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on al jazeera talk to al jazeera, we ask, so the rebound you speak of is clearly coming at a high cost of airlines and the industry. what's going wrong? we listen, you were part of the, i'm struggling in the 19 seventy's. if you have any regrets. no, we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera. ah, the trigger announced them as a tribute or null and void can use battle of position figure while a dingo vows to challenge the results of the presidential election. warning that the countries democracy faces along legal crisis. ah, i'm not entitled says al jazeera live from london, also coming up explosions tear through a russian metric base in crimea in
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a suspected ukrainian attack. russia calls it sabotage reports that an explosion that killed 5 children and gaza earlier this month was caused by an israeli airstrike. and presidential election campaigns kick off in brazil. my fears are growing of political violence and threats to democracy. ah, no kenya's, powerful opposition figure rather dingo has called the presidential election results null and void a day after his arrival. william router was declared the winner and anger insist. she'll challenge the outcome which plays router ahead by a razor thin margin for election. commissioners have also refused to endorse the result. a dramatic developments have raised fears that east africa's richest country might descend into violence. catherine sawyer reports from nairobi.
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ah bry loading the thieves, he would accept the result of kenya's presidential election. he came 2nd with 48 percent of the vote, re her 310 by then deputy president william who taught with 50.7 percent. but he called the final tale, a travesty that complains the country into a legal crisis tour. he blamed the chair of the electoral commission or for letterbug katy or reorganised moore's clear. the triggers announcement was interval cutting a mile and voice that'd be the bigger than other medieval. got a murder and void among the crush, bare court or law. in our view, there's neither legally under bodily declared winner, nora,
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president elect. oh, kills, broke out at the tallying center. when some people tried to stop the process for out of 7 commissioners walked out in protests. they say the commissions chairman declared resolved that they had not fully agreed on. they also said the total percentage of the for presidential candidates did not add up. we concluded that the process that went into generation of form plentiful c, which he used to declare results of the presidential election, was open and incapable of eileen our ownership and confidence to tackle body ingles. political coalition says it's compiling a list of electoral mile practices that went against the low rayleigh dingo and he support to say they will go to court. they have raised concerns about the integrity
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of the presidential tale. they also say they have enough evidence to support their case members, so they hope they have 7 days to file a petition or the supreme court. the judges will then sit within 14 days to make a decision. catherine saw al jazeera nairobi. hammond, menorah is a political analyst and lecturer at the university of nairobi. he says the focus needs to be on solving kenya's economic crisis, where i think, well whether a low router that's not much difference, to the extent that the country is facing a grim political situation. the cost of living is bod. everything is but this disband gloom in the country. but in all these people doesn't want to spend most of their time fixing, not necessarily the economy, but the high cost of living. you know, i've been here subtracting ending southern programs, young projects to some money,
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to be able to mid to get the suffering by way of subsidies under such a such a major base in russian occupied crimea has been hit by several large explosions. the region is an important supply line for russia's invasion of ukraine. witness videos show blasts in the northern part of the peninsula. russia's defense ministry label the attack sabotage. but ukraine is not confirmed whether it was responsible, abbas engulfed, and ammunition disco disrupting trains and voting about tuition of around 2000 people from a nearby village. the more you can do and those ability. now of course there are houses that are damaged, as we've already seen. there are several buildings that have burned down. we just don't let people in there into the coding office own as soon as the detonation stops, so we don't risk people's lives. investigators will immediately begin to work quickly . russia alex come here from ukraine in 2014, making the base for the black c fleet. since invading ukrainian february, russia has used the region to reinforce its troops fighting and surrounding areas
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with military hardware. ukraine is came to disrupt this ahead of a potential counter offensive in the south. an advisor to ukraine's president has called the strike demilitarization inaction. terrible has moved from your trans capital. keith. what we're seeing is like a explosion happening again in crimea. this is the 2nd time in less than a week, and that's why it's very, very significant. what's happening right there. we know that this explosion triggered the evacuation of around 2000 people. it has also suspend the trains that don't forget, crimea is the top holiday destination for many russians. so suddenly this races lots of concern. the russian government is saying that this attacks were carried out by saboteurs. there was, we were able to see some on russian media, some recording, some videos of rates being carried out, allegedly detaining those who are behind this attack, who the russians call ukrainian terrorists. i've been talking to some analyst and
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they're suggesting that those who could be behind this attack would be who they call part to sans or government supporters carry out gorilla style attacks in crimea, but also it could be special forces so far. the ukrainian government has not confirmed or denied that anything has happened. what's important by crimea, as also, is that russian officials have said that if something happens in crimea, it will trigger a massive retaliation against a crane. and that's why this late tax have many people here on the alert and also crimea is a crucial destination. a crucial point that russia use this to supply its lines that it attacks on other parts of ukraine. a shipment of ukrainian grain bound for africa has left the black seaport of p, denny. it's the 1st to head to the continent since the russian invasion in february, you encounter vessel, the brave commander is carrying 23000 tunnels of wheat destined for yoga. the horn
