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one thought the. ready a political crisis in molly, after soldiers arrest the president, the prime minister and the defense minister, the you and is calling for the media release. ah, hello robin watching owners. they were like my headquarters here in doha, coming up in the next 30 minutes. european leaders and sanctions against valerie santa a passenger jet, was sold to land and minns to detain an opposition activities. also stepping up international efforts to get the violence between israel and the palestinians, top diplomats travel to the region to make sure
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a fragile fire hold. the un says the world remains at war with the crew of virus health ministers from around the world lead to a sense, the state of the pandemic. ah, welcome to the program. a fresh, a political crisis appears to be unfolding. and molly, and after military officers arrested the president, the prime minister of the defense minister following a cabinet re shuffle. now the united nations mission in molly has demanded an immediate release of the politicians. witnesses say they've been taken to the military headquarters in katty. now there's been growing criticism of the numbers of military figures holding senior portfolios in the interim government after they seized power in a qu, last year. nicholas hack is all correspondent, following events from neighboring senate gal joys now from the capital decker. this is the fast moving story nic, and it's changing really by the minute and
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a very confusing picture of what may or may not have happened in terms of a qu, an angry re shuffle or just rebellious soldiers. that's right, and that's how the 1000000 people are seeing this. they're wondering, is this north or who, who is the president and who is leading molly tonight? what we know is that the president, by and the prime minister, has been holding talks inside the cab county not only inside cam county in the very place where the former president move a car cater was held after military turns out, took over power. really applying pressure both psychologically and to and forcefully to, to both the prime minister and the president. and we're hearing that the prime minister has resigned from its position even if that's the case in the government.
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that was just and that was hours ago that was supposed to appease the situation in molly, while that government will, they'll be a new government that will be announced. but clearly very volatile situation in molly and this is all happening in the, in this call than this tussle of power between the military june and the civilians that were part of this transitional government or the 1000000 people themselves. now there's been an uptake in violence, especially through the month of ramadan. there was a tax and in didn't say good, just 250 kilometers away from the capital. we've seen the biggest trade union organizing strikes for the past week strikes because wages haven't been paid for civil servants. and to that, the economic fall out of the pandemic. so very difficult situation for molly and, but right now we're seeing in what many millions are wondering is who is leading the country right now. there's been statements made by the un peacekeeping mission,
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remember, so there's 15000 un peacekeeping soldiers on the ground in mali, out to that, the 450500 french soldiers that are applying pressures on the arm group. so that transitional government can do their jobs while they're saying tonight that whoever is holding the prime minister and the president, well, they'll be held accountable for their action. this isn't going down well for the international community who has been supporting the multi and government. we have been asking for this transitional government to, to, to, to give power or to transit to democracy so that the power is given to a civilian authority. so for the day, thanks very much, nick access for us a decade ago. european lead us have drawn a line in the sand in response fractions by, by the research. so a passenger plane diverted to minutes, get an opposition activist on board detained. the incident has been described as an
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act of st. piracy and a shocking assault on civil aviation not even has agreed to sanction berries. the national airline has been banned from entering the blocks asked space billions of dollars of european investments in salaries have now been frozen leaders of also demanded the immediate release of robin passage and his partner and friends and family of protests which have dismissed a social media video showing the detain blog, apparently confessing to charges against him. opposition lead us atlanta, this kind of sky or set in a statement that it was given under duress. the u. s. has also condemned the incident and is demanding an international investigation. this was a shocking act. diverting a flight between 2 member states for the apparent purpose of arresting a journalist constitute the brazen a front to international peace and security. by the regime, we demand an immediate, international, transparent and credit credit,
