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ah ah safe going home and then international anti corruption excellence award boat now for your hero. 07 holdups in one day frustrated customers and lebanon demand access to their own
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money. ah, canada and kyle: this is al jazeera alive from dough. how also coming up? ukraine says a mass grave found in the town we taken from russian forces contains bodies of civilians. a ceasefire agreement between carry santavicca's to on has violated just hours after a meeting between its 2 leaders. and the cue to view queen elizabeth the seconds coffin reaches capacity, but enough acute forms behind it. ah, we sought an elaborate on west 7 armed raids have been carried out on banks in the last few hours. many of the raised by people demanding access to their own money. financial institutions have announced though closed for 3 days next week because of
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security concerns. avenue is facing a financial crisis and banks have imposed strict limits on withdrawals. in a honda is outside one of those banks in beirut. at least 7 bank holdups today in the span of a few hours. this is one branch, a man, a depositor. his name is abigail. he's inside. currently there are negotiations with security. he is demanding $275000.00 us dollars. that's the amount he has in his account. he says that this is his rights. he is not robbing the bank. on the contrary, and his words, the bank has trapped his savings, and he has been living in poverty since commercial banks in lebanon have imposed informal capital controls since later, 2019, when the economy started to collapse. what we understand from security forces here is that they're trying to negotiate some sort of a peaceful end to this stand off by giving him $25000.00 us dollars. there is still
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no deal an hour ago. we saw a 90 year old woman who was also a deposit or inside the bank, demanding her money, a $1200.00. that is what she wanted. she says that her children don't have any jobs and she desperately needs the money. so these armed depositors really are not thieves. they are people who believe that they have been rob up by the banks and what they understand from the depositors outright association is that a war has been declared. and that war has been declared on banks and that they will not stop until they claim what they believe is rightfully there's. oh hi, co women. as the lebanon project director at the international crisis group, he says, the government has wasted most of the money that could have helped the country out of this crisis. 2 and a half years go, there was a recovery plan. mm hm. back then they still had something like $30000000000.00 in
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the central bank, or something could have been done with that money. and that's the plan will shut down by acquisition of banking interest to didn't like the plan and didn't like that they were supposed to pay up for their share of the disaster. now most of that money is gone. i, we should, as xena said, there's no budget with this year. this tells us something, i think, mr. miles away from an agreement with the i m f. and that is really the gate they have to go through. have to come to a deal the i'm out there are preconditions, it's of them. i think 3 and a half of them have been say my for built the m f. as i met with you in town again in a few days, i'm not sure they're going to be happy with what they're seeing. officials in ukraine are investigating what they say on the bodies of hundreds of civilians discovered in mass graves in the north eastern city of idiom. grain is blaming moscow as the bodies were found after the city was we taken from russian forces commands on day reports from cave, wooden crosses in
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a forest. ukrainian authorities say they mark a mass grave with as many as 440 people dead. authorities made the discovery in the northeastern city of zoom. forensic investigators say they will examine every body to determine the circumstances of the deaths. according to reports, several of the bodies were found with ropes around their necks, and with their hands tied. what it is believed most were civilians including women and children who said, in an address on thursday night president vladimir zelinski said more information would be available on friday, but accused russia. neither will be ukrainian and international jealous in his room . if we want the well to know what is really happening and what the russian occupation has led to butcher, mary. poland, now, unfortunately, is yona. russia leads death everywhere. he must be held accountable for it. the world must bring russia to real responsibility for this ball. we will do everything
