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southeast asian foreign ministers urged china to practice restraint as it continues its massive military rolls of taiwan. ah, hello there, i'm the soviet, hey, this is al jazeera life and also coming up the monkey pox outbreak is declared a public health emergency in the u. s. has cases rise and vaccine supplies slow down for you as police officers are charges for their roles and the shooting of brianna. taylor black woman killed in her home and watched raise and angry crowds attack. suspected legal miners in south africa after 8 women gang rapes. ah,
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now southeast asian foreign ministers are urging restraint as trying to launch as a 2nd day of massive military drills off the coast of taiwan. beijing launch to those exercises following us how speak announcing policies trip to the island dot top, diplomats from the lcm block and our meeting for a final day of talks. and cambodia is capital open on pen. chinese foreign minister, one years attending, along with his russian counterparts. aguilar brother, and you are secretary of state, anthony lincoln will also be at the meeting. well, how speak and nancy pelosi has also visited the demilitarized earned separating north and south korea. she has been visiting the south and the latest stop on her tour of the region on a trip to sol, she praised what she described as the strong bond between the u. s. and south korea . on meanwhile, the u. s. national security spokesman john kirby says he expects that china will continue to react to her trip to taiwan. the united states is prepared for what vision chooses to do. we will not seek, nor do we want
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a crisis. at the same time, we will not be deterred from operating in the seas and the skies of the western pacific. consistent with international law. as we have for decades, supporting taiwan and defending a free and open indo pacific florence he has worn out from cologne, pen, cambodia. this is the chair and host of ours in this year. and it's foreign minister again made the point that they faced many challenges in the past, but they never had to confront so many at the same time. and he also said that the con, the region here, believed in p security and prosperity. and that is the ultimate goal. now, there was this specific mention of what's happening in the taiwan strait, but it's very clear that tensions in the taiwan straits have really overshadowed event in pen and the tensions i even being paid out on a personal level. chinese foreign minister when he entered the summit venue on friday morning, he tapped the russian foreign minister take a love rope on the shoulder as a way of saying high. but he made
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a very pointed not of the japanese foreign minister. and just the day before china cancelled at the very last minute, a meeting with japan. this was to show china's displeasure with a statement issued by the g 7 with regard to how speaker you had how big a nancy pelosi visit to taiwan and japan is of course a member of the g 7. so we're really seeing those tension in the taiwan strait, being played out in a personal level here in cambodia. now, you know, dislike the best efforts of the top, diplomats from austin and from around the world. you know, it's, it's really quite a tense situation here. and we'll have to wait and see what the next couple of what well, what the meetings that will take place late on friday. what sort of a diplomatic when diplomats will be able to achieve? as you mentioned, beijing has been conducting now. it's 2nd day alive. fire drills around the island of taiwan, taipei says,
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chinese naval ships and military aircraft have made several incursions into its territorial waters. meanwhile, taiwan has scrambled jets to warn off 27 chinese aircraft in its defense zone. japan's defense ministries, as it believes that 4 chinese missiles flew over ty, one's capital, city, taipei, the islands president, sighing when says it will family defend it, sovereignty and national security. in hen don't go that pay wasn't dolby in teaching. today, china has conducted live fire exercises around taiwan, this deliberate and continuous increase in military threats miss all launching on the world's busiest shipping lanes is not only against taiwan, but also against the international community. these are irresponsible actions. now our army has strengthened its combat readiness. the army will keep a close watch on all surrounding military movements. we are also in close contact with our allies and work together to prevent the security situation from escalating in the region. while while dig a pollen is the international editor of taiwan plus and has more on the reaction
