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you countries agree to rush and gas for the winters rush for past your juice flows through it's an old stream pipeline again. ah, no, i'm sorry, i'm noisy in london watching al jazeera, also coming up on this program. the end of an era in space diplomacy, russia says it will leave the international space station with plans to build its own orbiting outposts. 5 fighters begin to gain ground against california's largest wildfire. we'll have a report from the semitic national park. and it results from tunisia referendum show 94 percent of voters approve controversial new constitution. ah

hello and welcome to the program. the european union as agree to russian is gas usage. is it braces for a further dip and russian energy supplies? brussel says that the new plan should see members through an average winter, even if the taps were completely turned off. members of agreed to voluntarily reduce their gas usage by 15 percent from august till march cuts could be made binding. if the commission deems as a risk of ish, severe shortage, europe's 1st test will come on wednesday when russia plans to cut flows through the north stream pipeline to a 5th of capacity. motion energy giant gas prom says that's because it's holding the operation of a turbine. this is the 2nd time most goes blame. the turbine output cuts. gas flows were initially restricted last month when one of them was sent to canada for maintenance. the e u is repeatedly accused the crime in of resorting to blackmail and retaliation for sanctions over the war and ukraine. 45 b. sam corresponds stay 15 percent cut

in our usual gas consumption between the beginning of august and the end of march. that's why we have pointed to this percentage as the target or member states should drive forward. or in all the developments, russia says it's pint old strategic military exercise in the east of the country next month. thousands of dramatists from that where the war it's from the war, it's raging in ukraine. on tuesday, moscow lot more. miss l strikes on cranes. black sea region, rockets hit the coastal village of taca ukrainian present volume is lensky says, it's a residential area with no military presence. the eastern city of harkey was also targeted out there is john henry and has more in this now from the ukrainian capital keys. the russian defense ministry says it has destroyed 8 ammunition and missile depots in the southern blacks. the port city of nikolai, it says it also destroyed port infrastructure in that case. and that was just one

in a series of early tuesday morning, strikes by russian forces in the eastern crane town of harkey. a gas pipeline was hit that will leave thousands of people out of power. that is with the mayor there says, and also in odessa, in the region of a t s. a small town of a token was struck, that is, according to the president of ukraine village, mere lensky who posted video, said the only residential areas were struck there. and he says they were no military targets. the worn ukraine and economic downturns in russia and china pushing the world economy to the brink of recession. this is, according to new figures, from the international monetary fund, the i m f. projects that global economic growth will slow to just 3.2 percent this year. higher food and energy prices along with supply chain bottlenecks are expected to drive inflation up to 8.3 percent. this is higher than previous

projections in the world 7 leading economies. the i'm as, as the probability of recession is now estimated to be nearly 50 percent as 4 times higher than usual. the i m f says greater global corporation would help improve this outlook. the outlook is dorkins significantly since april. the world may soon be teetering on the edge of a global recession. only 2 years after the last one multilateral cooperation will be key in many areas from climate physician and pandemic preparedness to food security, and that distress amid great challenge and strive, strengthening cooperation remains the best way to improve economy prospects for all and mitigate the risk of do economy fragmentation? now russia has announced it's going to quit the international space station after 2024 to focus on building its own outpost. but the us base agency nasser is saying it's not been informed about when this, if russia does quit, the, i assess,

it would be the end of an era in space diplomacy. and in, monahan explains, the future of this beacon of international cooperation may be in doubt when the war and ukraine prompted the west to sever nearly all ties with russia. the international space station was one of the few exceptions. 3 to one. now, after more than 20 years of partnership, russia says it's pulling out not only dances, of course we will fulfill all our obligations to our partners. the decision to leave after 2024 has been taken. i think that by that time we will begin to follow russian orbital station and left off many this move with a surprise or wealth, but nasa and the russian space agency had only just find new agreement to the very astronaut to the station. in may, the head of the european space agency said cutting type russia on the i s s with technically impossible cor. both sides are responsible for different technologies

on the station, and neither is trained to operate the others without assistance, is going to cause problems. the, the russian sort of side of things is in charge of several key systems on both international playstation. probably one of the most key ones is it's propulsion system. so that's the thing that stops it from it. it's just about in us atmosphere and overtime it over it does slowly degrade as it gets closer and occasion you need to get it a little bit boosted up again. and the russian segment is responsible for doing that. first through the hatch is denise map. since the war and ukraine broke out, even life in space hasn't gone untouched by the politics of earth. in april questions were asked about the russian crew choice of space suit was which matched the colors of the ukrainian flag. they denied any hidden messages, but many saw it as a protest against russia's war in july, the russian crew made a much clearer political statement when they post for photos,

