not witnessed loss. witness, charity, witness, confusion, witness, clarity, witness. family and witness. friends. witness the beginning. witness the end witness. life witness on algebra. ah . how speak and nancy pelosi is in taiwan and is due to meet the president and visit parliament. but the us traces it's not supporting taiwanese independence. china has reacted with fury to her visit, saying it's planning targeted military actions a around taiwan. ah, i'm told mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up to warring factions and given

extend a truce just hours before it was due to expire, the you and welcome to the move. but agencies say the death toll continues to rise . the 1st ship carrying crying from ukraine since school began with russia arrives off as stand bold with hopes the you in broke a deal will help ease a global food supply crisis. ah, the speaker of the us house of representatives, nancy pelosi has begun to visit to taiwan despite warnings of several severe consequences from china just after she landed pelosi issued a statement saying us support for ty, ones, democracy is unwavering. the beijing considers the islands a part of its territory. it is bound to launch what it calls targeted military actions around the island. she hobb returns reports from washington d. c. after days of expectation, nancy pelosi landed in taiwan the 1st time

a u. s. how speaker has built that type pagan, 25 years at the airport. she was greeted by ty, one's foreign minister and stuff from the american institute in taiwan, but they fact the u. s. embassy anti pe hi pace tools building also proclaimed its welcome. soon after her arrival, pelosi tweeted that her visit was part of an ongoing effort to support democracy against autocracy. comparing it to a trip to ukraine in april. but also after she touched down, there was swift condemnation from beijing alan announcement that live i munition drills would take place surrounding taiwan at the white house, national security space person john kirby emphasize as he has for several days that there's been no change in policy. the u. s. does not support taiwanese independence and speaker pelosi was acting in our own capacity. united states will not and does not, will not seek and does not want a crisis. we are prepared to manage wellbeing chooses to do. at the same time,

we will not engage in saber rattling, however some and let's say the beijing will not be reassured by such statements. instead, suspecting that this visit is just the latest example of the bible administration shipping away of the one china policy. i think that this only creates much deeper mistrust in china, towards the united states, towards its intentions. i think china's concerns around taiwan is the u. s. pursuing this quote unquote salami slicing strategy and pushing landing. and taiwan is a slab, not a slice already have been multiple reports of heightened military activity by the people's liberation army or the white house as it expects. the main consequences of police his visit to unfold in the medium term. she had to see al jazeera washington

russell and jordan joins us now from washington, d. c. and is the response we've seen so far from china just in the last few. a couple of hours. is that what polosa taiwan in the biden administration would have anticipated, or does it go much further? well, certainly that was anticipated. we saw the by an administration basically warn beijing against unnecessarily provocative actions. well, essentially trying to walk a tightrope, trying to keep in mind that the house of representatives is part of the congress, which is a co equal branch of the government. and even though bay jane before her arrival in ty, pay on tuesday, had called on president joe biden, to try to prevent her from going to the island. the us president doesn't have that authority. it's as simple as that. now, in addition to these reports of heightened military exercises, air and naval exercises around taiwan, we also understand that the us ambassador to china nicholas burns,

may have been called into the foreign ministry late on tuesday and received a robust protest from the vice foreign minister objecting to nancy pelosi trip. so this is a situation where the relationship wasn't good already and certainly you had expected to improve any time in the near future. and just on that, obviously the relationship between china and the us, as you say, has been listening. but how bad things likely to get after this visit from pelosi? well, there's really the question of whether or not china would be prepared to act on it's a years long threat to try to reclaim taiwan by force. there's not a real sense here in washington that china has a position to the resources in order to do so. and there's also some analysis suggesting that moscow has shown that it has not been capable of subduing the

ukrainian people. and that's a lesson which authorities and beijing are taking as well, especially considering that there is a legal relationship between the u. s. anti one in terms of protecting a taiwanese sal verity. so this is a situation where china would have to move very carefully, and it's probably likely that you might see a lot of saber rattling to use the phrase. but you wouldn't actually see anything in terms of an actual invasion or an attack on taiwanese interest. rosalind jordan, thank you so much for joining us. we're going to go now to jeremy mock, who is a senior fellow with the atlantic council and a firm i'm if official i thank you very much for joining us from washington d. c. festival. what are the economic end tried implications between the u. s. and china as the relationship is with hood declines further because of this visit? it's obviously still early in this,

