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to so called brumby horses, gall saying they decimating a pristine environment, including the habitats of endangered native animals. but horse activists on lobbying hard to keep them arguing that their communities, lifestyle, and cultural identity is under threat. ah, anger in argentina oversaw ring price is while inflation in the u. k. serge is to a 4 to year high as the cost of living crisis envelops the world. oh, hello there, i'm dealing with all of this is jesse rely from london also coming up, fires and floods hit europe during a sweltering summer of drought. storms and rec,
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or breaking a canyon's president elect says he'll engage with any challenge to his victory whilst his rival prepares to contest the election results and a diplomatic reset between israel and tarkey, who are restoring relations after years of strains, ties ah, hello, they're good to have your company, the cost of living crisis is hitting economies and hurting consumers all over the world. a perfect storm created by pandemic lead supply shortages. the ukraine war and crops devastated by climate change has seen inflation surge globally. that's leading to unrest and discontent as family struggle to put food on the table. huge demonstrations are taking place in argentina. as trade unions demand urgent action
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from the government. the nation has one of the highest inflation rates in the world where consumer prices have risen. a staggering 71 percent in the past year. the u. k. 2 has become the 1st g 7 nation to see inflation and to double digit saw in full price as pushing the consumer price index to 10 point one percent in july. well ahead of forecasts and despite 6 interest rate rises, but spiraling costs aren't just hurting wealthy economies in the 11 years since the conflict began in syria. the country has seen its currency collapse to just one percent of its pre or value. well, let's talk to daniel schwein, who joins us live from wenus iris. hi there, daniel. why are the i change and what do they want to have them? well, these are all of a tracy, you in the groups in argentina are coming out today. they generally support the left leaning government and fernandez. they recognize that the government is in
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a very difficult situation. you mentioned in your introduction, judy that inflation so far in the last 12 months has been at 71 percent. some analyst pretty good going to be as high as 90 to 100 percent or maybe more by the end of 2022 to a very serious situation. really hitting work is very, very hard that seeing the value of their wages diminishing by the 7.4 percent in july. or the latest figures that we have for argentina to this pledging. their supports generally for the government of what they're calling for. those who set the prices, the entrepreneurs, the supermarket, owes us the farmers. they're asking them to try to control the prices, keep the crisis down to a livable level so they can cope. or they can put food on their table on the wheel a daily basis. and not have to deal with watching the price is going up almost by the day here in argentina, a country that has been suffering a high inflation for several years now. not particularly bad at the moment. i'm
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threatening to get much more was in the months ahead. daniel, are the groups that are and that on marching, are they likely to get what they want? i mean, what, what can the government do in these coming circumstances? there are also some of the more left leading law unions. they're marching on the government house later on today. they are calling for wage heights. they want wages to keep pace with inflation. and it's often the case that your wages, your paid at the beginning of the month simply won't reach to the end of the month . so they're going for emergency wages in the middle of the bumper to try to get them through this crisis. that's a serious situation. about inflation really is only an indicator, a temperature, if you like, of the states of the economy. the economy is in a very sorry state with very high and not international debt. it's also the argentine based goal is very much reduce, very weak against the us dolah with somebody transactions are going on. production
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is very, very low. so really, argentina needs to make drastic steps towards solving the intrinsic problems the, the fundamental problems that has willing to culminate before it can bring inflation down. so very, very serious situation out of the state of the government options are very limited while it is cripple without international debt, a very difficult to pay. so against the u. s. dolah daniels finally, they are joining us live from when i was daniel, thank you. well, the weight of inflation in the u. k has surged to double digits for the 1st time since the 1980s with prices continuing to rise, their fastest rate for more than 40 years. i suppose a soaring food costs have been the greatest contributor, fishing inflation to 10 point one percent in the year to july. and that's up from 9.4 percent in june. energy and transport costs are also driving that increase the bank of england once. inflation could peak at more than 13 percent this year. last
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more than a decade of conflict in syria, the rising cost of living means people are really struggling to make ends meet. the country's economy has been on the brink of collapse for years. now spiraling fuel costs have made that situation even worse. gillian wolf reports. 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 and of and bandwidth claudia . i have a daughter working towards her high school certificate, one of the main reason she failed her class was because of transport. when she registered at a school, she would walk if she couldn't catch public transportation, she couldn't find any. she would need a taxi, which i cannot afford alarm, because she says people in the city have stopped socializing because of the sparling. fuel costs taxi, and many bus drivers and syria struggle to make
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a living during a decade of conflict. and now the surgeon energy prices around the world, it's becoming tougher. 2 weeks ago, authorities more than doubled the cost subsidized petro phone. if you look it stressful. i 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 a big is make more money nowadays, making is more profitable than the mini bus. in the 11 years since a war in 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, several people have been killed in a powerful explosion at sidney mosque in northern cobble. the blast happened during evening prayers on western state. these haven't confirmed the number of casualties,
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but say the mom of them off with amongst those killed couples. emergency hospital says it's treating at least 27 patients, including a 7 year old child. it's not yet know what caused the explosion. ah, scientists warned that the ongoing drive in europe could be the worst in 500 years . the wildfire seen in southern parts of the continent, a still devastating large areas. it isn't, didn't bother reports. extreme rainfall is also causing chaos. ah, my flight is retreating briefly in southeast, in spain there trying to stop the flames from reaching houses in the valley. the able area near valencia. huge 5 again. when like then struck it the weekend fueled by strong winds. it's forced hundreds of people from their homes. what i say for this year,
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spain's had almost $400.00 wildfires. they've already destroyed more than 3 times the area consumed by flames. in 2021. they've been fueled by heat waves and drought conditions that scientists attribute to climate change. in germany, the drought means you can see so called hunger stones at various sections of the river ryan, centuries ago. they were placed on dry river beds and march toward future generations. their exposure could signal famine. over in france, the country's longest river, the la looks like this. record drought has cut the river flow to a trickle meaning in places people could almost walk from one shore to the other. and then was some atrista. some at least perish. we need on elijah, it makes me sad because i grew up here and i've never seen it like that before we go to the border holes over there with the children and fish scientists. a warning that low river levels across france are assigned that can't be ignored.
