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hello, i'm darn jordan. this is out as they are alive from dough. are also coming up a grain shit carrying food, bound for drought, it airs of africa, leaves the ukrainian port, the 1st since rushes in place and then environmental disaster, the german polish border scientist, struggle to figure out what's killed, thousands of fish. ah, there is a more violence in kenya where there's a dispute of the results of its presidential election. protests broke out after william root, i was declared the winner almost a week out. a vote has went to the pose. he received just over 50 percent of the vote, less than 2 percent ahead of his rival, the former prime minister, rollo dingo, which was promising radical economic reform gender equality and is calling for unity. well, the announcement was delayed because of scuffles inside the vote. counting sent up for 7 members of the electoral commission are refusing to endorse the result.
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catherine, sorry, begins, are coverage for my review. ah, it is a week of intrigue and anxiety. as canyons waited for the presidential results to be announced. yamato was declared, rena. he got about 7000000 votes, his rival reloading. i came 2nd and immediately disputed the results. as a dingus supporters disrupted the ceremony. cows broke out, several people were injured. sam said they would not let the electoral commission chair declared the winner. police were brought in to try and calm the situation would have been a very tense time pleaded. have millions of orders are going to be interesting to see how people expectation will be managed. 7 electoral commissioners sit on the board. 4 of them have raised questions about the integrity of the poll
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the state. they were dissatisfied by the exercise, but only the chair can declare that we now we cannot take ownership of the results that is going to be a lot because of the appeared nature which this results have been handled, petrified as may when things ease up, the new president a lack spoke, striking a conciliatory call, saying he will walk with all canyons. i want to promise that i will well with all the elected leaders and only doesn't care so that we can fashion a country that leaves nobody behind a dingus ally see the pool was not free and fair. many canyons who support him are
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disappointed. who wants to verify them was the verify them we will be able to know and to tell the can people, because i reside that is not very fable. is not a result. i think is next to me will be to head to the supreme court. he has 7 days to file his petition cutting, saw aldi's era nairobi. well, this is the 1st election, rhina dingo has contested and lost. now, many of his supporters say they won't accept william router was their president or matessa as mona, from pursuit, where protest broke out, as the result was an else. ah, as soon as william router was decayed, president elect, reloading the supporters in the struggle to soon reacted with anger. oh, they believe that this election was stolen, police fire to tear gas to dismiss them. not like dogs up,
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let me go on to the brazil. there's never been what because i this was the 5th time bitch, an opposition the though didn't to has run for the top job. and last, even though this time he had the backing of outgoing leader who, looking at him, i integrated from britain residence with one of them. i want you to know on the campaign trail, but didn't promise to help king and struggling against the rising cost of living, as well as tackling corruption and foreign debts. it was a tightly contested election and some parts of the country are tense, with electro commission split and the results likely to be challenged in court. exactly what will happen next. here among our dig, a supporters remains and clear how to match us al jazeera kiss human king. well
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william router saints, his major challenges as he prepares to take over the presidency, among them rising inflation, unemployment, and record high levels of public debt. kenya's tourism sector was particularly hard hit by the pandemic, both william roto and his defeated opponent reloading the promised to tackle widespread corruption. but critics say their roles and previous scandal hit governments cast doubt on those pledges. on top of that up, a long drought as increase the risk of people going hungry. some of the poorest in kenya can only afford one meal a day. will abdi summer time, summer university of minnesota, he says election officials will he to settle that dispute to avoid further violence? they suggest that more than half of them are not satisfied with the way things have developed and have been counted. and i'm so that's why the supreme court will come into this, how does anybody got both of the men and the person who's confessing to being both of them said that they will abide by the rule
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of the law. so the supreme court has a crucial role to play and the safety of the country depends on the few people who are on the court. i think most kenyans are being banned in total processes. some of the killings spent 2000 and then after so most people i've never had it. i was in my room just a few weeks ago, and most people told me that the day i'm interested in barton's for me that they want to get to the bottom of the truth here. i think what this election suggests is not only does the countries explain why, i mean, we're still doing a has one in mind conference. we welcome to the kenyans are quite used to this kind of uncertainty over the last phase. 2020 election that took place and then that's almost over 20 years, has been the uncertainty in the country and the people have come through open. that's what i must people on the thinking about,
