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there was enough food for them to be there in the car. mm. we met nicholas on the mexican bank to the river, searching for food of medicine for his family. he hadn't realized until we asked him about it. the us authorities, rules are now flying haitians back home. there is no president, crime as high students can't go to school. there is no work. the economy is down. people can't put up with that. deportation is not good for us. ah. g 20 leaders to focus on climate change on the final day of the summit in rome, after agreeing on a global corporate tax to rein in big business. ah, you're watching al jazeera light from a headquarters in delphi. i'm getting an obligation also a heads at least 4 people are shot dead in
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su, done as tens of thousands protest against the military coup. japanese voters go to the polls in the 1st big test for prime minister from your cache. she does barely a month after he took office and running on empty a fuel shortage in china forces the world's 2nd largest economy to ration diesel. ah, thanks for joining us. it's the final day of the g. 20 gathering of world leaders in rome. several meters meetings, excuse me, are taking place on the sidelines of the summit, including one between the presidents of the united states and turkey. on saturday, the leaders endorsed a global tax on corporations. it's aimed at stopping big businesses from hiding profits in countries where they pay a little or no tax is and the group is now expected to focus on climate change.
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that's just ahead of the cop $26.00 conference to be held in glasgow. i'd speak to either plymouth editor james bates, he's joining us from rome. so what, what have we learned about how much progress has been made on that very crucial issue of climate change change like climate change meeting where they're all going to be discussing, it is still to take place. but behind the scenes all we can, they've been working on the final communicate. we've seen one of the drafts of the final communique, and i think it's going to not please some climate activists who wanted the g 20 to be much more ambitious. in fact, i spawk spoke a short time ago to a senior you, an official is on their way currently to glasgow and shared the details of what was in this draft communique. of course, the final one will come out in a matter of hours. but if the draft stays the same, this is the reaction from that senior you an official. this is not the impetus people have been looking for from the g 24 glasgow. it was described to me what was
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in the draft as disappointing. having said that, the official added, the expectations have not been high in recent days about what the g 20 was going to achieve here in road. and what else should we be looking out for on this final day? well, some things have already been taking place. it's not really all about what happens when they're all together around the table is actually what happens in the side lines of that main table. some of the short meetings, people have some of the longer meetings that are arranged. worth telling you that the u. s. and china have not had a summit here because president, she is not here and the still not been a summit between president biden and president, she the some hope they might be able to meet virtually before the end of the year. so what we have had is the highest level meeting for some months between the u. s. and china in so that foreign ministers,
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anthony blinking and y e have been meeting in the last hour or so. here in rome, the state department giving us that view on that meeting, which they says say we're candid and clearly one of the main issues they were discussing were the tensions in the taiwan straits. certainly, blinking recorded the sight department told y v that the u. s. was unhappy with the increased tension in the taiwan strait in terms of other meetings. very soon we're going to have a meeting between president biden present, one of turkey and again, a u. s. government official saying that the plan for this meeting is to avoid crises between the 2 countries in the future. and that may well be a reference to what we saw earlier this month when the turkish president decided to make 10 ambassadors persona non grata, including the us ambassador. so the meeting,
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i think it's trying to improve relations between those 2 countries and one other difficult relationship right now the u. k. and france post breakfast rouse over fishing writes, we believe is going to be a short pl aside meeting between the british prime minister and the french president to try and perhaps ease that tension to okay, thank you so much. james bass, diplomatic editor, reporting from rome. now the united states and the european union have agreed to ease terrorists on steel and alimony and import us. the u. s. will now allow certain metals from the you to enter a duty free. it avoids you retaliatory measures on us products that were due to go into effect in december. former us president donald trump introduced these levies 3 years ago. phil laval has more from washington d. c. what this does is it gives president biden a number of wins at 1st of all allows him to show off on the world stage that the u . s. is back that it's making friends again, which is what a lot of the g trends he's been about. it's about him showing that the u. s. is moving away from that isolationist approach,
