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welcome to the news our life from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. the continent to blaze the race to control fires as the deadly heat wave makes its way across europe. on the brink of collapse, italy's government looks like it's a 4 with 3 coalition policies refusing to, but mario druggie is angering colombo and a new president has chosen you needed the promises to crack down on trouble makers, constant the baby. yeah. bars. johnson bid farewell to parliament as his policy named the final 2 contenders to succeed him in for the divide in a wild gulf guys even a wider henry expense and is now being stripped to be european ryder cup captaincy . after joining the rival, live series of fact by saudi arabia,

ah, allow, in a very well program from spain and france through h, leaned into greece, forest fires continue to threaten lives and homes in europe. soaring temperatures and drought conditions have dried out vegetation, allowing flames to ravage great ways of the continent. the heat wave is already thought of contributed to the death of more than a 1000 people in spain and portugal. and the fires of also led to mass evacuation orders in spain verifies binding in 5 different regions out. there is a bas ravi, begins our coverage now from them or a province. when the inferno came, farmers in some order became firefighters. i wouldn't be your total. my

god. he says, i'm all alone. in remote areas like this, there is no time to wait for a rescue. chris, you have to save yourself. the wind whips up the flames in every direction. it is easy to find yourself surround i came out of nowhere. oh my go go, go. go get around this guy. days later, manuel hills toward soil. putting out any remaining numbers. a more than you the i you that we had help, but from other farmers in the area who thought is the local government didn't help us. i told winter it is very nice to come after the fire and say we will pay for all of this for the time to help us use when the fire is here in the blaze burned

crops, destroyed infrastructure and left behind. economic uncertainty, fires in this part of the country may be under control for now, but there is still smoke hanging in the air. you can see it obscuring the landscape . you can even smell it for the people living here. and for those fire rescue teams that are based here in tomorrow, these are ever present reminders of the wild fire season is far from over. oh yeah, i mean this by well, for 3 generations yolanda. my. oh, julians family has lived and worked on this land off. she watched their barn go up in flames in minutes. oh, taking stock. she says they don't know how they will be able to recover. no, no garcia is done on vandals, i've never seen anything like this before. the fire came very quickly with a lot of wind. it was just relentless. we could do absolutely nothing. it's still

going. it still has a lot of power. there used to be hundreds of animals here, most removed, but your wanda's family could not save the hey the livestock deeds. even before the wildfires changed this landscape of life here was hard families struggling just to make a living are now scrambling to keep their future from turning to ash zane. beth's rather old, jazeera tara, spain. that's the situation there in parts of spain. meanwhile, thousands of people in greece of and to leave their homes as 5 of burning very close to the capital. athens was a bombing aircraft, and helicopters have been used to try and control the flames. but strong winds and making that difficult. several homes and buildings have now been destroyed. dosage

of bar reports, 24 hours on and these fires are still burning in the foothills of the building mountains near hundreds of firefighters battle plays golf dozens of times. as wildfires continue to spread, thousands of people have been evacuated while some refused to leave, insisting on taking matters into their own hands. we have been battling since last night. we said that at the last minute it was a fire engine, does not have any more water and the fire keeps re ignited. i don't know that the whole house burned, everything was lost book, piano and clo this i can photo. finally, everything that a person would have, i am 53. so imagine at the moment we are only with what you see here. in the nearby town, off it off. more than 3500 people were evacuated. aspire spread quickly. cost us has a house in the hills here. he left on tuesday. now he doesn't know if he will have

a home to return to a little bit same because we have the hope that our phone will provide. but we should be saying that because we can do anything, officials, you say that since the start of the fire season on may 1st, there have been already near the 2500 wildfires. the main obstacle for firefighters, not the high temperatures, but the strong winds which keep changing direction, starting new fires more than 90000 people have been evacuated so far from areas near the capital. and the hottest part of the summer is still to come. this small, quiet town of and through sod home to a few 1000 people has already witnessed the wrath of the fires this year. while these homes have been spared across the valley, the damage is clear. the athens fire chief says his crews priorities to safeguard

him. life something they've managed to do so far. greece is asking other european nations for help to get through the fire season. which officially last until the end of october. dorset jabari al jazeera and through sat greece and the french president has met with 5 fighters in the south west of the country as blazes there sprite it across the region a manual microns inlet is the bush in these your, on the region where nearly 200 square kilometers of forest and have been destroyed . strong winds and droughts are being blamed for this. french emergency services also battling fires in person in the north west, where hundreds of people have had to leave their homes. climate concerns to in the america is one of mexico's wealthiest cities, is facing a water shortage crisis. laundry is reached a critical point after months of trying to mitigate low water supplies linked to a persistent drought. the dams, the supply waters in the city of more than $5000000.00 people,

