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the results of sparking outrage in colombo would protest her as gathering on the steps of the country's parliament. ah, you're watching al jazeera life from a headquarters ins, ohio, jedi and abigail also coming up firefighters and western europe. bodily heat wave on strong winds as they try to extinguish wild fires and a playground for dreams. how sun goals aspiring champions or turning roof talks on beaches into football pitches. ah, hello. so in the last hours your lancaster parliament is elected run over from a single the country's new president. a week after i go to fire roger pox, a flood the country and resigned. wicker massena was acting as interim president, after mass proto,

forced roger boxer to step down. the 6 time prime minister will finish the remaining 2 years of frederick boxes term. but he is unpopular with protesters who see him as part of a government responsible for sri lanka as economic crisis, rockdale napoleon, where it is not necessary to say how hard the country's economic condition is it. we have to embark on a new program to go forward and again, we have to work together to do that. the. i'm thankful to the other 2 candidates of i invite them to work with me for the development of the country. i'm with our, let's bring him enough, hernandez, who's joining us from the capital columbia. so any reaction from the protest? her as min hell. yeah, we're hitting that there have been some scenes outside the presidential secretariat to and near the president's official residence. soon after the vote now there was basically quite a large group that had been protesting for the last few months that staged a silent demonstration or

a sup degraw on those steps of the president's office this morning. and i believe there has been a pretty angry reaction to the election of run over grimacing. her, who we've heard a little while ago, being named as sherlock as president, with 134 watts, 282. why is it that the protest hers are unhappy with this selection? what is their biggest concern then? mean the issue right along has been that ronald vicar, missing a has no credibility and has no confidence of the people. and that is the reason when the last time he went before the people of this country at the general elections, they didn't determine him to parliament. his party, the oldest party, the united national body in this country, failed to secure a by election a single seat for the 1st time in its history. the only reason he managed to make

it into parliament was almost by the back door as analysts say, because that party on a technicality was allocated one seat on the nationalist for people. what they say is run her vicar missing her, has been self serving. he's been brought in right along to cover up for the roger pox. a family they saw, they said they claim that this has been obvious by the way he's been behaving the way he's been dealing with cases even during the last time that the roger boxes were defeated before the term of resident got our b roger boxer. and ron novick, promising her was in power. they said that he did nothing to take action against roger boxes. as we speak, you could probably see some very good leaving from the barricades behind me. those are some of the employees who are moving out of volume and after that vote, but essentially for people what they, what they see is that right now they are on their knees as is this country. and

they say the main reason is that, i mean obviously mismanagement corruption with a lot of bad luck with tourism falling and things like that. but dr. now given the drawn vicar missing her, has been elevated to the highest post in the land. they say he has no right to be there. okay, thank you so much. michelle. fernandez reporting from colombo. we're going to stay with sherland. can bring in helen cutter. gam are who's a political economist then senior lecturer at the university of johnston. and that's where he's joining us from. welcome back to al jazeera. what is your reaction to a rental woocommerce singer now taking up the top job and sir lanka? this was, i think, a one of the fears of well, most of the focus. ready ready here a given that the roger boxes and the out of pocket. ready is some b, t and close to a 2 players majority. and they are madeline's involvement, despite the amalgam is even though the, the president had to run away as always,

been to use that strengthens to protect themselves and the interests and that has, ah, prevailed now with all the party members in parliament wanting to ensure the interest they all self interests and the interests of the roger jackson family. and i'm running big from messina is why you seem to have made a deal with the roger boxes or 2 months ago, a president go to buy rog, soni himself, appointed him as prime minister. and that is why 2 weeks ago, when the other very powerful, a furnace in this country, the protest, those are demanded that gorge, ah, president of our other bossa. and at that time, i'm used to run away from a scene, should reside on by so is this something else to rochester are going to accept? i mean, some people say up look, may be the man should be given

a chance because the country is facing, of course, a deep economic and financial crisis. and by having a president, perhaps now they can write out the economic storm. i think the much of the country feels that we had already given a chance that it shouldn't have been given back to months ago. ready on may 12, when he was going to a prime minister that has not made any difference to the country. he also does not have the credibility to the people in the worst economic crisis since 19 thirteen's and what the country needs. he's the credit for leadership, a leadership that the people could trust him to be able to lead him out of this crisis. what does have to start building trust amongst the people? i mean, what does he have to do right away? and ultimately, i mean, how do you see this playing out?

