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ah, i'll buy this and this is july from doe have also coming up. we'll massive power outage in pakistan leaves almost 220000000 people without electricity. ah, brazil's president's in argentina, that his 1st autumn trip since taking office, we're going to be alive from point a status. i direct failing economy. we'll look at the driving forces behind the drop and the country's currency. ah, berlin is coming under increased pressure to give the go ahead for the delivery of german made tanks to ukraine. pollen says it wants approval to send leopard to tanks and it's inventory. it's being discussed at a meeting of e. u. foreign ministers in brussels. poland needs the consent of germany to send

the tanks to a non nato country, but pollen is prime minister said war so will make its own decision of berlin does not permit the move. no, this company mother was gone. we will seek disapproval from germany, but this is a secondary issue even if we don't get such an approval in the end, we will give our thanks to la crane anyway with an a small coalition of countries. even if germany isn't in that coalition. when i speak to dominic kane, who's in berlin far as dominic, does this mean that ukraine is getting close to getting the military hardware that has been asking for? well if you believe what's coming from warsaw and indeed what's coming from some parts of berlin then perhaps certainly from the german perspective on sunday, the foreign minister analynn bell bach in an interview with french television news said that no question asking for the specific release of german made leopard

to tax had been received by the german government, but that if such a question was put to the government, then the government would not stand in the way. now the point about that is that that would seem to suggest that if the polish government make formalize, is that request, then it's going to get a pretty rapid. yes. but today, other sources from the german government have said that these questions, if they are placed and they haven't been yet, then they would get the appropriate swiftness that such a request would require. well, that seems a little bit of civil service speak. in one sense, the thing to remember here is that the german government has already promised certain other weapons systems and that sort of thing. so they talked about supplying armored personnel carriers and anti aircraft defense systems, which they have done. and we know that patriot missiles are part of that, and some patriot missiles are indeed going eastward to day,

but only going to the polish border with ukraine, not directly to ukraine. the central issue here is, what is all our shots chancellor of germany wants to do, because it is his decision which will unlock as it were, all sorts of delivery systems as it were to ukraine. and so far, at least he has not gone as far as his cabinet colleagues in so far as this is concerned. dominic, thank you very much. indeed. that's, donna came in berlin. well, the kremlin says ukraine would suffer if the west provides tanks to key valley hash m has more from moscow. moscow has been reacting to news of western weapons supplies to keep the deputy foreign minister said gay at yahoo. gov warned that these weapons are going to be destroyed by mo, school, the up go. also down played reports off, long range ballistic missiles supplied from the u. s. to ukraine and said that this

is an element of psychological war for now. mosque has been over the past few days, escalating his position with respect to the weapon transfers. dmitri prescott, the spokesperson for kremlin, said that this is taking the whole conflict on another level on that need to be involved in directly in it. this is kind of an attempt to a deepened that he looked and see on the european side may lead in germany, but to re up gov. he said that the u. s. ambassador to moscow, the new ambassador will arrive within the coming days and issues between moscow and washington are going to be discussed with the new ambassador. still on the diplomatic front, a more scholar announced that its downgrading gets relations with as sonya following. to leans downsizing of the you, of the russian embassy there. on another note, the fs. be the russian foreign intelligence service, said that they have reliable sources. stating that the ukranian army is

a stock filing weapons and nuclear plant in ukraine. russia's foreign minister. so he loves in south africa for talks is be missing. foreign minister melody ponder in pretoria, asked week south africa's military announced plans to hold joint exercises offered coasts with china and russia. south africa was among the countries that abstained from voting in the u. n. to condemn russia's invasion of ukraine. we all in sales are in favor of fir feast low resolution of disputes. and though will be will be bold. his regular will discuss negotiate of solution to any conflict on earth. in september, president zelinski site signed the degree prohibiting all ukrainian officials to negotiate on anything with the russian federation. so i believe it is

