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to know what's happening in the world right now, you need to be watching al jazeera, 2 stories of strong willed when challenging traditional female stereotypes in a male dominated society to make a difference. if i go a course, we'll pull into the ravine. how families look like this. the water is highly contaminated. bolivia in the cloud. rescan it all on al jazeera. oh i a stranded bully is rescued by the bunker sony military. those parts of the country remain cut off by massive flooding. ah,
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hello, hold on and watching all of their live headquarters here in hall coming up in the next 30 minutes. warnings of a potential nuclear accident is russia and ukraine again accuse each other of shelling near the jumper richer power plant. also brazil, present, tribal florida, faces off against the former leader alluded to silver in the 1st debate ahead of october the presidential election and the countdowns on as nasa reaches to the moon with its powerful rocky. yes. ah. we begin in boxes on relief and rescue operations under way in many parts of the country. more than a 1000 people have died after weeks of rain and flooding. these scenes from a rescue operation and co is done. military helicopters have been deployed to help those stranded by flood waters while people are desperate for help. they're running out of food and clean drinking water,
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bills and medicines to combat the threat of water born diseases might have gone. a lot of flood water entered our village. our homes are submerged. some of our relatives have died and cattle to not receiving any relief from the government. but because those prime minister has a $45000000.00 relief fund for the flood hit baluchistan province. sebastian reefs office has released this, but it showing him dropping supplies in the region famous robbie pas this report from shaker. poor district in bunker sounds sin the province dams in pakistan's, north or full. the flood gates are open. more water is headed down stream to lowlands, where rainfall has already submerged everything in sight. it is difficult to imagine where more water will go. army helicopters are dropping a distracted community's small mercies from the air. that pale in
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comparison to the calamity across the country and beyond was up on the boat rescues are happening around the clock to evacuate people stranded by standing water where there are no boats. people are walking out wading through the water, carrying whatever they can. self rescue and sin is not for the faint of heart. but we'll gladly also gonna get in the lobby thing you, god would jabbing it. we have nothing. help me help me now. we'll only die. look at this. there is nothing left to save and no one is coming to us. at night there are bandits roaming around here. hunger is making us crazy. what can we do that would have been fed up of sitting on the side of the road for more than 2 weeks? no help in sight. the residence of one village have taken matters into their own hands. what people here are telling us is that this is decorae country. they're
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worried about thieves. and what they're trying to do now is protect the few remaining possessions. they were able to salvage from their flooded homes, in the absence of anything else, people here are helping each other get to safety. but yeah, that's it. we're living now. we can do manual labor to save our children, or else they will die. what can we do? we're poor. our animals will die. our kids will die. then we will die. deep in the heart of sin, the province in villages whose names won't show up on any maps. no helicopters are coming over the horizon. no boat motors can be heard in the distance signaling salvation. 6 people here are tired of waiting for a savior. they are packing up and on the move. zane bas ravi elgin's era shook our poor district sim pakistan. the coil either is in the town of judson dye in northern buck as thought were people forced to flee as flood waters threatened
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their homes, after wreaking have organ. baloo, just on and the southern province of the florida now reeking, have all, and i will fill up probably in the district of georgia and or share it off a badly head. as you can see, more people are now taking refuge on the i'm one more direct link for our do it bought. the gods have been for the last 3 days and pro i share sometime during most of the how did that already on the water, 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, how does the family go out? we are open skies. we need dense 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
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the garage, the country over 70000 missing. and that is going to be a huge loss when you think about the fact that gone, she'll go again. regina crops are all go back to new dami. the government of gods has not taken adequate 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 had given the fact that they were already warning the play over 50 percent of the country population is now under red because the water borne diseases and the fact that it takes some time for them to read better, the lie. the floods also calls in destruction. neighboring of gone is stung thousands of homes and large areas of farmland. devils have been destroyed. halibut
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officials say at least 182 people have died. laura, but manly has the story. this is the aftermath of weeks of lashing 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 put it over, 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 uniform. 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,
