ears from around the well to the operation and jeanine would last no more than 48 hours. the consequences, the impact of what has happened to you. the last for years, the days of intense heat in the us city of phoenix breaks the 49 year record as countries across the globe swelter on the extreme temperatures. the money inside, this is all just air in life and time was so coming on, the us soldier ends up in north korea, is custody. also legally crossing the border from c, john report from the front lines of east and ukraine, where the war with russia is operation of families and destroyed communities. most

of the buildings have either been destroyed or damaged. most people have left the and, and that gives you an idea of what this place is going through. everybody in a call 6 must be held to account. this cannot be allowed. and i'll just aerospace to the us deputy sexy general who is judging international action. and the conflict ensued on the june was the wells office month ever recorded july as close to assessing a new record in the us. some states are experiencing several days of punishing haynes, the city of phoenix, pro correct? it was set nearly half a century ago if 19 consecutive days of temperature is above $43.00 degrees celsius

. the city is also set up 200 cooling and hydration centers. kristin salumi reports from clark county, nevada, where excessive heat warnings have been extended until the end of the week. for those with no place to call home, it's hard to escape the blistering heat. people like sean crow, who lost his job and his apartment 6 weeks ago, make their way to cooling centers, to grab some water and relief. it's getting hotter, it's getting a lot harder. so this is day. remember, here is really resourceful. i take advantage of it. their, their resources and try to get myself put together and get going in a direction. so that's basically what i've been doing for the past month and a half or so because it gets really hard. it's hard to kind of get up on your feet, especially you don't have a car. after 3 days of temperatures exceeded 43 degrees, the number of people seeking help is on the rise. as our calls to emergency responders for heat stroke,

our shelter is very close to full about 99 percent capacity. but we operate with about a 100 beds in a reserve that we, that we can, you know, a bed mass that we could put on the floor for emergencies and stuff like that. so we started doing that. we're not a complete capacity yet, but, but we're over 500, which is our normal capacity for our, for the dorm temperatures, toppings 43, even 47 degrees are not on heard of here in nevada. what is extremely unusual and extremely dangerous for those who don't have a home is the duration it's, it's a trend scene around the country. phoenix, arizona surpassed 43 degrees for 19 days in a row, beating a 49. your record here in texas or 9 prison inmates have died from excessive heat this year, families to be incarcerated, gathered at the state house to beg for air condition facilities. now we don't have like time cleaning anymore. that's the, that's the problem. you know, you know,

prolong heat wave. it doesn't quit down at night anymore. now we don't go below 34 degrees. celsius forecasters the little relief in sight with these high temperatures expected to continue at least another week. kristin salumi alger 0, clark county, nevada, hate waves in the northern hemisphere. again, highlights, it'd be just need to come by climate change top officials from the wells to biggest polluters or discussing the issue in paging us con envoy john kerry is on his 4th and final day in beijing. kerry is met with senior chinese officials including premier lee young and topped up to my one e. he's cool for me, cooperation. the lead out to the global climate conference comp $28.00, which takes place later this year in to buy. and that's good to continue to use live in beijing south we were saying carries final day of tools. has any concrete agreements been reached on anything? the not too much concrete

agreement so far, but a lot of positive conjecture coming out. so john kerry, about his stay here in china. he's been here for about 4 days now. and really his goal was about reading nice things. mentioned in this, in the us, china climate tools and he said that they've had close communication so far and that even though he's acknowledged that this relationship has been rocky due to a long list of disagreements, the issue of climate change is too important to be effected by politics and it should be set aside as a standalone issue during his 4 days here. he's been very busy on wednesday morning . he met with chinese vice president hon john and on tuesday he met with the chung and what he needs to talk to for matt and premier and also you know, with his counterpart she did on monday for 12 hours of tools. now she says that these tools have been very substantial, both sides post communication and dialogue,

which he hopes will set a positive send a positive signal and added momentum in the lead up to the cop 28 conference in july, late this year, a conference that he says is going to be the most important funded conference one held in paris. and we had from susan paying earlier this week on tuesday when he was speaking amazing about the environment. did he mention anything specific regarding corporation with the us? certainly based using has been times to coincide with john kerry since it was a very high level meeting on communist officials hosted by shooting pain. and the main message from china is leadership is that addressing climate change and slicing . pollution is of the utmost importance to the chinese people. however, it will not be a part that is dictated by others. now no direct reference to don't carry all the united states. but certainly this slide that china will not have a bar,

