e. u. e commission chief or serve on the line makes the price trip to give back to president. brought him is the lens he wants. he also needs progress of getting more weapons to his troops class marching to stop the killing. thousands during protest across the united states, demanding tighter gun control and an end to mass shooting. president joe biden urges the protesters to keep logic. and it's back to mass testing and locked out for millions and tyna restrictions are re imposed. as coven 19 cases emerge in shanghai and beijing. ah, i rena muhammad, welcome to the program. the european union is promising a rapid assessment of ukraine's membership application. commission chief as lavonne delight, made a surprise visit to give your cranes that both the has says the methodist request to join back in march. brussels will announce is decision next week. as we do with the welcome, with momentum seemingly shifting and moscow's faber, ukrainian present was clearly pleased to see ursula on the lion again top of their agenda, ukraine's e u membership bid. the european commission chief is promising progress soon was a wednesday, and the president of the european commission were sula, founder lang. as you know, the commission is currently preparing the recommendations of so called opinion for the member states. we have been working day and night on this assessment and i promised to you in april the of a lot of you that we will be tirelessly working on it. so the discussions today will enable us to finalize our assessment by the end of next week. that is, zalinski is keen to stress that it's not just ukraine's fake the on the line. li, are we through that, as was woman, are suddenly a decisive moment. not only for ukraine and the european union, but for the entire european continent, summers that has now decide the future of united europe, certainly. and whether there will be a future told him severely with the ukraine to reach that hoped for european future . it's defenders will have to hang on in the face of russia's o

e u. e commission chief us live on the line, makes the price trip to queue, but president of not a mere lensky wants. he also needs progress on getting more weapons to his troops. plus, marching to stop the killing thousands joint protests across the united states, demanding tight gun control and an end to mass shooting. president joe biden urges the protest is to keep marching. and it's back to mass testing and locked outs for millions and tyna restrictions are re imposed. as new coven 19 cases emerge in shanghai ads, beijing. ah, i bring him a hobbit welcome to the program. the european union is promising a rapid assessment of ukraine's membership application commission chief as lavonne de la made a surprise visit to give it crane submitted its request to join back in march. brussels will allows is decision next week. as to me, doing a welcome plea with momentum, seemingly shifting and moscow's favour. ukrainian present was clearly pleased to see us sheila, on the lion again top of their agenda, ukraine's e u membership bid. the european commission chief is promising progress soon. zalinski and the president of the ripping commission. ursula funder lang. as you know, the commission is currently preparing the recommendations of so called opinion for the u. member states. we have been working day and night on this assessment and i promised to you on a priority of a lot. hm. yeah. that we will be tirelessly working on it. so the discussions today will enable us to finalize our assessment by the end of next week. is that the lensky is keen to stress, that it's not just ukraine's fake on the line. lee, what are we through? that was one woman suddenly, a decisive moment. not only for ukraine and the european union, but for the entire european continent, summers that was now decide the future of united europe, certainly, and whether there will be a future talk himself early with the ukraine to reach that hoped for european future. it's defenders will have to hang on in the face of russia's over

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the u been commissions recommending ukraine and moldova as candidates for e. u membership. all 27 e u leaders could vote to grant the country's candidate status as early as next week, but achieving full membership could take several years following negotiations and reforms. yes, president joe biden says he will not meet saudi arabia's crime prince one on one during his visit next month. biden has been facing criticism after the white house announced his trip to re out democratic republic of congo has limited border crossings with rwanda after congress. soldier was killed. lawanda says he'd cross the border from will city groman. he was shot dead after opening fire on police officers and civilians. somali as government says that 70 all shall bob fighters, including 3 foreigners, have been killed after the army foiled. what it says was an attempt to tell her attack in the region of goggle dude. somali, his information minister says a man was intending to conduct a suicide bomb attack and has been arrested. at least one person in india is being killed and several others have been injur

e. u is also committed to moving away from fossil fuels. at the signing ceremony in cairo, the e u commission president suggested there was long term interest in partnering with countries to its south and east. it is for us, very important also to look forward into the new forms of energy. and these are, of course, the renewable energies. and here i must say you are in a very lucky position as you have the resources that are necessary for renewable energy in abundance. the sun, the wind. so these will be the energy of the future and the demand will be enormous . israeli gas is sent to cairo through the arab gas pipeline. it was designed to pump gas the other way from egypt to jordan, syria, and lebanon. but egypt uses its own gas now, but domestic needs. egypt wants to become a regional hub for the gas trade. and israel can help that happen. but it'll be a couple of years before your a p and start using significant amounts of israeli gas as there are challenges and increasing production capacity to cope with the new demand. bernard smith, algebra western, the u. k says it will find any legal

