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and who stopped you? we listen, you see the whole infrastructure in guys being totally destroyed. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on our sierra. ah, i typhoon he 8th in china flooding. home businesses installing one of the busiest transport. ah, i'm emily angry and this is al jazeera live from so how so coming up, the severe weather is disrupting the tokyo lympics as well. where top athletes are already feeling they have desperate for help. we may migrants from me, emma,
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who fled the military crack down. but now i think corona virus, han ship, the and rushes, president warns of lethal strikes against the enemy targets during a parade to celebrate. if naval forces ah, typhoon has been heating a heavily populated areas in east, in china, with thousands of people already displaced from severe flooding. infra has made landfall in the coastal province of judge young, but it's already affecting shanghai. china is busy commercial hub, sorry chi root has this report. it's been a difficult week for people in many regions of china, fast a years worth of rain in just 3 days to get floods that killed at least 63 people
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and hen on province and displace more than a 1000000 others. and now a tie food has hit the eastern coastal province of jose young, bringing more rain and high speed when more than 300000 people have left their homes off to offshore. wind speeds reach, 100 kilometers an hour and an emergency. le was issued at its highest level, we've got a kind of a psychological trauma going on here as well as disruption. but there's also political significance and the end of that is possibly, you know, going to play out. overcoming mom, local authorities have clay, schools and businesses transport systems have been suspended to enable shanghai. china is largest city and commercial hub. all international and domestic flights have been cancelled. activity at the busiest port in the world has shut down with large containers. removed off ships is going to be really, really difficult. going to be of
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a difficult time for the shipping traffic. i would say ideally it should be at least a week or more. busy deliverable things even going to be normal. high food infer is the 6 storm to hit china this year and has already cause chaos and several other regions near by the storm headed there from taiwan, leaving a trail of destruction. but no one was hurt. it also dumped rental rains in the philippines, and this year's heavy monsoon season has made things worse, flooding thousands of home sheltering people has been a challenge during the pandemic later on in the water. and we made sure social distance thing is being implemented and we have face mouth for everyone. so if they forget there's we're able to provide for them. meteorologist say typhoon in far is weakening, but it's a still threatening motor rental rain in the coming days. thought a height of algebra,
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at least 9 people have been killed and 3 others injured. following a landslide and the indians phase of human child pradesh. large folders rolled down the mountain striking and ban. carrying 11 tourists, a bridge collapsed when one boat crashed directly on top of it. whereas he worked his and clean up came have been sent to the same. and parts of europe continued to be baffled with floods, awake after nearly 40 people died. this is the same in belgium on saturday of a flash flood, washing away cars, roads remain closed, and several homes were evacuated after a wall collapsed. clean up if it looks set to be hampered with more heavy rains for at least $400.00 people have been moved from the italian island of santia. after wildfires in gulf, more than 4000 had periods of land. 55 is using a crime to put out the flames. but those efforts being hampered by
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a hot southwesterly wind, causing the 5 to spread and the danger level on the island to now be at extreme awe and extreme hades. also the challenge facing athletes and organizes at the top yo lympics some competitive have collapsed because of the conditions. so tennis plays being given extra time to recover between sense. and he richardson reports from tokyo. it's not just elim peon, stating the heat in tokyo. the locals make sure they get up early for their sunday morning game of tennis. on friday, a russian archer fainted. an intense heat midway through her events and tennis willed number one. never jock, of ich said. the sweltering conditions during his opening match with a toughest it ever experienced. i think some people from, you know,
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other color country. i'm not good for playing outside in such a, you know, very hot weather go singles is it's takes over 3 hours or more. so it's hard to play, i agree with him, organizes insist athlete help is paramount, but the daytime events are sometimes necessary for you. a lot of the competition schedule has been built where possible, depending on the, on the sport to, to accommodate that. they will avoid the hardest part of the day that that's not possible with every sport. and on top of that, there's really extensive heat counter measures across all of the training and all of the competition. the 1964 took your lympics, took place in the cooler month of october, but the demands of tv networks mean july and august, and now the preferred time for the games organizes use a measurement koby wet, spoke globe temperature. it's effectively a combination of heat and humidity,
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anything over 28th experts. i can be stressful for an athlete. and that number's been hitting 30 and 31 in tokyo. the japanese environments agency naturally issued a heat stroke warning, telling the public not to exercise during the middle of the day. that is not an option for many olympic athletes. competitors did know they were heading into extreme conditions and many have spent time preparing in heat chambers like this one. when somebody is closing in the heat. davey after one to 2 weeks. so we've already be some very clear changes. if an ascii not prepare for the heat before to kill or before any competition, and so the same thing you would experience, must dick remind in your performance of the heat, is that the only weather related concern at these games a typhoon is approaching and some events have already been rescheduled as a precaution on the richardson al jazeera tokyo tub. lebanese sunni ladies
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have indoors to former prime minister, now z mccarty to form a new government. if confirmed my coffee saying here on the left, will become a prime minister designate replacing sign her re re who step down. last week, the announcement was made at a news conference in bay were light on sunday. lebanon has been without a government for 8 months. the country is experiencing its worst economic crisis in modern history. they've been fees fighting in the past few days between afghan forces and the taliban. the armed group has now taken the nary district in coon province, according to local military sources. it's close to the border with pakistan. the african army has been trying to hold the telegrams advance. meanwhile, afghans have ended the 1st night of the curfew imposed by the government for what it calls security reasons, all but 3 of the country. 34 provinces will be subject to new restrictions.
