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you're watching al jazeera light from a headquarters and so far i'm dead in obligates are also a head's fears of food shortages and famine. the african union appeals to president putin to release grain supplies from ukrainian boards. like a difference between s h r, growing and turning, a desperate call for help from thousands of afghan refugees living in pakistan and i was i'm, i've been job it at the world heritage site eroticism marches. and i'll tell you how the st. jude inland wetlands system is slowly dying ah, protest her sense, and as you are rallying in the capital to nurse to denounce an upcoming referendum on a new constitution,
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the president classify it has been ruling by decrease in july. last year he dissolved parliament and replaced the electoral commission. fire has promised to introduce a new constitution that would be put to a referendum next month. let's bring an elective open, whose life for us in the capital soon as how widespread is this protest? it is a very focused protest around the building of the electoral commission, but the tensions and feelings are very high at the moment. and this is actually the kind of the 1st serious campaign, openly against the side. proposed referenda. it's being led by the, the last policy to have that she's in the holding back say, fatal criticise. this is the 1st time that they've actually led demonstration. we've just seen her mommy who's speaking to the trash. so this is quite a change revenge. well it, is it possible to the sermon,
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how much support the president has for the moves that he's recently been taking in the country? it partly according to the pose his popularity that she be going down. and as it is quite a big contradiction, because when you also gain who'd you fight for an election, people say that they would probably still vote ty site, but that's mostly because of the lack of bolton it is to get to the current president. so the moment this is quite a sort of battle between i say that the sort parliamentarian prose of democracy kind of groups. so that's a bit on one side with that the, the, not i who with the largest policy in parliament. but now the, the kind of smaller democratic leguinn policies, the staffing out, and we seen a lot of changes this week. this has been a very busy week in policy. exceed, janice, i saw aid dismiss, 57 judges. and he's provided a list of people that he wishes to prosecute, say this has been a sort of
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a real ramping up all his, his expressions of power. so there are a lot of people who are quite nervous about this. and certainly people are very worried about the teacher for geneva because they is that ongoing, very serious economic crisis. we have no hope of the highest, a major bailout loading from the i mass at people expecting that this may not happen until 2023. and then suddenly there's a lot of worry about grain supplies with the war in ukraine. so teenagers is very, very tense. and tele, site isn't finding any, some practical solutions to these problems. so what she's doing is he sort of kind of ramping up this narrative and sort of angered heights and saying, you know, i'm going to switch out these for people who might just say bad. and there's a big also big drive to recruit people to the electro register to take part. but if we look by the polls, they had a lot of people that she wants to boy culture the referendum and don't have much
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confidence because they think it's basically the gateway to a dose thing and will authors harriet and absolute dictates regime, which they fought. so holler, sewer, be back in 2011. okay, thank you so much. let's have oakland reporting for us from tunis. the rest of the talking military and artillery centers in the hands scree. jennifer, eastern ukraine, and auster ukraine regained some of its last territory for us as defense, ministry says its forces have shot down a ukrainian and military transport plane near the black sea porter for another strike has reportedly destroyed a training center. the governor flew hands, says bridges are being blown up to stop military reinforcements into if you have done yet. then bas ravi is monitoring developments from keep $100.00 days in what is become a what the spotlight has come onto a city several minutes. we've been talking about it for weeks and that is now the
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place where the fiercest fighting in this war is still happening. and a lot of ukrainians were watching what's happening civilians as well as those in government, in the military. they say what they're seeing as russia is doing to separate an eft, what it did to mario full, it is trying to erase that city from existence. and so what that accomplishes for russia is that whether or not they occupy it, it is unoccupied for whoever tries to come back. now, the little bit of good news we've heard in the last 24 hours from the president's office is that there has been a pushback. what they have managed to do is push russians out of the center of the city and take back 20 percent of it. by the simple math, that means the crane now once again, controls 40 percent of that city. and what is key to keep in mind here is that the pace of the fighting is something that russia did not expect. ukraine has forced them to fight with every possible resource that they have for every inch of territory that they've tried to take over. severed the nets has been contested, and it's still contested. after a month of fighting there,
