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witnessed life. witness on algebra. ah, she like his prime minister outlines away out of it's economic crisis, but warns inflation could hit 60 percent by the end of the year. ah, hello, i'm emily angland. this is al jazeera alive from jo. how so coming? the military rule is withdrawal from talks aimed at ending the political deadlocks paving the way for a return to civilian room. 6 people are shot dead at a 4th of july parade, new chicago. this aspect is arrested after
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a massive search operation. what an american day when american experience and what american strategy followed and why a children's tell about shape and rule has 5 people on trial in hong kong. ah, hello, welcome to the program. we begin insure lanka where the prime minister is warning inflation will rage 60 percent by the end of the year. and as it battles a deepening economic crisis. but he's hoping to deal with the international monetary fund and foreign investment will help relieve some of the pressure. his government has implemented daily nationwide power cubs as it tries to conserve dwindling fuel supplies. last week, fuel cells were restricted to essential services. schools are also staying closed
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for an extra week because there's not enough petrol to get children and staff to class. michelle fernandez, is that a petrol station where people have been queueing for days wrong in your day to act? the activities have become a challenge. i mean, if you just look around where i'm at, it's one of the few petrol stations in colombo, you can see there are 3 cues here, of motor bikes, cars and 3 wheeler taxes on the far end. and these are all people who've been waiting, essentially for days i just spoke to one lady who just drove off after having been given 14 liters, just 40 liters. after waiting since sunday, she was completely disgusted. she said, what can i do after this long? i have so much to get done, and if you can see just over my shoulder, these are all people waiting as far as the i can see, you can see the q extending. these are people who are waited not hours or not a single day, but many,
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many days over. and these are obviously in the cues that are getting petrol of these happen to be cues, petrol stations that are run by an indian oil company. this is the l i o c, but the state petroleum fuel sheds are not receiving any fuel. so whatever supplies are coming to places like this are absolutely swarm of people. i mean there was one old man who cut grass cleans gardens. he just rolled up with his bicycle with his grass cutter in, in the back, trying to get fuel because one of the rules is you're not allowed to disperse fuel into tanks. there are 2 or 3 people together carrying generators, because obviously we have our electricity cards, which we've been having for months now. and that's the only way they can get fuel to run the generators, opposition groups and sudan, have elden emergency meeting to discuss how to respond to the military isn't ounce
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than that it's stepping aside. earlier military rule is called on politicians and civic lean groups to start talks on forming a transitional government sponsored. they wouldn't be taking pads, he, but morgan explains from cartoon when the un mission incident announced it will be facilitating talks between the military and political parties. the head of the army agreed to be part of it. but on monday, the general abdel for the home announced the army was drawing from the talks about the military distribution shall not take part in the current the negotiations to give room to the political, under visionary powers and other but through it they can societal parties to agree on a technocrat government from the civil community to undertake fors, the coming period of time. and i hope these forces would engage in genuine and serious dialogue to restored the unity of the people and still the country away
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from any existence or threats. denouncement came of hundreds of anti military protesters, states fit him in various parts of the capital, one or 2. for more than 7 months, there's been demanding the military handover power to a civilian government and returned to the barracks. so we want to end the military rule which has become a burden to the sudanese since of tuba. who wants to show that most of us are against military rule. we want the civilian leadership to achieve a democratic transition. fit in is our way of expressing these demand. this sit in now when it's 4th day is in front of a hospital where at least one protest was pronounced dead from protests on june 30th. 9 people were killed that day and hundreds injured when security forces you here guys and live ammunition, to disperse mass demonstrations. those here i demanding the security forces be held accountable. but the, you get a little bit how. yeah. if you look at the people here,
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what unites them or the death of those killed by security forces, we have their pictures everywhere here, and that is why the top demand is justice for those killed political parties who are part of the resistance to military rule. should take note anything that does not include justice and accountability will not be accept more than a 100. protests have been hills and i'm time military demonstrations since the military took power last year. the response of security for her to the mass protest on june 30th has resulted in not only one, but 4th attempt to protest this here say despite the repeated use of force, they will not end their sets in until their demands are met. he, bill morgan august 0 to the us now and police have detained a man in connection with a shooting at a 4th of july parade in chicago. at least 6 paperwork kills. and more than 30 injured when a gunman opened fire from a rooftop in the suburb of highland park, president joe biden has condemned the attack as senseless. she had pretending
