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coming up in the next 60 minutes. president joe biden test positive cove at 19. the white house says he's experiencing miles symptoms. the president of italy dissolves parliament out of the resignation of prime minister mario de rocky and the e. u. satellite monitoring services, size of burns much land in europe this year. as in all of 2021. also more russian attacks and death in ukraine as moscow's foreign minister says. his forces ames have widened beyond the eastern region of dumbass. and in sports, the russian government, his back at the usa for the detention of basketball stopped for any griner last action from the route athletics championship flitting more gold medals own of ah welcome to the news are we begin in the united states where you as president joe

biden has tested positive for the corona virus. his symptoms are said to be mild. it's the 1st time the 79 year old has tested positive for the illness. our white house correspondent, kimberly hallett joyce. we now live from washington, d. c. and of course a kimberly the president himself has been tweeting now about the situation and about his condition. yes, that's right. the u. s. president releasing a photo of himself working at his desk. in fact, we understand that despite experiencing mild symptoms of coven 19, which include a dry cough fatigue and runny nose, the president tweeting, not just a photo, but also reassurance. folks, i'm doing great, and also sidney regrets for not being able to keep up his public schedule. the president was scheduled to travel to view a state of pennsylvania to talk about gun reform. that is not an appointment he was

able to keep, but it is one that he hopes to keep in the future. now the earth's president was last seen in public when he travelled to view a state of massachusetts. just about 24 hours ago. he seemed to be in good spirits in to, in good health, but as part of routine testing that occurs that has been going on for quite some time. the president was tested before traveling today, and it was them that he tested positive for covet 19. now it is important to note that the 1st lady, dr. joe biden, is continuing to travel herself. she tested negative for cove it and is traveling to the state of michigan, and then later she will be in the state of georgia. she says she is feeling fine. the vice president conway harris, also testing negative. but the president is already being treated for his condition . it is an anti viral drug, known as pax, livid. it is in fact a drug that has

a 90 percent effective rate in terms of keeping people out of the hospital. and this is important given the fact that the president is 79 years old in very good health. but at the same time, given the fact that he is advanced in age, this can be a factor that can make people more susceptible. in fact, to having a more severe case of coven my team. so we are awaiting a briefing that had been scheduled for the top of this hour, has now been delayed to quarter past the hour. it will be with the white house press secretary korean john pierre, as well. as the coven response coordinator, we are expecting an update on the president's condition. momentarily. again, the president testing positive for coven 19 appearing to be in good spirits, according to the white house. and again, we will be getting an update on his condition at that time. and kimberly, we will. of course, we can take all viewers to the scene where that press conference will take place

and of course we'll go straight back that and to kimberly small reaction once it begins. dr. david friedman is professor more artists of the infectious diseases at the university of alabama. in birmingham, he has more of the risks to joe biden, and the anti virus drug being used to treat him packs of bed is highly effective. it's certainly the antiviral 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 that. 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 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 united nations that could general antennae. gutierrez is expected to travel to turkey and coming out un on ticket specials are trying to broker a deal with russia and ukraine to secure grain exports by the black sea. are diplomatic added to james bass as more from the united nations that we could go the

u. n. sec gentle antonio terrace 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 leave to break his holiday at any time to sign a deal in istanbul. 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 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, russian grain and fertilizer, which isn't covered by western sanctions as got swept up in those sanctions. the un

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. 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 that only 3 people are being killed and more than 20 others injured after russian shillings struck the ukrainians that have co, keith official, say, a residential area was hit, alan fisher has more from the capitol, keith, the fighting continues in the south and in the east. no. if we talk about khaki, which of course is very close to the russian border, even just in the last her, we've heard reports of explosions in the tone to major attacks. there throughout the course of the day at local officials say that civilian ears were hit,

