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around, and this is on the line. coming up in the next half hour, the president of italy, all parliament after the resignation of prime minister mario drug. also the satellite monitoring service, as far as the burden to much land in europe this year. as an all of 2021. and more russian attacks and death in ukraine as moscow's foreign minister says it's false is aims of widens beyond the eastern region of dom ah, welcome to the perio. we begin with breaking news coming out of the us where us president joe biden has tested positive for career virus. now his symptoms are said to be mild. it's the 1st time and 17 year old has tested positive for the illness. let's get more of this more white house correspondent kimberly how kept he's standing by for it's a very simple statement from the white house kimberly confirming the condition and

the vaccinations that the president has had. this was all very unexpected. the president, in fact, it was due to travel from washington that all abruptly counselled when the president tested positive for coven 19 he had been experiencing some mild symptoms. according to his doctor, it is routine to test the president periodically. we know that he last tested negative on tuesday, according to his position, and as part of the routine course of treatment and testing protocols here at the white house. it was during that routine testing that the present tested positive for covey. 19, he is now in isolation, and we're told that he is continuing to resume the full duties of the president as he continues to experience these very mild symptoms. now, we should also point out that his wife 1st lady,

dr. jill biden has also been tested. she has tested negative and is resuming or rather has not interrupted her duties in any form or capacity. in fact, she is in the u. s. state of michigan. she is meeting with school children and they will continue on to the u. s. state of georgia. now for the president, he is already undergoing treatment according to his position. he is going to be treated with the antiviral drug that is known as pax lavette. this is a multi day course that our austin is very effective in treating some of the symptoms of covey 19. and this is something that the president is taking somewhat as a precaution. the president is in excellent health, we are told. but given the fact that he is at 79 years old, often people who are in advanced age can be impacted more greatly now. joe biden is not the 1st president to contract cove at 19. we do know that his predecessor,

donald trump, did also contracts covered 19 he also had mild symptoms initially, but then later on did need to go for advanced care at walter reed medical center. now, many would say a given the fact that he's only a few years younger than joe biden, you know that this could be cause for concern. however, there were mitigating factors in the case of donald trump, namely the fact that he was heavier set or somebody even say in the obese category . and that is often known as being a complication that can increase your risk or having more severe case of cobra. 19, so right now, what we are told is that the prognosis for joe biden is very optimistic and we are awaiting a update from the white house press secretary along with a cobra 19 task force. to get more specifics about the president's condition, which we are told right now is relatively mild. of course,

i will continue to monitor that update with you later. thanks so much. kimberly help get that all white house correspondent. now it's these present said you have mozilla has dissolved parliament triggering snap collections and that's after prime minister money drunky resigned earlier on thursday drug he will stay on his car can take a lead upon me until the autumn elections had been scheduled for next may. but i'd like to be held in the coming months lucky when a confidence out in parliament on wednesday. but 3 political parties in his coalition government refused to participate at the mighty, has more for us now from roman. of course, the rest of thanks to accepted by the president, but obviously the wheels of democracy turn. where are we now when it comes to who's in charge of the country and i'll be heading towards elections very soon. well, so just a few moments ago, the president surgery me at that ellis spoke to the nation. it was a very short speech, 5 minutes serious,

sober. and it showed that he is doing something he really didn't want to do. in fact, he said this is the last thing he wanted to do, but he's dissolved parliament and he's given parliament 70 days. are given the country 70 days. that is a whole national action that puts us right at the end of september and the next hour. so we might have a firm date coming out of part of that when that will actually be. but the most important thing you said, despite thing, of course, we need to have elections and we need to do that sooner rather than later. if he said it has to be done very fast, because the problems are just too overwhelming to have this extended political sees . and he pointed out, inflation, the problems faced by at least most vulnerable people who are struggling just to pay for basic supplies and staples at home. he mentioned the war, new crane. and also he pointed out that italy still waiting to receive tens of billions of euros of e, you recovery fund money, and he said, we cannot put that at risk. so he said this last thing when to do, but he has no choice at this point. so by late september, we're going to elections