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credible investigation of this incident. we are in touch with a range of partners bilaterally and through multilateral channels, from nato, the o. c u. n. you and others with us are. butler has both in paris. well, after more than a day of furious responses and condemnation from the leaders, they have agreed at the summit in brussels to impose a number of punitive measures on better if there will be economic sanctions for some individuals and better and some companies. they also looking at banning better received national carrier from e u airport and also or transit links with that they are looking at freezing billions of dollars of investment money in better worth the u commission. have a civil delay in saying that unless better us take the pulse to democracy and allow
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freedom of speech that money simply will not see. the like to say, we also heard earlier from the you a council to show michelle calling the actions of salarous a scandal. he said that i could put the lives of europeans at risk. that will also be an investigation by the use of foreign policy. all means exactly what happened and why is happen to the court. all you leaders united in calling for remind us of h to be released long with his girlfriend. they were detained when that ryan asked light finally landed in mintz. it's not all the time that you lead is also swift in their response to things or yet so united. but this time there is no doubt that they really wanted to come together to send the claim messages this sort of action by bell. horace is simply not acceptable. he told his electorate modern european history at queen's university in belfast, and he says, look,
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shank is close relationship with russia. his sheltering him from any serious repercussions. i think they recognizes that there is going to limits to the sanctions in terms of changing his behavior or the money he is real paula. and that's kind of really the dilemma they facing. on the one hand, they have to do something about it. but at the same time, i think it's understood that location, but whatever you do to him, as long as he enjoys moscow support your same power. but i think there was, there was already a long la rangel sanction being talked in japan before this incident. so i think what they will do now is just simply speed up the introduction and adding as well. so you want, particularly relating to ad tropic, through and around bella, which i think will send, send some sort of signal to, to look a shank of a t really is getting out of hand at this stage, essentially beller, which is not in itself a 2nd. if you computer 3, paula, but roger is,
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and that's basically is, is the relation where with it, where it goes. i really said with it with, but i look a shank of that that will not such him in my in a material way because i'm afraid to getting rushing walton that as well. but yes, those tractions, i mean there are going to very strong and they to members not strong, but still members with strong opinions about the ball in the spring. yeah. in particular which unable to build was which are very pushing for much hard assumptions. and that certainly will create more problems for bella was in terms of and relations with made that will be, you know, further deteriorated because of the section us president joe biden has thing to gyptian, president of the c c for his country. successful negotiation of an israel palestine ceasefire that says washington top diplomat hansley blinking is traveling to the middle east for talks as biden's administration faces growing criticism over
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support for israel of diplomatic added to james bay reports from the occupied east jerusalem. the us secretary of state anthony blinkin is on his way to the region in an effort to cement the c spar, which ended 11 days of conflict. some of those secretary blinkin will be meeting, have been comparing notes ahead of his visit. here the palestinian president mahmoud abbas with the chips and foreign minister, some show cree for president bass. this will be his 1st meeting with a senior us official for over 3 years after relations with the trumpet, ministration deteriorated badly. egypt foreign minister also represents the government trying to repair relations with the us. having played the leading role in brokering the c spot that ended the 11 day bombardment of garza, the gyptian, we hoping to improve relations with the biden administration, which had been shunning caro. now his full cold nation and consensus
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between president mahmoud abbas and president l. c. c. in order to consolidate all means to reach the common gulf, which is the establishment of the palestinian state. we are keen to support the palestinian people in the west bank and the gaza strip to eliminate what palestinian people have been subjected to this show cree earlier met with his jo damian counterpart, a man's far the foot jordan, the custodian of the holy sites in jerusalem. one of its main concerns is what happens here in occupied east jerusalem. jordan is also seen large protest, even with demonstrators gathering close to the alan b bridge. jordan's border with the west bank within sight of these railey security forces and one in latin sonny. the inhumane aggression by israel has been denounced by the world we worked with the world in order to put an end to the violation regarding what's going on in jerusalem. would refute and denounce all his wally
