u. s. national security council spokesperson has said that the u. s. is monitoring developments urging all sides for com, adding, however, that quote, we firmly believe that israel has the right to protect itself. not saying this is official reaction, but this is so far what's coming out of the u. s. it sounds very consistent with what we can expect from the u. s. if they haven't said it yet, they're going to say something like that very soon. i have no doubt there is this constant sense of yes, we call on both sides to tamp down. but we respect israel's right of self defense. which 1st of all is not even an issue here because there was no attack that israel was responding to. it was responding to what it said could have been an attack. we expected there might be an attack. and therefore, we have the right to do anything we want, including violations of international law, such as collective punishment. the failure to distinguish between civilian and military targets, among the, the 8 people at least, that have been killed so far. i was a 5 year old gir

u. s. house speaker nancy pelosi will visit the island during her asia trip. national security council spokesman john kirby says the u. s. will not engage with sabre rattling and then a potential visit is consistent with us policy. a lousy who's been in singapore as part of her tour of asia, has historically been critical of the chinese authorities. beijing consider tie one a part of china. my county has this update from the white house, the spokesman for the national security council, john kirby has addressed the possible a trip of nancy pelosi to tie one. he says this is not unprecedented. pointing out that in 1997 that then speaker newt gingrich visited taiwan without any incident. and even this year some members of congress have travel to the island. but john kirby makes absolutely clear that any decision whether to visit taiwan or not is up to the speaker herself, and any confirmation must come from the speaker or her stop. this is what kirby had to say. our constitution bears a separation of powers. this is well known to the p r c. given our more than 4 decades of diplomatic relations, the

u. s. diplomat. a national security council official at the white house. he joins us on scott from belgium, in turkey. thank you very much for being on this news. our at fis, can we start with what the you can actually achieve through these talks? what does success look like here today? yet? well, thanks for having me with you, i think will the you and has already achieved a great deal in terms of getting this grain export deal. so i think the number one objective of secretary general general is to strengthen that agreement. make sure it keeps going and broaden it. number 2. yeah, i would guess at the secretary general is hoping to work together with president art on as a mediator between keith and moscow. as your reporter was saying, you know, president, our to one was recently and so she to meet president putin. it's entirely possible that the, there was a, an exchange of views there with putin about, well, what might be proposals that could lead to a cease fire. and perhaps out on is bringing those ideas now to leave with presidency lensky and i remind

u. s. is watching china's military exercise is near taiwan very closely. according to the spokesman for the national security council. john kirby says, the air and sea drills using live ammunition are very concerning. u. s. hospital, nancy pelosi visited taiwan on wednesday, sparking an angry response from china. taiwan says chinese naval ships and military plains of moved into its territory. several times. kirby says china's actions won't stop for us operating in the area. united states is prepared for what beijing chooses to do. we will not seek, nor do we want a crisis. at the same time, we will not be deterred from operating in the seas in the skies of the western pacific. consistent with international law. as we have for decades, supporting taiwan and defending a free and open indo pacific residence of a south african township of beaten. a group of men suspected of being illegal miners for you say at least one person's been killed. crowds and coriso and the outskirts of crystal targeted the miners after 8 women were gang raped by armed men last week, please have arrested more than a 120 suspects residency. the

u. s. is watching china's military exercises near tie one very closely and it's very concerned. according to the spokesman for the national security council, he was how speaker nancy pelosi visited tiwana, widens de, sparking an angry response from china. the u. s. is declared the monkey pox outbreak at a public health emergency. an official designation means more money and facilities to fight the virus. but more than 6600 recorder cases in the u. s. so far, but the numbers rising rapidly for covent on former u. s. police officers have been charged over the killing of brianna taylor. a black woman shot dead in our home jovial police rate, had led to mass protests which developed him to the black lives matter movement. a jury in the u. s. has ordered a conspiracy theorist and broadcaster to pay $4100000.00 to the parents of a boy killed in the 2012 sunday school massacre. alex jones repeatedly called the shooting a hoax. 20 children and 6 adults were killed. jones hosted the far right website info was, he was sued for defamation by the parents of 6 year old jesse louis. they said they were harvest and received death threats because of jone