in this situation. i wouldn't go so far as to call it a crisis. so it's a bit hard to say what else trying to intend to do. i don't think that there are at this point broiled implications for the us china economic relationship that is much bigger than this than this issue ultimately, despite whatever beijing they say, i think the real focus economically is going to be from beijing on the trade and investment relationship with taiwan. can you just talk a little bit more about that? what will they be able to do? what do you think that they will be able to do to taiwan? well, basically actually announce some action, some punishments against taiwan today on the economic front, a group of pi when these companies that have long been involved in investing and trading in the food industry. we're, we're here with sanctions today that essentially are blocking them from

a lot of what they've been doing for many years. in addition, beijing has ban imports of a wide range of taiwanese food and agricultural products. but while this certainly will hit certain people farmers and particular hard, that is not what is important in the top one chinese economic relationship. the heart of that relationship is electronics, especially semiconductors. for example, in the 1st 6 months of this year, half of all time when use exports to, to china were electronics goods and particularly semiconductors. when we're talking about over $30000000000.00 in 6 months, what you see happening next, who do you think is going to make the next move here? it's all up to beijing to make moves at this point. i don't think 1st for starters, taiwan is going to do anything further that would be perceived as trying to get under beijing skin. the u. s. you know,

what i think will continue to have sort of this, this verbal set of responses. so it's up to china, are they simply going to undertake these big military exercises in the waters round taiwan and in the air space around taiwan? or will they do more? and i think it's probably safe to say we will see more probably after the speaker has left pi pay. okay, well, how do you think this could be de escalated? can the heat be taken out of the situation without either sides or any of the sides? taiwan, china or the us looking week or caving into the other color. it's all up to at this point, it's all up to beijing. beijing has turned this into a heated situation, you know, for its own domestic political reasons. and i think a lot of this has to do with the fact that the chinese economy is in a bad way at the moment because of she didn't think 0 colon policies because of the

crisis that it has hit the property market and related economic problems. he's looking ahead to the, the, the national people's congress later this year, which is expected to signal his re appointment to a 3rd term as china as later. so it's all up to them in beijing, whether they want to turn the heat up or whether they're prepared to, you know, exhaust their anger and move on. we keeping a very close eye on what beijing does next. thank you very much that said jeremy jeremy mark from washington dc. thank the us could soon be selling military hardware with $5000000000.00 to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates . the state department has approve the sale of patriot missiles and related equipment to saudi arabia and a deal valued at about $3000000000.00 in the sale of just over $2000000000.00 worth of a missile defense system to the u. e. has also been given the go ahead or gibbons

warring parties have agreed to extend a full month's truce for 2 more months. just hours before it was due to expire. the u. an invoice to humans to the assist ation in hostilities between the government and who the rebels. who now last until october, the 2nd the announcements came out was after an amani delegation concluded 3 days of talks with the healthy leadership. kristen salumi has more now from the united nations. the 2 month extension of yemen truce is being welcomed by members of the un security council and the humanitarian community who point out the positive impact it's had since it was 1st adopted back in april, reducing the number of casualties. the longest period of calm and 7 years, and i had other positive impacts as well, allowing fuel to get into the country and displays people to return to their homes . but there are sticking points that remain. they want to get more supplies into

the country and they need to work out how to pay civil servants. and one major sticking point has been reopening roads, particularly around the city of ties which is controlled primarily by the government. but who the aligned militia seem to be stopping access, getting in. so all of this comes also with some worrying signs in the country. the organization save the children, points out that the last week of july was one of the bloodiest in years, a total of some $65.00 civilian casualties. they were killed in that time. some $38.00 of them were children. so all of this is raising concerns and putting pressure on the process going forward. but the un special envoy for yemen. hans greenberg says that the parties have agreed to intensify their negotiations going forward in an attempt to reach a more permanent political solution. the us state department is warning that the