3 people were killed at least $21.00 injured of the $21.00 injured at least one was a small child at what the officials there are seeing is that the russians are essentially not targeting military targets, they're just trying to terrorize in their woods, the local community, seeing that they're fine rockets, chaotically and brutally as for the ukrainians. while they see they are making some success in the south of the country. the see the repelled a number of russian advances. they also see that the managed to target in a series of explosions, a number of russian ammunition dumps, though that's important because at the ukrainians are focusing on the south hoping that the russians will move their attention away from the don bass region. now you remember that the don bass became the main military object of when the russians feel sick here at the start of the war. and it's always been the intention to try and take over the entire door. bast, no rushes foreign minister says moscow's military goals in ukraine have widened

beyond the eastern region of dawn. thus, so your lover of toll state media, that forces would target the regions of caution. and so for each chapter, some little lost each go watch 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 ish. now the geography is different, this is not only the eleanor and the d, n r. this is also the curse and region and the sample regia region and a number of other territories. this process continues, you go and continues consistently and persistently. stephane wolf is a professor of in social security at the university of birmingham. he says, russia, the military ambitions cannot be underestimated. well, i think we need to take them very seriously, because this is not the 1st time that russia has made similar claims. and if we

remember about 3 months ago and was revealed the so called stage to go off, it's no special military operation as they call it, the war. and the aggression i would say here does actually included not only those 2 regions that profess, again, emphasize not as part of russia ration, but in fact, the entire legacy coast of ukraine stretching all the way to more so i think it's still very much on the washing agenda, and we need to take these claims very seriously. no. it's still quite capable on this. it's a low wage missile to hit targets for in the rest of the ukraine. potentially also threatening western supply lines into the country. so i think this is something that will continue to, to go on. think more attention needs to be paid to what is actually going on in the

ukraine. since the end of may has had some success with a count or offensive pushing russian troops further back that, you know, i think increases the threat to russia, including in crimea, because ukraine has no fall more ball and rest on weapon systems like high, mostly on. but that ever much longer range and can talk to russian military installations with much greater precision. plenty morehead, here on the on there. and these are including that me flood greek havoc in northern nigeria. displacing hundreds of families plus the world basses land. animal is expected to come back to india. after 70 is also thought we speak to tennessee and football fans as they prepared to support the team of the world cup in cattle. ah,

the wall files which have torn through parts of europe in recent weeks have been an alarming reminder of the impact of climate change and other scale. the destruction is becoming clearer. the ear satellite monitoring service says the blazes have already scorched moreland this year than was burned in the whole of 2021. that's 517000 heck has so far. it's feared the record of 1000000 hacked has lost wildfires in 2017 will be broken by the end of the places have been seen in france, portugal, greece, italy, sylvania, and now are bain. ya. but more than a 3rd of the devastation has been in spain. o desert, same the thriving is one of the worst areas in spain's avila province. as this report, according to at least one european environmental organisation. these are the worst wildfires this continent has seen in a century spain easily the worst effect country and where we are now and so bred us in a vila province this morning,

took the unfortunate mantle of being the worst effected part of the country so far . this wildfire season and you can see why when you come into this area we've driven through valleys and hills all completely charged by the wildfires that have been had that has been ongoing for days and that are still going forward. now the police are much more strict in this mountainous area. it is easy to get lost in these mountains and caught up in the ongoing fires. so there are roadblocks everywhere and they won't let us near any of the fires. but you can hear water bumming helicopters, go overhead, you can see them heading in directions of the fires and there is a thick smoke hanging over all of the countryside. i'm going to show you exactly what a fire here leaves behind. all we see is charred black land and burned the trees, but where the fire was stopped in its tracks. you can see a star contrast from the black and burn trees to the green foliage. really indicating how harsh these fires were and how quickly they came up. luckily, they were stopped. that would no doubt have come as

a relief to the people that live in these valleys. and just to give you a sense of how close a call this was for the people living here, the fire just stopped short of buildings down their homes and farms where people live and work very close to where these fires were in logistical terms for the firefighters this is exactly what a close call looks like, because if you pan just a little further veritable stones throw away from the fires, is the town of subarus. just moments really the fires that were here would have been moments from engulfing this town. and no doubt the work of the fire rescue teams at the time was dramatic and desperate to try to save the town. the headquarters for the regions firefighters is based there in superheroes. we've been down there and we've been told that they are still continuing to fight ongoing fires all across this area. the roads continue to be blocked and people there continue to be on high alert. from 5 europe to flash floods in nigeria,

