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a magnitude 7 earthquake hits a province in northern philippines. tremors have also been felt in the capital manila. ah, on the wrong call, this are there alive from jehovah. coming up e u. member states agree to reduce gas use to avert a winter crisis in anticipation of russia announcing low supply cups and relatives of murdered al jazeera journal. sharina block lay meat, the u. s. secretary of state to demand accountability for her death and celebrating nearly 7 decades since the start of the cuban revolution. we look at the challenges that lie ahead for its leaders. ah

ah, we begin with breaking news out of the philippines where a magnitude 7 earthquake is at the north of the country. the epicenter appears to be the town of dolores, and the province of abra. tremors were felt far away in the capital city. manila, which is more than 300 kilometers to the self and trained services have been stopped. the us geological survey says is no threat of astronomy. bobby low joins me now from manila. bonham just bring us up to date with all the latest rescue efforts. right, so the president mark of junior, his hometown is in the north and he's scheduled to fly. they are there later in the day, but he's still here. he's ordered the immediate dispatch of search rescue and release themes as well as with the goods or those who are heavily affected by the earthquake. we know one, at least one casualty construction worker. it was at the construction side and the

debris fell on him. there are also a number off reported injuries. they have been rescued, taken out of the rubble taken to the hospitals. local officials say they are safe, they're alive, but we are waiting more to ports. hopefully there won't be any more casualty. but the damage is expensive. major roads are crap open by the earthquake if this is a mountain area that we're talking about. so there have been a lot of last life and rough lives, with a lot of these roles and now impossible. we are seeing photos of houses and more structures that have been completely hoppel church bell church bell towers rather, that were crumbling during the earthquake walls that have collapsed char setup in crash. and you mentioned,

we felt the tremor here in metro manila life has also been temporarily been stuck to here. behind me. it's a bus station and train station just earlier there was a long queue. busy of passengers wanting to ride the bus because the chief operators but as a certain the train have begun operations against life is slowly going back to normal here in metro manila. definitely not in the north of philippines, where the epicenter was thought to be there reporting for his life from manila. thank you. your opinion, nations have agreed to russian gas supplies after russia announced another cut to deliveries in you members agree to voluntarily reduce gas used by 15 percent from august until march. russia says the reduced output is due to a faulty gas turbine. but he, you, leaders accused moscow are playing politics. a gallo shami reports from brussels. the energy crisis looming over europe dominated the meeting of u ministers in brussels, russian and gas ahead of winter,

the best and only way to reduce the eas, reliance on russian energy. fortified b sam correspond stay 15 percent cut in our usual gas consumption, decline 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 stay forward. russia is said to further reduce supplies through the gnawed stream pipelines, blaming a technical fault at one of the stations, something even ministers dispute. you leaders say there is no technical reason for the last reduction, something gas prom disputes of the short national game. as of today, there is no solution to the ongoing equipment issues at the point here. they are compress the station near, but there is no solution whatsoever yet seem as, as saying nothing. they're trying to find solutions, but there are monotonous, but come out as the west and russia exchange economic blows in response to russia's

war in ukraine. european leaders say moscow is not a trustworthy partner. the winter's coming, ah, and we don't know how cold it will be, but what we know for sure that the and the will continue to play his her da da games her in misusing and blake mailing her by ha ha gar supplies. i'll tell you. grace president, one of the major lensky says, europe is already at with russia just on a different front, or is he in his bride? all this is done by russia on purpose to make it as difficult as possible for europeans to prepare for winter. and this is an open gas water. russia is waging against the united europe. this is precisely how it should be perceived. and they don't cable happen to the people or how they will suffer from hunger g to the blockading of ports or from winter cold and poverty. or from occupation. these are

just different forms of terror. jaclyn the stars that nearly half of all the gas europe needs it comes from russia. the supply is now down to our relative trickle. come winter if european countries don't have enough supply stored up in time, it means certainly almost, it will be a struggle to heat homes and power cities. abdullah shami, others euro brussels. russia is launch more missile strikes on the ukraine's a black sea coast. rockets hit the village of the taca and a desa region. present blood of ms. lewinsky says the residential area with no military presence the eastern city. of course, he was also talking to john henry has more from keith. the russian defense ministry says it has destroyed 8 ammunition in missile depots in the southern black seaport, city of mich elia. it says it also destroyed port infrastructure in that case, in that which is one in a series of early tuesday morning, strikes by russian forces in the eastern ukraine town of harkey, if

