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ah, hundreds of demonstrations withdraw off the storming me, iraq, he parliament protesting the nomination for prime minister. ah, hello there, i'm the associate a and this is al jazeera live from. also coming up. the u. s. federal reserve announces a huge interest rate hikes to tackle rising inflation. mid fears of a recession. the u. s. as it's ready to make a substantial offer to secure the release of brittany bryan, and for whelan, who are both detained in russia. and one year since his appointment peruse president fights for his political survival as he faces allegations of corruption. ah,

o. hundreds of people broken to iraq's parliament to protest against the nomination of a new prime minister. their supporters of influential shia cleric knocked out al sutter, who does not want to mohammed house, who donnie, to be the country's mixed leader. there's been a political deadlock in iraq ever since october's election last, mom supporters of souther resigns their seats and parliament thought a tweeted about the protest describing it as a revolution of reform and rejection of corruption. he says the message has been delivered. you have terrified at the corrupt in power on protesters in bagdad fast armed iraq's high security green zone, the political heart of the city in order to reach the parliament building. it's a 10 kilometers a fortified zone. that's been the headquarters of several iraqi government offices and zone also houses. many of the foreign embassies in the city. my put up and why it has worn out from baghdad. the protest who's, who's told with the headquarter of the council of representatives have was drawn.

that is following a command from the leader, the influential shia cleric and political leader looked to the 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 episode of the leaked voice recordings attributed to formal prime minister naughty aleki. a prominent adversity of shak lyrica looked to the a sort of now the protest her as had been a staging there demonstrations inside the heavily fortified green zone, prompting a turns of

a heavy or security presence in, in, in, in the area. now up the doctor, the seller, has been calling on his supporters to keep it calm and peaceful, and a statement from the caretaker prime minister. most of our alchemy also reiterated that the processors should maintain and keep their private and a public facilities. it safe well aspect to kill a bass. he is a political analysts based in washington d. c. and he says supporters of santa are likely to escalate their protests. so they went through several steps to pass the whole broad. it's popular support and friday, prayer. last week gave a good indication today his people from baghdad, this is only come back to supporters from other provinces store on the green zone.

the ottoman are in good numbers. it seems to me that there is no escalating this processing so to speak. he basically wants to this large count of the candidates for the creamier ship. one that's a southern procedure, as from now to not only key has been why the scene has called rob kerry and roll iran reform. so there has position himself on the other side. is he stayed in the parliament, he was forced to go into what's called power sharing national unity government for and right to that isn't too broad corruption. inefficient government, lack of accountability and i think while so iraq accept the review stuff they don't

see. this is certainly side with the southern movement. i don't mind, but they think the argument itself is for iraq need and majority government is not enough consensus based government that is an effect. it has proven itself an effective over the past 1516 years now. the federal reserve is increasing its key interest rate by 3 quarters of a percentage point to 2.5 percent. the u. s. central bank has been raising borrowing cost since march to try to rain in rising inflation. my counter reports with an inflation rate that is nearing 10 percent, all ice around the federal reserve and the announcement of its plan to try to push it down. against this backdrop, today, the forms he raised its policy interest rate by 3 quarters of a percentage point and anticipates that ongoing increases in the target range for the federal funds rate will be appropriate. the increase was not expected. and the

stock markets, which had been calling for aggressive action rose sharply on the news. both did also by the fed, kevin's contention that the country was not in a recession, doesn't seem that the u. s. economy is in recession right now. that along with the fact that he left the door open about the size of any rate move in september as the stance of monetary policy titans further, it likely will become appropriate to slow the pace of increases while we assess how our cumulative policy adjustments are affecting the economy and inflation the rate increase is going to directly affect the d. c. smoke house, its owner, mill, hines, plans for expansion had already been impacted by rising inflation. obtaining would a theme, it really went through the price adjustments. so we were that my contract was conscious of it, but of course, you know, it rolls down the hill so that's up to be as well. so you know,

