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both an untold stories from across asia and the pacific one or one east. on al jazeera, the latest news as it breaks out with the same rocky streaming overhead coming from garza to israel. and those bits, schools and schools have been discussed with detailed coverage with pension high in water. so near the philippines, we'll be looking at today that is states for every new commitment from around the world. the danish government can't make people leave areas like milner paul can purely on the basis of ethnicity ah, a drone is reported to have hit the headquarters of russia's navy in crime in sparking and explosion.
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ah. and nicholas visits out 0 life, and there are also coming up else about fighters in the somali capital lace each to a hotel can at least 30 people, security forces have launched and operation south africa z loser. crowning a new king after months of dispute about who should lead the nation's largest ethnic group. another government collapse and montenegro, mid fears of serbian russian influence and made him member nation. so we begin in russian controlled crimea, where a number of drone attacks have been reported. a local official ins, faster poll says an unmanned aircraft was shot down just above the headquarters of moscow's black sea fleets. ukraine has promised to retake the region that was annexed by russia in 2014. this is a 2nd attempt as attempted to attack against
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a black sea fleet headquarters in less than a month on july, the 31st had drained strike in the headquarters courtyard. wounded 5 people in lead to the cancellation of naval day celebrations. earlier this month, the sacking military base was damaged by several large explosions. the you case defense ministry says the russian navies, air capability was seriously degraded. russian forces had these snake island in the black sea, south of a desk, or on the 1st day of the invasion, the strategic outpost out. the russian navies ability to fire cruise missiles at the ukrainian coast. but ukraine reclaimed the island by the end of june. and in april, the flank ship of the black sea fleet, the mosque. well, it sank. keith said its missiles hit the vessel, largest russian warship to be sunk in war time since world war 2. while it's here now from tracy bo, who has more from at us, what we're hearing from here in odessa is that the military administrator of this
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has said that this fire works mean that crimea is coming back to ukraine. and this is just the latest incident in something that we have been seeing in the past week . several explosions in crimea in military base is in crucial military base is basis that i used to, in a way, supports the attacks against other parts of ukraine. it's not clear yet who's making this attack because the ukranian government is not commenting much on this. it's believed that it could be either special forces or it could be partisans, or there are no quite carrying out the re, lifestyle attacks are in that part of the country. it's important also because russia has said that any attack on crimea would trigger massive retaliation. so suddenly people here are very much aware air raid sirens that happen every day and people, but people are choosing to be out on the 3 and carry on with our lives. but they know that there is a war on going not far away from where we are while for ukrainians in regions closest to the fighting hospitals in the western city of live,
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the lifeline. most of the injured being treated for being brought in from the east of the country. and earlier, to raise a bo centers this report on how those hospitals are struggling to cope with the volume and the nature of the injuries i have to is keeping the war in east in ukraine. some of the injured arrived here in live, even on the western side of the country to get much needed medical help. i mean, as we do not her leg doing an attack on her village in the her son region. this time, while he was a rule, i was together with my children. they went inside and i was outside and this happened. i couldn't call to my daughter in law, there were no windows and doors, and everything was destroyed. fighting continues in eastern ukraine as rash as military pushes to try to secure control over the dumbass region. but many civilians are paying the price. people here arrive with wounds that are infected
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with shrapnel clone thing, among other things, some of the wounds are weak sold. doctors here tell us that they're desperate to get more antibiotics and other medical supplies for treat. those who are injured willing to your doctors, like james henderson, are helping his birthday can or same injuries. he's using his annual leave from the national health service in the united kingdom, to carry out reconstructive surgeries that mainly civilians with harbor war injuries, have land mines, gunshots, shrapnel, and blast injuries are reconstructive to it's very difficult to do in this environment. but we are managing, you know, essentially the equipment they've got here is about 2nd world war era. and so we are using kind of techniques that you would have been used in this, in those times in 70 percent of patients do not survive a lim been jury. and that's why training doctors with new techniques is crucial
