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bloomberg, some people say that they say globalization going on, but i prefer to think of him read globalization or accomplish speakers from heads of state to business and policy. we will discuss evolving technology, education, culture, sustainability, and the impact on the economy. ah, ah, israel is set to hold its 5th election in 3 yearned saucer leaders of the governing coalition. agree to dissolve parliament. ah, you're watching al jazeera life from headquarters in del hi. i'm getting obligated also ahead. russia threatened to retaliate after lithuania bars, a rail line from supplying goods to wits. baltic c enclave of kellen and garad.
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fears of water and food shortages as bangladesh experiences the worse flooding in a century. and from guerrilla fighter to colombian, presidents, we look at the challenges facing gustavo petro, after a historic, when, ah, after just a year in office, the leaders of israel's fragile coalition, governments have announced they are dissolving parliament. the move will force the country to hold its 5th election in less than 3 and a half years. it comes after the coalition failed to renew a law on the status of illegal is really saddler's in the occupied west bank. foreign minister a year le pete will take over from natalie bennett's in the role of intern prime minister until the polls the shelf on. busy on friday i held a series of talks with legal insecurity officials and i realize that in 10 days
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what the expiration of the regulations is, right will experience serious security damages and legal chaos. i couldn't allow that. will it kills law? sophomore, we spirit. know if that a galvanized whomever was needed to pass the regulations. but unfortunately, if it's board, no fruit can therefore, my friend and i decided to act together to dissolve parliament and sit and agreed upon date for elections. bernard smith has more from western selim, as israel had to its 5th election and 3 and a half years. it's a surprise to many israelis that this coalition has lasted as long as it has when it was pulled together just over a year ago. it was a strange combination of cars from the far right, the right, the left and for the 1st time, palestinian israeli were included in the government. but its sole purpose really was to get rid of benjamin netanyahu as prime minister. he's been israel prime minister previously for a total of 15 years and netanyahu once the job back and he was he who engineered
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the collapse of his government with his opposition partners. he voted against the extension of a settler bill every 5 years. this comes up in israel's parliament and it normally passed automatically extended. it allows the extension of. busy israeli law into the settlements by failing to extend this law. netanyahu's coalition has precipitated the collapse of the government, the war expires at the end of this month. but because there's going to be new elections, it will be automatically extended for another 6 months. those new elections won't be held probably before some time in mid october. and until len lockheed will stand in inter and prime minister daniel levy is the president of the us middle east project. and a former is really negotiator. he says the collapse of this parliament is not a surprise, and it's a real opportunity for former prime minister benjamin netanyahu to make
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a return to government. the parliament will vote to dissolve itself. the date has been agreed, i believe, late october, there's the jewish holiday season, jewish year tenement in october. it will be at the end of october unless not an yahoo. com peel away enough members to form a majority of 61 in the current parliament. that seems very unlikely that the betting will be against that. so the likelihood is elections, not and young, looks pretty strong in those elections. he's in court defending himself. he kind of needs this to assist his court position. there are strong suggestions that he would try and change things so that the court case itself could not continue his prime minister again. he paused highest in the opinion polls consistently. he's party poles, highest the question as ever with this rambunctious but very unusual is rate
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politics of so many small, medium sized parties is whether him and his allies will get to the magic number. i think you will go into the selection. i'm in a stronger position with the semi assumption being, it's his to loops. ah, the european union says russia's invasion of ukraine as solely to blame for the disruption of green supplies to many african nations. ukraine has one of the world's largest producers of grain. you diplomats have been meeting in luxembourg to discuss the conflict effect on food security. one can not imagine that the millions of don reed remain walking ukraine was in the rest of the world. people are suffering hunger. this is a real war crime. we have a repeating, and they have to warn again, law do, reese of a great
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a mean. you specially enough. dominic cane has more. there is no suggestion that the e u is sensitive to the suggestion that its sanctions against russia are counter productive in one sense, namely that certain countries in africa and elsewhere that rely on the sorts of food stuff that are produced in ukraine are having difficulty in accessing them suddenly the suggestion was put to your cit, burrow high representative for the on external and foreign policy about precisely that in his answer was no, that is not the case. the impact of sanctions for the ears impose is not affecting the ability of african countries to get hold of fertilizer and then food stuff for their economy and for their peoples. but there is also the suggestion that by d swift in certain russian banks, that means by sanctioning russian banks not letting them use the swift transaction system that to has impacted upon african countries and other countries in
