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instigation into the final moments of her life and it's on time the end of the hands of israeli forces. the kidding should be in a box on a jersey to the lovey breach on the river is widening that's ominous for the town of town. i wrote down the street as more storms bear down on the farming community this week. out of 1700 residents were told to evacuate. the county of monterey has performed more than 170 high water rescues as a result of the squad. the storms are the result of atmospheric rivers. long currents of waste are in the air that causes rain and snow fall. california has experience no less than 10 such ones, rare phenomenon since january, an impact of climate change and a probable trend into the future. the
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. the death toll from floods in land slides in the democratic republic of congo searches pos for hundreds. the governments typically as a day of morning, their learning schedule has been shortened to only 4 hours a day. and this is due to the extreme heat. the filipinos have been experiencing for the past few weeks, record temperatures across south east asia, for schools and officers to close the until mccrae, this is just their life and also coming up, slim prospects of pace and so down more infections. keep finding this tools, take place and saudi arabia for climate change speed. the reason by schools science seeing more home runs the
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democratic republic of congo is observing a day of morning after for sizing floods and land slide say to the depths of at least 400 people. and the agency crews is searching for people missing in the woods to the province of south keeper, while dr. site running out of supplies to treat the injured dimitri benefit and kind of reports. this one is one of hundreds of people who have come to the m a to be, to get medical help it off the days of floods and land slides devastated the south keeping regions the village hospital has run out of medicine. john skins has a broken leg. she says she was buried and rescued only off to screams for help. with her. i clung to a collapsing house. it fell on top of me and i was coveted to it. i lost lots of members of my family. brothers and sisters in little to bodies have been found but
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safe for the others. have note since the day flooding and lance lights have swept away roads and left 100 dead, this issue the goods on the weekly market, they, in the village of nemo could be at a busy time towards the end of the day. that market has been wiped out completely, and we know it brings people from this community, as well as from neighboring villages. presidency likes to security declared monday as a day of national morning. mcgrooves village jeep says people are doing what they can to recover, but they need help. tell them. but what will the and us to a non, we ask the national government to come to our aid agency and everyone was watching me and this interview across the world to come in any emergency because it, i know places to see if there are no blankets to cover that reason nothing. today, we're not, we're not thousands of people have been buried some in mass graves. with
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nearly 2000 people reported missing many more grades will most likely need to be done. the b team involved in co, out as 0 candidates go now to katherine sawyer who isn't going before us. and to catherine with just getting reports and about mine is trapped in a landslide in north keep. what more can you tell us? yes, we have just received the those reports about another laundry launch landslide and in north cable programs. it's about to expand kilometers west of coma, the provisional capital. i know this happened in a place called r u n. c, c, k, tory, which is the week of the mining area, and you have the initial pictures of this, the area of and this mud slide sliding down the hills.
