beneath the surface lies a darker side in british politics, an exclusive al jazeera investigation coming scene. ah, this government is moving immediately to introduce a new energy price guarantee. the u. k. u prime minister list trust announces plans to cut household energy bill. ah, hello, i'm emily. ang, when this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up, u. s. secretary of state antony blinking, arrives in cave, is heavy fighting continues around ukraine's 2nd biggest disease. the un warns human developments been set back 5 years by an unprecedented array of crises,

including the pandemic conflict and climate change plus ah, from military parades to political rallies, brazil's president j bowles, and our uses independence day celebrations to campaign, to his supporters. ah, welcome to the program. the u. k. 's new prime minister has announced a new price cap on energy bills to protect consumers from soaring prices. liz trust says the average annual household bill for gas and electricity will be kept at $2500.00 pounds. that's where at around $2900.00. the promise is expected to cost over a $1000000000.00. but the prime minister has ruled out opposition calls to extend a tax on energy company profits. and i can tell the house today that we will

not be giving in to the leader of the opposition. oh, for this to be funded through a wind pool that would undermine the national interest. by discouraging the very investment, we need a 5. let's bring in worry challenge who's covering developments for us from london. hello. they worry. what exactly has trust announced? well, she called it phones intervention. she says essentially what needs to be done to playing outlook ready for how she's going to tackle that the, the energy crisis. and the one of which is throttling. price is the 2nd is trying to boost the supply of energy, the thrust prices. she is bringing in the energy cap basically for domestic

consumers of as you said in your introduction to about $2802900.00 for the average households here. that doesn't mean that everyone is going to be paying that as a maximum. some people may be paying much more than that, but that is what the average households will be paying. then she is looking at ways of boosting supply. she says she's going to reduce green energy harris, and she's going to increase prospect thing for oil and gas in the north sea trying to make the u. k. more energy self sufficient. there are going to be more things brought in for businesses to try and help them struggling through this huge great energy crisis. those are going to be outlined by the chancellor later on this month. but of course, the big question for the government and for the population at large is what is the cost going to be and how is it going to be paypal? and speaking of that cost, why is that lose trust?

so determined not to go ahead with the wind full time. yeah. as expected, she rule that out once again. and the reason why she thinks that it is sir, its anti growth. she thinks that by hitting these energy companies who are making vast profits at the moment and has to be said by hitting them with an extension of a winful tax. but that will harm growth. it will harm the expansion of the energy sector and it isn't beneficial in the long run. so she prefers to do something. what she says is pro gross a pro business approach. but having said that, the governments at the moment is faced with 2 choices, that in neither of which are particularly or tasty for an ideologically conservative government. that is either increasing taxes or is increasing borrowing . she's ruled out increase in taxes on the energy companies. so the only other

option she could really go for at the moment is increasing boring. how much as it's gonna cost? well, we're expecting something in the region of a $100000000000.00 worth of money that the government is gonna have to find from somewhere. and this is on top of a huge government spending that has been put in place for the coven pandemic. and at a time when interest rates are going up. so any money that the government, boris of the boat is gonna become more expensive to service. and at some point, it is gonna have to be paid, and that's going to come down, you know, in indian, at the end of the day on the taxpayer. indeed. and it's a lot of money. thank you very much for the update. we're a challenge life for us in london. thank you. us secretary of state antony blinkin has arrived on an unscheduled visit to keep his 2nd trip to the cranium capital since the war started. it comes justice.

ukraine says it's making advances in its counter offensive in the northeast and in the south. ukraine says its forces have repelled a counter attacks by russian units in. hi keith. let's bring in gabriel. alexander who's covering old development for us in cave. hello, there, gabriel. first, onto blink and visit. what more do we know about that? well, as you mentioned, it was, it is an unannounced visit and wasn't announced on the schedule. we're sort of unexpected if you will. he just arrived within the last half hour or so. so we're expecting that he's going to meet with talk ukrainian officials, including president of ultimate went zelinski. but we'll be getting more information on that in the coming minutes. an hour is quite frankly, we do know that lincoln is coming and also telling ukrainian officials that the united states is going to give it $2000000000.00 in military

assistance, aid to ukraine, and 18 neighboring countries. half of the 2000000000. so 1000000000 will go specifically ukraine and the other 1000000000 will be split between 18 different regional countries. here, this is military aid that will be for assistance in the you, in the view of the us to help come back in their view russian aggression in the region. so beyond that though, we're going to be waiting to see if a blanket will be making any comments here while he's here. i don't know how long his plan pen plans to spend and keep. but clearly this is an important moment, as it's not that often if someone from the u. s. this high up in the u. s. government would make a visit here to keep such as this. there is more information about. busy more u. s. a. coming in as well. us defense secretary lloyd austin, announced to joe biden approved 675000000 in military