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developing world. and how they get hold of the sorts of things they need for their people. and again, mr. bar else contention is that that is not the case in his view. the problems that many countries on are facing of the consequence of russia's actions and not of you sanctions. russia has summoned the even basset or to moscow after the through ania said it would stop the transit of some goods to killing rod. the russia next clave is wedged between lithuania and poland on the baltic sea. the restrictions effect, the only rail route between mainland russia and the territory between an official say the band will be on good sanction by the you across its territory. it includes coal and other metals. the kremlin has vowed to respond. a passage isn't restored, or samuel romani is an associate fellow at the rural united services institute. he explains how the sanctions will affect kellen and grad. so killing grad is an important transit route to obviously the european union because of the strategic
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location here, the baltic sea lithuania, poland has also an important area for a lot of the transit of key russian military assets as well. including iskander is a nuclear april missiles we use restrictions have been factored in for some time. poland actually was the originator of this idea. in the came point plan, the poland had and the war and ukraine. one of the plans was due ban cargo and ro transit between russia and european countries, and the u sanctions on the on call and other goods had been in effect for well over a month now. so the russians about trying to back to this end, but still in the media blow, one half of counting grants. products, for example, come from european countries, though as an immediate supply chain at russia's quantity threatened the sovereignty of the baltic states ever since. 990 in the car again, of doctrine came forward when they attacked the baltic states for supposedly discriminating against that. the russians, we've seen a russian alter nationalist like body more soley us saw the out in the media where the late body mercier not ski, threaten lithuania sovereignty with invasion. so russia threatening lithuania,
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certainly not new lithuanian russian relationship is extremely poor. for example, as the charge affairs, not even a master level relationship between the 2 countries, but there certainly going to be some ground for escalation to watch. one of which is eventual complete, located on all the way indian products entering russia, was the winnings of already stock, importing rush and gas and energy. so there's not much diversity. can you move in the energy heard, but not as you related goods. i think there's a chance of russian economic retaliation. russian officials say ukraine has launch missiles strikes against 3 offshore and gas rigs in the black sea, the head of russian control crimea, claims the strikes targeted plot for himself. odessa, he said 3 people were injured and 7 are missing. if confirmed, it would be the 1st strike on offshore energy infrastructure there since russia's invasion of ukraine in february, thousands of striking workers of al protests in the belgian capital. they're unhappy at the rising cost of living. a nationwide strike has affected public
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transport, including flight cancellations. at one of the main airports. steadfast reports from brussels. instead of going to their factories or offices, tens of thousands of belgian stake to the streets, unable to cope with dramatic price hikes, they hoped to send a strong message to the government, the berries, everything is getting more expensive. fuel products in the shops of life is getting very hard. people can't accept this any longer. the nationwide strike force brussels airport to cancel all the parking flights. after it security personnel joined to protest like in other european countries, inflation has reached more than 8 percent in belgium, the highest in nearly 40 years. rising energy prices due to the war in ukraine, and the political fallout in europe have caused prices of basic goods to go up as well and millionaire. i'm playing a millionaire to show that they have enough of everything and all while these
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people here have to live off a small wait, a more prices have gone up significantly. the belgian government still wants to hold on to the wage. apt over the weight standard act adopted in 9 to 96 allows the government to put a cap on salary increases every 2 years to make sure wages remain competitive with neighboring countries. despite rising prices, belgian workers will this year receive a salary increase of 0.4 percent unacceptable. according to the countries labor unions. when i go up by a breadth, it cost one, you know, 16 of the amounts ago. now it's gone to, you know, $20.60 of a price increase, but the annexation says, we have gotten follow this nice agree. so you still buying the same breath, but you don't have the increase of your wage. and it's your, it's the work of the people that create the well in this country. and there should
