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on al jazeera, the heart wrenching good buys loved ones, not knowing when they will unite again, women and children heading wis relative safety, often leaving when behind, among the foreigners also trying to get out train rise of a free, but it's on a 1st come. first serve basis here at the bus station, the only a few rides available that's only to the surrounding villages. so people like for me in rose, now need to find another way to get out of the city. but for now, they like many others, would have to reach in, hoping tomorrow is a better day. ah, donald trump is being investigated for possibly breaching u. s. espionage laws. after the api i found unclassified documents out of florida
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harm. ah, hello there. i miss darcy. hey, this is al jazeera live from dar ha. also coming up, the acclaimed ortho salman rusty is on a ventilator after he was stabbed on stage as an event in new york state. for responding to china, the u. s. as it will hold and maritime trends and operation in the taiwan straits, they paid for homes, but got something else. we'll talk to property buyers and china as developers, leave them in the lunch. ah, a former us president donald trump is suspected of violating the espionage acts after the f. b. i seized classified documents from his florida florida estate earlier this week. the list of documents reportedly includes material relating to
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nuclear weapons. how does your castro reports from washington dc? how do you feel mister job? 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 for mar, logo, 4 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 is taken the single most highly classified documents united states government has as taken and taking them to his home. others. these documents relate to french president emanuel micron and to trump pardoning of his close associates. roger
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stone, trump says he declassified all materials he and aids took from the white house. he and republican supporters call the investigation. a political witch hunt president donald trump is job idence most likely as 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, bid, 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 want to interfere with what law enforcement is doing. but i think it would be wrong to take the position because this person is a former president. now 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, which would be a 1st in american history. and the decision would be further complicated. if trump
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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 acclaimed and controversial ortho salman rushdie is on a ventilator and unable to speak after being stabbed as a literary event in new york state. that's according to his agent who also says the rice has suffered a wound, his liver, and may lose. and i please have a rest of the 24 year old man. christians leave me reports from new 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 with rusty's alleged assailant was quickly taken into police custody in the attack to cried by local leaders. we are 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,
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a bounty of $3000000.00 was offered to anyone that would kill the british author. but even as rushed, you was being burned and apogee. he was celebrated in the west and later knighted by great brin, many in the city did not believe that it amounted to an act of blasphemy, nor indeed, did many in this world believe 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. well, trade policy is from the quincy institute and he says, the attack is,
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motivations are still not clare. he would most likely be born on the same year that the iranian government, essentially to clear that they are not going to be seeking sell on rashid death. and they're not going to be aiding anyone else to do so either, if not a for rescinding of the fact was because the facts were belongs to the top line, cannot be rescinded by the state, according to iranian praxis, but they took this distance thing file match as part of a tree condition for the iranians and the united kingdom to restore diplomatic release. and ever since the picture against my rush, the seems to have been quite significant. but clearly not enough. there's still been elements inside of the iranian that nevertheless are speaking of the why is this it is still fully part of the volume a policy. we don't know more, we have no indications as to whether this person has issued any suite from social
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media or if you had left something to explain why he did this. i committed this crime, but it does appear unlikely that it is completely disconnected from the picture. the larger picture, which range is not just from the original fact for against him by i for the whole maybe, but also our efforts by other groups later groups cheating his assassination. no us forces will conduct to air and maritime transit operations in the taiwan straits in the coming weeks. the white house is the actions will reflect its, responds to china's military drills on the strays. it also says the us will operate way international law allows. the white house has described china's military exercises as provocative and basing regards taiwan as part of its territory and carried out its biggest drills in the seas around taiwan, off the u. s. house speaker. nancy pelosi visited the island earlier this month,
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andrea long as a china analyst and he says, washington continues to work against its official policy when it comes to china and taiwan. this one. so i want to try the policy has consistently been out of united states administrations over yes, you make it a sending more and more see the officials to supply one and also creating why, why space. but i want to play is always independent row as the pie one was a separate country. so this a lucy visit, i lost all the candles back. that's part of a $11.00 of the 2. it came as of the lunch to presidency off his private course and wanting to president by so this is at the front. at the top one is people moving more away
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from the mainland to get with it. i want them to be made that most taiwanese people do lots of occasion, but all the, the great events they want to put on the status quo or ever however, it's not an option because a see has they play, play it 2049 is the after that, that line on the vacation, which is the 100 and it was 3 of the part of it all, the former us national security advisor, john bolton, has described, an alleged not to kill him as tantamount to an act of war. in an exclusive interview with out there at bolton, says the evidence is overwhelming. washington accuses the arabian revolutionary god, mess around with se thing involved in the plan. prosecutor say it was probably in retaliation for the 2020 us drones strike that kill the runs and eat,
