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oh, organize is getting ready to host the middle east's biggest ever school thing event next year. and so the cats are national, same as they get used to playing in front of expected home crowds that we hope to convince both the fans and themselves that they really are ready to take on the world. ah, the aftermath of a night of violence and shall anchors, capital unrest continues over the government's handling of the worst economic crisis since independent ah, 11 o'clock. this is out 0 life. there are also coming up for non bumble marco's waits for the official counts. where he is expected to win the philippines presidential election or russia foss, hypersonic missiles at a desert,
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the latest attacks on ukraine's largest port city, and a vital trade gateway for the country plus, ah, south griz new president calls, i'm feeling young to give up. it's nuclear weapons and it's change from major economic case in his intervals. ah, so we, we get in shall anchor where streets around the capital, colombo. com, following a night of unrest, more police have been deployed on the ground. at least 7 people were killed after a nationwide curfew was ignored by many overnight. the violence on monday prompted prime minister man to roger pack said to resign, protest as had called for his resignation, claiming the government for the country's worst economic crisis since it gained independence in 1948. when al fernandez is more from the capital of columba, there's been a curfew clamped down since i last evening when the tensions of flared up and
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that this has meant that while there are many people on the roads there, in fact people looking around at scenes like that you see over my shoulder 3 burning buses and one behind that as well. so a total of 4 other likelihood of people getting into a clashes and things like that. his east are completely, ah, as because you have not just the police but also members of the 3 armed forces being called out by the president. in fact, on our way to these areas, we've seen the air force, the navy and the army deployed at checkpoints. literally are sort of stopping where he goes, checking was going around in them and all of that. so these have also kept control on the tensions plus that sort of initial flare up that confrontation between those 2 sides. the supporters of prime minister mind the roger boxer and the protest as
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who had been calling for his the president and the government's resignation has now ease so things relatively calm in colombo and in other parts of the country. from what we're hearing the election commission in the philippine says it will order the results of 700 voting precincts. that's off to protest as level the allegations of election fraud for my marcos junior, the son of a controversial former president has emerged as the presumptive winner france murray has his report. now from manila ha, protestors gather outside the election commission building to protest against what they say are voting irregularities. some people were unable to vote after at least a $1800.00 vote counting machines. malfunctioned during national elections on monday. then 2 percent of the total number of machines i use in the home eliquis
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are here because we have seen how sloppy the election commissions work is they had to be used to prepare for this election, but they are competent. they took away that i thought filipinos to board for what they won. the protesters were soon pushed back by police with water cannon and swat teams on stand by. the heavy pushback has long been home out of the outgoing administration incumbent president, rodrigo to 30 had little tolerance for descent or criticism. i know ferdinand marco's junior, whose late father ruled the country for 2 decades and was often described as a dictator, is on cause to win a landslide victory. and with to turn days, daughter sara set to become the vice president. many are concerned, their civil liberties may shrink further. analysts say the return to power of the marcus family is the result of decades of rebranding. boosted in recent years through social media campaigns,
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often with misleading information. studies have shown that the market campaign in the market family has usually invested in this machinery. and i think if they're going to be the next administration, that this is going to be a lean and mean propaganda spewing machine. he says the strategy may not only help them with power, but keep it. oh, for marcus's supporters, gathered outside his campaign headquarters the day after the poles, those concerns were far from their minds as their candidate heads for victory with an unassailable margin. florence li algebra manila, will it speak now to jamila? having taken his also in the mirror, we've had a picture of the capital. what about the rest of the company? was the philippine military basically just requested the commission on the
