that they're just coming out to man. there's no recognition about what we're ready facing. the street on al jazeera, for half a century. indigo, die is all moved up. well, what can i still, what did the last ticket he and others in northern nigeria have watched helplessly as a business struggle and becomes dissipated growth making technology has changed over time. but look at this di pete's here income and expos say that's met some of the products and competitive the dumping of chemically treated fabrics. yeah. like in most african markets is a major source of concern for local producers. there is widespread concern, but so even the few kits that remain also up to close, bringing an end to more than 500 years history. aah!

on its independence, the ukraine, marx, 6 months since the start of the russian invasion as fears rise of more russian attacks, the 5 administration announces its biggest military aid for ukraine. ah, on carry johnson. this is al jazeera well life and also coming up all we close to reviving the iran nuclear dale. the u. s. responds to terrans comments on an e. you draft proposal on go this closest election since it's 1975 independence. the youth could turn the tide and ditch the ruling party. it's 6 months to the day since russian forces rolled across the board into ukraine . what russian president vladimir putin called a special operation as costa thousands lives and turns more than 6000000 people

into refugees. it coincides with muted celebrations in ukraine, walking 31 years of independence from soviet rule. while a small number of people turned out onto the streets of cures and square, large gatherings have been banned in the capital and curfews imposed in some other cities. the u. s. has pledged an extra $2980000000.00 in military aid, bringing the total spent so far to nearly $13000000000.00. united nations security council has been weighing in both you and secretary journal and the ukranian president addressing the marks a says instead, edge milestone 6 months since russia's 24th of february invasion of ukraine during these devastating periods, thousands of civilians have been killed and injured, including hundreds of children and countless others have lost their family members, friends, and loved ones. well,

there seemed great violations of international human rights law and internationally that in law, committed with little to no accountability. what's happening right now is that russia has put the world on the brink of radiation, catastrophic. it's effect that the russian military has turned the territory of the largest nuclear power plant in europe. does a parisian nuclear power plant until war zone. russia is responsible for on provocation showing and blows of terrorists on the territory of the station under the russian flag. now, europe and neighboring regents faced the threat of radiation pollution. kristen salumi joins us from the united nations. so chris, what did you make of what you heard today, including the russian of basset? well, we saw the divisions of the security council unfold display with russia on the one side defending its actions in ukraine and western. ah,

nato line countries lining up behind ukraine. resulting in a largely paralyzed security council and international community leaving the response to the united nations in terms of dealing with the food shortages globally attempting to negotiate access to this operation. nuclear power plant, which has been considered a threat by both sides and the conflict, and also dealing with accusations of human rights violations coming from both sides as well. we saw russia, which it, in some respects, appears to be more isolated in terms of after the council meeting, ukraine came out to speak and read a statement that was signed by some 30 plus countries. calling for an end to russia's invasion and

a return to ukrainian control. but noticeably missing from that group are countries like china and india who are increasingly in the middle in this conflict in dealing with the issues that have resulted in terms of rising food prices globally and rising instability, or in the words of a canyon diplomat who spoke in the council, a returned to cold war polarization. and, and so i, what we saw here is an increasingly polarized international system with its impacts being felt far beyond the conflict zone itself. kristin, the in the united nations. thank you. will theresa bo has more from kiff on how independence day is being marked. there were here in my down in the center of cave, not far away from independence square, where people have been coming here steadily in a way to remembers those they have lost to talk about the war of something that has

been very, very traumatizing for them. we're here writing a memorial that's been put with flags right here. it's with people that have been killed during the war. thousands of people have been killed and injured and millions have been displaced by the conflict. and people are coming here. and they're writing on this book that you can see right where i am there are stories of personal loss and what have been happening to them all this month. pictures of soldiers that have been killed and other types of stories when they're telling us that they want this to be a part of history of what has happened in this country this past month. and right behind me, all of those russian tanks that have been destroyed in the past 6 months. they have been put here as an act of defiance, governance for it. if we're saying that there were russia was hoping to be persuading their troops through this plaza when this war began. and this is what

