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appeals for international help. ah, hello, i made room of this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up dramatic. you footage of a russian fighter jet colliding with a u. s. road over the black sea. japan and south korea agreed to resume shuttle diplomacy and resolve trade dispute. as the leaders of both countries meet for the 1st time in 12 years. credit suisse shares partially recover after the swiss central bank froze, a lifeline. european stock markets open higher lit ears. ah, we start in the law. we where the president is appealed for global support offer a tropical cyclone, hit the east of southern africa at the weekend for a 2nd time. will always commercial hub. seen the most damage with flooding and mud
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slides at least 225 people have died. hundreds of missing rescue scramble to reach survivors, mostly around bland tire. off to freddy, smashed into the country and neighboring mozambique triggering floods and landslides. the government has promised one of the half $1000000.00 to assist the 10s of thousands of bolivians affected by the storm. but there's anger about the lack of rescue services. now too soon, not breaking news from the united states. the u. s. military, the ships released video of the encounter between russian su 27 fighter jets at a u. s. drone. there's been a growing war of words between moscow and washington. over the drone, crashing in the backseat at a phone call. russia's defense, but as to told his us counterpart, the drone flights near crimea were provocative. earlier the u. s. said the aircraft was intentionally harassed by a russian fighter jet. but it wasn't sure if the collision was deliberate. so they
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put the leaders of south korea and japan are meeting in tokyo and what's being held as a new milestone in their relationship. it's the 1st time a south korean leader has visited tokyo in 12 years. the 2 countries agreed to resume regular visits between their leaders and that agreement was made to rebuild security at economic ties. we'll just hours before that meeting. north korea fight an intercontinental ballistic missile into waters between the korean peninsula and japan. it's the 3rd miss. i'll launch by pyongyang this week. japan has called a national security council meeting in response to the latest test. north korea's missile testing program has increased dramatically under kim jong and the impoverished country has spent tens of billions of dollars developing a wide variety of missile systems of increasing sophistication from submarines. submarine launched missiles to those laws from trains,
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and increasingly long range missiles or into contra lester intercontinental ballistic missiles that could hit any target in the united states. in january this year, kim jong owned announced that he would be increasing the frequency of missile tests with plans to launch more in 2023 than ever before. credit suisse shares have rebounded after announcing that it would borrow up to $54000000000.00 from switzerland central bank. the european banking giant shares plunged to record lows on wednesday after its biggest lender, saudi national bank said it would not be able to provide more financial help, credit suisse as troubles a being watched closely since the collapse of to us banks last weekend, which spot drops in european and us stock markets and are simmons reports now from london? could it's lisa staging some sort of recovery hair with a big surge on its stalks increases of around 30 percent at one point. but then they settled down and around 18 percent of the european markets, which i took
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a dim view in very dramatic terms or on wednesday, they've made a modest recovery here in london, one a half percent up and in frankfort and paris, 1.7 percent increase in stocks, what we saw on wednesday was a some attempt at a some form of reassurance from the ceo of credit suisse. a saying that they found funding weaknesses in its financial reporting. that is a caused alarm. furthermore, there was other attempts of trying to get some, some rescue packaged together that came together over nights with the 50 for more than $54000000000.00 in a loan coming from the swiss national bank. so they've stem the tide of, of a crash, but certainly not quite there yet. a police officer implicated and
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a fatal football stadium crash in indonesia has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. 2 other officers had been found not guilty. 135 people died when officers fired tear gas into the stands after a pitch invasion in the east java city of milan. in october, jessica washington reports some sort of bio the squad commander of east java mo brigade who was charged with or ordering his subordinates to find a t, a guest. so facing that charge of criminal negligence, resulting in death and injury. he will now face 18 months in prison. now the judge noted that the defendant had failed to anticipate how the situation could have turned out. and it should have been a situation that would be easy to anticipate. and that there were other options, rather than using tear gas, but also a consideration. and he is still in the, his deliberations what the behavior of some spectators,
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the defense had argued throughout this trial, that some spectators with violent and posed a safety threat at the lives of security officers. so that was the 1st that we heard today for the other 2 officers, the head of operations, of milan police, and also the head of prevention, both touching, acquitted, and found not guilty of negligence. and the judge recommended that they can even be returned to the positions within the milan to police. the reaction in serbia has been rather subdued. just a few family members. the relatives of those who lost their lives in this tragedy came to court. to date, only a handful of them, there was some tears in the courtroom as the verdicts were read out. but many more decided that they would stay in milan, that they wouldn't make the journey to court to day because they felt the lives of their loved ones. the lives of survivors had been disrespected by this process by sentences which they consider to be too lenient. at least 15 people who died of