the deadline has expired and the, the nation with the under the u. n. s. c, security council, they are going to have to find a formula that works because this decision needs the consensus vote, which means that they have to all agree on what to do with the ton of on travel band. whether to leave it as it is to reduce it to limited or to totally do away with it. so i think you have not only an issue that has to do with a garrison the telephone and whether they can travel or not. and how many people can trouble, but you also have issues that are being raised between the great powers and between countries around the table who are taking site that one way or the other. if you haven't been able to find the right solution so far, how important is it from members of the taliban to be able to travel in order to hold an negotiations and carry out other diplomatic efforts? well, if you have to turn it on, obviously they will tell you that it's important because they have to go to certain capitals and putting. ready ha, for example, and discuss issues with our diplomats, whether they ha

several media outlets and taiwan are reporting that policy is due to visit national security council spokesman john kirby says, the u. s. will not engage in sabre rattling, and any potential visit is consistent with its policy flows. he's been singapore as part of her tour and has historically been critical of the chinese authorities. china considers tie one part of its territory. rival protests had been held in iraq's capital bagdad, thousands of protesters backing she a politician, looked at asada, are camped inside the rocky parliament. they stormed the building on saturday and are refusing to leave until as an overhaul of the rocks. political system and constitution arrival, group, known as the coordination framework is held counter protests against what it calls a suspicious qu. there's a heavy security presence to keep the 2 sides apart. the 1st time since the war in ukraine began, a ship filled with grain has left the ukrainian port of odessa under deal ukraine and russia signed with the u. n. and turkey. the agreement is meant to alleviate a global food crisis. well, those were the headlines. the news continues

u. s, and a former chief of staff to both the taiwan national security council and foreign minister in miami june teufel drayer, professor of political science at the university of miami and editor of the book taiwan in the area of science when changes and challenges and in beijing henry wheel yeah. when founder and president of the center for china and globalization and director of the chinese people's institute of foreign affairs variable and welcome to you all. i'd like to start with you and re clear wang in beijing with your thoughts on nancy pelosi visit. and the reaction that we've seen so far to that visit? well, i think this is a really a bad move actually on the, on the a close it because she came to a relation to the child. you already have the lows on also the war is the face them and then and face, and then you can rushing prices and energy prices and the other questions as well. so we just have the present, president biden called last week, and we also had the 5 high level dialogue between the senior officials in china, us in the last 2 months. so we don't want to see this happe

well, we're hearing both from a john kirby who is a spokes person for the national security council, as well as now from the u. s. ambassador to israel thomas nights. both are saying that to the u. s. is calling on all sides to exercise restraint that they are engaging with various parties to try to bring an end to this outbreak of violence inside garza and does a now inside southern israel. and they say that the strongly defend israel's right to self defense. this is, of course, not a message that we have not heard before from the biden administration or from previous us administrations. but given that they're also very much concerned with the situation or between china and taiwan, the by debt ministration is i'm making a point of underscoring the need for calm between israel and gaza. right now. it has been more about the relationship with san biden and israel and, and that regions was not, not long since he had a trip to the region. it, it that's right. of the u. s. president joe biden recently visited israel as well as the occupied west bank for meetings, not just with the israeli prime minister, mr. la pete

so certainly the national security council and the military in the u. s. all concerned about what is happening. concerned about trying to reaction and concerned as well as i said about any misunderstandings, mistakes occurring. but john kirby went on to say that this is all up to china at the u. s. remains committed to dialogue. he says it remains committed to its policy, which is unchanging towards china. this does not mean any change in its policy towards taiwan. so kirby is saying that basically the u. s. is not changing anything the business by this because should that happen? doesn't change anything. and china's response is the only aspect that is creating problems around this whole trip. should it take place? all right, thank you very much. movie late is from the white house, mike, hannah. he was al jazeera life from london, still ad on the program. you and chief calls for an end to nuclear weapons warning, total annihilation is only one misunderstanding away. and they took peacekeepers a cold and his tensions clarity, soviet kosovo order. ah hello,

