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proves a potential $1100000000.00 on sale to taiwan angering china. the u. s. nuclear watchdog warns fighting around ukraine's operational power plant still poses a grave risk prompting experts to be based at the facility permanently. and ah, tennis legend, serena williams loses in the 3rd round of the us, open in what is likely to be the mouth, not ah sure lank is disgraced. former president is back home, less than 2 months solved to. he fled during the nation's worst economic crisis since independence got to by roger pox. that was blame for pushing shore lanka to west financial disaster. the government ran out of foreign cash reserves and was

unable to pay for imports, leading to shortages module box and return early on saturday. flying in from bangkok he had left the following on precedent and protest in the country as go straight to our correspond madell fernandez, who has lived for us now in columbia. now what is the mood that people surprised even angry that he's come back? i think it's all unfolded so quickly and the former president's arrival and or return has happened literally so quickly that people haven't had time to react as yet. i mean, he did arrive late in the sort of hours last night just before midnight, and he was whisked into the property. you can see behind me, it's a government resident, obviously an official government bungalow. and that's where we see if you do see there's a police checkpoint that's been established. it's pretty much um, in,

in colombo, in the city. there's no huge amount of barricades preventing movement around it. but obviously there is a significant amount of security. there is a members of the president's god as intelligences military. and we can even see sort of on balconies up there. there are people with keeping a close watch on the thoroughfare round. so a for the protest as it is a very much a sort of a new development they need to a strategized, they told me a couple of them that i spoke to about how and where they go from here. but the movement was very much about go to go home aiming to get resident got our b, roger pox a at that time out of the presidency, they achieved that. and now they're turning their sites essentially on the current leadership. are talking about the need for accountability. so at the moment we haven't heard or seen any protest following he's returned to colombo,

do we have any idea why he is back and whether he is likely to get involved in politics again? right now it's a lot of speculation. i mean, i spoke to the minister of public security tyrann alice last night who was at the airport to receive the former president and initially talking about sort of the immediate arrival. and he said it's way too early to tell war to the former president plans are he 1st needs to come in or settle in take stock and decide. now there are reports that his elder brother, the former president and former fried melissa my in the roger box is currently actually inside that building. potentially having discussions with the former president. and we, we, we don't know that, but obviously the roger boxes as a whole will be taking stock as to what to do next. a we had the younger brother basil, roger boxer presiding over a meeting of planning sort of

a meeting of the esl p. p. which is the roger pox, a political party are to take stock of, you know, lessons learned and how they go from here. so there is no indication that go to our b. roger park so will be returning to politics. it might be a, just a gamble too. far given the sort of huge public anger frustration that targeted and concentrated on him. but at the moment what we're hearing is having tried to, ah, look at other countries. he, he visited 3 countries in the process of that 2 months since he fled here on a military flight, but finding nor real place that he could sit down roots or make a permanent sort of place for him to a sort of stay. so that's the reason, even the most recent destination, a bank or he was told by that i government that he'd need to confine himself indoors. it was too much of a security risk for him to step out. so obviously,

lots of frustrations, he ran out of options. his party went to the present run of the grimacing, her go, she aged and asked for his security to be assured he safety, be guaranteed. and it's amid all of that that we've seen the return of gustavo roger boxer. as i said, he is a former president, a former head of state, which is why there are certain things that he has rights to like the us government residents or government property that he has been allocated. he will also have a certain level of security as all former heads of state do. obviously the police and security authorities will make a threat based assessment when they decide how much of security he needs. and that is what we're going to see. so all of that sort of indications at this stage, oh, we're too early to tell. or we might hear in the coming days when things settled down a some sort of words or sentiments from the former president. he did sort of troy's

hat into the ring of served as, as president, but then had that unceremonious exit. so that's where things stand. the day after the arrival of guitar be roger boxer. and as you can see, the motorcade of some of his visitors, a sort of that movement just happening as we speak. thank you for that. michelle fernandez there for us in colombo and the us state department has improved a potential one point. $1000000000.00 arm sale to taiwan. the package includes anti ship missiles and radar systems. tension has been high since u. s. house beacon nancy pelosi visited the island last month, prompting china to conduct military drills around taiwan. china claims the island as part of its territory. russ feingold is an asia political risk analyst. he says it's not unusual for washington to sell defensive arms to taipei. us does provide rapids to taiwan and it's done so for many,