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 odessa, the small town of ciocca was struck. that is, according to the president of ukraine volota. mir zalinski who posted video said the only residential areas were struck there and he says there were no military targets. relatives of murdered al jazeera journalist, sharina la clay, have met with the u. s. secretary of state in washington to demand accountability for death. sharyn was shot in the head by his ready forces while she was on assignment in jennine out, is there a she returns he met with sharon's niece, lena r. block lic. we continue to reiterate our demands and our concerns, especially regarding the 4th of july statement that was released. it was not an investigation and we expressed 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 transparent investigation by the u. s, considering that she didn't, wasn't 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 shrine, and yet they decided it wasn't done on purpose by the idea of was, was like contradiction discourse. perhaps what we asked for them to retract or to correct the statement of considering the fact that it lacked evidence. it lacked transparency. and the, until today we were never aware of how the process went. and the secretary lincoln, 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 timeline though, as are they gonna furnished information as to exactly what role that i had on these investigations 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 the information. we will continue to ask for accountability. tanf for you as lead investigation 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 do to the president. 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. these really is uncomfortable in any way

. i'm just trying to get through this without, well we are hoping that this is taken seriously. uh, we are hoping to see meaningful action and not just statements, but 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. and shitty. it was a who 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 the 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. is writing false as of rated the palestinian village. i've got our bonny hudson in the occupied westbank. they demolish the homes of 2 palestinians, had been charged with killing a guard in april at the legal israeli settlement of audio. it every now reports

no one year old as the dean meadow. he has been asking about his bicycle since the early hours of the morning. with the help of a friend, he managed to find what's left of it. no matter, he found me, he says, the only thing that we're left with now is the memories of 25 years after is really forces blew up their house early on tuesday. these really military as of yet, mid i and his cousin usa policy in late april. both men are in the early twenties and he is really military accuses them of killing a gourd of an illegal is re sacrament in the occupied west bank. after that arrest, the family was expecting the house to be demolished, and so they took out some of their belongings. what they couldn't prepare for is to see their house and ruins bill. i went to take my books, clothes and toys by they didn't let me. israel has long implemented the policy of

demolishing houses belonging to palestinian suspects, accused of killing his radio. oh my, shall i live? my son is a hero. it wasn't easy for him to see what the occupation done in getting ramadan. the events in alaska particularly affected him that oxy, i'm going to sort of feed on the law earlier on tuesday is really forces demolished the house of use of all see as well homeless. now, the aussie family are staying with relatives that i got on iraqi minutes already. these really decision is that we can't we bill here for 5 to 15 years in this line is confiscated. i'm sent away. i have a plot here for juice. it will build on for now. we're scattered in relatives combs and all the homelessness in these really government says house demolitions. i meant to prevent future attacks. but to human rights organizations say, since palestinian attackers are often killed or in prison, if their families who end up being punished me that but i mean, alger theda,

the occupied westbank. so head on out 0. mm. can you hedge the polls in 2 weeks, but one of the contenders is refusing to debate? unlike tv and an israeli company offers full $1000000000.00 in a settlement deal linked to america's ugly crisis. ah hello, we've got some summer storms in the forecast for parts of the middle east over the next couple of days. you can see the pocket of cloud here that's making its way towards i mom. and we have seen some really nasty rain just around the southern end of the red sea. western parts of yemen have seen floods, and much slides recently. further showers here as we go through the next couple days, hopefully not as white bread, but the showers will be pretty widespread on the other side of the arabian

peninsula watch, but enough to reach share the you a ye pushing even here and kata temperatures around 36 celsius on wednesday afternoon with a chart system fund readout. pause, and a similar pictures you go on into thursday. so the gulf seeing some wet weather. st flooding recently into southern western parts of iran, more showers running in here as well. say things looking a little more active than of late, farther north, hot and dry, pretty much sums it are patches the case across much of north africa, particularly to northern areas of algeria, northern parts of morocco. again, temperature is very much on the high side. was the central belts, the usual heavy showers, making the way a further westwards over towards that western side of africa, some heavy downpours coming through here with a chance of some flooding. not too many shouts into shut some parts of africa, but wanted to shout to the se, ah, the, the new voices keeping up the airway. lot of chinese listeners. we can't really

