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protests continue following the swearing in the new president could sri lanka, economic and political crisis, lead to humanitarian 1 august, which is iraq drank assessment. how much support is there that st protest that we've seen in cartoon across the rest of the country. the st men have been very good at tapping into the core confound to people across the country, informed opinions we will say more. what is happening is that climate change it making them work in depth analysis of the days global headlines draw. he is credited by some way where they were storing italy's credibility this critics would say he couldn't play the part of a politician. what do you think went wrong inside story on al jazeera, control of the narrative shapes the landscape that's rarely and quite to the pol, keep those images front of mind. a few. the war very much been fought out in the media as well as on the battlefield. there listening, pe, dissect the media on al jazeera. ah
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ukraine says it's just waiting all the signal from the you and in turkey to stop grain shipments. ah ha, ha ha robin, you what you all of their life? my headquarters here in tow hall, coming up in the next 30 minutes. sir lang cause new government resumes talks with the international monetary fund for a bailout, as the inflation searches to record high mammals, military is accused of using fight planes to fire unguided rockets in civilian areas. and up for auction, the tropical pete lenses act of his fear could become a climate catastrophe. ah, welcome to the program. you says it's ready to dispatch the 1st shipments of grain,
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black seaports. president, lot of his landscape says he's waiting for the go ahead from the us and turkey. about 25000000 tons of grain have been stuck in ukraine support since russia invaded in february, not just, not only looked on our side is fully prepared. we sent all the signals, are partners, you and turkey, and our military guarantees the security situation. the minister of the infrastructure is in direct contact with turkey and the un. we're waiting for them to give the go ahead. tell henry is in the ports that he will desa with more we have been able to confirm that not only are the 1st ship loaded up, but that it will leave today if it hasn't already. and we know it's either going to come from the port of turn, a mores or the port of odessa, which is where i'm standing. you can't see it because of the rules here for press, say we can't show it, but i promise you, it's right over there. they want this site to be on identical and identifiable for obvious reasons because they know russians are watching. this is, well,
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this was all actually announced in a news conference earlier today, but it was embargoed until just now. the infrastructure minister, alexander cooper cough said it at this news conference in which members of major nations had ambassadors there. he said, we have completed our preparations to export grain to the world. the ports of church mores and odessa are currently ready to export grain. there were grain laden ships before the war ready to dispatch, and there will be other ships we expect that to happen today. and it's possible that might be underway. you don't see a lot of ships back here because until this agreement, it was brokered by turkey. these waters were simply too unsafe for anybody to transport grain. so none of that is happening. you've had 20 to 25000000 tons of grain just sitting in this port. and now it appears beginning today that ukraine will once again feed the world. and that's important because there's
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a looming food crisis in africa and elsewhere where people are desperately waiting for these shipments to come. so we'll have apparently a 1st shipment to day and then there will be other shipments are 3 black c ports. the 2 i mentioned earlier, and piv, denny, which apparently will be ready soon to can continue these shipments. but the 1st shipment apparently going out today ukraine and russia blaming each other after another strike on a prison facility, kill dozens of people. it happened in the russian held town of vanka and in the next province of eastern ukraine, ukrainian prisons of war were being held and the detention center, the 75 were injured. ukraine's foreign minister responded to the incidents on line saying that russia had committed a war crime. russia has denied the accusations. not at the moment a large number of ukrainian service men voluntarily lay down their arms. knowing about the humane attitude towards prisoners of war on the russian side,
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displayed and provocation was committed to intimidate ukrainian service men and prevent them from being taken prisoner. circumstances of this provocation are being investigated. russia's foreign minister elaborate says that he schedule a phone call with the secretary of state, anthony blink. and it'll be the 1st conversation between the 2 top diplomat since russia invaded ukraine in february. love role didn't confirm a date, but says the agenda is still a work in progress. now you as president joe biden and chinese president teaching pings, spoke for 2 hours on thursday, and what was being described as a 10 phone call present. she has warned by not to play with fire with regards to taiwan us, house speaker, nancy pelosi is reportedly planning a visit to the island which facing regard as part of its territory. the us president raised allegations of genocide and false labor of weakness limbs. well, biden is not reported to discuss removing us terrorists on chinese goods, but he has accused phasing of unfair trade practices the tom american workers