a close to running dry authorities have been forced to restrict, was used to just a few hours each day. monday rob blow joined this lie from monterey in mexico. and you are reporting on the extreme drought conditions in northern mexico. you are focusing on that just last month. how much was it was at ration now? money mary. of you hit the nail right on the head. and your introduction of the situation in monterey has become critical. also, the scene for you a little bit were at the level car dam, which is just in the outskirts of the city of monterey, where we're standing right now with a dry lake bed. i should probably address what you're seeing behind this, which is a very surreal sight, a boat just sort of sitting there at the top of this dry lake. but that's become kind of emblematic of the situation that the city here has has been living to my right. what little water you see left in the back behind us there of the level of dam is being slowly pumped out throughout all hours of the day to supply and

relieve the citizens of monterey. and we're talking about somewhere around 5000000 people more than 5000000 people. so to say the least experts are arguing that it's just not a sustainable solution to this problem. now, experts here in mexico have identified several different factors that are considered contributing to the ongoing water shortage. the most significant of which is the linear weather phenomenon, which, when it affects different regions of the world, it will disrupt traditional weather patterns. in the case of northern mexico, it means that the rainy season, which was supposed to begin in may simply didn't begin. it's been months now without any significant rainfall. so overwhelmingly what we're hearing from people here who are not only worried that the lake behind us has dried up, the local economy is also drying up with it. and what they're wanting is rain. they're praying for rain and there just doesn't seem to be a drop of precipitation in sight. this is an immediate crisis

emergency. they're in mexico with these historic water shortages. but what is the government doing to tackle the long term causes of climate change? is there a source of national plan in place? so there is a lot of criticism, both of the state government and of the federal government here in mexico, with many people saying that they're just simply not doing enough regarding the water crisis. but make sure it's presidents also under quite a bit of pressure, both nationally and internationally. we're now hearing from trade representatives from the united states and canada who are arguing that mexico is failing to meet its commitments to the united states, mexico, canada trade agreement, or the u. s. m. ca, specifically, as it pertains to investment in renewable energy sources like solar energy and wind energy, mexico or mexico. president strategy ultimately is to make his country of fuel self sufficient. so mexico has doubled down on extraction of fossil fuels,

particularly petroleum. but in simple terms, the criticism is that in the face of the worsening impacts of climate change, the mexican government is falling short of a sustainable solution. marian, thank you very much for monterey mexico. money rapid joining us that. and then in the united states, president joe biden is now $2300000000.00 in funding to help communities deal with the effects of climate change. he's also going, he's also going to announce executive actions to combat the climate emergency st. you in the coming days. so we have to act extreme whether disrupt supply change caused delays, shortages for consumers and businesses. climate changes, literally existential threat to our nation and to the world. so my message today is this, since congress is not acting as it should. and these guys here are, but we're not getting many republican votes. this is an emergency. whichever towns

he joins us live now from washington, existential threat. president joe biden says, but he stopped short of declaring a climate emergency and this is raising all sorts of questions once again. how does the biden administration, how does joe biden find himself in this situation? once again, we're promised a historic speech on the environment. while the world is, is burning, and we were told over the weekend that they were considering declaring a national climate emergency, which is a very specific term which will, which will speed up the, the red tape and bureaucracy really get the administration moving on regulations on funding renewable energy on doing all sorts of things we were told over. we can expect this to come. and then on tuesday afternoon we were told actually no, no, we're not going to and also of theories about that. but you know, what's clear is this is not what environmental activists wanted. this is not what the progressive base ones are. it's not very senators and congress are asking for,

not even necessarily the most progressive senators call the emergency show that you're serious about it. but instead we get this tortuous bite and ism, this is an emergency, i will look at it that way. and then it's about leaves pregnant silence, which is. so why don't you declaring an emergency? they've got themselves in the situation together. here is interesting actually over the weekend on monday we were hearing from someone saying, you know, we're going to be tough on this because we've had enough of congressional negotiations and been strung along by fossil fuel funded selling to, as he was saying, maybe we'll do something we really want to make up for the supreme court judgement when biden was seen, not have been terribly vocal or terribly active on the issue, but on the environment, this is going to be the week and they've done it again. and so yes, i base from a political point of view, this has been rather underwhelming to say to lease down from an environmental view . why me just look at that $2300000000.00, the funding, it's all reactive, isn't it? it's all about preparing for a well,

