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and that's the same that's made some of the products and competitive the dumping of chemically treated fabrics. yeah. like in most african markets is a major source of concern for local produces that is widespread consumption. but so even the few kits that remain will also have to close bringing an end to more than 500 years history. ah and in this election ah no loses. william rito is declared the winner of kenya's close before presidential election. the declaration came just minutes after an all out brawl in the election counseling center after a group of election commissioners said they couldn't stand by the result. ah,
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lorna cloud, this is out 0 life and also coming up, mammals deposed leda. ang santucci is sentenced to 6 more years in prison on corruption charges. germany's environment minister warns of an ecological catastrophe, as fish die in large numbers along the border with potent ah . so kenya is vice president william rita has been declared the winner of kenya's presidential election. he received just over 50 percent of the votes, less than 2 percent ahead of his main rival, a former prime minister runner a dingo rito as promising kenya's radical economic reform, gender equity. that id called for unity. i am a vague, proud canyon. they say to me that the people of kenya have raised the bah on up who are thinking leadership in our country,
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not to sell away in cities, but to settle our program. our manifesto, our agenda, and our plan. we do not have that luxury to point fingers. we do not have that luxury to apportion blame. we must close ranks and walk together for a functioning democratic prop beth kane bouts control receives rounds retailers when shortly before the result was announced, violence broke out at the national, tallying center in nairobi, the election commissions deputy chairman and 3 other commissions to soon the results say in the process was to opaque, say, put it at officials from the campaign of former prime minister runner and bingo
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made allegations at the commission system was hacked. and let's cross to malcolm web. his life was in nairobi at malcolm. it was a long time coming at, but eventually we got a result. controversial that maybe the electoral commission chairman announced that william was the when, as you said, we just over 50 percent of the vote. someone i counted that requires 50 percent plus one or more to be declared the winner in, in the 1st round. if neither can the got more than that threshold would have gone to run off. but william roots has been deputy president for, for the last 9 years. but he, in spite of that has been promising change in, throughout this campaign, very much broadening himself among the people describing himself as a hustler, fighting a political dynasty that has rule. can you ever since independence from british
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colonial rule, and his former ally outgoing president who kenyatta in a bizarre twist of event ended up backing his long time rival riley were doing. and i riley who's run for president 4 times before those times leading the opposition. this time with the backing of the historically dominant political establishment, he didn't turn up here, the tallying center. and his chief agent stormed out and spoke to the press outside a little bit earlier. let take a listen to what he had to say. how intelligent system was penetrated and hot and that some of the officials submitted and some of them will be that if that if you know the rest of
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so america what, what's the process now if it does indeed dispute this result will complain and have 7 days from the announcement of results to file a cold position if they want to dispute the results for happen following the election. 5 years ago royal are doing here in his coalition submitted a complaint to the supreme court, not to the supreme court and no the election. they overturned its results and called for a re run in re run and ryder didn't go to camp, said the problems. the irregularities that the court identified hadn't been fixed. they refused to participate. that brought going president, who kenyatta and william retail back into power valley challenged as their main opponent wasn't running in the re run center back in a similar position. riley were doing and the coalition will be waiting to hear if in the next 7 days the are indeed filing
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a petition. sounds like they're already disputing those results. and on the streets of cassini, the city in the west of kenya, where the stronghold of rider were part of the country that he originate from being some protest broken up by police firing tig. meanwhile, and city of l, the red, which is william root, those home area. people have been celebrating on the streets or malcolm, thanks so much. we're reporting that from nairobi. well, the next president faces multiple challenges among them, rising inflation, unemployment, and record high levels of public tech. can. it was particularly hard hit during the cave in 1900 pandemic, because tourists were unable to visit the 2 front runners. right. i think we have both promised to tackle widespread corruption. the critics say that roles in previous scandal, governments caused doubtful no credibility on top of answer, prolong drought has increased the threat of people getting hungry and some of the