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the war is effects and commodity prices globally. a senior analyst from the us food and agricultural organizations hold on 0. the developing world is most at risk julian wolf report. the more than a 100 days into the war and ukraine and the fighting is intensifying in the east. far from the front lines, the conflict impacting the global food supply, especially in africa, which imports 40 percent of its grain from russia and ukraine. the chair of the african union traveling the sochi to help get deliveries back on track. that will cause i spoke to the european council and i told them, yes, there is a war the crisis, but there's also sanction. we should work together on resolving these 2 problems and make sure that everything concerning food and green supplies is outside the sanction. his meeting, present prudent ended with a promise easy export of grain from russian control ports was up to 10 blame in the
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west for using los cow as a scapegoat. no option you of course, now we see an attempt to shift responsibility for the global food crisis to russia . this attempt, as our people like to say, is an attempt to shift from a sick head to a healthy one. food prices have shown up across africa since russia invaded ukraine with fears of famine and the un warning of mass migration. if food doesn't reach african shores. russia is played hunger being recently to put the blame on crane and others. ok, ukrainian. ah, so basically they are saying that the imminent hunger in africa elsewhere will become soon because of the western sanctions on russia, not because of russia's nation in force. but despite today's pledge,
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it remains unclear when those ports will be able to release the supplies africa in the world, so desperately needs. join wolf, al jazeera, hundreds of afghan refugees have protested in islamabad, demanding the right to work in pakistan. they also want to be recognized as asylum seekers. most of the protesters are from the has our ethnic minority group that's faced centuries of persecution come on, hider was at the protest after that dollar bon k. golwood and the red roll of us led coalition forces. tens of thousands of people came to august on an order to seek asylum, another country. all 30 said to men, but these people hear more today from the i got our community, our reading, the additional body and shroud thing that them to now to do for help bought or killers. wow,
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this is a good been from the people who have been persecuted and i've run it on by deadly attacks on who's and maud little wardship and i've run it on by do thomas's porter thought the deteriorating condition of one is vote. they cannot make any major guardian prevent these people from going back. their parents said that they can not keep their children understand because they cannot go to school, nor do they get any support from the government there. and now this is a desperate appeal to the international community to take notice of these people. i come here to ask one question from international i. what is different between us asia going in today? we wonder world community to treat us the same way as dated ukrainians day. we. we've been here for almost 2 months and under sunshine, under rain,
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under storm, under bad weather with difficult situations. and we still haven't gotten to help when we needed much of these people came head on, rallied, reside, but did not get any help from the international community. and now they are shouting logan, haycock, or killer youth. people have been living rough, very close to budget on capitol. it's all about red gone. and they're warned, held from the united nation duyka mission project to do some of these people doors that they've been right in the email through the foreign country embassy as well as the united nation. but they have received nor heard. it did indeed of dexter situation for thousands of on who have run out of one. i know in limbo was supporters of pakistan's, former prime minister and ron con,
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have been protesting against raising fuel prices. hundreds demonstrated after the government cut fuel subsidies for the 2nd time in a week. the finance minister says it's an attempt to control the country's debt. pakistan was told by the international monetary fund that had to cut the subsidy to secure bailout funds in hong kong events. commemorating the anniversary of the chinaman, square massacre have been ban for a 3rd straight year. the police are out in force near victoria park. that's where a tens of thousands of people usually hold candle lit vigils. the government says the park is close to prevent unauthorized assemblies and reduce the spread of co would 19 rights groups say thousands of peaceful protests or may have been killed by chinese soldiers in beijing chinaman square in 1989 chinese official say 300 died i'll just, there are a media network continues to demand the rapid independent and transparent investigation into the killing. if it's during the less than the occupied westbank
