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this is al jazeera ah hi there, i'm kimbrough. this is the news ally from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. me and mars military executes for part of marcus he activists, strong world wide condemnation john indians vote a new constitution which opponent say will return the country to a dictatorship. india swears in a new precedence to potty marble is the 1st person from a tribal community to take the oath. and the largest wildfire in the us spreads rapidly at near yosemite national park, forcing thousands to flee their homes. i'm devin ashworth, sports including another world record for po volter. all won't do fontas is we'd breaks his own long yes. again to claim gold on the final day of the water as examples. it's an organ action coming up this out.
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ah, goodness news all in me and mom with the military john to has executed for pro democracy activists. it's the 1st time capital punishment has been used for decades . a former legislative from amazon to cheese policy was among those killed coaching, has more. he was known to many as co, jimmy, and he knew the cost of standing up to me. i must military german, you a veteran pro democracy activist, had already spent 15 years in prison, protesting against previous military regimes. even though he had been found guilty on counter terrorism charges in january, few expected the death sentence to be carried out. oh, when we saw this news be rover's sab, actually that don't, i shouldn't have done this single. it should not happen. this is like the twenty's
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officially challenging to public. there was no, you're not. he was there tall. another of those executed was a prominent norm maker that had been an m p, an uncensored cheese national league for democracy. since 2012. a former hip hop artists become the face of a youth movement, came to power in the 1st democratic elections a decade ago. the executions of the 1st amendment since 1989 and a thought to have taken place at in saint prison in young gone. where relatives tried to reclaim the bodies of the dead. men on monday, call to clemency from other southeast asian nations, including a letter written personally to john to lee the men on lie by cambodian prime minister hon sen. have clearly had little impact together. this is sending a message to them. young people 1st and foremost, are to try to intimidate them, but it's also a backhanded way of a min online telling asi on that. but out that they don't want a advice from us, young, they just want asi and to serve as
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a shield. and all the protests against the military government are unlikely to stop like this flash mob, opposing the death sentences. rights groups estimate more than 2000 people have been killed by the military since the coo. yet the protests has shown no sign of backing down. tony chang, elders or without the sapphire is near, now's former special envoy to the un and a member of its national unity. government just formed an exile. he joins us now on . scott, thank you very much for your time. i just wanna start by asking you, i believe one of the people who was executed with someone that you knew fairly well . how are you feeling about what's, what's happened? yes, this is the doc day for the mocker. see, and this is doc bay for human rights, and we all are dated by the act of terror against democratic leaders. because of me, emma. one of the,
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it's coded by this military generals are my friends and my leader of them, my bravo. those are my friends now. they are the mottoes of democracy and human rights. indeed, they can take away the body. but the military generals in mamma will not take away the lives of these matters of democracy. why do you think that the military jointed did this? is it about scaring people will work the military generals in me and i have been know for dear politics. so using fear as a weapons, diverse station weapons and also disease as a weapons, starvation, as weapons. and so they are using the same topic again, again for the last 60 years. so it's not surprising. it's not something new,
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but these kind of 18 q shouldn't have never been there. the last 2 to 2 to 340 gave me a mock. so this is the 1st time we saw these kind of basic, you shouldn't happen again. you believe that the military cannot win. i mean, even in the face of, of having lost people that you were close to personally, won't beacons of hope? do you see right now in the face of increasing violence from the junk? well, you know, the light would defeat the darkness the same d, although neither did they shoot. and this genocide or military generators will be defeated by freedom and justice and righteousness and democracy. so in the end, just use will prevail. we will drink these military generosity member into
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just these all these pop 3 though one day will be brought to justice. how do you see that happening? i mean there was a 5 point consensus that was reached with aussie on even before these executions it was already seen as being a failure. so what is the way out of this? it is a tiny point for us, shot these executions of democracy. these executions of freedom, these executions of human rights on the face of archer on the face of you in the security council on the face of you and member of states, these must, that was stated all over the world in fad is turning point for our son at turning point for us to, to call to the mars response in the strongest term, the mas, immediately response in
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a farm and the strongest come to dc execution. what are the next steps then for the national unity government, which as we mentioned has been formed in exile? we will not bow down if one of these kind of military general topic. in fact, these saying military in the us, emma, who have executed this for the more crappy leader in me, emma, are getting crew guilty of crime against humanity again. so i think most of the brothers and sisters in the world thought of it a nice, you know, god of justice, i should say just to go. so all the options of international mechanism on justice. and also once we get our freedom, all this bob, a tradeoff will be brought to justice and we will never surrender. we will never