you make adjustments to the project plans. you make adjustments to how you operate . and so the price increases are passed on to the customer is not expecting a better product for the higher price. we check price when you walk out of here, you know, satisfy with the food we have. we don't care about price, but you know, we're not satisfied with the food. it won't be about economists maintain the rate hike was the only tool that that has to come to inflation in the long term. but in the short term, the med son's going to have a bitter taste like her al jazeera washington. now you are a secretary of state, antony lincoln says, a substantial offer will be made to secure the release of basketball player. brittany greiner and former us marine poll whelan. they both detained cards in russia. he says he'll speak to his russian counterparts. i love rob in the coming days. risen issue that's a top priority for us. the release of americans,

paul will. and brittany grier law detain. and must be allowed to come all it was a substantial proposal on the table weeks ago. facilitate the release. our governments communicated repeatedly and directly on that proposal. and i was the conversation to follow up personally. and i hope lucas or to resolution? patty hell has one out from washington dc. it would, it seemed to indicate that it's pretty close to me. let's think about, take a step back when they do these prisoner exchanges between any country. they don't normally broadcast from the state department from the secretary of state himself a. but we've been seeing these indications for a while of the russians had said that they couldn't, can contemplate any sort of prisoner exchange in till brittney 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 how she shall into the country. she said it

was an accident that she was packing quickly. the sentencing phase is well under way, as 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 to had the secretary stake him out and make this very public announcement. they're looking to get paul. we'll in a former marine sense for 16 years and espionage and brittany griner out. and to say that he's going to call on his counterpart, foreign minister, sorry, labor love, rob 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 to 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. while ukraine farmers can now resume their harvests after a deal with russia on allowing them to export their grain. but getting food from

the farm to the table has become a dangerous job ever since the russian invasion began. john henry reports from the village of crossing in ukraine in a wheat field north of keep a de mining experts sweeps for the weapons of war. the mind detector finds 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 of the last say, hi me. we have found a fragment of class emission and a grin aid from an r p g 7, which is an exploded 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 never even fight it

up. stella, you can see they're burned and destroyed by shirley and artillery, and john strikes medium. she has good. as farmers scrambled together, wheat, corn, and sunflower oil, russia and 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 for ukraine, the problem is getting this 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 its signature on these cluster bombs. know what might be in your market, uncle,

but as he's got him here, we can see the mark of rational forces. since the beginning acquired her work, our employees font these on our field season. this year she threw up ala, not 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, while stella had here on out his era, one of the, one of the largest airlines cancelled more than a 1000 flights, leaving holiday plans in tatters. ah, the journey has begun the faithful world copies on its way to the castle. book your travel package today. hey, there,

good to see. let's begin. this weather report in pakistan were over the past few days in karachi parts of the city anyway, have scooped out 250 millimeters of rain all has to do with those monsoon rains. now, by thursday, we see it flick further north into sin province, northern sin province. it will be jacob bads turn for a lot of that rain on thursday. terms of the monsoon rains and india, it's really contained to the northern northwestern corner. so for example, in a con, there is a weather alert in play. we could see about a 100 to 200 millimeters of rain. now remember that much rain, that fast could certainly trigger some flooding. could also see some flooding in southeast asia across sumatra. island all has to do with this disturbance here, could turn into something tropical. it's amplifying rainfall amounts across western areas of sumatra, and also toward the north. sped the heat though in china's southern sections. anyway, and here's the proof quan jo said in new all time temperature record 39.3 degrees. that's in one done province by the way. and we see that he's still lingering on

thursday gray lin at 38 degrees. but if we go toward the north, a line of storms stretching from harbin right across the yellow river valley, getting close to shanghai. so that's going to help flush out some of that heat temporarily. official airline. the jo ah, the shake hamano ward for translation and international understanding is accepting nominations for the year 2022 from february 15th until august, 15th this year. for more information go to w, w, w dot h t dot q a slash e n. ah, with

ah, hello there, i miss darcy, tando ha, let's remind you about top stories here in the south. hundreds of protestors who stormed or rocks. parliament have now left the supporters of shia cleric looked out a l santo, were demonstrating against the nomination of a new prime minister who belongs to a pro iran below. the u. s. secretary of state says a substantial offer will be made to secure the release of basketball player. brittany greiner and former u. s. marine corps wheeler from russia. antony been can so you'll speak to his russian county outside laboratory. and the federal reserve is increasing its key interest rate by 0.75 percentage points to 2.5 percent. the u. s. central bank has been raising borrowing cost since march to try to rain in rising inflation. when out a u. s. democratic senator,

