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ah, well lead us condemn brush up after a missile strike on the cranium. port of odessa puts the future of a grain export deal in doubt. ah, hello, i'm adrian. and again, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up the u. s. faces a shortage of monkey pox, vaccines as the world health organization declares the outbreak, a global health emergency. a searing heat wave in china is taking its toll on the countries frontline health workers plus food prices may be going out, but that's not helping american farmers. some christy salumi and i'll tell you why ukraine says that russia was attacked its main port in odessa less than 24 hours after the 2 warring nations signed
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a deal to release great exports from ukraine. southern ports keefe says that its air defense system shot down to miss house, while 2 others hit the port. the kremlin, told turkey that it wasn't responsible. but the u. s. secretary of state is also blaming moscow, saying the attack casts doubt on how committed the russians are to friday's deal. elders here is alan fisher reports who the head a tell, kill st with just hours after most goose signed an agreement with keith kilo essential green shipments to leave a desa keep. lexi port came under fire residence feeling for the lives to live here . evelyn missiles were flying, we saw one that was shot down. then the next ones flew. we were very scared. we ran to the bomb shelter. we don't usually do this, but on this day we did. it was unpleasant. it was loud, noisy, what can i say? scary, the euclidean military said to rushing caliber cruise missiles, it buildings at the port, and that it's,
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the senses brought down to others. in the less, the attorney in foreign ministry has 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. it said that the whole jak jaw this after turkey and the you and said yesterday that they know how to negotiate with russia and insure security. a green corridor for the export of ukrainian grain, and not even 24 hours had passed before the green terminals. the territory of odessa and the ports were struck in russia was quick to deny the attack to turkey, who helped broken the deal less than 24 hours had passed since un secretary general . antonio 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
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the world's largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower, oil. the rushes invasion and located its ports, halted shipments a hold on that is exposed countries around the world, especially in africa and the middle east, to the threat of a food crisis. allen fisher, i'll just either ukraine. here a 2nd for state as they blinkin has condemned the attack. now there is rosalind jordan reports out from washington. essentially, the secretary of state called into question, russia's intent to make good on the deal, which it's signed indirectly with ukraine on friday to allow stores of raw grain to travel from a ukraine through the boss for us and 2 destinations around the world. the secretary of state in a written statement noted that tub russia is responsible in the u. s. is view for not just the attack risking the lives of ukrainian civilians, but is also responsible directly for what he called a deepening global crisis of,
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of food deprivation. antony blank can also one noted that this is incumbent upon russia to demonstrate that it has are the best of intentions. and instead it needs to stop perpetuating its attack on ukraine. now, this is the statement as it is really doesn't come as a surprise, even as the un and turkey were trying to broker this deal earlier this week. as the state department spokesperson, net price made note of the fact that all of the responsibility for the success of this deal would lie at the feet of moscow. and the suggestion from the state department at the time was not optimistic, but certainly of any thing is better than what had been happening, which is the grain not being moved at all. the world health organization is declared, the monkey pokes on break a global health emergency in the united states. there's
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a shortage of test kits and vaccines as well. bristol's reports in san francisco, people waited in line to get vaccinated for monkey pox. a virus that is spreading so rapidly, the world health organization has now declared it a global health emergency. we have an outbreak that has spread around the woods rapidly through new mode itself, transmission about which we understand truly to and which meets the criteria in the international health regulations. there have been about 3000 cases in the u. s. so far and many more in europe and dozens of other countries including india, russia, and brazil. mat ford battled the virus for more than 3 weeks and was excruciating at times you know, m, i had intense flu like symptoms, so eager chills sort of the road cars went through my sheets at night. and then, you know, that tells how skin regions which i had from the get go,
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but more of them appeared around me infection. and towards the end, i counted more than $25.00 all over my body. and they just appeared everywhere. women and children in the us have clot, monkey pox, but the us centers for disease control says 99 percent of the cases are seen among gay and bisexual men. the disease is spread by close skin, the skin body, contact muggy box vaccine, and testing kits are in short supply frustrating health experts. i think we kind of stumbled out of the blocks in a few ways, one of which is testing. i don't think there was enough testing available early enough. and then the 2nd thing is with the vaccines, we have vaccines available. they're approved, we have am purchase, they are in a national stock pile and it's been getting them out of the stockpile. it's been really challenging and that's currently where the bottleneck is right now. the white house says the government has distributed 300000 doses of monkey pox vaccine and is tried to speed up the shipment of about 800000 more doses from denmark where
