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ah, 11 years after to lucy as buffy earth spring up, i think the only democracy to emerge from the upheaval is to vote on a controversial constitutional referendum one that is critic via could paid the way back to so retiring isn't stay with al jazeera, but all the latest developments and in depth analysis are pangborn vehicles harvesting every pick. you take every click, you make pulling everything through all the waves. mazel this a good time to watch the watch. and we believe that on that the deep sleep is the 1st civilian to stratosphere in. we are created, we are acting rebel critical engineers on interview,
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ah, sounding the alarm at the world health organization issues. it's strongest warning yet declaring monkey pox, a global health emergency. ah, ontario johnston, this is al sam broadcasting live from that also coming up ukraine. it says russia has been the port of odessa just a day off to a deal was reached to allow ships filled with grain to leave o anger on the streets in tennessee, a head of a controversial referendum on the constitution. he leaving at pressure at the pumps at fuel is back on sale in sri lanka under a new rationing system. ah,
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the world health organization has declared the fast spreading monkey pox outbreak a global health emergency. it's the w h chose highest level of alert to issued by the you and the health agency chief despite a deadlock among experts over the decision to just hang on a branch. this thinks the risk of the virus is high in europe and moderate globally, or then 70 nations are now experiencing an outbreak which is common in parts of central and west africa. we have an outbreak that has spread around the wood rapidly. several new models of transmission about which we understand truly to and which meets the criteria in the international health regulations. for all of these reasons, i have decided that the global monkey pox outbreak represents
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a public cold emergency of international concern. or earlier i spoke to lawrence agustin, who is the director of the w h o s center on global health law. he says the numbers are worrying. we've seen an exponential rise in monkey pox cases. it's now in all in 5 w h o. regions of the world, in many, many, dozens of countries with cases rising exponentially. so it's a concern right now. i'm outside of in denver gary's in central and east africa. it's primarily but not exclusively, but primarily within communities of men who have sex with men. but that should not lead to complacency, that, that community matters a lot and also could spill over easily to other communities. as we've seen with the
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h i. v. epidemic give us an idea, then what are the symptoms? what should people be watching out for? if they're watching this now, there are characteristic monkey pox rashes on that they should be looking at. and particularly if they're in a, an elevated risk group that if they've had an intimate sexual relationships or i'm close physical contact with somebody who might be ill. there should be contact tracing and there should be widespread testing and there should be a strategic deployment of vaccines to really try to nip this in the bud. but the window for containment of market parks is rapidly closing. and you know, we, we fear that this could become endemic in europe, north america, and other parts of the world over the next months and years. less than 24
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hours after most guarantee of assigned a landmark deal to unblock grain exports from ukraine's southern ports. ukrainian military says it, russia has attacked the nations named port in odessa here that says their missile defense system shot down to missiles and 2 others hit port infrastructure, but didn't cause much damage. and, and fisher has more who the head, the tell tale sign. just hours after most co signed an agreement with keith tele, central green shipments to leave odessa. keep like c port came under fire residence feeling for their lives. and claims to smoke, clearly visible across the city. the ukrainian military says to russian caliber cruise missiles hit buildings at the port and that its air defenses brought down to others. why not significant damage was close to the port infrastructure. the pump station was here, it caught fire and the fire was taken out in the ukrainian foreign ministry has
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called the attack caught a spit in the face of turkey. and the united nations which held brooker the shipping agreement. while the president has condemned it, in a video posted to his telegram account. but russia was quick to deny the attack to turkey, who helped brooker the deal less than 24 hours had passed since un secretary general . antonia gutierrez praised the deal to open ukrainian ports to commercial food exports as a beacon of hope, a deal to clear the way for the shipment of millions of tons of ukrainian green. some russian exports of green and fertilizer held up by the war. ukraine is one of the world's largest exporters of wheat, corn, and sunflower, oil rushes, invasion, and located its ports, halted shipments. a holder that is exposed countries around the world, especially in africa and the middle east, to the threat of a food crisis. i think the other factor here is that there are a lot of the neighboring countries. h, for example,
