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played important role, protecting human 9 ah, ah, ah, celebrations infinity as the present dismisses the prime minister, but some say it's a coup. ah, other mon column is there a life and the lines covert emergency escalades, which 20000 people waiting for a hospital bed in the capital bank of the hope
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and heartbreak and jerry as 28 kidnapped children are united with their parents. 87 low remain captured and 10 talks in beijing, china blames washington press standstill in relations during a visit by a high level us. ah junior, he is president says he's dismissed. ringback primary stuff, his missy, she and suspended parliament in a move the head of parliament says is unconstitutional. it follows nationwide protest of the handling of the current of ours pandemic, and a struggling economy alexia bryan revolts, celebrations on the streets of june as he is capital tunic. and the hours after the president dismissed the prime minister and suspended parliament the 30 days. oh, what is the 1st time in my life?
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i've heard the head of the staid make a wide decision. we've taken our country back the 1st time we're out on the streets to celebrate the president, kyle said supporters made their way through the streets, welcoming news of political change. earlier thousands had protested in several cities about government failures and crippling corona virus. right. the crowd shouted slogans against the ruling. enact pansy and prime minister his machine, she calling for the dissolution of kurland and channeling found with the regime the i'm a partner with them. we have come down today to resist this regime. they take our money and curse us. they have not done any. the people always fighting. it is enough. how can 9 ministers rule an entire country? we have starved and the people are last shot. the police blocked all streets
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leading to the city's main thoroughfare using tear gas to break up the crowds. it was a key site for that. you know the revolution a d k to go, that toppled long time. president vain elaborating. banashali and unleashed the arab spring uprising. soon after the president called an emergency meeting, saying the measures when needed to save the country. i don't, i wouldn't. you have to have a sudden the 1st decision is to freeze all the powers of the parliament. if the constitution does not allow the parliament to be dissolved, but it does not stand in the way of freezing all its word and said, the 2nd decision is to lift the immunity of all members of parliament. and for those of whom a cases related says, i will take care over the public prosecution. critics, including the speaker of parliament, has called the president's action center. the decisions have no basis
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in the constitution, nor in the law, and we are against them. because in short, it is against the constitution against the revolution and accrue against public and private liberties in the country. the president meet misinterpretations that actually clashes with reality about call and list suggest a rivalry between the president prime minister and speaker has prevented action to tackle surgeon unemployment and crumbling state services. the to new jersey has also been overwhelmed by the corona virus facing one of africa's worst outbreaks. hospitals are overcrowded and under resolved on saturday, reported a record 317 deaths from the virus to many the countries deepening economic social problems had undermined support for democracy. some critic say that very democracy is now in danger. alex here brian al jazeera.
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meanwhile, there's been a stand off outside that unity in parliament. the gates have been locked and speaker received a new. she has been told he's not allowed in canoe. she has called on m. p. 's to consider themselves still working for the people. now mohammed jumped june, his report has been reported many times rather for me as soon as he joins me now. there's been some developments in this stand or fun. yeah, that's right. and run since we last spoke about an hour ago. we've been told that there are various groups that have gathered outside of teachers parliament in tunis . you have those who are supportive, a president, i studied decision to essentially suspend parliament. and you have those that are against that most of those would be supporters of not up. there have been some small scuffles, but security forces have gotten all those under control right now. it seems to be calm. but there is some concern that if more people show up throughout the day, and because you've had these calls by speaker parliament, russia knew she who is the head of and now the for their support is to come out to
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protest what he's calling this cool against the revolution that if you do have these various factions that are coming out, that, that could potentially lead to trouble and increase tensions, perhaps even more classes. well, we are looking at something that is building, but there's confusion and i want to kind of get to the bottom again. it's not quite a coo, right, but it's not quite a constitutional, it's not quite legal, constitutional negative, right? right. and there is one forum, according to numerous experts whom i've spoken with into nisha about this. there is one form that is supposed to arbitrate. and here are these types of constitutional questions. and that is a constitutional court that was theoretically supposed to be set up after the 2014 constitution was enshrined into law. a problem is that there is so much political disagreement across the political spectrum and to nature that nobody has been appointed to that constitutional court. so at the moment, the person who seems to be the final arbiter in this matter is the president said,
