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support the mission in libya have failed to end their suffering it appears for now a political solution might be the only way to take them back home. what happened. misurata three people died in spain with temperatures nearing forty five degrees they're being driven higher by a mass of hot air moving north from africa sparking fears of further wildfires but as karl penhall reports from belle knows some herders are employing time honored traditions to reduce the threat. swirling. dust and she. since the day they first learned to walk brothers had been heard as i get up. you have to rise early grab through it if you have time ensure the rain and cold all the extreme heat it is a job that takes up every hour of the day you're
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a slave to the arguments. why the brother of the had much time for school yet now they're the ones sharing lessons with agricultural experts about the benefits of traditional grazing methods g.o.p.'s will keep looking. we have to take it little by little but it's very difficult because many people don't know how to do this they always think the hurdles the stupidity of. their members of the shepherds association of the mediterranean mountains given the risk of forest fires in this part of southwest spain the organization is promoting the practice of allowing sheep and goats to roam extensively and create natural fire breaks. you have to have everything prepared fires can always break out but if there's no fuel for the far then it won't be so serious but you have to begin the work in the winter we've always said that. the technique is as simple as this the more
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scrub and undergrowth flocks can eat the less fuel there is for a fire to spread ultimately it may prove difficult to reintroduce traditional know how it's heard is get older they cover less ground and youngsters just don't seem keen to take on such a tough job but we're going to allow there are more fires these days is less so the land is empty and when there are a few flocks of farmland gets very overgrown and it's going to take a lot of work to recover that. the ruins of farm houses like these dot the countryside and there are a clear sign that the old ways are dying out and the younger generation simply don't find sheep herding profitable anymore. but for these brothers it's their way of life where man and beast blend with the landscape. and all al-jazeera
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bill miss spain well many blame the temperature highs on climate change but in the us the trump administration is seeking to scrap environmental regulations activists warn that this will be bad for both consumers and the planet or brunell's has more from los angeles. the proposals would freeze fuel efficiency at the level mandated for twenty twenty discarding higher standards that would have gone into effect in two thousand and twenty five the standards were negotiated between the obama administration and the auto industry environmentalist say the move would cost consumers money harm public health and increase climate changing emissions rolling back or freezing feeling hot i mean and weakening pollution standards for cars will drive up oil consumption it will drive up climate pollution. the real winner in that scenario is the oil industry because they'll be selling more product to consumers taking money out of their pockets and out of
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their communities and into the pockets of big oil as part of its reasoning the trumpet ministration said better fuel mileage would make driving cheaper so people would drive more resulting in more accidents logic that puzzled many transportation experts the white house spokesperson brushed aside reporters' questions about the emissions rule changes were simply open enough for a comment period and will make a final decision at the end of the. hosel is would directly target california which for decades has had the power to impose efficiency standards over and above the federal standard the new rules if approved would strip the state of that privilege many other states follow the california standard california governor jerry brown called the effort to weaken the emission standards quote a reckless scheme a betrayal and an assault on the health of americans everywhere california officials are promising an all out legal battle with the trouble administration
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over fuel efficiency standards a fight that could go all the way to the u.s. supreme court robert oulds al jazeera los angeles now has announced the first nine astronauts who head into space on rockets built by aerospace companies boeing and space x. the flights are settled for next year to take the crews to the international space station and the restore the u.s. is ability to send its own ostomy wants into space for the past seven years nasa crews have had to fly on i owe it to the i s s on russian soyuz spacecraft. together we're delivering on the critical task of providing a capability to fly our crews on a u.s. built rocket and spacecraft from u.s. soil on florida's space coast to the international space station so we no longer have to rely on our russian partners to get our crews to space nasa boeing and space x. have pulled expertise from across the nation in the development of the c s t one
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hundred starliner and crew dragon systems spurring innovation and economic growth and expanding u.s. leadership in space so i had an al-jazeera sports. direct route in touch with the leader of the british open.
