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phillips who robin you are watching al jazeera life. my headquarters here in doha, also coming up the president of italy dissolves parliament. after the resignation of prime minister, mario talking more russian attacks and death in ukraine as moscow's foreign minister says. his forces aims have widened beyond the eastern region of dumbass and the e. u satellite monitoring service says fires of burnt as much land in europe this year. as in all of 2021. ah, welcome to the burger, we begin with breaking news coming out of the us, where the president joe biden has tested positive for corona virus. his symptoms are said to be mild, it's the 1st time the 79 year old has tested positive for the condition. our white house correspondent kimberly halgert is standing by for a sly than it seems. the president is tweeting now about his situation. yeah,

that's right. the u. s. president had been scheduled to travel to the us state of pennsylvania where he had been expected to talk about gun reform. and instead that was abruptly counselled after the president, during a routine covered 19 test. something that is done regularly for not just the president, but his staff, the president tested positive as a result. and in order to reassure the. 6 public that he is doing okay, the president tweeting that he is doing great. in fact, he says he is grateful for the concern that people have expressed about his condition. he showed a picture of himself working at his desk, the resolute desk that is known from the oval office. i actually in fact, it looks like he may be in the residence as i look at that picture a little bit more closely. and then he also sent his regrets for having to miss the event that he was planning to attend. now, the u. s. president is as said to be experiencing mild symptoms of coven 19. he was

last seen in public or a little more than 24 hours of or rather a little less than 24 hours ago when he was returning from another event in massachusetts. what we know about the president is that he currently is experiencing a runny nose fatigue and a dry cough, but otherwise is able to conduct all of the duties of president right now. he is working in isolation and is experiencing what we know to be mild symptoms according to his position. now we are expected to get a full update of the president's condition and the treatment we know he is already being treated with the anti viral drug notice packs low bid. this is something that has been given to a number of americans with a great success. we should also point out that the president is not the 1st american president is a contract coven 19. as you recall, his predecessor donald trump, also did contract covered 19,

did experience initially. mild symptoms later on did a have to go to walter reed medical symptoms. when the er walters medical center, when they'll simply became more severe. but we should point out the well, they are both similar in age. donald trump did have mitigating circumstances, namely that he was more heavy set, or somebody even say obese, which can be a complicating factor. now, in terms of the 1st lady, dr. joe biden, she has tested negative. she is continuing her schedule as normal. she was in the u . s. state of michigan earlier today. she finishes off her day in the us state of georgia and has not changed her schedule despite the fact that her husband, joe biden, to you as president, has contracted cove at 19. now we are waiting for an update again, we will be hearing from white house officials as well. 5 as the white house press secretary, that is set for 1800 gmc. can we help get that all white house correspondent?

thank you. kimberly. i said he's president says your mentor rella has dissolved parliament, triggering snap collections. and that stuff to prime minister matters. druggie resigned area on thursday. lucky will stay on as caretaker until the autumn elections had been scheduled next may, but are likely to be held in the coming months. druggie won a confidence in parliament on wednesday, but 3 political parties and his coalition government refused to participate. adam ready, jose me now from the italian capital, rome and adam italy. you might say, begins yet another cycle of government uncertainty indeed. and this one wasn't necessarily predicted by most people in february 2021. when mario that he took on the premier ship many here thought. finally, we might have a stable government to get us out of all these crisis, but 18 months then he just couldn't hold together. he didn't have perhaps the political skills or the cooperation of this diverse coalition to keep going any

further. there was all this political pressure building as the country got closer to what we're expected to be election in the spring of 2023. but the dam broke and he couldn't keep it back. so he finally tendered for the 2nd time of resignation. this one accepted after winning a confidence vote that really was meaningless. since most of the members of free, the members of the collision refused to take part. so we're about to see the political seats and just kick into high gear. here already of the political parties that were in coalition, naturally explaining why they did or didn't support drug at all. well, 2 of them, former prime minister, silvio berlusconi, sports italia party, and the right wing lego or li party said they weren't going to give a vote of confidence because druggie refused to push out a 5 star movement that i refused to really push out any party so they used that as

their relief raising on the surface for why they were pulling out their support. meanwhile, the 5 star movement, earlier and last week, confidence boat had said they weren't going to support the prime minister at that time and vote at least for them in that conference vote. because they couldn't vote for this huge new incinerator in rome, which cost millions and millions of euros because they said it was a recipe for corruption. so you have these different courses and the government giving different reasons why they weren't no longer willing to vote in the conference. but at the end of the day, it's because they see the political wins change and they knew the elections were coming and that their power would recede with every passing day, especially the 5 star movement which had won the most seats more seats than the other party in the last general elections, but they were losing people to defecting out of the party. also they were dropping in the polls. so just set the contact their leader in the senate and also the