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that population doctor nap had each says he has been working nonstop since the war started. while we're fighting with the country that her and the dance of brady, the children there, woman, the old man and the military. this dr. the, the civilian her and infrastructure. this school they destroyed more than 300 hosp does in these that and in the center of ukraine. it's been almost 6 months since the war began. and those were being treated here are grateful to get a 2nd chance body. so i'll just see that live eve, ukraine. the un secretary general has praised the work of inspection teams, helping to move grain and other food from ukraine. and tony gutierrez is in turkey, which help broke out last month's deal to free up. great exports is green touring, the joint coordination center in the stumble, which is monitoring shipments. it said, seeing vessels leave the ukrainian port of a desert filled him with hope. i was so moved,
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watching the whitfield loved the hold of the ships. it was the loathing of hope for so many at on the wolf. but let's not forget that what we see it in the ball and you know, this is only the more visible part of the solution. the other part of this package deal is the pieces excess to the global markets of russian food and fertilizer which are not subject to sanctions. it is important that the governments in the private sector corporate bringing them to market without fertilizer in 2022. that may not be enough food in 2023 security forces in somalia battling gunman who would talk to who tell him the capital market issue. at least 30 people have died in the siege many more believe to be trapped inside out about fighters of clay responsibility. as mohammed val now reports, the higher total immigrant issue turned into
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a box of guns on friday nights and ship up gunman blasted the way to the building with 2 car bombs before he's in control of it. somebody security forces launch to counter offensive witnesses. there were several explosions followed by exchanges of gunfire that continued for the night and saturday and shut. bob has claimed responsibility. these types of attacks have been a hallmark of ultra opperation a couple of years ago in particular. and they, they had kind of slowed down a little bit, but we see them popping up again. rooted from the scene shows extensive damage to the hotel. several people have been taken to hospital. the victims reportedly include the children as well of the hotel owner. so tell us are usually attacked because that's areas where government officials congregate and in so there's a lot of meetings, a lot of activity, especially right now with a new government coming into into place and setting up
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a lot of appointments and it's positions. but there's also often been a secondary element to some of these, you know, bob runs a very extensive extortion racket within the mobile issue itself. and they've targeted business owners that haven't complied as well. the group is affiliated to, i'll tell you that and has carried numerous attacks in we'll get issue in the past decade. it's a is to establish a system of government and somebody based on shallow hammered 10, south africa, zulu kingdom is crowding a new motor car. 2 months of succession disputes, missouri zulu, the son of the late king goodwill, as well as it is set to be recognized as the leader of the country's largest ethnic group of the ceremonies taking place. in spite of fierce opposition from some members of the royal family, thousands of people are attending the coronation, or more than 12000000 people who mostly live within the quote zullie natal province, a part of the tribe. the king is one of the biggest landlords in south africa,
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and he controls the entity that manages the 3000000 hectares of land owned by the zulu community. the governing african national congress has a majority support base in the province and zulu as the most widely spoken indigenous language. in south africa, frieda mila, is in non coma and has more the official residents. one of them all that king mrs. luke cause will a tv and that way he's going to enter the qual, an important symbolic tradition that goes back to the 18th before him. and that's really symbolic of him. now taking throne, taking the throne as the king. some of the events did take place in the last 24 hours in the privacy and not open to the publics. we also know in the last day or 2, the king also killed a lion at a nearby game resolve. and that attached to gaining power and symbolizing you power as a king, you will that lie in skiing skin as part of the ceremony that were expected to see
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in the coming all was now the people who are attending the coronation are made up of americans who who was the warriors? these are the men who would protect the king and fight for ever you should go to war. as well as a maidens who are here to show their loyalty and the support of the king. like many others before him, that the throne has been contested, and in this case, 52 of his brothers who say the day otherwise will king. there was a well drawn up by the tin woodside last year when his father about the members of the royal family, who said that was a fortunate document, the court to have it so now tend to have a different thing. it's old, but none of that has what's up to now on it. and if you all, some of the people you, i'm sure many of the people here who have come to show the loyalty there behind the new king and fully support him. despite that division within the royal family,
