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ah frank assessments, if the united states that you're running a good program was there to build a nuclear weapon, they would find a deal by informed opinions. i believe that armenia and other regions should have bilateral negotiations. we've been calling that for many times. critical debate is the commonwealth now still something that king shops will take in depth analysis of the data global headlines inside story on al jazeera. we don't simply focus on the politics of the conflict. it's the human suffering that we report. i. we brave bullet bomb and we always include the views from our sites. ah, there will be a house, things all, all by race begins to elect the u. k. is new prime minister, formerly the bars johnson and previous challenger, richie sudak,
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expected to be in the fray. i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative policy is trusts, resigns after a chaotic 6 weeks and office becoming brittany shorter serving prime minister. ah, i'm sam is a dan. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up, crane, eons, a told to charge their appliances as russian missiles rained down on power plants causing electricity carts more than a 1000000 people in chad, devastated by france. president declares a state of emergency. ah, we begin this hour in the u. k. where the race to a leg to new prime minister has begun. the chairman of the conservative party says,
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party members will elect the candidates for britons highest job through an online vote. a threshold of a 100 members of parliament nominating a can do. this allows for 3 candidates potentially to come forward. we clearly have no knowledge of who those candidates will be at this point. under simmons joins us now from downing street. we had the state and they take us through andrew, who will process the process now of getting yet another prime minister for britain . yes indeed. or jake perry, the conservative chairman and graham brady, the or at the 1922 committee chair at half m. outlined how they will do this and that basically, they want to make it as fast and efficient as possible that they have raised the bar of a number of votes. each candidate has to get is it's a minimum of
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a 100 votes. and so that means that technically the could be 3 candidates are going through, but it's more likely to be to it might even be worn if the conservative and peas come to the viewpoint that there has to be a unity candidate. now can we bring the factions together? some feel as unlikely, but there is a great need for speed because of the whole situation being so critical with the markets and with the need to get to october. the 31st for the fiscal review, which will put things into us a solid place with the way forward in terms of cuts and increases in budgets and, and in also in and certainly in budget because they're all have to rather be frozen or cut and earned and moving forward now that the conservative membership is the key issue in all of this because the vote in the summer was all drawn out and confusing for so many people and ended up with
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a candidate that the conservative party didn't want liz trust or the conservative party that is in parliament. they didn't want mistrust it was, was she su neck or who was the choice? was she soon like? is the favorite or all those are coming through. although it's got likely to be a division now because she sooner is blamed by can lot of concert of that. and please, for effect to be stitching up quote, unquote, ah, his boss for his johnson who was prime minister at the time. and who was a leslie stabbed in the back as that term goes. and boys johnson is actually going to be a putting his name forward. so that's a possibility. but only a possibility, penny mordant, a could be the so called unity candidate because she has a she has favor in lots of parts of the conservative party. so, honey mordant, is the leader of commons. we saw her a stand in for the prime minister when the labor leader on tuesday wanted to ask questions of the prime minister. the prime minister didn't appear at the time
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address trust and i was ducking, but worn and was seen later on with her new a chancellor beside her new chancellor who was ripping up all of her policy. now, there is one other could possible contender and that is ben wallace, the defense minister. he is seen as a safe pair of hands, or he is dealt with the ukraine conflict. well, it's feel it's felt throughout the party. so there you have those, those 4 are likely contenders and a process that would ain't put in place. a new prime minister technically if there's a warm unity candidate. it could be on monday because that's when the hustings will start. and andrew, you got to take us through as well, i guess some of the names, and he mentioned them how it's forming up that indications of who's in the running and how it's looking well, it, it is looking at it in terms of the favorites as wish he soon act is or is,
