you're wrong here. more intense wildfires that the best case scenario is this when people need to be heard. and the story told it was exciting to have this icon of the blind be shown to everyone. with exclusive interviews, an in depth reports the approaches awful damage being brought him al jazeera, has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and lives control of the narrative shapes the landscape. that's fairly and point to the policy. read those images front of mind, which is a war for very much bring forth out in the media as well as on the battlefield. the listening post. dissect the media on al jazeera, on the 9th of august, headed go head to the polls. the country is brave for a closely contested general election that will determine it's future presidents. i'm a growing political and economic pension, who will be in the widow and can vote physic back a free and fair election join us for special coverage on al jazeera

ah, rocky sheer lead and look tighter, all cider calls for early elections and says his supporters will continue their parliament protest. ah, hello i, mariam noisy in london, you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. president biden size and executive audit how women travel for abortions, a day off to kansas resoundingly voted to protect abortion access that us how speak. and nancy pelosi wraps up her controversial trip to taiwan. as china shows its fury. watching military drills around the island and packed up and

taken away elderly ukrainian parents of farewells by their families as the war comes closer to home. ah loan, welcome to the program. we begin in iraq where the influential shall lead a much harder l solder is demanding that parliament the dissolved and early elections held. he's also rejected any dialogue with the government. southern televised address is the 1st since hundreds of his supporters storm the parliament building on saturday. protest is a still occupying the complex and sadder urge them to continue with their sitting until his demands. and mat sanders block one the most seats in iraq selections last year. but political deadlock has left the country without an elected government. since then, be a nanny loudy bill who all i am not willing to engage in dialogue. we have just to dialogue with them before and good,

nothing. i but corruption and harvard despite the empty promises and justice, promises have not been fulfilled by i will not approve of bloodshed, but through 4 could not be achieved without sacrifice. alger there is, dorsey jabari has more now from baghdad. they share leader, very defiant, and determined and standing his ground. he put to rest all speculations, ever ongoing. here over the past few days that there was a lot of behind the scenes meetings taking place and that eventually he would join a dialogue process. but certainly that is not going to happen, as he said, what is critical now is whether or not the various other factions within the government will accept his call. and there is no really functioning government at the moment after the elections that were held last october. since we'll cut off souther instructed his m p, 's 73 of them to withdraw in june. the country has been in limbo. so the question

now is whether the other sides will accept the fact that there should be another election health. the next process that will come is the speaker, parliament would have to basically dissolve parliament and then they will have to announce new election. it is unclear what the other side that will be involved in this. i will have to say in the coming hours, we'll have to wait and see, but certainly most other us, other standing his ground urging these protesters to continue. what he calls is a peaceful revolution that will eventually hopefully get their demands. met their ordinary iraqis. we've been speaking to say they are tired of all these politicians and they're back and forth and their divisions. they just want to see their country back on its feet and the infrastructure to be funded properly so they can get on with their daily lives. ah, us president joe biden assigned to new executive order and making it easier for

women to travel between states to get an abortion. it's his 2nd executive order on abortion, since the supreme court overturned the roe v wade decision. that guaranteed a woman's right to the procedure, my counterparts from the white house. another salvo in the battle to restore reproductive rights. the 1st meeting of a task force which will explore ways in which to restore a woman's right to choose and protect her in the process executive or make sure health care providers comply with federal loss. women don't face delays or denials, medically necessary care. and this executive order adventures, research and data collection to evaluate the impact of dr. health crisis is having on to help and other health conditions. president biden signs and executive order director of the secretary of health to advance access to reproductive health care services. and we're going to continue forward, including,

for example, and making sure medication. abortion is available to women throughout this country . and we won't stop. but the executive order is limited in scope. and president biden has long insisted that congress needs to pass legislation, restoring the rights embedded in roe. v wade. president biden says he'll support removing the filibuster in the senate in order to allow reproductive rights legislation to pass by a simple majority. this is described as a nuclear option, which president biden has generally opposed in the past in a possible sign of things to come, the head of november's midterm elections. the fight to restore reproductive rights was posted by a significant victory at state level. voters in the conservative state of kansas have rejected the measure that would have repealed the right to an abortion that

