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difference between donald trump and you might look for them. we meet with global news makers. i'm talk about the store restock matter on al jazeera, the heart wrenching good buys loved ones, not knowing when they were united to get women and children heading west to relative safety, often leaving been behind, among them. foreign is also trying to give out train rise of a free, but it's on a 1st come, 1st serve basis here at the bus station that only a few rides available and that's only to the surrounding villages. so people like for me in rose, now need to find another way to get out of the city. but for now they, like many others, would have to reach and hope, hoping tomorrow is a better day. ah, we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to refill by china,
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russia we're will seek to build on this moment with active principle, american leadership years president joe biden says, america is not going anywhere. will stay committed to its allies in the middle east . ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera live from della also coming up hundreds doll. and while father destroyed homes and livelihoods across europe as millions bake in a heap way that set to break records. pakistan's prime minister shall sharif, is facing a pop now to test against for my leader in run. com that could have lot of implications for their political career. and the mental trauma of russia is war. takes a toll on soldiers on ukraine's front lines. ah
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aah! joe biden has told, middle east leaders, the u. s. is invested in the region and is not about to give up influence to russia, china or iran. the use presidents now on his way back to washington after concluding his 4 day middle east trip. his 1st since taking office, it was a tor aimed at bolstering ties in the region, but as our white house correspondent, kimberly, how can reports biden failed to achieve what matters most for the american public bringing down oil prices. joe biden wrapped up his 4 day middle east tour with this pledge. united studies is not going anywhere. the u. s. president spent his final day of his trip meeting with leaders from the gulf cooperation council, along with jordan, egypt, and iraq. his goal is to reassert america's leadership role. one he fears is slowly being eroded by geopolitical rivals. zone becoming clear to me
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that how closely interwoven america's interest or with the successes lead. we will not walk away and leave a vacuum filled by china, russia, ram biden. faces 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 game. look at, we don't know if you had the magic kingdom or carry out it's rolled with regards to oil and gas production, as it announced, increasing its production capacity to 13000000 barrels a day. to quote, saudi arabia will no longer be able to increase production beyond that multiple. returning to the u. s. empty handed is a problem for president grappling with low approval ratings. biden's also being criticized for resetting relations with leaders,
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accused of human rights violations. among them, the saudi crown prince, the c i a believes mohammed bin selman may have approved the killing in 2018 of journalist shemelle cas 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, been committed by the united states in a border. despite the controversy, the white house insists the meetings were a diplomatic when, even as biden returns to the united states with little to show for them. kimberly help hit on al jazeera when that meeting of regional leaders cantos, amir chest, i mean banana. fanny reiterated the importance of solving the palestinian issue. alamba delancy said i am and i'll be the arab countries despite their differences
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and have unanimously agreed on the arab piece finished, 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 967 borders within p sickle as well. i don't know. it will be improper for us to abandon our initiatives just because israel rejects them a new will holiday algebra. he's a son of a former saudi security official. he says the us got very little out of the trip. this is it so far out is exactly what the current conference of saudi arabia has been seeking over the past 3 years of validation legitimize ation by the president of the greatest power, the united states before the visit. and for it was even announced, i urged present biden to fix the relationship with cider. good, because as a saudi says and even exile, i do care about the relationship and my advice was do it not at all costs. so far
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it looks like there's only one sided concessions and the president has expended a lot of political capital for nothing clear in return at least $300.00 people have died from heat related causes across spain and portugal. and a week of extreme temperatures calls while fires to spread in western europe and north africa. some of the worst fires are in portugal where hundreds have been forced to evacuate firefighters battles several blazes on the greek island of crete, where high winds and hot temperatures were only hoping to find a spread further, more than a 100 firefighters tackle the flames as villages were evacuated, much of the warm air affecting europe has moved up from north africa, where they've also been while fires in morocco. fire fighters have been battling the flames in the mountain. the forests of the laroche region at his one person has died more than a dozen villages than evacuated and it's, and he is struggling to deal with his worst drought in 70 years. farmers in the
