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[000:00:00;00] ah, wherever you go in the world, warmer line goes to make it for you. exceptional katara going places to go. ah, 2 israeli settlers have been killed in the occupied westbank israeli authorities say the searching for palestinian suspects. ah. hello there, i'm norah kyle. this is al jazeera alive from dough are also coming up. dozens of
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asylum seekers die in a shipwreck in the mediterranean italian coast guard says the boats was carrying 120 people. when at the next president to help us to want to get an idea in peace, that's what we need. we need peers, a wooden, a junior hopes and fears as nigeria accounts boats and the most tightly contested presidential election in decades. and to look at the spillover of war into yelman's once thriving coffee industry. ah. so we saw the show with breaking news from the occupied west bank there too. as rainy settlers have been shot dead on a main road and the town of how laura south of nablus is ready for says say they're searching for the gunman in the past few hours. a palestinian has also been stabbed
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by israeli settlers. sorrow merit has walked from west jerusalem list was a highway that was just south of nablus, but settlers tend to use its a palestinian area, but the settlers usually use this highway to get to their settlements. now a lot of the settlement saw illegal in the occupied west bank and they apparently were shots at point blank range. while they were in the call. they didn't die instantly, but eventually the emergency substance was able to save them to a settlers the all said to be brothers, both in that twenty's. now since then, settlers have a type a number of palestinian homes in the area, of course with one injury as well. and there's been also videos that we've been seeing of a palestinian call that was shot tapped by israeli says there's not a israeli forces house to top 10 precheck points. they've also shut down the checkpoints surrounding the area and they're still looking for the assailants. at
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the moment. at least $59.00 migrants have died and a shipwrecked off the coast of southern italy. more than 80 survivors has been rescued. officials say the ship traveled to italy from turk, here with those on board trying to reach europe through the mediterranean dean baba has more the aftermath of a tragedy as they retrieve the debt. this video shows some of the dozens of bodies which washed up on the eastern coast of calabria. and this is what remains of the boat they were on. more bodies were spotted at sea. the coast guards continued looking for survivors on sunday. it was night time when the vessel found a during rough weather on a rocky reef near the resort of staccato dakota ro, it was reportedly carrying as many as 150 people. many of them with an afghan histone among the dead women and children, including at least one baby. scores of people have been rescued. they are being treated for physical injuries and trauma. in his weekly address in vatican city,
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pope francis spoke about the victims. you know, the lord, i pray for each of them for the missing and for the other migrants who survived. i think those who are helping them and giving them assistance. that's the virgin mary help these brothers and sisters who live on the ally in president of the european commission says she's deeply saddened. i think the you nations must quote, redouble our efforts to coordinate on migration and asylum, critic se suggestions for a common asylum system. and legal migration rates have gone nowhere for years. italy's prime minister, georgia maloney has expressed her deep sorry for the deaths, blaming human traffickers and promising to block migrant c departures to prevent more disasters. charities involved in c rescues say that may be wishful thinking. people and when you say people is not a man, it's women and children. and this for the recalls that again his children passed and suddenly died today. and people departs
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north, west shallow. will they be rescued or not? the united nations is recorded more than 17000 deaths and disappearances in the central mediterranean since 2014. in the absence of europe wide co operation, it's likely more will lose their lives trying to reach the shores of italy. the dean baba al jazeera or european commission present, as lavonne delane has commented on that the shipwreck off the coast of calabria. she said she is deeply saddened by the incident calling it a tragedy due to the high cost of life. she also called to redouble efforts on the pact of migration and asylum as well as the action plan on the central mediterranean in nigeria ballots are being counted after saturday's presidential and parliamentary elections. the title in decades. some areas and one province extended voting through sunday. after some pulling stations, their face delays, her matessa reports from a new group in the southeast. however,
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there is cautious optimism across nigeria as people wait for the final official election results, o voting took place in a few parts of the country on sunday, with technical glitches and isolated cases of violence. disruptive pulls the day before. some of those who voted hope results will be announced soon should, which i will take a move gets the keys to make alicia 3 bay and faster. so got everybody. so would let you on hold on get the thing just finished. i'm 50 that is going to live our real for the mental society. nigeria election process was marked by a late start here. any nuclear in the south, east and other regions. 18 presidential candidates want to lead africa most populous nation, but only 3 are seen as having any chances of winning hula to new. who of the governing? all progressive congress, former vice president, a to club rebecca, of the main opposition. people democratic party and former a number of state governor peter
