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each country will compete in 3 disciplines, free fall, skydive, accuracy, landing, and 4 way formation. men and women compete separately, but under the same flag. you know, i can't do a story about parachuting and not jump out of a plane as we climb up the teams mentally prepare for their job. i try to do the same then minutes later, once the earth is just a blurb below it's time to free fall with italy's prime minister, mario dragging resigns off to his main allies. boycott a competence vote ah me bucket. this is al jazeera life, the whole, so coming up. so lanka has
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a new president, ronald vick rema, singer is sworn in despite protest is opposing his election. flash floods in nigeria is north of killed at least 20 people displaced hundreds of families and extreme drought in northern mexico drives the worst thing was a crisis. the city of monterey ah, italians will be facing election sooner than planned up to the prime minister. step dam, mario jackie, will stay on as a cat take a leader until the autumn after tendering his resignation to lease president socio matter rela, just a few hours ago election was scheduled for next may. who will likely be brought forward to september, october this year. dr. he want to comfort his vote in parliament to wednesday, but 3 political parties in his coalition government refused to participate. adam rainy has more room. this was kicked off
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a week ago when draggy lost an earlier confidence vote when one member of this national unity government he led, refused to take part in that phone. now despite winning that vote even a week ago that you said he couldn't continue without the 5 star movement, one of the larger blocks in his unity government. when he hindered his resignation in know the president rejected it and said go back to parliament. try to build back your coalition, tell them what you need. well, mario tag, you did just that about 24 hours ago and i sent it on wednesday. and he gave this rousing speech, mentioning how talent around the country, 2000 and mayors, had asked him to stay on publicly supporting him and calling on his unity government to get their act together and support this government to get through this crisis. so many things are happening in italy, it's ongoing drought in the north, the worst in 70 years is one of the leaders in the european support of ukraine and the war with russia. and also writing crisis are an issue here. so ty is,
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are really wanting the government to continue, but despite that, when there was another confidence vote on wednesday after that speech several hours of backroom dealing just couldn't get the groups together. in fact, instead of just one party, now 3 parties that they wouldn't continue. this basically impossible for you to continue in such circumstances. he came back here after quitting out the hill and this time the resignation with accepted. and we're going to hear from the president and just a few hours effort. he meets with the president of the senate in the president of the lower house, and it's expected they're going to reach some deal about early election. i know victor missing has been sworn in his rank, is president. he was elected by m p's, despite widespread public process. when he's relying can say he's partly responsible for the current economic crisis. recruitment thing i think is going to be tough for me. what he calls on democratic demonstrators, he will complete the term of course by roger pac so who resigned off to fleeing to singapore last week, or the political and economic instability is pushing many to consider leave in the
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country, said parson has more from outside the passport office in colombo, while honey a week are missing, i was inaugurated as the 8 executive president of sri lanka, these people were standing in a long q. none of them have been paying any attention, nor was the reason for them to celebrate. they've been in this queue for around 3 days. they've 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 they 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. the country has seen since its
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independence and what he's trying to do now is been reaching out to other parties trying to build this national coalition government and see if there is going to be some consensus to find a way out of this firefighters in spain. say they were marked making progress in that battle to contain dozens of wildfires. temperatures dipped on wednesday, but most of the country is now back on alert for a continuing heat wave. same password over your house, more from separate ross in our villa province. just up until today, the north and the northwest of spain. those areas were the worst effected by wildfires. but today we are here in a villa province. and this is the area that officials in authority say, is currently the most danger is by all accounts the worst effected part of the country from this wildfire season. now we're just overlooking the town of superheroes. and if you take a look at the chart hillside, the chart country with driven up to get to this place, you really get a sense of how close this place came to completely going up in flames. and why this
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is still considered a very important danger zone. to continue the firefighting effort, you can still hear helicopters in the air. this is still very much an active scene . i'm just gonna step out and show you what this hillside looks like to give you a sense of how severe the fires were. we've driven across one hill after another that looks like this. entire areas, entire low growth forests, completely burned up. but if you just look at this in this direction, you can see exactly where the firefighters were able to stop the fire, where the fire stopped, where the black turns to green again. and it is incredibly stark contrast. the fire came very close to taking over this entire hillside and for the people living here, it must have been a terrifying, see. and if you just look down, you can see where the fire came right up against some buildings. and those are residences. that is where people live and in firefighting terms,