aid directly to ukraine. austin announced this while doing a visit to germany earlier on thursday. this aid is military aid is for an all host of different things that the ukraine military says they need, including ammunition for the precision rocket launchers called hi mars. that the u. s. has been given ukraine to have been credited with helping to blunt russian advances. so clearly, big day here in key f, as we're getting this information coming in here in dade game, and we will cross to join a how with more, austin's announcement shortly. but before we let you go, how successful has ukraine been taking back its territory from russia? in the northeastern, how to key if it appears that this counter offensive which is about and the 2nd day now has bared some real fruit for the ukrainians. were getting a sense from both videos and information from the front lines with ukraine's have

taken back a couple of villages at least perhaps even more. and that they are really pushing the offensive. and that they've, it appears that they've really caught the russians by surprise with this counter offensive, if you will. the russians had ship, you had shifted many of their battalions to the south to help defend the south where ukraine had is also doing a counter offensive in the headstone region. so it appears that the ukrainians have used this opportunity with the russians focusing on the south now to now go after the northeast to give and it appears that they are making some very strong advances based on what we're seeing. and potentially could have been circling a key city called balak clearer, but a clear key russian city that's been occupied by the russians for many months now. and it appears that the ukrainians have it encircled and are poised to potentially

retake it in the coming hours or days. all right, thank you very much. gabriel alexander live for us in keys to germany. now way us defense secretary lloyd austin has amounts the united states, the latest military aid package for ukraine, with $675000000.00. he made the pledge while visiting the ramstein airbase, where he's meeting defense ministers. 4 months after our initial contact group meeting, the war is at another key moment. russian forces continue to cruelly bombard ukrainian cities and civilians with missiles and artillery far. but ukrainian forces have begun their counter offensive in the south of their country. and they are integrating the capabilities it we all have provided to help themselves to fight and reclaim their sovereign territory. all right, let's bring in china hal, whose live for us at that a base in ramstein. hello there,

china austin promised additional military. i but it's not just because of the fighting, is it? it's also because winter is approaching. yes, so it also confirmed the president biden on wednesday, signed off this latest trying to evade $675000000.00. as you said, there's the 20th drop down of aid military aid from the united states since the war began back in february. he talked about it going to wards, houses, other artillery systems like the high mileage, the guy was talking about their ahmed vis or some of these also ammunition. and they will it, in addition to this be talks about ukraine's winter needs with the winter coming. the conflict there is going to get ever more difficult, ever more bitters, the cold sets in, and you kind of already asked for winterized weaponry, winterized equipment, uniforms, boots, tents, and that sort of thing. so let me talk about all of those up. this is a format that's been going since april us lead of course,

taking and native as well. there are 50 plus nations here the pregnancy here as well in the form of defense minister alexi resonate called and it met more or less monthly. now to talk about ukraine's immediate needs on the battlefield and how the allies go about trying to meet those needs. and really they're doing that again. but lloyd austin ne, in his opening address signaling quite significant change of focus and direction for this contact group of allies as well. recognizing that there is no immediate end in sight. but this was, this could be an extremely lengthy campaign that got to clear up the allies own efforts now to be able to continue supplying ukraine's needs in the long term. and that means he said, looking at their own industrial defense bases and if necessary, scaling up those industrial production bases so that they can produce more stuff that you can needs over a much, much longer period of time. so subtle, but significant shift in the focus of this group, he said, the face of the war is changing. and so is the mission of this contact group to

work together to meet ukraine's requirements for the long haul. as the fight evolves, so must we strong pledge. thank you very much for the update. jenna, how live for us in ramstein, a bank still ahead on al jazeera white people in south korea say the country should go green rather than expand the countries and nuclear power industry. ah, the journey has begun the faithful world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package today by after that valentine. so the last couple of days it everything was quite as far as the weather is concerned in the whole of east asia. there's still some substantial thunderstorms, localized ones in japan, and particularly in hong shoe, but it's quite in korean plains, we're still quite warm temperatures up this in the north park,

northeast and power china and throughout the peninsula on the high side this time the year. and they have been through central china, but increasing rain developing the high ground of western china knocked chung, due back to 20 threes shand at 26 and introduced some rain shares creeping up towards june and may be beijing little late in the year to see significant rain, so it is a scattering of shells. more than anything else, a name storms on the sea. now this will turn into a proper tie. food might follow the same path as the last one. bo watch that for you. the monsoon rains, though, they've been heavy in the last couple of days on our taking in the forecast a step back. so it looks like rains more of the water than on land. but certainly there in an tradition or dish is big circulation here in northern india and pakistan very few shops i pakistan, you know, it's got flooding on the ground. logic is the industry is still flooded. but what's coming out of the sky does see a slow increase in the shower. but in the north, there are only light qatar, airway official,