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o. b of the smaller labor party. whoever wins the presidency, will have a lot of challenges to deal with. turning around is running economy attacked by our groups in some regions, cash shortages, as well as the high cost of living. good. oh, nigerians also voted for parliamentarians to represent them for the next 4 years. if these alexio's don't go well, you have a situation where we become to broaden for our donations. we become a destination for 80 destination for help. what i'm play our parts in joining jew contribution development. nigeria is also struggling with a separatist movement, kidnappings for ransom conflict between her and farmers, corruption, poverty, and unemployment issues. people here want to dressed anciently. how do matessa al jazeera integral, missouri? oh with it rest, joins us now live from lego. so not good. we are expecting the election commission to give another press conference any moment,
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any sign of 1st results. what basically, laura, what's happening in boucher right now is the election commission is getting ready to probably and as a full set of resolves i initially early in the day or the electoral commission chairman, address the country ah, setting the parameters for the coalition of resolves and how things will go, and then here in legos, we expect the same to go on to happen shortly in this building behind me. this is the headquarters of the state and local or national electoral commission headquarters here in yorba in lagos, when we were here earlier in the day about 6 hours ago, 56 hours ago, we were told that the announcement of the results will happen. unfortunately, that has been shifted until 17 g m t. now,
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all eyes are on what is happening in this building behind me. not because of anything, but because legacy has the most votes in nigeria, we're talking about 6000000 votes. although not all of them have voted in saturday's election, but this is why the focus of attention is wherever winds here convincingly and winds in key. other states, like connell will definitely be on the path to probably win this if he is able or if they are able to establish maybe 25 percent in set, certain number of states, about 2 thirds of the states in the country. so virtually up the, the importance of what is going to happen here is very, very high. and a lot of people are watching exactly what officials are doing here on the streets of lagos, there is an uneasy come. we went round the city early in the day and met businessmen, traders who are apprehensive of what will follow the announcement of results. most of the shops close lagos, which is notorious for its a sin,
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sin profit threw out today, and it's expected to continue probably until monday until when finally election officers have given the last details of result and security force are able to contain whatever will happen. okay, atlanta is is we'll keep watching and waiting many thanks. the update from lagos, ah, in it's been nearly 3 weeks since f quakes destroyed thousands of homes and southern care and northern syria. over $50000.00 people have died and the disaster a millions have fled the devastation trade bo reports from nor day in southern care, which is around the cities that was particularly badly hit while we were here are still trying to cope with a magnitude on what happened in this part of the country we're hearing,
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it's just about an hour away from a major city which is wherever you look there, hundreds of thousands of tents, just like the one that you can see right behind me where people are leaving, trying to continue with their lives after losing their home, some homes were destroyed, others were badly damaged and they cannot go back to the united nations estimates that 1500000 people in this country were left homeless because of the earthquakes. so here people are telling us that they have some food, they have some water and now they have pets, but they still don't know when or they're going to be able to have a home back. the government has sets up around 300000 tents across the country. it is setting up some 130 locations where they're going to set up containers, cities for them to leave. but people would like to know when they'll be able to pull not home. once again, we're trying also to show very fast we saw foreseeing, not sofa rabo being removed from the buildings being demolished,
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as you can see. why here, where we are right, right next to this 10 city, where we are right now when it has launched an investigation of around 600 people who are being investigated for what they call corrupt building practices. when you come all the way through here, it's very common to see new buildings that are badly damaged or completely destroyed. they were supposed to be able to handle or to tolerate an earthquake. well, that did not happen, and the government has detained around 180 people because of this practice is among them. construction directors of construction company, property owners, among many others, including the mayor of this city who is from the precedence party, was also detained. and when you talk to people here many, they tell us that they celebrate that this investigations are being carried out. they celebrate that they want to know what happened, why they lost their homes,
