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iraq's parliament is occupied by hundreds of supporters of shia cleric looked at her a sudden opposing the appointment of a new prime minister. ah, lauren taylor, this is al jazeera, alive from london, also coming up inside the joint coordination center in istanbul, which will oversee the safe passage of ukrainian grain from the black seat. the world is a recession and continue to mount. the u. s. federal reserve raises interest rates of a 2nd consecutive month and firefighters in greece battle to contain 3 major wildfires . to the one on the tourist island of los bos. ah, i will begin with the situation in iraq where hundreds of people have broken into

the parliament to protest against the nomination of mohammed, sheer us or danny, for the position of prime minister. a protest as a supporters of sheer cleric and politician, looked under our sutter who said he won't accept any bid from us to donnie to form a new government. last month, more than 70 members of parliament affiliated with our sutter resigned on his orders dipping months of political deadlock half to last year's elections for her and the hub. no one hannon within regard as arson. we've voted v sacrifice for many years. go and ask reforms and change of regime. every one of the most important thing is church regime. the current regime is useless. there is carrying, there is bloodshed thought and the same phrases are coming back so the country will not work when you're driving. but as his 1st stormed iraq's high security, greens owns the political heart of the city to reach the parliament building. it's a 10 kilometer fortified zone that's been the headquarters of several iraqi government offices. the zone also houses,

many of the foreign embassies in the city. she needed, which had her sada tweeted about the protest describing it as a revolution of reform and rejection of corruption. he said the message has been delivered. you have terrified a corruption power. go home in peace. what they're doing. ok, nanny is an iraq focus, middle east analyst and nonresident fellow at the arab center, washington dc. he joins us live from doha. thanks very much for being with us. can you tell us 1st what, what you think it is behind the scale of these protests? we cannot overlook today's incident without considering the why. ready or the overarching ethnic landscape and the rivalry that is going on in iraq for the past few months. specifically, since the early be election that took place in october 2021. the rocket government or governmental formation is being limited by a political deadlock that is mainly

a compete that we defined between the 2 main chart blocks, which is the core, the nation for more which nominated politician and former minister and m p. and had been she, us to donnie and the sub interest and movement led by the father whose father weighs today on the green zone and the parliament for a very long time for a very few months. smoked for the, for the threat and to a need were prepared his political block or coalition to become a parliamentary opposition and response. and in rejection, to form a consensus government with the coordination framework and preparation, or in a way to promote the national majority government. where he or his political party would lead a majority government alongside the cur, the fund them across the party. and don't lead to by current speaker and haven't

had boise so these are expected political rivalries. beyond the parliament dot is expected. the going to continue to overshadow the political landscape in the writing very few months ago when the political or the governmental formation was in the hands of the address movement. we witness very similar actions yet at this more aggressive from the other side or the political parties or armed wings are affiliated with the coordination framework. now that the court charges are just one of the with to go back to it, we have the ease with which they appeared to get into the parliament and into the greens that was at all. surprising would need to be needed to be helped with that. oh no, it is no secret that the subject movement or any other political party with them. so when should on doings can easily unfortunately infiltrate the security checkpoints when it comes to sending a message to the government or the people. and this is in very contrast to the

limit to the axis of protest. there is a peaceful protest since october 2019 when they tried to access public squares or areas such as square. and they were met with political violence and security that was much more advanced than higher than the security that faced the beef address protest there is or followers against the green zone and the parliament today. and you mentioned the political deadlock earlier just briefly how, how do you expect this to play out? i mean, does it does it can take anywhere on a route towards getting towards the proper government? well, the nomination or, or naming the prime minister is not the final stage of the political deadlock. there is another layer of the political deadlock between the 2 occurred. this rival about curtis spun democratic party and the patriarchal union of kurdistan to name their share of the ethnic secretary and cota, and the iraq is centralized government. so even if we, as you not them have met, she asked me a succeeds to form