that's going to get worse. and that's not what environmentally looking for what they're looking for is funnelling money through executive action, which is that 18 months to do. and he hasn't been going to really get things going to ensure that climate change is stopped as far as humanly possible. all right, thank you very much for washington chad returns. you have all the latest on those remarks earlier from us president job biden. to join me now is jamie back, alexander, founding director of project drop down to a non profit organization dedicated to using existing solutions to stop for hops, at least to mitigate the effects of global warming, joins us live now for minneapolis. i do want to ask you about what president biden to say earlier. what would a declaration of a klein emergency enable this us administration to do? how could it potentially change climate policy? declaring a climate emergency is both a signal, a signal to americans,

to market the corporations and the world that we need a war time mobilization to fight climate change. as you just heard, this is, this is massive. this is affecting every person on earth, every part and aspect of society. so we need of a full scale mobilization of resources, investments, people, and political power to it to address this crisis. it will also, you know, in addition to communicating the urgency of the climate crisis, it will unlock specific statutory powers given to the president of the united states by congress to help accomplish this necessary response. so that will include things like, you know, reinstating the crude oil export ban which is absolutely critical. and we'll go, you know, far closer to, to, to addressing the mitigation goals that we have and promoting, you know, rapid clean energy development. and you know, i just want to reiterate sort of what you just heard, which is that 2 out of the 3 actions that were taken today are focused on adapting

to a world. i think that you just heard that is going to get worse. only one of them is that was actually focused on addressing the underlying crisis for the politics in the u. s. and perhaps in all the places but which again, it's doesn't seem to reflect, this is the extraordinary use of presidential power is going to be enough to defy a right wing dominated soon supreme court, which recently moved to restrict the government's ability to to cub fossil fuel emissions, i mean, i think that, you know, the question that i think many of us have for president by now after hearing the rhetoric of today, you know, in which he called the climate crisis. what it is a clear and present danger to the security of the united states. you know, i think the question that many of us have is, if you truly see this for the emergency situation, it is, then we need to act like it and not take, you know, small incremental actions that, that you know, that, that we saw today. so i think, you know, the executive authority and you know that, that the president has, the, or that,

and federal agencies in the united states will get us closer. unfortunately, we could not, you know, so far have not gotten a congressional federal climate package. but there are, you know, private investments that we can still harness to get toward climate solutions and many other resources that we have at our fingertips. right? so how do you do that? because i suppose in some ways, perhaps as an argument that it's too late for that to be policies that support the underlying causes of climate change is important is that is it's either held hostage to this kind of partisan politics or it's too late to reverse the existing effects of the heating planet. so what can be done to, to put the focus on resilience and adaptation? well, yeah, as you, as you just heard, you know, hundreds of millions of people around the world today are suffering under apocalyptic heat. not to mention wildfires and famines and floods and extreme weather events that are happening all around the world. but unfortunately,

every bit of greenhouse gas pollution that we continue to put into the atmosphere every 2nd of every day is continuing to make this problem worse. it's not going to plateau here. and so we absolutely need to focus just as much on adaptation and resilience and protecting, you know, and strengthening our communities and the face of climate change, as well as addressing the underlying crisis. because it's not too late. every, you know, every, every bit of reduction and avoidance of emissions that we do now will help make this problem, you know, less bad in the future. and so we, you know, we, we need these measures today, these cooling and, you know, community protection programs. because we have waited so long and taken so many pitiful, you know, in the united states, somebody pitiful half measures to address this crisis. that's why we're now needing to invest in, you know, in these community programs that and that enable people to stay safe in these, in these extreme weather events. but the longer that we wait the,

with the worst it will get and we do have the solutions to address it. federal policy is one mechanism, but there are many other things that we can do. we can marshal private investments, private capital toward climate solutions. we, you know, people in jobs equipped to bring their, bring, their skill sets to bear and in scaling climate solutions in the world. there are many other things that we can do and federal policy is just one of them. all right, well we'll be good to talk to you again some time jamie back, alexander, trunk, drawing stuff from project rolled down in minneapolis. you you at the news, our life from london much more still to bring you on the program. we look at allegations of extra judicial killings, arbitrary arrests and torture. is his life and afghanistan almost a year after the taliban sees power. a shock announcement on world chest, a grandmaster magnus colson, resigns. but is it really the end of the game? later in sport shop,

