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from the ruins of mosul, music as re emerged. these are some of 40 musicians who make up the water orchestra in iraq, 2nd largest city. despite being banned, when mosul was occupied by isolate, the minutes arrived. 3rd been christian curd arab, so neither cheers. these young men and women represent the diversity of europe to be able to hear music amid the ruins of mussels. old city feel strange, but it brings home the resilience of residents who say that despite the destruction and lack of help, they remain committed to bringing the city back to life. ah, it is prime minister mario drug, he resigns off to his main allies. boycott a confidence votes. ah,
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hello, i'm darn jordan. this is dr. sarah la. you from dough set coming up. sure, lanka has a new president running away from a single sworn in despite protest as opposing his election. turkey denies carrying alban, artillery bombardment that killed 8 people in the kurdish region of northern iraq. annex stream drought in northern mexico. worsening a water crisis in the city of monterey. ah, italy's prime minister has resigned? mario drago told italian president sergio montela. he was stepping down, the president says he, australia just stay on as a caretaker, leader for now. the prime minister won a competence vote on wednesday, but 3 political parties in his coalition refused to participate. well, adam rainy joins us live now from rome, adams, so another day of political high drama with mario drago resigning twice in the space of a week. remind us how we got feel about him. well there and the 1st competence
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boat was a week ago and that was when just one member of the coalition. the 5 star movement refused to take part on that day. monday i came up there so the quinoa and met with the presidency that attended this nation. but the president said, please, i don't accept that. go back to parliament, make a case for what you need to continue. well, i did just that when say here, wednesday morning and he went and gave a rousing speech, asking for a government to support hemi. he mentioned that thousands of italian mayors who, who made a public call for the government to keep working so they could help their citizens and cities across the italy. you mentioned all the time to come out to protest and plaza supporting his government. but it really basically fell on deaf ears because 3 of the coalition partners just couldn't support. and by the end of the day, and we thought that i gave a return this morning thursday to the quick denali,
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where this time, the president says you must, except it is resignation senior, which is unworkable. there was no unity in this national government. and in the coming hours were expecting the president to host meetings with the president of the senate, and the president of the lower house apartment will be working out future plans for the political crisis. niggley. so what happens next time we're looking at early elections, perhaps that's what it looks like there and, and it could come as early as september or october, which hadn't happened in italy since we're to because the fall is usually reserved for passing a budget. and that's particularly important this year because at least facing so many crises and ongoing drought and the north that's threatening farmers, nagra cultural industry and the co valley. it li continues to support ukraine and it's ongoing war with russia. and there's inflation, which is probably the most important issue fatalities because they've seen energy
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prices. iraq is the cost of basic supplies, food and other supplies for our house. and they really want the government to be focused on solving their day to day problems and not focus on an election. so it's been introduced a lot of uncertainty and to daily life, even here in italy, not just in the political world, and will know by the end of a thursday, if the present is announcing early elections or not. and those will probably come by october. there all right to, to bring a live person in room adam. thank you. now ron will come. a singer has been sworn in sri lanka, president, he was elected by m p. 's, despite widespread public protests. many should i can say he thought responsible for the current economic crisis. we kind of thing a says he's going to be top of what he calls on democratic demonstrators. he will complete the term. i've got to buy a raj fox, who resigned to fleeing to singapore last week. well, the political and economic instability is pushing many to consider leaving class and more from outside the passport office in columbus while honey
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a week are missing. i was inaugurated as the 8th executive president of sri lanka, these people were standing in a long q. none of them have been paying any attention. laura was the reason for them to celebrate their been in this queue for around 3 days. they have been sleeping here. they have been eating here. they have been waiting. most of the time, they've been waiting to get a passport because they all want to leave the country. the situation has become so dire for their families to feed their families, to get fuel, to get jobs. that's why to have decided to leave. most of them want to go to the middle east and they're trying to get a passport. it's an enormous q, it's the largest group, the longest q i've seen since i've been in sri lanka. so this is a huge task that week i'm a senior has to deal with. he has to deal with a very dire the most serious economic situation. a country has seen since it's independence and what he's trying to do now is been reaching out to other parties,