many decades. part of this is always political or of a public relations value. so at a time when china has increased its military exercises near taiwan to increase the threat level, the u. s. announces to shallow a to be prior to sale is relatively small. it's relatively small, number of missiles. most of the money is for the maintenance of the existing radar facility. one thing that the buy in and before the trump administration has, has struggled with versus their previous, the previous american ministrations, is whether to punch sales together or just to announce them as and when they're needed. so the thinking earlier seem to be that we know trying to be upset. so we'll just announce news every few years. and we'll throw together a whole bunch of different weapon systems that taiwan had requested and will deal with china, his anger. but i think there's going to be some criticism as well that this

announcement, given it's relatively small sized, really isn't much of a difference for taiwan, security, the military here, the civilian leadership, you're in taiwan, as well as us policymakers, again, are also across several administration. some struggle with so should the focus be on the larger weapon systems like tanks and howitzers, or should it be instead be, are things like missiles and mines and taking the battle to, to the see where the air or even to china. 3 which would involve using weapons that us typically has not sold to taiwan, or rather than preparing for a battle here on the streets of taiwan. the head of the u. n. 's atomic watchdog says he is worried about ukraine's operation nuclear plants, and that 2 of his inspectors will stay at the site permanently from now on. rafael grossi has just returned from a visit to the facility. i was captured by russian forces in february and has become a focus of deep concern. the fear is named by shelling could cause and nuclear

disaster. gabriel, as on the reports from keith, the head of the united nations international atomic energy agency has arrived to vienna following his visit to ukraine's besieged separation nuclear power plant and had this to say, i was able to see myself and my team impact hold on markings on on bill these off of him. so we these that the 50 off the policy has been violated not once, but several. raphael grosse flatly denied that russia who occupy the power plant, denied him the right to move freely, saying he was given full access by the russians to the site, and was able to inspect everything he requested to see. he also confirmed his

agency would keep 2 staff members at the plant permanently and that the i e a would issue a full report in the next week on their findings, if not earlier on friday. sh, moscow again accused ukraine of showing the power plant, but reserved judgment on the i am mission good. breach touched or should we positively view the fact that despite all problems and difficulties caused by the ukrainian sides productive actions. the mission has reached the site and started work. you're aware that the team will stay at the site and continue working. that's why it's still too early to assess hooks. but what's most important is our mission is that the mission is expected to assume appliance condition and nuclear security. ukraine contended the visit, was staged, managed by russia. key accused russia of intimidating ukrainian nuclear plant workers. i 8 yay. inspectors were accompanied by a man in a suit later identified as

a russian adviser to roster tom the russian nuclear agency that's further evidence for ukrainians. but the inspectors were not able to work freely at the plant without russian interference, as gross. he suggested in his press conference, ogrinas on bill of sin la dollars shall demilitarization of the territory of the station is the goal. and it is bad that we have not yet heard the appropriate messages from the i. e. a. despite the fact that we talked about it with mr. grossi during our meeting and key, if it was the key security point of our agreements, it was outlined clearly, demilitarization and full control by our nuclear workers. in it's clear, ukraine wants the nuclear power plant to be demilitarized, and russian troops to leave immediately. but the i. e a doesn't even have the means to enforce that. it also doesn't have the mandate to determine who's responsible for the showing. it's a complicated situation. and very volatile and changing similarly not day by day,

but our, by our gabriel's ando. how does it keep? well, the economies that formed the g 7 group of nations have agreed to set a price cap on russian oil, hoping it will hit moscow's ability to fund the war in ukraine. g 7, finance ministers also hope the cap on crude oil and petroleum products will help reduce global energy prices. russia, there has responded saying it will stop selling oil to countries that agree to a price limit. still ahead on al jazeera new revelations about what exactly was found at former us president donald trump states, when i searched a lot of people rally in argentina's capital, backing democracy often assassination attempts on the vice ah

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hulu. oh, okay, back you watching out a 0 mind if our top story is the so shall anchors disgraceful. mom president is back home, less than 2 moms of the flood during the nations west economic crisis since independence got to buy a roger pox that was blame for pushing shoreline could towards financial disaster. u. s. state department is approved a potential $1100000000.00 on sale to taiwan, china's threatening counter measures tension has been high since us house begin. nancy pelosi visited ty, one last the head of the u. n. z, atomic watchdog who's just returned from ukraine's operation nuclear palm says to