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relationship ma comanche, keep it on on it and any other climate change is underway. it's undeniable. and that compels us to rethink our rules for sharing water resources. and we must understand that we're all affected. water is a common good way, and every one of us will have to rethink our behavior. every ship where the rain has finally arrived. like here in paris, it's badly needed, but europe's having to get used to heavier downpours travelers on the metro had to contend with flooded stations. metty of hans reported that one months worth of rain fell in the space of an hour at scotch the banquet. oh, and the sky also opened in london with parts of the u. k. capitol experiencing flash flooding. thunderstorms are expected in england and wales, and with the dry soil, almost impenetrable. in areas people are being wants to watch out for further flooding. nadine barber al jazeera, at least a 100 people have died as
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a result of heavy rains into angel floods. acosta dam dozens of villages have been destroy. the government says the floods, of course, more damage than it can handle his hip of morgan furniture here. some items there and had the alley is trying to collect what he can from his home. it was damaged and left submerged by heavy rains and torrential floods in a manner again. insur dance, g 0 estate, la mancha lashara bla la you. hi, we now don't have any food or water. the floods came in the middle of the not well, i was working on a night shift to be able to provide food from our family. similar damage and destruction can be seen in houses around the village. more than 700 homes were destroyed in over 50 villages in edmond again, the district has been declared a disaster zone. abraham use of family was one of more than 3000 affected by the floods in the region. maria, i shit that i did. i did, the water came in tor, down the front walls. they then entered the rooms and we moved away as they started
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collapsing around us. all these houses have collapsed to them. and men agen is now largely sub married homes, are not the only places effected farmlands have also been devastated by floods threatening the harvest season. around november, already nearly a 3rd of to dance $43000000.00 people are short of food, and prices have increased in the past month. government officials say the scale of damage in almanac in is unprecedented. local number 2, okay. and in nor law, we were expecting the damage should be less. so we were surprised by the amount of destruction the flood season usually causes damage with that, but we have seen this year is beyond the state's ability to respond that many people are now waiting for help. but with more torrential rains forecast and flood expected. they're worried it may come to late here morgan, alta 0 rivers have overflowed across large parts of india, forcing residence to abandon their homes, buildings in western. my shorter and good to ross states have been i inundated with
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muddy water, while flood victims. in easton, odysseus state say they are struggling with a shortage of drinking water. sees no monsoon rains, cause death and mass displacement across asia every year. but they also deliver more than 70 percent of india's rainfall and are crucial for farmers still to come here and al jazeera, ukrainian 1st responders prepare for a possible nuclear meltdown following several close calls at the south parisha plant. and is similar conflict bring in the balkans. nato's chief holds crisis tolls with serbia and coastal. ah, hello, there has been a change in the fortunes. the western areas of europe after that heap was broken by
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this area of low pressure bringing some really wet and windy weather to the north west. we saw flash flooding in parts of britain island and france, thanks to those violent thunderstorms. now that wet weather is going to shift its way more centrally on thursday, but we've still got that corridor heat running down from the baltics through to the balkans, with red alerts out for temperatures in serbia. if we haven't look at the 3 day for bell grade will be picking up to $37.00 degrees, but there's some relief that's going to come in with that wet weather. now weather has brought temperatures down from britain and island. we've got another wave of rain rolling in on thursday, effecting western areas that will move across the north sea into scandinavia. lively showers. so very heavy rain for the likes of sweden and for germany and more central areas, we could see some flooding across the southern areas of france, northern areas of italy from that very heavy rain, soaking wet and windy across the mediterranean. i'm northern areas of spain, but there is still hot and dry conditions dominating for southern areas of spain
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and portugal. and we will see that heats come back into portugal by the we can lock the sunshine here. ah, 2 years old captain. why i say a life altering experience for any victim more so wouldn't 2 years is half of your life time. a 4 year old year see the boys struggles to recover from the trauma of abuse and the witnessing of unspeakable atrocities. i bet child a witness documentary on a just either lou ah
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ah, welcome back. a quick reminder of our top story, see on al jazeera, huge demonstrations of taking place in argentina. as the rising cost of living continues to take its toll. argentina has one of the highest inflation rates, consumer prices have risen, a staggering 71 percent in the past year. scientists warn the ongoing droughts in europe could be the worst and 500 years the fire scene in southern parts of the continent are still devastating. large areas, some regions though, are now experiencing extreme rainfall. at least a 100 people have died as a result of heavy rains and torrential floods across sudan. dozens of villages have been destroyed. the government says the floods of cause more damage than the country can handle. how can his president intellect, william rochelle says there's no time to waste in running the country. he's vowed
