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a lifelong search for answers and closer findings. salaam witness on al jazeera. ah ah, al jazeera a with samuel ah . the u. s. president signs off on another injection of military aid to ukraine,
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bringing the total to $54000000000.00 to help fight the russian assault. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera alive from dough are also coming up. uneasy. com hangs of a bots of dumbass us russian forces i the region as part of their renewed offensive to take control of the south and east of ukraine. australians vote for change ending almost a decade worth of conservative rule down on the bus. i'm charlie on said the cannes film festival references treatment of its former colonies is being laid back on the big screen. ah, the u. s. president has approved an additional $40000000000.00 aid package for ukraine. the bill was flown to south korea a biden's signature, but he's on a tour of asia. the latest financial packages on top of the already $13600000000.00
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with a funding. the u. s. government has pledged to ukraine. can we help it as more from washington dc when the money that the united states applied to ukraine began to run out and it is nearly exhausted in terms of military support. the u. s. president asked for $33000000000.00. well, the u. s. congress which controls the purse strings, in turn, approve $40000000000.00, and that is what the president signed into law. in other words, the congress wanted to send the signal, look at, we are not only going to prove this money, we're going to send more than what you ask for, which is something that rarely happens. and that is the reason why it was to send vladimir putin a message that there is overwhelming support in the united states for ukraine and pushed back against russia. and in terms of what this money is for, it's not only to kind of back fill the money in the equipment that has already been
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sent. but in addition, there is also going to be new military equipment in the form of stingers and, and javelins, but also training ad logistic support. and also there's going to be 5000000000 that's also going to be allocated for really addressing one of the growing needs. and that is global food insecurity. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says the situation and don bass is extremely difficult as russia's offensive, and sloppy and scans of aerodynamics continues. is also thank you as president joe biden, for the latest support package you gave me, but i am grateful to president biden for immediately signing the 40000000000 dollar support package for ukraine approved by congress. this is a historic contribution to the protection of freedom all in europe. you will, will that incoming military and financial assistance will be sorely needed. dafter, russia says it destroyed a large batch of weapons and military equipment delivered to ukraine by western
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allies. the minister of defense says it carried out in missiles, frightening a railway station and z tamir, that's west of the capital cave. russian forces say they struck fuel storage facilities near of desa in the south. or rule is here. what is history the rocker? the armed forces of the russian federation continued the special military operation in ukraine will hi precision long range, sea based missiles near the moline railway station, and jotted me region, have destroyed a large batch of weapons and military equipment delivered from the u. s. and european countries for a grouping of ukrainian troops and don bass. russian air base missiles near odessa, at the odessa port plants would have destroyed fuel storage is intended for ukrainian nationalists armored vehicles and gilbreth where the focus turn now to easton ukraine. russia's military's intensifying its operations, attempting to advance on several fronts. ukrainian president soleski says russia is turning don bass region into hell as a beg reports. the calm before the storm,
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an easy quiet in buckboard as russian forces concentrate their fire power of the town of solid dod. yeah. wouldn't. is the best lead new book? i don't. silly. how are we living bad? no. in a piece. what else is there to say? i will stay here to the last moment. i don't want to leave. i'm not young anymore. i have a cat. can you imagine that much leaving with a cat, his food, cat tray, a lot of stuff and the cat is heavy. other hair already escaped russian held territory. now if they have to move again, we have for what, you know, we waiting for money and then we'll go with the road is not close. first, we will go to the ne pro and then further west here it's constant shooting. i'm afraid for my children, you don't want to talk about the russian occupation. i lost my father and uncle, the worst thing to remember. he was only 60, only one of my son saw him. the com is deceiving. the russians are closing in on 2
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different front, down the street. the florists are still open to young, but the nick ve there. people need flowers just a few minutes before a man bought flowers. now i'm chatting with a girl who wants to buy some flowers. it's scary during strikes, but generally i'm not scared children left, but i'm here. i have my own home and don't want to leave it with you. enabling's love the answer. some are evacuating others, 248. the administration here say they're concerned about people returning to the town or not a huge server from a winner. thanks to our army. the cities still standing. you can hear permanent artillery, fire, and very close to us is heavy fighting. periodically, russian rockets hid the town jets are shooting to as we speak with him, he gets a call to sound the air raid siren. we make our way downstairs where the, where we are in the tans administration building