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poorest canyons can only afford one meal. a day, let's bring in a job as it become bo, who's a governance expert joint is not from nairobi. job is 1st op if report to true that dinner is not going to accept these results. how serious is that? can you? well it's, it's open, it's twice clear. that's right now with a shuttle that goes and this is not just him. i didn't know boats what enough days ago was your agents future. there is also raised issues or the tunneling center national timing symptom that there was some guy can talk, but she did not fit. what's exactly going to happen by that way. the reason that today that you've agent to get that will put your officials and what 2 elected members will be positions at the national funding center have
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indicated that they have good insights about certain indigo to and it, it appears in that money in which the telling was done on the side or commission of the defendant. demetrius, i'm one of the commission, the press conference insinuated, but while the process of what the elections on board styling was open, but the left of each was a b 2. yeah. we heard, we heard them just a few moments ago talking about this. the point is this is a pivots one moment. you wonder what could happen next and, and how it might affect the stability of the country. for the future of our vision, elections, recourse or reprove can only be found in the supreme court, and such petition must be filed within 7 days of the business. liberation. so right now, being granted parties. 7 days to file
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a petition and sprinkled. but beyond the usual puffs that must be taken. it's going to be very interesting observing how the next few days are going to be. because when you go to the cation to this rejection, by under what i don't think i've already narrow, we haven't had some buckets of is this? where does of some protests and a be toast breaking in tools of the machine successful? and in orlando stronghold in yada, they have been lots of photos, but we know that they have been knoxville, job deploy mental secretary is us. so the implication of recent such that is the political side of it. miss domingo himself. you really need to speak to this might us possibly tomorrow or the day after the counter would be watching to see what next bills have been from it completely. okay, ignoring the possibility of im going to the supreme court all petition agonist that has us that have been announced lay by the commission chair. right. and once the supreme court has had its way in,
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and if william retired does indeed maintain me at presidency, his current president elected if it does become president at very brief, if you would, how significant moment is this politically for kenya? well, it was quite significant because this is the tried to electron soon slow the doctrine of the new constitution and visual identity. all that, that have not been successful and with the edge which means that we may find it a bit limiting to contest in the next election to be 2027. but in the event that the supreme court, what time that is, where the firm called them a 60 day notice for period of 60 days that i the fresh election must be conducted for the president. and so it means them that's different than we know though we know to them because if i called the counselor and present looking at them, we have to hold on to our for the meeting,
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i'm doing the official action. and then you said that there's going to be a beach of how i should give what it's called woman's. okay. yeah. until my point is that the job is be great to speak to this. do appreciate it. we'll be keeping a very close eye on how things develop in kenya. thank you. thank you so much. thank you so much. now french troops have officially pulled out of molly putting an end to a 9 year long military operation. but con force was created to fight armed groups in the south region relations have wesson's to military coups in molly, in the past 2 years, and the failure of french forces to stop on going attacks. the french government says its commitment to fight terrorism in this whole region remains strong to me in march, the court has convicted asked me to anc sense that she had more corruption cases adding 6 years to prison sentence. the charges related to accusations that she was building a home with money from charitable donations. so she has already been convicted of
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other minor offenses. tony chang is following developments from bangkok as 77 years old. this really takes uncensored she out of the political picture for quite some time to come in. and i think this is what everyone was expecting she's facing. in total 19 cases for arranger of charges, including the ones to day for corruption or sewing in the court to day nap it. or they her case. they have evidence in a case which has been brought against her for misuse of a state helicopter. there have been cases about the misuse of walkie talkies. i really, i think what we're seeing here is a continuation of the process which we've seen since the coo of the military who have just thrown charges against her. trying to remove it. they know that if a, in an electoral stand up, she would defeat them again. they have promised elections by the autumn of 2023.