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reports. police had released this voter of 22 year old robert cro. the 3rd and the make and model of his call late sunday afternoon. a few hours later, a police officer in north chicago spotted the car and following a brief pursuit criminal was taken into custody. first of interest is now being taken to the highland park. police department where we're going to begin the, the next phase of the investigation and speak with this person to make sure we're see if in fact he is connected to this incident. shooting took place about line kilometers, sales where kraemer was apprehended at an event in the wealthy chicago suburb of highland park. witnesses say they 1st assumed that we were in fireworks at the annual 4th of july parade? yes, but it soon became said that this was another mass shooting in the usa. we ran behind the building and i put my, my son in a dumpster and he sit there with his dogs. and i went back to look for the rest of my family. i left them with someone there so that i can go back calling and find
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the rest of my family because they ran away also. horrible. police say the gunman fired spectators from a rooftop overlooking the festivities with a high powered rifle of the several children taken to hospital. at least one was in critical condition. at the time. medical authorities say the a drange of the wounded is $8.00 to $85.00. they were a gunshot wounds and it varied from abdomen to lambs and such, but the crews were on seen very quickly. there was bystanders as well that were under date as well. they were quick to tie, turn a cat's and bleeding control. just 10 days ago, joe biden signed legislation seen as the 1st major gun safety law in 30 years. however, it did not institute any restrictions on the purchase of assault weapons as gun control, advocates of recommended and independence day celebrations of the white house. the president acknowledged that more had to be done or what happened today. but each
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day were reminded there's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. nothing guaranteed about our way of life. we have to fight for it, defended and earn in by voting. there are approximately 10 mass shootings a week in the united states defined as an incident with 4 or more shots, not including the shooter. it's a uniquely american phenomenon. and in fact, on this 4th of july, there were at least 6 other math students around the country, according to the gum violence archive she. ebert, mc al jazeera and 2 police officers in philadelphia, have been shot and injured at another 4th of july celebration. it happened during a fireworks display video and social media shows crowds flaying the same. local media reporting that one officer was, he's in the shoulder or the other's head was grazed in delphi place, continuing to search the shooter and the police commission and says they're not
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ruling out any possibilities. at this point, it's still too early to tell. we don't know if this was ricochet from celebratory gunfire. we don't know if this was intentional. we don't know if this was someone taking the shot intentionally at these officers from long range. but again, like i said, back to where were all different stream the grateful. but that wasn't worse than what it was in all of these officers that you'd be standing around this were were on it. and we're not going to read until we get somebody to hong kong now, where 5 people have gone on trial, accused of sedition for publishing a series of children's books, one of them centers on a community of shape trying to hold off and is hacked by wolves authorities that say they have a hidden message and insight hatred towards the government. the defendants were arrested last year and are members of a speech therapist seeing and the more on this lead spring in adrian brown, who joins us live now from hong kong. hello there,
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adrian. it's just after 3 pm in the city. what has been heard on the 1st day of this trial? will emily the trial, as you rightly pointed out, opened on tuesday morning here at hong kong at one shy district court and much of the morning has been taken up with legal argument over what defines what the definition of sedition is here in hong kong and in many ways the prosecution made a much more vigorous case than that put forward by the police when they arrested the 5 on july, the 21st last year. it's an unusual case, but also a reminder of the chilling environment that hong kong is living in right now. the prosecution say that essentially this book is seditious because it portrays, you know, the sheep as the good guys and the, the wolves as the bad guys. the authorities, the police, china, it's an an allegorical style tale that is written very much in a sort of or well in georgia, a well style. and it features one of the books,