with the flags of hans and the next to russian back break way regions in eastern ukraine. it's unfortunate that the politics on the ground have now reached up into space before the i assess was the one common ground that we had where, you know, it was in everyone's interest that it worked. and we never neither side use the i assess for these kinds of political posturing for events on the ground. the i assess was 1st established back in 1998 research on the station has led to breakthroughs and battling cancer all summer's at heart disease. monitoring natural disasters from space has also helped relief efforts here on earth. but with russia and china now planning to complete their own space stations in the coming years, a period of space cooperation may be giving way to a new era of space competition. vince mullin, al jazeera ah

now results from tunisia, 94 percent of votes as back that controversial new constitution which caused nearly old pal as to the office of president christ. i ain't. i'll present opponents as the president of already accused. the side controlled a lateral board, a fraud. critics also say turn out the votes, which was little more than a quarter. the electorate is found to achieve legitimacy. vote was held a year after the president sacked the government and suspended parliament. now relatives of lighted algebra jealous, trina, claire met with the us secretary of state in washington to demand accountability, death sharing was shot and had eyes ready forces while on assignment. and janine out there is job returns. he met with showings nice lena block where he spoke about what was discussed during that meeting with anthony lincoln. we continued to

reiterate our demands and i were concerned, especially regarding the 4th of july statement that was released. it was not an investigation. and we express how damaging it was to the truth and to all the multiple reports that were released ah, by respect of news outlet and most importantly by the u. n. o, we clearly demanded an independent and a transparent investigation by the u. s. considering that cheating was an american citizen, we also asked for accountability, and the justice wasn't really acknowledgment there about how absurd it seemed. when the u. s. government said that they couldn't make any definitive judgment about who killed shriek, and yet they decided it wasn't dumb on caucus. by the idea of was, was that contradiction discourse perhaps what we asked for them to retract or to correct the statement of considering the fact that it lacked the evidence,

it lack transparency and the, until today we were never aware of how the process wind and the secretary blink and he, he said he's committed to providing us transparency moving forward with any process that involves the case of shooting, or is there a time long though after you are they gonna furnished information as to exactly what role that how that means investigation was and whether they really went forensically over the evidence. so there was no timeline. no, we were not given a deadline as to when we would receive information. we will continue to ask for accountability tanf for you as lead investigation that is transparent and independent because that statement was not an investigation. we weren't the only ones who are not satisfied, but even us senators. and members of congress expressed that in a letter they sent us to the, to the presence. so we are expecting an independent investigation and justice

for shit in but finally, do you think they're taking this seriously, or is this now a public relations exercise? they've decided they're not going to make the israeli is uncomfortable in anywhere . i'm just trying to get through this without. well we are hoping that this is taken seriously. oh, we are hoping to see meaningful action and not just statements. oh, we want to see action. we want to see accountability, so we can prevent this from happening to other american palestinian citizens or palestinians in general. oh, shootin was a, she was a human being at the end of the day. so she needs to be protected. journalists have to be protected, and it's important for us that to you as administration takes this seriously. we also requested her to meet with the president, since he did not meet with us when we were back in. when we were back in palestine and the meeting with the president would show us that the u. s. is taking this

matter seriously. l 5 fight is in the you. i say they are making progress in battling california's largest wild fire this year with almost a quarter of the blaze. ne sam missy national park contained nearly 3000 fire fighters in 24. helicopters are on the scene. the oak fires started burning on friday and is destroyed an area half the size of san francisco. thousands of people of evacuated their homes and at 41 buildings have been destroyed. al jazeera is rob reynolds as long as now from mariposa county. this is the aftermath of a fast moving powerful wildfire that swept through these sierra nevada foothills of california. the fire has scorched thousands of hector's leaving many areas. as you can see, covered in ash with smouldering debris still apparent in many

areas of pall of smoke, has also drifted all away from this area to the san francisco bay in the west and into nevada, in the east making air quality hazardous for thousands of people this is one of the dozens, if not more, of structures that have burned. this was a, apparently, a house we can see appliances in it and bits of broken roof and so on. the number of people who have been evacuated from this area is close to 4000 about 3700 by last count. and there are thousands of firefighters 2900 firefighters working on the fire. we've seen them all over this area heading out to the fire line, carrying their equipment, and also the fire is being fought from the air,

with drops of water and fire retardant. you can see here just get a, a look at how hot this fire was. this is molten, or was molten aluminum from some of the appliances and vehicles that are stored here nearby. so that was a lot of heat. ah, there is some good news. however, the fire is now considered 29 percent contained that's up from 0 over the weekend. so that is very good news. firefighters are feeling optimistic and they even started to allow some people who had been evacuated to return to their homes. but no one is going to be returning to this house to live anytime soon. it their watching out his era have got much more still ad for you on the program. focusing on shank away schools are reopening for the 1st time in 3 weeks. the a,