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but that's going to irritate a lot of people who are supporters of and know, but as to you know, the question of, if he actually can make these decisions, he is of course, an interested party. the other big question right now is, are there other legal forms available to parties like another, or these dismissed parliament members where they could take a case against the president. i've been told that there is an independent governmental constitutional commission, but it really doesn't have any power. there's also an administrative court that digs into issues of legalities of governance, but again, very little power when it comes to the country. so right now, as you said, nobody quite knows exactly what this is. many people are calling it who the president is saying. this is not a clue that he is empowered by article 80 of the constitution. and that he has 30 days by which to name a replacement prime minister, and then a new government can be put in place. but is that really going to happen in that
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timeframe? highly unlikely. but they might be able to sidestep the issue of the constitutional court, the fact that it really doesn't exist by using the king lakers. the people are empower, look to people else, often very influential, supportive media owners, business, right? who suggest somebody to take over that role and then the process, we get a back room deal, right? where is that? well, but it's, well, obviously there are going to be backroom deals attempted. i mean, this is not going to be a surprise at these discussions. are going to be taking place also right now, because you've had the president come out and say that essentially he is going to carry out prosecutions against members of parliament who been accused of corruption since the immunity has been lifted. now that is also going to ensure that there are going to be backroom deal attempts. but the real question right now is going to be, what role is the army going to play? because the army, his typically stayed neutral in these types of disputes and that's one of the
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reasons why they're so popular amongst the tunisian public. in fact, you look back towards the revolution days, 201-2011. and the army supported the people in their movement, whereas the police and other branches of the sky, the forces cracked down on protesters. so then another question arises, which is, would there potentially be a split amongst the various factions of security forces? right now it's just too early, going to know, i will just say this based on discussions i've had with contact in tunis throughout the evening. a lot of people believe that right now the president has the upper hand because there is so much fatigue into nisha about the situation about the high unemployment about the fact that covered 19 is ravaged the country as you heard in alexys report. just a few moments ago, the fact that the most basic of services aren't available to so many in the population. there are a lot of people there celebrated when they heard this announcement that parliament had been dissolved and they just want to see the bare minimum of functioning government going for leverage on june. thank you very much. always a pleasure. thanks and run me
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through charlotte capital is running out of hospital beds and you covered 19 cases . the situation in bangkok is forcing health officials to dismiss patients before they completely recovered to accept more severe cases. now people have been reportedly dying in the homes because there's no space to treat them more than 15300 cases were reported on monday, the highest figure since the pandemic began. tourney chang joins us live from bangkok and tony. every time we speak, there seems to be a new record that's being broken. 15300 cases in a day and now this other new grim record of hospital. but indeed, and i think it's a testament to the fact that this 4th wave is really hitting thailand much harder than has been hit in the past. as you said,
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medical services are under extraordinary pressure. the moment we've seen in some cases, hospital spilling over there that covered wards out into the car, parks of those hospitals until they can get people into the facilities to be treated. in some cases, people who are positive but not symptomatic of being told to remain in their homes . other people who've been treated and don't have severe symptoms of being sent home early, but told to isolate it's really a big problem for the government and fight in some cases we've. we've also seen very well documented on social media here in town instances where people have dropped dead in the streets with and tested positive for cove at 19. it's putting a lot of pressure on the government. they have asked in the short term for a new port terminal. it's one of them that both bank oaks international airport to be opened early and turn into an emergency feel hospital. that transformation is on the way at the moment. we're not sure what it will be opperation,
