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motivate. and in 5 years, he's opening an area that a blind person never thought they can do on al jazeera ah, burning through fields, forests, mountains, wild, far scorch, france and spain. as parts of europe bake under extreme temperatures, we've seen truly apocalyptic scenes. the flames are just taking over suddenly, entire areas, a foreign land, entire buildings filled with animals. and the worst is yet to come for the u. k with tuesday expected to be one of the hottest days ever. ah, i'm all about this and this is all the 0 live from doe hob, also coming up oh anger in sir lanka against the acting president who's in the running to lead the country. and. busy
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for the prosecutor said the man behind the 2018 parkland school shooting should be sentenced to death. ah, we're going to begin in europe. what a scorching heat wave record, temperatures and raging wild fires are risking lives and strengthening homes. fall as far as in france, greece, portugal and spain. i've destroyed thousands of hacked hares of land. the u. k. ireland and belgium are among several nations reporting, unusually hot days. odyssey correspondence reporting from different hot spots on the continent. andrew simmons is in london, and natasha bothers in paris. first, this report by zane bush ave in spain, just outside one of the worst affected areas. zamora ah, battling to control the inferred across spain. it's
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a race against time to contain wild fires that have been raging out of control from the south of the country to the north where blazes have scorched 4600 hector's, of land over the past few days. from doing trained journeys also thwarted by the worst wildfires for a decade in a visit to one of the worst affected areas, spain's prime minister pedro sanchez, made clear what he thought was to blame. you did have it that lot of, i want to say the evidently climate change kills on it, kills people, kills the ecosystem, the bio diversity. and it also destroy the most precious goods of ah, society, which is affected by these wildfires, homes, businesses and livestock board where here in a farming area in an agricultural area near the town of morrow, one of the worst effective parts of spain where the wildfires have been raging for
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days and we see truly apocalyptic scenes. the flames are just taking over suddenly the entire areas of farmland, entire buildings filled with animals and farming equipment. people are trying to use harvesters to dig fire lies to stop the fire where it is, but it continues to rage on and take over more and more. land is just using it as fuel burning. further and faster in southwest france, firefighters were using every means at their disposal, including controlled burning, a tactic, use 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 thousands of hector's, of forests in the payroll and region and thousands of residents and tourist alike, forced to move to emergency shelters. amid all this is the uncomfortable
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reality of the effect of record breaking high temperatures. as delegates from 40 countries gathered at the petersburg climate dialogue in berlin. the message from the hosts act now before it's too late. and while we are still grappling with the fall out from the pandemic, the impacts of climate change are becoming even more dangerous across the world. ah, a threat that risk spilling out beyond countries directly affected zane bus robbie olga 0 zamora, spain in france. meteorologist say the south west is going through our heat, apocalypse latasha buffers in paris with more on the heat wave. their splashing in a fountain helped some people cope has temperatures saud in paris at the peak of a heat wave that began nearly a week ago. as people looked for ways to cool down this ice cream shop in the
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center of the city, proved a popular choice, a refreshing break on a sweltering day. due to me that i tried to stay hydrated and because i have a sweet tooth, i eat ice cream, good young families, reclose the windows and choices at home while it's hot. on the banks of a canal, some soul shaded a temporary beach and a chance to get in on the water. some people have wrecked paris to avoid paying in the city during the cold way. others are unable to and some people simply can't afford to, particularly because of inflation for facilities like this really offer a welcome respite. children manion, for those of us who don't have much money to go and holiday, it's great. it's hard and expensive to entertain. children all summer in paris, but he, what they can enjoy the water. it was a much bleak, a picture in the south west of the country. days of hot, dry weather have exacerbated the situation for fire fighters who are battling
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wildfires. the french government is urged people to remain vigilant and put most of the country on high alert. but as heat waves become more frequent, this campaigner says the government needs to do more to tackle climate change. we had asthma to hit way in 15. yes. that in 45 years, so we see an increase in the intensity of in the frequency. and my trust right now is in the citizen power. so in us managing to put additional and sufficient pressure on of our, on our governments. so they finally take action meteorologist say, temperatures should fall in the coming days until then people will have to endure the intense heat will trying to escape it the best they can. natasha butler al jazeera paris in the u. k. temperatures could break records over the next 24 hours . people are being urged to be extra careful is under simmons reporting from london
