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southeast asian foreign ministers, aj china to practice restraint. as it continues its massive military address of taiwan. ah, hello there, i'm associate, hey, this is al 0 live from dar. also coming up. the monkey pox outbreak has declared a public health emergency in the u. s. as cases rise and vaccine supplies slow down . move on. us basketball star, britney griner, sentenced to 9 years in prison in russia, the drug, drug possession and angry crowds attack a suspected illegal miners in south africa after 8 women a gang rapes. ah,

ah, now southeast asian foreign ministers are urging restraint. as china launches a 2nd day of massive military drills off the coast of taiwan, beijing launch those exercises following us how speak it? nancy pelosi trip to the island top to pronounce from the outside block. and now meeting for a final day of talks and cambodia. capital on pen, chinese foreign minister, one years attending, along with his russian counterparts. laboratory and us secretary of state anthony brink and will also be at the meeting. meanwhile, us house speaker pelosi has visited the demilitarized zone separation north and south korea. pelosi has been visiting the south and the later stop on her tour of the region on a trip to sola. she praised what she described as a strong bond between the u. s. and south korea. while the u. s. national security spokesman john kirby says he expects china will continue to react to policy trip. the united states is prepared for what beijing chooses to do. we will not seek,

nor do we what a crisis. at the same time, we will not be deterred from operating in the seas and the skies of the western pacific, consistent with international law. as we have for decades, supporting taiwan and defending a free and open indo pacific. offline story joins us now from on pan for us, and ministers and crisis management loaded teams as they watch tensions escalate between the major power to meet me. now kimberly is, is the chair and host of the and this year and it's foreign minister again made a point that they faced too many challenges in the past, but they never had to confront so many at the same time. and he also said that the region he believes in p security and prosperity, and that is the ultimate goal. there was no specific mention of what's happening in the taiwan strait, but it's very clear that tensions in the taiwan straits have really overshadowed

events in pen and the tensions i even being paid out on a personal level. chinese foreign minister when he entered the summit venue on friday morning, he tapped the russian foreign minister for on the shoulder as a way of saying high. but he made a very point to none of the japanese foreign minister. and just the day before china cancelled at the very last minute, a meeting with japan look to show china to pleasure with a statement issued by the g 7. with regards to how speak us, how speak nancy pelosi visit to taiwan and japan is of course a member of the g 7. so we're really seeing those tensions in the taiwan strait being played out on a personal level here in cambodia. now, despite the best efforts of top diplomats from off in and from around the world, it's really quite a 10 situation here. and we'll have to wait and see what the next couple of. well,

what the meetings that will take place late on friday. what sort of a diplomatic, when diplomats will be able to achieve and flow on another crisis front. i believe the potentially encouraging developments between north and south korea. that's right. so that was very brief encounter between the south korean foreign minister and north korean ambassador to indonesia, famous as a gala dinner on thursday night. now north korea did not send its foreign minister here most likely because of pen demik restrictions. so the north korean ambassador to indonesia is the highest ranking north korean official. he's going to be here to attend the are the regional forum that's going to take place later on friday is the most high profile international meeting in the international summit in the region that north korea regularly send a delegation. now we don't have details of what the 2 men talked about. we know meeting was most likely, quite brief, but it does come amid

a backdrop of reports that north korea is reportedly preparing for a possible nuclear test. and that's likely take place quite soon. if it does go ahead and it also comes with relations between the 2 countries are at a new low. so the fact that there was the very brief in person exchange between 2 quite high ranking officials of the 2 countries that is being seen as quite a positive thing from meetings in cambodia. we keep an eye on those developments through their 4th and non 10. thanks so much for well, as we just mentioned, paging is conducting the 2nd day and out of live fire drills around the island of taiwan. the show as military might comes off to policy ended her visit, which has infuriated china taiwan, says chinese naval ships and military military aircraft made several incursions into its territorial waters. when patrick folk is a journalist based in beijing and he has more on those drone for the state, one global times has been detailing extensively what the military actions are about