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time for the sport here's peter. thank you very much it's anyone's game in
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birmingham where england and india have closed play on the third day of the first cricket test match ishant sharma blitz the english batting order at the start of the day to leave the home team struggling at lunch sam curran hit sixty three for many sixty five balls to help the home side reach one hundred eighty all out but india's batsmen did not have it all their own way as they set off in pursuit of the victory target of one hundred and ninety four here's a look at the school called at the close of play on the third day stuart broad has taken two wickets in india's second innings the top score so far is captain very out kohli who is unbeaten on forty three when play resumes england will need five wickets the indians will need eighty four more runs and they'll be hoping captain kohli can lead them there but yeah i think he's he's somebody you know he's someone who's always give you the positive energy i think that's. really a big thing as a captain because you know he always wanted to do something special for the team and you know it's not he knows that hope that everybody knows that whole profession
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of years of i think it's pretty good to have a. we five work it seems that we need him fairly quickly otherwise don't get the runs so. yeah so if we're just going to. give it everything we've got in the morning for the first fifteen twenty overs leave nothing absolutely nothing out just give it everything we've got. there was an emotional win in washington for former world number one andy murray the scot is continuing his comeback of the hip surgery murray broke down in tears after beating remaining in mario's copple to reach the last eight of the washington open the thirty one year old came back from a sit down to eventually close out the match six seven six three seven six at three am local time that he's latest ever finish mary will play alex the minority of australia in the quarter finals he's first lost a tie since wimbledon twenty seventeen this is just he's food tournament since he
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had surgery in january. younger brother alexander very have came out on top against older brother and defending champion missions very of in washington to progress to the quarter finals the twenty one year old is seeded number one at the tournament winning six three seven five against these big bro. venus williams the highest remaining seed left in the silicon valley classic in san jose has progressed to the quarter finals of former world number one and seven time grand slam champion be great britain's heather watson in three sets the thirty eight year old winning at six falls for six six love world under fourteen williams will go on to face greece's muddier sakari in the last eight. the second round of the w.d.c. invitational in akron ohio has teed off and already has a crowded leaderboard england ian poulter who was the overnight leader is tied for first place with countryman tommy fleetwood as well as american justin thomas rory
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mcilroy is further back after he's second round failed to match his first round of five under par and fourteen time major champion tiger woods has also quietly gone about his business as he looks to move into contention ahead of the weekend and try and catch poulter and co. i don't think the course played any different very light breeze out there is only half the club wind. and that's why you see in the scoring you're seeing guys a go in low i knew they would go low but obviously you know around was yesterday and i just had to oversee you know personally red numbers on the border. there was a satisfying hole in one for canada's brook henderson at the women's british open the ball bouncing high and slamming straight in the car still far shots behind leader. of thailand who's a short clear on ten under with two grounds to play. and
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a great goal to show you from the south american club football competition the copper suit amerikana now check out this one from brazilian club flamin in say junior. school in directly from the corner to give them a two to win over defense or sporting of europe why in the first leg of the second round the. last of a first leg at home thanks to what looked like a fine strike from call long for its low it turned out to have taken a big deflection those self hollows prospects for the second leg in argentina were not helped by the sending off substitute presented. for me we're now in red bull driver daniel ricardo is leaving the team to join renault next season your straightens move comes as a surprise just before if one's august break he's currently fourth in the championship and has been with red bulls twenty. danny pedrosa will say goodbye to motor g.p. at the end of the season having never been world champion but he could still edit
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to use tell you of race wins the spaniard was fastest in open practice at the czech grand prix and burn a victory in any of the last ten races will mean he's talked at least one podium in twelve consecutive seasons meanwhile moto three championship leader jorge martin is unlikely to race on sunday after fracturing his hand the number one ranked players in both the men's and women's draw have been knocked out of the badminton the world championships in then joining women's number one ties you know last for only the second time in thirty seven matches this year china has he been just denying the taiwanese and sealing a first world semi of her career it was times fourth quarter final defeat in a row at this level. denmark's defending champion victor axel son last he's quarter final to chane long axelsson defeated chinese player to win the crown last year no such luck at this time around twenty one nineteen twenty one eleven defeat
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for the dane long going for his. title. the boston red sox have extended a season high game leader barrage rivals the new york yankees in major league baseball boston in our six and a half games ahead in the american league east but they got there the hard way on thursday coming from an early deficit they were down for nothing in the second inning but started a comeback in the food steve pearce hit three home runs and knocked in six r.b.i.'s to help take boston to an eventual fifteen seven victory. and that's all support for now we'll have another update for you again later. and that's it for me rob matheson for this news out i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news but.
