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because of the way the news is covered, the challenges here with the, the extreme weather warnings as tens as many of the space rising temperatures across the us. i'm your the, i, my name's i, this is out of their life and also coming up, rush it withdrawals from the ukraine grain jail, a movie, you know, as a nation says, threatens global st. security. opposition protest if in fact the dashed amount,
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the resignation of the governments have a rise in prices, lack of political freedom, and the u as well. feed program announced deep costs to emergency assistance and hating. a senior official cools at hot breaking. he's not a risk coming regarding prices. sky is twice the other. well, can we begin with the dangerously hot temperatures? when across the united states? 79000000 people on the he said that it's following a we can to record for i can temperatures from florida to arizona. christians telling me reports from las vegas where rec hold high temperature is expected in the coming days. more than a dozen us cities have now broken temperature records and phoenix, arizona is poised to be the next. after it's 18th consecutive day of the $43.00
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degrees on monday. the salvation army is bringing water hat some sunscreen to the on house. i was hired i, i like yellow, yellow the heat delayed. i go away or, you know, just now i, my friends came to check on me and i was, i couldn't stop sled in 2022 maricopa county soft, 425 heat related deaths, which was a record the salvation army during this latest heat wave has been survey for 4 or $500.00 people per day. so we're hoping with those efforts and the, the efforts of other organizations that are also providing sheet relief that will be able to keep those numbers down this year. on the other side of the country at miami, florida, had it's 14th consecutive day of temperatures reaching over 35 degrees to walk into something over here. somebody that will take a few minutes when you to part of the water for to that hot tub ajax, and take
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a break without repeating so hot. but here, there was also localized flash flooding as a result of sudden downpours and still the hottest place on earth. death valley on the california nevada border on sunday, temperatures reach 53.3 degrees celsius at the appropriately named furnace creek. the how does temperature on earth was recorded at the same spot in july of 191356.7 degrees centigrade. it's hot, but the uh, the theme, the scenery is awesome. yeah. beautiful. here in las vegas, the temperature has 43 degrees for 3 days in a row, a trend expected to continue until saturday. the national weather service has warning people here this, this is not your typical desert heat due to its duration. and also the high daytime
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temperatures combined with warm nights as well. i'm at scientist say this is what they've been warning about for decades. more intense and longer lasting patterns of extreme weather due to global warming. and this year the nino weather phenomenon is exacerbating manmade climate change. 2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record. kristin salumi al jazeera, las vegas as well. several seasonally villages in greece are being evacuated, as well finds threatened times. strong winds are finding the flames of 2 separate places near the capital athens. at least 1200 children have been evacuated from holiday accounts. this money is a 155 sizes and 11 across to working to extinguish the flies. health allots have been issued for 16 cities in any way of temperatures. reco jobs expected to be broken. increasing numbers of elderly people are seeking help and
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brought him to observe how many reports now on the task for spouse assisting them. these are busy days if you're a doctor in italy as the sewing temperatures continue. so 2 is the concern for the elderly frank of something that hasn't been feeling herself over the past few days after. okay. normally if at the meeting, i know that it's awful, i can't sleep at night and i can't live during the day. it's impossible. i never experience such heat all the time. i feel like i'm a box spring. normal life is already more difficult at all age. the he just takes everything out of me. the doctor tells her she needs to drink much more water, something funk admits she often forgets he and says that it's a live saver during the heat wave. in the summer of 2020 to 18000 people died here . and literally, the vast majority of them being elderly, so the most vulnerable this year have so sorry tease. i'm not taking any chances
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they have put together a task force that is being deployed all over the city. the . it all starts with a phone call. this health clinic follows up more than a 1000 elderly who by large living lo checking on them on a daily basis. teams also go from home to home to check on those with medical conditions like genetic courtney versus to just being that goes out once a day to walk the adult prints. but for july not it's been tough. and this advice you may say, it probably will tell us it's been nearly a month. i've only been at the hospital here at home. it's horrible. i don't get depressed, but i get very novice. i didn't recognize myself. the heat drives me crazy, but i'm not allowed to leave the house. so i go from room to room. both sister told us about the fear of isolation ever since the global fund demik. and do have a daily phone call or a visit is reassuring. the on the inside, the one,
