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star warnings from the i met about the global economy and inflation and full cost that poor nations will suffer more and a down said, we hear from car a correspondence around the world. ah, hello, i money inside. this is out there, a lie from day also coming up more than 500 people dead so far in nigeria is worse floods in a decade and a desperate situation for those falls from their homes. the us house select committee investigating last year's capitol hill riots old as former u. s. president. donald trump, to testify that lengthy legal battle is expected and gaza rolls out the red carpet for the 6th annual human rights, short film festival with a host of nations taking despite these riley locate,
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ah, inflation threatens to become a runaway train that is the warning. the i m f, has predicted as the global economies hit by one shock after another. ahead of the i'm f says the risk of global recession is at 25 percent. africa is in the most precarious situation with many low income countries hit by high food shortages and extreme poverty. and the war in ukraine has brought food insecurity far and wide with 48 countries now severely affected. in the middle east, economic growth is projected to slow from 5 percent to 3.6 percent inflations also expected to remain at more than 14 percent next year. and in the latin american, in the caribbean countries,
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these are projected to see slow growth and previously thought with i'm f predicting 1.7 percent and growth in north america is also tip to slow. the i'm f says there will be just one percent growth in the us. 2023 and 1.5 percent in canada. we cannot, we cannot possibly allow inflation to become a runaway train, but for growth and bedford people. but it's better, especially for poor, poor, poor, poor people. alan fisher has more than the story from washington dc. crystelina georgina is aware of the impact that high inflation is having on every one. and she says that governments really do have to do more to try and help the poorest. this isn't some abstract economic theory. this is being experienced by everyone if they go along to the shore, just to buy some food to feed their family. and she says that of governments and
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financial institutions are going to help than the help has to be targeted to those who are struggling the most. she says that essentially inflation is a taxation on the poorest in society. she's also aware that when that are financial issues, there can be political issues. and that has led to critics to wonder whether the international monetary fund and the world bank is fit for purpose in negotiating its way through this crisis. whether capitalism should continue to be the driver of what is happening with global economies. well, that is a point i put to a senior figure in the wild bank. when you have these types of multiple crisis up there is this natural tendency to think about whether there is need for a revolution or a. it is another evolutionary point of view. think about the world bank and intention. wanted a fund that had been around for nearly 80 years. these institutions have you all
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with the evolution of the global economy and they will continue revolving and less, don't forget, these are institutions. vit shareholders, they respond to their shareholders who are the shareholders. the global community, of course we will respond to the demands. we will adjust our walk programs accordingly. and we will do our best to respond to these multiple crisis says the i m f in the all banker meeting here. that is a confluence of events which they have to worry about. first of all is inflation then that climate crises, in various places around the world such as the floods and pakistan the floods even here in the united states. and then there is the war in ukraine, which is causing financial instability, but also has an impact on the food supply chain around the world. and according to the i am, if 48 countries are facing food insecurity, that's 325000000 people. most keenly felt in areas like the horn of africa and the so hill. and there is
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a worry that some families won't be able to feed themselves unless that situation is address pretty rapidly by the global financial power houses. what we know, what happens in china has a big impact on the west at the wells economy, then sluggish, great. been sharp focus, a chinese ruling communist party congress. patrick fog has that more foundation. this was another stark warning about the mounting challenge. china's economy face is coming right ahead of its biggest political event in decades. the i m f said that after posting near 0 growth in the 2nd quarter, growth in the world's 2nd largest economy would recover in the 2nd half and hit 3.2 percent. so for 2022 and 4.4 percent in 2023. but that was based on the prediction that, that be a gradual loosening of coven 19 curbs and a moderate pick up in public investment. but there is still no clear sign on how
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exactly policymakers intend to map china out of its curve at 19 crisis. and there are growing warnings about the scale of it's a property crisis and the potential knock on effects. it could have the i'm, if did say though, that inflation had not risen as sharply and china as it had done elsewhere. and there was still policy space to play with. but all eyes will be on the communist party congress kicking off on sunday for clues on how policy makers intend to tackle the weak economy. theresa by reports from when is areas where argentina's inflation rate could hit a 100 percent this year. latin america economies are struggling to recover from 2 consecutive shocks up and down, make, and then the impact of the war in ukraine. and now they're struggling to cope with a tightening of global financial conditions. and when most countries in the region are slowly showing some signs of recovery,
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countries like argentina right now are struggling with very high inflation, lays to speak or show that argentina will have around 7 percent inflation rate a month. it could reach around 100 percent inflation this year. man, for example, hugo, he's 58 years old. he's a pensioner and he forced to sell this stock on the street to be able to make a living. so inflation is having a huge impact on people's lives. here and the government until now had been unable to come up with a plan. there's big differences between britain and data fernandez. and his vice president, christina fernandez. the kirschner. and even though argentina managed to reach an agreement with the international monetary fund and post co payment, there is still a crisis of international research. there's simply not enough dollars. right now, argentine is implementing exchange rate controls. there's around 14 different types of exchange rates. the latest one is known as the dollar category,