former prime minister had no reason really to cooperate with premier money baggy and he just couldn't find a way to corral him in the end. i'm ready in my thanks very much. now the wildfires which have told through parts of europe in recent weeks have been an alarming reminder of the impact of climate change. and now the scale of the destruction is becoming clearer. the satellite monitoring services blazes have already scorch moorland this year. that was burned in the whole of 2021. that's around $517000.00 hector so far. it's fed, the record of 1000000 hacked has lost one fonts in 20. 17 will be broken by the end of the places have been seen in france. portugal, greece, as least, lavinia and now l. dania. but more than a 3rd of the devastation has been in spain, firefighters in spain say they're making progress in their battle to contain dozens of wildfires. but temperatures dipped on wednesday, but most of the country is not back on the land for a continuing heat. wave famous raphi has more from that a bras in

a villa 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 and authorities 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, see. and 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 wildfire season. this is considered a very close call. the town of sabrina rose is incredibly close to where 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. it 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 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 from 5 to europe. to flash floods in nigeria, at least 20 people have died in northern jiggle of states. more than 200 families sled, as the war levels rose, the flooding of submerged thousands of hector of farmland. schools reopened in

northeastern bangladesh and to the worst floods in a century, but many people are still waiting for 8 and don't have the money to rebuild their homes. the senate region is one of the hardest hit tundra chandry is there. many of the families returned home only to find their homes totally damage. it's upheld struggle. most have lost their life stalks. patty farms, pole trees. now we haven't gone across in different places the same story, but they're still happy to be at home. we actually received any kind of help from the government or aid agencies that said very little, some drive forward in the beginning and little bit of cash from the government. it's gonna be a very difficult uphill battle for these families to rebuild their homes as the lost everything. unless the government and agencies financially help them, it's a long road ahead for them. they have enough to go far away to get fresh water because there's no tubes out of sorts of fresh water. most wants to start their life, but they're helpless. they don't know how to do it because they don't have the money

to rebuild at home. fixed electrons or even build a water point somewhere to get fresh water. so without some kind of how life is still very difficult for those millions of people got affected by the flood in last month. well, still had here on al jazeera, a report criticizes the case responds to great numbers of migrants crossing the english channel in small boats and extreme drought in northern mexico. drawings, a worsening water crisis in the city of monterey ah, with so i will use the hot dry and dusty forecast. yeah, that does apply for the most part. look at least cloud in the south. again, this is still the edge effects of the monsoon flow which catches mom. so in slower,

i'm ticket very specific areas, drizzly and clarity most of the time. maybe that again, we also see showers pick up in yemen, the south side in the mountains, and that'll be the case. otherwise it's dry and of course it's hot with temperatures approaching or even exceeding 50 degrees in western iran. just down from the mountains and a good part of the rocky plane. there's a bit of an onshore breeze from the mediterranean, which to some degree cools down the coast, but it's actually quite humid at the moment in, for example, north in egypt and lebanon. does the forecasts change the next year? so well, you might seen q weights forecast go up to 50, the winds optically strong by the time we get to saturday. but they tried to strength a bit during sunday, across iraq to pick up the dust, a few showers, relieving the heat in some parts of iran. otherwise not much has changed, but just watch this. the rate in karachi, which may, may well come again across into our mom, but that is next week. so we'll come to that in due course. the shower that we're heavy in western canyon, ethiopia are dined down little bit. the focus is probably

a bit further west in central african republic. ah frank assessments, it sounds like you don't expect anything change their problem in lebanon is actually structural lebanon needs, and you track an order for it to solve this problem. informed opinions on the go with the government has knowledge in depth analysis of the data global headlines. this is going to be very hard to explain to the public. instead of pushing back, you know, it's actually a 2 man inside story on al jazeera lou . ah,

welcome back. you're watching. i'll just bear with me. so hell, rovner winder of all the top stories u. s. president joe biden has tested positive for the crowd of iris. the white house says he has mild symptoms including fatigue and to try cough. it's the 1st time the 79 year old is tested positive for the illness. italy's president sergio matter has dissolved parliament, triggering snap elections within 70 days. that's after the prime minister matters. roggette resigned earlier on thursday. now drunk, it will stay all last can't take a leader that the united nations i could have general antonia garage is expected to travel to turkey in the coming hours. un and turkish officials are trying to broker a deal with russia and ukraine to secure grain exports. by the black sea, let's get more of this more diplomatic headed to james bay's. he's live for us at the united nations. and james, it does seem that we're getting some traction on this great deal. could be very