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going slow or getting cancelled. britain's rail 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, an attempt to deflect the heat, road surfaces, beginning to melt more alarming voluntary ambulance doff, 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 for why is it that britain can't cope with heat waves? so much bits to do with it's outdated in another good infrastructure. this call comes with extreme temperatures, payroll london with his local some past just can't see what the fuss is about. 3536
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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. and american tourist isn't impressed. it gets this high regularly, but we have listening everywhere and everything is set up for it to be that hot. i from the in the weather is just fine. with the increasing threats 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 the seen the impact of climate change and not as much as other countries in the world. and therefore, perhaps the urgency is nurse felt as much as issued that they got a 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,
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new records all across the u. k. andrew simmons, al jazeera london shlang, his parliament will sought electing a new president in the coming hours midst likely of what's going to be held on wednesday. i think president ronald was from a singer, is one of the candidates, and he's imposed a state of emergency. he says it's needed to avoid any unrest ahead of the vote, but critics say it's a ploy to crush dissent. linelle fernandez 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, ronnie's vicar missing her to resign. here was her brother. i do. but if you want to say i got the right about says rudo history, we want to or you want to hear god, the large boxes are bribery and also corruption. weaker missing have is voted out
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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 raja pox a party the s l p. p. has said to a back vicar missing her. there will try to bring roger boxes amato, law roger bunker last will become a resident. that's why we are both running dawn dawn. try or bring granny latter brussard i'm it will be a big, big, big there much stress on in the country. such warnings prompted 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 that is in deterring the demonstrators from rep bill 9 didn't know nearly a deal for donor. instead of him with his has been declared and go for use as we declared. but he put them to the struggle people came to the road and they say
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slogans. and they are protesting their their name. instead of this suffering mere dealership, i think of missing, has largely ignored the criticism, appear kicking out a little della. do we fight each other and destroy the country, or do our parties work together peacefully and rebuild this country? that is the most important political question we faced to be on the ship on an as parliamentarians get ready to choose a successor, to present got up a ride to park there on wednesday. that i easy thing cause like this for them to remember. they represent the people not themselves, minute. melendez urges era, colombo. well, here's who's in the running for the president's job. iranian worked on the thing is the former prime minister. it was appointed acting president on friday, but the previous president got a by a roger boxer of fled shore lanka and the face of widespread protests. then those opposition leader such as the premier dasa, he's promising to fix the economy by reviving tourism,
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boosting exports and attracting more fallen investment. dulles alcohol paderoma is a former minister from the same party as go to buy a roger boxer is relying on a coalition of votes from within the ruling s l p, p, and opposition parties. finally, marxist party leader, i notice camara and dishonor. yaki he's promising to fix the economy within 6 months. i c k, j a cody is a political analysts, and a former editor of the daily news in sri lanka. he says, many people don't support the acting president. this is to be a public backlash, severe but strong public outcry against the appointment of the active, but they are running the sooner because the people of the country see you as part of the fear that the 3 ship, which concentrate on time to bankruptcy earlier. this year, although a position or 2 months ago, people see him as a product of that, our departure committee,
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which is largely responsible for the common mis trailer guys facing in that context paper demand on it comes in to stepped out and on we go to our departure and allow ottoman to elect a president who has the support of the public if not to support at least a pretty big a person who commands the pretty of the public. so now instead of dealing with this, a strong public outcry in a meaningful manner. we commit to impose a state of emergency of alarming the security forces to take action on protestant. your understand the situation for you not to be. i mean on monday is be peaceful. dead. are small protest across the country against the prime minister's appointment that the acting president. but aside from those piece will protect that. as to the incident of widens, however,
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the prime minister has imposed a state of emergency, which is a highly questionable and many bodies, including the freelance association, the hardest your body of lawyers. and so many people just have your organizations have criticize that move describing it as a highly unwarranted act. at this point in time. still ahead on al jazeera o economy and processors refuse to move from parts of a key highway demanding lower fuel prices. add an architectural not to arabic, heritage. we're going to take you inside the stadiums that will host the middle east's. first default world comp. ah, the journey has begun the fee for world copies on its way to the castle book. your travel package today. hello,
