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to another contested election. iraq, he, she aren't lead them, of tada outsider and his supporters boy caught a meeting at supposed to resolve political deadlock and tough times at the tel as u. k. inflation reaches double digits for the 1st time in 4 decades. ah, israel and turkey are restoring full diplomatic ties. after more than a decade of discord. both sides will re appoint ambassadors for the 1st time in years. but turkey's foreign minister says, despite the foreign relations, his government will keep defending the rights of palestinians, kiddish. darren, the appointment of ambassadors is also important for the development of bilateral relations. on the other hand, as we have always said, we will continue to defend the rights of palestine at jerusalem and casa, and it's important that our messages are conveyed directly at the ambassadorial
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level in tel aviv. it's african name that has the reaction from occupied east jerusalem, but 1st hes wrestle soda with this report from a stumble. the full, the restoration of the diplomatic relations between the encore and the tel aviv is being seen as a milestone in relations between 2 countries. here in turkey, so this is coming off there almost a year of the talks between the high did, between the officials, between the presidents of the country, the foreign ministers and so on. so just yesterday, off the phone conversation with between your p disraeli, prime minister and the turkish president of favorable and they have decided to reappoint the, the ambassadors and councils generals to the capitals once again. so the experts here say that both countries have have put reasons to normalize the relations. in terms of the israeli side, the church experts are seen that israelis facing the grove in track security tracks
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from iran and through iranian groups. and that's why i seen turkey as a balancing problem in the region when it comes to turkey. turkey is facing the challenges that they're raising from from the syria and also east mediterranean and turkey by normalizing the relations with israelis hoping that from this both areas is going to have the israeli support. on the other hand, less than a year later, there will be a presidential election in turkey, and the turkish economy is not doing well. so by having a reproach meant, or minimum normalization of relations with israel, the car is hoping to benefit economy chloe as well. however, here the delicate issue, which is palestine and the palestinians. so to davy had heard that the turkish for the minister has said that despite these agreement tricky is going to keep a continue supporting the palestinians. and they arise because he knows that the palestinian cause is quite a delicate sensitive issue,
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both for the turkish public and also the government's way of normalizing relations . definitely the government here is very much careful not to lose the public support among turks this day. todd was months in the making the process to restore full diplomatic ties between the 2 countries began earlier this year. in march, israel's largely ceremonial president went to on kara to meet with the turkish president. then in june, israel's caretaker, prime minister your la peed, also visited on kara repeat, says renewing relations with turkey is an important asset for regional stability and important economic news for israeli citizens. the hope is that this news will deepen. trade, economic and cultural ties between the 2 countries. israel announced earlier this year that it will reopen a trade office in is stumble. it is also signed an agreement. that allows is really
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airlines to fly to turkey. turkey is a popular tourist destination among israelis. on november 1st is really is, will go to the polls for the 5th time into 3 and a half years. le pete is hoping that his center left party, yes, a team will do well and he'll be able to remove caretaker from his current title. benjamin netanyahu, israel's longest serving prime minister, is plotting a come back, despite his ongoing corruption trial, with the restoration of full diplomatic relations with turkey. le pete gets a diplomatic win that he can sell as good for the economy to the public. at a time when israelis like many people around the world are struggling with the sky, rocketing costs of housing, fuel, and food. kenny is at preston to lex when the router is again the corner for unity and says he's ready to get down to the business of governing. he held
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a media conference, which he said people have chosen their leaders. kenya's and actual commission gave router 50.4 percent of the vote, but his opponent ran a dingo is disputing the result saying he will challenge it in court. on tv screen. people from all from us. okay. say we listened to you guys, we want to know when the delivery of your commitment is going to be key. and i really want to know that the expectation of the people are huge. and therefore, we do not have that in with the any time. malcom web has more on this now from nairobi. it was talking mostly about what they want to do when it from when they take office good. he was very much looking about when speaking with
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a lot of confidence that that would happen. but it was on tuesday afternoon, right over dinner, rejected those results and said that him and his coalition would do everything they could legally and constitutionally to get those results over to another constitution. give. petition is 7 days after the announcement of results. there were just 5 days left to file a petition to the supreme court waiting to find out if right we're doing is immune coalition or if other rights groups will file petitions in it, it can be expected at this stage for at least any politically motivated petition is to keep that card close to that chest. when this happened last time, 5 years ago following the election, then riley were doing it was at the time leading the opposition. he challenged the election results in court. the petition was submitted right to the last hour before that deadline was met. likely so that lawyers are given maximum time to gather
