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hey frank assessments, the heat waves we're seeing now, are they a product of global warming? we will say more of these events. what is happening is that climate change it making them work in depth. analysis of the days headlines inside story on al jazeera, controlling with the narrative shapes the landscape a fairly and point to the pol, read those images front of mind of who the war the things are very much bring forth out in the media as well as on the battlefield, they're listening to dissect the media on al jazeera. ah donald trump is being investigated for possibly breaching us espionage laws. after the f b, i found classified documents at his florida. ah,
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hello there, i missed all the attend. this is out there at live from door ha. also coming up. the controversial writer, salman rushdie has been stabbed and seriously injured as a literary event in new york state. for responding to china, the u. s. says it will hold and maritime transit operations in the taiwan straits soon and columbia new left us government agrees to restart. peace talks with the ellen, the last gorilla group, still at war with the state. ah . now for me, you as president donald trump is suspected of violating the espionage act. after the f. b, i seized classified documents from his florida state. earlier this week, the list of documents reportedly into its material relating to nuclear weapons. how
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does your catherine reports now from washington dc. mr. tub, never before has a former us president been suspected of violating the espionage act. according to the war and authorizing the f. b, i search of trump, the state. trump may have kept documents that could endanger national security and may have destroyed or concealed presidential records. this week, federal agents removed 11 sets of classified documents from mar, logo for sets were labeled top secret, and reportedly may contain information about nuclear weapons. many lesser people have gotten prosecuted for doing a small fraction of what it appears that donald trump has done, which has taken the single most highly classified documents united states government has as taking and picking them to his home. others. these documents relate to french president emanuel micron and to trump pardoning of his close
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associates. roger stone, trump says he declassified all materials he and aides took from the white house. he and republican supporters called the investigation of political witch hunt president donald trump is job idence, most likely a political opponent in 2024. and this is less than $100.00 days from critical mid term elections. the f. b, i rate of president trump is a complete abuse and overreach of its authority. the department of justice says it and the f. b, i are acting independently. biden has remained silent. and while some democrats say this is trump getting his, do others urge caution? i think for the most part, people want to see the process play out. i agree with that. i don't wanna interfere with law enforcement is doing. but i think it would be wrong to take the position because this person is a former president. no, we should look the other way when there could be violations of a lot. the justice department must now decide whether to charge trump with a crime,
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which would be a 1st in american history. and the decision would be further complicated. if trump now says he's running for president again, because charging a political candidate could be seen as election interference. heidi jo castro, al jazeera washington. now the claimed and controversial ortho salman rushdie is on a ventilator and unable to speak. after being stabbed as a literary event in new york state, according to his agent, he also suffered a winter, his liver, and may lose. and i police arrested a 24 year old man christian for me, reports from new york. he came to give a lecture about freedom of expression in the united states, but left on a stretcher headed to hospital and emergency surgery. police say the celebrated author, salman rushdie was stabbed in the mac and the abdomen. witnesses say it happened quickly. she had just walked onto the stage, was still being introduced less than a minute before the event began. after the event began, one and
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a man rushed from this audience up on to the stage and started punching or stabbing . it wasn't quite clear, but there was clearly some sort of blood or red liquid going in many directions. a collective sigh of shock from the audience. rusty's alleged assailant was quickly taken into police custody in the attack to cried by local leaders. we're undeterred, and our commitment to make sure that we call it out. we condemn what happened. we condemn all violence and we want people to feel that freedom to speak and to write truth. salman rushdie was forced into hiding in 1989 after his book. the satanic verses was denounced by the iranian liter, ayatollah hala khomeini. many considered the book blasphemous in its portrayal of the prophet mohammed. but even before khomeini's ruling, it had sparked protest and been banned in several countries. a bounty of