had been part of the states constitution. they voted no, their neighbor neighborhood and no one came across the borders of cages. placene this for the american people vote to preserve protector right and refusal let them be ripped away by politicians and my ministration has their back. the department of justice has also weighed in announcing that total through the state of idaho, which is one of the many in producing an abortion ban. in the wake of the supreme court decision. the contention that the state is contributing a federal law that guarantees the right to emergency medical treatment. my kind of, oh, to 0, washington. well, the referendum on abortion rights and kansas was the 1st is the supreme court over time constitutional protections in june. the republican meaning stay resoundingly rejected changes the state constitution which could have allowed abortions to be

banned surrounding states including arkansas, missouri, oklahoma, and texas all had trigger bands coming to effect shortly after roe v wade was struck down, leaving kansas the safe haven for abortion rights in the area abandoned, wyoming has been temporarily blocked by a judge, but is expected to come into effect soon. and i was due to bringing a 6 week band that was ruled unconstitutional in 2018. when i spoke to how me hanging a pro abortion rights activist in st. louis, missouri. and she told me how clinics are being impacted by patients traveling from different states. all the clinics in the states where abortion is protected have seen a huge influx and a huge strain on the existing infrastructure as they have to support patients from the states where abortion is banned. a lot of abortion clinics have been forced to close these clinics that are still open or having to schedule people weeks out there, having to refer people even further. so the existing infrastructure has suffered

a huge blow because of how great the need is and how difficult it is to get it all over the country. there's a budget writer called the height amendment, which prevents federal funds from funding abortion directly. but through the executive order by ben is encouraging the department of health and human services to look into other ways, such as finding ways to support people who are traveling to different states. now taiwan is scramble jets to warn off 27 chinese aircraft in its defense zone shortly after us house b canard. c policy ended how controversial visit to the island. america's 3rd most powerful politician was there for less than a day. stressing washington's support for the cell for a territory. in response, china's military says that from thursday it will conduct a series of drills in 6 exclusions on that surround taiwan. 3 of designs overlap areas. taiwan says,

a part of its territorial waters drills will include long range live ammunition shooting in the taiwan strait. china is warned or vessels to avoid the area for 72 hours. almost half the global container feet passes through this waterway every year. momma jump june. has this report now for us, how speaker nancy pelosi, a high profile trip to taiwan. fraught with both complications and contradictions. america's 3rd most powerful politician, repeating washington's commitment to protect democracy on the self governed island, while also respecting beijing so called one china policy. today, the world say says the choice between democracy and all catholic americans determination to preserve democracy. here in taiwan and around the world remains iron class, taiwanese president citing when who gave pelosi, one of the highest civilian honors,

promised to defend the island from waging threats. since hello, aggression against democratic taiwan would have a tremendous impact on the security of the entire into pacific. the man facing deliberately heightened to military threats. ta one will not back down. we will firm yup, hold on nation sovereignty and continue to hold the line of defense for democracy. china, which considers taiwan a part of its territory, has said it once a peaceful, re unification and views, policies visit as a direct provocation with her on the tie. one sighing wayne and her ilk, according to the us and turning their backs on national justice. these behaviors that go against the trend of times will not change the international consensus of one china and will not change the historic trend that tie one will inevitably return to the motherland. those who play with fire will not come to a good ends, and those who offend china will be punished. even during policies visit china's

reaction was fast and furious. suspending imports and exports of several goods to and from taiwan, conducting joint air and sea live ammunition drills near taiwan. and summoning the u. s. ambassador in beijing pelosi strip has come to an end. but with chinese american relations at such a low point, it's not clear yet what the long term repercussions of this visit will be. ma'am, at m g m, as in victor cow as vice president of the santa fe china globalization. so, so former chinese government official, he says nancy pelosi is misleading a wild and aching won't tolerate provocation. china is condemning pelosi as troublemaker in chief when the world china is really sending the message that it will have a 0 tolerance for any such provocation. and violation of the one on the policy. and china is doing military exercises in the water surrounding taiwan to show that

