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becoming much harder to express any type of support for the palestinian cause. one day there are no palestinian flags, then next to each are filled with them. it's really like to your net by young men who were not even born with these railey government for the clear and the palestinian flag is nico ah, i candid a bank by donald trump asked liz cheney the rare republican critic who took the form of president to task ah, i'm sammy's a dan. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up, the u. s. president signs the inflation act into law. $430000000000.00 to tackle the cost of living and climate change. campaigning begins in brazil ahead of
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october the presidential election we outlined how candidates are faring 2 months out. the obstructions of justice mixed with allegations of graft and bribery perused president feels the heat of deepening investigations. ah, now one of donald trump's most prominent republican adversaries has lost her re election bid in the state of wyoming. miss cheney has been highly critical of the former president while helping to lead a congressional investigation until last year's attack on the u. s. capital, she lost the primary vote to a trump backed candidate to contest this year's mid term elections. rob reynolds reports from wyoming. as expected, wyoming representative,
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liz cheney lost her bid to remain in congress by a wide margin. cheney became former president donald trump's republican nemesis, as vice chair of the january 6th committee in a forceful concession speech. chaney once again castigated the former president. 2 years ago, i won this primary was 73 percent of the vote. i could easily have done the same again, the path was clear, but it would have required that i go along with president trump lie about the 2020 election. it would have required that i enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not, and would not take chinese opponent, lawyer harriet hagaman, was endorsed by trump, who's very popular in wyoming. trump congratulated hagaman and called cheney spiteful. obviously, we are all very grateful to president trump,
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who recognizes that wyoming hill has only one congressional representative. and we have to make it count is jeannie became one of the best known members of congress this year. as the vice chair of the congressional investigation into the events surrounding the insurrection of january 6th, 2021. as well as the various schemes and falsehoods, trump and his associates hatched as he attempted to remain in office after losing the election. but that didn't go over well with wyoming voters, 70 percent of whom voted for trump over joe biden, in 2020. despite her defeat, many people in wyoming and in washington, dc expect cheney to run for president in 2024, using a reputation as a defender of democracy who stood up to trump when other republicans failed to do so. ever janie did nothing to dispel those expectations in her concession speech. this primary election is over, but now the real work begins. janie's loss does not mean that she will leave her
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post as vice chair of the january 6th committee, which will remain active at least until january of next year. she has announced that hearings will resume in september and says that witnesses continue to come forward, and new evidence is pouring in. rob reynolds al jazeera jackson, wyoming. u. s. president joe biden has signed into law fond and soci $1000000000.00 climate health and tax bill biden. said the inflation reduction act tackles climate change and reduces deficits by having the wealthy pay more. taxes is a key legislative victory for the democrats. rosalyn jordan reports from washington d. c. a celebration at the white house on tuesday. as u. s. president joe biden signed into law. the inflation reduction act is not just about today. it's about to mar, it's about delivering progress and prosperity to american families. the law cut
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medicine costs were seniors and extends health care subsidies. there's also a new 15 percent corporate income tax, the biggest expense fighting climate change. $385000000000.00 and new funding and tax credits to cut carbon emissions and develop clean energy industries. to expand the use of solar panels and heat pumps. and to make electric vehicles, a common sight, electric vehicle positions in the new bell, r. r phase and based on income. and so they, i really designed to make electric vehicles more affordable for people who might not otherwise be able to buy them west virginia, senator joe mansion had held up passage of the law until it included funding for the oil and gas industry. he said he would do it again, and i think this is a great american bill now some benefits from him. that's why i can't figure out why my republican friends are doubling down against him when there's so much good for
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so many people to my help. so many doesn't make any sense to me at all. and the bill as amended is past republicans who didn't vote for the bill, criticised it on social media. quote, democrats robbed americans last year by spending our economy into record inflation this year. their solution is to do it a 2nd time. back at the white house, joe biden delivered some of his own partisan criticism. every single republican congress voted against lord prescription drug prices against laurie healthcare court, against the fair attack system. every single republican, every single one voted against tackling the climate crisis against lauren, our energy cost against creating good paying job. a recognition partisanship isn't over, even though the white house says this is a day for all americans. rosalind jordan, elder sarah washington. it's the 1st official day of campaigning in brazil,
