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of the for 40 in the field means i also get to with this not just news is breaking, but also history as it's unfolding. dropping from one day i might be covering politics. i might be covering protests. what's most important to me is understanding what they are going through so that i can convey the headlines in the most human way possible. just here to we believe everyone has a story worth hearing of the investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe. now to 0, the flash pods and land slides in eastern democratic republic of congo kill more than
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400 people. total is rising thousands. i'm missing the alarm about this, and this is obviously real life and do have also coming up no sign of peace. and so that is representatives of wanting generalization, jetta, discuss the cx 5 but without a breakthrough. plus on same bus robbie and shots capital in domain where the government is increasingly concerned. the fighting in neighboring done could spark on rust and extreme summer heat scorches parts of south east asia, for some schools in the philippines to shorten the hours, the democratic republic of congo is suffering one of its voice to natural disasters in recent history. more than 400 people have been killed in devastating floods and
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lands lights, a national day of mourning has been declared, emergency cruisers searching for people in the worst hip problems of soft cuba. dr . say they're running out of supplies to treat the injured. dimitri medical dental reports. this one is one of hundreds of people who have come to the m a could be to get medical help. but of today's of floods and lance lights 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 health. with her. i clung to a collapsing house. it fell on top of me and i was confident that i lost lots of members of my family. brothers and sisters in little to bodies have been found but say for the others have not since the day flooding and lance lives of swept away roads and left hundreds dead. these, you see the goods on the weekly market. they,
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in the village, you know, could be, it's 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 neighborhoods. presidency likes to security declared monday as a day of national morning mcgrooves village street says people are doing what they can to recover, but they need help. elem but we're giving them a and as soon as we ask the national government to come to our aid agency and everyone was watching me and these interview across the world to come in any emergency because that i know places to sleep. there are no blankets to cover. the reason nothing today, we're not, we're not thousands of people have been buried some in mass graves. but with nearly 2000 people reported missing many more grades will most likely need to be done to be treatment vanco. ouch is here that are growing concerns about diseases
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in the affected areas. it's catherine, sorry, reports from goma. with that situation in the south too. who is very desperate indeed. we have been speaking to a was with say that they have no equipment. they have no way to help people. we have been speaking to relatives and people who are just trying to help are they are using the hon. dig through the model. they're using equipment like, you know, that they have to do what they can. we have been told that there is going to be a press conference in construct stuff where the government is just assessing the needs. but it's very difficult even for the government to bring equipment to help. because you know, some of this areas have been cut off, the roads have been cut off. we know that the, you know,
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from the governor is that some of the bodies have been washed away into lakes too. so if somebody is this whole situation, you have thoughts to relatives who are saying that they don't have anything and everything has been washed away. they have nowhere to sleep, that no shelters. you know, 8 was a saying that there is no medicine and they all worried about diseases. we want to know if keybo dozens of fear missing following a line slide videos have emerged a month coming down a hill in an area known for mining people that can be heard. screaming is the fee on the representatives from sedans, warning size older. another day adults and society of abs. boswell, delegates from the army and the part of military rapids support forces meet in jetta. fighting is continuing back home, delegates from both faction the say,
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the only discuss actually monetary untruths and not an end to the conflict. hundreds have been killed and thousands of others have been injured in the fighting . and i'm logged in reports from cartoon. well, the sudden these army and the rapid support forces have been launching, attacks against each other in various parts of the capital cartoon, especially around the vicinity of the presidential palace. there's been intense as strikes launched by so dennis army fight suggests against suppose it are assessed positions around the vicinity, off of the pallets, which is being controlled by the rapid support forces in the city of a lot of to him. they have very few hospitals that are functioning and when we spoke to him, i think they said they stuff are huge. charts ages shows, they just have medical stuff to take care of medicines and surgical equipment. thing that they have to recycle them sometimes in the capital part of the home, in the city of little mind and in the city of a heavy note in the northern parts of the capital where battery is we spoke to
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solve and metrics and they said that there's only one functioning hospital right now for the entire city, the latest hospital to come out with gas and which is also in the northern part. it's a children's hospital but also treated cancer patients and renal dialysis patients that is no longer possible. they say because of what they should say just seems to start with a fine thing. because for the 4th 5 days they had no running electricity. and so they were not able to function or operate on the patients who are, who have been coming to their doors. now the only remaining hospital says that it's been receiving a lot of patients, but it has to, it has had to turn them back because of a huge needs. and because of they look capacity, not enough doctor's to respond to all the patients. nothing of surgical equipments, nothing of medications. so the situation, especially for the patients who are in need of medical assistance, is getting more and more dire, says they've already begun the year ends registered tens of thousands of people crossing into sides to done most returning home agencies say it's adding to an already diet humanitarian crisis in the country and getting the new arrivals to the
