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murder with detailed coverage health officials say the transmission of this virus among humans is very rare, but they're worried peacock, the summer season is about to begin from around the world formula. so you probably be okay, living in a building like this, with blown up windows and the temperature plummets such conditions really take that home. ah, ukraine's precedence is on his way to washington to meet president joe biden. his 1st trip abroad since the russian invasion. ah, you're watching al jazeera light from headquarters in del hi. i'm danny navigator. also ahead of the ship. out of the some afghan female student speak out against the taliban decision to ban them from
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universities. a cabin at re shuffle and peru hours after the president wins. approval of congress to bring forward elections as she tries to. com political chaos. i'm more than 60000 malaysians are forced to leave their homes for safety is heavy floods hit the east coast. hello, ukraine's leader will land shortly in the u. s. capital to meet president joe biden, and his 1st trip abroad since russia's invasion in february for latimer zalinski posted on twitter that he hopes his visit will strengthen ukraine's resilience and defense capabilities. he's due to address congress and hold several bilateral meetings. washington has been keith's biggest supporter and it's fight back against the russians. alan fisher is joining us from washington d. c. so how significant does this visit all it well is being described by people
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speaking to here as significant symbolic and important. they know that they have been the biggest supporters of lead, amir zalinski from before. the thought of the russian invasion, which was 300 days ago to day. i know they want to show that support by speaking to him in person. he's reflecting that by making this the 1st place he's visited since the war began, that he'll be here at the white house in about 2 hours time. ill have a meeting with joe biden in the oval office. he's been here before just in 2021 before the war. he was here talking to the president this time it's a lot more important. he will then meet with joe biden's national security team among them, the joint chiefs of staff at the also there will be the secretary of state and the defense secretary. he has a shopping list that things that he wants. he believes that could help in the battle against russia. he won't get everything, but he will walk away with the patriot missile system. something that he's been asking for for a while, or take
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a while to train up people to do that. but the american say they will do that in a 3rd country and make sure that the ukrainians are able to defend themselves at this does not mean that there's a change in the american position over their approach to ukraine. they're not going to get involved in providing weapons that could be used offensively. the last thing they want to do is spot a full scale war with russia in central europe. after that meeting, there will be a news conference here in the eastern, at the white house, and then vladimir zalinski will go to congress to a joint address of the senate and the house. no, that's important. because at the moment there is discussion about how much money they are going to give ukraine in the coming year more than 20000000000 already invested in the ukrainians for the war. and now they're looking for a great deal more. but there are some republicans elected at in the last election, who were talking about the possibility of cutting funding to ukraine. the blood of
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your soleski will go on to the hill. he will talk about his pleasure at being there, his gratitude for the support that the americans have given. but he will also make sure that the money continues to flow, that the white house are saying this isn't a message particularly to some republicans. this is a message to the world and to vladimir putin. but you can be clear that vladimir zalinski wants to make it clear that while he's fighting the russians, he doesn't want to be fighting with his biggest ally, his greatest supporter to try and get more money to win. a war that he believes can still be one. all right, thank you so much. alan fisher reporting from the white house while president lance, his trip comes as the russian leader vladimir putin has in meeting senior defense officials. hootin said there are no financial limits on what his government would provide to the military. he's also approved the proposal to increase the strength of the armed forces by 30 percent would have been issuing it will. we was murdered in our army and military capabilities are increasing the yeah, constantly,
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every day. this process will make no mistake, will not be sped up. we others are as emerald as them. he has more on the kremlin reaction to president zalinski. his visits to the u. s. i'm for lucky to kind of to not go to little try le ontario. i must go, reacted to the announcement with a statement from the kremlin spokesperson. he said, russia is not expecting any positive results from valencia's visit to the united states yacht isaiah. he also added that, providing more weapons to ukraine, will prolong the conflict a marcella. the spokesperson also added their rushes position remains the same. yeah, i see condemning the united nations support to ukraine, particularly with weapons which might result in a direct confrontation with moscow. m. i walk regarding vermeer bruton meeting with leaders and commander of the defense ministry. he focused on the so called special operation in ukraine, and they discussed the results of the conflict. wouldn't accuse nato and the united states in particular, of trying to weaken russia through the prolonged conflict in the ukraine yet. why