at least 20 people died in northern jiggle all states. more than 200 families side as the water levels rise. now the flooding has submerged thousands of act as a farmland address, as is update from the nigerian capital a future. you hear about us changing weather patterns. for example, let's take for example, lagos. acosta state. in the nigeria. we spoke to official staff who said the weather putting there has changed dramatically. the rain this. yeah. it's taught it 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 have see if changing weather patterns, ups update 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 picks, 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 farmland 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, schools reopen to northeast and bangladesh off to the west floods in a century. many people are still waiting for aid and don't have the money to rebuild their homes. the seller to region is one of the hardest hit from what time they're chandry reports. many of the families returned home only to find their homes totally damage. it's uphill struggle. most have lost their life stalks. patty farms, pole trees. now we have 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 agencies. they said very little, some drive forward in the beginning and little bit of cash from the government. it's going to be a very difficult uphill battle for this families to rebuild their homes as the last everything, unless the government and aid agencies financially held them. it's a long road ahead for them. they've been asked 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 that helpless don't know how to do it because they don't have the money to rebuild at home. fix the electrons already been built of that water point somewhere to get fresh water. so without some kind of help, life is still very difficult for those millions of people got affected by the flood in last month, steam old while fast. i mean, your emergency cruising grease is capital on alert for the 1st of all places in surrounding forest as dry conditions and high temperatures persist dosage of

already has more from the capital. one of the last remaining forest overlooking the greek capital, custody annie towers, hundreds of meters, about nathan's, and his home to about 3000000 trees. and preventing them from going up in flames is the number one priority for firefighters. that's why the area is petrol. 24 hours a day during the wildfire season. you, gania, rem on do is one of those keeping watch here. she's a seasonal firefighter. during the rest of the year, she teaches high school with each passing year. her summer job is proving more of a challenge. this here is more difficult than last year because of her send her tour santana when it's difficult to stop the fire now to my prevention is so important and it's all hands on deck here. very well. i'm having a numbers scheduler route here, picking

a forest with my regards. i don't hear what we are watching out on the other mountains, but lily beneatha, we're going see some move somewhere in waco. come to inform our center or communication center for the other. gosh, i don't the other mothers and we are in all the time where sunlight the government has already spent more than $100000000.00 on prevention strategies along with training volunteers. there are $600.00 up to now in athens alone. clearing and maintenance of forest is another way to prevent lasers, but it's not just up to fire crews to keep the flames a bay. one veteran firefighter says residents should be helping when the temperature is high and the humidity's low. that helps the fire to grow up and to move very fast and people learn the symptoms kept understand that in such

a days when conditions are and the temperature is very high. as i said, you mean very low, they can stand products, begin not stopped. for example, a barbecue, no, a or they can not make a walks with with doors that can cause fire with the current threat level. at its 2nd highest tier, people are prohibited from venturing into forth a warning these firefighters are hoping residents will heat. this is the largest and oldest fire station in athens. home, 220 permanent crew members and 60 volunteers. they're all well aware of the risks they take fighting. the wildfires are greater every year, but they're determined to keep the flames as far away from the capital for as long as possible. sources safari al jazeera, often well water calling,

se says reach critical levels in mexico as well as the city, but will repel a report of monterey, where residents are having to rational 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 way over another week of this things will only worsen boats are now stranded a top the dry lake bed at lubbock at 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 linear, which climate scientists say has been exacerbated by climate change leading to one of the worst droughts in the last 30 years. scientists see linea has disrupted regular weather patterns in northern mexico. this means that rains that were

supposed to begin in may still have arrived. and there is no telling when they will environmental activists see 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 somebody, even though not get on current contracts younger, almost, we're living a great contradiction in the city. a great deal to the big companies, but it's been at the cost of the wellbeing 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. almost in our we have no water, nothing comes out of the top and we have to carry a back home for cooking cleaning and even the bathroom. we buy our drinking water

from the supermarket, mexico's president, his vow to continue to support efforts to supply water to various cities in northern mexico. but experts say the strategy is not sustainable. adding that the only real solution is rein. manuel up a little al jazeera monterey. let's take you straight over to the white house briefing room. well, as you can see though, quite a few correspondents standing ready and waiting for the press briefing on the us presidents coven status at the moment. a few minutes ago, president biden released this social media post. and folks guess you heard this morning. i took the positive her code, but i've been double vaccinated. double boosted symptoms are mild and, and i really appreciate your incredibly concerns, but i'm doing well get a lot of work done. going to continue to get it done. and in the meantime, thanks for your concern and keep the 3 b. okay. and as a journalist,

