wanda, oh, now jazeera cheers from school children in the island community of east end. the excitement is over the arrival of their teacher fransisco velasquez. there's only one school and chaos which he knows infancy school is the only teacher. the fact that these children are able to have an education at all the result of years, hard work from the local community here in cairo. sketchy at the store. this year, the u. s. government announced $33000000.00 to increase access to education. part of a broader strategy by the by did administration to address the root causes of migration from central america critics. in honduras, however, warned that ramp and government corruption means that foreign assistant too often goes astray. ah, china says it's driven away on american war ship for a 2nd day from the south. china seen the u. s. and says it was international move.

ah, i money inside the sound, is there a live from die ha, also coming up. india's main opposition policies go to the supreme court accusing talk, government agencies of targeting opponents, the governing b. j o. j 0 goes on to cover in zimbabwe and investigation. finds that a senior diplomat offering to launch millions of dollars on france. anger about pension changes, hits fever, pitch, his protests to set fire to bo days town. ah, united states navy has asserted what it calls navigational rights and freedoms, off to standoff with the chinese military in the south china sea. beijing says us

worship was driven out of waters near the parasol islands for the 2nd time this week. washington denies any wrong doing, saying that its vessel, the u. s. s. millis was conducting a routine operation in international waters. china claim sovereignty over almost the entire south china sea, despite an international court saying the claim has no legal basis as guitar. corresponding katrina, you is lifeless in beijing. katrina, as i was saying, this is the 2nd time this week that a u. s. worship has been driven out of these waters near the parasol. allan, what do you think is going on here? that's right. so on thursday we had this initial statement from china. navy saying that they supported guided missile, destroyed millions. that it's, it said that legally and without permission entered a territory that china called she shot by the parasol islands and it said it was

driven away been ours. laser washington counted that statement said that this was all the millions was continuing. what it says off freedom of navigation, operations in international waters. now again, we've had back and forth from both slides with aging, saying that it drove away the 1000000 again. and now we've had another statement from the spokesperson for the us 7 fleet, saying that unlawful and sweeping maritime claims pose a serious threat to the freedom of the steve. and also the access of the the economic access by other partners who claim that territory. so it seems that washington determined to make a point despite anger from the chinese side. now, much of the resource rich south trying to see you claimed by aging, dislike competing claims from many of its neighbors. it has been over the past few years, building up our islands intensifying military drills in this area. very exact area where this incident took place is about

a square kilometer door and by the parasol island claimed by taiwan also and vietnam. now the u. s. among other governments has accused china navy trying to force god of bullying ships in this area. and we also renewed focus subsequently from the u. s. in the indoor pacific. a recently, the u. s. did a deal with manila to build more military bases in the philippines. also grew to supply us trailer with nuclear power submarines. and all of these moves have been very much criticized and condemned by beijing. and they said that the u. s. is and circling china and what it considers its own backyard. when do you think all this is going, do you get a sense at least from the language being used by both sides, that the tension between the 2 is escalating once again? well, we definitely have heard very strong language from dating on friday. warning that

if the u. s. does not stop what it says are provocative acts that the us should, that consequences of any unforeseen incidence. now, this is not the 1st time we've had confrontation in this region and differing accounts. but what makes this difference and particularly dangerous, is the timing and the relationship between china in the u. s. right now, distrust is at an all time high, things are very tense and that makes any potential confrontation very risky. analysts have said that anything that happens in the south, tennessee, and will evolving the military of either side can easily spiral out of control, especially at a time when neither they do aging nor washington wants to appeal week. and certainly we have had very strong language from paging, and from president cd ping. and in a recent speech he said that china's military will be developing itself into a great wall of steel to safeguard china's sovereignties. so i guess that's china's way of saying it will do whatever it takes to protect what it says is its territory,

despite what the u. s. and other countries may believe many thanks for that. katrina, you the 1st and beijing to north korea who says it's military has tested what it calls a new under water drone state. media says later kim john over saw an attack simulation using the device as well as cruise missile tests of young has stepped up muscle testing this week in order to coincide with joint military drills between the u. s . and south korea, rob, but broad has more from so this would be the 1st time north korea has tested what it calls a nuclear capable underwater drone. it was apparently conducted earlier this week when the drone traveled under water for nearly 60 hours before hitting its target. it's claimed it would be capable of unleashing a radioactive sin army against an enemy's naval facilities. and it comes as the u.