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from taipei. let's have any government had called these exercises irresponsible, especially because it goes into civilian aerospace and go to waters where you would normally see a large amount of traffic be commercial or you know, personal traffic of people passing through. and so there is much concern that there will be some kind of collateral damage in a sense, even if it isn't a targeted part of the targeted area. also, thailand government has told the people, if you're a tie, wants to stay calm. they know they are clearly monitoring the situation that confirm that the ministry differences confirm that and let the china has part 11 ballistic missiles of waters in north east and the south west. and the japan ministry says 4 or 5 missiles have minded in their special like an economic zone. now for those flu over taiwan, aerospace, the ministry of defense, that they were monitoring them, but did not react in any way because of the all to,
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to too much too high cost damage. and the trajectory was beyond high ones waters. of course, you know, the government is quite vigilant at the moment that was really, really carefully. the key thing here is that they don't want to instigate anything that might bring back a greater reaction from china. so at the moment they say it's clearly monitoring and safeguarding defense is not necessarily taking any action at all or contract fuck is a journalist based and beijing and has more on the chinese military drove. well, the say one global times has been detailing extensively what the military actions are about and what weaponry and other assets have been deployed. and one of the things that talked about today is how the missiles that were fired from china over taiwan the day before showed that china had the ability to hit targets in the philippines. c, like aircraft carriers that may try to intervene. that was without a shadow of a doubt, a reference to the u. s. s. ronald reagan,
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which has been ordered by the pentagon to remain in that area to monitor the situation. it is expected to remain tense in the coming days. separately reports the same that chinese foreign minister one g cancelled a face to face meeting with a japanese. can't about your sh massa. hi, she on the sidelines of an asi and gathering in cambodia after the g 7 issued a statement expressing concern about beijing's threatening actions. it also comes off to toko said that missiles fired by china had landed into it's exclusive economic zone. this may be seen as a direct warning to japan, as it has also become increasingly out spoken about the need to maintain tie, wants national security, a thing in asia, at least 13 people have been killed and a fire and a night hadn't thailand, police encumbering for them that southeast of the capital banker a forcing people with an injured the fire at the mountain be night time starting at
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around 1 o'clock in the morning cause it's not yet clean. moving on and the u. s. has declared the monkey pokes outbreak a public health emergency. the number of reported cases is said to be doubling every 8 days. corner of emergency means more money and facilities are available to fight the virus. but they are all concerns that vaccines are running out. there are more than 6600 cases in the united states. so far. president biden appointed to federal officials on tuesday. they'll now coordinate a national response. or aaron, sol as the director of the elizabeth griffin bio safety program at georgetown university. she says there's a need for grace education about this fire. i think one of the big things that we need as a public health community, and as just a general community is to think about risk communication for exposure. it needs to be clear and it needs to be non stigmatizing. and so while this outbreak began in
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men who predominantly have sex with men, it could and it spread from there, it could have easily broken down any type of population of individuals. right now it is not time to panic, but it's for education and awareness. so this is a pathogen that we have been able to do. research on, we have the vaccines, we do have kind of measures and barrels that are effective. the pros, i, i guess i could say to this virus is that there is a longer incubation period. so when we identify cases we can treat them and identify close contacts and vaccinate those individual. so we can actually really contain misread much more effectively than something like coded that transmits very, very quickly. the kid, big cases themselves, are self limiting. so typically people recover within 2 to 4 weeks. and really the, the key here is preventing transmission to more even vulnerable populations, those that are compromise pregnant women and children. and so that the key here is really being able to increase our ability to openly reports and detect cases how
