movement to some of the horror housing estates in this barra today where people just don't have access to anywhere to cool down. well the u. k isn't just hold by british stun does it's 37 degrees right now in london. 2 degrees hotter than it is in doha. qatar weather presents a car leg as more i'm standing here in the depths of the sand, june's in cattle at the height of summer. there's nobody really around, apart from myself, my camera man, the camels and the camel keeper. now these hot and dry conditions are expected here

. the temperature on my trusty thermometer is showing 40 degrees celsius. now we've seen temperature is above that in western europe and the u. k, and while here we are accustomed to this heated a seasonal summer heat, the buildings are built for that we have got air conditioning available. that's not the case in places like the u. k. we've even seen windows shutter in some of the buildings because of that extreme hate. and early i spoke to one of the camel keepers. i li, he's been here for 15 years. i told him about the heat in the u. k. and this is what he had to say of a book on hello, i'm so surprised to hear that england is just as hot as here is the kind of weather we experience. and for the every july advice people there to drink. lots of water stay indoors, especially if they have air conditioning. this kind of heat is very harsh. now, the good news is for the u. k. on west in europe, they are going to the temperature start to come down as cool air blows in. but for

us here we are in the midst of the intense summer heat that's known historically as the young roots, alec hide, that roughly translates from arabic as the ignited coal of the summer heat. we've also had a 2 week sim moon declared, and that is a dangerously hot, dry wind that blows in the humidity behind it. it's also called a toxic wind because it is detrimental to plants and human life. now we have about 2 to 3 more months of these intense conditions before things start to cool down nicely in time for the cutter world cup. let's hope so. well, cilla had he all and al jazeera sir lankin, send a message to parliament on the eva vote for a new president and protests in india as the ruby hits on all time life. they stories after the break. ah,

once again, the cloud is blooming over our mon, you e parts, the saudi arabia that is again part of the monsoon system. the wind is blowing steadily fossilized. this would be drizzling here, but these are proper outbreaks as sharon, even thunderstorms and the bands of a mile back towards yemen as well. and there's cloud a lot further north, for the most part is hot and dryness someplace is dusty, which is not unusual. but there's the forecast of 50 for baghdad, not but longer. you thought that's quite a surprise. now we see almost used to it. the on shore breeze keeps things cooler in egypt and up to lebanon as well. and the temperatures have come down in most of iraq is still halt, particularly on the western sky where it joins iraq near 50 or even above. but again, typical temperatures is tonya middle to high. forty's was sometimes dusty with enough picky, true in reality, often gets disturbed release dust in the air as jump away from the middle east now

to the big showers recently fall in ethiopia, and running through sudan and south sudan that caused the flooding in dar for that's a continual forecast, there will be more of them, there will be more flooding is result. they'll be 7, uganda and some in kenya, but precious little, i'm afraid in somalia. ah, there's only 4 months to go to the world cup and the clock is ticking. as teens and fans prepared the cattle 2022, we'll have updates from different regions across the globe. this month, the focus is on africa and cynical now to challenge for the tropi to winning the african nations with the camera gone, it's unique here. all morocco, it's the alicia join us for the world countdown on al jazeera. oh,

a look about you're watching out there with me. so he'll run the reminder volatile stories. russian president vladimir putin isn't wrong. taking part in a summit that's being ever shattered by the fall on the war. and ukraine talks with the rounds president. right. you see and turkish read the rest of the one i meant to focus on syria. large files of broken out across london and temperatures past 40 degrees celsius for the 1st time in recorded history. several houses have been destroyed in a suburb that the east of the city large parts of western europe are also keeping with a scorching heat wave reco temperatures, while us risking lives and threatening homes across europe. spain is one of the worst hit countries fire fighters. there are battling dozens of blazes which are

