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revive were sent descendants of the com and mccoy people took part in an unprecedented trial of a case that goes back nearly a century ago. the trial for the massacre in that by the face, shows the serious abuses that indigenous community stafford in this country. only 1000000 of the 45000000 people in argentina considered themselves defendants of the original indigenous groups. most of them live in poverty and continue to fight for survival. argentina has long prided itself of a european heritage, one that often neglected and persecuted, indigenous trial of not by piece a step to revise history and give indigenous communities the place they have been denied for too long. ah, yes more protests of the students is shalaka is the acting president
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imposes another state of emergency. ah, i'm robot this, and this is only 0 live from doha, also coming up, ukraine's president to orders the spy chief and a top prosecutor to step down, accusing their staff of collaborating with russia. soaring, he triggers devastating wildfires in europe, parts of the u. k. of bracing for their hottest day on record. ha. bouncing back the party of pakistan's ousted prime minister, eminent con windsor, crucial bi election. ah, shoreline, cuz interim president, radial would come a singer has imposed a state of emergency in an effort to ward off protests ahead of the election of
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a new leader. some protest as a converging on the streets of the capital, colombo parliaments, in the process of choosing the new president. after gotta buy a raj, a pack, so resigned and fight the country. last week, the government issued a number of emergency declarations. since april, when proto started over the worst economic crisis in decades, was on demonstrator said their demands for running were promising to leave. office are being ignored. the people who owned up bringing yeah, people are friendly, gama ha, won't again, these political culture. and they want to change the system economy pennzoil system and lead divani ligaments in the school on the birth and gama. we don't think reagan activity scores, but michelle fernandez is live for us in colombo, banal. why is the state of emergency been brought in?
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well there's a lot of speculation, but most people believe it's all about the coming to days. the nominations for the post of president that parliament must choose to replace and succeed present. gotta be roger boxer. the are that, that, that seems to be the sort of mean thing because the 1st we have the nominations and followed the very next day with the election on the 20th that's wednesday. so this gives give authorities more tools to arrest, to detain, to stifle dissent, to stop massive gatherings, all of that is possible under the emergency regulations. the exact regulations and rules being allowed under this particular state of emergency are still being awaited. but with that declaration, as i said, the acting president brings in a certain heightened, state of alert. there are all,
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obviously military and police that get increased powers. so that's what people are quite a sort of annoyed about to say the least. they have said before, they're not going to back down, they're not going to be intimidated. and they see this emergency as just one more attempt to try and stifle the protests. we were mentioning earlier, manella that some protest was beginning to calmer, john to the converge in the streets of the capital of columbus. how are people reacting to the fact that it's valuable because i worked on the singer is bringing in a state of emergency, but he's also, of course, a candidate in these presidential elections. this is just one of many, many, many questions about ronald vicar missing or we've been talking about it in recent days. obviously, vicar missing her, his 6th term as prime minister, which he holds at the moment. in addition to that acting president role that he's been appointed to and people have been talking about having an issue with the
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legitimacy. he has the credibility he has because of the last general elections he was unable to maintain or hold on to his parliamentary seat. but basically people voted him out of office he, he was literally sort of, you know, just said that the door closed on him in terms of parliament. but after the general election, his party, by way of a nationalist, had one single seat. it's the oldest political party in the country and never before as the party been unable to secure a single seat. but what happened was he was name to the nationalists and it's almost a back door entry into parliament. and this is what people are angry about. they said they've been taken for a ride repeatedly, and that's why they're angry with the roger boxes who essentially they feel brought in ra novick, promising to ensure that he safeguards the raj boxes. so in that sense,
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the fact that he's acting president now, and he's making decisions that will affect the next few days, where he is going to be a candidate in the running for the course of president or to run the remainder of the presidential term poses huge questions now thank you very much. indeed. michelle fernandez talking to us from caliber. the claims president of letting me zalinski has suspended 2 of his most senior law enforcement figures over hundreds of cases of alleged treason and collaboration with russia. state prosecutor innovative tova has been investigating war crimes, even buckled off, was head of ukraine's powerful intelligence agency. the president says 60 officials from their agencies or working against ukraine or for more or less as being an alan fisher in keith allen. what's the background to all of this? while the president is president's office is doing a bit of a clean up in the last hour or so because on his national address on sunday night,