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in terms of the logistics of combating this wildfire season. this is considered a very close call. the town of sabrina rose is incredibly close to where the fires were. so this is once again, a place that had a very close call when it comes to this was far season, no doubt. it would have been a major relief to those living in this town for the fires to have stopped where they were. now, when it comes to combating these fires, it is certainly about saving the land, saving infrastructure and buildings saving lives. but this is also an important strategic place, because superheroes is where the european space agency has the thing called the sub railroad red antenna. it is a, an important communication satellite dish that communicates with space spacecraft and satellites in the air. and it is an important piece of european infrastructure to give you a sense of why it's so important. it was actually used as part of nasa's mars landings. so important infrastructure in this area, and at the headquarters,
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the firefighters headquarters down in the town, they were saying that that facility was now so being surrounded by flames, and firefighters and rescue workers are trying to put out those fires as we speak, flash flooding as it nigeria is nolan, go a state killing. it's believed around 20 people more than 200 families flat as the water levels rose, the flooding has the most thousands of hector farmland. i mean, interests has this update from the di julian capital, a boucher you hear about us changing where the cartons are, for example, a stick, for example, legos, the a coastal state in southern nigeria, we spoke to officials fair, who said the weather pattern, there has changed dramatically, the raines this year started one month early and they expected to last are the longer this year by 3 or 4 weeks instead of november, the res, i expected to end in december this year. so basically what we're seeing is changing weather patterns. ups up there in the north,
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you also hear about how rivers are swelling and in the coastal areas of the water levels are rising high, displacing communities, taking over farmlands and other properties in the coastal regents of the south of the country. so they have been reported cases of debt sticks, for example. also in the north of the country are in bottle of state where you see who hardly see a lot of rainfall that you see in lagos, all in the south of the country. dumb boil witches ah, not far from my degree, the capital they have been, are cases of flooding damages to at least 300 houses there. and of course damages to families and property. and this is coming at a time when the rains are really, really getting heavier and lasting longer than we've seen over the past few decades or so. iraq is observing a day of morning are for an attack in the semi autonomous kurdish region killed 8 people and wounded 23. the bombardment happened in the tourist resorts,
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city of zacko, near the turkish border. iraqi prime minister is blaming turkey and anchor says it was a terror attack. i minister mustafah al, caddy me, says, baghdad reserves the right to retaliate. turkey regularly carries out and strikes and northern iraq targeting members of the kurdistan workers. work as party, which he classifies as a terroristic group, like mood up, the why had to, has more from baghdad. will this pro li, based on no previous operation carried out to a byte turkish forces in the areas near the borders with iraq. again, this to p, k, k, the curtis 10 workers parties fight us. it seemed that many institutions here in iraq are still insisting on accusing turkey of or turkish forces of carrying out this attack. despite the fact that turkey has strongly deny dutch and accused the could this time the workers party fighters over carrying out the attack. now today has
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been declared a morning day in iraq for the victims of the the artillery attack in his resort in northern iraq. and the prime minister must have a cause. the me says that he's tweeted that it's a violation of iraq's sovereignty. the many institutions he has specially political institutions are putting pressure on the government to take action by downsizing, diplomatic representation with 30 and also some calling for a closure of crossing terminals with the turk and sent him because he lives in a stumble with a government that says it's not responsible for the attack. since yesterday, 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 that turkish military target civilians. he
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said turkish military never targets civilians anywhere in the world. and the world knows that and turkey claims that these operations in northern iraq against the out boat, crudest on workers, parts even the p k. k, is it 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. then as since last april it has been a very intensive operation that targeted the p k. k elements and the camps in northern iraq's rural areas. and apparently the village a where the as to billions were killed yesterday was very close to the area where the p k. k. camps were and where the turkish military and 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
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a tourism guide and at the locals are also curious why the civilians, the tourists who came from baghdad have been brought very close to the a military operation area. still ahead allow j 0. we report from ne bangladesh where schools reopen despite many areas still being under wilson. on the worlds fastest land animal is expected to come back to india softer 70 years. ah, there seems to been something all over the place in indonesia, in a lit less. so in malaysia, in the last few weeks and more recently was west papua, again, small islands in the band or are in the forecast. you can see if you see orange tops, the likelihood of heavy rain, me and my and the good part of central northern thailand are in the frame here.