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the rich and rich the effect of this wealth in this country with due to be able to that's good me to side of a long hot summer, according to this protest, this is their demands are not met. more strikes will likely follow. and this action today has already left the payoff exceeds around the country, airport personnel, pilots and cabin crew at brussels airport have announced more strikes league to this week. workers in the auto sector are waiting for a government response before deciding whether to take more action. steadfast from al jazeera in brussels, britain is facing its biggest rail strike for decades after talks between the rail workers union and trend companies failed. tens of thousands of employees will walk off the job for 3 days. starting on tuesday. they've rejected a pay offer of 2 percent, arguing that inflation is at 9 percent. we will continue to do all we can
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to find that sweet spot of compromise, but is affordable food for the employers affordable for the taxpayer. affordable for the fair po, and b r and t and our employees can live with. they be once decent pay was we want to get $1.00. we just need some compromise. a bit of give him tell you couldn't negotiating table to find about sweet spot. an investigation by the new york times has concluded that an israeli soldier most likely fatally shot al jazeera journalist chevy and r block play. it adds to a growing body of independent probes that have found that the palestinian american correspondence was killed by israeli forces. the new york times report says, no palestinian armed men were near city at the time she was killed in the occupied west bank dismissing early is really theories blaming palestinians for the killing . should he in a barclay was shot in the heads while she was on assignment and jeanine, members of the international community have condemned her killing and continued to
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call for an independent investigation. a barclay was with al jazeera for 25 years, covering the story of the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. still had on al jazeera, ah tempers fray as taps, run dry in mexico, some blame climate change, others, the local governments. the last known remains of assassinated congolese independence icon. patrice lumber, are returned to his family by former colonial power belgium. ah, john, he has begun the faithful world copies on its way to the castle, boot your travel package to that. hello there. it continues to be a very wet picture for south and east asia. it is the flood season,
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and we're seeing that heavy rain continue to affect southern areas of china. we can see more flooding, we've got warnings out for gwen, don't province. a lot of that rain pulsing its way to the south of japan. it's fine and dry up in the north. but we are going to see some of that wet weather roll into toko. by the time we get into wednesday, it's looking wet as well for the north east of china. we could see some flooding here. but for the south of this fall in south korea, lots of fine and dry weather with sunshine, not very hot across central areas of china, we are going to see those temperatures come down as the weather weather pulls its way further east and speaking of wet weather we've seen really intense rain effect northeast in areas of india and bangladesh causing devastating flooding. now those floods are set to continue, but the rain pulls its way further south within the intense rain effect the bay of bengal. but also some fierce thunderstorms affecting the north west of india and pakistan. but it is an improving picture by the time we get into wednesday. we will
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see the sunshine back in low hole. the wet weather can be found further south across a western coast of india. that to weather update official airlines, the journey it is a refuge for weary travelers. most are crossing africa looking for a pathway to europe. some are coming back the other way. and their stories are chilling reminder of the dangers for to my safe haven. the cross rooms of hope and despair, the most show to witness on a jessia. o . s.
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a. hello, we got the top stories on al jazeera, the leaders of israel's fragile coalition government, or dissolving parliament. the move will force the country to hold its 5th election in less than 3 and a half years for ministry, iowa pj will take over from the tony bennett and the role of intern prime minister until the election in october. russia has vowed to respond if lithuanian doesn't lift a ban on the transit of some goods to come in and grad on the baltic sea. the restrictions effect, the only railroad between mainland russia and this enclave, which is west. between lithuania, poland, britain, facing its biggest rail strike for decades, officer talks between the rail workers union and train companies fails. tens of thousands of employees will walk off the job for 3 days starting on tuesday. millions of people in bangladesh stranded by the worst monsoon floods in
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a century are at risk of food and water shortages. flooding is wreaking havoc in northern and northeastern district and it's expected to get worse with water levels rising in major rivers. the army has been deployed to help with relief efforts. millions of homes are under water, roads have been cut off and local airports are closed. dozens of people have died since the storms began in april. 10 of your child's re has more from sil heads. i'm please 20 kilometer from the salon city. this area is called measured by there. you can see right behind me lot of this village or miles after milder inundated with flood water. i've been sport speaking to some of the villagers here. they said they don't have any fresh water. they've been using the flood water, boiling them, and drinking them, and using whatever it means to cook food in a dry space, whatever they have here. and they haven't received any flood. some of the people on their own took shelter and the school nearby. they received some rice ration from