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a prime target for the russians. iraq, the summer usa, me personally, i'm exhausted. i sleep on the floor because of the rule of 2 walls in my family to they are not in a city. they are living in a school, but the main think they are and will be living. it's easier for me to worry only about myself than to worry about my family. and still, the war rages, smoke rises up from the artillery battle, taking place behind me. a critical battle for solid dies taking place. and if the russians managed to take that camp along with the hills surrounding it, coupled with the advances that make none of the fronts thought that all this area will fall into russian hands. including the town. i said bake altura, but he got me. conservative coalition in australia has been voted out of government for the 1st time. almost a decade. australian voters are that the labor party. instead, it now falls to anthony albany. seemed to form a new government,
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but he's yet to secure a parliamentary majority. sarah clark report from sydney election day in australia . voters turned up to cast their vote. i think we need a little bit of disruption here in australia. in fact, i think we need a lot of disruption. we need people who can stand up and, and have opinions and thoughts not based on party. there's been a few things i was in the last 3 years, especially during the pandemic. that is the government, as has got wrong. after 6 weeks on the campaign trail, the prime minister scott morrison returned to his sydney electorate flanked by his wife and 2 daughters. the coalition leader made a last minute pitch to vote. who's on the 1st prime minister in a very long time that's been able to go through a term and fight the people on a 2nd time. and i'm seeking that support because i know this country is facing some strong and difficult and challenging taunt ah, the labor party was ahead in pre election polls that sentiment played out at the ballot box with anthony albanese asking the coalition government ending 9 years of
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conservative rule to night, the astrology and paypal had voted for chinese ah, i am humbled by this victory. and i am honored to be given the opportunity to serve as the 31st prime minister of the back to liberal national party last safe blue ribbon seats to a group of high profile female independence, who campaigned on climate change, gender equality and integrity. it's got morrison took responsibility for the party's loss. thank to strengthens and declared. he'll step down as leader of the liberal party. it is proper to acknowledge the functioning of our democracy. i've always believed in australians and their judgment, and i've always been prepared to accept their verdicts. and to not that i have delivered their verdict, and i congratulate antony avenues the and the labor party. and i wish him and his
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government all the very best my lab has won the most seats in the selection counting continues. and what we don't know is whether or not anthony albanese has a claim. majority of australia faces the prospect of hung parliament and the labor party needs to do a deal with the minor parties and the independence to govern. and sarah joins us live now from sidney. sarah, so australia has a new prime minister, but what happens next? because as you're saying, your report is still unclear. fountain alban, easy consecutive majority in parliament. well, it has been a seismic shift in australian politics. we are yet to see whether or not anthony alban aisy the libel ada. i can govern with a majority. now the counting stopped midnight last night. it's about 10. i am now here on sunday and that counting will resume and at last count, the labor party had 72 seats. that's full short of the majority. the coalition had lost 16 fates. so far as if i can't get this majority,
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this is where the labor party will have to do a deal with either the greens or the miner potties or the independence. and as you heard from that story, we had a number of independence elected into parliament overnight. and those independents have wiped out some of the key parts of the liberal party hot land. we've got the high profile treasurer joshua fraud, but he has lost his seat at to one of these independents. the grains had the best election for some time. they've got to law how states they could get 2 additional seats in the state of queens and so on. monday, anthony out uneasy, he will be sworn in with other ministers and then he'll be boarding a plane to head straight to tokyo for that port mating. so anthony albanese, whether it has a full majority or claim majority or not. he wants to move on change and he said last night, any speechless, t areas of change that he believes the vibes of israeli once or the likes of ki, she's like, gender pay gets the national integrity commission and climate change. so we have