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point of care testing at health care facilities. and that is going to be a rate limiting step. i think both here in the us and abroad, and being able then to get the proper treatment to those. indeed or for us, please help her have been charged over the killing of brianna taylor. a black woman shot dead in her home during a police raid. it's now been 2 years since the death of a medical technician at that mass protest which developed into the black lives matter movement. rosalind jordan reports i heard i heard i a moment of celebration for the family and friends of brianna taylor for current and former louisville police officers have been arrested on federal charges in connection with taylors killing in march. 2020. yeah, line. well, we been saying it was the truth that they shouldn't have been near. and nat, brianna didn't deserve that. taylor was killed when lowville police stormed her
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apartment, looking for a drug dealer. her boyfriend said police didn't announce themselves, and so he fired his gun at what he thought were intruders. police shot back 22 times. hitting taylor in the chest. federal prosecutor say police knew they didn't have the evidence to justify rating taylor's home, but they did so. anyway, earlier today, i spoke with the family of brianna taylor. this morning. they were informed for the justice department is charged for current and former louisville metro police department officers with federal crimes related to ms taylors death. those alleged crimes include civil rights, offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction offenses. the officers are also accused of plotting to cover up their behavior if convicted they could get up to 20 years in prison for obstruction and 5 years for conspiracy and line oh,
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along with the killing of george floyd and may 2020 taylor's death lead to protest across the united states, against both racism and police brutality. the lawyer for taylor's family called thursday's arrest, a product of speaking out of the widow, $55.00 children like brianna taylor, who will fight for the city of louisville, paid brianna taylor's family $12000000.00 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. on thursday, tamika palmer said the rest are just one more step in holding the police accountable to days overdue. but he still heard a recognition that oh, the legal success in the world won't bring her daughter back. rosalind jordan, else's era hostile a had here on out as in a conspiracy theorists will have to pay millions of dollars after claiming that the schoolmaster didn't happen lives on hold. but his doctors raised the alarm with
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nearly 2000000 people now suffering from long. ah, the journey has begun. the, the full world camp is on its way to catherine group. your travel package to day or for parts of the middle east, temperature's in sun spots are running about 10 degrees above average. however, one hears the details on friday, so back dead at $52.00 degrees q weight at 50. that's while above where you should be for this time the year. gotta tell you, i think there's a very real risk of seen some flooding in jemine's capital santa with these bursts of ranger rate through to the he jazz mountains. now i want to take you through the gulf states. the winds are going to shift around south for doha. so that's going to ramp up your temperature to $41.00 degrees. this is a day forward on saturday,
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and there is that flooding brain potential on either side of the red sea as it carries through on saturday. the rain starting to wind down for portions of barker storm. we do have sun bursts of rain to be found, but the bulk of the energy will stay toward the northwest of india. next stop, we're going to turkey. we've got just a mix of sun in cloud through establish 30 degrees, some showers across turkeys, black sea coast, but nothing major. central africa looks like this. of course we've had that flooding in eastern uganda, especially around late victoria. but these bursts of rain coming off the ethiopian highlands, and just moving further toward the west. and as we check in on south africa, hate now plenty of sun kit, tell. look good. with the high of 15 on friday, susan casa air with visual airline of the just the latest news as it breaks the country. when we're on monday, one the controversial constitutional referendum, which is widely expected to both present slaves or torture with detail coverage.
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the cost of fertilizer has more than doubled the season. that's largely due to the warren you crave from around the world. all of these cows are infected with port and belts. disease fe, dairy cattle, but then milk production has dropped by more than 70 percent. ah ah holiday watching out there and that's remind you about top stories here with southeast asian foreign ministers are urging restraint. as china launches a 2nd day of massive military drills off the coast of taiwan. top to pronounce from the auction block. and i'll meeting for a final day of talks and cambodia, capital and on pen. meanwhile, tie one's defense. ministry says it's military is preparing for combat readiness.