important indeed a week ago, the un sake of general antonio guitarist was here in new york. he said that a deal was pretty close and he was pretty optimistic about the possibility of getting that deal. but he said there was still some final hurdles that they had to pass and he was prepared as he was about to go on and leave to break his holiday at any time to sign a deal in his damn bull. well, he's breaking that holiday. he's on his way, we understand in the next few hours from his holiday location to a stumble, is he going to sign a deal a deal that could mean that all of the grain that is trapped inside ukraine as 22000000 tons? that, that could be put back on the world markets, it could be transported through the back. see and then go to global markets and also on the other part of the deal, a russian grain and fertilizer which isn't covered by western sanctions as got

swept up in those sanctions. the u. n. would also push for that grain and 1st lies had to go back to global markets. this could go a long way to alleviating the global food crisis. while we're told that a deal is not quite there yet, the set could, a general believes it's very close and that's why he's making his way to is down bull, the deputy spokesperson for the secretary general. explaining to me what was at stake here. we've pointed out jeff, for many months, how serious the, the food prices around the world it, and this is a component, a large component of that at that crisis. so we can resolve this. we can potentially, i favor a 100000 potentially millions of people from having food be priced out of their reach. i said that is part of that if there is an agreement. but as the secretary general pointed out, a name for all the parties in these discussions, not just an agreement between the russian federation and ukraine,

but in agreement for the world. my understanding from officials is the situation is still somewhat fluid ahead of a possible deal. i understand that some sticking points have been solved in recent hours. that may well be at least one sticking point that needs to be resolved. but the 2nd general of the un clearly believes he now should be at the table and ready to take part in assigning the moment any last sticking point is resolved. so i think an important moment it could come to nothing even now they've been trying for weeks and weeks and weeks to get this deal through. but i think the un believes it's close to the never. and this, of course, could be a very significant deal with regard to ukraine. the most important moment of diplomacy since the start of war and go a long way to alleviating the global food crisis for the update. that's very much james base, our diplomatic editor at the us. at least 3 people are being killed and more than

20 others injured after rushing, shelling struck the ukrainians to do cave. local officials say a residential area was hit. alan fisher has more from the capital. the fighting continues in the south and in the east. now if we talk about khaki, which of course is very close to the russian border. even just in the last though, we've had reports of explosions in the time 2 major attacks there throughout the course of the day. local official save and 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 fine rockets, chaotically and brutally. i still the koreans will. they say they are 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 the ukrainians are focusing on the south hoping that the russians will move their attention away from the don bus region. now you remember that the don bass became the main military objective when the russians failed to keep the start of the war. and it's always been the intention to try and take over the entire dawn bus. who deals with crimson gun has been sworn in as rank as president, and he was elected by m. p. 's, despite widespread public protests. many sir lincoln say he's partly responsible for the current economic crisis. boston has war from colombo. it was a subdued celebration of parliament when the annual because i'm a single one in will serve until 2020 for the remainder of his freed this term. for most people outside the building, there's no reason to celebrate the lancaster and into

a nation waiting and cues. and hundreds of people are standing in line, trying to get a passport to leave the country. for a man who has been queuing for 2 days, he says he wants to escape the dire situation. he and his family are in them. my, my current job is very bad and the government has not increased the salary while prices are very high because of the expensive fuel. it is difficult for everyone now in sri lanka. and because of that, i have decided to leave the la channey you how much i taken care of his niece. i've been stuck in the queue at the immigration office for days. the uncle explains why they want to send her away once. i wouldn't lena we can't afford to buy nutritious food, only cheap digital. we have no money for beetroot academy. prices of these political changes are only a political game, not meant to solve people's problem. not hundreds of people have spent 2 nights sleeping and eating on the pavement. most of them want to find jobs in the middle

east. the innovation of, for, i mean, we kind of thing as not to stop them from leaving the country. they don't believe that anything will change anytime soon. this q here at the immigration office, it's the longest i've seen so far in the country. it shows that she had desperation . sri lankan are in the president's 1st promise was to bring all parties together to form a national government to tackle the economic crisis. baker was seen as them is not his expertise or his experience that he has a considerable amount. and i think he also has a reasonable amount of international with his problem is messed up. the political credibility of the new president has warned that protests us will be dealt with strongly. but the protest, so say we can missing, doesn't have a political mandate as he lost his seat in the last parliament reelections. if he fails to achieve political stability, analysts say sri lanka will sing deeper into crisis. it's only

