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i'm wondering and running in fear again the indonesian island of lombok is shaken by a new quake just two weeks after hundreds died and thousands of building with destroyed in an earlier one. welcome to our there life. and it's also coming up two million people in relief can see thousands marooned rain eases but the problems are just beginning to the flood ravaged indian state of carola. desperate to escape economic and political crisis where venezuelans face new restrictions from their neighbors. a medical. one
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america your nicholas your untouchable. and the new roman comb breaking racial barriers in hollywood. where people have again been sent running into the streets on the indian the indonesian island of lombok following a powerful aftershock which is cool's widespread disruption it was jolted by this strong quake it was a magnitude six point five and it happened late on sunday morning that this was a shallow quake apparently one at a depth of less an eight kilometers and it was scented in the northeast of the island a number of landslides have been reported so far the have been no reports of serious injuries two weeks ago a quake a seven hit the island and that killed more than. four hundred thirty people and
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it's leveled tens of thousands of buildings it's got a high that has small for means of these in capital jakarta. yet another earthquake hitting the lombok island here in indonesia six point five on the richter scale in the eastern part of that small island now this island has been hit by a series of earthquakes over the last several weeks sunday's doesn't appear to be that that damage and we don't hear any reports yet of damages to the houses and other structures in the area possibly to some roads because this earthquake triggered some landslides as a mountain range in eastern long book that houses an active volcano we know that there were some landslides could be seen on on local television here of some landslides around that area there assessing the possible damage to some roads around there no reports of casualties just yet now this comes just two weeks after a much stronger earthquake hit another part of the island seven point zero on the richter scale four hundred sixty people were killed on august fifth half
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a billion dollars worth of damage was done from that earthquake so obviously a lot of people already on edge lombok island here in indonesia again we hearing stories of panic people running out of their houses when this earthquake hit today but again right now it sounds like there's not too much damage and no reports yet of any injuries or casualties. officials in the indian state of carolus say they need more rescue equipment to help save hundreds of thousands of people who were stranded in remote areas by heavy flooding monsoon rains have begun to ease but the province may just be starting andrew thomas reports. this is the sort of scene being repeated right across the states of kara believe it or not there is no river normally between where i'm standing in as far as you can see it's normally dry land but there is a river about a kilometer in that direction and it has spilled its banks to such an extent that it has created this a lake a very fast flowing body of water coming across whatever you want to call it you can't get across it in vehicles and even folks risk being swept away so what is
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happening mostly is that men are putting one arm around that yellow rope you can see on the right hand side holding a box or a bag on the other and taking it across about five hundred people in the community of emory over there about two kilometers most of them don't want to leave the elderly have left and young children babies too but most want to stay without homes will be on the upper levels but they do need supplies in things like rice drinking water and maids and that's what this operation is doing here and similar ones are going right across our. homes nearly submerged in floodwater people forced to leave their properties behind you know to to avoid the floods or landslides. this has been the scene for over a week as the southern indian state of kara battles heavy rains. the subsequent floods are being described as the worst in nearly a hundred years. what the levels are rising since yesterday the rains have been
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heavy it's still ongoing people are worried. the floodwaters and mudslides have killed hundreds of people since the start of the monsoon season in june some parts of the state to receive nearly double the average annual rainfall. and three hundred thousand people have been forced out of their homes. and that has not been easy as waters flood access points in many areas leaving air evacuation is the only option for language. the rainfall has led to massive landslides where chunks of the mountain of come down blocking the entire stretch although the clearance team is working to open the road it's unlikely it will happen people have been shifted to camps in the nearby areas. weather forecasters say heavy rains will continue over the weekend but will ease off towards but while that is good news for those affected in kerala the rains will likely be drifting to other states in the country . but it's for the future life right now the relief efforts is in full swing