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flash floods that had se some turkey up. heavy rain battered the cities of shan lucio. and at am on with more expected through the next few days, much of the region was already struggling to recover. following last month's earthquakes, russell sought out reports now from istanbul. paulson's off houses are under the water. the roads are broken or dam, the public buildings historical sites are now being flooded. so the life is now extremely difficult and the rescue teams are trying to find on one hand trying to find the missing people. but also did the municipality workers trying to clean the, the, the street and the houses that are still under the water. so these region was affected by too powerful or creeps over a month ago. and thousands of people have died over there, more than one 100000 people were injured and more than 100000 houses. buildings
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have either cor left or heavily damaged in anyway, they are inhabitable. so now this racial rain that caused the heavy floods there is just adding to that disaster. i have been talking to the mayor or at the emmon and he the picked a some very much horrific scenes that particular the tan cities that have been set up after the earthquakes. that is now the house for tens of thousands of the people who has lost their houses. that 10 cities are now under the water. perused president dana boulevard a as declared a red alert emergency disordered schools, be closed in 400 districts. after cyclone yahoo battered the nation, only 60 people have died since the rainy season began. arianna's sanchez reports from point to jose. oh, this is a community, an alert police pushback people as river of mud and debris rumbles through the center of the coastal district. different amazon lance lights caused by cycling
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yackel. he proved that most are twice in less than 24 hours. mere guillermo fernandez says they were taken by surprise. alumni in the lower, the magnitude of the water was so big, we would have never been able to tell. it would be like this. men and women carried sand backs to build contention walls to guide the mud and debris street into the ocean. but it flowed along most of deduce coastline. thousands of homes have been destroyed and tens of thousands of factors of agriculture. land has been flooded on wednesday, a child was saved from the deadly current precedent. dena will not be, has declared a state of emergency and announced measures to deal with a disaster affecting more than 400 districts. and more they play down. well, there's a lot, we've began to ferry the actions to redress the emergency and the northern regions of the country, both to evacuate those affected and to provide them with support and humanitarian
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aid. ah, although the cycle and jak wood didn't hit land, the national hydrology and meteorology service says it expects the storm to dissipate in the next few days. authority say, although cycling yup, cause more than a 1000 kilometers on the coast of the pacific. it will continue to produce more rain, more damage, and more misery to a large part of the country improved that most and neighbors were buckets mud from flooded homes upon or keep close eye. we've made teams and we are in every home supporting each other in this all heavy machinery is helping people to clean up. but for now, the force of nature continues its deadly path. medina, santas, i'll just heat up will. did masa still to come here on out syrup. tension growing on the streets of senegal was opposition leader osman sancho issues will appear in court. ah
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frank assessments. justice means to give them the basic human rights, not only in the camp, but also inside the me. a map informed opinions by the ministration are very concerned about this development, especially for what it means for china's power on the world stage critical debate. now all the bo leave your report on a property. in depth analysis of the days headlines inside story on al jazeera, an app that the seas for the blind and a robotic arm for the disabled. a young australian engineer is inventing tools to help people gain independence look no, did i or side of that will put the ability to recognize objects, all the firms, so that people with limited vision would be able to recognize everyday object. women make science robo gals, episode full on al jazeera,
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the latest news as it breaks. so thump is still the favorite here among the grass roots and, and many of the polls the be the republican presidential dominique with detailed coverage fire has swung the fog light back on the struggles based on daily basis by everyone here from around the world. fire that and go to the 1st to cause of this trade was so hot. it may have cremated the victims exactly where they were killed in 5432 more across takes on the big issues. this isn't the one off. he's talking about a systemic issue. here, black labs don't really matter in the police world unflinching questions is war with lawanda a minute rigorous debate. people who are dying because of lack of medical treatment, challenging conventional wisdom. the fact that people are starting to get angry about this is in itself a sign of progress. join me more from on hill for upright. what al jazeera.
