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ah, the 19th sixty's was a period of change around the world, including the middle east and north africa. we dreamed of the fair and democratic society we dreamed of revolution. the 1st of a 3 part series out as they were world, explores the regional events, people and forces that shake the decade with our dreams were many. we started with great dreams but ended up with sad set by the 60s, in the arab world. politics on al jazeera ah, bold and am told stories from asia and the pacific on al jazeera. ah.
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but todd al sadi supporters camp inside iraq's parliament. what a rival militia group calls for counter demonstrations. ah, i'm carry johnston. this is out to sara. well, i from also coming up in the 1st step towards easing a global food crisis. a ship carrying grade leaves a ukrainian port for the 1st time since russia invaded u. s. how speak and nancy pelosi is in asia, have possible visited to taiwan this joint threats from beijing. thus we're on the patrol with nigeria security forces in the hunt for oil thieves. ah.
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we begin in baghdad, where rival protests have been held on either side of the tigris river, which divides the city. thousands of protests, his backing, sheer politician looked harder. outsider, are still camped inside the rocky parliament. they stormed the building on saturday under refusing to leave until there's an overhaul of the rocks, political system and constitution. meanwhile, arrival group, known as the coordination framework, has held counter protests against what it calls a suspicious qu, there is heavy security in and around the green zone to keep the 2 factions apart. or one reason behind a protest in baghdad is a rivalry between 2 of the rocks leading ship. politicians that's not tied to our said earned former prime minister very our market. in october populist leader, southern coalition won the most seats in parliament, or like he and others called the result in legitimate in june. so they're told that
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more than 70 m. p 's to resign. that was after a boycott by malik his block stock. his coalition forming a government and in a sign of the tension there leaked audio recordings allegedly reveal monarchy insulting solder. in them he warns of a war between the rival chia counts. ma hood of the war had, has more from the counter protests. now, the 14th of july suspension, bridge in baghdad, 2 different scenes in the iraqi capital about that to arrival protest. now, here in this area, these are the supporters of the pro iran parliamentary block, colder coordination framework. they've come here in the thousands, near the green zone. they've clashed with the security forces and pulled down some of the concrete blocks at the fence of the green zone. they say that they've come here to preserve the state institutions and took to protect the
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legitimacy of this state. they say they are rejecting the occupation of the par, limited quarter by supporters of the shot clinic looked at her. i'll saw them now they had been chanting against the most of alchemy, accusing him as they say, of collaborating with the supporters of a sub and older to stay in poetry they had been chanting against the when i did the states, they have been chanting against israel linking both of them, ironically to another supporter. well, meanwhile, dosage of barriers following protests inside the greens. and she said, this report from outside the rocky point. these demonstrators have our being here. i in the iraqi parliaments over 48 hours and they say they will stay here as long as, as it's needed. they say i, they will wait until they get further instructions from their leader amongst other
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. i'll sutter and we are just outside the building itself in the courtyard area. and as you can see, it is full of people that inside it was very difficult to even breathe. these are the crowds have gathered, and now they have taken over the entire grounds of the parliament area. well, federal sutter issued a statement on sunday evening urging our iraqis to come to the capital and support these demonstrators. but since then, his media relations office has said that they don't want anybody to come from the other provinces until further notice. we also understand that that the counter protests that of an ongoing outside the walls of the green zone, which is about 3 kilometers from here. there have been a number of demonstrator is having minor skirmishes with the security forces who have had to use water cannons to disperse the crowds. they are not going to be to climb over the concrete walls to get to this area. the fear is that the 2 sides will be a club. there will be clashes between the 2 sides of the demonstrators. the center
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is here say that they want a complete overhaul of the system. they accused the poses of being corrupt and that they are tired of having iraq in the hands of what they call external influences, including iran, iran and the united states. for the 1st time since the warning crane began, ship filled with grain as left port under a deal struck with russia. united nations chief says the resumption of grain shipments will help bring stability to global food markets. what we have with us today, you know, this is an important starting points. it must be the 1st of many commercial shapes bringing relief thence, the ability to global food markets, the black sea, great initiative, the last 4 significant volumes of exports from city. you could, i didn't ports odessa shorter on mosque, and use ne, together we the agrees facilitation of the any in be the,