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give up. i will fight will freedom and never surrender for our fight for democracy . we just it make us franco modica mind. all right. hey, thank you very much for joining us, dr. also. there me and me out for my special envoy to the you in thank you will be doing is warned. it will take what it call for full measures if the speaker of the us house of representatives visits taiwan next month. if it goes ahead, the trip would make nancy pelosi, one of the highest ranking american officials to visit the self governing island, which china considers part of its territory closely hasn't concerned if or when she'll visit. concert of china's response coincided with the annual civil defense drills in taiwan streets, emptied in shops closed as an air raid sirens sounded, people were told to go inside and seek shelter during the exercise which lasted
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half. now, falling stations of opened across to new z o for a vote on a draft constitution, which opponents criticized as an attempt to return to a return to one man rule. president, case 5 says his changes have been necessary to reign in a corrupt political elite. people opposed to the proposed changes, say they will boycott the vote. let's take a look at how to nicea got here. the arab spring began there in 2011 when protest against unemployment and rising food prices forced out president z, now aberdeen ben ali and sparked a series of uprisings across the middle east and north africa that toppled several leaders to nicea implemented democratic reforms with a parliamentary system and an independent judiciary, but more than a decade later, transient being asked to vote on a constitution that centralized power in the hands of the president. lease evolvement joins us now from the capital tennis, and he says, so talk us through why tennesseans are voting today or why they're not voting today
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. well, we've been actually about since 6 am. she needs time and we've been watching the flow vices come in. the people that we have spoken to the majority of people facing from the elderly generation and saying that he is moved to support the president and to support his processes. so although we can't off somebody how they change, whether yes or no, you know, people are saying the mostly saying that they want to support science when they're really looking forward to seeing how he will push through radical change. these older people are really concerned for the children and grandchildren. they want about a future, but the people who are voting know a very fearful is things returning to one man room and, and dictatorship. yeah,
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we saw a very violent protest on friday from the boy coach campaigners and the police are very, very vicious. so you're beaching people using tasks using spray drinking people using stress holes. similar people away fearful that things could not only return the ship, but back to being a police said anything. i know one of the things in the drop constitution is that there in a time limit for the president bought that term and it can be extended in an emergency, whatever the president feels constitutes and emergency focus through some of the other things in this constitution that got people concern there are number things. number one is the 1st article that says, said previously in 2014, the 1959 constitutions. that tunisia,
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the civil that's been taken out and people concern what type of state tunisia could become move side is very close to the military and to the the security services to the ministry of interior. so that's a lot of worry article 5. i mean, they have taken out the nature is finishers and civil site. it's language is arabic, it's religion is this land people initially very happy about that. they thought it would bring an end to political islam. i've article 5. he says that tunisia is a member of the oma, and that only the states are responsible for the pursuit of the object of islam. so that's how a lot of debate was really worried about is also $110.00, which says that regardless of what the president does, nobody has the right to question him or question, his actions. so this sort of very, very much a tightening of control of the state and that the judiciary no longer is
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independent or sourcing. people saying, well, judges, it's just a job now something. so this is my. so there's been quite a lot of debates people, people who are opposed to it all sort of divided about how they should respond. do they boy, coach spice and say that the whole thing is illegitimate and illegal, or do they try and find the polling stations? and put a vote for no and higher that you the count on in the navy. and certainly when i guess when then his constitution goes through and we see more of the saying the one month ruled by decree. ok. but if the knows when i the moment we don't know what that will me. alright, thank you very much that. and the sivilton air force in tunis. more head on the news are including more than a 1000 migrant cent refugees arrive in italy in
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a matter of hours after crossing the mediterranean flood zone president. diable fernando launches his campaign for reelection. he'll go head to head with a former leader, and in small will show you another great catch and major league baseball that's coming up with jenna. ah, for being president ferdinand marcus junior is making his 1st state of the nation address. bon gong, as he is commonly known, is the son of former leader ferdinand mar, costs, whose government carried out widespread human rights abuses. uncles, junior used his speech to promise tax reform that he says will bring more money to the people, voted in our country must become an investment destination. capitalizing on the corporate recovery and duct incentives for enterprises will create law and economic