mental behaviors or policies dictated by the united states is a reference to the us. uh, the us has criticized china for adding to its coal fired palate. and recent years is also be a contention about china is the diesel to contribute to many global funds, fund climate financing for poor countries. now paging intent is also hit back in the us saying that the us we really focus on building its own climate sledges before trying to put pressure on the aging. and unfortunately, that is not the only disagreement here. we've had a lot of nice language from john kerry and some chinese officials that called on terry old friends. but this message that don't, terry has that climate change to be a standalone issue? i don't think really. it's one that aging a breeze with completely we had a lot of state media hospitals during the stay here. talk about how well yes, it's good to have for pricing on this issue. but at the same time trade and something like taiwan, that is a full red line issue. and china cannot just put that a slide in order to, to change. thank you for that. katrina you that for us live in beijing. it's

the, the already tense relationship between the united states and north korea just called a little more complicated. and it was all incidents. a us soldier is now in north korean, custody off to he illegally crossed from south korea. and in the past few hours, peeling young has 52 suspected ballistic missiles into the c. it's off to the us adults, a nuclear power and submarine in south korea for the 1st time in decades. possibly call haven wraps up all the developments. so it's already been a tough few weeks in the relations between the us and north korea. for the 1st time since the eighty's, a us nuclear armed ballistic missiles submarine docked at a south korean port. and north korea launched 2 more missiles into the sea. and now a surprise defection,

army private 2nd class travis king in the army for just over 2 years and without combat experience is believe to a voltage across the border separating the 2 countries and was taking it to north korean custody. it's believed he was just released from a south green prison on a salt charges brought to the airport to be sent home to potentially face additional charges and likely be kicked out of the army. it seems he was a score to to customs and then got away with a tour group headed to the border again, were culturally monitoring and investigating the situation and working to notify the soldiers next of kin and engaging to address the sense of it. in terms of my concerns i'm, i'm absolutely for most concerned about the welfare of our true north korean experts, believe the soldier will be tortured. it is very likely that he will be subjected to harsh treatment, especially since he's a member of the us armed forces. so that the likelihood that he will be tortured,

he will face psychological pressure, he will face a physical torture of the likelihood of that happening is very high. now the focus on how to get them back, they can use this as a bargaining chip and say, well, you know, if you want him back, you're gonna have to take more troops out of south korea or get rid of this nuclear, you know, consultative group, something like that because obviously they have the upper hand, we care about our men and women who served in the past. us administered agents have refused to take those steps for fear. it will encourage more americans being arrested, but they have done prisoners swaps scenarios. luckily, being considered in washington as they wait and wonder what is happening to their soldier who tried to get away. patty calling al jazeera washington. kennedy is a professor of political science and diplomacy at the resign national university.

he says no credit will likely demand concessions from the us for the return of a soldier. every 2 or 3 years, you've got some guys that are like, runs across a bridge somewhere. and these kinds of things happen. you get to weird people who have weird ideas about north korea, you know, they, they reach much twitter or whatever. they, they watch the youtube videos and they run in the basement sort of a running problem for awhile. and in fact, the us state department advises american citizens not to travel to north korea anymore. i went to north korea myself about 10 years ago and i will not go back at this point. i think it's too dangerous. i live here in south korea and this is something most of the americans i know here wouldn't go. i think there's a kind of general interest right this it, there is kind of a strange interest to see what north korea is like, but i think it's pretty why the understood now that is too risky. so with this guy, we just don't know if i had to guess has probably got some kind of mental agents or something like that or read some really weird stuff or something on social media. but there are ways that us and north korea talked to each other through the u. n. and stuff like that and through 3rd parties and stuff like that. and my guess is right. and again, you know, we don't know all of this stuff, so close or is, but i,

