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few places where they milked them for their venom. this is the red cross snake bomb regional hub, and t been in the production lube center produces enough and you've been them to most of southeast asia. there are some parts of the world where supplies desperately showed. ah, an opposition boy caused for says a low turnout intermediate 1st election under its controversial new constitution. oh, hello i mary, i'm to mozy in london. you're watching algae 0 also coming on on the program, he grew asia briggs,
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moroccan hawks winning the world cup, place playoff and setting off jubilant scenes in zagreb. who's protest, death toll rises as the president pleads for congress to approve early elections and returning fire. crime shows the russian control city of done yet a day off to 70 missiles right down on peeve and other major centers. ah, welcome to the program. counting is underway to needs is national parliamentary elections. the electoral commission says provisional turnout was just below 9 percent. with the opposition parties boycotting the vote. this is the 1st poll being held under tony's years controversial, new constitution opposition supports as are demanding president chi side step down . they say this election is illegitimate after he expanded presidential powers last
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year. a garage? yeah. i address all traditions, invoked is to say the on the revolution anniversary, this is your historic charms. you are great people in tune is urine everywhere in the world. so do not lose this chance and listen to your conscience in order to regain your legitimate rights. ash marlborough brings us more on the story now he's reporting from tennis. this is definitely a setback for president places. i it because when the high election committee announced a while ago here, the voter turnout, which was that less than 9 percent. this is the lowest vote at turnouts. is the thought of democracy in tennessee in 2011. and there was a general sentiment that elections in a way would be providing some sense of popular support for the series of decisions that were taken by president isis. i it says 2021. now president remains defiant.
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has said that this is an historic opportunity for the people to take their faith into their own hands, to be able to establish a permanent strong justice and democracy. but people are becoming more concerned about their future. because if you remember when democracy was established, the backbone of that democracy was gender parity was faced away for women to have a bigger se and political parties which were competing with their own ideas and visions for a better representation in the gover, in the parliament. and then a poverty, a parliament, which was by far the most vibrant active parliament in this part of the world. now, with the changes that were introduced in 2021, political parties have been under mine. the, the, the power of the parliament has been diminished and the president has been consider dating dead, his age, his powers. and this is why people's thought to be concerned about that future class. the fact that the country has been suffering economically wither inflation,
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which stands a temper, cent or 11, which is the highest ever. and also with the foot prices which have been sky rocketing a think this has given people some sense of anxiety about the future. and this explains the voter of apathy that well side sacked his government and suspended parliament in july last year is opponents accused him of staging, a qu, but sight argued that he acted legally to rescue denisia. he went on to award himself powers to rule by decree. in september 2021. in march, members of parliament tried to reverse the president's decisions, said, responded by dissolving parliament in june side, sax, dozens of judges. the rest of the judiciary went on strike. and a month later, people voted in a referendum on a new constitution that strengthened the presidency and weakened the powers of parliament referendum passed. but ton out with lo,
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it was boycotted by many political parties, are slim was ages the president of the war. i can boon network a leading, teasing election observation group. he joins me now from tunas. what is your hello that? what is your assessment of this election? the assessment is this turnout is the lowest or notes in 2011. we saw that the turn out doing there for them that have been held. and here on the 25th of july or the last one, but this one is lower than this one. so we are really, let's say disappointed about this low level of participating. what does this mean? are we going to see more in already? it's a very polarized, fractured political situation in the country. is that likely to get worse? could we see consensus politics? which is that have been a strength at least for some years in tunisia,
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is going to completely disappear and basically move towards a presidential system. honestly, i love sera society organization, we observe that what was a service is a very unique moment, but then what should be done and what could be done in the few upcoming days or weeks, or months. it seems to the political stakeholders to, to decide, to, let's say, to like to jo, listen and go for her. based on this low turn out. let me ask you this, you say that your civil society organization and one of the, the real strength denisia is that there is a very strong culture of civil society. you must speak to many people in the country. how do they, how did different people in different regions reflect on the successes and failures
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of the last decade? if there is no consensus about that, but let's say there is a huge success during the last decade. one of them is the, we're all in society. also the freedom of press. however, since since 2 months we, we lost in the will, the, although we participatory way that we will use it to, to, to use during the last the case. so we are lost in the participatory approach. the market, the last decade since few month. so just to be clear, you're saying that this is sort of, that the divisions a getting was not just in politics, but also on the streets. do we see more polarization? because there has been a great deal of criticism and condemnation of these moves made by president chi site. he says that it's necessary in order to bring in reforms or to crack down on