e u membership. we do not need alternatives to e u membership. we do not need these compromises. while the president of the european commission continues to be encouraging, it is our moral duty to make it possible that they join our european union and that we paid the path towards our union. hers is becoming a lonely voice. fewer than a 3rd of you members support ukraine's bid to be granted candidate status unconditionally. in the immediate future, the majority a hesitant across the block politicians have even started to squirm. when asked about he abs rapid candidacy status having to admit that the chances are slim because protest kiners of the assertion process is not a matter of a few months or few years. the fact that there are no short cuts on the way into the e. u is also a duty of fairness to the 6 western balkan countries on metallic alford. you will cry in at. we cannot flam the door in ukraine's face. now, it's not enough to say you belong to europe. we need to say you belong to. the ear does look and it won't be a fast accession process. there can't be any shortcuts or put me medicine. but even if we were to grant

well rebecca, the e u commission chief or sla funder line, is in kia to discuss a possible route road ma'am for e membership for ukraine. but there are quite a few hurdles for ukraine are there? there are a, you know, you, ukraine applied for that a membership status of 4 days into this war that was met with the, with war, from the european community as lavonda line at the time saying ukraine is one of us and we want to bring them into the fault, but that it will take time and i think that's the message that she re iterate on this visit at her 2nd visit to ukraine, since the war broke out. and she is going to likely temper expectations from president to lead. he has been pushing for a fast ascension into the a you. but of course, we know from previous applications of other other countries trying to get into the you that this can take years if not decades. and the e, you are really worried about looking like they're getting favoritism to ukraine by speeding up any process that might upset other countries, particularly in the west balkans have been trying for many years to join the a you. so while

the european commissions recommending ukraine and moldova as candidates for e e. u membership, all 27 e u leaders could vote to grant the countries candidate status as early as next week, but achieving full membership to take several years. ecuador, as president, has declared a state of emergency in 3 provinces because of ongoing protests. the protest as are mostly indigenous people live, set up road blockades, and several states that demand in cuts to fuel prices and a temporary ban on debt tree payments for small farmers. some money, as government says and $70.00 all shall bob fighters, including 3 foreigners of be killed after the army foiled. what it says was an attempt to tell her attack him on his information minister says a man was intending to conduct a suicide bomb attack and has been arrested him again. democratic republic of congo has limited border crossings with rwanda after a congolese soldier was killed. lawanda says he'd cross the border from the city of gorman. he was shot dead after opening fire or police officers and civilians. at least one person