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the head of the presidential election in october. president drivable sanara held his 1st campaign event for reelection in the city where he was stabbed in 2018 opinion. paul show his leftist rival, former president luda de silver as a 12 point lead. he's been campaigning outside a car making plant in the state of south palo, where he rose to prominence as a union leader decades ago. with campaigning underway, some brazilians are worried about the potential for political violence. monica anarchy of reports from rio de geneva, transgender council woman benny. but he only has received more than 20 death threats since she was elected 2 years ago. she was forced to leave brazil for safety reasons and only returned after being promised special protection. that did not happen. no thing and i have done nothing. i have no security, only
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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. as an office local pastor, 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 worker's party founded by former president lucy, now soon, lula. thus, silva, la la, is both so matters main rival in october's presidential election. and as heading the pose valgy say hi, she was running for congress and is
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a close friend of bo sonata. he says, all candidates are taking security measures seriously with his image that he remembers the day bull sonata was stamped during the 2018 campaign. and jose, i one i both scenarios wearing a bullet proof vest, but that's not enough y'all. he will always ignore protocol to talk to the people. the senior bull sonata was stamped and elected council women, marielli fid, uncle, inactive vista of black and gay rights was executed. the crime was never solved at a statue in her name has been inaugurated jim the past 3 years. political violence in brazil has tripled somewhat for me, those new brazilian politics has always been polarized, but since 2018 we've had president j or balsa narrow, openly, disseminating hatred. no of the president has done this. that's led to an increase in political violence to do brazil's federal police has been training an extra 300 agents to protect candidates during october's election. but in brazil,
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fear it's not enough man and can not give on jazeera re edition era. south korea's defense ministry says north korea 5 to cruise missiles. early on wednesday, the missiles were launched into the west sea from on john south prong gan province . sol says it's analyzing data to learn more about the launch with the help of the u. s. military rama brian joins us now live from sol. so this comes a day after south korea and the u. s. began their military exercises. what kind of message is the north sending about that? yeah, the timing of this does seem to be significant more significant. it seems than the type of missiles themselves. these are said to have been to cruise missiles fired westwards towards the sea that separates the korean peninsula from china. now if that's the case,
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then these would be the 1st cruise missiles that have been fired since january. but there has been a flurry of other missile activity since the start of this year from the north, in particular, ballistic missiles, either shore range or longer range, ballistic missiles, the type of weapons that are banned under un security council resolutions. now in contrast, cruise missiles are not banned, but the launch wednesday, does it coincide with an important news conference that has been given here by the president unit? so y'all, who has marked his 100 days in office. now he is a conservative, unlike his liberal predecessor, he takes a far tougher line with the north. and in fact, during the news conference outlined his position to north korea saying he's not interested in cosmetic his style. photo opportunity. summit meetings with his counterparts from the north that any future dealings really has to be based on far more substantial progress. her made the basically he wants to see
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a far more sincere approach taken by north korea towards de nuclear. i zation before the holding of such summits. so this could be a message from north korea to him and his administration. but it also coincides with the starting of drills this week between us and south korean forces ahead of larger scale military joint exercises next week. the type of exercises that always seem to anger and provoke north korea, so this could be seen as being an early expression of north korea's displeasure towards those. i. thanks so much. ra mcbride. i'll still ahead on al jazeera mexico's president face is rising criticism. after a wave of drug related violence wreaks havoc across multiple states. ah
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the hello there. let's have a look at the weather across europe and the heat that was dominating in the west is finally eas, giving way for some really wet and windy weather to sweep in. but we still have that warmth, clinging on in the east, a quarter of heat stretching down from the baltics down to the balkans. we have got high temperature warnings out for poland as well as serbia over the next few days. but we've seen temperatures drop in the north west. that's thanks to know that he winds blowing down across britain and island. and the rain has picked up. we've seen some flash flooding. we are likely to see more as those heavy downpours pull into wales in particular on thursday, scattered showers across scandinavia, some heavy rain for more central areas like germany, pulling down into switzerland, heavy rain as well around coastal areas of the south of france moving into northern areas of italy by thursday, but for southern areas of spain remains largely hot and dry. not ideal for those wild fire conditions. heavy rain up in the north,
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we have got some potential flood alerts out there and for greece and turkey. well, it remains largely warm sunshine through till friday. the temperature well above the average, creeping close to 40 by friday batch however. ah, i'm harry davies and kimberly, in western australia or indigenous communities, attaining with scientists to create a new approach to marine conservation. remember we even got to fill a number. i'm not going to do any reporting from brazil. you're going to try protecting biodiversity co defending themselves against the legal invaders. right? oh no. is there a ah