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us defense secretary lloyd austin says he believes the afghan government's plans to consolidate. security forces in major cities could help stop the taliban advance. i think the 1st thing to do is to make sure that they can slow the momentum and then and then be able to put themselves in a position where they can re take some of the games that the taliban, that some of the ground that they've lost so i think, i think from my engagement with the afghan leadership, they are committed to that and. and so we look forward to, to them making progress, they have, they have the capabilities, i have a capacity to, to, to make progress and to, and to really began to blunt some of the taliban advances. diplomatic
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editor james base is in cobble where he reports the taliban has been gaining momentum. it seems more bad news for the african government. no wry district in tune or province in the east of africa, the stone appears to have fallen to the taliban. no official confirmation. from the government side or the taliban, but which is there is spoken to local sources, spoken to military sources who prepare to speak of the record. now a districts in afghanistan, they are about $400.00 of them, a relatively small box. this is important i think strategically, because a mountainous area, but it's right close to the border with pakistan on i've got the stone also is planning to impose curfews across the country in all but 3 of the provinces. and we hear from overnight that in helmand, one of the provinces, that's going to have a curfew. 25, a taliban were killed according to the african government in african air force as
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strike. we're also hearing of developments in cobble province overnight and the city, the capital city in the province around it will not be subject to a curfew, but we hear that just north of the city in cobble province. there were 5 intelligence officers who has been reported have been killed. i can tell you officially, on the record though, cobble police, a simply saying that they have found 5 bodies under investigating who they are. and military ceremony is being held in a gas in tip to the to, to your soldiers killed in northern syria. the vehicle was attacked on saturday in the l bab area. the defense ministry says turkish forces immediately 5 bank turkey launched across border operation in 2016 to drive at iso am to and kurdish. why pain g 5 is tricky, continues to maintain a heavy military presence in northwest syria. russel sada, has more from assemble the turkish officials are confirming that their site is
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coming from the y p g. but when it comes to way p g distribution is a little bit complicated because y p g is enjoying the support from both russia and the usa was 2 countries are being considered by turkey as allies. just the attach that to please. yes. so they have been carried out from total pounds, which is under the protection under the control of russia and the syrian government, which means that the 2 actors also protecting white peasy by the turkish fort administration for the ministry. and the defendant is so far didn't national russia because it has concern that any escalation between us and moscow called have a negative impact on the delicate reason in the live where 4500000 people's leaving that. and that is potentially could trigger maybe one of the refugees. toby turkey was turkey hosting already for media future in refugees. all the other hand, the, the attack has been carried out by an anti tank guy to me, which many of the expertise that is,
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is provided by the us to the y p g and the washington continue that continuous support y p g is also another major reason for the friction between uncle and washington took, he says that washington is to immediately stop the supporting white, pg. because it is a pizza case. the officer which is on the federalist in the u. s. the european union and turkey. but the us, it says that the white piece has been an effective instrument against its it's in its fight against iso. so the reason tags is not when the going to going to further the string, the relations between on could on washington. but also it is going to determine the relation between on cut and moscow as well. i reporter russell sada allegations and recriminations in china issues a fair warning to the us, the head of high level talk. also coming up and still waiting for help. why? mexican court in the criminal will feel more isolated than ever.
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ah, the most places in the middle east is back to normal. it is hotter than his average lead the case. and there are more showers in the west above yemen, parts of saudi, but not so much in her mind. now. the edge of the effects of monsoons catching salaries overcast here, there is drizzle that last 3 months, but temperatures are not excessive. for the most part into iran, for example, or, and ask about with come down a little bit. that's not true for iraq. so for iraq and saudi arabia in particular is looking particularly hot, young child reason levant keeps things a little cooler here. quite a brief is blowing out of iraq, and that'll be a dusty one down towards react. you'll notice nothing in the gulf. so the temperature in the heart of $43.00 is just surprisingly humid. 43, you know this time year for re out. we're not quite had to be recorded, it's 48,
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but we're getting close. and like most, some places in this part of the middle east, it is warmer than average by at least 3 degrees. and that will persist. the horn of africa is a little damp and optically wet this time the year it is, the big thunderstorms are these you can highlands maybe an area trailer a trail all the hell is held about here. so the south of sudan and north south sudan is where does it meets green and is particularly wet of the moment. the, who's the weather bag energy and change to every part of our universe. or small to continue the change all around the shape by technology and human ingenuity.