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$3000000.00 was offered to anyone that would kill the british author, but even as rushed, you was being burned and apogee. he was celebrate in the west and later nighted by great brin, many in the city did not believe that it amounted to an act of blasphemy, nor indeed did many in the world believed that he deserved to die for it. but those voices of moderation, and indeed those voices are more, more sexual dispensation. well crushed. more recently russia could often be seen a public advance. the lecture was expected to focus on the role of the united states as a home for free expression and an asylum for writers and other artist and exile. kristen salumi al jazeera new york a local media in spain say one
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person has been killed after part of a stage collapsed as a music festival in korea. just south of the city of valencia. at least 17 people reported injured 3 of them seriously. organizers of the medusa sunday, each festival, a strong wind dislodged part of the structure that now the us house of representatives has approved the biggest climate package in the country's history, and being seen as a major victory for president joe biden. the motion is adopted. the $370000000000.00 will be set aside to fight climate change. most of the money will come from tax reforms including a new 15 percent minimum tax on large corporations. investors looking to pull money and to clean energy will be rewarded with a decade of federal subsidies. the senate passed the bill earlier and it will now be sent to biden, to sign into law with a final passage of the inflation reduction act in the house of representatives,
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the american people are going to see lower prescription drug prices, lower health care costs and lower energy costs and big corporations are finally got to start to pay their fair share. those that are paying 0 dollars in federal income tax will now have to pay a minimum tax and americans going to take the most aggressive action we've ever taken. in confronting the climate crisis and strengths in the energy security of america and the world, quite frank. meanwhile, farmers and mexico are struggling to keep their heads alive during one of the west drowns in decades. just 10 percent of dams across the country. a full well water levels that others have dropped miller half day capacity. the government has declared national emergency. manual rapids has from mexico city. the water crisis and mexico is not isolated to a single state or a single region of the country. there are moderate to severe drought conditions affecting almost 65 percent of mexico's national territory in the case of northern mexico. these are some of the dry conditions in the past 30 years. just last month
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in july, the mexican government declared a national emergency which allows for federal resources to be allocated toward providing water to the regions of the country that have been most severely impacted by the drought, the city of monterey in riverdale. and is where many people would agree where the crisis is most acute water levels at dams are well below where they should be. when we visited monterey, just a few weeks ago, we were told that the drought is largely related to the weather phenomenon known as linear, which is known to disrupt traditional weather patterns. and in the case of northern mexico, a rainy season that was supposed to come in may never came. experts say the impacts of linea are being exacerbated by climate change. and we should note that the month of july is the hottest recorded in mexico since 1953, meaning that these extreme he conditions are not doing anything to help alleviate the ongoing crisis. while a drought tear has been declared across
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a large parts of england, 9 of the past 12 months have been dry. the normal across the u. k. the national farm as union says up to half of the potato carrot, an onion harvest will probably fail. where we challenge report nice weather for ducks has what they say in england when it rains while this is anything but it's the driest summer for 50 years. grasses shrivelled to straw, the ground has cracked reservoirs and rivers are low, and drought has officially been declared across large parts of england. in some areas there are what companies bringing in place, for instance, temporary use, ban, cycled host bite bonds. that's the right thing for those companies to do where they have particular concerns. and it's a small sacrifice that people to make in order to ensure that we've got adequate water resources next year from space. the parts conditions are just as obvious. the picture on the left is july last year, a normal enough summer. on the right, august 2022,
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from green's to browns and yellows. a couple of months ago where i'm standing now would be in the water line of rush me a pond on wimbledon, come in, but now look at it. you have to go good. 15 or so meters. this way to get to the new water line. this poland is now little more than a puddle, and this is happening across large parts of the country to with water systems like this. becoming extremely stressed, stressed enough here for the fish to barely have enough water to cover them. it's worrying stuff, any one paying attention. i find very sad why i did the did you know in nature the ground is so hide, take groups can have the word says nessie around. when you see things that poll, you realize how different is in this gray and the grassy. the worried. it stops the his last month, england experienced his hottest ever temperature $40.00 degrees. the 10 hottest
