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that comes with the job with we follow the journey of the people as they get the all to survive. risking is all peruse on allergies era. ah, the security forces keep the pace in tennis. as media reports reveal the biggest vertical parties at the center of an investigation, ah, allow me to say that this is al, just here alive from dell hall. so coming up, an influx of afghan fleeing the fighting rescue that the president outlines his vision for the future. pouring more misery on their lives,
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writings are killed in line slides is the world's biggest refugee camp. and us then take gymnastics champion, seamen biles pulls out of another events, focus on mental wellbeing ah major development now in the political standoff into news media report say judges have begun investigating 3 political parties on suspicion of receiving foreign funds among them and nava. the largest party in the government coalition, it's been pushing for elections off the present ice side, dismiss the prime minister and throws parliament soon as he is foreign ministers, phone down lies in turkey and european capitals, telling them the extraordinary measures are only temporary. as talk to sam kimball, he's a journalist and joins us now live in to as to how people seeing this move by the
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judiciary that being seen as completely coincidental and law and order. well, what there's, though, there's a lot of suspicion here that there is that this is more of more than just a coincidence in terms of timing this investigation by the 2 nations. you did sherry of 3 major parties, including another party which has had a plurality in parliament as well as the the heart of to need a party and the eastern party. this investigation was opened on the 14th of july. it was on the 25th of july on sunday that can you just president i cited took some of these extraordinary measures sacking susan prime minister, his embassy as well as freezing parliament. and it's only just been today that
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we're hearing from local media reports that the judiciary rather that the that the, there's been the announcement of this investigation. so that investigation was opened on the 14th to clarify. and we've, we've learned about it only today. and so it seems like it could be more of a coincidence. there's been a rift for a long time between the prime minister and the, and the president side, as well as between the president and the, the largest party, the another party, which is the political climate party. they, there's been a conflict between them for some time. so whether these 2 things are related, the investigation into foreign funding for the 3 parties and the, the, the sacking of the prime minister and the freezing parliament. whether these things are simply a coincidence or related. many people are wondering if they're, if they're related incident, have we had any reaction,
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sam from these political parties now, especially given the fact that they were already talking about calling for demonstrations, calling for action against the president's move. the reaction from, from political parties has been from, from what i've seen here been the strongest from, from another the leader of the party arrested the new c. as far as i understand on on monday that was just after the dismissal of the prime minister had been announced on and the freezing parliament had been announced on sunday evening was calling for citizen and was calling for for supporters to resist this, this concentration of power and impact it was as far as i understand, a brief sit in by some of the, the leaders in front of parliament on monday. but that was soon dispersed. so.
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ready there's, there's resistance, and there are politicians in the country who are saying that this is a coup d'etat and if not a to data, certainly frightening development as now tremendous amounts of power have been concentrated into the hands of one man. and this, after the 2 news in revolution of 2011, kicked out a decades long dictator, president been allie, thereby setting off much of the arab spring revolutions that we saw in other countries. and so yeah, it's being looked at as a rather frightening development that now the, the, the chinese and prime minister controls so much after having taken these extraordinary measures other than the president. i think you mean the anyway, thanks so much time kimball me
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america's top diplomat has reiterated that the only past the peace enough can establish through negotiations. secretary of state anthony blank and made the comments in india where he's on his 1st visit since president joe biden. took office, he met his counterparts and is expected to meet the prime minister in the coming hours. what we're seeing on the ground in the last week is the taliban and making advances on the district centers, challenging some provincial capitals. we've also seen these reports of atrocities committed by the taliban and areas that it's, that it's taken over ultimately an afghan, a stan that does not respect the, the rights of its people. an afghan stan that commit atrocities against its own people would become a pariah state. and they're not gonna stand president. i shot the valley is given
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a major policy speech on the country's future direction. but his address has been lying on details of how the government plans to counter territorial gains. by the time they bond van a broadly spoke about having full confidence in local forces as international troops withdraw. the conflict enough can stand its driving hundreds of people to make a perilous journey to europe for safety and shelter. turkey has detained a boat, carrying more than $230.00 refugees and the g and c. officials believe the group of mainly african refugees were on their way to italy. talk to barbara, but arch who is the global spokes person for the united nations high commissioner for refugees. he joins us on skype from geneva. good to have you with us. so as i'm sure you're aware, there's been an uptick in fighting and a lot of people are being displaced. where of the majority of these people going though trying to sadly,
