Skip to main content

tv   News  Al Jazeera  July 22, 2022 1:00am-1:31am AST

1:00 am
ah, through the eyes of those who are losing hope, every day o dreams are becoming blue. democracy maybe democracy for sale on al jazeera. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter why you call home al jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter. t al jazeera ah shall. and can security forces storm the main protest camp in colombo, off to present renelle where chrome is single warned, he would crack down on the movement that topple his predecessor.
1:01 am
oh, hello, i'm mary. i'm no mozy in london. you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. u. s. president joe biden contract coven! 19. he is experiencing miles symptoms and continues to work in isolation. a snap election tre. get an attorney, the president dissolves parliament after the prime minister, resigns. and the land dispute spawns violence between 2 tribes in saddam's blue nile state. dozens of families have been displaced. ah well top story, this hour is in, shall anchors, security forces there have re, did the main anti government protest camping colombo, dismantling tense and barricades protested. have been camped at the presidential
1:02 am
secretariat since they stormed the facility earlier this month. activated plan to vacate the area by friday afternoon, after a cabinet was sworn in by new president, ronald with chromos singer bought what chromos singer had warned. he would cry down on the protest that toppled his predecessor, describing them as unlawful. and l fernandez brings us more now from colombo. there have been at least 2 or 3 of the sort of female protest leaders that have been arrested. there was a lawyer called the boop again, it's what i'm hitting, who was arrested. he had shown them he's identification, but they had not taken any notice of that. they had taken him in another senior protest. so these are really obviously heavily armed with dr. gear weapons body, and one wonders why you had to be done at 1 o'clock in the morning. was early ronald,
1:03 am
what chris recommend, single, was sworn in as rank as president. he was elected by m. p. 's, despite widespread public protest algebra. step foss reports on this now in columbia. it was a subdued celebration of parliament when i knew we could. i'm a single one in surf until 2020 for the remainder of his freedom term. for most people outside the building, there's no reason to celebrate. c, 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
1:04 am
now into lanka. and because of that, i have decided to leave the la channey johan, that are taking care of his niece. they've been stuck in the queue at the immigration office for days. the uncle explains why they want to center away once i would. we can't afford to buy nutritious food, only cheap digital. we have no money for be true, accounted 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 her, 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 is the longest i've seen so far in the country. it shows that she a desperation 3 lumpkins 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 seeing this problem
1:05 am
is not his expertise or his experience that he has a considerable amount. and i think he also has a reasonable amount of international will. is problem is domestic. the political credibility is the new process has warned that protests us will be dealt with strongly, but the protest, so say become a sing doesn't have a political mandate as he lost his seat young the last by lament reelection if he fails to achieve political stability. analysts say lanka will sing deeper into crisis. it's only a matter of time before people run out of money to buy even one meal a day. steadfast al jazeera, colombo. ah, us president joe biden is tested positive for cove. it is new variance of the crone of ours, bring fresh challenges to his administration's efforts to get the country back on
1:06 am
track. the white house says biden is experiencing very mild symptoms, has been put on anti viral drugs. the 1st time, the 79 year old is tested positive for the disease, biden is fully vaccinated and had a 2nd boost shot in march. well, the president has taken the twitter to say that he's doing well and continued to work while an isolation. hey folks, guess you heard this word and testifies are code i've been double vaccinated. double boosted symptoms are miles and i really appreciate your incorrectly concerns . but i'm doing well, you know, 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. now white house correspondent, kimberly alcott has more now. well, we learned that the president is experiencing mild symptoms of covey night team. those include a runny nose, a cough, but he does not have
1:07 am
a fever. he does not have any brain fog. many of the symptoms that people with more severe cases of coven 19 might experience, and there have been very close concern and man watchful eye is about the president, given the fact that he is 79 years old. this could often be cause for grave illness or lead to grave illness. in the case of many americans are those who around the world experience covered 19. but the prognosis according to the president doctor, is that given the fact that he has been dead not only vaccinated twice, it also boosted twice most recently march 30th that he is expected to fully recover and is only experiencing mild symptoms. he is, as he released a video, he also released a photo on twitter of him working inside the white house residence a. continuing to do all of his executive duties, there is no plan to transfer the executive powers to the vice president, comma,
1:08 am