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the bottom, the space, the a very scared when we speak to them, they often break down and to be afraid that something happens to them. and no one notices. most of those who died last year were discovered a few days later because there was no one around what sort of would it be that the worst is yet to come. during these days of a red alert, the elderly are a huge concern with the meat of just the red room. south korean president, you in so keel is cooling for an as a whole of the countries disaster response system as comments for the devastating floods which killed at least 41 the people you know said change is needed because of abnormal weather correspond climate change and government is also investigating whether negligence was involved in the depth of 14 people trumped in a flaunting tunnel. they, dr. flood was rushed into the tunnel. so imagine that calls and a boss. jessica washington has moved from exxon in north until the province with
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the heavy rains of the state of toms. here in a fun city on the south west of the country, this is a community that is feeling the devastating impact this week is heavy, rain and floods. agriculture communities, keep somebody hit hard. we know that more than 26000 tech has a fine line is damaged this week, and also how more than half a 1000000 lives still kills in this week of extreme weather. now, you can see at the farm is house here. this is how high the rain hits a higher than then waist height. so certainly has had a devastating impact on this community. you can see the crops that farmers have been sent their lives growing. watermelons, onions, chillies, scattered about the road and all with a crops, had gone to waste their phone lines destroyed. this here is actually a green house that resembles a lake at the moment. but that is the extensive damage here in exxon city. many
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people asking questions about the preparedness of authorities as this crisis unfolds, particularly in agricultural areas like this one, the farm that we was speaking to was certainly very stoic about the situation that he's facing at this moment despite the fact that his livelihood, and indeed his family's livelihood is now in the states completely destroyed. he's calling on this area to be declared a special disaster zone, which would help the local community in terms of funding to, to make some sort of recovery from this difficult period. and certainly questions being off on a national level as well if south korea is to focus on, on measures in terms of recovery rather than thinking about preventative measures in advance considering that these incidents of extreme with us seem to be happening increasingly frequently. jessica washington, which is 06 on city, south korea. the
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russia has ended a deal that allowed grain to be expose it out. so if you cranes, black sea port expired on monday evening. most go says conditions for extending the agreement. haven't been fulfilled. the tech is present or what temp temp? 81 says government is trying to get russia back on board or sol, set of reports from the stumble. this is the last shift carrying green from ukraine on the blacks. the green initiative, brokers by the united nations center to yeah. now russia has pulled out seeing is demand. how not being mat of russia wants to see. and, and west of the 4 sections on the russian agricultural bank and to restrictions on shipping. an insurance that must go say is, has hampered its agricultural exports and that's the tricky. it is one of the main beneficiaries of the deal, and he's hopeful it can be helped to get there real. sure for that, i shall know that i believe my friend,
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president boots and once this humanitarian bridge to continue in the meantime, uh for administer will hold as meetings with discounts of thoughts. and i will meet with mr. booth. and as soon as i return from the trip, when we meet with him in our country in august, we will have the opportunity to discuss all these issues. we will also explore how we can act on paving the way for the shipment of russian grain and fertilize the deal was struck last year, same as the, as of global food shortages off the russia in the way that you can nearly 33000000 tons of green and other foods have left ukraine on the agreement to have quoted there, across the blacks that i loved. you can't export a screen stay for me. without the rush of security guarantees, you can new ships with no longer be able to save from exports. do your opinions, hired representative has accused of russia or flip an ice in hunger. this is something very serious that creates a lot of travels for many people. we are on the west side, we will do everything we can sort of a. so the got
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a to lanes in order to make available the ukranian range with the people feet and a half to blame for us here for this issue completely unjustified weeping isaac that hung over the people according to the un, will you come, companies receive funded 3 percent of the premium green pump of the deal. but it says the agreement has benefit of people's words, right? by putting more food products onto the global market and reducing prices. since july last year, nearly 23000000 tons of green and other food have passed through the black sea. mean how old that has gone to how you come companies in your opinion, to to you has received 10 percent making it the 3rd largest, the recipient. now many here hold the good relations between on good. i must go, go still save the bill, especially side of that. oh, sure, 0 stumble to utilize the nation section in general says he is deeply disappointed at russia's withdrawal. from the blacks ingrained to saying it was the lifeline for global feed security on symptom mazda kept as