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less so cambodia. and in the philippines and borneo, there are big showers around really bigger than maybe you would like. so some flash for the potential here for china though, it's really north of the yank. see around the yellow river, this mass, he will produce some flooding region and there could be some flash flooding in beijing in the sundry down pause. but if your size of the accident was hong kong is dry and it's hot hotter than it should be. hong kong humidity house as well, but not alone. shanghai, likewise, and this is humid circulating wet weather in northern honshu and hawk hardy rather slow to go. i have to say, where is this rain leaves china rossi, l a. c for the korean peninsula. the monsoon rains at the moment, our lot so much concentrates in good. you're out there. federal land, matchup or dash up towards behalf northeast of indian bank. less you'll see an increase and the big shouts are showing up again in northern pakistan and iran, delhi probably healthfully. ah
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ah ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories this hour. italy's prime minister mario druggie has resigned. president has asked, try to stay on as a can take a lead him, he want a competence boat, but 3 parties in his coalition. government refused to participate. ronald rick grimacing has been sworn in israelite because president, that's despite opposition from the protest movement. the forced, his predecessor to step down. the new leader has vowed to take action against what he calls on democratic demonstrators. flash flooding has killed about 20 people in
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nigeria is northern. go a state or 200 families fled as the water levels rose flooding his submerged thousands of hector's farm land. now for the 1st time in his history, india has elected a tribal woman as its president. true party bobo is a 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. bostwick closely contested election. poverty metal is in new delhi with more the historic election dropped the 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 a symbolic specially 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 the part of the gentle party and throughout her, jody, she has, you know,
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has many offices. the most significant of these has been as governor of one of the 5 of the states that is childcare. and in that role, she sent back to booth put both by her party. you would have given industry access. you tried the lance, she said she needed to ensure tribal rights were a priority. now the position off the president is largely ceremonial in this case, or, you know, as is in all presidential elections in india, members of parliament and state legislatures voted in her case many opposition parties supported her. now political commentators say that her election could inspire many women and men tribal people to enter the mainstream politics. a space where both groups are highly under represented. the speaker of the us house
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of representatives is expected to visit taiwan next month. the move that's been met with fierce criticism from china, nancy pelosi strip would make her one of the highest ranking american officials to visit the self governing island in decades. beijing has worn washington. it will take forceful measures if the visit goes ahead. page inconsiderate taiwan, it's over in territory. brian hugh is a political commentator and founder of new blue magazine. he says there's a growing push from the us to show support for taiwan, for the beijing will view policies visit as an escalation of tensions. so it's, it's a timing but equity. there has been increased international spotlight on taiwan as a result of, for example, covered 19, but also writing us trans tensions and so under the jump ministration. but then also in the ministration one has seen more attention paid to attempt to 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 escalation. having the u. s. peak of a house, the visits i want,
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i instinct timing of the regional timing of the trip. there was an entity in april, then pelosi constructed cobra, 1900. it was unable to take that would have been after the ukraine invasion. and so that would have been attempting to reassure prior, but now months later, i think the timing has changed. so that is why receive comments might have been a lot of paper from aging in regards to politicians. want to for some time off times, it takes place in the form of aaron curse and just tell on air defense i think is on in which airplanes identify themselves. and so there are fears and china potentially exploits offers as well. there is discussion of what trying to do an empowering it to actions in 190 regarding the prices are personally, i think that is a little bit overblown is not to that point. yes it is possible. 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 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. so you cane our an
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independent review who is criticized. the british government's handling of migrants who arrive in small boats from northern france. the report says the response by the home office there has left people vulnerable and at risk. there's been a sharp rise. the number of attempting crossings of the english channel by migrants refugees in recent years. in 2018, 200. 36 made the dangerous journey arriving on the u. k. southern coast. by last year that had increased to more than $28.00 and a half 1000. board officials predict the number this year could be much higher. the dean barber is in london. he has more details on the report by david neal. the chief immigration inspector, attention was focused on 2 government centers between in fact, december 20, 21 and january of this year. now he says, if we don't have a record of people coming into the country, we don't know who is threatened or who is threatening the detail was that there were vulnerable people that they v. neil cause vulnerable people including
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children and women on their own. and when they arrived in dover, the way they were dealt with was unacceptable. he says that the home office has failed over the past 3 years to move from a crisis response to having better systems and procedures in place and treating this as business. and usual, this is to do with things like facilities for them, for interpreters and just systems in place, which are not, which are not simply crisis management. and, and his report really says that it's time that term, the u. k. government got serious about accepting that these arrivals are going to continue. the number of boat arrival last year was around 28 and a half 1000 compared to 8 and a half 1000 in 2020. and of course, late last year there was an incident which $27.00 people drowned. so the government has been saying it's getting wants to get serious about tackling this problem. but