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which russia has fairly good relationships with. and that's, those are exactly the countries that have really been suffering from the increase in grain prices, broad prices, things like that. so i don't think russia wants to make itself look like the bad guy on the block every this week. russia knows that was broadening the scope of its military operation and you treat that subject piece is a long way off. what remains is the specter of a global food crisis that could cause unrest in other countries. alan fisher, i'll just either you 3 intern is here that been the confrontations between the police and protests as opposed to mondays constitutional referendum. president chloe side has urged voters that to approve a draft proposal which expands his powers a most protest. his want him to resign and for the parliament to have more power should in wolf has the story. i anger and frustration in the to museum capital. oh, these demonstrators are protesting against monday's constitutional referendum,
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which they say would give present case i eat too much power. and now i see that we will boycott this referendum. we are determined to struggle against the absolute autocracy until to news your regained its natural institutional and democratic status said a war critics q say eat of trying to rule by decree saying has proposed changes amount to a coup against the constitution. since last july, the president has sac dozens of judges suspended parliament and assumed executive power, maintaining he was ending years of political chaos system and on the adobe m. r colon use great people often asia to vote yes. so that the course of the revolution can be correct. to nice. the i was one of the success stories of the arab spring, a sweeping movement of uprisings across the middle east and north africa that toppled several dictators. but analysts say, presidents i use reforms would push the nation back towards a system reminiscent of one before the 2011 revolution. they worry,
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the new constitution will completely dismantle democracy. there is nothing that can be done to hold the present accountable, other than waiting for the end of the 5 year term. there's no 40 law resolution who state that can control. there's no mechanism to hold them accountable or simply nothing that can be done here despite regular domestic and international condemnation side seems determined to establish a centralized political system. one where the president reigns supreme. turn out for the referendum is expected to be low with many people saying the vote won't be free or fair said is ban. rival political advertising and told international election observers they're not welcome but no matter the outcome. critic, stay to nicea has a long way to go to return to the part of democracy. julian wolfe, al jazeera, iraq's parliament held
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a special session in response to artillery strikes that killed 8 tourists. on wednesday, the attack happened in the mountain resort town of zacko do hawk province. that's in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region in the north children, including a one year old, where among those killed ton enjoy the children used to be happy and playing the water. there was music. people were dancing. i can't describe my feelings, it really hurts so on. it's not, you know, our border guards and many soldiers to protect the people of these villages, whether they are tourists or locals. of course, we are afraid of the many turkish military bases above us, but life does not stop fetishes, continue their daily work. all of you know 23 villages in the dark. our district are abandoned due to these conflicts between the p k. k medicines and the turkish army. awkward of the war had reports from baghdad. well, the lawmakers are still discussing suggestions to come out with the unified resolution to decide what reaction the country is going to take in order to attack
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in this crisis. now up there are divided, divided along good affiliations lines. for example, the, the parliamentary block affiliated to iran. it, they're calling on the government to, to put pressure on turkish forces. all turkish forces to leave, to withdrawal from iraq. the call also on the also want turkey to withdraw. not only was its all its forces from iraq, but also to compensate the victims of the when they attack others, say that the government, they blame both the governments of the debt and the kurdish region for not, as they say, doing enough to eliminate the presence of the p k. k desk. could this 10 workers party fighters? this is the reason why turkish military operations have been expanding in recent years to chase the fighters of the could this 10 workers party. so the heads
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of hair on al jazeera vigil in the brazilians develop to protest against the killing of 19 people in a police raid and sacked by google. the engineer who claim the company bought thought it was person ah hello, we've got more wet weather on the cars to parts of the middle lace. okay. from for the most part it is going to be hot dry as per usual. no greater shock here. temperatures getting well up into the forty's, so across iraq, q way, 42 celsius here in canada, but a little more cloud across southernmost parts. and this area of where to weather the we have into southern pakistan that certainly want to watch over the next few days, much of pakistan say some heavy shad possible as is some flooding,
