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palestinian fight isn't israel exchange fire just before a truce and garza 3 days of attacks of lift 40 for palestinians dead including 15 children. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera live from dar ha. also coming out the bill as amended is past the u. s. senate approves hundreds of billions of dollars to battle climate change and boost health care. i think the wife of pace, chads military leader, is expected to sign a deal and cut off with 40 opposition groups that could in decades of conflict with the host species you'll be left leg is april. columbia's 1st lift president has sworn in gustavo petro,
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promises to tackle drug violence and inequality. ah, the 1st hours of the french i'll cease fire and guns appear to be holding. rockets was still being launched in the minutes before the truce began. it was reached between israel and the armed group known as palestinian islamic jihad, or p i, j, and was mediated by egypt with help from the united nations in casa. you as president joe biden has welcomed the cease fire and says he supports an investigation into civilian casualties. israel began launching air strikes into garza on friday since then. 40 for palestinians including 15 children have been killed. palestinian officials say at least a 3rd of them was civilians. the israeli government said it's been targeting members of the p i. j to senior leaders on the armed group have been killed. the p
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i. j retaliated by firing hundreds of rockets into israel. most were shot down or blown up was speaking from to run the secretary general of palestinian islamic jihad explained its demands. the islamic jihad lays down it's a condition. so number one to your lie at all the palestinians. secondly, imposed on on the enemy to release our brother who has been on hunger strike, halle louder. and that has also put another additional condition. was she to release shift by some al sadi suffered al collude has more. from garza, this is fire is still holding. now that even local governmental offices are public offices also announced that they will re open their doors for public
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universities also announced that they will open early, open their doors that they closed ariel because because of the escalation for force, they will open their lords for the students, also, the municipality of garza and other municipalities are also the announced that they will deploy on send them a coup men's to remove their i bill on try to do the initial assessment for the destruction of cut us foreign ministry. say that supports if it's to stop the violence, had that had one and let and again, did kind of know eloquently because of this renewed aggression the could tarry role was again as it always is through contacts made by the good, sorry, ministry of foreign affairs headed by his excellency, the minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister with the various parties with the palestinian factions in gaza with irrelevant international parties. and with the israeli party, with the aim to stop this aggression and stop the continuous blood shed. in fact,
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could tar supports various international efforts in the framework of reaching the truce. that took place to day. natasha named reports from wisc, jerusalem. as far as israel is concerned, this operation is over. it is saying that the military said a short time ago that it used helicopters, fighter jets and arm drones, were among the tools it used to target is some that you had across the gaza strip. it has st. egypt for its role in mediating the cease fire, but says if attacks continue into israel, it will not hesitate to quote, act forcefully and says it will take whatever measures are necessary to ensure that the daily lives of israelis will not be disrupted earlier this evening. the prime minister year le pete went to the central military base in tel aviv to assess the situation. he had said earlier that the objectives of the so called operation
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breaking dawn had been fulfilled and that there was no need for the operation to continue. what were these objectives from the israeli strategic mindset? the objective was to neutralize islam of jihad with most, if not all of the senior leadership being killed, as well as the feeling that a kind of divide had been created between is found that she had. and her mass which governs garza with hamas remaining on the sidelines. there was a concern that if this operation was protracted and the death toll continued to rise, that perhaps hamas might enter the fray. it appears for now that that has not happened . ali auburn niema is the director of the electronic into fossa website, which focuses on palestinians under occupation. he says, palestinians and gowns a can't live normal lives because israel isn't held accountable. people in gaza
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don't get to go back to anything like normal because they're still living under israel's age. that is a form of silent violence against every man, woman and child in gaza. 24 hours a day, $365.00 days a year, 15 years. so unfortunately it's fragile. this is going to happen again. i can't tell you if it's going to be in a day a week, a month or a. yeah. but it's going to keep happening because israel enjoys total impunity for its crimes against the palestinian people and not just impunity, but full and active support. remember, it was bombing gaza with weapons provided by the united states by the european union, by canada, who all stood by israel. and these are the same countries that the sending billions of dollars of weapons to ukraine,
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supposedly to resist occupation and invasion. but here they are helping israel perpetrate, occupation invasion and tara, against the civilian population is really just routinely call these regular massacres. if palestinians mowing the lawn idea being you have to massacre them, kill a bunch of them. so they get the message that they should just surrender and accept that faith. and it's fully supported by the united states, the european union, canada, and sadly, now you know, it pains me to say a number of arab regimes that are fully normalized. that ties with this, frankly, murderous regime or to other news. now the u. s. senate has passed a sweeping package with $430000000000.00 covering climate tax and health care. democrats say it's a big victory for you as president joe biden. $370000000000.00 will go towards