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liberalization. laws such as the public service and the foreign investments up right below is with us live now from manila barnaby. what else then if we heard from the new president. ok to key takeaways from this speech. general takeaways one is that finally, he is laying out concrete steps as to how he wants to move the country forward. this is really the 1st time that we've heard him so detailed about his plans and to a lot of his speech is a throw back to his father's time. as you mentioned, his father, ferdinand marcus, senior ruled for 21 years, a dictator who was ousted in 1986 by a people power movement. now onto the specifics agriculture, obviously a priority president bone bone mark has appointed himself as agriculture. secretary,
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he said that his program would provide financial and technical assistance to farmers. he would distribute land to landless farmers who are beneficiaries of the agrarian reform program, which has been in effect for years but has not been completed. now the financial assistance aspect of his program that is one that also correct arise the agricultural program of his father, which was a success in the short term in that it increased rice production of the country. but it was a failure in the end because there were a lot of credit problems and the rural banks lost money. now, the other thing where he got a standing ovation was when he mentioned that the national kidney transplant institute, the heart centered, the long center. these were a center piece infrastructure and health care projects of his father,
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but these were only established in the capital. in metro manila, he said that he would expand these and bring them to the provinces outside of metro manila. he also said that there would not be any more lockdown in reference to koby 19. he said that the philippines would learn to live with the virus and without overwhelming health care here in the philippines, and that he would strengthen the roll out of booster vaccines. again, harking back to his father's time, he said that he would build more nuclear power plants. there's actually one nuclear power plant here in the philippines. that's not been in operation. never been in operation built by his father. that is controversial, although he also said that he would expand the use of renewable energy prince back around and said that he would also expand the use of natural gas. so it remains to be seen how environmental is react to this bottom below. therefore, manella,
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thank brazil's president i a boston auto has launched his re election campaign, but faces an uphill battle. he is trailing in the polls behind his main rival. leftist former president lewis and also learned to silver o sonata was criticized for his handling of the pandemic. brazil has the world's 2nd highest death toll mancha knock. f reports from rio de janeiro ah, thousands of supporters lined up in front of this gym next to rio de janeiro was iconic modicum of football stadium or inside crowds wearing the colors of the brazilian flag. cheer for president valuable sonata, calling him the messiah in the middle. oh, both are not his wife, michelle, and evan jellicoe christian spoke 1st. she made an emotional appeal,
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especially to women, given the president needs more of their votes. if he's going to be returned to the top job, she reminded them of the attempt on bull sonatas life during the 2018 campaign saying he'd survived to free the country. no, i always tell him, jew messiahs bulls to morrow. do not be afraid. you have been chosen by god, boston out of then spoke, but me no reference to guns or his unfounded accusations. the v electronic voting system is unreliable. he has been criticized in brazil and abroad for repeatedly claiming that the october elections could be easily rigged. experts say he is following former you as president donald trump by alleging fraud to justify what may become an eventual defeat. oh, so our supporters here are extremely confident that he will be re elected, but polls show him trailing behind former president,
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lizzie massey rule of the seal. or earlier this week, former president mueller, the silver was the fully nominated candidate by the left wing workers party. according to recent polls, he has the support of more than 40 percent of voters. ah, also matter remains in 2nd place with more than 30 percent. but it's too soon to predict an outcome. as bull san ardo has just approved an emergency aid package, allowing him to spend 7600000000 dollars until december, when his term ends. monica in our give, i'll jazeera rio de janeiro at least 17 haitian asylum seekers, including a child have dyes of their boat capsized off the coast of the bahamas. 25 people were rescued, but it's feared up to 60 may have been on board. already say they're seeing an increase in haitians desperate to flee poverty and gang violence. the bahamas is on a route used by migrants trying to reach the u. s. from haiti. i. mr. phillip davis
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says that appears to be the case with this latest group, blurry investigation, suggest that a twin engine speed bold left a docking facility off of westby street. o. round one a. m. with approximately 60 persons on board. it is believed that the final destination was miami, florida, hundreds of migrants and refugees were rescued while trying to cross the mediterranean to reach europe. in the past few days, any of them had been taken to ports in italy, but authorities there say bout overwhelmed cantaloupe as haughty on reports. rescued during a dangerous journey across the mediterranean to europe, with in less than 24 hours, more than $400.00 migrants were picked up by humanitarian group. see, watch, it's
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a risk. many of them know all too well. many of them know that it's quite likely that they weren't making it, that they generally will drown in trying to seek safety. but for them, it's the only option they have and these are the stories that we hear. and these are people that we meet time and time again. nearby other groups of migrants on refugees wait on the island of lump azusa. more than a 1000 arrived in italy with an hours many are from afghanistan, pakistan to dan, ethiopia, and somalia. basically, european states, i dedicate thing all of their efforts in stopping people from making their way to european shores. and so it's a policy of exclusion and the isolation. the islands reception center has a capacity for 300 people. but 3 times as many migrants are there. we influx comes as italy, gears up for early elections, which could bring hard, right,