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ah ah, i'll come back here watching al jazeera time to recap the headlines. one of donald trump's most prominent republican adversaries has lost her reelection bed in the state of wyoming. las chaney said she would do whatever it takes to deny the form of president a 2nd term. us president joe biden has signed into law of $430000000000.00 climate health and tax bill biden said the inflation reduction acts will tackle climate change and reduce the budget deficit by having the wealthy pay more taxes. it's the 1st official day of campaigning ahead of brazil's presidential election and october president enjoyable sonata held his 1st campaign event for reelection
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in the city where he was stands in 2018 canyon opposition leader. i low danger has called the presidential election results null and void. his commons come a day after his rival william brutal was declared, the winner bingo says he'll challenge the outcome in court. the election commission says router won by a margin of 2 percent. but for election commissioners have refused to endorse the result. catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. ah bry loading a thief, he won't accept the result of kenya's presidential election. he came 2nd with 48 percent of the vote with her 310 by then deputy president william router with 50.7 percent. but he called the final tally, a travesty. that concludes the country into a legal crisis. to me he blamed the chair of the electoral commission
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a full lecture. katy o viewing as the mirror is clear. the triggers announcement was that you've got a mile and voice that'd be the to get them got a murder and void among the crash bar code or law. in our view, there's neither legal and bodily declared winner. nora, president elect calles, 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 that the 4th c,
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which he used to declare results of the presidential election was okay. and incapable of eileen our ownership and confidence to tackle. but ingles, political coalition says it's compiling a list of electoral mile practices that went against the law rayleigh dinger and his supporters say they will go to court. they have raised concerns about the integrity 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, prosecutors imperial are expanding a corruption investigation involving president pedro castillo there, looking at allegations of graft obstruction of justice and receiving bribes.
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because theo says it's both political persecution and racism. marianna sanchez has more from lima with just one year in office, president federal, gusty, who was now facing 6 criminal inquiries, and the federal investigations are getting closer and closer to home. a sister in laws suspected of awarding government contracts to friends, turned herself in a nephew, suspect of receiving bribes, is a fugitive, and one of castillo stop allies. her former transport minister in charge of the government's largest budget is nowhere to be found as the us, as the mediator trying to portray his family as corrupt. his defense lawyer has requested that judiciary, stop the press from publishing any information regarding the president's case. as d o says he's a victim of racism. i will go if they will fare against this government because i come from the countryside. it's totally racist. i do not speak like them or sit at
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their opulent tables because i walk with the people. ah, 70 percent of peruvians now think he's guilty. frustrated than nearly all former precedence are involved in corruption, peruvians marched in support of the public prosecutor leading the propes. as the use allies said the investigations are politically motivated, loretta or theater. i firmly reject the claims and insinuations that the public prosecutor's office is part of an alleged political plan. oh, an opinion pulls his 24 percent of peruvians think he's innocent and continued to support the 52 year old former rule teacher and farmer as the year says he is cooperating with prosecutors in each investigation. but every time he goes to testify before them, he asserts his right to remain silent and says, not another word at the more notice you don't get a full them into. and he has taken the absurd decision of not making his judicial
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situation clear. a politician cannot simply remain silent before a prosecutor. a politician must be accountable, transparent, and castillo is the least transparent leader in our history of the little company, because atlanta, s t u has survived to impeachment attempts, but now former allies are just defined against him. in the face of so many investigations and precedent for a sitting precedent. his days enough may be numbered. madana sanchez. i'll just see him be to authorities him for have seized him. burn 16 comes of illegal drugs. cocaine ma towana. another chemical substances were collected in the series of anti non caustic operations across the country. the deputy interior minister praise the operation as part of the government's effort to fight criminal organizations. the mexican government will ask 2 companies from germany and the u. s. to help rescue
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miners have been trapped on the ground for almost 2 weeks. the 10 miners with digging for coal, when a tunnel wall collapsed in the mine shaft flooded rescue work has haven't been able to send teams inside families of frustrated and calling for more action. from officials, mexico's presidency is facing criticism after a wave of cartel related violence last week, attacks my criminal groups have left at least 11 people dead vehicles on fire, and dozens of businesses burned across 4 states. manual apollo revolts from mexico city. violence appears to be on the rise in mexico, attacks against businesses in states like halley's school and going to atlanta only with a rampage that left at least 9 dead in soothe waters. and a wave of violence in the city of tiquana all in the span of