and what weaponry and other assets have been deployed. and one of the things that is talked about today is how the missiles that were fired from china over taiwan the day before showed that china had the ability to hit targets in the philippine c like aircraft carriers that may try to intervene. that was without a shadow of a doubt, a reference to the u. s. s. ronald reagan, which has been ordered by the pentagon to remain in that area to monitor the situation. it is expected to remain tense in the coming days, separately report to saying that the chinese foreign minister won the cancel to face to face meeting with his japanese can support your masa. hi. she on the side lines of an asi and gathering in cambodia after the g 7 issued a statement expressing concern about beijing's threatening actions. it also comes off to toko, said that missiles fired by china had landed into it's exclusive economic zone. this may be seen as a direct warning to japan,

as it has also become increasingly out spoken about the needs of maintains high wants. national security on civic pollen is the international editor of taiwan class and she joins us now on scott from taipei deviate. china has previously described these exercises unprecedented. so just how nervous is the taiwanese government right now? well, its havanese government have called effect to fight is responsible, especially because it goes into civilian aerospace and goes to waters where you would normally see a large amount of traffic, big commercial or you know, personnel, traffic of people passing through. and so there is much concern that there will be some kind of collateral damage in a sense, even if it isn't a targeted part of the targeted area. also, taiwan government has told the people here a tie wants to stay calm. they know they are clearly monitoring the situation that confirmed that the ministry differences confirm that the china has fired 11 the

ballistic missiles of waters and northeast and the southwest. and as you'd mentioned there earlier, the japan times ministry says 4 or 5 missiles have minded in their special like an economic zone. now for those flu over taiwan, aerospace, the ministry of defense, that they were monitoring them, but did not react in any way because of the all to, to do as much to high cost damage. and the trajectory was beyond taiwan waters. of course, you know, the government is quite vigilant at the moment that was really, really careful each. the key thing here is that they don't want to instigate anything that might bring back a greater reaction from china. so at the moment they say it's clearly monitoring and say, starting on the fence is not necessarily taking any action at all. it's also worth noting that this morning than most of the ministry for the website was down, and the ministry of defense website is still down. they haven't confirmed the reason, but in the past few days, they have been

a large number of cyber attacks on pi. wanted to ship some time on government cyberspace operations. so everything here is very, very closely being watched and monitored to certain extent and reaction. once again, it's merely mostly reassuring the people that i want or continue watching. those developments very closely appalling, there for us. and i pay thanks so much if you now staying in the region and at least $13.00 people have been killed and a fire and a nightclub and thailand, police and john bery province, southeast of the capital bank called say 40 people have been injured. the fire at the mountain b nightclub started around 1 in the morning. the cause is not yet clear. now the us has declared the monkey pucks outbreak, a public health emergency. the official designation means more money and facility is to fight the virus. on tuesday, us president joe biden appointed to federal officials to coordinate

a national response. there are more than 6600 cases in the u. s. so far, and almost all of them are among men who have sex with men. well, aaron soil is the director of v elizabeth all griffin bind safety program at georgetown university. she says there is a need for grace education about the virus. i think one of the big things that we need as a public health community, and as just a general community, is to think about risk communication for exposure. it needs to be clear and it needs to be non stigmatizing. and so while this outbreak began in men who predominantly have sex with men and it spread from there, it could have easily broken down any type of population of individuals. right now it is not time to panic, but it's for education and awareness. so this is a pathogen that we have been able to do research on, we have the vaccines, we do have kind of measured antivirals that are effective. the pros, i, i guess i could say to this virus is that there's

a longer incubation period. so when we identify cases, we can treat them and identify close contacts and, and vaccinate those individual. so we can actually really contain a spread much more effectively than something like code that transmits very, very quickly the kid, the cases themselves are self limiting. so typically people recover within 2 to 4 weeks. and really the, the key here is preventing transmission to more even vulnerable populations, those that are immunocompromised, pregnant women, and to children. and so that the key here is really being able to increase our ability to openly reports and detect cases how point of care testing at health care facilities. and that is going to be a rate limiting step. i think both here in the us and abroad. and being able then to get the proper treatment to those. indeed, all stella had here on out as a conspiracy theorist will have to pay millions of dollars off the timing a school now. so it didn't happen then marks. government is facing questions as it