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politicians to power. oh, the united nation says more than 30000 migrants and refugees have arrived in italy, bye. see this year. and more than 1200 have reportedly died attempting to reach europe, katia, lopez, civilian. i'll da 0 and haiti, hundreds of people, a sheltering in a school in the capital, puerto prince. any of them at children have taken refuge shelter, gang violence, killed at least 400 people dismount in bro circle. these haitians say their homes are no longer a safe place. in the midst of gang was, they thought shelter an empty school. 16 year old misled joan with its home one saturday when he was hit by a stray bullet into stuff. there was no school that day. we stayed at home and there was a lot of shooting. many people were killed, many people were shot and some didn't have a chance to save themselves. the situation is really bad. hundreds of people are
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sleeping in classroom. some on shad matched hovers on the cold floor. many children came here without their parents. one community leader says they will, their school uniforms, the gangsters would think they were going to class. someone who says the children said that the situation had worse and on saturday, 16th of july, they couldn't find water to drink, that they couldn't find food that they wanted to go out with. so on sunday we went to take them out of it, still trapped in the cities, poor neighborhood caught up in a turf war. un agencies say they can do nothing. it's too danger. those who did manage to escape as god by what they experienced blood bombs. when you buy them outdoor me. i found the bullet next to my head. i was sleeping and i heard the bullet had a child with me, and i told him to get under the bed southwest,
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not some violent crime is increased. his the assassination of president giovano moyes last year. the political instability has emboldened gangs 8. his government has been unable to end the bloodshed pulsing children like these to do what they can to save themselves. he and bruce held you there. still come here on al jazeera . ah, ukraine said cit. sites on re taking an important city in its battle with russian forces. unsporting behavior, the terrifying moment a robot brabs the finger of a child, its playing chess against an flying high, yet another well record on one of the world's best acquaintance ever seen. ah
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hello. we should say some much needed rainfall into north western pass if you that's good news has got to freshen out. we'll see some wet weather coming through here. hillary of low pressure moving out into the nor wait and see. and it said timing where the front, scratchy dragon, the way in an wesley wind. so that'll just not the edge of those temperatures. no such down 2 walls si se, down towards the hungarian plane towards the balkans. more very high temperatures over the next few days into the mid thirty's want to 2 spots, getting up into the high thirty's may even touch 40 celsius once again. because he progressed it around 37 by tuesday, wednesday could be touching 30 night. we have had a 40 recently in hungry, see that pockets of warmer a halter rather across the se, if you're pretty hot to it's a good part of italy. so in terms of what the weather's doing, here we go. we're that's a shabby rain coming in across northern ireland when a 2 showers in the republic of allan scott and seeing
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a few shad england. certainly seeing some wet weather and down towards the southeast a long lost some welcome rifle. it has been pretty dry here recently went by the 2 ends to scandinavia and some very heavy rain coming down across central and eastern parts. much seated mindful freshening things up. southern parts of europe stay very hot, more hot sunshine for north africa. ah, a disciplinary court in poland. the accused judges 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, ah judges. under pressure on a josina and egyptian dr. trailing and britain in the 1980s
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shocked by famine. amen justice worldwide and driven to set up a charity to help those in need. that was his dream to create an organization survey be what they need. serving people have all regions and old yoga fi across the world. nearly food decades later, outages are well meets the co founder of one of the biggest islamic agencies in the world. pioneered by now the giving business on al jazeera lou. ah ah, they're watching on his era reminder about top stories this hour for the main president for non medical junior is making his 1st state of the nation address on
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house junior is using his speech to promised tax reform that he says will bring more money to the masses holding stations are open across to nicea for a vote on a draft constitution. which opponent say is an attempt to return to one man. will. president chi psi says his changes have been necessary to rein in a corrupt political and eat me. most military jointer has executed for pro democracy activists. what belief is what is rather what is believed to be the best use of capital punishment in decades un special rebel tor has called it a depraved act. could speak to tony chang for more on that story. who joined us from bangkok, tony, so few had expected that these executions would actually be carried out. what's the fall out? likely to be well shook. i think we spoken to activists inside mamma, who said they 1st heard about it this morning on social media just after the
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announcement was made on state media. i think the assumption was for many people that, that there would be more appeals process is that a lot of these, these, these men would be kept in jail probably in very brutal conditions, but they wouldn't actually be executed. that hasn't happened since 1989 other people have been sentenced to death in the past, but again, have been left sitting in jail for long periods of time. so it has come as a shock. one of the activists we spoke to said that he hopes that these men wouldn't be mon, by people, but people would use this as a motivation to reinvigorate the protest movement since that military coup in february, 2021. we have seen an awful lot of process peaceful process in the city initially in recent months, more bonnam process, particularly in both areas where there's been a lot of fighting with ethnic groups against mamma's, military and increasingly in central areas of mamma to in some places i think there