china will be very firm to stand firm to defend the one china policy. and china will not tolerate the what to do at each to the one china policy, the united states. ready now succeed in changing the reality is on the ground, the contemporary world and china will eventually be winning. this struggle for national arena vacation. now, you mentioned k ones that are has its own sovereignty and independence. she is misleading herself. she's misleading the world. hi one. as a province of china bows not have its own sovereignty. archers, foreign minister, target our of israel from russia, support for me in laws military come entering a visit to the capital. naperville, i sure is a key supporter, an om supply to me in moderation, which came to power in a could in february last year. novel is holding talks with the military agenda, discuss security, economic issues before heading to the assay and some in cambodia. me and i was not

invited to the summit because of the violence following the crew in 2021. and sort of there, it was a different sofia prime minister, your government to normalize on the delay the situation young. we know that you are planning next year to have fall amend through elections so we, we shall success in promoting your country in making your country stronger and more efficient. you're allowed to 0 life. i'm not. and still had he sees immortal. the land cools out, oil and gas companies, making huge profits, as many people suffer from surging prices and the climate crisis facing stiff unemployment. why can years young as struggling to believe in election promises? ah,

with a lot of rain coming at you for southern china. however, one hears the details on thursday, this includes for hong kong, and in fact, we may get some circulation here. could turn into something tropical. but the bottom line is days of rain ahead for hong kong, and that's going to lower your temperature just a bit. was a soggy forecast in japan, particularly western northern areas of han shoe. we did have landside alerts and play, for example, in fukushima prefecture. bulk of that activity has now pushed away. we'll still see some rounds of rain around the tokyo area. meantime, for the northeast of china, outbreaks of some showers and thunderstorms here. next, stop. se, asia, let's focus on the philippines. war. lose on island. there are some flood advisories in played there. we'll get into some downpours for mended out. to vows. get a high, 32 degrees in rain, stuck over southern sumatra and west java. down under for australia,

2 things i want to focus on. first, the winds through south australia, outlet adelaide, looking at wind gusts of 70 kilometers per hour. and then look at all this rain for that southeast corner, the capital territory. a camera could see 70 millimeters of rain at new ceilings, escape it's going to duck and dodge. this system could see a bit more clog. cover spill into gives bin on thursday, but the high of 16 degrees c later ah, ah diet, define who we are. but who are we? if we don't know what we're eating in a disturbing investigation into globalized food fraud, people in power reveals long hidden, scandalous practices that have infiltrated international wholesale markets and supermarket chains and oft. what's really on our plates? food, inglorious food pot one on al jazeera. ah

ah ah, my main stories, rocks influential, she alida move toner, all solder is demanding, early elections is rejected. dialogue with the government is supporters are still occupying the parliament complex and other urge them to continue their sitting until his demands. and mat u. s. president joe biden assigned a new executive order aimed at making it easier for women to travel between states to get an abortion. states will be able to apply for waivers to treat patients from parts of the us where access to abortion has been banned or limited. and us house beacon, nancy pelosi is entered, how controversial visit to taiwan china,

which had strongly warned against the trip is now started military maneuvers around the island. a journalist and 3 other people have been killed in mexico. after gunman opened fire in a liquor store, a shop in quite a while to state was owned by journalist ernesto mendez, who was head of a local news outlet and had previously received threats. press freedom group say at least 13 journalist been murdered in mexico. so far this year russian forces have continued to target ukraine. selim policies in port city of mc alive, and also the eastern region of done yet. moscow says it forces destroyed for warehouses, storing rockets, artillery and ammunition. but to make a lives man says russian strikes destroyed a supermarket and damage to residential building. mach live is a strategically important city bordering the russian occupied harrison region. how the abdul hamid looks at the tone of a war is taking on people who are living in the east.

