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radio or iran progress for the world cup count out on it. jesse, you know, this was a media moment. the likes of which we've never seen. this is important. this is your story from breaking down the headlines to exposing the power is attempting to st. silence reporting, we're seeing media freedom being threatened and attacked is basically criminalizing journalism. the listening post doesn't cover the news. it published the way the news discovered. people have no idea what the source of use is that the game, the growth and that product for the avenues. why? on al jazeera, brazil's presidential election is going to a 2nd round on october 30th incumbent hard line president. j bowles, fernando and former socialist president, legacy law are buying for votes, but which one is changed? can we elect to brazil's highest office ongoing special coverage on al jazeera? ah,
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the french opposition leader holds a march against the rising cost of living and lack of action against climate change . when the top to bottom line is like thousands of protesters demonstrating with mic log, this is our july from de also coming up at least 4 people killed 61 injured in a far spot by votes inside the radiant and security prison. china's was military growth. and defends his policies on taiwan and phone call and set a goal faces some burning questions. pushing to use more fossil fuels, despite having the biggest soda farms in west africa. ah
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ah said in thousands, all protesting in the french capital against the rising cost of living in the government's response to climate change. the protest was told by john nick melisha, who leads the left wing policy unbowed nobel prize winning author. i mean, our new is also take your pot. french government is already dealing with strike action at several on refineries. let's get the very latest now from natasha butler, who's at the protest in paris. and natasha tells us what's happening. i say in full swing now thousands of protesters with behind me now that yes, all sorts of reasons, really some of them, according to the governments take more action, apply made to hobbles, say that they will pay in salaries that worried about inflation. there were some places in princeton's, we've been talking to some people, and we'll try to have to say though, one of the main things that comes up close to nerve, again,
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people's concerns about inflation. one man told me that his next will make it says that unless i purchase full to welcome a 0 she right, but i keep going because he's just too scared about having to pay very high energy bills. so those are some of things that people are here for. it's been called by the holiday party. john income mental shows are about to be supported in this crappy hide me for many screens really across the political spectrum of the mat. don't. so even some intellectuals, both recent undergo prize winner for mid teacher. and y'all know, amongst the project people to come out because she said it was a difficult time right now for we people. patasha, thanks for that update on the touch by the reporting from part. i, let's move on to iran and at least 4 people been killed after fire broke counted the evan prison in tehran. it happened saturday night. officials say it was caused by fighting between inmates. smoke was seen rising for the facility gunshots were also heard. the detention center holds many of her owns political prisoners in her
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. if this file was caused by a fight between some prisoners in the sewing workshop, the workshop was set up to create jobs for the in my with the russell center has more now for me to run. it was a pan p. m. local time on saturday, inter around when the fire broke out in the prison and quickly spread across the other. the other wars right after that they have heard the shot guns and also exclusion. like songs that were just just around while the smoke and defy was, was rising abode, the abode in the prison. so officials are seeing that there was a fight between the prisoners and some of the prisoners said the fire on the soothing workshop in the prison. that is the cause of the fire. and right after that, the security forces entered the scene and browed distribution under the control the, the governor off to run my mass. he said that you did,
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the fight was between the prisoners who were convicted because of the, the taft or the financial fraud. and that no political prisoners have been involved in this over at this moment. it is quite difficult to really where to fight that right of the incident that took place in the prison. we have seen that the whole, the old man rose around the prison were blocked by the security forces. but there had been some support reddick protests also taking place around that. and also the families went in front of the prison and they were very much concerned about the safety of the relatives. but unfortunately, today, some of them have received a bad news. china's president choosing pay is set to be confirmed for a historic 3rd term, making the most powerful communist leader since macedonia. she has it now opened the communist party congress in beijing, key messages faster military growth, and the 0 covered approach. a deborah. 2 2 a day