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for this is him, is one of dozens of towns and villages occupied by russian forces for months, but recently retaken by ukrainian troops in their counter offensive in the harkey region. moscow has not commented on the graves. ukraine in its allies accused rush of war crimes. moscow has previously denied it targets civilians. but the discovery of the alleged mass graves harkens back to boucher in late march after russian forces were repelled from the town. the bodies of 458 civilians were found and in my tuple and estimated 21000 people were killed during a week's long siege of the city. that still being held by russian forces. now attention turns to ism, where it could be another reminder that it's often civilians who are paying the highest price in this war. gabriel's gondo al jazeera keith
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and cease fire between kyrgyzstan antagonist on has reportedly been violated just hours after a meeting between their leaders on friday. both countries accuse each other of carrying out attacks on towns along the 950 kilometer border. at least 3 people have been killed since fighting broke out on wednesday. the 2 presidents are reservation security meeting and summer canned and it was pakistan. vessel further is there and brings us the latest. well, there will be report that the ceasefire just hours later has been violated by their party. so while the saga corporation organization summit was still on the way in the actual city of summer camp and it was becky stan to have heard the reports of the collectors early on friday. coming in that the, the collectors dropped between pakistan and, and could this is done. so these 2 countries are the members slaves off the permanent members of chicago corporation organization. while the could,
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the collages erupted both leaders, presidents or could use them and purchased on we're here in houston. and so that the diplomatic affords to started. and it paved the way for a meeting between these 2 leaders. so they met and they had agreed on a ceasefire to the and also to be of a mechanism to control the sci fi, but just hours after that, there are the reports. now coming in that the says fire is, is already or is already why elated. so it's a very disputed area here. last year is from companies almost went to an all rule. 1949 people were killed, several others were a, were injured. and now the fear here is that if you see why it wasn't hauled, is 2 companies could easily or rapidly be dragged into a wider conflict. rascal has also been speaking to iran at present. abraham re saying you can watch that interview on talked to al jazeera today on friday, and it stops just before 1630 g m t
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for king charles. the 3rd is visiting wales. he is now past his former title of prince of wales to his son, william. as a charles his 1st visit to wales since he became king not to mask as to james bass has more from carter castle. i think the point of this visit is to thank the people of wales and for their condolences for his mother's death. he did the same. we had this similar visit that took place in scotland and in northern ireland. but many of the people here, of course want to see their new king. he's someone that they know very well for 64 years. he was the prince of wales. that's the longest, any one has held that job. we saw him 1st at the start of the day, a service for prayer, for his late mother that took place about 3 kilometers from here,
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landorf cathedral. then in that direction about 6 kilometers. the senate at wales is the smallest of the nations that make up the united kingdom. but it is self governing for some of its things and it has the senate, which is the welsh parliament that deals with many issues as a 1st minister of wales who the king has now gone inside the castle to have a private audience. and then he's meeting with other dignitaries here in wales. there are other engagements. it's been a busy diary for the king in these days now, not 9 days since the death of his of his mother 8 days. sorry since the death of his mother private grief. he's had to do really on very limited time. he had a bit of a day off yesterday at his home. his country home in gloucestershire, which isn't far away from wales. high grove that we're told is a day of reflection. but the rest of the grieving has had to be carried out amid
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a very, very busy schedule, and in the glare of the cameras. or meanwhile, in london, thousands of people are still standing in line for hours to pay their respects to queen las. but the 2nd achilles, stretching almost 8 kilometers along the river thames, and the queen's body will lie in state at westminster hall and tell her funeral on monday let's cuz i have an active allen facia, he's in london asked that kevin allen so many people, there's cues around 8 kilometers long probably longer is that some 14 hours wait if you're joining the end of it. but people are beat or just in the last few minutes we've heard that they've actually stopped people joining the line for the moment, simply because it's at capacity and they can't handle any more than the boss. people just keep an eye on the websites for any possible update on the line. this is of a very popular sport, because if you look behind me, you can, of course, can see some very iconic images here in london. first of all,