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is the thought to be the natural contender. he, he is a former chancellor, a more or less what sir? the new chancellor. a who's standing johnson, that is now that he is actually, i am basically laid out a whole raft of measures involving reviews for each department. and that of that set of circumstances would be easily transferred to richie sooner. because richey sudak feels the same way as, as mister hunt m b, jeremy hum really, really is a, it is a die hard man who wants to calm the markets now as she soon acts similar. so he's a natural fit. there is just this issue of, of the, of the former prime minister barak johnson because barnes johnson m. what was, was furious about her where she soon at going behind his back and being part of hitler of, of his undoing. so that could split the vote. whereas penny mordant,
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a scene as a possible unity candidate. not sure this is a very divided party that does the crisis that's been seen has split the conservative party into into factions even more than it normally would do. things go right back to 2019. when the e r g of the european, a research group which is a right wing of the parties, pro brexton, it pushed for breaks it. it got behind bars, johnson made sure he was elected. the e r g is, is, is very, very angry that they've see that moderates moved in. and we're seeing a situation whereby the, you know, with, with the, with, with that jeremy hung coming in he, he is a safe pair of hands. but he is a very much, a moderate, conservative center ground, and they are annoyed about that. they're annoyed that they want, they want a candidate of their own. they want to see, they don't want to see that their policies are going to be overrun by one nation conservative for the future. so this is not
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a good situation where people are going to get a unity candidate. so it remains to be seen, but there is a real critical aspect to this. there will be online voting by the conservative party members. there won't be hostings all over the country like last time it has to happen quickly. and so there is a feeling of urgency in the conservative party. now, the whole thing has been a fast moving drama, a fast at times and the conservative party, it has seen the massive damage done to it, and the economy also very badly damaged. so markets very much have been to the for, but the party just may have taken his eye off the ball about how unpopular they become and how worse it's been getting. they've got a big, big aircraft carrier to turn around effectively. and that is going to be a massive job. all right, thanks so much. andrew simmons there in san diego now has more or less trust as turbulent time as prime minister resigning off to just $44.00 days. and all 5th
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brought down by the failure of her own policies, policies that lead to new economic meltdown. and an astonishing loss of support from her and peace, ministers, and own party members. i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. i have therefore, spoken to his majesty the king to notify him. the i am resigning as leader of the conservative party author to mulch was 24 hours that saw the suspension of one of trust, the senior aides, the dismissal of a home secretary. when abraham and i'm waiting, the chief and deputy whipped not to walk out after a chaotic voice and call them to the oh, to support the trust was rapidly ebbing away. stepping down and inevitable. the attempt to instigation on popular economic package on tax cuts
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sent the markets reeling, sending the pound, plunging. in a bid for political survival, she sec to finance minister quasi qua tang with whom she devised the policy. replacing him with former foreign minister jeremy hunt to reverse the controversial plan. and despite this rallying cry, message said, i am a fighter and she did. the question now is number 10, the man running the contest to replace trust says they expect to have a new conservative leader and prime minister by friday next week. so we should have a new leader in place before the fiscal statement, which will take place on the 31st. the content does include the chancellor. we should do not, but there was still anger in the policy of his part in bringing down boris johnson . penny morden leader, the house of commons to also last the previous leadership campaign that may have
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convincing members she has enough experience. and as the country is facing a change of prime minister for the 3rd time in 3 months, the opposition is calling for a general election. we can't have a revolving door of tails. we can't have another experiment at the top of the tory party, but is an alternative, but that's a stable labor government of the public retitled to have their say. the hunt for the latest. conservative leader and u. k. prime minister is underway, sunny diego, alger zara. or i, charlie angela is outside parliament at westminster for so charlie, in hearing calls from the opposition for a while now for a general election. how is that call echoing now, amongst them pays off the list. trust his resignation in that building behind you? well, it seems to be reverberating around this building. my, me not just from the labor party, the liberal democrat party of most their m p 's and
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a lot of the smaller parties to that saying it's a democratic necessity, but a general election is very unlikely. there isn't one scheduled now until january 2025. a for mr. come earlier. it would have to be at the request of the prime minister here. any other alternative is if the house of commons tables a vote of no confidence in the prime minister. and that's been voted on, but because the conservative hold the majority, that would mean them voting against their own government. so that is incredibly unlike me, but to discuss this with me and for today's event is richard thompson, member of the scottish national party, an shadow of finance. secretary, thank you for joining us festival. what did you make of distresses resignation today is surprising. no. who didn't surprise me, told me norbish for some time that she was in difficulty, that she was terminally unsuited so little that should been frost. and so that should also short on the start of the week, it was clear should the number of hard boots to overcome both internally with