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we got some really heavy ray making his way across the northeast corner of the us. this mass of cloud live is still running right down the appalachia south. of that. that's where the heat is. 43 celsius there for dallas. similar temperature to for phoenix. as we go on through the next couple of days that he really stays confined across the deep south. they're going to see something a little fresh, grassy make you swear to know the most part of the former, some cloud and some brains lively storms into central parts of canada, eating across manitoba to was ontario up towards the midwest still somewhere. whether they're just around the southeast in call or pushing up towards the carolinas, that she'd ease as we go on through where to stay. bright skies tried to come in still a few showers there, nevertheless, and see that wet weather just around the midwest and pushing into work. we're back . so showers to once again just around the desert southwest and where to weather in place. here in some wet weather today, western parts of the caribbean, big boulder cloud, just the sharing its hand here hastily waved driving some heavy showers towards
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nicaragua, towards costa rica. maybe some heavier showers for time to in to honduras. not too bad for the eastern islands on tuesday, but it does turn a good deal wetter as we go on into wednesday with a possibility of flooding. cats are air with issue airline of the journey. lu, ah ah ah, wherever you go in the world, one airline goes to make it feel exceptional. katara always going places to go. ah
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ah, what you know, does it or might over top stories this hour, raging wildfires of bony across large swathes of western europe threatening lives in the homes. some of the worst fires are in spain. in france, meteorologist say the southwest is going through. i heat apocolypse firefighters there to be struggling to contain 2 fires, and temperatures of sword passed or to degrees in some places. and temperatures is sorting across the continent, breaking records some prompting heat warnings. authorities in the u. k. say temperatures could top 40 degrees for the 1st time ever on tuesday or wildfire in northern morocco sparked by high temperatures. an intense drought of been contained over 6500 hectares, were burned at at least one person's been killed. more than
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a 1000 families had been evacuated. the fires erupted in a number of promises, including la ash. i'll just see it as adomonion. alam. ronnie is there. this forest here is called nazarene. it is located in the province of flourish 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 registered some heat wave earth temperatures as high as 40 degrees in the last days,
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which is not normal in this region. which has basically immediately iranian whether the one like in southern france or southern spain or in portugal. but the spite of that, there is a huge wave that has destroyed up to now more than 6000 acres of forests in north western morocco. australia is really so grim report in the state of the environment there. it found that climate change habitat loss, pollution and mining of lead to a decline in the nation's ecological well beam. the report also says australia has lost more mammals species and any other continent, and has one of the highest rates of species loss in the developed world. foreign ministers in the european union have agreed to pay another $504000000.00 to
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provide arms for ukraine. the money is meant to help the you buy equipment for the ukranian military, including lethal weapons, but only if they're used for defense. we at jerry fight. i did violence shocked at russia, aggression engage she, bailey and people in ukraine. and they also disturbing reports about the use of sexual violence as a weapon of wal mart, your russian drugs. russia continues to target fields and foot stocks. everybody have seen day images of a weed feels be in burn. they continue blocking the exports from ukraine. they are responsible for the hunger, they will at least 6 civilians have been killed by russians. shelling in the eastern ukrainian town of towards the state emergency service says it pulled 5 bodies from the rubble of
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a 2 story building. people are believed or been sheltering in the building when it came under fire. threats has been targeted as part of russia's offensive and the don't boss region. the gunman responsible for a school massacre in florida in 2018 is back in court. nicholas cruz is already pleaded guilty to the crime. now a jury will decide whether he should face the death penalty or life in prison. she competency reports. the prosecutor is attempting to convince a jury that there's no room for the consideration of mitigating circumstances when deciding whether nicholas cruz should be put to death for the 2018 mondrey stoneman, douglas school shooting. given the premeditation and cruelty of the crime, i'm going to speak to you. ready about the on speak about this defense goal directed. why in systematic murder, mass murder of 14 children,
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an athletic director at teacher, and a coach crews and even recorded a cellphone video days before boasting about his chilling intentions. hello, my name is nick. i will be the next school shooter, 2008. my whole is at least 20 people. with a are some trades around. some 50 family members of those killed were in the courtroom as the prosecution recounted cruz's methodical killing spree. the 1st witnesses were called, among them, a teacher who set of students were writing valentine's day cards of characters. and shakespeare's romeo and juliet when the shooting began, just kept going and going and going as a student to capture the scene on cell phone video also spoke with just sitting kind of like sitting down the foot. and she captured was played to the jurors. only the audio could be heard in the public gallery, which proved too much for some cruises, defense council is chosen to defer an opening statement until later in the trial.