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trying to base jealous. patrick voc explains the latest reaction from beijing on that calls. well, the foreign ministry, more or less echoed what presence she had to say to present by the, on the topic of taiwan in that conversation, which was essentially that beijing was resolutely opposed to what it sees as an external interference. and those who played with fire would get but one of the interesting questions that was posed to the foreign ministry spokesperson, john jen today though, was whether or not china would continue to engage with the u. s. in these dialogues . if nancy pelosi visit to taiwan doesn't the go ahead to june sheet, china has repeatedly made it clear to the u. s. s. serious concern of speaker below his potential visit to taiwan and our firm opposition to the visit. if the u. s. i challenges, i reply, it will be confronted with counter measures or possible consequences that may arise from this will be borne by the us side. now he said that the truly that the degree
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to stay in touch, but he didn't really elaborate on whether or not this might be impacted by that potential visit by the u. s. how speak? beijing has warned previously a possible cancer measures of the visit. the go ahead, we don't know whether it might be a diplomatic response or military response, but certainly it would be seen as a significant step back if the to read it with the stop talking to one another as they have been present by then came to office these at sessions where they've come together and discuss that differences if you like, have been key really to stopping this relationship from going off the rails. and as a matter of fact, reports of said, bits of the 2 did as told their aids to organize an in person meeting the next time round, or they speak with one of our that's wrong because the present running rick from a singer and his team have resumed discussions with the international monetary fund, it's hope the talks will lead to a bailout for the country stricken economy. earlier the world bank said it wouldn't
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get financial assistance until it was becoming forbes in place. so lanka has been in deep financial crisis since 2019 and rick from a singer, has promised to get the economy back on track. no fernandez is in columbus. she says the government is coming to us, criticism was harsh treatment of the protest us. the groves might be smaller, that one we've seen in recent months, but no less vocal. the banner says renelle must take responsibility for this crackdown and people here from civil society representatives of the protest groups saying that the government has no right to launch this violent crack down on the protesters and pick them off one by one, arresting them for essentially voicing their opposition, people now see the proto site does the site of bender that is previously plus the production site that gave people to college. j. b berg. and people came
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together. they and i was a, was a site where everybody can talk to please. but now leave the site up here and the government is planting that. and it's quite clear that the government in no means wants protest to build up again, as you can see behind me, a protest says have taken a seat. i live all, i'm sort of started this silent demonstration. they've said they're not going to be violent, but they're just making their voices heard over here. you can see the huge are band of are police of security, the army on the other side. this police, this special task force commanders, the protest as have been told to stick to the protest grounds on the other side. and it's quite clear, as i said, that this is to prevent any, such as big gatherings. all crowds getting together and coming close to what this struggle was against. initially the government have got arbitrage epoxy. and now
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that of run a vicar missing ham vamos with trees accused of using fighter planes to fire and guided munitions and civilian areas. according to report by a group of independent investigators miramar, witness says the gender is using the jets to target arm group. supposing lustrous cou. as tony chang explains, a fighter jet screams along the border in northern thailand at the end of june. it's happened several times. this year and children know the drill, hiding in shelters until the skies a clear. but the jets are aiming their guns into myanmar. ah, blue conflict on the border is decades old. the air war is new. since last she has qu, the gender is deployed, attack helicopters, and fighter jets against armed rebels, opposing its rule. so our to under ground, i wonder jack, come, ah, we get a hides. i didn't really care about
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a that is actually in place and me place that they just bought everywhere. they just shoot the rocket and everywhere they gesture, the mashing galle everywhere. ah, the attacks have been relentless and there's little the rebels can do there like machine guns and small arms and no match for the aerial bombardment. and there's one plane, they fear more than any other. every car, air play, attack, incur any they used at their blue blue collar when yeah, 130. the yak, 130, a russian to see to jet, who sometimes described as a trainer that has full attack capabilities. the initial fleet was ordered before the coup. but according to a report by independent investigators mia, my witness. another delivery as arrived since the military took over housed in these newly constructed hangers, using social media and geo location,
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the report ledges these planes had been deployed and civilian areas, acquiring unguided serbian rockets. the 80 mean m, your ammunition is usually hits, which means high explosive anti pang when it comes to the possibility of aiming this an ordinance precisely to target, it's not really accurate. naturally, these people were fleeing ariel and artillery attacks on the eastern town of lake, a gore in december. since then, more than a 1000000 people have been displaced from their homes across myanmar, their greatest fear attack from the skies. tony cheng al jazeera still had here on al jazeera kentucky flood. something's 15 people have died on the state of emergencies in place and why journalists heading to the u. k. conservative parties conference sure will be trying to get the chief sees.