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a little parliamentary group. and also in terms of everything that was happening during the boat. so and she managed to clip each hard glitch, she went over it so it was no surprise that she, she went down to d. m. i think that the surprise is probably better just lasted so long, because i think the consensus has been that if the conservative parliamentary party had been able to find somebody that they could of united that owned should have been gone several days ago. or your body is another one that calling for a general election day. is that really what this country needs like on the market for just regaining some of that stability is uncertainty what the british people need. i think the uncertainty of what they've got with this government. and i think that the, we've seen that for the last time they were given the opportunity to elect a leader, the conservative party as a whole, awake to someone who was a, an economic fantasist, who sold them a, a vision that could never be delivered. whether it was on direction or whether it was on the economy. and i think the, the more the collision with reality that they've just had should be telling them
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that, that is nobody who can deliver that vision because it is simply undeliverable. i think the way that you actually do get the shortest path to some kind of stability is to hit the reset button on the whole lot and give people the chance to elect a new parliament. and we can see what comes out of that in terms of where the majority's for certain policy propositions, then why. but certainly in any election, my part of the scottish national party will be wanting to put the scottish interest absolutely. foremost in that good for the prime minister, who said that sure, our goal was to ignore the democratically elected 1st minister of scotland. nicholas dungeon, i think which you was trustful, were not be more than this play minister in that sense. under the sooner we can have something better, that will be all to the good. as i outlined, mechanism for general action just isn't there. how do you see this is happening? well, that could be through a hold of no confidence in the prime minister. it with the line conservatives voting that way, but i think if they recognized that the only way forward was a general election, then the mechanism would be found in order to do that. but right under the
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unwritten constitution we have in the united kingdom by a very much wish. this wasn't the case, but you're right, the rational route to that and it's whoever can command our majority in the house of commons. or i think it would be extraordinary signal, the democrats, a competitor for the election. and for the conservatives to foist, yet another on o, x would claim on is still on the people with no direct mandate from them or no action . so richard thompson, that, echoing those calls for a general election, which at the moment seem unlikely, but i would have said 24 hours ago that trust is resignation to day. looked quite unlikely. what we do know now is that nominations, the new tory leadership are open and they will close at 2 pm on monday, the candidates are expected to have at least a 100 votes of m. p 's backing them to progress to the next agent. and then we will have a new prime minister by friday, but the pressure is on and is one conservative and p robert generate put it. this isn't an ordinary leadership comp contest. if we get this wrong,
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the country will face a very serious period of further instability and the conservative party will lose the next general election and potentially cease to exist in strong words there from within the conservative party. all right, the from was thanks so much. charlie angela. so i had an al jazeera o protests across be occupied, westbank after israeli forces shoot dead, a palestinian man, they say children israeli soldier cutter marks one months ago and to its 1st world comp. ah, anticipation is rising. i saw with responsible cattle anyways. how low they will look to the middle east and live out. we've got to wear the disturbance and pull that's pulled out of the mediterranean re some heavy rains the
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likes of cypress as well as turkey. you can see it moving across into georgia as well, touching down some of those showers, moving across iraq. and we will see that wet or whether looking into jordan could possibly see some flooding around the dead sea. saudi arabia maybe seeing a shower too as well, but it is largely finer and dryer the further south we go. now as we move across to north africa, libya has seen some flooding. this was a scene in tripoli after some rain pulled down from the mediterranean. thanks to a disturbance there, we are like to see more heavy rain in the north west. over the next 24 hours we could see up to a $130.00 millimeters. and that could cause more flooding across that central band of africa. much of the rain has shifted further south to places like the democratic republic of congo and equitorial guinea. we are expecting some heavy rain here over the next few days, farther south of this much dryer for places like botswana. but we are seeing that