they got instead destroyed, hang. so suddenly there's lots of meaning on this day for people here. and when you talk to them, they say that independence day for them means being closer to europe, being closer to freedom, being closer to human rights. and they want to be further away from most schools. we carry on rules. well meanwhile, the bought administration is now his biggest military aid for ukraine. that's across live tall white house correspondent. kimberly, how could so kimberly, what more can you tell us about this progress state but what i can tell you is not only is this the largest single package of security assistance, but it really signals a shift in terms of how the united states is supplying ukraine moving forward because initially the security packages has been really short term supplies and that the united states was utilizing what they had on had the pentagon was really

giving to ukraine. what could we ship quickly and what was in stock? in other words, it was for the immediate needs weapons led ammunition that the pentagon have on hand for the short term, but now the focus is on the medium and the long term. so these supplies will be utilized through the department of defense, long term contracts. so what we can expect that much of this will be air defense systems, our systems and munitions radar that will really allow for ukraine to really combat rushes tags. it is helicopters and really what this also signals is a shift to in terms of us support. i and the fact that this means that not only will the united states be supplying these weapons, but also that the united states will have a presence. this is really something that you, as president has said, all along with the united states is in this for the long haul. what this means is that really the united states will have

a true presence in europe for the foreseeable future. can be how architect, thanks for that from washington dc. o israel says it can't accept a revival of the nuclear deal with iran warning it will be used to destabilize the world. it follows accusations from iran's nuclear chief that israel has been waging psychological warfare. the sabotage a return to the 2015 agreement. iran has denied us media reports that it's dropped some key demands from the deal. israel is not against any agreement. we are against this agreement because it is a bad one because it cannot be accepted as it is written right now. it would give iran a $100000000000.00 a year. this money will not build schools or hospitals. this is a $100000000000.00 a year. that will be used to undermine stability in the middle east and spread

terror around the globe. santa towel frog about john. the joint comprehensive plan of action was the result of years of negotiations. the final agreement was meant to end all allegations. under the deal iran except to restrict his nuclear program and he brought access to inspectors from the international atomic energy agency to help in order to restore trust with years. and the same time all sanctions imposed under the pretext of the nuclear allegations that were supposed to be lifted as now a criminal regime which has a legal nuclear activities and doesn't give access to the ai, ai has stage psychological operations against iran over the past few days we don't expect the i e a to continue it's demand seemed. yeah, and it's not acceptable for it to do so. so those are to barry has more on reviving the nuclear deal with iraq as iran gets closer to as reaching some kind of an agreement with the united states and the european powers. israel opposition becomes

louder and louder party to the foreign ministry spokesperson here in terra that the united states government has officially responded to the suggestions that the radians had around that final tax put forth by that p 5 plus one. a few days ago, the united states government has passed on what they believe to be their answers to the u coordinator. that is joseph brown. and joseph ro hasn't turn, given that response from the american government to the reigning officials, who are now studying what the americans have come back with and will respond in due time. this is what we've been waiting for over the past few days since the rain is also responded to a text that was according to officials in vienna. a final text about iran coming back into full compliance along with the united states under the 2015 nuclear deal. i think you'll be very, very telling in the next few hours and days what the united states come back with

and what the iranians will respond as far as we understand. one of the main sticking points about coming back to that nuclear deal for iran has been some kind of a guarantee that we're looking for in terms of if, when there was a new administration in washington. if the next president decides to do the same thing that donald trumpet, then they will have to pay some kind of a penalty for the iranians. that's most come on al jazeera, including as russia's energy war with europe gets worse. it's cold, not gas that's causing a crisis in poland. i'm andrew simmons and kathy. it's and i'll be explaining why trucks are standing in line but days on end. outside the coal mines and cracking down on the car tower, skyrocketing, murder, rates, and civilians caught in the crossfire from the state of emergency in ecuador. ah,

