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done, ah, we cover all sides, no matter where it takes us. a fin, sir, again, my eye and power in pasha. we tell your story. we are your voice. your news, your net. ouch is here. ah, ukraine's allies meet in switzerland to outline ponds to rebuild the country at an estimated cost of $3.00 quarters of a trillion dollars. ah, we're walking all this world from headquarters in del pines and i'm also a head finland, and sweden begin the process of joining the nato alliance off for decades of neutrality. sher length as prime minister presents away out of the economic crisis,
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but warns inflation could 60 percent by the end of the year. it's really beginning to reflect in terms of every single family in terms of the food they can put on the table. and people are beginning to struggle. hello the ukrainian cities, us leanne's gun cremmit. horace have come under russian shelling according to the regions governor. it's after president vladimir putin urged forces to push on with their offensive and eastern ukraine. on sunday, russian troops took control of lucy chanced. the city was the focus of weeks of fierce fighting and its residence emerge. the scale of the destruction is now becoming clear. the ukrainian president has vowed to retake all area seized by russia, but it won't be an easy task. moscow now claims control of the whole of the hands region and troops are stepping up attacks and neighboring danielle. so the fighting
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has left a trail of destruction across ukraine. the number of burned out schools, apartment blocks, roads, and bridges, is growing every day. president valez lensky has told a donors conference in switzerland, that 3 quarters of a trillion dollars are needed to rebuild our zeros alan fisher reports from airplane near keith. it's a place to sleep, a place to rest, but not a place should call home for natalia baqubah, her husband and the 3 children, the shrew we carriage in woodson it is all they have left in the world. their home on the outskirts of cave was destroyed in the russian advance, gone in just seconds. no 30 families are housed here on railway carriages. some we're safe. somewhere they can call their own run until wall. as long as no, we don't have anywhere else. the guy, it's either he a, we live on the streets, obviously have their memories and
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a few videos on the phone of happier times. they've been back. but just once, the scene too painful, the reality too harsh is rest. yet and little the leash, the children don't understand what's going on or what's happening. it's very difficult to explain what happened. they think we are on a train, so they go in on a small journey and they keep asking when we will go home. we crane needs help rebuilding vital infrastructure like bridges of motor supplies have gone. some of the work has already started the reconstructing this road on the way to keep it was blown apart by the ukrainians to stop the russian advance on the capital. but the total sum could talk more than $750000000000.00. it was president zalinski told the donors conference in switzerland. a colossal job. gracie, susie milon, ukrainian forces have liberated more than a 1000 settlements from their queue fires and your wants are aided every week. all
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of them suffer a significant destruction. and this is also implies the need for a loss of fans, whether it's duration of infrastructure for the return of medicines in social theories, for the restoration of not only canonical lightly and low mine all. this was natalia's home, destroyed like thousands, tens of thousands of others. so many people left the country in the early days of the war. that when they return, the face seems like this and the government wants to rebuild those homes. and with it, the lives of millions. alan fisher, i'll just either hairpin ukraine, finland and sweden had begun the process of joining nato. therefore, a minister as attended a signing ceremony with other members of the alliance in brussels. the nordic countries have been neutral for decades, but pushed for membership after russia invaded ukraine. nato leaders made the decision to fast track the process at their summit in madrid's last week. this is an historic day for fillum, for sweden, for nate,
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go on to for you to atlantic security, fill and on sweden i will make strong, unimportant contributions to our alliance. our forces are interoperable they have trained, exercised and served together for many years. we share the same values and we faced the same challenges in the baltic sea and the on eric lindberg from the foreign affairs ministry of finland. he says his country is committed to the alliance. we have been militarily on the line, but we have been a member of the european union tonight since 995. and of course, also monogamously reacted with the european union to the aggression made by russia, the leaders of the government, and also at other levels. we've had several talks with the native member country. and we've been very encouraged by the support that we have received for him. and
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since we didn't, so alignment with need to, we are already inter operable and we feel we meet the defense and military membership criteria of the alliance. russia has been constantly opposed to, to, to the open door policy of nato, which we see as a very important want to see. every country should have the right to decide on its own security and feel. and also of course the main things that right for her spelt . busy so, and have we haven't seen any new in the relationship or the comments that russia has had needs are more generally so, so i don't think that there were any surprises here. the impact of the war in ukraine is being felt worldwide as it continues to drive up the cost of oil and food. sure length is prime minister is warning. inflation will reach 60 percent by
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the end of the year. but he's hoping a deal with the international monetary fund on foreign investors will relieve some of the pressure. he told al jazeera how he plans to turn around the situation. we are already working on stabilize in the economy and the lifetime below the economy of thought 40 but to go in for the for the recovery. so that work you've done the way i've been talking to some of the country to india, china, japan, you, if you're k, you on the if needed for 3 lanka. but manually, the discussion with world bang and i you as government has implemented daily nationwide power cuts as it tries to conserve dwindling fuel supplies. last week, fuel sales were restricted to essential services. schools are also staying close for an extra week because there's not enough petrol to your children and staff to class enough. hernandez is at a petrol station in colombo or some people have been queueing for days. the
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situation is absolutely dire now in sri lanka, as you can see behind me, the cues are basically at one of the few fuel sheds that are receiving supplies. it's one run by an indian company, whereas the state petroleum, fuel sheds, are not receiving any stocks for a long time. so that is an absolute desperation in every single shed that has supplies. if you're going to assure you are, and you look over my shoulder, far down, are literally down the hill. and as far as the i can see, you have a centrally this q. it's 3 concurrent lines, motorbike cars, and 3 la taxes. now for people at this is about them finding their day to day income for many of them. and they have seen that they spend entire days and sometimes like for the taxes or you know, one days worth of fuel. just give them a couple of hours worked and then they're back again for goodness knows how long.
