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one cards or stay in a in us, which was just an incredible finding. during raids on one of the most notorious mafia gangs in calabria, italian police found consignments of fe coley boil, made from industrial lubricants that were being exported to the united states. the main thing that we do when we carry out criminal investigations is to reconstruct the money flow and the flow of goods and connect pieces together. it office broads, does profits that are easy to make and hauled to ignore the haps it means that all of us should be a little more vigilant about what we put on our plates. ah, donald trump is being investigated for possibly breaching us espionage laws. after the f. b, i found classified documents at his florida home. watching
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al jazeera life from a headquarters in south, i'm daddy navigates, are also a heads acclaimed author salman rushdie is on a ventilator after he was stabbed on stage at an event in new york state. i mean, we report from eastern afghanistan where teachers are calling for state funds to be released to help millions of children in poverty and thousands of fish wash up dead on a river along the germany. poland border sparkling fears of an environmental disaster . ah hello. the former u. s. president donald trump is suspected of violating the espionage act after the f b i. c, cause if i documents from his florida estate earlier this week,
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the list of documents reportedly includes material relating to nuclear weapons. heidi so castro reports from washington dc. how do you feel mister tough? 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 taken and taking them to his home. others. these documents relate to french
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president emanuel micron and to trump pardoning of his close associates. roger stone drum says he declassified all materials he and aids took from the white house . he and republican supporters called 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 law enforcement is doing, but i think it would be wrong to take the position because this person is a former president. you know, we should look the other way when there could be violations of a law. 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 is running for president again, because charging a political candidate could be seen as election interference. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington. scott lucas is a professor for american studies at the university of birmingham. he says there are still a possibility that the former president could be prosecuted over the findings for the espionage act is quite a long standing act, which of course would cover, for example, spying for a foreign power. but the espionage act also covers the handling of top secret material. you know, the material relating to national security. and one of the provisions of the espionage act is that no one should take classified material for their own private possession. especially if they have no permission from a government agency to have that. so in this specific case where the espionage and
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what has happened is that a monks or is that the warrant was issued on the suspicion that amongst the material that donald trump had taken without permission from the white house, there was top secret documents. and indeed, what the f b i as found is those 4 set of documents that are not only more top secret. they're more secure compartment and secure. compartmentalized means that you can only look at those documents, including documents on nuclear weapons, in a highly secure government facility. so yes, truck is vulnerable prosecution under the espionage act. if it transpires that he took those documents, whether or not he did so by mistake, or whether he did so intentionally, claimed and controversial author salman rushdie is on a ventilator and unable to speak after being stabbed at a literary event in new york state. police arrested at 24 year old man victoria gate and b reports on the stage where salman rushdie was due to speak,
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a group of people including an off duty doctor surround the injured offer. he just been stabbed multiple times and was lying on the floor. please. rusty was airlifted hospital in pennsylvania where he had emergency surgery. the news is not good, his agent says the award winning novelist is on a ventilator a may lose an eye. the nerves in his arm have been savage and his liver is damaged . witnesses say the attack happened quickly and came with a guy who would no, no accommodate them. the microphone left this guy a start to stop him. who was so fast, so crazy in the moment we ran to the stage and a love guy came to help him and, and get the press what that him police search the home of the alleged assailant in fav. you new jersey. he's been identified as 24 year old, had
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a matter authorities think he acted alone. we don't have any indication of a motive at this time, but we are working with the api. i the sheriffs office and we will determine what the cause of this was or what the motor for this attack was. rushed is lecture was expected to focus on the us being a home for free expression. local government leaders have condemned the attack. 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 truce rusty was forced into hiding in 1989 after his novel. the satanic verses was denounced by the iranian leader, ayatollah hominy. a bounty of $3000000.00 was offered to any one who would kill the british author. you k prime minister boris johnson says he's a pulled by the attack. he's tweeted, sir. salman rushdie has been stabbed while exercising