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a new, new live leader here in australia, a new prime minister, but we're yet to work out if he has a t majority to govern. alright. or sarah clark life us there in sydney syrup. thank you. last night. so to come here now does hear including empty shells force drastic action. the u. s. military flies in tons of baby formula to fill a critical shortage glass wimbleton organizers stand their ground despite the tennis tournament, being stripped of ranking points more on that status of the journey has begun. the fee for world cup is on its way to qatar wookey or travel package today. however, we still got some very heavy rain pushing across southern parts of china, even though the may you front just pulling off shore for a time. so something of a break, but you can see that just sympathetic line of cloud which rolls his way back into the south of china and a pair pop as we go through the next few days. so sunday,
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more big downpours coming through here where to where they're just moving across the years. southern japanese islands, largely dry fir, the main islands, but still want to shout into northern and central parts of honju up to war cicada dry, warm and sunny across the korean peninsula. sol at $27.00 celsius and rising. we'll see similar temperatures, they're debating chances. some went to where the here southern parts are, try to say more of those heavy showers, journey up with a heavy shower. see the monster trough, of course, making its way now across in their china, into myanmar some heavy rain coming back into northern parts of the philippines. usual scattering showers across malaysia and indonesia place to say things looking better across india over the next day or so. a significant sir drop in the intense rainfalls have you seen across that ceased and color it will be some shall say, for bungler dash little more in the way of cloud and showers towards northwestern parts of india tempering the heat. and the similar situation, the pakistan cats are air with issue and line of the journey. how and
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u. s. president joe biden has approved an additional $40000000000.00 aid package for ukraine. the latest financial packages on top of the already $13600000000.00 worth of funding. the u. s. government has pledged to the country. the conservative coalition in australia has been voted out of government for the 1st time in almost a decade, australia and photos of the labor party instead in apples to anthony albanese to form a new government. but he's yet to secure a parliamentary majority. wimbledon is facing off against global tennis all authorities over the war in ukraine. the organizer say they went back down despite the prestigious tennis tournament, being stripped of ranking points and reduced to an exhibition event. tennis is governing bodies made the decision after wimbledon band competitors from russia and bella roost due to the war. but in baba report, it's a stand off between the world's most prestigious tennis tournaments and the sports global governing bodies. both the atp and w. t a tours have strict wimbledon ranking points,
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meaning players won't be able to earn any here this year because the tournament band plays from russia and belarus, we would and says it had no option, but to exclude them on the u. k. government guidance following russia's invasion of ukraine in a statement put out by the club on friday, a cold, the decision not to award points disproportionate in the context of the exceptional and extreme circumstances. going on to say that it was damaging to old players who compete on the tour. the atp and w t. i have allowed players from russia and belarus to compete as neutrals, including at the paris open starting on sunday. the atp put out a statement explaining why it was effectively turning wimbleton into an exhibition tournament. it says the ability for players of any nationality to end to tournaments based on merit and without discrimination is fundamental to our tour. wimbledon has been ruled out top players including men's world number 2, daniel, mid vanessa from russia. and last year's women's semi finalist arina several inca
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from belarus, serbia's novak joker, which is one of several plays to have criticized the been now he said to lose his world number one status as he can't get the 2000 points here and by winning, hey, last year, but experts don't predict a boycott. it's really an interesting sort of play of our and we'll see sort of who house the strength of a leverage here. but i think wimbledon feels as though they are the most prestigious event. you'll notice that no players are boycotting it's not until the players who they might be angry, but i'm not angry enough to stay all the all england long tennis club says it's considering its options and is in discussions with its grand slam colleagues. but the reverberations from its decision a likely to be felt for some time to come. nadine baba al jazeera london. yes, president joe biden says he's willing to meet north careers. kim johnson for talks on security biden's in sold for meetings with the south korean counterpart uni. sockhill is biden's 1st trip to asia since he took office last year for
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lawrenceville reports from a south korean capital on the ground in south korea. a mixed response to u. s. president jo biden's visit. these demonstrators welcomed him, seeing this as an opportunity to present a united front against north korea. that follows reports leader kim jong and maybe about to conduct a 7th nuclear weapons test. but here, activists concerned about an arms race, a calling for peace. when the 2 precedents met at a summit on saturday, security was high on the agenda, j. i a hurry, hurry o r r. they discussed enhancing sanctions and expanding the scope of combined military
