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i spoke to him in eastern central africa giant little chocolate and can yet i slide africa direct on al jazeera farming is changing drastically in romania with this years. some harvest devastated by drought. it's milder weather and lower rainfall that are changing the seasons. farmers around here are only 2 seasons these days instead of fall the summer and the winter autumn this year in temperature terms only lasted a couple of weeks and is planning differently for the year ahead. there will be no sunflower, no call, no wheat, all this bomb being replaced by crop school resistant to drive. used to feed livestock, not people. he and his son are slowly adapting, but climate change may well pace them. ah.
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the cranes presser and heads home after his us visits where his received unwavering support and pledges of aid from washing. ah, hello, i am, sam is a, than this is al jazeera live from dell hall. so coming up with street to street fighting intensifies is russian troops continued their assault in the city of bar. moved us braces. faults being called a once in a generation, winter storm phase of a new wave of coven 19 in china, and w. h. o urges the government to provide more information. ah, russia is accusing the white house of fighting an indirect war,
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saying the united states is using ukrainian soldiers instead of its own. the comment follows a visit by the ukrainian president to washington d. c. it was vladimir zalinski, his 1st overseas trip since russian troops invaded nearly a year ago. he addressed congress, sang the supply of military aid was an investment in global security and democracy . but on the ground rushes far from giving up the defense minister. so gay chicago has been visiting military units in ukraine. the foreign ministry spokesperson is also responded accusing ukraine in the us. not wanting to end the war, bidding our warrant loretta the negotiations. well, you understand, we say negotiations in quotation marks showed that neither ukraine nor the united states as striving the pace thus simply determined to continue hostilities seldom harder as more from moscow. moscow has said, clearly today that all 8th sent to you trained by the
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united states patriot systems or other would be legitimate targets to the russian army. also the personnel that might be deployed with such systems to train or to operate these systems would be also a target for the russian army. we have heard this clearly by the spokesperson of the kremlin missy post cove and also today there was something very important spoken by the chief of. 5 staff of the russian army general didn't get us. the more he said that the united states is active in getting involved in this conflict through sending ad, supplying more weapons to clean this what moscow has clearly said it's will respond to the more arms being sent by the united states and other european and nate, 2 countries to ukraine, that are also another scenario that would be possible. but it's not clear if russia
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would resort to such an option that would be launching an attack from the beller bella, russian, a territory, some breast that would facilitate the russian army, reaching the city often leave. and thus cutting the main road that supplies weapons to ukraine through poland. david rowe. she is a professor at the national defense university. he explains how the usaid will help ukraine. i don't think that they'll be an impact immediately of the patriot missiles on some of the more less headline grabbing weapon reach. i think we'll have more of an effect. i mean, what do you craniums really need at this point? is artillery something as mundane as 152 millimeter artillery rounds. they need air defense guns, not missiles to defeat drones. and they need
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a sustainable logistics system to move all this stuff up to the front line. all of these are not very glamorous, but they'll have a big, the big impact. the patriot missile on the other hand, i think in the short term will primarily be a morale boost for the ukranian population. the battles of the eastern ukrainian city of bar codes is continuing nearly 5 months off the russian troops evaded the some of the license, pictures coming out of the city that's in ruins, ukrainian forces, and held the ground in territory that russia could use to advance on other cities, john strikes and has more now from keith moon is undeniably one of the hottest places along that 1300 kilometer front line. it's a city that has been fought for with increasing intensity. i suppose over the last 5 months of this 10 months wool. and it's bad to say that suddenly in the last
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month or so, the russians have made very little advance. we know that the fighting is especially a tense in the east of the city. this is a place that is now being called a meat grinder, and that's with reference to that world war will. one bustle is very done with tens of thousands of soldiers were killed. we understand the thousands of ukrainians and russian soldiers have been killed in the battle for back moot, many civilians as well. we also know that there are still surprisingly quite a few civilians in that town. refusing to leave la z, as is usually the case because they have nowhere else to go and they're worried about their properties. but mood is strategically important because it is potentially a gateway to other large cities in the don't it's region the cities of criminals and sloppy answer. but it's, it's fair to say that the situation has come to
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a very brutal war of attrition and a stalemate. to the key is foreign minister says sweden hasn't taken any concrete steps to address security concerns of lucero shawl held a news conference with his swedish cow the part on 1st day to wish all of says stockholm has failed to extradite people with links to terrorism. sweden wants to work here to approve. it's big to join the nato security alliance. the suite swedish police authority and the security service give priority to operational corporation. following this agreement and peak a k, maybe is not a great threat to sweden, but it is definitely a threat for took here. and that is something which we take very seriously from the swedish government. world health organization is urging beijing to provide more details on the spread of coven. 19 in china. record numbers of infections have been