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trying to build is national coalition government and see if there is going to be some consensus to find a way out of this. iraq is observing a day of morning off to an attack in the semi autonomous kurdish region killed 8 people and wounded 23. the bombardment happened in the tourist resorts, city of zacko, near the iraq turkey buddha. the rocky prime ministers blaming turkey. but anchor says it was a terror attack. rock prime minister mustafah hot him, he says baghdad reserves the right to retaliate. turkey regularly carries out air strikes in northern iraq, targeting members of the kurdistan workers party, which it classifies as a terrorist group or map what up to wall had as more now from the rocky capital. will this pro li, based on no previous operation carried our to a by turkish forces in the areas a near the borders with a rock against a p k k, the kurdistan workers parties, fighters? it seems that at many institutions,
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hearing rock are still insisting on accusing it, turkey of it, or turkish forces over carrying out this attack. despite the fact that turkey has strongly denied that and accused the could this 10 or workers party fighters of the, carrying out the attack. now that today has been declared a morning day in iraq for the victims of the the artillery attack in his old, his art in northern iraq. and it prime minister must have a a causing me. it says that he's tweeted that it's a violation of iraq's sovereignty or the many institutions he has specially political institutions are putting pressure on the government to take action by downsizing. diplomatic representation was 30, and also some are calling for a closure of crossing terminals with the turk. answer them cause the opener is in istanbul, where the government says it's not responsible for the attack. since yesterday,
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turkish foreign ministry and military sources have been saying that this is a terror attack. this is not done by the turkish military and turkish foreign minister. 2, he repeated that he rejected the claims of turkish military target. the civilians. he said turkish military never target civilians anywhere in the world. and the world knows that and turkey claims that these operations in northern iraq against the outboard curtis, the workers party with the p k. k is to defend itself against terrorism. and it is in line with international law. a turkish military has been conducting a counter p k. k operations in northern iraq for many years. and since last april, it has been a very intensive operation that targeted the p k. k elements. and the camps in northern iraq, rural areas, and apparently the village where the to billions were killed yesterday was very
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close to the area where the p k. k. camps were and where the turkish military has been actually shelling since the morning. i have been hearing from the kurdish local sources that the area is very close to the operation area and the group was also guided by a tourism guide. then the locals are also curious why the civilians, the tourists who came from bag that have been brought very close to the military operation area. so downs health ministry says the death toll from tribal violence and blue non state as reach at least a 105. you've been imposed on military enforcements, deployed even more reports. this is what remains of a jelly up, the less home in sudan, south eastern blue, now state his searching for any personal belongings he can salvage most, were burned in fighting between members of his hammock tribe and the house on her. sir. this our la shadow,
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we were surprised on friday morning by members of the house of tribe attacking us and burning prophecy. so we had to flee. my brother was killed right here. we found his body hedge to pieces and a little now we homeless and the situation is really total water. tension speaks when the house i tried to establish a tribal administration and laid claim to land. other tribes resisted fighting, broke out, and left a dozen stead new now state has seemed repeated violence in the past decades with fighting between government and rebel forces resulting in mass displacements, while appease the laws, signed in 2022 and the violence, the latest cycle of tribal clash, as it seems to show that the state is far from permanent stability. thousands have fled their homes, and the houser communities in several states have protested against the violence. some tribal elders in blue nile, believe it's politically motivated. hello, cut their arm groups that want to broaden their base and preparation for elections . and they thought that they can mobilize tribes. it's unfortunate,
