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you're watching the news. our live from headquarters in ohio. jerry and obligate are coming off in the next 60 minutes. a drove is declared for parts of england. this temperature has continued to soar and millions suffer from the lack of rainfall. franz tries to contain a major blaze, as you says 2022 is the worst year on record for pollution from wildfires. in southwestern europe, former us president, donald trump says he won't oppose the release of the f. b, i warrant, used to search his florida home, a hostage stand off in bay router and the spotlights on lebanon's troubles finances . we speak to the lebanese minister of economy and trade in for sarah 100 days ago until the fif wildcard begins. in cas football show piece is getting underway. it's earlier than originally planned with the kicking off the tournament against ecuador on november, the 20 ah,

welcome to the news. our extreme dry weather conditions across europe are hampering trade and raising concern about food supplies. so a drought has been declared across large parts of england. 9 of the last 12 months have been dryer than normal across the u. k. as a whole. the national farmers union is warnings that up to half of the potato, carrots, an onion harvests are expected to fail over in germany. larger ships and barges can no longer pass parts of the rhine river because of the low water levels. cargo owners are having to pay for multiple shipments to get their good delivered, and that's because the vessels are sailing with reduced loads. meanwhile, in france, wildfires of forest 10000 people from their homes, the e u satellite monitoring service as blazes and from spain and portugal have already made 2020 to a record year for wildfires in southwest europe. we have dominic cain standing by

in berlin, but 1st let's go to worry. challenge was at wimbledon common dots in south west london. rory, just tell us what you're seeing, where you are and what it's like. well, wimbledon coleman is one of london's big parks. these are way sees of green in the concrete jungle, but as you can see at the moment has very little green left. this is all parched grass lines in front of the grass. whatever there is left is basically no gross anymore. it's, it's powdery straw super dry hands. this where i'm standing in the moments should be on the water line of rush me a potent. but as you can see, her, the actual pond, water level has strung back considerably. we can go back down to the, to the water level and see if i can avoid the geese or bit moody. i think that whole bought it today and that's not the patient has it i could do without. but the,

this is being repeated all over the country really ponds like this, shrinking to almost nothing. you've got reservoir shrinking to nothing. you've got rivers running much, much lower than normal. i without reporting last month when the reco is temperature for england was beaten as the mercury smash $340.00 degrees. since then there's been barely any rain. it's all and there have been rain for weeks before that. this is why the national droughts group, which is made up of government agency and water companies, has decided that 4 parts of south west england, central england, southern england, eastern englands. they are now officially declaring drought status and that includes london as well. so now that that declaration has officially been made, rory, what does it actually mean in practical terms? well, the public is being reassure, reassured, that essential war to services ah,

find that being said, got but safe. got it. but what it provides for the water companies is the ability to put in place restrictions on water usage for their customers. and what that boils down to basically is how your pipe bands. you won't be allowed to use your highest pipes in the gardens water, your plans to wash your car, to clean your windows. if you've lucky enough to have a swimming pool, you won't be able to fill that up. some parts of the country have already brought in these announcements, so yorkshire in the north of the country has said that from the 26th of august they are bringing his pipe band. that's the 1st host by famine in yorkshire. but 27 years. they're a part of south and south west and welsh, part of the country, which are already announcing guys have pipelines as well because of this drought status. many, many more will follow. there are other things to watch out for as well. of course,

you know, the sun is beating down, it's hot $35.00 degrees, not quite as hot as it was last month, but still hot enough to have an amber health warning out there and also risk of fire. the met office has said that sir. we've seen while 5 bursting out in the country in recent weeks, and there's an exception. exceptional risk of many more to come. all right, thank you so much re challenz. well, let's get now more from our weather presenter jeff harrington. joining us here in the pseudo. so jeff, how about is it will during, remember, just a few weeks ago, london registered that unprecedented 40 degrees. not going to be as bad this time around. so let's talk about why that is. that's because this time we're tapping into air cooler air. if you can call it that from the mid atlantic, but a few weeks ago we had hot air coming up from africa. so that's what gave us the unprecedented heat. but still we're setting records here. so in plymouth, new all time temperature record on thursday,

32.2 and not far away from the 1st time. registering 30 degrees, but the peak of the heat is really coming on saturdays. so here's a look at our forecast london. we got your pencil then for 36 degrees as when we're going to see some relief. it won't be until monday and a bit of a catch $22.00 here. so let's run through this thunder. downpours across both the islands of ireland and britain. this concerns us because as we've been talking about dry is july on record for some in both central and southern england. what that means is the ground is bone dry, so we get any rain. it's going to trigger some flash flooding, especially when you consider we've got sanders storms in the forecast. those could be downpours at some points. so here's how it breaks down by the numbers. again, the peak of the heat on saturday, 36 degrees. well above the august average of 20 to 23, i should say there's that flash flood potential with those thunderstorms on monday, but this is under storms. we'll break the heat. so look at this by wednesday 21