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is a very jaded feeling now that they are stuck with the military who are clearly not going to bag down. but i think activists hope this might be the touch fun to, to reignite that fight and to give people more strength. and indeed, the thing were expecting more flash mobs to occur in the larger cities today. and i think this is certainly not something that people are going to ignore that tony tang, thank you. on russia says its forces have destroyed the ammunition depot and west in ukraine. moscow says the facility in the cam know minsky region was being used to store us, made rockets, frustrates, and john henry, who's live for us from keith. john. so this is, this is new what we know, what the russians say, they've hit a demco with these i'm, our systems are him, are systems which are multi rocket launchers that the ukrainians,
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who said they have been very effective with. in fact the cranium. army has put out a release saying that they have used those weapons to strike and destroy 50 depots of ammunition held by the russian. so they have been saying that those are very effective. ukrainian military officials say those are a game changer, but they've only had a dozen of those. so if the russians have indeed struck a number of those systems that would do some damage to the ukrainians ability to strike back and some of these precision strikes that they have been carrying out. they've been asking the united states for more the united states appears, willing to offer just for more of those systems right now. and the reason for that is that president joe biden is concerned about escalating that conflict, but ukrainian military says those are extremely effective. rocket launchers and they would like to have more of them. it remains to be seen. how many of those were
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destroyed by the russians? if indeed, that is the case. meanwhile, there is a bloody war of attrition going on in the south in the east of this country, president volota mirrors. lindsey says that they are moving in toward the city of hare san a key strategic point in the south. here's our story. ukrainian forces leave an important bridge in the strategic city of harrison pockmarked but still standing but perhaps not for long. the soldiers as they are out gun by powerful russian artillery, but determined visible and we will liberate chris on. that's the sure we will not give it away to the russian value. that's why we here. so our children won't have to fight any more so that we can solve this method now and forever. to the can, julia in harkey, have mobile artillery units have attacked russian targets manageable part of even
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the occupiers admit we will when we hear it in their conversations all the time and what they're telling their relatives when they call home. but the war of attrition on the ground is somewhat overshadowed by russia's shelling of odessa as port ukraine's as it intercepted 2 missiles on saturday. but 2 more made it through a russian military spokesman says those missiles hit legitimate military targets. a warship he says, and a warehouse filled with american made harpoon. anti ship missiles are going to do what a $55.00 and it's going. russian forces took action in boats of a desa, adult, ukrainian worship, and a warehouse with us supplies mythos will destroyed last year. in the rush, i used long res naval mis files. you know this as he poured them on the territory of a ship prepare plant. dr. the attack has been widely condemned coming less than 24
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hours after the 2 countries signed an agreement for the safe passage of ukrainian, wheat, corn, and sunflower oil from odessa and 2 other black seaports. speaking in egypt, russian foreign minister, sir g. a lab rob says moscow will stick to the deal may put in here, because we have confirmed the commitment of russian grain exporters to meet all their obligations. president vladimir putin also emphasized this in a recent telephone discussion with egyptian president l. c. c. if not, the war in ukraine threatens to trigger a food crisis that would be felt around the world. john, hindrance al jazeera keith and so kayla roth is continuing his african tor. these, the latest pictures of the congo leaves leg of his trip is also expected to visit you, canada and a p o p. a. african nations have largely avoided taking sides in the russia ukraine war. hassan candy is the director of the horn international institute for strategic studies, research and policy thank tank. he joins us now from nairobi in kenya. thank you
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very much for joining us on the news. all. so as we said, the russian foreign minister is visiting a few different to african nations. what is this trip about for russia? i think the number of things you know, who can look for on the continent. number one is too late condition for the upcoming russia africa. i mean, they scale to take place in a few months. and i think it's important, especially in the late of the war. but 2nd, i think, to demonstrate that stands about position by moscow, africa position, which contrary to many, many in the west has remained largely online, especially by refusing to go into the functional regime in the west and being the being interpreting must or something being very positive to them better so critically, it's important to know that, you know, africa is one of the largest was you put the wheat from that region. the most of it
