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is on sunday, the fire has swung the spotlight back on the struggles that charmers and tragedies based on daily basis by everyone here. this fire, as a reminder of the many challenges facing the rowing or refugees there caught between the increasingly dangerous situation in bangladesh and a new political reality off a homeland now led by the same military hunter responsible for the crackdown that force them to flee in the 1st place ah who. ready as strikes on a village in may and mark hills more than a 100 people, including children. your position is blaming the military. ah, i'm carry johnston. this is al jazeera alive from dough. also coming up the i m f
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release is it's weakest to 5 year growth forecasting 3 decades thanks to high inflation banking, turmoil, and the warren ukraine. un chief sounds, the alarm on somali is need for aid as the country faces its worst drought and the u. s government considers cutting back water supplies to several western states. as a colorado river dries up, ah, the u ends. human rights chief says he's horrified, reports about to a 100 people dead after air strikes on a village in me. and my vulgar turk said, school children, performing dances at an event held by opponents of the genta, are thought to be among the victims. the attack on the village of pasta g in sa, gang province,
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is one of the gent is deadliest since it seized power in 2021. tony chang has this report and a warning he may find some of the images disturbing. smoke rises in the aftermath of an air strike composite, you village in northern mamma. more than a 100 people had gathered the opening of an administration building, including many women and children. no matter what the gentle nador sees. buildings like this as legitimate military targets. as it tries to tighten its hold on the country over 2 years after seizing power. at 7 45 in the morning, what a fighter jets a tight they were followed by m, i 35 helicopter gunship. the initial death toll hard to gauge. many of the boat is disfigured in the attack and rescue efforts hampered when the gun ships returned. oh guess he no need. ha, mother. we had to stop rescuing people and retrieving bodies as they came back with the helicopter around 1 pm and attacked again. that 3 rescue workers died in the
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attack. now that the helicopter is gone, we are resuming retrieving her bodies. the attack seems to be one of the worst since the military coups of 2021. and an indication that mammals, military says little difference between military and civilian targets, we strongly gone down this kind of atrocities by the military gases. once we call that discourse, d, jude is to walk right. i the military because is a violation of the geneva convention docket. in this, the volumes, and who is a part of the melodies bodies to attack on the community of the people at the armed forces day parade. last month, the military highlighted its air power jets and helicopters had been used increasingly to attack militias resisting military rule around the country. but the generals who command them seemed unconcerned by the civilians being caught in the crossfire. tony chang al jazeera,
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banco autumn. andrews is the un special rapids her on the human rights situation in me in law. he says international community can do a lot more than just condemning the actions of men miles military. in this particular case, we have lots of evidence that emergency workers are also of founded dead end and attack by these, these helicopter gunship. it's just nothing short of horrific these air attacks. they're escalating both in the number of the short teeth and also the viciousness of the sorties. and part of this is a function of the desperation of the military hunter. i remember they are reviled by the vast majority of people of me and more all across the country. so it is increasingly dangerous for troops to be operating on the ground moving from place to place. so as a result of that, the hunter has decided to increase the number of
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a gun ships air attacks and they're trying to number one, kill people in the particularly opposition strongholds. but they're also trying to terrorize people for them. unfortunately, it's having the absolute opposite effect of what they would like. namely have people hide in fear and back off when they're opposition, it stealing the resolve of people and me and more and making things much worse for, for everybody. condemnation gets hold of the people in me and more, and they are tired of words of condemnation and words of support they, they need action, they need coordinated international action that begins with taking away the military hon. disability to, to launch these attacks. the global economy is in a perilous phase with historically low growth and rising risk of international recession. well, that's the warning from the international monetary fund in it's world economic outlook. the i m f. forecast global g d p growth of 2.8 percent this year. in 3
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percent next year, that's down from the 3.4 percent of last year is primarily due to tight at monetary policy including higher interest rates. among the group of 7 nations, the u. k. economy has the worst forecast. it's expected to shrink by not point 3 percent this year. meanwhile, germany is the only other g 7 nation expected to contract u. s. economy. the world's largest is predicted to grow 1.6 percent up from the 1.4 percent. i'm a forecast in january when i m. f is predicting 3 percent growth through to 2028, the lowest 5 year outlook. since forecasts were 1st published in 1990. the font says further banking turmoil could lead to a global recession. will therefore, entering a tricky phase during which economy growth remains low by story called standards. financial risks of increased yet inflation as not decisively decisively turned the
