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us color to the boston line. a diverse range of stories from across the globe. from the perspective of networks, journalist own outages, 0. the towns and villages and ukraine's care southern region are flooded after an attack on a dam, thousands are forced to leave their homes. the hello, i'm how much room this is out 0 life and also coming up, fire breaks out of the fuel depot incidents. capital has the army and paramilitary forces fight for control of a weapons. factory. outdoors is dangerous, and just about every part of our state. not just vulnerable communities, but literally everyone. air quality alerts issued for parts of the us east coast as
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smoke from hundreds of fires burning and canada blankets, guns and argentine as world cup winner. leno, messy confirms he's joining, david beckham's inter miami turning down an offer with a club and saudi arabia. the ukraine's president is calling on international aid organizations to help and rescue efforts following an attack on a damn in this out in the southern 1st on region. thousands of people who been evacuated after the breach cause widespread flooding. russian president vladimir putin, his accused key of, of destroying the nova kafka damn with the backing of western powers. but keith says, russian forces minded months ago, the dam links the banks that that any pro river held by russia on the south side to ukrainian hill territory on the north space. satellite images show that nova can help good them before the damage, and then a breach by water is from the reservoir,
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a granary, and the town of cause op scale on the banks of the disney pro is now surrounded by water. entire neighborhoods further down stream are completely submerged. draw stratford reports from 1st on there was a sadness the pervades these floated streets. soon off, the rushes invasion of song was attacked and then multiplied by russian forces and now launch aries at the city on the water. many of the people who were ton delta the crating. i mean we took care of this on late last year, being evacuated from the home. yes. everything was demolished. the. it's frightening. the 2 story houses had been swept away and the somehow through the floating down the river. there was no one there when evil ukraine accused these rushes of destroying the cockles. there lived in the pro river and causing this
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terrorist attack to prevent and advance across to the pro river towards the russian occupied crimea, says keith rushes. ukraine is responsible and is also moving thousands of people to safety on the opposite russian occupied side of the river. this is one of many streets here in cash on safety, completely flooded. we understand that they were hundreds, if not thousands of people that were living here until this dime was destroyed. and now they all being forced to leave i. this is about mines that may have been dislodged and carried into the city for the flood search for them to prepare boats to help the search for more traps. people cages kind of key cats with good china is violet. us divided all can i know? we was shouting and banging on windows. there are no it people are only animals. the water there is almost over the signposts. evacuation buses are full. the young
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and old. we take with them a few belongings like pets at the which in season one, b. c. it's very hard to explain. honestly, it's so hard to speak very hard. i don't know where i'm going. we were taken out and now we're on a and the city had already experience some of the worst suffering in this world. now, i mean to flood waters and destruction. it's people are forced to endure even more chunks, drop it down to 0, ships on you and watson is head of media for the international red cross. he says the humanitarian needs and the 1st on region are extensive. the already there was a huge vault ability within the local population. many people that fled because of the fighting prior to that. and those that remained with people that have limited liability that may be sick, that could not leave. and so of course now with these floods,
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the situation was dramatic. uh, the international committee of the red cross, and particularly through our partner on the ground, the ukrainian red cross has been evacuating people from the scene. so 800 people on day one. and i'm today 55 people were evacuated by the ukranian red cross, and we are working extremely close to the new crime with diversity training and red cross. we provide them with technical support and other support. so the, the red cross movement is present and supporting ad, but uh for us there is this emergency phase now which is really a rescue and people from where they are. and that includes people that really cannot move told i've no mobility, but then there are longer term needs that we will need to support communities through of course, the land. what's, what's happened here is that this is an area that have significant land mine and
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explosive remnants present. now the fact of this water is washed through the means that those land mines are now no longer box. so we don't know where they are with, you know, there's a lot of them. and of course, this land is, is agriculture around. so this really, really deals a terrible blow to people's ability to uh, to make a livelihood, to have access to drink of a water. so those are the types of issues that we will be looking at. the longer term, usually a ship off a little bit has more on rushes reaction to the dam. collapse with had from present pace and regarding the disaster, and he discussed it with tag as president other one during its telephone conversation. the russian president cooled the destruction of the cold. scott, pop blonde, a bump barrick action by kias. i think that it was instigated by the west page and the space is the breakdown of the power station was a clear example of kids terrorist messes. so now we've had from a b,