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we can make it work for you and your business. ah, the me. watching al jazeera, i'm emily anglin. a reminder of our top stories is our typhoon in fi is heating, heavily populated regions of ace in china. it comes days after flooding a 1000000 people from their own and killed, at least 50000 people have been moved to emergency shelton, top 11. a sunny latest have endorsed former prime minister machine, mcafee to form
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a new government. if confirmed mcafee, same here on the left will become prime minister designate, replacing reread. living has been without a government for a month. there's been fees fighting between african forces and the taliban group has reportedly taking control of the district in a province. yes. can army is trying to hold the alabama in migrant workers from me and my living in thailand, border areas of facing increased hardships locked down, their main stays less work, leaving many to rely on donations. yet people still flayed to thailand to escape from military rule. back home, florence louis reports says, usually no shortage of work or laborers for farms in pop prod, district in western thailand. many farmers here employ migrants from across the
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border in myanmar to work the fields. but the surgeon corona virus cases in the 2 countries has made life more difficult for migrant workers. thailand has imposed a nighttime curve. you and travel restrictions. this lady who doesn't want to be identified had gone back to me on my last year to renew her passport. but she couldn't return to thailand eagerly after the borders were closed and ended up paying brokers to sneak back in illegally got all the loading away. i mean, in many migrant for me and my in trouble now, many of us have to hide and escape to thailand to find a job. some of us got caught and was sent to prison. more watson, johnny id curry is also a migrant from me. and mom who has settled in thailand for many years. he helps run a local charity. there are a lot of children also come along with the parents and there's some parents, they don't have a document. so they had a lot of, you know,
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issues to going around. and if the parents get arrested, the children will be left behind in a hot or in houses and who's going to take care of their children. he says, live here. it's also getting increasingly difficult for migrant workers because of corona virus restrictions. when a new infection is reported in a village, no one is allowed to leave unless they can show this tested negative for cove at 19 . many are unable to find work and has been relying on donation, but supplies as slowly dwindling as continued restrictions cause economic hardship for everyone else. the struggle for survival is also made was by a sense of frustration at what's happening back home. me my vision. i want the manmohan to release and sun city and focus on helping the people from the crisis. i want democracy and men more than the come to can move forward to develop. but
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there's no indication the generals in myanmar are ready to give up power. florence louis al jazeera, more than a 1000000 people in malaysia have had coven 19. it seems the start of the pandemic, the country past the milestone after reporting and other 17000 cases on sunday. the delta variance is fueling and new ways of infections across se, asia. malaysia's government has fed up with vaccine ro left and a strict lockdown is in place for us deputy secretary of state, wendy sherman is heading to china should be the highest ranking biden administration official to visit the country. on the eve of her visit, china's foreign minister had this warning for washington because of the u. s. has been using its strength to put pressure on other countries and thinking it's superior to others. we need to tell us clearly there's no country in the world,
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but it's superior to others, and there shouldn't be one. china will never accept any country that claims to be superior to others. if the u. s. has not learned to treat other countries equally. china and the international community have the responsibility to help us learn this lesson properly. graham on web is a research fellow at the institute for defense and strategic studies at mann young technical university and singable. he says there are areas where washington and by ging could improve time. ms. sherman is up for an uphill battle coming into chant tinge and today to to meet her chinese culture partner to try and set the tone of this highly deteriorating relationship. right. if at all possible right now, that's the narrative that's coming out from washington. that china is really in a country or a government to to be suspicious of. and right now i think in se asia,
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the region to withdraw, lloyd austin will be visiting by tomorrow. first op singapore is to remind all partners here in the region that day should really be more watchful or not take, you know, chinese support that's coming into the region. terms of capital, in terms of chinese businesses coming into the region for granted the be, you know, the sort of get an agenda behind that and everyone should be more vigilant. at this point in time. it's all up to, you know, both be jing and washington and officials and both sides of the fence to not to be you know, sort of distracted from what's really important, what's really common between all parties. and they get caught up in these issues about it's all trying to see and also of course, by espionage and all and, and the like, i mean these things are really important. but i think we also need to look at the more at the, at the areas of which more cooperation can be forged right now in terms of these hotspots. i think that's not where i think we will find beyond food. russia has
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held its annual show of naval strength. it displayed in state of the war ship submarines and weaponry in a parade on the neva river in saint petersburg. and in the gulf of finland, president vladimir putin attended the event. maybe day is a public holiday, but there are no spectators this year because of the pandemic. pavel feldman ally is a columnist on defense and military matters. no via eta. he explains the political significance of russia's naval show of force. well this was basically about showing off and showing off really for one person, for the webinar butcher by the reporting was born in saint petersburg some 68 years ago. he grew up, there can be very much like the navy maybe in the dreamt of being a day or something. and so the he likes it than he was the military display good