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he said that both of these officials had been dismiss know, coming from the president's office in the last hour is a statement to say that both of these officials have been suspended. there is an investigation under way and if there are concrete allegations against both of them, and then the president will recommend to parliament that they are dismissed. it's unusual for vladimir zalinski to make changes like this, even though before the war. his cabinet was like a revolving door since the war. he's kept really the same group around him by and large, including these 2 very senior figures. but during his national address, he said that there had been a number of complaints raised against both of these people, believing that the number of people in their offices who were committing treason that is collaborating with russia was at a number of 651 and therefore they were being in his was last night dismissed because of
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a failure of those 2 officials to keep control of their office. there was no suggestion that they were involved in any wrong doing with russia. this was really about accountability. but as i say in the last hour or so, this clean up from the president's office, seeing that both have been suspended, the suspension of up back in all of a is really quite something because he has been with president zalinski since the beginning, their childhood friends they walked together in the entertainment industry. there were business partners as well when he was appointed as the head of the s b u, the internal security service. that was considered a surprise because he had no intelligence background, a tall, and when the city of a caisson fell at the beginning of the war, and many people pointed to the s b u and said this was a failure of intelligence. but clearly there is no an investigation underway, and it is of all that these 2 officials, me will end up being dismissed,
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as the president said on sunday night, rather than just suspended, which is their official position at the moment. cuz we can't forget the fighting is still going on and i understand that the president has been talking about that. what was he saying? that's right. during that address, he said that there had been more than 3000 cruise missiles fired by russia since the start of the war. he said if he took other rockets and artillery rounds and other missiles that had been fired, he couldn't begin to calculate the number. and clearly he felt that it caused the un undue amount of damage here in ukraine itself. and he also reacted to the comments from demetre midville, the former russian president, who is now the deputy head of the national security council, saying that if ukraine were to attack crimea, then they would be facing a doomsday scenario. he said that he would not be put off by threats and at some point, those responsible for war crimes would be held responsible in this talk between the 2 parliaments. the 2 capitals coming as the united nations here in ukraine says
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that the number of dead in the war, no more than 5000, in fact, 5020 of that number 300 children. and they said that 6520 people had been injured among those at 400. that coming as dozens gather in a small town in ukraine on sunday to see were farewell to a 4 year old girl who was killed when a rocket hit her tone. many people turned out and of course across the south and east of the country here on monday, many people were waking up to the sounds of war, a war which is now entering its 21st week. allen, thank you very much. alan fisher and cave dark plains from the atlanta, kansas eurasia center. he says, the lens he must act quickly to find replacements for those 2 sacked officials. so i do think that these are significant, and the big thing that observers and experts are going to be watching for is who
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comes next. zalinski has appointed an acting prosecutor general to replace an addict of a is not yet appointed. somebody to replace ukraine's top intelligence and security chief during war time. that is an essential role. so that, that's the big thing that experts are going to be watching for who comes next. the other thing here is that while a reason wasn't given by president zalinski for why he fired the prosecutor general, he said that the security breaches were the big reason why he lost confidence in his security chief, just today. ukraine's s p u head for crimea was arrested on charges of high treason and passing intelligence to russians. he is one of many high officials in the intelligence services who have been charged with these charges of collaborating with the invaders. one of the big things that, you know, prosecutor general vanity tova was mired in for much of her term, was failing to properly reform her office and
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allowing and sabotaging investigations into bribery cases and failing to properly do her executor duties. so for the prosecution of war crimes, that is one of the top priorities for ukrainians, and it's something that the international community has taken very serious interest in aiding them with. so whoever comes next, the international community is going to be trying to work with them very closely to make sure that there's no hiccup in making sure that these crimes are prosecuted. frances, on as high as state of alert for extreme temperatures in more than a dozen places. as a heat wave envelops large parts of south west europe, firefighters are trying to contain to large wildfires near the city of bordeaux. they be burning for almost a week, tearing through more than a 100 square kilometers of land. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. how can it ra soonest? what does he was still using a strategy of preventative evacuations?