john, he has begun the faithful world copies on its way to the castle book, your travel package today. let's go with your world's weather update. hi there. thanks for joining in. we'll catch this one off in bucket time where this is. now our 3rd monsoon depression in about is many weeks. so we're just getting blanket it with rain here. some spots of sin, providence scooping up more than a 100 millimeters of rain within a short period of time. that's enough to cause flash flooding and all this weather is leaking into afghanistan, specifically eastern portion. and just outside of kabul, we've seen some flooding there as well. now for india, all of the alerts and warnings have been dropped, so still rainy but not falling at the same intensity. problems spot will be more that southern slice of india. so karnataka into carola and same goes for that eastern side of she longer, on thursday. se, asia, it looks like the southern slice of indo china. we've got some rain there, but you know, i got to take you around the south china sea. we've got this tropical storm just to

the west of hong kong, some typhoon warning. so this is not a typhoon at this point, but it gives you an indication of just how much rain and wind we're going to see over high on his wall and then pushing into northern vietnam by thursday. now for japan, we've still got some showers around the main island of honju and look at this. temperatures have come down along the yangtze river valley. shanghai has a high 34 degrees on thursday, sea later cas, airway official airline of the journey. frank assessments, how much support is there at st protest that we've seen and across the rest of the country. the st movement has been very good that's happening in the court and the people across the country informed opinions. we will say more of what is happening is that climate change it making them work in depth. analysis of the days global headlines is rocky, is credited by some. we're really, we're storing italy's credibility to critics would say he couldn't play the part of a politician. what do you think went wrong inside story on al jazeera,

hulu? ah, the watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories ukrainians are holding muted celebrations on the 31st anniversary of independence from soviet rule. k prime minister orest johnson has marked the day light visiting cave in a show support you in a 2nd. turner continued to cherish called the day a sad and tragic milestone in an open session of the security council. crane's president for the madison lensky, used his speech to say, russia should stop what he calls nuclear. black mal is ro says it can't accept revival of the nuclear deal with iran wing. it will be used to destabilize the

world. meanwhile, iran's foreign ministry says it's received the u. s. response to the european union draft agreement and is assessing it now. you are to present joe biden has announced massive relief for university graduates trying to pay off student loans and allows up to $20000.00 in loan forgiveness for eligible borrowers. 43000000 people in america carried federal student debt in a statement. biden said the plan would give working and middle class families breathing room with hydro. castro has more for us from washington d. c. so high the what, what more can you tell us about this carry as we all know, attending university or college in the united states is extremely expensive. so much so that $1.00 trillion dollars is how much the federal government has give it out in loans. to americans trying to get help to pay for college. now this

announcement from the white house to day would forgive a small portion of that debt for those who qualify for those who went on to graduate from college and are now earning with a white house terms as low to middle income. defined as under a $125000.00 a year for an individual and $250000.00 a year for a family. so if these borrowers qualify, they will have up to $10000.00 of their, for a student loan forgiven. and for those who qualified under extreme financial hardship, they can get up to 20000 of that loan forgiven. and that does cover a big st. a swath of americans, many of whom may have all of their debt from student loans, erased because of this move. the white house also announcing today an extension of a pandemic era rule that has allowed people not to pay any of their student loan monthly payments for the duration of the pandemic that had been set to expire by

september with people wondering whether they'd have to start shoveling out the money again. well no, they don't. because now that plan to freeze these repayments has been extended until at least the end of this year carry 100 castro with those details in washington dc. thank you. thousands of south africans have been striking to protest against the rising cost of living. they want the government to intervene as the price of fuel electricity and food source. from the miller has more the runaway inflation. hundreds of thousands of jobs last and a shop increase in the cost of living. have bought thousands of, of africans onto the street. they want the government to address a number of issues from pay rises to a stable electricity supply. really after that. not easy. yeah, a lot. cry. yeah. cry please. as opposed to be did. but you're not teaching us