airline of the john drank assessments. how much support is there that street protests that we've seen in protein across the rest of the country? the st movement has been very good at tapping into the core consent people across the country, informed opinions we will say more of it. and what is happening is the climate change it making them work in depth analysis of the days global headlines draw, he is credited by some really restoring italy's credibility this critics would say he couldn't play the part of a politician. what do you think went wrong inside story on al jazeera lou? ah, hello, are you watching al jazeera? i am emily anguish. he's a reminder of our top stories. his, our,

the u. k. 's new prime minister has announced a new price cap on energy bills to protect consumers from soaring prices. this trust says the average annual household bill for gas and electricity will be kept at $2500.00 pounds. that's around $2900.00. u. s. secretary of state antony blinking has arrived on an unannounced visit to cave in a show of american support, just as ukrainian president for letting me zalinski his troops and making advances in they counter offensive to retake cities from russia. and secretary of defense, lloyd austin has announced the united states latest to military aid package for ukraine, worth $675000000.00. it made the pledge while visiting the ramstein air base in germany, where he's making defense ministers. turkish president, ridge of type o to one, has met his croatian counterpart,

zora and melana bitch in zagreb, owed one, arrived in croatia on the last leg of the 3 nations balkan, to him. his visit is part of an effort to further strengthen co operation between turkey and the region. the turkish president began his balkan to or earlier this week with bosnia and serbia. for more on this, let's bring in al jazeera, is it marin vers said she was in zagreb. tell us what was the purpose of the visit, and was it achieved? or gratian president, zone and milan of each. i had his great priority to push the changes for the electoral law election law in bosnia and herzegovina. there was a, his, a great thing he wanted to achieve for lady some, 2 years now along with the creation. prime minister. andre a blank of each. now we know from before that turkish president and gratian president,

they held their grounds that stance didn't get any closer. and that was a said after the press conference by the turkish president. he said that if you're going to change the election law, boston had to go vena has its own people's, has its own politicians and they are their representatives and they are the ones who have to make the deal. if they're going to change the election law, or if there wasn't any deal, some 3 weeks, weeks time up before the upcoming elections, i can say at this point the time that we can really doubt that anything is going to change on the other side. on melana, which a creation of president said, or when it comes to the christian schmidt's or high representative of bosnia and herzegovina, which tried to impose the new election a law. he said that any thing, if he does in the next 3 weeks weeks he'll be pleased if, even if he does

a very small things. and now we know from before the christian schmidt announced that the if there aren't going to be any deals may the, regarding the election law that he's going to impose on the law itself. and that wasn't very well received by the people in sarajevo as they were enraged. they were very, very angry, and some of them mostly bosch, next gathering in front of the office of a higher representative approach. thank god, in the line of truncated the that after 2nd october after the general election, the symbols dinner to rena are held that the 2 presidents, sledge, a pipe at one end himself at the need more substantial. a dog says i'm saying this, they probably already arrived in seasick most living in the front, the death of the region. but there suffered a lot in that it was damaged in the earthquake. in the december of 2020 or

30 did a lot to help creation people at that time. and the to the minister of internal affairs also signed the memorandum of do for the corporation or when it comes to securing peace and order and handling the crush. these situations, all right, we appreciate that update marin of verse siege in that zag grab. thank you. the pandemic climate change and the war in ukraine had been blamed for lowering a life expectancy and living standards around the world. the you and development program says 9 out of 10 countries have been impacted lives of people in south sudan, chad and this year declined the most switzerland no way in iceland remained the top countries with highest standards of living and life expectancies or rica. my dear is the assistant secretary general of the united nations development program. she

says there's been an unprecedented decline in living standards globally. is actually 9 out of 10 countries in the world that are versed with regards to a human development. and we have them looking at gross national income, the economists. but we are also looking at life expectancy, the quality of health system, health services and education. it's a wide range of issues that we're looking at with regards to what we call human development. the world has definitely since it challenges before we have seen some damage. we have seen wars affecting more than one country, actually the entire world. what has happened now and what we're presenting in the report is an uncertainty complex. i mean, so many of these challenges happening at the same time, we saw a decline already because of the climate crisis is a head of the damage. we have the pandemic, of course, with its impact on health, but also wider impacts with regards to social situations in countries lingering

long way beyond you know, the condemning of such and then of course, the ripple effect. well, the russian invasion in ukraine than his old lifting. so here's where we have concerns that it will be more difficult and we really need to double down the investments with regards to human development. if we are to support people, but also can get back on track and move towards the sustainable development goals that was lead to have promised to deliver on on to 2030. sure. lankin president, runner, vic, rema single has increased the size of his government, swearing in 37 junior ministers, all 3 of them. members of the ruling s l p. payne, one is related to the former president's go to buy and my hinder roger pucker the grimacing. it says the extra m p 's will help create a more stable government to better deal with the country's economic crisis. a group of palestinian activists thing garza has held a ceremony to on a slain,