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a week has left many wondering what exactly is going on. we know so far is that would be how is, is a series of unrelated bands that have been very close to each other. and then within a single week, um dose 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 the lord acknowledged the violence, but says it has been blown out of proportion by his political opponents. a thank you, lose k. i go and i really, everyone relaxed there is govern ability. there is stability of the same time. those men shifts from my adversary. the conservative to magnify thing, carry out sensationalist. journalism. violence and vandalism from criminal militias in mexico are not
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a new phenomenon. because security analysts say there are rarely any consequences. impunity rent rolling 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 you is to get it. get believes that can increase the likelihood that anyone you bought. this event will be, will be bashed. mexico's 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 a country where despite more boots on the ground, security forces are still losing ground to criminal organizations. manuel up a low,
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al jazeera mexico city, the european union and usa, they're studying. iran responds to a proposal to save the 2015 nuclear deal to her on sent to reply late on monday, while the us cold is final submission. i'm sure iran previously called on us to show flexibility to resolve issues. washington, the said it's ready to quickly feel a deal to restore the 2015 accord on the basis of your proposal. we have in fact received around comments on the news proposed final text. we have received them through the you were in the process of studying. we're at the same time engaged in consultations with you in our european allies on the way ahead. what could be negotiated over the course of these past 1617 months has been negotiated. so we'll continue to study what has been submitted. we'll continue to
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consult closely with you with our european allies, other partners, and when we have more disable sure that bro, hanging refugees in bangladesh of ask the un high commissioner for human rights for protection. michelle bachelor spent tuesday meeting with the residence of one of the world's biggest refugee camps and houses about a 1000000 rang refugees inside the military crack down and neighboring me and mar in 2017 son via chantry. now, august 25th, march 5 years since nearly 740000 mostly muslim rominger fled to bangladesh from me on the market flight, triggered by a military crack down and widespread atrocities. you're an investigator and the u. s. have called a a genocide. bachelors spoke to rowing a woman, your leaders and religious representatives, and the cox was our refugee camp. and then we told her that what we were not able
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to do and mean mom, we were able to do here. but we want to return to our home. she assured us that the you in is working hard and that soon will be able to start the repatriation process . this is the 1st time a un high commissioner for human rights has visited bangladesh and the courts of borrowing our reputation. since the post was established. 29 years ago, bangladesh and foreign minister art bachelor, to engage with me and mark, and insured the repatriation of forcibly displace rowena, looking gay. un high commissioner has shown much concern about the ringo and un has appreciate all our help. they also want bangladesh should continue to help the ringo and said they will stand beside us on this line counting wand refugee present at a letter to the un high commissioner on behalf of all of down there. i think i'm going to lunch. i wrote to we escaped to banga dish due to atrocity committed against us
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. women were raped and burned to death. there are still some rowing. yeah. was confiscated, land is not returned despite promise is made after me and my government accepts all of our rights and demands only then we will return my bachelor toll refugees. those forcibly displace would be repatriated under un supervision. and voluntarily and diplomatic efforts were under way to make that happen. but many here, wonder how long that will take and whether me and mars government will ever accept their demands. and we chose re, i'll just eda dhaka wildfires in the spanish region of valencia continued to burn out of control despite the efforts of hundreds of fire fighters. 3 people were badly injured when a passenger train drove through one of the fires. more than a 1000 people in the eastern province of county have been evacuated. the blaze. alexandra is burned through nearly a 100 square kilometers, making valencia's worst wildfire this year. meanwhile,
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a massive wildfire in central portugal that 55 is abroad under control, friday night is fled again. more than 12055 is working on 1000 the flames. inside the unesco designated nature park, which have been burning for over a week, already consumed over 15000 hex heads of land. when the weather means its reading quickly. a heat wave is sweeping california with temperatures in some places soaring to more than 39 degrees. several heap advisories, and warnings have been issued. parts of the western united states are in the grip of a 23 year droughts, the worst on rec court. it's led to water restrictions and devastating wildfires. in the move that will impact about 30000000 adults, us regulators of approved the sale of hearing aids without adults is prescription the f. b a says the new rules could cut the cost of the devices by half when they
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come into effect october. well, at the moment, americans can pay as much as $5000.00 for a hearing aid. most insurance plans in the us have only limited coverage. german film director wolfgang peterson has died at the age of 80. 1 is film dust, boots about the german u boat during world war 2, earned 6 oscar nominations. he went on to direct the string of hollywood blockbusters, including in the line of file with clint eastwood and air force. one with harrison ford peterson died at his home in california. ah, and let's take you through the headlines now. one of donald trump's most prominent republican adversary's is lost her reelection.

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