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a nationwide curfew in sierra leone as several people are killed in a wave of violence and protests against the rising cost of living. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming out. the u. s. justice department charges and a rainy and national for a plot to kill former national security adviser, john bolton, heavy ryans trigger flooding across sir don evicting tens of thousands of people. and north korean leader, kim jong, undeclared victory in his nation's battle against covet 19 ah, sierra leone has imposed a nationwide curfew in response to violent anti government protest that killed several people,
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including members of the security forces. it happened in the capital free town and other cities because of anger and frustration at the rising cost of living. holly hush and reports anger and frustration spills to the streets, protest as in freetown and all the cyril unit cities wanted their voices heard. we do not have freedom of speech is no respect for us. the women in our economy is down, down, down, and the cost of living is very high because of it we are suffering. oh, it didn't. and well, several people were killed including members of the security forces. when demonstrators and the police clashed, it revived images from the countries bloody civil war. in the ninety's, the president treated saying, as a government, we have the responsibility to protect every citizen of sierra leone. what happened today was unfortunate and will be fully investigated. i urge all sierra leonean to
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be calm. oh, the government also imposed a nation wide curfew domain here by the us initial white glove. you would be totally wednesday, 10th of 2022. amazing at 3 pm. oh, wine, it's unknown whether the wave of protests will continue. the united nations expressed serious concerns over the violence. so did the u. s. while france urged citizens not to travel to sierra leone? alhashan al jazeera in the democratic republic of congo, at least $750.00 prisoners, have escaped during an attack on and jail. at least 2 police officers were killed in the prison break. the armed group that carried out the riders believe to have been trying to rescue some of its former members and recruit new ones. la harding has more early on wednesday morning, prisoners in this jail were startled by the sound of heavy gunfire and snapping
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metal. ah, devout of railway, who i know bullies rung out whilst we were forced to sleep. suddenly we woke up the silence, had a ching tool with which they tore off the padlocks. members of an armed ugandan group known as allied democratic forces, or adf, fighting their way into this prison to free hundreds of inmates. oh, inside we were about $900.00 detainees. but about 30 of us remain. adf has pledged allegiance to iceland and has been blamed for thousands of deaths and eastern congo and neighboring uganda. many of their members have been arrested, kept in this jail. lynn amy said if she did it, they came from their main headquarters in the forest to conduct the attack with the objective of recruiting by force, new members in it and to release some of their own people arrested in this jail. but not every one wanted to be freed. unwilling to live a life on the run,
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doing mobile dangle off on one of the like. i did not flee because i did not want to take advantage and flee in disorder. i'm waiting for the liberation that god will send me. my hope is that one day i will leave here legally with all my documents to the army have started their search for the escape. eas, coming through a vast mountainous country in a region that has seen decades of fighting. leah harding al jazeera, more heavy rain is forecast and northern sir don. we're down pools and flash floods have killed 6 people an injured dozens more. at least 3000 harms were destroyed and riven. i'll state the rain cut off the main highway, connecting the state to the capitol cartoon. had been morgan is in bertha and has been speaking to people who've lost their homes for many families here in bed. but the destruction is utterly devastating. many of them have lost their homes. they are now out in the open. and as you can see behind me,
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they have nowhere else to go. while some families have migrated up north to relatives homes, to seek refuge and to be able to wait out the rainy season so they can return to rebuild their lives. many are still waiting, searching, and the rebels for remnants or for anything they can salvage, really. and they say that this is the worst flooding they have seen in decades there in more than 4 or 5 decades, according to some families who we've been speaking to. they say that they are quite concerned that they will not, not be any assistance given to them, especially because it's been 2 days now. and many of them are you to see any form of government assistance being handed out to them. many of them say they want to remain here until the end of the room is he's in to be able to rebuild their homes . but that may take some time because they're maureen's forecast in the coming days . but there's also concern about the outbreak of waterborne diseases. most of the home still have stagnant water and they are still maureen's expected to come. there's been damages done to the sewage system in the drainage system here. so they are concerned that there will be outbreak of diseases, especially because the residence of these villages along the mouth that the only