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years since 1884 have all happened since 2002 and none of the coldest this summer may turn out to be an anomaly for the data suggest not. and that means more fires, more extreme temperatures and more droughts to come re talents. how does era under and now 5 fighters from across europe have joined emergency crews in southwest france. they're trying to contain a major wildfire more than a 1000. and now tackling a major blaze in the wrong region. bennet smith with reports now from austin, firefighters in southwest france, using everything they can lay the hands on to beat back these rapidly spreading fires. 75 square kilometers of the year on region looks like this. drought and extreme temperatures have created an easily combustible mixture. lateral navies good at the de risk being complicated because the temperatures are going up and
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precipitation is dropping firefighters from across europe. these are romanian, have been drafted in to help fight the flames. this is an area that already caught fire caught fire again to the firefighters about to come back and douse the flames . one of the challenges for them is because the temperatures are so high and the ground is so dry as soon as the water hits the ground, it evaporates. so it takes a lot more water and a lot more effort to put out the flames. the risk of new fires is very severe. according to the local authorities. 10000 people have been evacuated from their homes. you know, he both says via are still active along the edge of the 40 kilometer perimeter. advancing little by little so we are trying to keep the st priorities. we had the start that is to protect that people have been evacuated and will keep protecting all these home villages, hey, i know they've had a lucky escape. these signs are everywhere, thanking the fire service for saving their homes up with the 1st time. i've seen
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the catastrophe like that above all, a catastrophe for the bio diversity. it's an enormous catastrophe. we're not going to have enough forest left. it's really serial budget also who i'm clearing away, burn trees from the roads, so that firefighters and volunteers and farm workers can get through and puts out as much of the fire if they can. the forests will eventually recover. but as the planet warms, an extreme weather becomes more frequent, it might not be long before flames. licking up these trees again, bernard smith al jazeera in the year owned southwest france. hostile. had here on al jazeera, caroline's president, a jesus opponents of trying to topple the government of the day is a protest. and they paid for homes that got something else. well, talk to property buyers and china as developers, leave them in the la. ah,
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it's feeling tropical across england and here we are on saturday with key key taiwan. here's the forecast detail. so up to 36 degrees on saturday. i'm going to put this a few days for because we have some concern growing over thunder. downpours across both ireland and britain, the islands, and here's why we know of for central and southern portions of england, some spots. it was their driest july on record. so what that means is the ground is bone dry. and when we do get any large amounts of rain with these standard downpours or that could certainly trigger some flash flooding. okay, back to the here. now we know wildfires burning in the south of france, northern central areas of spain, but we do have a little bit of relief coming with this wave of rain. some bigger downpours though can be found across the balkans, close to the adriatic sea here. and next stop. we're going to greece and turkey. no
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real major change here. some showers never really too far away from it stumble. so we've got to put the threat in there, and flooding seems likely as this batch of brain moves from gonna rate through into the ivory coast on saturday, and a number of weather makers crashing into the western cape. so here comes another one, cape town, looking at wind gusts of 55 kilometers per hour. that's it. that's all susan. ah, the world cup is coming to cattle in just 3 months. as the main event gets closer, we stepping away. hello, i'm john guys are also with updates from teams and plan to close the glove scenes. can expect some strong support. hearing cuts help with the support line. no one you can france clean the back to back. well cup victory or we'll put your girls christiano. rinaldo finally get he's had a trophy to well,
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cobb county ornell joe sierra lou ah ah, how today watching out a 0. let's remind you about top stories, the salad. for me, you as president, donald trump is suspected of violating the espionage act for the f. b, i seized classified documents from his florida state. this week, they reportedly included material relating to nuclear weapons. the author, salman rushdie is on a ventilator after being stabbed as a missionary event in new york state is agent says he has suffered injuries to his all my abdomen and may lose. and i police have arrested a 24 year old man. the us house of representatives has approve the biggest climate
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package in the country's history and being seen as a major victory for president george by $370000000000.00 will be set aside to fight climate change. us forces will conduct to air and maritime transit. operations in the taiwan straits in the coming weeks. the white house says the actions will reflect its response to china's military operations in the strait. it also says the u. s. will operate where international law allows. the white house has described china's drills as provocative beijing regards taiwan as part of its territory and carried out its biggest ever military acts as exercises in the seas around taiwan. after us, how speaking nancy pelosi visited the island earlier this month of andrew lung is a china analyst, and he says, washington continues to work against its official policy of treating taiwan as part of china. this one. so i want to try the policy has consistently been holder out of space administrations over here they are sending