tries to get rid of areas described as getters. critics say the move is racist. ah, hey, here's your weather in a minute. 15, thanks for joining him. were beginning in south america for so this vigorous system swept through that certainly knocked down the temperature in porto lay gray to just 15 degrees on friday. now for the top end of south america. okay, still persistent, rain locked into that pacific coast of columbia and waves of rain moving across the western areas of brazil into bolivia, and peru on friday. central america really concentrated rain. we can also find, as we look toward hunter as snicker, rog la costa rica and panama, and we have had flood watches and warnings in play around missouri. that's now

shifting in to kentucky, which is certainly not good news. after the recent flooding that we saw, there, storms will do little to break the heat across the great lakes region. so toronto at 20, but it's really feeling closer to 40 those storms now, making their way closer to that east coast of the us. the northeast. now for the west coast, it's starting to dry off for western canada. the pacific northwest. big drop in those temperatures across the canadian perez. and same goes for montana as those winds have now shifted around flood watches in play for parts of california and nevada. we've got some mon sooner moisture and storm, sir, in the forecast on friday. that's it. that's all to sir. ah, ah diets 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 revealed long hidden, scandalous practices that have infiltrated international wholesale markets and supermarket chains. and often, what's really on our plates, food in glorious food. hot one on al jazeera. oh, i understand the pain dot com that's remind you about top stories here. the sound docking station foreign ministers are edging restraints as trying to launch is 2nd day of massive military drills. off the coast of taiwan topped up from the san block on our meeting for a final day of talk in cambodia capital the us to class the monkey outbreak of

public health emergency the decision means more money and facilities like the virus . there are more than $6600.00 cases in the us or fall. now us basketball or brittany griner has been jailed for 9 years by a russian course. the sentence comes nearly 6 months after moscow. airport security star found vape cartridges containing cannabis, oil and luggage. but as my counter reports from washington, d. c, the u. s. is describing this ruling as a miscarriage of justice in the courtroom. brian, listen, does the judge handed down her sentence? that's not when she did go up to 79 years imprisonment and a fine of some. $16000.00. earlier greiner told the court she had no intention of breaking any russian law. i may say. hope that in your ruin it doesn't. in my life. the bite and administration remains adamant that grind was

wrongfully detained, and the president immediately released the statement after the judgment saying, it's unacceptable. and i call on russia to release her immediately, so she can be with her wife loved ones, friends and teammates. negotiations are and a way to secure grind his release and that of another american citizen who the us says is being wrongfully detained in russia. poor whelan, we have pro, made a serious proposal to the russians to try to get brittany and paul whalen, who is also wrongfully detained home, where they belong. and we urge the russians again to seriously consider that proposal to act on it. and let's get these 2 americans home where they belong. this is a russian being held in the us who could be part of the exchange victor bout to serving a 25 year sentence for arms smuggling and supplying weapons to columbia as far movement, which is classified by the us as a terrorist organization. the russian government has been reluctant to comments

we still think that any information exchanges on this theme should be discrete. megaphone diplomacy, st exchange views won't lead to the results were at a time in history where the u. s. and russia have very bad relations that doesn't help. but even in spite of that in may, there was a prisoner swap between the us and russia, where trevor reed was held in russia was brought home in exchange for a russian prisoner. so there is precedent for it happening and i think it will happen here to brittany griner is led away to begin her sentence with a message for those waiting at home. mike hannah out 0 washington. while for us, police officers have been charged over their role in the fatal shooting of brianna taylor. the 26 year old black woman was killed in her home in louisville, kentucky in 2020. her death led to mass protest across the us and helped to