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that offers a glimpse into the secret world of china's communist party. for a few hours, the media are allowed into beijing's great hold of the people. for a tightly control pageant. the opening of the party congress held every 5 years. and this one's been closely watched. normally, chinese leaders stand down after serving 10 years in office. but cheating ping is expected to break convention by being appointed for another 5 years. he presented himself as a humble servant of the party, but a party that's been re made in his image says one expert. so having seized control in the chinese communist party seeping, then seize control of china. and china has become a lot less free. a lot more aggressive, far less 8 and then it was 10 years ago. the congress comes at a turbulent time for china. she's 0 koby policy, has trapped millions of people in
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a series of stop start locked downs. borders remain close to most foreigners. many overseas investors of fled. she's focus here though, was on the positive food. she'll either sing for aging. we adhere to the principles of people 1st life 1st and also firmly adhered to the dynamic 0 covered policy. to carry out the fight against the pandemic, the people's war to protect people's life and physical health to the maximum. by the time this congress ends sheeting, ping's grip on power will likely be absolute. without the people of china having their se, adrian brown al jazeera. so who's involved in that? china's party congress, a report fledged 1400000000 people, nearly 100000000 are registered party members. about 2300 will attend the congress,
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and these delegates are handpicked by the party. and they will endorse a group of about $200.00 people, and this is the parties central committee, which overseas, all aspects of the government military. the committee then elect 25 members who form the politburo and the party sets their agenda. and decisions are made by consensus. this group then chooses the standard committee, usually about 7 people which assumes legislative powers when the national people's congress is not in session. and the general secretary chairs this committee. while she used his opening speech at the twice a decade, communist party congress to call for faster military growth. you also raised the issue of hong kong, say, must be ruled by what he called, patrons, chin, mandarin church. we will fully faithfully and resolutely implement the policy of one country to systems under which the people of hong kong administer,
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hong kong and the people of macau administer, macau, both with a degree of autonomy, we will remain committed to law based governance in hong kong and macau will ensure the central government exercises overall jurisdictions over the 2 regions. we will see that hong kong and macau are administered by patriots. oh, let's reaction from hong kong with jessica washington. where the congress is being received here and hong kong with varying degrees of interest. some organizations here and hong kong, organized events for people to watch president. she's speech, but many others are just going about their normal daily lives. it's worth noting that this congress take place as hong kong has experienced some rather dramatic changes in recent years under president. she didn't think leadership, namely the introduction in 2020 of a national security law in response to the unrest that the city experienced in 2019 over concerns about aging growing influence in the city. and then in 2021. some
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changes to the home homes electro system. so what we're likely to see over the course of the congress is a reiteration of the past. the staging seas as being most appropriate for the city and the, the part of the city is already on 3. people have been injured in new shilling in the russian region in belgrade, governor viet slab, a glad call to confirm the injuries in the region which borders ukraine. the officials accused and create a minute troops and koreans deny they say russia fight a few missiles by mistake, which fell within the region to resume a terrible event happened yesterday on our territory on the territory of one of the military units. there was a terror attack committed. many soldiers were killed and wounded. all of the wounded are getting help. i want to express my words of condolence to the families of those who were killed. we are by your site. and i have a val, has more now from moscow they the u. k. is half or denied that they have been
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behind that they were behind this sir shelling or these rockets that fell on belgrade. 2 of them fell on the airport of the city and they caused 3 people to be wounded. 2 of them were taken to the hospital. a russians asked him saying that it is, it came from ukraine. ah, but we know that even yesterday at deport an oil deport was heat and it caught fire and also a thermal power plant. it was hit and the power blackout resulted from that. and in the last several months, these sorts of attacks sometimes by helicopters. sometimes rockets and sometimes a explosion is that the russians were not explaining. it have been continued and people fled in. there are thousands, a tourism has been effected, airports have been closed. and the russians are saying that the russian people are saying that this situation cannot continue. and the leadership passed to ask