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but i think the feeling is here. the government could have done something much early. they were calls for serious locked downs in april of this year. that didn't happen when the 4th wave started. and now where the government's only responds to locked down with tighter and tighter restrictions, people are still able to go out in the daytime here in bangkok, but i think. but if they can't get the, even these numbers under control, those, that freedom might be restricted in the weeks to come. that's interesting. you talked there about the airport terminal being turned into a field hospital. is that going to quell the growing dissatisfaction with the government's response? i don't think it will lead been increasing chance about how the government has failed to resolve this. i mean, on top of the health situation, we're also seeing an economic situation. remember the thai government over 2020 really was seem to have handled the coven situation very well as we saw these problems in other countries. but what it didn't resolve was the cannot make
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situation. we did have a very severe lockdown here. when the covert pandemic stroke 1st of all, and we've been locked down effectively with borders for the most part, cut off. now that has hugely affected thailand's economic situation, which relies very heavily on tourism and trade. those sectors have been very badly affected. and now people who are unaffected by that a being affected very badly by the long term. there's a lot of criticism about the prime minister general problem. he came out on friday with a 30 fiery defense saying he was not responsible for this. but at the end of the day, he's the one the people going to turn to there's been chance error on social media about him stepping down. that is probably unlikely at this stage because there is no one i think, willing to step into his place. these problems are not going to go away if not, even if the government doesn't post strict locked down. they have ordered new vaccines to come from the united states, those unexpected until late 3rd quarter,
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maybe 4th quarter this year. and even when they arrive, there's no guarantee that they're going to easily solve the problem. and i think many people here expecting covered situation to get much worse before then. tony checking their life from bangkok, thank you. 28 nigerian children have been reunited with their parents weak self they were kidnapped by armed men. that have been emotional scenes as children returned to that town and could do in a state on sunday. 33 students have now been released, but 87 are still in captivity. home address reports from boucher the not after 3 or 9. an emotional reunion for parents whose children were peers and hawks greed the youngsters now free and safely back with their parents. the like the joy too much. i can't quantify the joy,
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god has done it. we said that if we got we will see our children and we have seen them as he has brought this child. he will bring the rest the but many of the parents will have to return home my painful images for parents wondering if their children will ever be who is not something that your enemies will experience will still have it. and so, when should nadia back? so as lead us we attention should be under a 100 bucks and then the parent abuse to its children should not take the actual didn't want to, we agree with them. we're believing that it will get well, but really it is not something that you will want to see. but as a future we find ourselves and we just have to ticket. the student had been taken from the bethel high school. in the town must abduction from
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a school in northern nigeria. in the past 8 months, nearly 1000 students have been kidnapped from boarding schools in nigeria. north in may, gunman invaded and islamic school in central nigeria and keeping up 136 students in broad daylight. when the 5 of them have so far been released. officious have denied paying ransom for kidnap victim, but many nigeria has done believe that some parents are known talk, negotiated directly, and paid rent them to the kidnappers. kidnapping for ransom is nigi. this past has growing criminal enterprise carried out by gangs, and i'm gross including how many degrees algebra still held out 0. the us says it could increase s strikes against the afghans. how the but if it's fighters continue their offensive. ah,
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ah. hello from joe had no fear. here's her weather forecast for the middle east. we've got some temperatures in the 50 is that includes back that 50 degrees on monday, but look some instability toward both sides of the red sea. so let's go on for a closer look. and we do have rain falling through the mountains of yemen, pushing into the heat as mountains in saudi arabia. southwest monsoon is really whipping up the surface we head toward the arabian sea. so for coastal sections of oman. i will see wave heights about 4 meters high. are also seen gusty winds through southern parts of pakistan that gives us the risk in places like karachi for sand and dust storms in the days to come. for turkey, that intense rain through the black sea region. it's starting to back off the sun. there will still be some showers on monday, but certainly an improvement over the last few days. and across africa we have seen
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some heavy rain. this is in chad. 60 millimeters of rain that heavy rain falling across the hail boat to the north end to the south. and speaking of the south will get here and one sec, but intense rain through sudan, longer border with south sudan on monday, further to the south temperatures ins and bob boy bill a while 15 degrees, but hang tight, your temperatures are gonna bounce back up to 21 degrees on thursday. that's your weather update. the news? oh, there the john virtuoso grayson concent, hold and dominating international competition. 1018, south korea musical prodigy. one to 0. on counting the cost, the on the tourism, the world's richest man, making a grab to control access to the trillion dollars face industry. taos, the new call. why rich nations of emitted agriculture from the climate change and