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to lead a transparent democratic and accountable government and to get the economy back on track. on monday the electoral commission declared him the winner of the presidential fault by a razor thin margin of 50.4 percent. but his opponent rela digger is disputing that result saying he will challenge it. inquires on tv screen, people for all 4 months. okay. say we've listened to you guys, we want to know when did the body of your commitment is going to be i really want to know that the expectation of the people that fall, we do not have that, that it wouldn't be any time. well, malcolm web has more now from nairobi. it was talking mostly about what they want
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to do when it from when they take office good. he was very much about when speaking with a lot of confidence that that would happen. but it was on tuesday afternoon, right. we're doing rejected those results and said that him and his coalition would do everything they could legally and constitutionally to get those results overturned. now the constitution give petition is 7 days after the announcement of the result. they were just 5 days left to file a petition to the supreme court waiting to find out if the rider 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 petitioners 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. that petition was submitted right to the last hour
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before that deadline was met. likely so that lawyers given maximum time to gather 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 as well as an air of uncertainty in while adding a stronghold of consumer that's in western kenya. as her matessa explains, after days of uncertainty, things seem to be getting back to normal in consumer rollo dingus from hold. businesses that are close 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 or may be warned, but the 50 plus percent maybe did not achieve. i think less than just let go and submit activity move on. normally should just move away.
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really one piece and one things to get on. you can just stay with the court. yes. or what will. what will court 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 course 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 awesome attacks and explosions of hit 17 locations in southern thailand and what appears to be a series of coordinated assaults on shops and petrol station. and the 7 people were injured in the attacks in 3 provinces, but no one has claimed responsibility. but there have been decades of low level insurgency in areas near the border with malaysia. groups are seeking independent for predominantly muslim provinces. at least 4 people have been injured in russian missile strikes, sides of the, the ukrainian port, city of a desa,
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missiles hit the coastal time of the talk on wednesday, destroying several residential buildings and causing a far as a seaside resort. the railway bridge in circles is a key connection between the odessa region and the rest of ukraine. and it's been targeted during the war several times. the police are, there was a huge blast plate neighborhood, the house left in all of them, but even house is made of stone. everything is destroyed. only the walls remained. everything turned to ashes. rushes says at least one person has been killed in ukrainian shilling. in the dim net squeaking officials in the separate area, a separate homes were destroyed when a ukrainian missile hit a settlement in the regions. northeast green denies is forces ever shell civilian targets and accuses russian rebels. troops of firing inside residential areas. units from the self proclaimed jeanette peoples republic of joined the russian offensive. in the back queens, eastern industrial hot land ukrainian authorities in the czar parisha have joined
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nuclear disaster response drills. now the exercises are taking place after repeated shelling, incidents, and groups largest nuclear power plant, both in ukraine, both ukraine and russia rather play each other for those attacks. queens energy ministers. this is government is very concerned about the safety of the site is occupied by russian troops, but run by ukrainian engineers shillings. and while the condemned leading to calls for an urgent visit by the international atomic energy agency. of course we are concerned that's for sure. and that they should with the that the situation from the when they start traveling from the piece off of august, it's changed dramatically and of what we are concerned. that's why we're here. that's why we created this group. that's why we walk in everyday communication with and we speak to our international partner. the head of the world health organization has suggested racism is behind
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a lack of international attention being given to the plight of civilians in ethiopia as war torn t gray region. tedra ad ma'am on debris. yes. says that 6000000 people there are unable to access basic services due to the ongoing conflict. he question why the situation and to great isn't getting the same coverage as the war in ukraine. in terms of humanitarian crisis, i can tell you that the humanitarian crisis integrates more than you crate. without in exaggeration. and i say it is many months ago may be the reason is the color of the scheme of the people into gray. i haven't heard of been the last 5 few months, several months now. even the head of state talking about the ticket condition anywhere in the develop. good especially why
