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hello, i'm mary. i'm minimizing in london and watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. ukraine says rushing rockets and artillery of targeted areas around the zappa region nuclear power plant. in india, the spectacular finale to a 10 year legal battle between residents and property developers. going back to the moon, nasa counts down to to more as autumn is launch 1st in its mission to once again, but humans on the lunar surface. ah hello, we begin in pakistan. government is appealing for more international help as floods continue to devastate the country. unusually heavy monsoon reigns in the north and the south of the country of killed more than a 1000 people. millions of others have been left homeless, large areas of farm,
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land, and crops have been destroyed. government officials, a warning, the scale of this destruction is unprecedented. while there is come, all hiders in the town of joy saw there in northern pakistan, where many people have spent the night on highways with the livestock. because the fog voices are threatening their homes, after wreaking have organ valued, your don and the southern province of the florida, now reeking, have all. and i will fill up probably in the district of georgia and or shared a badly head as you can see more people are now taking refuge on the i'm one more direct link for our dom abad gods have been for the past 3 days. and pro i share sometime during most of the how did that already on the walk on both sides of the road, what we've been able to see it entire, religious and dated on the award to remain the guide in order dry.
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how does that still in the family don't go out. we are open skies. we need the dentist and bedding as we have lost our entire belongings, the flood has washed away everything. they've been able to bring out their life by the garage, the country over 70000 missing. and that is going to be a huge lot when you think about the fact that gone, she'll go again, regina crops go back new dami. the government of gods has not taken measures to mitigate the effect of climate change. it was over 10 years ago that budget on so it did it, but it flags. and it was that the government of god would be prepared to read another crisis. given the fact that david ordered a warning play over 50 percent of the country population is now under red
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because the water borne diseases and the fact that it takes some time for them to rebuild their live. well pakistan's military, his reese, this video showing the rescue of a man stranded in a river, happened in lower co, his son in the northeast of the country and army helicopter lowered a rope to the man who was clinging on to some rocks. they managed to get him up into the air and away from the powerful torrent. let's just take a look then why this flooding is so bad. this year, pakistan is home to more than 7000 glasses. that's more than anywhere else on earth outside the north and south poles. the country is experiencing earlier hotter and more frequent heat waves. temperatures already hitting 50 degrees celsius. this is causing the glasses to rapidly melt and creating thousands of glacial lakes. each one holds millions of cubic meters of water and debris. at least 16 glacial lakes have been breached this year and the governments wanting that another $33.00 are
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risk that seen rivers downstream swell to capacity and overflow easily. during the, the rainy season that is worse than before and much of the water is ice cold. that makes it even more complicated. ok, hassan is home to more than 220000000 people. but it says it's responsible for less than one percent of global carbon emissions. yet it remains highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change with devastation seen across large parts of the country. was in basra. these reports to us now is in the city of la conner, in southern pakistan, residents here it tell us that what we're looking at now that water wasn't there before and they say it looks like a lake. it looks like an ocean. it looks like a see and what was, once there were there homes, villages where people live and what we're hearing from the folks that are speaking . this is decorae country where thieves room relatively,
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really there is less police presence here and they are worried about things being stolen. they're worrying about what few possessions they were able to salvage from their flooded homes, being now stolen from them. so what they're doing is that they're loading up whatever they can. they're carrying in shoulder d connected water, they're carrying out whatever they can on their head, loading them up on trucks, one village at a time per truck trying to get out of here. they don't know where they're going for . sure, but they say what they're looking for. they're not waiting around for help. they're going out looking for work, any labor work that they can find. you're looking for aid, they're looking for ways to save and feed their children. in neighboring afghanistan floods, they're also causing a lot of destruction. thousands of homes and large areas of farmland have been destroyed. taliban government officials say almost $200.00 people have died this month alone. they're appealing for international health door, but manly has more. this is the aftermath of weeks of lashing