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elections to declare 15 villages in the line. know those are private in the southern region of mid to now as areas where elections have failed. there have been sporadic violence across them in our region, some areas of known to be considered as election hot spots. and there are reports also that at least 6 people have already been killed. there was a stand up also at the land, no capital robbins and they were 2 clans. 2 warring political clans tried to secure the balance the were supposed to be sent over to manila and that they, these ballots had to be secured by the military. so this gives you a picture of what is happening in mindanao. but although there have been at these 15 recorded electro violence according to the philippine military, this is still small compared to the 2019 midterm elections where they're reported more than 50 electro violin still at least 6 people were killed. and so there are ongoing investigations reports also of, you know, several officials getting involved in ballad snatching st. strafing, you know,
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election inspectors getting killed. but again, the commission on elections is basically that before they could act on investigations. these reports have to be verified here in the capital manila protests have just entered with god supporters of vice president leonard, rather demanding that the commission and the election officials get out of the building to face them because they said they find so many irregularities. not just, you know, the breakdown of more than 1800 boat counting machines, but in the way the boats were electronically temporarily and initially submitted late monday night. now canvassing has again been delayed by a full day. so i guess it will take a few days before an official, when there will be declared for more, for the more than $18000.00 positions across the country. in particular, the most contentious, the, the, press, the, the role, the next president of the philippines. dramatic thanks for that updated you matt and dugan the. let's take this on further. we can hear now from monday to 3 to use
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an editor at large for me to company roughly. and she says her affairs and michael's presidency will erode democracy in the philippines. as we've seen during the election campaign, he has the was the least open among the candidates who did not grant media interviews except to those who considered friendly. he undermined the mainstream and independent media by bringing along the score 3 of bloggers at the company. he evaded south west 1st. so we foresee that when he becomes president, it will be a secret, the office of the president. and he will continue that this information that he started way back many years ago when you ran for vice president in laws. let's remember that the 3rd that the current president, we the wait for a leader who will abide by all the products label with there. this part that when
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he campaign for president and he became president, use a lot of this information and we saw that this, some of these were space plus or so it's easy for the success or to continue with this erosion of democracy because the parent asked me to wait, so we see this information, we see a weakening of institutions. and thirdly, our standard history textbooks do not thoroughly discuss marcia law and the abuse s of the dictatorship. so it's very, very sad that when mark was become sit down as president on june 30th, we may even law those our history. so this is a battle for our future as well as for our pass, the mayor of merrier poll says at least 100 civilian men, remain at tracts in the still works besieged by a russian forces. you created an official say at the weekend, all women,
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children and the elderly had been rescued. they've been trapped by intense rush attacks, along with hundreds of soldiers refusing to surrender thing. they will fight to the end. but at least one person has been killed and 5 injured drain, rushing, shelley, ukraine, southern port city of a desa, ukrainian military says shopping center and warehouse were hit with us or face sporadic bombardment or the city was largely sped in. the 1st phase of russia invasion in the past week, several towns himself have also been foamed. we strike 40 you council president to take cover shall. michelle was visiting the city to emphasize its important green exports that have been blocked by the war. the delays are adding to a global food crisis. ukraine's president vladimir lensky has cooled on the internet community to pressure russia into eating it's blockade of ports. initially, the president charles michelle visited odessa to day. he saw with his own eyes what
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the block see me with, for the 1st time in decades in odessa there is no usual movement at the merchant fleet. no port work, ordinary life connected with the sea is blocked by russia. and this is a blow not only to ukraine without our agricultural exports. dozens of countries around the world are already on the brink of food shortages. and overtime, the situation can become, frankly terrible. still had here and out 0, changing the political landscape leaders of levins anti government movement, take their fight to the ballots, hoping for victory in the upcoming elections. and the dangers of being a woman in mexico protest is accused the government of failing to sole the growing list of crimes. ah, the journey has begun the faithful world copies on its way to catherine book your cattle package to death. i think we see the development of the seasonal rains now,