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reported since the government started easing restrictions, but deaths from coven 19 have been relatively slow since china changed its criteria . it's now only counting those due to pneumonia or respiratory failure. deadly choice, very concerned over the evolving situation in china, was increasingly ports of severe dishes in order to make a comprehensive risk assessment of their situation on the ground w. john needs more detailed information on business severity, hospital admissions, and requirements for i see you support w. j supporting china to focus its efforts on vaccinating people and the highest risk across the country. and we continue to offer our support for clinical care and protecting its health system. the managers of a shang, i hospital of told staff to prepare for a surgeon cove at 19 cases as the virus sweeps across china. they said in
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a social media, post half of the cities 25000000 people could become infected by the end of the year. the analysts will dismiss is a professor of emerging infectious diseases at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. she's ours, china is prepared for an outbreak for this warning, hospitals will probably be overwhelmed. this is clearly the start of a major wave in china and, and we'll see a major soon. i mean, the word that i was like to use off of cases and it will just swiftly go through the entire country. no country is really prepared for such the search of cases and, and china probably of all countries as the best prepared because they are able to rapidly ramp up, building off off of make shift hospitals and it on. so in the past. so i do think that china will soon, montana system will soon be overwhelmed. a bet and, and,
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and maybe there's some kind of knock down. i needed to, to basically safeguard the hospital system. but yes, of all countries, i do think china is really well prepared. it will definitely also go outside of china, but you know, we need to remember that travel out of china is still quite low and, and the rest of the world we are, you know, we do have a very high vaccine coverage rates on the chrome is clearly a van that causes less severe disease. so i do think that we may see a slight search in cases, but i don't think it will be the same kind of tsunami that we had in in 2020. a powerful winter storm is making its way through the u. s. and kind of bringing with massive amounts of snow and extremely low temperatures. it's been cold or once in a generation event and is disrupting travel during one of the busiest times of the
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year. caroline reports for people in parts of the us this christmas is beginning to look a lot like the coldest in decades. will the 90000000 in at least 37 states have been warned off severe winter weather. the arctic blast began in the pacific northwest and has swept east, causing temperatures to plunge across the us and canada. the wintry conditions and freezing roads have brought travel chaos and also misery for many stranded at airports at the start of the busiest travel time of the year. checked our flight. 05 this morning. i'm headed to the airport and then when we got here, we found it was cancelled tired stress hungry just hopeless, honestly. about 80 percent of the u. s. is set to experience sub 0 temperatures, including places as far south as texas. the governors of kentucky and north
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carolina have declared state of emergency. and while people in some areas are used to conditions like these many have never seen such extremely cold weather in a long time, i think in my 7 a half years living in the pacific northwest and specifically here, one. okay. i don't remember a specific instance where i can remember temperatures quite as low as the storm develops, it's set to become what you asked me to. religious call a bomb cy clone. that's when a system intensifies rapidly with its central air pressure dropping at least $24.00 mil bars in 24 hours. that would put it in line with a pressure of a category 3 hurricane and bring about blizzards as well as severe thunderstorms and white out conditions. the once in a generation, when to weather event is threatening to deliver the coldest christmas to the midwest. in nearly 40 years, and it may not be so long until the next one, you are assigned to say climate change has made storms like this increase in
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frequency and intensity. during the past 70 years, kara lag al jazeera and still had on al jazeera. but to me, let me, i was sent to return to power the most right. when coalition government, industrials, history and the world comp got football fans excited. but it also did a lot for the art scene in concert. so one moment, oh ah, hello, they did the split in the weather across south asia. you can see from the satellite image as unsettled conditions plaguing southern areas. but up in the north, it is largely settled, but we're still seeing those fog and small problems because parts of pakistan and northern india causing traffic jams as a effect visibility for the thought. that's where we're seeing that wet weather
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pulling into places like under pradesh, as well as tom will now do. but the worst of the wet and windy weather is likely to effect for lancaster. heavier rain, moving in suddenly on saturday, cloudy as well up some of the east coast launch the drive, launch areas of the east, a few showers, tickling off across the north, pulling internet pull bangladesh. however, launch the clear picture and we move across to east asia. that's not the case once again for the korean peninsula and japan, we've got another wintry. * blast blowing its way across the sea. that's going to strike into japan, knocking temperatures down rather dramatically. not just the soul, but also for tokyo on. it's a similar story across the east coast of china, temperatures well below the average. for this time of year, we have a look at the 3 day 4, sri lanka, 6 degrees on saturday should be about 11, but at least still some sunshine. that sure weather. ah,