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final destination is proving difficult as how much awesome thoughts from punch. a lot of people arriving in south dawn are trying to get here to a port in police. those straight to sizing in saddam days or weeks before them told them to come here and board evacuation plans. i knew him a little while came from saddam's capital cartoon. she says she's been stuck at the airport for more than a week. i have 4 kids. it's been hard pushing through the crowd to get on a plane. living here is rough. there's no shelter, water oh, adequate toilet facilities. this is the, the government the size agencies in more than $30000.00 vacancies and retained these have reached
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out to done. but not everyone is registered and numbers of thought to be higher. so that's why we need to get into the areas because most of the photos of sales are done are varied. amount of interest, such as meaning, you arrivals came with very few belongings or money. they need help to get to where they need to go to the people that the way they say they want to get available. more people are still crossing the border. there's a group assignments i'll be taken to a receipt. you can't manage to get out of sit on, but like so many others, they face and uncertain future. how do i toss out of the pollutes thoughts that i go there? i spoke to den delta and malik who said, sit on is acting minister for foreign affairs, and i asked him about the humanitarian situation for refugees. the 1st and foremost
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seduce a model, it was supposed to be digital government also so done to 1st receive those well crossing taught the what did, what is it that we have with give them but then we have a be to the to nursing and you went to the genesis for them to be able to enjoy the end of the government to give support to these particular people up crossing from. so then you made according to those we have come for them. so done. some of them have you been know, delta blanket legal don't those thing if a person it's best to go to the if they don't have them with the closing or even passport an idea, then we're left. and so we have us a lot of international residences. and today is that soon as the presence of a good way of you at a telephone call from the united nation is done. and they have discussed about this
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particular situation. last week of december also met with bridget, a facility of united nation duban. and we have discussed this particular situation for but it just has to be able to to be the need to support those. welcome folks to them. so let me ask you about the talks that are currently going on in jetta obviously says to don has a particular type of relationship with. so don, is there any effort that size to don is able to make to try to bring some sort of, um, pause at the very least or a solution to the crisis that is going on and sit down at the moment. the 1st and foremost, so like what so appreciated with you today is that a supervisor, somebody see especially at envoy but as a president for on the ship us one of the sort of the concept of saddam's. yes. and this was an invoice with the laptop to click on this article to me. i also would
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submit to it mentioned during the few years i've been telling them could you would come to you but to have in the end and bring about this in the protocol so that you'll also be coming you such as the president, but what they call god or agreement. so president self, i have a very, especially in contact with the, with the to, yes. going to to, to call the responsibility of any war. but this was the hub and it meant to because the world country of destroyed, you know, so that the fusion of the done as in the head and neighboring child, the government says it expects to receive a 100000 refugees. if international mediation fails that off for years, that, that it can become the next flash point for violence and the region, the same bus driving reports from the capital in german of the battle of hard to
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a site for $2.00 company could ignite conflicts across the continent that is the view and neighboring chad. the land block nation in the heart of africa is politically fragile from its own rebellion a few years ago. so despite tens of thousands of refugees streaming across its eastern border from sea, done, and more on the way the real where a child's leader say, is maintaining national security completely company. so let's go ahead utilize, once a conflict endures and plunge as a country into chaos, it leads to arm groups of formation of factions that are uncontrollable by the state. and it also impacts the economy. if the conflict in sudan continues chad will have many security problems with them, particularly week or country western allies hold good. some they'd be an oasis of stability began expanding military spending even before the price of 6 of the chad really is a place that is boxed in by conflicts south west just across the river. behind me
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is come a route. now fighting there a few years ago displaced tens of thousands of refugees who are still here in the capitol to the north along the border with libby as well as to the south. and central african republic are armed rebel groups that want to over throw the current government and to the west along the borders with nigeria, the chair and again come a room. the orange group vocal her wrong remains very active in such a dangerous neighborhood. the government as prioritize secured, but human rights groups say, what was meant to be a transitional government is consolidating power. the best way to guarantee regional safety. right? now, analysts say is a ceasefire. and cartoon. it's not just a frightening about so that it might be a fighting that would visualize very easily. so it's about calling the 2 parties to have everything that goes beyond their own position. so the issue with the future
