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ah, i'm in clark, this is all desert life and go ha, also coming up. the u. s. pledges more military for ukraine as keeps as its forces have retaken towns near ca, keith, from the russians. the un warned human development has been set back 5 years by an unprecedented run of crises. keeping the pandemic conflict and climate change. the new i phone features a shiny new micro chip and a booming new manufacturing locations. the us moves further away from china. ah so yes, we begin with breaking news. the united kingdom's queen elizabeth is under medical supervision at her scotland home balmoral castle. the doctors say they are concerned for her health just 2 days ago,

the 96 year old monica appointed britton's new prime minister. his trust in balmoral or artificial se her son and heir prince charles has arrived to join her about close family members troubling them. now this is the scene outside balmoral it's known as the queen's summer council and long believe to be her favorite residence. it is a 1600 kilometer trip from london crowds to beginning together outside buckingham palace in london in the rain traditional ceremony of changing the guard due to take place outside the palace on friday morning. well, that has been cooled off as get more on all of this with roy shannon's who's at buckingham palace. it's rory if we heard any more. no, there's been no further information for the last few hours, at least on buckingham palace. i moved down here. it is fairly somber. i have to

say quite harsh, not help to call spark by the downpours. i think people here are expecting that there could be news through it at any time, really and, and if it does come with plan likely to be the good news, we talk about the queen being the most famous woman in the world. and what do you have, events like this, you really do get a tangible sense of fat on either side of me. down to the left and downs of rights . are the world's media. you have a z bows that have been set up, or you've got crews from all over the world, american, french, polish, japanese. and of course, the domestic british media as well, who got crowds for me outside of the palace to ever really waiting to see what happened with her. and the moments the flag about fucking pallets is flying at the top of that staff. but this does feel different. this does feel serious. we have had different language coming out of button palace than we've had on previous

health. spares, scarce room from the queen. there is a notably greater sense of concern and the family have been rushing to be up there in scotland with the queen. who have prince charles, the future king, his wife camilla. you have for prince william are lots of other members of the royal family at special play and has flown from london up to aberdeen to take members of the royal family there to be as quickly as they can by the queen's side for of course, if the worst does happen. yes, the world is watching and waiting as you say, for more news it, what kind of reactions have you been hearing or there's been response to this from across the political spectrum in the u. k. we've had sir messages of supports or well wishing braun or just well be as the archbishop of

canterbury from the different leaders of the devolved parliament's air in the united kingdom. and of course, from the national leaders as well. we've for hadder that the prime minister, the new prime minister lives trust. remember that it was only a few days ago that his trust went to a bell moral to actually be officially sworn in as prime minister by the queen appointed as the view. our prime minister that is something that she would normally have done the queen down at buckingham palace, which he hasn't be well, we know and, and she has me well enough to travel. so i said it in a different move to normal. our lives truss or the prime minister went to bow moral for that event. now let's trust the said the whole country will be deeply concerned by the news from buckingham palace this lunch time. my thoughts and the thoughts of people across our united kingdom are with her majesty the queen and her family at this time. or we have also heard from kissed armour, the leader of the opposition,

a very similar message along with the rest of the country. i am deeply worried by the news from buckingham palace this afternoon. my thoughts are with her majesty the queen and her family at this time. and i join every one across the united kingdom in hoping for her recovery her at. and of course, you know, this is her queen has been on the throne for 70 years. she celebrated her platinum jubilee. earlier on this year because of her poor health, she couldn't attend many of the vents. that marx though 70 years on the throne. now, much of the country i think, is wishing her the best for perhaps, fearing for the worse or at least every man. thanks. we must reach helen's there outside like impact. let's look at queen elizabeth 70 is on the throne. queen louis 2nd was born in 1926 in london. that point she was not expected to become queen. but after the abdication of her uncle ed with the 8 father, george 6 became king. that was in 1936. she then married prince philip in 1947.

they had 4 children. prince charles was born in 948. when her father died in 1952 princess elizabeth became queen she the longest reigning monica in british history . and so passed the reign of queen victoria in september 2015 in april 2021. her husband prince philip, died just before his 100th birthday. they have been married for 73 years. surely more social moves are cultural commentators and she says the queen's many commitments may have taken a toll of them one of health. i think everyone would agree that up the news about the queen. even the medical attention and be required to rest is well, it's not unusual given her age as well. given the fact that we have been informed by the palace and the last few months that she's been experiencing mobility issues . i think for all those who want her to recover quickly,

the question has to be why the weights of office is still being placed on her at this time when really after 7 decades of service, she should be resting. i'll as many people know, i'm very vocal about my opinions when it comes to loyal. busy family and, and monarch. but even given that, i've seen the queen's recent images as she welcomed and the new prominence. zealous stress. and i think many be will be that when you see, when you see that image, that reminds you of your own grandmother. and i don't see why we should place the queen under any kind of expectation to still be working when she should be resting . and when we are well aware of her medical condition. so we've all those who wanted to record all wanted to recover quickly. i think this is time to start talking about, you know, totally having the clean up away from judy so she can rest chris, her wilson's