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ah al jazeera, with every oh, no. ah. hello again. this is al jazeera, this remind you of the main news. the sauce will always president has appealed for global support. offer a tropical cyclone, hit the east of southern africa. it's commercial. how proceed the most damage? with flooding of mud slides around 225 people have died. the u. s. military has just released video of the encounter between russian su 20 something. the jets,
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the u. s. road. there's been a growing war of words between moscow, washington, over the u. s t road crashed him to the black sea of the 1st time in 12 years, the leader of south careers in japan. the 2 nations say they want to rebuild security at economic ties. in the face of continued threats from north korea, japan is hosting a defense show where a joint fighter jet project with the u. k at italy is to to take center stage the asia pacific region is witnessing a rapid military build up with several countries, including japan, increasing their defense budgets flores, louis reports. this might, japan's next generation stealth fighter will look like it's a joint project with the u. k and italy mocking japan's 1st major military development with a partner other than the us since world war 2 and less say security considerations in the region are changing, driven by 2 main factors,
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prompting countries to rethink the defense strategies. well 1st, the main challenge seems to me is north korea is continually testing a ballistic missiles and violating un sanctions are because that's an unstable situation at any time. second is really the great power rivalry. the intensification note, i call an action reaction o engagements between china and the united states militarily. asia pacific is where the economic and military rivalry between the u. s. and china is being played out. the u. s. has been challenging. china's expansive and increasingly assertive claims in the south china sea, with what it calls, freedom of navigation operations. china's military and political pressure on tie one to accept chinese sovereignty has also increased tensions in the region. we now back to the normal of modern history with the world of our up into competing great powers and complete power walks. and that's what we're saying in,
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in the pacific region. it's never that competition is inevitable. conflict or war is not inevitable, but it's more of a possibility i think, going forward and it has been looking backwards. the growing geopolitical uncertainty has seen countries unveil new strategies for the region that includes australia, new security and technology. pat with the u. s. and the u. k. it's also set off an arms race as country seat to modernize their weaponry, but not everyone believes military might, is a useful deterrent at the defense show in tokyo. anti war protesters have appear message boy, this 90. now, one important thing for stopping the wars and conflicts going on know is getting rid of weapons. that message unlikely to be heard in the corridors of power. florence many algebra, synagogues opposition, leader, osmond, sancho as during court to hear if he's eligible to run in next year's presidential
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election. there's growing concerned that president mackie sal could run for a controversial 3rd term, which the opposition says is unconstitutional. lisco live out of darker al jazeera nicholas hock is there. so mike, got the opposition leader is inside court right now. what's happening out there on the streets right now? well, i'm outside the court room and i can smell the tear gas. and i know if adrian you can see right behind me in the distance, the smoke billowing in the air. those are protesters have set tires on the fire, and there's demonstrations from supporters of respond sancho all across the capital . despite heavy security presence, i mean i haven't seen so much security on the streets of this capital since there were other demonstrations when it was fun, sonco came to court. in march 2021. schools are shut. all schools across the country are shot. and in the, our shut down for the day,
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a lot of business says have all so shut down for what is happening inside this court room. next month's uncle made his way towards the tribunal. we followed him. there was a convoy, there were thousands of people following him as he was making his way to the court room. and then suddenly the police came in, took him out of the of his vehicle and brought him to court inside. we know there's discussions between his lawyers and the judges about this particular event in the way that he's been taken out forcibly from his vehicle. there is a lot of tension around this court case that has really brought to brought to the front the, the political divisions that there is in this country that's known for its stability. adrian. and why is this reaction to this particular cold case happening by now? well, it feels for many people that it isn't just a court case about loose months,
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sancho and, and about it. you know, it's a defamation case. and if he gets sentence that he will not be able to run in the presidential elections that are supposed to take place in february 2024. and there's a sense that what's being played out right now to day is a prelude to what could happen during the elections in a year's time in the fear is that president mucky sal could or could run for a 3rd mandate. why? well, because during his time in office he tweaked the constitution, he reduced the years that a president can stay in office from 7 to 5 years. but in changing the constitution, he's also allowed himself the ability to run a 3rd mandate. and this is what something else here fear that he would cling on to power. so a lot of people that you're seeing on the streets and we're seeing a lot of young people taking to the streets, is less in supportive. we spun sancho,
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but they say it's about defending their democracy in the institutions the democratic institutions here. having said that, there's also sense that from the opposition that the justice system is used by present mikey cell to eliminate political opponents. so what's going to happen next? it feels is the beginning of these elections are going to take place in 2024 and perhaps even more violence. adrian l 0. nicholas. hark, reporting. live there from dr. mc ready. thanks. indeed, a coast in pakistan as part of police operation to arrest former prime minister enron con, until friday. khan is accused of repeatedly failing to appear in court for a hearing. it comes after 2 days of tents. stand off in the hall between security forces and cons. supporters come, i'll hide a report. so from outside, enron cons residence. interval weird. i'll guide the render again of the budget on teddy again dog, lead, enron, kon, here. god has been bait hair,