la harris. she has tested negative we should point out, as has his wife, doctor jill bite in the president's wife. she is also continuing her 1st lady duties. she travelled to michigan and then to the state of georgia. the president, though he did have to cancel his plans. he was scheduled to travel to pennsylvania and he will be working in isolation according to the orders of his physician, as he continues to receive a course of the anti viral drug paxil bed. that is said to be somewhat effective. in fact, 90 percent effective in terms of making sure that the disease does not progress any further. now the wildfires tearing through europe wrong course to may 2020 to a record you air for forest loss. this year's fires in france, spain and portugal have already been more than 5000 square kilometers at moreland. more than all of last year, firefighters also battling blazes in italy in greece,
1:09 am
when 8300 the saudis, quite kilometers of land have been lost, and fire also breaking out in more places. for example, here in the u. k. way temperatures shot records last week, a relatively high to hundreds, quite kilometers of bund. since january, the united nation says the earth is currently on track to warm by 2.7 degrees celsius. this century. that's enough to make heat waves and 5 seasons last even longer or spain is the european country that's been hit hardest by wildfires. this season, algae, there is a bus rami reports now from february ross west of the spanish capital madrid. according to at least one european environmental organisation, these are the worst wildfires this continent has seen in a century spain, easily the worst effected country and where we are now. and sir, bred us in a vila province this morning, took the unfortunate mantle of being the worst effected part of the country so far
1:10 am
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 the 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 bombing 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 burn 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 hard 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
1:11 am
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 subarus. 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. italy will hold a snap channel election on the 25th of september. of the government collapsed in
1:12 am
prime minister my a druggie resigned. it's another destabilizing blows of the years. and 3rd largest economy amid inflationary pressures and rushes war in ukraine. item rainy reports now from ron italy's president sandra method, ella, announcing a 70 day timeline for early elections. clearly a decision he did not want to take, nor shirley went on to ship out of that parliament. so the early his own of parliament is always a last resort, but sickly. ethical as it is the case in this period. the parliament has many important tasks to complete in the interests of our country. but the developments in the political situation have led to this decision. his announcement came hours after medea draggy stepped down on thursday, the prime minister made his last statement in parliament before tendering his resignation. jerbill thank. busy inquiry monkey, which is that even central bank, his heart, so touched,
1:13 am
sometimes. thank you for this. and thanks for all the work we have done together during this time alone, draggy, let a government for less than 18 months. many leaders across europe, som as a steady hand to pull italy in maybe even the whole continent out of the pandemic. he helped steer billions of dollars of recovery funds to italy, the largest recipient in the euro zone, and was a leading voice and europe support of ukraine against russia. but in the end, this central banker couldn't wrangle the diverse group of parties in his coalition . each with its own priorities, he couldn't tame the populace because populace the 5 star moves splintered nerve civil war. we couldn't jane the other populace. the gallagher look on the right wing. and because there's plenty so lose a rate of pay off right now underway. while some are lamenting the government's collapse, one party is thrilled the far right wing. brothers of italy currently leading in
1:14 am
the polls looks likely to win more seats than any other skeptical of brussels and e u policies. it's not clear, it will be able to manage relationships with other e u leaders as well as the doggy and some worry a could even put further e recovery fund else at risk that a marine al jazeera roll. so for you on the program, go to tell you about the diplomatic deal that could ease a global food crisis. also fluttering to extinction, one of the world's most iconic species is put on the endangered list. ah hello there. we've seen some really wild weather effect. new zealand, but over the weekend we are going to see things start to settle down. before we get there, let's have
1:15 am
a look at australia and we've got another cold front that's going to sweep into the west. behind this one that's pulling no showers and storms over the bike is going to get pretty wet for places like melbourne in victoria on saturday. and you can see that a line of rain stretching into perth. gonna knock temperature down slightly, but bring some wet weather. if we have a look at the 3 days, suddenly isolated showers by sunday, now, temperatures are going to in the up on the east coast for places like brisbin as that weapon. wendy system pulls its way further east. it's certainly looking more settled here and up in the north now as you hop across the tasman to new zealand, look at that. it is an improving picture not just for the south island, but up in the north. a few showers here and there, but plenty in the way of sunshine. the temperature in oakland, certainly picking up as we go into the weekend saturday and sunday now was moved to southeast asia. it's certainly looking west of for me and mar and thailand. thanks to those monsoon rains, very heavy falls expected here. we're also going to see some more fear
1:16 am