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that the previous administration favorite in a number of ways. it allows him to also avoid these e. you retaliate re tariffs, remember they would you to kick it in a matter of weeks. they were going to double duty on a number of things. like, for whiskey like harley davidson motorcycles, all american products and this would not have gone down well domestically. it also allows him to show off his green credentials. we know the president biden has made tackling climate change, a real tenant of his presidency. he's going to be at the cop summit in a matter of days. this allows him to show that they're working in the u. s. with your rep, which is known for producing what you might call clean metals, as opposed to china, which is allowed use as co powered furnace is. so can make cheaper metals, but not necessarily battles that are great for the environment. and also on the subject of china, it allows him to show some presidential muscle against china, which you guys will go down well with some courses here in the united states. now, in terms of the actual logistics of this agreement, the announcement has to be made. we've had an announcement of an announcement that
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is coming at the moment. the terrorists are 25 percent on steel, 10 percent, all minion, we believe, but it's probably going to be something more like a sliding scale. so, depending on how much the input level is, that will then affect how much the terrorists. aw, so it will be all relative and again, the amount will be this buffer zone, this green zone of what we think will be $3300000.00 tons a year allowed in. but again, those details are due to be made public later by president biden. us live on the live, crucially, these metals will have to be made in the a use that means they are melted and poured in the you. it means that countries like china, like russia, like south korea, can't make them than send them to europe and pass them on saying they were made in europe because they had a few finishing touches put on in europe. but as i say, those details coming and becoming house, the sudanese teacher's committee has called for a strike and all states of sudan a day after hundreds of thousands of people rally to denounced the military
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takeover soldiers use tear gas on the block. major roads gunfire was reported. sedans, doctor's committee says at least 4 people were killed. hebert morgan has more from the capital cartoon. a protest that's been days in the making. thousands of people gather on the streets of her to demanding a return to transitional government. something they say was rob, from them after the military coup on monday. i know some of them we went to the street because we reject the military rule. and he reject authoritarianism and categorically reject all the behavior of the military council. i don't know my be not one another would log on. we want to topple the security committee and bring it down. we don't trust these people. this is not their 1st coup. we need the world to know that the sudanese people are living under oppression and are being beaten. our voices are not listened to because there is no coverage and there is no internet. ah, they're risking
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a lot. days of protests in the capital letters treat the st battles with the military and demonstrators killed. with the internet, cut off organizers used mosque flyers and graffiti to reach people. the military also blocked the main road to the airport. the plant root of this march saturday's protests were met with tear gas and live ammunition. what is really concerning is the vast array of military and security actors that are on the streets. there are just incredible set also of security sectors that now patrol the streets. no sense that they are necessarily taking orders from a central spot. and i think that i know that diversity of different mills rectors is really the world. ah, these demonstrators are demanding that prime minister, the la docs cabinet be restored. it was toppled by general abdel for the helper han . he also dissolved the sovereignty council established after the overthrow of omar
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bashir 2 years ago. some political parties have supported the qu, oh, electric window, but hans, as he will hold elections in july 2023 and then hand power to the elected civilian government. but the takeover has provoked international condemnation. the u. n. n u . s. has called on the military not to intervene in the protest regional and international acts as have been urging general han to reverse his school and was though the transitional government, which he dissolved on monday, but many protest this year. so even if that happens, it so falls short of their demands to completely hand over power to civilian rule. the people on how to toombs. 3, call it a power, grab and demand, a returned to a democratic process. so let's take a closer look at the pro democracy groups who are behind the protests. there is the sudanese professionals association. it's a network of independent trade unions and it's demanding the restoration of the transitional government. it includes the sudanese dr. central committee. it's been
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documenting the injuries and deaths of protest hers to counter the government official figures. then there's a so called resistance committees, grassroot bodies spread across the country, whose members organized protests in their local communities. let sir speak to him, morgan. she's joining us from her to him, her boss, so after hundreds of thousands of people turned out just about 24 hours ago. what is the mood like today? yes, bearing the call for more processed by various associations. but yesterday, the resistance committee following the attack by the security forces using live ammunition into your gas, as advised people to stay within their neighborhoods, barricade the roads leading to those neighborhoods and residential areas, and continue with the civil disobedience. so long as they were english have been a little drive around and talked to central business district and many of the shops that are normally open around this time of the day that are normally bustling. and
