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[000:00:00;00] ah, i will just whenever you oh, the latest news as it breaks down estimated 20000 legally gold miners. just in the younger mom, the reservation with detailed coverage. the government says it's taking action, but doctors are desperate. thing lives are being put in danger from around the world. presidents the landscape says the coming days will be crucial for ukraine with the expected renew, defensive in the east. ah
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. iraq's influential shia cleric, martina outsiders, steps away from politics just mon staff to national elections. ah, where you're watching, al jazeera ally from doha with me for liberty bore also ahead police in brazil say they found the bodies of an indigenous expert. and a british journalist who went missing in the amazon 10 days ago. the biggest interest rate hike since 1994. the u. s. federal reserve targets rec, at high inflation. and the un says a global food crisis, aggravated by the war in ukraine has pushed number of people to space worldwide beyond a 100000000. ah, thank you very much for joining as we begin in iraq,
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where shia cleric mac tut asada has announced his stepping away from politics. satta says he won't participate in the next elections. if politicians, he is accused of being corrupt. take part, the leader of the largest block in parliament made the statement in a close meeting just days after 7 to 3 members of his party resigned as impedes. the move means iraq faces more political uncertainty after an 8 month 1000000000 or deadlock and failure to form a government. oh god, what it i decided to withdraw from the political process to avoid associating with those corrupt politicians in any way. neither in this world nor in the hereafter, as well, like you as well, like you, you really did well in obeyed. so i thank you. what i want to tell you is that in the next stage, i will not participate in the coming elections. also with corrupt politicians, if they participate. this is a pledge between me and god as bringing our correspondent in baghdad,
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mahmud abdullah. hi. so mahmoud. what does my decision mean politically for iraq? well it further complicates the already trouble the political situation fully as you know that at this comes after 8 months of a deadlock, a soldier in his speech last night gathering with addressing his political politicians actually 73 parliament members confirmed once again that he will not retreat in this resignation, this is not to be retracted, vowing get up to take part in any government in any future elections that would have what he calls between brackets. the corrupt politicians, of course, he's alluding to the iranian back. she political parties, his rivals, who last about 2 thirds of their seats in the october election. now,
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as you know that this speech comes after he ordered his the parliament members to resign on sunday. they submitted the resignation to the parliament speaker and was accepted by the parliament speaker. on sunday was going to happen next was going to happen next. as you know, got this comes up the 8 months of deadlock that resulted in derailing forming the government and the railing, electing a new president of the state. thank you for that, ma'am. would that have lived in back that a now the world news police in brazil say a suspect has confessed to killing an indigenous researcher and a british furnace in a remote part of the amazon furnace herrera and dom phillips went missing more than a week ago after receiving threats investigator see the suspect took them to the spot where the bodies were buried. other rest, sorry, expected to be made soon. monica in ocoee of his falling developments from rio de janeiro. what happened was one of the 2 suspects,
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the one that was odd that they detained more recently. he confessed, they took him, he said that he had taken the 2 men. he said that they had a submerged, their boat had killed them and taken them to bury them inside the forest are 3 kilometers inside the fours. that means to carry their bodies. you'd have to go with a small canoe through these rivers. ah, after saying that after confessing the police accompanied the man to the site where he said that these are 2 people had been buried and there they found human remains . the police was saying that they were very sorry for what happened to the families of these 2 men. journalist dom phillips was writing a book about saving the amazon and indigenous expert. little bit era who was one of results most experienced people in an contacted tribes. they had been in the job id valley, which is
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a huge indigenous reservation is the size of morocco and home to the largest number of un contacted friday. and are bruno was working with the indigenous people. the locals are to try and stop the illegal fishermen. poachers are miners from invading their territories, he was helping them map this out. and he was travelling with dom phillips when these both men were ambushed according to the police. some cow, easy journalist based in brazil, he says, present. jade boss narrows policies have led to the degradation of the amazon, and the absence of the rule of law absolutely result all budget cars coming from the federal government, which began in 2017, under the administration of michelle tema, and have continued under the administration of j january the 1st 2019 and not only that,
