but as natasha name reports from the village in basra, many say it's already too late. people living in the village of butler take visitors here. they say gas flaring from oil production decimated their generations old palm trees leaving behind nothing but trunks. when we met the village elders, they said every one, know someone who is diagnosed with or who has died from cancer. so i know i already have cancer and only god helps me. we continue to be worried about our families and loved ones. the bus for health department in southern iraq says the pollution from oil production is making people and animals in the area sick. the rocky high commission for human rights says, due to the high rate of cancer in basra, it's demanding the government work with oil companies to combat pollution. that is, will stop all of the for 6 or 7 years every 2 years. there is some charlene political, german security, german gas is long term investment. it needs some stuff and it needs some cash come, which meant the world bank ranks. iraq, number 2 behind russia when it comes to gas flaring,

where i made a bill summit was murdered in basra in january. the prominent television journalist and father of 3 young children was driving home after covering an anti government protest. his photographer was also killed. the lot of the top of our lives are in danger. we could be killed at any 2nd. there is no security, there is no government just on grooves and political parties for men have been arrested in connection with the murders. no trial date has been set in iraq. abdul some ads case is a rare instance where arrests have been made. the rocky high commission for human rights says since anti government protest began in 201935 journalists and activists have been murdered, and there have been 82 assassination attempts. no one has been convicted. armed groups are widely suspected with elections due in october. the commission believes the assassinations will increase a negative non legal, illegal competition. and if we can say it is criminal competition between the traditional parties and the new a newly formed one. so everyone trying to, to

streets and bought a dead and many other iraqi cities, including an adjust caribella and the 3 year old basra was good and in some areas they blocked the streets and set fire on a tires to protest against the frequent power outages. in many provinces in iraq, and this comes after a call from the she had political and religious leader of a sudden now following that is ignatius of the electricity minister. last to his day, the government of prime minister most of us called me and said the formation of a crisis committee to deal with this problem and try to find solution to this power outage problem. now this tuition is getting worse, especially with these summer months as the temperature is exceeding 56 years decrease in many areas and families here are suffering a lot. we speak to families, they tell us that the, in many cases, people cannot sleep at night. and especially those have students. students have exams these days and many families cannot afford to buy power generating machines now above dad or iraq is relying on gas coming from iran. iran has decreased. it's got supplies to iraq from

you will recall, in the second half of the second year of the surge in the battles of sadr city and basra and others. but they were allowed to reassemble and get back on the streets when the threat of isis loomed large in iraq. and they have never left the street since then. and they are now much more heavily equipped and armed with weapons provided by iran. and they have been shooting rockets and mortars and flying drones at our forces and only a few thousand of them left there in a variety of bases around the country, including in the kurdish region where they have been struck, and so this had to happen, i think. the question is, does this exacerbate the presence of the u.s. forces for the iraqi government that doesn't like the iranian-supported militia, but they are a reality? and they are literally part of the overall forces of iraq. in fact, there was just a huge parade of them in honor of them and what they had done. that's the political dynamic of this. and we have to be very careful not to stress that over much, which is undoubtedly one reason that probably two of the strikes were

in iraq, protests have erupted in basra, baghdad, and other cities as widespread power outages darkenedd cut off water supplies to millions of people, even as temperatures topped 120 degrees fahrenheit. in the gulf of mexico, an underwater natural gas pipeline near an oil platform ruptured off the coast of the yucatÁn peninsula on friday, creating a massive circular inferno on the surface of the ocean that was widely described as an eye of fire. mexico's state-owned oil company pemex said it took fire crews about five hours to extinguish the flames. the fossil fuel disaster ce on the same day that an explosion and fire at romania's largest oil refinery killed one person and injurefive oths. meanwhile, in thailand, an explosion at a chemical factory in the outskirts of bangkok killed one person and left at least 33 others injured on monday. thai officials evacuated thousands of people from a three-mile radius of the plant, which housed about 50 metric tons of hazardous chemicals. in tennessee, environmental activists are celebrating the cancellation of the byhalia connection pipeline, wh

it affected millions from baghdad south to basra. at friday prayers, men hid under parasols and carried signs blaming the government. officials did not confirm reports that militants cut a major transmission line. back in this country, an independent review commission formally recommended that outside prosecutors-- not military commanders-- handle sexual assault cases. president biden endorsed the proposal. he did not address calls in congress for outside prosecutors to handle all major crimes in the military. and, on wall street today: three major indexes all hit record closes, helped by the june jobs report. the dow jones industrial average gained 152 points to finish at 34,786. the nasdaq rose 117 points. and, the s&p 500 added 32. still to come on the "newshour," on the ground in afghanistan as the u.s. military leaves after 20 years of war; the u.s. surgeon general discusses the threat of new covid variants and the vaccination effort; widespread drought raises concerns of another dangerous fire season for the western u.s. plus m