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why they had a save the money to buy a building that was supposed to protect them from when earthquake. and that did not happen. and what they would like to know right now is, as i said before, when they'll be able to have a plan when they'll be able to know and when they would be able to have a normal life. once again, on several 1000000 people, i thought to have left the affected provinces presenting the turkish governments with the huge challenges of a shifting population. of mcbride reports in city of mass in a 2 hour drive west along the coast from the earthquake zone. the big port of madison was the 1st stop for many people fleeing the disaster in southern turkey. madison is very different from other cities because it's the closest safe city to the disaster area. in the 1st space, it was quite frightening. he saw people all around the city with nowhere to go with their bags and get the amazon who last pay rector is an academic and community
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organizer who has been helping the influx of newcomers. with aid packages at centers and dormitories throughout the city. people are in temporary accommodation with most saying they want to go back to their provinces despite their ordeal. janish, and if our house is a rebuilt, we'll definitely go back. we can't give up on our home town. it's estimated the 2000000 population of this city has suddenly grown by around a quarter who shared with them get us was that i will the city of nurse and is suffering from this. but after the tainting container cities a completed in the earthquakes on, i believe that the people were turned to their home towns. but some reports say rents have more than doubled, making it harder for existing residence to get homes. and more demands are being taught on schools and hospitals. as many people it seems are choosing to stay as a major hub. burson has experienced influx is of newcomers over time. but there are
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concerns about how it will cope with this latest search. most of them won't go back . i mean, this is not the, it's not the 1st time that the city mostly experienced this. this city is mediterranean city, very calm, very pretty. and there are a lot of chances of economic survival van, you don't have resources to share, there will be conflicts. there will be very bare struggles among the peoples. the problems facing merson it seems likely to be faced nationally. it's rec, and several 1000000 people who lost their livelihoods, and homes in the disaster have left the earthquake affected area for new lives throughout turkey, even after the recovery. it's questionable just how many of them will ever go back . rob mcbride, al jazeera marson, turkey said i had hair on al jazeera, 20 years since the conflict began in dark for 3 years. since a peace agreement was signed,
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the devastation remains and struggling to tackle and electricity crisis. the head of south africa's power company, resigns. the blames the government for persistent blackouts. ah, one year after russia's invasion of ukraine, one of the lessons learned what i've learned is that in europe, we are a small continent. but we don't really know each other's history. how worried are you that if putin succeeds in ukraine will be an invasion of your country as stony as prime minister talks to well g,
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z o a from the al jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation, the struggles that we see in the global south have come, not because of our help, but because of the harbor the global door with no host and no limitation. that's the story of climate change. it's not that we're all in it together. the people who are the most impacted in the 1st impacted or in the global, i left always how it is pub to up as your baba. and after dreaming fast, fashion should be actually regulated just like cigarettes, studio b unscripted on al jazeera. ah ah. again, you're watching al jazeera has reminder of our top stories at this hour to israeli
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. settlers have been shot dead on a main road in the town of laura, south of nablus in the occupied west bank is where the forces are searching for the suspects. at least $59.00 people, including 12 children have been killed after a migrant boat sank off the coast of southern italy. dozens of bodies have been found on the beach, easton calabria with an 80 survivors been rescued. and vote saw being counted in nigeria as presidential and parliamentary elections. the lays at polling stations on saturday, left people waiting for hours to cast their ballots. there were also some reports of violence. the russian forces are continuing their advance in easton ukraine. the moscow barked, wagner group says it's fighters have captured the village of yahoo, ne, north of back. much fighting has been concentrated around the city for weeks or so