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a james based reports from the united nations in new york. until the last moment, the un secretary general has been trying to persuade russia to stay in the deal. the president putin didn't even bother to reply to. his light is left to see a dress reporters. his mood was grim. i deeply regret the decision by the russian civilization to tell me now to the implementation of the black sea initiatives, including resubmit, all of russian security guarantees for navigation in the northwest and part of the black sea. these initiatives as ensure the safe best sense of over 32000000 metric tons of false commodities from ukrainian parts inside the security council. western countries were united and they come the nation of russia. let's be clear. russia's actions all taking food out of the miles of the poorest people across africa. the middle east. i'd like to in america,
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and now was announcement that it would be withdraw from the black sea drain initiative. most co is threatening even more people. more children with starvation in russia decided not to attend the meeting at foreign minister level. instead sending its deputy on bassett, a. he said the deal was terminated, but added this, let's see. we've got the some of the russian federation will stand ready to consider its resumption only when concrete results are achieved, rather than promises and assurances from western capitals in ukraine's foreign minister, demitria calais, but told me there are different views here with the un about what the deal is completely dead. there are 2 schools of thought. now. i can conclude that from the conversation i've had, i have had some our fall list optimistic and others are slightly more optimistic. i'm told that during his meeting with the un secretary general, mr. calais, but raised the suggestion by his boss presence landscape,
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but perhaps the deal could continue operated by ukraine to kit. i'm the un without the participation of russia senior you and officials, though, if i doubt some about that they say, but no ship company or insurance company would want to risk the vessel coming under russian attack. james bayes out of the united nations. to suppose as, as bangladesh as main opposition policy and launching in the capital dhaka that demanding the resignation of the ruling and warming the government. and the destination as on the duchess hanuman. probably just as a use of holding for the establishment of unknown pauses and can take a government before the presidential election. they sent us here. they will say want political business to be released, including the head of feedback profession, nation this policy. let's go to the 100 charter use line for us in duyka ton. very firstly and tell us how big these purchase today. what is driving people to come
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out in the streets to this cause for one party. i'm sorry, one demand by the opposition and it's 36 party alliance. same on wednesday and a large, massive gathering in the center of the capital. the demand is basically the government must resign before the election, not among other demand uh the problem and should be, it does allow us that there should be a declaration of the parliament. all the political prisoner must be relieved. and the former prime minister color that they are who is the chairperson of the main opposition party buckner, those national parties must be relieved among other demands that the government must ensure a free and care and free and neutral. can't take a government during the interim period. of the election, which is scheduled for december of this year,
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or perhaps on january 2024. now we have a massive line of people stretching about a kilometer. it's a march. basically they're going to have towards the main part of the capital city . from here, we've been seeing a line after line, thousands of people matching on not many of the people are from different other opposition parties. many are just this content. people from different walks of life, they're demanding that the food prices come down. people have been suffering since last year because of high energy price and inflation. so many of them are common ordinary people. and tundra elections take place later the ca, what can we expect from that as well. this countries basically polarized by 2 major parties, the bank with us nationalist party, and the rolling all music party, which is added by a prime minister site catalina, and the other party by farmer products prime minister color de via,
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was basically is how is that address under a special ed has been serving at 17 years prison to sentence sort of popularly known as a battle of the big on for about a decade now. and this rivalry continued. unless there is any term government, most analysts and politic goes it spread things that day or big trouble down the road by december. because the majority of the people do not really trust any ruling party to conduct the election ad was done in 2018 at fulton by this government, which was highly to got it as a rig the election with a lot of anomaly. just the people in the streets as well as the opposition to main demand is a neutral government. unless that happens, we're going to continue as movement, which the opposition started really continue. and if this could be confrontational, because the ruling party on a goal is to say they're going to be in the straight from, from the opposition. and they will have election under the present government as