absolutely openness as regards to the origin of the problem of lack of negotiations. i sincere wish that the conflict currently between russia and ukraine will soon be brought to a peaceful land through diplomacy, a negotiation, as we believe this is the desire of all of us in the globe barometer. mila has more form pretoria, this is, sir. lev rav 2nd visit to the african continent in 6 months, and it's really about cementing relations with a number of african countries, including south africa. now, officially, south africa has said that it remains neutral with regard to the conflict in the ukraine and the role that russia is played a but meetings such as this one, as well as a visit of africa's defense minister to russia. last year, a number of bricks, meetings coming up as well as naval exercises between russia,

of african china, due to take place in february may suggest otherwise in that south africa is willing to hear what russia has to say around how it wants to develop its relations. with african countries and the emphasis was very much been on that to breaks grouping that so group made up of result, russia, india, china, and south africa. we've also heard from south africa's foreign minister saying that that groupings should play a greater role. they should be mechanisms put in place for that grouping to play a greater role in terms of a global safety and security of south africa has refrained from condemning rushes actions in the ukraine. and just how influential south africa might be, of course, is debatable, but it really is about creating friends and allies, a kind of cementing that relationship with new friends and allies, old friends and allies that might have been lost after the break up of the soviet union and re engaging those countries as an alternative to the west. we,

russia is increasingly isolated and criticized. millions of been without power across pakistan. officer failure of the electrical grid. businesses in the hospitals have been hit as the national grid went down early monday, authority, se average to restore the system are underway. but getting the whole system back online could take several hours. come all hiders in islamabad with more for the 2nd time since there's new government doke power in april after the award of no confidence against them. ron khan, the country has seen a major breakdown in the country, electricity power system today, august on experienced yet another outage. the 2nd and this have gotten the affected life across the country where the steel woke head in islamabad. they depend on electricity, so they can use their vending machines and relatives be able to cut that steve. but

as you can see, these people are just waiting for electricity to return and admins a lot. so for days rages, they cannot afford to go pop for it spiraling inflation. anyways, nobody believe me. i have got a year since morning. we are waiting for the trustees that we could start our daily chores. unfortunately, there isn't any hope and that has made us worry about how we will make our livelihood for the day. i'm not, i'm not barney. i only do it monday, which are the boards, but ation. we are all daily wage earners, and our work is totally dependent on electricity, which is cutting and welding and can't be done without power. the shows the incompetency of this government who has not been able to restore the power since this morning and are making it hard for us to earn anything for the day. he's in the back of it. i do dad. frequent follow up guards, which of course is now also affecting outboard. many industries are shutting down because of foreign exchange shortages. busy and also because the raw materials are

not being and bordered into the country because the government as important to ban on import this electricity crisis only showed the incompetence of the brethren government, which had said that it would investigate the last time the country. so a major breakdown in its electricity supply system. however, there was no action taken despite promises. and it appeared that this time again, there will be no action from the government. the bomb was sick, the can not be face. as long as it is in the traditional public sector and as long as it is controlled from one office and if we have 9 distribution companies in the country or 10 or whatever it is. whether we were the management outsource, whether we're going to privatize whether we will work out something with the better, with the federal government in the provinces. the discourse needs to be fixed by indeed a warning trying for the people of pockets on and order and follow the country

cannot afford to lose electricity or in such a large scale, depriving tens of millions of people of electric bala, brazilian president lose another a little the silvers in argentina for his 1st international visit since returning to office louis meeting argentinian prisons are about off on mondays, are going to be discussing the creation of a common currency, the latin american region. you're both meet other leaders from region for a summit on tuesday. well, teresa bos journeymen are live from outside the office of the argentinian president for his it's interesting that little to civil, restarted the tradition of making argentina the 1st big trip for the new brazilian president. because relations were really tense under jar boston, or they're kind of a lot talk about over to thought well, that's correct. this is lula feed us at 1st flooring trip since taking off phase. and it's no coincidence that the 1st trip is being here in argentina. this was