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i think java bali this general area of indonesia has been and will be dry more or less for the next couple of days. the constant rate of construction rains not much further north through bornea and still a ways back to will singapore. but it's in malaysia and a property certain times in cambodia and a big master class gives the threat of flood to the philippines as well. so very little this area is free of clad or potential showers. north of that, we have got more of an arrangement. this tropical depression, that's what it is. so it's not a risk of strong winds. it's just a circulation of big thunderstorms that's on its way to the east coast of china. it may or may not make landfall, but i think much the writing is going to go to eastern flank. we can't really track it be on the middle of sunday. so heavy rain done the western side of south korea, the small rollins to japan and increase the amount of cloud and rain in central and
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southern china with a heat wave. and that's what it has been. is dying down, humans is coming up so it won't fill me better, but some light rain is probably welcome against what's been dry and stuffing the hot weather for india as an increase in the amount of rain down the western gets. but equally, the shouts continue in northern india, northern pakistan, to some degree, bangladesh. and they're still big ones. ah, our, it finds our wow, we live here, we make the rule. not them. people empower, investigate, expose them, and question a youth and abuse of power around the globe. and how did era from the world's most populated region, in depth stories from across asia and with culture and conflicting politics?
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one 0, one east on al jazeera. ah, oh oh, i look about he wants you out there with me. so run the reminder of all top stories. ukraine says it's ready to dispatch for shipments of grain blacks. the 4th at the bottom is lensky says he's waiting for the go ahead from the us and turkey. it's wrong because the government has resumed discussions with the international monetary fund for bailout. earlier the world bank said it wouldn't give financial assistance until it economy reforms in place. the nation has been plunged into a deep financial crisis since 2019. and the amount military is accused of using find to play, to client and guided munitions and civilian areas,
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independent investigators, me and my witness to say that gender has increased arrow taxes last just to a pretence to has been killed in guineas capital during demonstrations against the military rulers that as anger because no date has been confirmed for elections after lustrous qu proper anger has more protested thought guinea would quickly returned to civilian rule. when they back to military coup against president out for condi last year. now they say they've been duped. said manifesto so many people, this protest is revenge against this regime. we thought the crew was a change, but no, it's just a change of facade. i support the offend dc. i supported in everything that it's doing. after taking power, the military promised a 3, a transition back to civilian rural protest to say that's too long. and the west
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african regional block a class agrees. g d aquiner county. i was in conner, cree with the president of the commission of vehicle, was to make the military john to understand the decision of the summit of heads of state that the transition cannot exceed 24 months. oh, the national front for the defense of the constitution or ethan d. c. is the coalition of political parties and civil society organizations founded in 2019. it led a wave of protest appears in contest plan to change the constitution and run for a 3rd term. now it's demonstrating against the military who says that developed around a cooling september of 2021 is no longer there. that civil society and, or vision bodies are determined to have his c. and if the hotel doesn't open up a more inclusive, more consultative, more transparent decision process,
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then we could be in real trouble in guinea cannot agree. the military hunter has fan protests, but these demonstrators aren't listening. barbara and copa out to sarah the democratic republic of congo is auctioning off licenses for oil and gas exploration. environmentalist say many of the 27 parents overlap national parks that home to endangered species. climate activists point out that the exploration risks, the destruction of peak lines, which hold vast quantities of c o 2. but government officials say the country desperately needs the money. a little bit of that is our country is full of oil and gas resources that have for many years not been exploited. today, the president of the republic has decided for the very 1st time to put these resources up for the benefit of the congress. people arena will be barbara tech, or is project leader of the congo based on forest green piece. though she says the sale will be