so if you say that this is something that's not going to be accepted by, by the protesters, what's going to happen over the next couple of hours in the next couple of days? unfortunately in the days and weeks ahead, i think we are going to have when to see much of the political instability scene during the last 6 months. and which means you're going to make that rebuilding the country and it's economy that much more harder. the job come waged and be saw in huge wage in april and the me then not the ways a couple weeks ago. and you might be looking at a similar we purchased in the months ahead making it was really difficult for him to govern the country. okay. we'll leave it there. thank you so much. he lined cather gamma for speaking to us from josh. a

punishing european heat wave is continuing to fuel wildfires and stretch emergency services for you. k recorded it's highest every temperature on tuesday passing 40 degrees celsius for the 1st time. at least 34 locations have now exceeded the previous national record. a nearly 1700 firefighters are battling to contain 2 massive blazes. in the south west of france. authority say a man has been arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting fires. blazes have also broken out in italy near the greek capital athens. more than 30 fires continue to burn in spain, which is nearly 10 days into its heat wave. most of the country is on high alerts for wildfires. zane butter ivy is in spain, northwestern demo, or a province where doesn't the villages have been evacuated through the sound of salvation in the skies over northwest spain. right now,

every drop of water matter from these hilltops, it is clear, the situation below is dark on the ground. things are much worse. tamara is on fire panic residents look for any help they can find as the flames near the bed with these wildfires comes chaos desperation. after all, the animals she says are still inside the ship trying to save their homes, their livestock, their livelihoods, every 2nd campus. in

the town of tomorrow's a key strategic location with the command and control center based here is coordinating air and ground operations throughout the casteel in your province. precious little rest for teams working around the clock to keep pace with wildfires in real time. this is my 25 year. has it ever been this bad? and no, of course, absolutely. no. came up change his very percent. and there's a question is related with redid, wrote, these fires have a pulse the most danger firefighters say is the late afternoon. the hottest part of the day when the sun is highest and the winds are strongest. this fire is happening all across this part of spain, but these flames represent the kind of change in the profile of these wildfires.

the fires are moving from the hill country down. they've burnt up all the fuel they could find in the hills. and now they're looking for more fuel moving downwards towards more populated areas. as they put out one fire more come alive. climate change experts say has altered the behavior of wildfires. they now burn faster, hotter and longer. people living here say everything can't aspire and you cannot trust the ground. jane basra, the audience here about a 1000 people in greece had had to flee their homes as wildfires burned near athens, firefighters had been battling the flames on the slopes of mount pen tele, which are being found by strong winds. at least 15 aircraft and 9 helicopters are trying to put out the fires 25 kilometers, ne, that the greek capital. first jabbar is there and sent this update. the town behind me is called draft me. it is home to about 3500 people. and as of

a few hours ago this afternoon, the local officials have evacuated the entire population saying it is too dangerous for them to stay behind. you can see the fires that are really gaining more momentum, as the winds are very strong in this area. this is a very mountainous area. we're about 30 kilometers north east of the center of capital athens. and since we arrived here a few hours ago, this fire, we could see from the airports as well. this is of course something the local people here are very much used to this time of year. and the local officials have said that they are trying their best to fight these wildfires that have started as since the a summer season began. but it's ongoing. the fight that will continue and they're hoping that they will be able to manage the situation before it gets out of control . heat alerts have been issued in more than 20 states in the us. more than

100000000 people have been urged to prepare. that's nearly a 3rd of the population. wildfires in texas to also force hundreds out of their homes. officials expect the fires to continue growing because of the high temperatures and dry conditions. still ahead on al jazeera, an energy crisis in bangladesh, forces the government to take drastic action and will tell you why this award winning iranian filmmaker is facing a 6 year jail center. and i the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to the catholic book. your travel package today. it's cool down a lot since yesterday reco breaker in the british house, in fact, that cloud come across all the okay. and the good part of france is dropped

temperature significant brought just a little rain, which means it's pushed the hot air just a bit further east than it was so narrow to give heat ways from belgium, through the netherlands, i would think and then into good part of germany, this whole line is quite hot, to be honest. and this coatings any way affect his central northern france. and british houses still hot all the way through the mediterranean countries. my barrier really cost decrease and wildfire as a result of that. so all the heat overland just keeps this line. this is found office suite and everything else has cooled down a little bit with attention to starting to rise again in bordeaux. so southern france is going to pick up that heat once more. time we get to friday, it's really usual culprits. we usually see quite hot down in hungry romania and then in the balkans obviously has been oh yeah his the weather proper. then you see the rain doesn't show very much on wednesday. the 10th is the darker builds of probably some distilled, really show themselves even as funnels. have an alliance once again on thursday,

