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inter lanka, drawing security concerns from india and the u. s. and the year on from the toner, bonds, takeover of afghanistan, we look at the state of the economy. ah, now for days canyons have been on the i job the outcome of a closely for presidential election. now the bracing for what could be a legal batter over its winner. monday, the electoral commission announced the deputy president william bruce hope had one . he received just over 50 percent of the vote. that's less than 2 percent ahead of his rival, former prime minister, rollo dingo router had a message of unity for the nation. i know many i wondering
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especially those who have done many things are going to stuff. i want to tell them that they have nothing to fear. there is no room, they have nothing. there is no room for vengeance. they have no room for looking back at the dinner, and is supposes are disputing the results he's expected to speak to the me during the coming out for the 7 members of the electoral commission, refusing to endorse the result. but the election, observe a say the results were fair. the lug therefore calls on all can to remain calm and maintain peace. under this a constant use. we further call on the candidate to resolve disputes over election results, including results for the presidential election peacefully through legal channels
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and go live to malcolm web in nairobi. so as i mentioned, malcolm were expecting to hear from riley then go, what are we expecting him to say? we were trained to speak here the conference center in downtown nairobi, which has been set up by his coalition as headquarters for election results and briefings. the big questions are, is, is he going to dispute the result that was announced on monday at the supreme court? and of course, what irregularities is, these any correlation alleging, as we just heard that from the election observe as groups the sample of a 1000 polling stations data collected, they're largely much the data published by the electoral commission. and this election was more transparent than those that came before in at least one significant way. which was that the result forms collected at the polling stations
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were made public online. the minute that they were transmitted from polling stations to the central tallies center, other organizations and individuals that tallied the same day to come to similar results as the electoral commission. but we don't know yet if ryder didn't get any supporters are alleging that there were regularities in the count or in the data that was entered in those forms were in another part of the electoral process. so that's what we're doing. well, that's where at least the supporters will be waiting, find out to hear from him when he speaks here in just a short while from now. and just give us a sense of what's at stake here, malcom, depending on what he announces, what he says about this. how much concern is the countries stability and security might be at stake? who both candidates have said during the campaigns. both of the lead main,
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the main content is vibrating and william roots. i said that they went cold people to the streets and that they would proceed. i need to speech in the course. and that's what happened in the last election 5 years ago when riley were doing a leading the opposition time, took the result to dispute the result in the supreme court. and the supreme court actually had an old election. what was seen as a moment of, of, of strength and independence of the judiciary from the executive at the time. certainly in the lead up to the polls, the, the rhetoric hasn't been anything like this incendiaries, it was 15 years ago. and the lead up to the election in 2007 that resulted in about more than a 1000 people being killed. many people being displaced from their homes. we did see a little bit of anger on monday evening in strongholds of ryder didn't get people burning some tires and shrank some rocks they would disbursed by police firing to guy will be waiting to see what right. everything is says now that and how his
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supporters will react, but certainly compared to 15 years ago, it seems that there are more avenue for challenging results legally. or at least people feel that the roth move results are doing so after what happened in 2017. all right, thanks so much. malcolm went back the streets of consumer in western kenya, routed in protests after the result was announced on tuesday morning, the strong hall of the dingoes quiet. how tough is there a day after william was declared, president elect. the news here. interesting is calm, but people enter an old ross, you think businesses and stuff like that. so the owners have closed the door, locked up and say they're not going to open until they know what is going to happen . feeling here that many people are waiting for some kind of direction. loading. yes, holding on our leader
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a loading guys and giving us any direction. we don't have money like no one is our list together. let's let's move on. we have only letting us know for getting it, so we are waiting for the day to get trained to maintain column you homo violence problem hold is also the 3rd largest city in many, much bigger than that. but because of the uncertainty, business is not yet back to normal. and the delegation is in garza where members will visit the shipper hospital and assess the condition of health care. the group has signed an agreement with the un relief agency for palestinian refugees. you're going to say it has more from garza in last march. actually the european union had plus $206.00 to $1000000.00 to support palestinian refugees in the 5 fields of operation today. tuesday, they're hearing garza to sign the agreement of support. of course, you know,