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a right. we should never cease to defend. but inter ran some had a different reaction. more follow i heard the news on tv that was so glad because the insult salman rushdie made against our profit. the fact was issued against him finally worked out to ran, hasn't commented on the attack, but some say it could further damage relations with the west. at a time when tensions remain high over the nuclear deal, victoria gate and be al jazeera, shut up ourselves from the quincy and cicero, he says they attackers. motivations are still not clear. he would most likely be born on the same year that the iranian government essentially declared 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, if you're sending the fax because the fax for belongs to the line cannot be rescinded by the state, according to the iranian practice. but they took this distance things from it,
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as part of a tree condition for the iranians and the united kingdom to restore diplomatic release. and ever since that picture against my wrist, he seems to have decreased quite significant. but clearly not enough. there's still been elements inside of the iranian that never the less are speaking of the difference. 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 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 ranges not just from the original fact against him by i for the whole many,
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but also efforts by other groups later groups cheating his assassination. thousands of supporters of pocket on the former prime minister iran con, are gathering in the city of la horror. they're expecting to hold a mass protest in the coming hours. khan is pushing for return to power after losing in no confidence both in april. dozens of women in afghanistan and felt a rare protesting couple days before the 1st anniversary of the taliban to return to power about 40 demonstrators more than the education ministry. chancing brad's work and freedom fighters beat some of the women and fired into the air to break up the protests. despite the pledges made when it reaches power, the taliban has limited african women's rights. i've got astonish, also facing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. the un says up to 25000000 people are living in poverty. children are the most vulnerable with many
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at risk of malnutrition. and the challenges keep piling up. unicef has received only 40 percent of its funding appeal for this year. just the warning you may find some images disturbing in a summer been job aids report from the remote county district in eastern afghanistan, severely malnourished, born and the weight, fighting for every breath seems repeated at almost every hospital in a run, the sun. unicef says children are the most vulnerable overseas hunger. this spread of preventable disease. we've just got a nationwide measles outbreak under control because we've been doing campaign. but now we have no break 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 you.
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monia 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 piece of bread and some green tea. the morning session is for girls. 200. i taught by 11 teachers and the only high school letters for the 3500 boys in the afternoon session. there are 18 teachers i not graduated from this makes you school. it has been in this 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 tend to accommodate them. that way i'm that i'm too young unless you're better, my message to the world is that they should unfreeze or reserved their got it 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
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money i embarked, and my message to islam comer leaders is to fix our schools, will build classrooms, get us teachers, and help us to get an education. it's not just health and education go. 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. sending children to ill equipped and short staffed hospitals hit the cycle of misery in a country under leadership learning to govern, abandon by the rest of the world. oh sama mirabelle dedira hogan of
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venison. so heads on al jazeera, thousands of passengers across the u. k. c. their travel plans go off the rails as 9 train firms go on strike. plus they paid for homes, but got something else. we'll talk to property buyers and china as developers, leave them in the learn. ah, the journey has begun. the faithful world camp is on its way to catch your travel package today. hey, there, good to see. let's go with your weather report beginning in pakistan. we've got a tropical cyclone spinning around the north sarabia and see that stumped a lot of rain in karachi. so, over the past 48 hours a months worth of brain has fallen in that shield of rain is now pushing into pakistan baluchistan province,
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where we have dealt with flooding. as of late after india, we go and we've got this disturbance spinning around the bay, been gall. so that's whipping rayner, brown's entrepreneurship dish or west bengal into central portions. and you know, it's trouble when you see some of the yellows pop up on our map. certainly the risk of seen some flooding when you consider about a 100 to 200 millimeters of rain falling within a short period of time. the heat is still locked in across the yang see river valley. shanghai just said touch cooler at 39 degrees. and that tropical storm is racing away from tokyo. we did have some landside warnings in play there, but now we have concern over this cluster of storms. not too far away from beijing . we could get about a month's worth of rain here within 24 hours. we've got a red rainstorm warning, this batch of what weather will move in to the korean peninsula. it's going to soak soul over the next few days. i think the worst of it on monday and wendy with gus up to 60 kilometers per hour. that's it. i saw official airline