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source of clean water they have right now is the river because of the, the, the sewage water mixing with the waters that they have here, so they are concerned that the worst is not over for many people here. many families saying that they don't want to see things getting worse, but they're afraid that with more rings forecast and after losing so much that they may be are facing difficulties in the coming days. the u. s. secretary of state is and we're wander the last stop on a 3 nation african tour and to the blinking is expected to discuss rwanda's alleged support of rebels and neighboring democratic republic of congo. he was in the congolese capital kinshasa on tuesday where he voice concerned about the reports. al jazeera is catherine sword, has more on the persistent violence and eastern democratic republic of congo. an armed group calling itself m 23 has been advancing to goma in eastern democratic republic of congo. its rebels had been fighting the congo his army for about 2
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months. un, experts say they have evidence, wanda, is barking the rebels. their wand and government has denied this. hundreds of people in some areas have fled from their homes in research days via immigrant rama displaced of the into the 3 cup to the village. we are afraid of when they are fighting. they do not differentiate between soldiers and civilians who do not want to die here. this latest conflict is just one of many in the east of the country. i said creo could be so when the u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin visited kinshasa. security matters, dominated the talks. we are very concerned with was what it supported. 43. 0 wow. oh, the reason, se aubrey 23. he's also due to hold talks with wand and president polka, gummy,
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visa, democratic republic of congo. and wanda, of hard years of pensions with both sides accusing each other for finding rebellions and giving us your american wanted her. in reality, the us was the 1st country to be concerned about. ro, wonders support for him. 23 angola has been trying to broke a peace between the 2 countries, but a resent p steel did not come things blinkin will complete his 3 nation to war on thursday. he also visited south africa, valuable annually. say the us wants to increase diplomacy to count a rash he has growing influence on the african continent. catherine, sorry alta 0, an israeli military court has extended the detention of islamic jihad later, besides saudi, by at least 6 days. his royal launched what's called preemptive strikes. on garza targeting the palestinian group, following saudi to risk 2 weeks ago. the 2 sides agreed on
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a truce this week after trading fire 3 days. 48 palestinians were killed in the attacks needed. abraham is live for us and ramallah m. so does this put the already fragile cease fire to even greater risk? the reason that islamic jihad has announced its alert and its high level of air alert was because israel has arrested by samus sadie, the senior islamic jihad, the that from jeanine. earlier this month. of course, the attack on the besieged gaza strip, took place from israel as what they said was a preemptive strike, as what palestinians say is an attack on the palestinians living there. now there has been discussions and talks with egyptian mediator is that there are talks about the release of the palestinian prisoners, namely by sam saudi, as well as another islamic jihad prison that helena wow. day who has been on
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a hunger strike for over $160.00 days a he stopped them for a while because he was promised that his administrative detention, that his detention without charges will be ending. of course, israel has renewed it. so the issue of these 2 prisoners has been a key when it comes to the talks between israel and the islamic jihad movement through the egyptian mediation. israel said that it's going to continue the dialogue about the release of the prisoner. now we know that his, a detention was extended for 6 days. we know that there are talks also in his brady media about the health situation of helene i. wow. they the palestinian prisoner who was on a hunger strike. that could be understood by some analyst as a way for israel to get these really a population, let's say, ready for a potential release for the prisoner on the grounds that he is not feeling well that his health has been deteriorate, deteriorating for
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a while. how is the extension of aside these detention will affect the cease fire will have to wait and see and aid. thank you very much. that's needed. abraham for us in ramallah for the us. justice department says it's charged. a man describes as a member of a rounds revolution regard accuses him of involvement in a plot to kill for the national security advisor john bolton, sharon pull sofie is wanted by the if the connection with the case prosecutor say the scheme was likely in retaliation for the american strike in january 2020, that killed the hit of around the late could force car from solar money. we face a rising threat from authoritarian regimes to seek to reach beyond their own borders, to commit acts of repression, including inside the united states. this is an especially appalling example of the government of iran, perpetrating a grievous acts of transnational violence in violation of us laws and our national