opposing a possible visit by you as hell speak in nancy pelosi to taiwan national security council spokesman john kirby says the u. s. that will not engage with sabre rattling in any potential visitors consistent with us policy hello. see who's in singapore, on a tour of asia has historically been critical of the chinese authorities. several media outlets and tiwana reporting pelosi will visit, but it hasn't been confirmed. china has repeatedly warned against it and beijing considers the island a part of china. as we we can see at such a with it is apparently very much dangerous, very much, per walked if. if the us, he insists on the her, are making the with it, china will take a firm and a strong measures to safeguard our national sovereignty. and the terrill, torrie integrity. or mike hannah has this update from the white house. now, the spokesman for the national security council, john kirby has addressed the possible a trip of nancy pelosi to tie one. he says, this is not unprecedented. pointing out that in 1997 that then speaker newt gingrich visited taiwan without any incident. and even this year, some members

and we have heard not just from the national security council spokesperson john kirby, but also from the u. s. ambassador to israel tom knights, that they are reaching out to us all interested parties, although we would presume that they are not talking to anyone from islamic jihad or from hamas, which is in control of the gaza strip. because the u. s. considers those organizations to be terrorists groups, but this is a situation that does concern the biden administration. they don't believe that the time is right to start new piece talks. but they had been trying to encourage both the israelis and the palestinians to basically take god trust building steps in order to maintain calm and to build confidence in order to get to an eventual negotiation for 2 states existing side by side. and it does come up and no, no, no, no, no, for the long time after a visit from biden to, to the region, tennessee. what that achieved, and whether there was any kind of dialogue about to the future of the region. well the topic did come up during us president joe biden's visit to israel and to the occupied west

u. s. policy remains one. china. it hasn't changed in any way whatsoever. the u. s. had also foreseen these chinese actions in the wake up. the speakers the days ago, we were briefed by the national security council advisor, who said that this is precisely what china was going to do, respond with a show of force. and this is precisely what we've seen in recent hours and days. let's take a closer look now at the tension around taiwan, which says several chinese naval boats and a craft cross the so called maybe in line on friday morning. it's a halfway point from the mainland to taiwan. not recognized by bank ging, china has been carrying out live fire drills and the zones around the island type. i says it won't respond. what equals provocations, even though the drills overlap with areas it claims. china has also fired long range missiles in areas surrounding tie. one, japan is staging to stop saying 5 ballistic missiles landed in it's exclusive economic zone. and japan has lodged a diplomatic protest with china calling the incident unprecedented. that says us how speaking nancy pelosi is concluding to asia in japan where she defended her decision to visit time. one after meeting prime minister fro

the national security council also responded on friday, saying beijing can reduce tensions by stopping the drills. the u. s. phase of indiana has approved a near ban on abortion the 1st day to do so since the supreme court overturned the land won't grovee wade ruling in june. the republican controlled state senate had voted to restrict the procedure except in cases of rape or incest. when the mother's health is it, with abortion, was previously allowed up to 20 weeks after pregnancy. a jury in texas has ordered conspiracy theorists, alex jones to pay $45200000.00. john jones falsely came to the sandy hook school shooting the hoax. the info was host, had also been ordered to pay more than $4000000.00 in compensation to the parents of a child killed and not choosing and 2012. jesse louis, his parents had comments by joins led to years of emotional distress and harassment for them, including death threats. well, there is the headlines. i'll be back with more news here after, at 11 east to stay with us on cal, the cost the widening mortgage boy caught in china could from the fact that grumbled as columbia and

u. s, experts worry all this could be the new normal white house national security council spokespersonn kirby branded china's moves to cut ties with the us has fundamentally irresponsible and said the us remains ready to keep open the lines of communication with beijing. right now, at least, the two sides seem to be talking at cross purposes with potentially dangerous results in london, greg palkot fox news. israel's military launched a wave of air strikes in the gaza strip today, killing at least 10 people, including a senior militant. dozens more were hurt . the israeli army released a statement saying the military action targeted the islamic jihad militant group due to an imminent threat following the arrest of a senior member of the group in the occupied west bank earlier this week. the militant group launched its own barrage of rockets hours later in central and southern israel. two major streaming services announced they are merging how that could affect your bill, plus a new growing trend in farming. the new idea that started from the ground up the weekend is nearly here. meteor