winner in the 1500 meters at for wild athletics championships. ah, now to italy, the prime minister is won a conference vote in the senate, but the move which was meant to restore unity to his government, could instead see it collapse. mario draggy called the motion to try to and divisions within his governing coalition. but 3 main coalition partners refused to take part in a vote drug. he tried to step down last week, but the president rejected his resignation, urging him to try to revive his administration. i deem adarine joins us live now in rome. and so adam, how eminent might mario drug, his resignation, b mayor may, could come as early as thursday morning in rome. he is expected to give a speech in the lower house of parliament on thursday. and most people and even

some anonymous force is speaking to italian media, say he's going to resign there. and then immediately after that, travel up to quit knowledge hill to the presidential palace and tell present, says methadone that he wants to resign. and it's doubtful as he says that and does all that on thursday that the president, this time would reject it. there's just been too much division in this so called unity government over the last week. it 1st started when this 5 star movement just a few years ago, the party with the most seats and parliament a party that's fracturing and, and seen many defections and really thinking an opinion polls. well, they weren't on board with a vote. the money that i called and so that confidence vote didn't meet drag ease requirements. so he offered a resignation that was rejected. and then he come here to the senate on wednesday and he said what he needed was everyone to get on board. and his unity government and some people thought that his comments were little too strong, saying that he was only one that could perhaps solve these problems with that

government. so what we had and backroom deals throughout and back from negotiations that is throughout the day on wednesday, was this growing kind of sense of these parties. seeing that they don't have much unity actually. and different parties came out at different points and they saying they weren't going to vote, they were going to abstain or boycott the vote. and that's just what happened. although you mentioned that he won a majority votes, cas doesn't just didn't vote. and what that means now is most likely snap collections, which would come into fall, which is when what they really need to have the parliament is a budget past, especially now, italians are struggling with rising prices. they're struggling just to pay the bills, like people around the world where inflation is filing are doing the same and having the same problems. they're also the ongoing drought and the north of italy. it's really punishing the whole agricultural, industrial sector and, and many of the crops are just withering in the fields. and you have this ongoing war and ukraine. and because he's been one of the main supporters of this policy, to support the ukrainian government with arms and money and to oppose russian

president vladimir putin saw this is going around while italy still waiting to receive tens of billions of dollars and e recovery funds and it's reached the point that many across the country just saw that you only wanted to kind of pass reforms get billions of dollars from the you pumped into the economy. and now it's fall flat. we've been speaking composition, party members who just say it's ridiculous to think only one person, one man could save italy right now. and this person we spoke to from the brothers of italy, party, the main opposition party that's not in the government, was actually with other joy that this election might happen in the fall. but they're waiting is all of us are to see if that's going to be the case. when you make the speech on thursday and carlos marion very much. ivan rainy in wrong with the nature we go to shine canal run what are missing. will be sworn in as the countries president on thursday, despite his unpopularity with the public look promising of faces the difficult task of leading country ounces and economic crisis,

or restore an order after months of mass protest. mcnelson under reports now from the capital colombo ronnie, the missing method to my levy at the, on the, on the inside, so long to move heavy go. the building it's new president was chosen, aren't m p 's, cause the secret ballot to decide who would succeed. good, roger pucks, he fled in the military play and last week of the 10s of thousands of protested stormed his official residents. the prospect of running victor missing is exceeding roger pucks. had caused an outcry from thousands who demanding that he to step down . but more than half, the parliamentarians ignored the protest as wishes that happy we do. now i saw you at the time of being divine. it is over. we have 48 hours of division. now i'm asking everyone to get together you to discuss it. i'd like to start discussions

with all of you from tomorrow. jacqueline. oh, missy london's. an angry that a man voted out of parliament in the last election as become president. he's the defender of a garage box or family of the 2nd reason is he doesn't have a mandate to be a member of parliament deputies. so we do not accept his alignment illegal more than a little. they will do something that of it didn't the public opinion as opposed to this we, the trade unions are opposed to it. the people are opposed to it. we are clearly opposed to renewals appointment. this is not the people's will it said distortion. one of the 1st things we grimacing had did was thank the armed forces and police, hundreds of security personnel secured the parliament complex to ensure wednesdays vote was no disrupted and only say his immediate challenge would be to pull shill anchor back from the brink of total disaster a moderate parliament a ran into roger boxes, s l p. p. party told me the election was the battle between money and conscience

