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we're in, we'll shoot to bill on this moment with active principles work a way to show you as president joe biden says, america is not going anywhere. will stay committed to its allies in the middle east . ah, i there can banal, this is al jazeera live from dough home. also coming up, protest is in sri lanka, on are the victims of the month long political unrest with a message fully into rem president. right, rico, missing you out. approx. you're nothing but a proxy of the valuable should be nasty. you're nothing but another part of the raj about your family. a blistering summer heat wave kills hundreds of people and schools as while flies sweeping across parts of europe. and the troll more of roches war, takes
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a toll on soldiers on cranes from. ah, you as president joe biden has concluded his 4 day middle east trip his 1st since taking office. he started his tour in israel and ended in saudi arabia. it was a tour aimed at countering iran and curbing bratia and china's growing influence in the region as our white house correspondent, kimberly, how could reports biden fail to achieve what matters? most americans back home bringing down oil prices. joe biden wrapped up his 4 day middle east tour with this pledge. united states is not going anywhere . the u. s. president spent his final day of his treble meeting with leaders from the gulf cooperation council along with jordan, egypt, and iran manny. his goal is to reassert america's leadership role. one he fears is
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slowly being eroded by geopolitical rivals. zone becoming clear to me and how closely interwoven america's interests are with the successes. normally, we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china. russia were ran by didn't face as high inflation back home driven partly by a spike in energy prices. so he's pushing gulf leaders, including saudi arabia, to ramp up oil production and bring down fuel costs a goal. he's failed to achieve the comb. lincoln, we don't want to have the magic. the kingdom will carry out its role with regards to oil and gas production, as it announced increasing its production capacity to $13000000.00 barrels a day. saudi arabia will no longer be able to increase production beyond that, a month ago. returning to the us, empty handed is
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a problem for president grappling with low approval ratings. biden's also being criticized for resetting relations with leaders, accused of human rights violations among them, the saudi crown prince. the ca believes mohammed ben selman may have approved the killing in 2018 of journalist jim l, cuz shall g. but referring to the invasion of iraq, the saudis counter, that america has lost its moral high ground mistakes like this happened in other countries. and we saw a mistake like this being committed by the united states in rape. despite the controversy, the white house this, the meetings were a diplomatic when even as vied and returned to the united states with little to show for them. kimberly held on al jazeera holiday, l w is the song of a former saudi security official, his siblings,
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alma and sarah detained in saudi arabia. he says the us got very the love the trip . this is, it still far is exactly what the current current prince's saudi arabia had been seeking over the past 3 years ago. they sion legitimize ation by the president of the greatest power, the united states, before the visit and even announced, i urged present biden to fix relationship with saturated good. because as a saudi says, and even next dial i do care about the relationship. and my advice would do it, but not in all costs. so far. it looks like there's only one sided concessions and the president has expended a lot of political capital for nothing clear and return at that gcc summit guitars . amir shake to me my ban holman's all tom the reiterated, the importance of solving the palestinian issue. i know mobility said arman, i'll be the arab countries despite their differences, have unanimously agreed on the arab piece, finished it,
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which expresses their readiness by all of them to normalize relations with israel. he p degrees on a settlement based on international legitimacy and resolution stipulating withdrawal to the 1967 borders within peacemaker. i swore that it will be improper for us to abandon our initiatives just because israel rejects them. and as a jewel has been held in sri lanka to remember those who were killed in the ongoing political unrest, anger of the sore, and costs of fuel energy and food and medicine, and lead to months of anti government. protests resident got abide on to parser who fled to singapore was forced to resign. my minister, i not proclaim a singer, is serving as acting president any demonstrate as a calling for his resignation to and a permanent end to the ranch. a box of families decades long influence entre lankin politics. the ass did president has defended his record, saying he took all possible steps to prevent the country's economic crisis. on
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saturday, his resignation letter was read out to parliament. but despite his claims essentials like food and fuel, as still in short supply is michelle fernandez. reports from colombo, the scenes outside this petro station and at fuel sheds around the country is an example of the complete chaos caused by the economic crisis in sri lanka. i mean, just at this federal shed, queues have known to sneak more than 10 kilometers around for people waiting for fuel. it's impacted not just personal vehicle users. it's taxi cabs, it's the industrial baycove is essential services. it's every one that is really struggling to get on with their day to day lives. it's about me getting back and forth to work mostly been walking for days and days on in this is my 3rd better cue . oh, i've never seen one this long before. never stayed this long before, not eaten, not drunk properly. so it's very stressful. and people finding
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a day to day living like this q that you see are the 3 wheelers. it just sneaks around and round before it actually gets to the bedrooms. are these people just get 5 liters of fuel sometimes waiting as long as 7 days for that? and there must you again. so did they want? what they want is a system that allows them to get on with their day to day lives. rushes military, his fired missiles and shells across ukraine. that's after declaring it's ramping up attacks in the east ukrainian official say at least 17 civilians were killed, including 3 in the north and northeastern. while the city of took leave, the bodies were found in the rubble of a housing block in school. 3 others have been injured. russia says its destroyed ukrainian military targets in the western city of tinney pro. moscow says that long range missiles had scores of ukrainian fighters and