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which is the exchange rate that is implemented for those who are traveling over see the minister of economy right now is in washington dc, meeting with international organizations, trying to get some type of financing for b. this countries we serve, it's not easy. argentina has had a history of economic collapse so we cannot make disasters there. there's not lots of trust out there in order to try to help this country recover. and of course, this whole situation generates lots of tension with a business sector, but also on the street. we're seeing protest happening here almost every day with people struggling to make a having to make it until the end of the month. mostly because of the fire, very high inflation rate, and this of course, has a huge impact on the president. so popularity will the i m f has chastised the u. k . government, after its financial plans triggered chaos on the markets. a many budget reveals last month and the body of the british pound to all time lows in the bank of
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england has been forced to buy back government bonds to stabilize their price. the m f is calling for coherent and consistent policies. but as chancellor has defended the government's decisions, there was some turbulence, i frankly picked it up. okay, the all to the book where i'm sitting here talking about the global challenges. everybody is focused on inflation. everybody's affected by a potential interest rate rises. everybody's affected by the energy price spikes, which have been exacerbated by putin's illegal war in ukraine. so everybody across the global financial community is really focusing on the same problems or prices for certain foods have already almost doubled in sri lanka, from colombia. michelle fernandez has mon, how the economic terminal there is affecting people. and this is where the huge cost of living is being felt. most consumers having to do that daily or weekly shop,
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a finding that prices have gone up $35.00 full. sometimes. inflation has hit a 90 percent and more in terms of food inflation. i did speak to a pensioner. he said his money is stretching far less and for sri lankan, if not just food, it's electricity, it's water, it's fuel. so all of these things really crippling for them on a day to day basis, eat very deeply that even i find it equal until efficient even i could do the better the whole of these empty at the end with its economy in the war state and living memory, the she lanchen government is hoping for a 2900000000 dollar bailout from the international monetary fund. it has reached the staff level agreement with the institution, but that is very much dependent on the country. being able to come up with an acceptable roadmap, agreed to by its creditors of how they will repay the unsustainable debt. as some
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observers have described it, obviously the i m f, a welcoming the agreement, but also marking the fact that it is conditional. they have pointed out that it is bad management and mismanagement that has brought the country, but yolanda has a bunch of bad luck and nor where is that economic crunch being felt more than in markets like this, where people are struggling to make ends meet will say process is soaring in india as well. rising inflation is making life difficult as people's and more daily necessities. he is the story of a single mother, hers finding it a growing challenge to make ends meet mid on am for me ever. my name is tom ever am . i work at the front desk of a private company. i have 2 sons, one works and the other goes to college. her job does the be that the vegetables i used to buy for $0.12 now cost more than double bond earlier. the cost of 5
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kilograms of flower was $1.00, and now it costs $2.00. the price of a gas cylinder is now $13.00. every item in the house has become more expensive, although i'll only get i have, i pay more to travel to the office on the metro earlier it cost me $0.12, but now it costs over $0.20. the price of traveling in an alter ritual has also gone up. when the kids were younger, i spent less on their school fees, but now they're growing, so their costs. it is difficult to meet their expenses. now i have to pay more for their clothes, school fees and tuition fees. so i don't always are keeping up with monthly medical bills has become very hard. doctors them out charging at least $6.00 for consultation. earlier they charged less, even medicine costs a lot more now. every one in india is having a hard time because of inflation and rising prices and things which have basic
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essentials of very expensive. now, the government can prevent prices from going up. prices for basic needs like flour, milk, and the school bus fees should be kept in tech. if the government low as the prices for some of these necessities, it will help better manage al monthly bills. applies of nigerians, forced to move by floods is becoming increasingly desperate. more than 500 people had been killed by 90 of them in just one boat accident in num. number estate and the family is still waiting for news of their loved ones and interests reports. ah, here in weary conditions for the displeased are getting desperate we'll just to was to sunset for dis served in this camp. that official say now a comedy to hundreds of people. the food rather not for more, for about 3000 people that is here. 1000 people and about on this missile under
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your budget for i'm done with the other 2 was she says they haven't received any need supplies from government. this is flights of ravaged at least 27 of nitrous 36 state destroying lives, crops and horns and ridges like a number of issues here. tell us that hundreds of thousands of people in several communities are still out of reach. nothing has been heard from some of them in nearly a week, and the passengers off a boat that capsized a week ago killing about 9 to people while fleeing their submerged communities in sight of help. emergency agencies had warned of destructive floods this year. but the level of government preparedness was poor, saw towards people's response to evacuation warnings that has left victims like each entity wondering what the future holds. alabama, my gym, i went down the middle. there's nothing to go back to if my house is left standing, my animals crops, everything is gone, school my teaching up with an ambrose,
