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it is enough humidity to maybe give a few showers to some audio in can yet maybe even tens of near, but the heaviest ones as they have been for a while, a little bit further. knowles with incoming southern liberties in deb and the puter temperature. the dropping the northern india on alert tough to days of heavy monsoon rate. at least 66 people are killed in flooding and land slides. the i'm several venue, it's great to have you with us. this is elsa 0 life and also coming up a court in thailand blocks to bid the re nominate the opposition leader to become prime minister force from their homes. thousands in haiti's capital,
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escape gang violence that hit the country since the president's assassination. nearly 2 and a half months since the destruction of all of them. this is what's left of europe, 2nd largest for the rest of what, what people, vehicle, their c stuff class and reporting funding separately to region the . so we begin in india, where to northern states are on alert, tough to land slides and floods that killed at least 66 people. many roads are badly damaged, power and rail networks disrupted, and schools closed in, hey, michelle, per dash. the mountain state has already suffered widespread damage from floods last month. barbara and go reports. the . this is the movement hillside homes in m last fell away during the land slide.
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rescuer cousin, the indian hamilton town have pulled at least 15 bodies from the mount friends and family, a waiting anxiously for tearing efforts to find that these 12 people under the rubble of the get a the theme has been working since monday and found bodies yesterday and today, the hopefully the chance of finding will people let it be on to clear down to families 2 of my colleagues and that families are missing. to bodies have been recovered. but we still have hope that go to perform a miracle and they'll all be safely rescued. the way at least 6 worship, as were killed at this temple when it collapsed, doing the line slide. the desktop is expected to rise. the quote issue and allow me to ship them from them and go in the shift temple and shim love, the rest of your operations. in full swing, we're hopeful that we will remove the debris from the temple completely today. if
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the weather works with us. but the chances of finding anyone alive are very slim of vehicle i bridges have collapsed and writes have been washed away. thousands of people stranded without power of communication networks that disrupted a lots has been issued for the hardest hit him. a child publish, niterra con states where more rain is full cost until friday. the air is experienced widespread months in rain damage last month. and we quoted above normal rain full since june, barbara, and go out to sarah. a thailand. constitutional court says that it will not review the decision to block the main opposition leader from getting another nomination to become prime minister fits and lives that run. rats move forward. party won the most seats in mesa elections, but his bid, deformed the next government was blocked by rival politicians. and he has been suspended as a member of parliament to any change on just live know from outside the constitutional
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court in bangkok, tony bits of limbs that run right. one these elections. and ever since then he's been blocked at every turn explained. today's court ruling as hudson. interesting question that, i mean, i think if you see the constitutional cold in thailand as an object ability, that's ruling and then partial wherever the constitution, then you might have some serious questions. however, i think many people feel that both the cold and the constitution deeply flawed. we've seen the call making rulings over the previous administration, very much in favor of the generals who are in charge. then this decision also seems to be going that way. but also the way the constitution has been setup, allowing these kinds of things to happen, allowing a democrat with a policy, the one a democratic election to be handed at every opportunity. and this is just one of
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several cases. mr. pizza is trying to defend himself against. well, you go to wonder whether that constitution is really that a democracy was a block. so the bottom line is only a few months ago, ty voters voted for reform because that's what pitiless lives at restaurant was offering. politically speaking, are they going to get that? i think we can pretty unequivocally say at this stage that they weren't per tie, which was the 2nd policy which came in 10 votes behind. and those election results has not pull down to the coalition that it had with move forward and as foamed another coalition, very and one of the other punches from giant ty, but we suspect they will also have to have an alliance with the military backed pauses in fact, those pauses of already said that going to support them with a nomination for prime minister. so because of this ruling, we can now see