a new government will take shape sometime after that. this will be instigated by the fact that coalition partners pulled out will pulled away that support from mario druggie. i mean, are they saying anything at the moment about why they did this? what, how they're looking ahead? well, they're not really speaking so much about why they did it. they're letting their statements from the past few days speak about that. and what those statements were from the 5 star movement was we can't support big spending projects in rome. that's why they set out the 1st confidence boat. and then later, the 2nd competence boat, which really made the government collapse. you had 2 other 3 other 2 other that is coalition members. thing they didn't want to work anymore at the 5 star event because they didn't trust them to work as a unified government anymore. so it's really all this swapping between different groups as elections got closer next year. this unity government just couldn't hold back the dam of all the pressure building from these political parties who were

jocking for power trying to stay relevant. and although he wanted to continue, he said thousands of mayors that had publicly supported him. people come out and the plots is across italy. boy kinder support for the gun because they want the government to function and address these problems. he couldn't make the political deals needed to keep the unity government in place. and right now, although some groups aren't saying they're happy so much from this coalition, you see them really gearing up an election mode. the only party that says they are really happy for the selection is the far right wing brothers of italy, party. and they are leaving in the polls and could end up winning the most seats in the selection. we don't know what they'll do, but it would be the 1st time in decades such a party to power in this country as ever. we shall see what happens for the moment . um, radian room. thank you. while fires have told through parts of europe in recent weeks and have being able for lobbying, reminder of the impact of climate change. and now the scale of the destruction is

becoming clearer that you satellite monitoring service as the blazes have already scorched more lamb this year. than have burned to the whole of 2021. that's around $517000.00 hector so far. it say the record of 1000000 hectares last 12 hours and 2017 will be broken by the end of the places have been seen in france. portugal greece, actually, sylvania and i'll bane ya, but more than a 3rd of the devastation has been in spain, firefighters. there say they're making progress in their battle to contain dozens of wildfires, but temperatures dipped on wednesday. but most of the country is now back on a lead for a continuing heat wave. same bas robbie has more from 7 ross in earlier province. just up until today, the north and the northwest of spain. those areas were the worst effected by wildfires, but today we are here in a villa province. and this is the area that officials in authority say is currently the most dangerous by all accounts, the worst effected part of the country from this wildfire season. now we're just

overlooking the town of superheroes. and if you take a look at the chart hillside, the chart country with driven up to get to this place, you really get a sense of how close this place came to completely going up in flames. and why this is still considered a very important danger zone. to continue the firefighting effort, you can still hear helicopters in the air. this is still very much in active scene . i'm just gonna step out and show you what this hillside looks like to give you a sense of how severe the fires were. we've driven across one hill after another that looks like this entire areas, entire low growth forests completely burned up. but if you just look at this in this direction, you can see exactly where the firefighters were able to stop the fire, where the fire stopped, where the black turns to green again. and it is incredibly stark contrast. the fire came very close to taking over this entire hillside and for the people living

here, it must have been a terrifying scene. if you just look down, you can see where the fire came right up against some buildings. and those are residences. that is where people live and in firefighting terms, in terms of the logistics of combating this wildfires season, this is considered a very close call. the town of sabrina rose is incredibly close to. busy were the fires were so this is once again, a place that had a very close call when it comes to. this was far season. no doubt would have been a major relief to those living in this town. for the fires to have stopped where they were. now, when it comes to combating these fires, it is certainly about saving the land, saving infrastructure and buildings saving lives. but this is also an important strategic place because superheroes is where the european space agency has a thing called the sub railroad red antenna. it is a, an important communication satellite dish that communicates with space spacecraft

and satellites in the air. and it is an important piece of european infrastructure to give you a sense of why it's so important. it was actually used as part of nasa's mars landings. so important infrastructure in this area, and at the headquarters, the firefighters headquarters down in the town, they were saying that that facility was now so being surrounded by flames, and firefighters and rescue workers are trying to put out those fires as we speak of fires in europe. to flash floods in nigeria, these 20 people died in northern jiggle or state. more than 200 families flat as the water levels right now, the flooding has submerged thousands of heck tests a farmland. and the address has this update from the nigerian capital, a boucher you hear about up changing weather parkins, for example, let's take for example, lagos, the coastal stage in how the nigeria. we spoke to official staff who said the weather putting there has changed dramatically. the range this yeah. potted one