degrees. so diary and that's actually below average. so the worst of the heat still to come on saturday, but give it a few days and temperatures will come down. ok, so no relief inside, at least for 24 hours then. exactly, i'll thank you so much for that. let's bring it down and k. now he's joining us from berlin. so dominic, what is such severe temperature as mean for europe's biggest rivers? the main concern in germany and so far as these temperatures are concerned and rivers will, it's the rhine river and let's be clear. it's not just germany, which is affected by the level of the rhine, switzerland, france, germany, luxembourg, the netherlands. they all have a role to play in working at what is happening with the rhine. what matters in one sense is that is now so much lower than it has been in recent months that certain types of ships can no longer apply their trade along this very large waterway. to

give you an example, certain tankers of liquids, like liquid gas and that sort of thing. and now charging 5 and a half times more money per tonne they transport than they were back in june. and the thing to say here is because there's so much less water physically in the river, it means that the depths that the river should have 4 ships to pass down. well, they're not the same depths anymore. so now companies who are transporting particular goods are having to transport, perhaps 2 or 3 boats speakers, the one but they would use which could be fully load laden cannot be. and one final thoughts on that particular note. it is worth making the point that since the war in ukraine, the rhine river has been used to transport far more coal than it had been before the war started. now that matters, it's twice as much as previously when all of a sudden those companies transporting coal are finding great difficulty in being

able to send the volume of coal that they would want to, all of which adds in to the energy crisis that so much of northwest in europe has found itself in, in the last few months. okay, thank you so much. dominic cane reporting for us from berlin. so as you've been hearing glazes and from spain and portugal have already made 2020 to a record year for wildfires in south west europe, the u satellite monitoring service as fires in france have sent carbon pollution there to its highest level since records began. emergency crews are battling a fire and as your own region, which has destroyed more than 7000. hector is a forest. more firefighters and equipment from 60 you nations arrived on thursday to help. bernard smith has more from who owns from authorities here and here on site. the fire has been contained overnight within a 40 kilometer or emitter. 5 factors have come from across europe. these guys have

just arrived from romania, but there are also greeks, austrian, germans, and the polish firefighters. here in total, across from this year, 57200 heck. tears of land has been burned in wild 5. it's 6 times the full year average in the last sort of 16 years or so. the authority say that here today a little the fire is contained because extreme temperature is expected again, anything in the high thirty's, maybe even 40 degrees c. i don't know how the weather will affect the fire, expect it to be dry again for the next few days. the land is tin, the ground spots very easily, and that's why the extreme temperatures are increasing the ferocity and frequency of these fine. well, the rainy season continues to take its toll and su, done with tens of thousands of people affected. at least 25 people have died in

flash floods across the country. many families have lost all their possessions and fear things will only get worse with more rain expected incoming days. have a morgan reports from bad about a county that's been devastated by the flooding. bessy rama is still searching for he can salvage from his home. its collapsed on tuesday after flash lets indicate lab in northern sudan river now state. it's the result of days of heavy rain in the region and rain water from the east of a flowing streams in the town. this i had, i shot the rain started in the morning, star rating for hours, and then while we were open to seems the water to pass floods hit us. it didn't stop till the next morning. the rain was, is usually just flow through the stream, but this time we went over it and no barrier or stream was able to stop it. this years home was one of more than 1700 homes destroyed by the floods. mccain uptown alone, more than 3000 homes, were damaged in bed, but counting in what many hearsay has been worth. destruction 15 men hold up. the

law shows us what remains of his once large family home, where rooms we stood, now only rubble remain the order. you know, there were 2 bedrooms there, another 2 in the other side and a kitchen there. the water came, i'm in less than an hour. the houses collapsed. we didn't even have a chance to take out anything because we were busy making sure the people got out alive. some have left their homes to seek shelter after losing nearly everything. but many others have stayed behind. the destruction has left families out in the open. many things they wait here until the end of the rainy season to rebuild their home. but that's may take some time because lorine for the coming days. and they are concerned about what the bond diseases, the rain and flood waters have damage to it systems. and it's hard to find drinking water in some parts of the town. lay. melina wave, she, there is no access to clean drinking water or to a health clinic. my daughter is now sick in attent nearby. while we'll try to

salvage what we can do. but there is no medical treatment available. at least 15 people have been killed as a result of heavy rains and flash floods around for them. those who survived say they're not sure how they'll be able to rebuild their lives. after losing so much, he will morgan onto the era barbara county ribbon allstate, on to moorehead on the all 0 news are including supporters of iraqis. she, leader, most of the are back and large numbers outside parliament demanding early election . so un security council meeting to discuss fighting your nuclear plants in ukraine as experts warn off a potential cost or fee coming up later in sports while the latest, the montreal masters with quarter final thoughts on the line. ah. but 1st, the former us president donald trump says he won't oppose the publication of the