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but it's not asking for war. it says a multiple chinese navy ships an aircraft cross the taiwan straits medium line on friday morning. and the u. s. declared the monkey pox outbreak, public health emergency a decision means more money in facilities to fight the virus. there are more than 6600 cases in the u. s. so far. now the conservative political action conference has begun in texas. it's become a gathering of donald trump's core supporters over the years. this meeting was no different and will culminate on saturday with trump himself making an appearance she had returned. the reports. c pack has begun in texas and it's dominated by supporters of donald trump. m does the us heads into the midterm elections. the confidence of attendees is palpable reading made clear, and the conference slogan headlining, the opening day, hungarian prime minister, victor, all them. a couple of weeks ago, he was accused of giving
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a speech that sounded like a nazi like he advisor, who subsequently resigned, but clearly relished his reputation as he spoke of creating an alliance of christian nations protecting what he called western civilization. i can already feel tomorrow's headlines. far. right. european raises an empire. how much thrown the man the trojan horse up put him forth. be as close to him. he was received rapturously. there was a great st. yeah. why was it a good man? i mean, he talked about different policies and hungry that worked well for his country and how the united states and maybe replicate some of those and how we can work together to advance a conservative cause. it was excellent. visit budapest, the major event at the c pack will be on saturday when donald trump is before his followers. whether or not he declares his intention to run for president and 2024. his speech will be a reminder of the command he holds over the republican base and other major theme
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here, the republicans growing outreach to minority versus why that shift with the hispanic . and i would say other minority communities, including the african american review, to, to say, i'm going to reject. he's left us policy or measure the disarray of the democratic party that the republicans can appeal to supporters of or van here while hoping to be preachy for the minority. elsewhere. you have a company out here. meanwhile, a jury in the u. s. has ordered a conspiracy theorist and broadcasts to alex jones to pay more than $4000000.00 to the parents of a boy killed in the 2012 sandy hook school in africa. and joins repeatedly called the shooting in which 20 young children and 6 adults were killed. hoax. he heard from the far right website info was and was sued for devon defamation by the parents of 6 year old jesse louis. they said that they were harassed and received death threats because of james's claims. now the u. n. is preparing to send
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a fact finding mission to a prison complex and ukraine's dumbass region, which was shells last friday. at least 50 prisoners of war were killed. both russia and you can accuse each other of attacking the facility the prison was holding members of ukraine's famed as of regiment. john henry, what's now from tooth for you, lea, a fetish shook time stands still. she spoke to her husband are sidney as he was about to surrender to russian forces after he was ordered to abandon the last post in mariel. the famed as our regiment had held the city for months in a steel plant in one of the wars most dramatic stand offs. i spending my husband when i was a regiment was surrounded. actually, she called me in people's me at services to the kate, but it was not at that time because they were on the back of, for you. bombs. he called again, briefly twice from all in
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a prison in eastern ukraine. then last friday, the prison erupted in flames, killing more than 50 soldiers. russia said it was a ukrainian missile strike. ukraine said russia blew up the prison to hide the torture of ukraine's most legendary fighting force. do you know he's a lot? definitely no. because i can only 1000, he's not in the list of dead soldiers which was posted by russians bought this as least is not verified by, by ukrainian government. so i don't know, i'm wondering actually me on thursday in key. the families of the as of regiment called for their release. from the sciences, miriam poll, the last stand, the as
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a regiment in yula is here together with the other families, asking for them to come home. russia has declared the amazon regiment, a terrorist organization. russia who used the regiments early association with far right groups and the use of allegedly nazi related symbols, is justification for what it calls the d. not suffocation of ukraine. current and former as of fighters, reject that assertion. or he of the will of russia made as the part of a mythology part of the propaganda is out of the niecy lot. and i see from myself that i should put up a good day by deena certification as a reason for so called military nation falls apart for the families of as of the battle is now there's to carry on. they were fighting for us and they were fighting for us during the 80 years they were defending us. and now we have to do the same
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since now we have to defend them and we have to save them until her husband returns for eulley. a fed issue. the battle of mary a bull never ends. john henderson, al jazeera keith. are you an expense say they have solid evidence of rwandan fruits operating neighboring democratic republic of congo? supporting and working with the n 23 rental group, for wonder, has repeatedly denied similar accusations in the past. reuters is now seen a confidential un document with photos and drone footage from eastern congo. the report says we're one that provides the m $23.00 group with weapons and says its troops and rebels have carried out joint attacks against the companies military residence of us alaskan township of basin, a group of men after 8 women were gang rapes last week. police arrested more than a 120 suspects in connection with the fault. crowds and cookies, so on the outskirts of cricket or target. the men who are also suspected to be