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by the current would show to, you know, and so there's an attempt to reassure it's african putting us on the constant, especially being part of the global style. that the most, you see a country that can be able to bank on probably walking to ensure that they put crises zone. but also another aspect he's, you know, half of, but because, you know, you know, comes, you know, comes from, from russia and nice sanctions, likely to affect the kinds of engagements and commitments. and of course moscow how to regulate the constant. and so this is also then romantic to more, to communicate to africans that the kind of engagements have been going on with more space going to punch in despite the kind of sanctions. but perhaps, you know, on the final, not don't these issue wouldn't be to try and crop, build new life and strengthen the lesson that once in a way that can provide what muslim me see as a counselor to the west,
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especially at a time also when western influences has been declining and has been reducing some of the countries in the home in west africa, as well as in a central africa and not to mention some day the relationship with the constant that has some of the western sentiment, basically pushing certain countries to what oh no, just moscow, but also b g. ok? well from the perspective then of the african nations that he's visiting beyond reassurances, as you say about weapons and grain. what else to those nations stand to gain? beyond that, you know, the also what a say, you know, the commodity the bought a new just to give an example. in recent months, when, during the ticket in a utopia itself, increasingly of course isolated especially by the west and the reference was
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a change any i think the only bigger frame in terms of supporting and that has actually increased the influence of cause a muslim, the weights but as we speak, the voices in west africa was central africa calling. when we get, you know, by moscow on the country in part because of the declining space in the ability of the west to be able to meet up to, you know, certain commitment as well as the double standard some times that, you know, it is demonstrated by the way when it comes to africa, eternal as well. as we said, africa nations have largely avoided taking sides in the russia, ukraine war. i mean, how much pressure all they under james bond from the united states as well as breast as opposed to ensure that african country, you know, a do not explicitly support russia or at least, you know, the jump onto the sanctions regime of a band. but that is
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a network that didn't get any leading countries on the continent have been extremely relax and some of them up in the boys support for russia, africa, in parts because of the history of these countries. but also because of the way africans look at the conflict in ukraine, and they're looking at it more as that at your political condition. coming been part from the end result issues of the cold war. that's where the matching cold war . there's no billing between the alright, hi. thank you very much for analysis half on can onto the director of the horn international institute for strategic studies. and so having me, india has sworn in 815 president, had a high level event in new danny, to part of the move is the 2nd woman to ever hold the ceremonial role. and also in the 1st person from a large feet marginalized community to be off at the post. she replaces rom north cove, in a fellow member of the governing
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b. j. p. happening without joins us now live from new delhi to talk about this. so tell me a thin a little bit more about the significance of this appointment. it's a very historic and highly symbolic danger in politics, particularly for people who don't necessarily see them, says represented at the highest level drop would be more, more is in just 2nd female and 1st tribe will pass in to be elected to the highest office of the land now about 100000000 people in india identifies parts of tribal communities. these are largely indigenous people, indigenous groups that are on the margins of society. and i mean that politically, economically and socially and just to be more more come from one of the largest off these tribal communities. and today is a big important day. we've seen celebration since the day she's been elected, particularly in tribal bells. now it's also important to note is that more more is
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a veteran politician who has a reputation of defending tribal fights. she was the governor of one of industrial states that is chalk. and i think that ruined she challenged to boost proposed by her own government that she believed could violate tribal rights in the region in her swearing in ceremony earlier today, she alluded to the historic nature off a presidency saying that she hopes that millions of people, women, and child with the people in others, the margins of intimate society see that reflection in her success problem with all their life and new delhi. thank you. a lot. wildfire in california is spreading towards yosemite national park. the oak fire started on friday and it's boned through more than $6000.00 pictures of land, and thousands of people have had to flee their homes. animals at a zoo in china as kong shout city are playing at coal with
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a heat wave sweeping across the region. giant pan business while as co olives and bears have been given, blocks of ice to play with zoom keepers of also installed fans around trees to keep away the hates and hippos and top hairs are being fed watermelon. to keep them hydrate it still had on al jazeera action from the final day of the world athletics championships, including another well record a ah
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now chest is a game of strategy concentration and most certainly non violence. but in russia, a 7 year old boy competing in a tournament has had his finger broken. this was his opponent, a robot that didn't seem to enjoy the child's swift play. as the boy makes his move, the robot immediately snatches his finger bystanders had to rush and to free him. and he did play the following day in a cast. organize to say the incident happened by coincidence, but it's late to debate about the safety of human robot interactions. mark einstein is a specialist in artificial intelligence and chief analyst with the i t r corporation . that's an i t focused research and advisory firm. he joins us from tokyo, could talk to you again. so apparently this child needed to wait before making his move and he didn't. but this is a robot trained to make its own decisions around how to play a very complex game. why would it go?