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rain in afghanistan, suns cushy district. the floods proved too much for these mud bricked homes. as waterloo din families were forced out last week, people were hoping for some respite that didn't happen. syllable good thought it was, the flooding was unprecedented in history of to she. it destroyed every one's houses, livestock in agricultural lands, people are a homeless, they still refuge in the mountains. across the north and east, the government says more than 20000 homes have been damaged or swept away and nearly 200 lives lost, plentiful rescue workers say it's compounding most po crises from an economy in free for to spreading disease and a shortage of food. we are in the midst of harvest season, a harvest that many families relied on or their economic while the afghanistan has been in the midst of one of the worst humanitarian crises,
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the sierra that has been fueled by a worsening economy. a few kilometers north nangle ha, these with the scenes on saturday, people waiting to be rescued after a deluge of water in gulf. their farms destroying much needed fruit trees and crops . in the years since the taliban had been in power, afghanistan has been lodged cut off from international funds. now it's asking for help was to come mo, mo, do more than 1000000 families need urgent aid from foreign countries, such as clothes, 10 list and food. and i was out of here, people at the west, german border crossing between afghanistan and pakistan were caught up in the flooding. magazine rescue operations are underway, but with more rain full cost. people have little time to grapple with the loss of
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life and livelihood floor. but monday i'll jazeera or international aid is also arriving in sudan, where dozens of people have been killed by flooding. state emergency has been declared in at least 6 states there because of heavy rain over the past month. around 4000 homes in casala state were submerged forcing residents into a makeshift shelters. almost 70000 act as of agricultural land have also been flooded. ah, how ukrainian official say russian rockets and artillery strikes it. cities near his upper region nuclear power plant on sunday has been more fighting to the facility and that's stoke fears of a radiation disaster. as operation site is erupt, largest nuclear plant, it's been controlled by russian forces since march, but ukrainian engineers continue to operate there. in recent weeks,
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the 2 sides of traded blame for shelling of the plant. the was nuclear agency, thanks ready to send, inspect as the site. but there are ways in clearance. residents living closed as operational being offered i a dean tablets in case of a radiation leak official, started distributing the tablets after 2 of the reactors at facility were disconnected due to shelling on thursday. now the plant requires power to run the react as michael cooling system. and if that goes, it could lead to a nuclear meltdown id and tablets help block the absorption of radioactive material in a nuclear accident. or the fighting is continuing across large parts of eastern and southern ukraine to raise a bo is following these developments. she's in the capital cave, while the war ukraine has been ranging for 6 months and it mostly the fighting has moved towards the southern and the eastern part of the country. ukrainian force has strategically been targeting military base is russia's military bases in the city
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of military. and instead of stone, also ukrainian forces are seeing that be repelled several attacks and a city like kind of film that is currently occupied by russian forces. the other developments that's ongoing, you said in the eastern part of the country, there's been an increase of russia attack in that part of the country, an attempt to take over the dome back all around that area. and that's why the ukrainian government has dictated a man that we evacuation from that part of the country to save people's lives. to prevent more injuries. they're telling people that if they want to stay, they have to sign a paper. so they're responsible for their own lives. but what is clear is that they want to get civilians out of that part of the country. a major concern right down here in ukraine is what ongoing. in the top 42 nuclear power plant shelling and fighting has been ongoing around that area. the russian ministry of defense is saying that ukrainian forces attack that site at least twice the thing that shedding came very,
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very close to were the radioactive weight is located and where the nuclear fuel is located. a cranium force is saying that if the russian forces have been doing the shelling since they took over the nuclear power plant back in march, they stablished a military base there. and they have been attacking a russian forces from their local authorities around all that we have been distributing. i you would be pills to different hospitals in case anything goes wrong in in case there's any type of leak radioactive leak i o. d pills can be used to protect the thyroid gland from radiation. so that can major concern and that's why it is important. the presence of a 3rd party, a 3rd party would be the united nations nuclear watchdog b i a, we know that they're putting together a visit in place and it's likely to happen in the next few days. or the u. s. is criticized russia for blocking a joint un declaration on nuclear disarmament. after nearly