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evidence and minimum time for any responding to prepare. so we'll be watching over the next few days to see if anyone will be finding a petition up to the deadline, which will come on monday by the dingo supporters have rejected the outcome of last week selection. and there's an air of uncertainty in this stronghold in a consumer in western kenya as our trusted repulse. after days of uncertainty, things seem to be getting back to normal increased morale. dingus from hold businesses that are closed have now re open to supported, expect him to go to court, but they have mixed feelings about the way forward. i'm putting to me a it was it was not stolen. route or maybe warren, but the 50 percent. the maybe did not achieve, i think less than just let go and should lead talk to you to move on. normally. should just move on right now. really one piece and one things to get on. you can
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just stay with the court just in case what we call, what we call the said. all can can do for now is wait and see how the process plays out. it could be valid thing of lawyers collecting the evidence to take the court. if he goes to court and people are wondering what kind of evidence that we have, it isn't enough to overturn the results. yes until monday. so post the course, iraq's caretaker prime minister, has held talks with representatives from the major political parties, but being boycotted by the group that follows influential she taught father has demanded the judiciary dissolve, pun mentioned, hold elections, to break a preschool deadlock and has more from back that in an attempt to, in the political deadlock in iraq k to take her prime minister invited representatives of political factions and also to reach common ground in order to
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end the political crisis in iraq. meanwhile, the southern movement and i said earlier that there are not planning to attend that meeting. meanwhile, supporters of she at least put a sort of continue there, sit in front of the headquarters of the parliament, setting up dozens of tents. and they say they are not planning to leave the earth until the demands are met. the demands include the palm, be dissolved nearly elections be held as a way out of this political crisis. men doubt, meanwhile, supporters of their evil parliamentary loc affiliated to iraq, known as the coronation framework, continued their sit in nearby dad's greens on setting up. also dozens of tents, and they say that protesting against what they consider the accumulation of the parliament, headquartered by supporters of shortly their mostella sutter. meanwhile, the supreme court in bagdad has adjourned it until the end of this month. a plea that was submitted by a southern affiliated lawmakers, as well as other independent lawmakers requesting the parliament be dissolved an
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early elections be held as a way out of the current political impass. inflation in the u. k is hit a new 40 year high and british union, so the cost of living crisis become a living nightmare of figures from the office of national statistics on wednesday show the consumer price index reached 10 point one percent in july. that's in spite of 6 consecutive interest rate rises by the bank of england. high food prices were the main reason for the increases on united nations new envoy for me and mine is on her 1st visit there since she was appointed last year. the niser has met the leader of the military june to, to discuss what the un calls the deteriorating situation in the country. she wasn't able to meet jail, the ousted leader, hung, sun sued. she on monday said she was convicted on more corruption charges, extending her prison sentence to 17 years was just across the border. un human
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rights chief michel distrustfully, has a misty that romania refugee camp sat to coax his bazaar in bangladesh. ashley, a says the refugees told her they want to go home to neighboring me and as soon as it's safe, hundreds of thousands of people from the countries it was. the minority fled to a miniature counting 2017. now at more than a 1000000 rank, at least one of the world's largest refugee comes from the charge, has more from decker. this is the 1st time ever a un human rights commissioner has visited bangladesh since its inception of the position 29 years ago. now 2 major issues here. one is the human rights situation in bangladesh. and others, of course, is a growing our camp. and the rowing guy shows itself. she visited the ro hanger camp yesterday. she spoke with several, you an agency is the relief rehabilitation, refugee relief and rehabilitation, commissioner and other stakeholder,
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most importantly, she intermixed with intermingled with their anger, refugees, younger groups, as well as the camp, elders and leaders. she emphasized the fact that she's worried about the years without formal education and any skill level in a press conference today, which was one hour long. now she also raised the fact that they can, the environment in myanmar is not conducive for the, rowing us to return right now. and there won't be 4 story tiny bit strictly on voluntary basis under the supervision of un. she also the raises the issue and concern about some degree of concern rather about the violence in the camp inter gang rivalry for the safety of the woman and similar issues that persistent the camp till now. cilla head heron al jazeera, argentina's biggest trade union hits the streets as a country faced his rocketing inflation. a live update from his eyes. java's in serious capital struggle to make ends meet as fuel costs are lot of control.