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a harvest that many families relied on or their economic. while the n afghanistan has been in the midst of one of the worst humanitarian crises, 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 lottie. 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, would have thought, oh, here that the west german border crossing between afghanistan and pakistan were caught up in the flooding. magazine rescue operations are underway. but with more
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rain forecast, people have little time to grapple with the loss of life and livelihood. laura at mann, the al jazeera brazil is holding its 1st presidential debate ahead of elections in october fall right president john paulson. our rule faces arch rival and former lead luis in our seo lula to silva who's surging in the polls for the candidates. also competing in the televised debate scott over to monica, yet kevin correspondent, whose life was in rio de janeiro following the events sent me on the television. there. in the lead up to this debate, monica, they was this whole, will they all? won't they even be on stage together? so what happened? yes. at. and it was like her suspense until the last minute ball. so narrow and lula confirmed at the last minute that they would be here,
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but they were the last to show up. now, all the candidates that are participating in this televised debate, which will begin soon, are they're all already there. so we know that they will be present, it will be the 1st time that balsam arrow and love face each other. we must remember that in 2018 sonata didn't participate in debates because we're stab. so he did his campaign from a hospital bed, while molar was banned from the 2018 election. so there's a lot of expectation in that for this debate and it's more than just 2 people standing on a stage. there are other candidates including a former president as well there are 4 other candidates in total, their 10 candidates that are running for presidency in brazil. but in this debate there are only 6 of them. but everybody is just focusing on lula and bull,
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some out of because they are the want only ones that have any chance of winning. ah, they have more than 70 percent of the votes. so the other ones are lagging way behind. but it's still interesting to see how they will are, you know, participate in this debate and who they will ask more questions. tune in the lead up to the election, monica, you pronounce it about on the streets across, not just rio, but the country you'll hearing what the people want to talk about what the big issues are for the public at large. what topics you think the candidates will be addressing a willoughby addressing the things that people want to hear in brazil? well, what the people in brazil are worried about is the economy. it's putting food on the table. brazil had left to buy un, a hunger map and it's back in the un hunger map. there are 33000000 people that are
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facing food and security issues. so that is what really worries brazilians plus the inflation and, and other things are. so both lula and both, so nato and all the candidates will address this question both. so nato is promising to extend the emergency aid that he has granted just right now, just before the elections, which is people, some people, his critics say he is trying to buy votes and he says he will extend the state after the elections, whereas law lives, reminding people that during his government, people did eat and dos, so he wants to them to remember that there were better times of brazil ankle so we'll leave it then you monitor what goes on in that debate said look again, a care for lisa in re edition era. thank you. the
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russian rocket and artillery strikes of hits cities across or near jeopardy should nuclear power plant fighting near the facility has what he says of a radiation leak. it's been under russian control since the early days of the wall, while id tablets also being distributed to jeff richard resident in case of radiation exposure to to react to the nuclear power plant with temporarily disconnected on thursday. after 5 damage to a transmission line. teresa boat is following developments from keith 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 bases, rushes, military bases in the city of military and instead of stone. also, ukrainian forces are seeing that be repelled several attacks and a city like that is currently occupied by russian forces. the other developments that's ongoing, you said in the eastern part of the country,
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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 ukranian 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 up. 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, it's saying that ukrainian forces attack that site at least twice saying that shelling came very, very close to where 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,
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the established 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, p 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 will still had here all al jazeera. ah, why? the demolition that these apartments indira seen as a crack down against corrupt developers and thousands pay their respects to fullborne golden president, joe, se eduardo de son ah
