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welcome to the program, we begin in the taiwan straits, where the chinese military has been conductive, lie fire drills just a day after us house be cannot see policy and her controversial trip to to pay the drills are happening around the island. taiwan says chinese naval trips, i'm going to have made several incursions into its territorial waters. a senior chinese diplomat describe the strip and manic, irresponsible, and irrational. so series of drills are focused in 6 exclusions. owns that surround ty, $13.00 of the zones overlap areas. taiwan says a parts of its national waters in some places just 20 kilometers off shore. the drills include long range live ammunition shooting into the taiwan strait. china has warned all vessels to avoid the area for 72 hours. nearly half of the global container fleet passes through this waterway. every yes, she's english single koli callaghan shampoo that. so what we are taking and we will

be taking our necessary and a timely response and counter measures which has been fully thought through and seriously assessed. and that they are aimed at protecting our sovereignty and the security. they are in line with international law and domestic laws. they are a wanting to the provocative and also aimed at protecting regional stability and the piece that highlight straight. patrick folk has more beijing's reaction from the chinese capital. china's foreign ministry said today that it was compelled to wax in self defense and all the action that was being taken was targeted at taiwan separatist forces, state media report just after noon. that's long range live firing drills were being carried out in 6 exclusion zone surrounding taiwan. and it's population of 23000000 people. and the precision strikes had been conducted and achieved the expected results. there's also lots of bon verified video that circulating on social media showing a rockets being fired from china in the direction of taiwan. it's,

i want also said that had to chase away our air craft as well as a warship said that had crossed over the median line. this is an unofficial border, which is generally seen to prevents any possible mishaps from either side unless did say that they expected the reaction to be greater than anything that we've seen in recent years. but china says the us is the provocateur and urged it to immediately recognize the one china principal for the sake of security in the region. to be a good pollen is the international editor of taiwan plus. she says, people in taiwan are starting to worry about the potential ramifications of nancy policies visit. you go out on the streets, its businesses, usual people here and i want are used to china, threatening these military drills, doing these military prop provocations that happens. every time a high level dignitary comes to tie want especially someone in a position equivalent to nancy pelosi,

but this time it seems that it has caught hit much closer to home. and so many ways for one thing, it's usually time trying to just touches the edges of the territorial borders of ty, one. now it seems that they are incurred, these incursions are going right into territorial waters. there's concern of across into air space. if you go out on the street, you think ok, well people are just taking it in their stride. but if you look at a little bit deeper and listen to the chapter here, you'll realize there's a sense of anxiety here. for instance, the number one app download at the moment is the one that tells you where the bomb shelters are here in tie one m. oh most a lot of. 2 lot of bomb shelters inside one, there's a lot of emergency areas here because i want has lived the specter of china invading for decades. now. also people are also trending on social media at the moment is where the safest place is to hide it. should there be an invasion?

so while it seems like people are getting on with their daily lives, there is that sense that people are thinking about what it, what if this actually goes further? so there's been renewed fighting between armenian allied forces on the as a badge on the military lonely disputed. the corner. kara region kind of forces say they lost 2 scientists. one of the by johnny soldier was also killed armenia. and as of john, having locked in a decades old dispute for the territory, gonna cut about his must be controlled by ethnic armenians. but as a bizarre seized part of it, after conflict in 2020, would you, lucifer us in on august 3rd, members of illegal armenian armed groups in the territory of azerbaijan, with a peacekeeping contingent of the russian federation is temporarily stationed, grossly violated the provisions of the november 10, 2020 statement and committed an act of terrorism. sabotaged was against the units of the as a by john ami rushes defense ministry has responded to the violence in the statement

. and it says, the situation is aggravated. the seaside regime was violated by the armed forces bus by john. it went on to say that the command of the russian people keeping force with the representatives of answer by john and armenia, are taking measures to stabilize the situation. of the breeza is a former us ambassador to azerbaijan. he explains why the situation remains tense. throughout these months, there has been increasing tension constant attention and occasional skirmishes. but yeah, this is the most serious level of the result in the fighting recently. and i know there's a lot of frustration, there's frustration in back who, because it feels that it's, it's trying to move forward on a piece signing a peace treaty that both sides have agreed to do. but prime minister pushing you on of armenia, who also sincerely seems to want to get to that peace treaty is being blocked by his own domestic political opponents, who periodically have staged big street protests. claiming that he essentially