wait for the press briefing itself. of course i was a sure press briefing earlier in the day that was released let's, let's get more and that's my white house correspondent, can we get his also standing by? kimberly, we were expecting a briefing. we've now heard and seen the president. what more can you tell us about the situation? yeah, we are expecting that briefing to begin any moment. you can see the press secretary crossing in front of the podium. let's let her speak now. good afternoon, everybody. as you all know, i received a letter from the president's personal physician this morning. we released it to you shortly thereafter. in the interest of transparency, i have the letter here and i just want to read it through. so we can get started before we get started this morning as part of our routine screening program for the president. the stars covey to virus was detected by an to gen testing. this

result was subsequently confirmed by a p c. r, test. unquestioning president biden is currently experiencing mild symptoms, mostly a runny nose and fatigue, with an occasional dry cough which started yesterday evening. given that he meets usa food and drug administration, f d, a emergency use authority criteria for pat packs. ovid, i have recommended initiating, initiating such treatment the president is fully vaccinated and twice boosted. so i anticipate that he will respond favorably as most as most maximally protective . patients do early use of pack low, but in this case provide additional protection against severe disease. he will isolate in accordance with cdc recommendations,

i will keep your office updated with any changes in his condition or treatment plan . i also wanted to provide you with a brief read out of the president's activities. today the president has been working from the residents. like so many of us have during this pandemic doing calls with senior staff including the chief of staff myself. and doctor shaw was here with us as, as we read out, the president also called sen, casey representative cartwright, mayors of scranton, mayor of will, will look for 0 and representative cliburn. the president also called a few of his cousins from scranton who were set to attend today's event in pennsylvania. and he spoke with ambassador guarantee given steam and corn in. you all have seen the photo he posted on and the video that was just released to all of you out of transparency moments ago. the president will continue to work from the residence today, as you all know, as i just mentioned. and as we sent out earlier,

dr. a, she saw our coven 19 response coordinator is joining us today in the briefing room . and as i tweed it out earlier, dr. john, i spoke to the president this morning and he said he's feeling fine. he has a little dry, dry cough, as i just mentioned from the doctor's letter, a little wrote runny nose and he's feeling tired, but he's working very hard on behalf of the american people. and with that doctor, john grafton and everybody please to be with you. so as crane mentioned, i spoke to the president earlier, i also spoke at length with dr. o'connor, who is the president's personal physician. and i'm happy to share that read out of these conversations with you. and then i'm happy to take questions. terms of my conversation with the president. he sounded great. i asked him, you know, miss president, how are you feeling? he said, i'm feeling fine. he said he was,

he was feeling fine. he'd been working all morning. he hadn't even been able to finish his breakfast because he had just been busy. i encourage him to finish his breakfast in terms of my conversation, doctor connor, we talked at length about what happened this morning. as chris mentioned, the president got his regular testing that he does on on, on his regular cadence. after he tested positive, he reported the symptoms that have been described. doctor connor examined him thoroughly found his exam to be normal to be at his baseline and, and then obviously he recommended that the president take part of it. the president accepted that recommendation and started packs of it. and 2nd, his 1st course already. i want to also just take a minute to sort of mark this moment because the president is fully vaccinated, double boosted his risk of serious illness,

is dramatically lower. he's also getting treated with a very powerful anti viral. and that further reduces his risk of serious films. and as a reminder of the reason that we all work so hard to make sure that every american has the same level of protection that the president has, that every american has the same level of immunity. and why we have worked so hard to make sure that people have access to life saving treatments like tracks. these are incredibly important things for the president to have the incredibly important things for every american. and we have worked very hard over the last 18 months to make sure we have plenty of vaccines that we have plenty of therapies that people can get tested on a regular basis as the president does. because testing allows you to identify infection early and get started with treatment early. and we all know from medicine,

that early treatment is always better. let me also take a moment to talk about the 5 of you. listen to me at all. in the last couple of weeks, you heard me talk a lot about this sub period of oma crime, that is now 7080 percent of all infections united states. it's a reminder to everyone. if you are over 50, the way i am way many of you might be if you are over the age of 50 and if you've not gotten a vaccine shot in the year 2020, do need to go get what need to go. get one now because it will dramatically improve your protect level of protection, reduce your risk of having serious illness. the best thing that people can be doing . let me just finish by saying, obviously we work hard to protect the president. make sure he's that he's been fascinated and boosted as access to treatments. we also have been working very, very hard to make sure every american has access to the same things. because every