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could force commander cause them for the money. i think the charging documents that the u. s. department of justice filed last week and were unsealed a few days ago presented an overwhelming case that this is the government of iran targeting a former government official and his case me to, to try and attempt to assassinate them. and as the charging document indicates, and as others have said, that this thread extends well beyond me. a former secretary of defense mark as for former secretary of state, mike pompei, when number of other people whose names have not really become public. our targets of the iranian government, and i think it's, it's very serious. it's tam out really to an act of war by iran, against the united states. at the same time that the, the, the u. s. government is being urged to get back into the 2015 nuclear deal with
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iran, which i think is a huge mistake. now the u. s. is set to investigate where the venezuelan cargo plane has links to iran's revolutionary got the boeing 747, which used to belong to iran has been held in argentina since june. venezuela has demanded its return. daniel schriner reports from one is aries. the boeing 747300 has been held in argentina since june. it said it was carrie car parts. it belongs to the venezuelan cargo company, m for thor, which bought it from the iranian baja hair. back at the end of 2021. the argentine authorities of allowed 12 of the original 19 crew to leave the country of the 7 that remain re openness. wayland for urena, among them is the pilot's column. rissa gast semi, who the united states accuses of being a former member of the cut force of the iranian revolutionary god. they accused
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that organisation of being a terror organization is reported about the f. b i working with argentine, authorities have already searched the play. israel says at least some of the crew are involved in trafficking arms to syria and has the law in lebanon. iran denies any involvement in terrorism while there had been angry protest outside the argentine embassy in caracas with the venezuelan authorities demanding that the plane be returned. no man, it's incomplete. 2 months have passed since the hijacking of the venezuelan and radiant pilots in argentina. and nobody has done anything from here from this congress of social movements. i asked for the support of the social trade unions, political movements and patriotic people of argentina. for the rescue of that plane, for the release of the hijacked pilots, i asked for the support of argentina. autumn senior is in a difficult situation. being praised by the united states, which it relies upon reckon nomic support while angry venezuela,
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one of his key allies in the region. daniel swindler al jazeera, when osiris mostella had here on, out of there in the climate crisis, rages on droughts as decayed in mexico, while fi fi says not more. blazes. urine. ah, teachers in afghanistan, colton. funds to help me build their countries as millions of children with which he has begun. the, the full world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package to day or the heat wave across england is intensifying every one and you get it once again. it's been record breaking stuff. so for the 2nd day in a row, the english port city of plymouth set in a record at $32.00 degrees and for the republic of ireland, never before for the month of august. have we seen
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a temperature this high oak park, 31.7 degrees at southwest of dublin, so the peak of the heat coming over the course of the we can both saturday and sunday london, we got you in for 35 degrees. more clouds will float in, i don't think we're going to see any relief until early next week, and by that point, the heat wave will have been going on for more than a week, but of relief. also coming for central portions of spain with this batch of what weather we've got some forest fires, burning high temperatures. here as well. valencia 41 degrees, south of valencia. there is an extreme high temperature wanting as those temperatures cross 40 degrees. showers in storm still locked into the balkans down poor, seem likely for bosnia, serbia, and kosovo. some of that activity pushing into grease and showers never really too far away from it. stumble in the gambia has seen some of its worse flooding in house as century, and another weather maker comes crushing in to the western cape. we could see some snow over the higher ground. that's it. soon. official
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airlines of the journey. new voices heating up the airway. lot of chinese listeners with kimberly here, but they really think in their own country shifting paleface is the rise of citizen . journalism has changed everything. how do you happen? it happened on social media and the undeniable impact of the mainstream narrative. australians went to the pole with those images front of mine is a water very much going forward out in the media as well as on the battlefield. their listening post. dissect the media on al jazeera. ah ah. they are watching al jazeera. let's remind you of our top story is the salad. for
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me, u. s. president donald trump is suspected of violating the espionage act after the f. b i. c is to classify documents from florida state this week. they reportedly include material relation to nuclear weapons. the ortho, salman rushdie is on a ventilation after being stabbed as a literary events in new york state. is agent says he's suffered injuries to his arm and abdomen and may lose, and i suspect has been arrested. us forces will conduct and maritime transit operations and the taiwan straits. in the coming weeks. the white house says its actions will reflect its response to china's recent rails on a straight now serially owns president julius mud a beer has vowed to punish those responsible for deadly protests. in recent days, at least $27.00 people were 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 amend address reports. now from frita fellow
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serial unions, president julius mud bure says the violence was premeditated and designed to topple his government. he caused the protest, her sor insurrection is for the full force of the law. we'd be brought to bear on all those persons who attacked and killed police officers. they des, sponsors, and our collaborators will not go unpunished. that will also be a for investigation into the death of ordinary citizens who lost their lives in this senseless violence incited by those are known peasants, 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
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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 at security forces patrol the streets a 12 hour curfew is still in force across the country. so you're 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, people here finding it increasingly difficult to afford even the basics. like for the proctors come 10 months before the countries general elections that are really concerned caea of the election process could be mod by the violence seen in the past few days. how many degrees al jazeera frito, saturday on columbia new left us government has moved to restart. peace talks with