members from his team will now be station that permanently there are fees any continued shelling in the vicinity call was a nuclear disaster. f b i. agents who such former u. s. president donald trump's home last month found dozens of empty folders mocked is classified. that's according to a newly released court document that gave a detailed inventory of the $33.00 boxes recovered. they include 18 top secret government documents, 50 full classified as secrets, and another $31.00 deemed confidential. $48.00 empty folders with classified banners were also collected along with more than $10000.00 government documents without classification. there also 42 empty folders marked returned to staff, along with 25 books. article heinous, more or less from washington. just to take a step back here, let's go over what happened. so the trump lawyers went to

a judge and a couple of weeks after the f. b, i searched mar largo, and they said they wanted a special master. basically that's an outside party to review the documents. what a lot of legal experts said that didn't make much sense because they waited so long . government agents told the court, look, we've already read everything and it allowed the justice department which doesn't give press conferences on ongoing cases. it allowed them to basically make the argument of why they did that search in great detail and you just went over the huge numbers of classified top secret documents that they were found. now, one of the things i think that stood out most in this affidavit is that the justice department said this process is part of an ongoing process in active criminal investigation. so when the search 1st happened, some people wondered, well, was this the justice department just trying to get those classified documents back to where they belonged? but no, the justice department here is saying this is an active criminal investigation

hinting that there could be some arrests. so you went over the numbers, one of the things that's going to be the most striking is those $48.00 empty folders with classified marking. so when you have a classified government document, it doesn't just sit there by itself. it goes into a color coded folder. so that you know exactly what level of classification there is. so what was supposed to be in those folders that's can be a big question. perhaps they're able to match it with some of the loose classified documents they found. but it's going to, if they can't, they're going to be the question of where are those other class by documents this could lead to further searches of the president's property. supporters of argentina's vice president have gathered in buenos aires after christina fernandez the cushioning survived, an assassination attempt outside her home. a man pointed a pistol as had point blank range, but the gum did not fire. the president declared friday a national holiday to show solidarity with her monica on

a cave reports from when his aires, ah crowns. marching to the beat of drums in the center of when a site is old in young, defending argentina's democracy in condemning thursday's assassination attempt against vice president. christina fed and none this, the kiersten it no, no, give us as it when we did of it. what happened on thursday was very serious. all democratic rules were broken. we cannot accept political violence. that's where there are so many people here is that there will be on this government has been under a series of attacks from strong economic lobbies opposition parties. and also the judiciary system, which is working for them because of what i mean, i am here to defend democracy and the vice president. pluggable video shows the moment the vice president was being confronted by her assailant while reading supporters outside her home on thursday night 35 year old fit and, and one that has survived one kid pointed

a loaded gun to her face. but apparently it was jammed. and she escaped unharmed. the tina bit of money shackle meta christina is alive because of some technical reason we have yet to confirm. the gun with 5 bullets was not fired or although the trigger was pulled by obese, have out of view the aggressor, a brazilian born man, living in argentina since 1993 is in prison. his house was rated and 100 bullets were found. he had already been arrested in 2001 for carrying a knife. argentine authorities are investigating the reasons behind the attempt. but president, alberto fernandez, blake the hates beach argentina and decreed a national holiday on friday. so argentines could take to the streets and unite against violence. world leaders condemned the attack, including right wing brazilian president. j bowles, fernando who was stabbed during his 2018 campaign and is now running for reelection

. while the assassination attempt has raised all sorts of questions about the lack of security surrounding politicians in argentina, political experts say the timing will likely benefit the vice president. ja, poring of support in sympathy, has given for none. this a boost at a time when she needs it most. the former president is being accused of fraudulently awarding public works contracts while she governed argentina between 20072015. prosecutors have asked for a 12 year prison sentence in a lifetime ban from politics, but that is unlikely to happen. christina had amended the kitchen, it is also the president of the senate and has parliamentary immunity. she could only be convicted if she loses her seat. in the 2023 elections, monica anna, give al jazeera when a site is the head of pakistan's largest charities. warning of the threats of

famine off to devastating floods destroyed crops, and livestock will and 1200 people are now known to have died in pakistan's worst ever flooding disaster survive as a facing waterborne diseases. the southern province of sinned is bracing for further flooding. next week, augustine blamed climate change. the recent heavy monsoon rains that triggered the floods. hundreds of thousands of home buys in. india have been waiting for years to move into the apartments. the suburbs of new delhi have a huge concentration of unfinished residential towers or allegations of corruption and some property developers have filed for bankruptcy. honey matter has been to noise in northern india to find out why reduced to rubble in just 12 seconds. the combination of a long legal battle to have these apartment blocks declared illegal in just supreme