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tells the tale of, of a village that is constantly harassed by, by, whoops, a village of sheep, the cheaper have their food taken. they have tear gas used against them. and eventually they have to use their horns as a form of so defense. and in the eyes of the prosecution that clearly alludes to the protests of 2019 no 3 books published in total. those books were written and authored by members of a speech therapist group and they came out in 2021 a year after that national security law was implemented here in hong kong. now they were arrested under a sort of long dormant sedition rule that was used actively by the british here in the 19 sixties and seventies during anti colonial protests here in hong kong. ironically that law was used primarily against pro china groups. you know, groups that supported china's communist power. now it's been reactivated also at
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the same time that a new national security law is being applied. so it raises in many peoples, you know, minds the, the idea that perhaps the, the area of, of descent expressing descent here in hong kong is getting narrower and narrower. yes, as you mentioned, adrian, this is being seen as or could be potentially being train as targeting descends. how is that being viewed more widely across hong kong? well the, the hong kong police say a, you know, we base our, our law enforcement actions on, on evidence, nothing more. we don't take a person's political beliefs into account their backgrounds or their professions in the hong kong government insists said, you know, hong kong has an independent judiciary. remember just a few days ago president, she jing was here and he said that as far as he was concerned, hong kong one country to systems formula under which hong kong as operated since the hand over from britain 25 years ago is intact. and should continue,
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but he also warned that, you know, kale should not be allowed to return to hong kong, but he also stressed that order, but finally been restored here. all right, thank you very much for bringing this up to his friend adrian brown. live for us in hong kong. canada says china has blocked its representatives from attaining the trial of a chinese canadian 1000000000 name shantia. and while went missing in hong kong, 5 years ago, he was you to go on trial in china on monday, the canadian officials have been asking for exits, but say they were denied. shell was last seen being taken away from the hong kong, 4 seasons hotel back in 2017. at the time he was being investigated as part of a state lead crackdown on global conglomerates still ahead on al jazeera palestinians slam inconclusive results of americans test.
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on these rally bullet, they killed al jazeera journalists, serene adul, aclu plus. i'm to see a new in in santiago, chile, where a new constitution has just been presented. the question is, will jillian prove it? ah, with at least one more day of thunderstorms, dangerously rumbling around the alpine region. i say that because it's still quite warm here. there's big thunderstorms and so yes, they do give that risk to breaking bits off classes as we've seen already in the italian alps. that days tuesday, they are becoming lesser and they're moving. so the east was that cold front with year behind. it's slightly less warm and the air in front of it. would you some pretty big thunder stones. i'll try to get to the eastern side of austria,
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slovakia through ukraine, and towards the west side of russia behind this where this looking fine for the most part. rain for denmark, maybe a few showers has gotten, but rising temperatures in front significant shall seem likely than in spain and shares increasing as a further down where it's currently quite hot in the balkans. at this time of year we look for clumps of showers in north africa. there's one forming here in nigeria backs. we've been in target, ghana, trash get towards the chairs well and then the west just going off shore from going to be south is another little lump in the cloud, which will head westward through the atlantic in south africa, but more rains developing the western cape in cape town, because the average is slowly warming. ah frank assessments, it sounds like you don't expect anything to change the problem in lebanon. it's
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actually structural lebanon needs, and you also contract in order for it to solve this problem. informed opinions, international communities on the gorgeous my students can use a government house knowledge to be in depth analysis of the days global headlines. this is going to be very hard to explain to the public that instead of pushing back, no, it's actually got 2 members inside story on al jazeera lou . ah, hello, you're watching out 0. i'm emily angry. he's a reminder about top stories this. our shank is prime minister is warning inflation will hit 60 percent by the end of the year as an economic crisis worsens. the
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government has brought in daily nationwide power cuts to conserve dwindling at fuel supplies. opposition groups in sudan have met to respond to the military denouncement. that is stepping aside. the military rule is said to politicians and civilian groups should start told on forming a transitional government and promised to stay out of the discussions and place in the us have detained a man in connection with the shooting at a 4th of july parade in chicago. 6 people were killed in more than 30 others injured when a gum, and i can fire from a workshop. hello, skinny and officials have criticize the findings of us investigation into the killing of al jazeera janice sharina, who actually in the us state department says it's likely she was killed by unintentional gunfire from his rally positions. but it says a 3rd party investigation could not reach a definitive conclusion on the origin of the bullet that he had. sharon was killed