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here in the state capital at the start of south of the state the worst floods for a fly collection points like this one each with hundreds of volunteers all sourcing for donations and putting them on the trucks to send all. their biscuits rice medicines and toiletries and then the irony in carol right now what is needed most is water under thomas al-jazeera to do that on top of terror. and castro has page five million dollars in assistance for carolers flood victims the amir shaikh tamim being hammered out fannie announced the aid package saying it knowledge the special bond with india and the contribution the people of carroll have made to cata the state charity is also making a donation and as well as a campaign to raise five million dollars for victims. south
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koreans long separated from relatives are preparing to travel to the north for rare reunion and they've been getting ready as an orientation session before being allowed to cross the border on monday it will be the first event of its kind since a table twenty fifteen and only the twenty years since the year two thousand many korean families have been divided since the war in the one nine hundred fifty s. which split the peninsula. emergency workers illicitly in trying to secure what's left of the bridge in genoa which collapsed some cheese stay far fired says took this video of the efforts to stabilize a section a section of the bridge the death toll is officially at forty one and the rescuers believe that there are no more people missing the company which was responsible for the maintenance of this bridge has pledged more than five hundred million dollars to help rebuild it. thousands of mourners gathered meanwhile on saturday in genoa
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for a state funeral for some of the people who died when the bridge collapsed more than forty people are believed to have died when the miranda bridge came down david chaytor reports from there. the whole country shared the grief of the families of the victims as they join together for a day of mourning in genoa some boycotted the ceremony because they blamed the state for the negligence that led to the tragedy but for those attending the solemn dignity of the service provided some comfort some relief from the pain as overwhelmed. the suit oriented to collapse of the morandi bridge slash the heart of genoa the deep rooted scores the bugger all by demesne spain for those who lost their lives. and those wounds were everywhere. a man with lost his brother henry he'd been taken by him to the airport for a flight to columbia when he landed he heard about the bridge collapsing the first
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pictures from the scene showed his brother's car in the wreckage it was an article about the brick willock he will be remembered for the wonderful person he was he said was brutally tragic but somehow it wasn't painful because he never realized that the kiss of death was approaching. the politicians and the dignitaries have now left only their friends and family of the victims are here to give each other support and watch each other and help each other as the victims make their final journey. on the quay side of the port they would bid farewell with applause then a sudden downpour of rain came down much like the beginning of the violent storm that brought down the bridge and ended their lives. soon after the senior executives responsible for overseeing it made their first public appearance. problem we have to do what we want to do and we will do whatever we can to
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alleviate the suffering of. the company announced they would rebuild the bridge but this time it will be made of steel the italian president says joe matter dela was touring the site before the funerals the company said they would spend more than five hundred million dollars to help the families of the victims and find new housing for those who lived under the bridge but there was no apology they said apologies came with responsibility and just who was responsible has yet to be established. david chaytor al jazeera general. so the trumpet ministration is facing growing criticism at home over its role in the war in yemen u.s. media reports say an american made bomb was used in an airstrike that hit a school bus this month fifty one people were killed forty of them children and
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again the guy has more from washington. in northern yemen graves who recently dug for the victims of a saudi led coalition bombing that shocked the world but on august the ninth a school bus was hit in an attack the coalition called legitimate military action more than fifty people were killed at least forty of them children aged between ten and twelve dozens more were injured. the u.s. has provided support to the saudi led coalition with intelligence and aerial refueling now there are renewed questions about the weapons being used in the war reports suggest the bomb used to attack the bus was made by lockheed martin and according to c.n.n. supplied by the u.s. government as part of a sanctioned on deal politicians in the united states are demanding answers senator chris murphy who's announced a measure to hold military assistance to the coalition tweeted the following last week the saudi led coalition in yemen bombed a school bus killing forty four innocent kids and they did it with us supplied bombs intelligence support and midair refueling democratic house and senate members