a lack of feel means many people are struggling to make it to class. matter charges against the cities, form of my minister dropped off to police. struggle to locate a key witness. ah hello. the weather is slightly set fair across a good part of australia. but boy, have we seen some very heavy rainfall recently for new zealand? we have had flooding. impass here. puzzled north island, have seen around $500.00 millimeters of rain of this month alone. many areas in new zealand are recording their wet is july on a recorded there's more weather where that came from. so these weather systems continue to make their way across the tasman or sherry rain long spells of rain coming through as we go on through wednesday. scattering a showers into the southeast of australia,

so they'll be some right around coastal parts of new south wales pushing into where victoria easing across tasmania bits and pieces of ranges, clipping the far south is west as well as we go on through the next day or so still some showers into the southeast the 1st i still somewhere whether they're for new zealand remains on the warm side as well. so warm, wet and windy, adding to the fatty concert we do have across many parts of the country here. further north. well, it's all been about the heat into our china, southern parts of china. in particular last you draw here, but you notice a little more cloud just started to push its way in norman central part, seeing some very wet weather. we some thunderstorms coming through, such on his showers for japan. ah, a sanctuary for journalists. it was a haven from the war. i'm shelter for civilian refugees. rhetoric scattered into the garden during cambodia as bloody sat off flooring us up to me and suddenly

we returning back from the clear room she had taken anything of value out of the hotel chombo. dear little no, a new episode of war hotels on all josie, blue ah ah. oh, minder of the main stories we are following this hour now the european union is agreed to rush and it's gas usage. is it braces for a further dip and russian energy supplies? brothel says the pond should see members through an average winter, even if the taps were turned off entirely. newly appointed chief of moscow space

agency says russia will quit the international space station after 2024 years. boy self told president putin, the national agency will shift its focus to building its own station in space and results from to meet your show. 94 percent a vote, his bite, a controversial new constitution which grants nearly all power to the office of president chi side is opponents have already accused these saeed controlled electoral board of fraud. early development joins us live now from tune as. so perhaps this result, it is a, is hardly a surprise. what's been the reaction that well, i think there's quite a lot of cynicism in the opposition camp. obviously chi side support is all going to be please they'll, they'll finish as of validation at the, at the total amount of voters. and the final count was over 2600000 site. she

higher than was said previously. and the results of 94.6 percent is actually higher than the exit poll. so what we're seeing in the comments certainly as being friends, are experts on twitter is that both side says sort of saying that they've won. and it's a victory for science. and it's a victory for the opposition who's been calling this system illegitimate prices and completely illegal. in fact, they are feeling more empowered. they like to say they've been saying it's this electoral fraud. yeah, certainly i've talked to people have been in protestations, they seen some irregularities. and what we'll see over the next month, which is the period where people can lodge complaints and appeals. and the, the independent election authority will assess those. and the final results will be given towards the end of august. this is a preliminary result pending those appeals. what's been happening already today is that groups that oppose side have been holding press conferences. they've been

talking about how they're going to move forward. i was talking to a member of the national salvation front. and he was saying that actually this is really an opportunity in the motivation to try and he'll a lot of the rifts between the different factions who are opposing side and once have a real dialogue across divide. which would be an immensely important thing for tunisia because the country has been cleaved between different political factions throughout it sort of 11 year history of evolving and transitional democracy. and i've been talking to other activists and they said that at 1st they thought they're going to be really sad about a, a yes vote, but actually they on reflection. quite a number of them are saying, well, this is just a bump in the road. these things happen as you journey towards democracy. you will have the sort of switchbacks, and actually it makes you think it takes pause and re strategize and think about what is it that's lacking in your democratic process that needs to be addressed and

work on that. so both sides are positive about the result. oh and there's going to be, i think, a lot more to come. certainly there's going to be a parliamentary elections in november, and we will see more demonstrations and more evolutions of this story. over the months and weeks to come, a needs a lot went into no, thank you. schools have reopened and should anchored to the government said it would distribute fuel. children have been able to attend classes for 3 weeks now. schools were shut because of wise by fuel shortages caused by the worst economic crisis for decades. when al fernandez brings us the story now from colombo . back to school, at least for now, she lumped his new president runner become a singer and his government. want to sure things are returning to normal. schools

have been asked to start on site lessons 3 days a week. the other day students are taught online. but many seed, the fuel shortage and economic crisis are still a major obstacle that am at the aggression at diekama montana. this i faced a lot of hardships due to the fuel crisis and the mother and a teacher. and i had to queue for 2 days to get fuel cleaner. the we have to wait 30 to 40 minutes for a 3 wheeler tactfully. and even if we get one, we are helpless with unfair charges to day i paid double the usual fare. the head of shall, anchors, teacher's union told al jazeera, its members are also having transport issues. here the government to declare education and the central service, giving it the priority. it deserves parcel road. del ladiva schools were closed because there was no fuel even today. that's the situation with endless accuse will r as a trade union, we don't want schools to stay close to because the longer happens my greater the impact on sooner than nearly 30000 school vans operate around the country,