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the pressure that the international community people in the united states and others are putting on the lead on. i think andrew, to such that there may be a compromise that might be worked out with ordinary people. and i'm pretty certain that the kind of may have we saw any years in the united nations charter ship loaded with grain has set sail from a black sea port in ukraine, heading to africa. it's the 1st shipment of its kind in a world food program scheme to help countries facing famine. chillin will propose for tumor don, cu, so and her 2 children are among 900000 people, displaced by drought in somalia. she scared her children for more than 300 kilometers to reach humanitarian aid provided by the un. give a thought on the my. when we finished our stock of food from the farm and animals started dying, we could not feed our children. we decided to flee because of hunger, according to the united nations, the horn of africa is suffering its longest drought in 4 decades. in somalia,
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it says millions of people are facing famine and more than 3000000 animals essential to forming communities have died. crop production has also substantially dropped due to drought. the number of people now in need of urgent humanitarian assistance has increased from around 4000000 at the start of the year to more than 7000000. our focus is very much on livelihoods. it's providing cash to allow people to buy food to survive. it's about keeping the animals alive with emergency feeding, with treatments, with water supplies for animals and a drought context, which is super important. the brave commander is heading to djibouti carrying $23000.00 metric tons of wheat that will be transferred to ethiopia, one of 5 countries. the u. s. deems at risk of starvation. ready this is the beginning, we hope of more normal operations. the food of ukraine fed 400000000 people
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across the world last year. w p purchased 880000 metric tons, and we moved that food to somalia, yemen, ethiopia, sudan. the mission comes off to russia, and ukraine agreed to a deal with turkey last month to restart grain deliveries across the black sea. the u. n. ship is the 1st to set sail for africa carrying grain from ukraine. since russia invaded the country, providing much needed relief for those suffering from drought in the horn of africa . gillian wolf, al jazeera. the un says it can support a visit by the international atomic energy agency to ukraine. zappa reject nuclear power plant if of russia and ukraine agree. moscow and key, but use each other of shelling the plant which russia sees control of in march. some foreign leaders are called for it to be returned to ukraine, while the u. n. has demanded that nuclear inspectors be allowed access the past few
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days they've been, they've been repeated comments by various russian officials accusing the united nations secretary of having either canceled or blocked visit by the international atomic energy agency to the separate. so nuclear power plant, the i e, a is a specialized agency that acts in full independence in deciding how to implement it specific mandate in close contact with the i. e a u n. secretary has assessed that it has in ukraine, the logistics and security capacity to be able to support any i 8 e a mission to the shop or read. so nuclear power plant from keith should of course, the ukranian and russian authorities agree. lots of the, coming on out there, including tensions in the taiwan strait. china ramps on my fire drills as more us officials visit time on dozens of standards. syrian refugees move to greece after
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weeks on an island without access to food drinking water more. ah, let's go with your world whether update for the middle east and africa. hi everyone . read off the bat. i wanted to show you this scene in do buy quite intense dust storms. so at some spots during the day visibility was less than a kilometer. people were told to stay off the roads. now at the same time this was going on toward the north in the east coast of the emirates. this was in fujiwara at flash flood warnings in play just because of how intense that rain was. now in terms of that storm, certainly the risk of seen some more of that. it's at time of the year across the middle east, but especially around at saudis empty quarter on tuesday. now through pakistan. more bad news, more rain coming in from the north west of india,
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so syn province not catching a break. in fact, last month in july, at some spots getting about half a meter of rain in the prediction for august is also above average rainfall. so we could see much of the same. now for turkey, we had some pretty good downpours in it stumble that clears out on tuesday 30 degrees and euro vaughn, up to 41. you're closing in on your august temperature record in time. central africa, the brain in storms just to the west of a d sat baba and same goes for nairobi and for southern africa, cooler air for laputa. with the high of 23 degrees on tuesday. see you later, ah, on counting the cost, the u. n. a just tax on the profits of oil and gas giants couldn't help ease the energy crisis. biden signs a bill to boost chip reduction. who's winning the semiconductor? and video game fails? death is it game over to the pandemic group?