s. and south korean armed forces conduct large scale joint exercises, the largest in 6 years, which include joint naval exercises. north korea's state run media says the test was overseen by leader kim jong, who was also a pictured attending the launch of new types of cruise missiles, or part of the north efforts to develop it tactical nuclear arsenal, to threaten its neighbors with south korea. and the u. s. do to hold more exercises in the coming week. so the weapons testing by north korea also look set to continue . robert bride al jazeera, so al jazeera is investigative unit has uncovered a scheme in zimbabwe. involving a top official, a senior deputy agreed to launder more than a $1000000000.00 in cash in a meeting that he believed was where chinese criminals. it's all part of

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and he can watch the 1st to far for part series in the out there investigation, gold mafia, the laundry service late on friday, at 12, g, m t. now the head of the worlds fastest growing social media app has faced 5 hours of questioning r u. s. house committee, tick tock, c. i was grilled about teenage safety and data security. i cannot reports from washington dc. it was a rare moment of bipartisanship in a divided congress. welcome to the most bipartisan committee in congress. we may not always agree on how to get there, but we care about our, our national security here at issue here of free speech rights. federal control, social media, and national security issues in recent days shows the 2 and his team had been lobbying in washington, including meeting were each member of the committee,

the charm offensive carried on tick tock itself. i'm super excited to announce that more than a 150000000 americans on take time. that's almost half of the us. but congressional critics, we're not deterred, chick talk, is a grave threat of foreign influence in american life. it's been said, it's like allowing the soviet union, the power to produce saturday morning cartoons during the cold war, but much more powerful and much more dangerous than i'm a christian and shown to the committee disturbing, tick tock, content that was found on the feed of a 16 year old, who killed himself by jumping in front of the train. it's alleged the content contributed to his suicide. we must save our children from big tech companies like yours, number one. we will keep safety, particularly for teenagers as a top priority for us. 2, insisted tick tock didn't share information with the chinese government,

saying the company would take steps to ensure independent monitoring of data use, all protected u. s. leader. we'll be under the protection of u. s. law. and under the control of the u. s. that security team, our 1st, a few liberal members of the house of oppose the move to shut down, tick tock. the primary fear that this would be against the 1st amendment, the freedom of speech clause in the constitution. but it appeared the majority support either shutting the app down or forcing the sale to a u. s. company, the f. b i, director has told congress that tick tock represents a national security threat. the federal government has ordered that it be removed from all federal devices. the previous administration attempted to shut tick tock down, but the move was stopped by the courts and whatever merges from these hearings. this likely, at some stage to be a protracted legal argument based on 1st amendment grounds. mike hannah al jazeera

washington as get e some breaking news coming out of india. now parliament has disqualified opposition. politician role gandhi as m p on thursday at court, found candy guilty of defamation and sentenced him to 2 years in prison. 52 year old is a psy on of the narrow county political dynasty, and he was convicted the comments he made about prime minister and the medi surname at an election rally in 2019 is go straight to putney metal, who is live in new delhi. so this news just asked in the last 10 minutes or so. oh, tell us a bit more. what impact will this disqualification have? political parties in india have been raising the issue of what they say is a credit attract to democracy in india. they have been protesting this for a while. and a lot of these issues have come to a heck to did as you say, just

a few minutes ago we got the news, the ra, gone, the has been disqualified as member of parliament a day after. he was sentenced for 2 years for making comments. 4 years ago at an election rally, and that case was filed against him by a member of prime minister and arranged modi's party agent, a party in the state of goods rock, which is the state that mo, the was chief minister for, for over a decade. neuron gandhi, is the de facto face of, in just opposition. so this is, you know, big news here. in addition to that, he's also someone who has led a lot of the criticism against prime minister in ramadi. he has accused moody of crony capitalism and a thought of favoring certain business houses for lucrative contracts. he's all to lead the criticism on a on minority rights issue of minority vice in india. now as of now,

as far as the court case is concerned, are gone, he is out on bail. he has about 30 days and his team will be appealing that decision in a higher court. right now. 1 his party, that is the congress party has been protesting over here, actually on these grounds a few a few minutes ago. some of those empties have been detained by the police of they are also asking for an appointment with the president saying that the party jent the party, the governing party has been targeting opposition leaders by misusing central investigative agencies. exactly. i mean, the timing of that, of all this seems very interesting. i mean, as you say, some of india's main opposition parties say that the governing b j. p is misusing government agencies to target opponents. what is going to come out of those accusations?