my guess is right now the defense department is sort of like talking to the north koreans through various count or parties past the chinese or something like that. trying to find out, 1st of all, what happens like, like is this guy, okay? and these easy mentally ill and like what is his deal? cuz it's pretty bizarre. they were like, run across the border like that. right? so i think there's gonna be some of that and then basically we're gonna have to find out what the north koreans one and again, my guess is, and i was going to bring it back north of the north considering these kinds of people for like 6 months or something like that and extracting much of concessions . they put them on tv and it talking about how, you know, they're just eating american colonialist or something like that. but they've actually, they sort of get, they don't get rotated back and there's some kind of swap. you know, some, you know, money or something like that on the side. the you, courtney and officials say that the black sea pulse of odessa is come on the russian attack for the 2nd noise in arrived. the regional government says that ad defend systems we engage to repel vs strikes. the post is

a key ruse for you. credit is green, exports the latest, the tags come off to most guy pledge retaliation. following a last on the cut, cut straight bridge. think he russia to crime you. residents happen just to stay in shelters. father and ukraine's a specials, intensifying is by sides trying to break through. the front lines keeps as much as a messing 100000 soldiers on around 900 times. i said big visited one town to gauge how residents the coping. there's an eerie emptiness sense of ask. the gloss is overgrown straight animals, one to the streets, the building the intact shelves of what they were before the will. sizes of people used to live here. few remain. what's what this meant tells us we receive a tribute every day they find more test. i'm fed up with a level where we hear the band and 4 seconds, 3 seconds to say ok then to, despite the sounds of the shelves firing and landing people gather to enjoy what

they can of the summer days. solution when that insides it through a here, what else would would be? we saw the 2 cloud drives from 2 locations, mushroom shape. nobody was injured. it was just very powerful and everything. sure . it's the list of everyday things that people hold onto here. the less douglas the balloon chip, you have a small gas stove and a small canister. that's how i heat the water. i put the coffee, sugar and some special spices. send them in and has a good smile to it says she doesn't want to leave, but i'm sorry, that's what we've done both the it is when people go to other parts of ukraine, the don't see the war. they say you're from dumbass is all happened because of you go back to don't bass. why don't you flee elsewhere? but where should we sleep? some hostile, i live in my own slot, my own. from the edge of time, you can see this a chance. russian forces to control over to in july, last year. everything in between is considered too dangerous to visit. the playground is empty. there are no children left and just like that. the often in

pieces shifted. going 5 can be heard, just ukrainian soldiers attempt to shoot down a drone when you visit these kinds of villages along the front line. you ask yourself what's left of these places? if the position on a map, i may hold some strategic significance. but most of the buildings have either been destroyed or damaged and most people have left and, and that gives you an idea of what this place is going through. there's a category strikes and there's drones of india and recon leave until there's a lot of in the bottles. because we don't want to become a target. i said vague, i just data. so risk, eastern ukraine. united states has pledged $250000000.00 in a to ukraine's farm is to help them continue exporting grain. also,

russia pull down to have a key agreement. the head of the us agency for international development, small power made the announcement and the credit in full city off or desa. she said the funds will help farm is fine alternative routes. russia pulled out of the black sea going to a monday. it had and showed the safety if we add all the exports from ukrainian ports. this is a reckless decision that will have profound human consequences. and is just another example of russian callousness and disregard for human lives and livelihoods. not only here in ukraine, but all around the world. still ahead on al jazeera and look at what's driving a tax on trucks on south africa's highways. last revival relations between cuba and russia. as most go bustles against economic concentration, the

high we have little hot weather across the middle east. no great surprise, badly, a cloud in the sky one or 2 shelves over towards the black sea. the costs b as a tried to break the heat, but not really making any significant progress. temperatures and 40 cells just put the mask into the fault, is a fact that i'd also for q right here and died hot around 47 celsius, especially to thursday. very much a case of spoke the difference. so more of a chevy. right. and there's some way to whether that just pushing into eastern parts of i've got to stop this done. little deposit pockets dancing, some raw the heavy right over the next few days. but otherwise, hausten try somebody it up hot and dry sounds it up across northern africa at present 43 celsius into this on wednesday afternoon. that's a for monday we got to $48.00 degrees celsius. so i'm 5 degrees on mondays value.