drivers and other school workers are hoping the arrangement made this week will continue oper, elana before my grandmother, grandmother on its birth. the fuel is continued to be provided to us through the bus depots. that was, it's not possible for us to que overnight and then drove children to school in the morning who love this is very difficult. you are not fuel is not the only problem. skyrocketing prices have seen school transport fees double in recent months. and many families have been forced to look for cheaper options. students have not been spared. the effects of sri lanka has worst economic crisis in decades. but following 2 years of pandemic related locked down, it's not been easy. minute fernandez, audra 0 colombo protests have been held outside. mere mazda embassy, and the tie, capital bank cock, condemning the execution of for democracy activists. all 4 of them are accused of helping

a civilian resistance movement. that's for the military since last year's coo, the executions have brought widespread condemnation from neighboring countries, as well as the united states and united nations. we watching developments in the democratic republic of congo, police. i say that 7 protested, and 3 un peacekeepers have been killed during a 2nd day of protest against the un wiley's have been taking place across north kiva province demonstrates the sangh peacekeepers not protected them from violence in the region. catherine saw reports another charged day in coma in north cuba province. dalinda cumberland protested or demanding the un peacekeeping mission hold monasco, be the country. the military and police have been called in to help contain the situation. un personnel are being relocated. the trouble began on monday, after a logistics base was attacked, people through stones looted,

office equipment, and other material. this is what was left of date was ransacked. either un bases have also been targeted, loses the filaments. oh no. we've been watching you in motion since this thought they had the logistical capacity they live. what are they doing with that? this is why we need to kick them out. the relationship between some congolese and the un has been tense at best. the protested said the un has failed to protect them from frequent attacks. the un peacekeeping mission in democratic republic of congo has heard a presence here for more than 20 years. despite this more than a 100 rebel groups in the east control, the vast region that is rich in minerals of america, when it came to protest against monasco, it has been years since the mission came to congo. many communities have been

killed in the east people in gama offline again to say for areas until the situation gets better. many commonly seen, they are tired. the one piece and beef the un cannot provide stability and its forces need to leave catherine soil. alta 0, murder charges against a former prime minister of sue to thomas to bon a. have been dropped. he was accused along with his current wife of arranging the assassination of his former wife, the per layla to bonnie. she was shot dead in 2017 at a time when she was refusing to agree to a divorce from thomas to bonnie for me to mila has won the story now from john is back. let's shoot his former prime minister tom to bonnie and his wife must see were accused of arranging the murder of his estranged wife depaula to bonnie he the strange wife was gone down outside a home in my cell room. 2 days before to bonnie's inauguration as prime minister that was back in 2017, it was a niche,

the former prime minister and his current wife paid assassins thousands of dollars to kill his former wife, to bonnie and his wife missy. i've always denied the charges and claim they were literally motivated. now those charges have been dropped. the prosecution says because they can't locate a key witness. the case has been a highly devise of one in the small mountain kingdom where some argued the former prime minister should not have been charged to begin with due to his advanced age. while others had demanded justice. however, he was forced to resign in 2020 due to the charges and the political scandal that ensued at 69 years since the start of the cuban revolution. in 1953 and more than a 100 revolutionaries led by fidel castro storms, a major military barracks, eating to the full of us. that dictator for the gen c o a t stamp. but discontent is again growing over the countries failing economy. the current president has

promised to address the crisis in the coming weeks. our latin america editor lucio newman, has this report now. yet to business celebrated anniversary, the sale to tackle the moon by the military barracks by fidel and raoul castro, which marked the start of the cuban revolution. 69 years later roll gospel, now $91.00 still appears to be going strong. but it's his successor miguel via scanning, who must deal with escalating disenchantment with the revolution. la, hearing 30 on the imperial logic, is better than i am. nature of our history and social paralysis. they are betting the material needs promote by 63 years of the infamous blockade. will break the spirit of resistance of our people in it off. or he was of course, referring to the world's longest economic embargo imposed on cuba by the united states. cuba is undergoing its worst economic crisis in 30 years. power blackout

this month in the middle of the stifling summer have led to st. protests. oh, wild tens of thousands of cubans are fleeing. these canal continues to argue that to you as he can. amok embargo is the roof of all cooper's woes. but on this occasion, he issued a novel challenge to the united states. working on crucial. we conclude that they maintain the blockade because without at our country would be a model of a humane society to supply a suit for the current world order. if i'm wrong, then lift the blockade immediately completely and without restrictions and remove our so called pretext. in the mean time, yes canal promised that in a few weeks, he'll announce the details of in economic reactivation plan to counter acute shortages of food supplies and energy. audrey and did the ceremony with the traditional though, increasingly questioned cry of socialism and fatherland or deborah

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