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wet weather pick up across namibia is going to intensify as well in the east of south africa. pulling up towards s were teeny, and southern parts of mozambique by saturday that she weather update to weather, sponsored by categories. ahh, a with with
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ah, welcome back. you're watching al jazeera time to recap our high blinds. now. britain's prime minister list trust has resigned. she'd come under pressure from within and outside. had policy during has 6 weeks and the job. you turns on policies, cabinet ministers, quitting, and accounting parliamentary vote made her position untenable. and now the race to elect the new leader of the conservative party begins. where she sooner who was run around to trust is expected to be in the race to replace her. also likely in the running of any moment and for prime minister boss johnson, a general strike is taking place across the occupied west bank following the death of a palestinian man. these rainy army says, killed one of its soldiers a day to mooney, lived in the shaw thought refugee camp where demonstrations of being held outside
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his home. protests are also being held in several other cities. the west bank israeli forces had been searching for to me for more than a week. they blockaded the refugee camp in an attempt to find him. what happened is, after days of looking for day tammy, by the israeli forces, he showed up, but this time he was committing another gun attack. he was killed in a shootout, and bow phineas after seeing the video of are they to mean shooting until what they say is the last breath. they've been hailing him as a hero, and they've called for a strike to day to mourn his death. many palestinians see that the fact that he was able to escape for that long and manage to do another attack shows the resilience of palestinian the young men. this is a language that we've been hearing over the past few months from several people in the occupied to a bank in several places, saying that this will only understand the language of force. this is why we've seen a lot of them conduct shooting attacks and go to confrontation points with these
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really forces. now another palestinian, a 16 year old. his name is mohammed noti. his funeral is taking place right now, and he has come to his room this morning after being shot at by israeli forces. on the 30th of september, he was participating in a protein that was called for after a 7 year old palestinian name that i am slay man, was he died and his family says he was scared to death because he was being chased by israeli forces. so as you can see, those funerals are usually essential point. they lead to more attention. so they show in a way, is that what israel says is that what does it work with city and with force will work with more force. doesn't really hold true when it comes to the palestinians. because the more funerals we see, the more tension escalates. and as you see today, there is a strike to mark and to show the level of tension. in the aspect, russia says it's false is are continuing to target ukrainian military and energy
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infrastructure. the defense ministry says it's using high precision, long range and air based weapons. several of ukranian cities, including the capital key of being hit this week, ukraine's president says the attacks destroy the 3rd of power facilities and force the government to impose electricity carts. o several residential areas in the capital have been hit by a barrage of russian. miss alden drone attacks. what up the hamid reports from keith building, 116 engine. yes, the street and central key was struck at around 8 21 in the morning. half of it was reduced to a pile of rubble. nadia, her husband and 2 cats lived on the ground floor. they were walking by an earlier explosion, then heard the sounds similar to a roar of motorbike and yet another explosion. no, we didn't hear any sound before. ah,
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the explosion exactly in our house. so the explosion in the house across the street, you hear this bit, but here that there was only the explosion sound. ah, so our cats height i in the bathroom, under the beth. ah, we was just, we were just shocked. and we were sitting and waiting. what's happening, i told my husband to close the guest system. and at the same time he looked at the window and said that this building is okay. so that means they hit us, our building multiple so cold kamikaze, drones have been launch against cave and other cities. ukrainians. call these drills. mopeds because of the buzz they make. why low to ring overhead. they do cause panic and anxiety because you don't know where they're going to hit. now these jones,
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i increasingly used in that tags beyond the front lines. the pattern is to launch them in swans towards several cities at the same time in a bit to overwhelm the air defense systems. building 116 was struck by one of several that weren't intercept. yeah, good, good is flat. share the wall with the building. he stood on the balcony and saw what he describes as a miniature jet hovering overhead. small plains that change their speed and direction. he says, and near bay power station could have been an intended target. you speak about critical infrastructure, but these are energy station that not far from my house is not effective. more than 10 years. during the last 10 years, our governors have a plan to restructure it. because it's an in it soviet