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a military facility on friday. ukraine says the rockets hit an industrial plants and in the of my street, at least 3 people were killed and 15 injured in the strike. russian rockets also had a commercial warehouse in the southern city of odessa. there are no reports of casualties . the local government says russia is deliberately targeting civilians. residence in the eastern ukrainian city of crime, of course, can are being urged to leave off the russian missiles struck the city center. how interest is in the don boss. region. officials expect that a greater russian offensive will hit the city soon. volunteers are helping elderly residents on the bosses together safety although the journey out is also risky. and doctors say that concerned about the mental health of ukrainian soldiers returning from the front line a more serious brain injuries and post traumatic stress cases. but as alan fischer reports from the outskirts of keith,
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the best office can do at the moment to patch them up and send them back. the are the injuries of war. you can't see the trauma, the damage from the front lines. this clinic on the outskirts of keith tries to help the patients have p t s. d post traumatic stress or significant brain injuries . christina, who needs to, nor is the clinics director, emphasis. lou then you are patients of people who lived through the events of the war. a work is focused on psychological trauma that they suffered and we work with them to give them strength to go back to the front line. we're going out to molly. i'll just eat a 1st made audrey at the beginning of the war, a former soviet soldier. he signed up as a volunteer for the ukrainians just days before the fighting started. but on the outskirts of mattie a pole, he came under fire, something he can't leave behind. not easy to get away from was
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going in your, in your, in your had a page and some kind of you know, flashback flashbacks. you know, when you just close your eyes and everything, you start to blame faster and faster and faster on your head. and sometimes it's very that he struggles with his memories. he gets anxious when he is the miss l cited, but still, he thinks he's lucky and i was lucky because i am still alive and i have to to, to hand into legs and i can walk and i can remember something that is very, very good. because a lot of our guys actually a died for free grain for freedom for forever forever. the use video is techniques here to help recover the physical and the artistic the even
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have pet therapy, the horses and a popular diversion of coal live on the it's hard to help while they're actively serving with the military. we have to stabilize them and get them back to the front . the real work will start when the war and the average stay for patients here is around 3 or 4 weeks, but the recovery that takes a lifetime. i was fisher, i'll just on the outskirts of keith and sudan, at least 33 people have been killed and over 100, others injured during days of violence between rival tribes. the government has declared an overnight curfew in 2 towns and blue nile steaks. members of the houser and go to ethnic groups began fighting after a fama was killed. earlier this week, president say the violence hasn't stops. lot of federal is from sidney's american public says association. she says these tribal conflicts are exacerbated by the ongoing political instability. this is not new,
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it has been going on for decades. it's, you know, the climate change definitely has a big role into this. but the biggest role that plays into this is the political instability of the country. and the fact that the current cool leaders exploit these types of hives for their own benefit. because the message i'm trying to send to this is nice public, is that either us or instability. we've seen these in blue nile. we've seen them in eastern sudan, in all regions of sudan that are unstable, and they have several tribes that were cool, hesitating peacefully in the past. what has happened though during the p to redeem the national congress party and of the huge government, they spread messages of racism and hades and urban migration in the country that lead these tried to flush over these resources. but not only that, but excess of that to severe violence. and in some instances, local civil wars still had on al jazeera community. this psalms to feed the
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city why mexico is looking to local food to counter soaring prices. and africa is fastest med other comes the advanced and the 100 meters in the world athletics championships with either a rack or breaking hate shows no sign of abating across the deep south of the u. s . we got some live the showers further north. i miss clutches, stores will grassy slide across the lake sea upper midwest pushing over towards the eastern seaboard. there's that, hey, there's a high temperature that will sort of past getting into the forty's once again. for our dallas forties, the phoenix bush, where the north there, there's actually a tongue, a very wall marriage, the central parts of canada as well. so went to the thirty's for when he paid full
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back. a touch on monday is that where to where the slight little further south which and east was it'll push in across the place. heading towards the appalachians . continue to just easiest way which will cease to see bought as we go on through the next few days. so some very heavy re possibility of some large heil possibility some localized fighting the or tornado possibility could still see one or 2 showers into the desert. southwest scattering a showers into the caribbean over the next couple of days, but nothing too much to speak of more the way of sunshine than showers, east knowledge or sherry rain that we do have in place at the moment. she these off easily winds just pushing their showers into central pos argie across the great round to this larger, farther dry. therefore jamaica we have got some showers there for southern mexico. ah lou.