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the excessive russian food products and fertilizers to willed markets. it will bring relief and stability to global food markets. and they'll tackle the global with crisis. john hendrick was there in the ship left port. oh, this is a ship that could launch a 1000 others. the rezone is the 1st cargo vessel to carry ukrainian grain through the black seasons. russia invaded on february the 24th all j. a said no. he was a great feeling for me. i felt as if we became free after being detained for a long time. trailing a pilot ship, the rezone is a test run, bound for east in bold, bend, lebanon. if all goes well, many more will follow. alexi gone to wrinkle a member of the ukrainian parliament, came to watch history and to make its valid duration of the black sea from port him and from russian empire. he tried and did everything. he can not to give this ship
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and other ships disability to leave odessa port and for almost half year it was like this. but as you see, he failed. the ship departed despite several rushing attacks in the region, and on the port of odessa itself. since the un brokered in agreement between ukraine and russia for the safe passage via is timbo. it's been a long time coming, but this is a ship. every one's been waiting for coursing through war time waters. on its way to feed the world. ukraine says the shipments will create jobs and provide money to fuel the war effort. as the 1st of last year's delayed crop leaves farmers risk their lives for this season's harvest, sometimes led by d mining cruise. sometimes not, this harvester struck an explosive. the danger on the grain trail continues on the black sea journey to turkey through waters dotted with sea mines in an active war's own. it's all managed through a joint coordination center in turkey,
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and extraordinary collaboration between representatives from the un, ukraine and russia. we believe that it's critical to and to ensuring global foot security. so yes, we need, we need to succeed. whether this is the beginning of the effort to avert a global food crisis or the end depends in part on the voyage of the rezone. john henderson, al jazeera, odessa ukraine. u. s. how speaker nancy pelosi has a robin, singapore, the 1st stop and her tour of the region. she's visiting malaysia, south career, and japan discuss trade, coven, 19, and climate change. it's still unclear whether plays. he will include a stock in taiwan. her official itinerary does not include what beijing has warned her against visiting the south coming on and which it claims as part of its territory pillow. he'd leave google for his house speaker pelosi goes to taiwan. it would be a gross interference in china's internal affairs. it will seriously damage chinese
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sovereignty and territorial integrity and trample on the one china principal. seriously threatened the peace and stability of the taiwan strait and seriously undermined c u. s. relations and lead to a very serious situation and very serious consequences on the chief of man laws at military has extended the state of emergency for another 6 months. it's been in place since the general deposed the government of our son, c, g, and fabri. last year, so she is in detention and has been charged with several offences. monitoring groups for more than 2000 people have been killed, and 15000 arrested in the crackdown on pro democracy protests since the 901 telephone, cima. we made up most efforts in discharging the state duties with might but internal and external terrorists and their conspirators are committed to the utter devastation rather than the flourishing of democracy in myanmar and the legal committee. the parallel government and terrorist organizations against the government,
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which is formed in the constitution commit various ways and means to distract the security piece and stability of the nation. number with any change has more from bangkok on the regional reaction. to this point, they have, for the most part, expressed their outrage of the, particularly the execution of 4 political prisoners. at the beginning of last week, a malaysia's foreign minister went as far as to say, that was an act, a crime against humanity that he said that he had wanted to introduce the 5 point s e n plan last year. but it hadn't been possible because of waves of coven waived 2 and 3, which had hit me on my very badly. he said that this year me m. i was in the process of implementing that plan to the extent of its its own ability. and that seems to be a get out close, but i think that anyone really looking at this objectively, would say that ma'am, are certainly from a military perspective, has gone nowhere towards employ implementing assay ons plans. and i think are,