for thousands of people to flee their homes. famous ravi reports now from barbara spain. where here is just a less than a minute drive from the town of to barra down this main road. and what we're seeing here is the profile of these wildfires is changing very quickly limited in the last few weeks, largely to the upper hill areas. they were, they were mostly happening in the hill country in this region of spain. what we're seeing now is that the fires have spent up all the fuel in the hill country. they've burned up everything that was there. and now looking for more fuel, we're seeing these fires move further downhill down towards more populated areas. and that is where we are now, we're just a short distance away from the town of tamara. and what we're seeing is firefighters being forced to move further and further towards these main population centers to try to put out fires that are now surrounding people's homes and more densely populated spaces in this part of northwestern spain,

emergency crews and southwest france of fighting to contain large forest fires, blazes, maybe city of bordeaux, already torn through nearly 20000 actors of land found by strong winds. more than 30000 people have been evacuated since the fall started a week ago. natasha butler, as just at a shelter for the homeless in paris as providing rest bite from the intense heat, tightly squeezed into one rock sack, are all of olivier's possessions. he's been homeless in paris for several years. he usually sleeps on the street, but with temperatures soaring in the city. he's now spending his nights in a metro station where it's cooler. during the day he comes to this shelter for some respite. most visually. what i do during this hit wave is i always keep a bottle of water with me and some furnitures, make sure that i eat, i find food, no matter where. and then i spend time here, thousands of homeless people use the shelter to escape the sweltering heat outside

. it's also a place to rest or socialize, a center like this is a lifeline at any time of year, but particularly during the heat way people can have a shower, they can charge their telephones and they can wash their clothes. the charity that runs the shelter says there are more than 2500 people sleeping on the streets in paris. and for them the summer heat can be as dangerous as the cold in winter as of august. oh, the other is the hydration headaches. some people can't cope with hate, so they need to be careful. stay in the shade to keep coal and try not to stay alone. after reco temperatures in several regions of france this week meteorologist predict cooler weather in the coming days. that might make life a little easier for those sleeping rough, although it certainly won't make them any less vulnerable. natasha butler, al jazeera, paris equality minister coming they've not been eliminated from the race to replace

boris johnson as the british prime minister and leader of the conservative party. tuesday's vote had former chancellor rashly sooner come talk, followed by trade minister penney mordant foreign secretary lead trust was a near 3rd general hospital from london. while we're almost there really, by wednesday afternoon, we'll know who the final 2 candidates to go through to that vote by the membership of the conservative party. but for the moment the m p. still having their say, i'll just take you through the results, the re sooner because you mentioned that the former chancellor, he resigned just before barne forest johnson himself did. he's been the favorite of the piece throughout. he is still in the lead will be it only increasing his tallied by 3218, just one vote short of the threshold required to guarantee his place in the final runoff. although he's all but assured of getting that he will get there in the rather uncomfortable knowledge though, that this afternoon, a brand new opinion polls was released among conservative party members taken in

the last 24 hours showing that richie sooner would lose in the run off to any one of the other candidates, kennedy bade not a big figure on the right of the party, as you say, has been knocked out, leaving lease trust the foreign secretary, the other big figure on the right of the party, the sort of john sony in continuity candidate if you like, in 3rd place, she's up 15 votes showing there is some momentum behind this truck, so the rather less well known quantity in 2nd place of penny morton, international trade minister sheet, perhaps the only change candidate in the race so far. the big question for wednesday's ballad is which of those 2 trust the board will make it through to face ratio sumac in the final and whether can be bad, knock supporters on the right will fall in behind list trust pushing the foreign secretary over the line. now the head of tennessee's largest opposition party is appeared in court, accused of financing terrorism. rashid canoe, she was speaker of parliament until it was dissolved last year by the president.

he's been accused of mounting. a power grab becomes just days before controversial referendum on the constitution, which was prompted weeks of protests. elisia holcman is a journalist based in june as she has more the hearing russia, denise, she, the leader of an after the muslim democratic party that held the most seats in the parliament, who is also the leader of the house of representatives, finds himself under investigation for money laundering and foreign finance through an association here in tunisia, he is currently in the terrorism legal pole facing questioning by the judge of instruction. he has with him a large legal team who are defending his case in saying these charges are unfounded . he arrived this morning at the court, amidst hustle and bustle, and many of his supporters, made brave speeches and declarations his fellow enough to remember. but haiti,