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for him. because the military right now are in some of the station with the more liberal konami, the block of government, which wants to cut defense and demonstrate the military. my it's very important for that. and of course, it's good for the public, which officially was not allowed, but in fact, in moscow, i mean in st. petersburg and, and rosco, the depot, came to the embankment. the police does not interfere. and so there are lots of all and that my brain more infection because roger now to the russian population, the majority are not next to me. and there was a lot of people there. rush of course is selling and trying to sell different find the weaponry submarines and some ships joseph in the nation. but the nuclear ships are not for sale and nuclear strategic. so we're not for sale
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. but there's a lot of internal conference station not seen from the surface. there's also a very, very serious confrontation between the russian lading and the russian army which controls the entire military time generals. the naval commanders are very, very better, and they very much use this occasion of this naval. the special day to vent their disappointment and disapproval of the military commander and himself. the french president has demanded an explanation from israel after an investigation revealed. its spyware was found on the farm, a manual mccombs phone, along with other french government officials, was reportedly hacked, using pegasus spyware, developed by an israeli based. and so group, 10 governments, including the united arab emirates,
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are alleged to have both the violence technology to track activists, journalists, lawyers, and politicians. hota abdel hum, it has more from whipped jerusalem monday would have us fairly bennett to make sure that there's an investigation that would be happening. that certainly is well, should look a bit more closely into licensing at the moment the licensee for any of these sort of cyber weapon companies are given by the ministry of the fence and all any contract that the company like. and so there are several others that are based in israel. they do exactly the same thing. well, any of those lies is, or any of the deals they gave has to be agreed upon by the ministry of defense. now it seems that the really government is going to look into that a bit more closely. a committee from the message is in the words, to see out,
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to review really all the life, how the licensing process goes on. and to review, really the scope of these companies, whether they should be able to. so that kind of software to any country in the world or not, mexican state of michel con has same some of the countries worst violence in recent months. a local gang is in a test for with a rival criminal organization from a neighboring state. al jazeera visited the center of the battle earlier this year . now john holman, has this update on the situation? in april al jazeera visited the mexican town of ag aliyah caught between 2 criminal groups. nova cut off from the rest of the state, mitchell county. it was so isolated that we were the 1st journalist to get there since the fighting between holly's co, new generation, cartel and cartel is needles intensified food. petra,
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the medicine was scarce with the call to will continuing. we want to check how the villages were doing. now, the answer worse. all the people are leaving the town, leaving us more and more isolated. we can't get down the highway to the town, so we stuck up in groceries and work materials. it's hard to get food medicine and the government doesn't respect the agreements that they've made. profile owns the local carpentry workshop, but doesn't know how long you can keep it going. even the internet and cell phone signal are on the blink. i cool, kept cutting out. last thing cause the tech services are non existent, nobody can give maintenance to those services or the internet, or even the electricity plants. it should have been like this. back in april we heard the police promise. they cleared the gang blockades of the only paved road connecting glee with the nearest town. a puts in gun. i asked villages if that's
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happened. this one wanted us to blow his face to fear of reprisals. he doesn't know whether it's a fos alive. the government hasn't done any of the things that promised this sleeping, eating by the side of the road. they like iguanas, in their trucks. we go past and they look at us like zombies. you'd think that the national god is there to serve us. not the other way round. in fact, what villages and journalist who tried to travel to actually recently tell us is that there are now 5 checkpoints, all belonging to the war and criminal groups down that road. in the middle of the mo, there's actually an army checkpoint. we told it's just round the corner, just a couple of 100 me is from one of the criminal ones. but the army either con or doesn't want to clear the road. and that's why we haven't been able to get there. and that's why we're reporting this from itsco city. actually you became a national issue before the midterm election. the president himself said he visit, he's not the person. this is philip ralph. yes,
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i will with it. just after the election, i know, i believe, as i know all of the municipalities in mexico, i spent the night there. mickey, i can tell you that in front of the main square, there's a hotel where i've stayed. you'd have trouble staying at that hotel now. it's been burned out, but 2 days later he changed his mind anyway. boy, yeah. bundle. well, i'm not going because i don't want to stir the pot with the sensationalist press and our adversaries. while he worries about the politics of a visit, the inhabitants of the town, just hoping that someone, anyone can come and help them, john home. and i'll just say to mexico. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. typhoon in fi is heating, heavily populated regions of age in china. it comes days to flooding forth a 1000000 people from their homes and killed at least.

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