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which will be called the plum rains fairly commonly, and is a line that stretches down from southern charles through tiwana towards southern japan. it pulses, it gets heavy and that it dies off a little bit. hong kong be involved hanoi, probably as well. and it goes out to wallace. the yanks you there are shouts than over that temperatures. beijing have come down. the korean peninsula was the share, or 2, with temperatures, gently rising and tucker should be enjoying 25 human degrees by 30, whilst it's still raining heavily in hong kong. jumping south and the wet weather is really tied up. party was a sammy, a tropical cycle on the east coast of india and it's fellow wraparound. if you like, we should being heavy rain to me in march thailand, laughing towards bangladesh. now side is not a huge storm. it's certainly produced warnings in hand pradesh or flooding rains and some strong winds. but most of india isn't in, isn't cygnus atolico's. we got the pre monsoon heat, which has prompted
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ah, and again, you're watching out 01 of our top stories is our and the streets around shore lank as capital of colombo acom falling in night of unrest. at least 7 people were killed off to a nationwide curfew was ignored by many. the prime minister resigned after rival demonstrations escalated into st. bachelor's. unofficial results from monday's presidential election in the philippines suggests that ferdinand marcos junior is set to win 36 years after his father was overthrown and the so called people power revolution. the mar marriot poll says at least $100.00 civilian men, remained trapped in steal woods, besieged by russian forces entrapped by intense russian attacks, along with hundreds of soldiers, the refusing to surrender, saying they will fight to the end. john men have killed only 70 people in separate
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attacks in democratic republic of congo. a warning that some viewers may find these images distressing. most of the victims were women and children fleeing arm groups attacking their home villages in the teary province. it is one of 2 regions where a state of emergency was extended last week. the government says it is combating groups battling for control of gold mines. the new president of south korea has been sworn in that unit. so y'all has a tough job ahead alter his nerve election when the conservative has a record low approval rating for any new come to the presidency from a bride, reports from the swearing in ceremony. and so do you know the ration of the insecure, potentially harold's a new political direction for south korea and the new place for it in the world instead of the previous liberal administrations, relentless pursuit of dialogue with north korea over
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d nuclear. zation. conservative view says he will take a harder line up while north curious nuclear weapon programs are a threat not only to our security and that of northeast asia, the door to dialogue will remain open so that we can peacefully resolve this threat . faced with north korea is increased weapons testing and rhetoric unit has promised to restore relations with neighboring japan and maintain close the ties with traditional ally the united states. the return of a conservative administration in south korea is likely to further push nations into camps similar to the cold war rivalries of the last century. on the one side, the united states and its ne, asian allies, japan and south korea. and on the other, loosely aligned russia in china, supporting north korea, given south korea as economic dependence on china, the outgoing south korean president, moon j in,
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was often accused of not being tougher on bay, june territorial assertiveness on alleged human rights abuses you and says his administration will be different. it korea is the past largest economy in the world. it is incumbent upon us to take on a greater role benefiting our stature as a global leader, we must activity protect and promote university alias and norms that are based on freedom and respect for human rights. but you comes into this job with no previous political experience and a very low approval rating. he may find his early zeal tempered by the realities of office. south korea is a critical depend upon domestic market of china and energy supply from russia. so south korea has to keep many different security, and it can be interest in good balance and harmony. as the new president begins,
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work south careers, allies and adversaries alike are watching closely. rob mcbride al jazeera, so voters in lebanon are preparing for elections on sunday. after more than 2 years . the protest calling for new government is and how to reports. now from barrett, that is wanting change to the ballot box face and difficult challenge. these squares were emptied at protesters months ago. a battle for change, one by the political establishment. now the movement for a new lebanon that began in late 2019, has shifted its focus from the street to the ballot box. different coalitions born from the uprising are contesting the upcoming elections. many of the candidates are young and optimistic, but they know political change won't be easy to be that suffered for $31.00 option and the old friends we need. we know that you need time to change. we