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how flowering call lives in iraq. counting the calls on al jazeera, the a watching elegance era. remind of our top stories as our genius is, president says he's dismissed prime minister machine and suspended parliament for 30 days. the speaker of the parliament says the move is unconstitutional. an acute extra security force units have been deployed around the part of the building thailand has reported its highest number of new client of ours cases. since the pandemic began in 15300 of been confirmed hospital beds in the capital, bangkok or
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a capacity and 28 nigerian children have been reunited to that parents weeks after they were kidnapped by lent. the children returned to the town in continuous state on sunday, 87 others remain in captivity. now, china is blaming the us for style made in relations, accusing it of creating an imaginary enemy. now that says us deputy secretary of state, wendy sherman, is meeting her counterpart. sure thing in changing sermons, the highest ranking officials a visit from the biden administration. the u. s. president has largely kept sanctions on china placed by his predecessor donald trump. well, adrian brown joins me live now from hong kong. this is her 1st meeting wendy sherman's 1st meeting. but the comment so far from the chinese one. exactly. encouraging a warm yeah indeed. rom, this is a low key visit with low expectations. i mean,
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look at the backdrop relations between china and the united states are really at the level they were under president trump, there's been no real improvement in fact under bite. and you could argue relations have actually got a lot worse. so when do sherman has arrived in china to see how the relationship can perhaps be better manage, but they do have a common name both sides. and that is to try and ensure that president changing thing and president job by and get to meet at some stage. the chance for that happening is possible in rome. when the g 20 summit happens in october, the hope is they can meet on the sidelines or perhaps not. this meeting that's happening in t engine today, i think will give us indication in ron as to whether there is a hint of an early reproach month in the relationship between the 2. there is a lot on the table to discuss because the relationship, as i say, is, is really falling apart on so many levels right now. so sherman has to try to
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convince one ye who she's meeting this afternoon. he's the chinese foreign minister . but they have to try and find areas a common ground of agreement. but as you pointed out in your introduction, the language from china still remains pretty hostile, as does the language from the united states. well, adrian, there's no real reason for the chinese to back down on this. they, they have always had a very bold position simply because of the size of the country and the power that they will. so where is the wiggle room? he was negotiating roommate to get those 2 leaders in a room together. yeah, well, you know, the, the chinese foreign minister, one year is a very skilled negotiator when sherman is also a very experienced negotiator. i don't think you're gonna hear them saying much publicly, what they do say will be used to sort of paper over the cracks. i don't think there
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are any hopes of any sort of breakthrough at these talks, but the fact they're sitting down and facing one another across the negotiation table is an encouraging a hopeful sign. but you know, there are plenty of things on the table to be discussed that have to be discussed. i mean, the united states wants talk not just about the state of the global economy, but also climate change. what is happening here in hong kong, the human rights situation, and shin jang, the south china sea, where the military brinkman ship is threatening to get out of control. now, the united states said ahead of this meeting that they welcomed competition with china, but they wanted to prevent that competition veering out of control into conflicts of what they want to try and establish says the us state department official guard rails. so that doesn't happen. adrian brown, thank you very much. who is good to hear your thoughts? the united states says it could increase its air strikes against the off gone
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taliban if it's quite his continued there, offensive. general kenneth mackenzie who oversees combat troops in afghanistan says the u. s. is carrying out enough air strikes to support the african army. but he declined to comment on how long that would last with the u. s. military mission set to end next month. present biden, to set a date of 31 august for the association of our of our campaign. here. after that date, we will still provide significant logistics support to the afghan military. we will still provide significant logistics support in particular to the afghan air force through maintenance here on the ground as well as maintenance at advanced bases in our, in the central, in the central command theater. so all of those things will continue. so we will continue to support the afghan forces even after that 31 august date. it will generally be from over the horizon. the u. s. is heading in the wrong direction. a warning from the white house chief medical adviser as cove in 1900 cases, rise among the unvaccinated. don't turn to the thought,