a government and behind the scenes sort of agreement with this, i just movement. we still need to wait to name the president of the republic. thank you very much indeed. does he do now? i can only thank you and thanks for having noma under what had, joins us live from baghdad. what's the situation there now? well, it's getting very quiet actually compared to earlier in the day, the protest who's, who's told me they're headquartered of the council of representatives have was drawn. that is following a command from the leader, the influential shia cleric and political leaders looked at her a southern who asked his supporters to withdraw. he also addressing his supporters of southern, mentioned that at their message has been conveyed the message that in his

words, that his supporters have terrified the corrupt politicians in power. as you know that this is following the eb episode of the leaked voice recordings attributed to former prime minister naughty al malachi, a prominent adversity of shack lyrica looked at the a. so that now the protested as have been a staging their demonstrations inside. they're heavily fortified, green's own prompting a tens of a heavy or security a presence in, in, in, in the area. now up the doctor, the southern has been calling on his supporters to keep it calm and peaceful and a statement from the caretaker prime minister. most of our academy are also reiterated that the protestors should maintain and keep

their private and public facilities it safe. now this comes after the mass congregation friday praises that was performed by a look to the so the supporters, 2 weeks ago, the at this comes also after the political, the rivalry between our politicians to level positions reached its peak by was the ruin of 73 members of the parliament, those are there a southern flitted law makers now these protest her as have been chanting against mohammed to yeah. as to danny, who is nominated for prime minister by the iranian backed political parties known as the chord nation framework. now the question now is whether or not the

parliament will respond to the protesters demand it remains to be seen. now their parliament is scheduled to hold a session on saturday for the parliamentary blocks to reach consensus on nominating a new prime minister. but after this incident, today, whether or not the parliament will respond to protest has demands that remains to be seen. i wonder how can i thank you very much indeed. ah, yes, federal reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by 3 quarters of a point to 2.5 percent and it sits highest level since 2018 increased as part of an aggressive drive to tame high inflation. more my kind of joint as life, washington, dc, and mike another rate rise, but is the expectation that this or this wouldn't be the last well the chairman of

the federal reserve, jerome powell discussed that very issue. he wouldn't be drawn on whether there were going to be further hike increases this year. he hinted that there may be, but would not state pacifically. he said come september when the fed meets again. then a decision will be taken on the available data. but the fed has made very clear that the whole point of this is to drive down the inflation rate, which is now over 9 percent. the fed insists it's got to get inflation down to at least 2 percent. and this is the aim. this is the intention of this interest height . now this is the 4th in this year, 2.5 percent is the highest that the interest rate has been since 2018 and some have welcome this. the markets have actually sold in the wake of jerome pals announcement, the dows going up by some 400 percent. there has been the sentiment on wall street, for example, that the fed is to be welcomed in terms of his aggressive action. however,

some economists are arguing that pushing the interest rate to this extent could result in a recession down the line. now that is something that your own power was asked about as well. but he said the indices in the market at present, in particular, if you look at the job market, which is increasing by some 350000 each month over the past 3 months, as this type of into c would never pre see the recession, it didn't in the past, and he doesn't believe it's going to now. so he, in effect, is ruling out the possibility of recession with these ongoing rate increases. at the same time referring to that job market, or the fed wants to drive down the heat of that particular market. where you've got massive increase in employment. a employees are raging at what, raising the salaries to entice more employees. as a result, there's more spending. this is fueling inflation. so it's a very delicate line that the fed is king. this is yet another increase. the 4th

this year is leaving it open. whether there will be another increase later on in the year, but it remains that its prime intention is to drive down inflation. and a rate height increase is the only tool that has in the box. my can i thank you very much indeed. still to come on out there. 5 people killed and landmarks destroyed when a power earthquake rocks, the philippines, and one of those largest airlines cancelled more than a 1000 flight meeting holiday plans in canton. ah, let's go with your weather report for thursday across europe in africa. however, one great to see you. so some outbreaks of rain across the baltic states and you know, for western areas of russia. i think we're going to power up some thunderstorms