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russian top officials regarding the destruction of the cold sketch and all of them plays the blame solely on kid, by the way, prior to the telephone call with the legend page. and mr. ad one had a conversation with presence, a landscape ukraine offering to create a commission with the participation will be un russia, ukraine, and sat k to investigate what actually happened the whole hope. scott, down basically around this time that you create a keys is russian troops of blowing out the time. russia claims that the power station came out of the ukrainian shutting. but there is also a version that it could be an unintentional dissolves to. um, the don collapse to, to improve putting maintenance and the damage due to the damage caused it. so of this, the ex, but it's not say that the destruction of the time may negatively affect both sides of the conflict. the,
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the fire has broken out of the fuel depot in the sudanese capital near a weapons factory. the battle between the army and the rapids support forces has intensified in southern federal. the fuel storage site is one of the biggest in africa, the paramilitary groups. as it's inside the weapons factory of hundreds of thousands of people have fled. the violence in sudan, neighboring chad has taken in the largest number of refugees. many are from west or for the side of years of conflict and atrocities against civilians. same as robbie reports from a hospital in audrey eastern, chad in the town of andre, this is the only general hospital that service is not only the local community, but scores of refugees that are fling the violent sense, who then most of them who are arriving and in fact, all of them, by and large are from dar for the chief of medicine here, tells us that they are beginning to feel overwhelmed. that there are no more beds
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for any additional patients. and what they need immediately is more assistance dealing with the medical needs of those that are arriving here at the maternity ward. doctors have delivered several babies born to refugees that have arrived under incredibly stressful conditions. now if we walk a little further and we begin to see what it looks like when a hospital of this size, a small hospital, a humble one, for a small town by all accounts. when they begin to get overwhelmed. this is what happens. overflow as being over seen by doctors without borders in these tense, these tense are basically make shift recovery wards for people who have been treated who have arrived with injuries broken bones sprained ankles. but what we have seen a lot of in our time here is many people with bullet wounds. the chief of medicine has said that if this continues much longer, they are going to struggle to provide the care that many of the people here need.
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and most of those that are currently residing in this hospital, most of the patients that have checked in and are being treated around 75 percent of them. the vast bolt are soothing these people fleeing the conflict in dark for medical professionals, we've spoken to here say that what they want to see is a meaningful intervention by the international community. not just in terms of dealing with the humanitarian fall out of what's happening, but also been trying to bring an end to the conflict into the, the same bus route of the older 0 address and eastern to tens of millions of people in canada and the northeastern united states are being told to stay indoors because of smoke from wild fires. within 400 are burning and canada, and a prompted air quality alerts across several provinces and states. new york city sky line has been blanketed by smoke. it has an immediate impact on people's health, your rotation to the eyes, the nose, breathing, coughing,
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so and even shortness of breath. so our message right now is going to be reiterated multiple times because it is simply stay indoors outdoors is dangerous and just about every part of our state, not just vulnerable communities, but literally everyone. a kristen salumi reports from new york. you didn't have to follow the news to know something wasn't right in new york. it's very unexpected. like it really happened out of the blue light that to my children. i'm like, isn't me, wasn't really foggy out here because it was that bad that i put my eyes. faith was something wrong with my eyes. they're like no, it's all. yeah. air quality so bad. you could see it in smell. it. when i opened my apartment door, the hallway smell like smoke, which was something that i have never, you know, experience before. new york may have had it the worst, but it wasn't alone. 12 states issued air quality advisories all as a result of wildfires. north of the border in canada, you know, the levels that people, if they were to be outside,