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ready ah, ah, wherever you grow in the world, warmer line goes to make it for you exceptional cut. all right, we're going places to go. lou ah ah, you're watching all just there are a reminder about tom stories this all us president joe biden has wrapped up a controversial 4 day trip to the bed, least started in israel and ended in saudi arabia live and says he won't let region be influenced by china or russia,
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the video has been held in sri lanka to remember those who died in the ongoing political unrest got abide on japan that was forced to resign as president this week of the months of anti government protests. the parliament has begun the process of choosing the next president roches military. his 5 miss alden shells across ukraine after declaring its plans to ramp up a tax in east grainy and officials say at least 17 civilians have been killed, including 3 in the northeastern city of chief we've while the week of extreme temperatures is cause wildfire to spread in western europe and north africa, a pilot lost his life in northern portugal and his water bomb a plane crash. temperatures have reached $47.00 degrees celsius in parts of the country. much of the warm air affecting europe has moved up from north africa where there have also been wildfires. in morocco. 55 is of a battling the flames and the mountain forests of the rush region based one person
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has died. and while there doesn't villages have been evacuated in fly, 5 is by held several blazes on the greek island of crete, where high winds and hot temperatures will only helping the fire to spread further . more than a 100 firefighters tackle the flames as villages were evacuated, more than 300 people have reported. they died from heat related causes a call, spain and portugal vanish authority say, firefighters are struggling to bring the wildfire there under control. flames of devastating coastal areas and parts of the countryside will mark castell know, a fire chief and wild fire expert in spain's catalonia region says that climate change isn't the only thing to blame should tuition is comp complex, but it is just this party. we know that these good last lees until the end of july, and we've been in the, by the, the fire since beginning of june. so
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a $1022.00 is being one of the hardest season we have seen. since we remember, i mean it's worse to be one of the longest one, but this is not me. we weren't expecting that. and we knew that climate change will bring those kind of seasons and we knew that bad will happen be goes all in the western europe or landscape has been changing the last 4 years has been becoming more urban landscape. and that has created the conditions for climate change to create a fire commission we're having today. so we can blame climate change, but we have to blame or the lack of management of the landscape as well. so it's kind of a problem on top of understood pro, problems that we are having now. italy is struggling to deal with its worst route in 70 years. farmers in the north struggling to save the crops as adam rainy reports from the po valley,
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the losses could exceed more than $3000000000.00. this is why italy's longest and most important river, the po, looks like right now. parched in it, dangerously low levels. its water provides the life blood for farmers who produce italy's most valuable crops, walking through his field of stunted corn farmer, audrianna tune, yolo, the son and grandson of corn growers, shows us the damage wrought by the drought. ah christa with tongue is brutal this year. this comb will just be throwing away all because of the drought because it hasn't rained in months and this year i'm is totally ruined. down river, where the po empties into the adriatic engineer rodolfo low, 20 shows us how the current is running in reverse. from the sea to the land because the river is so low, never looking over maps, he shows me how salt water is entering near by farm land. lot into says salt water
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barriers are failing because they weren't built for such dangerously low river levels. he regularly monitors the salt levels in the river. he's never seen at this bad. this is of, in the seems like it. i mean, it's now registering 25 grams per liter. that means that sea water, so water level here should be one gram polito to be able to distribute to farmers and the effect of so much salt water incursion, burnt crops, worthless and withering in the field. many fields poisoned by salt water may not even produce crops next year. it's not just a problem for agriculture muscle farmer paula manchin says he'll lose 30 percent of his harvest from this lagoon on the po delta this year. busy also cost them all these muscles are all dead. fresh water from the po hasn't made it here. so they just die. seems like this are increasingly common along the po. hole area is usually covered by water. now exposed,
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turned in the beaches or islands of sand. in the middle where the river usually flows and those who provide water to farmers in the po valley say they're not just worried about this summer's crops. but about years to come a once in a lifetime, drought shows how life could change here forever. so the way the mechanic was, if we lose this resource we have had for centuries, we'll have to abandon our excellent crops. we'd give up our whole cultural heritage, a frightening prospect as people here and millions of others around the world struggle to adapt to changing climate. adarine al jazeera in the po, valley of northern italy around 1000. hungarians held a protest against prime minister victor or bonn, licensed in a series of demonstrations against his government. the protest began after a major tax hike on small businesses are gone, has been powerful more than a decade. that discontent us inflation is posing a major challenge. the rule,
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opposition leader people must today address the rally thing organ campaign promises had turned out like a local by election in pakistan's, punjab province could end up having national implications by minister shouts. sharif muslim league holds a narrow majority in the provincial assembly that's on the threat from him on cons . pci party taking the province would be a major win for the former prime minister, who has asked it in april. come on how to report from the hor, the capital of punchout province. that dear, dear said, well, what day it's going to be one of the most crucial election and budget on political history. although that there's just print it did. we're going to do a joke about 5 percent of the 371 feet which are up for reelection. it will also mean that the new achievement it. oh, it's very deformed. the government will have to get most of those ward from their drink. he did, according to that,