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of so don and do it if you just leave you names, but also the future of the what region in the core of the discussions they might be chat, state and civil society remain deeply divided but tend to agree that war inside, since we've done, should take it out, not fight it because it seems what happens in so you don't, will not stay into the same bus route. the o g 0 jemina. check the still ahead on all, does it a russian military steps up here? starts in ukraine ahead of annual victory day celebrations. fighting drug trafficking in the middle east, and one of syria's biggest dealers is killed in an air strikes near the jordanian board. the one you of does that turn out is the return. this city never walk, the short dead spine is really signed. most reporting in the occupied was fine. we
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a fruit vendor is going to emulate themselves and say enough is enough. my life for democracy on how to 0 the, [000:00:00;00] the, the watching, i'll just need a reminder of adult stories this our democratic republic of congo is observing a day of morning, often more than 400 people for killed and flash floods in land. slight emergency cruise is searching for those missing and the worst hit. probably some size keeps representative. some sedans warning signs are holding another day of talks and started here. maybe i'm but 12 delegates from the army and the bottom of the trail
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rapids support forces meet in jetta. fighting continues in the cities capital up to the new cranes as it's shutting down dozens of russian drones targeting in the capital keys and overnight attacks. russia stepped up drone and missile strikes in recent days. the new wave of attacks comes ahead of russia's victory day holiday on tuesday. that commemorates the soviet victory over nazi germany. charles drive heard reports from keith is one of the largest biologies of russian to tax in recent weeks, div credit and all sorts. he's saying that also t 5 so cool kind of cause you drones. that's targeted areas in the cube region. shops down however, they have been casualties, according to the matter of cubits all the clips. gotta be saying that at least 5 people were reportedly injured. we understand from pulling the every of those drawings being intercepted there. also, according to the ukrainian ministry,
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at least 16 me solve that talk to the areas and car cube kids on because live and odessa 8. apparently i me. so i was a little desk system, fairly dramatic pictures of what's believed to be a food warehouse on file in odessa, these attacks come a day before a very symbolic and important day for russia, that commemoration of victory over nazi germany. so the unions victory of analysis, jeremy that's happening across russia tomorrow. and we understand that there was a lot of pressure on wagner policies and russian policies in and around the besieged city of bus, moved to take full control of bus moved before tomorrow. some sort of celebration. ready needs a gift, lie to me, it puts him on victory day. we've heard from the leader all wagner opened the lights. uh it guinea, pre goshen leaving a message on his telegram channel saying that to the munition that he had been
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demanding and threatening to pull out if possible, if he didn't receive it. apparently you now saying that the munition is on the way and saying that the evolving the policies have pushed forward overnight into the some of the remaining areas that ukrainian focuses control progression saying ukrainians now or any control on the suite square kilometers of ball smoke. and also was mentioning is that this huge biology of attacks of in the light comes on as we expect a ukrainian accounts to offensive to stop the counter the offensive that is being spoken about for weeks and months. now we know that the russians are digging in building huge, defensive light and certainly south of separation. and we understand right the way along the front line, the russian hill, socrates in these occupied areas of ukraine saying that there is an ongoing evacuation of civilians in those areas in preparation for what is expected to be
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a push bar. ukrainian forces in the coming days and weeks, a prominent drug dealer and has finally been killed in an air strike in southern syria. my arms on that, his wife and 6 children were targeted and also a to providence, near the border with jordan. the city and observatory for human rights says, jordan county that strikes a mine has not confirmed it was responsible. i'm done is accused of smuggling drugs including catholic on from jordan into syria. comfortable and it was a stimulant, widely used during the 19 sixties and seventies to treat people with mental health conditions. in 1986, it was bombed by the w. h o because it's addictive, syria produced as 80 percent of the world's supply, the u. k. and the us government believe serious, kept it on trade alone, is worth $57000000000.00 per year. they accuse both the city and regime and rebels of using it to finance that operations. the main destinations are believed to be saudi arabia and iraq, through jordan and 11 on the same government as applies to i to the end smuggling
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operations guideline rose leads the project from the account took on trying to the new lines institute and she things efforts to cub trafficking is becoming key to international diplomatic efforts with the city and government. now that we're seeing and almost all normalization discussions, both multilateral and bi lateral, that kept going has been elevated as a top agenda item for country you see can normalization with syria. and the reason for this is because of the pressure that it's put on both security forces, customs forces. but also of course, there's rising addiction crisis in the region. and also there is this belief that syria has some given their agency over the coptic on trade. they do have some space for action to change their behavior and to reduce coptic on smuggling operations throughout the region. whether that's going to happen though is another, is another question. um, but it's very clear that they're using kept gone eyes that quote, goodwill gesture,
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kind of a low hanging fruit or cooperation and coordination with the syrian regime, including the regime and high level discussions, let alone investigations and working groups. i mean, that's going to be very difficult to actually stem the trade given that they are behind the most of the supply, the bulk and 80 percent of the supply. and that's really giving them a window into counter narcotics efforts in the region and will allow their smugglers to adopt more advanced techniques. so including the regime i think is going to make it even more difficult and even more challenging for these countries . this done the flow of the trade. i think that another thing that many countries up in exploring has been increasing interdiction capacity. so supplying their custom system that there's, there's a cost systems with advanced technologies, x ray machines and smuggling and anti smuggling techniques that can try and flag some of these huge capt gone shipments that are coming through their overall land and maritime ports of entry. in parts of asia,