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the government of montenegro has lost them no confident foods after the prime minister assigned a controversial agreements with the serbian orthodox church and includes regulations for hundreds of churches, monasteries, and other properties. the churches roland, serbia's influence, have been divisive issue since montenegro separated from his neighbor in 2006. the agreement, gras, see serbian orthodox church ownership rides to several churches and bailable plots of land. some of that real estate is claimed by the orthodox church in montenegro. critics say the deal would allow serbia and russia to increase their influence in the balkan nation. the country separated from serbia in 2006, but about one 3rd of its population identifies as ethnic serbs, political infighting, and multiple government changes have slowed efforts to join the e. u and montenegro became a native member in 2017. as like over to which is a political science professor at the university of montenegro. and he says, there are several reasons why the government lost the confidence vote. it should be
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very clear that prime minister abbas, which along the continental not only of the members of coalition who supported him, but also on the armrest of allies in only 3 months. the reason for that is actually she lot of the european agenda. european union wanted to push one to me to foster to become, to join the e u. and we got quite, very open and offer in order to fulfill some requests in order to, to and then it was jason trusted in 2024. but actually, mister advisory changed the agenda of the governments and put the key priority signing the contract with the serbian or to the church is controversial agreement. and he was warned by the rest and wise by the coalition part not to do that. instead of that, he tried to change the narrative, saying that actually the reason for, let's say the content on the coffin is in the bottom. it was the reason why
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some criminal groups are trying to target target kicking. but actually what happens in the last, the before these loading the media bullies the transcript of conversation showing this actually the prime minister has died in context and communications with the leaders of the key criminal group in the, in the, to me a sill ahead parallel desert brazil's presidential campaign gets into high gear with former leader, really the silver holding a major rally tech raise right now. a little told was contested. how the global aviation industry is fighting to get back on track. the monsoons. ah, judy has begun the faithful world copies on its way to catherine book your travel
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package today we're keeping tabs on that monsoon depression moving across india hybrid one. so here's where it is on sunday. what been that rain around? lots of british states in india, there's a red rainfall warning in place. what that means is, could see about $200.00 millimeters of rain within a short period of time. will pill out right now, give you a wider look. we know this is going to raise straight across northern india at so here it is on sunday and eventually it's going to make its way into pakistan, which is still dealing with the last monsoon depression in upper sin province. we've also seen that rain leak into eastern baluchistan. both of these provinces have been dealing with flooding, but a bit of a breather for now, for karate at 33 degrees before this next monsoon. depression moves in probably about tuesday at the southwest monsoon is also steering heavy rounds of rain into not only myanmar but also thailand on sundays or wash out of a day. there. most of the rain has peter out for japan. we did have landside in
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inundation alerts in play for that southwest corner of japan's main island of honju in time for china that got this clutch of showers in storms approaching beijing, that's going to knock down your temperature. temperatures have come down a bit in shanghai, but we're dealing with high humidity, so 35 philly. more like 45. see sir. take care. cats are always official ally of the jun. does the count down to the 5th a will cut 2022 approaches. every continent is turning its eyes to cat, how we have a feeling great to sporting events in the world, won't be the only thing capturing everyone's attention beyond football. immerse yourself in internationally renowned entertainment. otto culture catcher has everything you'd want in the destination. in fact, it's the obvious choice for the 5th a will cup 2022. so why go anywhere else? ah
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ah, but again what she out there, her mind about top stories this hour, a series of jonah times have been reported in russian controlled crimea. and official and fast poll says an unmanned aircraft was shut down, just about the building, the houses moscow, black c, a fleet, headquarters, security forces in somalia, battling house about prices who attacked a hotel in the capital of mogadishu. at least 30 people have died in the siege, which began on friday. many more, i believe to be trapped inside south africa zulu, came them is crowning. a new monarch of the months is session disputes. mrs. 0, the son of the late king good with team is set to be recognized as the leader of the nation's largest ethnic group. to chad where the military leadership,
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his meeting with rebels, opposition parties and civil society groups. and what gent chief mom at interest, debbie, is courtney and decisive moment in history in the history of the country at the talk so intended to set out a timeline for free elections. last week, parties signed a peace agreement and doha paving away from negotiations as hope the tories will bring an end to decades, a conflict, the 2 largest rival groups of boycotting and all with one coalition of political and civil society groups, negotiations come after decades of unrest. since independence from france in 1960, the debbie family has been in power since 1990 as president interest there be governed for 30 years. he was killed on the battlefield in 2021 and succeeded by his son. mom at chad's military has been an ally for francis security interests, and the reason is deploy troops to neighboring countries battling on groups. and so how chide is rich in resources,