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sovereignty. the iranian foreign ministry says the charge is a baseless and politically motivated. it accuses the us of making allegations without providing evidence. mckenna has more from washington. oh, with justice department has outlined an elaborate and lengthy murder for hire plot, which began some 18 months ago. when sharon put sofie allegedly contacted somebody within the united states and persuaded him to act as essentially a murder for hire promising some $300000.00. should he kill john bolton? now unknown to put sophie was the fact that this individual was an f b. i informant, so he. busy informed the authorities, the authorities were abreast of the plot as it developed. now this another twist in it as well. it's been revealed to by the justice department at that per se also offered a $1000000.00 for a 2nd target. now sources close to mike pompei of former director of the cia and
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the former a foreign secretary is saying that it was mike pompeo who was the 2nd target for which $1000000.00 was promised. so there's a lot of details that the justice department has provided. one must make clear though that sophie is still at large. he's still being hunted down, though these charges have been laid against him. will still ahead on al jazeera, the basement flags that became dis, traps, and south korean floods. just want as the government planning to do about them, it was considered latin america's safest country until just a few months back by chiles. now seeing and alarming rise and crime ah
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spells of showers for se, australia. hi, they're good to see you. this is a pitcher on friday. we'll see those winds pick up for south australia to including adelaide and paris. here, temperatures have bounced back after you shivered through some of your lowest temperatures in a few years. so whether maker will approach over the course of the weekend, but that's not going to knock down your temperatures. like we saw last time, no weather alerts in play across the north or south island of new zealand. all of these temperatures below average, with the exception of done eat it se asia looks like this. the rain is picking up for southern sumatra, west java, but i got to get you to indo china remnants of what was the tropical cyclone spreading heavy rain through northern vietnam, laos, northern thailand, right through and in the m r. i think anywhere in the zone, we're likely to see some flooding. still raining for hong kong on friday with high 30 degrees still that heat for the yangtze river valley shanghai closing in on 40 degrees. and there are landside warnings, alerts in play for that northwest corner of japan's main island upon shoe. this
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disturbance out over the open water that's friday. look at saturday, comes crashing in for eastern areas of honshu. i think we're likely to see some flooding here. and another round of rain to go for flood hit areas of sole on saturday season. ah, ah lou.
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ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories. the sour sierra leone has imposed a nationwide curfew in response to anti government. protests. officials say several people have been killed, including security personnel. protests is an angry about the rising cost of living . more heavy rain is full cost and northern stew. dom we're down pools and flash floods have killed 6 people and injured dozens. at least 3000 harms were destroyed and riven niles, staggs and israeli military court has extended the detention of islamic jihad late . it was some saudi by at least 6 days. last week his royal launched. what a cold preemptive strikes on gaza targeting the palestinian group. following saudis
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arrest the south korea's capital sol. we'll start phasing out basement apartments. after 3 people died in the flats. during flooding this week, the tiny dwellings, it usually rented out to people on low incomes. in total, at least 9 people were killed and flash floods triggered by the heaviest down pools in more than a century. rob mcbride has more from saul after the reins the cleanup and a re think on how to adapt to a changing climate. the worst affected places were in low lying areas, south of souls, hand river. it's home to the glitzy gangnam district made famous in the hit gangnam style. but it's also the location for poor a housing, including half basement apartments prone to flooding. resident hind sick tries to salvage what he can from his home. when the rains came,
