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approached by everybody just to see what the saudis come back with and tell us later on today or tomorrow there's a toaster out as always thanks very much indeed die in the news ahead we're going to tell you how palestinians are using agriculture to protect their land from in the whole israeli settlements and the u.s. state of texas passes new gun laws after a series of mass shootings why some say it doesn't go far enough. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts we're going to take you over here toward spain we have been bringing you a lot of stories dealing with the flooding no only for spain but for parts of north western africa as well as into the islands just off to the east but we have more video to show you here this is coming just out of eastern spain to madrid that is
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and take a look at the flooding they have been dealing with since sunday now the flood waters are now receding but the cleanup is now taking place across the a suburban of this area the good news is though we don't expect to see much in terms of rain over the next few days i want to show you the forecast map as we go towards the next few days we are looking at a few clouds appear to the north but in terms of rain really most of it is going to be pushing up towards the north we're also dealing with as this frontal boundary here across parts of northern europe now with this we're going to be seeing a big change of air mass as a pushes through temperatures going to dropping and it is going to be quite windy to the northern part of this front take a look at the temperatures here to the south we are into the mid twenty's to the north we're really into the mid to high teens now over the next few days temperatures are going to be dropping across much of this area and with the winds it is going to feel a lot colder with that wind shield so for berlin at 14 degrees warsaw a windy day at 16 and kiev at 18 degrees for you. letter sponsored by
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catalona. in the heart of the amazon believe in family is putting lines in peril to harvest brazil nuts. which can sing the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. risking it to believe yeah. on al-jazeera. you're watching our visit a reminder of our top stories this hour saturday's drone attacks in the saudi oil
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facilities have triggered a record jump in oil prices as markets open but they've since satele u.s. president donald trump has authorized the release of america's strategic oil reserves if needed. and the u.s. government has released satellite images which is said to show the damage from saturday's attack the drone strikes claimed by yemen screw things up shot off about half of saudis oil output. well alia we spoke to rundown a hottie the founder and c.e.o. of energy market analysis group vanda insights and she said the lack of information coming from saudi arabia at the moment isn't helping things. clearly this is a big supply shock for the markets we're looking at close to 6 percent of the global supply that has been shut down after the saudis have said that they hope to restore at least a 3rd of close to about $2000000.00 barrels per day of production today but again you know that's not an official statement and i think the market is going to be in
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quite a bit of wait and watch mort and of course there's going to be a lot of nervousness and i expect plenty of volatility in trading as well we've had major disruptions outages is supply loss from iran from venezuela you know what the market when it looks back that's what it can it's get find in terms of supply disruption examples but then you know we had about $2000000.00 barrels per day of iranian supply out of the market as a result he was sanctions we had more than a 1000000 barrels of a day of venezuelan supply that has gone out as well but this has both of those have happened over several months both of those have been highly anticipated events it was well known so that the market always to pick has a coping mechanism for that something like this you know this magnitude being taken out of the market just like that you know in a matter of one day it's huge it's going to cause a lot of knowledge in not just because of the amount of. supply lost but also
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because that's just not enough information coming out of saudi arabia officially and i think you know that's going to be quite concerning for the oil markets. bodes are being counted after son is presidential election in to near 0 the official results a do you until as day but supporters of the 2 of the $24.00 hopefuls out already celebrating anti establishment candidates chi saeed and that bill carter we both say they won the 1st round the running counted it needs more than 50 percent of the vote many chin is ins thing bat son likely an expect our run off in november stephanie decker has more when the capital tunes half an hour before voting was due to start a small q. had already formed tunisians waiting to have their say on who is going to be their next president because they should have i came here to vote in order to get someone who can get this country out of the crisis the economic crisis the financial crisis we have lots of debts it's very frustrating my for me s.