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have been diverted. reports from the russian capital a town in ruins, while ease of gunfire becoming closer to the center of boot fighters from russia's wagner group said they have stepped up their attacks from the north and the south of the town of win. here is more symbolic than strategic for russian forces, who have been fighting for months a. so units of wagner completely captured the village of ya, hidden in the north of buck motes, nice to hear back from water. as russian forces take more positions and slowly move deeper into east in ukraine, western powers have imposed more sanctions in a move to 0 in on those who help russia to withstand sanctions. the european union has brought in its 10th round of sanctions, which target $87.00 individuals and 30 for commercial and legal entities. that's in
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addition to the latest u. s. export restrictions and sanctions. for russia, the conflict has become an existential issue. character sir lucia stern, another and abuse wear gloves. when all leading nato countries of declared the aim to inflict a strategic defeat on ourselves, how can we not consider that nuclear capabilities under these circumstances? certainly, but they have one goal to divide the former soviet union and the russian federation . and then maybe they will accept us into the so called family of civilized nations . but only separately piece by piece. director cars grew chest a didn't bring his rounds of sanctions against moscow have not achieved the desired results. as russia has been able to find new allies and markets and as the rhetoric from both sides of the conflict gets more intense, peace becomes an ever distant possibility. some of injury though, the 0 muslim its been 20 years since the start of the war and does for hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, millions more,
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forced out of their homes. the fighting has eased, but many people are still living and comes with nowhere else to go up. there is, have a morgan has more from north star for this was once a home in the village of shadow and to dance north star for as alma adam stands amongst the rooms where his home once stood. he remembered his life here before being forced out when the were and are for began atlanta and i love him for them cuz of people came and rated the village. there was 6 cars loaded of guns, some one horses and someone camelback. they were from the arab tribes, they killed the men and bent the village down and lifted property in livestock. we had just kept the mountains to survive. my body less or more good about the worst, started in 2003 with therefore we tribes rebelling against the government and accusing it of marginalization. the government responded with airstrikes and
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attacks and villages perceived to be allied to the rebels. more than 300000 people were killed and over 2000000 displaced in the years that followed the un describe the war as ethnic cleansing against the tribes here and 20 years on the evidence of the we're still remains hundreds of villages across the dock for region were burned during the years of war in what was known as courts, earth policy, many of those who are able to flee are now in camps, waiting for the implementation of a peace agreement find in 2020, to be able to return home. the deal sign between the government and various rebel groups included compensation for victims upper were but some displaced people see other issues. keep them from returning. women is yet not another catalano of the people who killed us and burns our villagers are still out there. and the still aren't, we can't leave the camp without being assaulted by armed men are running into pickups with loaded guns, all number connected to local authorities. the security will be provided for those
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wanting to return. we actually agreeing to were peace agreement in there. in the security protocol agreement that we said that do those returns the must go back to the original village and we have to establish the force to carry out the mission for protect them when they are going back to their original village. after 20 years of displacement, alma to wants to return home, but he needs to be sure it is safe. he doesn't want to be forced to leave again. he bar morgan al jazeera on cash. oh, north star for now the head of south africa state power company has left his job after accusing government officials and the governing party of corruption. the countries been facing record power cuts that of hampered economic growth and anger the population. the state of disaster was declared to tackle the crisis me to mila has more from johannesburg. joel abraham chicks, the fuel level, on what's become a necessity for businesses in south africa,
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a generator to keep the lights on. as rolling blackouts persist without power, the cold storage features at this more won't work, sometimes forcing job to bury the dead quicker than usual, the unforeseen over here that are stretching with every day. you've got the budget itself. let's say hypothetically, you have to run a nation 10000 times a week because of the park up. it's not down there because now you've got to inflate your expenditures. these are the worst power cuts in 16 years leading large parts of the country without electricity for 10 hours or more a day. the cause old and badly maintained facilities, poor management, and allegations of corruption at the state owned power utility. s. com. more than $10000000000.00 worth of contracts given by the power utility that companies have been red. flags suspected of being corrupt. graft. s. com is made. the power cuts worse. critics say very little has been done to fix it. just