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especially if they're exercising, breathing faster, they're going to be inhaling particulates at concentrations that normal smokers would inhale. state officials or advising people to stay in doors as much as possible. the view here in new york has ranged from hazy to barely recognizable and to be clear, there are no clouds in the sky. this is all particulate matter from canada, a 1000 kilometers away. and yet it is blocking our view of the skyline of manhattan, just over the river, barely a kilometer away from philadelphia to washington d. c. as far south as north carolina schools cancelled the outdoor activities, when i got back from school my, my head was hurting on as having really bad headaches and them. i noticed i have a very old and a very young as well as those with heart. a respiratory conditions are being advised to wear masks, outdoors. scientists, blame. unusually dry and hot conditions in canada for fueling more than 400 active
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fires there. and there warning this could be the country's worst wildfire season on record. people across the country are being affect or seeing vulnerable people at risk. outdoor affects cancelled. the kids having to be kept inside at recess in new york, the air quality alert has already been extended until friday, but that may not be the last of it candidates wildfire season. typically last until september, kristen salumi al jazeera new york. nbc journalist, vanessa lee has more on the fires and come back there are currently 149 forest fires, burning and come back with 110 deemed out of control. and this has forced thousands from their homes. a state of emergency was declared in sheboygan mill, which is 7 hours north of montreal, where the entire town of 7500 has been evacuated. it was
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a scary situation last night, with flames injuring dangerously close to the community. authorities knocked on people's doors, telling them to leave immediately. so people pack up their clothes, their pets, essentially whatever they could as quickly as possible. and some went and spent the night with family and friends. others slept on a cart inside of a sports center in a community, just a 3 hour drive away. but the highway was so congested, it took some people 8 hours to get there. it's not known when they will be able to return home. the key factor right now was whether there was no rain in the forecasts for days. in some areas, strong winds are making it challenging to fight the fires, come back, has called in reinforcements. another $260.00 firefighters will be arriving in the coming days with clues on their way from abroad, including france. already the season more than 2300 fires have burned in canada scorching at least 3000000 hectares. the equivalent of over 5000000 football fields
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. the whole francis is recovering from abdominal surgery in rome. the vatican says there were no complications, but the pontiff is expected to stay in hospital for several days. they had of the roman catholic church, appeared in good spirits during his general audience and saint peter's square, just hours before being admitted. this is the 86 year old 3rd hospital stay since he became polk they're both but he's fine. and then he's a week and he's speaking with a he's a tell him, are you okay this afternoon uh that hopeful i went to the gym, the all spit out of the legal gym. maybe when he was stuck up, totally cut because that he had the post supposed to be hard. yeah. with the seen them of upset use of them of the by well that the in the last most close a pains and the very old friend now or so somebody because you've seen them. so we that the doctor. so we decided to proceed to operation. still
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a head on al jazeera, the new electoral council, and surely it goes back to the drawing board to replace its constitution, the a hello that was not in the middle east and live and, and from the satellite image, you can see the shower cloud drifting that way east, across a saudi arabia that could bring a storm or shower particular to areas around mecca, but further east of this, a launch the hot and dry picture, with temperatures picking up to the mid to high. forty's over the next few days on temperatures will be only up across the live band, with the risk of blowing dust has the stronger winds moving out of the north east of africa, west to weather as we go into friday across took it into northern parts of iran, but for the south of this, i'm not sure why
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a picture that was moved to north africa. you can see the winds blowing across libya, into egypt, the temperature in cairo coming down over the next few days and terms. this will be lingering rather low across the north west for places like morocco as well as out julia and she needs. yeah. as that with the weather starts to scratch its weight for the east. some heavy falls to come from nigeria as those rains continue across the central band of africa, a heavy rain as well, pulling into coastal areas of tunzia over the next few days. but further south, this allows you to hot and dry picture lots of sunshine in johannesburg, but cooler with lots of wind for cape town to weather update, the approve or reject the most progressive constitution ever proposed for any nation in the history. yes or no shooting. voted no. the big picture
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us was a question that goes into the very foundation of judy until the cause of its relationship with indigenous people. the muscle and the myth of 2 plus 2 on the jersey. the, the, [000:00:00;00] the, you're watching of a 0, a reminder of our top stories. this, our ukraine is calling on 8 organizations to help and rescue efforts following an attack on a damn and the southern fish on region. thousands of people have been evacuated moscow and he accused each other of the attack. a fire has broken out of the fuel