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capital i'm not fully convinced about any of the candidates because there are so many and i haven't seen them from the beginning it's a 2nd time tunisians are electing their president since the revolution 8 years ago tunisia is often quoted is the only democratic success story to come out of the so-called arab spring the 1st country were it's people took to the streets bringing an end to the 23 year rule of president sane and aberdeen ben alley this is democracy in action yes there are many different candidates to choose from of a question is what hand they offer a to people are they going off for a real change or is the next president going to be more of this a voters here a telling us they're tired of empty promise the next president as pressing issues to deal with unemployment is higher than it was before the 2011 revolution security situation is a concern and corruption remains rampant the new leader will face a population hungry for change especially the youths many have told us they don't
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trust the politicians shall a key moves with will hurt you to lease with these elections are a good a thing it's the 1st time we've had a debate on t.v. with our presidential candidates we used to watch the debates on t.v. the united states and now we're watching the same thing here in tunisia that's a 1st national and international observers were polling stations across the country we noticed a gradual slew of people but interestingly we saw many elderly coming in very in the morning and being very well organized and there has been no issues and so so far it's been good which is hoping that by now the young people would have come on board and increase the percentage of voters luminary results achieved later with the official announcement on cheese day the winning candidate will need more than 50 percent of the vote and no one expects that to happen the likely scenario out of $24.00 candidates the top 2 will head to a runoff in november by the end of the day tunisian should know who they are
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stephanie decker al-jazeera tunis voters in israel had to the polls on tuesday for the 2nd time in less than 6 months by mr benjamin netanyahu is threatening to annex land in the jordan valley if he wins and palestinian farmers are vowing to protect what's theirs they're able him reports from cochlea in the occupied west bank this is the 1st time i had planted trees on this piece of land and qalqilya his harvest of a goddess should make him a prophet in 2 years but while the climate is not a threat the location in. the land is an area see a term describing more than half of the occupied west bank that falls under full israeli control here palestinians need israeli approval to build or develop their land but all around them new israeli settlements are sprouting up here and it's a risk but if we keep being scared then we won't do anything yes israelis have
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a stronger hand when it comes to control but we shouldn't leave our lands. jamal received support from a palestinian government project to farm the land the government says it will disregard israeli control over the area but that might be easier said than done. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has promised many times to apply jewish sorrentino with. the latest his pledge of annexing the jordan valley if he wins the palestinian leadership says it's not just the threat of course is using this as a ploy to pander to his extreme right wing racist base but at the same time he's been implementing this on the ground gradually below the radar and some cases but now with from this administration and the u.s. there is no need to fly below the radar he is now concretely and specifically carrying out these steps and declaring them and announcing them whether netanyahu remains in power or not observe or say political progress in the occupied territory
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is unlikely. to result in the terminology used in israel the discourse now is a political settlement that sees keeping the israeli settlements and. we talk about the jordan valley as a place they can go there was never a consensus about this issues in the past for many palestinians it doesn't matter who leads the government as israel shifts more to the right this radio elections heavily influence palestinians lives but they don't have a say in. the occupied west bank. dozens of passengers a missing daughter a river boat sank in democratic republic of congo police say 76 people on board were rescued but 36 others affair drowned in the congo river the boat went down overnight on saturday as it headed for the capital kinshasa. and rescuers are searching for people feared drowned after a tour boat capsized in india the boat was carrying 73 passengers when it sunk in the go divided rivers in the southern state of utter pradesh 26 people have been
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rescued and at least 8 bodies recovered so far. u.s. pharmaceutical company purdue which manufactures the controversial painkiller oxycontin has filed for bankruptcy just days ago it reached a tentative settlement with some of the thousands of state and local governments suing the company over its role in the opioid epidemic much of the crisis has been blamed on the overprescribing of addictive painkillers like oxycontin the settlement could eventually be worth up to $12000000000.00. workers at u.s. automaker general motors have gone on strike for the 1st time in more than a decade more than $49000.00 people of walked off the job at $31.00 factories across the country the united auto workers union is pushing for better wages health benefits and job security guarantees they threatened to stay on strike until an agreement is reached will to continue on monday are these tough the doctors from 2
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leading cause for those in zimbabwe are striking over the suspected abduction of their union leader peter mongomery has disappeared after he called for industrial action over wages that doctors say he received death threats several government critics including a comedian and a teachers' union leader are also said to have vanished in the past few weeks. it's actually unfortunate that he ended up coming to teach. both or not being able to afford to get. by and seeing a doctor and out for grants for food. stamps. we are not talking. about buying cars going to turn up with anything just to survive just to be able to look where. we. ate operations have resumed in the bahamas after tropical storm humberto moved away having missed most of the islands some communities are coming together for the 1st time since how they can dorian hit