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let's get going with your weather. so for the americas. heather, thank you so much for joining in. look at the change in these temperatures around the river plate region temperatures have now been knocked down and porto lake gray as well, really, that southeast corner of brazil and same goes with the socio, we've got those cool southerly winds really dominating here. and for the top end of south america, it's really western sides around the paid ruffian and is pushing into colombian, venezuela. we're getting into our biggest bursts of rain, solid bands of rain. we can trace out in central america falling from san jose to panama, and also raid along the border with mexico, guatemala, and el salvador, all along that pacific coast. and we had massive amounts of rain dumped on the us state of mississippi. and now the concern is that the pearl river at which runs
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rate through this state will breed shaft flood levels this week, leading to even more putting off to the great lakes in the northeast. those temperatures are up high humidity as well. toronto filling closer to about 40, but enjoy it. those temperatures will come crashing down in the days to come. we've got a wild fire burning in the u. s. state of oregon. so these high temperatures, they're certainly not going to help that firefight and a much quieter picture across the desert southwest in terms of those monsoon down ports, sir, later, ah, a place the haunting are of wolves. social life were intellectuals, artists, and activists. where ideas are sparked and history is made from america to algiers, cairo to have broken al jazeera world tells the story of 4 iconic cafes and their role arab societies as optics of creativity. debate descent,
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secrets of ira cafe on al jazeera lou. ah welcome back here watching out there with me said robin. a reminder of our top stories relief at rescue operations are underway across pakistan. as the country grapples with massive flooding, at least 1000 people having killed since mid june of 33000000 people are now being affected by the flood waters. while floods are also causing destruction in neighboring afghanistan, more than 20000 homes have been damaged or swept away. a large areas of farmland have been destroyed tele beneficial say at least 192 people that have died. and
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ukrainian officials say russian rockets and artillery strikes it. cities near the shopper reacher nuclear power plant on sunday increased fighting near the facility and stoked fairs of a radiation disaster. the u. s. has criticized russia for blocking a u. n. joint declaration on nuclear disarmament. after nearly a month of talks, russia refused aside objecting parts of the draft final statement which included concerns about the russian seizure of these jap, reach a power plant. mike hannah has moved from washington dc. well, the state 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 those efforts the nuclear plant. yesterday, when russia refused to be 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
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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 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 treaty once again, not renewed, not reviewed, or no agreement under review. simply according to the u. s. and others because of russian intransigence on the question of that nuclear power plant in ukraine. the libya as you embark prime minister has called for elections after dave intense fighting that killed at least 32 people. an injured another,
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150 gunfire erupted between live long groups on some favor dispute about who should govern of the time in the bieber heads the tripoli based administration. while his rival, fatty bas chava, is backed by the eastern parliament into brook. and he at jimmy and now i'm a jimmy at noon fitness. i invite everyone without exception to raise the word of the homeland and to forget past conflicts through holding election them. yeah. 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 governmental head to elections before it's too late. no, to have measured solutions. yes. to elections? no, to war. yes to election be we're ally, sense of calm as return to the libyan capital. the u. n says it's deeply concerned about the violence which included shelling in civilian neighborhoods. malik trainer
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has more from tripoli. cd lisa is a densely populated area in the heart of tripoli. early saturday morning, it st 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, had the leverage of law. look at this, this is the kind of weapons that we're using. 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, tripoli,
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base prime minister abdul hamid to paver should do more to stop the violence. less ask on, assess murat. we were living in fear. my 3 daughters were shivering. my mother fainted. we didn't know what to do. i blame the politicians. i don't care about us . all they care about staying in power. where is the baber given? he went and visited the fighters who have weapons, but he didn't come here to see us on of classical salman. jimmy. a tricky elliot had he says his family was trapped inside his home, afterward caught fire and nearly suffocated because of the smoke before his neighbors came to their rescue. aladdin. unless you've had months. yeah, this is a residential straight. it has women, children, elderly. we nearly died, god saved us. we don't want the security bases near our homes. moved them out of the city, and they can fight as much as they want. libya has had 2 rival centers of power for the past 8 years. the internationally recognized government in tripoli says it now