protested as a given day. elected representative did not reflect their views when choosing their candidate, they were continued to oppose the presidency of rodney victor. missing her men of fernandez al jazeera colombo, hammer ross. she soon act or less trust will we persons next prime minister e form a chance. her foreign secretary of the final 2 candidates, new case, conservative party leadership contest that the winner will be chosen in a run, a vote by party members will place or is johnson as prime minister in september. and there is journal, has the story. richie lives cross will be the candidates going forward, the conservative party, m p, 's of spoken. now grass roots members will decide whether for the chancellor, richie sumac or forum secretary liz trust should go on to be party leader. and britons next prime minister, both a divisive characters,

both have the experience of high office trust promises what she calls a truly conservative economic agenda, tax cuts and a hike indifferent spending on the pass, and who can go into number 10. i can hit go, i'm running and i can get things done. soon acts as he'll stabilize the economy, ease the cost of living crisis and when the next election. the question now for our members, who is the best person to defeat the film or the labor policy of the next election? i believe i'm the only candidate who can do that. and there is a further distinction between the 2 wild lease trust is seen as the candidate most likely to continue boris johnson's brand of populace politics. richard soon isn't popular in downing street where he's seen as having betrayed johnson, earning him the distrust of party members of poll. all those very party members who will elect the next. prime minister suggest that this trust is far more likely to

win than riches who not before the focus shifted to a very public summer leadership campaign, there was a time for parliament to say good bye to boris johnson. at his final session that the dispatch box in prime minister's questions, i do know the relationship between a prime minister and leader of the opposition is never easy. this forms prove no exception to the rule. but i would like to take this opportunity to wish him, his wife and his family, the best for the future. ad johnson had this advice for his successor number one day, closer, the american pick up for the ukrainian speak up of freedom and democracy everywhere . johnson's relatively short, when near included, he said, restoring the case, independence from europe and battling the pandemic. but then a string of scandals brought his office into disrepute. mister speaker, i want to thank everybody here and how can i be done?

baby i, johnson exited the house of commons to rousing applause. the next prime minister will be named on september the 5th, jonah hall, l $20.00. london went out to columbia. the new congress has opened its 1st session with an am vicious agenda to find poverty and inequality. i left his coalition, dominate the chamber for the 1st time in the country's history. it's tasked with implementing reforms outlined by president elect christ. petro takes office next month. as 100 p s c is life for us now from the vol guitar. so for the 1st time is going to be a leftist majority in congress. how significant change is this for the country? yes ma'am, it's very significant simply because the, the parties that have traditionally be been at the opposition will be in power for

the 1st time. they're close through having got majority votes and both chambers of the columbia and congress. but also because this is seen as real renovation of congress to consider that more than 60 percent of the new congressmen will be our new faces. and also this will be the most diverse congress in the history of columbia. more than 30 percent of the new elected officials are women, and many of them also represent minorities that there are more representative of indigenous population of afro colombians than ever before. so there's expectation that this could be a different congress from the ones that we traditionally have seen operating in this country. and as you were saying, and your introduction, they are pass through with

a number of reforms that colombians are expecting at least a majority of them not only those that the voted for. for gustavo, throughout all polls show that more than 70 percent of colombians right now, want these reforms and wants change to happen is you're going to be able to pass these ambitious reforms. what are the obstacles that might be thrown in his way? but this obviously is the biggest question right now or expect ation is that he will start his government with a honeymoon the majority more than 60 percent of columbia in support. his plans, according to the polls. he was also able to reach a series of agreements with more traditional stablish man. the party is to start moving some of these reforms through congress in particular tax reform and

agricultural and land reform. something that has never been done in this country. and even some politicians on descent arrive to have said that they are ready to support pay throw in this reform. the expectation is that probably many of these reforms will have to be tone down to get enough votes to back to pass in in congress. but it looks, at least at the beginning, we'll have a majority to try to do that. then the issue also is though that we are going through difficult konami times very high inflation as it is the case in many parts of the world. high unemployment also here in columbia is a big issue. so the question is, how long will that honeymoon last the end? if indeed, all these different parties that form a correlation or the supports for the reforms,

if they will stand and for how long they will last. all right, thank you very much. i was, yes, you are pointing to the from ball guitar in what appears to be important. crossroads for the country will now still had for you on this london news. now we look at decades old method and the multi $1000000000.00 industry u. k. scientists on now questioning the widespread use of antidepressants and you're looking for a new ryder cup. captain general will explain why the me right, the heat waste and sweat away at least in the british isles, and the good part of france is being pushed in this general direction by well, a cold front so it is cold. it's not cold,