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corruption of the say that it's a blatant power. grab how strongly the people feel about this inside the country. i don't say like with borrows ration is, is more reasonable. however, the, the economy can social crisis is more important right right now. and clearly the low turn out underlying the fact that election and these, the solution as it has been insuring and into the new electron low as amended. there were century is not answering 2 people expectation and thermo economic expectation and social expectation. just a quick quantify, can i ask you about the economic situation? inflation is now at double digits at 10 percent. the cost of living prices youth unemployment is also very high. how is that likely to play out with the possibility
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of an i'm a bailout and the the opposition of the, the unions to any sort of public sector wage cuts and things like that. and as already is existed by them and union indonesia, we need to have an inclusive approach when we are talking about through form, including the content from themselves. so, so far we run the heating in a way that we are gathering together to figure out about what would be the solution for denisia. well, thank you very much. i do appreciate you taking time to speak to us there from tune as slim was aid from the or i can boon network. thank you very much. ah. or krasier, again celebrating another stat iran at a well kept winning 3rd place, pay off matching cattle, breaking moral can hearts along the way. they want the bronze medal beating moral
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code to one at the really for international stadium pro. she took an early need before morocco swiftly equalize. but miss of ari, such as pinpoint shot, proved to be the winner. and there were jubilant scenes in the main square in croatia, capital zagreb, after that victory ratio has a population of only about $4000000.00 people. but that's not it producing remarkable football teams since gaining its independence from a former yugoslavia in the 19 ninety's. gonna bring you more reaction and all the days developments, of course, looking had to tomorrow's well from doha. oh, gonna have a update from zagreb and casablanca and woke up today. that's my team, ain't about 20 minutes time. want to take you to peru now where the new present dina bowl, why taste, urging congress to pass a bill to bring for general elections in a national address. will i to said she won't resign despite the escalating hotel demonstrate as a demanding early polls and the release of the formerly to pedro castillo?
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now he was impeached and then detained on charges all the rebellion and conspiracy last week. and that sparked the unrest. here is john home and joins me live now from lima. tell us what's happening and we just outside actually the headquarters of a political party with loop and also the confederacy on that. come pacino's, come pacino's are like smooth scale farmers here, and you can probably see the riot police spread around. just as dina blew up the was given the speech that you were mentioning, talking about peace and unity. we're, we've been peruvians. anti terrorist police were actually searching the headquarters of those 2 organizations inside of this building. they said they were looking for weapons and also terrorist propaganda probably see on the sign that these people are holding up. they say we're heroes of piece. we're not terrorists.
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and we want the resignation of fina blue out the so a lot of different organizations here, especially on the left, all cooling for the resignation of female blue, up the, the president here for about 10 days. she was the vice president of federal custody you until he was in peach and entertain. she's tooken taken over that position. i think there's alarm bells ringing here because of the searching of the headquarters of this political parties confederation which opposed tina blew out and, and opposed to the actual situation in the country. they say that there wasn't a warrant that the terrorist terrorism unit just sorts of storm did. there were still more than 20 people inside of that building being held while they statement being taken. some of those are textual speakers, so it's hard without, without a translation translate to sorta originally present that. so those saying this alarm bells ringing right now, because this is a situation in which peru is under emergency, a state of emergency,
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which means that the army is on the streets as well as the police in the press conference that you mention marion. it wasn't just being able to walk. the speaking needed be off the to army general stood up and spoke says a sense hid the process that might be dying down with being a heavy hand used to do it. and opponents of deena blew out, they would say that the situation we have here, the searching the political policy in the confederation of cum pacino's is an example of how is congress handling this stand occasion? location is squeezed by protests on one side and congress fighting on an early election on the ela, yet that's completely correct. she's in a really precarious position. and she was actually really keen to emphasize that in the speech, she said, i put forward the dates for an early election, which is basically what all the protests is. one of the one pedro castillo jane
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about some of the one a constituent assembly in a new constitution. but all of the, eventually it stopped fresh, fresh elections and get someone voted. remember that she's in the course. she was the ex vice president. now she's put forward a couple of dates, 1st of april of 2020 who and then later on, december 2023. that went to a vote in congress and they decided against that. so her cool is listen. i'm trying to get the full, moving on this one. congress are the ones that are holding it up. if there's any pressure right now, it should be on congress. should mention as well that congress is an institution that, peruvians, you really don't trust, incredibly low approval pose even lower than ex president federal castillo before his house does to. this is not a popular group of people here, this scene as a sort of elitist, lima political group that haven't shown you sufficient consideration of the rest of the country, especially the rule call. and they've got more involved in fighting and political
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drama within the so thank you very much for explaining it. well, john, hallman and lima, thank you. alkie 0 from london was still to bring you on the program. corruption, scandal deepening division to south africa governing policy is meeting to elect, new leadership and legacy of councils wildcard designed to be flat acts of refugee counts around the world. ah, let's start with the good news. there's a warm up coming to the northwest of europe personally. so here's the details all has to do with his what weather in the atlantic. it's going to drive up warmer air from the south. so already we see that 5 degrees in paris on sunday, but wait, it gets better. here's the forecast on monday dark, the yellow,