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what we've seen during the books in our ministration is the kind of stacking all agency long along with the car, but also stacking agency, government protection bodies for indigenous people and the environment. the agency's, we enjoy that with allies, with people, with no former experience, but people that were aligned ideologically with mr boss and all rows take on the amazon, which is to develop the amazon, you know, basically what, you know, the 1st of the devils here and she declared the amans an open business, he long called to legalize mining and other pe be extractive in industrial activities or indigenous land, for example is currently prohibited by law. busy he's welcome to legal minus to the presidential palace, members of the start with that have had meetings of illegal minors in the
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presidential palace. and you know, much of his support comes from lawless regions in the amazon and across the country . so yeah, what we have seen in the last few years, the both and i rode ministration, took over easily increasing lawlessness in the amazon as a result of direct result amenable scenarios in century rhetoric and also cops and d banging to the very agencies which are supposed to be protecting the forest, and if people the u. s. federal reserve has increase interest rates to their highest levels in nearly 30 years. the move is aimed at raining in storing innovation is the 3rd high since march, and as my can every for some washington. it adds to the uncertainty facing the economy. the announcement was expected, but no less shocking. at today's meeting, the committee raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 3 quarters of
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a percentage point resulting in a one and a half percentage point increase in the target range. so far this year, the only potential ray of light and unemployment rate near a 50 year low with job vacancies at historical highs and wage growth elevated. but this is offset by soaring inflation, which the rates type is intended to curb. prices across the board increased by nearly 9 percent last month alone, as inflation reached a level not seen in decades. the interest type will increase the price of mortgages and insurance among other things. but the fed hopes that are also damping consumer spending, which in turn should reduce inflation. my colleagues and i are acutely aware that high inflation imposes significant hardship, especially on those least able to meet the higher costs of essentials, like food, housing, and transportation. we are highly attentive to the risks, high inflation poses to bite. so both sides of our mandate and were strongly
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committed to returning inflation to our 2 percent objective. and that would be welcomed by a suffering public y'all. i have got to slow it down and stretches, gallon and milk of mom. we don't know the 6 bucks every 2 days. that go to say what the mil for chelsea lewis and her family inflation is not an abstract statistic. it's an every day burden that determines whether there's food on the table or whether she can drive her twin high school kids to track meets the search, and prices is particularly hard on people. still recovering from the economic ravages of attend demik. this is been a rough time and then with the, you know, the recent with the ukrainian situation and then the gap was to shoot up. it's just like this world is, is, is certainly even more rough for the ones who were already struggling to keep their head above water. so it's kind of like now i can speak for myself. you kind of feel like you're drowning in a sense. chelsea is holding down several jobs while studying for a degree,
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but she couldn't cope without a government safety net. in particular, a housing subsidy known as section 8, food stamps, about $800.00 a month. my daughter who you just met. she's on social security. that's how we're managing. but the good blessing is before we move to georgia, after 6 years of being on the section a housing voucher program, i made it to the top of up to the fed announcement, the white house, which continues to blame much of the gloomy economic outlook on russian president vladimir putin section in ukraine, said it was doing everything to steady growth. that's little comfort to the louis family, which regularly plays a board game called the game of life, in which players get into debt, take out insurance, make investments, spine property, and so on. but they have little or no control over the real game of life being played out beyond these walls. one of rampant inflation and rising interest rates
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in which the consumer is always the loser. mike hannah al jazeera washington, the leaders of germany, france and italy have arrived in ukraine's capital. keith, it's the 1st time or last shoals emanuel michael and marya draggy have made the trip since the russian invasion. they are expected to discuss more how for ukraine and also the country's bid for european union's candidacy with present jeremy's lensky his ass for the application to be fast right before the summit begins. on june 23rd. on nearly 4 months of war in ukraine has left families scattered across the country. more than 12000000 people have been forced to leave their home since the war began. and many a wandering, if their loved ones are still alive. cha, stratford reports from cave. julio and luke miller scrape the russian bombardment of murray or pull on march 19th. over the next few days, they risked their lives 3 times,