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a poem and getting back to the business of nominating a prime minister, the speaker of the house. the said that could happen as early as friday this week, or monday, next week, to tie a known to have a know many in the side on the sidelines waiting for this to happen. but because type politics at the moment is so pick when not really sure. whether he's going to get through that could lead to the further nomination further down the road. so the pos is aligned to the military, back by the men she, even one of the former generals themselves, could still be nominated as prime minister. and that's really all the time, but we just didn't want to see when they came out in large numbers. supposing pauses for reform and the general election in may. 20 chang. thanks for breaking it down for us. it's tony chang reporting from bank of russian drones strikes of damaged green silos and warehouses in one of ukraine's ports on the danube river. the river ports and now the main export route for ukrainian grain after rush of
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pulled out of the black sea green d last month was set. boston is in zip row and central ukraine. step it bears repeating that russia has been relentlessly targeting the infrastructure that ukraine relies on to export its grain. tell us about this latest attack of the yes, absolutely. also brief law. now, the grain storage facilities in the near odessa have come under attack again. a several waves of drones came in from the black sea. the authorities here say they manage to enter chapter 13 of them, but it's clear from the damage that we saw that the several storage facilities have been hit and the damage is quite significant. in the last couple of weeks. it's the grain deal, collect tens of thousands of tea low, so of tons of grain has been destroyed. and this also comes at a time when ukraine has said they want to open
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a humanitarian hallway door. they want the ships to go a sale again because of course this export is very important and what we heard is today one cargo ship. this is not a grain ship, but this is a cargo ship that was stuck in the harbor since the start of the war has been assailing now. so this is going on. that is human to tell me and cali dot, that's russia. i have to make this very clear, russia has not agreed to so there's a lot of risk in this. i'm glad that your brain has, they say your brain minutes. we will be from this human to terry until we go. but of course ship those are very worried insurance of how we would. so this is a bit of an experiment. then we'll have to see where this goes. step i want to ask you about another aspect of this war of this conflict that you've been working on. that's really interesting, which is the partial destruction of the nova gulf got them. that was a couple months ago now. but the long term effects are only starting to be felt.
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what did you find of the while? absolutely. this is a huge disaster it's. it's basically a double crisis. of course, this is a war zone. and this has a disaster as well, because uh, south 100000 people. that's what 8 organizations say they are depending on the food . on the water handouts, i have to say what a supply is, is lacking there. they have no drinking water, they have no irrigation water, so the farms are really struggling there as well. and when we went to the banks of the cold sky rest, so far we saw a complete dry area there. a lot of people are struggling. they also are waiting for water and mets daily, shortly. so we went with the a group of, of firefighters who are volunteering to bring what to, to one of the most dangerous areas, as you can see in a report the dangerous, but 5 till mission firefly, dis,
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quickly drove off of the drinking water in step. no, he is a front line village that is old but deserted. those who remain uh to french, i am and too poor to escape. the constant shelling was it just will you put it on the block but taking it to another village. there currently $6.00 to $7.00 people, mostly pensioners will bring these bottles to them during this is probably a call at the heart. how can i leave them? these people have no way to go. they have no money which is nowhere else to learn for them. the 2nd only that tells us she was headed by shrapnel while delivering breath to auto. villages. still, she won't leave the putting in a google village. these are people who have been living directly on the shelving for a year and a half step and has, has been under a mass of attacks yet still, i think these people will continue to live here. we constantly remind them awful, tentative, have conversations and some people leave for awhile, but they often come back instead of because of the dangerous, despite of fight, is only delightful. once a week to the village is without the running water,
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the age workers are risking their lives, providing people with a very basic needs drinking water. while the to impact of the destruction of the health come down has yet to be filed for these people here. not only their lives, but their livelihoods are at risk as well. ukraine says russia destroyed to them on june 6th, causing widespread flooding. some 90 people died or are missing. russia did nice. it cause a disaster and blame, so ukrainians. and this is how one of your slides just what the rest of was loops. now, the vital to source for bounce villages and farm land has turned into a large plain living by the wall to all his life. how do i gaze still? can't believe it's gone. 2 months after this also struck his fruits and vegetables are rubbing, hardening boulevard. when there was a c and the life was good, it was walter and lots of fish. we had no problems. we don't have official food.