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a disaster for the country. it's really shocking to see that companies, officials are really keep pushing this project to why we know this will not contribute to the local development communities to just say is coming to us that are living in those areas. they're not even informed about this project. and we know how high the corruption is in this country. so we are really concerned because we are surely that it's only a very few number of population that we would make benefit on this because of corruption and the rest. what more than 100000000 communities would be in deep property that you see is a country that is calling itself is felicia contract or climate try this. and we really hope that oratory says we had to us. we continue to talk to those investors who are trying to take that high risk and invest in this very destructive i. project. rushing up or just trying forest is not at all part of the solution. it's really a critical issue that we really hope that many people around the world will just to
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stop it, because it's really key for the church of humanity. you know, this, the i project we're talking about, i blocks and guys blocks. and more than 10 of these are located in a forest area and, and we how, how different are in that? yes, the is playing a critical role to fight against damage change. and we're talking about a very sensitive ecosystem, quoting pity, and that you story more than that you bid on ton of cob one. and that is about 3 year of image of a mission of the entire planet. that means any oil expectation in this area would be a carbon bombed objects. it will be exposed. and if you model, you won't be the same anymore. that's why we are calling for this top of this constructive on project. india is really force is of shot dead, a 16 year old palestinian boy in ramallah. i'm just double earlier. i was shot in the chest while demonstrates against settlers attacks in the alamo hire town. according to local sources. his funeral will be held on friday. now the family of
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al jazeera join, the sri know, but actually has made an impassioned plea for you as politicians to support an independent investigation to murder that they have the support of 80 members of congress. she returns the reports now from washington. d. c. my name is lena claire and shooting was my aunt capitol hill was the latest stop for the brother, niece and nephew of slain al jazeera reporter, serene blackly as they keep up the pressure on the bike, the administration to open an independent investigation into a killing. this is the very least the by the administration must do. they cannot rely on israel's word. war criminals cannot investigate their own crimes. julian was my little sister, the family members also renewed the call for a meeting with president biden after he refused. during his recent trip to the occupied territories. a us citizen, a prominent journalist, beloved by millions of people, was killed by a highly trained israeli soldier. president biden was 10 minutes away. he never
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came to see us over 80 members of congress who joined the family and cooling for an independent investigation. and she was trying to help us through her journalism what was happening now. we owe her for memory and her family and outcome of what happened to her. i'm so sorry to the family and i'm embarrassed or when the murders where israeli uniforms there is complete silence. this is bigger than one person or one country. this is about our values as americans. on tuesday, the family met with us secretary of state and we blink him. afterwards he tweeted that he expressed his deepest condolences and a commitment to pursue accountability for sharina. quite tragic killing. but the family said he made no commitment to an independent investigation. the next stop for the block as will be the department of justice. the family says it's not naive . and so aware of the u. s. history of shielding israel from accountability for its killing of how the citizens or us citizens. but it says it has to try and stop the
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cycle that leads israeli soldiers to feel that they can kill at will she ever time? see al jazeera washington for me as president donald trump has defended hosting a saudi backed golf tournament. one of his courses, i mean the backlash from family members of 911 victims. now the latest event, the controversial live series falls on friday at the veterans to call the new jersey, which is about 80 kilometers from ground 0. some family members and survivors of the 2001 attack sibley saudi arabia aided the terrorist who carried out 911 edge from not to host the event. well, nobody's gotten to the bottom of $911.00. unfortunately, they should have as to the maniacs that did that horrible thing to our city, to our country, to the world. so nobody's really been there. i've known these people for a long time. saudi arabia have been friends of mine for a long time. they've invested in many american companies, and frankly,
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what they're doing for golf is so great. floods in the state of kentucky have killed at least 15 people, but that number is expected to rise. the governor has declared a state of emergency was the destruction could take several years to repair tens of thousands homes without power. more rain is forecast. in a word, this event is devastating. and i do believe it will end up being one of the most significant deadly floods that we have had. i expect double digit deaths in this blotting. that's something that we rarely say. it's gonna take time as these come in. and as i'm a talk about in a little bit, we are more rain to night and some areas. and we're going to need people to take some steps to keep them safe. otherwise, the, even the total that we expect could grow. opposition and piece of hacker, peruse president while he delivered a speech to mark his 1st or in office heddrick. esteem is facing allegations of corruption. his supporters say the accusations of politically motivated arianna