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a handful of senior management at esco, have been investigated and arrested and now a persistent load shot president tools from a posters declared a state of disaster to tackle the crisis from. but critics say it's purely administrative and will do little to help a new minister for electricity's being appointed alongside the already existing minister for energy and skeptics. it will only cause for the confusion. meanwhile, the public utility c. o is resigned to investigative journalists cow. cohen has written extensively about what he calls the sabotage of s. com, this physical sabotage and the sabotage in the border. people are physically breaking down power stations cutting down pylons, adding rocks into coal, trying to cause pass stations to breakdown either to secure contract. well, because of ideological motivations in the boardroom. they are a series of incidence, you know, trying to target the executive of come, trying to make them look bad. some say there's a lack of political will to end the power cuts. meanwhile,
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businesses like job struggled to keep running, while thousands of other small businesses have already shut their doors for me to mala ultra 0 johannesburg. now farmers in yemen now hoping to revive them once booming coffee industry. the nation was the 1st in the world to commercially grow and export the plant. after 8 years of war production has plunged. and victoria case and be report yemen. the cradle of the global coffee trade. these mountains in our province were, wants carpeted with coffee trees. a civil war that started in 2014 made exports nearly impossible. so coffee was replaced by the mild narcotic cat, which is easier to farm. but with hopes of a new un broke a truce being agreed. farmers want to reverse the decline. the garage, eric elgar was, had been, we are uprooting countries and planting coffee because the coffee business has
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flourished over the past few years. we're returning to our route to the origins of our ancestors. coffee originated in ethiopia, but was 1st commercially cultivated around the yamini port of mocker during the 15th century. that legacy lives on not just in the name of the mocker, coffee variety, but also in an entire species. nearly 3 quarters of all coffee grown is from a rebecca beans flag egan that lemon human has the greatest genetic diversity of coffee in the world. we are yet to fully count all the species. so far we have recorded 44 genetic compositions. strains of varieties, is it all that yemen has got? no yemen is very rich. we still haven't reached many areas. coffee was once he emmonds biggest cash crop output has fallen so dramatically that it's no longer considered a leading coffee exporter. but many here are optimistic about the future. damon have an alert glycerol in the harass regions. considered one of the best for growing coffee,
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some of the winning samples in the 2022 national coffee auction were from this region. coffee is a multi $1000000000.00 industry, but yemen is missing out. farmers here hope things will turn around, not just the prophets, but also a shot at preserving their most ancient of crops and a proud heritage. victoria gate and b al jazeera. and that's it for me. i will be back with the news i here on al jazeera that's after inside story, with mcclung ah hello, there's a possibility. some rainy the forecast around the gulf over the next couple of days . little more cloud, just letting with us here, even here kata, you might just see a spot or 2 off, right? but i suspect where to whether will be a little further north, northeast,
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part of saudi arabia, through you wait. and across the other side of the gulf, some showers, they're just easing pumping up a little bit as they go across a good part of iran. maybe a little bit of snow over the high ground further north. it's generally dry up towards the levant, syria, generally troy temperature started to pick up now and the similar pitcher to across a good part of to care temperatures picking up across the northeast of africa, $27.00 celsius in kara, and rising, came suddenly wind across this side of the continent just pushing up into the medice riding us rocco, when one or 2 showers there just around the north west of africa and a few showers just around the gulf coast. now heavy showers continue to be a problem. just a round mozambique at present. this massive cloud contains what is the remote remains the remnants of a tropical cyclone freddie that's pushing some examples in, across central and southern parts of mozambique into esper teenie, into consuming the tal. some wet weather there lingering across symbolic way and
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more of the same all the way into mid week. ah, it's a $1000000000.00 money known drink operation. the coal, marcia is be in the company with financial institutions, regulators and governments complicity. my way is offering, what business is it the right of this right now in a full part series, i'll just here is investigative unit. it goes under cover in southern africa. we can talk 90 percent of the government. once it's falling. it's practically branching coming soon on al jazeera june. it is president, says african migrants pose a threat to the countries or of identity. the african union has condemned to comments, is hate speech. but how all europe found aside and see it is treated in north african countries. this is inside story

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