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we've heard from men on lie the senior general in charge of the military, john to add that he will go ahead with that in the last couple of weeks. if uncensored she was to remain in the political sphere at that stage, it would be a very difficult obstacle to come. so what this does is remove her further and further away. or there are still several more cases. she'll need to face in the coming weeks where they were hearing more evidence to day a, but i think today's charges really show that she, the military intention is to keep her out of the picture completely. china has announced more like 5 minutes rates sizes around taiwan, saying it's ready to smash any foreign interference in its affairs. the one in coincided with a visit by a u. s. congressional delegation to the island, which china claims its own. 5 politicians met with ty, once president, sighing when a similar visit by how speak nancy pelosi, this month's anchor bay ging fronting nearly 2 weeks of military exercises. while
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men, we are engaging in close cooperation with international allies to closely monitor the military situation. at the same time, we are doing everything we can to let the world know that taiwan is determined to safeguard stability. we have a moral obligation to do everything we can to prevent an unnecessary conflict. and taiwan has demonstrated incredible restraint and discretion during challenging times, china's central bankers trimmed interest rates, the boost economic growth. you figures show industrial output grew just at 3.8 percent in july. that was lower than expected. retail sales have slowed an investment property is dropped. the right cut suggests the government believes that cannot achieve its growth target this year of 5.5 percent. but we'll still come here in our desire, including ah, just one year of the telephone's take over enough gun has done,
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we look at what lies ahead for country facing an economic and a humanitarian morning, the dead funerals are held food. some of the $41.00 victims verify that a church in each ah, the journey has begun the faithful wold copies on its way to castle group your travel package to day. we got a weather maker spinning around northern india. i every one. here's the details for you on tuesday, so we'll call it pretty much from delhi into maharaj struck some pretty good downpours here. certainly the risk of seen some flooding and you guess it, it's going to move further toward the west in to pakistan. so no relief coming for sin province here, you know, last month some spots picking up about half a meter of rain in the prediction was for above average rainfall in august. and it
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looks like this is delivering southeast asia, some rain still fall in southern sumatra into west javiar, usual problem spots here. and for central areas of china, it has now been 9 weeks of unrelenting heat. and still there are no signs that that heat is starting to like go. so temperature is still across seeing see river valley closing in on 40 degrees. a lot of rain was dumped on the korean peninsula. this batch here at some spots of north korea saw more than 200 millimeters of rain. so it's now at that energy sliding into japan's main island of honcho, but really top to bottom across the country. we do have some soaking rains. we'll squeeze out one more nice, stay in tokyo with a height of 36 degrees. that could be your 16 days so far this year. above $35.00 degrees gutter, unceasing official airline, of the journey and counting the cost. the un urgent tax on the profits of oil and
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gas giants, could it help ease the energy crisis? biden signs a bill, the booth chip reduction who's winning the semiconductor and video game fails. death is it game over to the pandemic? boom? counting the cost on elder, they're part of the samples. most always on good luck. we are the ones grappling the extra mile where the media don't go. we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. ah, the me again, you want you out there. a reminder, our top story is this. kenya is vice president william return has been declared the winner of the country's presidential election. he received just over 50 percent of the votes, less than 2 percent ahead of his rival,
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former prime minister riley didn't get to control the c surrounds is when, before the result was announced, violence broke out to the national, tallying center for members of the election commission designing the result, seeing the process was to take a court in mamma has convicted our to leader, incense itchy and more corruption cases. adding 6 years to her prison sentence, charges related to accusations that she was building a home with money from charitable donations. it's one yes and to taliban reach control about guns. done. economy has collapsed. women have been stripped to their rights and millions of people just don't know where their next meal is coming from . as i've been job aid reports now from people on taliban here empower. and what lies ahead resound in england is done. the musician and driver after has lived in a few camps and since childhood. he's under more than 3000000 people displaced in