a robo griffin commentary to renew says it appears. the queen is nearing the end of her life. i've been speaking to people in scotland and i think we can take it that the queen's life is coming to an end. i think what is remarkable about this sovereign is that she has clung to the throne and to her job until the very last moment. i think we can see that her powers have been declining for the last year at the very least. and she has done a very, very good job in managing what she's able to do and putting from her things that she wasn't able to do. she's gone on far longer than anybody expected to do. she's much 6 years old and she is doing what she has done all that she possibly can to retain the strings of power. and the very idea that she was able to stand up price for a couple of days ago and greet the new prime minister. it would have been an iron

will and determination on her part that she should do that to show that she is still sovereign until the moment she dies. i think that she is a thread of continuity, which has taken the nation through. i mean, there are people who are 80 or 90 years old in great britain, who as it was thought, is princess, become a queen, and have lived with her through consent through changing times. all that time and started reassuring in a changing world. some things remain the same and then for each new generation that's come, people have been born and died within the space of rain. she has always been that she is a constant in people's lives in this country. she has meant so much. well, i think that the, the fact that we are being told that charles is on his way. william is on his way. i think that the palace never wants to create

a sense of anxiety around the time they what they try to do. but i think the fact that they are now saying that the next king and his successor are on the way to bell moral, suggests that we are now entering the last phase of the queen's life. and we don't know how long that will be, and many will hope that she will recover. but i think she has served her country, but nearly 100 years and must comp time when her life comes to an end. if green should die, there is a highly regimented and well organized state arrangement, which will take us through her lying in state. and her funeral, her memorial service, and the various public occasions which will close around the end of her

rain. it's all been organized for a very long time. she's been aware of all the things that are going to happen. she will put her name tool is so there will be no surprises for those around the family as to what's gonna happen next. it's all being said and train. well, let's bring in robert blackburn now he's a professor of constitutional lord, king college, london, and all terrific. king and country won a key and the future king charles robert. first of all, let's just talk about the news. the mere fact that this announcement was made a toll demonstrates the greatness of the situation. i guess. good. well, i thank you for inviting me on your program and i for detailed information, of course as to exactly how the queen is. but i understand that she is, are quite poorly, and understandably, quite tied off to the stress of the last few days with the change over the prime minister. but like everybody else in the country, i'll be wishing

a well. and she makes good recovery shortly in the if the queen does tragically pass, what is the process then? what happens? well, there is no process really apart from faxes instantaneously. prince charles will become king. there's no need for a coordination or a. ready survey like that to actually decide the new person of a prince. charles is the arab parents. he will become king either. but at the very moment of the queen passes and he will become king charles the 3rd, if that's the name that he chooses. what moving forward, if we are entering that scenario, what is the, the relationship between the monarchy in the state like it's me that like to change, do you think well, i, i so understand the relationship between the head of states who is the monarch and

the head of government to resolve prime minister, you need to understand that we don't have a written constitution. i sense that 1st, every other country in the world hass, we have a historical constitutional political structure that has evolved. i'm particularly since 60 age when the primacy of almonds over the crime is established. and, and so we have a loss of historical institutions with us, which of been moulton. i used to the extent that can be more nice on the basis of changing political. ready relationships and keeping certain city understood conventions and customs of behavior. so the, the role of the, the queen, iowa, and future king. and is to follow, i suppose from my perspective as a constitutional lawyer. and i in that asked is head of stage that they perform

acts of states which are essentially ceremonial acts and state they, they, they provide the political theater if you like. ah, which are legit vices? certain actions like the appointments video prime minister, the other day when you think, do you think there might be a situation where the queen lives zone but actually passes on the throne to charles? well, we have no a stablished procedure full. that apart from the regency acts, ok, so really there is no need for the queen to pass her functions own in that sense. and there is under the regency act that really only comes into operation if the sovereign is totally. ready incapacitated but these say's most of the queen's work, which is ourselves largely ceremonial can actually be conducted quite easily by,

by skype as we're doing at the moment, which i understand as to why she's been legitimizing certain orders in council recently or by telephone or coal. and she can really just snap her fingers and what uh she has to legitimize can be so um. but if she becomes totally incapacitated then other is a procedure on the regency act, where by certain officials, parliament, tray, and judicial and other persons in line of succession to the throne are certified that the person is incapacitated and regions. and the presumption is that that would be prince charles or carry i quine said, but i think there is a good chase for having some tradition. ready oh, whereby yeah, amal at mines retire on grounds of old age because we are in danger of becoming a geriatric monarchy. prince charles himself is not young. so yeah, there was