establish the black lives matter movement. and this touch reached on this day in this city, in louisville, kentucky. we have been vindicated. there is just for us, somebody was wrong, and not only were they wrong, not only good good law, but they attempted to cover it up. they have been lie to you. and the shock here is not that it happened. the shock is that it is expo, a bank that we have to talk about. it has been exposed, but i say to america, what are we missing? now, an american conspiracy theorist will have to pay more than $4000000.00 after claiming that a school masika was a hoax. a jury has ordered alex jones to pay the parents of jesse louis a young boy killed in the sandy hook, shooting, joins hosted the far right website. info was, the lowest family says that they were harassed and received death threats because

of his claims. cable, as under reports, question to a one and a half $1000000.00 question to be $500000.00. one of america's most notorious propagate years of conspiracy theories will now have to pay up and pay up big for his allies. a jury and texas ordered alex jones to pay for $1000000.00 in compensation damages for spreading the lie. that the 2012 sandy hook school massacre was a hoax. the, some of the money in damages is significant, but far below the 150000000 families of one of the victims was asking for on friday the jury will consider punitive damages. jones claim was that the mass shooting in connecticut which killed 20 elementary school children, was staged by actors to bring about stricter us gun control laws. it was lapped up by his millions of followers, some of whom went on to harass and even issue death,

threats to the dead children's parents. jones lawyers argued his statements were protected by free speech, but the parents of 6 year old jesse louis, one of the children killed, argued the wise, were so malicious and painful. they fell outside the bounds of free speech. it's been a long journey and it's really, really nice to be able to turn and look at my client and say, you can't get off scot free for that he can under cross examination during the 7 day trial, jones admitted the shooting was quote, 100 percent real, the verdict will almost certainly be the final blow that forces him to close. what remains? of his info war's media network, which at its peak, was a hugely popular youtube show. and even controversially had former president, donald trump has a fan and president, i will not let you down. you will be very, very impressed. i hope you know, at one moment during the trial,

lawyers for the victims family confronted jones with 2 years worth of phone records and emails. some showing guilt. jones own lawyers in an apparent mishap. mistakingly sent them to the opposing lawyers. it's unknown if jones will face any sort of criminal charges moving forward. but what is very certain is that his financial ruin is now all but certain. gabriel is ando al jazeera new york. now, residents of a south african township have patient, a group of men. after 8 women were gang raped last week, crowds and he, so on the outskirts of crew his door targeted, the men who are also suspected to be illegal. miners, please say at least one passage has been killed and they've arrested more than a 120 suspects resident say the miners are responsible for high levels of local crime from either mila has more now from cookie. so, hello. this situation here in ca he saw in the waste land of janice,

but he's quite volatile. just behind us is a large group of community members. we've also seen a sales team. people this to be illegal. mine is amazon, as, as they're known here. they say, not only are they mining illegally at disused mind sharps trying to find gold, but they're all so according to the people you are terrorizing the community. they accused these illegal miners of killing people in the area of raping women. here. people here say they're not safe for now. they've come out and you see a number of police vehicles. they've had to use stun grenades and tear gas to drive disposed people. but a lot of these community members have come out. they say they've had enough. and because police, according to them, are not doing enough, they are taking basses into their own hands. well, for more grain sailors at barrett's port have collapsed. the blocker for sailors

fell to the ground. 2 years after that massive blast destroyed much of the port. the explosion was triggered by a stockpile of fertilizer that caught fire. more than 200 people were killed. an investigation has been on poor since december due to political pressure. on the rocks influential she i played and looked at al serra as demanding the disillusion of parliament and early elections. rival factions have been unable to form a government 9 months after parliamentary elections triggered a wave of popular protest from baghdad. dawson, jibari reports on how those who don't support sada are coping with the crisis. this is a city divided not just by the tigris river, but also by its political loyalties. iraq hasn't had a functioning government for 9 months. it's affected every aspect of life for millions of people here. some of those are part of the minority sunni's who mainly live in the central neighbourhood of the capital, known as at the mia. 33 year old mustafah us out says his shop has been badly