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now life has become hot, everything must be watered by hand and carried in buckets. see is a little wasted now if you need a gig on only hope it will finally start to rain. if not, his income will dry up very quickly. a water shortage and no more. so it is, aust also for these firefighters was struggling to extinguish to be a daily fios spock by sally within those left behind and even greater danger. step 5, so l to 0. step know here, ukraine. the government officials in haiti say that more than 3000 people have fled gang violence in the capital. within the past 24 hours, homes have been burned down. in total past, the head of the un has repeatedly has repeated his call to send a multinational armed force to haiti as soon as possible. felix nor has more families carry the few possessions they have while they can quote and the buckles
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for territorial control. the clean environment guns that have taken over their neighborhoods. this is the latest wave of displacement in haiti's capital porter, prince. with gun crime is rife, and shortages of food and other essentials are widespread. some seek shelter at this highschool. the few let down by the government. it wasn't gang chase matter of my home. it was the haitian states that made me a band and my home evasion stated, killed all the people because of the states that as the circles it took me to file lawlessness has played t d, especially since the assassination of president shelby. now maurice, nearly 2 years ago, they un estimates more than 2000 haitians have been killed in the 1st half of this
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year. as gun crime escalates. nobody lost a policeman who are helping us fight the games they played all night. and now the games of bathing in their blood, nearly $200.00 criminal guns operate in haiti. more than half of them in the capital alone, there and dangerous. the united nations has again appealed full ident international help. st peacekeeping is no longer an option. we hope those are those efforts move as quickly as possible. in the meantime, we know very well with the, the horrendous security situation is on the ground in haiti and the horrendous humanitarian situation as well as a result that keeps getting worse as a result of the deteriorating security situation. can yeah, has offered to lead a support for us to intervene in haiti, but the un security council has not discussed deployment sofa felix new or ologist
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0 to the republican governor of georgia, has rejected the allegation by donald trump that the 2020 election was stolen from him, the former us president and 18 of his associates have 9 days to surrender, and to answer charges of racketeering and voter fraud in the state, it is trumps, forth indictments in 5 months. he says that the $91.00 charge is total that he faces already political which wants to stop his re election next year. the still ahead on l 0. 1 months after an american for us to, to north korea po nearing, explains why he did it. we will travel to the 1st city and bangladesh to turn itself into a pollution free zone. the frank assessments $3000000000.00. is it going to be enough to get focused on the economy back on track? the short answer is no informed opinions for those who are attempting to flee to
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chat. how dangerous is that journey is incredibly difficult for many people to manage to get out. but it's a great cost in depth analysis of the day. sidelines questions really who controls that goes on an outer space in the future will be governments for won't be big part of corporations and individual super wealthy building. there's inside story on al jazeera, big going drop chain, and crypto guaranteed disruptive technology joining with me and introducing a bill to outlaw crypto currency all the way to a federal financial system. because open source software, you can create or money without banks. all government award winning filmmaker, toast and huffman looked at all sides of the complex crypto crypto. the queen looked james and the internet on ocean sierra, the international filmmakers and world class gender reading programs to see the world from a different perspective on out. is there the
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the the, you're watching l g 0. our headlines this hour to northern states in india are on alert. tough to land slides and floods that killed at least 66 people. many roads are badly damaged, power and rail networks disrupted, and schools closed in a michelle pradesh. finance constitutional ford has rejected to review parliament's decision to block the main opposition leader from getting another bit to become prime minister. it's a them to run, right. it's party one, the most seats in may selections. government officials in haiti say more than 3000 people have fled,
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gang violence in the capital. phones have been burned down and pumped across. the un secretary general has repeated his call to send a multinational force to the wildfires in the us state of hawaii that raised an entire coastal town. at least a 101 people are reported to have died. and president joe biden says that he will be traveling to the island of mount we as soon as he can after criticism that he still hasn't visited the scene. teams are still sifting through revel, searching for human remains. and what was a popular tourist destination and home 213000 people. more than a 1000 are still missing. which is also of fundamental importance to us is protecting the land, protecting the land for our local people. some people took out the contacts, a comment i made a day or 2 ago about purchasing land. that is to protect it, to protect it for our local people, so that it's not stolen by people on the mainland. so i've asked my attorney general to watch for predatory practices,
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and we will be imbedding attorneys. so we're going to work pro bono for our people . now we attorneys from always people to be at our joint, our joint response centers available to all of us. so if people have someone reach out to them to try to get their land, we will be able to get expert legal advice. so that doesn't happen. we'll also be raising incredible amounts of resources to protect us financially. so the none of that land does fall into anyone else's hands. this is not ever about the government getting land. this is the people's land and the people will decide what to do with ohio. and a class action lawsuit has been filed against hawaiian electric, which has faced criticism for not shutting for not shutting off the power, despite warnings of high wind lands. the call in this is an attorney based and molly hawaii and he joins us live now from my we what's the criminal liability ser, for utilities company in a case like this?