killing of al qaeda later i am an l z. our hittie in an american drone strike may prompt the group supporters to target us facilities and citizens. you details have emerged about the killing in afghanistan on sunday. he was reportedly struck by 2 hellfire missiles while he was standing on a balcony in central cobble. u. s. official say no one else was killed or wounded. he was one of the key coordinators of the 911 attacks will still ahead on al jazeera clay caching in on the demand for gas. nigeria rushes to fill the void created by sanctions on russia plus ah, iraqi shia leda mac todd. elsa tells us followers to leave parliament. it continued their protest outside. ah,

the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to catherine book, your travel package to death. hello, we got a couple of old tropical systems now making the way across the korean peninsula, pushing some wet weather into southern parts of north korea. northern parts of south korea. so central areas of the peninsula, fitness in wet weather, in across the region here. and eventually that will slide across the sea of japan, northern parts of honshu seeing some very heavy rain as we go on 3 weddings day. that rain becoming a little wide spread across western areas of honshu. by the time we come to thirst, they hot and humid, pretty wet to thunder, downpours theft, tokyo at around $35.00 celsius humans as well into the northeast of china and where to whether they're in 2 or beijing central areas. generator. ibis and wet weather just breaking the heat down towards south hong kong. around 28 celsius wis and lively down. paused good scattering of lively downpours across southeast asia or the showers coming into the philippines. typically, northern areas of the country,

so much a weather, also coming into western parts of borneo, so as western parts of malaysia, seeing some wet weather play, a shower there to some parts of indo china. now it's longest bells of rain still continue in cross southern parts of india. red wall is still in force here. a lease for the next couple of days into corolla should turn a little less. where shall we say into tom on that day, but the rain there still, nevertheless, with one or 2 showers, the pakistan i saw officially outline of the journey out. his ear is investigative unit goes undercover in the caribbean. we don't use the word bribe, we'll give you a token of appreciation, exposing trade of diplomatic passports. today it's $250.00 unless you're hot, then the price will go to well over a $1000000.00, involving some of the regions, highest officials with well, al jazeera investigations. diplomats fail.

lou ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories, the solid. you as hell speak in nancy pelosi has begun the trip to tie one, despite holdings of severe consequences from china. pelosi will made president sighing when and visit ty, one's parliament. she's the most senior us official to visit the self governing island. 25. he is beijing. says pillar sees visit is a serious violation of the one china principal is bound to launch targeted military actions around the islands. ahmed vehicles was st. patrolling the chinese port city of gammon. across the street from taiwan. humans war and parties have agreed to

extend a full month truce for a fair the 2 months hours before it was due to expire. us presidential biden says the agreement between the government santa, who thesis is an important stick. the 1st cargo ship carrying grain to leave ukraine since roger invited more than 5 months ago has been cited off the coast of turkey. it's expected to dock there for inspection on wednesday before heading to live in on. the ship is being monitored by a joint coordination center and stan bull turkish, russian, ukrainian, and you. when staff are there, as part of a deal signed last month, the ship to lift the ukrainian port of odessa on monday. son in casino, glue has more from a stand bull. the 1st commercial vessel carrying ukrainian grands, well crossed by some of the vault 1st rays. on wednesday,

the sierra leone smack red zone, is expected to arrive by the turkish praise up north in the sea. after midnight tonight, according to the joint control center, a us lead buddy that overseas the grant shipping from ukraine, the vessel is going to be inspected by a team of a you and russian ukranian and turkish military personnel. on wednesday morning. then after receiving the go, i have the vessel is expected to continue the journey. the final destination for the full of port 11 on this is a test run according to un officials in their joint control center. and this will serve as a proof of concept that the process rate initiative process is functioning properly . russia says its forces half killed up to $250.00 foreign fighters in ukraine during strikes on the southern city of mich alive. ukraine has not responded to the claim,

