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tear gas and heavy policing in pakistan's capital as former prime minister, iran con, shows up at port on corruption charges. ah, cyril benya, thank you for joining us. this is al 0 life from zillow also coming up in the program. ukrainian farmers prepare for planting season as a vital grain deal with russia is extended. former us president donald trump claims he will soon be arrested and falls on his supporters to take to the streets. also a river of dead fish. how an australian town is coping with this and why water management is partly to blame. ah, so of course in pakistan has cancelled enron cons arrest warrant after he attended a hearing in islamabad. violence erupted in capital between the former prime
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minister, supporters and police. thousands of extra officers had earlier been deployed, con faces, corruption charges that he says are an attempt to sideline him politically. in the city of la hor police entered conn's home and fired tear gas at his supporters. authorities say they recovered petrol, bombs and weapons from his residence. come, i'll hide a report from a some of that budget on the border to go. joyce said sometimes are not made at ballard. bog and enron con, had so many cases against them which showed that the government, it ditto men, auto jail, him to nail him somehow or the other. primarily because of in riding popularity and the opposition between. 6 the bug based on democratic alliance and m. ron cons, bardy is one of the most popular leaders in the country. however, read all the cases. they read against them that are feared that the government wants to marginalize them by having just walla fi, him arrest him,
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or you would whatever method that is according to him, ron hahn to nullify him so that they can have a clean sweep at the elections, which are due and upon job on the 30th and then within the country of the national election in october. so it's very difficult to say whether emron han will be able to do, shall wipe the storm. he certainly determined he has been determined and has always said that i hate willing to go to any limit in order to try and achieve his objective done. of course, he's always been saying that he wants to have done peacefully a constitutionally deal allowing the export of ukrainian grain from black c ports has been extended. ukraine was seeking an extension of 4 months, but rush only wanted 60 days. ukraine is one of the world's largest suppliers of sunflower oil, wheat, and grain. stephanie deca reports from jackie litski. ukraine
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feeds the world. the words of this farms owner, victor share a meta gives us a tour on a cold march morning on the outskirts of cave. corn, wheat, barley, and where ukraine holds proposition globally for flowers, which i know that well would that a great deal gave us hope because our internal price is dropped almost 3 full during the war. but after was signed, prices rose and of course not like before the war, but they increased. and this gave us hope that we can work and sell our harvest in the future. despite this deceivingly peaceful moment, this is a country at war. and what happens in these fields has global implications. ukraine is one of the world largest produces and sunflower oil, and also wheat and grain one gets produced here an export. it has a direct effect on food prices around the world. it's one of the main reasons why
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this deal was brokered, the global need to bring down soaring for the prices that resulted because of the war. russia controls access in and out of the black sea, which ukraine needs to ship. it's produced to the rest of the world. the deal is said to be renewed every 4 months. russia now says it only wants to renew it for 2 citing sanctions affecting its own exports. but ukraine's deputy had of infrastructure who's been part of the team negotiating the grain deal, tells us such a short term deal does not offer stability, but is important to the farmers to see there for august, how they will export their products unit next, marketing gear. i go, sir, and in case on the farmers for see you and for masses offer me as j. it is also small period. we are asked our partners to make minimum one year. farmers have also complained of russia delaying checks on vessels transporting,
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produce which costs more money. move, move, i'm or sure yet, we know russia want to only extend for 2 months, but this is not as it should be. also the vessels that go to ukraine are delayed by russia in the bathrooms and we end up paying for this because the vessels don't reach us on time. currently, the western border with poland is working, but we cannot fully sell the grain that we have by road. we need to see the journey out has begun. russia holds great leverage in just how far they will reach. such tiny seeds and grains with major geopolitical implications. stephanie decker al jazeera, yet kavitsky, on the outskirts of keith. a russian president vladimir putin is in crimea to mark the 9th anniversary of the peninsula annexation from ukraine, hooting toward an ard school and a children's center. a day after the international criminal court issued arrest warrant accusing him of bearing personal responsibility for the abduction of