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so people are desperate, they're angry. and it's really beginning to reflect in terms of every single family in terms of the food that can put on the table. and people are beginning to struggle. inflation is also surging and turkey was up to almost 80 percent in june, the highest and 24 years. the government has raised the minimum wage for the 2nd time in 6 months, but pay is still falling behind prices. president roger player burdens economic policies have been blamed for increases or to on host pushed the central bank to keep interest rates at 14 percent said, of course has more from its stumble turkeys, inflation rate has hit record high levels. credible, this is the most common held line that you see on the news about turkey in the last one and a half. here, michael is, according to official figures. annual inflation rate is about 78 percent, but according to independent organizations, panel inflation is above 150 percent in turkey. this means any of these wages above
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that are commonly used in the turkish kitchen, especially in summer, are more and more expensive for the turkish citizen. this year. how she took fun. everything is so expensive. you can buy nothing. you can't go on holiday. it's not enough. you just did a mother last year. fuel was 8 years now. it's 29. the rise in wages do not meet the gap caused by the price cycle to boost the purchasing power of the citizens. turkish government increased minimum wage salaries by 50 percent at the beginning of this year, and they just gave a 30 percent increase last week. but according to experts at the, if these efforts are not enough to fight against inflation, which is actually caused by in low interest rates, turkish government, especially the turkish president, ardon believes that the high interest rates are the reason for inflation. that's why they are keeping the interest rates as low as 14 percent. but eventually the
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experts warn they will need to increase the interest rates. otherwise, this inflation won't be uncontrollable. palestinian officials have rejected the findings of a u. s. investigation into the killing of al jazeera journalist shipping a barclay. the us state department says it's likely she was killed by unintentional gun fire from is really positions, but did not offer clarity on how they reached that conclusion. shitty and was killed in may while reporting on raids in the occupied west bank. stephanie, dr. reports from west jerusalem 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. ah, you, a state 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
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shitty in ab lackley. and it added, it found no reason to believe this was intentional, but brought 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 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, no 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 entering prime minister, yellow p
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d 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 she's love yet. so i'm with the defense minister benny gans had this to say, mother to be the home i will like once again to express my sorrow over the death of a journalist sharina walked on the security establishment looks at investigating the truth as a supreme value of a po, one regarded in this case and despite the laboratory examination of the bullet war and the relevant rifle, it is not possible to link this bullet to his 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 came to put an end to this case. head of the 1st official visit us president joe biden at the end of next week. now they can say that they carried out an independent investigation
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and despite it being inconclusive, this case is now over. stephanie decker, al jazeera west jerusalem. the al jazeera media network continues to demand a rapid, independent, and transparent investigation into the killing of our colleague shitty in a block. they still ahead on al jazeera will tell you why. hundreds of thousands of dollars of goods are stuck in lebanon, sports, torrential rain and tens of thousands of people on evacuation alerts and more downpours in the forecast for eastern australia. ah, it's the width of the year in the philippines and in fact, your eyes could be drawn from the philippines down to the band archipelago, west papua, for the wettest weather. now he's seen up to bat 200 millimeters of rain falling
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from these individual showers. in the forecast or in a similar sort of area. so be some flooding in this part of indonesia and likely flooding, flash flooding in the philippines. but to the west of that, not so much unless you see in, for example, sudden thailand and cambodia those tops, they're also potentially flash lighting cause it's moved slow moving line of sherry rain. she's rather similar. what's happening in china. this has got the remains of chavez in it, which is at typhoon on the south coast. obviously not a typhoon, but the amount of rain that falls out of it means some flooding in that part of china. this spinner here is the tropical depression, currently on its way through southern han schubert. time we get to the end of wednesday. it will be off shore, will have dropped a lot of writing, caused some flooding in some honju, but left behind sticky warm weather. this however, still going and for north korea, not good prospects come. so stay monsoon right now is all over the place, the warnings of cigarettes and my roster and then towards go. but i think pakistan will see some pretty big dark port