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however, it's been reported that among the mitigating factors the defense would like to produce is evidence of brain abnormalities, pre sustained as a fetus. after the shooting survivors formed the gun control group march for our lives now soon as a powerful voice and the gun control debate. parents of the dead also remained vocal as seen just last week at the white house when a brief fall the heckle joe biden for not doing. the jury must reach a unanimous decision to recommend the nicholas cruz be put to death. otherwise, he will face life in prison without parole. she advertise, see al jazeera, a deals collapse between protesters and polymers, government indigenous groups been blocking a major highway for over a week. they're angry about the cost of fuel and food. on sunday, the government agreed to freeze fuel prices for 3 months for protesters calling from more concessions. others on the ramp. yeti reports. protesters in panama, burn tires and blocked roads. once again in the capital in across the country. in
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a meeting on monday morning, a majority of protestors literally tore up the agreement, reached with the government late on sunday to end the blockades in exchange for further reducing the price of petrol. oh, we had told the government we had to consult with the rank and file. the agreement was signed under pressure. the people have decided and i comply with their decision . we want to tell the education minister who could not be here today, that there is no agreement unless the issues behind this crisis are resolved. protesters now one more than the government's plan to reduce the price of fuel medicine and food unions and indigenous groups are now demanding a national negotiation to address political corruption in discuss larger political reforms that we have said repeatedly that there has to be one negotiating table we have said that it's structural issues need to be addressed. no more come and go on a few cents reduction on gasoline prices. some with
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a cost of food since businessman keep accumulating wealth. the government so far has not responded the blockades under pen american highway. the connex panama, with the rest of central america, and is the country's main browser for basic goods. entered a 3rd week. economies warned the demonstrations of cost the country millions of dollars in losses and are leading to shortages of fuel and food. and monday, most stalls at panama mean produce markets close early for lack of fruits and vegetables and kind of what everything is stuck to things are right, a little tomato onions papers or carrots and potatoes. and usually we can only sell 30 percent or so of what arrives. the rest is already room for been blocked for days for your eagle on the face is increasing social and rest and getting further away from finding a solution to end that and i'll just the race to replace bars. johnson his
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leader, the conservative party and u. k. prime minister has been little down to 4 candidates former chancellor. is she circ as come out on top in the latest round of voting by the parties? mpm followed by a trade minister, penny, mordant, and foreign secretary. las truss former qualities minister cammie wagner has also made it through to another round but back bench mph tom, tom and dad. as we knocked out of the running ar 0, as jonah hall has been following the raised, he says it's party members. it will have the law say, all the rules of changed this week so that it's the candidate with the fewest votes, who automatically drops out. there's no minimum threshold to we should by wednesday be down to the final to who will go forward to a vote by the party membership top to that out. as you say, we were expecting that he was perhaps the most centrist voice in this race. up to now foreign affairs committee chairman in the houses of parliament, never held a cabinet position. still standing. of course richie soon that the chance former to
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answer this jacket, he's increased his leave. now with a $115.00 votes are from a $101.00 bill. clearly the empties favorite or bit he is not the memberships favorite, but he'll probably make it through to the number to the membership. much more interested in the other 3. a penny, morton big serge of support for her last week. the gloss has come off that somewhat . she still in 2nd place, but down one vote. and then the 2 big fish of the party, right to the parties. right list, trust the foreign secretary. and as you said, kemi bade not their equality is minister both increasing their count somewhat. on monday cut, i was built 7 new stadium specifically for the world cup which begins in november the 21st. the venues are described as fits of architecture with a nod to sustainability with a shock, a name reports the stadiums of the 1st world. carp in the middle east are architectural mirrors of arab culture and heritage. a tent used by
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bedouins, an ivory cap warned by pious muslim boys and men, a gold colored handicraft. we've invested a lot of during the dishonest is prior to the construction to make sure that whatever was being built for the, the, for the tournament is being kept for the legacy and the local earnings. and even the local league needs welcome to sale stadium home to the final match and the closing ceremony up to 86000 fans will enjoy unobstructed views of the field. the roof contains one and a half times the amount of steel as the eiffel tower. and sons of a unexperienced awe nearly from a sporting point of view. it'll be unprecedented and read a spectacular. i can't emphasize otherwise enough. stadium 974 is the 1st venue in fif a history that will disappear. the $974.00 recycled shipping containers will be dismantled
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to give way to additional waterfront development after the world cup. the beauty of the stadium is the, it will have many more opening games in different countries and different cultures and in different locations. but also because i think the 1st stage in the world, which, which has this overpowering sustainability statement to it. in addition to stadium 974 seats, and components of other venues will be donated to developing countries in need of sport infrastructure. with a non profit group, carbon market watch says to offset emissions. the material would need to be used multiple times, especially if shipped thousands of kilometers away by using recycled materials, reducing construction costs, and developing green and living spaces near stadiums.
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