a case for many of the from passing to prince william, but we don't have any, any precedence affecting place, of course, across europe. you know, other, other cellphones have for child on a gravel road. we can leave that we need to move on, but we do appreciate your expertise on this. thanks very much. data from black when professor of constitutional law case, correspondent, thank you. let's speak to matthew denison. now who's a rural biographer, an author of the queen and joints is now from over 3 in england. mister denison. so the queen has been this anchor and almost this, this focus of national identity for united kingdom it's, it's really going to be a traumatic event for many in britain, if she does possibly yes, it's very significant moment because we are in immensely varied and immensely desperate society and, you know, one thing that many people can agree on about 80 percent of the british population

support the queen is that the queen can serve as a sort of a focal point for very varied allegiances and loyalties. and that's an incredibly helpful thing in a society that's the kind of binding it off as a sort of cation. but the queen is obviously also focus of considerable affection. and there is powerful love for the queen in this country. and of course, across the commonwealth and abroad, and a feeling in some cases, very close to reverence, but because of her extraordinary life, of, of, of service to, to the nation. and we're coming all until it a little bit about that life and how she took on that, that sense of duty. i think it was essentially in her upbringing, i mean the queen had an immense respect with her grandfather george the 5th and for her father george, the 6 she was of course, grew up in a world in which i'm sexual politics with very different and as a young woman in

a conservative institution, but also in a nation that was conserved to the was a sort of conservative backlash in britain, in the 1950 s. there was an expectation that the young clean would be guided by, by older men. and by a sort of male statesman and the queen followed the guidance she was given and very duty followed the example of her father and her grandfather. she is not somebody who set out to put her own stone on the monarchy. she has a real sense of a family loyalty and she did her very best to be loyal to the example of the 2 previous windsor monex. and what is remarkable about the queen is that she oversee that. she has kept that up now into her 8 decade on throat. as we wait for more news of her state of health. what is your sense about what the situation is, given what we've learned today and the, the use of the family arriving at bell moral it can

only be serious. i think when royal doctors use works like concerned a palace statements are given to understatement. so, so the use of a word like concerned is more significant than it might be another context, i think, who say the mustang of the family at bomb or which after all is a very long way from where some members of the royal family have been. where they've been working, it is clearly significant, isn't i think, you know, we know that very old people have health scares and they do bounce back. but clearly this is a serious health sca. of course we know that this moments a will have been prepared for and what is unfolding and balmoral ab. however, it turns out to there is a plan in place. tell us a little bit about that because the plan has been in place for some type of royal funerals are planned well in advance and they are and dusty update it and rehearsed

. i think what is more important is what we're not prepared for. i think as a nation, we aren't really prepared for what the effect of the death of the queen will be. it will be a seismic moment in british lights are very, very few people who can remember any earlier monarch and, and the queen is unrivalled in this country in the, of the, the admiration, the affection that that she inspires. um, you know, it is the case that for example, when the queen addressed a nation at the time old cove locked up 24000000 people tuned into that pro, cause british television doesn't get those sorts of viewing figures. this was people turning to, to the one person who could successfully act as a national spokesperson and to lose that person to lose that focus of loyalty and affection. to lose that focus of admiration. to lose that glue in our national life is going to be very significant or matthew will leave it for the time being mighty

dennison's royal barger for, thanks very much luck. now, the united states has pledged more military aid for ukraine. your sector of state, lloyd austin, of defense, i should say lloyd austin, made the announcement while visiting the ramstein airbase in germany, where he's meeting of the defense ministers 4 months after our initial can't do a group meeting. the war is or another key moment. roger forces continue to cooley bombard ukrainian cities and civilians with missiles and artillery far but ukrainian forces are begun their counter offenses in the south of their country. and they are integrating the capabilities that we all have provided to help themselves to fight and reclaim their sovereign territory. meanwhile, yes, section of state antony blinkin has been on an unscheduled visit to keefe where he met president vladimir lensky. it is his 2nd trip to the craning capital since the

war started. lincoln says ukrainian forces and making clear and real progress in a counter offensive to retake territory from russia in the northeast and in the south. carol is under has more now from the capital. anthony blinking has been touring key. we know that he's been visiting a children's hospital here. we think that he's been visiting with top ukrainian officials all the way up to the highest levels of president to meet the lensky as well. if you haven't heard any statements or there's no sort of press conference between the 2 that are scheduled that we know of at this point, and we also don't know how long we can plan defendant. but as of now, we believe it is still here, meeting with officials at this very hour. he's not only here to offer verbal support to the ukraine officials, but also to offer substantive re support as well. and now seeing giving word here that the u. s. was announcing $2000000000.00 in aid to ukraine and 18