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now we also know that this is an area where i'm mainly minus a walk. we have the tools that this casual the casualties could be high. we have also spoken to the military folks. thank gary and go my request on this incident. the government has deployed some of its wood cuz of to that area, but it's also important to note that he's an area that has many on group including m, 53 rebels who have been fighting the army. so this is an ongoing situation is always been reporting south kia has been with, had problems with getting any more information. and can you just give us an idea of just how bad it is there or wait for the full particles for it has to be addressed by a copy the copy to him and the copy code of conduct. yeah, the r c,
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the will be waiting for that to have a press conference. we know at the death ball and from the governor who says that the 400 people have been confirmed who have died. 405000 people are still missing. some of this people have been washed away into the big. he will now to entire villages, including a school have been washed away as well. all the children there we are told are missing classes was going on during that incident. it was a market day so many people was there just trying to get their supplies. it has been very busy. so um, you know, the exercise has been very difficult because people are trying to do to do whatever they can using that funds to dig out of bodies and trying to look for people who could be missing. and also, you know,
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the government has been saying that it has been very hard to get to, you know, to accept some of these areas to get the material, the equipment into the area. because some of the roads have been cut off to the situation is still there was a dia ended. okay, thank you so much. that's katherine story for us and gone. we'll talk a sounds government has will in the country cannot cope with another flooding disaster. it follows days a flash floods and land slides which have killed at least 8 people and injured more than $100.00. some of the been jump. it reports the bush once again. after months of floods ravaged focused on last year, residents and business owners in the north, a suffering again and racing for maureen full of the office and due to the recent heavy rain and floods. we have lost millions of rupees. my hotel building is badly
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damaged, tourism in favor of booking club provence was badly damaged in 2022 and many roads and bridges were destroyed. and in the last few weeks, the largest province below just then has been hit by hailstones and flash floods. cutting off roads and destroying crops and jobs as well as green needed for the coming. yet they've also made life harder for people living in 10th of last year's floods destroyed their homes. are saying that the country with another big event, it has been a catastrophic last year and people are still rebuilding in those areas, particularly the south of the country send a little just to see that, you know, maybe be able to create adaptation stuff just was going to other explain to them is very dobson, only the holes that there is no extreme with them. but as you know,
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hope is not there. but the countries also being facing heat waves and lack of water for integrating cups. the united nations blames climate change for the extreme weather. it says more than 8000000 pocket studies are facing food shortage. crisis with unpredictable rains and rapidly methink issues. focused on this posts becoming a global hotspot for climate crisis. we are on a thin ice and the ice is melting ready for you. and as a thought leader is assisting the government and the people are focused on developing overall vision of climate adaptation. drastic temperatures and unusual rains are creating other problems like these locusts that emerged in the last few weeks. and some districts have little to sense or the situation is on track to become worse. and the spark of science climate emergency becomes a priority when it's decision makers, some of the job, the other they're large areas of asia sweltering under a severe hate wave that starts with an april thailand's heat index had $54.00
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degrees celsius last month, the highest on record the major role jekyll department is wondering if dangerous. they hold with us this week. in the philippines, civil schools have shortened classes to protect students, health bound to be lower reports from an elementary school in manila. with these grade schoolers in cousins city, a suburb of the philippine capital, minnesota are supposed to be attending school in the afternoon, but their schedule has been moved up. there was one vast of the attendance school even earlier in the morning. their learning schedule has been shortened to only 4 hours a day, and this is due to the extreme heat that filipinos have been experiencing for the past few weeks. the heat index hitting the 40s in the past few weeks. as you can see, this classroom is quite crowded. there is no air conditioning. there are fence though, but the principal told me that there are students who have suffered nosebleed. fortunately, no student here, a separate sheets troll,
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but there was one school south of the capital manila where 150 students suffered from heat stroke. 7 faded who had to be brought to hospital. this has prompted the education department to give these public elementary schools as well as high schools v way to be able to adjust their school hours. now what other schools are doing is what's called blended learning, where students come in for only a few days a week, say, 2 or 3 days and the rest of the days. they're at home learning online or to print models. the bad news is this weather is forecast to continue in the course the able future with safe weather forecast or say, you know, i mean on to, to arrive in the philippines in june, a barn to below. i'll just narrow minded. a page in human is a professor of sustainability and chris and university. he says, governments need to prepare for more extreme with the climate change is enabling