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the house responded. we had repeatedly called them not to be part of it, but they didn't listen to go. state authorities said the perpetrators, the will be prosecuted. the mothers good, blue nile has long been est with a diverse group of tribes. we urge all citizens to not listen to rumors or speeches that incite hate and anger, of to preserve unity between the residents are given to them. common actually wants those responsible for burning down his home and killing his brother, held accountable. but he says he's not sure if justice will be enough to end the anger and the violence. he bo morgan al jazeera, with heiress in blue. now faith, not, not so to come here at altos air, including for the 1st time india, as a tribal woman, as its president will be live in new delhi. and schools of reopened off to the flooding in bangladesh. but many areas are still on the water. marla, stainless, ah,
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richard, he has begun the fee for world copies on its way to castle group. your travel package today, like many countries in the world, child has been during a heat wave. shanghai has broken his record in the still a heat warning just to the south regency has no cloud in the system when you bring cloud and rain in and it should be there seasonally tends to drop, attempted to some degree, but it's still stifling and humid around shanghai and the still a warning as to the south and the significant rain is now north of the yangtze, where it has been for a few days, actually. and we got that orange center, expect some flooding from it, which is seasonally normal. but it has been a bit more than you might want recently than the forward bit because it should look like this. got some big loops and it is, brings a fairly heavy rain now to maybe sudden her garden or the home shoes she made. and hoffman is normal in, for example, tokyo, that slow circulation of shares which hangs on this rainbow to the yellow seas on
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its way to the korean peninsula. it leaves behind another dry spell dry. and one reason of course, why attempts to stay fairly high because there's nothing to stop the sun beating down the heaviest rain likely in india is in the north. and certainly up in the poll on the far north of pakistan and the shout to rebuilding in bangladesh. maybe the northeast of india, western india, a little dryer, but of late casa airway. official airline of the journey. a disciplinary court in poland, the accused. judges who refused to tow the states line. witness follows to courageous judges, spearheading the stand against reforms. critics claim leave the highest guardians of the constitution, vulnerable to politically motivated sanctions, based on their rulings. judges under pressure on it just either.
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ah ah, welcome back. a quick reminder about top stories here at this hour. italy's prime minister mario druggie has resigned. president has asked drago to stay on as a can't take a leader. he won a competence vote, but 3 parties in his coalition government refused to participate. run away from a single has been sworn in as shrunk as president, despite opposition from the protest movement. but force is pretty simple to step down. the new leader has vowed to take action against what he calls undemocratic demonstrations. on a day of morning has been declared in iraq after 8 people were killed and 23 wounded in a truck. and he sent me autonomous kurdish region,
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the prime ministers blaming turkey. but its neighbor says, terrorists are responsible russia, foreign minister says moscow's military goals in ukraine have widened beyond the eastern region of don bus. so gay lover of told state media, that forces would target the regions of care, sun and separation. some all is lost at each. go watch when there was a meeting in yesterday ball. there was one geography and our willingness to accept the ukrainian proposal was based on that geography for the geography at the end of march 2022. now the geography is different, but this is not only the eleanor and the d, n r. this is also the curse and region and the sample regio region, and a number of other territories. this process continues and continues consistently and persistently h o. l here says high mobility, artillery rocket systems,
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or high mas, have been used successfully by ukraine at a meeting on wednesday, washington and its allies agree to send more military aid us defense secretary lloyd austin, says roches expansion plans come as no surprise. i'm sure that her ukrainian leadership will be i'm pleased to hear a law of raw's confirmation of the effectiveness of not only that sister, but how they're using that system from as you know, russians are currently in her course on and are from asia. so are russian forces there earlier? now? we are to wonder who he's talking to. now, richie, sumac or live trust will be britain's next prime minister. the former chancellor and foreign secretary are the final 2 candidates in the conservative parties. leadership contest. the winner will be chosen in a run of vote by party members in september journal hot reports now from london.