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wouldn't said most i will do its best to increase its military capability. when also added moscow is ready with nuclear matter in order to maintain the stability of russia. well, the united states has been the largest provider of a to ukraine since the war began almost a year ago. since january 2022, the u. s. has provided nearly $50000000000.00 and assistance to ukraine. the largest contribution has been made through more than $20000000000.00 in military supports. over $15000000000.00 of financial support in the form of loans and aid through the economic support fund. and finally, around $10000000000.00 and humanitarian aid, meaning emergency, food and health care assistance, as well as refugee supports joining us here on site as mode one shot, he's al jazeera senior political analyst, and one according to reports. and what is the lead? he's going to get this time out of the u. s. u. s. is going to announce its largest single delivery of arms to create, including of course, those patriots surface to air missiles. congress is planning on voting on
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a spending package that includes about $45000000000.00 in emergency assistance. it put this into context for us and tell us how significant this is. well, clearly this is the biggest american commitment that you've seen probably since the end of the cold war. clearly for the united states, this is the most important conflict war in europe since the cold war. and hence, all stakes are at how zalinski the president of ukraine is going to be able to withstand the continued them a continued russian war in his country. i think the united states is banking on, on said on sky. they basically embraced him as a client of the united states in europe, and i think they are hoping that it will be him that will be able to teach russia a lesson because for the city has been an opportunity in order to limit contain and
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perhaps break up the russian regime at that for a long time now for some 2 decades. been inciting against as a nemesis of the united states as an emotional power, as, as a leader put in who wants to revise the soviet union of sort. or if i have russia nationalism. so i think the united states is certainly financing banking on investing in ukraine in order to basically fight russia by proxy. but the thing is there has been some scrutiny from members of congress, right. some republicans that are looking at the aid to ukraine and questioning why so much if it is going to the countries. so do you expect more of that specifically, when the republicans are set to take control of congress in the next few weeks? to be honest, i think there's more of american politics than american policy. i think the american policy has been set and i think the minority leader in the senate,
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mitch mcconnell, who's basically in charge of republican foreign policy in that sense, in the absence of republican. but i said them as already giving his blessing to the aid to ukraine. there is some nuance about how much military, how much it can amik aid and few within the republican congress that are debating how much and whether and i think it's more political maneuvering. and you can see that it is really setting policy because the part is set by the president and the leadership in congress. and i think both are fully behind supporting ukraine. we heard from the russian foreign ministry who said that the delivery of the advance surface to air missile system would be considered a provocative step. how do you think that russia is going to, is looking at what's going on today in the united states? i think putting,
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put it more clearly when he said we are fighting natal. they've been claiming that from the beginning that there's not about ukraine's not about zelinski. it's about nato in the united states. and i think a foot to up between by demons in scores or zalinski in congress is going to reinforce, put in the message slash propaganda. that this is all about the united states. this is a proxy war that russia is fighting ukraine, but ukraine remains as he put it today or yesterday, a brotherly country. imagine, after 8 to 8 months of war, he still considers your going to be a brotherly country about the nation. but that it's been manipulated as he put it by the united states that has been meddling in ukraine now for a number of years. of course, it's been going on for 2 years now since 2014, when russia and next crimea. and you were in those 8 years,