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the higher the temperature. we're in double digits, london at 12. even scandinavia starts to see its temperature is pop up to ok back to the here and now a central europe just a few clouds around, but cooler air digging into sophia bulgaria. big drop in the temperatures there in time winds have shifted around and we've got some what weather for. it's stumble. so you're down to 15 degrees on sunday. and for the other side of the mediterranean, we got that storm system that we were talking about for the northwest. it's going to move in to iberia. and this is going to impact flight hit areas of portugal, including lisbon as we head toward monday. for the top end of africa, fairly quiet. here are a few showers, though, for southern denisia on sunday, but where the bulk of the action is, is southern africa round and moves and beacons and bob waste some big downpours here. now, at the same time, things have cleared up for the western cape province in south africa. cape town has hi of 23 degrees on sunday. that's a snapshot of your weather bye for now. ah
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buchan back a look at main stories of following this hour. now, counting is underway in tunisia is national parliamentary elections. electoral commission says provisional turn out was just below 9 percent, with opposition parties boycotting the vote. co sure of one 3rd place, the well copied cattle, busy morocco to one now all eyes on france and argentina for sunday's final and perusing. you present dina boy days urging congress to pass a bill to bring forward gen when elections in a national address follow. they said she will not resign despite the escalating protests. now in other news, rushing back to thirties and ukraine's eastern city of danny ask say 3 people were wounded and missile strikes by ukrainian forces shedding, occurred in the bodine of ski district where people have been clearing the rubble so called danielle people's republic is one of the 4 areas moscow annexed in september in a referendum, described as a sham by ukraine in its allies. strikes,
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follow fridays, wave of russian attacks when more than 70 missiles were fired at targets across ukraine. useless. i heard 2 shells landing one i heard for sure. the 2nd one was like in a fault of our own house, was destroyed. so he came here to live with our friends. and now this, you see meanwhile, ukrainian authorities are working to restore electricity and water supplies across the country after fridays attacks. the missiles, her clinical energy facilities and forced the government and key of to implement emergency blackouts. nationwide, charles stratford in kia has more on this. yes, they was one of the largest barrage of missile attacks on ukraine since this war began. $76.00 missiles launched multiple targets, predominately energy targets, energy infrastructure across the country, 60 of which, according to the ukrainians,
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were intercepted in the last couple of hours, the president followed him. is lensky has said that electricity has been restored to 6000000 homes across the country. but it was only a couple of hours ago that we heard from the man of the capital city saying that at least 25 percent of residents in cave was still without heat. so it is still a very dire situation, both here in the capital city and multiple areas across the country. of course, vladimir putin, the kremlin, has said that this targeting of energy infrastructure is completely legitimate. he says that these are targets for the connected to the ukrainian military. that is something that is completely obviously refuted by the ukrainians and. ready western backers that are continuing to say that these, this targeting about to
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a war crime for the sheer number of civilians that are affected by these attacks. we've been speaking to residence in kiev. and they saying that they're following the in the public domain, the schedules that the government has laid out, made available to the public saying for example, your electricity is going to be cut off from this hour to this hour. be prepared for the residents. a saying that those schedules are inaccurate, possibly an indication of the kind of pressures that the authorities here under, in trying to restore as much electricity in eat as they can. internationally acclaimed iranian actress, her an alley to stay has been arrested. charges against her not known, but iranian state media is reporting she's been detained because of recent negative comments about the executions of protest of last month. she posted a photo of herself without a headscarf holding assigned reading women life freedom. have been protest in iran
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since september when 22 year old man. i mean, he died in police custody to south africa now where the governing african national congress is electing its leadership. is it battles corruption scandals. internal riffs and declining public support. delegates were in your hand, his book for the votes, present 0 rom opposes running for reelection. as the parties leader on friday, protest is disrupted, is opening speech. i'm a posters come on to fire recently after an independent panel thought he might have violated his oath of office for me to mila has more on this from johannesburg. one of the key issues around that is the, the verification of at least $4500.00 delegates attending the elective conference at least perhaps 10 percent of those delegates who are due to vote. haven't been verified. we've heard from some of them who have complained about the verification process, which we've seen every elective conference,
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but for some reason there seems to be administrative issues this time around which the course has delayed proceedings. there are a number of policy documents, as well as various committees that have to get under way ahead of the vote. so because of all of this, it's uncertain when the vote will take place. but ultimately for this conference, it's the vote of not only the president of the agency, but also 5 of the top officials that is most important to give them that it will direct the future of the a and see ultimately, especially at a time when the party and the leadership are facing the number of challenges, including the allegations of the ford and corruption of the governance running of south africa, south africans experiencing rolling blackouts. the economy is also performing slightly better than it did during covert 19, but many would say there's a lot of room to improve and of course,
