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with the cameroon. gonna chew nicea o moral cope. it's the alicia. join us for the wilco pam. down on al jazeera, for half a century. indigo, die is old by movable. what can i? so what are the last ticket? yeah, and others in northern nigeria have watched helplessly as a business struggle and becomes dissipated growth making technology has changed over time, but not at this di pete's income and it's the same that's met some of the products and competitive the dumping of chemically treated fabrics. yeah, like in most african markets, is a major source of concern for local producers or is widespread consent here. but so even the few kits that are made also to close bringing an end to more than 500 years history. ah.
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soaring heats triggers, devastating wildfires in europe, parts of the u. k. are bracing for their hottest day on record. ah, i don't know about this and this is 0 live from doha. also coming up, i more protest on the streets of sher lanka. i was the acting president imposes another state of emergency. ukraine's president suspends the spy chief, and i top prosecutor accusing the stuff of collaborating with russia. i, bouncing back to the party of pakistan's austin, prime minister in con, wins a crucial bi election. ah
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frances, on its highest state of alarm for extreme temperatures in more than a dozen places, as a heat wave enveloped large pots of south west europe, south of bog, dove firefighters are trying to contain 2 large wildfires. they've been burning for almost a week. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate when it was also easy. we're still using a strategy of preventative evacuations. so far we've had no loss of life facing a difficult day because of the temperature, but also the changes and wind direction. more than 35 burning across spain, the thousands of people have had to leave their homes, especially in the south. but he's been blamed for hundreds of deaths and authorities in the u. k. a warning temperatures and parts of england could break records in the coming hours. people are being urged to take precautions as a mac. american revise is beyond 38 degrees celsius. the match officer says tuesday could be even hotter, potentially hitting 40 degrees celsius. for the 1st time we're rolling challenges
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live for us in london. how is the u. k coping laurie? well hi park of is usually pretty green, but you can see this broad expanse of beige behind me shows he not as how hot it is at the moment, but also how dry it has been in these famously usually damp and titty isles. we are expecting reco temperatures either today or tomorrow, tuesday, for it gets to the record breaking levelly would have to pass 38.7 degrees. and as you just said, their temperature could be heading up to 40 or 41 perhaps, or over the next couple of days. so essentially the u. k is bringing in a kind of national emergency really an unprecedented read extreme health warning, which is making sure that people do their best to stay out of the sun.
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and there are various measures being put in place. some schools are either closing early today or not opening. it's all there is a going to be a speed restrictions on transport networks like the, the train network, one big part of the rail network from london at till the northern cities of leads and york not gonna be operating at all to morrow. because affairs that the read the tray, the rails themselves might buckle in the heat in the course, are expecting more ambulance call outs, as, as people really struggle in these temperatures. this is the kind of thing though, that with global warming is expected become more and more frequent, even in countries like the u. k. rory, bear with me just for a 2nd because i want to talk to the viewers about how hot this has been in the past . it's been hot before new. okay. but it's been nothing like there's way back in 1911 america. we pushed 36.7 degrees. that record wasn't broken for another 79 years and that old changed starting with
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a heat wave in 1990 since then. the u. k is recorded, 9 of its hotter stays, and almost all of those have happened since 20 o 3, rory. let's come back to you. i want to find out from you what the government is advising people to do about how it's able to cope with this. it wave what the main advice is, don't do anything as silly as what i'm doing. don't stand out in the blazing sunshine. seek shade be inside if, if you can stay hydrated, put sunscreen on. if you're going out, don't go on the rail network. i'm afraid of done that as well today, so i'm not scoring very highly in the checklist of things that the government is telling you not to do. but sir, this brought this country is not well set up for, for these kind of temperatures. if you look around the buildings, you can't see any behind me at the moment, but you, what you don't see are, are all those clusters of, of air conditioning units on the side of houses and buildings that you do see in many hot countries. because there just isn't usually the need for them. and in the
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u. k, the temperature doesn't often get this hot summer temperatures, mostly hover around 202122 degrees centigrade. the, the rail systems are not built or with the kind of redundancy that you would need to have in place to cope with soaring temperatures. so i was speaking to an engineer earlier on a guest on the, on the program in the, in the last hour. it was saying that the country has a big task ahead of itself because lots of the infrastructure here was built in the last century or, or, or even the century before that. so retro fitting it to cope with a warming world is going to be very expensive. building new systems, new rail networks, et cetera, et cetera that are, are going to have to anticipate even higher temperatures is also going to be expensive. it's a kind of thing though, that the u. k is going to have to tackle if it, if it's got a deal with her or a world in which the temperature is creeping up and up and up. laurie for now. thank you very much. it is rory challenge talking to us from london as far as
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vernon, france, and spain, german farmers on alina bell, ball cold climate change, the world's biggest security problem. berlin is hosting representatives from some 20 or 40 countries for the petersburg climate to dialogue which many hope will lead the way to a successful cop 27 being held in egypt in november. we are working hard to host at petersburg that put us on track for a successful comp 27 global circumstances are not making this an easy task. russia, suave aggression against ukraine is except for aging, a global energy and food crisis. that is pushing millions into poverty, hunger and starvation. and while we are still rambling with the fallout from the pandemic, the impacts of climate change are becoming even more dangerous across the world.