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you have tara bridge and then in the back grown saint paul's cathedral with the terms making up at the for grown at the, the, the line is a bit stop and start. you get people flowing through the r no, and then it stops for a while. that all depends on traffic because it winds its way, not along the river, but in the note of the housing estates here in the moment, we're in bermondsey in south london. i'm gonna try and just grab some one. going to try and grab this lady here just to ask her. no, you know, going to give us a couple of minutes. can you give us a 2nd? no contract or he just maybe this lady here is always difficult when you do not. can i just ask her hi there i how long have you been walking? no air since 11 o'clock at night and obviously from scotland to laura. nice. yeah. can you come down especially for the air? no, i live fair in england. no. so well, what made that, why did you decide to join the line? i just spell the i needed to dear. i've never done in like this before and i just wanted to pay my respects and would as the queen mean to you, i just think she was everything she's been there all my life. so. yeah, i feel
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a bill asking a man from runner after mile to how do you feel that you could still have another 67 hours my children. reckon i'm not going to be able to do. and i think it said 14 hours on the thing back there, but we'll see. i'll be fine. and how you topping it. yeah, yeah. and yet low, it's elise. and what's the, the atmosphere like in the yes gets yeah. yes. really. gates? yeah, i can see you casner glance, actually care. i don't wanna lose my la and i you hear you and thank you very much indeed. of course, here in the line, what we're hearing is morsa conversations. lots of laughter as you come through. and this really is a cross section of london, global community. and people from elsewhere in the world have come to london to not maybe because they have any real connection with the quinn or with the united kingdom. but for many people, not just here in britain, but around the world. this is really a moment of history. and you've got to remember that there was around 250000 people who lined up for a number of days to see the queen, mother the queen's or mother. when she lay in state in westminster, hall,
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the authorities here thing that number will be well exceeded. they're talking somewhere in the region of 332350000 people who will file past the queen's coffin. before on monday, it is finally stopped to the public and they begin preparations for the funeral service in westminster, abbey, and unfair shot many thanks. indeed that joining us that from that care in london, sarah had hair on out to sarah. chris executed us republicans amusing people as political pawns, after nearly a 100 migrants and dropped in front of the vice president's house and his embalming faces bearing food shows. g. as we look as an old farming technique that's making a comeback. ah,
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it's a wet time. the year in thailand, cambodia, sudden vietnam, central philippines is some flooding on the streets. and that's going to continue because it's the seasonal rains on their slow way south. that doesn't mean it's dry to the south. as you can see, there are 4 cross showers and good part of western boyer sumatra. maybe in jakarta looks dry those through good parts of java and bali and beyond as go north. 3rd, this is the active part of the pacific. another typhoon to watch this, almost certainly already a super typhoon with winds still strengthening, but they will start to weaken a little bit. however, it looks like a damaging storm that hits q shoe sometime during sunday with wind still up to 215 kilometers for that are steady winds and gusting more than that. so in this case, an unusually, maybe the winds might be as big a problem as the rather heavy rains. want to watch that allows for monday, tuesday, and part or wednesday,
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i think it goes through japan. now the receding rains through india a showing a bit of a lull. the moment is going to be marashi. it gets there. what is whether it up to was b ha, and the poll northwest, that it is largely dry, even in pakistan, where a few heavy showers are still possible in law. ah, the well cap case with nikon mills in central america in canada, a poll will be un mexico, puerto rico right on al jazeera hulu.