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the government agencies and local politician. but nothing else in the government has deployed military navy, coast guard, even air force rescue holly proctors are making re, connor supplied, tried to rescue people from remote areas. so for at least 100000 people have been evacuated or rescued by the military's in this region. it's a bangladesh has about a division, so that is one division which is about 4 districts. so it's a big area and at least 60 percent of that division is inundated with flood water. it is one of the worst in more than a 100 years, according to the government, does lester and relief ministry. now, the main issue here is getting fresh water, food and emergency medicine. some of the hospitals also are inundated, so it's a very challenging environment. and the flood forecast for sandra said that the next 2 days is possibly gonna be more rain. torrential rain, which is a bad news if that happens,
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the flood could actually next 2 days get worse. and so is northern bangladesh, which most of the rivers are going and flowing through danger level. so northern bangladesh is also cleared danger of flooding. at least 14 districts are already flooded. particularly cory graham and natural khana is heavily flooded in court, and japan has ruled at a ban on same sex marriage does not violate the constitution. it's a later set back for l g b. he rights activists. sarah hire us reports walking to soccer district court in solidarity. the 3 couples the fighting for gay marriage to be legalized in japan . but any hope they had ended when the court ruled that the ban on same sex marriages doesn't, violates its constitution. it's also rejected claims, the compensation for what the couple say is discrimination. it's a terrible ruling we are being discriminated against for sexual orientation. we
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cannot change, i'm serious and extremely disappointed with the cleaning spirit. when you do not this ruling as much like the government stance on gay, right. i honestly think you just re system is in favor of the government. i know the case is only the 2nd of its kind in a country where homosexuality is still stigmatized. last year, another court ruled that the failure to recognize same sex marriages was unconstitutional. l g, b, t, q activists say it's one step forward, one step back. well, i think snow days japanese, people have more interest in the l. j. b, g, q, community. but compared to overseas, the country is not comfortable with them living here. i personally hope that will change them at a bigger society is becoming more diverse and i'm thinking what's wrong with japan . and the japanese law marriage is defined as between 2 sexes, making japan the only member of the group of 7 advanced economy, the ban gay marriage,
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meaning homosexual couples missed out on inheritance and parental rights. do you saw could district court says there's not enough public debate on same sex marriage . however, the verdict states it may be possible to create a new system in the future. that wasn't enough for the couple who went to court, may now plan on appealing the ruling. sorry. height of al jazeera for millions are coming to terms of the major, a change of direction after the left doing candidate, gustavo petro, one sunday's presidential election. the former rebel fighter is promising greener and fairer policies. and the current president guaranteed a peaceful transition to isabel has more from the guitar people were celebrating here until late at night until at least in some sectors of vote. i am right now in a place know enough to that when you're ready to place where there's thousands and thousands of victims of columbia conflicts of people who have been displaced by
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conflict and all of those i spoke to are anxious for the new government to take office for will, will pay through to begin implementing those reforms that they say will have a huge impact on their life. because that will peter spoke about building piece paper, spoke about social i am bar and then environmental justice. he also spoke about building a national accord that will help this country move forward and solve the enormous social problems that face us today. we heard from the president, even bouquet, who said that she will meet with will probably be in the next few days to start working on a peaceful transition. something that's crucial in a country such as this one. and we also heard from the national liberation army, and the reason why this is important is because this is one of the left wing groups that continue to operate in the country. it has been at war with the colombian states in the 1916. it began a peace process with a government of one man was 10 thought that peace process was ended during the
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government of yvonne, looking after a car bomb killed $22.00 people in the police academy. and now there's a statement by the e l and saying that they're ready for talks that they remain in alert in resistance . but that they're ready to begin talks with that will be there. so there are lots of things happening in columbia at this country prepares to to port and fit in office. the, the 1st, the left wing precedence, any history the downs that supply water to 5 and a half 1000000 people in the mexican city of monterey are about to run dry. the national water commission says more than half the country is experiencing drought, the shortages are leading to growing public, nor as many well rapid reports. there is a water crisis playing out in montgomery, mexico. camps across the city have been running dry since the weekend. desperate maria lisa rosalyn, a local resident has been filling up buckets from