a matter of time before people run out of money to buy even $1.00 meal. a day. steadfast and al jazeera colombo. an independent review has criticized the british government's handling of migrants who arrive in small boats, northern france. the report says the response by the home office has left people vulnerable and at risk, and it's been a sharp rise in the number of attempted crossings of the english channel by migrants and refugees in recent years. in 2018, 236 made the dangerous journey arriving on the case southern coast by last year that increased to more than 28 and a half 1000 board officials predict the number could be much higher this year in baba has will from london the details of the report by david neal, the chief immigration inspector, attention was focused on to government centers between in fact, december 2021 and january of this year. now he says, if we don't have a record of people coming into the country, we don't know who is threatened or who is threatening the detail was that

there were vulnerable people that they have a new cause of vulnerable people, including children and women on their own and when they arrived in dover, the way they were dealt with was unacceptable. he says that the home office has failed over the past 3 years to move from a crisis response to having better systems and procedures in place and treating this as business unusual. this is to do with things like facilities for them, interpreters and just systems in place, which are not, which are not simply crisis management and, and his report really says, but it's time that term, the u. k. government got serious about accepting that these arrivals are going to continue. the number of boats arrivals last year was around 28 and a half 1000 compared to 8 and a half 1000 in 2020. and of course,

late last year there was an incident in which $27.00 people drowned. so the government has been saying it's getting wants to get serious about tackling this problem. but this report is very embarrassing. at least one person has been killed in sit on and security forces crackdown on demonstrations cold calling for return to civilian rule. the man who died was that the protest of the on demand demonstrators are taken to the streets every week since the military seas, panama transitional civilian government. last october, trouble fighting incident to non state to force thousands of people from their homes. clashes between the bertie and how's the tribes have left more than a 100 people dead, and many more wounded. now the volatile security situation means 8 organizations have been unable to reach many displaced families. hipaa morgan has more from blue niles, capital m, as in for the past week. this has been saturday. mm hm. it's whole. she

left the machine into dan's blue now. spade when fighting broke out between the house and berta tribes. she and her children walked for hours to reach neighboring in our state of holland. we heard that there was fighting in parts of the blue nile between our tribe and other tribes, and we immediately fled. it took us more than 6 hours of walking to get here. and now we have nothing except what we were given by the host communities. i wonder what status is. one of thousands displayed by the unrest and one of the few to have settled with a host community. other families have found shelter in abandon schools. but thousands of families are displaced in blue now state itself. some haven't found any way to stay on are stuck outside in the middle of the rainy season. delivering a to those in need is no easy task. some areas are hard to access because of the violence. and while 8 organizations wait for security conditions to improve, people are becoming more and more desperate. many see they've lost everything and

signing them up either way, i don't, i escaped with nothing except the clothes i'm wearing. no one has come to see what our needs are. there are people with chronic diseases and children needing help. we need someone to come and provide us with assistance. the conflicts thought that when the house had tried to establish a tribal administration and laid claim to land, the berta and other tribes rejected the move and fighting broke out. more than a 100 people were killed. the government has imposed the curfew and band large gatherings into cities. but as long as tribal hostilities prefer getting help to the fishing dominated by his work as party to run in october, presidential election says the stage for the country's most polarized vote in decades. latest poles, port lula, 15 point, the head of the current, present joy and both and all right. the water crisis has reached critical levels and mexico's wealthiest city mental republic reports now from monterey residents having to ration water. extreme drought conditions in northern

mexico. this reservoir in the outskirts of monterey is almost entirely dry and many here worry the same, will happen to the local economy. remember if i were over another week of this, things would only worsen boats are now stranded a top the dry lake bed at lubbock a dan, it's been months since the region has seen any significant rainfall. experts have identified several factors that are contributing to the ongoing water crisis here in northern mexico. the most significant of which is a weather phenomenon known as la nina, which climate scientists say has been exacerbated by climate change leading to one of the worst droughts in the last 30 years. science is see la nina has disrupted regular weather patterns in northern mexico. this means that rains that were supposed to begin in may still haven't arrived. and there's no telling when they will environmental activists say that despite the drought bottling companies like

coca cola, heineken and others have continued large scale water extraction making the situation even worse. or if some of the rambo, when i get on chrome contracts, younger co muscles here, i've got, we're living at great contradiction in the city. we are a great deal to the big companies, but it's been at the cost of the well being of citizens. and that's the problem. we need to completely rethink the question of water usage. the water crisis in monterey, a city of more than 5000000 people has reached a critical point. many now rely almost entirely on public water tanks. for some they are the only source of water available. we'll discuss almost an hour. then we have no water, nothing comes out of the top and we have to carry it back.