just come down to average the forecast for london for 35 years that there is a roundabout where it should be some cabinet sky. probably no showers. there are the moment for they could disappear. in fact, the may rain if it falls, it'll be significant. will be somewhere like the netherland maybe parts of germany down towards midwest, the side of austria and the outs. if you're lucky, it would be good stuff, but further, so it's nothing. nothing for southern front spain, portugal and it's the remains dry and hot. now the unusual heat is probably gonna be eastern poland up through the baltic states and briefly in sweden that sweat 2 and stockholm spect and $25.00. let me get to friday, but i did say southern europe is a different story. in seville attempt, you still riding very high, the records 466, we're not got there, but the average is 36. we're well above that once again. and that goes for most of the mediterranean countries and beyond in towards turkey, which means the wildfires are spreading, you know, they're in spain, pasco,

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now al jazeera investigative unit goes undercover to expose further revelations that go to the heart of the cypriot state al jazeera investigations, the cypress papers on the cover. lou ah, welcome back with the news our live from london. look at the main stories we are following this hour. emergency crews battling forest fires across large parts of southern europe. a more mass evacuation orders have been issued in spain, fires of burning in 5 regions of the country and hundreds of people of di from hate related issues. you as president joe biden has announced $2300000000.00 in funding

to help communities deal with the effects of climate change. you also announced executive actions to combat the climate emergency in the coming days. and italy's prime minister morrow drug, he has won a conference vote in the senate, but the mood which was meant to restore unity in his government could instead c collapse. 3 main coalition partners refused to take part in the vote. it could pave the way for early elections of the country. now, turkey is rejected, claims. it was bind a bombing in northern iraq, which killed 8 people and injured 23 others. they attack happened in the mountain town of zacko and to hook province. all of the victims were tourists and includes several children. turkey often carries out as strikes in northern iraq targeting the p k. k, which it considers a terrorist group. anchor described wednesdays bombing as an act of terror.

new research into depression has cost down over whether antidepressants aren't the best form of treatment. most work by correcting abnormally low serotonin levels. but after analyzing dates from tens of thousands of patients, scientists at university college london say they have found no evidence that the condition is linked to a chemical imbalance in the brain. prescription for anti depressants of risen dramatically since the 900 ninety's with one in 6 adults in england. now taking them millions more, use them around the world. 2 percent of teenagers in england are now prescribed antidepressants. and women are twice as likely than men to take the drugs. but you see our research is say, the multi $1000000000.00 industry, which is based on data from the 1900 sixty's, is not grounded in science. they argue many people on needlessly pessimistic about the prospects of recovery without the drugs. john moncrief as a professor of critical and social psychiatry university college london and

a co author at this report. she joins us live from brentwood here in the u. k. so can i start asking you, do you completely rule out the use of anti depressants? then to study just been published directly about some questions. it was about the link between 30 and depression. but of course, the use of antidepressants was, is based at least partly on the idea that what they might be doing is correct in balance or attending. so indirectly, all paper suggests that the basis on which i'm going to present to you is, is insecure, is not, is not supported by evidence. so that obviously does code into question i use as well as we know from randomized trials, that the difference between antidepressants interesting is, is not that great. so again, the fact that all our research questions,

the links between serotonin and depression and medical questions, what are you depressed are actually doing raises questions about yes, about whether we're using about why we're using them. and i'm certainly about the, the extensive use that is going on. if you highlighted in your introduction, can you tell me more about the trials and perhaps any particular case studies that stand out. so we did various different areas. a question, for example, we looked at levels of serotonin studies that have measured levels and, and that was that the serotonin metabolite names are sending metabolites will break down product. and those studies show that there was no difference between people with depression and people without depression. and then we looked at studies that try and artificially induced a question by lowering serotonin and volunteers. and although these were originally

thought to show that you could that, that when you load serotonin load, you might be, in fact, in fact, good dawson, georgia studies don't show that lowering serotonin affects people's mood. and then we also looked at genetic studies that have looked at the gene a code for the serotonin transporter, the pricing, the carriers are turning out the nose. but the finance between now and that makes it inactive. and there is studies involved thousands and thousands of tens of thousands of people and didn't show that the gene had any association with depression. what is with i mean? so what is your response to criticism that this is a very risky source of study and perhaps conclusion to be disseminating. we know