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they are manufactured. but that may be too little, too late. rob reynolds alger z for los angeles will a global health emergency as the world health organization's highest alert level for an outbreak. the organization can issue guidance for governments to prevent the virus from spreading, but it can't force them to take specific action. like vaccine mandates. the w h o says that there's little chance the virus will disrupt travel at the moment, but it's warning that monkey pox could spread around the world. director general ted ross and on a gib raises, says the virus has reached more than 70 countries infecting more than 16000 people . 5 people are known to have died. jack child is a former w h o assistant director general and professor at carnegie mellon university. he's backing the health agencies decision, the w h o convened to experts meeting this to deliberate on the
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severity and the the urgency of responding to this crisis. and they developed a series of what i would call a is empathy, me logical dashboard. and the experts can the reasonably oh, look at the data over the past month and think, well there are some indicators that to point to ah, rather oh, that it's not as severe as one would think. however, the critical weakness of the data is that is often lags reality, that the virus may be ahead of the data. so it's in my judgement that dr. caterers is airing on the side of taking pro action to mobilize governments and mobilize civil society. it's not only a medical response, it's a political response, and that is what is needed at all countries at all community levels in order to
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truncate the epidemic at the bud. so monkey pox can be very dangerous, particularly to pregnant women and are she that they're developing fetus. it can be very dangerous to the immunocompromised and in certain circumstances, a can cause brain and spinal cord infection. and even blindness to palestinians have been killed of an israeli military operation and they occupied westbank for the 19 palestinians were wounded. 2 of them critically. in the city of nablus. a general strike has been called to morn. those who are killed, their funerals will be held later on sunday israel as yet to explain the purpose of the raid findings broken out between rival armed groups near the libyan city of miss rosser. it happened the day after at least 16 people were killed in a confrontation in the capital tripoli involving members of a special unit and the presidential guard are desirous malik trina has more from the capital of the latest outbreak of violence. this is the aftermath of 2 days
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of sporadic fighting in tripoli. mohammed says he and his family were trapped in the crossfire on thursday and friday, one of europe zeron, we were living in fear that some families were stuck inside and others were able to get out. only god knows what we went through. and as you can see, many homes were damaged from the rogue about mccaul, not the violence between the special deterrent force and the presidential guard broke out when the rival group traded blame for kidnappings. both are part of the live in governments. fragile security services filing took place in heavily populated areas. health officials say women and children are among the victims. the un special adviser on libya, stephanie williams says she is outraged by the violence. adding that civilians must be protected and perpetrators held accountable. prime minister abdul hamid the
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vapor has suspended interior minister hearted and madison of his duties until an investigation is completed. he's been temporarily replaced by this man. let's have it. we've established a committee to assess the damage is incurred by private citizens, so they can be reimbursed with launched an investigation into this incident. have developed a security plan. so the events like this won't be repeated of the people are angry . mohammed says the minister's visit to his neighbourhood is too little, too late. really hasn't had him. ha! the government doesn't care about us. the ministers are coming now. what do we want with them now after the fighting stopped after our home to destroyed, we don't need them now. the un mission has erst all the bills to preserve what it says is the country's fragile stability. negotiations between the rival legislative
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houses have been stuck in a political deadlock. put people here, one authorities to force or groups out of the city. so that incidence like this don't happen again. malik, trainer, algebra, tripoli still come here on al jazeera, a series of explosions, a makeshift fireworks factory in peru. at least 5 people are dead. or they've waited. 3 years, sy fi fans gather in california. it's a comic con ah, how i am pleased to say that incredible heat wave across a good part of europe starting to ease so even northern parts is going to be hot,
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as opposed to incredibly hot them fabric cloud coming into the northwest. the larry of low pressure will bring a change across surpass of ireland, certain northern ireland, scotland, england, and wales. it will turn a little wet and a windy and eventually we will see some of that whatsoever. making its way further eastward. so 26 houses in london that is still on the warm side. similar temperature, therefore, star calming, see that heat has transferred somewhat further eastwards. lithuania, misinterpreted bilious at around $22.00 degrees celsius. those temperatures will gradually begin to ease off that hot spot there just around the poland and jeremy that'll sink a little further southwards. as we go on through the next couple of day, cooler wet weather, 30 to push its way in. there we go. with some cloud arrays of lie be fun bri showers across eastern parts of europe. wetter and windier weather freshening things up. welcome rainfall there for the north west pushing up towards scandinavia . further south, still plenty of heat were into the thirty's once again. 39 celsius. therefore
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madrid and plenty hated or southern parts of europe. by the time we come to monday, haddaway to cause a good part of the north west into scandinavia, part of gemini, an over to was east. ah frank assessments. it sounds like you don't expect anything to change the problem in lebanon. it's actually structural lebanon needs, and you also contract in order for it to solve this problem. informed opinions, international communities on the go to my security. and that creates a government, has no legitimacy in depth analysis of the data global headlines. this is going to be very hard to explain to the public that instead of pushing back, you know, it's actually got 2 members inside story on al jazeera blue.