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severe heat wave is causing depths long power cuts and destroying crops in the philippines. soaring temperatures are for schools to reduce hours and turn to remote learning. bonham, even though reports or after less than 4 hours in school the days already over for these children. it's the annual dry season in the philippines, but the heat has become too intense for most people. this elementary school in the suburb has cut the class a short to allow students to go home before temperatures peak in the afternoon. so very i unbearable, especially with the little children they have noticed me. then many i have fever and go. so it is very difficult for them to listen to some parents for either children will be learning less, but others agreed that health comes 1st. okay, you want to say number one is fine because health is
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a number one concern and their teachers. so monitor them closely even when they're at at home. we have to take videos of them when they do their homework. i'm supposed to meet in one secondary school, south of manila, nearly $150.00 students suffered heat stroke last month. 7 of them feed it to had to be taken to a hospital. it's not just the schools that it's adapting to the extreme heat. others have started what's called blended learning, where students spend half the week of school and the other half of home learning online or through print modules. parts of asia, including lois mart vietnam and china registered record temperatures. in april in thailand, the heat index reached 54 degrees celsius, the highest in its history, and in malaysia environment minister warranty. the risk of forest fires creating hayes and pollution. mccain is going to be leading a factor, the because if you look at the global assessment, the parts of the game really isn't in the,
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in the recent east. there's always been same there. let me change these anything because it would be getting in the future with getting why right? the project. as adding to the problem, an impending dry spelled due to el nino philippine president freddie named barkus junior has ordered the creation of a new water resources management office, and the department of agriculture, which he heads plans to distribute climate or assistant rise to farmers. but officials admit the effects of of new and the changing climate can be avoided. only mitigated, pardon below algebra, manila springs recorded as hottest and dry. his april and decades. the average daily temperature was about 15 degrees celsius, 3 above normal. last year it was as cost on record. at least 7 people have been killed in hundreds of homes, have been distorted by wild fires in the southern russia. strong winds find flames
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across the sweet regions in western siberia, prompting one to declare a state of emergency. a tide of control while as far as the 1st tens of thousands of people from their homes in western canada. a state of emergencies in placing old boston and providence kind of leg reports these 5 fighters in western canada. this is a daunting and potentially deadly situation. raging wild fires found by strong winds, with more than a 100 burning across alberta. the province's top official has declared a state of emergency. this is not a step that we took lightly, but it's one that will allow the quickest and most effective response. visiting one of the worst defected areas, she says the situation is unprecedented. and what we wanted, it was fall from over. it could last a long time. we weeks if, if not months of the fire officer was just telling me that they had similar because of the piece oil. they had a similar fire that took over a year to extinguish. after
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a week of record heat across the western canada official se persistently dry weather is to blame for the fires, the temperature and the wind combined with the lack of precipitation this year really created this mix. so that created the extreme virus that we entered. a fire band, a week before this fire broke out in the county. the arrival of more favorable weather conditions in the south has allowed firefighters to reach previously inaccessible areas, but conditions remained difficult in the north and the neighboring british columbia . where authorities one hot and dry conditions, a jew to return in the coming days and confer the fuel the flames. that's prompted more orders to evacuate people from their homes and to see if they could be move wildfires to come. car leg, i'll just 0. that's it. for me, robots, and i'll be back in about half an hour.
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the i had no that won't, has flooded back into the 11th. now that the unsettled conditions have pushed further east, meaning temperatures have recovered across eastern areas of the mediterranean. things are a lot quieter and come here. the rain has engines west and pots overruns without pulling into eastern areas of a rock, but temperature is offset to rise, not just here, but for the south across the gulf states, they'll have coming in at 40 degrees celsius 2 by 41. so it is a story of clear skies and heat over the next few days. now that's not the case across the move of africa. we go to swelling system, putting its way east across libya, that'll knock temperatures down as it starts to move towards egypt over the next few days. for the south of this, it is a story of heat. we've moved in the way of fun, the stores affecting the gulf of guinea over the next few days. so what's the weather as well, putting into uganda, but for the south of that is a story. all heaps would be for the north west of bought swanner. we had
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a new old time temperature. high record set is on sunday to just here, remaining high over the next few days. it's the laundry, hot and dry picture. what to weather. however, effecting eastern areas of south africa, pulling away and leaving some sunshine in japan as book by wednesday, that to weather update the shop to the head of the silencing of a renown, a skimming american journalist, the boring that's recent on the nation. and yet no accountability, a thorough investigation into the final moments of her life. and it's on time the end of the hands, if it's ready for the kidding, should be in a box on
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