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so far we've had no loss of life facing a difficult day because of the temperature, but also the changes and wind direction. and more than 30 fires, a bunny across spain, thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes, especially in the south. the country has been experiencing a week long heat wave with highs of nearly 46 degrees. and it's also been blame for hundreds of deaths. and the u. k is bracing for soaring temperatures. the next couple of days people are being warned that record heat waves could kill hundreds of people that he baba reports from london. for britain, it's a step into the unknown weather experts are putting the chance of temperatures reaching 40 celsius at 50 percent. it's never happened and it's prompted a red health warning for much of england on monday and tuesday, with the national health service warning of delayed operations and increased demands on ambulances. the government says it is taking the threat seriously. where there is a public guidance is out there. i mean, the comments and staff, rachel,
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us on cream. make sure you constantly re hydrating st out of solid peak times. i got temperature sitting 40 degrees. i think it was doubt the sun that me day when. when, when, when that's happening, despite seems like vis experts say the extreme heat over the coming days could be deadly even for healthy people. this isn't like her a lovely hot day where we can put a bit of sunscreen on and go out and enjoy a sweet manner and a meal outside. this is seriously that could actually ultimately ending in people's death because he sounds ferocious, which is not set up for that so hate in this country. climate change has been driving extreme temperatures for decades, and the heats killing more and more people here in england in the summer of 2020 more than 2 and a half 1000 excess deaths were attributed to heat waves, and they've only become more intense and more frequent since then, the british red forced predicts that the annual heat waves death toll could have
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tripled by the middle of this century. the you case meteorological of his says, climate change is greatly increased the chance of such heat waves here. and so in to say, a continued use of fossil fuels means we're already seeing what was previously projected for 2050. we're still increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which means global temperatures are increasing. and this means that this is probably something that will be around speak hall, heat life in 3 decades to come to one thing might also be to change that compensation. that actually, it's not that it's a question about life and death and not just on a global south, but also far citizens in the you can train operators a warning of delays and cancellations because of the heat there, urging people only to make his central journeys with mo, legal, maximum temperature for working the government saying it hopes employers will be flexible. the next few days could offer a glimpse of how well or how badly prepared this country is for a whole to future. nadine bob al jazeera london still had an old is either an
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investigation into a school shooting and texas find systemic failures, and the police response ada contender for the world's oldest organism in a forest of ancient trees under threat from tourists. ah. hello i welcome to another look at the international forecast penny a showers across eastern parts of southeast asia, all away from the philippines. right down to said east side of indonesia. that's where we gonna see the heavier showers over the next few days at unusual wet weather. continuing to filter its way down into indonesia. it's really sunshiny showers for the most part, for many, the usual seasonal rise, ramping up once again across indo china. so some heavy at the output coming back into vietnam into cambodia and also into thailand for
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a time. you could see. so what to whether to into northern parts of java, southern areas of sumatra got some white weather on the carts to for south eastern parts of australia, lobby sparkling of shower cloud rattling through. here. we are going to see that wet weather, just running in across pic, tore yes, southern part, sofa, you. southwell, seeing somewhat weather, much of australia. not too bad for tuesday, though as we go on into wednesday, we will see this line of cloud of rain just making its way into western parts. so some heavy array, grassy nudging in at that stage, and we will see some very heavy rains from other windy weather coming into new zealand crusher. struggling to get into double figures. let's take a look at thursday. some rudy nasty weather into the eastern side of queensland with the possibility of coastal flooding for many ah, but he got in contact
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with montgomery ideas, the french republic his long proclaimed that just would ease modern france in a 4 part series. the big picture takes an in depth no. france infocus the concluding episode on al jazeera. ah oh oh, you want to go to set a reminder of our top story? is this our protestors gathering on the streets and shall light his capital off to be into a president imposed a nationwide state of emergency. donnelly alex, i'm a sing. it says it's needed to uphold public order. ahead of parliament's election