committed treason by agreeing to a cease fire way back in november of 2020. and so there are all sorts of forces beneath the surface on both sides that want to keep the pot stirred, even as a national leaders want to get to a peace treaty. so the look that this territory has always been recognized as part of us, or by john, even the armenian govern legally and officially recognize these territories we're talking about as part of ours or by john, even though they're armenian troops. there now, who had agreed last november of 2020 to withdraw entirely. so the solution has been outlined, and it would be that the are all the armenian troops, leave russian peacekeepers depart as the armenian troops leave. and then there will be no return of all the control to the armenian or to the other by johnny forces. and those are, by joining territories. but armenians, if they wish to get to remain in car buck, and eventually they'll have to be some sort of a negotiation about how they govern their own lives. there will be elected

officials or will they also by john ones have to be full fledged citizens or by john there's a question of the legal status of the part of car box where there are still armenian troops that needs to be negotiated, but should probably be postponed while you are by john, and ensure security for all the armenians who remain in this. in the found claim. rocks influential she had politician without al serra, is demanding an early election that he says dialogue with political rivals has proven to be futile. so the ably delivered a televised address as supporters to continue a city in parliament until their demands were met. so those block when the seats and last year parliamentary election, but says being political deadlock, as they are now already to who all i am not willing to engage in dialogue. we have to dialogue with them before and gained nothing but corruption and happen despite the empty promises and justice. promises has not been fulfilled by i will not approve of bloodshed,

but reform could not be achieved without sacrificing dosage. valerie has more from baghdad. 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 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 the 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. let's go back to our top story and the dang, military act sizes by the chinese in tie when he's water. joining me now is andrew lang, he's an independent consultant and china strategist. he's in hong kong, and joseph. mr. like always could have you on the program trying his anger really does continue, but what one does for how long? well, i think that this nancy lucy visit is really the

last straw on account because many years out while the united states is here, it's to the one china policy with all the other hand is trying to push the more space on it as a country by feeding by feeling more and more senior official on and perhaps a judy. it's the same and also empowering to play a full bo embarrassed international agency in those up and down at the all i want patience act which as. ready phrases by august i won i so far. there was a, as

a strategy ambiguity in the sense that not a space at all to be so to and to or with another country on was a palace. not as ration is a fly. all one is what we told. sorry, mr. lang, sorry to interrupt. i mean what we talk about what you're talking about, you know, the u. s. empowering taiwan with arms. we're also seeing china very aggressively assert its influence around taiwan right now in these military exercises. can i also just bring this into line that china says, as long as succession is actions go on, it will not stop displaying determination to save god national sovereignty territorial integrity. this is great as far as china's concerned, but she, jim ping has said that in the future he wants a peaceful unification with taiwan. so

a conflict right now isn't really in his or beijing's interest. is it? well, because the page is big, quite clear. so this is the red line, it's kind of which to back to be crossed and even before the visit at paging, or there's going to take military be highly ation that after this coach any further holding out of the one china policy. so this is the consequence of all the lucy visits which it will really booking china in the i now this and the telling whether it's better to sizes, boss or but there is no doubt that this is an unprecedented in terms of size and you and certainly the island i a bought by.

ready a 6 to been expired. so now there's every chance that the waging may even record it to sizes taiwan. hayden property. and you mentioned, well that might be, it might go the way. i'm sorry, i want to introduce that might be the way that china would like to see taiwan behave if we say an inverted commas. however, such military maneuvers are hindering both air and sea freight around the area. and china will be very aware that this also sends the wrong message to business leaders across the world when it comes to trying to doing business post pandemic. when the world is trying to recover from the pandemic and half of the world see freight comes to the taiwan strait. these are very mixed messages by china, about what it you might say can, can hold the world around. so when it comes to business, well i don't think it is holding to both bands of the 77. they find the whole thing

. it's me sending the wrong message. so that wasn't it. well, of course, beijing over there on the fishing cannot just sit back and do nothing ever been sort of fire having is i why? by dancing lose his visit if i want to see being at their visit. and so i'm preaching has got to do something. ah, as i said that these are not bowman or connor exercises unlike what's happening. break out, which is it's, it's caring bambi day. but this i's is a demonstration, ah, that red line that has lost and then, and somehow at taiwan has got to pay a prize. it blue eyes. but as i said, there is every asian art that beijing b ray says his excise us all it because don't look at the at the vacation. iowa is very high of it,