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exercises. biden also said he's not opposed to meeting kim john good. if he sincere you both president june and president biden also said they were ready to help north korea deal with an outbreak of coated 19 o, leaving an era where the economy, security, and security is there gonna me disruption in the supply chain caused by changes in the international security order is directory related to the lives of our people. but analysts say that may not be enough to bring north korea to the negotiating table. kim's, our resume appears to be determined to develop the military, our capability to make sure that north grow will be armed, to have association capability to hold. you ask for suzanna civilian populations in south korea and japan as hostages. although countering china's dominance in the region was not explicitly mentioned,
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the biden administration has made no secret of the fact it views china as the strategic challenge in tokyo on monday, president biden will unveil the indoor pacific economic framework. its members will include south korea and japan. analysts say the u. s. is reasserting itself in the region. years after former president donald trump pulled out of the trans pacific partnership trade pact. however, china sees that agreement as an attempt to marginalize it. a chinese foreign ministry spokesman criticized the u. s. on friday, saying it should do more to contribute to peace in the region. instead of creating divisions, florence lee al jazeera song, 132 tons of baby formulas, heading to the u. s. from a military base in germany as a critical shortage because of a product recall by the countries leading manufacturer, as well as supply chain issues. this week regulator said they would temporarily allow imports of formula to help these,
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these situation about 40 percent of formula products. a currently out of stock nationwide wiring many families under castro has mona from washington dc. this is, according to the white house, one and a half 1000000 baby bottles worth of help that will be coming in on board these flights. this is a flight the 1st one supposed to land in indianapolis, indiana sometime tomorrow morning. here in the u. s. they are coming from european manufacturers, nestle, anne gerber. and they are may possible because president biden had the f. d, a wave. some of these importation requirements to help address this baby formula shortage crisis in the us. earlier this week, biden also enacted the defense production apt, which allows the government to compel suppliers to make these ingredients available for manufacturers more easily. now this help can't come soon enough for the parents
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who have been desperately looking for baby formula as they run out of the shelves more than 40 percent, less of it in stock than in normal conditions. and as families have had to take some desperate measures traveling many, many, many kilometers or having to ration food for their young ones, this particularly hitting medically medically vulnerable children, the hardest. those young ones who are unable to digest cow's milk, for instance. and that's why the white house that it's taking is extraordinary measure with the flights, because this is a critical medical purpose that it's serving switzerland that's become the latest nation to confirm a case of monkey pox. at least 18 infections have been reported in 12 countries, including the u. k. u. s. and peru. but disease was 1st identified in monkeys and central and west africa, that spreads through close contact, cozen body souls and fever. no dis, have been reported so far. north korea has confirmed more than
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a 186000 cases of people with fever symptoms. it fights its 1st official wave of coven. 191 more person has died previously. leader kim junglin told a meeting of the routing party, the progress of being made to slow infections, young as to refusing offers of outside help, and the population is unvaccinated. out is there a meet? a network continues to demand a rapid, independent, and transparent investigation into the killing of its journalist and he occupied west bank. sharina barclays was shot in the head, buys, ready forces. while she was on assignment in janine, on the day of her funeral israeli forces storm the procession and started beating mourners, causing, pulled barrows to almost drop her casket that didn't stop thousands of palestinians from marching through antibodies. jerusalem state parson, her funeral and burial members of the international community, have condemned her killing and continue to call for an investigation. a barclay was without a 0 for 25 years, covering the story of these railey occupation. she was known as the voice of
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palestine. well, one artistic depiction of shirlen's killing buys radio forces is getting a lot of attention this cartoon by south african artists. the piero was published in the daily maverick newspaper just days after her death. it shows sharina being carried away and, and his railey sniper with a smoking gun. the artist says he was motivated by the parallels he saw, but in the palestinian cause and south africa's antea partied struggle between confrontations between israeli forces and palestinians and the shake jer, our neighbourhood in occupied east. jerusalem is ready. soldiers seen pushing and beaten some palestinians, tear gas and stun grenades also used to disperse the crowd. dozens of families and shake gerad being threatened with displacement from their homes and coordinated efforts by the israeli government and jewish settler groups. more heavy rain floods and landslides are further devastating areas in northeastern india in a some state, at least 14 people have died in the latest downpours,