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a month of negotiations, moscow refused to sign it. jackson to parts the draft statement which included concerns about russia. seizure of this apparition power plant. mike, hannah has more in this now from washington. while the real estate department has released the statement in the course of the day, pointing out that russia has refused to sign the statement in its position. because of the mention of the supporters here, nuclear plant yesterday, wind, russia refused to the united nations. at the end of weeks of debate, the u. s. special nuclear representative. adam shineman said that there is no mention of russia in the $33.00 page document. however, there are a number of references to the nuclear power station within the context of expressing concern about the situation around that power plant. now there are 191 members in the non nuclear proliferation treat me treaty and none of them apart from russia publicly objected to this draft. now this draft is produced every 5
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years. the last time was 2015 when there was also disagreement because of differences over a complete block on nuclear power within the middle east. but those problems appear to have gone away. and now the a treaty, once again, not renewed, not reviewed, or no agreement on the review, simply according to the u. s. and others, because of russian intransigence on the question of that nuclear power plant in ukraine still had for you on al jazeera. ah, i'm the d baba in blackpool in northern england, where the cost of living crisis is already hitting hauled, where people are now placing a huge rise in energy prices. ah
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hi. there are a lot of rain to talk about for se, asia, but mostly western sides here. round sumatra, singapore called them pour the malay peninsula and southern sections of indo china fall. so sina cool pool of air slip out of the yellow river valley into the yangtze river valley. so this is now knocked down some of that heat chung chain right through to shanghai. big drop in those temperatures. it is for joe at $21.00 that's 10 below where you should be for this have the year. things are drying off top to bottom across japan. we've got this storm incoming. we'll continue to track it out in the days to come still early days. so the track is uncertain at this point down under, you know, sidney for the 1st time in almost 60 years has so far recorded 2 meters of rain and more rain dance in, in on mondays. so that's going to up those ran gauges really from the northern territory. queensland curling around new south wales into victoria. i think we'll see some thunderstorms here and certainly it will give us the renewed risk of
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flooding across new south wales and victoria on monday. len. this weather report right now in new zealand for it's fairly quiet across both the north and the south islands. a just a few showers around the escape, including his been with a have 12 degrees on monday. that's it. we'll see later. ah, the count on to the fif of woke up 2022 approaches. every continent is turning its eyes to keta. we have a great, a sporting events in the world won't be the only thing capturing everyone's attention beyond football. immerse yourself in internationally renowned entertainment art and culture. cattle has everything you'd want in the destination . in fact, it's the obvious choice for the 5th a woke up 2022. so why go anywhere else? lou?
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ah, welcome back. look at the main stories now. focus on is appealing for international assistance, is unprecedented. floods continue to devastate the country. more than a 1000 people have been killed. millions of others have been left homeless, large areas of farmland have also been destroyed. and ukraine says that russian rockets and artillery strikes have again hit cities. there's apparition, nuclear power plant. this is stoking fears of an impending nuclear disaster with residents living near by being offered id tablets in case of radiation leak bow rebels from tig ryan norman. if you're pure sang, they've taken control of the town of wal deer in the neighboring am. horror region comes just a day or 2. they capture the town of cobo also,
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and am hora reportedly less than 200 kilometers from capturing the city of dessie. this is a major manufacturing hub in the area on friday, a government air strike that targeted the rebels stronghold of mckelly killed at least 4 people to with children. unicef says that it was a kindergarten that was hit. the government says it's targeted military sites and accused the to grind forces of staging civilian deaths. conflict between the rebels and the government started nearly 2 years ago. a sci fi was agreed earlier this year, but fighting resume this week, samuel get to choose an independent journalist and the ethiopian capital, addis ababa, and has more on the slate is fighting. and am hara, what we know so far is that the token army has left all they say, fearing that a fight within the city will affect so many people in so many will be so many people will be affected. they have left