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has full control of the capital, but what many here are hoping for is some reconciliation and unity among the warrant sides. so they don't keep living in fear of conflict. now, trina ultra 0 tripoli, now to residential tablets, have been demolished in india, violating multiple building and fire regulations. the navy for tons of explosives are used to bring down the buildings that contain 850 apartments in the east of the capital needs delhi. now thousands are evacuated in neighborhood, and traffic was diverted to allow the demolition demolition to take place. the supreme court ordered that destruction last year following a length. the legal battle of the middle have more from lloyd the in india. ah, these are the tallest building, super demolish in india, we're right outside new delhi. and this marks the end of
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a decade long battle between the developer and residence. the towers house, about $800.00 apartments and engineering teams, had made elaborate arrangements to bring them down. they've evacuated about 7000 resident, use nearly 4000 kilograms of explosive roads had been blocked and building close by had been covered with this pressure talk. there's also a multi $1000000.00 insurance policy. now the supreme court ordered the definition last year, off to resident food. the developer saying the construction was actually illegal. the case has put the spotlight on pounds of incomplete apartments in and around the national capital construction has been stored. many developers have filed for bankruptcy, and there are also allegations of corruptions. in this case, the court has ordered the developer to refund homebuyers hundreds of thousands of others. i looking at this case, hoping that some day their cases will also be resolved. a states funeral has been
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held for the former and girl and president chose a edwardo desantos. thousands of people, including foreign leaders, a tend to the service and the capital. wonder to santos died in boston, in july age 79, after a long illness, alexia bar reports. after weeks of delays, a stage funeral for jo say it was to tosh santo's in the center of angola capital, the former president's coffin draped in the country's flag. could you look up and put the order he wanted to be remembered as a patriot, and today he is being remembered as the great patriot one who is considered the architect of please be sure to santo, she was given the nickname architect of peace for ending a long running civil war that killed nearly half a 1000000 people in his family domination politics throw out its 38 year rule, which ended in 2017. no fossil given was alarming. this, that it's not easy to fear men of this dimension leave. were expecting him to last
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for more years. you, his well mark fingerprints on our country were so great that there is no way we can forget though that that amino the president of the former colonial power. portugal attended the service as well as the presidents of some bob way in south africa antonym abbey, as formerly. there are 3 guys, already the busing a 1st day to then and they wanted the bud africa's. 5 mom and dad to santos angola became one of africa's top oil producers. but his family reaped vast wealth from its resources, leading to allegations of corruption. many of angola is 33000000 people are among the poorest and the world. josh santos died in barcelona in july after a long illness, but his funeral was delayed after some of his children disagreed about where and when he would be buried. a spanish court ruled his body be returned to angola with
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hello my tribute to the former president during the 38 years of his career, the effects, the legacy he left that only as president of the m p ali. but as the president of the republic of angola, if a good a handlebar, while one of his daughters spoke at the service. and now those accused authorities of using the ceremony to distract from recent election results, describing them as a scandalous fraud. his party, the emperor lay laid by success. search you all are and so, so it's worse to performance ever winning. just know that 51 percent of the vote, the opposition unita has rejected the results. the government asked me any protests to be put on hold. out of respect for the former head of state, alex o'brien al jazeera french police of opened an investigation into claims from football pole bog that he's been targeted by an organized gang, the world cup with it issued a statement on sunday through his lawyers saying that he's received threats and extortion attempts allegations come after his brother mathias,
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posted videos online. promising to publish a great revelations about his youngest siblings. he said the information was likely to be explosive without giving further details. while excitement of building as nasa proposed to take another step towards its return to the moon alone mon module is that to be launched into orbit on monday. the us plans to put humans back on the moon surface by 2025. now this is the giant rocket that will power. nasa's optimist mission named the space launch system or the s l s. it'll generate 15 percent more thrust than satin 5, which powered the apollo missions dsl. s will carry the orion capsule into space. and it's designed to travel further longer than the apollo lunar landa. now, this mission will have only mannequins on board for the moon landing. they'll be full astronauts that's will more than the apollo missions 60 years ago. monro palo
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is near the lord site in cape canaveral were 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 s l s. rocket is the orion spacecraft. now we are about 5 and 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 to 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 loop.

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