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didn't that attack the nation at them on him? i know fraud has also odd says the board to gather around and you can see people we're doing. they are now preparing for another will need action. the belief, if god has been going by law high court, which had dropped a police operation till 5 gmc on turn day had now extended that till friday. it had also rode at enron. con will not be allowed to hold a rally, add a may not august on which is a monument to budget on, on the 19 saying that he would need dr. permission for that at least 15 days ahead of that rally m. ron connor going to like need to appear before the gordon islam abad. on the 18 they were the one who issued viet water in the tow truck on
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a case which pertains to state give received by a foreign head of state. so m ron con, has gone to hardin rich, pardon newton, at 11 gmc exam on fog. it will be important to see what decisions are made dead, but in the meantime, everybody and budget on is hoping that this particular issue ended dogs soon gum alighted alger, daydar law, tens of thousands of farmers in india, a marching to move by. oh, the 200 kilometers walked started from the city of massacre, marashi state. that amount in government compensation for the losses they've suffered on the onion crop. so for a huge drop in prices, the government claims surplus or in production for valley the full value india is the world's biggest on the, an explosive, a powerful explosion of the coal mine in central columbia has killed at least 11
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people that happened in that sort of tarza around 75 kilometers from a capital ball, the tall others over ill. michel some sharif reports. there's a search underway for 10. missing minus thousands of breski teens are working round the clock to reach 10 manas trapped under ground. since tuesday, the operation miss challenging because workers are about 900 meters below and the mine is connected to 5 others. 2 minors rescued earlier. as i was looking at around 8 15 pm, we heard a strong blast and then it triggered as if it were an earthquake. at that moment we lift and we saw the mine entries injecting smoke and dust. the explosion at this coal, mine and central columbia is being blamed on a build up of methane gas ambulances, and families of the trap miners have surrounded the ext inside ensued that olsa order cooking don't require or is akin. i don't think my son is alive. my heart
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says he isn't, i wish he is, but i don't think so. i don't think he's in this world because after a blast that some difficult, only a miracle. at least a 130000 people make living from mining and columbia and unions for a long time. i've been calling on the government to improve working conditions. because some sharif al jazeera efforts are underway to find more than 2 tons of uranium that's reported missing in libya by the u. n. 's nuclear watchdog. 10 drums of the radioactive material had been declared as being at a site within libya, but was missing when the international atomic energy agency carried out an inspection. the agency will now try to clarify the circumstances behind the removal of the nuclear material and to find out where it is now. tourism has
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jump started. portugal economy has since the economic crisis in 2000 the date, but it's also created a crisis of another kind. affordable housing has become scarce. latasha can aim reports on what the government is doing to address that. portugal has become the vacation destination. last year, more than 15000000 people visited. and this year experts predict a 33 percent increase in tourism. well, that's help the economy of one of the poorest countries in western europe. it's also pushing the pour out of their homes, gather viscous flock. are that been said each time i wake up, i think is if the day i leave o stay here, it's really sad because with my salary, i can't vote house on my end, georgina somalis is being evicted like half of the portuguese population. she earned less than $1060.00 a month last year. taurus in need of short term rentals and foreign investors have
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contributed to soaring rents and housing prices and increased mortgage rates. here they will look at it in lisbon. a grass roots organization is fighting to ensure people have access to affordable housing, no stopped, got miss visits from them. and that the fundamental things are to stop old incentives creating premium markets for wealthy people that come to invest in real estate in political, to regulate and control rants to lower rents, which is key and to stop evictions if they're unknown. he to go housing alternatives them into the government is proposing a number of measures including capping rent increases lowering taxes for people who sign permanent rental contracts and increasing them for those who opt for a short term one. it's also considering ending it's popular golden visa program for wealthy non europeans that helped bring in investment. critics say the government is sending a dangerous message that foreign investment is no longer welcome. no want and she
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mentioned this, you know, english. we want to believe that the government does not want to rule the country because to cool the mean sector of the economy is to rule the country. while the portuguese government determines how best to balance the need for affordable housing, he and for an investment evictions could continue forcing more people into share t towns like this. ah, natasha guinea al jazeera was pretty well video for you along with the latest news force analysis and comment at the website. take a look at al jazeera dot com. we'll have more news feel a little over 30 minutes right after today's inside story coming up. ah, the
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off we go with your world's weather update. thank you for joining in. we'll begin this one in china where this. ok, this looking like our plum range here, but it's not typically the stage a rainy season begins in bay, but you've got this weather rolling west to east across the yang, super valley, out over the east china see that then pours into pants. q she island. so it is going to be a soggy forecast in congo shima on friday with the high of 13 degrees. it's also got out of season rain in southern india, so tammy now do state for janai. typically it should be dry at this time of the year, but the weather extends up that west coast from be har, right through to buffer roster. and if we look at the 3 day forecast for ny it typically 123 millimeters of rain. but we've got 3 days of rain on top here, and temperature is, are running above average. temperatures are dropping in karachi. so for the 1st time in about a month, we've dipped below 30 degrees. and we've got act of weather here from karachi to
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pakistan administered kashmir, and this act of weather will be around for about the next week or so for the radian peninsula, those winds picking up the sand in dust in the empty quarter, but wall to wall sunshine in doha, on friday, with a high 128 degrees, enjoy season. aah! iraq. a nation riddled with land mikes and an expert dedicated to defusing them, one by one. equipped with only a knife and a pair of wire puppies, he faces death every day. but does his work make him a hero or a target witness? the d minor on al jazeera, the shock waves from the collapse of to us bank.

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