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more and more senior officials to visit taiwan and also creating why that wire back space. but i want to play it's almost independent role as the pie one was a separate country. so this a lucy visit law school on the campus back. that's the point of a one or 2. it came as of the way up front to president c. all he's private and warning to president by so this is that the rest of the taiwanese people moving more away from the mainland to get it with. i want you to remain that most taiwanese people do not support your vacation, but all to be there to be great. the vendors and the want to put on the status quo
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forever. however, it's not an option because presidency has big white play. 2049 is the after that, that line on the vacation, which is the 100 and it was 3 of the party public, china. as me, as new left us government has moved to restart, peace talks with the last gorilla group. 3 years after they were suspended. negotiate has met with representatives of the ellen or the national liberation army, and havana. after the meeting, the peace commissioner said the necessary steps would be taken to revive tools. it's understood that these will include lifting arrest warrants for guerrillas, living in exile and cuba talk, stalled in 2019 after a rebel bomb attack and bug was killed. 20 police cadets. well, columbia is new president, has appointed new chiefs of the military and police to stop. petro says he chose the officials because they have not been accused of corruption nor human rights violations. the left, a politician,
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was torn into office earlier this week. he's promised to reshape the polarized country with a long list of social and economic reform. luckily to have the new commanders who will lead columbia as public forces are aligned with the human security politics goals. we promised and that we want to turn into a reality to guarantee peace, a decrease in violence and crime, and respect towards human rights and citizens. freedoms, as every democracy should. a man in montenegro has shot 10 people dead, including 2 children. witnesses say the 34 year old was firing randomly, people in the streets of 15 years. he was killed and a gun battle with police. 6 people were wounded, including an officer. local media, say the gunman went on a rampage off to a family dispute. while it's now been nearly a year since the taliban take river, an aide, reliance afghanistan has spiraled into one of the wilds west humanitarian crises. the un says up to 25000000 afghans are living in poverty. children are the most
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vulnerable, many of them at risk of malnutrition, and the challenges keep piling up. unicef has received only 40 percent of its funding appeal for this year. a warning you may find some images disturbing and some of them job aids report from the remote co, jani district in eastern afghanistan, severely malnourished, born and the weight, fighting for every breath seems repeated at almost every hospital in the sun. units that says children are the most vulnerable overseas hunger. this read of preventable disease. we've just got a nationwide measles outbreak under control because we've been doing campaigns. but now we have no break of acute watery diarrhea which is a weakening, already weak bodies. and here we are in the hospital, we're seeing children with severe acute nutrition and complications with pneumonia
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. measles you name, or we're hearing stories of mothers sending children to school in the morning crying with hunger. many of these girls had breakfast, although it was just a piece of bread and some green tea. the morning session is for girls. 200 i taught by 11 teachers at the only high school, some letters for the 3500 boys in the afternoon session. there are 18 teachers i not graduated from this makes you school has been in the state for the past 12 years. he's now a volunteer teacher. although against the taliban and all the girl education, she says, even if they came to school, there is no tend to accommodate them. that way. i'm not, i'm too young unless you're betting my message to the world is that they should unfreeze or reserve they're gonna get them if they're not going to help us,
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they should at least do that. and them so that we build our country with our own money i embarked, and my message to islam comer leaders is to fix our schools, will build classrooms and get us teachers and help us to get an education. it's not just health and education though. in addition to crippling sanctions on of gone is done since the taliban take over the countries facing a number of challenges which are contributing to your humanitarian catastrophe. the drought that this country is facing is the worst in the last few decades. and people are having to send their children to sleep on an empty stomach. until a few years ago these fields were green. but the changing weather patterns mean no snow in the winter and no rain during summer. barren land and contaminated water brings disease. o sending children ill equipped and short staffed hospitals hit the cycle of misery in a country and a leadership learning to govern. abandon by the rest of the work. oh sama mirabelle