american deserves access to the best vaccines, the best best treatments. and they are widely available, and i want to use this moment to remind everybody of that and to remind everybody to avail themselves about get vaccinated. if you have a breakthrough infection, get treated the best you can do to protect yourself. let me stop and take questions and you will take questions. go ahead. yes. the president has been tested to determine which variance is it 5. and if so, what does that say about his problem? great question. the virus has been sent off or sequencing. it takes usually about a week for that sequence to come back. that's under normal circumstances. he's the president, the sequencing will get prioritized. so we should have an answer sooner than that. but you can't just tell from a regular test what kind of variance. so the sequencing results will be back at some point less than a week from now. and as the president had to hold any of his regular medications, now that he's taking past love it and what are you doing to mitigate the risks from

halting meditation? yeah, so this is a, i had a conversation with about this with doctor conner there to medicine. he's on eloquence and quest or less following medicine and a blood center for his atrial fibrillation, both of which need to be stop when you take packs of it. it's a very standard common thing that we do when we get people part of it and you don't need to do anything in those circumstances. they both gets off of the 5 days that he's on parts of it and they get restarted, and it's totally fine. and pretty normal practice where where was he in fact that i don't think we know. i certainly don't know if you have any like look at it. i don't think that that matters, right. i think what matters is we prepared for this moment. i think what matters is when i talk to john, just laid out. if we look at where we were, we're a year and a half ago, this is a president when he walked in. one of his 1st priorities was to make sure we had a comprehensive plan to get people vaccinated. and so now today's look,

look to today, more and more people are getting closer to having a more normal life. vaccines are available, as dr. shah said, if you have not gone vaccinated, please do if you have not. if you're, if you have not gotten boosted, please do these are, these are treatments that are going to keep you safe. and i think that's what matters here is making sure that we continue to do the work. and the good thing is that the present, again, has been vaccinated and double boosted good. we know that rebound cases have been a concern. and some individuals who take talk a little bit, are there any precaution you can take to try and prevent that and how concerned that could potentially hinder his return to the great question. so let me tell you what we know about rebound. so we've looked at the clinical data on this because if you, if you look at twitter, think the feels like everybody has read about. but it turns out is actually

clinical data. if you look at major health systems that have given up parts of it to tens of thousands of people, rebound rates are around 5 percent. the some studies says maybe 70 percent on the face to present, but in the single digits. so it happens. it's not that frequent, but here's the key point about rebound, which is when people have rebound, they don't end up in the hospital, they don't end up particularly sick. and the goal of tax of it is to keep people from getting seriously. and so it continues to work, you know, his physician is in charge of taking care of them. um, obviously the president will, can be monitored as he is. but the parts of it is working really well at preventing service on this rebound or no rebound. and that's why he was offered it and that's why the president took it, which is the symptoms of the president has had so far runny nose fatigue. dr. call . what are other symptoms? are you looking out for this point? this is the beginning of this warrant hospitalization. so right now he feels really well our expectations are gonna continue to have mild illness and he can be

monitored for symptoms. i mean, you ask them every day i ask them like, how was he feeling as you having any other symptoms? he's not, i think we're continue monitoring that and, and i don't like, i think that that is the plan right now is that he's going to get there the way he would me ask you that way you would have the person who's the president's. obviously he gets extra attention, but i don't think we have any expectations of any other symptoms that you have. the white top briefing room, of course, as dr. jones and korean sean pierre, the senior press. secretary take journalist questions on the condition of the us president. let's bring in our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit and really, kimberly, it was a verbal you might say a repeat of what, you know, the, the, the press documents that i've got in my hand. but a confirmation really, that the president's doing well. and the reaffirmation that get vaccinated

everybody's available to get the vaccine anywhere in the us. that's right, and i think the reason is because there is an uptick of cases in the united states . you heard there the copay response coordinator, dr. shaw, talking about how sequencing is still being done. it's not clear whether or not the president has contracted the highly contagious sub variant of alma crohn. but that is something that is being investigated now. but certainly, that is responsible for about 78 percent of cases in the united states right now. and what is now being described as a summer wave of coven 19 cases. so there is certainly concern that the president may have this highly contagious of variant. and as a result, there is this renewed push to see that americans, particularly those 50 and older that they are getting vaccinated or getting boosted