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well, i'm not sure about what the criminal penalties are and i'm not sure if the government's even looking at that. but the civil penalties, uh, you know, the shareholders if have an obligation, if the electric company is found to have been negligent and not the powering their power lines to compensate all persons that have been damaged for their loss. right . so if i rephrase, what's the legal liability? that's what i should have been asking you. well, basically for the loss is that the, there actions contributed to those losses. so for the thousands of, of, you know, the people as well find out who has lost their homes and right the number has lost their lives. it's quite significant. and if they are the legal cause of those people's loss, then they'll the shareholders will be responsible for paying about it. just as you are speaking, we're seeing some of the pile owns that are, you know,
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the full and some of them, not quite some of them entirely. and the contention here, at least part of the contention is that that may have either caused or fueled the fire. when you have these pile loans, conducting electricity, of course that fall to the ground, there's a spark. there's added fuel to the fire. what's the, what are the precedents for that? well 1st, uh, well hi, not actually had a major fire in 2018, and it was believed that electrical sparks from the electric company's lines may have caused. they have been a cause of that. and i believe the electric company actually conducted its own study, which recommended that they have the technological ability to power down or de energize lines when they basically when the falls or the play wants uh, follow over. and those recommendations which came out, i think in 2019 we're not followed. and so there, you know that that may be
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a significant issue in these lawsuits from a legal point of view. do they then have an obligation to power down lines when there is a fire risk as well? uh, that will ultimately be up to a jury to decide whether or not they have that obligation. uh, you know, i know that the electric company is said, well, but all of the water that's used by the firefighters runs on a pumps that are basically powered by their electricity. and if they powered it down, then there wouldn't be any water. but of course, as we find out the firefighters didn't have any water uh to use because there was no pressure in any of the lines. and so, you know, to the extent that that's true, i'm not sure. and they'll be in jury will ultimately decide that. but, you know, the, the thing is, if you've started a massive fire, it doesn't really matter if firefighters can get water or not, i may think there was even one fire engine that burned up. and all of all of the firefighters had to sleep because the fire was so massive and so quick. and so it's,
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i think, one of those things where a determination will have to be made whether or not they were negligent, uh, and what their contribution to, to people's losses are. i mean, the other issue, of course, is we have a so major plan companies who have tons of grass that, that non native grass, that's the fuel for these fires. and they haven't done anything either since the 2018 fires. so these, these 2 entities, uh, you know, may have significant liability in the us and may be the cause of that. okay. alright, well, if that does end up going to trial, it will be decided in a court of law. thank you very much. lance. the collins for joining us today in the program. north korea says the american soldier who fled across the border from south korea did so to escape racism in the us. army. private travis king was on a civilian tour of the demilitarized border last month when he made his sudden dash into the north. the pentagon says it cannot confirm kings. comments about miss treatments. rob mcbride has more from so and these are the 1st detailed comments
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from those career about travis king's purported reasons for crossing from the south, quoting. it was saying that he was escaping the in human maltreatment and racial discrimination of the us army. in this latest statement, the knoll says it is now concluded, it's investigation into this case that happens daily. a month ago when king was part of a guided tour of the penman john cruz village that sits right on the line between north and south. when he suddenly broke away crossing into the no, no office confirmed that he entered north korea illegally quoting tank is saying that he wants to either remain in north korea or moved to a 3rd country saying that he is disillusioned with what he supposedly said was the on equal american society cases like this all very rare. over the years there, i've only been a handful around 5 or 6 us service personnel who have defected to the know what