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sienna will be looking very bluntly at how they respond. there may be conscious within us. yeah. and like thailand that will try to re engage man, mom. but i think the opposition coming from countries like the philippines, malaysia, indonesian singapore, will be very strong now, either to isolate man, mar, completely from the grouping. or to take some, some more positive action against them or to, to try and get them to take this process a little more seriously. so they had hair announces here a wild, far as new estates of california spread quickly, fueled by hot and windy conditions. and would explain why tensions are high and to border crossings of closed in crossover. ah hello, we still have righty the forecast for the middle east. she can see this band of
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cloud and wet weather, which just straddles the western side all around one or 2 showers. a possibility, i think here a caught, we should stay large, you drive a little on the cloud, the sites and that wet weather extending across towards the red sea, some heavy down poor. still a potential for some flooding into the southwest of saudi arabia. could see further flooding to into other western side of yemen. i'm afraid farther north it generally stays dry to be a sunshine, hot sunshine too into the mid to high forty's. once again while the more pleasant 30 celsius. therefore, beirut that east is out of the mediterranean lossy settle and sunny. not too bad at all. warm sunshine to across northern parts of africa. plenty a shower sea. hastily waves rolling off the opium, harlots. bring some big down pools there into sudan, sal sedan, southern parts of chad near seeing some lively showers. northern pas nigeria casee, a little bit of localized flooding. see that white weather extending across towards the liberia and to the north thereof just around the coast there. little dry than
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it should be at the moment. we see some excessive rifle. meanwhile, just around yukon, but we had some flooding as a result of this system. western parts of kenya also sinks and much needed re showers for south africa. ah frank assessments, how much support is there if it's street protests that we've seen in hunting across the rest of the country? the street has been very good that tapping into the core consent people across the country, informed opinions we will say more of what is happening in the climate change, making them work in depth analysis of the days global headlines. druggie is credited by somewhere really restoring 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 lou?
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ah, you're watching out here. remind her of our top stories now. she at lee them at target asada is coiling on all iraq case to join protest as camps inside parliament . he supports a storm the building on saturday for the 2nd time in a week in the mining and overhaul the political system and constitution arrival group has health counter protests against what it calls a suspicious coo and it's been heavy security in and around the green center to keep the 2 rival fractions apart. the 1st ship carrying ukraine grains now left the ports of desa under an international deal signed last month. the rezone is a sierra, the own flagged vessel carrying more than $26000.00 tons of coin. the
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head of iran's atomic agency says his country has the ability to produce a nuclear bomb, but doesn't clam to ahmed. as louise remarks came hours before the u. s. a. now it's fresh sanctions on entities involved in the ron's oil and petrochemical trade . i think ashan has more it was error announcement from iran, atomic agency, chief mohammed, his law, me comments, which i could those made recently by another senior governments figure it. so by the way, it is no secret that we have become a nuclear threshold state. and this is a reality, it is also no secret that we have the technical capabilities required to manufacture a nuclear bomb. it will be an advancement of iran's nuclear program. far beyond the limit salt lived in a 2015 deal. the west. i am announcing today at 11, don't buy form a u. s. president. donald trump at the united nations conference for non proliferation. you are secretary of state anthony, blinking, criticized iran's nuclear policy on nonproliferation around remains on
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a path of nuclear escalation. although it publicly claims to favor return to mutual compliance with the j. c. p. o, a. the joint comprehensive plan of action since march around has been either unwilling or unable to accept a deal to achieve precisely that goal. talks aimed at returning to the you have been stalled since march. earlier this week, you foreign policy chief joseph burrell in cottage to both sides to the stock negotiations, putting a new proposed text on the table by the about the pay after reviewing the draft text, it is possible that in the near future we can reach a conclusion regarding the time table for the negotiation, we'll probably see a new round of negotiations. negotiations to salvage the nuclear record began april 2021, but have been in deadlock since february. iran wants the us to lift all economic sanctions and an assurance that the next administration one's back out of the court . but the by the administration says,