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the americans, chris kind of changed policy from obama to trump to by then. but by then we took the initiative before and certainly after the invasion of ukraine. now it's a full fledged war. the united states is involved by proxy, there's no doubt. and the delivery of patrick missiles is making or sending a message to russia that the united states will stay behind the ukrainians resistance of that occupation. and that they will up the game in the sense that now the next brushing fighter jet or ballistic missile, it's gonna fly over ukraine. there's going to be some serious defense system to different ukraine against. so the united states is heavily involved now, more than ever before. i think russia is suffering in this war version military, i mean, is suffering in this war. i think we're going to see more more escalation, put in is what been icing winter. and hence, winter is going to be a tough time for this war. we'll see how it goes. thank you so much for the on the
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shadow protest, subbing held in some cities and i'm gonna stop against the taliban decision to ban women from universities to ship all those issues. demonstrations in july about a couple people held signs, pledging solidarity with female students. girls have already been banned from middle and high school. earlier this month, the taliban allowed girls to write university entrance exams, even though many of them had missed months of classes under the ban. hassan con is an analyst, specializing and issues around the taliban and he explains. the taliban aren't united on women's education division. it's within the government. those who make what she and to be with the us, doha, have the not against women you question to you. why can't they, what gording that is being they and it is complicity what
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men and women how well and in the same way that i could have done the, the different minister who the one that was in the the, i mean by the hardliners prime ministers and then because there's only 5 people in what managing the whole team, now we have our own big data. national community is not accepting us, not i think us, so we are not, we are not ready. what is the, what it's getting that they believe that the why does not what you think on. so the only and we will on may her room president dina boulevard has carried out
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a major cabinet. re shuffle hours after winning approval of the congress to bring forward elections to april 2024. she's appointed a new prime minister and a finance minister. an early poll is one of protest or demands following the arrest, the former president petro castillo, who has seen widespread demonstrations and violence since castillo was impeached and imprison. 2 weeks ago. marianna sanchez has more from lima. it seems to proceed in the days just starting to to have a government, if you will, after these 2 weeks of political and social turmoil in the country, she has named her prime minister. she has brought up the defense minister a little that i love to be the new prime minister of having a chief up here in room. he has the experience of being a defense minister before
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a former defense minister with former president williams. my love, but she has kept her of her foreign minister food last night, declared the mexican ambassador. when on the after the mexican government gave asylum to the family of former president, fatal gas, you'll hear the outs. i'll type the embassy. everything is quiet. but last night, to the ambassador who had, who was ordered 72 hours to be able to leave a left with lillia. but it is the wife of president former president, see you and her 2 children to the airport. they are now in mexico. but now, president manuel, obviously a lot from mexico has said that relations between the countries will remain firm as they have always been still ahead on al jazeera, another strike action in the u. k. that's affecting hospitals,
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medical facilities across the country, and a discovery in the galapagos springs, the pink want to population back from the brink of extinction. ah, this is your weather update for the middle east and africa. thank you so much for tuning in. we are seen some showers, develop around western saudi arabia. we'll go in there for closer look in one second through the rock that's dropping down in q a because i think for western saudi arabia, we're going to see some big downpours around jetta. that's the picture on thursday, but watch what happens on friday. dark, the blue here, the more intense the rain will be falling. and as a result, this is going to feed in a bit more cloud cover at the doe house. what times on friday could see the potential for an overcast sky. off to pakistan. we go, it's a quiet picture here,
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crouched at $31.00 degrees, and there is some of that activity moving across the cross mountains. on thursday, it is fairly quiet through turkey. we had that precipitation move away through cyprus, push across the levant, leaving a trail of cloud cover behind forbid route and ramallah ros got a high 14 degrees on thursday. central africa. we've had bands of rain stretching from the western democratic republic of congo. right through molly and into mozambique, right across the moves and b channel into madagascar. this is nasty stuff. it's gonna trigger some flooding in time across south africa. things have quite it down here. keep down 25 degrees on thursday. ah, what's going on in vladimir put his mind right now? could this war go new player is being on that trump team, the golden ticket to electoral victory?