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more than 700000 or are affected up in baton reports from naga on district in northeast india. charlie abdulla, she the width through water several times a day to get essentially his home has been flooded for days. he says he's tried getting help, but shelters are full, and his family is still waiting for government aid. it will put us in a hurry bullet for returning her. we are facing many difficulties. you can see for yourself. there's so much water. we have no way to get out. there's barely enough food. we had some rice at home, but now that's also over 10. hundreds of thousands of other people have been displaced by floods caused by heavy rains. in a psalm state in india, as ne nego district is the hardest hit, more than 300000 people have been affected. the water here comes from a nearby river that overflowed and its rockfish that some villagers are catching to
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eat. despite the rising water levels, many people are choosing to stay back, waiting for the tide to time, so they can stop rebuilding. many people are being evacuated rafts like these have been crossing flooded roads and fees to rescue people stranded for days. that's a problem. hang, you're facing many problem. some people in my family are not keeping well and i asked them to come with me, but they didn't want to leave. they wanted to stay at home in the military is using aircraft and boats to help distribute aid. last bloodworth dog and for the c v one actually, after that, the people just talk about that as a highest one, thought the severity of the flood is, has, are mazda flood zone. now, though danger level of evil here is $59.00. is it all army does, but it is the cross, the danger level at which is now the 60.39 meters. although water levels are
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slowly receding, people already the monsoon season will begin in a few weeks and the rains are usually heavy and caused flooding. pardon him at the arches. eda nego district in northeast india. about 2000000 people stranded in northeastern bangladesh after the worse flooding to hit the region. in decades of these 10 people have died so far. officials say the flooding is driven by heavy rain. a major embankment on the barrack river has also been breached. inundated, at least a 100 villages. many parts of the country are prone to flooding, and experts, a climate change is making it worse, is terrible. i've seen a huge flood in 2004, but this time it's even bigger. more serious at the busy road among the of i knew about how to flood water broke my homestead. it's now everywhere at all. my poultry and cattle were washed away. i somehow managed to take my family to a relative's house, one of the wells most active volcanoes. mount etna put on a spectacular display in italy on friday, sending massive plumes of smoke and hot lava into the sky. eruptions like leaves
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happened several times a year, but really cause any damage to surrounding towns. france has been confronted about his colonial past. at the cannes film festival, 2 films delve into the treatment of africans conscripted into the french army. it's a subject often avoided in france as charlie angela reports now from cam. frances colonial past. one of the big themes on the screen at can this year generating discussion and introspection. i saw that and soldiers setting well one is the story of a young senegalese man, forced to serve in the french army. his father then enlisted to watch over him shalt. on a hand held camera, it shows the horror of war for the thousands of senegalese, torn from their countries to fight for france. it does. oh, now see of the netflix series lupa. he says we have the same story but not the same memories. cultural commentators say depictions of this aspect of frances colonial
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history, a very rare phone. in fact, it's the 1st time that we've ever seen a film of this scale on this subject with a well known cast, including all massey who's a make a saw here in france. and abroad. so it is a very big deal to see. feel like this and see the screen. i can hear it. another story is aki followed a few of the $200000.00 geron, recruited into the french army to fight against that countryman. and it depicts how most are he abandoned many kill when algeria again, independence. director phillips will call, says generation later, children of these fighters still carry shame and stigma to junior. it's a story that has had wide repercussion. human damage not only promotes live through the war, but also the generations that followed. there are more stories, it to be told. you know, during the key are still considered traitors and act him
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a 100 move fact meant his family were wary of him taking the road. why my dear my father. so many questions. why was it being feeling morocco? why did you being directed by a frenchman? you said, why do you have to play a hockey? but then i read him the script and he gave me permission to go. what a menu on that call government has acknowledge mistakes made in algeria and west africa. the details of these events are not widely known and from both direct to say it's vital. these stories are told and we've can is a launching pad. hope that films will generate discussion about these painful periods of history. charlie angela out there, can i talk to the headlines here and i'll just say we're a us president joe biden has approved an additional $40000000000.00 aid package for ukraine. the.

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