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the street that are normally very busy. that is something that is not seen today. very few cars are out on the road. very few shops are open and they still calls for more strike and more resistance. many of the protests to say that despite the targeting by the security forces, this by the number of injuries, and despite the number of fatalities that they've been facing over the past few days, they will continue with the process. they will continue with the civil disobedience . now, many state and federal institutions are yet to review marking. we've done a drive around the federal and state institution. many of the doors remain locked. many security guards say that they are yet to see any staff at all show up to work . and it's not clear if it's because they are part of the civil disobedience. that has been called for by the sudanese professionals association than the resistance committee. over the barricade on the streets are preventing them. security forces are still continuing to block some major bridges that connect the 3 cities cartoon under the man i'm hard to north. so that is also hindering movement. but it also shows the concern about more protests. those bridges have been closed on saturday
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morning, early hours of saturday morning because of concerns that protesters will gather from the 33 sitters and come to where the state institutions are located, including the presidential palace. so those bridges that connect the cities are still being a closed by the military and by security forces. but the but the protest, so say that they told them to continue with the civil disobedience. they're still going to continue barricading neighborhoods residential neighborhoods and the main street, and they will continue calling for return to them a crack process. ok, thank you so much. have a morgan reporting from cartoon still adds on al jazeera, a make or break moment, will tell you what's at stake is world leaders gather for a climate summit in glasgow ah,
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the last week is seen flooding in western boyer. and to some degree in western java, despite that is a good dispersion of sons, thunderstorms, and chows throughout se h which is right the time the was going to rain, he sees neck with a concentration still looks like being through santa wac western jarring through in jakarta. and sumatra, but this blue most places the exception may be lose on the right. really orbit further south has been particularly warm through nolan, tropical australia, throughout the whole month, which means more moist has been injected into the atmosphere. so where you get thunder. so they tend to be a bit bigger. that's potentially true in queensland during monday, it's much caught the sized no, no more stormy weather. victoria new south wales, all tasmania style. a woman mel will adelaide and cambra purse a scene. the fist brain bongos fruits of probably welcome brain for the week bell western australia. aladdin. she's showers. might, may been to the red middle as well, which watch that one. as for new zealand, technically is quite, quite well. it's been nice and warm recently. you think with
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a suddenly breezy one because we still got 17. christ church rein confined to the southern part of south, on at least on monday, on tuesday there is some tropical weather coming down just a little depression on his way to gibbon. ah, the end of the country with an abundance of results for the road already won indonesia whose firms forming we moved full to grow and fraught with balance for green economy, blue economy, and the digital economy. with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs. invest. let people when this is growth and progress, invent indonesia now. ah
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ah. ah. top stories on al jazeera this hour, the sudanese teachers committee has called for a strike in all states of suit on a day after hundreds of thousands of people rallied to denounce the military take over. at least 4 people were killed in the protests on saturday. the last day of the g 20 summit of world leaders is taking place in rome. several meetings are taking place on the sidelines, including one between the president of the u. s. and turkey. the group is due to discuss climate change ahead of the cop 26 conference in glasgow. our environment editor nick clark has more on what we can expect from the climate summit in glasgow to say there's a lot at stake here and glasgow. busy is an understatement. the science tells us
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what needs to be done, and we'll see in the holes behind me over the next 2 weeks. if national leadership have what it takes to step up, the world is overheating and extreme weather is already hitting hard. and to demonstrate the importance of this conference, we returned to every year in greece scene of those devastating wildfire in the summer where the still picking up the pieces sh. in early august with temperatures at unseen highs, wildfires ripped across southern europe. the land was parched and the fires quickly spread. northern heavier in greece was a hardest hit. inferno lasted for 2 weeks, thousands were evacuated. today you can see what's left. the devastation in this area was total. people are well used to annual wildfires here, but not on this scale. not with this much last thousands of hector's of forest and livelihoods just incinerated. and because of the fires a new threat as the rain comes so do floods and mudslides defies. have destroyed