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ah with. well, there's been little change in the weather across the middle east. hi there. thank you so much for joining in. here's the forecast on thursday, but look at this, the temperature in dough high has dropped off to 39 degrees. that gives us an indication when the temperature lowers, the humidity starts to come up a bit. quite the soaking that karachi has gotten so. so far this year, half a meter of rain. there's been back to back, monsoons depressions. here's the 2nd one sliding into sin province. of course, there's rain gauges will go even higher, and the indication is that the monsoon reigns will continue until the end of september. and by the time it's all said and done, karachi for the 1st time in history could pick up to
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a meter of rain. so we'll continue to watch that beauty of a day and it's stumble. 31 degrees, some showers for turkeys, northeast black sea coast. and yar vaughn once again up to 40 degrees on thursday. your august temperature record is 42 central africa. it's our typical plentiful showers and storms in the zone here. but i got to take you further toward the south that weather maker that crashed into the western cape, now sliding into the eastern cape. it's spreading showers and wind. and in fact, we may see some snow over the higher ground of the western cape over the next few days. okay, thanks for your company. i'll catch up with you next hour. bye for now. ah, the welcome is coming to catch up in just 3 month. as the main event gets closer, we hear every step of the way i'm gonna guess you're also with updates from teams and fans across the glove themes can expect some strong support here in capsule. with a spotlight, no one you can france claim back to back world cup victory is all. will portugal
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christiano, rinaldo finally get his hands on a trophy to well cop count on al jazeera. ah ah, you without a 0 reminder about top stories now, it's rather than turkey or restoring full diplomatic ties. after years of strained relations, both countries will be re appointing ambassadors. but turkey's foreign minister said it would not abandon its support for the palestinians. 10 years that president elect says he is working to form a government limb router says there will be no room for exclusion under his
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leadership, it comes a day off. his defeated arrival rejected the results of last week's election. human rights chief says it's still not safe for hundreds of thousands of for him to refugees to return to me and mom on the dish. his government is growing impatient about hosting them is told, michelle dash a that their mom must take them back. oh argentina's biggest union has organized a march against the worsening economic crisis. some estimates suggest inflation could hit 90 percent by the end of the year. shawna joins us now from the march in that one as iris. so daniel, what kind of impact is inflation having that absolutely huge. it was announced july alone. it was 7.4 percent. as you mentioned, it could teacher the 190 percent, some or even a saying go over a 100 percent by the end of the year. it's been something like 70 percent in the
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last 12 months. what that does, it impacts people savings. i also impacts that salaries enormously. we're finding that the price is of basic of food stamps, of fuel, of almost everything is going up almost by the week was every time you go shopping, you will see the price is increasing. so yeah, having a huge impact on radios. know, planning the economy in general. so yes, people here taking action. i'm taking action in huge numbers today. so daniel wants all the protests who's calling for exactly what we got here. the i may a representative of the 3 main tre do. do you agree to that? frankly, all the trade unions in the country, the teachers, we have it for sure. we have a truck driver or we have the other ones. 40 not representative either they transport your dns. 2 who support the government?
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these are mostly government support with those to what that would be marching in that direction of that you shortly towards the goal. well, there are 2 bonding is those who set the price is the big business. so the fall, those are the super bowl cutover, those control that prices keep their prices down. later in the day we've got the more extreme left wing unions and social group lodging in that direction towards the government policy. and they will be to volunteer. the government takes my job to flight control prices the government yesterday on tuesday, it's the state less than the subsidy on basic fuel household fuel golda. oh, so they said they couldn't afford to keep subsidizing those. you can afford to pay those costs. they're going to have to make more cars. what they do realize that the bigger the costs they make, the more stop that is made with rule, but more likely they ought to lose the support of these tre duty of these people managing today, with a very difficult situation to try to keep inflation under control one of the worst
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in the world that has been for many, many years now, but reaching out, particularly in these last few weeks with bugs with these recently people taking to the st. estimated. i still too early to tell you open eyes a saying that something like half a 1000000 people likely to be on the streets of whether sar is the day. from here in the capital, i'm from all the provinces around, went around and see them. daniel shawna lives in warner sar is at that march. thank you. oh, so feeling the pinch off syrian said, years of civil war, cripple, the economy, and the government has been forced to raise fuel prices. fitting will propose mohammed makes a living, selling charcoal, a single taxi fair and serious capital damascus cost the same as her daily income. so she carries out our errands across the city on foot. i live in by mitzvah collodion. i have a daughter working towards her high school certificate,
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one of the main reason she failed her class was because of transport. when she registered at a school that she would walk, if she couldn't catch public transportation, she couldn't find any. she would need a taxi, which i cannot afford on armando, could that up? she says people miss city have stopped socializing because of the sparling fuel costs taxi and many bus drivers and serious struggle to make a living during a decade of conflict. and now with a surgeon energy prices around the world, it's becoming tougher. 2 weeks ago, authorities more than double the cost, subsidized petro with it stressful, by have high blood pressure. and i've had 2 strokes, but i want to live. i don't want to big. it's difficult for me to big, even though biggest make more money nowadays, begging is more profitable than the many of us in the 11 years since the war and