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we have seen other ones being displaced inside the country inside was found by large numbers. so far this year, conflict and insecurity has displaced nearly 300000 alons inside the country and 100000 in the last 2 months. so along mostly currently are being displaced inside the country and be at unix. yeah, the you under g agency has been warming about looming humanitarian crisis . if efforts to find peace and stop is escalating. why and do not give results. and if you're in outlined in one is done to dave after 20 years of international engagement. you want everyone come to you or help and
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support to find that piece. if a 100000 people are being displaced in as little as 8 weeks in a place like half gonna stand, is that any infrastructure available to look after him? what, what happens to them? but units y'all are my agency as a human to the organization is on the ground. you're working to support those that are being displaced. but let's not forget the for the year. ready for decades of conflict have left everyone affected inside on one is done to did the or all picture of displacement is nearly 3.5, a 1000000 people. we are doing what we can do being on the, on the ground where our displeased people arriving. skipping for their lives, so they need everything from water, food, or shelter. but also they need support or not only for us, but from,
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from the countries in the region, from the global community, from the international community at this stage. and at this juncture, i don't want to feel that everyone else has abandoned them. so that's why it's really important we keep calling on everyone to do their contribution one to find peace. but also keeping our support for avalon and inside the country. and for those who are outside minority of those who get displaced because of the fighting, actually make it out the country country to walk. one might think the majority of those refugees end up in iran and pakistan. right. well, what kind of conditions do they face their exactly, we're talking about 2600000 refugees who are currently living outside the country. the country and majority 90 percent of them are being hosted by the
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neighboring countries. pakistan and iran were kind of set an example of generosity in terms of posting on refugees, but also they look to international support as well. so far because of the ongoing fighting. again, this collecting conflicts, since may, we haven't seen any major refugee outflows. beyond outside of one is fun border. but what we try to keep calling on everyone is this is a critical junk. julian, i'm honest on history and forty's of people to do 25000000 people live inside of one is done and they want this conflict, this insecurity to and they're all looking forward for a peaceful country that everyone can live. ok,
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thanks so much for coming. and talking to us about bar launch still ahead on al jazeera, no one had ever ever called me, and while wearing the uniform of a capital police officer, harrowing testimonies, i police officers on the us capital during the attack there. special menus for the south korea is empty gasoline leaving a bitter taste for the japanese house. i i, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello, here's your weather story for asia pacific we're tracking leftovers of what was tropical storm in for as it surges moister. further to the north,
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this will hit beijing. we're not going to see nearly as much rain as we did see for areas like shanghai. then we're also dealing with the leftovers of tropical storm departing. it's going to give us just a few showers for tokyo and breezy, but then we're back into the sunshine as we head toward friday and saturday. ok, i want to take you to indo china right now because some heavier pulses of rain for southern and central areas. all part of that southwest monsoon, also steering heavy rain toward loose. on island in the philippines, manila, we have seen a rivers there, reached dangerous levels. so we will continue to watch that se asia some spits of rain for the delay peninsula, dry spells force, boucher and java. heavier concentration of rain, though, as we check out brunei on thursday are says, west monsoon, a bit of a breather for the west coast of india, but we'll see that was heavier pockets. as we head toward westbank all on thursday . that's really where it's picking up. next fall and off in pockets, stop where it is windy toward the south. so we're running the risk as seen some
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sand and dust storms in karachi. that's your weather update. we'll see you soon. sponsored call cut on airways. motors is big news in libya, but staging car and bike rather here comes with its own particular in our club. couldn't take part in the 2016 rally because we were fighting a war. and i'll just do a world troubles for the libyan. just to see how full on 4 wheel can be a unifying, pull water country. lydia. a rally on al jazeera. ah, ah. the me
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wanting out just a time to recap, our headlines now for our faults to news is judges. it began investigating 3 political parties and suspicion of receiving foreign fun. among them is a nanda, at the longest party and the coalition government. it's been pushing for elections off the president. i dismissed the prime minister and froze parliamentary of this week. i've gotten president industrial money has been giving a policy speech on the future. direction of the country. address comes as a holiday, bon continues to make gains across us. last week, the government deposed a nighttime curfew. monsoon rains in bangladesh of triggered land slides, the world's largest refugee camp, killing at least 6 people, mostly children, could pull on camp and cox's bazaar is home to more than a 1000000 writing refugees from neighboring near mar, alexia bryan reports in the pouring rain. people come to see