war, and that allowed the f b i to search his home. us attorney general says he personally made the decision to search trumps florida state. on monday, mary garland has off a federal court to release the warrant, calling in a matter of public interest. mohammed val reports. he's described the f, b i search of his florida state oven, an american unwarranted and unnecessary and breaking. but donald trump says he's encouraging the release of the warrant, even though it was drawn up by what he describes as radical, left democrats and possible future political opponents. the request unsealed the warrant is a rare move by the us justice department. good afternoon and according to the attorney general, that's because trump himself disclosed the search. i personally approve the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, that apartment does not take such a decision lightly where possible in a standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search,

and to narrowly scope, any search that is undertaken. if the motion is granted, the water will be made public and could reveal what investigators were looking for . its reportedly connected to allegations, the former president removed sensitive files from the white house search warrants, usually main last fight during offending investigation. let's say the public interest is mounting along with fear the violent responses from some of the pumps. far away supporters claiming that things may have been planted by the f. b. i. and extraordinary allegation that matter what the circumstances out with donald trump, no matter what he has done, he is always able to present himself as the victim. on thursday, an armed man tried to breach and f b. i field officers if sonata, who was shot and killed in a standoff with the police pulse on top social media platform from an account

bearing the suspects name mentioned the attempt to storm the f. b i office and encouraged others to prepare for war. the man is also believed to have been part of the january 6 attack on the capital. had fun. just let's speak to steve cummins. he's the host of al jazeera as weekly, so the bottom line, he's joining us on slide from washington, d. c. hi there, steve. so what is it that happens next? now that, that trump says that he won't oppose the, the publication of the warrant? well, a couple of things. we're all waiting to see if the judge will actually release the warrant at the request of both the department of justice and with the approval of president trump. it's a highly unusual matter if that happens that will give us the vague outlines the scaffolding of what they were looking for. it won't give us the detail, the great detail of what they were looking for. but that's a very, very important step. because i think when this broke, many of donald trump supporters responded quite angrily thought this was the weapon,

a weapon ization of the f b i. but we've learned through confidential sources that some of those materials were rely, likely related to nuclear weapons and, and signals intelligence. and it begs the question of why would this president, who was so disinterested in intelligence briefings being holding in his private possession, sensitive information, classified information on nuclear weapons and on signals intelligence. and it really opens up a very different track for this conversation. and so, until that warrant comes open, we won't be able to go further. but it certainly has silent in many of the republican supporters of donald trump. given this news that this may have been that kind of material was holding raid. but here's the thing. if nothing of significance, it's found, then how likely is it that trump will really proclaim victory, and this will just or ryle, up his, his support base your ad?

you're absolutely right. if nothing of significance is found, then this was an enormous gamble. and it, it assures him, you know, just a turbocharged support among his, among his followers in among the g o. p. right before an election, the 2020 to mid term election. so you're absolutely right. so the stakes of whether or not something significant was found, or the proof that he had something that potentially damaging to us national security within his private possession. if that turns out not to be the case, then this election in 2020, for the presidential race just took a very different for what is from banking on here. because as you were saying a moment ago, he's, he's previously called this an unprecedented political weapon. ization of law enforcement. so why is it that he's now agreed or he's not agreed. he said he doesn't oppose the releasing of the war. it's why now?

well, i think that he doesn't oppose the release of the warrant because the department of justice put him in the, in the role. you know, the attorney general merrick carlin said, look, we want to tell you, but legally we are unable to talk about any details of this case. they couldn't even acknowledge that they did this raid. it was president trump's acknowledgement of it publicly. the gave the attorney general the space to talk about it yesterday . so with regards to that, i think donald trump fields is if he's in a corner and that he doesn't have any choice but to join the call to release the details of the warrant. because otherwise it makes him look like he's the one hiding something. so it's, it's a, it's a, you know, because, you know, you know, it's a collision course right now between the department of justice and donald trump's interest. but i think right now he feels as if this step of acknowledging of

calling for the the warning to be released. this is perhaps in his favor. i have to say candidly that it's not always clear that donald trump knows exactly where he's going and he can paint something that may be factually untrue, and his supporters may still accept that is true, steve. how significant is it that, that an organization of f b, i agent, to issue this statement saying, quote, this is not a partisan or political issue. it's a matter of public safety and basic decency and response to some of the things that we've seen online. there been some called by trump, supporters for americans to quote, lock and load. we also heard from one republican senator tweeted that the sorts of trumps home was quote, the rogue behavior of communist countries. i mean, hosting this because it has all of this and what's your response to it? well, it does paint something it's not often discussed, is that the f b, i right now is in turmoil. it's been in turmoil for years. and it's not just that

