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europe battles with wildflowers and reco temperature as, as leaders struggle to keep climate commitments on track. and while we are still traveling with the fallout from the pandemic, the impacts of climate change are becoming even more dangerous across the world. ah, monetary johnston, this is al jazeera, well live from. so also coming up i for that, cuz protests as demand, real change as parliament proposed to select the country's new preston, ukraine's the president suspends the spy chief, and the top prosecutor accusing their stuff of collaborating, russia. i been bouncing back the policy of hockey stones ousted prime minister iran calm wins crucial bi election.
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ah, europe is in the grip of a record breaking heat wave is fueling. wildfire is causing heat related deaths, notting infrastructure and forcing countries to reckon with a hot future. urgency crews are struggling to control fires, being spread by strong winds, dr. agitation and record high temperatures. so nuclear has more. ah, battling to control the inferno across spain. it's a race against time to contain wild fires that have been raging out of control from the south to the north where blazes have scorched thousands of hackers of land over the past few days. to do it, even train journeys have been thwarted by the west wildfires in a decade in
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a visit to one of the worst affected areas. spain's prime minister pedro sanchez made clear what he thought was to blame, issued out a bit of louder. i want to say that evidently climate change kills a persona, it kills people or kills the ecosystem, the bio diversity. and it also destroy the most precious goods of our society, which is affected by these wildfires, homes, businesses and livestock for a story in the house and southwest france. fire fighters were using every means at their disposal. including controlled burning, a tactic used to clear out the build up of flammable materials by igniting the surrounding vegetation. and it is a matter of urgency since tuesday the blazes have already consumed forests, and as you horned region, thousands of residents and tourists alike have been forced to move to emergency shelters. amid all this is the uncomfortable reality of the effect that
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these record breaking high temperatures as delegates from 40 countries gathered at the petersburg climate dialogue and berlin. the message from the hosts acts now before it's too late, we mustn't one's longer mind. we must intensify our mutual efforts and that's why we and the german government moved climate foreign policy to the foreign ministry in order to contain the centuries. biggest security threat on an international level equalization heights give for a threat that risk spilling out beyond countries directly affected sony. diego al jazeera was zane boz ravi has more from western spain on how the spanish are being hit by the soaring temperatures. this is one of the driest periods in this part of europe, by some studies estimates in the last 1000 years were here just west of the
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capital, the spanish capital madrid, about 2 hours from madrid about an hour's drive from the border with portugal. these 2 countries make up the barry and peninsula and a lack of precipitation, a lack of rain, as well as record temperatures record heat in this part of europe has made a fighting fires. wildfires which are a natural occurrence in this part of the region. it's made fighting those fires much more difficult. i'm just going to step out a frame to show you the extent of the devastation that happens. what we're seeing here is a valley in the area of a village called a cost us dim mira vet a and all we can see as far as to horizon valley. after valley hill, after hill is just charge black earth, what's left is just unburned shrubs and very little vegetation, very little green remains. now this place has been under a wildfire warning for the last 2 or 3 days. and there have been fire rescue
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teams on the ground with water trucks, as well as water bombing airplanes, and water bombing helicopters in the air around the clock. a dip in the heat, a sort of lessening of the heat in the last day or so has allowed teams to put out many of the fires. but they are continue to douse these areas with water from the ground and from the air. in an effort to try to damp the soil to make sure that wildfires don't restart, which is a real possibility. as record temperatures are expected to continue in the u. k. authorities or warning at temperatures in parts of england could break records in the coming days. the countries infrastructure is struggling to cope. andrew simmons reports from london going slow or getting cancelled. britain's well services on the brink of failure as much of the countries infrastructure can't cope with searing. temperatures. make shift foil used on steel bridges in an attempt to deflect the
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heat, road surfaces beginning to melt more alarming voluntary ambulance stuff, trying to back up an already fully stretched national health service, dealing with heat related emergencies. and in london, if you get out of the sun and go on the ground, it's even worse. so why is it that britain can cope with heat waves? so much of it to do with it's outdated in another good infrastructure is called with extreme temperatures, payroll and you don't even have positioning. there is some past just can't see what the fuss is about. 3536 degrees. people pay money to go to places with that and those places don't ever conditioning either. yeah. so you basically think it's over the top. yeah. but american tourist isn't