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of a new leaders, ukraine's president bloody mister lensky suspended, his prosecutor general, and the states intelligence chief, the president says, 60 officials from the agencies are working against ukraine in russian occupied areas. france is on its high estate of a lunch for extreme temperatures and more than a dozen places. as a heat wave envelops large parts of south west to europe, firefighters are trying to contain 2 large wildfires near the city of ball do the party of pakistan's, former prime minister imran con, is dominating by elections in the region with the biggest population. a supporters have been celebrating after early results showed hans p t i party has won most of the 20 seats, helpful drugs, important job. the results could have national implications. brian minister shiver studies. muslim lea holds and not all majority in the provincial assembly come, all hider has more from the whole life. it's lonely,
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coming back to know my linda provincial capital of the fun job. and lord sticky applaud few weeks ago and didn't political activity. enron, con fargo, god drank particular, had many awards in the bi election good. that it does. now. it already got 15 of their grant. the only 14 going to budget on which emily now was and one to an independent body. it will be important now to see what happens next because it certainly has implications, but budget on political future. hebron khan of god says, maintain that the country needs an early election and that law and going to die over the phone. the next government government will have the mandate of the people in the opposition bargain are also going to have dad meet gang f. god echo committee meeting to get got their way forward. bugger, done it again in the grip of political uncertainty. and it will be important to see
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whether the government in islam about going to a gauge or bother men and agree on our date for new elections. the next few weeks will be critical, but one thing is for sure, that people of the fun job that bordered in favor of the budget on that it can data demeron cons barbie and many other additions and political wondered that now day that did a huge come back up all my prime minister odami reporting to the police response to a school shooting in texas. it says officers put their own safety over the lives of children and stuff. this is nearly released police body can footage recorded during the attack at rob elementary school in involved a. nearly $400.00 officers rushed to the scene on may 24th, but didn't do anything for more than an hour. the shooter killed 900 students and 2 teachers before he was shot dead by police. my can reports if there's only one
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thing that i can tell you is there were multiple systemic failures. the 3 members of the bipartisan texas house committee held a news conference to discuss the report. it comes just a few days after this new security camera footage was released the sound to the children screaming on, edited out. but it shows local police arriving 2 minutes after the shooting started . as you approached the classroom door, but then retreat back down the corridor, all of the shots are fired. the report is adamant that during this time offices that the federal or state level should have taken over control from the school police chief and peter redondo who was supposedly in charge at the school. once we today to redondo has taken much of the blame, but sundays reports the responsibility for the lack of action should be shared by some of the 376 law enforcement officers who had arrived,
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as well as their superiors at the command level. at a minimum there is multiple opportunities depending on the relative training and experience of law enforcement officers to at least ask more questions or offer their guidance to try to remedy the chaotic situation and make sure there was effective overall command. there was a lack of effective overall command the report also found the school safety protocols spill fall short. numerous doors were left unlocked, which allowed the gunman easy access to the classrooms in a wider context. the legislators also found that these issues were not unique to the rough elementary school where the shooting happened. that protocols not observed, created a dangerous sense of false security. let me tell you the people of the valley before this. they felt it couldn't happen here. they felt that that's the fault
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sense of security. i worry about. i think some of the same systems that we found here that failed that day or across the entire state and country. the report is dedicated to the $21.00 victims of the shooting and was given to family and friends at a meeting an hour before its public release. the reports that go home the tragic facts that law enforcement officials waited with some 75 minutes. while gunfire continued before a group of border patrol gods supplied orders on the scene and rushed in to kill the gunman. my kind of august era, washington is it all for regional sedans. slash floods have killed at least 12 people, including 2 children. more than a 100 houses have been damaged. nearly 10000 people in the country has been affected by heavy rain and floods since june. rival gangs are battling for control of haiti's capital, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk in the city would have thought it is struggling to keep control. they are and says reason gang related violence is