who was also detained and suffered terrible problems with his health. as a result said that he will push to have what he says, the injustices taken to the international court. but for now, his followers waits in the heat. as he and his legal team present their case and wait to hear whether he will be released and walk free, or whether he will be charged, arrested, and possibly detained, pending trial. soon because parliament as in nancy, 3 candidates, nominated to become the next president or the include the interim leader and former prime minister, running away from a single hill. thanks. a former education minister and a leftist leader, a secret ballot is expected to be held on wednesday when al fernandez has more from colombo. on wednesday, parliamentarians will choose a successor to go tobey roger boxer, who fled the country and resigned amid massive public protests. as the vote approaches, the deal making is intense. guttural, dallas, alabama,

with the opposition leader pulled out of the race and proposed former government minister, dallas, alabama, among the chairman of the raj boxes, s o p. p party. second, the name probably lou, grimacing america to margaret nama oswick on physical. another senior said p. p. member proposed john as the grimacing of of the post. and then the 2nd thing was this man who had been of was the forest critic vicar missing her, has been premier 6 times. and he's now the acting president. he's a familiar figure, but not a popular one. seen as a protector of the roger boxers, he's likely to have their support. this man is his main challenger, dallas, alabama, a senior politician, sidelined by the roger pox, a brothers he 1st entered parliament in 1994. a few years later, he said he was disheartened and disgusted, but after a break from politics, he's back in the field. the 3rd candidate is under a camara, dis,

annika don. the li did of the national peepers force his party, mobilized tens of thousands of people from a crush lanka to march against the raja pucks, the government and vicar missing her. the outcry over the possibility of running a vicar missing her being elected is getting louder. university students join trade unions to voice their position on monday. right now, i least during our deal politics. we not don't need bill politics. we need what it is, readable it, it least go home, runny done. it all again, some all over the how can someone fully rejected by the people be chosen as the president of the country? that's why we are taught to the opposed to this one american abbey. a state of emergency was declared by the acting president on sunday, giving police and military wider powers to arrest, detain, and hold protesters than gatherings and crack down on descent. but protested, say they won't be intimidated. the reality of sher lanchen politics rivaling the

best fiction. you can read a man who was voted in with a whopping 69000000 votes to become president. forced to leave the country among public protest. and a man who is trying to become his successor, who has thrown out of parliament the sri lankan people hope that their wishes will be respected when the choice is made. men of fernandez al jazeera colombo, the indian reappears, had an all time low against the us dollar, not feeling fears of worsening inflation. at a time when many people are already struggling to make ends meet poverty, mental has more from new tele traders and consumers will be paying a lot more for basic necessities. the ruby has plunged to its lowest levels, touching it t to the dollar for the 1st time. the biggest concern is the impact this could have on fuel prices, in dime ports, most of its fuel. and we know that fuel prices impact prices of almost everything

else. now this comes at a time when the economy is still struggling to recover from the pandemic, and millions of people of barely getting by definitely inflation. there is no control. and off lately, even because of this sir, the valuation of there will be traveling as become the be the reverse. they've got down their expenditures on things that they are bringing or leave already. they selective items, prices for food health can travel are also expected to go up. the government has increased taxes on several products and introduce new ones and basic necessities like rice packaged food and dairy products. kiddos and small businesses like these see, this will increase their input costs and eventually prices for consumers. the government says these taxes will help fund welfare schemes. the central bank has introduced new measures to head the ruby, but what say this will have little to no impact on millions of households that have been struggling with reco inflation for several months. the number of people known

to have died after a boat capsized in central pakistan has more than double to 50 local government to say that the vessel was overloaded when it sank in a river in so dick about district, most of the passengers were women and children going to a wedding, nearly 90 have been rescued and at least 13 inmates been killed and fighting in the prison an acquittal. 2 others were injured in the violence in a town 80 kilometer from the capital. kito. 44 inmate started fighting at the same prison in may, the government blames gangs life and control of territory and drug trafficking, race. and you can follow all of those st is on our website at al serra dot com. it's updated throughout the day. our top story, of course the russia are and iran visit. ah, what y'all just bear with me. so robin in.