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therefore, richie, sooner and less for us will be the candidates going forward, conservative party and piece of spoken. now grassroots members will decide where the former chancellor richie sumac or forum secretary list trust should go on to be party leader and britons next prime minister. both the divisive characters, both have the experience of high office trust promises, what fee calls a truly conservative economic agenda. tax cuts and a hike in defense spending on the pass, and who can go into number 10. i can hit go, i'm running and i can get things done. soon acts as he'll stabilize the economy, ease the cost of living crisis and when the next election. the question now for our members, who is the best person to defeat the film or the labor policy of the next election? i believe i'm the only candidate who can do that. and there's a further distinction between the 2. while lease trust is seen as the candidate
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most likely to continue boris johnson's brand of populace politics, richie soon isn't popular in downing street where he seen as having betrayed johnson, earning him the distrust of party members of poll. all those very party members who will elect the next prime minister suggests that list trust is far more likely to win the riches who not before the focus shifted to a very public some a leadership campaign. there was time for the parliament to say good bye to boris johnson at his final session at the dispatch box in private. it's this questions. i do know that the relationship between a prime minister and leader of the opposition is never easy. this one is prove no exception to the rule, but i would like to take this opportunity to wish him, his wife and his family, the best for the future. and johnson had this advice for his successor number one,
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se trophy american. pick up for the ukranian, speak up of freedom and democracy everywhere. johnson's relatively short and near included, he said, restoring the use case, independence for europe and battling the pandemic. but then a string of scandals brought his office into disrepute. mister speaker, i want thank everybody here. hostility sta, payday. johnson exited the house of commons to rousing applause. the next prime minister will be named on september the 5th journal al jazeera lumber. now for the 1st time in its history, india has elected a tribal woman as its precedent that a party murmurs or candidate from the governing b. j. p. party. the position is largely ceremonial in india. however, the president can play an important role in steering the outcome after a closely contested election of poverty. metallic joins us live now from new delhi, apaloosa ethnicities, a big issue in indian politics. how significant then is there
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a party murmurs election as president? it's a historic election lot to be more and more will be in the 15th president. she is going to be the 2nd woman in this position and the 1st tribal person and it's symbolic, especially if you look at her political journey. it began in one of, in just most backward regions. she was a school teacher who eventually joined deposit, the gentle party and throughout her, jody, she has, you know, has many offices. the most significant of these has been as governor of one of the india tribal states, that is childcare. and in that role, she sent back to booth proposed by her own political party bes booth would have given industries access to tribal lands. she said she needed to ensure the tribal rights were a priority. now the position off the president is largely ceremonial in
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this case, or, you know, as in all presidential elections in india, members of parliament and state legislatures voted in her case many opposition party supported her. now political commentators say that her election could inspire many women and men tribal people to enter mainstream politics. a space where both groups are highly under represented right apartment. i live for the in the daily me. thank you. now from finance to floods, schools every opened in northeast and bangladesh, not the worst. putting in a century. tens of thousands of pupils haven't been to class for weeks out there. it's kind of a charger ports in the northeast and city of still had most children in the flood effect of sil at region returned to class on july the 19. but for some getting to school is an easy for xanax. her and her schoolmates have to take
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a boat on their foster care back. as please continue to see today is the 1st day we are going to school. as our homes were damaged and partly submerged by the flooding . and it's still difficult because of the remaining water in the area crystal, the you and estimates nearly 20000 people, including 3000 children, are still living in temporary shelters. and, oh, the school was used as a shelter aside from people. livestock was also a kid to her, so we had to clean up the entire place before re opening. only around 30 to 40 percent of students have returned to the school. the government say they've already made plans to provide new boats and educational materials tele debug it. that little should be the sink up with this thing else. look a little more than 400 educational institutions. the region we're used to shelter the hub, it since the flood waters receded. we've been able to reopen when most of the schools this week. some people have returned home and are trying to repair the
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damage. water points, electron needs to be repaired and communication is still very difficult as flood water in many places have not totally received that yet. a lot less room is a cartoon and our family, our rice farmers, they're worried about their future as they have no other source of income. but the genie stacy the so much stuff i had all washed away. i barely survived. my husband had to break the wall to rescue me from inside the house which was completely flooded. grammys as a 2 year old daughter, fanny is anxious to return to school. my children's education is told because mr. water around the home, the roads are muddy full of sludge. we don't have a boat, a government climate action policy due to be launched ahead of the c o. p 27 conference in november. suggest any new developments to be built using water system construction materials. but for the families of lost everything,