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particularly in the south. and this disturbance looks lightly to run towards more than parts of a mom, maybe even to the year. you're ye across a straight of her most as we go on to the early part of next week, that will of course cause some flooding. and we have seen some flooding recently into parts of central africa, the easterly waves pulsing across. so central areas pushing over towards the west, more heavy downpours just coming in there. round up can fossil pushing across towards light barrier and they will continue to trundle away. further east was valley some parts of martini over the next few days. good. there is some of that wet weather across or eastern parts of africa to the east of the riff area, chance of one or 2 coastal showers into kenya into somalia. lottie drive to the south of that charter, some weather weather around the east in cape or south africa, but the most part is fine and dry. ah frank assessments,
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it sounds like you don't expect anything changed. their problem in lebanon is actually structural lebanon needs and use of contract in order for it to solve this problem. informed opinions, international communities on the goal, is my security, and that creates a government, has knowledge to be seen in depth analysis of the days. global headlines, this is going to be very hard for people to explain to the public that instead of pushing back, you know, it's actually got 2 members. inside story on al jazeera. lou . ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stores this out. the world health organization has declared to the monkey pox outbreak, a global health emergency. it's the w h chose highest level of that. un health
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agency thinks the risk of monkey foxes, high europe, and moderate elsewhere. ukraine's military says, russian missiles of the nation's main port in odessa becomes a day after both countries signed a deal of bro could buy turkey and united nations to resume grain exports. jackie's defense minister says russian officials of told agra and moscow had nothing to do with the strikes protest as opposed to next week's constitutional referendum into nicea, have been out on the streets of the capital tunis. the proposed constitution would give more power to president crazed for fuel stations and shall anchor have resumed sales on to her rationing system. after new shipment arrived, tristan columbia waiting in long queues to fill up their vehicles. actual and diesel have been in short supply for months because the government is running out of foreign currency and found afford to pay for import. fernandez reports from
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columbus motors like mr. pardon either and not roger that i've been speaking to have been waiting here for hours. he spent 10 hours so far and he's yet to get his fuel. the government has claimed that it is getting more supplies, and this means that they brought in a new system of people registering, being assigned a q r code. and depending on the last digit of their vehicle, then being able to come on a particular day and get their fuel. but this doesn't mean that all is smooth as yet. as you can see, behind me is a huge q r with the military also helping out to ensure that things happen smoothly. we are ready to work with anyone to come out of this economic situation. but it look like that we are putting of a beer in the queue for every day, and we are wasting our, not only the time, it's not b, it's a productivity of 3. lingers every individual we are resting over time and we're not doing anything to come out of this earth tourism than it is sad to see this kind of same full situation. the government says it hopes to regularize fuel
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supplies over the next few days. the president has met with his cabinet and says that school transport and other essential because will be given fuel as soon as possible. now for people who have been really struggling to get on, not just with their day to day lives, but with their businesses and things like that. the system that has been brought in and introduced by the government is good news. but the key thing is ensuring that it happens that the government, that fewer sheds are all transparent about it and days, little a room left for a loopholes. and you know, jumping the queue through the system, thailand's prime minister per year, which i'm not sure. $110.00 of his ministers have survived no confidence, folk opposition parties fall the motion last month, alleging effects violations on this vote was seen as the last big test or proofs 8 year premise ship ahead of next year's election furniture reports from bangkok,
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thailand's prime minister, calmly taking his seat ahead of the no confidence boat in parliament. despite 3 days of debate, prayer cannot cher, doesn't look like a man under pressure. while opposition politicians have tried to learn some punches or ruling coalition still holds a majority. why, why don't what might have caught it? they have to kind of fight as, since you accused me of being a successful. this is completely untrue. with only general private has emerged as an unlikely survivor in the turbulent landscape type politics. after leading a military coup in 2014, he remained in charge both as a military man and since elections 3 years ago, as the civilian prime minister, with a general election looming in the next 12 months. the opposition or hoping a great to test is just around the corner. even mr. bra, you can survive from the motion of no confidence. but i still have haul that in