month early and they expected to last longer this year by 3 or 4 weeks instead of november, the res i expected to end in december this year. so basically what we see is changing weather patterns up up day in the north. you also hear about how rivers are swelling and in the coastal areas, the water levels are rising high, displacing communities, taking over farmlands and other properties in the coastal regions of the south of the country. so they have been reported cases of death fixed for example, also in the north of the country in borderline state, where you see hardly see a lot of rainfall that you see in lagos, all in the south of the country. dumble, which is not far from my degree, the capital they have been, are cases of flooding damages to at least 300 houses there. and of course, damages to families and property. and this is coming at a time when the rains are really, really getting heavier and last

a longer than we've seen over the past few decades. also, while still ahead here on our to 0, brazil's president of the keys are trying to buy votes as he seeks to boost his chances of reelection. the worlds fastest land animal is expected to come back to india up to 70 years. ah. the journey has begun the b for world copies on its way to catholic book your travel package. today, it seems to been something all over the place, an indonesian and less so in malaysia, in the last few weeks and more recently was west papua against more islands. in the band or are in the forecast, you can see if you see orange tops, the likelihood of heavy rain. me and my and the good part of central norton thailand are in the frame here. less so cambodia and in the philippines and borneo, there are big showers around with bigger than maybe you would like. so some flash

for the potential here for china though, it's really no so the yank. see around the yellow river, this mass, he will produce some flooding region and there could be some flash flooding in beijing in the sundry down pause. but if your size of the accident was hong kong is dry and it's hot hotter than it should be. hong kong, humid the house as well, but not alone. shanghai likewise, and this is humid circulating wet weather in northern honshu and hawk hardy rather slow to go. i have to say, where is this right? least china rossi, l a. c for the korean peninsula. the monsoon rains at the moment are not so much concentrates in good europe, their federal land, matchup, or dash up towards behalf northeast of indian bank. less you'll see an increase and the big shouts are showing up again in northern pakistan and iran. deli, probably helpfully official and i know the joe with whitney is different. change with

happiness. with loss, with clarity, with his family, with his friends. the beginning. whitney, the end. witness life with oh. a book about watching on their knees. the whole run, the reminder of all top stories. italy's president says, marcella has dissolved parliament triggering snap collections within 70 days. after

prime minister mother drug resigned earlier on thursday plug it will stay home as caretaker, leader, the monitoring service as well because of already scorch moreland. this year that was burned to the whole of 2021. that's 517000 heck tests they fall. a 3rd of the devastation has been in spain. and us present. joe biden is tested positive for corona virus. the whitehouse says that he has miles to 10, including fatigue and try call. it's the 1st time 79 year old has tested positive for the illness. well, dr. david friedman is a professor office of infectious diseases at the university of alabama in birmingham. he has more on the risks to joe biden. and the anti viral drug being used to treat him packs, lavette is highly effective. it's certainly the anti viral drug of choice. it's an oral drug, it's taken for 5 days. and it's about 90 percent effective in reducing

hospitalizations in, in those who take it. and the fact that i'm sure he was started on a very, very early, you know, oftentimes people need, you know, 2 or 3 days to access it. i'm sure he started on it as soon as he tested positive, so likely even more effective in keeping him out of the hospital. in addition, he is vaccinated. a lot of that data, 90 percent was actually an unbox and a to be also the fact that he's also vaccinated makes this whole thing a lot less worrisome. i would like to emphasize the president biden is an extremely good physical condition. he's generally healthy. he goes bicycling regularly, so i certainly decreases his risk, you know, the, the majority of people that are still dying or are and vaccinated. but there are also people with what are called co morbidities heart lung disease, diabetes,