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but consistently ranks near the bottom of the u. n's human development index. it has one of the world's lowest life expectancies and education levels. have been morgan now, as dominus, the national dialogue process was launched to day out by the head of the transition military council. and the de facto president, mohammed threes there be. now it was attended by over 52 groups and political parties and armed a position as well as civil society groups. and it is just the 1st day in the coming days. they will be forming committees to tackle the issues that this dialogue that this national dialogue will be addressing, including the issue of the form of governance for chad. it's political stability, disarming the arm, grooves that signed a peace agreement with the military government in clutter as capital doha last week . but the most crucial topic that they will be discussing is the issue of elections, timeline for elections and who will be eligible to run for presidency in the coming months. once the timeline is decided by the national dialogue,
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lots of issues to be decided. so there will be forming committees in the coming days to tackle those issues as an all the opposition groups that signed at the peace agreement in the artery capital dough. her as well as civil societies here who are participating will be part of this committee. so that they can have, they say, in this process to try to bring stability to the country. it has been a challenging year for the aviation industry. as passenger numbers returned to pre pandemic levels, an airline struggled to keep up data and lives by the financial ties. sure, a quarter of all flights the u. s. and europe were delayed or cancelled from may until mid august. it became the situation is now improving. in the 1st half of this month, cancellations were done from 35 to 29 percent and on mainland europe, a quarter of the $480000.00 flights in the same period were disrupted down from 29 percent. in july and in the united states, disruptions have fallen slightly since at peak in june, with the airline executive say that the system is still under strain. alex machado us is a nation consultant and analysts, and he says,
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staff shortages have not been this bad for years. what the industry collectively is facing as a whole. and this is pretty much the picture globally. is this staff sector shortage that ultimately in the sector we are, i mean, we are, we have a staff shortage that we haven't seen over the last decade, not least because of the redundancy and all those decisions that were taken because of the pandemic. so once we recognized that all road lead back to that staff shortage and the decisions that were taken, we then very quickly become aware of just how short staffed the industry is. once passengers begin turning up at the terminal doors, which of course they did in di droves, beginning april. and that's why we saw that disruption since then. this was the wake up call that the industry needed. it. ideation has been on a global recruitment drive and it's really for all areas, but it's specifically for those essential rows, baggage, handlers, cabin crew, everything that is passenger facing everything that is key to having an aircraft
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travel from a to b with 200 or passengers. but there are difficulties and challenges that remain ahead. not least the recruitment difficulties on one side. it's an extremely competitive now, in terms of vacancies, supermarkets are able, in many cases to offer and pay more than add ports. and on the other side is all of the background checks and the counter terrorism requirements that are required for, for working in a sterile environment, such as an apple and everything is taking slow, brazil's former president lewis. and now sir lula da silva is holding his 1st rally as since campaigning for october's elections officially kicked off this week. thousands of his supporters of gather been sal, palo eula, has accused the current president, joy both lauren, of attacking brazilian democracy. also, laura has repeatedly called dalton, the electronic voting system, and criticized supreme court justices that speak now to monetary on a curve who's in argentina's capital of one a service for us. and monica, you've just got back from brazil. what people think of louis campaign
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well, less trying to make his campaign about democracy versus an authoritarian government . this rallies held in a very symbolic place, which was the place where there was a big rally for the direct to vote. now, movement that was back during the dictatorship, when people were saying enough of military dictatorship, we want a direct vote. so let's saying you have to pick between me. i'm a democrat, my government. everybody was well off versus bull sonata was authoritarian, and brazil is right now facing a serious saw economic crisis with high inflation. so that's what lula is striking, trying to rally those votes across latin america. how is this election being perceived? was reaction, be well,
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latin america has been changing over the past years. i rule us relationship with the rest of latin america was much better than both scenarios. relationship it. there were other times, i mean it was a time of abundance. when lula was a president of also, nato is governing brazil at a time of crisis and governments in, in nod. just recently columbia and chilly, elected a left wing presidents. they relate more to lula than bull sonata. also here in argentina, present to albert at the feminine. this is a close friend of lula when he was elected his 1st speech as president of argentine i, he dedicated it to rule out what the time was in jail. he was banned from running the 2018 elections on corruption charges, but his trial what has already been deemed to have been biased by the supreme court . so it's sort of like for arch and tying up for the argentine government. it's