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impressed. it gets as high regularly, but we have air conditioning everywhere and everything's set up for it to be that hides my from in the weather is just fine with the increasing threat of extreme weather events caused by global warming. many civil engineers believe countries like the u. k need to invest much more. the u. k is seen the impact of climate change and not as much as other countries are in the world. and therefore perhaps the urgency is nurse felt as much as he should, that they got big really big task in hand. and they should be starting on it right now. well, now that sense of urgency is beginning to rise along with the temperature setting, new records all across the u. k. andrew simmons, al jazeera london or a challenge that has more now from the you case capitol. this is a country,
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there's no use to this sort of thing. they, the governments have put out an extreme red or heat health warning. essentially it's been something akin to a national emergency. there are various measures that are being put in place around the country to try to make sure that people don't get ill. don't get sick, that the infrastructure copes as well as possible. so the trout transport network that the tri network there are go slow speed limitations on parts of it. that there is a section of the line between the london and the northern cities of leads and york . i wish we shut completely to borrow because they're scared that the that, that the rails will buckle by so be worked safely. be able to carry trains who got an operating theatres scaling back on operations because they can't keep those operating theatres cool enough. and schools are, some of them are either closing early today or, or not opening at all. so there are various measures put in place to try and get the country through this unprecedented he, by force. this is
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a country that is so used to this kind of thing that's, you know, people don't have air conditioning units as a standard in their homes. they're on air conditioning units, a standard in small and medium businesses or small shops, etc. or the travel network, the systems, the infrastructure that this country is p as in place, has not been built to cope with extreme temperatures because they just didn't happen very often. now that they are happening much more frequently, the countries going to have to make changes expensive changes. it's going to have to retrofit system so that they can cope and it's gonna have to future proof as it did new systems that are coming online to make sure that as the world heats up, they can make sure that people can get about safely. wildfires in northern morocco spoke by high temperatures, an intense drought had been contained, but at least one person was killed. more than a 1000 families were evacuated. the funds are up to the number of provinces including the rush hour to zeros, abdomen,
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him and ronnie's there with the latest. this forest here is called missouri and it is located in the province of flowers in the north west of morocco. it is part of a national form that stretches from the atlantic ocean, which is 5 kilometers away to the west, up to the reef. mountains located to that direction, about a 100, a 150 kilometers. as you can see, the fire fighters are still working in this forest in order to avoid that the, the fire that this toilet be re ignited again because of the windy weather because of the hot weather. this part of morocco have rear just at some heat wave temperatures as high as 40 degrees in the last days, which is not normal in this region, which has basically immediate uranian,
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whether the one like in southern france or southern spain or in portugal. but the spite of that there is a heat wave that has destroyed up to now more than 6000 acres of forest and northwestern morocco to lancaster acting president, has imposed a state of emergency as a country prepares to choose a successor. to go to bar roger pack. so for leading lawyers have asked for the emergency order to be revoked, saying it suppresses freedom of expression and dissent. and all finances reports from colombo. i 1st it was present, gotta be roger boxer. now protestors want his replacement gone outside the country, central railway station. they demonstrated calling for acting, president, running vicar, missing her to resign. he was here, brother,
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are your boxes. you want to say i got the right about her rudo history. we want to or you want to hear god, the roger ah, a bribery and also corruption, weaker, missing, have is voted out of parliament. at the last general elections, he returned as an mp with a single seat allocated to his party. on wednesday parliament will choose the successor to go to obey raj boxer the raj, epoxy party, the s l p. p. has said it to a back vicar, missing her very polite or bring oh roger box, robert bar, roger bunker last will become a resident. that's why we are both lanelle dawn, dawn, try a door, bring granny last brussard i'm. it will be a big, big, big demonstration in the country. such warnings from did vicar missing had to declare a state of emergency. on sunday, it gives police and the military more power to detain and arrest protest is. but
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that is in deterring the demonstrators from rep bill my deal. now, nearly a deal full days instead of images has been declared and go for use as we declare. but people came to the struggle, people came to the road and they say slogans. and they are protesting. they're, they're never scared of this or suppressed, i think of missing has largely ignored the criticism appear, kick and not to whittle their ela. do we fight each other? and destroy the country or do our parties work together peacefully and rebuild discovery. that is the most important political question we faced to be on the ship on a friday as parliamentarians get ready to choose a successor, to present go to bed, roger parsa on wednesday. there are increasing cause like this for them to remember . they represent the people not themselves. minute fernandez, ojo 0 colombo seller heads on al jazeera and investigation into a school shooting in texas fines. systemic failures,