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questions about it. and leadership has to take drastic measures to stop this type of thing because the war in the 1st place came to protect russia from outside aggression asset. the rhetoric a goes here and a large part of ukraine have now been next. russia also in the name of protecting russia against it, against aggression and are saying that this can't continue. the ukrainian military has retaken dozens of villages in the south, but it says russian forces are trying to push back the data counter offensive. despite the fighting civilians have begun returning to their destroyed homes, cha stratford met some of them in arkin health in the castle region. this is sheila leave, which is where my barn was hungry. now everything is gone, her fidel examiner, but he inspects what remains of the home and the life. he and his wife spent 35
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years building pro russian forces from the de nets region occupied their village and march below. oh, her ability lies him. they looted this toys, they were drinking shooting. they told us they would be here forever for they said we will pay you back for our suffering. you beat us. now we will be to just publish a ticket or do a full full on or exam to shows us what remains of his be hives shelling, killed and injured much of his life stock. i survived disappeared during the battle . when is i, i don't know what to say. no, that no matter what russia has done to us, we want to come home now. was it destroyed russian military trunk outside the smashed village school, where russian soldiers stayed? russian packs, gas masks, and destruction. all that remained. ah,
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volunteers distribute wood to those keen to start at least basic repairs only destroyed homes. oh, the ukrainian rocket climbs into the sky a few kilometers away. ukrainian fight each. it circles overhead. broken half still life below village of the village has been virtually obliterated. burnt out tanks. squat, long, splintered trees. there are thousands of villages like this in the cares on region which have been completely destroyed. gradually, a few people are returning to what remains of their homes. but the situation is far from stable in this region and ukrainian military forces the saying that they're dealing with a potential renewed russian advance. another rocket soules tool to
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talk is in russian hill territory. land climbs through the gaping hole in his grandmother's home has come to repair it, so at least she has protection from the approaching winter. cold wasn't banged with nimble was the school we couldn't contact her for a month. should we have to repair her home before the rain starten yours? we've had time to prepare on them. they won't beat us back again. income for the harm usa. the determined spirit of innocent civilians suffering deeply blackened lives. charged with al jazeera here soon reach him, suddenly groan still had heron. l 0. time to tighten a belt. you case. new chancellor says he's ready to height taxes after a week of political and economic turmoil. working to win over, voters will tell you why people ruse. poor neighborhoods are divided about brazil's
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or community. ah, it's been raining for days right across sri lanka, high for one. so we've seen some scenes of flooding with those torrential downpours here about a 100 millimeters of rain within a day. so that's a lot to have that much rain all at once. and so people have been forced from their homes, thousands of people. this is our mon sooner boisterous, still hanging around and we do have heavy rainfall alerts and play for the indian state of carola on monday. but really anywhere in the zone we do run the risk of seeing some more flooding. same goes for this tropical storm that we have that will turn to a typhoon on monday. moving away from the philippines, drifting west in the south china sea. and you know for the northern philippines, extreme flood advisories in play. but you're catching a bit of a break on monday as this system starts to track toward china's high 9 island. now
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go into china. temperatures have fallen across the yellow river valleys, so young joe 18 degrees, but still keeping that warmth there for the game. see, and the pearl river valley, so not too far away in boiling 29 degrees, possibly 30 for you. on monday showers are plugging all of japan's islands. so q shoe, chicago, honju and ho cato. and we could see some thunder downpours here. shower is never too far away from tokyo. the height of 23 degrees. that trip the seal later. ah ah, ah ah
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ah ah. and again, you're watching out 0 mind about top stories is, are and thousands of protesting in the french capital against the rising costs of living in the government's response to climate change. at least 4 people have been killed. 61 injured in their own, after fire, broke out at the prison inter on president. she's in pink, says china must ensure that hong kong is ruled by what he calls. patriots made the comments of the communist party congress and bait ging the case. new chancellor has