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driving back into the city. breathing bullets shows and air strikes in a desperate attempt to find the father of their family. 61 year old. all exams. blueprint cool. they fear, he never made it out. so you should as we were driving. there were russians on one side, ukrainians on the other, and they were shooting, says, you know, we were in the middle, it was terrifying. but we were determined to get dad and you know, the family used to live nearby as of steel, plumbed were an estimated 2500 ukranian soldiers and civilians were trapped for weeks. as the fighting intensified, they fled to a basement under a block of flats in the city center. on the day they escaped, the shilling was intense and all exam that never made it from the basement to the waiting civilian car. we were sure he knew we would come back for him, says mila. and he would wait for us in the basement. a few days later they returned to where they had last seen. all exams are the ones you saw. all the buildings were
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burns and destroyed. with miller, and there was no one there. ludmilla and newly, his story is not uncommon. the united nations estimates that rushes invasion has forced more than 12000000 people to flee the homes. the ukrainian government says thousands of them a searching for friends and loved ones. missing, fed dead. and chancellor nicole varies. a psychologist, volunteering at the center, helping some of the 10s of thousands of people from mary awful fled to the ukrainian control side of you. today. i had a lady whose husband was killed in front of her and she asked me, why did i survive? she like so many is deeply disturbed. constantly breaking down and refusing to accept what has happened with families who come to this sense of receive food parcels. once every 2 weeks. children play while their parents register until their stories to volunteers on the re used to work at the as of style plants as
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a liaison operator, he says he left many friends behind mother support anymore. i think they are more sympathetic to the occupiers yet that they call me and when are you coming back? but i will never returned with russians in control. anastasio was a social worker in mary o pool before the war. she struggles to hold back. her tears said, i be upset wholly here. we all lost friends, they're gone forever. in my case, it would have been death or cavity because i refuse to work under the occupiers. i don't know if i will ever see my city again. the ukrainian government accuses russia forcing tens of thousands of people from mary opal into russia and accusation. russia denies eula and louis miller say their only hope is that all examiner is still alive. cha, stratford al jazeera keith still ahead on al jazeera, the sounds and protest in the democratic republic of congo,
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accusing the want and government supporting a rebel and a street name, change with the political message in the us capital. aah! hi there, thanks for joining in spain. is bacon in the heats most of the country under heat warnings, in some spots. temperatures are passing 40 degrees, not quite there for madrid or seville, your temperature ranging from 38 to 39. but think of this as a conveyor belt of heat. it's now spreading further toward the north in france and britain. so london got a high 28 paris at 30 check this out. here's your 3 day forecast. you shoot up to 38 degrees on saturday. you could set a new temperature record for the month of june. there is some rain to be found in.
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we've got lively downpours from the czech republic stretching into austria. so this will plague both prague anviana on thursday. and we know there's been some flooding in on koran, still getting pelted with rain for that western side of turkey. we know this is capable of producing flooding, especially when it falls over the higher ground, as it will on thursday. off to africa, we go, we've got storms lighting up across the gulf of guinea, stretching from nigeria right through to see are the own. so free towns got a high 27 degrees and much calmer in south africa after a pair of cold friends marched across over the course of the weekend. but some chilly areas. so hot tank johannesburg, 12 degrees. and here's your can wake up to on friday, dark of the blue, the lower the temperature johannesburg, just to degrees state one. ah . and make sure you're not high paying the situation,
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be part of the debate. my main characters are women when no topic is off the table, the laws and you ask, allow child marriage to happen legally. these are basically archaic walls. that's awesome. legitimize and legal wise had a silly pass on air or online, jumping to the correct section. and we tend to be part of the discussion this stream on out, is there a ah ah ah, welcome back. a recap of our top stories on al jazeera, iraq's influential shia cleric motel solder has the mouse is stepping away from politics. he says he won't participate in the next election, save politicians. he's accused of being corrupt. take place in brazil say,
