tony tony chang, reports a find a jet screams along the border in northern thailand. the end of june has happened several times this year. and children know the drill, hiding in shelters until the skies a clear. but the jets are aiming their guns to myanmar. ah, blue conflict on the border is decades old. the air war is new. since last she has qu, the gender is deployed, attack helicopters, and fighter jets against armed rebels, the posing its rule. out through underground light. one day jack, come, ah, we get a hides. i don't really care about a that. is that a liam place, or is that. 6 me place that they just bought everywhere. they just suit the rock at that and everywhere the gesture, the mashing guy like everywhere. ah, the attacks have been relentless and there's little the rebels can do there like machine guns and small arms and no match for the aerial bombardment. and there's one plane, they fear more than any other error, air play, attack, incur any they used at that new blue collar, when yeah, 130, the yak, 130. the russian to see to jeff was sometimes descr

tony, thanks very much indeed. tony chang outside the parliament in bangkok, but still ahead on al jazeera, the neat recordings that are shifting iraq's political deadlock to social media. ah hello, there was got in north america and it's all about the dangerous heat that's expected to continue across many parts of the u. s. until the end of the month we have got heat. emergency is out for washington d. c. as the heat builds along that east coast warnings and advisory as well, a call from central and southern areas. now we could see some records challenged in the north east as that heat spreads its way towards those states. but temperatures are also set to pick up in the northwest along the west coast as well for places like san francisco. now we have got some relief in the form of shouting storms across the 4 corners states west, whether as well expected across a midwest, a rash of severe storms pushing their way across the great lakes. we are expecting temperatures to tumble for the likes of chicago and toronto, but still a

tony, thanks very much. indeed. tony chang in bangkok, ships laden with wheat, could finally be leaving ukrainian ports after moscow and cave agreed a deal 20000000 tons of grain from last year's harvest. her said to be ready to go and bag could me the world's food shortage made start to ease. the deal was broken by turkey and the united nations said m casias has more from the stumble. ukraine and russia have finally reached an agreement to ship millions of tons of grain and fertilizer to the rest of the world. he and secretary general antonia gutierrez, the architect of the deal has praised the 2 countries for setting aside their differences and let there be no doubt. this is an agreement for the wolves. it will bring relief for developing countries on the edge of bankruptcy. and the most vulnerable people on the edge of famine, the initiative we just signed opens up bests for significant volumes of commercial food exports from city ki, ukrainian, born in the black sea. or there sir, shavon asks, and usually the shipment of g

tony chang joins us live now from bangkok. tony, so what more details are emerging about these executions? well isn't details very sparse. at the moment the news was announced in official myanmar media. early this morning at about 8 a. m local time. just with a short notice saying that these executions had been carried out in the last couple of days, no specific date. given 2 of these were very prominent. one, a 1909 pro democracy activist code jimmy. he had been in jail for much of the ninety's and had emerged since the military coup as a very much pro democracy activists. the other prominent m p a member of anson, so cheese party that they were all 4 men were charged on the counter terrorism acts again. they had been sentenced to death in january. but we haven't seen any executions in miramar since 1989. so the move to actually carry out the sentence a think a big shock and, and i think a surprise that in the mail mars military gender has decided to go so far. particularly with these 2 more prominent activists who were really ver

tony chang joins us live now from bangkok. so what more details were merging tony o we and very few, frankly, we understand these executions took place at some time over the weekend. according to the state media release that came early this morning. first thing miramar, time amongst the 4 men. were 2 very prominent pro democracy activists, one co jimmy who had been sentenced to jail for over a decade in the 19 ninety's, protesting the military gentle. then he had been an active advocate of democracy over the past decade. and since 2020 one's military coup, the other a pure zig zag, tore a very prominent and l d. politician. he previously had a career as a hip hop artist and he was arrested and accused. there were all 4 men accused on under counter terrorism laws. but these are the 1st executions inside mere mar since 1989. and while the mayor, my has always had the death penalty on the books, i think the assumption was that it was to be used more as a threat than a reality. the fact that we've seen these executions taking place and that there are dozens more pro de

could speak to tony chang for more on that story. who joined us from bangkok, tony, so few had expected that these executions would actually be carried out. what's the fall out? likely to be well shook. i think we spoken to activists inside mamma, who said they 1st heard about it this morning on social media just after the announcement was made on state media. i think the assumption was for many people that, that there would be more appeals process is that a lot of these, these, these men would be kept in jail probably in very brutal conditions, but they wouldn't actually be executed. that hasn't happened since 1989 other people have been sentenced to death in the past, but again, have been left sitting in jail for long periods of time. so it has come as a shock. one of the activists we spoke to said that he hopes that these men wouldn't be mon, by people, but people would use this as a motivation to reinvigorate the protest movement since that military coup in february, 2021. we have seen an awful lot of process peaceful process in the city initially in recent mont