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ukrainian children, rushes annexation of crimea drew widespread criticism, but moscow described move as an act of self determination. christina passion is the director of the documentary. a struggle for home, the crimean tars, she explains the history of the indigenous people of crimea, there, amalgam of very many different ethnic groups from ancient history in the peninsula . and as you said, they had in the ping pong ball when happened. a great and it's their country, their state, the cranium connie, in 1783, the suffered population displacement for centuries. bigotry, their marks have been vandalized their houses and have been destroyed. their culture has been decimated. and when the soviet union collapsed in the ninety's here, they thought they're finally free. they're probably free of russia. we finally had their freedom. and then boom, 2014 happened. and it's starting all over again. now under russian occupation under put in the same things are happening. we have creamy and tuckers are being pushed out to peninsula, forced to flee the turkey or to other european countries. they've had their
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representative bodies, the mattress and the cruel ty. they're banned from the peninsula. now their tv channels have been banned from the peninsula. their cultural institutions are being estimated once again. and now we're talking about this mass mobilization that put and called for russian citizens. right. that has disproportionately targeted crimea and tuckers in the peninsula. so once again, we're seeing like these remnants of the genocidal policies. russia has perpetrated against them. for centuries. the turkey is foreign minister says his country looks forward to normalizing relations with egypt. may have looked couple show lou is in cairo where he's been meeting egypt. foreign minister is the 1st official visit by senior turkish delegation in more than a decade. and it comes a few weeks after his egyptian counterpart made a humanitarian visit to turkey and syria to show support following the earthquakes . brazil sorta reports from istanbul. it was a significant, they enlisted between turkey and egypt, turkey. as for the minister mode, social, or nearly after a decade for the 1st time, was in cairo,
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and he has met his egyptian counterpart, the relations between tricky and, and egypt went to ups and downs through the last decade since the military coup in 2013 in egypt, but in 2020 we have seen one messages coming out of anchor and chiral present. ad one expressed his willingness to restore the ties with egypt. and over a month ago went to portland, oregon. to south trickier president of egypt, a c. c. i, a has called everyone to quote me, his gonzalez. then i just want you to minister some shockley wisdom, the, the dead, the disaster area in turkey to show his country is solidarity, which just turkey. and then turkey's for the minister motel solo went to cairo to, to, to, to give a step up to this warm and vitamin. and to day to for the ministers have promised a lot, deepening the trade relations, corporate and on regional issues. and also fully restoring the diplomatic ties.
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so low lead. we have solved the grounds and we are confident that we would restore relations with turkey in a strong way in the way we look forward to the talks leading to the return of ambassadors between egypt and turkeys. despite all of these positive messages coming out of cairo today, there are steve to mean issues needs to be addressed properly by kate or an anchor . the 1st one is the libya in libya. turkey support to the poorly be is government . while egypt supports bengal bees that government and in east military and him in 2019 tricky has been excluded from east mediterranean gas form. so the experts are seen that as long as turkey and egypt suppose different sides in libya, or at least they are not able to find a mid gown in libya. and also as long as turkey is excluded from, is mediterranean gas form delicious. between these 2 countries are going to still remain fragile. russell said that of jazeera stumble,
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a serbian president alexander a butch and kosovo prime minister albin corte, or a north macedonia for another round of talks to normalize relations. the e u has proposed to plan to end one of europe's longest disputes, kosovo declared independence in 2008 of serbia has refused to recognize the split al jazeera as my abs. jessica has more from olred north macedonia that you is expecting that serbia and course von avila accept the proposal for the normalization of their relation and to start the implementation. as soon as possible. last month, president of serbia alexander would cheat shane crossovers, prime minister alban corte met in brussels to discuss this field proposal after death meet the incur your foreign policy, chief of joseph barrell said that the leaders agree that there are no farther
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discussions are needed. however, he adds that more dog slaughter needed for that implementation of the european plan . according to did you agreement, serbia will not oppose kosovo to join international organization. also, serbia is insisting call on forming classification of serbian means the policy is in kosovo as a precondition for adopting called the sub plan. kosovo government government is analyzing 15 models, how these association should be established. and nigerians have returned to the polls to elect new governors in 28 states. you stayed assemblies are also being picked. this vote was delayed by a week as the electoral commission said it needed time to reconfigure electronic voting machines. following a disputed presidential election in february are madras reports from cono in