china's agenda. but the fact remains the boost arm on his feet long on asia. but on the other hand though, not want independence either because the a fear that the parent dependence are rattle if i walk i want because as many as a 1000000000 on east, their families are booking will tie, are made that. so the ideal, those are the people is he served the state as oh, okay, forever. but on that i hand and aging. once i'm on unified peacefully, ideally i'll find 2 adults at night at the latest which is the hung. ready up with china when he was lies in and of course the calendar will have to keep an eye on very closely for the moment on drilling that in hong kong. thank you. still had here on al jazeera, the bank of england analysis. biggest interest rate hike in 3 decades. will we live in london with the details of the new economy minister announces measures to tackle

argentina's level finances. ah, the journey has begun. the. the full world cup is on its way to cat hook. your travel package to the the heat has been violently. it's across parts of japan. hey, we're one. so has of late look at this. this is just north of tokyo. are pretty close to 40 degrees. the national temperature record 41 butts. what weather has swung throughs that's really flushed out that he'd silica this tokyo just 29 degrees on friday. some thunder. he outbreaks toward the northeast of china that spilling into the korean peninsula on friday and a tropical depression. that form near hong kong is steering a lot of wet weather cross to pearl river valley. so very soggy forecast to be sure . here for the next several days. now the monsoon rains really just weapon rain

around all sides of the beer. been gall. we've had some land sides into central portions of nepal just because of how intense that rain has been. and i think it's not a question if we'll see flooding, but just where and how much across india's west coast is at rain picks up good. or at maharaj twra go karnataka and carola. now for pakistan, the rain is starting to lose its intensity, but still some burst to be found around jacob bad. and the hor on friday will and this weather report in the middle east. certainly the risk of seen some flooding and demons, capital santa, on friday, with a hive 24 degrees held to susan kat, official airline, of the journey in a post colonial world. the scars of european imperialism run deep. nowhere more so than in the democratic republic of congo, where history shapes the presence of visceral,

yet infamous insight through the whistleblower and the patriotic military commander . witness presents this is congo on a jazz ah the ah. book of i feel watching, i'll just there with me to hell. run the reminder of our top stories. the chinese military has run live. i munition drills in the taiwan straits today after yourself speaking. nancy pelosi left hi pay. trying to find ballistic missiles and deployed further jets and warships play one's government says the island won't be intimidated by military exercises, but has demanded a basic stop. the drills,

high one says chinese naval ships and military aircraft of entered what it considers it. have a tauriel waters the re renewed fighting between armenian as by john on the disputed dakota kind of by region. cut about forces, say they lost 2 fighters, one as a bunch on the soldier has been killed. the bank of england has heights the interest rates by half a percentage point its biggest jump since 1995. the move is aimed at calming the case, west inflation in 40 years. central banks around the world have been pushing upright to cub spending and bringing down prices. well, andrew simmons is life for us in london. i suppose. andrew, no surprise that we should have got this announcement from the bank of england after the us announcement what a few days ago that rates would rise. yeah, that's right. no surprise sir. and also no surprise about how serious this situation is. the u. k. has been warned by investors of bankers and

freighters that it's behind the curve in dealing with this crisis, with inflation sets according to one, a one the think tank to set to go to 15 percent with predictions from the bank itself. and it could go through 11.4 percent. very serious indeed. and so you have now a rate that's been the biggest rise since in 27 years. and not only that, perhaps, just as disturbing is an unusual aspect to it all in which the bank of england has actually declared that there will be a period of recession ahead. it's saying the limit for 5 consecutive quartiles that's more than a year. that will be a recession with the gross domestic product falling as much as 2 point one percent . the bank has said now this is sending a shudder in the city. it's sort of reminiscent perhaps of 2008 than the global

financial crisis at what this is about is inflation. and what it's more than important than ever that's up to at is that it's the ukranian war in russia's actions and, and shutting down the level of gas applies to europe and a whole host of other aspects with energy that have caused that crisis in the u. k with inflation, the international monetary fund had warned ahead of all this that the u. k. was in the one of the worst positions in europe and a was looking as if it was heading towards recession. now you have the faithful, a confirmation of that and a situation i had a with inflation rampant. and this attempt with interest rates are increasing. the cost of borrowing are increasing the cost, the increasing savings, but then savings aren't keeping pace with the price rises. so this is a very, very difficult situation for the update. thanks so much. andrew simmons air force