who had been opposing his own party is wide ranging spending plans has now agreed to back them to mention had been frustrating efforts of the biden administration to get the president's measure, the 3 congress before the mid terms in november. but he and senate democratically the chuck stream announced deal earlier on wednesday. it includes more than $300000000000.00 for clean energy initiatives, and more than $60000000000.00 for health. well, let's bring in thomas gift. he's the director of university college london center on us politics. he joins us now from cambridge, massachusetts. thomas manson is a democrat, but from west virginia, that's obviously not an easy place to get elected as a democrat. can you talk us through what's behind this change of heart? this is a big reversal for a mansion. it's hard to dispute that just weeks ago, he was a hard no on any proposal for new, substantial federal investments in climate and health care. and for months mansion has really been public enemy number one among progressive democrats,

david maligned him as the main obstacle to the white house, pushing a more ambitious domestic agenda. it's worth noting though, that the size of this bill about 369000000000 is significantly paired back from biden's original human infrastructure bill back better. this new deal would also include considerable offsetting taxes, roughly 150000000000 in new revenue over the next 10 years. course. one of mansions, real complaints about times earlier, spending surrounded transparency over cost at one point used other democrats of engaging and share games and budget gimmicks. so to me, the fiscal structure of this bill is much more palatable for mentioned. many of these policies were really critical parts of biden's election agenda. now as we've just spoken about, we don't know exactly what's in the final package or how much everything has been watered down. but given this whole delayed process, has that eroded by the support or has credibility? what's the state of the policy now going into the mid term?

well, if i can get this bill through, it would be a considerable win. especially given the timing going into the mid term. so i mean, for democrats that would give them something concrete to campaign on to say desperately need when joe biden is so unpopular, according to the polls and the political headwinds are really trending against the party stone. i think that this legislation might help on the margins, but it's not going to override the main issue of the 2022 elections. and that's obviously inflation in federal reserve, just raising rates by 75 basis points. again, that's a 4th rate height. this year, the same time a number of economists are predicting that the united states might be turning into a recession right now. so the fundamentals of the election, i still don't think change, but certainly this is going to be something that democrats are going to try to campaign on, and it would be a considerable achievement for joe biden, particularly given all the difficulties that he's had. so this point,

speaking of the democrats, the way this is all gone, is a fairly good demonstration. i think of just how divided the democrats all when it comes to trying to get policy pos at the moment. first off, will this make it through the center? well, the passage of this bill is certainly not a foregone conclusions. tasha for one thing sent a majority leader. chuck schumer and joe mansion appear to how to deal in principle . but go, she ation can always fall apart. and that's certainly not unheard of. democrats also control the senate by the slimmest of margins, so it would require that all other $49.00 democrats support the bill. so far, joe mentioned has essentially have this defacto veto power over by his domestic agenda. but there are other moderate senators like kristen cinema of arizona, for example, who also might want input on a go like this. but even if democrats can get the requisite 50 votes and it seems like they probably can, this can only pass if congress is parliamentary and says that it's eligible to be considered under the special budget reconciliation process. that's

a process that will ask for circumventing at the normal requirement of 60 votes, which is the typical threshold for overcoming a filibuster. and of course, filibuster allows opposition parties to delay or stall legislation. so there are still are some details that need to be worked out, and this is going to get through and some very controversial ones to thomas gifts that the director of university college london center on us politics. great to get your thoughts and expertise. thanks for joining us on al jazeera. thank you. now moving on and friends, president emmanuel mac, ron, is focusing on security during his visit to 3 west african countries. on thursday, he stopped and been in best angered frances presents, in its former colonies, has also been increasing. how many address reports he manuel mc crone arrived, been with promised to investigate security as a sale region seizes pike in attacks by armed groups. the french president says france will work with friendly countries to overcome those challenges. no fuss. so