affected by the recent demonstrations and political upheaval. that's why it has had 3 quarters of people are not buying anything here. the streets are empty. it reminds me of the days of the curfew during the pandemic. it's very bad. 80 percent of the businesses have been affected. he says he stop voting a long time ago because he no longer believes in the political system or it's politicians. those sentiments are not confined to those in the capital. many come from different regions to find work in the northern province of our bill, which is home to iraq's kurdish minority. they are also feeling the effects of what they say is an ineffective central government in baghdad. on the commonwealth and out the holly and i came here from cur cook to work as a taxi driver. the situation in baghdad is scary, especially after 9 months or so with no government formed. this has a direct effect on the economy. there were lots of people here from baghdad also

because of the security situation there, the holidays. but then the situation in iraq is miserable. people are afraid to buy new stuff. they don't know what will happen in the future. the country is going towards the unknown political parties just believe in quotas. i have a family of 5 and wish i could go abroad. back on the streets of the capital. signs of neglect and lack of public spending are visible. despite the state making huge profits through oil sales, 11500000000 dollars last month alone, no budget was pass this year. meaning most of the surplus cannot be spent on those who need it most. this is the, at the me, a neighborhood in eastern baghdad and just across the river. west of here is the push on the sheer area of the mia. the latest crisis is group, yet again, it is the people who suffer the most when there's political divisions, even if it's resolved, it's unlikely to do the loss for the country to buy al serra back.

now the bank of england is projecting that the british economy will flip into recession by the end of the year. it's raise the interest rate by a half percent. that's the biggest jump since 995, the move is aimed at coming the u. k. the west inflation and 40 years, central bank around the world of and pushing rates to cub spending and bring down prices. well, human right? so is, are challenging a controversial housing policy in denmark. the government is enforcing and no ghetto is rule which restricts non weston as from living in certain districts. the idea is to keep areas diverse, but the plan is proven to be divisive with critic saying that it's simply racism under a different name. poorest reports now from copenhagen. mohammed islam is a danish citizen. he came to copenhagen from pakistan as a 7 year old. his children were born here in the meal, nepalese and district, but to drive to abolish so called ghettos has led to the danish government

reclassifying citizens along racial lines. with the as lamb family now labeled ika vest, liquor non weston. if she lived in the vessel restaurant country the, than do you have the full, right. and if you lived in the non western country than you don't have the same right near said, very told what to think about. we can make some kind of law in denmark, in my country, it could be seen as a laudable goal aiming for greater racial integration under reduced crime. but the problem is how the government plans to do it. setting ethnic quotas for every district in the country. it's possible raft of measures the government is brought into abolish ghettos within the next decade. by then, the aim is for every district in the country to have a population that is at least 70 percent western 80 percent of mil to parkins residence, or from an immigrant background. the danish government can't make people leave areas like mil, nepal can purely on the basis of ethnicity what it can do is force the housing to

be sold off to private investors who then raise the rents. the idea is that mainly western people seems to be more wealthy, will then be able to move back in. but the lord forgot and ghettos go further. they include lower welfare payments for people moving into areas on the government's ghetto list and harsh punishments for criminals in ghetto areas. also a ban on refugees moving into the target to districts. residents are suing the government. oh, even for thank you. in scott, it's an anti segregation policy center on social conditions and crime rates would be valid. but we object to removing people from the homes based on ethnicity living positive development in these residential areas. but the measures against them have got more and more intense ports, frequent up a mean dominga minorities find themselves stuck. they move out of one area to lower the number of non westerners but can't move into another area for the same reason. the government decline our requests for an interview or statement,

but as it pushes ahead with the controversial ghetto laws, many people still don't know where they will be house or where they will be. welcome. will it be safe for us and our kids and our generation to live in denmark in the, in the future, you know, and wait anxiously to see of their voices will count for anything in the country. they always thought of as home. full rece all his era, coven, i o. south korean is now one step closer to the moon. launching its fast, luna arbiter. 325. ah. depending on phase x's, falcon, 9 rocket, it's journey to the means. orbit will take 5 months the along observe the mission against testing space internet technology, and as fast as will be streaming the song dynamite by the cape up group at b t. s. south korea ends to land a probe on the moon by 2030, vulcanized sec.