thunderstorms affect northern areas of the philippines. ah. in cambodia, thousands of people owing slaved, forced to carry out fraud either to polish investigation, one or one east explosives, those behind the site. the scans built on slavery on al jazeera. ah, i agree, old jesse with lou ah,
1:17 am
ah, hello, welcome back. a look at the main stories now in shoreline coast security forces of rated the main anti government protest camp in the capital, colombo, dismantling tense and barricades. is comes off to president ronald wicker miss single early. a warned that he would cry down on the protests that toppled his predecessor, describing them as unlawful in the you. as president joe biden has tested positive for coverage. the white house as bide me, is experiencing very mild symptoms on has been put on antiviral drugs. the 1st time 79 year old has tested positive for the disease and actually will hold elections in september following the resignation of 5 minutes to mario druggie. his government collapsed on wednesday off to 3 coalition. bond is refused to support him in confidence fires. now and i was stories of following. there are dozens of families
1:18 am
fleeing to dogs, blue nile stay where tribal crashes have killed at least a $105.00 people this month. around the 150 others have been wounded to the sea, berta and how's the tribes started fighting over a land dispute. this week. protest over the vines have been held in several towns and cities including in the capital har tomb. analysts say last year's crew created a security vacuum sparking a resurgence in conflict over land, livestock, and water pro democracy demonstrators of also accused the downs military rulers and former rebel leaders of deliberately exacerbating ethnic tensions in blue nile state for personal gain. report suggests, how's a celebrated their independence is an amorous in january and then demanded to be part of the local administration. that angered all the tribes, some of them view the house as outsiders. they will also accused of being allied with saddam's, former dictator, amorro beacham, a land dispute between the houses and berta like to clashes earlier this month.
1:19 am
observe is now fear that the conflicts will spill over into ethiopia in a region where the government is building africa, the largest dam algae, there is hipaa. morgan reports now from dummies in, in blue nile state. for the past week this has been sad mohammad hall, 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. last night 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 . satta is one of thousands displaced by the unrest and one of the few to have settled with a host community. other families have found shelter in abandoned schools in sin. but thousands of families are displaced in blue now state itself. some haven't
1:20 am
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 aid organizations wait for security conditions to improve, people are becoming more and more desperate. many see they've lost everything. that's at the moment. i don't, 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 those who need it will remain a challenge. people, morgan august 0, them i seen in blue, and i'll say at least 20 people have died in flash flooding in my cherries,
1:21 am
northern chick, our state, over 200 families have been forced from their homes because of rising water levels . flooding has also submerged farmland forecast is our warning of move flooding with the rainy season set to peak in the coming weeks. iraq has declared a day of morning for the 8 people killed in a rocket strike and the samuel economists kurdish region on wednesday. it's blaming turkey for the attack. a claim anchor a denies, are tested of health, riley's in several cities calling on the government to end diplomatic times with turkey. mom would have the wide reports on this now from baghdad. funerals for the victims of when is days artillery attack in the semi autonomous kurdish region, women and children are among the victims. when a multiple rocket hit a tourist result in czar ho, the foreign minister has described the assault as a tragedy. like letty,
1:22 am
the information that we received is that there was a bombing of this safe juris site artillery. and this comp beautiful tourist village was hit. iraq says turkish forces are responsible and has some of it's targeted, fearing unquote up for consultation. it has also halted procedures to appoint a new ambassador. anger protestors had tried to storm the turkish conflict in bagdad as well as visa officers in karbala and basra. nobody been hooking it up with a recall on the government to close the turkish embassy to spend all tours with turkey . a rock must have the right to take legal and military action on bobby turkey's foreign ministry has denied responsibility. suggesting the attack was an act of terrorism. the government has opened an investigation into the incident, but these protested as want turkey to switch its military operations away from iraq
1:23 am
. turkish forces regularly carry out airstrikes in the region, targeting members of the kurdistan workers party or p k. k, which it classifies as a terror group anchor. i says, it's willing to cooperate with baghdad to canon. as soon as the news broke, we liaised with of elephant institutions and shared information. according to the information we received from the turkish armed forces, we did not carry out any attack against civilians. we believe the p. k. k terrorist organization is responsible. the india is only a few kilometers from the turkish border. it has been declared military soon since the attack iraq wants to approach the end security council saying it's a violation of it's a sovereignty and threat to national security. turkey is waiting for the investigation to conclude the victims,
1:24 am