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hello again. the top stories on al jazeera this hour in the last hours your life has parliament has elected run over from a single country's new presidents with from a single was acting, is interim president, aftermath, protest for school supply or at your proctor to flee the country. and resign. dozens of wildfires are continuing to burn across from spain. italy andries thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as a severe heat wave leads to storing temperatures. the un mission and i've got to stop has documented allegations of rights abuses in its 1st report on the issue since the taliban swept to power last year. it accuses the government of extra ju, just so killings, arbitrary, arrests and torture. it says there were more than $200.00 instances of cruel punishments, including some targeting people accused of violating religious codes. and it says women and girls have been subjected to severe restrictions on their rights and

excluded from public life. let's get more in this with the less sci fi he's joining us from couple. so this report, it makes for some pretty grim reading and they tell us more about what's in it and what, what the take away message ultimately as they've been talking a lot about, you know, as you said, the extra judicial killings about curbs, on the freedom of assembly on the freedom of the media on accusations of people being arrested for so called moral crime. even an instance of a stoning and the extreme ne province by the sean where district governor was present. and that's phoning of an unmarried man and woman. so they documented a lot in the report, but you know what it really comes down to is that for a lot of people, these are things that they all already knew. and these are things that were already documented by other groups in the past. but maybe what it'll end up being as a sort of like a re confirmation. you know, yet another international group,

yet another outlet that is, once again reiterating that this law mich emerett has yet to fulfill its promises on an amnesty. and also on, you know, promises of rights for women and youth and minorities in the media. all of the things that they outlined, you know, in a, in a massive press conference only 2 days after they took over last august 15th. right? so i need it now that the u. n. has put out this report. has there been any reaction from the taliban? and are there any discussions that are or have taken place are going to take place between the taliban and the un mission in the country? so in the press conference announcing the report, the you hadn't made it clear and they kept reiterating that they have been consistently meeting with this lama camera and they have been showing them this for their findings ahead of time. but also that they have sent this report ahead of time and that they really want them to take it seriously. and they just kept saying that, you know, we're in constant contact with them. and this is part of our mandate and where

making sure that they are informed and that we're hoping that they can take this information and move forward and do something with it. but, but again, this leads to questions and that this was the question that was asked repeatedly by the other press in the press conference was that, well, what are concrete steps that the you and has taken to show that or, or to put force and, and to and to give an example. busy that they are pressure has actually resulted in some kind of a change in the activity of the, of this law mich emerett. ah, so you know, it's really important for people to see that these reports and that these instances, you know, the united nation, the is a big organization. avalon hassan is the leading organization right now. it's in charge of a distribution. so people are hoping that this will be something that the islamic emerett really take seriously and leads them to take some kind of real action because over the last 10 months, you know, even if there have been talks between the united nations in this law, mich, emery the fact that this 40 something page report exists seems to show some kind of

a disconnect or some kind of a shortfall between both groups. thank you so much on in the t fee for that update from couple ukraine's president has dismissed the deputy head of the domestic security service vulgar marizza lensky made the announcement just 2 days after suspending the head of the organization and the prosecutor general. the president says they failed to root out a legit collaborators working for moscow on ukraine's 1st lady orland, as alan scott will address the u. s. congress. later on wednesday, she visited the white house on tuesday where she met with us president joe biden. and the 1st lady joe biden made a surprise visit to ukraine in may, where she visited a school sheltering displaced people. the u. s. has accused russia of moving ahead with plans to annex further ukrainian territory. washington says moscow was aiming to hold sham referendums in a number of regions as part of the plan. russia's weighing the groundwork to annex ukrainian territory that controls indirect violation of ukraine. sovereignty were

seeing ample evidence in the intelligence and in the public domain at russia intends to try to an ex additional ukrainian territory. russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call and antic and ex ation playbook. very similar to one we saw in 2014, already russia, installing illegitimate proxy officials in the areas of ukraine. they're under its control. you says it will set out emergency plans on how to reduce russian gas demand within months. the block fear is moscow may not restart gas flows to the north stream one pipeline. it's been closed for maintenance this month and supply is due to resume on thursday from gas flow through the pipe late on tuesday. during pressure tests, the government in bangladesh is closing fuel stations for one day a week because if an ongoing energy priced crisis, convert child reports from dot com. one of those government on monday announced

fresh measure to save oil and power consumption and made escalating energy prices in the global market. this means a suspension of power production using import did live. the government also plans to reduce import of liquid natural gas. the plan also includes the shut down, but draw prompts all across the country for at least one day a week. i got it. so i got a high fuel price is a problem for public transport and car owners because the increase in fuel price will hit the me and the transport owner will end up charging higher speed. that will be also power cuts all across the country at different location and areas at different intel bells, at least for one to 2 hours that day. under the new measure, the shopping malls and shops will have to shut down by 8 pm every day. essentially cutting down the business hours by one to 2 hours i saw on again, customers will eventually get used to the new shopping time and the beginning there