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one of the worst affected states. officials say the den decides have been there yet . the federal government has failed to act. cameroon, wants about this, i saw were law that every 23 years, this happens, demerell would open up the dam. and then it comes here, a wipes off everything. i mean it gonna get to a point where the, what i walk i'm, i'm enveloped the entire country, nigerian official say, humanitarian supplies have been distributed nationwide. but that is little comfort for hundreds of thousands who are yet to receive any help from government. at any level, how many degrees al jazeera or torture. severe flooding has also had central thailand affecting thousands of people. relief supplies being delivered to villages cut off by the rising waters. seasonal rains often bring flanks this time of year, the governor set aside around $600000000.00 to help recovery efforts. to lead
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on al jazeera flooding, a nice and australia needs some community stranded and there's more wet weather way . ah ah, here's our headlines for the americas. we've got some flooding. rain in the forecast. have one great to have you along. this includes for the us state of name where there are flood watches in play, and that plume of moisture really extending right through to the mid atlantic wrapping in some cooler air toronto just 12 degrees. could see some snow flurries in minneapolis with a high of 8 to the west. we go high pressure in shars, so that's deflecting systems up and around the pacific northwest. and british columbia is lower mainland. so was the action over the central north coast to
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british columbia and eventually alaska, over the next little bit desert southwest states drive. we look toward the u. s. state of colorado. a warm wind here. so denver $26.00 degrees above average for this year. the us gulf states, things are dry here, but somewhat weather in the forecast for southern florida, including miami, with a high 29 degrees tropical storm. carl, looking to make landfall southern mexico early hours on saturday, landslides mudslides. the big concern here with those torrential downpours and a line of showers in storms extending from the paid roof in andes, toward the southeast of brazil. got an onshore breeze here. so that's really going to pep up that rainfall. as we look toward that southeast corner of brazil see soon, ah oh, robert is going blind from a rare genetic disorder. as his son beholds the beauty of the world for
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the 1st time, robert may be seeing it for the last. ah, but has this genetic disorder been passed on to his son? witness a sky without stars. oh, on al jazeera. ah ah ah, you're watching out a 0 minds of our top stories, this our inflation friends to become a runaway train of that is the warning from the head of the international monetary fund. as a global economies hit by one shot quarter another. the head says the risk of
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global recession is at 25 percent. and the i math has chastised the u. k. government, after its financial plans, target chaos in the markets. many budget last months and the valley of the british pound all time knows more than 500 people have died and nigeria was floods in a decade. unusually heavy rains have led to the destruction of tens of thousands of homes. us house select committee, investigating last year, storming of capitol hill, has voted to subpoena the former u. s. president. donald trump to testify. trump has never before been forced to give evidence before congress or even during his to impeachment trials, hardy joke, house reports, those in favor will say i, i the vote was unanimous to subpoena or illegally compelled, former u. s. president donald trump, to testify before congress about his failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election
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member cabra, and his alleged role in inciting a riot at the u. s. capital in the name of remaining in power, we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. this is a course from about accountability to the american people. he must be accountable. he is required to answer for his action, for trump has called the investigation a partisan hoax, and is expected to appeal the subpoena, the beginning of a long legal battle in response to thursday's vote. trump ridiculed the committee, calling it bust, and again falsely alleging massive motor fraud in the 2020 election. the vote a subpoena. trump was a surprise ending to a string of public hearings held by a democrat lead committee that has been trying to hold trump accountable for his role. in january 6 attack committee members say trump was at the center of a premeditated plan to clean the power,
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which directly led to violence on capitol hill. my area movie called movers, dramatic new video release thursday, showed lawmakers evacuating as riders breached the capitol, who had this with her as the mob called for her demise. how speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders tried to coordinate a security response on is just resist hernandez and all at boot instigation for other president of united states while trump watched and did nothing according to witnesses. why don't you get the president to tell them to leave the capital? mister attorney general, your law enforcement responsibility. the violence led to several deaths, nearly a 1000 riders had been charged and doesn't sentenced to prison time. trump has not been charged. the congressional panel must decide whether to make a criminal referral against him, and it's working under
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a deadline. americans will decide next month, which party controls congress? if republicans take back the house, they'll likely shut down the trump investigation. immediately. the committee stanza john, heidi joe castro al jazeera washington. nato says spain will become the latest member states to send air defense systems to ukraine to help key against russian missile badges. earlier germany said it was dispatching a missile defense system. all this follows a 2 day meeting of nato defense ministers in brussels, or russian president vladimir putin has proposed sessing up a regional gas hub in turkey. he was out a summit in kazakhstan to discuss shoring up global energy supplies. who should met his turkish counterpart recham tape at one and discuss cooperation on energy and grain exports. mom at vall has moved from moscow. was leaders have been talking