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corner. policy makers will need a steady hand and clear communication. first, financial honest with financial instability contained monetary policy should remain focused on bringing inflation down. but stand ready to adopts promptly as financial developments my demand or tobias, adrienne is director of the i. m. s. monetary and capital markets department. he says low economic growth will put a strain on incomes. they are rising risks to financial stability globally. that is due to a combination of vulnerabilities that have build up during years of low interest rates. and the increase in interest rates that are necessary to fight the high level of inflation. we have seen a number of pockets of their abilities that have let to
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a certain amount of distress. most recently in the banks in the u. s. and earlier in october, in the non bank financial system, particularly the pension system in the u. k, the medium term outlook for growth is very concerning and it is going to put pressures on public finances on the incomes. and it's going to be a challenge for many, many years to come. the international monetary fund has approved a long awaited loan for sri lanka. but critics say the bailout office to little to end the financial crisis and will further push people to breaking point. we know finance is reports from columbus. sarah has been driving a 3 wheel, a taxi for the last 26 years. his earnings paid for this house, educated as children and left enough for saving to day he is struggling to make
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ends meet his latest electricity. bill is 3 times of what it was 8 months ago, and his income is full and drastically gang an ard figured that people don't have money. have we got 5 highs in the past. now it's about 2 even versus difficult. everything is very expensive. once we buy food, there's nothing we have to long at a mark. tens of thousands of she lumpkins are facing the same struggle. in 2022 shall anchors economy collapse. 30 now pokers fil shortages, and queues to buy essentials were common. public anger focused on politicians who blamed for mismanaging the economy and corruption. the government approached the international monetary fund for help. with that came with conditions. i, a taxes and interest rates, and the value droopy. and an increase in the price of utilities. the cos force, re mancha, are too high. all ready?
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for example, urban poverty has triple about a 3rd of sri lanka households are food insecure. ah, so this is a situation where people are already struggling and barely surviving in some instances. so to impose further austerity during this period, it's unimaginable. the government insists that the i miss program is the only way out of the current crisis member apple it to a knee. the agreement will be tabled in parliament and a vote held to see who supports it. and who doesn't, then every one will have to take a stand. the main points will be adopted as law on parliament without a gun. the opposition national people as power alliance as campaigned against the agreement, saying it would drag shanker further into debt the, to the called at the stop. we lost our economic serenity and autonomy a long time ago. log the agreement with the i am if just strengthens that position . i am fema the i miss says it's doing its best to her. they are noisy solutions,
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but that's where every one must come together to tackle this enormous problem. analysts say the government's allocation of just 0.6 percent of g d. p for social protection scheme is inadequate. crickets say the bailout program sets unrealistic targets for sri lanka. most people are already struggling to afford basic goods. they say government and i am at cause to cut back on spending, unite and help the less fortunate our insulting mina fernandez. audio 0 colombo, united nation, says it's considering ending its mission in afghanistan because of the taliban band on women working for the organization. in a statement issued on tuesday, the mission said the band was in violation of international law. and for that reason un could not comply with the measure. afghan women are banned from secondary and higher education,
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as well as working in aid agencies and most of the public sector since returning to power in 2021 that had been has re imposed strict laws and regulations. un secretary general antonio guitar rash is in somalia for what his office has described as a visit of solidarity during the was the month of ramadan. he says the international community has failed to help somalia as it faces its worst drought in decades under here. as catherine sawyer reports, the un secretary general has visited somalia many times before because of drought and violence. but this time, the drought is, was not 5, rainy seasons, half filled in the horn of africa, somali, the most affected, more than 40000 people have died in the last one and a half years. many more have hard to leave their homes. the terrace is here to call
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for much needed humanitarian support. we have launched an appeal to international community. only 15 percent of that the deal has been funded until low in social community has been absent minded in relation to the grammar of the people of somalia. it's time to look seriously into these people that is suffering too much. the city of by door is bodily hate. many somalis are coming here from different areas, but help in the camps is limited. some are also fleeing conflict, as the government carries out an offensive against the armed group. all sure, bob president has sent shake. muhammad said he's government is winning the war at the moment. do we work together with other international partners? this the position program of the pose of job or deliberated areas. this will look to the urine to increase critical investment. and this areas us. these people,
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as our citizens has been denied the accessibility of susan's certain services for more time. the army has taken back important areas held by the group for many years. also, bob is still able to carry out a talks and scare people with harris visits shows a glimpse of how uncertain feelings are here. mogadishu was partially locked down, major rooms were closed, and no one was taking chances. but that uncertainty is alive for many somalis who called his home, katherine, soy, al jazeera by door somalia, sofa come here analysis era. junior adopters in the u. k. have reluctantly walked off the job. why they say there are breaking points on the colombian government is trying to accurate people from an area near an active volcano. have you?