al jazeera journalist, marine abu. actually, it comes days after the israeli military admitted for the 1st time that charade was likely killed by one of its soldiers, but said it won't be pursuing a criminal investigation. human outside has more from the event in gaza. the policy and active is mostly female, have the media camp here with the golf strip for 4 weeks of training. they called the cab being going on this council after the killing of jaden this by an israeli church while covering a raid in jeanine. these activists here say that today is the graduation off there, which was before me in these 4 weeks be learned about how do they say that they got

training and learning f, regain of house, just called me and to read all social media platforms, they say that they're made responsibility on other generations than other you don't get the probably in the in gothic community press the reality about the policy and that this is a little of what we can to order the memory of a block to south korea now, which is eyeing and expansion of its nuclear power came to abilities. but the government facing opposition from residents and activists who say it should focus on renewables instead. rudnick bride reports from so, ah, living next to the wolf song, nuclear power plant on south korea's east coast. this small group of neighbors has been staging protests like this since 2014 and plans to expand the countries

nuclear power industry are adding to their fears, protest organizer huang bone. he claims her diagnosis of thyroid. cancer is a direct result of radiation exposure. both. we can see the nuclear power plant from here. it's way too close. i don't want to see it any more. she and her neighbors say their concerns have gone unanswered by the government. what's more since president unit? so y'all took office in may, south career is set to go ahead with an ambitious expansion in nuclear power generation. south korea currently has 24 reactors, but there are plans for 6 more plans by 2036 according to the government. the world wide energy crisis made worse by the war in ukraine should highlight the need for more domestic power generation. especially in this growing industrial giant that's hungry for electricity. but according to opponents,

the government should be directing its efforts into renewable energy instead of 10000 new years, all under thick spent nuclear power and reduced renewable energy for carbon neutrality. then it makes no progress on carbon reduction. rather the risks of nuclear waste and accidents will increase quank and her neighbors say tests have proven they've been exposed to radiation, but the plants operators say the levels of radioactive tritium apparently detected, are well within safe limits. and, and i, and all the bananas contained potassium, and we can be exposed to radiation when we eat them. the maximum amount of tried in residents can be exposed to is the same as eating 6 bananas a year. but as the world's 5th biggest producer of nuclear power embarked on a rapid expansion, such assurances are likely to ease concerns for many living near to the new plants . robert fried elgin's era. so meanwhile, in japan,

protests had been held against the government's plans to pump more than a 1000000 tons of radioactive waste into the sea. demonstrate his rallied outside the headquarters of the crippled focus shaman nuclear power plant operator. on wednesday, it comes after the tokyo electric power company disclose the location of the tunnel being built to discharge the toxic waste water into the pacific ocean. brazil is marking 200 years of independence from portugal, but the opposition is accusing president. j bowles and arrow of using the celebrations to promote his bade for re election. monica and i kept reports from bria diginero ah pressed enjoyable. so now to move the heavens and earth to turn this special independence day into a milestone of brazil's history and of his own campaign for reelection, his rallying brazil's capital city, brazilian tens of thousands of supporters and

a military display of plains, parachutes, and tanks. ah, even the embalmed heart of monarch don't be of the 1st declared brazil's independence from portugal 200 years ago and proclaimed himself emperor, was brought over from europe to be on display poll. shobel sonata still trailing behind left wing. former leader was in master lula. thus silva, yes miss, do so be soldier lying. if lula is really to frontrunner, where is she? berries crouch. we are here to showed up portion our presents the majority. who will only lose the election if there is fraud in the people will take to the street to stop that from happening. blossom out a move from the military parade to political rally in region. he had his political stronghold, the overwhelming number of people here and got back up on a day or so, borders of valuable sonata there and learned the president's call to show up in

force, transforming what would usually be a national day. one will lead uncle rally. president focused his attacks on wallace left his party. oh, big go global. we have a fight between good and evil ahead of us, the evil as govern. brazil for 14 years, almost breaking our homeland. now they want to come back. it won't the people out by our side, the good side menu are asking for the removal of brazil supreme court, intellectual court justices whom they accused of conspiring against also natural. the president himself has been casting down on the countries electronic voting system. was opposition leaders, including lola, accused balsam adul, of abusing his powers president to campaign for his re election on independence. dale niel war mailed the duke. when i was president of brazil, i never used the most important vessel. does not country the independence day as an

instrument of electoral campaign rulers, worker's party has taken this accusation to the electoral court. monica, and our give all jazeera rio de janeiro. ah, hello you, what you al jazeera. these are the headlines this.