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guaranteeing the d a survival beyond 2024 is in fostering. and it once confirmation that iran won't enrich uranium to military grade. hashem jessia, iran said it has arrested a members of the high minority suspected of spying for israel and trying to spread their religion is accused. the members of a community over working for a center located in israel to carry out targeted information gathering. the highs say they have been the targets of discrimination in iran. well before the 1979 summit revolution, a fuel truck has exploded in southwest in libya. the head of ambulance and emergency services was told alistair, that 8 people were killed and 54 injured explosion happened in the city of an a crowd gathered around an oil tanker. many of the wounded are in a critical condition. china has more now from tripoli. in the early hours of monday
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morning, a seal truck traveling in the bent albania area, which is a rule desert towns in between the cities of sub her and her body crashed on the side of the road. up just to give you a little bit of context here, southern livia suffers from extreme fuel shortages and poverty. so once the accident happened, the fuel, the fuel truck began gushing out fuel our residents. hundreds of residents in the area began gathering next to this truck to try to collect as much fuel as possible . i fired then happened the truck and the surrounding vehicles next to the fuel truck i exploded, causing dozens of casualties. 8 people have died so far. now, libya has 2 governments at the moment. both have responded to this incident. the internationally recognized government here in tripoli has said that it has sent
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a team of doctors and nurses to serve her to treat the victims the, the parallel government, a basin eastern libya headed by for tabitha. has said that they have open an investigation into the incident, but really events like this just highlight how people are suffering with in, with the political stalemate that's happening in libya and a lack of general services to its citizens. cost of a police of close to border crossings in the countries north of local subs blocked roads, and 5 shots that police subs are protesting against an order to switch their serbian car license plates to casa. and once your opinion has urged cause phone service to show strange and invited both parties to hold talks in brussels because of declared independence from severe in 2008. but more than $50000.00 serbs living in northern cost. still use serbian license plates. government in service it is not recognized
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because as a country artist, arrows, piano sandwich is that one of those closed border crossings. this is one of the border crossing between serbia and cross. as you can see from sunday evening, there is no crossing on the border crossing because the governmental school civil announced new rules that were supposed to be implemented today. for the citizen, serbia, you rules include that all the citizens from want to come to call. so we'll, we'll have to replace their ideas to the temporary documents, which would be for them during their stay in the country. let me remind you that that is the measure that serve be implemented for the citizens of course, of all, 11 years ago. so as you can see, there is no traffic at the border crossing and this is not the 1st time the tension is broke between serbia and costs of all similar thing happened in september or late last year. and similar things have been happening since got declared
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independence in 2008 because in the north of the country, of course, civil we have a lot of ethnic serves that are still loyal to serbia. the opposition in india is quoting on the government to rethink its move to increase taxes on essentials process for products like milk and rice would be impacted by the height. have the midterm reports from new denny. the engine parliament has been employed in chaos over the last few weeks and it is over the issue of price rise. opposition parties have been demanding a debate. they have stage protests and a walk out several m. p. 's have also been suspended for demonstrating. recently the government to increase taxes on several products and impose new ones on basic necessities like rice flaw packaged food and dairy products. this has increased prices further. the problem is that losses have become expensive and the rise of
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sweet lime has also been all these were much earlier. my expensive on upper income has not increased land. i don't even know the prices have increased 2 and a half day. much spectrum was about $0.90. now it's more than a dollar. a lot mustard all used to cost a dollar and 30 cents. now it's more than $2.00. a cooking gasoline, there was $5.00. i'm not paying more than $15.00. everything is become more expensive, but the government isn't deny it believes everything still costs. the government says the new taxes will prevent evasion. it also points out that several opposition party supported these. it says it will discuss the issue in parliament over the next few days. now, inflation is expected to remain high. the global economy is also having an impact. the international monetary fund has revised in growth prospects. it not expects the economy to grow at about 7.4 percent. this is lower than what the government had