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united states off to meeting president joe biden, and addressing congress, he stops in poland. me to these count paul van. the world health organization is urging china to provide more details on the spread of cove with 19 in the country. china has not recorded any new covey desk for a 2nd straight day, but reports indicate bodies has been piling up from a tour in north america is facing a deep freeze. powerful winter storm is making its way through the u. s. canada cold a once in a generation event, and it's all really disrupt to travel to room. one of the busiest times of the year christmas may be just around the corner, but it seems us consumers may have had a roadblock. inflation reached rec, hold levels this year on interest rights also climbed. now some shop was having to put on the brakes. kristen salumi reports tis the season to
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buy gifts and rising prices are on many shoppers mines. inflation may be slowing in the united states, but prices are still way up over last year. and holiday sales are lagging. i'd say, i definitely am noticing my price hikes is here. things are a lot more expensive than they typically are bills like it's a holiday. so i don't want to short change anyone, but you know things are more expensive noticeably in an effort to reduce inflation to 2 percent. the fed has been raising interest rates from near 0 and march to just under 4 and a half percent by year's end. and your own power made clear recently he wasn't ready to stop the increases just yet. and i don't think any one knows whether we're going to have a recession or not. and if we do, whether it's going to be a deep one or not, it's just, it's not knowable. still, it's not all bad news. wages for the lowest earners have gone up considerably and
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the labor market remained strong. you're somebody who's stalking that milk in the grocery store. you're noticing your wages have risen more in the past 3 years. then in the past 20 years, and your chance of getting a job or quitting your job, if you don't like it and getting a better one are better than they've been in one of your 25 years. of course, it's not just holiday presents that have gotten more expensive, it's things like rent and mortgage rates and services like hair cuts. so some economists are worried that raising interest rates may do more harm than good. last week, the bank of england and the european central bank followed the fed raising rates by half a percentage point to 3 and a half percent, and 2 and a half percent. but higher interest rates could discourage businesses from making new investments. it's already making it harder for poor countries. also dealing with inflation to payback loans. luanne says 50 poor countries are at risk of defaulting. most of the world sports companies find themselves on what to what could call them the role, setting down the obese of insolvency,
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and default these yet alone, their depth service payments skyrocketed 65 percent. the largest increase in decades. and with credit card debt rising this holiday season, many families say santa, we'll have to tighten his belt. we went in, well, i expect, i would get this and get it. and then we went in and the prices have gone up like now, right now we're just hold on. are they to will feel the pinch of higher interest rates in the new year? kristen salumi al jazeera new york. i've got this down is facing a shortage of basic goods, is the un warns of a looming famine. and country is now in the grip of winter, while people baffle of fuel crisis for their car explains. the cabal is no stranger to the cold. freezing temperatures are normal in december, but this year people are struggling to find the fuel. they need to stay warm her
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just in a little knuckle. my goodness that we don't have anything to bend in the winter, it was no, you mentoring a to no proper food to eat, i'm disabled and can't work. and my kids go in the plastic pep, i and other staff, so that we could ben and keep ourselves, or what is shana was in his family of 9 or among thousands of people in afghanistan who are struggling as cole. and what prices, serge? it's the 2nd winter afghans have spent under the taliban since at retook power. in the spring of 2021 with billions of dollars of the countries cash reserves frozen by the us government is short of money and struggling to provide basic services. the global energy crunch is also making life harder and dizzy and full price increase by about $46.00 per ton. most of the buyers coming by only up to 20 kilos of call over because of the kind of card ship. the taliban leadership says it's
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considering a cap on domestic prices, but it's unclear how much, how to government can offer thousands of people and said conflict drives and floods in the countryside. now face a freezing winter in cabal, and other cities and the united nations world food programs warning the country faces its worst famine in 20 years. for many in afghanistan, life is looking more than ever like a fight for survival and the taliban promise of a peaceful and prosperous country at best, a distant one. friday, a car out a 0. nearly 65000 people are living in flood relief centers, malaysia or after flood waters hit large parts of the ne florence louis reports from kelantan state. most people evacuate at this village when flood waters started rising earlier this week. the only way to get around now is by boat
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mohammed did you serve, and his family are among the few who decided to stay by yeoman's alley by you. it's a bit difficult to move. it's not as comfortable because the relief centers are more crowded and my disability only to depend on someone to help me move around. a continued stay here, as long as it's safe to do so. the silly that i do, like with the monsoon season in malaysia, lasts from november to february and flooding has become more common. some have modified their homes to deal with the threat mohammed rows. even abraham raised the height of the floors in some rooms by nearly 30 centimeters to keep his belongings dry. but that didn't stop him worrying when water started to rise on monday, the banker, the rain was very heavy and i was concerned because i am in the help bad things got in 2014 that he has flood was one of the worst in living memory.