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about this potential solution ever since the explosions that damaged nordstrom one and 2, those major pipelines that had been exporting russian gas to western europe. russia has a strong desire to find alternative meas, to continue its exportation of gas to western europe. and other countries, and president vladimir putin in stana made that clear when he proposed a platform to be built in turkey for the distribution of russian gas to. so if there is an interest from to kia and our potential pies in other countries, we would consider the possibility of building another gas pipeline system and creating a gas of inter kia for sales to 3rd countries, primarily of costing you opinions if they're of course interested in this, the work of this hub, which we could create together, would be a platform, not just for supplies, but for determining the price to because this is a very important issue. today, the prices are exorbitant,
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and we could regulate them at a normal market level without political overtones. the company spokesman dmitri pest coffers in as tanner said, that to president l one and present, put in, showed strong desire for an immediate implementation of the idea. and the 2 companies, russian, gus from, and turkish boat, us pipelines corporation have already started talking about the way to go forward with this plan. russia has been exporting gas through the black sea air, through its pipeline called turk stream. but that might not be enough for the implementation of this project, and that's why the 2 countries are now thinking about building a 2nd pipeline. the idea for putting, according to what he said, it is to stabilize prices and control them and also avoid this link that he mentioned between politics and it make relations between the different countries.
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he said that europe is half politicized gas resources and economic expectations from russia, and that should be avoided. there should be alternatives to that type of behavior. 3 states and australia, bracing for flooding and heavy rain in on dates much of these coast. millions of people have been affected for cost as a warning. the wild weather a said continue for the rest of the week. sorry o'clock is more from brisbin town to cut off. roads blocked and communities are stranded. after days of heavy rain, more wet weather is on its way with 3 states and eastern astrology, a pricing for further flooding. this is a pretty bad flood and the damage is going to cause now to the ride wise and everything else. we just go to have a copy of it. we've already got a big bill for that. now we've got another big bill to do all the repairs done before and overflowing river, the swollen and the ground on much of the east coast has been saturated. so the
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rightful the falls has no capacity to be absorbed into the soil. it's running straight into rivers and we starting to see those rivers respond to the heavy ryan for yesterday and over not nobody is expecting its most intense weather event of the year this week and sydney is recorded. it's witnessed on record with torrential rain forecast is a strategy rides out its 3rd consecutive lead in your veins. the really unfortunate thing about having money back to back is that if you get one year in timeframe and flooding, you fill up your dams. the soil is saturated with water and then if you have a subsequent year of heavy rainfall, it's much you need a lot less rain to cause the flood. so it's a lot more damaging to have these events back to back. it might be sunny. your claims on the bureau, meteorology long range, cool cost predicts that much of a strategy will be hit with above average lang pool and coming. if light is
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national, also shows that climate change is influencing a struggle with these right events of the results. the linea which delivers heavy rainfall is predicted to last into the southern hemisphere is summer months, forecast predict, which were the one discipline until february, next year. sarah cla, out 0. reuben, australia. i've been violent confrontation between protesters and police and who dance capital. cartoon, ryan, police, fire, tear gas and water cannons, to disperse the crowds. some protesters through stones. it is the latest and a long string of riley's against last year's military security forces have killed at least a $117.00 demonstrated since then, and detained hundreds least 5 people have been killed in explosion in northern marley. a bus was hit by bomb, planted on the road between the capt obama co and the town of choro. several people
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are being treated in hospital. molly's military has been fighting armed groups in the region for years. bribe will palestinian factions including hamas and father have signed a declaration to end a long running feud? the 2 sides have been talking in algeria, the pledge to form a palestine national council. elections will take place within the next few in the gaza strip and the occupied west bank. because the center for culture and arts is rolling out the rent compet the 6th annual human rights. short film festival. $43.00 movies will be screened this year under the theme c us human l site has more than the festival. this might not be anything like the cancel festival. red carpet is rolling in because it's straight for the human rights film festival. in his 0 edition and over the course of 5 days more than 40. ringback
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movies, arson, casual, to screen for over to 70 countries worldwide. participating in the festival. today. our slogan is she'll buena look at us of the 15 years of israeli blockade in bull's indie gov and strip with all the straw. it's 3 majors imposed on the gov. a strip, we are killing the world that stop isolating the gaza strip. it stopped the siege and also we sent messages several messages saying that we are people eager for freedom eager for independence. we have many palestinians will our will. dylan did . who can be a filmmaker? it's gotta be journalist, going to be a doctor. and i like either festival, the attendees here are all ages. you've been a per trinity the.

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