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the massive extreme events to occur because there's so much more energy in the atmosphere due to fossil fuel burning. and that energy is got to go some way. so it kind of level of polar vortex and make it shift the whole structure of the atmosphere. pushing desert a, across the tropics for in new wise that's not been experienced. el nino is back. we've had the la nina in the, in the eyes, in region and right through a strider was extremes of a rifle. that's is now shifting to extremes of heat uh as it switches. but those switches now it carrying more frequently. so to get more it streams from one side to the other. and that's, that's also causing this,
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but it's behind to do is the climate change effect in out era. we are saying unprecedented to fix that cannot be predicted. so it's gonna cost a lot of money to make these changes. we've got to do it quickly. otherwise, so many more people will die. much of a strategy is experiencing an unusually early winter of loss of policy from intoxicated schools, temperatures diplomas from queensland in the north to tasmania, in the south for a whole low temperatures had been reported. the new south wales and the of the capital camera, the conditions of caused flight delays and cancellations, to the state of emergency has been declared in the wisdom. canadian province of alberta after wildfires full of thousands of people from their homes. within 24000 have been evacuated within 105 as a building across the province. 36 out of control. the area is experiencing a hot dry spring in spain has recorded its hold us and dry us april. in decades,
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the average daily temperature was about 15 degrees celsius. 3 degrees above normal spine has seen low vine full and hot temperatures for 3 years. last year was the whole system. and records of representatives from nesa have successfully launched the 1st of to cycle and monitoring satellites. 3 the kids took off and saw it on the island. it's the 1st of it 3 such satellite launches back into the crucial to tracking potentially harmful with the systems that hit the sun, the storm season in the you with a representative from so down touring sides a holding another dive talks and saudi arabia the well delegates from the army and the parent military rep and support forces. mason jetta 5 and continues back home. delegates from both faction site. i would only discuss documented terry interest
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and no one into the conflict of a morgan has the license from cotton as well for the time being the rapids. support forces is trying to make gains in parts of the capital. and the sudden these army is trying to take back at institutions and facilities that are under the control of the rapid support forces. you have the presidential palace, which is under the control of the rapid support forces with which the student needs army has been trying to regain control of from the very 1st be able to find thing. and over the last week or so, it looks like it's intensified those attempts with increased strikes around the compound of the presidential palace and around the vicinity of the general command of the army. then you have the northern parts of the capital side of tomb north, which is also widely known as battery. they are to lose shillings in the early hours of, of monday residents who we spoke to see that they were not able to leave their homes because of those children's by the rapid support forces, according to the people who are there fired at a. so denise army positions who are
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a few kilometers for the nose, so there is fighting, continuing on the ground. in addition to the fight suggests that are flying overhead. many people say that that is causing them to worry and stay in their homes because they're afraid that the air strikes me target them along with positions that are supposedly belonging to the rapid support forces. and then they're afraid of being caught up in the artillery strikes that are being exchanged by both sides in residential areas. it was still a hit on al jazeera rides when causing some should leave windows or to write a new draft constitution. the hello that was stopped by looking at the satellite image of the south asia and you can see a developing system in the bay of bengal that's going to bring some very wet and windy weather to the abdomen and nickel islands as well as shoreline cove. the next
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few days now there is a slight chance it could turn into a storm, whether it does or not, it's still going to bring those unsettled conditions, further north, over the next few days. but on tuesday, it's western parts of india that see the west of the thunder storms. they do start to clear up by wednesday. it's much dryer, cool. central and northern pots with hazy sunshine coming into new daily and temperatures, continuing to rise across the pockets done a lot of heat till a whole at $33.00 degrees celsius on choose. and this is some of the story for the most east of the region paces light from the dish as well as me and mosse. each seeing the temperature is sit up into the early forty's. that was, we had to further east. it was a story of heat across the south of china. it's now what the wet weather we've had widespread flooding in john g problems, and there's more of that to come because as one weather system pushes way east across the japan, we've got another one starting to build in the west of china. by the time we get to wednesday, you can see that torrential rain starting to creep its way further east ahead of