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of the journey live and rubber to base a lot of folks when they hear the word refugee think stranger, they think other la latrice stuck in these cam. it's regardless of your raise the way you're coming from. and he said, give everybody safety from global issues to those that need to be heard. human rights and land defenders and brazil, they live in a circumstance of permanent violence and intimidation. the street where a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera. ah ah hello again. the top stories on al jazeera before me was president donald trump is suspected of violating the espionage act after the f. b. i c's classified documents
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from his florida estate this week. they reportedly include material relating to nuclear weapons. the author, sunrun, rusty is on a ventilator after being stopped at a literary event in new york state. his agent says he suffered injuries to his arm and abdomen and may lose. and i suspect has been arrested. health authorities in new york are urging parents to get their children vaccinated against polio. after the virus was detected in the cities, waste water, it's being seen as another sign to potentially deadly disease as quietly spreading among unvaccinated people. polio mainly affects children and can cause breathing issues. on permanent paralysis, it's largely been eradicated in most of the world. the w a chose as poll your remains and are making of galveston and pakistan. the u. s. house of representatives is approved. the biggest climate package in the country's history
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is 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. yet, most of the money will come from tax reforms including a new 15 percent minimum tax on large corporations. investors looking to poor money into clean energy will be rewarded with a decade of federal subsidies. the senate passed the bill earlier and it will now be sent to bite and to sign into law with a 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 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 in confronting the climate crisis and strengths in the energy security of
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america and the world. quite frank formalism, mexico are struggling to keep their herds alive during one of the worst droughts. in decades. just 10 percent of downs across the country are full, while water levels that others have dropped below half of their capacity. the government has declared and national emergency. authorities in poland and germany are trying to find out what's behind the death of tons of fish and the odor river, which runs through the 2 countries. they suspect chemical contamination, but the substance hasn't been identified or how much val was more mysterious and unprecedented is how authorities have described what's happening here. since late july, tons of dead fish have been removed from that order which flows through poland and germany garcia. i have never seen such an ecology disaster before. this is probably the worst catastrophic in the history of our district. i don't think the order has
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been anything of the scale before. what's happening if a tragedy, the cause of the must die off is unknown. gemini, authorities say they found toxic chemical substances as well as high levels of mercury in water samples. in poland. however, the test results were consistent. only trace amounts of the poisonous metal where detected. i'm the mom and we're probably dealing with an influx of an external substance that must have polluted this river. when on the notable the fish seemed to be drifting down river and that they aren't from here. they've come from somewhere else and they have been dead for at least a day by says the volunteers and anglers had collected more than 11 tons of dead fish from a 200 kilometer sets of the 4 or down. environmentalists have accused authorities of not responding quickly enough, but poland says it has issues. health warnings listed so body. we advise residents, centuries staying in the vicinity of the river, not into the water, not to swim,
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and not all the dollars in europe has caused rivers to the seed by a largest say, low water levels may have aggravated the contamination and with hot dry conditions expected to continue that are fears more ecological disasters unlikely. mohammed one algebra french firefighters, fear a thunder storms and strong winds. could reignite and inferno in the southwest. officials say the fire has not spread significantly overnight. with that too quickly. change more than a 1000 emergency workers from across europe are trying to contain the blades in your own region. bernard smith reports from host tens, 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. natural navies
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good at the de risk being complicated, because the temperatures are going up and precipitation is dropping firefighters from across europe. these are remaining, have been drafted in to help fight the flames. this is an area that already caught fire caught fire again to the fire fighters have 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 at the start. that is to protect people who've been evacuated and will keep protecting all these home. villages, hey, i know they've had
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a lucky escape. these signs are everywhere, thanking the fire service for saving their homes up 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 enough forest left. it's really it's area, but 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. a man in montenegro has shot dead 10 people including 2 children or 3 witnesses rather save the 34 year old. was firing randomly at people in the street so such an yay! he was shot dead by a passer by. 6 people were wounded, including a police officer,