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climate projects, making it the largest investment in the sector in the u. s. history. rosalyn jordan reports. after round the clock debate on saturday and sunday, the u. s. senate passed the last major economic bill of jo biden's agenda, the inflation reduction act. on this vote. the age of 50, the nase of 50, the senate being equally divided. the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. the bill will raise $430000000000.00 for a wide range of priority, improving health care coverage, tackling climate change by investing in electric cars and renewable energy. imposing a mandatory 15 percent income tax on corporations and cutting the deficit. this bill will kick start the era of affordable, clean energy in america. it's
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a game changer. it's a turning point, and it's been a long time in coming. the bill had been considered dead until democratic leaders negotiated a compromise name with senators jo, mansion and kiersten cinema that guaranteed their support. senate republicans offered amendment after amendment in hopes of destroying the democrats unity. they blocked a plan to require private health insurers to charge no more than $35.00 a month for insulin, but that wasn't enough to derail the overall bill. after the vote, senate republicans issued a statement calling the bill a disaster. earlier on sunday and just out of cobit isolation, president joe biden signal to reporters, he thought the bill would pass. now it's up to the house of representatives to approve the bill before biden consigned it into law. that vote is tentatively set for friday. rosalind jordan, l 0 washington. nathan, i is
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a senior associate with a rocky mountain institute and american non profit that promotes sustainable energy . he says the bill is a game changer. 3 independent studies have all come out demonstrating that this will reduce emissions in the u. s. by 40 percent compared to 2005 levels. ready so the next decade, which is essentially doubling the emissions reductions in the united states. and it also provides t economic tipping points. and pretty much every single major sector of the u. s. economy. and in particular, sectors where that are high emissions, a big chunk of that funding is going towards clean electricity, 0 carbon, clean electricity across the board, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, you name it. there's also substantial funding for investments in manufacturing. that's one of the big chunks of the still to ensure that the united states can
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manufacture the pond, a mental components of the energy transition and the united states that includes again, solar, wind batteries and all of the, the, the smaller sub proponents that go into those systems there's also substantial investments for communities that traditionally have posted fossil fuel communities, as well as a number of other investments in the industrial sector, the agricultural sector, and a grab bag of other priorities that are critical driving down us emissions. well, still ahead on al jazeera, huge fire still burn a cuban oil plant. after lightning strikes, at least 16 firefighters missing, and we meet families struggling to survive and bank car as inflation drives up the cost of essentially like food and fuel. ah
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hello there. it's a story of exceptional heat across the middle east, with temperatures around iraq, kuwait's and iran peaking up into the early fifties. now we're going to see a lot of that heat spread its way further south pushing up temperatures in places like dough. her in katara and a lot of that heat moving its way across it to southern areas of iran in the days ahead. but across the event, it is a much quieter picture temperature sitting here where we expect them to be. they do dip down. however, around the caucuses, as the wet and windy weather creeps in, was in some way whether intensify across western areas of yemen. we could see some more flooding here. that wet weather as well. pulling up into the southwest of saudi arabia and those showers and storms join up with a large band of wet weather that we see at this time of year across central africa . it's not as wet does, it has been for the very west, but around central areas like the central african republic and the d r. c. this is where we're going to see the wet weather. over the next few days,
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we could see some possible flooding for the south of this bone dry conditions for places like namibia and botswana temperatures. on the up, we see the wet and windy weather pull away from eastern areas of the cape for cape town, sunshine ahead of wet weather this weekend. that to weather update. ah, oh, did the young virtuosos pricing concert halls, domination, international competition? $1.00 oh $18.00 me south korea's musical prodigy, one out to 0. ah, al jazeera, a witness with chapel. ah
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ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories, the salad. the 1st down was the fragile sci fi and gaza appear to be holding up to the last minute. rockets was still being launched. the sea spot between israel and the armed group known as palestinian islamic jihad, o, p. i. j was mediated by egypt with help from the united nations and cossack since israel began its attack on friday, 40 full palestinians, including 15 children have been killed. the israeli government said it was targeting members of islam of jihad about palestinian officials say at least a 3rd of those who died have been civilians. the u. s. senate has passed prison
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enjoy biden's $430000000000.00 spending package. it, i mean to fight climate change, lower medicine prices and rise. some corporate taxes, democrat vice president, come allah harris, cost the tie, breaking vote. vive alarmed groups and political factions from chad reported to be as to close at the pace. members of the transitional military council are among those to you to sign an agreement here in cutout capital doha on monday. as mohammed vall reports that could in decades of instability. chad may finally be on the brink of peace, a government of national unity disarming and integrating fighters and a general amnesty are said to be among the main articles of the long awaited peace agreement. to be scientific upon the talks got off to a difficult start in march from factions walked out demanding greater presentation . the assisted members of the transitional, military council or