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want to go into the fundamentals to change from inside. yeah. they're up against a sectarian base system of power sharing and leaders who are more powerful than the state politicians largely blame for the countries economic collect elections. although from the outside or the mac product, they're actually run by the regime itself. and the regime has proven to use different fraudulent tools to secure its when so from classical ism to violence, to repression and termination, and even manipulating vote counting which we saw the 2018 election. but those empowers still have supporters and they have been accused of using violence. in this incident, the opposition was prevented from launching its campaign in the electoral stronghold of the muslim she, our group has below and among i'll be, i think, harlem if the him we accused the forces in charge of the region of being behind that. and they are known to prevent any opposition activity in lebanon, carrion,
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and political divisions are deep. and the opposition to was unable to unite to contest the elections. this benefit, the political leadership, which also relies on an electoral law that in trenches pick terry and politics for those wanting change this cycle is about building a strong civil and functioning states. but they are seen as politically immature and criticize for lacking organization. and failing to appeal to the masses in the last election, those campaigning for civil society in lebanon known as the change forces, 11 seat in the 128 member parliament. this time, they're expecting to gain a few more, but not enough to change the system, but for them, the election is necessary battle in a long war center for their oceans. either beta. the amir of cubes has accepted the resignation of the government more than a month after ministers resigned. prime minister supper holiday,
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our supper and his cabinet quit in april before a vote of no confidence is been asked to remain in a caretaker all for now. spyware has been found on the phone of a 3rd government minister in spain. the interior minister device was hacked, using the same software found on the phone to the prime minister and the defense minister. last week, these ready security firm, which makes the pegasus spyware, says it only sells to government agencies. spanish media reports say the head of the government intelligence has been sacked because of the security breach. dozens of prisoners have been killed, and many more are on the run. after fighting between rival gangs in ecuador, the battle began when a gang leader was transferred from another jail. and the thunder of beauty has more on this. this footage shows them. i am inside the bay of east the prison in santa domingo. dozens of dead bodies are seen, piled under bloody at floor the inmates were killed in an overnight fight between
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rival gangs. officials say it was triggered by the arrival of a gang leader. is the latest in a series of deadly riots inside it. with worse prisons. let my jojo support another seat. gussie. most of the victims of not almost 100 percent, were killed with a knife and not with a firearm. and most of the bodies were exposed and assaulted in the wards and in the cells. distraught relatives rushed to the prison. desperate to find out whatever happened. well, many were killed, some managed to escape. more than a 100 were we captured them. monday was other lines that are more la la la my we found out about the riot when my relative called to say they were exploding dynamite with firearms inside. they were entering the cells to kill every one mozilla. better as dowdy than not by then. we don't know if he's dead or alive yet . i said, we want to know if he's dead or live. that's what we want to leave a. nearly for 100 inmates have been killed in prison riots in little over
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a year. ecuador has seen an increase in gang violence, his rival groups supported by mexican drug cartels battle for control of transit routes for cocaine smuggled from piddle and columbia. last month president guillermo last so declared a 60 day state of emergency room, 3 western provinces, increasing the police and military presence. but it has so far failed to stop the blood shed. some observers say the problem is systemic. no reason why a vial as it keeps increasing integral presence is because the heart there's a neuro center of the. busy dog cartels integral or a so every time there is a gang get this huge in it. busy we're in always manifests in, in extreme body air gang violence, it within the prison walls, a level of brutality never seen before in this country. and that the government seems unable to bring under control. allison,
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the m p at the al jazeera demonstrators in mexico demanded justice for the increasing number of journalists being murdered to fema reporters was shot dead in the city of at a cruise, raising the total killed so far this year. 211. the state prosecutor is promising that the investigation into the latest killings will be exhaustive. also makes clear the death of a teenage law student to spot to nation wide outcry over the rising rate of violence against women morello reports now from mexico city. this is a photograph of devany escobar. it was taken on the night. she disappeared in monterey mexico. exactly one month ago though, multiple government agencies participated in the search for devany. her lifeless body was found almost 2 weeks later at a location that had been overlooked as many as 4 times by searchers. as public pressure mounted on state, prosecutors authorities were forced to admit some mistakes may have been made in the handling of the investigation on them off dollar aleck woof,