the american public is against the weapon as a of you know, the f, b i. in this case, you know, you had some cases we saw before where agents of the f. b, i were very much on donald trump's political side. you saw others that were supporters of hillary clinton and were engaged in personal social media commentary and, and messaging to that effect. and for an unbiased legal enforcement institution to have leading members of its bureau engaged in, you know, political flirtations, if you will, with one side or the other. we also know recently the supreme court justice process vetting process of rec, cavanaugh that the f b. i basically never pursued any of those leads, so we're seeing a lot of warts and was lenise in the efficacy and the performance of the f, b i. and everyone on both sides of the aisle has frustrations with the institution . so that's just the reality. when you add on top of that, what may be

a very important and perhaps even necessary investigation into president trump's holding of now of national security secrets. that you still have lots of doubt on top of the f b i doing something and that's, that's created a lot of turmoil for this institution. ok, thank you so much. the comments for joining us from washington d. c. now supportive of influential shies leader, move to the southern have gathered in iraq's capital for mass prayers. it's the 2nd week they were held near parliament in bagdad fortified green zone. the southern has urged supporters to keep up their demands for political reform. after months of deadlock, at the end of july, thousands of people stormed the parliament building and occupied it for several days and said that his opponents are expected to hold a rally outside the green zone shortly before the war had, has more from baghdad. only the boy, you know, the mass friday, prayers a to speak about politics. this is

a religious occasion, but it's usually being used. my son and he supported to convey, did a mass at this time. this is the 2nd friday in a row dunc. they perform this mass congregation friday prayers to manipulate it in order to convey the message to their messages. again at reiterated here today that the parliament be dissolved with an early elections be held as a way out of the political dead and log in and not looked at us other himself just did tweeted in his tweed, he's his libby aided to some extent then that he taught it, he said, he thought it calling on the supporters of the label, parliamentary block, the pro iranian framework, good vision fremont, conan, going them to keep their demonstrations piece calm has not returned to sierra leone after days of nationwide anti government demonstrations.

there's been anger about the rising cost of living. the protest her is demanded president julius motto, bios should step down. at least 27 people have been killed including security personnel. the government is imposed the nation wide curfew. canyons are still waiting to find out who their next president will be 2 days after they took to the polls. for the 1st time, results from each polling station have been made available online as they're counted in a bit to avoid claims or frigging. and that's seen supporters of both front runners, counting alongside the electoral commission and confidence in their candidates. malcolm lab reports in the capitol, nairobi, the tallying of kenya's election results is tense. the last 3 polls were disputed, and 2 of them resulted in violence. in many places, trades at a standstill, making things even harder for millions of informal workers already struggling

because of soaring food and fuel prices. has been no business right now because most of our customers are holding back and waiting for the voters seen decreasing. li, convinced by politicians, promises to relieve economic woes turn out was about 65 percent compared to nearly 80 percent in the last election 5 years ago. in that pole, the electronic voting system was criticized for being a take. the supreme court ruled, there were irregularities in a transmission of data. it didn't know the election an order to rerun this time. the results forms from every polling station were made available on line from the moment that they were transmitted electronically to hear italy center in nairobi. and while the hard copies of being brought here, anyone can download the images, print them off entirely up the results rights groups. hope that means it will be harder to rick the election an easier to prove any rigging in court. the 1st time

political parties have been allowed to run their own tally centers. this one's run by the coalition of deputy president william retail. he's one of the 2 main contenders, because he had a dog in this fight. what did he done or collision? and we have all figures, we know how fight couldn't does that. we cannot do the declaration. it's a management level to, to compare the to to media companies are running tally centers to like this one depending on which constituencies account 1st. some show a lead for rito and others for his main opponent, form of prime minister royal everything rights creep say they're worried about a flurry of false claims of victory and miss information on social media out on the street. supporters of those rylon and retail, convinced their candidate is about to win. now because we are seeing the percentage is showing that available in winning let us live for the last one. everyone's

waiting to find out who will be declared the winner. and if the candidates and their supporters will accept the results, malcolm web al jazeera nairobi can yeah. south korea as president una secure has pardon samsung, vice chairman lee j young. the justice ministry says the business leader is needed to help overcome a national economic crisis. analysts say these, pardon could harold some big investments in the world's biggest smartphone maker? the pardon is largely symbolic, as lee was already out on parole. he served 18 months in prison for bribery relating to his time in charge at some phone. a landslide warning has been issued near tokyo as a tropical storm spins closer. it's back to jeff now with your world, whether updates we've got a tropical storm on our hands for japan's mean island of hon. you. hi everyone. here's the details on saturdays. so this is racing through eastern portions. it's