e. u is also committed to moving away from fossil fuels. at the signing ceremony in cairo, the e u commission president suggested there was long term interest in partnering with countries to its south and east. it is for us, very important also to look forward into the new forms of energy. and these are, of course, the renewable energies. and here i must say you are in a very lucky position as you have the resources that are necessary for renewable energy in abundance. the sun, the wind. so these will be the energy of the future and the demand will be enormous . israeli gas is sent to cairo through the arab gas pipeline. it was designed to pump gas the other way from egypt to jordan, syria, and lebanon. but egypt uses its own gas now, but domestic needs. egypt wants to become a regional hub for the gas trade. and israel can help that happen, but it'll be a couple of years before your a p and start using significant amounts of israeli gas as there are challenges and increasing production capacity to cope with the new demand. bernard smith al jazeera west jerusalem. the u. k says it will 5, any legal challenges against its plan to send asylum seekers through under the 1st . the filtration flight from tuesday did not get off the ground after last minute intervention by the european court human rights. but the u. k. home secretary for the patel says the government will not be deterred well, this decision by the stress, the court to intervene was disappointed and surprising, given the repeated and considered judgments to the country in our domestic court. we remain committed to this policy. these repeated legal barriers. all madam deputy speaker, very similar to those that we experience with all other removal flies. and we believe that will fully compliant without domestic and international obligations and preparations for off each flight from the next flights of already begun. optimistic course of the view that the flight could go ahead with her policy. she knows this is on we're both on ethnical and won't stop the criminal gangs. but yet she still went ahead and spend half a 1000000 pounds, chattering a plane. she never expected to fly or from she still went ahead and wrote a 120000000 pound cheque to rwanda, with a promise of more to come. and she still went ahead because all she really cares about is picking fights and finding someone else to play. the baba has more from london. the government has insisted that term thousands of people will eventually be sent to rewind, where people have crossed the english channel in boats. they insist that their aim is to stop the risk to their lives. and to break the business model of what they call the people smugglers and but pretty, but how actually said something in parliament term just a while ago. and she said that am that people who are coming over by boat are, are, are seeking to jump the q. and she said that, and the government wants to offer legal migration routes to people. but on what she calls the illegal migrants. these desperate people often fleeing war and torture in countries like syria, iraq, afghanistan. she said that am that they are severely curtailing what the government can do for legal migrants. it's a bit of a mess, really lumping lots of different groups of people together. and the critics of the government say that they're doing this simply to generate headlines in the right wing press here. there is some credence to the popularity that they're gaining from this among their own conservative voting base amongst the public. this asylum parties much more evenly split burton the support has actually gone down since april as details emerge of the cost involved. and also who these people are because most people crossing the channel do actually receive asylum in the end. and they are, as i was saying, people who have very strong cases for asylum if they're allowed to make that. here in britain, the european commission is threatening to take the u. k to the european court of justice. the british government wants to scrap a post brags it's agreement on checks on goods arriving in northern ireland. but the, you says there's no legal or political justification for britain unilaterally change in international agreement. so let's called a spade expect this is illegal. the ok bill is extremely damaging to mutual trust and respect between the eel and the u. k. it has created deep uncertainty and cast a shadow over our overall corporation or at the time and respect for international agreements has never been more important. new park has more from london now. the heights of breaks in negotiations. there was perhaps one of the biggest and thought honest elements of focusing on what was going to happen to northern islands. of course, northern on it is a part of the united kingdom, but it borders the republic of ireland, which is an e u. member states. and that border is porous as a result of the good friday agreement which was signed. bringing an end to 30 years of sectarian violence in northern ireland, and is vitally important that board at remains open and free. the solution was essentially a border down the middle of the irish sea, which has the anger's eunice and others in northern ireland. the once the province to be seamlessly part of the rest of the united kingdom. well, a tentative agreement was signed, but now the british government has decided to unilaterally pull out of that and come up with its own rules and regulations as to what should happen. and that has angered the european union. this launched the 3 fold legal challenge. the 1st is the britain has failed to introduce check. so goods going to northern ireland from great britain, has failed to share trade data with the european union and has also failed to introduce inspection post. the concern is that this could indeed escalate birthday to the eu

e u membership. we do not need alternatives to e u membership. we do not need these compromises. while the president of the european commission continues to be encouraging, it is our moral duty to make it possible that they join our european union and that we pave the path towards our union. hers is becoming a lonely voice. fewer than a 3rd of you members support ukraine's bid to be granted candidate status unconditionally. in the immediate future, the majority a hesitant across the block politicians have even started to squirm. when asked about he abs rapid candidacy status having to admit that the chances are slim because protest kiners of the assertion process is not a matter of a few months or few years. the fact that there are no short cuts on the way into the e. u is also a duty of fairness to the 6 western balkan countries on mic like alford, you will come in at we cannot flam the door in ukraine's face. now, it's not enough to say you belong to europe. we need to say you belong to the you does. it won't be a fast accession process. there can't be any shortcuts or quit me immensely. but even if we were to grant that candidate status to morrow, the process which would allow them to join would in reality, take several years a most likely several decades. if would it would we have to be honest. if you say you crane is going to join the you in 6 months or a year or 2, you're lying. i know it's probably in 15 or 20 years, it takes a long time. so why has the tied apparently turned, could it have anything to do with the mountain of criticism towards european leaders coming like quick fire from president sil lensky? there are plenty of other reasons why ukraine isn't in ship shape and bristol fashion when it comes to being an e. u. candidate in 20

