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ah, hundreds of demonstrating his withdrawal of the storming near rocky parliament protesting the nomination for prime minister. ah, hello there, i'm installs you can. this is al jazeera life and also coming up the u. s. federal reserve announces a huge interest rate hike to tackle rising inflation. mid fears of a recession. the u. s. says it's ready to make a substantial offer to secure the release that brittany granite and whole whelan were both detained in russia. one yes, and his appointment for is president fights for his political survival as he faces allegations of corruption. ah,

ah, well, hundreds of people broken to a rugs parliament to protest against the nomination of a new prime minister that their supporters of influential shia cleric looked out. al sutter, who does not want to mohammed al sudanese to be the country's next leader. there's been a political deadlock in iraq ever since. on october his election last month, supporters decided resigned visits and parliament m dot al sutter's 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 the corrupt in power protest as in baghdad. first stormed rocks. hi, security, green zone. that's the political heart of the city to reach that parliament building. that's a 10 kilometer fortified zone. that's been the headquarters of several iraqi government offices zone. also houses, many of the foreign embassies in city or mac, whatever my head is, following developments for us in baghdad. the protest who's, who's told with the headquarters of the council of representatives have, was drawn,

that is following a command from the leader them through until she clinic and politically that the so the who asking his supporters to withdrawal. he also addressing his supporters so that he mentioned that the message has been convey the message that in his words, that his supporters have to defied the corrupt politicians in power. as you know that this is following the episode of the league, the voice recordings attributed to former prime minister naughty malick e, a prominent adversity of she looked at the still the know the protested have been teaching their demonstrations inside the heavy,

the $45.00 green zone pumping tens of but heavy security prisons in, in the area now. the doctor has been calling on his support to keep it called and peaceful. and a statement from the caretaker prime minister, most of called me, also reiterated that the professors should maintain and keep the private and public facilities safe. now this come of the mass congregation, friday prayers that was performed by the supporters 2 weeks ago. well, that's not bring in a kill a boss. he's a political analyst based in washington, d. c. a. hill. this is obviously been a real show, a force from sada. he's still very influential when it comes to political circles. but can you give us a sense of just how much broader public support he has?

no, thank you for having jojo show on this is today potentially significant. so there are ones through several steps to pass, so they are how broad that is popular support them to find a prayer last week gave a good indication today his people from baghdad. this is only fun. guy is brand new supporters, father conferences, the storm, the green zone, the parliament are in good numbers. it seems to me that there is a pano escalating this protesting movement, so to speak. he basically wants to the c large part of the candidate for the theme yorkshire, no one the other perceives as a pro now and key. molly key has been widely seen as cobra, sectarian pro, iran and target reform center has positioned himself on the other side. you know,

reformer as somebody who's pursuing anti corruption, so and so forth. so this is the larger framework that the solder basically presented. so vince solder was also the one who pulled out of government formation talks. and that's what allowed this nomination to actually take place. so what is his strategy here? does he hold it all to hostile to hold it, hold everyone hostage until he gets to he once as president. i mean the southern arguments about pulling off the parliament with that. so if he stayed in the moment, he would be forced to go into what's called power sharing national unity government for to broad corruption inefficient governments, lack of accountability. his argument was we need

a majority government that is accountable, that is responsible for sales responsibility. it can pursue anti corruption. this was basically loyal because the decision from the supreme court that what's called the disable and the 3rd requiring to a certain majority in order to ask the president the president of the public event would nominate the time. so that's what this talk to and it is widely endorsed. so that's not the key or the wrong for making a framework that we need to is behind this decree or this interpretation by the supreme court. so you fall off the parliament because of this saying, i don't want to be part of this larger, not work option. not these trying to prove a prime minister or you know this for a minister from

a government representing this after. and the system does not work of corruption that he has been following. and i think law, so iraq, he's the review stuff. they don't see. this is certainly side with this. others movement, i don't months, but they think the arrogant itself is for there are a majority government, not consensus based government. that's an effect. it has proven itself over the past 16. 15 years. well, we'll see how this all plays out in the coming days and weeks, a kill a bus, their political analysts based in washington dc. thank you for joining us out. as eric you sent you one. now the u. s. federal reserve has raised its interest rate by 3 quarters of a point, a 2.5 percent. that's its highest level since 2018. the increase as part of an aggressive drive terrain in soaring inflation. mike, hannah has worn out from washington dc. the chairman of the federal reserve,