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a nearby municipal water tank problem. it says it's the only water available for drinking. she also plans to use it for cooking and cleaning her home. many people ask us why we take that water, but what else we pay? city officials in monthly rate have been limiting water access to 6 hours a day. the water shortage has led to growing public anger. many say the response by public officials to meet the needs of residents has not been enough. oh, every day they cut off our water at 9 in the morning and it doesn't come back until one the next morning. we're staying awake, waiting for the water to arrive filling containers. this is the way it has been since the wood cuts, where now, more than half of mexico is currently facing moderate to severe drought conditions . according to conagra, mexico's national water condition. in other parts of mexico, like animal seal,
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a lack of access to potable water. recently sparked demonstrations. were thousands marched on the streets of the city. experts say climate change is behind the excessive heat. fueling the crisis, the city of monterey in the mexican state of naval they own, is regarded as mexico's industrial capital. mexico's president has placed part of the blame for the water shortage on excessive extraction of water by bottling companies and cosign merlow is the case of near the leon, is one to think upon. it has to be said, there are too many come hands that have been installed, that require water, where there is simply not enough water descent. so there must be better planning on moving forward. this situation will be resolved. yea, we are all helping the private sector is helping to out. but we will have to think about how we move forward. water and sewage authorities in level leone warn the 2 main dams that supply water to the monterey metropolitan area,
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home to some 5300000 residents could be completely dry. as early as tuesday, with a hot summer in mexico just underway. many hope the seasonal rains that come with it will arrive soon and put an end to the worsening water crisis. manuel rap alone al jazeera. the belgian government has returned. the last known remains of connelly's independence leader to his family. belgian forces were involved in the assassination of patrice loom number in 1961. his family had been demanding the return of the gold choose for years. welcome! why reports? it was 61 years ago that patrice le mama was executed by a firing squad in democratic republic of congo. with help from belgian mercenaries . the belgian police officer cut his body into pieces and dissolved it in a barrel of acid, but kept his gold tooth as
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a trophy and took it back to belgium. a ceremony in brussels on monday, the government returned the tooth to delegates from congo and members of luminous family appraisals. the sammy, i would like here in the presence of his family to reiterate the belgian government's apologies for the way it weighed at the time on the decision to put an end to the days of the 1st prime minister of the congo belgium and its royal family and fast wealth from colonizing congo and violently exploiting its people and his natural resources. millions of people were killed. patrice remembered, became wildly popular at the campaign for independence from belgian colonial rule. but belgium and the u. s. didn't like his democratic and socialist ideas and supported those who killed him shortly after independence. the members relatives have been requesting the return of the to 3 years. is the only known remaining piece of his body, which they want to lay to rest, isn't that you see?
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i can't see it's joyous, but it is positive for us. it's positive that we can finally bury one of ours. 2 weeks ago, belton king, philip visited congo, and expressed regret for belgium's colonial past. he stopped short of apologizing. belgium has been trying to improve his public image regarding it route to colonial past. since the black lives matter movement began 2 years ago, the movement prompted activists that the face statues of king leopold the 2nd in belgium who colonized congo in the 18 eighty's. some have since been removed, belgium is willing to take very symbol adjuster, very simple and easy. but the acts up with pairing, also allowing justice to to happen. this is not happening. the returning of the moon this to his certainly symbolic congo, still suffers from the kind of brutal violence and exploitation of natural
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resources. the belgian colonialists began then more than a century ago, the ceremony in brussels was changed that malcolm web al jazeera, the nobel peace prize won by russian journalists. dimitri moreton has sold for a record price at auction. ladies and gentlemen, don't all. oh yeah, the money will go to eunice us to help you korean child refugees. where at all was the editor in chief from the independent russian newspaper and avaya got it all. it was shut down in march when the kremlin clumped down on journalists following its invasion of ukraine. ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, the leaders of israels fragile coalition government, or dissolving parliament. the move will force the country to hold its 5th election
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in less than 3 years and a half for minister. yeah. le pete will take over from left tony bennett and wrote in the role of interim prime minister until the election.

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