e. u is also committed to moving away from fossil fuels. at the signing ceremony in cairo, the e u commission president suggested that was long term interest in partnering with countries to its south and east. it is for us, very important also to look forward into the new forms of energy. and these are, of course, the renewable energies. and here i must say you are in a very lucky position. as you have the resources that are necessary for renewable energy in abundance, the sun, the wind. so these will be the energies of the future and the demand will be enormous. israel gas is sent to cairo through the arab gas pipeline. it was designed to pump gas the other way from egypt to jordan, syria, and lebanon. but egypt uses its own gas. now for domestic needs, egypt wants to become a regional hub for the gas trade. and israel can help that happen. but it'll be a couple of years before your a p and start using significant amounts of israeli gas as there are challenges and increasing production capacity to cope with the new demand. bernard smith, al jazeera western european union, is launched a string of legal challenges against the u. k. of rich moved to scrap part of the post breakfast trade. do you and you k agree? there would be no new checks on goods crossing the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland and you member. but the arrangement is disrupted trade between northern ireland and mainland britain. i think that province, apart from the rest of the u. k, he bunker reports from london. if he thought the battle over brakes it was done and dusted. think again, because a thorny detail in the trade deal signed 18 months ago has come back to hold all involved with the british government's plan. to unilaterally scrap the northern ireland protocol, infuriating brussels. this is illegal. that is why the commission has they decided to take legal action against the united kingdom for not complying with significant parts of the protocol on islands northern us. and in the u. k angus grew to cross the floor of parliament over the government's apparent disregard of international law and know a threat to the trade war with our european friends, triggered by a law breaking prime minister. he talks about a treadmill. he talks about, he talks about a trade, well, what could be more foolish mrs. bigger than a project of actually visitors, trade barriers? i wouldn't call to deny little the line and protocol is designed to prevent a hard border between northern ireland department of the u. k. and the republic of ireland and e u. member that arrangements protected by the good friday agreement that entered 30 years of sectarian violence in the north. but instead, it effectively created a border in the irish sea with goods imported from mainland britain, subject checks, and going duty, this and others who want the province to be a seamless part of the rest of the u. k. the british government hopes it's bill will be a quick fix. it's hoping under the changes to allow goods destined solely for northern ireland to avoid all checks other goods going to the republic of ireland launch, the e. you would go down a separate channel where checks would take place. the problem is the border between northern ireland and the republic of island is open. a porous making it near impossible to know what goods a going where the u. k. government argues the problems arising from the protocol justify scrapping the plan. the youth firmly disagrees challenging the u. k for failing to implement checks on goods entering northern irela