jerome powell discussed that very issue, he wouldn't be drawn on whether they were going to be further hike increases this year. he hinted that there may be, but would not state specifically he said, come september when the fed meets again, just 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 hike. now, this is the 4th in this year, 2.5 percent is the highest that the interest rate has been since 2018 or some have welcome this. the markets have actually sought in the wake of jerome pals. announcement there has been the sentiment on wall street for example, that the 3rd is to be welcomed in term 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 jerome paul was asked about as well, but he said the indices in the market at present. in particular, if you look at the drug market, which is increasing by some 350000 each month over the past 3 months, as this type of in the c would never preceded recession, it didn't in the past have. he doesn't believe it's going to now are you a secretary of state antony blinkin says a substantial offer will be made to secure the release of basketball player britney griner and from the u. s. marine pool whelan, they're both currently detained in russia. he says he'll speak to his russian counterpart, sag elaborate in the coming days. good reason issues. it's a top priority for us. the release of americans, paul whelan, and brittany griner. we won't be detained and must be allowed to come home. we put a substantial proposal on the table weeks ago, facilitate the release. our governments are communicated repeatedly and directly on

that proposal. and i use the conversation to follow up personally and i hope move us or to resolution. while patty col hand joins us from washington, d. c, for more on this. now, passing, given that we're hearing this from blinkin. how close the way to this being a done deal it would seem to indicate that it's pretty close to me. let's think about, take a step back where they do these prisoner exchanges between any country they don't normally broadcast from the state department from the secretary of state himself. but we've been seeing these indications for a while. the russians had said that they couldn't, can contemplate any sort of prisoner exchange until britney grinders case went through the legal system. so just a few weeks ago, we saw her plead guilty to what she was accused of, of bringing to, to vague cartridges of her. she shall into the country. she said it was an accident that she was packing quickly. the sentencing phase is well under way. she testified

today saying that she wasn't read her rights and that it was an accident and she didn't mean to insult the russian people. but then so then tad, the secretary of state, come out and make this very public announcement that they're looking to get paul, we'll in a former marine sense for 16 years of espionage and brittany griner out and to say that he's going to call on his counterpart for administer, sorry, labor love rod himself is an indication that the u. s. thinks they can get it done . i mean, they have been under public pressure to act, but it's not an insane amount of pressure. it's not leading the nightly news. it's not at the front page of the newspapers. venton not necessarily the factor here. more importantly, you don't put a cabinet secretary, especially someone like the secretary of state and from the cameras and say we're going to get this done. we're trying to get this done. if you really don't think that you're going to be able to get it done, so likely the swap is going to evolve victor bout, although they're not confirming this. his nickname in the u. s. is the merchant of death. he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a key to for dealing weapons,

that the course that the court said was going to be used to kill americans. he's about halfway through his sentence. the russians have pride to grin trying to get him back for years, although they will confirm that that's the target. he would seem the most high likely high profile in order to swap for these 2 americans. this one russian had he called hand, they with all the latest force from washington, d. c. thanks so much passing. well, stella had here on al jazeera, one of the world's largest airlines cancels more than a 1000 flights, leaving a holiday plans and passes. and a powerful earthquake hips, the northern philippines, killing 5 people, and causing a loss of destruction. ah, let's go with your headlines for the americas heavy one. so here's the forecast on thursday. we're turning up the heat for the pacific northwest western canada,

you know, portland at 37 degrees. that is 10 above where you should be for the month of july . and we go further toward the south high temperatures as well for idaho boise at 39 degrees. but that will not be a record for the month of july went off the pacific. that is going to keep things moderate, the temperature any way in san francisco. at 90 degrees. no st. louis had its weather. stay on record the other day. look at this. what weather now? sliding further toward the south, across the tennessee and arkansas on thursday, and off to the great lakes, the northeast, we go lot of instability here. so showers and thunderstorms seemed likely. next stopped central america. we do have a tropical storm out over open water. but look at the rain falling across at west coast of mexico on thursday, pretty persistent rain for western areas of columbia along that pacific coast. as we did further toward the south right now, white and windy will be the theme across the river plate region. montevideo temperature is below average, but temperature is above average in porto lay gray. and oh yeah,

it's going to be windy a month of the dale looking for gust of 50 kilometers per hour on thursday. hang on to your hats full soon. ah. discover a world of difference, determination. i'm talking about when we am with freedom. so just on the 16 people with corruption, with compassion, al jazeera wound, a selection of the best films from across our network of channels. lou