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a fable focus hillary so says at our disposal to was determining what happened. and if this implies a chromos tightened place, we will apply the full force of the little deacon. deb and his family says the case highlights the failures of authorities, both to protect women in mexico and to solve crimes committed against them. what was sylvia? devanie was missing for several days. the state prosecutor's office didn't do the job correctly. my mistake was trusting the prosecutor's office. disappearances are an all too common problem, inv alone in just the 1st few months of this year. more than 60 women had been reported missing in the city of monterey alone. head out of the martinez has been looking for his sister for more than a month now. he says, assistance from the government in finding her has been like having no help at all. but i me a better the atom for me the 1st 16 days she was missing wasted, which is very important. the longest it remains missing is evidence. your 3rd is
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not doing a good job. many in this part of mexico say that a lot of the complaints about the government lacking resources, having poor training and a tendency by authorities to downplay the seriousness of the problem can be traced back decades. e, y like is that when a salise, his daughter, brenda went missing in 2011. though brenda was later found dead. one a has since dedicated her time to helping other families find that they are missing, loved ones alive, and to call on the government to do more about missing persons cases. no. c, g, as in dog lawson is moss m. it is. it's the same investigator as always, and the same inconsistency as 2011. the authorities don't do their jobs, right. they say they have equipment, but we looked into this. and the only thing year is their job titles. the case of devany escobar sparked protest across mexico. once again, shining a spotlight on the worsening problem of impunity,
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which experts say fuels higher rates of violence and disappearances. according to the latest report by the united nations committee on enforce disappearances, $748.00 women disappeared in mexico in just the 1st 4 months of this year. that's an average of 7 women going missing every day. and read up a low al jazeera mexico city. analysts are predicting and major downtown in the u. s. trucking industry. the pandemic energy shortages in the war and ukraine continued to impact businesses to 100 reports nuff rogers in arkansas where transportation experts up discussing the road ahead. truckers might occupy the unglamorous end of the global supply chain, but the shipping industry is an early bellwether of the u. s. economy. and the road ahead is looking bumpy. we believe there's a new us, great recession of that is to sell to realizing it. and it's going to get real good
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. the pandemic slowed the u. s. economy in 2020 in 2021 after workers got sick in factories shut down. that lead to global shortages as shorts, death, cargo companies, left shipping containers behind on the dock. now the war in ukraine has sent fuel prices and the cost of shipping, sorry. just a demand for a broad range of consumer goods begins to fall. supply chain experts call that the bull whip effect. you have tons of inventory and, and not enough inventory, and then you overreact. and you just keep going through this cycle and, and we're, we've seen that over the last couple of years, and i think we're now headed in the other direction. experts predict the recession among shippers, within much in that could lead to a u. s. and possibly a global economic downturn in a really corner of northwest arkansas. many of those experts from trucking companies, leading universities, the pentagon and elsewhere, have gathered at a conference on the future of the supply chain in hopes of staving off the worst.
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the panoramic and the warning ukraine has put kinks in the supply chain and that is made the process of getting goods from manufacturer to consumer, more expensive and more complicated. the people in this conference are working on making that all smoother and less expensive. after 2 rough years, one major kink in the supply chain in the u. s. has been assurity give drivers, transfers is a kind of labor for shippers acting as an intermediary to link trucking companies with drivers. there's a bottlenecks there right now because there aren't enough drivers to sit in those seats in those trucks to get those trucks in the goods, deliver another solution, self driving trucks like those made by torque, a subsidiary of daimler trucking. really unhappy and it's going to change sounds like you're not talking about entirely replacing human driving. absolutely. now, we're here to help companies when driving attention to build a void and help them with new pandemic variance in no
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end to a ukraine war. that slowed energy distribution that will likely continue to leave those drivers still. manning the wheel bracing for what comes next? john henderson, al jazeera rogers arkansas. now britain's queen elizabeth says mister state, opening a parliament's, that's for the 1st time in 59 years. the 96 year old is having mobility problems and was advised by her doctors not to travel to the ceremony in london and sun and air. prince charles is reading her traditional speech to open parliament instead. ah say this is al jazeera and these are the top stories, streets around trill anchor's capital colombo, a. com, following a night of unrest. at least 7 people were killed after nation. my curfew was ignored by many.
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