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depot and the suited these capital near a weapons factory. the battle between the army and the parent military rapids support forces has intensified in southern capital. more than 400 wildfire is burning and canada have prompted air quality alerts and several us states. tens of millions of people are being told to stay indoors as smoke blankets several cities . sheila is back to the drawing board to try to replace its constitution. the 2nd attempt in less than a year and they would like to world council will have 6 months to present a new draft. a latin america editor, lucy, i know many reports from santiago when by way elected delegates was worn into again begin the process of writing a new constitution for chile. this time there are only 50 of them, far fewer than the convention. the drew up a draft constitution last year, the chileans ultimately rejected as to radical. opening the council president
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w l body to appeal to delegates to see consensus, people to delete a subcategory miles. this constitution will bring our citizens closer to politics. but it will highlight the importance of dialogue between people who think differently to reach records for the good of the country. a constitution that we live, a long term certainty instability. but it's the 1st council was dominated by the left. this time the pendulum has swung the other way with conservatives now dominating the chamber. in an attempt to avoid the mistakes made last time, congress appointed a bi partisan commission of experts to write a preliminary draft of head to a clean defining chile as a republic. the guarantee in social rights and equality is alyssa and vicious versions in the last one. however, the right wing republican party has enough votes in this column. so now to visual anything that it chooses. and that is truly fears that
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a new constitution that is supposed to finally replace the one written under julie's form and military dictatorship will fall far short of what the country needs for the. remember, if this process has to take charge of the social demands that lead to an important uprising in this country, that will be the key challenge for this council. it's a concern even for monica and conservatives like gloria hot to look at the name of the key. you have to avoid falling into the same trap we did last year and which majority imposed at school without listening to the minority. that would be a mistake, because we need a constitution that will be respected by governments from the left and right and the center. there must be a consensus. the outside extreme right wing protest is many of whom supported the former dictatorship, decried the council as a big trail, while inside delegates promised dialogue and cooperation. the question is,
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will it last you see in human al jazeera santiago, the federal prosecutors in the united states have notified former president donald trump said he's the target of an investigation. us media are reporting that a special council probe is looking into the handling of classified documents. last year. roughly, 13000 documents were seized from his home in florida. trump says he classified the documents while he was president. he's called the investigation politically motivated. mike, hannah has more from washington dc, a former president, donald trump has been informed that he's the target of a criminal investigation. this is according to several media reports that a letter has been sent to his lawyers, who met with the department of justice earlier in the week. such a step is made when charging is imminent and when it's believed that there is substantial evidence that would justify
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a prosecution. now this all stems from the fact that doesn't and this of the documents were found that drums mario logo is state. many of them press a fide and also allegations that the orchestra case, it's a scheme to conceal these documents from authorities. now, there has been a grand jury in penalty in washington, which has been investigating the matter. and recently, a 2nd grand jury was in panels in florida. this indicating that the federal process is may take place in south florida because it's at the mario lago estate with the crimes allegedly took place. now this indication to that, to the special prostitute to investigating the matter, jack smith is very close to a charging decision. trump himself has issued a statement saying, no one has told me i'm being indicted and i shouldn't be because i've done nothing wrong. but i have assumed for years that i am the target of the width and i d o j and f
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b i. so donald trump furious at the fact that charges have been laid. however, it is indicated that the special prosecutor is not very close to making a decision about charging montana ultra sierra washington. the former us vice president mike pence has officially joined the race for the white house, pensive, challenging donald trump, under who, who served the relationship, became strained for pins rejected from order to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. a growing number of republicans are hoping to unseat joe by next year. i'll always be grateful for what president trump did for this country. i've often prayed for him over the past few years. and i prayed form again to day. i hope you would come around and see that he had been misled about