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are also asking questions about u.s. involvement in a war that's been raging for more than three years the key concern is that the u.s. may not only be culpable but potentially violating international laws in two thousand and sixteen president obama banned the sale of precision guided weapon way to saudi arabia citing human rights concerns that measure was undone when the trumpet ministration came to power the us a since sold on to saudi arabia as part of a multi-billion dollar deal and gallacher al-jazeera washington. well after three and a half years of war little is functioning in yemen repeated bombing. have damaged or destroyed water and sewage facilities and that's making people much more vulnerable to disease as mohamed had to report. on a dense congested streets pulls over all see which is of the way heaps of garbage piled up in most neighborhoods in the city's divil habbush area barefoot children trudge through human waste oblivious of the risks we face
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a slope that sees this. we are living very hard conditions diseases are rife from cholera to diarrhea clean water is a rare commodity here above all electricity is out all the time the government has not done anything to repair the sewage system government officials refused to move unless they're given bribes entire neighborhoods have been flooded by sea would spill starts in some cases of contaminated water supply as another i've got it out i don't know about other diseases sewage garbage so what on earth is this this is shameful we cannot even walk around the neighborhood to reach and waste has flashed into our homes we are forced to scoop it out with our hands. yemen has long been the arab world's poorest country and all suffered from frequent conflicts. the current one started in two thousand and fourteen when all the fighters from the
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north allied with parts of the yemeni military stormed the capital forcing the infamous laverick nice government into exile. in march two thousand and fifteen a coalition led by so did a bia and the united arab emirates launched a military campaign aimed at pushing back the old ways and restoring the government . many. not only killed and wounded civilians but also damage to water and sanitation facilities the world health organization is in the middle of a campaign to prevent a recurrence of allah. the destruction through human school to send it to some facilities has already caused a cholera epidemic which has affected more than a million people. are. currently rates of contraction of cholera still high according to the latest to sticks and infection rates across the twenty three provinces across the country is about ninety six percent in other words twenty two out of the twenty three provinces in yemen so we can say the country's plate with
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the epidemic which is alarming an acute shortage of food and the resulting looks recession is a waltz and in what is already the world's last humanitarian crisis the whole foods will say for the outbreak of color in the middle of the model crisis could intensify the situation in yemen ramadan the world does into. lots more to come here at al-jazeera including the solver's begin their hodge pilgrimage catchers say saudi arabia is preventing them from making the journey. and the defiant turkish president pledges to fight back against those he says as threatening the economy. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east.
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how i would still have plenty of five pots and sunny weather across the good parts of here but some lively showers as well you can see the thunder heads over towards that eastern side of here we're trying to seeing some big downpours the line of cloud to just spinning out of the british isles seizing across the north sea into scandinavia and heading towards the black sea this area of cloud this area disturbed weather is actually the remnants of the hearth and that's that's making its way further ace was so wet and windy weather to come here this pockets of shabby rain that we do have on that western side ukraine day bring some lively downpours and you can see. has been some flooding across the western side of the country as a result of that waist high water for many it's caused major disruption and you can see really big problems here out and about on the roads the showers shooty as little as we go on through the next few days still one of two showers into that eastern side of europe why the wind so spilling over towards southern parts of scandinavia easing across southern areas of norway into sweden there's
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a wet and windy weather which will drive its way over towards ukraine as we go on through monday so not looking too good here at this stage further south it is generally dry across the mediterranean find a dry across much of north africa we want to showers to the far north. the weather sponsored by qatar at least. as protests in nicaragua against the president continue and the number of those killed rises. someone says i'm staying in power no matter what the have to question pushed all of reality but usually get something was blocked. sent here america's ortega's from a vice president al jazeera. to
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look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the indonesian island of lombok has been struck by a magnitude six point five earthquake it was centered in the northeast of the island a number of landslides have been reported so far though with had no reports of injuries just two weeks ago a quake of six point nine hit the island killing more than four hundred thirty people. officials in the indian state of carolus say they need more rescue equipment to help save hundreds of thousands of people who were stranded in remote areas by heavy flooding the air force has been dropping supplies to people who are cut off the rains appear to be letting up for now. emergency workers in this area trying to secure what's left of the bridge in general which collapsed onto say.