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at its height, more than 200000 people were forced from their homes. official say the level of rain fall recorded in some parts of the state on sunday was the highest since 1967. it looks like we're in the middle of a lake. there's water all around us and in some parts it's more than 2 meters deep . but this was once a paddy field and the rise was harvested before the floods came. the vegetable gardens have been destroyed. no official estimate of the damage the flood waters have caused has yet been released. but when they receive many here will have to slowly replace and rebuild what they've lost. florence li al jazeera too, but clinton state alaysia israel as long as serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he secured the last minute deals of form a new government that yahoo was facing a midnight deadline to arrange
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a coalition from brian reports from west jerusalem. ha ha, ha, ha ha. it since his election victory several weeks ago, benjamin netanyahu has been bogged down in tough negotiations to form a new israeli government. the right wing. the could leader was granted a 10 day extension of his mandate to form a government which he has needed yet. it's quite remarkable and a little bit hard to fathom. he won a decisive election victory way back on november. the 1st we knew exactly who the allies would be in his coalition. they ran as a block, i guess he would say it's been really hard. they been driving a really tough bargain. but from the outside it looks like he projected. and bizarre weakness and this is made for a very complicated process. netanyahu has formed an alliance with leaders who until now have been considered on the fringes of the political spectrum limit like it to my bank revere convicted of supporting a terrorist organization and racist incitement. he will become police minister with
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expanded powers to control the force betsel else much rich will be given ministerial responsibility for the illegal settlements in the occupied west bank. he has long lobbied for their expansion as well as control over palestinian construction there and area dairy, who is still serving a suspended sentence for tax fraud and who needed a change in the law to allow him to become minister. the question for many is whether netanyahu can keep these partners in check. and in the, what he said is, trust me. i am running the show here. but if you look at the way he's negotiated his coalition, they've certainly had and they've made their influence felt. and you have to assume that will continue to be the case. i made fears that all ready combustible tensions could flare out of control. palestinian seemed to be expecting the worst with no one expecting this government to follow any path towards peace. critics, the coalition speculate that some of its more hard line members might welcome
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a violent palestinian response to justify further crackdowns on the occupied west bank and gaza. what's clear is with the unprecedented makeup of this government, israeli politics entering you and uncharted territory. robert bride al jazeera west . teresa hoffman is a political analyst and executive director of media watchdog. on his reporting. he says next, find it relatively simple to manage a new right twin coalition. there are definitely more right wing parties than there have been in the past. and the reason for that is because ahead of the election, you had $300.00 terrorist attacks in one month. and that's what made is really go down security and elect what could be the most right when government, but more important israelis when they voted the most security minded government. and if they succeed in bringing about that security,
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that's good for the jewish christian and muslim israelis as well as there's no doubt. there are plenty of internal divisions and israeli democracy over how the country should go. being both the jewish state and democratic states and trying to figure out how to make that work together. they're going to be challenges about whether to be more jewish. and then you've got a supreme court that will intervene to be out. as personally said that he won't let there be steps taken. that would distance israel from the world know stuffs against l. g b p community on like what happened in the world cup and dark. he's going to make sure not a distance american jews to keep a good relationship with the democratic administration in washington. and if you've seen in the past that it's been right when leaders in israel, who made peace against all os fiji as mobilized, it's military to help maintain security out of disputes about a general election last week. concerns over ethnic tensions are growing after the
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polls delivered hung parliament. the coalition of 3 parties says it has a majority, a prime minister frank binding mama as not conceded defeat. because it didn't only build roads, stadiums and metro stations for the world camp is also invested millions of dollars and it's museums and galleries. and like said, bryan looks at how the tournament is help the arts in the country. aah! cutter transformed into a vast outdoor up museum. the small gulf nation pulled out all the stops to host the football world cap. but the tournament was far from being all about the beautiful game with. i think the world cup has definitely pushed the art scene to a new level because a lot of people that are coming from
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a broad or visiting club there for the world cup. want her engage in the culture and we want to have something offered. and i think that's really pushed more an investment in the art scene. how did alma's work is on show images and exhibition of contemporary art? she says having the global spotlight on cutter motivated local assets to explore their identity. i think storytelling evolved the, the way that we want to come to school is people started looking was like what and why and how and all of this. and we became more experimental because each one of us wants to bring something new and exciting. more than a 1000000 people visited cattle during the tournament, the crowds taking and not just the matches, but also the museums. as a expert say, that's been a game changer for the cultural st. helping it reach a broader,
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more diverse audience. this culture is one of a series by japanese artist jojo kazama, called my soul blooms forever. among dozens of public artworks installed and time for the world cup, some permanent, some temporary, but all part of cat, as efforts to use art as soft power. ah, the woman behind it all is shakera, may i say, fanny, the sister of cutters, emir in the chair, woman, as cousin museums. she's considered one of the world's most important art buyers, helping cutter to diversify its economy away from the oil industry and increase its international influence. its museums are really dynamic spaces and their generates the generators of discussion of debate. right from the start, kathy has understood how important culture is and to communicating with the world and communicating its identity, its position in the world. and that has just grown and grow and grow more museum.
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