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killed at least 99 people in a single neighborhood called c tay. so lie urines, documented nearly a 1000 killings between january and june, almost 700 injuries, and 680 kidnappings. in puerto france, recent weeks have been especially bad, more than 230 people were killed or injured over 5 days, up until july, the 12. the real re mas is head of luck, who loved? it's a piece building organization that runs community projects for young haitians, and he explains what people in cities ally a living through. there is an attempt by some parties are connected with for humanitarian relief, to discuss our with the gangs access to the hardest part of the, the slate. however, it's not been, ah, not move. it is not been moving very fast. and the issues are still
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on know, on a battle fraud is still going on between the war again, this leg so of the people cannot get out. they cannot come in and relief is not that is not available for the people inside. see this will a right now, and now there's no water, there's no food and they not to get out. you have to go through. ah, both are battling games and no, it's not. that is not an option right now for the people in the, in the area to learn sciences. so that discovered a contender for the oldest living organism on earth. it's a tree and potter go near the cypress is nicknamed great grandfather. it's estimated to be more than 5000 years old. as part of a project is intrigued to predict changes in climate as latin america edit elissia newman reports from las vegas who it's winter in southern chile, home to the
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a legacy or patagonia in cyprus. one of the world's 2 oldest proven tree species. that's where we meet up with environmental scientists, jonathan buddy g beach from the university of paris in the, unless in national park, a unique, temperate rain forest or them. he actually grew up here, when his grandfather was a par granger, he was the one who discovered a new challenger to the world's oldest recorded non colonial tree of 4853 year old bristle con pine in california. but each of each is taking us to meet great grandfather, the nickname of the illiteracy. he estimates is almost 5500 years old. but 1st, he demonstrates the traditional method for determining the age of trees or by using a special drill or increment core to remove a 5 millimeter sample, the length of the trees radius here is you got a cor, well, you can see rings as like a barcode days then you're drawing for me to, to,
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to numbers. then with these numbers we build models of how the tree growth. unlike satellite data that goes back no more than 40 years, trees reveal earth's environment as far back as pre historic times. but each of each argues that the past can be used to predict future climate change more accurately. the core of a tree is something like a book. it tells the story, not just of the tree, but of the whole area. and the last decades, hundreds of years or thousands of years to read it, you can look at the rings. these for example, show that it was a plentiful year, they're very separated. so it means there was a lot of rain. the ones that are much closer indicates that those years were of drought. and over here, you see the scar of the tree. this means that there was a fire, but didn't dro chronologist until yoletta, who recorded a 3620 year old legacy 30 years ago,
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says indiscriminate tourism is endangering the survival of these trees. whose roots are already dangerously exposed from erosion. this is the younger alerted tree, and it was some one there. we don't know who a couple of weeks ago came. i'm you can see here like within my share the or something like that to go the bark. we don't know why, because his bure vandalism as a result of the park as now temporarily close to the public. let the forestry service made an exception to allow us to see great grandfather for ourselves. perched deep in an isolated ravine. it's an imposing majestic sight to behold, from its form meter wide trunk to its enormous exposed roots. the longest instrument available isn't long enough to reach the tree center to determine its age with the traditional method. so, but each of each has devised
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a mathematical model to fill in the gaps. but some dental chronologist aren't yet convinced. i think that it's a bit higher without having actual drink counts of the tree is that we cannot really say a bit. it's definitely the older stage. we can of course, said that it, it is amongst the oldest she is in the world, but each of each will be publishing a paper later this here defending his theory. the great grandfather is indeed 5484 years old. but i'm not worried because this is science for the planet. is science that make us to act on time to protect what is left of our planet that was once completely wild with you? he insist. the challenge is to use ancient trees to improve climate models, to determine how forests might adapt to our changing conditions. the same forests on which the future.

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