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can americans agree on any immigration policy? is there a middle ground between 0 tolerance and open borders? the quizzical look us politics, the bottom line, bony test up is more benefits that don't come off your savings. like a 247 maternity 9 joining test. looked at the number one medical aid, both south africa, blue ah. hello again. the top story on al jazeera, ukraine's president faladore zalinski is heading to the united states for talks of president joe biden, and his 1st trip abroad since the russian invasion in february. meanwhile, president vladimir putin has approved a proposal to increase the strength of the armed forces by 30 percent protests have
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been held in some cities and i'm gonna stop against the taliban decision to ban women from universities are demonstrations in july about and capital people held signs pledging solidarity with female students. peruse president. zina by the warranty has carried out a major cabinet reshuffle hours after winning approval of the congress to bring forward elections. to april 2024. she's appointed a new prime minister and a finance minister. in the coming hours, the committee investigating the january 2021 attack on the u. s. capital were released. it's report article hain takes a look at what we've learned so far. ah, on the day this shocked to the country and the world in unheard of breach of the u . s. capital building attacked by a violent mob of americans. how did this happen? and who is responsible? that is what the january 6th committee set out to find out all of us here today,
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focusing mostly on former president donald trump, who called his supporters to washington and sent them to the capital, saying he would go with them. we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. oh, he said the election was stolen. but in testimony before the committee, it was clear, he was told repeatedly, he lost the election, telling aids he didn't want people to know. he lost without objections, but what that when he made the clearest it never before seen video, how bad the violence was, how close the country came to seen its elected leaders attacked or possibly killed . several senators told to run from the mob they were walking right into. then this moment officer eugene goodman, lured the mob up the stairs. if they had turned right and walked just a matter of meters, they'd likely would have found an unlocked door with senators inside. we saw how
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close members of the house came to the mob, making their way to the last possible escape. the interactions breached the window and a protester were shot and killed trying to get to them. we now know how close to vice president mike pence came to coming face to face with those calling for him to be hung only 12 meters. and the committee said, trump knew that his supporters were armed, that day, frustrated that so many couldn't come to the rally because secret service was using metal detectors. i don't, i don't care that they have weapons. they're not here to hurt me. take that away and weapons in the committee. her testimony to trump himself. wanted to go to the capital, lunging for the wheel and a secret service agent who refused. but there are several things. the committee has not answered yet. why did it take so long to get approval for the national guard to be deployed, governor, i don't know who had been approach congressional leaders that were able to be moved to a safe location by capital police. made frantic calls that went unanswered for hours
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. the committee produced evidence, the trumps inner circle. knew something was going to happen. people like rudy giuliani, i remember looking at him saying, rudy. did you explain what was happening on the sex? he, he had responded something to the effect of. we're going to the capital, going to be great presence going to be there. he's going to look powerful. he's, he's going to be a member, if he is going to be with the senators. but what we still don't have hard evidence on. if this was a planned coordinated attack, the committee voted unanimously to refer to the justice department for criminal charges against the former president. but they've already been looking into this. there's a special prosecutor that's been appointed. a grand jury in washington has been hearing testimony that will likely determine if in fact the attack here on the capitol was planned. and if so, who will have the price for it will have to 0 washington. well, the deadline is looming for the formation of
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a new is really government. the incoming prime minister benjamin netanyahu has until midnight local time. to finalize his coalition from mcbride has more from western for them. this does seem to be going down to the wire for a number of different reasons. it proved to be very problematic in dealing with his new partners. because of course, there has been this shift in the right woods in the makeup of the connecticut. so benjamin netanyahu and the could or not only dealing with other mainstream right wing parties, but also these much smaller parties way over on the fringes of the very edges of the political spectrum at the right wing of the political spectrum. people who were considered to be on the, on the verge of politics. now finally, they have with a few see, teach great influence over the formation of this coalition. and they have been using that exerting pressure on natural yahoo to demand various ministries and so on. in addition to that demanding special extra powers for the ministries that they have been promised, which is meant that netanyahu has,
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has to push through various bits of legislation in the connected to make all of this happen. now it does seem as though we, he has now a 10 day extension which runs out today, wednesday. it is expected that by be well before midnight. he will be able to make that all important phone call to isaac hurts. i'll be president to say yes, he does have in place. he's coalition and a will then have 7 days for the formal swearing in. but we do know from the makeup of this extraordinary government, that this will be the most, the, the most nationalistic, and also religiously orthodox government, that israel has had to date, thousands of ambulance staff are going on strike in the u. k. on wednesday, a day after similar industrial action by nurses up to 100000 nurses walked off the job for a 2nd day this month, calling for a better pay and working conditions. the government says it can't afford the 1900 percent wage increase. they're demanding for challenges in london. and it has bossa