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this report is very embarrassing. the world health organization says millions of refugees and migrants are in poor health in their host communities. a study by the w h show has assessed about 1000000000 people globally who are considered migrant. market workers often take on dangerous and demanding jobs. many are at risk of workplace accidents and often have limited access to health care. santino server roney is the director of health and migration at the wells health organization. he says it's important to combat misconceptions about migrants. for too often, the health aspects as being all such offer sometimes stock sick narrative or, or certainly an adult equal narrative based on baby, fragile evidence and facts and data. so it's very important that we are able to overcome those irrational way of thinking and being this is affecting also the quality of services made me workers that if which isn't migrants are normal,
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people so exposed to the risk of diseases. all these factors like the rest of the population, but unfortunately in the case of refugees, those are people which they're going to be exposed to. that i'm matthew situation in many cases, which they're going to leave. unfortunately in, in sometimes impediment and case consequences. we think em out about the astro matthew disorders and mental health, but also exposure to more classic diseases. life of the people, diseases or chronic diseases, the show of migrants but migrants. the issue is the final adjustment. if they get include that or not in that, on the society of arrival, the level of exclusion, it's somehow mirroring the risk increase of possible disease or poor health. schools of reopened the ne and bangladesh after the worst flooding in century, tens of thousands of people who haven't been to class for weeks time,
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her child re reports from the southeastern city of so let most children in the flood affected sil at region, return to class on july, the 19, but for some getting to school isn't easy for xanax. her and her schoolmates have to take a boat on their fast their back. and as he's convey to see today's the 1st day, we are going to school as our homes were damaged and partly submerged by the flooding, it's still difficult because of the remaining water in the area. the un 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 kept here, 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
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made plans to provide new books and educational materials tab debug it. that little should be difficult with this thing else. look a little more than 400 educational institutions. the region we're used to sheltered out of it since the flood waters receded. we've been able to reopen most of the schools this week. some people have returned home and are trying to repair the damage. water points on letter needs to be repaired and communication is still very difficult as flood water in many places have not totally received that yet. a lot of them 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. rum is as 8 year old daughter, fanny is anxious to return to school. my children's education is told because this to water around the home, the road, somebody full of sludge. we don't have a boat,
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a government climate action policy due to be launched. head 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, it will take months, if not years, to rebuild their homes and then need all this system they can get turned rich. audrey al jazeera, cillit, bangladesh, a water crisis is reached critical levels in mexico's wealthiest city. when we're apollo reports from monterey, where residents are having to ration water, 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. remember i way over another week of this, things would only worsen boats are now stranded
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a top the dry lake bed at la boca 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 linear, which climate scientists say has been exacerbated by climate change leading to one of the worst droughts in the last 30 years. scientists say linea has disrupted regular weather patterns in northern mexico. this means that rains that were supposed to begin in may still haven't arrived. and there is 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 someone could, even though when i get anchor on contracts younger, co, missouri, we're living a great contradiction in the city, you know, a great deal to the big companies, but has been at the cost of the well being of citizens. and that's the problem. we
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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. almost an hour, 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 lie our drinking water from the supermarket, mexico's president, his vow 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 a low al jazeera, monterey. i some good news for you because india has signed a dale to bring back the worlds fastest, a latin to animals. back more than 70 is mouth. they would have declared extinct
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then may be as sending 8 cheaters to india under the deal talks also on the way with south africa to supply more of the animals. the cheat is will be taken to a wildlife sanctuary and central india in the crew. new national park and a used to have a sciatic, cheetahs, but the species was officially declared extinct in 1952 is thought the last 3 of them were killed in the 1940s laurie marco is the executive director of the cheetah conservation fund and is one of the people working on the project, she says the cheaters will be re introduced to areas that already have other species of big cats present. that she didn't sped extinct since the early 19 fifties on. i had thought maybe a couple of stragglers were around, but that's the date that it was considered to be extinct. and why now i think since that extinction, the government has been looking at the possibilities of bringing the animal. ah, it bringing animals back from extinction is not an easy job. and it takes
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a lot of international cooperation. i am working together with a variety of scientists as well to figure out the best way to go about this. the areas where the chita will be re introduced her same areas that have been where animals like leopards tigers, lions are living. and so the of the cheetah also some area is living in the same way here in africa, although it doesn't have tigers. so it, it, it is not that much of a difference in where already the people in india are living with many of the large reg fonda. and it is an interesting country because it's still a country that actually has a, a wild populations to living with people when the people are and the animals have learned to live together. although these animals are going to be in the national parks, these are wild out.

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