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north, a buckling to save their crops as adam rainy reports from the po valley, the losses could exceed more than $3000000000.00. this is what elite longest and most important river the po looks like right now. parched and it dangerously low levels. it's water provides the life blood for farmers who produce italy's most valuable crops, walking through his field of stunted corn farmer, either anna tune, yolo, the son and grand son of corn growers, shows us the damage wrought by the drought. ah, there was tunnel is brutal. this year this comb will just be thrown away all because of the drought because it hasn't winded months can on this yet i'm totally wherein threw 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 level looking over maps, he shows me how salt water is entering near by farm land lot int he 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 it this bad of into seems like that. i mean, it's now registering 25 grams per liter. that means that sea water, salt water level here should be one gram polito to be able to distribute to farm and that and the effect of so much salt water incursion, burnt crops, worthless in 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 polo. mancini says he'll lose 30 percent of his harvest from this lagoon on the po delta this year. we'll call them all these muscles are all dead fresh water from the. ready po hasn't made it here so they just die. seems like this are increasingly common along the po. whole area is
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usually covered by water. now exposed, turned in the beaches or islands of sand in the middle by the river, usually flows. and those who provide water to farmers in the po valley. so 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 there was a mechanic with if we lose this resource we have had for centuries, we'll have to abandon our excellent crops and 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 and in china, electricians are working to maintain power grid that are under strain due to the scorching temperatures. they're nearly 18 cities issued red alerts this week with temperatures. forecast to exceed 40 degrees celsius for marque hardens or climate change expert at the australian national university. he says we have to adapt the
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climate change we're experiencing now. and in the coming decade there is a particular thing that is happening and that particularly related to changes in the jet stream. that's a high level, very fast moving band. if that circulates the globe. and at the moment that's been changed by climate change. and that's bringing in this particular case, very hot air from site india across towards china. at this point, our mission is globally going up there not turning around the corner and starting to go down. and if way to limit the effects of climate change like the he was saying, all the files that were saying we have to reduce those emissions very rapidly. and very significantly going down something like 45 percent by 2030. and we are a long way from that at the moment. but given that we haven't been able to turn around those greenhouse gas emission trajectories, that means we have to adapt to the climate change is experiencing now, and we'll experience over the next decade. so everything from putting more green
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spaces in cities to cool cities down to having more heat reflective building materials and road materials so that they don't absorb the energy but reflected back out into the atmosphere a local bi election and pakistan's punjab problems could end up having national implications, especially sharif muslim league, holds a narrow majority in the provincial assembly. that's under threat from one cons p t i party. taken a probably should be a major win for the former prime minister was ousted in april all high to report some of the whole, the capital of punjabi did. what did going to be one of the board and bucket done. we're going to get 3. although did did, we're going to do it about 5 percent of the $371.00, which are up for re election. it will also mean that the new g minute going to form
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the government will have to get more don't ward from the grid did, according to the budget on league now, was we just got right now in government at that center. and also because of the coalition of florida dad gum in the board of barge barge ready. it is going to be important to win at least 19 for the b m. n. a budget on that he can salvage are great team members. in that particular deputy who get backdate and because of that were disqualified to the georgia, georgia against budget don constitution are to go to 63 a which means that any defective from a political party with dan qualified in jail is crucial election. we have dana mosher and running i rally that brought this large, they're data provincial vendor of the one job people coming out on the street bad all or what the 3rd day. and of course all i'd really be on hold when that crucial
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election. roger diego, who great up, i will vote for new washer east party. as he's done a lot for the country was progressing, though there is inflation in the country, but this won't last forever on him or unkindness to nothing to the country. and the last 4 years i asked him on, con, 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 mafia and corrupt politicians toppled is government. so i appeal to all the people to vote for him for a party budget. don denny again of him, ron gone, had already did that, did tabulated rendered grain to rick that the leg gen that he ran either way, whether did rigging or not, and it's of god's core to have our domino effect and gave them bron gone is going to reclaim more of their rent is a lot every day buddy, go get majority of those dates. it means that his party will come back to rule upon job proven. it also drank these water fall for most populated province. and
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political pundits are already stay that have been brown found rent hair. it may take off a domino effect. let's not start to come here in our desert, including india. bands single use, plastics occur pollution but may not ready to make the switch and an important river north and syria is running dry. why farmers are blaming turkey the problem. morning. ah, the journey has begun. the fee for world cup is on its way to cattle hook your travel package to day. hello, we're seeing some flooding recently into the u. a. ye certainly seen some recently into were oman got another system to were give us some cause for concern. you can see the circulation, which is brought up into northern parts of the arabian sea. america making us wait