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took these pictures of their efforts to stabilize a section of the bridge the death toll officially stands at forty one meanwhile the company responsible for maintenance of the bridge has pledged more than five hundred million dollars to help rebuild it. israel has announced that it's crazy one of the key crossings into an already severely deprived girls a strip the defense minister avigdor lieberman said the arabs crossing will be shut down in response to recent violence along the border fence on friday israeli forces killed another two palestinians and wounded sixty others during the weekly march of return protests talks aimed at easing tension between hamas and israel are continuing in cairo. the turkish president rather tired of one is still defiant after two key ratings agencies warned his country is going to find it even harder to pay its debts he insists the growing economic crisis is part of
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a plot against turkey president and obama made his comments at a meeting of the ruling ak party the turkish lira has lost forty percent of its value against the dollar this year so near gager reports now from istanbul a brisk business that's expanded along with turkey's middle class. act your cause been selling products made by turkey's largest home appliances company for twenty five years but lately his sales have taken a hit because. we've had to put our prices up because of the current economic situation and that's affected our sales. despite this he is optimistic that he and the country kind of weather the current economic storm which began as a war of words with tuckey's nato ally the us over according to the president donald trump the arrest of evangelical pastor andrew bronson sparking a trade spat between the two countries is the start of the holiday week a turkey and despite the slump the shopping malls that as ours are all packed with
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people but the prices have shot up in recent days and people are feeling the pinch too good to know it's affected us a lot of my pension is already gone because of this i don't know how all afford holiday presents for my family. we need money to show we can't do anything about it . this is about the games being played between global policy it's kind of a cold war the devaluation in the turkish lira may be good for exporters but the uncertainty and continuing antipathy with the us has rattled the economy even as the current stabilized last week market american or. of course the terrorists. in another financial times have affected turkey's economy it's borderline economic exploitation by the us as it's affected our sales president has placed much faith in an agenda of growth at all costs but that has had its own drawbacks billions of
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dollars have been borrowed and spent particularly in infrastructure and construction projects a tactic that could become unsustainable if there is further instability in turkey's economy. out jazeera istanbul. world leaders are paying tribute to the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan who has died at the age of eighty he says from nine hundred ninety seven to two thousand and six and received the nobel peace prize john collee with the u.n. in two thousand and two more. it is. really bad for the world we have lost the moral voice of the world today is bad for the world in many so so many other ways he was a peacemaker he was. always in the forefront of trying to help people. it's devastating for me personally i mean he was a mentor he was a role model he was a friend he flew the flag of peace he flew the flag of collaboration
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throughout the world as he dealt with very difficult and challenging problems we were filled with pride to see an african leader dealing with world problems and finding solutions for them. the world's largest annual pilgrimage the hodges taking place in saudi arabia's mecca this week but as qatar faces the second year under a saudi led blockade many muslims from the gulf countries say they have been stopped from getting to this important ritual for a bad mentally reports. this small skin doha's education city suburb is famous for its architecture the impulse was of the car on the wall and a building that rests on five pillars representing the five requirements of islam. one of these is to attend the hutch pilgrimage in saudi arabia. but to wash the
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impression because socko says since the saudi imposed blockade on kata he's been unable to do so i applied last year just two days before the plane. and it happened that. i paid and gave my passport to. the blockade happened just two days later so i was able to do so. from france but lives in qatar and has attempted to gain a visa many times over but he's constantly told the same thing apply for me a country of origin so the embassy in nigeria we need this time from them but. it was not if i was not able to get the visa lost his case isn't unique many worshippers here in ca to have faced the same difficulty it's nothing. to apply any more it is more like saudi arabian council or the embassy used to apply from so it's not possible anymore this shouldn't happen and for any muslim anywhere in the
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world i don't think that but something like this has to do with some political issues it's something religious people attending this mosque live in qatar but have come from all over the world many here say they'd like to apply to hard but have found no clear mechanism to do so instead many said they have no choice but to apply from their own country something they say is time consuming costly and against the core principles of islam. saudi authorities say that cesspool website to handle requests from countries who wish to go to hardship but carter's ministry of religious affairs says the border crossing remains closed there are no planes transferring people from doha and there's no clearly defined way of applying for hodge agencies that organize hutch travel from qatar say they're also be banned by saudi arabia and i've heard. going to another country. which is not very convenient for
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a lot of people prior to the blockade jasmine says she would simply drive to saudi arabia with her family it was. issued an eric. justin says she's more familiar with saudi arabia than her country of origin and since she live so close to the border she doesn't understand why it's become so difficult to perform hotch. al-jazeera doha. venezuelans have been lining up along the ecuadorian border to try to leave their troubled nation but many a stock as acquittals government has tightened entry requirements venezuelans now need a possible to get in previously they'd only needed the national id. we want them to help us at least with processing the temporary travel card or something at least to facilitate it for us because it was too short a notice we were on the road already when they put out the news just like that boom
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on wednesday we left and all of a sudden they tell us that today well maybe it was saturday i think it's saturday because i'm still a bit disoriented so geez we would like them to at least facilitate that for us or that the ecuadorian institutions at least help us on that part. a new movie with an asian cost is signaling big change for hollywood it's called crazy rich asians and it's drawing in the crowds is regarded as a long. case of a long neglected part of american society but reynolds reports from hollywood. a gala opening night for a movie that's breaking barriers. the romantic comedy crazy rich asians is the first major hollywood film in a quarter century with an all asian cast director and executive producer we all recognize the significance but to be honest right now as i'm talking to you i feel nothing but excitement. the actors may be asian but the movie's themes are
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universal family love and money. is the biggest appellate burst in on the scene crazy rich asians is based on the bestselling novel by kevin kwan who produced the film you know i think it's important to acknowledge that it's been way too long since we've had an all star asian cast and a hollywood sort of movie about the same time this is the movie for everyone lori nakamura has already seen the film once and she's back with friends for a second viewing it's a wacky brahm com but i think at the same time it's also showing and asians in normal situations just like everybody else crazy rich asians is in a way a repudiation of hollywood's sad history of racist and stereotype depictions of asians in film. from the exploitative kung fu flicks of the seventy's and eighty's must make. the link.