well, as of now 14 political opposition parties have banded together and filed a case in india, supreme court with those very aggregations that central agencies are being misused . so that case is going on. but in addition to that, the opposition parties have sort of been protesting inside the parliament as well. today there were protest, they have been doing that for a while outside the parliament on the streets. and this has been the sentiment for a while now. and it's not just wrong on these party, you know, as we speak at least 2 other members of office opposition parties are under investigation for a legit corruption. now those leaders have denied wrong doing. but they also say that investigative agencies haven't actually found anything. and this is an intimidation tactic. now all of this plays out in the larger political context. and that is that next year around this time, india is heading for general elections. and so opposition parties believe the designed to medation tactics to sort of make sure that of the b j. p has an upper

hand in those elections. this criticism is also not coming from opposition parties . it's important to say that even human rights groups have been saying for a while now that since prime minister. a millions remove the came to power in 2014 . the space for descent in india has been shrinking. it's not just a political leaders, but also activists and movie stars who basically have been targeted. ok, the sizing movie. okay, thank you so much for the update poverty metal there for us live in new delhi. lots more still to come head on al jazeera, it's the well most infectious killer. we look at the work being jones and cheap, closest ones for adding some color flavor to ramadan. people in garza observe the fostering mums in the shadow of conflict on the blockade. ah

let's go with your world's weather update. good to see you. it has been an incredibly dry stretch from western australia. so for perth, over the last 4 months, this could be your drive for months on record. do you have a bit of rain in the forecast on saturday, but we're talking only a few millimeters, but whether this is or isn't a record, it has been incredibly dr for perth showers in storms from brisbane, down the coast of new south wales on saturdays, certainly could see at some hail mixed in there as well. doubts with rain for new zealand westland. here. we do have weather alerts in play for that rain, and as a result we will see increasing cloud cover for the north island. now in this part of the world, we've had high temperatures, here in northern vietnam, china is find an island. we've had temperatures and forties are slowly coming down . but where i have more concern is southern china. many spots here at sea more than a months worth of rain over the last little bit. and you know, for hong kong, think about half a month's worth of rain in the forecast for you over the course of the weekend.

while tokyo saw its earliest 1st bloom for cherry blossoms on record here a bit of a gloomy stretch. we had some thundering down ports. not ideal cherry blossom, whether it's still some showers hanging around there on saturday with the high 14, which actually is a bit below where you should be for this year. sure update ah, [000:00:00;00] with

blue blue, open back here watching al jazeera mind or false hopes or is this our india's parliament has disqualified opposition? politician role gandhi as m p. a court found gandhi guilty of defamation and sentenced him 2 years in prison. china says that a u. s. warship was driven out of the territory in the south china sea. the 2nd time this week, washington has denied any won't. jerry. i'll desert investigative units is found that a senior diploma from zimbabwe has agreed to no more than a $1000000000.00 in cash beds. angel was fail. missing al jazeera journalists,

posing criminal. i've been more protest across france against president emmanuel michael's plan to raise the retirement age in the city or de demonstrates a set fire to the front of the town hall as days on rest was some of the most violent and widespread in 3 months earlier. there were confrontations between protesters and security forces in paris. 457 people were arrested and 441 members of the security forces were injured. half of francis, high speed train services were cancelled, and part of the capitals main international airport was blocked. natasha butler hassle from pass whatever for him and beg musicians over there, thousands of people and the last in central power is the pay synonymous with the french revolution. and with a lot of people who are here angry with the french government pension reform bill,

they say it's on just different for that. it is going to impact poor workers much more than others. but it's not any that good sport people out today to say the fact the person micros government of pushed through this pension reform billed by decree, bypassing parliament. and people say that just jose, the michael has no respect for people in the street, and he has no respect for frances institutions. they say, let balkan look for the actual sandy catalogue. we're waiting for the union to bring the country to a standstill. that's the only thing that will stop macross. we've had enough of mcroy. i want him to go, he's not democratic with that. you see when i go to the demonstrators all for the public safety data, teachers help work and god, it's collective energy work. so cool, that's the schools a lot of disruption across the country. and they've been demonstrations like this in cities and towns across from your dbi me through. there are some jobs where you don't keep working until 64. we fired fighters are fired and broken. so our much