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more than 2300000 policy refugees in gaza alone in different areas that are supported by ra. and this money is very important, especially in times of adjusting that has been facing through the years. also the delegation, as you regards to assess the medical crisis that ship hospital and all the governmental how health system here, or hospitals here, has been a see thing since the latest escalation, due to a lot of shortage in the medical equipment and medications. and in the prevention of a lot of medical machines that are very much needed here in the strength to support their health system. so also a press conference shall be conducted in
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a hospital after the use delegation assessment. 2 different hospitals are in god's fan berg store fizz the u. back to the and representative in palestine. he blamed poverty and gaza on politics. this last job of escalation and conflict exacerbated the problems on the ground. according to the poverty level, homeless around 80 percent for the population of gaza, unemployment, 75 percent of young graduates. imagine that 90 percent of young women and below the age of 30 don't find a job. and more than 60 percent of young men below 30 find a job, this is not sustainable. and that's the reason why we need to address this not from a q and your money cherry point of view. but for political aspect, indispensible that important solution be found. and this has 2 angles to it. the
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1st of all is to end as soon as possible. the closer and locate of garza to allow gases feel free to move dr. entry and exit complete life so that people can sort of improve their life. the 2nd is a political solution solution which allows that is a unified politically credible and democratically elected government off the, or the responses for both the west bank and gaza. and that calls for all fallacy in fact. and it's leadership to agree on reconciliation and stage election as soon as possible that the people of god and the westbank can vote for their representatives . united nations high commissioner for human rights michelle bachelor, is visiting one of the world's biggest refugee camps bachelor's in cox's bazaar in bangladesh. talk to about a 1000000 ratings refugees. they fly me and mar in 2017. after a military crack down,
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she's expected to meet bangladesh prime minister. she casino off the meeting rights activists on monday said i had an al jazeera a decade on from south africa, mud economize as massive families of those killed who more government action about cargo ship, loaded with ukrainian grain, sat softly. theo, yeah, ah good. he has begun the faithful world copies on its way to catherine hoop your travel package to that time. now for your world, whether update, let's begin in asia pacific. hi there. thanks so much for joining in. so across indo china, we did have a lot of rain falling there, but that activity is now move further west into mia. mars will pick up the story there shortly. and what that means in time we get to talk about all this heat for
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central portions of china has been going on now for about 9 weeks, a bit of relief coming in the way of thunderstorms. so that will cool the atmosphere there. and we're gonna get dowse with rain for japan's main island of honju. same goes for portions of q shoe as well, just the other day, landside warnings in play, northern honju, and her condo, but the worst of the activity is now contained toward southern areas for india. we've got this months soon. all moisture just spinning around. we had some mornings in place for areas a month to production to rochester, but now the bulk of that activity pushing into pakistan where the sun's out the temperature is up to $37.00 degrees in shy. and here's all that. what whether now moving into sin province, punjab rate through, into baluchistan as well. all of these areas we've been dealing with some flooding and the dark of the color. the more intense the rain is falling and will, and this one in the middle east says still some poor air quality. busy for parts of the u. e. on wednesday, soon, casa airway. official airline of the journey does the count down to the people will
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broke out when he was named the winner of a tightly contested election countries facing a potential legal battle over the results. william router, the former prime minister, right that didn't go by a margin of less than 2 percent. delegates have visited garza to sign a $249000000.00 deal with you and really agency for palestinian refugees. the group also told the shipper hospital to assess the condition of health care facility. united nation high commissioner for human rights child bachelor is visiting one of the world's biggest refugee camps in cox's bazaar and bangladesh in tone to about a 1000000 or hanging refugees. moscow is blaming sabotaged for a fire at an ammunition demco and russian controlled crimea. it happened near a village in the duncan district. 2000 people were evacuated from the area. the
