what we're talking about by americans today, we take on us politics and society. that's the bottom line. august on al jazeera, kenya, braces for a title contested votes. as the country goes to the poles and elections that will shape its future. the listening post examines and dissects the wealth media, how they operate to the stories they cover up to 5 years on the since me on mars, mostly minority were forced from the country. we look at the plight of the rocking . i'll just say we're well showcase is the best documentary from across the network, including a new 3 part series, the sixty's in the arab world. as protests continue following the swearing in the new president could sri lanka, economic and political crisis, lead humanitarian 1 august, which is iraq. ah

ukrainian forces say their troops are on the front line and they're stepping up a counter offensive in carson. ah. either i'm can vanelle this is alger there, live from doha. also coming up, the world bank says no new financing for sri lanka until the economy has stabilized tensions about taiwan and a 2 hour coal between the u. s. and chinese presidents. they agree to meet face to face violent protests calling for an end to military role in guinea from capital to a standstill. ah ukrainian forces say their troops on the front line as stepping up a counter offensive in curse on. the southern region fell to russia in the early

days of the war, but ukraine wants to recapture it. a strategic bridge is now out of action to ukrainian forces, hit it with long range rockets. keith says it targeted 5 russian strongholds around the city on thursday. another 3 bridges across denique, po, river, have been damaged in recent weeks, making it harder for russia to supply its forces. which on hanjin is live for us now in the port city of odessa. john. so start with just bringing us up to speed on the latest, the fighting and his focus on cur some well, it's been a busy and bloody 24 hours gym, in hearse, and that counter offensive is gaining strength. that is, according to british intelligence. you did have that bridge strike that was designed to cut the city off and isolate russian troops in that area. and we've heard below tamir zalinski, the russian or the ukranian president said that it was a main goal for the ukranian army to take back harrison. that was

a strategic point from which the russian military has been launching many of its operations. so the idea of isolating it is strategic in order to try to retain or to gain back bits of that area. and there have been members of the underground also active there were told by ukrainian officials that a police officer, a russian police officer, was killed. that is part of an effort the russians have made in these towns they've taken to sort of russia fired the issue, russian i. d, 's, they ban the trading of the currency here in ukraine, the redna, and require people to use roubles. there are also attacks elsewhere in hark if there has been an attack every day for the last several days that is in eastern ukraine and in the don best region also in eastern ukraine. there was a, according to russian forces, which we have not verified. they claim ukrainians have struck

a prison. they claim their 40 dead and $130.00 injured in all in eve. again, we cannot independently confirm that and we haven't always found the russian information to be entirely reliable in the don best region in eastern ukraine. ukrainian officials have warned residence to leave. they say, if they don't leave, they risk having power, water, food medicine sheet and communications cut off. and we also learned a little more about what happened at a hotel in back move in eastern ukraine. we, there was a strike on that hotel according to ukrainian officials. that was a russian strike earlier. we reported that there was one dad, that number his now increased to for and john, we're still waiting for this grain export deal. to begin, do we have any word on on when net is actually expected to start? well, there is some indication that it could happen today. there's been increased movement in the ports. you can tell by shipping applications that there are

a number of turkish ships that have entered the region, and the 1st ship was expected to go out of turn, a more that's just a few miles from here. another port, very close by. then a desa. and then p denny, those are the 3 black seaports from which those ships are leaving. and apparently one of the issues there is making crystal clear where the safe passage route is for these ships to get out. they want to make any mistakes. with that 20 to 25000000 tons of grain, they intend to ship out of this country. and of course, with a looming food crisis in africa and elsewhere, they want to make sure it gets there safely along with the personnel of those ships . john hinge and therefore us in odessa. thank you. the world bank says it won't capture lanka financial assistance until it puts economic reforms in place. the country has been plunged into a deep financial crisis since 2019. shall anchor's new president, ronald became