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ah, hello again. this is al jazeera, let's remind you of the main news. the south world leaders have condemned russia after a missile strike on the cranium, port of odessa, but the future of great an export deal in doubt. russia denies that it was responsible for saturday's missile attack. the world health organization has declared the monkey pox outbreak of global health emergency. it's the highest alert, but it could issue more than 16000 cases of virus have been reported across more than 70 countries. and there's been more fighting between rival armed groups in libya, violence to the city of miss raso saturday, followed battles to the capitol tripoli. earlier in the week, europe has been in the grips of a punishing heat wave breaking temperature records driving devastating wildfires from london to lisbon. the world health organization says the heat wave engulfing
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spain and portugal this year has killed at least $1700.00 people. so far on the r barian peninsula, people living in affected communities say that life will never be the same out 0. same bas robbie reports now from sarah bras in central spain. the quiet of a dead forest. a reason perhaps to give up hope. europe's wild fires are the continents worst in 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 your 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 they take the fires came so close to the town. she filmed the flames from her front garden. ah,
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miss cindy, we might say aim when, but then it made me feel very impotent 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 subarus, life is changing. rapid climate change means less rain, more heat dryer conditions and year on year more intense wild fires. environmental experts agree that the best case scenario is this is the new normal it. i'll tell you on the outskirts of madrid to prevent future fires, one mirror is championing the old ways of year dylan yet. oh, calls them his little firemen back on a thoughtful,
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none in dallas end up in an infant. plenty of what a stalinist by goats are essential to prevent fires. a med training climate like spain because they are the only ones able to feed on the leaves. fruits and flowers of plants like this one. they clear 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 to greys . he says, there has not been a serious fire in 6 years, but the spanish government won't let delineate or use public land fearing overgrazing and the disruption to the natural environment. however, it is too late for that. the disruption he says has already happened. douglas maria, and looking at the surrounding hillsides. dylan ito sees a bomb waiting to go off. and perhaps he says, the solution to man made environmental disasters lies in nature. itself. is in
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basra, vo de 0 zero's spain. in the east of europe, greece has already seen more wildfires this year than in the 1st half of 2021. last year it lost an area roughly double the size of new york city. now the u. s. stepped in, sending hundreds of firefighters to support local cruise al jazeera dawson jabari reports. now from near the capital athens was, some of them are stationed. this is where you had a car. yes. say this is it, this is that mean cobra, this is what's left of the home of visualise me. hello. it broke down almost a year ago. a mechanic by trade, he used to collect old cars. a collection he says was worth $2000000.00. 17 classical cars were parked here. this is what's left of his 1969 alfa romeo spider . his life change in a matter of hours the, the fire start not for there and i go to supermarket. and i,
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i never believe to the fire coming here because i'm front of the airport, the airport. you said, what is the station of the fire department for the helicopters and their big road north police like mountain? it's it easy, flat. i never believe that. so i go to somebody in a, a try to come in for the visit, but this way from their cups thought me just let me, ah, and a never coming to protect my house. the sillies spent the past year trying to get permission from the government to fix his house. lot. my time in the government has since reached out to the european commission to help them combat the wildfires. this is very robi, a town about 25 kilometers north of athens. in 2021 fires. here it is stored nearly 3000 hackers of land. that's about
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a 3rd of zurich or an area the size of the car. this year. foreign crews are here to help local battle the places during the peak fire season. during july and august to 100, firefighters from 6 e. u countries are supporting the greek forces. 28 romanians are stationed in athens. one of them is 24 year old. oh, chris metty. this trip is one of many 1st for him. the 1st time he's been outside his country for work and the 1st time fighting forest fires. despite the challenges, he says he's happy to be gaining valuable experience here. local firefighters, welcome to help in the inc saying the no lance, the different, the mig her how to with all the photos fire with her very good coverage on that, doing our best and where. but if and thankfully florida reese program for all the difficulties these teams are facing. there are moments of respite while they wait
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for mother nature to unleash her firepower door such a bori al jazeera variable b grease. the governor of the us state of california has declared a state of emergency as a fast moving wildfire threatens homes. near the yosemite national park, emergency crews have been working to contain the fire since friday. 6000 people have been evacuated. 10 buildings destroyed and power has been cut by thousands to thousands of homes and businesses in the area. water from rapidly melting glasses from to more sub warnings in china's jang region. the one off caused by heat waves sweeping the country as lead to mudslides and flash floods in mountainous areas. a number of coastal cities are on their highest alert level inland regions are being warned of potential dam failure. la countries been experiencing above normal summer temperatures since last month. journalist patrick fog has more now from beijing.