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what happened or salvage what's left. the makeshift homes built from plastic sheets and bamboo pole had no chance when the muddy hillside collapsed into rachel rains. but one of you left and my sister went to the bathroom and after she returned the side of the hill, came down. i have one nice and 2 nephews and my sister. my brother in law, along with the other family members, managed to get out of the shelter, but the kids came down on those 4 and the shelter was damaged. 2 of them died and 2 others were injured like the powerful monsoon range caused a flood that reached loose high and some areas of the crew to column camp. more than 100 teens to see, to be washed away by the water. good apollo and bangladesh is the world's biggest refugee camp and the most densely populated. it's high to more than 1000000 wrangler who flayed a crack down by the military and neighboring miasma. it's overcrowded, basic,
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and prone to live live, been flooding. how may i have informed the people at risk to be able to not comply with the request of the we will take alternate steps. not so much as we hope the population that we will be willing for. the government says all the ra hanging will be received filled as soon as possible. and that measures are being taken to minimize casualties caused by the annual rains. but right group say it's not enough that the flood prove once more how vulnerable to ringo refugees to the impact of climate change. many and now sheltering and mosques in school and facing the prospect of having lost their homes again. alex here brian al jazeera in thailand has counted
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a record number of new current virus infections. for the 3rd day running molding $16000.00 cases were reported over 24 hours. it's the biggest outbreak since the pandemic began being blamed on the delta variance. it 1st appeared in india and is more contagious. tony chang has more from bangkok we're getting record numbers every day. we pretty much seen them everyday for 2 weeks now. and the government despite clamping down with tighter and tighter restrictions doesn't seem able to stem the flow. certainly they are doing more tests now. but they are uncovering more clusters at the same time. we've seen the government come out the in fact, the prime minister himself in the last couple of days with a fairly fiery response, saying that the, the reason the infections are climbing so quickly is because people weren't following the directions properly. but we've also seen a lot of people who, who are going out in the daytime, which is still permitted under the current regulation thing. we have to go out for
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our businesses. we had to keep up as this is a life, even if it means risking health and catching cove at 1900. if our businesses fail. so to we can of course, at the moment that said the cobra, 1900 response team is meeting today. it's probably going to introduce more strict measures at this stage. it's hard to know whether we're going to return to the very hard lockdown we are in at the start of the pandemic. but the government is running out of choices. health services, other on the real strain here, hospital bed to be running out. in the last couple of days, the government has asked the international airport to open up a new terminal in an emergency hospital and didn't even using a train carriages to treat a symptomatic cobit patients. so they really are looking hard for a solution. but at the moment until they can get the vaccination program fully functioning, it doesn't look like they'll get things under control. the white house is considering requiring employees of the federal government to show proof of
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vaccination. otherwise, they may have to submit to regular cove at 900 testing and where a mosque case is in the u. s. continue to climb largely driven by the delta variance on tuesday. the centers for disease control and prevention reversed it's mask policy saying even vaccinated people should wear them indoors. joe biden is warning significant cyber attacks could trigger a war. the us president made the remarks while speaking to intelligence personnel fibers securities become a top priority for the bio administration. after a series of high profile attacks, we see how cyber threats, including ransomware attacks, increasingly able to cause damage and disruption in the real world. i can't guarantee this and there is informed design, but i think it's more likely we're going to end up when we end up in a war real shooting more. when the major power could be, as a consequence of
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a cyber reach, of great consequence is increasing exponentially. group the capabilities, the attack home january, the 6th on the u. s. capital building was a clear plan to disrupt democracy according to a police officer present that day. he was one of several offices testifying before a congressional committee. john henry reports from washington, d. c. hold true and nothing but the true in sometimes harrowing testimony for police officers detailed the coordinated attack on the us capital. and on them the washington police officer, michael for knowns. own body camera captured him being pulled into the crowd of donald trump. supporters beaten and shocked with a taser like stay in their body. like it's jimmy on here. and he says,
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the response from republican politicians has been just is hurtful. the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful, but nothing truly, nothing has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of that day. and in doing so, betray their oath of office washington metropolitan police officer, daniel hodges, seen in a viral video. being crushed between the capital doors by writers, urged congress to act. i need you guys to address if anyone in power had a role in this, we're not allowed to join us capital police officer harry dunn recalled being taunted with racial slurs. no one had ever ever called me. and while wearing the uniform of a capital police officer, just 2 republicans joined the panel defying their party to question the officers.