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natasha about her standing by for us in paris or france in its highest state of alert for 10 temperatures in more than a dozen places talkers through what is like there. oh, yes. well it is already extremely hot and we are early in the day. his temperature is expected to climb to over 40 degrees celsius in many parts of france, including even in britain, in a north of the country and area which is normally known for its very cool weather. they could see reco breaking temperatures there. today, the french government, in several parts of the country on red alert, is activated emergency a heat wave system that was something that was put in place in 2000 to 3, all 3 heat wave to thousands of people die because of it back then. since then, the government is really put in place a system which alerts people who are coming. he's waving advisors, people to be extremely vigilant, to stay in the shade to keep cool hydrated all the thought of things that you would
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expect here in paris therapy. the said and done, of course it is a very dense city. it is extremely bill top people are trying to find shady park for or by the river. some people even jumping into the river, which normally they don't do. others have managed to escape the city, but that's simply not possible for everyone. we're speaking in fact to a climate experts show a while ago. and she said that she feels with governments not just in from but in europe and around the world really need to do a lot more to take on board. the changes in temperatures that we're seeing through what she says is obviously for her climate change because it has to be said that he weighs in faults and not uncommon. bev always be waves, but in the past, they were separated. usually by a few. here is what we're seeing now is very intense heat wave, but really come quite frequently. this is the 2nd intense heat wave in just a few weeks. and it's actually just as you've been talking to us, looking at some of the pictures that are coming at least in part from the wildfires that we were talking about in southern france,
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bring this up today with what we know about the situation there. very difficult situation for fire fighters in the south, west from 0 to region. they've been battling blazes now for a several days. very hard. dry weather, exacerbating the situation for the firefighters for the emergency services, more than 10000 people have been evacuated from the area. this is a part of frogs and very popular at the time of year with torres with holiday makers. it is by the sea where people have had to leave the camp site, leave their homes because the wildfire is there. more than a $1005.00 fighters want to be deployed to the area of the cross that are dropping water over as well. what we understand though, is there might be some respite. now for the 5 forces in the coming days, because temperatures in the area all supposed to drop over 10 degrees from tomorrow . natasha. thank you very much. indeed. latasha bottle, bringing years up to date from pass and scorching temperatures and intense drugs in
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northern morocco of ignited fires, least one persons being killed. the fires have been fined by strong winds and they forced more than 1000 families to be evacuated. adomonion ronnie is in lashed province. he says most of the fires have been contained usually in this part of morocco. in this time of the year, the average temperature is like today $27.00 degrees centigrade. but the last week since a week, it said the temperature was above 40 degrees, which i started a lot of fires in this region where we have this forest or this is thought of actually a big, sort of national for the stretches all the way from, from the shores of the atlantic oceans, which it, which is about to move 5 kilometers to a, to the west, to all the way to the east, to the reef mountains. i,
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we are talking about an area of estimated size of about 161616000 more than 16000 square kilometers. are searching all over 5 provinces and the, the 2 we have a forest here of oak trees, sell our trees and all the, the fires that started the same way. the ones that we've seen, we've seen in southern europe in countries like portugal or spain. and so right now, the 5 big fires have been and the control and the fire men are struggling, you know, like to, to keep it within a sort of perimeter. and due to finish a, the, a, the, the put in it's a weight. shall anchors, interim president, ronald wicker must sing that has imposed a state of emergency. in an effort to ward off protests, i had of the election of a new leader. some protests are converging on the streets, the capital, colombo parliaments, in the process of choosing
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a new president. after got have i elijah parkson, resigned in flight the country last week. the government issued a number of emergency declarations since april and protest started over the worst economic crisis and decades. when al fernandez has the latest from the lumber. given the sort of crucial days that we're heading into, it's quite obvious that acting present ronald vicar, missing her, is kind of arming himself with as many tools as possible to deal with the obvious expected backlash of from protesters. i mean for months on end, we had the campaign, a go to go home campaign, obviously, to see the exit of the man who occupied the building behind me, the presidential secretariat that was present, gotta be roger boxer. ultimately, when he didn't go a heating all those protests for months and months, hundreds of thousands of people are essentially converged on the presidential palace and of the, overran the palace, forcing him to beat a hasty exit,