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that cloud conditions for shanghai. the talk to l just 0. we us, who is a really fighting this with russia basic faulkner or is it the russian military? we listen. we started talking to me, i'm a or so that disappear. i know citizens usually we meet with the news makers. i'm talk about the story stuck on out. you see of the revealing eco friendly solutions to come back to our planning. on our 20 the the the,
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you're watching, you'll just hear a reminder about top stories, the salad, the democratic republic of congo is observing a tire of morning optimal than 400 people were killed in floods in land slides. emergency cruise is searching for people missing in the west of provence, self chief of august on at least 8 people have been killed in more than 100. injured and slash clubs and legs. lots and lots of southern fellow just on problems have been in and i said up to days of cities, right. and representatives from saddam's war in science are holding another type tools in saudi arabia. the wall delegates from the army and the paramilitary rapids support forces meeting judah, funding continues and assuming these capital concept which of these government has suffered a may just sit back up to a vote, to elect advisors to draft a new constitution and apply for lift as president gabriel barge 5 ride for publicans and other conservative policies took more than 50 percent. the polls were
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held up to another proposed charter was rejected last year. no less than america in tennessee and human reports from the capital santiago. replacing the constitution left behind by chiles, formerly military dictatorship, is turning out to be much more difficult than anyone could have predicted. jillions went back to the pole sunday to elect a new constitutional council that they hoped would do a better job than the previous one. was draft charter they rejected last september for being too radical. i can't forget that we need to reach a balance the consensus so that everyone is happy with the results. i'm like, last time might keep that and more quality, more modern rules with the more modern vision of society in the constitution. that's what i hopeful, but that's likely to happen. if the previous council was dominated by the far left, this time it will be under the control of the right and far right. together that
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clinched more than 30 of the 50 delegates each enough to pass any constitutional norm they propose on their own to these republican party, the most conservative of all will now be the leading political force and their most voted candidates lucila told me they've never wanted to replace the dictatorship era constitution. you know, so yeah, in our starting point. yeah, this process allows us to introduce new aspects to it that we believe our constitution deserves. we can mother and nice fundamental rights like on our privacy and internet issues and misers to stabilize our political system. the result could have been different, but 20 percent of votes will know or blank ballots believe to have been cashed mostly by progressive chileans who are unhappy with the process. a team of legal experts appointed by congress has already presented moderate proposals that include
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better recognition of social rights, such as education, health, care, and pensions. but these can be modified or rejected by the new body. the council will have a very short time to draft the charter only 4 months. then it will be put to the vote again in the referendum on december 17th. shouldn't be touched to be found. wanting surely will have lost the last opportunity for a long, long time, to finally eliminate the last important symbol of its former military dictatorship . and it would be an irony, particularly this year, as surely commemorates the 50 sine, a bursary of the cool that gave birth to the constitution that so many fine image image. to see a human al jazeera son. yeah. will have you, if i is a political and listen experience on less than america, he says will policies will have to compromise for a new constitution to be approved doing the pretty side coal. so as of september
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last year it was the cheese, young people, if they wanted a new cost deep an assembly to change the 1980 people say contribution of 61 percent voted in favor, but 38 percent voted against the power of those. here is that they are very people who are opposed to change. the coming constitution will be charged or writing a new one. and that's going to be very interesting to see what the economics at the recommendations are being made when they why the new contribution. because it is more of a public will not have the power to veto the majority of, of, of the, of the day like is that come for the ride on the far right. we mustn't forget the, from my doctor the constitution of 1980. so almost every year, the scene changes and thoughtful situation reform adopted to new times, but the speed remains the same. so it remains to be seen whether they're going to fight to keep some of the key elements of the 1980 constitution for accept the recommendations in threatening in written relation to the rights of 5, the type of probation. i know that, but still like to keep some of the elements of design inside people. again,
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we mustn't forget this part of the properties or polls, a new referral, and you'll go through to show and they're going to be charged or writing a new one, which is going to be by adults who got but at the same time is going to be being charged for the far right of the republic on fox is big as towns president shelf costume is a you have has called a sniff election in july. the announcement comes a week off. the constitutional amendments were approved and the referendum, including an extension of the presidential, 10 from 5 to 7 years. critics say the voted slacks the participation of a meaningful opposition for the president says he wants another man died before he makes further changes. this then you're the, comes the in the current climate where acute complex process is prevalent in the world. and in our region was finding the right effective way to develop the country and implemented has become a most acute and urgent issue to it's been 5 years since the us withdrew from the