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it break a child's finger mean, how could violence be programmed into this machine? right, well yes, i think there's a few things to, to note. and so this chest playing robotic arm is actually very similar to the kind of an industrial robot that you would find in a factory. so they're actually very powerful on so the fact it was able to, to break this child's finger doesn't surprise me. but when a, an, a i robot makes a move, it needs between one to 3 seconds to process the image of the piece and, and make that move. and really what i think happened is that child's finger looked very similar to a chest pizza, queen, or, or a bishop on the child, kept his hand there. and that's why this unfortunate accident happened. it's the same. we can't ask the robot what it was thinking, but if this is an error, what kind of questions does it raise around the safety of using artificial intelligence? mean, if rub makers con, even, and show safety in a chess game with all the other technology we're looking at going forward. what
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does that mean? right, so i think that's the bigger story in that you know, the fact that a, i is even moving into a child's test tournament to shows how this technology is, is now pervading, citing. and um, you know, this was, you know, quite a serious accident, but you know, we're also going to have software which is with a remote control autonomous cars and drones and factories and everywhere we're a, i goes, there are going to be software witches. and so this raises the question, you know, do we need to have some kind of, you know, a, i standardization, do we need to have some kind of regulation to ensure the public safety going forward or, or 70 questions around a i right now on there and not just like physical safety questions, but ethical questions as we program artificial intelligence with huge amounts of data. how do we ensure that the a i we create doesn't repeat the same mistakes that humanity has made?
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well, that's a fascinating question and i think one of the, the most interesting aspects about a i a is, you know, i think, as we've discussed is it's not just about technology and algorithms. um, it's about ethics and philosophy. and i think that there are many members of society that have a place at the table to, you know, help decide. you know how a i can still be beneficial because you're looking at a future with 0 car accidents, which is the number one non medical cause of death in the world. i believe that this will happen, but there's also potential for great harm and science fiction. you know, movies and books have been written for decades about this. and every year we're getting closer and closer to these things actually happening. so i do think that that more steps need to happen. yeah, i mean, asking those, i'm kind of ethical questions i guess from a macro level. at this story, we're talking about a robot which is playing chess, but a large pot of a i am coming through is being funded, either by corporations or it's coming from the military. so doesn't that in itself?
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raise questions around, you know, what happens when those things filter through to us and, and they are very the nature of their design. it does zyden, i think that's a bit. it's an excellent point. and i think one of the, the concerns in the technology community concerning regulation is that, you know, it's even today, it's been very hard for governments to regulate the internet because they're often 20 years behind and a, i is such a critical thing and there really needs to be more of a public private partnership and my view um you know, to ensure that the regulations are keeping pace with technology which is moving at at whitening speed. it's fascinating so much where we can talk about that the time we have labor there. thank you very much for joining us, mike. on sunday, or a specialist in artificial intelligence. thank you. i to santa sport has jenna. thank you. can i'm on the plant as a shade. why? he's one of the top names in athletics right now. he break his own route,
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recorded to in the po vote tied to the while championships. it was one of 2 records to fall on the final day in oregon. david stakes reports. ah, it is the perfect way to bring down the curtain on 10 days of competition. omen de prentice the flying sweet. easily tid, 6.21 meters to break his own pole vault will record. he's only 22 years old, but it's the 5th time he's landed, a reco jump, and he becomes the 1st po both ever to have one all major senior and junior titles, including the olympic gold in tokyo, last year. the world record from the greatest po volta, how sport has ever seen. the most important thing was to try to come up here, man, today, taking the 1st day under title without a title. so in other words, which is an article, honestly, everything that happened the way that it's pretty,
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pretty crazy. was another world record on sunday in the women's 100 me to hurdles luxurious toby, a new son costello in 12.12 seconds in the semi finals. and she actually went even faster to claim gold in the final. but the time didn't count because of excessive wind speeds. germany's my like him, a hambo did enough to retain her well title in the long jump. another gold medal to go with the one she went at the olympics in tokyo, jacob in britson, made up for his wonder, up finishing the 800 meters earlier in the week. the norwegian took a convincing win in the 5000 meters instead with olympic champion, joshua chapter guy. finishing way down in night. things were a lot closer in the women's 800 america's olympic champion. nothing moved doing just enough to hold off britain's key, hutchinson. she's the 1st american woman to win the world 800 meters title, with different things going on. it definitely means