things. i know they're not, they're not fully performing economy work and by the knock on effects of a cobra. 19 pandemic and inflation. is that a 13 year high for the way forward and tapping into the anger? that's definitely developing over prices over pay of the poor people over food i worked with a group, put the community organizing working group which operates manian over settlement. and the demand that they've come up with here is sent me to site food for all. now can you imagine that how desperate that things are getting and just yesterday we believe that to unemployment rate in africa, which we mainly affect the u for hence we are here today. want to hit the call to the government and they can, they can see that looking into to do things about their issue of implement. while the government has implemented an unemployment grant, a $20.00

a month, it's simply not enough. and more than a 3rd of the population is unemployed. organizes that hope to a nationwide shut down to bring the economy to a home. while a few thousands have come out to the street. many others haven't oh, however, it would be difficult for the government to disregard union demands. the governing african national congress is part of an alliance with the congress of south african trade unions. one of the biggest workers federations, given the recent waning of support for the party, can't afford to ignore workers calls the meet amola al jazeera pretoria, millions of people in and go there, have cast their ballots to pick their new president and expected to be the most closely fort election since the countries independence in 1975, the party that's a govern for nearly 50 years is facing a growing wave of discontent. stephanie decker reports. this could be the 1st step

towards major change. for the 1st time in 47 years, opposition party nita stanza, strong chance to contest the ruling and pill. a party as governed angola since its independence in portugal in 1975. with amazon gram here, we expect a big day and i believe, and golden people will look at it as a celebration because it is a democracy. many people say democracy does not exist in angola, but the effects of democracy will be seen as all and garland head to the poles. president john maria su cost his vote early on wednesday surrounded by tight security. as did opposition leader, i go back to clusters. union voters are electing a new parliament and president and the titus races the 1st multi party elections in 1992. and why is that an increasingly disillusioned youth fed up by not seeing angola, petro dollars improve their lives? here's why younger people,

we need more change when an old bridge that we need more g albert douglas jr to be president of angola, i believe, got through it really changed to this country. the country is africa, 2nd largest oil producer, but levels of poverty remain high. i think that's definitely contributed to a sense of disillusionment. what the ruling party. the other thing is that when president would answer took over in 2017, there was a kind of renewed optimism in the country that perhaps he would open up the greater civil society space that he would hold local elections. that, you know, perhaps the board was proto, macro economic stability that might start to trickle down. but of course, that hasn't entirely happened. some of it has been a lack of political will. other things have been just global shocks. but this is really contributed to this feeling of delusion. and this is, this is what you could potentially see the emperor late and not fair as well as it

has had previous elections. the m p l a has been accused by human rights group of corruption, clamping down on descent right group also expressed concern about the transparency if he's election. the boats will be counted through a new centralized system in the capital due to a recent change in the electoral law pushed through by the ruling m p l. a. results are not expected for a few days. stephanie decker or 0 families in poland are bracing for a tough winter. the country is facing widespread coast shortage is off the russian imports of fuel when band. unlike the rest of europe, havilland relies on the call rather than gas for power and heating. andrew simmons travel to kind of itself see how people they're preparing for the cold months ahead . poland prides itself on its potential for being totally independent of russia for its energy needs. but there's a problem. it's a shortage of cold, not gas, like the rest of europe. ref our roars coal seller is normally stocked up for

winter by now. but he can't find any coal to buy. and if he could, he'd pay almost 4 times what he used to use them. angleton again, i'm not a minor or a geologist, but the coal is right here beneath our feet and i've been trying to buy it for 3 months with 0 results on average when he's right. this region is rich with coal, but polish production is limited, and the government has banned imported coal from russia, even though it's cheaper and more suitable for domestic use. we didn't invest in nuclear power yet, or we cannot rely on natural gas. so all we have is gold when it comes to the heating sector. this tuition is even worse because we were heavily dependent on russian coal colon burns, a lot of coal, 87 percent of the total for households across the european union. coal mines surrounded by cues of trucks can't meet the demand, and if people knew the level of profiteering going on,