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i'm not matheson and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up zimbabwe's opposition leader nelson chamisa says he does not accept emerson man and god was the election victory. china says it's ready to impose sixty billion dollars worth of tariffs on the u.s. in an escalating trade war. plus sheepherders in spain resort to traditional methods to try to avoid forest fires. aid agencies are demanding a cease fire in yemen and day after air strikes in the port city of hadera killed at least fifty five people the world health organization wants to deliver half a million cholera vaccines to the north of the country where it's warning of another potential outbreak has more from neighboring djibouti that come to buy
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fish and then the whole plane skate. doesn't that i cannot i am mr strout so right we went to the hospital right away and found a disaster a criminal disaster there are twenty six people dead twenty six martyred and we counted thirty five to forty wounded that's not even counting the many wounded we sent to private hospitals and we're still nursing the wounded and dealing with those killed. a second strike at the busy market. his rescue workers. conducted the night i was saving people in the second airstrike happened its impact and shrapnel hit my face my cunny plate a little i couldn't feel my hand because of the shrapnel. the fish market was just twenty meters from the gates of the hospital the largest on one of just one full of medical facilities still open in the city of but they are both the saudi and u.a.e. led coalition as well as who the flight as did my cutting all the talks they hop
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and does the un special envoy for human announced he will hold talks between the government and hold the rebels in geneva on the sixth of september these consultations will provide the opportunity for the park use among other things to discuss the framework for negotiations. so we agree on relevant confidence building measures and specific plans for moving process for next month's planned talks could come too late for some the walled health organization is warning yemen could be on the brink of a new color i put them in with even more deaths up to now the choice calling for. the yemen to allow for bugs in addition campaign to be carted off we have requested as the u.n. three days is tranquility associated with the first or color of vaccine campaign across fourth fifth and sixth in the north of the country you recall that
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we were able to start to see the campaigns in the south of the country previously but we've never before been able to do it in the north and we are planning with almost three thousand health workers to vaccinate more than five hundred thousand individuals by the age of one year the world's worst humanitarian crisis may be about to become dramatically was the u.n. humanitarian coordinator in yemen is warning that any father attacks in her day that could be coupled with the human toll extending far beyond the limits of the city although seventy five percent of food imports into yemen go through the ports of they that which is essential for imports such as fuel medicine and essential supplies. to boot james farwell is a senior fellow at the middle east institute in washington d.c. he says previous talks in a cease fire failed because of the complexity of what's happening in yemen. well
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you know last round they had united nations a couple of years ago the un has been pressuring the parties to come to a ceasefire the attacks day five and wounded one hundred forty were coming on top of a war that has killed ten thousand people in arguably fifty thousand children have died of disease and starvation is putting a lot of pressure when the united arab emirates and the saudis to launch their attack on how data they over confidently predicted they would be able to do things they outnumbered that hasn't worked out that way and the problem that you have is in the impasse in which to do these have a strategic interest in holding the data they've been accused of pilfering supplies that are intended for civilians on the other hand the saudis in the end the you a finding the finding much tougher to go and i think that the problem that you have is the one that we have which is that you have parties with different interests and driven by very emotional reasons. one person has been killed during protests along
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the gaza israel border palestinian officials say one hundred twenty other people were injured when the israeli military fired live ammunition the demonstrators tensions along the border have been growing with weekly friday protests taking place against israel since march thirtieth more than one hundred fifty palestinians have been killed since the protests began seventy dekker has more from gaza. it is the nineteenth week of protests and people still keep coming to the scene is really the same you can see now tear gas landing on the crowd the crowds are smaller probably even less than one percent of gaza's population but the message is the same they want their lives to improve on what is different this time is the political negotiations that are going on there is a senior delegation of how mass leaders including sali uprooted he is one of the main deputies chief deputy of hamas he's wanted by israel so him coming back here