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defense ministry says no one was seriously injured, but civilian infrastructure was damaged. ukraine is neither confirmed nor denied involvement in tuesday's attack, or another blast of narr base and crimea last week. the you and says it can support a visit by the international atomic energy agency to ukraine's operation nuclear power plant. if both russia and ukraine agree, moscow and key of accused each other of shelling the plans of russia seized in march. some foreign leaders of cold for it to be returned to ukraine. the u. n. is demanding nuclear inspectors be allowed access. the past few days they've been, they've been repeated comments by various russian officials accusing the united nation secretary of having either canceled or blocked visit by the international atomic energy agency to the operates nuclear power plant. the i. e. a is
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a specialized agency that acts in full independence in deciding how to implement its specific mandate in close contact with the i. e, a, the un secretary has assessed that it has in ukraine, the logistics and security capacity to be able to support any i a e, a mission to the operates a nuclear power plant from keith should of course, the ukranian and russian authorities are great. a shipment of ukrainian grain bound for africa has left the black sea port of danny. it's the 1st to head to the continent since russia's invasion in february. the un charter vessel brave commander is carrying $23000.00 tons of wheat destined for. if you hear about 18000000 people in the horn of africa suffering extreme hunger, gillian wolf reports. so tumor down cuz so and her 2 children are among
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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 give 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, 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,
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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 when a 5 countries the un diems at risk of starvation. ready this is the beginning, we hope of more normal operations. the food of ukraine fed 400000000 people 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 agree to a deal with turkey last month to restart grain deliveries across the black sea. 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
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. gillian wolf, al jazeera. now russian president vladimir putin says western countries want to build a security line similar to nato in the asia pacific region. putting with speaking at a security conference in moscow called the recent visit to taiwan by us. how speak can nancy pelosi, a plan provocation. i mean, kind of went through with machine you, the american adventure and relation to taiwan is not just a trip of an individual responsible politician. it's part of a conscious us strategy to destabilize the region and the world. this is a brazen step. disrespecting for the sovereignty of other countries. meanwhile, beijing says it will conduct more live 5 minute reacts and sizes around taiwan and is ready to smash any foreign interference in its affairs. china says the drills the aim that deterring what it calls political tricks by the u. s. in taiwan. warning coincides with a visit by us congressional delegation to the island. china claims as its own
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paging, as announce sanctions against 7 tywon. these officials for supporting independence . india is raising security concerns officer, a chinese research vessel dark tinge for a lanka. the ship will stay in the ports of hamburg total for a week. india fears china will use the ports as a military base. the you on 15 has the tracking technology to monitor satellite rocket and intercontinental ballistic missile launches. paging is calling the concerns completely unjustified yamaha cook all tried to hide the activities of the vessel, are in line with international law and do not affect any country security or economic interests. they should not be interfered with by 3rd parties. michelle fernandez, holds from the fort at the heart of the dispute, is what exactly this vessel does? the u ang wang 5? now as you can see, a massive satellite dishes read
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a equipment. the chinese basically see this is a research and survey research, but basically the indians claim it's a spy ship and have expressed concern that it's too close to india for comfort. are they said compromises their security? and this has been the reason for the towing and throwing in recent days the delay of the ship's arrival here. it's ironic that it has called at a port that the chinese themselves built for sri lanka, obviously now on the chinese control after she longer decided to lease it out of the chinese on a 99 year lease in 2017. after it figured out and decided it could not afford to make the loan payments. so china at the end of the day, or seeming to get its way the ship is here. and in there also sort of a peas. we saw the herb ceremony here to welcome the ship, are not having any senior representatives give government
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a but someone who did represent president runner vicar, missing her and read out a message. but overall i, every one a has been appeased and the ship is here. now a year after the taliban to power afghans economy is all but collapsed. the rest froze, $9000000000.00 of afghan central bank assets, depriving the country of much needed foreign reserves and deepening poverty. military banners pointing to improvements made under its watch, was harbinger very reports from cobble the one business still booming in of line is done is transport laden with exports from fruits to minerals. thousands of trucks can still make their way through the narrow passes and border crossings. even this has slowed since the taliban took over memorable mock, immune ascii push out the panic. in previous years we were transporting and going with our trucks. $8.00 to $9.00 trips a month, but now we can only do once a month. there were no businessmen, so there's no one to hire us. marla,