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sanchez has more from lima one year in office, 2 unsuccessful impeachment proceedings. more than 15 ministers dismissed and bid augustine as presidency here at its worst hour. he is facing 5 corruption related proofs at present denies any wrongdoing. close allies and family members are also under investigation. 0 one, no. i have sworn by god to serve my country. even if my family is insulted, every day in the majesty of the presidency is offended, i submit myself to justice, declare the crimes this i am accused of with respect to due process. and my duty is always to tell the truth. ha, holiday called foes interrupted his speech from left the chamber after you admitted making mistakes in these past 12 months. but said, he said chief minns have been ignored. unhealthy upon an
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overall discontent. the majority of resignation. opinion polls say 71 percent of peruvians disapprove of his government. and for critics, there's no hope that his presidency can be rebuilt. good, we want costio to understand that his cycle is over. he started his government with an antique corruption, dana, however, there are already 5 fiscal investigations that clearly demonstrate that he is committed to corruption from the 52 year old rule teacher who was sworn in with his farmers hat won the hearts of men who believed gusty you is honest, it's almost like gotta millennial, we know that he's a good person and they who never steal them of because a lot. but during his 2nd year, as you said, he will offer his hand to work for the good of the people. but to achieve that, he needs allies in a country rocked by political instability. as steel was expelled from his own party
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. opponents in congress will try to unseat him again for many who put their trust in him. his offers to work together may just be too late and innocent. so just see that lee might be to ah, venezuela and columbia have started to normalize diplomatic relations. ambassadors will be appointed, and consonants will reopen for the 1st time in 3 years. when colombian president, like gustavo petro takes office early next month, the 2 nations say that our work towards boosting security along their 2000 kilometer border columbia's outgoing president. and some had supported efforts by venezuela opposition leader hung quite out to oust president nicholas in the douro . an official inquiries now on the way in hong kong, up to 2 dancers with a boy band were injured during a concert. the band called mirror were performing at the hong kong coliseum, when a giant screamed fell on to the stage. 2 were heard, one is in a serious condition. the series of shows has been played by technical faults and
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questions over safety. the case conservative party is being accused of jeopardizing free speech by introducing fees for the media to attend his annual conference party . critics say the media ticketing is a tax on democracy and re, simmons explains. birmingham is bustling as it host. the commonwealth games demand for tickets is at an all time high. not so exciting, though, is disturbing, caused by tickets for an altogether different event. here at the international convention center. it's the conservative party conference due in october. and all journalists have to have tickets costing up to $1500.00 each. people here don't think that's right. says i the conservatives to me. i think it's wrong, democratically and morally. you know what? it won't that one of these 2 politicians richie sooner called his trust will have
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won a party leadership election and become prime minister in september. that makes the conference even more newsworthy. we but inaccessible, say, some journalists, it is unprecedented charging media to access that party conferences. it is effectively stop being a lot of people from going and therefore it is a really lock in the u. k. democracy. so what's the fuss about? the conservative party is charging a $150.00 for journalist tickets booked early from august. the 1st they increase to a $1000.00. and the week before the conference, they're up to $1500.00. the labor opposition party tickets are $6.00, which it says as a voluntary carbon offset charge. and it isn't just the scale of the cost that's causing consternation. a joint statement put out by media and free speech organizations along with the n u j. the journalists union in the u. k says that it causes
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a precedent to be set and other countries in the world could use financial areas in order to prevent media scrutiny of political decision making. so should people be worried about the media having to pay for access to their elected politicians? at a cost i read the subject of different subject altogether. what do you say? i'm not going to the conservative party to run, but i'm absolutely clear the democratic principle here is, are the politicians available to an accountable to the public? and the answer is yes, or is johnson is on the way out of control over how his party goes about fundraising remains. his focus. people say media ticketing needs to cover things like security checks and accreditation. critics say it's a tax on democracy. andrew simmons hodges era fermi. the scientist say they don't know how to control a virus. it's kill 3 young elephant that has to in switzerland. so you keep it say
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