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promised to fix public finances after his predecessors, economic plans led to chaos. jeremy hunt says he will increase taxes and title controls on public spending. was a court thing announced a string of unfunded tax cuts last month causing panic in the financial markets. hun says some difficult decisions will have to be made and happy. we are going to have a very big ah, fiscal statement, a bit like a budget in which we set out the, the tax and spending plans for several years ahead. and that's going to be independent, verified by the office for budget responsibility. we been honest that it was a mistake not to do that in the many budget before i'm not taking anything off the table. i want to keep as many of those tax cuts as i possibly can because our long term health depends on being a low tax economy. andrew simmons is in london and says that the financial situation is and good lives. trust is rivals and that life jeremy hunt is,
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is saying that he is gonna have to raise taxes or at least deferred taxes rather than cut them. i mean that's the polar opposite to which are all policy lines were coming from. the prime minister list truss is fighting for her job. she hasn't only really angered many conservative m p 's who never supported her. she's also angered those who did supporter because she's run like a bull as a gates, as has been described, a wizard. these are new plans of radical plans. frightened, the city frightened, the british people crushed the economy and ready got the country into an embarrassing mess. so ready. one might think the damage is already done, but no, it's possible she could handle. it's possible, but it depends on the markets. it's not so much your colleagues in westminster here . it's the markets that will dictate what happens next. and there will be the that
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the currency markets and the lending markets on monday. the hope is that there'll be some sign of hope that a but that's not guaranteed because facts or fats and the bank of england is, is already warning. the governors already said that there's looks like there be another one percent right. rise in interest rates. that's not going to impress the city, and that's not going to press the i m f either. so it's, it's a pretty, it's a pretty tent situation to say the least of one that's worrying a lot of people. it's just a fortnight. go until brazil's presidential run off opposition candidate really to silver, his taking his campaign to voters in a stronghold that the president joy, boston, or his promise to bring change to people living in reggie dearest, poor neighborhoods, one can yonah care has this report? oh oh. or rear sight for
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these voters in rio de janeiro. a presidential candidate campaigning in a place dominated by drug traffickers and violence. just 4 months ago, 20 people were killed during a police read here in the complex wood while m. o. a sprawling brick and cement network of fidelis or slumps, left as former leader wheezy, national, or the silver promised that their lives would change as they hand during his last presidential term. i doubt that you will find any construction from incumbent president shy of both scenarios here or in any prevail in the state. but even people who benefited from social projects during less presidency more than 10 years ago and moved from shacks to these government built apartments are divided. we're gonna join w by go where we don't believe in promises. president bush, not as promised, nothing but has given emergency aid to face the pandemic as a consequence of the when ukraine bill gilmore girls have been i f,
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i voted for bows to narrow in 2018 because the economy was in the dumpster. i changed my vote to lola after i survived a heart attack this year. thanks to the public hospital. he built next to my house is, are you ready for me? and i'm pissed we're community leader by cim causes novice remembers how life changed after the police pacified the far vella was government built a huge cable car system transforming the complex would want to move into an international attraction. voters here are looking back at more prosperous times. when money was being invested in these communities, i head of the 2016 olympic gaines. $50000.00 torres seems to come to this vella every week and they would buy arts and crafts and little stores here. they would go to parties, there were bars, there were restaurants, there were even hotels to stay over night. now, all of that is long gone. all american v victory minimum people felt abandoned the
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money dried out of violence. his back corruption scandals made many loose face and politicians to the point that they voted for bull sonata, who says he'll fight violence with more violence. instead of investing in education, loudy on a soda was one of the disillusion. she had opened a bar to cater to tourists, but was forced to shut it down there. bayshore it is. they closed the cable car from one day to the next. nobody comes here any more. she says she'll vote for lula . she hopes he'll fix the cable car and transformed the slums. once again, monica and i give al jazeera rio de janeiro. at least 20 people have been killed in a bus crash in southwestern columbia. more than a dozen injured reports indicate the bus flipped over on the road between the cities of pesto and poppy. an authority say a mechanical fault may be to blame, directs the prime minister to let the fleshy is set to form a new government. after months of unrest, but around the capital, small political policies have been gathering to remind the government they want