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the land, natural ability to withhold water, to act as a flood defense system. the non periods of intense rain, the water just cascades of these hillsides. so they using the dead trees to shore the soil and the land intact. it is hard exhausting work, but vital to preserve what's left and encourage regeneration of the forest. a big part of ebay as forest economy has been obliterated. cost as i own use, livelihood comes from his bees who make honey from the resin of pine trees or used to i feel sad that this once green forest has been burnt, and i find it difficult to figure out what we'll do and how be keeping can continue to exist on ever we will not be around when this forest is once again able to give us honey. so for us, our area has died. collecting pine reson was an important money owner for farmers
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like georgia's agnostic but not in the more he also lost a fit of his goat. her to the fires across the island. more animals died than survived. but the destruction was great for farmers. buildings were burnt. animals were lost and grazing land has disappeared. in other words, what we had here was last many years need to go by so that things can return to how they were helping people around the world to adapt to and mitigate against catastrophic events. like this is a big part of the climate conference in glasgow. so what a success at cock $26.00 looked like the science tells us we need to prevent temperature through rising beyond ideally one and a half degrees celsius. but the 2021 production gap report shows that current government plans will produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels required to make that happen. so in glasgow, we need a strong declaration. they commit to net 0 missions by 2050, as well as big reductions by 2030. this has been
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a seismic event that has changed lives perhaps for a generation, but the forest will come back because nature always does. if humanity allows it to . well right now, the omen here and god's go, not good. just this week we had that even with the latest global commitments to cut emissions. we're still heading for 2.7 degrees celsius. remember, the target is one and a half degrees and the $100000000000.00 a year promised by rich nations to developing countries by 2020. well, that went arrive now until 2023. trust is a limited commodity here in claus go and it will be a long, hard battle to reach the agreement. the wells needs voters in japan are casting their ballots in a general election to decide whether to keep the newly appointed prime minister, the governing liberal democratic party has been led by fool casita. since he want a leadership vote a month ago, he took charge after you said he'd have to go resigned
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a year and to the job. because she has promised to revive japan pandemic battered economy with a stimulus package. so the house of representatives is the more powerful of the japanese parliament, 2 chambers. and it's made up of 465 seats from you because she has set a modest goal for the liberal democrats. and that's coalition partner. he wants them to win at least 233 seats, the least needed to secure a majority. but polls are suggesting his party is likely to lose seats. and that's partly because 5 opposition parties are fielding, unity candidates, and small electoral constituencies. b, l d p has dominated japanese politics in the 2nd world war and as governed almost continuously for decades. rob mcbride is monitoring japan general election from sol . this is being seen generally as a, as a test of the sheet as popularity. he is new to the job, but by association. he does come into the job, inheriting
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a lot of the public disapproval of the way the government, which is dominated by the liberal democratic party, and also his predecessor at the a previous prime minister shaheed a suga has handled the corona virus pandemic at there were also concerns in japan about the continuing sluggishness of the economy, stagnant wage growth, job security. but this is also seen as a fight, not necessarily between the political parties. also a fight with voter apathy. the last 2 elections for the lower house have seen the lowest voter turnout since the 2nd world war, with just a little over half of the eligible voters actually coming out to vote. it's also disproportionately the elderly of japan who tend to be the voters at the older generation. and this is an, an older graying society. they tend to take the civic responsibility of voting very seriously. consequently, a lot of the campaigning. a lot of the policies have been directed at the more elderly voters, which then becomes a self feeding cycle,
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if you like that the younger generation or even more disengaged and in the last election we saw have virtually just i, 3rd of all 20, some things who are eligible to vote, actually coming out and casting their votes. so that will be one of the 1st figures that will be very telling in this election. once the polls close in a few hours, just the actual voter turnout. china has started rationing diesel. a nationwide energy shortage has led to a surgeon demand for the fuel and a rise in prices. katrina, you us more? these truck drivers are used to criss crossing china, driving hundreds of kilometer every day. but a nation wide shortage of diesel fuel has changed that. you would go to the me, oh, i'm scared to leave beijing and the dr. long distances, some petrol stations have run out of diesel fuel. the machines are closed 2 days ago. i drove south to whole bay province and american pedo stations didn't have any . the shortage has been accompanied by a shop rise and prices since january,