going to dump a lot of rain in tokyo, so the teams thinking about 60 millimeters, but also the winds will be a factor here as fall, seen up to 65 kilometers per hour. this is a quick moving disturbance, so by sunday things will all ready start to dry off and then rate back into the heat on monday, the 36 degrees. if we get there that will be the 16th time so far this year above $35.00 degrees further solidifying that record, also, sheets across the yangtze river valley. so shanghai, your temperature, we got in for 40 degrees and this is in good news. another burst of rain for flood hit areas of sol on saturday. se asia looks like the rain picking up the cross sumatra, java and this port part of borneo. and as we go down under right now, your jack is probably whipping around. if you're in w a, this weather makers spreading, some rain and wind and for the southeast corner legacy of showers. but let's go back to w a and talk that those winds got serv 60 kilometers per hour. and we'll end off in

new zealand across both islands. quite weather, but temperatures a little below where they should be for this time of the year. see later i could drafts till i had on the al jazeera in his hour. i'm jonah holling, edinburgh, where the world famous fringes back from pandemic hibernation. only to confront a brand new crisis. the spiraling cost of performing the id number, visit a bakery and argentina to see how people are coping with the soaring inflation and sport the season ending playoffs get underway on the pga tour. gemma will have all the details a little later. ah ah

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i again the top stories on the else, is there a news hour? so you can government has declared a drought in parts of england. it's seen the dry of july since 935. some regions have already announced water restrictions banding. people from watering lawns or washing cars. blazes in from spain and portugal have already made 2020 to record year for wildfires and southwest europe. you satellite monitoring services fires in front of st. carbon pollution. there are 2 with the highest levels since records begun. former us president donald trump says he was welcome the release of the f b i war and use the search was florida foam. the attorney general has also a federal court to unseal the document, saying it's in the public interest the

the us nuclear watchdog says military action around the ukranian nuclear plants were stopped immediately. russia and ukraine are blaming each other for the shelling of the upper reach a plant. ukraine says it's ready for a possible evacuation in the event of a nuclear catastrophe. person salumi has more from the un. the head of the international atomic energy agency told the security council that the only way for him to assess the damages to this operation, nuclear plant and insurance security is to allow his team access to it, to look at it, to see it for himself. he stressed that his role is to provide technical, not political assistance and said that he'd been in contact with both ukraine and russia to gain that access. you went on to say that he sees no immediate threat from recent shelling of the plant, but he cautioned that that could change at any moment. russia and ukraine accused

each other of getting in the way of the visit. you gotta, you gotta get the players because there are no guarantees that the triple take place that we can currently provide. so it's hard for us to judge what is currently being cooked up by the ukrainian leadership, which for several days in a row has been lodging strikes on the nuclear power plant. even though the un secretary general described any attacks on nuclear facilities as suicide. the occupiers have resulted to manipulation, an unjustified conditions on the missions visit, as well as shelling oh, these ad found to be and, and there godard, thus making the visit impossible. so fall raphael. marianna grossi pointed out that the one thing you crane russia and security council members agreed upon, was the need for the i a to visit apparition. and he promised to redouble his efforts in the coming days to make that happen. while ukraine is home to the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster,

the 1986 chernobyl meltdown killed hundreds of people and spread radioactive contamination over much of europe. survivors of that disaster urging extreme caution around those upper reaches sites. john henderson reports from chernobyl. the path to the chernobyl power plant is barren, overgrown, and lonesome. this amusement park near by was due to open 5 days after the 1986 nuclear meltdown whose name is now synonymous with disaster. it never did. 36 years later, radiation levels are still well above normal. in some places that's high. the silica the silica the reading is about 16 times normal inside explosion. ravage reactor number 4 now shrouded by a large container. radiation levels remain high. vladimir forbid, sky still it your noble engineer rushed to the plant the day of the meltdown. yeah,

the, the road you lost. um, so when i got there, i was expecting to see the reactor mom. what i saw was the crate to limit by the explosion than yeah, what is that on? yeah. with this apparition, nuclear plan taking fire repeatedly in frontline fighting and southern ukraine. local say it could pose in even greater danger. jo. put obisky, give sure no b, e butch, which she had sou, i worked at some noble and i witnessed the tragic consequences of the explosion. supervisor could be 234 times bigger, mentionable. and i'm very worried about which believe it or not. this is the center of the town of griffin, that's the cultural building behind me. on the day after the mel dana cher noble, all 50000 residents were evacuated and not a soul has lived here since. now nature his reclaim the landscape on which prep it was built. the president of the company that owns his apparition plant says russian forces have placed trucks and explosives inside turbine holds near the reactor and

are firing from the plants. grouse, russia blames ukraine for the strikes on the plant. there's a motto, newsletter as unsafe, continued this way. unlike chernobyl, vladimir forbids, he says, zap parisha is europe's biggest nuclear plant in it lies in a heavily populated region with us and would assume wouldn't. bethesda buddhism, this won't happen in russia, the west will feel the consequences, bulgaria, romania, moldova, and poland. he hopes both russia and ukraine have learned the lessons of journal so the land that surrounds apparitions doesn't also become a nuclear waste land for decades to come. john henderson al jazeera, the chernobyl exclusion zone, ukraine. when he, lebanese people are calling a man who held employees hostage at a bank in bay root a hero, he was trying to withdraw his own money to pay his father's medical bills. he