that antidepressants have been a key part of treating depression in individuals. and then also the have been obviously studies and research the country. for example, that was a groundbreaking study a few years ago in 2018 showing that i need to present do work. study was a master analysis to, to present trials compared antidepressants, against each other or against the cbo. and it showed like all the other master analyses that antidepressants are a little bit better than just see. the difference is, is, is pretty, is pretty marginal. and on what i would say is, is that, is that this is important. many, many people have been told that they have a chemical imbalance, and that's why they should say country to christians. and so it's really important that people know that that's, that's not true. that's not a reason why they should take antidepressants. then they can evaluate whether they should be taking antidepressants on other grounds. what it is important that people

are not misled because people have been led to the fashion. so it's important that we, that we put the record straight too much, professor at moncrief. thank you for joining us. thank you. now the you, i mission and i've got a son is accused a taliban of hundreds of rights violations since it sees power last year. and you report documents allegations of extra judicial killings, arbitrary arrests and torture sites. more than $200.00 instances of cruel punishments, like which include some targeting people accused of violating religious codes. the un says women and girls have been subjected to severe restrictions on their rights and excluded from public life. hundreds of casualties have also been linked to a taxed by a group known as i c k, which often targets ethnic and religious minorities or ali lottie fee has more now on these reports, finding from the afghan capital kabul in the press conference announcing the report,

the un made it clear and they kept reiterating that they have been consistently meeting with this lama camera and they have been showing them the sort of 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 we're 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 again, this leads to questions. 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 one has taken to show that or to put force and to, to give an example that their pressure has actually resulted in some kind of a change in activity of the, of the plumbing cameras. so, you know, it's really important for people to see that these reports in the be instances. you know, the united nation is a big organization of,

on the phone 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 lead 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 and the lama camera, the fact that this 40 something page report exist seems to show some kind of a disconnect or some kind of a shortfall between both groups. wells, best jazz players used international chest h went out so he won't be defending his while title next year. miss carson says he's not retired from the sport which is dominated for more than a decade, but that he's lost motivation to play in the current format. jenny wolf has more a bombshell from the world's best chess player, magnets carlson announcing. he will not defend his title next year. it's very simple that i am not motivated to play another another

much. i don't have a lot to gain a don't particularly like it's, it's opened a lot of doors. i feel like it's it's my time to to go from the world championship 31 year old norwegian, who has spent more than a decade at the top of the world rankings was introduced to the game by his father when he was 5 years old. carson has indicated an interest in changing the championships. classical match format. well, of course, but despite an open dialogue with the governing body feed a, he chose to give up his title or the last grand master to do so, was bobby fischer in 1975 chess. enjoyed a come back during the corona virus pandemic. thanks in part to the netflix production, the queen's gambit. around half a 1000000000 people play the game worldwide. and the popular series prompted about a 100000000 people to open accounts to play online. you know,

the reality is that as, as just as exploded for fans online and on every medium chest as consume, more than it ever has been before. just a played perfectly in the long time. visuals may not actually be with the fans. want to see there's been nasa movement forward formats and events online time controls that i deliver, the excitement the fans want, which is actually more misstates, more opportunities for the best players to capitalize on those mistakes. therefore, brilliant, brilliant moments that up for months to see, and it's just a more consumable product. carlson is set aside on perfecting his skills and has no plans to retire anytime soon. frankly, i'm excited to get back to where i was. i was all sad on trying to improve, trying to be better. do the right things, play the chinaman's, be the best in a world's. i not care about the workshop. oh, the beauty of the game going beyond a world championship checkmates, julie wolf,

al jazeera, stood eye on the program. we're going to be speaking to australia, new. hi john. well, a champion, elena patterson, in sports ah . casa airways official airline, of the journey with

ah ah, whole an official and on the journey, lou. the germans in thank you, marianne. we start with gulf and hammer extents and says he's huge, disappointed, and disagrees with the decision to strip him of the european, right. a cup captaincy off the joining the rival live series. the 46 year old suite

as a major champion and to time european gulf of the year, he previously said it was a dream come true to be chosen as captain for the 2023. right? a cup which he wanted 3 times as a player, but he's now being sac softer, accepting an offer from live, which is backed by saudi arabia, cents and says he hopes to represent team europe in some capacity in the future. in march, he was when he was announced, he said this is the one of the proudest moment surveys career. well, money spoken here, and clearly he's decided that the live offer is too attractive to turn down. this is a size make decisions. a put the d p well to the right, a top organizes now in a state of flux and it's not what they were looking for. and clearly it's a further entrenching of position. so it's basically all try and shore up their own sides. is it the pga tour the d p? well, so,