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why many are refusing to leave a hi there. thanks for joining in. let's go with your weather update for the americas . we've got a stiff southerly wind here, sparking some storms round northern argentina, uruguay as well, and that's going to push it to the southeast of brazil, still weather alerts in play for northern brazil for how much rain were seen, especially around now. but truthfully, the rain, not as intense as it has been over the last little bit. central america, eastern side of mexico, still being doubts with what weather, including for mexico city, but are going to get you to the gulf of mexico. right now. we've got a storm system winding up here. it is going to throw buckets of rain into southern louisiana including for new orleans on wednesday. there is a risk of seen some fighting across the u. s. made was minneapolis had one of its
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snowy as winters on record. now look at the temperatures here. 2029. there's still lot of snow on the ground. so there's going to be a rapid snow melt there. and that's why we could see the flooding. drop in there was temperature is for billions down to just 11 degrees, still cold enough for snow over the rockies and the cascade and temperatures have fallen across california. it's still decent, i think, for san francisco. los angeles is while phoenix has a top temperature of $35.00 degrees on wednesday, full on sunshine there. thanks for joining insulator. ah, it's a $1000000000.00 money. no drink operation for coal mafia is bigger than the company with financial institutions, regulators and goblins complicit. goodbye with it, right, i would describe that in a full pot series. algio 0 is investigative unit,
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goes on to cover e southern africa, pittsburgh, we can fill 90 percent of the government once it's to the following. it's perfectly brand new, good. pop 3 on out to sierra lou ah, the watching, i'll just say armanda, although top stores this a 100 people are fed dead and dozens more injured. off the air strikes, hit a village in north west and me and my happened during an event held by opponents of the genta children are believed to be among the dead. the international monetary fund says the global economy is facing uncertainty. it's wanting that growth will only beach about 3 percent annually in the next 5 years as the weakest and more
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than 3 decades. i'm united nations secretary general attorney to cherish is visiting somalia. he says the international community has failed to help. small faces it's worst drought in decades. tens of thousands of doctors across england are taking part in a 4 day walk out, overpay more than 350000 patients are likely to be affected. but marks lead to doctors involved in the strike. and why that reluctantly taking action? it was doctors not ambulances lined up outside english hospitals, tuesday demanding a pay rise of 35 percent off. the government calls that increased unrealistic. but the doctor's union says its members simply want wages restored to where they were 15 years ago. are all at breaking point, but not just financially but mentally and physically. we just can't go on like this
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. for many ginia doctors like ashley macklin dougherty, free time away from work is rare and far from relaxing as a cancer specialist with a young child at home. she says her nights already somewhat sleep deprived i want to, oh, i feel i, i don't have to also wait. not worrying about the credit card bills and the gas bills and the energy in the things everyone else is worrying about as well. thanks in part to these financial pressures, she's joining tens of thousands of other doctors in a 2nd round of strike action. this year. we shall go to have makin docket. he says, bab, government spending decisions of forcing doctors to take action. you get to a kind of critical points where you have to either stand up for what he will you believe in an or you just accept and leave such stress as driven thousands of doctors out of the profession or into depression with some
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even considering suicide. according to zayed out in the jar, they struggle more than easter and mainly due to the lack of resources now and the conditions under which they have to work. burner rates and medicine here were high before the pandemic. the pressures now driving them even higher. a lot of it is due to excessive workload and working conditions at worry about making errors, worries about causing harm, worry about not being able to provide what it is that you felt he could provide going into the profession junior doctor's feel this week strike action is the only remaining recalls to help the public and politicians realize these problems are real and require rapid resolutions. villa marx al jazeera london, u. s. president joe biden is in northern ireland for a 4 day visit tomorrow. the 25th anniversary of the signing of the good friday peace agreement. air force one landed in belfast with biden greeted on the tom. i
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could buy you k prime minister of if she sumac. he scheduled to meet representatives from all northern islands, made political parties before giving a speech at auster university. andrew simmons has more from belfast. joe biden as arrived in northern ireland with the express intent of congratulating the people of northern ireland on the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. but there isn't a celebratory atmosphere here, and that's because power sharing the central point of the agreement isn't in existence. right now, and that's because the d u p, the democratic unit party has in fact boycotted the actual machine, the government machine, which is sharing power between the eunice and the nationalists. now will this be addressed? it's unlikely that it will be any traction, any movement towards a settlement, simply because the d u p. it is absolutely adamant that it will not accept the
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trading arrangements, the trading restrictions, the rules that are in place, post bricks it. and furthermore, than not impressed with the winds of framework, which was a new deal reached with a european union, which makes it easier to trade with the rest of the u. k. the d u p is adamant, it won't go food on that. so we'll joe biden do something about his will. he says he isn't going to pressure the units that will be meetings with the 5 parties in northern ireland. also be a meeting 1st up on wednesday with the u. k. prime minister was she sumac? it's on i q, there will be any further movement in terms of trying to come to a settlement. furthermore, joe biden will make a speech in the else to university that is the new campus in the city center. he will then move on to meet civic leaders. it's thought,