the government under president is we are angry and he must hear us. what these demonstrators, all, all the sewage workers, haley tires, they have been on strike now. oh, any 2 rates robinson hiding in the city. the porters had been made, these were the happy, some folk is avoided, but all of this pressure on presidents a manual, michael, he says the pension is necessary to generate sentences, but he feels he has a duty to do it with these demonstrates to say they're going to continue protesting until government scraps, it's reform. the world health organization says there's an increase in the number of annual tuberculosis infections and deaths for the 1st time. in nearly 2 decades, the coven 19 pandemic disrupted efforts to end the t b epidemic. and although coven 19 killed millions,

tb has killed many more throughout the decades, and may call, sim sharif, has the details. she will kill offers or t. b is a disease that's preventable, treatable and even curable. yet it's killing 1600000 people each year, making it a leading infectious killer after co with 19 it's caused by bacteria that spread through the air and mainly affect the lungs. the pathogen is hot to detect. no country is free of t b, but these 8 nations account for more than 2 thirds of infections and deaths globally. all age groups are at risk, but people with poor immune systems at a higher risk, like those living with h. i v. in 2021, nearly a 100. 90000 people died from h i v associated with t b. they only license but seen the b. c. g is more than

a 100 years old. it's effective in children, but not adults who account for most transmissions. t b is treated with antibiotics, but its resistance to drugs is rising. with only 7 years left to reach the world health organizations and t the milestone. the races on for a new and more effective vaccine world athletics has decided to ban transgender women from a late female competition. the new roles come into effect. at the end of this month, the governing bodies president sebastian co says the decision was made in the interests of fairness and protecting the future of the female category. united states has carried out what it calls precision air strikes on targets. an eastern syria pentagon says the operation came after 5 american soldiers were injured and a contractor was killed in

a suspected iranian link drone attack earlier on thursday. while that tag targeted a us led coalition base near our has soccer in the northeast. what israel's defense ministers cancelled and addressed to the nation after being called into a meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. you'll have gallant was expected to call for an end to controversial overhaul of the judiciary and judicial changes . proposals have prompted months of protests, the prime ministers refusing to back down the hill, we can ship, we are determined to responsibly promote the democratic reform that will restored the proper balance between the authorities and yourself con. i will do everything everything to calm the situation and unite the rift in the nation because we are all brothers. or earlier on thursday, israel's parliament passed a law that limits the grounds for removing a prime minister from office and can only be for health, all mental reasons and only the prime minister of government can make the decision

. critics say the law is specifically designed to protect netanyahu, who is facing corruption charges, a cheering ramadan people overseas garza strip usually prepare for month a fall saying prayers and celebrations many and preparing for the possibility of further conflict with israel. as to answer for was on garza have taken place during the holy month. you're now outside reports from gaza. city. as people in garza prepare for ramadan, their excitement is mixed with tension. for many cars since the muslim holy month is a time to come together with family and friends to break fast and share meals. but for some the memories of complex and wars when they've previously celebrated or casting a shadow. pleasant music, i bought a hall. we want to feel the joy and happiness that ramadan brings to our homes and our children. we have many sad memories,

but we will not tie them with ramadan. it's not fair to make this month a month of sorrow. i mean either, but most of ear about we have referred all essential foods in dates where our customers during this whole month. we know it's difficult time. and if any escalation breaks, we'll have to store all these food and lose a lot. but we hope it will be fine, and people will enjoy ramadan peacefully. despite this most constancy of preparing for ramadan, with the same enthusiasm and joy, they have every year. families are busy decorating their homes, shopping for special foods and buying gifts for our loved ones. what you see behind me is called the colored neighbourhood by the people here. they fainted. pictures on the walls of their homes to celebrate and welcome the coming of the holy month of ramadan. life has been stabling garza for many years with ongoing conflict

and frequent outbreaks of violence. patrice intentions have be particularly high, with fighting between israeli forces and palestinians in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem. and that sparked hears of a wider conflict from us. i believe it would be the issue of egypt and other regional and the emotional countries has been restrained from escalating the situation with as well. but we also about this is world keep pushing against the palestinians and numbers on june of with them a lot. so most that might lead to on the very limited escalation with, with israel, which my loved last volume. the international community has repeatedly expressed concern about the rising tensions in the occupied territories. the united nations has also expressed concern, but about the potential impact of any conflict on those in godsa whose lives are