if they have had their double vaccination course of in the united states. this would be the pfizer vaccine, or also one of the other recommended vaccines by the centers for disease control. now we should point out that well, there has been a great effort to reassure the american public that the president is feeling fine, including the release of a photograph and a video by the president. we should also point out that the 1st lady who, of course had proximity to the president, and also the vice president cobbler harris, are also and not only $55.00, but are testing negative for coven 19, and are continuing to proceed with their regular schedules of work. in fact, the 1st lady was travelling to michigan and then to the state of georgia and for her part couple of harris, the vice president is continuing her regular duties as well. in fact, given the fact that the president is continuing to operate at the executive level,

working at the white house residence behind b, i in fact, there is no plan to transfer an executive powers to the vice president this time, given the fact that joe biden is fully capable of doing all of his functions as president at this time. so there is an effort to reassure the american public, but also to really underscore that at this time right now, the president is experiencing about symptoms at the white house physician. they're explaining that is because he has been fully vaccinated and boosted thanks for the that can be helped get the all white house correspondent. now italy's presence a gym at her ela has dissolved parliament, triggering snap elections nuts after prime minister mighty rocky resigned earlier on thursday. dog a will stay on as caretaker, leader until the autumn elections had been central for next may, but allow me to be held in the coming months. druggie when a confidence sites in parliament. on wednesday, the 3 political parties and his coalition government refused to participate. adam

righty has more on this from rome. and february 2021 when mario druggie 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 and 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 were expected to be elections 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 3, the members of this coalition refused to take part. so we're about to see the political seat and just kick into high gear. your balance, tony. course italia party and the right wing leg or lead party said they weren't gonna give a vote of confidence because druggie refused to push out the 5 star movement that i

can refuse to really push out any party. so they use that as, or at least reasoning on the surface for why they were pulling out of their support . the 5 star movement earlier and last week's confidence had said they weren't going to support the prime minister at that time and vote at least for him in that conference. 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 these conference folks. but at the end of the day, it's because they see the political winds change and they knew the elections were coming. petty agnew is the room correspondent for the irish, the sunday independent. he's that enjoys be now live good talking with us on the program. why is italian politics so fractured and polarized? i mean, why hasn't the country been able to find the political path that everybody can be

happy with is $64000000.00 question. i mean, is this, the government crisis has been incomprehensible from start to finish or attendance and they've seen, you know, 67 governments and the last 75 years, a spiky one every year. and they, in this situation it's, it's especially incomprehensible because mr. di enjoys a 60 percent approval rating in italy. you have a tire pattern this week out on the street calling on him to stay in office. b. rather you might have a dallas, you track down the road and see wanting you to resign. but in this case, or calling on stay in office at 1500 city in mer to stop on calling on to say you have people like a colleague, spanish prime minister social's that the sanchez saying that drug is exactly the

sort of leader that your needs at the at the moment and all of that is because he's done a very good job since he took over the entire, over in february of last year in was 18 months. he 18, very difficult on. so it's hard to, you know, deal with college crisis, with the white follow the russia ukraine war with calvin inflation. and he was on point, if he has managed to montana a government has been very stable country has he's been able to study be able to handle all of those sorts of international issues. very clear, very clearly. a great professionalism yet. he hasn't been able to win over his own . you might say domestic political, a colleagues in different political parties. they don't see him as the man they

want and they have actually undermined him. have they not? because this is where, where we are right now, is that without that, so you know, he hasn't been able to lead the italian government no of the point of my drug is he's not a politician. he's from outside politics, as we are, the former governor of european central bank. and as such, he doesn't have his own party and it's been so successful to serve in recent conduct to certain countries. overshadowed names, the main political players in the land. and they've been getting a bit fed up with, i would think and was now from this as, as, as you might as your, my colleague mentioned his report earlier on, you know, 3 of the major components of his national coalition. for the far right for the dahlia pottery, mr. said the bar is going to the t. v. meet a party under the lego the year. normally they all pull the

