s. congress from crisis to crisis. heidi jo castro al jazeera washington, australia's prime minister has announced the country will open up its international border starting from november. scott morrison says fully vaccinated australians will be able to return home and travel overseas. as soon as 80 percent vaccination targets are met, the country had bound it citizens from traveling abroad without permission. it is, will be time very soon that will be able to open those international borders again . and that will enable australians who are fully vaccinated and australians and residents of australia who are overseas, who are fully vaccinated, to be able to travel again. and to be able to lift those caps on area ports in states where they have moved into phase c of the program. and, and that is where australia is now preparing to move. this will happen next month. that's when will start happening for next month. if he appears expelling 7th senior united nations officials are for accusing them of meddling and it's internal affairs. they include senior figures with the un children's fun

although critics say it'll take more than accountability to stop the earth from warming. heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington o u. s. president joe biden is struggling to finalize a pair of spending bills. he doesn't yet appear to have the full support of his democratic policy for his $1.00 trillion dollars spending program. a group of politicians as it won't vote on the infrastructure bill without verging on a separate $1.00 trillion dollar bel biden, and made a red trip to the capital to urge congress to back his spending package. these are not about love versus roy or moderate versus progressive or anything else that pitts americans against one. this is about competitiveness versus complacency, competitiveness versus complacency about expanding opportunity, not opportunities that are small leaving the world. or letting the world passes bar . i'll fill of l has worn out from washington dc. we are hurtling towards the mid terms, you know, still a year away, but that's nothing in politics. and what this does is if you can get this pass, now that means the by the time we get to the middl

s. congress from crisis to crisis. heidi jo castro, alger 0, washington, ethiopia, is expelling 7 senior united nations officials, after accusing them of meddling and its internal affairs. they include senior figures with a un children's fund, unicef and office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. they've been given 72 hours to leave the country. yes, it comes a day after the un humanitarian chief criticized the ethiopian government, the choosing it of stopping desperately needed aid from reaching the tig ry region for white house press sector jen sack it says washington won't hesitate to use sanctions against those obstructing humanitarian efforts. the u. s. government condemns in the strongest possible terms. the government of ethiopia is unprecedented action to expel the leadership of all of the united nations organizations involved and i'm going humanitarian operations. we agree with you and leaders. this is a stain on our collective conscience and in mustang, our diplomatic editor james bay's reports now from the united nations. these are some of the most recent pictures fr

the shots, heidi jo, castro, al jazeera, not 20 years since the 1st u. s. s. strikes and missile attacks were carried out against al qaeda and taliban linked targets in afghanistan. since the taliban takeover in august, businesses are still struggling to stay afloat. a severe cash crunch and soaring. food prices are keeping customers away. a solid ben j visited a fly market and cobble with trade is far from rosie. in cobbled famous flower street, there is very little business now. after 20 years of the us led invasion, more than 2 trillion dollars spent thousands of us led coalition and fighters lives lost tens of thousands of afghan civilians killed. the only thing that has remained constant is the suffering of the afghan people. shopkeepers here have been telling us that there is very little business for them these days. since the thought of bon takeover. they say that there has been some semblance of security and safety. but they are not sure what the policy of this new government is going to be on this street. people used to deck up cards, they used to

although critics say it'll take more than accountability to stop the earth from warming. heidi jo castro al jazeera washington. jeff kogan is the director of the climate solutions law at brown university. he says potential investors will be looking at possible lawsuits against the energy companies. the chair woman of the house for a host oversight committee today said at the end of the session, look, i'm going to move forward with subpoenas for some of the documents that we haven't received from the companies. they were asked to voluntarily provide them and they refused to do so. and so the peanut are coming and that starts to set the stage for potential future litigation into investors. of course should be paying attention to this and seeing the kind of risks that the owners of the major oil and gas assets are now facing due to public scrutiny. when one of the congressmen representative recada asked the current ceo of exxon about what a previous ceo of exxon had said. right. and that previous he had said he had denied that there was a link between fossil fuels and global warming. and so

