A new electronic lease on life. Rob reynolds al, jazeera san marcos, california. Ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories, most guaranteed have signed a deal to allow the safe passage of grain exports when the cranium ports on the black sea. The agreement was broken by turkey and the united nations, and his raised hopes of easing the global food crisis. Took his present, wretched tie of the one says the agreement marks an important step towards peace in ukraine. His thumb will the utmost old girl, most would mistake this joined step. We are taking in istanbul together with russia and ukraine will be a new turning point that will revive the hopes for peace. This is my sincere hope. Whatever direction the developments on the field will take this, the war will finally end on the negotiating table is friendly and peaceful. Atmosphere that we have established will be to the benefit of humanity. And this will transform into steps aimed at ending the war utmost so long as new prec
Speed hotline crossing a 60 meters segment in just under 38000000. Ah, ah, this is al jazeera, these other top stories, the shoreline has. Parliament is gonna start electing a new president in the coming hours. Opposition leaders such as the premier dasa has just withdrawn from the race. Its likely a final vote is going to be held on weapons doing. Acting president ronald wicks. Im a singer. Is one of the candidates and hes imposed a nation wide state of emergency. Mal fernandez, has more from colombo inside parliament. What were going to see happening over the course of the morning is that the nominations for the post of president are going to be formally handed over to the secretary general of parliament. Now obviously the speaker, usually a sort of overseas things, but because he is also an elected m b, he takes a sort of her aside. He sounds aside as the 2nd gender runs this election for president. So for names are what were hearing so far. We have the acting president , ronald v,
5 centuries, men and women bodily touts, fight knocking opponents off their boats. Whatever is left standing, it takes the whole trophy in the title of fisher king. Ah, this is al jazeera and a hair of the headlines. Now france is on its highest state of alert for extreme temperatures in more than a dozen locations as a heat wave and but ups, large parts of southwest europe firefighters are trying to contain to large wildfires. Near the city of border and some frightening moments for passengers on a train in spain, their train, it was headed from madrid to feral when it was forced to stop because of flames near the tracks of a few minutes, they were able to continue their journey. Same was robbie is in that cast them or betty in spain. Both there and portugal have issues that make the situation more complex than just dealing with the fires. The high temperatures are not only making it more difficult to put out the fires that have been caused by lightning strikes according to experts. I
Helped fuel the insurrection. I was disturbed and worried to see that the president was attacking Vice President pants for doing his constitutional duty. So the tweet looked to me like the opposite of what, what, what we really needed that moment, which was a d escalation. And thats why i had said earlier that it looked like fuel beam port on the fire. So that was the moment that i decided that i was going to resign, that that would be my last day at the white house. I simply didnt want to be associated with her with the events that were unfolding on the capital. U. S. President ial biden is isolating after testing positive for coven 19 biden says his symptoms are mild. There are no plans to transfer his powers to Vice President carmella harris. Sir lincoln Security Forces have rated the main Anti Government protest, camping colombo, just hours after run. No, look, im a single was sworn in as president. He had warned he would crack down on the demonstration describing them as unlawful.
Theres, i was there on these other top Stories Security Forces of rated the main Anti Government protest camping columbo, dismantling tents and barricades protest has been camped the president ial secretariat since they stole the facility earlier this month. When o fernandez, called in with this update from columbus, there have been at least 2 or 3 of the sort of senior carpet leaders that have been arrested. There was a lawyer called lionel bo peggy, what im hearing, who was arrested, he had shown them, hes the identification, but they had not taken any notice of that. They had taken him in another senior protest there. So these are heavy, obviously, heavily armed with riot gear. Weapons that body armor and one wonders why you had to be done at 1 oclock in the morning. Yes, present, joe biden has tested positive for cove. 19 biden says his symptoms a mild, its the 1st time the 79 year old has tested positive for the virus. And the 8th hearing of the u. S. How select Committee Investig