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northern nigeria. the vote has been largely successful and peaceful in many parts of condo state and many parts of the 20 states of nigeria. why voting took place? remember that are 36 states and 8 of them are not holding the governorship elections today because of court decisions or court rulings that's been like use and out of season for now. now basically the elections, according to officials, from most part of the country that we've called, or been in contact with, say the elections went on peacefully, however, that are isolated incidents even here at the polling station we are at now, there was an attempt as voting came close, there was an attempt to couple of the process. individuals invaded the calling center, which is about 6 or 7 units at the clues. and they just wanted to disrupt the process. it took real quick intervention of security agencies,
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the police and other arms of security organ here in condo state to put everything in order. so the porting and counting process could not take place in the open in the public glare because of that particular threat to the process. and there are similar processes in certain parts of the country that was reported to a close. usually it's at this time when individuals tried to disrupt the process and disrupt the polls because they felt maybe they may not win an election when the election or the polling stations. former us president donald trump, says he expects to be arrested on tuesday. he made the remark on his truth social media site from site did what he called illegal leaks in the manhattan district attorney's office. me called on his supporters to protest. my candidate has more on this from washington trumpets, referring to a case that has been ongoing in new york. there has been
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a grand jury hearing into harsh money paid to, to women one, a former porn star. this money was allegedly paid by trump through an intermediary to get them to keep quiet about having had sexual relations with him. in the past. now tramps then attorney michael cohen has appeared before the grand jury and although grand jury proceedings, our secret code has stated publicly that he orchestrated the payment to, to women in order to keep them quiet about having had sexual relations with trump. now the significance of the day is timing, because the payments were made during the campaign period before the 2016 election . and what the grand jury has been deciding on is whether this was, in fact, a contravention of campaign funding laws, which is a criminal act. now the, the new york tourney has given the opportunity to appear before the grand jury that
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was a week ago. and that normally does pre see some form of indictment in this particular case. so this is what campus referring to no confirmation whatsoever from any other source. in fact, trumps own spokesperson confirms that this is from what trump calls illegal leaks. there has been no official notification whatsoever. still ahead on al jazeera, the final product looks like any other magazine except it's gotten, wasn't that used by human how iran is trying to become a leader of artificial intelligence. and why harvest season in libya is leading a sour taste for many farmers. ah, water scarcity has become a major labor issue. the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down, turning an essential natural resource into
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a commodity traded for profit. just because it's life doesn't mean it cannot be priced. what about the guy that can't afford it? that guy told me it's water. al jazeera examines the social, financial, and environmental impact of the war to privatization notes. if all on al jazeera ah, allow government knowledge is iraq, with no. ready too often of canister is portrayed through the prism of war. but there were many of granite stuff thanks to the brave individuals who risk their lives to protect it from destruction. an extraordinary film archive spanning for decades, reviews the forgotten truths of the country's modern history. the forbidden real
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part for the era of darkness on the just 0 lou ah, you're watching l 0. reminder of our headlines violence erupted outside of court and his law bad or former pakistani prime minister m ron con, appeared on corruption charges arrest, warrants against him have been dropped, turkeys, foreign minister says his country looks forward to normalizing relations with egypt . nevertheless, i will show louis visit to cairo is the 1st by a senior turkish delegation in more than a decade. and voting has ended in nigeria elections for governor and state assemblies. the delayed vote comes weeks after