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police response ah hello, we've got more right on the cards for the robin peninsula. we got a massive cloud just around our mom pushing towards the straight of moose showers. they're easing into southern parts of amman, eastern areas of amman, as while longer specified. and always the possibility of some like less study as a result of that, me so much whether to into yemen, but further north it is generally try 50 death. baghdad, plenty of heat around a rathermore countable 40 damascus, $3132.00. therefore, beirut and for jerusalem, then a similar picture as we go on 3, where does they so lot of hot and dry weather in that dry weather cool, stretching across northern parts of africa, heat there for cairo at 41 celsius 30. therefore algiers. really heavy rain into
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western parts of africa. can a fossil could see some rather larvae shout possibility localized starting some where to weather, to pushing out the sierra leone eating up towards cynical over the next day or so. again, a possibility of some flooding south of the equator, a lot of dry weather around. once again we have got some showers. welcome. as i suspected eastern parts of kenya as widespread, it was heavy as we'd like to see one or 2 showers to just coming in to tan's and there for a time. more than parson made that big scene, some showers with showers to madagascar. ah frank assessments. it sounds like you don't expect anything to change the problem in lebanon. it's actually structural lebanon, need and use of contract in order for it to solve this problem. informed opinions on the is my security and asking me, is a government house knowledge to be seen in depth analysis of the data global
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headlines? this is going to be very hard for people to explain to the public that instead of pushing back, no, it's actually got to be members inside story on al jazeera. ah ah, you with al jazeera reminder about top stories. now, the testers have been on the streets in lancaster capital off to the interim. the president imposed a nationwide state of emergency. vic, grimacing up, says it needed to uphold public order ahead of parliament selection of a new leader. wild fonts, fuel by extremely hot temperatures or scorching parts of southern europe. thousands of people have been evacuated in france. spain is coated with 30 separate fines. as
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those fires burn german foreign minister lena bear book described climate change as wells biggest security property. berlin is hosting representatives from summit 40 countries, petersburg climate doc. for the last few hours, several towns in western france have reported their highest ever temperatures attach. butler is in paris with more on the heat wave that rather than surprisingly not many people are braving the heat at the foot of the eiffel tower record breaking temperatures expected in many. paul france including in the north in brittany, an area that is no usually for very cool climate. now the french government have put several regions on red alert, so they have advised people to be extremely vigilant. they've rolled out the heat wave emergency plan advising people to stay at home, stay in the shade, and keep
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a very hydrated in the it's not for the heat wave on coming in from the usually. there are several years apart climate change experts say that because of the changing temperatures, what we are seeing is heat wave for the more intense and more frequent this heat wave. in fact, is the 2nd one in just a few weeks. well, all this is making the situation in the south where the froth particularly difficult. there. thousands of fire fighters are trying to tackle blazes that have destroyed a lot of forest. thousands of people have been evacuated from camp sites from holiday homes. it is mary a very popular with for it, but some fruit fight is on the horizon. say, meteorologist because temperatures there are expected to drop in the next few days by more than 10 degrees celsius. the heat wave is prompting at some to call for changes to public infrastructure rebecca prices and assistant professor at the faculty of industrial design engineering at belt university of technology. she says something more trees is one sure way to make cities more distant to the effects of
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kind of change any city or setting of experiencing heat waves as extreme as we're seeing across europe. right now we really got to treat that as a humanitarian issue, not just a climate issue. so the immediate action is we have a crowd on our hands and acknowledging that today and making sure that we're taking care of citizens in terms of dealing with heat in our cities, in combat, in climate change. the most immediate thing we can do after you know, addressing current crisis today and over the next few days is to increase the, the green infrastructure in our city. and by that i mean to increase the canopy, cover of trees, parks, greenwald, and green grades in cities. and what, what this actually does is it reduces the temperature, the federal compet, and also the surface temperature of our to be, to make it more livable. not example into written in italy, they really have,
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you know, a concise brain infrastructure strategy in place where they're conscious and they've mapped the green spaces in the green system if you like. in that city, they see trees and green space is much like roads, you know, it's civil infrastructure that actually help citizens be safe during heat waves. but also plug another exam would be the city of melvin and it's trailer, which again just really treat brain infrastructure as comparable as equivalent to you know, great, great civil infrastructure that you, you'd find in cities. if you look at the extended environmental services of trees and green spaces, it's not just compet, it's also quality. it's also improving drainage during flooding events and extreme rain events. so this is kind of really whole set of environmental services that paid dividend entirely. it's, it's just that you know,