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construction. it's not effective and it's a useful also for small districts around it's a normal for modern infrastructure. that's why it's not a critical infrastructure with then is his grandmother lived under 3rd floor. she couldn't escape the impact her body was discovered under the rubble. 3 of her neighbors also lost their lives. the increased use of jones could indicate that russia is depleting its stock of cruise missiles or that western sanctions are working. but they have also been effective in destroying energy infrastructure. plunging parts of ukraine in douglas as the cold season is fast approaching. and that the mid al jazeera keith chad has declared the state of emergency is flooding impacts. more than a 1000000 people. rain has overwhelmed the cherry river that runs north close to the border with cameroon. nearly half the capsule in demeanor is under water,
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and the funding is also overwhelmed. the market town of co city on the other side of the river in cameroon. harding has more. no dry land in sight. waters have breached the banks of the cherry river outside chad's capital. and i thought we didn't know what we should do. we are now suffering. as you can see, the government has to make a decision to help us. we are now doing men's work because our husbands have passed away, and every one person has 6 or 7 children to take care of. 18 of the countries. 23 provinces are impacted. the president has declared a national emergency that got the stuff. this disaster is from climate change. it is one of the most severe the region has seen, and yet it's making it hard for people to keep their heads above water than
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on the other side of the river. in cameroon, a small market town has also been submerged. remember, level water in good, our house, i saved my children. then the house collapsed. now my think i and the water, and we can't recover anything, was actually rains cause flooding in this region every year. but it has never been this bad since sunday, thousands of people are estimated have been made homeless. you have it on day ticket since last year. the rain has handicapped me and i lost 2 children. the thank god, i recovered and i am on my feet now. but this here, it happens again and again, and now i'm a refugee so help with roads underwater. canoes are now the only way to get around and the river keeps rising. leah harding al jazeera exactly one month time because the world cup will kick off they'd so 1st to the middle east
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fee for president jennings and tina says the tournament will create memories that will last a lifetime. and the richardson reports the for some, the world cup party has already started this group of gone to fans live and work in cattle. they'll get to see that team play in a country. they've helped to transform just part of the problem as the head of world football has been underlining the message that this will be a world cup for all everyone will be welcomed to the tournament regardless of their origin. beg, ground religion, gender, sexual orientation or nationality. catalyst capital. doha is being ready for the arrival of more than a 1000000 football fans. while behind me here,
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you can make out the fee for the fan festival. that's where up to 40000 supports is can watch matches on big screens and, and in this direction, the main road along the sea front will be close to traffic from november, the 1st making way for what's being called a global st. carnival that can entertain up to 70000 people at any one time, or late stadiums or less than 40 kilometers away from the center of doha. never before will so many welcome fans be in such close proximity. what is the logistical challenge of making sure fans on match days are safely and swiftly moved around the country. you mentioned the challenges of the compact nature. i think again it's, it's more of the opportunity with the transport network that we have in katara, especially the public transport. and you know, i used the metro going to many matches during the arrow cup for example. and his incredibly convenient people come to the world cup to have a great experience. they come to meet different people from different countries. so i think that it's organic, it's natural, it just happens. so you have, you know,
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everybody from saudi arabia all the way down to morocco. i think mingle linger and catherine to has a diverse city in and of itself. catalyst national team of been in a 6 month training camp ahead of their woke up w. a build up designed to overcome the sporting odds statistically. ah, the chance of cut are beating the netherlands in a world cup are very small. hopefully, we can get a little bit of that togetherness, that creates a mindset on a spirit and a collective believe that the team is going to go out there and fight with everything they have. cats are, will kicked the world cup off against ecuador at our bait stadium. the team and the country insist they're ready to put on a world class performance. ah, and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to 0. now.

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