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a. busy and they say they're in the suburbs of global, but in terms of capturing any other towns or villages or cities, we're not in a position to verify. we've, i've heard the rumors, the united nations is said to be on the age in terms of not being able to deliver the kinds of aid that's needed in the region. but again, global is and i'm hora, the fighting was in m r, and there was a few days ago, there was an air attack that was committed by the ethiopian government side in which they have said that they're fighting a terrorist organization and they're in it to really bring this country and tug the open government to saying they're provoked into getting into this conflict, this latest conflict that t p never saying otherwise. but there was hope that there was going to be some kind of negotiation to bring this to an end. because this conflict in november of 2020
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approaching it's 2nd year has been a faith thing. no, just the to gray region, but it's been coming to m r and r 5 region for the government for the open government to say that the t p f, which again they've said as a. busy to so gonna position as coming to those regions 2 to one to fight engage in all kinds of conflicts. hundreds of people in the central african republic of marsh and a capital bunkie against plant constitutional changes. they're using present her dera of trying to run for 3rd term on friday, or did the creation of a committee to rewrite the constitution. your position says it's the beginning of a dictatorship in libya, the you and back by minister as call for elections. after a day of intense fighting, in which 32 people were killed, a 150 injured gunfire erupted between rival arm groups on saturday over
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a dispute about who should govern. abdul hamid old baber heads the tripoli bass administration, while his rival fatty ashanda is backed by the eastern parliament until brook. he adored jameer, nam is jemila. i invite everyone without exception to raise the word of the homeland and to forget past conflict through holding elections. why not, and i tell them to allow the libyan people, the libyans who sacrificed their lives for this country not to be deprived of their right to choose. their government has its head to elections before it's too late. no, to half measured solutions. yes, to elections? no to war. yes, to elections in isolation says it's really concerned about the violence there which included shelling in densely populated civilian neighborhoods. mileage. trainee reports now from tripoli. cd ladiva is a densely populated area in the horror of tribute room. saturday morning. it's
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streets turned into a battle zone as rival malicious fought each other. each supports one of 2 governments who claimed to be in charge of libya. ha, ha, ha, ha ha, for the look at this, this is the kind of weapons they were using with. this is a residential neighborhood. how can they use weapons like this in a residential area? they were fighting for control of this government building, which belongs to the ministry of interior. tripoli hasn't seen this level of violence and say nationwide. ceasefire was signed in 2020 people here are extremely angry and are calling 4 armed groups to leave the capital mohammed, our bus us as the violence lasted for several hours, his home was damaged and his family store burned down. he says chipley based prime minister abdul hamid to paver should do more to stop the violence less ask on
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assessment. we were living in fear. my 3 daughters were shivering and my mother fainted. oh, we didn't know what to do. i planned the politicians. why don't care of us? will they care about staying in power? where is the baby give? he went and visited the fighters who had weapon, but he didn't come here to see our son of classical chalet, alman jimmy, a tricky. i lead had these as his family was trapped inside his home after it caught fire and nearly suffocated because of the smoke. before his neighbors came to their rescue. a lady and i have her lunch, i am, this is a residential straight. it has women, children, elderly and we nearly died. god saved us. we don't want the security base is near our homes, moved him out of the city, and i can fight as much as they want. libya has had to rival centers of power for the past 8 years. the internationally recognized government in tripoli says it now has full control of the capital. but what many here are hoping for is some sort of
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reconciliation and unity among the warrant sides. so they don't keep living in fear of conflict. mal trainer or 0, tripoli. nasa says the necessary tests are going well and conditions, look good ahead of mondays, rocket launched, the moon countdown has begun for the unmanned journey which could pay the way for humans to return to the lunar surface for the 1st time in half a century. emission is the 1st in the agency's optimist program. all going well enough hopes to atlanta astronauts on the moon by 20 to 25 audio raffle has more now from cape canaveral. we're at the kennedy space center in cape canaveral, florida, and behind me is artemus one and nasa's heavy duty space launch system or s l s. standing at almost 100 meters tall. it really is an impressive site to see. and sitting a top of that as well as rocket is the orion spacecraft. now we are about 5 and