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shooting ball, claire was shot and the head by is really forces. while she was on assignment and jeanine on the day of her funeral is really force a storm the procession and started beating. warner is causing pall bearers to almost drop her caskets that didn't stop thousands of palestinians from marching through occupied east jerusalem to take part in her funeral and burial. members of the international community have condemned her killing and continue to call for an investigation. a block that was with al jazeera for 25 years, covering the story of the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. stella had anal 0 americans, whole nationwide rallies. they're calling for a tighter controls on gun ownership. i'm nicholas hawk in st. louis in northern senegal, a unesco world heritage site home to a unique jazz festival. why not x y, people from travel with
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the journey has begun the faithful world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package today, it is usual for the seasonal rains on my front, this one here. the plum rates produce flooding. that is what they do on the flatland between the yangtze and south coast in china. and that rain causing the same front runs up to sudden japan, there will be flooding here. it might hit south korea as well. this will pulse in and out for weeks to come north. so this we have some significant sherry rain to the eastern side of the korean peninsula or to shout in japan and the hot weather in beijing being suppressed a little bit by incoming cloud. and maybe showers this during later part of the week and into monday by which time france move south wet in hong kong. wet just off shore from hong. sure you've largely escaped. it will be dull day. i think for tokyo, the sees no rains and india, of course, the south,
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whence monsoon are making progress up the west coast of the deck and blotto on eastern side of the bay of bengali hit me and mile in between. there are some pretty big showers, again for a sam, maybe a bangladesh as well as where the breeze is so, but for the most part, india is still seeing the pre monsoon heat with increasing breeze. so it's just is not a hot as it was in the north of india, nor indian pakistan, but it still the middle forty's in the north. every now again, you get good showers to make things feel cooler very occasionally. ah, the shoe ally of the journey. there is no channel that covers world news like we do . we, we visit places, mistake al jazeera, really invest in that. and that's a privilege. as a journalist, how and why did who did become so obsessed with this law, we were giving them a tool to hold corrupt individuals with human rights abusers accountable. they're going to rip this deal apart if they take the white house of 2025. what is the
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world hearing what we're talking about? why american today you'll weekly take on us politics and society. that's the bottom line. ah ah, hello again. the top sellers on al jazeera this hour, the testers in tennessee are rallying in the capital tuners to do now is an upcoming referendum on a new constitution. president crisis i years has been ruling by decrease since july last year. he dissolved parliament and replaced the electoral commission. russia is attacking military and artillery centers in the low hands region of eastern ukraine, thoughts after ukraine regained some of its last territory. both sides are claim control of significant parts of the key city of sierra dawn. yet hundreds of afghan
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refugees have held protested as long about demanding the right to work in pakistan . they also want to be recognized as asylum seekers most are from the has our ethnic minority. that's very centuries of persecution. americans have held nationwide demonstrations to call for tighter gun control laws. they follow a series of mass shootings that have killed dozens of people including 19 children at a school in texas last month. more than $350.00 events were held across the us. gabriel is on though has been to 2 rallies in new york. this is ron multiple walk out here in new york city. these are students in elementary and high schools that are walking out of class to call for better gun restrictions in the united states. better going. what you're seeing now is angry students, students to say they've had enough that they just don't want to risk their lives
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simply having to go to school anymore. and we spoke to one girl, her name is mimi gardner. she's only 13 years old. and this is what she told me because i don't want to die as people. my age and younger are being shot and it can be, any of us. we want that you feel that this time is different that you hope there's real change? i mean we, we won't change every time, and i guess we just gotta keep doing it until people there really isn't. earlier, there was another protest in new york. it was with a group called moms demand action. they are a group calling for stricter gun laws and more gun control. they say they are fed up with their children at risk from gun violence. we're doing this because we care deeply that there needs to be a change. we're not trying to take away the race from anybody. what we're trying to