that includes for moscow. we've also got instability around the balkans, but that's gonna flush out some of that. he'd including for places like romania where there are weather alerts and play for just how high these temperatures have been. so bucharest, 34 on thursday, but give it a few days. your temperature will get back up into the upper thirties. now across the boss for as those winds are picking up is stan ball could expect to see when gus of about 50 kilometers per hour for the other side of the mediterranean. it's fairly common across both a portugal in spain, safer a few showers and thunderstorms toward the ne, plaguing places like barcelona. after africa we go right now and it's a really, sandy and dusty pitcher across mauritania. new auction has a high of 33 degrees, and we've got our usual pulses of rain some heavy at times, including poor sierra leone across western africa. as we did toward the south. now just a few showers across the free state by wanted to point this out. it's going to be a fairly windy day on thursday, across the northern tapes in san for the western cape town,

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or one of the top stories you're not 0. hundreds of iraqi protests as a storm in the parliament building and baghdad inside the high security green zone . many of the demonstrations are supporters of cheerleader and politician, toddler asada. they are opposed to arrival blocks nomination for prime minister and say the most important thing is regime change put outside has treated about the protest, saying, describing it as a revolution of reform and rejection of corruption. he says the message has been delivered and demonstrated should go home in peace. your sex, your state, antony blinkin, says a substantial offer will be made to secure the release of basketball. a brittany greiner and former us marine paul whelan, who are both detained in russia. he'll speak to his russian counterparts. i lever off. in the coming days, mocking the highest level talks between the countries since the ukraine war started had risen issue that's a top priority for us. the release of americans,

paul whelan, and brittany griner, want me to pain and must be allowed to come off. we put a substantial proposal on the table weeks ago, facilitate the release. our governments are communicated repeatedly and directly on that proposal to the conversation, to follow up personally. and i hope move us or the resolution she had for tansy jones aside from washington d. c. so how, how big a deal is this exchange? it's a big deal for various reasons. actually, i mean it's been rumored that there might have been some kind of negotiation with a potential hosted swap for some time. however, us policy and certainly department of justice policy is they do not support hosted swaps because it encourages theoretically in that in mind other hostage takings and, and in a sense of precedent. however, what we've been hearing is, well, clearly, as far as the state department is concerned,

it's time for blinking to get involved. they have put, put forth a substantial a weeks ago. and our blinking is going to get into those negotiations width of in the coming days and blinking was asked point blank. all right, this is logan roommate and the russian on the u. s. press all you offering. victor boots, the tories arms trader, he's in prison than the u. s. for 25 years or something. are you offering him in return for greiner and women? and he would not be drawn on that. but that has been rumored for some time that that would be a substantial offer that might even be acceptable to the russians. but lincoln would not confirmed that on the record, but he is going to now get fully involved in a substantial deal, which then which would suggest some sort of hostage hosted swap for meantime, also the meeting with the fact that liberal funding can a meeting is, is significant and blinking very pains to say, look, this isn't going to be

a negotiation beyond the hostage. the hostages, well, i mean, the prisoners blew me on the prisoners swap, potentially. as far as ukraine is concerned, another what lincoln was talking about was a 6 month anniversary of the ukraine war. this wouldn't be a negotiation with the russians about ukraine. he, he once again said that there will be no negotiations about ukraine without ukraine at the table. however, blanket also talked about his hope that he could, he could certainly help resolve the issue of the grain exports that we thought there was a deal done last week. but then that was trying to have doubts, so been completely sag bad as far as the talks on ukraine. the consent, a great deal of focus will be on trying to get the grand exports moving again from ukraine to, to try to help with food insecurity around the world. she ever told me. thank you very much indeed. or on that issue. there are other hopes that millions of tons of grain blocked in ukrainian ports will soon reach the world market at the opening of a joint coordination center and assemble percent that was opened by turkey, defense minister on wednesday. as part of the landmark deal signed by cave and

moscow last week, allowing young located green exports to resume its dumble oversee departures from 3 ukrainian ports where ships may need to so convent. mine's turkish officials also conducting inspections of incoming ships for weapons. keith expects to begin grain shipments within days. many of the world's countries rely on grains from russia and ukraine, especially those in africa. more than 25000000 tons of grain or lying and ukraine seaports. it's important to send these ships off at the earliest and to provide safe passage for the ships carrying the grains. the speedy delivery of the grains is critical or what it's impractical work and not only preparatory all specially this civilians and minute cherry involved in this processing. i hope will get the green light from these in the coming days with soon as we do 1st ship, ukrainian grey will be on its way or the destination port immediately to warn you.