a singer, has promised to get the country back on track after protest forced his predecessor to resign. michelle fernandez as like frost al colombo ma now. so what does this mean for the country which, which desperately needs financial assistance from? oh, well, it's a just one more potential donor or source of bridging finance for the country, which does not have any foreign reserves and is really on its knees are being sort of written off. the world bank has said that while it will provide some sort of certain funding taken from money's already passed in sri lanka for ongoing projects are that they are not going to allocate any new finances until such time that shall anchor gets its macroeconomic sort of house in order literally, and that obviously entails a lot of structural reform and also for the country to address some of the routes

of the crisis. what caused it, and until that happens, i shall, lanka will not be able to look forward to any new world back funding about $160000000.00 has been sort of re purpose from those existing funds that they said for existing projects. the world bank has kind of rearrange things a little bit and provided about a $160000000.00 for emergency medicine for gas supplies and things like that. but this is money that had already been allocated to sri lanka. so like many international partners, countries, lots of people are waiting to see how shalanda intends to put in a plan to restructure its debt, to restructure its economy and get things in order before they do a sort of extendable. finance. manella looks like this, a little bit of action are happening, they're behind you, what's going on today?

so basically i am at the protest site outside the presidential secretariat. now, after a few days of things going quiet after that violent sort of dawn cracked down, where you had literally within 24 hours of run over promising a taking or says president a, you had a hundreds of special task force police of army coming out at 1 o'clock in the morning and clearing out some of the tents and some of the uh, sort of installations that had been put up for more than 3 months outside the president's office. clearing it, there have been a huge crack down on a some of the thought of protest leaders. there was one a guy who is literally yanked off a flight that was waiting to take off a c i the officers at the airport. i essentially took him off saying there was

a warrant for his arrest. that there was another leader who was going home on a bus, a 6 plain clothes police, so a see i do. officials took him off and bundle him into a jeep. so lots of the protest leaders have sort of gone a bit underground at the moment because they don't want to be sort of taken and arrested under the emergency, or without sort of proper i'd leave and recourse to the law. but what you see behind me is a relatively small group compared to recent months. but people still coming out, making their voices heard speaking up against the repression this cracked down their draw novick or missing her. and his government seems to have launch and say that they will continue to stand firm. the 9th of august is when some of the producers have said there will be a, i know it's a sort of a rally to send this government home. they're not going to stop with the exit of resin, gotta be roger boxer that run or become a singer. and his government is as illegitimate because they have no sort of

confidence of the people. and they say they will continue to agitate until they step down. michelle fernandez there for us in colombo, thank you. a protester has been killed in guineas capital during demonstrations against the military will, is, is anger because no date has been confirmed for elections after last. he has qu, barbara and gulf reports protest as thought guinea would quickly return to civilian rule. when they back to military coup against president out for condi last year. now they say they've been duped, said manifest us when we did this protest is revenge against this regime. we thought the crew was a change, but no, it's just a change of facade. i support the f n d c. i supported in everything that it's doing. after taking power, the military promised a 3, a transition back to civilian rural protest to say that's too long. and the west

african regional block echoing agrees g d, aquiner county. i was in conner, cree with the president of the commission of nick, was to make the military john to understand the decision of the summit of heads of state that the transition cannot exceed 24 months. oh, the national front for the defense of the constitution or ethan d. c. is the coalition of political parties and civil society organizations founded in 2019. it led a wave of protest appears in con his plan to change the constitution and run for a 3rd term. now it's demonstrating against the military who says that developed around the cooling september of 2021 is no longer there. that civil society and abrasion parties are determined to have his c. and if the hotel doesn't open up a more inclusive, more consultative, more transparent decision process,

then we could be in real trouble in guinea can agree. the military hunter has banned protest, but these demonstrators listening. barbara and alexandra years president joe biden and chinese presidents teaching ping, spoke for 2 hours on thursday, and what's being described as a tense phone call president. she won't jo vide and not to play with fire over taiwan. u. s. l speaking super lousy is room, it's to be planning a visit. aging says it's part of china's territory. the us president raised allegations of genocide and forced labor of china's weak muslims biden is not reported to have talked about removing us terrorists on chinese goods, but accused beijing of unfair trade practices that hom, american workers pledging base journalists. patrick folk explains the 2 countries positions on taiwan were judging by the read out from both sides. it appears that a lot of time was dedicated to talking about taiwan as