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in may while reporting on rain from yankee by west bank. stephanie deca reports from west jerusalem. what's inconclusive? that's the result of the u. s. investigation into fired this bullet that killed palestinian american journalist sharina blackly in the occupied west bank in may. oh u. s. t a department says it was an independent 3rd party examination and pulled it in extremely detailed forensic analysis. it continued, concluded that gun fire from idea positions likely responsible for the death of shitty in ab lackley. and it added, it found no reason to believe this was intentional, but rather the result of tragic circumstances. terean's family issued a statement saying they were incredulous, considering the numerous witness accounts and investigations by numerous local and international media outlets. human rights groups and the united nations that found
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in israeli soldier fired the fatal shot the investigation. the entire investigation is disappointing, considering the fact that we are not aware of any of the, of the results go process. we were not, there was no transparency. we were not given enough information regarding the investigation and we had found out about it last minute. so to us we still continued to call for a transparent and adjust investigation. the palestine in foreign ministry also rejected the findings saying the examination was politicized and had nothing to do with the bullet. israel's inter and prime minister yellow p 2 tweeted that israel expressed grief about her death o my mom and that these really army cannot determine who was responsible. but there was no intention to harm her. because schuval, albeit saw and would like the defense minister benny dance had this to say mother to behold. i will like once again to express my sorrow over the death of a journalist, sharina walk you home. the security establishment looks at investigating the truth
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as a supreme valuable one regarded in this case on the spot, the laboratory, examination of the bullet war and the relevant rifle. it is not possible to link this bullet to this victim, nor to little rifle. therefore gum, unfortunately, it is not possible to determine who open fire the americans have been putting pressure on the palestinians for weeks now to hand over the bullet king to put an end to this case ahead of the 1st official visit of us president joe biden. at the end of next week, now they can say that they carried out an independent investigation and despite his being inconclusive, this case is now over. stephanie decker, al jazeera west jerusalem. if the o p is prime minister is blaming an armed group on the countries a terror list for carrying out what he called a massacre. when the 150 people were killed in attack in the west and erroneous de abi om and tweeted about the incident saying it happened in the callum leg district . the remote liberation army has been blamed for several attacks targeting the
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higher people and other 20000 people in eastern straightly i have been told to leave their homes as torrential, rain and flooding intensifies. 30000 people were ordered to evacuating the state of new south wales on monday. why to them in sydney's western suburbs? it's this 3rd major flooding event this year. for some residents, experts say rainfall has been aggravated by climate change. we expect more heavy rainfall to continue over the course of the wait, wait, we will say more rain and leaving off in the 100 said i and then you know, i will move to the me to north coast side. this event is far from why, but please don't be complacent. wherever you are, please be careful. easily has declared a state of emergency in 5 northern regions as it faces its worst route and 70 years
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. emergency funds will be made available to areas surrounding the powder river, about a 3rd of each lease farmland depends on the river, which is drying up. the drought threatens about 30 percent of the country's agricultural production and some areas have had to restrict drinking water. i'm the regret, irrigation. the russian president vladimir putin has told his forces to push on with their offensive in the eastern ukraine. moscow now claims control of the whole of the lu, hands craven. after capturing the city of lucy chan's troop, stepping up a chat, seen over a neighboring done, yes, ukraine's president has vowed to retake all areas seized by russian. alan fisher fall this report from keith it was a long and at times brittle battle. but no, the russians have control of the city unless it chanced, and with it the strategically and politically important for hans screech and
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meeting with his defense minister in moscow. let me put and thank to soldiers and told them to push on. i shall i ask you to give a state award to all service personnel aware of excelled during this military action based on your daily reports. i know there are a lot of brave professional and got seen a good way, soldiers in the russian army, and they all should be decorated with old irrelevant state towards the ukrainian president flooding mirrors. the landscape said his troops were pilled out of the city to save their lives. but he promised to return with greater fire power to reclaim it. which ducky spoke, if the commanders of our army, recall people from certain points of the front where the enemy have the greatest fire advantage. in particular, this also applies to lift the chunks. it means only one thing that we will return thanks to our tactics yet. thanks to the increase in the supply of our modern weapons, the russians know turning the attention to targets in the dynette region and with