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do is leave and stop the gun violence that is going on in our country alone. we also caught up with former new york governor andrew cuomo, he said, given the resistance by most republicans in congress to accept any sort of new gun restrictions. he said president joe biden just needs to act alone. take action. you are the president of the united states. the democrats are in control of the senate and the congress. make the change, pass the bill, change the law, stop talking, start acting. this was just one of several protest throughout the united states, all culminating on saturday, june 11. when gun control advocates plan a huge protest in washington d. c. where they're expecting tens of thousands of people in the nation's capital. calling for an end to gun violence. the earth president has
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a large number of new jobs created in may, is assigned the economy is entering a period of sustained growth. joe biden says, unemployment is near in historic low, an extra 390000 jobs were created in may, but he did acknowledge that many americans are struggling with high inflation. our white house correspondent, kimberly hall kit has more from washington. this biden administration is celebrating what they see as proof that the president's policies are working for many weeks. now the white house has been saying that trust us low and middle income americans who are really feeling the pinch is result of inflation and also just really struggling saying that their wages are not keeping up with some of these high prices. that much of this is really just a bump. this is transitory. and they say that this is proof that what they've been saying is finally starting to turn. but again, this is just one piece of
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a much bigger puzzle. there is more economic david to come there will be fresh numbers and the consumer price index it will becoming a week from now. as there is that sense that we will get a clearer picture. but certainly this is a white house that is saying, our policies are working, trust us, and this is certainly an encouraging sign. one of donald trump's former cop advisors has been charged with contempt of congress. a federal grand jury charged peter navarro after who refused to hand over documents or appear before congressional so like committee. former president, trump has urged his associates not to cooperate with the investigation. calling it politically motivated. thousands of people are going to march from parliament to demand action to and violence against women rally on friday. also commemorated women who've been murdered. latin american countries have some of the highest rates of violence towards women in the world. last year,
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one woman was killed in argentina, every 35 hours on average. most were victims of domestic violence. german investigators are trying to establish what caused the train to derail on friday, killing 4 people and injuring dozens. the regional service bound from munich came off the rails near a popular ski resorts in bavaria. domenic cane reports from berlin. this was the scene confronted rescue. as these carriages were packed with passengers, many of whom are injured. it's understood some of the people on board with children heading home from school for the half term holidays. here it was a serious train crush, occurred her original frame, which deposits out of garbage park, and heading to munich, derail. shortly after leaving the station for reasons unknown, several trained carriages tipped over and fell down in a bank minute. it took emergency services several hours to extract everyone from the wreckage. some were so badly hurt,
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they need to be airlifted to hospital for treatment. it's likely many on board would have been using the new 10 dollar month be ticket, which allows unlimited regional traffic. this stretch of line links, a ski resort with the bavarian capital munich. the derailment happened on the bend close to the main road and the river laser. no other vehicle was involved in the incident. the weather conditions at the time were good. an investigation is underway to piece together the final moments of the journey and find out what caused the train to leave the tracks. dawn, it came, al jazeera, berlin. scientists have received a stark warning about the concentration of carbon dioxide in the planets atmosphere . the us climate agency says it's reached the record level that's 50 percent higher than during the pre industrial era. officials from the national of sienna, could atmospheric administration say, instead of cutting back fossil fuel use, the world is doing the opposite. last year. so the largest ever annual raise in
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carbon dioxide emissions. a vast wetland in southern iraq believes to be the biblical garden of eden as slowly disappearing. unesco heritage wetlands are suffering from government, neglect on climate change, and acids vanishing. so are the ancient traditions of people who are living there was some of job aids reports from i was in southern iraq if 5000 year old mode of transport is solely disappearing from iraq's unesco heritage marshes. to be heard. remember that 6 decades ago, there was water in the heart, or marshes. i saw lead to add was sent off. it's been 4 or 5 years on the water level is decreasing. gradually. it really affects us when there's water, the marsh has come to life and we can fish. when i was young, the marshes were a magnificent place. not like these days. we were able to collect marsh reeds and fish. now we're left with nothing, no known as the water dries up,