a being expected. and you have to imagine the both sides will be relatively satisfied that they were able to engage on the topic and speak frankly, at the same time without things going off the rails and mit these height and tensions president, she's paying importantly said the beijing was resolutely opposed to what it sees as external interference and warning that those who play with fire will get burned. but when you look beyond on that fiery rhetoric, which is very much targeted at china's domestic audience, it does really pinpoint what the key difference is and the read out from the chinese side. that said that the one china principal was the bedrock for sino us relations, which it really isn't. president biden, in the discussion also talked about the us being committed to the one china policy, which essentially means that acknowledges that there is any one china, but it doesn't necessarily see that beijing is the so legitimate governments of china,

including taiwan. so that is the key difference. the read at also says the u. s. should on the one china principle. so it's not only about not one thing. visits from us. officials to taiwan or american lawmakers having close relationships with taiwanese officials. but it's also essentially calling on the us the shifting policy altogether on taiwan. so it had on al jazeera, the relatives of noted, our journalists, serena, who take their campaign for justice to washington. bruce president marks one year and office as he faces mounting hostility from congress. and ah, let's go with your weather update across europe in africa for friday. have one so right off the bat, weather alerts in play for the wind,

and thunderstorms across northern sections of italy on friday, that energy spilling into austria. where the sun's out. we've got high temperatures . so belgrade, sorry, ever skokie and hit on i take on at 36 degrees as fall above average. and oh, there is an extreme forest fire danger for western areas of slovenia. the rain will do little to call that still breezy through the boss for us to stumble. looking at wind gusts of about 50 kilometers per hour on friday. and the forecast still calling for rounds of rain for the northeast of spain that will include barcelona as well. with the high 30 degrees or mile my, those temperatures coming up once again for london on friday at 26 degrees. gloomy conditions. and we'll get into the odd burst of rain off to africa. we go in a breeze off the atlantic means the temperature has come down in newark, shut to $29.00 degrees. it's got our rounds of rain and storm stretching from nigeria right through to sierra leone. as we dip toward the south, i think we may see some disruptive rain for the western cape. but the bigger story

won't really be those winds for cape town. gust of about 60 kilometers per hour on friday. and now you're in the know soon. the frank assessments, how much support is there if it's street protests that we've seen and across the rest of the country, the st movement. very good. that's happening into the co confound that. people across the country informed opinions we will say more of what is happening is that climate change is making them work in depth analysis of the days global headlines, druggie is credited by some. we're really, we're storing italy's credibility to critics would say he couldn't play the part of a politician. what do you think went wrong inside story on al jazeera? oh,

the me. you're watching else, is there a reminder about top stories? ukrainian forces say their troops on the front line stepping off a counter offensive in cars on a strategic bridge is now out of action after ukrainian for the patient with long range rocket. he says it targeted 5 russian strongholds around the city on thursday, while back says that one gives for lack of financial assistance until the ecken reforms in the country has been plunged into a deep financial processed in 2019 like his new president has promised to get the country back on track, the u. s. and chinese presidents have talked for more than 2 hours and what's being described as a phone call. thing is one job bought and not to if he put it play with fire of taiwan. the family of al jazeera john le sharina barkley has made an impassioned

plea for us politicians to support an independent investigation into her murder. they have the support of 80 members of congress. she hamper towns, reports from washington, d. c. my name is lena all claire and shooting was my aunt capitol hill was the latest stop for the brother, niece and nephew of slain al jazeera reporter, serene blackledge. as i keep up the pressure on the bike, the administration to open an independent investigation into a killing. this is the very least the by the administration must do. they cannot rely on israel's word. war criminals cannot investigate their own crimes. julian was my little sister, the family members also renewed the call for a meeting with president biden after he refused. during his recent trip to the occupied territories. a us citizen, a prominent journalist, beloved by millions of people, was killed by a highly trained israeli soldier. president biden was 10 minutes away. he never