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my role that day. but that was not to be so let me say a stand before you today is a candidate for president to say to the republican party. the republican party must be the party of the constitution of the united states. opposition candidates in kuwait had won a majority in parliament after the gulf states 2nd general election in a year to make up a similar to the one appointed last year. that parliament ended up in disputes with the cabinet, which is appointed by the ruling of somebody family. the ground trends been dissolved the chamber in march paving the way for this week's booked. british prime minister wishes to attack is hoping to build on ties with the u. s. during his trip to washington dc. so any a guy who go takes a look at how much influence the u. k wields in a post breaks it reality. it has survived the test of time,
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a bone and forged by common democratic ideals and values. so says the us state department that has withstood challenges, embrace changes, no matter the difference between this lead is and it was winston churchill himself hoff american. by way of his mother to coined the phrase, the special relationship, and the sentiment echoed by the current prime minister wishes to knock. you continue to hold of us green card while he was the child sort of the ex jacob stanford man. but it is not without its tests, not least for the u. k. sit adapting to life outside the european union. the u. k is no longer part of one of the largest markets in the world. it is on its own. it is, it hasn't, you know, sorted out its relationship with europe that's improving that helps. but america can no longer look to the u. k as the country that it feels most comfortable with. that's part of one of the biggest markets in the world. but it's not just
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a question of economics, defense forms and major parts of the ties between london and washington, such as lucas are recently formed, strategic try lateral alliance between australia, the u. k. and the us and the in the pacific region. person be tough competition from phones to build nuclear propelled submarines from school. did a stop in the back get the u. k. 's decision to lead support for ukraine off of the 2020 to russian invasion as part of a transatlantic response left the us and no doubt with the countries continuing military goals and objectives. there will be much to discuss during this to see next trip to washington and not least of all the ongoing role in ukraine, which is strength and ties between the us and the u. k. and while the relationship between the full prime minister boris johnson and president biden perhaps felt a little short of special, there was a renewed interest on both sides to repair that i told her that in bold stomach,
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the rapid advances in all sufficient intelligence which experts one could cause human extinction the us and the you already collaboration on the issue. while the u . k. is pitching itself as an international hub for a i regulation less severe than the you but tougher than the us. and opening up a new technological front to and this historical partnership. sonya jago, i'll just sarah london. britain's prince harry wrapped up nearly 8 hours of cross examination in london's high court areas. one of 4 claimants springing the case against mirrored group newspapers. he accuses them of publishing information obtained through illegal means, like phone hacking. the mirrors says the stories were obtained through legitimate sources. and some sports news argentinian football star, leonel massey has confirmed. he's joining american side into it. miami, the 35 year old still needs to finalize the deal with the club, which is co owned by david beckham. mfc was linked with former team barcelona,
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but said financial issues there and any hopes of his return. he also turned down to move to saudi arabia's and here that so he wanted to be more with his family, with his wife, with his sons, and be able to have a different quality of life. and i get, i guess, kind of get away from the spotlight a little bit to a certain extent. but knowing that there will be a full spotlight on him. none the less being and major league soccer and being the face of major league soccer going into the next couple of weeks and months all the way to win his contract does ends a 2 year deal with a one year option. if he does exercise that with that one year option, he would end up being and majorly. soccer june 2026. december of 2026. may. i'd be more precise and of course that would be after the world cup would be played here in the united states, mexico and canada. as far as the numbers that they've been talked about anywhere between $5040.00 and $50000000.00 a year. but it's not just the $4050000000.00 a year. that's the attractive part. it's also
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a percentage of the tv right from apple tv. it's also a data. so being able to chip in, in terms of revenue, he would end up getting a percentage of that as well. you would also get a percentage of ownership of, of inter miami and, and of course have you start seeing the complex if you start seeing some of the resources that the team does have in your disposal. it's, it's a world class organization from bad in the business out 0. and these are the top stories. ukraine's president is calling on international aid organizations to help and rescue efforts following an attack on a damn in the southern fierce on region. thousands of people have been evacuated after the breach cause widespread flooding. russia and ukraine,
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