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so does the demand to make the ancient machines or marsh boat. in addition to boat making, they used to be work for maintenance and upkeep. now, most of the boat makers have left the swamps, introverted in southern cooper, buster and he left many of the 20 types of boats for hunting transport or passengers not being made anymore. the ones which are made use important material. the ancient technique of making them issue or the marsh board is all but last, the local bird has been replaced by industrial timber. the arches are now being made with java wood. and instead of re lloyd, they're using fiberglass and chemical tar. in addition to climate change and drying marcia's bookmakers also a frequent public up bottle, a 3rd generation boat builder and says it's quicker using modern equipment and imported materials, a cheap baton allotted and relevant. the old boat was made of wood,
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cotton and nails. now all these materials not used now fiberglass is used. it's better than the old way. previously, people waited for a month to get a boat, but with low water level, there's no work. my biggest fear is the drought. no water means no work for us. one of the world's largest inland delta has shrunk from $9000.00 to just under 800 square kilometers. the marshes were dried for oil production and agriculture from the 970, than to combat armed groups in the 1990 s. and people from the marcia said the promises to help have just been quote, ink and paper. linda shed that the government did not do anything for the marshes, no, such as your plans, no health or educational projects. the residents are deprived of everything. the boat industry flourished once, but now the marshes are getting smaller and people rely on fewer boat. climate change is the main factor. it will become worse with summer evaporation levels. also upstream dams. in turkey and iran mean more than 40 river tributaries are
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totally cut off. the water buffaloes are an important part of the local area industry. but human and animal based is also a challenge for the fragile ecology. bookmaking in this pristine habitat and its ancient heritage are all at risk. and without immediate action, this unique marshland is pushed closer to extinction every day. sullivan without the ra, a heart of southern iraq. tropical storm warnings have been issued for the u. s. state of florida, cuba and the bahamas as a weather system batters the gulf of mexico. 2 people were killed in cuba after heavy rain surgery, landslides, where the system is expected to develop into a tropical storm. as it approaches the united states. one of africa as big as jazz festivals has kicked off on the senegalese island of st. louis. we've covered the 1900 restrictions lifted. thousands of tourists have come to the event that
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showcases music inspired by africa. nicholas han reports from st. louis ah, improvising on stage is malia and jazz artists bedrock with, with a band of senegalese musician, ah, taken by the music many in the crowd are unable to keep still. among them, melinda and richard, who travelled across the atlantic from washington d. c. to attend the event, this music is really at the room. yeah. so this is where jobs came from. power originating with the green ocean where people chanted their stories of their families. and they use traditional instruments to accompany it. and what eventually became american jazz. had its roots here in africa in particular west africa. and we'll go from washington to shoot was
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a strong german music scene and we don't really enjoy it. so we thought to be interesting to come back and get a deeper understanding of what just gone and how it sounds you with cove restrictions lifted. this 30th edition of the st. louis jazz festival is bringing hundreds of visitors. the archipelago is a unesco world heritage site. during the 2nd world war, african american troops landed in this former colonial capital of french africa, bringing their music, explains the festival director, if winged off, or whatever it is from the mississippi river to here, there is a flow of music. perhaps african slaves brought their music to america, and african americans brought it back here. in this dialogue, there is the sound of this voice feels like a divine melody. mullin are does, creates a wishes. there could be a festival like this in war torn molly or ukraine with all jazz's freedom. it allows you to escape my vehicle to be free from the blues
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and leave your worries behind. none oh, sounds from the benefit. oh, and the in goni transport the audience in a musical journey, ah, let me show you the instruments that he has on stage he's been using just before he picked up the guitar of core i, which is a 10 string instrument and then on stage is also a calabasas which is another traditional west african instrument, this is what this festival is about, is to introduce and for jazz to a wider public right here in saint louis. this is the celebration of music, of love and of the joy it brings to people. no matter where they are from nicholas hawk al jazeera st. louis synagogue. ah.

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