tony chang's joining us live now from tokyo. let's talk about what's been happening today. tony. talk us through what's been going on well we so that private funeral taking place inside the gigi temple. there were thousands of people outside. it was very clear that they were to remain outside. there was a very respectful sense, not a lot of noise being made. a lot of people had come with flowers that they were being allowed to to lay it respects as a tribute, the chin up a lung corner. but then when those proceedings had been completed for the funeral, cortez emerged, and there was a sport, a spontaneous outbreak of applause. some of the mourners crying out final farewells to shins obey before the his body in the house went off on that tour of the administrative heart of tokyo. at some past some of those places that he had known so well. that finishing up the prime minister's office way, he had sat for longer than any prime minister in japanese history as it made one final po before taking his body away. tony, i refer to the investigation that was go, had been going on. and of co

tony fauci denied under oath had ever conducted research in wuhan. here tony fauci ill mailing subordinates with wuhan's who was the person conducting infamous coronavirus is the may have changed the global order. they may have caused this pandemic and put china ahead of the united states. now around the same time the director of the nih now completely discredited china berry the lab leak theory. one of his underlings summing and age could do to help put down is very destructive conspiracy." now keep in mind the very same time is running around telling of her be a christian he was. all the interviews with the evangelical websites summing to listen what tonyying. believe the u.s. government. not the lab leak theory sets ridiculous get them back. turns out he was lying. none of this made it into one half page report to joe biden. neither did the news that the wuhan labs spent hundreds of millions of dollars on their filtration systems surely after the pandemic began. really? on september 16 at 2193 months after the first case of cova 19 the wuhan lab agreed to spend $669 on a central air conditioning meditation project. 606 million that's a lot. in the face of all of this evidence which is overwhelming world health organizations of all places is demanding a new investigation into the origins of covid. keep in mind w.h.o. lab investigation by making peter the soul u.s. investor. officials in this country for reasons we can understand are still resisting efforts to find out what was happening at the wuhan lab which by the way the support of u.s. taxpayers. now what is the wuhan lab up to now? wuhan lab there now working on monkeypox viruses.

tony and debra's 23 year old son, caleb, were called to testify, against his father. the usual blank stare on tony's courtroom face changed as his son recalled how his father blamed melissa for the divorce. >> did he tell you that it was melissa's fault? >> he believed that she had a parts and it, yes. >> did he tell you that he was mad at melissa about this? >> yeah he was mad about the whole situation. >> oh, and there was one more thing. remember melissa's jacket the one found in her suv? tests showed tony'slieved tony went his nose with it after being pepper sprayed. >> the odds of finding an unrelated individual with a peripheral are rarer than one and 30 billion. >> you could have better evidence if you had a movie of him killing her. >> right. >> the defense had been dealt a poor hand to play. but attorney bruce fletcher chipped away at each state witness. starting with tony's housemate. the guy with the scrubbing away pepper's spray story. the defense said he had 250,000 reasons to make history up. >> there was a reward offered. >> yes. >> and who offered that reward? >> scott rothstein. >> and how much was the reward in the case? >> $251,000. >> ironically, he never got the reward. the collapse of rothstein's ponzi scheme put an end to that. and as for the prosecution's theory of motive, fletcher argued it was as thin as it was nonsensical. >> you would think that if you were so enraged that your wife were doing this, that you wanted to harm her, and not someone else. >> as for debr

tony. cody took the deal. and, just as suddenly changed his mind. >> instead, cody decided to take's chances in court. but just one day later, the da offered tony a deal. not the same deal. better. i've tonyth a chance of parole after just 18 years. by then, tony would be just 36. and, tony offered a chance to save her own skin by throwing cody under the bus said, yes. she signed the plea papers, right away. >> she said, you know what, enough is enough. the truth needs to be told and i am going to tell. >> so, on a chilly january day, tony was led from her jail cell to an office at the tourist apartment to tell her story. , and put her hand on the bible and promised to tell the truth. >> i am a person to tell the truth, and deep down i want people to know the truth because i knew cody wasn't going to come forward. >>, and for the next three and a half hours, tony told a whole new story about how cody was upset with nikki, how he hated the sound of her voice, that things were building up. then, the tell of the story that did not change, the afternoon of march 3rd with that texan cody. that over 100 to exchange that day. they fully recovered -- but, this one said tony would burn in her memo