things like that, which, you know, has a high rate in people that are 80, but doesn't really apply to the president. the the li, 3 people are being killed and more than 20 others injured after rushing shillings struck the ukrainians that his co cave, local official say a residential area was hit. alan fisher has more from the capital. keith, the fighting continues in the south and in the east. now if we talk about car key, which of course is very close to the russian border. even just in the last though, we've had reports of explosions in the tone to major attacks there throughout the course of the day. local officials say that civilian areas where hit free people were killed at least $21.00 injured of the $21.00 injured at least one was a small child. what the officials there are seeing is that the russians are essentially not targeting military targets. they're just trying to terrorize, and there was the local community, seeing that they're firing rockets,

chaotically and brutally as for the ukrainians. while they say they're making some success in the south of the country, the say the repel a number of russian advances. they also say that the managed to target in a series of explosions, a number of russian munition dumps that's important because at the ukrainians are focusing on the south hoping that the russians will move their attention away from the don bus region. now you'll remember that the don bass became the main military objective when the russians failed to keep at the start of the war. and it's always been the intention to try and take over the entire dawn bus. russia, foreign minister says moscow, as military goals in ukraine have widened beyond the eastern region of dumbass, suki lover of toll state media. that forces with target the regions of care sean, and upper richer from the stumbling below station. there you go. when there was a meeting in eastern bull, there was one geography and our willingness to accept the ukrainian proposal was

based on that geography for the geography at the end of march 2022. now the geography is different. this is not only the elinor and the d, n r. this is also the kristen region and the sample region region and a number of other territories. this process continues and continues consistently and persistently. the u. s. says high mobility, artillery rocket systems or him out have been you successfully by ukraine at a meeting on wednesday, washington and its allies agreed to send more military aid is defense. i cree lloyd austin, says rushes expansion plans come as no surprise. i'm sure that ukrainian leadership will be pleased to hear a lot of raj confirmation, the effectiveness of not only that system but how they're using that system. as you know, russians are currently in care san an saffron asia. so russian forces

they're, they're there now. so you have to wonder who he's talking to. iraq is observing a day of morning after an attack in the semi autonomous kurdish region that killed 8 people and wounded 23. the bombardment happened in the taurus resort of zacko near the turkish border. now the rocky prime minister is blaming turkey, but anchor says it was a terror attack. by mister, mister kabibi says baghdad reserves the right to retaliate. turkey regularly carries and strikes in northern iraq, talk to members of the car to stop work as party, which it classifies as a terrorist group, but he will become a single, has been sold in israel. and because president now he was elected by m. p. 's, despite widespread public protests, many slang can say he's partly responsible for the economic crisis, because of a single says that he's going to be tough on what he calls under mcclintic demonstrators, and will complete the term got the by

a roger pac sir. who resigned after fling to think of poor last week, the political and economic instability is pushing many to consider leaving the country. so boston has moved side the passport office in colombo, while honey a week her missing i was inaugurated. as the 8th executive president of sri lanka, these people were standing in a long queue, none of them have been paying any attention, nor was it a reason for them to celebrate their being in this queue for around 3 days. they have been sleeping here. they have been eating here. they have been waiting. most of the time, they've been waiting to get a passport because they all want to leave the country. the situation has become so dire for their families to, to feed their families, to get fuel, to get jobs. that's why to have decided to leave. most of them want to go to the middle east and are trying to get a passport. it's an enormous q. it's the largest group, the longest q i've seen since i've been in sri lanka. so this is

a huge task that week i'm a singer has to deal with. he has to deal with a very dire the most serious economic situation. a country has seen since it's independence. and what he's trying to do now is been reaching out to other parties, trying to build is national coalition government and see if there is going to be some consensus to find a way out of this. brazil's former left, his president, luis in our sulu da silva, has been officially nominated, binds workers party to run in october's presidential election. it says the stage for the country's most polarized vote in decades. latest poles put in a 15 points ahead of the current president john balls. nora, the opposition has accused ballston hour of trying to buy votes. after convincing congress to pass an emergency spending bill, the $7000000000.00 package will increase welfare payments. julie end of the year on the key on the key of reports now from rio de janeiro. crunch time in the center of rio de janeiro and workers at the soup kitchen are busier than expected. spider