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first time in eight years mean there are some kind of guarantees on the table that he won't be touched he comes from cairo have been negotiations going on there extensively with the with the u.n. with egypt the bigger picture is this they're trying to establish a long term cease fire with israel they're trying to improve the situation for the people here water elektra's city power openings of borders the details are difficult they're complicated but certainly it does seem like something is movement moving hamas is talking the israeli cabinet will be meeting on sunday to discuss this specific issue we've been hearing also from leaders here that these protests nineteen weeks of them have borne fruit so we'll have to wait and see if anything comes out of these talks. it is twenty five people have been killed in an attack on a shia mosque in afghanistan but they say two suicide bombers targeted worshipers during friday prayers and god does so of the capital kabul they opened fire inside the mosque before blowing themselves up more than eighty other people were injured
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shala bella's has more from kabul prison ghani has come out he issued a statement he very rarely does that after bombings and attacks but this time with it being a shia mosque he has come out condemning the attack saying afghanistan will not be divided sunni shia we stand together and we're unified against attacks of this nature taleban has said this is not they work eisel is suspected they have targeted shia many times especially over the last year there were two attacks here in kabul in march thirty nine people killed both suicide attacks last year there were four quite significant attacks all in kabul suicide attacks and more than one hundred people died in those again i say took responsibility parliamentary and district elections are coming up on october the twentieth security is a big issue the presidential elections are announced for april next year and it is only everyone's mind not just day to day attacks we've had a couple of attacks on civilians and then the province isolating up its operations
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there and then she put a few attacks between the taliban and i saw this so this is attacks across the country and civilians really taking the hit and being in the crossfire on those attacks in recent months and of course prison gone it's mind he's he's really concerned about the setting up to the elections to the point that he seemed in the national army to afghanistan's fifth biggest city in jalalabad to take control from the police to try and shore up security for civilians. zimbabwe's opposition is claiming fraud in monday's election that gave president emerson just over fifty percent of the vote nelson chamisa says the results were manipulated he's promising to go to court over it and agog was defended the election process he says it's being credible and is calling for peace and unity i want us to has more from hadi. writes police disrupt a press conference about to be given by the bobbies main opposition leader nelson
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chamisa the order the journalist to leave saying they have no permission to gather the hotel. on some zimbabweans say scenes like these reminded them of the days when robert mugabe was in power. when freedom of speech was stifled and media reporting was to stick to. the country's information minister eventually tells the police to leave. when allowed to speak to me so i didn't hold back on his words if they wanted a city and equally one their son. and . shortly afterwards the president elect. himself spark criticizing the police's heavy handedness but insisting the vote was free and fair to nelson is a. crucial role in zimbabwe's
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president. folding future. for peace. you know well and harare is getting back to normal after wednesday's violence but something where the tensions could rise h.m.'s the challenges that result in court. but then god will have to be a president for all zimbabweans but many zimbabweans will need convincing he was robert mugabe's defense minister during the massacres when thousands were killed in that a bill and. the fact that. some of the issues of this. section of. the president elect is promising
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a fresh start but changing decades of in chancer patient in state institutions will take time. and when and god will have to persuade the international community that scenes like this and now a thing of the past so it's not to run its promise of political and economic reforms how to toss al-jazeera and out of. china is poised to impose more time of sun sixty billion dollars worth of american goods the foreign ministry has said the new levies will go into force if the u.s. followed through on its threats to impose more tariffs of its own the u.s. accuses china of unfair trade practices and it's using tariffs to pressure them to reform when the u.s. has already imposed a twenty five percent duty and chinese goods worth thirty four billion dollars it mainly targets industrialized and china's responded with its own twenty five percent levy on the same amount of items it imports from the u.s. the trumpet ministrations now preparing to up the ante with a twenty five percent tariff on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods
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the u.s. says chinese firms still technology and benefit from unfair government subsidies well.

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