surrendered peacefully to police after a 7 hour stand off on thursday. people accuse the banking system in lebanon off misusing funds. zayna hood that reports from bay roots a peaceful end to an hours long hostage crisis in the heart of the lebanese capital. but sam hudson laid down his gun and left the bank, escorted by security forces. after a deal that gave him back some of his money, like millions of lebanese hassan has not been able to access his account since lebanon's financial crisis took hold nearly 3 years ago. where does my, what is my money? i worked, i'm many, many, many, many years old when he's people, they worked abroad, they worked and really bad news. economy received their money, they put them in the bank, the legal they are not with us. the politics is not with us. the bank does not look outside his relatives, friends and depositors gathered to show support to a man they say has been driven to the brink and had no other choice witness to say

. the armed men visited the bank several times in recent days, demanding $5000.00 from his account to pay for his father's hospital bill. the bank refused to give him the money i. banks imposed limits on withdrawals in dollars and withdrawals in the local currency. are at the rate far below the market price. a significant cut in the original value of deposits. thursday, stand off is not the 1st of its kind. in january a depositor withdrew $50000.00 from his account. after holding bank staff hostage, he spent a few weeks in jail, many feel they are paying the price for the financial collapse. i have some money. sometimes, when i look more banks have been major lenders to the government for decades. they say they are not at

fault blaming politicians from this managing the economy. but people know many politicians are bankers and they have been protecting themselves. instead of taking action to reverse the economic collapse. then there is eda david, well, lebanon has been in a deep economic crisis since 2019. the united nation says nearly 80 percent of people live in poverty. the lebanese currency has lost more than 90 percent of its value, devastating for a nation that imports most of its goods. international donors say, aid is conditional on reforms which politicians have so far not implemented. earlier, my colleague and associates have spoke to 11 on administer of economy and trade. i mean a slum. she began by asking him about the current state of the economy, lebanon, as really going through a very, very difficult economic crisis. reforms of major

need for 11 on to be able to stop the bleeding and the economy and began looking at development and recovery delays due to political tensions within the country of extended the timeline for the quickly forms requested by the i m f and requested by the national community, therefore we are still more social address, which is very alarming because what we have with the yesterday could be something that can grow bigger and on a larger scale, which will create a total chaos on the social scene with security challenges for level. well, as you just alluded to that just yesterday we saw that level of desperation that many people are feeling when will people be able to get their money out of the bank? this is a very tough question to us. however, it's a very just question and people do have the right to the deposit of the bank. i have been a member of the negotiating committee with enough. we have been working diligently

to find the best exit really to secure the money of the deposit. none of the scenarios that we really worked on was an easy one. most recently, the government has issued an economic recovery plan where we show that certain accounts with them, a limit of $100000.00 would be able to have access to the money in the bank. and the amount that are larger than $100000.00 will be part of larger economy, more sophisticated that will have the government pay back. those money's through an investment fund that the government looks forward to establish well. so i think question that a lot of lebanese would want to know is when will that happen? as we've been saying, lebanon is in need of a bailout, and the i'm f one performance done before that happens as someone who's been involved in the negotiations, all your confidence, that will happen. and are you worried about more dead?

i am honestly very concerned that the, the for the request in the form of was the by the i am are taking too long of now most of those lows on the parliament waiting for the parliament to issue them once we issue those reform laws including the capital control that really puts a structure to the whole bank. in fact, the once we issue the restructuring of the banking sector, the secrecy law for the banking sector and the budget 2022. then we can really start talking about serious next steps of opening up more the banks dealing with a deposit, hers giving hope that the deposit can begin having access based on new laws that before that nothing would really change, which is the biggest concern. unless those reform laws not, nothing will change on the, on the social scene or the way the deposit can access that money. tons of dead fish

have been removed from a river running through germany and poland. an, an identified toxic substances being blamed for what's being called an ecological catastrophe. water samples from the odor river have shown evidence of synthetic chemical substances, but it's unclear how the waterway was contaminated. argentina's monthly inflation for july was the highest and 20 years. it's 7.4 percent. that means accumulated inflation for the year so far is more than 46 percent. and it's projected to rise above 90 percent by the end of 2020 to daniel traveler, visited the country's oldest bakery to find out how people are coping. luca bakery and lucon about an hour's drive west of one osiris was found in 1875 by marcus, his great great grandfather, angelo, an immigrant from lombardy in italy. it's overcomes several economic crises and