i'm with looking to touch 40 celsius, here was a go on is through with the state tripoli, warming up at that stage. very hot and dry, close northern past. plenty of showers there across central africa. perhaps not as widespread as they should be. for the time, if you run across into the tropic, southern africa, it is generally drive you have got some shabby right, making his way into the west and take sweeping through the eastern type saying some showers. i'm not what the weather pushing into mozambique the, the unmanned aerial vehicles deputy, but increasingly familiar tools on the modern battlefield with the conflict and ukraine, sparking the 1st full scale drone boy and pointing to a coming age of artificial intelligence on, on them as weapons. people in power examines the ethical questions around this proliferating technology and whether it poses a distributed threat. drones and the future of war on

a jersey to the the you're watching out as a reminder, thought top stories, the ssl a us soldier is a north korean custody. alt, illegally crossing the border from south korea. soldier identified as travis king was taking costs and it took the, the mid of tri side which separates the $2.00 chris declining officials say the black sea full to for the test that has come on the russian attack for the 2nd nice in a row. the regional governor says that a defense systems were engaged to pelvis as strikes us to t phoenix price. it broke

a record set in any home century. a guy of 19 consecutive days of temperature is above 43 degrees celsius. july is close to assessing a new record at the office as an accorded gladly to hundreds of 5 largest increase of trying to stop a fast moving wall. find north west of the capital athens. the fight in the mando region has destroyed homes on vehicles moving 300 people have been evacuated. it began on monday and has torn through surrounding forest. israel's blockade imposed on garza has made a heat wave, especially difficult to a duel the temperatures of hips, $38.00 degrees and residents are experiencing pow codes for as much as 12 hours a day. more than 2300000 people live in the palace standing in place with 16 years of israel's land. air and sea blockade has severely affected the economy and the infrastructure. the temperature is the hottest. we've experienced. we're

unable to work. no, i had the head out of the book to but yeah, it's how we've, how you community it. so you move so much to what we really call and scanned it. have the model that we've never experienced this. we're used to hot temperatures, but this is unprecedented. it feels like a raging fire. the conflict and see dawn now and it's full month, is raging on with no and in size, and the 17 cease fires have been broken with all of them. failings and the blood shed fussing between the army and its rival power ministry group. the rapids support forces has in fact escalated now new efforts to being made in saudi arabia to reach novices. 5 representatives from $2.00 warring sides are in jetta to potentially regime in direct tooks. at least 3000 people have been killed so far on the conflict is also forced 3000000 from their homes. in the past week alone,

any 200000 people were displaced within suit on the on says nearly 300000 have fled to neighboring child, which is struggling to cope with a number of refugees. sondra sarah has been speaking to the un deputies. actually general, i mean, and we'll have met who is in charge. she's called for an international support to prevent the humanitarian catastrophe. there are 2 very big messages here. one, the international community needs to do more to help the people of child with the generosity in the, to monitor in crisis. that's the 1st message because we need to save lives, especially children and the women. the 2nd message, of course, is to the leaders who are in the war, and so them the that needs to stop because the consequences of that what we're seeing all around us and these people do not deserve that. of the efforts of the be made of the african union with god with the un is really to try to get us the file to get a humanitarian cordele and tickets dialogue so that we can have peace. we believe

that the security situation once they come in to chat is being addressed. it is the security situation when they are slipping from them. and the number of check points, the number of violence cases against women. this is what we have to plead with the authorities and so done that this needs to stop everybody. everybody in a call 6 must be held to account. this cannot be allowed to go on attended to the must be accountability. but you know, while we are taking stock of those atrocities, we must end, we must end the war. we must take care of those who are fleeing and all of those things to be done. at the same time. south africa's government has deployed armed forces to areas with dozens of trucks of incense on fire, submit a minute has a story to move in 20 to at 7 city lights in the provinces in south africa. nearly half of them in the province of man is quoting a dash cam, throwing fuel in

a truck before sitting. it's a light and jumping out the truck so often used to block roads will start to use if not established, who is behind the attacks. and whether they're connected with high unemployment, the hiring, the foreign truck is, is fueling tensions. the 1st motive was the phone and diverse, that's when they 1st started out, then goes in thousands and taken keys of that's. that's was because a full and dive is because they say i have to employees that advocate dollars. but now it looks to be like big starting the companies because they say, okay, listen, last week we've been 20 bucks. now at your payments, as i say we came probably might then drive those. you have to employ them for the salary. and with this conditions, and those are risk to the suspect to, to be affiliated with the old truck drivers foundational. a t d f by we've said they want to more south africans hired, but they've denied any involvement the governments, according to austin economic sabotage, 2 years ago. so that because economy lost billions of dollars following riots