plug on the overnight, but they hit that because we were jew elections you say are on next. may the going to be know the end of september. and they said, decided that short term electro again, was want to more important than a arguably more thing with mr. or, or see what happens in the coming days party agnew. thanks so much for joining us. out of there has spoken to several, st cleaners in somalia. who say they've had one of the dangerous jobs in the country now dozens of been killed by improvised explosive devices in and around the capital laga tissue. these molly government blames al qaeda link groups for the deaths. not many of the workers, all women who lost their husbands drink. molly's 30 wool. joining me from nairobi in kenya is that old yet. on his mercy calls country director for somebody could

talk with us on the program. how much of this is about undiscovered ordinance, and how much of this is about it being a planned operation and that the street cleaners have just fallen foul of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. thank you for having me. i mean and be serious. it could have ration in the country, however, then the women in somalia is good to situation. the 1st great catastrophic situation. the current balance is 15, so that population of the so many people of a 7100000 people have been affected by the committee, over 800000 people to displace to up. and just my go to, to be maybe more than half of that a women and the younger children. and because of the loss of livelihood, because of the loss of what the, you know,

and would be normally at like $1.00 to $2.00. i said food, the end up doing any job and many other jobs. and unfortunately, sometimes my also come to doing add cleaning jobs in drugs in people's households. indians fall disconnected and expose them community, well, sort of life changing injuries, all these individuals experiencing and how is that impacting of you say, on the money earning ability definitely. yeah, i mean we don't have a number of flat the number of things. i mean, however, what we know, and these are limited to health facilities in the country and agencies that doing their best to support the health except the government is doing the best to support the health. but however, in india to live a small, you know, at tend to do really pick most women women from the back of the somebody community,

the, the bread winner, the educated, they look at the family that they care. so any injury in, in, in, in this to really affect the population benny very much. you say that the government is aware of the issue. but what are they actually done in practical terms obviously that you come into and you just being sworn in. there's a lot of problems at somalia has to deal with at the moment, but they made any sort of murmurings towards the fact that they understand the problem that these women from poll classes and paul societies have to go through. yeah, we have seen this because so many government is really trying to bit, i mean, and we are very helpful government and also continue in the same speed and really focus we have seen the government ministry now at trying to push the support the women through specific get into action. i mean, you're working closely with the government,

the local administration with other commit. sure women are priority. as i said earlier, you know, the climate change is in the medical issues that out all these really affecting women, women are coming to become and many of these women, the young mothers and they have no skills, the avenue education and all of the you know, sustaining their livelihood, their life through the leg would be an agriculture. but when they end up in these places, they need to be supported in training, you need to be supported. i'll tell people i've been and the government really has been very helpful over the last few years and we expect the government to continue the same spirit, which is what happened. so john and i wrote b, thanks for joining us. thank you. thank you. my india has signed a dale to bring back the worlds fastest land and more than 70 years after they were declared extinct. libya is sending

a cheaters to india talks also endway with south africa to supply more of the big cats. the cheaters will be taken to a wireless st. trees in central india's couldn't national park. and india it used to be the home to easy attic cheaters, but the species was declared extinct in 1950 to insult. the last 3 were killed in the 1940s laurie market is executive director of the cheater conservation fund. and there's one of the people working on the project now. she says the cheaters will be re introduced to areas that already have other species of big cats present that she didn't sped extinct since the early 19 fifties on. i had 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 that ah, is 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. the areas where the chita will be re introduced her same areas that have been where animals like leopards tigers, lions are living. and so the of the cheetah also some area is living in the same way here in africa, although it doesn't have tigers. so it, it is, is not that much of a difference in where already the people in india are living with many of the large reg fonda. and in is an interesting country because it's still a country that actually has a, a wild populations to 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 type footnote. his gemma,

thank you for how the russian government has hit back at the biden administration, for characterizing the jailing of basketball stop or brian as wrongful detention saying it shows a disrespect for russian law the to time going to pick champion has been held since february after being arrested at moscow airport when kind of just oil was found in her luggage earlier this month growing to acknowledge the possession of the band substance set. she had no intention to break the law. she faces up to 10 years in prison. if convicted a tron is set to resume on tuesday, we didn't do much. no, but we see this as yet another attempt to present a case as if to us citizens who are being held him. cassidy, on a territory of russia, where detained, unreasonably, has to come almost victims of fire from russian authorities. washington are apparently trying to exert political pressure in moscow. this tactic won't work and grind. i received plenty of support after the award tonight and los angeles from some of the biggest names in sports. she's one of us,