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but the lonely be one public engagement he'll be leaving at 4, ireland, the republic of ireland at is later on. and it's a 4 day tool, but most of it is in the irish republican that's quite controversial with the people here. andrew simmons al jazeera belfast, us now. so security agencies and the justice department are investigating a leak of classified documents that are paid on social media last week. the files are said to include sensitive information and security and relations with other countries, including ukraine. officials say some of the documents, it has to have been altered. us defense secretary lloyd austin has vowed to turn over every rock to find the source of the week. and i have directed an urgent cross department effort. and we referred the matter to the department of justice, which has opened a criminal investigation. now,
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i can't say much more while the justice department's investigation is ongoing. but we take this very seriously. and we will continue to work closely with our outstanding allies and partners. and nothing will ever stop us from keeping america secure. rosin jordan has more in this now from the us state department. well, when a reporter questioned the secretary's apparent lack of awareness of these documents, apparently being on social media for perhaps several months. the secretary of defense lloyd austin, told that reporter and a waiting press conference that the information he was given a week a week ago on thursday. april 6th was that the documents that were shown on social media were dated february 28th and march 1st. so less than a month ago, not several months ago, as has been alleged in numerous on news reports,
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the secretary as well as sick state department, our secretary also indicated that they have been reaching out to their allies. countries that have been mentioned in these documents, in order to reassure them that the u. s. not only is safeguarding intelligence material that may involve these countries, but is also a committed to upholding and deepening their relationships with these countries. the by the administration has proposed water cuts to 3 states to prevent the colorado rivers reservoir, from dropping to critical levels with its source in the rocky mountains, is spans across more than 2300 kilometers. 7 u. s. states rely on the clearwater river for its water supply as well as some areas in north west. mexico. reno's joins a set live, not from los angeles in california. so rob was the background to all this. and what
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exactly is the administration proposing? well, the root cause of the impacts that we're seeing here is 23 years of severe drought. and that has drawn down the levels of the reservoirs on the colorado river. lake powell lake need to dangerously low levels to the point where if things go as they have been, the river will basically stop flowing. now the water is allocated among the various western states from the colorado river under the terms of a 100 year old tree called the colorado river complex. come compact. excuse me, it's rather complicated and it's somewhat outdated because it doesn't take into account the explosive growth of cities like phoenix and scottsdale and las vegas. so what the by did ministration is proposing is sweeping away all of the provisions
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of the treaty at least temporarily. and having each state commit to a 25 percent across the board, caught in their water resource or on successful negotiations amongst the states themselves. they can't agree on a formula. so this is what the administration is proposing. if that goes through it is definitely going to cause pain and a reassessment of the way that water is use. so that farmers, for example, as well as city dell, dwellers will have to use water more wisely. but the alternative is to lose the call a real rado river altogether. well, yes, you mentioned pain there. well, i mean, just how vital is the water from the colorado river to the people of the western united states who would be the worst effected by the cutbacks? well, there's 40000000 people that depend upon this water and they are in cities like
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like phoenix for example, they are in huge agricultural areas in southern california. so there are a lot of interest, a lot of economic interests involved. and this water really, i think you could argue, and historians have argued, made the western united states what it is today made it possible for cities like phoenix, san diego, et cetera, to really thrive and become economic centers and population centers. so in now you may recall that there have been severe storms, plenty of rain, plenty of snow, all over the western states and tracking look behind me and see that the landscape . this is pretty green, which is pretty unusual for southern california even at this time of year. but one with winter does not make up for 23 years of drought. so again, it's
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a question of doing something doing something drastic or to do nothing. and that would really doom the, the rivers flow and cause even more severe repercussions economically and for the cities that depend on this water, rhinos live 1st there in l. a. thank you very much. indeed. colombian authorities are warning that the nevada don't. marie's volcano could explode any time putting hundreds of families at risk, but many people are refusing to leave. smoke has been bullying from the crater of andy and volcano for days. yet thousands of villages are staying put to attend to their farms in 1085 and the russians viewed the ash and rocks that buried the town of nero. killing 25000 people. sandra, p. a. t has more from laguna, negro, close to the volcano, since march 31st south,
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35th here of issue the what they called an orange alert. what that means is that g, all this the step seen a major increase in the seismic activity inside the volcano, which is right behind us. you can see it right now because of the clouds, but it's not far from here. they've seen an increase in seismic activity inside the volcano, major movements of magma towards the center of the crater. and they are saying that there could be an eruption anytime, essentially in the coming days or a week. now there's no way to exactly predict when or even if there will be on interruption, but given the history of this will cain, this will, can, has been responsible for the biggest natural disaster in columbia. back in 1985, it's considered to be the deadliest volcano in the western hemisphere. ah
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