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projected a few months ago. senegal, all seneca, all our president, her marquee souls at governing coalition, says it's one a majority of the sundays, parliamentary election, local media are reporting a voter turnout was just 22 percent. was ition parties are angry, is that some of their most popular candidates were disqualified from running? their worried sol may change the constitutional run for a 3rd term in 2024 hours. he resented bent therapy, has more from douglas. we have to wait. i may be one or more 2 days to have the official results. the problem is that both of the 2 coalition government coalition and of police opposition. the coalition already claimed victory saw we are facing a big problem out here. and we have to wait until the official results are published. last night we had to press conferences
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and the government coalition said that they win 30 fifths of 46 departments in all synagogue. and that they can have the majority in the parliament that the coalition of the opposition they held also account uh breast cancer is at the same time. and they said that they win in the biggest the cities in senegal, who are well represented in the parliament by a high number of seats. or we have some partial and not official reserves published by local media. while the 2000 people in northern california have been forced from their homes by massive wildfire is the biggest in the state this year. and the governor has declared an emergency. the mckenney fire is in the national forest. now the states
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northern board with oregon firefox as a concentrate on getting people out safely, rather than fighting the blaze itself. my kind of reports it's called the mckinney fire. it started on friday, grew from one to 160 square kilometers in 24 hours. and is now covering well over 200 square kilometers and continuing to spread a mandate. free evacuation order was issued. an estimated, 2000 people lift their home saturday and another 500 had been evacuated in the course of sunday. many leaving behind their possessions like this 81 year old. my house has gone all my furniture, all my clothes, shoes out. everything's gone. some decided to leave before the men de tree evacuation and managed to save some of their belongings. yeah, we got out before the fire, actually there was a red flag to get out of it. we don't want to be there to when they do say get out,
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have 15 minutes to get out and figure out all packed every to goes to get out there . soon as possible. the swirling winds made the course of the fire impossible to predict. i mean none from any angle at this point. it's just a matter where the wind take it. over 60 hikers who are on the popular pacific chris trail were safely rescued. they had about 20 feet of visibility on the trail at the time that they chose to call in and try to get some help. the mckinney fires by far the largest, but across the west of the united states, small fires are flaring up. erratic weather is threatening to bring dry thunderstorms with dangerous lightning, but little to no actual rain. and above all, the soaring heat is creating the ideal conditions for fires to start and spread. my cana out as era by jerry,
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i says it's destroyed more than $1500.00 illegal oil refining sites. in a renewed campaign to clamp down on crude oil theft is lost to more than $3000000000.00 in one year. if more loss is projected in 2022 artist here is acquired address, joint security forces as they hunted down the oil thieves in the niger dealt in there or land and at sea than i geron military is under strict orders to and the plundering of the countries, oil, when security forces returned to the side, they destroyed 5 weeks earlier. they encountered oil, the u. s. cruise chased them. the bundles ran towards their boats. hidden in the creeks. one is captured in tons of crush in this sir eli del refiners sites. we have crushed thousands of them as you are destroying
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one side before you get to the aud owen. and with owen is bringing up again. this pipeline is one of the most frequently vandalized in the country. it delivers half a 1000000 barrels of oil a day to an export terminal, but for the past 5 months, not a drop was delivered as the operator shell was forced to shut it down. if had dish and where when we're going to quicken camps august camps like this, the set fire to the camps in endangering us and am i equipment most of the stolen cold is ferita elijah vessel such sea by barges like these which are usually hard to apprehend. flying over the creeks, the devastation caused by all bunkering is massive. hidden under tree canopies, the old thieves are putting finishing touches to this facility capable of refining tens of thousands of gallons a day. and instead of using firewood,
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then our steel gas to distill the cold military commanders say that a 100 of these illegal distilleries scattered across the oil producing delta in addition to bleeding the economy dry. the operations also damage the environment because they are not properly equipped to process crude oil. the blunder of nigeria soil has left the country unable to be it's it's open quarter activities are going on as i speak to you now as so much collaboration guerra with the communities to make sure that there was a what in the process of protecting his assets. and the company looks up to the renewed clamp down to return to profitability. but with all thiefs continuously changing their tactics. it could be a long while before that will happen. i'm a decrease al jazeera in nigeria all producing delta. ah.
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