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london on market among out of the home before it was good. but now life just passed us by before we could find some food for children. but the change in government means there is no work now. a year ago, tens of thousands of people headed for the voters. as provinces fell to the taliban, many in cobbled rushed to the airport. as the rest in government collapsed. after taking refuge abroad a shotgun, he denied that he escaped the suitcases full of cash. more than 100000 people left during the withdrawal of foreign forces. the economy collapsed and the u. s. for billions of dollars of foreign reserves. the u. s. nato alliance spent an estimated $300000000.00 a day every day for 2 decades. but basics such as roads, schools, hospitals, are either non existent or in poor shape. since the taliban took over, that money has stopped coming in. and thousands of professionals have less human rights watch, has accused the taliban of a long list of abuses,
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restricting the rights of women and girls, suppressing media feed him and detaining, torturing and executing critics, and perceived opponents all allegations. the taliban denies that didn't motivate them. covenant activities in some other areas, things a good were trying to improve. but we should also take into account the problems of the corona virus, the suspension of foreign aid, the freezing of money, the problems in banking, drought. all these together had increased the problems for the people of afghanistan. for those who left life not easy, more than half the 20000 enough, gone to reach the u. k. are still in temporary accommodation, the lack of prospects abroad, and many faith harris meant in the threat of detention cut over home for support. true. i lost everything, including my restaurant. i planned to go to europe, so i went to turkey. unfortunately, they captured us and deported us to iran. thank god. now we are in our homeland and i will never go anywhere else. in a year, security is improved, but poverty and desperation have increased in my little above 6 international
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recognition, there are some concessions. it seems unwilling to make some of java down to 0. couple, many afghans who relocated to the united states of struggling to bring their families nearly a year after washington's chaotic withdrawal. tens of thousands are still waiting for visas, but the migration process has been slow. president jordan report, this is a picture of my mother, my younger brother who isn't a u. s right now. and this is an eat party at home at muslims, family, home and cobble in august 2021. and 2 weeks before the taliban toppled the civilian government. could you see the signs? yes, but i didn't expect it to happen in like 2 weeks. i was thinking maybe this take say, probably another year at least. but after months of fighting, the taliban returned to power on august 15th. any one with ties to the u. s. was
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now considered an enemy of the state, the by debt ministration promised to help those who worked with the americans during 20 years of war. you have heard her say, for a better part of a year now, and that the united states has an enduring commitment not only to the people of afghanistan, ah, but of course, to american citizens, to a lawful permanent residence on some $1300.00 of whom we have helped transport out of afghanistan over the course of the past year, but also to, ah, asked ins to whom we have a special commit. the u. s. has re settled more than 80000 afghans, but critics say many more are still in limbo. that's because the u. s, as immigration system wasn't designed to handle thousands of emergency residency comment, refugee applications,
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and visas to those who worked with the u. s. military all at the same time. in order for any of these 3 pathways to work, there needs to be a plan to get people out and moving out. and, and that plan is going to need significant political backing by the administration . it to be the highest priority. otherwise, it's not going to happen. mussman and an american citizen for more than 10 years used his connections to help his brother escape during the final days of the u. s. military evacuation. now he's trying to bring his fiancee and his mother a former girl school principal to the us. she helped you with her with women in afghanistan and logo province, the how the purity from check republic. she was the director of woman's affair, defended the, the democratic values that america was promoting there. the women have been living in a temporary shelter and cutter since april. no one can tell them when they can fly to the us. would mock monde has a message for the secretary of state?