when you credit farmers can resume their harvests after that deal, that with russia on transporting food. ukraine's ports have been stacked with grain since russia attacked in february. there were 2 unsafe ships to export corn, wheat, and sunflower, oil leading to global food shortages. the deal only, so as part of the problem, getting food from farm to table is now dangerous job. 300 reports from the village of cross me. so in a wheat field, north of keep a de mining expert sweeps for the weapons of war the mind detector find remnants of a cluster bomb. it slow going, but these workers need to clear a path before forming combines can reap the wheat from a war time harvest. they are among a 1000 de mining experts across ukraine, racing to avert a global food shortage. although the last they hired me, we have founded fragment of glass ammunition and a grenade from an r p g 7,

which is unexploded. when the war began, this farm was attacked by russian aircraft artillery and cluster bombs. workers had to replace tractors, trucks in barnes before they could bring in the harvest. you'll know it isn't idea of stella. you can see they're burned and destroyed by shaylin artillery and john thrice levied him. jazz gotta have so much sense. as farmers scrambled together, wheat, corn, and sunflower oil, russian ukraine have reached a tenuous agreement to allow 20000000 tons of trapped, ukrainian grain to leave from black c ports through so called safe channels. but with all the dangers of transporting the crop of 2022 in a war zone for now, this farm is storing wheat in these containers. weight is this symbol of ukraine, that yellow and blue flag represents a field of wheat beneath a sky of blue and free crane. the problem is getting is wheat out of the ports. but

for farms like this, the problem is overcoming all of the obstacles to get it harvested in the 1st place . the harvest of war has been tough on farms across ukraine. russia has left it signature on these cluster bombs. no what my video market ogo, but as he's got him here, we can see the mark of russian forces since the beginning clover work, our employees font these on our fields, the machinery of war rushes, the machines on the far end is summer winds to close the race to bring in this year's crop grows more urgent every day. john henderson, al jazeera, crescent ukraine, a cambridge in the occupied ukrainian city of kent house on, has been closed by irrational authorities. it's an important crossing for russian supply routes you creating forces have tried to cut off the roads. russia can use to move heavy weapons in and around. has san antonio. ski bridge has come under

repeated attack in the past week, rushing back to official se the foundations of a bridge and not been damaged, but they're closing it to traffic in case of more selling electricity is that i'm willing to give it to you. it was sometime between 10 and 11 pm. i do not remember when exactly as i heard a bang bang bang. i came out to have a look and saw smoke coming from around and sniff sky bridge and what i understood that something was wrong that the ukrainians won't rest until they finish that it seems the match to do it. if the company has further slashed gas applies to europe, escalating an energy standoff between moscow and the european union, the cuts will make it harder and costly for the block to fill up storage ahead of the winter heating season. russian gas company, gas problem reduced flows through the north stream, one pipeline to a 5th of its total capacity is the major delivery which of russian gas to europe. the uses moscow is using energy supplies to retaliate against western sanctions. but moscow blames technical issues for the reduction. these 5 people have died

after a strong earthquake struck the northern philippine island of luzon. it was sent in the mountainous area of the province. tremors were also felt hundreds of kilometers away in the capital, manila, hundreds of buildings were damaged and more than 200 after shocks had been recorded so far. far below reports from manila, a centuries old bell tower crumbling as a magnitude 7 point or earthquake strikes the philippines jordan provinces. it sent people out of their homes and buildings and into the streets. the tremor was spelt all the way to the capital manila, 300 kilometers to the south. were metal train operations were disrupted? kevin, about me guessing? of course i was afraid because we didn't feel that much shaking with previous quakes. but with this one, the impact was really strong. we felt it on the 11th floor, there were items that fell dumb, so we panicked a bit. but we managed to calm myself in severely affected areas. small buildings