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flee the country on a military flight. so i ran over grimacing obviously wants the military and the police to have as many tools as possible to stop this kind of protest. and essentially also have them stifle dissent. i detain people stop gatherings and things like that. ahead of that crucial election of the president by parliamentarians on wednesday, the 20th still had an al jazeera for an investigation into his school. should he in texas funny systemic failures and the police response and are concerned for the world's oldest organism in a forest of ancient trees under sprites, from tourism. ah, richard, he has begun the faithful world copies on its way to cattle. brooke, your travel package today. hello,
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we got some rather heavy rain on the cards for south career over the next couple of days. got this little polls if cloud hill tied up with the seasonal where rain, that's going to continue to strive its way further eastward. pushing into that western side of japan, some heavy downpours localized, but it's certainly a possible if you follow that line of wet weather to central parts of china. weather next, the pulse of heavy rain will push through as we go one into wednesday. so pushing up for the northeast of china, running across see its yellow sea and it will eventually make its way towards the korean peninsula. not too bad ahead of that, sir. hot enough in that tokyo, with a top temperature of around 35 degrees. and we're looking at some pretty wet weather to across western parts of india at the moment. pushing up towards a good or right to was a north, west, southeastern parts of pakistan, also seeing some very heavy rain. maria, protesting the heaviest rain as we go through tuesday, perhaps into work wednesday. then that wet,
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whether we'll just start to push its way a little further north, which through the northern plains you go on into thursday and us up around the foothills of the himalayas. pushing up towards the pool where we will see the wet weather easing up towards the north east of india. it will be hard to work more than passing matchup dash returning dryer or on much of the rest and gets cats are air weight, official airline of the journey housing has become a commodity instead of a human rights. thank you. somebody with the ability to take advantage of others, the elite feel free to violate basic laws, the working classes that have lost a lot of ground in our society. a un special reporter on adequate housing travels the world, investigating a global crisis, as people are evicted to clear the way for investors and properties too often left empty. push a witness documentary on al jazeera. ah
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ah, we want to know to 0 mind over told stories this our france is on its highest state of alert for extreme temperatures in more than a dozen places. as a heat wave envelops, launch parks of southwest europe firefighters are trying to contain to lodge wildfires. near the city of ball bill authorities in the u. k. a warning temperatures and parts of england could break records in the coming hours. people are being urged to take precautions as a back and revises beyond 38 degrees celsius. protesters are gathering on the streets since july, cuz it's capital out to the interim president imposed on nationwide state of emergency on l. wickham and signing. it says it's needed to uphold public order. ahead of parliament's election of a new leader,
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ukraine's president has suspended 2 of his most senior law enforcement figures because of hundreds of cases of alleged treason and collaboration with russia. it comes as moscow's ramped up, it's offensive in the side for the east to with at least 6 people killed in torrents. allan fisher reports from keith. joe, you into the biggest shakeup and present the landscape leadership team since the start of the war. i didn't of indic tova was the prosecutor general ivan ballot called headed the internal security agency. both have been suspended. president lensky says, $651.00 cases of treason. people working with the russians are being investigated in their offices. and both could face being fired by parliament. he must lodge any such an array of crimes against the foundations of the states national security and the links recorded between ukrainian security force officials and russians. special services presents very serious questions about their respective leader. each of
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these questions receive a proper response. today i've taken the decision to dismiss the general prosecutor and the head of ukrainian security serv. well, there's no suggestion that either figure was actively working against ukraine. instead. this is more a question of accountability, a failure of leadership, and their respective departments. back it was a childhood friend of the president. he was involved in the entertainment industry and his appointment to run internal security was a surprise when the russians moved into cason elleon, the war that was seen as a huge intelligence failure by his department. over the weekend, dozens attended the funeral of a 4 year old killed in the fighting. these at the mid 3 died when rockets hit that he'd see a last week. a body was found in the rubble. she is the latest child victim of a war, which according to new figures from the united nations, has claimed more than 5020 civilian lives, 300 of them children, and seen more than 6520 people winded this as towns and cities across the south and
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east woke up to the sound of war moving into it's 21st week. alan fisher, i'll just either keep a dime a report in the police responds to a school shooting in texas says officers put their own safety over the lives of children and staff. this is newly released police body can footage recorded during the attack involved elementary school in involved a nearly 400 officers rushed to the scene of may 24th, but they 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 cana reports, if there's only one 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 sounds of the