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like a vindication. well okay, thanks very much david monica. yeah, the kevin reporting that from one of her thanks. pakistan's from mr. sharp, i sharif, his visits areas are affected by reco breaking monsoon rainfall. hundreds of people have died and many more have been forced from the homes. i force, it has more this crisis has lasted weeks and it's not over yet. the worst monsoon rains in 30 years inundating vast areas of land and hitting pakistan's poorest province baluchistan the hottest. hundreds of schools and thousands of homes have been destroyed here. across pakistan, hundreds of people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced. struggling to reach some kind of safety to find some kind of shelter. we like a f that's lot out a lot have taken everything from us when we were only able to save our kids and fuel livestock. and i think we are in dire need of help as early as possible. and again,
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we lost everything in the floods and left empty handed. we don't have feed shelter or even clean drinking water. many of us are suffering from diarrhea and other gastro diseases. while the government is not doing anything for us, any criticism of the government extends beyond the immediate response and back through previous governments, plans to update infrastructure and resilience repeatedly not implemented, leaving people exposed to monsoon flooding every year. this year's enormous rainfalls particularly devastating pakistan's prime minister, has repeatedly visited hearted areas this flooding season, insisting his administration is doing on it. can't appreciate the sancho joe acorda, the 30 e records. the monsoon range has been broken. they see it's a few 100 times more than normal and a lot, justine that brought miseries to people's lives, that both federal and provincial governments are committed to helping these poor people to the utmost on. pakistan has been ranked the 8th most exposed country in
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the world to the risks of climate change, oblique window on the future, to the newly grieving and displaced, contemplating how and where to rebuild their lives. every faucet al jazeera to china, where a drought has had an unexpected side effects, revealing ancient statues of buddha, on an island that usually submerged the, such as the thought to be about 600 years old. and one of the statues depicts among sitting on a lotus pedestal, the rainfall in the yanks. he basin has been around 45 percent lower than normal since july and high temperatures. they're set to continue as many as 66 rivers across 34 counties in john. king in china have dried up so far. the summer didn't stop there, of course, in spain's central province civic affairs, the receding of water in a reservoir as expose an ancient circle of stones known as the spanish stonehenge
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at the doleman emergency. god al pedal is believed to date, back to 5000 b. c, in mexico, where extremely dry weather is creating a crisis in northern states. millions of people are running out of water and they're relying on tankers. reservoirs and dams of also dropped to critical levels that say now from an or a fellow reports from mexico city. extreme drought conditions persist in northern mexico. the city of monterey home to some 5000000 people has been particularly hard hit when the most is day. but in the put allow ayana's beep, i see people are fighting over the water, the trucks arrive and people don't respect the line as chaos in our neighborhood is sad, but what can we do? we need a miracle. these are the driest conditions. the region has seen in 30 years with recorded rainfall levels far below average. in, during a recent visit to monterey,
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mexico's president and that is manuel lopez over at other promised to continue to provide emergency government assistance. you'll go game. i believe this situation will help lead everyone towards participating in the conservation of water so that we will be more conscious about the importance of is vital resource at k. experts say as much as 65 percent of mexico's territory is currently experiencing moderate to severe drought conditions they attributed in part to this year's unseasonable la . nina, weather pattern, which has pushed rain and cooler temperatures, further north extreme heat and a lack of rain are also reeking habit. across the border in the united states, prompting action from officials, they're a growing drought crisis is fueled by the impacts of climate change, including extreme heat, low precipitation, in turn, severe drought conditions that perpetuate the climate crisis by increasing wildfire
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risk, affecting crop yields and ultimately disrupting our ecosystems and the climate as a whole. us states like arizona and nevada have already been asked to cut back what they take from the drought stricken colorado river, which supplies water to some 40000000 people across 7 us states and to communities in north western mexico. less water from the colorado river is also raising the longer term concerts in both the us and mexico over potential food shortages. if action is not taken to address the crisis, manuel it up a low al jazeera mexico city. a plenty more on all the news that we're covering on all websites, including the ongoing climate emergency of it's striking around the world. al jazeera dot com is the address al jazeera dot com ah.

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