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ah, ah, and again, you're watching out, is there a has a reminder of our top story? is this our 7 and rates have been carried out on banks across lebanon on friday. banks will close for 3 days next week because of security concerns. many of the rates are by people demanding their own money. officials in ukraine are investigating what they say on the bodies of hundreds of civilians discovered in mass graves. and the recently liberated city of is you have a found days after ukraine. we took the city from russian forces and a ceasefire between k gast on until august on has reports. they've been violated just hours after a meeting between their meters on friday. at least 3 people have been killed since fighting broke out on wednesday. russia's president has held
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a phone conversation with armine as prime minister to discuss this week's fighting between armenia and as a by john more than a 180 soldiers, most of them armenian have been killed, a russian, that security organization sent a fact finding team to armenia, after it's government requested help, tourney chang as more from the southern armenian city of germany, which was targeted by azerbaijani shelling this week. this is some of the shrapnel damage the armenians say hit when a barrel is by tillery another text started on tuesday night. locals have told us it continued even into yesterday. that hasn't been any today. but we're here on a tour which been organized by the army and the ministry of foreign affairs. to bring foreign investors here and military attaches. they want to put their side to the argument and claim the moral high ground high ground, which they say was
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a completely unprovoked and unexpected attack. you can see here there's quite a lot of military mobilization hit regular armenian army, but also local to taken up to defend their town. here we are in the town. popular tourist resorts now essentially deserted since the attack started. we've also been told by johnny troops in could into armenian territory as much as 7.5 kilometers. and the chief of staff told us they're still positions up in these hills 4.5 kilometers away, where they are still holding on to territory. and they say little, they say in a couple of days, they'll be able to force them back to the border. 12 kilometers away. china has reported faster than expected growth and factory output and retail sales. but economists are reluctant to call it a full recovery. something property market and strict cave in 1900 measures could fill drag their economy down has been a major fire in
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a skyscraper in the southern chinese city of chang shaw authorities are still trying to find out if anyone's been injured. no. so investigating what started the 5 time telecom tower is 218 meters tool and is reported to have been built 22 years ago. rescue operations are underway in italy, where heavy rains and floods have killed at least 7 people. infected area is in the eastern province of ma, came the region, received half its usual annual rainfall in just a few hours life. i says, a clearing landslides and fallen trees and helping people trapped in their homes and cars and well food program facility with enough food for 100000 people has been looted in northern haiti and for his violent straight protests across the country. following a government decision to double fuel prices, rob reynolds reports unstoppable protests convulsed haiti again on thursday,
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i'll be off an unknown number of people have been killed as violence intensified between police and protesters with attacks by criminal gangs. 3 haitian policemen were reported among the dead. the situation appears to be spiraling into greater violence in lawless turmoil. burning barricades and angry crowds blocked the road to the international airport in port a prince. for most of this week, he has been disrupted the cattle port. france has been disrupted. for the most part, everybody is hunkering down. ah, there's a home on the streets. it's ritual. you goes down. ah, as there are protesting bye with barricades ah, to against the decision from the government to raise the price of oral products and 80 that fuel hike seems to have been the spark that caused simmering discontent to burst into flame needy,
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the poorest country in the western hemisphere is beset by soaring inflation, criminal gangs that rob kidnap and rate with impunity, and a largely ineffective and widely reviled government. the price of basic food items has increased by 50 percent in the past year. buildings were set ablaze and food warehouses looted, including one operated by the catholic organization, curtis a world food program facility in the town of gonna eve was also looted and burn w f. p. officials said, what's important is that we actually lost enough food to feed around one 100000 school children. for 3 months. we have 1000000 actually who do security issues. 1000000 of which are actually quite on my phone with linda with priority for humanitarian assistance. so when an incident like this occurs, it's impacting the population, it's impacting a very vulnerable population. ah,
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the critical situation in haiti threatens the stability of the entire caribbean, says the president of the neighboring dominican republic, e k. a so many sassy, all the effects of the multi dimensional crisis in this country exceed out individual capacities and constitute a threat to stability and security throughout the region. for the dominican republic, it's a matter of national security and to latin america as well. in the crisis overflowing the borders of haiti, i, a desperate population. a government seemingly paralyzed and a wave of rage that continues to grow day by day, rob reynolds alger 0. and he's in south korea, have arrested, a woman accused of measuring her 2 young children in new zealand and bodies were found. and the suitcase in oakland last month of mcbride has moved from so it's the