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a particularly in the sparks ah, the light and robust debates. a lot of folks when they hear the word refugee think stranger, they think other la latrice stuck in these camps. it's regardless of your range. the way you're coming from and he said, give everybody safety from global issues to those that need to be heard. human rights and land defenders and brazil, they live in a circumstance of permanent violence and intimidation. the st. claire, a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera. ah, the
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stories on algebra this our meeting of 40 countries and organizations in switzerland to read all the priorities for the reconstruction of ukraine. once the war is over, the ukrainian prime minister put the cost of rebuilding a $3.00 quarters of a trillion dollars. finland and sweden had begun the process of joining nato. therefore, ministers offended a signing ceremony with other members of the alliance and brussels. the nordic countries pushed for a membership officer, russia invaded ukraine for like a foreign minister. as warning that inflation will hit 60 percent by the end of the year as an economic crisis worth. and the government has brought in daily, nationwide power to conserve when building fuel supplies. opposition groups into don have been discussing how to respond to the military's announcement that it's stepping back from talks on forming a new government military rulers called on politicians on civilian groups to start
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talks on forming a transitional government. hey. but morgan reports from harder to me when the un mission infidel 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, general abdel for the home announced the army was withdrawing from the talks about the military distribution shall not take part in the current 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 from any existence or threats. denouncement came as hundreds of anti military protesters states, fit him in various parts of the capital,
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hard to me. for more than 7 months, there's been demanding the military hand overpowered to a civilian government and returned to the barracks. and we want to end the military rule which has become a burden to the sudanese since of tuba. want to show that most of us are against military rule. we want to civilian leadership to achieve a democratic transition. sit in is our way of expressing these demand. so got this, it in. now when it's the 4th day is in front of a hospital where at least one protest was pronounced dead from protest 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. whether you get a little bit how yeah. if you look at the people here, what unites them are the deaths 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
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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 killed in anti military demonstrations since the military took power last year. the response of security forces to the mass protest until the 30th has resulted in not only one, but 4th attempt to protest is here. say, despite the repeated use of force, they will not. and they're set then until their demands are met. he will morgan ultra 0, how to also don. and if you hope you have agreed to a dialogue to overcome tensions along their border, according to the prime minister of med cartoon, and accused the sapir bus forces of killing 7 of its soldiers in the disputed border area of in special and putting the bodies on public display, a public sector strike and lebanon is now in its 4th week. cargo handling ports has been disrupted, which could lead to food shortages for people already struggling through the
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country's economic collapse. vanna hood, that reports from beirut, hundreds of containers of food and other commodities, are stuck at lebanon's ports. there are no workers to unload them. it's been 3 weeks since employees and public institutions went on strike to demand that her pay as a financial crisis enters its force. here. the strike has really paralyzed our work affected all our transactions and the port of the route and the airport. a lot of cargo and containers waiting for the employees. we need every bit of income. we need every bit of import and without the employees of the government to stagnate the economy. the state is nearly bankrupt and it's losing an estimated $400000.00 a day because of the strike. it's also creating problems for citizens who are unable to do necessary paperwork. but state employees like much of the population,
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say their salaries are now worthless after the local currency, the lira crushed lam, y'all. we can no longer reach our place of work because of high transportation costs. we can't afford the basic necessities. our salaries are worth $50.00 to $60.00. actually, the government has not dealt with this issue in a serious manner. even though more than a 1000000 people are affected. there is no official figure, but it's the leave, the lebanese state employee nearly 350000 people. but international financial institutions say it is overstaffed corrupt and used by the political class as a tool to win loyalty and other the it's very large for the size of the country. it constitutes 25 percent of the workforce, but any dismissal will lead to a social catastrophe. unemployment is about 38 percent and there are no jobs in the service compensation is also worthless because of the currency valuation. for many years, public wages and benefits constituted more than 35 percent of government spending.