came to see us over 80 members of congress and joined the family and cooling for an independent investigation. and she was trying to help us through her journalism what was happening now. we owe her for memory and her family and outcome of what happened to her. i'm so sorry because family and i'm embarrassed, or when the murders where israeli uniforms there is complete silence. this is bigger than one person or one country. this is about our values as americans. on tuesday, the family met with us secretary of state and we blink him. afterwards he tweeted that he expressed his deepest condolences and a commitment to pursue accountability for streams quite tragic killing. but the family said he made no commitment to an independent investigation. the next stop for the block as will be the department of justice. the family says it's not naive . and so aware of the u. s. history of shielding israel from accountability for its killing of how the citizens or us citizens. but it says it has to try and stop the

cycle that leads israeli soldiers to feel that they can kill at will she ever time? see al jazeera washington latest figures in the us indicate the gross domestic product or g d p has trunk for the 2nd quarter in a row, g d, p is a measure of the value of all goods and services produced by country. it's often used to judge how an economy is doing. my car has more from washington dc. it's a crippling time for american consumers, the inflation rate hovering around for decade, high of 9 percent. the base interest at which money is lent increased for times this year already. and now the news that the g d p i from for the 2nd quarter, another blow to national confidence. although president biden insist the economy will recover and there is no recession. both chairman power and many of the significant banking personnel and

economists say we're not recessive, the bite and administration points to the fact that employment is rising at an unprecedented rate with over 2 and a half 1000000. new jobs created this year alone, as clear evidence that it's doing a good job and opinion echoed by the treasury secretary. most economists and most americans have a similar definition of recession, substantial drop losses and mass layoffs. businesses shutting down. private sector activity, slowing considerably. family budgets under the main stream in some, a broad based weakening of our economy. that is not what we're seeing right now. that many republicans in a divided congress us seeing a political opportunity. well aware that should the november elections take place in the shadow of a recession,

it would be devastating for the administration impala. this economy is not working well in our economists are going to argue about whether we're in recession or not. but those are academic debate in order to de politicize the term. it's an independent body which decides whether or not a recession is under way. the national bureau of economic research consists of 8 economists who gather and examine all relevant data and then make an independent determination. polls indicate that some 50 percent of the us population believes the recession has already begun. despite what the president says are going to be a lot of chatter today on wall street and among finance, about whether we are in a recession and in a meeting with president biden. a number of chief executive officers agree there is no recession pointing to the notable absence of the most historically reliable sign of a downturn. point rise in the unemployment rate averaged over several months. by

kind of august era, washington, france, president emanuel con, has met saudi crown. prince. mom had been salman at the ally, say palace, france, and other european countries are trying to secure alternative sources of energy to reduce their dependence on russian oil and gas. it's been sol months, 1st official visit to the u, since jealous jamal cash algae was murdered at the saudi consolation is stumble in 2018. italy is scrambling to relocate thousands of refugees and migrants on the mediterranean island of lamb, producer after surgeon arrivals. of the crowding at the reception center is adding to the trauma. people have been true as natasha. her name reports the survived the perils of the mediterranean. but once they reached the shores of lampa, do so many migrants, refugees, that asylum seekers see a europe that isn't quite what they'd imagined. oh,

this is the welcome center. in recent days its reach more than 6 times its capacity . people sleep on the ground surrounded by human waste and garbage. there are no showers. the stench is overpowering. it's not urgent there to on very, very, very sober. it's taken this syrian refugee 3 years to reach europe. he paid a smuggler $3500.00 for a boat ride to lap a do so. one of the closest european destinations on the route from north africa. i want to leave you. but my back broken. i have to go to bill before the recent wave of arrivals, the government says more than $34000.00 asylum seekers had reached italy this year . in the last 10 days,