hear what they really think in their own country shifting pal of a case. the rise of citizen journalism has changed everything. how do happen? it happened on social media and the undeniable impact of the mainstream narrative australians went to the pole with those images front of mine is a war that very much came forth out in the media as well as on the battlefield. their listening post. dissect the media on al jazeera lou. ah, it was you out, is there a reminder of our top stories this out? the national disaster agency in the philippines has one person has died during the

magnitude 7th grade. the epicenter appears to be the town of dolores and the province of abra, tumors were felt in the capital city. manila, which is more than 300 kilometers to the south. and the european union nations have agreed to come, but gas usage off to russia announced another country deliveries. russia says it's limiting supplies because i've a full turbine. but if you lead is accused moscow playing politics and relatives have made it out. is there a gen the serene oblong lay i've met with the u. s. extra state. i'm c blinking. dreams. family is demanding accountability of. she was killed licenses and israeli generic drug bike has reached an agreement in principle to pay over $4000000000.00 for its role in the us opioid epidemic. if the deal is finalized, tivo would be the latest major company to reach a settlement over the crisis. opioids of killed more than 500000 people in the u. s . over the past 20 years. the settlement would not require t but to admit any wrongdoing. in the case. iowa attorney general tom miller's

office was directly involved in these negotiations. he says the u. s. federal drug administration could have a case to also i think some really serious question should be asked of the f d a concerning this. you know, basically what happened is in 1996 opioids were used properly in the medical profession. they were used as the pain remedy of last resort. they were, they were given with enormous amount of, of fear and respect because because of the addiction and produced pharma with help from others, i really convinced the the medical profession otherwise, through various means and programs and foundations. that 10 years later was one of the, the many tools for pain medication from bay and pain management. it was not given with respect and concern about addiction. ah, and a medical profession, you know, really let that happen. but the f d a let it happen, the f

d a was the chief regulator. i think, i think some real questions need to be asked about the f d a during, during this, during this period the government of the democratic republic of conduct, congo has condemned violence. that has happened at a un peacekeeping bases nice in the country since monday. hurt us as a storm that you and facilities the violence resulted in the death of demonstrators an un as no song. no, we are very sorry for what happened and concerned about what is going on in different parts of north kiva, particularly in the towns of gama. and would tempo for now, we can confirm the deaths of 15 people, including 3 un peacekeepers. we regret the situation and call for calm as nothing can justify the violence against the united nations or the deaths of our people. you end up say, representative for the dfcs calling from investigation and we as the united nations did not fy on any civilian during the protest that started on monday. since the

beginning of the situation, i was in communication with the un commander myself, to remind him and not to use bullets against civilians. let's conduct an investigation which will tell us what exactly happened on the ground. all corresponding, katherine, so it has more on the violence another charged day in gama. in north keeble province, dozens of congo lease protest is a demanding the un peacekeeping mission called monasco leave 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 space was a talked people through stones looted, office equipment, and other material. this is what was left update was ransacked. other un bases have also been targeted, loses the filament. oh,

live with him watching you in motion since the start. they happen just to go capacity, they may. 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 protest is 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 there is rich in minerals of a monarchy. i came to protest against monasco. it has been years since the machine came to congo. many congolese have been killed in the east people in goma a fling again to safer areas until the situation gets better. many commonly say they are tired. the one piece and beef the un cannot provide stability and its

forces need to leave. catherine, soil jazeera, firefighters in the usa, they're making progress as they battled california's lodges while fi this year. nearly quarter of the blaze day yosemite national park is now contained the oak fire, started bedding on friday, and has destroyed an area half the size of san francisco. roberto's reports of mariposa county, aftermath of an inferno. this house was completely incinerated by the huge wildfire that ripped through mar posts, a county in california, sierra nevada mountains. the heat was so intense, it melted aluminum parts and cars, turning them into shiny dribbles of metal. the fire broke out on friday and quickly exploded in size and gulping thousands of hector's and forcing thousands of people to evacuate. dozens of structures have been destroyed. fire fighters say,