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illegal. miners, please say at least one person has been killed in the unrest resident say, the miners are responsible for high levels of local crime, for me to mila, has worn out from cohesive. the situation here in coffee. so and the will stand up to have is what is quite volatile. i just behind us is a large group of community members. we've also seen a sales team. people they alleged to be illegal. minors is amazon, amazon, they're known here. they say not only are they mining illegally at disused mind sharps trying to find gold, but they're all so according to the people you are terrorizing the community. they accused these illegal minors of killing people in the area of raping women. here. people here say they're not safe for now. they've come out and you see a number of police vehicles. they've had to use stun grenades and tear gas to try and disperse people. but
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a lot of these community members have come out. they say they've had enough and because police, according to them, are not doing enough. they're taking matters into their own hands. rescue crews and mexico are rushing to free 10 minors trapped in a collapsed and flooded coal mine there. more than 200 army and government personnel had been deployed to the site in co co real estate. the miners are trapped between 60 meters deep mine charts, which are half rotted by water after wall in the line was breached. with the water started spouting up into the mine tunnel, we should take all the was route 1st. so the mind is can go in and rescue the workers there. then we'll get to that one. we have been informed, there is nothing else to do, that they are making every human effort. and we hope they have more means so they can rescue the trapped minor soon. and bank of england is projecting that the british economy. it will slip into recession that by the end of the year, and to raise the interest rate by half a percent. that's the biggest jump since 1995. the move is aimed at coming the u. k
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is worse inflation and 40 years. central banks around the world have been pushing up rates the cubs bending and bring down prices. andrew simmons has worn out from london. aside from this, sir, increase in the interest rates, which is the highest, the 27 years the highest rise and 27 years. there is a warning of this recession of prediction, if you will, that it will start in the last 3 months of this year. go right the way through 2023 . and that still will be a problem with the beginning of 2024. now this is on a par with the 2008 financial crisis for the u. k. however, it's shallow of that crisis is more in line with what happened to the 19 ninety's, another recession there. what will happen for people in the u. k. will. they're going to find that their wages on keeping pace with the cost of living that's already the case. now we're seeing lots of industrial disputes because of that that
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will continue. the real killer blow though is the cost of energy, and that's down to the russian war against ukraine having a major effect. let's just take a look at the system that works in the u. k. to cat energy bills. annual figures are going up from 2 or a half 1000 us $1.00 to $4200.00 so so this sudden increased on energy bills. colossal it costs more than a $120.00 to fill up the average fuel tank at the moment. that is another major area. furthermore, there is a whole question mark about how people can really afford food bills across the u. k. so this is for a developed country, a serious crisis. bombing my latest figures in the you, k, show that 1800000 people are suffering from long coven medical expense. governance must make the same effort to come at
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a long time. allah says and had to fight the original outbreak. sonic a guy reports the pandemic that changed the world, and it's still affecting hundreds of millions of lives. yet out of those who recovered from infection, a number to come to another phenomenon. post cove, it syndrome like the majority of those diagnosed with long covert shanie right, wasn't hospitalized yet 2 years on a lack of understanding about post covered syndrome has left him dealing with a condition that impacts his daily life. there are no effect of treatment for the illness itself. all doctors can try and do his target specific symptoms, but most of the symptoms they had no treatment is also the lack of understanding around the condition. and doctors have very little insight into what he on the line dr. is off for a personal perspective dealing with post cove,
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it's syndrome has been a very frustrating experience. it's debilitating and also extremely unpredictable. and even though the relapse is become part of day to day life, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with a so many of us can confirm. and while research has are at the forefront of trying to find a treatment, they say that there needs to be a drastic rethink and how will deal with this on a societal level. robert, now this is a physiotherapist helping patients with long cove it and is himself living with the condition. he has seen a rapid rise in those seeking help and knows how it's affecting those who are trying to return to normal life to their employment, only to relapse through the effort. they can do things and just the things are going to take a tour on them. it's really a bouquet thing people to eat back from the intensity of doing whether it's walking different patterns. and so that there may be work in 2 days a week,
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but via our experts in the field. i'm of pe the accordingly. so the not having the financial hurt, cuz a lot of people of feeling been really struggling financially. no grass roots groups have also been crucial journalist nor in jemila set up a podcast the long cope it's sessions. but patients desperate for support is now being used by health practitioners as a source of information. you know, we're looking at $1.00 and $5.00 reporting to the cdc. are people developing a postscript syndrome that is a massive cohort or long credit community or advocation for themselves. meanwhile, the increasing numbers are requiring defined strategies like those put in place at the start of the pandemic to deal with post cobit syndrome or those affected wait for an officer to this math, disabling event. funny guy. yeah, go out to 0, london. ah.

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