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many warned, against a pay rise without a comprehensive recovery plan. reforming state institutions and fighting corruption are the only ways to unlock for and support and trigger growth. but politicians are refusing to do that. instead, they are locked in a new struggle about power in the next cabinets. employees say they won't return to work until their demands are met, but the government has little options. it doesn't have enough sources of revenue. it can't impose more taxes on an impoverished population and it can't print more money without causing further inflation. seneca, they're al jazeera, they root, a natural disaster has been declared across parts of flood ravaged, eastern australia. it's the areas, 4th flood, emergency in just 16 months. sarah clark reports another day of heavy rain flash flooding, and rising river levels have inundated homes and properties with emergency service
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teams called in to rescue animals trapped in flood waters. obviously they didn't, and they also happen happen, oregon ordinarily iraq. thousands of people in greater city have been ordered to evacuate their homes. suburbs are under water and some communities are expected to be isolated for days. the storm, so delivered heavy rain with some parts of sydney copying more than a straw. his annual average rain fall in 3 days. so we're really asking communities to die, to our, to bear with us, kate working with us. it has been a difficult for days. there is no one is now gilding that lily. are we not quite through it? yes, a natural disaster has also been declared in the state of new south wales. the intense where the system is forecast to ease in sydney. but authorities say the flood danger is still high. this event is far from over. please don't be complacent . our, if you are please be careful on when you're driving on our roads. obviously there
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is still substantial risk offer flash flooding across our state district in cargo vessel carrying hundreds of tons of fuel off the coast of sidney has been forced to anchor. after a rescue attempt to filed rescue crews will try again when the weather improves. the storm is expected to continue until friday is now trucking north along astrology. as east coast, even the static cranes am is voicing for unseen. no doubtful. sarah clark, al jazeera brisbin, australia police in the us have detained a man in connection with the shooting and a 4th of july parade in chicago. at least 6 people were killed in more than 30 injured on a gunman. open fire from a roof top in the suburb of highland park. president joe biden has condemned the attack, his senseless. she hab retents, he reports. police would release this voter of 22 year old robert crow, the 3rd and the make and model of his car late sunday afternoon. a few hours later,
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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 9 kilometers south where kraemer was apprehended at an event in the wealthy chicago suburb of highland park. witnesses say they 1st assume that we are 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 him with someone there, so i couldn't go back calling and find the rest of my family and they ran away also . lisa goldman, 5 spectators from
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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 age range of the wounded is 8 to 85. they were a gunshot wounds and it varied from abdomen to lambs and such, but the who's were on seen very quickly. there was bystanders as well that were under date as well. they were quick to tie, turn cats and do 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 day were reminded there's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. nothing guaranteed about our way of life. we have to fight for it,
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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 mast shootings around the country. according to the gun violence archive, she albert mc al jazeera. 5 people have done on trial in hong kong. they're accused of sedition for publishing a series of children's books. one of them is the story of a community of sheets trying to hold off attacks by wolves. already say the books have hidden messages and incite hatred towards the government. a dream brown has more. since the unrest of 3 years ago, more than 10200 people have been arrested on tuesday, 5 of those people appeared before one shy district court in a case that is res concern that the space for descent here is narrowing quickly. if
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found guilty, they faced up to 2 years in jail. the $52.00 men and 3 women were arrested almost a year ago and have been in custody ever since. their crime, publishing allegorical style cartoon books that show conflicts between sheep and woo. in one tail wolf tried to occupy the village and eat the sheet. who in turn use their horns to fight back. the authors will all members of a speech therapist union, they were arrested under a long dormant sedition law. there was last use frequently in the 1900 sixty's during another troubled period of hong kong history. when there were violent protests against british colonial rule, that legislation has been reactivated just as a more draconian national security law is being applied. hong kong police say that their current and recent law enforcement actions are based on evidence and have
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nothing to do with a person's political stance, background or profession. the hong kong government insists it's judicial system, remains independent. the intensifying campaign against descent was underscored by president changing things with it to hong kong. last week, he warned against to repeat of the street protests of 3 years ago, insisting the territory had moved from chaos to order. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, a meeting of 40 countries, and organizations in switzerland has agreed on the priorities for the reconstruction of ukraine. once the war is over, the ukrainian prime minister put the cost of rebuilding at $3.00 quarters of a trillion dollars. finland and sweden have taken a key step in the process of joining nato. therefore, a minister is attended
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