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a suspect has confessed to killing 2 men who went missing in the amazon indigenous experts. bruno pereira and british journalist dom phillips, went missing more than a week ago. the leaders of germany, france, and it's, we have arrived in ukraine's capital believe it's the 1st time or last shows that monumental and married a draggy have made the trip since the russian invasion began in february. and ukraine is top of the agenda during the final day of nato defense ministers meeting in brussels says he arrived at the talks u. s. secretary of defense, lloyd austin, frank, nato secretary general yen salton birth for his leadership and express his support for the swedish and finish beds to join the alliance. as we free countries like your friend leonard, sweden baker, historic your decision to apply for middle meet membership. that's very encouraging, we welcome that. you know, these are,
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are strong democracies who have values that are very much align with our values and very capable countries. and so we hope that to that things will continue to move for general ford of, of the orders are to, to join. now for the past decade, every year and increasing number of people are forced to flee their homes this year is no different. a new hi for the space meant about a 100000000 for the 1st time. the un regina, he says, is galen speed of the crisis. are outpacing solutions. the biggest factor right now is the war in ukraine, which has triggered one of the largest mass displacements since the 2nd world war. but there is some good news. 5.7000000 people returned to their countries of origin . last year. fillable grandees, the united nations high commissioner for refugees, he says the global displacement crisis is only going to get worse. new conflict, sir, emerge. old conflicts are not resolved. and because the causes that push,
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people to flee are becoming more and more complex. are violence persecution . human rights violations, but also to an extent, climates, extreme climate phenomena, and the climate change inequalities. even the pandemic, everything conspires to make the situation very difficult for people in certain countries and their only option is to flee. and the, this is why we've seen this speaker grow year after year and reach now more than a 100000000 people. the still almost 6000000 syrian refugees in the middle east. i've just come back from bangladesh. we're in a tiny and very fragile area of the country. 1000000 refugees from member of the ro hinge, a community have been living for the past few years and the list is very,
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very long. so the size, the complexity, the difficulty of finding solutions, all of this illustrates the, the, the nature of the problem. we're dealing with kenya's, president discounting on east africa regional forces to taco violence in democratic republic of congo has been heavy fighting in the east after a series of attacks by the m. 23 rebels. the congress government and thousands of protesters blame the neighboring wanda for the conflict. malcolm wipe has more people in the city of goma angry president who could gummy with neighboring rwanda . they say that tired of rwandan military aggression in democratic republic of congo, we are going into wonder, so they can kill us as they are doing with the n 23 rebels because we're tired of this ongoing situation in our country. protested. and congress government lay
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miranda being behind the recent series of attacks in congress by the end 23 rebel grid. it's widely seen as a proxy of rwanda. rwanda's leaders deny it. nobody here believes them. demonstrators reach the board with rwanda. hunger leaf placed his 1st and with pig 2 days before to the north and 23 took control of the town has been gone. a hugley soldiers retreated into neighboring. you can move on, we're going to do everything possible to drive these criminals, these terrorists and their supporters out of the national territory. wanda does not like us and we are not afraid for the moment. we thank you for your support, and we ask you to demonstrates peace for the both congo and reminder of accused each other of cross bought a shilling. in recent weeks, this village primary school in congo was caught in the crossfire. 2 children were
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killed and buried near by. one of them was safe in the narrows, 7 year old son isaac. he says he was playing with friends and he was blown to pieces. melissa, i don't want to where we are really tired. we demand more protection. so that our children, my live in peace. now, when there's a cracking sound, the children panic and have to slay the child who has died will not come back. but those who remain must be protected is the kind of violent push people to boiling point in goma, which is the regional capital. they've been armed conflict in eastern congo ever since were wanda and uganda invaded in the 990. countries have been accused of newton mineral meddling ever since. people here wanted to stop the malcolm web era. the biden administration has re traded calls for