a tradition for brazilian precedent, but that changed when a former president, i eat it moist when i go to coffee. so certainly look, precedent lula is here to be meeting also with other latin american leaders that are going to be present here in when a site is most likely this tuesday to take part of what is known as the thumb. it for the latin american and caribbean countries, new lays, definitely trying to build on the bridges that's were broke. and while jade was fernando was a precedent bridges that, for example, will will to and i know announced back in 2019 that he was leaving this hillock. the way it's called this, this summit that is happening here in argentina on tuesday. so a blue leather seats will be meeting president alberto for a man this late to rhonda. be announcing all sorts of cooperation between both countries, from building a pipeline from argentina to brazil, to also starting to explore the possibility of a common currency that would include brazil and argentina. but that it could lead

to ron include other latin american countries. also, it is expected that lula will be matching venezuelan president, nicolai my buddha. that is going to come here to argentina to take part of this it on tuesday. this has generated some controversy in this country, as the opposition has been very, very critical. was president alberto both fernandez for meeting with my lord are saying that he's a dictator that he has violated human rights abuses. and that has also generated some tension. so suddenly, lula is him when aside, is to we start relations with latin america, and we're my american countries to become a leader for many once again of trying to unite this part of the world. but it won't be easy. lula is facing lots of challenges back home. i divided country, you know, we're still seeing the consequences of what just happened there a few weeks ago with supporters of j. e to was when i know taking over congress, the supreme court and the presidential pilot, they're still an investigation ongoing lula. just a few days ago, he fired the chief of the armed forces,

questioning the role of the military in this insurrection. so suddenly it won't be easy for lula, but that's clearly the objective while here in when a site is. but as i said before, he spacing lots of difficulties back home. i divided country, but he's hoping in a way to participate in this type of events to start trying and pushing to unite latin america once again today. so thank you very much, sir. isabel in bonuses still had on al jazeera protesting to occupy westbank as israel plans to demolish a village to make way for more illegal settlements. the main suspect and a mass shooting in california, kills himself after a standoff with police. ah, with a very warm welcome to you. here's your international weather outlook will begin in india. we've got some acts of weather in the northwest,

thundering downpours. i think we may even see some hail mixed in as while blanketed in rain through the multi use. but for the northeast of india, temperature is are on the way of. so here's a 3 day forecast and calcutta up to $32.00 degrees. that's while above the january average of 26. that's the reverse for pakistan. another cold snap coming your way. this what you're going to wake up to on to stay darker, the blue and the purple, the lower the temperature karachi, single digits, and same for the capital territory is lama bought at 2. now through the afternoon bounce back to 23. in karachi, we've got wet weather from islam of bud to the hor, monsoon rains are a sliding down the coast of vietnam, particularly intensive wall for that southern philippines. and we've got intense coal for the northeast of china. so again, we got the colors on dark. the blue in the purple, the lower the temperature harbin at minus 35 him when you get this cold air coming out of siberia over this c, that means see effect snow up and down. honju. and i, sam, it's all said and done is going to be a wall up to $170.00 centimeters in just 48 hours. and really i'd say south of the

yangtze river valley. things not bad in boiling with a high of 14 degrees. ah oh a ah ah

ah, you're watching all 0 reminder of our top stories this our ballons coming under increased pressure to give the go ahead for the delivery of german made times to ukraine. poland says a once approval to send leopard 2 times, but it will make its own decision of berlin doesn't permit the move. authorities and pakistan are working to restore electricity. optimum nationwide power outage. the energy minister blames a fault and the national grid. maybe 220000000 people have been affected. brazil's president is on his 1st visit abroad since returning to power. those are not being looted to silver, but attend a summit of regional leaders in argentina where he and the argentinian president will push for the common currency for latin america. but he's in the state of california, say the main suspect and a mass shooting has been found dead 72 year old who can trans shot himself as he