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counting the cost on elder there. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. sentimental have to take it will please amuse and current to fast that multi year lou. ah, ah, welcome back. a quick reminder, the top stories here this ella kenya's, vice president william router has been declared the winner that's presidential election. we received just over 50 percent of the vote, less than 2 percent ahead of his rival, former prime minister rhino to for the sub members of the kenyan electoral commission, are refusing to endorse the result. and that's fueled fears of further bothers and allegations of on the 1st united nations charter should count ukrainian grains
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africa, set sail from port on the black sea and is bound for your booty part of the world food program scheme to help countries facing now the state department says iran must abandon demands it calls unacceptable and talks to revive the battle 2015 nuclear deal to iran says an agreement could be reached in the coming days if certain issues a result report say one of those is removing iran's revolutionary gods off a u. s terrorism this, we've been clear about what are returned to a mutual compliance with the gc p. o. a would look like. there are issues that the iranians have put on the table that are clearly extraneous to the 4 corners of the j. c. p. away every time they have done that, we have made very clear that the j. c. v away is about one thing and one thing only, it's about iran's nuclear program and we're prepared to negotiate one and one
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moment. but we'll powers of been trying to salvage the iran nuclear deal, known as the j. c. p. away iran sonia agreement in 2015. it was designed to limit terrans nuclear ambitions and exchange for sanctions relief. in may 2018, then president donald trump withdrew the u. s and began bree imposing sanctions. a year later, iran started gradually ramping up its nuclear program. it reduced access to monitors from the un nuclear watchdog, increasing tensions with the u. s. and stop stop negotiations resumed in april last year under the bite and administration. and the european union's put forward what it called a final text, edging all sides to finalize the deal will gary some more, some brandeis university, he says if the current draft agreement fails, the u. s. will likely increase its demand. unfortunately, it appears to me that iran is not willing to. ready accept the text that the e u has put forward. as far as i can tell from the crest reporting it rod has
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attached some additional conditions and demands that it wants to be that ad. if iran is not prepared to accept the text, i imagine the u. s. will probably also have some changes that would like to say, has iran has raised 3 separate issues, which the u. s. considers to the extraneous to the text. first iran, what sanctions lifted on the i r g c or companies associate with the i r g c. second, iraq want some guarantees that even after the president biden leaves, the white house you, westfield continued to honor the agreement. and 31 once the i e, a investigation in to past nuclear activities to the end. and as i said, the u. s. considers each agrees to be extraneous to the agreement and is not prepared to accept any of. so i think it's very much an america's interest to revive the j.