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nuclear deal with iran on the phone with president donald trump. to ron hasn't stepped up, it's nuclear program dosage. a battery takes a look at where things stand the joints. the comprehensive plan of action was signed in july 2015 and endorsed by the united nations security council. it was meant to limit your ons nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions and allowing to run back into financial markets. after decades of isolation, signatories were iran, and the 5 permanent members of the un security council in germany. but just 2 years after it was implemented, the united states pulled out of the deal saying it wasn't a good one and impose thousands of new sanctions on the wrong prior to 2015, then the deal was signed. there was this dichotomy inside the country that there's kind of debates whether we should trust the united states. there is now
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a consensus, both among the public and political allots that the united states is not a partner or is not a con suite to be trusted when it comes to international deals for you to jump on your, on your move in response, in may 2019 iran announced it was resuming nuclear activities and not abiding by the restrictions set out in the agreement. 4 years later, it has expanded into new areas of research, such as enrichment, uranium to 60 percent. and using more efficient center franchise is telling me that these moves have raised questions about turnarounds, commitments are returning to a deal because the capabilities of knowledge gains happy reverse. for example in 2016 and was estimated that it will take around about 12 months to build a nuclear weapon under restored deal. now that timeframe is about a few weeks although to run, maintains it is not seeking the nuclear weapon. the international atomic energy is
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he says, it is virtually blind when it comes to monitoring your ons nuclear programs. and that's causing alarm in washington. it is a genuine danger to regional security and to global security and indeed to the united states of america. and we're going to continue to take action to yes, deter, ron, from getting a nuclear weapon and then to seek a diplomatic solution that puts this on a long term pathway of stability. which means that stability may be a long way off, as attacks such as this one at the time nuclear plants have taken place over the past few years. the iran leaves is rails or so which denies any involvement. as long as the shadow war continues, there seems to be little hope. the 2015 agreements can be salvage, highlighting the need for a new deal. dorset yavari also sarah power on at least 22 people have died in india when a boat they were travelling and capsized that happens in toronto coastal town and
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the southern state of care of the local media side. the 2 story tourist vessel was over crowded, and many passengers would wearing life jackets. if people have been killed in the us state of texas off the car, driving to pedestrians outside a homeless shelter used by migrants, the drive is in custody and has been charged with reckless driving. the incident happened in the city of brownsville, on the border with mexico were treated as an accident, were definitely not trying to figure out right now. it is very is the fluid case, right now, information might change. so that's why we're trying to so the number of home runs being has in major league baseball games is on the rise. nobody seems entirely sure why. but according to a new study, climate change could be playing a role, gabriela ellis, on the reports from new york. for baseball fans
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home runs or a highlight of the game. and statistics show that the number of home runs hit during baseball games has been on the rise. certainly because of climate change. that's according to a new report by scientists at dartmouth college. we use data on a over a 100000 baseball games, showing that warmer temperatures increase the number of home runs in baseball games on a day to day basis. the 2nd component of our study ties this, the climate change and shows the increased temperature is over the last 10 years. cheperdak, almost more than $500.00 home runs total already. that number will continue to grow in the future with potentially hundreds more home runs per year. if temperatures continue in 2018 major league baseball commission to study led by 10 scientists to determine what was leading to the increase in home runs, they could not reach a definitive conclusion. but ultimately, a lot of their research led back to this,
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the baseball small changes and how baseballs are manufactured, potentially increase aerodynamic capabilities. they took them and threw them into tumble drivers, which is kind of interesting. so you got a ball, it really flattened the seams and made the ball so much more spiritual. the drive went down, travel even farther. but perhaps it's not just about the ball and not just about climate change. some baseball experts point to other contributing factors as well, like a better understanding of sweet mechanic's strength training and smaller ballparks where players don't have to hit it as far to get a home run. but in the end, it makes little difference. as long as home runs are being hit, fans don't mind either way. gabriel was on don't. which is either the.

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