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children screaming on editor doubt, but it shows local police arriving 3 minutes after the shooting started. as you approach 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 today to redondo has taken much of the blame, but sundays reports his responsibility for the lack of action should be shared by some of the 376 law enforcement officers who had arrived, as well as their superiors at a 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
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a lack of effective overall command the report also found the school safety protocols fell far 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 full security. let me tell you, the people of you value before this. they felt it couldn't happen here. they felt that that's the fault 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 report that go home the country,
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the 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 audience era, washington, i guns open fire at a shopping mall in the u. s. state of indiana, killing 3 people. police in the city of greenwood say the gunman was shot dead by a civilian. taca was armed with a rifle and several magazines by munition 2 people were injured. the body of pakistan's, former prime minister, even on con, is dominated by elections in the region, but the biggest population is supporters have been celebrating often results showed cons, p t i party has one most of the 20 seats up for grabs and punjab the results put of national implications. prime minister ship shot, east muslim league holds and not a majority in the provincial assembly. come all hider has more from the whole knife
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edge lolia coming back to know my linda provincial capital of the one job. and lord sticky applaud. few weeks ago and didn't, wouldn't take a leg devotee, enron con 40 what god drank particular had many awards in the bi election. good. that it now, it already got 15 of the great it did only for the going to budget done with them now was and want to an independent body. it will be important now to see what happened next. it got this certainly had implications, but budget on political future, embryonic on of god has been saying that the country needs an early election and that a load going to die over the phone. the next government government will have the mandate of the people, the opposition party are also going to have a meeting for that goal committee meeting. forget got their way forward. budget on 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 gate or not bother me and agree on that date for new election. 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 focused on that in the gym, ron funds, barbie, and many other additions and political pundits are now day that this is a huge comeback auto form of prime minister. the foreign minister of south korea and japan as hell, talks in tokyo, in an effort to been proved diplomatic ties between the 2 countries, souls park gin has been meeting yasu masa, hayashi of japan, south korean officials, hope the high level visit will restore diplomatic talks that have installed for more than 4 years. the 2 countries have failed to come to an agreement on a range of issues including war, time, forced labor during japan's occupation to export controls. in that are for region
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of saddam flash floods have killed at least 12 people, including 2 children. more than a 100 highs is, would be damaged in the 10000 people in the country have been affected by heavy rain and floods since june. july, and scientists say they have discovered a contender for the oldest living organism on earth. it's a tree in patter, go near the cypress is nicknamed great grandfather. it's estimated to be more than 5000 years old as part of a project using trees to predict changes in climate as a latin america editor, alysia human reports from los legos who it's winter inserting chile home to the 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 benny chip each 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
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a park ranger, 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 a letter, say he estimates is almost 5500 years old. that 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. if you got a cor, well you can see it rings as like a bar code days, then you're drawn for me to, to, to numbers. then with this number we build models of how the tree growth. i'm like 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
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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 ears were of drought. and over here you see the scar of the tree. this means that there was a fire, but dental chronologist, antonio laira, who recorded a 3620 year old legacy 30 years ago, 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 and you can see here like within my shady or something
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like that, took out the bark. we don't know why because it is pure vandalism. as a result, the park is now temporarily closed to the public mud 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 4 meter wide trunk to its enormous exposed roots. the longest instrument available isn't long enough to reach the trees center to determine it's age with the traditional method. so, but each of each has devised 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 that it's definitely the oldest is we can of course, said that it is amongst the oldest she is in the world,
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but each of each will be publishing a paper later this year, 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 while ignoring you. if you 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 of humanity also depends. lucy, in human al jazeera last lateral sewage in kitty dozens of german fishermen and women have put down their nets and taken up long wooden poles. in spite of adjusting competition that takes place every 5 years on.
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