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he and his family were forced to evacuate, seeking shelter in a nearby park. ah, good korean i have to throw away all my possessions. even my dishes, it rained so much this time it was a disaster. the plight of such residents was highlighted in the oscar winning movie parasite, about a fictional family living a subterranean existence. but it's the reality for many in a city with sky high property prices couldn't gide annual year. it's different from the wealthy places we live in the smallest rates, where the government doesn't pay attention to us and not them could on coven, dr. north south korea's president, you insecure, visited one basement apartment that was flooded and where 3 people died about. the response from sol city has been swift with the government announcing no new permissions will be given to turn basement into apartments. but they're all reckon to be around $200000.00 homes below ground right now. that authorities say will
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gradually be phased out. the government has also announced plans for better drainage, adapting it says to the new reality that such extreme weather is now no longer abnormal. rob mcbride al jazeera, so north korean leader kim jong on has declared victory in his nation's battle against covered 19 state media have reported the government plans to ease corona virus related mrs. imposed back in may. it comes after kim jong on was reportedly suffering high fever, according to his sister, kim john, you're john. she blamed the outbreak on propaganda leaflets drops by south korea that sol as calling those climes groundless towns. one uni are quote, on behalf of the party central committee and the government of democratic people's republic of korea. i solemnly declare the victory and the maximum emergency anti epidemic campaign for exterminating the novel corona virus that had made inroads
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into our territory and protecting the lives and health of our people. woman. taiwan has held another live fire exercise a day after china ended its largest ever military drills around the islands. it was the 2nd exercise this week by the taiwanese army in the southern region of pennington. taiwan has accused beijing of using last week's visit by us house beacon nancy pelosi as an excuse to rehearse for an invasion. hello seas visit angered china, but she says she is proud of the trip. we didn't go there to talk about china. we went there to praise taiwan and we went there to show our friendship, to say, china cannot isolate a taiwan. so that's what it was about till i was trying to deal with the rising number of crimes. it was considered the safest country in latin america until a few days ago. but the latest data shows that has all changed. our latin america
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editor, due to newman reports from the capital, santiago, garcia. the rascal still can't believe that her son in law, 50 year old real estate broker, estefan regaled me, was stabbed to death for no apparent reason. while walking home. this cctv camera captures raquel may rushing past while holding his neck. seconds later he collapsed of camera, his juggler. veins slit 2 in his wayland, 25 and 15 years old, who recently crossed into chile illegally from neighboring bolivia, have confessed music. wonder when will authorities control who enters chile? i'm afraid now when i wanna pass a foreigner because i don't know if it's a criminal lawyer, but murder rate in chile has gone up an astonishing 30 percent in the last 6 months alone. it offered statistics show, the vast majority of crimes are committed by chileans. but that undocumented foreigners were criminal records account for
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a higher percentage of the murders. if they weren't regaled me, was stabbed just a few blocks from the presidential palace, but it was no isolated incident. just a few days later, another 3 people were stabbed along alameda. this is santiago's most emblematic avenue, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. prosecutor say that in the last 5 years, drug traffickers and members of the field, venezuelan criminal organization at aga train have focused in on chile taking advantage of the largely uncontrolled northern border yogurt was entered is the governor of the porch city of eiletha, where they've reportedly set up base, says international gangs or using criminal methods unseen before in chile. not that i'm in the for that other one always use it. it's not just murder, but also torture signs of chopping people in pieces or burying victims alive. the international criminals who belong mainly to venezuela's, a rug or train gang. it's expanded, it's to mine to columbia, ecuador, brazil,
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peru, and no chile go. but it's not just imported criminal that are spreading. very young mainly julian delinquents are in snaring drivers, even in crowded tunnels. in broad daylight, car theft has increased 68 percent in the last 5 months. so his widespread trafficking of people and guns and drug trafficking, low income neighborhoods. all this what until recently was considered the safety of country in latin america. no put on capacity. when we didn't manage to see what was happening in time, the problem was incubating slowly step by step. now it's finally exploded. facilitated by the pandemic. criminals have lost fear of the state because they no longer believe we're able to confront them. you get to the chief prosecutor for complex crime, says it will take a major investment in money. more sophisticated forms of law enforcement stronger border controls and more police training to ensure that this crime wave is not here