was cornered in a car park. officers believe he opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in the town, east of los angeles and saturday, killing at least 10 people. rob reynolds has been following the developments in monterey park. a massacre in a quiet community celebrating lunar new year. 10 people, 5 men and 5 women were killed when a gunman entered the star ball room in monterey park, california, saturday evening. 10 others were wounded. some critically, one of the county's most heinous cases. hours after the killings police in torrence 48 kilometer south west of the crime scene surrounded a white van believe to be linked to the shooting. as officers closed in a single shot was fired from inside the vehicle. at 1252 p. m. r sheriffs, a swat team approached and cleared the van,

and determined the suspect sustained. a self inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead. at the same. investigators conducted a search of the vehicle and determine the mail inside the van was the mass shooting suspect. the gunman was, who can train a 72 year old man of asian descent? police said he had several firearms including a semi automatic machine pistol. police have not disclosed a motive. we want to know. we want to know how something like this. something this awful can happen, and congresswoman judy chew represents the area. there are also other rumors about this being. i a dispute, ah, by a husband who are caught his wife, dance, and heir. please say shortly after the monterey park shooting. there was a related incident at another nearby dance studio who can trans, entered the studio with a gun,

but was disarmed by patrons. he was disarmed by 2 community members who i consider to be heroes because they saved lives. this could have been much worse. people in monterey park, a city of 61000 whose residents are pre dominantly, asian american, were stunned by the violence alice shots i was because the bar, i'm dancing studios where i go dancing. i'm in the evenings with friends and i was a head close to me. you know, my kids were afraid to go to sleep last night because they were afraid this year my break the windows and come in or something i had to tell them. no, this is okay and come for them to go to sleep. the killings came at the lunar new year. normally a joyous family oriented festival. monterey park now joins a long list of us towns and cities, scarred by deadly gun violence. what should have been a time of celebration is now a time of morning in a community that may be changed forever. rob reynolds al jazeera, monterey park,

california appropriate popular radio journalists in capitan's being found dead. martin, his silvo was the host of a daily program. at a private station. he often tackled corruption and singled out prominent people in his broadcasts. they went missing on tuesday. the journalist act of his group called reporters without borders, says his badly damaged car was found near a police station on the outskirts of the capital yonder. it wants an independent inquiry. residence of a bedouin village in the occupied west bank say they won't move even though their homes are threatened with demolition israel's fall. right. national security minister it m r bank via, has demanded that the village of con, alarm money should be destroyed in 2018 israel. supreme court approved to plan to bulldoze it, to make way for illegal israeli settlements. the court now asking the government why it hasn't happened either. abraham has more from con alamos palestinians are

protesting here, against the visits by israeli lecount members over there. they are members of the ruling party in the government of benjamin netanyahu in israel. and there are calling for the demolition of hannah mud village now 2018. these really supreme court greenlighted, they're demolition, but as many palestinians say the international pressure, the i c. c prosecutor. even warning that this could constitute a war crime, transferring people living here. so, but then ard, renewed calls now and there is a court case in the israeli court against the government. not demolishing a. the structures here and at hand armada now as far as people here tell us, they have no intention of going anywhere. we're seeing children that have been born after 2018 after the courts are green lighting, the demolition and palestinians say they want to build on their lands and they have

nowhere else to go underneath of a judge and well, a good, a dinner and all the toner there are 3 generations here. our children will raise their families here, like our grandparents did, were here before the settlement, blue silk for our doman was established in 1984. but we have been here since 1952 before the occupation of smith. ringback here save that, their simple way of life has always been under threat living under israel's military occupation. but they're saying that now that threat is becoming more and more imminent. they're telling us that the only thing they're left with is persevering. b r says is captured to members of i saw in syria, us central command, says the operation will disrupt the group's ability to plan and carry out attacks in the area. my kind of reports from washington, dc. well, a reminder about the ongoing us led coalition operations in eastern syria, in particular. a spokesman for us central command says that to i saw members were