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was at easter side of our mom. and we are like to see some baked out polls as we move into next week. certainly something to keep an eye on north of that they go more hot sunshine business as usual. 50 celsius on the cards. therefore baghdad, rothermel, pleasant around that east. the side of the mediterranean for northern parts of africa here again, lousy fine and dry. hot enough in car at 39 styles just still plenty. a shower was up towards the north. the northwest, their northern parts of morocco, p a. shower to cross heart of africa, the easley ways coming from ethiopia. central african republic, right across sir nigeria, pushing across southern parts of molly all the way into sierra leone, maybe a shower to, to come into where senegal. not too many showers, i'm afraid, across the eastern side of africa. east of the riff valley still disappointingly dry. the drought effectively continuing here, too much rain there for samaria. not too many showers, but to their cause. eastern part of kenya and tanzania. cats are airway
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biden has wrapped up a 4 day trip to the middle east, south and israel and ended in saudi arabia. biden says he won't get the region to be influenced by china, russia, or iraq stream temperatures, of course, while foster spread across parts of western europe, out of control, blazes of force, thousands of people from their homes, hundreds of die from heat related causes. and in china, electricians are working to maintain power groups that are under strain due to a scorching temperatures. 80 cities issued red alerts this week with temperatures for class to exceed 40 degrees celsius vigils been held in tr lanka to remember those who are killed in the ongoing political unrest. anger over the soaring costs a few food and medicines as led to months of anti government protests, got to buy a roger pack, so who fled to singapore was forced to resign as president by mister ronald wickham, a single serving as acting president. many demonstrates of calling for his
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resignation to was for lancaster asked as president has defended his record, saying he took all possible steps to prevent the country's economic crisis on saturday, his resignation letter. it was without to parliament. but despite his claims, essentially such as food and fuel a stool in short supply, no fernandez reports from columbus. the scenes outside this metro 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 petula 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 industrial because it's essentially a survey says 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. and this is my 3rd better q
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a. 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 a day to day living like this q that you see the 3 wheelers. it just sneaks around and round before it actually gets to the bedroom. and these people just get 5 liters of fuel sometimes waiting as long as 7 days for that. and they must queue again so that they want what they want is a system that allows them to get on with their day to day lives. rushes military has fought missiles and shells across ukraine. that's off. the declaring is ramping up attacks in the east ukrainian official. sadly 17 civilians were killed including 3, the northeastern city of church eve. their bodies were found in the rubble of a housing block of school. 3 others have been injured. and russia says if destroyed
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ukrainian military targets in the western city of denise pro moscow says long range missiles, it's schools of ukrainian fighters and a military facility on friday. ukraine says the rockets hit an industrial plant and the nearby st at the 3 people were killed and 50 injured. the doctor say they're concerned about the mental health of ukrainian soldiers returning from the front lines. they're seeing more serious brain injuries and post traumatic stress cases. but as alan fischer reports on the outskirts of keith, the best the doctors can do at the moment, is 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 was neat sinner is the clinics director. emphasis. lou then you are patients of people who lived through the events of the war. work is focused on
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psychological trauma that they suffered and we work with them to give them strength to go back to the front line between probably over now to molly, i'll just say the 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 can't leave behind. not easy to get away from was going in your, in your, in your page and some kind of you know, flashback flashbacks. you know when you just close your eyes and everything, give start to blame faster and faster and faster on your head. and sometimes it's very much he struggles with his memory. he gets anxious when he is, the miss are silent, but still he thinks he's lucky. i was lucky because i am still alive and i have
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22 hands in 2 legs and i can walk and i can remember something that is very, very good because a lot of horror guys are actually they died for, for ukraine, for freedom, for forever forever. the used various techniques here to help recovery the physical and the artistic the even have pet therapy. the horses are a popular diversion that us oh cool only. 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 ends. marina, the average. steve for patience here is around 3 or 4 weeks, but the recovery that takes a lifetime. i'll and fisher, i'll do 0 on the outskirts of keith. a cargo plane operated by a ukrainian airliners crashed near the greek city of kabbalah. local medias
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reporting 8 people were on board. and the plane was carrying tons of dangerous materials, mostly explosives, greek authorities to the flight was heading from serbia to jordan. but have yet to cut them details about the cargo or passengers. people living close to the crash site have been told to keep the window shut stain doors around a 1000. hungarians of held a protest against the prime minister. victor albany, is the latest in a series of demonstrations against his government. the protests began. raft and major tax hike on small businesses. opposition leader peter mark is a address. the rally saying, or benz campaign promises are turned out to be lies, or bands when in power for more than a decade. discontent, herbal inflation is posing a major challenge to his rule. gunman of kill 10 people and wounded 2 others in an attack on traders in indonesia as popular province, attackers are believed to be separate as rebels and members of the west. pat, what liberation army. local police 8 most of the victims were immigrants,