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a fair and thorough investigation into the killing of al jazeera journalists, sharina blackly. the palestinian american was shot dead by his really forces while reporting in the occupied west bank last month. present. joe biden is due to meet israeli and palestinian leaders when he travels to the middle east next month. what we want is obviously for this to be fully investigated and if there needs to be accountability had accountability had at the end of that investigation, we've called for thorough complete, transparent investigations into her death. and we're going to be watching this very, very closely. i don't have any additional details on what an independent investigation would look like. i just don't have that for you today. but i don't want you to walk away thinking that we don't want this fully investigated. and for that investigation to be thorough and transparent. a section of the streets in front of sod, uribe as embassy. washington has been re named after murdered journalist yamaha shoji, who is killed by saudi agents in
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a sample in 2018 patty. cocaine was at. the envy were standing outside the usually heavily fortified. saudi arabian embassy here in washington, d. c, with a crowd of media and supporters gathered, were about to see the name of the street that the embassy sits on renamed. cr showed you way. the washington stacy city council about a year ago, decided to change the official name of the street to honor slain washington post journalist jamal who showed you. now the organizers here say they're doing it now and large part to raise awareness of the fact that you as president joe by you will soon be heading to saudi arabia basically felt betrayed. i think the promise that he gave us gave the, the general public about protection of saudi distance. the also the promise of making the saudi government, the prior. they are active as say they want the american people to remember that on the campaign trail, joe biden promised to make saudi arabia a pariah state. they say that's obviously
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a promise. now. broken the u. s. house committee investigating the capitol hill attack says a man who was present at the insurrection visited the building just a day before. he was in a tour organized by a republican congressman who denies any wrong doing. the committee will hold its referred hearing late on thursday. alan fish every force washington. it was the day before the capital riot and constituents of republican congressman body loudermilk were being given a tour of the building. one man in particular seemed interested in stairways and security checkpoints, not the usual tourist attractions. the same man who filmed themself walking towards capitol hill on the day of the riot, making broad threats against democratic members of congress. he has not been charged with any offence, or there's no escape. pelosi schumer meddler will come in for the congressman who's over during the visit said he did nothing
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wrong. these are folks who have never been washington. this an their, their weird visitor congressman, the one to speak to the committee and because the committees never called me and asked me anything, they sent a letter. i mean, really, they never sent it to me. your office never, no, never, never received the letter, never received a phone call. never received an email. they send it to you guys. the chairman of the january 6th committee, betty thompson says the behavior of the group raises concerns about the activity and intent. there have been suggestions, a number of tours and the days before the riot allowed some of those involved to essentially study the layout. and will capitol police say there was nothing suspicious about the loudermilk visit? that our calls to reopen that investigation? it seems suspicious that, ah, you need a subpoena for a member of congress to want to volunteer every thing he knew that was arguably relevant to the investigation. why do you need a subpoena? your member of congress is supposed to be upholding and defending the constitution
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. you should be voluntary, like good samaritan, everything you know. the leader of the republicans in the house says the shows the committee is more interested in attacking opponents. but the committee is expected to lay out more evidence of other suspicious visits in coming hearings. allen fisher al jazeera washington, i said, decades inside the south korean musician became a global phenomenon with his catchy gang, him sigh hit. but his recent life performances are being criticized for using water cannon space on audiences. robert pride has his story. this month is the 10th anniversary of sy, achieving global fame with the unmistakable sounds and moves of gangnam style. and as south korea welcomes the summer, he and other k pop stars are welcoming, being back with their fans at large concerts. the kind of gatherings that haven't been possible during the pandemic, especially colleges,
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which pay for big names to come and entertain them at this time of year. i'm doing a lot of shows easier on colleges. this is kind of funny or my career's 22 years, but these days i'm talking to myself like, wow, dude, you are very popular. uh huh. they love you. that may be the case, but size concerts have drawn criticism for their excessive use of water being sprayed onto the crowds from large water cannon, especially at a time when many parts of the country are suffering from drought. and now he's also being criticized by health officials saying that wet masks pose a health risk making it easier to spread germs just as the country finally seems to be overcoming the only kron variance. that of course, is a reason to celebrate this summer and sigh and his fans would like to be partying. but his use of water it seems,

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