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t. m. c. not run for office. there is a commitment from the government. so what if you look at the rebuild side, the issues of that is where it to begin to get very complicated because you have new demand going to like mama, debbie shouldn't stand for reelection or a ton of assets. you have to reconcile the competition, right? we even between the opposition, i rebel. what? because why the might be for me in fact position you have about 40 experience in, in the process into the draft agreement. he's meant to pave the way for a national dialogue later this month. and the new constitution, chad has been locked in internal conflict for 3 decades. edris debbie came to power in 1991 in a military coup and served as president until his death last year. fighting among alms group has hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. when his father died,
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37 year old mohammed debbie took over as president and heads the 15 member transitions military council. his credited with bringing rifle the militia to the negotiation table. but the absence of some of the main opposition figures from the signing on monday. and he kindles doubts about the sustainability of the deal. and move a has a, a. those of the things may go the way the military won't just. but if the talks and don't fail, the groups that of refusing to recognize the military council continued to do so, the country will enter into a new conflict. they have sizeable forces, if not weapons. and chad is surrounded by countries that are unstable. so without reconciliation, chances of sliding back to a major conflict is hi. chad is one of the poorest countries in the side and with decades of dollars, an armed conflict. it is an urgent need of stability mohammed, one odyssey, or columbia. his 1st left, his president, gustavo petro,
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has been sworn into office. the former rebel fighter promised to reshape the deeply polarized country with a long list of social and economic reforms. alessandro rom, p, a t reports from boca whereas open. and you, aaron colombian politic says, began, i swear to god and promise to the people to faithfully comply with the constitution and laws of columbia. former rebel fighter of the 90 movement was double paid through more in the countries 1st like this precedent in a ceremony filled with symbolism and promise of change. general it still is all i want to say to all the columbia who are listening to me in the boulevard plaza and in all of columbia and abroad today. our 2nd opportunity begins. it's the hour of change. our future has not been written. will you be at the columbia of what's possible starts today? we are here against all predictions and against a story that said, we would never govern against those who didn't want to let go of power,
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but we did to visit and former housemaid france jamarcus also swore in as calmly as 1st black vice president, calling on her ancestors for protection, some being what, oh, i also sway before my ancestors until dignity becomes customary. neither. tens of thousands of supporters flooded the streets of downtown bo gotta making it look more like a carnival in a political event. as they occupied what i like the ap i'm, he is the joy to celebrate what we've been waiting for for a long time. conrad i love back. if petra can achieve peace and he will make good to colombians, dignifying the life of farmers workers and the victims of this country loaded bitter, received the presidential sash from a visibly moved young senator, daughter of a former em 19 presidential candidate assassinated during the country. civil war and his 1st order as president king right after taking the oath of office. he
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called for this word of simone believer hero of the wars of independence to be brought to the ceremony from the presidential palace. reversing a band by his predecessor, it carried special symbolism. the m 19 sold a sword in 1974 from a museum, only returning it after disarming about his bitter joints, a new wave of lefties governments in latin america. his plans are probably the most ambitious aiming to lower poverty and hunger, ending the war on drugs developing the long, neglected countryside and transitioning from oil and coal to fight climate change. the moment of truth, thus confir, gustavo, veteran, his government, starting on monday, will have to demonstrate that indeed his administration will be able to transform into realities as many promises. and the hope a majority of colombians have placed in him. allison that i'm dead, the i'll just eat. i bought her a large fire at
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a cuban oil dip. i was gradually being brought under control with help from mexico and venezuela. the blaze was caused by a lightning strike at a storage facility in the city of moth. hans us, at least one person has died, and more than 120 people have been injured. 16 firefighters a missing it august. the augustin has more from close to the scene of the fire. as you can see right behind me, there's a huge bloom of smoke coming out from one of the tanks, but still burnings. there are 8 that called super time, because each of which has approximately $50000.00 killer metric tons of petroleum. to have already exploded. the 17 firefighters one has been confirmed that the other 16 missing. i think it's safe to say the expectation is very low, that they are alive because they would just meet away from one of those tanks trying to dance with water to stop it exploding when it exploded. so these people will have been incinerated,
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the president of cuban met today with family members. and those were still not confront that missing cuba. aust, if you want to starry night, it is a very proud country. this is a country that does ask for a dismiss. it really, really needs it. boy, does it need it? they low on the tech, new technology and also experience in dealing with them for this mostly this is the biggest industrial fire. this is countries ever faced. the venezuelan firefighters and the mexicans specialists arrived hours ago. and they, they not only have with them the know how to deal with this, you know, big oil producing nations. but they also have technology, and that crucially, the materials that needed to put out fires of the ukraine has accused russia of, again shelling europe's largest nuclear power plants and separate thea, the head of the you in