captured in a helicopter and ground assault carried out by the u. s. and he says, members of that coalition operate in that one was described as a facilitator, the other as a facilitator and largest edition. now the spokesman says that once a 1000000000 was injured in the attack, he was taken to a nearby hospital and it's not being returned to his home. a few days ago, a us base in syria came under attack the touch base base, where there are some 900 us soldiers stationed. that came under attack by drones to drones was shot down the 3rd drone actually hit the encampment, injuring at least 2 democratic syrian fighters. now, whether these 2 events are connected, the spokesman did not mention, he did not in any way connect these 2 events. but at the same time you've had a couple of days ago, a drone attack on a us space in the north of syria. now you've got

a u. s. lead raid in eastern syria, capturing 2 members of iso as the u. s. claims. the governor over ranks, the central bank has been sac because the iraqi dinner continues to lose value against the us dollar. iraq's economy has been struggling after years of war corruption. and of course, the pandemic knocking on the head has more from baghdad. prices are going job in iraq, is tours since mid november the d, nor has declined against us dollar losing about 10 percent of its value. a bu on it says he double check surprised tags every time he comes to the supermarket. set in there. how do you can, let's do the shopping is blame it on the dollar exchange rate because most of the products are imported. in this case, the government should pay off salaries in dollars law. the official exchange rate is fixed at $1470.00 d not as per dollar,

but recently it's been trading as high as $1600.00. since november, the u. s. has tightened the rules on international transfers to prevent money laundering. it's reduced cash flows to iraqi banks by about 80 percent. lou are the 100 for guided entity key. it's cleared u. s. federal reserve scrutinizing foreign transfers from iraq, especially to those countries unfriendly with 2 u. s. army, such as iran, lebanon, syria, and yemen. consequently, iraq steel wire transfers from the u. s. have been cut from $240000000.00 to only $22000000.00. on a day. the government has launched a campaign to combat illegal currency trading and promised to hold further discussions with washington to stabilize the exchange rate. well, that is one. this is one aspect of an economic challenge that requires a brave response and practical solutions to end the wrong financial policies

inherited by the current government. in the meantime, the prime minister has extended credit to small businesses by half a $1000000000.00. despite government promises to contain the depreciation, many iraqis are worried about an increase in prices ahead of the holy month of ramadan. especially in imports such as gas and weeds, a number of currency exchanges have stopped pleading until that is more certainty about trees. some iraqis blamed the central bank for the shortage of dollars. others accused the united states of we promising the dollar. either way, it's the iraqi people who be to the brand of the changes would have that were algebra, but that the chairman of the u. k. conservative party says he'll fully cooperate with an independent inquiry into his tax affairs. not in a hurry is resisting calls to resign. after details of the multi $1000000.00 dispute emerged, primus alicia sooner has ordered the investigation,

but the opposition says it wants him to come clean about his knowledge of the matter. so he sat on saturday, he had settled the outstanding tax bill. i'm going to stop in the u. k. on a strike and a dispute over pay is the 1st time workers from all 3 unions of walked off the job in the same day, prompting warnings from the public to only call emergency services and life threatening situations are falsified more from london. this is the 3rd strike violence workers in the last 5 weeks and it is a major 13 separate unions calling out their members and large areas of england and wales affected attends of the impact on public health. it is likely to be considerable in terms of serious life threatening emergencies. they will still be attended by ambulance. is there a manager here at this picket line? for example, who will assign such calls? to striking paramedics will come off the picket line and go and attend those,

but still serious but non life threatening cases, they are expected to be delays. and i'm going to do is attending those and in less serious instances, that may be no ambulance at all. that will be on its way as far as the people we've spoken to here are concerned. this is an issue of the cost of living, the low pay that they say they have been suffering with for many years. the impact on service of the kind of stuff turnover that, that creates the head of one of the striking unions says that the answer to all this is staring the government in the face. it is raising paid the government though in the shape of the health secretary barkley has called this hugely disappointing. he says he has been having constructive talks on 2023 to 24 pay, but the unions won't pay awards immediately. they want the current situation to be tackled in terms of what's going to happen in the coming weeks. well, we're told that could be some 11 strikes between now.