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c p. away. i think it's in your rods interest as well. so i don't quite understand why supreme leader hon luke continues to procrastinate. whether it's just bargaining tactics, or whether he prefers to hang onto went ra, a iran enriched uranium, even if it costs iran. tremendous loss of opportunity in terms of oil revenues. china has announced more life fire military exercises or anti one saying it's ready to smash any foreign interference in its affairs. beijing says the drills i meant to be a deterrent against the u. s. and taiwan. accusing them of playing political tricks . the warning coincided with a visit by u. s. congressional delegation to the island, which china claims as its own, a similar visit by house beek and nancy pelosi this month, and good vain. well, 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
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safeguard stability. we have a moral obligation to do everything we can to prevent an unnecessary conflict in taiwan has demonstrated incredible restraint and discretion during challenging times. our chinese research vessel has doctrine shall anchor. but several days later, the india was said to raise security concerns. the ship will be at the ham, been a total port for a week, india, if he has, china, will use the port as a military base. foreign security analysts say the u on wang 5 has the latest tracking technology to monitor satellite rocket and intercontinental ballistic missile launches beijing, us called the concerns completely unjustified india and china competing for influence in the region. taliban fighters have held victory parades in the afghan capital to mark a years since they seize power. i t as in their supporters,
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breaded banners, and flags root. gobble on foot, bicycles and motorcycles. the taliban captured cobble after lightning offensive last year. since then though, the economy has collapsed, women have been stripped of their rights, and millions of people have lost access to feed. probably a very happy, we always had a vision of free and prosperous afghanistan. and that is what we fought for over the past 20 years to day. same result of the struggle is like a dream come true. all of our dreams and hopes of turn to reality with the grace of god. will the united nations, as describe the humanitarian situation in afghanistan as pure catastrophe, and is wanting of a hard winter ahead. and it says, a lack of funding has prevented it from doing more to help the vulnerable overall each year we continue to have an additional 90 need to remain full york international of the overall economic situation. action all the way to
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the economic decline and out of the deal about $6600000.00 are people who are i think i cc $4000000.00 level is just a very high level of security around 50 $5000000.00 people to be leaving over, which is up to infinity, for the taliban is pointing to improvements made under its watch some avenge of aid reports to campus. the one business still booming and one is done is transport it in the export from fruits to mineral, thousands of trucks can still make their way through the narrow passage and border crossings. even this has slowed since the taliban took over. the move will not give me a shot up in previous years we were transporting and going with our trucks $8.00 to $9.00 trip a month. but now we can only do once a month. there are no businessmen,
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so there's no one to hire us more. i've gone a struggling to feed their families than ever before. after for decades, there is peace that people are still waiting to benefit from it. the aid reliant economy collapsed when funds were suspended, and $9000000000.00 above consented. banks, assets are frozen. the un appealed for $4400000000.00 in aid, but really half of that has been pledged. hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs in estimated 90 percent of this population lives below the poverty line, but not a monday to say they are going to resurrect the economy and are on target to make 2500000000 dollars this year. our budget annually, the ministry of finance is challenging. international organizations to audit its claims that the country is now corruption free. their budget in target is they're completely dependent on our, on our venue would be sources. we have generated about $800000000.00 from
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customs for $400000000.00 from none text revenues which are mostly come from mines. mining is an important part of a blunder. stones economy providing employment to an estimated $1000000.00 people that includes not just the miners themselves, but also traders. transporters, then exporters, backpacks out of pocket junglin of oil. no, but there was always fighting. that's why there wasn't much consideration for mind . these law mc emerett started operations in the mines ministry and in one year we are relying many pending projects. we will build a huge exchange for afghan minerals and cobble for local and international traitors . your colleagues that and much else still depends on the taliban being recognized as atlanta, stanz legitimate government. until then more of loans will have to buy a steel bread from this market with promises about the future. still me little. some of my job without a 0 double,
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at least 31 people have been killed in flash floods in northern afghanistan, several homes are swept away by the heavy rain in power one province. women and children are among the dead. more than a 100 people are still missing. there are warnings of more heavy rains expected and israeli soldiers been killed and several others wounded in a so called friendly fire incident. the shooting took place in the village of tool . com and the occupied west bank is ready forces initially reported they were shot at by palestinian gunman and stormed to come in search of attackers. greek authorities say 38 syrian refugees had been trapped on an island between turkey and greece. have now been moved to a camp. the smallest of of land sits on the eb ross river, which acts as the border between both countries. greek officials initially refused to help saying the island was in turkish territory, that despite the greek land registry including it, then its borders. while the group been stranded there for 3 weeks without food or drinking water, they were turned back when they initially tried to enter greece. the international