ah, there understands your $10.00. let's remind you of our top stories here. the seller, hundreds of protestors who stormed rugs parliament have now left. the supporters of shia cleric looked at al serra were demonstrating against the nomination of the new prime minister who belongs to a pro iran block. the federal reserve is increasing its key interest rate in the u . s. by 0.75 percentage points to 2.5 percent. the us central bank has been raising borrowing cost since march to try to rain in rising inflation and the u. s. secretary of states, as a substantial offer will be made to secure the release of basketball, basketball player, brittany grammar, and former us marine corps wheeler. from russia. antonio lincoln says he'll speak to his russian counterpart sergey lab rather soon. for lab rav is currently in ethiopia for the 2nd leg of his tour on the african continent. the russian foreign

minister is aiming to reassure nations hit hard by the global grain shortage. millions of people across africa have been left without adequate access to food because of soaring prices. moscow is hoping to strengthen tires with the continent that has so far, refused to join western sanctions over the war. while stephen gods is the head of the african governance and diplomacy program, he says, laboratories, a visit to the continent is diplomatic power. play the visit, i think was russia demonstrating that it's not isolated, that the sanctions haven't been able to cut it off completely from the rest of the world. that it still has governments that are friendly towards this. and i think it's, it was part of the larger propaganda war that's happening alongside the shooting. will you know? you have president lensky who is very slick and able to use social media very well . and i think i read this, this rational trip. i love rob as, as

a p r exercise as much as anything else. well, i think what we must recognize is not to over blow, rushes influence too much. it's total trade with the continent is less than $20000000000.00, which is probably 10 percent of what china trades of the continent. and of course the us and the countries and the u. k. have long standing tides in very deep inroads into the continent. but nevertheless, it has been growing, rushes implants has been growing particularly since puts and took over in 2000, but especially after 2014, when russia and next crimea, and was, was frozen out of relations with many other countries because of sanctions. and of course, now it's face another round of sanctions, and it's likely it was already happened. there was a business delegation in johannesburg a couple of days ago that russia will be looking to find new markets, new opportunities. and as well, the diplomatic supplies support on nasa has announced that russia is sticking with

the international space station for now. according to the u. s. space agency, moscow told nasser on wednesday they will remain partners only. i assess the next 6 years that comes just one day after the head of russia, space agency, ross comma had said they'd pull out by 2024. rationale says it plans to have its own space station by 2028 japanese national airline. lufthansa is canceling more than 1000 flights because of a one day strike by its ground. crude. a labor union is demanding a pay increase for around $20000.00 workers. it says a pay off a made by lufthansa is simply not good enough. the airline is one of the world's largest, and it says the strike will effect about $130000.00 passengers. that fastened has worn out from balance. brandon, beg apple. where at the peak of the summer, travel season here in germany. and this is how the last tech can come to look like

. there are no loop kinds 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. okay, can i try it from africa now? i have to go to paris. the flood with can 6 and they said that tomorrow would be a book. but nobody was here when we are right in order to say. ready what do we have to do? well, you have to all, when you have to sleep. and 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 sponsor today. and yet it did happen to me that it, 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 has 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 of people working at security logger, channeling maintenance of playing. solo fans have no choice but to cancel these flights. and what the ground stuff was, is that a pay they had working been working very hard. there was a shortage of stuff. seems to go for some damage, asking for 9 and a half percent more salary a month, which is around $350.00 off toronto for negotiations that failed. they decided to go on this friday and they will have another round of negotiations happening next week. but the labor union doesn't exclude anymore, right? happening off of that? well, there's also travel health in the u. k. where 40000 rail workers are on strike. people without a central travel needs are being advised to avoid taking trains. the dean baba has war from london on wednesday, only one in 5 trains was running across the u. k. and in many areas there are

actually no trains at all in scotland. for example, there are only 5 services across the country. passengers are being urged not to travel by train unless it's really essential. will many train inspections have been empty, but commuters have made it to hubs like london bridge and waterloo. the strike is just the latest by 40000 members of the rail, maritime and transport. a union the already see there in dispute with bosses, that a number of rail companies over pay jobs, attention, and conditions. well, the both of the network rail, which runs the train infrastructure here, is apologize for the impact on people traveling on holiday. but also people getting to the women's euro, semi final in milton keynes on wednesday, and going to the start of the commonwealth games in burning. and on 1st the government says it's planning legislation, making it harder for workers to take industrial action. but there is more strike

action plans which will affect the trains and the london underground in just over a month time. now more than 1200 migrants have been rescued from the mediterranean sea just this week. as they tried to reach europe from northern africa, one of the major landing points for their migrants is the italian island of glam producer. thousands of people are now being processed at its migrant center. their natasha name is that were in the port of lampa do. so this small sicilian island of about $6000.00 people is closer to africa than it is the italian mainland. that's why lamp i do so is a destination on the migration route. as people try to make their way from africa to europe, the glassy water and very little wind on the mediterranean sea have made for ideal conditions for people crossing via boat. that is why there has been a recent wave of migrants arriving to lampa do so. on sunday alone, this coast guard ship rescued, 1000 people,