in london. no argentina's government is struggling to reign in soaring inflation and financial instability present alberto fernando's as hoping a new economy minister will be able to turn round the country's finances trees. a boat has more on what the appointment means wall of latin america's largest economies. ma'am, but after the quarter poly, he's the 3rd economy minister in a month. he never said he'll massa faces the difficult task of tackling argentina's economic crisis fee hoarder. he's her season politician who plays a crucial role in the ruling parent is coalition formed by precedent, alberta ferman, this and vice president, christina fernandez, the kirschner in the, with the name of audio for in this area to cover. so we have several issues to resolve and we need to work towards resolving them. there is no magic solution and it won't happen over night. or we need to tackle inflation, loss of income, lack of stability, and problems that working people face. if you go home, massa will be in charge of the ministry of economy agricultural production and will

implement measures that will reduce the fiscal deficit, increase exports and promotion. i grew industry oil and gas exploitation and the knowledge economy law i didn't in is in the middle of an economic crisis with inflation close to 70 percent a year. groups were presenting, been formal sector, have been taken to the streets on a weekly basis, to demand and more government assistance. their middle class says high inflation and exchange rate controlled. make it difficult to make ends meet. many have lost hope. if we can agree on the end, i don't think anything is going to change because there is no trust in the government. you don't know who rules. it's a disaster. the economic situation is uncertainty about every day. thank you. my thought was told central carry on the tough but necessary reforms to reduce argentina sewing inflation way, but also to rebuild this countries a debt ravaged research. but his biggest challenge will be to restore the faith and

credibility in the government of president. but there are no guarantees that must have worn face saffo position from his own powerful vice president, christina cruz. nor would we challenge many of president l, where the firm and this economy policies, including a $40000000000.00 agreement with the i, m f. b is an economy, he says the government needs to do much more if they've been in the long run to controlled inflation, you need an independent central bank and a government that cannot touch it. that's how you fight inflation. and that's how countries in the region do it except are, are there is an ideological debate and how to fight inflation and how to carry out the necessary forms to improve the economic situation. remember where many believe said here, matthew, known locally as the super minister, has enough authority to start fixing argentina's economy. and for now, he seems to have more power than the president. it is, i will. i'll just see them when a site is australia is great,

barrier reef has said a new record for coral recovery. a report by the australian institute of marine sciences found 2 thirds of the reef has the largest amount of coal over a 36 year period. in the north that grew from 13 percent to 2017 to 36 percent this year. cover in the central pauses increase to a similar degree. now the southern region lost some coral cover due to a crown of thorns star fish outbreak. see, star feed only depleted reef building coral signed to say despite its resilience the reef remains vulnerable to bleaching po hardesty is the chief executive officer at the australian institute of marine science. he says, despite the positive developments, climate change is still a huge threat. the southern reef decrease was relatively small and it was because of an outbreak of kind of foreign starfish, which is a natural predator which can get out of control when certain conditions allow. but

i think more importantly, what we're really saying here is that while there's good news, there's also some not good news in this report. and while the carroll cover is similar to what it was in the 1980s, people should not believe in any way that that means that the conditions on the reef are the same as they were in the 1980s. nothing could be further from the truth. and the reason is because the reef is now subject in any given year to potentially devastating bleaching events cause not by solar radiation specifically, but by warming oceans and ocean heat raves, driven by climate change. that's the number one threat to the reef. we had a bleaching event this year, and luckily it didn't last quite long enough for the corals to die. so a little bit of heat, they can go white, they bleach. but if it goes to long, then mortality occurs, they die. and this year we were very lucky just as it was reaching that threshold

was walking the tight rope conditions got a little bit better. but in any given year now, the reef could be subject to some pretty severe bleaching events. and so while there's good news, we certainly can't see being really vigilant and doing everything we can to protect the reef in the future. the right wing us talks hayes to claim that a school massacre in 2012 was a hopes will soon find out how much money he needs to pay to parents who lost children in the shooting. alex jones has been sued for libel and stuns to be find a $150000000.00 or more. osman jordan has this report long after the 2012 sandy hook school massacre, alex jones called the deaths of 20 children and 6 adults. a hoax, a plot he said, to expand gun control in the united states. that was too much for many of the children's families. they sued jones, a high profile conspiracy theorist for libel is. now

a jury is deciding how much jones should pay in damages to one of the families. on wednesday, prosecutors revealed jones apparently didn't turn over all of the evidence required during the original trial. they announced they had a copy of every text, an email from jones's mobile phone, about sandy hook material. they say they just received from jones's lawyers. that is how i know vitally recently been at texas. nothing. did you know that she, i told you the truth is your very measurement. the judge told the jury to ignore the lawyers allegation, but to remember that jones had been uncooperative during the original trial. her jones tried to apologize to the families for his earlier claims. while testifying on tuesday, which is out of russia real as a summary of your show. as i said here you're showing us.