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more of guns are struggling to feed their families than ever before. after for decades there is peace, but people are still waiting to benefit from it. the aid reliant economy collapsed to been funds were suspended, and $9000000000.00 of of gone central banks. assets are frozen. the unit peeled for $4400000000.00 in aid. but barely half of that has been pledged. hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs and estimated 90 percent of this population lives below the poverty line. but thought about the they said 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. it's claims that the country is now corruption, free. their budget and target is completely dependent on our, on our venue resources. we have generated about $800000000.00 from customs for $400000000.00. so from none tax revenues which are mostly come
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from mines, mining is an important part of understands economy providing employment to an estimated $1000000.00 people that includes not just the miners themselves, but also traders, transporters, and exporters. that talks out of us had junglin of a will. no, but there was always fighting. that's why there wasn't much consideration for mind . with these law mc emirates started operations in the mines ministry and in one year we are realigned many pending projects. we will build a huge exchange for afghan minerals and cobble for local and international traitors . your colleagues that and much al still depends on the taliban being recognized as atlanta's tons, legitimate government. until then, more of guns will have to buy a steel bread from this market. it promises about the future still me little. some of which i without the 0 double. many afghans who relocated to the us is struggling
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to bring over their families nearly a year off to washington's withdrawal. tens of thousands. the still waiting for visas is rasa and jordan reports. this is a picture of my mother, my younger brother who is in the us right now. and it and eat party at home at muslims, family home and cobble in august 2021. 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 takes a 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 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 her say for on the better part of a year now,
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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, ask 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 is immigration system wasn't designed to handle thousands of emergency residency permit refugee applications and visas to those who worked with the u. s. military all at the same time. in order for any 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
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. 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 u. us would mock monde has a message for the secretary of state. 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.
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rosalind jordan, l 0 washington. now 10 years off, the dozens of striking miners were gunned down by police in south africa. some families say the government hasn't done enough to compensate them, while millions of dollars have been paid in claims, there are still many outstanding. for me, the miller has more the shootings were captured on live television. the police's reaction to a prolonged strike by miners shocked millions of south africans and left that he for work is dead. 10 others had already died and strike related violence in the week leading up to the shooting, including 2 police officers. 10 years on some a still calling for justice who i so long how i'm a police. the police are the ones he killed my brother, the minor said police arrived and shot at them while they were at the hill. no, the 5th is here. she doesn't understand why her brother was killed an official
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inquiry, blaine, but deaths and injuries on police tactics and recommended those responsible be investigated and prosecuted. but police say the use of legal force was necessary. as some striking miners were armed with guns, knives and wooden clubs, so far the government is paid more than $10000000.00 in compensation to the families of those killed lizzie, but dozens of claims are outstanding, including from those who survived the shooting cord or what chrome about c as what a fire for us. it's very painful because we know that we lost part of ourselves. now it seems the government doesn't care about us. they are not even trying to do something one, it's been 10 years now. our lives could have changed for the better long ago. instead our lives have become worse. what t o, the government says, it wants to finalize all claims by the end of august. but for those were reminded of apartheid era atrocities committed by the government. no amount of money may be enough. for me. tamela al jazeera janice bug. the u. k. could be rolling out
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a new covey 19 vaccine targeting the original virus and the on the comm variance as soon as next month. it's the 1st country to approve use of the so called the i very lent that was made by the u. s. strong. firm madana. the us government says, well, the government rather says it's confident uptake will be high. british regulators have approved it as a boost for adults. ah . all right, let's take you through some of the headlines here now just here now kenya's new president. he likes he's calling for unity off. the protest broke out when he was named the winner of a timely contested election. the countries facing a potential legal battle over the results. william brito beat, former prime minister ryan the dinner by a margin of less than 2 percent. welcome by bays, waiting for right.
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