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a disputed presidential election results from the 28 states are expected by monday . people in malawi, continued to search for loved ones, buried under mud as the death toll from cyclone freddy jumps to more than 430 tens of thousands have been forced from their homes by flooding. survivors are short of food and aid has been slow to reach many areas blocked by lance lights. for me, the miller has more from a conga, it's far from over and the rescue services are continuing. here in macon guy. it's just off land. oh, it's quite a distance from the mainland. there's a river between my congo and the mainland, and that has been entirely flooded. the water coming up into what was a village. and i'm just going to step out of shot to give you a better idea of what it looks like here. the water wasn't this close to where people were living and you see people sitting on local canoes waiting to be rescued by the police services. the canoes would normally transport people back and forth
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between here and the mainland, but they're charging $4500.00 below in shillings the equivalent of $4.00 to take people to the mainland and they simply don't have the money. so they're relying on police services. we're sending 2 boats out a day and connecting people to make about 6 trips and so far they've reached about 1300 people. but hundreds more are waiting on an island like this out of our to take refuge in trees. they've lost absolutely everything. their homes have been washed away. they also don't have any food, and that's the main thing they're complained about. as soon as we reach this island, they said they're hungry and they're trying to get to the mainland to get food. because a little may, they did have, has now run out and there's nothing left they even, even if they did have made, they don't have homes, they don't have shelter, they don't have cooking utensils of pots, there's really nothing they can do. we also understand that further on this island, they are more people waiting for rescue efforts, but they're simply too weak and tired to make it here. so they would have to wait
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for assistance to reach them a little more in land. we know about a 126000 people in this district alone have been displaced. please say they're doing as much as they can. it's taken some time to reach areas like this because have been inaccessible. the water was too strong and too high. so these rescue efforts continue, and it certainly will be a number a few more days before the is i suppose, a greater a bigger dent made in terms of rescuing people in places like this, which have been very difficult to reach up to. now. the prices for domestic fruit in libya have been rising. farmers say without government support, their crops wont be able to compete in the markets rally. trina reports on this from western libya. jed day him is about 40 kilometers west of the lubin capital tripoli. it's known for its plentiful foreign lands and great tasting oranges and grapefruit. they are big, bright,
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and juicy foot the orange harvest will soon come to an end. farmer fois would give passer owns this small land with $250.00 orange trees. he says it's been difficult to maintain the last couple of years. oh, come on law fees and am in a knoll any. there is a clear lack of support from the government. we are suffering because there is a severe lack of fertilizer and pesticides in the market. and the government no longer subsidizes them, the government should encourage and help us by providing our needs so we can increase domestic production and not rely on imports. in the past, oranges from western livia have accounted for an estimated 70 percent of the nation's needs. they were even exported to neighboring countries, but not any more a sod balloon is a fruit wholeseller. he says, living oranges are much better than those from abroad as the ha here, anyone know the last couple of years the government has not been able to provide
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famines with fertilizer, so they have to buy it in the private sector back. it's expensive. the press of jackson increases so the farmer struggles, the merchant struggles, and the customers can't afford it. i shall laugh. as in basil is from the ministry of agriculture and says at least a $150000.00 farmers have registered to get fertilizer. and he was out in palmer and farmers have every right to be angry, due to instability that we have not been able to provide them with their needs. so day prices for domestic goods have increased as there is doug low, the lack of affordable for eliza. and pesticide has allowed foreign fruit, especially from egypt to gain a much bigger market chair. it's also made living oranges significantly more expensive. farmers like facial hope, the government acts quickly, so their crops can freely compete in the market and earn them a living. mal trainer al jazeera western libya,
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australia's new south wales is dealing with the largest number of fish deaths on record. millions of fish have washed up near a major river west of sidney authority, st. ongoing, heat wave and receding flood waters are partly to blame. laura con reports her this white blanket and darling river is made up of millions of dead fish. the rotting remains of mainly breen cotton perch according australia, 2nd longest river and the disrupting the lives of people in the small town of men. indeed, are you walking around into a draught up medicine and near smelling as putrid smell, and a set of terrible smell and horrible to say, all those dead fish? local authorities say unusually hot weather has led to a lot algo bloom in the rivers. this coupled with receding flood waters and drying riverbeds have starved fish of oxygen. in a statement, the new southwell state department says the hot weather is exacerbating hypoxia. as