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from other indonesian islands, violence was intensified in the province since last year. when rebels set fire to civil schools and to 2 teachers farmers in northeast and syria facing water shortages because a river they rely on for irrigation and drinking water is drying up. they blame dams recently built in neighboring turkey. the un estimates the disruption as affected access to water for about 460000 people in the region. mom at vall report, i know i'll be in the butt of the hobble police had to miss it. standing in what was once the middle of the hub already for the biggest tributary of the euphrates. in syria, for centuries, people in the north east, the region of hassan have depended on it for their livelihoods. but that, so think of the past, says the farmer, have you my let her know there is no, was it because it was casso from turkey. they put dams on the river and cut off supplies. and they closed the springs and dug wells around the springs and put them
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so. so the cupboard waters or cuts off the drought is worsening. the impact of dams built on the turkish side of the border. until recently, wheat, cotton, barley, rice, were grown in the hub or eva valley. another farmer says, underground water reserves are also affected. not alone will the him of the lady to day we are suffering. we because there is no, what are you in the living of her else has gone down. the people who used to live on the harbor river have reached a new level of forwarding. there is nothing hammered hands. the odds of the shallow water is undrinkable. and carbo already and emotion. people used to drink water from the hobbler, but now we don't even let she drink the water because they get sick immediately or working. the land is the only way of life. these farmers know. i said, i live madness that i can. the drought has hit us hard. we don't even plans anymore . when we do the crop, di, or the plant seeds on both sides of the river,
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and we take losses. you know, how much agriculture cost these days? or if god has mercy on us and gives us rain water, the crops twice, and then night die. what about the celia has been devastated by civil war since 2011. the fighting has forced people from their homes. now the drought is dancing the result of those who have stayed against all odds hammered fall on to 0 incident. at least 33 people have been killed and over a 100. others injured during days of violence between rival tribes. the governments declared an overnight curfew in 2 towns and blue nile state numbers of the houser and berta, ethnic groups began fighting after a farmer was killed early. this week. resident say, the violence hasn't stopped. well, not a fight, only somebody. sydney's american public affairs association, she says these tribal conflicts are made worse by the ongoing political situation. this is not new. it has been going on for decades. it's, you know,
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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 fights for their own benefit. because the message i'm trying to send to this is denise 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 would have happened though, during the pitas redeem, during the national congress party and of the huge government they spread messages of racism and hate and urban migration in the country that led the strive to clash over the resources, but not only that but excessive to severe violence. and in some instances local civil wars. india has been several single use plastic items and plans to figure out more by the end of the year. but many of those who use and make plastic products
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say, they aren't ready for the transition problem. a child reports from new delhi, india has a plastic problem. 3 and a half 1000000 tons of waste is generated every year. most of it from products that are only used once. now the government has been 19 single used plastic goods, including straws and cutlery. sam street vendors said they're aware of the ban, but have no other option. in new delhi, the state government is promoting paper and bam, board tentative pedagogical policy, political ahmad, awful, per se, alternate with our policy is at 2 levels. some of our focus is on alternatives. this enforcement is that no other state is doing what we are doing. we have brought together people from across biddy who are working on alternatives. so shopkeepers and users who feel they don't have options. i can see for themselves. like if he worked together on this plan will be successful work we can discuss. but
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manufacturer said the industry needs more support. it's a great start, but it's definitely not enough because we falsely don't have enough knowledge. shaun's work. we don't have enough suppliers. we don't know if the motor plastic bags are buying what products are we going to use in order to do? we also don't have manufactured capabilities to sold the country right now. why? plastic is restricted in some states. this is the 1st nation wide ban. prime minister nadine's removed the, announced it in 2019, and the government finalized it last year. but some users, industry li does, and vendors said they need more time to switch to green alternatives like these. the industry employs millions of people, including faction, workers, and recyclers. waste management researchers said the band requires a transition. india has this huge challenge that we have to walk. we have a very complex, informal sector enterprise based on me. and we have to see that why we have to address the problem often using plastic. we also have to see that livelihoods are
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not last government agencies in new delhi say inspect teams has collected more than $150000.00 in fines. violators could also be arrested. more products are expected to be banned over the next few months. as india aims to become single use plastic free by the end of the year. bob newman, the largest sierra, new deli, la pride celebrations of return to the south korean capital for the 1st time and 3 years after being put on hold. because of the pandemic. rain wasn't enough to dump and the procession making its way through central. so to celebrate the l g b t q, community and he's going alert us thousands of church, but counter demonstrations, rally them nearby streets. there was no significant disruption. as revelers waving rainbow flags made their way to the city. oh oh.
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