u. s. has pledged an extra $2980000000.00 in military aid, bringing the total spent so far to nearly $13000000000.00. united nations security council has been weighing in both you and secretary journal and the ukranian president addressing the marks a says instead, edge milestone 6 months since russia's 24th of february invasion of ukraine during these devastating periods, thousands of civilians have been killed and injured, including hundreds of children and countless others have lost their family members, friends, and loved ones. well, there seemed great violations of international human rights law and internationally that in law, committed with little to no accountability. what's happening right now is that russia has put the world on the brink of radiation, catastrophic. it's effect that the russian military has turned the territory of the largest nuclear power plant in europe. does a parisian nuclear power plant until war zone. russia is responsible for on provocation showing and blows of terrorists on the territory of the station under the russian flag. now, europe and neighboring regents faced the threat of radiation polluti

addressing an emergency session of the un security council as moscow and keep trade nations of new shelling near the nuclear facility. as fighting in the area continues, the u. s. is backing calls for a demilitarized safe zone around those operational plants. ukraine says that russia has turned the site into a military base for launching attacks. washed up on you, how is lay lecturer on radiation protection at r w c h r in university in germany. and i earlier asked him how concerned we should be about the shelling app this operation nuclear power plants. well, 1st of all, i mean it's horrible if the war into creating a direct involvement of nuclear apartment are no direct danger to the life of the people in germany. locally. the situation is of course quite different and indeed i'm worried about that. ok, so obviously terrible for local residents there. what would you then say to the experts who have been warning of potential nuclear disaster if fighting in the area continues? i mean, the un atomic watchdog has called this a grave our i mean, of course i generally agree with that. being the target of war, the onto design of the apartment. we can only hope that

u. s. house speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan. the white house is summoned the chinese ambassador to protest against the exercises. the national security council also responded on friday, saying beijing can reduce tensions by stopping the drills. a jury in texas as ordered, conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay $45200000.00 in punitive damages. jones falsely claimed the sandy hook, school shooting was a hoax. the in for wars host had also been ordered to pay more than $4000000.00 in compensator. the damages to the parents of a child killed in the shooting in 2012 took his president to reserve. ty about one is in the russian city of sochi. paulding talks with president vladimir putin there discussing turkey's role and the plan to resume green exports from ukraine's ports . the 1st cargo ship carrying grain from ukraine. pass through the boss for us this week. those are the headlines. the news continues here on our 0 after al jazeera investigations, goodbye. ah. ready a president on the run, the certainty of corruption was amazed. aliens stolen algiers investigative unit has obtained a cache of secret files. sounds like an agreement between the

u. s. that also foreseen these chinese actions in the wake up the speakers that a days ago, we were briefed by the national security council advisor. who said that this is precisely what china was going to do, respond with a show of force. and this is precisely what we've seen in recent hours and days. all right, we appreciate the update. thank you very much, mike. hannah live for us in washington d. c. and china has also responded diplomatically by jing, announced unspecified sanctions on nancy pelosi. it's also suspended climate talks and cancel defense meetings with the u. s. patrick folk has the developments from by jane the following thursday's intense military action taken by china against taiwan, described by chinese state media as a war plan rehearsal. there was always a bit of a question mark as to just how much further beijing would push the envelope to day . well, it seems as though the canter measures have taken a much more diplomatic form. china has announced that it's sanctioning nancy pelosi . this is a symbolic move, largely, but no doubt, it was partly prompted by some the comments she made in tokyo to day

that policy is due to visit. national security council spokesman john kirby says the you with will not engage with sabre rattling in any potential visit is consistent with u. s. policy policies, bane and singapore. as part of her 2 of asia, china considers taiwan a part of china. rival protests as have been held in the iraq's capital bagdad, thousands of protesters backing she, a politician, mac tada, al sada, a came to inside the iraqi parliament. they stormed the building on saturday and are refusing to leave until there is an overhaul of iraq's political system. and constitution arrival, group known as the coordination framework has held counter protests against what it calls a suspicious qu, is heavy security prisons to keep the 2 sides pass for the 1st time since the war and ukraine began. a ship filled with grain has left the ukrainian port of odessa under a deal ukraine and russia signed with the union and turkey. the agreement is meant to alleviate a global food crisis. while those are the headlines, the news continues here on al jazeera, after people and power, which is up next ah ah ah, around 10 women a murdered in mexico every day, almost always