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local media, se the gunman went on the rampage after a family dispute. muslim order to help, the situation was chaotic. you can hear women crying, people in panic. people are shouting, the man has a weapon and that he's randomly shooting. instinctively, i tried to walk through the crowd to see what was happening, but police didn't allow people to come closer. at that moment, i can hear gunshots. it was not a pleasant situation. people were talking various information was flowing, but i can't say this was really one tragic event for the whole of our country. rail passengers in the u. k. can expect big disruption to their travel plans this weekend because drivers have gone on strike. thousands of employees at 9 rails companies are calling for better pay and working conditions. harry faucet has more from the flint london's major train station. at least the kinds of scenes we've seen replayed throughout the day here, one of london's busy stations confusion. turning to this appointment, turning to hastily and provide new travel plans because london houston station is
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entirely closed. it is full victim to this major industrial action that's been taking place across the country on this saturday, the as left rail union, its members working out on strike some parts of the u. k. without any real services, some with a heavily diminished service and it's just one of many strikes to transport that have been carried out throughout the summer and more indeed are expected. now the boss of the union, he blames the government saying that the government is not allowing the rail companies to try to award the kind of pay increases unions off the fear of further fueling inflation. the rail companies say they want to see modernization from the workforce, more in cooperation of sundays, into the working week, more productivity from every shift. but the real, a few of all this is this massive rise in the cost of living industries across the country, trying to keep up with that while the government is trying to time down. the kind of ways demands which it says will only fuel inflation even further. a worse thing,
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crisis of stalled construction projects in china is spilling over into the banking sector, triggering warnings of broader systemic risks. but it's also left many people who bought unfinished homes high and dry. with some considering drastic measures. patrick folk reports from nanning in southern china learning the capital one c province is like many fast growing cities in china, on the outskirts clusters of residential projects scattered the landscape. except there's little sign of work going on at most sites. one builder we spoke to couldn't say why, young shill? i don't know where the work is when i've only been here for 2 days. this development 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 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
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doesn't want us to show his face on camera. if he is a tardies, might punish him for it. alarm runs a street store for living. he took out a bank loan and paid more than a 1000000 you won or about a $150000.00 for a home here. don't give a day. we borrowed high and low to buy this home and to put the children to school . but know something like this happens. i don't know what to say that i know a father of 2 alarm 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, we will rely on ourselves will use budget make do the y coming partial scared, it will be dangerous. like him. we've no choice, even if it's dangerous. either way. we are dead stalled 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, its power pressure on the banking system. but they have been many cases also of
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desperate home buyers with nowhere else to go squatting, an unfinished developments so far, the government struggle to resolve the issue. it won't handle well. are this good wills? a spell, a great deal of, of instability bearing in mind that the coming national party congress in november would set to reaffirm the 3rd curve for presidency given. so obviously president c as a wall. the saga this for the brought 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, nanning, china. these on from a general election voters and kenya are still waiting to new to know who will be there next president, veteran opposition leader. right, let dinner and deputy president william root. so are in a close race for the top job. kenny as election commission has until tuesday to
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announce the results. giovanni began. bo is a lawyer and governance expert in nairobi. he explains why the results are taking so long to come through. this is taking a bit longer because of the procedure on the can. is him laid down in law that day itbc the independent electoral and wondrous commission must use or follow or process of verification of exec it of the results to ensure that no arizona sticks are allowed or can be found when the final telling is done. and this is because of the kind of political history of gum form where electrons violence as a result of the, from the electron disputes of the potential reserves. and sol, legally speaking in kenya, or the electrical board. he has got 7 days from the day of elections to announce the presidential results. but i'm sure that it will not stretched to the 7 days
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because from last your day or 7 days and the close of today as well. that anxiety that is building up in the country is mostly due to day misinformation and is information on social media as well. busy as the kind of information that seems to be coming from, allegedly, jay residential, secretary of, of the 2 leading presidential candidates, that's from a prime minister, a lordy, anger, and the incumbent, dippy to president william brutal. saw that this information and miss information on social media seems to be starting up there and motions of people and anxiety across the country. and this is not so good, especially at home such as this in an election that is so close. ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, the former u. s. president donald trump is suspected of violating the espionage i.

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