court ordered the demolition. it also found that authorities colluded with the developer, but i feel like this is the way it was really important because this shows that got option should be it ordained that miss building was the living example of good option. so it had to go engineer, see it, or take 3 months to clear the $80000.00 tons of debris. the court has ordered the developer to refund the owners with interest. this case has put the spotlight on hundreds of thousands of bios caught up in long legal battles. one property consult an estimate that are about a quarter of a 1000000, incomplete homes. what more than $20000000000.00 in and around you deli, most of them are in this suburb nada. this development was planned for more than 60000 residents. the sheesh group that invested in a property for his retirement. it he has on construction, has barely begun. so i bought this property in 2014 thinking that i will get the

position by 1617 for the mags. and this will add on to my existing income. so when this will add to my existing and go whatever loans i have taken for my house and all so i can set them off the government by laws to protect buyers in 2016. but enforcement remains week before that there was pretty little regulation on the way they functioned. so the industry is actually having to functioning as a way in which they can ignore almost everything or they can supplement almost every lot. it's not the law enough situations, the. c the developer has refunded most buyers. it says it has lost more than $60000000.00 and has filed for bankruptcy. many hope this case will deter developers and authorities from breaking the law. and then i'll just the ra noise, india. serena williams has been knocked out of the us open and what's expected to

be the last match of her 27 year career as a tennis player. she was eliminated to that one i learned from young of it was 2 years old when william penn professional back in 1995 during her career williams. 123 grand slam titles rattled in the open air while has she, athletic and powerful serve and strategic stems from the tennis court and searing a williams, a place in the pantheon of sports history? and as a pop culture figure, now she's retiring from tennis. but as rob reynolds reports, williams is not about to fade away. his report contains images, flash photography, serina williams, dominated women's tennis winning 23 singles, grand slam. the 1st, when she was just 17, along the way, she and her sister venus inspired a generation of young players, especially women of color. man grew up watching her. i mean,

vassar reason why play tennis and you know, tennis being but predominantly white spread, it definitely helped a lot because i saw so many looked like me. in her decades in the spotlight williams became much more than an athlete. she was and is a cultural phenomenon which put herself out much more broadly as a celebrity personality than your typical athlete is able to do that begins with her dominant place and sport since 2011 williams has been a goodwill ambassador for the un children's agency. unicef, visiting developing countries to promote education and sports, part of her commitment may come from her own family's financial struggles when she was a child. this gritty south l. a neighborhood is where the williams sisters got their start playing on those tennis courts right over there. now that she's leaving professional tennis, serena williams will have a future full of ventures in philanthropy fashion. and hollywood williams

reportedly is in discussions with a film studio to executive produce a biographical series about her and her sister. she did not want to be defined solely by her tennis brand, so she reached out and, and placed herself in fashion and clothing lives. she also had a child, and so she promoted health and wellness for mothers, in addition to athletic wear and wellness products. williams has dozens of lucrative endorsement deals from promoting gatorade to fronting for a fancy swiss watch company. all part of a carefully cultivated public image williams may be leaving the court on them, but she will be part of popular culture and commerce for years to come. rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. now on saturday, nasa's most powerful rocket ever as she said, blast off to the moon after the 1st attempt was ported by the engine issues alley. this week, the optimist. one mission is expected to lay the groundwork for

a man mission to the main by 2025 off that nasa has its site set on mars. alan fisher is near the launch site in florida, inspired by the words of john kennedy then the president of the united states. america started this space race the intention to put the 1st man on the moon. there were many apollo missions and finally in 1969, neil armstrong became the 1st astronaut cassette foot on the lunar surface. there were many, many more astronauts after him, all of them touching the very edges of the heavens. and now the plan is for america to go back to the moon, but not just for the moon sake itself, this time to establish a base and had to mars and beyond. we were in the space race, we fully thought that the russians were going to go to the moon and had they gone to the main 1st, who knew what could have happened in so that with that space race ignited our

passion to get till apollo. and i, but at the same time it ignited all the science that was discovered from just that, that one mission, basically apollo 11, where we walked on the moon. and here is our to miss one. on the launch pad, the count don't underway. the intention is it will blast off from kennedy space center here in florida on saturday afternoon. now they already had to abandon one launch. that was because they discovered a faulty gauge. they think they've sorted out the problem. so now everything is on schedule for the launch. artemus one should take off on it's $42.00 day mission, including a lunar orbit. and there will be numerous tests as well to see if this really will take people back to the moon for the 1st time in more than 50 years. ah.