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if i am that official, and i tell you under process, we don't know if and when this is going to be done. how would you feel about it? a call to the us to help hom, at mouth, months family and every other afghan family fearful about life under taliban rule. rosalind jordan l 0 washington. iran has denied the country, was involved in a knife attack on ortho salman rushdie. a foreign ministry spokesman said that rusty and his supporters are to blame or on issued a decree against your 31999. after the publication of his novel, the satanic verses which some muslims consider blasphemous. rusty was repeatedly stamped at a literary event in new york state on friday. his agent says he's on the road to recovery celebration to be held across india to commemorate 75 years of independence. the end of british rule in 1947 resulted in the partition of india and the formation of pakistan. the division displaced more than 15000000 people
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amid widespread violence of the motel reports now from new delhi, the tri carlo, fluttering high. it was 1st hoisted here in 1947, when british rule ended. 75 years later, prime minister marines were more the owner freedom fighters and pledged to to an india into a developed nation bear arg. i didn't put that in 25 years. india will celebrate a 100 years of independence. many of you will be 50 years old, march dedicated desires to helping your country reach its true potential. the triumph of independence came with the horrors of partition rights broke out in both india and pakistan, killing at least a 1000000 people decades later. many are trying to find common ground on my lunch me soda grew up in sin and now lives in by rom put her family are among the many hindus who stayed in pakistan. she says she feels lucky to live in both countries. i family stands out because, you know, people feel that people were hostile towards either not nor they warned and what
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our families, the history was my great, i'm proud that my grand grandfather took that decision and read it complex matter. what is the difference? i say, because the a matter dinner raj booth again aust, while family bumper, so our culture and everything is very similar. so it was not a big change for me. as part of the celebrations, the government is asking people to fly the tricolor celebrities have joined the campaign and trader saved the response, has been unprecedented. the flag was one of the major symbols of the independence movement. the government says it wants people to build personal connections with the tricolor to invoke patriotism. some man, let's see this as a way to redefine nationhood and it's violent past. i ask myself, is it the case that the flag is also representing to us? oh, a guy know for a real living off that very dramatic violent time. is it the case that we
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are actually remembering and then diagonal them? that was extremely dismissive, extremely violent, and the reason for partition critic, the religious tensions have increased undernourished moody, but on independence day, indians from all walks of life turned out to celebrate. bothering him at the al jazeera new delhi, the u. k. is become the 1st country to approve the coven 19 vaccine targeting both the original and on the chrome variance of the bars, so called by violent vaccine is made by us drug company. medina. it's been approved by british health officials as a boost of adults. recommendations on how the vaccine should be deployed or expected to be announced. soon. funerals have been held for some of the 41 people killed in a fight. a cockpit christian church in the gym sensitive gives a blast. blaze started during the sunday mass service, thousands of people in the building at the time. the church entrance is blocked by flames causing stampede,
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investigate his suspect and electrical fault. started the fire. north korean state media is reporting that russian president vladimir putin is planning to expand ties between moscow and young gang who tend right to north koreans can jargon. so you place a relationship would be in both countries, interests and exchange letters on the $7710.00 of us through the korean peninsula. liberation from japanese rule. japanese environment minister has held talks with her polish counterpart about the mass die off of fish in the river. under steady lim, case said the cause is still unknown. scientists have tested $150.00 water samples and have examined some of the dead fish base suspected poisonous toxin is responsible of yet to identify the substance dominant cane. it's in levels on the banks of the river. the theory remains some form of toxic agent, whatever that might be. we know that the 2 respective governments from poland and
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germany have ruled out certain obvious toxins for the still working on the basis that something toxic was introduced into the river somewhere. and that obviously got into the fish who have been dying. tons of dead fish. it has to be said, have been discovered along the banks of the river. if you look over my shoulder, you'll see that there is at least one body of one fish lying. then it has to be said that a little bit further down the river. in an area where it's not safe for us to get to we have seen schools of bodies of dead fish here. the interesting thing is that the way the governments are looking at this, we know the prime minister of the state of brandenburg in which states the river order goes through the german say that it has been here today to see for himself quite what is happening. but as yet no obvious explanation as to specifically what is causing these fish to die. and overall, the question which really dominates the thought here. where did this happen?
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something is killing these fish. where exactly did it happen so far? at least there seems to be no real way. in fact, a reluctance that seems to be to say exactly where the toxicity was brought into the river. whether that was in poland or in germany. we just don't know, steve little nudging the direction of our website out. desert dot com is the address. no one use copyright. there are plenty of comment analysis to out here. dot com. so this is out there are these all the top stories in kenya's deputy president william returns been declared. the winner of the country's presidential election. you receive just over 50 percent of the vote. lessons 2 percent ahead of his rival, the former prime minister writer a finger i am a vague, proud canyon this evening that the people of kenya.

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