e. u is also committed to moving away from fossil fuels. at the signing ceremony in cairo, the e u commission president suggested there was long term interest in partnering with countries to its south and east. it is for us, very important also to look forward into the new forms of energy. and these are, of course, the renewable energies. and here, i must say you are in a very lucky position. as you have the resources that are necessary for renewable energy in abundance, the sun, the wind. so these will be the energies of the future and the demand will be enormous. israeli gas is sent to cairo through the arab gas pipeline. it was designed to pump gas the other way from egypt to jordan, syria, and lebanon. but egypt uses its own gas. now, but domestic needs, egypt wants to become a regional hub for the gas trade. and israel can help that happen. but it'll be a couple of years before your a p and start using significant amounts of israeli gas as there are challenges and increasing production capacity to cope with the new demand. bernard smith, al jazeera western plains, the more ahead on the news out, including the us announces a new military aid package for ukraine to support its campaign in the dumbass region. a plain being touted as a game changer for long haul travel takes to the skies for the 1st time allan sport find out how much it would take to attempt this world heavyweight boxing champion out of retirement. the u. s. federal reserve has just announced an interest rate increase of north point 75 percent arise, not seen for 28 years. it's meant to reduce demand in the economy and bring down consumer prices at 40 year highs. heidi joe castro is live for us in washington. d . c, so heidi, this was a big increase not seen in decades. right. but this is what was expected, right? you're right, this was an aggressive move and it was widely anticipated in just the last few days . but this is a dramatic move that came together quickly. originally this hike of 3 quarters of a percentage point was not what the board had intended. but rather after last friday's pretty calamitous inflation report, which found at prices increase at 8.6 percent in the month of may, which should outpaced expectations. that's when the federal board came back together and really rethought things and forecast this more aggressive move. and that's what was just announced today. now, what is the big goal of the board here? it is to rein in those those prices without provoking a recession in the u. s. economy, that is what economists have termed a soft landing. it is a big goal here, but as time has gone on and inflation has continued to outpace expectations. the path to that narrow landing, many are saying has narrowed dramatically. so we're waiting to see what the, the chair of the board chair jerome howell says in about 20 minutes time. and what his forecast may be going forward. last time we heard from him in may, he said soft landing was still possible. we'll have to see whether that prediction changes today and how the average americans receiving the prospect now of higher interest rates that you're going to go, you know, pass along to them down the chain, right? right. it's primarily borrowers who will suffer from higher interest rates. people who are looking to get a home mortgage for, for instance, or a bank loan, those interest rates will go up significantly. there's gonna be a new era of higher interest rates in the u. s. however, the more immediate pain that is being felt widespread across the american society is the price that the grocery store or at the gas pump. now prices more than $5.00 a gallon. the us for regular gas, which is again another historic height. and those are the immediate concerns from every day americans that the board here as well as president biden's administration wants to address as soon as possible. all right, thanks so much. hi, the jo, castro, the now the u. k says it will fight any legal challenges against his plan to send a sign in secrets to wander. the 1st, the filtration flight on tuesday did not get off the ground after a last minute intervention by the european court of human rights. but the u. k. home secretary, pretty patel says the government will not be deterred. while the decision by the struck the coup, intervene was disappointed and surprising. given the repeated and considered just moved to the country in our domestic court. we remain committed to this policy. they've repeated legal barriers. all madam deputy speaker, very similar to those that we experience with all of the removal flies. and we believe that we are fully compliant about messic and international obligation and preparations for each flight from the next flights of already begun. optimistic course of the view that the flight could go ahead with her policy. she knows this is unworkable, unethical, and won't stop the criminal gangs. but yet she still went ahead and spend half a 1000000 pounds, chattering a plain. she never expected to fly or from she still went ahead and wrote a 120000000 pounds check to rwanda with a promise of more to come. and she still went ahead because all she really cares about is picking fights and finding someone else to play. and the barbara has more now from london. the government has insisted that term thousands of people will eventually be sent to rewind, where people have crossed the english channel in boats. they insist that their aim is to stop the risk to their lives. and to break the business model of what they call the people smugglers and but pretty much how actually said something in parliament term just a while ago. and she said that am that people who are coming over by boat are, are, are seeking to jump the q. and she said that, and the government wants to offer legal migration routes to people. but on what she calls the illegal migrants. these desperate people often fleeing war and torture in countries like syria, iraq, afghanistan. she said that am that they are severely curtailing what the government can do for legal migrants. it's a bit of a mess, really lumping lots of different groups of people together. and the critics of the government say that they're doing this simply to generate headlines in the right wing press here. there is some credence to the popularity that they're gaining from this, among their own conservative or voting base amongst the public. this asylum parties much more evenly split burton the support has actually gone down since april as details emerge of the cost involved. and also who these people are because most people crossing the channel do actually receive asylum in the end. and they are, as i was saying, people who have very strong cases for asylum if they're allowed to make that. here in britain, the european union has launched a string of legal challenges against the u. k. that's after the government unveiled the bill to scrap a post for exit agreement on checks on goods arriving in northern ireland, the e says the move has no legal or political justification. need fokker reports from london. if he thought the battle over breaks, it was done and dusted. think again, because a thorny detail and the tray deal signed 18 months ago has come back to haunt all involved with the british government plan. to unilaterally scrap the northern ireland protocol, infuriating brussels. this is illegal, that is why the commission has they decided to take legal action against the united kingdom for not complying with significant parts of the protocol on islands, northern islands. and in the u. k angus spilled across the floor of parliament over the government's apparent disregard of international law. i'm now a threat of a trade war with our unity and friends tempered by a law breaking prime minister. he talks about a trade rule. he talks about, he talks about a trade will, what could be more prudish, mrs. bigger than a project of actually visited trade barriers. oh, with in talk to the like a little the

commission building in brussels. people are showing their support for ukraine's e. u candidacy present. vitamins lensky signed an application for membership 4 days after rush a launch its invasion. in february, the e. u executive will make a recommendation next week on whether to grant candidate status, but the process could still take decades. the golden arches are gone, but american sol cheeseburgers are back on the menu in moscow. the 1st mcdonald's restaurant in russia has reopened under a new branding and the ownership. the chain is not called delicious, full stop, and donald channel 850 rush, not a launch following the invasion of ukraine. the new restaurants are owned by a local licensee, but the american company has the option to buy back its locations within 15 years to india and where more properties linked to muslim protesters have been demolished in the state of alter pradesh or 40. say they are only putting down illegal buildings, but why schools have previously accused the governing b. j. p of carrying out demolitions to intimidate muslims. that destruction follows days of riley's against 2 former b j. p. officials for making remarks against the prophet mohammed that many consider of