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part constitution. this is what the ruling party is saying. now there's been a lot applauded like the us that you and the european union has been coming into play. the a lot of delegation came and that said, there should be a dialogue and a free and fair category. election must take place according to the local punch division or under neutral government, whichever is acceptable by the general population. okay, thank you for that. somebody tolerate that for us in dhaka. so head on the al jazeera, we take a look at the link between mexico, sean lyons, in finance, on the approaching national collections on new home for us on these patients with drugs that could slow down the of the
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time. now for your weather report across the middle east and africa, thank you for your time. and hot sunshine continues to be the name of the game here, but wins have turned around through the gulf. so we're now drying down a hot and dry wind. so that means the temperature in places like doha, are going up, and the humidity is going down. but with this persistent seabreeze, it's still a human picture. in karachi, at 35 degrees, winds are blowing down a lot of sand and dust along the border with iran. and i've gone is done on tuesday and still a lot of heat locked into place for southern turkey, a round on talia $39.00, possibly 40 degrees on tuesday, and a lot of heat to for africa for the north west. the northeast section of the continent, elders at 44 other side of things, cairo will come in at 42 degrees and through west staff for codes are usual heavy pulses of rain here in central africa. if we focus on tens in the still this brisk when this r monsoon wind, so it's producing gus about 40 kilometers per hour,
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up and down the coast of tens of near south africa for now looks good. 24 degrees in derby and put punch. what happens on thursday, duck, the blue and the purple, the lower the temperature cape town. you're going to wake up to a temperature of one degree on thursday. that's it. and see soon the 19 sixty's, the significant decade across the middle east and north africa. it was the thinking when new dynamic movements for launched in the last of a 3 car series, which is 0. well, looks at the changes in society as a whole. teachers were looked after and learning methods were closed. be evaluated from education to the changing rules of when the expansion of the middle class and improve the transportation, the sixties and the arab society on outages. era news
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the in watching out as a reminder, top stories the silence dangerously hot temperatures across the united states on not messing up this week. 79000000 people on the heat to the following weekend of reco breaking temperatures from florida to arizona. united nations actually general says he's deeply disappointed at russia's withdrawal from the black sea greenville saying it was a lifeline. sublevel futures he must go, says is conditions for extending the agreement. haven't been, i suppose, isn't funding the destinies. main opposition policy and monitoring in the capital and demanding the resignation of the routing a wanting me governance and the destination of funding. the united nation
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says it's decision to come a to haiti is tragic and hot breaking well feed program says it's being forced to reduce emergency assistance because of a $120000000.00. short, full and funding. 5000000 haitians bathroom is hosp. the population don't have enough to eat and rely on for and health to monetary and crisis is west and as on games types in the control and economic time, world increases will be un says, unless immediate donations are made for the devastating cuts comfortable with out zone not in bio is the you and will feed program, country directs and easy. well, he's facing one of his most severe 3rd prize is the needs of the manager and assistance and here are the highest since 2010. so this is a very bad time. there's never a good time for tail emergency programs, but this has a very bad time comes in. i'm on when these are thinking. and when we know that the
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levels of fluid security is a need or only seconds. so just as soon as it's quite concerning, there's a, this is a little later concert, this is the main driver for the security. there are other factors as well. there's been no inflation that's reached 48 percent per year. there's also been drought and flooding. and uh, and there's that there's also been a long term define our culture. all this has made patients especially vulnerable to improve stock. one of those are the consequences, the security thing in the country i for that the world is strong, and that the public opinion in western countries is as sensitive to the suffering of people. i'm not in countries why community and it's been a struggle for us to attract attention. is that he's not at risk of becoming a forgotten prices. he is forgotten prices in mexico security expense,