the heart wrenching good byes as victim mujica is carried away. at 87, he and his wife lydia are about to embark on their new life as displaced persons, leaving behind the memories of a lifetime and their daughter medina. in easton, ukraine. she fears that this is the last time she will see her parents lose. norlisha did get them to because it was a very difficult decision. i understand that this might be the last time i'll see her again. it's really hard. i hope they'll be hosted by someone at their age. i can't give them proper care here. ah, they will be taken to a nursing home in the west of the country. their whole time of coming tours once home to about a 150000 has been caught between the 2 sides since 2014. the russian back separate

is briefly took it over before ukraine regained control in 2015. now crematory has become a garrison town where ukrainian troops are trying to hold the russian advance underground . but is proving difficult as russian troops get closer to cities like from a towards can boot prompting ukraine's president involved to me as the lensky to order to force relocation of civilians from didn't yet screeching. an estimated 2 to 300000 are believed to still be living there. zelinski wants them to leave before autumn. water, electricity, and gas already scarce says muddy as georgia, who managed to reach the nearest train station, some 50 kilometers away from commodore squinted. chris kumato says both those are but the danger to life is getting bigger every day. we were told that there won't be any heating. now we have water for a few hours in a good day. sometimes we don't for 2 or 3 days. we could cope, but we had to leave for the sake of our children. this is

a war of attrition underground and long range missiles from the sky is started in the name of liberating and protecting russian speakers, such as valentina abram, an officer who moscow said we're facing genocide by authorities in keith. the only momentum valentina is carrying an old photograph of her mother and sister taken nearly 50 years ago. she survived the german occupation of ukraine during the 2nd world war. she says the russian bombardments with modern weaponry are far worse, and everything is shaking inside me. i can't come down. i was all alone all day yesterday and today i was going crazy. they are beast jacko's. god forgive me for what i'm saying. how's that possible? did journey towards western ukraine will take several days. no one here knows when they will be back, but as the as sirens goes off, once again,

many know leaving their hometown was the best option. for adaptive hamid al jazeera 1st grain shipped to lever ukrainian port since roches invasion is pastoring the boss for straight and has been cleared by inspectors. is that off under a deal broken by turkey in the u. n. to facilitate the exports of millions of tons of grain and to ease a global food crisis. and mays shipment left the port of odessa on monday, before docking at the mouth of the boss 1st on tuesday night. now, it goes to lebanon, a country which imported most of its grain from ukraine before the war began. send him because he only reports now from assemble. the final inspection for the sierra leon flagship carrying ukrainian grain. it sat into lebanon, where there's been foot shortages and high prices for muns, rush and ukrainian, turkish and un officials check the cargo while the ships docked and assemble. they're part of the joint coordination center that was set up here after

a deal to resume ukrainian grain exports last month. the most cool head with our nation state, with respect to the graham's topic, a short, a shortage is lebanon. 81 percent off grains. depending on the ukrainian grains, carrying nearly 27000 tons of corn, the ship to 4 to the ukrainian port for best on monday, an estimated 20000000 tons of grain husband stock in ukraine since the start of war . this ship behind me is not the 1st commercial vessel to transfer ukraine's trapped grains to want the 5 month war. but it's also find the un brokerage green deal signed last month is working. hundreds of ships will now follow the same route and method to export ukrainian grain and fertilizer to is global foot shortage. u. n. a turkish officials hope the agreements can lead to

a cease fire between russia and ukraine. the vessels journey along the newly established maritime home and terry cory door in the black sea has been a complex but historical achievement for the joint coordination center. but for your current president, follow them are zelinski. it's more complicated users. this shall done thanks to the you and partnership with turkey. we've heard the 1st ship delivery of grant best, but it's still nothing. we hope it's a tendency that will continue the course. courses of this war are horrible. not only for ukraine, but for the war me now it's good to go for the ship carrying critical foot supplies . it cross turkeys boss for a straight and heading towards the mediterranean 3 ports. and ukraine are due to resume the export of millions more towards a wheat corn and other crops c, m q. so low al jazeera is stumble while to major oil. ex forces have responded to