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syria began, its local currency has collapsed to barely one percent of its pre war value. and that's leaving little hope for its people. join wolf, al jazeera. taiwan has carried out military drills as tensions rise with china. the nighttime exercises assimilated the response to a chinese version, or this comes days are to beijing stage to air and see drills around time on it by u. s. house be can nancy pelosi, china considers taiwan a part of it? was trailers, a former prime minister has defended the decision to secretly appoint himself to 5 extra ministerial roles. scott morrison said it was necessary to give himself reserve powers during the coven 19 pandemic. with his hasn't stopped calls for his resignation from parliament, sir clark report, ah, his unpopularity dominated the astride election campaign, and close the liberal national party the election. less than 3 months after scott
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morrison designed his party leader, is now under pressure to resign from parliament. after who confirmed that, he secretly appointed himself to 5 additional ministerial rolls. during the pandemic. i believed it was necessary to have authority to have what were effectively emergency pears. i'm to exercise in extreme situations that would be unfastening. that would enable me to act in the national interest. and that is what i did in a crisis plan and swore himself in as a joint helpful. mr. finance. resources i'm with is as well as treasurer between 20202021. and it didn't reveal these additional portfolios to the public parliament, nor to most of his colleagues. that's raised questions with the current government, which is seeking advice from the countries solicitor general. the australian people went to an election,
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not knowing that any of this had occurred. not knowing that there was a shadow government operating in darkness. out with that transparency, i clear misleading of the parliament whereby parliamentarians and ministers i held to account for areas in which they have responsibility. one don't get rid of. morrison says his actions didn't impact anyone. but he gave the former prime minister additional powers, which he used to overrule the results as minister on an unpopular gas joint permit before the election. legal analysts say the governor general's role i the seeing the appointments and the lack of transparency involved weren't an investigation. so this is fundamentally inconsistent. ready the basic conventions about westminster system, the government, the ministers are a to parliament and misleading parliament as to who exercises. ringback ministerial power is completely at odds with those conventions. this is extremely unorthodox.
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it is a breach of constitutional convention. the full, the prime minister may have apologized to his colleagues, but that hasn't quelled colds from within his party for him to resign from parliament. that's a step so far that scott marson is refusing to take sarah clock out 0 brisbin, australia in peru, prosecutors are expanding 8 corruption investigation involving president pedro castillo, looking at allegations of corruption obstruction of justice and taking bribes. because fear says the probe is political persecution and racist. arianna sanchez has more from lima with just when you renew office president mid august the you know, 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. former transport minister in charge of the
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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, the judiciary stopped the press from publishing any information regarding the president's case. as theo said, he's a victim of racism recently. 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 their opulent tables because i walk with the people. ah, 70 percent of peruvians now think he's guilty. frustrated than near the all former precedents are involved in corruption. peruvians marched in support of the public prosecutor leading the probes. as the use allies see the investigations politically motivated, loretta associate him, i firmly reject the claims and insinuations that the public prosecutor's office is part of an alleged political plan. oh,
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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 monet, this young is a fool them into a he has taken the absurd decision of not making his judicial 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 in the home believe it was a glad, out of the steel hussar wiped to impeachment attempts. but now former allies are testifying against him in the face of so many investigations unprecedented for a sitting precedent. his days in office may be numbered medea's hunters. i'll just
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see that limb may do. mexico's president is facing criticism following a wave of violence linked to cartels. attacks by criminal groups left at least 11 people dead last week. vehicles and businesses were also set on fire across 4 states. i knew rapidly reports from mexico city. violence appears to be on the rise in mexico, attacks against businesses in states like halley's school and gonna want to live with. okay, 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 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 brands that have been very close to each other or within, within a single week. um dose on each one of those has
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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 the lord acknowledged the violence, but says it has been blown out of proportion by his political opponents. they thank you. las k, i go, i really every one relaxed there is govern ability. yet there is stability at the same time. those main shifts from my adversaries. the conservative to magnify things, and 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 rent, ah, ruin institutions are, are shown for between a and b are what it and you don't have a strong, you know,
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how strong you risk get below is that again? ah sh. increase the likelihood that any one you bought, the ranks will be crushed. 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. when will it up a low al jazeera mexico city. ah, this is out there and these are.
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