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2 weeks ago alan fischer tells us more from freeport. for many this was the 1st time to come together since the hurricane the church a source of comfort after some difficult days open once more the hugs were warm the tears were real the stories of survival frightening we watch our house and our home just got destroyed i mean limb by limb or whatever you want to call it they just you know we were sometimes over 20 feet coming in going all over the roof into the roof because we were you know sustained some damage in that area we saw that but luckily dad didn't see us there sharing what they have one man and his family are sleeping at a friend's one woman has a walking well so is sharing water community coping together we lost everything everything we might as a salvage some little shoes and pants and suffer got to get our stuff ago
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a few of my church members not lost everything you know so i thank god that i didn't have that major damage in my house like some of them but we're all alive and we're holding on. just a short distance so we in the hudson neighborhood the work to rebuild has already begun. many buildings survived but have been. the shell by the storm waters this ear is probably about a kilometer from the sea but at the height of the storm the water was so high it would have been above my head simply inundating all of the houses in this city people are saving what they can but there's not a lot left to see the most so it's ruined. what we had salt water and sewage backing up into the building. but the everything is you know. not wait while saving the contamination that sewage george like many families
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here is hoping things will start improving before the end of the year getting back to normal that's not even under consideration for no alan fischer al-jazeera in freeport on the island of grand bahama former italian interior minister material salvini has called his former coalition partners traitors it criticized the 5 star movement during a rally in northern italy after salvini pulled out of his coalition with 5 stars they formed a new government with the poor democratic party. but i've said it in all the languages italian people are no one. thank you so surely whispers of merkel and macron we're leaving them to the traitors of your talian people. as the u.s. congress continues to debate possible gun control measures texas has moved in the opposite direction making guns more accessible as despite 2 mass shootings in
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organist i did joe castro has more from mission texas. last month's 2 mass shootings in texas took at least 29 lives. and here at the mission skeet and trap club the incidents have apparently driven up business it's gone up extremely yes ma'am the shooting range manager jeff simpson says the number of people who've come to practice shooting to qualify for a license to carry a concealed handgun in texas has more than doubled what do you think is behind that . people that are. hoping to protect ourselves simpson says he is a prime example he says last week he had to use his gun to scare off several adult male migrants here near the mexico border who wanted to take his phone i carry a gun. all the time that i'm here so i didn't pointed out i pulled it out i didn't want paula i didn't chamber it i didn't pull it out but it made them leave me alone since the reason mass shootings in texas it's actually become easier to legally own
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and carry guns in this state 8 pro-gun new laws passed prior to those shootings took effect this month they include allowing guns in school parking lots apartments and churches texas governor greg abbott a conservative republican responded to the latest mass shootings with executive orders to increase police training and public awareness he rejected calls from democrats for more gun control this is absolutely the wrong direction for us to take it's going to be measured in the lives lost not in the lives saved but it was a gun carrying good samaritan who ended the 2017 attack on a church in sutherland springs texas an armed bystander chased away the shooter after he killed 25 people but before he could kill more. at the shooting range members say owning a gun requires discipline and practice but even here there is support for removing
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weapons from people who. more likely to use them to cause harm people feel they're safe by just having with that's not the case texas has the most registered guns of any state more than 700000 whether that makes texas safer or more dangerous is still unclear. castro al-jazeera mission texas. and you can find a lot more on our website the address for that is w w w dot al-jazeera dot com. this is all dizzy with these of the top stories saturday's drone attacks in saudi oil facilities have triggered a record in the price of oil prices have since dropped u.s. president donald trump has authorized the release of america's strategic oil reserves to fill the market gap if needed the u.s.
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government's released images which is said to show the damage done in saturday's attack could prove vital in determining who attacked the plant and from where. votes are being counted after sunday's presidential election in tunisia the official results of june tuesday but supporters of 2 of the $24.00 hopefuls are already celebrating and the establishment candidates. we both say they won the 1st round the winning candidate needs more than 50 percent of the vote in each of his instincts that sun likely and expect a runoff in the amber dozens of passengers are missing after a river boat sank in democratic republic of congo police say 76 people on board were rescued but 36 others a feared drowned in the congo river of what went down overnight on saturday as it headed for the capital kinshasa. u.s. pharmaceutical company per do which manufactures the controversial painkiller oxycontin as filed for bankruptcy just days ago it reached
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a tentative settlement with some of the thousands of state and local governments suing the company over its role in the opioid epidemic much of the crisis has been blamed on the overprescribing of addictive painkillers like oxycontin a settlement could eventually be worth up to $12000000000.00. $50000.00 workers u.s. automaker general motors have walked off the job it's the 1st strike in more than a decade the united auto workers union is pushing for better wages health benefits and job security guarantees if threatened to stay on strike until an agreement is reached talks are scheduled to continue on monday and form an italian interior minister matteo salvini has called his former coalition partners traitors is criticized the 5 star movement during a rally in northern italy after sylvie pulled out of his coalition with 5 star they formed a new government with the pro e.u. democratic party those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after risking it all in about how often are.