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practices that are illegal that are against the 2 state solution. there are hopes that a new reconstruction mechanism can be set up to allow garza to be rebuilt. secretary blinking has spoken of giving palestinians dignity and hope there appears to be no current plan to restart peace negotiations to give them their own state. james bay's al jazeera, occupied east jerusalem, while still had hail and algebra. the wolf top caught holes at 1st having undone, for one of the leaders of the judge, read on group is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. also political crisis and some swearing in ceremony as household the pacific idle nations 1st female liter. but her previous s refuses to give a power those stories after the break. ah,
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the hello there. we've seen relentless, heavy rain across the southern states of the u. s. and particularly in particular, texas and louisiana. now those rains have ease, but they were damaging floods. and the rainfall could bring more of those floods there and that rain band you can see it stretching up towards the great lakes, bringing with it some of those heavy showers. but it's a different story. as we had further east look at those temperatures, lots of warmed, coming through and we're going to have some records set in cities across those north eastern states. in particular, atlanta is a challenge to a record set more than 100 years ago. we could reach that by the time we get to thursday. there's also have along the west coast, in particular, los angeles and the 4 corners states. we've had fire warnings here, and those will continue as those temperatures continue to rise. but above that,
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we've got a bit of an unseasonable wintry mix across the rockies that's bringing wet and windy weather there as well as snow. and as we go later into the week, that'll move towards the plains of canada. now it's also a wet story for much of a central america, particularly heavy showers in southern areas affecting panama and costa rica with showers across the caribbean. the who's the precise, tried and tested and business is moving for israel's unmanned drug producers like a modified expertise games at any expense. inflamed global demand for western, which many see as morally indefensible. people empower, investigate israel drone dealers on a just me
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the the me look back to that with me. so romney reminder of our top stories. the united nations mission in molly has called for an immediate release of politicians, detained by the military, after cabinet re shuffle. the prime minister reports that need resigned has been taken to an army base north west of the capital by mckay, along with the president and the defense minister has agreed to sanction valerie, including banding is national airline from entering the blocks as base. it's in response fractions by valerie switch, saw a passenger plane diverted to minsk,
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and an opposition activist on board detained will. so you as president joe biden, as thank egypt for its successful negotiation of and israel palestine sees fine. nonsense us secretary said anthony blink and travels to the middle east for talks. tension is still high for days after the truth came into effect. but let's take you straight to brussels, where the president of the european council shall michelle is speaking about the incident over the skies of bella, race listening to provide clear political orientations. the b twice are useful to us, fruitful to us the opportunity to listen to each other, to, to each other, and also to truly give intelligence to make the assessment. what's the current situation and how we can try to improve the possibility for the you to, to defend our interests and to promote values also that we look. and then
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finally we had a fairly quick discussion on our relations with the united kingdom. there again, we do use conclusions. we want to have a fruitful relationship with a in k, a close relationship. but we would also like to have a fair implementation. michelle, speaking about the incident and the sanctions now placed on the bellow, race, as well as other issues. now, of course, we'll continue to monitor what the you have to say over the next few hours course with the world. he is at war with cove at 19, that's the declaration from the head of the un until you get harish was addressing health ministers from all over the world as they took part in the virtual world health assembly. the a day event will discuss missteps in the response to the panoramic and how to
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ensure greater access to health care. well, the world health organizations chief says it's time global leaders step up and make bold decisions to prevent another pandemic from happening. if we gone the same old way, we will get the same old result, a world that's unprepared, unsafe and unfair. make no mistake. this will not be the last time the world faces the threat of bond. this is the moment for bold ideas, bold commitment and bold leadership for doing things that have never been done before. 2 whole days following the meeting from london. doctor ted ross and to an extent secretary general, good terrace as well in those comments, pointing to the sort of wide appointed purpose of this