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high level of unemployed people. so these are some of the issues a conference like this would have to tackle at some point, aside from dealing with the voting top membership, twitter restore the accounts of several high profile journalists that was suspended by new boss in on mosque. he made the announcement offered an online poll on friday, where most people voted for immediate reinstatement. mosque said the reporter, shed private information about him saying, endangered. his family allan rest is growing in jordan because of high fuel prices. there a police officer was killed, a protest in the southern region of on, on thursday, adding to tensions over the rising cost of living fence and monahan has more these drivers are on strike. fuel prices in jordan have doubled in the past year. for many, it's making life a daily struggle. this banner shows one word to sum up their demand dignity. in the
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manner we joined the strike when we felt the effect to the extremely high fuel prices by fuel prices mean higher transportation costs, which in turn mean spike and prices of goods used by jordanians. but while most rallies are peaceful, anger is growing. more and more people are joining the protest open, resulting in confrontations with the police. on thursday, a senior police officer was killed in my province, shot in the head. during a demonstration, the king attended the funeral, a show of support for security forces. dozens of officers have been injured in recent unwrap. the government has promised a 0 tolerance approach to violence and the 100 lug we are dealing with the situation and we won't pay any effort to crack down on whoever destabilize is public order. we are required by law to uphold or responsibilities and duties to preserve public security. protesters, one taxes on fuel cancelled,
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but with global energy prices soaring since russia's invasion of ukraine. the government says it's doing all that camp. it's spent around $700000000000.00 capping fuel prices this year. it's also promised financial aid to vulnerable families. but these protests are say, that made very little difference. and if conditions don't improve, the unrest is likely to grow. vent. monahan al jazeera somali as president has warned against complacency, over threats of famine and his country suffers one of the worst droughts for decades. as sancho mahmoud told al jazeera, it's one of several crises he's been dealing with since taking office in may. the so my there as multiple crisis bliss that's true regarding the drought that are there to see this throughout the know the 5th, but with the effort to of the so my low government and with the support of the international community right now, i can see temporarily we are,
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but it does have mean that is not for me right now, but still that are risk is looming. look, we want through the civil war. clowns fighting against gland moves, functions, and instructions. we want all through this, but we are out of now. now the only conflict we had is with the terrorist groups. yes, a society in everywhere that are local level conflicts is here and there, but not do killing a lot of people are dying. a lot of people violent conflict now in somalia is the extent of mr. groups violence and you can see the full exclusive interior. somali is present on up front at 0430 g m t on sunday. also online al jazeera dot com, forward slash up front. now long lines of informing klemmer's horns in china's capital bay chain office surgeon corona vars. cases work as a funeral homes have been calling in sick off the testing positive leaving the
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facility is overwhelmed by high demand. pharmacies worn, the new wave of infections could spread to the countryside in the upcoming public holidays. china was not released covered fatality figures since december 7th and officials of property relax 0 public policy. i'll plan on career is marked the 11th anniversary of the death of its formerly the kim jong il civilians and soldiers in the capital. pyongyang offered flowers at the foot of the bombs statues of the former leader. earlier this week, his son and leader kim jong unsupervised the testing of high thrust fuel engines. the number of people confined to have died in a landslide to a malaysian camp site has risen to 24. the torrent swept through the unlicensed camp site and getting highlands outside quite limp on friday night burying people, sleeping intense 9 people still missing. now outside of the wall cup action cats are,
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has been eager to use the tournament to highlight several global initiatives. one of its priorities is supporting refugees and internally displaced people. rhetoric jason b was at the fee for fall festival, and dong. different cats are always wanted the impact of this tournament to be felt far beyond doha shows. and with that in mind, they have announced that 27 of these sustainable tense will be sent to camps full internally displaced people and refugees in syria, turkey and yemen. the tents are based on a prototype by renowned british iraqi architect. zahid is going to be a permanent legacy of the us to g pavilion in these conflict affected countries for really some of the most marginalized populations in the world who couldn't make it to the world cup. but this is the legacy decrease to hunt. this is what the ted looks like from the inside. now this is the brain child of a category foundation called education above all that is now working with the un
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and the cat. all right, present to get these tense where they need to be east tense. the way they have been put together that are module to sign that can be easily flat packed, and shipped across the world. they're relatively easy to put together. there are also extremely sustainable nachos because of the materials that they use, but because i've been part of its entire to sign a static organizes hope, the projects like this one will ensure that the middle east bus will cup will be remember for more than just a full week football tournament, amazing though that was and it will leave a legacy in countries that desperately need help. ah, just a great look at my stories are following the sour. counting is on the way to nisha is national parliamentary elections with the electoral commission saying the provisional turn out was just below 9.
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