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rescue committee says a very sick, 9 year old girl is among them. a 5 year old sister reportedly died after being stung by a scope yet. demetrius hello. lewis from the international rescue committee, she says the group should have received help much sooner. i'd say it's good to see that it's a little story. it was a good, a good then lisa, lisa griggs, date intervening to, to save this to save this people and move them to, to safety. it says that it has taken a lot of time, like it's like nearly 3 weeks or around 3 weeks since these people have been around the area of ever, ever, ever, ever calling for help. while at the same time, there has been relevant rulings from the european court of human rights and for greece to, to, to provide the systems to, to these people. while at the same time,
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we had to to see the unfortunately a yet another child at the borders and a lot of probably city for this intervention to happen for you and special envoy me in law has travelled there for the 1st time since being appointed to the posts last year in ellen, hazel's visit, comes a day after the cotton b and added 6 years to the prison sentence of aston lee. the unsung suit she, she's been convicted in more corruption cases relating to accusations. she was building a home with money from charitable donations. so she had already been convicted of other final offences. nicaragua, catholic church, says another priest has been arrested as tensions flare between the church and the government. oscar benevides was detained a day of hundreds of nicaraguans attended mass in the capital. despite a ban on a wooden just possession relations between danny low take his government down the church. i've been tense since crapped out on protest as in 2018 was left more than
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350 people. that farmers and police are faced off in bolivia over the production of coca leaves workers there he was the government of backing a rival brother's union which has opened a new coke up market just a few blocks away from the 1st one. more than 30 grows were detained and released over the weekend. oak leaf is used in natural medicine. and to make cocaine, donald trump's former personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, is the target of a criminal investigation in the state of georgia giuliani's due to testify before a grand jury on wednesday. the prob was examining attempts by trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 u. s. election. trump 40 claim that he won georgia, a background state that was key to jo biden's victory. germany is environment minister has met with her polish counterpart to discuss a mass fish die off in the odor river. so far,
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scientists have been unable to work out why it's happening. dominic cane reports on the polish german border. august in labels is usually a month when anglers prosper. but not this august. for along the river order, more than 10 tons of fish have been killed. something unheard of for people living here will to java fisher. kia, sean, i have been fishing here for 40 years and have never experienced anything like this on this scale. it gives me goosebumps when i see how many dead fish there are here in the order. official advice is for people to stay away from the river while the authorities establish what is killing the fish. no dish on this thing by then. as of today, no water tests have confirmed the presence of toxic substances. at the same time, we are conducting tests on fish for mercury and heavy metals. these were not found in the collected samples that the river order marks the frontier between poland and germany. it flows for nearly 900 kilometers to the baltic sea and plays host to
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a delicate ecosystem is as glad as the ones i know. it is clear that we are facing a really bad environmental catastrophe that has at least resulted in a serious amount of dead fish. we do not know yet how long and how extensive jim very mental impacts will be in the eco system. or in the next weeks, months. oh yes. although an investigation is well underway into what course. so many fish to die in this river. it has to be said that on the germans side of the order, there are some voices asking questions about the speed and the size of the operation on the polish side of the border to find out what caused these deaths. it seems the polish government has heard those voices, the heads of poland, water authority, and environment inspector. it's have been sacked the view in warsaw or is that someone may have deliberately put a toxic substance into the river, which is why a reward of more than $200000.00 has been offered for help in finding who did this
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dominant cane al jazeera on the order river, a wooden bridge of a river in norway has collapsed while vehicles were crossing it. one car plunged into the water while a truck became stuck on a res section. the bridge was in the village of trenton around 200 kilometers north of the capitol oslo drive. the truck was rescued by helicopter. while the drive of the car manager escaped by himself. both were unharmed. ah, stop a quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera kenya's vice president william router has been declared the winner of its presidential election. it received just over 50 percent of the vote, less than 2 percent ahead of his rival. former prime minister rollo dingo root has promising kenyans radical economic reform gen day quality and is calling for unity . i am a very proud kenyon this evening that the p.
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