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a half kilometers away from the actual launch pad as close as we can safely get. now on this one isn't entirely on man mission, but it does represent the debut launch of nasa's are to miss program which seeks to return american astronauts to the moon for the 1st time since 1972. now artemus, one will also be a critical test of both the s l s rocket and the ryan spacecraft, setting the stage for future artemus missions. artemus 2 will be a manned mission to orbit the moon. setting the state for artemus 3, which is where nasa seeks to put the 1st woman on the lunar surface, as well as the 1st person of color. now we understand that more than 100000 people are expected to attend this launch. all of them collectively holding their breath, crossing their fingers for a successful launch on monday charities and bertina wanting a huge rise in energy prices means most households can have to cut back gas and electricity bills as that to rise by 80 percent from next month. and leave millions
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of people choosing between feeding their families or heating the homes. and in bob has been to blackpool in northern england city when many are already struggling to survive the cost of living crisis over blue, much day at blackpool football club. and like every home game, they're collecting donations for the local food back. but things are slow, very slow. this supporters club right by the stadium is part of the initiative. it says donations have dropped as energy price rises bite, and people are not able to give as much as we normally would. lights it because a very i don't know, a very generous formal funds at a local community because we all from round here. and it's a real shame mobymax a long time blackpool fine, but he says an 80 percent increase in energy bills will soon stop him leaving the house some years ago. give. so have them in the school took on a 4th a shelter because of good to eat. let me use the unlimited for wolves every year.
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so then again, oh stop. i think the mental health a short distance away visitors are making the most of the sunshine. this town is been a popular holiday destination since the 19th century, but that's not the whole picture step away from the sea front and the deprivation becomes obvious when the low pay commission came up with a list of the 20 most deprive regions in the u. k. several of them were in blackpool, many of them just a stone's throw away from tourist attractions, like the famous tower. no wonder ben, that the rise and energy prices is worrying residents and businesses alike. hey, ms hewitt's is one. this pub, for 25 years, inflations forced him to increase price his recently, but he says high a utility bills could force him to close during the week of 70 years of age. and as a was and of a of a came across. oh, during the week for for my regulars, and but oh billy and people like and the she must know the one even though they
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come in for the heat. down on the beach, we meet sir, who with his wife and 5 year old son visiting for the day, he says that doing all they can to cut costs, but it's tough. we would just play past the toyshop, then i just kept the boy outside. the shop that isn't as bad boys. they should have . i am toy budget up my food. the cost of living crisis means people across britain already making difficult choices. next month and new prime minister will be in office. the need for urgent action couldn't be clearer. nadeem barbara al jazeera blackpool to residential tower blocks have been demolished in india for violating multiple building and fire regulations. nearly 4000 kilograms of explosives are used to break down these buildings east of the capitol. he deli, a contained a 150 apartments, but no one had lived there for years. supreme court ordered that destruction last
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year after lengthy legal battle avenue mitchell has whiteness. now from the city of noid her. this is india. we're right outside new delhi, and this marks the end of a decade long battle between the developer and residents. the towers house about $800.00 apartments and engineering teams, have made elaborate arrangements to bring these down. they have evacuated about 7000 residents. use nearly 4000 kilograms of explosive roads have been blocked and buildings close by have been covered with the suppression talk. there's also a multi $1000000.00 insurance policy. now the supreme court ordered the definition last year, after resident food, the developer saying the construction was actually illegal. the case has put the spotlight on pounds of incomplete departments in and around. the national capital construction has been stored. many developers have filed for bankruptcy, and there are also allegations of corruption. in this case,
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the court has ordered the developer to refund home buyers. hundreds of thousands of others. i looking at this case, hoping that some day their cases will also be resolved. now there are fees that land around a copper mine in chile will collapse even further. after a sink hole suddenly appeared late last month. government agencies in the mind own is studying what caused the appearance of mysterious whole expanse. $36.00 and a half meters fish will say there is a high risk of more cracks or sinking nitty i'll cup are also mine, which is about $665.00 can on which is north of santiago operations at a mine remains suspended. oh sure quick. okay. the main stories are following the sour now in pakistan the government is appealing for more.

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