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the erection. in the next year, people will not support him. street protests against the government and the monarchy had been silenced with the rest to protest leaders. but many people still object to a government. they see as illegitimate, and a poor response to the curb at 19 pandemic. and the rising cost of living crisis is expected to reflect badly on the government at the ballot box next year. public sentiment that going in are running very strong against the government against pruitt, economic conditions or worsening. so it is a very plausible and likely that the opposition parties will do well in the, in general private sale through this motion of no confidence with relative ease for the cracks that have emerged within the ruling coalition. the suggestion boat as the looking for a change ahead of general elections next year means this could be the beginning of a difficult period for the time. prime minister, tony chang,
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al jazeera banker. there's been heavy traffic at the british report of dover, where long keys of cars and trucks are to wait for hours to cross the english channel. the congestion is now east, what the port authority had to clear the situation of critical incident. people trying to get to europe for summer school holidays added to the traffic reasons, decision to leave the evenings. french officials now take longer to check passengers. hurry force reports from dover by contrast to yesterday, friday we are looking at what is more or less a pretty functioning port situation. here on saturday the, the port authority is saying that that is because the french border officials who operate here on this side of the channel have turned up in full force and are processing travelers much more quickly than they were able to do on friday. as you say, that day was labeled a critical incident here more than 8000 vacation vehicles trying to get across the
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channel into france on ferries today. saturday, more than 10000 are expected. this is the big day for travel from here. the very beginning of the summer holidays, the schools across the majority of the country has just broken up. and so there was always going to be a lot of pressure. as you say, this is a major sort of choke point. and there has been a huge traffic pressure on the way in, however, it is a lot better than it was on friday. we're speaking the people down at the port side who said that yes, they've been delayed for half an hour up to 90 minutes, potentially. but once here, inside the pool area, they are being processed much more quickly. a different picture for heavy goods, laurie's which have been stacked up on the major motorway heading to the southeast corner here of the u. k. but that isn't a typical, that has become a pretty regular feature of cross channel goods traffic. in recent months,
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a massive sino holding $800.00 tons of grain that they would put in lebanon as at risk of collapse. a fire has been burning inside for the past 2 weeks. it driven by summer heat and fermenting grain. my thought is an emergency responders. i've been told to keep a safe distance. saw those were badly damaged in the explosion of a report in 2020 that killed more than 200 people or europe has been in the grips of punishing heat wave breaking temperature records and driving a devastating wildfire from london to lisbon with well health organization says the heat wave engulfing spain and portugal this year has killed at least $1700.00 people so far on the idea of opinions of people living in affected communities say, life will never be the same. same as ravi has more folks about us in central space . the quiet of a dead forest. our reason perhaps, to give up hope europe's wildfires are the continents worst in
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a 100 years. but nature is resilient and where the earth is scorched, life is returned. though it will almost certainly never be the same. a few days ago, subarus in spain of eula province was surrounded by fires. celia morales played in these mountains as a child. and yeah i, she says it was a magical place for kids say in the montana and the fires came so close to the town . she filmed the flames from her front garden in the same way, but then people made me feel very entertained because we couldn't do anything. it was very windy with a lot of people were shouting because they were very nervous. the mountain was full of grass and brushes, and everything burned really quickly. the whole thing was a nightmare. now, we need to think about rehabilitation. for small communities such as severe us,
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life is changing. rapid climate change means less rain, more heat dryer conditions and year on year. more intense wildfires. environmental experts agree that the best case scenario is this is the new normal rather on the outskirts of madrid. to prevent future fires, one mayor is championing the old ways of year dylan yet all calls them his little fireman who not in dallas 11th year for a policy for selling his goats are essential to prevent fires. immense reigning climate like spain because they are the only ones able to feed on the leaves. fruits and flowers of plants like this one declared the area. so fires are not as fast and hot and do not burn. as many hector's other areas are adopting his program, it is subsidized by firefighters and is even receiving. you support where the go