they be even more alarmed. there's a reason that truck drove us from all over poland, spending days on end, and cues like these. it's because the loads may be small, but the profits are big. drivers are known to make at least a 100 percent profit from a coal yard dealer who will then raise the price by at least another 100 percent. this driver admits the 2nd old will suffer for the news or be tag what the government should do is get pension as a special allowance on coal delivered to their door. yet it's sick. i don't want to profit from human misery, but that's how it is. the government says an annual coal allowance of around $630.00 a year will help. and ministers say companies are importing coal ahead of the coming winter. polish companies are now importing call from other countries from colombia, indonesia, south africa, and placing with that, the quantities of coal that were coming from russia. it's a bit of

a different logistics, so it creates challenges. but right across poland, people like this homeowner feel the government isn't doing enough. andrew simmons al jazeera of it's potent and on thursday, andrew will report on challenges facing another eastern european country. in the coming months. i'll be reporting on a different type of crisis here in hungary. it's 85 percent reliance on russian gas, and that's causing many problems. now, group of countries is pushing to ban russian tourists, russia borders, european union members for linda stern. you're that way. and yet, and potent or 5 once an e u wide band on russian visitors, the block combat the russian plains from its s base for we must goes invasion of ukraine in february. at turned the countries with land borders into the holiday destinations for russian tourists. russian license plates on luxury cars are

a common sight, had fillings biggest airport is foreign minister says friend and has become a transit country the band is expected to be discussed at next week's meeting of you. foreign ministers. not sure if we should should not be able to travel i think everybody should travel because when you see how other peaceful countries leave, then you become more peaceful to we all. busy weight these up and wants to for more information in all the world and in our country, in the ukraine to i could those port signed week institutions have turned into a key transit point. a hundreds of tons of narcotics earmarked for united states, europe, asia, and russia. we see

a noun that explains how it drug trafficking is causing unprecedented violence in the port city of glen. i feel a little so i kind of, if it's been more than a week since an explosion, destroyed the homes and the lives of many living on guy ye, or chal, a street in a poor guayaquil neighbourhood, me her down in a while, a poor. so my daughter was sleeping with her husband when they heard machine gunfire. they ran to the window when the bomb went off in front of our house, dolah. yeah, he said, his daughter and his son in law each last deny you're in the magnitude of the explosion, left 17 people injured and 5 dead authority suspect. it was directed at a drug trafficker nicknamed cockroach, who reportedly had already left the scene. to the 6 year old roxane, battery else died almost immediately. if you can keep us okay on the old one, when we got denied my mother's body was found over there for you. are you, are you. that explosion has been followed by 2 smaller ones this week in ecuador,

its largest coastal city, where in the last year, the murder rate has doubled. i am the government has responded by declaring a month long state of emergency, which allows the police and the army to work together to crack down on criminal organizations linked to drug trafficking cartels. about a year ago, 2 bodies were found hanging from this bridge here in the durant district. it marked the beginning of an escalation of violence here in y. yeah, kill. and since then, there have been decapitations, dismemberment of bodies of rival gang members, all of which have becoming more and more common in a country that had never seen those types of crimes before. all insurance, but the national police director of investigation, says ecuador, geographic position is mostly to blame. a king stumbled into intervals by the proton, or we are waged between the wills,

2 largest stroke produces columbia in the north and peru. in the south africa. we've become embroiled in a logistic network as a transit country. what we're seeing a crime sort of copied from colombian and mexican cartels. in order to generate tara and panic, the name of body of weapons. police have identified at least 26 criminal gangs. some of them, small armies, who are fighting each other for the privilege of distributing drugs from here to the rest of the world. in the last 3 days, police have confiscated more than 4 tons of pure cocaine in banana shipments that were earmarked to europe. what that small consolation to the people of guy or child who say the police can't control the violence, which is why they're still living in fear to see in human al jazeera, why get keel ecuador? ah.