caved walls, crumbled, and historic structures gave in the earthquake cracked open concrete roads and triggered landslides, launch lives are a problem, especially not only for earthquakes, but ah, during reading. so we me, we have to make sure that areas that are affected by landslide and starting or incipient landslide should be avoided. let them do their work. president ferdinand marcus junior opted not to travel to the region, which is where his hometown is located. but he assured victims of the national governments continuing efforts to help them recover from the disaster the earthquake. this draft northern philippines did not generate as nami warning, but governments a small just worn while the worst navy over after shops are expected to persist for days. barnaby lol al jazeera manila. several large wildfires continued to burn in greece with hundreds of fire fighters working to contain the flames. temperatures

arisen as high as 42 degrees in some places. one fire is burning on the popular church on and of less boss dosage of areas that were about 3 kilometers north of kara in a town by the name of re side. this is home to about 500 people in the fire you see behind me on the mountain began about 11 gmc today, and there is about 85 firefighters now bottling displays that has since really come down. since we got here about an hour or so ago, there are 6 hello, 6 airplanes and a helicopter from the fire department battling this place. and they are asking the local residents in this town that that's about $500.00 of them to evacuate their homes. now this town was also evacuated on saturday as a precautionary measure when that major fire broke out in the nearby town, the coastal town of the terra. but i spoke to one of the locals here who is a pensioner. and he said that he received an s. m. s a short while ago from the officials here, asking them to evacuate,

but there's still no buses here. they haven't been told where they will go. they only returned home earlier this morning. this is of course, a very much a scene for the locals. here they're saying they told me that this is the 1st time they witness such fires that it has disrupt that their baby life i've. i t as in the us, that of california working 24 hour shifts to try to keep the oak fire under control . they've managed to dump and about a quarter of a blaze which has been burning since friday is destroyed, more than 2 dozen homes. and for sounds people into temper shelters, california wildfire seasons becoming longer, more severe each year. you know, some days are harder than others. some days are exhausted. especially days where you're working throughout the night on that 24 hour shift and you have no police in the next seat and it's worse than the one before it. so it's, it's, it's been, it's been busy. one of the world's largest airlines is cancelled more than

a 1000 flights because a strike action gradstaff for germany's national airline. lufthansa walked off the job. recording for pay rises for $20000.00 employees. that boston has more from berlin's brandenburg port where at the peak of the summer travel season here in germany. and this is how the last tech encounters look like. there are no loop tons of flights at the moment. modern thousands have been canceled. attack the 134000 passengers who had to cancel their flights or re book their flights and this is the heart of the summer season. many people decide to travel this year since problem restrictions have been left off to the copeland that make the problem? no, i cannot talk yet. i from africa now i have to go to berries the flood with cancer and they said tomorrow would be a book. but nobody was here when we are right, you know the fate. what do we have to do? well, you have to all, when you have to sleep. so we are looking for some cancer people that can help us.

but when we ask, it will be very hard to find someone from the doctor today and yet, but did have mentioned that, but this could be that we talked about the situation. and even though we are affected by the strike, we find it okay, what they're doing better. these are difficult times. everyone have to fight. but lufthansa is making good money right now. those on friday go around $20000.00 to ground. sort of look, hands on those people working at secure with the luggage handling. maintenance of plane solo fans have no choice but to cancel these flights and what the ground stuff wants is that a pay they have working been working very hard with a shortage of staff. seems to go for some damage asking for 9 and a half percent more salary a month, which is around $350.00 also to around. so for negotiations that failed, they decided to go on this friday and it will have another round of negotiations happening next. week but the labor union doesn't ex.