but its regional emergency service. she had footage of damaged oil storage tanks and workers clearing up after the strike on tuesday. it says multiple loans, rocket system was used to destroy university dormitory shops and several high rise buildings. with russia, supreme court has designated ukraine's as of regiment as a terrorist group. the volunteer force has been one of the most prominent military units fighting russian troops in the east. it has far right routes. moscow has often referred to the regiment to support its claim that ukraine is controlled by what it calls fascists. relatives of as a fight is detained in russia, a calling on international groups to do more to secure the release grasp on. and we have a lot of questions for the un and red cross and there have been 0 answers from them . i am witness incomplete inaction on their behalf, a refusal to fulfill their responsibilities. that's all i can say for now. us

basketball star, brittany griner has made another appearance in moscow court as if as to secure her freedom. continue. greiner is accused of drug smuggling. after she was found carrying a small amount of cannabis oil and vague cartridges, her supporters say her detention is politically motivated and that she has been caught harp and the stand off between russia and the whist. who brennan reports. brittany griner is a superstar of american women's pro basketball. he's also become a central character in an international diplomatic wrangle between russia and the united states. greiner was arrested in february on arrival. and moscow shot a match of o airport customs officers discovered she was carrying vapor cartridges, which contained small amounts of cannabis oil. despite testifying that she has a doctor's prescription for medical cannabis greiner has pleaded guilty to a charge of drug smuggling, in the hope of avoiding a maximum 10 year prison sentence. at this latest court appearance,

her defense lawyers challenged the forensic findings of the prosecution. experts in issue near issuing your brother, we may be exact legal basis for this case that will depend in particular, whether the c substance is prohibited and what is it to mount forensic evidence tells us that it's impossible to reliably established the amount with the existing case materials for the user, even as griner trial enters its final stages, her fate is bound up in bigger diplomatic negotiations. negotiations made more tense by the impact of russia's invasion of ukraine. the bottom administration has proposed a prisoner swap to secure granite freedom. the u. s. state department is understood to be willing to release victor boot the notorious russian arms dealer who is 10 years into a 25 year jail sentence for supplying weapons to designate a terrorist groups. in return, america wants russia to release brittany greiner and paul whelan, a u. s. corporate security expert who russia has convicted espionage charges,

and sentence to 16 years in prison. appears numer should kisha armstrong, liberty be still saying by any exchange of information regarding this topic should unite discreetly mega for and diplomacy. public exchange of opinions will not achieve results. we will continue corpus finer to every step of this process. and as long as it takes to bring your home state state and will continue to support every us citizen in prison or deliver series. greiner herself, is understandably following the news closely. she still focused on, she's still nervous and she still knows that they and this is near, and of course she heard the news. so she, she's hoping that sometimes she will be coming home and we hope so. the next court date is thursday, a swap deal could come at any time, pull brennan, al jazeera,

influential, shia cleric, mac todd al sada, has reportedly told his supporters to withdraw from iraq's parliament and continued their protest outside. thousands of them stormed the complex and baghdad on saturday said i had called on all rockies to join what he considered a revolution. but his opponents of called the parliament takeover a qu, the unrest follows months of political deadlock which has prevented the formation of a new government dosage. a bowery has more now from inside parliament. busy confusion and chaos. as these demonstrators have been told, they have another 72 hours evacuate this building, but many of whom we spoke to say they're not going anywhere. the statement was issued by the aides and whatever else. other who said, although the demonstrations to continue, they should leave this building. that's most of the people we've spoken to here. say they're not going anywhere until they've achieved their goals. that daughters a balkan farm did. well, good job. i heard about the evacuation order and we will leave at that point and

camp outside the parliament. none have looked at else, others demands been fulfilled, yet it is like the full on deaf ears. no answer. they've lost the right path because they are corrupt. i, nothing of the demands have be fulfilled, and we all stink, and we will not move. we are here until all demands on met. it's not the demands of looked at us suddenly, but these demands of the demands of all iraqis, i, ah, the question now is. 6 with the next heavy cars be enough time for the various loanable facts and to get together and try to come out with some kind of a resolution to this ongoing political crisis. what is clear is that the situation continues to be as unpredictable and tense as it has been over the past few days. mahmud abdullah, he'd reports now on how the political chaos is taking its toll on the lives of baghdad. citizens, iraqis have been waiting for