families waiting for justice. moved up, do i have a jersey or at least 3 people have died? 23 more being treated in hospital of the russian shelling at the ukrainian city of har keys. according to crying officials. the shelling struck a mosque, a medical facility and a shopping center. government says this is a residential area. our cube is 2nd largest city in ukraine and just 20 kilometers from a border with russia. well, in other development, so global food crisis, by the one you might be about to ease turkish official say, ukraine, russia, turkey, and the un will sign a deal on friday to resume ukraine's grain exports from the black sea before the war. russia and crime of both major, we supplies around 20000000 tons of grain have been stuck in ukraine's death port after russia launched its invasion in february, the war st. global food prices soaring and as left people in some of the world's
1:25 am
poor countries facing starvation and diplomatic as a james base has more from the united nations. the fact the turkish president's office of now formerly announced a time for the signing suggest this is now a gun deal. the un vote still being cautious because this is the result of weeks of arduous negotiations. the deputies spokesperson for the secretary general for hum. hark, make it clear what's at stake. we've pointed out, joe, 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 hundreds of 1000, potentially millions of people from having food be priced out of their reach. so that is part of that, if there is an agreement. but as the secretary general pointed out, the for all the parties in these discussions, not just an agreement between the russian federation and ukraine,
1:26 am
but in agreement for the world. if we do see a deal finally signed, this will be the most important diplomatic development. since the start of the ukraine war and could go. busy long way to alleviating the global food crisis with ukrainian grain making its way out through the black sea and russian grain and fertilizer. returning to global markets, multiple people have died after brazilian police rated one of rio de janeiro is the largest low income communities. at dawn, police say one officer and 2 other individuals were killed in the operation which involved almost 400 officers. but when witnessed his claim that more bodies were still inside the slam and say that those who attempted to help the injured risked arrest police a, the re targeted our criminal group that robbed banks and stole vehicles, will get illegal down to my site. because i go back to my bath, they meet us leave because they had just killed. but i'm stubborn. i'm black, i have the video. i have proof. if you walk with me,
1:27 am
i'll take you to the bodies around here. i suppose like schools every opened in northeast and bangladesh of the west funding there in a century, tens of thousands of students hung into cost for weeks. there will send millions more struggling to rebuild off to heavy rain devastated the region. a say they haven't received any help from the government. still at region was one of the hardest hit county chandry is that many of the families returned home only to find their homes totally damage. it's uphill struggle must have lost their life stalks. patty farms, pole trees, now we have gone across in different places the same story, but they're still happening to be at home. we ox, if they 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 gonna be a very difficult uphill battle for this families to rebuild their homes as the last everything, unless the government and aid agencies financially help them. it's
1:28 am
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 then helpless, don't know how to do it because they don't have the money to rebuild at home fixed electrons or even bill different water points 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. now, one of the walls most recognizable butterflies is fluttering closer to extinction. the international union for the conservation of nature is out of the monarch butterfly to its red list for the 1st time, categorizing it as endangered, just 2 steps from extinction. the group estimates that the species numbers in north america have declined between 22 and 72 percent over 10 years, depending on how you measure it. but it's still designated as endangered by the us
1:29 am
government. experts blame a loss of habitat rising use of hub besides and pesticides and climate change. but there is good news for a number iconic species. the i u. c. n says the global tiger population has gone up 40 percent since estimates were loss made in 2015. you figure suggest they could be up to $5578.00, while tigers world wide. they are still designated as endangered though. and numbers have gone up, which is positive in nepal, china, and may be in india. they have disappeared entirely though from cambodia, louse and vietnam. or karen obe houser is a conservation biologist who specializes in the monarch butterfly. she says, extreme weather is affecting its survival. it's what's happening to monarchs is like death by a 1000 cuts. we know that over the past 30 years, mark numbers have been declining as 1st really precipitously for about the 1st 15
1:30 am
years and then slower and with a lot of annual variation from year to year. conditions that are best for monarchs are becoming more rare. so hot and dry conditions are not good for them through most of their range. so now we see this year to year variation being driven by weather with a slower decline because climate change is not as as precipitous as a habitat last was more than 70 is off to cheaters with the cat extinct in india, the government is signed a deal to re introduce them to the country she has from the media will be sent to wildlife century. india's coo, no national park for specialized breeding program. and he has been trying to relocate the wells false. this land to animals is 2020 to boost eco terrorism.

35 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on