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warmer water holds less oxygen, the cold water, the fish have higher oxygen needs at warmer temperatures. this is the 3rd mass dial for fish in the darling river in 2019 nearly 1000000 fish perish them. but the new south wales department of primary industries says the latest is the worse, with hardly any fish being left alive. as is their feeling of hopelessness, said that nick, no one wants to take any responsibility for it. and really all we want is to maintain a healthy river authority, say fish populations, usually boom, during the floods and then full as fatwas as receipt. but local people, blame poor water management, they say more needs to be done to improve the drainage and quality of water to prevent another wool of dead fish. laura han al jazeera. now iran
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says it's amy to be one of the world leaders in artificial intelligence. the publishing sector is among a wide range of industries using ai in iran to enhance and grow their products. the 1st fully a i produce magazine hit new stanz into iran. earlier in the week, ali hush and reports this team is putting together what they believed to be the 1st magazine ever fully produced using artificial intelligence or a i major literal man, natalie canon bishop. i wanted to publish this artificial intelligence produced magazine for the 1st time in iran, or maybe the world to tell my audiences and entrepreneurs that a great development as being made in the world. and we should understand it as soon as possible. otherwise, we will be looking backward in the past few years, artificial intelligence has emerged as the waltz most advanced technological development. it refers to a computer or machines ability to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, including writing and researching, producing a magazine using a,
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i would still require upper to chooses stories and then his team of technicians generate the content through a different a i software. has to tell us this picture that you see now has been created by mid journey. we fit it with what we want and this is the outcome. and now it's going to be used on the front page of the magazine laser. we'll get our chats, g p t produced content and add to the issue, then it's really to be printed. the final product looks just like any other magazine except it's content wasn't that used by human. there are thumb from fed them lunch a long, long, long, but many believe just like other technological achievements of the past century. it when has the quality of product and create more opportunities. the a i boss here isn't limited to journalism. iran is aiming to become one of the world stop 10 countries for a i, technology and the coming and yes. here one of darren's biggest digital box.
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several, a i powered projects out in the making stops, are investing more in a i, facilities and equipment because they believe it's going to be essential for the country's economy. the use of a i in iran has extended to its armed forces as well. recently that evolutionary gods naval commander announced his forces at acquiring a i power equipment that are capable of warning each other. if any vessel comes under attack and move that reflects iran's growing reliance on artificial intelligence and the impact it could have on its future as it struggles on the sanctions, aliana images, iraq dead on them as it from me 0 venue. the news continues here on out as you're after inside story ah
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arranged back in the picture with some force in the east and mad. so particularly turkey and silvia where we've seen flooding recently and we will see more because that's the forecast overnight on saturday. no longer a frost problem, but certainly rain and by day that rain and spread sand through lebanon and beyond . and as long shore breeze, it makes it quite unpleasant as well, says mall topping off of the floods all over the area across which is affected by the earthquakes that last through sunday and probably into monday as well. now says of that and still what on sunday, the chances of outbreaks of showers around re add possibly doha, of their very small chance. i think because the weather so improving. you see this and a bit here. this is dusty forms really eastern side of sadie and possibly into queue weight. that's how we get to monday. that looks like an in previous situation. this does not rains and come right latin to jordan. most of iraq,
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maybe northern parts of saudi arabia as well. it started pre from the northern city and turkey. good news here. the somalia and ethiopia are briggs arranged, seemed quite like them in heavy recent d, uganda and kenya. so the some flooding from that. and in valerie, there is still rain of the flood area, but it's no longer freddy. when clouds meet, mountain west struggle gives birth to true passion. where faith is more than just where humanity defies. expectations with freedom is always worth fighting both and untold stories from across asia and the pacific. one o one east on al jazeera, the international criminal called issues an arrest warrant for russia.

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