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i think we know you and human rights. she says it's still not safe for hundreds of thousands of her hinge or refugees to return to me and mar, almost 5 years after they fled. a brutal military cracked, dan michelle bachelor, has been missing. we're here in bangladesh where the government is growing impatient about hosting refugees by minister shake hands. sienna has told bachelor that me and mom must take them back. more than a 1000000 mostly muslims were hinge, are living in the world's largest refugee camp in cox's bazaar, bangladesh. you need to review. it's supposed to solving the crisis in me, and that's what the country's foreign minister has told us. special envoy during her 1st visit seemed being appointed to the last year. no, i mean hays are held talks with mean laws, army chief and several senior ministers in the capital. if you don't have their reiterated calls for an immediate and all forms of violence and requested, unconditional humanitarian access me and marston rocked by violent andras since the
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army i was to the government of sang she in february last year natal peacekeepers will lose their numbers and take any measures necessary to ensure peace, impossible as tensions rises, serbia that's according to the alliance is chief install timber he sailed crisis call serbia uncomfortable leaders to try to have our fresh conflict in the balkans as intention since the end of july when constable declared the serbian identity documents and car number place wouldn't be valid uncomfortable territory to serve minority and possible reactive by putting a box and firing guns in the air. the e u will host rare direct talk to serbian president alexandra church and constables prime minister album corsi on thursday. while jesse was organ in storage has more than from brussels. nato secretary general young salzburg said in brussels that
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they are peacekeeping mission impossible. k 4 is ready to intervene if stability between serbia and kosovo is at 3. for them are kept stalks to be the president of serbia, alexander will beach and kosovo prime minister all be in court on a recent vengeance between 2 western balkan neighbors and the day before their upcoming talks in your facility. the dialogue. so be our president said that he and possible prime minister disagree on almost everything, but did that fees and stability were crucially important? lay the specials were 3 years later in july, i had a customer intention to implement a law making all surfaces equal the serbs to use cost of our car plates. also, people from serbia answering possible would have to have reached the not you should exit entry documents, reachable would be used as an idea during their stay. this move through good local service could put up our old blocks and sounded air raid sirens, police, faith and the several gunshots have been reported. course all perform the
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implementations of the law for one month and therapy every more drawled books, but the patients give spade. you expressed a great concern over de grove inflammatory authority. so both sides and cold war dugeon quarter to work on de escalation, in order to find a mutually agreeable solution for generalization of the relations of serbia and its former province. that declared independence in 2008. germany is deploying chips to the european union's peacekeeping. mission in bosnia and herzegovina for the 1st time in a decade. as concerns go, the war in ukraine could spread to the western vulcans, while the countries hundreds of calamities from the front line, i must say an increasingly assertive bosnian serb separatist movement is receiving support from moscow. nato, and e. you officials have already wind insta virus. we from the war was sent which the balkans time once military has displayed its most advance fights, and yet in a rare nighttime demonstration,
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miss al equipped at 16 jans took off from the military airport. on wednesday show forrest fall as china's unprecedented military drills around the island. they were in response to business by hugh s house speaker. nancy pelosi and the congressional delegation to the south will territory. israel and turkey are restoring full diplomatic ties. after years of discord, both countries will be re appointing ambassadors, circus foreign minister said despite the move, turkey would not be abandoning its support for the palestinians. she didn't. 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 gaza. and it's important that our messages are conveyed directly at the ambassadorial level in tel aviv wrestle, sir, dar is in assembled with more the full, the restoration of the diplomatic relations between the anchor. and the tel aviv is
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being seen as a milestone in relation between 2 countries here in turkey. the experts here say that both countries have have proper reason to normalize the relations. in terms of the israeli side, the church experts are seeing that israelis facing the grove in trap secure to detract from iran and through iranian grooves. and that's why i see in turkey as a balance in poverty in the region. however, here the delicate issue, which is palestine and the palestinians. so to davy, had heard that the turkish fort administer has said that despite the 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, 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, indonesia has celebrated its 1st independent stay at its future capital. the
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government plans to move its headquarters away from jakarta, which has long been plagued by infrastructure problems and flooding. the national flag was hoisted during a small ceremony in new center on the island of borneo. the new city is a legacy project or prison joker with dodo. but environmentalists have warned it could accelerate the destruction of tropical jungles. the government is preparing to officially open it by 2024. ah, a very quick reminder now of our current top stories on al jazeera, huge demonstration. so taking place in argentina as the rising cost of living continues to take its toll. trade unions of demanding urgent action from the government. the country is one of the highest inflation rates. consumer prices have risen a staggering 71 percent in the past year.

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