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a toll mac watchdog has warned that damage to the plot could lead to a nuclear disaster. raphael grossi says there should be restraint around the side. keeps is russian forces damage 3 radiation sensors on saturday night, at least one worker has been injured. the nuclear plant was captured by russian forces in march, but ukrainian technicians are running us. john hinton has more from keith on the situation. the company that owns that plant, a ukrainian company says a nuclear disaster was narrowly averted when it was hit just today. that what was hit with an area with spent nuclear fuel rods, which are left in the open air to cool off. well, they're radioactive. and so that area was struck but apparently not breached. so no disaster day, but the head of the i a a says he's very concerned about the situation there. he would like to send in an international team to secure that facility controlled by the russians behind the
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russian lines, but operated by ukrainians who have been ordered to continue operating the plant essentially at gunpoint. so it's a really dicey situation there. use that shell today, a worker was wounded and the cavity says it was pure luck that something really major didn't happen when it was struck today. the interesting thing here is that we really don't know who struck it. the president of ukraine validity, lansky says that it was russia. he wants an international investigation and he wants tougher sanctions on russia because this threatened to be a nuclear disaster, not just for ukraine, but for all of europe. the problem is getting people in there and trying to get the permission of the russians to actually do that. so it's a particularly dicey situation with no end in sight in a country where in turnover we've had
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a nuclear disaster before china's military scissors, continuing its trills in the air and sea around tie one on sunday, the defense ministry, anti pay confirmed $66.00 chinese aircraft and 14 warships had been detected in and around the taiwan strauss. china began conducting the drills earlier this week after taiwan hosted us house began nancy pelosi sunday was expected to be the final day of military exercises in the region. journalist petrik falk has more from beijing which i never officially confirmed and he end to the military drills, but it does seem to have wound down its exercises encircling taiwan. although state media did report that the military would now be conducting regular trails. on the taiwan side of the median line and also said that the historic task of re unification could now be realised. and the demonstration of military muscle seems to have been expanded to other parts within the region. china has begun lie firing
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drills in the yellow sea, which will last for 10 days and waters between china and south korea. it's also set to begin live drills in the bo high sea, which will last for an entire month at near u. s. military bases in japan seen as critical to defending taiwan in the event of an attack by china. separately, efforts to frame the events of recent days. according to china's perspective, continue foreign ministry spokesperson watching, posted a tweet, saying that china will never forget its national shame. a never allow bandits to bully and plunder china again. that was a reference to china's 100 years of humiliation and portrays china as a victim even as regional neighbors in particular have expressed serious concern about china's military actions and assertiveness. a fire has destroyed a 900 year old bridge in china. the one and bridge was the longest wooden arch
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bridge in the country and caught fire and collapsed on saturday night. no injuries were reported and investigators as still trying to determine the cause of the flies . the bridge was on the list of china's national cultural relics to be protected. the bank of thailand is expected to raise interest rights soon to counter rising inflation. but that will bring little relief ties who have seen shop increases in the costs of food and fuel. tony ching reports nestled between embassies and gleaming high rises in the center of thank cox, a community on the other side of the wealth again. and the shadow of a new apartment complex when easter lives with her 3 children. today's red day off with the kids. usually her 15 year old son has to care for his siblings while she works. he says her income barely covers the family costs or repayments of loans. she's been forced to take the money. i want to have a better life,
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but i can't. i just have to accept my fate because i was born in this condition and i have to take what is available. i just spend my life day to day trying to get enough to eat. and that's all it's a common complaint in this community. during the pandemic, many people lost jobs and incomes dropped. and now the cost of living is rising sharply. they're not getting any help that have our man for whole, we barely get any help from the government. we don't get anything. we only get help from foundations and charities, so we recharged them. thailand's often size, it is a success story when it comes to reducing poverty, but the welfare has not been evenly distributed. and then this credit suisse global wealth reported 2018 tyler was listed as one of the most unequal places in the world. in the years since then, life has been even harder for lower income communities with global economic trends going in the same direction. economists concern thailand will be badly hit thailand
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is a country that has wide in equality and well gap. an inflation would hit the most vulnerable high debt by the side of a busy expressway. some of the most vulnerable struggling to survive. this is a community for the deaf and hard of hearing, often cast out by their families. form takes us under the bridge where she, her husband and several other families have made homes from refuse and scrap. she explains their disability allowance of $20.00 a month. barely lasts a few days. the strain is enormous. they trying to salvage what they can from the waste. others threw away with the roar of the traffic overhead. life goes on, while their complaints go unanswered. toni chang al.
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