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is basically saying that there are potentially going to be some emergency coals they get made today that go on upset with obviously a significant hit potentially on people's lives, whether they survive in emergency situation or not. now, we are being told that the most severe emergency call absolutely life threatening situation. ambulances will be dispatched to go and offer assistance there. catherine, to call back and include someone with a suspected stroke or chest pains. those calls are going to be tree arched, which means that an assessment will essentially be made on the phone about how serious that situation is. and if it's not deemed sufficiently clear, if and there won't be an ambulance dispatched. so an h s chief was saying that they cannot guarantee patient safety for the next 24 hours. consequently,
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there is advice being given to people in england and wales at the moment about the kinds of things i shouldn't do that sort of engage in risky things like contacts for don't go out and get particularly drunk. there are 8 out of 10 ambulance services in the, in the england at the moment which declared critical incidence. now that's the sort of administrative thing, which means that they can ask for help from, for example, the army to come in and take over some of those jobs began b, as government jazz, it stopped a coup attempt. it says some members of the army were planning the overthrow on tuesday for soldiers have been arrested, but the search is on for 3, legit, accomplices. in a statement, the government said the situation is under control. australia and china have agreed to more high level talk on trade human rights and security. australia is foreign minister penny wong, in beijing for talks of the chinese foreign minister to try to mend relations between the 2 countries. it's a 1st visit by
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a top australian diplomat in 4 years. ties between china and australia have been strange in beijing, impose trade barriers, and refuse and independence inquiry into the cobra. 1900 pandemic, richer timber. i was more from hong kong about the meeting between the chinese and australian foreign ministers. certainly leaders from both sides made it very clear that they're absolutely committed to improving this long standing difficult relationship. china's foreign minister wang, he said, he's prepared from his side to completely reset the ties as though the last few years haven't happened. he's blamed australia unilaterally for making this relationship so difficult to under the previous administration of scott morrison in particular. but when listening to penny wong as feed back in the question and answer session after these meetings, it was clear. there's still a lot of major difficulties for this relationship. and none of them seem to have been immediately addressed. whether it's the trade sanctions that we'd imposed on australian exports to china, whether it's accessible australian, consider officials to detained australian citizens in china. whether it's
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australia's view, which is a western view in large part of human rights concerns in china with regards to the northwest region. of sin, jang or tibet. none of these things have been immediately addressed as a result of this meeting. and so it's not really clear how many steps could be taken in the short term to find a resolution on these issues. but for the time being from both sides, a commitment to more discussion and for more constructive discussion and to move beyond the difficult types of diplomatic disagreement that was really commonplace during the last 3 or 4 years of australia. scott morrison leadership. there is no hope for a critically endangered species of iguana that live on the side of an active volcano. in the locker, just islands, scientist were worried. the pink iguana could become extinct within years. but the discovery of hatchlings and juvenile reptiles could ease those concerns. felicity ogilvy reports clinging to a tree on the side of a volcano. this is the youngest pinky guano scientists have ever seen the reptiles
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of borne green and gradually become pink as they age. enough. garcia is all now we have never seen a young pink iguana. the species was 1st described in 2009 before that. the pinky guano is not known since then. we had not found an young iguanas. this is a very important finding to secure the conservation of the species. the wolf volcano is one of the most remote spots in the galapagos islands, but that hasn't protected the pink iguanas from the threat of introduce species like rats. the volcano is active and last erupted in january, also putting the reptiles in danger. if there is one, i just was filament important that we estimate that there is a population of between no more than 20300 grown specimens. so this means that if we hadn't made this discovery, and if we hadn't fought the threats they are facing, it could become extinct in a few years. plants to save the pinky guano from extinction include
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a captive breeding program. now there's proof. the reptiles are breeding in the wild, leaving them one step further from extinction. felicity ogilvy, al jazeera. ah . hello again. the headlines on al jazeera ukraine's president has landed in the united states for talks of president joe biden. it's his 1st known trip abroad since russia's invasion in february for latimer zalinski will also address congress and hold several bilateral meetings. alan fisher is in washington d. c. he tells us about the importance of those visits. what's being described by people i'm speaking to here, ais, significant, symbolic and important. they know that they have been the biggest supporters of lud, amir zalinski from before. the thought of the russian invasion, which was.

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