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of africa is heavily reliant. total grain shipments from ukraine, trillion wolf has more for tumor down 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 you monitoring aid provided by the un. give a thought on the math with 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
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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 across the world last year. w p purchased 880000 metric tons, and we moved that food to some leah, yes'm in ethiopia. su dan. the mission comes after 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
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russia invaded the country, providing much needed relief for those suffering from drought in the horn of africa . chilling wolf al jazeera approached indian rights group investigation has blamed israel for an attack that killed 5 palestinian children in gaza during a recent flare up in violence. a cemetery in each valley, a refugee camp was struck on the 7th of august just hours before cease fire between israel and the palestinian group islamic jihad took effect. is really newspaper. heritage is also reporting that a military investigation confirmed israel was responsible, grieving family members say the crime was deliberate. then you got one, a lot of them. ha, everything has to stop. every one has to put an end to these crimes and called for israel to be tried. this is the most cruel crime in the world against our children . there are was everywhere in the world, but children are not there targets. children who are killed in the world are killed alongside their families, but this is deliberate. they want to up route us,
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you know, say it has more from gaza on august 7th and 9. the 3 latest escalation on the gaza strip between israel and islamic jihad that started on the 5th of august and ended on the 7th of august after a ceasefire. there was brokerage by egypt on that same day on 7th, august 5. the children of the same family and mission family were killed in cemetery. the news, a cemetery in giovanni, a refugee camp, eye witnesses, a local palace scenes from the area and around the cemetery, sat the so and easily drone of firing a mess style on those children where the cemetery is a place that is not to proud. it plays, it is not covered by a high rise buildings or houses or anything just to cemetery. so it was very visible to the eye witnesses around the cemetery,
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who said that they did see an israel drawn dropping and the style on the children that were instantly killed later, israeli, a claims military claim said that it could be a misfire by the islamic jihad but today, tuesday and palestinian based of human rights center. also harriet's a which is an each really on use paper said that after an investigation was conducted also by the in military itself, the israel and military. it's so they found that the israeli military is responsible for the killing of these 5 children. how much out of such if of programs and communications at the euro, mediterranean human rights monitor, he says the strike could be investigated as a possible war crime. it's an open area with no military targets anywhere
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near it. it does not have any legitimate targets, the road which makes it a possible war crime to attack an area without a military target as being acquired as the main target. so in that sense, i don't think there's any possible justification for targeting this the graveyard. other than looking at this is consistent with israel track record with never playing by the rules with unlawful target and with sometimes possibly targeting civilians directly. we have a long track record of israel, for instance in 2014 and operation protective edge where it can at least 2 members or more of $144.00 families, including wiping out entire families. there was no justification in many of the incident. felt went out his era. he was president dro biden signs,
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a major comment bill into law, just ahead of mid term elections. and mexico's president comes on the fire over a wave of cartel related violence. ah hello, they will start in australia. we've got high pressure dominating up in the north, keeping things largely fine and dry. it's down in the south. we're seeing the weather action. we've had tropical moisture joined up with a cold front, and that's bringing some gusty showers and some storms to the likes of perth and southern areas of western australia. now we are going to see some improvement. if we have a look at the 3 day, the temperature will be creeping up closer to the average by friday. and there will be more in the way of cloud than rain, but it's tiny more unsettled for the southeast corner as hold front works its way
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across the byte. we're going to see the temperature drop in melbourne if we have a look at the 3 day then we've got showers all the way through so friday, now speaking of rain as we hop across the tasman, we've got red, severe weather alerts out for the west of the south island, we could see some flooding here, but we'll also see that rain pull into the north island. all kinds going to be pretty wet all through the week. and the weekend now was we moved to southeast asia . it's very wet as well for parts of indo china. me in my particular thanks to the monsoon rains, but also northern areas of philippines. we have got as the via flood advisory remains, with thunderstorms in manila to the weekend. ah, a reporter's retreat in a brutal civil war. if a commodore hadn't been there, the israel invasion would not have been sold. the commodore had become journalist
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eccentric. you could be in the safe enclave and then you went out into civil war. i started off leavings, while the grand suite, the commodore hotel, the next room i was in was underground, the tiny prison. so as a hostage, they routes the commodore wall hotels on al jazeera. oh. i taught stories. hera kenyon is bracing for a possible legal battle over the results of a closely fort presidential election. opposition needed rather dinner insist to challenge the outcome which placed rival william reach her head by a razor thin margin. i mean, it, she, base in russian occupied, come in,