s. congress from crisis to crisis. heidi jo castro, alger 0, washington escal lived to alan fisher at the white house. so no government shocked a, but this battle isn't over. no, the debt limit is still going to be an issue. so what is the debt limit? well, the us bring, spends a lot more than it brings, and therefore is essentially got to give itself a limit on its credit card. and that is what the debt limit is. normally it's done on a bipartisan basis. but this time the republicans are saying to the democrats, new unit, to sort this out in your own. you run the house, you run the center and you have the white house. so why are they doing this? well the thing that that could be a winning issue for them come the midterms in 2022, even though they raised that during donald trump's time 3 times, they can turn and say, look at it, the debt of the country is increasing and it's the democrats to blame, but essentially this is just the u. s. meeting it's obligations. now if the u. s. defaults that could cause serious financial implications for the economy. it's highly unlikely to happen, b

although critics say it'll take more than accountability to stop the earth from warming. heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington. while you as president joe biden is struggling to finalize a pair spending bells, he doesn't yet appear to have the full support of his democratic party for his $1.00 trillion dollars spending program, a group for leticia as at one voters on the infrastructure bill without voting on a separate $1.00 trillion dollar bel biden himself made a ran trip to the capital to urge congress to back his spending package. these are not about love versus roy, or moderate versus progressive, or anything else that pitts america's against one. this is about competitiveness versus complacency, competitiveness versus complacency about expanding opportunity not opportunity didn't and i spoke leading the world or letting the world pass is bar despite still dealing with his domestic agenda, joe biden has now arrived in rome to meet wild leaders at the g 20 summit. he's also due to hold talks with pipe francis, very shortly after the today gathering the u. s. president will then head

although critics say it'll take more than accountability to stop the earth from warming. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington. now jeff kogan, is it like director of the climate solutions lab, brown university, he joins in some from the u. s. state of rhode island. jeff, what did you make of those hearings? thanks for having me. on 1st, i thought it was a big day for the, for executives of the major oil companies to appear before congress. and set the stage for some of the discussion that's going on with the budget bill for more climate action in the united states. and there was a continuing message from the oil executives of the kind of and denial and deflection that we've heard, unfortunately before from those companies. but this is much stronger language from certainly the democrats here, they are in effect saying we have a smoking gun. we have your own research, we have your own denials. you did deny the you did deny climate change. so how much further is this going to go? right, so one of the key moments today i thought was when one of the congressmen, our representative ro, conno

s. congress from crisis to crisis. heidi jo castro, alger 0, washington. you thoughts of us have gathered in the italian city of milan to protest against what they say is in action by well, leaders ahead of climate summit. next month. during the conference in milan on thursday, young delegates give that gave their ideas on how to better address global warming . many have express frustration, say organizes aren't really interested in the input a speech. adam rainy here is live in the land, presumably in the thick of those protests. what are they sang tea? what are they calling for? formula, you may not see it now, but there were several 1000 protesters here. they just departed here, marching towards these pre cop meetings and what they were saying when they were all surrounding us is that there needs to be far more action taken far quicker. they say more money needs to be directed towards poor countries from rich country sets, despite the fact that the wealthy nations hadn't even delivered on their promise to deliver a $100000000000.00 in annual funds to th

although critics say it'll take more than accountability to stop the earth from warming. heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington argentina's wild resident marita. mercury has appeared in court to face espionage charges. mccrae is accused of ordering intelligence agencies to spy on the families of crew members of summer in the st. 4 years ago. the case has been suspended due to the president's obligation to hold military secrets without condition, could be overturned by the countries incumbent leader, rebels and ethiopia, seeger region, say at least 10 people, including 3 children, have been killed in another government, or strike the if you open army says it targeted a facility used by the t gray people's liberation front and the regional capital mikaela. but a spokesman for the rebels, a, a civilian residence was hit. fighting between the t p ela from federal forces has been going on for almost a year. but our shikes have increased in the past week, and russia's capital has shut down for 11 days as the country deals of the record number of new cove 19 cases and related deaths. only 32 per