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a warning that a recent spike emit is kidnappings. attacks against public officials may be posts of an unprecedented rise in violence as national elections drawing them. they say criminal groups may already be exposing electro competition as they've life it. impunity and power. manual report of reports from mexico city. mexico is experiencing a sharp rise in violence. some of the most notable examples in recent weeks include a series of roadside bombs in the state of police school that left for police officers that and an attack against security forces in the state of chiapas, that led to the kidnapping of 16 police employees. experts say that, well, these incidents may be attributed to turf wars between rival gangs. the overall increase in violence could be linked to the gearing up of election season. it would
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have to be examined on a case by case basis. but effectively when faced with changing political kind of disease, different groups begin moving their chips, b, the political or to the use of violence. this is all the game, this base against the arrivals to show how much influence they wield. security analysts say the influence, criminal groups have over politics is most evident during campaign seasons. and nowhere in the country is this more apparent in mexico's heartlands, namely the state of getting a little earlier this month, a large demonstration organized by a drug gang near the resort. the city of a couple weeks ago led to the abduction of several government officials. even mexico's president, made reference to the cloud, criminal groups in the state have over citizens and say they don't be fooled. it is a common practice by some criminal groups to create the social base of support. some estimates suggest there are as many as $200.00 armed criminal groups of buying
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for power in mexico. experts say many of these groups are able to thrive because of their ability to make deals with government officials who in turn a fort than impunity and even positions of power loading the organized crime. somebody's nature is a state to be able to secret all over to legal merchandise to operate the financial system, to as complex as those in countries like mickey columbia and brussels despite national elections still a year away. many argue that criminal organizations here have already started taking advantage of early campaigns with the aim of leveraging state power for illicit purposes. as political campaign season in mexico draws near, there is concern that violence which is already a record highs, could become worse as the country struggles with the seemingly impossible task of severing the bonds between criminals and authorities. and read it off a little al jazeera, mexico city scientist,
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how to present to the new medicine that they say slurs also on this disease significantly, despite having some serious side effects and seen as a whole for move and 50000000 patients worldwide stuff. awesome reports from a stem with aging populations, alzheimer's is one of the fastest growing and most the list agent diseases of our time. but not only because of serious mentally loss, but often leads to loss of independence. eventually death, jo month, i mean he was diagnosed with alzheimer's at age. 50 for his doctor, gave him a grim prospect that i may not recognize my family in 5 to 7 years. and she's like, she told me i had a 10 year life expect, you know, we were shocked. and i think fortunately, my progression hasn't been as bad as i expected. but we have seen declines and it's hard. it's, it's just, it's a challenging to the skis sciences to get in with pharmaceutical companies, say they develop trucks that can slow down to disease by up to 7 months and
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possibly longer by removing so both protein slacks from patients, brains. still no fewer, but it's considered a break to of, to decades of failing to find madison's test for the opposite. i think these drugs give us hope that we can do things. these are those, these are the 1st drugs of a new generation. okay. they're not the then all the end of a story, the beginning of a new story. sure. the safety concerns and safety concerns of any drug. ready the thing is, we know what those safety concerns are, like you mentioned this swelling or this bleeding into, into the brain of science. very dramatic. but assuming we can monitor scientists here at the world's largest gathering of alzheimer's research. this call is a start of a new era with alzheimer, no longer being in untreatable disease, but others, a more skeptical those scientists accuse the pharmaceutical industry of giving patients for his health. that's professor most of all the records as the new drugs don't have enough benefits for patients. he just scientist and the industry to
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focus more on auto causes of alzheimer's. the only protein plaques, it's clear that these have been more or less new attractive. as the pharmaceutical companies are now focusing on something which is close to the market and they want more and more and all. busy of the company is when they say that, see that it's more this take different profits and they also want to share with the profits. it's estimated that do not improve costs around $26000.00 per patient per year. the company hopes to receive approval to sell it in the united states somewhere next year. it could take longer before it will be available and the rest of the steps last and l g 0. answer them the, the, this is al jazeera, these are your top stories. dangerously home temperatures across the united states is set to continue this week. 79,
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many and people are on the heat to the following weekend of record breaking temperatures from florida to arizona. extreme heat is arizona's natural, this.

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