i to do a good. it is a deleted be france will always stand by been in to face the threat. and it will do so by responding to your requests, as we have always done, our support will be, 1st of all, civilian animals then be in support of the development strategies for the most vulnerable areas and those most exposed to the attempts of terrorist groups is legal to established themselves on the security fund, it will be on hand to meet all your requests in terms of training and equipment, not as you but as we're corner arrives beneath the molly and military and oust i'm groups of carried out coordinated attacks of 2 military pieces the attacks came days after another uptake, the other capital france was forced to pull out of money after 9 years of leading a joint operation with regional forces to route armed groups in the cell. this has left the former colonial power struggling to position its troops elsewhere in the region. his host, patrice to law, was hoping for to boast french supporters,

small west african country, which was also seeing as teddy rise and attacks by armed gross. instead, his human rights record is coming under scrutiny. though some politic, though been in yet, but the duplicity and benign, there were no political prisoners, no one's detained and benign for their political opinion, but people are detained for having acted for having committed offences. crimes in the political field. that's true. so it could be that in the future and my time or after me, that acts of pardon or amnesty will be enacted towards these people. it's possible decisions losolsi, my cross tor coil sites with russian foreign ministers, africa, diplomatic trouble, frances, and he wasted no time to blame. russia's invasion of ukraine for creating food and energy shortages across africa is next pit. stop mosquito, a country whose political stability continues to be tested. i'm a decrease algebra while the nigerian army says it's found to female students who are abducted from

a high school by vocal her on 8 years ago. and the women are now being cared for in a military medical facility. both were found with children. they are some of the last victims to be found from the nearly 300 school girls who were kidnapped by the armed group in the northeastern town of tobac, back in 2014. and germany is national airline lufthansa as canceling more than 1000 flights because of a one day strike by its ground crew. a labor union is demanding a pay increase for around $20000.00 workers. and it says a payoff made by lufthansa is not good enough. the airline is one of the world's largest, and it says the strike will affect about a $130000.00 passengers. step batson has worn out from berlin's brandenburg appleton, 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 kinds of flights at the moment, more than thousands have been canceled. effect 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 struggle this year since problem restrictions have been left off of the culprits and that make the problem okay. cannot target from africa? no, i have to go to paris the flood with cancer, and they say that tomorrow would be a book. but nobody was here when we are right in order to 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 sponsor today. and yet it did happen to me that about the school year 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 people working at security luggage, handling maintenance of plain solar towns have no choice but to cancel these

flights. i was wrong stuff one says that a fe, they had working been working very hard. there was a shortage of fab 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 any more, thrice happening after that. well, there's also travel chaos in the u. k. where $40000.00 rail work is also on strike . people without a central travel needs being advised to avoid taking trains. the dean baba has worn out from london on wednesday, only one in 5 trains was running across the u. k. 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 stations 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 union. the already see there in dispute with bosses that a number of rail companies pay jobs, attention, and conditions. well, the boss of 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 birmingham on thursday, 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 on the london underground in just over a month. time of police have used to tear gas on hundreds of protestors marching in

support of peruvian president pedro castillo. ah, the demonstrate is called for the close of congress, labeling it a nest of rats and comes a day before his dears, 1st anniversary and power. his popularity has fallen from 38 percent at the beginning of his town to 19 percent last month is also facing new allegations of corruption. he is already survived to impeachment attendance, but with those low approval ratings and fresh scandals amongst his inner circle, there are growing calls for him to go. marianna sanchez, reports now from lima would be the august the you won the presidency one year ago. he promised peruvians, he would stamp out corruption in government and end poverty in the country. the farmer and rules 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

minister, dismissed, and made political infighting. no thought, almost almost looked 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 will 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 see me, hold evidence of the precedence involvement in crimes. john roy says he already, 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 community. when just the one the presidency, he raised the hopes of poor peruvians will. so in him, a manhood better understand their grievances. but the pandemic of rice and fuel prices caused by the war in ukraine have conditions worse. and allegations of

corruption by the precedent hath turned the hopes of millions of peruvians into anger. his presidency has been marked by constant protest, gleaming, gusty use incompetent and corrupt opinion. polls show his approval rating is at a low of just lengthy percent with most former precedence, either under investigation or convicted of corruption, peruvian say, think want him out. m. okay. 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. both ways that he received any one can be investigated. but until there's a sentence, there is no guilt. the c, u. hassan successfully requested the attorney general and the probes will, the president cannot 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.