a change. taxi driver's own worked option. they say the recent unrest has worsened and already over a stretch transportation system. the hama, toll roads esl coded. so jeremy, all wake has been affected to spend long hours to get a few passengers with his crisis main out elect into travel to but i can take care of. most of the roads are blocked because of the security measures imposed following the demonstrations. we have to make turns that take hours within iraq's political system is in crisis. there hasn't been a government for 9 months. parliament has been applied by supporters of influential she. our leader looked at us other. he and his beckers reject and the nation of how much he sued any for prime minister and those who support the raven, the coordination framework, have to teach it counter protests. eventually what's other did is that he actually

proven the coordination of frame by saying ok, i want, i want to change the whole political process. so what the coordination of frame is that made demonstrations and show the summary is that we are capable to go to the edge. so that means eventually they will be negotiations. so that's it, it eventually a political game. it's not really going forward for some so the freeform for the whole political process. this political standoff has disrupted work across several state in institutions. iraqis are facing scorching summer temperatures and possibly weeks of political unrest. many have been hoping for a new government that getting hand services and improve their lives. although it's an oil rich country, iraq remains one of the least developed nations in the world, poverty and unemployment on the rise. i shall our guy that thought about. we count

on you authorities to create jobs, we need jobs, we have been waiting for so long. people here were hopeful for a change, especially after last october's the elections. but recent events have overshadowed those hopes. without that were al jazeera, though, that the head of the international atomic energy agency says around nuclear program is moving fast and growing in ambition and incapacity. the warnings from raphael grossi come just a day after the head of a rounds atomic agency see this country has no plan to produce a nuclear bomb. that's despite having the technical capability. on monday the us announce new sanctions on entities involved in rounds, oil and petrochemical trite. a funeral has been held for a palestinian teenager in gin and in the occupied west bank. 17 year old du rock

freeney was killed on monday, following violence with israeli forces. they have been near daily rides across the occupied west bank. in recent weeks. the nigeria is ramping up, if it's to finish the construction of a pipeline that will help dhl of a gas to europe. it's also trying to triple its reserves as prices and demand for gas is searching to use the conflict in ukraine. ahmed address reports from port harcourt, nigeria, as a country in the rush. it's trans sahara gas pipeline that's been on hold for decades, is now active. africa's biggest old producer wants to caching on rising gas prices as iraq looks to reduce reliance on energy from russia. we're in the process of building the pipeline a gas pipeline from here to or julia targeting the european market. ah, we are also a built in it pipeline or from the west african gas pipeline. to morocco

also target in europe. ah, so what the, what the russia and ukraine crisis as created ish, additional market flower gas little he says, nigeria can make up for supply shortfalls. for many european countries, but would need more of their investments to speed up delivery. global prices of gas have stored in the wake of the war in ukraine. with europe accusing russia of waging and economic war. nigerian officials say many european investors have been pulling out investments in fossil fuels. here are slowly coming back. the country has proven reserves of 206 trillion cubic feet of gas. now it's aiming to triple that in eighty's as interest in crude oil is waiting for decades, oil companies operating here treated gases and losers tapping or flaring it. as the rest of the world struggles with high prices and shortages, nigeria bunch 30 percent of his gas every year or so,

it could be capitalizing on developed economy fall, turn it, use the russian supplies industry analysts say the current global guest supply challenges on opportunity to grow the sector. i think we should be talking a lot more about, you know, increasing the l m g l and your trade that we have. i, you know, doesn't really talk anybody by, that seems to be, we'll go make them for coastal. but the biggest challenge for nigeria is funding it toby, the conflict in ukraine could give many countries. i reason to rethink the investment of gas as a transition fuel to clean energy decrease. i'll just get out port got nigeria. ah.