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you guys may like individually feel a little broken and she got his line. you guys sell you here, the former president, trump say quote, it was a loving crowd. there was a lot of love in the crowd. how does that make you feel? it's upsetting? is a pathetic excuse for his behavior for something that he himself help to create this monstrosity. i'm still recovering from those hogs. in cases day the the house select committee saw previously unseen video. some of it graphic, profane and threatening the the i people died on capitol hill on january 6th. but despite the presence of 2 republicans on the committee,
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the republican party is largely refusing to cooperate with the inquiry in solidarity with donald trump, who urged the borders to march from the capital house republican leader kevin mccarthy says the hearing is nothing but political theater. that becomes a failed committee and a failed report. a sham that no one can believe is the hearings continue the effort to investigate. the insurrection continues to be matched by an equally aggressive campaign. to discredit it, john henry and al jazeera washington perused, president elect custio's suffered a setback today before being sworn in opponents in parliament have blocked his parties. candidates from forming the new leadership in congress, members of custio's free peru party were ruled out on a technicality. casias left doing policy wants to rewrite the constitution, a prostate that has concerned opposition. politicians. us, ellen pig gymnastics champion, simone biles says, withdrawn from a 2nd dylan pick competition in order to focus on mental health. 24 year old will
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now be assessed day by day to see if she can compete in next week's individual competitions. balls had been looking to win gold medals in all 6 gymnastics finals to give her a total of 10 that would have made her the most accomplished female olympian in a sport. the head of the usaa then pick team is praise simone biles decision to prioritize mental wellness over wealth, and the richardson reports now from tokyo. as well as the gym gnostics all time great simone biles has repeatedly demonstrated her to termination and supporting excellence at different aspects of that strong character . has been in evidence during these olympics, 1st withdrawing in the early stages of the women's team final and then pulling out of her next gold medal competition on thursday bowels instead choosing to
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prioritize her mental health. i was just like, shaking could barely now, but i just never felt like this going into a competition before. and i tried to go out here and have fun and warm up in the back when a little bit better. but then once i came out here, i was like no mental is not there. so i just need to let the girls do it and focus on myself. all athletes arriving at the delayed olympics faced unique external pressures from dealing with unprecedented levels of social media scrutiny to the fear of a positive covey 19 test. boyles had also set a self, a task of becoming the 1st female gymnast to win 5 gold medals. at a single games, the athlete normally doesn't have a voice, nor does an athlete trust their voice. she not only has a voice which i love, but she also trust your voice and she knows she's going to get a little bit of backlash from fans. and, you know, people are like, how could you let your teen down or whatever, but the best thing she can do is shut off all this outside,
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chatter. anything that's not coming from her own head or from her support system need not need not be heard earlier this year. japan spool thing simply stop me. i 2nd took a payment right from playing top level tennis. he said she no longer wanted to be press conferences in order to protect her mental health. she also admitted the having prolong bounce of depression ever since winning her 1st grand slam title in 2018. it brought a temporary help to her career, but did start an important conversation in her home country. think in japan, we don't. we still don't talk about mental health. and when now, meal soccer came out with the issue. there's been lots of comments, negative comments on her and i believe that was also kind of exaggerated with the gender issue. after her unexpected loss at these games, i saw her admitted to feeling weighed down by the pressure of playing in
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a homer. lympics vials may yet compete in next week's individual event finals. regardless, this pair of champion athletes a leading the way in showing the world, it is okay to talk about mental lows as well as sporting highs on the richardson al jazeera, tokyo south korean olympic squads decision to bring its own team of ships to the tokyo games is revoked, control the sea in japan. some people see the move as an insult. and savage, already framed relations between the 2 drum mcbride explains from saul taking over a small hotel close to the athletes village in tokyo, south korean chefs prepare meals for their entire olympic team. it's aimed at keeping the more isolated during the pandemic, but also to make sure no local ingredients carry radiation from the fukushima nuclear plant disaster. 10 years ago. we have put more effort in this time because
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of the corona virus concern. and because people are quite sensitive over the origin of ingredients, such as those from fukushima, certainly the team members are all in favor of the special menu. because they screen the ingredients, i prefer a more of this as i think it's safer. but the food program has irritated many in japan, which insists all its food is safe. given the long and troubled relationship between japan and south korea, it doesn't take much to bring goals animosities to the surface. and the lympics is offered ample opportunity to do just that. starting with the torch relay months ago, the official map of japan with the relay route showed a tiny group of islands which are disputed by the 2 neighbors as being japanese known as dr. in south korea, a banner proudly proclaiming them to be korean, hangs prominently opposite the japanese embassy. and so before south korea is
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winter olympics in 2018. the same islets were initially shown as being part of the korean peninsula than a possible bridge. building visit to tokyo by south korea as president moon jane was ruled out amid a contract to see over insulting remarks made by a senior japanese diplomat. i'm back in the olympic village of bana, apparently evoking a 16th century korean victoria with japan had to be removed following complaints to old adversaries, proving they are happy to go head to head whether a limpid metals are involved or not. public bride al jazeera, so ah and let's take you through some of the headlines here. now just now there are reports to news is judges of began investigating 3 political parties on suspicion of.
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