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that initial investment that initial push is really difficult. the policy of pakistan's, former prime minister, iran con, has won the most seats and elections in the countries. most of this region is support says, i've been celebrating and print job results. i mean that prime minister chavez sheriff's muslim league has lost it now in the, in the provincial, if somebody has more from the whole life. it's lonely. coming back to know my linda provincial capital of the one job in law or do you recall? and then when you take a leg devotee, enron con, 40, what god drank particular many awards in the bi election. good. that it now, it already got 15 of the great, the only for the going to budget done with family now was and one to and independent body. it will be important now to see what happened next. it got this
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certainly had implications, but budget on political future. hebron khan of god has been saying that the country needs an early election and that a load going to died over the phone. the next government or government relies the mandate of the people, the opposition party. they're also going to have a meeting. they have gotten that goal committee meeting to discuss their way forward. budget don it again in the grip of political uncertainty. and it will be important to see whether the government in islam abroad is going to a gate or not bother men. and they 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 buckets on that it can get them wrong. fund sparky, and many politicians and political pundits are now day that this is a huge comeback. auto form of prime minister
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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 with most kevin ramp top. it's offensive in the south and east with at least 6 people killed into risk. and in fishing reports from keith, going into the biggest shakeup in present. zelinski is 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 use a lot of such an array of crimes against the foundations of the states national security and the links recorded between ukrainian security force officials and russian special services presents very serious questions about their respective
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leader. each of 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 is 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 and of 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 carson early in 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. lisa dmitri eva 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
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6520 people wounded. this as towns and cities across the se, walk up to the sound of war, moving into its 21st week. and fisher, i'll just either give the world health organization has declared at the 1st outbreak of marburg virus in garner. the highly infectious disease is similar to a bona garners health service, confirmed 2 people died of the virus in june. 98 to close contacts are being monitored and quarantined. virus comes from fruit bats and is a spread between people. and they come into contact with infected bodily fluids. now a, damming at rapport tend to the police response to a school shooting in texas says officers put their own safety above the lives of children. and staff is says newly released to police body count footage recorded during the attack at ward elementary school in val day. now the $400.00 officers were at the scene of the attack in may, but waited more than an hour before confronting the gunman. 19 children and 2
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teachers were killed. mike, hannah 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 sound to the children screaming on, edit the doubt. but it shows local police arriving 3 minutes after the shooting started. if you approached the cloth from 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 this responsibility for the lack of action should be shared by
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some of the 376 law enforcement officers who had arrived, as well as their superiors at a command level. at a minimum there was 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 would not unique to the ross elementary school where the shooting happened. that protocols not observed, created a dangerous sense, awful, security. let me tell you the people of the valley before this. they felt it
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couldn't happen here. they felt that that's the false sense of security are 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, a report that drove home the tragic fact that law enforcement officials waited for some 75 minutes. while gunfire continued before, a group of border patrol gods to fight orders on the scene and rushed in to kill the gunman. mike hannah al jazeera washington were a gunman has opened fire at a shopping mall in the us state of indiana, killing 3 people. police in the city of greenwood say the gunman was shot dead by civilian. the attacker was armed with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition. 2 people were injured is when
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a strong earthquake in afghanistan, the 2nd tremor in less than a month. officials say one person was injured in 16 houses damaged by the quake in the eastern pac take a province. late last month, a massive earthquake in the same region killed more than 1100 people. the foreign ministers of south korea and japan of held talks in tokyo in an effort to improve diplomatic ties. south korean officials hope the high level meeting between the park jin and japan's yoshi, myself, i ashy. will restore diplomatic talks stalled for over 4 years. dozens of german fishermen and women have put down their nets since taken up long wooden poles. is part of a jousting competition that takes place every 5 years on lake storm bird. it dates back 5 centuries. men and women battle it out by knocking opponents off their boats . whatever's left standing takes home a trophy and the title of fisher king.

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