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did they accept budget on what lim league now was with god right now in government at that center. and also because of the coalition of florida that our government, the board of bar jabard should, if it is going to be important to win at least 90 for the b m l n. a budget on teddy again, doug with great the members, and it ridiculous emily who get backdate and because of that, we're disqualified, the ga, ga, against budget. don constitution are to go to $63.00 a. which means that any defect joe, from a political party with dan qualified in jail, is crucial election. we have dana mosher and running. i riley that brought this large, they're day to provincial, entered the one job. people coming out on the street banner all over the 3rd day. and i've brought all i'd really be on hold with that crucial election. roger diego,
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i will vote for no, was harry's party, as he's done a lot for the country, was progressing. though there is inflation in the country. this won't last forever on him or unkindness to nothing. in the last 40 years of emerald hod has given awareness to us and we stand with him without any fear from anyone because he took the country in the right direction. all the mafias and corrupt politicians toppled is government. so i appeal to all the people to vote for him to get budget don. very good job of him. ron gone, had already did that, did dabbler rendered grant to rick that the election that he written either way, whether did rigging or not ended up going to court have our domino bag and gave them bron gone is going to reclaim more of their granted a lot every day, but again, my daughter deal with it means that his body will come back to rule upon job proven . there's also drugs is worthwhile for lord populated robin and political ponder
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that already thing there. they've been bron conran. yeah. it made that off. it domino effect. gunman has killed 10 people and wounded to others, and an attack on trade is and indonesia is pump or province the attack as a believe to be separate his rebels and members of the westport liberation army. local police say most of the victims were immigrants. from all the indonesian islands, violence has intensified in the province since last year. when rebels set fire to several schools and kills to teaches mexicans is struggling with steep prices of food and other commodities. now the president wants people to produce more of their own food. locally. economists say self reliance alone won't be enough to stop communities from going hungry. unwrap hello upholds from mexico city. this family farmers in the mexican capital or harvesting no pine cactus. no panel is a staple food in mexico and just one of several important cash crops produced in the
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community of mil alba. here case of pros in barley's suppose here we produce nepal, corn and beans, and the majority of the food we produce goes towards feeding mexico city with food prices. on the rise, mexico's president has called on farmers to increase agricultural production, and the government has already set a plan in motion to assist farmers through subsidies program. must ingram intolerable? we know the programs the government has implemented have helped us because costs are rising. the cost of fertilizer is increased and the economy of the country is not doing well. one of the governments programs is called sim bundle either or sewing life 1st launched in 2019 as a broad strategy to combat poverty and inequality. today it's being geared toward increasing food security in the face of worsening inflation. but many in mexico are
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worried that not enough is being done to rain back, skyrocketing prices. oh yes, everything is expensive. the price of over kado, lemon tomato has increased. we can't afford it. anymore, some economists in mexico have warned that inflation could reach as high as 10 percent by the end of the year umbrella, a is a complete if the problem worse since, and we see the inflation rate, which double digits the repercussions in terms of inequality and poverty. would be devastating. the mexican government seems confidence that promoting sustainable practices and investing in small farmers like those in melba as death will ultimately be the best way to avert a potential food crisis. the u. n. food and agriculture organization have expressed optimism over projects like sim, bundle vida, or sewing life. the goal here in mexico is to expand the existing program by including more crops and using organic fertilizers. and thus moving the country toward food self sufficiency. experts in mexico see that while subsidies offer
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a good solution in the short term, the only way to guarantee food security is through economic policies aimed at curbing inflation. manuel did up below al jazeera mexico city. now in sports, africa as fast as man fed nance amandola has defied the odds to advance at the athletics. well championships in oregon canyon booking a spot in the 100 meters semi finals just hours off the landing and the united states to hail malik reports. it's been a whirlwind couple of days africa's fastest man, ferdinand or many allah. here he is at nairobi airport just a day before it's 100 meter seat at the world championships. 15000 kilometers the way in oregon. the canyon had only just got his united states visa, alleged application backups, or various us embassies around the world. or the most ment around 375 athletes,
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unofficial faced issues. but despite all the problems and more than 20 hours of travel, aman yalom made it on time. on monday, arriving at eugene's hayward field straight from the airport off the landing with less than a few hours to spare. he was in good spirits, however, the sprinter telling al jazeera that he was looking to make every one proud and that's exactly what he did and size. injuries with all manion managed to come 3rd and in doing so ceiling a spot in the semi finals. his time of 10.10 seconds was understandably far off his personal best of 9.77. i thought it was going to be easy, but it wasn't because i felt so tired of 60 meters, i'm in late, my blues are not moving. so.
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