marco's his confident it'll survive the one now unfolding. a lot of him, do you know if he's a heart in timmins, or perhaps very good at coping because we're used to living this way? and maybe because our grandparents have managed to survive every one of these crises, they had to face self, the sun disorders. but it's tough. he has to be alert to increase in the price of almost everything, especially flower and fuel. plus the art and time pace are weakening against the us dollar while keeping his 30 plus staff and his customers happy. bread is one of life necessities, whatever the cost. it was in $1875.00 and continues to be at the heart of the battle to keep price is affordable and the community functioning. the bakery workers light these ovens at 4 am, 7 days a week. there have been many changes in the past 147 years, but some things remain constant. the scales for instance, made in london even before luka was founded. and of course customers with an

appetite, but less and less money to spend alien the yeah, look what we do now is consumed less. we don't buy as much as we used to. so we keep costs down. or we take advantage of the promotions. hyperinflation of more than 3000 percent hit argentine or in 1989, then social and economic catastrophe in 2000. and one is visual is the results determined. it's like when you're, if you're sick, you're a fever, you measure your measuring phase, but it's not the cause. the cost is the underlying monitoring system for his wish brain. jared isn't finished. so sergeant tina and the lucca bay, korea victims of crippling foreign debt. and the war in ukraine, we saw the price of flour rocket. and it's, you know, in a bread is something that's been around for hundreds of years and will continue to

be sold for several more centuries. yeah. because it must, and it's difficult to resist food this good. whatever the price, daniel shaw, they're al jazeera lucas argentina. the edinburgh fringe festival tract acts from around the world and gives virtually unknown performers a chance to hit the big time. but a sharp rise and cost for accommodation and venues is threatening the very essence of the annual gathering from edinburgh. jonah hall reports told me he has brought working cars grits to the stages of the edinburgh fringe for a decade. this friday was the hardest for me to foresee, ever come after the 2012. but even if we go to the cost of living crisis, and if you don't know what the cost of living crisis is kind of like, like a long way to seek or to the recession. it's kind of like

a spin off the credit crunch. the rising cost of everything from performance space to accommodation means his days here may be numbered. so you do so it's a place rust, shall we be here. do you want to sit or even help us get hit? when you ask that question, you do think am i going to be in front? it's like tom who's pay that way and often lose money in the process. the promise of being discovered at one of the world's best known festivals is fading with the times. with half my life in immigrant ex i'll spend in home is no place one of 2 shows buying her on board. scottie and george this year, she explores her creative roots a 30 year veteran of the freedom. she says, minority voices are also being squeezed out. what happens is that the narrowing of the types of stories that we hear in theater because of the type of people who are doing it, the lack of diversity amongst the people who are being centered. and so,

theater is going to become irrelevant to those audiences that come from those communities the survival of the edinburgh festival, and the fringe in particular, after a near death experience of the last couple of years demonstrates that come rain or shine, or pandemic. the show must go on, but the wider cost of living crisis is feeding into a cost of performing crisis with the seen at risk of being diminished forever. the life of a fringe unknown can be to mouth experience. audiences are increasingly drawn to big name productions, while the vital voices of diversity a drowned out the fringe as he was some say, he's no longer about money. looks at the hopelessness of young lives. earning poverty wages. i think we would, may not seem like much, but not all i want to show was the other turns as it is mostly

about the money. joe al jazeera edinburgh sports news is coming up on the al serra news hour, including the latest on the 5th, a world class with post nation cats are now scheduled to play the opening game. ah. as the count down to the fee for woke up 2022 approaches, every continent is turning its eyes to cattle. but the greatest sporting event in the world won't be anything capturing everyone's attention. immerse yourself in entertainment, art and culture with brand new restaurants like summa and billionaire, joining no boot nasir at chefs alan ju cas and gast, on a curio and make an aussie spy beach club. now most i could typhon and alma islands do all of that. while enjoying out warm hospitality, when it comes to shopping,

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couple of pictures have been rescheduled to insure house nation consort will now face ecuador in the opening game. preceded by the opening ceremony, the change was announced by fif on thursday area. we spoke to sports marketing expert, simon ryans. he told us why this date change could prove problematic. the tournament sponsors is useful to explain a little about what spawns how sponsored works, which is basically, it's not just about the perimeter boards and the branding that you see. but sponsors like to do a lot of what we call activation around it. so they book, advertising, create special events. and one of the biggest impacts could well be the fact that they'll have a lot of hospitality with b r p guests coming in from around the world. and that could be quite disruptive if you move everything a day for it's going to be very hard to be shed your hotel bookings for people, even, even with a 100 days. notice, you know, if everyone has books for that,

that'll be very difficult. and also all the flights, you know, they're, they're going to be mainly 1st class flights from around the world. so depending on what arrangements you have for changing tickets, that could be expensive. so that the cost could mount up and the logistical tasks are going to be significant. i think it's fair to say it could cost millions. and i mean another area is, is printing anyone's printed posters and leaflets promotional material which has the exact starting date of the world. then they may well on to shred all out when and redo it. so, you know, again and some, some fairly significant cost there sort out for the, the most compact and history with a late stadium. so then a $56.00 comma to radius from the capital de ha. and later, the venues are now complete. the largest is the 80000 seat at the sale stadium, and it has 6 fast official game on thursday night. and the domestic cutoff styles