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the cost of diesel here has increased by about 30 percent. a bit petrol station customers limited to buy just $200.00 leases of diesel fuel but outside the capitol . the supply problem is month was with some supply, with having to wait days to refuel. there have been long lines of vehicles that petrol stations and china's southern and eastern provinces. due to rationing. many drivers say they can only refuel for one day's journey, which means cross country deliveries are taking longer to arrive. china is in the middle of a power crisis that is triggered blackouts. in many cities, shortages of coal and natural gas have led to a surge and diesel consumption. factories and businesses have turned to diesel power generated to maintain operation draining supply. the 2nd reason is probably because a lot of these are, it's being re routed to the agriculture sector during this harvest season. to
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basically support our grain, trying and to prepare for planting, winter cross. and on the, on the supply side, basically, the domestic supply for diesel has been going down because china has the asked for a lot more. b o, a, to the rest o 2 to the rest of the world. some estimate china's diesel stop pals to be at the lowest level and at least a year. environmental crackdowns on crude oil production in some regions have worse than the shortage. the government has asked chinese refineries to increase action and imports, but this won't be enough to contain the shortfalls. experts warn that scarcity of diesel is likely to last for months and could worth an existing problems in the global supply chain. katrina, you out a 0 paging. the taliban has denied its men shot and killed 3 people at a wedding in eastern afghanistan. the men reportedly posing as members of the armed group attack guests at a ceremony in under har,
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because they were playing music. the government spokesman says a personal feud was behind the violence. music was bound the last time the taliban controlled. i've gone to san policeman. columbia has seized more than 2 tons of cocaine and the tourist city of carter. hannah, the, in the us, the seizure, the seizure of worth $100000000.00 was found in a container balance for water down in the netherlands. military forces captured the leader of a major drug cartel. just last week. of the government steps up a crack down columbia as the world's largest cocaine exporter and the u. s. is its largest consumer with us you received about 2.2 tons in gross weight of cocaine. hydro chloride drugs came from the port a given ecuador, the final destination being the port rotterdam in the netherlands. drug was possibly going to be distributed in turkey, spain, italy, and pena. argentina has hardened, it's down to the deadline looms for renegotiating
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a $45000000000.00 loan from the international monetary fund. it once the i am asked to cut rates on support. it's economic plans at home. and as daniel swindler reports from us, i raise money in the country, want to see a freeze on repayment as hunger, poverty, and inflation are all writing the they q every week day outside the little star soup kitchen on the outskirts of when osiris only today were married and her neighbors arrived. there was nothing left with 7th of course, you know, less than maybe they were supposed to have cooked plenty. but a lot of people turned up and we were a bit late. but they gave us some packets of food which will cook at home. but it's probably all the eat until the soup kitchen reopens, serving 70 families with food given mostly. but the local authorities, supervisor, marianna, blame inflation for the increase in hunger or the nutritional value of what they serve diminishes. yeah, the last element,
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every day you go to the market and you'll find the price today is not the same as the price yesterday. it's very common. this is rose 3.5 percent in september. more than 50 percent over the past 12 months. isn't a good aim. okay? no fresh. what we'd like is that people can buy what they need to know. they'll be able to eat nothing more. just the basics, the things we need to live a normal life. toyota matter over 40 percent of argentines live in poverty. or more than half of children under 14 years old, don't have enough to eat this for many. as the last resort, the offer of a bowl of rice which will lock will contain something you tricia's to get them through the day. because inevitably, the fight just to keep going will continue to morrow. the government last week for the prices of 1400 essential items in the battle to control inflation. it is
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blighted argentina for generations. some, some people say it's a race between her wages and prices and other incomes. pensions ah, and in the meantime you get somehow are exposed to loss is burgess and power that then you can try to recover and even anticipate ah freed union. so regular protest calling for fair wages to keep pace with inflation. they said that should take priority over repaying argentina's debt to the international monetary fund. adjustable. it's a scam and paying that debt is incompatible with ending poverty and destitution. argentina's, historically volatile economy was hit hard by the cove at 19 pandemic. it's emerging from that catastrophe, only to have to deal with 2 of its traditional enemies. a massive debt burden and
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rampant inflation. dang schwein law out a 01 osiris. a wooden canoe more than 1000 years old has been discovered in southern mexico. so it was found almost completely intact in a pool of water near the ruins of chimney. some that was once a major mayan city, with temples and pyramids experts believe that vessel would have been used to transport water or deposit ritual offering. and an open art exhibition by world renowned artist has gone on display in chiles. capital santiago works include rubber ducks fried eggs, as well as a toy robot. and the sculptures sit on the shore of an artificial lake. this exhibition will start a tour of the country on thursday. i
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