other regional countries that the u. s. and others say are, and there were at risk of rush from russian aggression in the region. this is a that is military technical, a that half of that 2000000000, so 1000000000 or go directly to ukraine. this is on top of the nearly 800000000 that we just mentioned that was announced by the defense secretary in germany. that is 800000000 indirect military aid immediately to ukraine. so there's certainly an important visit by the secretary of state of the united states. well, just a couple of hours before news about the queen's health came in the u. k. u, case prime minister has announced the new price cap on energy bills to protect consumers from soaring prices. this just says the average annual household bill, gas and electricity of $2500.00 pounds. that's around $2900.00. promise is expected to cost more than a $100000000000.00. the prime minister has ruled out opposition calls to extend tax

on energy company profits. 2022 has been europe's hot summer on record. that's according to the use climate monitoring service claims climate change for increasing heat waves. droughts and wildfires in europe. great says not only was the whole summer hotel, but august was also a record setting. months was up point 4 degrees celsius over last year. previous record of flooding in southeast sudan is submerged more than 20 villages and destroyed thousands effect as a farmland. at least 122 people have died since the beginning of the rainy season in mid june. and it's out there is have a morgan reports, survivors desperate for aid. this is what many villages into down south eastern got out of state, look like days of torrential rains and the seasonal flooding of that i had river has submerged homes. many have collapsed, leaving residents with nothing more in an hour and modelling it out of water, came and flooded us and took everything. we used to have many books,

but all of them are gone. we lost our savings, food, and furniture. we have nothing but to st. garden oh, in fact, more than 4000 homes have been destroyed in 23 villages near to dance border with a few piano most have been cut off for nearly 3 weeks. authorities in the western collaborate region have provided some assistance, but it's nowhere near enough. and they have broadened their appeal describing the situation as catastrophic. with that was the her, the older than godaddy, the director of health in the state of good, dora provided medicines and blanket alive also the state emergency committee provided what assistance it could. but it's not sufficient compared to the size of the disaster that, that we urgently appeal to all sudanese people to help us as well as international organization to get law. several people died when there had grip or burst, its banks and hundreds are displaced. these families have found shelter in

a school if only temporary, and although it's dry, it lacks basic necessities, dna that them and i see video that we are in a very difficult situation, but our children can barely survive here. we need toes, food, and water. we need medicine, our children are suffering as we don't have anything to them on the my give them a large swath of agricultural land. our waterlogged and livestock have been slept away, raising concerns of an outbreak of disease and an environmental disaster. there are had river floods every year, but people here say this is the worst if seen in 3 decades. he bought morgan alta 0 . well, the pandemic climate change and the war in ukraine have been blamed for lowering a life expectancy and living standards right around the world. the when development program says 9 out of every 10 countries have been affected. the lives of people in south sudan, china in niger declined the most switzerland, norway,

and i sent remain the top performing countries with highest diamonds of living and life expectancies. out there has learned the un, 60 general is planning to appoint a vulgar turk. as the next high commissioner for human rights. the austrian has worked for you and for more than 30 years now would replace michelle furshly who stepped down last week. steve bannon, a prominent ally of former u. s. president. donald trump has been charged with money laundering and conspiracy . it was indicted on 6 counts and new york on thursday. the charges relate to trump's efforts to build a wall along the us mexican border van, and is accused of defrauding. trump supporters out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and using the money for personal expenses instead of building the wall. now, apple has launched his latest. i phone 14 model with new features including satellite, emergency tracking, but like other u. s. tech johns is under pressure to move its factors away from china. the u. s. government is offering billions of dollars 200000000000 dollars, in fact,

to help develop domestically made electronic chips. supply chain disruptions caused by k with 19 locked down to china have increased costs. an apple is preparing to manufacture around $12000000.00 of the new phones in india this year. how likely mac yama is a trade diplomacy expert. he says at apple and other tech johns, are outsourcing production to countries like india and vietnam to cut costs. apple is perhaps one of the closest watched, accompanied by investors as well as tech enthusiast and the anti trust regulators worldwide. where we are going to see, at least in the 1st step, is a move away in the final assembly. basically the last step of the production to india, starting from maybe late next year. and while sub contractors like the taiwanese fox column, who's actually engineering the supply chain on behalf of apple,

is going to keep a number of the key components, supplies still in the on chinese mainland as well as japan and the united states. so basically what we'll be seeing is final assembly that is probably not very cost efficient given that the salaries have increased somewhat in china over the last decade. oh, so he's actually going to move to india for a very limited volume that is probably destined for the indian domestic market. anyway. we already see, for example, the apple as moves some of the production for example, places like vietnam. and, and this is also the case of final assembly the take place there, while the key components of stairs supplied by taiwan, japan, and china and the united states. ah, so this is al jazeera, these are the top stories and the united kingdom queen.