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w h. o. assembly gathering of a 194 members, its annual assembly in this the, in this case, the caea, the purposes reform, namely to pick up on 3 independent investigations that have collectively. so to pointed the finger at the w h. o, in its response to the pandemic, saying it was too slow that it was inefficient, that the member states didn't coordinate sufficiently with one another. member stations. institutions themselves were woefully under pret, prepared and evidence for that is in the vaccine shortages around the world that w h o. 's own kovacs initiative aimed at getting doses to the developing world is very low on supply because the serum institute in india, its chief supplier, has stopped exporting vaccines so that it can deal with the situation in india. specifically, on this talk over the next 9 days of the member states coming up with the sort of bones of a global pandemic treaty for future pandemic, specifically to deal with these sorts of problems. but mr. ted ross having to deal with the situation as it is his call going out to member states to particularly the
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rich world who hoarded vaccine doses, to hand them over as quickly as they can to kovacs. and for vaccines suppliers to commit up to 50 percent of their production in the coming year to kovacs and to the developing world. well, more than 300000 people in india have now officially dying from cave at 19, but the actual number is sought to be considerably higher journalists, doctors, and crematorium staff. also, many deaths are being counted, hospitals are struggling with a lack of medicine down to the acute shortage of vaccines. that's forcing several states to seek jobs from foreign drug makers. but to state say that they're being told pfizer. mcdonough will only deal with the federal government, elizabeth for all the possible new delhi. the official death toll only takes into consideration people who are dying in hospitals, and most indians don't die in hospitals and only around 22 percent. and that's medically certified the death have remained very high. but the good news is that
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cases are coming down and they coming down despite the level of testing remaining the same, the deaths remain high because it takes around 2 weeks for the fish to follow cases . and that was around 2 weeks ago that india was recording its highest numbers of cases, you know, more than 400000. they have come down to the official toll to around 220000. on sunday. the cases are coming down so much that danny's leader has said that they will begin to ease restrictions from this next week. but the situation to remain bad in some parts of the country, the southern states of thumb and not as was effected. and so they are going into a complete lockdown on monday they do. and what many other states in the country have? the government expanded the vaccination program to include everyone above the age of 18 from may. but because they weren't enough daughters, they told states to make their own agreements own arrangements with manufacturers,
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both indian and foreign, a number of states have been trying to do so. and the state of pun, job, which is one of the worst effected, has said that modern has come back to them and said that they are only going to make deals with the central government. but it's a central government. it's asking states to make its own arrangements, so the number of vaccinations over the past month have foolin. i'll sit mid melita unsung suit. she has paid in court for the 1st time since the february qu, the her lawyers were able to meet her for about 30 minutes and said that she appeared healthy. su chief a says, charges of incitement to sedition, violating state secrets and other offences. now she's been in detention since her government was overthrown by the military joint. at least 4000 other people are being health. 18 years after the start of sedans, da, for conflict. the 1st months suspected of war crimes, as appeared at the international criminal court algebra man, considered the leader of the government backed john jewish fight,
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as is facing $31.00 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. that vassal has moved from amsterdam. it was 14 years ago that an arrest warrant was issued for ali. i fell off, much better known as alex shape. the man considered the leader of the notorious john joey militia. on monday he appeared in court. he's accused of hundreds of executions, torture and using rape as a weapon of war. the victims of the suspects grimes, countless and their suffering immense. the pain inflicted on the victims of these crimes persists. the region of duffle is still grappling with the devastation brought about by these events. anti religious were destroyed. the prosecutor read a testimony of one of the rape victims. she sat under her leadership, which and next month, sexual war crimes are a priority. the war in the food has been one of the bloodiest in
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recent history. appease agreement was signed last year, but it's estimated up to 300000 people, lost their lives, many from starvation. the ginger, we'd militia for, alongside the sudanese government against non rope rebel forces. civilians were often targeted. it's such an important moment for people in dar 4 who have had no accountability for widespread crimes committed across dar for they've waited more than 15 years to see any moves towards justice. hundreds of thousands remain displays until to day. why the transitional government in place, in 2019, has made some efforts to bring justice to the victims in the for, for suspects, including the main suspect, former president obama. but she have yet to be handed over to the court in the hague. i don't know why i didn't need to pay, you know, we want to see the form of president and jail along with others and all behind us