months of lobbying by u. s. president joe biden, with one of the smallest, all production rises in their history. opec class, a 23 nation alliance will ad early 100000 barrels of oil a day in september, just point one percent of global demand present by news. his recent trip to saudi arabia to ask the producer groups leader to pump more to help the u. s. and global economy. meanwhile, the inception, generally saying the oil and gas fans should not be allowed to make huge profits off of this crisis until you get terry says that governments need to tax corporate income to help people. he needed it. these immoral for oil and gas companies to be making records profits from these energy crisis on the back of the borders to people and communities. and that the massive costs to the climates. the combined profits of the largest energy companies in the 1st quarter of vizier are close to $100000000000.00 us dollars. i urge all governments to text these

excessive prophets and use the funds to support the most vulnerable people through these difficult times. less than a week tell kanyes general election and there's growing concern about the low number of young people registered to vote. many a feeling disillusion with politics as struggling to make a living out there as catherine. so he has more now from nairobi. canyon's in i, ruby's industrial area are rushing to beat the evening rush hour. a majority of them are casual laborers looking for jobs some left early in the morning. many will walk home having aunt no money. the composition here. i'm not would be other i'm angry. we are hustling, they say they want to help us. they say this all the time, said yes, but that the change we want to change. nothing has changed yet. we need to change

or to change. more than 22000000 painters have registered to vote. most of them are young, but they are also frustrated. they say they have new jobs. the cost of living is unbearable and they dont trust politicians who's dying for electoral positions have been trying to woo young people with lofty promises. larry my walk or runs a non profit organization that helps young people to get involved in politics. nearly some are making an effort. others say they're not bull that the major to coalitions. they have very similar because they focus on the economy a lot. so they both focus on the economy, they both focus on agriculture, they both focus on social welfare. they might use different methods or avenues. but a lot of them mean we need a lot of money. so a lot of youth are concerned about where are you going to get those resources to pull suggested to presidential frontrunners opposition leader i lo,

dinger and the deputy president william router who have made promises to the youth in the past. so our politics is not delivering to people is not putting money in their pockets. it's not giving them a sense of security about their future. ah, they and they don't believe the politicians before that as a game being bullied by these big guys, medical doesn't produce up there. and that's not all. is a healthy thing. ah, people will talk to say they want to leaders who will make their life easier. but the also expressed doubt it will happen. catherine sawyer, al jazeera nairobi, a loop present heritage week is returned to palestine after a 2 year break because of the pandemic. summer festival held in the old harbor is 8 . just north of ramallah is expected to track thousands of people. event aims to boost the local economy and tourism while giving visitors and locals

a chance to explore palestinian folk law music and crafts. john holland has more now. oh, this is a traditional palestinian pre emitting blogs, in which the broad on the group you can see. just got back up being sarah, i learned visual, specially by these women you can see are in traditional, very colorful clothes. that's like a town. we're actually in the town now. oh, good. this is just all of a cultural clarity. great. now this week has been organized, ms organized, the palestinians, to reconnect with their traditions. i'm. their costumes is one of the organizers told us would like the young generation who have been maybe growing up in the cities. all that picked old. we would like them to come out and discover. what does, how beautiful is palestine? how beautiful is our culture and how we're headed? good. so that they keep, you know,

the pride in their national identity. this is ronnie the group, and we spoke to him a little bit earlier about what it meant to have his pre wedding march. that's just the start of this week and celebration. i don't know. it's important with the people of palestine. if we don't preserve bell culture, who will, a lot of palestinians don't have access to an airport, the sea and to be to so this at least represents an opportunity for internal tourism. of them to do something and see something like some enjoy. i take a look at the civil k knows and wrapped it in iceland, southwest of the capital, right. can. they can the 1st time it's erupted since last september, since then pressure has been building up on the ground and that's caused the molten magma to burst through. again. kinds have been prohibited from flying over the site, but these are just some of the live pictures they're getting. and.