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to stay. to see a human al jazeera santiago, the spanish coast guard has rescued 61 african refugees and migrants from a boat near the canary islands. the survivors say they were attempting to reach the spanish territory. police found the body of a 19 year old man on the boat, but more our fear did. last year, some 4400 people were lost at sea, attempting to reach spine. will spain isn't the only country that's found refuge refugees and migrants in its waters in libya, at least $320.00 people with detained and transferred bank tripoli after they were spotted drifting on a boat in the me to try any and see? well, i'm trying to has more from tripoli. now we're here on the outskirts of tripoli, near a coast guard watch position. libya the coast guard announced that it rescued over 300 migrants in the mediterranean sea and brought them back to libya. now that
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included 11 women, 3 children, and one baby. just to give you some numbers. this is an ongoing situation. libya has long been a transit hub for african migrants trying to reach europe in 2021. 31000 migrants arrived in italy from livia. now in 2022 from january to august. that number has, has exceeded 34000 people, so the whole numbers are increasing. and a large part of the reason why is because libya is politically divided. there are 2 governments at the moment, so there's a lack of stability. the libyan authorities are saying that they're in a difficult situation. so when migrants arrive to europe, the european union are not happy with that. but when, when the coast guard brings back these migrants and put to live and put them in
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detention centers, human rights organizations say that there is ill treatment and human right, abusive. so it's a very difficult challenge for libyan authorities to be able to balance those out. but the situation a less, the libya can come together with the political agreement, a united government and the country can stabilize. the situation with migration could end up getting worse. tom is returning to the streets of garza after this week's truce between israel in islamic jihad, hell, estonians were still trying to recover after last year's conflict. when israel launched its 3 day bombardments, now many a having to rebuild their lives yet again, as natasha. 9 reports the phones rang in this garza neighbourhood saturday morning, with warnings from israeli intelligence to evacuate in what people say felt like only moments. 6 apartment buildings were destroyed or damaged about it and haul
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from the fair. my 4 year old son wakes up when he has any sound thinking, it's an asteroid, and he clings to me. it makes me frustrated because my children are scared. my life has become miserable and is nothing left in our hands. a man malik sham. alec says she can't even dig out a shirt from the rubble for her 2 young son. the family is homeless, but we'll have to find money to pay the mortgage on the apartment and find a new place to live. since 2008, there have been 5 wars or attacks in the gaza strip. the longest was in 2014 and lasted 51 days. after the war, dozens of countries met and planned to raise $5000000000.00 to rebuild garza but not even half. that money was actually donated. the biggest donors katara gave more than a $1000000000.00 in aid. saudi arabia, half
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a $1000000000.00. the united states, the united arab emirates, and kuwait, each gave $200000000.00. these photo showed the before and after of some reconstruction projects. ah, after last year's israeli air strikes, cutter and egypt committed a $1000000000.00 total to help garza rebuild again. but with no time frame gases, history of public works and housing says it needs millions of dollars. now to provide housing for 2200 families. and we feel that the as little as putting some obstacles and the way of the donors as the $130.00 construction versus to be slow over the years, even wants reliable arab allies have stopped offering funding. and with many humanitarian crises, globally, donor fatigue has set in israel, ester, occupying power. they have every i responsibility to, to, to, to,
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to take care of the situation there, but in a long term, long and awful, for china. and also for the huge majority of the international community, what concerns us is that we cannot simply look at the specific situation in the pissed piecemeal to way some in the international community may continue to spend billions of dollars rebuilding gaza after each war or attack. but palestinians wonder when the world will see that it's more prudent to invest in peace. natasha name al jazeera, gaza palestinian authorities have inaugurated a street named after al jazeera journal, assuring avo alkali, who was killed by israeli forces in may. sharon was short while on assignments in the occupied wis. bank members of the international community have condemned her killing and continued to cool.

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