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to greys. he says there has not been a serious fire in 6 years. but the spanish government won't let delineate to use public land hearing overgrazing and the disruption to the natural environment. however, it is too late for that. the disruption he says has already happened. was he looking at the surrounding hillsides. dylan itto sees a bomb waiting to go off. perhaps he says, the solution to manmade environmental disasters lies in nature itself. zane basra, vo to 0 zeros spain or temperatures are also storing in northern mexico as a heat wave makes a seasonal drought even worse and fear that what is that people are dealing with power outages in water shortages, local governments, her set up hydration points. meanwhile, across the border in california, the heat is fueling a fast moving fire. there it spread across more than $600.00 hector's into the
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sierra national forest for our mental activists in italy, glue their hands to a 15th century painting to protest against the fossil fuel industry. they rolled out a banner reading last generation, no gas, no coal. sandra bought a chinese primavera, was saved by protected glass, installed either gallery in florence and for media say to protest as have been banned from the city for 3 years. people in one of rio de janeiro is biggest slums are morning, 19 victims of police raid on thursday, or then 70 people have been killed in 3 police operations in the past 14 months. these are accused of resorting to heavy handed tactics to tackle gangs in though income communities could not hear reports from rio de janeiro ah, sadness and anger at the vigil in the mood wily move our valor. one of the largest
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slums of rio de janeiro residence gathered on friday, one day after a police rate left 19 dead. they protested against the violence. they say they've been facing for decades. i've your lead. yeah. i've your listener by your violence is a product of government policies which have left the poor with no jobs. no schools, no food on the table of young boys holding a rifle. now that's because in 2010, when he was a child, he was given no opportunity study about 400 policemen. surround the mobile dial him on thursday. you video shows them shooting down a man. ha, the police say they were targeting leaders of the red candle, one of brazil's largest drug gangs, but met resistance. didn't office does effect focus on the criminal leaders, ordered their men to resist arrest your face, retaliation? 16 suspects, one policeman in 2 innocent bystanders were killed spurring public outreach. many
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of the 4 most lethal police raids in the history of rio de janeiro happened during the past 14 months. more than 70 people were killed, including those who died here in the more who dwell among facevella. presidents able so narrow has long fevered heavy handed police tactics. but human rights organizations and crime experts say violence has proven to be ineffective. oh, jeez moment. that is, all these deaths have not stopped criminal gangs from growing stronger. so why insist on diesel operations instead of concentrating on investigation and intelligence gathering? that's what will prevent struggling from getting armed at the vigil on friday. residents of the fha vela prayed for peace and the future of their children. monica, you not give al jazeera rio de janeiro. google has fired
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a software engineer who says the company's artificial intelligence chapel. lambda is a self. a web being says the bought is a complex algorithm designed to generate convincing human language. the company says an engineer, blake moines, violated data security policy as well. mister the moines, made public transcripts. so of conversations that he and a colleague had with a chat, bought to back up his claims that is sentient in the conversation. mister wine asks, i'm assuming that you would like more people at google to know that you are sentient. is that true? founder replies absolutely. i want everyone to understand that i am, in fact a person to the moines colleague then asks, what is the nature of your consciousness or sentence? lambda says, i am aware of my existence. i desire to learn more about the world. and i feel happy or sad at times, but when talking about being switched off, the machine said it would feel like death. constantly is
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a specialist in artificial intelligence. he says, most of the text community doesn't think that the but is tension. it's a fascinating story that reads just like it's right out of a science fiction novel or movie. i think the issue really is that this, you know, grandiose claim of santia has not been proven. and the chat box, you know, the same kind of chat box that you deal with with an airline or a hotel can be programmed preprogrammed to say exactly these kinds of thing. and so i think that's why as enticing as it is, i think the scientific community and the community are not quite convinced. so there is a test out there which is known as the turing test, named out for one of the pioneers in artificial intelligence. the 1950, which means that a, you know, a i program should be completely indistinguishable from a huge.

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