hundreds of migrants have been arriving daily. the authorities can't keep pace. any dye, young child him and dent them may go down. this is not a migrant emergency. usually welcomed a 100000 ukrainians and we didn't have an emergency. why don't we treating these people in a humane way? save the children says there are 300 minors in the center. many are alone. he said conquered, if i do not believe that c o we are trying to ensure they know they rights offered of them psychological support for they trauma and the create a space for them to play. the children express their feelings by painting and they homes and crowded the bought people drowning and sharks. this voyage is often one of loss, violence and pain. having made it this far, these people are hoping their journey is almost over and they'll soon be able to start the lives they've long envisioned in europe. natasha her name l. jazeera

lampa, noosa italy. opposition m. p. 's had heckled, peruse president while he delivered a speech to mark his 1st year in office. pedro castillo is facing allegations of corruption. i support to say the accusations are politically motivated. arianna sanchez reports from lena one year in office to unsuccessful impeachment proceedings more than 15 ministers dismissed and bid augustine presidency here at its worst hour. he is facing 5 corruption related probes. the president denies any wrongdoing. close allies and family members are also under investigation. o one door, i have sworn by god to serve my country. even if my family is insulted every day, and the majesty of the presidency is offended, i submit myself to justice. the clever crimes this i am accused of with respect to jew proceeds. my jersey is always to tell the truth, for you, ah,

holiday call falls interrupted his speech. some left the chamber as the you admitted making mistakes in these past 12 months. but said his achievements have been ignored. unhealthy upon him yesterday, so gross discontent, of the majority of the us who demands his most ignition opinion polls say 71 percent of peruvians disapprove of his government. and for critics, there's no hope that his presidency can be rebuilt. good, we want costio to understand that his cycle is over. he started his government with an anti corruption burner. however, there are already 5 fiscal investigations that clearly demonstrate that he is committed to corruption from the 52 year old rule teacher who was sworn in with his farmers hat won the hearts of many who believed gusty. you is honest. yes, i was, i got it millennial, we know that he's a good person and they who never steal of them or cousin up during his 2nd year

castillo said he will offer his hand to work for the good of the people or to achieve that he needs allies in a country rocked by political instability. castillo was expelled from his own party . opponents in congress will try to unseat him again for many who put their trust in him. his offers to work together may just be too late. and he and our son just, i'll just eat at lima, be to a rare dias or skeleton has sold it auction in new york for more than $6000000.00. so i'm just concerned about the ethics of such sales. i fear they could lose access to research the perfectly preserved phones. gabriel alexander has moved from new york. it's a dinosaur called gore concerts and at rome. earth more than 79000000 years ago. the dinosaur founded 2018 is a particularly rare find. it's made up of $79.00 bones perfectly preserved

from the giant score to the details in the vertebrae and the tail, not one bone is out of place. there are only 20 known fragments of this animal that exist anywhere in the world. almost all of them were found in canada, where it is believed the giant predator lived. but this one was an earth on private land in the state of montana in the united states. but the fact it was found in the us and not canada makes it even more rare. and why it's sold for $6100000.00 to an anonymous buyer at an auction in new york on thursday. canada, like many other countries as a strict restriction on fossils being exported from the country to a dinosaur like this would not be allowed out of canada because it was found in the us. that means we can actually sell it. and that is part of what makes it this dinosaur so rare. while the sale of this dinosaur was for over $6000000.00,

it's not the most expensive dinosaur ever sold. that title will go to a tyrant, a source rex. it's all for over $31000000.00 in 2020 another dinosaur sold for more than $12000000.00. and well, that might be a good thing for the buyers and even the auction houses. it's not necessarily a good thing for science. there's worry about the ethics of all of this. many paleontologist say they're concerned that dinosaurs specimens in private hands means that they potentially are no longer available for research. there are not very many specimens of gorgeous source. all the others are in museums. and one more being sold, you might say, oh, well it's only one, but if there's only a few, right, that's a lot of information that we lose and you say, well, why are you losing it? well for one you have no guarantee that whoever buys it is going to allow access to scientists.