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case that is shocked to new zealand. but as also be making headlines in south korea since it was revealed that the suspect in this case had likely fled here back in 2018. she is described as a 42 year old, new zealand national, but of korean descent. the bodies of her 2 children who were age 7 and 10 at the time of their death, had been left inside suit cases, which had been bought as part of an online auction by an unsuspecting family in new zealand at the start of august, who then made the grim discovery, a global interpol warranty was issued on. the woman was arrested in the southern city of austin. she has not been identified and when challenged by reporters has claimed her innocence. she has now been transferred to soul for extradition proceedings towards her return to new zealand. republican governors in the u. s. have escalated their campaign against the by the ministrations border and
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immigration policies. one and texas gather dozens of migrants on 2 buses and sent them across the country to the vice president doorstep in washington, d. c. and florida governor paid for 2 flights to take asylum seekers to the affluent resort of martha's vineyard. as joe castro reports there, people made haunts children clutching plastic bags. men and women who cross the continent to flee poverty and violence now being used as political tools, dirt on a meat assume a lift venezuela. on august 18th, i passed through the jungle. i spent 6 days there. it was a tough experience, something unforgettable. i saw many people did in the jungle. buses sent by the state of texas, dumped these 101 asylum seekers at the side of the road in front of the residence of vice president comalla harris aid worker say a baby arrived injured and a man with diabetes was rushed to the hospital after his insulin went bad on the 40
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hour bus ride. republican governors interfering in that process in using migrants as political ponds is a is shameful, is reckless and just plain wrong. a day earlier, 50 asylum seekers had been flown to martha's vineyard, massachusetts, the vacation town popular with washington's elites, was given little notice to prepare, volunteers quickly mobilized, finding them food and shelter. it's manipulating people who are in very dire circumstances. no purely for political gain. florida governor ground a santa's to credit for the flights part of a coordinated effort among republican governors. to send migrants to democrat lead cities. some have declared states of disaster to hasten aid to the migrants. and all those people in dc and new york were beating their chests. when trump was president, saying they were so proud to be sanctuary. jurisdictions saying how bad it was to
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have a secure border, the minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door. they all of a sudden go berserk and they're so upset that this is happening and it just shows you, you know, their virtue signaling as a fraud. at the southern border, us agents encountered about 200000 migrants in july, down from may's peak, and slightly lower than this time. last year. greater numbers of asylum seekers are arriving from cuba, nicaragua, and venezuela. jonas alive. i believe he's hilary, and it's not just me, but thousands of venezuelans who look for ways out of the country in search of the future more than anything, to be honest. so our families can eat 3 good meals a day, not to be made political pawns in the u. s. heidi joe castro al jazeera washington . after nearly 2 months, it's now safe for residence in jackson, mississippi to drink water from the tops. a boil water notice was put in place
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after widespread flooding affected the city's main water treatment plant. many of the 150000 residents was forced to line up for bottled water, for the repairs are needed to the treatment plant, but the city's mer says they can't afford them. an old farming technique to grow vegetables is gaining popularity in zimbabwe. urban areas, clay pot irrigation can save up to 70 percent of water without depriving crops. i went assa reports from chad, chicago to teresa lemon. his garden is thriving under the slid, sunk up to sneak into the ground. is one of several clay pots, irrigating her tomatoes. this alternative way of growing food is ideal for zimbabwe. a country prone to drought, and re people don't get regular supplies of piped water from the council. he normally did africa. yes. even when there is no water, my vegetables are all is green. it's been days without water here,
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but the clay pots are all, is watering my tomatoes. using clay pots to water crops is not a new farming technique. it's used in other parts of the world. and now it's gaining traction ins above the clear. but if the some small, tiny in, in you visible i'm a pause of that. i used the full o. does it be the water that the easy inside to clear it to see ps around the v vi did close the did it yourself for to send him it us saw the did the plans of own good? yes of what it says. it was just gets off, the water is rising, sweet prices high, a fuel costs and inflation at 285 percent in will. gast means many families are battling. the mob is government plan to distribute food aids more than $2000000.00 vulnerable families from october. that number is expected to go up next year. it's not as rural households. people in urban areas are also going hungry. and
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a privileged communities often run out of food in october, the drives period before the rainy season, the you and also plans to assist it been hunger? if something got tra, we'll started to see more ah, during the course 19 pandemic. so it's something that is fairly new. as you know, the word from program are used to work mainly in the rural areas. but to now we have started to sin, some pockets in cities and towns where these are there been hunger. the clay pots cost $5.00 each buying in bulk can be expensive. so communities also used plastic bottles with holes poked into them. they were just as well for some families in urban areas, these water saving techniques are a lifeline. help them grow food for themselves and sometimes a little extra to fall harder. matessa al jazeera chiquita, zimbabwe.

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