linked to the jailing of former president, jacob luma. and its worried these attacks move the stuff tensions in the country with a 3rd of the population out of work may be part of you. it's a truck owners association of south africa says they already losing revenue. but no, because of a, you know, this escalating violence and the escalating issues that can not be dissolved over the, i'll put you back to the government. it affects all public tests and the account number is not going. but in the extra infect, is that a, we really have to, you know, finalize this data and make sure that to you, i sort of can like save us. the association says 5 years ago, foreigners made up 90 percent of truck drivers. it since dropped to marginally to between 70 and 80 percent roles. but as long as these attacks continue, people that concern the economy will suffer and their jobs and even their lives to

be lost in what's becoming any recently dangerous industry. for me, the 202 syrian soldiers has been injured off to israel low and to miss all the tags. according to syrian state television, military positions near the airport, outside the capped of damascus were targeted themselves were reportedly launched from the occupied golden heights. some of them were intercepted by the syrian ad, defend system rights group, say it is the 20 of such is riley attack on syria this year. it is believe that as are often targets iranian interest in syria as well. and 60 us wide scripts are asking politicians to possible which would require the government to investigate the matter. if out is there a jealous sharina blocked me. the last it to congress came on the day of the is ready president's visit to washington. the justice for 3 nights was introduced in may, but it's unlikely to pos and the republican controlled house probably sitting in

american john. this was faith way, shots on his ready forces last year for reporting on a rate in jeanine in the occupied west. frank started to cuba now with the caribbean on a nation is strengthening relations with russia. the 2 countries have ties stretching back to soviet times. now with wash will deliveries on the rise. cuba is grunting russian businesses unprecedented concessions from have on a at augusta and reports on a relationship blooming in a time of towering over the city. the soviet embassy in havana was opened in the 1980s. the hype point of cuban soviet relations often saw it as integrated human russian relations hit rock bottom before slowly reviving over the last 2 decades. but does this pull the cuban diplomat points out? recently, the relationship is become much stronger. if you take the speeches and the already

got a permanency ation, so then years ago, i think you're old gasoline self said we have 3 strategic allies, the china that as well. i and the i didn't mention russian yet. if you say that they why are these, he was for the guy rush, i will come into 1st like the catalyst, the war in ukraine rush. there's nothing in need of allies hamden by west and sanctions, and these trading partners and places to invest to gamble bodies, both nations solution cool about shift and just sanctions imposed on them that originated from the same. and i mean, the game keep em by and have honest position on the war and ukraine has shifted over time. that 1st is that the nato expansion formed to the backdrop to the conflict. but it opposed the use of force, a reference to russia's invasion conventions at the you and the cube has consistently have stain from condemning invasion while the us and it's now to

allies have rallied around you prior as what was progress. cuba, as to when it's locked in with russia. cuban presidents miguel desk, analogous night, even if it is countries unconditional support to russia's clash with the west. meanwhile, russia is providing q, but with unprecedented economic support. tre, between the 2 countries tripled last year and is up again this year, mostly russian oil deliveries, which are helping to keep the lights on. i'm in a flurry of fits by senior officials. this is chief, has given russian companies, long term land concessions and tax breaks their phone. growth will be trying to do nothing and no one can stop the economic commercial financial incorporates of relationship between the government so fresh on q. russia has announced investments and keeping hotels, nickel and the dilapidated sugar industry off during the normalization successive us administrations have lost the island with sanctions over the last 6 years with its economy and strides keywords looking to help, what edward can find it,

the rest and worship docked and had on the last week to the mill. the us, let's go. right. that's trying to present cuba as a national security threat of a closer relationship forged by world events makes any refreshments with us. even trickier had augusta and i was just there around a the faces out is there. are these your top stories? the city of phoenix broke a record set nearly half a century ago of 19 consecutive days of temperatures above.