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to mickey rooney's performance in breakfast at tiffany's asians have been denigrated and asian actors passed over for leading roles according to a recent study only about five percent of hollywood movie parts go to asian actors like laura condom or just really seems that there are a lot of character parts out for ethnic you know are people of color but there weren't a lot of leading roles but should. the hoopla over crazy rich asians is box office hype the idea that an all asian cast is some sort of novelty glosses over the historic achievements of japanese korean and thai cinema among others but coming after recent films like the superhero hit black and and the charming animated feature coco crazy rich asian seems to be part of a long overdue trend i feel like we are seeing a sea change though a lot of these americans come out of screenings they have this this it is like this
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urge to cry and they don't know exactly why this movie is for that crazy rich asians will open in theaters worldwide in august and september robert oulds al jazeera holly. you're with al-jazeera and these are our top stories the indonesian island of lombok has been struck by a magnitude six point five earthquake a number of landslides have been reported so far there have been no reports of any injured his just two weeks ago a quake of almost seven magnitude hit the island it killed more than four hundred thirty people and it leveled tens of thousands of buildings officials in the indian state of carolus say they need more rescue equipment to help save hundreds of thousands of people who are stranded in remote areas by heavy flooding the air force has been dropping aid to people who are cut off the rains they are beginning
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to ease andrew thomas is in kara. this is the sort of saying that is being repeated right across tara the reason the river between where i'm standing and as far as you can say that's normally dry land but a river about a kilometer that way has spilled its banks to such an extent that the water up here is very very soft like and that's why there is a right along the right hand side as people walk across with their backs of the. i'm with bottles of water there's about five hundred people over there most of them don't want to leave their homes are living on the upper levels but they do need help and this is a scene that's going on the want to cross the state's emergency workers in italy are trying to secure what's left of the bridge in general which collapsed on tuesday the death toll stands at forty one rescuers think no other people are missing. israel has analysis closing one of the key crossings into an already severely deprived girls a strip the defense minister avigdor lieberman said the edits crossing would be
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shut down in response to recent violence along the border fence on friday israeli forces killed another two palestinians and wounded sixty others during the weekly march of return protests talks aimed at easing tension between hamas and israel continues in cairo. world leaders are paying tribute to the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan who has died at the age of eighty he served from one thousand nine hundred ninety seven to two thousand and six and he received the nobel peace prize jointly with the united nations in two thousand and one. right that's it for now i'll be back in half an hour after their. travels to the front of this reaches of thailand to follow young local doctors who are providing lifesaving care to the real community them solving problems for others it's very fulfilling you don't get this in any other profession. we charge
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the dramas and delights of their inspiring efforts to successfully deliver the people's house. on al-jazeera. you can already. see. nicaragua once again a central american power. ok gk late april into anger brings tens of thousands of nicaraguans on to the streets to demand the resignation of president daniel ortega the former revolutionary hero whom the accuse of having turned into a dictator during one hundred days of confrontations up to four hundred fifty people are killed and thousands injured the vast majority are young people or take a response with a deadly crackdown paramilitary groups armed with assault rifles operate in plain daylight breaking up barricades and go.
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