lake repeat a stem it was that on the 18th of december they will be $18000.00 fans back into the stadium for the fee for will come final on thursday, they will white as many. and the reason for that is because tickets sold for the lower tier. however, there was still a little bit of history for use of them. so arabi, as he began the 1st man to score goals in an official match at the stadium. and what does the future look like? post wilka? well, many of the seats in the talk to you will be taken down and they'll be done. they said towards other schools in projects. the venue itself is what is the precinct we read a bit and there will be something of a community project that we'll see. so you can expect shops, cafes, schools, and the like. but before that, and before argentina and saudi arabia played other in the 1st world cup match at the stadium, they will be a 2nd stress test. that's when the champions of saudi arabia played the champions of egypt. and what is known as the do sail supercop,

and that's coming up on the 9th of september as full the teams and players to watch out for brazil, the top rank side. but it's hard to look past defending champions, france a, b croatia and the 2018 final in russia. pool pub, but may miss the tournament with an injury, but they have killing him back and perhaps most informed play in the world right now. karen benjamin is weak, al jazeera spoke to one of france is a well cut. what is it from 1998 to david tries the guy who's backing them to retain the trophy. i was amazed with to the constancy that front to the team to beat because they're the whoa champions. they got great quality individually and as a team or student getting to the final, even though the competition will be intense, the tournament will be friday. december suppliers from all countries will be in very good shape. but as i said, i think france will be very difficult to beat opinion buffy shampoo until demean killing him. pappy is that fig. ahead of the same even if this quality throughout the whole squad. he's going to be the player who will really show his qualities. i think he's going to have an exception. a welcome look up on her born austin is

beside france, the still germany, spain, brazil. let's not forget argentina and africa, which is an upcoming continent with teams trying to get to a higher level away from the market. and nick carroll produced another scintillating performance at the mont. she'll masters a day off to eliminating as well. number one curious at brushed aside fellow australian, alex domino, 6263. he reaches the quarter finals, it is tournament for the 1st time and it shows that he received an important seating for this month. yes, i've been curious when that type helen's haven or incredibly tall. you know also yesterday's be who i always playing denellin and the crowd was was amazing. you know, today we never forget and that i was really hard mentally. me to go out here and why alex was us with friends and he's been having such a good career so far and carrying this dr. lag, sorry for so long and it was just tough mentally separated. apply for i'm like got especially 3rd as ryan. ah, you know, i just got out here and got

a job gone. you know, i like the way i had applied i to help apply if you play into strike he's, he's one of the best best players in the back in the game, in any softball. so, you know, you know, hello women's event is in toronto, and there was a big upset in the round of 16. well, number 1 august field that was sent packing by beatrice, had a maya. she becomes the 1st brazilian woman to advance to the course final state and the deputy, 1020 in golf. the t j tools a season ending. fedex cut play off the underway. over the next 3 weeks. players will battle it out for the $18000000.00 1st prize. the 1st event is this in june championship in memphis and south korea. see we have kim shares deleted 8 on the part after round one. c b, m b a is on the legacy of legend, dream basketball player bill russell by retiring his number 6, jersey lee quite the hall of fame and social justice activists died last month at the age of 88. he's the 1st place to have his uniform number retired across the

league. russell is 5 time m v, p, and 12 time also, he went to record 11 m b a titles with the boston celtics. he was also the 1st black head coach in the n b a. me, but that isn't your fault for me, for now. we'll have another updates a little bit later. thank you so much jemma. that's it for the news. our on al jazeera, we'll take a short break and be back with much more of today's news on all the latest headline . see you in a minutes. thanks for watching. ah, to me from the shoals of the red sea storage, a clean, more time and cool management major. but in georgia, this team fema climate change it to the peaks of the himalayas where water conservation looks like this. falling solutions to find the world's most precious

resource. in the next episode of ath right, we look at what is being done december 4th. i will just 0 on counting the cost, the you and i just tack on the profits of oil and gas giants couldn't help ease the energy prices. biden signs a bill to boost chip reduction. who's winning the semiconductor. and video game fails in the game over to the pandemic been counting the cost on out of their l pills. square in the story. carter tripling the 19th century architecture in a state of neglect. but the city has the ability to law tourists, whether foreign or lebanese experts, you have, the authorities have done nothing to preserve the historic and monuments and bring life back to this place. tripoli is considered the 2nd most archaeologically important that he probably the mom know empire after the egyptian capital cairo. the montessori mosque is among some of the structures remaining from that here on

remnants from other areas as well are found here. the triplet history is overshadowed by a turbulent recent path and a grim reality. ah do, ah, a drought is declared for parts of england. this temperature continued to soar and millions suffer from the lack of rainfall.