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radical change, saying buzz. robbie has more now from by the the bread freedom. a government for the people. as iraq's new prime minister begins forming his government, a group of smaller political parties with no warmed wings, communist and reformists young and old men and women, met in both dog calling themselves the forces for democratic change. they want officials to stop bickering and get to work. i need to know when the next one, those who govern to feel the suffering of the people iraqi blood has become so cheap. we have lost our national treasures. our waters are gone dry. there is widespread unemployment and suffering in the past. iraq was a top ranking country now where at the bottom of the list decades of decline in
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iraq, some say has happened at the hands of people in power who came out of nowhere. early charlotte, the 2 political islamic forces to those in power to extremists with a she has sunni occurred. we say you've ruined iraq, you stole it, you destroyed it. they came on the back of american tanks and a loyal to intelligence agencies of countries like it on saudi arabia and so on. all of them have iraqi blood on their hands and have stolen public wealth. all of them corrupt the consensus here, replace old faces with new ones. iraq's future is secular and the best governments focus on the common good can. i took all of this month, but we didn't want symbolic government says that doing nothing. we want government that takes action crease, jobs fights, poverty event, services repaid roadside like softer the agriculture and private sectors seems to want the message from iraq in this is
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a higher status good than they are. the alternate and the old guard political players that are dominating the national conversation. right. but not the only one on the political dialogue, not division unity and love. children are the future. it's the kind of idealism that may seem out of place in iraq's political landscape. but iraqis, hearsay, that is exactly what their country needs. zane basra, the al jazeera book dog. there's been a 2nd night of violence in the tangible neighborhood, a tunis confrontations between protest as in security forces and began since friday, after the death of a young man. family says he was killed by security forces. the chin is in ministry of interior is yet to comment. uganda has restricted movement in 2 districts as it tries to contain the spread of a bowler. officials declared an outbreak of the virus in september at least 19 people have died. president, you are the most of any says people won't be allowed in or out of the affected
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areas. there will be an overnight curfew and pause jims and places of worship will be closed for 3 weeks. cynical hers one of the largest solar farms in west africa, president mackey sol wants to burn fossil fuels to meet growing energy needs. he says a natural gas reserves will bring development. nicholas hack reports now from elton goron. in northern cynical it took an accident. the loss of life and an act of kindness to bring power to more false village in northern senegal. when his son by heart saved a visiting german family from a fatal car accident. a small donation of solar panels followed irreversibly. changing the village. food no longer goes rotten faults, grandchildren can study at night, suddenly european football, even hollywood shows, made their way into his living room. changing the villages perspective on the world are deliver. this is in the work of the state much. it's thanks to my son. he
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maintains the panels are from the batches. if we had to wait for the government to bring power to my home, i will still be wishing to day and living in the dark. and yet, a short distance away off the coast are large untapped reserves of natural gas that could light up the entire village. but with the signing of the 2015 paris agreement, most countries agreed to stop the use of fossil fuels. setting up the president believes that's unjust climate, just as he says is the right to use his country's resources and burn the pudding, fossil fuel, in order to bring power to his people from an absolute law normal. it's not normal or fair or to ask own countries of which half the population does not yet have access to electricity demand. to ask those countries to abandon traditional energy resources and switch to renewable energy. it's not
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acceptable. while synagogue continues to mostly rely on heavy fuel in diesel powered plants and it has some of the largest solar farms in west africa, thanks to german and french investors. after the 2015 paris agreement, bringing power to senegal into other sun drenched african countries meant investing in this green energy. but since the russia ukraine war, it seems that priorities have shifted both for african and european countries. europe can no longer rely on russian gas. germany and france are now looking to africa, including senate gulf gas reserves to meet their power needs. the fear of a looming energy crisis means some countries appear to be turning their back on the paras agreement. now, senegal is under pressure to provide fossil fuel energy to europeans while it's people look towards the sun for power.
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