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it's been hit by several large explosions. region is an important supply line for russia is invasion of ukraine. train is not confirmed whether it was responsible. napoleon writes group and israeli media. and israeli asked strike killed 5 children, the cemetery and gaza. earlier this month. israel had blamed palestinian islamic jihad for the blastin. jamalia came. it was caused by miss find rocket powerful blazes in the spanish region of valencia remain out of control. despite overnight efforts by hundreds of firefighters, well, the 1000 people in the eastern province of any county have been evacuated after fire was sparked by lightning on saturday night. it since, but then through nearly 100 square kilometers, making it the worst wildfire valencia has experienced this somewhat. spain has suffered hundreds of wildfires this year, fueled by scorching temperatures and drought conditions. the us government's base every investment in tackling climate change has been signed into law by president
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joe biden. legislation known as the inflation reduction act is seen as a major win for democrats, head of the mid term elections. record $369000000000.00 will go towards cutting carbon emissions by about 40 percent. it will largely be funded by an increase in cooperation tax to 15 percent. no, we'll say extend health insurance subsidies and low of prescription drug prices. now i'm about to sign inflation reduction act in the law. one of the most significant laws in our history. let me say from the start, with this law, the american people, one and the special interest last, the american people one and the special interest last go on about the side is not just about today. it's about tomorrow. it's about delivering progress and prosperity to american families. it's about showing the american and the american people that democracy still works in america. notwithstanding all the,
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all the talk of its demise. not just for the privilege few, but for all of us. she's one of them as familiar faces, only congressional committee investigating lost his attack on the u. s. capital and house republican is cheney is fighting for our political life. she's facing a vote in her heavenly conservative state of wyoming to decide whom will run in mid term elections. nation the she had rob reynolds has more. wyoming has majestic scenery and wide open spaces. palmer and fewer than 600000 people. but their representative in congress is one of the most famous politicians in the country. liz janney is well known for her leadership as vice chair of the january 6th committee, exposing the falsehoods and attempts to subvert democracy in 2020 and 21. she has unwaveringly condemned donald trump. i will do everything i can to
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ensure at that death the former president never again gets anywhere near the oval office. chaney stance has earned her many admirers, but unfortunately for her few of them live in wyoming, from 170 percent of the vote. here in 2020, in afton population, about 2000 and boasting the world's largest arch made entirely of elk antlers. many voters have soured on cheney, we have just felt utterly betrayed by her actions against president trump. since, you know, she voted tim p chem and then this january 6 hearings and all the things that she's done, we've been greatly, greatly disappointed. i was told to give her an step with america and these grand step wyoming challenging. katie, in the republican primary on august 16th is harriet hagaman, a trump supported attorney, who once back to cheney, but has now changed her tune. she's ahead of cheney, by double digits in the polls,
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chaney hoax, wyoming. democrats will ride to her rescue, and has destroy, had planned, flits, urging them to temporarily switch parties. but just over 43000 democrats are registered in wyoming, as opposed to more than 200000 republicans. this shane his political career in wyoming may be coming to an end, but many people here think she's aiming for a higher office using her image as the defender of democracy to run for president in 2024. jamie has done little in person campaigning. in part because she has reportedly received a stream of death threats and is surrounded by heavy security. an ugly fact of us politics in one of america's most beautiful places, rob reynolds, al jazeera jackson, wyoming election campaigns if officially kicked off in brazil, which will hold a presidential election in october. president j of us an arrow has held his 1st
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campaign event in the city where he was stabbed in 2018 of scenarios, hoping a new welfare program a boost his popularity. he's trailing 12 points in opinion. polls the money trying to catch up with his former president lewis in us unit, a silva who's kicked off his campaign workers at a car manufacturing plant in south paolo 76 year old, served as brazil's president from 2003 to 2010 as popularity continued well, after his time ended, despite a series of political scandals, when present is fair, these elections will be violent and both pushed narrow and lunar silva had taken to wearing bullet, profess at their rallies, when again a calf reports from rio de janeiro transgender council woman benny biddy ali has received more than 20 death threats since she was elected 2 years ago. she was forced to leave brazil for safety reasons,
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and only returned after being promised special protection that it not happened. well thing and i've done nothing, have no security. only a body guard the all the still fears for her life, but has decided to run for re edition nearest state legislator in october selections. i've lost global boss. these elections are not only about ideals and votes. they're also challenged to remain alive. we've seen people being killed because they're on one side or the other. the political polarization is very strong . brazil has a history of political violence, but since 2018 when the last presidential elections were held, there are growing concerns that verbal and written death threats may be actually carried out in july, a supporter of present shape also matters. shut down, marcella. honda, a member of the leftist workers party founded by former president wheezy nostrand lula. thus, silva lula is bull. so matters main rival in october's presidential election and is