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the place is infested with been sick since. genco the eldest of the feelings had a terrible experience no longer use the phrase and. it's ethical call one of the a lot imo but i bet any there a lot going on there and there. i was in which ended up 100 for me what i think on the mark siegel and it may have been what it had been the middle and the so the whole thing come on a little now when we fight for them in the air and i've got them in for the juncos wife claudia has never been bitten and still collects the shelves with the batman but her great fear is torrential that i think. this is more than. that on. 5 hours the whole family works to near exhaustion collecting the shelves around the giant not. if.
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you have one on one end of one of them had the flag i don't what i mean obviously not one of the i know about that i am what you are on your but i'm an author from mindful of every photograph and handle. the shelves the too heavy to be carried they have to be opened to extract the not that are exploited worldwide. chopping the shelves requires skill. the blade of the machete is shot and can be dangerous. if caught and then forget about it was that if.
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i don't know i will be among the low water around them as the government wanted them i wanted on the record to invoke arsala if i move there from here a little more like a medical if. by the end of the day they filled 2 bags of brazil nuts but then much too heavy at this hour and they're going to holler and as a little got to hear about my life but nature often provides solutions he. feels like he has on a. flight . to tropical rain threatens to raise an old trade to try. the family decides to leave the deep forests to see if they can.
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live. flew on the way home the young couple who had known each other since childhood already knows that the bag of nuts will not provide enough money for the whole family and it's no longer possible to collect any more because the torrential rains will turn the forest into a quagmire for weeks. thanks. since
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the death of his parents 26 year old janko is the head of the family and has 15 mouths to feed and. he had to give up his medical studies and claudia her dream. genco younger brother roma who's 18 will go to university in his place but there's just been some bad needs there on the earth from the public this is what he. actually i think is the hassles that. an. example. if feels give us a colonial so doesn't become those. few flowers. looking for a solution janko tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the
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usual prize. that's bigger than a thanksgiving for. $50.00 or $0.25 a kilo one be enough to pay for roma's university registration. lower rates ensure the bolivian harvest has continued to live hand to mouth. there's a consignment of nuts that my rocks due to the moisture. to avoid losses i get must deliver them as quickly as possible to a processing plant. but he's just found out his tank is empty and he has to buy fuel from a colleague. in the month of may. despite
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his troubles edgar is happy because for once he won't make the trip alone. if. a taxi has just dropped off the son we hadn't seen in months. to young alan his father's blue truck is amazing. the moment these women one of the men i was. on the middle of the middle. with and then the single message. this week amazed me out again as he says they were going to let me come in. here when they get up to the motor me on the radio because we've kind of here. with the people here. with their.
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precious cargo of notes begins a perilous journey through the bolivian amazon to the capital la paz. edgar was divorced a year ago he lives alone and this trip during the school holidays is the only opportunity to see his son. to make him. feel that way but yeah. but then once you get going to want it i want it to feel like. in 3 days' time it's back to school for alan 1370 kilometers away. if he's late as afraid his ex-wife will no longer allow him to have his son. but it's the rainy season and the route
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through the forest has already flooded slowing the traffic. across a tributary of the amazon the rio benny. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. just. like listen they're fun for. going to us and. the dock has disappeared under water. there are no boats to cross the river. the long wait is frustrating.
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the ferry struggling against the current finally arrived. i gather is one of the 1st to pull but there's not enough room for every one. moment that people from both go i don't know some of them but i know. that in the bus on. the bus is too long. so the sailors let the real wheels rest on the rusty rajon rondo. they usually try and get as many customers as possible on full ignoring say. with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry is tricky. but
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