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most of them tend to have in common is that all of the individuals, as in this case of face some sort of trouble either personal or disciplinary action in the military. but according to north korea, all of these individuals, they all have in common. the fact that they have been apparently escaping the highest capitalist ways of the west. the us pentagon will only say that they cons, verify these quoted comments from king, but has said that it is still focused on his safe. we ton looking at all sorts of channels in order to make that happen. run mcbride, i'll just say era. so the city in bangladesh has become the 1st in the country to start turning itself into a pollution free zone. a standard treasury reports city leaders inc to go completely green and provide clean air and water for 2 and a half 1000000 people. the industrial hub of 9 guns dates back a 100 years. it's surrounded by 2 major rivers and many canals,
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which are badly polluted following decades of rapid industrial growth and increasing organizations last year, city leaders that proved an action plan for low carbon climate resilient development. it's the 1st fit in bangladesh to do that load, it can be similar to mine with all the permission is to to and are in garden city into a clean city in free from pollution. everybody loves and keep in mind, this is the 1st time and packet that we have on a padded climate action plan to tackle the increasing rate of emissions along with various other initiatives like air quality monitoring, energy waste. and so the city has already built the cold parts with green zones, including floors and several air monitoring station, as well as starting to restore canals and westland things have improved a lot here on like before when it was more polluted, but much more needs to be done the river water is polluted by industrial waste.
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governments need to take the steps to clean these. major sorts of pollution includes the same in factories, illegal break counts and still in males. the government is funding the clean up project along with the help from japan, the world bank and ation development bank. a recent survey highlighted how the city has a 3rd worst air quality in bangladesh. and that code which the government said it intends to change. a regulation on a mission and affluent management are frequently violated due to the lack of enforcement, air, and water pollution effects, the health and income of residents. the us to a lot of problems of various ways, like dust, mosquitoes and other types of pollutants that are on the street. the river, which is also heavily polluted. there are no fish. you can't use the water, the general public, such as environmental experts, the city has the potential to become a role model, demonstrating how local governments can play
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a vital role in realizing the goals of the periods that remain on climate change tend to charge me. i'll just say that not in guns, bangladesh, right, that's it for me of next analysis here you've got whether the inside story asks whether donald trump campaign will be able to overcome his mounting legal troubles to state the of the now range and i'm welcome visited to southern no way at the moment, but i'm afraid that is what's happening. good. see this latest low which looks after season that is correctly out of season because the frontier is throwing showers in sun stones across the great plain of europe. but i couldn't look at what's happening by the time we get to the end of wednesday. we'll be drawing something where the heavy rain will be north of sweden or in finland back up to 21
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. and also, or however, they will have been so significant. right next you'll notice beyond that, temperatures are in the twenty's, even the high twenty's, the thirty's. so it's still exact because of the general feeling of me struck good part of europe despite the shelves and the thunderstorms, which are most prominent, as you'll see through southern germany and having tools, weston phone and, and, and to check the public. however, there is one great dealer for the attempt is one above the average from the middle of spain right up to poland. it's helps us to actually, if you head down towards the black sea turkey and may well have hit 50 degrees yesterday, we should make a new record. even if not, i incurs above average dance, damascus above average. there's a wind coming out of the black sea that which means is cooler, for example, in it's done boat, heavy rain that's been happening in west africa is just now coming off show. or it could be interesting. the
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