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well, a lot of people are simply staying in to try and beat the heat. but one thing they can't avoid doing is having to come out for that compulsory cove at 19 p. c r t s. at least once every 72 hours for them to come out and queue up often in snaking lines that are often much longer than the one you see behind me for long periods of time. but it's really the health work isn't hazmat suits the really suffering and there are reports of some of them suffering from heat stroke. and there are lots of videos, circulating chinese social media, showing health workers, vol meds, and even fainting in these hot working conditions. now searing temperatures in china around this time of the year ant unusual. but where the focus is to say, normally it can last around 30 days this year. they're expecting these temperatures, these extreme temperatures to last at least 40 days. and that's raising the risk of flooding and landslides in some parts of the country,
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particularly in shin jang province, remember it is a mountainous region and there is concern about glacial melting, impacting crops. and in particular, cotton fields. remember, st. jang is the world's largest producer of cotton accounting for about 20 percent of the global supplies right now. there are more than 80 places, cities and towns and so on and so forth across the country that have issued red alert warnings, meaning forecast as expect temperatures to reach above 40 degrees celsius. within the next 24 hours. a fire in an illegal fireworks factory in peru has killed at least 5 people. fly service officials say the unauthorized fireworks workshop was operating from a room in a private home. power was switched off temporarily to allow firefighters and police to rescue people from the clair's. mom in wasn't gonna throw
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a single ball. it is so far we have found 5 bodies, of which we believe one is a girl who lived at the sight. it's because i want to hobble. you've lost everything. the family who lived near us also lost everything. all 3 families have lost the houses, so like a secretary that's young, a clandestine, unauthorized fireworks workshop was operating in a room in one of those houses. food prices in the united states continue to increase, but farmers aren't reaping the benefits their own rising cost to just $1.00 of the many challenges that they're facing. as al jazeera kristen salumi discovered in new jersey, fruit and vegetable growers on the east coast are especially hard hit. the most rally family has been growing fruits and vegetables in the state of new jersey for 4 generations. it's always been an unpredictable business, but this year profit margins are exceptionally tight and workers hard to come by. it used to be 34 years ago. there was people coming in and out of the yard all year long looking for jobs. this year. i'm a big one cor,
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pulled in the yard to look for work from fuel to fertilizer. according to the government production, expenses in the farm sector are projected to increase more than 5 percent this year . the cost of fertilizer has more than doubled this season. that's largely due to the warren ukraine, which combined with the corona virus pandemic, has led to a host of supply chain issues. driving up costs for farmers. labor costs, the biggest expense for fruit and vegetable farmers have also gone up. many here in new jersey are paying top dollar to import pickers under a special visa program, but they're competing against countries that pay much less and grow year round. so far this year the amount of imported fruits and vegetables in the u. s. has surged 13 percent according to the department of agriculture, putting many east coast farms at risk because grocery stores these days want a year round trim system supply. and we are
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a seasonal production area. we can't supply everything 12 months of the year. so people are gonna have to think a little bit differently about how they deal in the wholesale market. oh, it's going to be a challenge. some farmers are selling directly to local consumers, attempting to diversify their crops and their customer base. and in may, president biden authorized funding to produce more fertilizer domestically, as well as incentives for us farmers to plant more crops to help make up for shortfalls of ukrainian wheat. but it may be too late for tom shepard who's looking to downsize his operation and expenses. he currently employes more than 200 people . unless the ya bergen, consumer god, brewster request the supermarkets, the, the stock local, you know, we lease that u. s. made stuff. we're gonna have a tough time because we are wages of so much higher farmers think it's a small price to pay to preserve local jobs and farm land. kristin,
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silly me al jazeera cedar though new jersey. the pope is traveling to canada to apologize in person for the catholic church, his role in running indigenous residential schools. hope francis is calling to visit a pilgrimage of penance. more than 150000 children were taken from their families to schools where many was starved, beaten, and sexually abused mass graves were found near the schools lost here. a massive silo holding 800 tons of grain of bay report in lebanon is at risk of collapse. a fire has been burning inside for the past 2 weeks. driven by summer heat and fermenting grain firefighters and emergency responders have been told to keep a safe distance. silos, what badly damage to the exclusion of the court in 2020, which left more than 200 people dead. more than 800000 people are in the u. s. city of san diego for the largest comic sy, fi and fantasy event in the world. it's the 1st full scale san diego comic con,
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in 3 years. organizes had to scale it back at the height of the corona virus pandemic this year. cause players finally got their chance to dress up. was their favorite comic book, tv and movie characters. the conventional so draws hollywood heavy weights. it's, it's a family atmosphere here. we're all fans, and the idea of if you can get a little bit closer to the character you're in love with or you associate with, with watching television. it makes you feel good. i mean, i don't know anybody that lead comic con, not smiling their head off. so that's the experience. that's what we want to enjoy here. and then if we can give it to little kids, we'll do it all day. so we're out here a couple hours a day taking pictures. china has lost a rock, it taking a new, laborious re module to its young space station. it took off from the island province of hine, on the new edition features biotech at aerospace facilities. it's the 2nd of 3 modules being deployed.
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