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she says the highly contagious delta variance is driving the spike. the sharp, if increases in 1900 cases are in states with lower vaccination rates, such as florida, texas, missouri, health officials are considering revising, mosque guidance, and booster jobs for the vulnerable people. now france as president, is calling for national unity of the saturday is protest against virus regulations . thousands rallied across cities against vaccine passed into restaurants and other indo places. parliament approved the new law early on monday. no money on the crown has criticized those fueling anti vaccine sentiment and urging people to get an and protest as have gathered in manila as philippine present rodrigo detach. i prepared to deliver his last state of the nation address before then, before the end of his term crowds marching through the streets, some holding signs protesting to test a so called
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a war on drugs and 6000 people have been killed during the operation. the rights group say that figure is higher. last month, the international criminal court top a prosecutor called for a full investigation into suspected crimes against the lebanese president. michelle, i own is set to hold meetings to decide whether to confirm nat geo, mcafee, the man endorsed to form and you government, if confirmed mcafee will become prime minister, designate hill, replaced sod, herrera, who stepped aside last week after he failed to form a government lebanon hasn't had a functioning administration for almost a year, leaving the leaving institutions on the economy in shambles. and the airline can government is by the chemical fertilizer imposed to say, millions of dollars. yeah. it's part of a strip club down on imports at the time when the countries farmers, as a fallen dangerously low. and as michelle fernandez reports from uva,
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they have move is impacting the livelihoods of farmers. john wasn't, they worried? the petite of the main tree long because we're putting a gun, the region says he used less than half the usual amount of chemical fertilizer on his crop. i'm off and i'm going to have to buying it off. i don't know the growth of the plants is affected me usually by this time we harvesting about 7 months or $75.00 days after planting the area is covered by the plants. but this time the growth is father. yeah. moves across the country have been protesting, the shortage of chemical fertilizers since the government been employed in me in because you saw my good successful greenhouse farmer has had to cut down his crop as well. he says farmers should have been consulted about the ban. evan oscar level when asked when things are being changed, they must consult us. make us aware of how things will change up,
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discuss how this is going to be done. the band and fertilizers come during an economic crisis. that is, sheila badly is 4 in reserves have fallen below $4000000000.00. people incomes has suffered since easter bombings is 2019. and the corona virus pandemic, as were in the situation, the government is under pressure to find the money to pay back billions of dollars in debt. that's one of the reasons prison good or bad. roger pastor says he's government been the importer, doesn't the items including agro chemicals, also 80000000000 repeat. 80000000000 rupees is what these country spends. just to import fertilizer. who does it's money? go to? the money goes to companies abroad. there are only 4 to 5 local companies making money from this. but the decision we talk will make this industry into a local industry. the president says he will not back down on the 30 lays a band,
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which he says is also aimed at improving the health of citizen, many of whom are struggling to make ends meet a government blitz of money printing has driven up inflation, which is the central bank, but at 6 point one percent of daily journey lost her income because of the pandemic . if you are a pensioner, the interest rates are low and your income has come down. you're lucky if you have a permanent job. but without 11th is to get an income. income is limited, expenditures are rising. the can make situation is creating a challenge. so millions of lanton might be able to far less. it's very difficult to survive because we have to spend more than what we own back in forming country communities, a bracing the smaller harvest and a major impact on income. one from a leader as an even more di, warning america, farmable manage the season with whatever fertilizer and chemicals they bought, a higher prices. but i say with responsibility that we clearly going toward food
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shortages. that's a certainty. even god can't prevent that. most farmers agreed the plan to cut down on chemicals use is a good thing, but say the sudden decision is not practical. the ban on agro chemicals is part of a government clamp down on what it cause non essential import during a serious foreign currency crisis. farmers said the hope for savings will be challenge by food shortages, minute fernandez, o 0 valley manta ah, there and these are the top stories. janet is president, has dismissed the prime minister and suspended parliament for 30 days. a car side made the decision after protests over the handling of the corona, virus pandemic, and struggling economy. i'm done, i don't, i wouldn't.

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