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the last gorilla group. 3 years after they were suspended. negotiators 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 talks. it's understood that he is willing to the lifting arrest warrants for guerrillas living in exile and cuba talks stalled back in 2019 after a rebel bomb attack. and bucket are killed at 20 police cadets or columbia's new president has also appointed new chiefs of the military and police. gustavo, petro says he chose the officials because they have not been accused of corruption nor human rights violations. the left as politician was sworn in to office earlier this week. he's promised to reshape the polarized country with a long list of social and economic reforms. le cooper, luckily to have the new commanders who will lead columbia as public forces are lined with the human security politics goals. we promised and that we want to turn
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into a reality to guarantee peace, a decrease in violence and crime, and respect towards human rights. and citizens freedoms, as every democracy should gussie and now the us house of representatives has approved the biggest climate package in history. its 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 forms, including a new 15 percent minimum way minimum tax on large corporations. investors also looking to put money into keen energy will be rewarded with a decade of subsidies. the bill will not be sent to president biden, to sign and total with the final passage of the inflation reduction act. in the house of representatives, the american people are going to see lower prescription drug prices, lower health care costs, and lower energy costs and big corporations are finally going to start to pay their
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fair share. those that are paying 0 dollars in federal income tax will now have to pay a minimum tax. and america is going to take the most aggressive action we've ever taken and confront into climate crisis and stress in the energy security of america and the world. quite frank homey, and farmers and mexico are struggling to keep their heads alive during one of the west droughts that in decades, just 10 percent of dams across the country. awful. well, water levels that others have dropped below half a capacity. the government has declared and not a national emergency, and firefighters from across europe has now joined emergency crews in southwest france, trying to contain a major wildfire there. more than a 1000 an hour, packing a major blaze, and the g rond region. then it's smith reports from austin, firefighters in southwest france, using everything they can lay hands on to beat back these rapidly spreading fires.
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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 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 of how to come back and douse the flames . one of the challenges for them is because the temperature is 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 at the start. that is to protect people who've been evacuated and will keep protecting.
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all these home. villages here 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 the catastrophe like that above all, a catastrophe for the bio diversity. it's an enormous catastrophe. we're not going to have any forest left. it's really it's area, but i'm carrying away birch trees from the roads so that 5 fight isn't 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. well, it's been nearly a year since the taliban takeover and aid were lined. half canister has spiraled into one of the ones. it was true monetary crises. the un says,
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up to 25000000 afghans are living in poverty. children are the most vulnerable, with many 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 a bunch of aids report from the remote co, jani district in eastern afghanistan, ah, severely malnourished born. and the weight, fighting for every breath seems repeated at almost every hospital in the wilderness on. unicef says children are the most vulnerable oversee hunger, this spread of preventable disease. we've just got a nationwide measles outbreak under control because we've been doing campaigns. but now we have an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea which is weakening, already weak bodies. and here we are in the hospital, we're seeing children with severe acute malnutrition and complications with
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pneumonia. measles, you name it. we're hearing stories of mothers sending children to school in the morning crying with hunger. many of these girls at breakfast, although it was just a piece of bread and some green tea. the morning session is for girls to few 100 are taught by 11 teachers at the only high school dollars for the $3500.00 boys in the afternoon session. that are 18 teachers and i graduated from this makes your school has been in the state for the past 12 years. he's now a volunteer teacher. although against the taliban and all the girls education, she says, even if they came to school, there is no tent to accommodate them. that way and i'm that i'm too young that she is better. my message to the world is that they should on freeze or reserved data.
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if they're not going to help us, they should at least do that and them so that we build our country with our own money i embarked, and my message to islamic, i'm or it leaders is to fix our schools, build classrooms, 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 on since that i live on take over the countries facing a number of challenges which are contributing to your humanity and 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, it brings disease. o, sending children ill equipped and short staffed hospitals. it's a cycle of misery in a country and a leadership learning to govern, abandon by the rest of the world. oh sama major with other hogans of
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venison. a worsening crisis of stalled construction projects and china is spilling over into the banking sector tre, ring warnings of broader systemic risks, but it's also left. many people who have bought unfinished hines, high and dry, with thumb, considering drastic measures. patrick, fog reports from running and southern china lanning, the capital 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. this developments north of manning 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
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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. he fears authorities might punish him for it. alarm 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 a deer 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 pills. 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, we will rely on ourselves will use budget make do the why come in partial scared, it will be dangerous. now you, 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
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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 homebuyers with nowhere else to go squatting, an unfinished developments so far, the government has struggled to resolve the issue. it might handle well. are this good wills, a spell, a great deal off of instability bearing in mind that the coming national party congress in november would set to reaffirm the 3rd curve for presidency kicking. so obviously president c plus a wall the saga to spoil the broth. all those like alum hope for is for want to get back on track and eventually to have a finished home for his family to live in. patrick, fog, al jazeera manning, china ah .

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