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a lot to me. it shows how strongly i am in how much faith i have. and so i'm just really happy that i could do this year. ah, who had the honor of collecting the team award for the u. s. a clean sweep in the fall by 400 me to release. gave them a record $33.00 metals over all of the 1st world championships ever to be held in the united states. the next edition will be in august next year in hungary, capital budapest baby stops out 0. that of what i think sebastian coast as this. yes championships will go down as the most universal edition of the events. 81 countries had athletes reach a final which is more than ever before that code. i think the competition needs to be shorter. i don't think we should ever feel that existing formats are absolutely sacrosanct and this is not a criticism of here or any other championships. we just know the existing challenges of having 10 days morning sessions. you want flow, you want content,
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you want people in the stadium that are actively engaged and may be looking at 10 days. you're not gonna arrive at that easily. i'm not sitting here saying, you know, there's a new imminent change. we have our championships that are contracted and an agreed up until 25, but that's sort of where my head is at the moment. but i don't have a tightly prescriptive view max us up and has extended his lead in the formula one well championship after winning the french. pre ferrari's shot class started from pulse position and was leading until he crashed on a scene the soften. it's if i for the front that was barely challenged the red bull driver one that why more than 10 seconds taking a huge step towards consecutive while titles lewis hamilton and finish seconds in the eighty's and his 300 from pre had a teammate, george russell, inside once i was in the lead to the end, it was all about managing good advice, but you could see in the beginning was very close with 3 my call from charles.
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fortunately because he dropped out. yeah. was very happy with the wind. but really, you know, there's a little bit of work to do it my home, and if i keep doing, you take that, then i did have to multiply, which i mentioned the level is very high performing to high level, but i keep doing those me saying that it is pointless to be available. i couldn't really be much happier. of course if one be another step, but definitely didn't expect that result today. i was praying and hoping we could fight for podium 3rd, but i believe we have a 2nd. this is, this is huge. for us, year in his thing ago says it feels incredible to claim his maiden told france title. the danish young bo this my right sealed his victory in the mountains earlier in the week before securing the jazzy and the ceremony. will final stage on the shoulder say in paris, he finished top of the general classification, 2 minutes and 43 seconds ahead of 2 time when i had a pa. gotcha. the women's told frances back after more than 3 decades is taken
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33 years to revive it. the 8 stage race began on the shelves and on sunday, shortly before the men entered the french capital to finish their event. the women from cover more than 1000 kilometers with the opening stage one byte and from the brook. henderson has become the 1st canadian male or female to win more than one major gold title. she started the final round of the championship in france with a 3 shot laid, but off to a poor opening night holes, she found herself in the chasing pack. henderson notes stormed home with 3 bodies over the last 5 holes and needed to sink this part of the 18th to secure a one shot victory. and listen to a $1000000.00 in prize money. and you'll say when the p. j championship in 2016 just now they've been today, but yeah, just tried to stay patient and kept trying to remind myself that i was still in it
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and i just needed some birdies and just needed a little bit of momentum change to stay in it. and i made some clutch, puts and shots down the stretch, which really helped you know, i'm just super excited to have my 2nd major term chip when 12, when on tours. pretty cool too. and i'm just really excited for the rest of the season. holes in men's golf tiny fee now is celebrating his bud pga tour when after victory. the 3 am open in minneapolis. this highlight from the final round, it didn't come from phenol, but from that american james hon. he hold out for eagle on the 12th and would end up in a tight, a full place, clean out with 5 shots, back with 11 homes to guy, but took advantage of mistakes by the leader he made for buddies on the back 9 to finish. 17 on the pond when by 3 strike and will finish with an incredible catch in major league baseball. this was little sandy's dodges against the san francisco giants. dodges player,
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trace thompson at track to fly ball and shooting radical athleticism to catch the ball over the railing. and the foul area trace is the younger brother of golden state warriors. and based on clay thompson, the duchess went on to win the game at 7. very impressive indeed, that is only a sport for now i have more later can thanks for jemma but not some spectacular pictures coming out all the australia. this is sydney shroud, its in early morning fog all summer able to enjoy the view. others faced travel delays and that is ab horse. it did eventually. claire, by mid morning. that set for me can banal for this news hour adrian finnegan, his hair in just a moment with more of the days you'd see for bye. oh aah!
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with 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 bound been muscle was occupied by i. so the melody survived. durtin christian curd, arab sunni, than she has these young men and women represent the diversity of iraq to be able to hear music. i mean, the ruins of muscles also diffuse 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. inequality corruption, repression and re the political. it just decided to come to the piece of cake. i'm
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