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the hands of those other 2 areas that russia recognized as brick away independent states. the day before it launched its war in ukraine for the russians, this is a major tactical success, even if their military victory took longer than the expected theory. as governor admits the loss of luther chance is painful, but he says while the battle has been lost, the war has not allen fisher. i'll just either keep and the president zalinski says cave is working directly with the un and turkey to guarantee the security of grain exports from ukraine. officials have asked turkey to confiscate what they say is tons of stolen grain on board a russian flag congress ship. the grain was shipped from the port of 30 and which is now under russian control. the vessel was seized by turkish customs officials on sunday. and the impact of the war in ukraine is being found worldwide,
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as it continues to drive up the cost of oil and food in peru, transport workers have started a national strike to protest rising prices. roads have been blocked, buses diverted, and transport phase jumps as high as double the regular price. inflation in peru is at its highest level in a quarter of a century. shopping 9 percent. last month. i didn't. tina's new economy minister has taken office promising fiscal restraint me to deepening economic crisis fair, so vina. the taxes was named by the president on sunday, after the abrupt resignation of her predecessor goodman she is regarded as close to the vice president. she had criticized the conditions attached to a debt deal with the international monetary fund. if someone feels like a home or not be, and again, we are convinced that the pol for our 29 has to do with the fiscal management of our account. and by following the economic program that the president set forth.
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and of course, by make note of tina export more and that we reevaluate our currency and that is a chief to obtaining more reserve the but the minister appointment is doing metal to come public anger over the economic crisis protested, gathered outside the presidential palace calling government officials, thieves, chili's president has received the final draft of a proposed new constitution which could dramatically change the country. supporters are hoping that china will ashley, in a new era of social equality if it's adopted in a referendum in september. i, latin america, tell lucy and human as the details from santiago chileans have been presented with a text of what some describe as the 1st constitution for the challenges of our current times. it's the 1st to be written with gender parity. and the 1st that prioritize is environmental protection and gender equality. and in
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a major shift from the current pinochet's era constitution, the state must guarantees social rights such as health, education, and welfare will be able to remodel or get us out today for the 1st time. thanks to the participation of citizens, gender priority, and the inclusion of all the different ways of being considered a challenge. we'll have a text that is truly democratic. the text defines chilly as a perri national country that gives autonomy and more land rights to indigenous people who make up 12 percent of the population. it's controversial. lamar garrison brewer was thing, is that it divides rather than unites chileans and it's not an inclusive text that invites all sectors of society. how about instead leaves an important part out the the pewter national park that recognizes indigenous peoples? yeah, ends up frank meant in us those who feel the most left out of conservatives who represent the private sector,
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which feels threatened by the shift away from chile storage free market model. there's no question that this constitution was written by delegates with an unprecedented diversity of class color and ideology and an under representation of the traditional elite that has always dominated constitutional affairs. now does that make it better or worse on that? the jury is still out accepting a copy of the new constitution left during president gabrielle body to reminded chileans that they must accept or reject it inevitably go over the matter mother. i'm here to call for a referendum on september 4th, because once again the people will have last worked well, those who support the new road map admit there's still room for improvement. jesse fair interior work, we'll get, but in chile or anywhere else, a new constitution must be flexible and able to adapt to the enormous changes and uncertainties we live in with today's world. how the campaign is now
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on as intense as any chilly has seen to win the hearts and minds of the people. lucy and human al jazeera santiago ah, hello, you're watching out his ear. these are the stories where following the sour sherland, his prime minister is wanting in place, you will hit 60 percent by the end of the year and economic crisis worsens. the government has brought in daily, nationwide power cuts to conserve dwindling fuel supplies. and al fernandez has moved around in your day to day activities have become a challenge. i mean, if you just look around where i'm at, it's one of the few petro stations in colombo, you can see there are 3 cues here. of motor bikes are cars and reveal attacks is on the far end and these.

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