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to the criminal court. that's a basic demand for people in dar for that. they want back down from the transitional government should cover all the gaps created during the time of the former government by cooperating without any conditions with the international criminal court and even get the job. the lawyers also urge the government to assist i. c. c. prosecutors who will soon visit, therefore, as much as possible. it took nearly 2 decades to bring the horrors of the floor to the international court. now the court has to decide if it has enough evidence to put up the last month on trial. and if it does, this could mean that us would follow subclass and al jazeera from the netherlands. there are others toll the us nuclear watched all that. it will extend a 3 month monitoring deal with the agency. the deal agreed in february was to end this month, but will be extended until june, around her told the regulator that it would no longer have access to data from some of its nuclear facilities. will the agreement expired. and that threatened ongoing talks in vienna to reinstate the 2015 nuclear deal between to her on the u. s. and
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world of world powers the equipment and the verification and monitoring and activities that we agreed will continue ass. now us the are now for one month, expiring. then, on a june 24, 2021. hold and has defined an injunction by the ease top court and kept to major brown coal mine open. the court ordered operations to her be halted at the true row mine there. the check and german borders on friday nights after the czech republic said the mine drains ground water from its territory without consent. but poland says stopping production would disrupt the nation's energy systems. more than 200 people have been injured at the serious, trained rush, malaysia to passenger trains. we're traveling in the opposite direction on the same track when they collided inside the tunnel in the capital column pool. now,
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but i just prime minister says an investigation is underway into the cause of the accident. there's been another unprecedented twist in the political crisis gripping the pacific island nation of summer. the leader of the opposition fast party has been sworn in his prime minister during an ad hoc ceremony that her rival says was unconstitutional, and amounts to a qu, alexia brian explains vienna not only mother alpha took the oath of office and attained outside samo parliament. she was due to be sworn and inside the eyelid nations, 1st female prime minister, but was locked out by the parliamentary speaker. the head of the legislative office locked the building so we could do extra. that's the site, the supreme court ordering parliament to reconvene the chief justice and fellow judges joining a march to the building concerned to the rule of law wasn't being followed. they
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will also kept out. and that's because this man care take your prime minister to where like a person layla malia link oil. he's been in office for 22 years that the ceremony was unconstitutional. at this time, there was only one governor of the custodian government, but to it is also refusing to be sworn in saying a part of psalm was constitution covering the number of women in parliament hasn't been observed. analysts say it's because he doesn't have the numbers to lead. i would say that it's what the nice thing aspects of the constitution to maintain power. there was a free fair and transparent election that happened in mind. april and member of the parliament were elected. the people spoke and democracy was absurd. it just hasn't been carried out. so you may say she went ahead with the swearing in as she has the numbers she needs. and because parliament must sit within 45 days of the election,
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monday was the last day. the power struggle began when fiance, who was once to allay his deputy broke ranks and started a new party criticising her former baath 5 months. this daughter of the 1st prime minister of san juan was free. politicians was able to get the support of diaspora, but also found one's across the nation. the outcome will affect not only samo stability, but also its relationship with china. with fan a promising to scrap $100000000.00 port project backed by beijing pacific neighbors, a watching closely, we hold a huge amount of trust in fight and the institutions and some are in the judiciary and the democracy. and of course, and the outcome that the election delivered and alco would simply be for all of
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those things to be upheld. many of urging the rival parties to come together and find a way out of it. unprecedented constitutional crisis. and sir bryan algebra. ah, what's there with lisa hill? rom, the reminder of our top stories. the united nations mission in molly has cool for immediate release of politicians, detained by the military after competent re shuffle. the prime minister has reportedly resigned after being taken to an army based north west of the capital. banneker, along with the president and the defense minister. nicholas hack has been following us from senegal capital dot com. we're hearing that the prime minister has resigned from the.

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