the team of athletes in this room and, and all over the world. a team that has nothing to do with politics or global conflict. every time we see b g face like negative saying every time we say her name, every time it's on social media, every time we say to interviews, it puts pressure on everybody puts pressure on the administration and puts pressure on russia. prep her on. it puts pressure on everyone and let's be g know also above everything that we love her and that we miss her. and we are a law professor michael mccann from the university of new hampshire. about how the grind situation might finish up. i think ultimately shall return home as part of a prisoner exchange. it sounds like the u. s. government's interested in doing that . it sounds like the russian government is interested in that sort of transaction. so most likely she will return home. but i think the key question is, how long will she be behind bars? is this a matter of weeks, months, years, obviously, with all hope. it's the

a matter of days or weeks, but it does take a while. it c m's for these exchanges to take place at the out athletics championships in oregon there was tim old gold medals, a championship record and disappointment. for one of the world's most famous athletes. david stakes rounds up, the action will go metals up for grabs on day 6, in oregon, including in the women's 3000 meters steeplechase. nor your roots are made her way to the front of the pack straight away. and that's where she finished the 26 year old used to compete for kenya. but earlier the sheer church to rice, because extern instead. she took the wind by some distance to claim her 1st major title. and the 1st ever because it's done in this event, she did it in a new championship, reco time and took a well and dick to cool down out on track. so is this anthony?

did i get somebody like me to sell anything? yeah, the gold medal on wednesday came in the women's discus, china's thing been taking the wind with a throw of 69.12 meters is china's 2nd gold medal at these championships. oh casey. yep. is, are you, i'm very pleased and honored this minute that want to get even better. my next goal is chic. so pa, 70 me tells us 3 time will champion, cast a cement yet will not be adding to her go metal tally the south african fail to get out of the hates in the when starts 1000 meters, somalia is bought from competing in her best event. the 800 meters, because of rules that demand, she take home and reducing drugs to enter certain races. mixed up on thursday. the sprinters would again take center stage in the finals of the 200 meters, including the much anticipated battle between americans. no eliles. and every

enlighten babied stokes al jazeera, the men's atp tennis toys cancel all of its events in china this year because of the country strict cove at 19 restrictions. this includes the shanghai masters and 3 other tournaments is the 3rd year in a row that the china's swing of the season has been scrapped. the women's toe has also, i suspended events in the country while it looks the resolution to the punch. why case? the doubles plat retracted her allegation that she'd been sexually assaulted by a chinese government official, but the w t. i want a full investigation in gulf. the 4th women's major of the is underway in france. the area championship japan's i aca hooray leads off to the 1st round. she made 9 buddies, and just the one baggy to finish 8 on the box. when keith rose, good, nellie caught as one shot behind who to raise. she had to get her feet wet on the 18th. ho to play this from the lake was worth it though she managed to save ha! she's alongside at canada's brook henderson, who eagles have fido haul to also finish up in 7 under liberty

formula. one is in france this week with ferrari looking for the 3rd when in a row to close the gap on championship lead at max. the steppin, the red bull drive at leads the soundings by 38 points ahead of this money at charlotte, who one last time out in austria. high temperatures are expected at the circuit in the south of france, with the stop and expecting the wallet to take his toe. i think the previous years have been quite good around here. but you know, that is not a guarantee anymore because of the new cars and the regulations they, they completely, i basically change everything and yeah, i'm still looking forward to it. i'm also looking forward to see how the tires are going to hang on in this iep, which i mean is organ even if you go to a run, right? i mean, it's a lot harder on yourself already. so imagine the tires, the car, the engine, everything. it will be a tough one. i really don't. what to expect is we can, we have things that we're trying to do it with constraints, kind of making changes to the car and the arrow forces and everything or that. so

the era surfaces. so i'm hoping that we discover something this weekend and helps us creep a little bit further forward. so that's why you spoke now i'll be back a little bit later with action it from the wins that european championship. thanks . jemma. let's take you to our website where the top story there is or how the gas applies on the wall street one had been resumed after maintenance from russia, and you have been watching the al jazeera news. marian was, we'll have more news while london broadcast center. but to learn from jemma and me as your time and your company, ah ah ah

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