and live go for it. clearly going after is bigger catches as these possible. one of the problems is the live tour, a desperate to get world ranking points, because what that could mean, if they don't get world ranking points, then they will get into majors and some of the big events. and this is just not a good look for the game of go. and clearly the sums of money being spoken about again, puts the sport in a, you know, with the pga tour, you know, there are a lot of rich young men anyway, playing on this talk, prepared to gamble their futures and football england remain on track. so in the european championship for the 1st time, after reaching the semi finals of the tournament off the goal list of the 1st top the spain, it took the lead in the 54 minutes to gonzalez. spanish england were 2nd best for mesa match for they came alive when substitute elliton equalized. the host nation late in the match one off a normal tyler say they went to extra time and and fans went crazy a 2nd time. thanks to this. donning strike from georgia steinway sanchez. this is

his record go score, putting england into the semi's where they will play i just read it all out and you do it with that you to some big upsets at the water athletics. the championships as several olympic champions and missed out on a gold medal on day 5. david stakes has more. ah no waste kirsten var home is arguably the biggest star in athletics right now. the olympic champion in the 400 meter hurdles was going for his 3rd straight, well total in eugene. but after tearing his hamstring last month, he faded in the closing stages and eventually finished down in 7th place. and instead that was the brazilian alison de santos, who took gold. ah, there was more disappointment to norway in the men's 1500 meters,

another of their olympic champions. yet curbing of bricks then suffered a shock defeat to britons, jake whiteman. he pressed him on the back straight to record the 1st this time in the world this year. ah, that was a bond desilva. i would be very happy. besides you come away with the flipping go. laila asked the dream isn't oxygen. australia's elena patterson, literally came up with a leak of a lifetime to take gold in the high jump, he cleared an ocean, a record of 2.02 meters to take gold ahead of ukrainian favorite. you have a slab, i'm a huge it. they bid stokes al jazeera and we are very fortunate to be joined by elena patterson in oregon. ella, thank you so much for your time. sure, you are a woman very much in demand. have you come to terms with being a while champion? no, certainly not. i'm still wrapping my head around what happened yesterday. obviously it was a crazy competition in so many facets that the,

the level of i played to women jumping high, was incredible. and then the fact that i came away with the we know it's on getting it one bit and you know, just the 10th australian to win a gold medal at the wild athletics championships. was the reaction been back? i've been phenomenal. yeah. it's wild to think that i am of that caliber. i knew i've been able to jump high for a long period, but to bring that to fruition and i'm on the stage like this. i'm just overjoyed and even to be met and did those, you know one of 10. yeah, 2. ha, if this is phenomenal. wow. my foreign has certainly been blowing up. i didn't touch it at all last night. i think i touched it like, you know, something i just want to spend time with my loved ones, my faith, my parents here and my coach and things like that. and so then i started to like, look at a few things and there's been so much so much love and support from ever so just

yeah, really pretty lucky to be in this position and having that love. ok. let's just go back a little bit. you won't go to the 2014 at commonwealth games that was as an 18 year old. be then struggled a bit with you'll korea. can you just talk through that? the tough right. it's been ready to reach the point you are now. yes, i feel like a long time ago when i was there, i 10 years old and my 1st international team come off the games. so i've certainly taken a very different route than a lot of people. i just ended up know, enjoying the sport a lot and wasn't competing well and just needed a change of environment. i didn't make the team to the game and so i stepped away from sport and i didn't touch a track for over year. i didn't step inside the gym for every i just was deciding who i wanted to be and also where i wanted to go. and so i got to

a point where i was realizing that i wasn't finished with the school. that was something more within me. and so i thought with my coach, alex, you, um, i've been working with him for the last 3 years. and obviously there's always an adjustment period with, you know, finding what's right, you know, and you training program adjusting to a new training program. and so i was to have it in the middle and whatnot, but yeah, and a number of injuries. but it's, it's been the best decision ever to come back and i knew that there was only me and i guess just a really, for this year is being such people to me jumping to made. it's the 1st time that the voting and getting super was such a huge achievement, but to now come away with a pe and to a to it, to be wo, champion beyond belief in somebody. it's going to take a while to think about in a practice, and it will let you go now because i'm sure there's going to be a lot of demand on your time going forward. thank you so much for joining us. and.

and if addison wild champion, how does that sound in say in say thank you so much for having me and that is a real sport. and now it's back to marianne in london. jammah. thank you so that ross at lenny is al, but i'll be back in a mile with more the days news a full bulletin coming up in just a couple of minutes. ah ah.

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