the boats next to them or among the 31 vessels they were on. 5 people died more than $34000.00 migrants have arrived in italy so far this year. that's about a one 3rd increase from the previous year. the war in ukraine and the food in security. it is cause, as well as the high cost of goods due to inflation or the additional reasons people are making this dangerous journey. once the asylum seekers arrive in lampa usa, they're brought here to this migrant center. if you listen carefully, you can hear the voices of mostly men speaking arabic, french, the odor is pungent. we spoke to several syrian men inside. they say they worked in libya for several years to earn the $25.00 to $3500.02 pay smugglers. they see the conditions are squalid, no water for showers, sleeping on the ground,

little food. we spoke to the former mayor of lampa usa. she says the capacity of the center is about 2 to 350. in recent days, there have been as many as 2100 people crammed inside. the government has begun transferring migrants to other centers in italy to ease the overcrowded look at b. oh, hello. up is racing for an influx of as many as $150000.00 migrants this year. earlier this month about a dozen e u countries agree to resettle 8000 migrants with a non governmental organization or n g o. c wife says that is an embarrassingly small number. it also blasted the european union for not taking the lead on search and rescue operations on the mediterranean. it says that this is not a new phenomenon, and it will continue unabated, especially due to climate change. and that is why it's time for the

e. you to take action and save lives. at least 5 people have died after an earthquake struck in northern philippines. although it didn't generate as unami wanting government seismologists fanned, the west may still be yet to come. barnaby lo reports now 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 come ourselves, so that is severely affected areas. small buildings caved walls crumbled,

and historic structures gave in years quick cracked open concrete roads and triggered landslides, launch lives are a problem, especially not only for earthquakes, but during green. 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 government continuing efforts to help them recover from the disaster europe wake. this dropped northern philippines did not generate nami warning, but governments a small just worn while the worst navy over after shops are expected to persist for days. barring to below all, 0 manila, tucson, the minneapolis police officers involved in the 2020 killing of george floyd, had been sentenced to time in prison. a jury found that both deprived the black man

of medical care and failed to stop fellow office at derek. shaven as he knelt on freud's neck for more than 9 minutes, a federal court gave alexander king. 3 is and jam 2 towel got 3 and a half years. they were both convicted and february of violation for civil rights. now bruce president begins his 2nd year in office facing new allegations of corruption. pedro castillo has already survived to impeachment attempts, but with low approval ratings and fresh scandals amongst is in a circle. there are growing calls for him to go. arianna sanchez reports from lima would be lucas thea, one the presidency, one year ago he promised peruvians who would stamp out corruption in government and end poverty in the country. the farmer and rural teacher also candidly said he was learning the job on the go. but one year round castillo struggling, he has sworn in for cabinets with more than 50 ministers, dismissed, and made political infighting. no thought,

almost almost like up at us. i don't see the girl. we are not here to be a circus, or a country has put us here to work for peru, for development and a fight against corruption. so that won't cost the yoke himself stands accused of corruption. the attorney general is investigating castillo for peddling graft and obstruction of justice for allegedly orchestrating the escape of kia lice, who prosecutor sake may hold evidence of the precedence involvement in crimes. yeah, noises he albany. he is not the honest man. we thought he was. he is suspected of corruption and he's awarding of public contracts. perhaps the most solid accusation against him is silencing people who could accuse him of being a criminal dignity. when garcia won the presidency, he raced the hopes of corporal v, else will. so in him, a man hoard better understand their grievances. but the pandemic, a rice in fuel prices caused by the war in ukraine have made conditions worse, and allegations of corruption by the precedent. i turned the hopes of millions of

peruvians into anger. his presidency has been marked by constant protest, lemming, gusty use, incompetent and corrupt opinion polls show his approval rating is at a low of just 19 percent with most former precedence, either under investigation or convicted of corruption, peruvian se thing. want him out m o that now that we want the treat to be known because we deserve a president who is not involved in corruption. but the president says he's innocent and still some supporters give him the benefit of the doubt. 2 why is it a messy or anyone can be investigated? but until there's a sentence, there is no guilt. the c u. hassan successfully requested the attorney general in the probes will, the president can not under peruvian law between or sentenced while still in office . his political enemies are working hard to ensure that he'll be removed as precedent and sent to trial long before the end of his official 5 year term.