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heading the pose valgy for hi. she was running for congress and is a close friend of both. so novel, it says all candidates are taking security measures seriously with them i said he remembers the day bull sonata was stout during the 2018 campaign. no. and jose are one i both scenarios wearing a bullet proof vest, but that's not enough. he will always ignore protocol to talk to the people the senior bowl so matter was stamped and elected council woman marielli fit uncle, inactive ist of black, and gay rights was executed. the crime was never solved. but a statue in her name has been inaugurated during the past 3 years. political violence in brazil has tripled somewhat as some of those new brazilian politics has always been polarized. but since 2018 we've had president j or ballston, aero openly disseminating hatred. now or the president has done this,
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that's led to an increase in political violence. we're brazil. federal police has been training an extra 300 agents to protect candidates during october's the election. fighting in brazil, fear it's not enough man and can not give on jazeera re edition era questions remain over what triggered a wave of cartel related violence in mexico. last week, attacks by criminal groups left at least 11 people dead vehicles on file and dozens of businesses burnt across 4 states. the president is facing criticism of what security expert say is a fail strategy and account you have impunity which allows violent crime to run rampant. when i run reports from mexico city, violence appears to be on the rise in mexico. attacks against businesses in states like halley's school and going to handle only with a rampage that left at least 9 dead in soothe waters. and
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a wave of violence in the city of tiquana all in the span of a week has left many wondering what exactly is going on. we know so far as that would be how it is a series of unrelated brands that have been very close to each other within, within a single week on dos on each one of those has a different logic. each one of those has each a different trigger. the attacks of spur, the mexican government to deploy national guard troops to states like baja, california, mexico's president and the discipline will lopez over to lord acknowledge the violence, but says it has been blown out of proportion by his political opponents. a thank you to those k i go, i really, everyone relaxed there is govern ability. civility of the same time, those main shifts from my adversary. the conservative to magnify thing,
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carry out sensationalist. journalism. violence and vandalism from criminal militias in mexico are not a new phenomenon. because security analysts say there are rarely any consequences. impunity record grueling is the gauges are, are few and far between and, and they are what it and you don't have a strong you know, how strong investigated it believes that can increase the likelihood that any one you bought. the separate rents will be, will be bashed. mexico is government has not announced any new plans to change the country's security strategy. the policy seems instead to be to intensify the existing one with increased military style policing in regions where cartels operate. while experts in mexico say these latest instances of cartel related violence don't appear to be connected. the picture that's emerging is of
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a country where despite more boots on the ground, security forces are still losing ground to criminal organizations. manuel up a little al jazeera mexico city cabinet ministers in india and china butting heads over a chinese ship that's docked in sure, lanka endures, warned. it will be used for military purposes, but china and since the vessel is meant for research, now fernandez report from her unto top. come don't to come and finally, come 5 days later than planned. those of the sheila can governments directions to the chinese serve a vessel the you are wearing 5. and despite india raising concerns over security, they were dismissed by the ship's captain as it arrived in sri lanka, southern port of humbug at her on tuesday morning. she ow, hires also conflicts her. the vessel mainly carries out ocean wrapping and monitoring were also supporting the aerospace construction of china. but analysts
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described the ship differently, saying it's an advanced technology vessel that can monitor satellite rocket and the intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, china's ambassador in colombo, also seemed to pressure like a, standing up to new delhi. bouncing don't even though you have experienced some different rough weather this time on the indian ocean, the porch call of 115 to humble toppa has come through. it shows not only your courage tenacity and instability, but also the deep rooted unfitting, an enduring friendship between our 2 countries. for days, india has opposed the presence of the ship, saying it could spy on its activities. and shall anchors government us china to hold off until now you are but a small country in the middle of the order. while india, by looking up into one in great, might also look at his role as a global power. shalanda is facing the worst economic crisis in living memory and
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relies heavily on india for support. but china has also made major investments in the country as part of its belt and road initiative. a dispute over the role of the vessel behind me has been at the heart of a diplomatic ta. so between 2 asian giants caught in the middle, shall lanka has had a delicate balancing act to ensure it keeps both on side. mirror fernandez, are 0 humbugs at her. ah, another top stories on al jazeera kenya is powerful opposition. figure riley dinger has called the presidential election results null and void a day after his arrival. william router was declared the winner a dinger and says, sealed challenge the outcome which placed router ahead by a razor thin margin for election commissioners also refused to endorse the result. a dinger has some days.

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