turn around economic downturn during the height of the co good 19 pandemic. brazil is experiencing a surge in the number of people living on the streets. they don't want, it's going to put up looters on a 1st order say target. we're facing a record 12 percent yearly inflation, which has doubled the price of food and cooking gas. many retirees have lost their homes because they can no longer survive on meager pensions. even young people who are back at work sleep on the streets during the week because they can't afford paying public transportation every day and depend on us for a free meal. in order to deal with the rising numbers, congress approved president bill. so now this plan to increase handouts for poor brazilians with a just 3 months to go before the general election. critics say the measure is a scheme to boost his re election. chances poll shobel sonata trailing behind former president, lizzie marshall lula, the silver brazilian legislation limits public spending,

specially during an electoral year. but president bonaza was able to bypass the ban by convincing congress to declare a state of emergency until the end of the year. to renew the super is an unemployed car mechanic. he received $74.00 a month from the government. that handout will increase to $110.00 in august. good . but a did. did it? if balsam are a thinks this will make me vote for him, he's wrong. if he really wanted to fight poverty, he would have invested in education, health and jobs. instead of campaigning in favor of arming the population with guns, he thinks he can trick us with emergency aid, which will only last until december. also now, does allies justify the state of emergency sang? brazil's economy has been hit hard by the war in ukraine. since the start of the war, fuel prices have increased taxi and truck drivers will also receive government handouts

to fill up their tanks. yield of the items quite intern zones yet. it's more of a political emergency than an economic one that's an hour will increase the value and the number of handouts until his 1st term is over. then what? seen this form before and does not have a happy ending to the betty. during the pandemic, government handouts were also increased to $110.00. between march and august of 2020. the number of poor people declined dramatically from 65000000 to 42000000, helping both. so now as popularity. once emergency a stopped in january of 2021 poverty rate sort to day, 75000000 people in latin, america's largest economy, live in poverty, monica, and give all jazeera we're diginero. well, the speaker of the us house of representatives is expected to visit taiwan next month. they move that's been met with fierce criticism from china. nancy plays his

trip, would make her one of the highest ranking american officials to visit the self governing island in decades. beijing, his ward washington, that it will take full full measures if the visit goes ahead. she considers taiwan . it's offering terence. trace india has on dale to bring back the worlds fastest land animal bolden. 70 years after it was declared extinct. the baby is sending 8. cheaters to india now talks are also do with south africa to supply more of the big cats, the teachers will be taken to a wireless century in central india's kudos. national park. india used to be the home to ac attic cheaters, but the species was declared extinct in 1952. now it's thought the last 3 were killed in the 1900. forty's, laurie market is the executive director of the t to conservation fund and is one of the people working on the project. she says that cheaters will be re introduced to areas that already have other species of big cats present that she has been extinct

since the early 19 fifties. i have thought maybe a couple of stragglers were around, but that's the date that it was considered to be extinct. and why now i think since that extinction, the government has been looking at the possibilities of bringing the animal. ah, it bringing animals back from extinction is not an easy job and it takes a lot of international cooperation. i am working together with a variety of scientists as well to figure out the best way to go about this areas where the cheater will be re introduced her same areas but a bit where animals like roberts, tigers, mayans, are living. so the, the cheated also some area is living in the same way here in africa, although it doesn't have tigers. so it, it, it is not that much of a difference. where already the people in india are living with many of the large

reg father. and in is an interesting country because it's still a country that actually has a wild population still living with people. one, the people are and the animals have learned to live together. although these animals are going to be in national parks, these are wild animals that will be going into the wild to re establish a wild population within the country. ah, your children with me. so robin in doha, reminder of all top new stories. the worst president joe biden has tested positive for the crone of ours in a treaty, said that he's doing great and keeping busy. the white house says that he has mall symptoms including fatigue and a dry cough, and it's the 1st time the 79 year old has tested positive for the illness. all whitehouse correspond, kimberly elk it as well from washington dc.