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dedira hogan of glenna sun. now sarah lyons, president julius, not a beer, has bound to punish those responsible for deadly protests in recent days. at least 27 people are killed, including 6 policemen. many people, they are angry about rising prices. but the president says the demonstrations were part of a plot to overthrow the government. i'm it addressed reports from freetown, serial unions. president julius mar, debiose says the violence was premeditated and designed to topple his government. he cause of protesters or insurrections for the full force of the law. we'd be brought to bear on all those persons who attacked and killed police officers they, they're sponsors, under collaborators. we not go unpunished. deb will also be a for investigation into the death of ordinary citizens who lost their lives in
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this senseless violence incited by those are known persons the practice or some of the most violent sanity on the scene. in peacetime, the government says the opposition is to blame, but the opposition rejects that accusation. they say that governments bad economic policies are disposable, has been for years since they came to power. they haven't done anything to move the needle in the right direction. so that's not an excuse many businesses have remained shot as security forces patrol the streets a 12 hour curfew is still in force across the country. santoyo, like most african countries heavily rely on importance and because of its current supply challenges, the countries also suffering from inflation. with more than half the population living below the poverty line,
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people here finding it increasingly difficult to afford even the basics. like for the protest come 10 months before the countries general elections that are real concerns here, the election process could be mod by the violence seen in the past few days. how many degrees al jazeera freaked out saturday on a wrestling crisis stalled construction project, and china is spilling over into the banking sector, triggering warnings, a broader systemic risk. but it's also left many people who bought unfinished trends high and dry with sun considering drastic measures. patrick, fog reports from learning in southern china lanning, the cancer of one c province, is like many fast growing cities in china. on the outskirts clusters of residential projects, scatter the landscape. except there's little sign of work going on at most sites. one builder we spoke to couldn't say white, young shill. i don't know where the work is when i've only been here for 2 days.
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this developments north of nanny was launched in 2019. it was due for completion this year. so we've seen a sign of the front of the site and it says that the developers run out of funds and it doesn't have money to pay for materials for workers. and so work has been completely halted here. the day we visit one homeowner called alum meets us. he doesn't want us to show his face on camera. if he is, authorities might punish him for it. alum runs a street store for a living. he took out a bank loan and paid more than a 1000000 you want or about a $150000.00 for a home here. don't gave idea. we borrowed high and low to buy this home and to put the children to school. we know something like this happened, so i don't know what to say that i a father of 2 alum is buried in mortgage bills. he's now thinking of moving in to an empty shell with his family. didn't go young. so if we don't have access to water or electricity,
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we will rely on ourselves. we'll use bucket and make do the why come in partial scared, it will be dangerous. when i him, we've no choice, even if it's dangerous. either way, we are dead stall projects and more than 90 cities and china have triggered a wave of strikes. hundreds of thousands of people are simply refusing to keep up payments. it's paul pressure on the banking system. but there have been many cases also of desperate home buyers with nowhere else to go squatting, an unfinished developments so far, the government has struggled to resolve the issue. if not handle well, are this good wells, a spell, a great deal of all instability bearing in mind that the coming national party congress in november would have said to reaffirm the 3rd curve for presidency, giving. so obviously, presidency that's of all the saga to spoil the broth. all those like alum hope for is for work to get back on track and eventually to have a finished home for his family to live in. patrick, fog, al jazeera, manning,
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china. now the american actor, an hash, has been declared legally dead, but will main on life support bus. she's evaluated for organ donation. hash has been in a coma, after crashing her car into a house in los angeles. a week ago, she was one of hollywood favorite actors in the late 1990 s and peered in a string of big budget firms. her former partner, ellen degeneres voiced, happened to me, saying it was a sad day. well, a suspected bank. robin. italy has landed in hospital after the tunnel. he was digging collapsed. investigators are looking into the possibility that he and 3 other men were trying to borrow their way into a bank. near the vatican. officers arrested the 3 other suspects. battalion newspapers say it the men wanted to stage the highest this weekend the holiday in italy. ah.
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