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it will take months, if not years, to rebuild their homes, and they need all their system. they can get 10, which audrey al jazeera, still it bangladesh, the speaker of the us house of representatives expected to visit ty, one next month. a move that's been met with fis. critters of from china. nancy pelosi trip would make her one of the highest ranking us officials to visit the self governing island in decades. beijing has worn washington. it'll take forceful measures if the trip goes ahead. asian considers taiwan. it's sovereign territory. brian, he was a political commentator and found of new blue magazine. he says there's a growing push from the us to show support the taiwan. but they're basing with you below the visit as an escalation of tension. timing, particularly there has been increased international spotlight on taiwan as a result of, for example, covered ninety's, but also rising us trans tensions and so under the jumped ministration, but then also in the ministration one has seen more attention paid to attempt to
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show support for talk as included, for example, us centers of the things i want to make back seem donation. and so this would be another layer of installation having the us peak of a house, the visits i want. i instead timing of the regional timing of the trip. there was an entity in april, then pelosi constructed cobra, 1900. it was unable to make that would have been after the ukraine invasion. and so that would have been attempting to reassure, but now a month later, i think the timing has changed. so that is why we see a lot of paper from aging in regards to politicians won't continue for some time off times. it takes place in the form of aaron curse and just how on air defense identification is on in which airplanes identified. and so there are fears and china potentially exploits offers as well. there is discussion of china could do an empowering it to actions in 190 regarding the challenges prices are personally, i think that is a little bit overblown is not to that point. yes it is awful. but then that same time one knows that there's a lot of things there are outbreaks of covered 1900 being locked up. she didn't
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thing is seeking on president the 3rd term at the 20th national congress later this year. but perhaps needs stability in order for that to happen. the notes seem one gas pipeline is back up and running out the 10 days of routine maintenance that had been fears. russia would completely cut gas flows in retaliation for sanctions. europe imposed for its invasion of ukraine on wednesday, the european commission urge members to reduce gas usage by 15 percent until next march, in anticipation of a looming energy crisis. columbia's new congress has been sworn in man. for the 1st time, a leftist coalition holds the most seats. it's also the most diverse with more indigenous black and female mpm than ever. and congress will look to pass president elect gustavo petros policies, which include more funding for social programs, as well as pension and police reforms on the summer. i'm petty as more from budget up. the feeling here though, is that this is a unique moment and that gustavo paper has
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a real chance to pass some of these reforms. some of them that have never been passed before in the country starting with agricultural land reform, for example, that has been at the, at the center of the internal conflict here for the past the 50 years. and that's because he has the supports of the majority of columbia in more than 60 percent of columbia and said that supports his plan. and also the fact that he's very close to having a basic majority in both houses by the year also attracted enough politicians from the sensor. and in some cases, even the sensor, right, who are saying that they will indeed vote to push forward the reform. and this 1st year in office water crisis is reach critical levels in mexico as well. the city scientists say climate change is aggravated a weather phenomenon known as linear disrupting weather patterns in the region and
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creating some of the dry conditions in decades. money, rapid reports now from monterey residents, starting to ration their water the extreme drought conditions in northern mexico. this reservoir, in the outskirts of monterey, is almost entirely dry. and many here worry the same will happen to the local economy. over another week of this, things would only worse and boats are now stranded a top the dry lake bed at lubbock, dan, it's been months since the region has seen any significant rainfall. experts have identified several factors that are contributing to the ongoing water crisis here in northern mexico, the most significant of which is a weather phenomenon known as lenient which climate scientists say has been exacerbated by climate change leading to one of the worst droughts in the last 30 years, scientists say la nina has disrupted regular weather patterns in northern mexico.
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this means that rains that were supposed to begin in may still haven't arrived. and there's no telling when they will environmental activists say that despite the drought bottling companies like coca cola, heineken and others have continued large scale water extraction, making the situation even worse. or if some of the rambo, when i get on chrome contracts younger co muscles here, i am willing, at great contradiction in the city. we are a great deal to the big companies, but it's been at the cost of the well being of citizens. and that's the problem. we need to completely rethink the question of water usage. the water crisis in monterey, a city of more than 5000000 people has reached a critical point. many now rely almost entirely on public water tanks. for some they are the only source of water available. we'll discuss. i'm mostly in our, then we have no water, nothing comes out of the top and we have to carry it back home for cooking cleaning and even the bathroom. we buy our drinking water from the supermarket,
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mexico's president, his vowed to continue to support efforts to supply water to various cities in northern mexico. but experts say the strategy is not sustainable. adding that the only real solution is rein, manuel it up below al jazeera monterey climate change, at least partly to blame from massive swarm of jennifer shelf, a coast of israel footage from israel pox on nature authority show. the jellyfish near haifa assuming is part of an annual migration, but this year the population has exploded due to pollution and climate factors. ah, type a quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera. it's me prime minister mario drago has resigned. president matter i law says he has asked roggette to stay on as a caretaker, leader.
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