might be some confusion, but then they start coming to the shops earlier. the government also plans to cut down office hours by at least one to 2 hours every day. all for the sake of saving energy. i'm barely recovered from the impact of kobe pandemic yet. it has been able to maintain studies, economic growth, but economics one that is high port prices along with inflation and subsidy. while i land, along with heavy spending on mega project, put pose a major challenge for the government and coming months. because of the increase in fuel prices in recent days, we've had to raise the bus there because of our passengers are getting upset and frequently get into fights and arguments with the international monetary farms volatility of the exchange rates and the affairs of export. dwindling due to the load on of the globally, me because of the your friend russia was put back on the main barrier for macro

economic stability in the country. conservative impedes in the u. k. will later narrow down the parties leadership raise to the final 2 candidates. they will then enter, run off vote among party members. the former chancellor rash you soon act. foreign secretary of the trust and trade minister penny more don't are the 3 remaining candidates, the winner or replace for his johnson as prime minister in september? a court has told, acclaimed iranian, she'll make her a jeff, our panel he, he must service 6 year, a jail sentence. originally handed down in 2010 panel. he had been accused of supporting anti government demonstrations. he was arrested last week after he went to the prosecutor's office, to inquire about 2 other filmmakers who had been detained mohammed salute, and must have fall and were arrested after they use social media to condemn the government's response to protests. a saw ra does research director at the national iranian american council. she says the arrests are a part of

a government crackdown on people regarded as dissidence. it's the volume with which we're seeing it is actually even unusual for iran. of course you're on is an authoritarian state, it's a state in which iranians themselves have been repressed in many different ways. but over the course of the last several years, as economic and domestic pressure have increase, you also see an increased crackdown coming from the top down from the iranian authorities and security forces. whether it be a protest that they meet with deadly force, which we saw in november of 2019, whether it be increased arrests of dissidence. one of the things to keep in mind is while artists have come under increased pressure and attacks this, these particular arrest coincided with that of most have a touch of inches in iranian political figures, some served under the hot time he read under the hot tammy administration so it's not, it's not one group, it's really a crackdown on any form of dissidents within the state. i certainly think that

external pressure has something to do with what we're seeing happened. this is, in fact, you know, proponents of diplomacy, those who wanted iranian civil society to thrive, argued for years that these, the sanctions pressure, the pressure that externally being put on iran name, the ordinary iranians. not the iranian government will create this kind of pressure from within, which will then create a crackdown from above. that's what we've seen, not only in the case of iran, but really in any situation where you see domestic pressure. what the iranian authorities have shown is that their number one priority is not their citizens. it's not the people of the country. it is sustaining their own power, and they are willing to take any measure to do so. it's thought mazano may have caused the deaths of $21.00 teenagers at a bar in the south african city of east london last month. test show, the toxic chemical was present and all their bodies investigations continuing to whether the levels texted were enough to kill the young people who were aged between 13 and 17. methanol is

a toxic form of alcohol and isn't fit for human consumption. 5 sides from africa are heading to category for november's world cup. one of those is senegal who won this year as cup of nations and are the highest rank team on the continent . our correspondent nicholas hoc isn't a car to tell us how senegalese fans are feeling welcome to santa golf country between the atlantic ocean and the edge of visit how there's very little rainfall and it's terribly hot. so it's when the sunset that people come out to play football on the beach and it's in places like this, that champions are made. meet 13 year old jamil soap and his friends in downtown to car. there's no space for a football pitch. so this is how they train, it's become a trend, shared on social media in senegal,

young players showing their skills away from the pitch, trying to stand out and get attention looks his argument. my dream is to become sergio money order. my dream is to become a famous football player and where does jersey of the national team like money look at my score, a lot of goals for the national to login to look up to $1.00 of the one of the top scores in the english premier league during his time with liverpool buyer linux, new signing his senegal hero. this is where money learn to play in the village of bumbling in southern senegal. in june, he came back to play an exhibition match with former players of the national team. we st. j was part of the squad that beat france reaching the quarter final of the 2002 world cut through the oven. so that one does what more rasa the fact that we don't have green football pitches is actually an advantage. because when you play in the sand and you learn a lot of technique, like how to control the ball to dribble and make accurate causes,

it makes us better players. senegal are the raining african champions. the fans are hoping cutter is a place where senegal make history and become the 1st african team to reach a world cup final. nicholas hawk al jazeera de car. so that report feature is in our 2nd world cup countdown show which this month focuses on africa. you can watch the show in full here and al jazeera at 1130 g m t on wednesday. the video streaming service, netflix as it lost nearly a 1000000 subscribers between april and june. that's fewer than the 2000000 it was expecting to lose it. still the largest quarterly loss of subscribers in the companies 25 year history, competition from other streaming services and soaring inflation are being blamed.