years of drought, extreme heat and millions of dead trees killed by invasive bark beatles turned a small blaze into a monster wherein a dramatically major drought. so what you sears out, you know, mostly dry conditions, not to mention the beetle bark period with the killed the lot of these trees that are now dead. standing along with low humidity, major, or hot conditions that just made a recipe for disaster. now, yes, so on the fire swept through your to little, literally blew everything up about 3000 firefighters have scrambled from all across the state to this remote mountainous region. they dowse hot spots, cut up down trees and build fire brace when there's no roads. the fighting is done from the air. a steady stream of helicopters dropped water and fire retardant on burning hillsides. the work has begun to pay off. we've made really

good progress and that's because no the, the conditions of weather conditions been on her side. the amount of resources that we brought here have also help. and also the, you know, the wind is die down. so that is loud as to, to keep the fire from spreading. the cause of the fire is under investigation. california and other western states have been dealing with severe wildfires year after year, each one worse than before. the early star to california fire season over the past several weeks sends an ominous signal. soon. blustery santa ana winds will blow through these bone dry forests, making fires more likely to break out and harder to fight. rob reynolds al jazeera, mariposa county, california. nearly 500 firefighters have been deployed to contain a wall fire in southern france. heat, waves, and extremely dry spring season are driving at the fast moving blaze. at his 500 hectares of forest and vineyards have been destroyed. the government is placed

water restrictions nearly all the countries regions, and as rivers and reservoirs run low and canyons will head to the poles and 2 weeks to vote for their new present. a television debate was held in the capital nairobi on tuesday, but only half of the candidates to pot malcolm web reports now from the capital. deputy president william retail wants to be kenya's next president. his main rival in the upcoming election while over dinner, didn't show up for the presidential candidates debate. opinion polls show rayleigh has a lead over rito, but there's still enough undecided voters to swing it. but if any impulse give him a small lead of the opinion polls or opinion poll, we are here. the 9th of august is around the corner on day. do not talk to opinions because sometimes they have to then dropped up to speed up something, not a full candidate to running. the main contenders retailer and railer lamented

debate with each other. politicians in kenya are not held to account very often now from the campaign trail. presidential candidates get to deliver that message to crowd of thousands of people without being any question for democracy, greece and the organizers of this event. hopefully here on this stage, at least the candidates would hold each other to account. the half of the candidate haven't showed up. i have tremendous respect to reach. i was on stage alone answering questions from the motivators for him to do not turn up tonight. said he could not come to this debates because he does not want to face a man who has no regard for ethics, public morals, or shame. how do you respond to that? do you sincerely believe that that is the reason why it is nadia? rayleigh has the backing of outgoing president who kenyata even though the 2 with

bitter rivals, impasse collections. and the backing of most of the historical political establishment dominated kenya ever since. independence from british colonial rule. out on the campaign trail, those rider and router had been promising to spend money to ease the soaring prices of food and fuel. they've been less clear about how they will afford it, how they'll tackle kenya's record high levels of debt. all the widespread corruption that's contributed to it. it does help senior roles in previous governments on the which borrowing grew and stealing of public funds was widespread . the debate was meant to give votes as a chance to find out more can and petitions of famously exhibit impunity. i think it's an important opportunity for the public to hold the position kate. it's accountable to the proposition that they make their money.

frista x plans. they're extremely ambitious, but nobody understands how they're going to implement those. the polls on the 9th of august may show what difference router appearance or riley's no show have made on the undecided voters. malcolm web al jazeera nairobi kenya. the final 2 contenders for the prime minister's job and the u. k. had to abruptly and the debate of an unfortunate turn of events. he's going to challenge the freedom and democracy conservatives, the trust and richie senate were debating on live tv when the host collapsed. kate mccann fainted midway through the event producers that later issued a statement saying she's now recovered. the rest of the debate was cancelled. and cuba marking 69 years since the start of a communist uprising that eventually led to fidel castro, seizing power. but it's

a bittersweet anniversary for most cubans as the nation faces its worst economic crisis in 3 decades. i'll. i'll latin america editor lucio newman report. oh, 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 law again, very young. 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, while tens of thousands of cubans are clean, disconnect continues to argue that to you as he can. amok embargo is the roof of all of cooper's woes. but on this occasion, he issued a novel challenge to the united states. what are going crucial that we conclude that they maintain the blockade? because without it, our country would be a model of a humane society to suppress it 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 meantime, diaz canal promised that in a few weeks, you'll announce the details of in economic reactivation plan to counter acute shortages of food supplies and energy audio. and did the ceremony with the traditional oh, increasingly questioned cry of socialism and fatherland.